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Articles 8421 through 8520 of 25647:
- Regulatory Impact Assessment — Useful Tool For Informed Debate (Business Line, Manisha Gulati, Jan 31, 2005)
Regulatory Impact Analysis is a tool that enables the systematic assessment of positive and negative impacts of proposed and existing regulations
- Pension Off The Old (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 31, 2005)
The finance ministry’s decision to liberalise the investment guidelines for trusts, superannuation funds, provident funds, and so on, enabling 5 per cent investment in equity was long overdue.
- One Out Of Ten (Tribune, Gitanjali Sharma , Jan 31, 2005)
Taking advantage of the smiling sun on a Sunday morning, I decided to complete the task I’d shelved for a week — grading examination sheets. I carefully went through the question paper before picking up the first of the 10 answer sheets.
- Little To Mourn For (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Jan 31, 2005)
After two weeks of dithering and delay, the Chin-ese Communist Party permitted a low-key memorial ceremony for the disgraced former premier, Zhao Ziyang, at Beijing’s Babaoshan cemetery for communist heroes this Saturday.
- Lessons In Piety (Deccan Herald, Meera Seshadri, Jan 31, 2005)
Recently, at a family gathering, a woman, after making sure that I was within earshot, took off in a singsong manner, cooing on the cardinal importance of conducting umpteen pujas, vraths, etc, which, apparently, she observed.
- Justice For The Disabled (Hindu, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 31, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has issued orders for opening all non-technical Group `A' and Group `B' Civil Services to the disabled. In addition to enforcing existing legal provisions
- Heartland Trouble (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 31, 2005)
As statements of political intent go, this one is arresting. Asked about his party’s support to the Mulayam Singh government in Uttar Pradesh — in the context of the UP Congress vociferously turning up the heat on Mulayam in Lucknow on the law and order i
- Hail To The Republic, But Also To Richard Gere (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Jan 31, 2005)
This may be a politically incorrect sentiment but the soldiers and the fly past on Republic Day are such a stirring sight, you want to march or fly alongside. The
- Greenspan's Choice: Party Or Pain (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Jan 31, 2005)
The options before the Fed chief, Mr Alan Greenspan, are clear. Prolong the party and risk a bigger and longer hangover in America and, by extension, the rest of the world
- Check It Out (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jan 31, 2005)
The media in India is apparently free. But much of the large print media is concentrated in the hands of families. Many are driven by the urge to maximize profits
- Charter For World Citizens (Indian Express, Amrita Shah, Jan 31, 2005)
On Republic Day last week, victims of a building collapse in Ahmedabad prepared to move back into their new homes four full years after the Gujarat earthquake that caused large scale devastation in the state.
- Odds Stacked Against Parrikar (Hindu, Anil Sastry, Jan 31, 2005)
After four years of political stability that injected a fresh thrust to developmental activities, there is instability again in the tiny State of Goa.
- Quest For New Un Chief (Tribune, T.P. Sreenivasan, Jan 31, 2005)
Among the many attributes that a Secretary-General of the United Nations is required to have by convention is an unusual name. From Trigvie Lie to Kofi Annan, every Secretary-General sported a name that took people time to learn, whether it is the ...
- Tremendous Enthusiasm For Municipal Elections (Tribune, David Devadas, Jan 30, 2005)
Kashmir has been covered under two thick blankets, one of snow and the other of security for Republic Day. With the pre-occupations caused by Id-ul Zuha thrown in, it would have been no surprise if there had been no activity surrounding the upcoming munic
- Commerce & Crisis Hit Wayanad Students (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Jan 30, 2005)
At age five, Anushree is the youngest commuter on the bus. The Class I student spends 12 hours a week this way. That too, crossing the State border twice each day.
- Right To Negative Vote (Pioneer, Hari Jaisingh, Jan 30, 2005)
Looking at India's fractured polity and the quality of persons picked up for state and parliamentary elections, I tend to endorse the support extended by the Election Commission to the petition filed before the Supreme Court
- Pipeline To Trust (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jan 30, 2005)
The most important of many reasons for welcoming the Myanmar-Bangladesh-India agreement is the impact on relations between two distant neighbours.
- In Honour Bound (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 30, 2005)
Acknowledging excellence, and that alone, is a tough act to follow, year after year. When the state institutes awards for excellence, this becomes doubly difficult, for a government, even in its neutral role, cannot be entirely dissociated from its domina
- Held To Ransom (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 30, 2005)
Outrages in Laluland are par for the course. Or so one thought. With five schoolchildren kidnapped in eight days and a sixth gone missing in nine, the scandal is a gargantuan first
- "Global World Needs Rule Of Law" (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jan 30, 2005)
The first Chilean head of state to visit India, President Ricardo Lagos, spoke to Siddharth Varadarajan of The Hindu about the anti-neoliberal mood in Latin America, the trial of the former dictator, Augusto Pinochet, and the nee d for a world that...
