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Articles 10421 through 10520 of 12047:
- Reservation Row (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 23, 2004)
Can a system combining merit and reservations be evolved?
- India's Gandhi Must Burn Mother-In-Law's Recipe: Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, Andy Mukherjee, Jun 22, 2004)
Since last month's surprise change in India's federal government, the Mumbai stock exchange Sensitive Index has shed 13.6 percent in dollar terms, more than any other benchmark equity index in the world.
- How Feasible Is A Rural Employment Guarantee? (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jun 22, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme of the new UPA Government promises to provide public employment of 100 days per year to every rural household. Already the financial press has been trying to project this promise as unrealistic and requiring excessively large
- Globalisation Gets A Riposte In India (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Jun 22, 2004)
Political analysts have been attempting to delve deeper into the outcome of Elections-2004 that led to the downfall of the BJP-led NDA Government and the emergence of a stronger countervailing (secular) force
- Vat Regime: Myths And Realities (Business Line, M Veerappa Moily, Jun 22, 2004)
The arguments in favour of VAT on goods apply with equal force to services. Unless services are brought within the tax base, revenue growth from indirect taxes would remain constrained and the objective of reorienting the tax system towards greater ...
- Reinventing Unctad's Role (Hindu, S.P. Shukla, Jun 21, 2004)
Will UNCTAD articulate the urge for a new world of peace, equity and economic security?
- Women And Environment Continue To Suffer (Tribune, Kiran Soni Gupta, Jun 20, 2004)
The welfare of human beings is final reference point in judging the impact of what we do or fail to do. Women have an essential role to play in the development of sustainable and ecologically sound system of natural resource management.
- 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.
- Embarrassment For Bush (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 19, 2004)
President George W. Bush will no longer be able to mislead the American public that the erstwhile Saddam Hussein regime of Iraq had collaborated with Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaida to attack the US on September 11, 2001.
- Crisis Of Representative Democracy (Hindu, Neera Chandhoke , Jun 19, 2004)
Electoral democracy is deeply compromised when people who lose elections are given ministerial berths.
- Debate On Reform And Development (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Jun 18, 2004)
Reforms in India have failed to focus on the end objectives of development, namely, reduction of poverty and improvement in the quality of life of bulk of the population.
- Biotechnology: The Encoded Message (Business Line, S. Venu , Jun 18, 2004)
Biotechnology involves the use of information on genetically controlled traits, combined with the technical ability to alter the expression of those traits, to provide enhanced biological organisms, which allow mankind to lessen the constraints imposed...
- The Track To Success (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Jun 18, 2004)
Given the complexities of the India-Pakistan relationship, back-channel diplomacy needs to be employed on a sustained basis.
- Unctad Xi: Ict For Developing Countries (Business Line, K. J. Joseph, Jun 15, 2004)
The e-strategies and policies of developing countries need to integrate both production and use of ICT wherein much can be learnt and gained by South-South cooperation.
- Labour Pays For Blair (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 15, 2004)
Foreign policy does not ordinarily occupy the top spot in the list of issues over which local elections are won or lost. But there is no doubt that Prime Minister Tony Blair's unstintedly servile support to the United States-led invasion of Iraq
- 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.
- Economic Compulsions Of Coalition (Business Line, T. N. Ashok, Jun 15, 2004)
More than the Common Minimum Programme, it is the Budget that will set the tone for UPA's economic agenda. Especially watched by the investing community will be the fate of reform and if it will be accelerated. Can coalition politics see this through?
- Asia's Male Tilt (Christian Science Monitor, editorial, Christian Science Monitor, Jun 15, 2004)
This year, millions of young men in China and India will reach their 19th birthday with little prospect of finding a wife. It's not that young, single women aren't available - it's that they don't exist in the same numbers.
- Failed By Fallacies (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Jun 14, 2004)
Though the previous government left the economy in fairly good shape, it did not get the mandate to rule because of increasing rural-urban, rich-poor disparity and rising unemployment, particularly among the educated.
- A Greater China That Will Dominate (Business Line, V. Sridhar, Jun 14, 2004)
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has to be commended for releasing a comprehensive set of recommendations on April 29 addressing various issues for accelerating the growth of broadband and high-speed Internet access in the country.
- A Case For Alternative Sources Of Power (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jun 14, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme has assured that steps will be taken to put in place policies to enhance the country's energy security, particularly in the area of oil.
