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Articles 12321 through 12420 of 12412:
- An Incomplete Economic Recovery (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Aug 16, 2003)
While the economic recovery this year is encouraging, it may turn out to be a one-off event unless the Government is able to catalyse a quantum increase in investment.
- Before The Whining Drowns It Out, Listen To The New India (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Aug 15, 2003)
Twenty to twenty-five years ago, even 10 years ago, few of us had heard of Information Technology. Today, exports from this industry are worth $10 billion — that is, over Rs 45,000 crore a year. That figure is 20 per cent of our total exports.
- Let Us Politicise Growth (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Aug 15, 2003)
Democratic politics and competitive political activity are the two prime forces that comprehensively permeate India's economic space. The key to kick-starting and sustaining growth lies in politicising it. Politicising economic reform and growth will ...
- Bullock-Cart Diplomacy (Indian Express, M D NALAPAT, Aug 15, 2003)
If the attitude of immigration authorities worldwide to an Indian passport has changed during the past five years, the reason has nothing to do with the Vajpayee government, but is the result of the software boom. Suddenly, Indians have become chic, no
- Parliament And Military Secrecy (Hindu, V.R. RAGHAVAN, Aug 15, 2003)
On the PAC issue, it is difficult to avoid the impression that the Opposition and the Government are engaged in seeking and denying political advantage
- Why Arunachal’s Marathon Man Faces Hurdles (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Aug 14, 2003)
Politics in the Northeast is often synonymous with defection. But while Manipur and Meghalaya are known for alliances that keep changing compositions, in Arunachal Pradesh it’s usually a mass exodus that decides the issue. As the recent re-installation
- No Easy Going For India In Cancun (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Aug 14, 2003)
10 million people in four African countries are facing starvation after they implemented free market reforms
- India's Economic Diplomacy (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 14, 2003)
To derive the full political benefits of economic diplomacy, the leadership will have to act decisively to break the old mindset, which defines national security and trade policy in separate and narrow terms.
- With Caution To Cancun (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Aug 14, 2003)
URUGUAY 1986, Seattle 1999, Doha 2001 and now Cancun 2003. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) seems to be inching forward on a tortuous path which may end in despair for the developing world as a whole with the possible exception of China.
- Spectrum Management: The Telecom Lifeline (Business Line, Asha Ram Sihag, Aug 13, 2003)
SPECTRUM is the fundamental resource in wireless communication. It is scarce and is allotted by the government to various users. The increase in number and the popularity of wireless communications have led to a situation of demand pressure on the limited
- Cancun Ministerial - Rough Edges And Loose Ends (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Aug 13, 2003)
Trade experts contend that the Cancun Ministerial may turn out to be an eventful affair if attention is focussed on access to medicine, special and differential treatment for developing countries and liberalisation of agricultural trade so as to lessen
- China And India - Is Democracy The Defining Difference? (Business Line, Alok Ray, Aug 12, 2003)
The democratic system in India makes for slow and sometimes tortuous progress as it has to rely on consensus building. But this may turn out to be more stable and irreversible than what has happened in China
- A Vasco Da Gama, In Reverse (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 12, 2003)
There’s many a slip between the cup and the lip, but Shashank, the seniormost secretary in the MEA, is clearly hoping that his African journeys over the last few months will give him enough ballast to turn around the flag-embellished corner of South Block
- Musharraf Has A Vision For Tomorrow, A Mirage For Today (Indian Express, Najam Sethi, Aug 09, 2003)
General Pervez Musharraf’s tour de force with Lahore editors last Monday spanned a framework of geo-economics, geo-politics and geo-strategy in which he outlined his vision of Pakistan as a country that was ‘‘secure’’, ‘‘stable’’, ‘‘democratic’’ and ‘‘
- Neocon Vs Old Con (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Aug 07, 2003)
Is it just a fevered imagination or is there a direct correlation between Indo-Pakistani romanticism and the screeching and hollering that scuppered the idea of India sending an “occupying army” to northern Iraq? In a week when half of New Delhi seems
- A Constitution For Europe (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Aug 07, 2003)
The fundamental issue is not as much about technocratic management of the E.U.'s institutions as it is about its very identity. It involves deciding what Europe is, what it aspires to be.
