Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Saturday, June 18, 2005
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OPINION EDITORIAL Just a smoke-screen? WITH THE Information and Broadcasting Ministry coming to an agreement with the Health Ministry, the decks appear to have been cleared for the ban on scenes of cigarette smoking in films and television programmes. A large section of the ... More ECONOMY Is India shining for the jobless? THERE is ample evidence today that, to the world at large, India as a nation has come of age. In "informed" drawing rooms, across negotiating tables, at international forums, India has carved out for itself a distinct niche. But this niche is ... More POWER Short-circuiting power reforms The root cause of the power crisis facing the country today is the failure of successive governments to carry out the reforms. Repeated efforts to improve the finances of SEBs by reducing heavy cross-subsidies have failed to bear fruit mainly because of the lack of political will and fiscal prudence. Even after more than a decade, power sector reforms continue to be short-circuited by political parties and vested interests, says S. D. Naik. More TAXATION 
Subserve the constitutional goal and don't subvert the sameABOUT a month ago, the Supreme Court decided Ashok Lanka vs Rishi Dixit, a case that straddled both excise law and the Constitution. "The trade in country/foreign liquor is said to be res extra commercium," begins the intro of a ... More
A parody of errors
Disservice to many a service
Both circular and artificial BOOKS 
On what drives the dragon and how the giant organises electricityAN ISLAMABAD datelined story on www.greaterkashmir.com speaks of India offering to share with Pakistan the electricity "from the controversial Baglihar and Kishanganga hydropower projects located on the Chenab and Jehlum rivers". ... More CARTOON 
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