COLUMNS
OFFHAND
Plug the biggest hole in the Budget
Using the angler's parlance, the one that gets away year after year in the country's Budget is what has come to be categorised as non-Plan expenditure. Important items such as Defence, subsidies, interest, ...
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REFLECTIONS
Telescoping into the past
"We used to walk in Nature's emptiness and could claw at the cover of white in the air."
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WIDE CANVAS
In the name of the aam aadmi
The Finance Minister has indicated that his principal concern has not been to hasten the growth process but to redistribute the results of the growth that has already taken place. This is where all the talk about the aam aadmi comes in.
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ON THE MOVE
Will it navigate around THC issue?
Disputes Redressal Forum for shippers
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A RINGSIDE VIEW
No dramatic turnaround likely
Sharp fall revives memories of last year's mayhem
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MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
Now, time to rework strategy following Budget pronouncements
Dividend distribution tax to impact in short term
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PLANTATION PANORAMA
Plea to declare 2007 as `year of wellness with tea'
Still teas are imported as part of tradition, globalisation
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ADR WATCH
Indian counters' fall more severe than benchmarks
Premium declines for most of them
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VISION 2020
Time for venture banking
By opening a branch in Dharavi, the nationalised bank may unlock immense economic opportunities. For even without a formal backing, Asia's biggest slum produces a billion dollars worth of goods and services every year. With some push, such business-s avvy persons can provide a boost to the economy even faster than legitimate businesses can. But this goes beyond conventional banking to venture funding, says P. V. INDIRESAN.
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ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED
The rich corner farm subsidies in rich countries
`Among the OECD countries, the largest 25 per cent of the farmers receive 50-90 per cent of the support and very little of the support goes to poor and family farms'
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RANDOM WALK
Budgeting for Kerala model
Even if this year's Union Budget may not have delivered to Kerala any surprise gift-wrapped goodies, the reverse may well have happened: By forcing the Union Govern-ment to follow in its pioneering path of investing unreservedly in the social sectors , Kerala has helped India get back to school.
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CHAT
Go for Sensex stocks in small numbers
Jogin was combing the Web for China developments such as the speculation that a capital gains tax may be in the offing on stock market earnings. Sridevi was returning after Holi celebrations, wishing that the markets too opened on a colourful ...
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JOTTINGS
The Tata wheel comes full circle
The picture of Jim Leng, group Chairman of Corus Steel, garlanding the statue of Jumsetji Nusserwanjee Tata on the founder's day at Jamshedpur, brought to mind an irony that has escaped comment from most. For, the acquisition means that the wheel ...
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AMERICAN PERISCOPE
Kleptocracy in corporate world
There have been heated debates over CEO compensation over the years. Some justify that it must bear a relation to the performance of the organisation they lead, but without any sense of a limit, this has led to gross over-compensation.
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