The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, March 04, 2006

A POWER DEAL
A historic fusion has happened between the world's oldest and the largest democracies, and the energies released are sure to benefit both, perhaps the latter more. The US President, Mr George W. Bush, and the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, ... More

BUDGET

A Budget for growth and consolidation
The Budget proposals have created the environment for India to be economically vibrant and socially equitable. It lays the foundation for the country's full integration with the world economy. More

TAXATION

`Many a man knows no end of his goods'
A piece of Touchstone's wisdom, in As You Like It, reads: "It is said, `many a man knows no end of his goods:' right; many a man has good horns, and knows no end of them." At times, governments too know no end to `goods', which is what ... More

Still floored by MAT
The vice-like grip of minimum alternate tax has only been strengthened More

Financial fine-tuning
A look at the treatment given to the `new' taxes in the Budget More

Docking on to Customs
The Customs duty changes are likely to have only a moderate impact More

New breed of consultants
Appointment of a Tax Return Preparer will result in another tier of authority More

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The long journey
The other day a national daily carried a 1966 photograph taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson of a rocket-cone being taken by bicycle to the Thumba testing facility in Kerala by two people — one tending the ... More

BOOKS

From eco barriers to bizarre activism
Joseph E. Stiglitz's Fair Trade For All urges developed countries to adopt the `help-thy-neighbour' philosophy, even as Paul Driessen's Eco-Imperialism: Green Power Black Death, reveals `a dark secret of the ideological environmental movement'. D. MU RALI recommends both books as worth reading. More

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