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Articles 53821 through 53920 of 53943:
- A Reluctant Stowaway (Tribune, Trilochan Singh Trewn, Sep 08, 2001)
DURING those days I used to stay in Dhanraj Mahal close to the Gateway of India and happened to have some preliminary knowledge of spoken Japanese.
- Pakistan Plan Hopes For Growth Rate Of Over 6 Pc (The Financial Express, Raja Asghar, Sep 08, 2001)
Pakistan’s military government unveiled a long-term development plan on Friday that sees the country’s troubled economy reaching an annual growth rate of more than 6 per cent over the next decade.
- Wired To Win (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 08, 2001)
Even as a thousand flashbulbs popped to capture the gorilla of a merger between Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer Corp earlier this week, one frame captured — rather uncannily — the essence of Carleton Fiorina.
- The Internet And Democracy In China (Hindu, Sonika Gupta, Sep 08, 2001)
THE GROWTHof the Internet in the United States has been accompanied by a debate on its emancipatory potential in ushering in democracy in an authoritarian state like China.
- Better Now Than Later (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 08, 2001)
THE SUPREME COURT order on Ms. Jayalalithaa's appeals against her convictions has effectively sealed all hope of her being elected to the Tamil Nadu Assembly before the mid-November deadline.
- Europe To The Rescue? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 08, 2001)
THE US justice department, which pushed for the breakup of Microsoft under a Democratic administration, is now willing to back off.
- The M.S.Swaminathan Report -- Food To Subsist First, Before Food For Work (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Sep 08, 2001)
THE compelling visuals on NDTV of the Orissa starvation deaths have impinged, in some small measure, on the sensitivity of the Central Government.
- All That Prefatory Gush (Telegraph, RUKUN ADVANI, Sep 08, 2001)
Fiction writers usually thank friends, relatives and publishers in small type at the end of their books, inviting readers to move straight into the story.
- Free Agri Exports (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 08, 2001)
THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS to implement the recommendation of the Group of Ministers to remove export restrictions on a number of agricultural products, including foodgrains (wheat, pulses, coarse cereals) and dairy products.
- Without A Stitch On The Victory Stand (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 08, 2001)
The story about the advantages some gain in the Olympics through the use of technology suggests that a return to the original standards of the games is in order.
- No Partners For The Maharaja (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 08, 2001)
BOLTING FROM PROPOSALS for commercial alliances often suggest a deeper malaise.
- The Golden Cage Syndrome (Indian Express, Sunil Jain, Sep 08, 2001)
APART from a few celebrated BJP MPs such as ex-chief ministers Madan Lal Khurana and Sahib Singh Verma, and of course the residents of illegal encroachments like Sainik Farms.
- India-Pakistan Intransigence (Business Line, B. S. Malik, Sep 08, 2001)
THE Agra Summit has been analysed ad nauseam.
- Not Just A Whim (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 08, 2001)
THE LOGIC behind ITC’s proposal to merge ITC Bhadrachalam — the paper and paper-board subsidiary in which it holds 60 per cent — with itself may seem inexplicable at first glance.
- Ration Card To Smart Card (The Economic Times, N. Vittal, Sep 08, 2001)
THE GOVERNMENT of India has declared the year 2001 to be the year of e-governance.
- Don’t Abet Rebating (The Economic Times, Muralidhar Rao, Sep 08, 2001)
APROPOS of the story “Private insurers clamp down on cut” ((ET, September 4), there is no doubt that rebating is rampant in India.
- To Outsmart China, Se Asian Nations Must Focus On Niche Areas (The Financial Express, Richard Hubbard, Sep 08, 2001)
China’s emergence as an Asian powerhouse does not spell disaster for Southeast Asia, if the region allows market forces to develop export strategies to complement the new giant in the neighbourhood, analysts said in Singapore.
- ‘We Don’t Want Capital, We Want Entrepreneurial Skills’ (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 08, 2001)
Foreign direct investment (FDI) no longer flows only from developed to developing countries.
- Railways Will Be Better Off As A Departmental Undertaking (The Financial Express, A. V. Poulose, Sep 08, 2001)
Over the last decades and more suggestions have been made in various quarters for converting the railways into a corporation.
- ‘Focus On Marketing And Distribution’ (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 08, 2001)
THE Indian food business is on the move. Rabobank is an internationally acknowledged food and agri-business knowledge-based institution.
