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Articles 24421 through 24520 of 26693:
- Ban Outsourcing? Bad Idea (Business Week Online, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 29, 2004)
The uproar in the U.S. over the outsourcing of jobs to India is deafening. On Mar. 5, California state Senator Joseph Dunn greeted an application for a tax exemption by Infosys Technologies Ltd.
- Rupee's Rise Means India Can Cut Interest Rates: Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, Mar 25, 2004)
With the rupee soaring to its highest level against the dollar in almost four years, Indian central bank Governor Y.V. Reddy has been presented a great opportunity.
- An Unseen Peril Of Outsourcing (Business Line, David Gelernte, Mar 03, 2004)
An offshore alliance seemed to answer a struggling outfit's prayers. Instead, the U.S. parent has been wound up and its intellectual crown jewels are in India
- India Mustn't Devalue Best Business Brains: Mukherjee (Correct) (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, Mar 02, 2004)
Here's lopsided social justice at its worst.
India is raising the subsidy for the nation's top 1,500 management students at a time when the government doesn't have enough money to provide blackboards to all primary schools.
- Nehru-Gandhi Legacy On The Line (Asia Times, Sudha Ramachandran, Feb 25, 2004)
With Varun Gandhi joining the Bharatiya Janata Party recently, the BJP has got itself a true-blue Nehru-Gandhi to counter the Congress' immensely popular Nehru-Gandhi siblings, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi.
- What India Can Do To Fight Outsourcing Backlash (Bloomberg.com, Andy Mukherjee, Feb 24, 2004)
So far, India has met the growing political backlash against jobs being outsourced to it by burying its head in the sand of righteous indignation and hoping that the hostility will go away after the U.S. presidential election in November.
- An Alliance Of Insecurity (AlterNet, Editorial, The Alternet, Feb 12, 2004)
When Ariel Sharon traveled to India last September, it was the first visit of an Israeli Prime Minister since the two nations achieved independence more than 55 years ago.
- An India-Pakistan Peace Train (Christian Science Monitor, editorial, Christian Science Monitor, Jan 12, 2004)
The world has seen many false peaks in the infrequent trek of India and Pakistan to settle the Himalayan-size issue of Kashmir. Leaders of both nations have often found more reasons not to budge than to create a peaceful South Asia for their . . .
- Bill Of Wrongs In The Right Place? (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 08, 2004)
THERE is sufficient rancour among accountants, for varied reasons though. For some, bitterness is due to the Bill of wrongs in the right place, even as there are a few who think that at last the Government has done something right though the timing ...
- The Education Wars (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jan 08, 2004)
While every other sector of the Indian economy is being deregulated, education is becoming one giant appendage of the Human Resource Development Ministry.
- Cbdt Move To Demat Tax Challans (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
THE Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) does not want the "income-tax challan" to go the "stamp-paper" way. It is planning to phase out tax payment challans from the system with effect from April 1, 2004. "We are planning to dematerialise tax
- Too Good To Be An Exception (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Jan 08, 2004)
On what we can learn from the OECD code of corporate governance
- Sebi Plans Changes In Takeover Code (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
SEBI is proposing to amend the Acquisition of Shares and Takeover Regulations to revise the definition of public shareholding and promoter and to reduce the upper limit of shareholding from 75 per cent to 51 per cent for availing creeping acquisition ...
- Teeing For Peace (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Jan 07, 2004)
Golf, it can safely be said at the conclusion of the 12th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, is now a vital element in the conceptualization and execution of Indian diplomacy. A little known aspect of the diplomacy which ...
