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Articles 5521 through 5620 of 27558:
- Wings To Aviation (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 31, 2004)
The government’s decision to allow domestic private airlines to fly overseas is a welcome and much-needed move. Predictably, the left parties have opposed it fearing loss of revenue for the government-owned Indian Airlines (IA) and Air India (AI), but the
- Year-End Tidings (Tribune, K. Rajbir Deswal, Dec 31, 2004)
The second millennium was at its fag end when we decided to celebrate and welcome the third one at no other place than beautiful Shimla, hoping in addition, to enjoy the excitement of an expected snowfall.
- Look Beyond Status Quo (Pioneer, APS Chauhan, Dec 31, 2004)
The reaction in press on the troop's pull out from Siachen had been premature. Even if there were to be any agreement on the issue, its shape is still to be worked out.
- Where Forests Saved The People (Hindu, SURESH NAMBATH, Dec 31, 2004)
The Nicobar group of islands will never be the same again. Their shapes have changed. After Sunday's tsunami, some of the islands have become smaller, yielding ground to the sea on the south-eastern side.
- Dishonourable (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 31, 2004)
For whom does the serious artist produce? To some extent, for himself, in the urge to give shape and expression to a particular understanding of experience. But in his mind there is always the shadowy audience
- A Few Image Problems (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 31, 2004)
Nature's fury that killed a hundred thousand people, perhaps many more, washed away settlements, lives and livelihood also enriched all languages save Japanese with one terrible word for unstoppable wrath: tsunami.
- Main Hoon Na (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 31, 2004)
Finance Minister P Chidambaram has won us over with his promise that the real expansion in tax collections in the coming budget will not be at the cost of the salaried class.
- Race To Aid Tsunami Victims (Economist, Editorial, Economist, Dec 31, 2004)
The death toll from the Indian Ocean tsunamis has soared to above 120,000 with the discovery of huge numbers of further victims in the Indonesian province of Aceh. Though the biggest relief operation in history is under way, tens of thousands more may now
- Rbi's Currency And Finance Report (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Dec 31, 2004)
The apex bank does not fight shy of telling the Government that "strict adherence to fiscal rules in letter and spirit will help stabilise inflation expectations and, in turn
- Can We Bridge This Gulf? (Indian Express, Jasjit Singh, Dec 31, 2004)
In the complex world of today, is it realistic to ask that the Gulf region be a nuclear weapon-free zone? If so, why? After all, the proposal for a larger Middle East as a Weapons of Mass
- Caught Unawares (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 31, 2004)
As the nation – and many of its neighbours – grieves its dead after the tsunami visitation, there is the inevitable remorse about lack of any kind of early warning.
- Consumer Credit: Boon Or Bane? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 31, 2004)
There are two ways of looking at the ongoing boom in consumer credit disbursements by commercial banks in India. At one level it has brought about a number of benefits to consumers
- 2004: In Transit (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 31, 2004)
The more things change, the more they don't remain the same. That is the anti-climactic moral of 2004, whose end makes its beginning unrecognisable.
- Left Beset With Contradictions (Tribune, R. Suryamurthy, Dec 31, 2004)
As the country enters the New Year 2005, the Left parties, who play a crucial role in the survival of the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre, have a daunting task of re-defining their role in the future.
- Flight To Freedom (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 31, 2004)
The decision to allow private airlines to fly abroad is welcome, with two caveats. One, there should be no glitches in the public sector airlines’ plans to add to their fleet.
- Framing The Tsunami (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 31, 2004)
In the age of the globalisation of disaster, it illustrates the limits of empathy. Or you could simply call it disaster tourism. And it wasn’t immediately striking. In fact, in the wake of the all-destroying tsunami
- Get Babudom On The Treadmill (Business Line, Raghu Dayal , Dec 31, 2004)
Despite the constant refrain that the country's flabby bureaucracy needs trimming, efforts towards this end seem to lack sincerity. The over-manned establishment, besides adding to the disguised employment, acts as a huge drain on resources
- In The Name Of Allah (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Dec 31, 2004)
Sir, my secular answer to the honourable member is that where it is in the hands of Allah, we turn to Allah, where it is in the hands of man, we turn to man."
