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Articles 12521 through 12620 of 16647:
- Remembering Anna (Hindu, R. Kannan, Sep 15, 2004)
C.N. Annadurai epitomised Tamil pride, personifying honesty, simplicity and caring.
- Play With Semantics (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 15, 2004)
Among India's political parties, there is arguably none to match the quick reflexes of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Witness for instance the way the BJP, in 1998, shed its single status in favour of coalitional co-existence.
- Washington Is In A Fix (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Sep 14, 2004)
The central US dilemma in Iraq is gradually sinking in in America’s corridors of power. The Bush administration’s salvation lies in pulling its troops out of Iraq. On the other hand, an early withdrawal of forces can only be on humiliating terms.
- A Day Of Crowded Images (Deccan Herald, A MADHAVAN, Sep 14, 2004)
The sights and sounds of a tour by car with kindred souls can be highly enlightening
- Budgets Sans Mysteries, Please (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Sep 14, 2004)
Budgets are complex documents full of mysteries and uncertainties. The Kelkar Task Force has articulated a simple and transparent tax system. It is now up to the Finance Minister to implement the recommendation, coalition dharma and all
- Inflation Remains A Problem (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 14, 2004)
Despite feeble regulatory steps, rising inflation remains the number one worry of the UPA government.
- More Friend Than Foe (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Sep 14, 2004)
Why has the Congress given a rather inconsequential politician like Uma Bharti this lease of political life? She would have been deemed a failure as chief minister of Madhya Pradesh within another year and would have disappeared from the public space
- Limited Room For Mullahs, Military But Not Mastans (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Sep 14, 2004)
If Bangladesh were Pakistan, the irrational enmity between Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and Awami League (AL) leader Sheikh Hasina might well have led to the Army and the Islamist parties
- A Rivalry That Is Tearing The Country Apart (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Sep 13, 2004)
Competition may be the engine of pluralist politics everywhere but here in Bangladesh, the rivalry between the ruling party and the Opposition is so personalised, intense and venomous that it is poisoning the very lifeblood of democracy.
- Investors, Frogs And Yellowstone Effect (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Sep 13, 2004)
The current firmness in equity prices is akin to the warm glow of pleasure that a frog may feel when water begins to boil. Resistance to the fundamental deterioration through manipulation of technical indicators and through the provision of liquidity ...
- Going Back On A Big Promise (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 13, 2004)
The planning commission's allocation of Rs.2,020 crores for launching a food-for-work programme in 150 districts marks the first, even if hesitant, step in the implementation of a crucial component of the National Common Minimum Programme (NCMP) of the...
- Neutrality As Virtue (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Sep 13, 2004)
Governance has to spring from political enlightenment. Neutrality cannot be a virtue.
- Rbi's Gentle Squeeze (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 13, 2004)
With price indices continuing to climb, the Reserve Bank of India had the choice of leeching out excess funds from the system or marking up the Bank Rate to make lending dearer across the system.
- Trends In Patent And Trademark Law (Business Line, Rama Sarma, Sep 13, 2004)
THE intellectual property law confer legal exclusivity in the market place. The right to prevent copying of ideas or information is recognised and this has recently made intellectual property (IP) law somewhat esoteric and specialised.
- We Should Not Become Victims Of Money, Says Narayana Murthy (Tribune, Sridhar K. Chari, Sep 12, 2004)
IN a country that is still groping for the right economic models to optimise the wealth creating potential of its people and the right attitudes towards business, wealth creation, governance, and social responsibility
- Against The Grain (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Sep 10, 2004)
While terms of trade are tilted against agriculture, any move to help farmers is seen as harmful to the economy
- Farmers' Distress: Causes & Cures (Hindu, M. S. Swaminathan , Sep 10, 2004)
Education, social mobilisation and regulation are necessary to arrest the expansion of the agrarian crisis.
- International Trade And Economic Growth (Business Line, S. Venu , Sep 10, 2004)
Openness to trade is not by itself sufficient to promote growth. Macroeconomic and political stability and other policies are needed as well.
- The Chechens' American Friends (Hindu, John Laughland, Sep 10, 2004)
The Washington neocons' commitment to the war on terror evaporates in Chechnya, whose cause they have made their own.
- Taxing Service Exports: Give Up Selective Approach (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Sep 10, 2004)
As there is no service tax on any earnings in foreign exchange for `taxable service', some exporters of services are puzzled about the new foreign trade policy's exemption from tax of services exported.