- Truce At Last (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
STRICTLY speaking, the recent fracas in the Punjab Congress is the internal matter of the party. But in reality, the whole State will breathe easy now that the warring factions have ostensibly buried the hatchet. The State was suffering more than the
- Bull Fighting (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
The euphoria over the Indian economy extends to the sensitive index, which has crossed 6,000, and is still climbing. Some bullishness about the economy is indeed transient and will eventually come down to earth. Instances are the 8.4 per cent growth in
- Kashmir’s Orphans Spread Trust And Goodwill (Tribune, Usha Rai, Jan 07, 2004)
WE hear often of the widows of Kashmir and the agonising search for the missing men in their lives but there are hardly any stories about the children who have been orphaned by the 13 years of turmoil in the valley. So it came as a surprise to meet this
- Cape Town Drama With Sydney Script (Indian Express, Reuters, Jan 07, 2004)
Dwayne Smith struck a century on debut to help West Indies draw the third Test against South Africa at Newlands on Tuesday. The 20-year-old Smith reached his hundred off just 93 balls as West Indies, requiring 441 to win, batted right through the day
- Opposition Can Still Do It (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jan 07, 2004)
Any Opposition party or a combination of Opposition parties that wants to displace the BJP-led Government will need to devise a strategy to exploit the thinness of the saffron spread.
- Chautala’s Inld Remains An Ally, Claims Venkaiah (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Jan 07, 2004)
Unlike its state unit, the BJP high command is treading cautiously on the issue of its alliance with Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) of Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala. Party president M. Venkaiah Naidu, when asked about the Haryana BJP
- Stabilising The Process (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
THE LEADERS OF India and Pakistan have energised the ongoing process of positive engagement by agreeing to restart the composite dialogue in February. They also exuded a degree of optimism in asserting, in a joint statement issued after the ...
- The Great Thaw (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
AS EXPECTED, THE SAARC summit in Islamabad became a show of India-Pakistan entente. Such concrete steps as the progress on the SAFTA (South Asian Free Trade Agreement) treaty were overshadowed by the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee's words and
- Interlinking Of Rivers: Ripples Of Concern (Business Line, Sudhirendar Sharma, Jan 07, 2004)
NEVER before has any proposal won the unstinted support of the apex court, the first citizen and the chief executive of the country all at the same time. With this unprecedented backing, the Government has pressed in all available resources to steamroll
- Shakespeare Plays With Economics (Business Line, D. Sambandhan, Jan 07, 2004)
"NO HUMAN capacity ever yet saw the whole of a thing, but we may see more and more of it the longer we look," said Ruskin. This was internalised by Mr Frederick Turner, the Founder Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas, when he made
- Flying Kites And Soaring Fortunes (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Jan 07, 2004)
THIS is the kite-flying season in Gujarat and coming right after the Navratri Global Investors' Summit of September 2003, the State is readying for yet another business summit of the Vibrant variety. But, then, vibrancy seems to be the leit motif of the
- Alliance Arithmetic (Hindu, SURESH NAMBATH, Jan 07, 2004)
Electoral arithmetic, more than political chemistry, is the decisive factor in the realignment of political forces in Tamil Nadu.
- Kalyan At Home, Sp Moves To Block Bsp (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
With former chief minister Kalyan Singh staying home due to toothache and fatigue and not talking to anyone except his party workers, the Samajwadi Party today made a move to block the BSP’s chances of joining the Congress-led alliance. Party general
- Tn Cong In Knots Over Ties With Dmk (Indian Express, K.N. ARUN, Jan 07, 2004)
The alliance with DMK is yet to be firmed up, but TNCC leaders are already at each other’s throats, with one set accusing the other of trying to sabotage the proposed alliance by seeking a ‘‘disproportionate’’ seat share. Sources say the bone of ...
- Vaiko Is To Seek Bail In 2 Days: Mdmk Chairman (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
MDMK general secretary and POTA detainee Vaiko would move court for bail, party presidium chairman L. Ganesan said today. Talking to mediapersons after meeting DMK chief M. Karunanidhi, Ganesan said Vaiko would seek bail as per the party’s decision follow
- Focus On Ties At Cwc Meet Today (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Jan 07, 2004)
With the Pranab Mukherjee committee asking to firm up alliances before the end of January, tomorrow’s Congress Working Committee meeting is expected to take stock of dialogue with potential partners like the DMK, RJD, BSP, NCP and others. Apart from ...
- India Can Shine If It Has A Shanghai Or Two. (Bloomberg.com, Andy Mukherjee, Jan 06, 2004)
India is shining. Or so its government proclaims in full-page newspaper advertisements nowadays.
- Musharraf And Vajpayee Pledge Peaceful Links (Guardian (UK), RANDEEP RAMESH, Jan 06, 2004)
The leaders of Pakistan and India, meeting yesterday for the first time since their countries almost went to war two years ago, promised to restore normal relations.
