|
|
|
|
|
|
Articles 3721 through 3820 of 27558:
- Kick-Starting The Vat Debate (Business Line, Prasanth Penugonda, Feb 19, 2005)
The Centre has finally tabled its White Paper on State-level value-added tax. The tax, which is to come into force from April 1, was being contemplated for the past five years but could not be implemented with
- Italian Connections (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 19, 2005)
It is welcome that India and Italy have set a bilateral trade target of 5 billion euros, to be attained in two years, as there exists considerable scope to step up the economic ties which are now worth 3 billion euros.
- India’S Urban Slums (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 19, 2005)
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh's demolition drive in Mumbai brings to the fore the problem of India's urban slums as a whole.
- India: Nepal’S Friendly Neighbour (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Feb 19, 2005)
It was an odd coincidence that a week or so after Manjushree Thapa’s book Forget Kathmandu (Penguin Viking) was launched with much fanfare in Delhi and widely covered by the Indian media, King Gyanendra declared an Emergency in his kingdom.
- In The Name Of Democracy, Go! (Indian Express, COLIN GONSALVES, Feb 19, 2005)
India's policy in Nepal is determined by the desire to neutralise the Maoists. In the process gruesome acts are condoned causing democracy incalculable harm.
- On The Brink (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Feb 19, 2005)
It is a cruel dilemma for many liberals: Is it right that a good thing like democracy should be ushered in Afghanistan and Iraq by an imperial power like the United States?
- History In The Box (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Feb 19, 2005)
Unlike economists and sociologists, who usually write for their peers, historians have sought to reach a wider audience.
- Hear The Cries From Dalal Street (Indian Express, RENUKA SANE, Feb 19, 2005)
Following the recommendations made by the FRBM Task Force towards implementing a nationwide GST, several efforts have been made in the last few months by the States and the Centre to come to an agreement to implement Value Added Tax (VAT) across India.
- Go For It In Nagaland (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 19, 2005)
The State Human Development Report 2004 for Nagaland, the first for the State, is revealing in many respects. According to conventional wisdom
- Further Descent Into Lawlessness In Nepal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2005)
King Gyanendra's order, setting up the Royal Commission on Corruption Control, flies in the face of the fundamental principle of law, that investigating and prosecuting bodies must be separate from the adjudicating authority.
- Dogged Ways Of Strays (Indian Express, Mukul Dube, Feb 19, 2005)
I was born into a household which contained two greyhounds. The Pekinese, who bore the noble name Tillu, was either there already or else came soon after.
- Depth Of Depravity (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 19, 2005)
Even at a time when crimes reflecting shocking depravity are no longer that rare, there are some that shake one to the core.
- Delegated Power Needs Diligent Exercise (Business Line, T. N. Pandey, Feb 19, 2005)
A good deal of government legislation gets enacted outside of the Legislature. It bears varied nomenclature, such as rides, regulations, byelaws, schemes, orders, notifications, and so on.
- Centre's Revenue Performance: Need For Sharper Focus (Business Line, V. K. Srinivasan, Feb 19, 2005)
As the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, commences the final round of exercises for Budget 2005-06, a few creases may be appearing on his forehead as it might be difficult to reconcile to the grim fiscal performance of the first nine months of 2004-05.
- Building Confidence (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Feb 19, 2005)
Pakistanis feel that the relationship-building process between India and Pakistan has slowed down under the Congress regime. During my recent trip to Pakistan, comparisons were often drawn to the slick pace at which the Vajpayee government moved to boost
- Now Dimm’D And Gone (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Feb 19, 2005)
My mother died quite sometime ago. None of her children can remember what year it was, but we get together on her death anniversaries as on those ....
- Broad-Base The Slabs (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Feb 19, 2005)
As the Budget approaches, there is a growing expectation that the Finance Minister may announce major tax breaks and raise the basic exemption limit.
- Three-In-One (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 19, 2005)
The Left is right, for once. The Congress and Lok Jan-shakti Party have made a "mess" of 'secular' vote-solicitation in Bihar.
- No Evenings In Paris (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 19, 2005)
It is difficult to imagine Ms Sharmila Tagore as a puritan — An Evening in Paris or, in a very different way, Days and Nights in the Forest, comes in the way.
- Three Keys To Direct Tax Reforms (Business Line, H. P. Ranina, Feb 19, 2005)
The tax code defies simplification, and a new one drafted with precision and simplicity is imperative. Tax administration needs toning up...
