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Articles 15121 through 15220 of 17201:
- Vat Regime: Myths And Realities (Business Line, M Veerappa Moily, Jun 22, 2004)
The arguments in favour of VAT on goods apply with equal force to services. Unless services are brought within the tax base, revenue growth from indirect taxes would remain constrained and the objective of reorienting the tax system towards greater ...
- New Deal For Agriculture (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 21, 2004)
By announcing a package of measures aimed at alleviating the burden of drought-hit agricultural borrowers and extending the scope of institutional credit to farmers, the United Progressive Alliance Government has moved swiftly to deliver on some key ...
- A Last Opportunity (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jun 21, 2004)
The visit of American Under Secretary of Commerce, Ken Juster, to Bangalore and New Delhi this week will be one of the last opportunities to make something out of the ambitious plan announced by the two sides
- A Bull Run And A Bear Stroll (Tribune, Girish Bhandari, Jun 21, 2004)
Sensex has turned into insanesex. The bull has floored all matadors and toreodors who waved red to it. Jumped the red light, say. For an ignoramus, I can’t make out a bull run from a bear stroll. Whether its the snort of the rampaging bull or the ...
- Women And Environment Continue To Suffer (Tribune, Kiran Soni Gupta, Jun 20, 2004)
The welfare of human beings is final reference point in judging the impact of what we do or fail to do. Women have an essential role to play in the development of sustainable and ecologically sound system of natural resource management.
- Team Manmohan Charting A New Course (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 20, 2004)
The message from the new Government at the Centre is clear. While economic reforms will continue, it will not be a mindless pursuit keeping the weak and the downtrodden out of its beneficial loop.
- The Men Who Matter (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 20, 2004)
The Prime Minister himself: No certificates are required to establish Manmohan Singh's credentials as a reformer. But his role has changed from the one he had 13 years ago and in the last eight years he is understood to have imbibed many political nuances
- Question Of Credibility (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 19, 2004)
So many bizarre things have happened in Mr Narendra Modi's Gujarat in the recent past that it is difficult to take anything said by the police there without a large pinch of salt.
- Towards Broadband Economy (Tribune, Gaurav Choudhury, Jun 19, 2004)
India's entry in the elite group of G-8 nations is reason enough for many to believe that the country has indeed reached the takeoff stage. However, from the takeoff stage to the stage of mass consumption, as is characterised in industrialised ...
- Debate On Reform And Development (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Jun 18, 2004)
Reforms in India have failed to focus on the end objectives of development, namely, reduction of poverty and improvement in the quality of life of bulk of the population.
- Biotechnology: The Encoded Message (Business Line, S. Venu , Jun 18, 2004)
Biotechnology involves the use of information on genetically controlled traits, combined with the technical ability to alter the expression of those traits, to provide enhanced biological organisms, which allow mankind to lessen the constraints imposed...
- Unctad Xi: Ict For Developing Countries (Business Line, K. J. Joseph, Jun 15, 2004)
The e-strategies and policies of developing countries need to integrate both production and use of ICT wherein much can be learnt and gained by South-South cooperation.
- Star Performer Goes Public (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 15, 2004)
The advent of India's largest information technology company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), in the Indian capital market might have been long delayed, but already, within days of the filing of its draft prospectus, there is a tremendous interest all...
- Keeping Off The Gm Bandwagon (Hindu, Suman Sahai , Jun 15, 2004)
It is embarrassing that India, with such agricultural strengths and dependencies, is lurching from biotech product to product with no defined policy to guide it.
- Good, Bad And Economics (Business Line, K. Gopalan, Jun 15, 2004)
Is there anything absolutely `good' or `evil'? Or, is everything a combination of good and bad? Mahatma Gandhi maintained that while man combines in him both the angel and the devil, the aim of social reformers should be to enable people foster the ...
- Asia's Male Tilt (Christian Science Monitor, editorial, Christian Science Monitor, Jun 15, 2004)
This year, millions of young men in China and India will reach their 19th birthday with little prospect of finding a wife. It's not that young, single women aren't available - it's that they don't exist in the same numbers.
- A Greater China That Will Dominate (Business Line, V. Sridhar, Jun 14, 2004)
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has to be commended for releasing a comprehensive set of recommendations on April 29 addressing various issues for accelerating the growth of broadband and high-speed Internet access in the country.
- A Case For Alternative Sources Of Power (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jun 14, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme has assured that steps will be taken to put in place policies to enhance the country's energy security, particularly in the area of oil.
- Women In Science (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 12, 2004)
Why aren't there more women in science? Their under-representation in the sciences is being recognised round the world as an important issue. It is not that they are not studying science.
