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Articles 23521 through 23620 of 27558:
- Long Wait For Cola (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 12, 2001)
After a gruelling 49-day strike, Jammu and Kashmir’s transport is back on the roads and its forest depots and tourism development corporation hotels have reopened.
- Uniformed Terror (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 12, 2001)
The guilty at Magam must be brought to book.
- The Ugly Policeman (Hindustan Times, Khushwant Singh, May 12, 2001)
Periodically we hear of seminars discussing means to improve the image of the police in the public mind.
- Overhaul Of Higher Defence Management (Tribune, Ashok K Mehta, May 12, 2001)
FOR years, the defence and security community in India has clamoured for an overhaul of higher defence management. Now that it is beginning to happen, many of them are moaning and throwing a spanner in the works.
- Universal And Free Aids Care (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, May 12, 2001)
INDIAN PHARMACEUTICAL firms now offer hope to the millions in the poor countries of the world who are infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the disease which causes the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
- Nuclear Backdrop (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 12, 2001)
MILITARY exercises almost always cause some disquiet among neighbouring countries, especially those with whom there is an adversary relationship.
- Save Lives, Not Grains (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 12, 2001)
Overflowing godowns don’t square with starvation deaths.
- Of Kings And Exiles (Business Line, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, May 12, 2001)
ALL men, wrote Oscar Wilde, are kings, and, like kings, they die in exile.
- If We Work Together, Millions Of People Can Escape Poverty (The Economic Times, Nicholas Stern, May 12, 2001)
IN TIMES like these, when a sputtering US economy has many investors worried, it is useful to put our worries into perspective by taking a long-term view of the global economy.
- You Might As Well Live (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 12, 2001)
If dying is an art, like everything else, then the Bengalis seem to be doing it exceptionally well.
- Tale Of Two Manohar Joshis (Tribune, Rahul Singh, May 12, 2001)
I have often criticised Manohar Joshi, the former Chief Minister of Maharashtra and presently a minister in the Central Government, in print. He symbolises the dark side of Indian politics.
- Telecom Scams, The Ongoing Saga (Indian Express, Sunil Jain, May 12, 2001)
You could be excused if you felt India’s fledgling telecom revolution is turning out to be just another version of Dial-a-Scandal.
- British Is Multiracial (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, May 12, 2001)
Last week’s British census reminded me of a Chinese Singaporean wondering whether the best way of handling minorities was isolation or integration.
- There Are Miles To Go (Tribune, V. N. Kakar, May 12, 2001)
“FELLOW countrymen, mothers and sisters,” said the hon’ble MP, “at the stroke of midnight tonight, while the rest of the world sleeps, you are going to awake to a new morn.
- M&as Get Driven By Consolidation’ (The Economic Times, Soumya Kanti Mitra, May 12, 2001)
WHEREAS once only licences dictated the size, technology and employment potential of firms, that has now yielded place to new market driven determinants like competition, technology, and factor market flexibility.
- Scratching At The Sidelines (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, May 12, 2001)
We can’t afford to be neutral in the new missile game.
- What Ails Higher Education? (The Economic Times, Prachi Mishra, May 12, 2001)
INDIANS do better than India does, noted the millennium issue of the Economist magazine.
- Time For Self-Discipline (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 12, 2001)
ANY talk of fiscal responsibility on the part of states must start from the premise that it is in their own interests to be financially prudent and transparent.
- Caveat Emptor (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 12, 2001)
THE LAW ministry seems all set to stonewall the proposal of the L N Mitra committee to introduce a separate legislation for investor protection.
- Musharraf Puts Mullahs On Notice (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , May 12, 2001)
``HOW DOES the world look at us? The world sees us as backward and constantly going under.
- Kaun Banega Gi Joepati? (Indian Express, Rathi A. Menon, May 12, 2001)
KBC can learn a thing or two from these children.
- All Plan, No Action (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 12, 2001)
How does a cash-strapped govt do a Keynesian rescue?
