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Articles 21421 through 21520 of 22438:
- One Never Knows What To Say To The Servants (Wall Street Journal, Tunku Varadarajan, Jan 16, 2004)
It's not possible to spend an hour in urban India without ingesting life's unfairness.
- Create Entrepreneurs To Attain 10 Pc Growth: Kalam (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
THE President, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, on Wednesday asked India Inc to promote entrepreneurship for achieving a sustained economic growth of 10 per cent and help eliminate poverty in the country. "There has been substantial growth in our higher ...
- 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.
- The Facade Of Social Reporting (Business Line, John Innes, Jan 08, 2004)
Do the measures that firms publish externally truly influence internal decisions
- Gender Angle To An Epidemic (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
Specifically, indicators such as income, asset holdings, quality of housing, occupation and the level of educational achievement were all strongly and positively associated with awareness of HIV/AIDS. The study also found that the use of disposable ...
- 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 ...
- Trauma Of Punjab’s Jobless (Tribune, P. P. S. Gill, Jan 07, 2004)
Punjab is faced with a gigantic challenge: how to give employment to 30 lakh jobless youth? Successive governments have never cared to know why the youth went berserk during the days of militancy. There is no policy worth the name to make them employable.
- The Lost Generation (Tribune, Suchita Malik, Jan 07, 2004)
Dinnertime is usually considered the family time in any Indian household, be it any caste, culture or creed. It has been the accepted convention till before the jet-set modern life style invaded our middle class social set-up in a big and irreversible way
- 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
- India’s Grand Obsession (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Jan 07, 2004)
Why has Pakistan become so central to all our thinking and discussions? Open a newspaper and something about that country or its leaders or what they say is bound to be somewhere in it — usually on the front page, and on the few occasions it isn’t, it’s
- Sameer Asks Sit For Time Till Jan 19 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
Sameer Bhujbal’s whereabouts was the talking point at the SIT office on Monday when he failed to turn up for questioning for the second day. If the huge media presence was any indication, Sameer was expected to present himself today. But nothing of
- Bears Reappear, Sensex Sheds 95 Points (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
The much-awaited correction pulls down stocks across the board; Sensex falls 205 points intra-day
- Heroes Miss Out On History (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
Saurav Ganguly wore his heart on his sleeve, and on his collar, his pocket, his trouser leg. Sitting at Tuesday’s press conference, face unshaven and funereal, his demeanour reflected perfectly the disillusionment of the day. He knew he had too many ...
- Hare And Tortoise (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 07, 2004)
THE old fable of the hare and the tortoise is being played out before our eyes, it seems. Ever since India liberalised, it had been fed with a heavy dose of inferiority complex with reference to China. It was assumed that China, the hare, was leaving
- 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
- 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.
- Unani Medicines To Be Patented (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Jan 06, 2004)
Health Ministry and CSIR focus on patent applicable format in four European languages, Japanese
- For Safe Food (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
FOOD SAFETY AND quality standards have been crucial in international food trade; but across the world, and especially in developed economies, the rules are becoming stricter by the day. Recent episodes of food contamination have raised the level of ...
- Sleep After Retiring (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Jan 06, 2004)
AEONS ago, it was thought that those tactically well placed to receive bribes and did so would lose their daily dose of "gentle sleep from Heaven that slid into the soul". We do not know whether those who believed in this adage, slept well or not. But
- 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.
- Rain Harvests And Water Woes (Hindu, T. N. Narasimhan, Jan 06, 2004)
Intensive rain harvesting over large areas can significantly disrupt the hydrological cycle.
- After Bam Quake, Iran Thinks Over Moving Its Capital (Indian Express, Reuters, Jan 06, 2004)
Alarmed by the death count and destruction caused by the Bam earthquake, Iran’s top policymakers are considering moving the capital away from quake-prone Tehran. ‘‘The Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) will shortly discuss a plan to move the
- Bhujbal’s Ps Grilled On Officer Transfer (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
: Even after summons were served on January 3, former deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal’s nephew Sameer failed to turn up at the office of the investigators probing the fake stamp paper scandal today.
