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Articles 2721 through 2820 of 27558:
- Connectivity Rates (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 21, 2005)
The information technology (IT) industry on the whole and the business processes outsourcing (BPO) segment in particular have reasons to cheer up following the decision of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to cut international bandwidth...
- Making Sense Of Basel Ii Norms (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Mar 21, 2005)
N 1988, the Bank for International Settlement (BIS)-based Basel Committee on Banking Supervision came out with regulations regarding the capital requirements of banks.
- A Thing Of Beauty (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2005)
Small is no longer considered beautiful. Innocent of the art of public relations, the humble species remain outside the pale of self-advertising. And in the globalized milieu, the puny ones, it has been suggested, have not even the right to exist.
- Atomic Clock Ticks Down For Iran (Hindu, Simon Tisdall, Mar 21, 2005)
The United States is trying to create an environment so it can hit Iran.
- Clear Our Screens Of Smoke (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2005)
Extracts from the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Education, communication, training and public awareness:
- Europe’S Worry — The Declining Population (Tribune, Stephen Castle , Mar 21, 2005)
A drastic slump in birth rates combined with an ageing population will undermine Europe’s prosperity within the next 20 years unless life is made easier for parents and immigration is encouraged, according to a European Commission report
- Forced In (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2005)
Ambiguity is essential to the existence of Taiwan and its 23 million people
- Visa Power (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2005)
THE Centre is justified in lodging a protest against the denial of a US visa to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Diplomatic niceties demanded that he be given an appropriate visa to take part in an event in the US.
- Making Government Intelligent (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2005)
IF A MASSIVE infusion of funds is the magical solution quickly to transform India into a networked nation offering efficient citizen services through e-government, it can hope to work that unlikely miracle now.
- The Row Over Baby Oil (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2005)
THE MAHARASHTRA FOOD and Drug Administration has objected to the consumer care and drug maker, Johnson & Johnson using the word `baby' in marketing the oil intended for infants, and wants the latter to remove the word from the product label
- Modi, The U.S., And Visa Power (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Mar 21, 2005)
If the BJP believes it is a victim of U.S. double standards, it has also benefited from the same duplicity in the past.
- Rivers Run Through It (Deccan Herald, RANDEEP RAMESH, Mar 21, 2005)
The blows India and Pakistan trade over Kashmir will have more to do with water than land
- Read By Rule (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2005)
Rules governing universities should be universal. Or close to that. This seems to be the rationale behind the public interest litigation brought to the Supreme Court, which prompted the court to nullify the establishment of 117 universities
- No Alternative To Peace Talks (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2005)
IF THERE WAS one useful purpose in Congress president Sonia Gandhi's Hyderabad visit, it was to re-affirm the Government's commitment to talk to the Naxalites — in an atmosphere charged with recrimination, intimidation and suspicion.
- Punjab’S Gesture (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2005)
Only talks can resolve SYL tangle
- Only Policies Matter (Tribune, T.P. Sreenivasan, Mar 21, 2005)
Condi spreads sunshine, but interest will assert
- Of Another Connecting Chord! (Tribune, Balvinder, Mar 21, 2005)
To keep looking for greener pastures is a natural “humanimal” instinct. Maybe that is why the legal licence for foreigners to work and settle permanently in the US is called “Green-card”. The card holds such a special charm that almost everyone,
- Globalisation Can Have A Human Face (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2005)
There is no use blaming global players for the weakness of globalisation. We have to blame sovereign governments
- Ngos Lend A Hand (Deccan Herald, K S Narayanan, Mar 20, 2005)
The landless and Dalit community in Nagapattinam is appreciative of the NGOs’ rehabilitation efforts.
- From Start To Fins (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2005)
Irrawady Dolphins, a rare species, is facing an extinction threat in a Ramsar Site! This needs an urgent attention. Over the last eleven months since April, 2004 a total of 13 dolphins have died in the lake with seven deaths reported during the
- Rich Countries Should Reduce Subsidies: G-20 (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2005)
Commerce minister Kamal Nath said a small group of nations (read rich nations) cannot dictate rules to the vast majority.
- Pak Strives For Perfection (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 20, 2005)
Pakistan has test-fired its Shaheen II missile with a 2,000 km range on Saturday from an undisclosed location on its territory...
