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Articles 16021 through 16120 of 17201:
- Hauled Up (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Aug 24, 2003)
On September 9 last year, two MiG-21s crashed, one in Rajasthan, the other in Ambala. The Indian Air Force, as is the norm, ordered an inquiry but this inquiry is turning out to be far from routine.
- 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 ...
- How Safe Is Our Water? (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Aug 24, 2003)
Groundwater is easily polluted and restoring its quality is impossibly expensive
- ‘let This Change Be Permanent’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2003)
The Indian Express readers respond to Arun Shourie’s three-part Independence Day special on the innovative new India.
- Kalam’s 2nd Call In A Week: Get Real (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Aug 23, 2003)
It couldn’t have been better timed. Two days after the Parliament debate on the no-confidence motion that was high on rhetoric, low on content, President A P J Abdul Kalam has sent a reminder to all Members of Parliament on what they need to do the ...
- 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
- India’s Magic Realism (Indian Express, Arun Jaitley, Aug 22, 2003)
Producing 30 per cent of America’s doctors but not one Al-Qaida terrorist
- Colas: And All Live Happily Ever After (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2003)
The Government today declared in Parliament that soft drink samples from Coca-Cola and PepsiCo that it got tested—following a High Court directive—did not contain as much pesticide residues as was alleged in a report by the Centre for Science and ...
- 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
- Tackling Pesticides, The Ozone Way (Business Line, Sivabrata Chatterjee, Aug 21, 2003)
THE alleged finding of pesticides in soft-drinks and bottled water has raised the issue of water treatment. One method is using ozone for the treatment, first mooted in 1886 by Meritens. Kirk-Othmer's Encyclopaedia of Chemical Technology records that ...
- Unified Licence - Level-Playing Field, The Great Leveller (Business Line, Krishnan Thiagarajan, Aug 21, 2003)
HOW is the onging, unrelenting battle between the cellular and basic operators for the consumer's wallet likely to play out? If they want to avoid a further recourse to law, the warring parties — basic and cellular — will have come to the negotiating ...
- Terms Of Re-Engagement (Indian Express, JAGAT S. MEHTA, Aug 21, 2003)
The reach and responsibilities of professional diplomacy have expanded immeasurably and so have the pitfalls.
- Which Master’s Voice? (Indian Express, B.G. Verghese, Aug 20, 2003)
Prasar Bharati celebrated a proud moment in its history earlier this month, the 60th anniversary of Broadcasting House in Delhi. Many referred to Gandhiji’s inspiring words in praise of openness and pluralism inscribed over its portal and hoped for a new
- 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
- Fiscal Consolidation, The Real Payoff (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Aug 20, 2003)
The mere announcement of an avalanche of measures without ensuring how they will deliver is not good economics, though maybe savvy politics, particularly when elections are round the corner. Dividends will come only from correcting and shoring up the
- Power Cuts And Hot Spells (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2003)
THE DEVELOPING WORLD will react with understanding and even sympathy to the type of problems some rich nations are facing just now — and apparently not coping with remarkably well. Unannounced power outages, sweltering heat, medical ...
- There’s A Way Out Of This Mess (Indian Express, Subimal Bhattacharjee, Aug 20, 2003)
The war on the mobile service provision has now entered a new and probably decisive phase. The Telecom Dispute Settlements and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has recently delivered its judgement on the case for limited mobility by the basic service operators
- 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.
- Tdsat Judgment - Will They Converge On Compromise? (Business Line, Krishnan Thiagarajan, Aug 20, 2003)
While the immediate outcome of the TDSAT judgment may be to raise the hackles of both basic and cellular operators, in the long run, it seems inevitable that the warring parties will arrive at a compromise environment where they can compete on an equal
- A No-No To Negaholism (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2003)
Political leaders should take Arun Shourie’s prescription on dealing with the world seriously
- Rainmakers From Us Bring Drought Relief In Karnataka (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2003)
Thirty minutes after cloud-seeding operations were carried out on Monday, it rained for nearly 20 minutes, as predicted by experts, at three places on the outskirts of the city.
