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- Engaging North-East Militants (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Oct 11, 2004)
Two questions are being asked in the Indian establishment in the wake of the recent series of bomb blasts in Assam and Nagaland.
- Inflation And Growth — The Policy Challenge (Business Line, Devika Mehndiratta, Oct 11, 2004)
For an economy with large unemployed resources, running a persistent current account surplus and, at the same time, raising interest rates to dampen aggregate demand and slow down economic activity, may call for simple and cautious policy solutions
- Graded Chaos (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 11, 2004)
The education sector in West Bengal is beyond ideal solutions. The latest progressive idea waiting to be tested out in secondary schools under the West Bengal board is the introduction of grades.
- Increasing Interest In Gas Pipeline (Tribune, Bhabani Sen Gupta, Oct 11, 2004)
Distressingly, though not surprisingly, the importance of an oil and gas pipeline, connecting Iran to India through the territory of Pakistan has received marginal attention in the discussions on the normalisation of India-Pakistan relations.
- Business With Pakistan (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Oct 11, 2004)
The prime minister, Manmohan Singh, said after his one-on-one meeting with the president of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf, that he thought “we can do business with him”.
- Seminar Discusses Problems Of Saarc Writers (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Oct 10, 2004)
THERE have been plenty of ‘talk shows’ here. The Eleventh SAARC Writers’ Conference took off here with Ajeet Cour dwelling on the role of the writer living in the developing countries in these troubled times, when the so-called super power is controlling
- Rebel Threat In Sugar Heartland (Hindu, Javed M. Ansari , Oct 10, 2004)
If you want to see the power of the Indian politician — good and bad — you must come to the vast sugar heartland of Western Maharashtra.
- Where Security Is Offensive And Obnoxious (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, Oct 10, 2004)
AS the United Nations General Assembly met here at the United Nations in the third week of September, one got to see how threatened the VIPs feel. Every year it’s getting costlier in terms of human and technological resources.
- We Will Strengthen A-I, Ia To Compete Better: Praful Patel (Tribune, Girja Shankar Kaura, Oct 10, 2004)
HE is on a tightrope walk. On one side is the constant probing from the Left parties which have their own constituency to cater and, on the other, is the immediate ...
- Board Of Chaos For Cricket In India? (The Economic Times, R K NANDAN, Oct 10, 2004)
Appointing a professionally-competent CEO could salvage the reputation of the BCCI which has, over the last few weeks, been shown up in a controversial and unprofessional light
- Taking Over Tide Country (Telegraph, Debashis Bhattacharyya, Oct 10, 2004)
The ecologically fragile Sundarbans is already gasping for breath. And experts warn it may soon be delivered its coup de gráce.
- World Bank Aid (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 09, 2004)
International assistance and lending is required in the infrastructure sector
- Maharashtra: The Last Lap (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Oct 09, 2004)
The Maharashtra Assembly election is still one that could be lost by the Congress rather than won by the Shiv Sena-BJP combine.
- Never At Home (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 09, 2004)
It takes more than a fondness for painting, farming and horse-riding to manage this ministry. And Shivraj Patil may find that out to his cost
- No Ideological Lines Drawn (Tribune, J. Sri Raman, Oct 09, 2004)
WHICH has a greater bearing on the forthcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections
— Mr Bal Thackeray’s beard or the Shiv Sena’s ideological baggage? By all accounts thus far, the answer is unmistakable: the former.
- Palestinians Missed The Bus, Always (The Economic Times, DAVID DANIELI, Oct 09, 2004)
Abba Iban, a legendary former foreign minister of Israel, is known ahad famously said that the Palestinians have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
- Prize And Prejudice (Tribune, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 09, 2004)
Every now and then along comes a writer who makes us sit up by challenging the way we see the world. While some would welcome being shaken out of their complacency, the general tendency is a disinclination to be stirred by the new and unfamiliar;
- Spare The Goose (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 09, 2004)
The government wants to collect more tax and has given further penal powers to tax officials, who, in turn, are scrutinising the tax returns of top corporates and individual taxpayers to identify incremental tax potential.
- Unequal Npt (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 09, 2004)
Dr Manmohan Singh’s assertion that India will not sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is consistent with the position held by the country all along.