- Immoral Or Natural - Divided Verdict (Deccan Herald, MANJULA SHELKE, Mar 20, 2005)
Homosexual marriages will destroy the traditional family. Emotional bonding, sexual purity and the sanctity of marriage will suffer
- Holy? Unholy? A Knotty Issue (Deccan Herald, VATSALA GURUNATH, Mar 20, 2005)
In a society where equality and freedom are valued, should law decide one’s sexual orientations? As more and more same sex couples go ahead and get married, the issue is hotting up.
- Iaf Getting Advanced Jet Trainers Only Now (Deccan Herald, BALA CHAUHAN, Mar 20, 2005)
MiG-21s HAVE BEEN UPGRADED AND GIVEN A NEW LEASE ON LIFE
- Transcending Conventions (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2005)
The developments of the past decades have profoundly changed Indian society. Indian artists have begun working out the new currents of their capital and cultural tools in contradictory ways.
- Theatre On Wheels: Spreading Messages (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2005)
Subodh Patnaik and his friends are cycling through rural Orissa to spread theatre and share a social message. These are not morality plays, or street theatre either, they say. They’d rather you termed it “Cyco-theatre”.
- Pakistan Test-Fires Shaheen Ii Missile (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2005)
Gen Musharraf, complimenting his scientists, said Pakistan’s nuclear capability was developed for its own security.
- India-Pak Cold War Continues (Tribune, M B NAQVI, Mar 19, 2005)
That the cold war between Pakistan and India continues to be alive and kicking is unfortunate. The latest example of it are three developments in Pakistan:
- Exemplary Loyalty (Tribune, Brig Harwant Singh, Mar 19, 2005)
In 1974, I was Brigade Major (BM) of an Artillery Brigade at Kaluchak near Jammu. My Brigade Commander was a tough taskmaster. To “test” our operational efficiency and effectiveness he ordered “mobilisation” of my General Staff Branch.
- Electoral System Needs Reforming (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Mar 19, 2005)
Now that we have the results of the elections in Haryana, Bihar and Jharkhand, I begin to doubt whether our electoral system does in fact reflect what the people think is best for their country, state or themselves.
- Club Before Country (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Mar 19, 2005)
On the second evening of the Mohali test, when the rest of India was salivating at the idea of Virender Sehwag being 90 not out overnight....
- Hinduism & Conversion (Pioneer, Shridhar Pant, Mar 19, 2005)
Ram Gopal's argument in the letter, "Regain lost glory" (March 7), that regards Hinduism as the oldest proselytising religion, is distressing. He asserts,
- The Speaker Speaks (Deccan Herald, Era Sezhiyan, Mar 19, 2005)
Both the legislature and the judiciary are sovereign within the limits provided by the Constitution
- The Making Of A Hero (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Mar 19, 2005)
There is only one leader; the rest are led by him. National leadership in times of peace requires one kind of skill; military leadership
- Shocking Verdict (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 19, 2005)
The war against trans-national terrorism suffered a serious setback on Thursday, with a Canadian court acquitting the two accused of the mid-air explosion of an ill-fated Air India Boeing 747 airliner, ‘Kanishka’, 20 years ago.
- Search For Substitutes (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 19, 2005)
THE rapid rise in the global prices of oil, which touched a record $57 a barrel on Thursday, has led the International Energy Agency to ask the developed world to cut demand
- Rice To Juggle Many Diplomatic Balls In Asia (Tribune, MARK MAGNIER, Mar 19, 2005)
With her arrival in Tokyo on Friday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice finds herself in a region with dangerous flashpoints, hoping that none of them spin out of control.
- Progress: Importance Of The Big Picture (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Mar 19, 2005)
The "big picture" must be given precedence in matters of economic development, the justification being the premise that no development, especially in a poor country, can be painless.
- Nurture Commerce In Commodities (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Mar 19, 2005)
Global commodity markets are once again facing boom times, with prices across commodity categories — energy products, precious metals, base metals and farm produce
- Leave It To The Stars (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 19, 2005)
Gullibility is a matter of profit as well as delight. Cheats are often excellent entertainers. And the human capacity for being willingly fooled is usually underestimated.
