The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Delivery mechanism in commodity exchanges — Strong link with price discovery
DELIVERIES are an integral part of commodity exchanges (comex). Even though they form an insignificant portion of the total volume of trade transacted on the exchange, the basis of delivery and its effect on the ready ... More

EDITORIAL

Bonding with Malaysia
IN MAY 2001, the then Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, visited Malaysia, as part of the NDA Government's "look East" policy. His high-level Indian delegation included 70 business leaders, which indicated clearly what New Delhi wanted. ... More

PHARMACEUTICALS

From IT Inc to Pharma Inc
IF THE 1990s belonged to information technology , the 21st century belongs to the pharmaceutical industry that is accelerating India's knowledge revolution. Until recently, India was seen as a country which excelled ... More

IPR

Data protection demystified
The recommendations on the Third Patent (Amendment) Bill to the Government have got bogged down in controversy primarily due to a perception that once the product patent regime comes in to force, there will be no case for data protection. There is a need to amend Indian laws to provide data protection for a reasonable period. More

RURAL DEVELOPMENT

PUBLIC POLICY NOTE

NREG Bill: Fine-tuning will make it work better
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill goes beyond describing a set of employment generating schemes, and goes into the nitty-gritty, listing the broad responsibilities of the officials at the district, block and panchayat levels. Tweaked sligh tly and implemented as an Act, it can over time evolve into a means of rapid, all-round infrastructure development in rural India, says Bhanoji Rao. More

PEOPLE

A copybook diplomat
A QUINTESSENTIAL diplomat, Jyotindra Nath Dixit, headed the national brains-trust in its formulation of security, foreign policy and strategic relations with the rest of the world. New Delhi had his wise counsel on a ... More

LETTERS

Quota regime

Exact predictions

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