- Treaty On The Dirty Dozen (Business Line, Mahendra Pandey , May 12, 2001)
OFFICIALS from 90 countries recently signed a landmark UN treaty in Stockholm, designed to curb the use of some of the world's most dangerous and toxic chemicals.
- Squeezing Substance Out Of Procedure (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 12, 2001)
The recent amendments to income tax law seek to make procedures less cumbersome. T. C. A. Ramanujam elaborates.
- Not Even Small Change (The Economic Times, Manoj Pant, May 12, 2001)
THIS refers to ``Budget in retrospect’’ (ET, May 3) by Dr Shankar Acharya. He thinks that the FM has sacrificed revenue of Rs 5,000 crore by abolishing surcharges.
- Nuclear Power In The Us: Revival Or Relapse? (The Financial Express, Rebecca Smith, May 12, 2001)
After years in the wilderness, the U.S. nuclear-power industry is back on the march.
- Eco-Friendly Process To Make Intermediary (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, May 12, 2001)
AN ECO-FRIENDLY process to produce mono nitro toluene (MNT), a widely used intermediary in the dyes, pharma and pesticide industries, has been developed by scientists at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad.
- Ipps Bear The Brunt Of Tneb’s Stance On High Fuel Costs (The Financial Express, T. M. A. Raman, May 12, 2001)
The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) seems to be desperately trying to reduce its commitment towards power generation by independent power producers (IPPs) in the state. This is evident from how TNEB has dealt with fuel issues of IPPs.
- All About Horses (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , May 12, 2001)
ARE you a horse fancier? Well, then, the English language has paid copious and heartwarming tributes to horses in a number of figures of speech.
- Stripping And Washing (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , May 12, 2001)
FINANCE Bill, 2001 proposes to introduce sub-section (7) to Section 94 so as to discourage asset-stripping tendencies among investors in securities.
- Things May Start Looking Up Again For Rsrtc (The Financial Express, M. P. Jain, May 12, 2001)
Having once again incurred a loss of Rs 80 crore during 2000-2001, the Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation Ltd. (RSRTC), once a consistent profit-making public sector undertaking, has drawn a new road-map improve its working.
- Hal, Bel, Bdl May Be First Picks For Divestment In Defence Sector (The Financial Express, Ravi Kapoor, May 12, 2001)
THE Union Cabinet’s recent decision to open up defence production to the private sector makes nine profit-making defence public sector undertakings (PSUs) potential candidates for privatisation.
- Unutilised Opportunities (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 12, 2001)
Aids drugs can be affordable if minds are applied.
- Improprieties Galore In The Go-Between Story (The Financial Express, Inder Malhotra, May 12, 2001)
The Hinduja facilitation act is a first-rate embarrassment.
- An Uneasy Yashwant Sinha Reels Under Growing Rss Wrath (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 12, 2001)
Notwithstanding finance minister Yashwant Sinha’s denial of reports regarding his resignation, there are indications that he continues to be tense in his hot seat with unrelenting attacks from Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) hardliners.
- For A Few Drops More (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 11, 2001)
Gujrat Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel had wanted to burst fire crackers when waters from the Narmada river finally reached parts of scarcity-hit Saurashtra.
- The Road To Ranchi (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 11, 2001)
This might be the ultimate test of Mr Laloo Prasad Yadav’s legendary inventiveness.
- Palace Coup In Patna? (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 11, 2001)
Laloo Yadav is in trouble again. The law seems to have caught up with him once again.
- A Larger Playing Field (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 11, 2001)
The multitude of post-Tehelka problems which the Vajpayee government has had to face do not seem to have dampened its ardour for economic reforms.
- And Shun Contrarian Talk (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 11, 2001)
ON THE very day that the Union Cabinet was approving a slew of reform measures, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee decided to shun the cold logic of the reforms for rather more populist rhetoric.
- The Right To Choose (Hindustan Times, Usha Rai, May 11, 2001)
After the tremendous setback suffered by the country’s family planning programme during the emergency, the government has been extremely cautious about every step taken on the population stabilisation front.
