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Articles 8221 through 8320 of 25647:
- The Coup In Goa (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 08, 2005)
Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil's proposal for a unified command to tackle the Naxalite menace is timely, though the idea itself is not new.
- World Economy In 2005 (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 08, 2005)
A report prepared jointly by the United Nation's Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) expects world economic growth to slow down to 3.25 per cent this year.
- Take Your Imagination With You... (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 08, 2005)
A stroll in the Konagal hills (about six km from Ramanagaram town) in Bangalore Rural district can take you back in time from the stone-age to the rule of chieftains in 16th and 17 century and to the present.
- Where Is India's Democracy Dividend? (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Feb 08, 2005)
"These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice."
- Treasures On The Way To Ruin (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 08, 2005)
Magadi is a historically famous town in Bangalore rural district. It is specially known for its association with the founders of the city of Bangalore – the Kempegowda clan.
- Oil Pool Dynamics (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 08, 2005)
Oil, it is often said, drives politics. But the reverse is equally true: good politics can also determine the supply and price of oil. India has recently taken two laudable initiatives for the political management of oil.
- A Guilty Past In Africa (Hindu, Ian Black, Feb 08, 2005)
Poor old leopold II. The King of the Belgians underwent one of the shortest political rehabilitations on record last week, hoisted back on to his plinth
- China's Growth Enigma (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Feb 08, 2005)
As is true currently, China's truly remarkable pace of growth for over two decades has been punctuated with concern about bouts of deflation or overheating.
- Running India Into The Ground (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Feb 08, 2005)
Some years ago, the UN and/or the World Bank told us that we had an environment problem, on the assumption that we did not know. We promptly did what we do best.
- For Effective Employment Guarantee (Hindu, Anuradha Joshi, Feb 08, 2005)
THE DRAFT Employment Guarantee Act, tabled in Parliament on December 21, 2004, has generated much debate in the newspapers.
- Getting Cross With Cross-Subsidies (Indian Express, N K Singh, Feb 08, 2005)
This is a season when it is fashionable for all and sundry to give even unsolicited advice to P Chidambaram. Finance Ministers are tolerant, fully conscious that the basic Budget story involves multiple inflexibilities.
- Goa Heads For Political Instability (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Feb 08, 2005)
Barely has a new government led by the Congress taken office in Goa when ambitious MLAs from the party are threatening to topple the fledgling Pratapsingh Rane government.
- New Realities For Ocean’S 10 (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Feb 08, 2005)
Accelerated globalisation in adversity: this could well be one of the striking consequences of the tsunami. Altruism or its exact opposite on the part of donors and administrators of aid will be spotted by recipients in distress.
- An Unending Farce (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 08, 2005)
What emerges pointedly from the death of two persons in an alleged encounter between the police and Naxalites near Sringeri on Sunday is how this problem persists in the Malnad region of Karnataka and the glaring inadequacies in the approach of the govern
- Punjab Should Tap Tourism Potential (Tribune, Harjap Singh Aujla, Feb 07, 2005)
Worldwide tourism revolves primarily around palaces, castles, churches, water fronts and gardens. Talking about the palaces in Punjab, we do have some historic, but not very old palaces.
- Seating Tight On Alliances (Indian Express, MUKESH BHARDWAJ, Feb 07, 2005)
Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala’s INLD may be the ruling party, but it doesn’t seem to have many friends. When the BJP supported him in making Tarlochan Singh the minorities commission chairman
- Smoking Out The Weed (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 07, 2005)
The King of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuk, plans to "cut down on cigarettes" as well he might. Path-breaking legislation has made the tiny Himalayan kingdom the world's first non-smoking nation.
- The Threat From Bird Flu (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Feb 07, 2005)
Might the virus be slowly gaining the ability to jump from human-to-human, the one trait it lacks for initiating a pandemic?
- Trouble In The Neighbourhood (Tribune, H. K. Dua, Feb 07, 2005)
There is trouble in India’s neighbourhood and Dr Manmohan Singh and his government may have to spend time and effort to decide what exactly to do in the evolving solution which is certainly not to its liking.
- Year Of Physics (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 07, 2005)
The UN has declared 2005 as the World Year of Physics in commemoration of the first path-breaking paper published by Albert Einstein in 1905 on the electro-dynamics of moving bodies.
