The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, May 21, 2003

Music off air
THE INTRODUCTION OF copy control music CDs in India bids to constrict the fair use rights of consumers. Fair use right is more of an accepted practice, something that copyright owners have allowed consumers to do to promote their products and ... More

POLITICS

CENTRAL COMMAND AND PAKISTAN
Pakistan — a US garrison?
If Gen Pervez Musharraf is indispensable for the US' war on terrorism, it is because he has gone a long way in accommodating American military requirements for Afghan operations. He has also provided facilities for the FBI and the CIA that no self-re specting democratic government would. New Delhi should not get too excited about this. It should set an agenda for cooperation with Washington and spell out to it what the bottomline is on the US cuddling with its favourite general, says G. Parth asarathy. More

Vultures' feast
THE attention of the world was riveted on happenings in Iraq every moment of the time when the US and the UK were engaged in an orgy of destruction, pounding it with their mightiest and technologically the most sophisticated weaponry. Now that ... More

STOCK MARKETS

Indonext: The RSEs' last battle?
REGIONAL stock exchanges (RSEs) are in the news again. A few southern RSEs are planning to form Indonext, a new exchange likely to be in line with the recommendations of the SEBI-appointed M. R. Mayya Committee, set up to suggest consolidation of ... More

Delisting from RSEs and CLA — Why are bourses raising roadblocks?
THE FINANCE Ministry and the Securities and Exchange Board of India have a long way to go in staying a step ahead of the market. This is clear from the manner in which they have handled the issue of mandatory delisting of securities from the ... More

INTERVIEW

`Pakistan is on strong fundamentals' — Mr Altaf M. Saleem, CEO, former Privatisation Minister
When the Pakistan President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, was forming his Cabinet in 1999-end, one of the men he zeroed in for the post of Privatisation Minister was the CEO of Crescent Industries, Mr Altaf M. Saleem. "I had never met him and took ... More

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