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Articles 6621 through 6720 of 10500:
- The Ground Beneath Gowda’S Feet (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 22, 2005)
It is easy to be disgusted with the way the H.D. Deve Gowda tirade against N.R. Narayana Murthy, his Infosys, and the entire IT industry has grown.
- No Further Farm Tariff Cuts, Insists India (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 21, 2005)
India, took on a tough posture on Thursday, making it clear it would not settle for a deal unfavourable to its (India’s) farmers, at the WTO talks in Geneva.
- Vaccination Not A Must To Check Bird Flu’ (Deccan Herald, KALYAN RAY, Oct 21, 2005)
Even though the dreaded bird flu has spread to Southeast Asia and parts of Europe, India is not considering wide-scale poultry vaccination as an effective option to contain the outbreak at the moment.
- Indian Awarded World Food Prize (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 21, 2005)
Indian scientist Modadugu V Gupta has been awarded the prestigious World Food Prize for year 2005 for developing a low-input, high-yield aqua-culture technique for the rural people of Asia.
- India, China And Asean — Competing, Complementing, Cooperating (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 21, 2005)
Accounting for half the world's population but less than a tenth of global income, China, Asean and India are the emerging economic powerhouses. But India has a lot of catching up to do, both in matters economic and social. Mohan Guruswamy mak es a . . .
- China Redraws Its Roadmap (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Oct 20, 2005)
As New Delhi hotly chases the unprecedented economic strides being taken by its big neighbour, China — which recorded two straight years of an annual growth exceeding nine per cent — the Asian dragon has realised its folly. It has decided to scrap the....
- Poor Countries Need Protections For Farmers - India (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2005)
India and other developing countries with large numbers of subsistence farmers must be allowed to maintain high agricultural tariffs in any new world trade deal, an Indian official said on Wednesday.
- To Mitigate And Prevent Disasters (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2005)
Extracts from the government of India’s status report on Disaster Management in India, August 2004
- Balancing Act In Geneva (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 20, 2005)
The prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh's suggestion that the country's negotiators in Geneva — working on a draft declaration acceptable to all parties for the December Hong Kong ministerial of the World Trade Organisation — should adopt a balanced approach
- Trusteeship To Careerism (Daily Excelsior, Rajendra Singh, Oct 20, 2005)
Every warrant of appointment issued by the British Crown carries the preamble, "Our Trusty and We beloved".
- Managing Security Through Fixed Tenures? (Hindu, N.N. Vohra, Oct 20, 2005)
All security-related posts must be manned by those chosen from a dedicated pool of officers selected and trained for the specific purpose.
- Youthful Days (Deccan Herald, A N SUDARSAN RAO, Oct 20, 2005)
I look back with fond memories to my long years of service among youth
- I Do Not Respond To This So-Called Court, Asserts Saddam Hussein (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Oct 20, 2005)
Co-defendant challenges prosecution; trial adjourned to November 28; protest in Tikrit
- Price Of Oil Vs Consumer Welfare (Indian Express, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Oct 20, 2005)
The price of oil shows no signs of abating. A further increase in the price from the present $60 per barrel to $100 per barrel would not be altogether unexpected.
- Black Farce, Bleak Prospects (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Oct 19, 2005)
The absence of a clear disaster-management plan has reduced earthquake victims to beggars.
- Aim For $100 B, Exporters Told (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
Kamal Nath asks exporters to identify and tap unexplored markets
- J&k Minister Lone Shot Dead (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Oct 19, 2005)
CPI(M) leader Tarigami escapes; outrage in high-security area in Srinagar
Militants believed to be a suicide squad
Scaled the wall of nearby college and entered the high-security Tulsi Bagh area: police official
A security lapse, says Tarigami
- Kalam's Vision For Developing Goa (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
Forty-minute presentation done with the help of a laptop
- Price Of Oil Vs Consumer Welfare (Indian Express, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Oct 19, 2005)
The price of oil shows no signs of abating. A further increase in the price from the present $60 per barrel to $100 per barrel would not be altogether unexpected. It is time to proactively deal with the pricing of this vital imported commodity.
- Building The Region (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 19, 2005)
During his meetings with the Haryana and Punjab Chief Ministers in Chandigarh on Monday, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani made two promises: to set up a special economic zone in Haryana and start a fruit and vegetable export project in Punjab.
