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Articles 8121 through 8220 of 10500:
- Economy: Build Like The Ant (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Feb 21, 2005)
Ants build big hills that last and prosper for hundreds of generations but we build towns the way grasshoppers do; the type that become unliveable within one generation.
- Chancellor Gordon Brown For The World Bank? (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Feb 21, 2005)
The term of the World Bank President, Mr James Wolfensohn, is coming to an end in a few months' time. Speculation is rife that the post may be offered to Chancellor Gordon Brown of the UK...
- High-Tech Delhi Suburb Stuck In 'Village Time Warp' (Washington Post, RAMA LAKSHMI, Feb 20, 2005)
Five years ago, Saurabh Chawla, a young corporate strategist, moved out of cramped and polluted New Delhi to the open spaces of suburban Gurgaon,
- This Is What He Said (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 19, 2005)
Bowing to pressure from his faculty, the president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers, on Thursday released a month-old transcript of his contentious closed-door remarks about the shortage of women in the sciences and engineering....
- Punjab Should Stick To Wheat, Paddy (Tribune, H.S. Shergill, Feb 18, 2005)
Confusion over reduction in the area under wheat and paddy continues. There is continuous refrain from some economists for a massive shift of area from wheat and paddy to alternative crops.
- An Unhealthy Plan For The Poor (Indian Express, Balbir K Punj, Feb 18, 2005)
It is a matter of national shame that the Centre has to be reminded by an American daily about how the UPA Government has surrendered to American MNCs’ interests in drawing up the patents ordinance.
- Bridging The Rural-Urban Divide (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Feb 18, 2005)
The Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology aims to encourage and promote voluntary action for the implementation of projects meant to increase rural prosperity, with an emphasis on using technology to make a difference.
- Tigers Are On The Death Row (Tribune, Usha Rai, Feb 17, 2005)
THE tiger in India has been on the death row since the early nineties. After a tremendous pressure from NGOs, both national and international, there was acknowledgement that the tiger was facing a second crisis
- Carrs Can Deliver (Business Line, SANKAR RAY, Feb 17, 2005)
THE Committee on Subordinate Legislation (14th Lok Sabha), in its first report submitted on December 2, 2004, has indicted the Department of Company Affairs (DCA) for lack of seriousness in applying the Cost Accounting Records Rules (CARRs).
- Extracting More (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 17, 2005)
In raising the Customs duty on the palm group of oils by 15 percentage points and reducing their tariff values to reflect international market conditions, the Government has in one masterstroke tried to balance the interests of oilseed growers and consume
- Kyoto — Behind And Beyond (Business Line, N. R. Krishnan , Feb 17, 2005)
The much-debated THE MUCH-DEBATED Kyoto Protocol, which seeks to limit emission of greenhouse gases that cause global warming, came into force on Wednesday. With this, one should expect the end of the debate on the need to have such a measure but....
- Development Agenda For 2005 (Deccan Herald, STEEN JORGENSEN, Feb 16, 2005)
The gap between the rich and the poor has widened in spite of the progress made in many developing countries since the 1995 Copenhagen Summit on Social Development.
- Power Sector Reforms: Generating A Viable Model (Business Line, M. G. Devasahayam , Feb 15, 2005)
After a reality-check' on the power sector, the Planning Commission has admitted that though there have been a number of experiments in State electricity boards (SEBs) reform
- Panchayats & Employment Guarantee (Hindu, A. Vaidyanathan , Feb 15, 2005)
There is a far greater chance that left to themselves panchayats will implement employment guarantee schemes with a greater sense of responsibility.
- Growing Well (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 15, 2005)
The advance estimates of GDP growth for 2004-05 vindicate the growing all-round optimism on the economy. The Central Statistical Organisation's data released on February 7 indicate that this year the economy will grow at 6.9 per cent.
- Moving On From The Metro Mindset (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Feb 15, 2005)
If a new commission is set up to look into Centre-State relations, its mandate should be to demarcate the functions of each, empowering the States to create regions of excellence.
