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- Enabling It Growth (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Dec 13, 2004)
Industry-specific townships could be the solution to the infrastructure constraints the information technology sector is facing.
- Robust Exports: The Invisible Realities (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Dec 13, 2004)
A breaking real-life story seems set to give all the popular television soaps a run for their money. The viewers are agreed that it is `riveting stuff' and this appears to be driving such shows as Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki, Kusum and Kyonki Saans Bhi Kabhi Bahu
- Flying At Last (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 13, 2004)
Bangalore’s ambitions have been grounded by a lethal combination of political apathy and administrative lacunae, as last week’s Express series, ‘Bangalore Crumbling’, had brought home to readers.
- Pakistan Becomes A Us Protectorate (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Dec 13, 2004)
Following the 9/11 commission report, the US Congress is enacting legislation to implement the recommendations of the commission. The commission in its recommendations had focussed attention on the need for the US helping Pakistan to develop a promising,
- It Is In Giving That They Receive (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Dec 13, 2004)
While the Christmas season brings with it the feeling of generosity and of giving to others, such humanistic motivations are not sufficient for all.
- Job Schemes Must Effect Grassroots Changes (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 13, 2004)
The final test of the Employment Guarantee Act will lie in the poverty alleviation it promises and the quality of assets it builds. That the assets it helps build should be maintained properly goes without saying.
- Needed, Politics Of Moderation (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 13, 2004)
There are few holidays in coalition governments and as the United Progressive Alliance completes six months in office, we would do well to look at the formations both within the ruling coalition and the Opposition.
- Civilisation Fat (The Economic Times, RAJA M, Dec 12, 2004)
AT a gym facing Mumbai's Marine Drive, pear-shaped patrons pant on imported cardio machines and tread mills while gazing city lights across the Arabian Sea bay.
- Seizing The Moment (The Economic Times, Soumya Kanti Mitra, Dec 12, 2004)
MS Neena Gill, Labour MEP from UK and head of the European Parliament's South Asia & Saarc Delegation, has the best explanation for why EU-India relations have been upgraded to a ‘strategic’ level at the Amsterdam Nov 8 EU-India Summit.
- The Tiger Tops (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 12, 2004)
The ‘Royal Bengal Tiger’, as Sourav Ganguly has been known for his aggression on the field, may not exactly be a role model for the ICC which has been fining the Indian cricket captain regularly for his team's slow over-rates in one-day internationals.
- Ec Expertise In Demand (Tribune, Ravi Bhatia, Dec 11, 2004)
THE expertise acquired by the Election Commission is in demand globally. The United Nations and the Commission Electoral Independante of Cote de’ Ivoire have signed memorandums of understanding with the Election Commission for cooperation in electoral mat
- Money Is Not A Problem (Tribune, Mohan Guruswamy, Dec 11, 2004)
ON November 17 in Srinagar the Prime Minister announced an “economic revival plan” of Rs 24,000 crore for Jammu and Kashmir. By unwrapping the package as a bold new one, the Prime Minister is guilty of some terminological inexactitude. What is new is just
- Whining India? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 11, 2004)
By any account, India is being increasingly seen across the world as a rising power. Several western observers have argued that the global power shift from West to East is under way, with China and India expected to influence the course of global events o
- When The Scales Of Justice Tilt Too Far (Indian Express, T S R SUBRAMANIAN, Dec 11, 2004)
The judicial system is in urgent need of reform. Without it India cannot become a competitive economy
- Treading On Bombs (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 11, 2004)
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is right in welcoming the progress in clearing anti-personnel mines in recent years, even as these weapons continue to exact a heavy civilian toll.
- Ten Ways To Fight The C-Word (Indian Express, ARUN DUGGAL, Dec 11, 2004)
The issue of corruption is serious, widespread and increasing by the day. Respected institutions, such as the judiciary and defence forces, which were free of it a few years ago, now seem to be getting increasingly corrupt.
- Strategic Partner? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 11, 2004)
The US Defence Secretary, Mr Donald Rumsfeld’s maiden visit to India after the President, Mr George Bush’s electoral victory, is an acknowledgement of the ‘’strategic partnership’’ that has evolved between the two countries.
- Reining In The Military (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 11, 2004)
The NHRC should step in to investigate the extent of human rights violations by the security forces in J&K
- Party And The Party (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 11, 2004)
The day after the raucous party, are some leftover questions. Like, who picks up the tab for the fun and frolic, the flamboyant sycophancy of Congress men and women?
