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Articles 48021 through 48120 of 53943:
- Pakistan Caught In Violence (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2004)
Should India join the efforts for the Iranian natural gas pipeline via Pakistan?
- Pot On The Boil In Pakistan (Pioneer, Wilson John, Jun 09, 2004)
In the study, Karachi: A Terror Capital in the Making, I also pointed out another alarming phenomenon in Karachi in the aftermath of the American onslaught on the Taliban and the Al Qaeda hideouts in Afghanistan.
- Gas Pipeline Again: Security Guarantees Can Help (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2004)
Should India join the efforts for the Iranian natural gas pipeline via Pakistan?
- Regional Trade Blocs Revisited (Hindu, R. Parthasarathy , Jun 09, 2004)
The emergence of information and communication technologies have helped spread production and service networks beyond the confines of national boundaries or trade blocs.
- Dealing With Oil Prices (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2004)
THE MODEST SLIDE in world crude prices this week does not signal a reversal of the trend of the past six months.
- The Oil Xenophobia (Hindu, S. Majumder , Jun 09, 2004)
WITH global oil prices shooting up, there is all-round fear that petrol and diesel prices will go up and the subsidy burden for kerosene and LPG will swell.
- A Common And Minimum Address (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2004)
A PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS to the joint session of Parliament is expected to lay down the short-to-medium-term legislative and executive priorities of the government.
- 14th Lok Sabha: Mix Of Youth And Experience (Business Line, R. C. Rajamani, Jun 07, 2004)
AFTER the spell of politics and polemics, post Verdict 2004, issues of governance should be coming back in focus with the President scheduled to address the joint session of Parliament today (Monday, June 7).
- Funding The Cmp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2004)
TO SPREAD THE benefits of growth more equitably and improve the quality of public services, the Common Minimum Programme promises to effect a major increase in government spending.
- Domestic Politics And West Asia (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Jun 03, 2004)
The recent general election threw up some interesting aspects of major political parties' approach to the situation in West Asia.
- Friendship Can Never Be A One-Way Street (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Jun 03, 2004)
THERE were some interesting nuances in the approach of major political parties to the situation in West Asia during the recent general election.
- Death By Water (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2004)
The BMP should be held responsible for the death of a youth in an open drain
- She Stoops To Conquer? (Pioneer, Harish C Gaur, Jun 03, 2004)
All along Ms Gandhi was projected to occupy the coveted post, being the president of the Congress.
- The New Cji Is Sensitive To Problems Of The Needy (Tribune, S.S. Negi , Jun 03, 2004)
Mr Justice R C Lahoti, who took over as Chief Justice of India (CJI) on June 1, is considered by legal experts as “conservative” in matters of interpretation of law, yet competent, sharp and sensitive to problems of the poor and the needy.
- Banish Corporal Punishment (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2004)
THE STATE HUMAN Rights Commission's recommendation to the Tamil Nadu Government to retain corporal punishment in the statute book is a retrograde move that contravenes its own mandate under the 1993 Act.
- The Reds Under Manmohan's Bed (Asia Times, Sultan Shahin, May 28, 2004)
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government is now in place. The inevitable hiccups in the appointment of a 68-member council of ministers (cabinet) from as many as 12 alliance parties have been sorted out.
- Is Manmohan Singh Right For India's Top Job?: Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, Andy Mukherjee, May 20, 2004)
It was the autumn of 1970, and the Delhi School of Economics was abuzz with left-wing fervor.
- Man Behind India's Economic Boom Named Prime Minister (San Francisco Chronicle, Correspondent or Reporter, May 20, 2004)
Manmohan Singh, the architect of India's economic boom, was named prime minister of the world's largest democracy on Wednesday -- a magnanimous act of patriotism and just plain street smarts by Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born leader of his party.
- India's Next Moves (Washington Times, Editorial, The Washington Times, May 18, 2004)
India's elections were as much a revelation to Indians as they were to rest of the world. Prime Minister-elect Sonia Gandhi will be inaugurated tomorrow, after the victory last week of her Congress Party far outpaced the results of all major . . .