- Children At Work (Hindu, Garimella Subramaniam, Jun 12, 2004)
The Government of India is yet to ratify the two fundamental ILO Conventions that deal comprehensively with child labour.
- An Economics Book To Help You Sleep Better (Business Line, D. Murali , Jun 12, 2004)
Hello, howdy, are common greets, and nobody takes the `how' as a serious poser. A majority will have trouble answering "Are you healthy?" because it is not easy to know if one is really healthy.
- Ilo Report Fears Rise In Migration (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 12, 2004)
Failure of globalisation to provide jobs and economic opportunities is expected to see a further rise in migration trends, according to a new International Labour Organisation report.
- Shortcoming In Computing Interest On Monthly Shortfall (Business Line, R. Anand, Jun 12, 2004)
On a Tribunal ruling on whether interest is leviable on a monthly basis for TDS shortfall
- Unleashing Indian Entrepreneurship — I : The Changing Mindset (Business Line, R. Gopalakrishnan, Jun 11, 2004)
An entrepreneurial mindset is re-emerging in India. Unlike the generations before them, young Indians are no longer obsessed with poverty, but with the country's future. This gives India a fighting chance. R. Gopalakrishnan presents the devel opments ...
- Farm Sector Is Crucial (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Jun 11, 2004)
LAL Bahadur Shastri, who succeeded India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964, had coined a famous slogan: “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan”.
- 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 ...
- Local Loop Unbundling: A New Dimension In Telecom Competition (Business Line, V. Sridhar, Jun 11, 2004)
THE Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has to be commended for releasing a comprehensive set of recommendations on April 29 addressing various issues for accelerating the growth of broadband and high-speed Internet access in the country.
- Cmp: Will It Work? (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Jun 10, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme (CMP) was unveiled on a Thursday and the stock market, quite deservedly, gave it a - 223-point thumbs-down on Friday. One wishes the message had been stronger.
- 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,
- Fdi Versus Fii (Business Line, Sudhanshu Ranade , Jun 10, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme of the new Government at the Centre stresses Foreign Direct Investment over Foreign Institutional Investment.
- Cmp: What Face The Reforms? (Hindu, Sharad Joshi , Jun 09, 2004)
The new Government's Common Minimum Programme promises reforms with a human face. But this is easier said than done, as implementation would encounter problems political and fiscal. Sharad Joshi examines the CMP, putting it in historical perspective.
- The Essential Areas (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 09, 2004)
In his address to Parliament on Monday, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has said that Dr Manmohan Singh’s government will spend 6 per cent and 2-3 per cent of the GDP on education and health respectively.
- Regional Trade Blocs Revisited (Business Line, R. Parthasarathy , Jun 09, 2004)
The emergence of information and communication technologies have helped spread production and service networks beyond the confines of national boundaries or trade blocs. But trade blocs still have an important role to play in expanding markets, gaining...
- The Essential Areas: Money Needed For Education And Health (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2004)
In his address to Parliament on Monday, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has said that Dr Manmohan Singh’s government will spend 6 per cent and 2-3 per cent of the GDP on education and health respectively.
- Cmp: What Face The Reforms? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Jun 09, 2004)
The new Government's Common Minimum Programme promises reforms with a human face. But this is easier said than done, as implementation would encounter problems political and fiscal. Sharad Joshi examines the CMP, putting it in historical persp ective.
- The Essential Areas (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 09, 2004)
In his address to Parliament on Monday, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has said that Dr Manmohan Singh’s government will spend 6 per cent and 2-3 per cent of the GDP on education and health respectively.
- Security Scenario The Upa Has Its Loose Cannon (Statesman, Keith Flory, Jun 09, 2004)
The budget, scheduled for early next month, could serve as one indicator.
- Pakistan Caught In Violence (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2004)
Should India join the efforts for the Iranian natural gas pipeline via Pakistan?
- Gas Pipeline Again: Security Guarantees Can Help (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2004)
Should India join the efforts for the Iranian natural gas pipeline via Pakistan?
- Regional Trade Blocs Revisited (Hindu, R. Parthasarathy , Jun 09, 2004)
The emergence of information and communication technologies have helped spread production and service networks beyond the confines of national boundaries or trade blocs.
- Gas Pipeline Again (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 09, 2004)
Should India join the efforts for the Iranian natural gas pipeline via Pakistan? The question has come into the limelight again following new External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh's remarks that India is "willing to consider" it provided Pakistan ...
