The Hindu Business Line : Friday, February 04, 2005

Right call, at last
AT LONG LAST has come the Cabinet nod raising the foreign direct investment (FDI) ceiling in key telecom services from 49 per cent to 74 per cent. Prima facie, this is a positive development, as it widens the FDI window and brings greater ... More

BUDGET

What will the Budget hold?
IN THE run up to Budget 2005-06, the penultimate year of the Tenth Plan (2002-07), the air is thick with irrational exuberance over what it might contain for the various constituents of the economy. While much is ... More

ECONOMY

Sell-off fund — Will it fall victim to petty politics?
The Government is seriously thinking of setting up a sell-off fund, which will be used partially for strengthening the public sector and for financing social sector programmes. It is hoped that the present decision of the Government would be earnestl y implemented, and not become a victim to petty politics. For this, the Government would have to be clear on several issues, says G. Ganesh. More

POLITICS

Well done, Mr Bush
ONE need not be an American to feel stirred by the grandeur of the occasion while watching a US President deliver the State of the Union Address. The impressive assemblage consists of not only the 435 members of the ... More

EDUCATION

Let's discuss `dismiss'
FEBRUARY has begun on a dismal dismissal note. In Nepal, the monarch dismissed democracy; in Goa, dismissal came after a government scraped through a controversial confidence vote; in Iraq, Sunni clerics have dismissed ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

Corporates, beware the training robbery
THE word management is generally understood in two different connotations. It is used to denote a group of people in the higher level in the hierarchy who get things done in an organisation. It is also used to describe ... More

BRANDS

The decline and decline of Brand America
BRAND creation, promotion, and positioning are the pet themes of business school analysts. Even as the literature on brand equity has grown into an industry, the subject has moved away from the confines of ... More

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