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Articles 3621 through 3665 of 3665:
- The Amendment That Buries Merit (Indian Express, Aravind P. Datar, Jan 23, 2002)
Quietly, with an eye firmly on votes, Parliament has passed an amendment ensuring seniority to SC/STs, a decision that erodes the case for merit like never before.
- Bharti Pact With Cell Cos Heading For A Jam (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 23, 2002)
THE interconnect agreement between cellular operators and Bharti Telesonic Ltd (BTSOL) for routing mobile-to-mobile STD calls, announced with much fanfare in end-December, seems to be heading for trouble.
- Here Was A Man (Pioneer, S. V. Nair, Jan 22, 2002)
It happened during my college days in the early 1960s in my native place, Trivandrum.
- `Distribution Is Key To Power Reforms' -- Mr Suresh Prabhu, Union Minister For Power (Business Line, Ashok Dasgupta , Jan 22, 2002)
AFTER over 10 years of tinkering with reforms, the Centre now appears to be on the right track in putting the power sector back on the rails.
- First Among Unequals (Pioneer, Digvijay Singh, Jan 21, 2002)
Dalits do not have a recorded history. A mass of 250 million outcasts comprising the untouchables and tribals are grappling with history and survival at the turn of the millennium.
- Holding Back The Give-Aways (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Jan 19, 2002)
FOR the first time in several years, a concerted effort is being made to phase out or scrap the incentive provisions in the income-tax code. First, the Parthasarathy Shome panel was set up to advise on tax policy for the Tenth Plan.
- Antony Strikes (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 15, 2002)
Given the kid-glove treatment they are used to receiving from the state’s politicians, it was only natural that Kerala’s government employees have taken A.K. Antony’s recent cost-cutting measures as nothing short of third degree method.
- Conflicting Agreements Undermining Biodiversity And Biosafety (Business Line, K. P. S. Chauhan, Jan 14, 2002)
THE international Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and its Biosafety Protocol (BP) were achieved through hard bargaining on principles and national interests.
- Conflicting Agreements Undermining Biodiversity And Biosafety (Business Line, K. P. S. Chauhan, Jan 14, 2002)
THE international Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and its Biosafety Protocol (BP) were achieved through hard bargaining on principles and national interests.
- Does Higher Output Mean Better Farm Incomes? (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Jan 12, 2002)
WITH the industry caught in a pronounced slowdown and the services sector boom showing signs of fizzling out, both the Government as well as corporates are looking at the farm sector to put the economy back on the revival mode.
- Does Higher Output Mean Better Farm Incomes? (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Jan 12, 2002)
WITH the industry caught in a pronounced slowdown and the services sector boom showing signs of fizzling out, both the Government as well as corporates are looking at the farm sector to put the economy back on the revival mode.
- Food For Debate (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Jan 12, 2002)
THE introduction of Chapter XIV-B in the income-tax (I-T) law with effect from July1,1995, has provided grist to the judicial windmill. Within a short period of 5-6 years, controversies erupted on almost every aspect of the law.
- Food For Debate (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Jan 12, 2002)
THE introduction of Chapter XIV-B in the income-tax (I-T) law with effect from July1,1995, has provided grist to the judicial windmill. Within a short period of 5-6 years, controversies erupted on almost every aspect of the law.
- Mobile Subscribers Touch 5.48 M (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 12, 2002)
THE cellular subscriber base in the country has touched 5.48 million, having gained over 2.6 lakh additional customers in December 2001.
- Hardware Assns Allege Neglect (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 11, 2002)
THE electronic hardware manufacturing industry associations have formed a joint council to work towards a favourable policy regime and draw the Government's attention to the ``gross neglect'' of this sector.
- Kerala To Launch It Literacy Mission (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 11, 2002)
As part of the total computer literacy programme in the State, the Kerala Government is set to launch an information technology study project in all the high schools.
- Enemies Of Panchayati Raj (Hindu, George Mathew, Jan 11, 2002)
When in the Opposition our political leaders are very vocal about giving powers to local bodies. The moment they grab power, they change colour.
- Enemies Of Panchayati Raj (Hindu, George Mathew, Jan 11, 2002)
When in the Opposition our political leaders are very vocal about giving powers to local bodies. The moment they grab power, they change colour.
- The Many Faces Of An Indian (Telegraph, Bidyut Chakrabarty, Jan 10, 2002)
Rewriting history textbooks for schools is part of a grand design. Based on the belief that the available National Council for Educational Research and Training books are distortions of the “Hindu” past, arguments are marshalled to defend the project.
- Waste Land: A Modern Nightmare (Indian Express, Ravi Agarwal, Jan 10, 2002)
Almost a staggering one billion plastic bottles of mineral water, soft drinks and so on were used in India last year.
- Power: Reforming Its Way Out Of Darkness? (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jan 10, 2002)
EVEN though the track record of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in economic reforms is not uniformly salutary, there are specific areas.
- Power: Reforming Its Way Out Of Darkness? (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jan 10, 2002)
EVEN though the track record of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in economic reforms is not uniformly salutary, there are specific areas.
- Kerala Unveils Harsh Steps To Overcome Financial Crisis (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 10, 2002)
Under the voluntary off-duty scheme, the employees will be given 75 per cent of their basic salary and dearness allowance in the first year and 50 per cent in the second year.