- A Body Trapped In Ice For 36 Years Melts A Waiting Family In Jammu (Indian Express, Arun Sharma, Aug 06, 2003)
Thirty-five years ago, a 20-year-old woman in Palanwala, began waiting for her husband who had gone to work. He did not come back and she was told that her husband, a sepoy in the Army, had gone missing during a flight from Chandigarh to Leh.
- The Congress Slide From Shimla (Hindu, Harish Khare , Aug 06, 2003)
The Shimla excitement, unfortunately, lasted only a few days. And since then the Congress has relapsed into a strange paralysis.
- No Mere Dispute, It’s Aggression (Deccan Herald, N Haridas, Aug 06, 2003)
When China invaded Tibet in 1950, the world wanted Nehru to rush to the defence of the monks. But he did not
- In A Mesopotamian Muddle (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Aug 05, 2003)
General Richard Myers, US military bossman, has come and gone. He said he did not discuss Indian troops for Iraq. Oh yeah. Like pigs have wings. Presumably he visited because he wanted to see our monsoon rains pouring down as relief from the arid wastes
- Widen That Lens (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, Aug 04, 2003)
When Raj Kapoor sang, “Mera jootha hai Japani, patloon Inglistani,” he was neither singing the virtues of globalisation nor was he reaching out to the hearts and minds of the Japanese and the English. Song-writer Shailendra’s line about the “red Russian
- Containing Adverse Fallout (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Aug 04, 2003)
India and China are engaged in a quiet diplomatic effort to sort out the issues arising out of the recent incident in the eastern sector of India's border and to guard against any recurrence. Concerned officials of the Ministry of External Affairs here
- Road To Cancun (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2003)
THE CONTOURS OF a possible breakthrough at the September ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Cancun, Mexico, in the Doha round of trade talks are now beginning to take shape. But even if such a deal, driven by a likely ...
- India And The Korean Crisis (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 04, 2003)
Half a century ago, India played an active role in the Korean peninsula during the terrible war there that left nearly five million people dead, injured or missing.
- World Bank Strikes A Note Of Caution (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Aug 04, 2003)
THE World Bank has come out with a frank appraisal of India's development experience. Its report "India: Sustaining Reform, Reducing Poverty" has, however, drawn strong negative reactions from the North Block.
- Officer In Cbi Net Ropes Big Fish For Prime Mumbai Plot (Indian Express, Samar Halarnkar, Aug 03, 2003)
What might the chief of naval staff, a Shiv Sena MLC, a promoter under CBI investigation, IAS officers, a local army commander and ‘Kargil Heroes’ have in common?
- "You Can't Imagine How Our People Are Living!" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2003)
The Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, Yasser Arafat, speaks of the plight of his people in an exclusive interview to Vikram Sura for the The Hindu.
- The China Syndrome (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2003)
An early resolution of the boundary dispute may not happen but both sides must ensure peace
- The Mirage Of Farm Exports (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Aug 02, 2003)
The risks are too high and the promised gains too few to warrant a dramatic opening up of Indian agriculture to foreign competition.
- Trading With Pakistan (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jul 31, 2003)
The new debate in Pakistan on trade with India is a welcome one... Instead of waiting to see the outcome, India must seek to actively influence it.
- Superpower In The South Pacific (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jul 30, 2003)
The latest Australian intervention in the Solomon Islands may not have made headlines in India, but it is making waves in the region. It underscores the reality that Australia is the super power in the South Pacific, not merely in terms of its economic
- Beware, Big Brother Is Watching (Business Line, Jayanthi Iyengar, Jul 30, 2003)
THERE was a furore some years ago when it became public that the Internet had the capabilities to track the movement of Web-surfers and that Web site owners, including employers, could store a lot of personal information regarding the surfing habits of
- Parting Thoughts (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2003)
US Ambassador Robert Blackwill has his disappointments. We understand them.
