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- Left Beset With Contradictions (Tribune, R. Suryamurthy, Dec 31, 2004)
As the country enters the New Year 2005, the Left parties, who play a crucial role in the survival of the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre, have a daunting task of re-defining their role in the future.
- Flight To Freedom (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 31, 2004)
The decision to allow private airlines to fly abroad is welcome, with two caveats. One, there should be no glitches in the public sector airlines’ plans to add to their fleet.
- In The Name Of Allah (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Dec 31, 2004)
Sir, my secular answer to the honourable member is that where it is in the hands of Allah, we turn to Allah, where it is in the hands of man, we turn to man."
- Industrial Boom Ahead (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Dec 31, 2004)
The future looks good for India, on the economic front, with foreign investments higher than ever before
- Land Border Conundrum (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 31, 2004)
Important land border routes in West Bengal (Petrapole, Hili and Mahadipur) and the North-East (Dawki, in Meghalaya) to Bangladesh, which have over the years aided the steady growth of border
- Leaving The Past Behind (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 31, 2004)
The world now beckons India’s private airlines. The Union Cabinet has just lifted restrictions that had prevented them from flying international routes. At a specific level, the move signals a new phase in Indian aviation.
- Creating A Tsunami Warning System (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 31, 2004)
If there were doubts before, the tsunami of December 26, 2004 has swept them away. Over 100,000 people in a number of Asian countries have been killed by the monstrous waves, millions
- Manmohan Deputes Two Ministers To Andamans (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2004)
The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has deputed his Minister of State for Home, Prakash Jaiswal, and the Minister of State for Information Technology and Communications, Shakeel Ahmed, to Port Blair and Car Nicobar to oversee the relief and rescue....
- Subsidies And The Poor (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 30, 2004)
The Finance Ministry has once again agonised over the mounting level of subsidies paid out by the Central Government — over what is to be done to target them more sharply at the poor
- Manmohan Touring Affected Areas (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2004)
The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, today left here for Thiruvananthapuram to survey the tsunami-hit coastal areas, even as the Centre said the death and destruction were being treated as a national calamity.
- More Commitments For India, China (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Dec 30, 2004)
The rules of the game in the economic field are increasingly being changed for India, China and Brazil
- Moscow And Multipolarity (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Dec 30, 2004)
Russia is building new alliances and using oil to counter the United States' attempts at regime change in its neighbourhood.
- Next Stop, Dhaka (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 30, 2004)
In every peace process, there is a moment when forward movement stops and there is an inching backwards. India and Pakistan, finding themselves at such a juncture this week, have thankfully avoided a slide back.
- Nicobar Village Leaves Behind A Graveyard, From Past & Present (Indian Express, Subrata Nag Choudhury, Dec 30, 2004)
If and when anyone from the local administration or any relief agency travels 6 km from the deluge-struck IAF base here, as The Indian Express did today
- Not A Reluctant Reformer (Hindu, C. Rangarajan, Dec 30, 2004)
How much of a reformer was P.V. Narasimha Rao? Was he a reluctant reformer or was he an enthusiastic reformer? These questions have been posed to me by several friends
- One-Sided Moves (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 30, 2004)
The outcome of the two-day Foreign Secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan in Islamabad on Tuesday, warrants some serious thinking on the dialogue process under way between the two countries.
- Lost Worlds? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 30, 2004)
With the death toll mounting, the tsunami that devastated southern Asia has passed into the records as the biggest yet. From the staggering wreckage and collective lamentation has risen the spectre of a new dread:
- Reporting From Blogosphere (Indian Express, JOHN SCHWARTZ, Dec 30, 2004)
For vivid reporting from the enormous zone of tsunami disaster, it was hard to beat the blogs. The so-called blogosphere, with its personal journals published on the Web
- The Holiday Party (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Dec 30, 2004)
Meeting Salman Rushdie on his brief visit to India earlier this month, I was struck by his almost childlike delight in becoming part of the extended Palghat Brahmin fraternity, courtesy his marriage to Padma Lakshmi.
- The Old Man And The Sea (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Dec 30, 2004)
There are Japanese paintings of a huge menacing wave curling over a tiny lone hut on the edge of the shore that are absolutely terrifying in their scale and drama — as they are meant to be.
