The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, April 04, 2002

APM: April fooled?
APRIL 1 IS NOT a date on which you expect serious stuff. Much expectation was built on the dismantling of the administered pricing mechanism (APM) for the petroleum sector from April 1. But the date has come and gone, almost unnoticed. In fact, ... More

ACCOUNTANCY

Jarringly discontinuous
The new accounting standard on discontinuing operations will be meaningful only if it is shorn of the glitches, says S. Murlidharan More

Plug in the ROI add-on
THERE was a time when it was nearly impossible to get an organisation to spend any money on information security. Fortunately, those days are long gone. Now it seems that there is a cure for every misfortune and malfunction: Antivirus software, ... More

Under construction
THIS may come as a surprise to the Finance Minister but the Finance Bill is still "under construction" if one were to go by the ICAI's Web site, last updated on March 23, 2002. Accountants are generally known to miss the woods for trees, and ... More

POLITICS

Pakistan democracy, Musharraf style
IN AN interview to BBC on August 2, 2000, Gen Pervez Musharraf proclaimed: "I am not here to perpetuate myself and prolong my stay here." This was no different from what Gen Zia ul Haq had proclaimed when he staged a coup to topple the ... More

Holocaust in Gujarat
MANY of us who have been to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. and sat for a few moments in the wooden compartment of a train that had ferried thousands of Jews to the gas chambers would remember being overwhelmed by a sense of tragedy. The ... More

FINANCIAL MARKETS

Ringing notes of caution?
SINCE the financial turbulence in Mexico and Asia during the last ten years, there has been a vigorous search for a system that could help predict the onslaught of such crises. While there have been several attempts in this direction, a model ... More

BOOKS

Newspeak
IT IS a far cry from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language to Collins Gem Pocket Dictionary that recently celebrated its centenary. The chief merit of Collins dictionary is the consistent inclusion of neologisms ... More

LETTERS

Interim dividend

Pensions muddle

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