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Articles 9921 through 10020 of 10500:
- Media Joins The Cola ‘war’ (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Aug 11, 2003)
Michael Jackson produces more home videos than he does music videos. Each month, Star World telecasts one. The idea is to reveal the man for what he is and not what Martin Bashir says he is. In a documentary, the British TV journalist portrayed Jackson as
- Pickle Has Ticket To Ride In Handbag (Indian Express, RAJSHRI MEHTA , Aug 10, 2003)
Now, you don’t have to go without that tangy, tongue-tickling kairi-ka-aachar just because you’re travelling, whether abroad or in India. The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, in a partially modified list of what’s banned in hand-baggage, has struck off
- ‘canned’ Classics (Indian Express, Paul Majendie, Aug 10, 2003)
The Reduced Shakespeare Company won acclaim chopping the Bard down to digestible soundbites. Now it’s taking on the history of western literature in 90 minutes.
- And They Set Off To Break The Ice, Crack The Puzzle (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Aug 10, 2003)
50-member team begins its treacherous trek looking for 98 men and their flying machine that crashed in glacier 35 years ago
- Sebi Bars Mutual Fund Poster Boy From Playing (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2003)
Samir C Arora, the poster boy of the mutual fund industry, has been charged with insider trading and barred from the market by the Securities and Exchange Board of India.
- ‘club Win Was A Victory For Indian Football’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2003)
On a scale of 1-10 where do you place the Indian players’ physical condition as compared to rest of the football world? Shailendra Kumar It is a tricky question and I would want to answer it in two parts. First of all, of course, Indian sportspersons ha
- Boycott Lunch And Dinner (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 09, 2003)
You may raise some questions about our politicians’ intellect or integrity but there is no faulting their instincts. So how does the Parliament of India assert its sovereign authority the moment the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), which is now
- Why Does This Blame Game Go On? (Indian Express, M A KHARABELA SWAIN, Aug 09, 2003)
Mani Shankar Aiyar has probably written his hundredth article on the JPC report, ‘A question of accountability’ (IE, July 22), in which he has once again personally targeted the then finance minister and the present external affairs minister, Yashwant ...
- Buoyancy Returns To The Economy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2003)
THE FISCAL YEAR 2003-04 promises to be a good one for the Indian economy ending five years of deceleration. However, is it going to be a recovery facilitated by the excellent monsoon of 2003 or by a substantial jump in private and public ...
- Governor Arnie? California’s Last Action Hero (Indian Express, SHARON WAXMAN, Aug 08, 2003)
For two decades, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been a pop culture symbol of Hollywood machismo and one of the most powerful forces on the entertainment landscape, an international star who has tirelessly traveled around the country and the rest of the world
- Once Upon A Time, A Tree (Indian Express, Rooma Mehra, Aug 08, 2003)
Not many years ago, I am told, in place of the colony we live in, there was complete wilderness. Now it is packed with concrete houses huddled together, exteriors reflecting the owners’ intention to outdo the neighbours, interiors accommodating one more
- How India's Fields Got `Swaraj' (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Aug 08, 2003)
MR CHANDRA MOHAN'S name is synonymous with `Swaraj' and Punjab Tractors Ltd (PTL), which he built from the scratch to a Rs 1,300-crore-plus engineering conglomerate with a product line spanning tractors and harvester combines to engines, light commercial
- Corporate Irresponsibility (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2003)
MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES HAVE been put in the dock once again by the Centre for Science and Environment: its laboratory tests have revealed that the soft drinks marketed by these firms contain pesticide residues well in excess of European Union ...
- Warrants And Their Role In Enhancing Price Discovery (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Aug 08, 2003)
Buying warrants necessarily demands a long-term view from the investor concerned. This also means that the premium will be steep because of high time value.
