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Articles 9621 through 9720 of 10500:
- Energy Security (Hindu, M. R. Srinivasan, Sep 30, 2003)
Even after 50 years of planning, the country has not achieved self-reliance in energy supply.
- The Bitter-Sweet Cane Arrears (Business Line, A. Seshan, Sep 30, 2003)
If a factory does not get adequate credit it has no choice but face arrears in payments.
- Hyperbolic About Arun (Indian Express, S.P. Shukla, Sep 30, 2003)
After the return of the Indian delegation from Cancun, one has seen a series of reports and analyses which sound more like the hosannas of the faithful and the loyal.
- Deprive The Villains Of Their Heroin (Indian Express, BULBUL ROY MISHRA, Sep 30, 2003)
Several hundred tonnes of opium gets refined into heroin in secret, makeshift laboratories in Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan. It then finds its way to the West.
- World Bank-Imf Review: Will Asia Lead The World Growth Charge? (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Sep 30, 2003)
The global economy may be on a rebound but it is not yet time for cheer because of underlying risks of the large fiscal and current deficits the US has run up and the imbalances in growth and distribution of reserves. Emerging Asia has a big role to play.
- Chronicle Of A Collapse Foretold (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Sep 29, 2003)
"Victory" or "failure" are wrong words to describe the outcome of the Cancun meeting. Cancun was just one event in a continuing struggle over the role of the WTO in the economies of the world.
- Because Food Matters (Indian Express, Bharat Dogra, Sep 29, 2003)
The solution is out there. So why are we still poisoning ourselves?
- Growth Has Its Pains (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 29, 2003)
India as an economic powerhouse? Joy! But it also means there’s a lot more to be done
- Shakeup In Nyse (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 26, 2003)
THE New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) was in a turmoil recently over yet one of those follies which are becoming a predictable feature of the US business culture. This time it was the ready and even abject acquiescence of the Board of Directors, nicknamed...
- Cancun Is A Victory For Al-Qaida (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Sep 26, 2003)
World terrorism and world trade are perversely linked. When western protectionism hurts a Pakistani farmer, his son goes to the neighbourhood madarsa
- Iffi Tells Indian Entries: Go Edit (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Sep 26, 2003)
Donning the director’s role, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has asked Indian filmmakers to snip the length of their films to lend a truly international feel to IFFI 34.
- Look Who Goes To Israel Every Year (Indian Express, APARNA CHANDRA, Sep 26, 2003)
The farmers of Maharashtra didn’t need Chandrababu Naidu to tell them Israel was the Promised Land. Long before the Government task force decided to tap the country’s knowhow, thousands from the state have been making the trip to Israel to learn about its
- Chapter And Worse (Indian Express, HAROLD BLOOM, Sep 26, 2003)
The success of authors such as J.K. Rowling and Stephen King is good marketing, bad literature
- What Next, After Cancun? (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Sep 26, 2003)
While many experts had predicted that the Cancun negotiations would fail over the question of agricultural subsidies, they actually collapsed because of the insistence of developed countries to bring on board the Singapore issues. However, the ministerial
- Farmers: Distanced By Globalisation (Business Line, Kumar Venkat, Sep 26, 2003)
IN the run-up to the World Trade Organisation's failed meeting in Cancun, most writers on both sides of the economic divide called for an end to unfair farm subsidies and tariffs in rich countries. After all, who could be against an open global market in
- Public Offers, Not When Bourses On A High (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Sep 26, 2003)
THAT many companies are proposing to make public offers in the coming months is not surprising. After all, companies can offer shares at stiff premium when the secondary market is vibrant, as it is now.
- Wto Must Survive - On The Paradigm Of Give And Take (Business Line, Anil K. Kanungo, Sep 26, 2003)
The development dimension of the developing countries was a key aspect of the Cancun Ministerial. Unfortunately, that did not take off.
- Empty Bowls At Mexican Fiesta (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Sep 26, 2003)
The no-show at Cancun being tom-tommed by India as a major achievement can only be good politics and rhetoric, but this is certainly not good economics. Coming once every two years, a World Trade Organisation ministerial should be looked at as an ...
