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Articles 11221 through 11320 of 16647:
- Panchayats & Employment Guarantee (Hindu, A. Vaidyanathan , Feb 15, 2005)
There is a far greater chance that left to themselves panchayats will implement employment guarantee schemes with a greater sense of responsibility.
- Fantasy (Tribune, Raj Chatterjee, Feb 15, 2005)
George Orwell had this to say to aspiring novelists: “Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-striken by their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.”
- Growing Well (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 15, 2005)
The advance estimates of GDP growth for 2004-05 vindicate the growing all-round optimism on the economy. The Central Statistical Organisation's data released on February 7 indicate that this year the economy will grow at 6.9 per cent.
- Moving On From The Metro Mindset (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Feb 15, 2005)
If a new commission is set up to look into Centre-State relations, its mandate should be to demarcate the functions of each, empowering the States to create regions of excellence.
- Russia's Foreign Policy Challenges (Hindu, Dmitry Kosyrev, Feb 14, 2005)
Russia has not yet learnt to convert its economic successes into political influence abroad.
- No Mullah Left Behind (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Feb 14, 2005)
The Wall Street Journal ran a very, very alarming article from Iran on its front page last Tuesday. The article explained how the mullahs in Tehran
- Spreading Menace (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 14, 2005)
The grenade and AK-47 attack by Maoists late last Thursday night, that left six personnel of the Karnataka State Reserve Police Force dead and five critically wounded, provides yet another reminder that the challenge of Left extremism in the country needs
- The Challenge Before The Pm (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Feb 14, 2005)
According to the report under Article IV Consultations between the International Monetary Fund and India, which has just been released by the IMF, the state of the Indian economy has never been as promising as it is now.
- When Two Friends Meet (Hindu, Gianfranco Fini, Feb 14, 2005)
The Italy-Indian friendship is founded on a great past and aimed at a future equally full of opportunity and hope.
- A Budget For Public Governance (The Economic Times, U. R. Bhat, Feb 14, 2005)
With the process of budget-making in full swing, the national pastime these days is to give myriad suggestions to the finance minister about some aspect or the other of taxation and government finances.
- A Guest At The G(7) In London (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Feb 14, 2005)
India has finally made it to the august group of G(7) — the group of rich industrialised nations which controls the monetary policies of the world.
- An Untenable Theory (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Feb 14, 2005)
PROFESSOR Emeritus of the London School of Economics, Lord Meghnad Desai, has returned to his old theme. He has again called upon the Congress and the BJP to form a coalition because he believes that this unusual combination is the only way in which the I
- Cpi(m) Puts Centre On Notice (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Feb 14, 2005)
The recently-concluded 21st State Conference of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal gave notice to the United Progressive Alliance Government at the Centre on the continuing "absence of evidence" of implementation
- Green Darkness (Indian Express, VISSA VENKATA SUNDAR, Feb 14, 2005)
The Kyoto Protocol on global warming comes into force on February 16 and this may be the time to glance at the Sundarban islands, which are a World Heritage Site, yet where global warming is pushing a delicate ecosystem to the brink
- The Casual Moment (Telegraph, AMIT CHAUDHURI, Feb 13, 2005)
I always find it a bit surprising when I hear the directors and producers of Hindi films say, “This one is very good — it’s almost as good as Hollywood.”
- The Battle For Bihar (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Feb 13, 2005)
In Bihar, Election 2004 was a straight, clearly defined ideological contest - between the RJD-led grand alliance and a much-depleted National Democratic Alliance.
- Giving A Big Boost To Agriculture (Tribune, A.N. Haksar, Feb 13, 2005)
EVEN after 57 years of Independence, agriculture has not received the attention it deserved. The onus is certainly on successive governments which wake up only when monsoons fail.
- Worth Striving For More Humane World (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 12, 2005)
It is not only terrorism or war that threatens us, but also `economic ruin and global warming', explains the intro to Paul Rogat Loeb's The Impossible Will Take a Little While, from Basic Books (www.basicbooks.com) .
- A Landmark Victory In Thailand (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 12, 2005)
With the landslide victory of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's Thai Rak Thai party, electoral history has been rewritten in Thailand.
- Behind New Europe's Facade (Hindu, Neil Clark, Feb 12, 2005)
Neo-liberalism has delivered unemployment and lower living standards for the majority in eastern Europe. But opposition is growing.
- Fuelling Peace (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 12, 2005)
The Manmohan Singh Government's decision to examine favourably the possibility of transporting Iranian natural gas to India via a pipeline traversing Pakistani territory represents the welcome triumph of sound economics over dubious diplomacy.
