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- Forget The Extreme, Hedge For Normal Price Events (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Jan 10, 2005)
The sharp fall in the S&P CNX Nifty on January 4 pales when compared to the 13 per cent decline on May 17, 2004. This is but yet another evidence that the distribution of asset price returns carries fat tails
- India Should Spare More Personnel ... (Hindu, SUJATA SRINIVASAN, Jan 10, 2005)
"I think the very presence of a woman officer reduces violence ... She is a symbol of peace, life, dignity, and reconciliation ..
- After Dixit (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 10, 2005)
The demise of Mr J N Dixit, the National Security Adviser (NSA) to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, has created a critical gap in the apex national security and foreign policy decision-making structure.
- Rjd Got Its Share In Jharkhand, Says Harikesh Bahadur (Tribune, Prashant Sood, Jan 09, 2005)
Soft-spoken and friendly, Harikesh Bahadur is among the most accessible Congress leaders in the AICC office. A member of the Congress Working Committee
- Tsunami: Us Can Do More (Tribune, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jan 09, 2005)
There is a story about a British diplomat being asked what he would like for the New Year. Being a modest man, he declined a gift but on being pressed, reluctantly agreed to a small box of preserved fruit.
- From Islamabad, With Care (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Jan 09, 2005)
In the coming months, officials in New Delhi and Islamabad will repeatedly refer the media to the 153 words of the joint press statement issued in Islamabad on January 6 after nail-biting suspense.
- This Is World War Iii, Get Used To It (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Jan 09, 2005)
Airline flights into the United States are cancelled from France, Mexico and London. Armed guards are put onto other flights coming to America. Westerners are warned to avoid Saudi Arabia, and synagogues are bombed in Turkey and France.
- Courage And The Courts (Indian Express, ANIL B. DIVAN, Jan 09, 2005)
The Bar and Bench at Bombay are celebrating this week the 125th year of the completion of the magnificent building housing the high court. It is with a sense of pride that every child of the Bombay Bar must recall some
- Alvi: Befitting Honour For Noted Urdu Writer (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jan 09, 2005)
Urdu is considered one of the sweetest languages of the world. It is spoken by about 104 million people around the globe. Its birth was the direct result of the synthesis between the invading armies of Mahmud of Ghazni with the civilian population ...
- ‘Repulse The New Rome ... Jihad Is A Religious-Economic War’ (Indian Express, OSAMA BIN LADEN, Jan 09, 2005)
My message is to urge jihad to repulse the grand plots hatched against our nation, such as the occupation of Baghdad, under the guise of the search for weapons of mass destruction
- Need For A Ministry Now More Than Ever Before (Deccan Herald, M C SHANTHA MURTHY, Jan 09, 2005)
Natural calamities like earthquakes, cyclones, droughts and floods besides harbour waves (tsunami) cannot be predicted well in advance. There is need for in-depth research in this direction.
- Needed A Cohesive Military Doctrine (Tribune, Vice Admiral K.K. Nayyar, Jan 08, 2005)
A country’s military doctrine is the outcome of a number of factors, which impinge on its national security. Some of these are fixed like its geography and other vary such as the interests of its neighbours or the rest of the world.
- Squeeze Water Off Chinese Data, Add A Dash Of Guesswork (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 08, 2005)
For those who do not know, these are just a few proverbs from China. If, as a businessman, you want to look at a big market, where the 1.3 billionth consumer was born two days ago
- Song Sung True (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 08, 2005)
The single-storeyed house is as anonymous as the colony it stands in. Banaswadi is on the extreme edge of Bangalore, and the no-frills house is seemingly off the map as well.
- Seating Tight On Alliances (Indian Express, MUKESH BHARDWAJ, Jan 08, 2005)
Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala’s INLD may be the ruling party, but it doesn’t seem to have many friends. When the BJP supported him in making Tarlochan Singh the minorities commission chairman
- Power Of Doubters And Their Fate (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Jan 08, 2005)
Most scriptural writing warns us against the pitfalls of dual thinking (dubhida) or doubt. All religions claim to hold the monopoly over knowledge and denounce doubters as renegades. It is ironic that every religion began by doubting the veracity of the o
- Truckloads Of Confusion (Business Line, S. Sridharan, Jan 08, 2005)
There is much confusion on the liability to pay service tax on goods transport agency services. There is a lack of clarity on the person responsible to pay service tax
- Mr Dixit, I Presume (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jan 08, 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. I had just been arrested by the Sri Lankan military for nosing around “sensitive installations” near Trincomalee.
