The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, April 28, 2005

Maharaja's choice
BUYING NEW AIRCRAFT could not have been so difficult. For more than ten years now, the country's international carrier, Air India, has been looking to acquire aircraft from the United States-based Boeing Company and Europe's Airbus Industrie. ... More

ECONOMY

On `money trail' and savings rate
Little attention has been paid to the reported high saving/investment rate and the proposed tax on cash withdrawals in excess of Rs 10,000 from banks. Both are quirks, the first of statistics and the second of the political economy, says A. Vasude van, looking closely at the two issues of significant import. More

ACCOUNTANCY

Cinema shows and professional occupation cannot be treated alike
THE recent judgment of the Madras High Court in the Bhagvatheeswaran case is a must read for all professionals. It discusses what can be reasonable restrictions that a professional body such as the Institute of ... More

Exits need to be fixed up
Mohan R. Lavi on the need to make winding up schemes less painful. More

INFRASTRUCTURE

Power of public-private partnerships
Given the externalities, high risks and low rates of return, infrastructure financing cannot be left solely to the private sector. At the same time, given the Budget constraints and inherent inefficiencies, the public sector, too, cannot be fully rel ied upon. The solution, therefore, lies in public-private partnership, where the two can complement each other's efforts in providing infrastructure services. More

MANAGEMENT

Divide and rule
QUIZ any management consultant on the challenges he normally faces in getting any plan of action through to the implementation stage, even if the management agrees in principle to put it into operation, and pat would come his reply: Games are ... More

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Goodness is in fashion in corporate governance
CORPORATIONS today touch our lives, from the food we eat to the quality of air we breathe. Although the culture of a firm is determined by the tone set by its top management and the independence and judgment by ... More

BOOKS

Don't get swept by merger mania
SOUTH or West is where there is anticipation of `at least one big-ticket bank merger' this year, even as Kingfisher man Mr Vijay Mallya is busy grooming his son Siddharth to enter the company and completing the merger ... More

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Fighting diabetes

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