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Articles 15021 through 15120 of 16647:
- Lankan Analysts See Stocks Wavering After Elections (The Financial Express, Chamath Ariyadasa, Dec 06, 2001)
COLOMBO: A possible delay in the result from Wednesday’s Sri Lanka’s parliamentary elections could leave the country’s bullish stock market wavering for at least another week, analysts said.
- Victory In Court (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 05, 2001)
AFTER BEING ACQUITTED by the Madras High Court, the legal decks have been cleared for Ms. Jayalalithaa's return to Fort St. George.
- For A Different Truck (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Dec 05, 2001)
Great news. The National Highway Development Project will be completed ahead of schedule.
- Right To Food And Public Accountability (Hindu, Jean Dreze, Dec 05, 2001)
IN THE month of October, Surguja district in Chhatisgarh looks like a land of milk and honey. Endless waves of green fields, lush forests and clear streams give an impression of natural abundance.
- Jayalalithaa Scores A Point (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 05, 2001)
Ms Jayalalithaa, the famous or infamous former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, is having the last laugh. She has walked free from the three-year sentence in a land deal, which blocked her way to become an MLA and Chief Minister.
- Maoists On The Rampage In Nepal (Tribune, Vijay Oberoi, Dec 05, 2001)
The recent events in Nepal, where militancy and terrorism unleashed by Maoists have forced the Government of Nepal to declare a state of emergency in the kingdom.
- Jaya, Jaya, Jayalalithaa (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 05, 2001)
The acquittal of AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa by the Madras High Court in the Tansi and Pleasant Stay Hotel cases marks a stunning victory for her and paves the way for her triumphant return as chief minister.
- `Bright Future For Indian Banking' (Business Line, Rajalakshmi Menon, Dec 05, 2001)
IT HAS been ten years since it was recognised that the banking industry cannot continue to drive the economy by merely collecting deposits and lending to predetermined borrowers at predetermined rates.
- Curbs On Ocbs (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 05, 2001)
THE BAN IMPOSED on overseas corporate bodies (OCBs) from investing in portfolio schemes by the Reserve Bank of India does not come as a surprise at all.
- Grab The Idea! (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 05, 2001)
IN the wake of the rapid downward slide in the economy of advanced countries, and true to its reputation as a path-setter.
- Compatibility In Recycling Plastics (Business Line, Mahendra Pandey , Dec 05, 2001)
ALL synthetic products affect the environment over their life-cycles, from the point of manufacturing to disposal as waste. Plastic products are no exception.
- Right To Food And Public Accountability (Hindu, Jean Dreze, Dec 05, 2001)
IN THE month of October, Surguja district in Chhatisgarh looks like a land of milk and honey. Endless waves of green fields, lush forests and clear streams give an impression of natural abundance.
- `Bright Future For Indian Banking' (Business Line, Rajalakshmi Menon, Dec 05, 2001)
IT HAS been ten years since it was recognised that the banking industry cannot continue to drive the economy by merely collecting deposits and lending to predetermined borrowers at predetermined rates.
- The Challenger: Nice Smile, Better Pr (Indian Express, Dayan Candappa, Dec 04, 2001)
COLOMBO: Former Prime Minister and leader of the Opposition Ranil Wickremesinghe is an unlikely veteran of the tough and dangerous world of Sri Lankan politics.
- Swearing By Economic Reforms (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 04, 2001)
THE CURRENT RECKONING is that the Indian economy will hardly be able to achieve a 5 per cent GDP growth during 2001-2002.
- `Financial Reforms Have Worked, But Rigidities Persist' (Business Line, P. Devarajan, Dec 04, 2001)
Dr Yaga Venugopal Reddy is the only central banker who comes out of his chamber to escort visitors with a warm laugh and a big hullo.
- Vajpayee’s Fairy Tales (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 04, 2001)
No, Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha has not gone delusional.
- What Next After Doha? (Business Line, K. Prabhakaran Nair, Dec 04, 2001)
WHEN the curtain fell on the WTO Ministerial at Doha, there were mixed feelings.
- `Financial Reforms Have Worked, But Rigidities Persist' (Business Line, P. Devarajan, Dec 04, 2001)
Dr Yaga Venugopal Reddy is the only central banker who comes out of his chamber to escort visitors with a warm laugh and a big hullo.
