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Articles 20621 through 20720 of 35809:
- Oic Can Help Resolve Kashmir, Palestine Issues: Musharraf (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Calls Mecca Summit a ‘historic moment’
Indian response to de-militarisation proposal ‘not positive so far
- Inflation Targeting (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 09, 2005)
Inflation targeting is fast emerging an useful strategic tool for predictable economic management.
- Clash In North Waziristan (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 09, 2005)
At least 17 persons were reported dead in clashes between seminary students and highway bandits near Miranshah in the volatile North Waziristan Agency on Wednesday. The clash followed students’ refusal to pay ‘tax’ at a ‘checkpost’ established . . .
- Musharraf’S Call To Muslim Leaders (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 09, 2005)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf has urged the Muslim leaders to work out a strategy for Islamic revival and renaissance,recommend mandatory contribution for scientific and technological advancement, and ask extremists to shun violence. In a wide-ranging ..
- Launching Edusat In J&k (Daily Excelsior, Dr Renu Nanda, Dec 09, 2005)
Due to globalisation, the world is going through rapid changes where national boundaries of production and distribution and the quality of life are giving way to global trends and standards.
- Class Enemies (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 09, 2005)
When trade union leaders bawl about the poor but bat for the rich
- Disband The Epfo (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 09, 2005)
Controversy over the rate of return on the Employees’ Provident Fund has become an annual feature. This points to a structural problem.
- Citings (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 09, 2005)
Are you spending in harmony with your deeply felt values? To spend in harmony with your deeply felt life values, you must first realise that money can only buy four things — possessions, services, experiences and feelings.
- Hong Kong Ministerial: Much Ado About Something (Business Line, K. Ramesh, Dec 09, 2005)
The Ministerial meeting of the 149 countries of the World Trade Organisation(WTO) will take place in Hong Kong (HK) a weekfrom now.
- Of Captors And Their Captives (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Dec 09, 2005)
India must remain watchful of American designs in South Asia in the guise of friendship, says Anuradha Dutt.
- Invest In Basic Science: Tech Alone Can't Fuel Knowledge Ambition (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 09, 2005)
The one thing that both Bill Gates and P Chidambaram agreed upon, at their breakfast meeting catalysed by ET, was the importance of channelling private investment into education.
- World Can't Watch Dhaka Fall (Pioneer, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Dec 09, 2005)
As the region's biggest power, "larger than all the rest combined" as Junius R Jayewardene reminded the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation's inaugural conference in Dhaka 20 years ago, India might expect to enjoy the same . . .
- Democracy Calling (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 09, 2005)
The latent desire for democracy that exists in mainland China and Hong Kong remains undiminished though daunting memories of the Tiananmen Square massacre are yet to fade from public memory.
- Promoting Poorer Nations’ Interests (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 09, 2005)
The WTO’s celebrated rule-based system can be used to promote labour standards in a manner that does not penalise developing countries that improve the lot of their workers, say Sanjay Reddy and Christian Barry .
- Getting Out Of The Greenspan Groove — Winds Of Change At The Fed (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 09, 2005)
For a person who comes through, in his speeches and writings, as a person with a mind of his own, the new US Federal Reserve chief-designate, Dr Ben Bernanke, is unlikely to tamely toe the line of his illustrious predecessor, Mr Alan Greenspan.
- Media Ethics Getting Complex (Tribune, N. Bhaskara Rao, Dec 09, 2005)
Wondering whether there are any professional codes of conduct in journalism, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh raised at The Tribune’s 125th anniversary function the issue of media ethics and responsibilities in a provocative way. In no civilised society ....
- Bitter Medicine Beneath The Sugar-Coated Diplomacy (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 09, 2005)
FRESH on the home-page of the WTO (www.wto.org) is the December 6 decision on changes to the WTO Agreement on TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights). It informs that cheaper generic versions of patented medicines . . .
- Indian, Chinese Railways: On Parallel Tracks (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Dec 09, 2005)
Though reform measures in China and India are not always comparable, there are many similarities and differences, especially when it comes to monolithic, government-run organisations.
- Despite Domestic Waves, Iran Will Keep Its President (Christian Science Monitor, editorial, Christian Science Monitor, Dec 09, 2005)
Tehran and Iranian opposition websites in recent weeks are rife with rumors that the regime is about to replace ultraconservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
- Bringing Back Boediono (Economist, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Indonesia's president chops away some dead wood, but not enough
- Growing Beyond Borders In It (Hindu, K. T. Jagannathan, Dec 08, 2005)
Economic growth will come through jobs and revenue from companies that are building businesses around commercial software, feels Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft.
