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- Hdr: Managing Cultural Diversity For Stability (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jul 26, 2004)
The brainchild of two Asian economists of importance — Amartya Sen and Mahbub ul Haque — the latest UN Human Development Report (HDR) incorporates information on development indicators such as GDP
- The Business Of Business Management (Pioneer, P. Lal , Jul 26, 2004)
The controversy over the fee-structure in the IIMs, and inviting the owners of a chain of dabbawalas of Mumbai to IIM, Lucknow, to address the gathering at “Manfest 2004” on micro-management remind me of what a professor on
- The Designer Babies Debate (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jul 26, 2004)
Any new medical or technological breakthrough can be abused but should that become an argument against scientific progress?
- Politics Sullies Water Disputes In India (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 26, 2004)
Seven Christian missionaries were attacked allegedly by RSS workers at a Scheduled Caste colony on Saturday in Kerala, for providing material assistance to a Dalit family.
- 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
- Nepal's Expanding Insurgency (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 25, 2004)
Nepal is in the grip of a Maoist insurgency that has claimed nearly 10,000 lives since 1996. On a visit to the mountain kingdom, Nirupama Subramanian found people unhappy with both the monarchy and the politicians.
- Marginal Relief Marginalised (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Jul 24, 2004)
Before budget 2004 was presented, there were eager expectations that the tax rates would be cut and the exemption limits raised.
- Kurdish Warlords Delay Unity (Hindu, Jonathan Steele, Jul 24, 2004)
Kurdistan's two big party leaders may end up producing a deal with Baghdad that their own people denounce.
- Gender Budgeting (Hindu, Brinda Karat, Jul 24, 2004)
Gender budgeting, if it is to be useful as a tool for women's advance, has to be implemented in conjunction with an egalitarian and democratic vision.
- Gender Budgeting (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Jul 24, 2004)
So may be it's safe now to speak about the market without its leaping off a cliff, screaming. (Or maybe not quite. By close on Monday, share prices recovered nearly half the losses they logged soon after opening.)
- To All Those Missing Daughters (Business Line, D. Murali , Jul 24, 2004)
On that fateful Friday last week, the Kumbakonam calamity was already top on international news feeds, reporting of the blaze in an ill-fated girls school.
- Writing Is A Therapy For Him (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Jul 24, 2004)
ON August 9 the Lalit Kala Akademi will honour Dr Mulk Raj Anand. Efforts are on to get Dr Anand all the way from Khandala, where he now lives, to Delhi.
- Budget 2004: Not The Last Word (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Jul 23, 2004)
"Balanced but hardly inspiring," said the London Economist about India's Budget. Interpreting the electoral mandate as a vote for change, the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, quoted the ...
- Budget: Good Intentions Drained By Leaks (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , Jul 23, 2004)
A close look at the portions of the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram's speech that capture the "human face" of the 2004-05 Union Budget brings out three points clearly.
- Caught In The Crossfire (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 23, 2004)
The Iraqi hostage crisis blurs the distinction between combatants and non-combatants
- Ex Gratia Justice (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Jul 23, 2004)
Our legal system individuates claims. Mass disasters become a collection of individual cases. India needs a `mass tort' law.
- 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
- Why Not Populism? (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 23, 2004)
The intrinsic aim of populism, as understood in the US where it had its origins in the latter part of 19th century, is to support the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite.
- Politics Is Damping India's Appeal To Investors: Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, Andy Mukherjee, Jul 22, 2004)
A recent survey has found that India offers businesses a better setting to create wealth than South Korea, and that the country is also catching up in competitiveness with much bigger economies like Spain and France.
- Afghan Electoral Delays (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 22, 2004)
EARLIER THIS month (July), it was announced that the elections in Afghanistan were to be delayed for a second time, with the country now supposedly choosing a president in October and a new parliament next spring.
- Bush’S Electoral Compulsions (Deccan Herald, G Parthasarathy, Jul 22, 2004)
Since Bush attaches utmost importance to Pak assistance to nab Osama, the US is unlikely to do much about Kashmir
- Time To Renew The Congress (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jul 22, 2004)
The Congress, as the oldest political outfit in the country and still the only all-India party, has to take the lead in reviving itself as a political organisation.
