The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, March 19, 2005

Nurture commerce in commodities
GLOBAL COMMODITY MARKETS are once again facing boom times, with prices across commodity categories — energy products, precious metals, base metals and farm produce — soaring to new levels not seen in the recent past. A combination of ... More

TAXATION

Battle of the bottles
BOTTLES come in all shapes and sizes. And a few were even seen being tossed about in courtrooms recently. Take the case of Hindustan National Glass and Industries Ltd. It manufactured various types of glass bottles for ... More

SOCIETY & DEVELOPMENT

Progress: Importance of the big picture
The "big picture" must be given precedence in matters of economic development, the justification being the premise that no development, especially in a poor country, can be painless. More

INCOME TAX

Budget: Empowering the taxpayer
The good thing about the Budget proposals is that they will increase the quantum of personal savings and give investors a wider choice. Undoubtedly, conditions have been created for promoting investments that will make sustained economic growth rate a definite possibility, says H. P. Ranina. More

PEOPLE

Bush stokes anti-US embers — `Shock-and-awe' dispenser as World Bank chief
A truly terrifying appointment. You can't have a situation where rich countries lecture developing countries about democracy and then aren't prepared to exercise democracy in this kind of appointment. Dave Timms, World ... More

BOOKS

Around the world on a T-shirt trail
YEAR 1999. Georgetown University, US. A young woman seizes the microphone and asks the crowd of WTO-protesters: "Who made your T-shirt?" Without waiting for answers, she proceeds to throw more posers: "Was it a child in ... More

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