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Articles 17921 through 18020 of 23072:
- Financial Reforms On Fast Track (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2005)
Finance minister P. Chidambaram today said the government would aggressively push ahead with financial sector reforms and he hopes to wrap up the relevant legislative business within the first half of this financial year.
- Washington’S Watching (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , May 18, 2005)
Two months before the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, arrives in Washington to meet the president of the United States of America, George W. Bush, his trip...
- Lalu Charged In Fodder Case (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2005)
A special CBI court on Tuesday framed charges against Union railway minister and RJD chief Lalu Prasad and 39 others, including former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra, in a case related to the multi-crore fodder scam of the 1990s.
- Nature Conservation Is Govt's Duty (Times of India, NARAYANI GANESH, May 18, 2005)
To think that free market forces by themselves can protect the environment is a fallacy.
- Sebi Bans Ubs Securities Asia From Derivatives Segment For One Year (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2005)
The market regulator is yet to zero-in on other entities allegedly responsible for bringing down the market on May 17.
- Women Fuel China’S Growth (Tribune, Manoj Kumar, May 18, 2005)
Indian leaders and industrial captains may never be tired of citing “hire and fire” policy and autocratic rule behind the Chinese miracle, but they have often ignored the contribution of women empowerment, high female work participation rate in the Chines
- Behind The Explosions (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 18, 2005)
The recent terrorist attacks in Srinagar indicate that Kashmiri extremist groups have not lost their sting.
- Don't Arm This Despot: Is India Committed To Democracy In Nepal? (Times of India, HARI ROKA, May 18, 2005)
India's decision to 'resume' supply of arms to the dictator of Nepal has disappointed democrats everywhere. Expectations were high that for once in the long history of relations between the two countries
- Cosmic Childbirth (Times of India, MUKUL SHARMA, May 18, 2005)
For long the butt of snickers and winks, the question of conjugal cohabitation among astronauts is now being seriously addressed by space scientists.
- Reforms Will Continue To Attract Fdi: Chidambaram (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2005)
The government would carry forward ongoing economic reforms to attract overseas investment to achieve double-digit growth rate in coming years, Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram said here on Tuesday.
- Dilemma For Pakistan's Leadership (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, May 18, 2005)
For Pakistan, ending violence in Jammu and Kashmir isn't a concession to India; it concerns its own future as a viable, modern nation-state.
- Let Market Forces Resolve Green Issues (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2005)
There's no free lunch and, by extension, no free air, water or any other gift of nature. Minus a price tag, the so-called bounty of nature will soon become history.
- Hello, Singapore (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 18, 2005)
A new trade and financial services agreement with Singapore, as reported by this newspaper, could bring a flood of fresh investments into India.
- Curb Industrial Pollution In Vizag: Cpi(m) (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2005)
IN view of the increased industrial activity in Visakhapatnam and several projects coming up in the near future, strict pollution control measures should be taken, opines the district committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
- New Policy Framework For Financial Sector — Chidambaram Urges Industry To Have Dialogue With Parties (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2005)
THE Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, today said that a new comprehensive policy framework for the financial sector is in the works.
- Sebi Bars Ubs Securities (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2005)
Exactly a year after the `Black Monday', May 17, 2004 stock market crash, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has issued orders against the Swiss investment firm...
- Doors To Be Opened Wide For Fdi, Fii Inflows (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2005)
Expressing alarm over the gradually widening trade deficit despite increased exports, the Union Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, on Tuesday hinted at further opening up of the economy...
- Kuwaiti Women Get Political Rights (Hindu, Atul Aneja , May 18, 2005)
Attempts to block law fail; A historic step, says Kofi Annan
- Hidden Strings And Free Lunches (Indian Express, K SUBRAHMANYAM, May 18, 2005)
Ever since the US state department unveiled its new strategy for South Asia, of US helping India to become a world power in the 21st century, there is debate in this country about the costs of this trajectory.