- King Without The Crown (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Oct 09, 2004)
Late on the night of January 16, 1941 Subhas Bose dressed as a maulvi with a beard, fez on head and long coat.
- Lahore Retains Its Grandeur (Tribune, Tarlochan Singh, Oct 09, 2004)
Recently, I got an invitation to accompany Mr O.P. Chautala, Chief Minister of Haryana, to visit Sodhara village in Gujranwala district where Bhai Kanhaiya, a disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, was born about 325 years ago.
- Saffron Siblings Vs Congress Parivar (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Oct 09, 2004)
The theme song of the moment in Maharashtra’s assembly poll, scheduled for October 13, is the shrill notes of despair emanating from the camps of the challenger and the defender alike.
- Annul The Annual Amendment Activity (Business Line, T. N. Pandey, Oct 09, 2004)
THE practice of making amendments to direct tax laws through the Amendment Acts stopped from 1989.
- C.K. Prahalad Is Now A Seeker At The Bottom Of The Pyramid (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 09, 2004)
YOU know C. K. Prahalad as the professor who has helped leading companies of the world to make more profits. Now, in his new book, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, from Wharton School and
- Caught Between (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Oct 09, 2004)
In Britain, one might be forgiven for imagining that the invasion and occupation of Iraq produced no casualties until the militants seized a 62-year-old British engineer, Kenneth Bigley.
- Don't Let The Higher Value Out (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Oct 09, 2004)
Income from house property is taxed on the basis of annual value under the income-tax code. This signifies the sum for which the property might reasonably be expected to be let out from year to year.
- Compete Or Perish (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 09, 2004)
THE controversy over the continuance of Press Note 18 is welcome because it has focussed attention on an issue which has become fundamental in the current regime of economic liberalisation.
- Considered Decision (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 09, 2004)
India could consider fighting terrorism with international co-operation
- Considered Decision (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 09, 2004)
India could consider fighting terrorism with international co-operation
- Democrats Bounce Back (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 09, 2004)
With less than a month to go before the presidential election in the United States, Democratic candidate John Kerry at last got his act together and demonstrated that he can be a strong
- Extrapolating The Growth Estimates (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 09, 2004)
Recently released economic data for the first quarter of the fiscal year give room for optimism. According to preliminary estimates of the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO), the Gross Domestic Product grew by 7.4 per cent during
- Adb's Country Strategy And Programme 2005-07 (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 09, 2004)
The 2005-07 India lending programme of the Asian Development Bank is focussed on building infrastructure, the lack of which has hobbled the various sectors and is responsible for the high inter-regional disparities.
- Sharing Water Resources (Hindu, T. Ramakrishnan, Oct 08, 2004)
The Ganga Water Treaty between India and Bangladesh stands out as an example on river-water sharing.
- Should Plan Panel Be Disbanded? (The Economic Times, Arvind Virmani, Oct 08, 2004)
Some have asserted that the Planning Commission is redundant and should be abolished.
- Transatlantic Dogfight On Aircraft Subsidies (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 08, 2004)
The 2003 Cancun Ministerial of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) floundered in the face of the developed countries' stubborn refusal to prune their massive agricultural subsidies that distort the global grain market.
- Out Of Order (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 08, 2004)
The United States Ambassador to India, David C. Mulford, has overstepped his diplomatic role by writing directly to the Assam Chief Minister offering assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate the recent bomb attacks in ...
- Siege Within (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 08, 2004)
Pakistan must show zero tolerance to all forms of terrorism
- Small Is No Longer Beautiful! (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 08, 2004)
Ever since it was published in 1973, economist Schumacher’s treatise of Small is beautiful has been cited to justify appropriate technology for Third World development in the form of everything from bullock-carts to drip-irrigation.
- Throwing The Baby With Bath Water (The Economic Times, Manoj Pant, Oct 08, 2004)
Over the past two weeks or so the issue of foreign consultants in the Planning Commission has been an issue for debate, both in the print and visual media.
- No Military Solution For Assam (Hindu, Udayon Misra, Oct 08, 2004)
The answer lies not in shooting ULFA out of existence but in seriously trying to address some of the root causes for its rise.
