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Articles 18021 through 18120 of 27558:
- Mobile Phones & Electric Heating Can Be Harmful (Tribune, Sarah Hans, Aug 21, 2001)
YOU cannot see it or smell it, but many experts fear that electrosmog could be damaging our health.
- Monopoly In High Technology Is Actionable (The Economic Times, Prabhat Kumar, Aug 21, 2001)
THREE cheers to the American appeals court, which in the case of Microsoft has rendered a landmark judgement that bundling of products could be an anti-competitive behaviour inviting anti-trust scrutiny, even in the case of a high technology product.
- Industry Mum But Disheartened With Recent Economic Developments (The Financial Express, Veeshal Bakshi, Aug 21, 2001)
Captains of Indian industry are gearing up for meetings with finance minister Yashwant Sinha and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the first week of September to discuss the economic slowdown.
- For A 'Framework' Of Goodwill (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 21, 2001)
THE POLITICAL WILL and even determination being exuded by both India and Pakistan to move beyond the controversies of the recent Agra summit suggests a shared sense of diplomatic urgency.
- Caste And The U.N. Meet (Hindu, Kancha Ilaiah, Aug 21, 2001)
NOW THAT the World Conference on Racism is allowing caste discrimination on the agenda as ``work and descent based discrimination''.
- Jammu On The Brink (Hindu, Balraj Puri, Aug 21, 2001)
THE KILLINGS of Hindus in the Jammu region should not be dismissed as stray terrorist acts of desperate militants.
- Truth Hijacked (Hindustan Times, AG Noorani , Aug 21, 2001)
The nation has high expectations of the Commission of Inquiry, headed by Justice M.S. Liberhan to probe into the demolition of the Babri masjid on December 6, 1992.
- Licence To Kill? (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Aug 21, 2001)
It is reassuring that while promising “relief” to policemen accused of human rights violations while fighting terrorism, the government has promised that the proposed measures will first be subjected to legal scrutiny.
- 'Our Exchange Rate Policy Has Stood The Test Of Time’ (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 21, 2001)
Responding to the Article IV review of the Indian economy by the International Monetary Fund, India’s Executive Director on the IMF Board.
- Criminals Or Change-Agents? (Hindustan Times, Pritish Nandy, Aug 21, 2001)
We accuse the West of being faddist but, in some ways, we are far worse.
- Six Action Shoes (The Economic Times, Edward De Bono, Aug 21, 2001)
WITH the power of a role also goes the responsibility of that role. In Japan the head of the airline was expected to resign when one of his jumbo jets crashed into a mountain killing almost everyone on board.
- Fostering Cult Of Hatred (Tribune, P. Raman , Aug 21, 2001)
AMIDST all our preoccupation with hard politics and a crumbling economy, we tend to overlook certain highly disturbing trends on the social front
- Competitiveness Of Indian Software Industry (The Economic Times, A. V. Vedpuriswar, Aug 21, 2001)
THE RECENT slowdown of the US economy and the cutback in activities by many leading IT giants like Cisco has sent shivers down the spines of many Indian software companies.
- Earn The Hike (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 21, 2001)
THE SENSE of outrage with which the proposed pay hike for MPs has been widely greeted may seem ill-placed if seen purely in terms of their income.
- Competition Law: Not A Foe (The Economic Times, S. Chakravarthy, Aug 21, 2001)
SINCE the approval of the Competition Bill by the Cabinet, there have been articles and comments galore in the newspapers, particularly, the financial papers.
- Nothing Mutual About It! (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 21, 2001)
THERE are no surprises in the ET-CRISIL Quarterly Funds Tracker for the quarter ended June 2001-- either in terms of the comprehensive performance ranking of schemes or the trends in the industry.
- Cheerleaders In Parliament? (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Aug 21, 2001)
FOR a country of continental size with a population of 100 crore, it is difficult to believe that India is unable to get even one gold in the Olympic games, when countries a fraction of its size pile up medals.
- Decade Of Reforms -- Where Do We Go From Here (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Aug 21, 2001)
THE one area where India can take legitimate pride as a leader in world development relates to information technology.
- S&t: Driving China's Exports (Business Line, Anil K. Kanungo, Aug 21, 2001)
IN the 1990s, China witnessed profound changes in all spheres of life, particularly in science and technology, and trade.