- This Is What He Said (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 19, 2005)
Bowing to pressure from his faculty, the president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers, on Thursday released a month-old transcript of his contentious closed-door remarks about the shortage of women in the sciences and engineering....
- Stifling Natural Enterprise (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Feb 19, 2005)
At the very apex of technical and technological skills, India has established itself as a world player - if not, yet, as a world power. Freed, in some measure
- Served Them Right, Pooja! (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 19, 2005)
POOJA of Charkhi Dadri in Bhiwani district has set a noble example. Her problem arose when the groom's party reached her home for the wedding.
- Sari For Camilla, Pheta For Charles (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 19, 2005)
Mumbai's dabbawallas are now consulting their wives on sari colours and blouse-pieces. Soon after word spread of the Royal wedding between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles in April
- Research Without Barriers (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 19, 2005)
The global movement seeking open access to credible research reports took a significant step forward when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States recently unveiled its Public Access Policy that urges the scientific
- Politics Of Bluster (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 19, 2005)
As if precipitating a confrontation with the Election Commission of India was not bad enough, Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala has now gone to the extent of tarring it with serious allegations of corruption and partisanship.
- Warped View Of Education (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Feb 19, 2005)
Section 80E of the Income-tax Act confers a tax benefit on individuals pursuing higher studies with the aid of educational loans.
- Will It Or Won't It? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 18, 2005)
The United Kingdom's first referendum in three decades is likely to be held in early 2006. Its people will vote on the Treaty of Rome that established a Constitution for the European Union (EU).
- Shooting Priest (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Feb 18, 2005)
PUT down the Bible and pick up the gun” said one of the dacoits to the late Fr Thomas Chakalakkal when he was in their custody somewhere in the jungles of West Champaran in Bihar.
- Naming Right (Deccan Herald, U B GITHA, Feb 18, 2005)
What’s in a name? A rose by any other name is still a rose. Not necessarily as I realised one fine afternoon. My office assistant was on cloud nine, as he had just got the news that there had been an addition to his family and hence an elevation in ...
- New Border Lines (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 18, 2005)
The ambit of the composite dialogue India and Pakistan have undertaken to address is so very vast that affixing milestones can appear dismally complicated. Is it material progress on the gas pipeline and consolidation of economic cooperation that’s requis
- Our Legacy Of Modernity (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Feb 18, 2005)
I am trying to piece together seemingly unrelated views on the Indian aesthetic sensibility and create an integrated perspective.
- Punjab Should Stick To Wheat, Paddy (Tribune, H.S. Shergill, Feb 18, 2005)
Confusion over reduction in the area under wheat and paddy continues. There is continuous refrain from some economists for a massive shift of area from wheat and paddy to alternative crops.
- Raman Is One (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 18, 2005)
About five months back, he was under attack from his own partymen for being a lazy chief minister. Now, a news magazine has crowned Raman Singh the No. 1 CM. And nobody is more upset than his predecessor, Ajit Jogi, who claims
- Reservations And Competing Nations (Deccan Herald, SURYAKANT WAGHMORE, Feb 18, 2005)
The current debate over reservations in the private sector unravels competing nationalities of our delicately constructed nation — one of the traditionally privileged castes for whom caste- based identity and assertion has now turned into a bane.
- Shoot For Indo-Us Missile Ties (Indian Express, K. Subrahmanyam, Feb 18, 2005)
US willingness to share information on missile defence indicates its recognition of the realities of the globalising world and India’s role in it
- Taj Corridor Case (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 18, 2005)
The Supreme Court has rightly questioned the propriety of the Central Bureau of Investigation in recommending the peremptory closure of the Taj corridor case in which former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati...
- The Impossible Quadrangle (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 18, 2005)
In the fourth Dr Ambirajan memorial lecture organised at Chennai on February 16 by the Public Expenditure Round Table and the Institute of Economic Education, the Chairman
- The Politics Of Aid (Tribune, Shelley Walia, Feb 18, 2005)
The growing strain on the Earth’s environment caused by global warming or the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the developing world pose a great threat to humanity. HIV alone in South Africa affects more than four million people, and 8,200 succumb to it daily around
- The Stakes In Lebanon (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Feb 18, 2005)
Syria is in the dock over the assassination of former Lebanon Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
- Major Flaws, Serious Lapses (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Feb 18, 2005)
At a time when food quality standards are acquiring an international dimension, and with food laws being re-written to conform to the needs of the food companies and agribusiness giants, the proposal to enact a Food Safety and Standards Act in 2005
- Welcome To The Chinese (International Herald Tribune, William Pesek Jr., Feb 18, 2005)
Everyone has an opinion on who will lead Asia in the years ahead, including the Group of 7 industrial nations. This month, the group clearly seemed to be putting its money on China.