- For Front-Loaded Tariffs (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 08, 2004)
There is a fundamental flaw in the draft norms for tariff-based competitive bidding announced by electricity regulator CERC.
- States’ Rights (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 08, 2004)
Suddenly defenders of India’s national security and sovereignty have become dime a dozen. The offer of the ambassador of the United States of America in New Delhi to Mr Tarun Gogoi, the chief minister of Assam, that help from the...
- New Issues In Non-Proliferation: Self-Reliance, The Only Answer (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Oct 08, 2004)
American non-proliferation policies are arbitrary. Pakistan and China have been found to have transferred enrichment technology and equipment and weapons designs to Libya, Iran and North Korea.
- Neither Heaven Nor Hell (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 08, 2004)
The Supreme Court reportedly does not want courts to grant divorce just on a claim of irretrievable breakdown of marriage.
- Moment Of Truth (Deccan Herald, SHALINI K SHARMA, Oct 08, 2004)
It’s sad how we Indians take our ‘Independence’ for granted, and the man who made it possible
- Getting On Board (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 08, 2004)
There must be a will if an image has to be discarded. The All India Muslim Personal Law Board is now showing that will. International terrorism has encouraged the association of the religion with violence, and it has become necessary to lay stress on the
- `Nobel' Heroes Of The Dismal Science (Business Line, A. Seshan, Oct 08, 2004)
It is Nobel season. The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel or, in short, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for 2004 will be announced on October 11.
- Quota — An Idea Whose Time Has Come (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 08, 2004)
Quota is "an idea whose time has come", according to Dr Manmohan Singh, though the private sector may never come to terms with ``job reservation for the weaker sections'', law or no law.
- How To Lift Income By 8.9% (The Economic Times, Pradeep S. Mehta, Oct 08, 2004)
The government headed by Dr Manmohan Singh speaks about 8% growth as something to aim for and achieve over the next few years, and reforming with Mungeri Lal’s face in mind.
- We Need The Panel, Only If It Reinvents Itself (The Economic Times, R K PACHAURI, Oct 08, 2004)
The Planning Commission served an important purpose when the government pursued a development philosophy of command and control, with the commanding heights of the economy essentially in government hands.
- Pm On Quota (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 08, 2004)
Heartening that the news about the IAF acquiring more multi-role fighter aircraft in the near future is, the few that are in the pipeline may not be enough to fulfil the needs of the Force.
- 'In France, You Can Buy Everything' (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 07, 2004)
Clara Gaymard, ambassador at large for international investment and president, Invest In France Agency, was in India recently.
- Nation Without Toilets (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 07, 2004)
Fiftyseven years after Independence, Union Minister of State for Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation Selja’s statement that over 70 crore Indians do not have access to proper toilet facilities does not come as a surprise.
- Much Ado About Fii Flows (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 07, 2004)
If the stock market is indeed the barometer of the economy, the UPA government is chugging along nicely.
- Laloo Can’T Say “no” (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 07, 2004)
IF anything epitomises criminalisation of politics, it is the fielding of Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav on the Rashtriya Janata Dal ticket from Madhepura in Bihar.
- Kerry’S Brain, Bush’S Heart (Deccan Herald, ANTOINE AUDOUARD, Oct 07, 2004)
What if a hi-tech surgery were performed, creating the new US President out of a merger of Bush and Kerry?
- No Concept, Only Paper (Business Line, K. Srinivasan , Oct 07, 2004)
No new `concept' as such has emerged from the Concept Paper. The draft Companies Bill is, for all practical purposes, an abridged rehash of the existing Act.
- India-U.S. Nuclear Ties (Hindu, M. R. Srinivasan, Oct 07, 2004)
For the U.S. to build a thriving high technology business with India that is mutually beneficial, it will have to erase the prevailing perception that it is an unreliable partner.
- In Favour Of Diversity (Telegraph, Ellora Puri, Oct 07, 2004)
There is a lesson for India in the two US rulings which show that the American private sector supports reservation
- First Law Of Business Is To Know The Law Right (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 07, 2004)
In mid-September, with only an hour to go before the AGM, Birla Corporation Ltd rushed to the Company Law Board (CLB) and asked if R. S. Lodha could chair the meeting.
