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Articles 25821 through 25920 of 35809:
- 100 Years Ago Today August 25, 1905 (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 25, 2005)
Tragedy At Baraset. — On Wednesday morning a murder was committed at Tababaria, near Barasat.
- In Defence Of The Speculator (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Aug 25, 2005)
Governments, regulators and the financially illiterate across the world, suspect, fear and abhor speculators.
- Mutiny’S Bounty (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Aug 25, 2005)
Each time an Indian filmmaker attempts to recreate the past, the resident bore stands up and yelps, ‘‘But this is not history.’’
- Rising Power (Statesman, SP Seth, Aug 25, 2005)
An important indication that the United States is worried about China’s incursions into the Asia-Pacific region is the inroads it has made into Australia.
- Attracting Fdi Flows (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 25, 2005)
The very first month of the current financial year has closed on a highly encouraging note in the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) sector, with FDI flows showing a 129 per cent increase over the same month last year.
- Trouble In Russia’S Backyard (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 25, 2005)
Russia, which in the Cold War days ruled over a huge land mass, now finds its influence in the area that constituted the former Soviet Union considerably reduced.
- Surviving Expensive Oil (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Aug 25, 2005)
The new World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz came on his first visit to Pakistan and has gone back after promising 1.5 billion dollars as development aid for each of the next three years.
- For An Effective Human Rights Commission (Dawn, Omar R. Quraishi, Aug 25, 2005)
In May 2005, the federal government introduced in the National Assembly a bill to provide for the establishment of a ‘National Commission on Human Rights’.
- Enactment Of Ega (Daily Excelsior, Sisir Basu, Aug 25, 2005)
The process of enactment of the ambitious National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme' - UPA's pro-poor programme - entered its last lap with a debate in the Lok Sabha on August 18, kicking off a scramble among different players to claim credit for it.
- Reforms Row In Japan (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 25, 2005)
Privatization remains a controversial subject even in a country like Japan. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s government suffered a crushing defeat in Japan’s parliament over the issue of privatization of Japan Post,
- Cruise Missiles In Neighbourhood (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Aug 25, 2005)
On July 18 President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asserted that India and the United States would “work together to provide global leadership in areas of mutual concern and interest.”
- Draw Parallels (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Aug 25, 2005)
The Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Gaza Strip and four of the 120 settlements in the West Bank has been widely welcomed.
- Divided We Stand (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Aug 25, 2005)
When things go wrong, they can swing wildly to the left. Prime minister Manmohan Singh should know. Now, the left parties, are getting increasingly belligerent over policies initiated by him and his finance minister P. Chidambaram.
- India And Iran: A Time For Reflection (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Aug 25, 2005)
With vital energy, trade, manufacturing, and security interests involved, Iran and India have an overwhelming stake in resisting U.S. pressure that seeks to inhibit their relationship.
- Landmark Legislation (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 25, 2005)
Women finally get equal rights on ancestral property
- Yuan Revaluation — No Big Advantage For India (Business Line, Prithwis De, Aug 25, 2005)
India may not really benefit from the yuan revaluation. This is because of its poor competitiveness in the international market, domestic policy constraints, and limited overlapping of export products with China.
- Musharraf Puts End To Controversy (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 25, 2005)
President General Pervez Musharraf has ruled out the possibility of change in the form of government from parliamentary to presidential.
- Walking On Two Legs (Deccan Herald, Kancha Ilaiah, Aug 25, 2005)
In all schools three subjects should be taught in the regional language and three should be taught in English
- An Onerous Job (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 25, 2005)
The recent changes notwithstanding, the law guaranteeing employment to the rural masses must still be viewed as falling short of expectations.
- Accounting's Key Role In Human History Is Of Creating Institutionalised Memory (Business Line, D. Murali , Aug 25, 2005)
In Chapter XX, titled `Of the tradesman's keeping his books, and casting up his shop', of The Complete English Tradesman, Daniel Defoe writes about a tradesman who could not write, but could still manage `with so many ingenious knacks of his own'.