- Goodbye Un...For Now...? (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, Jan 30, 2005)
I spent two years with the United Nations and the time has flown. When the days were passing by, they appeared moving at a snail’s pace, for I missed my home. But now when I look back the days are going and gone! But ....only for now ...
- From The Alpine Heights Of Davos (Indian Express, N K Singh, Jan 30, 2005)
I am once again in Davos for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF). For more than 34 years, this Swiss Alpine ski resort has hosted the glitterati of politics and business.
- Failure To Ensure Democracy And Regional Harmony ... (Tribune, Balraj Puri, Jan 30, 2005)
AS the Government of India has reopened the issue of greater autonomy for Jammu and Kashmir state, it would be worthwhile to ponder over the reasons due to which it could not be maintained.
- Dr Ambedkar And The Constitution (Indian Express, Soli Sorabjee, Jan 30, 2005)
We celebrated the 55th Republic Day and held the traditional Republic Day parade with the usual pomp. My thoughts turned to our Constitution and our founding fathers, particularly Dr B R Ambedkar, the principal architect of our Constitution.
- America’S Missionary Zeal To Impose Democracy (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Jan 30, 2005)
Iraq votes today in an election that George W Bush sees as a triumph of his foreign policy. In Davos, from where this column comes this week, there has been a puzzling absence
- Growth With Social Justice, His Credo (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jan 30, 2005)
THE “Young Turk” has grown old but the “fire of life” has not dimmed in him. His first reaction to conferment of Padma Vibhushan award sums up his personality: “This honour, though for an individual, is dedicated to all my friends”.
- Country Prisons (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 29, 2005)
It might seem the ultimate contradiction but recent statistics put out by the International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS) indicate that the self-styled ‘Land of the Free’
- Bush's Vision Of Terror-Free World (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 29, 2005)
The US-led grand alliance against terror needs an institutional base, in the form of a Global Network for the Elimination of Terror, with Russia, China, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan and countries of the Arab world and G-7 as members
- Bihar As Eternal Subsidiser Of National Elite (Indian Express, Shaibal Gupta, Jan 29, 2005)
Bihar is possibly the only state in the country where bipolar politics has not taken root, inspite of one and half decades of Laloo Prasad’s rule.
- Balochistan On The Boil (Tribune, M B NAQVI, Jan 29, 2005)
MOST observers of Pakistani scene are running scared today: many expect the military establishment to order a crackdown on the mainly Bugti tribesmen in Balochistan’s Sui area where “miscreants” had succeeded in damaging the gas purification plant in an a
- A New Track (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 29, 2005)
THE disinvestment policy the UPA government unfolded on Thursday is in sharp contrast to what the BJP-led NDA regime had followed.
- A Singh For All Seasons (Times of India, DILEEP PADGAONKAR, Jan 29, 2005)
For more than twenty years, Vijay Singh, a journalist, author and film-maker based in Paris, has moulded French perceptions about India through articles in leading left-wing newspapers
- Towards A Global Warning System (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 29, 2005)
For the last 40 years, only the Pacific Ocean has had a tsunami warning system. However, after the tsunami of all tsunamis — the monster of December 26, 2004
- Till Elections, Foxes Will Let Poultry Live (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 29, 2005)
Even as the US mourns its `deadliest day' in the land that Saddam bequeathed to Bush, the world watches if Uncle Sam's election gamble in Iraq will pay off. But that may matter little to our netas who are busy
- Thy Kingdom Come (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jan 29, 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. Millenarianism is the belief in the end of the world in our lifetime.
- The Price Of Contempt (The Economic Times, Narendar Pani, Jan 29, 2005)
The murmurs in political circles about the need to downgrade the prime minister's office (PMO) are likely to die down with the appointment of Mr M K Narayanan as the national security adviser.
- The Drag Of A Vat On Freefall (Business Line, Sukumar Mukhopadhyay, Jan 29, 2005)
There is general belief amongst many economists that tax should be neutral. In theory a tax is neutral if it does not distort the free play of market.
- Right Not To Vote (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 29, 2005)
From the point of view of the argument that the right to vote is an extremely precious attribute of Indian parliamentary democracy and that, therefore, the right in question ought to be protected at all cost, it is easy to
- Regional Harmony Lacking (Hindu, Balraj Puri, Jan 29, 2005)
As the government of India has reopened the issue of greater autonomy for J&K state, it would be worthwhile to ponder over the reasons due to which it could not be maintained.
