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Articles 11121 through 11220 of 12047:
- Dangerous Medicine (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2003)
SPURIOUS OR COUNTERFEIT drugs are a public menace. They are mostly ineffective and can cause grievous injury or even death. The existence of spurious drugs in India is well known, although not the precise extent. The Government has decided to ...
- A Dusty Up Village Welcomes Its Grandson, Guyana’s President (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Aug 25, 2003)
Thakuraian ka purwa (Chatrapati Sahuji Maharaj Nagar) never had it so good. Today, power supply ran uninterrupted from 8 am to 8 pm, a 700-metre motorable road came up, and a national guest called on the locals from overseas. In this dusty village, 150 km
- A Market For Terrorism Information (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Aug 25, 2003)
IT WOULD probably go down as the shortest-lived idea in the US. Within 24 hours of its being made public, everyone important in both the political parties was scrambling to announce that it was `ghoulish' and the proposal was buried. The irony is that it
- The President's Dream (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Aug 25, 2003)
It is Dr Abdul Kalam's dream to create a high-quality Rurban habitat on either side of a ring road linking a loop of villages. Called PURA, its design offers many advantages: All infrastructure lengths are halved. Workplace and residences can be co-locate
- The Marriage Ratio (Indian Express, RAVINDER KAUR, Aug 25, 2003)
Can two such negative social trends as dowry and the poor sex ratio ever yield anything positive? While the large print (national media) dwells on divisive issues like caste and religion, the small print (regional media) is documenting events that may ...
- Just Plain Gas? (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2003)
Is this a case of pouring cola over troubled waters? See how Parliament’s alacrity in constituting a joint committee to inquire into pesticide contamination of carbonated soft drinks has altered the dynamics at Sansad Bhavan. Just the other day, Lok Sabha
- 'Do We Have A National Vision? Not When One Looks At Parliament, Sections Of Media' (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2003)
I distinctly remember the Railway, BEST strikes and your passionate speeches justifying them during your trade union days in Mumbai. How do you react to the SC verdict banning government workers’ strike?
- Meet The Obscure Firm Which Got The Rs 175-Cr Deal To Spoil The Taj (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Aug 24, 2003)
From a small office in central Delhi, Ishvakoo India dreamt of changing the way Taj looked
- Madura Coats (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Aug 24, 2003)
Next week, Madura Coats’ Extraordinary General Body Meeting (EGM) at Chennai will pass a resolution to buy out the shares of all residual shareholders, other than promoter J&P Coats and their nominees at a price of Rs 40 per share. This is the third ...
- Cola: Day After, It’s Your Test Vs My Test (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2003)
That the central issue of regulation of the quality of aerated drinks hasn’t been addressed—despite the claims and counter-claims from all sides—is becoming evident now.
- Confusion Confounded (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2003)
THE GOVERNMENT'S STATEMENT in Parliament on the quality of soft drinks produced in the country does not satisfactorily address concerns about the health standards of these products. In fact, the statement only adds to the prevailing confusion ...
- Sc Tells Cbi Go After The Taj ‘high & Mighty,’ Get Back Fast (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2003)
In a serious setback to the Mayawati Government, the Supreme Court today directed the CBI to interrogate ‘‘four to five’’ senior state officers mentioned in the agency’s secret interim report for their alleged complicity in the unauthorised construction
- Proposal For Zero Customs Duty - With Right Environment, Industry Can Cope (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Aug 22, 2003)
The US' zero-for-zero Customs duty proposal envisages allowing imports at zero duty and expecting reciprocal treatment for exports. Is Indian industry prepared to face the onslaught of imports and remain successful? Sure, it can many sectors already hav
- The Right To Strike (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Aug 22, 2003)
To avoid strikes is everyone's responsibility. But to assert that strikes under any circumstances are illegal, immoral, inequitable and unjustified is contrary to our law and industrial jurisprudence.