- Early Childhood Care And Education - First Steps On The Development Path (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jan 06, 2004)
The sooner the Centre and States realise the importance of universal elementary education, the faster can a new development model be created for India, based on the blend of technical skill, superior knowledge and a population of literate Indians.
- Cas: The Fading Picture (Business Line, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Jan 06, 2004)
The script is all muddled for the Conditional Access System. Instead of rushing to implement an ill-conceived system, the Government could have waited for the enactment of the Convergence Bill, which envisages a super-regulator that could have resolved
- Jogi Insists He Is In Congress (Indian Express, Ashwani Sharma, Jan 06, 2004)
Even as the Pranab Mukherjee panel report fans more doubts about the revocation of his suspension order, former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi today claimed that the Congress cannot write him off so easily. Jogi addressed a press conference at his
- Congress In Catch-22 Situation (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jan 06, 2004)
NEVER before in its long history has the once venerable Congress party faced the crisis it is undergoing today. Because it is, in national terms, in danger of becoming the perennial second party. There are many reasons for the Congress predicament, but
- Sanjay Singh Next Cong Boss In Up? (Indian Express, Vrinda Gopinath, Jan 06, 2004)
If there is confusion in Uttar Pradesh about prospective political alliances before the Lok Sabha elections, it is going to be compounded soon. The Congress is planning to project one-time favourite of the Gandhi family and erstwhile Raja of Amethi ...
- Don’t Need Strategy For Friendship: Pm (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
In a rare interview given a few hours before his departure for Islamabad, Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee told Nasim Zehra of The News: ‘‘I think we can have a dialogue with President Musharraf and the dialogue will take us to some results.’’ A confident
- Mistrust Brushed Under Huge, Red Carpet (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jan 06, 2004)
If ever Prime Minister A B Vajpayee wanted to contest elections from Islamabad rather than his beloved Lucknow, remarked a wag here, winning wouldn’t be difficult. ‘‘Welcome Ataljee,’’ said the headline of an editorial article in the mass-circulated
- Cong Surprise For Kalyan B’day: Invite (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Jan 06, 2004)
After 12 days of avoiding Kalyan Singh and 4 days of hearing him openly complain about it, guess who Mulayam Singh Yadav found when he finally dropped in at the house of his Rashtriya Kranti Party partner to wish him on his birthday today? A beaming ...
- Television's Tangled Web (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
THE CENTRE'S YEAR-OLD move to usher in a new order in television through the Conditional Access System (CAS) has proved to be a leap in the dark. CAS is struggling to find its feet at a time when television is becoming more complex with multiple ...
- A Mullah-Military Alliance In Pakistan (Tribune, Syed Nooruzzaman, Jan 06, 2004)
GEN Pervez Musharraf has once again exposed the politicians of his country as being rank opportunists, always ready to barter their principles for political gains. He has done this by entering into a well-calculated deal with the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal
- Force Of Corruption (Telegraph, SANKAR SEN, Jan 06, 2004)
In a matter of a few decades, corruption has taken deep roots among the police, mainly owing to political interference
- After Saddam, Chaos Rules (Telegraph, Arshi Khan, Jan 06, 2004)
The capture of Saddam Hussein on December 13 has raised many questions about the future of Iraq. Will the illegal occupation of Iraq by the United States of America bring peace, stability and democracy to the country? Will such democracy conform to the
- On A Home Run (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Jan 06, 2004)
The new year, 2004, will witness the fourth consecutive general elections in which Atal Bihari Vajpayee will lead the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies into battle. No former Indian prime minister, save for Indira, the original Mrs Gandhi, has done
- Getting Together (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
In the mid-fifties, when I was a first year college student in Jalandhar, I remember an Indo-Pak cricket test series was organised to better relations between the two nations. For the Lahore Test, they opened the border. India made a simple ID available
- Debating Islam (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jan 06, 2004)
There is concern that the current climate threatens long-term Christian-Muslim ralations.
- Sweet Nothings (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
Populism is the password to elections in India. All governments gearing up for elections announce policy packages and decisions that are thinly-veiled attempts to buy votes. No government has been free from this vice so it may seem a trifle unfair to ...
