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Articles 20121 through 20220 of 22438:
- Pakistan Becomes A Us Protectorate (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Dec 13, 2004)
Following the 9/11 commission report, the US Congress is enacting legislation to implement the recommendations of the commission. The commission in its recommendations had focussed attention on the need for the US helping Pakistan to develop a promising,
- It Is In Giving That They Receive (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Dec 13, 2004)
While the Christmas season brings with it the feeling of generosity and of giving to others, such humanistic motivations are not sufficient for all.
- Money Is Not A Problem (Tribune, Mohan Guruswamy, Dec 11, 2004)
ON November 17 in Srinagar the Prime Minister announced an “economic revival plan” of Rs 24,000 crore for Jammu and Kashmir. By unwrapping the package as a bold new one, the Prime Minister is guilty of some terminological inexactitude. What is new is just
- Ten Ways To Fight The C-Word (Indian Express, ARUN DUGGAL, Dec 11, 2004)
The issue of corruption is serious, widespread and increasing by the day. Respected institutions, such as the judiciary and defence forces, which were free of it a few years ago, now seem to be getting increasingly corrupt.
- More Custodial Deaths (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 11, 2004)
THE disclosure of the Punjab State Human Rights Commission that custodial deaths are on the rise and as many as 87 such deaths have taken place in the state this year till November comes as a rude shock.
- Manmohan Singh In The Northeast (Hindu, Walter Fernandes, Dec 11, 2004)
The Northeast needs not more packages but serious steps towards a solution to the problems that have resulted in insurgency.
- An Embarrassment Of Birthdays (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Dec 11, 2004)
Zindabad Soniaji!Sare bharat me hoga phir congress ka raj (Congress will again rule the country!). This was how Congressmen who assembled at Congress HQ in Lucknow celebrated the birthday of their national president
- Consumers Unite! (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 10, 2004)
It is a call specially directed to consumers in India, since they are often left in the lurch when they most need help.
- Holiday In Lahore (Tribune, V. N. Kakar, Dec 10, 2004)
Once on a weekend holiday in Lahore, I walked into the room of my buddy, Khan Chand Duggal, in the Ewing Hall hostel of the Forman Christian College. I had never stayed with him earlier.
- Name Of The New War Is `Trade' (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 10, 2004)
The world's second largest economy, Japan, hinges its hopes on trade surplus to help in achieving growth beyond the 0.1 per cent recorded for the last quarter....
- A Gleam In The Eye (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Dec 10, 2004)
It is the “in” thing currently. About everybody in the creamy layer is forecasting the rate of growth of India’s gross domestic product: the International Monetary Fund
- Forget Efficiency. Let’S Do It (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Dec 10, 2004)
In the normal course, I would oppose any new government activity on the grounds that it is probably unnecessary, is likely to increase the power and the influence of an already ...
- Leonard Woolf’S Last Posting (Indian Express, MOHAN K. TIKKU, Dec 10, 2004)
Well before he became famous as a member of the Bloomsbury Group in London or as husband of Virginia Stephen, Leonard Sidney Woolf landed in Sri Lanka as a cadet of the Ceylon Civil Service.
- The Callused Little Hands Of A New Economy (Indian Express, SUMA RAMACHANDRAN, Dec 10, 2004)
Child panchayats in Karnataka take up the cause of working children and help them plan their lives
- Corporate Governance And Central Banks (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Dec 09, 2004)
Central banks have the incentive to adopt the international best practices of corporate governance because financial communities often perceive such methods as a prelude to making the central banks independent and accountable
- Bad Example (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 09, 2004)
Members of parliament are always busy. But their business need not bring them to parliament even when it is in session. Attendance in parliament is perhaps a low priority although it is not in session the whole of the year.
- The Man Behind The Bomb (Tribune, K. S. Parthasarathy, Dec 09, 2004)
During May 1990, I attended the College on Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics at the erstwhile International Centre for Theoretical Physics at Trieste, Italy. There I met Professor Abdus Salam, the Nobel Laureate and the then Director of the Centre.
- Save The Auditors From Becoming Box-Tickers (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 09, 2004)
There used to be that once-in-a-week session that read `moral science' in school timetables. A slot essentially for storytelling, though kind teachers were not against allowing students to do their own thing.
