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- The Political Economy Of Tsunami (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Jan 06, 2005)
The killer tsunami has raised two important issues of rehabilitation and creating an early warning system. But both require funds. While the governments and its banks will provide crucial help
- Spot The Tsunami (Indian Express, R. P. Subramanian, Jan 06, 2005)
As we debate the need for a ‘‘Tsunami Early Warning System’’ (TEWS) in the Indian Ocean, it is important to understand the challenges involved.
- The Dharmaguru (Indian Express, R.D. RANADE, Jan 06, 2005)
On the subject of a Sadguru we find that there are characteristics which Kabir attributes to one... There are certain moral characteristics, there are certain physiological characteristics
- 'Taxation Is The Bane Of Tourism' (The Economic Times, BHANU PANDE, Jan 06, 2005)
Param Kannampilly, the managing director of Concept Hospitality, which owns a chain of ecotels under the brand Orchid and Lotus Suites believes there’s a lot more the government should be doing to make 'Incredible India' a big success.
- Three ‘R’S (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 06, 2005)
Humanitarian experts speak of the two waves of any disaster. The first, of course, is the tragedy itself; the second is the aftermath which, if mishandled, could wreak lasting damage.
- America Has A Moral Obligation To (Gulf News, Colin L. Powell, Jan 06, 2005)
Now that George W. Bush has a mandate for a second term, he intends to pursue his goals for economic development with the same determination that made possible the liberation of Iraq and Afghanistan.
- ‘We Showed That An Indian Firm With Aspirations (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jan 06, 2005)
Grandson of legendary entrepreneur TVS Sundaram Iyengar, Venu Srinivasan famously spent eight hours a day of his school summer vacations working as a garage mechanic. Today, in a market once dominated by Bajaj Auto, TVS stands tall. Talking ...
- 100 Days That Will Change India (Indian Express, BUNKER ROY, Jan 06, 2005)
The father of modern Punjab, Pratap Singh Kairon, was driving to Chandigarh. A dog tried to cross the road, changed its mind, tried to scramble back and got run over. Kairon observed,”
- A Man Of Words (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Jan 06, 2005)
INITIALLY the column arrived once a week. Since the writer did not want to fold his manuscript, he always sent it in a large envelope. He also took care to send it a few days before the date of publication.
- Can Someone Answer My Questions? (Indian Express, M. G. Devasahayam , Jan 06, 2005)
Govt excuse is the disaster caught everyone by surprise. But that is what a disaster is all about
- Dangerous Currents (Hindu, Maria Aurora Couto, Jan 06, 2005)
History and memory need to be recovered by both the Hindu and Catholic communities of Goa but not with crude productions that distort and telescope unrelated events to create divisive hatreds.
- A View From The Water (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Jan 06, 2005)
What better way to celebrate New Year’s Eve than in Goa? The western coast, the safer coast, where fairy lights still glitter on beach shacks while on the opposite side of the peninsula, the hydra-headed monster that rose out of the sea ten days ago conti
- Economy On The Move (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 06, 2005)
It has been rare for the country to usher in a New Year with such optimism. The state of the economy inspires hope. Foreign institutional investors and rating agencies are upbeat on India’s future.
- Human Nature At Sea (Telegraph, Gouri Chatterjee, Jan 06, 2005)
It should have been the best of times for newsrooms across the world. A gigantic, grotesque catastrophe that had readers actually reading, viewers transfixed, blogs overwhelmed by “unique visitors”.
- Growth Pangs (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 06, 2005)
If India were political Utopia, Lord Meghnad Desai's recipe for accelerated growth-the BJP and the Congress joining hands to form a 'grand coalition'-may have clicked.
- For A Long-Term Solution (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Jan 06, 2005)
Any rehabilitation scheme for fisherfolk affected by the tsunami can be worked out only through democratic consultation and the participation of the fisherfolk themselves in the decision-making process.
- Fdi In Retailing — Short-Changing The Kirana Store? (Business Line, Mohan Guruswamy, Jan 06, 2005)
The retail industry in India is often hailed as one of the sunrise sectors. AT Kearney recently identified India as the ``second most attractive retail destination'' from among 30 emergent markets.
- Farewell To Arms (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Jan 06, 2005)
Mahmoud Abbas is all set to succeed Yasser Arafat as rais of the Palestinian Authority but he has never thought much of his leader’s mantle. He has no use for the olive green military fatigues Arafat always wore
- J.N. Dixit - A Tribute (Hindu, Gopal Gandhi, Jan 05, 2005)
"I will come and call on you at Banga Bhavan, Gopal," he said when I spoke to J.N. Dixit a fortnight ago, "protocol is protocol."
