The Hindu Business Line : Monday, January 02, 2006

Indian of the Year 2005
AFTER conducting a poll of its viewers, the NDTV Channel has declared Ms Sonia Gandhi, as the Indian of the Year 2005. Drawing on my long experience of having observed prominent leaders in various walks of life, ... More

A RINGSIDE VIEW

Range-bound movement likely — A conservative view is benchmark may produce a moderate return in 2006
THE year 2004 ended with a promise for Indian equities. If India is on its way to become the world's third largest economy by 2010, 2006 could prove to be a defining year for Dalal Street. Renewal of global capital's focus on Indian stocks is ... More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE

Can fund houses sustain the current trend?
THE first working day of the New Year may not be the best time to think about last year's failures, but this may well be the most opportune moment to consider the funds that failed to live up to expectations, including those that ended at the ... More

CHAT

From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes
Jogin spent the weekend studying the performance of his portfolio during 2005 vis-à-vis the shadow one that he maintained! Dakshinamoorthy sat meditating for fresh insights about the markets. Sridevi was still recovering from the New Year ... More

EUROSCAPE

Going lean and lean — Surviving the German corporate jungle
HERBERT Spencer, the British economist, is often credited with introducing the phrase `survival of the fittest' in his 1851 work relating to free market economics. Companies which offer better goods and services at ... More

JOTTINGS

New, creative resolutions
NO, there is no mistake in the headline, and the theme is not the kind of promises to oneself made every First of January, which are then the object of much self-deprecating humour later. Here are some special promises ... More

PEOPLE WISE

Will the HR profession please speak up?
THE SECURITY departments, transport departments, the police, the taxi drivers, the CEOs, Nasscom, the various labour unions, the public at large — they all had something to say. As for the HR (human resource) ... More

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