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Articles 8121 through 8220 of 12047:
- Ilo Urges Ban On (Daily Excelsior, Subhashis Mittra, Aug 30, 2005)
In 1999, Markapur in Prakasham District of Andhra Pradesh, where slate mining is the prime occupation, there were 4584 children involved in mining and related activities.
- State Turns Investors' Favourite (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2005)
We are running out of space on industrial estates, says Jayalalithaa We are running out of space on industrial estates: Jayalalithaa
New industrial estates needed to meet torrent of demand
Work on desalination plant to start shortly
- Dutch Group Supports Developing Nations' Stand On Food Security (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2005)
The demand of the developing countries for food and nutrition security, fair trade relations and a clear distinction between "corporate agriculture"
- The Fallen Angel-I (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 29, 2005)
The virulent reaction in India to LK Advani’s comment on Jinnah in Pakistan arises out of a deep-rooted prejudice. Prejudice literally means pre-judgment
- Employment Guarantee Shield (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Aug 29, 2005)
The National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) Bill has been passed but the debate it engendered will possibly never achieve closure given the polarised positions on it.
- Dharam Singh Orders Probe Into Two Explosions (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2005)
Chief Minister N. Dharam Singh on Sunday asked Commissioner of Police Ajaikumar Singh to conduct an inquiry into the two explosions reported in the offices of Janata Dal (Secular) and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) on Friday.
- Constructive Candour (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 29, 2005)
The recent remarks of the chairman of Tata Sons on economic reform should be noted for their candour.
- Making Food Safe (Business Line, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 29, 2005)
A combination of robust economic growth leading to rising incomes, population growth and access to imported foods following a liberal foreign trade policy is set to push the market for processed foods onto a high growth path.
- Pakistan President To Address American Jewish Congress (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Aug 29, 2005)
Gen. Musharraf has tested the domestic Pakistani waters over the Israel issue
- Industries Minister To Lay Stone For Clay-Design Laboratory (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2005)
Major initiative by Clay Tile Consortium Pvt. Ltd. for quality control
- New Bill Promises Boost To Rural Industry (Hindu, P. M. Mathew, Aug 29, 2005)
Policy must focus on the process of industrialisation
The core of a scientific approach is to understand the market opportunities for rural products along with the country's development priorities.
- What After Gaza Evacuation? (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, Aug 29, 2005)
What a remarkable transformation within one lifetime. The Israeli general (Ariel Sharon) known for his swagger and bluster,
- Disowning Responsibility (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 29, 2005)
Everyone involved in the horrid incident at the Cambridge School in Bangalore is to be blamed for it.
- Dead Fish Move With The Flow (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Aug 29, 2005)
Discarding old methods of farming and blindly adopting foreign ones has been extremely unprofitable
- Shaukat Focuses On Foreign Affairs (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 29, 2005)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that Pakistan will never support military action against Iran. Addressing a Press conference in Lahore on Saturday,
- The Alice I Knew — And Her Indian Commitment (Hindu, Barbara Harriss, Aug 28, 2005)
She was a living example of what we now call `development'
- After The Pullout (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 28, 2005)
Israel has completed its evacuation of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank far more quickly and easily than virtually anyone — including the government of Ariel Sharon — expected.
- Waste Water Treatment Plant In Mysore (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
It is resource-efficient, non-dependent on energy and requires minimum maintenance
The plant is first of its kind to be set up in Mysore
- Music And The Man (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
From being sent to the back row for humming constantly in school, to fending off his numerous female fans, Irshad Khan’s life revolves around music, finds out Smita Bellur.
- Phenomenal Export Target (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 28, 2005)
According to reports, the economic managers are confident to push exports of the country by more than 100 percent in the next five years to reach $30 billion target. They believe that the new target is within the reach if seen in the backdrop of 85%
- Trade Unions Face A New Challenge, Says Dasgupta (Tribune, R. Suryamurthy, Aug 28, 2005)
He is the firebrand trade union leader who heads the All-India Trade Union Congress which has over three million members. As the leader of one of the largest trade unions,
- Let’S Build On Mothers’ Learning (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, Aug 28, 2005)
I was asked to speak on the subject, ‘Women in Administration’ organised by the Central Social Welfare Board of India.
