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- Serious Charge (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 15, 2004)
A serious accusation has been levelled against the UPA Government at the Centre by Mr L. K. Advani that it is not paying adequate attention to national security.
- Remembering Anna (Hindu, R. Kannan, Sep 15, 2004)
C.N. Annadurai epitomised Tamil pride, personifying honesty, simplicity and caring.
- Play With Semantics (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 15, 2004)
Among India's political parties, there is arguably none to match the quick reflexes of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Witness for instance the way the BJP, in 1998, shed its single status in favour of coalitional co-existence.
- Where It Pinches (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 14, 2004)
Shaming the shameless is a tough job. The Rajya Sabha member of parliament, Mr Fali Nariman, has decided to take on the job, by proposing that the allowances of MPs be cut during the time the house is adjourned and proceedings disrupted.
- Banks Must Cross-Sell For Retail Asset Explosion (Business Line, J. Sethuraman, Sep 14, 2004)
Indian banking industry is chanting the retail moola(h) mantra for its tech initiatives, customer base expansion, retail asset explosion, profits, net interest margins, and so on.
- Washington Is In A Fix (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Sep 14, 2004)
The central US dilemma in Iraq is gradually sinking in in America’s corridors of power. The Bush administration’s salvation lies in pulling its troops out of Iraq. On the other hand, an early withdrawal of forces can only be on humiliating terms.
- Afghan Elections: Karzai Vs Qanuni? (Deccan Herald, SREEDHAR, Sep 14, 2004)
His links with Pakistan put interim President Karzai at a disadvantage against education minister Qanuni
- Back To Directed Credit (Business Line, A. Seshan, Sep 14, 2004)
The Finance Minister's advice to bankers to trim excess investments in government securities and lend more to agriculture, small industries and infrastructure has serious implications.
- Environment And State Rights (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 14, 2004)
It was only to be expected that the Environment and Forest Ministers from various States should have opposed the Centre's move to arrogate to itself the power to grant environmental clearance for projects.
- Federer The Sorcerer (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 14, 2004)
Once Every Generation, a popular sport gets to witness the flowering of a champion whose exploits not only cause history to be re-written but, more significantly, turn sport into super-sport.
- Get The Numbers Right (Telegraph, Sumit Mitra, Sep 14, 2004)
Muslims in India have always grown at a faster rate than Hindus. Now the difference seems to be narrowing down
- Hurtling From Crisis To Crisis (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Sep 14, 2004)
The state govt has tied itself up in knots and seems to have created more problems than solutions
- Inflation Remains A Problem (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 14, 2004)
Despite feeble regulatory steps, rising inflation remains the number one worry of the UPA government.
- Push For Talks (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 14, 2004)
India should nudge the Nepal government and the Maoists to the negotiating table
- Snuffed Out (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 14, 2004)
There have been too many deaths due to electrical mishaps this year
- Always At Your Beck And Call (Telegraph, Gargi Gupta, Sep 14, 2004)
The mobile has occasioned not only a revolution in consumer culture, but also in social behaviour
- Keep `Foreign Hand' At Arm's Length From Plan Panel (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 14, 2004)
The induction of representatives of foreign agencies into the Planning Commission is surprising and seems ill-advised. And justifying the move on the grounds that these members would only be called upon to guide and advise
- Risks For Women At The Top (Hindu, Andrea Wren, Sep 14, 2004)
As the familiar glass ceiling for women becomes the scary-sounding 'glass cliff', beware the perilous promotion.
- Reforms In The Power Sector (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Sep 14, 2004)
The Centre has to clearly spell out the power policy. The Tenth Plan target is to add over 41,000 MW of generation capacity and time is running out.
- More Friend Than Foe (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Sep 14, 2004)
Why has the Congress given a rather inconsequential politician like Uma Bharti this lease of political life? She would have been deemed a failure as chief minister of Madhya Pradesh within another year and would have disappeared from the public space
- Money Brake (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 14, 2004)
The Reserve Bank of India has now done something about inflation, after having taken note of it in the annual report. For the week ending August 28, the point-to-point wholesale price index inflation rate is 8.33 per cent.
