The Hindu Business Line : Monday, September 13, 2004

Off to a movie with an extra
IT WAS another Friday night. The gang was at their usual joint, the Chennai coffee pub. China was having his third mug of coffee. Muscles was attacking his fourth plate of pizza. Wafers was having her nth bite of French ... More

Just do IT
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Number Crunch - 338
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TAXATION

Unsure of rebate for premia over a fifth of sum assured
I AM a salaried person. My salary is less than Rs 1.5 lakh. I have paid premia aggregating to Rs 6,528, being more than 20 per cent of the sum assured of Rs 30,000. Will I get tax rebate under Section 88? Will I get ... More

SOFTWARE

This can get you out of the bathtub, almost
"GIVE me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I will move the world," said Archimedes. Now, a software named after him says, `give me place on your desktop and I will move company law for you!' ... More

STOCK MARKETS

Predict the winner
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Baskets of `X'
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PIRACY

The din of effluents from affluence in dining halls
Story so far: During the course of working along with the marketing department in my company, I visit a design agency. There, I find teams busy on various ad and movie assignments oozing with money. The only ... More

PEOPLE

Out of sight, not out of hope
I AM aged 19, and hail from a middle class family. I had glaucoma since birth; however, this was rectified when I was five years old and I could see clearly. But, unfortunately, a couple of years later, while in my ... More

TRENDS

Business-a Verse
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BOOKS

Four truths to get around the 84,000 negative emotions
IF SOMEONE gets furious, gentle people try to avoid him. Thus, he too gets disturbed. When you get angry, there's no room for logic or reason: you become literally mad. This is the Second Noble Truth. That was only a ... More

Demi Moore's Law: You understand only half of what you read!
WELL, even that's a good average, you'd agree. But why is it that it takes ages to finish the MBA project, eons to finish CA, years to get a product into market, decades to have a stable government, and many centuries ... More