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Articles 21721 through 21820 of 35809:
- Pakistan A Security Challenge Not An Enemy, Says Tyagi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 22, 2005)
Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal S.P. Tyagi on Monday said Pakistan is a security challenge and not an enemy
- Sharon Forms New Party, Calls For Polls (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Nov 22, 2005)
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday quit the governing Likud party, announced the formation of a new party and called for early polls.
- Rise Of India And China Changing Global Balance: Lee Kuan Yew (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 22, 2005)
"They should not be suspicious of each other"
Vital for India, China to understand each other
Points to difference between their literacy rates
Services alone cannot make India a major economy
- Free Trade Agreement Between India And China Can 20% World Gdp By 2025 – An Economic Superpower Never Seen Before (India Daily, Sonia Joshi, Nov 22, 2005)
The global business landscape is set to be galvanised by a synergy between China and India,
- A Man With A Vision (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 22, 2005)
The relevance of economics in today's society is largely the efforts of visionaries, who took economics away from the dry theories into the real world of development. Dr V K R V Rao is one such person, P Ramachandran & R S Deshpande tell us.
- Stand Firm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 22, 2005)
Diplomacy should be used to release the hostages taken by the Taliban.
- Dream Into Reality (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Nov 22, 2005)
Kalam’s mission statement needs serious study.
- ‘Knowledge Of Hiv Scant, Incomplete’ (Deccan Herald, Marianne de Nazareth, Nov 22, 2005)
An EU-India Media initiative on HIV/AIDS was undertaken by the Thomson Foundation based in Cardiff, Wales and financed by the European Union recently in Goa.
- Migration Can Lead To Welfare Of Migrants: World Bank Report (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 22, 2005)
International migration can generate substantial welfare gains for migrants and their families, as well as their origin and destination countries, if policies to better manage the flow of migrants and facilitate the transfer of remittances are pursued, sa
- Growing Up Is Hard To Do (Indian Express, PIYUSH MATHUR, Nov 22, 2005)
Grasping the tragedy of a youth icon such as Sania requires deconstructing the hierarchical relationship between the young and the old in India.
- Breathing Space For All: Vienna May Not Report Iran To Un (Indian Express, LOUIS CHARBONNEAU, Nov 22, 2005)
EU powers and Washington will not refer Iran to the UN Security Council this week so that Russia can pursue an initiative to ease a crisis over Tehran’s suspected nuclear arms plans, diplomats said today.
- Brazil To Invest In New Areas, Including Infrastructure And Energy, In India (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 22, 2005)
Brazil said that it was looking to invest in new areas, including infrastructure and energy, in India.
- Us Under Secretary Of Commerce David Mccormick Will Tour India Ahead Of The Meeting Of Us-India High Technology Cooperation Group Later This Month (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 22, 2005)
The US Under Secretary of Commerce David McCormick will tour India ahead of the meeting of US-India High Technology Cooperation Group later this month in New Delhi, which will focus on cooperation in bio-technology, defence trade and nano-technology.
- Banking Reforms Marginalising The Small, Tiny Sectors (Business Line, DE. RAMAKRISHNAN , Nov 22, 2005)
Jean Tardif in his article The Hidden Dimensions of Globalisation: What is at Stake Geo-culturally? says:
- Reading It Right (Telegraph, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Nov 22, 2005)
The author is president, Centre for Policy Research The views expressed are personal
- Leveraging It To Ensure Energy Security (Business Line, Pradeep Roy, Nov 22, 2005)
Energy is a key building block for sustaining any nation's socio-economic development. In his address to the nation on the eve of the 59th Independence Day, the President, Mr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, highlighted the importance of managing energy security.
- The It Difference (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Nov 22, 2005)
The growing role of the IT sector in India's economy is now well established. But the implications it has for economy-wide growth and welfare are still a source of controversy. C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh examine certain struct ural features ....
- Sebi To Speed Up Dispute Settlement (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 22, 2005)
Securities and Exchange Board of India Chairman M Damodaran is taking a leaf out of New York Attorney-General Eliot Spitzer’s books.
- Avoidable Tinkering (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Nov 22, 2005)
It is another instance where the government issued rules and only then considered consequences. It has once again tweaked the rules governing foreign fund-raising.
- Pot Calls Kettle Black (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Nov 22, 2005)
About one-fourth of the 5.8 billion dollars worth of pledges made at the Donors’ Conference for rehabilitation and reconstruction of the earthquake-hit areas reportedly came from the Muslim countries. The pledges are in the form of soft loans and . . .