- Limited Room For Mullahs, Military But Not Mastans (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Sep 14, 2004)
If Bangladesh were Pakistan, the irrational enmity between Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and Awami League (AL) leader Sheikh Hasina might well have led to the Army and the Islamist parties
- Licence To Murder (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Sep 14, 2004)
The facts relating to Thangjam Ningol Manorama alias Henthoi are well known. A posse of soldiers from Assam Rifles, including Havildar Suresh Kumar, Riflemen Ajit Singh and T. Lotha and unidentified others entered the house of Thangjam Manorama, a
- India's Poor Bring Back Gandhi Clan (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2004)
In a stunning turnaround, India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party accepted defeat Thursday, opening the way for the Congress party to return to power for the first time in eight years.
- Manmohan Singh's Pitch At The United Nations (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 13, 2004)
In an unprecedented meeting next week on the margins of the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, will join the leaders of Brazil, Japan and Germany to make a strong pitch for reforming the ...
- In Search Of Peace (Tribune, H. K. Dua, Sep 13, 2004)
WHILE no one had really expected that India and Pakistan would achieve dramatic results from last week’s talks between their Foreign Ministers in Delhi, it would be cynical to underplay their significance.
- Investors, Frogs And Yellowstone Effect (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Sep 13, 2004)
The current firmness in equity prices is akin to the warm glow of pleasure that a frog may feel when water begins to boil. Resistance to the fundamental deterioration through manipulation of technical indicators and through the provision of liquidity ...
- Index Funds Do Not Really Lower Risks (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Sep 13, 2004)
The Pension Fund Regulation and Development Authority (PFRDA) has suggested in its draft proposal that pension funds should only invest in index funds. The reason is that non-index funds run active risk.
- It Is Putin’S War (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Sep 13, 2004)
What would we do without Richard Perle, everybody’s favourite neo-conservative? It was he who came up some years ago with the notion that we must “de-contextualize terrorism”.
- Distress From Stress (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 13, 2004)
Surprisingly, automated, touch-screen lifestyle and paperless offices have been of no help in guaranteeing a stress-free existence.
- Census Follies (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 13, 2004)
Flasehoods and Tendentious allegations are a dime a dozen in politics. It is hardly surprising that statistics — this time in the form of the First Report on Religion Data of Census 2001 — have become a weapon in the hands of political parties with a ...
- Tasks Before The Twelfth Finance Commission (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 13, 2004)
The Chairman of the Twelfth Finance Commission, Dr C. Rangarajan, has come out with a characteristically clear outline of the challenges that face the Commission.
- The Roots Of Rage (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Sep 13, 2004)
After forty years of insurgency by a few, Manipur is now boiling. The rage is universal, among young and old and especially among women.
- Neutrality As Virtue (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Sep 13, 2004)
Governance has to spring from political enlightenment. Neutrality cannot be a virtue.
- Stock Taking By The Plan Panel (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Sep 13, 2004)
Amid all the controversy that the Planning Commission should not engage itself with multilateral development institutions such as the World Bank and the ADB in devising mid-course corrections while formulating the Mid-Term Appraisal (MTA) of the ...
- Sour Grapes Of A Deformed Culture (Telegraph, Abdel Rahman al-Rashed, Sep 13, 2004)
Not all Muslims are terrorists, but sadly, almost all terrorists are Muslims
- Shakespeare: The Man And The Lover (Tribune, Darshan Singh Maini, Sep 13, 2004)
IN his most insightful lecture on “Shakespeare, the Man”, the poet’s greatest critic, A.C. Bradley, gives us a fairly full picture of Shakespeare’s personal life, inclinations and allergies, views and vision.
- Rbi's Gentle Squeeze (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 13, 2004)
With price indices continuing to climb, the Reserve Bank of India had the choice of leeching out excess funds from the system or marking up the Bank Rate to make lending dearer across the system.
- Powerless In The North (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 13, 2004)
IN this sultry weather nothing irritates more than frequent power disruptions, scheduled as well as unscheduled. Apart from the ordinary citizen getting inconvenienced, industrial and agricultural activity has been hit in Punjab and Haryana.
- Playing For Pride And Passion (Telegraph, Uttam Sengupta, Sep 13, 2004)
India’s dismal showing in Athens was not surprising. But a sporting boom appears to be round the corner
- Trends In Patent And Trademark Law (Business Line, Rama Sarma, Sep 13, 2004)
THE intellectual property law confer legal exclusivity in the market place. The right to prevent copying of ideas or information is recognised and this has recently made intellectual property (IP) law somewhat esoteric and specialised.