- Here’S To Budget 2005 (Indian Express, ILA PATNAIK, Feb 12, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P. Chidambaram have both promised that Budget 2005 will be a budget of tax reforms. The challenge of budget making consists of simultaneously addressing India’s fiscal crisis — which requires increased...
- Invest In A Disciplined Manner (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 11, 2005)
While equity investment is risky, equities have given better returns than most asset classes over a long period of time across many markets.
- Rethink On Modern Medicine (Deccan Herald, Avijit Pathak, Feb 11, 2005)
We often experience a paradox relating to the extraordinary achievements of modern medicine. While it has equipped us with an immense efficiency to cope with physical pain and suffering...
- India Makes A Play For F-16 Fighters (Asia Times, Siddharth Srivastava, Feb 11, 2005)
It is now official: India has indicated to the United States that it is interested in purchasing advanced F-16 fighter jets for its air force, a move that has sent frissons throughout the establishments in India
- Taking Business Globally (Deccan Herald, S N CHARY, Feb 11, 2005)
The projected growth rate of the Indian economy is around 6.9 per cent for the current year. In order to sustain such a growth rate and to increase it, it will be essential to push our exports of goods and services to a much higher level.
- Tourists At Kangla (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 11, 2005)
More than a month after the the historic Kangla Fort in the heart of Imphal was vacated of the Assam Rifles and the keys handed over to the state government, the seat of governance of the erstwhile independent kingdom of Manipur has become a major attract
- `Pocket Multinationals' Looking To India (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Feb 11, 2005)
In the old joke about capitalism, culture and cattle — you know the one where the Indians worship theirs, the Nazis shoot yours, and the Swiss have none of their own but charge interest for storing the cows of others
- Imf Bouquets And Brickbats (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Feb 11, 2005)
No longer is India the kind of IMF borrower it was in the early 1990s, when it had to agree to a structural adjustment programme to tide over the worst-ever balance of payments crisis the country faced
- Good Job, But Not Enough (Business Line, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 11, 2005)
In an economy where success stories have been so few and far between, the news that the country's Information Technology and the IT enabled services sector employ over a million people is without doubt a significant achievement.
- Globalisation, Poverty & Culture (The Economic Times, Manoj Pant, Feb 11, 2005)
Though much misused, the term globalisation has largely come to describe Indian policy since 1991.
- New Dawn With Kyoto (Hindu, Michael Meacher, Feb 10, 2005)
THERE IS a widespread view that with George W. Bush now ensconced in his second term in the White House, and with his sights fixed on his so-called "war on terror," the rest of the world's agenda has, for the time being at least, been hijacked.
- Let’S Get Fiscal (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 10, 2005)
Budget day will test the reformist credentials of the Manmohan-Montek-Chidambaram team. One of the big fears caused by the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) is that there will be a sharp increase in public spending on various social programmes.
- Towards Self-Reliance (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 10, 2005)
The country’s largest defence public sector undertaking, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), has entered the aircraft upgrades segment with the arrival of the new ‘Chetan’ helicopter.
- Lessons In Geography (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Feb 10, 2005)
Vladimir Putin says that Russia backs India’s bid for a permanent seat in the Security Council. “Mapping the Global Future”, the final report of the US National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project....
- A Carnival Of Greed (Indian Express, PETER RONALD DESOUZA, Feb 10, 2005)
Democracy in Goa has indeed been murdered. L K Advani got it right when he said so but, like all things Advani, he spoke only half a truth. For not only should he have blamed Governor S C Jamir for what has happened in Goa
- Business Only, No Fun At All (Telegraph, Gouri Chatterjee, Feb 10, 2005)
Not even a month old, NDTV Profit is already trying to live up to its name. It has, it claims, beaten the leader CNBC TV-18 “with a market share of 57.9 per cent compared to CNBC’s 42.1 per cent in the all day parts in the C&S 4+ all India market”.
- Concerns For The World (Deccan Herald, Kancha Ilaiah, Feb 10, 2005)
George W Bush was sworn in on January 20. While a large section of conservatives of America celebrated his second term and the speech he made on that occasion, at the same time several parts of the world expressed its own fears about his taking over as pr
- Growth Gains (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 09, 2005)
Advance estimates for GDP growth at 6.9 percent is extremely good news for the economy. And this is not just in the context of the short run because it implies that growth this year is going to be high.
- Rewarding Stf (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 09, 2005)
THE grievance expressed in the Legislative Assembly by the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms Jayalalithaa, about the Centre's rejection of the State Government's recommendations in regard to some senior police officers belonging to the Special Task Force ...