- Rallying Around (Indian Express, S. M. A. Kazmi, Jan 29, 2005)
Spate of rallies and dharnas by almost all the opposition parties during the just concluded Assembly session indicated that state assembly elections are not far away. The main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has got a shot in the
- Protein To Help Stay Lean And Mean, With Less Tax Flab (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 29, 2005)
"Get back to mischief," instructs Pfizers's Viagra site, but what brought the company before the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) was not the blue diamond pill. Instead, the issue was about Protinex and Dumex,
- Election And Iraq's Sovereignty (Hindu, Jonathan Steele, Jan 29, 2005)
Stroll, if you dare, along the Shatt al Arab, the fast-flowing waterway that connects Basra to the Persian Gulf, and you come across a sad looking park.
- Multinationals 'Dance With Myanmar Devil' (Asia Times, Marwaan Macan-Markar, Jan 29, 2005)
Rolls-Royce, a venerated name in British corporate culture, has been put in the spotlight for making a turn that a labor group calls a betrayal of its stated commitment to social responsibility.
- Msp Abolition Will Lower Grain Production (The Economic Times, T C GUPTA, Jan 29, 2005)
MSP (minimum support price) ensures food security and abolishing it will lead to a slump in foodgrain prices (especially of wheat and paddy).
- India's Us-Pakistan Suspicions Deepen (Asia Times, Sultan Shahin, Jan 29, 2005)
Two facts emerged in the space of a few days last week that have made India deeply suspicious of Washington's intentions in the region. One, US secretary of state-designate Condoleezza Rice told senators that the administration of President George W Bush
- India Gears Up For Energy Security (Tribune, Manoj Kumar, Jan 29, 2005)
THE dangerously emerging portents of the global energy market and India’s own unique position as a major crude oil buyer have forced policymakers to redefine the contours of a new geo-political paradigm.
- Go Ahead Now. Divest (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 29, 2005)
The setting up of the National Investment Fund by the Cabinet is welcome. Proceeds from all disinvestment after April 1, 2005, would go into the corpus which would be managed by public sector fund managers.
- Falling Off The Davos Map (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jan 29, 2005)
You have to give it to the Chinese for not beating around the bush when it comes to the big issues of their national interest. Not only did Yuan Ming, director of the Beijing-based Institute for International Relations
- `Open To All Interests, Subject To None' (Hindu, M.J. Akbar, Jan 29, 2005)
It might be of some comfort to contemporary newspaper owners to realise that the first newspaper, a weekly called Hickey's Bengal Gazette had a second name, the Calcutta General Advertiser. It was published on January 29, 1780
- On A New Track (Indian Express, Rooma Mehra, Jan 29, 2005)
Last month, my sister and I changed our evening walk track from the S-block to the R-block park. On our first day, headed towards our new destination, I mentally bid adieu to our familiar green-patch
- Sebi Raises The Bar (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 28, 2005)
Even if late in coming, the amendments proposed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India to the public shareholding norms are welcome as they bring greater clarity in the administration of the Takeover Code.
- Intelligence Agencies In The Dock (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Jan 28, 2005)
SUCH things keep happening in other democracies where insiders of the intelligence establishment have been writing, for decades, books exposing the misdeeds, excesses and “dirty tricks” of the secret intelligence agencies with virtual impunity.
- Kathmandu Under Siege (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Jan 28, 2005)
If the extremist violence continues in Nepal and economic development remains on the back-seat, India may be faced with a situation of growing Maoist violence in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, coupled with a large influx of Nepalese nationals.
- Mis-Diagnosing The Disease Of The Poor (Indian Express, BARUN MITRA, Jan 28, 2005)
It’s not patents but the government hold on the healthcare sector that is preventing the poor from gaining access to medicines
- Patents Act And Access To Medicines (Deccan Herald, GOPAL DABADE, Jan 28, 2005)
Parliament, during its winter session this year, was expected to introduce the third and final amendment to the Indian Patents Act of 1970, under the TRIPS agreement.
- Good Start (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 28, 2005)
The first round of the India-China strategic dialogue provides cause for optimism. The convergence of views on key global and regional issues at the dialogue indicates that the future of the bilateral interaction is based on a sound foundation.
- Lawlessness In Bihar (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 28, 2005)
With the third student going missing in Patna in the last one week, and the police reaching no breakthrough in any of the three cases, the law and order situation in Bihar has only gone from bad to worse.
- Spare Us This Illiteracy, Please (Indian Express, RUKMINI PILLAI, Jan 28, 2005)
This is in response to ‘She battled inside her head and outside’ (Sunday Express, January 23). It was tragic to hear of the death of Parveen Babi who battled schizophrenia for years.
- Taking The Lead (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Jan 28, 2005)
In the aftermath of the December 26 tsunami that devastated communities along the coast of Tamil Nadu and in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, there has been a spirited debate over India’s disaster management capabilities.
