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Articles 4821 through 4920 of 35809:
- Rbi Fines Idbi Rs 5 Lakh For Violation Of Kyc Norms (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
The Reserve Bank of India has imposed fine of Rs 5 lakh on IDBI Ltd. for violation of the guidelines on opening of accounts, including joint accounts, Know Your Customer (KYC) norms and also for violation of extant guidelines relating to IPO financing.
- Iran To Reply To Atomic Offer (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
Iran has set itself a deadline of Tuesday to reply to a nuclear package backed by six world powers but has given no indication so far it will accept the offer aimed at dispelling Western fears it wants to make atomic bombs.
- Quotas In Only Govt Aided Bodies Irk Cpm (Indian Express, ANANDA MAJUMDAR, Aug 22, 2006)
Having supported the implementation of OBC reservation in all educational institutions at one go, the CPM had a lukewarm reaction to the Cabinet’s decision to introduce the Bill for reservation in aided institutions alone.
- 59 Years: A Sense Of Insecurity (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 22, 2006)
If you look at the list of people arrested after the train bombings in Mumbai you will see the names of doctors, teachers and software engineers. What further proof do we need of radicalisation of our own Muslims?
- Make Vande Mataram Compulsory, Says Bjp (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president M Karunanidhi on Monday sought to put an end to his spat with Marumalarchi DMK leader Vaiko over his clandestine visit to Vavunia in Sri Lanka in February 1989
- Where Does The Buck Stop? (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Aug 22, 2006)
Despite poverty, India has emerged as a world leader. The PM’s expression of helplessness is not understandable.
- Memories Of A Professor (Telegraph, Tapas Majumdar, Aug 22, 2006)
Last month I had gone to Calcutta for the Panchanan Chakraborty centenary seminar. For me it was basically sentimental time-travel, back to the MA economics (group A) class of 1948-49.
- Plight Of Punjab’S Farmers (Tribune, Sucha Singh Gill, Aug 22, 2006)
Punjab is one of the most deserving states for a package to distressed farmers. It has been brought out by the 55th round of the NSS that Punjab farmers are third at the all-India level in terms of percentage of farmers under debt.
- Tribals’ Bill: Govt Caught On Wrong Foot (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
The government was taken by surprise in the Rajya Sabha today on the legislation pertaining to forest dwellers forcing Chairman Bhairon Singh Shekhawat to schedule a half an hour discussion tomorrow on the issue.
- Kalam’S Intervention Sought For Flood Relief (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
Karnataka today claimed it was being discriminated against on the issue of flood relief by the Centre and urged . . .
- Telangana Issue: Trs Threatens To Leave Upa (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), which issued a fresh ultimatum to the UPA government over the Telangana issue, is looking for an honourable exit route from the present impasse that it has found itself in.
- Aso Announces Candidacy For Pm (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
Japanese foreign minister Mr Taro Aso officially announced his candidacy today to replace Prime Minister Mr Junichiro Koizumi next month, despite polls that show him trailing far behind the front-runner, his office said.
- Manmohan Meets Youth From J&k (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
The three-day cultural exchange festival of young men and women from Jammu and Kashmir organised by the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) concluded here on Monday.
- Quota Issue: Divisive Responses In North & South India (Pioneer, K Venkataramanan, Aug 22, 2006)
Sometimes, divisive issues invite divided responses. At other times, responses like strikes and protests tend to make issues seem divisive, even when they are not.
- Snapshots (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
State Bank of India said on Monday it is not planning to hike home loan rates in the near future, but admitted that there is pressure on these interest rates.
- Msp For Kharif Crops Disappoints Farmers: Cm (Tribune, Yoginder Gupta, Aug 22, 2006)
The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, has conveyed his disappointment to the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, over the Centre’s failure to take note of the recommendations of the state in regard to the minimum support price (MSP) . . .
- Speed Up Obc Quota Plan: Bhujbal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
Opposition from the forward castes expected, says NCP leader
OBCs put together is 54 per cent of the population
Commission sought to monitor OBC reservation.
- No Quotas, Please (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 22, 2006)
The proposed system of caste-based reservations is not the correct approach to solving the problems of socio-economic inequity.
- Cabinet Okays Staggered Quota (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
The Union Cabinet tonight cleared the politically sensitive legislation providing for 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in government-run higher educational institutions, including AIIMS, IIT and IIMs in a staggered manner.
