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Articles 3321 through 3420 of 4401:
- Scope For Improvement (Deccan Herald, M Veerappa Moily, Mar 12, 2005)
The Budget 2005-06 presented by Siddaramaiah, the Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka, has several facets that will have a positive impact on the economy and also focus on the vibrant progress of the State.
- Cry For Mumbai, Our Little India (Indian Express, Amrita Shah, Mar 12, 2005)
Mumbai is in the news. Not like Jharkhand and Bihar and the Indo-Pak series are in the news, but in a more fundamental, a more reflective sort of way.
- Agenda For New Haryana Govt (Tribune, R. N. Malik, Mar 11, 2005)
THE new Chief Minister of Haryana, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, faces a daunting task. Most Chief Ministers have failed to adopt a visionary approach and an agenda of development.
- Time To Bridge The God Gap (Telegraph, Gouri Chatterjee, Mar 10, 2005)
With the Page 3 revolution in the bag, will the media turn to the almighty next? It would be a stroke of genius if we could expiate our untold sins and enhance our bottom-lines all at the same time.
- The New Threat To National Security (Deccan Herald, Bidanda M Chengappa, Mar 09, 2005)
The recent Naxalite attack on the Karnataka State Reserve Police camp in Pavagada where seven policemen were killed has resurrected the threat of Left-wing extremism in Karnataka
- Resource-Based Products — Is Anti-Dumping Duty Justifiable? (Business Line, T. S. Viswanathan, Mar 09, 2005)
By getting a resource-based product at a price less than its production cost, surely the importing nation is profiting.
- Vanishing Wetlands (Hindu, G. Ananthakrishnan, Mar 09, 2005)
Nearly a year after he announced the Government's intention to progressively "repair, renovate and restore all water bodies that are directly linked to agriculture,"
- Price Of Infrastructure Investment (The Economic Times, G. Anandalingam, Mar 09, 2005)
If we want to engage the private sector in infrastructure projects, there should be sufficient thought given to how it can actually realise profits from such venture which will be politically palatable to the people of India.
- Rolling Back The Daily Tsunami (Deccan Herald, THORAYA AHMED OBAID, Mar 08, 2005)
Terrible disasters bring great responses. We saw that in the global outpouring of generosity after last December’s tsunami. But for some people — the very poor fifth of the world’s people who live on a dollar a day or less
- Copycats, Beware The Doghouse (Business Line, Mustafa Safiyuddin, Mar 08, 2005)
The tide is turning against counterfeiters and infringers. Until now they were undeterred, given the inability of genuine branded product manufacturers to cause them financial damage
- Outrage At Ludhiana (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 07, 2005)
The mystery of a large number of grainy CDs and MMS clips doing the rounds that show Indian couples in compromising positions is unravelling itself thanks to a honeymooning groom who braved a murderous attack
- Budget's Investment Focus Can Propel Economy (Business Line, M. Y. Khan, Mar 07, 2005)
The Budget is multi-dimensional, as far as over-all impact is concerned, and has given top priority to development and growth of the rural sector.
- Cm Hints At Shivraj’S Visit To Naxal-Infested Areas Of State (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 06, 2005)
Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil is likely to visit naxalite affected areas in Karnataka shortly, Chief Minister Dharam Singh said here on Saturday.
- High Yielding And Bold-Seeded Chickpea Variety (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2005)
Scientists at the Division of Genetics at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, have developed a high-yielding and bold-seeded `Kabuli' chickpea (Cicer arietinum) variety.
- Bitter Truths (Deccan Herald, SUBRAMANYA PATTABHI, Mar 03, 2005)
I read with interest recently a middle, a spruce one, on ‘truths and lies’. I was flooded with thoughts on the subject. It is said in Sanskrit, “Satyam brooyaat, Priyam brooyaat, na brooyaat Satyam apriyam,” meaning,
- A Growth-Friendly Budget (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Mar 01, 2005)
The Budget presented by Mr Chidambaram was cautious to the point of being timid. But the virtue of a major policy pronouncement can often lie not in what it does but what it does not do.
- The Threatening Tides Of Baglihar (Indian Express, G.S. Dhillon, Feb 28, 2005)
In season of Confidence Building Measures, the Baglihar Dam on the river Chenab has stirred traditional tensions
- The India Story: Growth Sans Human Development (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Feb 26, 2005)
Over the past two years, there has been a growing optimism about the medium and long-term outlook for the Indian economy.
- Stirrings In A Hopeless Land (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Feb 26, 2005)
Nobody goes to Bihar too often. Actually, nobody goes there unless he or she has to. No surprise then that for all but one member of our group of Limousine Liberals
- Dreamworks Ltd (Indian Express, Mahesh Bhatt, Feb 25, 2005)
“On the film sets we make movies,’’ a movie director of great repute once said. ‘‘But in the cinema halls we sell hopes.’’
