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Articles 18721 through 18820 of 25647:
- Co-Operatives: First Clean The Mess, Help Can Follow (The Economic Times, Jayaprakash Narayan, Sep 01, 2001)
THE CALL of the prime minister to depoliticise, debureaucratise, democratise and professionalise cooperatives has not come a day too soon.
- Forgotten And Forgiven (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Sep 01, 2001)
Mamata Banerjee’s return to the National Democratic Alliance and Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s shrewd promise regarding the Ramjanmabhoomi controversy have answered the question that Time posed five months ago.
- ‘I Only Wanted The Afro-Asian Games Postponed’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 01, 2001)
Sports Minister Uma Bharati has been in the thick of things in recent times.
- The Burqa Wars (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 01, 2001)
It’s a grand betrayal by Kashmir’s leaders.
- Ah, The Sweet Smell Of Poverty! (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 01, 2001)
Forget what Dil Chahta Hai, we’re wired to rubbish the rich.
- Absolute Power (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 01, 2001)
A weak beginning is often a misleading omen for the future. When Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee became prime minister in 1998, he, like Indira Gandhi in 1966, did not operate from a position of strength.
- The Poll Posturing In Kashmir (Indian Express, SANKARSHAN THAKUR, Sep 01, 2001)
National attention, or at least the attention of the Atal Behari Vajpayee establishment, is now getting focused on elections in Uttar Pradesh but there is another equally if not more key election round the corner — in Jammu and Kashmir.
- The Rbi Annual Report For 2000-01 -- Suffering The Curse Of Sisyphus (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Sep 01, 2001)
THE Annual Report of the Reserve Bank of India for 2000-01, released on August 28, presents a comprehensive account of the economy from the RBI angle.
- Why India Must Go To Doha (Business Line, R. Parthasarathy , Sep 01, 2001)
THE fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation is to take place at Doha from November 9 to 13.
- Losing Jobs (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 01, 2001)
DRIVEN partly by competition and partly by global slowdown, public sector undertakings and private enterprises are resorting to job cuts.
- The Age Of Indifference (Indian Express, Sunil Jain, Sep 01, 2001)
SO this session of Parliament is finally over, the Opposition’s had its fun pillorying the government on Tehelka, Telecom, and a few other Things, but what was achieved?
- Disturbing Economic Situation (Tribune, Gobind Thukral, Sep 01, 2001)
PAKISTAN’S economy is in a total mess. This is hardly news. Yet the newspapers daily draw attention to this alarming situation.
- ‘India Needs Newer Tourist Destinations’ (The Economic Times, K. B. Kachru, Sep 01, 2001)
THE $31 billion Carlson Hospitality group has four flagship brands, Radisson Hotels, Regent Hotels, Country Inns and TGI Friday.
- The Million Dollar Question: B2b Or B2c? (The Economic Times, Rasesh Chasmawala, Sep 01, 2001)
INFORMATION Technology (IT), manifested primarily by the internet, provides a new medium through which businesses can advertise their presence to potential customers or contact new suppliers.
- Profits Vs Respectability (The Economic Times, R. Gopalakrishnan, Sep 01, 2001)
THERE are important voices in society which question whether business has any purpose other than to maximise profits. Milton Friedman famously proclaimed in 1963:
- Orissa’s Quibble (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 01, 2001)
Poverty-induced deaths are indeed starvation deaths.
- All New Postman (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 01, 2001)
CAN a more than 200-year old institution transform itself from a sleepy inefficient public sector monolith to a market savvy, efficient organisation?
- Paying For Safety (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 01, 2001)
BY LEVYING A surcharge to meet investments required to ensure rail safety, the Railway Minister, Mr. Nitish Kumar, has embarked on the challenging task of steering the Indian Railways (IR) from the primrose path it was set on during the past few years.
- Community Grain Banks Can Help Tackle Hunger (The Financial Express, Joseph Vackayil, Sep 01, 2001)
Hunger has moved to the centre-stage of Indian politics in recent times with the judiciary, social activists and the media highlighting the issue in their respective fora.
- Of A Govt That Can’t Protect A Hospital (Tribune, Tavleen Singh, Sep 01, 2001)
SINCE I write this having only just returned from the trashed remains of Singhania Hospital I want to make something clear at the start — there are no two sides to this story.
