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Articles 15421 through 15520 of 17201:
- 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."
- Remember Europe (Telegraph, J. N. Dixit , Dec 09, 2003)
The last week of November witnessed important meetings between leaders of the European Union and the government of India, a major event following the Indo-European summit to which the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, went last year. The president of
- Manual For Dummies (Tribune, Rajnish Wattas, Dec 08, 2003)
I love modern gizmos, but for a slight hiccup. I never figure out how to use them. It’s usually the children of the house, who instinctively take to “techy things” that I turn to for help. Or even better; I just admire them from a distance and marvel at..
- Nuclearisation A Dangerous Policy (Tribune, Dhirendra Sharma, Dec 08, 2003)
DEFENCE Minister George Fernandes had recently disclosed that a nuclear command chain, including alternative “nerve centres”, had been established, giving India an effective retaliatory capability. “We have established more than one (nuclear control) ...
- Supreme Sacrifice (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2003)
It is indeed exemplary in this day and age that somebody has given the supreme sacrifice to expose corruption. I think his sacrifice is no lesser than a soldier making the ultimate sacrifice for the country or any freedom fighter who laid down his life...
- Trial By Fire (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Dec 08, 2003)
The author is former director general, National Council for Applied Economic Research, and chairman, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission raosl@hotmail.com
- N Korea Comes To Ask For Missile Parts, India Says Pay For Ship, Forget Arms (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Dec 07, 2003)
New Delhi has asked Pyongyang to cough up Rs 8 crore sovereign guarantee for North Korean ship Ku Wol San, that was ‘‘arrested’’ carrying missile parts and production manuals by the Indian Custom authorities off the Kandla Coast at the height of Kargil...
- ‘ensuring Accountability Is Not Interference’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2003)
By making CAT a universal entrance exam for all MBA courses isn’t the government trying to interfere in autonomous bodies like the IIMs
- And He Wrote: If You Die, Go So Quietly That No One Gets To Know (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Dec 07, 2003)
In her one-room Delhi flat, behind IIT, the last person Dubey spoke to recalls her close friend
- And Now They Speak: Joshi Says Protect The Dubeys (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2003)
Union HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi said today that ‘‘people like Satyendra Dubey’’ need to be protected. For, if incidents like his murder continue, they will ‘‘have a demoralising effect on people who raise their voice when they see things not happen
- 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.
- Protecting Biodiversity (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2003)
TO THE GLOBAL community of biologists and naturalists, the confirmed spotting of the long legged warbler Trichocichla rufa in Fiji after it was thought extinct for nearly 110 years is as exciting a moment as some of the earliest ...
- 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
- There's Gain In Arresting Rupee's Gain (Business Line, Shobha Ahuja, Dec 05, 2003)
At a time when many manufacturing sectors are working hard to become internationally competitive and with the country notching higher product exports in addition to software, exchange rate management assumes special significance.
- No Way To Plug This Leak (Telegraph, RAVI VYAS, Dec 05, 2003)
What lessons do the Telgi stamp paper scam and the leaking of the CAT papers have for us? Quite apart from the obvious one that the entire chain — from the source to the last distribution outlet — can be corrupted, the more ominous lesson is that the ...
- Letter To A Murdered Mate (Indian Express, Raj Kamal Jha, Dec 05, 2003)
(if I may, that’s what one of your batchmates said you were called at IIT Kanpur):
- The Rainmaker Cometh (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 05, 2003)
Pramod Mahajan and Arun Jaitley have brought to the BJP campaign a new alchemy and have delivered.
- Shameful (Telegraph, Ait Kumar Mitra, Dec 04, 2003)
The official ban on Taslima Nasreen’s Dwikhandita will achieve the same purpose that the ban on Samaresh Basu’s Bibar and Prajapati and Buddhadeva Bose’s Raatbhor Brishti had achieved (“Red rag in Taslima, red carpet for Deepa, Nov 29). The controversy...
- ‘satyendra’s Murderers Are Like Terrorists’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 2003)
On November 30, The Indian Express reported how Satyendra Dubey, a young NHAI engineer, wrote confidentially to the PMO about corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral project in Bihar. He was then murdered. Readers’ e mails just keep pouring in
- Call Of The Family (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Dec 04, 2003)
On the growing trend of transporting family en masse to the workplace
- Look, The Elephant Gallops (Indian Express, Tarun Das, Dec 03, 2003)
This has been an incredible year for India and the pace of change has been so rapid that the world is yet to catch up with it. Most people, even supposedly well-informed public opinion builders outside India, still perceive India in the traditional way.
