The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Heritage protection
THE Chennai offices of the British Council and the Association of British Scholars recently organised a cute little function to launch an impressive photomontage titled "Madras that is Chennai: Gateway to the South" put together with great ... More

FINANCIAL SCAN

US monetary policy: Discretion vs valour?
Competition, not costs, drives prices. Much of the work of a central bank is now done by the market. More

REFLECTIONS

Vanishing forests
TRIPURA is balding fast. Officially, 60 per cent of the geographical area of 10.49 lakh hectares has been declared as forest land, but old timers are not so sure. Sal, teak and other forest cover are being stripped, smuggled into Bangladesh to ... More

DOWN TO EARTH

A case of the fence eating crop?
THE crisis that has been brewing in the sugarcane growing regions of Maharashtra has reached a stalemate. The Maharashtra Government has been insisting, all along, that no factory should pay more than Rs 850 per tonne ... More

ZERO BASE

Disaster prevention, mitigation, preparedness and relief
ON Monday, the Rajya Sabha passed the Disaster Management Bill. A day earlier, the Home Minister, Mr Shivraj Patil, was accompanied by the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, and the Minister of State for Home Affairs, ... More

SIMPLY...

A ban quietly bagged?
IT IS safe to assume that July 26 does not come twice a year. And it is this assumption that seems to be rationale for the Maharashtra Government's take-it-easy policy as far as a host of reconstruction activities in ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND

Acquisition plan firms up Sundram Fasteners
Sundram Fasteners Ltd moved up by around 5 per cent on both the NSE and the BSE on expectation that its proposed acquisition of a German company may come through soon. The stock logged a traded quantity of 1.48 lakh shares on the NSE and ... More

SENSOR

Across-the-board selling drags Sensex
THE euphoria on the bourses received a jolt as markets snapped their five-day winning streak. While the Sensex ended the day at 8931.2, down 63.8 points, the Nifty closed at 2698.3. Sensex, which breached the 9000-mark on Monday, opened on a ... More

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