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Articles 21621 through 21720 of 25647:
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 22, 2001)
Seedsavers of crops worldwide have been threatened as never before. A technology appropriately called the 'terminator technology', has been creating waves in agricultural circles since March.
- Gulls And Frauds (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 22, 2001)
Something must be terribly wrong with a society in which the passion for learning produces herds of gulls and frauds.
- The Sea Of Myth (Times of India, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 22, 2001)
Was Plato the world's first sci-fi writer? Did he produce the story of Atlantis, the lost continent, entirely from imagination, or is there any truth in it?
- Practicing Untouchability (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 22, 2001)
OUR former defence minister, the ever irrepressible and maverick, George Fernandes can never be accused of shying away from taking a separate stand.
- Prisoners In Pak Jails (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 22, 2001)
WHILE cautious optimism is building up for the July 14 Indo-Pak summit, a small section of the population on both sides of the border looks forward to a possible announcement on the exchange of prisoners detained in both countries.
- A President’s Pet Phobias (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 22, 2001)
BY donning a third hat, that of President of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf has added to his country’s and his own problems.
- Wake Up To Realise The God Within You (Times of India, Seema Burman, Jun 22, 2001)
THESE days people change countries, jobs, houses and partners in a futile quest to live happily ever after. Those blessed with every imaginable luxury find that they cannot get happiness.
- B2b Lessons: There’s Economic Value To Speed But Only If You Get It Right (The Financial Express, Sanjay Dawar, Jun 22, 2001)
It should come as little surprise that most predictions on the New Economy were way off the mark. One bestseller predicted that the Old Economy would be “blown to bits”.
- Revenue Shortfalls And Reform Roadblocks (The Financial Express, Sanjaya Baru, Jun 22, 2001)
After an R&R in cool Boston, Mr Sinha’s back to heat and sweat at the fisc.
- Bollywood Or Bust? (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jun 22, 2001)
Anti-piracy movement needs all the help it can get.
- The Indian Market Is Very Fragmented (The Economic Times, Rumy Mukherjee, Jun 22, 2001)
IT'S not just India, TV broadcasters face problems all over Asia.
- Higher Education: Benign Neglect Or Malign Intent (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 22, 2001)
THAT higher education must be de-prioritised (or better still privatised) seems to be a popular point of view. The PM’s economic advisory body endorsed it.
- China In A Wto Shop (The Economic Times, Narendar Pani, Jun 22, 2001)
WITH China working out the fine print of its agreement with the US and Europe, it is likely that the communist giant will join the WTO before the Doha ministerial in November.
- Unhappy Rescue (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 22, 2001)
THE RS 1,264-crore rescue package announced by the government for Madhavpura Bank on Wednesday is a sad commentary on how narrow party politics has been allowed to triumph over sound economic logic.
- Play It Cool (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 22, 2001)
Two questions arise now that General Pervez Musharraf is Pakistan's president. To what extent he is in charge?
- On A New Path (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 22, 2001)
Having followed a stand-offish policy towards Russia in the early days of his administration.
- Going Radio Ga-Ga In Retreat (Pioneer, Chanchal Sarkar, Jun 22, 2001)
I was exiled to a desert island recently. Not quite.
- India Needs To Shed Caution On Compulsory Licensing Of Drugs (The Financial Express, Anju Ghangurde, Jun 22, 2001)
While the controversy in AIDS-ravaged South Africa has helped highlight the truism in drug consumption (those who need these medicines can least afford it).
- A Washington Itinerary (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Jun 22, 2001)
When Brajesh Mishra, national security adviser and principal secretary to the prime minister, walked into the Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters near Washington a few days ago for his scheduled.
- Psu Privilege? (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 22, 2001)
IT IS DIFFICULT to relax for public sector units, as a special privilege, SEBI's capital market regulations, as sought to be made out by the Department of Disinvestment.
