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Articles 14821 through 14920 of 16647:
- Special To The Express (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 19, 2001)
The assault has two prongs. On the one hand violence and terror: these aim at tiring out the victims by inflicting death and carnage.
- ‘A State That’s Patronising Terrorists Should Wake Up To The Consequences; In Any Case Its Immediate Neighbours Must’ (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Dec 19, 2001)
• Corresponding to the four ‘‘don’ts’’ are six ‘‘do’s’’: Believe what the ideologues and organisations of the terrorists say.
- Embarrassment Of Riches (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 19, 2001)
IN TWO MONTHS foreign exchange reserves could touch $50 billion going by the present inflow of a billion dollars a month.
- Ustr Zoellick Hopes To Boost Russia Wto Bid (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 19, 2001)
WASHINGTON: US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick said he hoped a meeting in Paris on Monday with Russian Economic Trade and Development Minister German Gref would boost Russia’s bid to join the World Trade Organisation.
- Exasperation Playing A Key Role In The South Asian Drama (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 19, 2001)
People in South Asia are angry and anguished. They react in the same way. When they go to the polls, they are reluctant to return those in power. They don’t want to put their faith in one political party. They prefer a coalition.
- Of Bluechip Stocks And Vanishing Wealth (The Financial Express, Jai Kumar N.R, Dec 19, 2001)
John Maynard Keynes once said that “we are all dead in the long run”.
- Focus On Financial Infrastructure To Propel Banking Reforms (The Financial Express, Renu Kohli, Dec 19, 2001)
The recently released Report on Trends and Progress in Banking in India, brought out by the Reserve Bank of India, identifies financial stability as the main issue of concern for policy-makers.
- Pak-Sponsored Terrorism -- Diplomacy, Not War, Is The Key (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 19, 2001)
THE attack on the Parliament complex and what might have happened but for the quick response of the security guards have left the nation stunned and furious.
- Fr Index (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 19, 2001)
THE Public Expenditure Round Table (PERT), a Chennai think-tank specialising on issues relating to pruning government expenditure and getting the maximum output and return from every rupee spent.
- Decisive Stage In Disinvestment (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Dec 19, 2001)
THE SUPREME Court has spoken. After the Balco verdict, the argument against disinvestment, or privatisation, is no longer Res Integra.
- Looking At Prabhu For More Power (Pioneer, Shibani Dasgupta, Dec 19, 2001)
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), the country's premier power generation and distribution channel, has approached the Centre for a budgetary support of Rs 18,000 crore to finance its plans to add generation capacity of 40,000 mw by 2012.
- Restrain The War Mongers (Indian Express, A.J. Philip, Dec 18, 2001)
The much touted Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (Poto) failed to avert December 13.
- What If Osama Were Caught In India? A Debate Would Explode: Should He Be Tried Under Evidence Act? Poto? (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Dec 18, 2001)
The technology of inflicting large-scale violence is becoming easier to obtain, and — per quotient of lethality — less and less expensive. This in turn yields three lemmas:
- I For Indoctrination (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 18, 2001)
December 13, as September 11, as indeed so many days that have passed unmarked on the calendar, when innocents have fallen to the terrorist’s bullet, hammer home a realisation: this challenge will not be met by the military strategy alone.
- Diversity Through Subaltern Prism (Pioneer, Syed Ali Mehdi, Dec 18, 2001)
There has been a tendency among scholars of Muslim history to view it as a biography of caliphs, sultans, shahs and shaykh al-Islams:
- Yashwant Sinha’s Hidden Agenda (Indian Express, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Dec 18, 2001)
While addressing the World Economic Forum, Yashwant Sinha has outlined six areas on which he would lay thrust in the coming days. These reflect the interests of the bureaucracy and foreign investors more than that of the economy.
- Special To The Express (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 18, 2001)
Temporary expedients will boomerang: giving handsome amounts to the SULFA cadre, giving them jobs, allowing them to retain weapons — these steps have resulted in Assam now having not one set of extortionists — ULFA — but two.
- Work Culture In The Us And India -- The Difference Says It All (Business Line, A. V. Swaminathan , Dec 18, 2001)
A COMPARISON of work practices in the United States and India reveals stunning differences.
- Women Constituencies (Pioneer, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Dec 18, 2001)
The premise behind the Women's Reservation Bill is that women are an "oppressed" social group like that of caste or race, and hence they need affirmative action to compensate for the past omissions.
