 | Business Line - Supplements |
| |
Current Headlines | Most Read | Archives |
|
| |
 |
Desi hospitality industry needs to get its act together (21 July 12:00) |
| The number of flights, competitive pricing, easier communication and more exposure on television have made India an exciting destination.. The Indian hospitality industry is getting global a... |
| |
|
Reap more from organic farming (21 July 12:00) |
| Velucamy Naicker of Rasapalayam village in Tamil Nadu is a worried man these days. Hailing from a family of farmers, Veluchamy has about 15 acres as inherited property. Right from his schoo... |
| |
|
Hiding material facts is concealment (21 July 12:00) |
| Taxpayers are expected to declare taxable income by computing it in accordance with the provisions of law. If a taxpayer files a return of income which he knows is not true or furnishes inac... |
| |
|
EC stream in engineering (21 July 12:00) |
| Responses to Sticklish Issues dated July 14. Many students select the electronics and communication stream in engineering due to various factors such as placement prospects, current trend, p... |
| |
|
What’s LLP? (21 July 12:00) |
| Please explain in simple terms the concept of Limited Liability Partnership. ... Please explain in simple terms the concept of Limited Liability Partnership. ... |
| |
|
Can you explain the concept of fund of funds? (21 July 12:00) |
| A scheme may say that it is going to mobilise funds and issue units to the investors but investments would be made not in shares in the bourses or in IPOs but in the units of existing mutual... |
| |
|
Eco-plan in MF schemes (21 July 12:00) |
| What is an ‘eco-plan’ in the context of mutual fund ... What is an ‘eco-plan’ in the context of mutual fund ... |
| |
|
How can the investment needs of senior citizens be addressed? (21 July 12:00) |
| Send in your responses, along with your photo, to: ... Send in your responses, along with your photo, to: ... |
| |
|
Accept you have to start somewhere (21 July 12:00) |
| How is it that young people today, who are generally not naïve about anything, find workplaces to be tough, wonders Megan Hustad in ‘How to be Useful’ ( ... How is it that young peopl... |
| |
|
Issues in the spectrum debate (14 July 12:00) |
| While spectrum auctioning is definitely much more credible and transparent, global experience shows that exorbitant bidding could make services unaffordable and delay or derail technology ta... |
| |
|
No limits to excellence (14 July 12:00) |
| CEOs and organisations can learn important lessons from the history that unfolded on Centre Court at Wimbledon on July 6, 2008. The gentlemen’s final of 2008 was arguably the greatest tenn... |
| |
|
‘Treat security as an investment, not as a cost’ (14 July 12:00) |
| Next time you walk into a corporate office, spare a few moments to observe the guard who mans the entrance. He might not be physically intimidating but he knows his job well. He is trained t... |
| |
|
Tackling the security breaches (14 July 12:00) |
| Responses to Sticklish Issues dated July 7. Hackers from outside are a threat to any organisation; but employees without integrity can also be a menace. Misrepresentation of employment facts... |
| |
|
My company...my life? (14 July 12:00) |
| I believe that the very thought of selling a company is a Western phenomenon. It differs from the basic Indian philosophy of creating and nurturing a business passed down by earlier generat... |
| |
|
Fixed versus floating home loan rates (14 July 12:00) |
| Should one go for fixed or floating rate housing loans at this ... Should one go for fixed or floating rate housing loans at this ... |
| |
|
The right choice? (14 July 12:00) |
| Send in your responses, along with your photo to: ... Send in your responses, along with your photo to: ... |
| |
|
Stock appreciation rights (07 July 12:00) |
|
| |
|
Competing without competing (07 July 12:00) |
|
| |
|
Liquor shops in residential areas (07 July 12:00) |
| Responses to Sticklish Issues dated June 30 Responses to Sticklish Issues dated June 30 |
| |
|
How to tackle the `insider' challenge? (07 July 12:00) |
| Send in your responses, along with your photo to: SticklishIssues@gmail.com Send in your responses, along with your photo to: SticklishIssues@gmail.com |
| |
|
The world is changing with RFID (07 July 12:00) |
|
| |
|
Mother fund vs mirror fund (07 July 12:00) |
| Both these terms are doing rounds in the context of global funds. A fund house in India investing, say, in Brazil, has three choices —invest independently there based on its own assessment... |
| |
|
When dreams came alive and animated (07 July 12:00) |
| As a child, Ed Catmull filled his dreams and notebooks with cartoons. His goal was to be a Disney animator, but in high school, he concluded he couldn’t draw. “After graduating in 1969 w... |
