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- India Plans To Impose Restrictions On Foreign Investors (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2007)
Some foreign investors may desert India's red-hot stock markets after regulators unveiled a plan to ban anonymous investment and curb derivatives issues - a proposal that triggered a plunge of almost 10 percent in the benchmark stock index . . .. .
- Migrants Score Over Natives (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2007)
Migrant workers contributed (pounds sterling) 6 billion to the country’s economic growth last year and earned higher wages than their British counterparts, Home Office figures revealed yesterday.
- Sensex Tumbles, Triggers Trading Halt, Recovers 1400 (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2007)
SEBI’s proposals of Tuesday curbing FII investments through participatory notes turned FIIs into net sellers overnight, plunging the markets in early trade to their circuit breaking thresholds, leading to temporary suspension of trading . . . . .
- Municipal Financing: Where Are The Issuers? (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2007)
We are living in euphoric times with booming stock markets, bulging FII investments, a rippling wealth effect and an urban infrastructure that, by and large is getting moribund by the day.
- Wrong Prescription (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2007)
The dramatic market recovery after the precipitous fall at the start suggests that the players have spotted the fine print in the proposed regulatory fiat.
- Market Crises Have A Life Of Their Own, Separate From Value (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 18, 2007)
If the cascade down in price is due to a liquidity-driven crisis, the best approach for the individual investor is to stand back and be patient.
- Making Sense Of It (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Oct 18, 2007)
For a housewife or for that matter the average consumer, what matters most is the monthly bill.
- Sensex Recoups On Fms Note (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2007)
Stock market nearly made up for the 1,744 points it tanked early on Wednesday after the government and regulator SEBI reassured investors there was no move to ban Participatory Notes (PNs) but only to curb funds inflow.
- A See-Saw Market (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 18, 2007)
It was a knee-jerk reaction by investors on Wednesday morning to the market regulator SEBI’s proposals to regulate the issuance of Participatory Notes (PNs) and to keep a tab on foreign inflows through this route, announced after trading . . . .
- India’S Elderly Fear For Future (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2007)
Eighty-seven-year-old Indrani Warner sits in her room at one of India’s new homes for the elderly surrounded by the mementos of a lifetime.
- Analysing Violence And War (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 18, 2007)
THE questions people ask about violence and war are phrased by their preconceptions. Why are some developing countries prone to violence?
- Indian Share Market Slumps (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2007)
Trading on India's main stock index, the Sensex, was suspended briefly on Wednesday after the market slumped 9%.
- Sebi Suggests Curbs On 'Copious’ Fii Fund Flows (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2007)
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has finally decided to check the “copious” flow of foreign funds into the stock markets and the runaway rise in the Sensex.
- Country With A View (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 17, 2007)
I was delighted to visit India last week. I greatly enjoyed working with my Indian colleagues in my last job as deputy secretary general at the UN.
- Emerging Threats To Food Security (Deccan Herald, Bharat Dogra, Oct 17, 2007)
Policies of developed countries favouring agri-business are threatening the worlds food security.
- We Are Not Poles Apart (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Oct 17, 2007)
Poland has gainfully used its past to build a promising new future. Poland was ravaged by conquests for centuries and yet rose remarkably from the ashes.
- After Ludhiana (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2007)
The bombing of a cinema hall in Ludhiana is more than a statistical intrusion upon Punjab's decade-long terror-free record.
- Growth Or Gamble? (New Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 17, 2007)
The advocate for sobriety is unpopular at any party, especially one where the fun seems to be just beginning to sweep to more giddy highs.
- Going Dutch (New Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Oct 17, 2007)
When Crown Princess Maxima accompanies her mother-in-law Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on a state visit to India next week, chances are her compatriots will still be arguing over a remark she made recently.
- Sleeping On The Job (Pioneer, Claude Arpi, Oct 17, 2007)
India is the only country whose establishment officially defines 'national interest' as a 'vague' concept. As a result, the pursuit of a vague foreign policy leads to one fiasco after another. Burma is the latest example
- Oil Boils, Nears $88 On Supply Woes (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2007)
Oil prices jumped to record highs on Tuesday, coming close to $88 as the market took its lead from growing tensions between Turkey and Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, dealers said.