- Valuation To End Warring (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Aug 25, 2005)
Mohan R. Lavi on a case where a company director was removed without due notice
- World Watch: A Surging Demand For Education In India (US News & World Report, Divya Watal, Aug 24, 2005)
Before the golden goose of globalization laid its eggs in India, the poor thought twice about sending their kids to school. Sons needed to work to earn extra money for the household. And daughters, they figured, didn't need an education to cook, clean,
- No End To Corruption (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 24, 2005)
As far as I can recall, it is the first time that a responsible government functionary has said something sensible and realistic about corruption. Some time ago, the Auditor-General of Pakistan stated in a gathering that, in his opinion, bribery and . . .
- Vanishing Equity In Higher Education (Hindu, M. Anandakrishnan, Aug 24, 2005)
If the Supreme Court judgment on abolition of quota in private unaided colleges comes into force next year, many deserving socially backward students will be deprived of access to higher education.
- The Ever-Elusive 8 Per Cent Growth Rate (Business Line, Rabi N. Mishra, Aug 24, 2005)
That higher growth is essential to improve the quality of life of the people is no more a topic for debate.
- National Employment Guarantee Scheme — Well-Intentioned, But Poorly Designed (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Aug 24, 2005)
The National Employment Guarantee Bill may not work because the scheme itself is modelled on earlier schemes that failed and the government, having learnt little from experience, still plays the central role.
- A Scheme In Search Of A Plan (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Aug 24, 2005)
The employment guarantee scheme is caught in religious debates in Delhi. According to one canonical proposition,
- Does Economy Need The Bull Run? (Business Line, Alok Ray, Aug 24, 2005)
The current global perception seems to be that the sustained bull-run is not due to any "irrational exuberance" but a vote of confidence in a resurgent India.
- Business Of Leadership (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 24, 2005)
Britain’s wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill may have proved to be Adolf Hitler’s nemesis.
- Modernise Madrasas (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 24, 2005)
President Musharraf has a tough task on his hands
- Nepal: Dangerous Drift (Tribune, S.D. Muni, Aug 24, 2005)
A recent study published in an American journal places Nepal at the 37th place in a list of 60 prospective failing states all over the world.
- Gm Rice — Top Of The Crops (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 24, 2005)
While we in the West are preoccupied with cloning sheep, pigs, dogs and, of course, ourselves,
- How The G8 Lied To The World On Aid (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2005)
World Leaders are now preparing for the millennium summit to be held in New York next month,
- Boosting Stock Market (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 24, 2005)
A new set of corrective measures meant to retrieve the slumping Karachi Stock Exchange and to revive its surging trends introduced following Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz’s intervention has made positive impact on the country’s stock market.
- India's Economic Opportunities And Perils (Hindu, Prabhudev Konana, Aug 24, 2005)
The prospects of traditional manufacturing sectors such as textiles have become bright.
- Add Security To The List, Mr President (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 24, 2005)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf has reiterated Government’s commitment to provide safe drinking water and electricity to the entire country by 2007.
- Registration Is A Must (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 24, 2005)
The madressah registration drive is not going to be as easy as previously thought, going by what happened in Islamabad on Monday.
- Reining In The Madressahs (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Aug 24, 2005)
Last week the government issued an ordinance requiring all the madressahs in the country to get themselves registered with the authorities.
- Rising India (Deccan Herald, Anand Giridharadas, Aug 24, 2005)
World War II thrust an acute test on India: Should Indians, then under British rule, join what Japan billed as a pan-Asian struggle to expel Western imperialism from Asia?
- A Mother’S Quest For Peace (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 24, 2005)
A couple of years ago, during a rare interlude of optimism occasioned by evidence of a massive international movement aimed at pre-empting the war against Iraq,
- Reverse Swing (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 24, 2005)
Australia has acquired a reputation over the last few years for having one of the world’s toughest immigration policies.
