The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Taxing Peter to pay Paul?
TINKERING WITH PETROLEUM product prices as a means to mop up additional resources has long been part of the government routine, no matter who is in power. The news that the Cabinet is to approve a 10-paise cess on petrol and diesel to part-fund ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Unified licence: Contradictions unlimited
FOR THE second time in less than three years, the government machinery acted with decisive swiftness while formalising the unified licence between basic and cellular services in five days flat. It passed through three ... More

AGRICULTURE

Sowing a new farm strategy
There is a realisation that the farm sector must gear up to face the challenges and seize the opportunities offered by the WTO regime as also by the advent of new technology. Sharad Joshi looks at what it will take to bring about this kind of metamorphosis in Indian agriculture. More

FERTILISERS

Urea: RPS and NPS — Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other
The New Pricing Scheme for urea manufacturers is hardly an improvement over the Retention Pricing Scheme, whose anomalies it purports to correct. It neither provides an incentive to reduce cost and improve efficiency nor does it help all plants unifo rmly to face competition from imports. And unlike the ERC, it gives no clue whatsoever, whether we will at all move towards decontrol. More

POLITICS

Unconscionable delay
THE aftermath of the Tamil Nadu Speaker's order sentencing prominent journalists to 15 days' imprisonment for contempt of the House, and issuing of warrants of arrest against them has reopened the whole question of the ... More

INTERVIEW

`I don't want us to be here'
Captain Mark Reed is from Virginia. A reservist, he is now with the Military Civic Operations office in Baghdad, where civilians come with problems ranging from employment to health care. Business Line caught up with Capt Reed in his office ... More

LETTERS

Safe food

Social security for unorganised sector

Stamp paper scam

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