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Articles 21321 through 21420 of 22438:
- Punjab Finances In Disarray (Tribune, P. P. S. Gill, Jun 25, 2004)
Punjab continues to be an enigma. It knows what is wrong with its body politic and economy and is aware of its stalled industrial and agricultural production and productivity.
- Harness Banks To Power The Cmp (Business Line, Dharmalingam Venugopal, Jun 25, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme (CMP) has no ordinary task on hand. It seeks to accelerate economic growth even while ushering in distributive justice.
- Is Taxing E-Commerce Feasible? (Business Line, Kala Seetharam Sridhar, Jun 25, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme adopted by the United Progressive Alliance attempts to reconcile economic reform with the concerns of the Left.
- India's Gandhi Must Burn Mother-In-Law's Recipe: Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, Andy Mukherjee, Jun 22, 2004)
Since last month's surprise change in India's federal government, the Mumbai stock exchange Sensitive Index has shed 13.6 percent in dollar terms, more than any other benchmark equity index in the world.
- How Feasible Is A Rural Employment Guarantee? (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jun 22, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme of the new UPA Government promises to provide public employment of 100 days per year to every rural household. Already the financial press has been trying to project this promise as unrealistic and requiring excessively large
- Shirkers As Members (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 22, 2004)
ON Wednesday, the day the Punjab Vidhan Sabha was to discuss the Budget for 2004-05, most of the ruling party members chose to stay away. Now a Budget is a very dry subject to talk about.
- A Packet Of Joy And Energy (Tribune, Darshan Singh Maini, Jun 22, 2004)
I started this small gallery of “portraits” in ink a whole expanse of years ago, and some that I remember include the one on my two-year old niece’s daughter, a baby bibliophile who started browsing intently huge tomes her little fingers could hardly ...
- `Project'ing Corruption In Multilateral Banks (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Jun 22, 2004)
When ministers in India declare themselves stoutly in favour of economic reform, the sub-text is their enthusiasm for hefty loans from multilateral development banks
- Say It With Rewards (Hindu, Phil Hogan, Jun 22, 2004)
Children respond better to carrots than to sticks - especially if they don't have to eat them.
- The Ugc Radar (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 21, 2004)
ON the face of it, the University Grants Commission’s system of assessing the performance of universities through a method called the “performance radar” is interesting.
- Team Manmohan Charting A New Course (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 20, 2004)
The message from the new Government at the Centre is clear. While economic reforms will continue, it will not be a mindless pursuit keeping the weak and the downtrodden out of its beneficial loop.
- Common Minimum Programme — At Cross Purposes With Frbm? (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , Jun 19, 2004)
While the Government will have to reckon with monumental increase in liabilities on account of the plethora of additional commitments under the Common Minimum Programme, there appears to be little scope for effecting savings in subsidies, interest ...
- Road Map For Kashmir (Tribune, K. Subramaniam, Jun 19, 2004)
The talks between the central leadership and various Kashmiri dissident groups are expected to begin shortly. There is an expectation on the part of Pakistanis of progress on the Kashmir issue in the forthcoming meeting among the foreign ministers ...
- Towards Broadband Economy (Tribune, Gaurav Choudhury, Jun 19, 2004)
India's entry in the elite group of G-8 nations is reason enough for many to believe that the country has indeed reached the takeoff stage. However, from the takeoff stage to the stage of mass consumption, as is characterised in industrialised ...
- Crisis Of Representative Democracy (Hindu, Neera Chandhoke , Jun 19, 2004)
Electoral democracy is deeply compromised when people who lose elections are given ministerial berths.
- Return Of A Reformer (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 18, 2004)
The appointment of Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia as Deputy Chairperson of the Planning Commission marks the return to the government of the noted Oxford-educated economist, who had earlier worked with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and ...
- The Urge To Modernise West Asia (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Jun 18, 2004)
Is the U.S. prepared for the consequences of electoral politics in the region, including the possibility of Islamist parties coming to power?
- Needed, Many More Irmas (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Jun 18, 2004)
The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development is understood to have recently lectured the dons of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) — Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta — on the advisability of their helping the government set up one new IIM...
- Can India Come Of Age In Comity Of Nations? (Business Line, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Jun 15, 2004)
Two Goldman Sachs reports, widely discussed in recent months, predict that in the next 50 years, Brazil, Russia, India and China will as a group become a much larger force in the world economy than the top rich countries of today.
- Asia's Male Tilt (Christian Science Monitor, editorial, Christian Science Monitor, Jun 15, 2004)
This year, millions of young men in China and India will reach their 19th birthday with little prospect of finding a wife. It's not that young, single women aren't available - it's that they don't exist in the same numbers.
