OPINION
EDITORIAL
A disconnect in education
AFTER L'AFFAIRE IIMs, it is no surprise that the All-India Council for Technical Education wants to set a ceiling on fees and decide enrolment norms for technical institutions. The ceiling on fees will act as guideposts and not be mandatory, ...
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ECONOMY
Moving away from self-reliance?
Having been set on a steady reform course in the early l990s, India was able to build up a measure of inner strength to tide over risks. Nevertheless, the state's inability to take care of the common man's basic needs stands in sharp contrast to the major thrust of current policies over a wide area, which are designed to promote growth through elitist consumption, says S. Sethuraman.
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Institutionalise `Shining India' campaign
THE INDIA SHINING campaign has evoked severe criticism because the BJP, the party in power, has whipped up the ad campaign on the eve of the elections and is using exchequer's funds to pay for it. This campaign is being ...
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POLITICS
Declining India?
EARLIER THIS week, at least one major daily publicised a note written by the Union Cabinet Secretary, Mr Kamal Pande, in which the declining standards of the nation's bureaucracy were highlighted. Mr Pande wrote, ...
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TAXATION
Tax planning is okay
T. C. A. Ramanujam on a recent ruling that blessed `sale and lease back' as permissible
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No comments on the quality of investigation
THE Mumbai CESTAT was not too happy when a Commissioner of Customs argued that a certain person's role was "far more clever than other persons involved in the conspiracy", and that "like a professional he has taken care ...
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A plea for proportion
S. Murlidharan on the haze surrounding let-out properties
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Lavishness needs a leash
Ostentatious expenditure needs to be checked by the taxman, says T. N. Pandey
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Capital spin in a subsidy
K Srinivasan on a case where the nature subsidy was in question
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BOOKS
On a paralysed, sick man of world economy
THE WORLD'S second largest economy has been struggling to save itself. A country that was feared by many in the 1980s for its financial might became `the sick man of the world economy'. And what was once the Japanese ...
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