- Don't Hoodwink Grandmothers Even If They Are Dead (Business Line, D. Murali , Jun 12, 2004)
When a 93-year old lady dies leaving behind a fortune for the benefit of her three children, and a granddaughter steps in as a trustee to manage the granny's estate, you would normally assume things are properly taken care of.
- A Solution At The Iims (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 11, 2004)
With the change in government in New Delhi, the controversy about fee revision at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) appears to be heading towards a solution.
- Sorry For The Interruption (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 11, 2004)
Place: Nehru Planetarium; Time: 10 a.m.; Date: June 8. Thousands of people had gathered on the lawns to witness the transit of Venus through special telescopes set up there.
- Life In Wto After The Peace Clause (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Jun 11, 2004)
IS THERE life for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after the expiry of the Peace Clause? The clause expired on December 31, 2003, unsung. Its extension was not considered in the WTO General Council Meeting held in mid-December 2003. By then it had ...
- Local Loop Unbundling: A New Dimension In Telecom Competition (Business Line, V. Sridhar, Jun 11, 2004)
THE Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has to be commended for releasing a comprehensive set of recommendations on April 29 addressing various issues for accelerating the growth of broadband and high-speed Internet access in the country.
- Celestial Delight (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 10, 2004)
Tuesday's celestial extravaganza must have made even a super power realise that it has no control over the movement of the planetary bodies.
- Give Diligence Its Due (Business Line, D. Murali , Jun 10, 2004)
TO BE DILIGENT is to be hardworking, industrious, assiduous, painstaking, meticulous, conscientious, thorough, attentive, methodical, careful, and much more, as the hardworking synonym finder of Word would inform. One would often like to assume that ...
- Simplifying The Issues (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 10, 2004)
The SEBI-appointed committee smile (Securities Market Leveraging Expert Task Force) looking into the capital market's hardware and software infrastructure, is examining ways at simplifying public issue
- Fdi Versus Fii (Business Line, Sudhanshu Ranade , Jun 10, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme of the new Government at the Centre stresses Foreign Direct Investment over Foreign Institutional Investment.
- Cmp: What Face The Reforms? (Hindu, Sharad Joshi , Jun 09, 2004)
The new Government's Common Minimum Programme promises reforms with a human face. But this is easier said than done, as implementation would encounter problems political and fiscal. Sharad Joshi examines the CMP, putting it in historical perspective.
- The Oil Xenophobia (Business Line, S. Majumder , Jun 09, 2004)
With global oil prices shooting up, there is all-round fear that petrol and diesel prices will go up and the subsidy burden for kerosene and LPG will swell.
- Cmp: What Face The Reforms? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Jun 09, 2004)
The new Government's Common Minimum Programme promises reforms with a human face. But this is easier said than done, as implementation would encounter problems political and fiscal. Sharad Joshi examines the CMP, putting it in historical persp ective.
- The Bjp's Past Is Not Its Future (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jun 09, 2004)
Hindutva once paid electoral dividends because it answered the needs of the moment. And that moment has passed.
- Security Scenario The Upa Has Its Loose Cannon (Statesman, Keith Flory, Jun 09, 2004)
The budget, scheduled for early next month, could serve as one indicator.
- The Bjp's Past Is Not Its Future (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jun 09, 2004)
Hindutva once paid electoral dividends because it answered the needs of the moment. And that moment has passed.
- The Oil Xenophobia (Hindu, S. Majumder , Jun 09, 2004)
WITH global oil prices shooting up, there is all-round fear that petrol and diesel prices will go up and the subsidy burden for kerosene and LPG will swell.
- The Return Of Milon Banerji (Tribune, S.S. Negi , Jun 08, 2004)
Milon Kumar Banerji may not be entirely surprised over his appointment as the Attorney-General of India. He had held the post of the topmost law officer of the country for four years during the P.V. Narasimha Rao regime from 1992 to 1996.
- How Healthy Is Our System? (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jun 08, 2004)
There is an urgent need to overhaul and strengthen the public health system.
- Generating Ill Wind? (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Jun 08, 2004)
"AN ill wind bloweth no man good," so said the poet. Now, it is alleged that the windmills too, do no good. Gujarat, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, and even North Wales, are now reaping the whirlwind of opprobrium of obscurantists and self-proclaimed ...
- A Case For Good Protectionism (Business Line, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Jun 08, 2004)
THE defeat of the NDA Government and the victory of the Congress(I) supported by the Left is one more symptom of the growing worldwide backlash against globalisation.
- 14th Lok Sabha: Mix Of Youth And Experience (Business Line, R. C. Rajamani, Jun 07, 2004)
AFTER the spell of politics and polemics, post Verdict 2004, issues of governance should be coming back in focus with the President scheduled to address the joint session of Parliament today (Monday, June 7).
