Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Wednesday, November 20, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Wednesday, November 20, 2002 |
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COLUMNS OFFHAND Blanking out each other's good deeds ONE aspect of the inauguration of the Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminus (CMBT) by the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Ms Jayalalithaa, had the typical flavour of the Dravidian parties. The foundation stone for the biggest bus passenger service complex ... More FINANCIAL SCAN US interest rates below dividend yields INTEREST rate fever is gripping the markets. The desi show was over in the last week of October with our RBI announcing cuts of 25 basis point in the Bank, repo and CRR rates. It then moved to the US where the Federal Reserve met on ... More REFLECTIONS Flickering fun times DIWALI holidays are over. Children are back in schools and with them have gone the fun, shouts, quarrels and laughter. For a month, girls and boys in the society roamed the garden day and night playing everything from hop-scotch and cricket to ... More DOWN TO EARTH Why farmers want GEAC scrapped Farm organisations have launched an attack on the much-hyped Genetic Engineering Approval Committee for its action of arbitrarily clearing three Mahyco varieties of Bt cotton seeds while ordering the uprooting of cotton plants grown from an unapprove d Bt seed, despite the latter's superior yields and environmental advantages. The farmers are justified as the GEAC has clearly overstepped its mandate, argues FOCUS Tata Steel's chrome venture forges new links abroad TATA Steel's proposed ferro chrome venture in South Africa, which was cleared by the company's board on October 30, is significant for several reasons. The company's new initiative in the field of power-intensive ferro chrome manufacture comes ... More ON MINT STREET Companies could be allowed to run anti-poverty schemes A UN-Asian Development Bank joint study (Oct. 2002) reports positive profitability for the Indian banking system in 1997-2000 and steady improvement in cost efficiency, helping to close the gap between foreign and Indian banks. The study has a ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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