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- Free Trade And Environment (Deccan Herald, Sachin Chaturvedi, Dec 21, 2004)
New Delhi has suddenly signed a spurt of free trade agreements (FTAs) with several regional countries. This refers to bilateral free trade agreements with Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand that are already in place, besides others with Singapore ....
- Tussle For The Crown (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Dec 21, 2004)
Although Nicolas Sarkozy appears to have outmanoeuvred Jacques Chirac within France's ruling party for the moment, the President is not without a few aces of his own.
- Patents, Boon Or Bane? (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Dec 21, 2004)
Fears have rightly been expressed that the drug industry, the food-processing industry and even the software industry may face a crisis if the new WTO law governing patents is adopted from January 1, 2005.
- Of Preventives And Cures (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 21, 2004)
A couple of weeks ago, Gordon Brown, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, made a promise. The United Kingdom, he said, would buy up to three hundred million doses of a new malaria vaccine for the developing world.
- His Life, His Wish (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 21, 2004)
The last wish of K Venkatesh, the terminally ill 25-year-old chess enthusiast from Hyderabad, to have his life support system turned off so that he could donate his organs before they were irreparably damaged
- Nothing To Be Ashamed, Mr Singh (Pioneer, A. Surya Prakash, Dec 21, 2004)
External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh appears to have disturbed the prevailing national consensus on foreign policy and strategic affairs by expressing "regret" over India's nuclear status and blaming the BJP-led
- ‘Change In Three Areas Would Help India’S Image (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 21, 2004)
Lakshmi N Mittal has been ranked as one of the world’s richest people, with his vast steel empire producing more than 70 million tonnes of steel. Recently in the news for the extravagant wedding of his daughter in Paris, and before that his son’s ...
- Amending The Patents Act (Hindu, R. Gopalakrishnan, Dec 21, 2004)
For India, the task now is to debate openly how to deal with a possible rise in the prices of newly patented drugs.
- Baazee.Com Case — Why Was Ipc Not Invoked? (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Dec 21, 2004)
The failure of the Delhi police to invoke Section 292 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in effecting the arrest of Mr Avnish Bajaj, Chief Executive Officer of the auction Web site Baazee.com
- Can't Middle Class Pay For Lpg? Cut Subsidies, And Also Taxes (The Economic Times, J. George, Dec 21, 2004)
The scourge of “scrap trade”, reported detection of a dead lizard in the packed food served to a frequent flyer on a domestic airlines in the recent past, contaminated
- Desperation In West Asia (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Dec 21, 2004)
in recent times has West Asia been as confused and uncertain about the future. America’s invasion and occupation of Iraq have been traumatic events while the threat of violence and terrorism is fuelled by the injustice of continuing Israeli occupation of
- Unnecessarily Harsh? (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 21, 2004)
The controversy triggerged by the arrest of the Baazee.com Chief Executive Officer, Mr Avnish Bajaj, for selling objectionable material through the Internet auction site exposes the lacunae in the provisions of
- Tailor Food Safety To Our Needs (The Economic Times, J. George, Dec 21, 2004)
The scourge of “scrap trade”, reported detection of a dead lizard in the packed food served to a frequent flyer on a domestic airlines in the recent past, contaminated honey supplies and many other food items in the domestic as well as international marke
- Indian Court Grants Bail In Sex Video Case (CNET.com, Dinesh C Sharma, Dec 21, 2004)
Avnish Bajaj, chief executive officer of eBay Indian subsidiary Baazee.com was released on bail by local courts Tuesday, the company said.
- It Is Not Boom Time In India (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Dec 20, 2004)
The Bombay Stock Exchange sensitive index last crossed 6,000 in January 2004. It has now crossed a record of 6,400.
- How Boom Can Go Bust (Business Line, Gowthaman Muruganandan, Dec 20, 2004)
With its BPO portfolio including high-end analysis work, content management and knowledge management, India is a force to reckon with in the global BPO market.
- Democracy In The Dock (Hindu, Mary Riddell, Dec 20, 2004)
Even as the Western law is sought to be imposed on Iraq, the British Government continues to flout its tenets.
- A Vindictive Move (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 20, 2004)
The United States has launched an ill-judged and bloody-minded campaign to deny the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohammed ElBaradei, a third term after his current tenure expires in 2005.
- The Balanced Scorecard — Manufacturing Change (Business Line, A. B. Sivakumar, Dec 20, 2004)
The balanced scorecard helps organisations to accurately measure the results of their actions. The constant monitoring of efforts galvanises the whole organisation into action.
