|
|
|
|
|
|
Articles 11821 through 11920 of 16647:
- Seizing The Moment (The Economic Times, Soumya Kanti Mitra, Dec 12, 2004)
MS Neena Gill, Labour MEP from UK and head of the European Parliament's South Asia & Saarc Delegation, has the best explanation for why EU-India relations have been upgraded to a ‘strategic’ level at the Amsterdam Nov 8 EU-India Summit.
- When The Scales Of Justice Tilt Too Far (Indian Express, T S R SUBRAMANIAN, Dec 11, 2004)
The judicial system is in urgent need of reform. Without it India cannot become a competitive economy
- Manmohan Singh In The Northeast (Hindu, Walter Fernandes, Dec 11, 2004)
The Northeast needs not more packages but serious steps towards a solution to the problems that have resulted in insurgency.
- Focus On Agriculture (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Dec 11, 2004)
The latest World Employment Report (WER) brought out by the International Labour Office in Geneva has a chapter "Why Agriculture Matters",
- `Logistics, India's Weakest Link In Exports' (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Dec 10, 2004)
Exporters face innumerable infrastructure bottlenecks. Inland movement of goods remains a major obstacle, as exporters are helpless in the face of high cost of transport and inter-State and intra-State barriers.
- Name Of The New War Is `Trade' (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 10, 2004)
The world's second largest economy, Japan, hinges its hopes on trade surplus to help in achieving growth beyond the 0.1 per cent recorded for the last quarter....
- Open Those Doors (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 10, 2004)
It has by now become routine at every forum for prime ministers and finance ministers to make entreaties to foreign businessmen to invest in this country, especially in infrastructure.
- The Rupee And The Dollar (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 10, 2004)
On Monday, December 6, 2004, the rupee closed at an eight month high of 43.64 to the dollar. Since November, the appreciation has been 140 paise.
- When Banks Merge And Emerge Bigger (Business Line, A. S. Ramasastri, Dec 10, 2004)
Merger appears to be the buzzword in the Indian banking industry today. There have been a few mergers in the recent past, some out of compulsion and othersout of strategic planning.
- A Gleam In The Eye (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Dec 10, 2004)
It is the “in” thing currently. About everybody in the creamy layer is forecasting the rate of growth of India’s gross domestic product: the International Monetary Fund
- Issues Patently Questionable (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Dec 10, 2004)
In less than two months, India will be obliged to do the follow-up on the WTO-mandated product patent stipulations, and the Commerce Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, made a strident statement:
- Forget Efficiency. Let’S Do It (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Dec 10, 2004)
In the normal course, I would oppose any new government activity on the grounds that it is probably unnecessary, is likely to increase the power and the influence of an already ...
- Jail Houses Rock (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 10, 2004)
On Wednesday, the Patna High Court had the right idea. To source the anarchy that blows through Bihar, it sought a peep into the prisons where powerful dons and petty criminals have been housed, presumably to keep them well isolated from pursuing any misc
- Corporate Governance And Central Banks (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Dec 09, 2004)
Central banks have the incentive to adopt the international best practices of corporate governance because financial communities often perceive such methods as a prelude to making the central banks independent and accountable
- Assisting Crime Victims (Hindu, K. T. Thomas, Dec 09, 2004)
The plight of those who suffer when a crime is committed deserves more attention.
- Temples Of Dissent (Indian Express, S. M. A. Kazmi, Dec 09, 2004)
The Uttaranchal government has proposed a move to bring a legislation in the next Assembly session to bring the famous Char Dham temples under direct government control.
- The Favourite Whipping Boy (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Dec 09, 2004)
Is India conspiring to wipe a neighbour called Bangladesh out of the face of the earth through “desertification” of the country or
- A Needless Ceiling (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 09, 2004)
Allowing foreign Institutional iinvestors to put money in corporate debt paper is welcome, even if does not go far enough. For a start, the aggregate outstanding investment of $500....
- Will Number-Cruncher Networks Display Better Bandwidth? (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 09, 2004)
Firms of chartered accountants are available in all sizes, ranging from the `S' type having only a lone proprietor, to `XXL' such as the operations of MAF or multinational accounting firm.
- Why Dollar Is In The Doldrums (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Dec 09, 2004)
While a major withdrawal from the US market has not taken place so far, there is a limit to the investment by foreign banks because of the ever-increasing risk of over-exposure to a fall in the dollar.