- The Cas Muddle (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
REPORTS to the effect that the Centre is planning to roll back the Conditional Access System (CAS) lend credence to the theory that the Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry has been imposing the system on the consumers. It amounted to the Centre
- Bjp Plans Stir, May Snap Inld Ties (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Jan 06, 2004)
After Tamil Nadu, trouble is brewing for the NDA in Haryana. But unlike Tamil Nadu, where the DMK and the MDMK abandoned the BJP, it is the state BJP which has resolved to end its uneasy alliance with INLD leader and Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala in
- Captain, Bhattal Patch Up, Say Cheese Together (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Jan 06, 2004)
The over-a-month-long drama involving the Punjab Congress had a happy ending today at 10, Janpath, after party chief Sonia Gandhi gave a pep-talk to both camps on unity and the importance of winning LS polls. At the back of this peace breakthrough is
- Poor Politicians! (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 05, 2004)
YOU bet the broadside against politicians launched by the Chief Election Commissioner, Mr J. M. Lyngdoh, most certainly did not take them by surprise. Day in and day out, in season and out of season, in print and electronic media, and in public and in ...
- Will Diversified Funds Pay In 2004? (Business Line, Nilanjan Dey, Jan 05, 2004)
DIVERSIFIED equity funds will remain the cynosure of all eyes in the early days of 2004. Their net asset values have moved up in tandem with the advancing indices and the rising trend will be sustained if the market continues to stay in the positive ...
- Contentious Coverings (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
THE recent move, endorsed by the French President, Mr Jacques Chirac, to ban the wearing of religious symbols in state schools has managed to unite the minorities there. A French commission said the Muslim headscarf, the Jewish skullcap and large crucifix
- After 6000, What? (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
THE Bombay Stock Exchange sensex crossed the 6000 mark and closed at 6027 on January 2. Last time the sensex went beyond 6000 was on February 11, 2000. How is it different this time? First, this is one of the fastest-ever rallies in stocks. The 30-scrip
- Year Of Some Big Decisions (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Jan 05, 2004)
History normally runs on rails, with one development following another in fairly obvious succession. It may seem like a roller-coaster ride at times, but twenty years later the outcome is just about what you would have expected at the start. Once in a ...
- Malhotra Doesn’t Talk Medals, Talks Money (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
It's a familiar tune before the Olympics — sports officials, government grants firmly on their mind, claiming that their athletes will win big at the Games. Thankfully, officials are refraining this time from picking a figure out of the air. Instead,
- Budget-Making: An Exercise In Guesstimates (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jan 05, 2004)
IT IS that time of year when the corridors of North Block are busy with the Budget buzz. The detailed expenditure and revenue estimates would have already come in and the scrutiny of estimates with reference to actuals commenced. The first cut of estimate
- Too Easy To Manage (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jan 05, 2004)
The scandalous leaking of the Indian Institutes of Management admission test papers and the attempts of the ministry to gain greater control over the IIMs heighten the need for a thorough review of management education in India, its content and governance
- 6000 And Going Strong (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
AS MILESTONES GO for the nation's stock market, the breaching of the 6000 mark by the Sensex — the Bombay Stock Exchange's bellwether index of equity prices — would easily rank among the more significant events in its chequered history. The palpable sense
- It’s Time To Make New Friends (Telegraph, M.R. Venkatesh, Jan 05, 2004)
The BJP’s refusal to rein in Jayalalithaa as also contradictions inherent in their coalition drove the DMK and MDMK out of the NDA
- South Africans Fail To Figure The 9000 Man (Indian Express, Reuters, Jan 05, 2004)
Brian Lara scored one of the most stubborn hundreds of his career as West Indies fought back on day three of the third Test against South Africa on Sunday. Lara’s 115 helped his side reach 427 in reply to South Africa’s 532, a deficit of 105. By stump
- Kerala, Tn To Sign Pact On River Waters In March (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
THE Chief Ministers of Kerala and Tamil Nadu will meet in March to sign a revised Parambikkulam-Aliyar inter-State river water sharing agreement, as per the understanding reached at the end of `successful' ministerial-level talks held here on Sunday.