- 'Satyendra Dubey Is As Brave As A Kargil Martyr' (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2003)
On November 30, The Indian Express reported how Satyendra Dubey, a young NHAI engineer wrote confidentially to the PMO about corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral project in Bihar. He was then murdered. Readers respond with outraged e mails
- 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 ...
- The Philosophy Of Privatisation In China (Business Line, S. Majumder , Dec 03, 2003)
While China's privatisation exercise met with quick success despite Communist rule, India's is wobbling, hamstrung by parliamentary democracy.
- Economy Playing Dice With Ecology (Business Line, P. Nagarajan, Dec 03, 2003)
PERHAPS we live in the best of times in this planet, from the perspective of unsurpassed scientific and technological achievements, with a dazzling array of global output. Nonetheless, we can no longer ignore the grim reality that it is also the worst of
- Outsourcing For Development (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Dec 02, 2003)
UNCTAD's E-Commerce and Development Report 2003 uses India's experience to argue that the growing market for IT services and business process outsourcing offers poor countries a new development opportunity.
- Sail With The Trade Winds (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Dec 02, 2003)
It is wrong to say that India and its friends were against trade at Cancun. In fact, the problem in trade negotiations has arisen because the large developing countries have now begun taking trade seriously. They are arguing for a rule based system and...
- 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...
- Down On Cash, Bengal Says Bottoms Up To Foreign Liquor (Indian Express, Subrata Nag Choudhury, Dec 01, 2003)
High on reforms, down on cash, the Marxist West Bengal government is set to drown its ideological doubts and let the bubbly flow. It is revamping its age-old liquor policy to make ‘‘foreign’’ booze more easily accessible to people.
- Audacious Outrage! (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 01, 2003)
ALL talk of knowledge explosion and information revolution comes to naught in the case of certain categories of thinkers and writers morbidly determined to live in unfathomable depths of ignorance about countries and cultures other than their own. A large
- 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...
- The Importance Of Assistance (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2003)
We recognize that globalization and interdependence are opening new opportunities through trade, investment and capital flows and advances in technology, including information technology, for the growth of the world economy and the development and ...
- Indian Professor Denies Charges (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 30, 2003)
An Indian professor of computer science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Debasis Chaudhuri, 41, has pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual misbehaviour with a girl student. Chaudhuri has been charged with attempted first degree sexual assault ...
- Success... At Any Cost (Hindu, Anjali Mody, Nov 30, 2003)
Anjali Mody on why success in competitive examinations means so much.
- A Bolt From The Blue (Hindu, Anita Joshua, Nov 30, 2003)
That the CAT question paper could be leaked was unthinkable... the incident can be used to clip the IIMs' wings
- Us Watching China’s Success In Space (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma, Nov 30, 2003)
The United States does not like competition or potential competition in space. China has ruffled its feathers
- A Testing Time For All (Hindu, G. Ananthakrishnan, Nov 30, 2003)
The fact that students are under great stress helps touts who scout for those willing to shell out a big sum to get ahead of the others in an examination. G. Ananthakrishnan writes.
- Tongue-Twisted Long Ago (Indian Express, Guy Gugliotta, Nov 29, 2003)
Study of 87 languages find ancient Turkish farmers to be fathers of modern human speech
- Wah, Waugh! (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 28, 2003)
Here is a great cricketer, and a great human being too
- Central Asia Is Central To India (Indian Express, P. Stobdan, Nov 28, 2003)
The ‘gas and Great Game’ region sees India as a role model
- Transferred Justice (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Nov 28, 2003)
The jubilance that the Supreme Court's verdict has averted injustice asserts the pride that the Indian judicial system has the innate capacity to find just solutions. This merits introspective scrutiny.
- A People's Car For Rs 1 Lakh — Can Ratan Tata's Dream Be Realised? (Business Line, B.S. Rathor, Nov 28, 2003)
More than one-third of the global population of six billion lives in China and India. A small car project will always be viable considering the prospective market size in the region.
- Managing The Test (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 28, 2003)
THE COUNTRY'S TOP management education institutes are shaken by the discovery that the question paper for their prestigious Common Admission Test was put on the street by touts for a price, near the national capital.
