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Articles 20821 through 20920 of 22438:
- `Big Success Comes From Sound Policies, Well Applied' (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Sep 17, 2004)
It is rare to find an economist without parochial postures and rarer still to get one steeped in Western education and part of the developed world yet critical of the unjust global economic system that perpetuates trade
- Linking Rivers (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 17, 2004)
With admirable perseverance, the Founder-President of the Makkal Shakthi Eiyakkam (People's Power Movement), Dr M. S. Udayamurthy has convened an All-India Convention on "Re-engineering India by linking her rivers" at Chennai on September 19.
- More Rain Deaths (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 17, 2004)
The infrastructure in Bangalore is too bad to withstand the whiplash of rain
- Science Is Not Technology (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Sep 17, 2004)
If India is to make technology advancements, it has to focus on strengthening its science base too
- Premature Panic Buttons (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Sep 16, 2004)
The government is clearly worried about inflation and inflation figures prominently in the prime minister’s press conference.
- Benchmark For A Bank Auditor's Knowledge About Banks (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 16, 2004)
Reddy wielded his wand a few days ago to swoosh off thousands of crores worth of liquidity from the banking system.
- Abode Of Peace (Deccan Herald, Vidya Iyengar, Sep 16, 2004)
It was tragedy that brought this family to inhabit ‘Shantivilas’... and to forget...
- Understanding Mass Hysteria (Hindu, Margaret McCartney, Sep 16, 2004)
Could 'mass hysteria' explain why 55 pupils and staff from a U.K. school fell mysteriously ill last week?
- Us Press Employs Few Non-Whites (Tribune, Gobind Thukral, Sep 16, 2004)
The world of journalism here is far whiter than the world it represents. America has 31 per cent people who are either black, Hispanics or from Asia.
- Uncle’S Feats (Tribune, D. K. Mukerjee, Sep 16, 2004)
His figure looms up through the mists of time — tall and swarthy with bulging biceps and a ripple of muscles. His very strength gave credibility to stories of his feats of strength.
- In House (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 16, 2004)
It would have helped if “family planning” had not become such a loaded term in post-Emergency India. The All India Muslim Personal Law Board is not too comfortable with it, although it is the vice-president of the board, Mr Syed Kalbe Sadiq ...
- No Flapping (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 15, 2004)
Ms Uma Bharti’s ruckus dishonours far more than the tiranga. With politics severing itself completely from civilized or constitutional behaviour, it is of little import whether the national flag is being carried or hung or moved about in the proper way.
- Homo Commiticus (Telegraph, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Sep 15, 2004)
The one government announcement that is beginning to routinely elicit a big yawn is the appointment of yet another committee or commission.
- Curbing Population (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 15, 2004)
It is sheer providence that the census data on which Venkaiah Naidu and company based their tirade against Muslims for their population proliferation has proved to be faulty, otherwise there would have been no end to communal scaremongering on the issue.
- Art Of The Deal (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 15, 2004)
When the country's best-known painter, Maqbool Fida Husain, inked a deal to sell 100 canvases for Rs.100 crores, he concluded the biggest transaction in the history of Indian contemporary art.
- Waiting For Teachers (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 15, 2004)
Rural schools in Punjab have often been in a terrible mess. Their condition has only deteriorated despite occasional media focus.
- Putin In Chechen Trap (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Sep 15, 2004)
After the Beslan tragedy, Putin wants American sympathy but not interference in Russia’s affairs
- Trade In Services — It Is A Question Of Market Access (Business Line, Anil K. Kanungo, Sep 15, 2004)
India's economic strength lies in the burgeoning services sector and the realisation of potential in this area hinges on quick and viable completion of negotiations.
- Remembering Anna (Hindu, R. Kannan, Sep 15, 2004)
C.N. Annadurai epitomised Tamil pride, personifying honesty, simplicity and caring.
- Putin In Chechen Trap (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Sep 15, 2004)
After the Beslan tragedy, Putin wants American sympathy but not interference in Russia’s affairs
- India Sees Growth Opportunity Through Nanotech (Small Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 15, 2004)
Mention India and technology in the United States and Europe, and the response will likely include the words software services and outsourcing. But within India, nanotechnology is frequently taking a prominent role in presidential speeches.
