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Articles 23621 through 23720 of 35809:
- Hollow Promise (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 14, 2005)
Even monarchs and military dictators sometimes pretend to be democrats. It is easy, though, to see through the democratic pretensions of Nepal’s King Gyanendra.
- Rural Love, Urban Life (Hindu, HI. SHI. RAMCHANDRE GOWDA, Oct 14, 2005)
In H.L. Nagegowda's passing away, the world of folk arts has lost one of its most ardent votaries
- China Enters New Era (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 14, 2005)
Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and other leaders in Jiuquan were overwhelmed with joy and pride when the country’s second manned spacecraft blasted from the remote northwestern launch site.
- Women And Indian Media (Daily Excelsior, Sweta Patwardhan, Oct 14, 2005)
Significant changes have taken place in the Indian media in the last decade, and more than a few relate to women.
- Mishandling The North-East (Tribune, Maj-Gen Ashok Mehta (retd), Oct 14, 2005)
MOST of our policy-makers have little sense of history and even less of geography. Otherwise, the North-East of the country would not languish in a state of neglect.
- Tata Tea's Subsidiary To Buy U.S. Brand (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2005)
Tetley will be able to increase its share in the U.S.
- Kashmir – A Conference Center (Greater Kashmir, MEHRAJU DIN BHAT, Oct 14, 2005)
Let’s make Kashmir a conference center and see how it helps in boosting our local economy, suggests
MEHRAJU DIN BHAT
- Ffe Minerals Lands Kuwaiti Order (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2005)
The Rs. 120 cr. project to be completed in 18 months
- Farm Sector Needs A New Deal (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Oct 14, 2005)
The performance of the farm sector is worrying. Urgent measures are needed to make agriculture a profitable activity, not only to benefit farmers and a large section of the rural poor but also to give a boost to the economy through backward . . .
- An Iron Lady For Germany (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 14, 2005)
A physicist, MS Angela Merkel's approach to politics is said to be quite like solving a science problem:
- Sebi Panel For Hike In F&o Exposure Limit (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2005)
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi)-appointed secondary markets advisory committee (SMAC) has recommended a five-fold increase in the member-wise exposure limit in the futures & options segment.
- India Trumps China In Fdi Returns (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2005)
China is a more attractive destination for foreign investors, but return on assets in India has been much higher, Germany-based Deutsche Bank said in a commentary on the world’s two largest emerging economies,
- Motivate Teachers (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 14, 2005)
India does not have enough good science teachers, and science students make up the largest chunk of jobless post-graduates, the India Science Report recently disclosed.
- Women To Gain Most (Deccan Herald, Devaki Jain , Oct 14, 2005)
Studies show that guaranteed wage work is more crucial for women labourers than men
- Where Is The Indian Public Intellectual? (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, Oct 14, 2005)
The writer William Dalrymple created a stir with his claim two months ago that “since 1997 there has been no new galaxy of (literary) stars emerging to match the stature of those of the 1980s and ‘90s”.
- Pension Predicament (Deccan Herald, M K RATHISH, Oct 14, 2005)
When it comes to taking crucial decisions, depend on your intuition rather than on experts
- Smart Rise In Edible Oils On Good Demand (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2005)
Edible oils were in keen demand ahead of festival season and firmed up on the oils and oilseeds market here on Thursday.
- Honda To Expand Capacity (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2005)
Honda Siel, the market leader in the sedan segment, will expand production capacity at its Greater Noida plant to 50,000 cars by next month and is targeting sales of 43,000 units during this fiscal.
- The Rupee Is Back In Focus (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 14, 2005)
After a fairly long period of relative calm, the exchange market has turned volatile from the beginning of this month. The rupee touched a ten-month low of Rs.44.25 against the dollar on October 7.
- Retailing Promises (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 14, 2005)
The govt should stand firm in its proposal
- Bio-Gas Set To Revolutionise Nellai Village (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2005)
Bio-gas is changing the lives of people in Cheranmahadevi in Tirunelveli district. They are opting for bio-gas stoves, jettisoning firewood chulas and kerosene stoves.
- Ten Lakh People Witness Jamboo Savari In Mysore (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2005)
Chief Minister Dharam Singh flagged off the procession and hoped that Goddess Chamundeshwari would bring prosperity to the people of Karnataka.
