<P>The saga of Indian securities laws regulating offshore derivative instruments (popularly called &#34participatory notes&#34 or &#34P-Notes&#34) has just had a new chapter.

P-Note policy faces existential questions

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<P>The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), after the well deserved success of its flagship MCA-21 e-enablement project, is committed towards the simplification and transparency of corporate reporting.

A requiem for Schedule-VI

<P>Last week, the heads of the negotiating groups on agriculture and non-agriculture market access at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) released the revised negotiating documents to break the impasse and take the Doha Development Round (DDR) forward.

Doha: Campaign to make voters know its benefits

<P>The Supreme Court has devised a formula to save co-operative societies caught in a deposit scam in Gujarat in the judgment, Indian Bank v Godhara Nagrik Cooperative Credit Society Ltd.

SC formula to help scam-hit coops

&nbsp;A spring thunder is in the making at the World Trade Organisation. After weeks of anticipation, the second revised draft texts to advance the comatose Doha trade negotiations in agriculture and market-opening for industrial products led to a mild peal last week.

D Ravi Kanth: Endgame, in many ways

&nbsp;The government's response to the price hike needs to be less panicky./P>
&nbsp;Most secretaries in economic ministries of the Union government will privately agree that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) regime over-reacted to inflation.

A K Bhattacharya: Thank God it`s not Friday

P>I think it was around two years ago when a colleague of mine announced that he was buying an air ticket to Trivandrum.

Govindraj Ethiraj: Tell People To Consume Less Fuel

&nbsp;We are in an era where oil will remain far above accepted norms of pricing. 
&nbsp;Just when we thought that the credit crisis was blowing over, we are now getting hit by an even bigger issue  the relentless surge in oil prices.

Akash Prakash: Oil crisis - Bonds & subsidies won't do

P>Since the time the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) with large tax concessions were first proposed several years ago, most economists have been pointing out that the scheme would result in large tax losses as existing units would migrate to these exclusive zones.

Editorial: Labour pains

P>India's decision to join the Turkmenistan pipeline project which is more hazardous than the Iranian channel is puzzling.

Latha Jishnu: Two pipelines too far

P>The Growth Report is an excellent example of how an attempt to be balanced backfires.

Surjit S Bhalla: Balanced Best & the Brightest

The states are in a much better situation to face pay revision today than a decade ago. 


M Govinda Rao: Pay Commission Award and Fiscal Implications

The government has initiated a few significant moves to make life a little easier for large tax payers and exporters and a little tougher for the units availing area-based excise exemptions, besides

Mumbai LTU not attracting corporations yet

You too can make a difference, and turn into a mini Mohammed Younus. This is what the founder of a new social investment forum Rang De claims. Started by Ramakrishna NK, with help from the ICICI

A portal that lures the Mohammed Younus in you

The issue of the appropriate taxation of the material and non material (labour/services) elements of a works contract has been a contentious matter for a long time. 


Service taxation of works contracts

The CSR initiative, supplying basic educational aids across 350 schools in rural Maharashtra, has led to lower drop-out rates and better performance. The next target is vocational education. 


Astarc helps schools retain students

Indebtedness is not the heart of the problem of agriculture in India. The root cause of the crisis is the income-deficit of the sector. 


Shreekant Sambrani: Sisyphean challenge of Indian agriculture - I

IIM Ahmedabad, it appears, finds it needs to lower the minimum qualifying marks by just a small amount to accommodate SC/ST students, implying that fulfilling the OBC quota may not be too difficult

Sunil Jain: Partly in the affirmative

The results of 5 by-elections in UP make it clear that only Mayawati counts here.


Aditi Phadnis: Mayajaal gets stronger

Normally, when production stagnates, prices rise, encouraging farmers to grow more. When an inflation-wary state reins in prices, the natural supply response gets killed. 


Shreekant Sambrani: Sisyphean challenge of Indian agriculture - II

If large scales are what industry and services need, why is agriculture an exception?


T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Size matters in farming too

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