- God In Nature (Indian Express, K. SADAGOPAN, Aug 07, 2003)
A Hallmark of Alvar pasurams (songs by the twelve Vaishnava saints of Tamil Nadu) is the high priority afforded to Nature and its beauty. These wandering minstrels, blessed with wonderful wisdom, go from place to place where the Lord has made His abode
- Maocaro To Caro (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Aug 07, 2003)
An opportunity to simplify the auditors' report seems to have been missed
- Pyramiding Of Companies - Over-Regulation Is Missing Woods For Trees (Business Line, Jayanthi Iyengar, Aug 07, 2003)
THE Centre will have to improve its investigative and preventive skills instead of trying to check corporate frauds through over regulation. The most recent attempt by it to cover its flanks is its effort to reintroduce in law provision relating to
- The Rush To Rehash (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Aug 07, 2003)
The new competition law is old wine in new bottle
- Correcting A Traditional Bias (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2003)
A SIGNIFICANT BIAS in favour of the non-resident Indian community (NRIs) that has existed in the financial sector since the 1980s is being corrected. On July 17 the RBI imposed a ceiling on the interest rates offered by Indian banks on deposits ...
- Govt Ready With Bill To Protect Rights, Of Cows (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Aug 07, 2003)
Hardening its earlier stand and making it compulsory for all states to implement, the Centre is ready with a Bill prohibiting the sale of beef across the country, slapping jail terms and fines for ‘‘cruelty’’ against cows.
- Politics Of Farm Interest Rates (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Aug 06, 2003)
In the context of the cap on farm loan interest rates announced by the Finance Minister and the Prime Minister, Sharad Joshi traces the history of the protection farmers in debt got even in pre-Independent India, and says that with agriculture becoming a
- Ieo At Imf (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 06, 2003)
RESPONDING to criticism that the IMF has been riding rough-shod over member-Governments, its Executive Board set up in August 2001 an Independent Evaluation Office (IEO), with Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, former Member of India's Planning Commission, as
- Sc Directs Tn To Reinstate Staff, Process To Start Today (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2003)
Though the Supreme Court has directed the Tamil Nadu government to reinstate 8,063 government employees and teachers who had merely participated in the strike, the process of reinstatement is likely to begin only tomorrow.
- India: The Emerging R&d Hub (Business Line, P. Balakrishna, Aug 06, 2003)
EVER since Texas Instruments set up a research and development centre in Bangalore in 1985, more and more foreign companies have realised the benefits of carrying out significant R&D work in India. According to a study conducted by the Administrative
- How Kolkata Captured A Mumbai Man (Indian Express, Pradip Biswas, Aug 05, 2003)
Bollywood director, Mahesh Manjrekar, swears by the Bengali film sensibility
- For An Alternative Food Policy (Hindu, Brinda Karat, Aug 05, 2003)
If the Government is serious about dealing with the problems of the PDS, it will have to give up the targeted system and adopt a universal system so as to ensure that no section of the population is deprived of food.
- Saptadhikarana-Samata (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Aug 04, 2003)
For sheer relief from everybody else and their quarrels, it’s pleasant to read the 12-year-old bestseller, Old Path White Clouds, by the famous Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. As religious books in English go, this has to be one of the most soot
- Fund Of Funds - Will Investing Within Help? (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Aug 04, 2003)
TEMPLETON India and Prudential ICICI have filed offer documents with SEBI to float fund of funds. Interestingly, both have offered plans that will invest in schemes available within their respective fund-houses. This dilutes the advantage of investing in
- Cancun At The Crossroads (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Aug 04, 2003)
The obstacles ahead on the road to Cancun — and to the larger target of implementation of the Doha Development Agenda — are many and entrenched. This is a widely known fact which is why appeals have poured in from all sides to get the negotiations to ...
- Road To Cancun (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2003)
THE CONTOURS OF a possible breakthrough at the September ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Cancun, Mexico, in the Doha round of trade talks are now beginning to take shape. But even if such a deal, driven by a likely ...
- World Bank Strikes A Note Of Caution (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Aug 04, 2003)
THE World Bank has come out with a frank appraisal of India's development experience. Its report "India: Sustaining Reform, Reducing Poverty" has, however, drawn strong negative reactions from the North Block.
- Strike: Tn Builds Case, Gets Report From Dists (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2003)
With the Supreme Court directing the Tamil Nadu government to ‘dispassionately’ consider reinstating dismissed employees, the government is planning to reinstate those who had FIRs against them under Section 4 of ESMA.