- Don’T Kill The N-Deal (Tribune, O.P. Sabherwal, Oct 17, 2007)
THE coming conclave(s) between the UPA government and the Left on October 22 and thereafter will to a large extent decide the fate of the Indo-US civilian nuclear accord.
- China Not A Threat But A Promise (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 17, 2007)
THE conventional wisdom is that China is rising and the United States is on its way down.
- Continue Reforms For 10 Pc Growth: Lehman (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2007)
Continued structural reforms process would help India to grow at 10 per cent in the coming decade and the Indian stock markets hold the potential to outperform developed and emerging markets over the next five years, global investment . . . . . .
- Sebi Seeks Comments On Curbing Fii (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2007)
In the midst of rampaging bull run in the stock markets, market regulator SEBI today proposed to curb foreign institutional investors (FII) from issuing offshore derivative instruments for which it has sought public comments over the next four days.
- India 'To Overtake Uk' (British Broadcasting Corporation, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 17, 2007)
India could overtake Britain and have the world's fifth largest economy within a decade as the country's growth accelerates, a new report says.
- A Persuasive Account (Pioneer, Bidyut Chakrabarty, Oct 17, 2007)
In the context of globalisation, Indian economy is becoming more and more 'open' and subject to supra-national economic influences.
- India's Economy 'Nears $1 Trillion' (British Broadcasting Corporation, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 17, 2007)
If we needed a reminder of India's growing global economic presence, we had it last week in the steel industry when India's Tata won a stock market auction for the European company Corus.
- Indian Share Market Sees 9% Slump (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2007)
Indian share market sees 9% slump
Indian markets have had a stellar year
Trading on India's main stock index, the Sensex, was briefly suspended on Wednesday, after the market slumped 9%.
- Can Mt Everest Get Taller? (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 17, 2007)
It cannot, and yet looking at the Indian stock market’s recent climb, one feels that such a development is, after all, not impossible.
- Growth Pangs (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 17, 2007)
The Government should have learnt from recent history that any structural shift in the distribution of resources (or costs) for development creates insecurities that need to be addressed.
- Foreign Exchange Conundrum (The Economic Times, M K VENU, Oct 17, 2007)
Last week finance minister P Chidambaram clearly spelt out, for the first time, that the rupee's exchange rate was not in a comfort zone.
- Climate, Nobel And Al Gore (Business Line, N. R. Krishnan , Oct 17, 2007)
Nobel awards for Peace can often be contentious. But not so this year. Barring a few diehard critics who question the phenomenon of global warming itself, the world has welcomed the 2007 award to Al Gore, former US Vice-President and a . . . . .
- Nuclear Power Will Hurt India’S Development (Asian Age, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Oct 17, 2007)
The independence that India gained sixty years ago had a mission beyond liberation from the British.
- Sebi Plans Curbs On Fii Participatory Notes (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2007)
Bid to stem unbridled inflows into the stock market
- Problems Of Equality (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 17, 2007)
Rising inequality has emerged as a subject of debate in various parts of the world.
- Close The Gap (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 17, 2007)
Connecticut educators can pat themselves on the back again. The state’s school children remain among the top in the nation in reading and mathematics, based on test results posted by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
- Pragmatic Move (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 17, 2007)
A long term food grain policy is very much required.
- “Nuclear Energy Can Meet Future Demand” (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
James Connaughton, chairman of the President’s Council on Environmental Quality (U.S.), on Monday said nuclear energy was critically important to meet the increasing energy demands of the future.
- Retro-Classic Novel (Hindu, Prema Nandakumar , Oct 16, 2007)
Kothamangalam Subbu; Vikatan Prachuram, 757, Anna Salai, Chennai-600002. Rs. 99.
- New Arrivals (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
Effective Environmental Management — Principles and Case Studies: Rory Sullivan, Hugh Wyndham; Allen & Unwin, Australia. Rs. 395. All Men Are Brothers — Autobiographical Reflections – Mahatma Gandhi: Compiled and edited by Krishna Kripalani. . .
