The Hindu Business Line : Friday, March 10, 2006

REPORTER'S DIARY
Positive fallout
The US President, Mr George Bush's public denial of a civilian nuclear deal to Pakistan has led to a positive development that escaped many. In his detailed response to a query from a journalist in Islamabad ... More

EDITORIAL

DOWN UNDER BECKONS
There is a clear change in perception, with Canberra pulling out all the stops to deepen bilateral engagement. More

ECONOMY

A practical, managerial effort
Budget 2006 is exciting because it discards many shibboleths and debunks myths about savings, subsidies, supply-led growth and planned capital expenditure. Instead, it celebrates consumption by ordinary citizens. It deifies demand. It boldly regards demand as the principal driver of our good times. This will trigger a wave of jobs, incomes, consumption and more tax revenues, say G. RAMACHANDRAN and R. VIJAY SHANKAR. More

MANAGEMENT

Images of leadership
A survey conducted over three years by the faculty of Wharton School of Management is both novel and revealing. It sought to elicit from 1918 newly admitted students their images of leadership with brief reasons ... More

INTERNET

From wooden floats to floating thoughts
From St Joseph's Boys High School, Bangalore, to Blogeverywhere.com. That, in brief, is the story of Sabeer Bhatia, the Indian who co-founded Hotmail in 1995, along with Jack Smith, and sold `the original free e-mail service' to Microsoft ... More

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT

Budget low on FDI initiative
Growth in FDI has been catalysed by the general spurt in the economy and not by special measures in the Budget. The Finance Minister should ponder over fiscal incentives to woo foreign investors. More

Matching Kyushu's hardware with India's software
If you thought that a developed country such as Japan invests in other economies and is not in the race to attract FDI, then Kyushu will force you to think otherwise. More