The Hindu Business Line : Monday, October 17, 2005

Child labour
CHILD labour is a vexed issue, since it is seen to be utterly destructive of human potential. Childhood is the stage of human development when the seeds of self-actualisation are sown in the form of education and inculcation of the right values, ... More

WIDE CANVAS

WTO: The countdown to Hong Kong
The developing countries — which have a strong stake in the continued healthy functioning of the WTO — are placed in a tight corner in that they will have to make major compromises if they want the Hong Kong ministerial to succeed and, in the process, ensure the future of the Geneva-based organisation itself. More

A RINGSIDE VIEW

Sentiment turns bearish
As there is no visible sign of panic, but only a tactical readjustment of positions, this week the Dalal Street is likely to witness a war of nerves. More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE

Is it now a season for dividends?
SOME are quite brash about it. Others approach it coyly. Still others vigorously urge their existing investors to grab the opportunity. If you have not guessed it already, we are talking about dividends declared by fund houses and the ways these ... More

ADR WATCH

HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank suffer sharply — Price, premium fall for all
FOR the second week in a row, the US equities suffered on reports of higher imported goods and consumer prices coupled with comments from the Federal Reserve spurred concern about higher inflation and interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial ... More

VISION 2020

Why every community needs capital
Beyond the stage of economic infancy, every community needs capital (and capitalists) to grow higher. At that stage, a wise polity will cultivate capitalists; it will not reject what capitalists can do better than the state. Citing the case of Kerala , P. V. Indiresan says the State should learn to welcome capital — both financial and human. More

RANDOM WALK

Banking on technology
LAST week, a quartet of interesting developments pointed to the possibility of a developmental shift in favour of a technology-driven thrust to Kerala's industrialisation. The first came in the form of a statement from Chief Minister Oommen ... More

CHAT

Endurance isn't just the ability to bear a hard thing
Khan finished watching Tomorrow Never Dies and pushed the You Only Live Twice DVD into the player. Dakshinamoorthy scoured the Net for info on bird flu. Sridevi shopped non-stop for Deepavali. But Jogin pulled them all in for the weekly market ... More

AMERICAN PERISCOPE

Making good manners a part of core competence
BRINGING about change can be tough. New CEOs come in hoping to put their stamp on the organisation and some even last long enough to try their hand at it.Often, major changes in strategy need to be accompanied by a ... More

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