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Articles 9521 through 9620 of 10500:
- The World Through New Eyes (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, Oct 25, 2003)
Trade and terrorism shape our international relationships now
- This Diwali, Heart Of Darkness Is Bright & Shining (Indian Express, Varghese K George, Oct 25, 2003)
Ex-Leftist, builder-turned-activist, revived water system have brought revolution
- Hunger Persists In Globalised World (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 24, 2003)
There is no international watchdog to ensure that the right to food is enforced in countries like India
- Sweetener For Cane Growers (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2003)
THE CENTRE's DILEMMA over fixing Statutory Minimum Price (SMP) for sugarcane — arguably the most contentious in the pricing of agricultural crops — is palpable. At a time when elections to some States are round the corner, the Centre is straining every ne
- Hunger Persists In Globalised World (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kant, Oct 24, 2003)
There is no international watchdog to ensure that the right to food is enforced in countries like India
- Time For A Wake-Up Call (Hindu, S. Akbar Zaidi, Oct 23, 2003)
Pakistan has been left behind, in terms of economic growth, by other SAARC countries and particularly by India.
- Cancun: India's Stand Must Be Guarded (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Oct 23, 2003)
THE WTO, it is hoped, has learnt some useful lessons from the recent failure of negotiations at Cancun It should begin the work of restructuring the organisation to make the consultative process more open, and to engender a spirit of give and take between
- The First Ones Who Sang In The Daler Scandal (Indian Express, Manraj Grewal, Oct 22, 2003)
Four of a family paid Shamsher aide; one complained, then blew the lid
- Why Is This A Very Happy Diwali? Top Answer Is Reforms (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2003)
There’s something deeper to the optimism than the rain god, write Advisor to Finance Minister Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah, Consultant, Dept of Economic Affairs
- Forging An Alliance (Hindu, Tony Smith, Oct 22, 2003)
Argentina and Brazil were determined to maintain the alliance of developing countries and to continue pressing for more equitable trade for farmers.
- Npas: Not A Complete Write-Off (Business Line, T. S. Viswanathan, Oct 21, 2003)
MUCH has been written about the banking sector's non-performing assets. A fair estimate from the banking sector reveals that around Rs 75,000 crore — or the equivalent of around $16 billion — of debt could be bad and doubtful.
- General Council Meeting Of Wto — Picking Up The Threads From Cancun (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 21, 2003)
It is time India took a pragmatic view of the emerging situation in the international trading arena, in general, and at the WTO, in particular. The two-day General Council meeting of the WTO beginning today in Geneva is thus crucial for India to watch the
- Ltte And Muslims (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Oct 21, 2003)
At the heart of the problem is the LTTE's view of itself as the absolute ruler of the north-east.
- Beating About The Bush (Business Line, K. Ramesh, Oct 21, 2003)
THE deposed Iraqi chief, Mr Saddam Hussein, poses "danger to the world" is the latest invention of the US President, Mr George Bush.
- Watering Down A Water Plan (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Oct 21, 2003)
The watershed development movement in India gathered steam in the mid-eighties. In the beginning, the nation used canal-based irrigation as its major salvation.
- Poor ‘masters’, Rich ‘servants’ (Deccan Herald, Keshav Rao Jadhav, Oct 21, 2003)
In this democracy, the ‘servants’ of the people get everything free while the ‘masters’ cannot afford even the necessities
- New Phase Of Wto Consultations (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 20, 2003)
The new phase of consultations in Geneva with the objective of arriving at agreed modalities of negotiations in the different spheres will be markedly different from other negotiations in that "the process in Geneva will have to be supplemented by direct
- Growing Success In Remote Sensing (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2003)
REMOTE SENSING IS one of the success stories of the Indian space programme. From a situation in the 1970s when remote sensing was virtually unheard of in this country, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has engineered a remarkable ...
- Mulayam Too Has A Vision, With A Little Help From Friends (Indian Express, Raman Kirpal, Oct 20, 2003)
Barely two months in power and fresh from calming Ayodhya, Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav on Sunday packaged a major corporate deal to chart a new roadmap for Uttar Pradesh.
- Onion Prices To Rocket This Diwali (Indian Express, Rakshit Sonawane, Oct 20, 2003)
This Diwali, it won’t just be the rockets going up. There’s grim news from the country’s onion bowl: prices of onions are all set to climb dizzying heights for a while.