Sameer had left for the US on December 5 as
- 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
- 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
- Blame, But Responsibly (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
Marginalization and discrimination of vulnerable groups: The fact that it is marginalized groups — sex workers, migrants, injecting drug users and men who have sex with men — who have so far been most severely affected by HIV/AIDS in south Asia has result
- India Becoming Economic Power House: Drucker (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
Management guru Peter Drucker has said India is becoming an economic powerhouse very fast and its progress is far more impressive than that of China. In an interview to Fortune magazine, he said, ‘‘India is becoming a powerhouse very fast. The medical ...
- Ny, West Bengal To Be Sister States (Times of India, Nirmalya Banerjee, Jan 05, 2004)
A visiting US delegation to the city said it was keen on putting in place a "sister state" arrangement between New York and West Bengal to further strengthen business and social ties between the two regions, particularly in areas like IT . . .
- The Joy Of Human Life (Hindu, A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM , Jan 05, 2004)
Religions are beautiful gardens. But they are islands. If we can connect all the islands with love and compassion, in a `garland project' for the new millennium, we will have a prosperous India.
- 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
- Analysts See Robust Q3 Results From Tech Firms (Business Line, V. Rishi Kumar, Jan 05, 2004)
A rise in recruitment is usually a reliable indicator of volume growth. Most of the major Indian IT services companies are on a hiring spree over the last two quarters.
- Overcoming Social Deficits (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
INDIA IS DOING very well economically and is capable of becoming a developed country in the foreseeable future, perhaps even within two decades. However, there is no question of its joining the "league of developed nations" unless there is ...
- 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
- No Choice But Limited Mobility (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
In a small survey conducted among medical personnel in Sri Lanka in 1994, Bloom et al found that 75 per cent of hospital staff agreed with the statement that “AIDS patients are very infectious and should, therefore, be isolated in separate wards to reduce
- Reform Labour Laws, Now (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Jan 05, 2004)
India's labour laws have to work towards `drawing in' human resources — entrepreneurial talent and employees — into the market so that natural resources and savings will follow. This will boost the nation's marketable and measurable output and make India
- Science Mela (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
THE Indian Science Congress (ISC), now underway in Chandigarh, encapsulates the giant strides India has made in science. Nearly 4,000 scientists representing all branches of science are taking part in the 91st session of the ISC. It is a reflection of the
- India As The Future Vaccine Hub (Tribune, N.K. Ganguly, Jan 05, 2004)
VACCINES are the desperately needed prevention tools. Owing to the enormous morbidity and mortality caused by infectious diseases, it is important that vaccines against these are made available at the earliest and at an affordable price. Efforts are being
- Return Of The King (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
What a life. As Kapil Dev turns 45, Shamya Dasgupta analyses the enduring myth of India’s icon
- Already A Star, Is Lebron Now A Superstar? (Indian Express, CHRIS BROUSSARD, Jan 04, 2004)
For a month and a half, LeBron James had the world of basketball wide-eyed and open-mouthed like no one before him. He was 18 years old, fresh out of high school and averaging 17 points, six rebounds and six assists a game in the NBA. Magic Johnson ...
- 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
- Need For A New Index Of Happiness (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, Jan 04, 2004)
THE year that has gone by has been most unusual for my family and me. It has been one of extremes both personally and professionally. From the fifth floor of my Delhi Police Headquarters I found myself on the planes and taking elevators to the 22nd floor
- The Northeast Notebook (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Jan 04, 2004)
Saving the migration cycle
THIS winter, school and college students in Jorhat in Upper Assam are using their holidays to spread an important message. Working for an NGO, they are going from door to door telling people about the importance of saving the
- 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
- Watch The Word (Indian Express, RUPICA CHAWLA, Jan 04, 2004)
Words are complex and cunning, constantly permitting their connotations and connections to undergo change. They allow poets and writers to swing and twist them around, giving them a new meaning and a further vibrancy. But people in general too try to
- Well Healed (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Jan 04, 2004)
Salsa sessions to gooey chocolate—there’s more to the wellness concept than feng shui and incense
- Up Close And Closer (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
Not just roles, Dilip Kumar was intense about his heroines too. Alpana Chowdhury leafs through a new biography
- 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
- Misplaced Honour (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
By refusing an honorary doctorate, possibly bestowed for political reasons rather than academic, Mr Vajpayee has behaved as a prime minister should. Honorary doctorates are double-edged instruments. They can be used to bestow genuine honour and to show
- 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.