- Another Dream Budget? (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Feb 09, 2005)
WHEN Finance Minister P Chidambaram gets up to present the Union Budget for 2005-06 in the Lok Sabha on the last day of February, his fourth budget in the last nine years, he will have to confront certain classic dilemmas faced by all Finance Ministers.
- Tough New Policy For Entry Into Uk (Tribune, Andrew Grice, Feb 09, 2005)
LOW-skilled workers will find it much harder to enter Britain under a tough new immigration policy announced by the Government on Monday.
- Food For The Soul, Not Just For The Stomach (Indian Express, RAKESH CHAUBEY, Feb 09, 2005)
When you’ve been at the bottom of the social pyramid for centuries, you don’t really care whether the roads are bad. All you want is upward social mobility
- Fdi Cap Raised In Telecom — The Quake In The Coalition (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 09, 2005)
Right from the formation of the Government, there has been mishandling on both sides of what might be termed `cohabitation' between the UPA and the Left.
- Farm Policy — A Twisted Tale (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Feb 09, 2005)
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA), as the National Common Minimum Programme states categorically, stands for economic reforms with a human face, whatever it means.
- Business Process Re-Engineering: (Business Line, Manoranjan Sharma, Feb 09, 2005)
ORGANISATIONAL development is a continuous process. But the pace of change has increased manifold. In a volatile global world, organisations enhance competitive advantage through business process re-engineering (BPR) by radically redesigning selected...
- Building Urban Infrastructure (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 09, 2005)
There is compelling logic to support the Centre's proposal to launch a National Urban Renewal Mission (NURM) to upgrade and modernise urban infrastructure all over the country.
- A Simple ‘Sorry’ Will Do (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Feb 09, 2005)
It is quite in order to apologise. I remember, I remember. I remember the pessimistic prophecies of large sections of the media in the US and Britain. “The US will get stuck in a quagmire in Afghanistan.
- Deal To Run Buses In Kashmir Bolsters India-Pakistan Talks (Washington Post, John Lancaster, Feb 09, 2005)
India and Pakistan agreed Wednesday to run buses across the cease-fire line that divides the Himalayan province of Kashmir, invigorating a 13-month peace process that some had feared was running out of steam.
- Telecom: Beyond The Fdi Cap Hike (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Feb 08, 2005)
With the latest sectoral cap of FDI hike, though laced with riders, only foreign equity firms with deep pockets may want to bet on domestic telecom companies
- World Economy In 2005 (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 08, 2005)
A report prepared jointly by the United Nation's Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) expects world economic growth to slow down to 3.25 per cent this year.
- World Economy: From Uni-Polar To Tri-Polar (Business Line, Arvind Virmani, Feb 08, 2005)
By around 2025, China's impact on world growth is likely to be larger than that of the US and India's greater that of Japan. By 2035, India is likely to be a larger growth driver than the six largest
- China's Growth Enigma (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Feb 08, 2005)
As is true currently, China's truly remarkable pace of growth for over two decades has been punctuated with concern about bouts of deflation or overheating.
- Getting Cross With Cross-Subsidies (Indian Express, N K Singh, Feb 08, 2005)
This is a season when it is fashionable for all and sundry to give even unsolicited advice to P Chidambaram. Finance Ministers are tolerant, fully conscious that the basic Budget story involves multiple inflexibilities.
- Promises To Keep (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 07, 2005)
In his reply to the debate on the Governor’s address in the Assembly, Karnataka Chief Minister N Dharam Singh has painted a rosy picture of the State’s economy and given assurances on a wide range of both urban and rural projects. Yet, most of them seem f
- Us And Iraq: Who Owes Whom? (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Feb 07, 2005)
It is intriguing that nobody seems to have worked out how much the US and its allies owe the people of Iraq for having caused, according to none other than the United Nations, the deaths of several hundred thousand Iraqis through the imposition...
- Ukraine Democratically Moves West (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Feb 07, 2005)
People with time to count report that the US President, Mr George Bush, mentioned `freedom,' `free' and `liberty' 49 times in his inaugural address to the nation on January 20, when he took the oath of office for his second term.
- Drifts In The Desert (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 07, 2005)
India is very rich in water resources. We get 5 per cent of the worldwide rains though we account for only 2 per cent of the total land mass. So, we should rank high in water availability but we rank a poor 133 among 170 countries in water poverty.
- Mr Dixit, I Presume (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Feb 07, 2005)
The first time I met J.N. ‘Mani’ Dixit, in September 1985, I had not particularly given him a reason for me to be in his good books.
- Govt Favours Unified Command To Tackle Naxals (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2005)
The government today favoured the formation of a unified command comprising the Central and state law enforcement agencies to tackle the Naxalite problem.
