The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, November 08, 2003

Not at expense of MSP
THE GOVERNMENT HAS received from the Election Commission an embarrassing rap on the knuckles. The Election Commission has reportedly expressed serious reservations about the desirability of announcing the minimum support price (MSP) for Rabi 2004 ... More

POLITICS

Beleaguered peace in Sri Lanka
The declaration of a State of Emergency in Sri Lanka has shattered the people's hopes for peace, which seemed to be nearer at hand than at any time in the recent past. The uneasy relationship between the government and the opposition has given rise t o anxiety that, if the peace process breaks down, economic development and reconstruction prospects could be hit, says Rasheeda Bhagat. More

TAXATION

A demolition of trust, almost
R. Anand on a recent ruling about trust recognition for VHP More

An exercise in number-crunching
T. C. A. Ramanujam on two recent cases that dealt with undisclosed sales and inflation of opening stock More

A muddled munificence for multiplexes
S. Murlidharan on the perplexing exclusion of metros from the tax sop for multiplexes More

Real growth or more shell games?
DESPITE the ongoing scandals surrounding questionable accounting practices, companies are still looking for ways to paint a better picture of their financial condition, with fluctuating tax rates appearing to be their ... More

EDUCATION

Schooling the kids
UNESCO'S latest report on the implementation of its "Education For All" programme — released in New Delhi on Thursday — shows, among other things, how a member of the "least developed country" club can forge ... More

ECONOMICS

Those who leap may lose, those who don't, always lose
BABEL is what a novice to computing will remember when confronted with a barrage of programming languages. Likewise, for readers of economic stuff, there is enough noise from all around, this included, to fondly think ... More

WTO

Movement of natural persons — A case to push at the WTO
Eminent economist Mancur Olson has shown that the increase in world income would be as much, if not more, by free movement of natural persons as by free movement of capital. More

INCOME TAX

AWAREness of the spirit of exemption
K. Shivakumar on why it is necessary for trusts to be watchful in dealing with funds More

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