The Hindu Business Line : Friday, March 22, 2002

Grain, grain, go away...
THIS IS THE rhyme ringing in government office corridors in Delhi. But this could remain wishful thinking, unless accompanied by hard-headed decisions. The Centre's desperation to liquidate the mountains of food stock (58 million tonnes at ... More

POLITICS

Power of the patriotic POTO
AS a people, we really do love our acronyms. Once we had FERA, but our government decided to soften its image and called it FEMA. Now FERA sounds `fer'ocious, while FEMA is certainly softer and `fem'inine. We are ruled by a party called the BJP ... More

TAXATION

Defence levy: Tax or fine?
Given the minuscule tax base in India, it is inevitable that the middle-class will wind up paying the fine of 5 per cent Defence levy. And, yet, it is only appropriate that the Indian middle-class, the BJP's clandestine vote bank in spite of its hig h educational level, now pays for its failure to understand the implications of that party's patently non-viable foreign policy and its antipathy to minorities that have resulted in hair-trigger tension along its borders. More

BIO-TECH & GENETICS

GM crops: Seeds of contention
NEW Delhi is clearly wavering over a clear-cut policy on genetically modified crops (GM crops). With biodiversity poaching in the garb of "documentation" and "research", even by supposedly "eminent" dramatis personae on the one hand, and ... More

LETTERS

Middle-class paralysed

Conmen

The NR angle

Discouraging savings

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Defence levy: Tax or fine?

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The CeBIT innovations: Products of the future

BSE deliberates on free-float index

In Depth
Inside Kashmir

Guide to derivatives

US-64

Looking back
Mar. 10-Mar. 16
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