- Punjab Economy Will Be Put On Fast Track, Says Singla (Tribune, Manoj Kumar, Feb 06, 2005)
After facing a decade-long slowdown in economic growth, Punjab is once again gearing up to become a destination for investment.
- The Land Of Penny Pinchers (Indian Express, NICHOLAS D KRISTOF, Feb 06, 2005)
So is the US ‘‘stingy’’ about helping poor countries? That accusation by a UN official, in veiled form, provoked indignation here. After all, we’re the most generous people on Earth, aren’t we?
- Stars Of India: The Bling-Bling In The Crown (Washington Post, John Lancaster, Feb 06, 2005)
They wear silk saris, well-cut Nehru jackets and incandescent smiles. They are practiced in the art of air-kissing and social banter.
- The Pin Code In Northeast (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Feb 05, 2005)
Operation Pin Code, as reported in The Pioneer (January 15), would be much easier for Pakistan to accomplish than either Operation Topac or Al Badr.
- The State Of Popular Aspiration (Indian Express, Ajay Gudavarthy, Feb 05, 2005)
The demand for Telengana is paradoxical: it is being made in the name of the deprived but could end up serving only a small privileged group
- `Black' Is Not Beautiful (Business Line, T. N. Pandey, Feb 05, 2005)
The UPA Government seems desperate to demonstrate its commitment to unearthing black money.
- A Teenage Concept For The Staid Old Bank (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 05, 2005)
A bubbly 15-year-old in the field of economics is inflation targeting. It was born in 1989 when New Zealand rewrote its Reserve Bank charter and brought in the need to make public announcement of official targets for the inflation rate.
- Beyond The S&p Rating (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 05, 2005)
Like a capricious mother-in-law, Standard & Poor's has been whimsical in credit-rating the Indian economy. Anyway its pronouncements do not appear to bother most international players
- I See A Good Moon Rising (Indian Express, RICHARD N. HAASS, Feb 05, 2005)
Mahmoud Abbas is elected and legitimate. He may not have the stature of Arafat but has none of the latter’s liabilities either.
- It’S Politics, Stupid (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Feb 05, 2005)
Economic reform has to come through hard politics, not stealth. On telecom, Dr Singh’s govt clears the test
- Ringing Message (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 04, 2005)
The government has finally increased the limit on foreign direct investments (FDI) in Indian telecom companies from 49 per cent to 74 per cent and thus fulfilled a promise it made at the time of the budget in June last year.
- Sell-Off Fund — Will It Fall Victim To Petty Politics? (Business Line, G. Ganesh, Feb 04, 2005)
The Government is seriously thinking of setting up a sell-off fund, which will be used partially for strengthening the public sector and for financing social sector programmes.
- Stepped Up (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 04, 2005)
The quid pro quo between hike in the employees’ provident fund rate and hike in foreign direct investment in telecommunications is obvious. With budget 2005-06 drawing near, the government must have been conscious of not having delivered ...
- Soldiering On (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 04, 2005)
Sacked from the Cabinet, former minister Major Vijai Singh Mankotia was conspicuously absent all through Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh’s winter sojourn in Dharamsala.
- What Will The Budget Hold? (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Feb 04, 2005)
In the run up to Budget 2005-06, the penultimate year of the Tenth Plan (2002-07), the air is thick with irrational exuberance over what it might contain for the various constituents of the economy.
- Spoiling The Show (Telegraph, DEBAKI NANDAN MANDAL, Feb 04, 2005)
Now that the left has its way with the provident fund issue, will it stop being a hindrance to governance? Unlikely. Only a few days back, at the central committee meeting of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),
- A Vote For Liberation (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Feb 04, 2005)
The dinner at our house turned violent. The lady, a dear friend of ours, was talking about the elections held in Iraq that day. ‘‘Now that elections have taken place, what do you have to say?’’
- India's Nepal Stand Driven By Concern For Maoist Danger (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Feb 04, 2005)
The principal concern driving the Indian Government's policy towards King Gyanendra is not democracy but how his palace putsch is going to affect the Royal Nepal Army's counter-insurgency operations against Maoist rebels.
- Hike That Cheers (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 04, 2005)
WEDNESDAY’S decision to raise the rate of interest on the Employees Provident Fund by 1 per cent should cheer the employees as also the Left parties.
- 18 Die In Jharkhand, Bihar Poll Violence (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2005)
A low turnout was recorded in the Naxalite-affected areas of Jharkhand in the first phase of polling for 24 Assembly seats with the Naxalites exploding a landmine yesterday night in Malahi Tola area of Chhattarpur constituency in Palamu division, which...
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