OPINION
EDITORIAL
Funding higher education
THERE IS A new suggestion that industry must be made to subsidise higher education by paying a levy for every person it employs with higher educational qualifications. The suggestion that has come from Prof U. R. Rao, who recently chaired the ...
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FOREX
There're more dollar bills than Coke cans
WE HAVE more than a hundred billion of them in our reserves. Even as the inflow of the dollar continues, this perhaps is the time to sit back in leisure and relish its history. To help you in such an exercise is ...
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POLITICS
Politicking for power
ON THURSDAY, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav, directed that teaching in all government-run and -aided missionary as well as private recognised schools would take place only between 8 a.m. and ...
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Pakistanis uncertain on peace initiative
THIS time around, on a visit to Pakistan, one finds its people caught in a bind and a little uncertain about what exactly is on the cards, even as the latest Indo-Pak peace initiative appears to be holding ...
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TAXATION
A date with the stock
R. Anand on a case about inventory valuation and events after the balance-sheet date
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A betrayal of trust
T. C. A. Ramanujam on a professional misconduct case involving a chartered accountant
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There's confusion in the `core'
The recent CBDT circular is a spoke in the BPO wheel, says Mohan R. Lavi
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Thanks a tonne!
S. Murlidharan on what the new tonnage tax portends
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Customisation is no easy task
IN THE ISBC Consultancy Services case, the Mumbai ITAT was required to study if there was `manufacture' of software. `The metamorphosis' that standard software had to undergo through the `technique known as ...
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INTERNET
Distance is dead, when will time die?
Internet may have reduced distances but wrong rules and rigid rulebooks that limit working hours of cyber cafes widen and deepen the digital divide. India has to keep pace with the world, and work longer and smarter. If people who have the go are ind eed to make things happen, time should die, says G. Ramachandran.
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