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OPINION

RBI & OTHER CENTRAL BANKS: Happy days are here again for the RBI
The RBI’s monetary policy stance may not have changed on January 27. But one thing has definitely changed since then: the mood and morale of the RBI staff.By resisting pressure from bystanders and traders to reduce the key policy ...

TAXATION: A boon to property developers
Property development agreements involve interpretation of the provisions of the law regarding transfer and capital gains. The Madras High Courts ruling in the Ashok Leyland case put the property developers in a quandary. It held ...

AUDITING: Towards simple and clear audit reports
The Satyam episode has set many of us thinking about what really an auditor’s role is, how reliable is his report and whether it provides reasonable comfort to the reader to conclude that the financial statements are proper and ...

BUDGET: What holds back a full-fledged Budget?
The Government seems to be vacillating between presenting an interim Budget and a bare-minimum and strictly utilitarian vote-on-account in the run up to the Lok Sabha polls in May. There is nothing in our Constitution to hold it back ...

EDITORIAL: Global uncertainty
The latest world economic outlook from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) focuses on two basic features of the current financial crisis, namely, the scale of the downturn and the role played by the “uncertainty” factor in ...

LETTERS: Corporate governance
This has a reference to “Rules of promoter-less corporates” (Business Line, January 29). The need for evolving a mechanism that serves the Indian environment has been felt for ...

Columnists: C Gopinath Harish Bijoor G Chandrashekhar S Murlidharan Sharad Joshi Mohan Murti S Balakrishnan Bharat Savur B S Raghavan Ganesh Challa Bhanoji Rao Swati T Banusekar Ramanujam Sridhar Ranabir Ray Choudhury Rasheeda Bhagat P.V. Indiresan P Devarajan S Muralidhar R K Raghavan B Venkatesh S Venkitaramanan




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