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Articles 321 through 420 of 500:
- Farm It Out, But Keep The Safety Net In Place (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2007)
Just three weeks after unveiling the new agriculture policy in the state, which among other things allowed private investment and contract farming in the agrarian sector, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has ordered a rollback.
- Tata Group Emerges Largest Taxpayer (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2007)
Reliance Industries (Mukesh Ambani Group) comes second
- Dr Heckle & Mr Hyde (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 23, 2007)
The Hyde Act was enacted by the US Congress in December explicitly to promote ‘nuclear cooperation’ between India and the US and enable them to sign an agreement under Section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act, 1954. It is highly significant that the . . . .
- Sensex Surges 260 Pts On Firm Global Trend (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2007)
The Sensex on Wednesday surged 260 points to close above 14,000 level on revival of buying interest among investors, who were reassured by firmness in the Asian and European markets.
- N-Energy Will Cost 3 Times As Much As Coal (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Aug 23, 2007)
Energy from imported nuclear reactors will cost three times as much as that available from coal-fired power plants and will on an average meet just about three to five per cent of the national power demand.
- Sensex Slips Below 14k (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2007)
Bears ruled the roost on Dalal Street on Tuesday not because of any negative business or commercial sentiments but because of uncertainty of the UPA Government.
- Simple But Efficient Steps For Energy Independence (Deccan Herald, JAYALAKSHMI K, Aug 22, 2007)
With discipline in usage of electricity, 10 per cent energy saving is possible. All employees should inculcate the habit of switching off lights and fans when not in use.
- India Inc Converts, Loosens Fccb Bonds (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2007)
Foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCB) are losing their sheen. After becoming India Inc’s favourite fund-raising instrument, FCCBs are falling out of favour due to rising interest costs, declining premia and lower conversion into equity.
- India Inc Goes Global Shopping (Asia Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2007)
Indian companies struck 550 merger and acquisition deals worth US$55 billion in the first six months of 2007 - already more than the size of M&A deals in all last year - leaving a new Asian imprint whose implications on the global economy raise . . . . .
- Sensex Rebounds, Up 117pts; Tata Steel Up 3% (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2007)
The Sensex has rebounded sharply into the positive zone and is now up 117 points at 14,106.
- Ril Unable To Keep Retail Vow (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2007)
Reliance Industries (RIL) has expressed inability to meet its commitment of opening fuel outlets in non-profit areas unless the government abandons the policy of selective compensation.
- Political Uncertainty Nukes Sensex (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2007)
The Sensex was pummelled below the 14,000 mark as the face off between the Left and the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh continued.
- Reliance Sees Hydrocarbon Prospects In New Kg Block (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2007)
19 Lady luck seems to be smiling once again at Reliance Industries Ltd’s (RIL) exploration efforts in Krishna Godavari (KG) Basin. Indications are that the company may see good hydrocarbon prospects in its D4 block off the East coast.
- Court Drama Snarls Myanmar-India Romance (Asia Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2007)
On nearly all counts, India-Myanmar bilateral relations are on the upswing, with fast-growing military, trade and investment links.
- Exit Iran's Oil Minister, And A Pipeline Too (OutLook, Siddharth Srivastava, Aug 20, 2007)
India's quest to expand the use of natural gas as a major energy source has experienced several recent setbacks.
- Sensex Down 217 Pts, But Fed Move Holds Out Hope (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2007)
The lifeline came sooner than the market expected. The unfolding subprime crisis forced the world’s most powerful monetary authority US Federal Reserve to cut the rate at which it lends to banks.
- Cross Talk (Frontier Post, V. Sridhar, Aug 18, 2007)
THE lone publicly owned nationwide mobile phone operator, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL), is caught in the crossfire of a factional feud within the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).
- Mim Attacked Taslima To Prove Its Credentials As An Islamist Force (Pioneer, Omer Farooq, Aug 17, 2007)
With the outrageous assault on Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, the All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen is once again the focus of attention, sparking intense debate on its ideology, thinking and role in Hyderabad's political and social life.
- Exit Iran's Oil Minister, And A Pipeline Too (Asia Times, Siddharth Srivastava, Aug 17, 2007)
India's quest to expand the use of natural gas as a major energy source has experienced several recent setbacks.
- Sena’S Sez Protest Turns Violent, Joshi Held (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 17, 2007)
At least 15 policemen and others were injured when the ‘jail bharo’ agitation called by the Shiv Sena and farmers against the proposed Reliance Industries-led Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Raigad turned violent, with the . . . . . . .
