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Articles 3921 through 4020 of 4401:
- Urban Amenities, Rural Ambience (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Oct 06, 2003)
The President may be an evangelist for PURA and the Prime Minister may want 5000 of these urbanised rural settlements, but for that the Government needs to reinvent itself. PURA requires the cooperation of various ministries, and policy changes to infuse
- Express Launches Initiative For Conservation Of Water (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2003)
As a part of the ongoing series of activities to commemorate its visionary founder’s birth centenary on April 18, 2004, The Indian Express Group has launched a major public initiative in water resources conservation and management under the Ram Nath ...
- Ban On Strikes: A Judicial Excess? (Hindu, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Oct 02, 2003)
Within socially sensitive bounds and liberal legal limits, the right to strike has a permissible home in Indian jurisprudence.
- Growth Has Its Pains (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 29, 2003)
India as an economic powerhouse? Joy! But it also means there’s a lot more to be done
- Look Who Goes To Israel Every Year (Indian Express, APARNA CHANDRA, Sep 26, 2003)
The farmers of Maharashtra didn’t need Chandrababu Naidu to tell them Israel was the Promised Land. Long before the Government task force decided to tap the country’s knowhow, thousands from the state have been making the trip to Israel to learn about its
- Pfbr - Atoms Of A Power Dream (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 24, 2003)
Success means accomplishments as a result of our own efforts and abilities. Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thinking. Our thinking can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thoughts can be no wiser than our ...
- At Last, A Refinancing Harvest (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Sep 23, 2003)
An interesting change taking place in Indian agriculture is on the financing side. The central bank, as is well known, had a preoccupation with external parameters and interest rate policies to garner large exchange reserves. With a sensible policy on ...
- Krishna, Naidu Bury Hatchet, Goodwill Flows Upstream (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2003)
The bitterness seems to have gone from the relationship between Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh if the bonhomie at today’s joint press conference of the two Chief Ministers, S.M. Krishna and N. Chandrababu Naidu, is any indication.
- Reforms, ‘via Bathinda’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 20, 2003)
While some of the more unabashed supporters of economic reforms may now be blaming the Supreme Court for spoiling the party and even puncturing the bull balloon on the stock markets, the truth is that real opposition to all deregulation and privatisation
- Indian Railways: Time To Improve Standards (Business Line, Poonam Madan Sarmah, Sep 19, 2003)
CARRYING an average 13 million passengers in 8,250 passenger-trains daily, the Indian Railways is one of the world's largest transporters of passenger traffic. But despite such phenomenal dependence by the travelling public on this critical service, its
- Mutual Funds - The Importance Of Hedging Short-Term (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Sep 19, 2003)
The problem at present is that portfolio managers do not seem to have a hedging strategy at all.
- Newspapers: Buy Two, Read One (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 18, 2003)
ONE of these days do not be surprised while having your morning cuppa if your favourite daily greets you with her regional cousin in tow.
- Rbi's Annual Report 2002-03: Positive Outlook Blurred By Concerns (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Sep 16, 2003)
Despite the pervading optimism and positive outlook for 2003-04, the RBI Report highlights the medium-term issues and concerns. The growth rate of the economy envisaged under the Tenth Plan period is beyond reach going by the current economic parameters.
- Fractals And The Future Of Organisations (Business Line, Pravir Malik, Sep 10, 2003)
Fractal patterns, which repeat themselves on an ever-larger scale, are widely present in natural phenomena. If nature employs fractal structures in building much of the physical universe, is a similar structure being unconsciously employed in the ...
- Russia's Economic Rebound (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Sep 09, 2003)
Russia badly needs diversification to sustain high growth rates if there is a dramatic fall in oil prices once oil from Iraq hits the market.
- Facing Up To Corporate Responsibilities (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Sep 08, 2003)
A SIGN on the wall of the men's locker room at the Madras Boat Club would read, `When the going gets tough, the tough get going.' That is how it is with facing a crisis. That is how it must be inside Coca Cola and PepsiCo these days. And when you are an
- The Art Of `Green' Governance (Business Line, K. P. S. Chauhan, Sep 03, 2003)
THE Government of India recently set up a National Environment Authority (NEA) and six regional authorities which are expected to start functioning within three months. The NEA will have the appellate jurisdiction to hear appeals against decisions made by
- Rational In Private, Wasteful In Public (Business Line, A. V. Ram Mohan, Aug 29, 2003)
WATER is scarce in Chennai, right? Wrong, if you observe the number of water tankers dripping and spilling their precious cargo throughout their routes. Petrol and fuel are expensive and dwindling resources, right? Wrong if you go by the number of vehicle
- Bureaucracy: Flaw Is In System, Not Workers (Business Line, Devendra Mishra, Aug 29, 2003)
THE government may be the biggest industry in the world, but the statement, "I am from the government and here to help you" is still considered a bad joke. Increasingly, the people do not think that the government knows how to help or is bothered...
