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Articles 34021 through 34120 of 53943:
- Facts Of Globalisation (Business Line, R. Devarajan, Oct 25, 2005)
Globalisation means different things to different people. There is a view that it is nothing beyond the dissemination of scientific knowledge and technical information throughout the world;
- In Search Of The Tax Rate Nirvana (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Oct 25, 2005)
"Bad government, inadequate infrastructure and high tax rates came in the way of India attaining the same pace of growth as China although both nations started reforms in early 1990s."
- Need For Action (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 25, 2005)
The Chief Justice of India-designate, Justice Y.K. Sabharwal, has correctly summed up the prevalent general feeling in the country that the rich and mighty manage to go scot-free if corruption cases are prolonged in courts of law.
- India Urges World To Focus On Pakistan Nuclear Role (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Oct 25, 2005)
Stepping up a campaign to project its record as a responsible nuclear state, India urged global powers on Monday not to gloss over rival Pakistan's role in encouraging Iran's controversial atomic programme.
- Icici Bank Set To Boost Overseas Presence (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 25, 2005)
ICICI Bank has decided to boost its international banking operations by opening branches in new locations like the US, Sri Lanka and Hong Kong.
- Curb Corruption, Nepotism (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 25, 2005)
Nepotism, favouritism and unackowledged but transparent corruption in every Govt. institution/office big or small, has become most deplorable feature of governing system of our democracy.
- French Model Shows Signs Of Stress (Tribune, Sebastian Rotella, Oct 25, 2005)
After taking office this summer, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin promised “economic patriotism’’ would drive his effort to revive a battered government and slumping economy.
- Burns Factor (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 25, 2005)
That the deal on civilian nuclear energy cooperation, signed on July 18 by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President George W. Bush in Washington, is too important to be lost through second thoughts and tertiary arguments, . . .
- Disaster Management (Tribune, G.S. Bedi, Oct 25, 2005)
For whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee,” is an apt quote from John Donne in the present circumstances.
- Government Negligence Makes Children Die (Daily Excelsior, Vikram Sinha, Oct 25, 2005)
For the last 27-year Japanese Encephalitis (JE) takes a heavy toll in eastern Uttar Pradesh and adjoining western Bihar, and the victims are children.
- Police File: When Mau Burned (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 25, 2005)
Six retired director generals of police from different states submitted in person a paper entitled, ‘Communal riots must be accepted as a failure of governance’, to the prime minister not so long ago.
- India Mexico Trade Pact Provides Inda Access To North American Market Like Never Before (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2005)
India and Mexico are negotiating a Bilateral Investment Protection Agreement and a Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement. . .
- A Shrewd Move By Sonia Gandhi – Congress To Allow Mufti Continue As Chief Minister Of Kashmir (Indian Express, Balaji Reddy, Oct 25, 2005)
It is the shrewd move by Sonia Gandhi
- Mauritius Can Benefit From Indian Market: Ramgoolam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2005)
My country can be a stepping stone to African continent
- Relief: Team To Visit Pakistan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2005)
Talks to facilitate cooperation in providing relief to the earthquake victims
Pakistan suggests five crossing points to facilitate two-way movement
India proposes relief-cum-medical centres close to the Line of Control
- National Disaster Response Force Soon (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2005)
It will be positioned at eight locations across of the country
There will be 15 regional response centres
State-of-the-art gadgets to be used to tackle situations
Talks on with States
- Centre To Import Onions From Pakistan, China (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Oct 25, 2005)
They will be available at an average wholesale price of Rs. 16 per kg
- Sweet Dreams (Deccan Herald, Sudha Narasimhachar, Oct 25, 2005)
I wait for the day when I finally am able to give my dietician a satisfactory report
- Heavy Rainfall Causes Flooding In Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2005)
Discharge from the KRS was increased to 93,000 cusecs by Sunday evening
- Loc Opening: Indo-Pak Talks On October 29 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2005)
After exchanging proposals over the weekend for opening up the Line of Control to facilitate divided families and carry out relief work in a coordinated fashion,
- India Places Onion Order With China, Pakistan (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2005)
Despite rising prices across the border, the Centre on Monday placed an order for 650 tonnes of onions from Pakistan—and 2,000 tonnes from China.
- Indian Son Of Pak Father Not Enemy: Sc (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2005)
Can an Indian citizen, heir to a man who migrated to Pakistan during partition, be termed enemy within the meaning of the Enemy Poperty Act of 1968.