- Security For The Self-Employed — (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Feb 24, 2005)
The Government must recognise the limitations of taxing the self-employed and must take note of the social security and health-care needs of this group, particularly in their old age.
- Snow And The Sonia Thaw (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 24, 2005)
As Congress president Sonia Gandhi became the first and till now only national leader to visit the snow-hit areas of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, many saw her trip as another proof of her love for the state.
- Teaching Tolerance, Learning Tolerance (Indian Express, J.S. Rajput, Feb 24, 2005)
Education has been termed as the Necessary Utopia. Every sector of human activity looks towards education to clear the hindrances and bottlenecks which creep in at practically each and every stage of human development due to human infallibility.
- A Plan As A Canal Of Hope (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Feb 24, 2005)
The real debate on Sardar Sarovar now concerns the implementation phase. To some, however, it is still in the cul de sac of the mirages they had created, like water will not flow, there is no plan and the Adivasis will not move.
- Rebuilding Lives In Andamans (Hindu, Ramachandra Ganesh Kapse, Feb 23, 2005)
Almost two months after `Black Sunday,' the Andaman &Nicobar Islands are bustling with activity.
- For A Farm-Friendly Budget (Business Line, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Feb 23, 2005)
The Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, has said that agriculture will be focus of the coming Budget. But agriculture is not synonymous with the common man.
- Not Faring Well (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 22, 2005)
The right way is often the most difficult way. The chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, is caught in a cleft he cannot ignore without losing all credibility.
- Minimising Earthquake Risks (Tribune, Maj Gen Pushpendra Singh, Feb 21, 2005)
The recent tsunami had resulted from a massive undersea earthquake caused by the Indian (Gondwana) tectonic plate pushing under the Eurasian plate. This phenomenon has also raised the great Himalayas and made the entire North Indian region vulnerable to e
- Of Bad Manners In Hyderabad And The Tsunami Photo-Op (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Feb 21, 2005)
What Sania Mirza had that her opponent didn’t was court presence, an entire stadium and DD Sports’ telecast of the WTA championships focussed on her.
- Economy: Build Like The Ant (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Feb 21, 2005)
Ants build big hills that last and prosper for hundreds of generations but we build towns the way grasshoppers do; the type that become unliveable within one generation.
- Now Dimm’D And Gone (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Feb 19, 2005)
My mother died quite sometime ago. None of her children can remember what year it was, but we get together on her death anniversaries as on those ....
- Watching The Money Flow In (Indian Express, Gopal Krishna Agarwal, Feb 17, 2005)
Everybody agrees that there is danger in so-called “hot money”, which is essentially short-term in nature. This — constituting more than $9 billion of foreign investments in the Indian securities market
- Crumbling Bastion (Pioneer, Subodh Kumar, Feb 17, 2005)
An ideal state gives equal opportunity to every section of society. In this respect, Bihar is way behind its counterparts in the country. Its intra-regional differences are characterised by disparity at the levels of literacy, density of population...
- Not A Bad Idea (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Feb 16, 2005)
Ever since the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission floated the balloon of what the media called “using foreign exchange reserves for infrastructure investment”
- Kyoto — Jinxed At Birth? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 16, 2005)
The Kyoto Protocol on reduction of emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) comes into force on February 16 under circumstances that do not reflect well on policy-makers in many countries.
- Silicon Meltdown (Telegraph, Ashok Ganguly, Feb 15, 2005)
Even though many of Bangalore’s citizens are receiving worldwide recognition, all is not well with the city
- Fake Universities (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 14, 2005)
A controversial decision of the Ajit Jogi government in Chhattisgarh had opened a floodgate for private universities in that state, with as many as 112 being registered in one year.
- Green Darkness (Indian Express, VISSA VENKATA SUNDAR, Feb 14, 2005)
The Kyoto Protocol on global warming comes into force on February 16 and this may be the time to glance at the Sundarban islands, which are a World Heritage Site, yet where global warming is pushing a delicate ecosystem to the brink
- Larger Than All The Rest (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Feb 12, 2005)
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation often seems to have no more to offer than poverty and politics. But the abrupt cancellation of last weekend’s summit — not directly India’s doing, but the inevitable outcome of Manmohan Singh’s refusal
- Dithering On Diversification (Tribune, S.S. Johl, Feb 11, 2005)
It was in 1985 Punjab realised that the production of foodgrains in wheat -rice rotation was neither very remunerative in view of the totality of individual and social costs involved in their production nor it was sustainable in the context....
