The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, February 11, 2006

The new age intermediaries
Today's intermediaries consolidate information, allow complete product sale and purchase, and provide an alternative to shopping malls and their huge infrastructure. The value proposition made by these new intermediaries is such that they create a de finite space for themselves in the new market. More

What's special?
THE COMMERCE MINISTER may well be proved right in his projection of a substantial flow of fresh investments (Rs 1,00,000 crore) and consequent additional employment (one lakh) from export-oriented units in the new special economic zones expected ... More

POLITICS

Nepal at the crossroads
ONE can say with some degree of confidence that the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal is at a crossroads today regarding its State structure. Briefly, the Nepalese monarchy, under King Gyanendra, has reached a point in its ... More

TAXATION

Flour, ghee and sugar to make bread, biscuits and cakes
ONE OF the kindergarten lessons in finance is the duck and drake rhyme where there is `a halfpenny cake,' and you need to account for a penny `to pay the old baker.' Children may continue singing, `A hop and a scotch is ... More

Taxpayer vs tax deductor
T. C. A. Ramanujam on the issue of fixing responsibility for failure to deduct tax at source More

Worth further study
S. Murlidharan on the need for better education orientation in the tax provisions More

Phase out the ambiguities
V. Bhaskar on the issue of uncertainty in Central Sales Tax More

ECONOMICS

Precarious irreversibility of climate change
The British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, terms climate change the "world's greatest environmental challenge". `Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change,' summarises the proceedings of an international symposium on the subject held a year ago. Also interes ting, is William F. Ruddiman's new book, `Plows, Plagues and Petroleum.' The author, says D. Murali, pushes the debate of climate change beyond the usual two centuries of industrial development to 8,000 years! More

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