- Blind To Progress (Washington Post, Sebastian Mallaby, May 17, 2004)
When he was young and so was India, Jagdish Bhagwati left Oxford to work at the Indian Planning Commission. He was assigned to grapple with his country's biggest problem -- how to raise the incomes of the poorest -- and he soon came to the . . .
- Behind The Surprise In India (Washington Post, Jim Hoagland, May 16, 2004)
That question is code for this scribe's personal and disappointed reaction to the defeat of Atal Bihari Vajpayee's coalition government in India just as it threatened to become an important U.S. partner and a major player in global economics and politics.
- Changing Priorities (Business Line, Sanjeet K. Jha, May 14, 2004)
The outcome of the General Elections 2004 has taken most, if not all, by surprise. In the last few days the possibility of a hung Parliament was gaining ground. However, the magnitude of reversal of fortunes of the Congress alliance was unexpected.
- The Upset In India (Washington Post, Editorial, Washington Post, May 14, 2004)
In 1998, WHEN Atal Bihari Vajpayee took the helm of the world's largest democracy, nobody predicted the extent of his success or his alignment with U.S. interests.
- Congress Contests Bjp's Secular Image (AL-Ahram, Editorial, Al Ahram, Apr 09, 2004)
Vajpayee hopes that a growing "feel good factor" in India will help him win a second mandate as the world's largest democracy heads to the polls later this month, writes Jaideep Mukerji from New Delhi
- Is India The New China? Or A `Brown Paper Bag'?: Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, Apr 01, 2004)
When David Burton, the International Monetary Fund's top boss in Asia, was recently quizzed about the most important economic developments in his region, there was a winner tucked away among all the ho-hum questions.
- Powell Asks India To Open Its Markets (CNET.com, Dinesh C Sharma, Mar 16, 2004)
Offshore outsourcing figured prominently during talks between U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Indian leaders Tuesday, with the United States asking India to further open its markets.
- War Minus The Shooting (Guardian (UK), Mike Marqusee, Mar 10, 2004)
India's superstar cricketers - among the country's most famous faces - will today visit Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at his Delhi residence, to receive his official blessing before boarding a chartered flight for Lahore. It's a short hop, but . . .
- India Mustn't Devalue Best Business Brains: Mukherjee (Correct) (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, Mar 02, 2004)
Here's lopsided social justice at its worst.
India is raising the subsidy for the nation's top 1,500 management students at a time when the government doesn't have enough money to provide blackboards to all primary schools.
- What India Can Do To Fight Outsourcing Backlash (Bloomberg.com, Andy Mukherjee, Feb 24, 2004)
So far, India has met the growing political backlash against jobs being outsourced to it by burying its head in the sand of righteous indignation and hoping that the hostility will go away after the U.S. presidential election in November.
- An Alliance Of Insecurity (AlterNet, Editorial, The Alternet, Feb 12, 2004)
When Ariel Sharon traveled to India last September, it was the first visit of an Israeli Prime Minister since the two nations achieved independence more than 55 years ago.
- India Rises As Strategic Us Ally (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2004)
Every Republic Day, India struts its military stuff, dragging out the latest ballistic missiles and tanks and parading the finest soldiers on the subcontinent. But Monday, on this year's anniversary, India has a bit more to strut about.
- Advances Against Shares - Dividing The Multiplier Effect (Business Line, A. Seshan, Jan 08, 2004)
The latest raising of minimum margin from 40 per cent to 50 per cent on advances against shares means that the potential value of the multiplier is reduced from 2.5 to 2. One good aspect of the measure is that, unlike in the past instances, the rise in
- Sharing River Waters (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
THE BROAD AGREEMENT reached between Tamil Nadu and Kerala to revise the Parambikulam-Aliyar inter-State water accord, which lapsed in 1988, clearly signals that the best way forward in resolving such disputes lies in negotiation and conciliation, ...