- Growth Gains (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 09, 2005)
Advance estimates for GDP growth at 6.9 percent is extremely good news for the economy. And this is not just in the context of the short run because it implies that growth this year is going to be high.
- Farm Policy — A Twisted Tale (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Feb 09, 2005)
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA), as the National Common Minimum Programme states categorically, stands for economic reforms with a human face, whatever it means.
- Running India Into The Ground (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Feb 08, 2005)
Some years ago, the UN and/or the World Bank told us that we had an environment problem, on the assumption that we did not know. We promptly did what we do best.
- For Effective Employment Guarantee (Hindu, Anuradha Joshi, Feb 08, 2005)
THE DRAFT Employment Guarantee Act, tabled in Parliament on December 21, 2004, has generated much debate in the newspapers.
- Drifts In The Desert (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 07, 2005)
India is very rich in water resources. We get 5 per cent of the worldwide rains though we account for only 2 per cent of the total land mass. So, we should rank high in water availability but we rank a poor 133 among 170 countries in water poverty.
- Death Of The Holiest River (Indian Express, SURESHWAR D SINHA, Feb 07, 2005)
Alarmed by various reports that all was not well in the Bhagirathi basin, members of a group of five NGOs led by Paani Morcha surveyed the area recently. The group of 25 volunteers, including myself, went up the Bhagirathi
- The Pin Code In Northeast (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Feb 05, 2005)
Operation Pin Code, as reported in The Pioneer (January 15), would be much easier for Pakistan to accomplish than either Operation Topac or Al Badr.
- The State Of Popular Aspiration (Indian Express, Ajay Gudavarthy, Feb 05, 2005)
The demand for Telengana is paradoxical: it is being made in the name of the deprived but could end up serving only a small privileged group
- Interesting People (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Feb 05, 2005)
Some weeks ago, one of our leading weekly magazines made an oblique reference to a sex scandal against a cabinet minister which was causing acute embarrassment to the government.
- India's Media Agog Over Ads-For-Equity Gambit (Asia Times, Indrajit Basu, Feb 03, 2005)
It is a move that is being called alternately brilliant and bizarre. Some even call it a coup. Even as India's largest media company - Bennett, Coleman and Co (BCCL)
- No Dream Budget, Just A Credible One Please (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Feb 03, 2005)
The political realities of coalition politics does not allow the Finance Minister to be insensitive to the viewpoints of partners and outside supporters to the government.
- Horses Are Left Out (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Feb 01, 2005)
The splendid Beating the Retreat happened last Saturday at the spectacular Vijay Chowk in New Delhi. Sadly, Doordarshan had their worst cameraman filming this event.
- Bihar, Now (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Jan 31, 2005)
Metropolitan India has numerous ways to swat Bihar. Take the old joke: “Yaar, we should agree to give J&K to the Pakistanis if they agree to take Bihar as well.” So static is the big picture of the state that news agencies are known to recycle old picture
- Charter For World Citizens (Indian Express, Amrita Shah, Jan 31, 2005)
On Republic Day last week, victims of a building collapse in Ahmedabad prepared to move back into their new homes four full years after the Gujarat earthquake that caused large scale devastation in the state.
- Waiting To Explode (Pioneer, DR Ahuja, Jan 30, 2005)
Balochistan is on the tip of a volcano. It is experiencing the worst kind of insurgency and unrest since the 1970s. The latest incident was an attack on Sui gas field which left dozens of people dead.
- Pipeline To Trust (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jan 30, 2005)
The most important of many reasons for welcoming the Myanmar-Bangladesh-India agreement is the impact on relations between two distant neighbours.
- Growth With Social Justice, His Credo (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jan 30, 2005)
THE “Young Turk” has grown old but the “fire of life” has not dimmed in him. His first reaction to conferment of Padma Vibhushan award sums up his personality: “This honour, though for an individual, is dedicated to all my friends”.
- Taking The Lead (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Jan 28, 2005)
In the aftermath of the December 26 tsunami that devastated communities along the coast of Tamil Nadu and in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, there has been a spirited debate over India’s disaster management capabilities.
- Litigate For A Cause (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 27, 2005)
The Supreme Court has done well to set parameters for the use of public interest litigations (PILs). The parameters come in the wake of the growing misuse of PILs and in the context of a PIL challenging a licence issued to a builder for the construction
- If You're At A Loss On Laws... (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 27, 2005)
It's always a pleasure to read publications from the Bombay Chartered Accountants' Society (www.bcasonline.org). Here's one such: Law & Business - a compendium, by Anup P. Shah.