- Us Slips In Luring The Best (Deccan Herald, SAM DILLON, Jan 05, 2005)
American universities, which for half a century have attracted the world’s best and brightest students with little effort, are suddenly facing intense competition as higher education undergoes rapid globalisation.
- Patent Ordinance And Reality Check (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jan 05, 2005)
To meet its WTO commitment, India has brought in an ordinance to usher in the product patent regime. But of the effect on the ground things are not too clear, though the ordinance appears to create a milieu for the IT and pharma industries to grow and ...
- Need For A Universal Egs (Hindu, Prabhat Patnaik, Jan 05, 2005)
Confining the Employment Guarantee Scheme to particular areas on the ground that they have "implementation capacity"
- Political Realities And Double Speak (Business Line, R. Sthanumoorthy, Jan 05, 2005)
What drives political parties to speak in two voices when it comes to execution of hard economic decisions and what implication does it have in implementing such decisions?
- Rural Push (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 05, 2005)
The idea of PURA — provision of urban facilities in rural areas — originated with the president and has been adopted by the United Progressive Alliance. Witness its explicit mention in this year’s budget.
- Sri Lanka And The Tsunami (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 05, 2005)
Sri Lanka is stranger to large-scale death and destruction. But the death and destruction caused by a 20-year-old internal conflict could not have prepared the country
- Textile Quota Is Now History (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 05, 2005)
A couple of days before Christmas, there was a communiqué from the Central Board of Excise and Customs advising Customs field formations about the end of "the textile quota regime" on January 1
- This Waiting Can Be Long (Indian Express, Harmala Gupta, Jan 05, 2005)
The advances made by medical science have not only increased life spans, it is now possible to ensure good symptom relief right till the end. Why then are we debating the right to end our lives prematurely?
- War Budget Dwarfs Aid Spending (Hindu, George Monbiot, Jan 05, 2005)
The victims of the tsunami pay the price of war on Iraq as U.S. and British aid is dwarfed by the billions both spend on slaughter.
- A Wave To Drown The Tsunami (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jan 05, 2005)
Amid the deep gloom of tsunami devastation, as one watched the almost surreal scenes of thousands of dead and lakhs rendered homeless or reduced to penury, there were a few silver linings too.
- Let The Rivers Of Friendship Flow (Business Line, S. Padmanabhan , Jan 05, 2005)
The project for interlinking rivers in India is so closely intertwined with Bangladesh that the time has come for both countries to finalise a long-term and massive development and disaster prevention plan.
- Agent Of Change (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Jan 05, 2005)
P.V. Narasimha Rao’s manner of leaving had all the hallmarks of his long, tempestuous political life. He left on the eve of the 80th birthday of the man he called his life-long friend and adversary
- Ec’S New Guidelines (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 05, 2005)
MONDAY’s meeting of the Election Commission with over 800 observers assumes special significance in the context of its concerted efforts to make the ensuing elections in Haryana, Bihar and Jharkhand free and fair.
- Fuel For Thought (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 05, 2005)
The road map for cleaner fuel — and, by implication, for cleaner air — will have to be redrawn with oil refiners declaring they are unable to meet the deadline for the supply of petrol and diesel that matches the required standards.
- It Is For Us (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 05, 2005)
The National Road Safety Week has been inaugurated with symbolic fanfare. The objective of the Safety Week (January 3 to 9) is to raise awareness of the dangers on the road and how to be safe, and to encourage all road users to take care.
- Deluded Into Crime Piyal Sen (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 05, 2005)
One of the cardinal legal principles applicable to every law court in India is called “mens rea” which, in Latin, means the capacity to form the intent to carry out an action.
- Looking Back In Wonder (Telegraph, Deep K. Datta-Ray, Jan 05, 2005)
A tsunami-ravaged exotic Asia once again provides the backdrop to a Western adventure
- Medicines To Cost More (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 04, 2005)
From January 1, 2005, India has started recognising patents on medicines. This effectively means prices of new medicines and of those made in the last 10 years or so
- Rao, The Prophet Of Boom (Pioneer, A. Surya Prakash, Jan 04, 2005)
The ups and downs in former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao's political career reminds us of an age-old truth - that destiny plays a crucial role in the lives of individuals and nations.
- Nris Must Chip In (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 04, 2005)
THERE could be no better occasion for non-resident Indians and people of Indian origin to come to the aid of the country of their origin.
