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Articles 4621 through 4720 of 27558:
- Vat And The Consumer (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 25, 2005)
The white paper presented by the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers on State-level Valued Added Tax (VAT) is only the beginning of a much overdue reform of indirect taxation.
- A Wake-Up Call (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 25, 2005)
The Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram's lament that India Inc has not progressed enough on the issue of corporate governance is a timely wake-up call in the context of company performance in recent years.
- Wisdom Of The Weak Dollar (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Jan 25, 2005)
For the US, the best possible way to knock down internal wages is to embrace a weak dollar. Also, it heals the American economy and vitalises the developing economies
- Inner-Party Democracy (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Jan 25, 2005)
The recent happenings in the State unit of the Janata Dal (Secular) may prompt one to wonder whether there are re-invigorated efforts by some members in that political entity to prove that the malapropism, Jagada Dal, coined against their party, was not t
- ‘Our Computer Is Our Head And Our Gandhi Cap ... (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jan 25, 2005)
In their trademark white shirts, pyjamas and Gandhi topis, the dabbawallahs of Mumbai are a unique service which has not only attracted the attention of Forbes magazine but also of environmentalists around the world
- ‘I Have Freed State From Political Terror... (Indian Express, Ashwani Sharma, Jan 25, 2005)
Creation of Chhattisgarh as a separate state four years back was a dream come true for its population of 2.8 crore—predominantly tribals.
- ‘Change Must Touch Common Indian’ (Tribune, Gobind Thukral, Jan 25, 2005)
AS ideas crowd his mind and momentous events about the journey of the Indian Republic fill his imagination, words, soft and chiselled, come in a slow measure. Former President K.R. Narayanan, a diplomat, a trained yogi and a man of great learning...
- In Cooperation With Others (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 25, 2005)
Promote sustainable management, and promote and cooperate in the conservation and enhancement... of sinks and reservoirs of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, including biomass, forests and oceans as well as other terrestrial, c
- Alliance Of Diverse Minds (Indian Express, SONYA PHILIP, Jan 25, 2005)
It’s India’s “silent condition”. Condition, not illness — what can be called being learning disabled. Teachers know it exists among 15 to 20 per cent of their students, parents know it affects their children’s sense of self-worth because
- Best Option (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 25, 2005)
Buying peace may be the best option in some situations. Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has done the right thing by preferring peace to a confrontation with Mr Subash Ghisingh.
- Calamity And Conflict (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 25, 2005)
Can calamity trump conflict? In the immediate aftermath of the tsunami, there was hope that out of the ruins would be born reconciliation in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, the two worst affected countries.
- Gas From Myanmar (Tribune, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jan 25, 2005)
THE most important of many reasons for welcoming the Myanmar-Bangladesh-India agreement is the impact on relations between two distant neighbours. India and Bangladesh will survive without Myanmar gas but they will not survive comfortably if, in the absen
- Competition Commission (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 25, 2005)
THE Supreme Court has rightly given an opportunity to the Union Government to carry out amendments to the Competition Commission Act (CCA). Ever since some objections were raised on the constitutional validity of these amendments, the fate of...
- Doing A Shanghai (Indian Express, VRIJENDRA, Jan 25, 2005)
Make Mumbai into Shanghai’’, seems to be the new mantra of the powers-that-be in Maharashtra. The recent large-scale demolitions of slums in Mumbai are of a piece with this vision of Shanghai.
- Equal Opportunity (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 25, 2005)
Trust Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to undo a wrong in his typically modest way. In ordering three per cent of civil service jobs to be “reserved” for people with physical disability, Mr Singh has corrected a grave injustice without
- Fiscal Reforms By States — Will The New Incentive Plan Pay Off? (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jan 25, 2005)
The Twelfth Finance Commission is said to have devised an incentive scheme based on fiscal performance, which would meet the objectives prescribed for the Fiscal Reform Facility and simultaneously accord debt relief to States. But will it work?
- A Glimpse Of The Lost Grandeur (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 25, 2005)
The legends may compare Balligavi to Lord Indra’s Amaravathi or Lord Kubera’s Alakavathi but reality is quite disappointing. Both the village and the temple are in ruins and not what it used to be
- Cap The Nuclear Arsenal Now (Hindu, R. Rajaraman, Jan 25, 2005)
If we in South Asia do not act now we will bequeath succeeding generations hundreds of nuclear weapons, in the shadow of whose hazards they will have to live.
