Economy
Politics of debate on reforms
What is disturbing is that even economists have begun taking the sides of political parties, at times losing their professional objectivity.

Editorial
Taxing corporates
BY ANY YARDSTICK the proposal to levy an additional surcharge on company profits to finance calamity relief is misconceived and must be withdrawn.

Health
Investing in the child
INVESTING in the child is guaranteed to give valuable returns. Parents know this, and invest in the child's health, education and, above all, in instilling a set of values which they think will serve him best in the years ahead.

Politics
Congress' crisis of credibility
``IT IS a victory for Mrs Sonia Gandhi but a massive defeat for the Congress party.'' The self-explanatory sentence, coined by a senior party leader, is indeed an apt description of what the coterie has been trying to make out as her ``landslide'' triump h in the organisational elections. Her re-election as the Congress (I) president was never in doubt, Jitendra Prasada or no Jitendra Prasada.

House of antediluvian matters?
EVEN as several important pieces of legislation remain to be taken up in Parliament, the proceedings of the House got disrupted for almost a week with the Rajya Sabha not yet recommencing its normal schedule. The Lower House took up a censure motion move d by the major Opposition party, the Congress(I), on Wednesday. Predictably, this ended today with nothing momentous happening to upset the applecart of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

Fortuitous finale
AT LONG last, after 36 days of suspenseful see-sawing of fortunes of both candidates for the US presidency, it is curtains down.

Commissions
IN THIS country, we love our commissions more than dhal and roti or sambar and rasam.

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