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Articles 9321 through 9420 of 10500:
- Get Clear About Nuclear (Indian Express, Jasjit Singh, Dec 10, 2003)
Nuclear power is the key to achieving a sustained 7 per cent growth rate
- Salvaging The Doha Round (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
IN LESS THAN a week from now, the member-countries of the World Trade Organisation will signal from Geneva if they are ready to revive the Doha round of trade negotiations that suffered a spectacular collapse at the Cancun ministerial conference ...
- Touching The Horizon (Indian Express, Gopal Krishna Agarwal, Dec 09, 2003)
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the broadest measure of the health of the economy. Real GDP is defined as the total money value of final goods and services produced by labour and property located within a country during an accounting year. Gross value ...
- Whose Intellect, What Property? (Business Line, Kanchi Kohli , Dec 09, 2003)
EVERYTHING seems up for sale today and the stakes are high! The global trade regime is ready to commodify it all as long as there is a market value, be it seeds, labour, technology and even knowledge. There is competition and the push to rise above the...
- Paradox Of Hunger Amid Plenty (Business Line, K. Parthasarathi, Dec 09, 2003)
The anomaly of hunger amidst the plenty signifies something basically wrong in the system. The question arises why the poor have no access to the food they sorely need.
- Remember Europe (Telegraph, J. N. Dixit , Dec 09, 2003)
The last week of November witnessed important meetings between leaders of the European Union and the government of India, a major event following the Indo-European summit to which the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, went last year. The president of
- Aviation Panel To Govt: Sky Is The Limit For Reforms (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
The Naresh Chandra committee on development of civil aviation has recommended foreign equity (including foreign airlines) of up to 49% in scheduled domestic and international airlines, 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in non-scheduled air services...
- America's Current Account Deficit: Buffett's Proposal (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 08, 2003)
MR Warren Buffett is one of the world's richest men. He is known as the Sage of Omaha, who is trusted with the management of billions of dollars by Americans as well as others. He has acquired a reputation for picking stocks and judging the markets.
- Index Funds And The Performance Paradox (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Dec 08, 2003)
DIVERSIFIED equity funds have on an average outperformed the index funds by 40 percentage points in the current market rally. Empirical evidence, however, suggests that in the long run index funds outperform active funds. But that is a large trade-off...
- The Return To Community (Indian Express, Pradip Biswas, Dec 08, 2003)
Narrative cinema based on a rich literary source will never age
- Companies Make Workers ‘beat The Drums’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2003)
A novel programme underway in several corporations, including Toyota, Unilever, Raytheon and Oracle, makes employees bring drums to the office so that they can take an hour a week to beat them alongside their bosses and co-workers, a media report here say
- Nothing’s Post-1898 (Indian Express, Bhavna Vij, Dec 07, 2003)
Each time you send a letter through a private courier, you break the law. And there’s more
- Mumbai Office Under Scanner (Indian Express, Prafulla Marpakwar, Dec 07, 2003)
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the multicrore stamp paper racket has now shifted its focus on the Mumbai Stamp Office, the licensing authority for stamp vendors.
- Buddha Gets Serious: No Jaywalking In City Of Joy (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2003)
Kolkata has become the first metropolis of the country to ban jaywalking in the city. Violators will be fined on the spot up to Rs 50.
- These Physiotherapists Have Set Their Sights High (Indian Express, Palak Nandi, Dec 07, 2003)
His list of clients include State Chief Secretary P.K. Laheri, MLA from Ellisbridge constituency Bhavin Sheth and late Haren Pandya. A trained physiotherapist, Sagar Prajapati, visually impaired since birth, has been practising full-time for the past ...
- Clues Put Sleuths On Road To Gaya (Indian Express, Subrata Nag Choudhury, Dec 07, 2003)
As the police struggle to piece together the story of Satyendra Dubey’s murder at Gaya, there are some missing links — and there are a few that lead to Koderma where he was to return as National Highway Authority of India’s (NHAI) Project Director.