- Seer’S Arrest: Not Just A Legal Issue (Deccan Herald, N Haridas, Jan 24, 2005)
The arrest of the Kanchi Shankaracharya has been played down as a mere law and order question by the Government of Tamil Nadu, ignoring its political, religious and social upshot
- The Enemy Within (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Jan 24, 2005)
Seymour Hersh’s New Yorker article about American forces carrying out reconnaissance missions in Iran to locate hidden Iranian nuclear facilities (presumably in order to destroy them all in a surprise attack) may be “riddled with errors,”
- Not On Whims (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 24, 2005)
THE Supreme Court ruling against peremptory withdrawal of criminal cases against individuals is welcome as it is expected to remove arbitrariness in the actions of the government and uphold the rule of law.
- Victory Via Mars (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Jan 24, 2005)
As the world’s two largest democracies prepare to vote again, incumbents in India might find it useful to watch George Bush. The president of the US, fighting what has been billed as a very crucial foreign policy election,
- Pay Up, Or Bleed (Deccan Herald, ANIL CHINTAMANI, Jan 24, 2005)
A faucet leaks, a motor packs up or a door lock has jammed. A frantic hunt for a repairman follows. Invariably, the service person you rely on is out of town
- The Man Who Oils India's Wheels (Asia Times, Ramtanu Maitra, Jan 24, 2005)
No US ambassador since John Kenneth Galbraith massaged the Indian ego more efficiently than Robert D Blackwill. The former envoy to India (2001-2003) is now reportedly
- The Not-So General Elections (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jan 24, 2005)
Let me stick my neck out and predict three new trends in the 2004 campaign. One, that this election, more than any in our memory, will be fought on issues of economy and governance.
- United States And The World (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Jan 24, 2005)
Continuity rather than change may well be the mark of the second Bush administration's foreign policy.
- Well Done, Sania (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 24, 2005)
SANIA MIRZA won handsomely, even as she was defeated by former world champion Serena Williams at the Australian Opens. The 18-year-old Hyderabadi, capitalising on a wildcard entry, had already become the first Indian woman to have reached this far in a Gr
- More Smoke (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 24, 2005)
It is a record of kinds, that the true cause of the burning of one coach in a train should persist in eluding investigators. With forensic tools, post-mortem findings and eyewitness accounts, a burnt coach should be the simplest mystery to penetrate.
- Hold Your Fire (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 24, 2005)
Amidst the hype surrounding the composite dialogue process between India and Pakistan that has been on since the Islamabad summit of January 2004
- Broadbanding Your Way To .In Servers (Tribune, Roopinder Singh, Jan 24, 2005)
Computers and telecommunications have transformed the world. New words are being introduced and fresh meanings have been given to old terms. Presented here are some of the terms that the readers would be in touch with, even if they need to be clear about
- India-China, The Great Asian Jv (Indian Express, N K Singh, Jan 24, 2005)
India’s primary tasks are to address rising budget deficits and pare down continuing constraints on the market economy. Total public debt (including state-owned enterprises) stood at 95 per cent of GDP as of March 2003 and primary deficits were over three
- An Absorbing Frolic (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jan 24, 2005)
Old notions die hard; but they still deserve to die. The revolution, the adage says, devours its children. It should be the other way round: it is the children who devour the revolution.
- Keep The Treasures Under Lock And Key (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Jan 24, 2005)
Protecting the nation’s heritage is a costly affair, not only in terms of the funds needed but also in the commitment it demands
- Bush Sets A Daunting Task (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma, Jan 24, 2005)
When President George Bush rang the Liberty Bell to begin his second four-year term in the White House, the world heard it. His words sounded the determination to increase the number of democracies.
- Celebrate This New Contract (Indian Express, Bhai Mahavir, Jan 24, 2005)
Five years ago in Delhi, my mornings were very often not so good as to accord with customary greetings. Often times it was due to the experience at the Delhi Milk Scheme booth which was so unpleasant that soft-natured people could carry an uneasy premonit
- Draw The World (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 24, 2005)
The enthusiasm seen in the tourism ministry, under Ms Renuka Choudhury, to promote tourism by projecting India as an ideal tourist destination is a healthy trend.
- Drug Law Causes Concern (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Jan 24, 2005)
ON December 27, the Union government promulgated an ordinance introducing a new product patent regime for pharmaceuticals by amending the Indian Patent Act of 1970 for the third time.
- Free In Private (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 24, 2005)
Anonymity can be strangely liberating. And what it liberates can be just as strangely double-edged. Call centres in India are becoming aware of an unexpected form of racism in British society.
- Healing And Hurriyat (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 24, 2005)
In the course of history, there comes a time when some fundamental shifts become possible in the ongoing paradigm of events and human relations. Wisdom lies in grabbing such moments for a better future.
- India As Super Power (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 24, 2005)
THE latest Central Intelligence Agency report mentioning that India will be a super power by 2020 is more amusing than true.