- Hpcl, Bp Float A Marketing Jv (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2005)
The BP plc—formerly British Petroleum, on Thursday, tied up with the state-owned Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) to form a joint venture (JV), to enter the refining and marketing sector in India.
- Changing View From Reer Window (Business Line, Mangesh Soman, Oct 14, 2005)
FOREX market participants have often looked at the real effective exchange rate (REER) as the anchor around which the Reserve Bank of India maintains rupee's value.
- Elusive Administrative Reforms (Business Line, Sumit K. Majumdar, Oct 14, 2005)
An inability to re-design organisation and administration has been the bane of the nation, and the second Administrative Reforms Commission may be as gargantuan an exercise in futility as the first was, over 35 years ago.
- Hpcl, Bp Ink Pact For Bhatinda Refinery (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2005)
The refinery will have nine million tonne capacity
Joint venture to provide assistance in crude selection
Partnership to help HPCL acquire refinery assets
- Don't Place All Your Bets On One Quarter Alone (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 14, 2005)
On October 12, Infosys posted a net profit of Rs 606 crore for Q2, short for the second quarter that ended on September 2005. The profit was 36 per cent more than what was achieved in last year's Q2, and beat street expectations, reported the media.
- Petro Marketing Set To Break Free Of Licence Raj (Business Standard, Jyoti Mukul, Oct 13, 2005)
In a move that may signal the end of its discretionary powers, the petroleum ministry has decided do away with licences for marketing oil.
- Faith In Quake Time (Tribune, Geetanjali Gayatri, Oct 13, 2005)
Saturday began like any other day — reading newspapers, a quick call to parents and surfing of channels to know if all was well with the world.
- Game Theory's Recognition (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2005)
When Nobel prizes were started, they were also meant to ease financial constraints for recipients.
- Employment Growth Rate Lags Far Behind World Economic Growth (Press Trust of India, PTI, Oct 13, 2005)
In a worrying development, the growth in employment has lagged far behind the world economic growth last year, a situation that experts say is not politically, socially or economically sustainable.
- A Desi Grand Coalition? (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Oct 13, 2005)
The news that Angela Merkel is set to become Germany’s next chancellor is significant for more reasons than one.
- Where’S The Indian Brandwagon? (The Financial Express, Sourav Majumdar, Oct 13, 2005)
Even as we celebrate the advent of the Indian corporation on the global horizon, thanks to the aggressive acquisitions by Indian firms abroad, it’s important to check out what’s happening on the brands front.
- Fiscal Facts (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Oct 13, 2005)
Half-way through the financial year, the news on the fiscal front is better than might have been expected, but not without some worry points.
- India Obsessed With Permanent Seat In U.N. Security Council: N. Ram (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Oct 13, 2005)
Support to the U.S.-led "provocative" resolution on Iran one of the biggest "blunders"
Sustained efforts needed to push the peace process with Pakistan
Manmohan Government too has demonstrated extreme vulnerability to U.S. pressures
- Democracy Is A Pathetic Belief In The Collective Wisdom Of Individual Ignorance (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 13, 2005)
TO BETTER understand why you need a PC, or personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life, says Dave Barry.
- Preference In Conversion (Business Line, T. V. Narayanaswamy, Oct 13, 2005)
T. V. Narayanaswamy on the applicability of Takeover Regulations to the conversion into equity shares of preference shares which carry voting rights
- Laws And Their Extra-Territorial Applicability (Business Line, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 13, 2005)
Are foreign companies beyond the fringe benefit tax regime, asks Jayesh Kariya
- Best Practices For Micro-Finance, Please (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Oct 13, 2005)
The general literature on micro-finance leaves the impression that there are no best practices in place as yet but that a consensus is developing in this direction.
- Independent Directors And Vicarious Liability (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Oct 13, 2005)
Independent directors are invited to sit on the board purely for their special skills and expertise in particular fields and they represent the conscience of the investing public.
- Undeclared Subsidy (Daily Excelsior, H C Katoch, Oct 13, 2005)
We have been brought up with the spoon of subsidy in our mouth in the state.
- Un Not A Us Tool (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 13, 2005)
The Group of 77 (representing 132 developing countries) and China have taken strong exception to the UN secretary-general’s chief of staff’s appearance before the US Congress to brief the house international relations committee about the recent UN summit.
