The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, May 13, 2003

India-China relations: On slow burn
THE Defence Minister, Mr George Fernandes' recent visit to China was important as it took place soon after new leaders took over the reins in Beijing, and also because he had cited the Chinese threat as a reason for Pokhran II. Interestingly, the ... More

EDITORIAL

Harassing issues
THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT Infosys has reached an out-of-court settlement with its former employee over a sexual harassment suit in the US should occasion no surprise. Such a resolution would have been in the interest of both the parties. For the ... More

ECONOMY

World trade, post-SARS
DURING the period when public attention has been focussed on the politics in South Asia, several global developments have taken place that bring home the fact that public health and developmental spending would soon have to be clubbed with ... More

POLITICS

Another mission to stop defections
THE Vajpayee Government's decision to plug loopholes in the anti-defection law is a welcome step. Significant particularly is the scrapping of the provision that recognises a split if the legislators form one-third of the total strength of a ... More

Challenging the US' hegemony
IF the Anglo-American bloc's Iraq war proved soothsayers on both sides of the firing line fairly wide off the mark on its outcome, it has left them equally confused in predicting post-war scenarios. On the one hand, while the technological ... More

TEA

Lull in the tea cup
TEA has been often described as India's finest agro-asset. The 1990s was a prosperous decade for tea producers and traders, buoyed by sustained increase in domestic consumption and strong demand from the CIS. But the industry seems to have fallen ... More

CREDIT POLICY

Credit Policy — Sound, fury and substantive issues
The Credit Policy has as much rhetoric as components to deal with issues of import. The Bank Rate and CRR cuts do not appear warranted by the macroeconomic conditions while there has been tinkering and welcome initiatives on other issues, says N. A. Mujumdar. More

LETTERS

Pension funds

Forward dollar

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