Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Monday, October 21, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Monday, October 21, 2002 |
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OPINION EDITORIAL States seek succour TRUE TO THE familiar script, they came, they discussed, and agreed to disagree. The latest meeting of the Prime Minister with the Chief Ministers to decide on the policy response to the deteriorating fiscal condition was not expected to achieve ... More COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES When laws wait for the word THE Law Ministry in Shastri Bhavan, down the road from North Block, is not one of those high-profile ministries, like the Finance Ministry or the Foreign Office. However, officials in North Block have to often swallow their pride and cajole ... More ECONOMY 
Vision 2020: Planning without experimentingThe Plan panel presented the idea of 8 per cent growth as George Everest identified Mount Everest as the highest mountain on earth but did not say how to get there. The Approach Paper would have been convincing had its conclusions been based on real- life experiments. That is little investment in experimentation, and few attempts to test new ideas systematically, says P. V. Indiresan, pointing to the weakness of our planning. More TAXATION No dividend in taxing shareholder THE 2002-03 Budget brought about a fundamental change in the mode of taxing the dividend received by shareholders. Instead of collecting tax on `distributed profits' (hitherto levied at a flat rate of 10 per cent), it reverted to the old ... More FOODGRAINS Sen Committee report — Food security and its design RECENT events have brought into focus the criticality of issues related to food management in the country. Two bizarre episodes took place recently — the Chief Ministers of two States courted arrest in protest against the fixation of lower ... More TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS 
Generating sympathy for labour disputesTWO labour disputes currently taking place in the US provide several contrasts. One involves low-wage janitors in the northeast and the other concerns highly paid dockworkers in the southwest. Both are fighting primarily on non-wage issues but ... More LETTERS Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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