The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, March 09, 2002

Steeling against the US
THE POLITICS OF steel and political economy of trade are, perhaps, most conspicuous in the US President, Mr George Bush's decision to impose safeguard duty up to 30 per cent on a range of steel imports into his country. Here is a glaring ... More

ECONOMY

Liberalism and religion
ECONOMICS and religion are two different worlds. All religions emphasise moral and righteous conduct for its own sake. Such conduct enables people to live peacefully with each other. Mutual trust is the basis for the functioning of society. If I ... More

POLITICS

The middle-class shown up
A WEEK after the Gujarat conflagration, stoked by the communal frenzy, it is time for stock-taking, at least in the State's business capital of Ahmedabad. Because, the police, for long at the receiving end for its alleged inaction at the height ... More

Nation on a razor's edge
THERE is one view which holds that things have quietened down on the communal front to such an extent that there is perhaps no further possibility of any large-scale violence breaking out once again. One inference of this would be to scale down ... More

TAXATION

B for Budget, A for ad-hocism
T. C. A. Ramanujam runs a fine-tooth comb over the new proposals More

An appropriate argument
S. Murlidharan asks why dividend cannot be claimed as expenditure More

Mouse pad
THE Hi-Tech Computers case, which came up before the Chennai CEGAT, was about mouse pads. The confusion that was to be resolved was whether the pads were to be classified, for CE purposes, as pads of polyurethanes — as the Revenue wanted ... More

MANPOWER

Whither government downsizing?
WASN'T downsizing of Central ministries and departments one of the major priorities of the Centre as part of the second-generation reforms by way of cost cutting and expenditure control? It was. Just about a couple of years back. Though not ... More

LETTERS

Tax on dividend
It is reported (Business Line, March 8) that by the reckoning of the Finance Ministry interim dividend would be taxable only in the year of payment. This is based on its reading of the earlier Supreme Court ruling that interim dividends ... More

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