The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, January 22, 2003

Kerala beckons
THERE IS A refreshing change in Kerala. And it has nothing to do with the just concluded Global Investor Meet. In fact, this change culminated in GIM. The tone and tenor of change was articulated by the Kerala Chief Minister, Mr A. K. Antony, at ... More

ECONOMY

State of the economy — Many positive signals
With efficiency gains and liberalising policies in major sectors of the economy, and the Finance Minister's assurances on strengthening the equity market likely to see the return of investor confidence, it seems the economic growth target of 8 per ce nt is not too far-fetched, says G. Srinivasan, and quotes the positive appraisal of a foreign bank to buttress this optimism. More

POLITICS

Are Musharraf's fears for real?
We like to think — or rather we comfort ourselves with the thought — that the West, especially the United States, is caught in a frenzy of Muslim-bashing. We try not to realise that our own condition, a mixture of ineptitude and ... More

Hot air
INDIA'S political class is a riddle wrapped in an enigma in the sense that it behaves as if meretriciousness and hypocrisy are its prescriptive rights. It is a Herculean task to figure out how much it means of what it says. These are the ... More

The old shell game
THE disclosure made by Iraqi officials of their discovery of four more empty chemical warheads - ones designed to fit on top of 122 mm rockets and disperse sarin gas - has been described by the chief UN weapons inspector, Mr Hans Blix, as a ... More

TAXATION

Mirror, mirror on tax wall, who is fairest of all?
THE Kelkar Committee's proposal to withdraw the tax concessions to small investors or investment incentives to the corporate sector has been debated at some length ever since the draft recommendations were published. But the Kelkar Committee is ... More

LETTERS

Disinvestment tangle

Hands-off, TRAI

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