The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, November 19, 2005

Protecting the patient
BEHIND THE NUMBER is a human volunteer. And this is a reality that stake-holders in the clinical research industry will have to respect when they parade India as the ideal clinical research destination. Indeed, the statistics are impressive. A ... More

POLITICS

What Jehanabad means
ON NOVEMBER 13 history was once again made in rural India when Maoist guerrillas wrested control of Jehanabad — a district headquarters town in Bihar — for a couple of hours, during which time the jail was ... More

TAXATION

The price of `fee' ill-defined
T. C. A. Ramanujam on the taxability of fees for technical services to non-residents More

Is there a perpetual liability to pay Customs duty?
S. Murugappan analyses the application of apex court decisions in a recent Tribunal ruling More

The answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate
WHEN Kellogg India Private Ltd went to the Bombay High Court recently, with the Excise Department in and `Chocos' in tow, the dispute was not about sharing of the crispy eats. It was about the classification of the ... More

WTO

GATS' Mode 4 rule — Imperative that India takes firm stand
The significance of Mode 4 inheres in the fact that its scope is not restricted to the IT sector alone and it holds immense potential with regard to a range of activities that have `knowledge' in common: Finance, accountancy, health services, consult ancy, and so on. More

BOOKS

Hegemons versus rest of the world
Governing globalisation is as important as reducing asymmetries in the rules of the game. That the rapidity at which globalisation is taking place is resulting in `incursions into sovereign economic and political space' without an increase in interna tional cooperation, is a comment from one of the essays in K. S. Jomo's `Globalisation Under Hegemony: The Changing World Economy'. An interesting, albeit heavy, weekend read, says D. Murali. More

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