OPINION
EDITORIAL
Simplifying the issues
THE SEBI-APPOINTED COMMITTEE SMILE (Securities Market Leveraging Expert Task Force) looking into the capital market's hardware and software infrastructure, is examining ways at simplifying public issue procedures. The committee was set up after ...
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AUDITING
Fetters on fees
Mohan R. Lavi on the recent move to counter undercutting of audit fees
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ECONOMY
The power of ideas
Development should be the new mantra. Approaches are many, but an idea can be had from a Plan document prepared by Prof Raj Krishna and Prof D. T. Lakdawala in 1978, that underscored private sector dynamism to propel growth and create jobs. Th e document felt public sector investment should be guided by availability of resources, avoiding inflationary financing. A. Vasudevan looks at these and other ideas.
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ACCOUNTANCY
Burden of redundancy
N. R. Moorthy on the need to cut multiplicity of information filing
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POLICY
CMP: Will it work?
THE Common Minimum Programme (CMP) was unveiled on a Thursday and the stock market, quite deservedly, gave it a - 223-point thumbs-down on Friday. One wishes the message had been stronger. The CMP's strength in ...
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POLITICS
Minister-Secretary relations — I : From public to private servant
For two decades after Independence, relations between politicians and civil servants bore the stamp of trust and mutual benefit. Over the decades, however, those officers who stuck to what they deemed to be the right course suffered humiliation and h arassment, and were bludgeoned into becoming "pliant and unprincipled."
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EDUCATION
A spark from Kalam to develop on
MAKE education attractive by creating employment potential. Empty rhetoric? No, a suggestion from the first citizen Dr A. P. J. Kalam, with all the sincerity that is so much his trademark. It was less than a week ago, ...
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FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
FDI versus FII
THE Common Minimum Programme of the new Government at the Centre stresses Foreign Direct Investment over Foreign Institutional Investment. Its position is that "FDI will continue to be encouraged and actively sought, ...
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ECONOMIC OFFENCES
Tainted rhymes with sainted
Nobody expects a normal politician to be an embodiment of virtue, which is why an average viewer is not too startled at what he or she sees on TV as live telecast from Parliament.
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BOOKS
Give diligence its due
TO BE DILIGENT is to be hardworking, industrious, assiduous, painstaking, meticulous, conscientious, thorough, attentive, methodical, careful, and much more, as the hardworking synonym finder of Word would inform. One ...
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LETTERS
Power of populism
Musharraf doctrine
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