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Articles 16621 through 16647 of 16647:
- It’s Murder, They Said (Telegraph, MADHUSHREE C. BHOWMIK, Jul 18, 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.
- Savouring A Decade Of Reforms (The Economic Times, Arvind Panagariya , Jul 18, 2001)
THIS month marks the end of the first decade of India’s economic reforms. What have we accomplished?
- Beijing's Triumph And Challenge (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 18, 2001)
FROM THE TIME of the ancient Olympics, politics and sport - always deemed to be far apart with little in common by the idealists - have indeed mixed with explosive effect.
- Offensive Spending (Hindustan Times, PRAMIT PAL CHAUDHURI, Jul 18, 2001)
GENERAL PERVEZ Musharraf has a problem and he’s in denial about it. He wants to rebuild Pakistan, restore the sick man of the subcontinent. But he also believes India has to be kept running a fever.
- Summit's Collapse Was In The Script (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 18, 2001)
Confidence building measures? What confidence building measures? Kashmir is the biggest confidence building measure! -- The Pakistani President, Gen Pervez Musharraf.
- Supreme Accolade Of Global Acceptance (Business Line, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jul 18, 2001)
WHILE the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and the Pakistani President, Gen Pervez Musharraf, struggled in Agra to compose their differences.
- Efficacy Of Public Audit System In India (Tribune, Dharam Vir, Jul 18, 2001)
THANKS perhaps to the preoccupation with the search for the so-called hidden agenda in the appointment of the National Commission to Review the Working of the Constitution and the controversy generated by the commission’s consultation.
- Uti And Interest Rate Reductions (Business Line, R. Y. Narayanan, Jul 17, 2001)
THE US-64 imbroglio and the so-called support for `small investors' across the political spectrum have raised doubts over the planned revamping of the pension system and interest rate structure for small savings.
- Cantonment Boards Have Become Irrelevant (Tribune, Pritam Bhullar, Jul 17, 2001)
RECENTLY, a proposal was mooted by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) that all cantonment boards should be abolished and the civic administration of cantonments should be taken over by the Army.
- The Ias... And The Ips (The Economic Times, Sauvik Sauvik Chakraverti verti , Jul 17, 2001)
WHENEVER I drive to Dehra Doon, I pass through what is definitely the worst town on Planet Earth: Khatauli. Here, the 'highway' serves as the town's main street - and the road simply does not exist.
- There’s Money To Make (Hindustan Times, Rashid Ahmad, Jul 17, 2001)
ON MAY 23, while speaking to a group of Indian traders who were part of a SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry delegation in Islamabad, Pakistan’s Minister of Commerce Abdul Razzaq Dawood said that Pakistan would not grant most favoured nation (MFN).
- View Of The Little People (Hindustan Times, Prem Shankar Jha, Jul 17, 2001)
IT’S A moving story of the way old people in Uri have received New Delhi’s announcement that it intends to open the road between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad (or more precisely, Uri and Domel) which has been shut since 1947.
- When In Paris, Do As .... (Tribune, P. Lal , Jul 17, 2001)
PARIS conjures up the image of a city full of life. Beautiful women and magnificent buildings.
- Towards Greater Trust (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 17, 2001)
WITH THE UNIT Trust of India (UTI) announcing a scheme to ensure limited liquidity on the investment in units, the time has come to look at its problems from a larger perspective.
- Where Now, From Agra? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jul 17, 2001)
LIKE the path of true love, that of peace is long and tortuous too. Just look at all the conflicts raging in the world -- major and minor. Learning to be patient is the name of the game in any conflict-resolution initiative.
- Low Interest Rates, High Liquidity, Weak Growth (The Financial Express, R.K. Roy, Jul 17, 2001)
A puzzling feature of the economy is the industrial slack in the face of softening interest rates. Business should have lapped up cheap funds, and expanded investment.
- Competition: Analysts And Auditors In The Dock (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 17, 2001)
THE economic downturn combined with fierce competition is bringing out the worst in human nature.
- Living Theatres Of The Absurd (Business Line, Premen Addy , Jul 17, 2001)
THE Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee's peace journey to Lahore in February 1999, was intended as a confidence building measure.
- It’s Murder, They Said (Telegraph, MADHUSHREE C. BHOWMIK, Jul 17, 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.
- What Happened To Panchayati Raj Reforms (Tribune, C. Narendra Reddy, Jul 16, 2001)
THE high hopes with which the 73rd Constitution Amendment Bill giving statutory backing to panchayati raj institutions was passed in 1992 by Parliament and had been made effective after endorsement by the states from April 24,1993, are already drying up.
- The Ias Lobby (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 16, 2001)
NEWS has it that a number of IAS officers are in line for heading NASSCOM — the association of software producers. This is, per se, not a bad idea.
- Concrete Results (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 16, 2001)
GOING by the results of the last two quarters, the Associated Cement Companies looks to be scripting a fine turnaround story.
- What Happened To Panchayati Raj Reforms (Tribune, C. Narendra Reddy, Jul 16, 2001)
THE high hopes with which the 73rd Constitution Amendment Bill giving statutory backing to panchayati raj institutions was passed in 1992 by Parliament and had been made effective after endorsement by the states from April 24,1993, are already drying up.
- It’s Murder, They Said (Telegraph, MADHUSHREE C. BHOWMIK, Jul 16, 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.
- Vision 2020 -- Passively Creating Employment (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Jul 16, 2001)
FOR FOUR decades, the government went on a spree creating jobs whether they were needed or not.
- Draining Vsnl (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 16, 2001)
THE PROPOSED DISINVESTMENT of a 25 per cent stake in Videsh Sanchar Nigam (VSNL) to a strategic partner has moved into less productive territory with the company announcing a special dividend of Rs 40 per share (or 400 per cent).
- Inviting Trouble (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 16, 2001)
IN the end, it’s a remedy that is worse than the disease. Small investors might rejoice at the proposed bailout of UTI. But the long-term consequences for the economy are disastrous.
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