The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, May 04, 2002

Stagnant exports
EXPORTS ARE DOWN over the previous year. The original target was a 12 per cent increase in exports; it was revised to three per cent; but the final number reveals a 0.08 per cent decline. There are two ways to look at this setback. One is as the ... More

ECONOMY

Budget 2002-03 and the Tenth Plan -- Re-orienting policies to match targets
THE Finance Bill 2002 and the Budget: 2002-03 have finally been passed with some revisions that cater to the objectives of various political parties. It has increased the tax rebates for those with incomes between Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 5 lakh and ... More

Gravy train to graveyards
OUAGADOUGOU may sound like mumbo-jumbo but it is the capital city of Burkina Faso, a country in Western Africa, north of Ghana. Burkina Faso means `the land of honest people' and the country was earlier known as Upper Volta. It is the world's ... More

FERTILISERS

Merit-based pricing for urea
THE Government is reportedly toying with the idea of `merit'-based pricing for the domestic urea industry. Under the existing dispensation, unit-wise retention prices are fixed to cover the respective reasonable ex-factory cost determined on the ... More

POLITICS

In Nazis' footsteps
THE reference to Nazis and Nazism, which cropped up in the Lok Sabha debate on Tuesday, is extremely important for the nation because it relates to the perceived conduct of a political party that forms the core of the NDA Government at the ... More

TAXATION

The TDS milch cow
T. C. A. Ramanujam says the stringent TDS norms will no doubt push up collections but could become draconian too More

Getting tough with trusts
S. Murlidharan on the strange mélange of tax rules for trusts More

Forty acres and a mule
IN 1993, Essence magazine published an article in which it described the Civil War plan under which freed slaves were entitled to receive 40 acres and a mule from the government. Congress passed a Bill that authorised the grant, and some ... More

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