The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, June 14, 2006

EDITORIAL
Inflationary discomfort
If any evidence of inflation concerns was needed, the RBI provided it by raising the repo and reverse repo rates. More

FOREX
One dollar is one dollar
The US is assumed to have practised a strong dollar policy and presumed to have been content to let the dollar drift down so that exports would become cheaper and imports more expensive. More

INFRASTRUCTURE
Picking up the resettlement gauntlet
Mr Raghuvansh Prasad Singh will need to be wary in drafting the Bill on the issue of resettlement of project-affected people. More

PETROLEUM
Politics of the oil protest
The response of certain political parties to the decision of the Congress to get its State Governments to reduce sales tax on petrol and diesel is gradually entering the realm of confusion, the one certainty being that the interests of the ... More

TEXTILES
Textile exports to US — Weaving success, post-quotas
India has to work on its shortcomings and spruce up its act to enhance textile exports so that the export target of $40 billion by 2010 can be reached. More

RBI & OTHER CENTRAL BANKS
Hats off, IMF!
If a competition were to be held to adjudge which of the international organisations has the most admirable grasp of the obvious, the prize will easily go to the IMF. If you doubt the decision, you should read ... More

FOREIGN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS
The FII `shock' to stock market
In keeping with the FII flows, the Sensex rose from 3,000 points in May 2003 to its peak on May 10 — up 420 per cent! Even as SEBI and the Finance Ministry celebrated the surge, there were warnings from abroad. More