- Manic Thursday Shaves 642 Points Off Sensex (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 17, 2007)
With the bulls cringing for cover under the heavy and frenzied fusillade unleashed by the bears, the benchmark 30-scrip Sensex tanked 642-point as foreign funds sought safer havens ducking possible spread of US subprime mortgage crisis.
- Court Drama Snarls Myanmar-India Romance (Asia Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 17, 2007)
On nearly all counts, India-Myanmar bilateral relations are on the upswing, with fast-growing military, trade and investment links. All, that is, but on one count: the unsettling revelations emerging from a case being heard in an Indian court about . . .
- Shiv Sena’S Anti-Sez Protest Turns Violent (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 17, 2007)
Shiv Sainiks went on the rampage in Navi Mumbai on Thursday to protest against the Reliance Group’s Special Economic Zone (SEZ) coming up in Raigad district.
- Imf In Crisis (Frontline, WALDEN BELLO, Aug 17, 2007)
TEN years after the Asian financial cataclysm of 1997, the economies of the western Pacific Rim are growing, though not at the rates they enjoyed before the crisis.
- Defence Sector: Huge Potential To Be Tapped (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 17, 2007)
The script of the Indian Defence sector, as played out in the last 60 years, seems to have an air of under-achievement and inevitability.
- Government May Move Court On Reliance Gas Price (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2007)
The government is poised to question Reliance Industries’ decision to commit 40 million metric standard cubic metres of gas per day from its find in the Krishna-Godavari basin to state-owned NTPC and the Anil Ambani-controlled Reliance Natural Resources.
- Increasing Disconnect Between Economy And Stock Market (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Aug 16, 2007)
The country’s capital market is increasingly influenced by global developments because of the active participation by FIIs and big corporates’ growing appetite for global borrowings.
- Technical Snag Hits Ril Testing Activity In Cauvery Block (Business Line, Richa Mishra, Aug 16, 2007)
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) seems to have suffered a minor hiccup in its successful Cauvery asset.
- Reliance Plans 2 Marts In B'lore (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2007)
Reliance Retail, which, on Tuesday, opened its first hypermarket here, and plans to open 30 more such superstores across the country, will set up two in Bangalore.
- Equity Investors' Wealth Zooms 1,000-Times In 60 Years (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2007)
As India turns a senior citizen, so to say, investors in equity markets have made wealth worth crores with average market value of listed companies growing to near Rs 1,000 crore on Wednesday from less than one crore in 1947.
- Threat To Retail (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 14, 2007)
This week thousands of Indian small shopkeepers took to the streets to protest against the arrival of international retailers in India, just days after Wal-Mart announced its plans to expand in the country.
- A Father Betrayed (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 14, 2007)
Since independence and partition, no event has so divided the Indian people as the demolition of a mosque in the northern town of Ayodhya in December 1992.
- The Making Of A Miracle (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 14, 2007)
One early morning in Bangalore - at about six, before the traffic thickened and made the timing of any cross-town journey the subject of doubting speculation - an enterprising young man called Arun Pai took me in his car to the edge of the Karnataka Golf
- Nuclear Deal Could Help Psus (Hindu, Sujay Mehdudia, Aug 14, 2007)
The clearance of the Indo-U.S. nuclear in the coming days is likely to open up a window of opportunities for the public sector undertaking power companies as well as the private sector to make foray into the nuclear power generation business.
- Coffee & Funds (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 13, 2007)
It is astonishing that 43 years after Unit Trust of India started US64 and 14 years after the first private mutual funds were permitted, less than 2 per cent of the working population has invested in them according to an Invest India survey.
- Don’T Bank On A Bail-Out (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 10, 2007)
There is a spin being given to the latest increase in the cash reserve ratio (CRR) last week. It is that the Reserve Bank had no alternative because the commercial banks were drowning in liquidity following the conversion of billions of dollars on . . . .
- “For Nuclear Renaissance, The World Needs India” (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Aug 10, 2007)
As Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, R. Chidambaram has played a crucial behind-the-scenes role in the formulation of India’s approach to the question of civil nuclear cooperation with the United States.
- Stormy Session Ahead? (Business Line, R. C. Rajamani, Aug 10, 2007)
As Parliament begins its monsoon session today, the Opposition as well the Left partners of the UPA Government are determined to bring to centre-stage the “unanswered questions” in the Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
- Reliance To Invest $10b In Egypt For Petro Goods (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2007)
The Egyptian government said on Thursday that the Indian industrial group Reliance will invest $10 billion in the oil refining, petrochemicals and plastics industries in Egypt.
