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Articles 19921 through 20020 of 25064:
- An Uncertain Wait (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Jan 27, 2005)
Turkey has a long way to go before qualifying itself for EU membership. It has to bring itself in line with the democratic and institutional principles that govern European nations.
- Centrally Bungled Investigations: The Absurd Cbi (Indian Express, K N Bhat, Jan 27, 2005)
Not many believe that Veerappan was killed in an encounter as narrated by the police. Sensational crimes are handled by a few police officers handpicked by the bosses. Their major specialization is in fabricating fantastic stories and leaking them to the
- Chewing As Cultural Nationalism (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 27, 2005)
The latest bout of political one-upmanship, between Maharashtra deputy CM R R Patil and the state’s irrigation minister Ajit Pawar, has had a noble ending.
- 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.
- Eu With Israel (Pioneer, Priyadarsi Dutta, Jan 27, 2005)
While a raging debate over Turkey's admission in the European Union is on, has somebody thought about the possible inclusion of Israel in the EU?
- Fiscal Checks Bypassed Affect Financial Health (Business Line, N. Sreedevi, Jan 27, 2005)
Concerned over the deteriorating fiscal situation, the Government introduced the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Bill in December 2000. The revised version of the same (based on the recommendations of the Standing Committee) became...
- 'Corporate Governance Ups Co Value' (The Economic Times, Lubna Kably, Jan 27, 2005)
Prof Bernard S Black, University of Texas, School of Law, has been an adviser on company and securities law and corporate governance in several countries including Indonesia, Korea and Russia.
- Slow And Steady Can't Win The Race (The Economic Times, Raghu Dayal , Jan 26, 2005)
The world's biggest passenger plane ever built, an Airbus A380 has rolled out of the Airbus Industries factory in Toulose, France.
- Silence Please! (Telegraph, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 26, 2005)
It is commonplace for politicians to miss every golden opportunity of keeping silent. But those conducting official enquiries into sensitive issues are expected to be more circumspect.
- See The Open Sky And Reach For It (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 26, 2005)
India and the US recently revisited a 50-year old restrictive agreement, and decided to adopt an `open skies' policy in aviation "to accommodate the growing travel and trade between the two countries,"
- Perchance To Be Sacked (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 26, 2005)
The foundation of health, it is can be said, is sleep. The avid slumberer would second that, perhaps with a yawning nod.
- Sunset Reviews: Beyond Anti-Dumping (Business Line, M. R. Venkatesh, Jan 26, 2005)
In a Sunset Review the authorities are called upon to merely focus their inquiry on the "likelihood of continuation or recurrence" of dumping and injury in the event the measure were no longer imposed.
- The Other Pervez From Pakistan (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 26, 2005)
It's easy to forget that Karachi-born Pervez Hoodbhoy (54) is a nuclear physicist when he hops around the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research auditorium switching off bulbs to screen his documentary Crossing the Lines-Kashmir
- Tsunami Rave (Indian Express, RAJU NAYAK, Jan 26, 2005)
It seems the exodus from Kerala post Tsunami has favoured Goa’s tourism. As usual it was all happening in Goa during the New Year amidst the government claiming credit for the spurt in tourism after the spectacular International Film Festival hosted by th
- Unsafe For Children (Telegraph, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 26, 2005)
CHILDREN are usually the first to be released by hijackers of aircraft. It is a basic courtesy extended to the vulnerable, who cannot defend themselves.
- No Surprises Expected At Brazil (Deccan Herald, WALDEN BELLO, Jan 26, 2005)
Now five years old, the World Social Forum is returning to Porto Alegre, Brazil, after its big success in Mumbai, India. The mood of thousands of people expected is likely to be affected by the tsunami tragedy in Asia as well as the changed national conte
- What’S He Been Reading? (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Jan 26, 2005)
The interval between the swearing-in of an American president and his “State of the Union” address is a period of limited activity in Washington.
- Uncertain On Agriculture (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 26, 2005)
That the agriculture Ministry's initial optimism about Rabi (summer) crop prospects was somewhat exaggerated or misplaced is clear with the release of the second advance estimate of production for the 2004-05 season.
- Clarification Of Provisions Is The Prime Need (The Economic Times, K R PRADEEP, Jan 26, 2005)
Where all ingredients of the transaction are outside India, the question is whether such a transaction can be brought to taxation under the existing Income-Tax Act.