- Children Of Jehad — Or Victims? (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Dec 11, 2004)
AS providence would have it, the Srinagar-based journalist did not have to search for the man who left his wife and daughters in India when he crossed the Line of Control (LoC) in pursuit of “azadi” and reached what India refers to as Pakistan Occupied ..
- More Custodial Deaths (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 11, 2004)
THE disclosure of the Punjab State Human Rights Commission that custodial deaths are on the rise and as many as 87 such deaths have taken place in the state this year till November comes as a rude shock.
- Message To Rumsfeld (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 11, 2004)
THE visit of US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to New Delhi was significant for two reasons. It was the first by a senior US official after President George W. Bush was re-elected for a second term.
- Manmohan Singh In The Northeast (Hindu, Walter Fernandes, Dec 11, 2004)
The Northeast needs not more packages but serious steps towards a solution to the problems that have resulted in insurgency.
- Let Them Have Their Exits And Their Entrances (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 11, 2004)
A Mother Goose rhyme reads: "Jerry Hall, he was so small, a rat could eat him, hat and all." True, small may be beautiful, but to be small and yet survive is tough, not only for Hall but also more than half of the small players in business.
- Iron Man Rumsfeld (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Dec 11, 2004)
The timing could have been much better, but we can still see some positives out of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s visit to India.
- Furore Over Attachment Of Assets (Business Line, R. V. Ramana Murthy, Dec 11, 2004)
THE Andhra Pradesh Government has sought amendments to the Seed Act, 1952 in the light of the ongoing farm crisis in the State following the failure of seeds in cotton, maize and other crops (The Hindu, October 25).
- Focus On Agriculture (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Dec 11, 2004)
The latest World Employment Report (WER) brought out by the International Labour Office in Geneva has a chapter "Why Agriculture Matters",
- Unaided, Uncharitable And Unsettled (Business Line, H. P. Ranina, Dec 11, 2004)
The India-Mauritius Double Tax Avoidance Agreement is in news with the Finance Minister planning a revisit as and when it is expedient to do so having regard to economic, political and diplomatic considerations.
- Dying Art Of Dropping In (Deccan Herald, MAYA JAYAPAL, Dec 11, 2004)
My daughter, who lives in the US, was telling her daughter about evenings at my parents’ house in Anna Nagar, Chennai. Of how, come evening and the air cooled, the cane chairs and little occasional tables would be brought out on to the front lawn and kept
- Bhopal Remembered (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Dec 11, 2004)
Although in the immediate aftermath of the disaster a number of environmental laws were enacted, they are inadequate in content and implementation.
- Agriculture Is No Holy Cow (Business Line, T. N. Pandey, Dec 11, 2004)
THE one issue on which no political party wants to express a firm view is the taxation of rich agriculturists under the income and wealth tax Acts.
- Out In The Cold (Business Line, Joseph Prabakar, Dec 11, 2004)
Excise valuation based on `normal wholesale price' was in vogue till June 2000. The Government thought it fit to replace the wholesale price concept with transaction value, which is a WTO-approved method for Customs valuation.
- Ambition Gets Asean Aggressive (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Dec 10, 2004)
Asean is now seeking Asia-wide opportunities for sustained export-led growth and the intricate web of trade accords planned will certainly lead to a significantly higher share of Asian exports in world trade in the coming decades.
- Changing Face (Deccan Herald, GAYATRI CHANDRASHEKAR, Dec 10, 2004)
The passive train traveller is the one constant feature of a London that has changed over the years
- Checking Martian Health Threat (Hindu, Seth Shostak, Dec 10, 2004)
Just as the plague came to Europe from Asia's distant habitats so too might Nasa unwittingly import extraterrestrial pathogens from Mars for which we have no defence, fear scientists.
- Dire Warning (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 10, 2004)
LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran’s bellicose message on the occasion of the organisation’s Martyrs Day does not bode well for the future of the three-year long ceasefire.
- Human Rights: A Sad Anniversary (Deccan Herald, MARIO SOARES, Dec 10, 2004)
Without respect for human rights, the opponents of terrorism will be on the same moral level as terrorists
- Insurgents Target Aid Workers In Iraq (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Dec 10, 2004)
International aid workers, whose humanitarian mission afforded them protection in areas of conflict, now find that their flags offer little defence against an unprecedented spate of terrorist attacks in Iraq.
- `Logistics, India's Weakest Link In Exports' (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Dec 10, 2004)
Exporters face innumerable infrastructure bottlenecks. Inland movement of goods remains a major obstacle, as exporters are helpless in the face of high cost of transport and inter-State and intra-State barriers.
