The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, November 07, 2006

FOREIGN RELATIONS
EU-India Summit — Getting closer to the EU
The Helsinki summit is the seventh in the series, which over the years have come to acquire a practical meaning in translating ideas into action. More

EDITORIAL
For inclusive banking
Bankers must see `inclusive' banking as an opportunity rather than as an irksome dimension of regulatory compliance. More

AGRICULTURE
PERSPECTIVE
US goes organic
Recent medical research has traced the origin of a number of illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer's to the type of food consumed. Plant foods comprising fruits, vegetables and grains have been identified as the primary ... More

Time to sow an organic revolution
ORGANIC FARMING is now acknowledged the world over as a sustainable model for alleviating poverty and increasing prosperity. More

AIRLINES
Chaos in air and on the ground
Poor airport infrastructure gets compounded by air traffic flow inadequacy More

HUMAN RESOURCES
Building aggressiveness
A fierce war is on in Corporate India, one in which only the fittest can survive. The survival instinct is now more than ever before. This does not provide companies the luxury of relaxation and for the people ... More

INTERVIEW
`It is financial exclusion of SSIs'
"The share of credit to SSIs as a percentage of net bank credit has come down from 17.5 per cent to a pathetic 8.1 per cent today, though credit to SSIs has grown in absolute terms." MR DE. RAMAKRISHNAN, PRESIDENT, INDUSTRIAL AND FINANCIAL RECONSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION FOR SMALL AND TINY ENTERPRISES More

BOOKS
What's happening `inside China's stock markets'?
"China has enjoyed its greatest period of international investor enthusiasm in history," note authors of Privatizing China. A. Besant C. Raj investigates this success in comparison to India in Unravelling the China Miracle. Sun Shuyun takes the spir itual journey into the Middle Kingdom in Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud. Right reads to churn up your China gyan says D. MURALI. More

LETTERS

Failure of technocrats

Iraq crisis

Empowering the farmer

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Carrier plans tie-ups with retail majors

PE deals worth $5.9 b inked in Jan-Oct

$100 PC from Lenovo soon

India fares better on corruption index

Govt mulls more sops for electronics, IT hardware

ONGC, Hinduja may sign pact

India's more globally engaged today: PM

Looking back
Oct. 29-Nov. 4
Diffusion in use of ICT

RBI's mid-term review of credit policy — Striking an internal-external balance

13k and the frowning retail investor

Fuel the `inclusive' model of development

Technocrats have let down agriculture