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Articles 11221 through 11320 of 12047:
- Gop Democrats (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Aug 02, 2003)
Colourful sideshow? Or irresistible knock on the door? The American dream come good or just an overambitious immigrant nicknamed Baboo? This week, THE ECONOMIST framed the challenge mounted by the first American from the Indian subcontinent ever to run
- Iim Comes To Freshen North Block Air (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Aug 02, 2003)
In his quest for a qualitative change in governance in today’s complex and competitive environment, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani has roped in two top management gurus from Ahmedabad to train senior bureaucrats in the fine art of leadership.
- The Battle In Britain's Universities (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Aug 01, 2003)
New Labour's resolve to open up access to higher education... has created a numbers crisis which universities are finding hard to cope with.
- Codifying Personal Laws (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Aug 01, 2003)
The real controversy is over the codification of `personal laws' based on religion or custom.
- Rural Electrification - Time For Corporate Sector To Repay Debt (Business Line, S. Padmanabhan , Aug 01, 2003)
The rural sector has for long borne the brunt of an inefficient power supply system. The Electricity Act 2003, however, empowers rural pockets to plan their generation, distribution and tariffs, and even opt out of the State grid. The Act also benefits
- Bpos And Backlash (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2003)
EVERY PASSING DAY brings news of a growing backlash in the European Union and the United States against the outsourcing of business in information technology enabled services (ITES) to India. Since it is the search to cut salary costs that is ...
- Detested Abroad, Unpopular At Home (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jul 31, 2003)
Amid growing disillusionment in Britain with the new Tony Blair, and mounting criticism by the Americans of their President pushing them into an unnecessary war, Washington think-tanks are suggesting the involvement of Iraqi people in the clean up, while
- The American Dream - Made In China (Indian Express, EDWARD BERNARD GLICK, Jul 30, 2003)
In the early 1990s, I lived and worked in Japan, and my wife and I occasionally travelled in the region. However, we refused to go to mainland China because we were still fuming over the spectacle of Chinese troops massacring Chinese students in Beijing’s
- Andhra Killer Is A New Virus, Back From The Cold (Indian Express, MADHAV GOKHALE, Jul 30, 2003)
Contrary to reports that Japanese encephalitis was to blame for the death of 250 children in north Andhra Pradesh and central-eastern Maharashtra, scientists at Pune’s National Virology Institute (NIV) have identified Chandipura, a rhabdovirus, as the
- Time For Pm To Put His Foot Down? (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Jul 30, 2003)
For more than two years, this country has been remonstrating with the United States that it is not doing enough to persuade or pressure Pakistan to end cross-border terrorism directed against India even though India and the U.S. are "partners" in the
- Will The Monsoon Bring Cheer? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 30, 2003)
THE SOUTH-WEST MONSOON, which is halfway through the four-month season, has turned in as good a performance as farmers could have wished for. Despite starting a week late, the monsoon has brought some of the heaviest and most evenly spread ...
- Generating Budgetary Resources In 21st Century (Business Line, Mukul Asher, Jul 30, 2003)
In the 21st century, the task of revenue generation will be quite complex, requiring concomitant reforms on the expenditure side and in budgeting systems, more effective use of information technology and better e-governance. India can certainly make good
- No Sacred Cows In Democracy (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Jul 29, 2003)
The defence minister says the media should not exaggerate the Akhnoor incident. But even a straight report makes dismal reading. A brigadier is killed in the attack. A lieutenant general, leading the Northern Command, is injured. Another lieutenant ...
- National Tax Tribunal - The Mirage Of Better Efficiency (Business Line, Arvind P. Datar, Jul 29, 2003)
THE Finance Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh, has proposed the creation of a National Tax Tribunal (NTT) and the setting up of 50 additional Benches of the Income-Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT).
