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Articles 7821 through 7920 of 27558:
- Ntpc Soars High (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 19, 2004)
The initial public offer of the Government-owned electricity generating company, National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd. (NTPC), has evoked a tremendous response from investors of all categories.
- People’S War (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 19, 2004)
Last week’s violence by the People’s War in West Midnapore district throws up a new challenge to Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. The outfit had struck in Midnapore and Bankura districts several times in the past two years.
- Serving To Fly (Business Line, K.G. Kumar, Oct 19, 2004)
Last week, newspapers reported that four international airlines had decided that, from next month, they will raise the frequency of flights that they operate to the Trivandrum International Airport.
- Back In The Saddle (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 19, 2004)
The Cong-NCP combine won despite a dismal record of governance in Maharashtra
- Economic Migration In Asia (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Oct 19, 2004)
While many observers continue to think of cross-border labour migration in terms of the movement of labour from the South to the North, in Asia most of the recent labour movement has been within the continent.
- Rising Costs Of Transport (Tribune, Ravinder N. Batta, Oct 19, 2004)
WHILE the importance of transport in a growing economy cannot be overstated, there are related costs that need to be kept in view by policy-makers. Such costs are usually external to those who make use of transport and are often unaccounted for.
- All Eyes On The Carnival (Telegraph, Alok Ray, Oct 19, 2004)
Whoever is the next president, certain trends in the US will favour India
- Cambodian Drama (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 19, 2004)
The father of independence from France in 1953, flamboyant monarch, political expedient who took his country to the edge of destruction by his decision to join hands with Pol Pot
- Congestion At Ports - Better Connectivity The Way Out (Business Line, Santanu Sanyal, Oct 19, 2004)
With an estimated 10 per cent growth in traffic in the first six months of the current fiscal — 175.8 million tonnes compared to 160 million tonnes in the corresponding previous period
- Peace-Meal Approach (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 18, 2004)
The start of negotiations between the Andhra Pradesh Government and the Naxalites is a positive beginning. If the first round of talks holds out hope – of sustaining the
- Getting The Cream For Civil Services (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Oct 18, 2004)
If the quality of Indian administration is to improve, staff selection must be pushed down, even beyond the Hota panel suggestion, to the school level. Like the khoa test of dairymen, it will force colleges and
- Mirage Muddle (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 18, 2004)
Only an official IAF Court of Inquiry will be able to say what caused these crashes
- No Alternative To Reforms (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Oct 18, 2004)
The Left has always been a marginal force in India. Given the belief that its ideology has a special appeal for the poor, it can seem odd that the Left has never made much headway in this country, except at a regional level such as other non-Left
- Petro-Product Prices — Soft-Pedalling Can Hurt Govt Hard (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 18, 2004)
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government appears to be treading on thin ice on the issue of oil price adjustment even as the crude price zooms relentlessly.
- Poll Wonders (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 18, 2004)
If the Lok Sabha elections had proved the poll pundits wrong, the Assembly results have further discredited them. The voters have pooh-poohed their calculations
- No Advantage, Global Investing (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Oct 18, 2004)
UTI Mutual Fund proposes to launch a fund that will invest in stocks constituting the Dow Jones Global Titans 50.
- Of Cinema And Censorship (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 18, 2004)
In his brief and aborted career as Chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), Anupam Kher, tended to behave as if he were the custodian of Indian morality
- Mid-Term Appraisal Of Plan Targets (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 18, 2004)
The Mid-Term Appraisal presents the Planning Commission an opportunity to tackle certain problems head-on.
- Hungry To Bed (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 18, 2004)
Does it at all make sense to talk of the “rights” of a hungry child in India? For most of their legal childhood, children have no voice in the Indian political system, and children from disadvantaged families are twice removed from the democratic process.
- From One Job To The Next (Telegraph, S. S. Chawdhry, Oct 18, 2004)
More flexible labour laws which permit retrenchments and the use of contract labourers are needed if India is to emulate the success of the south Asian economies
- Derrida's Derring-Do (Deccan Herald, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 18, 2004)
Although Jacques Derrida (who recently died) is hailed by Western scholars for having performed a philosophical derring-do by propounding his theory of deconstruction, the fascination for the mysteries of words is as old as civilisation itself.
