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Articles 4221 through 4320 of 27558:
- The Unbearable Lightness Of Seeing (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Feb 05, 2005)
How agonised we are about how people die. How untroubled we are by how they live.
- Trust Betrayed (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 05, 2005)
At the end of the first phase of polling in Bihar and Jharkhand and the completion of the election process in Haryana, the irony is underlined.
- Voters’ Day In Haryana (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 05, 2005)
The high voter turnout in Thursday’s Assembly elections in Haryana is commendable. The fact that the overall voting percentage exceeded 65 per cent is an eloquent tribute to the wisdom and maturity of the electorate.
- Ruling On Compensation (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 05, 2005)
The Supreme Court has rightly directed the railway authorities to pay a compensation of Rs 18 lakh with interest to the family of a passenger who was killed while travelling by the Goa Express due to the faulty vestibule system in October 1995.
- `Black' Is Not Beautiful (Business Line, T. N. Pandey, Feb 05, 2005)
The UPA Government seems desperate to demonstrate its commitment to unearthing black money.
- A Letter From Nepal (OutLook, S. ANAND, Feb 05, 2005)
The man Jayendra Saraswati identified as the new Shankaracharya of the Kanchi math has virtually disappeared.
- A Teenage Concept For The Staid Old Bank (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 05, 2005)
A bubbly 15-year-old in the field of economics is inflation targeting. It was born in 1989 when New Zealand rewrote its Reserve Bank charter and brought in the need to make public announcement of official targets for the inflation rate.
- Beyond The S&p Rating (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 05, 2005)
Like a capricious mother-in-law, Standard & Poor's has been whimsical in credit-rating the Indian economy. Anyway its pronouncements do not appear to bother most international players
- Easy Electricity (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 05, 2005)
In the light of the current emphasis on infrastructure development which is needed to accelerate economic growth, the Union Cabinet’s approval of the National Electricity Policy (NEP) as mandated under the Electricity Act, 2003 is a step in the right dire
- Evolution Takes A Backseat (Hindu, Cornelia Dean, Feb 05, 2005)
In many schools across the United States, the teaching of evolution is discouraged so as to avoid controversy.
- Faster With Telecom (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 05, 2005)
Implementing the Budget promise, the Union Government has raised the foreign investment limit in telecom to 74 per cent, apparently after reaching an understanding with the Left parties that have publicly voiced their opposition to the announcement.
- Extra Cover For Indo-Pak (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Feb 05, 2005)
Cricket lovers ought to be holding their breath for the historic full series between India and Pakistan. The Pakistani team is arriving in India in the last week of this month.
- Floor Or Ground' Includes Floor Of The Car Or Vehicle (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 05, 2005)
Matador foam was not too happy that the Central Excise officials were dragging the company all the way to the apex court to unseat a favourable decision of the tribunal on car seats.
- I See A Good Moon Rising (Indian Express, RICHARD N. HAASS, Feb 05, 2005)
Mahmoud Abbas is elected and legitimate. He may not have the stature of Arafat but has none of the latter’s liabilities either.
- In An Undiscovered Country (Indian Express, NANDITA DAS, Feb 05, 2005)
If we switched off the TV and travelled to places where children cry themselves to sleep, cynical hearts would become awash in compassion
- It’S Politics, Stupid (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Feb 05, 2005)
Economic reform has to come through hard politics, not stealth. On telecom, Dr Singh’s govt clears the test
- Landmark Elections In J&k (Tribune, B.G. Verghese, Feb 05, 2005)
The conduct of municipal polls in Jammu and Kashmir after 27 years constitutes an important landmark. No surprise that it should have been marked by boycott and violence by some within the state and those across the border who fear democracy and represent
- Montek’S Warped Logic (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Feb 05, 2005)
At an international conference on “Policies against hunger” at Berlin in October 2004, a World Bank economist was at pains to defend the domestic subsidies being doled out to European Union farmers.
- Fight Dogma With Reason (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Feb 05, 2005)
If the US National Intelligence Council's projections for year 2020 (in its report Mapping the Global Future) are to be believed, the global war on terror is not going all that well.
- Treating Hiv (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 05, 2005)
The New year has begun on an encouraging note for the campaign against HIV/AIDS, with the World Health Organisation/UNAIDS reporting that its "3 by 5" initiative to help provide drugs to people living with the virus has achieved the global targets.
- The Decline And Decline Of Brand America (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Feb 04, 2005)
Brand creation, promotion, and positioning are the pet themes of business school analysts. Even as the literature on brand equity has grown into an industry, the subject has moved away from the confines of B-Schools.