- Don't Mess With Ceasefire, Lanka Rebels Warn Pm (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 25, 2005)
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse's pledge to amend the terms of a truce with the Tamil Tigers if elected president next month could cause the agreement to collapse, the rebels warned on Monday.
- Implicate Pakistan Too (Deccan Herald, G Parthasarathy, Oct 25, 2005)
If Iran is to be referred to the Security Council for receiving N-technology, Pakistan, as supplier, should also face a referral
- U.S. Forging A Partnership Of Expediency? (Hindu, Sudha Mahalingam, Oct 25, 2005)
The six-country Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development & Climate has put paid to any hopes of getting the U.S. into the Kyoto Protocol.
- Is The U.S. Rethinking Approach To Russia? (Hindu, Peter Lavelle— RIA Novosti , Oct 25, 2005)
Has the United States changed its stance regarding its policy towards Russia? Has the lecturing come to an end and has the application of "double-standards" run its course?
- Love For Politics To Cost Yale Professor His Job (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 25, 2005)
By all accounts, Yale anthropology professor David Graeber is one of the brightest minds in his field. His books are taught worldwide, and the London School of Economics recently asked him to give a lecture reserved for the most promising young anthropolo
- Chitrakoot Musings (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2005)
REFORMS mean many things to many people. When the RSS says the BJP is “slow” in carrying out ideological and organisational reforms, it has a different connotation than when the BJP says the government is slow in implementing economic reforms.
- The Truth About Iran (Telegraph, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Oct 25, 2005)
The crescendo of arguments from those who are supporting India’s vote at the International Atomic Eenergy Agency on the Iran issue reminds one of an old lawyer joke.
- Open Loc (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Oct 25, 2005)
New Delhi’s reluctance to open the LoC for relief operations has shocked the people on either side of the divide. Islamabad’s proposal (in reaction to Indian offer) had come at a time when some parts of Pakistan administered Kashmir (PAK) are in dire need
- Triple Car Bomb Explosions Rock Hotels In Baghdad (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2005)
17 killed in blasts; tension mounts over statute vote
- India Wants To Avoid Divisive Vote (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Oct 25, 2005)
Iran's cooperation with IAEA welcomed
- Karzai Offers Quake Help (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 25, 2005)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday expressed grief over the deaths and destruction in PoK. After an aerial survey of the areas affected there and the North West Frontier Province (NFWP), he met President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad and .....
- Of Fish, Fishermen And Tigers (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Oct 25, 2005)
A significant contribution to the Kachchathivu debate analysing the problems of the Palk Bay fishermen on both sides of the maritime boundary
- "Separation Plan For N-Units Not Finalised" (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Oct 25, 2005)
Link denied between India's vote against Iran and nuclear deal
India not negotiating with U.S. Congress'
Says U.S. favoured India at NSG meeting
- Villages, Towns On Cauvery Bank Inundated (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2005)
For the first time in 15 years, Mettur reservoir received two lakh cusecs and discharged the same quantum
Flood warning issued in Thanjvur, Tiruvarur and Nagapattinam districts
IAF copter rescues 27 villagers from village near Salem.
- Bangaloreans' Water Woes Continue (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2005)
Chief Minister Dharam Singh calls for damage control mechanism; Rs. 55 crores for relief work
- Chandrika, Ranil Stress United Stance On Conflict (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Oct 25, 2005)
Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Opposition leader and presidential candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday "agreed on the importance of all major parties working together in order to resolve" the decades-long separatist conflict.
- Measuring Performance And Capability (Business Line, Ganesh Chella , Oct 24, 2005)
Every Third client meeting I attend inevitably veers around to the subject of performance planning or reviews. The context is either the ensuing performance cycle, a recently-concluded employee survey or a couple of resignations after the last review
- Right Post (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 24, 2005)
Controversies tend to obfuscate fundamental issues. The decision of Mr N.R. Narayana Murthy to quit the Bangalore International Airport project was provoked by a comment by the former prime minister, Mr H.D. Deve Gowda.
- After Nuke Deal With America, India Convinces Russia On Of Nuclear . . . (India Daily, Balaji Reddy, Oct 24, 2005)
India is showing its world-class diplomacy in strategic talks on nuclear technologies with major powers.