- Mitrokhin Papers: Ambika Soni Defends Congress (Tribune, Rashme Sehgal, Oct 19, 2005)
The controversy over Christopher Andrews’ recently released book titled “Mitrokhin Archive 11” refuses to go away. The Mitrokhin papers reveals how the KGB’s first prolonged contact with Indira Gandhi occurred way back in 1953.
- The Larger Gameplan (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Oct 19, 2005)
Despite the potential of her anti-Salim stand, Mamata Banerjee is unlikely to earn long-term dividends from it, writes Ashis Chakrabarti
- An Unlikely Pair (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Oct 18, 2005)
Opening of retail trade to foreign investors could lead to loss of millions of jobs over a period of time
- Diversity In Agriculture Key To Food Security’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Owing to increase in population, a day may come when lack of food will become cause for concern. Agricultural diversity may well hold the answer.
- Wetlands In Dire Straits (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 18, 2005)
One hopes that the approval of a Rs 700 million project for conserving Pakistan’s wetlands will result in a new lease of life for the country’s water spots, many of which are drying up or are heavily polluted, . . .
- Left Seeks White Paper On Wto (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Says outcome will have far-reaching adverse consequences
Refers to previous experiences
Says it will have adverse consequences on country's economy and polity, especially the working class and peasantry
- End The Inequity (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 18, 2005)
Promoted by A Parliamentary Standing Committee report, the Centre is considering a proposal to reduce the burden of the paying power consumer whenever the utilities raise tariffs.
- Vibrant District (Hindu, R. A. Padmanabhan, Oct 18, 2005)
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- Several Unaddressed Issues — Pricing, Availability Of Jatropha Oil (Business Line, N. S. Venkataraman, Oct 18, 2005)
The Government has taken a big step forward in implementing its bio-fuel plans, by asking the public sector oil companies to buy jatropha oil from the producers at Rs 25 a litre.
- Policy Sans Power (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 17, 2005)
Conceded that soaring crude prices and rising import dependence force examination of alternatives to fossil fuel, and what better than biofuel — the green, eco-friendly, renewable energy source — as partial replacement.
- "The Aim Is To Discredit Sewa" (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Oct 17, 2005)
Founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)Ela R. Bhatt,in an interview, speaks about her organisation's decision to pull out of all Government of Gujarat programmes.
- Shoot Down The Flu (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Oct 17, 2005)
It would be funny if it were not so serious. As migra-tory birds carry the avian influenza virus west across Europe, Britain is following in the footsteps of Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Turkey and asking hunters to shoot down as many incoming ducks. . .
- Why Every Community Needs Capital (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Oct 17, 2005)
Beyond the stage of economic infancy, every community needs capital (and capitalists) to grow higher. At that stage, a wise polity will cultivate capitalists;
- Fat Cats At The Gates (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
Commodity futures trading in India, already growing at a scorching pace is set to take a further leap with the impending entry of mutual funds and banks. But their participation has small traders and farmers, who fear trampling by entities flush with . .
- Wto: The Countdown To Hong Kong (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 17, 2005)
The developing countries — which have a strong stake in the continued healthy functioning of the WTO — are placed in a tight corner in that they will have to make major compromises if they want the Hong Kong ministerial to succeed and, in the process, ...
- Banking On Technology (Business Line, K.G. Kumar, Oct 17, 2005)
Last week, a quartet of interesting developments pointed to the possibility of a developmental shift in favour of a technology-driven thrust to Kerala's industrialisation.
- Women’S Inheritance: Next Steps (Indian Express, BINA AGARWAL, Oct 17, 2005)
The livelihood and empowerment prospects of millions of women who depend on agriculture for survival are affected by their legal rights in land.
- Focus Returns To The Role Of Manufacturing Sector (Hindu, R.GOPALAKRISHNAN, Oct 17, 2005)
Draft paper of Competitiveness Council stresses potential in jobs creation
The NMCC seeks to focus on specific sectors that have been the bulwark of employment all along or hold growth prospects in the future.
- Science And India's Agricultural Future (Hindu, M.S. Swaminathan, Oct 17, 2005)
A three-pronged strategy is needed — sustaining the gains already achieved, extending them to rainfed areas, and ensuring new gains through diversification and value addition.
