The Hindu Business Line : Friday, April 26, 2002

AP takes off on ATF
THE ANDHRA PRADESH Government's decision to unilaterally reduce the sales tax on aviation turbine fuel (ATF) has set the cat amongst the pigeons. The AP Sales Tax rate is now down to the Central Sales Tax level of 4 per cent from a whopping ... More

ECONOMY

Financial reforms and development
THE FINANCIAL sector reforms were initiated in India in 1992-93 as part of the process of liberalisation and globalisation. These were aimed at promoting an efficient, well-diversified and competitive financial system with the ultimate objective ... More

IMF - World Bank commniques: Platitudes for developing countries
What developing countries expected from the Fund-Bank Ministerial meetings was a strong reaffirmation of the commitments by developed nations at the UN Summit on Financing of Development at Monterrey, Mexico, to increase development assistance and tr ade liberalisation. But the Fund-Bank communiqués have largely remained platitudes, so far as the G-24 group is concerned. More

POLITICS

Diplomatic excess
ONE of the indefensible offshoots of the tragedy being enacted in Gujarat is the presumptuousness on the part of the accredited or visiting diplomats of some countries to pass censorious remarks on the happenings in the State. One can understand ... More

TRAVEL & PLACES

Head for the hills
IT IS summer. This is the time when those who can afford it head for the hills. The schools have closed and so have our courts. I am not sure why our courts take such long summer breaks. I know it was a British habit and, as the judges were ... More

GENDER

The price of success
THEY are young and vibrant women in their early 20s, with a spring in their step, hope in their hearts and dreams in their eyes. Some want a career in marketing; others a toehold in the hitherto male-dominated area of finance and investment. One ... More

LETTERS

LIC policies

Communal animosity

Gujarat fallout

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