- Preferential Trade And Wto (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 14, 2005)
A report on the future of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) prepared by an eight-member independent board headed by Peter D. Sutherland, former Director-General of the WTO and its predecessor
- The Challenge Before The Pm (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Feb 14, 2005)
According to the report under Article IV Consultations between the International Monetary Fund and India, which has just been released by the IMF, the state of the Indian economy has never been as promising as it is now.
- When Two Friends Meet (Hindu, Gianfranco Fini, Feb 14, 2005)
The Italy-Indian friendship is founded on a great past and aimed at a future equally full of opportunity and hope.
- Blue Ocean Strategy (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 14, 2005)
Management field brims with new ideas. It has to, otherwise it will not be accepted as a credible pursuit. Also, the constant intellectual churning that goes on questions old assumptions and concepts
- Green Darkness (Indian Express, VISSA VENKATA SUNDAR, Feb 14, 2005)
The Kyoto Protocol on global warming comes into force on February 16 and this may be the time to glance at the Sundarban islands, which are a World Heritage Site, yet where global warming is pushing a delicate ecosystem to the brink
- Giving A Big Boost To Agriculture (Tribune, A.N. Haksar, Feb 13, 2005)
EVEN after 57 years of Independence, agriculture has not received the attention it deserved. The onus is certainly on successive governments which wake up only when monsoons fail.
- Looking Beyond Procurement (The Economic Times, Narendar Pani, Feb 12, 2005)
If finance minister Chidambaram’s comments to the parliamentary consultative committee of his ministry this week are any guide, the Budget could see a major initiative on the food subsidy.
- Is Poverty The Best Policy? (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Feb 12, 2005)
The poor are engaged in a struggle within the hierarchies of poor countries. When the prospects of their succeeding in this struggle are bleak, they willingly accept poverty.
- Disturbing Trend (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 12, 2005)
The outbreak of violence in Nagamangala town in Mandya district is a disturbing development. As of now, the police seem to have brought the situation under control, and they should ensure that the trouble does not erupt again in Nagamangala or elsewhere.
- Growth Zones (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 12, 2005)
LAST September, on his first visit to Amritsar, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh offered a special economic zone (SEZ) for the neglected border city.
- Looking Beyond Procurement (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 11, 2005)
If finance minister Chidambaram’s comments to the parliamentary consultative committee of his ministry this week are any guide, the Budget could see a major initiative on the food subsidy.
- Courtesy Calls (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 11, 2005)
So, it is not such a good idea, after all, to count the votes three or four weeks after the polling date. It only means that for so much longer there would be no governance.
- Dithering On Diversification (Tribune, S.S. Johl, Feb 11, 2005)
It was in 1985 Punjab realised that the production of foodgrains in wheat -rice rotation was neither very remunerative in view of the totality of individual and social costs involved in their production nor it was sustainable in the context....
- Short-Changing Tsunami Victims (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 10, 2005)
The unsavoury, institutionally damaging controversy over the funding of a rehabilitation package for tsunami-hit fishermen in Tamil Nadu is entirely of the making of the Central Government.
- Strengthen Agri-Markets (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 10, 2005)
The decade and half of economic liberalisation process has left agricultural production and marketing largely untouched despite the official position that selling the farm produce is the most important economic activity
- From Buddha, A Durga (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 10, 2005)
Though Gorkhaland National Liberation Front supremo Subhash Ghising isn’t softening his stand yet about elections in the hills, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee gave him an ‘‘interesting’’ parting gift towards the end of their meeting in Writers’ Bu
- Growth Gains (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 09, 2005)
Advance estimates for GDP growth at 6.9 percent is extremely good news for the economy. And this is not just in the context of the short run because it implies that growth this year is going to be high.
- Problem Solving, The Kolithad Way (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Feb 09, 2005)
Between the towns of Rajkot and Junagadh, off the road from Gondal in Saurashtra, is the large-ish village of Kolithad. It is the usual developed village in this region known for its progressive agriculture and great farmers.
- Another Dream Budget? (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Feb 09, 2005)
WHEN Finance Minister P Chidambaram gets up to present the Union Budget for 2005-06 in the Lok Sabha on the last day of February, his fourth budget in the last nine years, he will have to confront certain classic dilemmas faced by all Finance Ministers.
