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Articles 49021 through 49120 of 53943:
- October Spring (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 23, 2003)
• PM Vajpayee’s daring gambit on poll-eve
• A dozen radical proposals to the General
• Talks with Hurriyat raised to level of DPM
Let Srinagar bus to Muzaffarabad
- Moderate Medium, Extreme Message (Indian Express, Daniel Drezner, Oct 23, 2003)
Mahathir sums up the Muslim world’s paradox. Western learning is fine, not western liberalism
- Georgian Mystery (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Oct 23, 2003)
Something’s cooking in defence minister and NDA convenor George Fernandes’ pot. But apart from dropping hints calculated to whet appetites, he’s not letting anyone in on his secret.
- For A Few Lakhs More (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 23, 2003)
Candidates will now get to spend more on their campaign. But will we get cleaner elections
- Why The Centre’S At Home With Dpm As The J-K Pointman (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Oct 23, 2003)
For one, he’s free to take decisions
- Jaswant’S Latest Taxing Assignment: Urdu (Indian Express, Santwana Bhattacharya, Oct 23, 2003)
FM, Hema Malini’s daughter, among 10,000 enrolled for 1-year course
- Honking At The Green Light? It’S Your Pressure (Indian Express, Roni Rabin, Oct 23, 2003)
A new study sees direct correlation between habitual impatience and blood pressure
- ‘rape Victim’ Becomes A Casualty As Mp’S Parties Slug It Out (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Oct 23, 2003)
Uma Bharti possesses an uncanny knack for running her campaign aground on issues peripheral to these elections and Digvijay Singh is never one to miss an opportunity.
- Beijing Comes To Delhi Today To Put History Behind (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2003)
No 2 in Chinese Foreign Ministry to start boundary talks with Mishra
- A Map To Save The Metro, But... (Indian Express, Yogi Aggarwal, Oct 22, 2003)
Ever since Mumbai began its slow decline in the mid-70s, a number of plans have been formulated to save the city from further decay. One of the first such was the Ajit Kelkar Committee, set up under the managing director of the Taj group of hotels in 1982
- A New Asian Economic Integration (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Oct 22, 2003)
India's compulsions of integrating with Asean have assumed a new urgency with the recent failure of the WTO Ministerial at Cancun and the threat issued by the US of bypassing WTO for bilateral trading arrangements. Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee pushing the idea
- The General In The Jig-Saw (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Oct 22, 2003)
To further Indo-US ties, we need to first understand Pak-US ties
- Big Change In The Air (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2003)
The aviation sector seems to finally be emerging from a timewarp
- Canada Calling (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 22, 2003)
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien arrives in New Delhi later this week and so what if he’s perceived as a sort of lame duck back home. With Chretien promising to retire in February, a succession race within his Liberal Party has Finance Minister Paul
- Private Airlines Get First Window In Foreign Skies (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Oct 22, 2003)
All Indian airlines, not just Indian Airlines, can fly to Lanka
- Why Is This A Very Happy Diwali? Top Answer Is Reforms (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2003)
There’s something deeper to the optimism than the rain god, write Advisor to Finance Minister Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah, Consultant, Dept of Economic Affairs
- Carbon Credit: Valuable Virtual Commodity (Business Line, Deepak Mawandia, Oct 22, 2003)
THOUGH the Kyoto Protocol has still not entered into force, and Russia is, as usual sending conflicting signals, the carbon market has begun developing in earnest.
- Naked Corporation (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 22, 2003)
DR Don Tapscott, the flamboyant professor of a Canadian Business School, and a provocative author and wordsmith who minted phrases like "digital divide" and "the net generation", seems to be at it again, going by a recent write-up in The Economist on the
- Diplomacy In A Cage (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2003)
Denial of visas: who is the ministry of external affairs afraid of anyway
- Following The (Business Line, George Ninan, Oct 22, 2003)
IN Patrick O'Brian's nautical yarn, the Mauritius Command, fourth in the Aubrey-Maturin series, our heroes set off to take Mauritius thereby making the Indian Ocean safe for the English East India Company. The Mauritius influence on the Indian economy app
- Opening Up The Skies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2003)
WHETHER IT WAS planned or spontaneous, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's limited open skies offer to the designated airlines of ASEAN countries has set the ball rolling. The Civil Aviation Minister, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, has announced a limited ...
- Gandhi On Secular Law And State (Hindu, Anil Nauriya , Oct 22, 2003)
Gandhi and Nehru had differences. But they had strong mutual synergies on vital issues.
