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No quick fixes
PMO's approach to reviving economy needs rethinking
Digital signature: Next step on indirect tax
Most VAT and CENVAT authorities have no training facilities for dealing with digital signatures
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Reforms inadequate for reviving interest in SEZ scheme
Expectations such as abolition of MAT and Dividend Distribution Tax for special economic zones have not materialised
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The Cyprus conundrum
The bail-in/bail-out package raises more questions
Tamarind water for the SC/ST
A new law in Andhra Pradesh will ensure that funds meant for the SC/STs are spent on them
Why we need a 'Transparency of Rules' Act
A simple reform that will dramatically improve governance
Damned if you do
If the PM had just chosen to behave as if there wasn't anything wrong or manipulable about existing systems, he wouldn't have been in such trouble today
Treasure hunt
What happens to children who never find their way home, or who do after an interim, is symptomatic of a society so violent that violence is banal
Help yourself to get filthy rich
With the cunning of a master thief, Mohsin Hamid in How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia has stolen the form of a self-improvement guide with chapter heads that alternate between the mundane and the
Keeping police honest
Indians' distaste for the police means even good people in the system can't do much
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Rob Peter, pay Paul
And who cares for interpersonal fairness?
Har fikar ko dhuen mein ...
Has the Saradha fiasco had a bearing on Mamata Banerjee's taste for music?
The number cruncher and a zillion grains of rice
The sheer speed and precision with which she solved extremely tough math problems was what made Shakuntala Devi a super star
A world of negative real rates
Returns elsewhere are so low, and risks so high, that Indian equities have a chance to shine
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Jet Airways, national carrier?
Why the civil aviation ministry thought fit to sweeten the Etihad deal with additional seats on the India-Abu Dhabi sector - at the cost of Air India - is an issue that demands scrutiny
When HR meets economics
A Deloitte study shows why HR leaders need to think like economists