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Articles 5321 through 5420 of 27558:
- Growth Pangs (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 06, 2005)
If India were political Utopia, Lord Meghnad Desai's recipe for accelerated growth-the BJP and the Congress joining hands to form a 'grand coalition'-may have clicked.
- For Sense With Sensibility (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 06, 2005)
Indians have proved yet again that they are a kind people. The magnanimity of the general public, responsible for the unceasing flow of truckloads of relief material into the tsunami-struck southern parts of the country
- For A Long-Term Solution (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Jan 06, 2005)
Any rehabilitation scheme for fisherfolk affected by the tsunami can be worked out only through democratic consultation and the participation of the fisherfolk themselves in the decision-making process.
- Fdi In Retailing — Short-Changing The Kirana Store? (Business Line, Mohan Guruswamy, Jan 06, 2005)
The retail industry in India is often hailed as one of the sunrise sectors. AT Kearney recently identified India as the ``second most attractive retail destination'' from among 30 emergent markets.
- Ega: Needed, A Govt Guarantee Act (Indian Express, Zoya Hasan, Jan 06, 2005)
In the past few months, there has been considerable discussion on the Employment Guarantee Act (EGA). Assuring the basic needs of the vulnerable has come to the forefront after a decade of identity politics that pushed livelihood issues into the backgroun
- Homeless And Alone (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Jan 06, 2005)
It is more than a week since the killer tsunami struck many nations of Asia. Indonesia, the worst hit, Sri Lanka, India (including Andaman Islands) Thailand Myanmar Malaysia and even Kenya and Somalia were affected.
- J.N. Dixit - A Tribute (Hindu, Gopal Gandhi, Jan 05, 2005)
"I will come and call on you at Banga Bhavan, Gopal," he said when I spoke to J.N. Dixit a fortnight ago, "protocol is protocol."
- Make Way (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 05, 2005)
Those who want to change things should know what they are up against. Some of his comrades seem to be Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s worst enemies.
- Us Slips In Luring The Best (Deccan Herald, SAM DILLON, Jan 05, 2005)
American universities, which for half a century have attracted the world’s best and brightest students with little effort, are suddenly facing intense competition as higher education undergoes rapid globalisation.
- Patent Ordinance And Reality Check (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jan 05, 2005)
To meet its WTO commitment, India has brought in an ordinance to usher in the product patent regime. But of the effect on the ground things are not too clear, though the ordinance appears to create a milieu for the IT and pharma industries to grow and ...
- National Time Pass (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 05, 2005)
The ways of the Supreme Court, like that of God, are inscrutable. Instead of dismissing a petition — seeking the deletion of ‘‘Sindh’’ from the national anthem and substituting it with a word like ‘‘Kashmir’’
- Need For A Universal Egs (Hindu, Prabhat Patnaik, Jan 05, 2005)
Confining the Employment Guarantee Scheme to particular areas on the ground that they have "implementation capacity"
- Neuromarketing (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 05, 2005)
Well, it had to happen some time: Only it has happened sooner than feared. In the beginning, there was only market research — a study of consumer behaviour through surveys of their purchases and expressed or implied preferences and choices.
- Office And The Man (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 05, 2005)
The position of the national security advisor (NSA), now vacant after the passing away of J.N. Dixit, cannot be treated as another routine government appointment. Arguably, no other office has such a vital role in ensuring that India’s security imperative
- Political Realities And Double Speak (Business Line, R. Sthanumoorthy, Jan 05, 2005)
What drives political parties to speak in two voices when it comes to execution of hard economic decisions and what implication does it have in implementing such decisions?
- Rural Push (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 05, 2005)
The idea of PURA — provision of urban facilities in rural areas — originated with the president and has been adopted by the United Progressive Alliance. Witness its explicit mention in this year’s budget.
- Sri Lanka And The Tsunami (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 05, 2005)
Sri Lanka is stranger to large-scale death and destruction. But the death and destruction caused by a 20-year-old internal conflict could not have prepared the country
- Textile Quota Is Now History (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 05, 2005)
A couple of days before Christmas, there was a communiqué from the Central Board of Excise and Customs advising Customs field formations about the end of "the textile quota regime" on January 1
- This Waiting Can Be Long (Indian Express, Harmala Gupta, Jan 05, 2005)
The advances made by medical science have not only increased life spans, it is now possible to ensure good symptom relief right till the end. Why then are we debating the right to end our lives prematurely?
