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Thursday, March 12, 2009
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Business Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Thursday, March 12, 2009 ePaper | Mobile/PDA Version | Audio | Blogs |
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OPINION INTERVIEW: Will watchdogs turn bloodhounds? Uppermost in the agenda of the new chief of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), Mr Uttam Prakash Agarwal, is the Satyam problem. “Members should not lose heart but must act proactively to safeguard the interests of ... OPEN OFFERS: Preferential allotment and public offer The spirit behind the public offer norm triggered on takeover of more than 15 per cent of the voting capital is that the public shareholders should also savour the same attractive price albeit on a part of their holdings which the promoters ... MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Due diligence in overseas acquisitions Recently, KPMG hosted a seminar in three Indian cities, with the theme ‘India Goes Global’. The common view expressed by the participants — many high growth and large Indian companies — was that this is the time to ... BOOKS: Decay begins when boards become clubs The public’s growing intolerance of ‘directoral ignorance and incompetence’ calls for a rapid implementation of professionalisation in governance, argues Bob Garratt in The Fish Rots from the Head ... ACCOUNTING STANDARDS: Perennial education Mark Twain once remarked, “I never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Accounting professionals the world over have had an avalanche of accounting standards, standards on auditing, acts such as Sarbanes Oxley and ... EDITORIAL: Under powered Even when the 11th Plan power generation capacity addition target was set at 78,700 MW, there were sceptics who felt it was too ambitious and not achievable given the track record. Yet the Government maintained till the other day that the ... TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Telecom: A saga of missed opportunities India is now counted as amongst the leading telecom markets of the world. But how much of it is due to the initiatives of the UPA government, and how much has happened in spite of it?An analysis of the facts shows that had it not been for ... SPORTS: An idea whose time will come Almost exactly 40 years ago, when Bill Lawry’s Aussies were touring India, I had my first introduction to non-linear systems. Economics, said one of our teachers, was essentially a non-linear system, inasmuch as the outcome could not ... LETTERS: Improving democracy The article “Keeping the spirit of democracy alive” (Business Line, March 9) was timely. As a PIO living in Germany for more than 30 years, I feel it is time India adopted two important elements from the ... Columnists: • C Gopinath • Harish Bijoor • G Chandrashekhar • S Murlidharan • Sharad Joshi • Mohan Murti • S Balakrishnan • Bharat Savur • B S Raghavan • Ganesh Challa • Bhanoji Rao • Swati • T Banusekar • Ramanujam Sridhar • Ranabir Ray Choudhury • Rasheeda Bhagat • P.V. Indiresan • P Devarajan • S Muralidhar • R K Raghavan • B Venkatesh • S Venkitaramanan Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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