- Pressganged In Liberated Iraq (Indian Express, RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN, Sep 25, 2003)
Iraq's US-appointed Governing Council on Tuesday, September 23, temporarily banned two popular Arab satellite television stations from covering the council’s news conferences and entering government ministries because of what it called ‘‘irresponsible act
- Govt Sets Up A New Think Tank To Work Out Phase 2 Reforms (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 25, 2003)
Not letting the Supreme Court order on the two oil PSUs derail the reforms process, the North Block is drawing up a broad framework on how to proceed with the next phase of policy reforms.
- World At Crossroads (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2003)
In his strongest rebuke of the concept of unilateralist use of military force in launching the so-called pre-emptive Anglo-American war against Iraq, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan raised a number of core issues. His categorical rejection of US ...
- Raped By Four, Girl Hangs Self After A Month (Indian Express, Siraj Qureshi, Sep 25, 2003)
Unable to come to terms with her gangrape a month ago, a sixteen-year-old girl here committed suicide on Monday. Her suicide note says she couldn’t take any more mental stress.
- A Cover For Farm Income (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 24, 2003)
MERCIFULLY, POLICY-MAKERS SEEM to be waking up to the genuine needs of the agricultural sector. Close on the heels of cutting interest rate on farm loans, the Government is planning to introduce a comprehensive `income insurance' scheme to protect farmers
- Primer On Prsp (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 24, 2003)
HERE is all that you always wanted to know about PRSP but were mortally afraid to ask! And well you might be. Because for PRSP the RSVP is to the VVIPs of the IMF and the World Bank, no less. Pray, what is PRSP, I hear you ask plaintively. Well, if that
- No Sign Yet Of Urea Decontrol (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , Sep 24, 2003)
A hike in the urea price to reflect the increase in cost is fundamental to fertiliser reforms. But, being a politically-sensitive issue, it has received scant attention. The new urea policy also ignores the nexus between the high feedstock cost and high
- At Last, A Refinancing Harvest (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Sep 23, 2003)
An interesting change taking place in Indian agriculture is on the financing side. The central bank, as is well known, had a preoccupation with external parameters and interest rate policies to garner large exchange reserves. With a sensible policy on ...
- Where You Live Will Decide Your Fuel Price (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Sep 23, 2003)
Soon the price you pay for petrol and diesel could depend on your geographical location—how far you are from a refinery or a port from where your city gets the fuel.
- War On `Terror' And The World Economy (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Sep 23, 2003)
An examination of certain paradoxical trends in the US' economic performance over the last three decades suggests that political and military hegemony rather than economic competitiveness has helped sustain its global economic dominance. But domestic ...
- Funds Need To Disclose Unit-Holders' Composition (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Sep 22, 2003)
SEBI has expressed concern that certain mutual fund schemes have too few unit-holders. The capital market regulator's concern is that such plans are essentially portfolio management schemes (PMS) guised as mutual funds. The problem is that regulations for
- A Strong Role For Tea Auctioneers (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 22, 2003)
THE auction system of selling is ideally suited for tea because of the infinite varieties and grades and the scattered and often remote location of estates. The quality of teas produced by the different estates shows varies widely not only between ...
- Cancun And Its Aftermath (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Sep 22, 2003)
The developed economies will not make the extra sacrifice not merely because it is not in their nature to hurt their domestic industry and farm lobbies beyond a point, but because their hackles have been raised by the success of the developing countries
- Fishing In Troubled Waters (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Sep 22, 2003)
The problems of the Indian fishing community are almost a mirror image of the Pakistani fishermen's experiences of recent years.
- Celebrate Cancun, But With Caution (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Sep 21, 2003)
Arun Jaitley, the Commerce Minister, has a neat, legal mind. Before he went to Cancun, he had identified the three possible results of the ministerial meeting: good deal, no deal or bad deal. And he had concluded that while a good deal would be the most
- G-24 Carries Cancun Ghost To Dubai (Indian Express, N. Chandra Mohan, Sep 21, 2003)
The failure of the trade negotiations at Cancun has cast its shadow over the deliberations of the inter-governmental group of 24 on ‘international monetary affairs and development,’ popularly called G-24.
