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Articles 2721 through 2820 of 35809:
- Economic Integration And Equitable Trade (Hindu, Raghu Dayal , Sep 26, 2006)
A comprehensive backdrop as well as a roadmap for India-ASEAN association to fructify and flourish
- China Should Worry About Its High Savings (The Financial Express, ILA PATNAIK, Sep 26, 2006)
The high savings rate of its state-owned enterprises could lead to a macroeconomic problem
- What Pulls Pios Towards India? (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 26, 2006)
A mentor of mine used to say, “Where your heart pulls you, the head will always follow.” It seems that a lot of foreign born Indians are having their heartstrings pulled much more regularly these days.
- Reliance Retail Eyes Credit Arm (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Reliance Industries is foraying into personal finance services, including the highly competitive automobile and consumer loan segment.
- Reliance Plans $500 Mn Private Equity Fund (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Reliance Capital Ltd. plans to raise $500 million from Foreign Institutional Investors by March 2007 for a private equity fund, a company official said on Monday.
- Hidden Competitive Advantage (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 26, 2006)
Recently Maruti had announced setting up a new plant with an investment of Rs 1,500 crore to assemble 250,000 cars per year. Recent assembly plants built in the US by global OEMs like Nissan, Honda and Toyota have costed three to four times more in . . .
- Drug Cos And Sezs - A Healthy Mix? (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Concern over whether drug companies should also play the role of infrastructure developer
- Iniquitous Enclaves (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 26, 2006)
The perversity of incentives that create no externalities or economies of scale for the "hinterland" are the biggest defects of SEZs.
- To Achieve A Turnaround In Bihar (Business Line, Shaibal Gupta, Sep 26, 2006)
Historical disadvantages, limited post-Independence development strategies, and the vivisection of the State, have crippled the public financial and economic structure of Bihar.
- Self-Rule’ Proposal Gaining Support In Kashmir: Pdp (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Sep 26, 2006)
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP), an ally of the ruling Congress in Jammu and Kashmir, has claimed that the party’s “self-rule” proposal is gaining support in all regions of the state.
- Uss Enterprise Deployed In Indian Ocean (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
The USS Enterprise aircraft carrier is deployed in the Indian Ocean and ‘prepared for all contingencies’, its top commander said on Monday, as speculation rises over possible US military action against Iran.
- Lessons Of Power Breakdown (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 26, 2006)
The countrywide power breakdown after the national grid was knocked out on Sunday calls for serious stocktaking.
- Cpm Wants Sez Scheme Amended (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
The CPI-M is unhappy the government has “failed” to amend the special economic zones (SEZs) scheme to prevent its misuse by “land mafia”.
- Kamal Nath Toes Sonia Line On Sezs (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Barely two days after Mrs Sonia Gandhi raised concerns over “diversion” of prime agricultural land for setting up special economic zones (SEZs) for various industries in view of its adverse impact on farmers and the agriculture . . .
- Special Article (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 26, 2006)
The Union Cabinet has given the go-ahead on the reservation issue with a staggered introduction of the 27 per cent reservation for the Other Backward Castes (OBC) in higher educational institutes over a three-year period.
- So Far, So Good (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 26, 2006)
Though the Congress party’s Nainital conclave was billed as a meeting of Chief Ministers belonging to the party, it turned out to be a good occasion to display the sound political health of the UPA coalition that governs the country.
- Black Gold Valuable For Economy (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Sep 26, 2006)
India is gripped in a debate between coal generated energy and nuclear energy as the country faces the shortage of 50,000 mw, likely to go up to 100,000 mw by 2020.
- Telengana Ii : Much Ado About Nothing (Daily Excelsior, SREEDHAR, Sep 26, 2006)
The Telengana I was enacted in the 1970s and the recent Telengana II is very much in the news nowadays especially due to the formation of the Telengana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and its ascendancy to power.
- Revamped Pds (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 26, 2006)
Food is a potent weapon to be used nationally and internationally to win friends and influence voting patterns.
- Pak Remains A Nursery Of Global Terrorism: Pranab (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Stating that Pakistan "remains a nursery" of global terrorism, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee today asserted that Islamabad has done "precious little" to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism on its eastern borders with India and many . . .
- Stirrings Of Land War Across The Country (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
In Bengal, Mamata Banerjee is on hunger strike against land acquisition for a Tata car factory
Tribals in Orissa announce effigy-burning on Dussehra to protest the Vedanta alumina project
Also in Orissa, a mass hunger strike is on in Bhubaneswa . . .
