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Articles 17321 through 17420 of 27558:
- Barely Sweet (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 04, 2001)
ONE MORE SUGAR season will soon come to an end and another will begin, but the sector has never been at a more critical juncture as now.
- Closing The Gap (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 04, 2001)
THAT Indian states are widely disparate in their levels of development is news to nobody.
- Walk The Talk (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 04, 2001)
A DAY after expanding the council of ministers, Prime Minister Vajpayee listed ‘downsizing’ government as one of his 14 reform points.
- Decade Of Power Reforms -- Hardly Electrifying (Business Line, N. Ramakrishnan , Sep 04, 2001)
``INDIA'S power sector is a leaking bucket; the holes deliberately crafted and the leaks carefully collected as economic rents by various stakeholders that control the system.
- ``Things Are (Not) Changing'' (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 04, 2001)
OVER the past three months or so, West Bengal has had a new Chief Minister who has let it be known in his own inimitable way that he is bent on turning over a new leaf as far as the State's industrial scene is concerned.
- Why There Is So Much Poverty In Asia (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Sep 04, 2001)
WIDESPREAD POVERTY and excessive inequality remain the principal challenges to the legitimacy of the globalisation process that has been underway the last two decades.
- Judges In Their Own Cause - I (Hindu, Prashant Bhushan, Sep 04, 2001)
ON OCTOBER 15, 1999, the Supreme Court, without even giving Arundhati Roy a notice or an opportunity to be heard - and therefore in violation of the principles of natural justice - proceeded to make the following remarks against her:
- Fed On Slogans (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 04, 2001)
DESPITE being a vast country with varied resources, the Indian poor have only been fed on slogans since Independence.
- The Us Slowdown Will Create Global Recessionary Pressures (The Economic Times, Neeraj Kaushal, Sep 04, 2001)
WHEN America catches cold, the global economy starts showing signs of pneumonia. This may be an over-used cliche. But the harsh reality of this cliche has never been as bitter as now.
- Man Of Power (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 04, 2001)
Lord Mountbatten had advised India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, that he should routinely shuffle around his ministerial colleagues.
- Transformations Of Capitalism (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 03, 2001)
MANY people, who are really objecting to capitalism as a way of life, argue as though they were objecting to it on the ground of its inefficiency in attaining its own objects.
- Fair Or Foul (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 03, 2001)
Institutions, like laws, are as good as their administrators make them.
- Sri Lanka's Elusive Truce (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 03, 2001)
AN AGGRESSIVE REJECTION of the Sri Lankan Government's latest offer of a temporary truce exposes the anarchist thinking of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) regardless of Colombo's own compulsions.
- Take A Walk On The Wild Side (Telegraph, ADITI CHATTERJEE, Sep 03, 2001)
It is a common fallacy that urban poverty is to be found only in the developing countries.
- A Mere Cabinet Reshuffle Won’t Do (The Economic Times, S. L. Rao, Sep 03, 2001)
THE WORLD economy is in decline. The Indian industrial economy has been declining for some years and the economy as a whole has for almost two years been waiting for a magic wand to be waved by government to revive it.
- Removing The Chains (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 03, 2001)
THE SUPREME Court judgement on contract labour in public sector units has struck a significant blow for reforms in India’s inflexible labour laws.
- Reforming The Rural Non-Farm Sector (Hindu, S. Mahendra Dev , Sep 03, 2001)
THE IMPORTANCE of the rural non-farm sector in poverty alleviation and promotion of livelihoods is being increasingly recognised.
- Has Global Recession Arrived? (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Sep 03, 2001)
THE ANSWER must be yes, if recent headlines are any indication. Last Friday, The Economist (August 25, 2001) put recession on its cover and this Friday, it was the turn of Japan.
- Eichel And Sinha Face Similar Problems (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 03, 2001)
THE Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, is not alone in his dilemma about reining in the fiscal deficit, especially during an economic downturn.
- Tech Wreck (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 03, 2001)
A NOVEL kind of conference held at Aspen, Colarado (US) took note of the hollowness typical of the hardsell of tool-kits, both for better corporate governance and smoother computer performance.
- The One That Got Away (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 03, 2001)
A LACKLUSTRE market and stock prices that are down in the dumps have fuelled a consolidation drive by multinationals and Indian promoters alike.