- Gold, Savings And P&p Sector — Foolish Governments, Smart Women (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Sep 09, 2004)
With the government unable to provide social security to all its citizens, most self-employed groups face a huge challenge of protecting their future. They have turned to gold the most liquid, portable, and easy to transfer asset.
- The Basel-Ii Blushes (Business Line, Katuri Nageswararao, Sep 09, 2004)
BANKS, being highly leveraged entities, need to guard against failures, which could cause significant distress to the economy. Basel-I norms were principally to ensure adequacy of capital of banks as a defined proportion of the risk weighted assets.
- Surrender Is Not An Option (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Sep 09, 2004)
No terrorist attack in recent times has evoked greater horror, condemnation and revulsion than the attack in the small town of Beslan, located in Russia’s Caucasian region, bordering Georgia. Over one thousand schoolchildren and their parents were held
- Changing Face Of The Global Indian (Deccan Herald, Janaki Murali, Sep 08, 2004)
The urban Indian metrosexual is busy carving a niche in the world and moulding himself as a global citizen
- Akali Dal Not Communal (Tribune, Manpreet Singh Badal, Sep 08, 2004)
Kuldip Nayar's recent indictment of the Akali Dal in these columns has hurt me. The Akali Dal is not a communal party. It has always had Hindus, Muslims and Christians as its members.
- Financing Cmp: Banking On World Bank (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Sep 08, 2004)
INDIA is desperately short of investment resources. Public investment on a massive scale is needed in key areas of economic and social development if India is to get rid of poverty in two decades while achieving higher growth rates, which would help place
- Bjp’S Nationalism (Tribune, J. Sri Raman, Sep 08, 2004)
A brief quiz may help understand better the Bharatiya Janata Party’s idea of “nationalism”, its newest mascot. Your timer starts now. “It is ideology alone, which sparks enthusiasm in party workers and reinforces their commitments to idealism.
- Will Nuclear Energy Gain Greater Acceptability? (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Sep 08, 2004)
WILL the 21st century see an upswing in the fortunes of nuclear power? Will this clean source of electricity be able to put behind it the lingering threat of a holocaust, and power ahead?
- The New Foreign Trade Policy (Hindu, Muchkund Dubey , Sep 08, 2004)
The Government has still a long way to go towards fully integrating the trade policy with the development policy.
- Fear And Smear (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 07, 2004)
United States President George W. Bush has apparently decided that he can secure a second term only through a campaign based on fear and smear.
- Disempowered State (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Sep 07, 2004)
The corruption and bungling in the power sector account for much of the State’s fiscal weakness
- Bombay Plan And Mixed-Up Economy (Business Line, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Sep 07, 2004)
After the shift quite far to the Right under the previous BJP-led regime, the economy is seeing a shift Leftward, harking back to the Bombay Plan and the mixed economy concept of Jawaharlal Nehru. But is it moving towards a "mixed-up" economy?
- Art Of Alliance (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 07, 2004)
Few would dispute Atal Bihari Vajpayee's adroit navigation of the multi-party coalition spearheaded by the Bharatiya Janata Party over six years in office
- Look West, Pm! (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Sep 07, 2004)
The day Manmohan Singh was chosen to be the PM, he met journalists. On September 4 he did it again — as soon as he had got over the Parliament session.
- Quota For Dalits In Private Sector (Tribune, Udit Raj, Sep 07, 2004)
The reservation in the private sector is the talk of the town. There are people who are in favour and against it. The Maharashtra government has got a Bill passed paving the way for the reservation in the private sector for the Dalits and the backward cla
- The Republicans' True Colour (Hindu, Gary Younge, Sep 07, 2004)
In 2000, the Republicans paraded their diversity. But now the party is showing its true colour -- white.
- On Suicides (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 07, 2004)
Diehard accountants are happy when members of other professional bodies do not get the same recognition as CAs get in statutory assignments.
- Terror Strikes In Russia (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Sep 06, 2004)
The immediate goal of the Beslan raid was to spread violence beyond Chechnya and set Russia's entire North Caucasus on fire.
- Summer Of ’72 (Deccan Herald, MALATHI RAO, Sep 06, 2004)
Memories of my mother’s healing touch still touch me, today, years after she left me
- Rbi's Annual Report 2003-2004 (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 06, 2004)
There have been suggestions that some part of the RBI's forex reserves should be placed with Indian scheduled banks, which can lend them to creditworthy Indian corporates, which are otherwise raising ECBs in the external financial markets
- Of Little Import (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 06, 2004)
On Saturday the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, morphed into a dignified, acquisitive politician, if not a statesman, by saying a lot at a press meet stretching over 90 minutes but meaning little.
