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Articles 14521 through 14620 of 16647:
- Peace Is The Only Option (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jan 07, 2002)
Let our leaders remember that their job as politicians is to find political solutions to intractable problems.
- Time-Out For Reforms (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 07, 2002)
IN A WAY, the Cabinet Committee on Reforms, under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister, A. B. Vajpayee, has its task cut out on more than one front.
- Lessons From Argentina Crisis (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Jan 07, 2002)
IN MY last column, I had written that the biggest risk to Asian bourses and perhaps to global markets could come from Japan this year.
- Out On Dolly’s Limb (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 07, 2002)
Dolly the Sheep has arthritis. And once again all’s not quite well in our brave new world.
- Corporate Tax Rate Cut, Mat Withdrawal -- Sinha Must Bite The Bullet, Say Ceos (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 07, 2002)
A MAJORITY of the respondents of a CEO snap poll conducted by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) wants the Union Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, to reduce corporate tax rate from 35 to 30 per cent.
- Preparing For Net Future (Business Line, A. M. Sakkthivel, Jan 07, 2002)
E-COMMERCE is an evolving mantra every citizen of global business must chant to keep with it.
- Imf: It's Monetary Fratricide! (Business Line, Alex Abraham, Jan 07, 2002)
WHEN the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was established many years ago, its founding fathers enshrined within its constitution great and noble ideals and intentions.
- Economy And Elections (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 07, 2002)
CURRENT conventional wisdom has it that much of the drumming up of the "conflict situation" with Pakistan is directed at whipping up support for the BJP in the Assembly elections scheduled to be held in the next few months in states such as Uttar Pradesh.
- At The Edge Of Default (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Jan 07, 2002)
Eminent economists had praised Argentina’s adoption of a currency board as an effective means of depoliticizing monetary policy.
- Us-64 Nav-Repurchase Price Difference -- Budgetary Grant For Uti To Bridge Gap (Business Line, Shaji Vikraman , Jan 07, 2002)
The bail-out cost to the Government for the next fiscal could work out to around Rs 6,400 crore, assuming that the net asset value of US-64 stays at the current level of Rs 6.21 in May 2003.
- Mr Yen Revisits The South Asian Crisis (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jan 07, 2002)
As long as a financial crisis remains limited to one country or region, unaffected countries, particularly those at the centre.
- Economy And Elections (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 07, 2002)
CURRENT conventional wisdom has it that much of the drumming up of the "conflict situation" with Pakistan is directed at whipping up support for the BJP in the Assembly elections scheduled to be held in the next few months in states such as Uttar Pradesh.
- Time-Out For Reforms (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 07, 2002)
IN A WAY, the Cabinet Committee on Reforms, under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister, A. B. Vajpayee, has its task cut out on more than one front.
- Peace Is The Only Option (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jan 07, 2002)
Let our leaders remember that their job as politicians is to find political solutions to intractable problems.
- Lessons From Argentina Crisis (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Jan 07, 2002)
IN MY last column, I had written that the biggest risk to Asian bourses and perhaps to global markets could come from Japan this year.
- Imf: It's Monetary Fratricide! (Business Line, Alex Abraham, Jan 07, 2002)
WHEN the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was established many years ago, its founding fathers enshrined within its constitution great and noble ideals and intentions.
- Sparring At Saarc (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 06, 2002)
KATHMANDU, JAN. 5. India was not surprised at the dramatic public relations exercise by the President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, at the Summit of the South Asian leaders here today.
- War At What Cost? (Hindu, ALOK MUKHERJEE, Jan 06, 2002)
The Indian economy can no doubt survive a war, but the sacrifices it will have to make in terms of development will be substantial.
- Refugees In Their Own Land (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 06, 2002)
For the people along the border in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Rajasthan, the war clouds have cast a shadow on their lives. Shujaat Bukhari, Sarabjit Pandher and Sunny Sebastian report.
- Sparring At Saarc (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 06, 2002)
KATHMANDU, JAN. 5. India was not surprised at the dramatic public relations exercise by the President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, at the Summit of the South Asian leaders here today.
