OPINION
EDITORIAL
CAS gets messier
THE CONDITIONAL ACCESS System that the Government sought to impose on cable television viewers in the four metros now stands unravelled. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has recommended that the implementation of CAS be kept in abeyance ...
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ACCOUNTANCY
Thus entered the `exit' scheme
N. R. Sridharan and R. Balasubramaniam trace the origins of the latest method for weeding out defunct companies
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Trial by delay for tribunals
WITH the proliferation of adjudication tribunals it has become imperative that certain guidelines be prescribed by the Central Government codifying the various provisions relating to general matters such as appointment ...
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You can only lead a horse to water
LEARNING is a continuing process, and continuing learning is proving to be a doubt-ridden process in the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Even as the ICAI's members queue up for the continuing professional ...
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Cost rewards with security risk
THE BPO bug is "infecting" the accounting field in a big way, fear the US professionals. According to one estimate, Indian CAs will prepare 1.5 lakh to 2 lakh returns this year, up from about 20,000 last year and only about a thousand in 2002, ...
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ENVIRONMENT
Two forums, many contrasts
"ANOTHER world is possible'. This is the theme of World Social Forum (WSF) created to oppose World Economic Forum (WEF), which is ``committed to improving the state of the world''. The reason for ...
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FOREX
Surging forex reserves — Look beyond history and emotions
The foreign exchange reserve, by and large, is in dollars. This means India is extending a $100-billion `interest-free loan' to the US. Worse, since the value of the dollar is falling in the international market, India is possibly earning negative in terest.
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Double standards in nuclear proliferation
The West sermonises to others including India about the virtues of the non-proliferation treaty and nuclear export controls, yet remains silent about its own laxity on export control that allows Pakistan to purloin designs of nuclear enrichment facil ities and become the mother of all proliferators. Nor does the West utter a word about China, says G. Parthasarathy, questioning the double standards.
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BOOKS
Aren't our ethics more benign?
THEY counted, measured and reported, and everybody believed them, till somebody noticed that the emperor had no clothes. So, the people who spoke about disclosure found themselves exposed. That is the sad story of ...
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LETTERS
Fair globalisation
SEBI move
TRAI recommendation
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