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Articles 20421 through 20520 of 25647:
- 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.
- Babus Complicit In Political Fights (Pioneer, Premvir Das, Jul 21, 2001)
Now that enough time has elapsed since the comedy enacted in Tamil Nadu, it is necessary to reflect dispassionately on what this portends for the nation.
- Doctrine Updated (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Jul 21, 2001)
Former Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral is acknowledged as a foreign policy expert. In his long and distinguished career, he has, among other posts.
- 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.
- The Glass Menagerie (Pioneer, Aparna Kher, Jul 21, 2001)
It must be tough being a fish inside an aquarium.
- 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.
- Leave Parleying To Envoys (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jul 21, 2001)
However graceless the Agra summit’s abrupt end may have been, the absence of a joint statement or declaration was no great loss.
- Losing Battle On Capital Gains (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Jul 21, 2001)
T. C. A. Ramanujam says that the controversy whether capital gains should be considered for calculating book profits is yet to die down.
- Icssr In Turmoil (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 21, 2001)
A controversy every three months is the norm in the Human Resource Development Ministry.
- The (In)security Officer (Tribune, Amrik Singh , Jul 21, 2001)
MOST people have heard of Security Officers. Large sized institutions generally have to have somebody with that designation.
- Tying Times (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 21, 2001)
The decision to revive the Joint Indo-US Defence Policy Group is undoubtedly a sign of increasing warmth between the world's two most prominent democracies; the group had gone into a freeze following India's nuclear tests in May 1998.
- Post-Mortem Of A Summit (Hindustan Times, Khushwant Singh, Jul 21, 2001)
By the time you come to read this piece you will know the outcome of the Indo-Pak summit talks.
- Past Precedents (Hindustan Times, Nayanjot Lahiri & Upinder Singh , Jul 21, 2001)
No Indian monument perhaps epitomises the beauty and the romance of a lost age as the Taj Mahal.
- The Crime Of Covering Up (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 21, 2001)
It gets worse. As the American Democrat, Mr Gary Condit, must be finding out.
- 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.
- Some Other Time, Some Other Place (Pioneer, Shobori Ganguli, Jul 21, 2001)
Why can't we be friends now ...."It's what I want. It's what you want".
- Requiem For A Summit (Hindu, Salman Haidar , Jul 21, 2001)
THE ENDING of the Agra Summit without any agreement has brought a great sense of disappointment.
- After The Summit: As Newspapers Look At It (Tribune, Gobind Thukral, Jul 21, 2001)
IT is indeed a divided media that has returned home after covering Indo-Pak summit at Agra.
- Saving Kyoto (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 21, 2001)
THE PROSPECTS FOR arresting global warming could not be more bleak as Governments resume negotiations in Bonn on the troubled Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC).
- Image And Reality Of Agra Summit (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 21, 2001)
INDIA'S SUBSTANTIVE INITIATIVE of opening a re-engagement with Pakistan at the recent Agra summit can be sustained only if the progress card is viewed realistically.
- Agri-Reforms: Start With Infrastructure (The Economic Times, O. K. Balraj, Jul 21, 2001)
TILL now almost all our efforts in agriculture have been on the pre-harvest stage, i.e., hybrid seeds, subsidised power and fertilisers, etc. No one really cared to attend to the post harvest transport, storage and other infrastructure related issues.
- Go For A Technology & Product Neutral Licensing Regime (The Economic Times, Anurag, Jul 21, 2001)
THE GREAT Indian Middle Class, whose pockets have the marketing men salivating, has recently been caught in the crossfire between the government, the cellular lobby and the basic services lobby on the contentious issue of limited mobility.
- As 22 Or Catch 22? (Business Line, S. Rajaratanm, Jul 21, 2001)
S. Rajaratnam on why Accounting Standard 22, on accounting for tax on income, has limited scope.
- Education As A Form Of Investment (Tribune, H. K. Manmohan Singh, Jul 21, 2001)
John K. Galbraith, who was recently awarded Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India, has been frequently mentioned as a likely Nobel winner but perhaps never got beyond the shortlisting stage.
- Media Acted As A Mirror (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jul 21, 2001)
Now that the dust has more or less settled after the Agra summit, what should ordinary people make of the events of the last couple of days?