- Failed By Fallacies (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Jun 14, 2004)
Though the previous government left the economy in fairly good shape, it did not get the mandate to rule because of increasing rural-urban, rich-poor disparity and rising unemployment, particularly among the educated.
- Not Garlands All The Way (Tribune, Chanchal Sarkar, Jun 13, 2004)
Forty years after the death of Nehru, there is still an irrepressible wish to play the game of, “What might have been” if circumstances had panned out differently. Would independence have come earlier? Would there not have been that terrible bloodshed...
- This Doc’S First Love Is Green Activism (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jun 13, 2004)
Like many in Dr Manmohan Singh’s Cabinet, Health Minister R. Anbumani, is not a member of the either House of Parliament but qualifies to get a berth in the Union Council of Ministers by virtue of being the son of Dr R. Ramdoss, the founder of the...
- Can The Upa Pull It Off? (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Jun 12, 2004)
There is a lot riding on the success of the Manmohan Singh Government. India cannot afford to lose yet another opportunity to promote inclusive economic and social growth.
- Does Good Business Mix With Water? (Business Line, K. Srinivasan , Jun 12, 2004)
The maximum number of court rulings probably pertain to the deductibility of claims for expenses in the determination of the total taxable income of assessees.
- Children At Work (Hindu, Garimella Subramaniam, Jun 12, 2004)
The Government of India is yet to ratify the two fundamental ILO Conventions that deal comprehensively with child labour.
- Women Mps Resent Reduced Strength (Tribune, Tripti Nath, Jun 12, 2004)
The demand for 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament seems to be a pipe dream in an environment that stunts the growth and advancement of women.
- A Solution At The Iims (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 11, 2004)
With the change in government in New Delhi, the controversy about fee revision at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) appears to be heading towards a solution.
- Cmp: Will It Work? (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Jun 10, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme (CMP) was unveiled on a Thursday and the stock market, quite deservedly, gave it a - 223-point thumbs-down on Friday. One wishes the message had been stronger.
- A Spark From Kalam To Develop On (Business Line, D. Murali , Jun 10, 2004)
Make education attractive by creating employment potential. Empty rhetoric? No, a suggestion from the first citizen Dr A. P. J. Kalam, with all the sincerity that is so much his trademark.
- The Power Of Ideas (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Jun 10, 2004)
Development should be the new mantra. Approaches are many, but an idea can be had from a Plan document prepared by Prof Raj Krishna and Prof D. T. Lakdawala in 1978, that underscored private sector dynamism to propel growth and create jobs.
- Cmp: What Face The Reforms? (Hindu, Sharad Joshi , Jun 09, 2004)
The new Government's Common Minimum Programme promises reforms with a human face. But this is easier said than done, as implementation would encounter problems political and fiscal. Sharad Joshi examines the CMP, putting it in historical perspective.
- Marriage Bureau For Hiv Positive People (Tribune, Amrit Dhillon, Jun 09, 2004)
“I’M KALYANI, I'm a teacher and HIV-positive. Can you find a match for me please?” This is typical of the emails sent to Kottaram George, a social worker in Kerala, who runs a marriage bureau for people who are HIV-positive.
- The Essential Areas (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 09, 2004)
In his address to Parliament on Monday, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has said that Dr Manmohan Singh’s government will spend 6 per cent and 2-3 per cent of the GDP on education and health respectively.
- Populism Versus Responsibility (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jun 09, 2004)
With the Railways Minister planning a populist Rail Budget, the divestment agenda hamstrung by the Left and power sops being doled out to farmers and domestic consumers in some States, it is clear that more than a fiscal sleight of hand will be ...
- Primary Education: Low Coverage, Poor Quality (Business Line, Sangeeta Goyal, Jun 09, 2004)
The really critical aspect of the Indian public education system is its low quality. Even in educationally advanced States, an unacceptably low proportion of children who complete all grades of primary school have functional literacy. Moreover, the ...
- Primary Education: Low Coverage, Poor Quality (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Jun 09, 2004)
The really critical aspect of the Indian public education system is its low quality. Even in educationally advanced States, an unacceptably low proportion of children who complete all grades of primary school have functional literacy.
- The Essential Areas: Money Needed For Education And Health (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2004)
In his address to Parliament on Monday, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has said that Dr Manmohan Singh’s government will spend 6 per cent and 2-3 per cent of the GDP on education and health respectively.
- Wrong Address Little Bit Moderation, Lot More Sense (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2004)
The President’s address is the government’s wishlist. Whether it should also be a hitlist against previous incumbents, or if it is, whether moderation is needed, is debatable.
- Wrong Address Little Bit Moderation, Lot More Sense (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2004)
The President’s address is the government’s wishlist. Whether it should also be a hitlist against previous incumbents, or if it is, whether moderation is needed, is debatable.
