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Articles 10621 through 10720 of 12047:
- Hanging As Deterrent (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2003)
A major initiative for reforms in the health sector was taken by the Union Cabinet on Thursday when it recommended the penalty of death for fake drug makers. The Drugs and Cosmetics Act will now be amended to incorporate the recommendation in favour of...
- Wrong Way To Peace (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 20, 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 ..
- The Golden Bilateral? (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 20, 2003)
Why peace with Pak could be the PM’s dream project as he steps into a poll year and a changed world
- Let’s Own That Whistle (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 20, 2003)
The death of Satyendra Dubey, a young engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and working for the National Highway Authority of India who had complained of corruption on the Golden Quadrilateral project to the Prime Minister’s Office ...
- Loyal To The Corps (Telegraph, MADHUMITA BHATTACHARYYA , Dec 19, 2003)
The Clinton Wars: An Insider’s Account of the White House Years By Sidney Blumenthal, Penguin, £ 20
- Hero On Every Turf (Telegraph, Novy Kapadia, Dec 19, 2003)
Nation’s Pride Dhanraj Pillay By K. Armugam, Field Hockey, Rs 60
- If China Can, Why Can't India? (Business Line, Gautam Murthy, Dec 19, 2003)
CHINA's economic success is stunning the world as it understands how to move with the times. It is the world's most competitive nation anddesires to modernise rapidly by attracting more foreign investment.
- Aids And Insurance (Hindu, Nicole Itano, Dec 19, 2003)
In South Africa, AIDS remains a challenge for the insurance industry and a sticky issue for the Government.
- Outsourcing To India — No Other Option For The Us (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2003)
The products of American companies will be more expensive if outsourcing is prohibited.
- Tea Troubles (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2003)
THE TEA BOARD'S recent announcement that exports in calendar 2003 were likely to be lower by 16.7 per cent, at around 165 million kg against last year's 198 million kg, is a matter of serious concern for the industry mainly because it restricts the escape
- Operation Desert Storm (Telegraph, ANURADHA KUMAR, Dec 19, 2003)
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s landslide win by a margin of 120 seats in Rajasthan surprised even its most ardent supporters. The portents were evident as early as last year’s by-elections in three assembly constituencies. The present election campaign ...
- Supreme In Law (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
The perspective of pure legality may not always square with concepts in other spheres. In upholding the Prevention of Terrorism Act on the grounds of legal and constitutional validity, the Supreme Court has made clear that the discomfort regarding the act
- `India Rising' - Will It Ride The Demographic Wave? (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Dec 18, 2003)
In about 50 years, India's surging population may be more a boon than a bane, if a recent Goldman Sachs projection comes true. With a surplus of working age people vis-à-vis current G-6 biggies such as the US and Japan, India could benefit fro m low ...
- Punishment With A Human Touch (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
From the Asian Centre for Human Rights’ alternate report to India’s first periodic report for the UN committee on the rights of the child
- Loosen Their Iron Grip (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Dec 18, 2003)
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee realizes the need to rein in teachers’ unions, but convincing his party colleagues will not be an easy task
- Sebi To Bull Ketan: You Can’t Play For 14 Yrs (Indian Express, CP Bhambri, Dec 18, 2003)
For the first time, capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has pronounced a long ban on any market intermediary. Sebi chairman GN Bajpai debarred stock brokers Ketan Parekh and Kartik K Parekh and seven of their entities...
- How Old Is An Antique? (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Dec 17, 2003)
The English term, “antiquity”, is derived from the Latin word “antiques” or from “antico” in Italian, which referred originally to the decorative items found in ancient Roman remains, that have captured the imagination of English art collectors in the ...
- Post-Reform Anomaly — Parts Not Keeping `Full' Pace (Business Line, K. Parthasarathi, Dec 17, 2003)
THE overall growth rate of the country should not blur our vision to the growing disparities in the prosperity level, per capita income and job opportunities from State to State. The strategy for a higher growth in these sub-par States should be multi
- A Problem Not Named (Telegraph, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Dec 17, 2003)
The deadly riots occasioned by the Railway Recruitment Board exams in Ass- am and Maharashtra, were a grim reminder of a potentially serious social crisis India might face in the near future. Amidst all the upbeat predictions being made about the India...
- Is Corporate Farming Really The Solution For Indian Agriculture? (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Dec 16, 2003)
Contract farming is increasingly being presented as the way out of the morass in which Indian agriculture now finds itself, and is being actively promoted by major international donor agencies, multinational companies and the Central Government. In this
- Blair 'Then' And 'Now' (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Dec 16, 2003)
Saddam Hussein's capture has certainly eased the pressure on Tony Blair but the country and his own party remain deeply divided over his Iraq misadventure.
