The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Reclusive RBI
BY DROPPING ANCHOR in these troubled times, the Reserve Bank of India has done the sage thing in its First Quarter Review of the Annual Statement on Monetary Policy for 2005-06. Volatile crude prices, unsure monsoon, a hint of a dip in dollar ... More

COMMODITIES

Where are Pakistan's commodities headed?
WHEN Pakistani forces occupied certain points in Kargil, India's military intelligence system failed to detect and warn the army of the manoeuvres until the Pakistani forces were long entrenched into strategically ... More

PSU

Carrot of financial autonomy with the stick of performance
NOW that the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has decided to increase the financial autonomy of profit-making Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs), most of us have suddenly come to know what powers the Chairman-cum-Managing ... More

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

India's race to space — from SLV-3 to Chandrayaan
FROM the outside, the building that was once St Mary Magdalene's church at Thumba looks very much like the other churches that dot Kerala's landscape. But the similarity ends there. For, this church was where India's ... More

GENDER

Gender budget
AN innovation introduced by the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, in the budget last year — and continued this year — has received only cursory attention without exciting much interest. For the first time in this country, he has ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

HR, no longer a back-end activity
IN THE growing global economy, the human resource function is becoming increasingly complex. For an outsourcing solution to help companies cut costs and manage the human resource, needed is a partner who understands ways to add ... More

MONETARY POLICY

Monetary Policy Quarterly Review — RBI prefers the status quo
Not wanting to take away the punch bowl when the party is going strong, and because of the macroeconomic uncertainties engendered especially by the rise in oil prices, the RBI has kept all its key rates unchanged much to the relief of banks and marke ts. The only major change it has effected is in raising the capital adequacy for bank finance for real-estate and stock market. This is as it should be, says A. Seshan. More

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