- The Essential Areas (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 09, 2004)
In his address to Parliament on Monday, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has said that Dr Manmohan Singh’s government will spend 6 per cent and 2-3 per cent of the GDP on education and health respectively.
- Populism Versus Responsibility (Hindu, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jun 09, 2004)
With the Railways Minister planning a populist Rail Budget, the divestment agenda hamstrung by the Left and power sops being doled out to farmers and domestic consumers in some States
- It Should Not Be Allowed To Die (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2004)
Petty minds will question the motive for including the promotion of Urdu in the President's Address to the joint session of Parliament and the government’s intention to declare it a classical language.
- Money Needed For Education And Health (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2004)
In his address to Parliament on Monday, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has said that Dr Manmohan Singh’s government will spend 6 per cent and 2-3 per cent of the GDP on education and health respectively.
- A Common And Minimum Address (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2004)
A PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS to the joint session of Parliament is expected to lay down the short-to-medium-term legislative and executive priorities of the government.
- A Common And Minimum Address (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 08, 2004)
A Presidential address to the joint session of Parliament is expected to lay down the short-to-medium-term legislative and executive priorities of the government.
- 14th Lok Sabha: Mix Of Youth And Experience (Business Line, R. C. Rajamani, Jun 07, 2004)
AFTER the spell of politics and polemics, post Verdict 2004, issues of governance should be coming back in focus with the President scheduled to address the joint session of Parliament today (Monday, June 7).
- The Maharani Of Muck (AlterNet, Editorial, The Alternet, Jun 03, 2004)
India's most commercially successful English-language author is a 'traditional' mother of six who writes bodice-ripping novels and makes Indian feminists see red. Is she the Indian Jackie Collins, or the Indian Madonna?
- Funding The Cmp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2004)
TO SPREAD THE benefits of growth more equitably and improve the quality of public services, the Common Minimum Programme promises to effect a major increase in government spending.
- Mr Singh's History (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2004)
We beg your pardon Mr Arjun Singh, but if the textbooks published by the Delhi State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) constitute "secular" learning, then secularism itself is in deep trouble.
- The New Cji Is Sensitive To Problems Of The Needy (Tribune, S.S. Negi , Jun 03, 2004)
Mr Justice R C Lahoti, who took over as Chief Justice of India (CJI) on June 1, is considered by legal experts as “conservative” in matters of interpretation of law, yet competent, sharp and sensitive to problems of the poor and the needy.
- Banish Corporal Punishment (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2004)
THE STATE HUMAN Rights Commission's recommendation to the Tamil Nadu Government to retain corporal punishment in the statute book is a retrograde move that contravenes its own mandate under the 1993 Act.
- Cess For A Great Cause (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 01, 2004)
The most prominent social sector commitment in the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) relates to basic education: the United Progressive Alliance Government will impose a cess on Central taxes to achieve the goal of universalisation of elementary schooling.
- In Defence Of Hierarchy (Business Line, Devendra Mishra, Jun 01, 2004)
WHEN the Chief Vigilance Commissioner, Mr P. Shankar, blamed the "entire hierarchy" of ministers and bureaucrats for the stifled working of the PSUs, the much-debated issue of desirability of such hierarchies has once again grabbed the centre- stage.
- Eliminating Hunger (Hindu, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Jun 01, 2004)
Food security and international partnership need to be discussed in a constructive manner between developed and developing states.
- Killing The Innocent (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 01, 2004)
Saudi Arabia's security forces demonstrated some tactical expertise in rescuing expatriates held hostage by a group of terrorists in a residential complex in the city of Al Khobar.
- Who Is The Real Manmohan Singh? (Business Line, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Jun 01, 2004)
Praised by supporters as a man with determination and unquestioned personal integrity, Dr Manmohan Singh's journey from economist to politician as been long and eventful.
- Electoral Reforms Are Urgent (Tribune, B.G. Verghese, May 31, 2004)
THE polls are over. Some win; some lose. All are accountable. Unfortunately, in the aftermath of elections not all candidates appear to render their accounts of election expenditure and fewer still take note of the returns made or not made.
- Return Of The Reformers (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , May 31, 2004)
THE reformers are back in power. The original reformers are back in place of the erstwhile converts, who apparently had taken their new religion too seriously and believed, wrongly though, that it was they who had brought the shine to parts of India.
- B-School Blues (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , May 31, 2004)
ONCE again B-schools are in the news. The agonising over them never seems to end. It is easy to divine why this should be so. B-schools are fair game simply because, like Everest, they are there!