- Amc’s Civic Abc... (Indian Express, TANVIR SIDDIQUI, Aug 03, 2003)
Despite blanket ban on construction near monuments protected by the Centre, AMC is building civic centre
- I-T Searches Offices Of Motilal Oswal (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2003)
The income-tax (I-T) department on Saturday conducted search operations in the offices of leading brokerage firms including Motilal Oswal Securities (MOSt). A source said: “The search operations in the offices of these brokerage houses began in the
- Torn Apart (Indian Express, LAURA KING, Aug 03, 2003)
After hours of emotional debate, Israeli lawmakers this week approved a bill banning Palestinians who marry Israeli citizens from living inside Israel with their spouses, and denying them the opportunity to seek Israeli citizenship.
- Dd Wants Agriculture Ministry Funds For Rural Boom (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Aug 03, 2003)
It is the turn of Doordarshan (DD) to show what it is capable of. Launch a 1,000 rural channels, though their upkeep holds the promise of a different story.
- Waiting For The Two (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Aug 03, 2003)
All indicators point to a revival of the economy. No one will be happier than the BJP. In the five years that Atal Behari Vajpayee has been Prime Minister, he has been served by two Finance Ministers and three Ministers of Industry and Commerce.
- D.C. Leftists Find A Below-Ground Home At Bookstore (Indian Express, MANNY FERNANDEZ, Aug 02, 2003)
Infoshop is part-independent bookstore, part-community centre, part-chill-out space for Washington’s anarchists, anti-capitalists
- The Mirage Of Farm Exports (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Aug 02, 2003)
The risks are too high and the promised gains too few to warrant a dramatic opening up of Indian agriculture to foreign competition.
- The Vajpayee Peace Process: Directions And Prospects (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Aug 01, 2003)
The Prime Minister's peace initiative is moving in a measured manner. There is no need to get hustled by Pakistan to move faster. Mr A. B. Vajpayee has acknowledged the mistake made at Agra of staging a summit without proper groundwork. Now, Foreign ...
- Iaf Chopper Crashes In Ap, 2 Officers Dead (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2003)
Two young officers of the Indian Air Force were killed when the helicopter in which they were flying crashed on the city outskirts today.
- Bjp Sugar-Coats Its Pill But Maya Is Still Bitter (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Jul 31, 2003)
After having forced Chief Minister Mayawati to withdraw her demand for the removal of Jagmohan from the Union Government, the BJP here today ‘‘closed’’ the UP issue with a terse message: ‘‘follow the coalition dharma.’’
- Roots Of Hope In Realm Of Fear (Indian Express, PAUL WOLFOWITZ, Jul 30, 2003)
‘Iraqis are like prisoners who endured years of solitary confinement. They may take a while to adjust to this new landscape free of torture trees’
- A Forgotten People (Hindu, Mihir Shah, Jul 30, 2003)
Worst is the plight of those who are being made to pay the price for someone else's development.
- Biotechnology In India - Creating A New Market Space (Business Line, Devendra Mishra, Jul 30, 2003)
IN HIS book Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith, wrote that "a true wealth of a nation is measured not by how much gold it possesses but by what it can produce". By this yardstick biotechnology is an unprecedented revolution through which the world's hunger
- Mis-Timed Msp (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 30, 2003)
IN WHAT HAS by now become a routine annual exercise — with no one apparently concerned about accountability of its timing — the Centre has deemed it appropriate to announce the minimum support price (MSP) for various crops for the 2003-04 kharif season
- Days Before Kumbh, The Site Itself Takes A Royal Dip (Indian Express, Reshma Patil, Jul 29, 2003)
One, two, three...24,000. The city engineers thought they had plotted a watery equation that would win an Archimedes nod of approval.
- A Strategy For Cancun (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Jul 29, 2003)
As we go into the ministerial meeting in Montreal and the Cancun negotiations, the strategy India must follow becomes an urgent concern. Every major actor at the WTO has well-defined strategies based on work and discussion. If there is one in India, it is
- Towards Cancun Wto Ministerial - Bring Subsidy Issue Back Into Focus (Business Line, Devinder Sharma , Jul 29, 2003)
AT PROBABLY the last officially organised public symposium in Geneva (June 16-18) before the forthcoming WTO Ministerial at Cancun in early September, the writing was clearly on the wall: Agriculture has for all practical purposes been abandoned in the on
- The Eu Push To Development Finance (Business Line, Poul Nielson, Jul 29, 2003)
The European Union is the world's biggest provider of development assistance. Following its renewed commitment to the UN target at the 2001 European Council in Sweden, the EU decided to step up its development assistance.
