The Hindu Business Line : Monday, May 23, 2005

Foreign inward remittance — Getting rid of the stumbling blocks
With the increase in inward remittances, individuals need to have a thorough understanding of all the options available to them, weighing all the pros and cons, before finally deciding the system through which they can remit their payments. More

EDITORIAL

A good year
EVEN BY STANDARDS of coalition politics, surviving one year in office ought not to be seen as a significant milestone. But the circumstances under which the Manmohan Singh Government passed this mark have by no means been ordinary. It had at the ... More

FERTILISERS

Fertiliser fallacies: Danger to food security
Part of the Green Revolution's essential infrastructure, the fertiliser industry towered tall among the global peers in efficiency and performance. But by tinkering with its price and distribution structure and forcing it to sell below the cost of pr oduction, the Government has reduced it to a pale shadow of itself. This decline in the fortunes of a vital sector can have serious consequences for the growth of farm output and food security, warns S. Venkitaramanan. More

POLITICS

UPA's score-card
ONCE an academic, forever an academic, it would seem. How else does one explain the spell report-cards exercise on Dr Manmohan Singh? Ever since he took charge, he has geared up his office to keep scores on the ... More

The EU constitution — Wading through the Preamble
MANU, the ancient law-giver said that "laws and rules which are based entirely upon our social positions, time and clime, must change with the changes in society and changing conditions of time and clime. Only then can ... More

TEXTILES

Textiles: Cashing in on a dispute
The China-US/EU dispute opens up opportunities for countries like India. The strategic objective may not be to displace China as the US market's principal textile goods supplier but to drive home the point (in US textile trade circles) that Indian ex porters are reliable and can be chosen as dependable long-term suppliers of items now sourced from China. More

REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS

Extreme events and managing market microstructure issues
SEBI's recent order to ban UBS Securities Asia from issuing participatory notes for one year brings to the fore the function of a regulator in the financial market. Business Line editorial (May 20) rightly argues ... More

LETTERS

Going mainstream

Farm credit

Margin fundings

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