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Articles 16121 through 16220 of 16647:
- Same Concerns, Different Views (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Aug 17, 2001)
NEW DELHI, AUG. 16. Quite a coincidence that the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, and the Pakistan President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, found themselves touching upon an identical agenda in their addresses on the Independence Day functions.
- Proximate Sources The Hope For Water-Starved Chennai (Hindu, Louise Menezes, Aug 17, 2001)
It is the season for grandiose proposals to save water-starved Chennai.
- When Banks Go Bust (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 17, 2001)
Tough economic decisions are taken when it’s too late.
- The Financial Express: Analysis (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 17, 2001)
Following is the International Monetary Fund’s Executive Board’s Assessment of India’s economy (Public Information Notice No. 01/88, August 14, 2001).
- Agra And After (Pioneer, Anil Bhat, Aug 16, 2001)
During a recent seminar held in the Capital by the Indian Council of World Affairs, there was an interesting mix of speakers.
- Contested Cosmopolitans (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Aug 16, 2001)
I have now had the privilege of writing for The Telegraph for nearly ten years, but nothing I have previously published in these columns has quite evoked the response that my last essay, “Rooted cosmopolitans” (July 22), did.
- Power Realities (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 16, 2001)
EVEN though the reduction in power rates for various categories of consumers is bound to be appreciated by consumers, the Om Prakash Chautala government’s decision seems to be based on a populist consideration.
- Toward Minimalist Governance (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 16, 2001)
The tenth five year plan (2002-07) is being prepared against a backdrop of high expectations arising from some aspects of the recent performance.
- Press Council Gets A New Chairman (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 16, 2001)
MR Justice K Jayachandra Reddy takes over as the new chairman of the Press Council of India at a crucial time in its history.
- Bleak House (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 16, 2001)
India, it could be argued, has missed many trysts with destiny. One need not go back to the days of Jawaharlal Nehru and his grandiose dreams for the nation.
- Obscured By Clouds (Hindustan Times, Jayashree Sengupta, Aug 16, 2001)
Economic reforms were introduced in China in 1979. By 1989, it emerged as an important economic power and a favoured destination for foreign investment.
- Zealously Guarding Their Turf (Telegraph, Radhika Ramaseshan, Aug 16, 2001)
It is all a matter of perspective. The Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena relationship has turned acrimonious not because the former suddenly feels embarrassed by Hindutva or regards Sharad Pawar as a more reliable ally.
- Towards A Happier Northeast (Hindu, Murkot Ramunny, Aug 16, 2001)
DR. S. RADHAKRISHNAN'S words have to be remembered today, ``Look backwards and live forwards''.
- From The Ramparts (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 16, 2001)
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee seems to have delivered his Independence Day address to the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort.
- Trade As Strategy: Chinese Lessons (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 16, 2001)
CONSIDER THE following paradox: China is a closed society with an open mind and India is an open society with a closed mind.
- Unwanted And Illegitimate? (The Economic Times, Parth J Shah, Aug 16, 2001)
THE TENTH anniversary of India’s liberalisation programme came and went.
- It's Generic (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 16, 2001)
ANECDOTES of Infosys chairman Narayanamurthy's modest lifestyle are legion.
- No Pick-Up Tonic Here (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 16, 2001)
PRIME Minister Vajpayee's Independence Day speech, fortunately, was devoid of the sort of grandiose announcements that have come to characterise the occasion in recent years.
- When Indians Chanted Pakistan Zindabad (The Economic Times, Salil Mishra, Aug 16, 2001)
THE VAJPAYEE-MUSHARRAF talks ended possibly the only way they could.
- Lack Of Perspective In Debate On The Financial Sector (The Economic Times, T.T.Ram Mohan, Aug 16, 2001)
THE RECENT debate on the problems in the financial sector has been characterised by a lamentable lack of perspective.
- Analyst Objectivity (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 16, 2001)
Glenn Cheney on the independence of investment analysts.
- Travails Of A Surplus Economy (Business Line, S.S. Bhandare, Aug 16, 2001)
IT IS amazing how, over the last decade, the economy has transformed into `a surplus economy'.