- New Route (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 18, 2005)
In Kashmir, firecrackers greeted the news that the Srinagar-Muzaffarbad bus route was to become operative from April 7.
- Wrong Note (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 18, 2005)
Scoring debating points is not exactly the idea behind peace initiatives. Peace in Assam cannot, therefore, be a matter of how the rebels define the concept of “sovereignty”.
- Two Ways To Cook The Books (Asia Times, Priyanka Bhardwaj , Feb 18, 2005)
Most observers of the Indian and Chinese economies have looked at foreign direct investment (FDI) figures as defined by the respective countries without looking at
- A Route To Peace (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 18, 2005)
The composite dialogue between India and Pakistan received further impetus during the Islamabad visit of External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh.
- Profit Goals Vs. Public Purpose (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 18, 2005)
In conferring 'University' status to more than 100 establishments, the Chhattisgarh Government was guilty of a cynical perversion of the loftier principle of private-public partnership in higher education.
- A More Public Role (Telegraph, SURYAKANT WAGHMORE, Feb 18, 2005)
The current debate over reservations in the private sector unravels the claims of competing nationalities. Especially now that the policy threatens, once again, the traditionally privileged castes for whom caste-based identity has become a bane.
- After The Sock In The Eye (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Feb 18, 2005)
India’s garrulous foreign minister has received a sock in the eye. This gentleman, on induction in office last May, had chosen Kathmandu as his first official port of call.
- Airlines Are Rarely Profitable (Business Line, Pankaj Narayan Pandit, Feb 18, 2005)
Richard Branson, the maverick CEO of Virgin Atlantic, famously observed: "How to make $1 million in airline industry? Start with $1 billion!"
- An Unhealthy Plan For The Poor (Indian Express, Balbir K Punj, Feb 18, 2005)
It is a matter of national shame that the Centre has to be reminded by an American daily about how the UPA Government has surrendered to American MNCs’ interests in drawing up the patents ordinance.
- Bridging The Rural-Urban Divide (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Feb 18, 2005)
The Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology aims to encourage and promote voluntary action for the implementation of projects meant to increase rural prosperity, with an emphasis on using technology to make a difference.
- Bus To Pok (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 18, 2005)
A historic breakthrough has been made with India and Pakistan agreeing to start a bus link between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad.
- Kyoto To New Delhi (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 18, 2005)
The Kyoto Protocol, the first legally binding environmental treaty committed to reducing greenhouse emissions, took effect on Wednesday. It has two great flaws.
- For An Indian Lover's Day (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 18, 2005)
Prince Charles and his fiancée (no longer companion, lover or mistress) Camilla Parker-Bowles have given the Valentine's Day industry a huge boost by announcing their wedding four days before this annual outburst of infantile exhibitionism.
- Historic Treaty (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 18, 2005)
After much wrangling and behind-the-scenes negotiations for over seven years, the Kyoto Protocol finally came into effect on Wednesday, with 141 countries ratifying it, making it a major achievement for environmentalists.
- India Innovating To Thrive (Rediff on the Net, Arvind Singhal, Feb 18, 2005)
Despite the Tsunami-ravaged start, this New Year promises to be yet another landmark one for India in more ways than one.
- India's Military Hungry For More (Asia Times, Siddharth Srivastava, Feb 18, 2005)
Indian defense officials have laid out a request for a huge increase in spending on arms to New Delhi, most of which will be used to purchase state-of-the-art weaponry from suppliers around the world.
- A Crisis Made To Measure (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Feb 18, 2005)
If Governor S.C. Jamir was suspicious about the confidence vote in the Goa Assembly, he could have discussed the matter with Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar.
- Destination Peace (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 18, 2005)
THE agreement External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri have reached on starting a bus service between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad from April 7 marks a new milestone in
India-Pakistan relations.
- Pyongyang Talks Tough (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 17, 2005)
While North Korea has not tested a nuclear weapon, the international community for several reasons has not dismissed out of hand its claim that it possesses atomic bombs.
- Playing White (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 17, 2005)
Raising revenues for the country involves not merely innovative voluntary disclosure schemes that pull in some old black money, whenever a scheme is announced, but a concerted effort to create institutions, markets and incentives for a white economy.