- Sonia, Undisturbed (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Jan 04, 2004)
Sonia, we know, answers no questions. Her biographer does not trouble her with too many
- Loc ... The Real Story (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Jan 04, 2004)
The rain has stopped and the sunshine peers wearily through the curtain of dense clouds. Our car slips and slides over the dirt track made muddy by the early morning downpour, as it clings to the meandering path up towards the Haji Pir mountains. Around
- Frequent Flyer (Indian Express, Georgina L Maddox, Jan 04, 2004)
DRESSED in an immaculate three-piece suit, offset by a bohemian tweed jacket and a silver Shaivite pendant, painter Sakti Burman chooses dosa over a sandwich. While that might sound like an NRI cliche, this Paris-based artist is anything but.
- India Tackles Adult Illiteracy (British Broadcasting Corporation, Richard Black, Jan 03, 2004)
Researchers in India have been giving details of a novel scheme aimed at increasing adult literacy.
- Nri Implements Bill Gates’ Goals (Tribune, Ela Dutt , Jan 03, 2004)
Traditional educationists may find the radical ideas and unconventional vocabulary of Indian American Shivam Mallick Shah surprising, but these fit in well with the goals of Bill Gates and his wife Melinda. The billionaire couple has hired Harvard ...
- 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
- Sikhs In France Seek Help On Turbans (Indian Express, TOM HENEGHAN, Jan 03, 2004)
France's tiny Sikh community is seeking help from India’s Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee to have their traditional turbans exempted from a planned French law to ban Muslim headscarves and other religious symbols from schools. Chain Singh, spokesman for
- Foreigners See Backlash At Pak Madarsas (Indian Express, MIKE COLLETT-WHITE, Jan 03, 2004)
Walk across the marble courtyard of the Abu Bakar Islamic University in the teeming port city of Karachi and you will see as many foreign students as Pakistanis.
The looks from young skull-capped, bearded Muslims from Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and
- Safta: Much Effort For Little Gains? (Business Line, Sanjib Pohit, Jan 03, 2004)
SAFTA seems set for take off, but it may not as it is modelled now, liberalising commodity trade first and then services. For, apart from India, other countries have little to gain from a trading bloc; their industries would lobby against SAFTA fearing
- Coming Soon, Radio-On-Campus From Chennai (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Jan 03, 2004)
Come January 15 and a little cubicle in a corner of Chennai will turn into what is being seen as the world’s smallest radio studio and the country’s first campus community radio. Anna University’s own radio station is likely to get kicking then with
- Not By Nationalism (Telegraph, Andre Beteille , Jan 03, 2004)
Sociology, as the empirical and systematic study of society and its institutions, is now widely practised in our universities and independent centres of research. It entered the university system in India in the Twenties, barely two or three decades after
- Funny Man To Know (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
As a child he rattled off dialogue from Hindi films. As an adult, he has turned to making spoofs on them. And that has earned Sajid Khan an X-traa Innings this New Year
- Life After 6,000 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
Devang Shah, 27, day trader
After the markets closed today, I headed to my favourite pub to celebrate. It was amazing. When the Sensex touched the golden figure, everyone started clapping. I’ve always wanted to enter the markets, but when I was in ...
- Share The Risks, Split The Spoils (Telegraph, RAVI VYAS, Jan 02, 2004)
All works of fiction that make money for the publisher and author do so only when they are published as co-editions, that is, in an identical format in a number of countries or languages. Co-editions make possible sharing of production costs and, more ...
