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Articles 4021 through 4120 of 4401:
- Crisis In Investment (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 11, 2002)
THE TENSIONS ALONG the border with Pakistan are uppermost in the mind of the Government; but the routine must go on and January is when preparations for the annual budget of the Central Government pick up pace.
- Crisis In Investment (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 11, 2002)
THE TENSIONS ALONG the border with Pakistan are uppermost in the mind of the Government; but the routine must go on and January is when preparations for the annual budget of the Central Government pick up pace.
- Silk Industry Reels Under Falling Exports, China Threat (The Financial Express, Rajeev Jayaswal, Jan 08, 2002)
The Indian silk industry, which is yet to arrest the recessionary trend in exports, is fearing a Chinese onslaught after Beijing’s entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
- Why India Must Get Into The Equine Race (Business Line, Anil Mukhi, Jan 08, 2002)
A COUPLE of weeks ago, a momentous event took place. An Indian- bred horse, Saddle Up, became the first thoroughbred racehorse born and reared in this country to participate in an international Group 1 horse race, the pinnacle of equine achievement.
- Why India Must Get Into The Equine Race (Business Line, Anil Mukhi, Jan 08, 2002)
A COUPLE of weeks ago, a momentous event took place. An Indian- bred horse, Saddle Up, became the first thoroughbred racehorse born and reared in this country to participate in an international Group 1 horse race, the pinnacle of equine achievement.
- He Was Isro's Guiding Force (Hindu, Yash Pal, Jan 07, 2002)
He left us quietly, with dignity, without any noise and without any fuss. Satish was a great man who always stood back when the floodlights were on.
- Lessons In Disaster Management (The Financial Express, HUMA SIDDQUI, Jan 07, 2002)
It's nearly one year since one of the worst ever earthquakes rocked Gujarat. Relief work is still on. The progress report on the education front is impressive, though.
- Mr Yen Revisits The South Asian Crisis (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jan 07, 2002)
As long as a financial crisis remains limited to one country or region, unaffected countries, particularly those at the centre.
- He Was Isro's Guiding Force (Hindu, Yash Pal, Jan 07, 2002)
He left us quietly, with dignity, without any noise and without any fuss. Satish was a great man who always stood back when the floodlights were on.
- Refugees In Their Own Land (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 06, 2002)
For the people along the border in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Rajasthan, the war clouds have cast a shadow on their lives. Shujaat Bukhari, Sarabjit Pandher and Sunny Sebastian report.
- Refugees In Their Own Land (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 06, 2002)
For the people along the border in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Rajasthan, the war clouds have cast a shadow on their lives. Shujaat Bukhari, Sarabjit Pandher and Sunny Sebastian report.
- Resurrecting Afghanistan (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 05, 2002)
Afghanistan has suffered heavily as the object and subject of great power politics, internecine war and destruction of everything civilised, mostly due to Pakistan’s atavistic policies for nearly three decades.
- Defence Production Thrown Open To Private Sector, Fdi (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 05, 2002)
THE Government has opened the floodgates for private participation in defence production including foreign direct investments (FDI).
- The Cost Of War (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Jan 05, 2002)
A war causes colossal human suffering... In all this, the `economic' costs seem trifling. But there is a huge cost, both short and long term.
- The Cost Of War (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Jan 05, 2002)
A war causes colossal human suffering... In all this, the `economic' costs seem trifling. But there is a huge cost, both short and long term.
- India And The Global Slowing (Hindu, Pulapre Balakrishnan, Jan 04, 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.
- India And The Global Slowing (Hindu, Pulapre Balakrishnan, Jan 04, 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.
- So That Drought Never Returns (Indian Express, Anil Agrawal, Jan 04, 2002)
IN the last few weeks since the media storm on drought hit our politicians, several of them have made statements regarding the importance of a community-based rainwater harvesting strategy to drought proof the country...
- Peak Season Blues (Indian Express, Sukhmani Singh, Jan 04, 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.
- Agriculture Outgrowing Problems, But... (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Jan 03, 2002)
IT WAS A rebound year for the country's farm sector, following 2000's drought-induced disaster of a harvest.
- How To Win The Opium War (Telegraph, Pravin Kumar, Jan 03, 2002)
One major fallout of the recent American military operation in Afghanistan has been the rise in opium prices in the neighbouring countries.
