The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, March 29, 2003

Immigration bugs
WHATEVER THE CIRCUMSTANCES in the latest episode involving immigration authorities in the Netherlands, Indian IT professionals are having a hard time outside the country. At a time when assertive nationalism has become the norm, it would be ... More

ECONOMY

Are we rapidly downloading a deep recession?
AS WITH estimates of corruption, black money, or the number of crows in town, there are now hourly statistics about war deaths in Iraq. But while bombs may be precision controlled, those who wage the war seem to have taken things too personally. ... More

TAXATION

An amalgam of roadblocks
The benefits being extended to business reorganisation are tied to too many stipulations, says T. C. A. Ramanujam More

Tuition in education
While the tax rebate on educational expenses is welcome, its scope could have been wider, says R. Anand More

Little bit of IT everywhere
Mohan R. Lavi on what `IT-enabled services' would cover More

No royal give-away
Authors may be done in by the fine print, says S. Murlidharan More

Making it industry and consumer friendly
THE Introduction of VAT (Value Added Tax) will usher in a new tax regime at the State level, which will have a profound impact on the industry as well as the consumer. States and Centre have formed the Empowered Committee of State Finance ... More

Too eager to curb abuse
Vidya Nagarajan on the Budget proposals on amalgamation and demerger More

DOMESTIC TRAVEL

At Wigwam
DARJEELING, in the middle of March, is no paradise. We found it cloudy, misty, cold and wet, with the thermometer touching four/five on an evening during the four days we were there. But we were not unhappy. Quite the opposite, in fact. Being ... More

ECONOMIC OFFENCES

Narco-smuggling and ISI
No less than the US envoy to Pakistan has testified under oath what was known for long though denied by Gen Pervez Musharraf: The direct involvement of the ISI in drug smuggling. There is much evidence of the ISI using army vehicles to transport hero in from Peshawar to Karachi and Lahore. And it is no secret that the ISI uses the drug money to promote terrorism abroad, says G. Parthasarathy. More

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