- Uma Ministers Will Get Osds: Officers On Sangh Duty (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Dec 16, 2003)
Soon after they took oath in the Assembly today, Chief Minister Uma Bharti and her newly-elected MLAs made it a point to call on BJP organising general secretary Kaptan Singh Solanki. So who’s this man? Loaned to the BJP, this RSS functionary will soon...
- Export Of Talent From Punjab (Tribune, Amrik Singh , Dec 16, 2003)
RECKONED in terms of its population, perhaps no other state in India has been exporting as much talent as Punjab has been doing. According to most well-informed estimates, more than a million Punjabis have already settled down in other countries, and the
- Development — A Reality Check (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 16, 2003)
Manufacturing is the real engine of growth, and [in India] this sector has been lagging behind in both productivity and expansion.
- Who Is Afraid Of The Immigrant? (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Dec 15, 2003)
AS I gazed at the photograph depicting a Bihari job-seeker fleeing from the two-legged hounds who call themselves Shiv Sainiks at a railway station in Mumbai last week, I was reminded of my uncle's favourite story. After his pre-university course, he had
- Fast Running Out Of Jobs (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Dec 15, 2003)
Unemployment is growing, and economic theory has no clear answer to the problem. It is not merely the unemployed who suffer, the nation loses because it does not get what the unemployed could have produced. Its socio-economic impact is considerable ...
- Delhi Metro: A Quality Project At Low Cost (Tribune, J.T. Vishnu, Dec 15, 2003)
“MY dream is to take the Metro to all the 14 cities in the country and in the next five years. I am sure the Metro will be operational in at least five cities like Chennai. Hyderabad, Bangalore, Mumbai and Ahmedabad,” observes the Chairman and Managing Di
- Of Hindutva And Governance (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Dec 15, 2003)
Signs of Hindutva were unmistakable in the elections... [But] we are so used to equating it with belligerence that we do not notice it when it takes subtler forms.
- Ranbaxy Acquires Rpg Aventis, Unit (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 14, 2003)
The largest domestic pharmaceutical company, Ranbaxy Laboratories, has acquired the $53-million generic business of Aventis SA of France for an undisclosed amount. Ranbaxy has acquired RPG Aventis along with its fully-owned subsidiary, Opih Sarl.
- Campaign Fund-Raising (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 13, 2003)
Republicans and Democrafts are squaring off for a new fight over the ways campaign finance can be raised in the U.S.
- Deserting The Workers (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Dec 13, 2003)
THE WASHINGTON POST reached faraway Little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat and came back with a story about the cruel toil of the Pagis. They are one among an estimated 25,000 families that harvest salt in barren, inhospitable places. As they work and succumb to
- Mountain Development: Rappelling Up, The Chinese Way (Business Line, Dharmalingam Venugopal, Dec 12, 2003)
Mountains occupy two thirds of China and support nearly one half of the population. Mountain regions contribute significantly to the Chinese economy accounting for 31 per cent of GDP and producing 35 per cent of grains and 54 per cent of primary ...
- Google R&d Search Engine Result: Bangalore (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 12, 2003)
Its first centre outside California to come up in India’s Silicon Valley next yr
- Dubey Murder Sends Fear Travelling Down His Highway Stretch (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 11, 2003)
No one took Satyendra Dubey seriously when he blew the whistle on the goings-on along the Aurangabad-Barachatti stretch of the Golden Quadrilateral. He paid for it with his life. But now when Hem Chand Sirohi tells you ‘‘no one is safe, the mafia will ...
- Dysfunctional Financial Activism (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Dec 11, 2003)
The arguments of information and investment activists are aimed at altering the flow of information or cash flows or both from closely-held companies. These arguments assume that the right to privacy is negotiable and somehow ignore the more important ...
- Export Jobs Or Import Workers (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 11, 2003)
Those railing against outsourcing ignore demographic realities. The alternative is huge migration
- Touching The Horizon (Indian Express, Gopal Krishna Agarwal, Dec 09, 2003)
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the broadest measure of the health of the economy. Real GDP is defined as the total money value of final goods and services produced by labour and property located within a country during an accounting year. Gross value ...
- Whose Intellect, What Property? (Business Line, Kanchi Kohli , Dec 09, 2003)
EVERYTHING seems up for sale today and the stakes are high! The global trade regime is ready to commodify it all as long as there is a market value, be it seeds, labour, technology and even knowledge. There is competition and the push to rise above the...
- A New Form Of Colonialism (Business Line, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Dec 09, 2003)
Holding as much as 30 per cent of the equity capital of the 10 largest Indian companies, and nearly 20 per cent of the equity of the top 50 firms, foreign institutional investors are today responsible for determining the mood of the stock market. While...
- Women In Science (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Dec 09, 2003)
IT seems obvious that in a semi-literate country such as India, it should be relatively easy for women to become politicians than top researchers in science and engineering. But it surprising that even in advanced countries, it is difficult for women to..