- Indian Communists Finally Start To See Light In Economic Reforms In India – West Bengal Chief Minister Head Of Eastern States Wants Controlled Reform Like China (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
As reforms in eastern state of West Bengal make political waves in India, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee . . .
- Asia - Pacific To Reduce Green House Gases (Daily Excelsior, Pallab Bhattacharya, Aug 28, 2005)
The dramatically changing face of Indo-US relations is restricted not just to the recent civilian nuclear cooperation deal clinched by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with US President George W Bush but was also expanded to cover the crucial climate issue.
- Learning To Relearn (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
The politician shook his head and looked with pity at the young woman who had introduced herself as a student of political science (honours) in a prestigious institution. He said matter-of-factly: "I wish you all the best. I had also studied Aristotle, Pl
- Time To Be Artificially Intelligent.You Game? (Greater Kashmir, SHABIR AHMAD MIR, Aug 28, 2005)
In the Animal Kingdom everyone is good at something. This is how each species survives. The Grizzly Bear is very strong.
- Bhel Eyes Foreign Jv For Thermal Sets Production (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel), the state owned heavy industry company, will shortly tie-up with a partner to manufacture 800 MW supercritical thermal sets in India. An announcement is expected next week.
- Could Partition Have Been Made Less Bloody? (Hindu, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Aug 28, 2005)
It could be one of the most tantalising questions of modern Indian history.
- New Panel To Revisit Merger Of Oil Psus (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
for achieving economies of scale rather than competing with each other for the same retail market pie, Mr Aiyar tells the PSUs.
- Bhel Eyes Tie-Up With Global Major (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) will soon tie up with a global player in the power sector for technology collaboration to manufacture 800 MW supercritical thermal sets.
- Vested Interests, Political Pulls Hurting Progress, Says Ratan Tata (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
Behind-the-scenes manoeuvring against economic reforms renders policies toothless
- Deficit Of Social Capital (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 27, 2005)
A social scientist has suggested in a talk at the HRCP’s Centre for Democratic Development in Islamabad that Pakistan should develop its social capital to eradicate poverty. This is a new concept in Pakistan.
- Strategy To Counter Challenges (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has acknowledged that Pakistan is facing the challenges of controlling inflation, developing infrastructure,
- Ibs Launches 'Next-Generation Air Cargo System' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
iCargo was executed in collaboration with three leading airlines
- Bhel May Tie Up With Alstom For 800 Mw Supercritical Projects.... (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
State owned BHEL was likely to tie up with French equipment supplier Alstom to take up 800 MW 'supercritical' thermal power projects.
- Al-Qaeda To Attack Asia's Financial Hubs? (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
Al-Qaeda could be planning an attack on Asian financial centres to try to undermine investor confidence in the region, a senior French anti-terrorism judge said in an interview.
- Bhel To Expand Range To 800 Mw (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
Technical tie-up with a foreign company
Sufficient order book May set up subsidiary for international operations Funding overseas projects to re resolved
- Brand Iit: The People Behind The Image (Hindu, Dinesh Mohan, Aug 27, 2005)
IITs have justly been ranked as the top educational institutions in India and Asia. A little known fact is that more than 80 per cent of their products live and work in India. The next stage is to restructure and reinvent IITs so that they can become. . .
- Are Wild Birds Villains Or Victims? (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Aug 27, 2005)
Have migratory wild birds been responsible for carrying bird flu? Or are they merely victims of the virus and therefore unlikely to spread it?
- Reforms Slow But Durable: Manmohan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that "extreme rigidities" of the labour market have affected
Says "extreme rigidities" of the labour market have affected the country's growth potential
- Security For Unorganised Workers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
The Arjun Sengupta Commission on enterprises in the informal economy that is considering a new set of laws on work and livelihood and social security for the unorganised sector to replace the 2003 Bill put forward by the previous . . .