- Sinha’s Nightmares (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 04, 2001)
FINANCE Minister Yashwant Sinha, a born-again optimist and the original feel-good-factor votary, is under intense work place stress. He admits that the government faces a full-blown fiscal crisis.
- Swearing By Economic Reforms (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 04, 2001)
THE CURRENT RECKONING is that the Indian economy will hardly be able to achieve a 5 per cent GDP growth during 2001-2002.
- Red Terror (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 04, 2001)
In the land of its origin, Maoism today is not only discredited but also discarded by the Chinese Communist party.
- Prawns And Other Similarities (Indian Express, Sunil Jain, Dec 03, 2001)
Apart from innumerable mouth-watering varieties of his favourite fish delicacies, when he visits Japan later this week, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will have several other reasons to feel completely at home.
- Sensitising Officials - I (Hindu, P. Radhakrishnan, Dec 03, 2001)
AS INDIAN society entered into a covenant with itself to be secular, democratic, and egalitarian, encumbered by a heavy socio-cultural baggage of a rigidly caste-based hierarchical structure.
- A Laymans Look At Us Recession (Business Line, A. V. Swaminathan , Dec 03, 2001)
MISFORTUNES seem to be dogging the American economy.
- Art Of Selling Nothing (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 03, 2001)
WHILE on the one hand enormous amounts are dished out to advertisers, marketing executives and salespersons for pushing up sales by hook or by crook.
- Raise Liquidity, But Don’t Make Markets More Risky (The Financial Express, Deena Mehta, Dec 03, 2001)
Individual stock futures, introduced in Indian stock markets recently, are said to be substitutes of badla or Automated Lending and Borrowing Mechanism (ALBM)/Borrowing and Lending Security Scheme (BLESS).
- Unequal Growth Trends In Global Economy (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 03, 2001)
WHY do some countries grow fast and some others lag behind? This question has intrigued economists for long.
- Other Side Of Diplomacy (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Dec 03, 2001)
Like so many of the institutions of the government of India, our foreign service is also modelled on that of the British.
- Sensitising Officials - I (Hindu, P. Radhakrishnan, Dec 03, 2001)
AS INDIAN society entered into a covenant with itself to be secular, democratic, and egalitarian, encumbered by a heavy socio-cultural baggage of a rigidly caste-based hierarchical structure.
- Police Play Party-Pooper (Hindu, Radha Venkatesan, Dec 02, 2001)
Chennai's Police Commissioner invokes concern for culture to shut down the city's discotheques. But there are suspicions of political motives.
- Polls And Polarisation (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Dec 02, 2001)
Judging from the run-up, the December 5 elections may leave Sri Lanka more polarised than before along political and communal lines.
- Police Play Party-Pooper (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 02, 2001)
Chennai's Police Commissioner invokes concern for culture to shut down the city's discotheques. But there are suspicions of political motives.
- Opposition Langar (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 02, 2001)
The dinner hosted by senior CPI (M) leader Somnath Chaterjee for the Opposition party leaders in Lok Sabha was the toast of political circles in the past week and for a number of reasons. It is rarely that a CPI (M) leader hosts a dinner.
- Delete And Control - The Parivar's Mantra (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 02, 2001)
Freedom of thought is not something the BJP/Sangh Parivar is big on... It wants believers not thinkers. Anjali Mody on the changes in the school history syllabus.
- Not Everything’s Fair (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Dec 02, 2001)
The Western powers are in Afghanistan to eliminate terrorism. But they must control Alliance forces.
- Delete And Control - The Parivar's Mantra (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 02, 2001)
Freedom of thought is not something the BJP/Sangh Parivar is big on... It wants believers not thinkers. Anjali Mody on the changes in the school history syllabus.
- The Taliban's Strategy (Hindu, Suba Chandran, Dec 01, 2001)
The success or failure of the Taliban would depend on how fast a broad-based Government is established in Afghanistan.
- Rightsizing Government (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 01, 2001)
TO encourage the staff to take up self-employment ventures, the Punjab Government has offered to send them on paid leave for at least three years which can be extended to five years. If they fail, they can return to their job with all benefits intact.