- The Pressure For Accountability (Deccan Herald, SUBRAMANIAM VINCENT, Jul 22, 2004)
Right to Information can help even citizens to keep tabs on government expenditure and behaviour
- India Somersaulting (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 22, 2004)
Congress win symbolises the yearning for change
That gloriously unpredictable entity - the Indian electorate - has astonished spectators and participants alike by executing a perfect somersault and neatly reversing the foregone conclusion of . . .
- Right Choice, Baby (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 22, 2004)
Manmohan Singh, the man who steered India out of its worst economic crisis ever, will be the next prime minister of the country. We expect no major glitches — apart from the howls of some Congress netas anguished by the refusal of Sonia Gandhi to . . .
- Shameful Inaction (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 21, 2004)
It is not surprising that the National Commission, appointed by the United States Government to probe the events leading up to the tragedy of 9/11, has criticised both the Clinton and Bush administrations for failing to
- Venusian Woman (Deccan Herald, SUPACHAI PANITCHPAKDI, Jul 21, 2004)
July is a critical month for India as well as the rest of the world — it will decide the course of global trade talks
- Too Little, Too Late (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 21, 2004)
The Supreme Courts order, directing the Centre to disburse to survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster Rs. 1,505.46 crores that is part of the settlement reached with the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), comes not a day too soon.
- Military Rules, Not Okay (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Jul 21, 2004)
The nation's political parties and politicians are continuously losing credibility as a result of increasing criminalisation of politics.
- Israel Pooh-Poohs World Courtvv (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Jul 21, 2004)
With overt US support, Israel has consigned a World Court judgment against it to the trash bin
- 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.
- Revitalising Panchsheel (Hindu, K. R. Narayanan, Jul 20, 2004)
As co-originators of the Panchsheel, it is the internationalist duty of China and India to march forward, revitalise their friendly relationship, and project the Five Principles for the peace, progress, and stability of the world.
- No `One-Ways' In Globalisation (Business Line, Satya Prabhakar, Jul 20, 2004)
Globalisation, as most countries have to come to finally comprehend and accept, is not only inexorable and inevitable but also largely beneficial despite short-term restructuring pain and suffering.
- Budget 2004-05: Mirage Of Goodies For Farm Sector (Business Line, Devinder Sharma , Jul 20, 2004)
Despite the Government's right noises on support to the agriculture sector, there is no clear roadmap to boost farm growth. Addressing the debt-related crisis by promising more credit can only lead to greater indebtedness.
- Stomach These Facts (Deccan Herald, CHITTARANJAN ANDRADE, Jul 20, 2004)
The more ignorant one is about his micro-organic companions, the better he can sleep at night
- Aicc Revamp: Reward And Punishment (Hindu, K. V. PRASAD, Jul 19, 2004)
Nearly two months after the Congress came to power at the Centre via the coalition route, the party president, Sonia Gandhi, set herself to the task of re-building a team to run the affairs of the All-India Congress Committee.
- Gorbachev's Ghost (Pioneer, Ajoy Bagchi, Jul 19, 2004)
Saddam Hussein gave international currency to the phrase "mother of all battles" during the first Gulf War. The Elections 2004 could be, in a manner of speaking, described as the mother of all electoral battles in Independent India.
- Peace On The Guillotine, Again (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jul 19, 2004)
Dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir cannot succeed unless the central precondition for democracy exists: a commitment by all parties to resolve differences through discourse, not military means.
- Reformed Regime-I A Ploy To Deprive The Poor (Statesman, DIPAK BASU, Jul 19, 2004)
According to the media, corporate world, and private institutional finance houses, everything was fine in India because the balance of payment was in surplus, the growth rate was high, the foreign
- The Wily Third Man (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Jul 19, 2004)
In a machiavellian game, the US is playing India against Pakistan while having a separate relationship with both
- Incomplete Investigations (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 19, 2004)
A political compromise in one case and bureaucratic reticence in the other saved United States President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair from being held responsible for invading Iraq on false pretences.
- Intelligence Loses Its Reputation (Hindu, William Pfaff, Jul 19, 2004)
The findings of the British and American intelligence services on Iraq were edited to deliver the conclusions Tony Blair and George W. Bush wanted.