- The Three Legs Of Corporatedom (Business Line, N. R. Moorthy , Dec 30, 2004)
For decades the triple issues of ownership, control and management have been bugging corporates. Questions have been raised but no adequate response has been found as to whether management can be segregated
- Vailankanni Awaits Healing Touch (Pioneer, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 30, 2004)
Nature became the enemy of informal livelihoods in coastal Tamil Nadu last Sunday, but ironically, one of the areas severely devastated by tidal waves was close to a highly venerated Christian shrine
- Wiggle Room In Accounting To Stage Fiscal Gimmicks (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 30, 2004)
In february, when the BJP-led NDA government was bullish about a return to power after the elections, and presented the Interim Budget, the Opposition was quick to decry it as `poll gimmicks'.
- Hope Floats Where All Else Drowns (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Dec 30, 2004)
The Iraq war is no more important in the global scheme of things than poverty or climate change.
- A Step Forward (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 30, 2004)
The latest round of official level India-Pakistan talks held in Islamabad which concluded on Tuesday focussed on confidence-building measures (CBMs) to improve ties between the subcontinental neighbours.
- And The Houses All Fell Down (Indian Express, WAJAHAT HABIBULLAH, Dec 30, 2004)
In October ’04, I called on Narasimha Rao of an evening. We met at his home on Delhi’s Motilal Nehru Marg and I was struck by the fragility of his appearance but equally by the clarity of mind.
- Banking Consolidation Must Be Synergy-Driven (Business Line, Manoranjan Sharma, Dec 30, 2004)
Consolidation emerged as a defining characteristic of the modern banking world, primarily to leverage the benefits of large size, expanding and diversifying bank loan portfolios to lessen the likelihood of failure and harnessing core competencies.
- Bush Gives Aid, Not Time (Indian Express, Robin Wright, Dec 30, 2004)
The Bush administration more than doubled its financial commitment Tuesday to provide relief to nations suffering from the Indian Ocean tsunami amid complaints that the vacationing President Bush has been insensitive to a humanitarian catastrophe of epic
- Can Vnn, Bbc Get Away With This Corpse Show In Manhattan? (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Dec 30, 2004)
After 9/11 they chanted privacy, sensitivity; Asian disaster open season to show bodies of men, women, children
- Govt Got Wind 1 Hr Before Waves Hit Chennai (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Dec 30, 2004)
At 7.50 am on Black Sunday, more than one full hour before the tidal waves hit the Tamil Nadu coast, the top brass of the Indian Air Force knew that the Car Nicobar Air Base had been inundated.
- How Rao Broke The Ice In J&k (Indian Express, WAJAHAT HABIBULLAH, Dec 30, 2004)
In October ’04, I called on Narasimha Rao of an evening. We met at his home on Delhi’s Motilal Nehru Marg and I was struck by the fragility of his appearance but equally by the clarity of mind.
- How To Write Annual Reports (Business Line, Brian Henderson, Dec 30, 2004)
Reading the narrative element of an annual report in conjunction with the financial statements helps with their interpretation, but it can give a telling overview of the company even before these are examined
- India’S Flawed Approach (Deccan Herald, S N CHARY, Dec 30, 2004)
Not just economic policy but political friendship with the US and other nations, is crucial for economic growth
- India’S Pro-Active Foreign Policy (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Dec 30, 2004)
Continuity was the main theme of Indian foreign policy in the year 2004 as New Delhi stayed engaged with the world in a pro-active manner with particular focus on neighbours like Pakistan and China.
- It’S Not Laloo, Stupid (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Dec 30, 2004)
The year 2004 has been a horrible year, hasn’t it? Twelve months ago the hottest topic in Delhi was the mandate to use set-top boxes if we wanted to watch India challenging Australia.
- Jinnah In Memory (Pioneer, KR Phanda, Dec 30, 2004)
Qaid-e-Azam Jinnah, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru will always be remembered, though for different reasons. Jinnah is the only leader who single-handedly created a new country for Muslims.
- Kalam Calls For Tsunami Warning System (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2004)
The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, called for a tsunami warning system along the entire Indian coastline on the lines of the one in the 27 Pacific nations, safeguarding them from distant source tsunamis.
- Kashmir Conference In Kathmandu (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Dec 30, 2004)
Sir, my secular answer to the honourable member is that where it is in the hands of Allah, we turn to Allah, where it is in the hands of man, we turn to man."
