The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, February 12, 2005

Administer it right
TO SNARE THE big fish of the narcotics trade, the Centre spread the net on chemists and wholesalers but ended up with a catch it neither wanted nor intended: Genuine consumers. Old people requiring sleeping medicines, epileptic children, and ... More

ECONOMY

Is poverty the best policy?
The poor are engaged in a struggle within the hierarchies of poor countries. When the prospects of their succeeding in this struggle are bleak, they willingly accept poverty. There is less to lose when they are poor. Their poverty blunts the severity of the threats, blunts the power of the powerful and sets a limit to what the powerful can appropriate from the poor, says G. Ramachandran. More

TAXATION

Why the taxman didn't join the party at club mandap
AMONG the many dull and lousy cases on tax is an exception: Dalhousie Institute vs Assistant Commissioner, Service Tax Cell. The assessee is a club, registered as a society. It extends its amenities and ... More

Interest at arm's length
T. C. A. Ramanujam discusses a recent AAR case on transfer pricing More

Entry tax on earthmoving machinery
Joseph Prabakar on why mobile cranes should not be equated to motor vehicles More

Needed, a better ideal than Asean rates
Sukumar Mukhopadhyay suggests ways to simplifythe Customs regime More

TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS

On strikes as a weapon
IN RECENT months, the West Bengal Chief Minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, has made it clear that he will brook no opposition in the implementation of his one-point programme — rapid economic development (or ... More

BOOKS

Worth striving for more humane world
IT IS not only terrorism or war that threatens us, but also `economic ruin and global warming', explains the intro to Paul Rogat Loeb's The Impossible Will Take a Little While, from Basic Books (More

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