- Where Are We Heading? (Tribune, S.S. Johl, Sep 14, 2004)
WE in India give a compulsive response amounting to almost an addiction to the periodic celebrations, be it days, weeks, months, years or centenaries of important events and programmes, leading to virtual nostalgia.
- Banks Must Cross-Sell For Retail Asset Explosion (Business Line, J. Sethuraman, Sep 14, 2004)
Indian banking industry is chanting the retail moola(h) mantra for its tech initiatives, customer base expansion, retail asset explosion, profits, net interest margins, and so on.
- A Day Of Crowded Images (Deccan Herald, A MADHAVAN, Sep 14, 2004)
The sights and sounds of a tour by car with kindred souls can be highly enlightening
- Afghan Elections: Karzai Vs Qanuni? (Deccan Herald, SREEDHAR, Sep 14, 2004)
His links with Pakistan put interim President Karzai at a disadvantage against education minister Qanuni
- Budgets Sans Mysteries, Please (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Sep 14, 2004)
Budgets are complex documents full of mysteries and uncertainties. The Kelkar Task Force has articulated a simple and transparent tax system. It is now up to the Finance Minister to implement the recommendation, coalition dharma and all
- Get The Numbers Right (Telegraph, Sumit Mitra, Sep 14, 2004)
Muslims in India have always grown at a faster rate than Hindus. Now the difference seems to be narrowing down
- Hurtling From Crisis To Crisis (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Sep 14, 2004)
The state govt has tied itself up in knots and seems to have created more problems than solutions
- Always At Your Beck And Call (Telegraph, Gargi Gupta, Sep 14, 2004)
The mobile has occasioned not only a revolution in consumer culture, but also in social behaviour
- Risks For Women At The Top (Hindu, Andrea Wren, Sep 14, 2004)
As the familiar glass ceiling for women becomes the scary-sounding 'glass cliff', beware the perilous promotion.
- Limited Room For Mullahs, Military But Not Mastans (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Sep 14, 2004)
If Bangladesh were Pakistan, the irrational enmity between Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and Awami League (AL) leader Sheikh Hasina might well have led to the Army and the Islamist parties
- Licence To Murder (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Sep 14, 2004)
The facts relating to Thangjam Ningol Manorama alias Henthoi are well known. A posse of soldiers from Assam Rifles, including Havildar Suresh Kumar, Riflemen Ajit Singh and T. Lotha and unidentified others entered the house of Thangjam Manorama, a
- India's Poor Bring Back Gandhi Clan (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2004)
In a stunning turnaround, India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party accepted defeat Thursday, opening the way for the Congress party to return to power for the first time in eight years.
- It Is Bush's Turn Now (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2004)
Democrats have seized upon emerging revelations in the mainstream media to turn the spotlight on Mr. Bush's Vietnam service record.
- It Is Putin’S War (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Sep 13, 2004)
What would we do without Richard Perle, everybody’s favourite neo-conservative? It was he who came up some years ago with the notion that we must “de-contextualize terrorism”.
- Going Back On A Big Promise (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 13, 2004)
The planning commission's allocation of Rs.2,020 crores for launching a food-for-work programme in 150 districts marks the first, even if hesitant, step in the implementation of a crucial component of the National Common Minimum Programme (NCMP) of the...
- Beg Or Borrow (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 13, 2004)
Beggars are natural objects in the third-world cityscape. Light charity or looking away are the usual options in dealing with them. So, thinking of them as individuals with pasts and futures, and therefore as active agents in their own economic uplift
- Census Follies (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 13, 2004)
Flasehoods and Tendentious allegations are a dime a dozen in politics. It is hardly surprising that statistics — this time in the form of the First Report on Religion Data of Census 2001 — have become a weapon in the hands of political parties with a ...
- Neutrality As Virtue (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Sep 13, 2004)
Governance has to spring from political enlightenment. Neutrality cannot be a virtue.
- Stock Taking By The Plan Panel (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Sep 13, 2004)
Amid all the controversy that the Planning Commission should not engage itself with multilateral development institutions such as the World Bank and the ADB in devising mid-course corrections while formulating the Mid-Term Appraisal (MTA) of the ...