- ‘Look East Policy’ Has Paid Off (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Nov 22, 2005)
About one-fourth of the 5.8 billion dollars worth of pledges made at the Donors’ Conference for rehabilitation and reconstruction of the earthquake-hit areas reportedly came from the Muslim countries. The pledges are in the form of soft loans and grants i
- Makes Sense, Wholesale (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 22, 2005)
Allowing foreign direct Investment in retailing has been vexatious even at the best of times (read: strong coalition at the Centre),
- Livelihood And Urban Public Space (Hindu, G. ANANTHAKRISHNAN, Nov 22, 2005)
Explores the baffling contradictions of urban India through street livelihood
- China, Chile, And Free Trade Agreements (Hindu, Jorge Heine, Nov 22, 2005)
Chile is reaping the benefits of its "Look East Asia" policy of the early 1990s, especially in trade with China. It is now looking at South Asia, India particularly, as "the next frontier" in its international trade and investment strategy.
- The Bihar Laloo Lost (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Nov 22, 2005)
In Bihar’s most celebrated festival, Chhat, the participating men, and mostly women, must break their fast in the evening with kheer. But there is an attached ritual injunction: if the believer should come upon any gravel in the dish,
- Putin Hardens Stand On Disputed Islands (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Nov 22, 2005)
Moscow is sticking to its position that Russia and Japan must first build strong trade and economic ties and then try and resolve the territorial dispute over four Southern Kuril Islands.
- Sebi Penalises Hanil Era (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 22, 2005)
The Securities and Exchanges Board of India has imposed a penalty of Rs. 10 lakh on Hanil Era Textiles for failing to redress the grievances of investors.
- Sebi Nod For Ginni Ipo (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 22, 2005)
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has approved Ginni Filaments' plan to raise Rs. 60 crore through a hundred per cent book building process next month. The maker of ultra-fine combed cotton and grey and dyed knitted fabric . . .
- Design Industry Empowers Economies: Minister (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Nov 22, 2005)
Speakers stress "vision" and "creative irreverence" in strategies
Advertising key aspect of "image-making sector:" Lee
Consumer should be wooed in terms of "spirit" also: Hermawan Kartajaya
- Jute Modernisation Fund: A.P. Mills' Proactive Role (Hindu, Indrani Dutta, Nov 22, 2005)
Incentive scheme for modernisation has been extended
Incentive scheme has been extended by three years
Kerala mills too have come forward to avail themselves of the scheme
- Primary Allotments Still Stuck In A Paper Trail (The Financial Express, Vivek Law, Nov 22, 2005)
A 78 year-old man from Delhi, Harjinder Singh Gambhir, sent me an e-mail a few days back.
- Old Gold (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 22, 2005)
Gold prices have been scaling new heights almost every day in the domestic market, while it has reached an 18-year high in the international markets. Almost a century after John Maynard Keynes called it a “barbarous relic”, gold seems to have lost none...
- Infosys Among Most Admired Firms (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 22, 2005)
Infosys Technologies announced on Monday that it is the first Indian company to be inducted into the Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) Hall of Fame.
- Rbi Finally Brings Credit Cards Under Regulation (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 22, 2005)
A long hiatus and host of complaints from customers later, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has finally brought credit card operations of banks and finance companies under its regulatory purview.
- The Hidden Costs Of Conflict (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 22, 2005)
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo deaths attributable directly or indirectly to conflict exceed the losses sustained by Britain in the First World War and Second World War combined.
- World Apathy And Marketing (Greater Kashmir, MINHAJ QIDWAI, Nov 22, 2005)
The earthquake that struck Pakistan on Oct. 08, is a tragedy that brought mayhem for Pakistan. With about 90,000 dead and more than 2 million left homeless,
- Burnt Out Case (Telegraph, Jay Bhattacharjee, Nov 22, 2005)
The roots of the recent violence in Paris can be traced to the functioning of the French establishment and the elite, writes Jay Bhattacharjee
- Quota Questions (Statesman, Sushila Ramaswamy, Nov 22, 2005)
The demand by political parties of all shades and opinion, both within Parliament and outside, for central legislation to override the Supreme Court ruling against state quotas is surprising.
- Wrong Strategy (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 22, 2005)
In the hands of cynical people politics can be frightening business. The Congress’s show of solidarity with Mr Adhir Chowdhury could have led to horrible deaths for some bus passengers in Calcutta.
- `Telecom Officers' Posting Row Had Cost Govt Rs 2000 Cr' (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 22, 2005)
Indian Telecom Service Association (ITSA) today claimed that the Government has lost over Rs 2,000 crore due to the `inefficient' and `inept' management by the Department of Telecom in absorbing 2000 Group A officers on deputation in BSNL and MTNL.
