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Articles 43521 through 43620 of 53943:
- Death Of The Holiest River (Indian Express, SURESHWAR D SINHA, Feb 07, 2005)
Alarmed by various reports that all was not well in the Bhagirathi basin, members of a group of five NGOs led by Paani Morcha surveyed the area recently. The group of 25 volunteers, including myself, went up the Bhagirathi
- Euro Versus Bharat Norms (Business Line, B. S. Murthy, Feb 07, 2005)
The recent news that Maruti Udyog has rolled out Euro-III compliant cars is a welcome sign that the automobile industry is catching up with the global standards.
- Mr Dixit, I Presume (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Feb 07, 2005)
The first time I met J.N. ‘Mani’ Dixit, in September 1985, I had not particularly given him a reason for me to be in his good books.
- Relief For Tsunami Victims And Human Rights (Tribune, Suhas Chakma, Feb 06, 2005)
The emergency phase of providing relief to the tsunami survivors is over. The difficult task of rebuilding the lives of the communities and individual survivors has begun.
- Where Will Bhola Go? (Tribune, Chanchal Sarkar, Feb 06, 2005)
It was a great day when Lakshmi the milch cow gave birth. The calf was a beautiful brown with a diamond patch at the centre of his forehead. When I first saw him, he could hardly stand on his four legs and was quivering.
- The Land Of Penny Pinchers (Indian Express, NICHOLAS D KRISTOF, Feb 06, 2005)
So is the US ‘‘stingy’’ about helping poor countries? That accusation by a UN official, in veiled form, provoked indignation here. After all, we’re the most generous people on Earth, aren’t we?
- Consensus That Merits An Accolade (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Feb 06, 2005)
After many a winter there has taken place in the realm of foreign policy making in New Delhi something that merits an accolade.
- Most Nris Wear Loincloths, Not Suits (Indian Express, Devesh Kapur, Feb 06, 2005)
Yet again, on the day Gandhi came back from South Africa, India prepares to celebrate another Pravasi Bharatiya Divas. This annual function has multiple objectives:
- National Sports Policy, The Need Of The Hour (Deccan Herald, ASHWINI NACHAPPA, Feb 06, 2005)
There’s no doubt that the Australian Open was blessing in disguise, in a manner of speaking. From the cricket crazy fans to cricket crazy reporting , finally the Racquet game has hit the headlines especially the front page of every newspaper
- Stars Of India: The Bling-Bling In The Crown (Washington Post, John Lancaster, Feb 06, 2005)
They wear silk saris, well-cut Nehru jackets and incandescent smiles. They are practiced in the art of air-kissing and social banter.
- Not That Simple (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Feb 05, 2005)
The search for a viable national alternative to the Congress goes back more than fifty years, to the first general elections of 1952.
- On Telecom, Don’T Look Left (Indian Express, Subimal Bhattacharjee, Feb 05, 2005)
The Union cabinet has finally cleared the much debated Foreign Direct Investment hike upto 74 per cent in the telecom sector. While presenting the maiden budget of the UPA government last year in July
- Pakistan: What Lies Ahead? (Tribune, Stephen Philip Cohen, Feb 05, 2005)
Twenty years ago Pakistan was spoken of as the next major middle income country. Recently it was thought to be on the verge of collapse or rogue status, although there are signs that the downward trend in some areas is halted
- Poor Diplomacy (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 05, 2005)
India’s decision to abstain from the 13th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC) in Dhaka next week is an ill-considered one.
- Proceed With Care (Pioneer, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 05, 2005)
It was only to be expected that, re-elected with a convincing majority, President George W. Bush would pursue his known domestic and foreign agendas with renewed vigour and confidence.
- Right Royal Headache For India (Asia Times, Sultan Shahin, Feb 05, 2005)
Though India has not quite made up its mind yet on how it should react to what is being described as a palace coup in Nepal, the contours of a likely response are beginning to emerge.
- Rule By God Or Intolerance? (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Feb 05, 2005)
I have added two new words to my vocabulary: ‘Thearchy’ and ‘Millenarianism’. ‘Thearchy’ (as opposed to ‘theocracy’, meaning government by priests) means rule by God.
- The State Of Popular Aspiration (Indian Express, Ajay Gudavarthy, Feb 05, 2005)
The demand for Telengana is paradoxical: it is being made in the name of the deprived but could end up serving only a small privileged group
- Equitable Timing Of Tds Credit (Business Line, R. Anand, Feb 05, 2005)
Tax deduction at source (TDS) as a machinery for collections has gained in prominence over the past decade.
