The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, October 04, 2003

Slack in exports
WILL THE COUNTRY be able to repeat the 2002-03 performance on the export front — notch up 18 per cent growth in dollar terms over the previous year. By current indications, there are doubts of even the 2003-04 target of a 12 per cent growth ... More

ECONOMY

What has gone wrong with the world economy?
WHEN festivities are in the air, it would be disheartening to learn that things are not all that right with the world economy. It is "sinking into the worst industrial and financial downturn since the 1930s," bourses ... More

POLITICS

City of processions
ON THE morning of September 24 a Calcutta High Court judge was held up on the road very near the courts because of rallyists making their way to the venue of a meeting scheduled to be held later in the day. The judge ... More

TAXATION

The body doth not bind
T. C. A. Ramanujam on a decision that would motivate professionals to operate from India and earn tax-exempt remuneration from abroad More

Tearing hurry in tax matters
T. N. Pandey on the appropriateness of the latest income-tax Ordinance More

When does interest income accrue?
Interest income as accounted in the books should be the broad guiding principle in deciding the taxability of such income, says R. Anand More

An old blunder stands corrected
The latest interpretation of residential status could leave NRIs fuming, says S. Murlidharan More

They also serve who only notify and notify?
Mohan R. Lavi on the plethora of notifications in the service tax realm More

BANKING

Little credit to bank computerisation
Beyond setting deadlines, the RBI needs to look at the quality of computerisation and set standards. Banks must follow up by evaluating all problems on the ground and ironing out structural hiccups, says Jayanthi Iyengar, citing how the issue of Foreign Currency Remittance Certificate lays bare the inadequacy of computerisation. More

IPR

Forward and backward on patents law
Changes, such as the decision to make all patent applications public, have been introduced. More

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