The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, February 14, 2002

Russian deals
THE RECENT DISCUSSIONS in New Delhi with the Russian delegation led by the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Ilya Kelbanov, have not resulted in the success anticipated though surely there is immense potential for the two countries to step up ties ... More

ACCOUNTANCY

Don't let sleeping dogs lie
IT IS saddening that a high-profile international accounting firm like Andersen has indulged in gross professional misconduct.. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has acted with alacrity by imposing heavy damages. Unfortunately, in ... More

Country cousin
LAST Saturday, at the Music Academy crossing, I had to make a decision. Both the premier institutes, ICAI and ICSI, were felicitating their new bosses at the same time. Cosecs are good at time management, I told myself, and I should be able to ... More

Audit committee dilemmas
NOTHING has confounded the corporate sector as thoroughly as the stipulations on audit committee contained in the two regimes — the Companies Act and the Standard Listing Agreement — have. Section 292A of the Companies Act enjoins on ... More

FERTILISERS

Uniform pricing: Putting cart before horse?
IN a bid to reform the fertiliser sector, the 2001-2002 Budget announced replacement of the unit-wise retention price scheme (RPS) by a group-wise urea concession scheme with effect from April 1, 2001, based on the Expenditure reforms Commission ... More

FOREIGN TRADE

World trade: Chasing the elusive one per cent
THERE are tall claims that the economy has become increasingly internationalised in the post-reform period of the last decade. It is, however, a reflection of the sorry state of affairs of the external sector that, for a country of more than a ... More

POLITICS

All set for the UP battle
WITH every opinion poll placing the Samajwadi Party ahead of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, but none giving any single party a simple majority, the outcome is likely to be a hung Assembly. And the electorate has to brace for the inevitable unseemly ... More

LETTERS

Govt's shenanigans

IBP sale

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Rubco floats tender to export 10,000 tonnes

VSNL enters Tata family

Leasing body working on common business code

RBI approves ADR/GDR re-issue

All set for the UP battle

In Depth
Inside Kashmir

Guide to derivatives

US-64

Looking back
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