- Addressing Baloch Grievances (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 22, 2006)
The level of hostilities between the military and the rebels in Balochistan may have decreased significantly, but the militant presence in the province continues to be strong as evidenced by a string of bomb blasts over the past few days.
- Engaging With Beteille (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
This selection of 50 short essays is a sequel to Beteille's Chronicles of Our Times, a similar collection of newspaper contributions published some years ago.
- Ongc Plans Steep Rise In Investment (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) plans a steep rise in investments during the eleventh plan period both for oil and gas exploration and production as well as on acquiring hydrocarbons properties abroad.
- Congressional Rebuke (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 22, 2006)
The latest congressional report should provide food for thought for those who are running America’s war on terror.
- Aid For Women Shgs Under Adb Scheme (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
An amount of Rs 30,000 would be given as revolving fund subsidy to women Self Help Groups and a minimum loan amount of Rs 15000 or four times the savings amount of the SHG under an Asian Development Bank aided scheme, District Collector, Tenkasi . . .
- Economic Policy: Mid-Term Report (Business Standard, Shankar Acharya, Aug 22, 2006)
In a few weeks the UPA government will reach the mid-point of its five-year term.
- Rationale Of Management (Business Line, R. Devarajan, Aug 22, 2006)
The 20th century triggered some of the most significant innovations, the kind of which the world had not seen before. Antibiotics and vaccines have more than doubled the human life span.
- Rural Development And Planned Urbanisation Are Fully Compatible (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Aug 22, 2006)
At the present juncture in the development history of the country it is perhaps right to pause and seek agricultural development with well-planned urban growth.
- Mr Murthy`s Next Innings (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Aug 22, 2006)
If N R Narayana Murthy had simply led and built such an extraordinarily successful company as Infosys Technologies then that itself would have been enough to put his name in the history books.
- Russia-Us Trade Off (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 22, 2006)
Moscow must not turn the WTO negotiations into one more battleground in its image war with Washington.
- The Worsening Law & Order Situation (Dawn, Sajjad Ali Shah, Aug 22, 2006)
ON August 11, 1947, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the first president of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, in his address to the members informed them that their assembly had dual functions of writing a constitution and making laws to . . .
- Strategising Success (Hindu, M. S. S. Varadan, Aug 22, 2006)
Challenges companies to break out of the `red ocean' of competition .
- Futures Trading Stabilises Commodity Prices (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 22, 2006)
Let us not take any hasty knee-jerk action due to a few aberrations here and there
- Headless Chicken (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 22, 2006)
Those who sat through the Prime Minister’s Independence Day speech could not have missed the bits where the children clapped.
- Ongc Rethinks On Venture With Mittal Steel (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
Steel tycoon Lakshmi N Mittal may have muscled acquisition of European giant Arcelor but his ambition to make it big in oil and gas sector is coming unstuck as his partner ONGC appears not keen on a venture the two giants had agreed last year.
- Rbi Employees Threaten To Go On Strike Aug 23 (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 22, 2006)
Reserve Bank employees on Monday threatened to go on strike on August 23 to press for their pension-related demands.
- A Glorious Career Ends (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 22, 2006)
Less than 24 hours after retiring as executive chairman of Infosys, Mr N R Narayana Murthy was on an FM radio programme in Bangalore on planning for retirement.
- Centralised Bank Of India (Indian Express, ILA PATNAIK, Aug 21, 2006)
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is out of touch with a modernising India. Its decision not to accept Naina Lal Kidwai as the CEO of HSBC because she happened to be on the board of Nestle, has only confirmed this fact.
- Iim-A Can Take 150 More Students: Prof (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
Is the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) making a mountain out of a molehill over the OBC reservation issue? One of the institute’s professors has dug holes into the loud noises made by top bosses that expansion is not possible . . .
- Banks Start Battle For Deposits (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
Even as interest rates started rising, commercial banks have started a deposit war to attract funds. With public sector banks coming out with five-year deposit schemes at 8 per cent interest rate, private sector banks have gone one step ahead and . . .
- Strange Logic Of Lebanon War (Pioneer, Daniel Pipes, Aug 21, 2006)
As staff at some of the world's most prestigious press organisations effectively take Hizbullah's side in its war with Israel, they inadvertently expose a profound transformation in the logic of warfare.