- A General’s Warped History Lecture (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Jul 20, 2001)
ONE turning-point in the India-Pakistan summit at Agra was Gen Pervez Musharraf's breakfast meeting with certain Delhi-centric editors picked up at random.
- Island Of Acrimony In The Floods (Telegraph, TILAK D. GUPTA, Jul 20, 2001)
Orissa seems to be caught in a never-ending cycle of misfortune.
- Marriage Movement (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 20, 2001)
IT is only to be expected that in a country like the US where 43 per cent of the marriages end in divorce,
- Security As Primary Concern (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 20, 2001)
MILITANT organisations active in Jammu and Kashmir as their main area of operation, with all kinds of support from Pakistan's ISI, had been pronouncing their judgement on the Indo-Pak Agra summit much before it was held.
- 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
- Security As Primary Concern (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 20, 2001)
MILITANT organisations active in Jammu and Kashmir as their main area of operation, with all kinds of support from Pakistan's ISI, had been pronouncing their judgement on the Indo-Pak Agra summit much before it was held.
- The Economic Profile Of South Asia (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Jul 20, 2001)
FOR two thousand years, South Asia was the most developed region of the world. It produced cotton 2000 years before anyone else. It traded with the entire world. There was never anything like poverty.
- Up, Punjab Go The Haryana Way, Launch Mass Contact Drive (The Financial Express, C. R. Rathee, Jul 20, 2001)
The political culture of on-the-spot redressal of people’s grievances at their doorsteps.
- 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.
- Breach Of Promise (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 20, 2001)
The crisis of political accountability in West Bengal has been confirmed again with a rather disgraceful clarity.
- Hindustantimes.Com - The Big Idea (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 20, 2001)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee has inadvertently become an unconscious agent of history in setting off what can only be described as a groundswell of robust popular sentiment for reconciliation and peace with Pakistan.
- 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.
- Indo-Pak Relations: Let Economics Dominate Politics (The Economic Times, Manoj Pant, Jul 20, 2001)
"I CAN see from your coat, my friend
That you’re from the other side, there's just one thing I want to know
Can you tell me please, who won the war?".
- Stand Firm (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 20, 2001)
THE SIMMERING discontent among brokers with the introduction of rolling settlement and ban on badla has finally found an outlet.
- Recipe For Success (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 20, 2001)
It’s a failure which can pave the way for a forward movement.
- 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.
- Rains, Death And Displacement (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 20, 2001)
ORISSA'S CONTINUING AGONY, alternating between floods and drought, flies in the face of India's claims to advances made in science and technology.
- The General Saw Only Kashmir (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Jul 20, 2001)
The General's howitzer-style of democracy may have impressed some; but once the echo ebbs away you are left only with the sound of emptiness.
- G-8 Meeting At Genoa -- Recurrent Ritual And Recycled Rhetoric (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 20, 2001)
THERE would at least be one member -- Mr Sylvio Berlusconi, recently elected Prime Minister of Italy -- of the Group 8 nations at its 26th annual meeting starting today at Genoa,
- 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.
- A General’s Warped History Lecture (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Jul 20, 2001)
ONE turning-point in the India-Pakistan summit at Agra was Gen Pervez Musharraf's breakfast meeting with certain Delhi-centric editors picked up at random.
- Govt. Circulars - Violation Of Rights (Hindu, Rajindar Sachar , Jul 20, 2001)
THE REJECTION summarily by the Supreme Court, without giving any reasons, of the writ petition challenging the circulars of the Central Government by which prior approval is to be obtained from the Ministry of Home Affairs.
- Breakfast With Pervez (Hindustan Times, Nalini J. Singh, Jul 20, 2001)
Arriving, a couple of minutes after nine o’clock at the Amar Vilas Palace’s chandeliered room on July 15, my eye took in the lofty line-up of the country’s editors and senior journalists.
- Tentative Step Forward (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 20, 2001)
ONLY a crazy optimist would have imagined that something concrete would really emerge out of the Agra Summit.
- 'Our Strength Is In Global News' (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 20, 2001)
GRACE Wong is vice president, corporate and marketing communications for Turner International Asia Pacific. Based in the company's regional headquarters in Hong Kong, she oversees CNN marketing and PR for the region.