- Maneka’s Dilemma (Hindustan Times, Bhaichand Patel, May 11, 2001)
Maneka Gandhi has gone off to London to tackle Katherine Frank on her home turf.
- Power, Populism And Lost Potential (The Economic Times, Ajay Jindal, May 11, 2001)
THE CURRENT Enron embroglio throws up two sad points: firstly, the power sector has achieved precious little in the ten years of privatisation;
- Enemy Number One (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 11, 2001)
It’s not only the American promise of arms supplies to Taiwan or surveillance flights by US planes that Beijing has to worry about.
- Aggressive Earnings Management -- Profit Or Loss, Whichever Way You Calculate It... (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , May 11, 2001)
THE hottest topic agitating corporate circles and regulatory agencies in the UK, the US and other industrialised nations is ``aggressive earnings management''.
- Credit Policy: A Blurred Document (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, May 11, 2001)
ONE is simply over-awed by the sheer size of the ``Statement on Monetary and Credit Policy for the year 2001-02'' made by Dr Bimal Jalan, Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on April 19, 2001.
- Monitoring Imports (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 11, 2001)
FALLING FARM PRODUCE prices, rising import volumes and perceived threat to domestic production following the removal of quantitative restrictions on imports have all combined to make policy-makers uneasy.
- Sheltering Sita (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , May 11, 2001)
THE Shetkari Mahila Aghadi, the women's front of the Shetkari Sanghatana -- the farmers' organisation in Maharashtra that has made history over the last 20 years by putting the issue of economic viability of agriculture on the national agenda.
- Open Logic (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 11, 2001)
But foreign private companies must rise to FDI challenge.
- The Com After The Storm (Business Line, Vijay Rangarajan, May 11, 2001)
UNDER the settling dust of the recent dotcom crash lie the symptoms that caused the hysteria and the ensuing collapse.
- Managing Styles (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , May 11, 2001)
THERE are three kinds of managers: One, the micro-manager who goes meticulously into the minutiae of the task and for that purpose, constantly breathes down the backs of his junior associates;
- Globalisation & Inequality: Lessons From Latin America (The Economic Times, Manoj Pant, May 11, 2001)
MURASOLI Maran effects a fiddle here and a faddle there and the `war heroes’.
- 3-D Technologies Are Also Marketing Tools (The Economic Times, E. Jayashree Kurup, May 11, 2001)
SGI’s Avinash Fotedar, general manager and country head, marketing and channels, is a veteran in the company.
- Credit Policy Without A Delivery Mechanism Is Incomplete (The Financial Express, Ravi Yadav, May 11, 2001)
This year’s Monetary and Credit Policy is skewed in favour of monetary measures rather than credit policy initiatives.
- Sebi Needs To Segregate Speculative And Cash Markets (The Financial Express, Sharad Mistry, May 11, 2001)
GLOBALISING domestic capital markets, in theory, is romantic. In reality, it is a nightmare for both the players and regulators. So, for lay and marginally enlightened Indian investors romanticism is amply provided by pied pipers like Harshad Mehta.
- Back To Basics (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 11, 2001)
THE ONGC'S NEW chairman-cum-managing director, Mr Subir Raha, should be complimented for bringing back the corporation's focus to its traditional competence of exploration and production rather than lose energy in diversification.
- The Triumph Of The Will (The Financial Express, Ajit Ranade, May 11, 2001)
Rapid spread of telecom services has to be the first priority.
- Nuclear Innovations (The Economic Times, Narendar Pani, May 11, 2001)
WHEN seen in isolation, the enthusiastic Indian response to President Bush’s missile defence plan is difficult to justify.
- A Happy Ending (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 11, 2001)
Now get on with divestment and an exit policy.
- Why The Hurry To Support Nmd? (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, May 11, 2001)
There is a suggestion making the rounds that the Prime Minister was not aware of the fact that External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh was about to endorse President Bush’s National Missile Defence.
