The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, August 28, 2004

EDITORIAL
Rubber price swings
RUBBER PRICES HAVE of late become a matter of concern for both domestic producers and user industries. Earlier this week, when the market ripples reached the Lok Sabha, the Commerce Minister, in response to a calling attention motion, gave an ... More

FERTILISERS
Fertiliser reforms — Two steps forward, one step back
Having initiated long-needed action to remove controls on urea pricing and distribution in 2003, why is the government now going back on that decision? Distribution controls are relevant only in a situation of shortage, which is not the case with ure a. So the rhetoric that decontrol is not in the country's interest hardly holds water, says Uttam Gupta.. More

POLITICS
The imperatives of right governance
NEWSPAPERS have been full of reports about the fleeting episode in the Prime Minister's office in Parliament on Wednesday, the central allegation being that Dr Manmohan Singh behaved "uncivilly" with an NDA delegation ... More

TAXATION
A case of missing `service' link where the taxman saw what Zee didn't
ZEE and Star don't need any intros. So, let me get straight into a case that involved both of them in a tussle with the Excise Department, and reached the New Delhi `Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal' ... More

Some reprieves are too short-lived
There are many instances where the Budget takes back the very advantages that courts bestow on assessees, says T. C. A. Ramanujam More

Why rubbish a `standard' for the salaried
The Kelkar suggestion to eliminate standard deduction for salaried assessees is flawed, says T. N. Pandey More

The service load on truckers' back
S. Sridharan suggests ways to resolve the transport service tax logjam More

BOOKS
Where world is not fragmented by narrow domestic walls
THESE DAYS, all roads have been leading to Athens, for sports-lovers. And for economists, for whom the topic of recent discussion has been inflation, all clicks have been leading to http://eaindustry.nic.in. ... More

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