The Hindu Business Line : Monday, February 24, 2003

Outsourcing requires controls
IBM ANNOUNCED last week the receipt of a major outsourcing contract from Visteon Corporation. Under this contract, IBM will takeover and run most of the computer operations of Visteon, a manufacturer of auto parts which includes data centres and ... More

EDITORIAL

A plug for power reforms
NOW THAT THE Parliamentary Standing Committee has approved the Electricity Bill 2001 with some modifications, one would assume it will be smooth sailing for this much-delayed piece of legislation in Parliament. The initiative for such a ... More

BUDGET

Jaswant Singh's limited options
THE Union Budget has become a national ritual of political and economic significance. With the coming of live presentations of the Budget on TV channels, the statement of expenditure and revenue estimates has become a media sensation. Is all ... More

Vision 2020 — Budget: For a new operating paradigm
Budget should address broad macroeconomic issues. But in all democracies, political pressures reduce it to mostly clerical microeconomic exercises targeting minute sections. The success of the coming Budget will depend on how well it shifts the empha sis from microeconomics to macroeconomics, says P. V. Indiresan. More

HEALTH

A scope to avoid the cut
IN AN obstetrician's clinic, in the government or private sector, roughly 10 per cent of the patients come seeking treatment for excessive or abnormal menstrual bleeding. For a good percentage of women over 40, who complain of abnormal bleeding ... More

POLITICS

Report card
THE Mayor of New York, Mr Michael R. Bloomberg, has gone ahead and done something which, one can be sure, would not endear him to elected officials not only in his own country but the world over. He has published a report card on his performance ... More

RAILWAY BUDGET

Rail Budget — What track will Nitish take?
FOR THE travelling public, inured to endure rising fare with no commensurate amenities, the second Railway Budget to be presented by Mr Nitish Kumar on February 26 may not hold much surprise either way — if the fare goes up in the name of ... More

TERRORISM

US will win war on Iraq, not on terrorism
No one knows what the outcome of an invasion of Iraq would be. One thing is certain. This will not eliminate terrorism. Instead, it is bound to trigger extensive consequences for the US and the world community. More

LETTERS

Privatisation

US-Iraq war

Railway Budget

Import of medical equipment

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