The Hindu Business Line : Monday, August 15, 2005

EUROSCAPE
Power and profits in the wind
LAST WEEK, Torben Larsen, my Danish friend, and I flew a cross-country check ride from Bremen to Copenhagen. Most of the 35-minute flight time, the winds were off the ocean and there was not much in the way of strong ... More

EDITORIAL

Education de-reserved
THE DECISION OF the seven-judge Supreme Court Bench that the state shall not impose any reservation of seats in unaided private professional colleges is a ruling that has not come in a day too soon. In fact, one would have thought that the ... More

ECONOMY

Crisis in Niger — Acute poverty in a world of plenty
The looming humanitarian crisis in Niger is mostly the result of the tragic failure to effectively tackle the distributive problems in the global village of plenty. More

PETROLEUM

Where is world oil headed?
There are differences among specialists about which way oil prices will go. As past events have proved, to a large extent, the price level is determined by the expectations of the futures investor and, perhaps, to a smaller extent by the realities of the supply-demand situation. It remains to be seen which way the scales will tip. More

POLITICS

Introspection day
THE Independence Day this year has turned out to be different because of the pall of the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 cast on it by the Nanavati Commission's report, and the unpleasant after-taste of the messy handling of it by the government. If a ... More

POWER

A green revolution for energy
Soaring crude prices have made it imperative for us to make a conscious effort to drastically reduce our dependence on petroleum and its by-products. What better course can one take than to tap "green" sources, which can also create employment and s pread well-being to our rural sector besides being environment-friendly, asks S. Venkitaramanan, drawing from Brazil's experience with ethanol and Shell's Imogen project. More

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT

Wholesale gains from FDI in retailing
THE retail boom in China and some of the South-East Asian economies throws up some startling similarities and some stark differences and, of course, a few lessons for India. A decade ago, China was a different story ... More

LETTERS

Crude prices

Mumbai floods

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