- No Arms For Nepal (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 05, 2005)
At a time when the direction of foreign policy tends to be set by the strategic calculations of what passes for `national interest' rather than the coordinates of a moral compass, it is commendable that India has chosen to take a clear stand against the c
- The Shape Of Vat To Come (Business Line, S. Madhavan, Feb 05, 2005)
THE release of the much-awaited White Paper on VAT on January 17 by the Finance Minister has cleared the decks for the introduction of State VAT from April 1, 2005.
- The Unbearable Lightness Of Seeing (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Feb 05, 2005)
How agonised we are about how people die. How untroubled we are by how they live.
- Ruling On Compensation (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 05, 2005)
The Supreme Court has rightly directed the railway authorities to pay a compensation of Rs 18 lakh with interest to the family of a passenger who was killed while travelling by the Goa Express due to the faulty vestibule system in October 1995.
- Fortress India (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 05, 2005)
India’s decision to have the SAARC summit at Dhaka postponed seems more an act of panic than a well thought out strategy. India has cited two reasons for not attending the summit:
- `Black' Is Not Beautiful (Business Line, T. N. Pandey, Feb 05, 2005)
The UPA Government seems desperate to demonstrate its commitment to unearthing black money.
- A Letter From Nepal (OutLook, S. ANAND, Feb 05, 2005)
The man Jayendra Saraswati identified as the new Shankaracharya of the Kanchi math has virtually disappeared.
- A Teenage Concept For The Staid Old Bank (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 05, 2005)
A bubbly 15-year-old in the field of economics is inflation targeting. It was born in 1989 when New Zealand rewrote its Reserve Bank charter and brought in the need to make public announcement of official targets for the inflation rate.
- Battle Of Permanency (Tribune, V. N. Kakar, Feb 05, 2005)
First you try to join the government. By hook or crook. You are not qualified. And yet you succeed. You are kept on probation. Which means that you have to put your best foot forward. One small slip, and you are gone.
- Beyond The S&p Rating (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 05, 2005)
Like a capricious mother-in-law, Standard & Poor's has been whimsical in credit-rating the Indian economy. Anyway its pronouncements do not appear to bother most international players
- I See A Good Moon Rising (Indian Express, RICHARD N. HAASS, Feb 05, 2005)
Mahmoud Abbas is elected and legitimate. He may not have the stature of Arafat but has none of the latter’s liabilities either.
- Landmark Elections In J&k (Tribune, B.G. Verghese, Feb 05, 2005)
The conduct of municipal polls in Jammu and Kashmir after 27 years constitutes an important landmark. No surprise that it should have been marked by boycott and violence by some within the state and those across the border who fear democracy and represent
- Montek’S Warped Logic (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Feb 05, 2005)
At an international conference on “Policies against hunger” at Berlin in October 2004, a World Bank economist was at pains to defend the domestic subsidies being doled out to European Union farmers.
- Fight Dogma With Reason (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Feb 05, 2005)
If the US National Intelligence Council's projections for year 2020 (in its report Mapping the Global Future) are to be believed, the global war on terror is not going all that well.
- Treating Hiv (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 05, 2005)
The New year has begun on an encouraging note for the campaign against HIV/AIDS, with the World Health Organisation/UNAIDS reporting that its "3 by 5" initiative to help provide drugs to people living with the virus has achieved the global targets.
- The Decline And Decline Of Brand America (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Feb 04, 2005)
Brand creation, promotion, and positioning are the pet themes of business school analysts. Even as the literature on brand equity has grown into an industry, the subject has moved away from the confines of B-Schools.
- Missing Piece Of The Pf Story (Indian Express, RENUKA SANE, Feb 04, 2005)
The hike in the provident fund interest rates to 9.5 per cent announced by the finance minister has put the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) back into the headlines.
- Rational Behaviour (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Feb 04, 2005)
It was the première of The Apple Cart at the Old Vic theatre. As the final curtains fell, GBS went up the stage, waves of thundering ovation from all over the hall.
- Sell-Off Fund — Will It Fall Victim To Petty Politics? (Business Line, G. Ganesh, Feb 04, 2005)
The Government is seriously thinking of setting up a sell-off fund, which will be used partially for strengthening the public sector and for financing social sector programmes.
- Soldiering On (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 04, 2005)
Sacked from the Cabinet, former minister Major Vijai Singh Mankotia was conspicuously absent all through Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh’s winter sojourn in Dharamsala.
- The Pretext Of Baglihar (Pioneer, Rai Singh, Feb 04, 2005)
India and Pakistan appear to be on collision course yet again. Besides unprovoked firing across the Line of Control, Pakistan has accused India of malafide intentions over the on-going talks on the composite dialogue.