- Hardly Stirring (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 16, 2001)
IN A BITS-AND-PIECES speech from the Red Fort on Independence Day, the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, stuck to a drilled diet of promises that would have enthused none.
- Treating Infertility And Handling Trauma (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 16, 2001)
WORLD over, there is a lot of wrong perceptions on infertility and the various lines of treatment available for it.
- Flag Waving Is Fashionable (Business Line, Menka Shivdasani , Aug 16, 2001)
FIFTY-FIVE years of freedom and how meaningless have the rituals connected with it become!
- Whither The Dollar? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 15, 2001)
AMERICA’S current account deficit is ballooning, making the US the world’s largest external debtor (only, of course, in absolute terms, as the United States is far from the worst performer if the trade deficit is measured as a share of GDP).
- Tamil Nadu: In Search Of A Sane Politics (Indian Express, T. N. Gopalan, Aug 15, 2001)
Welcome to Tamil Nadu, where politics of vanity and vendetta is reaching intolerable levels.
- Tamil Nadu's Theatre Of The Absurd (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 15, 2001)
THE DMK-AIADMK theatre of the absurd is becoming increasingly bizarre.
- Drug Therapy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 15, 2001)
Meanwhile, progress continues to be made in drug therapy for heart failure, although drugs have significant limitations for late-stage heart patients, doctors said.
- Eloquence With Daggers Drawn (Pioneer, Wilson John, Aug 15, 2001)
Pervez Musharraf is quite adept at speaking his heart out, at least what is convenient to his ideology-a single-minded obsession to rule Pakistan with an iron hand.
- China, A Key Software Market: Karnik (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 15, 2001)
COME September, Kiran Karnik will take charge at Nasscom as president, at a time when the Rs 37,700-crore Indian software industry is facing a slowdown -- its first ever.
- Learning To Trust Is Key To Competition (The Financial Express, Pradeep S. Mehta, Aug 15, 2001)
The disagreement between the United States and the European Union (EU) on the GE-Honeywell merger is all the evidence one needs of a competition policy being both intensely important and highly controversial.
- Great Expectations (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Aug 15, 2001)
If the mood is less than cheerful on this Independence Day, the reason has much to do with a seeming sense of drift in national affairs.
- For A ''Swarna'' Andhra Pradesh (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 15, 2001)
THE PLANNING COMMISSION'S call to the Government of Andhra Pradesh to pursue fiscal reforms and to take measures to reduce the burden on the exchequer caused by losses by the public sector.
- A Loss Of Faith (Hindu, P. V. Indiresan , Aug 15, 2001)
SINCE LIBERALISATION, stock market scams have been erupting at regular intervals.
- Contested Cosmopolitans (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Aug 15, 2001)
I have now had the privilege of writing for The Telegraph for nearly ten years, but nothing I have previously published in these columns has quite evoked the response that my last essay, “Rooted cosmopolitans” (July 22), did.
- The Rating Downgrade (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 15, 2001)
LAST TUESDAY, STANDARD & Poor, a leading international rating agency lowered India's sovereign long-term local currency rating from the existing BBB to BBB-.
- Nation Turns 54 (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 15, 2001)
India has much to be proud of as it completes 54 years of existence as an independent country.
- Zealously Guarding Their Turf (Telegraph, Radhika Ramaseshan, Aug 15, 2001)
It is all a matter of perspective. The Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena relationship has turned acrimonious not because the former suddenly feels embarrassed by Hindutva or regards Sharad Pawar as a more reliable ally.
- Bleak House (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 15, 2001)
India, it could be argued, has missed many trysts with destiny. One need not go back to the days of Jawaharlal Nehru and his grandiose dreams for the nation.
- Mind Games In Maharashtra (Indian Express, Smruti Koppikar, Aug 15, 2001)
ALL those who second-guessed the divorce between the BJP and Shiv Sena would have been surprised at the enduring quality of their relationship.
- Fundamental Mistake, Historical Blunder (Tribune, V.S. Dharma Kumar, Aug 15, 2001)
“A fundamental mistake”. That was how Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad, the greatest of India’s Muslim leaders, described the Partition of India on October 23, 1947. Many in both countries today agree that Partition was a historical blunder.