- The Patent Controversy (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Dec 10, 2004)
By rushing through the Third Patents Amendment without proper parliamentary scrutiny, India is short changing its post-Doha obligations to both its own and the world's poor
- Musharraf’S Ploys (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Dec 10, 2004)
A whole lot of political wheeling and dealing is going on in Pakistan to prevent a revolt against the dictatorship
- Name Of The New War Is `Trade' (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 10, 2004)
The world's second largest economy, Japan, hinges its hopes on trade surplus to help in achieving growth beyond the 0.1 per cent recorded for the last quarter....
- The Rupee And The Dollar (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 10, 2004)
On Monday, December 6, 2004, the rupee closed at an eight month high of 43.64 to the dollar. Since November, the appreciation has been 140 paise.
- When Banks Merge And Emerge Bigger (Business Line, A. S. Ramasastri, Dec 10, 2004)
Merger appears to be the buzzword in the Indian banking industry today. There have been a few mergers in the recent past, some out of compulsion and othersout of strategic planning.
- A Gleam In The Eye (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Dec 10, 2004)
It is the “in” thing currently. About everybody in the creamy layer is forecasting the rate of growth of India’s gross domestic product: the International Monetary Fund
- Issues Patently Questionable (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Dec 10, 2004)
In less than two months, India will be obliged to do the follow-up on the WTO-mandated product patent stipulations, and the Commerce Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, made a strident statement:
- Change The 1945 Balance Of Power (Indian Express, KENNEDY GRAHAM, Dec 10, 2004)
The report of the UN High Level Panel on reform of the UN says that the Security Council needs to be expanded and be proactive on pre-emptive miliary strikes
- Forget Efficiency. Let’S Do It (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Dec 10, 2004)
In the normal course, I would oppose any new government activity on the grounds that it is probably unnecessary, is likely to increase the power and the influence of an already ...
- Iraq: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Dec 10, 2004)
Since there is a total ban on reports of the inch-by-inch decimation of all life and property in Falluja (for the sake of democracy, of course).
- Kill The New Bill (Telegraph, Gyan Pathak, Dec 10, 2004)
The Lok Sabha has finally scrapped the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act, but made way for another controversy in the form of the unlawful activities (prevention) bill.
- Leonard Woolf’S Last Posting (Indian Express, MOHAN K. TIKKU, Dec 10, 2004)
Well before he became famous as a member of the Bloomsbury Group in London or as husband of Virginia Stephen, Leonard Sidney Woolf landed in Sri Lanka as a cadet of the Ceylon Civil Service.
- Next Steps (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 10, 2004)
If Donald Rumsfeld, the US secretary of defence, has a sense of recent history, he may find it intriguing to learn that Indo-US ties got consolidated only towards the end of the second term of the Clinton presidency.
- A Pawar Highway (Indian Express, Prafulla Marpakwar, Dec 10, 2004)
On the night of November 28, NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s Landcruiser was jammed in the Kasara ghats (about 125 kms from Mumbai) for two hours.
- Corporate Governance And Central Banks (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Dec 09, 2004)
Central banks have the incentive to adopt the international best practices of corporate governance because financial communities often perceive such methods as a prelude to making the central banks independent and accountable
- Assisting Crime Victims (Hindu, K. T. Thomas, Dec 09, 2004)
The plight of those who suffer when a crime is committed deserves more attention.
- Bhoomi Puja (Indian Express, KAMALA BALACHANDRAN, Dec 09, 2004)
Commenting on the news item that a chief minister performed the Bhoomi Puja at a proposed international airport site, a friend remarked that it was an anachronistic act.
- The Buzz Over The Bus (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 09, 2004)
The differences between India and Pakistan over the travel documents required for the proposed bus service between Muzaffarabad and Srinagar exemplify contradictory views of Kashmir’s status.
- The Favourite Whipping Boy (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Dec 09, 2004)
Is India conspiring to wipe a neighbour called Bangladesh out of the face of the earth through “desertification” of the country or
- A Needless Ceiling (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 09, 2004)
Allowing foreign Institutional iinvestors to put money in corporate debt paper is welcome, even if does not go far enough. For a start, the aggregate outstanding investment of $500....
- New Image Of The Old Cheque (Business Line, M. S. Parthasarathy, Dec 09, 2004)
On October 28, 2004, , a significant piece of legislation came into effect in the US, to facilitate a major change, aided by technological developments, in the mode of collection of outstation cheques
- Will Number-Cruncher Networks Display Better Bandwidth? (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 09, 2004)
Firms of chartered accountants are available in all sizes, ranging from the `S' type having only a lone proprietor, to `XXL' such as the operations of MAF or multinational accounting firm.
