The Hindu Business Line : Monday, November 24, 2003

Recruitment travails
THE BIGGEST RAILWAY recruitment exercise in recent times has claimed more than 40 lives and led to destruction of property worth lakhs of rupees not to mention the incalculable damage to the collective national identity. Ironically, the ... More

FOREIGN TRADE

The US-China trade spat
Whether the differences between the world's biggest and fifth biggest trading nation will affect the thawing Sino-American trade ties in the immediate future is still uncertain, but the fact remains that it could lead to hiccups on the international trade front which, among other things, can scupper for some more time the efforts to get the stalled WTO negotiations moving. More

POLITICS

`Rajasthan needs more investments and jobs'
IF THE ordinary man in Jaipur, who has some links or the other with the villages of Rajasthan, is grateful to the Gehlot Government for good drought management, a section of the business community is unhappy with ... More

`Freedom is beautiful'
THOSE were the words the US President, Mr George W. Bush, spontaneously and cheerfully uttered when he was rather rudely asked by a correspondent at a joint media conference with the UK Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, at ... More

BANKING

Report on Trend and Progress in Banking 2002-2003 — Revitalising banking through radical reform
THE latest review of the Trend and Progress of Banking in India, which covers the year 2002-03, is comprehensive, analytical and insightful. One significant feature of the financial performance of banks in India ... More

STOCK MARKETS

SEs must marginalise ad hoc solutions
A SECTION of investors hold the National Stock Exchange (NSE) responsible for slowing down the current rally in equity prices. The reason is that the exchange, to control systemic risk, recently imposed ad hoc ... More

ECONOMIC OFFENCES

Atrophied roots of American capitalism
From being a beacon for the free world, America could end up as an example of the anarchy that results from brute and unchecked financial Darwinism, with disclosures about the American corporate world and financial market shenanigans showing no signs of abating, says V. Anantha Nageswaran. More

LETTERS

Automobile industry

Centurion Bank clarifies

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