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Articles 29221 through 29320 of 35809:
- Invest In A Disciplined Manner (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 11, 2005)
While equity investment is risky, equities have given better returns than most asset classes over a long period of time across many markets.
- Kingly Faith (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Feb 11, 2005)
“We’re going to come down on those guys like a ton of bricks,” President Bill Clinton swore that fateful morning in May 1998 on being told that India had exploded a nuclear device in the Rajasthan desert.
- Looking Beyond Procurement (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 11, 2005)
If finance minister Chidambaram’s comments to the parliamentary consultative committee of his ministry this week are any guide, the Budget could see a major initiative on the food subsidy.
- Pipeline Or Pipe Dream? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 11, 2005)
India’s huge energy needs have converted what was once unthinkable into policy. The Cabinet has authorised the petroleum ministry to start negotiations on not just one but two pipelines running through Pakistan, India’s traditional foe.
- Rethink On Modern Medicine (Deccan Herald, Avijit Pathak, Feb 11, 2005)
We often experience a paradox relating to the extraordinary achievements of modern medicine. While it has equipped us with an immense efficiency to cope with physical pain and suffering...
- India Makes A Play For F-16 Fighters (Asia Times, Siddharth Srivastava, Feb 11, 2005)
It is now official: India has indicated to the United States that it is interested in purchasing advanced F-16 fighter jets for its air force, a move that has sent frissons throughout the establishments in India
- Taking Business Globally (Deccan Herald, S N CHARY, Feb 11, 2005)
The projected growth rate of the Indian economy is around 6.9 per cent for the current year. In order to sustain such a growth rate and to increase it, it will be essential to push our exports of goods and services to a much higher level.
- Reconnecting Across The Atlantic (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Feb 11, 2005)
Does Condoleezza Rice's new, softened tone towards the French indicate a genuine change in the substance of U.S. policy or is it just a tactical response prompted by the difficulties encountered in Iraq?
- The Looming Crisis On Iran (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Feb 11, 2005)
The US seems serious about a regime change in Iran. But any precipitate action would seriously endanger the world energy security. For, Iran will not remain passive if attacked.
- Tourists At Kangla (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 11, 2005)
More than a month after the the historic Kangla Fort in the heart of Imphal was vacated of the Assam Rifles and the keys handed over to the state government, the seat of governance of the erstwhile independent kingdom of Manipur has become a major attract
- Striking A New Balance On Page 3 (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Feb 11, 2005)
A combination of envy and irritation is driving the somewhat exaggerated debate on page 3 culture allegedly threatening to overwhelm our lives.
- `Pocket Multinationals' Looking To India (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Feb 11, 2005)
In the old joke about capitalism, culture and cattle — you know the one where the Indians worship theirs, the Nazis shoot yours, and the Swiss have none of their own but charge interest for storing the cows of others
- Aiyar’S Peace Pipe (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 11, 2005)
Union Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar has done the impossible in liberating India’s regional energy diplomacy from the clutches of an obdurate bureaucracy.
- Confusing Signals (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 11, 2005)
The Chief Minister, Mr N Dharam Singh’s statement on Wednesday that the confusion over not handing over the bodies of two slain Naxalites to the Citizens Initiative for Peace (CIP) was due to a ‘communication gap’
- Corporate Duty (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 11, 2005)
To share, or not to share, how much to share — that is the question. The talk of corporate social responsibility (CSR), in the sense of corporate sharing a part of their (good) fortune with the needy
- Dithering On Diversification (Tribune, S.S. Johl, Feb 11, 2005)
It was in 1985 Punjab realised that the production of foodgrains in wheat -rice rotation was neither very remunerative in view of the totality of individual and social costs involved in their production nor it was sustainable in the context....
- Imf Bouquets And Brickbats (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Feb 11, 2005)
No longer is India the kind of IMF borrower it was in the early 1990s, when it had to agree to a structural adjustment programme to tide over the worst-ever balance of payments crisis the country faced
- Good Job, But Not Enough (Business Line, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 11, 2005)
In an economy where success stories have been so few and far between, the news that the country's Information Technology and the IT enabled services sector employ over a million people is without doubt a significant achievement.
- Globalisation, Poverty & Culture (The Economic Times, Manoj Pant, Feb 11, 2005)
Though much misused, the term globalisation has largely come to describe Indian policy since 1991.
- Gas For Growth (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 11, 2005)
India’s decision to go in for talks on gas pipelines involving Iran, Pakistan and Turkmenistan is significant from various angles.