- Tapping Discontent (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jan 06, 2002)
The shoe-bomber's case has focussed attention on an apparently widespread campaign by Muslim extremists in Britain to recruit socially maladjusted youth.
- War At What Cost? (Hindu, ALOK MUKHERJEE, Jan 06, 2002)
The Indian economy can no doubt survive a war, but the sacrifices it will have to make in terms of development will be substantial.
- Refugees In Their Own Land (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 06, 2002)
For the people along the border in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Rajasthan, the war clouds have cast a shadow on their lives. Shujaat Bukhari, Sarabjit Pandher and Sunny Sebastian report.
- The Comfort Of Sameness (Telegraph, MUKUL KESAVAN, Jan 06, 2002)
If you subtract Russia from it, Europe is a sub-continent roughly the same size as British India.
- Appropriate Expectations (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Jan 05, 2002)
IT IS Budget time once again. Chambers of commerce and captains of industry have, as usual, begun lobbying for relief, rebates and concessions through amendment in the annual Finance Bill.
- Disturbing Changes In Banks' Asset Portfolios (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Jan 05, 2002)
DEPOSITS as a ratio of GNP at current prices formed about 13 per cent in 1970-71. By 1980-81, this proportion had risen to 26.4 per cent, at a growth rate of about 7.34 per cent per annum.
- All Houses Are Not Equal (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Jan 05, 2002)
AS IT is, there is a uniform tax-free limit of Rs 50,000 applicable across the board to, among others, all individuals.
- Move To Boost Tufs Funding In Textile Sector (Business Line, G. Gurumurthy, Jan 05, 2002)
THE Union Government has sought to expedite the pace of investment in the textile manufacturing industries under the Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS) sensing that the scheme has lost its momentum in a recession hit textile economy.
- All Houses Are Not Equal (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Jan 05, 2002)
AS IT is, there is a uniform tax-free limit of Rs 50,000 applicable across the board to, among others, all individuals.
- Globalisation And Decentralisation (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Jan 05, 2002)
Where existing structures of inequality are left intact and become compounded with the disadvantages of marketisation, political empowerment is a useful slogan, not a realistic or genuine goal.
- Swinging Any Which Way (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 05, 2002)
It is a measure of the confusion that characterises the administration’s response to the extremist activities of the People’s War Group in Andhra Pradesh that while the Centre has banned the outfit under Poto.
- Reaching Out To Conquer (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jan 05, 2002)
What wisdom do you glean from the way Musharraf and Vajpayee have routed their flights to Kathmandu?
- The Region And The World (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 05, 2002)
For many decades, regional integration was viewed as a panacea.
- The Business Of Saarc (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 05, 2002)
KATHMANDU, JAN. 4. Will the business of SAARC ever become business?
- The Cost Of War (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Jan 05, 2002)
A war causes colossal human suffering... In all this, the `economic' costs seem trifling. But there is a huge cost, both short and long term.
- Disturbing Changes In Banks' Asset Portfolios (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Jan 05, 2002)
DEPOSITS as a ratio of GNP at current prices formed about 13 per cent in 1970-71. By 1980-81, this proportion had risen to 26.4 per cent, at a growth rate of about 7.34 per cent per annum.
- Globalisation And Decentralisation (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Jan 05, 2002)
Where existing structures of inequality are left intact and become compounded with the disadvantages of marketisation, political empowerment is a useful slogan, not a realistic or genuine goal.
- The Business Of Saarc (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 05, 2002)
KATHMANDU, JAN. 4. Will the business of SAARC ever become business?
- Is The Sensex Revamp Worth The Trouble? (The Financial Express, Sachchidanand Shukla, Jan 05, 2002)
The Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex will sport a new look from 7th January, 2002.
- The Cost Of War (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Jan 05, 2002)
A war causes colossal human suffering... In all this, the `economic' costs seem trifling. But there is a huge cost, both short and long term.
- Is The Sensex Revamp Worth The Trouble? (The Financial Express, Sachchidanand Shukla, Jan 05, 2002)
The Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex will sport a new look from 7th January, 2002.