- Crime Of Food Surpluses (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 01, 2001)
IT HAS taken reports of starvation deaths for Parliament to wake up to the fact that there is a food crisis in the country.
- Precept & Practice In Governance (Hindu, T. N. R. Rao, Sep 01, 2001)
OF LATE, the country is being treated to new nuggets of wisdom on administrative law by the Government.
- Vajpayee-Musharraf Meeting Again (Tribune, R. L. Bhatia, Sep 01, 2001)
THE decision of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to meet President Musharraf at the UN conference reopens the vainness of his first encounter with him.
- Helping Build A New Nation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 31, 2001)
Something truly remarkable is happening in a small half-island in the Pacific.
- Calm For Life (Telegraph, Paul Wilson, Aug 31, 2001)
Calm for life by Paul Wilson systematically drives one to cherish one’s worst neuroses with a sort of desperate zeal.
- ‘Social Security Reform Must Begin Now’ (The Economic Times, Mukul G Asher, Aug 31, 2001)
THE PROCESS of economic reforms has brought into focus the urgent need to reform the country’s social security system, particularly the pension sector.
- It’s Our Business To Worry If Ongc Gave Rs 2,000 Cr To Ioc Last Year (The Financial Express, Rohit Bansal, Aug 31, 2001)
If mile-long queues in the national capital for compressed natural gas (CNG) are disconcerting, upheaval is just seven months away. To its utmost discredit, very little preparation is visible from Ram Naik’s petroleum ministry.
- Re-Build Confidence With A Conducive Policy Environment: Rbi (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 31, 2001)
Industrial production slowed to an annual average growth rate of 6.6 per cent in the post-reform period from 7.8 per cent in 1980s. In the first four years of the Ninth Plan period.
- No Ducking The Haemorrhage In The Financial System (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 31, 2001)
Depressed stock prices have inspired take-over forays and bids by controlling interests to up their equity stake.
- Eva-Based Incentives Can Improve Shareholder Wealth Creation (The Financial Express, Tajpavan Gandhok, Aug 31, 2001)
To better align managers interests with shareholders—the Economic Value Added (EVA) framework needs to be holistically applied in an integrated approach.
- Us And China: Back To Courting (Business Line, B. Raman , Aug 31, 2001)
POLITICALLY hard and unyielding, but economically flexible and alluring. Those are the defining characteristics of the present Chinese leadership.
- Time To Usher In Free Decision Making (The Economic Times, Lubna Kably, Aug 31, 2001)
I CAN’T, are sad words in any language. This sentence is printed on one of the pages of a desk calendar which my father has on his table. But, perhaps sometimes it is best to say ``I can’t’’.
- G. K. Moopanar (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 31, 2001)
THE PASSING OF G. Karuppiah Moopanar, president of the Tamil Maanila Congress, but who remained at heart ``a Congressman'', has taken away from the national arena a staunch nationalist and an uncompromisingly secular leader.
- Chugging Along (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 31, 2001)
There is a quaint appositeness in the hike of rail fares a day after Ms Mamata Banerjee returned to the National Democratic Alliance.
- Stop Press (Indian Express, Janyala Sreenivas, Aug 31, 2001)
Why did the BJP government in Gujarat contemplate bringing the Press under the Consumer Protection Act?
- Chronicling A ‘Strange’ Alliance (Indian Express, Amrita Abraham, Aug 31, 2001)
An honour guard of 6-foot-2 Pakistani cavalrymen greeted John Foster Dulles on his visit to Karachi in 1953 and made an indelible impression on the US secretary of state.
- Fundamentalism Isn't Barbarism (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Aug 31, 2001)
The dastardly throwing of acid on young girls by militants in Kashmir is surely worse than anything that the Taliban are reported to have done.
- Will Ram Deliver? (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Aug 31, 2001)
What is Prime Minister Vajpayee's game plan in Ayodhya? With whom is he negotiating? Why such secrecy about the talks?
- In The Beginning Was The Footnote (Telegraph, RAVI VYAS, Aug 31, 2001)
Sisir Gupta, a professor of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, used to tell the story of an MPhil candidate who, when asked to write on any three leaders of the Russian revolution.
