OPINION
EDITORIAL
Making most of the monsoon
FOR THE ECONOMY already on the roll, the forecast of a near-normal South-West monsoon this year should provide a further impetus. Without doubt, a reasonably good spatial and temporal distribution of rains across the country in 2003-04 led to a ...
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ACCOUNTANCY
Exorcising borrower belligerence
Mohan R. Lavi on how a recent apex court decision breathes life into the SARFAESI Act
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A feel-good free for all
N. R. Moorthy on whether disinvestments by PSUs do good to investors
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Lessons in book-cooking mixed with blood-spilling
BIG MONEY, cold murder. With these comes one more novel from Stephen Frey, Shadow Account, a thriller that promises `high yield'. This time, stakes are high and so is the risk factor, as "a young Wall Street ...
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At the forefront of the world accounting scenario
KINGS usually have a bad habit. They want their visitors to heap praises, ad nauseam. Thus, after tonnes of adulatory phrases, there would be a short message, more muttered under the breath, such as that there is ...
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Stiff punishment from the SEC
AFTER the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) banned Ernst & Young from taking on new audit for six months as a punishment for allowing a "blatant" conflict of interest to arise with its former audit client, ...
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FOREX
Exchange rate and debt burden
An additional benefit of a strong rupee is the fall in the real value of external debt, which is the volume of goods and services to be exported to service the debt.
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TERRORISM
Looming Pakistan...
Clouds India's South Asia vision
The seemingly fatal attraction of policy-makers to Pakistan has all but blinded New Delhi to its relations with other neighbours. India's ambitions of being a major world power will remain a mirage if it chooses to continue with this obsession that h as led to a democratic, pluralistic and economically vibrant India being equated with a terrorist infested, military ruled, desperately aid-dependent country like Pakistan, says G. Parthasarathy.
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LETTERS
Tax collections
Rural-urban divide
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