DELHI Terror in the Walled City Report of an Investigation THE PUCL (Delhi) undertook an investigation into the factors that led to the killing of two youngmen in a police firing on Friday, February...
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Bombay Slums Face Operation Demolition Gurbir Singh THE Maharashtra government and the Shiv Sena-led Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) have since February this year unleashed a campaign for...
Capers or Calculations? V K Srinivasan THE precipitate fall in the price of petroleum crude in the various world markets, from a level of around $ 28 per barrel in November 1985 to about $ 10-12 per...
gestion to her that perhaps they had a good case in court was dismissed on the ground that it might antagonise the government. Sanjay Gandhi Nagar residents were really shocked when the local...
adopted and on the specifics of tactics and timing, even where the strategy is acceptable to all the members. Such differences had cropped up in 1976 regarding the quantum of price increase when...
democratic sections and classess" for "replacing the bourgeois rule at the Centre by a government of Left and democratic unity", the CPI has rightly focused on achieving its unity with the CPI(M)...
an integrated energy pricing structure in the beginning of the plan period." But neither the coal nor oil price hike stemmed from the idea of evolving an "integrated energy pricing structure". As a...
by Western concepts like VAT (Value Added Tax) in the Indian environment. The taxmen in North Block, while translating VAT into MODVAT, have tried to please everybody. 'Revenue neutrality' has been...
for tax-payers would appear to have been conceived on the principle of a continuing voluntary disclosures' scheme which in the past was regarded as a time-bound ad hoc measure. The business tycoons...
THE BUDGET Customs and Excise Innovations Arun Goyal THE customs and excise aspects of the Budget proposals for the 1986-87 show three significant features. First, the modernisation through...
to advance further unsecured loans with no prospect of recovery. Unsecured loans outstanding amounted to Rs 70.13 lakh as on March 31, 1984, SIPCOT, This company was set up in 1971 as a wholly owned...
The same Jesma Chamadia and Magan Fatu were cultivating some land on a share- croping basis in 1985. There were 19 quintals of tuver which ought to have been divided according to the terms of the...
NEW DELHI Making Amends to Trade and Industry BM WELL before the Finance Bill has been presented for consideration by Parliament, Union Finance Minister, V P Singh, has chosen to put forward what...
ing quite rapidly among the Hindus as well as the Sikhs. Although fortunately this trend is certainly not all-pervasive and the deep- rooted friendship and brotherhood of countless families...
April 5, 1986 GOA 'I Will Remain a Labourer' Jyotsna Kamal THE language controversy in Goa erupted into a series of violent clashes late last year between the pro-Konkani and the pro- Marathi...