| |
|
Work is sacred (07 July 12:00) |
| A Zen monastery’s focus on a natural aesthetic and on fundamental activities like sitting, breathing, walking, eating, and doing elementary chores may seem simple, but can in fact be diffi... |
| |
|
Beware of cash transactions (30 June 12:00) |
| In business, quick decisions and actions bring desired results. A quick payment to the supplier of materials indicates that the buyer is financially sound and astute in business. If payment ... |
| |
|
7 lessons from Sam Bahadur (30 June 12:00) |
|
| |
|
Is it advisable to open liquor shops in residential areas? (30 June 12:00) |
| Send in your responses, along with your photo, to SticklishIssues@gmail.com Send in your responses, along with your photo, to SticklishIssues@gmail.com |
| |
|
‘Employees spill the beans in exit-interviews with outsiders’ (30 June 12:00) |
|
| |
|
Issues over claiming TDS credit (30 June 12:00) |
| I received professional fees from a nationalised bank for work done in April 2008. The bank deducted income tax at source and has issued Form 16A. In the column ‘For the period’, the ded... |
| |
|
Mauritius route (30 June 12:00) |
| Responses to Sticklish Issues dated June 23 Responses to Sticklish Issues dated June 23 |
| |
|
Explore, experiment, and energise the edge (30 June 12:00) |
| Planning to retire? Think again, because Tamara Erickson can convince you to Retire Retirement ( www.tatamcgrawhill.com). “You lucky Boomers!” she ... Planning to retire? Think again, b... |
| |
|
Sibling rivalry (23 June 12:00) |
| Responses to Sticklish Issues dated June 16 Responses to Sticklish Issues dated June 16 |
| |
|
Understanding deferred taxation (23 June 12:00) |
| I am a commerce graduate. Please demystify the concept of deferred taxation with a simple example. Sujata Holkar, emailThe results shown by two sets of accounts — one for ... I am a comme... |
| |
|
Human side of the CEO (23 June 12:00) |
|
| |
|
Secret of productivity (23 June 12:00) |
| Would you want to live, work and be with joyful people or miserable people? This was a question that Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev posed to the audience at a breakfast meeting this morning. The res... |
| |
|
Bad people-managers can ruin an organisation (23 June 12:00) |
|
| |
|
‘Talent needs to be humble, hungry and smart’ (23 June 12:00) |
|
| |
|
Just do IT (23 June 12:00) |
| A.Satyanarayana Babu - andali1968 at yahoo.co.in, An.Annaamalai - haruranna at yahoo.co.in, Anand Potdary - Indore - anandasasa at rediffmail.com, Anureet Pattar - Punjab - anureetpattar at ... |
| |
|
Misuse of tax treaties? (23 June 12:00) |
| Send in your responses, along with your photo to: SticklishIssues@gmail.com. Send in your responses, along with your photo to: SticklishIssues@gmail.com. |
| |
|
Life beyond banking (23 June 12:00) |
| When we asked Dr K. Ramakrishnan, Chairman and Managing Director, Andhra Bank, about life beyond banking, we would not have been surprised, if he had said, like many others do — that all o... |
| |
|
Will the bhais ever stop fighting between each other? (16 June 12:00) |
| Send in your responses along with your photos to ... Send in your responses along with your photos to ... |
| |
|
Obama, a possible US President? (16 June 12:00) |
| Responses to Sticklish Issues dated June 9 Responses to Sticklish Issues dated June 9 |
| |
|
What’s takeout financing? (16 June 12:00) |
| Commercial banks mobilise deposits for short durations. Inevitably, therefore, it cannot lend long-term because should it do so there would be a problem of ALM (asset-liability mismatch) tha... |
| |
|
Deduction for deferred revenue expenditure (16 June 12:00) |
|
| |
|
Patent lessons from China (16 June 12:00) |
|
| |
|
Accounting convergence to help desi companies raise funds abroad (16 June 12:00) |
|
| |
|
Tell the truth (16 June 12:00) |
| Journalism without checking is like a human body without an immune system, says Nick Davies in Flat Earth News ( www.landmarkonthenet.com). “If the primary ... Journalism without checking... |
| |
|
Stagflation is not good for people (09 June 12:00) |
| Well, inflation sans growth is stagflation. Pretty much the same is being witnessed now in India. There is a steep increase in prices and, at the same time, the manufacturing sector is exper... |
| |
|
Ban on smoking in public places (09 June 12:00) |
| Responses to Sticklish Issues dated June 2 Responses to Sticklish Issues dated June 2 |
| |
|
How do you see Obama as a possible US President? (09 June 12:00) |
| Send in your responses, along with your photo to SticklishIssues@gmail.com Send in your responses, along with your photo to SticklishIssues@gmail.com |
|
