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Articles 3121 through 3220 of 3437:
- A Macro Policy With Micro Focus Too (Business Line, M. Rafeeque Ahmed , Sep 01, 2004)
THE approach and content of the National Foreign Trade Policy (NFTP) should enthuse everyone in the export business.
- A Big Push To Small Exporters (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 01, 2004)
The manmohan singh Government's five-year Foreign Trade Policy, unveiled by the Commerce Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, on Tuesday, has gone micro.
- Renewable Energy To Play Crucial Role In Meeting Energy Needs (Tribune, Manoj Kumar, Aug 29, 2004)
With rising oil import bill and growing demand for energy, India is finding it hard to meet its energy requirements. Consequently
- He Captures The True Images Of Life (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Aug 29, 2004)
Gautam Ghosh is 54, but his selection as the best director and screen playwright — this year’s prestigious National Film Award — is attributed to his successful bringing to the fore the current socio-economic problems in rural India.
- Onam Offering (Deccan Herald, K. S. Parthasarathy, Aug 28, 2004)
The alleged serpent in the bushes was more like a symbol for their deception
- Foreign Trade Policy — Long On Intent, Short On Strategy (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Aug 28, 2004)
Though bristling with schemes and plans, the Foreign Trade Policy neither offers convincing steps to substantially cut transaction costs nor spells out international economic strategy.
- To Conserve Land, Go High Rise (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Aug 27, 2004)
India stands first for its people and then its land. Idealistically speaking, land (with the rivers and mountains inclusive) is a precious resource that all the people of India possess collectively.
- Right Approach (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 27, 2004)
Left extremism should be treated as a socio-economic problem
- The Ruins Of Victory (Telegraph, GITHA HARIHARAN, Aug 22, 2004)
To travel from Hospet village to Hampi, a distance of a mere 13 kilometres, is to leave behind the prosaic, familiar scenes of rural Karnataka.
- Environment-Friendly Policies Needed (Deccan Herald, PANDURANG HEGDE, Aug 20, 2004)
There is need to reverse the country’s policy on natural resources pursued during the NDA rule
- Let Democracy Not Fail The Poor (Hindu, Amarjeet Sinha, Aug 19, 2004)
The real challenge of making democracy work lies in letting the poorest households determine the course of their lives.
- Monsoon Sensitivity In Kasauli (Tribune, Baljit Malik, Aug 19, 2004)
Dusk in Kasauli. A profusion of dahlias splashed on the hillside. Droplets of rain sparkling diamond-like in their corollas. A green canopy of fragrant pines giving Kasauli its unique sub-Himalayan vegetation. Old fashioned cottages, veiled by
- Inflation Overhang — No Room For Complacency (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 18, 2004)
Despite warning signals, the RBI did not see any immediate effect of the high money supply on inflation, little realising that there is always a time lag between the burgeoning of money supply and rise in the rate of inflation.
- Plans For A Town (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Aug 18, 2004)
Gujarat received its first World Heritage Site nomination this year when UNESCO declared Champaner one of India’s best preserved examples of an authentic medieval city
- Salutary Safeguards (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 16, 2004)
Committees galore in India have made heaps of recommendations on corporate governance, with special focus on tightening up the watchdog functions of the Board of Directors.
- Taking One’S Breath Away (Deccan Herald, HEERA NAWAZ, Aug 16, 2004)
Many things around us prove that God is in His Heaven and all is right with the world
- Pm Goes His Way, Traffic Its Way (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Aug 14, 2004)
Till a few months back, each time the former PM’s cavalcade of cars passed along our road, the police stopped all other traffic. It did not matter if children reached school late or an ambulance got held up.
- Spare A Thought For Blue Bull (Tribune, Baljit Singh, Aug 13, 2004)
THE Blue Bull is endemic to India alone, that is, it is not found anywhere else in the world, which places it in the class of living world heritage that needs to be preserved to posterity.
- Need For Compact Ministries In State (Deccan Herald, SANDEEP SHASTRI, Aug 12, 2004)
Backroom bargaining and the politics of accommodation make for jumbo-sized ministries in the State
- Sets Alarm Bells Ringing (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Aug 11, 2004)
The State’s forest department and its wildlife division have failed to protect forests and wildlife, particularly elephants
- Nepal: Turn-Around Still Possible (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Aug 11, 2004)
Unlike President Chandrika Kumaratunga in Sri Lanka, who has a ceasefire going, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has to revive the peace process from scratch in Nepal.
