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Articles 10521 through 10620 of 12047:
- Ranbaxy Eyes More Acquisitions Abroad (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
Ranbaxy Laboratories on Monday concluded and signed the acquisition of RPG Aventis in France and announced that it is now looking at buying pharmaceutical companies with strong brands in the US. The company is also eyeing acquisitions in the domestic mark
- ‘india Could Be Third Largest Stock Market By 2050’ (Indian Express, Reuters, Jan 06, 2004)
The stock markets of Brazil, China, India and Russia could be as large as the combined markets of the world’s four top economies by 2050, Standard Life Investments said on Monday. Investors fretting over likely low returns from mature economies should ...
- Us Rover Blinks, Mars In Colour (Indian Express, GINA KEATING, Jan 06, 2004)
The US Robotic probe Spirit beamed panoramic colour images of ‘‘unprecedented clarity’’ back to Earth on Sunday after establishing direct contact with NASA scientists guiding its search for ancient signs of life on Mars. The successful deployment of the
- The Spirit Of Mars (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
SPIRIT, NASA'S MARTIAN rover, has successfully completed its first task — landing safely. The rover has had to traverse over 400 million kilometres through space and then survive a hair-raising ride through the Martian atmosphere. Over 30 ...
- Blame, But Responsibly (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
Marginalization and discrimination of vulnerable groups: The fact that it is marginalized groups — sex workers, migrants, injecting drug users and men who have sex with men — who have so far been most severely affected by HIV/AIDS in south Asia has result
- 3 Months After Worm Attack Dairy Milk In Brand New Pack (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
Early birds get the worms. But in its quick response to product infestation, chocolate major Cadbury wants to get rid of worms—forever. After three months, Cadbury India is re-launching its flagship brand Dairy Milk this Wednesday, which faced angry ...
- Ny, West Bengal To Be Sister States (Times of India, Nirmalya Banerjee, Jan 05, 2004)
A visiting US delegation to the city said it was keen on putting in place a "sister state" arrangement between New York and West Bengal to further strengthen business and social ties between the two regions, particularly in areas like IT . . .
- India In $100-B Forex Club Sans Export Boom! (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Jan 05, 2004)
WITH disaggregated balance of payments data available up to September, a clear picture has now emerged as to how India has managed to pile up a $100 billion plus foreign exchange reserves kitty. Between end-March 1991 and September 2003, total forex
- Indian Counters On Song (Business Line, K.S. Badri Narayanan, Jan 05, 2004)
IT was a happy transmission from 2003 to 2004 for the equities as they witnessed sharp gains with investors' confidence brimming on various feelgood factors including signs of recovery in the US economy. The US stocks rose for a straight sixth week
- Overcoming Social Deficits (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
INDIA IS DOING very well economically and is capable of becoming a developed country in the foreseeable future, perhaps even within two decades. However, there is no question of its joining the "league of developed nations" unless there is ...
- Freeing Trade (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation has agreed to make the south Asian free trade agreement operational from January 2006. The debate over multilateral liberalization vis-à-vis regional liberalization is clichéd. The fact remains that ...