- Agriculture Outgrowing Problems, But... (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Jan 03, 2002)
IT WAS A rebound year for the country's farm sector, following 2000's drought-induced disaster of a harvest.
- Reading The New Scenario (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jan 02, 2002)
It is again the time of the year when economists, labour leaders, captains of industry, farmer leaders and many representatives of lobbies and interest groups will troop in to “advise” the government.
- The Lost History (Hindu, Sudhanshu Ranade , Jan 01, 2002)
Though the controversy has got muffled under the crush of recent events, it will be resumed.
- The Indo-Pakistan Crisis (Hindu, Rajindar Sachar , Jan 01, 2002)
Children have a right to live and grow peacefully. Rulers who refuse to ensure this deserve to be thrown in the dustbin of history.
- When Gimmickry Takes Over, All You Get Is Lemons (The Financial Express, R K Roy, Jan 01, 2002)
These days a prospective 4.5 per cent growth in GDP is considered great. It is an open question if this order of low growth will materialise.
- The Indo-Pakistan Crisis (Hindu, Rajindar Sachar , Jan 01, 2002)
Children have a right to live and grow peacefully. Rulers who refuse to ensure this deserve to be thrown in the dustbin of history.
- Why Bangalore Is Counted Among Top Cities Of World (Business Line, Janaki Murali, Jan 01, 2002)
CAN Bangalore become another Austin, San Francisco or even Taipei?
- The Lost History (Hindu, Sudhanshu Ranade , Jan 01, 2002)
Though the controversy has got muffled under the crush of recent events, it will be resumed.
- Misusing Power (Hindu, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 31, 2001)
The politician who uses a public servant for political purposes and the public servant who allows himself to be used are both debasing themselves and doing a signal disservice to the country.
- Misusing Power (Hindu, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 31, 2001)
The politician who uses a public servant for political purposes and the public servant who allows himself to be used are both debasing themselves and doing a signal disservice to the country.
- Staggering Slump (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 31, 2001)
Estimates also point to a staggering 30 to 40 per cent slump in the job market: Indian Railways, for example, is to cut down its staff strength by 300,000, the National Institute of Information Technology by 18 per cent.
- Why We Are Moving Into New Year With The Baggage Of 2001 (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Dec 30, 2001)
It may be difficult to grant that now, but 2001 was about more than December 13.
- Just A Station On The Way (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 29, 2001)
They live and learn. Prime minister Vajpayee is no exception to this rule.
- `People Were Fed Up With Mismanagement' -- Dr Saman Kelegama, Ed, Institute Of Policy Studies, Colombo (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 28, 2001)
THE mandate for change in Sri Lanka was more for economic reasons, than for ushering in peace and ending the ethnic conflict, says Dr Saman Kelegama, Executive Director of the Institute of Policy Studies in Colombo.
- `People Were Fed Up With Mismanagement' -- Dr Saman Kelegama, Ed, Institute Of Policy Studies, Colombo (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 28, 2001)
THE mandate for change in Sri Lanka was more for economic reasons, than for ushering in peace and ending the ethnic conflict, says Dr Saman Kelegama, Executive Director of the Institute of Policy Studies in Colombo.
- History Sheet Of A Rogue State (Pioneer, A. Surya Prakash, Dec 27, 2001)
Within two months of its creation, Pakistan sent armed tribesmen into Jammu & Kashmir in October, 1947.
- After The War (Hindu, Harald A Gould, Dec 26, 2001)
The United States has to abandon the permissiveness towards General Pervez Musharraf's double standard on terrorism.
- After The War (Hindu, Harald A Gould, Dec 26, 2001)
The United States has to abandon the permissiveness towards General Pervez Musharraf's double standard on terrorism.
- Implications Of Doha For India - I (Hindu, Muchkund Dubey , Dec 24, 2001)
Some important gains were made and some of the losses minimised even while India had to give in on several critical issues because of its essentially weak bargaining position.
- Aftershocks From Enron's Collapse (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 24, 2001)
FOR THE last few years, Enron Corporation has been in the centre-stage of Indias financial news. The future of Dabhol Power Corporation is in doubt, with suitors for its assets still unsure of its revival prospects.
