COLUMNS
OFFHAND
Wanted: Cool heads
THOSE who are trying to blow up the arrest of the head of the Kanchi Sankara Mutt by the Tamil Nadu Police on a murder charge as an attack on Hinduism and indulging in the use of vilificatory language and even acts of ...
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ON THE MOVE
New dredging policy — Making things easier for foreign firms?
THE Union Government has thrown open maintenance dredging in major ports to private dredging firms, both Indian and foreign. The move marks a sharp departure from the erstwhile policy of reserving the job for the ...
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A RINGSIDE VIEW
Oil prices may set direction
IF DALAL Street's erstwhile open outcry pit had still existed, it would have struck a sombre note at the close of the first session of the "trading year" on Friday. The Indian stock market, on the threshold of scaling 6K on the benchmark index, ...
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MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
Equity fund investors seem to have bright future
YOU might tsk-tsk and tut-tut when faced with the terrible performance put up by debt funds recently, but equity funds are not likely to turn you so disdainful. The reason is not far to seek - the last one year has seen debt funds provide ...
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ADR WATCH
Satyam falls, its premium crashes
THANKS to the softening of oil prices, the US markets witnessed a sharp rally last week. Besides, Dell Computer's announcement that demand for computer is healthy also pushed up the key benchmarks. As a result, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index ...
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VISION 2020
Investing in scholarships
Even as there is talk of reservations in the private sector, corporates should organise, collectively, a nationwide scholarship programme for talented poor children, as woefully poor-quality education lies behind the demand for reservation. The schol arships, says P. V. Indiresan, will be a sound investment, as they will also be an insurance against the government forcing private firms to employ unqualified persons purely on considerations of caste politics.
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MARK TO MARKET
Equity-linked annuities for pension investors
IF MEDIA reports are to be believed, professional money managers may be able to manage pension funds by end 2005. The Government is likely to have three types of plans to suit investors' risk appetite. The most ...
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AMERICAN PERISCOPE
A reality check on perceptions
A WRITER, Ron Suskind, wrote about a conversation he had with an unnamed advisor to the US President, Mr George W. Bush, in an article published in The New York Times on October, 17. The advisor was ...
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