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Articles 51221 through 51320 of 53943:
- Focus On Financial Infrastructure To Propel Banking Reforms (The Financial Express, Renu Kohli, Dec 19, 2001)
The recently released Report on Trends and Progress in Banking in India, brought out by the Reserve Bank of India, identifies financial stability as the main issue of concern for policy-makers.
- Pak-Sponsored Terrorism -- Diplomacy, Not War, Is The Key (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 19, 2001)
THE attack on the Parliament complex and what might have happened but for the quick response of the security guards have left the nation stunned and furious.
- The `Britasian' Psyche (Business Line, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 19, 2001)
IT IS surprising that the British Home Secretary should even have to advise Asian immigrants to learn English.
- Fr Index (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 19, 2001)
THE Public Expenditure Round Table (PERT), a Chennai think-tank specialising on issues relating to pruning government expenditure and getting the maximum output and return from every rupee spent.
- Two Time Zones Or One? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 19, 2001)
DEBATE has been going on right since the time of independence but there is no unanimity on whether the country should continue to have one time zone as of now or go in for two time zones.
- Looking At Prabhu For More Power (Pioneer, Shibani Dasgupta, Dec 19, 2001)
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), the country's premier power generation and distribution channel, has approached the Centre for a budgetary support of Rs 18,000 crore to finance its plans to add generation capacity of 40,000 mw by 2012.
- Forgotten Amendments (Telegraph, Tapas Majumdar, Dec 19, 2001)
The new Constitution (93rd amendment) bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha a fortnight back and passed unanimously the same day after only a couple of hours’ discussion.
- Drugs For Aids (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 19, 2001)
THERE IS ONE thing common to South Africa and India which neither country can be proud of.
- Disunited In Distress (Hindu, P. V. Indiresan , Dec 19, 2001)
This should be the time for all good men to come to the aid of the nation. That is not happening.
- Stepping Up International Pressure On Pakistan (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 19, 2001)
INDIA'S MORAL AUTHORITY to prepare for prudent action against the terrorist threats to its democratic and secular polity should not be put to risk by rhetoric of the kind that the Union Home Minister, Mr. L. K. Advani, resorted to in the Lok Sabha on Tue.
- Election Nearing (Pioneer, Ramesh C Shukla, Dec 19, 2001)
For some strange reason, this year's Delhi Gymkhana elections campaign left me in a pensive mood, and sent me travelling to the past. Gone are the days of canvassing conclaves where one could get chai-samosa, if not actually whiskey-kebabs.
- ‘We Would Welcome Further Removal Of Qrs And Import Duties’ (The Financial Express, HUMA SIDDQUI, Dec 18, 2001)
Whil e Solvakia’s main effort is to belong the European family of countries, it sees a lot of business promise in India, says the country’s Ambassador, Ladislav Volko.
- Blocked To Flotsam (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 18, 2001)
So why do states still clamour for change? Perhaps because on several occasions the president has acted without informing the chief minister.
- Dealing With December 13 (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 18, 2001)
If the Government needs to avoid utterances of the type made by Mr. Advani - that there was no security lapse - the Congress(I) could do without some of the noises emanating from its camp.
- Maoists In Nepal (Hindu, Sangeeta Thapliyal, Dec 18, 2001)
India should be cautious while dealing with Nepal. Any kind of military or material support from India becomes an emotive issue in Nepal and can be misinterpreted as interference.
- What If Osama Were Caught In India? A Debate Would Explode: Should He Be Tried Under Evidence Act? Poto? (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Dec 18, 2001)
The technology of inflicting large-scale violence is becoming easier to obtain, and — per quotient of lethality — less and less expensive. This in turn yields three lemmas:
- Living On A Prayer (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 18, 2001)
On Monday as an extremely trying Ramadan month drew to a close and Eid celebrations commenced, Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf must surely have grabbed the opportunity to offer a very special, heartfelt prayer.
- I For Indoctrination (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 18, 2001)
December 13, as September 11, as indeed so many days that have passed unmarked on the calendar, when innocents have fallen to the terrorist’s bullet, hammer home a realisation: this challenge will not be met by the military strategy alone.
- Diversity Through Subaltern Prism (Pioneer, Syed Ali Mehdi, Dec 18, 2001)
There has been a tendency among scholars of Muslim history to view it as a biography of caliphs, sultans, shahs and shaykh al-Islams:
- Championing Hockey (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 18, 2001)
The Indian hockey team's splendid performance in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where it won the Champion's Challenge Cup, is one more dribble towards greater glory.