- No Sacred Cows In Democracy (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Jul 29, 2003)
The defence minister says the media should not exaggerate the Akhnoor incident. But even a straight report makes dismal reading. A brigadier is killed in the attack. A lieutenant general, leading the Northern Command, is injured. Another lieutenant ...
- How Not To Measure Fdi (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Jul 29, 2003)
India needs to shed its bias towards the dollar value of FDI, and switch to the utilitarian approach. It can gain much by switching to measures of performance that include the number of `jobs', innovative leadership, methods, processes, organisation ...
- After Iraq War, The Other Debate (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jul 29, 2003)
Just like the war in Iraq split the West down the middle, says David Mulford, a former Under Secretary at the US Treasury and currently international chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston, the question of what to do with Baghdad’s $100 billion foreign
- Making Rural India Magnetic (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Jul 28, 2003)
The rural development model of the last 50 years has helped villages little, though governments have wasted thousands of crores of rupees on infructuous projects. If private enterprise, to develop the market, wants to make villages `attractive', it must
- Hdr 2003 And The Millennium Development Goals - Each Country To Chalk Out Own Strategy (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jul 28, 2003)
THE Human Development Report (HDR) 2003 brought out by the UNDP has been the subject of special attention, particularly because India's rank in terms of human development indicators has hit a new low. It stands at a disgraceful 127 among 175 countries of
- Your Q, His A: Defence & Security Affairs (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 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
- Arunachal Noises From China: India Downplays (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2003)
The Government maintained a stoic silence today in the face of Chinese disclaimers that Arunachal Pradesh was not a part of India, with officials here insisting that transgressions across the Line of Actual Control was an old story and both sides reported
- Rebuilding Russia's Global Role (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Jul 26, 2003)
Constructive engagement is the watchword of Mr. Putin's doctrine... He has skilfully used Russia's geopolitical and economic position to enhance its strategic value for the West.
- Wasted Vitriolic In The White Paper (Business Line, Roopen Roy , Jul 24, 2003)
Why raise the bogey of banning multinational accounting firms in India
- Idbi: Yielding To Bureaucratic Pressures (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, Jul 24, 2003)
With net non-performing assets as high as 14 per cent and fresh lending tapering off because of resource constraint, the IDBI may be said to have become dysfunctional. It is against this broad canvas that the various proposals to restructure IDBI need to
- ‘‘it Is In India’s Interest To Be Involved In Iraq’’ (Indian Express, Raja Menon, Jul 23, 2003)
Regarding transborder deployment, the history of our strategic culture is hesitant, unsure, timid. It should go far beyond our territorial limits
- Avoid The 'Peacekeeping' Trap (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 23, 2003)
FOUR MONTHS INTO their high-tech war against Iraq, the United States and its junior partner, the United Kingdom, are beginning to realise that the ground beneath their occupying boots is nothing but quicksand. This realisation is dawning on the ...
