The Hindu Business Line : Monday, February 17, 2003

Divestment ironies
IS PUNJAB THE dark horse in public sector reforms? Quite possibly, if one looks at the roadmap and the pace it has set for achieving the goal. And is it causing blushes all around with its pursuit? Cut to the Centre. To most people, the subject ... More

BUDGET

The first grand-slam for economy
AN AIR of excitement always pervades the start of the Budget session of Parliament. For one, it is during this session the nation prepares its blueprint for its economic house keeping for the next 12 months. For another, the government ... More

ECONOMY

What transatlantic rift really means
Any chance of the war on Iraq serving as the beacon for West Asia has diminished with divisions between the US and Europe on the idea of war itself and the rhetoric escalating on either side, by the day. It is being suggested that the US is using t he Iraq issue to drive a wedge within the European community, fearing the likely dominance of an enlarged and unified Europe, says V. Anantha-Nageswaran. More

Cutting revenue costs is the way out — AP's rising debt stock
WHEN Andhra Pradesh released its Annual Fiscal Framework — the draft budget — on January 22, the blame-game began almost immediately. The Chief Minister highlighted the sharply declining Central transfers to the State and the State's ... More

Annual plan in prohibition land
IT IS time again for that particular roll of the dice for the Gujarat Government that finds itself caught in a fiscal cleft, yet again. And for the umpteenth time the whipping boy in Gandhiji's own country is that metaphysical state of affairs ... More

FOREIGN TRADE

Atlantic alliance in the dock
Even as the founders of the North Atlantic alliance are at loggerheads, the NATO itself is expanding with Baltic nations and a few East European countries in and several others waiting to join up. Will the stand-off over Turkey affect the Atlantic al liance? More

POLITICS

Creative cheating
IF there can be creative accounting, why not creative cheating — going by the more familiar name of plagiarism? All that you need to do to have an idea of the incredible spread and variety of this art and the survival capabilities of its ... More

Awash in red ink — Return of the US deficit
IT IS obvious that the title of this piece does not refer to the forthcoming Union Budget. It is meant to be a description of President George Bush's latest budget statement for US. Gone are the days when, under Clinton's neo-liberal but fiscally ... More

SHIPPING

Tonnage tax a crucial issue — Equally important is continuity in government policies
MR Shatrughan Sinha would have never heard of tonnage tax before he entered the Transport Bhavan last month. Being a celebrity, the only tax, probably he would have ever worried about was income-tax. But as Shipping Minister, he now has no choice ... More

LETTERS

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Nuclear war

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