OPINION
EDITORIAL
Banking on foreign funds
BY GOING FOR a sponsored ADR (American Depository Receipt) issue, which will lift foreign shareholding in ICICI Bank from 70 per cent to 74 per cent, the Chief Executive, Mr Kundapur Vaman Kamath, has invalidated most ideological positions on ...
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CORPORATE
The corporate road to an industrial disaster
WORDS cannot capture the magnitude of the disaster that struck Bhopal on that fateful night of December 2, 1984. One author describes it as `the Hiroshima of chemical industry.' A report of an International Medical ...
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ECONOMY
Aid from expatriates
THERE are more than three million persons of Indian origin who have settled down in the UK and the US, either as citizens or under the non-resident category. They constitute a thriving, prosperous community, highly ...
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What price the largesse for Kashmir?
The only effective antidote to insurgency is the restoration of good government and order. With the latter largely absent in Kashmir, any new package might end up putting more good money into the hands of those who cannot deliver the goods.
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FOODS & FOOD PROCESSING
Making food processing viable
In Rural India those trying food-processing with help of plant and machinery quickly realise that the `value-added' is less than the `cost-added' as all the advantage is creamed off by the equipment manufacturer. Rural food-processing can be viable o nly when catering to proximate markets where there would be no need to conform to international standards. It is enough to maintain basic cleanliness. And if the processed food can be served directly to consumers, the packaging costs can be eliminate d, says Sharad Joshi.
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LETTERS
Bhopal gas tragedy
Mid-cap scrips
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