- War Budget Dwarfs Aid Spending (Hindu, George Monbiot, Jan 05, 2005)
The victims of the tsunami pay the price of war on Iraq as U.S. and British aid is dwarfed by the billions both spend on slaughter.
- The Tsunami Relief Effort (Hindu, Mari Marcel Thekaekara, Jan 05, 2005)
A question many of us ask is: Does India need outside help in a disaster? Technically I would say no. We have the expertise, certainly.
- When Truth Is No Defence (Tribune, P. P. Rao, Jan 05, 2005)
CORRUPTION has assumed alarming proportions. The epidemic has spread to the judiciary to some extent. The Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, miserably failed to prevent or check corruption.
- The Strain Is Showing (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 05, 2005)
The India growth story seems to have hit a writer's block. The growth rate is slipping. A rising crude import bill may explain much of the negative current account deficit.
- A Wave To Drown The Tsunami (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jan 05, 2005)
Amid the deep gloom of tsunami devastation, as one watched the almost surreal scenes of thousands of dead and lakhs rendered homeless or reduced to penury, there were a few silver linings too.
- Let The Rivers Of Friendship Flow (Business Line, S. Padmanabhan , Jan 05, 2005)
The project for interlinking rivers in India is so closely intertwined with Bangladesh that the time has come for both countries to finalise a long-term and massive development and disaster prevention plan.
- A Retribution For Warnings Ignored? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Jan 05, 2005)
In less than 24 hours, the tsunami jolted awake the whole nation to the reality of its ill-preparedness to meet a major catastrophe and the inescapably global character of all technology.
- Agent Of Change (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Jan 05, 2005)
P.V. Narasimha Rao’s manner of leaving had all the hallmarks of his long, tempestuous political life. He left on the eve of the 80th birthday of the man he called his life-long friend and adversary
- Among The Shoppers (Indian Express, AMRITA DUTTA, Jan 05, 2005)
On December 31 2004, four of us had set out to collect contributions for the people who had survived the rage of the tsunami. We represented a collective of 20 voluntary organisations in Delhi.
- Cause For Concern (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 05, 2005)
The report indicating that there may be a shortfall of 15 to 17 per cent in the targeted foodgrain output during the rabi season in the State this year is certainly a cause for concern.
- Does The Deccan Need More Water? (Deccan Herald, SUBRATA SINHA, Jan 05, 2005)
The river-linking project would lead to degradation of land and adversely affect the rural majority
- Fuel For Thought (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 05, 2005)
The road map for cleaner fuel — and, by implication, for cleaner air — will have to be redrawn with oil refiners declaring they are unable to meet the deadline for the supply of petrol and diesel that matches the required standards.
- It Is For Us (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 05, 2005)
The National Road Safety Week has been inaugurated with symbolic fanfare. The objective of the Safety Week (January 3 to 9) is to raise awareness of the dangers on the road and how to be safe, and to encourage all road users to take care.
- Deluded Into Crime Piyal Sen (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 05, 2005)
One of the cardinal legal principles applicable to every law court in India is called “mens rea” which, in Latin, means the capacity to form the intent to carry out an action.
- Looking Back In Wonder (Telegraph, Deep K. Datta-Ray, Jan 05, 2005)
A tsunami-ravaged exotic Asia once again provides the backdrop to a Western adventure
- Medicines To Cost More (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 04, 2005)
From January 1, 2005, India has started recognising patents on medicines. This effectively means prices of new medicines and of those made in the last 10 years or so
- Rao, The Prophet Of Boom (Pioneer, A. Surya Prakash, Jan 04, 2005)
The ups and downs in former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao's political career reminds us of an age-old truth - that destiny plays a crucial role in the lives of individuals and nations.
- Nris Must Chip In (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 04, 2005)
THERE could be no better occasion for non-resident Indians and people of Indian origin to come to the aid of the country of their origin.
- Nreg Bill: Fine-Tuning Will Make It Work Better (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Jan 04, 2005)
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill goes beyond describing a set of employment generating schemes, and goes into the nitty-gritty, listing the broad responsibilities of the officials at the district, block and panchayat levels.
- New Vistas (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 04, 2005)
With the onset of 2005, two significant developments in the world of commerce and industry open themselves to India. Both are connected with the new world trade order under the aegis of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
- Nature Retaliates (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Jan 04, 2005)
A heightened vigil is needed in the State, especially in the coastal regions, in the wake of the tsunami tragedy
- Narasimha Rao: He Was Open To Ideas (Tribune, Balraj Puri, Jan 04, 2005)
I had never met Narasimha Rao before he became Prime Minister. But when I sought and got an appointment, he told me that he was going to call for me.