- Living With The Oil Crisis (Deccan Herald, A MADHAVAN, Sep 06, 2004)
Rising oil prices have once again highlighted India’s utter inability to cope with an oil crisis
- In Search Of A Real Cop! (Tribune, S. Zahur H. Zaidi, Sep 06, 2004)
WHEN I was a little boy growing up in a small North Indian town, I did not know any cops. There were none in my family. My father, my uncles, and all other men in our family were farmers or academicians.
- Importance Of Public Investment In Infrastructure (Business Line, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Sep 06, 2004)
One of the planks on which the Congress(I) came to power was seeing greater role for the government in the economy. This is welcome. One only hopes the party will not get derailed from this policy by the World Bank's advice.
- Hardening Postures (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Sep 06, 2004)
A road, the prime minister Manmohan Singh is fond of quoting, is made by walking step by step. However, it is unlikely that India and Pakistan will take any major step forward
- Fighting Shadows (Telegraph, RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE, Sep 05, 2004)
In an unforgettable poem, the almost-forgotten genius, Sukumar Ray, spoke of the exploits of Jagai who single-handedly fought the assault of seven Germans.
- It Costs 32 P.C. Of Gdp For Government To Mess Up Economy (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 04, 2004)
The record of sorts achieved during the latest session of Parliament when the Finance Bill got passed without any discussion is nothing to feel proud of. So, when one finds that William W. Lewis has a chapter titled, "India:
- Ill-Considered Decision (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 04, 2004)
The order of the designated POTA court in the case against Vaiko and eight Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) partymen is astonishingly misguided and ill-considered.
- Entering The Environment (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Sep 04, 2004)
This article is about an interesting, important, but as yet little-analysed phenomenon in contemporary Indian politics — the entry into the environmental movement of the organized left.
- Pakistan’S ‘Miracle’ Man (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Sep 04, 2004)
Pakistan now has a Prime Minister who is a darling both of the army and of America’s Super Moneymen
- Crucial Afghan Presidential Poll (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Sep 03, 2004)
The Afghan Presidential elections are fixed for October 9, 2004. It was earlier postponed twice and it is hoped that this time the security situation in the country would not be so badly disruptive as to call for yet another postponement.
- Rbi Annual Report 2003-04 — Exhaustive And Rigorous (Business Line, A. Seshan, Sep 03, 2004)
Though the RBI, in its Annual Report 2003-04, has failed to shed light on the tremendous risk of the depreciation of government securities faced by commercial banks in case of a rise in interest rates, it maintains high standards of data presentation and
- `Could Beauty, My Lord, Have Better Commerce Than With Honesty?' (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 03, 2004)
"COULD beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?'
When finance pains, commerce can soothe. Thus, even as Mr Chidambaram is locking horns with transporters over service tax, Mr Kamal Nath is freeing exporters from that yoke.
- Ap's Changing Power Equations (Business Line, Ch. Prashanth Reddy , Sep 03, 2004)
WHAT are the implications of supplying power free of cost to all farmers? Earlier, it was thought that it would only mean that the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Dr Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, would have to provide for an additional subsidy of Rs 400 crore
- Will Us Repeal Byrd Amendment? (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Sep 03, 2004)
The rest of the world is keenly watching whether the US would revoke the Byrd Amendment and thus help underpin the rule-based multilateral trading system.
- Will Bush Jr Be A One-Termer? (Deccan Herald, MANAS CHANDRASHEKAR, Sep 03, 2004)
The Bush-Kerry contest is so close that events between now and November could decide the result
- The Also-Ran Nation (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Sep 03, 2004)
The 28th Olympic Games are now ended. In the battle for gold medals, China has almost drawn level with the United States of America, although in the tally of medals in all categories, it has lagged behind God’s Own Country.
- `Sour Grapes' In A Post-Qualification Court Battle (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 02, 2004)
Diehard accountants are happy when members of other professional bodies do not get the same recognition as CAs get in statutory assignments. That may rake up many questions: Is that what is preventing the Institute of
- Govt's 100 Days In Office — More Promises Than Performance (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Sep 02, 2004)
The other day, my son's friend, a Plus-2 student, was lamenting over the fall of the Indian rupee. "The BJP government had taken it all the way up to Rs 43.5 vis-à-vis the dollar and there were indications it would up to Rs 40.