Project Varuna, a 90-day cloudseeding operation for rains in drought-hit
- 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
- The Challenge Of Diabetes (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2003)
DIABETES IS A major public health concern as more and more people are falling prey to the disease in both the developed and the developing world. The World Health Organisation estimates the number of diabetics in India today at 30 million ...
- The Success Of Microeconomics (Business Line, S. Venu , Aug 19, 2003)
REFLECTING on their failure to be able to explain or forecast the economy as a whole, macroeconomists lack a certain intellectual buoyancy at present. Their subject matter is as exciting as ever — more so, with globalisation, financial cases, and the New
- Unified Licence: Travesty Of Justice? (Business Line, Krishnan Thiagarajan, Aug 19, 2003)
One can only hope that the introduction of the unified licence were so easy and simple. For the Government and the TRAI, it will be hard to shrug off the final TDSAT judgment and its contents as it builds up a consensus towards implementation of the ...
- Adding Value To Commodity Futures (Business Line, Kalyan Raipuria, Aug 19, 2003)
THE FUTURE of futures in commodities is closely linked with the emerging trends in global economy and in prices, unlike security derivatives where national sentiments play a major role. But system improvement can do wonders. Last year commodity prices as
- A Thread Of Hope (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2003)
WITH THE high-power steering group,under the Planning Commission member, Mr N. K. Singh, handing out the much-anticipated debt restructuring scheme for the organised domestic textile sector, yet another textile relief package, the Textile Reconstruction
- Vajpayee's Pakistan Policy (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 18, 2003)
Four months after launching yet another initiative towards Pakistan at Srinagar, the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, seems unfazed by the lack of progress on the official front with Pakistan. Patience, persistence and a series of positive gestures
- The Case For A Stronger Rupee (Deccan Herald, J Rajagopalachari, Aug 18, 2003)
Instead of propping up the dollar, RBI should use the fabulous reserves to bolster the rupee
- This Is India’s Moment But It’s Only A Moment, Can We Grasp It (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Aug 17, 2003)
On the one hand, we have unbounded opportunities and incomparable advantages to seize them. On the other, there is the fate that will surely befall us if we falter. Unemployment will reach such proportions that social unrest will become unmanageable...
- 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 ...
- Smuggler Raj To Swaraj (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 16, 2003)
Come to Mumbai’s Heera Panna. Once socialist India’s Grey Market No 1, today they give you Christian Dior — with a receipt
- Long And Short Of It (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2003)
An American research organisation has come to the conclusion that tall men get a better deal in life than their shorter cousins. Commenting on its findings Natalie Angier of The New York Times writes: “Tall men give nearly all the orders, win most ...
- An Old-New World (Indian Express, Bhai Mahavir, Aug 16, 2003)
A return to Delhi after five years offers an interesting comparison of how things change. And how the more they change, the more they remain the same. My attention was drawn to the lamp post facing my house. It had the distinction of being a solitary ...
- U.S. Blackout: Lessons For India (Hindu, Anand Parthasarathy, Aug 16, 2003)
How well can today's high tech communication systems such as the Internet and mobile telephony cope with disaster situation?
- Kalam Prayer: No Mandir-Masjid (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Aug 15, 2003)
President A P J Abdul Kalam today made a passionate plea to pull India out of the politics of religion and called for a ‘‘moratorium’’ on issues that seek to impede the country’s development.
- Before The Whining Drowns It Out, Listen To The New India (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Aug 15, 2003)
Twenty to twenty-five years ago, even 10 years ago, few of us had heard of Information Technology. Today, exports from this industry are worth $10 billion — that is, over Rs 45,000 crore a year. That figure is 20 per cent of our total exports.
- 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.