- Global War On Corruption - Ii: Picking Up Momentum (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jun 22, 2001)
THE World Bank president, Mr James Wolfensohn, soon after he assumed office in 1995, made the war on global corruption an inalienable part of the Bank's holistic strategy for eradication of poverty.
- Where's The Market? (Business Line, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 22, 2001)
WHERE is the 250-million plus market? This is the question several foreign investors have raised. They complain that the buyer is elusive.
- Old Leaders (Business Line, Timeri N. Murari , Jun 22, 2001)
ADMITTEDLY, I was a bit envious watching the results of the British general elections.
- Kashmir And Indo-Pak Talks -- Case For A People's Referendum (Business Line, H. Kaushal , Jun 22, 2001)
THE Musharraf-Vajpayee talks are due to take place in a few weeks time, and the new Pakistani President is doing his homework well.
- A View From Pakistan: Resolving Kashmir Now (Hindu, Foqia Sadiq Khan, Jun 22, 2001)
The poor, illiterate, unhealthy, shelterless, unemployed, underfed of India and Pakistan want the Vajpayee-Musharraf summit to be truly successful.
- A Win-Win Summit As An Idea (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Jun 22, 2001)
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM is that the prospective meeting between the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, and the Pakistan Chief Executive, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, will be a gamble on good luck.
- Gulls And Frauds (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 22, 2001)
Something must be terribly wrong with a society in which the passion for learning produces herds of gulls and frauds.
- Hindustantimes.Com - The Big Idea (Hindustan Times, Rahul Karmakar, Jun 22, 2001)
IT IS often said that New Delhi, dominated by the Hindi belt, is ignorant of the intricacies of the India that lies south of the Vindhyas.
- India & Maoist Menace In Nepal (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Jun 22, 2001)
THE mystique of the Nepal monarchy is gone — perhaps for ever. There is now nothing to unite the Nepalese people.
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 22, 2001)
Seedsavers of crops worldwide have been threatened as never before.
- Power Mad In Delhi (Tribune, S. Raghunath, Jun 22, 2001)
THE financially strapped Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB) means business, no doubt about it.
- Conscience Trip (Pioneer, N. D. Dani, Jun 22, 2001)
He had a tall frame with broad shoulders a wheatish complexion and at eighty years was remarkably erect in comportment.
- Kingdom Come (Pioneer, Shobori Ganguli, Jun 22, 2001)
Way back in 1986, Mahesh Bhatt impressed his audience with a film called Naam.
- Shanghai Surprise (Hindustan Times, Bhaichand Patel, Jun 22, 2001)
IF YOU write about films from time to time, tantalising opportunities sometimes come your way.
- Seapower Creates Deterrent Waves (Pioneer, Premvir Das, Jun 22, 2001)
The successful testing of the PJ-10 missile, developed under the BRAHMOS joint venture programme, highlights a qualitative enhancement in our military profile.
- Restore Sanity To The System (Telegraph, Abhijit Banerjee, Jun 22, 2001)
Finally, we come to credit, perhaps the most significant constraint faced by small and new businesses.
- Information Roadblock (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 22, 2001)
It is a classic case of the right hand not knowing - or, more likely, being cynically unconcerned - about what the left is up to.
- Ethanol And Petrol: A Sweet Blend (Business Line, Ram Niak, Jun 21, 2001)
INDIA imported 70 per cent of its annual crude requirement of 107 million tonnes in 2000-01.
- A Washington Itinerary (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Jun 21, 2001)
When Brajesh Mishra, national security adviser and principal secretary to the prime minister, walked into the Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters near Washington a few days ago for his scheduled.
- `The Book Of Job' & The Problem Of Evil (Times of India, B. G. Tandon, Jun 21, 2001)
`The Book of Job' attempts an answer to the problem of evil. Evil has been designated as the atheist fact. God created all that is, and by common experience, there is evil.
- Proxy For The Opposition (Telegraph, Tapas Chakraborty, Jun 21, 2001)
A British journalist once remarked that every politician not in government needed to be in the opposition.
