The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, February 07, 2007

BUDGET
Testing the Budget-maker's skills
As the Finance Minister fine-tunes the Budget numbers to accommodate the political compulsions and also bring some relief to the common people hit hard by the recent resurgence in inflation, he cannot afford to brush aside weighty counsel on maintain ing fiscal prudence and staying on the reform path to draw investors, both domestic and foreign, says G. SRINIVASAN. More

POLITICS
Sena on the march in Maharashtra
Failure to ally leaves Congresses in disarray in civic polls More

Micro-finance homilies at Satyagraha Centenary
Delhiites are quite blasé about international conferences. First, there are too many of them happening all the time. Two, the common Delhiite does not get a chance even to enter the venues of such meetings that are, however, covered by the ... More

CREDIT POLICY
Underlining the challenges posed by capital flows
The RBI's latest review of the Monetary Policy responds to several issues, including containing inflationary pressures without affecting growth, overheating concerns, and the challenges posed by capital flows. But its measures are modest and need to be supplemented by bolder regulations. More

LIFESTYLE
Aspects of relativity
The climate-change issue has set one thinking about the future of life on our planet, on the one hand, and, about life itself and how important are the things we as humans consider to be so, on the other. Perspective of ... More

WORK LIFE
The paperwork curse
Aficionados of the computer, the Internet and the intranet used to gush at one time that they had ushered in the new phenomenon of a paperless office. All work would be done on data and views exchanged on the ... More

LETTERS

Investing pension funds in equity

Water conservation

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