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- The Business Of Saarc (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 05, 2002)
KATHMANDU, JAN. 4. Will the business of SAARC ever become business?
- National Trust: Giving The Disabled A Sense Of Belonging (The Financial Express, S. Rohini, Jan 05, 2002)
The disabled population in the country as per a rough estimate is around 3 per cent.
- Highlighting India's Case (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 05, 2002)
INDIA'S COMPELLING CASE about a systematic terrorist threat to its national interest is being unnecessarily undermined by the unseemly and wholly avoidable controversy involving Pakistan over the question of supportive evidence.
- The Cost Of War (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Jan 05, 2002)
A war causes colossal human suffering... In all this, the `economic' costs seem trifling. But there is a huge cost, both short and long term.
- If Only Money Could Talk (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 05, 2002)
Imagine an R.P. Goenka or even a Harsh Neotia vying for Subrata Mukherjee’s job. Impossible? Agreed.
- Microcredit: Globalisation Unlimited (Business Line, Sudhirendar Sharma, Jan 05, 2002)
IT is a two-edged sword. While it supposedly takes the rural poor into a new domain of economic freedom, it keeps the corporate sector hopeful of exploiting this freedom.
- Disturbing Changes In Banks' Asset Portfolios (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Jan 05, 2002)
DEPOSITS as a ratio of GNP at current prices formed about 13 per cent in 1970-71. By 1980-81, this proportion had risen to 26.4 per cent, at a growth rate of about 7.34 per cent per annum.
- Telecom Sector: Fast Forward (Business Line, H. Kaushal , Jan 05, 2002)
THE telecom scene has changed dramatically in India. The pace accelerated in the early 1990s with the introduction of value-added services and the privatisation of telecom services.
- Agriculture At Crossroads (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 05, 2002)
NEARLY THREE DECADES after the Green Revolution changed the country's ignominious ship-to-mouth existence, agriculture has again taken the centre-stage.
- Globalisation And Decentralisation (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Jan 05, 2002)
Where existing structures of inequality are left intact and become compounded with the disadvantages of marketisation, political empowerment is a useful slogan, not a realistic or genuine goal.
- Beneath The Veil: How Afghan Artists Beat The Taliban At Their Own Game (Indian Express, Kevin Sullivan, Jan 05, 2002)
KABUL: It was a moody impressionist painting of a cobblestone street winding down a hill-deserted, until Mohammad Yousof Asefi came along with his wet sponge.
- The Business Of Saarc (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 05, 2002)
KATHMANDU, JAN. 4. Will the business of SAARC ever become business?
- Forensic Justice And Aids (Hindu, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Jan 05, 2002)
India, like South Africa, has, high on its health agenda, the pathology of HIV and AIDS. So human rights are in jeopardy and, vis-a-vis jural relief, judicial obscurantism is forensic folly, the vanishing point of curial vigilance.
- The Spectre Of Examinations (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 05, 2002)
BY DECIDING TO conduct common examinations for over 42 lakh students who go to Tamil Nadu's Government and aided schools between classes V and IX.
- Highlighting India's Case (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 05, 2002)
INDIA'S COMPELLING CASE about a systematic terrorist threat to its national interest is being unnecessarily undermined by the unseemly and wholly avoidable controversy involving Pakistan over the question of supportive evidence.
- The Cost Of War (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Jan 05, 2002)
A war causes colossal human suffering... In all this, the `economic' costs seem trifling. But there is a huge cost, both short and long term.
- Agriculture At Crossroads (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 05, 2002)
NEARLY THREE DECADES after the Green Revolution changed the country's ignominious ship-to-mouth existence, agriculture has again taken the centre-stage.
- Chipped Truths (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 05, 2002)
THE Mumbai CEGAT was kept occupied with potato chips when the Indian Organic Chemicals case came up for hearing. The dispute was on how the chips were manufactured.
- Stridency For The Hustings (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 04, 2002)
THE BELLICOSE TENOR of the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee's speech laced heavily with jingoistic flourishes at Lucknow on Wednesday is in sharp contrast to the sense of sobriety.
- Why Saarc Does Not Spark? (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 04, 2002)
KATHMANDU, JAN. 3. The failures of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation over the last two decades have led to agonising soul searching among sections of the intelligentsia in the subcontinent.
