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Articles 23421 through 23520 of 35809:
- Indian Infrastructure Is Just Pathetic: Iata (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
Stating that Indian air transport sector was most vibrant and fastest growing in the world, IATA said it could become a catalyst for economic growth if critical bottlenecks were removed.
- China's Major Leap In Space (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 19, 2005)
Two years, almost to the day, after China's first astronaut, Yang Liwei, circled the Earth for over 21 hours in the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft, the country's manned space effort took a big leap forward.
- Learn From China: Chidambaram (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
India has to learn a lot from China's experience in developing its economy at a fast pace,
- Aim For $100 B, Exporters Told (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
Kamal Nath asks exporters to identify and tap unexplored markets
- If India Had Abstained... (Indian Express, Subrahmanyam, Oct 19, 2005)
It is amazing to see the tons of newsprint devoted to the Iran issue in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in this country without any focus on the real issue.
- India's Export Growth Slips To Single Digit In Sept. (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
After clocking over 20 per cent growth since April, India's exports slipped for the first time this fiscal year to a single digit growth of 7.51 per cent in September.
- Over A Million Jobs May Have Been Lost In Pakistan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
Labour-intensive job schemes needed: ILO
Widespread destruction of infrastructure
Areas affected are amongst the poorest in Pakistan
Need to rebuild minimum of assets to revive urban informal economy
- India's Fast Growth Seen Fuelling Price Pressures (Reuters, Thomas Kutty Abraham and Suresh Seshadri, Oct 19, 2005)
Indian manufacturers have passed on higher costs to consumers on the back of a buoyant economy, company executives and analysts say, a development which threatens to fuel inflation and push up interest rates.
- India Has To Learn A Lot From China's Near Double-Digit Economic Growth And Emergence As The World's Factory : Finance Minister P Chidambaram (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
India has to learn a lot from China's near double-digit economic growth and emergence as the world's factory,
- Tamil Groups, Family Pay Homage To Veerappan (Hindu, R. Ilangovan, Oct 19, 2005)
'Sethukuzhi' Govindan ignored, no visitors to his grave
- A Creditable Performance At Kalpakkam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
FBTR completes 20 years
Though the FBTR was based on the design of the French reactor Rapsodie, it was built with design changes to make it a mini power station by itself
- Kalam's Vision For Developing Goa (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
Forty-minute presentation done with the help of a laptop
- Pakistan’S Image Problem (Dawn, Shamshad Ahmad Khan, Oct 19, 2005)
Another year has gone by in our country’s chequered history as an independent state.
- Building The Region (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 19, 2005)
During his meetings with the Haryana and Punjab Chief Ministers in Chandigarh on Monday, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani made two promises: to set up a special economic zone in Haryana and start a fruit and vegetable export project in Punjab.
- Baglihar: The Points At Issue (Hindu, Ramaswamy R. Iyer, Oct 19, 2005)
The specific points of difference relate to the design of the Project, the extent of pondage, and the placement of the spillway gates and the water intake.
- Beyond Repair? (Dawn, Hafizur Rahman, Oct 19, 2005)
Even the most recalcitrant group in Pakistan — be it political, social, economic or administrative — is willing to listen to wise counsel of some kind in some circumstances. But I always wonder why government leaders waste their time by giving advice ....
- 3 Cheers For 2 Articles (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 19, 2005)
At the Bombay High Court, while arguing for Environmental Action Group, Mr I. M. Chagla clarified that he was not seeking a freeze on all development in the mill land.
- Distant Neighbours (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 19, 2005)
Sufferings efface identities. I thought something like that would happen when the earthquake struck Islamabad and both sides of Kashmir, causing more death and destruction in the areas under Pakistan’s control than in India.
- A Wave Of Internationalisation Of R&d (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Oct 19, 2005)
Transnational corporations have come a long way from the conventional norm of retaining proprietary assets within the company (or group).
- The Larger Gameplan (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Oct 19, 2005)
Despite the potential of her anti-Salim stand, Mamata Banerjee is unlikely to earn long-term dividends from it, writes Ashis Chakrabarti
- Third-Party Certifying Ngos — A Blow To Wto's Hong Kong Ministerial? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Oct 19, 2005)
The rich nations appear to have shifted serious business from the WTO ministerial negotiating table to a forum of third-party certifying NGOs. The Singapore agenda is back even before headway is made in the matter of respecting the national . . .