- Sex, Bribes And Videotape (Hindu, Mukund Padmanabhan, Sep 08, 2001)
TALKING HEADS on television and commentaries in many newspapers have spent a great deal of time debating the question: was Tehelka justified in using call girls to conduct its investigation?
- Not By Economics Alone (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2001)
IF the government retreats from all commercial activities and scraps all regulations on commercial activities, there is a big reward to be had: a 10 per cent economic growth.
- Vanishing Samaritans (Indian Express, Anurita Rathore, Sep 08, 2001)
SENTIMENTS are usually transparent, I would like to think. Unusually though they can be generated too! Realisation dawns... and for me, it has.
- Shying Away From The Ideological Fight (Hindu, V. KRISHNA ANANTH , Sep 08, 2001)
The two rising stars in the Congress - Mr. Digvijay Singh and Mr. A.K.Antony - have done it again.
- Why The Govt Should Take Shah Rukh Khan Seriously (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Sep 08, 2001)
WHILE information technology is being hyped by many as India’s key to economic emancipation — and quite rightly so — the potential of our entertainment industry is being often overlooked. Recently, I visited Japan with Shah Rukh Khan.
- Durban Diary: All The Soundbites Fit To Mouth (Indian Express, Suchita Vemuri, Sep 08, 2001)
Imagine it as a melting pot. All of humanity was here, with their stories of pain and hope. It even had its own special acoustics: all manner of voices speaking all manner of tongues.
- ‘If It Weren’t For Tehelka, We Wouldn’t Have Left Nda’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 08, 2001)
Mamata Banerjee has truly come full circle in just six months. She’s back in the NDA after walking out of the coalition just before the West Bengal Assembly elections.
- Why Sacrificing Jagmohan To Bjp’s Unholy Trinity Is A Sin Against The Nation (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 08, 2001)
THERE has to be something frightfully wrong with our capital city if its most prominent losers continue to so dominate our front pages.
- A Reluctant Stowaway (Tribune, Trilochan Singh Trewn, Sep 08, 2001)
DURING those days I used to stay in Dhanraj Mahal close to the Gateway of India and happened to have some preliminary knowledge of spoken Japanese.
- Ten Per Cent Dream (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 08, 2001)
Ideas alone will not pull the economy out of its stupor.
- Conditionalities Come To Roost (The Economic Times, Soumya Kanti Mitra, Sep 07, 2001)
FROM what used to resemble the reign of an absentee landlord in a faux feudal setting, the IMF is now aiming to become a friendly interlocutor.
- Still In The Trough (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 07, 2001)
When will the gloom and doom in the economy disappear and what will be the gross domestic product growth in 2001-02?
- Frozen At The Core (Telegraph, Chandrashekar Dasgupta, Sep 07, 2001)
When the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee meets General Pervez Musharraf at the United Nations later this month, the Pakistan president will once again insist that Kashmir is the “core issue” in India-Pakistan relations.
- Houseboats Losing Charm In Kashmir (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 07, 2001)
Houseboats in Kashmir were once the living quarters of prosperous houseboat owners but today they have lost their past glamour.
- Last Action Hero Of The British Empire: Cdr John Kerans, 1915-1985 (Telegraph, Nigel Farndale, Sep 07, 2001)
Nigel Farndale’s Last Action Hero Of The British Empire: CDR John Kerans, 1915-1985 is not just a naval adventure story (mixing Conrad and Boys’ Own).
- Relief That Kills (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Sep 07, 2001)
LET us remember some forgotten words of our daily discourse.
- A Janus-Like Government (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Sep 07, 2001)
AFTER riding high on popular support, the BJP-led NDA government headed by Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee appears to have betrayed the people.
- Value Added (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 07, 2001)
The schoolteacher’s lot in India has never been very happy. Gujarat witnessed a dramatic expression of teachers’ unhappiness when they observed this year’s Teacher’s Day as “Black Day”.
- The Search For A Global Order (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Sep 07, 2001)
THE world we knew is no more. Of the world to come, we know but little. The human brain has been overtaken by electronics, biology by technology. Can man ever again plan his future?
- A Billion People’s Power To “Strike” (Tribune, P. P. S. Gill, Sep 07, 2001)
I do not have an iota of doubt about the power of the nation, a billion-strong, to “strike”.
- Abm By Other Means (Hindu, Pran Chopra , Sep 07, 2001)
IN DEALING with the U.S. plans for a missile defence system (NMD), the Russian President, Mr. Vladimir Putin, has shown, together, various qualities which he has shown, one by one, in dealing with other tricky situations.