- Sebi `Whip' Hurts Investors (Business Line, R. Ravi , Jul 28, 2003)
SEBI recently introduced two whips to listed companies, but these appear to be more a knee-jerk reaction to a few instances in which the schemes approved by courts contained certain provisions not in line with SEBI`s regulations or the provisions of the
- Militant Ranks Swell Under Gen’s Nose (Indian Express, MOHAMMAD SHEHZAD, Jul 28, 2003)
Outlawed jehadi outfits are back in action despite General Pervez Musharraf’s efforts to rein them in. Jehadi publications — Ghazwa, Majalla, Zarb-e-Taiba, Shamsheer and Zarb-e-Momin — reveal that between January and June this year, various groups have
- A Damaging World Bank Report (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jul 28, 2003)
The World Bank's development policy review report on India suggests not only that the development road ahead is long and very difficult, but also that if the right steps are not taken now the economy could be in grave trouble.
- History With A Twist (Hindu, Timeri N. Murari , Jul 28, 2003)
We are back in the 1950s, and back in history too. Except, instead of bringing people to the jobs, the jobs go out to the people where they live.
- Ethnicity And Politics In Fiji (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2003)
POLITICS IN THE Pacific island nation of Fiji has come a long way, with a Supreme Court ruling helping to heal the wounds inflicted by three coups since Fiji won independence from Britain in 1970. It is not clear whether the mainly Indian origin ...
- Karzai To Pak: Indians Building Schools, You Want Me To Stop Them? (Indian Express, AHMED RASHID, Jul 25, 2003)
Afghan leaders blame Pak for brainwashing jehadis into believing India with Northern Alliance has taken over Kabul
- China: Opening Up To A New World (Business Line, Ranjani Karthik, Jul 25, 2003)
SINCE December 11, 2001 — a year and three months after China's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) — it is apparent that the erstwhile communist economy has emerged from behind the Iron Curtain to take global competition head on. However,
- Equator Principles - Why Indian Banks Too Should Be Guided By Them (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Jul 25, 2003)
The Equator Principles — a voluntary set of guidelines developed for managing social and environmental issues related to the financing development projects — apply only to projects which cost $50 million or more, as those costing less represent only 3 ...
- India's Unbending Funding Problem (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Jul 25, 2003)
The probability that the unbending funding problem would become an unending funding problem is high. The problem is structural. The structural adjustment programme that began in 1991 has failed to address the issue of elitism in the government sector.
- A Welcome Relief (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2003)
THE SUPREME COURT has played a vital role in easing, and possibly bringing to an end, the highly undesirable situation that has developed on the ground in Tamil Nadu. This situation reflected the standoff between the State Government and about ...
- In Ahmedabad, They Had ‘blood On Their Hands’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 24, 2003)
This could be straight out of a horror film. A red liquid oozing from the floor of kitchen, bathroom and verandah of a house in Maninagar today morning made the blood of its 14 inhabitants run cold. The liquid was later identified as human blood by ...
- You Can’t Use ‘babu’ For Tn Bureaucrats: Top Ones Are Women (Indian Express, J BALAJI, Jul 24, 2003)
The debate over the Women’s Reservation Bill for women’s empowerment in politics may go on until kingdom come but in bureaucracy, at least, women are being empowered in one state—run by Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.
- Is It Really Brain Drain? (Business Line, Kala S. Sridhar, Jul 24, 2003)
Skilled workers earn many times more than their unskilled counterparts. In such cases, it is only the unskilled who can potentially gain from migrating to another country. The `brain drain' of skilled workers from India is due to the lack of a ...
- Idbi: Yielding To Bureaucratic Pressures (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, Jul 24, 2003)
With net non-performing assets as high as 14 per cent and fresh lending tapering off because of resource constraint, the IDBI may be said to have become dysfunctional. It is against this broad canvas that the various proposals to restructure IDBI need to
- A National, Not Communal, Issue (Indian Express, Gopal Krishna Agarwal, Jul 23, 2003)
The Ramjanambhoomi issue is not a religious but a political issue. The moment we consider it a religious matter, it becomes a conflict between Hindus and Muslims. Hindu philosophy talks of God being universal, omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent.
- Why We Should Go To Iraq (Indian Express, Radha Kumar, Jul 23, 2003)
The ends do not justify the means — but the means should not doom the ends either. India has a chance to help the right ends come about
- The Five Critical Tests - Will Britain Join Eurozone? (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Jul 23, 2003)
AFTER its mega launch in January 1999, the euro quickly lost turf against major global currencies. However, it has now made a turnaround, though more due to the relative weakness of the US dollar than the strength of the European economy. At the same time
- Beyond The Iraq Decision (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jul 23, 2003)
India's "no troops" decision suggests that the creeping "American veto" in our internal affairs is not irreversible.
