The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, May 25, 2002

Steel wars
FURTHER SIGNS OF escalating international steel trade disputes have surfaced with Japan threatening to join the European Union in slapping safeguard tariffs on US steel. Japan's threat, on the back of the vociferous protests evoked by the US ... More

ECONOMY

Joint sector: Untapped potential
WITH the progress of industrialisation in India apart from the public, state and private sectors, there is also the emergence and growth of what is described as the `joint sector', two instances of which are IFFCO and KRIBHCO in the fertiliser ... More

Does war use economics for target-practice
EVERYONE seems to be perched at seat's edge, as if eagerly waiting to hear the news of war. And we have been seeing all the forebodings of a war — such as fresh and bloody violence, exiling the envoy, situation analysis by the top man, ... More

POLITICS

Brinkmanship and diplomacy
THE all-important question to be asked now is: Will hostilities break out on the India-Pakistan border and, if so, when? The second question is easier to answer because the timing depends on the two opposing armed forces and their "sense of ... More

TAXATION

Reworks to the repair job
T. C. A. Ramanujam highlights a few of the hurriedly moved amendments to the Finance Bill More

Party kitties
To get electoral reforms going, there is a need to remove interpretational snags in the I-T proposals, says V. S. Mani More

Faux pas in the perk regime
S. Murlidharan on the unintended fallout of the recent amendments to the law on perquisites More

Havens and the have-nots
TAX havens are normally not expected to have lofty goals. That is why they attract the rich and wealthy. But problem can brew when the haven adopts a social cause. Take for instance, Meggen, a Swiss village, in the canton of Lucerne, with ... More

Double indemnity
One of the main problems with trading across borders in Europe is the likelihood that your firm will be taxed both at home and abroad. But there is away around it, as Grahame Steven explains More

Law Lords deliver bloody nose to Revenue

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