- Money Needed For Education And Health (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2004)
In his address to Parliament on Monday, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has said that Dr Manmohan Singh’s government will spend 6 per cent and 2-3 per cent of the GDP on education and health respectively.
- Reiteration, But Some Dilution (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 08, 2004)
In recent times, there has been a dreary familiarity about presidential addresses to joint sessions of Parliament that follow a general election.
- A Common And Minimum Address (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2004)
A PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS to the joint session of Parliament is expected to lay down the short-to-medium-term legislative and executive priorities of the government.
- Blair's "Black Thursday" Prospects (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jun 08, 2004)
In the event of a Labour Party rout in the elections to the European Parliament, Tony Blair will be in trouble.
- A Common And Minimum Address (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 08, 2004)
A Presidential address to the joint session of Parliament is expected to lay down the short-to-medium-term legislative and executive priorities of the government.
- A Case For Good Protectionism (Business Line, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Jun 08, 2004)
THE defeat of the NDA Government and the victory of the Congress(I) supported by the Left is one more symptom of the growing worldwide backlash against globalisation.
- Domestic Politics And West Asia (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Jun 03, 2004)
The recent general election threw up some interesting aspects of major political parties' approach to the situation in West Asia.
- Friendship Can Never Be A One-Way Street (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Jun 03, 2004)
THERE were some interesting nuances in the approach of major political parties to the situation in West Asia during the recent general election.
- The New Cji Is Sensitive To Problems Of The Needy (Tribune, S.S. Negi , Jun 03, 2004)
Mr Justice R C Lahoti, who took over as Chief Justice of India (CJI) on June 1, is considered by legal experts as “conservative” in matters of interpretation of law, yet competent, sharp and sensitive to problems of the poor and the needy.
- In Defence Of Hierarchy (Business Line, Devendra Mishra, Jun 01, 2004)
WHEN the Chief Vigilance Commissioner, Mr P. Shankar, blamed the "entire hierarchy" of ministers and bureaucrats for the stifled working of the PSUs, the much-debated issue of desirability of such hierarchies has once again grabbed the centre- stage.
- Upa's Common Minimum Programme I: Issues And Implications (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jun 01, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme has done a good job of delineating the "human face" of economic reforms. It contains a "solemn pledge" to provide a Government that will not only be accountable, transparent, responsible and responsive "at all times" but ...
- ‘I Want To Build A Great Airport In Delhi’ (Tribune, Gaurav Chaudhury, May 31, 2004)
Telecom conglomerate Bharti Enterprises recently joined the elite club of billion dollar companies. Its founder, Chairman and group Managing Director, Mr Sunil Bharti Mittal, has often been credited by many as being one of the principal personalities ...
- Return Of The Reformers (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , May 31, 2004)
THE reformers are back in power. The original reformers are back in place of the erstwhile converts, who apparently had taken their new religion too seriously and believed, wrongly though, that it was they who had brought the shine to parts of India.
- Beijing: In And Outside The Sixth Ring Road (Business Line, C. Gopinath , May 31, 2004)
There are several ring roads around Beijing. My travel guidebook, published in 2002, tells me that plans for a fifth ring road exist on paper but construction is yet to begin.
- The Flight Of Saras (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 31, 2004)
Saras, The first civilian passenger aircraft to be designed and developed in the country, has spread its wings and taken to the air.
- The Price Of Political Profligacy And Nepotism (Business Line, D. Murali , May 31, 2004)
WE have a new Government at the Centre and our Ministers are busy getting garlanded and felicitated, and generally warming up to their portfolios.
- Flight Of Saras (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 31, 2004)
THE successful test flight of the prototype of India’s first locally designed civilian aircraft Saras on Saturday can give a big boost to the country’s indigenisation effort. The need of such a plane cannot be overstressed. It has been in the works ...
- Wages Of Unemployment (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , May 31, 2004)
More than failing the farmers, the NDA fell because unemployment became excessive. But tackling rural and urban joblessness requires a broad-spectrum approach that goes beyond ideological purity. Needed are less simplistic and more comprehensive ...
- The Reds Under Manmohan's Bed (Asia Times, Sultan Shahin, May 28, 2004)
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government is now in place. The inevitable hiccups in the appointment of a 68-member council of ministers (cabinet) from as many as 12 alliance parties have been sorted out.
- Is Manmohan Singh Right For India's Top Job?: Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, Andy Mukherjee, May 20, 2004)
It was the autumn of 1970, and the Delhi School of Economics was abuzz with left-wing fervor.
