The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Changing face of consumer credit
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person but a creditor owns your dignity and can command it. — Victor Hugo, Les Miserables BORROWERS beware! Big brother is ... More

EDITORIAL

Double-whammy for oil companies
IT IS IRONICAL that when oil prices are scaling newer peaks and global oil majors are raking in record profits, India's refining and marketing companies are wallowing in losses. The first quarter of this fiscal has been disastrous for the three ... More

FOREIGN TRADE

Little credit for financial services
THE recently-concluded Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement, or CECA, with Singapore has shown that the two Ministries — Finance, and Commerce and Industry — have failed to do their homework. The ... More

POLITICS

The `sunset' politics of Bihar
The people of Bihar are frustrated at having to grapple with its mounting law and order problems such as kidnappings and extortion, when they see the rest of the nation making giant strides in different fields. The last thing they need is a spat betw een two important State functionaries. More

Janus-faced
HAVE you noticed the marked dichotomy in the behaviour of the same big shots when they are before people in the mass and when they are approached by one of those very people in the throng as an individual? Similarly, they are Janus-faced in ... More

SOFTWARE

Open source software is a movement that is gathering momentum
IT MAY be a matter of time before the Rs 9,990-price tag of HCL on the people's PC launched a couple of days ago loses its sheen, even as technology races to offer lower prices for a hungry market like India, and ... More

DERIVATIVES MARKETS

Is the derivatives market model a weak link?
Share futures are most successful in India than anywhere else in the world because they are seen as a substitute for badla. The new system has to be better than the old one and not add to risk in the market. More

NATURAL CALAMITIES

Marooned in Mumbai
Unprecedented rains last week left Mumbai, and much of Maharashtra, in troubled waters. While Mumbaikars' resilience rose to the surface, the city administration plumbed the depths. Yet, there is hope that the disaster will push the megalopolis into makeover mode, says Vinod Mathew, citing the case of Surat. More

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