The Hindu : Monday, January 26, 2004

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Monday, January 26, 2004

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Data to delight — A new age bank branch
Clearly, the traditional model of branch banking has undergone a sea change. Branches have moved on from being primarily service-oriented to sales and service outlets, with the focus on cross selling, says Aditya Puri.

Web-based survey tools
THIS WEEK NetSpeak focuses on a few programs/services that can be used to create/administer web-based surveys. We often come across many situations in which we need to conduct a survey to get the feedback from a target group. For example, a ...

Does India face a debt trap?
IT WOULD seem odd to talk about a debt trap when the economy is doing well and the macroeconomic signs are good. But a little reflection will show that this not an irrelevant issue. A crucial driving force of modern economies is the spending by ...

INTERVIEW
Favourable climate for machine tool makers
The Triennial trade show of the Indian machine tool industry, IMTEX, along with the tooling industry's exhibition, Tooltech, will be on at the Godrej factory premises at Vikhroli in Mumbai from January 28 to February 3. This year's exposition ...

Bulls regain control
THE MUCH-EXPECTED correction at last took place in the stock markets last week, though with a high degree of volatility. Bear operators, who had earlier ignored the better than expected corporate numbers, came forth to dominate the markets. They ...

Profit on sale of depreciable asset will be short-term capital gains
QUESTION: Our organisation is a registered partnership firm. We own a commercial building in which we are doing business. The title deed is in the name of the firm. We purchased the building in the year 1992. Till date, we have claimed ...