The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Justified fears
THE ONE-DAY STRIKE and the threat of an indefinite closure of trade and merchant establishments by a section over the introduction of a Value Added Tax (VAT) system is perhaps a reflection on the quality of consultation that preceded a vital ... More

AGRICULTURE

For a farm-friendly Budget
THE Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, has said that agriculture will be focus of the coming Budget. But agriculture is not synonymous with the common man. On the one hand, there are large farmers who have tube wells, ... More

Clouds gathering for February 28
WHAT will the Budget that the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, presents on February 28 look like? Will he produce another "Dream Budget"? One only hopes that it would, at least, not be a "nightmare budget". If there ... More

BUDGET

Budget making — an unenviable task
THE finance minister meets with different segments of the economy to know their mind what they expect from the Budget. Usually, these groups seek tax rebates relating to their areas or for shifting the load on other ... More

ECONOMY

Making government's accounts as intelligible as a merchant's books
AFTER the usual intro and rededication to the `seven clear economic objectives' of the National Common Minimum Programme, where the Finance Minister talked of the need to `shift gears', the first point that came up in ... More

POLITICS

Vicious attack
IT IS doubtful whether in all the history of vituperative venting of spleen by politicians against persons holding public offices, there had been anything so venomous as the abuses flung at the Chief Election ... More

TRANSPORT

TSI: `A good measure of how blood flows in an economy' — Mr Kajal Lahiri, Professor of Economics, State University of New York
ON January 29 last year, the US Secretary of Transportation, Mr Norman Y. Mineta, ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, announced the rollout of the first-ever Transportation Services Index (TSI), ... More

RAILWAY BUDGET

Rail Budget: Populism or pragmatism?
By all indications, the Railways Minister, Mr Lalu Prasad, may have no choice but to bite the bullet. The realities of hard finance leave him little scope to be populist or bow to pressure of coalition politics. G. Srinivasan looks at the opt ions and compulsions of the Railway Minister in making the second Rail Budget of the UPA Government. More

LETTERS

Budget expectations

EPF needs reform

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