The Hindu Business Line : Friday, December 31, 2004

EDITORIAL
Land border conundrum
IMPORTANT LAND BORDER routes in West Bengal (Petrapole, Hili and Mahadipur) and the North-East (Dawki, in Meghalaya) to Bangladesh, which have over the years aided the steady growth of border trade between the two countries, are today virtually ... More

ECONOMY
RBI's Currency and Finance Report — Some aspects of credit delivery ignored
The apex bank does not fight shy of telling the Government that "strict adherence to fiscal rules in letter and spirit will help stabilise inflation expectations and, in turn, keep inflation low and stable in the country while gradually providing in creasing flexibility to the apex bank". More

HUMAN RESOURCES
Get babudom on the treadmill
Despite the constant refrain that the country's flabby bureaucracy needs trimming, efforts towards this end seem to lack sincerity. The over-manned establishment, besides adding to the disguised employment, acts as a huge drain on resources, says Raghu Dayal. More

MARKETING
Analysing consumer behaviour
To reap the maximum benefits from data analytics, firms have to invest in the right technology, hire the right people and develop standardised and robust processes of data collection, data retrieval, data analysis and strategy implementation. More

NATURAL CALAMITIES
Uneasy 2005
THE advent of 2005 is taking place under the dark shadow of the Sumatran tsunami. (Incidentally, it is wrong to call it (phonetically) sunami since the prefix `su' in Sanskrit stands for auspiciousness and benevolence: ... More

The disaster of calamity discussions
CURRENTLY, the most confusing word for our leaders is `calamity'. On one side, the PM prays, as in King Henry VI, "free my country from calamity," and says that the recent tsunami "is a national calamity", but on ... More

LETTERS

Serious omission

Out of tune with Nature

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