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Articles 16221 through 16320 of 16647:
- Vision 2020 -- Why Don't Bankers Have Self-Confidence? (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Aug 13, 2001)
IN THE US, the Savings and Loan Associations are the equivalent of the chit funds in India.
- Bailouts From The Laid-Off (The Economic Times, Soumya Kanti Mitra, Aug 13, 2001)
ENTREPRENEURSHIP has suddenly got a broader meaning amidst the premature shutdown of software and other IT-related firms in California.
- Why The Doom & Gloom? (The Economic Times, U. R. Bhat, Aug 13, 2001)
IT WOULD be probably an understatement to say that there is an ambience of doom and gloom in the economy and the stock market in India today.
- Well Begun? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 13, 2001)
FIVE probationers allotted to the Karnataka cadre from the 1999 batch of UPSC official recruits have done their bit to project the IAS as the Indian Arrogant Service, the IPS as the Indian Pompous Service and the IFS as the Indian Freebie Service.
- Trade Pressures (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 13, 2001)
MR ROBERT ZOELLICK, Trade Representative of the new Republican Government of Mr George Bush, said in a recent interview that he ``lives in a world of practical reality''.
- 'We Target The Rate Of Inflation' (The Economic Times, Diganta Saikia, Aug 13, 2001)
DR MERVYN King, deputy governor, Bank of England speaks on various issues ranging from monetary policy management and the problems with the international financial system to the importance of coordination across different governments.
- Uti Imbroglio Has Wider Ramifications (Tribune, Surinder Singla, Aug 12, 2001)
IN an era of liberalised economy, the sensex index carries no less a shock value than the Richter scale.
- Legislating Morality In Cyber Cafes (Tribune, Rakshat Puri, Aug 12, 2001)
THE Union Government is reportedly intending to widen the scope of information technology laws in order to counter the immoral exposure of people to pornographic material in cyber cafes.
- India Trapped In 'Talks' Vortex (Pioneer, Ajoy Bagchi, Aug 12, 2001)
In his column, 'Human Voices' (August 5), Gautam Siddharth writes that it was ludicrous to have invited the "tin-pot" next door for talks and it would be even more absurd if his invitation is accepted by Prime Minister Vajpayee.
- Premier With A Difference? (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Aug 12, 2001)
Mr. Junichiro Koizumi has shown that he is trying to be different... But he has enough domestic issues to tackle and does not need new problems with sensitive neighbours.
- Tashkent, Simla, Lahore, Agra ...? (Pioneer, MN Buch, Aug 12, 2001)
General Pervez Musharraf before, during and after the Agra Summit has been consistent in stating that the core and, by implication, the only issue for discussion between India and Pakistan is Kashmir.
- Votes, Not Leadership (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Aug 11, 2001)
WITH every passing year, only one fact is becoming clear vis-a-vis the Indian political landscape, namely, that the politicians of today are far more interested in acquiring.
- Deteriorating Fisc: The Revenue Angle (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Aug 11, 2001)
ACCORDING to the Controller General of Accounts, the fiscal state of the economy seems to be getting worse and worse.
- Us Strategies To Combat Slowdown -- A `Hasten-Slowly' Policy (Business Line, A. V. Swaminathan , Aug 11, 2001)
One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
- Our Defensive Mindset (Tribune, Harwant Singh, Aug 11, 2001)
K.F. Rustamji in a lead article in The Tribune (August 1, 2001), “Being always on the defensive won’t pay” on General Musharraf and the Kashmir issue has thrown a poser:
- Jpc Can Catalyse Reforms (The Economic Times, N. Vittal, Aug 11, 2001)
IT is said that there are two types of fools. The first type are those who give good advice when not asked for.
- Talking About The Weather (Telegraph, Chandrashekar Dasgupta, Aug 11, 2001)
How important is global warming ? Last month, it figured prominently in President George W. Bush’s talks with European leaders as well as in the group-of-eight ministerial meeting in Genoa.
- Biotechnology Holds The Promise Of A Great Future (The Economic Times, D. Mishra, Aug 11, 2001)
INFORMATION technology has been a great source for India's economic strength in the last decade. But to hold onto this slot what is required is the constant search for new areas of development.
- The Show Goes On, Even After 10 Years Of Reform (The Financial Express, S Narendra, Aug 11, 2001)
The headlines in the economic and business dailies in July seemed to be competing with each other to spread depressing news.
- Enemy Of Promise (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 11, 2001)
Reputation can sometimes become a liability. The Union home minister, Mr L.K. Advani, is perhaps realizing this much to his dismay.
