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SECURITY: Made in India and proud of it
The NSG (National Security Guard) and MARCOS (marine commandos) are the new brand ambassadors of India. While the politicians have been shooting their mouths off, the brave commandos have shot the terrorists. That is the difference ...

INCOME TAX: Traps to avoid during tax planning
How often have people planned a financial transaction meticulously, down to optimisation of tax implications, based on advice, hearsay, or their own reading of the law, and then realised to their dismay that a minor detail or development has ...

TAXATION: Tax effect of insurance compensation
Recent terror attacks at vantage locations show how vulnerable our nation is, notwithstanding the economic prosperity and the improved standard of living of the people. The attacks have great psychological ramifications ...

BOOKS: Profiling criminals
Malcolmn Gladwell’s ‘Dangerous Minds’ is one of the chapters in The Best American Crime Reporting 2008, edited by Jonathan Kellerman ( ...

EVENTS: Just Do It
A. Raman - mahathee at rediffmail.com, A. Rama Krishna - Manager - Indian Bank - Vijayawada - ramakrishna_akshintala at hotmail.com (Winner), Anwarul.Hasnain - anwarul.hasnain at polaris.co.in, B Ramakrishna - krishnabr1942 at ...

BOOKS: Inter-service mindsets
Pakistan’s ‘proxy war’ and the level and intensity of the militancy in various States have led to the increasing involvement of the Central Government’s police and paramilitary forces (CPMFs) and the Indian Army in ...

TERRORISM: What are the lessons?
Send in responses, along with your hi-res photo to: ...

EVENTS: Number Crunch
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PEOPLE: 60 Seconds Chief
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HUMAN RESOURCES: Alternatives to severance
Responses to Sticklish Issues dated Nov 24. The time has come for bringing in three-day week to overcome the crisis and to ease the unemployment problem. In the proposed system, half the working population will work from Monday to Wednesday and ...

OVERSEAS BORROWINGS: GDR and ECB
How come the government’s GDR (Global Depository Receipt) regulations have remained the same whereas the ECB (External Commercial Borrowing) guidelines are tinkered with every now ...

FOREX: Dollarisation of balance-sheet
I am an employee of the IT sector. Sometime back a suggestion was made to dollarise the balance sheets of IT companies so that they did not face the problem of currency mismatch — their earnings in dollars are matched ...

MUTUAL FUNDS: Close-ended MF scheme
There is a view that a close-ended mutual fund scheme is superior to the open-ended one. Do ...

FOREX: Weakening rupee
What explains the almost 25 per cent depreciation in the Indian rupee vis-À-vis the US dollar in a matter of about ...

SUGAR: Deductibility of research expenses
In-house research expenses are tax deductible of course. But contributions to national laboratories such as ICMR, ICSR, IIT, etc., are eligible for a weighted deduction of 125 per cent. I wonder why corporates are not unduly ...

GENERAL INSURANCE: What’s ‘wedding insurance’ all about?
A new term ‘wedding insurance’ is doing the rounds. What is it ...

INCOME TAX: HRA regime
I find the HRA exemption regime outdated. It does not treat Pune on a par with Delhi and the three other ...

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