OPINION
EDITORIAL
Import to douse inflation
WITH INFLATION RAGING at over 8 per cent and little prospect of a major downturn in crude oil prices in the near term, New Delhi seems to grabbing at any and every weapon to fight the price spiral. There have been fiscal reliefs for crude oil and ...
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AGRICULTURE
Death is better than debt
THE number of farmers' suicides in Maharashtra is fast approaching the double century mark. The incidence of suicides is particularly high in the Vidarbha region, blessed with fertile black-cotton soil, and rivers that ...
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ECONOMY
IMF-Bank annual meetings India must push new initiatives
India must be more proactive at the forthcoming annual Fund-Bank meet, using its membership of inter-governmental groups to promote its interests as much as those of other emerging and developing economies. It should revisit the issue of quota formul as with colleagues in the Group of 20 and stand firm against proposals for SDR allocation or distribution, apart from taking up initiatives on surveillance, says A. Vasudevan.
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ACCOUNTANCY
Shock of SOX for accountants but IT simply loves it!
LE MERIDIEN Kovalam Beach Resort, Thiruvananthapuram, is where `Emerging Global Opportunities' are awaiting to latch on to CAs next week, according to a recent announcement on the ICAI's site. Topics are to be of ...
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Why change horses midstream
The Concept Paper does not propose any path-breaking directional change to company law, say S. Kannan and V. S. Sowrirajan
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BOOKS
Benchmark for a bank auditor's knowledge about banks
REDDY wielded his wand a few days ago to swoosh off thousands of crores worth of liquidity from the banking system. Lesser minions in the big bank are talking about mergers of small banks with the big, weak ones with ...
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LETTERS
A lacklustre exercise
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