- Controlling Inflation (Telegraph, BHASKAR DUTTA , Sep 02, 2004)
One of the more prominent achievements of successive Central governments in India during the last decade has been the remarkable degree of price stability in the economy.
- Benchmark Rate — Fact Or Fiction? (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Sep 02, 2004)
There have been elaborate discussions on different interest rates, giving the impression that they were, in fact, the benchmark. For instance, the auction rate on government bonds, the repo rate, the `corridor', and the prime-lending rate of banks.
- Go Slow With The Reforms (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 02, 2004)
The new Kelkar report makes economic sense but all stakeholders need to be consulted before it is implemented
- Slightly Worse (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 02, 2004)
In the Reserve Bank of India’s annual report for 2003-04, of particular interest are the Central bank’s views on gross domestic product growth, inflation and interest rates for 2004-05. The RBI suggested 6.5 to 7 per cent in the May credit policy, and the
- Unshackle Trade (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 02, 2004)
The FTP has a roadmap for the growth of the country’s economy
- Panic Unwarranted (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 02, 2004)
Financial Markets are on a stampede with yields going up in tandem with the inflation, and the Annual Report of the Reserve Bank of India seems to reflect much of that fear when actually it need not.
- One Hundred Days Of Solitude (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Sep 02, 2004)
If the BJP has not reconciled itself to being in the Opposition, the Congress too sometimes gives the impression of not reconciling itself to the fact that it is now in power.
- Unwriting History (Telegraph, Sumit Mitra, Sep 01, 2004)
Arjun Singh may be looking for a vaccine to detoxify education, but the infection is already too widespread
- Portents Of Civil War (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Sep 01, 2004)
As Khaleda Zia cosies up to fundamentalists, secular nationalism is the target in the turbulent politics of Bangladesh
- New Foreign Trade Policy — Going For The Big League (Business Line, Geethanjali Nataraj, Sep 01, 2004)
In a clear signal that economic reforms are back on track, the thrust of the New Foreign Trade Policy is on export promotion, moving away from quantitative restrictions and improving competitiveness of industry to meet global market requirements.
- Unchanged Quarter Century For Farmers (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Sep 01, 2004)
At the end of a quarter century of struggle, the typical farmer is as badly indebted as he was at the beginning but stands vindicated and cleared of all charges of being indolent, ignorant and incompetent.
- What's New In Trade Policy? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 01, 2004)
The context in which the new Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) has been presented seems as important as the policy itself. It replaces the five-year Export Import Policy (2002-07), the most
- How To Sell Culture (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Sep 01, 2004)
The Olympic Games are over, and many in India feel that this large and wonderful country has much to do and miles to go. The 2008 Beijing Olympics is going to be a grand affair — the Chinese are very good at showcasing their culture and giving it a
- Cautious Optimism (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 01, 2004)
The economy is on a sound footing but truant and rising prices can cause a few hiccups
- Fertiliser Subsidy Demystified (Business Line, Viren Kaushik, Sep 01, 2004)
FERTILISER subsidy in India has attracted a lot of attention, comments and criticism in recent years. Its critics say that the burden of nearly Rs 12,000 crore annually cannot be sustained in a free and market-driven economy.
- Faltering Bush Plays Terror Card (Hindu, Paul Harris, Aug 30, 2004)
A year ago, George W. Bush was expected to be invincible; instead he is fighting for his political future.
- Competition In The Air (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 30, 2004)
It is not surprising that the country's first no-frills airline, Air Deccan, has come up with another scheme slashing fares to unimaginably low levels.
- Budget, Service Tax And All That (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Aug 30, 2004)
Even as the new Government completed its first 100 days in office, the abrupt end to the Budget session with the Opposition not finding enough `political space' to play its legitimate role...
- Unconvincing Dollar Rally (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Aug 30, 2004)
Though the dollar rallied when spot crude oil prices pulled back by more than 10 per cent during the week ended August 27, it does not mean the currency has strengthened.
- Regulatory Lightness (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Aug 30, 2004)
Indian governance has alienated people from government. Procedures are complex and secretive so that even many government servants find them hard to follow.
- Stop Work (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 30, 2004)
Irony is the chosen mode of history, even when it decides to move in cycles. It is possible, again, to reiterate the old saying, what Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow — but not without irony. Bandhs and rallies now appear to be ...
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