- Wanted: A Barefoot Minister (Indian Express, BIMAL JALAN, Aug 24, 2005)
By any reckoning, this is one of the most important pieces of socio-economic legislation in post-Independence India. If the purpose of the amended Bill can be achieved in the next five years, we should be able to reduce poverty to less than 10 per cent...
- India Must Play Mediator Between The Muslims And The West’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2005)
A member of the House of Lords, Bhikhu Parekh has been living in the UK for over four decades.
- Let's Increase Poverty (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2005)
The 55th Round of the National Sample Survey (1999-2000) led to a lot of debate on poverty levels, mostly centred on the method of collecting data compared to earlier rounds. Poverty has many dimensions and income poverty is only one indicator.
- Change Of Tempo? (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2005)
The Indian economy has been cruising for so many months now that even normally optimistic people are beginning to ask how long the party can last.
- Pak Weaponisation Programme (Daily Excelsior, Samuel Baid, Aug 24, 2005)
Three days before Pakistan celebrated its 58th Independence Day on August 14, 2005, it successfully test-fired the Babur Cruise Missile obviously in an attempt to reassure the countrymen that with the military at the helm of affairs their country was. . .
- Keep Lexus Subsidy (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 24, 2005)
Brilliant plan: don’t raise oil prices, let PSUs make losses, then, as per CMP, disinvest
- Check It Out (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 24, 2005)
The VAT experience has generally been good. So why are the BJP states and UP keeping away?
- Sense And Consensus (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Aug 24, 2005)
Anyone looking at political debate on economic issues recently might be forgiven for thinking that politics in India is all sweetness and light.
- Lollipops Are No Solutions (Dawn, Syed Mohibullah Shah, Aug 24, 2005)
The rising oil prices and the post-9/11 environment, coupled with the success of the industrial revolution now unfolding in major parts of Asia, have been pushing increasingly large investment flows towards Asian markets
- Children Caught In The Crossfire (Deccan Herald, JANARDHAN ROYE, Aug 23, 2005)
In war-torn countries, children lose their lives and some their childhood as they are forced to become combatants
- Shiv Sena Hold Weakens (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Aug 23, 2005)
Long before the McDonalds and Pizza Huts touched base in India, the Shiv Sena in Mumbai came up with the idea of franchising its brand of terror and instant justice.
- Posco Venture: Capital Investment Or Exodus? (Hindu, Aditi Roy Ghatak , Aug 23, 2005)
The Orissa Government's memorandum of understanding with the Korean steel major, Posco, means that, among other things, India is set to alienate a billion tonnes of iron ore in favour of a global competitor
- Providing The Knowledge Edge (Daily Excelsior, Arvinder Kaur, Aug 23, 2005)
To sharpen India's knowl-edge edge in the 21st cen-tury, the Government has set up a Commission which will suggest how knowledge can be used to change the lives of average citizens.
- Captive Coal Mining Policy — Unearthing A Win-Win Model (Business Line, Rohit Kakkar, Aug 23, 2005)
Given the importance of coal in India's energy matrix, the policy framed for private participation in coal mining is quite short-sighted
- Talent On Contract (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 23, 2005)
An interview-based study in this newspaper last Sunday on contract jobs in the State Government has brought out varied responses although not entirely on unexpected lines.
- India-Bd Border Clashes (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 23, 2005)
Though as per statement of the Indian spokesman the latest dispute between New Delhi and Dhaka over river bank construction is over but reports emanating from Bangladesh speak of widespread apprehensions about Indian designs.
- Lgs Gain Roots (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 23, 2005)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the over 45 per cent turnout in the first phase of Local Government elections manifests that the system has taken firm roots.
- Urban Security In India (Daily Excelsior, Rameshwar Singh Jamwal, Aug 23, 2005)
The recent bomb blasts in London and the subsequent solving of the cases within few days and identification of the accused within couple of days shows
- Cruise Missiles In Sub-Continent — The Sino-Pakistani Nexus (Business Line, G. Parthasarathy, Aug 23, 2005)
India cannot be too careful about the manner in which China is supplying Pakistan with missiles to give latter the capability to strike at cities all across India.