- The Trouble With China Trade (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Aug 22, 2003)
UNTIL around 2000, there was a scramble for trade with China among the industrialised countries. They evolved special strategies to promote trade. Delegations led by Presidents and Prime Ministers went and signed glitzy agreements with China. China played
- Cola And Pesticides: The Bigger Picture (Business Line, Alok Ray, Aug 22, 2003)
The real problem is that there are no Indian standards. In the absence of such mandatory standards, private companies would try to cut corners to maximise their bottomlines. The Government needs to involve the Indian scientific community to evolve a ...
- Remedying Techno Lethargy (Deccan Herald, S N Roy Chaudhury, Aug 21, 2003)
Efforts in the field of science and technology are largely bereft of the spirit of invention and value addition
- Improvident (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2003)
WITH THE EMPLOYEE Provident Fund Organisation deciding to allow its subscribers to withdraw up to 90 per cent of their accumulated balances for investment in the government-sponsored pension scheme with assured returns, the battlelines are being drawn...
- That Tightrope Called Tibet (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 21, 2003)
The Dalai Lama is happy with Vajpayee’s word-play and so is Beijing. The story of confusion as triumph
- South Asia’s Four Play (Indian Express, SHAHID JAVED BURKI, Aug 20, 2003)
The road to Indo-Pakistani cooperation flows through four key areas of the economy. For a start, New Delhi can trade its IT expertise for Islamabad’s energy
- Modi In London (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Aug 20, 2003)
Narendra Modi triggered multiple word associations on his recent trip to London, all of them sinister. The GUARDIAN took one look at the visitor and thought Pinochet. His enemies, it noted, liken him to Hitler, Milosevic, Pol Pot. The paper remembered
- Soft-Drinks And Low-Gluten Wheat - Nourishing The Bottomline (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Aug 20, 2003)
IN THIS era of unbridled globalisation — where making a fast buck has become the market mantra — two events have cast a deep shadow on the nation. While one rocked Parliament, the other has escaped the attention of most.
- People’s Game Breaks Class Barrier, ‘slum’ Soccer Goes National (Indian Express, DHARMENDRA JORE, Aug 19, 2003)
Nagpur to host national soccer tournament for slumdwellers; no age limit, no uniform and no size for ground
- Engineering A Reverse Brain Drain (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Aug 19, 2003)
AMIDST the din and cackle of political debates on cow slaughter and reservation it is heartening to learn that the Communications Minister, Mr Arun Shourie, has endowed his entire entitlement under the MP Local Area Development scheme to set up a biotech
- Blame Game On Reservation (Deccan Herald, S Simhadri, Aug 19, 2003)
All major political parties, except those of the oppressed castes, subtly oppose empowerment of the OBCs
- Moving Towards One Europe (Business Line, R. Parthasarathy , Aug 19, 2003)
THE EU Council meeting in December 2002 at Copenhagen cleared the way for the accession of 10 countries — Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Slovania.
- Trade Unionism Must Reinvent Itself (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Aug 19, 2003)
The Indian trade union movement is badly organised and much politicised. It is splintered and leaves out of its pale vast numbers of unorganised workers. Only a confederation of the working class of all hues can serve as a political watchdog, as it can
- Japan Round Table (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 18, 2003)
THE inauguration on August 16 at Chennai of the Japan Round Table reflecting the wealth of intellect, expertise and experience to be found in Tamil Nadu was a landmark event judged by any standard. The presence and participation of the Japanese Consul
- Some Curators Change Their Frames Of Reference (Indian Express, BLAKE GOPNIK, Aug 18, 2003)
Looking for a way out from collectors wanting to possess paintings by wrapping all the gilding around it
- A Bonanza For Big Oil (Hindu, V. Sridhar, Aug 17, 2003)
George W. Bush has passed an Executive Order that effectively provides legal immunity to the oil majors for their actions in Iraq.
