The Hindu Business Line : Monday, January 14, 2008

EDITORIAL
Enabling Dhaka
With favourable policy changes, the onus is now on Dhaka to provide a fillip to the bilateral trade and investment exchange. More

ECONOMY
The new world order in services
Recent studies have consistently shown that the age, talent and attitude to serve and succeed in several developing countries surpass those in developed economies by orders of magnitude, primarily because the need to succeed is that much higher. More

ENVIRONMENT
Driving into the Green Zone
The first of January 2008 marked the introduction of the first three environmental zones in Germany — in Berlin, Cologne and Hanover. Starting March 2008, other German cities will also follow suit. Every vehicle entering an environmental zone now needs to display an appropriate badge. More

INFRASTRUCTURE
SEZs: The avoidable Goa tangle
If an environmental impact assessment study had been carried out before the grant of approval for Goa’s SEZs, the present tangle could have been avoided. The only question is who should have woken up earlier, the Goa government or the Governmen t of India, asks V. K. SRINIVASAN. More

POLITICS
Kicking up dust to no purpose
The Justice Madan Mohan Punchi Commission on Centre-State Relations set up in April 2007 has embarked on the customary and compulsive rigmarole of issuing a questionnaire and inviting statements from the public on the issues covered by its terms ... More

Elephant vs the dragon
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, must always be seen to extend the hand of cooperation towards China, but he must not extend it blindly, oblivious of what the real intentions of the Chinese are. More

INTERVIEW
Dwelling on low-cost housing demands
Low-cost housing or LCH is slowly getting high on the agenda of developers. While this is understandable, because of the enormous gap between supply and demand, what should be worrying is that high land cost, and lack of connectivity owing to ... More

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