The Hindu Business Line : Monday, April 15, 2002

Price of coal
THE RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT by the Coal and Mines Minister, Mr Ram Vilas Paswan, that a uniform pricing mechanism for coal will soon be introduced clearly suggests that despite deregulation under the Colliery Control Order 2000, the practice of the ... More

BUDGET

TN finances need fiscal correction
THE TAMIL NADU Budget, presented on March 26, raised taxes for Rs 690 crore. The AIADMK Government has prepared a medium-term fiscal reform programme aimed at bringing revenue deficit to zero and the fiscal deficit to 2 per cent of the gross ... More

ECONOMY

Tamil Nadu's looming fiscal crisis
The latest Tamil Nadu Budget warns of the fiscal crisis that lies ahead and calls for a non-partisan approach to resolve it. It is vital that the Government makes an effort to organise an informed all-party discussion by presenting a forecast of wher e the State is heading and generating public opinion in support of a rational public policy alternative. More

Hunger project
IN THE din of controversies over issues of little consequence, good work done quietly by dedicated bands of volunteers and organs of the civil society goes unnoticed. An example is the initiative taken by Governments of various States by means of ... More

POLITICS

Aspects of democracy
RECENTLY, the Pakistani strongman, Gen Pervez Musharraf, told La Figaro that "Indian democracy is just a bluff", trying to substantiate his charge by saying that there was no society as intolerant as the Indian, and that in that country ... More

LIFESTYLE

Mongolia beyond Ulan Baatar
ANHIL (fragrance) more than lived up to the promise of her evocative name. She was slender, tall, bright, vivacious, bubbling with energy, with an intensity and zest that was instantly contagious even in the sub zero temperatures of Ulan Baatar ... More

BIO-TECH & GENETICS

GM: Seeds of uncertainty
NEW technologies create extraordinary possibilities that people find disturbing. However, for every new technology, the ecological and environmental scare graph charts a predictable seven-year cycle, as was interestingly traced by The ... More

STOCK MARKETS

Is the S&P 500 Index overvalued?
POST-Enron, the earnings announcements or warning given by IBM and General Electric were seminal events in recent US corporate history. The latter, especially, has always reported figures that matched the consensus expectations of analysts. With ... More

LETTERS

Rollbacks of Interest on EPF

Karnataka Budget

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