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Articles 12121 through 12220 of 12412:
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- China's Big Leap In Space (Hindu, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 17, 2003)
WITH THE LAUNCH of its first "yuhang yuan" (or space traveller), China has joined Russia and the United States as elite, space-faring nations of the world, becoming the first developing country to achieve this distinction. Rocketry was conceived ...
- Cancun Failure Is Nobody's Gain (Business Line, B.S. Rathor, Oct 17, 2003)
India, on the threshold of sustained economic growth, will be affected by the stalemate at Cancun.
- How Not To Sell A War (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 17, 2003)
After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States put together a historic, worldwide coalition to overthrow the Taliban in Afghanistan and destroy al Qaeda.
- Bali Raises Visions Of Asian Century (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Oct 16, 2003)
Since the "Look-East" policy was enunciated in 1993, India has made good headway in promoting greater co-operation with South-East Asia. Those gains were consolidated further at the Asean Summit, where member-nations committed themselves to creating a con
- Uncertainty After Cancun Collapse (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 16, 2003)
The collapse of the ministerial signals the beginning of a tension-ridden holiday for the WTO in the immediate future
- Uncertainty After Cancun Collapse (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 16, 2003)
The collapse of the ministerial signals the beginning of a tension-ridden holiday for the WTO in the immediate future
- The Ltte And The `Kp Factor' (Hindu, Iqbal Athas, Oct 15, 2003)
The LTTE has made it unequivocally clear that the future of the ceasefire will depend on Colombo's response to its counter-proposals.
- Affordability Is The Key (Hindu, Sudha Mahalingam, Oct 15, 2003)
FROM JANUARY next year, India will begin importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) to quench its growing thirst for energy. The first consignment will arrive at Dahej on the western coast where a terminal is being built to handle 5 million tonnes a year.
- Cancun: A Mere Show Of Strength (Business Line, Alok Ray, Oct 15, 2003)
NOT totally unexpectedly, the Cancun Ministerial of the World Trade Organisation meeting has concluded without yielding any agreement. The major stumbling blocks were the massive agricultural subsidies (estimated at be around $300 billion annually by the
- Ebcs? Quite Untenable (Indian Express, S. S. Gill, Oct 15, 2003)
When the Mandal Commission submitted its Report in 1980, B.P. Mandal told me, “Mr Gill, I know how much work you have put in as secretary of the Commission. But let me tell you that today we have performed the immersion ceremony of our Report
- Message From The East (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2003)
The India-Thailand free trade agreement is part of a wider good neighbour policy
- Pied Pipers Inc (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2003)
Desperation feeds a shadowy migration industry - so does inequitable globalisation
- `One Country, Two Systems' Formula Under Test (Business Line, Dharmalingam Venugopal, Oct 15, 2003)
AS IF to test the tenacity of its unique "one country, two systems" paradigm, Hong Kong has been constantly buffeted by challenges — economic, political and social ever since its reunification with China in July 1997.
- Smelling The Tokyo Rose (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 14, 2003)
Defence Minister George Fernandes makes no attempt at hiding his affection for Japan. Apart from a painting of Mahatma Gandhi — said to be painted by a Burmese refugee who lives in his house — the only other decoration on the walls of Fernandes’ South....
- Market Forces In The Animal Kingdom (Indian Express, Alan C. Miller, Oct 14, 2003)
The US may allow trade in endangered animals if it subsidises conservation projects
- 50-Yr Record Haul Of Tiger, Leopard Skins In Tibet; India Likely Source (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Oct 14, 2003)
When the Prime Minister convenes the annual Indian Wildlife Board meeting on Wednesday, it will be under the shadow of the largest-ever seizure of tiger and leopard skins since 1951.
- Corporate Credit Portfolio — Baking Assets On The Fire Of Securitisation (Business Line, Venkat Ramaswami, Oct 14, 2003)
The Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act (SRFESI) was definitely a strong indication that the corridors in New Delhi were waking up to calls from Wall Street. It is time for the wake-up signal to b
- Getting Back On The Growth Path (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 13, 2003)
What the developed world needs to do is to "coordinate" monetary policy, which will bring about stability in capital flows and an orderly realignment in exchange rates but only if it is "combined with coordinated fiscal expansion".
- Industrial Policy Options — Going Beyond Mere Reforms (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 13, 2003)
I RECENTLY came across a seminal contribution to the ongoing debate on economic reforms in India, written by a bright economist, Dr R. Nagaraj of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research.