- Budget-Making: An Exercise In Guesstimates (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jan 05, 2004)
IT IS that time of year when the corridors of North Block are busy with the Budget buzz. The detailed expenditure and revenue estimates would have already come in and the scrutiny of estimates with reference to actuals commenced. The first cut of estimate
- Too Easy To Manage (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jan 05, 2004)
The scandalous leaking of the Indian Institutes of Management admission test papers and the attempts of the ministry to gain greater control over the IIMs heighten the need for a thorough review of management education in India, its content and governance
- Reform Labour Laws, Now (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Jan 05, 2004)
India's labour laws have to work towards `drawing in' human resources — entrepreneurial talent and employees — into the market so that natural resources and savings will follow. This will boost the nation's marketable and measurable output and make India
- Need For A New Index Of Happiness (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, Jan 04, 2004)
THE year that has gone by has been most unusual for my family and me. It has been one of extremes both personally and professionally. From the fifth floor of my Delhi Police Headquarters I found myself on the planes and taking elevators to the 22nd floor
- Still At Sea (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jan 04, 2004)
The promise of this new year allows me to atone in sackcloth and ashes for an injustice perpetrated in these columns in July 2000. I mistook “a decrepit tub strewn with rubbish beyond an ancient jetty” for “India’s first floating hotel” or floatel which
- Just Around The Corner (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
Part monarchy, mostly Buddhist and a little hop across the border. Bhutan, for Ketaki Ghoge, is both foreign and familiar
- Mad About Words (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jan 03, 2004)
Not many of us are aware that when Shakespeare wrote his plays and sonnets, there were no dictionaries. There were some compilations of difficult words with their meanings but no one dictionary giving origins, meanings and usages of all words in the
- N Korea To Let Us Team Visit Nuke Site (Indian Express, Reuters, Jan 03, 2004)
A US delegation will visit North Korea next week to tour the North’s controversial nuclear complex at Yongbyon, a South Korean foreign ministry official said on Friday. He was confirming a ,USA Today report. Though the report said the January 6-10
- Bill In Ca Shop (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
THE NEW BILL to amend the Chartered Accountants Act appears to have set the cat among the pigeons. Accounting professionals are peeved that self-regulation is giving way to a bureaucratic regime, and that new fetters are going to be in place if the Bill
- To Know The Road Ahead, Ask Those Coming Back (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 03, 2004)
WOULD you add legs to a snake after you have finished drawing it? Probably not, but that is a Chinese proverb about doing something that is totally unnecessary and thus spoiling what you have already done, and perhaps also revealing one's ignorance about
- Safta: Much Effort For Little Gains? (Business Line, Sanjib Pohit, Jan 03, 2004)
SAFTA seems set for take off, but it may not as it is modelled now, liberalising commodity trade first and then services. For, apart from India, other countries have little to gain from a trading bloc; their industries would lobby against SAFTA fearing
- Why Budget Needs A Fair Face (Business Line, T. N. Pandey, Jan 03, 2004)
Irrational tax policies inhibit desire for compliance
- Peace Common Desire In India, Says Vajpayee (Indian Express, M. ZIAUDDIN, Jan 03, 2004)
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has said the entire spectrum of mainstream political opinion in India is for peace, cooperation and friendship with Pakistan. In an exclusive interview with Dawn at his residence here on Thursday, the PM made it
- Cement Down The Spine (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Jan 02, 2004)
In early 1991, when the ramshackle Chandra Shekhar government was at the helm, a senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader hosted a small dinner for the then party president, L.K. Advani. For the BJP, those were heady days. The Somnath to Ayodhya rath yatra of
- A Watershed Year For Indian Diplomacy (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Jan 02, 2004)
WHAT seemed to be a Sisyphean labour till a couple of years ago in the context of Indo-Pakistan relations, now looks possible. The two countries were on the road to detente in the year just ended.
During the past 56 years of turbulent Indo-Pakistan ...
- Finally, Drdo Picks Up Stress Blip On Army Radar (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Jan 02, 2004)
After conducting counter-terrorism operations for more than a decade in Jammu and Kashmir, the Army is brushing up its stress-management manuals and techniques. As part of it, the DRDO’s Psychological Research Laboratory has listed warning signals for ...
- Grooming Customers To Be `Techno-Ready' (Business Line, Vinay Kamath, Jan 02, 2004)
COMPANIES launching high-tech gadgets need to be sensitive to the "technology-readiness profiles" of their customers before putting their products out in the market. They also need to develop marketing strategies, which evolve as a product ages in the
- Love, Actually (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Jan 02, 2004)
It is arguable that John le Carré’s real subject, all those years when we supposed him to be writing the classic espionage novel, was not politics but love. Love ran like a crack, a fissure undermining the most solid of ideological foundations, through...
- Textile Sector Emerges Flavour Of The Year (Business Line, Anna Peter, Jan 01, 2004)
FOR the textile industry, 2003 has been a year of bonuses, with some unforeseen stumbling blocks.
It started off with the Finance Ministry announcing a slew of sops for the textile industry - reducing import and excise duties and completing the ...
