The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, September 25, 2004

EDITORIAL
Communication gap
THE INVESTING COMMUNITY in the country could have done without the ongoing controversy involving dissemination of the orders of the Securities Appellate Tribunal. The Securities and Exchange Board of India has suspended posting of these orders ... More

AGRICULTURE
Farming in US and India — The ground reality on subsidies
A comparison of farm production costs in India with those in the US reveals that the Indian farmer is clearly cost-competitive relative to his American counterpart in virtually every item. How do Indian farmers produce crops at a lower cost, despite their yields being nowhere near American or European levels? Harish Damodaran finds out. More

ECONOMY
We've no faith in the World Bank but it is betting much on faith
A QUOTE from the Rg Veda is `Aa no bhadraah kratavo yantu vishwatah', meaning `Let noble thoughts come to us from every side'. Possibly, Montek Singh Ahluwalia thought likewise when getting `foreign experts' to ... More

TAXATION
Salaried are not the favourites
T. C. A. Ramanujam on the new dispensation in salary assessments More

A largesse for deep-pockets
S. Murlidharan on the enormity of tax holiday for industrialists More

Blowing hot and cold on cold-rolled product
A SIMPLE definition of temperature is that it is the degree of `hotness' of a body. Another definition is that it is a property of matter that reflects the quantity of energy of motion of the component particles. It is ... More

Shouldn't reforms be in better form?
T. N. Pandey on why tax law cannot be reformed by a patchy approach More

CARTOON
Sticklish issues
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