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Articles 11421 through 11520 of 27558:
- Who'll Take The Call? (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Oct 18, 2003)
It is no job of the state to shield entrepreneurs against tech change, against gusts of competition
- Fighting To Keep What Is Theirs (Hindu, Larry Rohter, Oct 18, 2003)
The Bolivian Government's plans to export natural gas have run up against widespread anti-globalisation protests.
- Trouble In Temple Territory (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Oct 18, 2003)
Much as the VHP may try, its Ayodhya mobilisation will not gather momentum this time. It is trying to bring workers from different states and the biggest contingents of kar sevaks are coming from Gujarat.
- Stars & Stripes Go Down The Hill (Indian Express, Paul Krugman, Oct 18, 2003)
The future that stares at America: Budget deficits equal to a quarter of govt spending for next decade
- Don Under The Scanner (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2003)
Now surely there is enough evidence for Pervez Musharraf to honour his pledges
- Raw Life, Raw Films (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2003)
The festival reminds us cinema is still the best medium to capture a world in ferment
- Ram Versus Rajya (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 18, 2003)
It’s poll time in two weeks, will the BJP trust its wisdom or succumb to instinct
- A Noble Iranian (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2003)
THE NORWEGIAN NOBEL Committee surprised many people, and disappointed a few, when it decided to award this year's Peace Prize to the Iranian human rights activist, Shirin Ebadi. That Ms. Ebadi is not as well known internationally as some of the ...
- Dawood Blacklist Moves To Un, Pak Gets Reminder (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2003)
US decision vindicates our stand: Advani
- Tying Down The Cbi (Hindu, R.K. Raghavan, Oct 18, 2003)
The most objectionable feature of the CVC Act is that it revives the infamous Single Directive, which cuts at the root of the CBI's autonomy and freedom of action.
- Now Smart-Card-Carrying Cong Worker (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Oct 18, 2003)
Workers to get smart-cards to log on, talk directly to Sonia and brass
- Why The Terror Tag Is Bad News For The D-Company (Indian Express, J. Dey, Oct 18, 2003)
In the city where he went from a petty neighbourhood thief to the godfather of the underworld, there is quiet celebration in the police. Officials are hopeful that Dawood Ibrahim’s branding as a terrorist will be a blow to the Rs 5,000-crore D-Company emp
- Rights And Duties (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Oct 18, 2003)
In the name of freedom and Fundamental Rights we have got away with the habit of depriving others of the rights we claim for ourselves. Two glaring examples of these which came to the attention of the Calcutta High Court were the misuse of loudspeakers at
- Mellowed Mulayam Thanks Centre As He Calms Ayodhya (Indian Express, Raman Kirpal, Oct 18, 2003)
In Ayodhya, the day belonged to security forces who, braving stone showers and iron rods hurled by kar sevaks resisting arrest, foiled VHP attempts to hold an assembly for the Ram temple construction.
- ‘no Talks With Pwg’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2003)
Entering the Andhra Pradesh Secretariat for the first time after the assassination attempt on him on October 1, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu talked tough about Naxalites of the outlawed People’s War Group rejecting suggestions from certain quarters
- Vajpayee On Vacation (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Oct 16, 2003)
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee gave himself a day out in Indonesia last week, wrapping up an afternoon of bilateral meetings before the ASEAN summit with a shopping expedition at an upmarket department store in the resort city of Nusaduwa. It was his
- Best Supporting Actor To Play The Lead (Indian Express, Sandeep Dwivedi, Oct 16, 2003)
The man who’s made his reputation as cricket’s eternal runner-up takes top billing tomorrow on the biggest stage of all. Rahul Dravid will captain India for the first time in Tests when he leads the team out against New Zealand at Mohali.
- Vhp Show Begins With A Whimper But Early Days Yet (Indian Express, Raman Kirpal, Oct 16, 2003)
Ayodhya: Low turnout at Lucknow march; karsevaks held, sent back
- Hawala May Link Daler To Abu Salem (Indian Express, J. Dey, Oct 16, 2003)
Mumbai: Cops raid flat of singer’s associate who flies away hours earlier
- Want To Be An Ia Airhostess? Rudy Says Your Face First, Then Iq (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Oct 16, 2003)
Tells IA and Air India: focus less on tests, first look at looks; his reason: I am answerable to Parliament
- Of A Takeover In Islamabad (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
Four years ago Musharraf deposed Nawaz Sharif. Why was Benazir so happy?