- Stokes: No Longer Apple Of One’S Eye (Tribune, Ambika Sharma, Jan 04, 2005)
Samuel Evans Stokes, the pioneer of scientific horticulture in Himachal, was remembered as an emancipator of the poverty-ridden hill people a century ago. Today there is none to recall the contribution of Stokes
- Uncertain Certainties (Gulf News, M.J. Akbar, Jan 04, 2005)
It is natural: in the first week of January every right-thinking Indian wants to know what will happen in the coming year.
- The U.N. Must Lead (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 04, 2005)
The scale of the tsunami catastrophe in Indonesia and Sri Lanka has just emerged. Estimates of the death toll in Indonesia are fast approaching the 100,000 mark while Sri Lanka has confirmed at least 40,000 deaths.
- To Engage A Changing World (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 04, 2005)
Among the foreign policy challenges India will face in the foreseeable future would be the requirement to structure new equations with important power centres of the world after the end of the Cold War and disintegration of the Soviet Union
- To Go Or Not To Go Is The Question (Hindu, Carl Wilkinson, Jan 04, 2005)
As the extent of the devastation wreaked by the tsunami unfolds, many are having to decide whether going ahead with planned holidays will help or hinder the local people.
- Trauma Of Learning A Language (Tribune, Saroop Krishen, Jan 04, 2005)
AS a rule learning a new language can be “very rewarding experience since in effect it introduces a new world to you. It can, however, be quite taxing and frustrating too especially if the language to be learnt belongs to a family of languages which is...
- Tsunami: Asia Will Bounce Back (Asia Times, Emad Mekay, Jan 04, 2005)
The world is rallying to aid countries and lives damaged by the tsunamis that have killed more than 120,000 people in Asia and Africa, injuring three or four times as many
- Lov La And Other Puzzles (Telegraph, CHANDRIMA S. BHATTACHARYA, Jan 04, 2005)
It must be a new code. Its bearers are mostly young, hip and female and are being sighted all over.
- Ukrainian Drama (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 04, 2005)
Viktor Yanuk Ovich's decision to resign as the Prime Minister of Ukraine after his defeat in the repeat presidential election brings the political uncertainty in the former Soviet republic a step closer to resolution.
- Trust In A Time Of Trouble (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jan 04, 2005)
The last week has been grim, truly grim. A natural disaster of enormous magnitude swallowed up thousands of people and rendered hundreds of thousands homeless.
- Winner All The Way (Telegraph, Amitabh Mattoo, Jan 04, 2005)
India’s foreign policy and strategic community has never been short of talent. But there are few, in recent years
- Yes, Boss (Indian Express, RAM SEHGAL, Jan 04, 2005)
Over the years, I have discovered some basic rules that could help in building a successful career. My learning came long after the mistakes were made and my career, on many occasions, was in doldrums.
- Turkey’S Quest For Eu Membership (Deccan Herald, RAJEN HARSHE, Jan 04, 2005)
A historic agreement between the European Union (EU) and Turkey in December has paved the way for the opening of talks on the eventual accession of Turkey to the EU as a full-fledged member.
- A Diplomat And A Gentleman (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 04, 2005)
In most regional initiatives in South Asia, in crucial negotiations with China, through the sensitive post-Soviet years in Afghanistan, behind tough-talking, no-nonsense deliberations with Pakistan, stood the rock-like presence of J N ‘Mani’ Dixit.
- Tsunami: Distorted Priorities (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jan 04, 2005)
IT is a telling commentary on the United States’ focus on war, rather than peace, that it should have taken President George W. Bush several days publicly to react to the tsunami tragedy that engulfed India and other countries in South and South-East
- Legitimising Discrimination (Pioneer, KR Phanda, Jan 04, 2005)
While piloting the Minority Educational Institutions Bill in the Rajya Sabha on December 21, the Union Human Resources Development Minister, Mr Arjun Singh, is reported to have observed that the NDA Government had
- A Knowledge Hub (Telegraph, Sukanta Chaudhuri, Jan 04, 2005)
At the golden jubilee celebrations of Jadavpur University, the chief minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, stressed the importance of academic research
- Allied Assault (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 04, 2005)
The Congress made its bed with Bihar's ruling RJD. But it has difficulty lying on it each time seat-sharing becomes a prestige issue.