- The Reopened Iraq Debate (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Feb 04, 2005)
IRAQ IS back in the headlines, loaded with euphoria. The electoral exercise has been undertaken; the results have yet to be announced.
- The Secret Code (Tribune, Raj Kadyan, Feb 04, 2005)
IT was the first social function in my diplomatic assignment. We sat next to each other at a dinner-dance evening in the Hilton, Paris. True to her communist mode she wore a long-sleeved loose jacket with high neck.
- Well Done, Mr Bush (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 04, 2005)
One need not be an American to feel stirred by the grandeur of the occasion while watching a US President deliver the State of the Union Address.
- What Next, Guv? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 04, 2005)
L.K. Advani called the Goa governor’s dismissal of the Parrikar government a murder of democracy. The Congress in turn called the way in which the speaker conducted proceedings during the vote on the confidence motion a murder of democracy.
- Consensus In Democracy (Tribune, J. Sri Raman, Feb 04, 2005)
Answering questions in the Lok Sabha on the External Affairs Minister’s reported observations in Seoul, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently affirmed his government’s commitment to “continuity and consensus in foreign and defence policies”.
- Spoiling The Show (Telegraph, DEBAKI NANDAN MANDAL, Feb 04, 2005)
Now that the left has its way with the provident fund issue, will it stop being a hindrance to governance? Unlikely. Only a few days back, at the central committee meeting of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),
- Let's Discuss `Dismiss' (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 04, 2005)
February has begun on a dismal dismissal note. In Nepal, the monarch dismissed democracy; in Goa, dismissal came after a government scraped through a controversial confidence vote;
- A Vote For Liberation (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Feb 04, 2005)
The dinner at our house turned violent. The lady, a dear friend of ours, was talking about the elections held in Iraq that day. ‘‘Now that elections have taken place, what do you have to say?’’
- Compelling Reasons (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 04, 2005)
INDIA was constrained to take the decision not to attend the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit at Dhaka which was to begin on February 6.
- A Moment Of Decency (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Feb 04, 2005)
As someone who believed, hoped, worried, prayed, worried, hoped and prayed some more that Iraqis could one day pull off the election they did, I am unreservedly happy about the outcome
- Corporates, Beware The Training Robbery (Business Line, R. Devarajan, Feb 04, 2005)
The word management is generally understood in two different connotations. It is used to denote a group of people in the higher level in the hierarchy who get things done in an organisation.
- Crisis In Nepal (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Feb 04, 2005)
If electoral democracy was suspended in Nepal in 2002, the sacking of Prime Minister Deuba and the assumption of total autocratic powers by the King now have totally buried any semblance of constitutional governance in Nepal.
- Democracy And Accountability (Pioneer, MN Buch, Feb 04, 2005)
India is a democracy in that there is an elected Parliament and there are elected State legislatures to which the councils of ministers at the Centre and in the states are collectively and individually responsible.
- Illegal Takeover (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 04, 2005)
Political seismologists at the Centre are doubtless hailing the Goa quake. But all right-thinking citizens are prompted to ask whether the Congress's contempt for democratic norms-of which assaults on federalism is only one avatar-has any limits.
- Adding Value To The Food Chain (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 04, 2005)
The draft food processing policy 2005, on which the Government has invited comments, takes stock of several constraints that have stood in the way of growth of the industry in India.
- Hike That Cheers (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 04, 2005)
WEDNESDAY’S decision to raise the rate of interest on the Employees Provident Fund by 1 per cent should cheer the employees as also the Left parties.
- Future Of Indo-Pak Peace Process (Deccan Herald, P R CHARI, Feb 04, 2005)
Abelief is rife in Pakistan that the bilateral peace process has stalled. Perhaps hopes that India-Pakistan relations would normalise after Prime Minister Vajpayee and President Musharraf met in Islamabad in January 2004
- Egs As Investment, Not Welfare (Indian Express, MADAN M. JHA, Feb 03, 2005)
Amartya Sen recently expressed the hope that the diversion of funds for the employment guarantee law should not be at the cost of creating rural infrastructure, including investment in education and health.
- Himalayan Blunder (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 03, 2005)
King Gyanendra’s dismissal of the government and his assumption of absolute control over the country is a deadly blow to democracy in Nepal that will plunge the country into a deeper crisis.
- Gift Of Cruelty (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 03, 2005)
There is something absurd, rather than grand, about an elephant being sent as a gift by one modern prime minister to another. Extravagant or bestial diplomatic gifts are an ancient tradition.
