The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, August 03, 2002

Tap bio-fuel benefits
FOLLOWING THE WORLDWIDE demand for energy and concern for environmental safety, the search for alternatives to petrol and diesel for use as fuel in automobiles has led to identification of renewable sources of energy that are at once eco-friendly ... More

ECONOMY

Vulnerability of States' food economy
PARTICULARLY after Pigou's book on the Theory of Employment and Keynes's book on General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, the perception of an economy has tended to be primarily biased in favour of equations concerning ... More

Either face problems or `force' them
THE latest pill in the Government's first-aid box is `task force'. There is one on drought management constituted by the Prime Minister and it would look at giga issues such as "provision of greater employment opportunities, better nutrition, ... More

POLITICS

The stuff of politics
THE spectacle of the great fight between the Union Railway Minister, Mr Nitish Kumar of the Samata Party, and the Trinamul Congress chief and former Railway Minister, Ms Mamata Banerjee, is both hilarious and at the same indicative of the deep ... More

TAXATION

Perquisites: Amended rules held valid
BY A notification dated September 25, 2001, the Central Board of Direct Taxes had brought in radical amendments in the Income-Tax Rules, 1962, in order to alter the mode of valuing perquisites for employees. Employees were divided into three ... More

Deferred has arrived
R. Anand on the implementation issues of AS 22 More

Barristers face tax investigation
THOUSANDS of barristers could be investigated by the UK's Inland Revenue for failing to declare their cash reserves, reports The Lawyer. According to a BDO Stoy Hayward survey of barristers' chambers, only 14-15 per cent of chambers in ... More

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