- Ban On Prime Farm Land For Sezs (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Putting a virtual ban on the acquisition of prime agricultural land for special economic zones (SEZs) by the state governments, Union Commerce Minister Kamal Nath today said no proposal to set up any such zone on prime agricultural land would be cleared.
- On The Right Track (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Sep 26, 2006)
Sonia Gandhi has yet again shown that she is in control of her party and of the direction that the UPA must take in policy matters.
- Peace First (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Sep 26, 2006)
Who will disagree with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when he sees immense potential for development in every field in Jammu and Kashmir?
- No Al-Qaeda Or Taliban Leader In Pakistan: F (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam at a weekly briefing on Monday dismissed reports about the presence of Taliban leadership in Pakistan.
- More Stress On Positives (Dawn, Shahid Javed Burki, Sep 26, 2006)
I have written this article and the few that will follow in response to a request from a senior official of a development agency based in Washington.
- No Prime Farmland For Sezs: Kamal Nath (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
In a climbdown aimed at addressing party chief Sonia Gandhi’s concerns over acquisition of farmers’ land for industrial use, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath today said his ministry has told state governments to ensure that no prime agricultural land . . .
- Let’S Talk ‘Economics Plus’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 26, 2006)
Twenty years ago, we watched from university as the Labour party conference enjoyed the difficulties of Mrs Thatcher’s second term, and deluded itself about its own route to power. Our party was obsessed with the icons and betrayals of the . . .
- Coups: An Addiction To Power (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 26, 2006)
When Gen Sonthi Boonyaratglin seized power in Thailand last week, he joined a long list of military leaders to have succumbed to the lure of the coup.
- Police For The People (Indian Express, Prakash Singh, Sep 26, 2006)
The Supreme Court has, in a landmark judgment on September 22, demolished in one stroke the colonial police structure which was hanging like a millstone around our necks for the last 145 years and more.
- Why The Farmer Reaps Despair (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 26, 2006)
Farmer's suicides were discussed most recently at the Congress chief ministers’ conclave in Nainital but the grim reality remains unchanged, with reports of such tragedies constantly trickling in.
- Call Them By Any Name, They Are Bonded Labourers (Tribune, Ruchika M. Khanna, Sep 25, 2006)
For the past 22 years, Amarjit Singh, who is the manager of a 55-acre farm in Mansa Khurd village here, has been working from dawn to dusk for a measly daily wage of Rs 52.05.
- India Is Online But Most Indians Are Not (Hindu, C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR, Sep 25, 2006)
The diffusion of Internet technology in India can take one of two routes, one elite-oriented, the other democratic. The Government seems to want to promote the second but the minimum requirement for this is credible information.
- Dispossessing Farmers (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 25, 2006)
In the absence of a fair and transparent policy on land acquisition and payment of just compensation to the farmers, state governments’ plans to forcibly take over land for special economic zones (SEZs) have met with stiff opposition.
- Seize The Favourable Moment (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
The recent Brussels statement of the co-chairs of the Tokyo Donor Conference — Norway, the European Union, the United States, and Japan — announcing the "willingness" of the Mahinda Rajapaksa Government and the LTTE "to come to talks . . .
- Google Tools Revisited (Hindu, J. MURALI, Sep 25, 2006)
The search engine features tutorials to help users
To test your proficiency many services are available. These are generally based on the reverse search concept, where you have to guess the key-word(s) for a given Google search output.
- Remedy For Excess Deduction (Hindu, S. Rajaratnam, Sep 25, 2006)
Please clarify whether excess paid to an employee in the form of salary can be recovered.
- "If We Compromise On Competitiveness, We Can't Be A . . . (Hindu, S. Vijay Kumar, Sep 25, 2006)
PresidentA.P.J. Abdul Kalamremains conscious that he is also a teacher and a scientist. Above all, he is a person who loves to make others happy. Excerpts from an interview he gave toThe Hindu:
- South Asian Power Play (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
FOR decades now, New Delhi and Kathmandu have been talking about — and around — joint power projects in Nepal, which invariably get spooked by one obstacle or another.
- Cry Reform (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 25, 2006)
The recently concluded meeting of the IMF-World Bank in Singapore has been special in more ways than one. It was the first such meeting held in the region after the Asian crisis.
- A Zero For All The Effort (Telegraph, Shuma Raha, Sep 25, 2006)
“A woman can never be too rich or too thin,” the Duchess of Windsor had once remarked.