- Mixed Signal From Economic Front (Hindu, C. R. L. Narasimhan, Oct 17, 2005)
Premature to infer a higher growth trajectory
The key issue is really one of sustaining the high growth seen in the first quarter. That is going to be challenging if the past is any guide.
- Divisions In Sunni Ranks (Hindu, Peter Beaumont, Oct 17, 2005)
Many in Iraq's minority feel that after boycotts the time is ripe for compromise. That is why some voted for the constitution on Saturday.
- "The Aim Is To Discredit Sewa" (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Oct 17, 2005)
Founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)Ela R. Bhatt,in an interview, speaks about her organisation's decision to pull out of all Government of Gujarat programmes. This follows the latter's "special audit" of SEWA's implementation . . .
- Child Labour (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 17, 2005)
Child labour is a vexed issue, since it is seen to be utterly destructive of human potential.
- Government To Rope In Private Sector For Rural Development (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
The Central Government is actively considering the adoption of the public-private partnership model for successfully completing its ambitious "Bharat Nirman", a massive scheme for development of rural infrastructure with an outlay of Rs. 1.7 lakh crores.
- Keep Food Out Of Wto: Farmers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
'Impose Quantitative Restrictions to prevent dumping of cheap and subsidised goods'
- Helping Hand To People At Old Age (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
Chief Secretary of All India Bank Employees’ Association, Shantaraj, regretted that youth today, under the spell of western culture, were neglecting the aged people.
- Another Inflationary Move (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 16, 2005)
The Economic Coordination Committee of the Cabinet (ECC) at its meeting on Friday took a decision that is surely going to make life of the common man harder.
- How Growers Can Earn More (Tribune, P.S. Rangi, Oct 16, 2005)
The farm technology introduced in Punjab in the mid-1960s has resulted in a manifold increase in agricultural production, particularly in the case of wheat and rice.
- Kalam On Improving Medicare For Rural Areas (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2005)
The eye hospitals across the country should be networked to offer teleopthalmology services particularly in rural areas.
- Agriculture And Intercultural Dialogue (Daily Excelsior, Prof. B. L. Kaul, Oct 16, 2005)
The food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945.
- Where Foresters Fail (Statesman, KISOR CHAUDHURI, Oct 16, 2005)
Poaching is a major curse but the bigger problem lies with forest officials who have failed to implement the laws
- India And Us Likely To Sign S&t Umbrella Agreement Next Week (Deccan Herald, KALYAN RAY, Oct 16, 2005)
There have been several Indo-US science pacts in recent past. But they don’t include research and are limited only to exchange of scientists.
- Taking The Peace Process Forward (Dawn, Talat Masood, Oct 16, 2005)
As India and Pakistan prepare to enter the third phase of the composite dialogue, it is important to asses how far the two countries have moved forward since the initiation of the peace process, and what impact this has had on the security and strategic.
- Crusader On Foreign Origin Issue (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Oct 16, 2005)
In the weird world of politics, morality and ethics have been the biggest casualty and rare are persons who hold on to these values.
- It, Prosperity And Equity (Deccan Herald, Rajesh Kochhar, Oct 15, 2005)
IT firms should catch people young and train them to their own requisites, rather than lose talent to one another
- The Rupee Flux (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 15, 2005)
Not many share the fret in the foreign exchange market over the rupee dropping to Rs 44.96 against the dollar as forward premiums, a sure indicator of dollar demand, are still low at between 0.75 per cent for three months and one per cent for a year.
- Politics Of Food Set To Heat Up (Tribune, John Hepburn, Oct 15, 2005)
World Food Day (October 15) is a time of the year to reflect on where our food comes from,
- Sparser South (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 15, 2005)
SMALL family, happy family” is the fount on which India’s family welfare nee planning campaign is based.
- The Sky Over The Sea (Hindu, PRASHANTH G.N., Oct 15, 2005)
It is a visual treat to watch the sun go down in the Arabian Sea from the Apsara Konda hillock
- Mere Rhetoric Will Not Do (Dawn, Afzaal Mahmood, Oct 15, 2005)
Despite the positive role on which the recent talks between the foreign ministers of Pakistan and India ended, and notwithstanding the claim that the second round of the composite dialogue was more successful than the first one, the fact remains . . .
- ‘Flooding Not Caused By Deforestation’ (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 14, 2005)
Deforestation cannot be blamed for widespread flooding such as recent massive deadly inundations in Central America, according to an international research report released on Thursday.