- Implications Of Doha For India - I (Hindu, Muchkund Dubey , Dec 24, 2001)
Some important gains were made and some of the losses minimised even while India had to give in on several critical issues because of its essentially weak bargaining position.
- Dealing With E-Mail (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Dec 24, 2001)
HERE is a New Year resolution you can make right now: Stop the scourge of e-mail! Every one of us needs to do his or her bit to control this epidemic.
- 2001 Set To Be Second Warmest Year Ever (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 24, 2001)
The year 2001 is the second warmest in world history. According to data available till date, the average temperature during 2001 was 14.42 degrees.
- Young State, Old Politics (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 22, 2001)
FOR such a young state, Chhattisgarh politics is terribly worldly-wise. The buntings from its first birthday party are yet to be packed away and the state is back in the headlines for a very familiar, very stale set of reasons.
- ‘Our Govt’s Performance Has Been Better Than Congress’ (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 22, 2001)
He’s a chief minister in a hurry. Less than two-and-a half months after donning the mantle in Gujarat, that too at a crucial time when the ruling BJP has just about a year to shed the image of a non-performing government.
- ‘Three Pms Couldn’t Have Been Wrong In Inducting Me’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 21, 2001)
With assembly elections just two years away, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is a man in a hurry.
- Crooked As Crows (Pioneer, Sandeep Silas, Dec 20, 2001)
Miffed about a hue and cry over something petty and ignitable, I sat in disgust under the mango tree in our lawn.
- Jack Welch, A Master Ceo (Business Line, S. Subramanyan , Dec 20, 2001)
JACK-Straight from the Gut (Warner Books 2001), by GE CEO Jack Welch, has received raving reviews.
- This Is Not Your War (Telegraph, PARIMAL BHATTACHARYA, Dec 19, 2001)
I mpatient with the muted signals from Delhi, Mamata Banerjee recently went out into the streets with an elaborate agitation programme for her party.
- ‘Dsp Has Started Reaping The Benefits Of Modernisation’ (The Financial Express, S. K. Bhattacharyya, Dec 18, 2001)
Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP) in West Bengal, one of the four integrated steel plants of government-owned Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), is struggling hard to come out of the red.
- Calcutta’s Mismanaged Plenty (Telegraph, Joel Ruet, Dec 17, 2001)
Mumbaikars going to Delhi are surprised to find that Delhi, unlike the rest of India, has huge power shortage.
- Changing The Rules Midstream (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Dec 16, 2001)
IN 1994, the Narmada Bachao Andolan had filed a writ petition as public interest litigation seeking to halt the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP).
- Changing The Rules Midstream (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Dec 16, 2001)
IN 1994, the Narmada Bachao Andolan had filed a writ petition as public interest litigation seeking to halt the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP).
- A Poet Without A Post Office (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Dec 16, 2001)
There are several wisps of stories floating around poet Agha Shahid Ali. But one of the most famous — and one of the most endearing — is the one about a little encounter at a Barcelona airport.
- Open Your Arms To Fdi In Retail Sector (The Financial Express, T. Bhanu, Dec 13, 2001)
Those were the days when our foreign exchange reserves position was not as comfortable as it is today.
- Drip Irrigation -- Low-Cost Systems For Small Farmers (Business Line, Mahendra Pandey , Dec 12, 2001)
FRESH water available for human consumption and for agricultural and environmental requirements is rapidly becoming scarcer.
- Loneliness Of Jaswant Singh (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 11, 2001)
SO why is External Affairs minister Jaswant Singh feeling so lonely and left out these days, just when a rare, Indian foreign policy initiative — this time on Afghanistan — seems to be at last going somewhere?
- Thinking Really Long Term (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Dec 10, 2001)
FOUNDED in 1379, the New College in Oxford, United Kingdom, was due for some repairs in the 19th century.
- Of Monarchs And Maoists (Telegraph, Sundara K. Datta-Ray, Dec 08, 2001)
The Nepalese cannot be blamed for jumping to the conclusion that only the Maoist insurrection has saved them from being browbeaten by India into accepting rigorous trade terms.
