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Articles 19021 through 19120 of 22438:
- Eyeball Time For The Print Media (Telegraph, Gouri Chatterjee, Mar 24, 2005)
In Britain, a proprietor is said to have observed recently that he could publish his Daily Express with 20 blank pages for all anyone would care as long as he continued to give away free CDs. Even the tabloids are on a steady slide downhill.
- Great Falls Woman Found Slain In Home (Washington Post, Tom Jackman, Mar 24, 2005)
A 52-year-old Great Falls woman was found stabbed to death in her home by her
- In Bow To Wto, India Targets Drug Copying (Washington Post, John Lancaster, Mar 23, 2005)
India's parliament gave final approval Wednesday to legislation barring drugmakers from producing low-cost versions of patented medicines from the United States and elsewhere
- Developed Country By 2020? (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Mar 22, 2005)
In an interesting look at how the Human Development Index is computed, Bhanoji Rao applies the measures and equations to assess India's chances of becoming a `developed' country by 2020. Further, he lists several conventional and non-conventio nal indicat
- A Watershed In Conservation Efforts (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 22, 2005)
This project not only works on saving water, but creates awareness on how it's saved, says SRINIVAS NARGUND.
- Rock Dust Grows Extra-Big Vegetables (Tribune, Paul Kelbie, Mar 22, 2005)
For years scientists have been warning of an apocalyptic future facing the world. With the prospect of an earth made infertile from over-production and mass reliance on chemicals, coupled with an atmosphere polluted by greenhouse gases there seems little
- Water Is Definitely A Problem In The State (Deccan Herald, VANITHA POOJARY NAINWAL, Mar 22, 2005)
The deputy commissioners of various districts of the State share a worry, that coping with water shortage in the coming months will be difficult
- Relevant Skill (Deccan Herald, VARALOTTI RENGASAMY, Mar 22, 2005)
The one skill that will probably never go out of fashion is the skill to be able to acquire new skills
- Public Utilities Spend Money Wastefully (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 22, 2005)
So we now have to brace ourselves for paying up additional taxes, as cess for solid waste management , and vehicle tax, with the capital valuation property tax scheme threatening to further add to the impositions on consumers of civic services.
- Integrated Child Development Services Scheme (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Mar 22, 2005)
The Integrated Child Development Services scheme will be 30 years old this year. It has achieved some successes, yet the problems which it was meant to address remain substantial. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh assess t
- Tight Oil Position Ahead? (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Mar 21, 2005)
An increase in domestic oil prices would severely affect economic operations, as higher running costs would translate into higher road freight rates, which will be passed on to the consumer. Even if the Government were to oblige the oil companies by raisi
- To Be Taken With A Pinch Of Salt (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2005)
Given its predilections, the Western media can no longer be relied on for a truthful version of global events , writes N.J. Nanporia
- `Work To Live' Is More Their Motto (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Mar 21, 2005)
AS I move around Paris, the banners in the streets proclaim support for the city's bid to host the 2012 Olympics. Even the Eiffel Tower has a sign that says `Paris 2012, Ville Candidate' followed by the five interlocking rings.
- Indian Farmers Fight Fungus (Deccan Herald, CATHERINE BRAHIC, Mar 21, 2005)
A hybrid strain of pearl millet resistant to fungal disease has been introduced in Haryana and Punjab.
- Why We Must Aim For Golden Cities (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Mar 21, 2005)
The poor, like Oliver, ask for more; the rich will ask for something better. Our new Vision should be for better quality, not larger quantity.
- ‘U’ Stress Factor (Deccan Herald, PERIN ILAVIA, Mar 21, 2005)
The stress encountered by kids and their parents, before the final exams, often works against them
- A Thing Of Beauty (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2005)
Small is no longer considered beautiful. Innocent of the art of public relations, the humble species remain outside the pale of self-advertising. And in the globalized milieu, the puny ones, it has been suggested, have not even the right to exist.
- Clear Our Screens Of Smoke (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2005)
Extracts from the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Education, communication, training and public awareness:
- Freak Accident (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2005)
Efforts should be made to save trees and also human lives
- Making Government Intelligent (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2005)
IF A MASSIVE infusion of funds is the magical solution quickly to transform India into a networked nation offering efficient citizen services through e-government, it can hope to work that unlikely miracle now.
