The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, September 08, 2007

REFLECTIONS
A home without loans
One had given up on the 100 ft. tall palmyra palm (Borassus flabellifer), two feet away outside the gates of our co-operative housing society. It had grown bald, shedding its long stalked leaves. But the palmyra palm has not given up; after ... More

DETAXFICATION
On HP laptops with preloaded OS software
Laptops of Hewlett Packard (HP) were the focus of an apex court decision delivered on August 30. HP India Sales (P) Ltd had imported notebooks (laptops) with HDD (hard disc drives) preloaded with OS (operating system) software such as Windows ... More

REASSESSMENT
An irrational exemption
That there is surplus cash sloshing around idly and that the company is over-capitalised with the excess capital pulling down the earnings per share (EPS) are the normal twin justifications for a buyback proposal. Hindustan Unilever Ltd’s ... More

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