- Where’s Diana’s Box? (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 06, 2003)
With friends like Paul Burrell, her butler, Diana, Princess of Wales, needed no enemies. For, if mystery is the life of monarchy, as Walter Bagehot wrote, Burrell’s blend of smugness and servility exposes its magic to not just daylight (continuing the ...
- Proud To Be Indian (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2003)
The BJP’s triumph lies in taking India to the 21st century, which, ironically, is an inheritance from Rajiv Gandhi
- Men And Prevention Of Rape (Tribune, Radhika Chopra, Dec 06, 2003)
EVERY so often, the media focuses our attention on rape in a city. The report of a single violent and outrageous rape is followed by a string of reports of rapes all over the city. A sudden spurt of fear is generated, followed by news coverage and opinion
- Enable The Disabled (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2003)
ONE way to find out how just and humane a society is, is to study how it treats its disabled members. Measured by this yardstick, the Indian society is unlikely to rank very high. Laws have been passed and reservations made for the benefit of the physical
- Strength In Numbers (Telegraph, Satadru Ghosh, Dec 06, 2003)
Consider the paradoxes of human fertility. Here in India, we are 1.1 billion and going strong, while in Laviano, Italy, the local municipality so wants babies to be born that it is offerring a baby bonus to prospective mothers (Ageing Italy hands for ...
- Glorious Innings (Telegraph, Kalyan Ghosh, Dec 06, 2003)
Steve Waugh’s retirement from international cricket is the end of an era. He is probably the only one in the current Australian team who can be called a true “gentleman-cricketer”. Sachin Tendulkar echoed millions of cricket fans the world over when he...
- Mum’s The Word (Indian Express, Rita Mathews, Dec 06, 2003)
It is many years since I left school. I still try to keep pace with the new words and phrases. Even though I know I’m lagging behind, I try. But one particular phrase, ‘‘Mum’s the word’’, has bothered me.
- Bpo And The Indian Economy (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Dec 06, 2003)
All the euphoria that very easily becomes hype cannot change one thing. IT services cannot do for India what manufacturing did for China.
- The Xx Chromosome (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2003)
Will it come to mark the genetic code of Indian politics? Let’s not jump to easy conclusions
- Words, Beyond Words (Indian Express, N C Joshi, Dec 05, 2003)
As his commercial hub, Ramnikbhai owns a poky cubicle in a back lane in the Fort area of Mumbai. It houses a computer, fax and a photocopying machine. Surprisingly, a sizeable corner of the room is occupied by an outmoded table, a chair and a rusted ...
- With Wisdom And Energy (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Dec 05, 2003)
Barely seven days before polling, the otherwise composed Vasundhara Raje was livid. One of the more credible opinion polls in a leading magazine showed the Congress heading for a convincing victory in Rajasthan. I have been getting a fantastic response...
- Confusion In The `Company' (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Dec 04, 2003)
On the trauma faced by cooperative societies converting to companies
- Nativity Times (Indian Express, Babu Joseph, Dec 04, 2003)
The great event of Christmas, the birthday of Lord Jesus Christ, is around three weeks from now and Christians all over the world have begun their preparations for celebrating it. According to the Christian tradition, nearly four weeks of preparation
- The Gloves Are Off, So Is Everything (Indian Express, Rohit Brijnath, Dec 04, 2003)
It doesn’t matter if Saurav Ganguly’s team bought ear plugs, or hid in their rooms, or refused complimentary newspapers, there is no escape. Here in Brisbane, the smell of intimidation is everywhere. Steve Waugh’s Australians exhale defiance, they wear...
- Qed: Quite Easily Done (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 04, 2003)
IF YOU have any doubt whether we are keeping up with the Joneses, be comforted by an affirmative thought.
- Sixtythree Years Ago (Tribune, Amreeta Sen, Dec 04, 2003)
THE wedding took place on a crisp November morning, sixtythree years ago. The bridegroom was a dashing young police officer, the bride, a beautiful girl, clad in a simple benarasi sari with the minimum of jewellery and the minimum of fuss.