- New Dawn With Kyoto (Hindu, Michael Meacher, Feb 10, 2005)
THERE IS a widespread view that with George W. Bush now ensconced in his second term in the White House, and with his sights fixed on his so-called "war on terror," the rest of the world's agenda has, for the time being at least, been hijacked.
- Press Note 1: Disadvantage, Domestic Partner (Business Line, K. Ramesh, Feb 10, 2005)
The Government's suggestion, in its latest Press Note 1, that `conflict of interests' clause may be introduced in the JV agreement to safeguard the interests of joint venture partners....
- Pure Gold (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Feb 10, 2005)
On her first day in office, within hours of moving from the White House to her new job as America’s secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice rang up Pakistan’s president, Pervez Musharraf, and discussed....
- Raise These Skies (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 10, 2005)
The Economic Survey in the run-up to the July 2004 Budget had revealed that a comprehensive civil aviation policy based on the Naresh Chandra Committee recommendations was on the cards.
- Right Royal Headache For India (Asia Times, Sultan Shahin, Feb 10, 2005)
Though India has not quite made up its mind yet on how it should react to what is being described as a palace coup in Nepal, the contours of a likely response are beginning to emerge.
- Most Precious Commodity (Deccan Herald, Natasha Walter, Feb 10, 2005)
Here comes Jeremy Bentham echoing down the ages: “The best public policy is that which produces the greatest happiness.” The line is actually from a clever new book, Happiness...
- Strengthen Agri-Markets (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 10, 2005)
The decade and half of economic liberalisation process has left agricultural production and marketing largely untouched despite the official position that selling the farm produce is the most important economic activity
- When Weaknesses Show In Controls Internal (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Feb 10, 2005)
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the American regulator's response to the Enron/Worldcom financial fiascos, has been busy registering accounting firms
- Let’S Get Fiscal (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 10, 2005)
Budget day will test the reformist credentials of the Manmohan-Montek-Chidambaram team. One of the big fears caused by the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) is that there will be a sharp increase in public spending on various social programmes.
- Towards Self-Reliance (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 10, 2005)
The country’s largest defence public sector undertaking, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), has entered the aircraft upgrades segment with the arrival of the new ‘Chetan’ helicopter.
- Tensions In The Gulf (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Feb 10, 2005)
The United States Congress passed the Iraq Liberation Act on October 31, 1998. The Act proclaimed: “It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergen
- Lessons In Geography (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Feb 10, 2005)
Vladimir Putin says that Russia backs India’s bid for a permanent seat in the Security Council. “Mapping the Global Future”, the final report of the US National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project....
- A Carnival Of Greed (Indian Express, PETER RONALD DESOUZA, Feb 10, 2005)
Democracy in Goa has indeed been murdered. L K Advani got it right when he said so but, like all things Advani, he spoke only half a truth. For not only should he have blamed Governor S C Jamir for what has happened in Goa
- Business Only, No Fun At All (Telegraph, Gouri Chatterjee, Feb 10, 2005)
Not even a month old, NDTV Profit is already trying to live up to its name. It has, it claims, beaten the leader CNBC TV-18 “with a market share of 57.9 per cent compared to CNBC’s 42.1 per cent in the all day parts in the C&S 4+ all India market”.
- Centre Holds (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 10, 2005)
West Bengal is out on its luck. The Left Front government’s perpetual grouse against the Central allocation of funds has acquired a new dimension. The West Bengal government is now claiming that it is being penalized for being successful.
- Contract Enforcement — Whither Time Value Of Money? (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Feb 10, 2005)
Enforcing contracts is not easy. Considering the backlog at courts, private channels have become active especially for the Proprietorship and Partnership sector with relatively low financial flexibility.
- Concerns For The World (Deccan Herald, Kancha Ilaiah, Feb 10, 2005)
George W Bush was sworn in on January 20. While a large section of conservatives of America celebrated his second term and the speech he made on that occasion, at the same time several parts of the world expressed its own fears about his taking over as pr
- Growth Gains (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 09, 2005)
Advance estimates for GDP growth at 6.9 percent is extremely good news for the economy. And this is not just in the context of the short run because it implies that growth this year is going to be high.
- How We Should Pursue Happiness (Hindu, Natasha Walter, Feb 09, 2005)
Here comes Jeremy Bentham echoing down the ages: "The best public policy is that which produces the greatest happiness."
- India Should Review Its Policy On Saarc (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Feb 09, 2005)
THE Indian Prime Minister’s refusal to attend the scheduled SAARC summit in Dhaka on February 6 and 7 and its consequent postponement should not cause any undue disappointment in South Asian capitals such as New Delhi, Colombo, Male and Thimphu.
