The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, July 24, 2008

OPINION

FOREIGN RELATIONS: Pakistan, US and the Afghanistan quagmire
With the United States and NATO forces in Afghanistan now coming under increasing attack from Taliban fighters comfortably based across the border in Baluchistan and the federally administered tribal areas (FATA) of Pakistan’s Northwest ...

INTERVIEW: Skeletons in M&A cupboards
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is a US federal law mostly known for clamping down on bribery of foreign officials. If one would review FCPA enforcements over the last five 5 years, India finds a name mention in over 70 enforcements; and ...

INTERVIEW: Use `weather derivatives' to weather droughts
With drought looming large over 14 meteorological sub-divisions, spare a thought for the planted crops that are in grave danger. For the farmers in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala this monsoon has brought everything except the ...

ACCOUNTANCY: The Fannie-Freddie accounting jumble
It was Swami Vivekananda who said “Anything can be sacrificed for truth; but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything”. Two American mortgage financiers, Fannie May and Freddie Mac appear to have not followed this dictum in their ...

COMMODITIES: Why the dithering on CTT?
It is now well over four months since the proposal to impose a Commodities Transactions Tax (CTT) was mooted in the Union Budget on February 29; yet, the notification to formalise the proposal even after passage of the Budget by Parliament has ...

EDITORIAL: Guarded confidence
With the way cleared for nuclear co-operation with the US and other supplier countries, the Government now has its task cut out on the diplomatic front.. Having won the trust vote by a margin that was wider than most analysts had predicted, the ...

ACCOUNTANCY: Family settlements
Sibling rivalries are common in family-controlled companies. The family settlement between the feuding Ambani brothers, Mukesh and Anil, hammered out in 2005 far from fully addressing their grievances alas became a source of fresh conflict ...

LETTERS: Hidden costs of hedging
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