- The Typewriter Of Life (Telegraph, Salman Rushdie, Dec 20, 2004)
There’s a great scene in James Ivory’s early film, Bombay Talkie, in which Jennifer Kendal as a reporter visits the set of a Bombay movie, and the set is this giant typewriter
- Us Equities Outlook Is Weakly Positive (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Dec 20, 2004)
The outlook for American stocks is neither exciting nor gloomy, as the prices reflect lower earnings multiples. As oil prices climb, some profit-taking can be expected early in the New Year, followed by some stability.
- A Political Arabesque In Iraq (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Dec 20, 2004)
I have long believed that any American general or senior diplomat who wants to work in Iraq should have to pass a test. It would be a very simple test
- Kick-Off For Junior (Indian Express, Subrata Nag Choudhury, Dec 20, 2004)
The death of Brazilian footballer Christiano Junior on the grounds at the finals of the Federation Cup at Bangalore on December 5 had created much bad blood between the Dempo Sports Club of Goa and Kolkata’s Mohun Bagan, with the two rapping each other fo
- Speaker’S Anguish (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 20, 2004)
THE Speaker of the Lok Sabha enjoys a unique position in the country. He is the custodian of the House and has the onerous responsibility of ensuring that its work is carried on smoothly.
- Quest For Dignity (Deccan Herald, G R MULKY, Dec 20, 2004)
Hopes of peace in West Asia brighten as a moderate leader is set to succeed Yasser Arafat in Palestine
- Palestine After Arafat (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Dec 20, 2004)
Most Palestinians appear to have concluded that their struggle for a homeland needs a new direction.
- Of Noise, Mundane And Divine (Indian Express, E. P. Unny, Dec 20, 2004)
Chennai's morning people aren’t there at the beach on Monday. The walkers have been asked to stay away for a couple of days. We aren’t taking any chances, says a policeman, it all happened so suddenly.
- Bush As U.N. Peacemaker (Hindu, Simon Tisdall, Dec 18, 2004)
The Bush administration has distanced itself for the time being from congressional demands for the resignation of the United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan.
- A Ruling Weak And Flawed (Business Line, K. Srinivasan , Dec 18, 2004)
In the Airports Authority of India (2004 269 ITR 355) case, the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) held that the payment of $4,50,600 received by Innovative Solutions International
- Thank Dear Leader For The Sunshine (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 18, 2004)
When a train carrying explosives blew up in North Korea last April, setting fire to nearby buildings, several people died trying to save portraits of their “Dear Leader”, Kim Jong Il, from the flames.
- Fuel For Taps (Hindu, R. Ramachandran, Dec 18, 2004)
Looking for alternative sources of low-enriched uranium or switching to a first-ever fully mixed oxide loaded reactor are options to keep the Tarapur Atomic Power Station running.
- Bad Food From Good Bahu (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 18, 2004)
We have received a massive response from readers to The Indian Express series ‘Bangalore Crumbling’, IE December 5 onwards.
- Prospects For Peace, Post-Arafat (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Dec 18, 2004)
It appears that once the new Palestinian President is elected, moves will commence for an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. For any peace process to be sustainable, the Palestinian Authority should quell terrorist violence and adopt democratic governance
- The Indian Connection (Deccan Herald, JOSEPH BERGER, Dec 18, 2004)
A divide exists between Guyanese immigrants of Indian descent and their Indian brethren, in the US
- In Harmony (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 18, 2004)
Nary a word did Japan’s ambassador, Yasukuni Enoki, breathe, when speaking in Calcutta under Bengal Initiative auspices, about the far-reaching defence policy guidelines unveiled in Tokyo only a few hours before.
- Get Busy On A Few World Problems (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 18, 2004)
What are the ten most serious challenges we all face? Climate change, communicable diseases, conflicts, access to education, financial instability, governance and corruption, malnutrition and hunger, migration, sanitation
- The Young In Pakistan Want Peace (Tribune, Chanchal Sarkar, Dec 18, 2004)
BY the time our plane took off, two hours late, for the 50-minute flight to Lahore we were handrags. For weeks Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry, Home Ministry, High Commission, Intelligence and all manner of agencies had kept us on tenterhooks with pinpricks a
- Wanted: White Paper On Nuclear Policy (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Dec 18, 2004)
It does not reflect great credit to our system of policy making that the Prime Minister had to say that a statement attributed to the Foreign Minister on nuclear policy was not a statement on foreign policy.
- Trial By Public Opinion (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Dec 18, 2004)
No sooner is a celebrity charged with a crime than the media and politicians take it upon themselves to be arbiters of his fate. The police and the judiciary are shoved into the background and these self-appointed judges pronounce their verdicts to the pu
- Pokhran Poser (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 17, 2004)
Understandably, eyebrows have been raised in Parliament and outside over Foreign Minister Natwar Singh's reported statement in Seoul asking North Korea and South Korea not to follow India's example and become nuclear powers
- Back To Fantasy (Deccan Herald, DINYAR T DASTOOR, Dec 17, 2004)
Every individual has his own concept of a treasure trove. With some, it is finding wads of currency notes stuffed in mattresses, with others it’s discovering sparkling gems in antique chests.