- Silent Progress (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 03, 2001)
EVEN as the political relations between India and Pakistan have turned icy after the Agra summit, there has been an unmistakable increase in the warmth of the economic relations between the two countries.
- 'Credit It To Financial Pressures' (The Economic Times, Arshdeep Sehgal, Sep 03, 2001)
ASHWANI Puri, head of corporate finance, PricewaterhouseCoopers finds an acceleration in the restructuring process among Indian companies in recent years.
- Measuring And Managing Power Sector Reforms (The Economic Times, R. K. Pachauri, Sep 03, 2001)
POWER sector reforms have been very much in the news, and given the precarious state of our power supply industry, the urgency of specific measures is now dawning on the leadership of political parties across the horizon.
- To Beat Them When They Are Down (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 03, 2001)
Human rights violations occurred throughout India, with socially and economically disadvantaged sections of society continuing to be particularly vulnerable.
- Rbi Faults Poor Fiscal Adjustment For Jolting Growth (The Financial Express, R.K. Roy, Sep 03, 2001)
The reductions in administered interest rates on some savings instruments, states the Reserve Bank in its annual report, enabled a general easing of the rate structure through monetary policy action.
- Landed In Trouble (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 03, 2001)
IT WAS very encouraging to read your editorial “Legal plunder” championing the forgotten cause of landlords (ET, August 31).
- Now, That Surely Is Governance With A Capital G (The Financial Express, Inder Malhotra, Sep 03, 2001)
None of the lords and masters of the foreign policy establishment can pretend to be taken by surprise by the understandably sharp reaction to their shemozzle of appointing Bhishma Kumar Agnihotri as some kind of a rival.
- Needed, A Proper Trading Mechanism For Power (The Financial Express, Tantra Narayan Thakur, Sep 03, 2001)
India’s electric power industry has reached an installed capacity of over 100,000 mw in the new millennium.
- Helping Under-Privileged Children In A Uni(que) Style (The Financial Express, Shikha Chadha, Sep 03, 2001)
UNI Style Image (USI), one of India’s leading apparel manufacturing houses, has launched a special range of T-shirts designed by Reeta Paliwal, a 14-year-old girl from Child Relief and You (CRY).
- Secularism Re-Examined (Hindu, Andre Beteille , Sep 03, 2001)
THE PUBLIC debate on secularism is acquiring some curious features.
- Food For Work (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 03, 2001)
THE REPORTS OF starvation deaths in western Orissa have catalysed the Central Government and political parties into examining how to mitigate rural malnutrition.
- Nothing Original About It! (The Economic Times, Mythili Bhusnurmath, Sep 03, 2001)
THE NATIONAL Council of Applied Economic Research, one of the most respected think tanks in the country, has learnt from its past mistakes. So has the IMF.
- Targeted Reservation (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 03, 2001)
Now it is Rajnath Singh’s turn to exploit Mandal.
- One Embassy, Two Ambassadors (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Sep 03, 2001)
IT is simply amazing that we should have two ambassadors to the US.
- Miles To Go Before I Wake (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Sep 03, 2001)
THERE is a great debate going on about the World Trade Organisation’s ministerial meeting in Doha.
- Other Kinds Of Arghya (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Sep 03, 2001)
I WOKE up last night in terror, thinking of Pandit Jialal Kaul, the purohit of the famous ‘fish temple’ at Mattan in Kashmir. I met him exactly three years ago, almost to the day.
- Pune Varsity Concoction Has World On A High (Indian Express, Reshma Patil, Sep 03, 2001)
A generous serving of ayurved and yoga from India’s 5,000-year-old heritage is ready to be served to foreign campuses.
- The Right Stuff? (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Sep 03, 2001)
‘‘Awesome’’ is a new favorite. It’s transatlantic too. Vicki tries it on his father in London, who looks spectacularly impressed by his son’s vocabulary (now, if only he would concentrate on his medical notes rather than musical notations)...
- Performance Anxiety (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 03, 2001)
One of the important recent developments as far as India is concerned has been the downgrading of India by internationally well-known rating agencies, Standard and Poor and Moody’s.