- What’S Left Of Bengal (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Dec 09, 2004)
The degeneration of West Bengal into one of the most backward states in India, and of Calcutta into little more than a very big mofussil city, began somewhere in the mid-Sixties. That was the time when we saw the use of “mass movements”, bandhs, hartals,
- Mother’S Priceless Gift (Deccan Herald, G. Srinivas Rao, Dec 09, 2004)
The recent tragedy of the theft of the Nobel medallion of Rabindranath Tagore, won by him in 1913, has made me take a fresh, fond look at my mother’s slate.
My mother, Radhamma
- France Woos India And Its Markets (Deccan Herald, KATRIN BENNHOLD, Dec 08, 2004)
Since President Jacques Chirac returned from a high-profile state visit to China two months ago with more than $4 billion in contracts, his government has quietly turned its attention to Asia’s other rising giant:
- What Price The Largesse For Kashmir? (Business Line, Mohan Guruswamy, Dec 08, 2004)
The only effective antidote to insurgency is the restoration of good government and order. With the latter largely absent in Kashmir, any new package might end up putting more good money into the hands of those who cannot deliver the goods.
- No Funds For R&d (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 08, 2004)
It is a shame that the university in the IT capital of the country does not currently have funds for research and development. The state government is to blamed for this state of affairs in Bangalore University.
- Aid From Expatriates (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 08, 2004)
There are more than three million persons of Indian origin who have settled down in the UK and the US, either as citizens or under the non-resident category.
- Junior’S Death As Reality Check (Indian Express, Jayaditya Gupta, Dec 08, 2004)
The lynch mobs are out again. Cricket is off the boil so they need a new target. The tragedy of Cristiano Junior pops up nicely for the national jury that is our TV audience (and, distressingly, the Talking Heads with more at stake) to have a go at Subrat
- No Fresh Air (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 08, 2004)
Can West Bengal afford to make its students environmentally aware? Those in charge of carrying out the Supreme Court’s directive earlier this year to make environmental studies compulsory in schools and colleges seem to be having a very difficult time wit
- Constitution, Parliament, And The People (Hindu, Somnath Chatterjee, Dec 08, 2004)
Unless we eliminate the nexus between politics and crime and also between politics and religion, the country is in danger of losing its identity.
- British Home Secretary In The Dock (Tribune, K.N. Malik, Dec 08, 2004)
One always admired the British Home Secretary, Mr David Blunkett, a blind person, who has admirably handled two of the most important and challenging portfolios of education and home affairs.
- The Long Road To Gender Equality (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 07, 2004)
The bill proposed by the Law Minister, H.R. Bhardwaj, to amend the law to grant women equal rights to Hindu undivided family property will be a significant step in bringing the Hindu law of inheritance in accord with the constitutional principle of equali
- What’S In A Name? (Indian Express, Varghese K George, Dec 07, 2004)
My friend Jaya Prakash was born in the early ’70s, two decades after Laloo Prasad, in a neighbouring area of Bihar, into a Yadav family. Jaya Prakash is J.P. Yadav in school records
- Computers And Rural Poverty (Deccan Herald, Sudhirendar Sharma, Dec 07, 2004)
As some of the leading development protagonists wield the magic wand of information and communication technology to root out rural poverty, the poor are being targeted yet again for another round of experimentation.
- Coughing Up An Epidemic (Indian Express, MEETA LALL, Dec 07, 2004)
Tuberculosis remains a scourge in India, increasingly complicated with its partner-in-death: the HIV virus.
- Enforcement Without The Force (Telegraph, N.R. MADHAVA MENON, Dec 07, 2004)
A responsible way to promote higher standards of policing is to professionalize the force and upgrade training
- In A Make-Believe World (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 07, 2004)
I have known BJP president L.K. Advani from the days he was in journalism. I was then information officer at the Press Information Bureau of the Government of India.
- Touch Of Class (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Dec 06, 2004)
Corporate training and development is a major activity conducted by business schools, consulting firms, human resource departments of companies, management associations and others.
- Uk Most Conducive For Indian Companies, Says Swaraj Paul (Tribune, Tripti Nath, Dec 05, 2004)
Lord Swaraj Paul, one of the most successful Indians in the UK, is the third Asian to be nominated to the House of Lords.
- Perils Of Peer Pressure (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 05, 2004)
Young men are vulnerable too, but in a very different way. They mature to adulthood in the community of other young men with little contact with women of their own age.
- Dignified Debates (Indian Express, Soli Sorabjee, Dec 05, 2004)
The Indo-Pak student seminar Manzar, organised by Miranda House this week at the IIC, was an enjoyable event. Three students each from the Indian and Pakistani side debated the motion
- Tide Of Misfortune (Telegraph, Debashis Bhattacharyya, Dec 05, 2004)
Five years after the super-cyclone, many women survivors along coastal Orissa live in a nightmarish world, stalked by human predators.