- Tackling Future Disasters (Deccan Herald, U R RAO, Jan 08, 2005)
The unprecedented giant tsunami disaster, triggered by a mega under-sea earthquake off the West Coast of Sumatra at 6.28 IST on December 26, swept past the Andaman-Nicobar Islands and delivered a lethal blow at the Coromandel east coast of India and...
- Tax Implications Of Software Sale (Business Line, H. P. Ranina, Jan 08, 2005)
Are pieces of software `goods' that can attract sales and other taxes? The Supreme Court held that software may be intellectual property but as the property contained in a medium is bought and sold, it is an article of value.
- The Buck Starts Here (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Jan 08, 2005)
They often say that Indians lack in spirit of nationalism and patriotism. In the face of the tsunami tragedy, there’s been a noticeable change in the attitude of Indians and they are not hesitant to show their kind and benevolent selves.
- Two Cheers For Ganguly (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Jan 08, 2005)
Bengalis have long felt a sense of victimhood, of somehow being denied or deprived by the rest of India.
- Wages Of Critical Neglect (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Jan 08, 2005)
Muddling through has become the essence of India's crisis management strategies, and each new challenge or disaster produces new evidence of gross incompetence, failure and institutional collapse
- Wave Of Compassion Or New Tide? (Hindu, Syed Saleem Shahzad, Jan 08, 2005)
A US-backed peace initiative in South Asia began more than a year ago. Apart from several confidence-building measures, several new ideas were floated in an attempt to resolve the half-century Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan.
- We'll Be Jumping The Gun If We Buy The Idea (The Economic Times, B CHELLANEY, Jan 08, 2005)
India has not been offered a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, with or without veto power.
- Maoist Rampage (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 08, 2005)
The killing of the Superintendent of Police of Bihar's Munger district, KC Surendra Babu, and five other policemen, in a Naxalite mine blast on Wednesday, provides yet another indication of the headway Maoist
- Asian Oil Bloc (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 08, 2005)
Given the volatility characterising the global oil market, India’s proposal to form an Asian oil bloc that would help to ensure stability, security and sustainability of the oil market in the region is a good idea.
- `We Have An Obligation To Help Survivors' (Hindu, Hilary Benn, Jan 08, 2005)
The terrible images of the past week have brought home our vulnerability to the forces of nature. But they have also brought out in all of us a compassion for others with whom we share this small and fragile planet
- Admin Needs More Than Minimum Attention (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Jan 08, 2005)
Tax payers have long been yearning for a helpful tax administration.. The character of Indian taxpayers is not very different from that of their counterparts abroad.
- Caste Away (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 08, 2005)
Disasters test a society in diverse ways. They take proof of the country’s preparedness to spring to the rescue of people struck by nature’s fury. In the relief and rehabilitation operations undertaken, they extract an account of the norms and principles
- An Asian Oil Market (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 08, 2005)
ASIAN oil consumers led by India met some top producers, including Saudi Arabia, in Delhi on Thursday to demand price stability and assured supply to prevent the recurrence of the “shock” witnessed in 2004.
- Looking For A National Security Adviser (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jan 08, 2005)
The Prime Minister should look for a compatible philosophical vision of foreign policy in his next National Security Adviser.
- Death Of The Holiest River (Indian Express, SURESHWAR D SINHA, Jan 08, 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
- In The Aftermath Of A Disaster (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 08, 2005)
It is just about a fortnight since the under-water earthquake rocked the sea off the coast of Sumatra, leaving mankind to count the terrible loss of life left in the wake of the huge killer waves that hit the shoreline of the landmass surrounding the ...
- Honestly Speaking (Tribune, Anurag, Jan 08, 2005)
Honesty is the best policy. Is it ? Yes. No. Absolutely not. Views would vary. It used to be but no more so, dismiss the discerning. Some would suggest it is almost impossible to stay honest in this mad bad world.
- Great Budget Expectations — Helping The Economy Take Wings (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 08, 2005)
Subject to the considerations set out earlier, what are the options before the Finance Minister? It is a constant refrain of the financial commentariat (the latest coinage signifying the commentators as a class!)
- Fostering Innovation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 08, 2005)
"Economic change is largely a process by which knowledge is transformed into goods and services. Creating links between knowledge generation and enterprise development is thus one of the greatest challenges facing developing countries,"
- Don't Take The Rally For Granted (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 08, 2005)
The stock markets delivered a rather scary nightmare to dreamy-eyed investors on Wednesday and Thursday.
- The Land Of Penny Pinchers (Indian Express, NICHOLAS D KRISTOF, Jan 07, 2005)
Americans give 15 cents per day per person in official development assistance to poor countries. The average American spends four times that on soft drinks daily
- Let The Anthem Be (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 07, 2005)
‘Jana Gana Mana’ has survived many controversies. The latest has arisen from a PIL filed in the Supreme Court for removal of the word ‘Sindh’ from the anthem.