- Rewarding Stf (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 09, 2005)
THE grievance expressed in the Legislative Assembly by the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms Jayalalithaa, about the Centre's rejection of the State Government's recommendations in regard to some senior police officers belonging to the Special Task Force ...
- The L Factor (Deccan Herald, Dinesh Kumar, Feb 09, 2005)
We, in India, do many premarital checks before we say, “I do.” Checks like horoscope compatibility, caste and creed comparisons, language and cultural, economic and regional factorisation.
- Growing And Yet Green (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 09, 2005)
If many theorists are convinced that economic growth is impossible without making compromises on environmental policy, those who hold a counterview can draw support from the recently ...
- Another Dream Budget? (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Feb 09, 2005)
WHEN Finance Minister P Chidambaram gets up to present the Union Budget for 2005-06 in the Lok Sabha on the last day of February, his fourth budget in the last nine years, he will have to confront certain classic dilemmas faced by all Finance Ministers.
- Tough New Policy For Entry Into Uk (Tribune, Andrew Grice, Feb 09, 2005)
LOW-skilled workers will find it much harder to enter Britain under a tough new immigration policy announced by the Government on Monday.
- Food For The Soul, Not Just For The Stomach (Indian Express, RAKESH CHAUBEY, Feb 09, 2005)
When you’ve been at the bottom of the social pyramid for centuries, you don’t really care whether the roads are bad. All you want is upward social mobility
- Fdi Cap Raised In Telecom — The Quake In The Coalition (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 09, 2005)
Right from the formation of the Government, there has been mishandling on both sides of what might be termed `cohabitation' between the UPA and the Left.
- Farm Policy — A Twisted Tale (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Feb 09, 2005)
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA), as the National Common Minimum Programme states categorically, stands for economic reforms with a human face, whatever it means.
- Cash For Class At Oxbridge (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Feb 09, 2005)
Plans by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge to cut down undergraduate places for domestic students and increase the intake of foreign candidates who pay more have stirred a controversry.
- Business Process Re-Engineering: (Business Line, Manoranjan Sharma, Feb 09, 2005)
ORGANISATIONAL development is a continuous process. But the pace of change has increased manifold. In a volatile global world, organisations enhance competitive advantage through business process re-engineering (BPR) by radically redesigning selected...
- Building Urban Infrastructure (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 09, 2005)
There is compelling logic to support the Centre's proposal to launch a National Urban Renewal Mission (NURM) to upgrade and modernise urban infrastructure all over the country.
- A Simple ‘Sorry’ Will Do (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Feb 09, 2005)
It is quite in order to apologise. I remember, I remember. I remember the pessimistic prophecies of large sections of the media in the US and Britain. “The US will get stuck in a quagmire in Afghanistan.
- Deal To Run Buses In Kashmir Bolsters India-Pakistan Talks (Washington Post, John Lancaster, Feb 09, 2005)
India and Pakistan agreed Wednesday to run buses across the cease-fire line that divides the Himalayan province of Kashmir, invigorating a 13-month peace process that some had feared was running out of steam.
- Round And Round (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 08, 2005)
All indications point to a bleak outlook for the ongoing Doha Round of multilateral negotiations. The strongest confirmation of this came at the Davos World Economic Forum where the World Trade
- Police At It Again (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 08, 2005)
THE report of the Lohian police in Jalandhar district detaining a Dalit in a theft case and his subsequent death due to police torture, shocking as it is, does not come as a surprise.
- Why We Are A Poor Rich Country (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Feb 08, 2005)
Often when reflecting upon India’s poverty and the needlessness of it, I remember a story the late Rangarajan Kumaramangalam liked to tell.
- World Economy In 2005 (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 08, 2005)
A report prepared jointly by the United Nation's Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) expects world economic growth to slow down to 3.25 per cent this year.
- World Economy: From Uni-Polar To Tri-Polar (Business Line, Arvind Virmani, Feb 08, 2005)
By around 2025, China's impact on world growth is likely to be larger than that of the US and India's greater that of Japan. By 2035, India is likely to be a larger growth driver than the six largest
- Expensive Proposition (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 08, 2005)
A few days ago when the Government increased the foreign investment limit in the telecom industry from 49 per cent to 74 per cent, the Left parties, who were earlier opposing any such move
- China's Growth Enigma (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Feb 08, 2005)
As is true currently, China's truly remarkable pace of growth for over two decades has been punctuated with concern about bouts of deflation or overheating.