- Tony Blair’S New Game (Dawn, Sayeed Hasan Khan and Kurt Jacobsen, Aug 26, 2005)
After the bloody London bomb attacks British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned, with an underlying touch of authoritarian glee, that “the rules of the game are changing.”
- The Price Tag Of Alliance With The Us (Dawn, Mustafa Malik, Aug 26, 2005)
In his Independence Day message President Pervez Musharraf reiterated his vow to defeat terrorists and extremists.
- Next Stage In Nuclear Reactors (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Aug 26, 2005)
The stress on conserving fossil fuels and a scale-up in renewable energy technology seems to be narrowing the options for high energy consuming countries such as India.
- What We Like To Believe (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Aug 26, 2005)
Let me make an honest but terrible confession. My deep and abiding interest in history began through reading Combat comics.
- To Accommodate The Curious Mind (Telegraph, NIVEDITA MENON, Aug 26, 2005)
To withdraw the national curriculum framework is to silence dissent against orthodoxies — both that of the left and the right, says Nivedita Menon The author is reader in political science, Delhi University
- Musharraf’S Discloser On A.Q. Khan Raises Questions (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Aug 26, 2005)
General Musharraf has now disclosed for the first time that Dr A.Q. Khan, the Pakistani metallurgist who confessed to having proliferated to Iran and Libya also provided centrifuge technology to enrich uranium to North Korea.
- Growth Genie (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 26, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that India needs to grow at 7-8 per cent annually to generate enough resources for welfare interventions like the employment guarantee programme. He is right for two reasons
- Hp Receives Iso (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
: IT major, Hewlett Packard India, today announced that its Global Procurement Services (GPS) Division had achieved registration of its quality management system under ISO 9001:2000, an international standard published by the International Organization fo
- Pm To Work For Fdi In Retail (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
Manmohan sees Left coming round in 4-5 months
- Reforms Slow Moving But Durable, Says Manmohan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
Limitations of a coalition government a constraint to reforms in a big way
Says "extreme rigidities" of the labour market have affected the country's growth potential
- Bandh Karo Bandh Ko (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 25, 2005)
is obviously because of our common past that we in the Indian sub-continent have certain identical traits --- positive as well as negative --- whether we are in this country or in Pakistan or Bangladesh on our two sides.
- Attracting Fdi Flows (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 25, 2005)
The very first month of the current financial year has closed on a highly encouraging note in the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) sector, with FDI flows showing a 129 per cent increase over the same month last year.
- Enactment Of Ega (Daily Excelsior, Sisir Basu, Aug 25, 2005)
The process of enactment of the ambitious National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme' - UPA's pro-poor programme - entered its last lap with a debate in the Lok Sabha on August 18, kicking off a scramble among different players to claim credit for it.
- Yuan Revaluation — No Big Advantage For India (Business Line, Prithwis De, Aug 25, 2005)
India may not really benefit from the yuan revaluation. This is because of its poor competitiveness in the international market, domestic policy constraints, and limited overlapping of export products with China.
- Accounting's Key Role In Human History Is Of Creating Institutionalised Memory (Business Line, D. Murali , Aug 25, 2005)
In Chapter XX, titled `Of the tradesman's keeping his books, and casting up his shop', of The Complete English Tradesman, Daniel Defoe writes about a tradesman who could not write, but could still manage `with so many ingenious knacks of his own'.
- Speaker Calms Storm (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Aug 24, 2005)
The Lok Sabha Speaker, Mr Somnath Chatterjee, is credited with running an orderly and disciplined House as he sets much store by conventions and holds deep respect for institutions.
- The Ever-Elusive 8 Per Cent Growth Rate (Business Line, Rabi N. Mishra, Aug 24, 2005)
That higher growth is essential to improve the quality of life of the people is no more a topic for debate.
- National Employment Guarantee Scheme — Well-Intentioned, But Poorly Designed (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Aug 24, 2005)
The National Employment Guarantee Bill may not work because the scheme itself is modelled on earlier schemes that failed and the government, having learnt little from experience, still plays the central role.
