COLUMNS
ACCOUNT SPEAK
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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INDIA INTERIOR
Birds of different feathers band together
AT around 9 in the morning, Sangeetha Kadur spotted the Indian Pitta (Pitta brachyuran; Navrang in Hindi) hopping on the forest floor in the shade formed by a cluster of thorny shrub (Prosopsis julieflora; vedi babul in Marathi). Kadur tailed the ...
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BOOKS OF ACCOUNT
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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INDIA UNINC
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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EAR TO THE GROUND
Pvt placement talk soon?
Dabur Pharma, which had touched an intra-day high of Rs 42.50 on Tuesday, lost ground on the bourses on Wednesday despite registering good volumes. Dealers said the weakness was in line with the broad market trend. Rumours of a private ...
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ON THE HEDGE
Guj Ambuja Cement: Outlook positive, buy October futures
THE following strategies are based on Wednesday's trading in the spot and the derivatives segment on the NSE. IPCL: The stock closed at Rs 199 in the spot market. The outlook could turn positive if the stock moves above Rs 203. In the ...
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SENSOR
Sustained selling pressure drives Sensex down
AFTER witnessing a strong rally on Tuesday, the stock market indices took a beating on the third trading day of the week. The steep fall in the indices was largely due to the strong wave of selling pressure that built up steam starting ...
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