- Kathmandu Talks On Kashmir (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Dec 30, 2004)
Kathmandu was a strange location for people to meet and discuss how to end violence and restore peace and security in Jammu and Kashmir. The Nepalese capital was under a virtual siege, surrounded by armed Maoists, who can paralyse life in the capital when
- The Making Of The Bomb (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Dec 29, 2004)
LIKE some other stray remarks that can sometimes be more crucial than formal policy pronouncements at august forums, former Prime Minister and most respected BJP leader, Atal Behari Vajpayee’s sudden disclosure
- Mamata Framed (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 29, 2004)
Mamata Banerjee's just been framed, and she loves it. For the framing refers not to legal charges against her but to 247 of her paintings, which were recently exhibited in Kolkata and sold like haute cakes.
- More Cbms For Peace (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 29, 2004)
Pakistani students and senior citizens could not ask for more from India. As part of its policy of concentrating on confidence-building measures for improving relations with its western neighbour
- Nature’S Wrath Is History’S Reminder (Deccan Herald, DENNIS SMITH, Dec 29, 2004)
Scientists, like art teachers who have not mastered anatomy or drawing, often assume that what they do not know is not important. And, when it comes to earth science, what they do not know is the pattern of geologic time
- Patenting A Law (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 29, 2004)
The Patent (Third) Amendment ordinance clears the air on one of the most contentious issues in recent years: the changeover in our patent regime.
- Prognosis On The New Patents Regime (Business Line, Vivek Kaul, Dec 29, 2004)
THE INDIAN pharmaceutical industry has done well in the recent past. But will the dream run continue come 2005? What are the challenges facing Indian pharmaceutical companies in the new patents regime
- The Trouble With Outsourcing (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Dec 29, 2004)
Information technology professionals in India greeted with jubilation the re-election of Mr George W. Bush as the US President. Their joy was in the hope that the new administration
- They Need Food, With Thought (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Dec 29, 2004)
Often I get asked what makes a woman journalist different to a man. What is it we bring to the trade that men cannot? I can speak only for myself and will say that I look at political issues differently to my male colleagues.
- Tsunami Effect (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 29, 2004)
After every horrendous tragedy on the scale of Sunday's tsunami, when the mind has digested the statistics and the gory images, and the consoling words have been said...
- Tsunami Warning System (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Dec 29, 2004)
Joining the international tsunami warning system will help, but even so there will be much that has to be done within the country.
- Venture Capitalists And Biotech Sector (Business Line, Vinish Kathuria, Dec 29, 2004)
THE success of Biocon's initial public offering (IPO) was expected to kick-start the process of venture capital funding in the biotechnology sector. However, six months down the line
- Was It A Human Failure? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 29, 2004)
Whether it is natural disasters or medical emergencies... it is precious minutes that make the difference between life and death. In the recent tsunami catastrophe, those precious minutes were squandered away by ignorant bliss resulting in the loss thousa
- What Can India Get? (Deccan Herald, B V SHENOY, Dec 29, 2004)
Most of us are unaware of the extra charge called the Asian premium which India and other Asian importers of crude oil from West Asia have to pay. The US and Europe are free from this levy.
- Sex And Sensibility (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Dec 29, 2004)
Although at one level it was a case of adolescent indiscretion, the afterlife of the MMS clip case captures many anxieties about the social transformation that sections of Indian society are undergoing.
- A Little More Credit For Tilling The Soil (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 29, 2004)
Integrating agricultural loans with the marketing of rural products may be one way to ensure greater offtake of rural credit
- Search For Explanations (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 29, 2004)
The New York Times, which is usually matter-of-fact and to the point, has allowed itself a bit of philosophising in its editorial on the enormous scale and sweep of the terror and tragedy of the black Sunday when the ...
- After-Thoughts (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 29, 2004)
As India begins to recover slowly from the shock of the havoc wrought by tsunami's devastating waves, the question arises whether something, if done in time, could have at least reduced the scale of death and destruction.
- Beyond Politics (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Dec 29, 2004)
The very first words that were spoken by Manmohan Singh when he arrived at his South Block office
- War And Peace In Sri Lanka (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Dec 29, 2004)
The light at the end of the tunnel in the Sri Lankan peace process, burnt out in the last 18 months of static, is flickering again.