- Autonomy Needed (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 04, 2005)
The dismal scenario prevailing in the sphere of higher education in the State is summed up by the disclosure made by Bangalore University Vice-Chancellor M S Thimmappa that more than 150 teaching posts, including those of 70 professors, are lying vacant a
- Bank Reforms: More Threat Than Promise (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, Jan 04, 2005)
PSU banks are forced to operate within the frame-work of conflicting pulls and pressures within govt
- Bonding With Malaysia (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 04, 2005)
In May 2001, the then Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, visited Malaysia, as part of the NDA Government's "look East" policy.
- Data Protection Demystified (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , Jan 04, 2005)
The recommendations on the Third Patent (Amendment) Bill to the Government have got bogged down in controversy primarily due to a perception that once the product patent regime comes in to force
- Data Protection, Post-Haste (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 04, 2005)
Commerce minister Kamal Nath said recently that the government was all set to introduce a legislation for data protection.
- In Relief (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 04, 2005)
Even the most reasonable of stances may have a striking effect. India’s refusal of aid for the tsunami disaster from other countries, such as the United States of America, China, or Australia, has been both polite and reasonable.
- Delivery Mechanism In Commodity Exchanges (Business Line, A. S. Jeyakumar, Jan 04, 2005)
Deliveries are an integral part of commodity exchanges (comex). Even though they form an insignificant portion of the total volume of trade transacted on the exchange
- Information: An Inviolable Right (Hindu, Nirmala Lakshman, Jan 04, 2005)
Despite the fact that there are serious attempts to muzzle the right to information by the ruling elite and powerful vested interests through the tabling of an ineffective Bill, the tide of civil resistance cannot be stemmed for long
- J.N. Dixit (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 04, 2005)
IN the death of Jyotindra Nath Dixit, India has lost one of its most cerebral diplomats and national security experts. Few understood the security imperatives for the country better than this career diplomat
- How Nature Changes History (Indian Express, DONALD G MCNEIL JR, Jan 04, 2005)
Two earthquakes in 1999 brought ancient enemies Greek and Turkey together as they rushed to each other’s aid. Will the tsunami bring Lankan govt and rebels to peace table?
- Grandpa’S Guru (Deccan Herald, H P HANDE, Jan 04, 2005)
My first grandson was born one fine April morning, six years ago, all of two-and-a-half kgs. While most newborns’ eyes are tightly shut, this fellow was staring at all of us around him with wide open eyes, as if to say
- From It Inc To Pharma Inc (Business Line, C. Bhaktavatsala Rao, Jan 04, 2005)
If the 1990s belonged to information technology , the 21st century belongs to the pharmaceutical industry that is accelerating India's knowledge revolution.
- Freedom To See (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 04, 2005)
Extremist politics often has an absurd side to it and the absurdity tends to show itself in unexpected ways. That perhaps explains why the Maoists of Nepal should suddenly ban the screening of Hindi films from India in that country.
- Ear To The Ground (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 04, 2005)
The Employment Guarantee Act (EGA) aims to provide wage employment to those sections of the population that have been left out of the development process.
- Iran’S N-Ambitions (Tribune, Sudarshan Bhutani, Jan 03, 2005)
Iran’s nuclear ambitions cannot be considered separated from its relations with the United States of America. Ever since the 1979 revolution in Iran, the US has made no secret of its desire to bring about a change of regime in Teheran.
- An Exercise In Make-Believe (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 03, 2005)
The Independent South Asia Commission on Poverty Alleviation has done it again. In its second report, the body — set up under the auspices of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
- Imbalances In The Global Economy (Hindu, Heather Stewart, Jan 03, 2005)
Decline in the dollar means the challenge is how to ward off a global financial crisis.
- Guaranteeing Employment: A Palliative? (Hindu, T.N. Srinivasan, Jan 03, 2005)
Let us not kid ourselves: an employment generation programme is a palliative and not a means for poverty eradication.
- For The Present And Future (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 03, 2005)
Excerpts from the 10th conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, December 2004
- For A Memorial To Partition (Tribune, Himmat Singh Gill, Jan 03, 2005)
WHAT do the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Statue of Liberty and the Ellis Island Foundation, both located in New York, possibly have in common with a proposed memorial that I have in mind for our own country, commemorating
- False Alarm (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 03, 2005)
It is understandable that after the sudden and unexpected devastation wrought by the tsunami that struck Sunday before last, the authorities would not have risked the slightest chance with warnings about a second coming.
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