- The Great Divide (Telegraph, Satish Nandgaonkar, Sep 12, 2004)
Lyricist Javed Akhtar decries the Beslan massacre. Journalist Sajid Rashid is attacked for his views on hardliners in his community
- Geelani, Backed By Militants, May Toughen Tactics (Tribune, David Devadas, Sep 12, 2004)
Most analysts described Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri’s visit to New Delhi last weekend as a tepid success but I fear the truth is that the two nations’ relations have regressed over the past few months.
- Media And Society: Who Wins The Blame Game? (Tribune, Mohanmeet Khosla, Sep 12, 2004)
IT is said that the concept of the good old days is a mirage — they seem 'good' only because they have spent so much time in the editing.
- Revisiting Greeneland (Telegraph, GITHA HARIHARAN, Sep 12, 2004)
I was recently invited to see a film based on Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair. I agreed because I remembered being moved by the novel as a teenage reader.
- After Killing Children (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 12, 2004)
How much smaller did the militants want them to be? As the images of cowering, traumatized, wounded and dead children from the desecrated school in Beslan go out into the world, this is perhaps the only question that seems relevant.
- Diesel Engines On Vegetarian Diet (Business Line, B. S. Murthy, Sep 10, 2004)
Diesel engines, unlike their petrol counterparts, are omnivorous in fuel consumption habits and can easily run on vegetable oils without any major changes in the engine.
- Kashmir: Why Not A Jointly Owned Demilitarised Area? (Business Line, Sridhar Jagannathan, Sep 10, 2004)
Kashmir has been very difficult local, regional and global problem, causing three major wars and endless strife between India and Pakistan. Apart from the huge sums spent by both countries there is the loss of
- A Paradigm Shift (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 10, 2004)
Islamabad's decision to move away from the long-hardened position that it would not develop a meaningful relationship with India until the Jammu and Kashmir issue is resolved must be heartily welcomed.
- A Cut Above The Rest (Tribune, Swapan Dasgupta, Sep 10, 2004)
One of the more intriguing features of the left mentality is the innate conviction of natural superiority.
- Against The Grain (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Sep 10, 2004)
While terms of trade are tilted against agriculture, any move to help farmers is seen as harmful to the economy
- Farmers' Distress: Causes & Cures (Hindu, M. S. Swaminathan , Sep 10, 2004)
Education, social mobilisation and regulation are necessary to arrest the expansion of the agrarian crisis.
- Fifty Years Of Ray’S Cinema (Tribune, Amar Chandel, Sep 10, 2004)
I am exactly the same age as Satyajit Ray’s “Pather Panchali”. In these 50 years, I have got to see most of his movies. “Pather Panchali” must have been viewed half a dozen times.
- International Trade And Economic Growth (Business Line, S. Venu , Sep 10, 2004)
Openness to trade is not by itself sufficient to promote growth. Macroeconomic and political stability and other policies are needed as well.
- More Important That A Proposition Be Interesting Than True (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 10, 2004)
Now that the Employees Provident Fund Organisation is thinking about investing in equities, people may be too worried about the safety of their PF monies to think of any hike in interest rates. In the end, we may come
- Player Of The Year (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 10, 2004)
The awards are a shot in the arm for a team that is trying to regain its momentum
- India Shines, At Last (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 10, 2004)
But for Major Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore's silver medal the Athens Olympics were a fiasco for the bloated Indian contingent. Even the cricket season did not start on a happy note for India.
- The Cruel Season (Telegraph, NEHA SAHAY, Sep 10, 2004)
As in India, the season of heat waves, drought and floods is on in China. While the numbers dying in heat waves aren’t anywhere as large as in India, this year it reached 39 in just one city: Guangzhou.
- The Chechens' American Friends (Hindu, John Laughland, Sep 10, 2004)
The Washington neocons' commitment to the war on terror evaporates in Chechnya, whose cause they have made their own.
- Taxing Service Exports: Give Up Selective Approach (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Sep 10, 2004)
As there is no service tax on any earnings in foreign exchange for `taxable service', some exporters of services are puzzled about the new foreign trade policy's exemption from tax of services exported.