- The Penguin Book Of Firsts (Telegraph, Matthew Richardson, Aug 31, 2001)
The penguin book of firsts by Matthew Richardson offers its readers the “amazing record of the world’s great ideas, discoveries, inventions, feats and follies”.
- Little Room For Morals (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Aug 31, 2001)
There are no universal Lakshman rekhas which journalists must or must not cross.
- Amnesty Is Not The Answer (Indian Express, Sukhmani Singh, Aug 31, 2001)
The first battle paramilitary forces face is stress.
- Schooled For Life (Indian Express, Letha Jose, Aug 31, 2001)
It was with trepidation that I returned to my old school.
- Beant Singh: The Man Who Stemmed (Tribune, J. S. Puar, Aug 31, 2001)
IN such a gloomy scenario of chaos and blood tide, there appeared a man of conviction, the Late Beant Singh who stemmed this tide of blood and violence in Punjab with his indomitable will and steadfastness culminating in his supreme sacrifice.
- Last Bet (Pioneer, S. S. Chattopadhyay, Aug 31, 2001)
Sunil Roy was known to all his friends and relatives as a very cautious person.
- Electricity Reforms: What Next? (Business Line, Leena Srinvastava, Aug 31, 2001)
THE reforms programme in the electricity sector was initiated largely because of the recognition of the need for large infusions of capital if power shortages were not to grow exponentially.
- Wto Negotiations: Identify Interests Not Positions (The Economic Times, Manoj Pant, Aug 31, 2001)
THE CURRENT Indian position on the forthcoming trade negotiations at Doha seems to be the politically correct one: implementation must be on the agenda whether as part of a new round or a continuation of the Uruguay round.
- We Are Not China, Mr Shourie (Business Line, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 31, 2001)
IT CANNOT be denied that China is making far more progress than India. But to make a fetish of the growth is neither here nor there.
- The Uranium Story (Business Line, Timeri N. Murari , Aug 31, 2001)
YOU do pick up strange tidbits of information from a newspaper, which remain stuck firmly in mind.
- Greedy Followers (The Economic Times, Anil P. Bagarka, Aug 31, 2001)
WITH reference to the three-fold hike in the salaries of MPs (ET, August 18), where are the parliamentarians who can really claim to be the followers of the Father of the Nation?
- An Ldc Trap At Doha? (The Economic Times, Narendar Pani, Aug 31, 2001)
THE SIGNALS signals sent out by the Least Developed Country members of SAARC last week have not quite received the attention they deserve.
- Sino-Russian Treaty: Implications For India (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Aug 31, 2001)
THERE is only one country in the world which we can call a true friend of India. That country is Russia. Both sentiment and strategy have brought us together.
- Conning The Babudom Lexicon (Tribune, Shriniwas Joshi, Aug 31, 2001)
BABUDOM has its own A to Z and it rejoices in it. But the public for which a public servant “works” finds different meaning in the words often floating in the corridors of the Secretariat. I am reminded of that moving Urdu couplet:
- Politics In The Three Services (Telegraph, P.K. Vasudeva, Aug 31, 2001)
Infighting between the service chiefs of the army, navy and air force over the election of the chief of defence staff has cost the services dearly.
- Business And Sustainable Development (Business Line, S. Subramanyan , Aug 31, 2001)
MANAGEMENT literature on corporate power and responsibility is growing. Commensurate with this is the increase in media and public awareness on such issues.
- Facing Up To The Facts (Hindu, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 31, 2001)
THE NATIONAL Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has come out boldly on the side of the weak and the oppressed many a time.
- Danger From Within (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 31, 2001)
Sir,- It somehow seems that Mr. S. Varadan (letter, Aug. 29) is unjustly predilected towards the security personnel. Firstly, police are for the people and not vice-versa.
- Good Start (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 31, 2001)
A quiet transition is often more reassuring than a boisterous break. In his first 100 days in office, Assam’s chief minister, Mr Tarun Gogoi, has not introduced any spectacular changes either in policy or in governance.
- Assets Of Dabhol Power Company -- Whose Property Are They Anyway? (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Aug 30, 2001)
IT IS customary in India to begin public debates with an `'at-the-outset'' disclaimer based on reasoned neutrality.