- Cummins India To Be Made Sourcing Hub For Parent (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
THE Rs 2,000-crore Cummins operations in India, with nine companies in its fold, could soon be developing as a sourcing hub for both products and services for the $ 5.9-billion Cummins Inc, Ms Jean Blackwell, Chief Financial Officer and Chief of Staff,
- Washing Dirty Money (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
CLEANLINESS is a virtue, normally. In some cases, however much you clean, there is the stigma that never goes. For instance, funds that are born of illicit origin can never shake off the tainted tag in spite of best of efforts. Bhure Lal's book Money
- An Onerous Responsibility (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Jan 08, 2004)
Pakistan and India have taken on an onerous responsibility to address their differences. The joint press statement issued by the two sides on Tuesday has fundamentally altered the political landscape in both countries. The process of reversing the
- Dramatic Progress At Islamabad (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jan 08, 2004)
Gestures and personal dynamics were as important as the bilateral Indo-Pak issues that dominated the recent SAARC Summit in Islamabad. But most significant was the joint statement issued to the media, where Pakistan said it would not allow any terror ...
- Jumbo Paeans: Spin Guru Pitches In The Chorus (Indian Express, Ashish Shukla, Jan 08, 2004)
Anil Kumble, who played a significant role in India’s 1-1 Test series draw against Australia, has been rated as the best slow bowler to tour Down Under in the last quarter century by spin guru Kerry O’ Keefe. “It is one of the most cleverly orchestrated
- The Education Wars (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jan 08, 2004)
While every other sector of the Indian economy is being deregulated, education is becoming one giant appendage of the Human Resource Development Ministry.
- The Facade Of Social Reporting (Business Line, John Innes, Jan 08, 2004)
Do the measures that firms publish externally truly influence internal decisions
- Another Attempt At Safta (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
HISTORIC IS PERHAPS an exaggerated description of the decision taken by the leaders of South Asia to make this region a free trade bloc by 2006. This is the third and not the first time that the member-countries of the South Asian Association for ...
- Blocks In The Building Task (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Jan 08, 2004)
Looks at the glitches in the book-building regime
- Rbi Raises Gdp Growth Estimate To 7 Per Cent (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
THE Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday revised upwards its overall GDP growth estimates for the current fiscal to 7 per cent, with a continued upward bias. This is against the 6.5-7 per cent estimate revealed during the mid-term review of the monetary and
- Strong On Safta (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
THOUGH THE RAPPROCHEMENT between India and Pakistan all but eclipsed the 12th summit of the seven-nation South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation in Islamabad, it may be crucial as it could smoothen the functioning of the association, which has
- Too Good To Be An Exception (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Jan 08, 2004)
On what we can learn from the OECD code of corporate governance
- The Ruins Hold The Answers (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Jan 08, 2004)
Research on why the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed like they did could help improve the safety of future high rises.
- Anti-Outsourcing American Has ‘other Big Plans’ For India (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
His state of New Jersey started it all... First the uproar and then the Bill that had the potential to stall one of the fastest growing industries of India—outsourcing. But when you meet visiting US Democrat and a ‘friend’ of India, Frank Pallone Jr, he
- Teeing For Peace (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Jan 07, 2004)
Golf, it can safely be said at the conclusion of the 12th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, is now a vital element in the conceptualization and execution of Indian diplomacy. A little known aspect of the diplomacy which ...
- Truce At Last (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
STRICTLY speaking, the recent fracas in the Punjab Congress is the internal matter of the party. But in reality, the whole State will breathe easy now that the warring factions have ostensibly buried the hatchet. The State was suffering more than the
- Precious And For Sale (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Jan 07, 2004)
The UNESCO convention of 1970 was held in Paris and its significant focus was to urge its member countries, among which India is one, to adopt measures to safeguard and protect its cultural property and to find ways of preventing cultural treasures from
- Saarc Pledge (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
THE 12th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) session that ended at Islamabad on Tuesday was, perhaps, the most hyped in its 20-year history. This was bound to happen as it came in the midst of India and Pakistan making earnest efforts
- Wah Bhai Waugh (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
BOTH India and Australia deserve a special round of applause from the growing tribe of global cricket fanatics. The four-Test cricket series between the World Champions and India will certainly be ranked among the best in the history of the game. Over
- Trauma Of Punjab’s Jobless (Tribune, P. P. S. Gill, Jan 07, 2004)
Punjab is faced with a gigantic challenge: how to give employment to 30 lakh jobless youth? Successive governments have never cared to know why the youth went berserk during the days of militancy. There is no policy worth the name to make them employable.