- The Maharani Of Muck (AlterNet, Editorial, The Alternet, Jun 03, 2004)
India's most commercially successful English-language author is a 'traditional' mother of six who writes bodice-ripping novels and makes Indian feminists see red. Is she the Indian Jackie Collins, or the Indian Madonna?
- Domestic Politics And West Asia (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Jun 03, 2004)
The recent general election threw up some interesting aspects of major political parties' approach to the situation in West Asia.
- Friendship Can Never Be A One-Way Street (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Jun 03, 2004)
THERE were some interesting nuances in the approach of major political parties to the situation in West Asia during the recent general election.
- She Stoops To Conquer? (Pioneer, Harish C Gaur, Jun 03, 2004)
All along Ms Gandhi was projected to occupy the coveted post, being the president of the Congress.
- The New Cji Is Sensitive To Problems Of The Needy (Tribune, S.S. Negi , Jun 03, 2004)
Mr Justice R C Lahoti, who took over as Chief Justice of India (CJI) on June 1, is considered by legal experts as “conservative” in matters of interpretation of law, yet competent, sharp and sensitive to problems of the poor and the needy.
- Drama-Cracy! (Tribune, Vepa Rao, Jun 01, 2004)
Special effects: Mixed sounds and visuals of heads being tonsured, wrists waiting to be slashed, screams, breast-beating etc. Then, a brief mysterious creaking sound blows across the hall...
- Eliminating Hunger (Hindu, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Jun 01, 2004)
Food security and international partnership need to be discussed in a constructive manner between developed and developing states.
- Upa's Common Minimum Programme I: Issues And Implications (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jun 01, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme has done a good job of delineating the "human face" of economic reforms. It contains a "solemn pledge" to provide a Government that will not only be accountable, transparent, responsible and responsive "at all times" but ...
- ‘I Want To Build A Great Airport In Delhi’ (Tribune, Gaurav Chaudhury, May 31, 2004)
Telecom conglomerate Bharti Enterprises recently joined the elite club of billion dollar companies. Its founder, Chairman and group Managing Director, Mr Sunil Bharti Mittal, has often been credited by many as being one of the principal personalities ...
- Reconstructing India (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , May 31, 2004)
India needs healing. Its governance must return to the secularism and distributive justice goals of the Constitution.
- Sagarmala Project: Kochi Port Charts Major Plans (Business Line, Sajeev Kumar. V , May 31, 2004)
The Kochi port is taking initiatives under the Sagarmala Project to emerge as "a global hub port of India" offering single-window services for diverse requirements of the maritime trade.
- The Flight Of Saras (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 31, 2004)
Saras, The first civilian passenger aircraft to be designed and developed in the country, has spread its wings and taken to the air.
- Transgenic Muddle (Hindu, Meena Menon, May 31, 2004)
The focus must be less on biotechnology and more on cheaper and simpler ways of growing crops.
- Sonia Lays Down Her Legacy (Asia Times, Siddharth Srivastava, May 20, 2004)
It is said that in politics a week is a long time. In Indian politics, a couple of hours can change a situation upside down. Such is the case with Congress president Sonia Gandhi refusing to be prime minister, a position that was for her taking, . . .
- Gandhi Says She Will Not Become Prime Minister (Sydney Morning Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2004)
Sonia Gandhi announced yesterday she will not become prime minister of India.
- Gandhi Rejects Office Of Prime Minister (The Scotsman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2004)
The post of prime minister has never been my aim. My aim has always been to protect the secular foundations of our nation. I request you to accept my decision, and I will not revert" - Sonia Gandhi, Congress party president
- India Shining On A New Leader (The Seattle Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2004)
Ooops. All the experts and pundits in India got it wrong. Very wrong. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party was rudely tossed out in an election defeat no one saw coming.
- Behind The Surprise In India (Washington Post, Jim Hoagland, May 16, 2004)
That question is code for this scribe's personal and disappointed reaction to the defeat of Atal Bihari Vajpayee's coalition government in India just as it threatened to become an important U.S. partner and a major player in global economics and politics.
- India's Election Is Wake-Up Call For Markets: William Pesek Jr. (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, May 14, 2004)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee's election slogan was ``India Shining.'' The millions who don't feel part of the magic retorted with their own: ``We won't feel ignored.''
- India's Election Results Defeat Pollsters (AlterNet, Editorial, The Alternet, May 14, 2004)
The lesson of India is a bizarre one for American poll watchers. At a time when elections seem to turn into a mere validation of the opinion polls, there is a sense of cheeky delight in how an electorate can actually hoodwink the pollsters.
- The Upset In India (Washington Post, Editorial, Washington Post, May 14, 2004)
In 1998, WHEN Atal Bihari Vajpayee took the helm of the world's largest democracy, nobody predicted the extent of his success or his alignment with U.S. interests.
