The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, October 19, 2005

A wave of internationalisation of R&D
Transnational corporations have come a long way from the conventional norm of retaining proprietary assets within the company (or group). They are no longer coy maidens who hide their assets in their home country; they have seen a greater openness in recent years. This paradigm shift brought about by digitisation has led TNCs to use `asset-augmenting' approaches to complement their earlier `asset-exploiting' strategies. More

EDITORIAL

Land locked
THE BOMBAY HIGH Court ruling on the quantum of land available to textile mills in Mumbai for commercial development is a clear victory for environmental action groups that had spearheaded the legal challenge. The court has taken the view that a ... More

AGRICULTURE

Third-party certifying NGOs — A blow to WTO's Hong Kong ministerial?
The rich nations appear to have shifted serious business from the WTO ministerial negotiating table to a forum of third-party certifying NGOs. The Singapore agenda is back even before headway is made in the matter of respecting the national commitmen ts on farm subsidies contained in the Marrakesh agreements and market access conditions are cleared. Sharad Joshi wonders about the fate of the Hong Kong ministerial, scheduled for this year-end. More

INSIGHT

Ranking against peers
IT HAS nowadays become common to rank institutions which offer similar services or perform similar functions. For instance, educational institutions, such as universities, colleges or business schools are evaluated with reference to specified ... More

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES

Land eight times the size of Nariman Point
MONEY buys land, and wives are sold by fate, wrote the Bard in Merry Wives of Windsor. But it looks like the fate of land sales is bleak considering how NTC's plans have crash-landed. The day's hot topic, therefore, is about the `cooling ... More

3 cheers for 2 articles
AT THE Bombay High Court, while arguing for Environmental Action Group, Mr I. M. Chagla clarified that he was not seeking a freeze on all development in the mill land. What he prayed for was an intervention by the court "to ensure that the ... More

The cloud of environment clearance
ONE OF the objections raised by Mr I. M. Chagla, while arguing against the thirty-plus parties before the Bombay High Court was that none of the respondents who have started construction of residential/commercial premises have obtained the ... More

SIMPLY
Mumbai's happiness and hardship index
INDIA is home to the fourth happiest group of people in the world. Only the Australians, the Americans and the Egyptians are happier than us. If this was the finding of a survey by market research company Gfk NOP published some days back, a ... More

Nuggets of judicial wisdom
"The most vital `community need' at present is the reversal of the environmental degradation. There are virtually no `lung spaces' in the city. The Master Plan indicates that about 34 per cent of recreational areas have been lost to other uses," note d the Supreme Court in a 1996 case. More

LETTERS

NTC land sale
"Bombay HC sets aside sale of NTC land", (Business Line, October 18) is a significant judgement. Whatever the final outcome, the issues raised by the High Court deserve consideration. Planned development is crucial. The importance of ... More

Plight of classical mathematics

Development economics

Dais collapse

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