The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, August 10, 2006

URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Urban chaos
Over the years, cities and towns have become terribly chaotic. The progressive degeneration of urban infrastructure questions the fundamentals of the urban development concept. Most Indian cities are ... More

EDITORIAL
Residual problem
The real issue is that the country simply does not have a national policy for safe use of pesticides. More

ACCOUNTANCY
Can a general meeting be cancelled?
When an application is made for compromise or arrangement, which includes merger, it is for the court to call a meeting of shareholders and creditors. More

Some vesting issues in share-based payments
International Financial Reporting Standard 2 mandates measuring the cost of the scheme at fair value and amortising it over the vesting period. More

Valuation thriller
Three bullets fired point blank. A dead man left to rot in a junkyard. With that begins the prologue of Sanjay Sanghoee's thriller Merger from Manjul Books (www.manjulindia.com). The homicide was but "the final act of a saga of ... More

When a mega merger runs into rough weather
The mega-merger in telecom, as it was once called, has now morphed into a petition for arbitration in the civil jurisdiction. More

LABOUR REFORMS
Is West ready to open the labour market?
One of the most important dimensions of globalisation is liberating the labour markets from the Western sovereign regulations and encouraging the free flow of human resource to carry out what may be termed `brown collar' work in the West, says R. VA IDYANATHAN, explaining how this could be a big opportunity for India. More

ECONOMIC OFFENCES
Lessons from l'affaire Natwar Singh
The sooner Mr Natwar Singh sheds his hubris which has brought him to this pass the better will he be able to salvage what little political respectability he still thinks he can lay claim to. More

LETTERS

Banning colas

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Top Stories
Cola sales may lose less fizz this time round

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Online sale of software on the rise

Excise duty collections up 7.8 pc in April-July

`Desi' semiconductor biz is `all chip shape'

`Tax returns mandatory on income over Rs 1 lakh'

Bunching of imports driving up wheat prices

Looking back
Jul. 30-Aug. 5
TN Budget: Politically adroit, yet fiscally responsible