- Prefer Performance, Not Procedure (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Aug 09, 2004)
If the Prime Minister truly wants a diligent and efficient bureaucracy, he should withdraw the Financial Advisors who breathe down the necks of hard-pressed officials making nitpicking objections
- Malaysia’S Quick March (Tribune, Chanchal Sarkar, Aug 08, 2004)
The rendezvous with the new South East Asia is a sparkling discovery. Prosperity, in Malaysia for instance, is not just a trickle down but a solid swathe. When I first came to Kuala Lumpur the airport building was a Lutyens bungalow, today’s ...
- The Rape Of Himalaya (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Aug 06, 2004)
For centuries, the mountains, the Himalaya and the Vindhya, and the rivers Ganga, Yamuna, Sindhu, Krishna, Mahanadi and Cauvery, have been the cradles of India's civilisation.
- Environmental Priorities For The Government (Business Line, N. R. Krishnan , Aug 06, 2004)
There are several notions about the environment in India and the need for environmental protection arising out of a host of factors ranging from judicial pronouncements to campaigns launched by green activists, media publicity and international ...
- Gasping For Air (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 03, 2004)
The ‘lungs of the world’ may be getting a little too congested for comfort going by projections of a massive biosphere-atmosphere experiment which started in 1998.
- The Wages Of Neglect (Hindu, PRAFULLA DAS, Aug 01, 2004)
Eleven children died in just over a month for lack of proper health care in an Adivasi hamlet in Orissa.
- Life On The Fringes (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Aug 01, 2004)
Maharashtra's poor public healthcare and highly skewed distribution of wealth lies at the root of the current crisis highlighted by malnutrition deaths among Adivasis
- Hardly Hospitals (Hindu, Meena Menon, Aug 01, 2004)
Government hospitals in rural areas struggle to serve the target population.
- The Poor Have No Candidate (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 28, 2004)
The Kalashnikovs have taken a backseat for now. With players on both sides deciding to sit across the negotiating table, a new chapter in revolutionary and counter-revolutionary strategies has begun.
- Get An Ethical Shopping Plan (Tribune, Lucy Siegle, Jul 28, 2004)
IT WAS about five years ago that my eco conscience began to form. There was no epiphany. It was more down to the drip drip drip effect of images of melting polar icecaps, landfills spewing rubbish
- Private-Public Partnership (Hindustan Times, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 28, 2004)
Although comparatively of recent origin, the idea of organisations in the private and public sectors collaborating to make a success of important projects has taken strong root and is paying both business and social dividends in many countries.
- Punjab Water Imbroglio (Hindu, Ramaswamy R. Iyer, Jul 26, 2004)
With better management, Punjab, Haryana, and Rajasthan can meet their needs with much less water than they seek
- Shibu Soren: A Turbulent Career (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jul 25, 2004)
Controversies have always chased Shibu Soren, architect of the Jharkhand state. Soren’s supporters call him "Guruji". Now implicated in a 30-year-old murder case in Jharkhand, the 60-year-old Union Minister for Coal had to resign on Saturday on the advice
- Free The Wild (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 24, 2004)
The State has neglected wildlife as well as the rehabilitation of the tribals
- Dodger Trap In Tax Database (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Jul 24, 2004)
The proposal to make the Department collate TDS particulars could mean danger ahead for tax-evaders
- Siding With Beasts In Wildlife Habitats (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Jul 24, 2004)
Recently there have been reports of leopards entering bustees on the outskirts of Mumbai and taking human lives. Elephants are known to emerge from their forests and destroy crops, hutments and trample people underfoot.
- Why Is Pranab Asking For More? (Deccan Herald, P. R. Chari , Jul 23, 2004)
India is the world’s third largest military spender, and most of the arms it buys may be useless in any scenario
- The Last Shangri La (Tribune, Gurmeet Kanwal, Jul 22, 2004)
Nestled between the snow-capped high-altitude mountains of the Great Himalayan Range and the Shamshabari Range in north Kashmir is the pristine Gurez Valley — probably the last remaining Shangri La since the Zanskar Valley in Ladakh was discovered a ...
- Seize The Opportunity (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 22, 2004)
In a welcome move, the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War (PW) has declared its readiness to have talks also with Governments of the other States
- Nature’S Fury (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 22, 2004)
Long-term plans are needed to prevent the annual floods that devastate Assam
- Sanatani Sonia: Subtle Shakti Of Renunciation (Times of India, K SUBRAHMANYAM, Jul 22, 2004)
This is a shining moment for India, its civi-lisation and culture, because a unique act of renunciation has occurred that upholds the quintessential tradition of the Sanatana Dharma.