- Safety First: Building Confidence During The Nuclear Transition (Hindu, Deepanshu Bagchee, Sep 03, 2001)
Amid all the post-Agra hand wringing, much has been made about Pakistan's intransigence on cross-border terrorism, India's inability to think creatively about solutions in Kashmir.
- Ways Of An Unequal Land (Telegraph, A. K. Biswas, Sep 03, 2001)
India has formulated an unintelligible stand for the forthcoming world conference against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, convened by the United Nations currently on in Durban, South Africa.
- The Bright Lights Of Shanghai (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 03, 2001)
TAIPEI, SEPT. 2. As Shanghai regains its old standing as the heart of Greater China, it has a new allure for the elite in Taiwan.
- Will Burqa Veil Kashmir? (Tribune, A.N. Dar, Sep 03, 2001)
WHATEVER pressure the Lashkar-e-Jabbar may put on the womenfolk of Kashmir, it cannot make them take to the burqa as a dress that will last long.
- Enabling The Disabled (The Financial Express, Prachi Raturi, Sep 03, 2001)
Out of a billion people in India, 5.6 per cent is affected by disability. Out of these, less than 2 per cent is able to get education.
- Punjab: Judging History With A Sense Of History (Tribune, Anupam Gupta, Sep 03, 2001)
A fortnight after it was pronounced on August 20, the ORP judgement of the Punjab and Haryana High Court continues to impact the mind.
- Half-Hearted Reshuffle (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 03, 2001)
PRIME Minister Vajpayee wanted to give a facelift to his Council of Ministers but ended up causing heartburn to several senior ministers and party men.
- Range Of Services (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 03, 2001)
The department for international development mentions that nearly half of the world’s population presently live in urban centres.
- Fixing Targets Isn't Enough (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 03, 2001)
THE NDA government led by Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee perhaps thinks that one must aim at a high target even if this amounts to being unrealistic.
- Not So Fast (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 03, 2001)
The Reserve Bank of India, which has just released its annual report, has revised its predictions about the short-term growth rate of the economy.
- Indo-Us Relations On An Even Keel (Tribune, N K Pant, Sep 03, 2001)
IT is now confirmed that Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will be meeting President George Bush and hold parleys with him when the former travels to New York to attend the UN General Assembly session.
- Tall Tales Crippling Chinese Women (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 03, 2001)
Hundreds of Chinese women, lured by advertisements into operations to increase their height, are risking lifelong disability.
- Cheers To You! Mr Customer (The Financial Express, Iqbal Sachdeva, Sep 03, 2001)
A s Guruswamy or Guru turned the door knob of his hotel room in a plush hotel in Bombay, he was greeted by a bearer with a well laid out tray of American breakfast that had arrived half-an-hour late.
- Brothers And Arms (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 02, 2001)
Relations between the Slavs and the Albanians in Macedonia have deteriorated further. Vaiju Naravane on the arms decommissioning issue.
- Corruption Fuels A War (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 02, 2001)
In Chechnya, Russia has to deal with the rebelsand its own corrupt military commanders whohave a vested interest in keeping the conflictgoing, says Vladimir Radyuhin.
- A Revolving Door Called The Nda (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 02, 2001)
In politics there may be no permanent friends or enemies...
- Hobnobbing Chohan (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 02, 2001)
Khalistani ideologue Jagjit Singh Chohan’s return to Punjab before the Assembly elections was expected to re-define political equations.
- Don’t Miss The Wood (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 02, 2001)
THE CHANGES that Prime Minister Vajpayee has brought about in the composition of his ministerial team and in the allocation of portfolios among them seem designed to send out at least two specific signals.
- A Thaw In The Pipeline (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 02, 2001)
Syria and Iraq have made major moves to consolidate the revival of their relations, writes Kesava Menon.
- Mega Tour (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 02, 2001)
Ms. Megawati Sukarnoputri's clout in Indonesia's neighbourhood depends on her performance internally. Amit Baruah on her nine- nation ASEAN tour.
- ‘We’re Clubbing Caste And And Palestine At A Forum Where Black Issues Will Carry The Day’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 02, 2001)
The World Conference against Racism (WCAR) took off in Durban, South Africa on August 31, but controversy over its agenda carries on.