- Industrial Boom Ahead (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Dec 31, 2004)
The future looks good for India, on the economic front, with foreign investments higher than ever before
- Land Border Conundrum (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 31, 2004)
Important land border routes in West Bengal (Petrapole, Hili and Mahadipur) and the North-East (Dawki, in Meghalaya) to Bangladesh, which have over the years aided the steady growth of border
- Creating A Tsunami Warning System (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 31, 2004)
If there were doubts before, the tsunami of December 26, 2004 has swept them away. Over 100,000 people in a number of Asian countries have been killed by the monstrous waves, millions
- Manmohan Deputes Two Ministers To Andamans (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2004)
The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has deputed his Minister of State for Home, Prakash Jaiswal, and the Minister of State for Information Technology and Communications, Shakeel Ahmed, to Port Blair and Car Nicobar to oversee the relief and rescue....
- Subsidies And The Poor (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 30, 2004)
The Finance Ministry has once again agonised over the mounting level of subsidies paid out by the Central Government — over what is to be done to target them more sharply at the poor
- Manmohan Touring Affected Areas (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2004)
The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, today left here for Thiruvananthapuram to survey the tsunami-hit coastal areas, even as the Centre said the death and destruction were being treated as a national calamity.
- More Commitments For India, China (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Dec 30, 2004)
The rules of the game in the economic field are increasingly being changed for India, China and Brazil
- Moscow And Multipolarity (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Dec 30, 2004)
Russia is building new alliances and using oil to counter the United States' attempts at regime change in its neighbourhood.
- Nagapattinam Burns Its Dead (Pioneer, K Venkataramanan, Dec 30, 2004)
Cormorants hovered overhead and the stench of death hung in the air, as Armymen and hundreds of volunteers dug out hundreds of bodies from under ....
- National Space (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 30, 2004)
There is many a slip between the regional and the national. This difference in perception could give rise to a debate as to whether the crisis caused by the tsunami devastation is regional or national, that is, whether India is in the grip
- Nicobar Village Leaves Behind A Graveyard, From Past & Present (Indian Express, Subrata Nag Choudhury, Dec 30, 2004)
If and when anyone from the local administration or any relief agency travels 6 km from the deluge-struck IAF base here, as The Indian Express did today
- Not A Reluctant Reformer (Hindu, C. Rangarajan, Dec 30, 2004)
How much of a reformer was P.V. Narasimha Rao? Was he a reluctant reformer or was he an enthusiastic reformer? These questions have been posed to me by several friends
- One-Sided Moves (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 30, 2004)
The outcome of the two-day Foreign Secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan in Islamabad on Tuesday, warrants some serious thinking on the dialogue process under way between the two countries.
- Lost Worlds? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 30, 2004)
With the death toll mounting, the tsunami that devastated southern Asia has passed into the records as the biggest yet. From the staggering wreckage and collective lamentation has risen the spectre of a new dread:
- Reporting From Blogosphere (Indian Express, JOHN SCHWARTZ, Dec 30, 2004)
For vivid reporting from the enormous zone of tsunami disaster, it was hard to beat the blogs. The so-called blogosphere, with its personal journals published on the Web
- Lost Civilisation? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 30, 2004)
The stench of rotting bodies is all-pervasive in coastal areas of India flattened by Sunday’s tsunami waves. The tragedy is so overpowering that even on the mainland, enough aid is not reaching the survivors.
- The Holiday Party (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Dec 30, 2004)
Meeting Salman Rushdie on his brief visit to India earlier this month, I was struck by his almost childlike delight in becoming part of the extended Palghat Brahmin fraternity, courtesy his marriage to Padma Lakshmi.
- The Killer Brew (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 30, 2004)
The 51 Mumbai slum-dwellers who died on Monday after consuming spurious liquor did not know that the “cheap kick” they were enjoying during extended Christmas celebrations would make them sleep forever.
- The Old Man And The Sea (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Dec 30, 2004)
There are Japanese paintings of a huge menacing wave curling over a tiny lone hut on the edge of the shore that are absolutely terrifying in their scale and drama — as they are meant to be.
- The Three Legs Of Corporatedom (Business Line, N. R. Moorthy , Dec 30, 2004)
For decades the triple issues of ownership, control and management have been bugging corporates. Questions have been raised but no adequate response has been found as to whether management can be segregated
- This Is Not Just Another Story (Telegraph, Gouri Chatterjee, Dec 30, 2004)
Barkha Dutt has it so right. She is visibly moved as she speaks about the bereft children of Nagapattinam, as she pleads with businessmen in Mumbai for help, as she shares her experiences with her colleagues in other tsunami-devastated spots in India.
- Too Little Too Late (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 30, 2004)
The country is now facing the mammoth task of providing relief and rehabilitation to the affected people in the tsunami-hit regions.
- Tsunami Damage Put At Rs. 5,500 Cr. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2004)
Preliminary estimates made by industry have put the economic cost of the destruction caused by the tsunami in India at Rs. 5,500 crores.
