The Hindu Business Line : Monday, September 29, 2008

OPINION

FINANCIAL MARKETS: US bailout drama: No Act II
The US’ bailout plan for the financial crisis is hopefully being approved soon. It is expected to be received favourably by members of the US Senate and Congress. President Bush has tried to point out to his colleagues in both parties that ...

FINANCIAL MARKETS: Political actors in the financial theatre
The papers in the US have been putting out banner headlines lately with regard to the financial crisis that has gripped the country. Editors and experts have had to reach to superlatives at different points of time, to describe the nature of ...

EDITORIAL: Disappointing kharif
For a country already buffeted by untamed inflation, slowing growth, stubbornly high commodity prices and generally unfriendly global environment, the first advance estimate of kharif 2008 crop brings little cheer. Not unexpectedly, estimated ...

FINANCIAL MARKETS: A crisis of confidence
“USA becomes USSR,” screams a Washington report. The past few weeks have seen active intervention by the world’s capitalist leader and role model, the ...

POLITICS: ‘Free administrators from ministers’
Three weeks ago, the situation in Kashmir was considered grim; the Nano car project in Singur was creating tremors and the nuclear treaty was the hot topic. By all accounts, Singur is now dead; Kashmir has been pushed to the background but ...

POLITICS: ‘Times they are a-changing’
How the times are not only a-changing, but are being stood on their head. On big and small things, the manners and mores within countries and all over the world are becoming unrecognisable. The old timers must be plaintively and pathetically ...

LETTERS: Extend tax holiday for SMEs in IT
There is never going to be an end to wants from industry. For a company which has been in business for five years or so, a few more years of tax concession or tax holiday would obviously be desirable and this keeps stretching for every ...

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