The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, August 27, 2005

Telecom cross-talk
THE TELECOM SECTOR is caught yet again in a regulatory cross-talk. Sensitive issues covering the policies of subsidising BSNL's services in uneconomic areas such as rural telephony (Access Deficit Charge; ADC), treating the country as a single ... More

POLITICS

Back on the backburner
THERE IS now little doubt that the Women's Reservation Bill will not see the light of day for some time which, clearly, will be a setback for the United Progressive Alliance Government if one is to go by its Common ... More

TAXATION

The guise of contingent payments
T. C. A. Ramanujam discusses a curious case of tax planning which almost succeeded More

Conferences: Work or play?
Where is the `enjoyment' of benefit, collective or otherwise, in a business conference, asks R. Anand More

Following fresh leads
T. N. Pandey on the differing views regarding the power to search More

Substitution confusion in notification
SUBSTITUTE was the real issue in a recent case that went up to the apex court: Government of India vs Indian Tobacco Association, decided on August 23. First, the facts, beginning with the introduction of the ... More

BOOKS

Human rights come from human wrongs
In his review of Alan Dershowitz's "Rights from Wrongs D. Murali shows us how the author explores the importance of rights in today's world. Though necessary, one must constantly prove that rights work even as human beings and governmen ts devise new ways to inflict grievous wrongs. More

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