- Why Is Bush Playing By Saddam’S Rules? (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Nov 28, 2003)
Well, it’s been a while since we last communicated. It’s not easy getting tapes out from this basement in Tikrit, but I thought it was time we had a little chat.
- Is Uk Slowly Slipping Into Third World Status? (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Nov 27, 2003)
IT IS amazing. For an Indian, it feels no different to be in the UK, nowadays. For instance, the litany of woes against public services seem to go on and on endlessly.
- Best Of Audits Cannot Eliminate Business Failure (Business Line, D. Murali , Nov 27, 2003)
WHEN a top-secret question paper leaks, students lose trust in the exam system. Similarly, when criminals go scot-free after prolonged trial, people stop trusting the judicial system.
- Best Of Audits Cannot Eliminate Business Failure (Business Line, D. Murali , Nov 27, 2003)
WHEN a top-secret question paper leaks, students lose trust in the exam system. Similarly, when criminals go scot-free after prolonged trial, people stop trusting the judicial system.
- Is Uk Slowly Slipping Into Third World Status? (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Nov 27, 2003)
IT IS amazing. For an Indian, it feels no different to be in the UK, nowadays. For instance, the litany of woes against public services seem to go on and on endlessly.
- Best Of Audits Cannot Eliminate Business Failure (Business Line, D. Murali , Nov 27, 2003)
WHEN a top-secret question paper leaks, students lose trust in the exam system. Similarly, when criminals go scot-free after prolonged trial, people stop trusting the judicial system.
- Is Uk Slowly Slipping Into Third World Status? (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Nov 27, 2003)
IT IS amazing. For an Indian, it feels no different to be in the UK, nowadays. For instance, the litany of woes against public services seem to go on and on endlessly.
- And Physicists Find Cold Particles Just So Hot (Indian Express, Kenneth Chang, Nov 27, 2003)
The dating habits of bosons and fermions have revved up the superconductivity debate
- No Full Stops In Mulayam Home (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Nov 27, 2003)
All in little Saifai, home to 30,000, agree that Mulayam Singh Yadav put it on the map. And this December, Saifai will have more reason to thank the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister: for 10 days, it will be a world transformed, hosting bigwigs, celebrities, s
- Escorts Tractor Unit Pegs Rs 175 Cr Profit In 2 Years (Business Line, Neha Kaushik, Nov 27, 2003)
RIDING on intensive cost reduction initiatives and better monsoons this year, Escorts' agri-machinery division expects to bring about a multi-fold increase in its profitability in the coming years.
- Politics Of Drought Favours Gehlot (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 26, 2003)
ALMOST all opinion polls have placed the Congress(I) in a pretty comfortable position in Rajasthan. In the villages around Jaipur and Ajmer that this correspondent visited, the Rajasthan Chief Minister, Mr Ashok Gehlot, is looked upon as an annadata.
- Politics Of Drought Favours Gehlot (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 26, 2003)
ALMOST all opinion polls have placed the Congress(I) in a pretty comfortable position in Rajasthan. In the villages around Jaipur and Ajmer that this correspondent visited, the Rajasthan Chief Minister, Mr Ashok Gehlot, is looked upon as an annadata.
- U.S. Faces Unease In East Asia (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Nov 26, 2003)
There is a lack of popular enthusiasm in South Korea and Japan for a military role in U.S.-occupied Iraq.
- Id Numbers For Securities Market Players By March (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 26, 2003)
ALL entities in the securities market and their officials will have to obtain a unique identification number (UIN) by March 2004.
These numbers will form a central database of SEBI, which was launched by its Chairman, Mr G.N. Bajpai, here on Tuesday.
- Capitalism With A Human Face (Indian Express, Anu R Aga, Nov 26, 2003)
In the past few years there has been much talk about ‘‘corporate social responsibility’’ (CSR). It has become a leading topic at World Economic Forum meetings. Economist Adam Smith, who wrote the bible of capitalism, Wealth of Nations, more importantly a
- Ms Jayalalitha Cannot Be Proud Of Her Acquittal In The Tansi Cases (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 26, 2003)
The Supreme Court’s acquittal of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha of all charges against her in the two TANSI cases amounts to only a legal exoneration in the most technical sense.