- Tenth Plan: Ambitious Gdp Growth Target (Business Line, Ruddar Dutt, Jul 23, 2003)
THE Tenth Plan has set its seal on the target of 8 per cent average annual growth of GDP. It has also promised to bring this about by raising the level of gross domestic saving from 24.4 per cent of GDP in 2001-02 to 29.4 per cent in 2006-07 — a step-up
- A Question Of Accountability (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Jul 22, 2003)
For two long years and more, the scams and scandals which led to the collapse of the stock market in March 2001 resulted in market capitalisation tottering at half the peak figure of February 2000. Stagnation in capital markets has gravely impacted on
- Ajt: Single Or Twin-Engine? (Business Line, Prem Kumar , Jul 22, 2003)
Twin-engine trainers ensure lower peacetime attrition rate and desired safety especially when operating over densely populated areas. Consequently, the issue at stake for India would be to choose between giving its pilots the desired twin-engine trainer
- Ford Centenary: A Legacy Revisited (Business Line, Vinod Jacob, Jul 22, 2003)
THE automotive industry came into being in the 1880s and, over the decades, created a revolution of science, technology and people. Unlike the aerospace industry, the auto industry is of the masses and is, as Peter Drucker claims, "the industry of
- Pakistan’s Anti-India Pathology (Indian Express, HAROLD A. GOULD, Jul 21, 2003)
Probably the most significant utterance made by General Pervez Musharraf made at his Camp David meeting with President George Bush last month went unnoticed by the press. At one point, after US President Bush declared that he is “hopeful that the two ...
- The Strategy Of Collaboration (Business Line, R. Devarajan, Jul 21, 2003)
WHOEVER you are, whatever your management function, it is not possible for you to accomplish all your tasks and goals by yourself. You need the assistance of other people such as customers, suppliers, colleagues, superiors, and subordinates.
- Suicide Theory Stronger, Blair Pleads Restraint (Indian Express, Paul Majendie, Jul 20, 2003)
British PM Tony Blair’s government was shaken to the core by the death of a scientist ensnared in a vitriolic row between BBC and the Labour administration over the Iraq war. As British media tore into the government’s handling of the affair, Blair
- 35 Or 150? Exact Toll May Never Be Known (Indian Express, DHARMENDRA RATAUL, Jul 20, 2003)
: While officials and locals continue to differ on the death toll in the flash floods that ravaged Shilahgarh village on the bank of the Pulia Nalla in Kullu, the exact number of casualties may never be known. Officials say the toll may not exceed 35
- Debris-Clearing Operation Stepped Up In Shilagarh (Indian Express, DHARMENDRA RATAUL, Jul 19, 2003)
Even though the debris-clearing operation in Shilagarh village, the site of the flash floods caused by the cloud burst, was speeded up today, confusion continued to prevail over the count of the dead with the administration and locals having different
- Lessons From Andhra Pradesh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 19, 2003)
FOR ABOUT A month now, a virulent viral fever suspected to be encephalitis has afflicted Andhra Pradesh and claimed at least 120 lives. Central teams of paediatricians and virologists are studying the epidemic, but the unfortunate truth is that ...
- Development Approaches (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Jul 19, 2003)
If the human development approach is to lead anywhere in the formulation of alternative policy perspectives, its advocates have to look at taking it further than refinement of the human development index.
- Vajpayee Visit - Foreign Policy Lessons From China (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Jul 18, 2003)
The Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee's China visit has important foreign policy lessons for India. There is in India a tendency to look at China as the greatest threat, or believe that Beijing is all goodwill. But what we need to remember is that
- ‘our Ties Mature, Will Continue To Climb’ (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Jul 18, 2003)
US Ambassador Robert Blackwill today made it clear that New Delhi’s decision to keep its troops out of Iraq until there’s an explicit UN mandate would not invite any backlash from his country.