- Remarkable Triumph (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 18, 2004)
The congress-Nationalist Congress Party alliance has pulled off a superlative victory in the Maharashtra Assembly election, overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds — medium-scale rebellion ...
- Women Officers In The Army (Tribune, Raj Kadyan, Oct 18, 2004)
We were raising the National Security Guard (NSG) in the mid-eighties. There was a sudden need to train officers of an elite intelligence service officered by the IPS. The joint secretary of the department and I, as the Chief Instructor of the NSG ...
- Connecting Rural India (Hindu, M. S. Swaminathan , Oct 18, 2004)
The task of taking the benefits of the Internet and the space age to the country's 600,000 villages can be achieved by bringing about synergy between technology and public policy.
- Winning Trend (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 18, 2004)
The trend that was prominent in the general elections earlier in the year has been confirmed by the assembly elections in Maharashtra
- Significance Of China's Economy To Global Growth (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Oct 18, 2004)
It should come as no surprise that China is a dominant player in the world economy today. A huge economy that has maintained a consistent
- Sweet Sadness (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Oct 18, 2004)
Within the space of a fortnight, two front-ranking French citizens have shuffled off their mortal coils.
- Telecast It (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 18, 2004)
Much dust has been kicked up over Doordarshan’s decision to withhold telecast of a film on the life of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan. The opposition has strongly condemned the move.
- The Role Of Diplomacy (Deccan Herald, G Parthasarathy, Oct 18, 2004)
India needs to take imaginative initiatives in its relations with its neighbours to contain extremism in its north-east
- Transparency Matters (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 18, 2004)
PUNJAB Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh can explain away the two major court orders which went against his government on Saturday.
- Trivialities To The Fore (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Oct 18, 2004)
Weird are the ways of New Delhi. At a time when the country faces many grave problems, the nation's capital — especially the antiseptic area where politics, bureaucracy, the media
- Save The Cotton (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 18, 2004)
The prospect of a record harvest notwithstanding, a crisis is brewing for cotton farmers. The preliminary crop estimates doing the rounds are more damaging to farmers than rewarding.
- Spreading Tentacles (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 17, 2004)
Many of the other States are unhappy with the Andhra Pradesh Government's decision to negotiate with the naxalites.
- Superman Security (The Economic Times, RAJA M, Oct 17, 2004)
Christopher 'Superman' Reeve and Keith Miller, Australian cricketing legend, died this week and both left behind a legacy of inspiration for their fellow beings.
- Shabby Treatment To A Creative Genius (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Oct 17, 2004)
Anupam kher Kher is an angry man. He seems unable to come to terms with the humiliation heaped on him by Marxists who dubbed him as an RSS man. Possibly, taking a cue from the CPM General Secretary, Harkishan Singh Surjeet’s attack on Anupam Kher, the Uni
- Death Of A Hero (Telegraph, RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE, Oct 17, 2004)
Before a phenomenon called Garfield Sobers emerged on the cricket scene, most cricket lovers would have named Keith Miller as the greatest all-rounder the game had ever seen.
- The Questions Remain (Hindu, K. Srinivas Reddy, Oct 17, 2004)
Will the Government be able to convince the Maoists to give up armed struggle? Or is it just a charade being enacted by both the parties?
- On A Losing Streak (The Economic Times, R K NANDAN, Oct 17, 2004)
India's scorecard of 105 for 6 at draw of stumps on the fourth day of the first Test against Australia may have seen strong men weep in their cups.
- Khushwant’S Updated Volumes On Sikh History (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Oct 17, 2004)
Foremost, the two updated volumes of the “History of the Sikhs” (Oxford University Press) by Khushwant Singh have just hit the stands. The earlier edition had events and happenings till about 1984.
- Just Not In Order (The Economic Times, ARVIND KALA, Oct 17, 2004)
India's collapsed justice system has several ironies. One is that while developed nations have young prime ministers and old judges, we have old prime ministers and relatively young judges.
- Hot Falls & Shahrukh Khan (The Economic Times, RAGHUKRISHNAN, Oct 17, 2004)
One day, they will have a warm waterfall and I will stand under it for hours.