- Taxing Them Still The Hard Way (The Economic Times, Lubna Kably, Jul 20, 2001)
IT is not too easy to seek favours from Zenobia Aunty, but when it comes to filing my tax returns, my aunt very willingly queues up at the tax office.
- What Next After The Agra Summit? (The Financial Express, Ayesha Siddiqa-Agha, Jul 20, 2001)
Its failure should not be allowed to become fodder for hawks on both sides.
- 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.
- Health Deteriorates (Hindu, Gita Sen, Jul 20, 2001)
THE IMPACT of the structural economic reforms of the 1990s on human development in India has been a subject of controversy from the start.
- Building Strong Brands (The Economic Times, David A Aaker, Jul 20, 2001)
ACHIEVING perceptions of quality is usually impossible unless the quality claim has substance.
- Commendable Initiative (Hindu, G. Ranganathan, Jul 20, 2001)
Sir, - It is indeed heartening to read that the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalithaa, has announced the launching of a major wasteland reclamation project - covering 20 lakh hectares in select districts during the first phase.
- 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.
- When Silence Is Not Golden! (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 19, 2001)
PAKISTAN has not only been waging a proxy war against India, it has also been engaged in a concerted propaganda offensive.
- Breach Of Promise (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 19, 2001)
The crisis of political accountability in West Bengal has been confirmed again with a rather disgraceful clarity.
- 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.
- A Summit Unconquered? (Business Line, Menka Shivdasani , Jul 19, 2001)
ON THE night before Gen Pervez Musharraf's fruitless visit to India, CNN's Q&A focussed on Kashmir;
- States In Doldrums (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 19, 2001)
IT HAS now virtually become an annual ritual for the states to run to the Centre, asking for large financial packages to meet the exigencies of floods or droughts or other natural disasters.
- Agra’s Fresh Entry In The Annals (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 19, 2001)
BEFORE the decision to hold the just concluded Indo-Pak summit at Agra, the city found its mention mostly in the context of the unique love monument---the Taj Mahal.
- When Silence Is Not Golden! (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 19, 2001)
PAKISTAN has not only been waging a proxy war against India, it has also been engaged in a concerted propaganda offensive.
- 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.
- Liberalise Trade By Removing Controls, Rationalising Taxes (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Jul 19, 2001)
It is high time India removed all direct and indirect controls on marketing, movement and stocking of agro produce. In fact, uniform level of taxes should be imposed on agro commodities if the country is to be treated as a single economic zone.
- 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.
- Life Beyond Agra (Hindustan Times, K. Natwar Singh, Jul 19, 2001)
INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS are accident prone. So, one has to be extra cautious when dealing with this particular diplomatic dynamite. An accident did occur at Agra.
- Us-64 Imbroglio -- Are Banks And Fis The Milch Cows? (Business Line, Subramanyan Sundaresan, Jul 19, 2001)
THE Finance Ministry will most likely ask a consortium of banks and financial institutions, perhaps led by the LIC, to bail out the beleaguered UTI, consequent on its US-64 fiasco. This move raises several far-reaching issues.
- 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.
- Another Summit, Another Promise Of Further Talks (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Jul 19, 2001)
AGRA, JULY 18. As soon as I arrived here, I was reminded of the Tashkent and Shimla agreements between India and Pakistan.
- Positive Spin? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 19, 2001)
THE POSITIVE spin given by both India and Pakistan to the Agra summit is a clear indication that, somewhere along the way, the process has become more important than the result.
- Hard Sell (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 19, 2001)
A SURVEY by this paper to ascertain which are India’s most trusted brands has some interesting pointers.
- Failure Of Agra Summit Is A Blessing In Disguise (The Financial Express, Prakash Shah, Jul 19, 2001)
Despite the painstaking attempts by politicians on both sides to describe the Agra Summit as a beginning, we all know in our hearts that it failed to live up to expectations.
- 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".
- The Weightless World (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 19, 2001)
THERE is a keen irony for most people in describing the kind of jobs market the US and UK enjoy — if that is the right word — as flexible. Flexible for their employer, perhaps. For most employees, there is less choice than at any time in recent memory.
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