- Over 35 Workers Washed Away In Kullu Flash Floods (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2003)
At least 35 people were washed away and property worth lakhs of rupees damaged when a cloudburst flash-flooded Shilagarh village in Gursa Valley of Kullu district in Himachal Pradesh early Wednesday morning. However, Deputy Police Commissioner R D Nazeem
- Some Real Action For Fake Drugs? (Indian Express, Harinder Sikka, Jul 16, 2003)
All those raking profit from fake drugs businesses are knowingly killing patients and deserve to be sent to dungeons... I am going to push for a bill in the Parliament’s Monsoon Session that would seek death penalty for the merchants of death.” This was
- Wasteful Rituals (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 16, 2003)
WHEN the United States emerged after the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the first thing that the founding fathers did was to do away with the elaborate rituals, dress codes and titles that the British had introduced. In fact, emissaries to the Royal
- State Vat: Take Measures To Counter Effects (Business Line, R. Srinivasan, Jul 16, 2003)
The implementation of VAT as part of the reforms process is inevitable, though its implication for the public revenue of the States is a cause for concern. Corrective measures need to be put in place to counter the adverse impact of this tax system on the
- National Water Grid - A Hundred-Year-Old Plan (Business Line, Ch. Prashanth Reddy , Jul 16, 2003)
MUCH is being talked and written about inter-linking of rivers. While there is a vague recognition that this is not a new idea, few politicians, engineers or members o the public know that the concept dates back at least 120 years.
- Troops May Not Go To Baghdad But Gi Joe Is Learning Hindi (Indian Express, Reshma Patil, Jul 15, 2003)
New interest in region prompts US Defence to set up system to translate Hindi to English, search databases
- Ending An Era Of Indignity (Hindu, V. Suryanarayan, Jul 15, 2003)
The bipartisan consensus (on conferring citizenship on Tamils of recent Indian origin) is a good augury. It will take the issue away from the arena of competitive politics, which has done incalculable harm to Sri Lanka.
- Will Imf's Next Chief Economist Think Outside The Box? (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jul 14, 2003)
THE International Monetary Fund has announced the forthcoming appointment of Dr Raghuram Rajan, a 40-year-old Professor of Finance at the University of Michigan, as its upcoming Chief Economist. The young economist is obviously one of the promising
- Is A Storm Brewing In The Valley? (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jul 13, 2003)
The 'Healing Touch' policy of the Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Government in Jammu and Kashmir could soon be tested by sterner challenges than it has had to face so far, writes PRAVEEN SWAMI.
- Another Md Says Tata (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Jul 13, 2003)
Three years ago, Rallis India went through enormous turmoil which led to the exit of the then Managing Director Vijay Rai and a change in its external auditors. This was followed up by a clean-up phase, but it hasn’t quite worked that way. On Saturday
- Informed To Understand (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 08, 2003)
Although most adults do not naturally think of working in collaboration with children, many have been convinced of the value of doing so, whether by public-education campaigns or more specific training. Those who live and work most closely with children
- Lost Ground (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 08, 2003)
A peace process is never easy, and hurdles are only to be expected. What cannot be anticipated is a sudden annihilation of the very grounds the process had begun to build on. The letter of the Sankaracharya of Kanchi, written on July 1 in answer to the
- Honourable Intent (Telegraph, SUDIPTA BHATTACHARJEE, Jul 08, 2003)
The Mizoram chief minister cannot go on playing the facilitator in other states and still hope to win the assembly elections
- Not This Way (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 05, 2003)
A boycott of Israel by liberal Western academia undermines the freedom on which the world of letters is founded
- Plenty Out Of Reach (Telegraph, BHASKAR DUTTA , Jul 03, 2003)
There are reports that this year’s rains may also be deficient. Since the total rainfall last year was also below normal, these reports have raised the spectre of droughts and starvation deaths in some parts of India. Not surprisingly, a recent panel ...