- Oxford To Compete With Us Rivals (Telegraph, Richard Garner, Jan 26, 2005)
Oxford University is to cut the number of UK students it recruits and woo more young people from overseas to combat a financial crisis. The decision, announced in a Green Paper on its future published on Monday (Jan 24), will provoke an outcry
- Army Day Parade (Telegraph, Lt-Gen Vijay Oberoi, Jan 26, 2005)
GUTS and glory are the perennial strands of a military parade, but the Army Day parade on January 15 every year is different. Over the years, many innovations have been added, yet it remains, quintessentially, a parade of remembrance and thanksgiving.
- Brute Force (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 26, 2005)
Can there be a distinction between the use and abuse of violence? When defence academies teach their young students the art of warfare, how is this distinction to be simultaneously inculcated?
- Andhra Pradesh's Cult Of Violence (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 26, 2005)
The Grisly killing, in broad daylight and in the party office, of the Telugu Desam Party MLA, Paritala Ravi, by a yet-to-be identified gang calls attention yet again to the cult of violence and faction-ridden politics in Andhra Pradesh.
- Come On, India. Think Global (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Jan 26, 2005)
We are not a very globally savvy people. The finance minister’s announcement at the sidelines of a microfinance meeting that he had been invited to the next G-8 meet got tucked away in newspapers.
- Hundreds Die In Temple Stampede (Washington Post, John Lancaster, Jan 26, 2005)
More than 200 Hindu pilgrims, many of them women and children, were killed in a stampede and fire while visiting a temple in western India on Tuesday, authorities said.
- No Home To Call One’S Own (Telegraph, Debabrata Mohanty, Jan 25, 2005)
Over a thousand people in Orissa have been asked to “quit India”, but the decision smells of double standards
- Quacks’ World (Deccan Herald, U. S. Iyer, Jan 25, 2005)
The verdict of the apex court regarding the accountability of medicos did come handy for many quacks. When I was in Chennai I had felt an excruciating pain in my left hand.
- She Knew The Risks (Indian Express, JOSEPH A. ARROYO, Jan 25, 2005)
I read Mahesh Bhatt and Kabir Bedi and other film personalities on Parveen Babi’s sudden death. They recapture true images of her unique personality.
- The Future Of The Wto (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jan 25, 2005)
The WTO is so concerned about its future that it has commissioned a special independent report to examine the possibilities and suggest reforms.
- The Republic And The World (Indian Express, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 25, 2005)
As the nation celebrates the 55th anniversary of the Republic, the external environment has never been as favourable to independent India as it is today. Yet the nation’s foreign policy discourse is troubled by tentativeness.
- Too Many To Blame (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jan 25, 2005)
These are strange times across the world. The United States presidency is spending an obscene amount of money on the “anointing” of Mr Bush.
- ‘I Have Freed State From Political Terror... (Indian Express, Ashwani Sharma, Jan 25, 2005)
Creation of Chhattisgarh as a separate state four years back was a dream come true for its population of 2.8 crore—predominantly tribals.
- In Cooperation With Others (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 25, 2005)
Promote sustainable management, and promote and cooperate in the conservation and enhancement... of sinks and reservoirs of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, including biomass, forests and oceans as well as other terrestrial, c
- Arrogance In Uniform (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 25, 2005)
Often the uniform of the policeman or jawan, instead of inducing a sense of social responsibility in those who don it, appears to have the very opposite effect. It becomes a badge of arrogance, not honour.
- A Glimpse Of The Lost Grandeur (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 25, 2005)
The legends may compare Balligavi to Lord Indra’s Amaravathi or Lord Kubera’s Alakavathi but reality is quite disappointing. Both the village and the temple are in ruins and not what it used to be
- Cap The Nuclear Arsenal Now (Hindu, R. Rajaraman, Jan 25, 2005)
If we in South Asia do not act now we will bequeath succeeding generations hundreds of nuclear weapons, in the shadow of whose hazards they will have to live.
- Seer’S Arrest: Not Just A Legal Issue (Deccan Herald, N Haridas, Jan 24, 2005)
The arrest of the Kanchi Shankaracharya has been played down as a mere law and order question by the Government of Tamil Nadu, ignoring its political, religious and social upshot
- Victory Via Mars (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Jan 24, 2005)
As the world’s two largest democracies prepare to vote again, incumbents in India might find it useful to watch George Bush. The president of the US, fighting what has been billed as a very crucial foreign policy election,
- The Tired, Retired Admiral (Indian Express, Rajiv Shukla, Jan 24, 2005)
Some facts stare you in the face. Take the Admiral Gorshkov. It’s old, retired, straight from the junkyard. Yet this ship will be commissioned in the Indian navy in mid-2008, after a payment of $ 1.5 billion (Rs 7,000 crore). Why? Only Defence Ministry of
- United States And The World (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Jan 24, 2005)
Continuity rather than change may well be the mark of the second Bush administration's foreign policy.
