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Articles 30921 through 31020 of 31829:
- Look Beyond Yuan Revaluation (Business Line, Dharmalingam Venugopal, Nov 05, 2003)
China has to evolve its own market-related exchange rate in keeping with its growing economic stature. It is too big an economy to keep its currency pegged to the dollar. Before doing that it has to raise its financial, legal and corporate systems to acce
- Magic Unrealism In Washington (Indian Express, Paul Krugman, Nov 05, 2003)
Academic economists often cite Stein’s Law, a principle enunciated by the late Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Nixon administration. The law comes with various wordings; my favorite is: ‘‘Things that can’t go on fore
- Untested Russian Docs Ok: Govt (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Nov 04, 2003)
If Union Health Minister Sushma Swaraj has her way, more than 7,000 doctors who fail to satisfy the criteria of registration set by the Medical Council of India (MCI) would be treating thousands of people across the country.
- Mid-Term Review Of Monetary And Credit Policy — Has Not Rocked The Boat (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Nov 04, 2003)
The RBI Governor, Mr Y. Venugopal Reddy's first Credit Policy has few surprises, treading as it does the beaten path by leaving interest rates and the CRR unchanged. While the Policy is optimistic about higher GDP growth, it sounds a little too euphoric o
- Russia Flexes Its Muscles (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Nov 04, 2003)
Reference to pre-emptive use of force is a new element in Russia's defence strategy. It sends a clear warning to the U.S. to accept Russia's dominant role in the former Soviet states.
- Lessons From Track Two (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Nov 04, 2003)
As India embarks upon a new peace initiative with Pakistan, the experience of an Israeli professor who has led various experiments in Track Two or ‘Citizens Diplomacy’ worldwide might be instructive. Edy Kaufman, a professor at Hebrew University and in th
- An Economic Axis Of The Future (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2003)
AN UNUSUAL ECONOMIC formation is taking shape in the global economy, which, if successfully established, will threaten Northern hegemony in economic policy formulation. India, Brazil, China and South Africa are in the process of forging closer economic re
- Foreign Policy Needs Reforms, Says Pm, Think Out Of Old Box (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2003)
‘Iraq debaters in Cold War time warp... let’s be pragmatic and solve China border dispute’
- Express Your Voice (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2003)
n I am in total agreement with Tavleen Singh’s opinion that Atal Behari Vajpayee should have been elected as Prime Minister 25 to 30 years back (From midnight alley to dawn’s highway, The Sunday Express, Oct 26). It is our misfortune that a statesman like
- Our Other Neighbour In The North (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Nov 02, 2003)
Our neighbour, Nepal, is in acute distress.
- Shining India Or Area Of Darkness? (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Nov 02, 2003)
In a village in Maharashtra, last week, in the dak edition of a badly printed newspaper I read that by 2050 India’s economy will be number three in the world. The village has no water, erratic electricity, no sanitation, no healthcare and a shabby little
- India Is A Model For Our Present Age: Hungarian Pm (Hindu, Amar Kumar Sinha, Nov 02, 2003)
ON THE eve of his official visit to India, the Hungarian Prime Minister gave an interview to
- Europeans Join Allied Forces Of Jehad In Iraq (Indian Express, Don Van Natta Jr., Nov 02, 2003)
Across Europe and West Asia, young Muslim men are answering a call issued by Osama bin Laden and other extremists, and leaving home to join the fight against the US-led occupation in Iraq, according to senior counter-terrorism officials in six countries.
- The Unfolding Indian Role In Sri Lanka (Hindu, Iqbal Athas, Nov 01, 2003)
New Delhi's task is unenviable. It is to make sure that a Government that has ignored its security forces and remained complacent does not continue to do so.
- Maturity Begins At Home (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Nov 01, 2003)
Is India’s foreign policy being managed brilliantly, or poorly? You can also pose that question differently. How well is India’s leadership looking after her interests and position in a world that has changed faster than you would have imagined even after
- Long Overdue (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 01, 2003)
THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT'S draft notification requiring urban property developers to obtain environmental clearance for large projects is a welcome step. Under the terms of this notification, developers of building projects for more than a thousand ...
- A Law Like This (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Nov 01, 2003)
A look at the best and worst of foreign media
- Retain The Initiative (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 01, 2003)
INDIA HAS WISELY decided to persist with the latest peace initiative, taking in its stride the less than wholesome response from Pakistan to the proposals made on October 22. It is in India's strategic interest to promote normalisation of ...