- Wealth: Agriculture Plus Services (Indian Express, Gopal Krishna Agarwal, Oct 16, 2003)
Rachel Carson, in her landmark book Silent Spring, has stated that the power of an idea can be greater than political power. In the economic development of a country, there are two factors at work:
- Winged Fears (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
Dengue is a reminder that disease prevention should never go off the national radar
- Bali Raises Visions Of Asian Century (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Oct 16, 2003)
Since the "Look-East" policy was enunciated in 1993, India has made good headway in promoting greater co-operation with South-East Asia. Those gains were consolidated further at the Asean Summit, where member-nations committed themselves to creating a con
- Licensed To Crawl (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Oct 16, 2003)
Telecom sector — where tech change is the fastest— remains the last bastion of the licensing regime
- Put Development On Top Of The Agenda (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 16, 2003)
In this crucial second half of the fiscal, with Assembly elections round the corner and a comfortable enough macro-economic situation, the Government should shed its obsessive concern with disinvestment and the 8 per cent economic growth target and turn,
- States And Fiscal Reforms (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Oct 16, 2003)
The complaint of the more developed States is that they are being punished for performance.
- Making Trouble But Going Nowhere (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
THE SHOCK FORCES OF THE Sangh Parivar, spearheaded by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, have nowhere to go in Ayodhya — having demolished the Babri Masjid more than a decade ago but unable to take forward the project of building a Ram temple on ...
- Sonia's Friends And Foes (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 16, 2003)
Her friends and foes alike refuse to let Sonia Gandhi's natural handicaps define the limits of her leadership
- Messy Grain Management (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
THE MESS THAT foodgrains management has become needs to be sorted out quickly. In just about one year, the grain inventory is down by exactly half — from 55.4 million tonnes in September 2002 to 27.8 million tonnes last month.
- Uncertainty After Cancun Collapse (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 16, 2003)
The collapse of the ministerial signals the beginning of a tension-ridden holiday for the WTO in the immediate future
- Engineering A Makeover For Gujarat (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Oct 16, 2003)
FOR the Gujarat Chief Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, the last couple of months have been all about re-engineering, restructuring and reinventing the business outlook of his State.
- Hasten Cautiously In Oil Sector Divestment (Business Line, K. Parthasarathi, Oct 16, 2003)
THE proposed break-up of Indian Oil Corporation and privatisation of its retail-marketing with a vast network of retail sales points across the country defies logic and a rationale. More so when it is a star performer and commands a major share of the mar
- Let's Be Guided To Be Independent (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Oct 16, 2003)
On how the Indian accounting body can borrow a leaf from its British counterpart
- Jarring Notes In Accounts (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Oct 16, 2003)
The proposed company law amendments to ensure greater transparency, while welcome, need to be fine-tuned
- Biotechnology: Hope & Hype (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
IN SOME WAYS, biotechnology is nothing new. Breeding domestic animals and cultivable crops were prerequisites for civilisation. Less essentially perhaps, early societies discovered fermentation and alcoholic beverages. But modern biotechnology ...
- The Ltte And The `Kp Factor' (Hindu, Iqbal Athas, Oct 15, 2003)
The LTTE has made it unequivocally clear that the future of the ceasefire will depend on Colombo's response to its counter-proposals.
- Mixed Motives (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2003)
THE PEOPLE OF the Philippines were apparently not surprised when their President, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, reversed an earlier decision and declared her candidacy for the May 2004 election. The rest of the world might have lauded the motives, ...
- Senseless Dispute Over Ayodhya (Deccan Herald, R G Subramanyam, Oct 15, 2003)
Neither a temple nor a mosque should be built at the disputed site. A university of religions should come up there
- Confusion Continued (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2003)
WIRELESS IN LOCAL loop phone services must work only within the local area. That is what the Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal had ruled two months ago.
- Time For A Final Solution (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2003)
WITH THE TELECOM controversy becoming messier by the day, it is time the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and the Government moved with some urgency to resolve the issue once and for all. The first salvo in a fresh round of legal battles has ...
- Rome On A Roll As It Rocks To Mother (Indian Express, James Crawford, Oct 15, 2003)
A clapping chorus line of swaying nuns and a rock-and-roll Mother Teresa took Rome by storm this week in a musical to coincide with her beatification, the last step before sainthood.