- Towards 2004: Nothing Much To Feel Good About (Business Line, Devinder Sharma , Dec 31, 2003)
SUMITRA Behera is one of the millions languishing in the countryside. An unknown Indian, somehow surviving against all odds, she recently figured in the news when she decided to sell her one-month-old baby for a mere Rs 10 (approximately 11 US cents).
- Disease And Development (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2003)
Extracts from the UNDP report, “HIV/AIDS and Development in South Asia 2003”
- Asean Ties: India Must Look To The East With Greater Vision (Business Line, Gautam Murthy, Dec 31, 2003)
INDIA has moved purposefully in developing a broad economic and strategic partnership with the dynamic countries of South-East Asia.
- Surviving The Male Gaze (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 31, 2003)
Violence against women can be curbed only if there is a change in the way men look at women and women look at themselves
- The Bittersweet Saga Of Sugar (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Dec 30, 2003)
Though the cycle of shortage and surplus in the sugar industry has been overcome in the last six years with the emergence of efficient and modern mills, the carryover stock of sugar in the last four years has resulted in hefty carry-over costs, insurance
- Rehabilitation Incomplete (Hindu, Mike Levien, Dec 30, 2003)
Thousands of families in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra who are affected at the current Sardar Sarovar dam height have not yet been rehabilitated, much less those who will be affected at 110 metres.
- The Influx Of Migrants (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
WHEN people leave their native places for sheer survival or in search of better avenues, they are led by “push” and “pull” factors. Their traditional place of inhabitation either pushes them out since no more work or employment is available or they move
- Forensics Report In: Judeo Tape Is Authentic, No Doctoring Detected (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Dec 30, 2003)
The videotape showing former Union Minister of State for Environment Dilip Singh Judeo accepting cash, which was first published by The Sunday Express and led to his resignation and a CBI case, is authentic and not doctored in any way.
- Teaching Shops (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 29, 2003)
While discussing how successfully Indian higher education is “globalizing”, a colleague pointed out a remarkable anomaly. At any stage of school education, an Indian child is taught far more than the product of an American or British school, and is likely
- Job Creation: Not Just An Economic Problem (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Dec 29, 2003)
Even as jobs have to be created to accommodate India's ever-increasing population, technology developments are destroying existing ones. The issue, therefore, is not merely adding enough jobs but also creating replacements for those lost. As the obstacles
- Job-Oriented Study Plus Loans Needed: Kalam To Ugc (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2003)
Expressing concern over the growing unemployment and the rising cost of higher education, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam today asked the UGC to adopt a multi-pronged strategy to make education job-oriented and accessible to all through easy bank loans.
- That Invisible Agent (Indian Express, Vinod Patney, Dec 29, 2003)
In browsing through the Internet, one came across an article titled ‘‘Err War: The Army buries its mistakes’’ by Fred Kaplan. The article speaks of ‘‘an official, unclassified, and highly critical report on the US army’s inefficient to shoddy intelligence
- The Hard Business Of Life (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 28, 2003)
She looked like any ordinary Tamil woman in her neat and simple sari, her smooth, dark plait. But when she smiled, I knew there was something more to Faustina, better known as Bama, the writer. The smile was full-fledged, hopeful, and how precious this...
- Fighting `Jehadis' At Home (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Dec 28, 2003)
According to an old saying, no place is more remote and therefore more unfamiliar than that on the other side of the hill. To an extent this remains true even in this age of instant communication and round-the-clock television coverage. The intense ...
- He Blew A Scam’s Cover, Now They Find He Was Murdered (Indian Express, S. Ahmed Ali, Dec 28, 2003)
Before Abdul Karim Telgi hit the headlines again, Maharashtra’s scandal of the season was the MPSC scam. The cash-for-appointments racket had landed several bigwigs of the state Public Service Commission, including its head S D Karnik, in jail.
- Avoiding Future Shock (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 27, 2003)
ENABLING CITIZENS THROUGH education and skill enhancement is more critical today than at any other time. There is fairly well founded concern that in the next decade the country could find itself performing a difficult balancing act: catering to ...
- Corruption In Politics Touched New High (Tribune, Gaurav Chaudhury, Dec 27, 2003)
THE ugly spectacle of lies and videotapes was witnessed once again in 2003, bringing to the fore the degeneration of Indian politics. By its sheer size, magnitude and nature, the story of scams this year went beyond the confines of capital markets and ...