- What India Has To Learn From China (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Jul 20, 2004)
We have deviated from the path of self-reliance by putting all our eggs in the corporate basket
- Slave Labour In Brazil (Hindu, Paul Brown, Jul 20, 2004)
An unpublished report for the ILO says that despite the best efforts of the Brazilian Government, slave labour continues in the country's interior.
- 91st Constitutional Amendment: Not Quite Adequate (Business Line, Mohan Guruswamy, Jul 20, 2004)
ON July 7, the 91st Amendment to the Constitution, limiting the size of the Council of Ministers at the Centre and the States to no more than 15 per cent of the numbers in the Lok Sabha or the State Legislature, came into effect.
- Making `Delivery Mechanism' Deliver (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Jul 19, 2004)
Post Budget, there is much talk of `delivery mechanism' being the key to make a difference for Rural India. Delivery mechanism is the channel through which government spending on social priorities flows — ministries, departments and district officials.
- Globalisation And Cultural Identity (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 19, 2004)
The following are extracts from the UNDP’s Human Development Report, 2004: Globalisation has increased contacts between people and their values, ideas and ways of life in unprecedented ways.
- Green Oscar: Befitting Award For Rathore (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jul 18, 2004)
Few have heard the name of Goverdhan Rathore and fewer know the outstanding work he has done in providing greener alternative to firewood in the form of biogas.
- Small Ministries Are Better (Tribune, Mohan Guruswamy, Jul 17, 2004)
On July 7, the 91st Amendment to the Constitution came into effect. From this day on, the size of the Councils of Ministers at the Centre and in the states must not exceed 15 per cent of the members in the Lok Sabha or state legislatures.
- Tackling Droughts (Tribune, Mohan Dharia, Jun 26, 2004)
Droughts in the country have become a permanent feature and the severe drought during this year is perhaps the worst since the past few years. The matter was discussed in Parliament and during his intervention the then Prime Minister ...
- Tap Tourism Potential With Brand India (Business Line, P. Srivatsan, Jun 25, 2004)
Tourism is an important sector, though it accounts for just about one per cent of GDP. It has immense potential and can reach 5 per cent of GDP if proper policy support and related infrastructure are put in place.
- `Project'ing Corruption In Multilateral Banks (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Jun 22, 2004)
When ministers in India declare themselves stoutly in favour of economic reform, the sub-text is their enthusiasm for hefty loans from multilateral development banks
- Women And Environment Continue To Suffer (Tribune, Kiran Soni Gupta, Jun 20, 2004)
The welfare of human beings is final reference point in judging the impact of what we do or fail to do. Women have an essential role to play in the development of sustainable and ecologically sound system of natural resource management.
- Sarus Crane On The Verge Of Extinction (Tribune, Baljit Singh, Jun 11, 2004)
On May 28, 2004, the media was flush with news of the maiden test flight of India’s first indigenous civil aircraft, named after Sarus crane. Sadly, that is a crude paradox though, because not many Indians are aware that the beautiful and graceful ...
- A Welcome Move (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 10, 2004)
The Andhra Pradesh Government's decision to initiate talks with the banned People's War is certainly a step in the right direction and should be welcomed by all concerned.
- The Price Of Political Profligacy And Nepotism (Business Line, D. Murali , May 31, 2004)
WE have a new Government at the Centre and our Ministers are busy getting garlanded and felicitated, and generally warming up to their portfolios.
- Landmine Kills 26 Indian Police Officers (CBC News, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 09, 2004)
At least 26 policemen died Thursday when guerrillas set off a landmine in eastern India as the officers returned from overnight patrols.
- Safta: Trade Or Development? (Hindu, Nagesh Kumar, Jan 05, 2004)
To exploit SAFTA's full potential, the SAARC countries need to complement it by a customs union and then gradually move towards an economic union
- The Maneaters Of Kumaon (Indian Express, S. M. A. Kazmi, Jan 04, 2004)
FEAR stalks the hills of Uttaranchal. As the sun goes down, people especially in villages, don’t venture out. Just a fortnight ago an eight year old boy in Kumrada village near Barhamkhal in Uttarkashi district became the 120th person in three years to
- Still At Sea (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jan 04, 2004)
The promise of this new year allows me to atone in sackcloth and ashes for an injustice perpetrated in these columns in July 2000. I mistook “a decrepit tub strewn with rubbish beyond an ancient jetty” for “India’s first floating hotel” or floatel which
- Fog Over The Capital (Telegraph, G.S. Mudur, Jan 04, 2004)
Stuck at the airport? Be prepared for a long wait. And thank the greening of Delhi for your woes.
