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FM plans painless fiscal surgery
18 Feb 2013 6:57 AM ISTA rejigging of the current three-tier income-tax apparatus, small tax concession for income up to Rs 10 lakh, new tax slab for high-income group,...
India’s Richie-riches
6 Feb 2013 4:55 AM ISTBusinessman Azim Premji, the country’s second richest person after Mukesh Ambani, may be a well-meaning person, but his suggestion at the recent World...
Where did all the money go?
29 Jan 2013 4:19 AM ISTThe actual amount of foreign funds reaching the country’s NGOs every year remains a mystery. It is not known either to the government or the public....
Arms not allowed in private hands?
19 Jan 2013 4:27 AM ISTThe Foreign Investment Promotion Board’s (FIPB) latest year-end decision to summarily reject the joint venture proposal of Mahindra & Mahindra,...
Smugglers take glitter off gold
9 Jan 2013 3:45 AM ISTChakravarthy Rangarajan, who authored the official report recommending gold decontrol 25 years ago at the instance of the Rajiv Gandhi government and...
Year of scams and scandals
2 Jan 2013 3:02 AM ISTThe year 2012 had been the year of scandals - political, business and media - and corruption in public life, in India as well as in the rest of the...
When Wal-Mart comes to rule
18 Dec 2012 5:06 AM ISTAfter Wal-Mart’s admission that it spent money on lobbyists to enter the estimated half-a-trillion-dollar-plus Indian retail market, the questions...
Rising trend of casino banking
4 Dec 2012 4:51 AM ISTThey may have formed the world’s most powerful financial forum, G-20, but how effective is their writ to discipline global banks and financial...
Demerger devil enters India’s fairytale entrepreneurial stories
24 Nov 2012 3:56 AM ISTWipro’s and CESC’s are two post-independent India’s fairytale entrepreneurial stories, probably unparalleled in the annals of modern business...
Corruption cuts across parties
10 Nov 2012 7:35 AM ISTWhat was union minister Srikant Jena from Odisha’s Balasore doing all these years when illegal mining was taking place in next door Keonjhar?...
Is bank denationalisation the next big ticket reform?
27 Oct 2012 4:04 AM ISTIt promises to be India’s biggest upcoming financial sector reform, maybe, by default or by a more subtle design. The government stands to lose...
Wrong priorities on reforms agenda
23 Oct 2012 4:27 AM ISTThe government may disagree, but it has got its reform priorities all wrong. It has opened up the country’s services sector – banking, insurance,...