- And The Nominees For Best Use Of The Internet Are... (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Oct 19, 2003)
India’s e-industry takes another step forward when, over the next few days, the work of eight of the best networks, services and applications come up for scrutiny before a grand jury sitting in Dubai that will decide on nominations to the UN World Summit
- Sterilisation Gets A Good Name, That Too In Haryana (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Oct 19, 2003)
Chautala’s unique scheme: get sterilised, we pay Rs 500 per month until your daughter turns 20, Rs 200 if it’s a son
- An Insidious Campaign (Hindu, K. Srinivas Reddy, Oct 19, 2003)
From being confined to isolated backward pockets of Andhra Pradesh and Bihar, the naxalites have spread their network across several States
- Treaties And Cancun (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Oct 17, 2003)
In India, a treaty should be circulated before it is signed with information being made available to the people who, along with the States, should be widely consulted.
- Cancun Failure Is Nobody's Gain (Business Line, B.S. Rathor, Oct 17, 2003)
India, on the threshold of sustained economic growth, will be affected by the stalemate at Cancun.
- Cancun: A Mystery Story (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Oct 17, 2003)
There have been several post-mortems of what happened in Cancun.
- 7-Cm Indian Purple Frog Leaps 100 Million Yrs (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Oct 17, 2003)
It’s just 7 cm long. It’s purple in colour. It looks like a balloon and lives a metre below the surface. It’s a frog. Hitherto unknown, it’s our very own though it has been around for a while: 140 million years.
- Farm Sector Woes (Hindu, Bhanu Pratap Singh , Oct 17, 2003)
The decline in agricultural growth and increase in rural poverty have been due to the long persisting government indifference towards the farm sector.
- Wealth: Agriculture Plus Services (Indian Express, Gopal Krishna Agarwal, Oct 16, 2003)
Rachel Carson, in her landmark book Silent Spring, has stated that the power of an idea can be greater than political power. In the economic development of a country, there are two factors at work:
- Bali Raises Visions Of Asian Century (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Oct 16, 2003)
Since the "Look-East" policy was enunciated in 1993, India has made good headway in promoting greater co-operation with South-East Asia. Those gains were consolidated further at the Asean Summit, where member-nations committed themselves to creating a con
- Uncertainty After Cancun Collapse (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 16, 2003)
The collapse of the ministerial signals the beginning of a tension-ridden holiday for the WTO in the immediate future
- Uncertainty After Cancun Collapse (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 16, 2003)
The collapse of the ministerial signals the beginning of a tension-ridden holiday for the WTO in the immediate future
- Engineering A Makeover For Gujarat (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Oct 16, 2003)
FOR the Gujarat Chief Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, the last couple of months have been all about re-engineering, restructuring and reinventing the business outlook of his State.
- Biotechnology: Hope & Hype (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
IN SOME WAYS, biotechnology is nothing new. Breeding domestic animals and cultivable crops were prerequisites for civilisation. Less essentially perhaps, early societies discovered fermentation and alcoholic beverages. But modern biotechnology ...
- Cancun: A Mere Show Of Strength (Business Line, Alok Ray, Oct 15, 2003)
NOT totally unexpectedly, the Cancun Ministerial of the World Trade Organisation meeting has concluded without yielding any agreement. The major stumbling blocks were the massive agricultural subsidies (estimated at be around $300 billion annually by the
- Message From The East (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2003)
The India-Thailand free trade agreement is part of a wider good neighbour policy
- Breaking Free From Industrial Agriculture (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Oct 15, 2003)
WHAT are the real costs of food? When we buy a kg of rice or wheat, have we at any time wondered what its real cost could be against what we pay in the shop? We only are concerned about the `market' price of food, and not what it costs to produce.
- Cancun Is Dead, Long Live Wto (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Oct 15, 2003)
Those who are gloating over the failure of the Cancun Ministerial and hoping that the WTO is dead are as wrong as they can be. The trade body and negotiations will live on, but hopefully become more open and less complex
- Hindutva Rate Of Growth (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Oct 14, 2003)
There is hype and hypocrisy in economic projections
- Patents For Peace And Happiness (Hindu, M. S. Swaminathan , Oct 13, 2003)
Indian scientists should be encouraged to assign their patents to a bank to be used for the common good.
- Industrial Policy Options — Going Beyond Mere Reforms (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 13, 2003)
I RECENTLY came across a seminal contribution to the ongoing debate on economic reforms in India, written by a bright economist, Dr R. Nagaraj of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research.
