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Articles 16521 through 16620 of 16647:
- At The Crossroads Again (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Jul 26, 2001)
``As we enter the last decade of the 20th century, India stands at the crossroads.
- Untrustworthy (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 25, 2001)
THE RECENT decision to allow the repurchase of Units for Rs 10, with an appreciation of 10 paise per month till 2003 is preposterous and criminal.
- Ouster In Disgrace (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 25, 2001)
IN October, 1999, Mr Abdurrahman Wahid was sworn in as Indonesia's first democratically elected President with much fanfare and tremendous public enthusiasm.
- What If We Had Not Reformed? (The Economic Times, Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar, Jul 25, 2001)
ON THE tenth anniversary of economic liberalisation, few people remember how utterly improbable any meaningful reform looked in early 1991.
- Class Divide (Pioneer, Sidharth Bhatia, Jul 25, 2001)
There are divisions of all kinds in UK, including the one that no one wants to discuss.
- Reforms: Getting Back To Basics (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 25, 2001)
IT IS INDEED ironic that the label of `reform' (connoting change of a positive nature) pinned so readily on the government in 1991.
- Managing India: A Single Point Plan Of Action (The Economic Times, Arun Maira, Jul 25, 2001)
MANY experts are proposing solutions to address the malaise in India’s economy.
- Supermarkets Ahoy! (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 25, 2001)
IF the market economy is upon us, can supermarkets be far behind? From a position where it was a complete `no-no’ the government is reportedly veering round to considering whether FDI can be allowed in some limited fashion in retail trade.
- Clueless In Agra (Hindustan Times, Brahma Chellaney , Jul 25, 2001)
IT IS a classic case of a big, blind gamble passing off as diplomacy.
- Ltte Strikes, With Vengeance (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 25, 2001)
THE TAMIL Tigers’ surprise attack on the Bandaranaike International Airport at Katunayake was perhaps the most serious incident of the civil war in recent years.
- Stumble And Fall, Stumble And Fall (Hindustan Times, P. Chidambaram, Jul 25, 2001)
IF A thing can go wrong, it will go wrong. That’s Murphy’s law. In the last fortnight, this bitter truth was brought home forcefully to two cabinet ministers of the government of India: Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha.
- Us And India Can Be Natural Partners In The Global Economic Arena: Rocca (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 25, 2001)
I have a simple but, I think, powerful message for you today: the Bush Administration is committed to strengthening and intensifying our relations with India.
- Indian Steel Industry In A Tight Spot (The Financial Express, S. R. Kasbekar, Jul 25, 2001)
It is ironic that US President George W Bush’s first trade act betrays his protectionist bias.
- British Media Racist, Say Asians (Tribune, Reeta Sharma, Jul 25, 2001)
RACISM is as old as the very existence of the whites. As have they maintained their ancient buildings, architecture, railways, museums, even old trees belonging to the 12th to 15th centuries, so have they continued with racism.
- Figures Of Hitch (Pioneer, C K G Nair, Jul 25, 2001)
One of the major reasons (about 50 per cent) for the discord between my wife and me is my fascination with figures.
- A Decade Of Reforms: Where To Now? (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Jul 25, 2001)
THE LAST week of July marks a decade of reforms in the Indian economy.
- Sri Lanka Grounded (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 25, 2001)
Is the LTTE fortifying its position for talks?
- Genoa And The Third World (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Jul 24, 2001)
Only a dozen streets from Genoa’s ducal palace, the protesters will be assaulting the barricades this weekend like medieval siege engineers.
- Will Tdp’s Poor Show In Local Polls Affect Reforms? (The Financial Express, K. V. V. V. Charya, Jul 24, 2001)
Once again the question arises: Will Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu go ahead with the World Bank-sponsored economic reform process in the state in the aftermath of a political setback in the recently concluded local body polls.
- Investment Cycle In The Information Age (The Economic Times, Ramesh Adiga, Jul 24, 2001)
WHEN Gordon Moore propounded his famous Moore’s law in 1965, he was heading Intel and the law was an observation on memory chip performance. He observed that chip capacity doubled every 18 months.
- China Does It Again (The Economic Times, Ruchir Sharma, Jul 24, 2001)
THE SYMBOLISM was striking. Just as the Indian sub-continent was making it back to the front pages of the international press, as `two poor nuclear weapon states trying to make peace’.