- Rags And Riches (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2003)
Okay, we’ve heard the jibe before: ‘India Fashion Weak’. At the end of the frenetic seven days that marked Lakme India Fashion Week 2003, we can say that the scene may not have quite been Paris or Milan, New York or Hong Kong, but it was certainly streets
- Three Phases Of Charisma, Two Faces Of Indecent Exposure (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Jul 28, 2003)
Faces. Dr Kelly’s with its features retrenched, desperately seeking to evade the Parliamentary inquisition. His expression said everything he could not: that he was deeply mortified at being exposed by the British Government as the BBC source for its
- Copter Crash-Lands, Miraculous Escape For Mallya, 5 Others (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2003)
Janata Party national executive president and Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Mallya and filmstar Sanjay Khan had a miraculous escape along with four others when the helicopter in which they were travelling crashed at the Navanagar helipad, 8 km from old Bagalkot
- Hdr 2003 And The Millennium Development Goals - Each Country To Chalk Out Own Strategy (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jul 28, 2003)
THE Human Development Report (HDR) 2003 brought out by the UNDP has been the subject of special attention, particularly because India's rank in terms of human development indicators has hit a new low. It stands at a disgraceful 127 among 175 countries of
- To A Delivery-Based Market Design (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Jul 28, 2003)
THAT the National Stock Exchange (NSE) reported record volumes in the derivatives segment on July 25 may have a lot to do with the fact that the contracts are cash-settled. This article argues that the stock exchanges should shift to a delivery-based
- Commoditised Accountant (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2003)
THE ICAI GOVERNING Council has given an in-principle nod for the introduction of a mandatory "audit firm rotation" system, and the accounting body plans to obtain the views of its members in a referendum to clothe the move with the stamp of majority. Look
- Jaitley Met Murdoch In New York (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Jul 27, 2003)
Conflict of interest when Star application is before govt? Says Minister: ‘It was a courtesy call, we exchanged pleasantries’
- Devgan Gets His 2nd, Sens Take Home Two (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2003)
Ajay Devgan won his second national film award for best actor when the 50th National Awards were announced on Saturday evening. He was honoured for his portrayal of the freedom fighter in Rajkumar Santoshi’s The Legend Of Bhagat Singh. ‘‘I’m shooting
- ‘there’s No Political Vendetta... We Had Promised To Expose Badal’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2003)
On a scale of 1 to 10, how much is your crusade against the Badal family motivated by political vendetta? Jatinder Haye Our drive is motivated by nothing other than a strong desire to, as far as possible, root out corruption, nepotism and all other such
- Stop Politics Of Vendetta Now (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Jul 26, 2003)
Not many took note of the fact that the CBI has recently sought the court’s permission to close the Airbus 320 case. The agency has stated that after probing the purchase deal for 15 long years, it has found no evidence to suggest any irregularities.
- All West Bengal Is Rooting For East Bengal (Indian Express, Sabyasachi Bandopadhyay, Jul 26, 2003)
There’s been plenty of bad news for Kolkata football of late: Mohun Bagan, the city’s oldest team, is in dire straits, the local IFA league isn’t doing much better. So now Kolkata’s football-mad public finally have a reason to celebrate, they are doing it
- Humanity On Autopilot (Indian Express, SUNANDA MEHTA, Jul 25, 2003)
If Mumbai has its cabbies, Pune has its autorickshaw drivers. The ones who signal right and turn left, that is if they signal at all; the ones who you are convinced have a meter running far faster than P.T. Usha; the ones who never seem to be wanting to
- China: Opening Up To A New World (Business Line, Ranjani Karthik, Jul 25, 2003)
SINCE December 11, 2001 — a year and three months after China's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) — it is apparent that the erstwhile communist economy has emerged from behind the Iron Curtain to take global competition head on. However,
- Free-Float Sensex - To What Purpose? (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Jul 25, 2003)
THE Bombay Stock Exchange's decision to move to a free-float index from September 1, 2003 is unlikely to make significant difference to portfolio managers. This article takes a critical look at some of the reasons cited by the BSE to move to a free-float
- India's Unbending Funding Problem (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Jul 25, 2003)
The probability that the unbending funding problem would become an unending funding problem is high. The problem is structural. The structural adjustment programme that began in 1991 has failed to address the issue of elitism in the government sector.