- Maha Mumbai Sez Gets One Year (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2007)
Mukesh Ambani-promoted Maha Mumbai SEZ got a fresh lease of life on Wednesday with the government granting it another year to complete land acquisition.
- Boa Clears Two Sezs Of Infosys (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2007)
The Central Government on Wednesday cleared proposals for setting up four new special economic zones (SEZs), including two of the information technology major Infosys Tech- nologies.
- Wal-Mart Enters India With Bharti Wholesale Deal (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2007)
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Bharti Enterprises signed a much-delayed agreement on Monday that gives the world's largest retailer a foothold in the fast-growing but highly controlled Indian market.
- Counsel: This Kind Of Quota Will Create Vested Interest (Hindu, J. Venkatesan, Aug 09, 2007)
He says it does not remedy backwardness, it deifies and perpetuates it
No data to establish the exact social malaise sought to be remedied
Beneficiaries with a necessary degree of specificity need to be identified
- Underdeveloped At 60! (Dawn, I. A. Rehman, Aug 09, 2007)
FREEDOM, even when limited and facile, is a thousand times preferable to bondage, and there can be no reservation on thanksgiving by the Pakistani people on their state’s 60th birth anniversary.
- Sensex Zooms 375 Points (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2007)
On the back of strong Asian markets coupled with Government's move to tighten external commercial borrowing norms, bulls went wild on the Dalal street and lifted Sensex by 375 points on Wednesday.
- Hike In Cash Reserve Ratio: Unnecessary Step (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Aug 09, 2007)
The Reserve Bank's justification for increasing the Cash Reserve Ratio, all these years, is utterly false.
- Ril’S Mumbai Sez Gets Extension (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2007)
Commerce secretary G.K. Pillai said on Wednesday that the Central government had extended by one year the in-principle approval to Mukesh Ambani’s Maha Mumbai SEZ.
- Need To Develop Gas Sector (Deccan Herald, Bhamy V Shenoy, Aug 08, 2007)
Natural gas industry failed to develop due to the misguided approach of authorities.
- Sbi Mf Is Most Popular Mf Brand: Study (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2007)
SBI Mutual Fund has emerged as the most popular mutual fund brand, leaving behind ICICI Prudential MF and Reliance Mutual Fund, in a survey conducted by global research firm The Nielsen Company (TNC.)
- Sonia Team For Modi Mission (Telegraph, Radhika Ramaseshan, Aug 08, 2007)
Three months ahead of the Gujarat elections, Sonia Gandhi has put her team in place.
- Ril Tricks Govt By Goldplating Kg Basin (Pioneer, Bhagyashree Pande, Aug 07, 2007)
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) claims that it should get market determined price for the gas that it produces from the KG basin fields.
- From Gas To Hot Air (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 07, 2007)
Surprisingly, venture capitalists are putting their money where their mouths haven’t been, for the most part — by investing in what are supposedly ‘green’ technologies.
- Ministers To Look Into Gas Pricing (Hindu, Sujay Mehdudia, Aug 07, 2007)
In a bid to resolve the controversial gas pricing issue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday constituted an Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM), headed by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
- Farmers Can Knock On Sc Doors (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2007)
While dismissing the petition challenging the allotment of land to Anil Ambanis ADA Group for the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Dadri in Noida, a bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, Justice Tarun Chatterjee and Justice R V Raveendran . . . .
- India Inc: Coming Of Age (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 07, 2007)
If the M&A deals struck in the first half of 2007 are any indication, it appears that the boom witnessed in 2006 is likely to continue. Corporate finance activity in India saw 382 deals worth Rs 1,047 billion ($26 billion) in the first half of . . . .
- Back The Big Player (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 07, 2007)
Vilfredo Pareto's contributions in economics have more than stood the test of time. Indeed, the concept of Pareto efficiency or Pareto optimality has become a fundamental principle in neo-classical economics.
- Notices To Haryana, Maharashtra (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2007)
The Supreme Court today issued notices to Haryana and Maharashtra governments on a petition by Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries seeking adjudication of all special economic zones (SEZ) related cases by the apex court to avoid . . . .
- No Confirmed News Of Al-Qaida Threat: Minister (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2007)
The Supreme Court today issued notices to Haryana and Maharashtra governments on a petition by Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries seeking adjudication of all special economic zones (SEZ) related cases by the apex court to avoid multiplicity . . . .
- Wal-Mart Enters India With Bharti Wholesale Deal (Singapore Times, A N Sudarsan Rao , Aug 07, 2007)
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Bharti Enterprises signed a much-delayed agreement on Monday that gives the world's largest retailer a foothold in the fast-growing but highly controlled Indian market.