- Bush's Tactics Unchanged (Hindu, Sidney Blumenthal, Dec 17, 2004)
George Bush's slash and smear campaign is trying to bring all disparate elements under U.S. control.
- Adc: Is It Wrong Call By Trai? (Business Line, R. Krishnan , Dec 17, 2004)
Is the access deficit charge regime a case of the regulator shooting itself, and the exchequer, in the foot? The regulator admits as much but appears unable to take corrective action pleading lack of institutional structure.
- Colin Powell's `Command'ments On Leadership (Business Line, R. Devarajan, Dec 17, 2004)
Gen Colin Powell is far from the common and conventional prototype military hero. He does not wear his heart on his sleeve. The fact that he has achieved the kind of matinee-idol fame (which has made it difficult for him to go out in public) is more an em
- Venezuela-India Ties To Centre Around Oil (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Dec 17, 2004)
With the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, due to visit New Delhi in February, the stage is set for the establishment of a fruitful bilateral relationship between the two countries
- Holding Up Arab Reform (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Dec 17, 2004)
For years now it’s been clear that the Middle East peace process has left the realm of diplomacy and started to become an industry, with its own GNP of conferences and seminars.
- Why A Steel Regulator Makes Little Sense (Business Line, Pradeep S. Mehta, Dec 17, 2004)
The proposal to set up a steel regulator is mainly in response to the lobby of the builders who face a double-whammy due to the moves of both the cement and the steel industry.
- Famous Victors (Pioneer, Yogendra Bali, Dec 17, 2004)
December 16, 1971, marked the 'Victory Day' of one of the most decisive and unique battles fought by India against an aggressive neighbour, which always sought military solutions to its own domestic and international problems.
- Fair Law For Fair Sex (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 17, 2004)
The Union Cabinet will initiate a Bill in Parliament to confer equal inheritance rights of ancestral property to daughters. A welcome move, the Bill will go a long way in giving women equal rights.
- Sebi Seized With Takeover Action (Business Line, N. R. Sridharan, Dec 16, 2004)
Show-cause notices issued by SEBI for `violation' of Takeover Regulations comes as a delayed jolt for the companies concerned
- Outsourcing Obesity? (Business Line, K. Gopalan, Dec 16, 2004)
That a country endowed with abundant resources produces goods cheaper and exports them to other countries, where their cost of production is higher is an axiom in the matter ofinternational trade.
- Girls For Sale In Himachal (Tribune, Ambika Sharma, Dec 16, 2004)
Driven by extreme poverty and social backwardness, villagers across the Transgiri area of Sirmaur district in Himachal are forced to sell girls, often to physically challenged and aged men from Punjab and Haryana.
- Fdi In Retail Sector — A Trade Policy For Trade (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Dec 16, 2004)
The pan-chewing, dhoti-clad, English-ignorant retail trader should not be seen as `inefficient' and `cost ineffective' who needs to be bleached by globally-accepted detergents.
- Pak-Centric Perceptions (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Dec 16, 2004)
There is an essential asymmetry between India and Pakistan, which strategists in the two countries often ignore. As a consequence, whenever Pakistan gets a fresh supply of sophisticated weapons as has happened recently, India gets prickly
- Attracting Fdi, Chilean Style (Hindu, Jorge Heine, Dec 16, 2004)
To attract the FDI India needs, it can follow the Chilean model of developing a public concessions system to build infrastructure.
- Palestinians After Arafat (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Dec 16, 2004)
During a cold dreary Moscow morning in 1971, I was one of the few persons present when Nikita Khrushchev was buried. Khrushchev’s son delivered a poignant eulogy for his late father.
- Afloat On A Sea Of Books (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 16, 2004)
When I read the news that Google was initiating a drive to digitise and upload to the Internet millions upon millions of books from some of the finest research libraries in the world
- Peace Prospects, Post-Arafat (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Dec 16, 2004)
During a cold dreary Moscow morning in 1971, I was one of the few persons present when Nikita Khrushchev was buried. I was carrying a message of condolences from Mrs Indira Gandhi for Mrs Khrushchev.
- Waves Of Changes (Pioneer, Mukund B. Kunte, Dec 16, 2004)
The Navy celebrates December 4 each year in remembrance of the audacious attack by tiny missile boats of the 'killer' squadron in the 1971 war.