- Missing Piece Of The Pf Story (Indian Express, RENUKA SANE, Feb 04, 2005)
The hike in the provident fund interest rates to 9.5 per cent announced by the finance minister has put the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) back into the headlines.
- Not A State (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 04, 2005)
A reiteration of the obvious is always a sign of prevailing confusion. It is surprising that the Supreme Court, an institution hard-pressed for time, had deliberated and decided whether the Board of Control for Cricket in India constituted a “state” or no
- Partisan Conduct (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 04, 2005)
It is a matter of concern that neither Goa’s Governor S C Jamir nor the Speaker of the Assembly Vishwas Satarkar discharged their duties under the Constitution in a responsible manner.
- Rational Behaviour (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Feb 04, 2005)
It was the première of The Apple Cart at the Old Vic theatre. As the final curtains fell, GBS went up the stage, waves of thundering ovation from all over the hall.
- Right Call, At Last (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 04, 2005)
At long last has come the Cabinet nod raising the foreign direct investment (FDI) ceiling in key telecom services from 49 per cent to 74 per cent. Prima facie, this is a positive development
- Ringing Message (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 04, 2005)
The government has finally increased the limit on foreign direct investments (FDI) in Indian telecom companies from 49 per cent to 74 per cent and thus fulfilled a promise it made at the time of the budget in June last year.
- Sell-Off Fund — Will It Fall Victim To Petty Politics? (Business Line, G. Ganesh, Feb 04, 2005)
The Government is seriously thinking of setting up a sell-off fund, which will be used partially for strengthening the public sector and for financing social sector programmes.
- Sowers Of Terror (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 04, 2005)
India has done the right thing by deciding against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's participation in the now-postponed SAARC summit in Dhaka.
- Mess In Goa (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 04, 2005)
THE dismissal of Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and the installation of Mr Pratapsinh Rane as his successor are mainly a result of Assembly Speaker Vishwas Satarkar’s irresponsible conduct in the House.
- The Pretext Of Baglihar (Pioneer, Rai Singh, Feb 04, 2005)
India and Pakistan appear to be on collision course yet again. Besides unprovoked firing across the Line of Control, Pakistan has accused India of malafide intentions over the on-going talks on the composite dialogue.
- The Reopened Iraq Debate (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Feb 04, 2005)
IRAQ IS back in the headlines, loaded with euphoria. The electoral exercise has been undertaken; the results have yet to be announced.
- Well Done, Mr Bush (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 04, 2005)
One need not be an American to feel stirred by the grandeur of the occasion while watching a US President deliver the State of the Union Address.
- What Next, Guv? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 04, 2005)
L.K. Advani called the Goa governor’s dismissal of the Parrikar government a murder of democracy. The Congress in turn called the way in which the speaker conducted proceedings during the vote on the confidence motion a murder of democracy.
- What Will The Budget Hold? (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Feb 04, 2005)
In the run up to Budget 2005-06, the penultimate year of the Tenth Plan (2002-07), the air is thick with irrational exuberance over what it might contain for the various constituents of the economy.
- A Farcical Vote Of Confidence (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 04, 2005)
The sudden political convulsions that gripped Goa have seen the emergence of its 14th Chief Minister since 1990 under circumstances that are bound to be debated fiercely between the main protagonists
- Consensus In Democracy (Tribune, J. Sri Raman, Feb 04, 2005)
Answering questions in the Lok Sabha on the External Affairs Minister’s reported observations in Seoul, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently affirmed his government’s commitment to “continuity and consensus in foreign and defence policies”.
- Spoiling The Show (Telegraph, DEBAKI NANDAN MANDAL, Feb 04, 2005)
Now that the left has its way with the provident fund issue, will it stop being a hindrance to governance? Unlikely. Only a few days back, at the central committee meeting of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),
- Let's Discuss `Dismiss' (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 04, 2005)
February has begun on a dismal dismissal note. In Nepal, the monarch dismissed democracy; in Goa, dismissal came after a government scraped through a controversial confidence vote;
- A Veto On Misplaced Arrogance (Indian Express, C S R MURTHY, Feb 04, 2005)
The much awaited report of the 16-member high level panel headed by Thailand’s former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun on the changes required in the UN has become public.
- A Vote For Liberation (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Feb 04, 2005)
The dinner at our house turned violent. The lady, a dear friend of ours, was talking about the elections held in Iraq that day. ‘‘Now that elections have taken place, what do you have to say?’’