- The Lost Generation (Tribune, Suchita Malik, Jan 07, 2004)
Dinnertime is usually considered the family time in any Indian household, be it any caste, culture or creed. It has been the accepted convention till before the jet-set modern life style invaded our middle class social set-up in a big and irreversible way
- Kashmir’s Orphans Spread Trust And Goodwill (Tribune, Usha Rai, Jan 07, 2004)
WE hear often of the widows of Kashmir and the agonising search for the missing men in their lives but there are hardly any stories about the children who have been orphaned by the 13 years of turmoil in the valley. So it came as a surprise to meet this
- India’s Grand Obsession (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Jan 07, 2004)
Why has Pakistan become so central to all our thinking and discussions? Open a newspaper and something about that country or its leaders or what they say is bound to be somewhere in it — usually on the front page, and on the few occasions it isn’t, it’s
- New Security Code For Ships, Ports To Be Ready By May (Business Line, Amit Mitra, Jan 07, 2004)
THE domestic shipping industry and the port sector are implementing the new International Ship and Port Security (ISPS) code at a brisk pace. Going by the present rate of implementation of the code it seems that the industry is likely to wrap up the
- Virbhadra Plans To Freeze Posts, Allowances (Indian Express, SURESH KHATTA, Jan 07, 2004)
Out to shed flab and tighten the belt, the cash-strapped Himachal Pradesh government proposes not only to freeze the number of posts of government employees but also their allowances. The other measures aimed at improving the financial health of the
- Uk To Probe Diana Death As Prince Charles Named In ‘plot’ (Indian Express, MICHAEL HOLDEN, Jan 07, 2004)
Britain launched a top-level police probe into the death of Princess Diana on Tuesday as a tabloid newspaper named her former husband Prince Charles as the person she suspected of plotting to kill her. More than six years after Diana died in a car ...
- Us Team In N Korea Gets ‘bold Offer’ (Indian Express, Paul Eckert, Jan 07, 2004)
A US delegation flew to North Korea on Tuesday, hoping to visit a nuclear complex at the heart of the country’s atomic arms programme, as Pyongyang pitched what it called a ‘‘bold concession’’ to restart talks. A trip to the Yongbyon nuclear complex
- ‘sorry, We Don’t Fly Air Marshals’ (Indian Express, ANDREW CAWTHORNE, Jan 07, 2004)
Airlines in Europe and Africa vowed on Tuesday to cancel flights rather than comply with US demands to carry armed air marshals on US-bound planes to guard against more 9/11-style attacks. The statements by South African Airways and Thomas Cook Airlines,
- Reliance Leads Tally Of Basic Tele Subscribers (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
Reliance Infocomm led the basic subscribers’ tally with 58.8 lakh till December 2003, while the all-India subscriber base rose to 81.13 lakh in December from 75.63 lakh in November last year. According to figures released by the Association of Basic ...
- Bears Reappear, Sensex Sheds 95 Points (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
The much-awaited correction pulls down stocks across the board; Sensex falls 205 points intra-day
- On Top Down Under (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
IF IT IS possible to emerge victorious from a draw, then India just did this. The four-Test cricket series against Australia might have been tied 1-1, but the honours clearly belonged to an Indian team that was all but written off before the tour ...
- Heroes Miss Out On History (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
Saurav Ganguly wore his heart on his sleeve, and on his collar, his pocket, his trouser leg. Sitting at Tuesday’s press conference, face unshaven and funereal, his demeanour reflected perfectly the disillusionment of the day. He knew he had too many ...