- Rbi Finds Economy Sick (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 30, 2001)
CLINICAL reports on all aspects of the economy are in and the top medical consultant, the RBI, has declared the condition grim.
- A Votary Of United Punjab (Tribune, Ashok B Sharma, Aug 30, 2001)
TWO years ago on this day (Aug 30) Punjab lost a brilliant leader, Pandit Mohan Lal, former Home and Finance Minister in Pratap Singh Kairon’s and Mussafir’s Cabinets and the President of the Sanatan Dharam Pratinidhi Sabha.
- Assets Of Dabhol Power Company -- Whose Property Are They Anyway? (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Aug 30, 2001)
IT IS customary in India to begin public debates with an `'at-the-outset'' disclaimer based on reasoned neutrality.
- Rbi’s Reservations (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 30, 2001)
THE RESERVE Bank of India’s annual report is an eagerly awaited document.
- Violence Over Hardwar (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 30, 2001)
THE demand for separating Hardwar from Uttaranchal on Tuesday took a violent turn.
- Weaknesses Of Musharraf Regime (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Aug 30, 2001)
MANY people saw the Agra Summit as a great triumph both domestically and internationally for Gen Pervez Musharraf.
- Mahanta: The Fall Of A Hero (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 30, 2001)
FORMER Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta is in serious trouble these days.
- Nice Guys Come Last (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 30, 2001)
India had only challenged three of the 20 claims of the Basmati patents.
- The Forgotten Days And Hounded Heroes (Tribune, R. N. Prasher, Aug 30, 2001)
THOSE were the days when officers of Punjab bloated with authority under the prolonged President’s (read bureaucrats’) rule trembled in their trousers and repainted their car registration plates in violation of the law.
- Fumbling Finance Minister (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Aug 30, 2001)
MONEY is like manure,” goes a Hebrew saying, “Hoard it, and all you end up with is a big stink. Spread it wisely, and you are rewarded with a fortune.”
- Fiddle Or Fraud (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Aug 30, 2001)
MADHAV is a sincere and hard-working sales executive in a well known pharmaceutical firm.
- Delhi’s Cng Crisis (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 30, 2001)
The CNG crisis in Delhi is becoming curioser and curioser with each passing day. This is one example of how political leaders have been acting in a very irresponsible and hamhanded manner, holding the transport system in Delhi to ransom.
- Time To Get The Cds Act Together (Pioneer, Ranjit B Rai and P K Jain, Aug 30, 2001)
The selection of India's first CDS and his duties are still to be spelt out with clarity, but Defence Secretary Yogendra Narain recently stated that the MoD is going ahead with the new structure full steam.
- More Rough Than Smooth (Telegraph, Tapas Chakraborty, Aug 30, 2001)
Sixty-two year old Umadhar Prasad Singh, an independent member of legislative assembly from Darbhanga, spends his evenings sitting behind a cluttered wooden desk.
- Cruelty And Commerce (The Economic Times, D. S. Mahanty, Aug 30, 2001)
THANKS for informing your readers about the illegal abuses on Indian animals (ET, August 22).
- Wishes Are Not Horses (Telegraph, BHASKAR DUTTA , Aug 30, 2001)
The recent downgrade by two leading international ratings agencies of India’s foreign currency outlook from stable to negative could not have come at a worse time for Yashwant Sinha.
- Will The Centre Heed Rbi’s Suggestions On Agricultural Reforms? (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Aug 30, 2001)
THE Centre seems to care little about the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) suggestions on the urgent need for institutional reforms in agriculture.
- Musharraf's Pakistan, Post-Agra (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Aug 30, 2001)
Most people saw the Agra Summit as a great triumph both domestically and internationally for General Pervez Musharraf.
- Taxing Times, Or How Taxes Sap The Nation (Indian Express, Raghu Bakul, Aug 30, 2001)
YOUR editorial, ‘A very sick idea’ (August 21), which had argued that getting healthy firms to revive sick ones is very foolish, was great. We in India have been suffering from such sick ideas for the last 50 years.
- Double Talk (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 30, 2001)
It is difficult to take threats by the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mr Farooq Abdullah, very seriously.
- Censoring Scholarship (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 30, 2001)
THERE is a new threat to national security and it is the foreign scholar.
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