- First Day In Court No Witness For The Prosecution (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2005)
None among the dramatis personae, least of all the Pentagon colonisers overseeing the trial of Saddam Hussein, had anticipated that the proceedings would come to a halt on the very first day.
- Mufti Must Remain Cm (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 24, 2005)
The Congress party’s coalitional arrangements with most of its allies are under severe strain.
- Future Shape Of Banking (Hindu, Oommen A. Ninan, Oct 24, 2005)
Three reports view emerging trends in India with different priorities
The most urgent need is to increase credit provision to the rural areas for both agricultural and non-agricultural areas, states the Independent Commission.
- Price Of Corporate Responsibility (Business Line, S. Ramachander, Oct 24, 2005)
Some peculiar and entirely unworthy rewards await anyone living up to one's sense of corporate social responsibility in India, as Mr Narayana Murthy, Chief Mentor and founder of Infosys Technologies, must realise by now.
- Wider Choices, Smarter Development (Hindu, Maxine Olson, Oct 24, 2005)
Solution Exchange, a unique experiment by the United Nations, provides an impartial platform for exchange of knowledge and ideas among development practitioners.
- Will Rbi Governor Stay The Course? (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 24, 2005)
For the financial sector as much as for the common man, the level of interest rates and the stance of monetary policy are critical. With inflationary pressures rising and the current account gap widening, . . .
- When In Rome, Do As The Romans Do (Business Line, Mohan Murti, Oct 24, 2005)
The cultural aspects of doing business in Europe are often subtle, but they are reflected in business contracts between European and Indian enterprises. Since both cultures are deeply rooted in tradition, neither can be changed easily.
- Indo-Pak Ties: A Sliver Of Hope (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 24, 2005)
It is ironic that much misery and suffering — caused by the October 8 earthquake in the Kashmir region — should also offer a totally unanticipated opportunity to reduce military tension between India and Pakistan.
- India, Pakistan Inch Towards Quake Aid Cooperation (Reuters, David Brunnstrom, Oct 24, 2005)
International efforts to help survivors of Pakistan's devastating earthquake gathered momentum on Sunday as aid officials warned time was running out for untold numbers of survivors.
- New Cultural Idioms For Man-Woman Relationship (Daily Excelsior, Uma Ramachandran, Oct 24, 2005)
The recurrences of sati puja, the rape of a minor girl in a Mumbai local train, and the anguish of Manisha Koirala over Ek Chhotisi Love Story - all these events demonstrate once again that we are far away from a sane society that celebrates the beauty...
- Nie Programme Launched At Kondotty School (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2005)
The Newspaper in Education (NIE) programme of The Hindu has been launched at EMEA Higher Secondary School, Kondotty, in Malappuram district recently.
- Rbi To Prescribe New Reporting Systems For Banks (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2005)
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will soon prescribe new reporting systems for banks for suspicious transactions or transactions of more than Rs 10 lakh.
- Pakistan's Friends, Foes Urge More Quake Aid (Reuters, David Brunnstrom, Oct 24, 2005)
Efforts to reach stranded villagers in Pakistan's northern mountains gathered pace on Monday after the country's friends and foes both urged help for up to 3 million survivors of the Oct. 8 earthquake.
- "I Stand By My Words": Orhan Pamuk (Hindu, Maureen Freely, Oct 24, 2005)
Five years ago, Orhan Pamuk wrote a novel about a poet who is snared in a political intrigue from which there is no escape.
- A Race To Woo The Undecided Voter (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Oct 24, 2005)
Winning over the uncommitted Sinhalese is critical given Sri Lanka's ethnic mix.
- Pax Americana On Trial (Deccan Herald, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Oct 24, 2005)
The verdict of the Saddam trial is pre-determined, and his execution will mark only the beginning of chaos in Iraq
- More Aftershocks Rock Pakistan (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2005)
Pakistan’s quake-devastated northwest was jolted by two aftershocks early on Sunday but there were no immediate reports of casualties.
- Britain Presses For Eu Ban On Live Wild Bird Imports (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Oct 24, 2005)
The British Government is leaving no stone unturned to prevent an outbreak of avian flu. To begin with, it is trying to drum up support for a EU ban on import of wild birds.
- Focus On Electromagnetic Rays: Kalam (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2005)
In the wake of the devastating earthquake on the western border, President A P J Abdul Kalam has asked scientists to conduct research on the electromagnetic spectrum – consisting of the infra-red, ultra-violet and visual range of light . . .