- ‘we Made Mistakes Like Discouraging Private Sector, We Are Changing Now’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 13, 2003)
You are the only Marxist ruler, if I could call you so, in the whole world. Isn’t it so, and an elected one at that, barring the small government in Tripura
- Govt Turns New Reforms Leaf (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Oct 12, 2003)
Radical Act is ready to let farmers sell directly to the buyer
- The Curdled Controversy (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Oct 10, 2003)
IT IS now almost a year since the simmering tensions between Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF or Amul) Chairman, Dr Verghese Kurien, and his counterpart at the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Dr Amrita Patel, came out in the..
- On A Genetically Modified Diet (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2003)
Why environmentalists are bound to embrace biotechnology
- Making Services Work For Poor (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Oct 09, 2003)
Broad improvements in human welfare will not happen till poor people receive wider access to affordable services in health, education, water, sanitation and electricity, warns WDR 2004. Rightly concluding that no one size fits all, it describes eight, and
- Laws For The Daughter-In-Law (Indian Express, Indira Jaising, Oct 08, 2003)
To say the dowry law is being ‘misused’, is to ignore the reality of a brutal marriage
- Managing Water (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 08, 2003)
A TIME there was when air and water were assumed to be free goods of which there was an inexhaustible supply. Clean air no longer comes free but at a cost, though hidden, in terms of money spent on controlling and guarding against air pollution.
- Ioc And Own Goals (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2003)
THE RECENT DECISION of the Cabinet Committee on Disinvestment to pursue the option of breaking up India's largest oil company, Indian Oil, before putting up its substantial network for sale is shockingly ill-conceived. The unexpected move will ...
- Green Fuels Sooner Rather Than Later (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Oct 08, 2003)
Govt says its plan on ethanol and biodiesel well on track
- Retirement Blues (Business Line, G. S. Balakrishnan , Oct 07, 2003)
OVER the months, by sheer coincidence, I happened to read articles titled "Retirement Blues", "The trauma of retirement" and "Retire and Rust"? Which boiled down to S. Syndrome (superannuation syndrome), a recent coinage describing the physical and mental
- Shutting Out The House (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 07, 2003)
Privatisation by executive order is undemocratic
- Don't Split Indian Oil Corporation (Business Line, Raghuvir Srinivasan, Oct 07, 2003)
In the Government's hurry to show success in privatising oil companies, the larger objective of disinvestment seems to have been lost sight of. Is the aim to free PSUs from government control? Or to raise resources to fill the dwindling exchequer? This is
- Professional’s Dilemma (Indian Express, Krishan Kalra, Oct 07, 2003)
To be spared death or to be true
- Urban Amenities, Rural Ambience (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Oct 06, 2003)
The President may be an evangelist for PURA and the Prime Minister may want 5000 of these urbanised rural settlements, but for that the Government needs to reinvent itself. PURA requires the cooperation of various ministries, and policy changes to infuse
- Hedgers Not Daunted By Cash-Settled Market (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Oct 06, 2003)
A RECENT article in a financial daily argued that derivatives cannot be used for hedging because they are cash settled. The article concluded that a delivery-based system would be a better market design for hedging purposes. Such a conclusion seems ...
- Politics Of Cancun Failure — Us Stance Hardens Towards G-20+ Nations (Business Line, Seema Gaur, Oct 06, 2003)
American negotiators are criticising leaders of the G-20+, especially Brazil which is one of the world's largest agricultural producer of soy beans, beef, oranges and coffee, for posing as less-developed countries when their economies are, in fact ...
- Your Q, His A: Personal Law (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2003)
Rajiv K. Luthra is the founder and senior partner of Luthra and Luthra Law Offices. This column provides general observations on applicable laws. Due to paucity of space, it does not and cannot substitute legal advice specific to an issue. Readers are ...
- ‘us, Israel, India Fighting Same Menace, But We’re Not Axis’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2003)
DAVID DANIELI, ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO INDIA
- Another Sexual Harassment Case Filed Against Phaneesh Murthy (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2003)
Five months after Infosys Technologies settled out of court a sexual harassment suit filed against its former global sales head Phaneesh Murthy, the software bellwether today said it has ‘‘learned’’ that another former employee in the US has filed a ...
- A Glimpse From Behind The Bars (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2003)
THIS year’s Dussehra is going to be special for these 12 women inmates of the Special Jail, Bhubaneswar
- Flash It And Scram: The Mob Is Here (Indian Express, Murali Menon, Oct 05, 2003)
India got its first experience of the strange human swarming called the flash mob, just two months after the social fad popped up in New York.