- From One Long March To Another (News International, Prof Khwaja Masud, Sep 25, 2006)
The Chinese people stood up under the leadership of the Communist Party, founded by a dozen progressive intellectuals in 1921.
- 120 Indians Deported From Saudi Arabia (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
Saudi Arabia has deported 120 Indians, who were either working illegally or overstaying in the country, after granting them amnesty from prosecution.
- Decision On Fernandes In A Fortnight, Says Sp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh has said the party would take a decision on inviting the former Union Minister George Fernandes into the party fold within a fortnight.
- India, Singapore Give Final Shape To Siez (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
India and Singapore have finalised the modalities for implementing the Singapore-India Economic Zone (SIEZ) project which would be an integrated scheme involving industry, commerce and residential activities based on world class planning.
- Now When World Oil Prices Have Slided! (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 25, 2006)
AS the international oil prices have gone down considerably, the prices of gas will also hopefully come down.
- Amend Lic Act, Irda Tells Centre (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
Insurance regulator – Irda, has recommended to the government to create level-playing field in the life insurance sector by amending the LIC Act...
- Happy Not To Be At Iim (A) (Business Standard, Sunil Jain, Sep 25, 2006)
Whether the country’s populace was aware of the turnaround in the Indian Railways’ fortunes under Lalu Prasad is an open question, but now thanks to the efforts of Prof. G Raghuram at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, this is no . . .
- Country-Wide Power Breakdown: Trippings Blamed On Technical Fault (Dawn, Khaleeq Kiani, Sep 25, 2006)
A massive power breakdown hit the country on Sunday noon as a result of a technical fault in the northern hydropower producing region that triggered cascading trippings across the integrated national grid, officials said.
- Us-Pakistan Partnership (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 25, 2006)
Reaffirming their firm commitment to a US-Pakistan strategic partnership, President George Bush and President Musharraf discussed on Friday issues relating to bilateral investment and trade arrangements — so far unresolved because of the differing . . .
- The Real Picture On Credit Derivatives (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Sep 25, 2006)
While outstanding investment grade bonds total $2 trillion, the notional principal is as high as $17 trillion!
- Cpm Meet To Focus On Upa Govt Failure (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
The CPM leaders are likely to come down heavily on the UPA government for its “failure” to take corrective measures on various issues of public concern including price rise raised jointly by the Left parties.
- Congress Continuing Vote Bank Politics: Bjp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
Joint anti-terror mechanism with Pakistan will not work: Rajnath
Rajnath rejects idea of deploying security men from the minority community in sensitive areas
Charge of bias against security forces would demoralise them, he says
Joint . . .
- General's Grand Theory Of `Enlightened Moderation' (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 25, 2006)
In his book, In the Line of Fire: A Memoir, Pakistan's military ruler locates his "out of the box" Kashmir solution within the larger context of having to respond to 9/11 and a vastly more violent and volatile post-9/11 world.
- Connecting With The Baloch (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 25, 2006)
“The Baloch insurgency will soon peter out as did the Sikh insurgency in Indian Punjab after the elimination of Bhindranwale,” wrote a hardened soul recently in a national daily. This hasty judgment announced on history would even amuse the most . . .
- Cong Hints At A Review Of Centre's Sez Policy (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
Congress president Sonia Gandhi indicated on Sunday that her party may seek a review of the norms governing land acquisition for setting up Special Economic Zones.
- Centre Ready To Discuss All Issues With J&k People: Pm (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
Noting that there had been a "trust deficit" between India and Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the two countries have to find ways and means to tackle their problems including terrorism.
- Australia Says No Change In Uranium Ban For India (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
The Australian government said on Monday it was considering a new push by New Delhi to buy Australian uranium but it had not changed a policy that bans uranium sales to India.
- Basics Of Consumer Spending In India (The Economic Times, Rama Bijapurkar, Sep 25, 2006)
The front page report in the Mumbai edition of The Economic Times of September 21, 2006 carried the provocative headline “Cut the fluff, Indians spends more on basics”, and went on to inform us that “here is a reality check for all those who . . .
- Is The Railways Turnaround For Real? (The Economic Times, SHANTI NARAIN, Sep 25, 2006)
A Review of the traditional efficiency, productivity and financial parameters shows a remarkable upswing in the fortunes of Indian Railways. Over the past two completed years revenue-earning tonnage increased by over 20%, freight tonne km by over . . .