- Boycott Blow To Afghan Assembly (Indian Express, SAYED SALAHUDDIN, Jan 02, 2004)
Afghanistan's constitutional convention began voting on Thursday, but up to a quarter of the 502 delegates refused to cast ballots for a draft charter backed by the US after a long, acrimonious meeting. Men and women from across the country lined up
- Engines Of Growth (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
THE Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are regarded as the modern engines of growth. Their alumni are well placed both within the country and abroad. However, the movement to enlist their cooperation for raising funds to serve their alma mater better
- Missiles Are Cost-Effective (Tribune, Ashok K. Mehta , Jan 02, 2004)
RECENTLY the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, UK, hosted the first ever workshop on missile issues in South Asia that was attended by strategic experts from India, Pakistan and China, the three countries in the region with ballistic missiles.
- Grooming Customers To Be `Techno-Ready' (Business Line, Vinay Kamath, Jan 02, 2004)
COMPANIES launching high-tech gadgets need to be sensitive to the "technology-readiness profiles" of their customers before putting their products out in the market. They also need to develop marketing strategies, which evolve as a product ages in the
- How Do They Get Rich? (Hindu, Virginia Postrel, Jan 02, 2004)
The process of economic development is hard to repeat. The great mystery is why.
- Lashkar's New Wave Of Recruits From Indian Expatriates (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jan 02, 2004)
Even as the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba has come under pressure to de-escalate its jihad in Jammu and Kashmir, the organisation has unleashed its formidable capabilities to inflict a far more painful all-India war. Lashkar cells operating from Dubai,
- Love, Actually (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Jan 02, 2004)
It is arguable that John le Carré’s real subject, all those years when we supposed him to be writing the classic espionage novel, was not politics but love. Love ran like a crack, a fissure undermining the most solid of ideological foundations, through...
- Happy Days Ahead For Job Hunters (Business Line, Veena Venugopal, Jan 01, 2004)
GOOD news for job hunters. Placement agencies predict across the board hiring, in all sectors, at all levels in 2004. Business school graduates are looking forward to a placement season where the toughest choice they make will be which out of the half
- New Year Pronouncements (Business Line, S. Ramachander, Jan 01, 2004)
While India will emerge stronger in 2004, it is only political will that can bring about a real change in the economy, society and politics.
- Rules Rather Than Exceptions (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
There are promising signs of change in…attitude, with examples of how judicial, legislative or policy action can readily mitigate stigma and discrimination. There have been several instances where the courts have ruled in favour of reinstating HIV
- A Weekly Is Born (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jan 01, 2004)
Were he around, Sachin Chaudhuri, the founder-editor of the journal, Economic and Political Weekly, would have been bemused to see that his journal has become a phenomenon, the imprimatur of recognition for young social scientists, and èminences grises to
- Seeing Through The False Front (Telegraph, Soumitra Das, Jan 01, 2004)
The British may have bagged the Hooghly riverfront project, but for the rejuvenation plan to have relevance local sanction is a must
- Swami Army Gear Up For Sydney (Indian Express, NEENA BHANDARI, Jan 01, 2004)
The thrill of a series-decider coupled with the emotions surrounding the farewell match of Australia Test captain Steve Waugh have provided supporters of both teams the perfect excuse to break into grand celebration during the Sydney Test, irrespective of
- Toasting Time Again For All In It Sector (Business Line, V. Rishi Kumar, Jan 01, 2004)
THE year 2004 promises to be full of excitement for the technology sector where domestic players — big, small and medium and multinational corporations have struck a positive mood. Herewith a perspective on the general outlook for the sector that is
- Two-Child Norm (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
THE Population Foundation of India’s concern in its annual report over spurt in female foeticide in 11 states including Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh is timely. Figures speak for themselves on the magnitude of the problem. From 945 per 1000 in 1991
- Mother Prayer (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Jan 01, 2004)
There is not a day someone does not lose a loved one here: Far from Saarc arclights, a Kashmiri mother prays for peace
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