- Telecom Tangle (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 01, 2003)
In a competitive market, corporates should anticipate changed business conditions
- Nuclear Bridge Over The Persian Gulf (Indian Express, Manpreet Sethi, Oct 31, 2003)
Tehran’s ambitions can’t be dismissed. Addressing them will set precedents for other nuclear wannabes
- From Economy To Security (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2003)
IN ITS FIRST major diversion from the focussed economic agenda, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum has decided to take a closer look and step up cooperation on security issues. With the push for a security-related agenda coming ...
- Because The People Want It (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Oct 31, 2003)
Pakistan's response to India’s twelve proposals on the eve of Diwali has inspired a bewildering range of headlines in the English language dailies. Pak googly to India peace bid, says The Pioneer across five columns. Pak accepts many CBMs, attaches riders
- Why Should Oil Psus Bear Cross Of Subsidies? (Business Line, Raghuvir Srinivasan, Oct 31, 2003)
In a retrograde measure, reminiscent of the `control' era, the Government hopes to keep kerosene and LPG prices at current levels by cross-subsidising with other petroleum products and making oil companies share the financial burden. Apart from being unfa
- Dr Mahathir Made The Right Call (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Oct 31, 2003)
IT IS nearly two weeks since the APEC summit ended. In the media world, that is a long time ago. The event is all but forgotten. It was a forgettable event except for those who dressed up in colourful shirts to pose for pictures.
- War-Weary `Liberators', Wary Iraqis (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 31, 2003)
THE US President, Mr George W. Bush, continues to reiterate that terrorists in Iraq won't "intimidate the US or Iraqis in rebuilding that nation. Our coalition is growing in numbers and growing in strength
- Inside Board Rooms (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 31, 2003)
DESPITE the copious literature on corporate governance, stocks and shares, mergers and acquisitions, decision-making and the like, the magic and mystique of the board room is beyond the ken of a lay citizen or even of an otherwise shrewd investor or profe
- East-West Swap Only Solution (Deccan Herald, Sudha Ramachandran, Oct 31, 2003)
It’s impossible to recover all the Indian territory lost to China. An east -west swap is probably the best way out
- East-West Swap Only Solution (Deccan Herald, Sudha Ramachandran, Oct 31, 2003)
It’s impossible to recover all the Indian territory lost to China. An east -west swap is probably the best way out
- Fairness In Deficit? (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2003)
THE REVISED INTERCONNECTION Usage Charge regime announced by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India can bring down the long-distance tariffs (both national and international) for fixed line subscribers even as it raises the bill for cellular and limite
- Mindwar Versus Bodywar (Indian Express, M D NALAPAT, Oct 30, 2003)
Some things the US in Iraq can learn from India
- This Is Our Hell — Or Heaven (Deccan Herald, Karen Armstrong, Oct 30, 2003)
Afterlife is a minority interest in the great religions. For them, this world matters more than the next
- Resistance Intensifies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2003)
THE IRAQI RESISTANCE appears to have initiated a new phase of guerrilla insurgency with five suicide bomb attacks on Monday. That targets located in different parts of Baghdad were hit within a span of 45 minutes shows that these attacks were ...
- A Brief History Of Meaning (Indian Express, John E. Mcintyre, Oct 30, 2003)
The story of the OED is a combination of period play, human drama and adventure
- Bull In Accounting Shop (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2003)
MS JANE MUTCHLER is bullish on accounting, and sees a bright silver lining on the corporate scandals of the last couple of years. She is the Director of the School of Accountancy at Georgia State University, and the president-elect of the American Account
- Obligations Of Peace In Kashmir (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 30, 2003)
Now once again, it becomes New Delhi's obligation as well as Kashmiri leaders' duty to seize the moment and explore the potential of the unabated desire for normality and peace.
