The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, February 17, 2005

Extracting more
IN RAISING THE Customs duty on the palm group of oils by 15 percentage points and reducing their tariff values to reflect international market conditions, the Government has in one masterstroke tried to balance the interests of oilseed growers ... More

BUDGET

Temptations to resist, challenge to meet
As the Budget-making gathers momentum, the Finance Minister must not announce actions or policy intentions on areas that do not strictly fall under the category of fiscal policy. It must also avoid sundry other temptations. Equally, it faces the chal lenge of building infrastructure, says A. Vasudevan, who suggests a bond model wherein the instrument is SDR, rather than dollar, denominated. More

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES

Can one law defy another?
TO WHAT abysmal levels can respect for law plunge in civilised society? Can we expect at least the rulers to observe the law? The answer is much more depressing than even the most cynical reader can imagine. Even the ... More

ACCOUNTANCY

Do Indians continue to trust and rely on their chartered accountants as much as ever?
EVEN as the country's major number-crunching exercise is gathering momentum in the North Block, there are some new and hot entries into the slick and slime of accounting scams. Such as Fannie Mae's failed ... More

CARRs can deliver
THE Committee on Subordinate Legislation (14th Lok Sabha), in its first report submitted on December 2, 2004, has indicted the Department of Company Affairs (DCA) for lack of seriousness in applying the Cost Accounting ... More

ENVIRONMENT

Kyoto — behind and beyond
THE MUCH-DEBATED Kyoto Protocol, which seeks to limit emission of greenhouse gases that cause global warming, came into force on Wednesday. With this, one should expect the end of the debate on the need to have such a ... More

LETTERS

Wagon shortage

East-Coast Railways

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