- Power Policy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 07, 2005)
Last week the Union Cabinet cleared the National Power Policy, which aims to provide more power to people, target subsidies at those below the poverty line
- Controlling Mr. Bush (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 07, 2005)
George W. Bush appears determined to carry the adventurism that characterised his first four years in office into the second term.
- No Western Monopoly On Modernity (Hindu, Martin Jacques, Feb 07, 2005)
In his inauguration speech, American President George W. Bush pledged to support "the expansion of freedom in all the world," deploying the words free or freedom no less than 25 times in 20 short minutes.
- Ukraine Democratically Moves West (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Feb 07, 2005)
People with time to count report that the US President, Mr George Bush, mentioned `freedom,' `free' and `liberty' 49 times in his inaugural address to the nation on January 20, when he took the oath of office for his second term.
- Agent Orange From The Ocean (Indian Express, Trevor Chesterfield, Feb 07, 2005)
In Vietnam the enemy was often unseen; unseen that is to those who were reporting a war that at that stage wasn’t really a war but a battle of attrition.
- Commodity Derivatives — An Alternative Hedge (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Feb 07, 2005)
Commodity derivatives will enable banks and mutual funds gain exposure to alternative investments. Exposure to commodity-linked products will increase a portfolio's risk-adjusted returns.
- Cranking The Power Reforms (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 07, 2005)
The Union Cabinet's approval last week of a National Electricity Policy affirms its commitment to reforms in the power sector.
- Euro Versus Bharat Norms (Business Line, B. S. Murthy, Feb 07, 2005)
The recent news that Maruti Udyog has rolled out Euro-III compliant cars is a welcome sign that the automobile industry is catching up with the global standards.
- How About This Dream Budget? (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Feb 07, 2005)
This is the season for dream Budgets. Joining the bandwagon, I present one of my own, which, unlike what most people suggest will make money for the government and yet offer better service to citizens.
- Mr Dixit, I Presume (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Feb 07, 2005)
The first time I met J.N. ‘Mani’ Dixit, in September 1985, I had not particularly given him a reason for me to be in his good books.
- Relief For Tsunami Victims And Human Rights (Tribune, Suhas Chakma, Feb 06, 2005)
The emergency phase of providing relief to the tsunami survivors is over. The difficult task of rebuilding the lives of the communities and individual survivors has begun.
- Punjab Economy Will Be Put On Fast Track, Says Singla (Tribune, Manoj Kumar, Feb 06, 2005)
After facing a decade-long slowdown in economic growth, Punjab is once again gearing up to become a destination for investment.
- Where Will Bhola Go? (Tribune, Chanchal Sarkar, Feb 06, 2005)
It was a great day when Lakshmi the milch cow gave birth. The calf was a beautiful brown with a diamond patch at the centre of his forehead. When I first saw him, he could hardly stand on his four legs and was quivering.
- Vote In Iraq (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Feb 06, 2005)
Each day we get closer to the Iraqi elections, more voices are suggesting that they be postponed. This is a tough call, but I hope the elections go ahead as scheduled on January 30.
- Consensus That Merits An Accolade (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Feb 06, 2005)
After many a winter there has taken place in the realm of foreign policy making in New Delhi something that merits an accolade.
- Plane Truths (Indian Express, Ashwani Sharma, Feb 06, 2005)
The state government’s two aircraft—a five-seater plane and a four-seater twin-engine helicopter—have become the bone of contention between Chief Minister Raman Singh and Governor Lt Gen (retd) K M Seth.
- Most Nris Wear Loincloths, Not Suits (Indian Express, Devesh Kapur, Feb 06, 2005)
Yet again, on the day Gandhi came back from South Africa, India prepares to celebrate another Pravasi Bharatiya Divas. This annual function has multiple objectives:
- The Pin Code In Northeast (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Feb 05, 2005)
Operation Pin Code, as reported in The Pioneer (January 15), would be much easier for Pakistan to accomplish than either Operation Topac or Al Badr.
- Not That Simple (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Feb 05, 2005)
The search for a viable national alternative to the Congress goes back more than fifty years, to the first general elections of 1952.
- On Telecom, Don’T Look Left (Indian Express, Subimal Bhattacharjee, Feb 05, 2005)
The Union cabinet has finally cleared the much debated Foreign Direct Investment hike upto 74 per cent in the telecom sector. While presenting the maiden budget of the UPA government last year in July
- Pakistan: What Lies Ahead? (Tribune, Stephen Philip Cohen, Feb 05, 2005)
Twenty years ago Pakistan was spoken of as the next major middle income country. Recently it was thought to be on the verge of collapse or rogue status, although there are signs that the downward trend in some areas is halted
- Poor Diplomacy (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 05, 2005)
India’s decision to abstain from the 13th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC) in Dhaka next week is an ill-considered one.