- Singh: Reform With 'Human Face' (CNN.com, Correspondent or Reporter, May 20, 2004)
In his first address to the Indian nation, prime minister-elect Manmohan Singh said the country needed reform but with a "human face."
- Blind To Progress (Washington Post, Sebastian Mallaby, May 17, 2004)
When he was young and so was India, Jagdish Bhagwati left Oxford to work at the Indian Planning Commission. He was assigned to grapple with his country's biggest problem -- how to raise the incomes of the poorest -- and he soon came to the . . .
- Behind The Surprise In India (Washington Post, Jim Hoagland, May 16, 2004)
That question is code for this scribe's personal and disappointed reaction to the defeat of Atal Bihari Vajpayee's coalition government in India just as it threatened to become an important U.S. partner and a major player in global economics and politics.
- Changing Priorities (Business Line, Sanjeet K. Jha, May 14, 2004)
The outcome of the General Elections 2004 has taken most, if not all, by surprise. In the last few days the possibility of a hung Parliament was gaining ground. However, the magnitude of reversal of fortunes of the Congress alliance was unexpected.
- Micro-Level Reality Blanks Macro Illusions (Business Line, Ajit Ranade, May 14, 2004)
THE verdict was dramatic and stunning. Who would have expected that the `feel-good' factor would sour so decisively for the ruling alliance? If the exit polls got it wrong, it was not in the direction, but only in the magnitude
- Vajpayee’S Gamble Fails (Arab News, Correspondent or Reporter, May 14, 2004)
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s gamble to call early elections backfired as Indians voted his right-wing coalition out of power.
- Is India The New China? Or A `Brown Paper Bag'?: Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, Apr 01, 2004)
When David Burton, the International Monetary Fund's top boss in Asia, was recently quizzed about the most important economic developments in his region, there was a winner tucked away among all the ho-hum questions.
- Ban Outsourcing? Bad Idea (Business Week Online, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 29, 2004)
The uproar in the U.S. over the outsourcing of jobs to India is deafening. On Mar. 5, California state Senator Joseph Dunn greeted an application for a tax exemption by Infosys Technologies Ltd.
- Create Entrepreneurs To Attain 10 Pc Growth: Kalam (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
THE President, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, on Wednesday asked India Inc to promote entrepreneurship for achieving a sustained economic growth of 10 per cent and help eliminate poverty in the country. "There has been substantial growth in our higher ...
- The Ruins Hold The Answers (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Jan 08, 2004)
Research on why the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed like they did could help improve the safety of future high rises.
- Trauma Of Punjab’s Jobless (Tribune, P. P. S. Gill, Jan 07, 2004)
Punjab is faced with a gigantic challenge: how to give employment to 30 lakh jobless youth? Successive governments have never cared to know why the youth went berserk during the days of militancy. There is no policy worth the name to make them employable.
- Saarc Says No To Terror (Indian Express, V.S.CHANDRASEKAR, Jan 07, 2004)
: In A significant accord on tackling terrorism in South Asia, leaders of seven SAARC countries, including from India and Pakistan, today pledged to eliminate the menace in all forms and manifestations in the region and to deal effectively with financing
- Welcome To Free Trade Zone (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Jan 07, 2004)
The seven SAARC countries on Tuesday signed a treaty that would lead to free trade and movement of goods paving the way for South Asian economic Union along the lines of EU in future. The South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) framework treaty signed by ...
- Shakespeare Plays With Economics (Business Line, D. Sambandhan, Jan 07, 2004)
"NO HUMAN capacity ever yet saw the whole of a thing, but we may see more and more of it the longer we look," said Ruskin. This was internalised by Mr Frederick Turner, the Founder Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas, when he made
- Agreement On Agriculture - Confrontation Among Superpowers (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Jan 07, 2004)
WTO negotiations are battles between and among nations, and their groups, with countries like the US inclined simply to ignore the mandate of the international trade body, as has happened with the Byrd Amendment repeal. But the boot may be on the other
- Is Free Trade Good For The Environment? (Business Line, Kumar Venkat, Jan 07, 2004)
ONE of the most contentious issues surrounding globalisation is the concern that free trade hurts the environment, both locally and globally. The classic argument for free global trade is that it is efficient for countries to specialise in goods where the
- Congress In Catch-22 Situation (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jan 06, 2004)
NEVER before in its long history has the once venerable Congress party faced the crisis it is undergoing today. Because it is, in national terms, in danger of becoming the perennial second party. There are many reasons for the Congress predicament, but
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