COLUMNS
IMPRESSIONS
A different ball game
Splash, splash, thud! "Rahul, pass!" I heard Sujoy yelling out there on the small field outside my house. The 50-by-30-yard plot is one of the few still left where houses have not come up. On one side is a ...
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DETAXFICATION
Colour televisions that caught the taxman's eye
Our rash faults make trivial price of serious things we have. So says the King in All's Well That Ends Well, Act V, scene III. As if in converse, it is taxman's wont to make a serious issue of trivial price-related things, especially in ...
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E-DIMENSION
We need to fight `the fatigue of Green Revolution'
Indian Agriculture in the New Millennium, edited by N. A. Majumdar and Uma Kapila, brings together articles by experts on policy and growth profile, investment and water, reforms and food security. Life and Work of M. S. Swaminathan, edited by Anwar Dil, celebrates the contribution of the great scientist to the field. The right diet for the weekend, says D. MURALI
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REASSESSMENT
Inequity in interest rates
For every month of delay in payment of tax, the assessee is charged interest at one per cent, whereas for delayed payment of refund, the Government pays only 0.5 per cent. Should not the rates be uniform?
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EAR TO THE GROUND
Clutch Auto: Value buying seen
The Clutch Auto stock is seen to be accumulated by investors who apparently wish to stay in sync with a company that ranks among the country's top makers of clutches and assemblies. On Friday, it closed at Rs 119.85 on the BSE, a 3 per cent-plus ...
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Oriental Bank up on growth hopes
The Oriental Bank of Commerce stock is believed to be gaining from the bank's proposal to step up its network and its expectations on credit growth. OBC, which closed on the NSE at Rs 169.80, recorded a 2.5 per cent gain on Friday, the total ...
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SENSOR
IT, metals, cement stocks in spotlight
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