- The Great Myth Of Marketing (Indian Express, Mahesh Bhatt, Jan 28, 2005)
A group of kids stand outside a cinema hall. They are waiting for the first show of the just released multi-star cast film, which has had an unprecedented buildup
- Unwanted Businesswomen (Indian Express, PAMELA YOUNG, Jan 28, 2005)
When I told my mother last spring that I was leaving the US to live in an Indian village for a year, she did what only mothers do best –worry.
- We Will Not Discriminate Against Ltte-Held Areas: Kadirgamar (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Jan 28, 2005)
A MONTH after the tsunami wrecked two-thirds of Sri Lanka's coastal areas, its Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is of the view that the island-nation's worst recorded natural disaster "has been a spur...
- New Patent Regime A Bad Medicine? (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Jan 28, 2005)
The Indian pharma sector to a very large extent succeeded in the past because of the "reverse engineering" manufacturing culture which resulted in the production of several "generic" drugs
- Managing An Iim (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Jan 28, 2005)
Assam and Meghalaya have locked horns over which state should get the country’s seventh Indian Institute of Management (IIM) that the Centre wants to establish in the Northeast.
- Fight For Development (Deccan Herald, LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA, Jan 28, 2005)
It is essential to reform the hierarchy of multilateral institutions and strengthen democracy at the centre of power
- A Message For Gayoom (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 28, 2005)
There is little that is democratic about parliamentary elections in the Maldives. Political parties are banned. Candidates can contest only as "independents" and cannot campaign.
- Across Troubled Waters (Telegraph, NEHA SAHAY, Jan 28, 2005)
So, for the second time in seven months, China’s hostages are back safe and sound from Iraq, but, like the Indian hostages who went through the same ordeal in September, their happiness is not unmixed with worry.
- An Avoidable Tragedy (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 28, 2005)
The death of 258 men, women, and children after a stampede at the Kalubai temple at Mandradevi near Satara, Maharashtra, on January 25 was not just tragic;
- Callousness Unending (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 28, 2005)
The attempt at self-immolation by a former government employee at the venue of the Republic Day parade at Bhubaneshwar captures all that is wrong with the attitude of the administrative class.
- Compass Needle On West Asia (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Jan 28, 2005)
The appointment of Chinmoy Gharekhan as special envoy to West Asia has come at a time when the Arabs were beginning to wonder if New Delhi has any views on the extraordinary events taking place in that part of the world.
- Divided By Diversity (Indian Express, Balraj Puri, Jan 28, 2005)
Among the internal causes that contributed to or accentuated the problems the state of Jammu and Kashmir is faced with, most were inherent in its over centralised unitary form of Constitution which has in-built provisions for tensions
- Eu's Indecision Over Kosovo (Hindu, Simon Tisdall, Jan 28, 2005)
Kosovo could descend into renewed violence within weeks unless the European Union takes urgent action, senior diplomats and international experts warned in Brussels this week.
- Beginning Of A Rediscovery (Tribune, Sreedhara Bhasin, Jan 28, 2005)
I have returned to India after living in the USA for 15 years. Chandigarh has been my new home for the past six months — a city that I never knew before. India, after so many years, seems like an enormous vase of smoking potpourri.
- Myths About Spirituality (Indian Express, YOGI ASHWINIJI, Jan 27, 2005)
Spirituality, as the word suggests, is a dimension which dwells in the world of the spirit, the etheric world.
- Note These Chinese Whispers (Indian Express, BHARTENDU KUMAR SINGH, Jan 27, 2005)
Until recently, there was broad consensus among leading Sinologists that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was a backward army and not commensurate with China’s great power status.
- Paying Government And Its Staff (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Jan 27, 2005)
For those paying taxes and other government dues, it is a double whammy. Most often the collection is as much on `Client' (government) as on `Own' (staff) account. To tackle this, the government should drastically reduce
- Poll Promises In Iraq (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Jan 27, 2005)
In AD 632, the Prophet Mohammed was returning from Mecca to Medina when he had a premonition. Halting the caravan he proclaimed to the 120,000 pilgrims who were accompanying him,
- Why Conversions Are Not Desirable (Deccan Herald, RAMNATH NARAYANSWAMY, Jan 27, 2005)
Spirituality is to a country what faith is to a seeker. It constitutes the foundation, the underpinning and the base upon which the entire edifice of values, public sensibility and consciousness is built.
- The Factory Of Death (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 27, 2005)
Just five survivors remain today from the three Soviet divisions which liberated Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945. I am the youngest
- Towards A Strong Partnership (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 27, 2005)
China and India took a significant step towards their common objective of restoring balance in international affairs by holding their first strategic dialogue.
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