- Power Of Nationalism (Tribune, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 27, 2003)
IF Jesus Christ was betrayed for 30 pieces of silver, it is no surprise that $25 million secured Saddam Hussein. The wonder is that it took impoverished and long-suffering Iraqis who are being killed like flies eight months to lead the Americans to the...
- Musharraf Is Lucky (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 27, 2003)
PAKISTAN President Pervez Musharraf has had a providential escape in the second attempt on his life in 10 days. His security had been heightened to an unprecedented level after the previous attack. By still daring to launch a suicidal attempt, the bombers
- What Price Education? (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 27, 2003)
The Blair Government is facing stiff opposition to its plans to allow Britain's universities to triple their annual tuition fees.
- Jobless In Shining India (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Dec 27, 2003)
The 57th round of the National Sample Survey, pertaining to June 2001 to June 2002, has come up with startling facts. One in every 200 rural households and one in every 1,000 urban households goes ‘‘chronically hungry’’. In simple words, they don’t get
- Shining From Within (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, Dec 27, 2003)
The world wants India to rise and shine, the task at hand is at home
- Brief Exposure (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2003)
The recent disclosures regarding Pakistan’s export of nuclear weapons technology have predictably generated international alarm. While the alleged transfer of sensitive technology seems to have taken place a few years back, concern about the safety and...
- Jaswant Singh Can Smile (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Dec 26, 2003)
STOCK markets are booming with the sensitive index having touched a 45-month high. India is supposed to be shining brighter than ever before. The so-called “feel good” factor is reportedly permeating right through the economy. The country’s foreign ...
- Five `I's For Budget 2004-05 (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Dec 26, 2003)
In the coming Budget, the Government ought to focus on `I's: Interest rates, Investment, Infrastructure, Information and Image. The Finance Minister who, in his previous portfolio, did a lot to enhance the country's prestige should use the Budget to ...
- Gifting Nuclear Knowhow (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2003)
PAKISTAN has been found to be fully involved in the game of nuclear proliferation. It should not be allowed to go scot-free by saying that all this happened because some of its nuclear scientists were driven by “personal ambition or greed”. The ...
- Growth Of Chinese Textile Industry - Can India Weave The Same Magic? (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 26, 2003)
CHINA and India have significant similarities. For both countries, the chief task at hand is how best to juxtapose economic development with social upliftment of the masses, who account for about 40 per cent of world's population.
- ‘india Needs A Constitutional Body To Fight Corruption’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2003)
In the case of Satyendra Dubey’s murder, by focusing on the politico-criminal nexus Indian Express and its readers are hitting the wrong target. The real culprit is the bureaucracy, which has institutionalised corruption by conducting incestuous and ...
- Industry In 2003 — Increased Efficiency, Hesitant Recovery (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Dec 25, 2003)
Three years ago, most experts had virtually given up on India's manufacturing sector because of the all-pervading pall of gloom. Today, not only is India Inc confident of taking on competition from China, the number of Indian companies wishing to set up
- The Chinese Are Changing (Telegraph, Jairam Ramesh, Dec 25, 2003)
Bonhomie between India and Pakistan is in the air yet again. Somewhat unexpectedly, the rhetoric emanating from Islamabad is subdued, moderate and even statesmanlike. Many believe that American pressure is finally paying off and that Pakistan is, at last,
- Identity Crisis On The Board (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Dec 25, 2003)
THERE are quite a few areas where the company law is rather cryptic. The regime relating to alternate directors is a case in point.
- Political Bosses As Reformers (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 24, 2003)
The new anti-defection law does not address the core of the problem: entrenched traditions and practices of bossism in every political party.