- ‘we Made Mistakes Like Discouraging Private Sector, We Are Changing Now’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 13, 2003)
You are the only Marxist ruler, if I could call you so, in the whole world. Isn’t it so, and an elected one at that, barring the small government in Tripura
- After The Battle In Iraq .... Is The War On Asian Currencies Right? (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Oct 13, 2003)
Given the US focus on Asian currencies, if the yen strength persists, the risk of a currency war rises, with pressure on China to do something. The Bank of Japan would be forced into aggressive intervention. Central banks would race to destroy the value o
- Tashkent Se Aaya Mera Dost, He Wants A Bit Of Bollywood (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Oct 12, 2003)
Hindi-speaking Uzbek at the film festival shops for the Khans
- How To Deal With The Gang In New York (Indian Express, Shubh Saumya, Oct 11, 2003)
Treat the UN-centred order as a crime cartel. As the new toughie in town, India has to hustle its way in
- In-The-Black Friday: Infy Leads The Way (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2003)
Sensex at 39-month high; Infosys set to tap China market
- Policing The Net? Not Possible (Indian Express, Subimal Bhattacharjee, Oct 11, 2003)
Come October 14 and you will be unable to chat in MSN messenger, Microsoft’s chat services. Many in India and in some 30 odd countries will find this harsh. Microsoft claims that the reason for the move is to reduce the criminal solicitation of children..
- The Asean Tango (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2003)
INDIA AND THE Association of South-East Asian Nations have come closer than ever before with the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, participating in the Bali summit of Asean where India enjoyed partner status along with China, Japan and South Korea.
- The Painful Reality Imf Ignores (Deccan Herald, Joseph Stiglitz, Oct 10, 2003)
The Fund has again failed in its most urgent task of reforming itself and has dealt with issues beyond its mission
- Pressure On Asian Currencies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2003)
GOVERNMENTS OFTEN BEND economic theory to justify policy decisions that they feel will advance their economic interests. A good example is the argument the United States has been advancing in its attempts to pressure China to make its renminbi ...
- Trans Asia (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2003)
For India, a decade’s efforts to look east are beginning to bear fruit
- A Neighbour’S Paranoia (Indian Express, Jasjit Singh, Oct 10, 2003)
Pakistan’s search for parity with India is leading it up a blind alley
- Look East Policy: Phase Two (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Oct 09, 2003)
Phase two of the Look East policy will help break out of the political confines of the subcontinent that have severely limited India's strategic options.
- India And Asean (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2003)
THE SECOND INDIA-ASEAN summit in Bali has provided the much-needed thrust and framework for taking the partnership forward. Two broad agreements, for Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and combating terrorism, have been signed. India has also ...
- Regional Trade Agreements — The Right Way To Go For India (Business Line, M. Ramesh , Oct 09, 2003)
BY SIGNING the Free Trade Agreement with Thailand, and announcing that it is working on another one with Singapore, India has indicated to the world that it has at last abandoned its anti-bilateralism, anti-regionalism stand, and joined the RTA bandwagon.
- Making Services Work For Poor (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Oct 09, 2003)
Broad improvements in human welfare will not happen till poor people receive wider access to affordable services in health, education, water, sanitation and electricity, warns WDR 2004. Rightly concluding that no one size fits all, it describes eight, and
- Visa Vicissitudes (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2003)
THE SCALING DOWN by the United States of the annual H1B visa cap from 1,95,000 to 65,000 with effect from October 1 may not leave India's software industry unduly perturbed in the near term. No doubt, the apex software association, Nasscom, will feel ...
- Hercules And His Weapons Of Mass Destruction (Indian Express, John Noble Wilford, Oct 08, 2003)
Chemical and biological warfare has always been around, from ancient Greece to ancient India
- Kashmir: Averting Fragmentation (Deccan Herald, Balraj Puri, Oct 08, 2003)
The people of Kashmir, in whose name militancy was launched, are today divided into antagonistic groups
- India-Asean Partnership (Hindu, Nagesh Kumar, Oct 07, 2003)
A free trade arrangement can promote a deeper economic integration of the Indian and ASEAN economies to exploit their complementarities.
- Asian Currencies: New Global Scapegoats (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Oct 07, 2003)
America's twin deficits, many economists fear, would lead to a collapse of the dollar and global recession. In their desperation to find a solution, they have turned their attention to Asia, with the demand that governments, especially the Chinese ...
- The Chinese Are Coming (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 07, 2003)
Did Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee bring forward his visit to Bali by a day so as to accommodate a meeting with Chinese premier Wen Jiabao? That was the speculation on the eve of Vajpayee’s departure for the Asean summit in Indonesia on Sunday, on ..
