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Articles 8221 through 8320 of 12047:
- Calling All Investors, But Please Mind The Gap (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Aug 22, 2005)
However hard Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee may try wooing capital into his state, a section of his party is still undermining his efforts by alleging injustice to farmers, writes Ashis Chakrabarti
- Weaving A Plan To Re-Emerge As A Star (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2005)
TILL about a decade ago “S Kumars” was one of the respected brands in textile industry in the country.
- State-Level Labour Laws For Export Zones (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 22, 2005)
Commerce Minister Kamal Nath's announcement that the Central Government proposes to grant freedom to States to formulate their own labour laws in respect of special economic zones (SEZs)
- South Africa — Empowering Enterprise On Merit, Not Numbers (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Aug 22, 2005)
Diagonal Street in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa, houses several Indian-owned retail stores
- What Ails Haryana Schools? (Tribune, S.K. Kaushal, Aug 21, 2005)
Dismal performance of government schools at the middle, matric and +2 examinations held this year by the Haryana Board of School Education is a reflection of the falling academic standards in the state. The school system in Haryana is on the verge of. . .
- Progressing From A Whisper To A Scream (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2005)
JOANNA BRISCOE is glad that Nick Hornby’s ending transcends the beginning of his high-concept novel.
- Indo-Us Strategic Alliance (Dawn, Talat Masood, Aug 21, 2005)
India and the United States are natural allies, but India’s Nehruvian philosophy of non-alignment and its aspirations to play a global role in exploiting the capitalist and communist blocs during the cold war kept them apart.
- Two New Bills Sought For Unorganised Workers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2005)
To ensure effective implementation of social security schemes "The problem with the earlier Bill was that it transposed the conditions of the organised sector and did not deal with the social security aspect in a comprehensive manner."
- India’S Bill For The Poor (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2005)
Cited as a historical move, the National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) Bill in India promises to empower the poor by employing one member of a rural family for 100 days a year at a minimum wage of Rs 60 a day.
- Development Of Ajk (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 21, 2005)
A comprehensive plan has reportedly been prepared for all round socio-economic development of Azad Kashmir. For this purpose, Pakistan Government has pledged substantial assistance to the AJK Government.
- Face Of Courage (Hindu, SUDHA PILLAI, Aug 21, 2005)
Prema Dhanraj was eight when she suffered burns during an accident. She is now a successful surgeon specialising in treating burns victims
- India Seeks Flag Meeting (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2005)
BDR told that `unprovoked' firing to stop embankment work was `unacceptable'
- Words, Their Nuances (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 21, 2005)
It is a real-life story that is often narrated to convey the message how important the connotation of a word is.
- Diplomat Turned Popular President (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Aug 20, 2005)
As S.R. Nathan begins his second term as Singapore's President, his record as a public servant will remain his strength.
- Ongc Gives Rs.14.68 Lakhs For Construction Of Foot Over-Bridge (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2005)
The Cauvery Asset of the ONGC here has contributed Rs.14.68 lakhs for the construction of a foot over-bridge across Arasalar river in Karaikal.
- Modern Solution (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2005)
Calcutta and some of its people will have to steel themselves for another bout of paternal care.
- Managing Management Education (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Aug 20, 2005)
Peter F. Drucker, the modern Management Guru, is reported to have stated in one of his articles,” In today’s economy the most important resource is no longer labour, capital or land, it is knowledge…
- World Bank Prop For Rural Infrastructure (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2005)
World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz today met finance minister P. Chidambaram and plan panel deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and discussed the funding possibilities for the Rs 1,74,000-crore Bharat Nirman rural infrastructure building programme.
- Global Imbalances—a Tale Of Two Deficits (Financial Times, ANAND SINGH BHAL, Aug 20, 2005)
The news that China has revalued its currency, the renminbi, from 8.28 per US dollar to 8.11 per US dollar, has created some expectations about a faster resolution of global imbalances.
- Wb Loan For Health Programme (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2005)
The State Cabinet on Friday gave its approval to borrow Rs 572.19 crore from the World Bank for implementation of the Karnataka State Health System Development Programme.