- Cong Cms Plough On For More Relief From Finmin (The Economic Times, C L MANOJ, Sep 25, 2006)
A section of the party leadership and chief ministers, which fear the loss of their farmer votebank ahead of the coming assembly elections, on Sunday demonstrated their determination to force the government to redraw its fund-allocation plans.
- Imf Quota Shuffle: India's Missed Opportunities (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
But no real setback as the world body's relevance is declining
It is the ad hocism and lack of transparency of IMF rather than its failure to win recognition by way of enhanced quotas that India and other COUNTRIES campaigned against and lost.
- Belgian Embassy Official Murdered In Delhi; Driver Arrested (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
A 40-year-old official of the Belgian embassy was stabbed to death allegedly by her driver at her residence in a posh South-West Delhi locality.
- Under Fire, Pm Misses Pranab (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
The government of India came under attack but the defence minister was missing.
- The Expanding Turf Of Scams (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, Sep 25, 2006)
Recently, a duo posed as a Minister of State for Home and his private secretary and allegedly spoke to a gangster in a jail in Uttar Pradesh.
- Landing With Sonia (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 25, 2006)
Sonia Gandhi is right up to a point in saying anti-terrorist police action mustn’t polarise minorities or that land for special economic zones mustn’t be acquired at the cost of farmers and agriculture.
- Great Wall Of India (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 25, 2006)
Ports, as a revealing surrender earlier this year by US President George W. Bush to his Congress proved, can breed paranoia.
- Sez Rush Expected To Cool Down (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
The rush by business groups to put up Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and the red carpets rolled out for them by various states could face speed breakers following the complaints about the way lands of farmers were sought to be grabbed for the SEZs.
- ‘Our Young Country Needs New Jobs, And Sezs Are A Major Engine . . . (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 25, 2006)
Hello and welcome to Walk the Talk. I’m in a small factory in a special economic zone in NOIDA, on the outskirts of Delhi, and my guest today is one of the most visible faces of the UPA cabinet. Kamal Nath, welcome to Walk the Talk.
- Why Exclude Army From Security-Think? (Indian Express, Vijay Oberoi, Sep 25, 2006)
Let me start this piece with a statement that is certain to earn the ire of all military leaders of India.
- The Threat Of Local Jihadis (Pioneer, Pramod Kumar Singh, Sep 25, 2006)
Terrorism has struck deep roots in India and Nizam-e-Mustafa is the cry now.
- Fund-Bank Meet: Asia's Growth Is Sustainable (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 25, 2006)
The high point of the recent annual Fund-Bank meet in Singapore was the endorsement by the World Economic Outlook that Asia's growth is sustainable and its recognition that a strong policy framework has been key in enabling the Asian success story.
- Differentiation — The Only Path To Managing Expectations (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 25, 2006)
With employee expectations reaching dizzy heights, differentiation of talent is the key. This first of a three-part series on this complex subject introduces the concept and traces its emergence as a talent management practice.
- Sonia Rules Out Deputy Pm (Asian Age, Venkatesh Kesari , Sep 25, 2006)
Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi made it crystal clear here on Sunday that there would be no deputy prime minister in the UPA government.
- Belgian Mission Woman Killed By Driver In Delhi (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
An official of the Belgian embassy, Ms Isabelle Dessoir, was stabbed to death allegedly by her driver at her residence in the posh Vasant Vihar area of southwest Delhi on Saturday night.
- Privatise, After Amending Lic & Gic Acts (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 25, 2006)
The report that government is considering amendments to the LIC Act 1956 is a belated, but welcome, recognition of the need to level the playing field for all players in the insurance sector.
- Customer Service Is A Nagging Problem (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, Sep 25, 2006)
Even respected multinationals seem unable or unwilling to consistently aim at service that is prompt and efficient, very much like their traditional Indian counterparts.
- State Of The Art Or Art Of The State? (The Financial Express, MELVYN KRAUSS, Sep 25, 2006)
September is traditionally the time when opera companies and orchestras return to their home cities from Aix, Salzburg, Tanglewood, and countless other summer festivals.
- Continental Crackdown On Corporate Collusion (Business Line, Mohan Murti, Sep 25, 2006)
The fight against cartels is becoming a very serious business in Europe.
- How Islam Differs With Christianity (Pioneer, Priyadarsi Dutta, Sep 24, 2006)
There is more at stake in the clash of civilisations between the West and Islam than just religion.
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