The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Awaiting foreign trade prescriptions
The April 7 Foreign Trade Policy review should cast light on the achievements and offer new directions to expand exports. More

AGRICULTURE

Compounding troubles for farmers
The rate of interest charged on farm loans is not as important as the method of charging it. By compounding, in defiance of a Supreme Court judgment and RBI directives, cooperative banks are all but practising usury. In absolute terms, the finan cial loss caused to the farmers of India in the 1980s and the 1990s could be as high as Rs 3 lakh crore More

AIRLINES

Are long working hours endangering flight safety?
Fatigue and stress are ticking time-bombs for airlines More

ECONOMY

RBI's balance-sheet: Mirroring global change
The extent to which the RBI has travelled in the last 15 years is evident in the dramatic shifts in its assets and sources of income. The central bank has soaked in the effects of globalisation with the attendant risks. These changes mirror and may h ave even lead to the transformation in the rest of the organised economy. The transformed balance-sheet provides a road map for further changes, including convertibility, says ASHOAK UPADHYAY. The predominance of foreign currency assets is the most striking aspect of the RBI's balance-sheet. More

`Globalisation is a source of productivity miracle'
The prosperity and growth in the US have happened because they have globalised. Every country, if it globalises, it increases its productivity. More

POLITICS

Love you, US!
One would simply love to live in the US, if only for one reason: The ruthlessness with which the law enforcement machinery goes after the high and mighty — whether politicians or business tycoons — ... More

EDUCATION

Of IIM fees and salary offers
Ravi Goel sends his daughter to class five in a Mumbai suburban CBSE school. The fees for the child works out to Rs 44,000 a year. But his neighbour, Suresh Mathur, can afford to spend more on his son, also in class five. He sends the boy to a ... More

LETTERS

SBI strike

Security for working women

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Love you, US!