- Paradox Of Hunger Amid Plenty (Business Line, K. Parthasarathi, Dec 09, 2003)
The anomaly of hunger amidst the plenty signifies something basically wrong in the system. The question arises why the poor have no access to the food they sorely need.
- Employee Relations - Why It Should Be Kept Alive (Business Line, Ganesh Chella , Dec 09, 2003)
THE scene is an aspiring human relations (HR) professional's campus interview. The first question asked is "So, why did you choose HR?" Pat comes the reply, "I love interacting and being with people."
- It’s Simple, Sonia (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
The Congress needs more eye contact with the reality around it, not endless talk sessions
- Banking Solutions (Indian Express, Bhai Mahavir, Dec 09, 2003)
A municipal council, presumably in UK, received a complaint that citizens were inconvenienced when a taxi stand had no taxi available. In a set-up like ours, it could have provided a political issue, with the Opposition stalling the proceedings of the ...
- Muck Unspooled (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
Leaders must step in, clean up political practices if our democracy is not to go down the tube
- What Those Numbers Stand For (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
From the Asian Centre for Human Rights’ alternate report to India’s first periodic report for the UN committee on the rights of the child
- The `Cyber Coolie' Is Here (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Dec 08, 2003)
The emergence and growth of BPO activity — described as the "cyber coolie" regime by British critics of the phenomenon — is a true reflection of the changing nature of the international economy, specifically its gradual shift from manufacturing and ...
- Justice Within Prisons (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2003)
DESPITE LANDMARK JUDGMENTS by the Supreme Court in the 1990s that spelt out the norms of humane and fair procedures of arrest, the track record of the police continues to be marked by disregard for legal niceties and human rights laws. Execution ...
- Why Is Assam Burning? (Hindu, Walter Fernandes, Dec 08, 2003)
The Centre has treated insurgency in the Northeast as a law and order issue or given it a communal colour by focussing on the Bangladeshi immigrants and ignoring those from the Hindi heartland.
- When Furniture Is Insect-Infested (Tribune, Pushpa Girimaji, Dec 08, 2003)
IF you have seen advertisements promising “borer-free” wood and wondered what it was all about, then this is for you. Even otherwise, some basic knowledge of borers and the havoc that they cause can help you make an informed choice while buying furniture
- Captain Confident Leads India Charge (Indian Express, Rohit Brijnath, Dec 08, 2003)
Ganguly cracks century barrier, his team takes first-innings lead
- Abjuring Alcohol (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 08, 2003)
RECENTLY I had occasion to watch about 200 social activists, a majority of whom were women from rural areas, observing a daylong fast to back up their demand for introduction of total prohibition. A number of well-meaning persons prominent in public life
- Positive Vote For Governance (Hindu, Sujay Mehdidia, Dec 07, 2003)
The BJP brand of "negative politics" failed to cut ice with the Delhi electorate, writes Sujay Mehdidia.
- Bpo And The Indian Economy (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Dec 06, 2003)
All the euphoria that very easily becomes hype cannot change one thing. IT services cannot do for India what manufacturing did for China.
- The Judeo Episode And After (Tribune, B.G. Verghese, Dec 05, 2003)
UNTIL the advent of Mr Dilip Singh Judeo, erstwhile Minister of State for Forests and Environment, most simple people thought corruption was something to be viewed with abhorrence. No longer. None other than the Deputy Prime Minister has urged that it be
- Issues In Ssi Financing (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
SMALL-SCALE INDUSTRY, it seems, is not only labour-intensive but also committee-intensive. Abid Hussain, Nayak, S.L. Kapur, S.P. Gupta, S.S. Kohli — these are popular nomenclatures of official committees that have, in the past two decades, ...
- Writers' Wrath (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Dec 04, 2003)
Three British writers of foreign descent have set off a storm by spurning awards of the empire.
- There For The Long Term (Telegraph, Achin Vanaik , Dec 04, 2003)
The US is seeking the cultural commitment of elites in west Asia
- Cheap Imports Drive Farmers To Suicide (Tribune, Arun Chacko, Dec 04, 2003)
STARK, rocky, infertile land, regularly punctuated by hillocks for hundreds of kilometres — an archetypal bandit country on the silver screen — greets the visitor in a good part of Ananthapur district of Andhra Pradesh. The population is sparse, and ...
- Do Guns Speak A New Language? (Indian Express, Anil Bhat, Dec 03, 2003)
The earlier distinction made between militant groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir and those active in the Northeast, the former being termed as terrorists and the latter as insurgents, does not hold any longer. While the “tanzeems” in Jammu and Kashmir
- The Stench Of Money (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2003)
Where does the Telgi scam end? It demands concerted criminal-judicial action at every level
- Drugs, Liquor, Opium Everywhere (Tribune, Amar Chandel, Dec 03, 2003)
ADDRESSING the annual convention of the Punjab IPS Officers Association at the CII in Chandigarh recently, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh challenged the police brass to name a single village where drug and addiction problem had not attained frightening...
