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Articles 8421 through 8520 of 10500:
- No 100 Per Cent Guarantee (Indian Express, RAGHAV GAIHA, Dec 20, 2004)
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill to be tabled in Parliament has sparked a debate on the desirability and feasibility of extending the innovative Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) in Maharashtra to the poorest 150 districts in India.
- Poised For Faster Growth? (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Dec 20, 2004)
On the prospects for the economy during the year, the Mid-Term Review cites the scaled-down growth range of the RBI (6 to 6.5 per cent) for 2004-05 and says that "even at a relatively lower growth rate of 6 per cent plus for the current year, India will c
- Life And Death (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 20, 2004)
K. Venkatesh's poignant attempt to serve others in death raises profound moral questions no society will find easy to answer. The Andhra High Court rejected a petition by his mother asking that her son be allowed to die before incurable muscular dystrophy
- A Real Cabinet At Last (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 18, 2004)
That it should have taken nearly seven months for Chief Minister Dharam Singh to have something like a real Cabinet speaks volumes of the state of affairs in Karnataka.
- Cyrus And His Tricks (Indian Express, Rooma Mehra, Dec 18, 2004)
Sunset on Lake Sal. An hour that unfailingly heralds peace and awe if one may allow oneself the temptation to fantasise that this lake is not shrinking like the country’s other lakes
- The Indian Connection (Deccan Herald, JOSEPH BERGER, Dec 18, 2004)
A divide exists between Guyanese immigrants of Indian descent and their Indian brethren, in the US
- Welcome Dd Direct (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 18, 2004)
With its new Direct-to-Home (DTH) service, Prasar Bharati has switched on a new and refreshingly different option for the television viewer. By keeping the offering free of monthly charges...
- Sustaining The Momentum (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 17, 2004)
There is nothing surprising in the Government's admission in its mid-year economic Review that it may not be able to contain the revenue deficit this year to Rs.76,171 crore or 2.5 per
- Job Guarantee — For Whom And How? (Deccan Herald, Manu N Kulkarni, Dec 17, 2004)
The Employment Guarantee Scheme of the government can succeed only if the private sector is involved
- From Crutches To Physiotherapy (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Dec 17, 2004)
The All India SC&ST Confederation's rally at Delhi's Ram Lila Maidan in support of reservation in private sector, judiciary and armed forces portends major economic and social upheaval.
- Girls For Sale In Himachal (Tribune, Ambika Sharma, Dec 16, 2004)
Driven by extreme poverty and social backwardness, villagers across the Transgiri area of Sirmaur district in Himachal are forced to sell girls, often to physically challenged and aged men from Punjab and Haryana.
- Fdi In Retail Sector — A Trade Policy For Trade (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Dec 16, 2004)
The pan-chewing, dhoti-clad, English-ignorant retail trader should not be seen as `inefficient' and `cost ineffective' who needs to be bleached by globally-accepted detergents.
- Stress Is Showing (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 15, 2004)
The report card on the Indian economy could have been a lot better. An inflation rate of around 7 per cent punctured the virtues of a probable 6 per cent growth.
- More Tax, Less Revenue (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 15, 2004)
In a mostly self-congratulatory mid-term review, the government has at least admitted a revenue shortfall. Obviously, the government is spending more than it earns.
- In A Buffalo Economy (Indian Express, RAVINDER KAUR, Dec 15, 2004)
On a field trip to rural Haryana, what struck me was the dissonance between per capita incomes and living conditions, especially as they affect women.
- Way To Go: Growth Plus Egalite (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Dec 15, 2004)
There are three serious issues being raised in the winter seminar season in Delhi. The first is whether India grew faster in the nineties as compared to the eighties.
- Bring Back The Old Sting (Telegraph, Rajashri Dasgupta, Dec 15, 2004)
It is time for the feminist movement to revisit some issues and think of strategies to make health a fundamental right
- P(l)ots Of Money (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 14, 2004)
OF all the election-oriented, populist announcements made by the Haryana Cabinet on Saturday, the most unsettling one with far-reaching consequences is the decision to regularise some 1,054 unauthorised colonies in the state.
- Deep Inside Jharkhand (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Dec 14, 2004)
Last week I strayed into rural Jharkhand. I took a bus far away from pucca roads, and drove miles on village paths. Then I realized the secret of Tata Motors’ success
- The Possibilities Of Biotechnology (Deccan Herald, C. S. Prakash, Dec 13, 2004)
Agriculture forms the backbone of Karnataka’s economy, employing much of its population. Modern scientific approaches to improve agriculture can help revitalise farming in our state by enhancing crop productivity; cut down the use of chemical inputs on th
- The Sun Is Shining (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 13, 2004)
Industrial production growth data for October shows a buoyant economy. Industrial growth was 10.1 per cent, and manufacturing growth was 11.3 per cent. Both were at a seven-year high.