- India's Corporate Economy -- Fallen Between Two Stools (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Dec 18, 2001)
GROWTH is uniquely dependent on household savings. Long-term investments are aggregated from household savings that flow in trickles.
- Destination China (Business Line, M. P. Suresh, Dec 18, 2001)
WITH China becoming a full member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), it is all set to improve its trading profile by adopting pragmatic foreign trade policies and transforming its domestic sector.
- Slovakia Sees Vast Scope For India In Its Economy And Trade (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 18, 2001)
Following the division of former Czechslovakia into two independent states in 1992— Czech and Slovak—development of global co-operation has been one of the essential activities undertaken by Slovakia.
- Human Development: A Touch Slow (Business Line, Ruddar Datt , Dec 18, 2001)
IN INDIA, the basic purpose of planning is to improve peoples choices and their well-being. The country has been categorised by the Human Development Report 2001 as a medium-human development country.
- Joy For Govt, But.... (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 18, 2001)
BY ANNOUNCING A special interim dividend of 750 per cent (Rs75 per share), the VSNL board has completed the process of stripping the company's reserves on behalf of the Government.
- Going Back To China (Telegraph, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Dec 18, 2001)
On board Air China 109. Beijing-Hong Kong. I had long thought the shortest crossing from the First World to the Third was at Erez, the frontier post which divides Israel from Palestine.
- A Matter Of Rights (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 17, 2001)
BY CALLING FOR a focus on the human rights of the weaker sections, the President, Mr. K. R. Narayanan, has made a timely intervention in the country's social discourse.
- Breeding Little Hawks (Hindu, Javed Jabbar, Dec 17, 2001)
Getting children to raise hands in response to one-liner questions on issues as solemn as war and peace, as life and death, epitomised the superficial yet potentially dangerous uses to which TV is put.
- Risk Versus Gain (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 17, 2001)
Pyramid schemes are as old as the hills. B pays Rs 100 to A, who has recruited him. B then goes out and recruits ten more people, each of whom pays B Rs 100.
- Managing The `Nuclear Flashpoint' (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 17, 2001)
NEW DELHI, DEC. 16. Indian analysts of foreign affairs used to bristle every time a visiting American scholar or policy-maker mentioned the phrase that Kashmir is a ``nuclear flashpoint.''
- Shooting Terror (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Dec 17, 2001)
You had to watch it with a crowd of other people to experience the tension in your own taut muscles, to realise you, along with millions of other viewers across the nation, were waiting to exhale — at least momentarily.
- Bring Out The Evidence (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 17, 2001)
Horror over the terrorist attack on Parliament is understandable.
- Growing Terrorism Stalks Maritime Shipping (The Financial Express, Vijay Sakhuja, Dec 17, 2001)
As the war on terrorism in Afghanistan reaches its final stages, the US and its coalition partners are engaged in blocking land routes to prevent the escape of Osama bin Laden.
- Export Promotion In India -- Learning From The Us (Business Line, R. J. Venkateswaran , Dec 17, 2001)
THE Union Commerce and Industry Minister, Mr Murasoli Maran, has set up a high-level committee to evolve a five-year exim policy which would be in line with the Tenth Plan period (2002-2007).
- Inequality, Globalisation And A Social Framework (Business Line, S. Venu , Dec 17, 2001)
IN 1999, the World Bank President, Mr James Wolfensohn, observed of the global financial market: `At the level of people, the system is not working'.
- The Lankan Fire (Pioneer, Shubha Singh, Dec 17, 2001)
Just as the newly elected Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Mr Ranil Wikremesinghe, was putting his 25-member Cabinet together, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) made their first major military attack after the elections.
- A Matter Of Rights (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 17, 2001)
BY CALLING FOR a focus on the human rights of the weaker sections, the President, Mr. K. R. Narayanan, has made a timely intervention in the country's social discourse.
- Managing The `Nuclear Flashpoint' (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 17, 2001)
NEW DELHI, DEC. 16. Indian analysts of foreign affairs used to bristle every time a visiting American scholar or policy-maker mentioned the phrase that Kashmir is a ``nuclear flashpoint.''
- Breeding Little Hawks (Hindu, Javed Jabbar, Dec 17, 2001)
Getting children to raise hands in response to one-liner questions on issues as solemn as war and peace, as life and death, epitomised the superficial yet potentially dangerous uses to which TV is put.