- India Trapped In 'Talks' Vortex (Pioneer, Ajoy Bagchi, Aug 11, 2001)
In his column, 'Human Voices' (August 5), Gautam Siddharth writes that it was ludicrous to have invited the "tin-pot" next door for talks and it would be even more absurd if his invitation is accepted by Prime Minister Vajpayee.
- Tashkent, Simla, Lahore, Agra ...? (Pioneer, MN Buch, Aug 11, 2001)
General Pervez Musharraf before, during and after the Agra Summit has been consistent in stating that the core and, by implication, the only issue for discussion between India and Pakistan is Kashmir.
- It's The Economy, Genius! (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 11, 2001)
IF you haven’t seen the recession yet, come to the boomtown.
- Warning Hazards (Business Line, Timeri N. Murari , Aug 10, 2001)
SO, Mr George W. Bush is off on a month long vacation on his Texas ranch. Its the longest vacation any American president has ever taken. Especially one who's already known for being work-shy.
- All The Chief’s Men (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Aug 10, 2001)
A recent directive from the home ministry to the Tamil Nadu government has “requisitioned” the services of three officers of the Indian Police Service who belong to the Tamil Nadu cadre of that service for postings in the Centre.
- Government Lacks Political Will (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Aug 10, 2001)
A number of disgusted and angry persons ask me: what is the Government of India's policy on Kashmir? How can we tackle Pakistan and pin it down for spreading terrorism in the valley and beyond while pursuing soft policies towards Islamabad?
- Failed Promises, Unrealised Reforms Led To Change In Mood (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 10, 2001)
Following is the text of international credit rating agency Moody’s press release on Wednesday, downgrading India’s rating:
- Resignation Threat Has Become Stale (Pioneer, Anil Narendra, Aug 10, 2001)
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is a highly respected leader of this country. For over four decades he has had an impeccable record in public life.
- A Necessary Move (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 10, 2001)
The Centre's decision to declare Udhampur, Doda, Jammu and Kathua districts of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) as disturbed areas and bring them under the Armed Forces (J&K) Special Powers Act, 1990, is hardly surprising.
- Tamil Nadu's Task Ahead (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 10, 2001)
THE UNSAID MESSAGE in the Annual Plan allocation for Tamil Nadu is that the State has its task cut out for the years ahead in fine-tuning its economic policies even while ensuring a continuity with the past.
- Can India's Growth Be Faster? (Hindu, Gilbert Etienne , Aug 10, 2001)
DATA ON GDP and GDP growth are doubtful, even in the most advanced countries.
- Investments And Economic Growth -- Barking Up The Wrong Tree (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Aug 10, 2001)
WHEN the future does not seem to promise good news about the economy, almost everyone turns to the Centre and the Reserve Bank of India with appeals and suggestions.
- Paradox Of Individualistic Responses To Corruption (The Economic Times, Narendar Pani, Aug 10, 2001)
IT has not taken long for political parties to classify the crisis in UTI as a scam.
- ‘Unbalanced Growth’ Strategy Is Worth A Try (The Financial Express, S. R. Kasbekar, Aug 10, 2001)
John Maynard Keynes said we are all dead in the long run.
- Downgrades In India’s Rating Outlook (The Financial Express, Saumitra Chaudhuri, Aug 10, 2001)
We are in excellent company in the rating league table. Our peer group countries in the Ba2/BB rating include Colombia, Guatemala, Belize, Fiji Islands, Costa Rica, and Kazakhstan.
- Heroin, Taliban And Pakistan (Business Line, B. Raman , Aug 10, 2001)
PAKISTAN'S illegal heroin economy has kept its legitimate economy sustained since 1990 and prevented its collapse.
- Washington Is Listening (Hindustan Times, J. N. Dixit , Aug 10, 2001)
THE NEW US ambassador, Robert Blackwill, arrived in New Delhi on July 27. He has experience as a career foreign service officer and was a political campaign strategist for the Republican Party for more than a decade.
- Obsolete Package (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 10, 2001)
NEITHER users nor manufacturers of jute bags stand to gain by the tendency of the government to keep packaging norms cast in stone or having official committees getting involved in decisions on exactly how to package commodities.
- Fair Shares: (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 09, 2001)
DOES all this consumer growth lead to any real increase in human happiness? Study after study has shown that it does not.