- That Festive Feeling (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, Oct 06, 2003)
Spend, urges the FM, to sustain the feel good feeling
- Politics Of Cancun Failure — Us Stance Hardens Towards G-20+ Nations (Business Line, Seema Gaur, Oct 06, 2003)
American negotiators are criticising leaders of the G-20+, especially Brazil which is one of the world's largest agricultural producer of soy beans, beef, oranges and coffee, for posing as less-developed countries when their economies are, in fact ...
- India And Proliferation Security (Hindu, Raja Mohan, Oct 06, 2003)
India will soon have to make up its mind on whether to join the new and far-reaching plans of a United States-led coalition to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction through muscular military action.
- World Economic Outlook — Lesson Of Growth Without Inflation Ignored (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 06, 2003)
THE International Monetary Fund brings out its World Economic Outlook (WEO) twice every year, once in April and the second time in September. These coincide with the semi-annual meetings of Finance Ministers and central bankers, hosted by the Bretton Wood
- Where’s The Culture In Nationalism? (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Oct 05, 2003)
For reasons I have never fully understood religious fanatics love writing letters. No sooner do I mention Hindutva or jehad in this column than fanatics of one kind or other start bombarding my mailbox with venomous epistles. And, because Hindu fanaticism
- Talking To Pakistan (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Oct 04, 2003)
Raised expectations and abject failures are not prescriptions for long-term, meaningful engagement between India and Pakistan.
- The All-Important Fdi Flow Factor (Business Line, K. Ramesh, Oct 03, 2003)
FOREIGN direct investment as an important factor of the economy cannot be disputed, although it has become fashionable for many experts to make endless comparison with China, being the significant beneficiary of FDI in the region and, that India too ...
- Pseudo-Victory At Cancun? (Business Line, Geethanjali Nataraj, Oct 03, 2003)
No doubt, the firm stand by the G-21 was a major moral victory for the developing world at Cancun. But the latter also lost out by the sidelining of other issues vital to their progress. As much as the rich countries need to pay serious attention to the..
- Tomorrow Never Dies (Indian Express, Manjeet Kripalani, Oct 02, 2003)
India as a political role model, Dubai as an economic one. Afghanistan has a future as a democratic, free trade zone. It needs luck. And patience
- Kanpur Gets Mega Lab In A ‘green’ House (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Oct 01, 2003)
Arun Shourie’s MPLADS fund creates a cutting-edge biotech centre
- Come Home To Kandahar (Indian Express, Manjeet Kripalani, Oct 01, 2003)
To Afghans, India is ‘most favoured nation’. But the idea of India is stuck in the era when Bollywood still meant Amitabh and Mithun
- World Bank-Imf Review: Will Asia Lead The World Growth Charge? (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Sep 30, 2003)
The global economy may be on a rebound but it is not yet time for cheer because of underlying risks of the large fiscal and current deficits the US has run up and the imbalances in growth and distribution of reserves. Emerging Asia has a big role to play.
- Chronicle Of A Collapse Foretold (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Sep 29, 2003)
"Victory" or "failure" are wrong words to describe the outcome of the Cancun meeting. Cancun was just one event in a continuing struggle over the role of the WTO in the economies of the world.
- Non-Event At Dubai (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2003)
NO MAJOR DECISIONS were taken by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank at their 2003 annual meetings held in Dubai earlier this week. The event was noteworthy for discussions peripheral to the business of the two international ...
- What Next, After Cancun? (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Sep 26, 2003)
While many experts had predicted that the Cancun negotiations would fail over the question of agricultural subsidies, they actually collapsed because of the insistence of developed countries to bring on board the Singapore issues. However, the ministerial
- Wto Must Survive - On The Paradigm Of Give And Take (Business Line, Anil K. Kanungo, Sep 26, 2003)
The development dimension of the developing countries was a key aspect of the Cancun Ministerial. Unfortunately, that did not take off.
- Empty Bowls At Mexican Fiesta (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Sep 26, 2003)
The no-show at Cancun being tom-tommed by India as a major achievement can only be good politics and rhetoric, but this is certainly not good economics. Coming once every two years, a World Trade Organisation ministerial should be looked at as an ...
- Subject India: (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2003)
When the Financial Times launched its Beijing edition on Monday, several copies had four pages missing. The buzz is these were removed by Chinese authorities. Plausible reason: an article showing the Indian political system in better light than the ...
- Disquiet On The Northern Front (Indian Express, Ajai Shukla, Sep 25, 2003)
The Northern Areas, the forgotten corner of Jammu and Kashmir, is set to become Pakistan’s new mess
- A Chinese 'Invasion' (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Sep 23, 2003)
The Chinese have emerged as the fastest growing ethnic minority in Russia.