- Robust Exports: The Invisible Realities (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Dec 13, 2004)
A breaking real-life story seems set to give all the popular television soaps a run for their money. The viewers are agreed that it is `riveting stuff' and this appears to be driving such shows as Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki, Kusum and Kyonki Saans Bhi Kabhi Bahu
- Parambikulam Panorama (Indian Express, George N Netto, Dec 11, 2004)
Within minutes of passing the flaming red signboard welcoming us to the Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary, we were coasting along through a dense, ominously silent teak forest extending endlessly into the distance.
- Furore Over Attachment Of Assets (Business Line, R. V. Ramana Murthy, Dec 11, 2004)
THE Andhra Pradesh Government has sought amendments to the Seed Act, 1952 in the light of the ongoing farm crisis in the State following the failure of seeds in cotton, maize and other crops (The Hindu, October 25).
- Focus On Agriculture (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Dec 11, 2004)
The latest World Employment Report (WER) brought out by the International Labour Office in Geneva has a chapter "Why Agriculture Matters",
- Agriculture Is No Holy Cow (Business Line, T. N. Pandey, Dec 11, 2004)
THE one issue on which no political party wants to express a firm view is the taxation of rich agriculturists under the income and wealth tax Acts.
- The Patent Controversy (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Dec 10, 2004)
By rushing through the Third Patents Amendment without proper parliamentary scrutiny, India is short changing its post-Doha obligations to both its own and the world's poor
- A Gleam In The Eye (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Dec 10, 2004)
It is the “in” thing currently. About everybody in the creamy layer is forecasting the rate of growth of India’s gross domestic product: the International Monetary Fund
- Issues Patently Questionable (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Dec 10, 2004)
In less than two months, India will be obliged to do the follow-up on the WTO-mandated product patent stipulations, and the Commerce Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, made a strident statement:
- There’S No Turning The Flow (Telegraph, SAHELI MITRA, Dec 09, 2004)
The Delhi government recently announced that it would impose a levy on groundwater. The West Bengal government too has said that it intends to pass a new law to restrict exploitation of groundwater and create new waterbodies.
- What’S Left Of Bengal (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Dec 09, 2004)
The degeneration of West Bengal into one of the most backward states in India, and of Calcutta into little more than a very big mofussil city, began somewhere in the mid-Sixties. That was the time when we saw the use of “mass movements”, bandhs, hartals,
- Too Rigid To Work (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Dec 08, 2004)
Labour-market rigidities constrain growth in employment. This argument has often been advanced by economists. In the absence of flexible labour markets in the organized sector
- The Corporate Road To An Industrial Disaster (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Dec 08, 2004)
Words cannot capture the magnitude of the disaster that struck Bhopal on that fateful night of December 2, 1984. One author describes it as `the Hiroshima of chemical industry.'
- Making Food Processing Viable (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Dec 08, 2004)
In Rural India those trying food-processing with help of plant and machinery quickly realise that the `value-added' is less than the `cost-added' as all the advantage is creamed off by the equipment manufacturer.
- The Challenges Before Indian Banks (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 07, 2004)
The Reserve Bank of India's Report on Trend and Progress of Banking (2003-04) released recently places the major issues of Indian banking in a sound perspective.
- The Price Of Rice (Business Line, K.G. Kumar, Dec 07, 2004)
Not many people may be aware that this year has been declared the International Year of Rice by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations.
- The Us Dollar Versus The Chinese Yuan (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Dec 07, 2004)
China is under increasing pressure from the US to revalue the yuan. With the US Government unwilling or unable to halt the decline of the dollar, this is seen as the means to prevent a dollar crash that can
- Computers And Rural Poverty (Deccan Herald, Sudhirendar Sharma, Dec 07, 2004)
As some of the leading development protagonists wield the magic wand of information and communication technology to root out rural poverty, the poor are being targeted yet again for another round of experimentation.
- Powering Projects With Forex Reserves (Business Line, S. Padmanabhan , Dec 07, 2004)
In the power sector, the equity investment climate has always been buoyant. But the expected investment has not flowed into this area because of viability and bankability issues.