- Get Rid Of The Pak Fixation (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Sep 07, 2001)
When the mind is crowded with petty thoughts, Ghalib said, step out of the house and travel so that the narrow vision ‘‘opens up with the abundance of the spectacle’’.
- In Gujarat, The Bjp Govt’s Road Not Taken (Indian Express, Darshan Desai, Sep 07, 2001)
A RULE free from ‘‘fear, hunger and corruption’’. It was this slogan that powered the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a massive mandate to rule Gujarat for the first time in 1995 and then again in 1998.
- Panchayat Planning May Be Made Mandatory For Plan Allocation (The Financial Express, Joseph Vackayil, Sep 07, 2001)
The Planning Commission is working on a system to ensure that states adhere to the demand-driven micro-level planning process by making District Planning Committees (DPCs) operational.
- Trp-Edoed (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 07, 2001)
SO, HAS THE advertising industry been sold a lemon all along?
- Shanghai (Non) Surprise: It’s All About The Economy (Indian Express, Sonia Trikha, Sep 07, 2001)
ON the eve of its entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO), China will host the Asia Pacific Economic Council (APEC) summit next month.
- Go That Extra Mile (The Economic Times, A. Srikantaiah, Sep 07, 2001)
YOUR front page report (ET, August 14) on the impressive growth in the farm sector’s foreign trade balance is heartening indeed.
- When Capital Markets Fail (The Economic Times, Jeffrey D Sachs, Sep 07, 2001)
A CENTRAL argument for capitalism is that capital markets efficiently channel savings to the most profitable investments.
- Prognosis Of A Slowdown (Business Line, Abhimanyu, Sep 07, 2001)
A COUNTRY facing an economic slowdown is like a patient who is ill because of lack of appetite.
- Railway Privatisation Is Not An Easy Proposition (The Financial Express, A. V. Poulose, Sep 07, 2001)
Analysing the Rakesh Mohan Experts Group’s key recommendations to corporatise Indian Railways (IR) and separate policy from operations.
- Self-Indictment (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 07, 2001)
THE second report on the market ‘scam’ of 2000-01, filed by India’s stockmarket regulator, the Securities and Exchanges Board of India (Sebi), achieves a perverse end. It underlines in bold relief exactly how poorly Sebi functions.
- Media's Duty (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 07, 2001)
ONE of the terms of reference included in the order of the Tamil Nadu Government setting up the Justice Bhakthavatsalam Commission of Inquiry into the disturbances in Chennai connected with the DMK rally on August 12.
- Down-Sizing A Summit? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 07, 2001)
THE WILD FLUCTUATIONS of the diplomatic mood in both India and Pakistan about the prospects of a constructive meeting between their leaders in New York later this month seem to suggest a disturbing trend on the bilateral front.
- The Man Who Gave Heart (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Sep 07, 2001)
``I DID not want to touch this girl until she was conventionally dead -- a corpse. I felt we could not put a knife into her until she was truly a cadaver.''
- Shome Report: A Job Half Done (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Sep 07, 2001)
A FAVOURITE pastime of successive governments in India over the past decade and more has been to set up committees to examine and re-examine the tax structure to make the administration tax-payer friendly.
- Tap The Toddy (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 07, 2001)
HOW many people know how to climb a palm tree and collect toddy juice? Not many.
- Henry Viii: King And Court (Telegraph, Alison Weir, Sep 07, 2001)
The common impression of Henry VIII is that of a king who married six times and was full of bluff and hot air.
- Love Is Not Forever (Tribune, Paul Majendie, Sep 07, 2001)
“Titanic” star Kate Winslet has joined the long list of showbiz casualties whose marriages wilted under the spotlight.
- Embarking On A Voyage Of Rediscovery -- A-Governance For India And The States (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Sep 06, 2001)
EMPIRICAL analyses contribute significantly to economic policy-making in the long run. They enable policy-makers to review the impact of past policies.
- The Plight Of Maharaja (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 06, 2001)
THOSE engaged in the efforts aimed at transferring the management of India's international air carriers, Air-India, to private hands would have never visualised such a pathetic scenario.
- China’s Missile Supplies To Pakistan (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Sep 06, 2001)
CHINA’S unending supply to Pakistan of missiles as well as missile parts and technology has been a major problem for this country because it enhances Pakistan’s security challenge to it.