- Cape Town Drama With Sydney Script (Indian Express, Reuters, Jan 07, 2004)
Dwayne Smith struck a century on debut to help West Indies draw the third Test against South Africa at Newlands on Tuesday. The 20-year-old Smith reached his hundred off just 93 balls as West Indies, requiring 441 to win, batted right through the day
- Saarc Says No To Terror (Indian Express, V.S.CHANDRASEKAR, Jan 07, 2004)
: In A significant accord on tackling terrorism in South Asia, leaders of seven SAARC countries, including from India and Pakistan, today pledged to eliminate the menace in all forms and manifestations in the region and to deal effectively with financing
- Opposition Can Still Do It (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jan 07, 2004)
Any Opposition party or a combination of Opposition parties that wants to displace the BJP-led Government will need to devise a strategy to exploit the thinness of the saffron spread.
- Welcome To Free Trade Zone (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Jan 07, 2004)
The seven SAARC countries on Tuesday signed a treaty that would lead to free trade and movement of goods paving the way for South Asian economic Union along the lines of EU in future. The South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) framework treaty signed by ...
- Hurriyat Feels ‘vindicated’, So Do Chief Minister, Opp (Indian Express, Tariq Mir, Jan 07, 2004)
Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee’s meeting with Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf and the agreement to begin a dialogue in the Valley appears to have had a sobering effect on the hawks and doves here. Setting aside their animosity, leaders ...
- Stabilising The Process (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
THE LEADERS OF India and Pakistan have energised the ongoing process of positive engagement by agreeing to restart the composite dialogue in February. They also exuded a degree of optimism in asserting, in a joint statement issued after the ...
- Readymade Garment Exports Up In Apr-Dec (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jan 07, 2004)
EVEN as readymade garments (RMGs) constitute a considerable chunk of India's textile exports, RMGs exports to quota restricted countries registered a reasonably modest positive growth during the first three quarters of the current fiscal, kindling the ...
- The Great Thaw (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
AS EXPECTED, THE SAARC summit in Islamabad became a show of India-Pakistan entente. Such concrete steps as the progress on the SAFTA (South Asian Free Trade Agreement) treaty were overshadowed by the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee's words and
- Hare And Tortoise (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 07, 2004)
THE old fable of the hare and the tortoise is being played out before our eyes, it seems. Ever since India liberalised, it had been fed with a heavy dose of inferiority complex with reference to China. It was assumed that China, the hare, was leaving
- Interlinking Of Rivers: Ripples Of Concern (Business Line, Sudhirendar Sharma, Jan 07, 2004)
NEVER before has any proposal won the unstinted support of the apex court, the first citizen and the chief executive of the country all at the same time. With this unprecedented backing, the Government has pressed in all available resources to steamroll
- Shakespeare Plays With Economics (Business Line, D. Sambandhan, Jan 07, 2004)
"NO HUMAN capacity ever yet saw the whole of a thing, but we may see more and more of it the longer we look," said Ruskin. This was internalised by Mr Frederick Turner, the Founder Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas, when he made
- Agreement On Agriculture - Confrontation Among Superpowers (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Jan 07, 2004)
WTO negotiations are battles between and among nations, and their groups, with countries like the US inclined simply to ignore the mandate of the international trade body, as has happened with the Byrd Amendment repeal. But the boot may be on the other
- Flying Kites And Soaring Fortunes (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Jan 07, 2004)
THIS is the kite-flying season in Gujarat and coming right after the Navratri Global Investors' Summit of September 2003, the State is readying for yet another business summit of the Vibrant variety. But, then, vibrancy seems to be the leit motif of the
- The Renaissance Man (Indian Express, JOHN MEHAFFEY, Jan 07, 2004)
Wearing his beloved Australian cap and allowing himself a rare smile, Steve Waugh left the Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday with an imperishable legacy to the international game he graced for 18 years. Waugh’s singular contribution was to blend both ...
- Kalyan At Home, Sp Moves To Block Bsp (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
With former chief minister Kalyan Singh staying home due to toothache and fatigue and not talking to anyone except his party workers, the Samajwadi Party today made a move to block the BSP’s chances of joining the Congress-led alliance. Party general
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