- Sour Grapes Of A Deformed Culture (Telegraph, Abdel Rahman al-Rashed, Sep 13, 2004)
Not all Muslims are terrorists, but sadly, almost all terrorists are Muslims
- Shakespeare: The Man And The Lover (Tribune, Darshan Singh Maini, Sep 13, 2004)
IN his most insightful lecture on “Shakespeare, the Man”, the poet’s greatest critic, A.C. Bradley, gives us a fairly full picture of Shakespeare’s personal life, inclinations and allergies, views and vision.
- Russia Spars With The West (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma, Sep 13, 2004)
With looming nuclear terrorism, Mr Bush has to keep hugging Mr Putin as a comrade-in-arms
- Playing For Pride And Passion (Telegraph, Uttam Sengupta, Sep 13, 2004)
India’s dismal showing in Athens was not surprising. But a sporting boom appears to be round the corner
- Platform Revels (Deccan Herald, N Narasimhan, Sep 13, 2004)
Politicians are some of the best teachers of how exactly you should not speak in public
- The Great Divide (Telegraph, Satish Nandgaonkar, Sep 12, 2004)
Lyricist Javed Akhtar decries the Beslan massacre. Journalist Sajid Rashid is attacked for his views on hardliners in his community
- Striving To Restore Sanskrit Glory (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Sep 12, 2004)
Rare are persons like Prof Govind Chandra Pande. He is historian, philosopher, Sanskrit scholar, poet and linguist combined in one. He is, perhaps, the only scholar who has vowed to restore the pristine glory of Sanskrit, fast vanishing as the classical
- After Killing Children (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 12, 2004)
How much smaller did the militants want them to be? As the images of cowering, traumatized, wounded and dead children from the desecrated school in Beslan go out into the world, this is perhaps the only question that seems relevant.
- We Should Not Become Victims Of Money, Says Narayana Murthy (Tribune, Sridhar K. Chari, Sep 12, 2004)
IN a country that is still groping for the right economic models to optimise the wealth creating potential of its people and the right attitudes towards business, wealth creation, governance, and social responsibility
- Kashmir: Why Not A Jointly Owned Demilitarised Area? (Business Line, Sridhar Jagannathan, Sep 10, 2004)
Kashmir has been very difficult local, regional and global problem, causing three major wars and endless strife between India and Pakistan. Apart from the huge sums spent by both countries there is the loss of
- A Cut Above The Rest (Tribune, Swapan Dasgupta, Sep 10, 2004)
One of the more intriguing features of the left mentality is the innate conviction of natural superiority.
- Farmers' Distress: Causes & Cures (Hindu, M. S. Swaminathan , Sep 10, 2004)
Education, social mobilisation and regulation are necessary to arrest the expansion of the agrarian crisis.
- Fifty Years Of Ray’S Cinema (Tribune, Amar Chandel, Sep 10, 2004)
I am exactly the same age as Satyajit Ray’s “Pather Panchali”. In these 50 years, I have got to see most of his movies. “Pather Panchali” must have been viewed half a dozen times.
- Indescribable Barbarity (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 10, 2004)
The world has lived with terrorism for many years now, and has seen the many forms of brutality it takes.
- International Trade And Economic Growth (Business Line, S. Venu , Sep 10, 2004)
Openness to trade is not by itself sufficient to promote growth. Macroeconomic and political stability and other policies are needed as well.
- Nehru’S Disservice To Science (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Sep 10, 2004)
The mediocrity of Indian scientists can be traced back to Nehru’s romantic notions about science
- The Chechens' American Friends (Hindu, John Laughland, Sep 10, 2004)
The Washington neocons' commitment to the war on terror evaporates in Chechnya, whose cause they have made their own.
- Beslan: Lessons For India (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Sep 09, 2004)
No terrorist attack in recent times has evoked greater horror, condemnation and revulsion than the attack in the small town of Beslan located in Russia's Caucasian Region, bordering Georgia.
- India’S Circus In The Olympics Arena (Deccan Herald, ROOPA RAO, Sep 09, 2004)
India’s dismal Olympics performance even while its Asian neighbours excelled, speaks of a false approach
- Anguish Of A Faithful Muslim (Deccan Herald, NASSRINE AZIMI, Sep 09, 2004)
Where do Muslims turn when so many atrocities are committed under the banner of their faith?