- Indian Spirituality As Business (Deccan Herald, Avijit Pathak, May 18, 2005)
The spiritual TV channels break the monotony of everyday life and take us to a domain of moral certainties
- Fm Moots New Norms For Fdi (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2005)
Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said there was a need to review the norms on foreign direct investment, foreign institutional inflows, external commercial borrowings, services exports and remittances to bridge the trade deficit estimated at around $3
- Cpm Slams Centre’S Fdi Policy (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2005)
The CPM said the current policies of the UPA government could erode national sovereignty and cause massive retrenchment in retail trade.
- How Aiadmk Achieved The Twin Success (Hindu, V. Jayanth , May 17, 2005)
It was a thorough, scientific and systematic approach to the voters that made the difference.
- Art Madhyam (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2005)
The word “Madhyam” makes linguistic sense to an average Indian, no matter to which part of the country he may belong to.
- Aiadmk Scores Upset Victories (Hindu, SURESH NAMBATH, May 17, 2005)
"Alliance of the people bigger than the seven-party alliance," says Jayalalithaa
- Clashing Interpretations And Policies (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, May 17, 2005)
The 60th anniversary of Victory in the Second World War celebrated in Moscow last week was as much about the future as about the past.
- Reliance, Revisited (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2005)
Over six months have lapsed since Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) — India’s largest petrochemical and oil refining company in the private sector — was rocked by an ownership dispute between the Ambani brothers, Mukesh and Anil.
- Safeguarding Heritage, A Shared Responsibility (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2005)
Efforts to save the State’s monuments including the cultural landscape, has been going on in full swing. ARUNA CHANDARAJU suggests an action plan.
- The Bastion Of A Religious Tradition (Deccan Herald, L SUBRAMANI, May 17, 2005)
After a long penance, Garuda, the king of birds, meets Lord Mahavishnu and conveys his wish to see his Sri Narasimha avatar.
- Pillars Of Pulchritude (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2005)
The Thousand Pillar basadi in the town of Moodbidri illustrates the popularity that Jainism enjoyed in Karnataka
- Donors To Discuss Post-Tsunami Recovery (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, May 16, 2005)
Sri Lanka's donors will start a two-day Development Forum meeting in Kandy on Monday to discuss post-tsunami reconstruction efforts, macro economic issues and the current state of the peace process.
- The Way We Were (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 16, 2005)
It is only apt that for such a migratory species, we humans are genetically predisposed to travelogues. Literally. On a tiny chromosomal patch, humans carry a record of their wanderings
- `Universities Must Heed Wake Up Call' (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, May 16, 2005)
Deepak Nayyar's tenure as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi ended on Sunday. In a farewell interview, he toldSiddharth Varadarajanthat the Indian university system is in urgent need of structural reform if it is to remain relevant.
- The Game Of Multilateralism (Deccan Herald, P R CHARI, May 16, 2005)
India will do well to make appropriate genuflections towards the ‘strategic’ nature of its ties with big powers
- New Battle Fought On Ve Day (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma , May 16, 2005)
Politicians prefer packaged patriotism and ‘consensus history’, while new historians question the old ones
- Adventure In Visual Art & History (Deccan Herald, JANARDHAN ROYE, May 16, 2005)
The Government Museum on Kasturba Road is a treasure trove for art and history lovers. All it needs is a little innovation to attract more people
- Ap Exploring Potential In Jafza Zone In Dubai (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, May 16, 2005)
ANDHRA Pradesh is exploring the possibility of investing in IT and healthcare in the newly opened Jafza South Zone in Dubai.
- Peenya: A Brilliant Beacon Of Entrepreneurship (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 16, 2005)
Peenya Industries Association, one of the largest industrial estates in the country employing three lakh people, has its mixed bag of success and failure. On its silver jubilee year, Mr N NARASIMHAN, one of the three founder members, recalls how this orga
- `Gyanendra Has Assured That Democracy Will Return To Nepal' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 16, 2005)
The National Security Adviser, M. K. Narayanan, has said that India resumed military supplies to Nepal only after getting a "categorical assurance from King Gyanendra that democracy will be restored to Nepal.''
- The General’S Brain (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, May 16, 2005)
Now that the April Foreign Policy euphoria is over, the party poopers are out with full force. The question is again being asked: can we trust General Musharraf?
