OPINION
EDITORIAL
Farm output on a low
THE SOUTH-WEST MONSOON appears set to withdraw after the half-hearted revival that brought belated but welcome rains all over the country in August. As at the beginning of September, rains in 12 out of the 36 meteorological sub-divisions were in ...
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ECONOMY
Gold, savings and P&P sector — Foolish governments, smart women
With the government unable to provide social security to all its citizens, most self-employed groups face a huge challenge of protecting their future. They have turned to gold the most liquid, portable, and easy to transfer asset. R. Vaidyanathan says the self-employed must mount pressure on the government to understand the role of gold. It is not the Indian woman who is naive, but the government that is insensitive to the emerging old-age security crisis.
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ACCOUNTANCY
Cost management can be more professional
Sankar Ray on the need to systematise expenditure reduction
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Concept Paper in a penalty corner
The draft company law has too many anomalous penalties, says Mohan R. Lavi
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Giving wrong opinion with dishonest intention is the worst form of corruption
STOCK market scam of 1992, Enron imbroglio, the project that Quattrochi wanted, and disinvestment problems: On these and more, G. V. Ramakrishna writes in Two Scores and Ten, published by Academic ...
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A tame finish to a game of same names
WITH one more click on www.icai.org this morning, I advanced the visitor counter to 1989245. That should be a matter of pride for those in the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, but I wonder if they are ...
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FOREIGN TRADE
New Foreign Trade Policy — No big bang in this one
THE New Foreign Trade Policy, is good, but if India has delusions of leapfrogging in the global trade order, it misses too many realities. First, it is not that the world is sleeping and only India is trying to ...
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BANKING
The Basel-II blushes
BANKS, being highly leveraged entities, need to guard against failures, which could cause significant distress to the economy. Basel-I norms were principally to ensure adequacy of capital of banks as a defined ...
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CARTOON
Sticklish issues
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LETTERS
Companies Act
EPF investments
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