- On A Rebound (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 17, 2001)
THE US was hitherto the ultimate haven and an inveterate defender of free market economy and the private sector.
- An Unequal Equation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 16, 2001)
RUSSIA HAS embarked on a second bonhomie with the United States since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- An Unequal Equation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 16, 2001)
RUSSIA HAS embarked on a second bonhomie with the United States since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- It’s Perversion, Not Policy (Tribune, Abu Abraham, Dec 16, 2001)
A recent edition of the riveting programme, The Big Fight, on the Star News television channel was a revealing experience. The subject was the communalisation of education.
- Saving History From Distortion (Tribune, Satish K. Kapoor , Dec 16, 2001)
Whatever the praxis of historical interpretation, the prime facts of history remain incontrovertible. None, for example, would dispute that Kalachuris were known as Haihayas;
- Lashing A Vicious Tongue (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 15, 2001)
Some time ago I wrote about a discovery I made: a new Indian novelist of unusual talent named Anita Rao Badami. I read her second novel The Hero’s Walk which impressed me profoundly.
- Soppy Move (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 15, 2001)
IF THE FINANCE Ministry has its way, the tax incentives on small savings a principal source of parking of surpluses for small investors, should be on their way out, come next fiscal. But that would be unfortunate. On two counts mainly.
- Diversity Concerns In Higher Education (Hindu, S. Srinivasa Rao, Dec 15, 2001)
The current crisis in higher education is not purely a problem of lack of resources, it is equally importantly, if not more, of content and attitudes.
- Govt Procurement Agreement: A Chance To Reduce Corruption (The Financial Express, Pradeep S. Mehta, Dec 15, 2001)
Government procurement was one of the four new issues which was brought under the work programme of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) at its first Ministerial Conference in Singapore in December 1996.
- Intermediational Cost Rations In Psbs -- Reduction, An Important Objective (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Dec 15, 2001)
THE ratio of operating expenses to a bank's assets may be treated as a measure of the ratio of intermediational costs.
- The Foxhole Mindset (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 15, 2001)
IF someone suggested within a day of the attack on Parliament that we were exaggerating the terrorist threat, he would not even need to get his head examined before being thrown into the mental asylum.
- Kerala’s New Spectre (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 15, 2001)
DEALING with determined extremists is a dicey game for any democratic dispensation, even in the best of times.
- Diversity Concerns In Higher Education (Hindu, S. Srinivasa Rao, Dec 15, 2001)
The current crisis in higher education is not purely a problem of lack of resources, it is equally importantly, if not more, of content and attitudes.
- Consumer Boycott (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 14, 2001)
DR Monroe Friedman of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, US), the renowned authority on consumer psychology, has thrown a sort of academic bombshell with his book, *Consumer Boycott.
- Never Mind The Wicket, India Inc. Needs To Take The Bat And Score Runs (The Financial Express, Veeshal Bakshi, Dec 14, 2001)
For a nation which used sheer determination, will power and optimism as the most effective weapons to win its Independence, the depth of pessimism today, especially in Indian industry, over the future of the country is quite shocking.
- Japan Will Guide Yen Lower If Too Strong: Shiokawa (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 14, 2001)
TOKYO: Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said on Thursday that Japan must try to guide the yen lower if it becomes too strong, but added that monetary authorities must intervene in the market with caution.
- A Neighbour In Danger (Telegraph, J. N. Dixit , Dec 14, 2001)
It is six months since Nepal suffered the trauma of regicide. The king, Gyanendra, is still to stabilize his authority and credibility.
- Queen, King And Executioner (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Dec 14, 2001)
RAMADAN, the ninth month of the Islamic year, is in progress. It is a holy month that is observed with fasting from dawn to sunset.
- Open Your Arms To Fdi In Retail Sector (The Financial Express, T. Bhanu, Dec 13, 2001)
Those were the days when our foreign exchange reserves position was not as comfortable as it is today.
- Reforms And Reservation (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Dec 13, 2001)
The tension is not between reservation and marketisation, but between positive discrimination as defined by populist politics, and the need for deep structural changes and genuine commitment to create resources for the poor.
- Strengthen Indo-Japan Co-Operation In The Agro-Rural Sector (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Dec 13, 2001)
Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s recent visit to Japan indicates a warming up of relations between the two countries. There is a need to carry this relationship forward for mutual economic and diplomatic gains.
