The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, July 29, 2004

EDITORIAL
Petro pricing, beyond politics
WITH THE PROCESS of aligning petroleum product prices to costs becoming so sensitive to the point of even threatening the survival of the government, the Centre's latest decision to allow public sector oil companies some limited freedom on this ... More

ECONOMY
Predatory state, pauper households
The uncertainties of the future faced by households are aggravated by the profligate and predatory state, which furiously taxes the same hapless households both as direct taxes and also recently as service taxes. This grabbing of savings by househol ds by the state is an old "socialist" paradigm that needs to be completely reworked to give primacy to the education and health needs of communities, especially the senior citizens, says R. Vaidyanathan. More

ACCOUNTANCY
A few urgent items for the accountants' agenda
SHIBU Soren has gone underground but the issues that occasioned such an inconvenience for him and everybody else are still alive. For instance, among the issues before the forthcoming AGM of the southern region of the Institute of Chartered ... More

PEOPLE
J.R.D. Tata — the humane entrepreneur
A HUNDRED years ago on July 29 was born one of the heroes of Indian industrial revolution — Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata. I vividly remember my first meeting with J. R. D. Tata. I was a trainee in the Tata ... More

LETTERS

Public-private partnership

Godhra probe

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