- Bridging The Turkey-Eu Divide (Dawn, Syed Mohibullah Shah, Oct 13, 2005)
THE accession talks for Turkish membership to the EU that began last Monday have a significance that goes far beyond the borders of Europe.
- Taxation And Evasion (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Oct 13, 2005)
The World Bank has always been pressing Pakistan to increase its revenues so that it does not have to depend on large long- term loans from international lenders. In the earlier days when the GDP of Pakistan was low, the tax ratio was low to the GDP.
- An Equation With Israel? (Dawn, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 13, 2005)
CONTRARY to general belief, contact between Pakistan and Israel goes back to the years soon after independence. Pakistan is an important member of the OIC.
- Whistling Past The Fault Line (Dawn, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 13, 2005)
Earth, that living, seething, often inhospitable and not altogether intelligently designed thing, has again shrugged, and tens of thousands of Pakistanis are dead.
- Quake: Worsening Factors (Dawn, Omar R. Quraishi, Oct 13, 2005)
Perhaps the most heartening and positive feeling that one has experienced in the last few days is the massive and spontaneous response of ordinary Pakistanis to the earthquake that devastated the northern half of the country.
- Legislative Heroics Not Above Rule Of Law (Business Standard, Somasekhar Sundaresan, Oct 13, 2005)
In a recent decision, the Bombay High Court has struck down as unconstitutional the Maharashtra Protection of Interests of Depositors Act (MPIDA), passed by the Maharashtra legislature, on the commendation of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to take . . .
- Corporate Loans To Boost Banks’ Profits (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2005)
Indian banks, after relying on retail loans and bond trading for profits in recent years, should see a shift in their earnings profile in July-September due to a surge in corporate lending that will carry them through the year.
- The New Economics Of Ecological Capital (Hindu, John Vidal, Oct 13, 2005)
Here Is a conundrum, courtesy of Merv Wilkinson, one of Canada's oldest and wisest foresters. In 1938, he bought a few hectares of forest on Vancouver Island which, he reckoned, contained about 100,000 board feet of timber. Once every 10 years, he would h
- Existential Crisis Of Pakistan (Daily Excelsior, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 13, 2005)
Pakistan’s accentuated existential crisis has made historians to write new books for school students, distorting the basic facts that the Islamic Republic was ever a part of India.
- Good Is Too Good (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2005)
The phenomenon of good versus the bad is as old as probably human life on the earth.
- Tap Our Hoard Of ‘Unproductive’ Wealth (The Financial Express, RAJIV KUMAR, Oct 13, 2005)
It is a fortnight away for RBI’s policy announcement and therefore opportune to look at the state of India’s financial sector.
- Pm Asks Partymen To Counter Left Campaign (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2005)
Having found little support from his Cabinet colleagues, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is now looking towards the party to help build public opinion on key government policies like economic reforms agenda and its recent decision to vote against Iran . . .
- On A Radical Scale (Hindu, PRASHANTH G.N., Oct 13, 2005)
Music needn't be confined to the ivory tower, removed from the larger reality of the day, says musician Shubha Mudgal, who has jumped many barricades of tradition, in a chat with PRASHANTH G.N.
- Bjp Groping In The Dark (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Oct 13, 2005)
PRIMA facie, the Congress and the BJP today can be said to represent the core of a two-party system, the Holy Grail of Indian politics.
- Retailing Promises (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 13, 2005)
After opposing the sale of shares of BHEL, now the Left has taken up the task of opposing government policy on FDI in retail.
- Nuclear Issue: "India Is A Unique Case" (Hindu, Kesava Menon & Nirupama Subramanian, Oct 13, 2005)
The United States Ambassador to India, David C. Mulford, is a finance expert who has also served as an official in the Treasury Department. In an interview, Mr. Mulford spoke about the nuclear deal and related issues.
- Jharkhand: Tightening Grip (Frontline, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 12, 2005)
IN the second week of September, the Arjun Munda-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in Jharkhand launched a special security initiative called Operation Black Thunder (OBT) to counter the naxalite activities in the State.