- Familiar Refrain (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2003)
AS EXPECTED, THE Government's spokespersons have contradicted some of the critical observations of the World Bank on the economy, contained in its recent report entitled "India: Sustaining Reform, Reducing Poverty." Indeed, the Bank while making ...
- You Wouldn't Know Even If They Disappeared (Business Line, D. Murali , Jul 24, 2003)
A COMMON sight around here is for political parties to file past the statue of their leader, with flowers and garlands on janma-divas and the days of deliverance. The usual sombreness that accompanies these occasions would make it difficult for an ...
- Uk Domestics In Tax Net (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 24, 2003)
THE UK's Mary Poppins and Jeeves have been swept into the IR 35 net in proposals currently before Parliament. Previously domestic workers such as nannies or butlers have been able to reduce their tax and NIC bill by providing their services to
- And Again. And Again (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 23, 2003)
Sequels are swell things. Humans love them. How many wars have we had to end wars? But we return to the premise of armed conflict over and over again. So excuse our midsummer suspicions when movie studio execs start wringing their hands and moaning over
- Is Rajnath Singh Tilting At Windmills? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Jul 23, 2003)
In cutting the farm credit rate and the Rs 600-crore package for sugarcane farmers, the Government has a larger intention than merely a concern for the agriculture sector, says Sharad Joshi, looking at two packages and their implications.
- Figures Not Enticing (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 23, 2003)
THE SOMEWHAT LUKEWARM response to the Government's announcement of buyback of high-coupon, relatively illiquid dated securities suggests, on the face of it, one of two things. The development lends credence to the official line that no pressure would be
- Tenth Plan: Ambitious Gdp Growth Target (Business Line, Ruddar Dutt, Jul 23, 2003)
THE Tenth Plan has set its seal on the target of 8 per cent average annual growth of GDP. It has also promised to bring this about by raising the level of gross domestic saving from 24.4 per cent of GDP in 2001-02 to 29.4 per cent in 2006-07 — a step-up
- Puzzling Ways (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Jul 22, 2003)
IN the 1960s, in the city then known as Calcutta, whose citizens well known for erudition and scholarship, the story used to be told of a chief secretary who sitting in the India Coffee House used to do the Times crossword everyday before his coffee was
- Star Of India (Hindu, Mukund Padmanabhan, Jul 22, 2003)
It is nobody's case that Star News should be blacked out. The issue is about ensuring that it complies with the guidelines not merely in a technical sense, but also in a substantial and meaningful manner.
- Wto And Agriculture - Will It Be Advantage India? (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Jul 22, 2003)
India must pay greater attention to increase productivity, create exportable surpluses and make agriculture more competitive if the final outcome of the WTO negotiations is to be translated to its advantage. Also, it must garner the support of developing
- Economy Poised For Recovery (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Jul 22, 2003)
With the end of the Iraq war and lessening of geo-political uncertainties and stabilisation in oil prices, the volatility in international equity and financial markets is expected to be considerably reduced.
- Out Of Focus (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 22, 2003)
INDIAN CINEMA IS in a deep crisis. About 95 per cent of the 900 films made last year lost money. This year, the picture is as bleak. Worse, despite the tag of industry that Indian cinema got in 2000, movies find funds hard to come by. Banks and ...
- Reddy And Steady (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 21, 2003)
The appointment of Reserve Bank of India’s new governor signals a commitment to professionalism
- Millennium Goals A Dream, Time To Wake Up (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Jul 20, 2003)
As you read this on a Sunday morning, a child is born in a remote village in Rajasthan. She — a girl child — is one among thousands of children born at the very moment she emerged from her mother’s womb. If she survives, and she has a 90 per cent chance
- Crash Testing For Dummies (And Why We Don’t Do It) (Indian Express, Murali K Menon, Jul 20, 2003)
Expressways, golden quadrilaterals and auto hotspots don’t seem to matter. On why India doesn’t crash its cars before they are sold.
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