- Lal Badshah (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Jan 04, 2004)
IN the telegrammatic world of newspaper headline writers, a chestnut that resurfaces periodically, especially in the murky, confusing seasons before and after an election, when coalitions are simultaneously evaporating and solidifying is ‘‘Surjeet active
- Rohan Replaces Kaif; The Big Question Is, Why? (Indian Express, Ateet Sharma, Jan 04, 2004)
If there was one question that was asked more times on Saturday evening than when India would declare, it was how Rohan Gavaskar came to be picked for the forthcoming tri-series Down Under. The decision, announced today, to pick Gavaskar (27) in place
- Pakistan: The Two-Nation Theory (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jan 04, 2004)
ON THE plane to Pakistan, peer as hard as you like through the scratched window of PIA’s ramshackle Boeing, you still can’t see the border line that divides the democracy from the dictatorship. It’s shrouded in the fog of history, some say, others point
- 2004 Cast (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
There is some solution in sight for the growing city’s constant problem. Expect a flood of cheap housing this year. There will also be more 35-40 storey buildings. Affordable housing will be this year’s chant.
Education is the other area of growth. 40
- 2004? It's So Predictable (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
Tomorrow is yesterday by another name. This is not karmic philosophy. It is only cynicism, which seems to come just so easily if you’re Indian. So sitting down with a notional crystal ball, on a gloomy, sun-eclipsd day in January, to predict the rest
- Child's Play (Indian Express, Chandresh Narayanan, Jan 04, 2004)
Junior cricket in India is run by two bodies, which don’t play ball with each other. A miracle that any talent emerges
- Still At Sea (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jan 04, 2004)
The promise of this new year allows me to atone in sackcloth and ashes for an injustice perpetrated in these columns in July 2000. I mistook “a decrepit tub strewn with rubbish beyond an ancient jetty” for “India’s first floating hotel” or floatel which
- A Prodigal Son All Set To Return (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jan 04, 2004)
POLITICS is a weird game. A few years back former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh had turned into a bete noire of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and called him “a tired and retired leader”. Now he stands in the front row at a BJP workers
- In No Man's Land (Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Jan 04, 2004)
The Second Gulf War is put in perspective in Simpson’s world
- Fog Over The Capital (Telegraph, G.S. Mudur, Jan 04, 2004)
Stuck at the airport? Be prepared for a long wait. And thank the greening of Delhi for your woes.
- Anti-Incumbency Will Help Cong In (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Jan 04, 2004)
Whether it was the National Front, the Janata Dal, the United Front and now the Congress, every political party or formation that Lok Sabha MP S. Jaipal Reddy has been associated with, he has always been its most visible face. He is also known for his ...
- Ideological Roadblocks On The Road (Tribune, Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia, Jan 04, 2004)
THE Hot Peace among different communities of the world, in the beginning of the 21st century, marked by its advent by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre towers in New York, is, in a sense, more explosive than the earlier Cold War between nation
- Sonia, Undisturbed (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Jan 04, 2004)
Sonia, we know, answers no questions. Her biographer does not trouble her with too many
- Bypoll Ahead, Mulayam Complains To Ec About Poll Roll (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
Just days before the by-election to the State Assembly from Gannaur constituency, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav today visited the Nirvachan Sadan here and complained to the EC about the huge discrepancies and mismanagement of electoral
- Cong Focus On Punjab, Mlas Called To Delhi (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
The Punjab Congress imbroglio seems headed for a solution with clear indications that Chief Minister Amarinder Singh will not be shifted out at least till the general elections. At the same time, the rebels will have the satisfaction of a concession-rich
- Mad About Words (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jan 03, 2004)
Not many of us are aware that when Shakespeare wrote his plays and sonnets, there were no dictionaries. There were some compilations of difficult words with their meanings but no one dictionary giving origins, meanings and usages of all words in the
- Cong Warms To Bsp, Cm In Cold (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Jan 03, 2004)
With the BSP waiting in the wings and the Congress looking for a convincing excuse to drop out of the alliance in UP, Samajwadi Party leader and Chief Minister Mulayam Singh today moved cautiously stating that he would meet the Congress president Sonia...
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