- Gray’s Paradise (Indian Express, GREGG JONES, Sep 21, 2003)
Governor Gray Davis on Friday signed a bill giving domestic partners in California many legal rights and obligations of married couples in matters involving children, money and property. The law, stopping short of recognising gay and lesbian marriage ...
- Storm Chasers Follow Isabel To Look Into Her Eye (Indian Express, MOLLY KNIGHT, Sep 21, 2003)
As thousands of people fled the coast of North Carolina on Thursday, Bill Hark got in his car in Richmond, Va., and headed straight for it. It was a harrowing journey — 12 hours through rain and howling winds, dodging downed power lines and fallen trees.
- ‘cancun A Turning Point’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2003)
Describing Cancun as a turning point, Commerce and Industry Minister Arun Jaitley said that Cancun ministerial has provided directional change to World Trade Organisation(WTO) by bringing into fore the need to correct trade-distorting subsidies.
- This Civil Aviation Boss Gets A Cosy Post-Retirement Deal (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Sep 21, 2003)
DGCA chief H S Khola sat on assignment for 2 yrs; when he retired, he joined US firm, swung Govt contract for same job
- Mul To Deal With Non-Maruti Cars Now (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2003)
To expand its pre-owned car business, Maruti Udyog Ltd has decided to accept cars from the stable of other companies as well. Maruti True Value, which currently buys and sells only pre-owned Maruti cars, will now deal with pre owned cars of all non Maruti
- Un Gen Assembly Stands By Arafat, Israel Trashes Draft As ‘totally Useless’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2003)
Israel dismissed a UN resolution demanding it retract threats to remove Yasser Arafat while Palestinians hailed the vote as another sign of support for their leader.
- No Fair Trial As Accused Are Aiadmk Men, Says Victim’s Father (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2003)
The Madras High Court has scrapped the ongoing trial in the Dharmapuri bus burning case, in which three women students of the Tamil Nadu Agriculture University were burnt to death, and ordered a fresh one.
- Reforms, ‘via Bathinda’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 20, 2003)
While some of the more unabashed supporters of economic reforms may now be blaming the Supreme Court for spoiling the party and even puncturing the bull balloon on the stock markets, the truth is that real opposition to all deregulation and privatisation
- Bsnl Gm Held On Corruption Charges (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 20, 2003)
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) General Manager R.P.S. Panwar, arrested yesterday on charges of disproportionate assets, was remanded to three days CBI custody today. Panwar was arrested on charges of corruption and possession of assets worth more than
- Seven Days At Cancun (Indian Express, Tarun Das, Sep 19, 2003)
In the end India seemed to have come closer to the trade centre stage
- Muddling The Dividend Waters (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Sep 18, 2003)
AS SECTION 205(1) stands, the entire past losses need not be written off against current profits for ascertaining the profits available for distribution to shareholders. Suppose a company in its first year of operations suffered a loss of Rs 1,00,000
- Oil Disinvestment: How Sc Skid As It Rushed To Judgment (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Sep 18, 2003)
The Indian Oil Corporation is also in the ‘‘strategic’’ sector. It’s a government-owned company worth far more than HPCL and BPCL put together. But consider this: the Government can sell off IOC without looking over its shoulder while for HPCL and BPCL
- The Mutual Suspicion Stays (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Sep 18, 2003)
It may not have been enshrined in the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation charter, but extending "personal invitations" to heads of state/government for summit meetings has become a SAARC convention.
- Carrot Of Choice But Stick Of Bad Picks (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 18, 2003)
IT IS a tautology that any democratic institution dangles the lollipop of choice on the one hand, but runs the risk of anointing the undeserving with the stamp of victory.