- Broadbanding Your Way To .In Servers (Tribune, Roopinder Singh, Jan 24, 2005)
Computers and telecommunications have transformed the world. New words are being introduced and fresh meanings have been given to old terms. Presented here are some of the terms that the readers would be in touch with, even if they need to be clear about
- India-China, The Great Asian Jv (Indian Express, N K Singh, Jan 24, 2005)
India’s primary tasks are to address rising budget deficits and pare down continuing constraints on the market economy. Total public debt (including state-owned enterprises) stood at 95 per cent of GDP as of March 2003 and primary deficits were over three
- An Absorbing Frolic (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jan 24, 2005)
Old notions die hard; but they still deserve to die. The revolution, the adage says, devours its children. It should be the other way round: it is the children who devour the revolution.
- Keep The Treasures Under Lock And Key (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Jan 24, 2005)
Protecting the nation’s heritage is a costly affair, not only in terms of the funds needed but also in the commitment it demands
- Bush Sets A Daunting Task (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma, Jan 24, 2005)
When President George Bush rang the Liberty Bell to begin his second four-year term in the White House, the world heard it. His words sounded the determination to increase the number of democracies.
- Celebrate This New Contract (Indian Express, Bhai Mahavir, Jan 24, 2005)
Five years ago in Delhi, my mornings were very often not so good as to accord with customary greetings. Often times it was due to the experience at the Delhi Milk Scheme booth which was so unpleasant that soft-natured people could carry an uneasy premonit
- Drug Law Causes Concern (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Jan 24, 2005)
ON December 27, the Union government promulgated an ordinance introducing a new product patent regime for pharmaceuticals by amending the Indian Patent Act of 1970 for the third time.
- India As Super Power (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 24, 2005)
THE latest Central Intelligence Agency report mentioning that India will be a super power by 2020 is more amusing than true.
- Entrance Tests Must Make An Exit (Indian Express, S.C. BHARGAVA, Jan 24, 2005)
The recent leakage of the CAT and other entrance papers makes it clear that there is something seriously amiss with the whole system of entrance examinations.
- Time To Restore The Majesty Of Vice-Chancellors (Tribune, Vikram Chadha, Jan 23, 2005)
Gone are the days when the enigmatic presence of the vice-chancellor made a university the vital hub of academic, research and policy formulating activities
- Lal Bahadur Shastri: A Unique Story Not Yet Fully Told (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Jan 23, 2005)
Without any loss of time — and also without fanfare — the committee appointed to oversee the celebrations of Lal Bahadur Shastri's centenary, headed by the Prime Minister
- 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.
- Tsunami: The Robots Next Time? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 23, 2005)
Two news items deserve special attention as the world tries painfully to come to grips with life after tsunami. According to the first, eight elephants that take tourists around at Thailand's Khao Lak beach began to cry loudl
- Democracy A Bad Word In Bihar (Tribune, Chanchal Sarkar, Jan 23, 2005)
Who will, in Bhagalpur, save the dolphins, those wonderfully intelligent water-animals of the Ganga? And save the polluted Ganga as well? Reports say that people are catching the dolphins and eating them up.
- 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.
- Glimpse Of Possibility (Telegraph, GITHA HARIHARAN, Jan 23, 2005)
Shama Futehally and I spoke of many things in the years we knew each other, but I don’t recall any conversation about E.M. Forster. Yet now, after her death, when I search for words
- Old Habits Die Hard (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Jan 22, 2005)
One day in the nineteen seventies, Leonid Brezhnev was in a town on Lake Baikal, attending a Politburo meeting.
- Parties In U.S., Despair Elsewhere (Hindu, Robin Cook, Jan 22, 2005)
Inauguration does not do justice to the exuberant celebrations of this week. Coronation would come closer. Washington ended Thursday with nine official balls.
- Tracking Two Faces Of Power (Indian Express, RAVINDER KAUR, Jan 22, 2005)
On a train journey from Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh to New Delhi, one encountered several forms of power, and its exercise. In one case, it was bureaucratic power, power that emanates from the higher echelons of India’s public service.
- 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?
- Innately Silly (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 22, 2005)
The president of Harvard University, Mr Lawrence Summers, is a bit of a silly man. He forgot who he was. His suggestion, that “innate differences” between the sexes prevent women from succeeding at the highest levels in mathematics
- Powerless! (Indian Express, Ayesha Chawla, Jan 22, 2005)
It was January 19, 2005, 4 pm. Sitting in a tea room in Lausanne with friends, I experienced a power breakdown that spread from Geneva to Vevey.
