The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, November 10, 2005

Food for thought from the oil-for-food scam
FOR professionals recovering from festivals and generally ruing over the weather, here is something to get busy with: The 630-page report of the Independent Inquiry Committee on the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme (OFFP), a.k.a. the ... More

REFLECTIONS

Facing the autumn of life
"I HAVE failed in selling my old age to my children; even a discount sale is not on. They want me always young, without my 90 years," Ramesh Nilakantha Sastri told me when I went to say goodbye to him a week ago. His 65-year-old son, Nilakantha ... More

JOTTINGS

Woes of hi-tech banking
HAS the combination of high technology and competition in financial services in particular served us well as customers? Has it truly introduced a service orientation amongst those staff who manage the various points of ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND

MTNL up on merger hopes
MAHANAGAR Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) on Wednesday closed with a gain in a volatile market as certain players are understood to have betted on its prospects of being merged with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd - the unlisted and the national telecom ... More

SENSOR

Benchmarks surrender initial gains on volatile day
ON Wednesday, the markets opened with a bang, across the board gains were recorded in the initial hour. The bulls, however, failed to keep their foot on the gas pedal as most of the indices lost steam in the subsequent hour. Post lunch, the ... More

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