- Drink On India, The Law’s An Ass (Indian Express, RATNA RAJAIAH, Aug 15, 2003)
Is the ‘pesticides in Pepsi and Coke’ controversy a case of gross systemic failure or simply NGO activism gone mad
- Bullock-Cart Diplomacy (Indian Express, M D NALAPAT, Aug 15, 2003)
If the attitude of immigration authorities worldwide to an Indian passport has changed during the past five years, the reason has nothing to do with the Vajpayee government, but is the result of the software boom. Suddenly, Indians have become chic, no
- A Visitor With A Past (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Aug 15, 2003)
Some in India may discover affinities with Ariel Sharon's type of politics. They would do well to examine his track record.
- Making Water Safe For Drinking (Deccan Herald, K Jayalakshmi, Aug 15, 2003)
While setting the standard for potable water, the key factors to be considered are achievability and actionability
- 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.
- Parliament And Military Secrecy (Hindu, V.R. RAGHAVAN, Aug 15, 2003)
On the PAC issue, it is difficult to avoid the impression that the Opposition and the Government are engaged in seeking and denying political advantage
- Great Communicator, Mr Terminator (Indian Express, TIM RUTTEN, Aug 14, 2003)
Until 1966, John Wilkes Booth was the only actor to make much of an impact on American politics. Then Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for governor of California and the rest — as no practitioner of higher punditry ever likes to admit — was ...
- 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
- With Caution To Cancun (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Aug 14, 2003)
URUGUAY 1986, Seattle 1999, Doha 2001 and now Cancun 2003. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) seems to be inching forward on a tortuous path which may end in despair for the developing world as a whole with the possible exception of China.
- Choice Is Off The Records (Business Line, R. Narayanaswamy, Aug 14, 2003)
On how the desi-videshi tussle sidelines the consumer.
- All That’s Not Right In This World (Indian Express, SHAILI CHOPRA, Aug 13, 2003)
Have you ever felt ‘left’ behind sometimes? Whatever is ‘left’ should be given away. Right is credit but left is debit. I luckily was not forced ‘right’ into being a right-handed person. I am a lefty, as the world refers to my left hand usage, sometimes
- Don’t Shoot Down Iaf Over The Mig Myths (Indian Express, A. K. GOEL, Aug 13, 2003)
If there is anything more important for the Indian Air Force than defending the country, it is to ensure cost of such defence is minimum. Thus, while we must train and prepare for perhaps the most demanding profession on Earth, we aim to ensure accidents
- The Shimla Consensus (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Aug 13, 2003)
Issues related to national security were given prominence at the brainstorming session of the Congress Party in Shimla last month. Party President Sonia Gandhi emphasised many points in her inaugural address.
- Who's Afraid Of A Uniform Civil Code? (Hindu, B.G. Verghese, Aug 13, 2003)
A uniform civil code will focus on rights, leaving the rituals embodied in personal law intact within the bounds of constitutional propriety.
- Light In A Bushel (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 13, 2003)
I CAME across some days ago, and that too quite by accident, references to the good work being done by the Indian Federation of the United Nations Association (IFUNA) and its Tamil Nadu chapter (TUNA). IFUNA and its State affiliates function under the ...
- Cancun Ministerial - Rough Edges And Loose Ends (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Aug 13, 2003)
Trade experts contend that the Cancun Ministerial may turn out to be an eventful affair if attention is focussed on access to medicine, special and differential treatment for developing countries and liberalisation of agricultural trade so as to lessen
- 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.
- Untangling The Crossed Wires (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 12, 2003)
THE LONG AWAITED verdict of the Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) on limited mobility services is unlikely to satisfy either of the litigants — the cellular operators and the basic (fixed line) operators. However, in its ...