- Cornering Heathrow? (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2003)
AN AIRPORT SLOT provides a carrier with the right to take off/land from the facility. Air India and several foreign airlines are believed to be upset that British Airways, the dominant airline in London's Heathrow, continues to buy up the limited number o
- Forging An Alliance (Hindu, Tony Smith, Oct 22, 2003)
Argentina and Brazil were determined to maintain the alliance of developing countries and to continue pressing for more equitable trade for farmers.
- Unified Licence Regime — Raising A Spectrum Of Issues (Business Line, Jayanthi Iyengar, Oct 22, 2003)
THE Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) is to make its final recommendation to the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Telecom. Central to these recommendations would be an attempt to resolve the two-year-long battle between the cellular and basic operators by re
- Us Watching China’S Success In Space (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma , Oct 22, 2003)
The United States does not like competition or potential competition in space. China has ruffled its feathers
- Us Watching China’S Success In Space (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma , Oct 22, 2003)
The United States does not like competition or potential competition in space. China has ruffled its feathers
- China’S Quiet Leap Forward (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2003)
Beijing sheds its victim mindset and emerges as an active player in the international arena
- Don’T Shoot The Messenger (Indian Express, Paul Krugman, Oct 22, 2003)
Mahathir’s criticism tells America it is alienating even Muslim moderates
- Neoliberalism, Investment And Growth In Latin America (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Oct 21, 2003)
The recent experience of most economies in Latin America contradicts the argument that neoliberal market-oriented policies are necessary for increasing investment and growth, even if they may have harmful effects on distribution and social sectors. In thi
- India Opens Pursestrings For Rs 50 Cr More To Iraq (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Oct 21, 2003)
India is set to put in an additional $10 million (around Rs 50 crore) for reconstruction and humanitarian efforts in Iraq. The announcement will be made at the donors’ conference in Madrid this week. With this, India’s contribution in post-war Iraq will b
- Stemming The Dollar Tide (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 21, 2003)
IF THE RESERVE Bank of India is for stemming dollar inflows, it should have done away with the interest rate differential between Non-Resident (External) Rupee deposits and Libor (London inter-bank offered rate). It could have gone bolder by fixing the in
- Track One May Be Frozen With Pak, Mea Says No To Even Track Two (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 21, 2003)
The Ministry of External Affairs has disallowed the highly prestigious Pugwash organisation, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995, to host a workshop on ‘‘South Asian Security’’ later this month, where participants from India and Pakistan were invited.
- Assam Bjp Gets New Chief, To Whip Up Anti-Influx Stir (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Oct 21, 2003)
The newly-elected president of BJP’s Assam unit, Indramani Bora, who took over on Monday said the party would renew its pledge to get the controversial Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, saying infiltration of Bangladeshis was the most imp
- Funding Higher Education (Hindu, Amrik Singh , Oct 21, 2003)
The basis for the grant should be the total income of the college. While about half the students should pay the full fee, others would be subsidised from the amount thus saved by the State Government.
- Npas: Not A Complete Write-Off (Business Line, T. S. Viswanathan, Oct 21, 2003)
MUCH has been written about the banking sector's non-performing assets. A fair estimate from the banking sector reveals that around Rs 75,000 crore — or the equivalent of around $16 billion — of debt could be bad and doubtful.
- Rerun In Temple Town (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 21, 2003)
Why all this activity in Ayodhya seems so familiar
- General Council Meeting Of Wto — Picking Up The Threads From Cancun (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 21, 2003)
It is time India took a pragmatic view of the emerging situation in the international trading arena, in general, and at the WTO, in particular. The two-day General Council meeting of the WTO beginning today in Geneva is thus crucial for India to watch the
- Ltte And Muslims (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Oct 21, 2003)
At the heart of the problem is the LTTE's view of itself as the absolute ruler of the north-east.
- Watering Down A Water Plan (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Oct 21, 2003)
The watershed development movement in India gathered steam in the mid-eighties. In the beginning, the nation used canal-based irrigation as its major salvation.