- Ideology Into Actuality (Telegraph, Jayanti Alam, Sep 06, 2001)
“Realizing economic and social advancement at the same time” is equivalent to “ensuring the coordinated development of population, resources and environment,” comments a book on China’s “socialist market economy”.
- Acting In Harmony With Nature (Tribune, B.R. Sood, Sep 06, 2001)
TWO complimentary streams of Chinese thought, Confucianism and Taoism, developed simultaneously.
- Partners In Spite Of Themselves (Hindu, Teresita C. Schaffer, Sep 06, 2001)
AFTER SOME confusing signals, it now appears that Prime Minister Vajpayee and President Musharraf will meet at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
- God Help Those Who Can’t Help Themselve (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 06, 2001)
Despite safeguards in the Constitution and in law, certain groups remained particularly vulnerable to human rights abuses based on discrimination.
- Acid Test For Tmc Chief (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 06, 2001)
The election of Mr G K Govindavasan as the president of the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) within two days of the death of his father and the party’s founder, Mr G K Moopanar, was not entirely unexpected.
- The Tmc And The Congress (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 06, 2001)
THE PACE AT which the Congress president, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, acted in nominating the trustees to govern the properties owned by the TNCC Trust (hitherto controlled by G. K. Moopanar and Mr. N. Ramasamy Udayar).
- ‘We Indians Are A Suspicious Lot, Envious To The Core Of Anyone Who Makes It Big’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 06, 2001)
As a nation, we never celebrate those who create wealth, instead our elite swears by the principle: poverty is our birthright and you shall have it.
- A Flip-Flop For The Better (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Sep 06, 2001)
The new judgment is more pragmatic as it seeks to be fair to industry as well as contract labour.
- Last Tango In Bihar (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Sep 06, 2001)
IT could have been Bihar’s first. Not since the last 15 years had the state shown its willingness to hold a film festival. But when it did say yes, the Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF) played spoiler.
- Tread With Caution (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 06, 2001)
IN a bid to boost trading volumes and liquidity, the Sebi board has given an in-principle approval to the introduction of stock futures on 31 stocks on which options have already been permitted.
- Usa’s Somersault On Non-Proliferation Could Unsettle India (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Sep 06, 2001)
Two important policy decisions taken by India now become subject to doubts in the context of the likely revival of nuclear and missiles tests by the US.
- Truth Must Be Out (The Economic Times, R. S. Raghavan, Sep 06, 2001)
THE charge levelled against Mr Vajpayee by Mr D B Ray, a former BJP MP, is that the PM had been fully privy to the plot to demolish the Babri Masjid on December 5, 1992.
- Kashipur Deaths Show Utter Failure Of Welfare Schemes (The Financial Express, Dilip Bisoi, Sep 06, 2001)
Kashipur in southern Orissa, well known in corporate circles for its rich bauxite reserves, is in the news, but for the wrong reasons.
- Rating Raters (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 06, 2001)
TELEVISION ratings, computed by two agencies, AC Nielsen and ORG-MARG are alleged to have been fudged to boost the ratings of some TV programmes. This is a serious charge.
- Should India Have Individual Stock Futures? (The Economic Times, L C Gupta, Sep 06, 2001)
ACTING on the recommendations of its Advisory Committee on Derivatives, headed by J R Varma, Sebi has approved in principle the introduction of individual stock futures.
- Right To Food As Fundamental Right? (The Economic Times, Prabhat Kumar, Sep 06, 2001)
AMARTYA Sen would indeed be a happy man with the Supreme Court directing the central and state governments to ensure that starving people are supplied with foodgrain.
- ‘We Are Not Opposed To Agnihotri. Nor Are We For Him’ (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 06, 2001)
Late last year, the government finally woke up to the huge potential locked in non-resident Indians (NRIs) and persons of Indian origin (PIOs) across the length and breadth of the globe.
- Why India Should Support A New Trade Negotiating Round (The Financial Express, Pradeep S. Mehta, Sep 06, 2001)
The reverse countdown to the fourth World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference has begun without any agreement on the agenda.
- The Ibm Way (Business Line, L. Jayarangan, Sep 06, 2001)
UNTIL `benching' forced HR heads to stand up and fight, what worried them was how to make them `sit in their seats' and avoid attrition! Many spent their time in office scanning employment opportunities and e-mailing applications to the US.
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