- Heavy Rain Batters Bangalore (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2005)
Bangalore infrastructure (what’s left of it) took a battering as rain lashed the City on Saturday night.
- Futile Ruckus (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 24, 2005)
Those who thought the initial criticism of Infosys Mentor, Mr N.R. Narayana Murthy, by Mr H.D. Deve Gowda, chief of the Janata Dal (Secular), about his alleged ineffectiveness as the Chairman of the Bangalore International Authority (BIA), was made ...
- How Mumbai Residents Were Short-Changed (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Oct 24, 2005)
The Bombay High Court ruling on the development of textile mill lands exposes the absence of any vision for Mumbai in the people who plan for the city and those who implement the plans.
- Tackling India's Chronic Corruption (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 24, 2005)
Famines, natural calamities, and political corruption scandals are acute events that evoke strong responses in democracies such as India.
- Move Ahead On Infrastructure (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 24, 2005)
Decision-making on infrastructure in Karnataka needs to extricate itself from the diversion the highly personalised Deve Gowda-N.R. Narayana Murthy-S.M. Krishna controversy represents.
- New Zealand, India In Aviation Deal (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Oct 24, 2005)
India and New Zealand have agreed to promote "seamless air travel" between the two countries by entering into a "code-sharing arrangement" for flights that now link them.
- India, Malaysia Review Progress On Economic Pact (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Oct 24, 2005)
India and Malaysia have opened a "new level of interaction" by initiating "Foreign Office consultations." The first meeting was held at Putra Jaya in Malaysia on Thursday.
- India Wants Nuclear Curbs To Be Lifted (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Oct 24, 2005)
Natwar Singh to seek Russian assistance
To push for broader access to Russian energy resources
To urge Russia to buy more Indian tea and coffee
Problems in getting Russian visas by Indian businessmen to be resolved
- Singapore Takes A Call On Sim Cards (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Oct 24, 2005)
Singapore has announced new regulations to tighten its security control over the usage of pre-paid SIM cards (subscriber identification modules) by mobile phone users.
- Land Is Green, Air Is Pure By Sunrit Mullick (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 24, 2005)
From the air, Manipur looked like a lush green jewel surrounded on all sides by verdant hills, the tops of some of which were lost in fluffy white clouds fixed and suspended in space.
- Interest Rate Signal Is The Key Issue (Hindu, C. R. L. Narasimhan, Oct 24, 2005)
RBI's challenging task in its mid-term review
Banks are unable to resist pressures from corporates to lend at low rates while depositors get a pittance.
- Opening Loc For Relief Work Is A Good Move (Daily Times, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 24, 2005)
Opening LoC for relief work is a good move
- Education Gets Priority Ultimately (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 24, 2005)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has announced that the allocation for education will be raised to 4 per cent of the GDP from the present 2.7 per cent.
- There’S A Time For Everything (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Oct 24, 2005)
A consultant on a visit to Pakistan, who charges by the hour, once quipped that he was thinking of retiring after working in Karachi for a month, because the clients who had hired him were invariably absent, habitually late or irritatingly indecisive. And
- Battles Change, Wars Don’T (Dawn, Victor Davis Hanson, Oct 24, 2005)
Modernists like to believe that we have entered an entirely new era of armed conflict.
- Iran’S Quest For N-Energy (Dawn, Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Oct 24, 2005)
A new book Lawless World by Professor Philippe Sands of University College, London, claims that in a telephone conversation with Tony Blair on January 30, 2003, President Bush stated that he “wanted to go beyond Iraq in dealing with WMD proliferation”
- New Perspective On Partition (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 24, 2005)
A most revealing indictment of America’s foreign policy has come from an insider.
- Pilferage Of Relief Goods (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 24, 2005)
The report that some employees of the Edhi Centre in Gujranwala were arrested for selling relief items meant for the quake victims in northern Pakistan is shocking, and the Edhi authorities did the right thing by sacking the errant workers.
- Parties Sans Democracy (Tribune, G.S. Bhargava, Oct 24, 2005)
Perhaps, it was Khushwant Singh who recently raised in his popular column two pertinent points:
- Bush’S New Attention (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 24, 2005)
US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns’ two-day visit to New Delhi was mainly to prepare the groundwork for President George W. Bush’s scheduled visit to India in February next.
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