- Save The Auditors From Becoming Box-Tickers (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 09, 2004)
There used to be that once-in-a-week session that read `moral science' in school timetables. A slot essentially for storytelling, though kind teachers were not against allowing students to do their own thing.
- France Woos India And Its Markets (Deccan Herald, KATRIN BENNHOLD, Dec 08, 2004)
Since President Jacques Chirac returned from a high-profile state visit to China two months ago with more than $4 billion in contracts, his government has quietly turned its attention to Asia’s other rising giant:
- Banking On Foreign Funds (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 08, 2004)
By going for a sponsored ADR (American Depository Receipt) issue, which will lift foreign shareholding in ICICI Bank from 70 per cent to 74 per cent, the Chief Executive
- Vultures And Values (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 08, 2004)
For long has the United States been described as a “vulture culture” which is very different from having a few culture vultures, like we do in India.
- Aid From Expatriates (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 08, 2004)
There are more than three million persons of Indian origin who have settled down in the UK and the US, either as citizens or under the non-resident category.
- Rising Cost Of Petrol (Tribune, S.K. Sharma, Dec 08, 2004)
Considerable interest has been generated among political parties, the media and the general public in petroleum products due to the rise in their prices and the subsequent rollback.
- The Dollar's Fall (Rediff on the Net, editoral, rediff on the net, Dec 08, 2004)
The reaching of the milestone of $125 billion in our foreign exchange reserves was noted with much satisfaction by commentators in India. But what does the effort to increase the reserves mean in the context of the dollar's near free fall over the . . .
- Ties Re-Defined (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 07, 2004)
The old bonhomie, based on ideological ties, between New Delhi and Moscow is a thing of the past. In the new, post-Cold War environment, hard-nosed economic and business considerations are wh
- A Space Of Delusions (Telegraph, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Dec 07, 2004)
Swapan Dasgputa’s article, “On another plane” (Dec 3), argues that “India will be better served by carving out our own definite space within Pax Americana”.
- The Us Dollar Versus The Chinese Yuan (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Dec 07, 2004)
China is under increasing pressure from the US to revalue the yuan. With the US Government unwilling or unable to halt the decline of the dollar, this is seen as the means to prevent a dollar crash that can
- Institutions Must Survive Us All (Business Line, S. Ramachander, Dec 07, 2004)
The emergence of the large, impersonal organisation built on egalitarian contracts between people is a recent development in human history, more so the 20th Century.
- Powering Projects With Forex Reserves (Business Line, S. Padmanabhan , Dec 07, 2004)
In the power sector, the equity investment climate has always been buoyant. But the expected investment has not flowed into this area because of viability and bankability issues.
- Friendship Reaffirmed (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 06, 2004)
Russia and India used the opportunity presented by President Vladimir Putin's visit to sort out differences that could have damaged the time-tested and healthy relations between them.
- Weak Dollar Serves The World Right (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Dec 06, 2004)
If American demand can be supported only by a weaker dollar, the rest of the world has no option but to play along, until the costs of that policy become intolerable. Growth has halted in Europe and in Japan.
- Market On Mid-Cap High (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 06, 2004)
As the stock market reaches new highs, investors have reason to look ahead at 2005 with optimism and relief especially after the knock they took this May, post the election verdict.
- A Beijing-Delhi-Moscow Axis? (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Dec 06, 2004)
In the post-Cold War world, the rule governing the flow of long-term international relations appears to be one where politics follows economics. In the earlier dispensation
- Blending Diesel Benefits Into Petrol Performance (Business Line, B. S. Murthy, Dec 06, 2004)
Understandably, diesel (compression ignition, or CI) engines have gained significant and well-deserved attention for their superior and efficient performance at all speeds and loads....
- Growing Bond (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 06, 2004)
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to India seems to have cleared some of the doubts that had crept in regarding the future of the India-Russia relationship.
- Touch Of Class (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Dec 06, 2004)
Corporate training and development is a major activity conducted by business schools, consulting firms, human resource departments of companies, management associations and others.
- Of Many Forked Tongues (Hindu, Jyotirmaya Sharma, Dec 06, 2004)
The BJP has begun to speak of Hindutva and Bharatiyata interchangeably to make its ideology more acceptable to allies.
