The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, September 07, 2006

IMPRESSIONS
Urban lament
Nowadays I dread meeting people my own age in Chennai. Not because we exchange a litany of woes about our aches and pains of osteoporosis or our sacrifice of pickles and papadams. In fact, we have learnt to ... More

REFLECTIONS
Project Tiger languishing
"However, the fact remains that though the prime objective of the Project Tiger was to attain a viable population of tigers, acceptable norms for sustaining the population were yet to be framed." More

BOOKS OF ACCOUNT
Write to win
Accountants and lawyers often compete in the same professional space. One example is appellate work. To help, here is the second edition of The Winning Brief, by Bryan A. Garner, with `100 tips for persuasive briefing in trial and ... More

INDIA UNINC
Land for SEZs — Government as real-estate broker
Even granting, as the Commerce Ministry claims, that new Special Economic Zones will draw investment of Rs 1,00,000 crore over the next three years, with huge employment potential, there are several grey areas in the way land is acquired for these Zo nes. Moreover, the tax-break policy for export-led growth could accelerate inter-regional differences and create islands of fiscal extravagance, points out R. VAIDYANATHAN. More

STICKLISH SINGLES
Cartoon
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EAR TO THE GROUND
Amtek India: Quiet buying seen
The buzz in the market is that Amtek India is eyeing couple of machining units in India and abroad. A group of investors have begun quiet accumulation hoping that the company would grow significantly this fiscal through expansion and ... More

SENSOR
12K in sight; metal stocks have good outing
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Looking back
Aug. 27-Sep. 2
Late-hour buying lifts sluggish Sensex