- First Time: Cbi Gets Dna, Blood Sample Of An Ex-Minister (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Aug 17, 2003)
For the first time in its history, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) summoned a leading politician to obtain his DNA sample. Former UP minister Amar Mani Tripathi, a prime suspect in the Madhumita Shukla murder case, was called to New Delhi early
- Durable Bhai Sahib (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Aug 17, 2003)
Mayawati’s hard core supporters may stick with her through thick and thin, but the high profile recruits to the BSP found it difficult to adjust for long in a party where customarily everyone squats on the floor while Mayawati presides from a chair.
- When Sky Is The Limit (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Aug 16, 2003)
The problems that have bedevilled Japanese banks are well known — the quicksand of ‘‘directed lending’’, NPAs, and the rest — as is the way these problems have been at the heart of Japan’s inability to pull itself out of the trough for over a decade. The
- ‘bring Law To Curb Pesticide Use’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 16, 2003)
The alarming presence of hazardous pesticides in our environment poses a problem no different from such ills as fake medicines and food products. As you have said in your article, the real shock of this cola episode is the fact that now we have an ...
- Trade Is A Gender Issue (Indian Express, Sakuntala Narasimhan, Aug 16, 2003)
When a new UN task force on globalisation and trade came into being on July 23 to focus on the impact of trade and trade policies on women, most mainstream media ignored this landmark initiative. The initiative was, however, of special interest to the ...
- Nine Hours To Waterloo (Hindu, Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Aug 16, 2003)
We in Britain pay for the fiction that the free market can run a transport system.
- Trial By Kangaroo Courts (Indian Express, RAJEEV BAKSHI, Aug 15, 2003)
These have been very unfortunate and sad days for our civil society. Guilty even if innocent or until proved innocent is the new credo of the new breed of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), media outlets and lumpen political elements.
- Let Us Politicise Growth (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Aug 15, 2003)
Democratic politics and competitive political activity are the two prime forces that comprehensively permeate India's economic space. The key to kick-starting and sustaining growth lies in politicising it. Politicising economic reform and growth will ...
- As Long As There Are Tears (Indian Express, JAWAHARLAL NEHRU, Aug 15, 2003)
Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom...
- Changing Corporate Genetic Codes (Business Line, A. B. Shivkumar , Aug 15, 2003)
ALMOST a decade after it was first published in 1994, the path-breaking book "Competing for the future", by Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad, is the guiding principle behind many a strategy in hundreds of organisations round the world.
- Is Epf Running The Danger Signal? (Business Line, Jayanthi Iyengar, Aug 15, 2003)
The Government failed to use opportunities to prescribe prudential norms for the EPF, mark its portfolio to market, free it in terms of investment decisions and align returns with performance.
- Placebos Won’t Do (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Aug 14, 2003)
What images come to mind when you see the words ‘‘drugs’’, ‘‘crime’’ and ‘‘South Asia’’ in the same sentence? Poppy fields glowing gold under the sun in Afghanistan? The infamous cave laboratories of Pakistan where the raw product is transformed into ...
- From Melting Snow, Emerges The Story Of Another Missing Soldier (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Aug 14, 2003)
Team recovers belongings of Lance Naik Bhandari; IAF plans to collect aircraft parts strewn across glacier
- ‘lab Staff Goofed, Sunita Got Away’ (Indian Express, R. Ramachandran, Aug 14, 2003)
Sunita Rani has returned to the track, her coach Renu Kohli has been recommended for the Dronacharya Award but the doping controversy that haunted the athlete is far from over.
- Labour In The New World (Hindu, Manabi Majumdar, Aug 14, 2003)
The terms on which the new labour interacts with its employers, global or local, are highly unfavourable to it.
- Supreme Court And The Right To Strike (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2003)
A CLOSE READING of the Supreme Court's August 6, 2003 judgment in T.K. Rangarajan vs Government of Tamil Nadu & Others shows that the Court has, following in the footsteps of a string of illiberal verdicts on Government servants beginning ...
- Spinning To A Macho Media (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Aug 13, 2003)
The David Kelly incident has again turned the focus on the increasingly confrontationist relationship between the British Government and the media, leading to calls for "reflection".
