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PETROLEUM: Oil on the block
Does ‘mineral oil’ also mean natural gas? Yes and no. Beats logic? Not if you are a mandarin.For a company that bags a contract under the New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) Round VIII which is now open, ...

EDITORIAL: Farmed out
The first Budget of the new UPA Government presented by the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, is likely to be remembered not so much for what he did as for what he omitted to do for the farm sector. One of the challenges before the ...

BUDGET: UPA-II’s first budget: A gamble worth the risk
Between the first Budget of the first UPA team, presented by Mr P. Chidambaram in 2005-06, and the first full Budget of the second UPA government, presented by Mr Pranab Mukherjee, the Congress has travelled a long way in its perception of how ...

TAXATION: GST: A formidable challenge
The Finance Minister has, once again, reiterated the Government’s intention to take all necessary steps to facilitate the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) by April 1, 2010. While the declaration in itself holds ...

BUDGET: A balanced exercise
The much awaited Budget 2009-10 may not have brought cheer to the stock market but has definitely pleased the aam aadmi. In the backdrop of the economic meltdown, the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, had a tough job trying ...

POLITICS: Enhancing representation
There has never been any dispute about the essential pre-requisites of democratic dispensation. They are, first, the government should be run with the consent of the governed and, second, the elected representatives should reflect the will of ...

BUDGET: Budget and the bourse
In these volatile times, the biggest fall of the Indian stock market on a Budget Day (by 5.8 per cent) on Monday may not carry much weight on the premise that what goes down today will rise without fail tomorrow, only to fall again the day ...

BUDGET: Banking on inclusion
A transparent and honest attempt to provide fiscal stimulus through greater public spending in infrastructure and social sectors in these challenging times, the Budget takes an encouraging step towards inclusive growth. The Government ...

BUDGET: Simpler tax regime
The Budget has been presented in the backdrop of a sharp economic downturn, with businesses adversely affected. The corporate sector was, therefore, avidly looking forward to some reassurance from the Finance Minister to revive industry fortunes ...

BUDGET: Missed, a golden opportunity
The Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, had everything going for him. When he got up to make the Budget speech in the Lok Sabha on July 6 , he stood on the threshold of making history. Unfortunately, he frittered away a ...

LETTERS: Definitions well-defined...
This is with reference to the budget article “Definitions get well-defined (Business Line, July 7). A notable feature in the 2009-10 budget is ; it has introduced a definition clause in the Income Tax Act, 1961. It is a relief 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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