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Articles 22521 through 22620 of 27558:
- Blaring Its Way To Decline (Pioneer, Chanchal Sarkar, May 29, 2001)
The only day of silence in Kolkata was voting day.
- Tintin In Our Mind (Hindustan Times, Soumya Bhattacharya, May 29, 2001)
IN ONE unforgettable scene in David Lodge’s sidesplitting comic novel Nice Work, Vic Wilcox, a managing director at an engineering firm.
- Rethinking Fiscal Orthodoxy (The Economic Times, Mythili Bhusnurmath, May 29, 2001)
AT THE concluding session of the World Bank sponsored seminar on fiscal reforms in Delhi recently, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India set the cat among the pigeons.
- Neither Here Nor There (The Kashmir Times, Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal, May 29, 2001)
One is said to be fashionable and trendy if one brings about revolutionary changes in ones appearance.
- Earthquake Relief (Times of India, Aditi Kapoor, May 29, 2001)
WHEN the first rains lash the earthquake-stricken areas of rural Gujarat, many people may not be able to run for cover.
- Complain And Be Damned (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, May 29, 2001)
ABOUT 60 residents of Bahota village and adjoining villages in Marmat area of Doda district have migrated to Doda township following a reign of terror let loose by the security forces.
- Doomed To Failure (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 29, 2001)
The optimism generated by the initial response, in both India and Pakistan, to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's invitation to General Pervez Musharraf to visit Delhi for talks, is vanishing rapidly.
- Monkey Diplomacy (Hindustan Times, Brahma Chellaney , May 29, 2001)
WITH ITS continuing ‘war of a thousand cuts’ against India, Pakistan poses the single biggest challenge to Indian foreign policy.
- Right Choice, Baby? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 29, 2001)
PEPSI’S success in creating a brand almost from scratch in India is the stuff that marketing case studies are made of. Given the problems of doing business in markets like ours, Pepsi entered the market as an under-dog.
- A Twist To The Tale (The Economic Times, Ruchir Sharma, May 29, 2001)
THE CURRENT state of the US economy is akin to an emaciated patient desperately being pumped with steroids.
- Sending The Wrong Signal (Pioneer, Arshi Khan, May 29, 2001)
India in the eyes of the world has always been a symbol of protest and resistance against colonialism and imperialism. But the recent visit of a high-level delegation of Indian officials to Israel, however, tarnishes this image.
- Kathmandu Killings & India (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, May 29, 2001)
THE cold-blooded elimination of vir-tually the entire family of Nepal.
- Let Callers Pay (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 29, 2001)
IF Mumbaikars are anything to go by, India is ready for further reforms in telecom policy.
- India’s Pak Syndrome (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, May 29, 2001)
Now that Gen. Musharraf has ac cepted Prime Minister’s invitation in a very mature yet friendly language.
- Transfer Pricing & Data Management (The Economic Times, Rohan Phatarphekar, May 29, 2001)
TRANSFER pricing, which basically considers the prices charged by related parties in business transactions, affects every company, large or small, with any international affiliates.
- Flight Of Capital (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 29, 2001)
Air-India's long list of problems seems to go on forever.
- Gibran's Verses Give Unfailing Solace (Times of India, Humra Quraishi, May 29, 2001)
PROMINENT on my study table is a copy of Kahlil Gibran's `The Prophet'. And it is here for a specific reason.
- `Compassionate Conservatism' At Work -- Bush Sets Us On New Course (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , May 29, 2001)
THE US President, Mr George W. Bush, during his campaign for the top job, was widely seen as a bumbler, lacking in gravitas and that mysterious, undefinable quality known as presidential timbre.
- Will Summit Mean Better Trade? (Business Line, Kuldip Nayar, May 29, 2001)
IT IS understandable that New Delhi could not have continued with a rigid attitude towards Islamabad for long.
- More Weird Tales (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 28, 2001)
The group of ministers which examined the national security requirements in the aftermath of the Kargil conflict seems to have come up with more controversial ideas than genuinely useful ones.
- Blase Lungs (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 28, 2001)
India is thought to be a health hazard by expatriates living in Asia.
- This Is Not Submissiveness (Telegraph, BRIJESH D. JAYAL, May 28, 2001)
The American president, George W. Bush, chose an address to the National Defence University in Washington to unveil his administration’s plans for the Nuclear Missile Defence shield.