- Affordability Is The Key (Hindu, Sudha Mahalingam, Oct 15, 2003)
FROM JANUARY next year, India will begin importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) to quench its growing thirst for energy. The first consignment will arrive at Dahej on the western coast where a terminal is being built to handle 5 million tonnes a year.
- In This Vrs, Your Take-Home Deal Means Take Your Home (Indian Express, Rohit Bansal, Oct 15, 2003)
In the midst of the disinvestment brouhaha, two fertiliser PSUs have been carrying out perhaps the quietest closure of a sick state-owned unit.
- Political Earthquake (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 15, 2003)
FROM body building to body politic? Well, that is the nature of the dramatic transition the former fitness buff and the current hero of action-cum-adventure packed movies, Mr Arnold Schwarzenegger has made in California by replacing the State's Governor .
- Cancun: A Mere Show Of Strength (Business Line, Alok Ray, Oct 15, 2003)
NOT totally unexpectedly, the Cancun Ministerial of the World Trade Organisation meeting has concluded without yielding any agreement. The major stumbling blocks were the massive agricultural subsidies (estimated at be around $300 billion annually by the
- Ebcs? Quite Untenable (Indian Express, S. S. Gill, Oct 15, 2003)
When the Mandal Commission submitted its Report in 1980, B.P. Mandal told me, “Mr Gill, I know how much work you have put in as secretary of the Commission. But let me tell you that today we have performed the immersion ceremony of our Report
- Now, Governor Angelina Jolie? (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2003)
Voters are increasingly picking the cacophony of fame over political certitude
- Temple Versus Terror (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Oct 15, 2003)
October 17 is not a climactic point. VHP is in it for the long haul
- Pied Pipers Inc (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2003)
Desperation feeds a shadowy migration industry - so does inequitable globalisation
- That Sinking Feeling (Indian Express, Paul Krugman, Oct 15, 2003)
During the 1990s I spent much of my time focusing on economic crises around the world — in particular, on currency crises like those that struck south-east Asia in 1997 and Argentina in 2001. The timing of such crises is hard to predict. But there are war
- Breaking Free From Industrial Agriculture (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Oct 15, 2003)
WHAT are the real costs of food? When we buy a kg of rice or wheat, have we at any time wondered what its real cost could be against what we pay in the shop? We only are concerned about the `market' price of food, and not what it costs to produce.
- Iraq... Where There Are More Questions Than Answers (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 15, 2003)
ONE of the saddest and, perhaps in the long term, the most horrific, aspects of the ouster of the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq is the push the country seems to be getting in the direction of religious fundamentalism. About 60 per cent of the country's po
- Cancun Is Dead, Long Live Wto (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Oct 15, 2003)
Those who are gloating over the failure of the Cancun Ministerial and hoping that the WTO is dead are as wrong as they can be. The trade body and negotiations will live on, but hopefully become more open and less complex
- Dial Reform (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Oct 15, 2003)
First in a four-part series on the bureaucratic, legal mess that’s crippling the future of Indian telecom
- `One Country, Two Systems' Formula Under Test (Business Line, Dharmalingam Venugopal, Oct 15, 2003)
AS IF to test the tenacity of its unique "one country, two systems" paradigm, Hong Kong has been constantly buffeted by challenges — economic, political and social ever since its reunification with China in July 1997.
- Indo-Us Defence Ties Come Alive (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Oct 14, 2003)
Indo-US observers love to tell this story. Secretary of State John Forster Dulles once explained American interests in Pakistan. Pakistan, said Dulles, in an interview to Walter Lippmann given in the fifties, were the true fighters in South Asia. After al
- Hindutva Rate Of Growth (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Oct 14, 2003)
There is hype and hypocrisy in economic projections
- Govt In Sc And Naik Are Like Oil And Water (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
Soli tells court in Jessop case to reconsider HPCL/BPCL sale verdict
- All Pawared Up (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
Unfulfilled ambition makes shining nationalists of us all
- Party Pooper Vhp (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
If BJP’s anniversary do is overshadowed by Ayodhya, it has only itself to blame
- Smelling The Tokyo Rose (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 14, 2003)
Defence Minister George Fernandes makes no attempt at hiding his affection for Japan. Apart from a painting of Mahatma Gandhi — said to be painted by a Burmese refugee who lives in his house — the only other decoration on the walls of Fernandes’ South....
