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EDITORIAL: One tax, two assessments
For all the gloss that is being put on a composite goods and services tax as being a single tax with two components, it is clear that the official thinking is in favour of some kind of dual assessment, one at the Central and the other at the ...

BUDGET: Economic Survey pointers
The Budget, prepared by the second Government of Dr Manmohan Singh, will be presented today, the air being thick with the possibilities and probabilities which may find a place in the document. Of course, there is nothing new in all this ...

EDUCATION: Ways to govern education
As I said in my previous article, in the field of education, India has three options: The first option of retaining the existing system with suitable reforms to punish offenders is the simplest. Considering that the Indian judicial system is ...

ECONOMY: The local face of globalisation
The current global recession is making many governments hunker down and focus on their national economies. Stimulus packages are targeted at creating job schemes through infrastructure projects. Where schemes are targeted at helping or ...

OUTSOURCING: ‘Rural shoring’
Though commonalities and differences abound between India and the US, the world’s two largest democracies, one thing about them that is strikingly similar is their cost-cutting strategies. In these times of recession, any form of ...

FOREIGN RELATIONS: India-China confluence: Ushering in a new golden era
Anyone who has been closely following the writings of academics and in the media of both India and China is bound to be left with a depressing, and often desperate, impression. Among the write-ups randomly picked up in the media on relations ...

LETTERS: Economic Survey
The Economic Survey fails to fully serve the purpose for which it is presented. Its main objective is to apprise the MPs and the public about the present condition of the economy to better understand the budget proposals. For that, the ...

LETTERS: Rail Budget
The Rail Budget 2009, presented by the Railway Minister, Ms Mamata Banerjee, is one of the best in recent years as far as Kerala is concerned. The allocation of eight new trains for the State is itself a testimony ...

EVENTS: What, me worry?
What is the real reason behind the Government’s decision to raise diesel prices by half the increase that was effected in petrol prices? If media persons of the Capital are to be believed, the reason is that most politicians move around ...


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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