- Passage To Kabul (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 17, 2005)
External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh's visit to Kabul has once again highlighted the revival of India's ancient and warm ties with Afghanistan that were rudely sundered during
- Naga Talks: The Task Ahead (Hindu, M. S. PRABHAKARA, Feb 17, 2005)
Both the Government of India and the NSCN should move beyond the sterile formulas based on the territorial imperative.
- War Of Reds (Indian Express, Manoj Prasad, Feb 17, 2005)
In Naxal-affected Palamau division, two of the main contenders in the Assembly poll fray are former ultras. Of these, ex-ultra B N Singh, contesting on a CPI(ML) ticket, is being considered a strong candidate.
- Murder Of Abhi Verma (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 17, 2005)
The crudeness of the kidnapping and subsequent murder of Hoshiarpur schoolboy Abhi Verma is hard to believe. The despicable act has raised a couple of questions
- New Delhi’S Stakes In Kabul (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 17, 2005)
External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh’s brief visit to Afghanistan will go a long way towards rebuilding India’s traditional relations with the war-torn country.
- South Block's Inconsistencies (Pioneer, Claude Arpi, Feb 17, 2005)
As Nepal has been in the limelight, I read again some of the old official letters from the first Indian Prime Minister to King Tribhuvan of Nepal in the 1950s. Surprisingly
- Temptations To Resist, Challenge To Meet (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Feb 17, 2005)
As the Budget-making gathers momentum, the Finance Minister must not announce actions or policy intentions on areas that do not strictly fall under the category of fiscal policy.
- Tigers Are On The Death Row (Tribune, Usha Rai, Feb 17, 2005)
THE tiger in India has been on the death row since the early nineties. After a tremendous pressure from NGOs, both national and international, there was acknowledgement that the tiger was facing a second crisis
- Watching The Money Flow In (Indian Express, Gopal Krishna Agarwal, Feb 17, 2005)
Everybody agrees that there is danger in so-called “hot money”, which is essentially short-term in nature. This — constituting more than $9 billion of foreign investments in the Indian securities market
- Justice As Self-Purification (Hindu, Jyotirmaya Sharma, Feb 17, 2005)
The report on the anti-Sikh riots offers the Congress a chance to reinvent itself.
- Laloo’S Defeat Will Be A Defeat For Peace (Indian Express, Andalib Akhter, Feb 17, 2005)
All eyes are on Bihar’s “Muslim vote”. The chattering classes swear that if the Muslim vote swings towards Laloo Prasad Yadav’s political rivals, he will be in deep trouble.
- Truth, Confessions And Videotape (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Feb 17, 2005)
Anara Gupta, beauty queen. S.A.R. Geelani, academic. Shankaracharya, spiritual leader. Vicky Thakur, suspected kidnapper. Jammu, Delhi, Chennai, Patna.
- Back To The Collective Dream (Indian Express, Kofi A. Annan, Feb 17, 2005)
Because of disagreement with earlier actions in Iraq, the United Nations is now well placed to move Iraq forward
- Kyoto Is A Great Leap Forward (Tribune, Hamish McRae, Feb 17, 2005)
After seven years, huge international debate and the freezing out of George Bush’s United States from the international community, the Kyoto Protocol was formally ratified on Wednesday.
- Carrs Can Deliver (Business Line, SANKAR RAY, Feb 17, 2005)
THE Committee on Subordinate Legislation (14th Lok Sabha), in its first report submitted on December 2, 2004, has indicted the Department of Company Affairs (DCA) for lack of seriousness in applying the Cost Accounting Records Rules (CARRs).
- Corridor Of Doubt (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 17, 2005)
A poor shadow of its former self, the Congress needs troublesome crutches to remain in power at the Centre. It has, consequently, done much loud thinking about reviving itself in UP
- Crumbling Bastion (Pioneer, Subodh Kumar, Feb 17, 2005)
An ideal state gives equal opportunity to every section of society. In this respect, Bihar is way behind its counterparts in the country. Its intra-regional differences are characterised by disparity at the levels of literacy, density of population...
- Dealing With Naxalism (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 17, 2005)
After Andhra Pradesh it is now Karnataka's turn to face naxalite violence. With the gunning down of forest brigand Veerappan, Karnataka Chief Minister Dharam Singh decided to re-deploy the Special Task Force (STF) for neutralising the threat from the Maoi
Previous 100 Telugu Desam Party Articles | Next 100 Telugu Desam Party Articles
Home
Page
|
|