- Report On Trend And Progress Of Banking 2003-04 (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 06, 2004)
The latest report on Trend and Progress of Banking in India for 2003-04 follows the lines of its predecessors in presenting a workmanlike account of the health of the banking industry and its prospects.
- Dignified Debates (Indian Express, Soli Sorabjee, Dec 05, 2004)
The Indo-Pak student seminar Manzar, organised by Miranda House this week at the IIC, was an enjoyable event. Three students each from the Indian and Pakistani side debated the motion
- Time To Blow The Whistle (Indian Express, N K Singh, Dec 05, 2004)
Laloo Yadav may have a populist profile but has the reputation to secure what he decides to achieve. Can he reverse the decades of neglect that he inherits in Railways?
- The Key Institutional Weaknesses (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 04, 2004)
At the third `ASEAN + India Summit' held in Vientiane, a few days ago, there was talk of `deepening' of the `partnership'.
- Needed: Perestroika (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 04, 2004)
Relations between Russia and India are badly in need of repair and hopefully Putin’s visit contributed to this.
- Punjab Under Fiscal Stress (Tribune, Upinder Sawhney, Dec 04, 2004)
Punjab was among the first few states to enact a fiscal responsibility Act. The Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003, attests to the commitment of the Government of Punjab towards the problems of revenue and fiscal deficits and
- Towards Asean + 4? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 04, 2004)
India's look east policy, which was initiated in 1991, is all about making up for time and opportunity lost. The signing of the ASEAN-India Partnership for Peace, Progress and Shared
- Globalisation: Need For Fairness (Hindu, Juan Somavia, Dec 04, 2004)
More fairness should be injected at all levels. That includes respecting core labour standards, promoting basic social protection, and reducing unbalanced patterns of investment and trade.
- Advances On The Mat (Business Line, R. Anand, Dec 04, 2004)
Levy of book profits tax, popularly know as the Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT), has thrown up a host of issues.
- On Another Plane (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Dec 03, 2004)
The public conduct of foreign policy tends to focus excessively on the spectacular. This is as true for India as it is for Western democracies and African potentates.
- South-South Trade Co-Operation (Business Line, S. Srinath, Dec 03, 2004)
The recently announced National Foreign Trade Policy (NFTP) 2004-2009 lays down an ambitious target of achieving an export growth rate that will enable India to account for 1.5 per cent of the world trade by 2009.
- Talk Of Court News: Who Loses And Who Wins (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 03, 2004)
These days, there is more action in courts than elsewhere, and judges seem to have the last word on almost anything. What fills the media is the "talk of court news,"
- The Cotton Calamity (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 03, 2004)
Predictably, at the 63rd plenary of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) in Mumbai, the common refrain among many Asian and African producing countries was the adverse fallout of acute
- To Fight Common Problems... (Business Line, K. Parthasarathi, Dec 03, 2004)
Over the last year India's forex reserves have grown to a staggering $123 billion, and rising. Other Asian countries too hold large reserves in relation to their GDP.
- Black Idea (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 03, 2004)
The national common minimum programme increases pressures for government expenditure and makes targets of Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act difficult to meet.
- View With Equanimity (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 03, 2004)
India's most widely watched stock index, the Bombay Stock Exchange's 30-share index, Sensex, closed at an all time high of 6234.20.
- End Game (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 03, 2004)
The Calcutta high court order against bandhs has prompted a rare moment of sympathy between two arch-enemies.
- Cracks In The Wall (Telegraph, NEHA SAHAY, Dec 03, 2004)
Since 1978, when Deng Xiaoping set China upon the road to a “socialist market economy”, the number of poor Chinese has reduced from 250 million to 29 million, says the government.
- Global Action Against Terrorism Should Be Concerted And United (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Dec 03, 2004)
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, is not a leader who flinches from answering difficult questions. In a written response to questions provided by The Hindu, President Putin does not believe that it is possible...
- Horizontal Fiscal Imbalances (Business Line, N. Sreedevi, Dec 03, 2004)
The Twelfth Finance Commission (TFC) must be toiling on different criteria for the horizontal distribution of shareable tax revenue — the most crucial and critical part of the recommendations.