- A Ticking Time Bomb? (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Dec 05, 2004)
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in India is no longer confined to high-risk groups. There are warning signs that it is women, especially the young, who are among the most vulnerable
- The Key Institutional Weaknesses (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 04, 2004)
At the third `ASEAN + India Summit' held in Vientiane, a few days ago, there was talk of `deepening' of the `partnership'.
- Media’S Into The Gasp Quotient (Indian Express, Amrita Shah, Dec 04, 2004)
What a salacious few weeks these have been! India’s most powerful corporate duo slugging it out in public. A venerated and elderly religious figure facing allegations of murder and friendly relations with a single woman.
- Pangs Of Parenting (Deccan Herald, VEENA PRADEEP, Dec 04, 2004)
Sometimes, it’s the simplest of questions that stumps you. Take my four-year-old’s for instance. Every morning, he wants to know why he has to go to school.
- "Second" Ring Ceremony (Tribune, Rajan Chugh, Dec 04, 2004)
A 65-year-old worrying-woman’s relatives conveyed that she had been brought for the eye operation just as a child who was promised toys if he attended the school! (Baccha Boodha Ek Barabar, they say).
- Porn Free (Indian Express, Mahesh Bhatt, Dec 04, 2004)
Khajuraho paintings survived because the public then was willing to ‘purchase’ what was being offered to them. Similarly, cyber porn thrives because there is a consumer waiting to click his mouse
- How Long Before Justice Comes? (Indian Express, H. D. SHOURIE, Dec 04, 2004)
Courtrooms in India have become so packed with cases that the administration of justice suffers. This is the position in practically all the courts of the country.
- Brief Pleasures (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 04, 2004)
Is it possible to be quick and cool without appearing to be unlettered? This is the modern question posed by the ubiquitous SMS — although vast swathes of messaging humanity remain blissfully untroubled by it.
- Enable The Disabled (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 04, 2004)
On the occasion of International Day of the Disabled this year, the United Nations has drawn attention to the need to include persons with disabilities in the planning of strategies and policies that affect their lives.
- Globalisation: Need For Fairness (Hindu, Juan Somavia, Dec 04, 2004)
More fairness should be injected at all levels. That includes respecting core labour standards, promoting basic social protection, and reducing unbalanced patterns of investment and trade.
- Deadly Hot Summers ‘To Become The Norm’ (Tribune, Steve Connor, Dec 04, 2004)
Blisteringly hot summers similar to the one in 2003 when thousands of people in continental Europe died of heatstroke will become commonplace because of climate change, a study has found.
- World According To Eric (Indian Express, C. Uday Bhaskar, Dec 03, 2004)
When my wife went to the US for her PhD and I had to manage two mutinous kids — who were then eleven and nine, respectively
- To Fight Common Problems... (Business Line, K. Parthasarathi, Dec 03, 2004)
Over the last year India's forex reserves have grown to a staggering $123 billion, and rising. Other Asian countries too hold large reserves in relation to their GDP.
- Black Idea (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 03, 2004)
The national common minimum programme increases pressures for government expenditure and makes targets of Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act difficult to meet.
- Of Geri-Route (Tribune, Suchita Malik, Dec 03, 2004)
Our City Beautiful is known for a number of things viz. the Rose Garden, the Rock Garden, PU Campus, the Sukhna Lake, the broad roads and streets, greenery and what not.
- View With Equanimity (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 03, 2004)
India's most widely watched stock index, the Bombay Stock Exchange's 30-share index, Sensex, closed at an all time high of 6234.20.
- Cracks In The Wall (Telegraph, NEHA SAHAY, Dec 03, 2004)
Since 1978, when Deng Xiaoping set China upon the road to a “socialist market economy”, the number of poor Chinese has reduced from 250 million to 29 million, says the government.
- Focussing On Prices (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 03, 2004)
The BJP protest in Delhi on Wednesday brings to the centrestage the issue of price rise. Is the BJP right in blaming the Congress for the upward spiral of prices?
- Global Action Against Terrorism Should Be Concerted And United (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Dec 03, 2004)
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, is not a leader who flinches from answering difficult questions. In a written response to questions provided by The Hindu, President Putin does not believe that it is possible...