- India And The Global Slowing (Hindu, Pulapre Balakrishnan, Jan 04, 2002)
The prevalent tendency to link the slowing of the Indian manufacturing sector to the recession in the U.S. economy needs to be rejected as deluding.
- Transparent Dishonesty (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jan 04, 2002)
The unsinkable Molly Brown, please move over. You have competition, the defence minister of India has proved himself equally unsinkable.
- Beyond Terrorism And Recession... -- Us Looks Ahead With Hope (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Jan 04, 2002)
AMERICANS opened the New Year with a renewed sense of confidence, overcoming the traumatic experience of the terrorist attacks of 2001, and with strong expectations of economic recovery in the first half of 2002.
- Talking Storms (Business Line, Timeri N. Murari , Jan 04, 2002)
IT was Chairman Mao who said: `Walk softly and carry a big stick.' Had he been an Indian, he would have said: `Talk softly and carry a big stick.'
- Mission Kashmir (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 04, 2002)
Jammu and Kashmir is labouring under many disadvantages.
- Ultimate Conquest (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 04, 2002)
HAS the last surviving bastion of the world outside the US fallen? Has the US succeeded in making the ultimate cultural conquest?
- Elusive Radical Politics (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 04, 2002)
THE GRUESOME MURDER last week in Mahbubnagar district of D. Ragya Naik, a sitting Congress Member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, raises a diverse range of questions.
- Tighter Anti-Dumping Rules Are Good For India (The Financial Express, Pradeep S. Mehta, Jan 04, 2002)
Despite of its strong opposition, the United States has reconciled to the review of rules on anti-dumping at the Doha meeting of the World Trade Organisation.
- Fdi Flows And Cross-Border M&as (Business Line, S. Gurumurthi , Jan 04, 2002)
ACCORDING to the World Investment Report 2001 published in September by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), global inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) rose 18 per cent in 2000 to reach a record $1,300 billion.
- Talking Storms (Business Line, Timeri N. Murari , Jan 04, 2002)
IT was Chairman Mao who said: `Walk softly and carry a big stick.' Had he been an Indian, he would have said: `Talk softly and carry a big stick.' There is a big difference between the two sayings.
- Why Saarc Does Not Spark? (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 04, 2002)
KATHMANDU, JAN. 3. The failures of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation over the last two decades have led to agonising soul searching among sections of the intelligentsia in the subcontinent.
- Stridency For The Hustings (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 04, 2002)
THE BELLICOSE TENOR of the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee's speech laced heavily with jingoistic flourishes at Lucknow on Wednesday is in sharp contrast to the sense of sobriety.
- India And The Global Slowing (Hindu, Pulapre Balakrishnan, Jan 04, 2002)
The prevalent tendency to link the slowing of the Indian manufacturing sector to the recession in the U.S. economy needs to be rejected as deluding.
- Elusive Radical Politics (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 04, 2002)
THE GRUESOME MURDER last week in Mahbubnagar district of D. Ragya Naik, a sitting Congress Member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, raises a diverse range of questions.
- After A 27-Yr-Old Affair With Jihad, Breaking Up Is Toughest Part (Indian Express, Aamer Ahmed Khan, Jan 04, 2002)
Pakistan’s jihadi regime which supported a ‘holy war’ in Afghanistan and Kashmir lies buried in the ruins of New York and Kandahar.
- Indian Economic Association Points To Reform Gaps (The Financial Express, P Vinod Kumar, Jan 04, 2002)
As the old adage goes, it is difficult to get two economists to agree on a single, simple hypothesis.
- Fdi Flows And Cross-Border M&as (Business Line, S. Gurumurthi , Jan 04, 2002)
ACCORDING to the World Investment Report 2001 published in September by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), global inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) rose 18 per cent in 2000 to reach a record $1,300 billion.
- Korean Farmers Go Online To Boost Rice Sales (The Financial Express, Cho Mee-young, Jan 04, 2002)
SEOUL: Little has changed in the rice fields of Asia in the past few centuries. Farmers in straw hats still plough the land with water buffalo, plant seedlings by hand and harvest ripe stalks with sharp sickles.
- Ultimate Conquest (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 04, 2002)
HAS the last surviving bastion of the world outside the US fallen? Has the US succeeded in making the ultimate cultural conquest?