- Rivers Run Through It (Deccan Herald, RANDEEP RAMESH, Mar 21, 2005)
The blows India and Pakistan trade over Kashmir will have more to do with water than land
- Read By Rule (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2005)
Rules governing universities should be universal. Or close to that. This seems to be the rationale behind the public interest litigation brought to the Supreme Court, which prompted the court to nullify the establishment of 117 universities
- Globalisation Can Have A Human Face (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2005)
There is no use blaming global players for the weakness of globalisation. We have to blame sovereign governments
- Transcending Conventions (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2005)
The developments of the past decades have profoundly changed Indian society. Indian artists have begun working out the new currents of their capital and cultural tools in contradictory ways.
- Theatre On Wheels: Spreading Messages (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2005)
Subodh Patnaik and his friends are cycling through rural Orissa to spread theatre and share a social message. These are not morality plays, or street theatre either, they say. They’d rather you termed it “Cyco-theatre”.
- Electoral System Needs Reforming (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Mar 19, 2005)
Now that we have the results of the elections in Haryana, Bihar and Jharkhand, I begin to doubt whether our electoral system does in fact reflect what the people think is best for their country, state or themselves.
- The Speaker Speaks (Deccan Herald, Era Sezhiyan, Mar 19, 2005)
Both the legislature and the judiciary are sovereign within the limits provided by the Constitution
- Rice To Juggle Many Diplomatic Balls In Asia (Tribune, MARK MAGNIER, Mar 19, 2005)
With her arrival in Tokyo on Friday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice finds herself in a region with dangerous flashpoints, hoping that none of them spin out of control.
- Don't Hand Religion To The Right (Hindu, William Whyte, Mar 19, 2005)
In the United Kingdom, the secular Left must stop sniping and realise it has Christian allies.
- Around The World On A T-Shirt Trail (Business Line, D. Murali , Mar 19, 2005)
Year 1999. Georgetown University, US. A young woman seizes the microphone and asks the crowd of WTO-protesters: "Who made your T-shirt?"
- Budget: Empowering The Taxpayer (Business Line, H. P. Ranina, Mar 19, 2005)
The good thing about the Budget proposals is that they will increase the quantum of personal savings and give investors a wider choice.
- Far From Art (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 18, 2005)
A whole society constantly on edge is a frightening phenomenon. Nothing else can explain the violence with which a teacher turned on a five-year-old who had was not carrying her art-and-craft papers in a carry-bag as instructed.
- Blood On Our Hands (Telegraph, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi , Mar 18, 2005)
While researching the AIDS epidemic in India, I met Arup and his wife Seema at a clinic in Mumbai. “We have been treated worse than street dogs,” Arup, a middle-aged man with a beard told me
- Bush’S Choice For World Bank Risks Outcry (Tribune, Andrew Gumbel, Mar 18, 2005)
President George Bush risked the ire of the international community for the second time in as many weeks on Wednesday as he nominated his administration’s leading neo-conservative hawk, Paul Wolfowitz, to be the head of the World Bank.
- Enough Is Enough (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Mar 17, 2005)
When the United Progressive Alliance and the left put together their common minimum programme, there must have been lengthy discussions among the constituents ...
- A Chance For Disabled Kids (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2005)
Children suffering from speech and communication disorders attend the Vagdevi school started by Speech Language Pathologist Shantha Radhakrishna
- Toying With Culture And Tradition (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2005)
Indira Swaminathan has been teaching young children using traditional Indian toys she herself makes.
- Country’S First Penless, Bagless School (Tribune, Annu Anand, Mar 17, 2005)
In a pioneering effort to take literacy to a higher technology medium, a school in Rajasthan has replaced pen and paper with computers.
- Problem Of Plenty (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 16, 2005)
The foreign exchange (forex) reserves of the country experienced an unprecedented growth in the month of February 2005 when it jumped up by $ 8 billion during the month...
- Engineering Quality (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Mar 16, 2005)
The time has come to step up the level of monitoring and regulation to ensure that States are not saddled with too many sub-standard, self-financing engineering colleges.
- Papers Out Of A Bag (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Mar 16, 2005)
The budget speech was a great success. The finance bill was an utter disaster.
- Why Implementation Fails — Seven Sins Of Public Administration (Business Line, S. Ramachander, Mar 16, 2005)
A new Budget is an occasion for commentators and policy-makers to hope that this time round at least some things will improve.
