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Vat in 2003
A LOW-KEY ANNOUNCEMENT regarding the introduction of a Value Added Tax (VAT) regime in all the States from April 1 is significant in many ways. Evidently, it will be the start of a major overhauling of the indirect tax structure, with State ...
A sound proposal
MYANMAR'S PROPOSAL THAT a summit level meeting be held of the leaders of select South and South East Asian countries, so as to add impetus to the functioning of what has been a somewhat dormant system for inter-state cooperation, is sound and ...


Leader Page Articles
Rivers, sand and people's survival
By V.R. Krishna Iyer

It is unconstitutional, unethical and violative of human rights to sell or negotiate disposal of publicly owned water resources for mineral water rackets by industrial giants.
A degenerating nuclear logic
By Achin Vanaik

It is the constant search for the always-elusive `credible' second-strike capacity that drove the U.S. and USSR to an arms race that reached truly insane levels, and that will drive India and Pakistan to emulate them.


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