- Clean Up Professional Education (Indian Express, Amrik Singh , Jul 22, 2003)
The Supreme Court decision to set up a five-judge Bench to discuss the issues of management quota and the fees to be charged from students in professional colleges cannot but be widely welcomed. Two aspects need to be noted. The first is our inability
- Wto And Agriculture - Will It Be Advantage India? (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Jul 22, 2003)
India must pay greater attention to increase productivity, create exportable surpluses and make agriculture more competitive if the final outcome of the WTO negotiations is to be translated to its advantage. Also, it must garner the support of developing
- Trade As Foreign Policy (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jul 21, 2003)
The agreement reached last week with Bangladesh to start talks on free trade could mark an important turning point in the politics of the subcontinent. It confirms the trend that the logic of economic cooperation must eventually prevail over the
- Switching Tracks? (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Jul 20, 2003)
During the recent meeting of the Samata national executive, some representatives from Jharkhand praised Laloo Prasad Yadav, who is supposed to be the party’s enemy number one. Party president George Fernandes remonstrated, but Nitish Kumar kept silent
- Check That Booming Billion Now (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Jul 20, 2003)
It has been some time since this column had anything nice to say about our Deputy Prime Minister. For two reasons. I consider Hindutva a distraction we cannot afford and see him as its chief patron, and the fight against terrorism as top priority and hold
- Millennium Goals A Dream, Time To Wake Up (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Jul 20, 2003)
As you read this on a Sunday morning, a child is born in a remote village in Rajasthan. She — a girl child — is one among thousands of children born at the very moment she emerged from her mother’s womb. If she survives, and she has a 90 per cent chance
- India’s Punch (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Jul 19, 2003)
Ouch, said the NEW YORK TIMES. India’s decision not to send troops to Iraq was a ‘‘sharp blow’’, it said, to ‘‘America’s post-war plans in Iraq’’. The paper tersely pointed out that the Bush administration had ‘‘exerted considerable pressure’’ on Prime
- On China, Just Get Real (Indian Express, G Parthasarathy, Jul 19, 2003)
Ever since the disastrous 1962 conflict with China, Indians have been either fed the impression that China is a power itching to expand its frontiers across the Himalayas, or it has been portrayed by its apologists in India as a benign neighbor who bears
- The Playing Fields Of Fame (Indian Express, Jayaditya Gupta, Jul 19, 2003)
In the fleeting, ephemeral world that is Indian sport, the 15 minutes of fame promised by Andy Warhol would be happily lapped up by the multitude pushed to the fringes by cricket. It’s the old story: The men in white (or the Boys in Blue) hogging the lime
- Development Approaches (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Jul 19, 2003)
If the human development approach is to lead anywhere in the formulation of alternative policy perspectives, its advocates have to look at taking it further than refinement of the human development index.
- Vajpayee Visit - Foreign Policy Lessons From China (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Jul 18, 2003)
The Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee's China visit has important foreign policy lessons for India. There is in India a tendency to look at China as the greatest threat, or believe that Beijing is all goodwill. But what we need to remember is that
- `India Is One Of Three Growth Markets For Gm' - Mr Aditya Vij, President And Managing Director, General Motors India (Business Line, N. Ramakrishnan , Jul 18, 2003)
General Motors India, which till recently had products in the C segment, has, in the last few months, introduced a luxury car, a hatchback, a utility vehicle and a mid-size sedan. The company says it is working on two other programmes even as it has made
- A New Big Game In Central Asia (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Jul 18, 2003)
The U.S. has moved to put a bigger foot in the South Caucasus and Central Asia... Russia has responded by boosting its military and economic presence, and building multilateral security structures in the region.
- Make It An Asian Century (Indian Express, JAGAT S. MEHTA, Jul 18, 2003)
By bureaucratic happenstance, I am the only Indian professional who witnessed all the four seasons that marked our ties with China. I accompanied S. Radhakrishnan, then vice president, on his official visit in September 1957. It was the High Summer of the
- Iraq Roadblock (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jul 15, 2003)
Truth is, the BJP-led government lost its nerve on sending combat troops to Iraq. For a leadership which went nuclear within two months of coming to power in 1998 without consulting anybody in the Opposition, the ‘‘lack of domestic consensus’’ argument
- Strong On Aluminium (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 15, 2003)
GOING BY THE recent price trends on the London Metal Exchange, the domestic aluminium industry can surely view the near-term prospects with some optimism. True, the gains on the LME are not very substantial; but the fact remains that the uptrend is ...
- Will Imf's Next Chief Economist Think Outside The Box? (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jul 14, 2003)
THE International Monetary Fund has announced the forthcoming appointment of Dr Raghuram Rajan, a 40-year-old Professor of Finance at the University of Michigan, as its upcoming Chief Economist. The young economist is obviously one of the promising
- Victory And Defeat For Us In Geneva (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jul 14, 2003)
The US has been presented with two WTO rulings in the space of a month, one has gone in its favour and the other against.