- Us Just Wants Karzai To Win (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Oct 07, 2004)
Since the US-led invasion in 2001 and the resultant fall of the Taliban government in Kabul, the American presence has been ubiquitous in Afghanistan.
- Investigating Tehelka (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 07, 2004)
On the face of it, the decision of the Central Government to get the Tehelka allegations investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation and to wind up the Justice S.N. Phukan Commission of Inquiry makes good sense.
- Us Knowhow Policy Discriminatory (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Oct 07, 2004)
Unlike in the Clinton Administration, the nuclear nonproliferation mandarins in the Bush Administration have never embarked on a crusade to “cap, roll back and eliminate” India’s nuclear weapons programme.
- Village Energy Security (Hindu, Indrani Bagchi, Oct 07, 2004)
In India, non-conventional energy resources remain untapped in the absence of policy directions.
- What Is It To Be Normal? (Telegraph, Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Oct 07, 2004)
T wo tales from two different cities recently sparked off a lot of controversy. One pertained to the country’s defence, the other to its civil administration.
- World Development Report — An Agenda For Peace And Prosperity (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 07, 2004)
As Economic growth is the only sustainable way to raise a society's standard of living, the wherewithal to achieve this assumes overarching priority in any development strategy.
- The Kiss Of The Fitness Centre (Telegraph, SATADRU OJHA, Oct 07, 2004)
It doesn’t take much to realize that fitness ads are a reworking of the frog-prince fable
- Demography And P&p Sector — Age Bomb, A Trigger For Outsourcing (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Oct 07, 2004)
The aging population of the developed countries, coupled with a desire of the workers for fewer hours, is a ticking time-bomb. The Proprietorship and Partnership sector will be tremendously impacted in the coming decades because of the tectonic shift ...
- Remote Control (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Oct 07, 2004)
The United Progressive Alliance government will soon have to make some hard choices on Nepal.
- Rabi Prospects (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 07, 2004)
Even as the kharif harvest gathers momentum, it is clear that actual output of several crops — rice, coarse grain, pulses, and oilseeds — will not only fall considerably below the target but also short of the kharif 2003 output.
- Another Growth Portent (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 07, 2004)
That there has not been a single default in Crisil's rated portfolio of more than 500 companies in the first six months of the current fiscal, a first in the last 10 years, is indicative of a vastly improved financial health of corporate India.
- A Universe Where It's Talk @ Fancy (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 07, 2004)
Across America, the business models that have worked for decades for the incumbent phone companies are beginning to unravel.
- Economy Booming (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 07, 2004)
Growth in the first quarter may not continue for the rest of the year
- M&a Success In Banking — Enhancing Value With Brandduediligence (Business Line, David Haigh, Oct 06, 2004)
As shareholders bank on increased merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the financial markets, analysts' views are mixed on what could be the potential benefits.
- Vote For Stability (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 06, 2004)
Yudhoyono must provide an effective govt and ensure democracy lasts in Indonesia
- Making Heritage Each Day (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Oct 06, 2004)
One of the great things about heritage conservation is that it offers an opportunity to be creative, inventive and innovative. Imagine any one of our 3,700 cities and towns of India. Every building, road and structure that we put on the earth’s surface to
- Mellowed Mallus (Deccan Herald, T C NARAYAN, Oct 06, 2004)
On returning to my homeland, things seemed to have become more organised in my absence
- Is Pota Really Dead? (Tribune, Rajindar Sachar , Oct 06, 2004)
A rose will smell the same by any name while the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) 2004 will stink by any other name. I am reminded of this by the cosmetic exercise of the UPA government in purporting to repeal POTA, but ironically providing at the same
- Flare Up In North-East (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 06, 2004)
The sudden flare up in Assam occurring simultaneously in several districts, close on the heels of disturbances in Manipur, has ominous overtones.
- Sorry, You're Not Part Of The Plan (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Oct 06, 2004)
The debate over the composition of the Planning Commission panels was really a battle over the direction of the economy. And the outcome suggests the electorate's concerns do not count.
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