The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, April 26, 2003

Birth pangs
LIKE much else in the past, the labour pains that are being experienced with regard to the implementation of the value-added tax scheme shows once again that even the most economically sensible of Government policies will first have to pass the ... More

E-DIMENSION

In search of the perfect economist
PLURAL is more than one kind of, person or thing, from Latin pluralis, which in turn is from plus, meaning more. Pluralising, as a grammar exercise, must have troubled many in school, with ever so many exceptions to suffixing the singular ... More

MICROSCOPE

Good riding on `Victor'
MOTORCYCLE major — TVS Motor — has come up with improved performance for the fourth quarter of the previous fiscal. For the three-month period ended March, turnover increased by about 15 per cent to Rs 663.28 crore on the back of a 12 ... More

ICICI Bank: Dividend declaration `eye-catching'
ICICI Bank's operational performance registered improvement in the quarter ended March 2003. Sharp reduction in costs, slump in treasury gains, surge in deposit intake and advances, reduction in provisions for bad loans and taxes are some of the ... More

Ingersoll Rand: On a smooth road
INGERSOLL Rand has proved yet again that the growth in the road machinery business is indeed going to stay. As expected sales rose 15 per cent to Rs 438 crore. The profits for the last quarter and consequently the full year were pulled down ... More

ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED

Corruption is just a local call away
THERE are many who go up and up in life, but I decided rather to come down from a third floor flat to the ground floor, getting tired of years of climbing all the 99 steps with no mystery at the end but an open terrace. As it happens with any ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND

Bajaj Auto in for a rough ride?
THE counter of automotive giant Bajaj Auto has been witnessing some selling pressure over the past few days. According to dealers, there was some amount of off-loading on Friday, mostly on the institutional front on concerns about margin ... More

SENSOR

PSU stocks down on divestment blues
NEGATIVE sentiment continues to prevail in the market as the benchmark BSE Sensex ended the last day of the week in the negative territory, the fourth consecutive trading day in a row. Disinvestment blues appear to haunt the State-owned companies ... More

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