- This Is Our Hell — Or Heaven (Deccan Herald, Karen Armstrong, Oct 30, 2003)
Afterlife is a minority interest in the great religions. For them, this world matters more than the next
- Ftas, India And Asian Trading Bloc (Business Line, Alok Ray, Oct 29, 2003)
The FTA with Thailand, to be followed by similar ones with other Asean countries, will open up new opportunities as well as challenges. Along with competition from cheaper goods from other Asian countries, Indian industry will have unhindered access to mu
- Why Ali Is The Greatest (Indian Express, Jayaditya Gupta, Oct 29, 2003)
Sport doesn’t often make good film. Perhaps because great sporting moments are better than anything cinema can offer, it’s the little moments, those that don’t figure top of the mind, that offer a chance to shine (Chariots of Fire, is one such). One film,
- What Makes Yu Hua So Influential? (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2003)
Chinese writers still have to worry about the ministry of culture
- A Universe Of Infinite Universes (Indian Express, Dennis Overbye, Oct 29, 2003)
A new theory that looks physics, feels philosophy has cosmologists arguing
- Shock And Shock (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2003)
This is not the battle the Bush administration started out with. This is a new Iraq war
- The U.S. In Iraq (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Oct 29, 2003)
The parallels with Vietnam are uncanny. The grandiose plans of a New Middle East seem to unravel in the sands of reality.
- Challenges To The Mining Industry (Hindu, N. N. Sachitanand, Oct 29, 2003)
While the private sector is fragmented into small units, which are under-capitalised, ill-planned and unsafe, public sector mining projects suffer from over-manning, poor work culture and political interference.
- India Bans Diabetic Drug, 32 Years Late (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Oct 29, 2003)
US study: drug behind alarming number of heart diseases
- Special Forces: Shot In The Foot (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Oct 28, 2003)
The Army’s elite contingent is haemorrhaging as the best and the brightest choose corporate over combat.
- The Thirteenth Step (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Oct 28, 2003)
Indo-Pak normalisation not possible without dialogue
- Fdi As Propeller Of Growth (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Oct 28, 2003)
FDI flows remain one of the most dynamic constituents of the global economy. They are less volatile than portfolio flows and can make domestic firms more competitive. But given their inherent threat to local firms, and the cultural and social tensions tha
- Strategic Defence Review (Hindu, C. Manmohan Reddy, Oct 28, 2003)
A central tenet of a strategic approach is the need to integrate all land, sea and air surveillance assets regardless of which service actually controls or operates individual systems.
- Throw Pota Out (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2003)
THE SHORT AND benighted history of the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (2001) and Act (2002) has made some things clear. Adopted under cover of re-empowering the state to combat terrorism post-September 11, this extraordinary law was bad in ...
- In The Unreal World Of Models (Business Line, S. Venu , Oct 28, 2003)
IN 2001, Dr George Akerlof of the University of California won the Nobel prize for economic science along with Drs Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz for his contribution to the concept of asymmetric information.
- Dissent In Dadar Has Just Gone Global (Indian Express, Sonu Chhina, Oct 27, 2003)
Packaged as counter to WEF in Davos, stage being set for WSF in Mumbai
- Finding Funds For Drug R&d (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2003)
THE STRENGTH OF the Indian pharmaceutical industry can be traced to a facilitatory role played by the government three decades ago when patent laws were amended to nurture the domestic drug sector. Few, at that time, would have foreseen the biggest names
- Bonanza For The Flying Public (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 27, 2003)
There can be no two views on the fact that the new open skies policy taking shape will be of great help to the flying public through lower fares and higher efficiency in inflight services, baggage handling, and more convenient connections.
- The Future Of The `Bric' Group - Brazil, Russia, India And China Will Come Into Their Own (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 27, 2003)
A recent Goldman Sachs report has forecast that Brazil, India and China together with Russia (BRIC) will outstrip the current dominant members of the global economy within half a century. It will be heartwarming if the BRIC nations turn out to be affluent
- Life Down The Tubeway Alley (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Oct 27, 2003)
See, it’s like this: marriages are made in heaven, mergers occur in financial markets and khichdi is cooked at home. Alternatively, marriages (like babies) are made by man and woman, mergers occur between families and, khichdi is produced on television.
- India's Positive Unilateralism (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Oct 27, 2003)
After making a big impression with its offer of a package of confidence-building measures last week to Pakistan, the Government must now be prepared to sustain this initiative irrespective of the nature of Islamabad's reaction.
- Britain Grants Amnesty To Half A Lakh Asylum-Seekers (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2003)
Britain has granted a one-off amnesty to 50,000 asylum-seekers, including a couple of thousands from India, before the introduction of rules designed to force failed applicants out of the country.
