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Letters: Preferential treatment

Report reveals, the evaders used dubious means such as long-term capital gains, allotment of shares under the preference route and even penny stocks

Letters: Totally unexpected

It hurts the esteem of the Indian corporate world in general and Tata Group in particular

Holiday competition

Mamata Banerjee gifts an additional holiday on November 3 to state employees

Bad omen?

A CEO says some smaller neighbouring countries refrain from buying insurance products before auspicious occasions

Tej Pratap wants women in RJD

He blames rowdy members of the party for fewer women membership

Improve data collection

The inconsistencies are large enough to merit an overhaul

Full text of Cyrus Mistry's letter to Tata Sons Board

The (Tata Sons) board hasn't covered itself with glory, says the group's former chairman

Letters: Not without blemish

Mistry had reiterated his view that every company in the group had to earn the right to grow

Letters: Flawed GST still superior

The problems of classification disputes, misuse of discretionary powers and lobbying for exemptions referred to by Bhattacharya are all too well known

Season of Diwali Milans

HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar held a chaat pe charcha and invited party colleagues and the media

Common ground

Ruling and Opposition parties in Maharashtra don't appear to be shocked at the manner in which Cyrus Mistry was removed as chairman of Tata Group without being offered an opportunity to argue his case

Message for media

Tata Group may have asked its chairman to leave abruptly, but that has not held it back from being courteous to journalists covering the boardroom drama

Pivoting to China

Beijing's rise frays US' network of alliances

Arbitrating ambitions

India's legal ecosystem is not equipped to be an arbitration hub

The rise of renewable energy

Letters: Mark of professionalism

The fact that the board did not flinch on the issue of removing someone, who is a large shareholder, is testimony to the members' independent thinking and commitment to what is in the interest of the

Immune from grievances?

A drop-down box on the portal has a list from which a user can pick the department or ministry against which she has a grievance

Rabri to skip Chhath

It is Considered to be the main festival of Bihar

Surgical shot

The announcement of strikes on terrorist camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir by the Indian Army whipped up a frenzy led by television news channels

An unenviable distinction

Pollution now a countrywide problem, although solutions abound