- Entrance Tests Must Make An Exit (Indian Express, S.C. BHARGAVA, Jan 24, 2005)
The recent leakage of the CAT and other entrance papers makes it clear that there is something seriously amiss with the whole system of entrance examinations.
- A Tonic For Free (Tribune, Raj Chatterjee, Jan 24, 2005)
THE Almighty, in his infinite wisdom, blessed me with four daughters but overlooked the necessity of providing me and my wife with a son who might have been a prop in our old age. I say “might” because one never knows how a cherished son may turn out whil
- Ozone In Peril (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 23, 2005)
By all accounts, the first-ever strategic dialogue between India and China was more in the nature of a sharing of views and concerns on important issues facing them and the world, than anything else.
- Qualified Gains Against Terror (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Jan 23, 2005)
Kathmandu is usually immersed in rumours. Last week these were mixed with damp, chill weather, bandhs over hike in petroleum prices, abduction of 14 Indian Army Gurkha soldiers on leave
- Rss Has Highest Stake In Jharkhand (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Jan 23, 2005)
Of the three States going to the polls next month, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has the highest stake in Jharkhand.
- Second Coming (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 23, 2005)
Muslim society's 'castelessness' is often held up as a positive contrast to caste-ridden Hindu society. Yet the reality is that Muslims are also stratified in terms of caste.
- Why Can’T Bjp Have More Faith In Hinduism? (Deccan Herald, Valson Thampu , Jan 23, 2005)
I wish the BJP would not inflate Benny Hinn into an Yamaraj of Hinduism. I can understand their compulsions, though.
- Struggling Dinosaur (The Economic Times, ARVIND KALA, Jan 23, 2005)
IF India's telecom networks can be opened to private companies, why should our postal system remain a virtual monopoly?
- The Truth About Godhra (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jan 23, 2005)
Three years after 59 train passengers, most of them VHP members and sympathisers or their family members, perished in a fire on board coach S-6 of the Sabarmati Express at Godhra, a coherent picture is finally emerging of what actually happened ...
- Time To Restore The Majesty Of Vice-Chancellors (Tribune, Vikram Chadha, Jan 23, 2005)
Gone are the days when the enigmatic presence of the vice-chancellor made a university the vital hub of academic, research and policy formulating activities
- Lal Bahadur Shastri: A Unique Story Not Yet Fully Told (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Jan 23, 2005)
Without any loss of time — and also without fanfare — the committee appointed to oversee the celebrations of Lal Bahadur Shastri's centenary, headed by the Prime Minister
- Brain Behind Tsunami Warning System (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jan 23, 2005)
Years back, T.S. Murthy, also known as Tad Murthy, left his home state Andhra Pradesh for pastures new, not knowing what lay in store for him. Like him, many youthful talents left India at that time for better future.
- Tsunami: The Robots Next Time? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 23, 2005)
Two news items deserve special attention as the world tries painfully to come to grips with life after tsunami. According to the first, eight elephants that take tourists around at Thailand's Khao Lak beach began to cry loudl
- Anti-Laloo Sentiment Strong In Bihar, Says Arun Jaitley (Tribune, S. Satyanarayanan, Jan 23, 2005)
The Bharatiya Janata Party, which got a severe drubbing in the last Lok Sabha elections and in the recent Assembly elections in Maharashtra, is in a bind.
- Inevitable Triangle (Pioneer, MG Kapahy, Jan 23, 2005)
I agree with the editorial, "Sindh against" (January 5), that the petition in the Supreme Court for replacing the word Sind in our national anthem with Kashmir is both trivial and ludicrous.
- Democracy A Bad Word In Bihar (Tribune, Chanchal Sarkar, Jan 23, 2005)
Who will, in Bhagalpur, save the dolphins, those wonderfully intelligent water-animals of the Ganga? And save the polluted Ganga as well? Reports say that people are catching the dolphins and eating them up.
- Aids: Facing The Second Wave (OutLook, PRAMIT MITRA, Jan 23, 2005)
Eighteen years after the first AIDS diagnosis in the country, India has entered a critical period in its fight against the disease. And the country's strategy in combating the pandemic in the coming years will hold lessons not only for other
- Caste In Injustice (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Jan 23, 2005)
The rhetoric of ‘social justice’ conceals all manner of ills: pandering to sectional interests, appeasing of labour aristocracies, subsidising of dying PSUs and most crucially, robbing of the Indian state of talent by arguing against all forms of merit.
- Disasters, Tsunami And George Bush (Indian Express, Raju Santhanam, Jan 23, 2005)
Was Tsunami, the giant killer wave, actually an act of God? But even if some disasters cannot be predicted it is important to categorise disasters so that disaster management can be more effective.