- Impoverishing The Poor (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Dec 06, 2004)
The Bank’s unswerving faith in agribusiness displaces poor farmers and will only add to burgeoning poverty globally
- Mission Horticulture (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 06, 2004)
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, who was in Chandigarh on Friday to open the CII’s Agro Tech fair, made two significant statements. One, a National
- Report On Trend And Progress Of Banking 2003-04 (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 06, 2004)
The latest report on Trend and Progress of Banking in India for 2003-04 follows the lines of its predecessors in presenting a workmanlike account of the health of the banking industry and its prospects.
- Dignified Debates (Indian Express, Soli Sorabjee, Dec 05, 2004)
The Indo-Pak student seminar Manzar, organised by Miranda House this week at the IIC, was an enjoyable event. Three students each from the Indian and Pakistani side debated the motion
- Tide Of Misfortune (Telegraph, Debashis Bhattacharyya, Dec 05, 2004)
Five years after the super-cyclone, many women survivors along coastal Orissa live in a nightmarish world, stalked by human predators.
- Globalisation: Need For Fairness (Hindu, Juan Somavia, Dec 04, 2004)
More fairness should be injected at all levels. That includes respecting core labour standards, promoting basic social protection, and reducing unbalanced patterns of investment and trade.
- The Cotton Calamity (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 03, 2004)
Predictably, at the 63rd plenary of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) in Mumbai, the common refrain among many Asian and African producing countries was the adverse fallout of acute
- Birth Of A Science City (Tribune, Reeta Sharma, Dec 03, 2004)
For a follow-up of Pushpa Gujral Science City, a trip to Kapurthala left this columnist in awe. The very first phase of the science city project is mind-boggling.
- Cracks In The Wall (Telegraph, NEHA SAHAY, Dec 03, 2004)
Since 1978, when Deng Xiaoping set China upon the road to a “socialist market economy”, the number of poor Chinese has reduced from 250 million to 29 million, says the government.
- Power Relief In Punjab (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 02, 2004)
The Punjab State Electricity Board, which is known to give frequent shocks to consumers, has been forced to provide relief, for a change.
- More Riveting Than A Soap (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Dec 02, 2004)
A breaking real real-life story seems set to give all the popular television soaps a run for their money.
- Amendments To Seed Law — Yet To Germinate Fully (Business Line, R. V. Ramana Murthy, Dec 02, 2004)
The Andhra Pradesh Government has sought amendments to the Seed Act, 1952 in the light of the ongoing farm crisis in the State following the failure of seeds in cotton
- Mines Claim More Lives Than Firing (Tribune, Ramesh Ramachandran, Dec 01, 2004)
Wheelchair-bound Raj Kaur (50) rues the day she was reduced to a mere statistic. In April, 2002, she stepped on a mine while crossing a field in her village in Ferozepur district.
- In Search Of A Creative Alternative (Telegraph, Vandana Shiva, Dec 01, 2004)
Terra Madre celebrated an honest agriculture that does not lie about prices and does not exploit the earth or its caretakers
- Broadcasting For People (Tribune, N. Bhaskara Rao, Dec 01, 2004)
How much concerned are we today about Public Service Broadcasting (PSB)? Of course, PSB cannot be appraised in isolation of the larger broadcast scene in the country.
- Can We Centre The Northeast? (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Dec 01, 2004)
The Northeast is at the center again, this time for the right reasons. The recent VVIP visit emphasised the criticality of the region as a spring board of activity for furthering India’s interests to the east
- Can Parliament Avoid A Winter Of Discord? (Business Line, R. C. Rajamani, Dec 01, 2004)
The signs are ominous. The gathering political clouds point to a winter session of Parliament not free from discord and discontent. By any reckoning
- `Shrimp Wars' In The Making (Business Line, K.G. Kumar, Nov 30, 2004)
Last week, the Kochi-based trading and seafood company Choice announced ambitious plans to make a grand entry into the UK market with its range of branded prawns.
- A Grey Eminence (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Nov 30, 2004)
The story of Indian reforms has been written many times; the more often it is written, the more it will sound the same.
- Reforms Gone Haywire (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Nov 29, 2004)
The word, “comprador”, of 16th-century vintage, has its roots in the Portuguese language. It has, however, travelled far and wide since.
- `You Name It, We Will Make It' (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Nov 29, 2004)
The statistical profile of Taiwan's achievements in recent times has been, to say the least, impressive. In macro terms, GDP has risen from $1.6 billion in 1952 to $48 billion in 1982 to $281 billion in 2002.
- Victims Of Insularity (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Nov 29, 2004)
Naxalites, and defiant leaders of Kashmir and the North-East complain that government has kept them poor. In truth, they are poor not because the government has given them too little but because they have had no vision.
