The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, October 26, 2002

Undermining coal
ANY SIGNIFICANT INVOLVEMENT of the private sector in coal mining in the Tenth Plan period appears ruled out with the Union Coal and Mines Minister, Ms Uma Bharti, recently declaring in Dhanbad that she has no intention of pushing the pending Coal ... More

ECONOMY

Tenth Plan: Sky-high projections
The Planning Commission's revised approach paper on the Tenth Plan projects an 8 per cent annual growth rate from 2002-03 to 2007-08 — for which the growth rate should rise 70 per cent! With disinvestment targets moving farther away, and unrea listic projections on gross saving and investment rates and the incremental capital-output ratio, this seems a rather tall order of average increase, says P. R. Brahmananda. More

POLITICS

In poll mode
THE latest tirade of the VHP against the Prime Minister (an attack on Mr Brajesh Mishra by Mr Ashok Singhal must be seen in this light) is just one more piece of evidence that the Sangh Parivar is firmly looking at the 2004 Lok Sabha ... More

TAXATION

Citi `never sleeps', but nods?
T. C. A. Ramanujam on a tax evasion case which was woven around the portfolio management scheme More

Time to re-engineer
R. Anand on the need for revamping the tax audit provisions More

Dhobi list for the FM
The Finance Minister has miles to go and many loopholes to plug, says S. Murlidharan More

RADIO/TV

Conditional Access System Bill — Telecasting troubles
The CAS Bill was a beginning to bring about some sort of regulation to the cable TV industry — a step in the right direction. But why is this no longer a priority for the Government? More

BOOKS

Check the pizazz before you tie the knot
NO SANE person would allow an economist into the bedroom but when I see a recent research paper titled "As good as married", I take a quick printout to read in the evening. The paper, written by Xinhua Gu and Padma Rao Sahib, of the ... More

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