- Fiis Breathe Easy (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
FOREIGN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS must have heaved a sigh of relief after the recent Supreme Court ruling on their tax status. Though they have invested close to $20 billion in the decade since the market was opened up to them, the FIIs are widely perceived
- Market Forces In The Animal Kingdom (Indian Express, Alan C. Miller, Oct 14, 2003)
The US may allow trade in endangered animals if it subsidises conservation projects
- Speeding Up Justice (Indian Express, Arun Firordia, Oct 14, 2003)
Reform, reform, reform: that’s the need of the hour if justice is to be done
- Boost To India-Thailand Ties (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
BUT FOR THE 1997 economic meltdown, Thailand might have emerged as the leading Asian Tiger among the Southeast Asian countries. Its economy was growing at a robust eight per cent of GDP. The country has now recovered from the problem, though the ...
- Disinvestment In Danger (Business Line, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Oct 14, 2003)
The imbroglio over the attempts to privatise HPCL/BPCL, and now bringing up the issue of splitting up IOC could actually jeopardise the entire divestment programme of the Union Government, says Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, who looks at the oil PSU s privatisat
- Oil Smoothens A Dynasty's Rule (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Oct 14, 2003)
The big game in the Caucasus is bound to gain momentum after the presidential elections in Azerbaijan where both Russia and the U.S. have decided dynastic succession is the best option.
- 50-Yr Record Haul Of Tiger, Leopard Skins In Tibet; India Likely Source (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Oct 14, 2003)
When the Prime Minister convenes the annual Indian Wildlife Board meeting on Wednesday, it will be under the shadow of the largest-ever seizure of tiger and leopard skins since 1951.
- Amitabh, My Friend (Indian Express, M. K. Das, Oct 14, 2003)
Want to make friends in Egypt? Here’s how...
- Corporate Credit Portfolio — Baking Assets On The Fire Of Securitisation (Business Line, Venkat Ramaswami, Oct 14, 2003)
The Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act (SRFESI) was definitely a strong indication that the corridors in New Delhi were waking up to calls from Wall Street. It is time for the wake-up signal to b
- Stretching Exercises And Real Yoga (Deccan Herald, Dipankar Khanna, Oct 14, 2003)
Yoga can bridge the distance between the physical and mental sheaths through advanced psychic work-outs
- A Nobel For Techniques (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
ECONOMICS PROPOUNDS MANY theories but has few tools to test the validity of hypotheses proposed. It is inevitable that the discipline often comes up short in offering empirical proof for its theories. For one thing, while economics claims to be a ...
- Mercy Or Murder? (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Oct 14, 2003)
In France the medical profession has been calling for some legal framework for the widely practised act of euthanasia.
- Bellwether For 2004? (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 13, 2003)
THE elections scheduled to be held in November-December for the State assemblies of Chattisgarh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram and Rajasthan are bound to be keenly watched by psephologists, media pundits and political players for any clues they may ...
- Patents For Peace And Happiness (Hindu, M. S. Swaminathan , Oct 13, 2003)
Indian scientists should be encouraged to assign their patents to a bank to be used for the common good.
- Mulayam Sends Ayodhya Sos, Pm Says Trust Vhp (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2003)
VHP MEET: MoS Chinmayanand’s role shameful, says angry CM
- Ganguly-Bcci Spat Queers The Pitch (Indian Express, S. Santhanam, Oct 13, 2003)
The dull draw in the first India-New Zealand Test at Motera has triggered a ‘pitch battle’ of sorts in the host camp. While Indian skipper Saurav Ganguly backed his bowlers and blamed the pitch for the missed victory, those in charge of preparing the 22-y
- Govt Gets First Chance To Make Sc Think Again (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Oct 13, 2003)
HPCL-BPCL: Jessop hearing today may end Centre’s dilemma on disinvestment verdict
- Trains, Buses Diverted To Keep Out Kar Sevaks (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Oct 13, 2003)
As the Sabarmati Express pulled in at the Ayodhya railway station this evening, very few got off. And not a single one from S-6, the infamous Godhra coach. In the near empty coach, a passenger said police in Jhansi forced people off the train. He was not
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