- Perspectives On Corporate Governance (Hindu, S. L. Rao, Oct 16, 2007)
Prescriptions for good quality governance of the corporate and financial sectors in a globalising economy
- The Goldilocks Touch (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
The sensex burst through 19000 today — and appeared to underscore the fact that India is now one of several Goldilocks economies that are “neither too hot, not too cold”.
- Search For A Lost Heritage (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Oct 16, 2007)
Art has always been the mainstay of the myriad cultures of India and it continues to be so.
- “Nuclear Power Is Simply Not Necessary” (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Oct 16, 2007)
By awarding the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize jointly to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Norwegian Nobel Committee has more than simply underscored the need to reduce the threat of climate change to the security of mankind.
- Preventing Iran From Going The Iraq Way (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Oct 16, 2007)
The prime goal of Vladimir Putin’s visit to Iran, the first by a Russian President in over 60 years, is to deny the U.S. any pretext for attacking Iran. For that, he needs to get Iran to cooperate with the IAEA.
- Two Steps Back (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Oct 16, 2007)
The coalition government’s hesitation over India’s nuclear agreement with the United States of America has put off speculation about an imminent general election.
- Instil Confidence In The Nations Food Producers (Deccan Herald, PANDURANG HEGDE, Oct 16, 2007)
A drastic shift in policy in favour of commercial and export-oriented crops is denying the countrys small farmers access to growing food crops, threatening food security.
- Mahindra Plans To Spend $1b To Raise Production (Frontier Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., India’s biggest sport-utility vehicle maker, plans to spend about $1 billion in the next four years to double automobile production capacity as local demand grows.
- Sensex Breaks 19k Mark, Gains A Hefty 640 Pts (OutLook, Editorial, Outlook, Oct 16, 2007)
Bulls ran amok on Dalal Street, home to the country's stock market, carrying the benchmark Sensex past the 19,000 mark milestone in a record four sessions, as investors bet heavily on blue chip stocks and political truce.
- India Outsources Outsourcing (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
From his tree-top-high office, Kris Gopalakrishnan, the head of India's giant software company Infosys, explains the rise of an economic phenomenon about to engulf the world: outsourcers are outsourcing themselves.
- Indian Government Fears Backlash As Stock Market Hits Recor (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
The stock market boom in India reached new heights yesterday with the Mumbai index shooting past 19,000 for the first time and creating paper fortunes worth billions of pounds for the country's richest industrialists.
- India's Tigers Under Siege (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
With homemade muskets, Lakhan and his brothers tracked one of India's endangered Bengal tigers as it slunk along the forested trails and lakes of Ranthambhore National Park, not far from Lakhan's village.
- Prize For Guessing (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Oct 16, 2007)
From Robert C. Merton’s and Myron S. Scholes’ methods to determining the value of derivatives 10 years ago, through Amartya Sen’s welfare economics in 1998 and Daniel Kahneman’s integrated insights from psychological research into economic. . .
- Asian Publications Are Back With A Bang (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 16, 2007)
After the recent retrenchment, regional publications are back in Asia with a distinct Asian flavour.
- Sensex Breaches 19,000 Barrier (Hindu, Oommen A. Ninan , Oct 16, 2007)
The stock market continued its bull run on Monday with a gain of 639.63 points, as the benchmark Bombay Stock Exchange 30-Share Sensitive Index (Sensex) crossed another milestone — the 19,000 mark.
- India Will Not Go To Iaea: Pm To Bush (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday told US president George Bush that his government would not be able to hold safeguards negotiations with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in what brings down the curtain on a long and painstaking . . . .
- Uk Lags Behind Eu In Migrants Integration (Pioneer, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 16, 2007)
A study of how Europe integrates immigrants has ranked Sweden at the top with its helpful policies, while Latvia scores the least. UK ranks lower in this category.
- Increased Dieselisation In Cars (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 16, 2007)
Turbo diesels exhibit significant advantages over naturally aspirated gasoline engines, showing typical fuel efficiency gains of 30 per cent, with CO2 reductions of more than 20 per cent.
