The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, August 02, 2003

Airport reforms taking wings
AT LAST, SOME cheer. As the Rajya Sabha clears the Airports Authority of India (Amendment) Bill 2003, the last legal hurdle to airport reform gets removed. The Bill, passed by the Lok Sabha, has several welcome features. It not only seeks to ... More

ECONOMY

A bloc of misunderstandings
SAARC has had a chequered history, plagued by bilateral problems of member-countries. Any meaningful advance rests on how India and Pakistan, if at all, settle their disputes, and this may be a long way off. Any undue optimism on the bloc's prospects must be ruled out, says S. Sethuraman. More

POLITICS

(Un)democrats all
IN A democracy, the most important rule is that no one should take the law into his/her hands no matter how disturbing the cause giving offence is. If one flouts this norm (even if the cause is justified), there are ... More

POWER

Rural electrification: The positive charge
`MISSION 2012: Power for All' is the buzzword in the Power Ministry. It has set itself the ambitious goal of "reliable, affordable and quality power supply for all users by 2012." The Electricity Act is an ... More

TAXATION

A recipe that didn't cook up
T. C. A. Ramanujam on a case where entering into non-compete covenant failed to serve as a tax-planning tool. More

A disservice to BPOs
K. Vaitheeswaran on the negative impact of service tax on business process outsourcing activities. More

Why meddle with the methods
R. Anand on a tribunal ruling that the method of counting cannot be rejected on mere revenue consideration. More

A share of the spoils
K. Srinivasan on the tax implications of an employee caught embezzling. More

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Six men and a blind elephant called Indostan
GOVERNANCE is too fashionable a topic to ignore. The Naresh Chandra Committee, also known as the governance think-tank, is active again to push in the second phase of corporate reforms, even as we struggle to implement ... More

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