OPINION
EDITORIAL
Fuelling a minor issue
TRANSPORTATION FUEL PRICES are up again in the country after six months, a period that saw volatile and ever increasing global oil prices. Since the last adjustment of petrol and diesel prices, on January 1, 2004, crude prices rose by more than a ...
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ECONOMY
Non-corporate sector: Largest contributor to national income
The share of the non-corporate sector in the national income is a high 35 per cent compared to the private corporate sector's 14 per cent, clearly under-scoring the importance of unincorporated units. If India Uninc has not got due recognition it is to some extent also because of the problem of its non-inclusion in the various income estimations such as the Annual Survey of Industries, says R. Vaidyanathan.
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COMING TO TERMS
Hike is between hijra and hilarious
Now that Mani Shankar Aiyar gives us the hike and since we are at the receiving end, are we ``to take a hike''? When hikes become one too many, you would only wish that hike takes a hike.
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ACCOUNTANCY
Loss of elite company
N. R. Moorthy on the delinking of DCA from finance and law
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On candour tests and `engaged' boards
AMONG the recent postings on the accounting-related sites is the latest "Rittenhouse Rankings". Carried out by and Beyond Communications, the survey, encompassing a sample of 100 from among the Fortune 500 companies, ...
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Reward salesmen for deal-by-deal pricing
ONE OF the first formulae we learnt in school was SP minus CP equals profit. It seems we forgot the importance of price after solving problems, because a new book from Wiley Finance (www.wileyfinance.com) states ...
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Idiosyncrasies in IDR
The Indian depository receipts regime has its share of foibles, says S. Murlidharan
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POLITICS
Politics of the hawks
NOW that it is a while since she refused the crown, and halos tend to dim with passage of time, it is worthwhile to take a hard look at the way the Congress(I) President, Ms Sonia Gandhi, and her newly-elected MP son, ...
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Regulator for steel
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