- On Balance, Musharraf Loses (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Dec 13, 2001)
Two visual clippings on CNN broadcast over the last week brought out the confusing and critical predicament in which Pakistan finds itself in, two months after the US-led military campaign commenced against the Taliban and the Al-Qaeda.
- Kabul, Colombo, Kathmandu And Dhaka (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Dec 13, 2001)
OVERWHELMING concentration on Afghanistan may be understandable, given the profound significance and consequences of September 11, but it is not the wisest policy for India.
- A Rear-View Drive (Business Line, R. Srinivasan, Dec 13, 2001)
FOR all the sophistication and advances that the US has made in every field of science and technology, an archaic accounting practice is increasingly triggering off corporate bankruptcies and lawsuits in that country.
- Bangla Gas Export To India: Economics Should Prevail Over Politics (The Financial Express, Sunil Mukhopadhyay, Dec 13, 2001)
Whether Bangladesh will finally export natural gas to India is still uncertain.
- Leveraging On Capacity (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Dec 13, 2001)
DIG trenches only to fill them up! Behind the surface joviality, this Keynesian precept is pregnant with grave implications.
- Air India -- Bailout Instead Of Disinvestment? (Business Line, Ashwini Phadnis, Dec 13, 2001)
WITH the Air India (AI) disinvestment coming to a grinding halt, it is time for some serious introspection by the authorities and those at the helm of affairs at the airlines.
- The Time Is Ripe For India To Play A Key Role In Afghanistan (The Financial Express, HUMA SIDDQUI, Dec 13, 2001)
Several news reports have confirmed the fall of Kandahar to the Southern Pashtun forces. Along with this, there are reports about the capture of the Tora Bora cave complex.
- New Us Import Curbs On Steel In The Offing (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Dec 13, 2001)
THE Bush Administration plans to strengthen protection for the US steel industry with a range of stiff tariffs on l6 product lines before the end of February 2002.
- Time For Golden Opportunities (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Dec 13, 2001)
In the midst of this gloom and doom about the economy and lack of reforms, the national highway development project seems to be progressing well.
- Reforms And Reservation (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Dec 13, 2001)
The tension is not between reservation and marketisation, but between positive discrimination as defined by populist politics, and the need for deep structural changes and genuine commitment to create resources for the poor.
- Roots Of Recession (Business Line, S. Goswami, Dec 13, 2001)
THE anthrax scare and the Afghan war aside, the main worry is of the world slipping deeper into a recession.
- Sri Lanka’s New Prime Minister (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 13, 2001)
MR Ranil Wickremesinghe’s assumption of office as Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister on December 9 marks a watershed in the annals of the strife-torn island.
- The Myth Of Brotherhood (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 12, 2001)
This Ramzan is different from the previous ones. Probably the celebration of Id-ul Fitr, a few days from now, will be equally muted.
- End Of Judicial Activism (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 12, 2001)
In a landmark judgement the Supreme Court has shrunk its jurisdiction to decide only on constitutional and statutory issues.
- No More Excuses (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 12, 2001)
The judiciary can no longer be blamed for obstructing or delaying disinvestment decisions. This was made clear in the Supreme Court’s verdict on the Bharat Aluminium Company (Balco) case on Monday.
- No Takers (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 12, 2001)
Rather paradoxically, the Tatas dropping out of the Air India bid is good news for the government.
- Need To Worry, Think And Speak About Other Issues (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Dec 12, 2001)
What an ironic coincidence it is that Osama bin Laden's last, desperate hideout, being bombed incessantly by the United States-led coalition, should be called Tora Bora.
- Elections In Sri Lanka -- Mandate For Peace And Economic Revival (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 12, 2001)
THE real victory in Sri Lanka's recent polls seems to be for the voters.
- Need To Worry, Think And Speak About Other Issues (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Dec 12, 2001)
What an ironic coincidence it is that Osama bin Laden's last, desperate hideout, being bombed incessantly by the United States-led coalition, should be called Tora Bora.
- ‘Prima Facie Evidence Is Key...We Can’t Be On A Fishing Expedition’ (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 12, 2001)
His picturesque island-nation in the Indian Ocean has netted the biggest fish in India’s foreign-investment basket.
- Vietnam Formally Recognises Private Sector Equality (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 12, 2001)
HANOI: Communist-ruled Vietnam’s National Assembly on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing equal treatment to the private sector.
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