- Kanishka Tragedy Hasn't Ended (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Mar 19, 2005)
The shock and disappointment of the Canadian Supreme Court's judgement in the Kanishka bombing case, and the acquittal of the two accused on all charges, will take time to sink in.
- Chance To Score (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Mar 19, 2005)
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has brought India's 'will-he-won't he' suspense to an end-and with patented wily flourish.
- Don't Hand Religion To The Right (Hindu, William Whyte, Mar 19, 2005)
In the United Kingdom, the secular Left must stop sniping and realise it has Christian allies.
- Welcome Release (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 19, 2005)
NO President, certainly not Gen Pervez Musharraf, releases hundreds of prisoners of a neighbouring country on the spur of the moment or on the prodding of a visiting Chief Minister.
- A Despairing Verdict (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 19, 2005)
Two hundred and eighty of the 329 dead were Canadian nationals and the incident occurred off the southwestern coast of Ireland.
- Canada's Shame (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Mar 19, 2005)
Justice has been raped in Canada. These are strong words. No other description, however, would be appropriate for the shocking acquittal of the two accused in the Kanishka bombing case by a judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
- ‘Red-Light’ Street Named After Gandhi (Tribune, Basildon Peta, Mar 19, 2005)
The fashion in South Africa is to rename streets, cities and towns after famous historical figures, but Durban city authorities may regret their decision to honour the memory of Mahatma Gandhi.
- A New Beginning In Manipur (Tribune, Gaurav Choudhury, Mar 19, 2005)
Manipur Governor Shivinder Singh Sidhu feels that giving out dollops of money alone will not solve the problems of insurgency afflicting the north-eastern region. A career bureaucrat and an economist
- A Slap In Mr. Modi's Face (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 19, 2005)
In a singular instance of the Ides of March for the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, the United States has rejected his application for a diplomatic visa
- Around The World On A T-Shirt Trail (Business Line, D. Murali , Mar 19, 2005)
Year 1999. Georgetown University, US. A young woman seizes the microphone and asks the crowd of WTO-protesters: "Who made your T-shirt?"
- Budget: Empowering The Taxpayer (Business Line, H. P. Ranina, Mar 19, 2005)
The good thing about the Budget proposals is that they will increase the quantum of personal savings and give investors a wider choice.
- Bush Stokes Anti-Us Embers (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Mar 19, 2005)
A truly terrifying appointment. You can't have a situation where rich countries lecture developing countries about democracy and then aren't prepared to exercise democracy in this kind of appointment.
- ``Insult To India'' (Hindu, MANAS DASGUPTA, Mar 19, 2005)
The Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, has described the denial of a visa by the United States to him as ``an insult to the Constitution of India and its people and [a] threat to [the] sovereignty and democratic traditions of the country.''
- Why Crop Diversification Will Get Stuck (Tribune, Sucha Singh Gill, Mar 18, 2005)
Supporters of the crop diversification programme (Johl, February 11, 2005 and Aulakh, February 25, 2005) and opponents (Shergill, February 18, 2005) agree on the point that the present cropping pattern dominated by wheat-paddy rotation is highly
- Rice Is Nice (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 18, 2005)
THE interactions US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had with Indian leaders during her brief visit to New Delhi suggest that there has been a significant change in the US perception of India.
- European Anxieties (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 18, 2005)
Europe's ambitious stability and Growth Pact, conceived as the bedrock of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and personified in the single Euro currency
- Far From Art (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 18, 2005)
A whole society constantly on edge is a frightening phenomenon. Nothing else can explain the violence with which a teacher turned on a five-year-old who had was not carrying her art-and-craft papers in a carry-bag as instructed.
- Gas Realities (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Mar 18, 2005)
In February, the US Ambassador in New Delhi, Mr David Mulford, had met the Petroleum Minister, Mr Mani Shankar Aiyar, to convey Washington's reservations on the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline deal.