- Clear Evidence (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 18, 2001)
There is no ambiguity in the accusation this time. India has clear evidence of Pakistans Inter Services Intelligence's (ISI's) role in masterminding the horrendous attack on Parliament House.
- Special To The Express (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 18, 2001)
Temporary expedients will boomerang: giving handsome amounts to the SULFA cadre, giving them jobs, allowing them to retain weapons — these steps have resulted in Assam now having not one set of extortionists — ULFA — but two.
- Sign Language (Indian Express, Janaki Ganesh, Dec 18, 2001)
The municipal corporations of various cities and towns across the country probably feel that they have discharged their responsibilities quite well by putting up the standard signs which proclaim certain areas to be ‘‘horn free zones’’.
- Unravelling The Conspiracy (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 18, 2001)
A COUPLE OF things have become fairly clear just three days after the attack on Parliament.
- Work Culture In The Us And India -- The Difference Says It All (Business Line, A. V. Swaminathan , Dec 18, 2001)
A COMPARISON of work practices in the United States and India reveals stunning differences.
- Dealing With December 13 (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 18, 2001)
If the Government needs to avoid utterances of the type made by Mr. Advani - that there was no security lapse - the Congress(I) could do without some of the noises emanating from its camp.
- Maoists In Nepal (Hindu, Sangeeta Thapliyal, Dec 18, 2001)
India should be cautious while dealing with Nepal. Any kind of military or material support from India becomes an emotive issue in Nepal and can be misinterpreted as interference.
- Hunt The Hunter (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 18, 2001)
The terrorist attack on Parliament on December 13 has presented the country with major security challenges.
- India's Corporate Economy -- Fallen Between Two Stools (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Dec 18, 2001)
GROWTH is uniquely dependent on household savings. Long-term investments are aggregated from household savings that flow in trickles.
- ‘Dsp Has Started Reaping The Benefits Of Modernisation’ (The Financial Express, S. K. Bhattacharyya, Dec 18, 2001)
Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP) in West Bengal, one of the four integrated steel plants of government-owned Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), is struggling hard to come out of the red.
- India Must Go All Out To Fight Terrorism (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Dec 18, 2001)
THE shock and outrage at the terrorist attack on Parliament, the most powerful symbol of a democratic nation, has given way to a sense of bewilderment at the ease with which the perpetrators could drive into a fortified complex.
- India Must Go All Out To Fight Terrorism (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Dec 18, 2001)
THE shock and outrage at the terrorist attack on Parliament, the most powerful symbol of a democratic nation, has given way to a sense of bewilderment at the ease with which the perpetrators could drive into a fortified complex.
- History Meets Dharma In Politics (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Dec 18, 2001)
An inscrutable destiny, Mahakaal, has presented modern India with a strange paradox.
- Destination China (Business Line, M. P. Suresh, Dec 18, 2001)
WITH China becoming a full member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), it is all set to improve its trading profile by adopting pragmatic foreign trade policies and transforming its domestic sector.
- Ruffled Allies Add To Woes (Tribune, P. Raman , Dec 18, 2001)
The promised Cabinet expansion is going to be the immediate casualty of the Vajpayee government’s confrontation with the unified Opposition and the resultant troubles.
- Bt Cotton Fiasco -- Stepping Onto A Booby Trap (Business Line, Devinder Sharma , Dec 18, 2001)
"ISN'T it like sending a soldier to the battle front and then ask him not to use the latest sophisticated assault rifle,'' a British radio journalist asked me the other day.
- Slovakia Sees Vast Scope For India In Its Economy And Trade (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 18, 2001)
Following the division of former Czechslovakia into two independent states in 1992— Czech and Slovak—development of global co-operation has been one of the essential activities undertaken by Slovakia.
- Human Development: A Touch Slow (Business Line, Ruddar Datt , Dec 18, 2001)
IN INDIA, the basic purpose of planning is to improve peoples choices and their well-being. The country has been categorised by the Human Development Report 2001 as a medium-human development country.
- Blue Danube In Himachal (Pioneer, Roswitha Joshi, Dec 18, 2001)
I have known Arun Kirpal for years as a chicken farmer.
- Joy For Govt, But.... (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 18, 2001)
BY ANNOUNCING A special interim dividend of 750 per cent (Rs75 per share), the VSNL board has completed the process of stripping the company's reserves on behalf of the Government.