- First Volley (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 23, 2005)
She had wanted to see how hard Serena Williams hit the ball. Sania Mirza managed to do not only that, but she also hit back for a long enough while for Williams to feel that it had not been a “walk in the park”
- Glimpse Of Possibility (Telegraph, GITHA HARIHARAN, Jan 23, 2005)
Shama Futehally and I spoke of many things in the years we knew each other, but I don’t recall any conversation about E.M. Forster. Yet now, after her death, when I search for words
- Going From Rach To Ruin! (The Economic Times, R K NANDAN, Jan 23, 2005)
The Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) is still doing what it is most adept at--scoring self-goals!
- India's Forgotten Army (The Economic Times, Raghu Krishnan, Jan 23, 2005)
I had planned to go to Orissa last winter but things didn't quite work out.
- Congress Does A Shuffle (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 23, 2005)
Many have sworn there’s a new Sonia Gandhi of late. The lady of 10 Janpath has stepped out of the fortress more than once, in full media glare, to meet with potential allies.
- The Value Of Restraint (Tribune, H. K. Dua, Jan 22, 2005)
Often there are surprises in India-Pakistan relations. Until a couple of years ago absence of firing along the Line of Control (LoC) made news. Last week, India, however, was taken by surprise when the news flashed that mortar shelling had taken place fro
- Powerless In Punjab (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 22, 2005)
FROM usually power surplus in winter, Punjab now faces a shortage of 200 lakh units daily. What will happen in summer is not hard to guess.
- Mega-Cities Face Mega Disasters (Tribune, David McNeill, Jan 22, 2005)
Earthquakes, floods and other natural disasters could kill millions in the world’s teeming “mega-cities” and time is running out to prevent such a catastrophe, a UN expert on emergency relief has warned.
- Mumbai's Demolition Marathon (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jan 22, 2005)
While the Government can have a tough policy on structures built illegally on public lands, it cannot have the same attitude towards the people living in those structures
- No Smooth Sailing (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Jan 22, 2005)
Most observers of the Pakistani scene are running scared today: many expect the military establishment to order a crackdown on the mainly Bugti tribesmen in Balochistan’s Sui area where ‘miscreants’ have succeeded in damaging the gas purification plant in
- Old Habits Die Hard (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Jan 22, 2005)
One day in the nineteen seventies, Leonid Brezhnev was in a town on Lake Baikal, attending a Politburo meeting.
- Parties In U.S., Despair Elsewhere (Hindu, Robin Cook, Jan 22, 2005)
Inauguration does not do justice to the exuberant celebrations of this week. Coronation would come closer. Washington ended Thursday with nine official balls.
- Purveyor Of Democracy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 22, 2005)
THE extravaganza of George W. Bush's swearing in as the 43rd President of the US was unprecedented and unrelated to the ground reality.
- Should All Deductions And Exemptions Go? (Business Line, H. P. Ranina, Jan 22, 2005)
Deductions and exemptions have been the subject of much debate. Those opposed to them must realise that they are a significant part of the people's savings that form the bedrock of a nation's long-term
- Teachers Now And Then (Tribune, Saroop Krishen, Jan 22, 2005)
Quite a good few of our educational establishments, especially those run by the government, used to regard the Oxbridge colleges as the role model worthy of being followed to as great an extent as possible.
- Liberating The Prisoners (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jan 22, 2005)
A mother of three, with another in her womb, is convicted for being an accomplice with her paramour in the murder of her husband.
- The Need For Common Minimum Conduct (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Jan 22, 2005)
A leader must adhere to codes of conduct and behaviour. Winning votes through immoral means strikes a body blow to democracy. The tragedy is that today a Palkhivala would probably never be able to win elections. Excerpts from the Nani Palkhivala Memorial
- Customs And Duties (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Jan 22, 2005)
The second era of the great Indian economic reforms story began with Dr Manmohan Singh taking over reins as the Prime Minister and P Chidambaram as the Finance Minister.
- Tracking Two Faces Of Power (Indian Express, RAVINDER KAUR, Jan 22, 2005)
On a train journey from Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh to New Delhi, one encountered several forms of power, and its exercise. In one case, it was bureaucratic power, power that emanates from the higher echelons of India’s public service.
- When Reopening Turns Revolting (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Jan 22, 2005)
Every Finance Act brings in a spate of amendments to the law and some of these have retrospective effect. Completed cases are reopened on the basis of such retrospective legislation. Is this fair?
- The Embedded Host (Deccan Herald, KAMALA BALACHANDRAN, Jan 22, 2005)
Of late, I have been so regularly lying to my parents that my conscience does not even take notice of it any more. But one day, in just a span of three hours, I had fibbed thrice, and that was too much, even by my standards.
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