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Articles 4121 through 4220 of 27558:
- Cash For Class At Oxbridge (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Feb 09, 2005)
Plans by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge to cut down undergraduate places for domestic students and increase the intake of foreign candidates who pay more have stirred a controversry.
- Business Process Re-Engineering: (Business Line, Manoranjan Sharma, Feb 09, 2005)
ORGANISATIONAL development is a continuous process. But the pace of change has increased manifold. In a volatile global world, organisations enhance competitive advantage through business process re-engineering (BPR) by radically redesigning selected...
- Building Urban Infrastructure (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 09, 2005)
There is compelling logic to support the Centre's proposal to launch a National Urban Renewal Mission (NURM) to upgrade and modernise urban infrastructure all over the country.
- Airing New Opportunities (Indian Express, Jasjit Singh, Feb 09, 2005)
The biannual Aero India 2005 exhibition and air show starting on February 9 will probably go down in Indian aviation history as a landmark for a number of reasons.
- Address Concerns (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 09, 2005)
A needless spat has arisen between India and Pakistan over the BCCI’s decision to make Ahmedabad one of the venues for the upcoming cricket series between the two countries.
- A Simple ‘Sorry’ Will Do (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Feb 09, 2005)
It is quite in order to apologise. I remember, I remember. I remember the pessimistic prophecies of large sections of the media in the US and Britain. “The US will get stuck in a quagmire in Afghanistan.
- Word Of Mouth (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 09, 2005)
The Washington Post publishes a contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings to words.
- Bush Ii, The Second Lap (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 09, 2005)
Oil, it is often said, drives politics. But the reverse is equally true: good politics can also determine the supply and price of oil. India has recently taken two laudable initiatives for the political management of oil.
- Young Turk (Indian Express, RAKESH ROCKY, Feb 09, 2005)
While the National Conference (NC) didn’t do well in villages in Kashmir in the local body polls, in Srinagar, it left the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) smarting, bagging 41 seats.
- Waffle Man (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 09, 2005)
The Centre will shine the light on the causes before it looks for the remedies and in turn the Naxalites are sure to realise there can be no development without peace.
- Words Were What She Had (Indian Express, SUGUNA RAMANATHAN, Feb 08, 2005)
It is now over a month since Shama Futehally passed away. The memories continue to linger, especially of the time in the eighties spent in Gujarat, where her husband Javid Chowdhury was a civil servant.
- Politics Of ‘Criminal’ Cases (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Feb 08, 2005)
It is not at all a heartening feature to see the Leader of the Opposition at the receiving end and more so considering the healthy convention which confers the status of a shadow chief minister on the one who adorns the first but one seat on the first row
- Round And Round (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 08, 2005)
All indications point to a bleak outlook for the ongoing Doha Round of multilateral negotiations. The strongest confirmation of this came at the Davos World Economic Forum where the World Trade
- Scramble For The Indian Air Show (Deccan Herald, BHARAT VERMA, Feb 08, 2005)
The fifth Aero India show being organised in Bangalore from February 9 to 13 is an attempt to showcase India as a major aviation hub in Asia. The Indian aviation sector pie is as big as China’s
- Police At It Again (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 08, 2005)
THE report of the Lohian police in Jalandhar district detaining a Dalit in a theft case and his subsequent death due to police torture, shocking as it is, does not come as a surprise.
- Why We Are A Poor Rich Country (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Feb 08, 2005)
Often when reflecting upon India’s poverty and the needlessness of it, I remember a story the late Rangarajan Kumaramangalam liked to tell.
- The Coup In Goa (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 08, 2005)
Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil's proposal for a unified command to tackle the Naxalite menace is timely, though the idea itself is not new.
- World Economy In 2005 (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 08, 2005)
A report prepared jointly by the United Nation's Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) expects world economic growth to slow down to 3.25 per cent this year.
- World Economy: From Uni-Polar To Tri-Polar (Business Line, Arvind Virmani, Feb 08, 2005)
By around 2025, China's impact on world growth is likely to be larger than that of the US and India's greater that of Japan. By 2035, India is likely to be a larger growth driver than the six largest
- Where Is India's Democracy Dividend? (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Feb 08, 2005)
"These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice."
- Expensive Proposition (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 08, 2005)
A few days ago when the Government increased the foreign investment limit in the telecom industry from 49 per cent to 74 per cent, the Left parties, who were earlier opposing any such move
- Treasures On The Way To Ruin (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 08, 2005)
Magadi is a historically famous town in Bangalore rural district. It is specially known for its association with the founders of the city of Bangalore – the Kempegowda clan.