- Phenomenon Of Micro-Politics (Tribune, Bhim S. Dahiya, Dec 18, 2001)
Although privatisation is a key concept in the present-day form of democracy and it is a crucial component of the larger contemporary phenomenon called liberalisation, when it is put into practice in the sphere of politics it does tend to erode.
- Hunt The Hunter (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 18, 2001)
The terrorist attack on Parliament on December 13 has presented the country with major security challenges.
- Going Back To China (Telegraph, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Dec 18, 2001)
On board Air China 109. Beijing-Hong Kong. I had long thought the shortest crossing from the First World to the Third was at Erez, the frontier post which divides Israel from Palestine.
- Unravelling The Conspiracy (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 18, 2001)
A COUPLE OF things have become fairly clear just three days after the attack on Parliament.
- Abm Is Out, Arms Race Is In (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 18, 2001)
Call it the haughtiness of the super powerful or simply a case of ill timing, but the USA has reneged the 1972 anti-ballistic missile treaty when it should not have.
- A Matter Of Rights (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 17, 2001)
BY CALLING FOR a focus on the human rights of the weaker sections, the President, Mr. K. R. Narayanan, has made a timely intervention in the country's social discourse.
- Cool Minds Vs Hot Heads (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 17, 2001)
Some within the BJP, we are told, have urged the Vajpayee government to assume a more pro-active stance against terrorism.
- Gene Therapy Helps Sickle Cell Patients (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 17, 2001)
Researchers using a gutted AIDS virus and a custom-made gene have said they have corrected sickle cell anaemia in mice and that the approach holds promise for people.
- Lashkar, Jaish: Pak’s Ghosts In The Machine (Indian Express, Khaled Ahmed, Dec 17, 2001)
For the first time the government’s reference to ‘extremist religious elements’ has become clear to the people of Pakistan.
- Breeding Little Hawks (Hindu, Javed Jabbar, Dec 17, 2001)
Getting children to raise hands in response to one-liner questions on issues as solemn as war and peace, as life and death, epitomised the superficial yet potentially dangerous uses to which TV is put.
- Those Unsettling Compulsions (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Dec 17, 2001)
The 'Iftar' season is on and now we will also have birthday bashes, besides numerous other parties. Christmas and New Year are around the corner and we will witness new acts of political gymnastics.
- Managing The `Nuclear Flashpoint' (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 17, 2001)
NEW DELHI, DEC. 16. Indian analysts of foreign affairs used to bristle every time a visiting American scholar or policy-maker mentioned the phrase that Kashmir is a ``nuclear flashpoint.''
- Understanding Indian Muslims (Hindu, Balraj Puri, Dec 17, 2001)
Cultural heritage and political aspirations of a community are as much a factor in influencing its behaviour as its theological beliefs.
- Our True Heroes (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 17, 2001)
At the tenth anniversary celebrations of The Pioneer on Friday, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee made a wonderful, thought-provoking remark about the brave security personnel who laid down their lives in the line of duty.
- Shooting Terror (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Dec 17, 2001)
You had to watch it with a crowd of other people to experience the tension in your own taut muscles, to realise you, along with millions of other viewers across the nation, were waiting to exhale — at least momentarily.
- Bring Out The Evidence (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 17, 2001)
Horror over the terrorist attack on Parliament is understandable.
- Jail, Bail, Jail (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 17, 2001)
Bail and jail have become a routine for former Bihar Chief Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav.
- December 13: Who Is To Blame? (Business Line, H. Kaushal , Dec 17, 2001)
THE December 13 attack on Parliament on December 13 is a challenge to the free world, not only in India.
- The Demarche And Stark Choices (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 17, 2001)
THE DASTARDLY ATTACK on the Parliament House and the venomous challenge from the terrorists understandably has compelled New Delhi to deliver a demarche to Pakistan about those who are suspected to have masterminded the evil plot.
- Asset Reconstruction Companies -- Lessons From International Experience (Business Line, R. Kannan, Dec 17, 2001)
THOUGH there has been a considerable decline in banks non-performing assets over the last three years, the improvement has slowed down and the NPA levels remain high compared to international standards.
- Growing Terrorism Stalks Maritime Shipping (The Financial Express, Vijay Sakhuja, Dec 17, 2001)
As the war on terrorism in Afghanistan reaches its final stages, the US and its coalition partners are engaged in blocking land routes to prevent the escape of Osama bin Laden.