- Governance In The Driver's Seat (Business Line, N. R. Moorthy , Sep 18, 2003)
On the reincarnation of corporate governance
- Milan To Tel Aviv: Naidu Switches Gears From Fast Tracks To Slow Drip (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Sep 17, 2003)
If it beats you how a boulevard city can spring in the middle of a semi-arid land, come to Tel Aviv. Because it’s here that you get to see what technology and common sense can deliver: underneath the city runs a network of pipes and, on the surface, holes
- Lessons From The Failure At Cancun (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Sep 17, 2003)
SO, THE much-awaited Cancun Ministerial of the WTO is over. And it seems that there was more excitement on the sidelines than at the talks themselves.
- Service Delivery (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 17, 2003)
THE recently published review by the India Office of the World Bank on the course and content of the reforms process in India with particular reference to the achievement of the objective of reducing poverty is not exactly earth-shaking in its findings
- Army Takes Away Groom On Day 1 Of Wedding, Sends His Body Back (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Sep 17, 2003)
Angry Kashmir village on the edge, refuses to buy claim that this ‘Army guide’ was killed in landmine blast
- Cola Jpc Settles For Tea, Places Order For Experts (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Sep 17, 2003)
Neither Coke nor Pepsi nor any other beverage (barring tepid tea) was served at the first meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee this afternoon investigating the issue of pesticides in soft drinks this afternoon.
- How Many Votes For A Suicide? (Indian Express, SHANTANU DATTA, Sep 16, 2003)
The land of a zillion mouse-clicks is focused on the morbid these days. Suicides among the farming community are the subject of heated debate. The Silicon Capital is also doing its bit, and studies by the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro
- Exit Via Gujarat (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 16, 2003)
When Prime Minister Vajpayee lands in Zurich at the end of this week after Turkey and en route to the UN meetings in New York, the reception committee will not include India’s honorary consul for 13 years in the city, Thomas Wach. Seems that Wach’s ...
- Young And Listless (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Sep 16, 2003)
Next thing we know, Tulsi will be grandmother and the lead role will belong to the third generation with Gautam’s still-to-be conceived daughter (it has to be a daughter) taking over. Suddenly, we’re changing generations faster than a baby needs to change
- Mumbai Gangster Walks Out Of Jail, With Some Help From James Hadley Chase (Indian Express, J. Dey, Sep 16, 2003)
Trust a James Hadley Chase fan to plot his escape from jail. Being behind bars was never a problem for Shyamkishore Garigapatti who masterminded killings and extortion rackets from his prison cell. But this was his master stroke: he forged his own bail
- The Collapse In Cancun (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2003)
THE CANCUN MINISTERIAL of the World Trade Organisation, that ended on Sunday, failed to tell the world in clear terms that work on the Doha Round — slated to become effective by the beginning of 2005 — was on course. Indeed, the value of Cancun is that it
- The Rich Hardsell, Poor Don’t Buy (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Sep 16, 2003)
Talks on trade negotiations at Cancun finally collapsed today after nearly 100 of the 146 countries participating in this WTO round refused to play ball with developed countries to include discussions on the vexed Singapore issues.
- Rbi's Annual Report 2002-03: Positive Outlook Blurred By Concerns (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Sep 16, 2003)
Despite the pervading optimism and positive outlook for 2003-04, the RBI Report highlights the medium-term issues and concerns. The growth rate of the economy envisaged under the Tenth Plan period is beyond reach going by the current economic parameters.
- Why Silicon Valley Needs To Reinvent Itself (Business Line, Kumar Venkat, Sep 16, 2003)
It has become clear that the knowledge sector is no longer immune to job losses.
- What Next For The Wto? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2003)
A FIASCO IN 1999 at Seattle and now a collapse at Cancun in 2003 speak poorly of the World Trade Organisation. After two major failures at ministerial conferences in the past four years, the WTO now faces a crisis of legitimacy. This is a crisis ...
- Gujarat Fig Leaf: 2 Cops, 24 Hours (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2003)
Two days after Sahera Sheikh, sister of Zaheera Sheikh, prime witness in the Best Bakery case, told The Indian Express that she was packing her bags to leave for Mumbai, police posted round-the-clock security at her one-room house in the Ekta Nagar slum.