- Just Around The Corner (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
Part monarchy, mostly Buddhist and a little hop across the border. Bhutan, for Ketaki Ghoge, is both foreign and familiar
- Ava Garderner And The London Bobby (Tribune, V. N. Kakar, Jan 03, 2004)
AVA Garderner was one of the most ravishing Hollywood beauties of her time. The Lord had apparently created her in a moment of extreme ecstasy. Life magazine once commissioned her to draw the attention of the London bobby posted at the Buckingham Palace
- Sangathan Was His World (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Dec 31, 2003)
Kushabhau Thakre lived and died a dedicated pracharak
- Rehabilitation Incomplete (Hindu, Mike Levien, Dec 30, 2003)
Thousands of families in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra who are affected at the current Sardar Sarovar dam height have not yet been rehabilitated, much less those who will be affected at 110 metres.
- Nurseries Of Alienation (Hindu, Mihir Shah, Dec 30, 2003)
Geographical enclavement in a remote pocket has provided the physical basis for a kind of "internal colonialism" faced by Adivasis throughout India.
- Half The Story (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 26, 2003)
Before he died, Orwell had requested that no biography of him should be written, an injunction that was broken only a few years after his death. Perhaps to forestall further distortions, his widow, Sonia, who took her duties as the keeper of the flame ...
- A Journey Longago (Indian Express, K. R. NAIR , Dec 26, 2003)
After a lapse of over 70 years I was on the way to Munnar, the scene of my childhood. On the smooth drive along the national highway from Kochi my mind went back to my travel along the same route in the early ’20s, the events of which are still clear in
- Enemy Number One (Telegraph, Kaushik Roy, Dec 26, 2003)
There is a general consensus among security analysts that the post-Cold War era is witnessing a deterioration in India’s strategic environment. But scholars differ regarding the nature of security challenges that India faces. Is China or Pakistan the ...
- Theatre Of The Sacred (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Dec 24, 2003)
As Lithuania’s ambassador to UNESCO explained so aptly — “In 1972, when the World Heritage Convention was adopted, the world was still very Eurocentric and heritage was seen as just churches and castles. A first step towards a broader concept was the ...
- Turning Point (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 24, 2003)
By deciding to launch the offensive against rebels from India’s North-east, Bhutan has set a Himalayan example in mature diplomacy. The kingdom’s decision has greater diplomatic and security import than the military campaign would immediately suggest...
- A Water War Brews In Satara (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Dec 24, 2003)
Control of water resources by the government means their control by a few leaders who can continue in power. There is a temptation for these leaders to leverage water management projects electorally. Citing instances of diversion of water from one region
- Judeo And Justice (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 23, 2003)
The CBI does the right thing in the cash- on-camera scandal. And high time, too
- No Concern For Rajasthan’s Tribals (Tribune, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 22, 2003)
Parbati has nothing to offer to her hungry children. Her jhuggi, built of sand, stones and plastic sheets has been turned to ashes. A sack of foodgrains and a few clothes in the jhuggi have also been gutted. On the evening of August 24, a few villagers...
- Sustainability Index (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 22, 2003)
THE M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai, recently held a meeting of experts to consider the preliminary draft of an Atlas on Sustainability of Food Security in India. While there is a general acknowledgement of the vital importance of
- In Pre-Poll Season, Dmk Sends Nda A Farewell Card (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2003)
Pullout comes, ironically, at a time when BJP wasn’t warm to Amma
- In Ulfa Heartland, Few Shed Tears Over News From Bhutan (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Dec 20, 2003)
Till about 10 years ago, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia, the twin industrial districts of Upper Assam, used to keep the security forces busy. Home to some of ULFA’s top leaders, the region was a nightmare for the forces. When they arrested militants, womenfolk of
- Hideaway In The Hills (Indian Express, George N Netto, Dec 19, 2003)
Few are aware of its existence. Deep inside the core area of Munnar’s famed Eravikulam National Park, and far away from its noisy and overcrowded tourist zone, is a simple, spartan lodge encircled by an elephant trench and shaded by a small copse. Nearby
- When Accounting For `Goods', Don't Ignore The `Bads' (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
ACCOUNTING'S job is to measure all that goes to hit the bottomline. There is a risk, however, of missing the woods when counting the trees.
- Water Problem: Don't Allow It To Precipitate (Business Line, Mathew Kurian , Dec 17, 2003)
NO ONE — not even governments, for that matter — remains complacent about a possible water scarcity that we may have to face — next season next year; may be in the next decade. The UN predicts acute and widespread water shortage the world over by 2030.
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