The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, January 29, 2002

Calling carriers
THE INTERIM ORDER passed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on routing all STD calls without bearing the carrier access code alternately between Bharti Telesonic and Bharat Sanchar Nigam is not only impracticable technically, but also ... More

ECONOMY

How competitive is the Indian private sector?
IT IS nearly a decade now since India started on the liberalisation path. Customers were supposed to benefit and Indian companies were supposed to face intense competition from their foreign counterparts. A study, on CMIE database, was ... More

Argentina: The bitterest pill yet
IN THE last week of December 2001, Argentina made the biggest-ever sovereign debt default ($152 billion) in the history of global financial markets. Unlike the Mexican crisis (1994-95), salvaged by US dollar-pumping operations, the devastating ... More

PETROLEUM

Petro products at market prices -- Conundrums and challenges
WE ARE approaching the much-awaited shift from administered to market-determined prices for petro products. There are a number of issues that have to be sorted out before this shift happens:

What happens to the huge oil pool deficit and ... More

POLITICS

Confusion worse confounded
The Soviet Union and China gave their benediction to opportunistic arrangements with reactionary forces committed to an anti-Western agenda. Realpolitik, ideology and the unfolding theology of socialist redemption and capitalist hell-fire became a se amless robe of progressive thought and action. Like the Bourbons, those who would wish to lead the good fight against the US appear to have learnt nothing and forgotten nothing. More

TEXTILES

Textile industry must pick up threads anew
THE textile industry has come a long way since Independence. Capacities have grown manifold. The share of exports in output has risen tremendously, even if the share in world exports is still small. New technologies have come in, and the industry ... More

LETTERS

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`Railneer' to quench commuters' thirst

UTI writes off 50% of NPAs in monthly plans

Reliance signs licence for long-distance

Develop bond market to cut forex risk: BIS

Rlys set to haul 490 mt freight

SSI net down 93 pc in Q2

In Depth
Inside Kashmir

Guide to derivatives

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