- Indian Peace-Keepers And The Hezbollah (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 15, 2001)
After their somewhat politicised and controversial withdrawal last year from Sierra Leone, Indian peacekeepers with United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) were last month in a spot.
- Toward Minimalist Governance (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 15, 2001)
The tenth five year plan (2002-07) is being prepared against a backdrop of high expectations arising from some aspects of the recent performance.
- Macro Dimensions Of Uti Fiasco (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, Aug 14, 2001)
THE FIASCO of the Unit Trust of India (UTI) raises the much broader question: Have financial crises of this nature become systemic?
- Management Strategy For Internet Age (The Economic Times, Philip S. Thomas, Aug 14, 2001)
THE biggest change brought about by the internet seems to have been in the area of consumer behaviour.
- Us-64 And Markets: Unstable Equilibrium (The Economic Times, Samir K Barua, Aug 14, 2001)
IN MY last article (ET, July 31), I had advocated an entirely different approach to deal with the US-64 crisis, based on the use of call options.
- More To It Than Monica (Indian Express, Sonia Trikha, Aug 14, 2001)
CIRCA 2003. Alfred Knopf has just released Bill Clinton’s memoirs. They are titled Whatever and we are all reading it over a weekend. The whole memoir.
- Tamil Nadu's Aggressive Police (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 14, 2001)
THE WORST FEARS of violence and blood-letting on the occasion of the DMK's anti-police rally in Chennai on Sunday have indeed come true, and regrettably so.
- Alarming Signs (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 14, 2001)
INCIDENTS OF ATTACK on institutions run by Christian missionaries and the justification of such barbarism by the leaders of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) are taking place once again.
- The Polity (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Aug 14, 2001)
IN THE midst of fast changing political developments, at times with sudden, unexpected twists, there is a danger of people and parties losing sight of the direction the polity is heading in.
- Coloured Curriculum (Hindustan Times, Romila Thapar, Aug 14, 2001)
Let me begin by asserting that those who do not understand the past, or refuse to understand it, invariably end up by misunderstanding the present and are unable to move forward into the future.
- Fever Pitch In Tamil Nadu (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 14, 2001)
Will someone please differentiate policing from politics?
- Wages Of Vendetta (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 14, 2001)
Sunday's violence in Tamil Nadu, which claimed five lives and left scores, including journalists, wounded, should not cause any surprise.
- Unjust Peace (Pioneer, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Aug 14, 2001)
The United Nations has declared 2001-10 as the decade of peace and non-violence.
- Re-Orienting Farm Operations (Business Line, H. Kaushal , Aug 14, 2001)
IT is a decade ago that India adopted the concept of a market-driven economy.
- Acid Test In The Face Of Acid Attacks (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Aug 14, 2001)
The acid attack on four young Muslim women in Srinagar last Wednesday by an unknown militant outfit, and the swift compliance by women of all ages on the issue of wearing the chadar (head-dress) in public, has introduced a new menace in the Valley.
- Ground Realities And The Economy (Telegraph, Arupratan Ghosh, Aug 14, 2001)
India’s gross domestic product growth has slowed down substantially after having grown at an annual rate of over 7 per cent during 1994 and 1997.
- Snail's Pace (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 14, 2001)
FEBRUARY 28, 2001: ``There is urgent need to further deepen reforms to set the stage for higher growth...
- For A New Freedom Movement (The Economic Times, Sauvik Sauvik Chakraverti verti , Aug 14, 2001)
THE OTHER morning I strolled into the CR Park No. 1 market to buy some mutton.
- Unhappy Tidings (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 14, 2001)
IF reports are correct, the fiscal deficit for 2001-02 could bulge out beyond what the government estimated at the beginning of the year.
- 2001 Census: Encouraging And Discouraging Features (Business Line, Ruddar Datt , Aug 14, 2001)
INDIA accounts for a meagre 2.4 per cent of world surface area of 135.79 million sq km, yet it supports and sustains a whopping 16.7 per cent of the world population.
- Macro Dimensions Of Uti Fiasco (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, Aug 14, 2001)
THE FIASCO of the Unit Trust of India (UTI) raises the much broader question: Have financial crises of this nature become systemic?