- Maturing In Software Development (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2003)
THE SETTING UP of a development centre in Bangalore by General Motors, the world's largest car maker, is another pointer to the way multinational companies are looking at India as a Research and Development hub for their global operations. The ...
- Paranoid Existence (Telegraph, Ranjan Basu, Dec 03, 2003)
The Bush administration is fast turning into a joke — and one that few people find amusing at all. Look at the games to prevent the world from knowing George W. Bush was about to descend on Iraq in his flying chariot (Flight to Baghdad: Untold story ...
- If The Centre Doesn’t Hold (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 02, 2003)
It is more economic than ethnic in Assam. The BJP-led government, caught between mandir and Modi, does not understand a simple thing like this. When the applicants number 72 lakh for a few vacancies in the railways, the response is not to raise 47 more...
- Born With A Silver Spoon, Now Looking For One (Tribune, Roopinder Singh, Dec 02, 2003)
IT came up in a flash and produced generations of doctors; it is now dragging along and is no longer inspirational. Government Medical College, Patiala, has been a premier medical institution for a long time, but it now shows symptoms that are alarmingly
- Translating Dreams Into Reality (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2003)
We urge developed countries…to make concrete efforts towards the target of 0.7 per cent of gross national product as official development assistance to developing countries and 0.15 per cent of GNP of developed countries to least developed countries, and
- Challenging Times For Free Trade (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Dec 01, 2003)
TRADE ministers from 34 countries in the North and South American continents initiated a process, on November 20, that will create a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Now that the speeches have been made and the flags waved, the ministers will leave
- India, Don’t Be Patient (Indian Express, Robert O. Blake, Dec 01, 2003)
My name is Tamil and I am HIV positive, I didn’t tell anyone that I had the virus. I told them at the time that it was jaundice because I was afraid of the stigma and discrimination.’’ This recent interview on BBC describes the plight of Tamil who ...
- The Enemies Within (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Dec 01, 2003)
Technological might has replaced military power in the exploitation of weak nations. Large differences in wealth among nations are mainly due to the degrees of ownership of technology. It is not enough to complain and find fault with the rich nations...
- Reflections On The Mid-Year Review (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 01, 2003)
THE Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act 2003 enjoins upon the Government to review every quarter the trends in receipts and expenditure in relation to the budget. The first quarterly review for April-June 2003 was presented to the Government..
- The `Feel Good Factor' And All That (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Dec 01, 2003)
That such issues as red tape, poor infrastructure and rigid labour laws should still be around even after the NDA Government has been in power for a full term should make representatives of the regime somewhat more apologetic and certainly less hectoring
- Radiological Devices: Anytime, Anywhere (Indian Express, Joby Warrick, Dec 01, 2003)
When police caught up with him on May 31, Tedo Makeria was headed toward Tbilisi’s main rail station, his lethal cargo hidden in boxes lined with lead so thick his taxi sagged from the weight. The suspicious policeman who halted the cab had barely cracked
- Post-Iraq Blair Faces Rough Weather (Tribune, K.N. Malik, Dec 01, 2003)
PROTEST rallies against continued occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, a sulking Chancellor of the Exchequer, unions in a rebellious mood and revolt by back-benchers notwithstanding, even the staunchest critics of British Prime Minister Tony Blair believe
- Academic Heritage (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2003)
Things begin to look madly wrong when someone trying to buy a place for his son in a medical college complains to the police of being cheated of his money. This outraged parent had advanced Mr Sudip Ghosh five lakh rupees for securing his son’s seat at...
- A Five-Point Deprogramme (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Nov 29, 2003)
From cue cards etched in stone to de-hyping Saarc: rough primer on how to build on the current ceasefire
- You Like Public Glare, Don’t Cry Foul When There’s A Cloud (Indian Express, Fali S Nariman, Nov 29, 2003)
A new right of privacy won’t protect citizenry, will build an armour shield for the reputedly corrupt few
- Steel Tariffs: Pitting Us Against Half The World (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Nov 28, 2003)
For developing countries such as India and Brazil, the steel sector is pivotal to growth. If it slumps due to the vicissitudes of international trade, these countries would be seriously hurt.
- Law Day: An Occasion For Some Soul-Searching (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 28, 2003)
NOVEMBER 26, the date on which "we, the people" adopted the Constitution in 1949, is observed as the Law Day in India. (Curiously, in the US, May 1, the Labour Day, is also the Law Day!)
- Rateria Admits: We Did Meet (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Nov 28, 2003)
Judeo video:Dilip Singh Judeo’s asst PS says ‘Rahul’ has left the country; provides CBI with crucial leads
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