- Test Pepsi, Get Back To Us In Three Weeks: Hc Tells Govt (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 12, 2003)
The Delhi High Court today directed the Government to conduct laboratory tests on the soft drinks of PepsiCo and submit its report within three weeks.
- Crossing The Bhacchi Bridge (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Aug 12, 2003)
The real tragedy in Kishtwar is the failure of the political establishment to affirm that the carnage there distinguishes little between Hindu and Muslim.
- China And India - Is Democracy The Defining Difference? (Business Line, Alok Ray, Aug 12, 2003)
The democratic system in India makes for slow and sometimes tortuous progress as it has to rely on consensus building. But this may turn out to be more stable and irreversible than what has happened in China
- Competition And Ethical Behaviour (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Aug 11, 2003)
IT IS said that when competition gets tough, market pressures can drive you to be unethical. On the other side of the same argument, in a tough market, competitors are carefully watching each other to report unethical behaviour to bring the competitor ...
- Governmental Audit System - A Prisoner Of Procedures? (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Aug 11, 2003)
The Prime Minister's recent criticism of the government's audit system for making the executive a prisoner of procedure should provoke introspection by the CAG's auditors.
- Severe Doses Prescribed To Check Spurious Drugs (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Aug 11, 2003)
The Mashelkar Committee, looking into the menace of spurious drugs, proposes death penalty as one of the ‘‘more deterrent measures’’ needed to check the manufacture and distribution of such drugs.
- ‘i Am Not The Vhp’s Bonded Labourer’ (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Aug 10, 2003)
First flutter within the hawks as temple trust chief says peaceful talks with ‘younger brother’ Muslims only option; On Kashi & Mathura, less dovish: let’s have 10-12 yrs of peace, we’ll see
- Newsreel: 10.08.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2003)
A day after Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani moots the idea of holding synchronised elections to Lok Sabha and state Assemblies, Election Commissioner T.S. Krishnamurthy says they have not received any proposal from the Government yet. He also asserts
- Boycott Lunch And Dinner (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 09, 2003)
You may raise some questions about our politicians’ intellect or integrity but there is no faulting their instincts. So how does the Parliament of India assert its sovereign authority the moment the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), which is now
- Toxicola Debate: Us Embassy Cold To Pepsi & Coke (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Aug 08, 2003)
Yesterday's Parliament ban on their products may have more symbolic than substantive value but as a slew of states began sending samples for testing, a worried Coca-Cola and Pepsico started damage control. This included approaching the US Embassy for help
- Supreme Court Strikes (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2003)
IT WOULD BE no exaggeration to state that the Supreme Court's decision in the Tamil Nadu Government staff strike case has largely gone the State Government way. True, the Court has not upheld as valid the orders issued under the Tamil Nadu Essential ...
- Gas Pricing - Decontrol User Industries First (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , Aug 08, 2003)
Before deregulating gas prices, the Government should consider the interests of major user industries such as power and fertilisers, which are yet to be fully liberated from control. Also, the price of domestic gas should not be linked to the price of
- Corporate Irresponsibility (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2003)
MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES HAVE been put in the dock once again by the Centre for Science and Environment: its laboratory tests have revealed that the soft drinks marketed by these firms contain pesticide residues well in excess of European Union ...
- The Right And Wrong Of Strikes (Business Line, A. Seshan, Aug 08, 2003)
THE Supreme Court has pronounced that government employees do not have the right to strike work. In its judgment, it has taken exception to the widespread inconvenience suffered by the public when a large number of government staff go on strike. Trade
- Speaking Against Tradition (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Aug 07, 2003)
It was strange to see two funerals turning into semi-political rallies recently. One was the cremation of former RSS chief Rajju Bhaiya and the other the last rites of Ramjanambhoomi Nyas president Mahant Ramchandra Paramhans. RSS and BJP leaders ...
- Storm Over A Teacup (Business Line, R. Narayanaswamy, Aug 07, 2003)
On the tussle between Indian and international accounting firms.
