COLUMNS
DETAXFICATION
A swim in the troubled waters of a hotel pool to fish for missing reason
THE partners owning Hotel Lake End should have been at their wits end when local authorities came and demolished the boundary wall and the hotel swimming pool. Not because the pool did not need any privacy that a wall ...
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VIEW POINT
The first 100 days
THE Manmohan Singh Government has completed its first 100 days in office, and the conventional question to ask it: how has it fared? The first issue, of course, is whether the first 100 days is enough to provide one ...
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E-DIMENSION
It costs 32 p.c. of GDP for government to mess up economy
THE record of sorts achieved during the latest session of Parliament when the Finance Bill got passed without any discussion is nothing to feel proud of. So, when one finds that William W. Lewis has a chapter titled, ...
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ON MINT STREET
A weak-kneed response from RBI
IT is not a particularly pleasing sight to see the Reserve Bank of India go weak in the knees and rescue banks from possible losses on their gilt investments. One thought the RBI was made of sterner stuff. For three years banks made massive ...
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INDIA INTERIOR
Craning for a better perspective
WE drove down to the Sardarpur grasslands, a three-hour run from Ratlam, in search of the Lesser Florican (Sypheotides indica) and landed up in the company of the Sarus cranes (Grus antigone). At around 2.30 p.m., with the temperature around ...
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EX PARTE
A law site where you can loiter
INDIA Code TextBase is a gathering of `all the Central Legislations,' as the site http://indiacode.nic.in defines. "What is the fuss about?" you may ask but that's the catchy question showing up if you clicked `about us.' The site justifies ...
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EAR TO THE GROUND
Consolidation talk bodes well
THE stock of Hinduja TMT surged on the bourses on Friday on the possibility of GSM cellular service provider Hutch going in for consolidation of all its subsidiaries. Hinduja TMT has 10 per cent stake in Fascal, the Gujarat arm of Hutch ...
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SENSOR
Late-hour buying props up Sensex
A POSITIVE sentiment appears to have swept over the markets this week with the narrow indices ending in the positive territory for the fourth time in five trading sessions. Notwithstanding the fact that inflation has shot up to a four-year ...
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