- Getting Cross With Cross-Subsidies (Indian Express, N K Singh, Feb 08, 2005)
This is a season when it is fashionable for all and sundry to give even unsolicited advice to P Chidambaram. Finance Ministers are tolerant, fully conscious that the basic Budget story involves multiple inflexibilities.
- An Unending Farce (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 08, 2005)
What emerges pointedly from the death of two persons in an alleged encounter between the police and Naxalites near Sringeri on Sunday is how this problem persists in the Malnad region of Karnataka and the glaring inadequacies in the approach of the govern
- Promises To Keep (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 07, 2005)
In his reply to the debate on the Governor’s address in the Assembly, Karnataka Chief Minister N Dharam Singh has painted a rosy picture of the State’s economy and given assurances on a wide range of both urban and rural projects. Yet, most of them seem f
- The Threat From Bird Flu (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Feb 07, 2005)
Might the virus be slowly gaining the ability to jump from human-to-human, the one trait it lacks for initiating a pandemic?
- Us And Iraq: Who Owes Whom? (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Feb 07, 2005)
It is intriguing that nobody seems to have worked out how much the US and its allies owe the people of Iraq for having caused, according to none other than the United Nations, the deaths of several hundred thousand Iraqis through the imposition...
- Year Of Physics (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 07, 2005)
The UN has declared 2005 as the World Year of Physics in commemoration of the first path-breaking paper published by Albert Einstein in 1905 on the electro-dynamics of moving bodies.
- Transcending Rural, Urban Boundaries (Deccan Herald, SANGEETHA PURUSHOTHAMAN, Feb 07, 2005)
The peri urban interface (PUI) is a rapidly expanding, dynamic space of interaction that surrounds all our cities and lies between the rural and the urban.
- Where It Should Focus (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Feb 07, 2005)
As Budget day approaches, the Finance Minister is being deluged with wish lists from all sides. The Left has just presented its 12-point proposal for the Budget.
- No Western Monopoly On Modernity (Hindu, Martin Jacques, Feb 07, 2005)
In his inauguration speech, American President George W. Bush pledged to support "the expansion of freedom in all the world," deploying the words free or freedom no less than 25 times in 20 short minutes.
- Ukraine Democratically Moves West (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Feb 07, 2005)
People with time to count report that the US President, Mr George Bush, mentioned `freedom,' `free' and `liberty' 49 times in his inaugural address to the nation on January 20, when he took the oath of office for his second term.
- Drifts In The Desert (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 07, 2005)
India is very rich in water resources. We get 5 per cent of the worldwide rains though we account for only 2 per cent of the total land mass. So, we should rank high in water availability but we rank a poor 133 among 170 countries in water poverty.
- Draft Cpi(m) Resolution On Third Alternative (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Feb 07, 2005)
The need to consolidate the secular and democratic forces through a sustained campaign across the country with an eye on forging a third alternative is one of the
- Mr Dixit, I Presume (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Feb 07, 2005)
The first time I met J.N. ‘Mani’ Dixit, in September 1985, I had not particularly given him a reason for me to be in his good books.
- Punjab Economy Will Be Put On Fast Track, Says Singla (Tribune, Manoj Kumar, Feb 06, 2005)
After facing a decade-long slowdown in economic growth, Punjab is once again gearing up to become a destination for investment.
- The Land Of Penny Pinchers (Indian Express, NICHOLAS D KRISTOF, Feb 06, 2005)
So is the US ‘‘stingy’’ about helping poor countries? That accusation by a UN official, in veiled form, provoked indignation here. After all, we’re the most generous people on Earth, aren’t we?
- Most Nris Wear Loincloths, Not Suits (Indian Express, Devesh Kapur, Feb 06, 2005)
Yet again, on the day Gandhi came back from South Africa, India prepares to celebrate another Pravasi Bharatiya Divas. This annual function has multiple objectives:
- Stars Of India: The Bling-Bling In The Crown (Washington Post, John Lancaster, Feb 06, 2005)
They wear silk saris, well-cut Nehru jackets and incandescent smiles. They are practiced in the art of air-kissing and social banter.
- The Pin Code In Northeast (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Feb 05, 2005)
Operation Pin Code, as reported in The Pioneer (January 15), would be much easier for Pakistan to accomplish than either Operation Topac or Al Badr.
- Not That Simple (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Feb 05, 2005)
The search for a viable national alternative to the Congress goes back more than fifty years, to the first general elections of 1952.
- Pakistan: What Lies Ahead? (Tribune, Stephen Philip Cohen, Feb 05, 2005)
Twenty years ago Pakistan was spoken of as the next major middle income country. Recently it was thought to be on the verge of collapse or rogue status, although there are signs that the downward trend in some areas is halted
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