- On This Bountiful Breeze (Indian Express, Bharat Dogra, Aug 12, 2003)
Although the cause of alternative, renewable sources of energy — such as wind energy — has been enthusiastically advocated by environmentalists for long, mainstream opinion has been that these sources combined together can at best play only a marginal
- The Price Of Power (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Aug 12, 2003)
Electricity, water, fertiliser and seeds are the needs of a farmer. With bad roads and inadequate communication infrastructure, village markets are difficult places under the best of circumstances. In addition we also find it difficult to create the
- A Vasco Da Gama, In Reverse (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 12, 2003)
There’s many a slip between the cup and the lip, but Shashank, the seniormost secretary in the MEA, is clearly hoping that his African journeys over the last few months will give him enough ballast to turn around the flag-embellished corner of South Block
- Public Apathy To Pesticide Poisoning (Deccan Herald, Binu S Thomas, Aug 11, 2003)
It is necessary to put in place a strict and effective food safety regime in the country, and the people should demand it
- `Accounting Needs To Be Forward-Looking' (Business Line, D. Murali , Aug 11, 2003)
People are investing for the future, and I want research in that field and, indeed, I am doing that. Accountants don't want forward-looking statements. I am not asking them to be forecasters; just give me what is happening six months from now, one year
- India Needs A Town Like Alice (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Aug 11, 2003)
Rural transformation needs a trigger in the form of investment by organised business to create high paid employment. Influx of families with large disposable incomes induces a major shift in consumer demand that, given favourable conditions, induces rapid
- Achuthan’s Order (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Aug 10, 2003)
Reports about Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) order in the Kishore Chhabria-Vijay Mallya dispute suggest that SAT has overturned the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (Sebi) ruling against Chhabria. But the order has an interesting twist. In
- Wirelessly Wired? Not Yet (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Aug 10, 2003)
WiFi may be hip and happening. But with laptop prices still high in India, there still a long way to go for the technology to realise its full potential
- ‘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
- Just One Degree Of Separation From Liberia (Indian Express, Amba Batra, Aug 10, 2003)
While Charles Taylor, Liberia’s beleaguered president, is preparing for life in exile, a college in south Delhi has reasons for concern.
- 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
- Pepsi Maange A Lot: Wants Court To Gag Cse And Tell Govt Not To Act On Report (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2003)
Pepsico has filed a petition in the Delhi High Court seeking to restrain the Centre for Science and Environment and its director Sunita Narain from publishing ‘‘any unsubstantiated statements or materials against Pepsico and to forthwith withdraw all such
- How India's Fields Got `Swaraj' (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Aug 08, 2003)
MR CHANDRA MOHAN'S name is synonymous with `Swaraj' and Punjab Tractors Ltd (PTL), which he built from the scratch to a Rs 1,300-crore-plus engineering conglomerate with a product line spanning tractors and harvester combines to engines, light commercial
- 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 ...
- It's Social Aspects (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 08, 2003)
ANY new technology inevitably brings in its wake social costs and consequences. Information technology (IT) is no exception. However, there has as yet been no definitive work on its social aspects and their precise implications and ramifications.
- Too Soft On Drinks (Business Line, Sudhirendar Sharma, Aug 08, 2003)
THE charge that a set of soft-drinks contains a cocktail of pesticide residues may put the MNC giants in the dock, but it also exposes the inherent weakness of a system to ensure quality of products, especially those mass-consumed.
- Right To Contest (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2003)
IN A NARROW legal sense, there can be no objection to the Supreme Court judgment that upholds the constitutionality of the Haryana law that bars anyone having more than two children from becoming a sarpanch or a panch of a panchayat. The ...
- Cola Toxins: Full Flow In India, Tight Leash Abroad (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Aug 07, 2003)
Zero pesticide residues were found in Coke and Pepsi samples taken in the US, said the Centre for Science and Environment yesterday. One reason could be that the use of four carcinogenic pesticides singled out by the CSE is severely ‘‘restricted,’’ one
- Money Theories In Rotation (Business Line, T. S. Viswanathan, Aug 07, 2003)
THE theory of money has undergone a sea change. It is gladdening to note that a monetary theorist, Dr Raghuram Rajan, has been appointed Chief Economist of the IMF.
- Cold Drinks, Hard Facts (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2003)
Laxity is toxic: Cola companies need to read the fine print and clean up
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