- Not Guilty. Guilty (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 26, 2003)
Tansi verdict: we need to rescue the corruption issue from a narrowly legal framework
- Curtains On A Legal Saga (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 26, 2003)
THE SUPREME COURT'S acquittal of the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, J Jayalalithaa, and four others on all the criminal charges in the two TANSI cases (in which judgment was reserved on September 26, 2002) brings the curtain down on a seven-year legal saga th
- Branding Our Iits (Indian Express, P V Indiresan, Nov 26, 2003)
The name and money are not enough to upgrade any engineering college
- Two Ministries And A Turf War (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Nov 26, 2003)
The power principle has been in overdrive between the Ministries of External Affairs and Human Resource Development for some time now, including over the much-coveted Unesco job in Paris.
- Tansi Verdict: Sc Says She Violated Code Not Law (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Nov 25, 2003)
It condemns her but does not convict her. This is because the Supreme Court, when it exonerated Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today in the Tansi land scam cases, found her guilty of violating not the law but a purely voluntary code of conduct a
- Murasoli Maran, 1934-2003 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 25, 2003)
FOR SOMEONE REGARDED as the quintessential backroom strategist, Murasoli Maran found himself pitch-forked on to centrestage on quite a few occasions. Television clips of an incensed Mr. Maran challenging the Tamil Nadu police during the notorious midnight
- Development Via The It Road (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Nov 25, 2003)
All efforts to build a modern India will fall flat if efforts are not made to enlist the support of the IT professional, who has demonstrated his abilities in distant shores.
- Govt Should Report On Use Of Forex Reserves: Chidambaram (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 25, 2003)
We haven't found a way to make good use of our resources. Every Government should account for what they are doing about public sector assets and forex reserves, Mr Chidambaram said.
- Maran: A Tough Strategist (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 25, 2003)
AFTER the end of single-party rule at the Centre in 1996 and the advent of coalition governance with multiple parties, the role of regional outfits has assumed a new meaning.
- Breakthrough In Paddy Cultivation (Deccan Herald, Sudhirendar Sharma, Nov 25, 2003)
In his life as a progressive farmer it was the biggest surprise. As Harchand Singh explained the performance of growing paddy without the usual flooding of the fields, curious farmers from adjoining villages on the outskirts of Ludhiana watched him with r
- Breakthrough In Paddy Cultivation (Deccan Herald, Sudhirendar Sharma, Nov 25, 2003)
In his life as a progressive farmer it was the biggest surprise. As Harchand Singh explained the performance of growing paddy without the usual flooding of the fields, curious farmers from adjoining villages on the outskirts of Ludhiana watched him with r
- Development Via The It Road (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Nov 25, 2003)
All efforts to build a modern India will fall flat if efforts are not made to enlist the support of the IT professional, who has demonstrated his abilities in distant shores.
- Maran: A Tough Strategist (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 25, 2003)
AFTER the end of single-party rule at the Centre in 1996 and the advent of coalition governance with multiple parties, the role of regional outfits has assumed a new meaning.
- Report On Trend And Progress In Banking 2002-2003 — Revitalising Banking Through Radical Reform (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Nov 24, 2003)
THE latest review of the Trend and Progress of Banking in India, which covers the year 2002-03, is comprehensive, analytical and insightful.
- Report On Trend And Progress In Banking 2002-2003 — Revitalising Banking Through Radical Reform (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Nov 24, 2003)
THE latest review of the Trend and Progress of Banking in India, which covers the year 2002-03, is comprehensive, analytical and insightful.
- Firing Line: Ashok Gehlot, Cm, Rajasthan (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 23, 2003)
'Casteism? We suggested economic reservations'
- Three Fool-Proof Ways Of Cooking Ghoos (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Nov 23, 2003)
Traditional definition of bribe (or ghoos, in Hindi): A sum of money or other reward offered or demanded in order to procure an (often illegal or dishonest) action or decision in favour of the giver.
- Small Screen Magic (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 23, 2003)
A new breed of politicians owes its rise to television, says Anjali Mody.
- Mauritius, Singapore, Uae Ask Govt: Give Us An Iit For Our Country (Indian Express, Diptosh Majumdar, Nov 23, 2003)
Campaign cliches and poll rhetoric may have drowned out the visit of Mauritius Prime Minister Paul Berenger but one thing he asked for has the potential to send arguably India’s biggest brand into the global education marketplace: Berenger asked the Gover
- Money Matters (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 23, 2003)
Winning an election is a sure way of making those fast and vast quantities of bucks which can keep generations living in style. Neena Vyas reports.
- Vanishing Into Thin Air (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Nov 22, 2003)
S. Murlidharan on why frequent flier points accruing to businesses and used for personal benefit should be brought within the tax net
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