The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Quality market at 10K
IT IS FITTING that the Sensex should sweep past the 10,000 mark in a bull market that is notable for the quality of stocks on offer and of the market systems. Investors have never had it so good. In the past, several bullish phases dating back to ... More

AGRICULTURE

Real shine must come from farm sector
The Government must look at agriculture as the principal orphan of the reform process that began more than a decade ago. If there is one important lesson to be learned from the experience of the so-called Green Revolution, it is that the high-input t echnology is simply unsustainable. India can only shine when its farms do too, not only when the Bombay Stock Exchange does, says K. P. Prabhakaran Nair More

POLITICS

Freedom of expression or "unnecessary offence"?
THE outrage in the Islamic world over the publication of cartoons denigrating Prophet Mohammed, originally in the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten and then their reproduction, in an expression of solidarity, in ... More

MANAGEMENT

Managing the professional — Styles to suit situations
Successful leaders find it helpful to vary their styles to suit different situations. Four different styles — structuring, guiding, encouraging and delegating — have been suggested in the literature. More

STOCK EXCHANGES

Hip, hip, hooray!
THE market has pole-vaulted over the 10,000 bar, after taking a long run of God knows how many years. In the psychological sense, it is a dream come true. The universal impression is that this time around, the upswing is not a transient ... More

STOCK MARKETS

Mount 10,000 and Reliance
MOST Borivili-Churchgate local trains play host to `gangs' who do the up-downs together, almost on a regular basis, day in and day out. Often, they are from the same neighbourhood or community. Some play cards for ... More

Is the Sensex in the same league as the Dow?
NOW that the Sensex is happily ticking past the 10,000 mark, we can look around to see the other index in the same league, the Dow. It was almost seven years ago, on March 29, 1999, that the Dow Jones Industrial ... More