The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Breaking new ground
DECEMBER 2003 COULD well go down as a watershed month in the country's agriculture history. It is no ordinary coincidence that two significant events are taking place this month. The launch of futures trading in wheat and rice earlier this week ... More

ECONOMY

Post-reform anomaly — Parts not keeping `full' pace
THE overall growth rate of the country should not blur our vision to the growing disparities in the prosperity level, per capita income and job opportunities from State to State. The strategy for a higher growth in ... More

POLITICS

What now, after Saddam's capture?
The manner in which Saddam Hussein was captured has given rise to the suspicion whether the Americans have struck some kind of a deal with him. What if Mr Hussein himself, after several rounds of questioning, admits that he did, indeed, have WMD but destroyed them just before the war? Or, better still, that he intended to manufacture them? Such a statement would give the entire war a legitimacy that has been missing till now, says Rasheeda Bhagat. More

Saddam's nemesis
FOR at least the whole of this week, there is going to be no escape from the barrage of commentaries over the printed and electronic media on the capture of Saddam Hussein. I too find myself in the grip of the ... More

WATER

Water problem: Don't allow it to precipitate
NO ONE — not even governments, for that matter — remains complacent about a possible water scarcity that we may have to face — next season next year; may be in the next decade. The UN predicts acute ... More

MANAGEMENT

Fractal space: A new dynamics of organisation
THUS far we have established that a specific fractal pattern, which we will term the `organisational-fractal', seems to animate all organisation, ranging from the individual human-being, to a complex corporation, to the ... More

LETTERS

Bank mergers and acquisitions

Anti-Defection Bill

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