- Wrath Of The Gods (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Aug 09, 2001)
The bad news first. Doordarshan is likely to suffer a loss of Rs 150 crores on account of producers deserting its main channel.
- Sinha Gets A C Minus Card (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 09, 2001)
Times are bad for Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha. He barely escaped censure or even worse in Parliament over the UTI fiasco.
- A Question Of Credibility (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Aug 09, 2001)
THE STANDARD & Poor has evidently taken a dim view of India’s economic outlook, having downgraded it from stable to negative.
- Grim Finale To The Copper Story (Telegraph, MADHUSHREE C. BHOWMIK, Aug 09, 2001)
Moosaboni, one of the oldest copper mines in the country, is a ghost of its former self.
- Post-Agra Message From Pakistan (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Aug 09, 2001)
IT is high time to put an end to what Mr G.Parthasarathy, former High Commissioner to Pakistan, calls the “Musharraf mania”.
- Bare Pass (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 09, 2001)
India’s local currency rating has been downgraded from BBB to BBB minus by Standard & Poor.
- Killing Fields Of Kashmir (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Aug 09, 2001)
A MONTH after the Agra summit, the need is to examine as to where India and Pakistan go from the impasse which occurred in the city of the Taj.
- Rebuilding Kerala's Finances (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 09, 2001)
THE PRUNED PLAN outlay for Kerala for the year 2001-02 is but a logical end of the recent fiscal developments in the State.
- Consolidation Cure (The Economic Times, K. K. Navada, Aug 09, 2001)
MOST banks are providing VRS and consolidating branches for cost reductions. To that end, I think that the entire State Bank group first should be made into one bank.
- Treaty With Nepal Should Include Flood Control, Vanaspati Imports (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Aug 09, 2001)
India should thrash out all contentious issues while renewing the trade protocol treaty with Nepal, which is likely to expire in the first week of December.
- Why Woman Gets `Special' Treatment (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 09, 2001)
IN THE last few weeks the western media has been obsessed with the unpleasant incident involving a New York celebrity-publicist Lizzie Grubman, who runs a public relations firm in Manhattan.
- Deserved Downgrade (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 09, 2001)
TRUE TO THEIR hoary tradition, officials and bankers have filed for future reference the downgrade of India by Standard & Poor's even as the US-based rating agency has with some candour panned the Indian economy.
- New Head Of Npc (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 09, 2001)
A. K. Goswami, a bureaucrat of the Himachal Pradesh cadre, has been appointed Director-General of the National Productivity Council (NPC).
- One Down, Captain? (Business Line, Menka Shivdasani , Aug 09, 2001)
THE Indian team, they say, reflects the spirit of India. I entirely agree but not quite in the sense that pundits normally mean it. Imagine the plight of the Indian captain.
- Wake Up Call (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 09, 2001)
S&P’s downgrade of India’s credit rating is not surprising in the least. It ties up with the dismal showing of the Indian economy on almost all fronts.
- Future Of Banking And Insurance (Business Line, R. Parthasarathy , Aug 09, 2001)
REFORMING the financial sector is central to second-generation reforms.
- Mounting Npas Lead To 54 Per Cent Rise In Write-Offs In Fiscal 2001 (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 09, 2001)
In an effort to clean up their balance sheets, most public sector banks (PSBs) have increased the amount of write-offs during the fiscal 2001.
- False Alarm (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 09, 2001)
If New Delhi’s decision to backtrack on the contentious issue of “territorial limits” of the ceasefire with the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) doused the fires of violent protests in Manipur.
- Why The Hand Did Not Rock The Boat (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Aug 08, 2001)
Neerja Chowdhury analyses why the Congress did not up the ante against the NDA government and the finance minister on the UTI issue.
- Human Beings As Mobile Commodities (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 08, 2001)
The trafficking of people for prostitution and forced labour is one of the fastest growing areas of international criminal activity and one that is of increasing concern to the United States administration, congress and the international community.
- The New Axis (Hindustan Times, Bhishma Narayan Singh, Aug 08, 2001)
I visited China recently on the invitation of the government of China. India and China, the two largest developing countries, share a lot of common interests.
- The Ways Of The Future (Telegraph, ANSU DATTA, Aug 08, 2001)
The hullabaloo in south Asia over the Agra summit just about coincided with that of a much bigger, continental summit in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, at which a “new African initiative” was initiated early July.
- With Finances In The Red, Antony Seeks To Reform Kerala Economy (Indian Express, N. Madhavan, Aug 08, 2001)
On his first visit to Delhi after assuming office, Kerala Chief Minister A.K. Antony has his task cut out for him. With the state’s coffers virtually empty and little further scope for resource mobilisation to finance public investment.