- Chennai Students Land Plum Jobs With Microsoft (Hindu, K. Ramachandran, Aug 20, 2005)
Anna University has a new reason to rejoice. On Thursday, seven of its undergraduate students were recruited by IT major Microsoft, for the highest pay package to date, ever since its State-wide recruitment began.
- Taking The Bill To The People (Indian Express, Nira Ramachandran, Aug 20, 2005)
The National Rural Employment Guarantee is here to stay. The time for debate is over.
- Protection Of Iprs — No Guarantee For Sustainable Development (Business Line, D. Murali , Aug 20, 2005)
Quoting instances from Philippe Cullet's Intellectual Property Protection and Sustainable Development, D. Murali explains why it is essential for developing countries to protect traditional knowledge through legal means "in a world wher e everything ....
- Who Approves Seven Indian Aids Drugs (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 20, 2005)
The UN health agency today said it has reinstated seven Indian-made generic drugs to its list of approved HIV/AIDS medicines for use in developing countries after the manufacturer was able to prove they were the same as the patented versions.
- India Most Cost-Competitive (Asia Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2005)
India and the Philippines are the most cost-competitive offshore locations for contact centres in the Asia Pacific region (APAC), research firm Datamonitor has said.
- Rumble In The West (Tribune, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Aug 20, 2005)
Parliament's enthusiastic approval of the Bill on dual citizenship, the arrest of another London bombings suspect and the Irish Republican Army’s promise to lay down arms all bore out Eric Hobsbawm’s definition of the 21st century as the age of .....
- The Morality Lesson (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Aug 19, 2005)
The fault does not lie in nature but in the manner human societies organize themselves.
- Central Teams Visit Flood-Hit Areas In Gulbarga, Belgaum, Bijapur Districts (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2005)
To present report to the Union Government next week
- Us Working With Naco To Set Up Corporate Fund For Aids (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2005)
The United States was working with the National AIDS Control Organisation and private sector representatives to set up a corporate fund aimed at checking the spread of the endemic in India, specially in workplaces, US Ambassador to India David Mulford sai
- Row Over Fatwa On Women Fighting Elections (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2005)
A fatwa issued by three clerics of the Darul Uloom at Deoband barring women from contesting the ongoing panchayati raj polls,
- Tackling Religious Extremism (Dawn, Sohail Mahmood, Aug 19, 2005)
Undoubtedly, Pakistan has suffered tremendously because of the sectarian and Islamic extremist phenomenon. A number of extremist organizations grew out of the earlier jihad in Afghanistan during the 1980s. At the time, the war was strongly supported
- The Second Age Of Globalisation (Hindu, LARRY ELLIOT, Aug 19, 2005)
Welcome to the second age of globalisation, and the labour practices of Victorian mill owners.
- Versions The Police Put Out (Hindu, Simon Hattenstone, Aug 19, 2005)
'Police sources' routinely vilify victims and excuse police actions
- Ball In Musharraf's Court (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Aug 19, 2005)
Musharaff cannot afford to let the Hasba Bill become law. But if he stymies it, he will lose the MMA support.
- Naxalite Issue Gets Out Of Hand In Andhra Pradesh (Deccan Herald, R AKHILESHWARI, Aug 19, 2005)
The ‘ban’ on the underground CPI(Maoist) and its fraternal organisations will only give unfettered powers to the police
- Amendments To Jobs Bill Criticised (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2005)
This does not guarantee statutory minimum wages to workers
Drop time-bound extension to whole of rural India'
'There is a new clause enabling Government to order stoppage of funds
Discontinuing founds will result in labourers becoming victims . . .
- Re-Engineer Your Skills To Cope With Wto Challenges (Telegraph, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 18, 2005)
Banana war, Korean soju, bed linen, and codling moth: what's the common thread? All these are just a few of the international trade disputes that Palle Krishna Rao of PSG Institute of Management discusses in WTO: Text & Cases, from Excel Books.
- Singapore Fta: Against Asian Unity? (Telegraph, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Aug 18, 2005)
While India's Free Trade Agreement with Singapore has been generally welcomed, there is more to it than meets the eye.
- Economics Of Mini Hydro Power Projects In J&k (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Aug 18, 2005)
Chief Minister has recently announced that Rs 1400 crores were being invested in power sector for construction of hydro power plants with an aggregate capacity of 90 MW (at places it was said to be only 80 MW).
