The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, March 08, 2003

Banking on swaps
ON A VOLUNTARY basis not many nationalised banks would like to unload illiquid but high-yielding Government securities at off-market prices to New Delhi. That is the first guess on Mint Street though banks can be persuaded to work the scheme that ... More

BUDGET

Debt swap: Budget booster for States
The Central and State governments have mutually agreed to introduce a debt-swap scheme that will use the low interest rate regime to help States prepay expensive local loans taken from the Government and thus save an estimated Rs 81,000 crore. What i s noteworthy, says G. Srinivasan, is that the scheme will restrain the debt build-up in States through the small savings scheme. More

Jaswant the elephant, and blind men all around
THIS is the time for the yearly ritual of post-Budget carnival, when opinions go about bare as in a Samba dance. There is so much for the ears and, if you are glued to the TV, eyes too, where people toss about numbers and do crystal gazing to ... More

ECONOMY

Quality of life
IF one is not mistaken, the Union Budget speech of the Finance Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh, did not contain any reference to what may be described as the "quality of life", generally speaking. It dealt with the usual fiscal policy statements and ... More

TAXATION

Dividend experiment goes on
T. C. A. Ramanujam looks at who will benefit from the proposals on dividend distribution More

Seized of search
T. N. Pandey on the beneficial changes to the search regime More

All said, some done
S. Murlidharan says that Budget 2003 turns out to be a left-handed compliment to Kelkar More

The service see-saw
Mohan R. Lavi on the rough edges in the service tax proposals in Budget 2003 More

On proposals indirect
There are more pluses than minuses in the excise and customs proposals, says Arvind P. Datar More

GENDER

Have women lost faith in fairplay?
WHILE conception could indeed occur within and outside of marriage, the practice of sex-selective abortions is unambiguously associated with conception within marriage. Sex-selective abortions are not as common in pregnancies outside marriage ... More

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