- Hot Poto-Ato (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 01, 2001)
IT is fear of the police misusing the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance, 2001 (Poto), that had fuelled much of the public disquiet about the proposed legislation.
- When In Doubt, Delete It Out (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 01, 2001)
I AM so sorry to have to begin this with an apology to Mike Denness.
- Nepal: Development Can End Maoism (Indian Express, Aravinda Rao, Dec 01, 2001)
NEPAL’S ruling dispensation has proclaimed an emergency as well as issued the Terrorist and Destructive Activities (Control and Punishment) Ordinance in order to contain the violence in the country.
- Enron Is Sinking (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 01, 2001)
AMERICA'S, and the world’s, biggest gas trading company, which also owns thousands of kilometres of gas pipeline and is building one across the continent in Latin America is going through death throes. RIP Enron.
- The Taliban's Strategy (Hindu, Suba Chandran, Dec 01, 2001)
The success or failure of the Taliban would depend on how fast a broad-based Government is established in Afghanistan.
- All Dressed Up And Waiting For Tourists (Tribune, Tavleen Singh, Dec 01, 2001)
THE palaces of Rajasthan, usually bursting with foreign tourists when winter comes, are nearly empty this year.
- Will Tn's Mini-Budget Pay Off? (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Dec 01, 2001)
THE AIADMK Government in Tamil Nadu must be credited with having the political courage to embark on wide-ranging reforms to put public finance in order and improve the State economys medium-term growth prospects.
- Afghanistan Without Taliban Shadow (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Nov 30, 2001)
TIME often comes to the aid of the timid. Whether we like it or not, such has been the case of India.
- Hitting Consumers Below The Belt? (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Nov 30, 2001)
CHENNAI, NOV. 29. Viewed from any angle, Wednesday's revenue- raising exercise, which involved fresh levies and savings to the tune of over Rs. 4,000 crores, has been described as the ``real budget'' of the AIADMK regime.
- Textbooks Matter (Indian Express, Ashok R. Chandran, Nov 30, 2001)
The social impact of school history books is significant.
- A Nation In Transition (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Nov 30, 2001)
In a system as closed as Saudi Arabia’s, if someone in authority comes forward and outlines a vision of the future in the modern idiom, two conclusions are inescapable:
- We're Nesting Now (Business Line, Timeri N. Murari , Nov 30, 2001)
RECENTLY, I came across an interesting word now being used quite frequently in England.
- French To Ditch Franc With A Casual Shrug (The Financial Express, Paul Carrel, Nov 30, 2001)
PARIS: When they trade in their francs for euros next year, the French will be giving up more than 600 years of history — and many will simply respond with a Gallic shrug.
- Implications Of The Competition Bill (Business Line, M. R. Narayana, Nov 30, 2001)
THE structural adjustment programme under the economic reforms since July 1991 and Indias membership to the WTO have exposed economic agents to domestic and global competition.
- Austerity & Adversity (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 30, 2001)
GIVEN THE RECENT trends in public finance and economic policy, the austerity and the revenue-raising measures by the Tamil Nadu Government signal a bold and timely departure from the primrose path of fiscal complacency.
- Removing Poverty For Real Human Development (Business Line, P. P. Sangal , Nov 29, 2001)
THE Human Development Report 2001 has highlighted the plight of the rural poor in India.
- Foundation For Foreign Funds (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 29, 2001)
THE GOVERNMENT CONTINUES to view foreign investments in the housing sector with suspicion, if the latest draft policy is any guide.
- The Unfolding Situation In Afghanistan (Hindu, T. Sreedhar, Nov 29, 2001)
THE SPECTACULAR victory of the U.S.-led grand alliance against the Taliban-Al-Qaeda combine indicates that America has perfected the air-land battle even in as hostile a terrain as Afghanistan.
- Religious Intolerance A La Taliban Will Not Work In Today’s World (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Nov 29, 2001)
Comparisons are odious. Still the defeat of the Taliban may have as much effect on the world, particularly on countries neighbouring Afghanistan, as the September 11 carnage had on America and the West.
- Talking Point (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 29, 2001)
There can be no meaningful dialogue without an atmosphere of trust.
- Extreme Measures (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 28, 2001)
It is always good policy to face up to a challenge rather than pretend it does not exist.
