I-T online plans remain at top `level'
The Union minister of state for finance, Dhananjaya Kumar, was being perhaps a little ambitious when he told the gathering at an inaugural function recently that permanent account numbers (PAN) for income tax would be allotted to new assessees on demand, from August 1, 2000.

Original title deeds a must to establish ownership
I purchased one of 12 residential apartments in a highrise building at Nariman Point in Mumbai from a reputed builder of the city.

Objectivity triumphs once more
Indian art has had a good summer. Most of my gallery owner friends reported a less than dull off-season. Of course, this is quite different from the early 1990s, the boom period, in which an average work of a well-known artist or even a talented youngster could be expected to rise a minimum 25% each year.


  Cartier's glittering bait
  Asia view
  A dull June for philatelists