The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, May 14, 2003

Channelled view
FOR THE HIGH profile "pay" television channels, the time of reckoning is just two months away. From July 15, some six million cable homes in the four metros will get the freedom to choose the "pay" channels they wish to subscribe to. They have ... More

BUDGET

Channel expenditure on productive lines
With VAT running into rough weather, falling employment generation, rising inflation and volatile prices, one positive factor was the passage of the Budget and the Fiscal Responsibility Bill in the just-concluded Budget session. It is now time the G overnment seriously got down to the task of establishing a credible fiscal consolidation strategy, says G. Srinivasan. More

PESTICIDES

Is modern science the real pest?
IT took three decades for the International Rice Research Institute to realise that pesticides — used indiscriminately during the Green Revolution — are unnecessary. But by then they had already polluted the environment, poisoned the ... More

WATER

Water: Pricing and control pressures
IN LESS than half a century of independent existence, India, once water-rich, has been reduced to a water-insecure nation. Thanks to electoral politics that sustains itself on a culture of subsidy, a bureaucracy saddled with inefficiency, and a ... More

CREDIT POLICY

Monsoon, monsoon where art thou?
THE GREATEST concern for the bond market from the latest Monetary Policy announcement appears to be the indication from the RBI that real interest rates being already at a low offers little scope for further downward revision in nominal interest ... More

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

Support economy
I HAVE been pointing out in this column how the private sector is unable to cope with demands of a competitive economy and how customers are becoming increasingly frustrated in their dealings with it, belying their expectations of prompt and ... More

INTERVIEW

`Powerful complementarity in IT' — Mr Neville Roach, Chairman, Australia-India Business Council
INDIAN IT majors operating in Australia should behave like the truly global leaders that they are and start employing Australian professionals too, and develop R&D centres there, says Mr Neville Roach, Chairman of the Australia-India Business ... More

LETTERS

Debt trap

Say `no' to tobacco

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