- Nreg Bill: Fine-Tuning Will Make It Work Better (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Jan 04, 2005)
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill goes beyond describing a set of employment generating schemes, and goes into the nitty-gritty, listing the broad responsibilities of the officials at the district, block and panchayat levels.
- New Vistas (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 04, 2005)
With the onset of 2005, two significant developments in the world of commerce and industry open themselves to India. Both are connected with the new world trade order under the aegis of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
- Nature Retaliates (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Jan 04, 2005)
A heightened vigil is needed in the State, especially in the coastal regions, in the wake of the tsunami tragedy
- Narasimha Rao: He Was Open To Ideas (Tribune, Balraj Puri, Jan 04, 2005)
I had never met Narasimha Rao before he became Prime Minister. But when I sought and got an appointment, he told me that he was going to call for me.
- Uncertain Certainties (Gulf News, M.J. Akbar, Jan 04, 2005)
It is natural: in the first week of January every right-thinking Indian wants to know what will happen in the coming year.
- Nature Of Man (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 04, 2005)
As devastated areas struggle to face life after tsunami, stories of how animals, with the benefit of prior awareness, survived, and helped humans to do so, are surfacing along with those of miraculous escapes
- The U.N. Must Lead (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 04, 2005)
The scale of the tsunami catastrophe in Indonesia and Sri Lanka has just emerged. Estimates of the death toll in Indonesia are fast approaching the 100,000 mark while Sri Lanka has confirmed at least 40,000 deaths.
- To Engage A Changing World (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 04, 2005)
Among the foreign policy challenges India will face in the foreseeable future would be the requirement to structure new equations with important power centres of the world after the end of the Cold War and disintegration of the Soviet Union
- To Go Or Not To Go Is The Question (Hindu, Carl Wilkinson, Jan 04, 2005)
As the extent of the devastation wreaked by the tsunami unfolds, many are having to decide whether going ahead with planned holidays will help or hinder the local people.
- To Sir, With Love (Indian Express, ARUNDHATI GHOSE, Jan 04, 2005)
I first met Mani Dixit when he was Deputy Secretary and I was Under Secretary in 1967. He was then at the UN Division and I was in the Nepal Division at the ministry. He had the ability to build great institutions.
- Tsunami: Asia Will Bounce Back (Asia Times, Emad Mekay, Jan 04, 2005)
The world is rallying to aid countries and lives damaged by the tsunamis that have killed more than 120,000 people in Asia and Africa, injuring three or four times as many
- Ukrainian Drama (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 04, 2005)
Viktor Yanuk Ovich's decision to resign as the Prime Minister of Ukraine after his defeat in the repeat presidential election brings the political uncertainty in the former Soviet republic a step closer to resolution.
- Trust In A Time Of Trouble (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jan 04, 2005)
The last week has been grim, truly grim. A natural disaster of enormous magnitude swallowed up thousands of people and rendered hundreds of thousands homeless.
- Winner All The Way (Telegraph, Amitabh Mattoo, Jan 04, 2005)
India’s foreign policy and strategic community has never been short of talent. But there are few, in recent years
- Yes, Boss (Indian Express, RAM SEHGAL, Jan 04, 2005)
Over the years, I have discovered some basic rules that could help in building a successful career. My learning came long after the mistakes were made and my career, on many occasions, was in doldrums.
- Turkey’S Quest For Eu Membership (Deccan Herald, RAJEN HARSHE, Jan 04, 2005)
A historic agreement between the European Union (EU) and Turkey in December has paved the way for the opening of talks on the eventual accession of Turkey to the EU as a full-fledged member.
- A Diplomat And A Gentleman (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 04, 2005)
In most regional initiatives in South Asia, in crucial negotiations with China, through the sensitive post-Soviet years in Afghanistan, behind tough-talking, no-nonsense deliberations with Pakistan, stood the rock-like presence of J N ‘Mani’ Dixit.
- Tsunami: Distorted Priorities (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jan 04, 2005)
IT is a telling commentary on the United States’ focus on war, rather than peace, that it should have taken President George W. Bush several days publicly to react to the tsunami tragedy that engulfed India and other countries in South and South-East
- Legitimising Discrimination (Pioneer, KR Phanda, Jan 04, 2005)
While piloting the Minority Educational Institutions Bill in the Rajya Sabha on December 21, the Union Human Resources Development Minister, Mr Arjun Singh, is reported to have observed that the NDA Government had
- A Copybook Diplomat (Business Line, R. C. Rajamani, Jan 04, 2005)
A Quintessential diplomat, Jyotindra Nath Dixit, headed the national brains-trust in its formulation of security, foreign policy and strategic relations with the rest of the world.
