The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, September 26, 2002

Don't tax the investors
THE LARGE COMMUNITY of small investors must fervently be hoping that the review of dividend taxation initiated by the Finance Ministry would result in a decision to exempt from tax such receipts in their hands. The Government would do well to ... More

ECONOMY

Indians haul India to the `junk' yard
It is not surprising that India's international reputation for economic mis-management has attracted the attention of S&P. A country that has bowed to corrupt leaders, and outdated swadeshi principles, deserves to be reduced to a credit rating that i s something below junk status, for sheer inept policy-making. India is its own enemy. More

ACCOUNTANCY

Bridging the Marx-market gulf
SPOKEN like a man. Yes, that is what Mr N. R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman of Infosys did when he, while addressing the "Leadership Summit" in the capital recently, laid down 15 times the lowest paid employee's salary as the maximum a CEO can take ... More

In defence of the Indian auditor
The latest events in the US have come as a wake-up call for India's auditing profession. The ICAI should play a more proactive role. The Government, on its part, would do well to arm the ICAI with more penal powers. More

ASB is bass
AT TIMES, it makes sense to read a publication from the last to first. As in the case of the latest issue of the CA journal. If you skip the big pictures that stare at you — which members of the southern region are so much used to — ... More

TERRORISM

Another blow to body politic
Over the last few decades, India's political classes seem to have jettisoned the dream that Gandhiji had for the country, zeroing in, instead, on another formula to grab power. Instead of preaching the message of humanity and compassion, they have re -written for the people, in a pen dipped with hatred, the meaning of religion. And having released the monster of communalism, they are making the maximum capital of it, says Rasheeda Bhagat. More

A terror attack that was waiting to happen
IF THERE was one theory that found an echo in the words of the erudite political pundit as much as the man on the street, it was that terrorism was just waiting to happen in Gujarat. The potential targets varied from the cine multiplexes to ... More

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