The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, March 05, 2003

Funding infrastructure
FEW WOULD QUARREL with the Finance Minister's assertion in his Budget speech that there is simply no alternative to providing quality infrastructure to the public, be it transport, energy or public health, if the goal of accelerated economic ... More

BUDGET

Populism with a human face
DESPITE the fact that the Union Finance Minister's 2003-2004 Budget speech was perhaps even longer than the seemingly unending exercises of his illustrious predecessors (thereby stamping the exercise with the hallmark of conventionalism), there ... More

Promising but not progressive enough to reach targets
THE Budget 2003 was a fairly balanced one, which is promising, inspires confidence and kindles hope for the country. But considering the vastness and complexity of India's economic ills, it cannot be said to meet the objectives in full. ... More

POLITICS

A lesson for BJP and Congress
The BJP has not been able to do a Gujarat in Himachal Pradesh. In this, there is as much a lesson for the BJP as for the Congress(I), which has been pushing the soft Hindutva pedal, says Rasheeda Bhagat, looking at the set of just-concluded As sembly elections. More

Soft Hindutva
NOT TOO long ago, there was only plain and simple communalism, and arrayed in opposition to it were the forces of secularism. It was confusing enough to make out what either meant. Confounding the lack of clarity, appeared such new variants as ... More

TAXATION

Pitfalls of new consumerism
THE US President, Mr George Bush, recently urged lawmakers to eliminate the double taxation on dividends to invigorate the troubled economy and a depressed stock market. He also wants Congress to accelerate the tax cuts scheduled to become ... More

LETTERS

Budget

Tax concession to cricketers

I-T deduction

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