- Speak Out Of Turn (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 28, 2001)
Among the Samata Party and BJP leaders from Manipur who have descended on New Delhi is Speaker S. Dhananjay Singh. He has no business to be here. A Speaker is supposed to play a neutral role.
- Slip Through Legal Loopholes (Telegraph, Basudev Ray, May 28, 2001)
J. Jayalalitha is believed to have remarked a few days ago that she wants corruption cases against her to be handled firmly and that her immediate task would be to probe the charges of corruption against M. Karunanidhi’s son, M.K. Stalin.
- Cool Balance (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 28, 2001)
To be calmly active and actively calm -- a Prince of Peace sitting on the throne of poise, directing the kingdom of activity -- is to be spiritually healthy.
- Financing The Tenth Plan: A Conundrum (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, May 28, 2001)
THE Planning Commission has taken another plunge in opting for an eight per cent GDP growth in the Tenth Plan period (2002-07), in the midst of a looming fiscal crisis that would be even more difficult to grapple with than the 1991 crisis.
- Back To Syl Issue (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 28, 2001)
A large jatha of Haryana farmers accompanied by women and children went to the Golden Temple, Amritsar.
- Puppets On A String (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 28, 2001)
Shadows of the party have already begun to lengthen over the government in West Bengal even though the tenure of the new chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, is not yet a fortnight old.
- Power Games (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 28, 2001)
THE Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission has decided to hike power tariffs in the Capital. It is neither the first ERC to do so, nor is it likely to be last. What makes such decisions contentious, however, is the extent to which power supplied is not b
- Good News... (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 28, 2001)
THE GOOD news is that the meteorological department has officially projected an early end to the drought spell in the country. Its long range forecast of the south-west monsoon released on Friday last speaks of a normal monsoon — for the fourteenth consec
- Himalayan Challenge (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 28, 2001)
The shock and outrage over the killing of King Birendra and his family members and the outbursts of grief by the hundreds of thousands who thronged the funeral procession attests to the monarchy's strong, unifying hold over the Nepalese people.
- Party In Extremis (Hindustan Times, Amulya Ganguli, May 28, 2001)
Three people can be held responsible for the Congress party’s sixth failure in a row in West Bengal — Pranab Mukherjee, Somen Mitra and Mamata Banerjee. The first two played a key role in hounding Banerjee out of the party after the 1996 election. Had the
- Manali Musings (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, May 28, 2001)
Prime Minister Vajpayee has done enough in his three years in office to earn his place in history. But almost all of it on the national security and foreign policy front.
- A Remedy That’s Much Worse Than The Malady (The Economic Times, Mythili Bhusnurmath, May 28, 2001)
AN INCENTIVE fund to push state governments into improving their finances? In theory, it sounds great. But in practice, given the prickly and complex nature of Centre-state fiscal relations, it is more than contentious.
- Taliban And The Colour Yellow (Indian Express, Himmat Singh Gill, May 28, 2001)
Khorasan' of the Middle Ages and ‘Aryana’ in the antiquity’, Afghanistan has seen them all pass by.
- Fast-Breeder Reactors - A Dying Breed (Hindu, M.V. Ramana, May 28, 2001)
Near the town of Kalkar in Germany, close to the border with Holland, a new amusement park is being built by a Dutch entrepreneur for about $ 3 crores.
- Accountability And Information Sharing (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, May 28, 2001)
Every regulator summoned by the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) investigating the payments crisis on the stock markets is bound to whine about the multiplicity of regulatory agencies and the absence of adequate supervisory and punitive powers.
- Police Accountability (Hindu, Ajay K. Mehra, May 28, 2001)
IT IS not surprising that Kuldip Nayar in his article (``Police atrocities'', May 22) received the standard reply he did from the Delhi Police on their use of third degree methods.
- Blowing The Fuse (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 28, 2001)
EVEN GOING BY the standards of the Dabhol Power Company's controversial innings so far, the current developments are truly frenetic.
- The Civilized Market (The Economic Times, Ivan Alexander, May 28, 2001)
EVER since Henry Ford, in 1914, decided to pay his workers five dollars a day -- two-and-a half times the average rate which was then paid in the United States -- and yet built cars more cheaply than any other manufacturer, corporations have had good reas
- The Great Indian Investment Movie (The Economic Times, S. L. Rao, May 28, 2001)
THE Dabhol-Enron saga has all the ingredients for an unusual Hindi movie. There is a principal female interest in the (to some) ravishing and (to all) extraordinarily shrewd, determined and tough negotiator, Rebecca Mark.