- Kashmir Conference In Kathmandu (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Dec 29, 2004)
The Kathmandu conference provided ideas on how to move forward in the quest for restoring normalcy and promoting contacts and harmony across the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
- For A Development-Oriented Trips (The Economic Times, ASHOK KHEMKAL, Dec 29, 2004)
The third Patent (Amend) Bill, meant to fulfil its obligation to introduce product patent protection in drugs and medicines in compliance with Article 27.1 of the TRIPS agreement falling due on January 1, 2005
- Helping Hand (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 29, 2004)
It is becoming increasingly important to save Indian democracy from the politicians. The Election Commission’s running battle against Bihar’s politicians proves this once again.
- Global Commodity Boom Set To Continue (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Dec 28, 2004)
Strong demand and rise in investments globally in 2004 in the wake of the world economy's upswing fuelled a price boom for key commodities, both oil and non-oil, especially metals and minerals.
- Dirty Tricks? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 28, 2004)
On the face of it, the action of the authorities of Muzaffarpur district in Bihar in lodging an FIR against Mr George Fernandes last Saturday under Sections 170 and 171(B) of the Indian Penal Code
- Death By Water (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 28, 2004)
The tsunami tragedy flags again the need to shore up our meteorological preparedness
- Can Indian Carriers Soar In The Open Skies? (Business Line, R. Krishnan , Dec 28, 2004)
With a new civil aviation policy expected to set India's public and private sector carriers free, they should really take advantage of the open skies.
- Alliance Arithmetic Holds The Key (Hindu, Sanjay Kumar, Dec 28, 2004)
While a Congress-JMM-RJD alliance can upset the BJP's applecart in Jharkhand, the absence of it will almost ensure a second innings for the BJP.
- A Shaky Start (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 28, 2004)
For all the political strength that United States President George W. Bush gained at the end of the last electoral cycle, there are enough signs that the early months of his second term will not be trouble-free.
- India Should Read Tsunamis Right (Indian Express, Arun Bapat, Dec 28, 2004)
The Asian Marine Disaster (AMD) on December 26 has no parallel in recent history. The Sumatra earthquake, with a magnitude of 8.9, is the fifth largest since 1900.
- The Living Count The Dead (Indian Express, E. P. Unny, Dec 28, 2004)
Chennai's morning people aren’t there at the beach on Monday. The walkers have been asked to stay away for a couple of days. We aren’t taking any chances, says a policeman
- At Saarc, In Charge (Indian Express, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 28, 2004)
As he packs his bags for the first foreign policy venture in the new year — the annual summit of the South Asian nations in Dhaka
- A Tide Of E-Waste (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 28, 2004)
Computers and electronic gadgets that have reached the end of their useful life in the industrialised countries present a major environmental problem for India and other developing countries, turning up at their ports as e-waste.
- Armenia's Isolation Grows Deeper (Hindu, Susan Sachs, Dec 28, 2004)
As winter closes in, bringing the risk of new hardships in a country heavily dependent on imports and foreign aid, the prospects appear grim without outside intervention.
- Trading With China (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 28, 2004)
In recent months, India-China trade has been on a high, and estimates are that the overall figure for calendar 2004 could well cross the target of $10 billion to touch $12 billion.
- A Deft Stratagem? (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Dec 28, 2004)
The filling up of the long-pending vacancy in the post of the Karnataka Upalokayukta has again shifted the focus of public attention on the issue of corruption in public administration and public life.
- When The Sea Rose (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 28, 2004)
It was not the 9.2 Richter scale earthquake in Indonesia that was devastating. It was the tsunami, or harbour wave, that struck the coastal belt in the Indian Ocean, including the southern coasts of India
- The Tired Old Subsidies Debate (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Dec 28, 2004)
Once again, the Finance Ministry has prepared a document which proposes that the Central Government cut explicit and implicit subsidies, without adequate attention to the possible negative implications.
- Left’S Base Is Shrinking (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Dec 28, 2004)
THE leading lights of the CPM Politbureau seem to get up every morning with a determination to say “no” to whatever the Centre might propose. So, if it is “no” to disinvestment today
- Spying At The Un (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 28, 2004)
The official acknowledgement by the UN office at Geneva (UNOG) of the discovery of a secret listening device is shocking.
- Powers To Be Misused (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Dec 28, 2004)
The CBI seems to be losing its veneer of being a non-partisan investigating body and is increasingly coming across as an arm of whichever is the party in power.
- Network Error (Indian Express, Bhai Mahavir, Dec 28, 2004)
A fire had broken out on the electric pole outside my home. The wiremen came, and pronounced that the cable had got burnt and that they had to replace it.
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