- In A Knife-Edge Position (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2003)
Adolescents inevitably find themselves at the sharpest edge of a tension between participation and protection that all children face. They are the world’s most immediate heirs: the next-age group to gain access to the advantages and opportunities of adult
- In Work And In Play (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 02, 2003)
States parties recognize that a mentally or physically disabled child should enjoy a full and decent life, in conditions which ensure dignity, promote self-reliance and facilitate the child’s active participation in the community. States parties agree
- Exodus From Paradise (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Jul 01, 2003)
The longer I stayed in my last job, the better it fitted me. The income it brought elevated me from comfort to luxury and finally extravagance. Then, just as I lapsed into complacency, my livelihood suddenly got ready to forsake me. I counted the money in
- A Touch Of Flu (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 24, 2003)
The West Bengal health minister is sounding very relieved. The children in Murshidabad are dying of nothing other than influenza. At least, so says the oracle from Pune. And looking back to his own experience as a doctor — never mind if that was well over
- The Outsourcing Backlash (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Jun 23, 2003)
Businessworld has just (June 16) done an excellent story on the outsourcing backlash India faces in the United States of America. Since 70 per cent of information technology exports are headed to the US and the share is even more for business process outs
- Living Too Closely Apart (Telegraph, ANURADHA KUMAR, Jun 23, 2003)
The caste-violence in Jalandhar’s Talhan village is the culmination of a longstanding animosity between the Jats and the local Dalits
- Revisiting Killing Fields (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jun 21, 2003)
While the high representatives of the great powers were deliberating global issues like security and terrorism in Phnom Penh, 13 million Cambodians were trying to come to grips with their own insecurities after their government succumbed to United Nations
- To Live By The Scripture (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Jun 20, 2003)
This book is a thoroughly researched work on the making of the Adi Granth. Gurindra Singh Mann has explored all available sources, both old and new, to trace the evolution of the Granth from its genesis to its culmination in the Guru Granth Sahib. All the
- Caught In A Vicious Trap (Telegraph, SANKAR SEN, Jun 19, 2003)
Not much is being done about women and children being brought into the flesh trade in India from Nepal and Bangladesh
- Time For Tea (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2003)
Labour militancy never solves an industrial problem. There are scores of examples to show how it can sound the death knell of an industry. The recent killing of three tea garden executives by enraged workers in Assam has ominous portents for the industry.
- Left In The Lurch (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Jun 17, 2003)
A social democratic approach, rather than communist tokenism, could have seen the women’s reservation bill through
- Our Bowl, Their Pot (Telegraph, GITHA HARIHARAN, Jun 15, 2003)
We don’t have to look for inspiration elsewhere, at the American melting pot, for example, with its reluctant multiculturalism. We have our own overflowing, piquant salad bowl. Our biggest strength is the Great Indian Experiment, a unique experiment in
- Child’s Play? If Only (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 15, 2003)
The best place to find top sportsmen is in schools. But, as Ajit Bezbaruah finds out, that’s one place almost completely off the sports radar, though some effort is now being made
- A Sanctioned Killing (Telegraph, Arshi Khan, Jun 12, 2003)
The instability and insecurity in Iraq are the result of US action, deliberate global ignorance and the UN’s failure to deliver justice
- Different Beds, Same Dreams (Telegraph, Jairam Ramesh, Jun 12, 2003)
In Beijing in December 1988, the octogenarian Deng Xiaoping told the 44-year-old Rajiv Gandhi that “if there should be an ‘Asian Age’ in the next century, then it could be realized only after India and China became developed economies”. When the ...
- Jobs Drain (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 11, 2003)
Across the world, resistance is increasing to outsourcing jobs moving to India. The British media complains of 200,000 banking and insurance jobs moving to India, CNN reports that 1 million Indians work for US-based companies, and within India, there are
- Advertising Is Risky Business (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 11, 2003)
A party that is not in a position to undertake a comprehensive ban due to its constitution or constitutional principles shall apply restrictions on all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship. This shall include, subject to the legal environment
- Turkmenistan Gas Pipeline: Mea Sets Stiff Terms For Partcipation (The Financial Express, HUMA SIDDQUI, Jun 10, 2003)
: The ministry of external affairs (MEA) has laid down stiff terms for Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Gail India participation in the Turkmenistan,
- Where Did All The Weapons Go? (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Jun 09, 2003)
“We know where [the weapons] are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, north and south somewhat.” — US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, 30 March 2003 It is...possible that they decided that they would destroy them prior to
- Globalisation: The Great Leveller (Jayanthi Iyengar) (Business Line, Jayanthi Iyengar, Jun 09, 2003)
Business process outsourcing is the best thing that could have happened to globalisation. It is a test that the developed world will have to pass if it wants to see the continuation of free markets.
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