- Don’t Stress, It May Just Make You Sick (Indian Express, SHANKAR VEDANTAM, Dec 24, 2003)
Scientists say shy men are more likely to have AIDS. Because temperament and disease are correlated
- No Entry On An Open Border (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 24, 2003)
Entering Raxaul in Bihar from Birganj in Nepal, one moves from the third world to the fourth. New Delhi might fancy itself as one of the world's most dynamic economies and an emerging great power. At Raxaul, you would not know. There is nothing "shining
- Outsourcing To Offshoring, It Is Advantage India (Business Line, V. Sriram , Dec 24, 2003)
OUTSOURCING by the US is assuming massive proportions. The reason is "it saves money, time and frees in-house staff to do work central to the company's core mission." What is saved? Thirty-forty per cent, estimates the solutions group, Loud Cloud. Its CEO
- Catfish That Spoilt The Vietnamese Party (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Dec 23, 2003)
IT WAS not long ago that the heroic people of Vietnam humbled the US in a bitter war. By 1995, the relations between the two countries had been normalised. Soon, pressures were on the former communist society to adopt the `market economy' model. Vietnam,
- Contributory Pension System: Approach With Caution (Business Line, S. Subramanyan , Dec 23, 2003)
BY 2016, the number of Indians above age 60 is expected to exceed 113 million and comprise 8.9 per cent of the population. And projections suggest that by 2026 the aged will form 13.3 per cent of the population. This has serious implications for social...
- The Migrant Effect On Punjabi Society (Tribune, K.S. Chawla, Dec 23, 2003)
THE demographic complexion of Punjab has changed sharply in the recent years with the influx of migrants from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, besides Nepal.
- Collared! (Indian Express, NIVEDITA SEN , Dec 23, 2003)
It’s a white collar disease. It doesn’t afflict the working class, or people who make use of their bodies to eke out a living, despite the numerous health and environmental hazards they are exposed to. It is only people with ‘desk jobs’ who claim to be it
- Growth, But It’s Jobless (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Dec 23, 2003)
It was reported in this paper at the time of the last Davos conference that Jaswant Singh is “bored” with his present less glamorous assignment as finance minister. That boredom was much in evidence as the union finance minister closed his eyes and affect
- Opportunity Or Threat? (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 23, 2003)
The shifting of some technology jobs abroad fits into a well-worn historical pattern of economic change and adjustment in the United States.
- Reviving Civil Society (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Dec 23, 2003)
After the recent state-level elections, political parties have apparently realized that governance is important. More accurately, they have realized that governance is important for winning elections. Whe- ther this hypothesis is true is debatable. But...
- Aide Rateria Sang Before Cbi, Diary Too Was Clincher (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Dec 22, 2003)
: If there was one reason why the CBI didn’t wait for the forensic report on the VCD and moved to lodge an FIR in the Judeo bribery case, it was because of the former minister’s trusted aide Natwar Rateria: he sang.
- No Concern For Rajasthan’s Tribals (Tribune, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 22, 2003)
Parbati has nothing to offer to her hungry children. Her jhuggi, built of sand, stones and plastic sheets has been turned to ashes. A sack of foodgrains and a few clothes in the jhuggi have also been gutted. On the evening of August 24, a few villagers...
- A Step Forward? (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 22, 2003)
The departure from the extreme, maximal positions taken by India and Pakistan could be a helpful factor though, by itself, it would not bring an acceptable solution within sight.
- Two Alone (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Dec 22, 2003)
In the week the general unleashed his goodwill offensive on the question of plebiscite in Kashmir, Britain’s FINANCIAL TIMES offered a provocative thesis. India and Pakistan have so far relied on Washington to coax and pressure them into talking, but the
- Sino-American Ties (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Dec 22, 2003)
The U.S. recognises that Taiwan will become part of China under the 'one-China' principle at some stage in future; that Taiwan is not at all a sovereign state but Taiwan today is also not an administrative part of China.
- Take It Or Fall Behind (Telegraph, Barun De, Dec 22, 2003)
Does south Asia have genuinely independent alternatives for more self-respecting national futures
- Taliban Wants 50 Men For 2 Indians (Indian Express, Reuters, Dec 21, 2003)
The ousted Afghan Taliban militia is demanding the release of 50 imprisoned militants in return for two Indian engineers they are holding hostage, a rebel commander said on Saturday.
- Have They Got More Than They Bargained For? (Hindu, KESAVA MENON, Dec 21, 2003)
Now that Saddam Hussein is in American hands what happens in Iraq? On the unfolding situation.
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