- Changing Paradigms (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 24, 2001)
MICROSOFT is exceptional but not unique: in 1999 a range of high technology companies in computers, telecommunications, and pharmaceuticals, have ascended into the leading positions in the FT 500 including Intel, Merck, Novartis, IBM, Roche, Glaxo.
- Tackling Fiscal Termites (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, Jul 24, 2001)
IN THE area of financial sector reforms, the policy-makers appear to be more worried about form than content. Application of Basle norms is all that banking sector reforms is about.
- The Agra Syndrome (Hindu, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Jul 24, 2001)
VAJPAYEEJI, I salute the statesman in you for the factum of the summit meet but feel frustrated at your team's infantile ineptitude for the dire denouement!
- Rural Employment In The 1990s (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jul 24, 2001)
WHEN the first results of the 55th Round of the National Sample Survey were released, it was already apparent that there had been some major shifts in patterns of employment, especially in the rural areas.
- Corporates Should Be More Proactive In Checking Insider Trading (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 24, 2001)
With decision-makers in the corporate sector getting embroiled in controversies, fear and scepticism reigns the stock market and business channels.
- No Use Blaming The General (Telegraph, BHASKAR DUTTA , Jul 24, 2001)
The Agra summit has naturally generated a great deal of media attention on Pakistan.
- Obligations Of The Rich (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 24, 2001)
GOING by the strength of the members of the rich G-8 group, one would say that those who protested against the perpetuation of the global capitalist economic order at the Italian city of Genoa.
- Economy: Clueless Pursuit (Tribune, P. Raman , Jul 24, 2001)
A prominent business editor recently lamented that Indian corporates are so frustrated that they remain utterly clueless about their investment plans for the decade.
- A Tale Of Two It Cos (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 23, 2001)
ON two consecutive days last week, two IT companies declared their quarterly results. While NIIT, the IT education giant reported a 93 per cent fall in net profit over the same period last year, Wipro declared a 97 per cent growth in net profit.
- Rich Versus Poor (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 23, 2001)
Protests against the rich countries, as seen at the ongoing Group of Eight meeting in Genoa, have become a regular feature.
- Uti Veil Ripped Off (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 23, 2001)
THE head of the former head of the UTI (Unit Trust of India) has rolled. Also those of two executive directors.
- It’s Murder, They Said (Telegraph, MADHUSHREE C. BHOWMIK, Jul 23, 2001)
Titli flits around her foster home. She lurches from one room to another on unsteady legs and loves to look at the Sydney harbour from the windows of her “penthouse’’ in the Australian capital.
- Bring Back Trust (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 23, 2001)
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS CONCERNING the country's largest mutual fund, the UTI, can be viewed in two ways.
- Senate Finance Chief Outlines Idea For Trade Bill (The Financial Express, Doug Palmer, Jul 23, 2001)
Senate finance committee chairman Max Baucus said, on Friday, he was prepared to help craft a Bipartisan Bill to give United States President George W Bush a broad new trade negotiating authority.
- Avoid Rushing Into Air-India Disinvestment (The Financial Express, Prabhat Kumar, Jul 23, 2001)
Disinvestment is a laudable objective. The government has been getting a meagre return on over $50 billion of investments in public undertakings made in last 50 years.
- Ready Answers To The Y V Reddy Puzzle (The Economic Times, Mythili Bhusnurmath, Jul 23, 2001)
BUREAUCRATS, we all know, will never tell you anything you don’t already know.
- Tv & Net, Key Drivers Of Entertainment Industry (The Economic Times, Sudipto Dey, Jul 23, 2001)
CONSULTING major PricewaterhouseCoopers in its Entertainment & Media Outlook 2001-2005 has forecast that the industry would be globally worth $1.2 trillion by 2005, growing at 7.2 per cent compounded annually.
- Opposition Essaying United Assault On Government Failures (The Financial Express, Rohit Bansal, Jul 23, 2001)
In terms of issues, there is no dearth of embarrassment staring the government in the face during the monsoon session of Parliament which begins today.
- Greenspan's Testimony And After -- It Is Now All Up To Koizumi (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Jul 23, 2001)
MR ALAN Greenspan offers little comfort though he tried. As testimonies go, the Fed Chairman delivered one of his flattest in this author's memory.
