OPINION
EDITORIAL
Seoul mates
IT IS NOT surprising that Seoul is interested in a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with India, along the lines of the one signed between New Delhi and Bangkok, the specific, unstated, objective being to help South Korean companies sell their products ...
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CORPORATE
Compete or perish
THE controversy over the continuance of Press Note 18 is welcome because it has focussed attention on an issue which has become fundamental in the current regime of economic liberalisation. Very briefly, the central ...
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INFRASTRUCTURE
ADB's Country Strategy and Programme 2005-07 — Infrastructure is the core focus
The 2005-07 India lending programme of the Asian Development Bank is focussed on building infrastructure, the lack of which has hobbled the various sectors and is responsible for the high inter-regional disparities. Multilateral institutions have a k ey role to play in influencing policy to ensure that critical investment is efficiently utilised to create permanent assets for the long-term benefit of the people, says G. Srinivasan.
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TAXATION
An officer on the trail of 20 vanishing shareholders
WE HAVE seen quite a few vanishing things, such as creams, convicts and companies. But the Modern Cement Industries Ltd case that has appeared in a recent issue of Income-tax Tribunal Decisions is about vanishing ...
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Don't let the higher value out
T. C. A. Ramanujam discusses a recent case on notional versus actual rent
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Clarity sacrificed for brevity
S. Murlidharan on the now terse regime of gift tax
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Annul the annual amendment activity
Loading annual Finance Bills with umpteen tax provisions should stop, says T. N. Pandey
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Sticklish issues
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BOOKS
C.K. Prahalad is now a seeker at the bottom of the pyramid
YOU know C. K. Prahalad as the professor who has helped leading companies of the world to make more profits. Now, in his new book, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, from Wharton School and Pearson ...
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