First Singur and then the Nandigram violence have hit the headlines of every national daily. Dailies reported that West Bengal police have shot dead farmers in Nandigram - the issue underlying the killings is the agitation by the farmers to stop the
The basis behind using technical analysis is to find trends when looking at the forex charts and be aware of when they first develop so you can ride the trend until it ends. The foreign exchange market is a very strong trending market, lots of ups an
1. Before we discuss the interpretation of 'beneficial provisions', it will be interesting to consider some basic rules of interpretation as laid down by the Supreme Court in its pronouncements viz. :(1) Legislative intent should be considered, henc
NEW DELHI: As Sensex continued its upward march on Friday, touching a new high of 17,361.47 points before closing at 17,291.10, finance minister P Chidambaram urged investors to adopt a cautious approach. "My advice to investors is that they should d
Microsoft's Excel 2007 spreadsheet program is going to have to relearn part of its multiplication table.Ina blog post, Microsoft employee David Gainer said that when computerusers tried to get Excel 2007 to multiply some pairs of numbers and t
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is in favour of a domestic card payment settlement company to rival the global payment majors Visa and MasterCard. The Indian Banks Association (IBA) had earlier proposed the setting up of a domestic card transaction
The All India Rubber Industries Association (AIRIA) has sought a removal of anti-dumping duty on styrene butadiene rubber (SBR), which is a synthetic substitute for natural rubber. "There is no logic for clamping an anti-dumping duty on SBR, since i
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A Woman's Place Is in the FirmAccountancies Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PwC all place in the top 10 in a best-workplaces survey by Working Mother magazine. Where's Deloitte?Three of the Big Four auditing firms - Ernst & Young, KPMG, and Pricewat
First the good news. In the Doing Business report 2008, which is brought out annually by the World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC), India has climbed 12 ranks, which makes it the fastest-reforming economy in south Asia. Its speed of