- Cancun: What Should Be India's Stand (Business Line, Dolly Mishra, Aug 27, 2003)
The issues that India should lay strong emphasis at the WTO meet in Cancun are food security, poverty reduction and economic growth. It is also time the developing countries united to put genuine pressure on the developed world to bring in such reforms as
- The President's Dream (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Aug 25, 2003)
It is Dr Abdul Kalam's dream to create a high-quality Rurban habitat on either side of a ring road linking a loop of villages. Called PURA, its design offers many advantages: All infrastructure lengths are halved. Workplace and residences can be co-locate
- How Safe Is Our Water? (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Aug 24, 2003)
Groundwater is easily polluted and restoring its quality is impossibly expensive
- Great Communicator, Mr Terminator (Indian Express, TIM RUTTEN, Aug 14, 2003)
Until 1966, John Wilkes Booth was the only actor to make much of an impact on American politics. Then Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for governor of California and the rest — as no practitioner of higher punditry ever likes to admit — was ...
- Spinning To A Macho Media (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Aug 13, 2003)
The David Kelly incident has again turned the focus on the increasingly confrontationist relationship between the British Government and the media, leading to calls for "reflection".
- Gaps In Sebi's Case (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 12, 2003)
THE BAN IMPOSED by SEBI on Mr Samir Arora, Chief Investment Officer of Alliance Capital Mutual Fund, preventing him from participating in any domestic stock market activity on charges of insider trading is a watershed in market regulation, reflecting as
- Copter Down, 24 Missing At Sea (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 12, 2003)
A chartered helicopter, carrying 29 Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) offshore rig workers with four crewmen on board, crashed off the Mumbai coast this afternoon.
- Savour The Taste Of Harmony Brew (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Aug 11, 2003)
Far away from Indo-Pak talking shops, here’s a real confidence building measure. Civil Junction coffee shop, a funkily decorated tiny haven for coffee drinkers in Gol Market, Islamabad, is Pakistan’s first ‘independent’ coffee bar. It serves South Asia
- How India's Fields Got `Swaraj' (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Aug 08, 2003)
MR CHANDRA MOHAN'S name is synonymous with `Swaraj' and Punjab Tractors Ltd (PTL), which he built from the scratch to a Rs 1,300-crore-plus engineering conglomerate with a product line spanning tractors and harvester combines to engines, light commercial
- Joining Great Oil Rush, Ongc Plans Deep Dig (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2003)
After prolonged inactivity, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) will initiate deep-water exploration on either side of the coastal boundary. India’s national oil company had been left behind by newcomers Reliance and Cairn Energy of UK in the hunt for
- Rural Electrification - Time For Corporate Sector To Repay Debt (Business Line, S. Padmanabhan , Aug 01, 2003)
The rural sector has for long borne the brunt of an inefficient power supply system. The Electricity Act 2003, however, empowers rural pockets to plan their generation, distribution and tariffs, and even opt out of the State grid. The Act also benefits
- Biotechnology In India - Creating A New Market Space (Business Line, Devendra Mishra, Jul 30, 2003)
IN HIS book Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith, wrote that "a true wealth of a nation is measured not by how much gold it possesses but by what it can produce". By this yardstick biotechnology is an unprecedented revolution through which the world's hunger
- River Links And Judicial Chinks (Indian Express, VIDEH UPADHYAY, Jul 26, 2003)
In early May, the ministry of water resources filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court, annexing with it the resolution constituting the task force for the interlinking of rivers, a time-table for the project, other resolutions nominating part-time and
- Idbi: Yielding To Bureaucratic Pressures (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, Jul 24, 2003)
With net non-performing assets as high as 14 per cent and fresh lending tapering off because of resource constraint, the IDBI may be said to have become dysfunctional. It is against this broad canvas that the various proposals to restructure IDBI need to
- Railway Safety Plan: Buck Stops Nowhere (Indian Express, Bhavna Vij, Jul 22, 2003)
Old plans never die. In the narrow-gauge corridors of the Rail Bhavan, they just get reborn with less teeth. The 60-page draft of the new Railway Corporate Safety Plan (2003-2013) is nothing but an abridged and a much watered down version of an
- Economy Poised For Recovery (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Jul 22, 2003)
With the end of the Iraq war and lessening of geo-political uncertainties and stabilisation in oil prices, the volatility in international equity and financial markets is expected to be considerably reduced.
