The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, October 16, 2003

Messy grain management
THE MESS THAT foodgrains management has become needs to be sorted out quickly. In just about one year, the grain inventory is down by exactly half — from 55.4 million tonnes in September 2002 to 27.8 million tonnes last month. It is, of ... More

ECONOMY

Put development on top of the agenda
In this crucial second half of the fiscal, with Assembly elections round the corner and a comfortable enough macro-economic situation, the Government should shed its obsessive concern with disinvestment and the 8 per cent economic growth target and t urn, instead, to competing demands for development, including poverty reduction programmes, says G. Srinivasan. More

Engineering a makeover for Gujarat
FOR the Gujarat Chief Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, the last couple of months have been all about re-engineering, restructuring and reinventing the business outlook of his State. The orchestrated effort of Mr Modi and ... More

ACCOUNTANCY

Let's be guided to be independent
Mohan R. Lavi on how the Indian accounting body can borrow a leaf from its British counterpart More

Get all those ASIs ASAP
THE Archaeological Survey of India is ASI, so is American Sightseeing International, Actuarial Society of India and so forth. As a new jargon in the world of Indian accounting, ASI is Accounting Standards ... More

Jarring notes in accounts
The proposed company law amendments to ensure greater transparency, while welcome, need to be fine-tuned, says S. Murlidharan More

FOREIGN TRADE

Bali raises visions of Asian century
Since the "Look-East" policy was enunciated in 1993, India has made good headway in promoting greater co-operation with South-East Asia. Those gains were consolidated further at the Asean Summit, where member-nations committed themselves to creating a continental free trade area by 2020. More

DISINVESTMENT

Hasten cautiously in oil sector divestment
THE proposed break-up of Indian Oil Corporation and privatisation of its retail-marketing with a vast network of retail sales points across the country defies logic and a rationale. More so when it is a star performer ... More

LETTERS

Cancun just a speed-breaker

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