OPINION
EDITORIAL
Airports, airlines and reform
THE CIVIL AVIATION Ministry seems to be the venue for the new Government to demonstrate that reform will continue and, perhaps, with greater vigour than was the case with the previous government. For a Minister who got into a flap very early on ...
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ECONOMY
Common Minimum Programme — At cross purposes with FRBM?
While the Government will have to reckon with monumental increase in liabilities on account of the plethora of additional commitments under the Common Minimum Programme, there appears to be little scope for effecting savings in subsidies, interest p ayments and other unproductive expenses, points out Uttam Gupta.
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TAXATION
Make ability a cornerstone
S. Murlidharan on the need to stop pampering the rich
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Plan before you Budget
T. N. Pandey looks at how successive Budgets have burdened themselves with too many amendments to the tax laws
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The power of steam
That energy can be of any form — mechanical, electrical, wind or thermal — is the crux of a recent tax tribunal decision, says Surendra Bhargava
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Tiebreaker in a treaty tussle
T. C. A. Ramanujam discusses a case on interpretation of the tax treaty with Malaysia
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Village included in metro is still `rural'
MARADU village, Kanayannur taluk, Ernakulam district, was where Karunya Matha Social Centre ran an SSI unit assembling electronic voltage stabilisers. The unit claimed the benefit of Excise Notification applicable to ...
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BOOKS
`Does globalisation make the world more unequal?' and other stories
WITH heroes of the early 1990s back in the driving seat, and a party that was almost ruled out of reckoning now in power, it is appropriate that one should read topics of interest to the new bosses. Such as, ...
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