- After Aloo-Gobi, It’s Guru Ki Nagri (Indian Express, Rachna Subir Sen, Oct 05, 2003)
It began on Wednesday. Amritsar woke up to find itself in Hollywood. That too in the company of Gurinder Chadha. After introducing the world to aloo-gobi, Chadha is now all set to give it a taste of Guru Ki Nagri, as Amritsar is fondly called.
- Nobel Coetzee (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2003)
The ultimate honour for a novelist who always asks the uncomfortable questions
- `No Standards World-Wide For Pesticide Residues In Soft-Drinks' (Business Line, Ameer Shahul, Oct 03, 2003)
IN RESPONSE to the article "Killing pests or poisoning people?" by Ameer Shahul (Business Line, September 2), Mr Sanjiv Gupta, President and Chief Executive Officer of Coca-Cola India, writes
- Naidu Seeks Israeli Firm’s Help For Tackling Terror (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Oct 03, 2003)
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has been aware of the chinks in the armour around him and the pressing need to fix them. Just two weeks before the assassination attempt, he had a meeting with Nirtal, a top Israeli company, about sprucing
- Not A Spectacular Recovery? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2003)
A NUMBER OF leading indicators on the economy confirm that a revival is taking place in 2003-04. But the first estimate of agricultural production in the kharif season suggests that the rebound from the trough of 2002-03 may not be as spectacular ...
- Pseudo-Victory At Cancun? (Business Line, Geethanjali Nataraj, Oct 03, 2003)
No doubt, the firm stand by the G-21 was a major moral victory for the developing world at Cancun. But the latter also lost out by the sidelining of other issues vital to their progress. As much as the rich countries need to pay serious attention to the..
- Separate Platform For Small-Caps Ideal (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Oct 03, 2003)
THE decision by the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) to allow listing of companies with post-offer paid-up capital of Rs 3 crore may increase the risk for investors.
- The Accounting Argument Continues (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2003)
CONFLICTS over the adoption of international accounting standards, in time for use from 2005, increasingly seems like a game of poker being played while a steamroller bears down on the card-players
- Let's Start From The Scratch (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Oct 02, 2003)
Cheap credit, SMP/SAP, crop insurance, free power... Agriculture policy-making has been reduced to tinkering with an eye on votes. It is time the slate of farm policies was wiped clean for a new draft with a new architecture and a new ambition
- Pursue Listings With Caution (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2003)
THE BOMBAY STOCK Exchange relaxing the listing norms appears an attempt to shore up its share of trading revenues. By lowering the equity and market capitalisation thresholds, the BSE has made an about-turn after it tightened the listing norms in the ...
- For Better, Far Worse (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Oct 02, 2003)
Narayanasami and his wife were filled with pride when their just-married daughter in the US called up one morning to say that she had landed a job despite the downturn there. How lucky!
- Married To The Mob (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2003)
Has the don’s shadow finally receded? Now that Bharat Shah has been set free to trade in diamonds and finance blockbusters, must allegations of an underworld-Bollywood nexus be consigned to irrelevance? Ever since the Mumbai police arrested Shah and film
- India Backs Un Restructuring (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Oct 02, 2003)
THE 2003 UN General Assembly began its 58th session with an agonising introspection of failings of the world body in the face of ever-growing threats to peace and security, and the "fundamental challenge" posed by unilateralism to the founding principle..
- Hang Up Right Now: Ministers’ Mobile Bill Limit Is Rs 2,500 (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Oct 02, 2003)
Hanging up doesn’t come easy to politicians. But now the matter may be out of the hands of at least the Union Council of Ministers. Fed up of the inflated phone bills sent by ministers for individual clearances, Finance Ministry has decided to fix a ...
- A Tale Of Two Ministries (Indian Express, Raja Menon, Oct 02, 2003)
Advani and Joshi fiddle their way through their tenures
- Bengal Won’t Be Left Behind (Indian Express, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Oct 01, 2003)
The deliberations at the WTO’s ministerial conference at Cancun must have served as an eye opener for the developed nations as the continuance of huge subsidies to agriculture in these countries became the focal point of the debate. Further, there was...
- Cancun Collapse: Opportunities And Threats (Business Line, Pradeep S. Mehta, Oct 01, 2003)
Can the developing countries sustain the solidarity they forged at Cancun? In that lies the answer to the future of the WTO and what it stands for — equitable trade. The developing countries can do it if they first start trading among themselves more
- Tea_in__hot_water (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2003)
THE TEA SECTOR continues to remain in the doldrums with low primary producer prices, sluggish domestic consumption and falling exports. Even as owners abandon estates, the plight of plantation workers is worsening by the day. While entrenched interests...
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