- Proceed With Care (Pioneer, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 05, 2005)
It was only to be expected that, re-elected with a convincing majority, President George W. Bush would pursue his known domestic and foreign agendas with renewed vigour and confidence.
- Right Royal Headache For India (Asia Times, Sultan Shahin, Feb 05, 2005)
Though India has not quite made up its mind yet on how it should react to what is being described as a palace coup in Nepal, the contours of a likely response are beginning to emerge.
- Role Playing (Indian Express, RAM SEHGAL, Feb 05, 2005)
I do not understand why so much fuss is being made about actors taking to politics. The two vocations have a lot in common. To begin with, both the parties play to the galleries.
- Rule By God Or Intolerance? (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Feb 05, 2005)
I have added two new words to my vocabulary: ‘Thearchy’ and ‘Millenarianism’. ‘Thearchy’ (as opposed to ‘theocracy’, meaning government by priests) means rule by God.
- The Quality Of Democracy (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Feb 05, 2005)
On the face of it, the developments in Nepal, where King Gyanendra has dismissed the Prime Minister, Mr Sher Bahadur Deuba, can be seen as an exercise of brute power heralding some form of monarchical dictatorship.
- The State Of Popular Aspiration (Indian Express, Ajay Gudavarthy, Feb 05, 2005)
The demand for Telengana is paradoxical: it is being made in the name of the deprived but could end up serving only a small privileged group
- The Shape Of Vat To Come (Business Line, S. Madhavan, Feb 05, 2005)
THE release of the much-awaited White Paper on VAT on January 17 by the Finance Minister has cleared the decks for the introduction of State VAT from April 1, 2005.
- The Unbearable Lightness Of Seeing (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Feb 05, 2005)
How agonised we are about how people die. How untroubled we are by how they live.
- Trust Betrayed (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 05, 2005)
At the end of the first phase of polling in Bihar and Jharkhand and the completion of the election process in Haryana, the irony is underlined.
- Voters’ Day In Haryana (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 05, 2005)
The high voter turnout in Thursday’s Assembly elections in Haryana is commendable. The fact that the overall voting percentage exceeded 65 per cent is an eloquent tribute to the wisdom and maturity of the electorate.
- `Black' Is Not Beautiful (Business Line, T. N. Pandey, Feb 05, 2005)
The UPA Government seems desperate to demonstrate its commitment to unearthing black money.
- A Letter From Nepal (OutLook, S. ANAND, Feb 05, 2005)
The man Jayendra Saraswati identified as the new Shankaracharya of the Kanchi math has virtually disappeared.
- A Teenage Concept For The Staid Old Bank (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 05, 2005)
A bubbly 15-year-old in the field of economics is inflation targeting. It was born in 1989 when New Zealand rewrote its Reserve Bank charter and brought in the need to make public announcement of official targets for the inflation rate.
- Battle Of Permanency (Tribune, V. N. Kakar, Feb 05, 2005)
First you try to join the government. By hook or crook. You are not qualified. And yet you succeed. You are kept on probation. Which means that you have to put your best foot forward. One small slip, and you are gone.
- Evolution Takes A Backseat (Hindu, Cornelia Dean, Feb 05, 2005)
In many schools across the United States, the teaching of evolution is discouraged so as to avoid controversy.
- Extra Cover For Indo-Pak (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Feb 05, 2005)
Cricket lovers ought to be holding their breath for the historic full series between India and Pakistan. The Pakistani team is arriving in India in the last week of this month.
- Muslims Mired (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 05, 2005)
Bihar's reign-man Lalu Yadav recently poohpoohed media queries about the Muslim vote's possible anti-RJD "swing". "Yeh swing kya hota hai?" he shot back bumpkin-style, adding that the Muslim's electoral change of heart was unthinkable in "Lalu rajya".
- Interesting People (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Feb 05, 2005)
Some weeks ago, one of our leading weekly magazines made an oblique reference to a sex scandal against a cabinet minister which was causing acute embarrassment to the government.