- Root Cause (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 21, 2005)
The smart machinery has moved into place, but is looking rather tatty. With its renowned precision, the Bharatiya Janata Party has allotted days, places, jobs and the people to go with each in the campaign for the forthcoming assembly elections in three s
- Party At Crosspurpose (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jan 21, 2005)
India and Pakistan seem determined to restart the cross-border bus from Munabao in Rajasthan to Khokhrapar in Sind, what with talks slated for the first week of March. Come summer, both Hindus and Muslims will get
- Towards An Oasis Of Peace (Telegraph, TUMPA MUKHERJEE, Jan 21, 2005)
So underworld dons like Aftab Ansari, Sheikh Vinod, Gabbar and Hatkata Dilip have been prevented from using their mobile phones and are secure in their jails. Will that decrease the crime rate in Calcutta? No.
- Unnatural Sexuality Versus Natural Justice (Indian Express, NIVEDITA MENON, Jan 21, 2005)
Is it natural to be normal? This is the fearsome question that lies unrecognised at the heart of the furore around the issue of Section 377 of the IPC.
- Hegemony, Uninterrupted (Indian Express, Kancha Ilaiah, Jan 21, 2005)
As India heads for another parliamentary election it may be useful to look at the politics of caste. The last six years of the BJP’s rule have seen the forces of Hindutva consolidating their control over institutions of Hindu spiritualism, business and ed
- A Reassessment Of Netaji Bose (Deccan Herald, ANIRUDHA DASGUPTA, Jan 21, 2005)
A big change has come about in the attitude of political parties towards Netaji Subhas Bose and the role he played in the nationalist movement. It was not many years ago that the Congress as the ruling party at the Centre fought shy in giving
- Need For A Mangrove Wall (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Jan 21, 2005)
Natural disasters are tragedies for the poor. But for the rich and influential, it is an opportunity — a god-sent opportunity to make more money. The killer tsunami waves that ravaged through the southern coastline open up one such great avenue.
- `Wherever Sorrow Is, Relief Would Be' (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 21, 2005)
THE tsunami toll has crossed two lakh. Almost in every nook of the world, there are efforts to mobilise resources for the relief of the affected people, reminding one of a line in the New Testament: "Every man according to his ability, determined to send
- Money To Burn? (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jan 21, 2005)
If a country’s prosperity is defined in terms of the foreign exchange assets it holds, India had never had it so good. Foreign exchange holdings at this moment exceed $ 130 billion.
- Interim Report On Godhra Incident (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jan 20, 2005)
One can find fault with the timing of the release of the interim report of the Justice U. C. Banerjee Committee and the BJP can heap all the accusations it wishes on the Railway Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal
- Say Chak De Phatte To That (The Economic Times, Shubhrangshu Roy, Jan 20, 2005)
This past month I have been pumping the accelerator up and down the Grand Trunk Road to Chandigarh and beyond, to Ludhiana, taking in the sights and smells of a rich countryside
- Centre's Challenge On Vat (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 20, 2005)
The stage would finally seem to be set for a modest but realistic beginning to the integrated value-added tax on goods and services that India needs.
- A Time For Newer Things (Telegraph, Gouri Chatterjee, Jan 20, 2005)
Forgive the lowly literary devices, but it really was another sign of the times. Last week, the employees of the Times group in Mumbai bid good-bye to Pradeep Guha, the president of the organization
- Zhao's Death Puts Hu In A Quandary (Asia Times, Tian Jing, Jan 20, 2005)
For Chinese communist leaders, a paper political epitaph is historically more durable than a gravestone - and more powerful: it has the ideological strength to make or break reputations and those of entire innocent families.
- Booked For No Books (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Jan 20, 2005)
Coughlins Law, attributed to Laurence C. Coughlin, states: "Don't talk unless you can improve the silence." If one glances through some of the provisions of the Concept Paper (CP) on company law
- Caution On Oilseed Imports (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 20, 2005)
The Minister for Agriculture and Food, Mr Sharad Pawar's explosive statement in Mumbai at the World Congress of International Association of Seed Crushers that there
- Champion By Chance (Deccan Herald, PETER COLACO, Jan 20, 2005)
Reading of the fabulous money that sportspersons make these days, I begin to regret that I passed up an opportunity that might have led to the big bucks.
- Cruel Witness (Telegraph, BRIJESH D. JAYAL, Jan 20, 2005)
It is premature to write on calamities even as events are unfolding. But when one is cruel witness to a comic drama being enacted by the very ones
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