- Cancun To Geneva — Caution Should Be The Watchword (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Dec 04, 2003)
LONG before the formation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), late President, Jules Nyrere of Tanzania, the committed socialist and visionary African leader, told the industrialised West "Do not give us `aid', instead, give our products (he meant ...
- Thought For The Day (Tribune, George Bernard Shaw, Dec 04, 2003)
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes illness worthwhile.
- A Baltic Experience (Telegraph, Martin Kampchen, Dec 04, 2003)
An invitation to a conference on the Keyserlings takes Martin Kämpchen to two Estonian towns with their historical buildings and youthful crowds
- Look, The Elephant Gallops (Indian Express, Tarun Das, Dec 03, 2003)
This has been an incredible year for India and the pace of change has been so rapid that the world is yet to catch up with it. Most people, even supposedly well-informed public opinion builders outside India, still perceive India in the traditional way.
- Agriculture Subsidy, French Style (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Dec 03, 2003)
France may soon have a number of farmers opting not to cultivate, as that would be deemed a lot more profitable.
- To Nda Delight, Mnf Retains Its Hold, Congress Is Lonely Again (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Dec 03, 2003)
Demolishing the theory that the anti-incumbency factor would shut it out, the ruling Mizo National Front (MNF), led by chief minister and former insurgent leader Zoramthanga, today secured a simple majority in a House of 40 to retain power in Mizoram.
- Is India Really Shining? (Hindu, Mohan Guruswamy, Dec 03, 2003)
India seems to be entering the post-industrial phase without having industrialised.
- Murphy’s Law (Tribune, Krishna Mohan, Dec 03, 2003)
TEN years ago my two daughters who were just 15 and nine years old then, brought a puppy who grew into a big German Shepherd — extremely faithful and loving. He was affectionately named “Murphy”. Deeply attached to all the members of my family, but ...
- Thought For The Day (Tribune, Charles Dickens, Dec 03, 2003)
There are strings ... in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
- Outsourcing For Development (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Dec 02, 2003)
UNCTAD's E-Commerce and Development Report 2003 uses India's experience to argue that the growing market for IT services and business process outsourcing offers poor countries a new development opportunity.
- Weighing A Problem (Telegraph, B. Basu, Dec 02, 2003)
Anastasia Volochkova’s battle against the bulge-watchers, Bolshoi, must have set precedents in the history of ballet (“Bolshoi ballerina wins bulge battle”, Nov 28). There is no doubt that the dance company’s dismissal of her was unjust, considering that
- Wto General Council Meeting — Pragmatism Should Dictate Approach (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Dec 02, 2003)
As the EU has spelt out its stance and offered some flexibility in the issues figuring in the modalities for negotiations of the Doha Development Agenda, India too should adopt a pragmatic "give and take" stance to gain in numerous negotiations that are l
- Sail With The Trade Winds (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Dec 02, 2003)
It is wrong to say that India and its friends were against trade at Cancun. In fact, the problem in trade negotiations has arisen because the large developing countries have now begun taking trade seriously. They are arguing for a rule based system and...
- Tempestuous Winter Session Ahead (Business Line, R. C. Rajamani, Dec 02, 2003)
With election results coming in and such issues as the Judev tape episode and the stamp-paper scam on hand, the winter session of Parliament may see much polemics and politicking rather than democratic discussion and deliberations. The fate over 50 Bills,
- Badly Projected (Telegraph, N.H. Srikumar, Dec 02, 2003)
We are pained and perturbed at seeing the report, “PM road project chief shot” (Nov 28). Gammon India has no work at Koderma patch and none of our engineers was ever suspended during this Golden Quadrilateral Road Project.
- Mutual Funds — Institutions, Retail Investors Should Have Separate Portfolios (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Dec 01, 2003)
BIRLA Sun Life Mutual Fund's decision to announce that it has set March 12, 2004 as one of the record dates for declaring dividends in Birla Advantage Fund does not bode well for the mutual fund industry. The reason is that announcing record dates three..
