The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, June 05, 2004

EDITORIAL
Airport privatisation
THE UNION CIVIL Aviation Minister, Mr Praful Patel, must take the dubious credit for creating the first major policy fissure within the new ruling coalition. That there are contrary perceptions within about reforms were well-known, but that they ... More

ECONOMY
We are notorious for blowing our chances in cricket, and economy too
A LACKLUSTRE minister talks of investments, and the market reacts equally cheerlessly. Another rants before TV cameras about petroleum prices. Yet another is happy with earthen pots for espressos. The airwaves are, ... More

Tasks before the new government — Invest in real sector, nurse economy
Without getting distracted by the short-lived stock market crash, the new government should take a critical look at the very growth process and its structure. There is a need to revisit the reform process, redesign strategies and stimulate investme nt in the real sector, so that the fragile economy can be nursed back to health, say D. Sambandhan and R. Srinivasan. More

TAXATION
What's brewing in the UPA VAT
S. Sridharan on the implications of the VAT dream in the CMP More

Clubbing gets a clubbing
T. C. A. Ramanujam on an ingenious professional, who escaped the clutches of Section 64 More

Speculation in retrospect
Mohan R. Lavi on a Tribunal ruling that dealt with occasional forays into speculative trade More

There are brand names in public domain
PARKMAN is up for grabs by anybody. This emerged from a case that the Mumbai CESTAT decided not long ago. It was about the grievance of Laxmi Enterprises that the Excise Department had denied it the benefit available to ... More

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