- Contradictions In Anti-Americanism (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Nov 28, 2001)
HOW does President George W. Bush’s “war against terror” look from the Arabian Gulf? While Dubai preens itself as the modern hub of commerce and entrepot trade, it suffers from the September 11 events like the rest of the world.
- Fund Diversion In Punjab (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 28, 2001)
WHILE a large number of farmers in Punjab are awaiting payments for the paddy procured by the state agencies.
- All For Healthy Trade Relations (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 28, 2001)
The multilateral trading system embodied in the World Trade Organization has contributed significantly to economic growth, development and employment throughout the past 50 years.
- Minimum Support Prices -- Reinforce, Reform And Expand (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Nov 28, 2001)
IT IS IMPORTANT to eliminate obstacles to economic growth. It is more important to reinforce policies that promote economic confidence and growth.
- Getting Out Of The Crunch (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Nov 28, 2001)
The future of the development financial institutions is a subject of intense debate.
- How To Overcome The Unending Recession (Tribune, R. N. Malik, Nov 27, 2001)
DESPITE the media concentration on the war in Afghanistan, the unending recession in India continues to hog the headlines. A recent World Bank report said the last thing on this issue:
- Economy: Cost Of Inaction (Tribune, P. Raman , Nov 27, 2001)
INDIAN economy is now in its worst crisis since Independence. Except inflation, every other economic indicator signals the impending disaster. Nothing is moving. No one in the industry is sure of what will happen in the coming years.
- Financing Hurdles For Developing Countries (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Nov 27, 2001)
DEVELOPING countries face the grim prospects of a sharp fall in exports with increase in current account deficits, a substantial decline in private capital flows with official financing continuing at lowest levels.
- No Sugar On This Pill (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 27, 2001)
But the farmers’ problems should be assessed against the background of rural economy and the marketing of agricultural products.
- A Sorry Reflection (Telegraph, Janaki Nair, Nov 27, 2001)
The choice of glass, sometimes smoked or black, in construction which has become so widespread in Bangalore, has its own perils.
- What The Cbse Wanted Deleted From History Textbooks For Grades Vi, Vii & Xi (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 27, 2001)
Religion influenced the formation of social classes in India in a peculiar way.
- Sugarcane Turns Bitter-Sweet (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Nov 27, 2001)
After Doha, we must get our act together at home. But cotton as we saw is in bad shape and so is cane. At Nahal, near Jalandhar, I meet Sukhbinder Singh who grows cane in 15 acres.
- Memories Of Away (Indian Express, Harsh A. Desai, Nov 27, 2001)
Every traveller makes much of his holiday journey, whether good, bad or indifferent, but underestimates the two aspects that complete the experience — the anticipation and the aftermath.
- Fitch Cuts Japan Credit Rating, Outlook Negative (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Nov 27, 2001)
TOKYO: International ratings agency Fitch cut Japan’s sovereign credit standing on Monday and said the ratings could face pressure again unless Japan presses ahead with reforms and gives a clearer picture of how it will rein in debt.
- A More Serious Resolve? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 27, 2001)
PIOUS RESOLUTIONS ON the urgency of arresting the precipitous downslide in the functioning of legislative bodies across the country have been ritually made by the presiding officers.
- Imf's Perception Of Poverty In India (Business Line, S. Gurumurthi , Nov 26, 2001)
THE latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) brought out by the IMF carries an analysis on the growth-poverty connection in India.
- Rbi Report On Trend And Progress Of Banking In India 2000-01 -- Focus Must Shift From Regulation To Analysis (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Nov 26, 2001)
THE latest report of the RBI on Trend and Progress of Banking in India 2000-01 brings out clearly the problems and prospects of Indias banking industry.
- Asia Looking For Its Saviour (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Nov 26, 2001)
The continued, concerted global easing should considerably boost Asian liquidity.
- India And Pak. In The New Scenario (Hindu, Muchkund Dubey , Nov 26, 2001)
THE LAUNCHING of the global campaign against terrorism by an international coalition led by the United States has already resulted in a reordering of the foreign policies of major powers.
- Moderately Optimistic (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Nov 26, 2001)
The last annual report of the Reserve Bank of India keeps up the excellent tradition of its predecessors.
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