- Us Not To Back India On Veto Power (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, May 16, 2005)
The US has warned India and three other nations campaigning for permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council that it will not support their cause unless they agree not to ask for veto power, senior US officials were on Sunday quoted as saying.
- The East As Career (Telegraph, AMIT CHAUDHURI, May 15, 2005)
Estranging vision
Life Itself
What does the “exotic” in “Are you exoticizing your subject for a Western audience?”
- More Secular Than Thou Art! (Business Line, Kushwant Singh, May 14, 2005)
None of our languages have an exact equivalent for the word ‘secular’. It means something quite different in Western democracies which are almost entirely Christian, from what it means in the Indian context. . .
- Song Of The New Road (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 14, 2005)
A ceremonial remembrance should, ideally, also be a reawakening.
- Think Out Of The Box (Telegraph, Sanjib Baruah, May 14, 2005)
T. Muivah’s suggestion — a special federal relationship with India — may well be the solution to the Naga dispute, writes Sanjib Baruah
- The Fluster In Fbt (Business Line, S. Muralidharan, May 14, 2005)
FBT is spinning out of control, says S. Murlidharan.
- Khaki Raj (Tribune, M B NAQVI, May 14, 2005)
IN Pakistan’s 58 years, 31 were spent under open military dictatorship; even the current phase is basically a military regime, only slightly camouflaged by a civilian façade.
- Said And The Saidians (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, May 14, 2005)
The United States of America is not only the leading economic and military power in the world, but also the leading intellectual power.
- An Undeserved Denial (Business Line, T. N. Pandey, May 14, 2005)
Standard deduction should be reinstated, says T. N. Pandey
- Tall Tax, Food Police, A Bizarre Bridge And A Robber Wanting Your Past Or Future (Business Line, D. Murali , May 14, 2005)
YOU PROBABLY know of John Galt in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Here is a different JG in Ken Schoolland's story, The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey.
- Strains In Relations With Bangladesh (Tribune, Raghubansh Sinha , May 14, 2005)
Even as the recent border tension between India and Bangladesh has been prevented from escalating in the aftermath of the killing of a BSF officer and a Bangladeshi girl, the repeated border skirmishes and their fallout on the local population . . . ,
- India: An International Spotlight On The Caste System (International Herald Tribune, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, May 13, 2005)
India's 170 million Dalits, formerly called Untouchables, rejoiced recently when a high government official was arrested for hurling caste-related abuse at his junior. But joy turned to dismay when the Bombay high court quashed the charge under . . .
- Tread Warily (Deccan Herald, Editorial, Financial Express, May 13, 2005)
The Reserve Bank of India’s working group on Warehouse Receipts and Commodity Futures has put forth a well-thought roadmap for banks to enter commodity trading.
- Govt Orders Inquiry Into The Nda Sale Of Centaur Hotels (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 13, 2005)
India will investigate the sale of two hotels by the previous NDA government after the federal auditor said last week that the transaction took place without competitive bidding and may not have fetched the best price.
- Making Mobile E-Mail A Success (Deccan Herald, S SADAGOPAN, May 13, 2005)
Phones provided connectivity to human beings a century ago. While they have been in extensive use for several decades in advanced countries, developing countries such as India lagged considerably.
- Right To Information Act A Welcome Move: Aruna Roy (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 13, 2005)
The Act may change the culture within and outside the government. It generates awareness that in a true democracy the government is answerable to the people.
- J&k Gets Adb Aid For Reconstruction (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 13, 2005)
The state proposes to spend the money on reconstruction of roads, bridges and for improving the sanitation facilities.
- Pm Rings Alert On Pak Talks (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 13, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said he would not be able to take Indian public opinion with him in persisting with the peace talks if terrorist attacks continued from across the border.
- A Failed State, A Talibanised Society (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, May 13, 2005)
Pak is unable to think of an identity except as ‘Not India’, except as the country whose mission is to dismember India
- An International Spotlight On The Caste System (International Herald Tribune, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, May 13, 2005)
India's 170 million Dalits, formerly called Untouchables, rejoiced recently when a high government official was arrested for hurling caste-related abuse at his junior.