- Equity Market: Rising Above The Crises (Business Line, Virendra Verma, Dec 08, 2001)
MARKETs thrive on sentiment particularly the stock exchange, which is nothing but a pressure-cooker of emotions and biases making the best bet.
- How China Has Surged Ahead Of India (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Dec 07, 2001)
AFTER 15 years of hard work and tough bargaining, China has become a full member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) at the recent Doha Ministerial Meet.
- Orissa Woman Ostracised For Selling Sex For Survival (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 06, 2001)
Hunger has ravaged her life over and over again. It pushed Nura Gahir’s family into debt, widowed her and even made her sell some of her five children.
- A Step On A Thorny Road (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Dec 06, 2001)
Whatever the new balance of power between different ethnic groups in Afghanistan, it is the United States of America which calls all the shots.
- The Politics Of Food -- Keeping The Other Half Hungry (Business Line, Devinder Sharma , Dec 03, 2001)
SOME months ago, a few hundred people in the US mostly agricultural scientists signed an AgBioWorld Foundation petition appealing to the seed multinational giant Aventis CropScience to donate some 3,000 tonnes of genetically-engineered experimental rice.
- Why Nepal Matters (Indian Express, Rajiv Shukla, Dec 01, 2001)
INDIA should watch the developments in Nepal very carefully and extend all possible help to the Himalayan Kingdom — arms, intelligence and otherwise — to tackle the situation emerging out of the Maoist revolt.
- Retailing Fdi (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 30, 2001)
THE CENTRE HAS virtually made its intentions clear on opening the retail sector to foreign direct investment with the Group of Ministers reassessing the policy which now has the door shut.
- Enforce Poto Before It's Too Late (Business Line, B. Raman , Nov 30, 2001)
THE need to provide the police and the counter-terrorism (CT) agencies with adequate powers, if necessary through special legislation.
- War Against Children (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Nov 30, 2001)
CHILDREN IN Afghanistan are dying. The reason, we are told, is because of the war and the drought that preceded it, but which we failed to note.
- India To Face Water Shortage By 2030: Expert (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 30, 2001)
All parts of India will face water shortage by 2030 though there is currently a trend of increasing rainfall, an expert has said, lamenting little government spending on water availability and sanitation.
- Removing Poverty For Real Human Development (Business Line, P. P. Sangal , Nov 29, 2001)
THE Human Development Report 2001 has highlighted the plight of the rural poor in India.
- Indo-Nepal Relations Need To Look Beyond Trade Treaty (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Nov 29, 2001)
The existing Indo-Nepal Trade Treaty expires on December 6. There is, therefore, a need to have an appropriate trade treaty.
- How To Overcome The Unending Recession (Tribune, R. N. Malik, Nov 27, 2001)
DESPITE the media concentration on the war in Afghanistan, the unending recession in India continues to hog the headlines. A recent World Bank report said the last thing on this issue:
- No Sugar On This Pill (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 27, 2001)
But the farmers’ problems should be assessed against the background of rural economy and the marketing of agricultural products.
- Mischief In The Northeast (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Nov 27, 2001)
Arun Shourie, Minister for the Northeast, took such umbrage at my describing him as ‘minister for mischief’ that he stormed into the Lok Sabha last week denouncing me for ‘calumny’.
- Spreading Wings (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin & Sunil Jain, Nov 26, 2001)
In the name of efficiency, streamlining, the MHA is set to get six more divisions.
- Picking Up The Pieces Of The Past (Telegraph, ANURADHA KUMAR, Nov 26, 2001)
Even as the world gets ready to create a new Afghanistan, and as speculations grow on a post-taliban government, one of the first tasks it will be confronted with is building back its history.
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Nov 25, 2001)
Seedsavers of crops worldwide have been threatened as never before. A technology appropriately called the 'terminator technology', has been creating waves in agricultural circles since March.
- Paying The Ultimate Price On The Road To Kabul (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 24, 2001)
ON THE night before he was shot to death along the lawless road to Kabul, news photographer Aziz Haidari stayed almost as busy helping his colleagues as he did doing his own work.
- ‘Bt’en In The Race? (Indian Express, Vivek Deshpande, Nov 24, 2001)
INDIAN scientists have been trying to develop superior strains of genetically altered cotton for the past two years, much before Bt cotton hit the headlines.
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