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ACCOUNTING STANDARDS


Uncle Sam at the crossroads
HOW times change! Far from American experts hectoring the world on norms of corporate behaviour, they have started examining why and how many a corporate hero has fallen and companies have gone under. This crisis of US capitalism is truly a great ... More

Ethical underpinnings of the corporate malaise
THIS is election year in the US and that always wakes up the politicians. Come November, there will be mid-term elections to the Congress (that is, upper and lower house) and both parties are worried. With all the legal and ethical violations in ... More

EDITORIAL


Market waits for a trigger
REWIND TWO YEARS and six months, to February 2000. That was the time when the Sensex climbed upwards of 6,000; investors lived in a fantasy world of market cap; top IT companies and their ESOP millionaires were everybody's envy; scores of ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS


Revisiting telecom policies
THE 1994 National Telecommunications Policy (NTP-1994), initiating the liberalisation and demonopolisation of telecommunication networks and services, is being implemented by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). At that time, the DoT was ... More

POLITICS


  • The gigantic gravy train

    TAXATION


    Vision 2020 — Best tax is the simplest one
    Tax administration will be much more productive in a simple, single tax regime than in a complex one. Further, in a simple system, tax evasion is more difficult than when it is a labyrinth, which confuses the tax inspector but offers the evader any number of corners to hide, says P. V. Indiresan. More

    TERRORISM


    Terrorism: Sounding another wake-up call
    THE attack by suspected members of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) on a group of Hindu pilgrims going to Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) on August 6 is yet another wake-up call to the fact that our physical security infrastructure continues to be ... More

    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE


    Corporate ethics, where art thou?
    A WEEK ago, when the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India board was busy discussing the proposal for buying out the shareholding of the A.V. Birla group in MRPL, the man who runs ONGC was waiting outside the boardroom. It was not that ... More

    LETTERS


  • Political manipulation
  • Petrol pump allotment
  • Accountants' role
  • Archaic laws
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    Vision 2020 — Best tax is the simplest one


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    In Depth
    Gender Justice
    Simple Economics
    Small Investor
    Looking back
    Aug. 4-Aug. 10
    UN Human Development Report 2002 — Why India still languishes

    The coming train-wreck


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