- Government Should Walk The Talk (Deccan Herald, Pradeep Kumar, Dec 03, 2004)
A study conducted by the State’s Commissioner for Disabilities shows a neglect of such issues especially in rural areas
- No Cleaner Man Than L K Advani (Indian Express, Balbir K Punj, Dec 02, 2004)
The fracas over a recent letter issued by the BJP president’s daughter-in-law and its subsequent use by the RJD is a shocking manifestation of media and political irresponsibility
- Commodification Of Education (Deccan Herald, SUDHA SITARAMAN, Dec 02, 2004)
In the heady aftermath of Indian independence, the idea of modernisation took on the dimensions of a national mission. It was an integral part of the Nehruvian vision of modernisation that declares stridently its intentions of building an egalitarian ...
- Gods Of Small Things (Deccan Herald, Leela Ramaswamy, Dec 02, 2004)
It is those small achievements, attainable by any one of us, that provide the greatest satisfaction
- Ethical Dilemmas In Decision-Making (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 02, 2004)
Like accountants, economy, busy as it is with the use of resources, has nothing to do with ethics. "However, the Chinese word for economy — Jing Ji (or Ching Chi) — is related to ethical value,"
- A Still Potent Idea (Deccan Herald, Balraj Puri, Dec 02, 2004)
As an author of the revised ‘Naya Kashmir’, I was pleasantly surprised over the reference to it by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a public meeting in Srinagar last month.
- Critical Role For Non-Banking Finance Sector (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Dec 02, 2004)
The architecture of the financial system has to be recast to ensure the growth of the economy along with adequate availability of credit to the fastest growing sectors of the economy.
- Look Beyond Figures (Telegraph, AMITAVA BANERJEE, Dec 01, 2004)
Mamata Banerjee perhaps thinks otherwise, but people with disability in India have enough reasons to celebrate World Disability Day on December 3.
- The European Malaise (Telegraph, Ashok Ganguly, Dec 01, 2004)
Soon after the American presidential election results were announced, the British prime minister, Tony Blair, declared to his European Union colleagues that “the American people have spoken”, and it was time to restore
- Women More Vulnerable To Aids (Tribune, Neelam Sharma, Dec 01, 2004)
Have you heard me today?’’ screams this year’s slogan of the World AIDS day falling on December 1. More than one-fourth of the total 5.1 million HIV positive persons living in India are women.
- Women At Risk (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 01, 2004)
As a pandemic that has affected 39.4 million citizens worldwide, HIV/AIDS is a development challenge like no other.
- Innocent Victims (Hindu, David C. Mulford, Dec 01, 2004)
Protecting women and girls, like the fight against HIV/AIDS generally, is an effort in which everyone has a part to play.
- Admission Tests (Tribune, Harish Dhillon, Dec 01, 2004)
For nine years I headed a school where, amongst other things, we tested three-year-old children for admission to Prep I. I agreed wholeheartedly with the criticism of this test.
- Broadcasting For People (Tribune, N. Bhaskara Rao, Dec 01, 2004)
How much concerned are we today about Public Service Broadcasting (PSB)? Of course, PSB cannot be appraised in isolation of the larger broadcast scene in the country.
- Consumers Unite! (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 01, 2004)
It is a call specially directed to consumers in India, since they are often left in the lurch when they most need help.
- Can We Centre The Northeast? (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Dec 01, 2004)
The Northeast is at the center again, this time for the right reasons. The recent VVIP visit emphasised the criticality of the region as a spring board of activity for furthering India’s interests to the east
- Widen The Net (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 30, 2004)
Public debate, together with access to information, is of the essence of democracy.
- Praise As The Begging Bowl (Tribune, N. S. Tasneem, Nov 30, 2004)
WHAT happens when a person is praised at his face in full view of the people? Embarrassment, of course, is there as he finds his cherished desire suddenly divested of the apparel.
- Rewind And Replay (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Nov 30, 2004)
The more things seem to have changed, the more they remain the same as regards the Kannada movement
- Unhappy Days Are Here Again (Telegraph, Nalin Verma, Nov 30, 2004)
There is little reason to suspect that the BJP will have an easy time in the forthcoming state polls in Jharkhand and Bihar
- `Shrimp Wars' In The Making (Business Line, K.G. Kumar, Nov 30, 2004)
Last week, the Kochi-based trading and seafood company Choice announced ambitious plans to make a grand entry into the UK market with its range of branded prawns.
- A Grey Eminence (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Nov 30, 2004)
The story of Indian reforms has been written many times; the more often it is written, the more it will sound the same.
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