- Inside The Lashkar-E-Taiba's Network (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Dec 08, 2005)
Top Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Shabbir Bukhari's story offers unprecedented insight into the organisation's working — and raises disturbing questions about the threat it holds out to the India-Pakistandétenteprocess.
- Ntpc To Enforce Deal With Reliance (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
The Central Government on Wednesday informed the Rajya Sabha that the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) was taking legal recourse to enforce the gas supply contract with Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) since agreeing to the changes sought by RIL
- A Note That Jars (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Dec 08, 2005)
Never mind what you were taught in school. The fact is that most good things in life are not free. That is pretty much why, barring the Grateful Dead (who were fortunate enough to find corporate sponsors even through the cannabis haze), musicians demand..
- Bill Chants 4-Point Mantra (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Mr Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect of the Microsoft Corporation, said here on Wednesday that he was happy to be back in India and, buoyed by the changes around, offered a four-point “mantra” to maximise the benefits on what the . . .
- U.S. Trade Chief Rejects "Watered-Down" Wto Deal (Reuters, Doug Palmer, Dec 08, 2005)
Countries must agree to big market openings in agriculture, manufacturing and services if world trade talks are to benefit poor nations, the top U.S. trade official said on Wednesday.
- Rejuvenating Agriculture (Tribune, P.S. Rangi, Dec 08, 2005)
Agriculture continues to be the dominant sector of the economy. The population pressure on agriculture continues to remain almost the same. More than two-third of the population still depends on agriculture and about 60 per cent get direct employment . .
- Crimes, Chew'd, Swallow'd And Digested, Appear Before Us (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 08, 2005)
KING Lear says, "Tremble, thou wretch, that hast within thee undivulged crimes." In Hamlet, one comes across, "Feats, so crimeful and so capital in nature." And in King Richard II, the Bard writes about "These accusations and these grievous crimes...
- Audit Routines, Gas Pipes, Chickens And Lawyers (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 08, 2005)
"JUST as it is impossible not to taste honey or poison that one may find at the tip of one's tongue, so it is impossible for one dealing with government funds not to taste, at least a little bit, of the King's wealth."
- India To Blame: Infy's Murthy (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
America is at war and Bill Gates, worth $39 billion in packaged software, wants it to merge with China and India.
- Can India Play The Great Game? (The Financial Express, RAJIV KUMAR, Dec 08, 2005)
There have been recent reports of Indian interest in joining the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TAP) natural gas pipeline consortium that purports to bring Turkmen gas to the sub-continent. If India were to join, as it should, TAP will become . . .
- Hold Reliance To Account (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 08, 2005)
Reliance Industries Ltd wants to wriggle out of its obligation to supply $8 billion worth of natural gas to NTPC’s 2,600 ME Kawas and Gandhar power plants on its contracted terms
- Microsoft To Invest $1.7 Bln In India (Reuters, Shailendra Bhatnagar and Kirstin Ridley, Dec 08, 2005)
Microsoft Corp. plans to invest $1.7 billion in India over four years to deepen its presence in the fast-growing software powerhouse, Chairman Bill Gates said on Wednesday.
- Urbane Worries (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 08, 2005)
Every Indian knows that a well-funded and well-focused investment plan for our urban areas is needed. So, the idea of a ‘national urban renewal mission,’ launched by the Prime Minister on Saturday, is welcome. The project is described as involving . . .
- Neglecting The Costs Of Failure (The Economic Times, PRADEEP S MEHTA, Dec 08, 2005)
Justice was not done to the developing countries in the Uruguay Round. Hence, it would be unfair for the developed countries to ask for greater market access from their poor counterparts at Hong Kong
- Banks On A Re-Think (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 08, 2005)
Data on sources of corporate financing published in this paper last Sunday represent the flip side of the Reserve Bank of India's observations on commercial lending by banks.
- Big Deal! The M&a Party’S Only Just Begun (The Financial Express, Sourav Majumdar, Dec 08, 2005)
These columns had, in early 2004, talked of how the Indian marketplace was once again readying for a season of mergers and acquisitions
- ``Advani Resignation Not On Mumbai Meet Agenda'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Says it's celebration time, not for resignations or coronation
- Pakistan’S Strategy For Wto Moot (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 08, 2005)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has approved Pakistan’s negotiations strategy for the WTO ministerial conference scheduled for December 13-18 in Hong Kong at a meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee held in Islamabad on Tuesday. Commerce Minister . .
- Cases Of ‘Disappearance’ (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 08, 2005)
HRCP chairperson Asma Jahangir has drawn attention to a very serious problem that has emerged of late in Pakistan. It is the disappearance of people which is being reported from different parts of the country. Ms Jahangir has pointed out that an . . .
