Friday, December 4, 1998
Upgrade manpower in construction sector
The construction sector is the second largest employer in the country, after agriculture. It employs more than 31 million people including 3 million engineers and executives and 5 million supervisors and qualified personnel. Yet, the sector has been found wanting in the realm of manpower planning.
The greenback and green-card calculus
Migration to the United States of America is often a career option for the young and ambitious. But successfully settling abroad is often a question of qualification and also of age, politics and economics," feels Paul Kalra, author of The American Class System.
Interest is part of the cost of acquisition of loans
I have purchased some shares through a bank loan. I used to set off the interest paid to the bank against the dividend income. Now that the dividend has become tax-free, can I continue to do so and claim the loss every year?
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