- To Fizzle Or Sizzle! The Clock Ticks For Bimst-Ec At Yangon (The Financial Express, Rohit Bansal, Dec 17, 2001)
Parliament hogs the headlines over POTO, trails of LeT terrorists all lead to Pakistan, debates rage over the video tapes of Osama bin Laden, and spokesmen in New Delhi and Islamabad hog the remaining space with their sabre-rattling.
- December 13 And After (Business Line, B. Raman , Dec 17, 2001)
EVEN WHILE lauding the remarkable reflexes and the bravery of the security personnel who prevented the terrorists from gaining access to the sanctum sanctorum of the Parliament House on December 13.
- Export Promotion In India -- Learning From The Us (Business Line, R. J. Venkateswaran , Dec 17, 2001)
THE Union Commerce and Industry Minister, Mr Murasoli Maran, has set up a high-level committee to evolve a five-year exim policy which would be in line with the Tenth Plan period (2002-2007).
- Inequality, Globalisation And A Social Framework (Business Line, S. Venu , Dec 17, 2001)
IN 1999, the World Bank President, Mr James Wolfensohn, observed of the global financial market: `At the level of people, the system is not working'.
- Relief For Ex-Detainees (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 17, 2001)
It takes time to realise and right the wrongs committed in the heat of the moment. But it has taken the Punjab Government unduly long — about 10 years — to compensate some 300 persons who were detained in Jodhpur jail after Operation Bluestar in 1984.
- Averting The Decline Of The East (Pioneer, Firoz Bakht Ahmed, Dec 17, 2001)
Culture is the measuring rod of civilisation.
- Calcutta’s Mismanaged Plenty (Telegraph, Joel Ruet, Dec 17, 2001)
Mumbaikars going to Delhi are surprised to find that Delhi, unlike the rest of India, has huge power shortage.
- A Cricketing Story (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Dec 17, 2001)
In 1994 I brought out a book on negotiation, Successful Negotiation. Drawing extensively on the research work in the Harvard negotiation project of Howard Raiffa and others.
- Developing An Objective Argument (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 17, 2001)
I remember, Mr. Chairman, one of your illustrious predecessors mentioned in a meeting in this very same hall that the concept of single undertaking had a particular connotation at the time of the Punta Declaration.
- Assault On Nationhood (Pioneer, Bobby Sharma, Dec 17, 2001)
The terrorist attack on Parliament on December 13, 2001, so soon after the collapse of the Taliban in Afghanistan, reinforces two perceptions, one by India and another by Pakistan.
- Time For Total Unity (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 17, 2001)
A crisis, as the Chinese say, is both an opportunity and a time for recrimination. The December 13 terrorist attack on the Parliament complex was one such in recent years.
- A Matter Of Rights (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 17, 2001)
BY CALLING FOR a focus on the human rights of the weaker sections, the President, Mr. K. R. Narayanan, has made a timely intervention in the country's social discourse.
- Managing The `Nuclear Flashpoint' (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 17, 2001)
NEW DELHI, DEC. 16. Indian analysts of foreign affairs used to bristle every time a visiting American scholar or policy-maker mentioned the phrase that Kashmir is a ``nuclear flashpoint.''
- Breeding Little Hawks (Hindu, Javed Jabbar, Dec 17, 2001)
Getting children to raise hands in response to one-liner questions on issues as solemn as war and peace, as life and death, epitomised the superficial yet potentially dangerous uses to which TV is put.
- The Demarche And Stark Choices (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 17, 2001)
THE DASTARDLY ATTACK on the Parliament House and the venomous challenge from the terrorists understandably has compelled New Delhi to deliver a demarche to Pakistan about those who are suspected to have masterminded the evil plot.
- December 13 And After (Business Line, B. Raman , Dec 17, 2001)
EVEN WHILE lauding the remarkable reflexes and the bravery of the security personnel who prevented the terrorists from gaining access to the sanctum sanctorum of the Parliament House on December 13.
- On A Rebound (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 17, 2001)
THE US was hitherto the ultimate haven and an inveterate defender of free market economy and the private sector.
- Understanding Indian Muslims (Hindu, Balraj Puri, Dec 17, 2001)
Cultural heritage and political aspirations of a community are as much a factor in influencing its behaviour as its theological beliefs.
- Afghanistan: Third Time Lucky? (Tribune, Pran Chopra , Dec 17, 2001)
It has been often said that Afghanistan has been ruined by tribal rivalries, ethnic antagonisms, and clash of egos between irresponsible regional warlords.
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