- Senapati For A Nuclear Age (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 11, 2001)
Following the nuclear tests in Pokharan in May 1998, many learned defence analysts and experts have argued that although we have proven and declared ourselves a nuclear weapon state.
- Adverse Winds Blowing Away India’s Green Power Plans (The Financial Express, Joseph Vackayil, May 11, 2001)
INDIA’S green power programme, led by the wind industry, is seeing red. Reasons for this are many. Unlike normal years.
- ...And This (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 11, 2001)
IT IS a measure of how irrelevant planning has become that the Planning Commission’s just released approach paper to the tenth plan has been relegated to the inside pages of most dailies, including business ones.
- Small Step To Peace (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 11, 2001)
The tremendous attention that the forthcoming Atal Bihari Vajpayee-Pervez Musharraf summit meeting has attracted is reflective of the growing constituency for peace in India and Pakistan.
- A Neat Operation (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 11, 2001)
THE siege of the Shangus mosque in Anantnag district ended on Monday. For once the terms for ending the siege were dictated by the security forces and not the militants who had turned the mosque into a mini fortress.
- Expanding Universe (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 11, 2001)
THE INFERENCE - ONE could not be quite sure whether it amounts to a discovery which would require irrefutable proof - drawn from the ``spying'' by the Hubble telescope of the most distant Supernova.
- The U.N., Racism And Caste - I (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 11, 2001)
THE WORLD Congress on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance will be held in South Africa from August 31 to September 7, marking the culmination of the International Year of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
- Estrada And Jayalalitha: Idols Tainted By Corruption (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 11, 2001)
ON the day the AIADMK leader, Jayalalitha Jayaram, went to file her nomination papers for the Tamil Nadu State Assembly elections, she created a stampede. Her admirers occupied every available inch of space and cheered her.
- A Joke Called Choice (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, May 11, 2001)
The elections in five states have once again demonstrated that democracy is alive and well in India, that the will of the people can be exercised freely to elect their representatives, some of whom will lead them to a better life.
- A Thief In The Night: Understanding Aids (Telegraph, Vishwas R. Gaitonde, May 11, 2001)
Vishwas R. Gaitonde’s A Thief in the Night: Understanding Aids is a thoroughly researched and informative book that has freed itself from many of the prejudices and reticences that dog the Indian HIV/AIDS campaign.
- The Upturn Down Under (The Financial Express, Sanjaya Baru, May 11, 2001)
Australia-India relations come in from the cold.
- High And Low (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 11, 2001)
Japan has good news in unlikely quarters. It took eight years, but the crown princess is finally pregnant.
- Dung-Ho (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 11, 2001)
Salaries are never enough, and employees often unhappily compare what they get for their labour, with crap.
- Dialogue On Jammu & Kashmir (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , May 11, 2001)
IT IS hard not to be repetitive on Jammu and Kashmir. That is because there is no marked advance in the efforts, initiated from time to time, to resolve this issue.
- Sisters In Conflict (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 11, 2001)
WHEN the men — fathers, husbands, sons and brothers — disappear and the state is no help, what do their families go through?
- Of Human Rights And Human Wrongs (Tribune, Shelley Walia, May 11, 2001)
ALL human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
- Mobilising “Collective Reaction” Against Militants (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, May 11, 2001)
AMIDST confusing signals emanating from the valley, it is not clear whether New Delhi is working according to a plan to tackle the Kashmir tangle. Total clarity in policy and coordination in approach are essential ingredients for its successful handling.
- Cut And Thrust (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 11, 2001)
It's party time in America. Before this summer is out, millions of Americans will receive cheques of up to $600 each from the taxman - as refund of tax already paid earlier this year.
- Hawking Peace (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 11, 2001)
Whoever crafted Atal Behari Vajpayee's urbane invite to Pervez Musharraf might well be wringing his hands.
- Irrational Exuberance (Times of India, MANOJ JOSHI, May 11, 2001)
THE elements of the Bush administration's new nuclear doctrine, hailed so exuberantly by New Delhi, are simple enough:
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