- Farm Policy — A Twisted Tale (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Feb 09, 2005)
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA), as the National Common Minimum Programme states categorically, stands for economic reforms with a human face, whatever it means.
- Round And Round (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 08, 2005)
All indications point to a bleak outlook for the ongoing Doha Round of multilateral negotiations. The strongest confirmation of this came at the Davos World Economic Forum where the World Trade
- Running India Into The Ground (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Feb 08, 2005)
Some years ago, the UN and/or the World Bank told us that we had an environment problem, on the assumption that we did not know. We promptly did what we do best.
- For Effective Employment Guarantee (Hindu, Anuradha Joshi, Feb 08, 2005)
THE DRAFT Employment Guarantee Act, tabled in Parliament on December 21, 2004, has generated much debate in the newspapers.
- An Unending Farce (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 08, 2005)
What emerges pointedly from the death of two persons in an alleged encounter between the police and Naxalites near Sringeri on Sunday is how this problem persists in the Malnad region of Karnataka and the glaring inadequacies in the approach of the govern
- Punjab Should Tap Tourism Potential (Tribune, Harjap Singh Aujla, Feb 07, 2005)
Worldwide tourism revolves primarily around palaces, castles, churches, water fronts and gardens. Talking about the palaces in Punjab, we do have some historic, but not very old palaces.
- The Threat From Bird Flu (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Feb 07, 2005)
Might the virus be slowly gaining the ability to jump from human-to-human, the one trait it lacks for initiating a pandemic?
- Power Policy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 07, 2005)
Last week the Union Cabinet cleared the National Power Policy, which aims to provide more power to people, target subsidies at those below the poverty line
- Ukraine Democratically Moves West (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Feb 07, 2005)
People with time to count report that the US President, Mr George Bush, mentioned `freedom,' `free' and `liberty' 49 times in his inaugural address to the nation on January 20, when he took the oath of office for his second term.
- Drifts In The Desert (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 07, 2005)
India is very rich in water resources. We get 5 per cent of the worldwide rains though we account for only 2 per cent of the total land mass. So, we should rank high in water availability but we rank a poor 133 among 170 countries in water poverty.
- Agent Orange From The Ocean (Indian Express, Trevor Chesterfield, Feb 07, 2005)
In Vietnam the enemy was often unseen; unseen that is to those who were reporting a war that at that stage wasn’t really a war but a battle of attrition.
- Caste Away (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 07, 2005)
Disasters test a society in diverse ways. They take proof of the country’s preparedness to spring to the rescue of people struck by nature’s fury. In the relief and rehabilitation operations undertaken
- Commodity Derivatives — An Alternative Hedge (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Feb 07, 2005)
Commodity derivatives will enable banks and mutual funds gain exposure to alternative investments. Exposure to commodity-linked products will increase a portfolio's risk-adjusted returns.
- Punjab Economy Will Be Put On Fast Track, Says Singla (Tribune, Manoj Kumar, Feb 06, 2005)
After facing a decade-long slowdown in economic growth, Punjab is once again gearing up to become a destination for investment.
- The Pin Code In Northeast (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Feb 05, 2005)
Operation Pin Code, as reported in The Pioneer (January 15), would be much easier for Pakistan to accomplish than either Operation Topac or Al Badr.
- Not That Simple (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Feb 05, 2005)
The search for a viable national alternative to the Congress goes back more than fifty years, to the first general elections of 1952.
- The State Of Popular Aspiration (Indian Express, Ajay Gudavarthy, Feb 05, 2005)
The demand for Telengana is paradoxical: it is being made in the name of the deprived but could end up serving only a small privileged group
- The Unbearable Lightness Of Seeing (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Feb 05, 2005)
How agonised we are about how people die. How untroubled we are by how they live.