- Compelling Reasons (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 04, 2005)
INDIA was constrained to take the decision not to attend the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit at Dhaka which was to begin on February 6.
- A Moment Of Decency (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Feb 04, 2005)
As someone who believed, hoped, worried, prayed, worried, hoped and prayed some more that Iraqis could one day pull off the election they did, I am unreservedly happy about the outcome
- Corporates, Beware The Training Robbery (Business Line, R. Devarajan, Feb 04, 2005)
The word management is generally understood in two different connotations. It is used to denote a group of people in the higher level in the hierarchy who get things done in an organisation.
- Crisis In Nepal (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Feb 04, 2005)
If electoral democracy was suspended in Nepal in 2002, the sacking of Prime Minister Deuba and the assumption of total autocratic powers by the King now have totally buried any semblance of constitutional governance in Nepal.
- Democracy And Accountability (Pioneer, MN Buch, Feb 04, 2005)
India is a democracy in that there is an elected Parliament and there are elected State legislatures to which the councils of ministers at the Centre and in the states are collectively and individually responsible.
- Illegal Takeover (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 04, 2005)
Political seismologists at the Centre are doubtless hailing the Goa quake. But all right-thinking citizens are prompted to ask whether the Congress's contempt for democratic norms-of which assaults on federalism is only one avatar-has any limits.
- Adding Value To The Food Chain (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 04, 2005)
The draft food processing policy 2005, on which the Government has invited comments, takes stock of several constraints that have stood in the way of growth of the industry in India.
- India's Nepal Stand Driven By Concern For Maoist Danger (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Feb 04, 2005)
The principal concern driving the Indian Government's policy towards King Gyanendra is not democracy but how his palace putsch is going to affect the Royal Nepal Army's counter-insurgency operations against Maoist rebels.
- Devolving Sense (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 04, 2005)
The report of the 12th Finance Commission is designed to make a paradigm shift in federal finances and, therefore, in the very nature of the polity. .
- Hike That Cheers (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 04, 2005)
WEDNESDAY’S decision to raise the rate of interest on the Employees Provident Fund by 1 per cent should cheer the employees as also the Left parties.
- Godhra’S Truth, Again (Indian Express, Ram Punyani, Feb 04, 2005)
Ashok Malik's attempt to find the ‘Truth about Godhra’ (IE, Feb 1), lacks any logic and merely repeats the arguments put forward by Narendra Modi’s politically motivated analysis about the Sabramati coach burning immediately after the incident.
- Future Of Indo-Pak Peace Process (Deccan Herald, P R CHARI, Feb 04, 2005)
Abelief is rife in Pakistan that the bilateral peace process has stalled. Perhaps hopes that India-Pakistan relations would normalise after Prime Minister Vajpayee and President Musharraf met in Islamabad in January 2004
- From Amritsar To Us Congress (Tribune, Roopinder Singh, Feb 04, 2005)
Now a post office in the USA will soon be named after a person from a village that did not even have a school, let alone a post office when he lived there.
- Egs As Investment, Not Welfare (Indian Express, MADAN M. JHA, Feb 03, 2005)
Amartya Sen recently expressed the hope that the diversion of funds for the employment guarantee law should not be at the cost of creating rural infrastructure, including investment in education and health.
- Intending To Outrage (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Feb 03, 2005)
In an earlier column, I began to talk about gender biases in Indian laws, given the background of reports submitted by the task force on women and children and the National Commission for Women
- India And The King (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 03, 2005)
India's Nepal policy just collapsed. Indian policy-makers now need to introspect because Nepal is vital to India's security interests. Nepal should have been a test case for India's ability to cultivate good relations with its neighbours
- Incentivise Crop Diversification (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 03, 2005)
Two areas that need attention in the coming Budget are crop diversification and food subsidy. Far from being mutually exclusive, these two are closely related.
- Himalayan Blunder (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 03, 2005)
King Gyanendra’s dismissal of the government and his assumption of absolute control over the country is a deadly blow to democracy in Nepal that will plunge the country into a deeper crisis.
- Gift Of Cruelty (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 03, 2005)
There is something absurd, rather than grand, about an elephant being sent as a gift by one modern prime minister to another. Extravagant or bestial diplomatic gifts are an ancient tradition.