- Remembering The Faceless (Hindu, Kirsten Grieshaber, Dec 01, 2003)
Gunter Demnig's memorials in the German cities are meant to recall the individual fates of the anonymous victims of the Holocaust.
- Telling Tales (Telegraph, Ananya Ray, Dec 01, 2003)
If there’s one thing that little girls have loved through the decades, it must be fairy tales, where the beautiful maiden always gets the prince in the end (“No fairy-tale ending for your little one”, Nov 27). The link between success and beauty is ...
- Thought For The Day (Tribune, Niccolo Machiavelli, Dec 01, 2003)
Let no one oppose this belief of mine with that well-worn proverb: ‘He who builds on the people builds on mud.’
- Creditworthy (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 01, 2003)
The Reserve Bank of India’s review of the trend and progress of banking 2002-03 is a credible progress report on the performance of the banks and financial institutions during 2002-03. It carries forward the tradition of incisive analysis and the policy..
- To Stop Their Revolving Door, Call Centres Roll Out The Carpet For The Family (Indian Express, Murali K Menon, Nov 30, 2003)
Call centres are fighting their alarming attrition levels by hiring siblings, parents and children, couples. Strategy: if it’s a family, walkout less easy
- ‘recognise Concerns Of Poorer Countries’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 30, 2003)
India has said that WTO will have to recognise the developmental concerns of the poorer countries of the worlds otherwise popular support for economic liberalisation will collapse in the developing world. While addressing a special plenary session during
- ‘gujarat Govt Justified Violence, We Condemned It’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 30, 2003)
Don’t you think that the present problems in Assam are a result of mass scale unemployment in the state, the reason for which is the failure of sucessive state governments to hasten economic development
- Down But Not Out (Hindu, A.A. Harichandan, Nov 30, 2003)
As teachers, administrators and the students at the IIM, Bangalore, grapple with the fallout, there is concern that it should never happen again.
- An Aberration? (Hindu, MANAS DASGUPTA, Nov 30, 2003)
The incident has brought a mixed bag of hope and despair
- Tongue-Twisted Long Ago (Indian Express, Guy Gugliotta, Nov 29, 2003)
Study of 87 languages find ancient Turkish farmers to be fathers of modern human speech
- Doughty Fighter And Leader Of Men (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 29, 2003)
WHATEVER BE THE result of the four-Test cricket series between Australia and India beginning on December 4 in Brisbane, this much is sure: it has already acquired the tag `historic', long before a single ball has been bowled or struck. The ...
- Year Of Bounty (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 28, 2003)
IN A QUIRK of economic theory, the traditional law of demand and supply has seemingly not worked this year in the farm sector, happily so for farmers.
- Rural India And Media: Emerging Permutations (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Nov 28, 2003)
It is all about the dialectics of change in the Indian media. The novelty is that for once this change is not being triggered by anything that is happening in the urban pockets of the country.