- A Knowledge Hub (Telegraph, Sukanta Chaudhuri, Jan 04, 2005)
At the golden jubilee celebrations of Jadavpur University, the chief minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, stressed the importance of academic research
- Bonding With Malaysia (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 04, 2005)
In May 2001, the then Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, visited Malaysia, as part of the NDA Government's "look East" policy.
- Data Protection Demystified (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , Jan 04, 2005)
The recommendations on the Third Patent (Amendment) Bill to the Government have got bogged down in controversy primarily due to a perception that once the product patent regime comes in to force
- Delivery Mechanism In Commodity Exchanges (Business Line, A. S. Jeyakumar, Jan 04, 2005)
Deliveries are an integral part of commodity exchanges (comex). Even though they form an insignificant portion of the total volume of trade transacted on the exchange
- Information: An Inviolable Right (Hindu, Nirmala Lakshman, Jan 04, 2005)
Despite the fact that there are serious attempts to muzzle the right to information by the ruling elite and powerful vested interests through the tabling of an ineffective Bill, the tide of civil resistance cannot be stemmed for long
- J.N. Dixit (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 04, 2005)
IN the death of Jyotindra Nath Dixit, India has lost one of its most cerebral diplomats and national security experts. Few understood the security imperatives for the country better than this career diplomat
- Grandpa’S Guru (Deccan Herald, H P HANDE, Jan 04, 2005)
My first grandson was born one fine April morning, six years ago, all of two-and-a-half kgs. While most newborns’ eyes are tightly shut, this fellow was staring at all of us around him with wide open eyes, as if to say
- Feminism In The Time Of Mms (Indian Express, Amrita Shah, Jan 04, 2005)
Anybody who keeps asking — and there are many who do — why feminists oppose beauty contests should watch two film clips currently in circulation.
- Iran’S N-Ambitions (Tribune, Sudarshan Bhutani, Jan 03, 2005)
Iran’s nuclear ambitions cannot be considered separated from its relations with the United States of America. Ever since the 1979 revolution in Iran, the US has made no secret of its desire to bring about a change of regime in Teheran.
- An Exercise In Make-Believe (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 03, 2005)
The Independent South Asia Commission on Poverty Alleviation has done it again. In its second report, the body — set up under the auspices of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
- Card-Crossed! (Tribune, Bibhuti Mishra , Jan 03, 2005)
THE first greeting card I received this year was from the Chief Minister of the state! No, do not jump to conclusions. I am not showing off. However, it is true. I am not a bigwig who matters to the CM; in fact he does not know me from Adam and couldn’t c
- Imbalances In The Global Economy (Hindu, Heather Stewart, Jan 03, 2005)
Decline in the dollar means the challenge is how to ward off a global financial crisis.
- Guaranteeing Employment: A Palliative? (Hindu, T.N. Srinivasan, Jan 03, 2005)
Let us not kid ourselves: an employment generation programme is a palliative and not a means for poverty eradication.
- For The Present And Future (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 03, 2005)
Excerpts from the 10th conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, December 2004
- For A Memorial To Partition (Tribune, Himmat Singh Gill, Jan 03, 2005)
WHAT do the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Statue of Liberty and the Ellis Island Foundation, both located in New York, possibly have in common with a proposed memorial that I have in mind for our own country, commemorating
- False Alarm (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 03, 2005)
It is understandable that after the sudden and unexpected devastation wrought by the tsunami that struck Sunday before last, the authorities would not have risked the slightest chance with warnings about a second coming.
- Conspiracy Of Silence (Pioneer, N. Jamal Ansari, Jan 03, 2005)
Tehelka.com has exposed the conspiracy behind Zaheera Sheikh's turning hostile. According to the expose, Ms Sheikh demanded Rs 25 lakh for changing her statement in court.
- India’S Policy Failure In Nepal (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Jan 03, 2005)
King Gyanendra subverted multi-party democracy within months of becoming the king and appears to be in pursuit of an executive monarchy.
- Blunkett's Exit (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 03, 2005)
The closing months of 2004 saw the British Home Secretary (same as Home Minister), Mr David Blunkett, and his private office, embroiled in a heated and unsavoury controversy in Parliament and the media over the
- Beyond This Place (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jan 03, 2005)
Visiting Karachi, Islamabad or Muree, my preconceptions about the role of fundamentalism in Pakistan, of only burqa-clad women, hostility to India and Indians
- A Time To Mourn (Indian Express, DAVID BROOKS, Jan 03, 2005)
I have this week’s front pages arrayed on the desk around me. There’s a picture of dead children lined up on a floor while a mother wails.
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