- Gained In Transit (Indian Express, D.C. Pathak, Feb 03, 2005)
The smooth return of George W. Bush to the White House in the face of an Al-Jazeera telecast renewing Osama bin Laden’s threat of further attacks on the US will probably weaken the focus on the debatable issues of intelligence raised on 9/11 as also on th
- India's Media Agog Over Ads-For-Equity Gambit (Asia Times, Indrajit Basu, Feb 03, 2005)
It is a move that is being called alternately brilliant and bizarre. Some even call it a coup. Even as India's largest media company - Bennett, Coleman and Co (BCCL)
- Ec Takes It Easy (Pioneer, Amba Charan Vashishth, Feb 03, 2005)
It may be too much to say that the Election Commission is a toothless body. It does have teeth. Occasionally, it also grins. But, of late, the lion in the EC seems to have turned vegetarian.
- Congress Big Dreams (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Feb 03, 2005)
The Congress reached out to friends when the arc lights were trained on the BJP. Back in media glare, it seems unwilling to show the same warmth to them.
- But Who Will Rescue God? (Deccan Herald, Valson Thampu , Feb 03, 2005)
The disharmony among religions is not to be understood in terms of any substantive issues between them. As a matter of fact, there are no issues. Such issues as are invoked from time to time are mostly excuses.
- Budget Season Or Sorrows? (Deccan Herald, L C JAIN, Feb 03, 2005)
The Budget season has begun. It is time to mind and mend our finances and minimise our sorrows. A critical input is provided by the Twelfth Finance Commission which handed over its report a few days ago to the President of India.
- Britain's Terror Suspects (Economist, Editorial, Economist, Feb 03, 2005)
Be careful what you wish for. After months of demanding (publicly, at least) that the Americans release the remaining four British prisoners from the Guantánamo Bay detention camp
- A Humane Army (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 03, 2005)
THE new Chief of Army Staff, General Joginder Jaswant Singh, has set his priorities right. He wants to give the anti-insurgency and anti-terrorist operations of the Army in the Northeast and Jammu and Kashmir a humane touch.
- Lest We Forget (Telegraph, UDDALAK MUKHERJEE, Feb 03, 2005)
In speaking up about the 1984 riots, Amu reminds us of the importance of revisiting past mistakes
- A Performing Value For Npls (Business Line, Ashwani Puri, Feb 03, 2005)
The existing asset reconstruction company (ARC) framework envisages banks and financial institutions transferring their non-performing loans (NPLs) at "fair value"
- The Lure Of London (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Feb 03, 2005)
No one is fooled by the Mee Mumbaikar which, in effect, asks the dyed-in-the-wool Bombayites to stem the influx into their city. Contrast this with the growing trend in mega cities such as London
- Iraq's Election (Economist, Editorial, Economist, Feb 03, 2005)
Shia Muslims and Kurds have turned out in force for the country’s first elections since the toppling of Saddam Hussein. The insurgents have failed in their bid to wreck the elections, though they are unlikely to go away soon
- It Industry — Indian Firm Clicks As Well As Mnc (Business Line, G. B. Prabhat, Feb 03, 2005)
A few years ago, Indian and multinational consulting firms all but ignored each other capitalising on exclusive profit sanctuaries. As the onsite-offshore model assumed gradually began to dominate
- What Will Be American Role? (Pioneer, VK Grover, Feb 03, 2005)
The United Nations Department of Economic and social Affairs (DESA), in a report submitted on January 26, has warned against the dangers of a rapidly falling US Dollar.
- The Takeover In Nepal (Hindu, Kanak Mani Dixit, Feb 03, 2005)
It would have been a much more popular and realistic move for King Gyanendra to have brought the bickering parties together at this critical juncture.
- The King Of A Jungle (Indian Express, ARAVINDA R DEO, Feb 03, 2005)
In a country beset with massive poverty the Maoists of Nepal represent mass resentment against economic exclusion. Will Gyanendra be able to address Nepal’s immense problems?
- The Baton Awaits (OutLook, S. ANAND, Feb 03, 2005)
The man Jayendra Saraswati identified as the new Shankaracharya of the Kanchi math has virtually disappeared. Till recently, the 54-year-old chartered accountant based in Mumbai was known as Thyagarajan.
- Straws Of Hope (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 03, 2005)
The level of voter participation in the civic elections in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) provides yet another indication of the changed popular mood in the State, which was first visible during the Assembly elections of October, 2002.
- Rocky Region (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 03, 2005)
What is sauce for the goose is often not sauce for the gander. That was, in effect, the conclusion of the last meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation.
- Planned Mess (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 03, 2005)
Punjab’s 3,550 crore annual Plan — up from last year’s Rs 3,400 crore — was cleared on Tuesday. That was no news. Clearing state Plans, often hurriedly, is routine annual work for the Planning Commission.
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