- Wiggle Room In Accounting To Stage Fiscal Gimmicks (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 30, 2004)
In february, when the BJP-led NDA government was bullish about a return to power after the elections, and presented the Interim Budget, the Opposition was quick to decry it as `poll gimmicks'.
- Hope Floats Where All Else Drowns (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Dec 30, 2004)
The Iraq war is no more important in the global scheme of things than poverty or climate change.
- A Step Forward (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 30, 2004)
The latest round of official level India-Pakistan talks held in Islamabad which concluded on Tuesday focussed on confidence-building measures (CBMs) to improve ties between the subcontinental neighbours.
- And The Houses All Fell Down (Indian Express, WAJAHAT HABIBULLAH, Dec 30, 2004)
In October ’04, I called on Narasimha Rao of an evening. We met at his home on Delhi’s Motilal Nehru Marg and I was struck by the fragility of his appearance but equally by the clarity of mind.
- Banking Consolidation Must Be Synergy-Driven (Business Line, Manoranjan Sharma, Dec 30, 2004)
Consolidation emerged as a defining characteristic of the modern banking world, primarily to leverage the benefits of large size, expanding and diversifying bank loan portfolios to lessen the likelihood of failure and harnessing core competencies.
- Beyond Harry Potter (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 30, 2004)
It will be six long, lingering months before it casts a spell on readers. But the penultimate novel of J.K. Rowling's seven-part series has notched up a staggering number of advance orders
- Bias Against The Self-Employed (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Dec 30, 2004)
The policies the Government is pursuing could well render unemployable all those who are self-employed now. There appears to be an inherent bias against the self-employed
- Bittersweet Saga (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 30, 2004)
The unseemly controversy within the government over import of raw sugar and the manner of fulfilling the export obligation is in poor taste, to say the least.
- Bush Gives Aid, Not Time (Indian Express, Robin Wright, Dec 30, 2004)
The Bush administration more than doubled its financial commitment Tuesday to provide relief to nations suffering from the Indian Ocean tsunami amid complaints that the vacationing President Bush has been insensitive to a humanitarian catastrophe of epic
- Can Vnn, Bbc Get Away With This Corpse Show In Manhattan? (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Dec 30, 2004)
After 9/11 they chanted privacy, sensitivity; Asian disaster open season to show bodies of men, women, children
- Govt Got Wind 1 Hr Before Waves Hit Chennai (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Dec 30, 2004)
At 7.50 am on Black Sunday, more than one full hour before the tidal waves hit the Tamil Nadu coast, the top brass of the Indian Air Force knew that the Car Nicobar Air Base had been inundated.
- How Rao Broke The Ice In J&k (Indian Express, WAJAHAT HABIBULLAH, Dec 30, 2004)
In October ’04, I called on Narasimha Rao of an evening. We met at his home on Delhi’s Motilal Nehru Marg and I was struck by the fragility of his appearance but equally by the clarity of mind.
- How To Write Annual Reports (Business Line, Brian Henderson, Dec 30, 2004)
Reading the narrative element of an annual report in conjunction with the financial statements helps with their interpretation, but it can give a telling overview of the company even before these are examined
- India’S Flawed Approach (Deccan Herald, S N CHARY, Dec 30, 2004)
Not just economic policy but political friendship with the US and other nations, is crucial for economic growth
- India’S Pro-Active Foreign Policy (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Dec 30, 2004)
Continuity was the main theme of Indian foreign policy in the year 2004 as New Delhi stayed engaged with the world in a pro-active manner with particular focus on neighbours like Pakistan and China.
- It’S Not Laloo, Stupid (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Dec 30, 2004)
The year 2004 has been a horrible year, hasn’t it? Twelve months ago the hottest topic in Delhi was the mandate to use set-top boxes if we wanted to watch India challenging Australia.
- Jinnah In Memory (Pioneer, KR Phanda, Dec 30, 2004)
Qaid-e-Azam Jinnah, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru will always be remembered, though for different reasons. Jinnah is the only leader who single-handedly created a new country for Muslims.
- Kalam Calls For Tsunami Warning System (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2004)
The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, called for a tsunami warning system along the entire Indian coastline on the lines of the one in the 27 Pacific nations, safeguarding them from distant source tsunamis.
- Kashmir Conference In Kathmandu (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Dec 30, 2004)
Sir, my secular answer to the honourable member is that where it is in the hands of Allah, we turn to Allah, where it is in the hands of man, we turn to man."