- Bail-Out Bane (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 08, 2001)
A POINT SIDE-STEPPED by New Delhi in the process of bailing out the UTI, IFCI and Madhavpura Bank is the absence of any guarantee that the coming years will not see a repeat.
- Economics By Instinct (The Financial Express, Mimmy Jain, Aug 08, 2001)
The son has apparently inherited more than the quarter of Jain-hood that his bloodline allows him.
- Private Fund Flow Holds The Key To Infrastructure Growth (The Financial Express, P Vinod Kumar, Aug 08, 2001)
When N Rangachary, chairman, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) revealed that there are funds galore, but few takers in the infrastructure sector, at a recent seminar on ‘Opportunities in Infrastructure’ in Chennai.
- Feeding On Interest Income As Bread And Butter May Land Banks In A Soup (The Financial Express, Raghu Mohan, Aug 08, 2001)
Particularly trying times are ahead for banks. For the time being, let us set aside non-performing loans, the general sluggishness in the economy, and focus on the one aspect that many feel is a reason to cheer: softer interest rates.
- Scripting The Bjp Meltdown (Hindu, Harish Khare , Aug 08, 2001)
IT WAS left to the little-known Mr. Rashid Alvi of the Bahujan Samaj Party to put his finger on the nature of the increasingly irreversible meltdown of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
- 'We Need To Think Global' (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 08, 2001)
DUE to the new economy and an environment of IPO-made millionaires, the path to success in life seems to be business.
- Madness And Civilisation (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Aug 08, 2001)
If words fail to describe the horrifying tragedy in Tamil Nadu’s Ervadi village, then perhaps it only means that even words have lost their ability to stir the national conscience.
- Vajpayee's Moment For Introspection (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 08, 2001)
CALL it drama or real fatigue-cum-frustration, the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee's threat to quit the country's top job has created jitters in many quarters, including the BJP itself.
- Un Report And India -- `New', `Old' And A Confused Economy (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Aug 08, 2001)
THE 4.1 per cent negative growth logged in exports in June and a meagre 1.76 per cent growth in the first quarter (April-June) of this fiscal testify to the troubles of the manufacturer-exporters in penetrating the foreign market.
- Responsibility Must Include Powers And Discretion (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Aug 08, 2001)
THE travails of the public financial sector are slowly coming to surface. The UTI case is the beginning of the exposure of the public to the long-accumulating ills of the operations of the Indian public financial sector system.
- Co-Operative, Not Corporate, Agriculture (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Aug 07, 2001)
THE just concluded agriculture committee meeting of the principal party in governance at New Delhi recommending ``contract farming'' is ominous.
- W(i)ll Paswan's Dream Come True? (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Aug 07, 2001)
FOR the feisty Communications Minister, Mr Ram Vilas Paswan, any overt attack on his pet subjects, such as providing rural people with Wireless in Local Loop (WLL) telephone at inexpensive rates, is to be met with equal vehemence.
- No Monopolies Please, We Are Consumers (Indian Express, Rajiv Ahuja, Aug 07, 2001)
Many shopkeepers charge more than the maximum retail price printed on the pack, auto or taxi drivers refuse to take you unless you pay the price they ask for (the scenes outside pre-paid counters are well known).
- When Uti Fell Down And Broke Its Crown... (The Financial Express, Virendra Verma, Aug 07, 2001)
The Unit Trust of India (UTI), the “trusted” fund of the country, is once again in turmoil after a gap of almost two and half years with its flagship scheme, Unit Scheme 1964 (US-64).
- Don’t Talk Down The Economy (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Aug 07, 2001)
No economic fundamental has worsened, then why are we so depressed?
- Avoiding Tora, Tora, Tora (The Economic Times, Ruchir Sharma, Aug 07, 2001)
TOUTED as the 'Titanic with Aerial Bombs', which was reason enough to get it a big splash opening, the movie Pearl Harbor has since been sinking fast at the international box-office.
- Settle It (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 07, 2001)
THE MADRAS High Court has asked the telecom dispute settlement appellate tribunal to expedite its decision on the controversy surrounding the use of wireless in local loop by basic services providers for limited mobility.
- The Consumption Trap (Business Line, Kumar Venkat, Aug 07, 2001)
DESPITE serious energy shortages in the US, the American public has not appeared willing to sacrifice environmental concerns for increased energy supplies.
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