- Change Around The Corner? (Dawn, Shahid Javed Burki, Aug 07, 2007)
IF Pakistan holds reasonably fair elections in the next few months, we can expect some major changes of the type that occurred in 1970 when a new political force, the Pakistan People’s Party, suddenly burst on the political scene.
- Women Spaces — The Only Answer To Harassment? (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Aug 06, 2007)
There is a growing worldwide trend for women-only spaces on trains, beaches and in hotels. But do they make women any safer?
- Reliance Ind Weighs $6-B Semi-Conductor Foray (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2007)
Reliance Industries is considering a foray into the manufacture of semi-conductors.
- Sensex Regains 15k Mark, Up 152 Points (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2007)
After a strong global bear hug on Thursday markets recovered on Friday, as bulls worked very hard on Dalal Street on support from firming global trends and marginal fall in inflation rate.
- Up, Through Highs And Lows (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Aug 03, 2007)
542 points down. July 30/31: 316 points up. August 1: 615 points down.
- Enriched By The Deal (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 03, 2007)
Before I shower encomiums on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the government and the group of dedicated negotiators for the Indo-US nuclear deal, a few caveats.
- Unpa Decides To Expose Upa On Nuke Deal (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2007)
Firm on asserting their separate identity in Parliament, the UNPA has decided to oppose the Indo-US civil nuclear deal when it comes up for discussion in the House.
- From Technocracy To Democracy? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 03, 2007)
Electricity regulators need to develop and defend norms of practice that include a more detailed scrutiny, proactive data collection, and a willingness to ask larger questions about achieving sectoral improvement.
- The Long Term Damage To Kerala’S Health (Hindu, Vinod Thomas, Aug 02, 2007)
The State is struggling to cope with the spread of Chikungunya, dengue, and other viral fevers.
- Asean Stuck On Myanmar (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 02, 2007)
South-East Asian nations, which have depended on consensus in dealing with regional issues, are finding that the need for unanimity can stymie change.
- Advantage Argentina (Business Line, R. Viswanathan , Aug 02, 2007)
The Argentine economy has recovered remarkably well after the economic and debt default crisis of 2001.
- Sensex Down After World Market Crash (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2007)
The after shocks of the chaos in the sub-prime mortgage market in the US sent tremors throughout the Asian stock markets and took its toll on the Indian markets.
- Sensex Down 600 Pts On Global Worries (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2007)
The spectre of defaults in sub-prime lending in the US housing loan market, which spooked markets worldwide, didn’t spare the country’s bourses either.
- Refuse New Us ‘Escape Clauses’: Swamy (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2007)
Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy has issued a statement from the United States, maintaining that his "enquiries" in the US Senate had revealed "that based on a letter written by eleven senators to the chairman of the Senate. . .
- Sensex Down 461pts; Acc Plunges 5% (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2007)
The Sensex is now down 461 points at 15,090.
- Reliance Power Bags Sasan Project (Hindu, Sujay Mehdudia, Jul 31, 2007)
Putting an end to the nearly nine-month-long uncertainty, the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on Monday decided to award the controversial 4,000 MW Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project to Anil Ambani-led Reliance Power Ltd (RPL) after the group . . . .
- Chidambaram To Shourie, All Agree: Key To Growth Is Delivery Of Governance To The Poor (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 31, 2007)
What is the single big idea of economic reforms? One idea that can be implemented despite the inertia of politics and government?
- Reliance Energy Wins Sasan Project (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 31, 2007)
The government on Monday awarded the 4,000 MW Sasan ultra mega power project in Madhya Pradesh to Anil Ambani’s Reliance Energy as its revised bid of Rs 1.19616 per kilo watt hour was the lowest.
- Reliance Power Outbids Others To Grab Sasan Ump Project (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 31, 2007)
Anil Ambani's Reliance Energy Ltd (REL) won the bid for Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project. An empowered Group of Ministers (eGoM) on Monday gave the 4,000 MW project to Reliance Power Ltd (RPL), a subsidiary of REL.
- Apna Pariah (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 31, 2007)
Have you caught the new flick Apne yet? Amar Singh is acting as himself, or rather as he was: ‘a well-respected politician’ who is chief guest at an award ceremony.
- India's Reliance Energy Wins Us$4 Billion Sasan Power Project (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 31, 2007)
India's Reliance Energy Ltd. has won a bid to build a US$4.9 billion (€3.6 billion) power project in central India that will boost the company's generating capacity five-fold.
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