- Past Lady (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 19, 2005)
No worse fate can befall a politician than increasing irrelevance. Ms Mamata Banerjee has placed herself in that hapless plight.
- Land Locked (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 19, 2005)
The Bombay High Court ruling on the quantum of land available to textile mills in Mumbai for commercial development is a clear victory for environmental action groups that had spearheaded the legal challenge.
- Ongc Of India And British Petroleum May Join Hands For Exploration Collaboration In India And Overseas (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Oil and Natural Gas Commission Ltd (ONGC) Chairman Subir Raha on Friday said the company was in touch with British Petroleum (BP) for exploration collaboration in India and overseas.
- Signs Of Hyperinflation In India - India's Tata Motors Hints At Price Hike Due To Continued Pressure On Margins Because Of Increased Input And Freight Costs (India Daily, Ratan Tomika, Oct 18, 2005)
India is facing delayed hyperinflation.
- Lessons From Nash And The Nobel (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Oct 18, 2005)
What can one learn from Nash, the Nobel and the movie? Mainly that children need to be exposed to the masters in mathematics and science to begin dreaming early on about becoming great. How many Indian children are exposed to the Ramanujans and the Ramans
- The Economics Of Disasters (Dawn, SHAHID JAVED BURKI, Oct 18, 2005)
The northern areas of Pakistan and the adjoining areas of Kashmir under Indian control were ravaged by an earthquake on the morning of October 8.
- Rushing For Gold (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Do your homework well before investing in gold
- Cisco Ceo To Visit India (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
John Chambers, President & CEO of Cisco Systems, Inc., the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, will be visiting India from October 19 to 21, 2005.
- Bangladesh Bans Another Islamist Outfit (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Begum Khaleda Zia's government, on Monday, banned the Harqatul Jihad-al Islami, a day after leader of a coalition partner was killed in the south-eastern port city of Chittagong on Saturday night. It is a militant Islamist outfit that has cadres who had p
- Forsyth Partners Says It’S Very Bullish On Indian Bourses (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
India’s share market still looks attractive despite a stellar run that pushed the market to a record high earlier this month, Forsyth Partners said on Monday reports Reuters from Hong Kong.
- An Unlikely Pair (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Oct 18, 2005)
Opening of retail trade to foreign investors could lead to loss of millions of jobs over a period of time
- When Death Took The Roll Call (Dawn, F. S. Aijazuddin, Oct 18, 2005)
Can there be anything more heartbreaking in the life of a young nation than that it should have to bury its young?
- Huangpu And Hooghly (Telegraph, Sumit Mitra, Oct 18, 2005)
Why does Calcutta hesitate to become like Noida and Gurgaon while Shanghai dares Paris and New York? asks Sumit Mitra
- Acknowledging Muslim Contribution - Ii (Greater Kashmir, DR. MINHAJ QIDWAI, Oct 18, 2005)
Recipient of Nobel Peace Prize Mohamed ElBaradei an Egyptian Muslim can be a role Model for all those who want to contribute towards peace and prosperity in the modern world
- Myth Of Historical Right (Dawn, Ghayoor Ahmed, Oct 18, 2005)
Following the meeting between Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri and his Israeli counterpart, Silvan Shalom, in Istanbul on September 1, and President Pervez Musharraf’s speech to the American Jewish Congress in New York on September 17,
- Put Off, For Now (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 18, 2005)
Those who stall economic reforms only delay the inevitable. The left’s success in stalling the divestment of the government’s share in Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited cannot be good news for the economy.
- New Access (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 18, 2005)
The symbolic force of laws may sometimes be more meaningful than their presence.
- Terrorism On The Rise (Tribune, Jagmohan , Oct 18, 2005)
In connection with the Kashmir imbroglio, the most serious issue which deserves to be attended to on top priority is not the withdrawal of Indian troops from two districts of the valley
- Voting Starts In Bihar (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Thousands of policemen, backed by helicopters, patrolled the lawless state of Bihar on Tuesday as voting began in a state poll that will decide the fortunes of a key member of the Congress Party-led federal coalition.