- India's New Era (Washington Post, Salman Rushdie, May 14, 2004)
The fall of the Indian government is a huge political shock that strikingly echoes the only comparable electoral upset, the defeat of Indira Gandhi in 1977. Then as now, just about the entire commentariat was convinced that the incumbent would . . .
- A Democratic India Is Overtaking China (Boston Globe, Editorial, Boston Globe, May 10, 2004)
India is now in the middle of what many Chinese would give their right arm for -- a general election. Yet China is the power that gets all the attention.
- Has Mysterious Killer Of India's Vultures Been Found? (National Geographic News, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2004)
When Lindsay Oaks went to Pakistan in the year 2000, there were so many vultures that he got bored looking at them. Now, three years later, the raptors are nearly gone.
- India's Remarkable Dance Of Democracy (Boston Globe, Editorial, Boston Globe, Apr 26, 2004)
India, seen variously as a country with massive poverty, an information technology power, and more recently as an outsourcing destination taking away jobs, is over the next two weeks staging the dance of democracy.
- Cisco Makes Inroads Into India (CNET.com, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 14, 2004)
Cisco Systems is digging deeper into the Indian market, as it prepares for an explosion in telecommunications spending there.
- Is India The New China? Or A `Brown Paper Bag'?: Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, Apr 01, 2004)
When David Burton, the International Monetary Fund's top boss in Asia, was recently quizzed about the most important economic developments in his region, there was a winner tucked away among all the ho-hum questions.
- Ban Outsourcing? Bad Idea (Business Week Online, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 29, 2004)
The uproar in the U.S. over the outsourcing of jobs to India is deafening. On Mar. 5, California state Senator Joseph Dunn greeted an application for a tax exemption by Infosys Technologies Ltd.
- Powell Asks India To Open Its Markets (CNET.com, Dinesh C Sharma, Mar 16, 2004)
Offshore outsourcing figured prominently during talks between U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Indian leaders Tuesday, with the United States asking India to further open its markets.
- An Unseen Peril Of Outsourcing (Business Line, David Gelernte, Mar 03, 2004)
An offshore alliance seemed to answer a struggling outfit's prayers. Instead, the U.S. parent has been wound up and its intellectual crown jewels are in India
- What India Can Do To Fight Outsourcing Backlash (Bloomberg.com, Andy Mukherjee, Feb 24, 2004)
So far, India has met the growing political backlash against jobs being outsourced to it by burying its head in the sand of righteous indignation and hoping that the hostility will go away after the U.S. presidential election in November.
- An Alliance Of Insecurity (AlterNet, Editorial, The Alternet, Feb 12, 2004)
When Ariel Sharon traveled to India last September, it was the first visit of an Israeli Prime Minister since the two nations achieved independence more than 55 years ago.
- India Rises As Strategic Us Ally (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2004)
Every Republic Day, India struts its military stuff, dragging out the latest ballistic missiles and tanks and parading the finest soldiers on the subcontinent. But Monday, on this year's anniversary, India has a bit more to strut about.
- Aicpa's Tech Top 10 (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
THE American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) has announced its roster of Top 10 Technologies for 2004. These are the items expected to wield a powerful influence over business in the coming year. The 2004 list breaks two records.
- Cummins India To Be Made Sourcing Hub For Parent (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
THE Rs 2,000-crore Cummins operations in India, with nine companies in its fold, could soon be developing as a sourcing hub for both products and services for the $ 5.9-billion Cummins Inc, Ms Jean Blackwell, Chief Financial Officer and Chief of Staff,
- The Education Wars (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jan 08, 2004)
While every other sector of the Indian economy is being deregulated, education is becoming one giant appendage of the Human Resource Development Ministry.
- Cbdt Move To Demat Tax Challans (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
THE Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) does not want the "income-tax challan" to go the "stamp-paper" way. It is planning to phase out tax payment challans from the system with effect from April 1, 2004. "We are planning to dematerialise tax
- The Ruins Hold The Answers (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Jan 08, 2004)
Research on why the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed like they did could help improve the safety of future high rises.
- Trauma Of Punjab’s Jobless (Tribune, P. P. S. Gill, Jan 07, 2004)
Punjab is faced with a gigantic challenge: how to give employment to 30 lakh jobless youth? Successive governments have never cared to know why the youth went berserk during the days of militancy. There is no policy worth the name to make them employable.
- Pak Gave Nuke Tech To Libya: Us (Indian Express, PATRICK E. TYLER, Jan 07, 2004)
Pakistan was the source of the centrifuge design technology that made it possible for Libya to make major strides in the last two years in enriching uranium for use in nuclear weapons, Bush administration officials in Washington said on Monday.
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