- Microsoft To Invest $1.7 Billion In India (Deccan Herald, K S Narayanan, Dec 08, 2005)
To accelerate its growing market presence in India, US-based global software giant Microsoft Corporation has announced a bouquet of sops here worth an investment of US$ 1.7 billion.
- Galvanizing The Muslim Countries (Dawn, Fateh M. Chaudhri, Dec 08, 2005)
An extraordinary summit of the 36-year-old Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) is being held in Makkah at the invitation of King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz to define the Ummah’s response to the multiple challenges it faces internally and externally.
- Why Support To R&d Is Crucial (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Dec 08, 2005)
If India is to compete in the international markets for goods and services, it must give top priority to high quality advanced education in science and technology with a sharp focus on research and development.
- Sebi Order Set Aside (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) on Wednesday set aside the penalty on Tata Coffee and Tata Tea imposed by the capital market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India, on condition that the companies disclose complete details of . . .
- Saran: No Promise To Burns On Iran Energy Deals (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Dec 08, 2005)
"I do not know who assured him because it certainly was not us"
LNG deal with Iran on the cards
"We have told the U.S. that Iran is our strategic partner"
Russia's interest in pipeline project allays fears of financial viability
- Improving Life In Urban India (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 08, 2005)
Cities are supposed to be a leading engine of India's economic growth. But their chronic problems, including their crumbling infrastructure, deficient governance, and, most importantly, the appalling health and social indicators of the poor, . . .
- Epf Interest Rate Reduced To 8.5 P.C. (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Dec 08, 2005)
Unions to take up matter with Manmohan
- Kashmir: Terror Build-Up Triggers Alarm (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Dec 08, 2005)
Many Lashkar operatives seem to have infiltrated in the wake of the earthquake
Up to 100 cadres have crossed LoC since October 8
Activation of new Lashkar cells in Jammu
Degradation in defences because of quake
- Microsoft To Invest $1.7 B (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Bill Gates views India as a potentially huge market
Investment to be deployed across select focus areas Computer services to the rural poor Windows Operating System in nine languages
- Bihar Falling Into Debt Trap: Cag (Hindu, K. BALCHAND, Dec 08, 2005)
Liabilities of the State stand at three times its revenue receipts
- "Fdi In Retail Will Hit 4 Crore People" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Last 15 years of reforms have not been a model for inclusive growth, says Karat
Government asked to examine impact of FDI in retail in other countries
Says Left will not support Government on FDI in retail
- Wto: Kamal Nath's Warning (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
The Government on Wednesday assured Parliament that it would not compromise the interests of Indian farmers and open the door to subsidised goods even if it meant the collapse of the World Trade Organisation's Hong Kong Ministerial round.
- No Compromise On Stance On Agriculture At Wto: Nath (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Ruling out any compromise on developing countries' stance on agriculture, India today made it clear that it would not mind even if Hong Kong WTO Ministerial next week collapses on this count.
- What Has Been Ailing The Tax-Gdp Ratio? (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Dec 08, 2005)
The more you earn, the less you keep.
And now I lay me down to sleep.
I pray the Lord my soul to take, if the
tax-collector hasn't got it `fore I wake.
Ogden Nash
- Ntpc Looks To Enforce Contract With Reliance (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Power minister P M Sayeed said on Wednesday that the changes sought by Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) in its gas supply contract with National Thermal Power Corp (NTPC) would hit the state-run company. He also said NTPC was taking legal steps to . . .
- Fatwa Against Freedom (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Dec 08, 2005)
It will take Islamists in Bangladesh more than terror tactics to stamp out the free spirit of a brave people, writes Ashis Chakrabarti
- Geopolitical Chessboard Warms Up - India Joins Russia In Jointly Operating Air Force Out Of Tajik Air Base - Pakistan Slowly Getting Encircled By Indian Air Force And Navy (India Daily, Sonia Chopra, Dec 08, 2005)
It is a long term strategy for India to check Pakistan from any more adventurous moves like Kargil. India plans to encircle Pakistan in a way that Pakistan will think hundred times before venturing into India ever.
- Microsoft To Add 3000 More Jobs And Invest 1.7bn Dollars In India Over Four Years (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Microsoft Corporation Chairman Bill Gates Wednesday said the company would invest 1.7bn US dollars in India over the next four years.