- Bond With Berlin (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 19, 2004)
The announcement that India and Germany considered each other "natural candidates" for a permanent seat at the enlarged United Nations Security Council (UNSC), made at a joint press conference in Delhi last week by
- India's Inherent Strength (Pioneer, Hari Jaisingh, Jul 18, 2004)
What is the vitality of India? How is it to be viewed in today's regional and global perspective? These questions evoked animated discussions among 50 scholars drawn from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, America...
- Adverse Balance (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 18, 2004)
It was good of the United States Deputy Secretary of State, Mr Richard Armitage, to have owned up in Islamabad his observation in New Delhi that some-not all-of the infrastructure in Pakistan for supporting...
- Prayer Promotes Ties And Spreads Harmony (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, Jul 18, 2004)
I heard over the radio the other day of “faith” as a management tool being used in corporate offices here in America. It alerted me instantly for it rang a familiar bell. I heard it with greater attention. The announcer narrated how the employees were sta
- Let Truth Prevail (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 18, 2004)
The Opposition has been stalling Parliament for several days, objecting to a probe of the Godhra train carnage which triggered an anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat, taking thousands of innocent lives.
- The Sindhis, A ‘Vanishing’ People (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Jul 17, 2004)
I have a large number of Sindhi friends — a few Muslims but mostly Hindus and Sikhs who migrated from Pakistan after partition.
- A Stamp Of Disapproval (Hindu, Suryanarayan Sinha, Jul 17, 2004)
The Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice has removed from the Israeli quiver the arrow of legal justification for the construction of the wall in occupied Palestinian territory.
- Adverse Balance (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 17, 2004)
It was good of the United States Deputy Secretary of State, Mr Richard Armitage, to have owned up in Islamabad his observation in New Delhi that some-not all-of the infrastructure in Pakistan ...
- Bane Of Ad Hocism (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 17, 2004)
Annulment of the CET seat selection process has put students in a quandary
- A Fractious War On Aids (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 17, 2004)
In another kind of global war there seems to be a growing chasm between the policies being unilaterally pursued by the United States and the perceptions of the international community.
- India's Inherent Strength (Pioneer, Hari Jaisingh, Jul 17, 2004)
What is the vitality of India? How is it to be viewed in today's regional and global perspective? These questions evoked animated discussions among 50 scholars drawn from India ...
- Sarkari Scandal (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 17, 2004)
It is only coincidental that Dilip Sinha, former vice-chancellor of Visva-Bharati, was arrested for alleged foul play over the appointment of a lecturer a few days prior to the shocking revelation ...
- Service Sector Far From Served (Business Line, S. Muralidharan, Jul 17, 2004)
The Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988 has been in the statute book for well over a decade and a half now.
- Terror In Schools (Hindu, Chris McGreal, Jul 16, 2004)
In Ramallah, the woman with dyed-blond hair, haute couture suits and an apparent penchant for an expensive lifestyle is seen above all as having betrayed her husband by having decamped to Paris at the beginning of the intifada.
- Reducing Poverty — Choosing The Right Technologies (Business Line, Kumar Venkat, Jul 16, 2004)
Thirty years after the publication of E. F. Schumacher's celebrated book, Small is Beautiful, which proposed matching the cost and scale of technologies to the people and resources of developing nations, a basic question remains
- Making The Cess Work (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Jul 16, 2004)
Among Eurpeans, it is a resounding 'Yes' for America and 'No' for George W. Bush.
- Globalisation And Blake’S Big Brother (Deccan Herald, LARRY ELLIOT, Jul 16, 2004)
The triumph of the multinational corporation has spawned a pallid, deracinated culture
- From Green To Hyderabad Blues (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Jul 16, 2004)
One small step for man on moon was a giant leap for mankind. "Secularists" might be dismissive of five per cent reservation in education and employment for Muslims in Andhra Pradesh.
- Sex Matters (Wall Street Journal, Editorial, Wall Street Journal, Jul 13, 2004)
Our country is preoccupied with terrorism. But looking ahead, terrorism may be only one of our problems.
- Spreading The Message Of Prevention (San Francisco Chronicle, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 06, 2004)
It's 9 in the evening at R.P. Star's, a truck stop on Highway 45 south of this seacoast city, and the drivers are pulling over their rigs for a bite to eat, a cup of tea and perhaps a little sex for money with the women in the bushes.