- Sugar Turns Bitter-Sweet (Business Line, A. Seshan, Jan 07, 2005)
The sugar situation is full of iniquity to the consumer and the cane farmer. Sugar prices have shot up steeply. The average price in Mumbai is around Rs 22 per kg — a peak in 30 years.
- Textile Quotas Go (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 07, 2005)
The US and EU-imposed country-by-country quotas on imports of textile and clothing items came to an end on January 1, 2005.
- New Realities For Ocean’S 10 (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Jan 07, 2005)
Accelerated globalisation in adversity: this could well be one of the striking consequences of the tsunami. Altruism or its exact opposite on the part of donors and administrators of aid will be spotted by recipients in distress.
- The President's New Year Speech (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Jan 07, 2005)
The President's New Year speech to Parliament is the Government's manifesto for the incoming year — by which it must be judged.
- Tsunami: The Robots Next Time? (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Jan 07, 2005)
Two news items deserve special attention as the world tries painfully to come to grips with life after tsunami. According to the first, eight elephants that take tourists around at Thailand's Khao Lak beach began to cry loudly
- What Will Be Left? (Deccan Herald, TIMOTHY GARTON ASH, Jan 07, 2005)
A tsunami of human solidarity is sweeping across the surface of the globe in response to the physical tsunami that has ravaged the shores of the Indian Ocean. Every day brings a staggering upward estimate of deaths — and of aid donations.
- When Tourists Invade (Indian Express, George N Netto, Jan 07, 2005)
Last week I watched a herd of seven wild elephants grazing peacefully on a hillside opposite my son’s residence at Madupatty, 10 km from Munnar
- Media: Disturbing Shifts (Tribune, N. Bhaskara Rao, Jan 07, 2005)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Justice A.S. Anand made very pertinent observations recently at the IPI-India Award function for Excellence in Journalism.
- In Other Words.... (Tribune, Pramod K. Chaudhari, Jan 07, 2005)
Words! Only words! Barmecide of the Arabian Nights offered only wordy honey to a beggar. Have we ever reflected how many times we give wordy benefits or are given Barmecidal claptrap by the people we come across
- Needed, A Strategy (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Jan 07, 2005)
Apropos KPS Gill's article, "What is India's grand strategy?" (The Pioneer, December 11), India's "grand strategy" should begin with its national aspirations. Since the country has no desire to conquer alien territory, its foreign policy would be essentia
- An Angry Earth Wobbles (Asia Times, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 07, 2005)
Had it not been for the devastating Boxing Day tsunami that hit southern Asia, engulfing parts of India in its wake, 2004 might have passed off as a relatively uneventful year.
- Need To Break Business-Politics Nexus (Tribune, Arvind Bhandari, Jan 07, 2005)
Bangaru Laxman and Jaya Jaitly, former presidents of the BJP and the Samata Party respectively, against whom cases have been registered by the CBI for taking bribes as alleged in the Tehelka sting operation, should be investigated and prosecuted. The law
- Insurance: Recovering From Tsunami's Wrath (Business Line, N. C. Vijairagavan, Jan 07, 2005)
Nature's fury has left behind an trail of death and destruction. What should assume priority now is to bring back to normal the survivors and those who have suffered economic loss.
- A Vital Task (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 07, 2005)
The wide-ranging recommendations made by the Vaidyanathan Task Force to revitalise the ailing co-operative sector in the country have come when the functioning of the co-operative institutions is causing concern.
- Bravo, Us Congress! (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 07, 2005)
The great Canadian humorist, Stephen Leacock, inserted a profundity in one of his funny fibs: All boarding houses are the same boarding house. Meaning that you have seen one, and you have seen all.
- Clueless (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 07, 2005)
The saddest thing about the Indian Museum’s stolen Buddha is the comedy of the aftermath. This is the comedy of belatedness, of a bemused, but concerted ineffectuality that is left with nothing much to cling to other than desperate
- Enter, The Market Bell Is Rung (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 07, 2005)
After the latest crash of the Sensex, analysts are still trying to find out why the big fall happened, but many are just too resigned to attribute any sense to the mega movements.
- Industry In 2004: Manufacturing Momentum Quickens (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Jan 07, 2005)
The Indian manufacturing story, which began gradually unfolding since 2002, had witnessed a substantial improvement in efficiency but a hesitant recovery in 2003.