- Framing Of Anara G. (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 08, 2005)
The Jammu and Kashmir police certainly has much to account for. With forensic experts in Hyderabad declaring that the woman in the pornographic CD is not Anara Gupta, the ‘‘ex Miss Jammu’’ the J&K police have flamboyantly flaunted
- Oil Pool Dynamics (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 08, 2005)
Oil, it is often said, drives politics. But the reverse is equally true: good politics can also determine the supply and price of oil. India has recently taken two laudable initiatives for the political management of oil.
- A Guilty Past In Africa (Hindu, Ian Black, Feb 08, 2005)
Poor old leopold II. The King of the Belgians underwent one of the shortest political rehabilitations on record last week, hoisted back on to his plinth
- China's Growth Enigma (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Feb 08, 2005)
As is true currently, China's truly remarkable pace of growth for over two decades has been punctuated with concern about bouts of deflation or overheating.
- Running India Into The Ground (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Feb 08, 2005)
Some years ago, the UN and/or the World Bank told us that we had an environment problem, on the assumption that we did not know. We promptly did what we do best.
- For Effective Employment Guarantee (Hindu, Anuradha Joshi, Feb 08, 2005)
THE DRAFT Employment Guarantee Act, tabled in Parliament on December 21, 2004, has generated much debate in the newspapers.
- Framing Of Anara G. (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 08, 2005)
The Jammu and Kashmir police certainly has much to account for. With forensic experts in Hyderabad declaring that the woman in the pornographic CD is not Anara Gupta, the ‘‘ex Miss Jammu’’ the J&K police have flamboyantly flaunted
- Getting Cross With Cross-Subsidies (Indian Express, N K Singh, Feb 08, 2005)
This is a season when it is fashionable for all and sundry to give even unsolicited advice to P Chidambaram. Finance Ministers are tolerant, fully conscious that the basic Budget story involves multiple inflexibilities.
- Goa Heads For Political Instability (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Feb 08, 2005)
Barely has a new government led by the Congress taken office in Goa when ambitious MLAs from the party are threatening to topple the fledgling Pratapsingh Rane government.
- Needless Controversy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 08, 2005)
IT is unfortunate that a controversy had arisen over Ahmedabad as the venue for one of the Test matches between India and Pakistan.
- New Realities For Ocean’S 10 (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Feb 08, 2005)
Accelerated globalisation in adversity: this could well be one of the striking consequences of the tsunami. Altruism or its exact opposite on the part of donors and administrators of aid will be spotted by recipients in distress.
- The Buck Starts Here (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Feb 07, 2005)
They often say that Indians lack in spirit of nationalism and patriotism. In the face of the tsunami tragedy, there’s been a noticeable change in the attitude of Indians and they are not hesitant to show their kind and benevolent selves.
- Promises To Keep (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 07, 2005)
In his reply to the debate on the Governor’s address in the Assembly, Karnataka Chief Minister N Dharam Singh has painted a rosy picture of the State’s economy and given assurances on a wide range of both urban and rural projects. Yet, most of them seem f
- Smoking Out The Weed (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 07, 2005)
The King of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuk, plans to "cut down on cigarettes" as well he might. Path-breaking legislation has made the tiny Himalayan kingdom the world's first non-smoking nation.
- The Threat From Bird Flu (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Feb 07, 2005)
Might the virus be slowly gaining the ability to jump from human-to-human, the one trait it lacks for initiating a pandemic?
- Trouble In The Neighbourhood (Tribune, H. K. Dua, Feb 07, 2005)
There is trouble in India’s neighbourhood and Dr Manmohan Singh and his government may have to spend time and effort to decide what exactly to do in the evolving solution which is certainly not to its liking.
- Us And Iraq: Who Owes Whom? (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Feb 07, 2005)
It is intriguing that nobody seems to have worked out how much the US and its allies owe the people of Iraq for having caused, according to none other than the United Nations, the deaths of several hundred thousand Iraqis through the imposition...
- Year Of Physics (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 07, 2005)
The UN has declared 2005 as the World Year of Physics in commemoration of the first path-breaking paper published by Albert Einstein in 1905 on the electro-dynamics of moving bodies.