- Home And The World: Revisiting Violence (Indian Express, BINA AGARWAL, Aug 07, 2003)
While there is no simple answer to why men abuse their wives, balance of property could prove a deterrent. An analysis.
- A Constitution For Europe (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Aug 07, 2003)
The fundamental issue is not as much about technocratic management of the E.U.'s institutions as it is about its very identity. It involves deciding what Europe is, what it aspires to be.
- Greenpeace For Closure Of Kerala Coca-Cola Plant (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2003)
International environment campaigner Greenpeace has demanded closure of the Coca-Cola plant at Plachimada in Palakkad district claiming that the sludge from the plant was found to contain hazardous heavy metal contents and for violation of ground water an
- On The Yellow Brick Road (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Aug 06, 2003)
John Loudon McAdam was born in 1756 and died in 1836. I vaguely remember reading about McAdam in school. I suspect McAdam has now moved out of school textbooks.
- Domain Name Hindutva (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2003)
Aryavarta reaches Silicon Valley. The saffronised history spawned on innumerable websites by amateur NRI historians may well be the most tangible, if not most agreeable product of India’s globalisation.
- India: The Emerging R&d Hub (Business Line, P. Balakrishna, Aug 06, 2003)
EVER since Texas Instruments set up a research and development centre in Bangalore in 1985, more and more foreign companies have realised the benefits of carrying out significant R&D work in India. According to a study conducted by the Administrative
- The Congress Slide From Shimla (Hindu, Harish Khare , Aug 06, 2003)
The Shimla excitement, unfortunately, lasted only a few days. And since then the Congress has relapsed into a strange paralysis.
- No Mere Dispute, It’s Aggression (Deccan Herald, N Haridas, Aug 06, 2003)
When China invaded Tibet in 1950, the world wanted Nehru to rush to the defence of the monks. But he did not
- In A Mesopotamian Muddle (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Aug 05, 2003)
General Richard Myers, US military bossman, has come and gone. He said he did not discuss Indian troops for Iraq. Oh yeah. Like pigs have wings. Presumably he visited because he wanted to see our monsoon rains pouring down as relief from the arid wastes
- For An Alternative Food Policy (Hindu, Brinda Karat, Aug 05, 2003)
If the Government is serious about dealing with the problems of the PDS, it will have to give up the targeted system and adopt a universal system so as to ensure that no section of the population is deprived of food.
- Four Acres Of Fashion, Fourteen Of A Funeral (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Aug 04, 2003)
Want to buy the TV channels a ruler so they develop a sense of scale. The India Fashion Week receives more prominence than Kargil Divas, the National Film Awards are telecast live on TV (Zee) but the First National AIDS Convention (on the same day) is ...
- Growth Bulls On Rampage... But Wait For Exhaustion To Set In (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Aug 04, 2003)
The unjustified euphoria and desperation in financial markets will sort themselves out eventually. Needed now is patience underpinned by a sound understanding of the underlying economic fundamentals
- Resurgent Tribalism In Fiji (Hindu, Sam Rajappa, Aug 04, 2003)
Over decades, the gulf between the indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians has widened.
- Mumbai Cares (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2003)
Maharashtra domestic helps to get ID, paid leave soon
- Newsreel: 27.07.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2003)
INSTITUTIONS, not individuals, is what makes a democracy tick. Against a backdrop of farcical investigations and fleeing victims, the National Human Rights Commission decides to take the Best Bakery case — one among the many gruesome incidents during the
- Raipur Cholera Outbreak: Seven Killed (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2003)
At least seven people have died due to a confirmed outbreak of gastroenteritis in Raipur. Two cholera cases have also been reported and over 40 people suffering from gastroenteritis admitted to various hospitals.
- From Here To Maternity (Indian Express, ANURADHA MASCARENHAS, Aug 02, 2003)
The warmth was still missing. That’s what I felt the last time I was here, four years ago. Things had changed. Oh yes, the air-conditioned labour room was nicely done up and the hospital authorities now allowed a family member to accompany the patient.
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