The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, January 21, 2006

Regulate Bt crops strictly
IT MAY NOT exactly be a revolution in the strict sense of the term, but 10 years of commercial cultivation of genetically-modified crops has, without doubt, brought about notable changes in agriculture worldwide. Rising output, declining crop ... More

TAXATION

A legacy of arrears that the economy hauls hard
"OLD TIME, in whose banks we deposit our notes, is a miser who always wants guineas for groats," says Oliver Wendell Holmes. "He keeps all his customers still in arrears by lending them minutes and ... More

Making M&A smoother
Harmonisation of company law and income-tax law provisions should help the cause of mergers and acquisitions, says T. C. A. Ramanujam More

Inconsistencies that need ironing out
T. N. Pandey looks at some tax policies that are retrograde More

EDUCATION

IIMs on a leash
THE Union Human Resources Development (HRD) Minister, Mr Arjun Singh, has called a meeting of Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) in New Delhi, on February 1, "to discuss issues of autonomy and measures needed to further strengthen them". ... More

ECONOMICS

A second Earth needed to sustain India and China
Do you know that India and China have as much population as that of "the next 20 largest countries combined"? Or that "some 80 per cent of the companies in Wal-Mart's database of suppliers are now Chinese"? China and India are the focus of State of t he World 2006 and China and India: Towards Global Economic Supremacy? Two power reads for the weekend to celebrate the `arrival to adulthood' of two big economic populated nations, says D. Murali. More

STOCK MARKETS

Stock valuation: The apex court's verdict
According to a recent Supreme Court ruling, it is settled law that the true profit of a business for an accounting period cannot be ascertained without taking into account the value of the stock in trade at the end of the period and that such valuati on is a necessary element in the process of determining the trading profit of the period. More

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