- Right To Education Puts Finance Ministry In Spot (Pioneer, Santanu Banerjee, Aug 21, 2006)
Rs 46,000 crore is what Centre has to shell out, if Arjun agenda followed
- India Must Show The Way (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Aug 21, 2006)
The war against terror continues and we are seeing 'new' innovative methods being deployed by terrorist groups.
- Build Schools First (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 21, 2006)
How to teach history is important. More important is how to build education infrastructure
- 59 Years: A Sense Of Insecurity (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 21, 2006)
If you look at the list of people arrested after the train bombings in Mumbai you will see the names of doctors, teachers and software engineers. What further proof do we need of radicalisation of our own Muslims?
- Company Towns (Times of India, Sauvik Chakraverti, Aug 21, 2006)
The UPA government's clearance to private firms for the setting up of over 100 Special Economic Zones (SEZs) has raised loud objections from those who are otherwise defenders of free markets.
- Focus On Language And Digital Literacy (The Financial Express, DEEPAK MAHESHWARI, Aug 21, 2006)
India is often perceived as an enigma and offers a stark study for anyone who bothers to delve into any aspect, so it is no different when it comes to the use of the Internet in India.
- The Inflation Conundrum (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 21, 2006)
The Indian economy is not overheated; it is still a shortage economy.
- A Conventional Approach Still (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Aug 21, 2006)
The Eleventh Plan Approach Paper has been accused of departing from conventional wisdom. But it has not departed enough. The critical issues it lists are all chronic sores that innovation, not conventional wisdom, can solve. But the Approach has no . . .
- A Fire Drill For The Global Economy (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Aug 21, 2006)
The Bank of International Settlements has in its latest assessment sounded a note of caution in regard to risks posed by global imbalances, an important factor in which is the US' current account deficit.
- Sensex Down 21pts; Market Breadth Positive (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
The Sensex has recovered most of its losses and is now down 21 points at 11,444.
- Reliance To Ask Tata Tele To Fall In Line On 3g (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
Reliance Communications will soon write a letter to fellow CDMA operator Tata Teleservices asking it to toe the industry's line on the pricing of 3G spectrum.
- Into Their Second Innings (Pioneer, Ajoy Bose, Aug 21, 2006)
Facing Opposition attacks as well as barbs from their allies both Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi realise that if they do not swim together, they will sink together
- Relief Package For Farmers Too Little, Too Late (Pioneer, Yoga Rangatia, Aug 21, 2006)
Centre's bail-out package for farmers in distress may not amount to much. Farm incomes are showing a decline due to poor productivity of land and rising costs of fertiliser and pesticides.
- Environment Falls Prey To Chinese Corruption (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 21, 2006)
China’s top environmental official has blamed corruption for frustrating environmental protection efforts and sparking a rise in air pollution, state media reported today.
- The Speech That Was Not Allowed (Hindu, K. Natwar Singh, Aug 21, 2006)
The nuclear deal is aboutenergy, not non-proliferation. It is about reciprocity, not about unilateral steps taken by the USA. Talk about India having a congruent foreign policy with the U.S. is unacceptable to all patriotic Indians.
- A Robust Performance Forecast (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 21, 2006)
The Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (EAC) headed by C.Rangarajan, in a recent report, has generally been upbeat in its assessment of the economy for last year and its prospects for this year.
- Laloo Chucks Out Colas From Trains, Stations (Deccan Herald, Abhay Kumar, Aug 21, 2006)
A day after Chairman of Pepsico India Holdings Private Limited, Rajeev Bakshi virtually admitted that the soft drink could be harmful for children, Railway Minister Laloo Prasad took the war against the two cola giants — Coke and Pepsi – one step . . .
- A Ringside View Of Indian Banking (Hindu, C. R. L. Narasimhan, Aug 21, 2006)
Kakodkar narrates how successfully State Bank of India managers could adapt to serve the larger interests of the economy
"My 40 years with the SBI'' is, above all, a ringside view of the transformation of Imperial bank of India into State Bank of . . .
- Regulating And Developing The Profession Of Actuaries (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
The Act was passed by the Lok Sabha on August 2
- Mecon To Zero Down On Plant Site Shortly (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
Ranchi based Mecon India is likely to finalise the site for the L.N.Mittal’s proposed mega steel project in Orissa, a highly placed source in the Orissa government said here on Sunday.