- Downsizing Alone Won’t Restore Rlys’ Financial Health (The Financial Express, Jyoti Mukul, Aug 14, 2001)
When the biggest employer in the world spends a substantial portion of its revenue in paying wages and pensions and finds that this leaves it with little to put back into the revenue generating system, how does it go about belt-tightening?
- Fruits Of Economic Fundamentalism (Tribune, Sumer Kaul, Aug 14, 2001)
Seattle, Washington, Davos and now, last month, Genoa. Some 70,000 men and women from all over the western world gathered in this Italian city.
- T.N. Govt., Police On The Mat Again (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Aug 14, 2001)
CHENNAI, AUG. 13. Barely six weeks after the `midnight arrests' of the DMK leaders, the Tamil Nadu Government and the Chennai police find themselves on the mat again.
- Godzilla With A Perm (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 13, 2001)
But Koizumi’s claim to be a radical new force in Japanese politics has somehow to account for the fact that he spent a quarter-century as a loyal LDP soldier on the back benches of parliament, as his father and indeed his grandfather did before him.
- Big Bang Approach (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 13, 2001)
Japan’s economic miracle in 1950-90 was based on a competitive export sector that inundated the world with cars, electronics and so on, while the domestic economy was cosseted like nowhere else.
- Still Far Away From The Fast Track (Telegraph, R. J. Venkateswaran , Aug 13, 2001)
What is the truth about India’s economic performance and its prospects?
In this connection.
- Policies In A Morass (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Aug 13, 2001)
International rating agencies starting with Fitch, and now Standard & Poor, no doubt to be followed by the others, have begun the new round of lowering the Indian economy’s credit rating.
- Pds And India's Food Security (Business Line, M. G. Devasahayam , Aug 13, 2001)
IF WE care about true food security, an efficient and effective mechanism to reach food to all people at all times at affordable prices is an essential prerequisite.
- Holy Cow! How Could We? (Pioneer, Debraj Mookerjee, Aug 13, 2001)
The noise raised over Professor DN Jha's book, Holy Cow: Beef in Indian Dietary Traditions is predictable.
- Winding Up Jpc May Not Help Steel Industry (The Financial Express, Sunil Mukhopadhyay, Aug 13, 2001)
The Expenditure Reforms Committee’s (ERC) suggestion to wind up the Kolkata-based Joint Plant Committee (JPC) to cut the steel ministry’s expenditure is being seen by many in the industry as unnecessary.
- Count In Public Investment To Break Out Of Recession (The Financial Express, R.K. Roy, Aug 13, 2001)
The Union Cabinet has reportedly approved a mega rural all-weather road connectivity programme to reach out to 1.40 lakh habitations. This is a centrally-sponsored public works scheme, but the responsibility for implementing it will be that of the states.
- Kashmir’s Taliban (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Aug 13, 2001)
There appear to be no limits to the extent to which fanatical groups can go in pursuit of their creed of intolerance.
- ‘There’s No Slowdown In It Investments In Karnataka’ (The Financial Express, Sunil Mukhopadhyay, Aug 13, 2001)
Karnataka, India’s leading software exporting state, does not seem to be unduly worried about the slowdown in the sector.
- Robbing India Of Its Future (Hindustan Times, Prem Shankar Jha, Aug 13, 2001)
Most people have dismissed Prime Minister Vajpayee’s threat to resign as a politician’s trick to bring his party and his coalition into line behind him.
- Government Should Leave Dfis Well Alone (The Economic Times, S. L. Rao, Aug 13, 2001)
THE CENTRAL and state governments own or control development financial institutions, banks, insurance companies, mutual funds, as well as others through indirect ownership.
- Proposal To Initiate Economic Revival (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Aug 13, 2001)
THE news of financial misadventures has dominated the media in recent months.
- Making Globalisation Work For The People (The Financial Express, Bhanoji Roa, Aug 13, 2001)
Reforms since 1991 were aimed at heralding the change from smuggling to honest importing; from hawala to free foreign exchange for legitimate uses; from constraints on enterprise to facilitating private sector.
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