- Sensex Sights 20,000; Time To Blink? (Hindustan Times, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 16, 2007)
Politics, macro-economics, good earnings reports and a few positive corporate developments took the Indian stock market to yet another high on Monday.
- Making Waves In The Uk (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
Making a quantum jump, India has emerged this year as the second largest investor in the UK, next only to the USA.
- Pm Briefs Bush On How Left Blocked Nuke Deal (Asian Age, R. Bhagwan Singh, Oct 16, 2007)
Confirming to the United States that its civil nuclear deal with India has hit a wall, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday explained to US President George W. Bush the circumstances compelling his government to put the deal on hold.
- Fighting Poverty (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 16, 2007)
The interim assessment of the UN Millennium Development Goals provides a reality check to India, which is currently in the grip of a growth euphoria, thanks to a booming stock market.
- Whoosh! From 18k To 19k In Just 4 Sessions (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
Four trading sessions — that's what it took the sensex to rally from 18k to 19k, making it the fastest 1,000-point run in the history of the 21-year-old index. If you think that's a milestone, consider this: Over the last month, the sensex has gained 3,50
- India Will Not Go To Iaea, Pm Tells Bush (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday told US president George Bush that his government would not be able to hold safeguards negotiations with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in what brings down the curtain on a long and painstaking . . . .
- Governance Reforms India's Top Priority For Next 20 Years: Kamal Nath (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
Exuding optimism on a day when the Sensex hit a record 19,000 points back home, Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath told a gathering of top British economists that the next two decades in India will be marked primarily by "reforms in governance."
- From Licensing To Innovation (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 16, 2007)
RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani’s AGM speech encompasses a number of narratives.
- More Democracy By 2020, Vows Hu (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
Chinese leader Hu Jintao pledged on Monday to make the Communist government more open and responsive while moderating the juggernaut economy to produce more balanced growth.
- Disturbing Diagnosis (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 16, 2007)
A recently released report by the UN and Asian Development Bank points out that India is a laggard in meeting some of the millennium development goals (MDGs) identified in 2000.
- Unleashing Little India’S Natural Enterprise (Business Line, R. GOPALAKRISHNAN, Oct 16, 2007)
We need to liberate Little India by empowering the people and promoting more local governance. That is the only way to spread prosperity to larger sections of our population, says R. GOPALAKRISHNAN.
- “War Scenario In Iran Would Be A Disaster” (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Oct 15, 2007)
Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign MinisterMassimo D’Alemafeels the first response to 9/11 should have been “peace in Jerusalem, not war in Baghdad.”
- 'Sex Education Cannot Check The Spread Of Aids' (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2007)
Proof may not be physical but it is emotive. I take pity on all those who are questioning the existence of Lord Ram, says Yoga guru Baba Ramdev.
- Australia Poll Set For November 24 (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Oct 15, 2007)
Long-serving Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Sunday announced he would seek a fresh mandate in a general election to be held on November 24.
- Legitimacy And The Indian State: Mounting Deficit (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2007)
The country cannot boast of legitimacy of state either through nationalism or economic development.
- Hu’S Next Generation Preview (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2007)
Chinese President Hu Jintao is set to emerge from the Communist Party congress commanding a new leadership core that reflects both his dominance and his careful calculus for preserving power and unity.
- Two Sides To The Coin (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Oct 15, 2007)
There is a story of two boys. Fond parents of one of them left a plate of sweets while the boy was sleeping.
- Making Waves In The Uk (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2007)
Making a quantum jump, India has emerged this year as the second largest investor in the UK, next only to the USA.
This was stated by India's acting high commissioner Mr Asoke Mukherji at a reception organised to celebrate the . . . . .
- Morality Should Trounce Economic Justification (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Oct 15, 2007)
Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, met with the Dalai Lama last week.
- New Flights (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2007)
Singapore Airlines offers more travel options with five new flights out of India. Now there will be 55 weekly services from its eight destinations in India, including 10 weekly services from Chennai and Bangalore each.
- State Must Continue To Play A Role (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2007)
The Centre’s new National Policy on Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R), 2007, and the proposed amendments to the 1894 Land Acquisition Act must be lauded.
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