- Trs Condemns Ban On Naxals: Advises Ap To Withdraw Ban (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2005)
Condemning the reimposition of ban on Naxals in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) President and Union Labour Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday has advised the State Government to reconsider its decision
- Silence, Race Hatred And Spiel (Indian Express, T V R Shenoy, Aug 18, 2005)
How could 62,040,606 Americans get it so wrong? So wailed a tee-shirt slogan last November.
- India Most Cost-Competitive Outsourcing Centre: Study (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2005)
India and the Philippines continue to remain the most cost-competitive offshore locations for contact centres in Asia Pacific despite fast-emerging competition in the region, says a survey report.
- Chidambaram Pinpoints Defects In Strategic Sale Of Psus (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2005)
Crossing swords with his predecessor Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday disputed NDA's claim on strategic sale of PSUs, saying it can never be a preferred route for disinvestment.
- Another Stain On India: (Asia Times, Siddharth Srivastava, Aug 18, 2005)
It is the kind of attention that India's burgeoning business and process outsourcing (BPO) industry could have done without, given the angst in the West against jobs being shifted to low-cost economies.
- Focus On Technical Training (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 18, 2005)
The Higher Education Commission and the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics have suggested to the government that it must diversify fast growing sectors such as engineering and electronics.
- Kalam For Relaxation Of Norms In Animal Experimentation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 17, 2005)
Pharma sector asked to gear itself to face competition in the new IPR regime
- Miserable With Money (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 17, 2005)
Sociological research is one area which cannot be stopped from taking up redundant posers and turning up familiar answers after elaborate theorising with an uncanny grasp of the obvious.
- Privacy For Sale (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 17, 2005)
THE Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Four Corner programme has uncovered yet another instance of some unscrupulous call centre operators in Gurgaon who are willing to sell private details of their international customers, in this case, Australians.
- And The Second Leg? (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Aug 17, 2005)
The Prime Minister managed to sound a purposeful note in his Independence Day address from Red Fort in the capital.
- Elephant Slowly Inching Ahead Of The Dragon (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 17, 2005)
India’s long-term potential may be greater than China’s as the Communist giant faces a shrinking work force due to its one child policy, according to Business Week Online.
- Cabinet Empowers Ysr To Take Decision On Ban (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 17, 2005)
1,200-strong tribal battalion to be formed
- Infrastructure Priority For Govt: Pm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2005)
Dr Singh argued against free distribution of power and said we have to get used to paying a reasonable price for electricity.
- `We Expect Govt To Implement Policies Within Cmp Parameters' — Mr Prakash Karat, Cpi (M) General Secretary (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Aug 16, 2005)
AMIABLE and graceful, Mr Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), is firm in his conviction, and an ideologue steeped in the Marxist orthodoxy
- Us Threat To Iran: Empty Or Real? (Dawn, Dan Plesch, Aug 16, 2005)
President Bush has reminded us that he is prepared to take military action to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. On Israeli television recently, he declared that “all options are on the table” if Tehran doesn’t comply with international demands.
- Scientists Map Genetic Code Of Rice (Tribune, Justin Gillis, Aug 16, 2005)
Scientists reported on Wednesday that they have completed a genetic map of the rice plant, a scientific milestone that they hope will accelerate efforts to feed the hungry by improving the world’s most important food.
- Confrontation Is Not The Way Out (Deccan Herald, Vishal Arora, Aug 16, 2005)
The proposed bill on foreign contributions to NGOs imposes unreasonable restrictions on them
- Fdi Flow To Asian Countries Will Slow Down’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2005)
The FDI flow to India and other Asian countries will slow down with the US expected to hike the interest rates in the second half of the year, according to Dominique Dwor-Frecaut, director of Asia Research, Barclays Capital, Singapore.
- Change In Saudi Arabia (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 16, 2005)
Saudi Arabia has been one of Pakistan’s closest allies, especially after Faisal bin Abdul Aziz became king in 1964.
- Have You Done Your Bit? (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2005)
All it needs is a few hours of your time every week. And our society will be a much improved one. If you are curious enough, read on says JAYALAKSHMI K.