- Riding The Waves (Indian Express, G Parthasarathy, Sep 22, 2003)
Just a few days before the recent bomb blasts that shook Mumbai, I was attending an international conference organised by the Asia-Pacific Centre for Security Studies in Honolulu, to discuss India’s role in the Indian Ocean. The conference was taking ...
- Beijing-Moscow-New Delhi Trialogue (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Sep 22, 2003)
The significance of the upcoming trialogue is not to be underestimated because China, India and Russia represent the vast majority of the global population.
- Celebrate Cancun, But With Caution (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Sep 21, 2003)
Arun Jaitley, the Commerce Minister, has a neat, legal mind. Before he went to Cancun, he had identified the three possible results of the ministerial meeting: good deal, no deal or bad deal. And he had concluded that while a good deal would be the most
- Your Q, His A: Defense & Security Affairs (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2003)
Air Commodore Jasjit Singh, Editorial Advisor (Defence and Strategic affairs) to The Indian Express, answers your questions on strategic issues. Singh, a former director of the Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis
- Newsreel: 14.09.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2003)
The much-awaited Rae Bareli special court verdict on Ayodhya has the Sangh Parivar all charged and the BJP a wee bit confused. While the party heaves a sigh of relief in the exoneration of Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, cases against HRD Minister ...
- Reforms, ‘via Bathinda’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 20, 2003)
While some of the more unabashed supporters of economic reforms may now be blaming the Supreme Court for spoiling the party and even puncturing the bull balloon on the stock markets, the truth is that real opposition to all deregulation and privatisation
- Indian Railways: Time To Improve Standards (Business Line, Poonam Madan Sarmah, Sep 19, 2003)
CARRYING an average 13 million passengers in 8,250 passenger-trains daily, the Indian Railways is one of the world's largest transporters of passenger traffic. But despite such phenomenal dependence by the travelling public on this critical service, its
- Slow Drift On First Track (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Sep 19, 2003)
Is the sweetness in Indo-Pak relations about to end? We shall know when General Pervez Musharraf addresses the UN General Assembly on September 24. The gaps that must have been left in Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s speech scheduled for September 2
- China: The Gen-Next Export Destination? (Business Line, S. Majumder , Sep 19, 2003)
MORE than a threat, China has emerged a saviour to South-East Asian nations, especially those hit by the currency turmoil. There was a fear that with the entry of cheap Chinese-made goods into the global market, the recovery efforts of these economies ...
- Us' Concern Over Job Outsourcing - Old-World Style Protectionism (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Sep 19, 2003)
There is continuing debate in the US on how liberal it should be with visas for foreign workers and the effects of job outsourcing. For India, a major issue of concern is the US' moves through law to cap the number of visas for foreign workers and
- Track This Tibetan Arc (Indian Express, P. Stobdan, Sep 18, 2003)
Regardless of New Delhi recently closing its Tibet option, the Dalai Lama continues to receive immense support in the Western world for his lonely struggle to arrive at a settlement with Beijing. His recent meetings in Washington with American President
- The Last Lesson At Nalanda (Indian Express, PARSHU NARAYANAN, Sep 18, 2003)
I had to attend a wedding at Patna and managed a side trip to Nalanda. As I walked into the ruins, a huge dark sadness descended on me. Nalanda, the greatest ever Buddhist university, with its hundreds of monks and thousands of books, was destroyed by ...
- China And India — A Study In Contrast: Perspectives In Economic Growth (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Sep 18, 2003)
While the contrasts between the two countries are stark, it may be too early to write off India as a "lumbering giant" which has lost the race to the "Crouching Tiger". India's stable financial system and the better-organised legal machinery may still ...
- Inside Iran, A Persian Paradox (Indian Express, Jasjit Singh, Sep 17, 2003)
There are civilisations and there are states, but there are few civilisational states, and even fewer civilisational nation-states. India and China represent the latter, and so does Iran which has undergone some remarkable changes in the past quarter ...
- The Rich Hardsell, Poor Don’t Buy (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Sep 16, 2003)
Talks on trade negotiations at Cancun finally collapsed today after nearly 100 of the 146 countries participating in this WTO round refused to play ball with developed countries to include discussions on the vexed Singapore issues.
- Why Silicon Valley Needs To Reinvent Itself (Business Line, Kumar Venkat, Sep 16, 2003)
It has become clear that the knowledge sector is no longer immune to job losses.
- Final Attempts To Save Cancun After South Rejects Draft (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Sep 15, 2003)
Negotiations at Cancun headed for a breakdown after developing countries like India and Brazil rejected the World Trade Organisation draft resolution, saying it failed to address their main concerns and was heavily loaded in favour of the US and European
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