- Bill Rings In Christmas: $1.7 Bn-Plus On India (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
With a $1.7 billion budget, Microsoft Corp, the world’s biggest software company, signed up on Wednesday for a major role in India’s drive to modernise and take IT to rural areas
- Deplorable! (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Dec 08, 2005)
Yet another blasphemous act and yet again the Muslims across the globe feel psychologically shattered. It seems the unscrupulous elements target the towering personality of the perfect and the best creation of all times with a purpose.
- Privatisation Plans (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 08, 2005)
Don’t Disinvest, Reinvest
In his interview to The McKinsey Quarterly Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed helplessness at not being able to proceed with disinvestment of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited and other public sector undertakings (PSUs) . .
- Party Must End (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 08, 2005)
When will we learn something better?
- Nonalignment Today (Tribune, Anita Inder Singh, Dec 08, 2005)
One unintended outcome of the Volcker report is the debate it has sparked off on whether, in the 21st century, India should continue to define its foreign policy as a nonalignment country.
- Let A Thousand Children Bloom (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 08, 2005)
The slow and limited international response to the HIV/ AIDS crisis has contributed directly to the deepening of global health inequalities.
- Poverty And Inflation (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Dec 08, 2005)
Pakistan's economic future is bright despite the setback caused by the October 8 earthquake, says a senior IMF official. In saying that he rhymes with the optimistic predictions of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, which have made intense
- Wind Can Fight Global Warming (Tribune, Andrew Buncombe, Dec 08, 2005)
Wind power has far greater potential than previously thought for providing countries in the developing world with access to cheap and clean energy, new data suggests.
- An Indian Faces Medieval Punishment In Saudi Arabia. What Kind Of Country Is It? (Indian Express, Shriya Anand, Dec 08, 2005)
The central institution of Saudi Arabian government is the monarchy. The Basic Law adopted in 1992 declared that the Holy Qur’an is the constitution of the country, which is governed on the basis of Islamic law (Shari’a).
- Banks Must Seek Rbi Nod To Outsource Services Overseas (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in a draft guideline has said banks would require its prior approval for outsourcing services when the service provider is located outside India. This also applies when outsourcing is in relation to doorstep banking.
- Indian Banks Cannot Outsource Core Functions: Rbi (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
INDIAN banks cannot outsource core banking functions including management of investment portfolio.
- Microsoft Lines Up $1.7 B Investments For India — To Expand R&d Activities; Promote It Literacy (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Betting heavily on India's IT prowess, the Microsoft Chairman, Mr Bill Gates, today announced an investment of $1.7 billion (Rs 7,858 crore) spread over the next four years to expand its research and development (R&D) activities, . . .
- American Businesses Including Bill Gates And Microsoft Will Go Back As Fast As They Are Coming To India (India Daily, Babu Ghanta, Dec 08, 2005)
That is the way America operates. It is a free capitalistic country where people can choose what they want to do within the parameters of the law of land.
- That Soft, Steady Glow Of Democracy (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Dec 08, 2005)
What could be the link between a constitutional referendum in Kenya, the arrest of a former military dictator in Chile and the electoral defeat of a flawed populist in India’s Bihar state?
- The Use Of Reuse (Deccan Herald, S KUPPUSWAMY, Dec 08, 2005)
Reusing something is not only economical, it also teaches us lessons about values
- Sena: The Tiger Whimpers (Deccan Herald, Venkat Krishnan, Dec 08, 2005)
The Shiv Sena is a party in trouble. Unless the party reinvents itself, it has no future.
- The Protege Who Came In From The Cold (Indian Express, Shiv Aroor, Dec 08, 2005)
The protege who came in from the cold
- Venture Funds For Tiny Enterprises Cursor (The Economic Times, T K ARUN, Dec 08, 2005)
Climbing steep mountains, everyone knows, is high-adrenaline stuff. Scouring the bottom of the pyramid for nuggets of gold is higher adventure still. And India needs a lot of it — to attack poverty, for enterprise to flourish, to erode the caste . . .
- Russian Model, European Bovine (Pioneer, Dmitri Kosyrev, Dec 08, 2005)
The price of one European cow symbolises the difference between global economic policies of the Pacific and Eurocentric West, says Dmitri Kosyrev.
- Certain Place (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 08, 2005)
Mr Subash Ghisingh has his way again. A special status for Darjeeling under the sixth schedule of the Constitution has significant political implications. It will give far more financial and administrative powers to the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council.
- United States Looks To India As New Global Ally (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
The Bush administration is looking increasingly to India as a core ally as it seeks to engineer what could be a major diplomatic shift away from the power alignments forged after World War Two.
- Indo-Russian Energy Ties To Be Strengthened (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Building on strategic partnership, India and Russia have agreed to actively explore opportunities to further expand their cooperation in the field of peaceful use of atomic energy.
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