- Can Koizumi Save Japan? (The Economic Times, Rudi Dombusch, Jul 23, 2001)
JAPAN now poses the great threat to world financial stability. Once again, its economy is in recession, its budget deficit huge, its public debts (including unfunded pensions) worse than anywhere else in the world.
- Reforms: Stuck In The Talk Syndrome (The Economic Times, S. L. Rao, Jul 23, 2001)
ON July 24, it will be ten years since Dr Manmohan Singh introduced his first Budget. Until then, he was not known for radical ideas for reforming and restructuring the Indian economy.
- Rooted Cosmopolitans (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Jul 22, 2001)
Back in the Seventies, a group of political scientists advanced the theory that India was a “multinational” state rather than a simple “nation-state”.
- It Could Have Been A Better Summit (Pioneer, Ghazanfar Butt, Jul 22, 2001)
The warmth with which President Musharraf was received in India was unprecedented.
- A Place To Preen (Hindu, BATUK GATHANI, Jul 22, 2001)
The G-8 summit is at best a giant media spectacle. The leaders and their aides are bothered more about image than any real outcome.
- Koirala Gives In (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 21, 2001)
Prime Minister of Nepal G.P. Koirala has finally thrown in the towel.
- Course Of Real Interest Rates In Us Economy (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Jul 21, 2001)
THE concept of real rate of interest is a most important theoretical construct in monetary policy.
- New Temples Of Secularism (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 21, 2001)
THESE days newly successful Indian entrepreneurs are under a lot of pressure to provide funds for the new temples of secularism: universities and institutes;
- How Far Will Pursuing The Ideology Of Hate Carry Pakistan? (The Financial Express, Maroof Raza, Jul 21, 2001)
The one feature for which the Vajpayee-Musharraf meeting at Agra will be remembered is its being the sub-continent’s first ever television summit.
- It Could Have Been A Better Summit (Pioneer, Ghazanfar Butt, Jul 21, 2001)
The warmth with which President Musharraf was received in India was unprecedented.
- Restructuring, Key To Uti Survival (Business Line, G. Thimmaiah , Jul 21, 2001)
THE controversy over insider-trading in the US-64 scheme has not really brought out the UTI's inherent weaknesses of organisational design and functioning.
- The Human Development 'Race' (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Jul 21, 2001)
IT HAS been a week when India and Pakistan did not quite manage to take even the most hesitant of steps towards peace and friendship.
- Dse Gears Up To Face The Futures Challenge (The Financial Express, C.M. Kulshreshtha, Jul 21, 2001)
Markets that feed themselves on their own frenzy, says international financier George Soros, tend to overshoot.
- Grim Export Outlook (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 21, 2001)
AS THE GLOBAL economic slowdown begins to bite, India's exporters are wincing.
- Rbi’s Cautious Stance On Higher Growth (The Financial Express, R.K. Roy, Jul 20, 2001)
After the disappointing growth performance of last year, the Reserve Bank of India has, expectedly, projected GDP (gross domestic product) growth this year in the cautious 5.5-6 per cent range and described this to be one of the highest rates in the world
- It’s Murder, They Said (Telegraph, MADHUSHREE C. BHOWMIK, Jul 20, 2001)
Titli flits around her foster home. She lurches from one room to another on unsteady legs and loves to look at the Sydney harbour from the windows of her “penthouse’’ in the Australian capital.
- Sonia Gandhi Supports New Round Of Wto Negotiations (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 20, 2001)
Says what about implementation of promises on agriculture, trade and services.
- Axe Falls On A Saffron Liberal (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 20, 2001)
So there was no light at the end of the tunnel after all.
- ‘All Risk Factors Have Been Considered In Kalpakkam Eia’ (The Financial Express, S. B. Bhoje, Jul 20, 2001)
This refers to the article “Kalpakkam EIA leaves many risk factors untouched” by Joseph Vackayil based on a monograph by R Ramesh which appeared in The Financial Express (July 14, 2001). The article has several misleading statements and errors.
- Treating The Symptom (The Economic Times, Narendar Pani, Jul 20, 2001)
WHEN seen in terms of the health of UTI the bail-out package for the US-64 scheme has every chance of success. The higher returns for later redemptions should ease some of the immediate pressure on the financial institution.
