The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, December 29, 2005

Undermining value-addition
AT A TIME when by all accounts a national consensus has evolved on the strategic direction of the Indian economy and the role of the state as a facilitator, rather than an orchestrator, of players, the Ministry of Mines would apparently like to ... More

ACCOUNTANCY

Startling take on Big Four
THIS is not a story that Big Four accounting firms may like to read. Because it is about the gloomy report card they earned in the hands of the Canadian Public Accountability Board (CPAB). Big Four accounting firms "have more work to do in a ... More

Take the knowledge cover before heading to the Great Wall
A COMBINATION of plenty of people growing richer, and the emergence of a friendlier insurance regime has made China too good to resist, writes Sam Baillie, Editor of China Law & Practice in Insurance Law in China, from Asia Law & ... More

STOCK MARKETS

Sense from Sensex — Removing infrastructural bottlenecks
REGARDLESS OF the upswing in the market sentiment, the danger of infrastructural bottlenecks making a shambles of the economy is real. The stark fact is that the country does not simply have on the ground infrastructure capable of underwriting ... More

WTO

Hong Kong Ministerial — Another show of South solidarity
The result of the Hong Kong Ministerial is not as important as the message it sends for the developing countries. After having flexed their muscles in the multilateral trade arena, they need to develop an alternative to the markets of the North. This is possible only through greater South-South cooperation on trade and economic issues, say Pradeep S. Mehta and Pranav Kumar. More

HUMAN RESOURCES

Can Indian corporate management mature?
THE prevalent holiday season all over the world prompts one to ask whether Indian managers ever take regular breaks at all. Or, are they always chasing deadlines, driving themselves to the point of taking sick leave? One wonders whether given ... More

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Clause 49: Are we there yet?
Kshama V. Kaushik and Kaushik Dutta think that the Anglo-Saxon model of governance is unlikely to work and that an Asian way is needed More

LETTERS

Cancellation of railway tickets

Tracking Sensex

Funding of elections

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