- Growth & Rural Poverty (The Economic Times, Raghbendra Jha, May 28, 2001)
IT IS widely accepted now that rural poverty fell more sharply in response to the growth in the 1980s than in the 1990s. However, the trend rate of economic growth in the 1990s (excluding the crisis year of 1991) was higher and more stable over time than
- Grain Mountain, Drought And Hunger (The Financial Express, Saumitra Chaudhuri, May 28, 2001)
Did anybody say that year 2001-02 was going to be a good year? Not that one can recollect. Glum comments about GDP (gross domestic product) growth being lower because of drought are surely an afterthought. What is it that has just been discovered?
- Business Riding On Cultural Events (Business Line, C. Gopinath , May 28, 2001)
CINCO DE MAYO is a minor event in Mexico that commemorates a Mexican victory over French invaders on May 5, 1862 in the Battle of Puebla.
- The Disorder Of Law (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 28, 2001)
The abysmally low rate of conviction in criminal cases is a matter of serious concern. The latest figures of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) are, in fact, a sharp indictment of the criminal justice system.
- Taming Of The Monetary Hawks (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, May 28, 2001)
THE former RBI Deputy Governor, Dr S. S. Tarapore, confesses in his new book, Monetary Management and Institutional Reforms, of being labelled a ``primordial monetary hawk''.
- Why All Moves Backfire In J&k (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, May 28, 2001)
We shall be bold and innovative designers of a future architecture of peace and prosperity for the entire South Asian region. So declared Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in his New Year musings from Kumarakom.
- Reining In The Pmo (Hindu, P.S. Appu, May 28, 2001)
AN OVER-GROWN, all-powerful Prime Minister's Office has been at the centre of a major political controversy. The attack on the present setup of the PMO has been spearheaded by the hard core of the BJP and some elements in the National Democratic Alliance.
- Pakistani 'In A Tight Spot' Over Kashmir (Washington Post, Pamela Constable, May 28, 2001)
For months, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's military ruler, has been telling anyone who would listen that he is willing to meet India's prime minister "any time, any place" to talk about resolving the conflict over Kashmir. Now India has called his bluf
- A Boost For Tea (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 28, 2001)
THERE ARE CLEAR pointers that the Centre and even some of the State governments are in a mood to concede the genuine demands of the tea industry.
- Enemy Inside The Gates (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 28, 2001)
It is just as well that we are a liberal democracy and don’t believe in marking ‘outsiders’ with yellow stickers. Otherwise, the Foreigners (Report to Police) Order, 1971, would have smacked of xenophobia.
- Puppets On A String (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 28, 2001)
Shadows of the party have already begun to lengthen over the government in West Bengal even though the tenure of the new chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, is not yet a fortnight old.
- Financing The Tenth Plan: A Conundrum (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, May 28, 2001)
THE Planning Commission has taken another plunge in opting for an eight per cent GDP growth in the Tenth Plan period (2002-07), in the midst of a looming fiscal crisis that would be even more difficult to grapple with than the 1991 crisis.
- Us Market In The Months Ahead (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , May 28, 2001)
ON MAY 15, the US Federal Reserve cut the Federal Funds rate by 50 basis points to 4.0 per cent, and fretted a good deal about the state of capital spending in the US.
- Plans For A Brew (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 28, 2001)
THERE ARE CLEAR indications that the WTO Agreement on Agriculture and the already competitive market scenario have forced the Department of Commerce (DoC).
- Bis Reviews Global Financial Systems (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , May 28, 2001)
BIS (The Bank of International Settlements), headquartered at Basel in Switzerland, is acknowledged to be the Central Bank of Central Banks.
- Gibran's Verses Give Unfailing Solace (Times of India, Humra Quraishi, May 28, 2001)
PROMINENT on my study table is a copy of Kahlil Gibran's `The Prophet'.
- Earthquake Relief (Times of India, Aditi Kapoor, May 28, 2001)
WHEN the first rains lash the earthquake-stricken areas of rural Gujarat, many people may not be able to run for cover.
- ...And Bad (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 28, 2001)
EVEN as the met department gave us reason to hope, the news on the ground gets gloomier and gloomier.
- In Praise Of The Middle (Tribune, M. K. Agarwal, May 28, 2001)
I have come across many pieces of writing in praise of such zany subjects as idleness, flattery, nepotism gluttony etc., but hardly any worth the name to espouse the grandeur, sweep and dignity of the “middle”.