- Beyond Terrorism And Recession... -- Us Looks Ahead With Hope (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Jan 04, 2002)
AMERICANS opened the New Year with a renewed sense of confidence, overcoming the traumatic experience of the terrorist attacks of 2001, and with strong expectations of economic recovery in the first half of 2002.
- Now You See It, Now You Don’t (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 04, 2002)
THAT Kabul has become a common dateline creates the illusion that it has become accessible. It has not. An Indian reporter’s journey to Kabul has all the trimmings of surrealistic drama.
- Corporation Bank Cuts Housing Loan Rates (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 03, 2002)
IN a move to boost its housing finance wing, Corporation Bank has reduced its interest rate to 11.5 per cent from 12 per cent with effect from January 1.
- Agriculture Outgrowing Problems, But... (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Jan 03, 2002)
IT WAS A rebound year for the country's farm sector, following 2000's drought-induced disaster of a harvest.
- Inelegance Marks The Buy-Back Law (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Jan 03, 2002)
WHEN one reads the substantive law on share buyback enshrined in Section 77A of the Companies Act, 1956, one is struck by the sheer inelegance of its language.
- Towards Leaner Balance-Sheets (Business Line, Ali Nyaz, Jan 03, 2002)
THE proposed Accounting Standards (ASs) on "intangible assets" and "asset impairment" are likely to have far-reaching consequences for industry not only in terms of how intangible assets are recognised and measured in future years.
- No Small Change (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 03, 2002)
THERE IS LITTLE doubt that the New Year switch to the euro marks a watershed in the history of Europe, governed the past centuries by strong nationalist aspirations.
- Pak Firm Duplicating Russian Arms Under Copyright Violations (The Financial Express, P.K. Vasudeva, Jan 03, 2002)
A Pakistani defence firm has been caught blatantly duplicating Russian arms at an international exhibition in Turkey, according to reports.
- The Partition Debate - Ii (Hindu, Mushirul Hasan, Jan 03, 2002)
As a metaphor, an event and memory, Partition has to be interpreted and explained afresh to remove widely-held misconceptions.
- Inelegance Marks The Buy-Back Law (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Jan 03, 2002)
WHEN one reads the substantive law on share buyback enshrined in Section 77A of the Companies Act, 1956, one is struck by the sheer inelegance of its language.
- India-Pakistan Face-Off -- Testing Time For Sagacious Leadership (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 03, 2002)
By a process of elimination, what is left as the only abiding solution is to come to terms with Pakistan with a sense of realism and constructive engagement.
- How To Win The Opium War (Telegraph, Pravin Kumar, Jan 03, 2002)
One major fallout of the recent American military operation in Afghanistan has been the rise in opium prices in the neighbouring countries.
- India-Pakistan Face-Off -- Testing Time For Sagacious Leadership (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 03, 2002)
By a process of elimination, what is left as the only abiding solution is to come to terms with Pakistan with a sense of realism and constructive engagement.
- Towards Leaner Balance-Sheets (Business Line, Ali Nyaz, Jan 03, 2002)
THE proposed Accounting Standards (ASs) on "intangible assets" and "asset impairment" are likely to have far-reaching consequences for industry not only in terms of how intangible assets are recognised and measured in future years.
- Re-Infusing Trust (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 03, 2002)
A SERIES OF not flattering news concerning the Unit Trust of India's (UTI) flagship US 64 Scheme that began in July last year culminated in the announcement, for the first time ever, of its net asset value (NAV) by the end of the year.
- Shadows Over The Summit (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 03, 2002)
KATHMANDU, JAN. 2. There is more than one shadow hanging over the summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) under way here.
- Saarc: A Slow Boat To Nowhere? (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 03, 2002)
Without India's leadership, SAARC will continue to drift aimlessly.
- No Small Change (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 03, 2002)
THERE IS LITTLE doubt that the New Year switch to the euro marks a watershed in the history of Europe, governed the past centuries by strong nationalist aspirations.
- Agriculture Outgrowing Problems, But... (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Jan 03, 2002)
IT WAS A rebound year for the country's farm sector, following 2000's drought-induced disaster of a harvest.
