The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, July 04, 2009

OPINION

INCOME TAX: Salaried need tax breather
There are a lot of expectations from the forthcoming Budget. The manifesto of the Congress party pointed out that the focus of the new measures will be to stimulate demand in the domestic economy and augment the purchasing power of the people. ...

RAILWAY BUDGET: Rail Budget: Long on passengers and short on freight
The Rail Budget for 2009-10 presented in Parliament reflects the importance the Government attaches to inclusive growth. So far as the Railways is concerned, the main interface is with the passenger and, hence, the Railway Minister, Ms ...

TAXATION: Gaps in the LLP regime
The Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2009 came into force w.e.f. April 1, 2009. The new law provides an alternative to the traditional partnership, with unlimited personal liability on the one hand, and statute-based governance structure of ...

RAILWAY BUDGET: Santa Claus announcements!
Everyone gets a gift: that seems to have been the guiding principle when the Railway Minister, Ms Mamata Banerjee, presented the Rail Budget on July 3. Take the spate of new trains. Apart from the usual long list of new additions, ...

RAILWAY BUDGET: A neat somersault
A politician with pro-poor image who last year agitated in West Bengal on the issue of land acquisition for industrial projects, Ms Mamata Banerjee, the Railway Minister, has done a neat somersault on exploiting railway lands for ...

INTERVIEW: Infrastructure needs vibrant bond market
Over the past few years, through a number of projects involving the private sector and the subsequent framing of best practices and model frameworks, the PPP (public-private partnership) scene in Indian infrastructure has crossed its ...

INTERVIEW: Will the FBT go?
Corporates would be happy to see the end of the levy of surcharge and cess, in the forthcoming Budget, says Mr Jayant Jain, Executive Director, Tax & Regulatory Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt Ltd, Chennai ( ...

TAXATION: GST’s unifying role
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) is still a year away if the time given for its implementation by the UPA Government is adhered to. But a healthy debate has already started as to the contours and contents of arguably the most profound ...

EDITORIAL: Realistic track
The Railway Minister Ms. Mamata Banerjee’s first Budget turned out to be a routine one full of populist rhetoric and promises of upgradation of services and network infrastructure. There are a few plans however that mark this Budget out ...

LETTERS: Monetary Policy
“Monetary Policy at the crossroads” (Business Line, July 2) brought out some stark realities on issues inhibiting the influence of monetary policy on determining the interest rates of bank loans. The wholesale ...

Columnists: • C Gopinath • Harish Bijoor • G Chandrashekhar • S Murlidharan • Sharad Joshi • Mohan Murti • S Balakrishnan • Bharat Savur • B S Raghavan • Ganesh Challa • Bhanoji Rao • Swati • T Banusekar • Ramanujam Sridhar • Ranabir Ray Choudhury • Rasheeda Bhagat • P.V. Indiresan • P Devarajan • S Muralidhar • R K Raghavan • B Venkatesh • S Venkitaramanan

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