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POLITICS: India’s decadal itch
In nine days from now, the results of the on-going general election will be known. Unlike at anytime in the past, all bets on the outcome are off this time. On Tuesday, even Mr Rahul Gandhi, who is considered unfit for any job except prime ...

ACCOUNTANCY: The burden of entry load
The new pension scheme has drawn flak on two counts — limiting investment in equity to 50 per cent of one’s contribution and levying annual account management fee of Rs 350, irrespective of its size, thus clearly being pro-wealthy in ...

EDITORIAL: New pension choice
A year after it was introduced for central government employees, the New Pension Scheme for the general public quietly came into effect, appropriately on May 1, Labour Day. With attention riveted on the general elections and troubles across ...

INTERVIEW: Insurance, key game-changer in spread of healthcare
A healthy thought that Mr S. Nandakumar, CEO, Perfint Healthcare Pvt Ltd, Chennai ( www.perfinttech.com) has top on his mind is that India offers valuable and ...

ACCOUNTING STANDARDS: A relook at fair value
Glaser and Way once said, “The problem with any unwritten law is that you don’t know where to go to erase it.” Fair value is considered to be the law under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The concept ...

ACCOUNTANCY: Risk and reward
Those teaching risk management invariably tell students that risk and reward, as also risk and uncertainty, are two sides of the same coin. The events that unfolded after the sub-prime crisis have disproved this. Risk arose from unknown ...

BOOKS: Stately strides, with no flourish of trumpets

As if defying the global gloom, and the slowdown mood closer home, the State Bank of India (SBI) is working on adding one thousand more branches, and achieving a 25 per cent growth this fiscal, even while extending home and car loans ...

LETTERS: External sector
This refers to “Assessing the External Sector” (Business Line, May 4). India’s trade deficit has been widening in recent years. Instead of paying serious attention to reducing the gap by ...

LETTERS: Spiritual basis
Keynes’ and Friedman’s style of economics has a common missing link — spirituality. Capitalism and communism, as defined by a Madras academic, are two sides of the same coin. Both are materialistic in pursuit but differ ...


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




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