- Balance Of Economic Power Ebbs From U.S. (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 21, 2006)
The recent flow of news from around the world suggests that the balance of world economic power may finally be swinging away from the United . . .
- Breaking Ships Need Not Break Lives (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Aug 21, 2006)
The economics of ship-breaking should not be built on the destroyed lives of those who dismantle the ships.
- Purchasing Power Or Bubble Economy? (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 21, 2006)
President Musharraf said on July 26 that people have enough money in their hands, and that has led to a rise in the price level.
- Continuing Yasukuni Troubles (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 21, 2006)
Japan has a few serious problems to sort out with China and South Korea. Its hope of entering the United Nations Security Council as a permanent member cannot be realised if the People's Republic refuses to allow it.
- Desperately Needed: Senior Citizens’ Alert (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Aug 21, 2006)
On August 14, Dignity Foundation, one of the few non-profits involved in the Senior Citizens’ cause held a unique protest meeting in Mumbai. The aim was to discuss economic hardships that have been piling up against them, especially under the United . . .
- 90 Killed In Afghan Bloody Clashes (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
Around 90 people died in a series of weekend clashes between troops and Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, including more than 70 rebels killed in a battle in the south and four US soldiers.
- Singh Has Some Plus Points Too (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 21, 2006)
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was perceived as an articulate economist and politician and was expected to steer the South Asian region out of its quagmire of tension, confrontation and conflict due to the outstanding issues . . .
- How To Revive Agricultural Economy (Daily Excelsior, Satyendra Pratap Singh, Aug 21, 2006)
As the crisis of the farming community reverberate in the country with suicides and hunger, the prime minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, in his Independence speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort, loudly proclaimed that the UPA government is "concerned . . .
- Dialogue Only Route To Solve All Complex Problems: Cm (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said that three out of five working groups announced by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh during 2nd Round Table Conference at Srinagar have met and the remaining two groups are also meeting very soon.
- Power To People (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 21, 2006)
The present structure of Panchayati Raj is imbued with ancient promises and with the two essential strands of Gandhiji’s economic philosophy.
- Pay And Performance (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 21, 2006)
With the Union Cabinet approving of the proposal to increase the pay and allowances of the members of Parliament, their monthly emoluments will go up to Rs 65,000, a cool gain of Rs 25,000.
- Mysterious Ways Of Central Banks (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 21, 2006)
In an interview a few weeks ago, a well-known, London-based market analyst and commentator told a couple of grief-stricken Indian TV anchors (the sensex was falling precipitously then) how central banks all over the world had, first, stoked the . . .
- Focus On Efficiency Of Capital (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 21, 2006)
Efficiency of capital has long been an area of neglect and remains so. This aspect is underscored in the Eleventh Plan draft, ironically in its demand for the rate of investment being raised to 35.1% of GDP from 29.1% in 2004-05.
- Celebration Amidst Fear (Tribune, Devi Cherian, Aug 21, 2006)
Dr Manmohan Singh addressed the nation from the Red Fort on 15th August, the 59th year of our Independence.
- "Terrorism Wrongly Linked To Muslims" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
They have no religion, say clerics
Conference on "Terrorism" attempted to initiate dialogue, sensitise media
Media should stop misinformation that mosques, `madrassas' were hotbeds of terrorist activity
- Bjp For Probe Into Train Fire (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
BJP national secretary Bandaru Dattatreya today demanded that the Union Government conduct a thorough inquiry into the fire in Chennai-Hyderabad express, in which five coaches were gutted today.
- Cabinet May Serve Quota With Cream (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
The Cabinet is expected to clear the bill providing 27% reservation for other backward classes (OBC) in centrally-funded educational institutions on Monday. The Cabinet will also vote for extending the benefits of reservation to the . . .
- Declare Pak A Terror State: Bjp (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
Claiming that the recent spurt in terrorist activities in the country was sponsored by Pakistan, BJP today said India should step up pressure on the international community to declare the neighbouring country a ‘Terrorist State’.
- A Crusader Against Corruption (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Aug 20, 2006)
Anna Hazare is one of India’s most respected social activist. Whenever he takes up a cause, an alert is sounded in New Delhi’s corridors of power.
- Some Issues To Ponder (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 20, 2006)
The basic question regarding the Indo-US nuclear deal is whether we really need it. It is said, the deal will give a boost to our power sector.
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