- Power Policy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 07, 2005)
Last week the Union Cabinet cleared the National Power Policy, which aims to provide more power to people, target subsidies at those below the poverty line
- Transcending Rural, Urban Boundaries (Deccan Herald, SANGEETHA PURUSHOTHAMAN, Feb 07, 2005)
The peri urban interface (PUI) is a rapidly expanding, dynamic space of interaction that surrounds all our cities and lies between the rural and the urban.
- Where It Should Focus (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Feb 07, 2005)
As Budget day approaches, the Finance Minister is being deluged with wish lists from all sides. The Left has just presented its 12-point proposal for the Budget.
- Controlling Mr. Bush (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 07, 2005)
George W. Bush appears determined to carry the adventurism that characterised his first four years in office into the second term.
- No Western Monopoly On Modernity (Hindu, Martin Jacques, Feb 07, 2005)
In his inauguration speech, American President George W. Bush pledged to support "the expansion of freedom in all the world," deploying the words free or freedom no less than 25 times in 20 short minutes.
- Ukraine Democratically Moves West (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Feb 07, 2005)
People with time to count report that the US President, Mr George Bush, mentioned `freedom,' `free' and `liberty' 49 times in his inaugural address to the nation on January 20, when he took the oath of office for his second term.
- Drifts In The Desert (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 07, 2005)
India is very rich in water resources. We get 5 per cent of the worldwide rains though we account for only 2 per cent of the total land mass. So, we should rank high in water availability but we rank a poor 133 among 170 countries in water poverty.
- Agent Orange From The Ocean (Indian Express, Trevor Chesterfield, Feb 07, 2005)
In Vietnam the enemy was often unseen; unseen that is to those who were reporting a war that at that stage wasn’t really a war but a battle of attrition.
- Barefoot In Jia (Indian Express, Lalit Mohan, Feb 07, 2005)
Jia, north of Nagrota in Kangra district, is one of the prettiest locations in Himachal Pradesh. Here, at the edge of a promontory, the state electricity board has constructed a rest house.
- Caste Away (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 07, 2005)
Disasters test a society in diverse ways. They take proof of the country’s preparedness to spring to the rescue of people struck by nature’s fury. In the relief and rehabilitation operations undertaken
- Commodity Derivatives — An Alternative Hedge (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Feb 07, 2005)
Commodity derivatives will enable banks and mutual funds gain exposure to alternative investments. Exposure to commodity-linked products will increase a portfolio's risk-adjusted returns.
- Cranking The Power Reforms (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 07, 2005)
The Union Cabinet's approval last week of a National Electricity Policy affirms its commitment to reforms in the power sector.
- Death Of The Holiest River (Indian Express, SURESHWAR D SINHA, Feb 07, 2005)
Alarmed by various reports that all was not well in the Bhagirathi basin, members of a group of five NGOs led by Paani Morcha surveyed the area recently. The group of 25 volunteers, including myself, went up the Bhagirathi
- Draft Cpi(m) Resolution On Third Alternative (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Feb 07, 2005)
The need to consolidate the secular and democratic forces through a sustained campaign across the country with an eye on forging a third alternative is one of the
- Euro Versus Bharat Norms (Business Line, B. S. Murthy, Feb 07, 2005)
The recent news that Maruti Udyog has rolled out Euro-III compliant cars is a welcome sign that the automobile industry is catching up with the global standards.
- How About This Dream Budget? (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Feb 07, 2005)
This is the season for dream Budgets. Joining the bandwagon, I present one of my own, which, unlike what most people suggest will make money for the government and yet offer better service to citizens.
- Modi Retreats (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 07, 2005)
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had rightly come under severe criticism for his ill-advised move of cancelling a government holiday on Guru Nanak’s birth anniversary.
- Mr Dixit, I Presume (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Feb 07, 2005)
The first time I met J.N. ‘Mani’ Dixit, in September 1985, I had not particularly given him a reason for me to be in his good books.
- Relief For Tsunami Victims And Human Rights (Tribune, Suhas Chakma, Feb 06, 2005)
The emergency phase of providing relief to the tsunami survivors is over. The difficult task of rebuilding the lives of the communities and individual survivors has begun.
- Punjab Economy Will Be Put On Fast Track, Says Singla (Tribune, Manoj Kumar, Feb 06, 2005)
After facing a decade-long slowdown in economic growth, Punjab is once again gearing up to become a destination for investment.
- Where Will Bhola Go? (Tribune, Chanchal Sarkar, Feb 06, 2005)
It was a great day when Lakshmi the milch cow gave birth. The calf was a beautiful brown with a diamond patch at the centre of his forehead. When I first saw him, he could hardly stand on his four legs and was quivering.
