The Hindu Business Line : Monday, March 24, 2003

Let nominee directors stay
THE SEBI-APPOINTED expert committee has not really made out a reasoned argument for dispensing with the concept of `nominee directors'. It speaks of a feeling among the members that such an arrangement creates a conflict of interest which, it ... More

BUDGET

Nuts and bolts of the Budget
THE Budget speech of a Finance Minister can be expected to present only a broad outline of policy, together with a profile of trends of expenditure and revenue, besides important tax and expenditure proposals as well as new initiatives. The ... More

HEALTH

From silence to the world of sound
WHEN 17-year-old Durai Murugan, a Plus Two student of a school near Chennai, lost his hearing, following an attack of mumps and a desperate round of visits to medical experts proved in vain, he and his parents attempted suicide by consuming ... More

POLITICS

Sweet mango and insipid water
In the five years in office, the Centre has produced many mangoes — the Lahore accord, the Kargil victory, Pokhran, and several promising Budgets too — but these have been followed by something trite that took away all the excitement, lea ving only an insipid taste. P. V. Indiresan wonders why. More

In this globalised world
EVEN though my spell checker does not like the word, globalisation is here to stay. We use the term most often to mean the spread of businesses across the globe, and the breakdown of barriers, voluntary or involuntary, between nations. At a more ... More

UN and unilateralism
IT is funny how the word `un'ilateralism itself reflects the prevailing reality by indistinguishably subsuming the UN within itself! The unipolar world order and the unilateralist postures of the US, since the demise of the Soviet Union, have ... More

For whom the bell tolls
AS FAR as India is concerned, it is still too early to say whether the ongoing conflict between the Washington-London coalition and Mr Saddam Hussein's Iraq will affect the economy severely although it is very clear that, in the normal course, ... More

LETTERS

Opposition to VAT

Regulating TV channels

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