- Flight Of Capital (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 28, 2001)
Air-India's long list of problems seems to go on forever.
- Fire In Army Ammunition Depots (Tribune, Harwant Singh, May 28, 2001)
Outbreak of fire in army ammunition depots with unerring regularity, has resulted in great financial loss to the state and caused apprehensions and misgivings in the public mind.
- Looking The Other Way (Telegraph, ZIA HAQ, May 28, 2001)
The proof of democracy lies not in voting, but in the results the ballots produce.
- Blase Lungs (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 28, 2001)
India is thought to be a health hazard by expatriates living in Asia.
- Birendra's Nepal (Times of India, Dubby Bhagat, May 28, 2001)
AFTER the funeral of King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah on Saturday night, the immediate grief that swept the country turned to formal mourning and a degree of introspection. Old stories were retold.
- Enron Woos Regulators In Era Of Deregulation (The Financial Express, Bob Davis, May 28, 2001)
EVERY energy executive in America would have liked a half-hour with Vice President Dick Cheney as he fashioned the Bush administration’s national energy program.
- The Garden Path (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 28, 2001)
Ogden Nash did not quite get things right when he said "One end is moo, the other milk".
- Imd Lacks Confidence In Predicting Normal Rains In Drought-Hit Regions (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, May 28, 2001)
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has not been able to predict with confidence the possibility of a normal rainfall in the drought affected regions of the country in its recent long-range forecast for the current year’s southwest monsoon.
- Slip Through Legal Loopholes (Telegraph, Basudev Ray, May 28, 2001)
J. Jayalalitha is believed to have remarked a few days ago that she wants corruption cases against her to be handled firmly and that her immediate task would be to probe the charges of corruption against M. Karunanidhi’s son, M.K. Stalin.
- Kerala Has No Choice But To Adopt Austerity Measures (The Financial Express, P Vinod Kumar, May 28, 2001)
THE proof of the pudding lies in eating it. And the billion dollar question nagging Keralites is: will Arakkaparmbil Kurian Antony, the ‘Mr Clean’ of Kerala politics, drop his favourite ‘simplicity for publicity’ gestures and be brave enough to bite the r
- Threatened By The Economics Of Sheer Scale (Telegraph, RAHUL GHOSH, May 28, 2001)
With the quantitative restrictions on imports lifted on 715 articles, Indian industry is presently going through a rough phase.
- Poverty Is Good Business (The Financial Express, Ravi Kapoor, May 28, 2001)
What if there were no poor people in India? Well, there would be many to mourn the thriving poverty sector. The mourners would include politicians of various ideological persuasions, countless bureaucrats, representatives of myriad philanthropic agencies
- Defusing Dabhol (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 28, 2001)
In the present brouhaha over the Dabhol power project, it's all too easy to lose sight of one fact: there is life beyond Enron.
- What Can Rs 500 Buy? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 28, 2001)
A divorced woman in India faces not just social stigma, she has to reckon with anachronistic and discriminatory laws which do not protect her even while they claim to do so.
- This Is Not Submissiveness (Telegraph, BRIJESH D. JAYAL, May 28, 2001)
The American president, George W. Bush, chose an address to the National Defence University in Washington to unveil his administration’s plans for the Nuclear Missile Defence shield.
- Shoring Up State Finances (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 28, 2001)
THE TIME HAS come to take politics out of State finances. As the new Tamil Nadu Government, headed by Ms. Jayalalitha, sets out to present its White Paper on the State's finances, it will do well to go about the task in a measured and apolitical manner, b
- Wrong End Of The Stick (Hindustan Times, Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, May 28, 2001)
India is fast emerging as a major production centre for cyberpornography. Today there are over 18,000 pornographic websites featuring Indians, up from only 4,000 at the beginning of 2001. At least 25 Indian sites feature in the top 500 list of most-visite
- Poaching On States’ Power (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 28, 2001)
IT would appear that the Group of Ministers (GoM) which authored an elaborate paper on internal security, had landed from Mars only a few weeks back. Otherwise, it would not have raked up a heated controversy which has remained dormant for some years now.
- Uniform 2 Business (Times of India, Rajeev Ahuja, May 28, 2001)
OPENING of the defence sector to private investment may see more uniformed men moving out to private firms making defence-related equipment.
- Conmen Strike Star-Struck Teenagers (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 27, 2001)
THAT teenagers enamoured by glamorous professions like acting and modelling are increasing being duped by conmen posing as agents.
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