- Getting Better (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 18, 2005)
The visit of the American secretary of state, Ms Condoleezza Rice, to India has gone along predicted lines. As expected, Washington expressed reservations about the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline because of its concerns about the political regime i
- Gorby’S Glasnost (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 18, 2005)
Asked for his views on the French revolution, some 50 years back, Mao Tse-Tung retorted that it was too early to comment. Distance being critical to judge events and history
- No Such Thing As Free Lunch (Business Line, S. Srinath, Mar 18, 2005)
All items covered by FBT will be affected either by VAT or service tax, which cannot be treated as input tax.
- Sartre And French Culture (Hindu, Hywel Williams, Mar 18, 2005)
Sartre barely makes the top 100 national figures in a poll, but he was the last great French intellectual.
- Self-Inflicted Wounds (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Mar 18, 2005)
The capitulation in the late hours of March 11 does not change the context. The Indian polity is suddenly in a deep mess, mostly on account of the misdoings of the scraggy outfit still passing as the Congress.
- Separation Of Powers (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Mar 18, 2005)
While the judiciary must step in when necessary, how it does so requires craft and statesmanship. Jharkhand should not become a precedent.
- Shaking Hands With Us (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Mar 18, 2005)
THE US Secretary of State, Dr Condoleezza Rice, during her first visit to India indicated two likely changes in the US policy towards India.
- Draft Condi, Draft Hillary! (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Mar 18, 2005)
This column wishes even-handedly to press both the Republicans and the Democrats of the US to launch pronto a campaign to draft Dr Condoleeza Rice, the first black female Secretary of State
- The Softest Pillow Is A Clear Conscience (Business Line, D. Murali , Mar 18, 2005)
Conscience. I knew I'd have to come to terms with it one day or the other, and so was consciously keeping it outside this column.
- When Tigers Go Missing (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 18, 2005)
The mysterious 'disappearance' of tigers from Sariska, a forest zone dedicated to the magnificent cat, represents a new low in the campaign to save the highly endangered species.
- Sustaining Export Growth (Business Line, P. P. Prabhu, Mar 18, 2005)
The sustained growth in exports is a vindication of the liberalisation measures and the progressive policies followed by the government in recent years and, more important
- Budget: Illusory Gains For Pensioners (Business Line, A. Seshan, Mar 18, 2005)
Democracy is a system of lobbies, for lobbies and by lobbies. It comprises vested interests who influence policy-making.
- Blood On Our Hands (Telegraph, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi , Mar 18, 2005)
While researching the AIDS epidemic in India, I met Arup and his wife Seema at a clinic in Mumbai. “We have been treated worse than street dogs,” Arup, a middle-aged man with a beard told me
- Bush’S Choice For World Bank Risks Outcry (Tribune, Andrew Gumbel, Mar 18, 2005)
President George Bush risked the ire of the international community for the second time in as many weeks on Wednesday as he nominated his administration’s leading neo-conservative hawk, Paul Wolfowitz, to be the head of the World Bank.
- Space Security Under Threat (Deccan Herald, U R RAO, Mar 17, 2005)
Since the dawn of creation, earth's environment has been bombarded by meteoroids or “shooting stars”, ranging in size from 0.001 mm to several millimetres and travelling at speeds of over 20 km/sec.
- Fdi As Catalyst For Economic Growth (Business Line, S. Majumder , Mar 17, 2005)
Within six months of its coming to power, the UPA Government ushered in a slew of measures to attract foreign investors.
- Generally Accepted But Poorly Understood (Business Line, D. Murali , Mar 17, 2005)
The difference between the two acronyms is that one is on accounting practices while the other is on auditing standards, though both are `generally accepted'.
- Home, New Home (Telegraph, Bishnupada Sethi, Mar 17, 2005)
With some more hard work, the Upper Krishna Project’s success with resettlement could be replicated in other states
- Pak Must Deliver On Terror, Pm Tells Rice (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2005)
The US Secretary of State was effusive in her praise for India’s strengths. But on its demand for a permanent UN seat, she remained non-committal.
- Justice Variava’S Disclosure (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 17, 2005)
Tuesday's disclosure by Justice S.N. Variava in the Supreme Court that someone from the Patna High Court had called him up a day earlier to know whether the trial
- Mobile Talkathons Break All Records (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Mar 17, 2005)
The `mobile talkathons' are so much a part of our everyday lives, what with each trying his best to hide the handsets from the naked eye.
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