Just because it happens in the capital doesn't make it a capital concern, it appears. And so, most newspapers across the country gave the demolitions in Delhi the miss, along with the attempts by the

Not a capital concern

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It has been clear for some time now that India is already a significant player in the global market Mr Bush's recent smiling visit and any number of large cross-border deals (in both directions) are

Jamal Mecklai: Aa jaon maidan mein!

The Delhi government's decision to clear a comprehensive parking policy that asks the police to allow registrations of new cars only after the intending buyer can show garaging facilities will

Enforcement is the key

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has decided to double the price of domestic natural gas, from $4.2 to $8.4 a million British thermal unit (mBtu), from April next year - a decision that might hit the power and fertiliser sectors the most.

What the gas price hike means

The new CRISIL Inclusix index on financial inclusion says that the bottom 50 districts have just three banks per 100,000 of population

Just half of Indians have a savings bank account

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Would you call this a dream Budget?

`So far, there's been lip service to rural India`

And that is precisely what will happen to Chidambarams new cash-tax.


Sunanda K Datta Ray: Every law invites loopholes

The UPA would be more likeable if it had less of a split personality.


Surjit S Bhalla: Attn: UPA, identify yourself

You have to hand it to Finance Minister P Chidambaram. After all the flak hes got on his proposals on the fringe benefit tax and the one on withdrawing cash from banks, hes gone and blamed this on

Sunil Jain: Cause I`m the taxman

Economists have prescribed certain rules for tax policy makers. Chief amongst these are the rule of reason, the rule of relevance and the rule of robustness. Some of the proposals in Budget 2005 on

Bringing back Section 80C is retrograde

Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram has described his 2005-06 Budget as a watershed  a Budget that is a clean break from the past. He may have his reasons for why his second Budget as finance

A K Bhattacharya: A taxing finance minister

When will finance ministers ever learn? For a man presenting his fourth Union Budget, P Chidambaram appears to have learnt very little from the past. Not only did his Budget contain the usual

R Jagannathan: In Budgets, less is more

Expectedly, lawyers and tax experts argue that their tribe is best equipped to decipher budgetspeak.

Do only lawyers understand Budget fine print?

Budget fever begins well before the year is out, though the Budget comes only in end-February. The logic for the early start is that the decisions that shape the basic character of the Budget get

Subir Roy: The Budget is a national waste

Resentment is slowly but steadily growing in corporate circles on the governments decision to sign free-trade agreements (FTAs) with east Asian countries. Several businessmen have started

`We`re not even using the FTA properly`

Domestic and international investors are getting used to Indian coalition politics.


Abheek Barua: The Budget and the economy

If India completes its second generation of reforms on time, it could overtake China.


Deepak Lal: The hare and the tortoise

Two weeks have passed since Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented his 2005-06 Budget to Parliament. 


A K Bhattacharya: How Chidambaram managed the Left

As markets stall due to psychology, a rethink on a revaluation of the Chinese renminbi is warranted.


Surjit S Bhalla: Round up (unusual) numbers

The most commonly asked question about the distributional effect of the value-added tax (VAT) is whether it is a regressive tax. The apparently simple question is actually not so simple to answer. 


VAT is no more against the poor than sales tax

Gas from Iran via Pakistan may prove to be too dear for India.


Dinakar Sethuraman: The gas in the math

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