- Movement Of Capital And Labour (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 18, 2005)
While the rich countries are all for the free movement of capital, they block the free movement of labour
- Left Back (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 18, 2005)
Should the UPA be celebrating the return of the Left to the coordination committee? Or should it now give up any attempts at proposing economic reforms and prepare, instead, to tailor all its policy initiatives
- The Old Villa And America (Hindu, Prensa Latina, Oct 18, 2005)
U.S. blockade hinders restoration of Hemingway home
- Export Growth Dips In Sept. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Trade deficit widens in April-September 2005
- Pondy Fiscal Deficit Goes Up By Rs. 23 Crores (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Increase due to a rise in plan and non-plan revenue expenditure: CAG report
- Iran: It's Surrender To The U.S. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Ensure distance between party, government does not grow: Anil Biswas
- Politicising Aids (Daily Excelsior, Jyotsna Pandit, Oct 18, 2005)
The global spread of Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is triggering a dangerous epidemic of blame and racial prejudice.
- Left Seeks White Paper On Wto (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Says outcome will have far-reaching adverse consequences
Refers to previous experiences
Says it will have adverse consequences on country's economy and polity, especially the working class and peasantry
- Sebi Squashes Private Takeovers Of Ses (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Reacting to news that the Delhi Stock Exchange (DSE) was working on a deal to give up 51 per cent stake in the exchange to strategic investors,
- Banks Must Re-Invent Sme Financing (Business Line, P. P. Pathrose, Oct 18, 2005)
Small and medium enterprises are the engines of growth in an economy. But as the sector is characterised by information asymmetries and high processing costs, banks are reluctant to lend to SMEs.
- Cbms For India-Japan Trade Ties (Business Line, Raghu Dayal , Oct 18, 2005)
Sans clear contours of a comprehensive partnership, India and Japan need to explore all avenues to build a profound economic and strategic alliance.
- The Abode Of Hanuman (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
The Birth of Hanuman, Hinduism's most revered god, is shrouded in the mists of legends and myths. There may be many stories behind his birth, but the place where he lived with his group of monkeys is never in dispute,Kamala Vasudevan tells us.
- Several Unaddressed Issues — Pricing, Availability Of Jatropha Oil (Business Line, N. S. Venkataraman, Oct 18, 2005)
The Government has taken a big step forward in implementing its bio-fuel plans, by asking the public sector oil companies to buy jatropha oil from the producers at Rs 25 a litre.
- Lic Arrests Fall In Mkt Share, Industry Grows 27% Till August (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
Life Insurance Corporation increased its business by 17 per cent and arrested its falling market share at about 76 per cent in August with the launch of 'Bima Gold' and an aggressive marketing drive, but most of the private players continue to grow . . .
- Supporters Want Uma Bharti Back (Hindu, Lalit Shastri, Oct 17, 2005)
She says meetings had nothing to do with politics
BJP MLAs, former Ministers visit her
Over 90 MLAs had sent a letter to Advani, say sources
Uma Bharti denies knowledge of letter to Advani
Says letter to RSS chief is a "closed chapter"
- Centre May Reopen Delhi Riots Cases (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
The two panels formed to recommend compensation to those affected by the riots are likely to submit their reports to the government soon.
- Islam In Turkish Politics (Dawn, Najma Sadeque, Oct 17, 2005)
All too often, it takes a tragedy of overwhelming proportions to expose how well a state has served its people, especially the least-privileged, by the way they have been informed and equipped to cope with a disaster.
- U.S. Moving Forward On Nuclear Deal With India (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Oct 17, 2005)
The Bush administration this week is expected to begin laying out in more detail its plans to change U.S. and international rules so India can acquire restricted nuclear materials under a controversial deal some say undermines non-proliferation standards.
- Policy Sans Power (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 17, 2005)
Conceded that soaring crude prices and rising import dependence force examination of alternatives to fossil fuel, and what better than biofuel — the green, eco-friendly, renewable energy source — as partial replacement.
- India To Help Vietnam Develop Energy, Healthcare To Boost Overall Development (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Rao Singh said India is willing to help Vietnam develop the energy industry in addition to health care, education and science.