- Gained In Transit (Indian Express, D.C. Pathak, Feb 03, 2005)
The smooth return of George W. Bush to the White House in the face of an Al-Jazeera telecast renewing Osama bin Laden’s threat of further attacks on the US will probably weaken the focus on the debatable issues of intelligence raised on 9/11 as also on th
- Ec Takes It Easy (Pioneer, Amba Charan Vashishth, Feb 03, 2005)
It may be too much to say that the Election Commission is a toothless body. It does have teeth. Occasionally, it also grins. But, of late, the lion in the EC seems to have turned vegetarian.
- Earth Goddess (Indian Express, H.A. ANIL KUMAR, Feb 03, 2005)
Thota Vaikuntam is a farmer-painter. Whatever the given canvas size is, he ensures that the boundaries are ‘marked’ like a farmer ensuring his/her farmland from his/her neighbour.
- But Who Will Rescue God? (Deccan Herald, Valson Thampu , Feb 03, 2005)
The disharmony among religions is not to be understood in terms of any substantive issues between them. As a matter of fact, there are no issues. Such issues as are invoked from time to time are mostly excuses.
- Budget Season Or Sorrows? (Deccan Herald, L C JAIN, Feb 03, 2005)
The Budget season has begun. It is time to mind and mend our finances and minimise our sorrows. A critical input is provided by the Twelfth Finance Commission which handed over its report a few days ago to the President of India.
- Britain's Terror Suspects (Economist, Editorial, Economist, Feb 03, 2005)
Be careful what you wish for. After months of demanding (publicly, at least) that the Americans release the remaining four British prisoners from the Guantánamo Bay detention camp
- A Performing Value For Npls (Business Line, Ashwani Puri, Feb 03, 2005)
The existing asset reconstruction company (ARC) framework envisages banks and financial institutions transferring their non-performing loans (NPLs) at "fair value"
- It Industry — Indian Firm Clicks As Well As Mnc (Business Line, G. B. Prabhat, Feb 03, 2005)
A few years ago, Indian and multinational consulting firms all but ignored each other capitalising on exclusive profit sanctuaries. As the onsite-offshore model assumed gradually began to dominate
- What Will Be American Role? (Pioneer, VK Grover, Feb 03, 2005)
The United Nations Department of Economic and social Affairs (DESA), in a report submitted on January 26, has warned against the dangers of a rapidly falling US Dollar.
- The Takeover In Nepal (Hindu, Kanak Mani Dixit, Feb 03, 2005)
It would have been a much more popular and realistic move for King Gyanendra to have brought the bickering parties together at this critical juncture.
- The King Of A Jungle (Indian Express, ARAVINDA R DEO, Feb 03, 2005)
In a country beset with massive poverty the Maoists of Nepal represent mass resentment against economic exclusion. Will Gyanendra be able to address Nepal’s immense problems?
- The Baton Awaits (OutLook, S. ANAND, Feb 03, 2005)
The man Jayendra Saraswati identified as the new Shankaracharya of the Kanchi math has virtually disappeared. Till recently, the 54-year-old chartered accountant based in Mumbai was known as Thyagarajan.
- Straws Of Hope (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 03, 2005)
The level of voter participation in the civic elections in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) provides yet another indication of the changed popular mood in the State, which was first visible during the Assembly elections of October, 2002.
- Rocky Region (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 03, 2005)
What is sauce for the goose is often not sauce for the gander. That was, in effect, the conclusion of the last meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation.
- Presentation Kills If You Don't Know How To Do One (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 03, 2005)
A common taunt is to denigrate accountants as lacking in presentation skills when compared to MBAs. It is easy to take sides on the issue; but rather than curse the bleak image
- No Kidding (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 03, 2005)
The Delhi Government has joined Gujarat and Karnataka in banning students from using mobile phones in schools. This is a move that will be welcomed by all right-thinking individuals who have reason to be concerned about the steady encroachment...
- No Dream Budget, Just A Credible One Please (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Feb 03, 2005)
The political realities of coalition politics does not allow the Finance Minister to be insensitive to the viewpoints of partners and outside supporters to the government.
- Nepalis Want Democracy, Not Monarchy (Hindu, Yogendra Yadav, Feb 03, 2005)
The key to the future of Nepal after the dismissal of the Deuba Government and the imposition of Emergency lies in a question that everyone finds difficult to answer at this stage: how would the Nepali citizen respond to this act of the King?
- May We See Peer Reviews Of Our Cas On The Net? (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 03, 2005)
Peer stands for Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center. Quite apt from an auditing angle, one may say, talking of peer review of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) that caused tremors in a profession never used to any questioni
- Weak National Security System (Tribune, Maj-Gen Ashok Mehta (retd), Feb 03, 2005)
It took just three weeks and several rounds of consultations by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with security experts to confirm Mr M.K. Narayan as the National Security Adviser (NSA).
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