The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, May 08, 2004

EDITORIAL
Cane price conundrum
THE SUPREME COURT's ruling that State governments have the right to announce an `advised' price (popularly known as State Advised Price) over and above the Centre's Statutory Minimum Price for sugarcane has added another dimension to the ... More

POLITICS
Keeping the goose alive
IN THE next two days, the long-drawn exercise of elections to constitute the 14th Lok Sabha will have come to an end. In the history books, one more election in the history of Free India will have been completed and, ... More

The durability of Laloo Prasad Yadav
Love him or hate him, nobody can remain indifferent to Mr Laloo Prasad Yadav. He heads the Rashtriya Janata Dal that has, for the last 14 years, been running Bihar, arguably one of India's economically and socially most backwards States. The durabili ty of this colourful politician may be explained by his canny ability to relate to ordinary people, says Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. More

TAXATION
Interest spills in the company till
T. C. A. Ramanujam discusses a recent decision about interest on share capital deposit More

Why settle for less?
S. Murlidharan on a few anomalies in the Settlement Commission mechanism More

`For registration' not for consideration
R. Anand on a Kerala High Court decision giving importance to vehicle registration as a precondition for claiming depreciation More

Not the way to treat a war hero
CIT vs Major B. K. Kaul is a case for gender fighters and those who clamour for sensitivity in administration. The Allahabad High Court had to decide whether the payment of salary to assessee's wife was to be clubbed to ... More

WATER
Saving a million drops to feed a billion mouths
IT could not have come at a better (or worse) time. With the water scarcity looming large as ambient temperatures soar in most of the densely populated south, a recent report warns that if water productivity is not ... More

BOOKS
To hear A. R. Rahman you may need Zoellick's permission
WE are sinners once again, and Uncle Sam knows how many of us saw The Passion of the Christ days before the movie was released, secretly playing pirated CDs. Reminding us of the `stand outside the class' ... More

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