- Tourism Hubs To Pop Up Along 800-Km Long ‘riverbed’ (Indian Express, Vrinda Gopinath, Oct 21, 2003)
The mythical Saraswati is yet to be traced but Union Minister for Tourism and Culture Jagmohan has already announced an ambitious Rs 5-crore Saraswati Heritage Project, which aims to develop the ‘‘Saraswati river belt’’ as a ‘‘cultural-tourist’’ hub with
- Kolkata’S Own (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 21, 2003)
Igniting human will with divine inspiration: that was Mother Teresa’s true miracle
- Poor ‘masters’, Rich ‘servants’ (Deccan Herald, Keshav Rao Jadhav, Oct 21, 2003)
In this democracy, the ‘servants’ of the people get everything free while the ‘masters’ cannot afford even the necessities
- Trade Dominates Ranil’S Talks With Delhi Leaders (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 21, 2003)
Trade issues, largely in the light of efforts being made to have a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA) between both countries, dominated Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe’s deliberations with Indian leaders here today.
- Poor ‘masters’, Rich ‘servants’ (Deccan Herald, Keshav Rao Jadhav, Oct 21, 2003)
In this democracy, the ‘servants’ of the people get everything free while the ‘masters’ cannot afford even the necessities
- Doing Business In Rich And Poor Countries (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 20, 2003)
Businessmen around the world face — and complain about — the different policy regimes, especially when it comes to questions of starting a business. But doing business in poor countries, which score poorly in regulation, credit delivery and infrastructure
- Mother A Step Away From St Teresa (Indian Express, Philip Pullella, Oct 20, 2003)
Huge turnout as Vatican bends rules on fast-track to sainthood
- Labour Reforms (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2003)
ONE SUSPECTS THAT the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was only indulging in a bit of diplomatic double-speak when he spoke of the need to bring in changes to the labour laws so that they become instruments "for speedy employment generation in all
- National Judicial Commission (Hindu, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Oct 20, 2003)
The bill to constitute a National Judicial Commission is a good beginning, but falls short of sensitive specifications, purposeful guidelines and popular expectations from such a Commission.
- Development Key, All Others Can Wait: Pm (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Oct 20, 2003)
Skips Ayodhya at Uma rally, tells voters to look around, judge; attacks Cong for slowing growth
- Hr Department: A New Agenda (Business Line, S. Sudarshan, Oct 20, 2003)
THE HISTORY of the human resource (HR) departments in India has been reactive rather than pro-active. The HR department has always looked outside for recognition.
- New Phase Of Wto Consultations (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 20, 2003)
The new phase of consultations in Geneva with the objective of arriving at agreed modalities of negotiations in the different spheres will be markedly different from other negotiations in that "the process in Geneva will have to be supplemented by direct
- The Raison D'etre Of Stock Splits (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Oct 20, 2003)
THE proposal for a 10-for-one stock split by TVS Motors brings to the fore the stock market reaction to such corporate decisions. Empirical evidence suggests that stock splits generate excess returns following the announcement.
- Pura And The Government Input (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Oct 20, 2003)
While the private sector must build on the PURA concept, the foundation itself needs to be laid by the government, especially by allocating resources. For this, it can re-look at various existing programmes and re-allocate resources for PURA. For this the
- The Demographic Advantage (Hindu, N. Vittal, Oct 20, 2003)
We should think of a strategy to replicate success stories with the focus on productive employment opportunity for the youth.
- Mulayam Too Has A Vision, With A Little Help From Friends (Indian Express, Raman Kirpal, Oct 20, 2003)
Barely two months in power and fresh from calming Ayodhya, Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav on Sunday packaged a major corporate deal to chart a new roadmap for Uttar Pradesh.
- Business Corruption And Individual Values (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Oct 20, 2003)
THE survey results on corruption released annually by Transparency International generate the usual comments on which countries have improved their ranking and which have not. The perception of corruption is now so widespread that the organisation's 2002
- America’S Agonising Choices (Indian Express, G Parthasarathy, Oct 20, 2003)
Uncertain times demand a mature and realistic Indo-US engagement
- ‘my Dream: To Bring Civil Aviation From The Maharaja To The Common Man’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 20, 2003)
If you came to this airport while travelling abroad — and you wouldn’t have been a VIP — what are the things that would make you mad
- Your Q His A (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2003)
Now that the UN Security Council has unanimously approved another resolution on Iraq should we agree to send our troops to assist in stabilisation of Iraq
- Beg Or Borrow (Indian Express, Richard Simon, Oct 19, 2003)
Congress okays $87 bn for Iraq, Afghanistan, with conditions
- Choosing Targets (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2003)
THREE DAYS after the abortive attempt on the life of the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, the People's War (PW) extremists carried out a successful attack on another target in Guntur district. This time, their victim was not a ...