- Temple: Vhp To Hit Streets Next Month (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Sep 15, 2003)
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) plans to launch its agitation for the construction of a temple in Ayodhya within a month.
- And Now It’s Golf: Randhawa Makes It To Top In Japan Circuit (Indian Express, SHONA A SINGH, Sep 15, 2003)
Jyoti Randhawa has picked up from where he left last year. The reigning Asian Order of Merit winner today became the first professional golfer from the sub-continent to win on the Japanese Golf Tour. His historic win at the Suntory Open in Chiba saw him
- Final Attempts To Save Cancun After South Rejects Draft (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Sep 15, 2003)
Negotiations at Cancun headed for a breakdown after developing countries like India and Brazil rejected the World Trade Organisation draft resolution, saying it failed to address their main concerns and was heavily loaded in favour of the US and European
- One Wall, One Man, One Vote (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Sep 15, 2003)
The new wall around West Bank to deter suicide bombers will create only more problems
- First Among The Geeks Steps Out Of The Sun (Indian Express, Kris Hudson, Sep 15, 2003)
Bill Joy has been described in many ways. Edison of the Internet. Wizard of UNIX. The brightest mind in computing. Now he has a new title: unemployed. By choice, of course. Joy, 48, one of Sun Microsystems’ co-founders in 1982, announced this week he will
- Guns And Roses (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 15, 2003)
EVERY SIGN OF peace blossoming in Jammu and Kashmir leads many to forget that all rosebushes have thorns — and that a few roses do not make a summer. The resignation of State Agriculture Minister Abdul Aziz Zargar for alleged links with ...
- Israel Adamant, Arafat Calls Bluff (Indian Express, Reuters, Sep 14, 2003)
Israel rebuffed on Saturday a UN Security Council warning not to go through with its threat to exile Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, even as a defiant Arafat condemned the threat as a bid to eradicate Palestinian independence, and appealed for ...
- The Vulnerable (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2003)
FROM WITHIN an ocean of agrarian distress and poverty, there are but a few individuals who give up on life. Indebtedness may be the common factor in the suicides by farmers, but it is clearly not the only or the most immediate reason, as there ...
- Temple: Parivar Seals Cracks (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Sep 14, 2003)
Whatever their dividing lines in public, the Sangh Parivar is now closing ranks over Ram temple. After the RSS’ support to a proposed VHP agitation over Ayodhya yesterday, it was the turn of the BJP to give its green signal to the stir today.
- No Decision Yet As Trade Talks On (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Sep 14, 2003)
Trade negotiations at the Fifth Ministerial Conference of the WTO are poised to enter a crucial phase as a draft Ministerial Declaration is in the making which if compromises to set the tone for negotiations alter a stand-off between the rich countries of
- Akshardham Attack: Police Still Pursuing Riyadh Angle (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2003)
Chand Khan, who confessed to his involvement in the Akshardham attack, was on Saturday produced in the Special POTA Court here and remanded to 18 days in police custody. Five other accused have too been sent to custody till Thursday.
- Jaitley’s Blushes (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2003)
Commerce Minister Arun Jaitley has become an icon of sorts in this part of the world what with his activism on rich vs poor and mobilising a developing countries’ brigade. In fact he has been the centre of attention for the foreign media who have been ...
- Driven To Desperation (Hindu, PARVATHI MENON, Sep 14, 2003)
There has been a spate of suicides by farmers in even fairly prosperous farming regions of Karnataka.
- The Art Of Ageing (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Sep 13, 2003)
The other day I turned 89. I went to have a look at my face in the mirror; I looked 89. Bleary eyes, scraggy beard with lines of grey and henna-reddened hair. I did not like what I saw. When one is old, one must not look one’s age: strive to look younger
- Farming A Friendship (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2003)
The India-Israel relationship is about more than just fighting terrorism
- Sharon’s Roaring Goodbye (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Sep 12, 2003)
It is, of course, only a coincidence that the Israeli premier and an important US state department official were both in New Delhi on the second anniversary of 9/11. If observing 9/11 was a purpose, there could not have been a more appropriate guest than
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