The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, January 05, 2006

For a second farm revolution
SHALL WE CONSIDER it a good New Year augury that at the recent Indian Science Congress, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, called for a second Green Revolution and urged scientists to work towards it? The challenges confronting the farm ... More

INSIGHT

The Little Blue Book
RECENTLY, on a trip to London, I overheard a Bengali colleague saying he had to go to India House to get his son's visa for India. Intrigued, I asked my friend what nationality his son carried. "Australian," he replied, without batting an ... More

ECONOMY

A place for India in `Asian' Century
China revising its GDP growth rates and the launch of SAFTA mark the arrival of Asia on the world scene. Both have implications for India. The first demanding a re-visit to the national income statistics to factor in the contribution of the services sector, and the second, New Delhi's leadership. Will India take up the challenge, wonders A. Vasudevan. More

ACCOUNTANCY

You can't be too busy to think of BCM
THE BASEL Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), and the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) have joined hands to bring forth a consultative document titled ... More

`Standard' lag in accounting for financial instruments
K. C. Chakrabarty on accounting practices in bank treasury operations More

FOREIGN TRADE

SAFTA: India should lead by example
Trade is a two-way street. If India opened up to its neighbours, allowing them to enter the domestic market, they might be liberal in opening up their market place, and ultimately price and quality would settle the demand-supply equations. More

BOOKS

Costly cost containment
ALL TURNAROUNDS don't have happy endings. And, failures can teach us as much as successes. Paul W. MacAvoy and Jean W. Rosenthal of Yale School of Management study one such case in Corporate Profit and Nuclear Safety, from Princeton ... More

LETTERS

Right value

Pension after 75

Delhi demolitions

Brand myths

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