The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, October 11, 2007

ACCOUNTING STANDARDS
Overdose of QC?
After a spate of regulations over the last couple of years, the ICAI has come out with yet another document — Standard on Quality Control 1. More

EDITORIAL
Farm policy flurries
While the hike in MSP for key crops is a positive, the blanket ban on export of all non-basmati rice varieties needs to be reviewed. More

INSURANCE
Insurance is a matter of trust
There have been many anxious queries in various blogs as well as in the popular search engines as to the true meaning and import of the ubiquitous blurb (or is it a warning?) in insurance advertisements and Web sites: Insurance is the subject ... More

STOCK MARKETS
18.6 K, and counting
Political uncertainty doesn’t seem to be bothering the market any more. It seems to have learnt, over a painful transition period following May 2004, that whichever government is in power at the Centre, economic reforms and a free market policy will continue. And this is also why global investors are still pouring money into the Indian equity market, points out RASHEEDA BHAGAT. More

RBI & OTHER CENTRAL BANKS
RBI needs to strengthen contingency reserves
As a consequence of globalisation and integration of domestic financial markets with the foreign markets it is of great importance to have a strong contingency reserve position to meet several market risks emerging from domestic and international fi nancial exposures. More

INTERVIEW
On how to set up business in Brazil
Brazilian companies, beyond paying dividends to their shareholders, may also pay interest on equity to them. And such interest is a deductible expense. More

BOOKS
Let the policy do a ‘soft landing’
A rapid, ‘big bang’ approach to airline deregulation is not a good model to follow, suggests a new book from Response ( www.sagepublications.com). “For the ... More

LETTERS

Sugarcane output

Investors’ frustration

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Union Budget 2007-08

Railway Budget 2007-2008

Economic Survey 2006-2007

Other Top Stories
Shasun Chem may split research, manufacturing operations

18.6 K, and counting

Tata Steel keen to build captive jetty on Haldia river front

Xerox technology to fight forgery

‘Co-op credit revival package by Nov-end’

REC defers ECB plan, to tap domestic market

PowerGrid plans Rs 16,500-cr investments

Ethanol blending with petrol made mandatory

Ministry permits Jet, Kingfisher to import aircraft

Looking back
Sep. 30-Oct. 6
Panchayat kitchens, in lieu of PDS

Real estate developers looking at newer financing options