- India And The Global Slowing (Hindu, Pulapre Balakrishnan, Jan 04, 2002)
The prevalent tendency to link the slowing of the Indian manufacturing sector to the recession in the U.S. economy needs to be rejected as deluding.
- Transparent Dishonesty (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jan 04, 2002)
The unsinkable Molly Brown, please move over. You have competition, the defence minister of India has proved himself equally unsinkable.
- Beyond Terrorism And Recession... -- Us Looks Ahead With Hope (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Jan 04, 2002)
AMERICANS opened the New Year with a renewed sense of confidence, overcoming the traumatic experience of the terrorist attacks of 2001, and with strong expectations of economic recovery in the first half of 2002.
- War Is Not Affordable (Business Line, Kuldip Nayar, Jan 04, 2002)
JINGOISM is one thing and economy quite another. War is affordable, says the Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha.
- Talking Storms (Business Line, Timeri N. Murari , Jan 04, 2002)
IT was Chairman Mao who said: `Walk softly and carry a big stick.' Had he been an Indian, he would have said: `Talk softly and carry a big stick.'
- New Currency (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 04, 2002)
Since the Euro transition did not happen overnight, January 1, 2002, is more of a signal and needs to be considered in the broader context of European integration.
- Talking Storms (Business Line, Timeri N. Murari , Jan 04, 2002)
IT was Chairman Mao who said: `Walk softly and carry a big stick.' Had he been an Indian, he would have said: `Talk softly and carry a big stick.' There is a big difference between the two sayings.
- India And The Global Slowing (Hindu, Pulapre Balakrishnan, Jan 04, 2002)
The prevalent tendency to link the slowing of the Indian manufacturing sector to the recession in the U.S. economy needs to be rejected as deluding.
- War Is Not Affordable (Business Line, Kuldip Nayar, Jan 04, 2002)
JINGOISM is one thing and economy quite another. War is affordable, says the Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha.
- Indian Economic Association Points To Reform Gaps (The Financial Express, P Vinod Kumar, Jan 04, 2002)
As the old adage goes, it is difficult to get two economists to agree on a single, simple hypothesis.
- Beyond Terrorism And Recession... -- Us Looks Ahead With Hope (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Jan 04, 2002)
AMERICANS opened the New Year with a renewed sense of confidence, overcoming the traumatic experience of the terrorist attacks of 2001, and with strong expectations of economic recovery in the first half of 2002.
- Agriculture Outgrowing Problems, But... (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Jan 03, 2002)
IT WAS A rebound year for the country's farm sector, following 2000's drought-induced disaster of a harvest.
- No Small Change (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 03, 2002)
THERE IS LITTLE doubt that the New Year switch to the euro marks a watershed in the history of Europe, governed the past centuries by strong nationalist aspirations.
- A Perfect Counterfoil (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Jan 03, 2002)
It seems highly presumptuous to write of a woman with whom one had the slenderest of acquaintances.
- No Small Change (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 03, 2002)
THERE IS LITTLE doubt that the New Year switch to the euro marks a watershed in the history of Europe, governed the past centuries by strong nationalist aspirations.
- Agriculture Outgrowing Problems, But... (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Jan 03, 2002)
IT WAS A rebound year for the country's farm sector, following 2000's drought-induced disaster of a harvest.
- How Safe Are Indian Ports From Terrorist Activities? (The Financial Express, Vijay Sakhuja, Jan 03, 2002)
International intelligence agencies are monitoring the movement of at least 20 merchant vessels in the wake of the September 11 attacks in the United States.
- A Perfect Counterfoil (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Jan 03, 2002)
It seems highly presumptuous to write of a woman with whom one had the slenderest of acquaintances.
- Warming Up Exercises (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 03, 2002)
Please send VHP and Friends a copy of the PM’s musings.
- War Clouds And Pakistan’s Shadow (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 03, 2002)
India and Pakistan appear once again to be on the brink of war. The arrest of the chief of Jamaat Al-Dawa, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, who until recently headed Lashkar-e-Taiba has been welcomed by New Delhi as ‘‘a step in the right direction’’.