- Dirty Dancin'! (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 16, 2004)
When American novelist Norman Mailer wrote Tough guys don’t dance in 1984, it could even have been considered a logical progression to Henry Miller’s 1945
- Using Oil As A Lever Against U.S. (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Dec 16, 2004)
If oil is the engine of Venezuela's newfound determination to assert its independence from the U.S., then PDVSA, the public sector company that controls the extraction, refining and sale of the country's crude oil, is undoubtedly its motor.
- Train Of Accidents (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 15, 2004)
Tuesday's collision between two passenger trains near Mansar village in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur district on the Jalandhar-Pathankot section that claimed dozens of lives and caused injuries to many others once again brings to the fore the issue of railway safe
- Between Mnna And Nssp (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Dec 15, 2004)
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's flying visit to Delhi last week has restarted the controversy over the sale of US weapons to Pakistan. Every time India and Pakistan are about to acquire new weapons, a big shindig is raised by the other side on how
- Singer Of The Ages (Indian Express, R. VENKATARAMAN, Dec 15, 2004)
Mamurai Shanmuka Vadivu Subbulakshmi was no ordinary person; she was a phenomenon of the 20th century. Her voice thrilled the greater of this globe, regardless of the language in which she sang.
- Put Up A United Front (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Dec 15, 2004)
It’s not even a free trade area yet, but when it grows up it wants to be just like the European Union. The whole history of the continent is against it, of course, but then Europe’s previous history didn’t leave much room for optimism either.
- Sombre Notes (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 15, 2004)
Understandably, eyebrows have been raised in Parliament and outside over Foreign Minister Natwar Singh's reported statement in Seoul asking North Korea and South Korea not to follow India's example and become nuclear powers.
- Musharraf’S New Strategy (Tribune, M B NAQVI, Dec 15, 2004)
News, newspaper columns and drawing room gossip normally sustain Pakistani politics. These are now being used to sidetrack and divide the Opposition. The Opposition is making preliminary moves to start a mass agitation.
- Land Grab In Shadow Of Wall (Hindu, Chris McGreal, Dec 15, 2004)
Bulldozers were preparing the ground for hundreds of new homes, despite the Israeli Government's claim that it is not expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
- Combating The New Ghettos (Deccan Herald, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Dec 15, 2004)
New ghettos are cropping up around the world. They differ from the old ghettos in nature and dimension, and their number grows every day. They can be as large as a suburb, a country, a region, or a continent
- Ethics And Short Cuts (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 15, 2004)
If the ratification of the Kyoto protocol by Russia is seen as a landmark event that ushered in a new international framework for the reduction of greenhouse gas emission
- Endogenous Development Centres Hold The Key Here (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Dec 15, 2004)
In most places, the word globalisation conjures up images of businessmen and corporate consultants on six figure salaries making offers that governments cannot refuse.
- Corporates, Capital- Or Capitalist-Owned? (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Dec 15, 2004)
A promoter may dilute his stake so much that other shareholders end up owning the company. Yet, he may call the shots, simply by being able to manage the company better than anyone and, more important, being so perceived by shareholders.
- Why `She' Still Remains Unwanted (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 15, 2004)
A conference on sex selection diagnosis and female foeticide in Goa last week brought to light the disturbing proof of India holding one half of its population
- Bring Back The Old Sting (Telegraph, Rajashri Dasgupta, Dec 15, 2004)
It is time for the feminist movement to revisit some issues and think of strategies to make health a fundamental right
- India Must Think Big, Act Fast On Latin America (Business Line, R. Viswanathan , Dec 15, 2004)
China's entry into Latin America is a win-win for both sides. Latin America has the resources China needs and China offers market and capital.
- Rupee Up (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 14, 2004)
Buoyed by sustained strong foreign capital and trade inflows the rupee has been appreciating vis-à-vis the U S dollar.
- The Chavez Phenomenon And The U.S. (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Dec 14, 2004)
Shortly after he appeared on national television in October 2001 holding aloft bloody photographs of children killed by the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan, President Hugo Chavez Frias of Venezuela received a visit from Donna Hrinak
- Towards Saner Road Mobility (Deccan Herald, B V SHENOY, Dec 14, 2004)
Every day multitudes of motor vehicles traverse our roads, burning hydrocarbon fuels and spewing masses of noxious fumes. The streets of Bangalore are clogged with traffic.
- Private Sector Job Reservation — Striking The Middle Path (Business Line, P. K. Doraiswamy, Dec 14, 2004)
The principle of job reservation for certain categories cannot, per se, be faulted by anyone with a social conscience. But there are problems in applying such a policy in the private sector.
- Building Mutual Faith (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Dec 14, 2004)
Peace in the subcontinent is the key to development and real growth. To achieve that we must make Saarc a body that does not permit any infiltration, of any kind, into its portals.
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