The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, April 09, 2003

Saving the Sick Three
THE IDEA OF clubbing IDBI, IFCI and IIBI does not look too bright simply because merging three sick financial entities does not a single healthy unit make. None of the three has access to cheap funds. Getting recap bonds to neutralise losses or ... More

AGRICULTURE

Do farmers have friends?
Laying the blame for much of the farm sector's ills at the door of the Congress, Sharad Joshi says the party leader, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, is on weak wicket blaming the non-Congress regimes. The latter, he says, are guilty by complicity as they sh owed little courage in changing the policies set largely in the Nehru and Indira Gandhi eras. More

CORPORATE

MNCs: Not above flouting rules
As many as 18 blue-chip MNCs have allegedly violated the foreign exchange regulations and paid salaries and perks abroad to their employees working in India without obtaining RBI approval. More

POLITICS

Sri Lanka: Of peace without war
BY ALL accounts, Sri Lanka is a good country to travel to these days. Colombo is a happening place with its famous parties, memories of bomb blasts and wars have receded, there is no SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) here yet, the seafood ... More

Spoils of war
THE victors are eagerly closing in on the spoils of war. Having plotted and executed the entire deadly drill, the US has reserved solely and wholly to itself the prescriptive right to decide the mode of sharing. That was how it was in the days of ... More

IPR

Why registering trademarks matters
TRADEMARKS allow customers to visually distinguish a company's products from those of its competitors. One routinely deals with trademarks while deciding on which brand of soap (Pears, Lux, Hamam, Camay?) or car (Esteem, Ikon or Civic?) to buy or ... More

LETTERS

Fuel price

Pre-emptive strikes

Expensive examinations

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