- Investment Trends, Post-Reforms (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Aug 21, 2001)
THERE was a short but influential period in recent years when Indian policy-makers sought to persuade themselves and others that economic liberalisation.
- Don Over Mumbai (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 21, 2001)
Instead of cracking down on mafia, police chase rumours.
- First Class First (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 21, 2001)
The chief minister of West Bengal, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, has an uncanny aptitude to surprise his critics.
- No Big Deal (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 21, 2001)
The decision to allow agents a legitimate role in defence purchases is, to a large extent, a progressive step towards eliminating corruption in defence deals.
- Story Of Hope Amidst Gloom In Orissa (Pioneer, Madhuri Dass, Aug 21, 2001)
They lost their livelihoods during the 1999 super cyclone. But in July-August 2001, the fishermen of Orissa became the real heroes of relief action for flood victims.
- Will Sohan Singh Learn English At 80? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 20, 2001)
AT close to 80, and after almost 40 years in Britain, Sohan Singh Sidhu finds he could be in the middle of a human rights battle — concerning his human right not to speak English.
- States Fail (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 20, 2001)
IT WAS A welcome interlude in Parliament the other day when some of the members raised the issue of there being too much of hunger in the midst of too much of food.
- One Term, No More (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 20, 2001)
UNELECTED members of Vidhan Sabhas (and perhaps of even the Lok Sabha) can hold ministerial office for only one term of six months, the Supreme Court has ruled.
- The Downgrading Of India (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Aug 20, 2001)
FOR the Finance Minister to quarrel with such rating agencies as Standard & Poor's and Moody's on their assessments, is, indeed, very much like a sportsman quarreling with the umpire.
- Jharkhand Needs To Expedite Land Acquisition For Maithon Project (The Financial Express, Sunil Mukhopadhyay, Aug 20, 2001)
The fate of the 1,000 mw Maithon right bank super thermal power project in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand seems uncertain.
- Soft Is The Wind In Kathmandu (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Aug 20, 2001)
THE PROOF of the pudding is in the eating. Therefore, experience suggests that judgment be reserved on the efficacy of the progressive measures announced by Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba in Parliament last week.
- Trips Agreement Requires Flexible Interpretation (The Financial Express, P.K. Vasudeva, Aug 20, 2001)
Right from the day of the signing of the Eighth Round of Gatt (final act of the Uruguay Round) in 1994 and on the advent of World Trade Organisation (WTO) on January 1, 1995.
- ‘We Favour Gradualism Rather Than A Big Bang’ (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 20, 2001)
Responding to the Article IV review of the Indian economy by the International Monetary Fund (FE, 17/8/01), India’s Executive Director on the IMF Board.
- Married To Sense (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 20, 2001)
It is amazing how long women have to fight to correct injustices that are staring the world in the face.
- Escalating Conflict In W. Asia & Us Obligation (Tribune, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Aug 20, 2001)
NOW, more than ever before, the USA must lead the world community in ignoring Israel’s fierce opposition and implementing the Group of Eight’s proposal for United Nations observers in the strife-torn West Bank and Gaza Strip.
- Computer Games Stunt Teenagers’ Brains (Tribune, Tracy Mcveigh, Aug 20, 2001)
COMPUTER games are creating a dumbed-down generation of children far more disposed to violence than their parents, according to a controversial new study.
- The Struggle For Israel's Soul (Hindu, Franklin C. Spinney, Aug 20, 2001)
THE STRUGGLE for Palestinian independence has exploded into a vicious ethnic war, replete with racial stereotyping and the killing of women and children on both sides.
- Faceless And Dying (Hindustan Times, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Aug 20, 2001)
I HAVE travelled within Afghanistan and witnessed the reality of the life of that nation. As a film-maker (based in Iran), I have produced two feature films on Afghanistan: The Cyclist (1988) and Kandahar (2001).
- Tax-Free Donations Will Cement Nexus Between Business And Politics (The Financial Express, R.K. Roy, Aug 20, 2001)
The way to hell is said to be paved with good intentions.
- Mama, Is Rape A Seed? (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Aug 20, 2001)
Kavita: (DD Metro Gold), even as hubby dear has rediscovered faith in his wife’s virtue, his sister Monisha is being ravished and raped in her car by a drunken lout.