- G-8: Summitry Of Another Kind (Business Line, Mona Bhagati, Jul 20, 2001)
GENOA, the industrial port city in Italy's northwest, is in a state of siege.
- Clearing Corporation -- Getting Ready For The Long Haul (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Jul 20, 2001)
WHILE commenting on the New Basel Capital Accord announced in January, the Reserve Bank of India has stated that low technical skills, structural rigidities and less-than-robust legal systems characterise emerging markets.
- Before And After Agra (Business Line, B. Raman , Jul 20, 2001)
IN AN article in the Sunday edition (July 1) of a New Delhi-based daily, one had described the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee's invitation to Gen Pervez Musharraf to visit India for summit talks at Agra as a calculated gamble.
- What Really Went Wrong? (Business Line, Kuldip Nayar, Jul 20, 2001)
CERTAIN events come to have more impact than they should normally have because of their timing.
- Scam Behind Us-64 Crisis (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 19, 2001)
A lifeline has been thrown to all small investors in UTI’s US-64.
- Aftermath Of Andhra (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 19, 2001)
SINCE THE initial trends in the local elections in Andhra Pradesh are suggestive of a decline in Telugu Desam’s popularity, it is bad news for the Vajpayee government. The regional party has been one of the pillars of the ruling coalition at the Centre.
- Scam Behind Us-64 Crisis (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 19, 2001)
A lifeline has been thrown to all small investors in UTI’s US-64.
- It’s Murder, They Said (Telegraph, MADHUSHREE C. BHOWMIK, Jul 19, 2001)
Titli flits around her foster home. She lurches from one room to another on unsteady legs and loves to look at the Sydney harbour from the windows of her “penthouse’’ in the Australian capital.
- Hindustantimes.Com - Editorials (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 19, 2001)
THE IRONY is stark: even as the most authoritative statement yet about global warming is put out by the world’s top atmospheric scientists, politicians from some 180 countries.
- Decade Of Transition, Structural Change (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Jul 19, 2001)
FOR India's industrial economy, the 1990s has been a period of transition and structural change.
- Plunging Investment In Manufacturing Bodes Ill For The Economy (The Financial Express, P Vinod Kumar, Jul 19, 2001)
While Union finance minister Yashwant Sinha says that economic growth is likely to revive by year end, available data on investment trends in the manufacturing sector suggest that without a steep increase in investment no dramatic results can be expected.
- Wise After The Event (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 19, 2001)
THIS is with reference to the front-page news item (ET, July 6) captioned "Dena Bank chief may be asked to quit".
- Stumbling On The Catwalk (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 19, 2001)
THERE IS MUCH sound, but little stuff in India's fashion business.
- Engaging Pakistan: After Agra (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jul 19, 2001)
WHY HAS India chosen to engage Gen. Pervez Musharraf beyond Agra?
- Agriculture: A Long Road Ahead (Hindu, Abhijit Sen, Jul 19, 2001)
THERE WAS optimism about agriculture a decade ago. Of course, long-run problems of overcrowding and inequality continued, putting pressure on soil and water resources.
- Competition Policy: Europe Begs To Differ With The Us (The Economic Times, T.T.Ram Mohan, Jul 19, 2001)
AS though the Microsoft case was not enough, the European Commission’s decision to block the merger of two American companies, General Electric and Honeywell, has provided more grist to the mill of competition policy economists.
- Experts Call For Indian Support For New Wto Round (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 19, 2001)
A group of economists, financial editors and trade policy experts met at the Indian Council of Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) and discussed the forthcoming ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation at Doha in November.
- 'We Will Make Hindware A Premium Brand' (The Economic Times, Vinay Pandey, Jul 18, 2001)
HINDUSTAN Sanitaryware, rated by Forbes as one of the best 200 small companies worldwide in 1999-2000, has hit turbulence in the new millennium.
- China Gdp Rises 7.9 Pc, But Export Worries Persist (The Financial Express, Paul Eckert, Jul 18, 2001)
Bucking the global slowdown, China said its economy grew 7.9 per cent in the first half of the year and the 2008 Beijing Olympics would boost it further.
- Food For Thought (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 18, 2001)
IF official statistics are to be believed, India's food economy presents a major paradox. Official data suggests that per capita availability of foodgrains has actually declined by about 40 gms a day through the '90s.
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