The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, July 23, 2003

When boundaries cease to matter
INDIANS and Pakistanis who are susceptible to their respective governments' propaganda machinery develop an unexplained, unjustified antagonism, if not plain hatred and mistrust, for the people of the neighbouring ... More

FARM CREDIT

Is Rajnath Singh tilting at windmills?
In cutting the farm credit rate and the Rs 600-crore package for sugarcane farmers, the Government has a larger intention than merely a concern for the agriculture sector, says Sharad Joshi, looking at two packages and their implications. More

EDITORIAL

Figures not enticing
THE SOMEWHAT LUKEWARM response to the Government's announcement of buyback of high-coupon, relatively illiquid dated securities suggests, on the face of it, one of two things. The development lends credence to the official line that no pressure ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Access deficit needs a new approach
ACCESS deficit charge (ADC) — the amount payable by the service provider at the caller's end to the service provider at the receiving end for accessing services rendered by the latter in domestic long-distance telephony — affects the ... More

ECONOMY

In search of leader regulators
"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." — Chinese proverb. INDIAN regulatory reforms have not quite outsmarted other institutional reforms in terms of tardiness. But this in itself may ... More

Tenth Plan: Ambitious GDP growth target
THE Tenth Plan has set its seal on the target of 8 per cent average annual growth of GDP. It has also promised to bring this about by raising the level of gross domestic saving from 24.4 per cent of GDP in 2001-02 to ... More

FOREX

The five critical tests — Will Britain join Eurozone?
AFTER its mega launch in January 1999, the euro quickly lost turf against major global currencies. However, it has now made a turnaround, though more due to the relative weakness of the US dollar than the strength of the European economy. At the ... More

POLITICS

Bush-Blair bombast
THE utterances of the British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, and the US President, Mr George Bush, ever since the storm over fabricated intelligence broke over their heads, have been revoltingly shrill and brazen, ... More

LETTERS

Persisting poverty

`Chicken and egg problem'

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