- What Chance Ipi? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 23, 2005)
Reports emanating from Islamabad suggest that Pakistan, Iran and India are expected to start trilateral negotiations on the IPI gas pipeline by November.
- Why Wait For A Calamity? (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 23, 2005)
Extracts from the government of India’s status report on Disaster Management in India, published in August, 2004
- Looking Beyond Gaza Evacuation (Dawn, Mahdi Masud, Aug 23, 2005)
Published on April 30, 2003, the roadmap for a Middle East settlement, sponsored by the Quartet (comprising the US, the UN, Russia and the EU) called for a comprehensive settlement based on a two-state solution.
- Indonesia's Burning Problem (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Aug 23, 2005)
Mechanisms need to be put in place to create a permanent system to handle crises on a continuing basis.
- Time To Call The Bluff (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Aug 23, 2005)
It is truly ironic that Manmohan Singh, who initially broke the shackles of the command economy and began to free the spirit of Indian entrepreneurship, is today, a decade-and-a-half later,
- Gaza In Reverse (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 23, 2005)
Over the last few days, the Gaza Strip has been history’s hall of mirrors. Within the larger history of displacements
- Minimum Wage Must Be Treated As Sacrosanct (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Aug 23, 2005)
The guarantee of employment at a wage rate less than the statutory minimum — as the draft EGA stipulates — will undermine the broad purpose of the law and set a bad precedent.
- The Freedom-Development Interface (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Aug 23, 2005)
Just over a week ago, Independent India became 58 years old. The Mahatma is remembered fondly for all the sacrifices he personally made and inspired thousands to make,
- India Astride A Supply Side Revolution (Business Line, Sumit K. Majumdar, Aug 23, 2005)
In the last decade, the transformation brought about by the 1991 liberalisation enabled Indian enterprises to shed the baggage of history, and move ahead.
- Maturing Of Manmohan Singh (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Aug 22, 2005)
Though Dr Manmohan Singh has spent a number of years in public life, it is said of him that he continues to remain at heart an academic, an economist to be specific.
- No Values, Just Greed (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Aug 22, 2005)
Is it all ideological, an expression of deeply held values, the ire votaries of economic liberalization exhibit toward public sector entities?
- A Retrograde Step (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 22, 2005)
TN increases gas connection hassle
- London Is Alive And Kicking (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Aug 22, 2005)
This is my first trip to London after last month’s bomb attacks.
- Un Bush-Whacked (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Aug 22, 2005)
The resignation of Mr Benon Sevan, a senior official of the United Nations (UN), as also the arrest of another senior official, Mr Alexander Yakovlev,
- True Islam Or Islamic Formalism? (Dawn, Mansoor Alam, Aug 22, 2005)
Bernard Lewis, a western scholar of Islam recently wrote a book with the title “What went wrong?”
- Revitalising Micro-Finance Sector (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 22, 2005)
The concept of micro-financing has gained currency in the country providing a base for its expansion in the years ahead. The performance record of the sector reveals that the number of beneficiaries of the micro-financing facility has more than doubled in
- Power Play In Central Asia (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, Aug 22, 2005)
While most of the world, and especially local analysts like us, have remained focused (for understandable reasons)
- The West And Asia's Perceived Dominance (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Aug 22, 2005)
Many observers of the global economy have noticed the rising importance of Asia in the global power equation.
- Pm Exhorts Naxals To Join Mainstream (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today did some tough talking on Naxalite movement, even while asking the ultra Left organisations to prove their mettle in the battle of the ballot rather than pursuing a policy of bullets.
- This Is How We Perceive The Problem Of Kashmir-Iii (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Aug 22, 2005)
We are reproducing the full text of the discussion between Muhammad Yasin Malik, Chairman Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front and Omar Abdullah,
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