The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, September 10, 2005

Free the sugar sector
THE SUGAR SECTOR is always in the news, more often for wrong reasons. Just how ham-handed the Central Government has been in exercising control over this important segment of the country's expanding food processing sector is demonstrated by the ... More

PETROLEUM

Time to kick the barrel habit
Crude prices are just below $70, twice their level of five years ago. Five years is a long time in economics, innovation and technology. Yet India, transfixed by its dependence on crude oil and obsessed with pricing formulae, has been too slow to res pond to the rising oil price. The Government needs to promote disruptive technologies on a very large scale, pushing the economy from rickety carts to sleek locomotives and automotive engines that run on electricity, ethanol, bio-diesel and hydrogen, says G. Ramachandran. More

TAXATION

There are contradictions in FBT
Tosh K. Toshniwal evaluates the latest circular from the CBDT More

Going into relationships
R. Anand discusses the issue of employer-employee links in the fringe benefit tax regime More

Is BCTT ultra vires?
C. P. Ramaswami looks at the legality of the banking cash transaction tax More

The limited role of fiction
T. C. A. Ramanujam discusses two High Court rulings about capital gains arising on the sale of depreciable assets More

BOOKS

The world gets flatter as the playing field is levelled
THERE's no Bodhi tree on the KGA golf course in Bangalore, I guess, but that's where `a brief history of the globalised world in the twenty-first century begins'. There, Thomas L. Friedman, `three times winner of the ... More

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