- The Price Of Political Profligacy And Nepotism (Business Line, D. Murali , May 31, 2004)
WE have a new Government at the Centre and our Ministers are busy getting garlanded and felicitated, and generally warming up to their portfolios.
- Wages Of Unemployment (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , May 31, 2004)
More than failing the farmers, the NDA fell because unemployment became excessive. But tackling rural and urban joblessness requires a broad-spectrum approach that goes beyond ideological purity. Needed are less simplistic and more comprehensive ...
- The Reds Under Manmohan's Bed (Asia Times, Sultan Shahin, May 28, 2004)
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government is now in place. The inevitable hiccups in the appointment of a 68-member council of ministers (cabinet) from as many as 12 alliance parties have been sorted out.
- Is Manmohan Singh Right For India's Top Job?: Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, Andy Mukherjee, May 20, 2004)
It was the autumn of 1970, and the Delhi School of Economics was abuzz with left-wing fervor.
- Blood And Soil (Guardian (UK), Mike Marqusee, May 20, 2004)
India's general election saw the first major reversal in 20 years for the Bharatiya Janata party and the forces of the Hindu right. But no sooner had the advocates of "Hindu rashtra" lost at the polls than they launched a strident campaign to alter . . .
- Man Behind India's Economic Boom Named Prime Minister (San Francisco Chronicle, Correspondent or Reporter, May 20, 2004)
Manmohan Singh, the architect of India's economic boom, was named prime minister of the world's largest democracy on Wednesday -- a magnanimous act of patriotism and just plain street smarts by Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born leader of his party.
- Singh: Reform With 'Human Face' (CNN.com, Correspondent or Reporter, May 20, 2004)
In his first address to the Indian nation, prime minister-elect Manmohan Singh said the country needed reform but with a "human face."
- Blind To Progress (Washington Post, Sebastian Mallaby, May 17, 2004)
When he was young and so was India, Jagdish Bhagwati left Oxford to work at the Indian Planning Commission. He was assigned to grapple with his country's biggest problem -- how to raise the incomes of the poorest -- and he soon came to the . . .
- India's Election Is Wake-Up Call For Markets: William Pesek Jr. (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, May 14, 2004)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee's election slogan was ``India Shining.'' The millions who don't feel part of the magic retorted with their own: ``We won't feel ignored.''
- India's Election Results Defeat Pollsters (AlterNet, Editorial, The Alternet, May 14, 2004)
The lesson of India is a bizarre one for American poll watchers. At a time when elections seem to turn into a mere validation of the opinion polls, there is a sense of cheeky delight in how an electorate can actually hoodwink the pollsters.
- India's New Era (Washington Post, Salman Rushdie, May 14, 2004)
The fall of the Indian government is a huge political shock that strikingly echoes the only comparable electoral upset, the defeat of Indira Gandhi in 1977. Then as now, just about the entire commentariat was convinced that the incumbent would . . .
- A Democratic India Is Overtaking China (Boston Globe, Editorial, Boston Globe, May 10, 2004)
India is now in the middle of what many Chinese would give their right arm for -- a general election. Yet China is the power that gets all the attention.
- Indian Voters To Decide Fate Of `Cement Shoes': Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, May 06, 2004)
Investors are shaking their heads in disbelief as each new round of voter surveys in India adds to growing concerns about the makeup of the country's next government and the direction of its economic policy.
- Has Mysterious Killer Of India's Vultures Been Found? (National Geographic News, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2004)
When Lindsay Oaks went to Pakistan in the year 2000, there were so many vultures that he got bored looking at them. Now, three years later, the raptors are nearly gone.
- Indian Rupee Shapes Up As Asia's New Bellwether: Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, Apr 27, 2004)
The Indian rupee is not exactly a trader's favorite. It accounts for no more than half a percent of the global foreign exchange market.
- India's Remarkable Dance Of Democracy (Boston Globe, Editorial, Boston Globe, Apr 26, 2004)
India, seen variously as a country with massive poverty, an information technology power, and more recently as an outsourcing destination taking away jobs, is over the next two weeks staging the dance of democracy.
- Shining Example (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2004)
It is no longer enough to praise the Indian elections, which completed the first round of voting yesterday, merely on the grounds that they are being held in "the world's largest democracy".
- War Minus The Shooting (Guardian (UK), Mike Marqusee, Mar 10, 2004)
India's superstar cricketers - among the country's most famous faces - will today visit Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at his Delhi residence, to receive his official blessing before boarding a chartered flight for Lahore. It's a short hop, but . . .
- 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.
- India Rises As Strategic Us Ally (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2004)
Every Republic Day, India struts its military stuff, dragging out the latest ballistic missiles and tanks and parading the finest soldiers on the subcontinent. But Monday, on this year's anniversary, India has a bit more to strut about.
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