- Great Budget Expectations — Buoyant Mood, Congenial Setting (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 07, 2005)
With all systems go, powered by an enthusing confluence of favourable factors, the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, must be a happy man ready to make Budget.
- Hail The New Textile Maharaja (Asia Times, Siddharth Srivastava, Jan 07, 2005)
Beginning this year, the world has moved from a four-decade paradigm that limited the developing countries' textile exports to advanced nations, unleashing trade worth ...
- Help Not Wanted (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 07, 2005)
Asia's tsunami has had an unlikely fallout: The bruised ego of the world's rich nations. The West's comfort level with less developed parts of the globe hits high water mark whenever the latter can be kept on dole.
- More Open Skies (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 07, 2005)
THE UNION CABINET'S decision to allow established private airlines to operate to foreign destinations with the exception of West Asia is on expected lines and represents another step towards a liberal open skies policy in the civil aviation sector.
- Most Nris Wear Loincloths, Not Suits (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jan 07, 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:
- Peering Over Great Wall (Indian Express, JIM YARDLEY, Jan 06, 2005)
China's response to the tsunami disaster shows the nation’s limitations as an aspiring superpower, despite its new and growing influence in Asia. China’s offer of aid, if slightly belated, is sizable, given its often inward-looking history.
- Preventing Political Tsunami (Pioneer, VK Grover, Jan 06, 2005)
As one sits down to put pen to paper, one cannot shake away the images of grief and the colossal tragedy which struck on the 26th of December.
- Providing Relief (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 06, 2005)
Seven filmstars are actively involved in relief operations in the tsunami-hit areas of south and south-east Asia.
Six of them are, according to a BBC World TV News report, working quietly in ongoing relief operations in Thailand.
- Needed: Humane Options For Orphaned Children (Hindu, Mari Marcel Thekaekara, Jan 06, 2005)
Paedophiles love disasters. It gives them the golden opportunity to pick up abandoned children easily.
- Save The Retailer (Tribune, Mohan Guruswamy, Jan 06, 2005)
The retail industry in India is often hailed as one of the sunrise sectors. AT Kearney, the well-known international management consultancy, recently identified India as the “second most attractive retail destination” from among 30 emerging markets.
- Public Institutions (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 06, 2005)
Although it is widely if not universally endorsed and admired, democracy as a political system is still on trial in many parts of the world.
- More Phones At Cheaper Rates (Tribune, Rajendra Prabhu, Jan 06, 2005)
The Communications and IT Ministry and the private industry are now convinced that the total telephone subscriptions can rise from the October 2004 level of 90 million to 250 million by 2007 with 60 million of it in the rural areas against 13 million now.
- Local Monitor (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 06, 2005)
It is prudent of the government of India not to have reacted strongly to the United States of America’s naval presence in Sri Lanka.
- Let Not Financing Be A Disaster After Rapid (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 06, 2005)
Disaster, donations, distribution, and delay, form only a predictable combination that plays out whenever a major blow strikes.
- Knowledge At Risk If You're Asking What's Var (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 06, 2005)
Accountants know debits and credits as much as the palm of their hands. But Moorad Choudhry's Structured Credit Products, from Wiley (www.wiley.com) belongs to a different league.
- Tsunami And The Net (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 06, 2005)
The power of the Internet to knit people in far-flung countries into a truly global community is on display in the wake of the catastrophic tsunami.
- The Magic Formula For 2005 (The Economic Times, KIRAN KARNIK, Jan 06, 2005)
If only the last week of 2004 was a dream, a nightmare that one would wake up from to find a comfortable, unchanged normalcy.
- Wrong, Lord Desai & Prof Sen (The Economic Times, T. K. Arun, Jan 06, 2005)
Lord Meghnad Desai thinks India is a collection of nationalities. These, he says, find political articulation through regional or caste-based parties that together detract from India’s potential for growth through exclusive focus on distribution.
- When Public Servants Are Corrupt (Tribune, P. P. Rao, Jan 06, 2005)
CORRUPTION has assumed alarming proportions. The epidemic has spread to the judiciary to some extent. The Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, miserably failed to prevent or check corruption.
- We Need Our Mohan Bhargavas (Indian Express, NANDITA PATEL, Jan 06, 2005)
‘Swades’ makes a strong case for patriotism seen not as Pakistan-bashing but as unabashed India-loving
- Tsunamis Won't Stop Jihadis (Asia Times, B. Raman , Jan 06, 2005)
Some security aspects of the widespread tragedy caused by the December 26 tsunamis have not received the attention they deserve.
- How To Get Back The Missing Teeth (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Jan 06, 2005)
Only by joining or allying with the Congress can Mamata Banerjee save herself from political irrelevance
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