The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, December 05, 2002

Jaswant's lament
SOUNDING MORE LIKE a dirge than a fresh piece of music, the Mid-Year Review of the economy by the Finance Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh, could have been composed better. If the economy has "passed the test of fire", it should have been presenting a ... More

ECONOMY

Impoverished vs. cash-rich Gujarat
A huge debt portfolio that is soon set to touch 46 per cent of its gross state domestic product has put the Gujarat Government in quite a fix. With Crisil downgrading two of its premier bonds and erosion on the revenue front through sales tax write-o ffs to various business houses, it is only some cash-rich State corporations that have kept the show going for the past two years. More

ACCOUNTANCY

What's good for Grasim
The public-offer route is one option that is eminently equitable, says S. Murlidharan It would be harsh to expect a person acquiring a controlling stake to acquire the entire capital of the company. Such either-all-or-none policy would bri ng the healthy game of takeover to a halt. More

In search of josh
N. R. Moorthy runs a fine-tooth comb over the Joshi Committee recommendations for amending the Companies Act More

Anti-conversion

POLITICS

Pakistan: Democracy by remote control
Neither India nor the international community can afford to be sanguine about the implications of recent political developments in Pakistan which has a new government but is guided by the wishes of Gen Pervez Musharraf, says G. Parthasarathy. More

LETTERS

Non-executive directors

Role of PSBs

Labour law for unorganised sector

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