The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, August 06, 2003

India: The emerging R&D hub
EVER since Texas Instruments set up a research and development centre in Bangalore in 1985, more and more foreign companies have realised the benefits of carrying out significant R&D work in India. According to a study ... More

EDITORIAL

Banks sans bosses
THE GOVERNMENT MAY not lose sleep over headless public sector banks when it is cat-napping over economic problems even a few months ahead of general elections. Allahabad Bank and Bank of India have no chairman and managing director while Andhra ... More

POLITICS

Of Ram temple and elections
Two statements by the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and his deputy, Mr L. K. Advani, one on building the Ram temple at Ayodhya and synchronising Lok Sabha and Assembly elections virtually set the cat among the pigeons and the Opposition pa rty leaders in a overdrive. Were these mere trial balloons, as the Congress spokesman said, or was there more to them? Neither Mr Vajpayee nor Mr Advani was ready to help. More

AGRICULTURAL POLICY

Politics of farm interest rates
In the context of the cap on farm loan interest rates announced by the Finance Minister and the Prime Minister, Sharad Joshi traces the history of the protection farmers in debt got even in pre-Independent India, and says that with agriculture becoming a losing proposition because of the vicissitudes of nature and the tyranny of policies, the Government should see reason. More

RBI & OTHER CENTRAL BANKS

IEO at IMF
RESPONDING to criticism that the IMF has been riding rough-shod over member-Governments, its Executive Board set up in August 2001 an Independent Evaluation Office (IEO), with Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, former Member of ... More

INVESTOR PROTECTION

Don't short-change small shareholders
"SMALL investors may lose direct access to markets" says a report (Business Line, July 18). This reported move, apart from being retrograde, does not say much of the `vision' of the authorities ... More

LETTERS

Food security

Human Development Index

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