- Negligent Karnataka (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 21, 2003)
RECENTLY, I had occasion to go on a sightseeing tour of Kerala and Karnataka with my relations who had come from the US. Kerala lived up to the brand image it has successfully built up all over the world as "God's own country". Indeed, this is how tourist
- Millennium Goals A Dream, Time To Wake Up (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Jul 20, 2003)
As you read this on a Sunday morning, a child is born in a remote village in Rajasthan. She — a girl child — is one among thousands of children born at the very moment she emerged from her mother’s womb. If she survives, and she has a 90 per cent chance
- 35 Or 150? Exact Toll May Never Be Known (Indian Express, DHARMENDRA RATAUL, Jul 20, 2003)
: While officials and locals continue to differ on the death toll in the flash floods that ravaged Shilahgarh village on the bank of the Pulia Nalla in Kullu, the exact number of casualties may never be known. Officials say the toll may not exceed 35
- Chatur Singh’S Primrose (Indian Express, VIVEK JOSHI, Jul 19, 2003)
Uncle, do you know that a primrose is not a rose,” said my niece, not yet six, whom I was visiting. “Yes,” I said, not wanting to appear ignorant. “Have you seen a primrose?” she asked. “Of course,” I said. “There were lots in the hills where we used to
- Bombay ‘hell’ Hotel: Riot Victims Check In (Indian Express, Janyala Sreenivas, Jul 19, 2003)
The one-room houses are nothing to write home about but for hundreds of riot victims who fled Naroda-Patiya and never went back, these tiny shelters built on a wasteland simply known as Bombay Hotel are the only roof over their heads.
- Creditable (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2003)
THE FINANCE MINISTER, Mr Jaswant Singh, has taken a major initiative to support agriculture by pegging the maximum interest rate at 9 per cent per annum for crop loans of up to Rs 50,000 made by public sector banks. Also, the National Bank for Agriculture
- Looking Beyond The Bend (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Jul 17, 2003)
THE Prime Minister's National Highways Development Programme (NHDP) is clearly one of the best things that has happened in the country over the last few decades. All Indians are proud of the progress being made under this ambitious programme covering ...
- Global Plus Local Equals Success (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Jul 15, 2003)
As we get into “large” projects, the issue of the global, local and national comes into focus. Take the Golden Quadrilateral, changing the face of India. These are not questions of a national project at the expense of the local in financial or real terms.
- Living Too Closely Apart (Telegraph, ANURADHA KUMAR, Jun 23, 2003)
The caste-violence in Jalandhar’s Talhan village is the culmination of a longstanding animosity between the Jats and the local Dalits
- It Is Still Cold Beyond The Wall (Telegraph, M.L. Sondhi, Jun 10, 2003)
China must think beyond Sikkim in framing its India policy given the new warmth between India and the US
- Drought-Hit Karnataka Seeks 3 Lakh Tonnnes Of Rice (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2003)
Drought-hit Karnataka today renewed its plea to the Centre to release three lakh metric tonnes of rice immediately besides sanctioning money for materials for taking up civil works.
- Karnataka Flays Formula For Distress Season (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2003)
The Cauvery Monitoring Committee has decided to set up a technical experts’ panel to hammer out differences on the draft formula for sharing water during a distress season as Karnataka refused to accept the formula straightaway at today’s meeting as . . .
- Major British Banks Plan To Shift Two Lakh Jobs To India (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2003)
Notwithstanding the opposition from various quarters over outsourcing to India,
- First Operational Gslv Flight By Mid-2004 (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2003)
In a significant statement, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today asked political parties and leaders to stay away from the Ayodhya issue so that the "lingering" . . .
- Keep Off Ayodhya, Pm Tells Parties (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2003)
In a significant statement, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today asked political parties and leaders to stay away from the Ayodhya issue so that the "lingering" dispute could be resolved early through talks between representatives of Hindus and. . .
- Bhel Plans To Grow Through Acquisitions (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jun 09, 2003)
There have been conjunctures in the past when determined efforts were made to make the public sector giant, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL), into a world class company.
- Need To Manage Water (Shebonti Ray Dadwal) (The Financial Express, Shebonti Ray Dadwal, Jun 09, 2003)
Time was when water was regarded as a god-given resource, to be used freely — and thoughtlessly.
- Dr Gangadhara Swamiji On A Less Trodden Path (Shyam Vattam) (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2003)
A few years ago, when communal clashes erupted in Hubli City the police found it hard to control the situation.
- Study Srisi Drinking Water Project Required(balakrishna Hegde) (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2003)
Not all development projects are steps to progress. It is important to study a project before it is implemented. The project that proposes to bring drinking water to Sirsi town from the holy Aghanashini river in the Western ghats region of Uttara Kannada
- It Never Rains But Pours (Prem Shankar Jha) (Hindu, Prem Shankar Jha, Jun 03, 2003)
The flood of dollars into India, which has swelled its foreign exchange reserves by $1.591 billion in a single week and taken them beyond the $80 billion mark to $80.816 billion,
- Cauvery Meet Put Off (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Jun 03, 2003)
The 17th meeting of the Cauvery Monitoring Committee, scheduled for June 6, will now be held on June 9.