- Crisis In The Kitchen (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 12, 2005)
The cooking gas shortage is a direct result of Govt policies
- Ia Hikes Fares By 10 Per Cent (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 12, 2005)
Following the footsteps of the private airlines, the public sector Indian Airlines also announced a 10 per cent hike in its domestic fares today as a result of steep hike in international prices of aviation turbine fuel (ATF) in the recent months.
- The Importance Of Social Sciences (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 12, 2005)
Social science graduates need to be equipped to face the social transformation taking place across the country
- Un’S Peace-Building Task (Tribune, Anita Inder Singh, Oct 12, 2005)
One of the outstanding agreements among the UN member-states at last month’s World Summit in New York was on the formation of a Peace-building Commission. The consensus reminded us that 60 years after the founding of the UN the maintenance of peace and se
- Game Theory's Recognition (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Oct 12, 2005)
When Nobel prizes were started, they were also meant to ease financial constraints for recipients.
- Bjp Into The Political Twilight? (Frontline, Praful Bidwai, Oct 12, 2005)
IF proof were at all needed that the Bharatiya Janata Party can no longer summon up a half-way cogent response to major events of the day, then recent developments provide it in ample measure.
- Interview: Shivraj Patil (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2005)
In the third week of September, the Union government convened the first meeting of the Standing Committee of Chief Ministers of States affected by naxalism.
- How Large Is China's Private Sector? (Frontline, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 12, 2005)
Although the private sector displaces the state sector as the dominant player in the economic reform in China, the strategic areas identified as the lifelines of the economy are predominantly in the public sector.
- Anti-Majoritarian, Pro-Globalisation (Frontline, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 12, 2005)
IN 2001, Madhu Purnima Kishwar, an activist and academic, published in Manushi, a periodical from New Delhi, two articles, one dealing with the working conditions of rickshaw-pullers in the capital and the other about street vendors whom she had made a fi
- Indian Communism During The Raj (Frontline, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 12, 2005)
EVERY political party has to face up to the difficult task of writing its own history
- Interview: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (Frontline, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 12, 2005)
The naxalite problem in West Bengal, though not as serious as it is in Orissa and Jharkhand, is still a matter of concern for the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front government in the State.
- Surprising U.S. Economy (Frontline, Jayati Ghosh, Oct 12, 2005)
Despite a high level of current account deficit and external vulnerability, the U.S. economy seems to go from strength to strength. What exactly is going on?
- The Naxalite Challenge (Frontline, Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Oct 12, 2005)
Left extremists have regrouped under the one-year-old Communist Party of India (Maoist) and expanded their area of operation. The state is planning a crackdown, but success may not come easily.
- Captain’S Free Power (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 12, 2005)
By defending his government’s decision to give free power to the farm sector and a section of the Scheduled Castes, rather in an undignified way, the Punjab Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, has placed himself on a slippery ground. There was no need t
- Why Osama Roams Free: South Asia Could Soon Face Its Biggest Ever Crisis (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Oct 12, 2005)
The Supreme Court judgment on the Bihar Assembly dissolution compels far-reaching systemic changes.
- Goddess & Her Shakthi (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2005)
While her motherly qualities are extolled across the nation, Goddess Shakti is special to Karnataka, where she's worshipped in different forms, says Vatsala Iyengar.
- The New One-Party State (Dawn, Niall Ferguson, Oct 11, 2005)
IT IS not only the Democrats in the United States who cling fondly to the illusion that if they can only find the right candidate, they will sweep back into power. This is also the collective fantasy of the British Conservatives, who are currently choosin
- Of Turncoats And Caste Breakdowns (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Oct 11, 2005)
Defectors with a record of winning are seen as a prize catch by political parties in Bihar because of the votes they bring with them
- Stitch In Time (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Oct 11, 2005)
The Reserve Bank’s decision to come out with guidelines for banks’ exposure to non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) that do not accept deposits from the public has not come a moment too soon.
- Now, Walk The Talk (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Oct 11, 2005)
In a volatile stock market, there is but a small time-gap between comfortable price-earnings (P/E) multiples and an expensive market.
- Parliamentarian And Social Reformer (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 11, 2005)
THE BOOK under review is the memoir of the reputed politician and social reformer, P.T. Rajan (1892-1974). He actively engaged not only in the legal profession but in national politics of the Justice party.
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