OPINION
EDITORIAL
Deep waters of ship acquisition
THERE ARE ISSUES that divide shipowners but few do with the intensity as the debate on whether to allow foreign flag vessels to operate on the country's coast as well as to carry government cargo. By setting up a panel to draft a policy on the ...
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ECONOMY
`Innovation is India's strength'
Innovations in delivery... It is an unexplored, uncommitted point. The dubba-wallas of Mumbai. It is world-class operation; 5000 semi-literate persons distributing 200,000 tiffin boxes everyday, at Rs 250 a month... For similarly pioneering ef forts in decentralised production, centralised collection, centralised/modern marketing... look at Amul or Lijjat Pappad. It is a completely new way of transacting business...
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ACCOUNTANCY
CARO with due care
Dilip K. Sen comments on the ICAI's draft guidelines on CARO
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A psychopathic animal is out of the cage
HOWEVER much you clothe a monster with the finest frills, it would still show. So too with one of the symbols of capitalism. Joel Bakan's The Corporation, published by Free Press (www.simonsays.com) argues ...
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Guests are seated and the goat is only half-cooked
ONE OF the by-products of election campaigning is the barrage of statements that politicians issue against one another. The electorate, however, is wise enough not to seek much education from the same, though the daily ...
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Give the taxman a load of accounting matrix
MOVING closer to International Financial Reporting Standards, the UK's tax system could undergo a change from next year. This would necessitate changes to treatment of goodwill, loan arrangements and derivative ...
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GENDER
Corporate exploitation of women
The Oxfam report reveals how the giant retail outfits in the West have benefited from the globalisation of production to the detriment of the workers, especially women, in developing countries.
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LETTERS
Sugar saga
Powell and BPO
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