- Hedging Your Bets (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 21, 2001)
David Allen looks at how to deal with business uncertainty.
- Now We Shall Speak (Times of India, Syeda Saiyidain Hameed , Jun 21, 2001)
THE Supreme Court had recently issued notice to the government on a petition submitted by Zuleikha Bi of Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh. She had married Mohammad Fazal in 1989 when she was 20 years old.
- Beyond Texas (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 21, 2001)
Now that president George Bush is done with his Europe trip, his policy advisers can let out a sigh of relief.
- Restore Sanity To The System (Telegraph, Abhijit Banerjee, Jun 21, 2001)
Finally, we come to credit, perhaps the most significant constraint faced by small and new businesses.
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 21, 2001)
Seedsavers of crops worldwide have been threatened as never before. A technology appropriately called the 'terminator technology', has been creating waves in agricultural circles since March.
- Gulls And Frauds (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 21, 2001)
Something must be terribly wrong with a society in which the passion for learning produces herds of gulls and frauds.
- A People's Diplomat (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Jun 21, 2001)
China's Ambassador to this country, Mr. Zhou Gang, on completing his tenure, left for Beijing on Wednesday. Only the cognoscenti are aware of his remarkable hard work in the call of duty.
- Sex Ratio In 2001: Good News Or Bad? (Hindu, Sudhanshu Ranade , Jun 21, 2001)
CHENNAI, JUNE 20. Shooting the bearer of bad news may not be a good idea; but it is a popular one.
- Senseless Idea (The Economic Times, Sam Easow, Jun 21, 2001)
THIS refers to your report 'Govt plans direct export subsidies for farm goods, QR removal' (ET, June 20). Trade in agriculture is controlled by the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture and India is a signatory.
- Crowd Out The Environment (Hindustan Times, Bhaskar Ghose, Jun 21, 2001)
A little way outside the tiny village of Kinloch Rannoch, in the highlands of Perthshire, Scotland, the still waters of Loch Rannoch stretch out long, blue and shadowed between mountains thick with forest.
- Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jun 21, 2001)
Rabindranath Tagore was seven years old when undivided Bengal had an epiphany.
- Run-Up To The Summit (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 21, 2001)
THE countdown has started for the Indo-Pakistan summit but the diplomatic temperature in the two capitals are dramatically different. It is a leisurely pace in New Delhi with only High Commissioner to Pakistan Vijay Nambiar stirring things up a bit.
- Global War On Corruption -- I: Setting The Stage (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jun 21, 2001)
TO THE United States belongs the credit of putting in place as early as in 1977 the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, prohibiting the US companies from indulging in any transaction in foreign countries that involved payment of bribes.
- Practicing Untouchability (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 21, 2001)
OUR former defence minister, the ever irrepressible and maverick, George Fernandes can never be accused of shying away from taking a separate stand.
- Soft Spoken But Tough Taskmaster (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 21, 2001)
SOFT spoken but a tough taskmaster, Brij Bihari Tandon, who has assumed charge as an Election Commissioner in the three-member Election Commission, is yet another civil servant capable of meeting peer pressure and challenge.
- What Ho, Liberalisation? (Business Line, Menka Shivdasani , Jun 21, 2001)
ASK any one above 45 years of age if he/she is better off today than in the ``good old days'' and one would probably hear a litany of complaints about everything that is wrong with the world.
- Malta Revisited (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 21, 2001)
WITH better means of transport and communication, the globe has shrunk and migration picked up.
- The Bane Of Approval (Business Line, R. Ravi , Jun 21, 2001)
RECENTLY, the Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs hinted that the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 relating to managerial remuneration may be amended so that companies are free to engage the best managerial talents.
- Ethanol And Petrol: A Sweet Blend (Business Line, Ram Niak, Jun 21, 2001)
INDIA imported 70 per cent of its annual crude requirement of 107 million tonnes in 2000-01.
- Gulls And Frauds (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 21, 2001)
Something must be terribly wrong with a society in which the passion for learning produces herds of gulls and frauds.