- It’S Politics, Stupid (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Feb 05, 2005)
Economic reform has to come through hard politics, not stealth. On telecom, Dr Singh’s govt clears the test
- Landmark Elections In J&k (Tribune, B.G. Verghese, Feb 05, 2005)
The conduct of municipal polls in Jammu and Kashmir after 27 years constitutes an important landmark. No surprise that it should have been marked by boycott and violence by some within the state and those across the border who fear democracy and represent
- Treating Hiv (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 05, 2005)
The New year has begun on an encouraging note for the campaign against HIV/AIDS, with the World Health Organisation/UNAIDS reporting that its "3 by 5" initiative to help provide drugs to people living with the virus has achieved the global targets.
- The Decline And Decline Of Brand America (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Feb 04, 2005)
Brand creation, promotion, and positioning are the pet themes of business school analysts. Even as the literature on brand equity has grown into an industry, the subject has moved away from the confines of B-Schools.
- Missing Piece Of The Pf Story (Indian Express, RENUKA SANE, Feb 04, 2005)
The hike in the provident fund interest rates to 9.5 per cent announced by the finance minister has put the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) back into the headlines.
- Not A State (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 04, 2005)
A reiteration of the obvious is always a sign of prevailing confusion. It is surprising that the Supreme Court, an institution hard-pressed for time, had deliberated and decided whether the Board of Control for Cricket in India constituted a “state” or no
- Partisan Conduct (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 04, 2005)
It is a matter of concern that neither Goa’s Governor S C Jamir nor the Speaker of the Assembly Vishwas Satarkar discharged their duties under the Constitution in a responsible manner.
- Rational Behaviour (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Feb 04, 2005)
It was the première of The Apple Cart at the Old Vic theatre. As the final curtains fell, GBS went up the stage, waves of thundering ovation from all over the hall.
- Sell-Off Fund — Will It Fall Victim To Petty Politics? (Business Line, G. Ganesh, Feb 04, 2005)
The Government is seriously thinking of setting up a sell-off fund, which will be used partially for strengthening the public sector and for financing social sector programmes.
- Stepped Up (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 04, 2005)
The quid pro quo between hike in the employees’ provident fund rate and hike in foreign direct investment in telecommunications is obvious. With budget 2005-06 drawing near, the government must have been conscious of not having delivered ...
- Soldiering On (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 04, 2005)
Sacked from the Cabinet, former minister Major Vijai Singh Mankotia was conspicuously absent all through Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh’s winter sojourn in Dharamsala.
- The Pretext Of Baglihar (Pioneer, Rai Singh, Feb 04, 2005)
India and Pakistan appear to be on collision course yet again. Besides unprovoked firing across the Line of Control, Pakistan has accused India of malafide intentions over the on-going talks on the composite dialogue.
- The Reopened Iraq Debate (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Feb 04, 2005)
IRAQ IS back in the headlines, loaded with euphoria. The electoral exercise has been undertaken; the results have yet to be announced.
- The Secret Code (Tribune, Raj Kadyan, Feb 04, 2005)
IT was the first social function in my diplomatic assignment. We sat next to each other at a dinner-dance evening in the Hilton, Paris. True to her communist mode she wore a long-sleeved loose jacket with high neck.
- Well Done, Mr Bush (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 04, 2005)
One need not be an American to feel stirred by the grandeur of the occasion while watching a US President deliver the State of the Union Address.
- What Will The Budget Hold? (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Feb 04, 2005)
In the run up to Budget 2005-06, the penultimate year of the Tenth Plan (2002-07), the air is thick with irrational exuberance over what it might contain for the various constituents of the economy.
- A Farcical Vote Of Confidence (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 04, 2005)
The sudden political convulsions that gripped Goa have seen the emergence of its 14th Chief Minister since 1990 under circumstances that are bound to be debated fiercely between the main protagonists
- Consensus In Democracy (Tribune, J. Sri Raman, Feb 04, 2005)
Answering questions in the Lok Sabha on the External Affairs Minister’s reported observations in Seoul, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently affirmed his government’s commitment to “continuity and consensus in foreign and defence policies”.
- Let's Discuss `Dismiss' (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 04, 2005)
February has begun on a dismal dismissal note. In Nepal, the monarch dismissed democracy; in Goa, dismissal came after a government scraped through a controversial confidence vote;
- A Veto On Misplaced Arrogance (Indian Express, C S R MURTHY, Feb 04, 2005)
The much awaited report of the 16-member high level panel headed by Thailand’s former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun on the changes required in the UN has become public.
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