- Pak Opposition Intensify Strike Against General, Launch Rallies (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2003)
Stepping up their agitations against President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s mainstream Opposition parties today launched their public campaign to oust the General and pledged to take action against army generals and judges, who “legalised” military takeov
- Social Reformer, Spiritual Leader Athavale Dead (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2003)
Social reformer and founder of the Swadhyay Parivar, Pandurang Shastri Athavale died following an acute cardiac arrest at his residence in Khetwadi, Mumbai on Saturday. He was 84.
- Survivors Of Vietnam War Killings Seek Retribution (Indian Express, Christina Toh-Pantin, Oct 26, 2003)
Ricefarmer Nguyen Dam still remembers the day that 10 elderly farmers were gunned down by American soldiers while tending their fields in July 1967 during the Vietnam War.
- Us, Britain Warn Of Imminent Threat In Saudi (Indian Express, Fahd Al-Frayyan, Oct 26, 2003)
‘Attacks are planned to coincide with holy month of Ramadan’
- Pm Trips Up Kalam (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Oct 26, 2003)
President Abdul Kalam had to be content touring Bulgaria, Sudan and the UAE on his first state visit abroad. Many of the exciting destinations he would have liked to have traveled to had already been visited by Vajpayee, or else are on the PM’s itinerary
- Witness Protection (Indian Express, Soli Sorabjee, Oct 26, 2003)
Nothing shakes public confidence in the criminal justice delivery system more than the collapse of a prosecution owing to witnesses turning hostile and retracting their previous statements. Generally the reason is the unholy combination of muscle and mone
- Dissent In Dadar Just Went Global (Indian Express, Sonu Chhina, Oct 26, 2003)
Packaged as a counter to the World Economic Forum in Davos, stage being set for World Social Forum in Mumbai
- A Watchdog Weighed Down (Hindu, Anjali Modi, Oct 26, 2003)
The National Human Rights Commission is caught in a dysfunctional relationship with government and state.
- Rise And Rise Of Hegemonism (Deccan Herald, Max Boot, Oct 25, 2003)
The National Security Strategy released last month by the Government of the United States may be the most significant US foreign-policy statement since NSC-68, the 1950 paper that codified the containment doctrine. Yet oddly most of the debate has focused
- Is The End Of The Oil Age Nigh? (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2003)
Rapid advances in fuel cell technology could usher in dramatic changes
- The World Through New Eyes (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, Oct 25, 2003)
Trade and terrorism shape our international relationships now
- Rise And Rise Of Hegemonism (Deccan Herald, Max Boot, Oct 25, 2003)
The National Security Strategy released last month by the Government of the United States may be the most significant US foreign-policy statement since NSC-68, the 1950 paper that codified the containment doctrine. Yet oddly most of the debate has focused
- This Diwali, Heart Of Darkness Is Bright & Shining (Indian Express, Varghese K George, Oct 25, 2003)
Ex-Leftist, builder-turned-activist, revived water system have brought revolution
- After The Victory (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2003)
Rama returns to his kingdom, and all is well
- Talking Turkey Is Not Enough, Mr President (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Oct 24, 2003)
Sending Turkish troops will only convince Iraqis they are being colonised
- Warming Relations? (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Oct 24, 2003)
We need a political culture in both India and Pakistan that is prepared to pay a short run price for a new architecture for the subcontinent.
- Military Raj (Indian Express, Mubashir zaidi, Oct 24, 2003)
Forget sham democracy. From sports to universities to power plants, khaki runs Pakistan
- Uneasy Peace In Baghdad (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 24, 2003)
THOSE who might have been delighted with the UN Security Council's unanimous resolution last Thursday authorising a multinational military force in Iraq under the single command led by the United States need to think again. The resolution, which calls for
- Change The Subject (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Oct 24, 2003)
In Uttar Pradesh, ask about the common minimum programme
- Who Really Owns Mother Teresa? (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2003)
A bizarre controversy breaks out in the city of her birth
- Hunger Persists In Globalised World (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 24, 2003)
There is no international watchdog to ensure that the right to food is enforced in countries like India
- Japan Rising? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2003)
AFTER 12 YEARS of economic stagnation, Japan is showing signs of coming out of its slump. During the first six months of 2003, the economy has grown, in real terms, at an annualised rate of 3.9 per cent.
- Throwing Light On Prosperity (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Oct 24, 2003)
If India has to rediscover the magic of investments in public infrastructure, it has to generate revenue surpluses. But this can happen only if the government is sensitive to the needs of the private sector, the principal source of savings and taxes
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