The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, January 20, 2005

Caution on oilseed imports
THE MINISTER FOR Agriculture and Food, Mr Sharad Pawar's explosive statement in Mumbai at the World Congress of International Association of Seed Crushers that there was a need to encourage import of high oil content oilseeds and ... More

ACCOUNTANCY

Mercantile accounting is no mathematical model
FACTS of the TCI Finance case make interesting reading. The company incurred expenditure for conducting legal proceedings against defaulting debtors and claimed the outlay as business expenditure. But the assessing ... More

POLITICS

Interim report on Godhra incident — Raises more questions than it answers
ONE can find fault with the timing of the release of the interim report of the Justice U. C. Banerjee Committee and the BJP can heap all the accusations it wishes on the Railway Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal chief, ... More

Stop this overkill
EVER since the arrest of Shri Jayendra Saraswati, the senior pontiff of the Kanchi Mutt, on a murder charge, the entire Sangh Parivar, and other Hindu religious groups in India and abroad have kept up an unrelenting ... More

EDUCATION

Advanced education stumbling along
Advanced education is in poor shape partly because of the perception that in a country with a large number of poor, the state should focus on primary and secondary education. Also, as the burden on the Budget for promoting quality advanced education is high, there is the political fallout of it being labelled elitist. Needed is strong support from both public and private bodies. Else, the country could end up paying a high price, with even the investments made thus far in advanced education n ot paying off, says A. Vasudevan. More

NATURAL CALAMITIES

An opportunity in adversity
THE relief that came after the tsunami tragedy was as big as the wave that hit the coastal areas of the South. The noble gesture was tarnished by some complaints that the aid packages have not reached certain ... More

BOOKS

How to do reputation audit
AUDIT has a reputation of its own, we know, but have you ever heard of `reputation audit'? If you're saying, `Uh, what!' let me tell you about Fame & Fortune, written by Charles J. Fombrun and Cees B. M. ... More

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