- Why Dollar Is In The Doldrums (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Dec 09, 2004)
While a major withdrawal from the US market has not taken place so far, there is a limit to the investment by foreign banks because of the ever-increasing risk of over-exposure to a fall in the dollar.
- The Man Behind The Bomb (Tribune, K. S. Parthasarathy, Dec 09, 2004)
During May 1990, I attended the College on Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics at the erstwhile International Centre for Theoretical Physics at Trieste, Italy. There I met Professor Abdus Salam, the Nobel Laureate and the then Director of the Centre.
- Stem Cells, Cloning, And Ethics (Hindu, Lewis Wolpert, Dec 09, 2004)
There is no moral justification for banning research using embryonic stem cells. It offers great hope to all those suffering from a wide variety of illnesses.
- So Far So Good (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 09, 2004)
There was bonhomie during the meetings the Prime Minister and the Home Minister had with the leaders of the National Socialist Council of India on Tuesday.
- Save The Auditors From Becoming Box-Tickers (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 09, 2004)
There used to be that once-in-a-week session that read `moral science' in school timetables. A slot essentially for storytelling, though kind teachers were not against allowing students to do their own thing.
- Quest For Permanent Seat (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Dec 09, 2004)
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hot-paced visit to this country will be remembered as something of a landmark for two good reasons. The first is its undoubted importance in purely bilateral terms.
- What’S Left Of Bengal (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Dec 09, 2004)
The degeneration of West Bengal into one of the most backward states in India, and of Calcutta into little more than a very big mofussil city, began somewhere in the mid-Sixties. That was the time when we saw the use of “mass movements”, bandhs, hartals,
- Mother’S Priceless Gift (Deccan Herald, G. Srinivas Rao, Dec 09, 2004)
The recent tragedy of the theft of the Nobel medallion of Rabindranath Tagore, won by him in 1913, has made me take a fresh, fond look at my mother’s slate.
My mother, Radhamma
- Kashmir Roadblock (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 09, 2004)
Negotiations can never bring out the desired result if either of the two parties involved has a rigid attitude. This explains why the technical-level talks between India
- Empowering The Rural Masses (Deccan Herald, KATHYAYINI CHAMARAJ, Dec 09, 2004)
It seems as though the moment which Jawaharlal Nehru had spoken about so evocatively 57 years ago, of India’s “tryst with destiny” and “the time to redeem our pledge”
- Reforming The United Nations (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 09, 2004)
The recommendations of the panel mandated to propose reforms for making the United Nations a more effective instrument of collective security might not satisfy either the countries that fret at restraints imposed by international norms or those that seek
- France Woos India And Its Markets (Deccan Herald, KATRIN BENNHOLD, Dec 08, 2004)
Since President Jacques Chirac returned from a high-profile state visit to China two months ago with more than $4 billion in contracts, his government has quietly turned its attention to Asia’s other rising giant:
- Too Rigid To Work (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Dec 08, 2004)
Labour-market rigidities constrain growth in employment. This argument has often been advanced by economists. In the absence of flexible labour markets in the organized sector
- Valley Of Individual Trauma (Indian Express, Humra Quraishi, Dec 08, 2004)
In J&K, there are still over 6000 ‘missing’ young men. They were taken for interrogation by security agencies. Never to return home. Needless to add this violation of human rights is just one of the factors that widens the alienation of the civilians in t
- Vultures And Values (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 08, 2004)
For long has the United States been described as a “vulture culture” which is very different from having a few culture vultures, like we do in India.
- Wanted: Jawaharlal 2005 (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Dec 08, 2004)
The year of The Great Political Turnaround is drawing to a close. A few months ago the BJP was the invincible party of India Shining.
- What Price The Largesse For Kashmir? (Business Line, Mohan Guruswamy, Dec 08, 2004)
The only effective antidote to insurgency is the restoration of good government and order. With the latter largely absent in Kashmir, any new package might end up putting more good money into the hands of those who cannot deliver the goods.
- The French Socialist Vote (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 08, 2004)
France's socialist party (Parti Socialiste) has voted convincingly in favour of the European Union Constitution in last week's internal ballot.
- High-Level Exercise In Futility (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Dec 08, 2004)
The report of the body set up by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in the hope of recovering some of the world body’s lost prestige after US President George Bush had treated it as irrelevant and launched his unlawful war on Iraq on false pretences, is out.
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