- Taking French Connection Beyond Wine & Cheese (Indian Express, N K Singh, Nov 28, 2004)
While round table conferences, strategic dialogue and visits of political dignitaries have helped mutual understanding, our relations must re-adapt to the new economic realities
- Why Indian Milk Yield Is So Low (Tribune, Gurbhagwant Singh Kahlon, Nov 27, 2004)
INDIA ranks first in the buffalo and cattle population, second in goats and third in the sheep population in the world. This huge livestock population is, however, unable to yield 250 gms milk per person per day.
- Myths, Old And New, Of Indian Banking (Business Line, Asuri Vasudevan, Nov 25, 2004)
A number of propositions about the banking sector have failed the empirical test. Myths abound about the sector, and Asuri Vasudevan examines a few of them, both in the pre- and post-nationalisation eras.
- Sorry End (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Nov 25, 2004)
Sobhini Rajan is a mere memory now, and her medals a searing indictment of the ways of our sporting system.
- Chautala Vs Centre (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 25, 2004)
With a Congress-led government at the Centre, the going has got tougher for Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala. First blow came after the Centre declared Chautala’s much-touted goodwill visit to Pakistan to bring holy waters from the village of
- A Powerless Weapon (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Nov 25, 2004)
The popular mood is against bandhs. Parties that hope to survive have to reflect this change in their strategies
- Revamping The Vegoil Complex (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 24, 2004)
The drift of the Rs 75,000-crore oilseed and vegetable oil complex, an important segment of the burgeoning food processing sector, has been a cause for concern.
- Man With The Magic Wand (Telegraph, Sushil Khanna, Nov 24, 2004)
Shaukat Aziz has been able to resurrect the Pakistan economy. But will Shining Pakistan be as good a mirage as India Shining
- "Fast-Breeder Reactors More Important For India" (Hindu, T.S. Subramanian, Nov 24, 2004)
Embargoes have only increased India's self-reliance in the nuclear field, says Anil Kakodkar, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy.
- Discerning The Data (Business Line, K. Gopalan, Nov 24, 2004)
Even as economists such as Mr Lester Thurow of the US express doubts about the veracity of the data regarding the growth of the economies of Japan and China, the basis on which the related figures are arrived at itself is questioned in some other quarters
- Afghanistan— Abandoned To Drugs (Tribune, Leonard Doyle, Nov 24, 2004)
Three years after the fall of the Taliban, the United Nations issued a dramatic plea for help yesterday, saying that Afghanistan’s opium crop is flourishing as never before and the country is well on the way to becoming a corrupt narco-state.
- The Continuing Possibilities Of Land Reform (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Nov 23, 2004)
Land reforms are typically thought of only in terms of land redistribution, which is seen as politically too difficult to attempt. But there are a range of other measures which are very important in ensuring not only better equity in agriculture but also
- A Stake In The Future (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 23, 2004)
The world conservation Congress, a summit for governments and civil society, has got under way in Bangkok at a time when competitive pressures on natural resources are at a new high and biodiversity is under unprecedented threat.
- On Filene's Basement, Other Matters (The Economic Times, NANDAN M NILEKANI, Nov 22, 2004)
My first trip to the US took me to Boston in the spring of 1979. With an ominous New England winter looming, and being a software engineer on a modest stipend, getting warm clothes on the cheap was of the essence.
- Electric Truths (Telegraph, L. Rao, Nov 22, 2004)
Support and incentives to farmers are not unique to India. In the United States of America and the European Union, there are even incentives to farmers not to produce and to keep land fallow.
- Electric Truths (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Nov 22, 2004)
Support and incentives to farmers are not unique to India. In the United States of America and the European Union, there are even incentives to farmers not to produce and to keep land fallow.
- Helping Farmers (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Nov 22, 2004)
The Union Agriculture Minister, Mr Sharad Pawar, has envisioned a bright, prosperous future for farmers by bringing about reforms in the agricultural sector, particularly agricultural marketing. He has asked all states to amend
- Making World A Better Place To Live In (Tribune, Sitakant Mahapatra, Nov 21, 2004)
AN issue that is being hotly debated these days is the changing focus of culture and development. A host of parameters have entered into the debate as to what
- Too Fond A Wish To Show On The Field (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Nov 20, 2004)
There was a time when every income-tax return used to be scrutinised by income-tax officers (ITOs). As the workload expanded rapidly, the Department began believing in the maxim, "We trust you, you trust us."
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