- Structural Infirmities In The Economy (Tribune, L. R. Sharma, Aug 20, 2001)
THE Tenth Plan approach paper proposes an 8 per cent average GDP growth rate for the period 2002-7.
- Smell The Air, Minister (Indian Express, Anil Agrawal, Aug 20, 2001)
CNG crisis shows how little our politicians really care.
- Uti Can Bring The House Down (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Aug 20, 2001)
THE UTI fraud is a watershed in Indian politics. No scam in recent history has directly hit as many people as this one and its political fallout will be fully felt in the months to come.
- Just Another Day In Israel (Indian Express, Sonia Trikha, Aug 20, 2001)
Each time the two sides talk, someone throws a rock and the peace process is off.
- Don't Throw Stones, General (Pioneer, Maninderjit Singh Bitta, Aug 20, 2001)
There was yet another headline in the newspapers on August 5, when 15 Hindus were killed in Doda.
- On The House (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 20, 2001)
With contentious issues like the Tehelka tapes and the UTI fiasco having torn Parliament asunder in the past few months, there finally appears the possibility of across-the-board unanimity between political parties in the House.
- Secure Data For Effective Organisation (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, Aug 20, 2001)
Data is a collection of information about any organisation. It can be secret or open.
- Cast-Iron Discrimination (Pioneer, Shubha Singh, Aug 20, 2001)
The Government of India has traditionally opposed any kind of airing of the many ills of Indian society in international forums.
- No Alternatives (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 20, 2001)
It was not so much that there was no alternative to the Congress, as that the masses were not seeking one.
- Sunny Days Of Batsmanship (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 20, 2001)
Even as Digvijay Singh gets ready to join a team that hopes to breathe life into the Congress campaign in Uttar Pradesh, his own state’s party unit in in dire straits.
- Multilateralism Is The Worst Trading System, Bar All Others (The Economic Times, Mythili Bhusnurmath, Aug 20, 2001)
IT’S a peculiarly Indian trait. We hate home truths.
- Missing Case For Weaker Dollar (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Aug 20, 2001)
A FORTNIGHT ago, I had written that the gulf between the rest of the world and the US remains as wide as ever, if not wider.
- The Cow And All That (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 20, 2001)
RELAX! This is not a ruse to saffronise the column by smuggling into it gomata, cow protection or cow worship.
- Changing Paradigms (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 20, 2001)
THE environment in which businesses compete has moved to the world stage.
- Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 20, 2001)
WHAT has ten years of reform delivered? If you measure the fruits of reform in terms of GDP growth, size of public debt, fiscal deficit, etc., the answer is nothing much.
- Repositioning India Brand (The Economic Times, Rama Bijapurkar, Aug 20, 2001)
HERE we are, 54 years old and a decade after liberalisation, fighting for our `rightful’ place in the world, distressed with the world’s perception of the India brand.
- `I Will Talk Eco, Energy Issues In India' -- Ms Satu Hassi, Finland's Minister For Environment (Business Line, S. Gopikrishna Warrier, Aug 20, 2001)
Ms Satu Hassi is the Minister for Environment as well as the Minister for Development Cooperation in Finland. Politically, she represents the Green Party in the coalition led by Social Democrats.
- `Indian Pharma Market Is Very Competitive’ (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 20, 2001)
PFIZER is among the largest pharma companies in the world and has to its credit four of the top ten blockbusters. In India also, two of Pfizer’s products — Becosules and Corex — are the top two pharma brands.
- The Padre Tragedy -- Progress At What Price? (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Aug 20, 2001)
THEY say `progress' comes with a `price'. But what price progress if it brings with it fatal diseases, as the story of Padre illustrates.
- Kill Potential (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 20, 2001)
A Texan ranch is as good a setting as any to ponder the meaning of human life.
- Tugging At The Purse Strings (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Aug 20, 2001)
One of the consequences of the increasingly globalizing economy is that the economy of any one country is gradually exposed to the consequences of what happens in another.
- Hullabaloo On The Campus And A Stir In The System (Telegraph, PARIMAL BHATTACHARYA, Aug 20, 2001)
The young people who had come to get admission at Presidency College last Thursday week were in for a shock.