- Report On The Trend And Progress Of Banking (2002-03) — Rbi's Concerns Over `Narrow Banking' (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Nov 27, 2003)
The RBI feels that the banks have been neglecting their primary function of credit creation in favour of "narrow banking" for short-term gains. While this could be appropriate in times of easy liquidity, the macro-economic performance of the banking syste
- — Rbi's Concerns Over `Narrow Banking' (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Nov 27, 2003)
The RBI feels that the banks have been neglecting their primary function of credit creation in favour of "narrow banking" for short-term gains. While this could be appropriate in times of easy liquidity, the macro-economic performance of the banking syste
- Report On The Trend And Progress Of Banking (2002-03) & Rbi's Concerns Over `Narrow Banking' (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Nov 27, 2003)
The RBI feels that the banks have been neglecting their primary function of credit creation in favour of "narrow banking" for short-term gains. While this could be appropriate in times of easy liquidity, the macro-economic performance of the banking syste
- No Full Stops In Mulayam Home (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Nov 27, 2003)
All in little Saifai, home to 30,000, agree that Mulayam Singh Yadav put it on the map. And this December, Saifai will have more reason to thank the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister: for 10 days, it will be a world transformed, hosting bigwigs, celebrities, s
- Govt Rules Out Change In Edible Oil Duty (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Nov 26, 2003)
THE Finance Ministry has ruled out any changes in import duties on edible oils. Seeking to set aside market speculation on changes in duty structure, a top Central Board of Excise Customs (CBEC) official told Business Line: "There is no case for either an
- Capitalism With A Human Face (Indian Express, Anu R Aga, Nov 26, 2003)
In the past few years there has been much talk about ‘‘corporate social responsibility’’ (CSR). It has become a leading topic at World Economic Forum meetings. Economist Adam Smith, who wrote the bible of capitalism, Wealth of Nations, more importantly a
- Murasoli Maran At Doha (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 25, 2003)
The late commerce minister came into his own in tricky trade negotiations
- Breakthrough In Paddy Cultivation (Deccan Herald, Sudhirendar Sharma, Nov 25, 2003)
In his life as a progressive farmer it was the biggest surprise. As Harchand Singh explained the performance of growing paddy without the usual flooding of the fields, curious farmers from adjoining villages on the outskirts of Ludhiana watched him with r
- Breakthrough In Paddy Cultivation (Deccan Herald, Sudhirendar Sharma, Nov 25, 2003)
In his life as a progressive farmer it was the biggest surprise. As Harchand Singh explained the performance of growing paddy without the usual flooding of the fields, curious farmers from adjoining villages on the outskirts of Ludhiana watched him with r
- Indian Versus Indian (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 24, 2003)
Recruitment tests for a pan-Indian institution like the railways must be pan-Indian
- This Pace, Make It A Habit (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Nov 23, 2003)
Gravitas, a gravelly voice and deliberate silence have worked well for my friend Jaswant Singh, the Finance Minister. But even Mr Singh must speak occasionally, and he has done so through his Ministry’s Mid-year Review (MYR) released a few days ago.
- Brazening It Out (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Nov 23, 2003)
There is little doubt that it was primarily the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who insisted that the man in the eye of the storm over the "cash on camera affair" must go.
- Irrigate The Euphoria (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 22, 2003)
After four years of fluctuating output and depressed prices, growers of commercial crops -- oilseeds and cotton -- are a happy lot.
- Privatisation: Perils Of Dithering (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Nov 21, 2003)
With the disinvestment target falling short by a whopping Rs 8,000 crore, it is surprising that the Government is still dithering about offering shares to the public in such major undertakings as IOC and ONGC, which can easily fetch over Rs 5,000 crore. W
- Privatisation: Perils Of Dithering (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Nov 21, 2003)
With the disinvestment target falling short by a whopping Rs 8,000 crore, it is surprising that the Government is still dithering about offering shares to the public in such major undertakings as IOC and ONGC, which can easily fetch over Rs 5,000 crore. W
- Potatoes Are Forever (Hindu, R. W. Apple Jr., Nov 21, 2003)
Burbank russets, known today to most Americans simply as Idahos, proved to be ideal for baking, mashing and for making french fries.
- Service Tax Liability For Distributors — Amfi Seeks Uti Help To Study Finance Ministry Circular (Business Line, Nilanjan Dey, Nov 21, 2003)
THE Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) has requested Unit Trust of India to examine the Finance Ministry's circular which says the services of distributors of mutual funds are basically in the nature of services of commission agents as defined un
- Privatisation: Perils Of Dithering (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Nov 21, 2003)
With the disinvestment target falling short by a whopping Rs 8,000 crore, it is surprising that the Government is still dithering about offering shares to the public in such major undertakings as IOC and ONGC, which can easily fetch over Rs 5,000 crore. W
- Mid-Term Review Of The Economy — Fine-Tuning Of Policies Needed (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Nov 19, 2003)
If the Mid-Term Review of the Economy holds any lesson, it is that the Government should shun the business-as-usual approach and instead go the whole hog by fine-tuning policies to keep the economy on an even keel, and cashing in on the cosy fundamentals
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