- 'Don't Leave Afghanistan Half-Way' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Nov 22, 2005)
Q: How do you look at Afghanistan joining the SAARC? . . .
- India Recognizes Thai Princess With Indira Gandhi Award For Social Projects In Upliftment Of The Poor And Empowerment Of Women And Afghan President For Trying To Bring Peace In Afghanistan (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 21, 2005)
Indira Gandhi Award for Peace, Disarmament, and Development for 2004 was awarded to Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand by President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in Rashtrapati Bhavan [President House] today.
- Just Kiss! (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Nov 21, 2005)
Any hope that we will soon have a sensible, forward-looking foreign direct investment (FDI) policy has been buried, following Friday’s Cabinet decision to refer it to a group of ministers (GoM).
- Royal Nerd? (The Financial Express, Editorial, Economic Times, Nov 21, 2005)
At a recent CII summit on marketing, the young Congress MP, Jyotiraditya Scindia,
- Shining, Growing Tip Of The Iceberg (The Economic Times, Rama Bijapurkar, Nov 21, 2005)
At two speaking engagements last week, people said they were surprised by my non-optimism (read that as ‘gung ho’ ness) about what’s happening in Consumer India. One of them was on whether values in India are changing (answer: some changes,
- Will Pay Hike Result In Better Teaching? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Nov 21, 2005)
Pay hikes for teachers will almost definitely not improve the quality of education/teaching. If it would, then the quality of teaching should have improved over the years as teacher salaries have gone up.
- Saarc Politics Stunt Development (The Economic Times, C UDAY BHASKAR, Nov 21, 2005)
The 13th Saarc summit concluded in Dhaka on Sunday last (Nov 13) with a declaration, which notwithstanding its rhetorical flourish and ambitious objectives, reflected the structural constraints that have hobbled the organisation for two decades and . . .
- 'Russia Is The Next Energy Superpower' (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 21, 2005)
Stating that it was US leaders like Condoleezza Rice and Dick Cheney who had scripted the new geopolitics of the Caspian sea region, energy expert Dr S.K. Sharma claimed that it is Russia that is emerging as the next energy superpower.
- Corporate Debt Can Take More Fii Funds (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 21, 2005)
Corporate debt needs a more liberal foreign institutional investment regime. The present cap of $500 million is far too restrictive. With the economy showing signs of fresh capacity to absorb investment, the time is right to liberalise FII investment ....
- Ready, Unsteady, Go (Hindustan Times, Pankaj Vohra, Nov 21, 2005)
The last word on the BJP-RSS tussle is yet to be heard. There has been intense speculation these last few weeks as to who will succeed L.K. Advani as the BJP chief after he demits office in December at Mumbai.
- Problematic Proposal (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Nov 21, 2005)
The finance ministry has set up a committee to suggest a way to ensure that tax-saving investments made by individuals get taxed at the end of their life cycle—under what the finance minister referred to in his Budget speech as the exempt-exempt-tax . . .
- Give Peace A Few More Chances (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 21, 2005)
Set a schedule for achieving the aid to gross national income ratio of 0.7 per cent by 2015: Donors should set budget commitments at a minimum level of 0.5 per cent for 2010.
- Very Well Said (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Nov 21, 2005)
In the late sixties there was violence in and around Srinagar. Some concerned young persons of the Capital city's prestigious Sri Pratap College set apart their political differences to form a peace committee for the restoration of harmony.
- Lengthening Shadows Of Naxalites (Daily Excelsior, Sarvadaman, Nov 21, 2005)
The terror and mayhem let loose by the Naxalites/Maoists has become bloody.
- Development Agenda For Karnataka (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 21, 2005)
Kalam unveils 11-point plan, wants economic activity spread across the State
- World Responds To Pakistan (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Nov 21, 2005)
The outcome of the International Donors’ Conference held in Islamabad is quite encouraging with world community making pledges more than the amount indicated by the host and the multilateral institutions in their consensus assessment report of the . . .
- All Psus To Comply With Sebi's Listing Requirements (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 21, 2005)
With SEBI's deadline for appointment of independent directors on boards of listed companies fast approaching, all ministries barring petroleum and steel have finalised the probables.
"Barring oil and steel all the ministries have finalised the panel ....
- Nehru’S Lessons For Manmohan (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Nov 21, 2005)
Virtually every Naga knows the story of their elders who went to Gandhi in July 1947, demanding independence.
