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Saturday, October 12, 2002
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BL 2501042.78 (+17.31)
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Half Nobel for taxman?
THIS year's Nobel Prize for literature has gone to Imre Kertesz of Hungary, but he will have to hand over almost half the $1 million award to the state as tax, if the law is not changed to exempt the same. Other prestigious prizes, such as the ... More

ECONOMY - A PERSPECTIVE


The Nobel Memorial Award — Expanding the boundaries of economics
Despite the blending of historical method with quantitative economics, the inability to conduct a controlled experiment has remained a basic weakness in economics. The Nobel memorial awardees in Economics for 2002, Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith, h ave been recognised for their efforts to build the foundations of economics on the basis of experiments. P. R. Brahmananda describes their work. More

E-DIMENSION


Happens when we have cabbages as kings
AFTER a fitful day of bandh that came bang in the middle of the week, the Tamil Nadu economy should be limping back to its normal pace. Some do not want to call it bandh, but prefer to name it `strike'. It was a call by political parties, some ... More

FOCUS


Need to decide on pending issues relating to SDF
AT a time when several crucial issues relating to the Steel Development Fund (SDF) and the role of the Joint Plant Committee (JPC) remain to be sorted out by the Union Government, demands for winding up both SDF and JPC are being pressed before ... More

SAY CHEEK


Nanage neeru beku
ASK not whether the Government has got Cauvery water for you? Rather, ask what you have done. That seems to be the mantra for everybody in Tamil Nadu. In a tug of wa(te)r - no less than the samudra manthan that gods and asuras ... More

ALL LAW


Uniform norm for short-term credit
RBI has simplified the procedure for imports into India by stipulating uniform regulations and procedures for suppliers' credit and buyers' credit - the two categories of short-term credit. In suppliers' credit, the overseas supplier extends ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND


VisualSoft gains on hive-off talk
VISUALSOFT Technologies was back in the action on Friday, with the stock entering the buy list of select fund managers. The buying is attributed to market talk that VisualSoft plans to hive off its two products into 2 separate companies and ... More

ON THE HEDGE


Buy October puts on Infosys Technologies
THE following are some buy/sell strategies based on Friday's trading in the derivatives segment at the NSE: Equity options: Infosys: The outlook on this stock appears negative. The price projection on the downside is Rs 3475. ... More

SENSOR


Tech-inspired rally maintains momentum
BUOYED by the numbers put out by tech major Infosys Technologies on Thursday, technology stocks were the flavour of the day as buying in both frontline and second-rung IT stocks propelled the benchmark BSE Sensex - for the second consecutive ... More
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