- Brake On Acceleration (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jun 02, 2003)
At the World Bank annual development economics conference in Bangalore in May 2003 on “Accelerating Development”, the private sector and its role in development was discussed. Innovation is through new product development. Financing innovation requires
- The Moderate Deputy Pm (Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi, Jul 06, 2002)
As reshuffles go, it is hard to deny that last week’s effort was a bit of a dud.
- Gm Revolution Vs Languid Government Policies (Business Line, Gurumurti Natarajan, Feb 05, 2002)
GENETIC modifications and the selection of favourable traits have been the fountainhead of agricultural advancement over thousands of years.
- ‘Three Pms Couldn’t Have Been Wrong In Inducting Me’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 04, 2002)
With assembly elections just two years away, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is a man in a hurry.
- Silver Lining (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 03, 2002)
The consensus seems to be that the gross domestic product growth rate this year will not touch the 6.5 or 7 per cent promised in the budget.
- Stop Press (Indian Express, Janyala Sreenivas, Feb 03, 2002)
Why did the BJP government in Gujarat contemplate bringing the Press under the Consumer Protection Act?
- Jack Welch, A Master Ceo (Business Line, S. Subramanyan , Feb 02, 2002)
JACK-Straight from the Gut (Warner Books 2001), by GE CEO Jack Welch, has received raving reviews.
- Figures, Right And Wrong (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 02, 2002)
THERE ARE NO real growth numbers for the Indian economy. Or, going by the numbers put out by the Central Statistical Organisation, they probably vary with political needs.
- Peak Season Blues (Indian Express, Sukhmani Singh, Feb 01, 2002)
IT’S peak tourist season in old world Bikaner, but the town looks desolate and dead. The slew of heritage resorts — palaces, havelis, hunting lodges, et al, present a sombre appearance.
- India And The Global Slowing (Hindu, Pulapre Balakrishnan, Feb 01, 2002)
The prevalent tendency to link the slowing of the Indian manufacturing sector to the recession in the U.S. economy needs to be rejected as deluding.
- Spreading Wings (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Jan 31, 2002)
If There is one department that is displaying a thumbs down to the Government’s efforts of downsizing, it is the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
- Don't Dump This Issue (Business Line, Menka Shivdasani , Jan 30, 2002)
AS someone who believed in the importance of hygiene, what would you say if you were told you generate 450 gm of garbage per day?
- Rethinking Watershed Strategy (Hindu, Mihir Shah, Jan 29, 2002)
RECENT YEARS have seen a welcome emphasis on watershed programmes as a cornerstone of rural development in India.
- Firm Resolution (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 28, 2002)
Heightened environment consciousness is also reflected in the multiplicity of international covenants and bodies that have jurisdiction over this subject.
- The Quiet Man (Telegraph, AMIT CHAUDHURI, Jan 27, 2002)
The old Minerva theatre, converted into the Chaplin: this was where a crowd of invitees gathered on the evening of January 9.
- The Quiet Man (Telegraph, AMIT CHAUDHURI, Jan 26, 2002)
The old Minerva theatre, converted into the Chaplin: this was where a crowd of invitees gathered on the evening of January 9.
- A General And A Minister (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jan 23, 2002)
The fraudulent 'deshbhakts' who preside over New Delhi ought to be slowed down in their heedless quest for making India into a garrison state.
- Easy Commerce (Pioneer, Shubha Singh, Jan 22, 2002)
Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji's recent visit to India was aimed at expanding the political and economic cooperation between India and China.
- Swimming In The Common Pool (Telegraph, Mrinmoy Chanda, Jan 22, 2002)
Geneticists have demonstrated that all human beings are incredibly similar genetically, unlike most other species of large mammals.
- Opportunities, Not Threats (Indian Express, Gita Bajaj, Jan 22, 2002)
The Government of India is planning to commit the higher education sector for globalisation.
- Poll Time In Uttar Pradesh (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 22, 2002)
DESPITE THE ABYSMALLY low standard of living, destruction caused by floods and an insensitive administration, the political discourse in the villages of Uttar Pradesh has always reflected a deep sense of maturity.
- El Nino Staging Comeback? (Business Line, M. R. Subramani, Jan 22, 2002)
EL Nino, the unusual weather pattern that delayed monsoon in 1997-98 in India and caused severe floods in Bangladesh, is threatening to stage a comeback.
- Striving To Excel In Indian And Foreign Fields (Business Line, Latha Venkataraman, Jan 21, 2002)
`Excel has not looked at capital expenditure as the major way to grow.
- Look East For A Change (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 16, 2002)
The Chinese are a people who are impatient with history and misplaced sentiment.
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