The Hindu : Business News : Monday, April 26, 2004

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Monday, April 26, 2004

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Consumer involvement, a must
Fortunately, the institutional mechanisms emerging in the new electricity regime to protect consumer interests signal a window of opportunity, says Narasimha Rao D.

Avenues to recast public finances
THE TWELFTH Finance Commission set up under Article 280 of the Constitution has been asked to submit its report by July 31, 2004. One of the terms of reference is to suggest a plan for reconstruction of the public finances restoring budgetary ...

Challenges in financial intermediation
The most important issue for policy-makers would be to clear the obstacles in the path of efficient financial intermediation from the wholesale to the retail markets.

Apple bets on consumer electronics business
STROLL THE corridors and the atriums on Apple Computer's corporate campus these days and you will notice something missing. Gone are the posters and graphics accenting the company's sleek personal computers. In their place, in the main lobby, is ...

Relief u/s 54 in the case of development agreement
QUESTION: I had entrusted development of my residential property for construction of a multi-storeyed building. The agreement provided for payment partly in cash and partly by a flat to be built. Since I had handed over possession to the ...

Stocks close with net gains
THE BOURSES witnessed sustained purchases by domestic mutual funds and financial institutions last week on the back of the exit poll predictions. The market overcame early pressures in the form of profit booking by investors ahead of the first ...

Monitoring open source projects
THIS WEEK NetSpeak features a notification service that tracks various open-source projects in real-time and provides the latest information on the current postings available at various open-source project repositories spread across the ...