The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, December 27, 2005

BPO industry due for mid-course correction
THE euphoria in the BPO industry soars with the Financial Times reporting the news of J.P. Morgan Chase's plans to hire 4,500 graduates in India with the aim of moving 30 per cent of its back office and support ... More

EDITORIAL

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THE INSURANCE REGULATORY and Development Authority (IRDA) has quite rightly proposed that life insurance plans linked with an investment component — more popularly known as ULIPs — cannot be redeemed earlier than three years and that ... More

ENGINEERING

Re-designing India's manufacturing
As consumers across product segments favour more variety — just look at the profusion of mobile phone models — India's manufacturing sector will have to make a paradigm shift in its approach. Exploiting its large pool of IT resources, pro ducers must become more flexible, capable of smaller, cost-effective production runs, says V. Sumantran. More

POLITICS

`Operation Duryodhan': Is seeking money merely `stupid'?
THE Bharatiya Janata Party veteran and the party's outgoing President, Mr L. K. Advani, has given a new nuance to the terms `stupidity' and bribe-taking. Till now one had thought that accepting money for doing ... More

MANAGEMENT

Home is where talent is
AS TIME goes, the world is opening up with global opportunities for everyone. It is very difficult to tie people for long at one place unless they see it as home. Here, a few thoughts that may make professionals feel ... More

WTO

WTO: Hong Kong Declaration can be a positive force
It is easy to be critical of the Hong Kong Declaration and the stand taken by this delegation or the other. But the movement of a global meeting on such contentious issues as reducing export subsidies, which are politically sensitive in every country , has to be necessarily slow and can never be a big bang affair. More

IPR

Needed, a fair deal for patent seekers
TO HANDLE the situation arising out of a possible outbreak of Bird Flu, a number of pharmaceutical companies are gearing up to produce Oseltamivir, the drug that can effectively tackle this menace. They will have to ... More

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