- Punjab Going Dry (Telegraph, S.S. Johl, Jan 26, 2005)
The Bhakra hydro-electric project, along with taming the Satluj, did check floods and provide irrigation water to the state, yet when the harvested dam water is excessively carried away, it leads to a scarcity of water in the basin area.
- Money For A Greener World (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 26, 2005)
The developed country Parties...and other Parties...shall provide new and additional financial resources to meet the agreed full costs incurred by developing country Parties in
- Gas From Myanmar (Tribune, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jan 25, 2005)
THE most important of many reasons for welcoming the Myanmar-Bangladesh-India agreement is the impact on relations between two distant neighbours. India and Bangladesh will survive without Myanmar gas but they will not survive comfortably if, in the absen
- Brain Behind Tsunami Warning System (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jan 23, 2005)
Years back, T.S. Murthy, also known as Tad Murthy, left his home state Andhra Pradesh for pastures new, not knowing what lay in store for him. Like him, many youthful talents left India at that time for better future.
- Caste In Injustice (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Jan 23, 2005)
The rhetoric of ‘social justice’ conceals all manner of ills: pandering to sectional interests, appeasing of labour aristocracies, subsidising of dying PSUs and most crucially, robbing of the Indian state of talent by arguing against all forms of merit.
- Mega-Cities Face Mega Disasters (Tribune, David McNeill, Jan 22, 2005)
Earthquakes, floods and other natural disasters could kill millions in the world’s teeming “mega-cities” and time is running out to prevent such a catastrophe, a UN expert on emergency relief has warned.
- A Manageable Controversy (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 22, 2005)
Pakistan's decision to refer the Baglihar dam issue to the World Bank is regrettable since it stands in stark contrast to the positive engagement with India that has unfolded over the past many months.
- After Disaster People Don't Give Up, But Bounce Back (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 22, 2005)
In Mumbai, a woman rents out her comfortable apartment and moves out to a shack beneath a bridge, despite the risk of flooding and fire in the new place. Why so?
- Pharma Sector — No Side-Effects Of Patent Regime (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Jan 21, 2005)
India's pharma industry is one of the most cost-effective manufacturers of generic drugs, and the overall outlook is encouraging.
- Punjab’S Success Story (Tribune, S.S. Johl, Jan 21, 2005)
Economics defines land, labour, capital and management as four principal factors of production. Land and capital by themselves are inert resources. It is the management that applies appropriate doses of labour to the right mix of land and
- Moderating Claims (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 20, 2005)
The hearts of India's petro product consumers expand when, in the interregnum between the announcements of price hikes, the media reports "another" oil find followed by "another" one on gas.
- Saying No To Aid (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Jan 20, 2005)
Many in the West were offended by India turning down offers of aid immediately after the tsunami. Is this a carryover of the colonial mentality?
- Technically Speaking... (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 20, 2005)
Pakistan, it appears, has made up its mind to seek World Bank intervention over the Baglihar project issue. While it is within its rights to do so, it may not be the wisest of moves.
- Lure Of Luxury (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Jan 19, 2005)
A real estate promotional write-up in a newspaper inviting people to “live in luxury” came as a revelation. Conspicuous consumption in his country saddened the American economist Thorstein Veblen, who coined the phrase a hundred years ago.
- Tackle Poverty With Growth (Tribune, Montek singh Ahluwalia, Jan 17, 2005)
IT is absolutely true that poverty has not declined as much as was targeted. But this point should be read along with the knowledge that growth has not been what it was meant to be.
- The Fine Art Of Budget-Making (Business Line, S. Venu , Jan 17, 2005)
The Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, had to do a hurried job of presenting this year's Budget on July 8, 2004, as he was called on to do so within a short period of his assuming office as Finance Minister.
- Let Farmers Provide The Nuts And Bolts For Industry (Indian Express, RASHID K KIDWAI, Jan 15, 2005)
With the recent focus of a number of organisations working on developing sustainable enterprises in the social sector, a large opportunity exists for corporate and social sector collaboration, which could generate very large
- Removing An Irritant (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 14, 2005)
The Prime Minister’s announcement on Wednesday to scrap the controversial Press Note 18 (PN 18) and replace it with a more liberal set of conditions, is the right step to create an investment-friendly climate in the country.
- Those Dazzling Shopfronts Of Cumin And Sesame (Indian Express, RASHID K KIDWAI, Jan 14, 2005)
The corporate sector has been active in developing the hinterland surrounding their factories. A number have established schools, hospitals, places of worship and instituted water management measures.
- An Act Of God? (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jan 14, 2005)
The little schoolboy who innocently quizzed the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, about God may have, unknowingly, joined a worldwide debate around one of the most profound philosophical questions raised by the tsunami disaster
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