- Kathmandu Talks On Kashmir (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Dec 30, 2004)
Kathmandu was a strange location for people to meet and discuss how to end violence and restore peace and security in Jammu and Kashmir. The Nepalese capital was under a virtual siege, surrounded by armed Maoists, who can paralyse life in the capital when
- Corporate Governance Is Essentially A State Of Mind (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 30, 2004)
Business ethics, value creation, transparency, credibility, integrity, trust, honesty, responsibility, accountability, and `all good thoughts' are part of what Sanjiv Agarwal is passionate about in Corporate Governance:
- Shape Of India Altered (Telegraph, BAPPA MAJUMDAR, Dec 30, 2004)
A lighthouse — only a part of it — sticks out of the ocean. Indira Point is lost, perhaps forever, in the water.
- The Making Of The Bomb (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Dec 29, 2004)
LIKE some other stray remarks that can sometimes be more crucial than formal policy pronouncements at august forums, former Prime Minister and most respected BJP leader, Atal Behari Vajpayee’s sudden disclosure
- Lots For Farmers To Cotton On To (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Dec 29, 2004)
In the villages of Western India, cotton and oilseeds are important crops. They make the difference between prosperity and hunger. A new deal has been promised. It didn’t come before kharif sowing but hopefully it is on the way.
- More Cbms For Peace (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 29, 2004)
Pakistani students and senior citizens could not ask for more from India. As part of its policy of concentrating on confidence-building measures for improving relations with its western neighbour
- Nature’S Wrath Is History’S Reminder (Deccan Herald, DENNIS SMITH, Dec 29, 2004)
Scientists, like art teachers who have not mastered anatomy or drawing, often assume that what they do not know is not important. And, when it comes to earth science, what they do not know is the pattern of geologic time
- P.V. Narasimha Rao And The Bomb (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Dec 29, 2004)
Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee in an obituary tribute to late Narasimha Rao has now acknowledged the latter as the true father of Shakti nuclear test of May 11, 1998. If only he had done it on the day of the test he could have avoided the divisiveness that was c
- Patenting A Law (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 29, 2004)
The Patent (Third) Amendment ordinance clears the air on one of the most contentious issues in recent years: the changeover in our patent regime.
- Patently Unfair (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 29, 2004)
On paper, the UPA seems to have had a few good reasons for taking the ordinance route to a new patents regime. One, India-a WTO member and signatory to the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement-could not renege on compliance by Janu
- Prognosis On The New Patents Regime (Business Line, Vivek Kaul, Dec 29, 2004)
THE INDIAN pharmaceutical industry has done well in the recent past. But will the dream run continue come 2005? What are the challenges facing Indian pharmaceutical companies in the new patents regime
- Lady Returns (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 29, 2004)
The iron fist of the leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party has a life of only one month. After that it degenerates into an ordinary glove. Ms Uma Bharti was suspended from the party a month ago but now she has been welcomed back into the party.
- Pension: Thinking Into The Future (Indian Express, N K Singh, Dec 29, 2004)
The panic about pensions is rising around the world. The United States, Europe, Japan, China and other countries are seeing the graying of their populations, and the steady march of the demographic bulge towards pensionable age.
- The Trouble With Outsourcing (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Dec 29, 2004)
Information technology professionals in India greeted with jubilation the re-election of Mr George W. Bush as the US President. Their joy was in the hope that the new administration
- They Need Food, With Thought (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Dec 29, 2004)
Often I get asked what makes a woman journalist different to a man. What is it we bring to the trade that men cannot? I can speak only for myself and will say that I look at political issues differently to my male colleagues.
- Tsunami Effect (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 29, 2004)
After every horrendous tragedy on the scale of Sunday's tsunami, when the mind has digested the statistics and the gory images, and the consoling words have been said...
- Tsunami Warning System (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Dec 29, 2004)
Joining the international tsunami warning system will help, but even so there will be much that has to be done within the country.
- Venture Capitalists And Biotech Sector (Business Line, Vinish Kathuria, Dec 29, 2004)
THE success of Biocon's initial public offering (IPO) was expected to kick-start the process of venture capital funding in the biotechnology sector. However, six months down the line
- Was It A Human Failure? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 29, 2004)
Whether it is natural disasters or medical emergencies... it is precious minutes that make the difference between life and death. In the recent tsunami catastrophe, those precious minutes were squandered away by ignorant bliss resulting in the loss thousa
- We Failed To Stitch In Time, But... (The Economic Times, Raghu Dayal , Dec 29, 2004)
A gatt derogation will finally lapse as the world rings out the MFA (Multi Fibre Arrangement) on January 1. It will free the $360-billion global textiles and apparel
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