The Hindu Business Line : Monday, August 25, 2003

Lucky Americans!
HOW I wish I were born in the US — if for no other reason than making millions of dollars as compensation by suing companies for accidents. You remember 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who successfully sued McDonald's ... More

A RINGSIDE VIEW

Is it fundamental revaluation or growing bubble?
According to technical analysts at Asit C Mehta Investment Intermediates, the benchmark index is seen heading towards the next retracement levels of 4380 level. However, the breadth indicators suggest that the highly over-bought market may go in for correction this week. More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE

DSP's household income survey: Will AMCs capitalise?
THOSE who say that total assets managed by India's mutual fund industry are not increasing in the way they should, can take heart from the findings of a survey recently conducted by DSP Merrill Lynch. The survey inter alia underlines ... More

VISION 2020

The President's dream
It is Dr Abdul Kalam's dream to create a high-quality Rurban habitat on either side of a ring road linking a loop of villages. Called PURA, its design offers many advantages: All infrastructure lengths are halved. Workplace and residences can be co-l ocated. Real-estate prices will be a fraction of that in cities. The President has a convert in the Prime Minister, but will he get businessmen to so think, wonders P. V. Indiresan. More

ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED

Konjam right, konjam wrong
KNIVES cut both ways. So do news reports, drugs, laws and almost everything. There are two sides to a story, two faces of a coin, two possibilities in a war and so on. A series of ads that adorn the hoardings in Chennai speak of how you can put ... More

RANDOM WALK

Biotech bandwagon
As Kerala rolls out its biotech initiatives, it cannot escape the microscope of opinion and analysis that the field is subject to. More

AMERICAN PERISCOPE

A market for terrorism information
IT WOULD probably go down as the shortest-lived idea in the US. Within 24 hours of its being made public, everyone important in both the political parties was scrambling to announce that it was `ghoulish' and the ... More

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