- Indian Polity And Poor People (Daily Excelsior, Sondip Bhattacharya, Nov 21, 2005)
The 2004 parliamentary verdict was a mandate for tolerance, social justice and secularism. Inspired by Nehruvian ideas, this model had ensured some level of tolerance and distributive fairness and yet at the same time sought to achieve economic growth,...
- Of Us And Roman Empire (Daily Excelsior, Allabaksh, Nov 21, 2005)
Natwar Singh has not only been hit hard-fairly or otherwise is a different matter—by Paul Volcker, former head of the US Federal Reserve (bank), but also humbled in the most imperial way by this ‘distinguished’ American.
- Oppression By Bigger Powers Makes Peace An Impossibility (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Nov 21, 2005)
Bloodshed is abhorable. But those who want to rule by force are responsible for it. Everywhere in the world, Muslims are being persecuted.
- Kalam Way To Robust Karnataka (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 21, 2005)
In his special address to the joint session of the Karnataka legislature to mark the Suvarna Karnataka celebrations, the president focussed on transforming the State into an economic powerhouse by the turn of the decade.
- Ficci For Cut In Tax Rates (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 21, 2005)
Displeased with this year’s tax reforms, industry chamber Ficci, on Sunday, proposed further cuts in tax rates, and yet taget a lower fiscal deficit of 4 per cent of GDP in the budget for 2006-07.
- Psus Will Abide By Sebi’S Diktat (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 21, 2005)
With Sebi’s deadline for appointment of independent directors on boards of listed companies fast approaching, all ministries barring petroleum and steel have finalised the probables.
- Full Text Of President's Speech (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 21, 2005)
President A P J Abdul Kalam addressed the members of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in Bangalore on Sunday. What follows is the complete text of the speech.
- Twenty Years Of Saarc Failure (Greater Kashmir, Samuel Baid, Nov 21, 2005)
Compared to the 12th summit meeting of the Heads of State and Government of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
- Missing The ‘Should’ For The Trees (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 21, 2005)
To save forests, and the Tribal Bill, use the Employment Guarantee Act
- No-Go Area-Ii -By Ishan Joshi (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 21, 2005)
Even those who concede that advising France to jettison its integrationist model could amount to advocating an illiberal communitarianism i.e.
- China’S Super Moves (Deccan Herald, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Nov 21, 2005)
The strategic silence of China and the US on key issues shows that they are working towards a rapprochement
- Challenges Before President Rajapakse (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Nov 21, 2005)
Mahinda Rajapakse, in his self-defined role of architect of a "new Sri Lanka," has to balance several contradictions. These arise from the polarised mandate and his political allies.
- Not The Reform Spirit (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Nov 21, 2005)
When the UPA government took office last year, concerns about the attitude of the coalition towards economic reforms were assuaged to some extent by the appointment of reformers with proven credentials.
- Tyranny Of Numbers (Business Line, S. Ramachander, Nov 21, 2005)
Years ago when a car dealership sold you a motor car, it was customary for them to ring you and ask how it was doing, and be reminded when it was due for servicing, even after the obligatory free services were over.
- Fractured Island (Tribune, Shastri Ramachandaran, Nov 21, 2005)
The emergence of Mr Mahinda Rajapakse at the helm of the state and government in Sri Lanka marks a clear break with the tradition where a dynasty or a dominant family held the highest political office.
- France's Burning Economic Issues (Business Line, Mohan Murti, Nov 21, 2005)
In the world of men's clothes, nothing is more beautiful than the tuxedo with black tie — one of the few garments that makes a man, any man, look his splendid best.
- America’S Future Is Stuck Overseas (Deccan Herald, Stuart Anderson, Nov 21, 2005)
Foreign students consolidate America’s position as a world leader in science and technology.
- Pension The Idea (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Nov 21, 2005)
The decision to offer a pension scheme with an assured return goes against the very spirit of pension reform, begun to get out of the open-ended liability imposed by a defined-benefit scheme.
- Growth And Equity (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 21, 2005)
Last Week, Three apparently unrelated official announcements provided an underlying text for economic growth in the medium term.
- Volcker Probe: The Big Picture (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Nov 21, 2005)
At the grassroots level, it can be argued that the seeds of corruption which ultimately affected the operation of the oil-for-food programme were sowed by the rules and guidelines drawn up to implement the programme.
- Domestic Container Traffic In A Jam (Business Line, Santanu Sanyal, Nov 21, 2005)
INDIA'S international trade in containers, both imports and exports, posted an impressive and steady growth in the past few years to touch 4.2 million TEUs in 2004-05.
- The Divestment Debate: China's Example (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Nov 21, 2005)
Contradictions abound in the world of modern political economies.
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