- Farm Sector Needs A New Deal (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Oct 14, 2005)
The performance of the farm sector is worrying. Urgent measures are needed to make agriculture a profitable activity, not only to benefit farmers and a large section of the rural poor but also to give a boost to the economy through backward . . .
- G-20 Nations Pick Holes In Us Farm Sops Gesture (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 14, 2005)
Mr Kamal Nath said G-20 has taken abudant measures to safeguard the interests of the farmers in developing countries against imports and trade distortions.
- Quake Deepens Fissures In Kashmir Despite Army Help (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Oct 14, 2005)
After pulling his three daughters out of the rubble of his house and burying them, Mohammad Sadiq sat down in his village in Indian Kashmir and waited for help to come.
- Women To Gain Most (Deccan Herald, Devaki Jain , Oct 14, 2005)
Studies show that guaranteed wage work is more crucial for women labourers than men
- India Has Rejected The Latest Us And Eu Proposals On Farm Tariff Reduction (India Daily, Surinder Singh, Oct 14, 2005)
Articulating developing countries'' stand, India has rejected the latest US and EU proposals on farm tariff reduction, forcing them to give up their proposals recently made to break the impasse in the WTO talks.
- G-20 Proposal To Counter Eu - Us (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 14, 2005)
The G-20 developing countries today submitted before the WTO, a counter proposal on agriculture that India described as "true middle ground" between the two extreme offers of EU and US.
- How To Shuffle (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2005)
It would be naive to expect Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to drop his tainted ministers in the course of the impending Cabinet reshuffle, more so since the UPA government appears to have decided to brazen it out in the Bihar dissolution case despite the
- Undeclared Subsidy (Daily Excelsior, H C Katoch, Oct 13, 2005)
We have been brought up with the spoon of subsidy in our mouth in the state.
- The New Economics Of Ecological Capital (Hindu, John Vidal, Oct 13, 2005)
Here Is a conundrum, courtesy of Merv Wilkinson, one of Canada's oldest and wisest foresters. In 1938, he bought a few hectares of forest on Vancouver Island which, he reckoned, contained about 100,000 board feet of timber. Once every 10 years, he would h
- How Large Is China's Private Sector? (Frontline, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 12, 2005)
Although the private sector displaces the state sector as the dominant player in the economic reform in China, the strategic areas identified as the lifelines of the economy are predominantly in the public sector.
- Interview: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (Frontline, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 12, 2005)
The naxalite problem in West Bengal, though not as serious as it is in Orissa and Jharkhand, is still a matter of concern for the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front government in the State.
- Captain’S Free Power (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 12, 2005)
By defending his government’s decision to give free power to the farm sector and a section of the Scheduled Castes, rather in an undignified way, the Punjab Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, has placed himself on a slippery ground. There was no need t
- World Investment Report 2005 (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 11, 2005)
China has once again emerged as the darling of investors among developing economies worldwide. For analysts drawing comparisons with China's stupendous FDI performance, India's might seem a poor record.
- `Farmer Households Spend 55 Pc On Food' (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2005)
THE average Indian farmer household spends the highest share (Rs 101.27 or 20.14 per cent) of its monthly per capita expenditure of Rs 502.83 on cereals and cereal substitutes, followed by 9.68 per cent on milk and milk products.
- Sustaining The Momentum (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 10, 2005)
Going by recent data, the economic growth story not only appears positive, but is actually flattering.
- Farm Crisis: Produce And Perish (Hindu, Devinder Sharma , Oct 10, 2005)
Farmers are producing more only to find no buyers. And when they eventually get buyers, they are paid half of what they deserve.
- The Water Crisis (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 10, 2005)
PAKISTAN faces a serious water problem, the gravity and nature of which the government has apparently failed to understand. Islamabad’s inability — or unwillingness — to base its approach on authentic facts and figures on the ground and the propensity to
- ‘We’Re Doing Away With Red Tape And Rolling Out The Red Carpet For Investors’ (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Oct 10, 2005)
On October 7, 2005 Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi completed four years in office—an achievement in itself in a state where the average tenure of a CM has been two-and-a-half years.
- Srinagar: A City Of Dumps And Bumps (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Oct 10, 2005)
All of us contribute towards making a once beautiful city a big dumping ground of all dust, dirt and garbage. Srinagar will regain its glory the day reality dawns on us, laments Dr Bashir Ahmad
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