- Beyond The S&p Rating (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 05, 2005)
Like a capricious mother-in-law, Standard & Poor's has been whimsical in credit-rating the Indian economy. Anyway its pronouncements do not appear to bother most international players
- Landmark Elections In J&k (Tribune, B.G. Verghese, Feb 05, 2005)
The conduct of municipal polls in Jammu and Kashmir after 27 years constitutes an important landmark. No surprise that it should have been marked by boycott and violence by some within the state and those across the border who fear democracy and represent
- Montek’S Warped Logic (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Feb 05, 2005)
At an international conference on “Policies against hunger” at Berlin in October 2004, a World Bank economist was at pains to defend the domestic subsidies being doled out to European Union farmers.
- The Decline And Decline Of Brand America (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Feb 04, 2005)
Brand creation, promotion, and positioning are the pet themes of business school analysts. Even as the literature on brand equity has grown into an industry, the subject has moved away from the confines of B-Schools.
- Adding Value To The Food Chain (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 04, 2005)
The draft food processing policy 2005, on which the Government has invited comments, takes stock of several constraints that have stood in the way of growth of the industry in India.
- From Amritsar To Us Congress (Tribune, Roopinder Singh, Feb 04, 2005)
Now a post office in the USA will soon be named after a person from a village that did not even have a school, let alone a post office when he lived there.
- Incentivise Crop Diversification (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 03, 2005)
Two areas that need attention in the coming Budget are crop diversification and food subsidy. Far from being mutually exclusive, these two are closely related.
- Earth Goddess (Indian Express, H.A. ANIL KUMAR, Feb 03, 2005)
Thota Vaikuntam is a farmer-painter. Whatever the given canvas size is, he ensures that the boundaries are ‘marked’ like a farmer ensuring his/her farmland from his/her neighbour.
- Money Doesn't Grow On Trees (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Feb 03, 2005)
In the Gospel, according to St. Matthew, is the verse `the tree is know by its fruit.' Promoters of teak and other plantation companies seem to have forgotten this while offering double-digit returns to investors for
- Help Them March Forward (Telegraph, Alok Ray, Feb 02, 2005)
Poverty and inequality have always been with mankind. Even if inequality, upto a point — measured in terms of income, wealth or power
- Images And Words (Deccan Herald, SHEREEN P, Feb 02, 2005)
Until the horrible weekend in December, ‘tsunami’ was just another of those words that vaguely meant a natural disaster of some kind, with a Japanese link to it.
- India Beyond Delhi And Mumbai (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Feb 01, 2005)
Unlike in the US, where the metros and other cities have distinct reputations in such fields as industry, commerce, education and culture, their Indian counterparts hardly have any activity specialisation
- Anti-Federal And Breach Of Faith (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 01, 2005)
The decision reportedly taken by the Central Government, on the recommendation of the Union Finance Ministry, on a "Rajiv Gandhi Rehabilitation Package for Tsunami-Affected Areas,"
- Tea Troubles (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 31, 2005)
A far from refreshing performance of tea exports two years in a row must make all stakeholders sit up and take note. Decline in export volumes and loss of export market share to competing producers
- 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 ...
- 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.
- Corruption, Unemployment Main Issues In Polls: Jindal (Tribune, Manoj Kumar, Jan 30, 2005)
AS Haryana goes to elections on February 3, Naveen Jindal, the 35-year-old Congress MP from Kurukshetra says that corruption and widespread unemployment are the main issues in the elections.
- 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”.
- We Must Review Msp Pricing Patterns (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 29, 2005)
The industry perspective is that the MSP that currently obtains in Haryana and Punjab has artificially segmented India's market in agro-produce.
- 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.
- 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).
- Let The World Not Lose Interest Too Fast (Indian Express, SANDHYA VENKATESWARAN , Jan 29, 2005)
After the tsunami, that the world has come together around issues beyond economic, to issues around human concern, suggests that there is, after all, a human face to globalisation.
- Hope Floats (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 28, 2005)
While the wrath of the tsunami was saddening, it did not dishearten. This comment, at the beginning of the president’s Republic Day speech, struck the note of restrained, sober optimism that was the dominant tone throughout.
- President Speaks (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 28, 2005)
The President’s address on the eve of Republic Day this year was predominantly devoted to one subject: employment generation.
- 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
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