- The Dangers Of Retirement (Hindu, Michele Hanson, Sep 09, 2004)
Why it is that so many of us remain fighting fit until we retire and then promptly descend into ill-health?
- The New King (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 09, 2004)
For Vijay Singh, whose name means victory, it must have seemed like poetic justice
- Surrender Is Not An Option (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Sep 09, 2004)
No terrorist attack in recent times has evoked greater horror, condemnation and revulsion than the attack in the small town of Beslan, located in Russia’s Caucasian region, bordering Georgia. Over one thousand schoolchildren and their parents were held
- Rajiv's Limpets (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 09, 2004)
There was no need to raise eyebrows when someone in the Bharatiya Janata Party called Prime Minister Manmohan Singh a modern Shikhandi.
- Punjab’S First Freedom Fighter (Tribune, Madan Gopal, Sep 09, 2004)
After half a century of Independence, it is worth remembering those who set out on the road to freedom. Mrs Annie Besant in her book “How India Wrought for Freedom” has given us some facts which are not often mentioned in history books.
- Humour In Habits (Tribune, I.M. Soni, Sep 08, 2004)
ROBERT Lynd narrates an amusing but revealing anecdote in his essay “On habits”. He was a regular visitor to a restaurant. The waiters knew him by face. Once when he visited the place, after a long lapse, a waiter came and handed him a pack of cigarettes.
- Give Them Access (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 08, 2004)
Even officials are unaware of special facilities for the disabled
- Changing Face Of The Global Indian (Deccan Herald, Janaki Murali, Sep 08, 2004)
The urban Indian metrosexual is busy carving a niche in the world and moulding himself as a global citizen
- Avoidable Growth (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2004)
The utility of religion-based census aside, the figures of “growth” and “decline” of religions as contained in the latest census report confirm certain postulates.
- An Inld Misadventure In Haryana (Tribune, Shyam Chand, Sep 08, 2004)
THE Haryana Government’s decision to amend the Punjab Agricultural Produce Marketing Act, 1961, to allow contractors to enter the market for the purchase of agricultural produce is a retrogressive step which will throw farmers again in the money-lender’s
- Akali Dal Not Communal (Tribune, Manpreet Singh Badal, Sep 08, 2004)
Kuldip Nayar's recent indictment of the Akali Dal in these columns has hurt me. The Akali Dal is not a communal party. It has always had Hindus, Muslims and Christians as its members.
- Financing Cmp: Banking On World Bank (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Sep 08, 2004)
INDIA is desperately short of investment resources. Public investment on a massive scale is needed in key areas of economic and social development if India is to get rid of poverty in two decades while achieving higher growth rates, which would help place
- Useful Pointers (Business Line, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 08, 2004)
Census on religious communities should not be used by parties to stoke divisiveness
- Useful Pointers (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 08, 2004)
Census on religious communities should not be used by parties to stoke divisiveness
- To Will Or Not (Deccan Herald, Padma Ramachandran, Sep 08, 2004)
I would hate for people to quarrel over my earthly possessions when once I’ve left my earthly body
- The New Foreign Trade Policy (Hindu, Muchkund Dubey , Sep 08, 2004)
The Government has still a long way to go towards fully integrating the trade policy with the development policy.
- Terror In Beslan — Not Justified By Any Cause (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Sep 08, 2004)
Fanaticism and fundamentalism have their limits, when these are crossed, as they were with horrific and tragic consequences in Beslan, people who rebel for a cause not only make themselves and their cause a grotesque comedy, they paint an entire community
- How Is Indian Industry Faring? (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Sep 07, 2004)
A sharp rise in the services share in India's GDP, coming at a time when services exports are booming, has been used to argue that the country is on a new growth trajectory in keeping with global trends.
- Bombay Plan And Mixed-Up Economy (Business Line, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Sep 07, 2004)
After the shift quite far to the Right under the previous BJP-led regime, the economy is seeing a shift Leftward, harking back to the Bombay Plan and the mixed economy concept of Jawaharlal Nehru. But is it moving towards a "mixed-up" economy?
- Quiet Assertion (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 07, 2004)
After 100 days of governance, the PM has signalled that he is a leader with a vision
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