- The Spirit Of Revolution (Indian Express, Subrata Nag Choudhury, Dec 02, 2004)
CPI(M) party conferences at the field level, a mandatory, preparatory process for the party’s state conference in February and the party Congress later in April, are increasingly becoming violent.
- Commodification Of Education (Deccan Herald, SUDHA SITARAMAN, Dec 02, 2004)
In the heady aftermath of Indian independence, the idea of modernisation took on the dimensions of a national mission. It was an integral part of the Nehruvian vision of modernisation that declares stridently its intentions of building an egalitarian ...
- After Dollar Dreams, The Nightmares (Telegraph, Alok Ray, Dec 02, 2004)
Chairmen of the US Federal Reserve are highly responsible, patriotic people. They do not cry wolf, unless they see one.
- Looking East (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 02, 2004)
The just concluded third annual summit of India and the 10-member ASEAN group, where both sides entered into a historic partnership pact, reflects the growing importance of India in the geo-politics of the Asia Pacific region, one of the fastest growing e
- Autonomy For Cooperatives (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 02, 2004)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised a constitutional amendment to promote the autonomy of the cooperative sector on the occasion of the official completion of 100 years of the movement.
- Favourable Easterlies (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 02, 2004)
There are two ways of seeing the partnership accord signed between India and the Association of South-East Asian Nations in Vientiane on Tuesday.
- Ethical Dilemmas In Decision-Making (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 02, 2004)
Like accountants, economy, busy as it is with the use of resources, has nothing to do with ethics. "However, the Chinese word for economy — Jing Ji (or Ching Chi) — is related to ethical value,"
- Critical Role For Non-Banking Finance Sector (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Dec 02, 2004)
The architecture of the financial system has to be recast to ensure the growth of the economy along with adequate availability of credit to the fastest growing sectors of the economy.
- Omissions In The Commissions (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Dec 01, 2004)
Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up and set to true time.
- Not A Core Solution (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 01, 2004)
All that can be said of the proposal initiated by the Planning Commission Deputy Chairman, Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, on the use of foreign exchange reserves for giving a thrust to investments in infrastructure
- Towards Asian Community (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 01, 2004)
If it can happen in Europe it can happen in Asia too. That is why Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s idea of an Asian Economic Community
- Towards A Nanny State (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Dec 01, 2004)
There is concern that as a result of a package of proposals, unveiled recently by the Tony Blair Government, no aspect of a citizen's life will remain his private domain.
- In Search Of A Creative Alternative (Telegraph, Vandana Shiva, Dec 01, 2004)
Terra Madre celebrated an honest agriculture that does not lie about prices and does not exploit the earth or its caretakers
- Dollars Dollars Everywhere But Not Very Much To Buy (Indian Express, ILA PATNAIK, Dec 01, 2004)
Holding high forex reserves is similar to holding an excess of food stocks. Forex reserves are a consequence of currency manipulation and using them for infrastructure funding will result in inflation.
- A House For Mr Pandit (Indian Express, PAWAN BALI, Dec 01, 2004)
The Prime Minister’s much awaited visit to the state finally happened, putting to rest expectations and apprehensions, but also raising new controversies.
- Amendment To Companies Act — Should Reflect The Spirit Of Times (Business Line, R. Parthasarathy , Dec 01, 2004)
That the proposed amendment of the Companies Act, 1956 envisages fewer sections, instead of more, is welcome in itself. In all other areas too
- Sprinters At This Asiad (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 01, 2004)
The importance of increasing regional trade within Asia cannot be emphasised enough. At a time when regional trading agreements (RTA), such as the EU and NAFTA, have led to higher trade and investment, Asia continues to lag behind
- Can We Centre The Northeast? (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Dec 01, 2004)
The Northeast is at the center again, this time for the right reasons. The recent VVIP visit emphasised the criticality of the region as a spring board of activity for furthering India’s interests to the east
- Steep Hike (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Nov 30, 2004)
The government’s decision to increase the freight rates for key industrial inputs like coal and iron ore has come as a rude shock. Prompted by a desperate need to mop up more revenue, the Railways have in the middle of the fiscal year
- A Grey Eminence (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Nov 30, 2004)
The story of Indian reforms has been written many times; the more often it is written, the more it will sound the same.
Previous 100 Economy Articles | Next 100 Economy Articles
Home
Page
|
|
