OPINION
COMPANY LAW
Oppressed by irrational dichotomy
Rehash of the Companies Act, to what end, asks K. Srinivasan
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EDITORIAL
Worth a trial
THE IDEA OF permitting clinical trials for new drugs in India at the same time as they are carried out elsewhere, is in accord with the `product' patent regime that the Government is committed to enforcing from January 2005. The `process' patent ...
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AGRICULTURE
Unshackling rural markets — Key vectors of an overdue agenda
The widening gap in per capita income between the farm and non-farm sectors has huge economic and social implications. Agriculture must be brought to centre-stage and, more important, the emphasis must shift from production to marketing. The engageme nt of governance, reforming produce markets, micronising democracy, and rethinking subsidies should be the key prongs of this approach, says R. Gopalakrishnan.
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ACCOUNTANCY
Auditors can soon get neck-deep in legal lagoons
WAR is too serious a job to be left to the generals, so we embed media people inside armoured cars. Likewise, law is too important to be left to the lawyers, so accountants, willy-nilly get neck-deep into law. Take, ...
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ADVERTISING
Babes in the advertising wood
THERE was a news item, recently, regarding a case filed against a bottled-drink maker by a child labour activist at Hyderabad, for glorifying child labour. The irony is that everyone closes their eyes to one industry ...
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BOOKS
Three Cs of cost-cutting on the path to profits
NOT ALL the inhabitants of paradise are intelligent, nor all that technology promises, paradise. "The 1990s way of doing business is dead," declares Erik Keller in Technology Paradise Lost, from Dreamtech ...
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CARTOON
Sticklish issues
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