- And The Nominees For Best Use Of The Internet Are... (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Oct 19, 2003)
India’s e-industry takes another step forward when, over the next few days, the work of eight of the best networks, services and applications come up for scrutiny before a grand jury sitting in Dubai that will decide on nominations to the UN World Summit
- Sterilisation Gets A Good Name, That Too In Haryana (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Oct 19, 2003)
Chautala’s unique scheme: get sterilised, we pay Rs 500 per month until your daughter turns 20, Rs 200 if it’s a son
- October Revolution, 2003 (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Oct 19, 2003)
How many in this century remember V I Lenin? Lenin believed and declared that two ‘E’s were imperative for the building of a modern and a mighty state — Education and Electricity. He was absolutely right. Though communism collapsed by the end of the last
- Practise What You Preach, Pm Tells Pak (Indian Express, Jaya Basu, Oct 19, 2003)
Further toughening India’s stand over Jammu and Kashmir by linking the issue of vacation of Pak occupied Kashmir (PoK) by Pakistan, Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee said that ‘‘one third of J-K is occupied by Pakistan, but that land belongs to India. Whenever
- Dealing With The Danger (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Oct 19, 2003)
New Delhi's role is considerably less interventionist than in other violence-scarred regions
- News Reel 12.10.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2003)
India's most-wanted becomes the world’s wanted as the United States blacklists fugitive Mumbai underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. In a huge embarrassment to Pakistan, the US Department of Treasury lists his location as Karachi and publicises his Pakistan Pass
- At Srinagar Mall, Forces Take Out Shoppers Of Death (Indian Express, Tariq Mir, Oct 19, 2003)
Ending the two-day stand-off sparked by a suicide attack on J-K Chief Minister’s residence, a joint posse of the BSF and J-K police killed the two militants, holed up in a shopping complex across the road, in a close encounter.
- Do See The Other Side: India Slams Oic On J-K (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2003)
India today lashed out at the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) for its reaffirmation of Pakistan’s viewpoint on Jammu and Kashmir and also criticised the lack of objectivity it displayed while passing a resolution on the matter. Calling the resolu
- Bjp Strikes Balance: Sp Can Stay, Let Vhp Play (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2003)
With UP Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav having acquitted himself rather well over the VHP’s Sankalp Sabha programme, it was obviously time for the BJP to come to his defence today.
- 9 Congressmen File Amicus Plea (Indian Express, T.V. Parasuram, Oct 19, 2003)
Nine US Congressmen, including Frank Pallone, co-founder of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans, have filed an amicus brief on behalf of over 20,000 victims of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal.
- Apec Ceos Spend Big For Deals Over Airline Meals (Indian Express, Reuters, Oct 19, 2003)
Pacific Rim businessmen are paying $1,000 a day to eat airline food and rub shoulders with the likes of Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Thailand next week.
- Indusind To Open Office In Dubai (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2003)
Indusind Bank, a technology-driven Indian private-sector bank is opening its first ever overseas office in Dubai this month to strengthen NRI and international trade services. IndusInd MD Bhaskar Ghose said here that the move will also strengthen its Gulf
- Swaraj Saviour To Docs With Russian Stamp (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2003)
Adding more bitterness to the already soured relations between the Union Health Ministry and the Medical Council of India (MCI), Health Minister Sushma Swaraj announced today that doctors, who have graduated from recognised Russian medical colleges before
- ‘media Said I’D Left, I Was Right There’ (Indian Express, Mehbooba Mufti, Oct 19, 2003)
We ensured the building wasn’t blown up, that the trapped people were freed. They came over and had tea with us, that’s our healing touch policy
- Why Buddha Is His Dpm’S Cm (Indian Express, Subrata Nag Choudhury, Oct 19, 2003)
Political foes can well be friends in governance. At least, that was the message sent out by West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya in his interview to The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24X7 last week
- Kashmir’S ‘blunted’ Pointman Vohra Says: I Am Stuck (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Oct 19, 2003)
Hurriyat doesn’t want to talk to him, Mufti says he shouldn’t be a hurdle. Frustrated Vohra meets PM. Buzz: he may be on his way out
- It’S Iob’S Turn Now (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Oct 19, 2003)
After UCO Bank was discovered to have allotted nearly 25 per cent of its shares in physical form; it is now the turn of Indian Overseas Bank. The National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) tells us that over half the issue has been allotted to investors in
- Ioc Embark’S On Rs 10,000cr Panipat Expansion Project (Indian Express, Jaya Basu, Oct 19, 2003)
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Saturday laid the foundation stone of Indian Oil Corporation’s (IOC) Rs 10,000 crore Panipat refinery expansion and petrochemical project here.
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