- Clean The Box (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 16, 2005)
Censorship and a mature democracy are at odds with each other. Yet a government that calls itself “progressive” has joined hands with its political ...
- Indian Media Blog Shuts Down After Legal Threats From Times Of India (Online Journalism Review, Mark Glaser, Mar 15, 2005)
Mediaah Weblog is shuttered after the Times of India threatens libel lawsuits, causing an uproar and petition in the Indian blogosphere. Can media criticism gain a foothold in the subcontinent?
- Nobody’S Children (Telegraph, Debabrata Mohanty, Mar 15, 2005)
For the disabled women in Orissa, domestic violence is a horror they have to cope with in silence
- Surviving Change — Looking Beyond The `Here And Now' (Business Line, A. B. Sivakumar, Mar 15, 2005)
If the management itself adopts "here and now" strategies, managing change can be a miserable process, and the conglomerate can start cracking up.
- Microfinance: Banking For The Poor, Not Poor Banking (Business Line, Y. S. P. Thorat, Mar 15, 2005)
Globally, over a billion poor people are still without access to formal financial services and some 200 million of them live in India.
- Yakshagana: Riding The Crest Of A New Wave (Deccan Herald, Shankaranarayana, Mar 15, 2005)
SHANKARANARAYANA analyses the new face of yakshagana and appreciates the fact that this particular form of folk art has kept itself alive by constantly reinventing itself, by roping in new ambassadors, formulating a new wave of yakshagana or conducting wo
- Time For Us And India To Go Steady (Deccan Herald, STANLEY A WEISS, Mar 15, 2005)
Washington can no longer take India for granted, as there are other suitiors waiting on the sidelines
- Not Good Enough (Telegraph, ABHIRUP SARKAR, Mar 15, 2005)
Whether we like it or not, two or three centuries co-exist side by side in our blessed land. Modern, futuristic skyscrapers have ugly shanties in their neighbourhood...
- Media: ‘Faster, Looser And Cheaper’ (Tribune, James Raine, Mar 15, 2005)
Consumers confront an ever-broader river of news from myriad sources, but the standard for gathering and presenting the information tends to be “faster, looser and cheaper” than in the past, according to a survey of the news business released on Monday by
- Fully Immunized And Aware (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 15, 2005)
The data collected indicates that there is significant gender bias in immunization in non-tribal villages, but such gender bias is not significant in tribal villages.
- Bihar May Get A Government But What About Governance? (Indian Express, N K Singh, Mar 14, 2005)
Bihar has gone under President’s rule and the initial statements by the Governor strike the right chord. No one knows if any subsequent permutation combination will yield a viable ...
- Tirukkural — A Wealth Of Wisdom (Deccan Herald, C R T VARMA, Mar 14, 2005)
Tiruvalluvar wrote about a high degree of civilisation nearly 2000 years ago and his tenets are applicable even today
- When Man Proposes, Sarpanch Disposes (Deccan Herald, Narendra kaushik, Mar 13, 2005)
Zahira looks petrified every time she is asked to recall the incident that happened in Meerut and almost claimed her life in November this year. She was tied to a tree and hit with stones and bricks on the orders of a local panchayat.
- Present Election System Needs Change: Cec (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2005)
Pointing out the deficiencies in the system, the CEC said it allows candidates to accept money from friends and family for election expenditure over the fixed ceiling.
- Tasks Before Hooda Govt: A Blueprint For Progress (Tribune, Raj Kumar Siwach, Mar 13, 2005)
THE Haryana Assembly election results demonstrate the maturity and wisdom of the electorate. Though the outcome is being interpreted by psephologists as a vote
- The Other Side Of Budget (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2005)
Capital expenditure is vital in creating assets and improving overall infrastructure. But 85 per cent of this allocation is being spent on day-to-day expenses.
- The Culture Of Common People (Deccan Herald, M S MURALI KRISHNA, Mar 13, 2005)
M S MURALI KRISHNA writes about Bharatiya Lok Kala Mandal- a folk and tribal arts centre in Udaipur, which is making commendable efforts to keep the culture of Rajasthan alive.
- Blessed With A Chance To Be Reborn (Deccan Herald, SUJOY DHAR, Mar 13, 2005)
There have been bouquets and brickbats for Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman’s ‘Born into Brothels,’ filmed on the sex workers’ children, that bagged the Oscar for Best Documentary
- Crop Diversification Need Of The Hour, Says Samra (Tribune, Sarbjit Dhaliwal, Mar 13, 2005)
Dr J.S. Samra, Deputy Director-General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, is a member of policy formulation panels of the Planning Commission and the Union Ministry of Rural Development.