- An Agenda For Cultural Action - I (Hindu, K. N. Panikkar, Jan 09, 2002)
Cultural action is an intervention in daily life, directed to the transformation of social consciousness... Its main agenda is to bring the individual, who is increasingly being alienated, into the social fold.
- An Agenda For Cultural Action - I (Hindu, K. N. Panikkar, Jan 09, 2002)
Cultural action is an intervention in daily life, directed to the transformation of social consciousness... Its main agenda is to bring the individual, who is increasingly being alienated, into the social fold.
- Ominous Signals (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 08, 2002)
THE VIOLENCE IN a village near Beypore in Kerala that left five people killed, several others injured and property worth a couple of crores (including fishing vessels) destroyed may have been contained.
- Ominous Signals (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 08, 2002)
THE VIOLENCE IN a village near Beypore in Kerala that left five people killed, several others injured and property worth a couple of crores (including fishing vessels) destroyed may have been contained.
- Us Afghan Envoy To Land In Delhi (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jan 08, 2002)
President George Bush will be sending his special assistant to South-West Asia and Middle East and envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, to New Delhi on January 16-17.
- Questions About Merit And Social Justice (Hindu, C. V. Gopalakrishnan , Jan 06, 2002)
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JAN. 5. The denunciation by the Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen, in Kolkata, of the moves made by the Centre to impart religious values as part of primary education is prompted by the emphasis.
- Questions About Merit And Social Justice (Hindu, C. V. Gopalakrishnan , Jan 06, 2002)
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JAN. 5. The denunciation by the Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen, in Kolkata, of the moves made by the Centre to impart religious values as part of primary education is prompted by the emphasis.
- Globalisation And Decentralisation (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Jan 05, 2002)
Where existing structures of inequality are left intact and become compounded with the disadvantages of marketisation, political empowerment is a useful slogan, not a realistic or genuine goal.
- The Power To Change Reality (Indian Express, Sunil Jain, Jan 05, 2002)
By June this year, you could be sitting in the office of the distribution circle at Faridabad, Haryana, and be able to see, on the computer screen, just how much power is going into the cluster of houses in Sector 16.
- Globalisation And Decentralisation (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Jan 05, 2002)
Where existing structures of inequality are left intact and become compounded with the disadvantages of marketisation, political empowerment is a useful slogan, not a realistic or genuine goal.
- India And The Global Slowing (Hindu, Pulapre Balakrishnan, Jan 04, 2002)
The prevalent tendency to link the slowing of the Indian manufacturing sector to the recession in the U.S. economy needs to be rejected as deluding.
- India And The Global Slowing (Hindu, Pulapre Balakrishnan, Jan 04, 2002)
The prevalent tendency to link the slowing of the Indian manufacturing sector to the recession in the U.S. economy needs to be rejected as deluding.
- Telecom: Waking Up To Competition (Business Line, T. H. Chowdary , Jan 01, 2002)
LIBERALISATION of telecommunications, indexed by the increase in opportunities for private telephone companies (P-Telcos) to emerge and thrive, received a tremendous boost in 2001.
- Telecom: Waking Up To Competition (Business Line, T. H. Chowdary , Jan 01, 2002)
LIBERALISATION of telecommunications, indexed by the increase in opportunities for private telephone companies (P-Telcos) to emerge and thrive, received a tremendous boost in 2001.
- A Requiem For Small Savings? (Business Line, R. Y. Narayanan, Jan 01, 2002)
EVEN as the Indian middle class looks back with trepidation at the year gone by, the Budget due in the next few weeks may confirm as to whether the requiem for the voiceless and fragmented middle class has been sung.
- Whither Environmental Protest (Hindu, Harsh Sethi , Dec 31, 2001)
The issues raised by environmental struggles remain much too important to be frittered away. This is why protest movements bear a responsibility greater than what their leaderships may realise.
- Fear On The Food Front (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Dec 31, 2001)
THE stockpile of wheat and rice in Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns seems to be only rising, touching 60.4 million tonnes -- a 40 per cent jump over last year's 42.8 million tonnes.
- Whither Environmental Protest (Hindu, Harsh Sethi , Dec 31, 2001)
The issues raised by environmental struggles remain much too important to be frittered away. This is why protest movements bear a responsibility greater than what their leaderships may realise.
- National Anthem And Nation (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 27, 2001)
DECEMBER 13 is said to have outraged the nation the way it did because Parliament is cherished as a symbol of our democracy.
- True Women Of Substance And Attitude (Pioneer, Rakhee Bakshee, Dec 27, 2001)
Shining shoes, starched uniforms, guns on shoulders and armed with vigour and confidence, the women personnel of the CRPF march to the tunes of bravery. Their goal is to win, their desire is martyrdom.
- Global Inequalities (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 24, 2001)
An article by William Easterly and Ross Levine in a recent issue of the World Bank Economic Review discusses what we have learnt from a decade of empirical research on growth.
- Global Inequalities (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 24, 2001)
An article by William Easterly and Ross Levine in a recent issue of the World Bank Economic Review discusses what we have learnt from a decade of empirical research on growth.
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