- Rat In The Wrong (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 10, 2004)
The little mouse in the fable freed the great elephant by chewing through the knots in its huge net. But the rat that wandered into the substation that fed electricity to the Salt Lake stadium, where the India-Japan return match in the World Cup ...
- Preaching Vs Implementing Best Practices (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Sep 10, 2004)
Though the World Bank asserts that assisting India with best practice knowledge and financing for development are central to the Bank group's mission, doubts persist about the Bank's adherence to its own social and environmental policies.
- Zoo Deaths (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 10, 2004)
The death of three animals at Mysore zoo proves that its facilities need to be upgraded
- Beslan: Lessons For India (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Sep 09, 2004)
No terrorist attack in recent times has evoked greater horror, condemnation and revulsion than the attack in the small town of Beslan located in Russia's Caucasian Region, bordering Georgia.
- India’S Circus In The Olympics Arena (Deccan Herald, ROOPA RAO, Sep 09, 2004)
India’s dismal Olympics performance even while its Asian neighbours excelled, speaks of a false approach
- Good Mix (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 09, 2004)
Merger of PSU oil companies is good for their survival and growth
- Gold, Savings And P&p Sector — Foolish Governments, Smart Women (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Sep 09, 2004)
With the government unable to provide social security to all its citizens, most self-employed groups face a huge challenge of protecting their future. They have turned to gold the most liquid, portable, and easy to transfer asset.
- Farm Output On A Low (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 09, 2004)
The South-west monsoon appears set to withdraw after the half-hearted revival that brought belated but welcome rains all over the country in August.
- Engaging Pakistan (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 09, 2004)
It would be unwise for New Delhi to assume, in the wake of the successful first round of talks with Pakistan, that it can delay or avoid engaging Islamabad on Kashmir.
- Concept Paper In A Penalty Corner (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Sep 09, 2004)
Vittorio Alfieri in Virgiana remarked: "Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble." A cursory look at the Schedule of Penalties conceived in the Concept Paper (CP) on the Companies Act
- New Foreign Trade Policy — No Big Bang In This One (Business Line, V. Kumaraswamy, Sep 09, 2004)
The New Foreign Trade Policy, is good, but if India has delusions of leapfrogging in the global trade order, it misses too many realities.
- A Tame Finish To A Game Of Same Names (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 09, 2004)
WITH one more click on www.icai.org this morning, I advanced the visitor counter to 1989245. That should be a matter of pride for those in the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, but I wonder if they are aware of possible encroachments into their
- Anguish Of A Faithful Muslim (Deccan Herald, NASSRINE AZIMI, Sep 09, 2004)
Where do Muslims turn when so many atrocities are committed under the banner of their faith?
- The Basel-Ii Blushes (Business Line, Katuri Nageswararao, Sep 09, 2004)
BANKS, being highly leveraged entities, need to guard against failures, which could cause significant distress to the economy. Basel-I norms were principally to ensure adequacy of capital of banks as a defined proportion of the risk weighted assets.
- The Dangers Of Retirement (Hindu, Michele Hanson, Sep 09, 2004)
Why it is that so many of us remain fighting fit until we retire and then promptly descend into ill-health?
- Surrender Is Not An Option (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Sep 09, 2004)
No terrorist attack in recent times has evoked greater horror, condemnation and revulsion than the attack in the small town of Beslan, located in Russia’s Caucasian region, bordering Georgia. Over one thousand schoolchildren and their parents were held
- Step By Step (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 09, 2004)
NO dramatic results were expected when External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh and Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri held their talks as part of the composite dialogue process on September 5 and 6.
- Rajiv's Limpets (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 09, 2004)
There was no need to raise eyebrows when someone in the Bharatiya Janata Party called Prime Minister Manmohan Singh a modern Shikhandi.
- Whiff Of Fresh Air (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 09, 2004)
Six years after he was stripped of his Deputy Prime Ministership and tried for corruption and sodomy, Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim has been set free by a 2-1 judgment of the Federal court quashing his conviction in the sodomy case.
- Australia Says Not Intimidated By Jakarta Blast (Suedostasienportal, Reuters, Sep 09, 2004)
Australia would not be intimidated by a powerful car bomb that killed at least eight people outside its Jakarta embassy on Thursday, Prime Minister John Howard said.
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