- Bush, Blair Should Find New Epithets To Flog (Tribune, Chanchal Sarkar, Oct 17, 2004)
WHAT a raft of elections we’ve just had — and all apparently to solidify democracy. For most of them even Lithuania perhaps America and Britain take the credit — making the world, they say, a “safer place”, clearing the air of the pollution emitted ...
- A Wmd Called Oil (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 17, 2004)
Exactly 31 years ago today, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec, founded in 1960) cut oil exports to the USA and other countries
- "A First Step" (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 17, 2004)
What does the Andhra Pradesh Home Minister, K. Jana Reddy, think of the tremendous response to the rallies and meetings of the Communists Party of India (Maoists) and the CPI-ML (Janashakti) in various parts of the State?
- It Is A Matter Of Concern For All Bangaloreans (Deccan Herald, DR SURESH BALAKRISHNAN, Oct 17, 2004)
It would be naïve to take a parochial view and dismiss today's controversy about industry participation in IT.com as one that concerns only some IT companies and the government.
- Stalemate In The Northeast (Hindu, M. S. PRABHAKARA, Oct 16, 2004)
As things stand, there simply is no ground for any kind of talks or even talks about talks with ULFA.
- ‘No’ To Mewat District (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 16, 2004)
It is indeed surprising how the Haryana government went ahead with its proposal of creating the district of Satyamev Puram in Mewat, despite an explicit ban on the creation of new administrative units by the Delimitation Commission.
- Narrow Outlook On Broadband (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 16, 2004)
The Broadband policy announced on Thursday, is a disappointment, coming as it does after much expectations were raised by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India recommendations on the subject.
- No Forecasts Will Shake This Govt (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Oct 16, 2004)
In one of his speeches delivered during the election campaign in Maharashtra, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had a dig at the Opposition for pinning its faith in forecasts made by astrologers and resorting to tantric practices in the hope of coming back to
- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (The Economic Times, Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan , Oct 16, 2004)
In his speech to the first meeting of the reconstituted Plan panel, earlier this month, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for “a development ...
- Poor Partisanship (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 16, 2004)
The Emergency is dead, long live the Emergency. That would be a facile comment on the row over Prasar Bharati’s reported refusal to air filmmaker Prakash Jha’s biopic on Jayaprakash Narayan, Loknayak.
- Regulation Diet Is Not For All (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 16, 2004)
As the economy liberalises, the nature and extent of regulation, especially of natural monopolies, has come to occupy the centre stage of economic policy thinking.
- Lethal Scrap (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 16, 2004)
There is no mystery about the munitions that have been surfacing in different States over the last few days. The rockets, missiles, shells, and grenades came into the country in consignments of imported steel scrap.
- Legality Of Iraq War Does Matter (Hindu, Robin Cook, Oct 16, 2004)
It can only be a matter of time before the invasion of Iraq is challenged in court.
- Still The General (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 16, 2004)
Musharraf’s actions ensure that Pakistan essentially remains a military regime
- The Growing Cancer (Tribune, H. K. Dua, Oct 16, 2004)
For nearly two centuries and a half India in its own ways has been contributing to richness of the English language. Over 7,000 words in the Oxford English Dictionary have been borrowed from Indian languages.
- The Rule Of Class Elimination (Business Line, R. Anand, Oct 16, 2004)
In the 1990s, taxation of salaries and perquisites was in the throes of controversy. The Department felt that there was leakage through various types of reimbursements dolled out by employers to employees.
- Winner Doesn't Take It All (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Oct 16, 2004)
Is prize money earned for a caption taxable? Yes, according to the Allahabad High Court
- Fencing B’Desh Border (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 16, 2004)
The Cabinet Committee on Security, which discussed the Bangladesh factor in the Northeast on Wednesday, informed the nation that the fencing work on the eastern border will be over by March 2006, as scheduled.
- At Kearney Vs Wef? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 16, 2004)
Widening inequality in society, unless effective remedial action is kicked off straight away, is the disturbing implication of the seemingly contrary ...