- The Land Of Penny Pinchers (Indian Express, NICHOLAS D KRISTOF, Feb 06, 2005)
So is the US ‘‘stingy’’ about helping poor countries? That accusation by a UN official, in veiled form, provoked indignation here. After all, we’re the most generous people on Earth, aren’t we?
- His Works Portray The Harsh Realities Of Life (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Feb 06, 2005)
When noted Hindi literatteur Vishnu Prabhakar landed at Rashtrapati Bhavan to attend the customary At home on the Republic Day, he was not aware of the multi-tier security ring around the imposing building and strict protocol.
- Vote In Iraq (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Feb 06, 2005)
Each day we get closer to the Iraqi elections, more voices are suggesting that they be postponed. This is a tough call, but I hope the elections go ahead as scheduled on January 30.
- Consensus That Merits An Accolade (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Feb 06, 2005)
After many a winter there has taken place in the realm of foreign policy making in New Delhi something that merits an accolade.
- Plane Truths (Indian Express, Ashwani Sharma, Feb 06, 2005)
The state government’s two aircraft—a five-seater plane and a four-seater twin-engine helicopter—have become the bone of contention between Chief Minister Raman Singh and Governor Lt Gen (retd) K M Seth.
- Most Nris Wear Loincloths, Not Suits (Indian Express, Devesh Kapur, Feb 06, 2005)
Yet again, on the day Gandhi came back from South Africa, India prepares to celebrate another Pravasi Bharatiya Divas. This annual function has multiple objectives:
- National Sports Policy, The Need Of The Hour (Deccan Herald, ASHWINI NACHAPPA, Feb 06, 2005)
There’s no doubt that the Australian Open was blessing in disguise, in a manner of speaking. From the cricket crazy fans to cricket crazy reporting , finally the Racquet game has hit the headlines especially the front page of every newspaper
- The Pin Code In Northeast (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Feb 05, 2005)
Operation Pin Code, as reported in The Pioneer (January 15), would be much easier for Pakistan to accomplish than either Operation Topac or Al Badr.
- Not That Simple (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Feb 05, 2005)
The search for a viable national alternative to the Congress goes back more than fifty years, to the first general elections of 1952.
- On Telecom, Don’T Look Left (Indian Express, Subimal Bhattacharjee, Feb 05, 2005)
The Union cabinet has finally cleared the much debated Foreign Direct Investment hike upto 74 per cent in the telecom sector. While presenting the maiden budget of the UPA government last year in July
- Pakistan: What Lies Ahead? (Tribune, Stephen Philip Cohen, Feb 05, 2005)
Twenty years ago Pakistan was spoken of as the next major middle income country. Recently it was thought to be on the verge of collapse or rogue status, although there are signs that the downward trend in some areas is halted
- Poor Diplomacy (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 05, 2005)
India’s decision to abstain from the 13th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC) in Dhaka next week is an ill-considered one.
- Proceed With Care (Pioneer, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 05, 2005)
It was only to be expected that, re-elected with a convincing majority, President George W. Bush would pursue his known domestic and foreign agendas with renewed vigour and confidence.
- Role Playing (Indian Express, RAM SEHGAL, Feb 05, 2005)
I do not understand why so much fuss is being made about actors taking to politics. The two vocations have a lot in common. To begin with, both the parties play to the galleries.
- Rule By God Or Intolerance? (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Feb 05, 2005)
I have added two new words to my vocabulary: ‘Thearchy’ and ‘Millenarianism’. ‘Thearchy’ (as opposed to ‘theocracy’, meaning government by priests) means rule by God.
- The State Of Popular Aspiration (Indian Express, Ajay Gudavarthy, Feb 05, 2005)
The demand for Telengana is paradoxical: it is being made in the name of the deprived but could end up serving only a small privileged group
- Equitable Timing Of Tds Credit (Business Line, R. Anand, Feb 05, 2005)
Tax deduction at source (TDS) as a machinery for collections has gained in prominence over the past decade.
- No Arms For Nepal (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 05, 2005)
At a time when the direction of foreign policy tends to be set by the strategic calculations of what passes for `national interest' rather than the coordinates of a moral compass, it is commendable that India has chosen to take a clear stand against the c
- The Shape Of Vat To Come (Business Line, S. Madhavan, Feb 05, 2005)
THE release of the much-awaited White Paper on VAT on January 17 by the Finance Minister has cleared the decks for the introduction of State VAT from April 1, 2005.
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