- A Washington Itinerary (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Jun 21, 2001)
When Brajesh Mishra, national security adviser and principal secretary to the prime minister, walked into the Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters near Washington a few days ago for his scheduled.
- Restore Sanity To The System (Telegraph, Abhijit Banerjee, Jun 21, 2001)
Finally, we come to credit, perhaps the most significant constraint faced by small and new businesses.
- The Name Game (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 21, 2001)
Reports on Jayalalitha will now have to include an additional `letter'.
- Tears And Tactics Of Divestment (Pioneer, C.M. Kulshreshtha, Jun 21, 2001)
The Balco drama is at last over, or so it would seem.
- Advantage Ethanol (Pioneer, Ram Niak, Jun 21, 2001)
India imported 70 per cent of its annual crude requirement of 107 million tonnes during 2000-01. Crude prices have been ruling at a price band level of US $25-30 per barrel and even touched US $37 per barrel in 2000.
- The Making Of A Police State (Pioneer, Wilson John, Jun 21, 2001)
General Pervez Musharraf is working at two levels to consolidate his illegitimate rule over Pakistan.
- Contempt Power - I (Hindu, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Jun 21, 2001)
A VAGARIOUS branch of judicial jurisprudence, popularly known as contempt power, of ancient British vintage and regal mintage, has incarnated as part of the corpus juris of free India, with some constitutional sanction.
- Pakistan As A Bridge State? (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jun 21, 2001)
HAVING APPOINTED himself the President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf arrives here next month as the all powerful leader of Pakistan.
- Indian Cocktail: Enron Alone? Check Out Canadian Firms (The Financial Express, Subhash Agrawal, Jun 21, 2001)
It is a pity that Enron’s reputation has numbed our senses about continuing political risk faced by foreign investors in India, and the country’s terrible image abroad among serious players.
- Punish The Guilty (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 21, 2001)
It is hardly surprising that the murder of five members of a Dalit family in Hasnapur village in Uttar Pradesh's Fatehpur district on Sunday, has sent waves of shock and revulsion throughout India.
- Sadr-E-Pakistan (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 21, 2001)
The announcement on Wednesday about general Musharraf assuming the office of president will hardly come as a surprise to long-term observers of Pakistan's political scene.
- Moolah Down The Drain (The Economic Times, Sauvik Sauvik Chakraverti verti , Jun 21, 2001)
THE OTHER evening it poured in Delhi. That is only to be expected: it has been announced by the met authorities that the monsoon has arrived in full swing.
- The Phantom Of The Music World (The Economic Times, Raghu Krishnan, Jun 21, 2001)
AND so Rajesh kept returning to the Music Globe outlet to meet up again with the 'neele khamoshiyan' girl.
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 21, 2001)
Seedsavers of crops worldwide have been threatened as never before. A technology appropriately called the 'terminator technology', has been creating waves in agricultural circles since March.
- President Pervez (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 21, 2001)
General Pervez Musharraf's elevation to the office of the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is the latest Act in the continuing drama of Pakistan's search for an internationally acceptable and stable political order.
- New Entrants To The Scam Club (The Financial Express, P. N. Vijay, Jun 21, 2001)
Regulate foreign institutional investors and brokers more stringently.
- Blending Ethanol With Petrol Can Do Wonders (The Financial Express, Ram Niak, Jun 21, 2001)
Ethanol is being successfully blended with petrol in Brazil since 1931.
- Us Urged To Prevent Rise Of A Regional Hegemony In S Asia (The Financial Express, HUMA SIDDQUI, Jun 21, 2001)
India, and especially China, are rising powers that seek their place in the world, and in the process, could potentially disrupt the regional order.
- Fire And Ceasefire (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 20, 2001)
MANIPUR burnt on Monday reflecting accurately, if also alarmingly, the white hot rage of the people against the Centre’s recognition of the influence of the leading Naga militant organisation over two-thirds of the state.
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