- Give Your Spirit A Break (Deccan Herald, Ambrose Pinto , May 10, 2005)
This temple constructed in the Vijayanagara style, located a little away from Bangalore, is a witness to the golden history of the Avathi rulers,
- Is It Pack-Up For Nfdc? (Times of India, JANARDHAN ROYE, May 09, 2005)
Thousands of aspiring young film-makers will have to put their dreams of making movies on hold if the Union government decides to stop financing film-makers through its premier film financing body, the National Film D
- Race With The Dragon (Hindu, PRASHANTH G.N., May 09, 2005)
Jairam Ramesh's book on China is an attempt to understand and not demonise China
- Iraq Plunging Into Sectarian Violence (Hindu, Atul Aneja , May 09, 2005)
The emergence of a number of power centres, many of which operate with American help, could set in motion a long-drawn civil war.
- Two Emerging Giants: The Global Debate (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , May 09, 2005)
Will India be the new Asian tiger or will it be a lumbering elephant caught in the trap of red tape and corruption, is the question international observers are asking.
- Our Common Victory And Its Lessons (Hindu, Vyacheslav I. Trubnikov , May 09, 2005)
The 60th anniversary of the victory in World War II should serve as a reminder of the need for unity in facing the challenges in the 21st century.
- Mr. Bush And The Riga Axioms (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, May 09, 2005)
His attack on Yalta shows the U.S. is not interested in cooperative security.
- India's Strengths To Be A World Player In Pharmaceuticals (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , May 09, 2005)
Small company culture, speed to market, recipes for success
- The Remains Of An Exodus Gone By (Deccan Herald, P G Suja, May 08, 2005)
P G Suja writes about the Kochi Jewish Synagogue, a place of worship of Kochi Jews, the oldest Jewish group in India
- It’S Already A World Heritage (Tribune, Maj-Gen Himmat Singh Gill (retd) , May 08, 2005)
THE Harmandir Sahib at Amritsar is already a world heritage and priceless treasure. It needs no certificate from any agency, much less the UNESCO.
- Blessed With The Gift Of The Gab (Deccan Herald, Veena Bharati, May 08, 2005)
writes about theatre veteran Hirannaiah whose son ‘Master Hirannaiah’ is keeping the memory of his father alive by staging his plays, as part of Hirannaiah’s birth centenary.
- Father, Son And Holy War (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 08, 2005)
Readings on Afghanistan essentially consisted of travelogues, war tales and narratives of the carnage by militant Islamists
- The East As A Career (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 08, 2005)
If, as I claimed in my last column, the two questions tirelessly asked of Indian writers in English — “Which audience do you write for?”
- Nda Must End Boycott: Tdp (Tribune, R. Suryamurthy, May 08, 2005)
THE Telugu Desam Party’s decision to end the boycott of Parliament provided a window of opportunity to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take on the NDA.
- Beautiful Metaphors (Hindu, SABITA RADHAKRISHNA , May 08, 2005)
A book that every craft lover should have.
- Blair's Historic Win (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 07, 2005)
With Labour winning Thursday's parliamentary election in the UK, Prime Minister Tony Blair has been assured a place in history.
- After Societies Collapse, Only Ruins Remain For Tourists (Business Line, D. Murali , May 07, 2005)
Jared Diamonds s : Collapse from Penguin is an unusual bestseller. The author is a professor of geography, in his third career after teaching physiology and ecology, and the book is on "How societies choose to fail or survive".
- On The Outer Fringes (Business Line, S. Srinath, May 07, 2005)
All items covered by FBT will be affected either by VAT or service tax, which cannot be treated as input tax. In such a case, if no benefit is given for deducting VAT or service tax on these items covered by FBT, it would be tantamount to double taxation.
- Flight Into Controversy (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 07, 2005)
A working visit or a sponsored holiday? An entitlement or an inducement? An independent inquiry or a supposedly high-minded exercise compromised?
- Eye In The Sky (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 07, 2005)
The chief minister seems to have realised the clout of the farming community, which comprises mostly of jats, in the state.
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