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FOREIGN RELATIONS: Chinese designs on the border
One abiding feature of our relations with China is our propensity to swing from elation and ecstasy to despondency and despair. Shortly after the visit of the Chinese Prime Minister, Mr Wen Jiabao, to India in April 2005, our media, ...

ACCOUNTANCY: Depreciation volatility under IFRS
Depreciation is one of the most significant items on a company’s balance-sheet, be it a manufacturing or a service company. Under the Indian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), depreciation as a cost is relatively stable and ...

TAXATION: Cracks in house property regime
The tax on income from house property has all along been on one’s potential income and not on one’s actual income unless the latter happens to be greater than the former. The Direct Taxes Code (DTC) does not resile from this position ...

COMPANY LAW: Conversion of company into LLP
The Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008 ] was enacted by Parliament and received the assent of the President on January 7, 2009. The LLP Act was notified on March 31 and the first limited liability partnership was registered on April 2; as ...

BOOKS: A different life, with less oil around
If music be the food of love, play on, says Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night. But if food be the oil you burn, it may be tough to play on. Consider this: The average farmgate-to-store distance rose by about 25 per cent between 1980 ...

EDITORIAL: Barren suggestions
It is an industry that is heavily subsidised with public money and indulged by the Government. Yet, even by those standards, the latest suggestion from the Fertiliser Ministry for a uniform price for natural gas supplied to urea plants across ...

ACCOUNTING STANDARDS: Events post balance-sheet date
Comprehending an entity’s financial statements is neither an art nor a science nowadays — it is a special skill that has to be developed. With differing recognition and measurement requirements and even more detailed disclosures, ...

LETTERS: IT’s success
This is with reference to “IT’s success must make a difference to society” (Business Line, September 16). Only transparent companies which want to do their best for the employees will create ...

LETTERS: False promises
With the assembly elections round the corner in Maharashtra, there is competition among the political parties to promise the impossible to the public. One of the assurances is to generate lakhs of jobs. How they will be generate is ...


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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