- The Race To Make India Contain China - Boeing Offers World’S Top-Of-The-Shelf Weapons Platforms To India With Indication Of Outsourcing From The Country (India Daily, Sonia Joshi, Oct 17, 2005)
It is clear now that India is a country that can eventually contain the Communist China right in Asia from further expansion.
- Yes, Time To Lay A Road Map For Implementing T+1 (The Financial Express, JAYANTH R VARMA, Oct 17, 2005)
For somebody who specialises in financial markets, a visit to a supermarket is a painful reminder of how primitive the settlement process is in financial markets around the world.
- The Safety Factor (Dawn, Najma Sadeque, Oct 17, 2005)
All too often, it takes a tragedy of overwhelming proportions to expose how well a state has served its people, especially the least-privileged, by the way they have been informed and equipped to cope with a disaster.
- The Lines Nations Draw (Indian Express, P. Stobdan, Oct 17, 2005)
The details of the sixth round of Sino-Indian Special Representatives-level talks (September 26-28) have not been made public.
- "The Aim Is To Discredit Sewa" (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Oct 17, 2005)
Founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)Ela R. Bhatt,in an interview, speaks about her organisation's decision to pull out of all Government of Gujarat programmes.
- Shoot Down The Flu (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Oct 17, 2005)
It would be funny if it were not so serious. As migra-tory birds carry the avian influenza virus west across Europe, Britain is following in the footsteps of Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Turkey and asking hunters to shoot down as many incoming ducks. . .
- Mrs Chancellor (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 17, 2005)
A “grand coalition’’ in Germany
- Coordinating Ritual (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 17, 2005)
Left does not have a choice
- G20 Vows Coherent Global Policies, Sees Oil Worry (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
The G20 group of rich and developing nations vowed on Sunday to pursue coherent policies in a world of increasingly global business and trade where high oil prices and protectionism threaten growth and prosperity.
- Why Every Community Needs Capital (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Oct 17, 2005)
Beyond the stage of economic infancy, every community needs capital (and capitalists) to grow higher. At that stage, a wise polity will cultivate capitalists;
- Fat Cats At The Gates (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
Commodity futures trading in India, already growing at a scorching pace is set to take a further leap with the impending entry of mutual funds and banks. But their participation has small traders and farmers, who fear trampling by entities flush with . .
- Left Back (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 17, 2005)
Should the UPA be celebrating the return of the Left to the coordination committee? Or should it now give up any attempts at proposing economic reforms and prepare,
- Wto: The Countdown To Hong Kong (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 17, 2005)
The developing countries — which have a strong stake in the continued healthy functioning of the WTO — are placed in a tight corner in that they will have to make major compromises if they want the Hong Kong ministerial to succeed and, in the process, ...
- Time For India To Draw Fdi Into R&d (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 17, 2005)
It is time our political leaders take our FDI policies seriously and set up a policy structure to attract the right quality and quantity of FDI that will enhance our technological prowess and our competitiveness.
- Banking On Technology (Business Line, K.G. Kumar, Oct 17, 2005)
Last week, a quartet of interesting developments pointed to the possibility of a developmental shift in favour of a technology-driven thrust to Kerala's industrialisation.
- The Lines Nations Draw (Indian Express, P Stobdan, Oct 17, 2005)
The details of the sixth round of Sino-Indian Special Representatives-level talks (September 26-28) have not been made public.
- Some Recommendations Of The Strategy Paper (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
Amend the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act to make it clear that the law does not seek to abolish all contract labour but only to regulate it where it can be allowed applying
- Focus Returns To The Role Of Manufacturing Sector (Hindu, R.GOPALAKRISHNAN, Oct 17, 2005)
Draft paper of Competitiveness Council stresses potential in jobs creation
The NMCC seeks to focus on specific sectors that have been the bulwark of employment all along or hold growth prospects in the future.
- Streamline Immigration Policies, Chidambaram Tells G-20 Meet (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Oct 17, 2005)
Nations should have a coordinated approach
- Giving Muscle To Manufacturing (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
The National Manufacturing Strategy Paper, brought out by the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council (NMCC) established by the United Progressive Alliance Government, deals for the most part with "generic" issues which have been on the . . .
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