- Breaking Free With Reality, In Grand Style (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Jul 13, 2003)
As I watched Sonia Gandhi’s lady-in-waiting, Ambika Soni, articulate her leader’s ‘‘new vision’’ last week I realised that it was time for me to revise my political views. My main objection to Sonia being prime minister of India used to be that as she was
- Demographic Demonology (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Jul 10, 2003)
Spectres of demographic pollution and inundation inhabit all modern right-wing ideologies. They kindle fears of conversion, miscegenation, the blurring of identities and, above all, in a democratic age where numbers matter in politics, the swamping of ...
- Beyond Memories And Complexes (Telegraph, J. N. Dixit , Jul 10, 2003)
J.N. Dixit argues that India should distinguish between being suspicious and being alert with regard to China
- Still Too Slow (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 10, 2003)
General gloom with patches of diffuse light. This is the picture afforded by the Human Development Report, 2003, released by the United Nations Development Programme a couple of days ago. It looks as if the millennium development goals, set up in 2000 and
- What Summits Are All About (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Jul 09, 2003)
If, instead of greeting each other with the usual handshake, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, had hugged and kissed each other the way Leonid Brezhnev used to greet his east European counterparts, it is very likely that much of
- Bali High (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jul 05, 2003)
The Temple of Segara Amrta on the ocean’s edge is a reminder that the Bharatiya Janata Party might fumble at the hustings and Nepal teeter on the edge of chaos, but Hinduism is alive and well on the island that Jawaharlal Nehru called “the morning of the
- In Anticipation (Telegraph, Kaushik Roy, Jul 04, 2003)
The term national security has been borrowed by Indian security analysts from their American counterparts. It broadly means securing a country’s long term objectives — an amalgam of military strategy, politics, economics, diplomacy and social security.
- Leg Up For Trade (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2003)
A prime ministerial visit does not directly boost trade and economic relationships between two countries. However, any improvement in the political environment (and this is implicit in some progress on the border dispute and mutual acceptance of Tibet and
- Hacks For The Upper House (Telegraph, Gouri Chatterjee, Jul 03, 2003)
After Kuldip Nayyar who? That is the biggest question facing editors in Delhi today. Who among them will get the Rajya Sabha seat Nayyar will vacate next month? The lobbying is so fierce and intense that the Centre is in a fix. So many big-league hacks
- A Relationship Beyond Tibet (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Jul 03, 2003)
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s China visit is being criticized for conceding advantage to China on Tibet and getting only a trading post in Sikkim in return. But what if the big story turns out to be the advanced stage of negotiations on a Tibet
- Red Is The Colour Of Reform (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Jul 02, 2003)
Hu Jintao may have initiated the democratization of the Chinese polity, but it is not yet time to pronounce him a liberal
- Quizzing The General (Telegraph, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Jul 01, 2003)
The rumpus over the answers of the Pakistani president, Pervez Musharraf, to Prannoy Roy’s googlies only serves to underline the imperative of isolating the proposed India-Pakistan dialogue from the volatility and amplitude of the inevitable oscillations
- Muslim Chinese (Telegraph, Jairam Ramesh, Jun 26, 2003)
What an extraordinary coincidence that just as the 50th anniversary of Shyama Prasad Mookerjee’s death fell, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was rediscovering Jawaharlal Nehru in Beijing. The irony could not be greater for Vajpayee was among the Indians who had made
- Perils Of Peace (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2003)
Indian diplomacy seems to have floundered once again. The growing popular belief that New Delhi’s foreign policy had been injected with new realism will be deeply eroded because of the latest news from Beijing and Washington, unarguably the two most ...
- Measuring The Mood (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Jun 26, 2003)
Globalization can help reduce poverty but it needs to be complemented with national and international actions
- Imprints On The Human Face (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Jun 25, 2003)
The current US policy could take the world towards the kind of cold war George Orwell portrayed in Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Across Borders (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 24, 2003)
The visit of the prime minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to China will assume real significance if it manages to inject fresh momentum into Sino-Indian relations. Relations between India and China have often shown promise, but this latent potential has
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