The Hindu Business Line : Friday, October 11, 2002

India and the Bush Doctrine
The US sees India as a vibrant democracy with a growing economy, and Pakistan a problem child that has to be encouraged to behave and reform. But it would be naïve to presume the State Department's views on India have changed dramatically. New Delhi will have to conduct its diplomacy with the US with firmness, tact and imagination, and realise that India will be all the more relevant and respected only if it translates into reality the hope of 8 per cent growth, says G. Parthasarathy More

COMPANY LAW

Statements of subsidiaries — Do the impossible or face legal action
With global opportunities unleashed post-liberalisation, Indian companies are increasingly forming subsidiaries abroad. The Companies Act drafted four decades back needs to keep pace with facilitating reform. Surprisingly, though, to comply with the Act, companies are put to unnecessary investment in time and cost. More

EDITORIAL

Finding funds
CORRECTING IMBALANCES IN the fisc, or at least keeping to the targets, has been the Centre's perennial concern. And the problem gets aggravated at the start of each Five-Year Plan when, having set ambitious goals, the Centre and the States start ... More

POLITICS

Filmdom in fray
DREAM merchants of the Tamil Nadu celluloid domain are out to prove what everyone already knows — that celluloid is combustible! They have picked up with gusto the gauntlet gratuitously thrown by their counterparts in Karnataka, and jumped ... More

The common man
`Instead of calling it yatra, they should just call it an election campaign. They're not doing it for the Common Man, they're doing it to get back into power.' More

SHIPPING

Gangavaram minor port: Major triumph for Naidu
THE recent Union Cabinet decision according approval to the Andhra Pradesh Government for its proposal to set up a minor port in Gangavaram testifies once again to the clout the AP Chief Minister, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, enjoys with the ... More

TAXATION

To tax and to please
IF MANKIND is certain about any thing, one can say it must be taxes. Taxes are so inextricably intertwined with the material life of the masses that one cannot possibly think of civilisation that is built without taxes. Taxes have, thus, acquired ... More

LETTERS

Tata Sons clarifies

Linking of rivers

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