The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, June 22, 2002

Core growth
THE REASONABLY ROBUST overall growth rate of 5.8 per cent clocked by the six core infrastructure sector industries in April-May is good augury for the Indian economy. Coming as it does on the back of a particularly dismal 2001-02 when the ... More

ECONOMY

Tenth Plan in a fiscal quandary
OUR planners have always tended to over-estimate resource availability, in order to project higher growth rates for our economy, with which socio-economic objectives are linked, to make each FiveYear Plan look more impressive than the earlier ... More

How to join the millionaire club
WEALTH means means, riches, prosperity, affluence, assets, mammon, possession, and so on, according to Bill Gates' Word. But if you go by the World Wealth Report 2002 from Merrill Lynch and Cap Gemini E&Y, wealth means HNWIs. Or high net worth ... More

POLITICS

PM slips up on the media
IN A NUTSHELL, the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has disappointed the nation with his recent attack on the media. To be sure, this is only one point of view, but if the Prime Minister is a true liberal democrat, he will have no ... More

TAXATION

The data chase
T. C. A. Ramanujam says that the I-T Department has been strengthened by a recent apex court decision on the power to call for information More

Ranting about rent
S. Murlidharan on the elusive quest for fairness in valuation More

A case of diffence
S. Lochani on the various practices in recognising deferred tax More

The right to interest
An assessee is entitled to interest on delayed refund without having to submit an application for the same, says T. N. Pandey More

The bereavement equaliser
IF MEN and women are equal, widowers and widows too are. That, in substance, is what the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has decided in a historic case, bringing mournful wails in the corridors of UK's Inland Revenue. The Revenue had been ... More

DISINVESTMENT

The disinvestment `juggernaut'
For the average citizen, the disinvestment exercise may seem akin to selling the family silver. However, it is a bold and determined step towards realising the best value for the country's treasures before they too join the ranks of the PSUs that hav e been in the `red' over the years. It promises to be an arduous journey, but the string of successes augurs well for the economy. More

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