The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, March 25, 2006

NEIGHBOURLY REALITIES
With Dhaka still suspicious of New Delhi's intentions, cooperation in various sectors has been disrupted, harming Bangladesh's interests more than India's. More

INSIGHT

ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS
Battle plan for best effect
A recent paper of the Department of Administrative Reforms titled "Towards a Citizen-Friendly Government" is further proof that Government officials and public sector executives are still not ready to serve the way they should. The Commission shou ld, in the remaining five months of its tenure, prepare and place before the Government a short, crisp, compact battle-plan that would be easy to grasp and execute. More

POLITICS

The Sonia method
When Ms Sonia Gandhi let the opportunity to become Prime Minister of the UPA Government pass in May 2004, the nation was shocked and the world surprised at this renunciation. As she said then, she was ... More

TAXATION

BUDGET 2006

Content vs process
Is it time that the people of the country got actively involved in the Budget-making process? More

Barring the benefit of double deduction
Changes to Section 40(a)(ii) of the I-T Act end a controversy on foreign taxes More

Manpower recruitment in B-schools
Campus hiring comes under the service tax scanner More

Tax meter that kept ticking for a vehicle in time warp
KSFC is short for Karnataka State Financial Corporation. Its homepage http://ksfc.kar.nic.in announces itself as "One of the fast-track term-lending financial institutions in the country." You'd also learn that "With assistance to more ... More

BOOKS

Where the mind is `not halved by a horizon'
Amartya's Sen whips up a `stirring read' in his book Identity and Violence which talks about how people can interact with each other in a great many different ways. And Ram Puniyani's Religion, Power and Violence discusses globalisation and religion in what D. Murali calls a sombre study for the final weekend of this fiscal. More

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