- Of 3 Dead Heroes & One 5-Star Hotel (The Economic Times, Raghu Krishnan, Sep 02, 2001)
IT was while waiting at a leading five-star hotel in Bangalore for a hitech Chinese delegation that I wondered how my three heroes — Vincent Van Gogh, Guru Dutt and Che — would have reacted had they been in my shoes.
- A Global Manifesto (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 02, 2001)
The chief minister of West Bengal, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, announced a self-evident truth when he declared that the left would be lost unless it changed.
- Reality Check From Tehran (The Financial Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 02, 2001)
Get it right: entire Muslim world hasn’t ganged up on us.
- All New Postman (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 02, 2001)
CAN a more than 200-year old institution transform itself from a sleepy inefficient public sector monolith to a market savvy, efficient organisation?
- Septuagenarians Unite! (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 02, 2001)
THE GERONTOCRATIC nature of the Indian polity was once again revealed at the bash in Bangalore to commemorate Ramakrishna Hegde’s 75th birthday.
- Act Local And Be Global (The Economic Times, Rohin R Shah, Sep 02, 2001)
THE WORD ‘retail’ has generated some serious interest among the property community in India over the last 18 months or so.
- Cake With The Icing (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 02, 2001)
With Bollywood such a remarkable and enduring presence in Indian culture, it is no wonder that Delhi is aiming to be ...well, “Dollywood”?
- A Bill Of Wrongs? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 02, 2001)
A new Bill in Karnataka seeks to reduce the influence of teachers and enlarge that of Government functionaries in university administration, says Supriya RoyChowdhury.
- Pak’s Dirty Little Great Game Of Democracy (Indian Express, Najam Sethi, Sep 02, 2001)
A Recent newspaper photograph shows Makhdum Amin Fahim of the Peoples Party looking like a deferential prime minister-to-be, chatting amiably with a benevolent-looking General Pervez Musharraf. This has sent political pundits into raptures.
- Euphoria Over Hindi-Chini-Bhai-Bhai Mood (Tribune, Rakshat Puri, Sep 02, 2001)
ZHU RONGJI, China’s Prime Minister is due in Delhi on an official visit shortly. Sino-Indian ties are in full swing now. One of the Shankaracharyas is due to visit China shortly to strengthen cultural relations.
- Milkha Singh: A Legend In Sports (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Sep 02, 2001)
MILKHA SINGH has become a legend in Indian sports in his life time, loved and admired by thousands of fans across the land.
- Tehelka’s Methods Don’t Justify The End (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 02, 2001)
“ONE Theme Two Views” (Sunday Tribune, August 26) on the Tehelka expose by Mr L.H. Naqvi and Mr V.Eshwar Anand is worth reading.
- Of Level Playing Fields In Usa, Africa And India (Tribune, Prem Kumar , Sep 02, 2001)
A friend offered a formulation: America plus Africa is equal to India. I did not follow it and wanted an elaboration. Was it about the population of India which has crossed the one billion mark?
- The Privileged Culture Of Colonial Schooling (Tribune, Shelley Walia, Sep 02, 2001)
THOUGH some of my most vibrant and lively recollections are drawn from my time at school when the ‘best’ of India’s colonial and postcolonial crop was educated for a role first as the subordinated elite and then as the ruling caucus.
- Kashmir, The Core Issue For Us Too (Tribune, Abu Abraham, Sep 02, 2001)
AT the time of the Bangladesh struggle for independence, when the Pakistani army was on a virtual orgy of genocide, burning villages, raping women and shooting young men and even children at random, the Pakistanis described them all as traitors.
- Power Corrupts Women As Much As Their Male Counterparts (The Economic Times, SHOMA A. CHATTERJI, Sep 02, 2001)
THERE is a tendency to rationalise negative acts of women in the post-modern age.
- Secrets And Treasures (Telegraph, AMIT CHAUDHURI, Sep 02, 2001)
Families have their secrets and treasures.
- Don't Just Carp (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 02, 2001)
THE MINISTRY says that state-owned oil marketing companies, which are owed between Rs 12,000 crore to Rs 14,000 crore by the government, may not deserve all the money.
- Mamata's Return To The Nda (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Sep 01, 2001)
BANGALORE, AUG. 31. Ms. Mamata Banerjee is not an important person.
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