The Hindu Business Line : Friday, September 02, 2005

Power in the wind
WITH OVER 1,100 MW of capacity added in 2004-05 — a 45 per cent growth over the previous year — one would have expected those involved in the wind power sector to be a happy lot. Not quite so. The potential is vast — about ... More

CORPORATE

Non-executive directors — Board them from needless litigations
BOTH the Government and the regulatory authorities are agreed that the performance of company boards needs to improve to ensure better corporate management and prevent malpractices. The healthy performance of a company depends on the board ... More

POLITICS

Ludicrous comparison
HAUNTED by all the outrageous fibs fabricated against Iraq — possession of weapons of mass destruction, ability to launch them at 45 minutes' notice, collaboration with Al Qaeda to test chemical weapons, forging links with international ... More

Judiciary and Legislature — Confrontation or co-operation?
The framers of the Constitution considered it undesirable to give unfettered powers to the Legislature. Judicial review was set as a check. Yet, far from the Judiciary indulging in making or restating the law, it is the Legislature that has often bee n seen to be interfering in the judicial process. On quite a few occasions Parliament has chosen to overrule court decisions. The country can afford to denigrate Judiciary at its own peril. More

Parliament's monsoon meeting — A session not rained out
The monsoon session of Parliament has just ended, and happily quite some business was done this time unlike earlier sittings, which were stalled by an acrimonious opposition. But a major disappointment of this session was that yet again the Women's R eservation Bill was not introduced. Terming the reasons trotted out quite fantastic, Rasheeda Bhagat says the issue has become too politicised. More

GENDER

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat
THERE was an old woman tossed in a basket. Seventeen times as high as the moon; but where she was going no mortal could tell, for under her arm she carried a broom. "Old woman, old woman, old woman," said I, "Whither, oh whither, oh whither so ... More

INTERVIEW

`Our focus has always been designing for India' — Mr Arvind Mathew, Managing Director and President, Ford India
Mr Arvind Mathew has taken over as Managing Director and President of Ford India at a time when the company is preparing to launch a premium mid-size car. The company, he says, is in turbo-charged mode. A post-graduate in mechanical ... More

LETTERS

Just cause

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