The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, May 02, 2004

ECONOMY
India is narrowing growth gap with China: CBC survey
REVIEWING commonwealth countries' performance in mobilising investment over the past two years, the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC), in its Business Environment Survey 2003 (covering 31 countries), has pointed out that India was continuing to ... More

FERTILISERS
Divestment delay dampens fertiliser sector consolidation process: Fitch
THE Centre's delay in the disinvestment of the State-owned fertiliser units has dampened the process of consolidation in the sector, the rating agency Fitch has said. The sell-off exercise is now expected to gain momentum only after a new ... More

FOREIGN TRADE
India can reap larger gains with EU-25
THE formal accession of ten countries with a combined population of 75 million with eight states from Central and Eastern Europe — the Czech Republic, Latvia, Estonia Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia — as well as the two ... More

SSI
`SMEs lagging in IT, e-readiness'
SMALL and medium enterprises (SMEs) are slow to adopt information technology to improve efficiency and quality of their products. According to a survey on e-readiness (electronic readiness) of India, only 8-10 per cent of the over ... More

RADIO/TV
FM licence fee issue back to I&B Ministry
THE Finance Ministry has tossed the issue of deferring payment of the annual licence fee by FM radio companies back to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry and has asked it to take a firm view on the issue. The I&B Ministry has been unable . More

GENDER
Elections and burden of women
UNDOUBTEDLY Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee is the trump card of the BJP in this election. Remember the surveys that said that Karnataka Chief Minister S.M. Krishna, was otherwise popular in his State, particularly in urban areas, but when it came ... More