- Resurrecting Lemuria (Hindu, Kanakalatha Mukund, Aug 16, 2005)
The book captures the notion of Lemuria as a lost continent, which has taken hold in the minds of disparate groups of people with different world views
- `Expand Textile Trade With Italy' (Hindu, S. Varadharajan, Aug 16, 2005)
Trade in garments and textiles is set to grow tremendously between India and Italy in the post quota regime, according to Sauro Mezzetti, Chairman, Indo-Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
- The Raj And The Famines Of Good Governance (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Aug 16, 2005)
Between 24 million and 29 million Indians died in famines in the era of British good governance. In fact, barring the scale, it all sounds depressingly like the present. In terms of ideology and principle at least
- Foreign Companies In India Making Profits' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2005)
Majority keen to expand business in India
- Wholesale Gains From Fdi In Retailing (Business Line, Deepankar Sanwalka, Aug 15, 2005)
The retail boom in China and some of the South-East Asian economies throws up some startling similarities and some stark differences and, of course, a few lessons for India.
- Gaza Pullout May Not Be Smooth (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Aug 15, 2005)
Israel’s evacuation of Gaza, which begins on August 15, will test the will of the disaffected centre and disillusioned left to resist the militant settler lobby and the messianic right.
- Sme Package: Lingering Lacunae (Hindu, P. M. Mathew, Aug 15, 2005)
The basic issue is a lack of vision of the Government on the role of a vital sub-sector of the economy
There is need for a professional approach to SME policy through proper coordination of initiatives of different agencies
- A Pioneering Tea Wage Pact (Hindu, Indrani Dutta, Aug 15, 2005)
The new settlement has diluted the job norms through some exceptions
The pact transcends traditional areas of employee concern to look at larger industry issues
- A Future In Gaza (Hindu, Inigo Gilmore, Aug 15, 2005)
The residents of the Muassi settlement in Gaza look forward to being free, without checkpoints, without Israeli soldiers stopping them and demanding ID cards.
- Renewable Energy Is The Key, Says Kalam (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 15, 2005)
President Kalam said ONGC should create separate bio-fuel and solar energy enterprises and work towards making the country energy-independent by 2030.
- New York's Heart Loses Its Beat (Hindu, Paul Harris, Aug 15, 2005)
It was the spiritual home of Dylan and Kerouac, and the centre of boho culture. But now even Greenwich Village has fallen victim to gentrification.
- Guaranteeing Action For Employment (Hindu, Aruna Roy & Nikhil Dey, Aug 15, 2005)
The Employment Guarantee Act can provide the basis of a permanent social security system, and even act as an instrument for planned and equitable rural development.
- Train Cops On Crowd Control (Tribune, Monika Saroha and Aditi Datta, Aug 14, 2005)
The brutal assault of innocent workers in Gurgaon is a reflection of the Haryana Police’s inability to tackle protests and demonstrations.
- Swaminathan: Father Of Green Revolution (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Aug 14, 2005)
M. S. Swaminathan is one of India's and, for that matter, Asia's outstanding scientist.
- Lulled Into Ethereal Bliss (Hindu, NEETA LAL , Aug 14, 2005)
From a honey-citrus wrap to a Dead Sea mineral salt scrub, a repertoire of spa treatments is promising nirvana to a cash-lush clientele.
- Creditors Can Cheer Now (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Aug 13, 2005)
S. Murlidharan on the semblance of parity between creditors and debtors
- End Chorus Of Intolerance (Hindu, Roy Hattersley, Aug 13, 2005)
The Best thing that can be said for the critics of multiculturalism in the United Kingdom is that they are confused.
- Sc Gives Free Hand To Pvt Colleges (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2005)
The court said private colleges which do not receive aid from the government cannot be asked to implement State’s policy on reservation in admissions
- The Difficult Road To Cafta (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Aug 13, 2005)
On July 27, the US House of Representatives approved the Central American Free Trade Agreement with a wafer thin majority.
- One Nation, Many Origins (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Aug 13, 2005)
As her Tamil husband prepares for a second term in office, the world’s only Bengali first lady — Bangladeshi is another matter — remains as retiring as ever,
- Time To Clean Up (Times of India, Jean Dreze, Aug 13, 2005)
Job guarantee programme can overcome corruption
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