- What A Coalition Doesn’t Stand For (Telegraph, Mohit Sen, Aug 20, 2001)
Many political leaders and commentators are of the opinion that we have now entered the age of coalition government, and.it has been said that the days of one-party rule ended with the Congress’s representation in the Lok Sabha.
- A Limited Operation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 20, 2001)
IN PRESENTING THE first State budget since the AIADMK came to power, the Tamil Nadu Finance Minister, Mr. C. Ponnaiyan, has carried out an operation that addresses only one aspect of the State's financial situation.
- Globalisation True, And False (Hindu, Pulapre Balakrishnan, Aug 20, 2001)
TODAY WHEN you say `globalisation' you may be understood as having in mind either the historical trend or a contemporary project, and this is no academic distinction.
- A Great Customs Barrier (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Aug 20, 2001)
IT WOULD be a fair statement to say that, by now, almost everything about British colonial rule in India has been written about.
- India, U.S. On The Same Side (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 20, 2001)
NEW DELHI, AUG. 19. It can no longer be seen either as an accident or a passing phase of ``irrational exuberance''.
- Sebi’s Volte Face (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 20, 2001)
THE capital markets’ watchdog, Sebi, reportedly wants tighter regulation of bank funding of brokers.
- Politics Of Voodoo (Hindustan Times, Amulya Ganguli, Aug 20, 2001)
THE UNIVERSITY Grants Commission’s Chairman, Hari Gautam, must have been born under a lucky star. In saner times, a man with such weird ideas about the ‘science’ of astrology would not have climbed so high up the greasy pole.
- The Downgrading Of India (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Aug 20, 2001)
FOR the Finance Minister to quarrel with such rating agencies as Standard & Poor's and Moody's on their assessments, is, indeed, very much like a sportsman quarreling with the umpire.
- The Equity Hurdle (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Aug 20, 2001)
IN THEORY, economic `development' need not always be accompanied by an infusion of equity into the system unless a determined effort is made towards that end.
- Anything But Upbeat (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Aug 20, 2001)
ATAL BIHARI Vajpayee’s remark that the current economic slowdown was not a cause for concern, given the nation’s huge foreign exchange reserves and a comfortable foodgrains stock, is too optimistic an assessment.
- Wonder Years Have Begun (The Economic Times, Bill Gates, Aug 19, 2001)
IT’S hard to believe that it’s been two decades since the launch of the first PC, and even harder to believe how much things have advanced since then.
- The Changing Colours Of Cynicism (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 19, 2001)
With Assembly elections fast approaching, the BJP in Uttar Pradesh is in a hurry to change the public perception about it, writes J. P. Shukla.
- A Pawn... Even In Death (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 19, 2001)
The Samajwadi Party is using Phoolan Devi's murder as ammunition in its battle with the BJP. K. V. Prasad reports.
- The Shifting Sands Of Lebanon (Hindu, KESAVA MENON, Aug 19, 2001)
Two leaders, a Maronite Christian and a Druze, have begun efforts to revive a composite Lebanese identity and review ties with Syria.
- Islands Of Unrest (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 19, 2001)
The separatist and communal violence presents the most serious challenge to Indonesia's new President, Ms. Megawati Sukarnoputri, says Amit Baruah.
- Musharraf's 'Real Democracy' (Pioneer, Urmi A Goswami, Aug 19, 2001)
Right from the time he usurped power, General Pervez Musharraf steadfastly maintained that he was doing so because he wanted what was best for Pakistan, "this is all what is happening which is in the interest of Pakistan.
- On The Gravy Train (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 19, 2001)
The colloquialism that there is no such thing as a free lunch obviously does not hold true for members of parliament in India.
- J&k Crisis Is Not Only A Law And Order Problem (Tribune, Rakshat Puri, Aug 19, 2001)
IT is astonishing that a politician of Mr L. K. Advani’s experience and maturity should have succumbed to pressure from his own partymen as well as the Opposition to extend the Armed Forces (J & K) Special Powers Act of 1990 to the Jammu area.
- A Major Too Powerful! (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 19, 2001)
The Defence Minister Jaswant Singh’s apparent bias for the Army has not been taken kindly by the other wings of the services and the differences are spilling out in the public.
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