- How Safe Are Indian Ports From Terrorist Activities? (The Financial Express, Vijay Sakhuja, Jan 03, 2002)
International intelligence agencies are monitoring the movement of at least 20 merchant vessels in the wake of the September 11 attacks in the United States.
- Stable Friends (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 03, 2002)
Even contrarians will concede that there are few relationships that are as critical for India today as the one with the United States of America.
- Independent Thinking (Telegraph, Chandrashekar Dasgupta, Jan 03, 2002)
Is non-alignment still relevant after the end of the Cold War? When the United States of America launched the war against al Qaida and its taliban patrons, a debate erupted in India over the principle and practice of non-alignment.
- Terror Region Between States (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 03, 2002)
Mutual legal assistance may be refused: if the request is not made in conformity with provisions of this annex.
- The Partition Debate - Ii (Hindu, Mushirul Hasan, Jan 03, 2002)
As a metaphor, an event and memory, Partition has to be interpreted and explained afresh to remove widely-held misconceptions.
- A Journey With Other People (Telegraph, SUDIPTA BHATTACHARJEE, Jan 03, 2002)
Today, the Nagas just want peace, believesBy Sudipta Bhattacharjee.
- Circa 2002 Likely To Set The Trend For Biotech Development (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Jan 03, 2002)
Hopefully, circa 2002 will set the trend for the decade of biotechnology with the release of the first transgenic crop, Bt cotton for commercial cultivation in the country.
- Re-Infusing Trust (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 03, 2002)
A SERIES OF not flattering news concerning the Unit Trust of India's (UTI) flagship US 64 Scheme that began in July last year culminated in the announcement, for the first time ever, of its net asset value (NAV) by the end of the year.
- Saarc: A Slow Boat To Nowhere? (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 03, 2002)
Without India's leadership, SAARC will continue to drift aimlessly.
- Warming Up Exercises (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 03, 2002)
Please send VHP and Friends a copy of the PM’s musings.
- Corporation Bank Cuts Housing Loan Rates (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 03, 2002)
IN a move to boost its housing finance wing, Corporation Bank has reduced its interest rate to 11.5 per cent from 12 per cent with effect from January 1.
- War Clouds And Pakistan’s Shadow (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 03, 2002)
India and Pakistan appear once again to be on the brink of war. The arrest of the chief of Jamaat Al-Dawa, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, who until recently headed Lashkar-e-Taiba has been welcomed by New Delhi as ‘‘a step in the right direction’’.
- Shadows Over The Summit (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 03, 2002)
KATHMANDU, JAN. 2. There is more than one shadow hanging over the summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) under way here.
- Poto Ii (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 03, 2002)
WHILE THE PROMULGATION of POTO was greeted with a censorious bang, its repromulgation has met with little more than a critical whimper.
- Audit The Auditors? (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 03, 2002)
Every time a scam takes place, we are forced to ask: What were the auditors doing?
- What Of Terrorism Beyond Kashmir? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jan 02, 2002)
THE steps taken by a cornered Gen Pervez Musharraf, to arrest Pakistan-based terrorists like Azhar Masood and the former chief of the Lashkar-e-Taiba will at least ensure that we do not begin the second year of the new millennium.
- Uti Shocker (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 02, 2002)
AT Rs 5.81, the net asset value of US-64 has shocked even those who had been prepared for the worst.
- All Quiet On The Ipo Front (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 02, 2002)
MOBILISATION through the IPO route was a dismal Rs 392 crore in 2001, which is moderately higher than the mop-up in 1995 which stood at Rs 314 crore.
- The Algebra Of Poverty -- Only The Rich Should Become Richer (Business Line, Devinder Sharma , Jan 02, 2002)
THE Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, would like us to be part of his make-believe world.
- India's Anti-Terror Agenda (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 02, 2002)
THE PRIME MINISTER, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, has clearly sought to sensitise the people of India to the challenges of fighting the external terrorists.
- The Corporate Transformation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 02, 2002)
THE RECENT TRANSFER of a 10 per cent stake in Larsen and Toubro (L&T) from Reliance to a company belonging to the A.V. Birla group has been remarkably free from the bitterness.
- Tourist Deals Send Indians Rushing To Lanka (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jan 02, 2002)
THE Taj Samudra in Colombo is known for the sumptuous buffet breakfast it offers and its employees can be forgiven for boasting that it is the best breakfast deal in Colombo.
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