- Broadband And Bottlenecks (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 16, 2004)
Broadband connects over 120 million Internet users worldwide to an online universe of rich content.
- Business Cycle Is `Alive And Well' And Winning Nobel Too (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 16, 2004)
Business cycles attracted attention this week because Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott won this year's Nobel economics prize for their `highly innovative' analysis of economic policy and the driving forces behind
- Mosquito Repellent That Didn't Help A Tractor Company (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 16, 2004)
Tractors help in ploughing. But a tax tribunal had to plough through tractors recently, when deciding the Escorts case.
- Of Names And Name-Calling (Deccan Herald, MAYA JAYAPAL, Oct 16, 2004)
By using animal names for human beings in a derogatory manner, we are degrading these life forms too
- For Transparency In Arms Deals (Tribune, Girja Shankar Kaura, Oct 16, 2004)
In an apparent bid to bring in more transparency in arms purchases, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is said to have suggested country’s watchdog organisations like the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Central Vigilance Commission be involved
- Good Times, Bad Times (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Oct 16, 2004)
I discovered at the cost of considerable time and trouble that writing about the immediate past is more difficult and hazardous than writing about the hoary past.
- In Thename Of The Father (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 16, 2004)
These are trying times for Uddhav Thackeray. Despite his parent’s blessings, it’s today’s Maharashtra Assembly election results that will define his true position in the Shiv Sena
- India To Make A Mark In Chip Design (The Economic Times, THOMAS P ABRAHAM, Oct 16, 2004)
STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader with revenues clocking over $7 billion in 2003, has been developing and delivering semiconductor solutions and products that play a vital role in enabling today's convergence technologies.
- Just Friends (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 16, 2004)
The police are human, they are allowed to make mistakes. They might, by mistake — or mistaken good intentions — confine the minor victim of a reported rape in the police station for two days instead of the alleged rapist.
- Elasticity Of Income Definition (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 16, 2004)
One does not have to be a supporter of the so-called Hindu Right to feel thrilled at the very mention of the name of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, famously known as Veer Savarkar
- Leadership Crisis In Maharashtra (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Oct 15, 2004)
Not one exit poll conducted yesterday after the end of polling for the Maharashtra Assembly has given a clear picture of what will emerge once votes are counted on October 16
- Wows For Mr Biswas (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 15, 2004)
Senior Left leaders, who disdain globalisation, should learn from Mr Kanti Biswas, the Marxist education minister of West Bengal. Mr Biswas’ recent request to ...
- Birmingham Track Ii (Tribune, Ashok K. Mehta , Oct 15, 2004)
THE Track II wallahs are way ahead of politicians and officials pursuing the composite dialogue and CBMs. Barring the complex core issue for Pakistan — Kashmir — and the less interactable but linked problem for India of cross-border terrorism
- Back On The Roll, Mr Fm? (The Economic Times, YASHWANT SINHA, Oct 15, 2004)
It was a little over two months ago, that finance minister P Chidambaram presented the UPA government's first Budget on July 8, 2004.
- A Rude Encounter With Crude (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 15, 2004)
Crude is getting cruder with prices rising to such record heights this week that even small retreats give much respite to markets. Oil companies are pushing the government to allow the retail rate rocket to zoom, and
- Why Can’T Dm Take Action? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 15, 2004)
THE trauma Sonia of Asanda has been subjected to is not likely to have an early end. The television channels are now chasing her story.
- White Elephant (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 15, 2004)
THE brouhaha over the induction of foreign consultants into the committees of the Planning Commission has deflected attention away from the fundamental question about the continued usefulness of the Commission itself.
- Welcome The Public Offer (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 15, 2004)
The UPA government has proposed a pragmatic disinvestment regime, which will enable it to stick to its promise of not privatising profit-making public sector companies.
- Business Cycles And Free Markets (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Oct 15, 2004)
The contribution of Professors Kydland and Prescott, who won the Economics Nobel this year, was to reconcile the empirical reality of recessions with the assumptions of New Classical economics.
- Transforming Lives Of Rural Women (Business Line, P. Srivatsan, Oct 15, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme (CMP) lays emphasis on empowerment of women as an important socio-economic goal.
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