- Popular Pressure (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 02, 2002)
Government expenditure is the main driving force of the economy in most parts of the Northeast, and poverty levels have been kept artificially low with liberal government investments.
- More Violence For More Money (Telegraph, BARUN KUMAR SAHU, Jan 02, 2002)
Extortion by insurgent outfits in several parts of the Northeast is a common occurrence.
- The Algebra Of Poverty -- Only The Rich Should Become Richer (Business Line, Devinder Sharma , Jan 02, 2002)
THE Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, would like us to be part of his make-believe world.
- The Corporate Transformation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 02, 2002)
THE RECENT TRANSFER of a 10 per cent stake in Larsen and Toubro (L&T) from Reliance to a company belonging to the A.V. Birla group has been remarkably free from the bitterness.
- War Won’t Solve A Thing (Indian Express, Sanat Mohanty, Jan 02, 2002)
Every morning as newspapers and webzines brings more rhetoric of war between India and Pakistan, I worry whether we the people have lost our ability to think things through.
- Old Threat, New Faces (Indian Express, Jasjit Singh, Jan 02, 2002)
Under Indian dissuasive strategy Pakistan has, most reluctantly and temporarily, arrested Masood Azhar, the head of Jaish-e-Mohammed, and now the head of Lashkar-e-Toiba.
- The Algebra Of Poverty -- Only The Rich Should Become Richer (Business Line, Devinder Sharma , Jan 02, 2002)
THE Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, would like us to be part of his make-believe world.
- The Corporate Transformation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 02, 2002)
THE RECENT TRANSFER of a 10 per cent stake in Larsen and Toubro (L&T) from Reliance to a company belonging to the A.V. Birla group has been remarkably free from the bitterness.
- Reading The New Scenario (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jan 02, 2002)
It is again the time of the year when economists, labour leaders, captains of industry, farmer leaders and many representatives of lobbies and interest groups will troop in to “advise” the government.
- The Algebra Of Poverty -- Only The Rich Should Become Richer (Business Line, Devinder Sharma , Jan 02, 2002)
THE Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, would like us to be part of his make-believe world.
- Not Trustworthy (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 02, 2002)
The Unit Trust of India made bad news in 2001. The first day of the new year has not brought much cheer either.
- Argentina Implodes As Imf Looks On (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Jan 01, 2002)
THE FINANCIAL implosion in Argentina had been in the making for months as the third largest economy of Latin America desperately clung to its peso-dollar one-to-one exchange rate.
- The Jehadis Make It Worse (Hindu, Michael Krepon , Jan 01, 2002)
The latest crisis between India and Pakistan has followed a familiar pattern.
- Disturbing Dreams (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 01, 2002)
ON THE FIRST day of 2002 the Indian political economy resembles in many ways its very own famed institution, the Unit Trust of India (UTI), with a net asset value placing it somewhere at the bottom of any international league.
- Crude Oil: Always A Factor Of Worry (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jan 01, 2002)
THE EMERGENCY meeting of the oil producers' cartel, Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), in Cairo just ahead of the new year brings bad tidings to developing countries dependent on imports for oil.
- Can The Us Fight An Even-Handed Battle? (Business Line, Prabhat Kumar, Jan 01, 2002)
AFTER settling the Afghanistan issue, the US is now busy drawing up plans for the second phase of the anti-terrorist campaign by targeting terrorist groups with global reach.
- Giving Diplomacy A Chance (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 01, 2002)
THE EMERGING SIGNS of a determined effort by the Government and the Opposition to join hands and give diplomacy a fair and prime chance raise hopes for a new sense of direction in New Delhi's battle against the external terrorists.
- The Indo-Pakistan Crisis (Hindu, Rajindar Sachar , Jan 01, 2002)
Children have a right to live and grow peacefully. Rulers who refuse to ensure this deserve to be thrown in the dustbin of history.
- Enduring Century (Telegraph, RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE, Jan 01, 2002)
With the death of Queen Victoria early in 1901, the 19th century came to a symbolic end. With the end of the war in Afghanistan, the curtain came down on the last act of the 20th century.
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