- A Scheme In Search Of A Plan (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Aug 24, 2005)
The employment guarantee scheme is caught in religious debates in Delhi. According to one canonical proposition,
- Streamline Health Insurance (Tribune, Aditi Tandon, Aug 24, 2005)
The health insurance sector in India has long been riddled with problems.
- Gm Rice — Top Of The Crops (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 24, 2005)
While we in the West are preoccupied with cloning sheep, pigs, dogs and, of course, ourselves,
- Acquiring Missile Defence (Tribune, Maj Gen (retd.) Jatinder Singh, Aug 24, 2005)
Recent newspapers reports have suggested that during the Defence Minister’s visit, the US offered to provide India details of Patriot anti-missile system,
- The Myth Of "Feminisation" (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Aug 24, 2005)
First, A well-known fact: a British workplace is no longer a sea of white and brown men in grey suits;
- India's Economic Opportunities And Perils (Hindu, Prabhudev Konana, Aug 24, 2005)
The prospects of traditional manufacturing sectors such as textiles have become bright.
- Reining In The Madressahs (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Aug 24, 2005)
Last week the government issued an ordinance requiring all the madressahs in the country to get themselves registered with the authorities.
- Rising India (Deccan Herald, Anand Giridharadas, Aug 24, 2005)
World War II thrust an acute test on India: Should Indians, then under British rule, join what Japan billed as a pan-Asian struggle to expel Western imperialism from Asia?
- Sense And Consensus (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Aug 24, 2005)
Anyone looking at political debate on economic issues recently might be forgiven for thinking that politics in India is all sweetness and light.
- The Price Of Complacency (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Aug 23, 2005)
While most exporting countries prepared for the post-quota world, India remained deaf to warnings.
- King Fahd’S Many Legacies (Dawn, SHAHID JAVED BURKI, Aug 23, 2005)
Following his assassination by a royal prince, King Faisal bin Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud was succeeded by Khaled, the deceased king’s half brother.
- Providing The Knowledge Edge (Daily Excelsior, Arvinder Kaur, Aug 23, 2005)
To sharpen India's knowl-edge edge in the 21st cen-tury, the Government has set up a Commission which will suggest how knowledge can be used to change the lives of average citizens.
- Skin Cells Converted To Stem Cells (Tribune, Rick Weiss, Aug 23, 2005)
Scientists for the first time have turned ordinary skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells —without having to use human eggs or make new human embryos in the process, as has always been required in the past, a Harvard research team ....
- Talent On Contract (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 23, 2005)
An interview-based study in this newspaper last Sunday on contract jobs in the State Government has brought out varied responses although not entirely on unexpected lines.
- Humanity — Revisited (Tribune, Manmohan Kaur, Aug 23, 2005)
IT was mid-June. The sun was at its glorious best when I spotted a friend of mine loaded with shopping bags moving with great difficulty towards her car.
- Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind (Telegraph, PARIMAL BHATTACHARYA, Aug 23, 2005)
Image is all and hand-pulled rickshaws must go. But, asks Parimal Bhattacharya, what of the other sordid sights that Calcuttans must live with?
- Minimum Wage Must Be Treated As Sacrosanct (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Aug 23, 2005)
The guarantee of employment at a wage rate less than the statutory minimum — as the draft EGA stipulates — will undermine the broad purpose of the law and set a bad precedent.
- India Astride A Supply Side Revolution (Business Line, Sumit K. Majumdar, Aug 23, 2005)
In the last decade, the transformation brought about by the 1991 liberalisation enabled Indian enterprises to shed the baggage of history, and move ahead.
- Demand-Driven Supply Networks — Collaborative Enterprise, The Key (Business Line, Pawan Sohi, Aug 23, 2005)
As a manufacturer, wouldn't you welcome a system where there are no warehouses, inventories or paper invoices, just plug-ins that monitor your supplier network automatically, in real-time, everywhere, simultaneously?
- Maturing Of Manmohan Singh (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Aug 22, 2005)
Though Dr Manmohan Singh has spent a number of years in public life, it is said of him that he continues to remain at heart an academic, an economist to be specific.
- London Is Alive And Kicking (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Aug 22, 2005)
This is my first trip to London after last month’s bomb attacks.
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