OPINION
COMPANY LAW
Salutary safeguards
COMMITTEES galore in India have made heaps of recommendations on corporate governance, with special focus on tightening up the watchdog functions of the Board of Directors. The NDA Government had introduced in ...
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EDITORIAL
Sweeten the sugar policy
THE GLOBAL SUGAR market has been one of the most distorted of commodity regimes because of the fierce protectionism practised by some of the developed countries. That may become somewhat less distorted, following the recent World Trade ...
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ECONOMY
The coming global recession in 2005
A recession may be looming especially with the unprecedented rise in world oil prices, which have historically presaged every recession in America. But on oil there is breathtaking complacency says V. Anantha Nageswaran, and warns of the porte nds of faulty OPEC reserves and output data, the UK turning a net fuel importer and the developments in West Asia.
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SMALL SAVINGS
Advantages of freeing EPF investment
IT IS indeed ironical that the interest on employees' provident fund (EPF) has been cut by one per cent at a time when the bond market was doggedly expecting a rate hike. The Government claims that it is still paying a ...
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REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS
Audit and its rights: A question of propriety
It is fitting that the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister has set the record straight in the recent controversy that arose when the State Auditor-General commented on certain observations made in the CAG's report for 2003-04 and for previous years.
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INTERVIEW
`Australia offers opportunities in energy, education, IT and biotech'
The interest to invest in India, especially by Australian corporates is quickening, noticeably in the last two years. Australia has notched up one position to emerge as the eighth largest investor in India bringing in over $(Australian)1.5 ...
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`The critical issue now is implementation of schemes' — Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Dy Chairman, Planning Commission
The office of the Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission, the country's pre-eminent policy-making body, has gone into the hands of an economist of proven calibre and a seasoned bureaucrat who never belonged to the country's so-called steel ...
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