- Dandi, But Where’S The Salt? (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2005)
To propagate the ideals of Gandhiji in today’s world and to focus on the person who is considered to be singularly responsible for driving the Britishers out of the country
- Indo-Bangla Border Village Tense After Bdr Firing (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2005)
The BSF has clarified that the fencing is not a defence structure. But the BDR has increased its strength on the border by three times.
- Medieval Views In Modern Times (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Mar 12, 2005)
For the last few months, despite being a non-believer, I have been religiously tuning into Quran TV every evening to listen to Dr Zahir Naik answering questions and carrying on his lengthy debate with a Dr William Campbell on the Bible versus
- No Gain Without Pain (Hindu, LARRY ELLIOT, Mar 12, 2005)
The key to development in sub-Saharan Africa is partnership with the West.
- Progressing Towards A Flat Tax? (Business Line, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Mar 12, 2005)
The main argument against flat tax is that it is socially unjust. The solution to this problem, however, is not high tax rates because the rich pay less taxes despite that.
- Rosy Picture (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 12, 2005)
The picture on the state of the economy sought to be sketched in the Karnataka Budget for 2005-2006 by Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday seems to be quite rosy.
- A Former Banker Turns Author (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Mar 12, 2005)
While reading KP Singh's debut novel "The Road to Raisina" (Harper Collins) I kept wondering why this young writer decided to use his initials, especially in the backdrop of the fact that it's a politically potent novel.
- ‘An Open Society And Open Economy Are The Pillars... (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 12, 2005)
The test of the vibrancy and resilience of a democracy is not just the ability to conduct elections and convene legislatures.
- The Small C (Tribune, Punam Khaira Sidhu, Mar 12, 2005)
There was a time when advertisements for condoms featured sensuous young women like Pooja Bedi and Viveka Babajee. When these advertisements appeared on TV, my young sons usually looked away.
- Bureaucrat Likely To Be Next Chief Executive Of Hong Kong (Tribune, Philip P. Pan, Mar 12, 2005)
Hong Kong’s unpopular chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, submitted his resignation to the Chinese government on Thursday, ending his difficult tenure as the territory’s first post-colonial leader and leaving China with the delicate task of picking a
- Democracy For A Few (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Mar 12, 2005)
Now that we have the results of the elections in Haryana, Bihar and Jharkhand, I begin to doubt whether our electoral system does in fact reflect what the people think is best for their country, state or themselves.
- Ftas — Adding To `Spaghetti Bowl Of Tariffs' (Business Line, Soumya Kanti Ghosh, Mar 12, 2005)
It is difficult to say whether or not FTAs promote global trade, but surely there are important issues that need to be sorted out in the quest for free trade.
- Living With The Pain (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Mar 11, 2005)
Terribly scarred by the Madrid train bombings of a year ago, most Spaniards are unhappy at the slow pace of the investigation.
- Tackling Cheating (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 11, 2005)
COME board examinations, reports of cheating in various centres in Punjab abound. Certain parents, local officials and teachers allegedly collude to cheat children of their education and future.
- The Next `New' Thing Is `Things' (Business Line, D. Murali , Mar 11, 2005)
Cotton, coffee, sugar, oil, wheat, rice... This is not a grocery list for you to pick up on your way home, but a pick from some of the common commodities that figure in business pages along with precious metals and
- The Significance Of Mr. Chavez (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 11, 2005)
The visit to India last week of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez marked an important milestone in not just New Delhi's relations with Caracas but also in the ongoing Indian effort to
- Agenda For New Haryana Govt (Tribune, R. N. Malik, Mar 11, 2005)
THE new Chief Minister of Haryana, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, faces a daunting task. Most Chief Ministers have failed to adopt a visionary approach and an agenda of development.
- Boeing: Bingo! It’S Bill Again (Indian Express, STEVEN PEARLSTEIN, Mar 11, 2005)
A question that will be played out in ethics classes at business schools for years to come is whether Boeing, one of the largest government contractors, struggling to get out from under an ethics cloud
- Budget: Promoting A Socially Just Growth (Business Line, Shobha Ahuja, Mar 11, 2005)
The Finance Minister has presented a Budget that favours investment, job creation, social welfare, and rural and urban development.
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