- With Homosexuality Illegal, Gays Suffer Aids Silently (San Francisco Chronicle, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 05, 2004)
Thirty-seven days after his wedding in 1999, Shashi Shetye found out he was HIV-positive.
- India Playing With Maoist Fire (Asia Times, Sultan Shahin, Jul 01, 2004)
India appears to be taking a big gamble with Maoist insurgents. Encouraged by the central government in Delhi, the ruling Congress-led coalition government in the state of Andhra Pradesh has removed a nine-year-old ban on the People's War Group . . .
- Much At Stake In July (Deccan Herald, SUPACHAI PANITCHPAKDI, Jun 25, 2004)
July is a critical month for India as well as the rest of the world — it will decide the course of global trade talks
- Hope Diminished (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 25, 2004)
For the families of the three Indians held hostage in Iraq by the Black Banners Brigade of the Islamic Secret Army, every day since they were abducted on July 21 along with three Kenyans and an Egyptian, has been excruciatingly painful.
- Stop Passing The Buck (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 23, 2004)
The buck must stop somewhere, particularly when it concerns the lives and health of thousands of ordinary people. Yet sadly, despite the simple, obvious and humanitarian step the United Progressive Alliance Government could have taken, it has fallen ...
- Team Manmohan Charting A New Course (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 20, 2004)
The message from the new Government at the Centre is clear. While economic reforms will continue, it will not be a mindless pursuit keeping the weak and the downtrodden out of its beneficial loop.
- Taking Care Of Women In Distress (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, Jun 20, 2004)
Below is an email I received from an Indian woman, married to an Indian residing in the United States. Her case is not the first one of its kind I have come across here. In fact it is indicative of a deep malaise and needs a coordinated response ...
- Reduce Nuclear Risk With Pakistan (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 19, 2004)
The Nuclear weapons in the hands of India and Pakistan have made the region a much more dangerous place is in the nature of an axiom that only advocates of the discredited doctrine of deterrence will bother to contest.
- Movement In Doha Round (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 19, 2004)
A measure of scepticism may be warranted about yet another claim of a breakthrough in the deadlocked Doha round of the World Trade Organisation.
- Star Performer Goes Public (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 15, 2004)
The advent of India's largest information technology company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), in the Indian capital market might have been long delayed, but already, within days of the filing of its draft prospectus, there is a tremendous interest all...
- Intellectual Property Rights — Us, Trade Sanctions And Iprs (Business Line, Feroz Ali. K, Jun 15, 2004)
Despite India's recent endeavour to comply fully with its TRIPS (Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) obligations, the US has put India on the "priority watch list" under Section 301 for failing to provide adequate level of protection...
- Keeping Off The Gm Bandwagon (Hindu, Suman Sahai , Jun 15, 2004)
It is embarrassing that India, with such agricultural strengths and dependencies, is lurching from biotech product to product with no defined policy to guide it.
- Can India Come Of Age In Comity Of Nations? (Business Line, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Jun 15, 2004)
Two Goldman Sachs reports, widely discussed in recent months, predict that in the next 50 years, Brazil, Russia, India and China will as a group become a much larger force in the world economy than the top rich countries of today.
- Boosting South-South Trade (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 14, 2004)
If Cancum 2003 saw the emergence of a new kind of South-South alliance in the world of trade diplomacy, Sao Paulo 2004 will test the willingness of the developing countries to enlarge the
- Don't Vacillate On Iraq (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 12, 2004)
If External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh's statement at a joint press conference in Washington with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell can be taken as a guide to the latest twist in official thinking, the United Progressive Alliance
- Life In Wto After The Peace Clause (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Jun 11, 2004)
IS THERE life for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after the expiry of the Peace Clause? The clause expired on December 31, 2003, unsung. Its extension was not considered in the WTO General Council Meeting held in mid-December 2003. By then it had ...
- Pakistan’S All-Powerful Army (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Jun 10, 2004)
IN keeping with the subcontinent’s long tradition, India and Pakistan have spent too much time and energy on rhetorical exchanges between the Foreign Minister in the new Congress-led government, Mr K. Natwar Singh, and various Pakistani dignitaries,
- World's Enemy (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2004)
The 22 heads of State and Government who gathered at Arromanches, France, on Sunday, did more than observe the 60th anniversary of one of the most remarkable military feats of our time-the 'D-Day' landing of the allied forces on Normandy beach.
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