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Articles 29321 through 29420 of 35809:
- Proceed With Care (Pioneer, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 05, 2005)
It was only to be expected that, re-elected with a convincing majority, President George W. Bush would pursue his known domestic and foreign agendas with renewed vigour and confidence.
- Right Royal Headache For India (Asia Times, Sultan Shahin, Feb 05, 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.
- The Quality Of Democracy (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Feb 05, 2005)
On the face of it, the developments in Nepal, where King Gyanendra has dismissed the Prime Minister, Mr Sher Bahadur Deuba, can be seen as an exercise of brute power heralding some form of monarchical dictatorship.
- The State Of Popular Aspiration (Indian Express, Ajay Gudavarthy, Feb 05, 2005)
The demand for Telengana is paradoxical: it is being made in the name of the deprived but could end up serving only a small privileged group
- `Black' Is Not Beautiful (Business Line, T. N. Pandey, Feb 05, 2005)
The UPA Government seems desperate to demonstrate its commitment to unearthing black money.
- A Teenage Concept For The Staid Old Bank (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 05, 2005)
A bubbly 15-year-old in the field of economics is inflation targeting. It was born in 1989 when New Zealand rewrote its Reserve Bank charter and brought in the need to make public announcement of official targets for the inflation rate.
- Beyond The S&p Rating (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 05, 2005)
Like a capricious mother-in-law, Standard & Poor's has been whimsical in credit-rating the Indian economy. Anyway its pronouncements do not appear to bother most international players
- Easy Electricity (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 05, 2005)
In the light of the current emphasis on infrastructure development which is needed to accelerate economic growth, the Union Cabinet’s approval of the National Electricity Policy (NEP) as mandated under the Electricity Act, 2003 is a step in the right dire
- Muslims Mired (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 05, 2005)
Bihar's reign-man Lalu Yadav recently poohpoohed media queries about the Muslim vote's possible anti-RJD "swing". "Yeh swing kya hota hai?" he shot back bumpkin-style, adding that the Muslim's electoral change of heart was unthinkable in "Lalu rajya".
- I See A Good Moon Rising (Indian Express, RICHARD N. HAASS, Feb 05, 2005)
Mahmoud Abbas is elected and legitimate. He may not have the stature of Arafat but has none of the latter’s liabilities either.
- It’S Politics, Stupid (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Feb 05, 2005)
Economic reform has to come through hard politics, not stealth. On telecom, Dr Singh’s govt clears the test
- Landmark Elections In J&k (Tribune, B.G. Verghese, Feb 05, 2005)
The conduct of municipal polls in Jammu and Kashmir after 27 years constitutes an important landmark. No surprise that it should have been marked by boycott and violence by some within the state and those across the border who fear democracy and represent
- Montek’S Warped Logic (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Feb 05, 2005)
At an international conference on “Policies against hunger” at Berlin in October 2004, a World Bank economist was at pains to defend the domestic subsidies being doled out to European Union farmers.
- Treating Hiv (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 05, 2005)
The New year has begun on an encouraging note for the campaign against HIV/AIDS, with the World Health Organisation/UNAIDS reporting that its "3 by 5" initiative to help provide drugs to people living with the virus has achieved the global targets.
- The Decline And Decline Of Brand America (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Feb 04, 2005)
Brand creation, promotion, and positioning are the pet themes of business school analysts. Even as the literature on brand equity has grown into an industry, the subject has moved away from the confines of B-Schools.
- Rational Behaviour (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Feb 04, 2005)
It was the premičre of The Apple Cart at the Old Vic theatre. As the final curtains fell, GBS went up the stage, waves of thundering ovation from all over the hall.
- Ringing Message (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 04, 2005)
The government has finally increased the limit on foreign direct investments (FDI) in Indian telecom companies from 49 per cent to 74 per cent and thus fulfilled a promise it made at the time of the budget in June last year.
- Sell-Off Fund — Will It Fall Victim To Petty Politics? (Business Line, G. Ganesh, Feb 04, 2005)
The Government is seriously thinking of setting up a sell-off fund, which will be used partially for strengthening the public sector and for financing social sector programmes.
- Stepped Up (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 04, 2005)
The quid pro quo between hike in the employees’ provident fund rate and hike in foreign direct investment in telecommunications is obvious. With budget 2005-06 drawing near, the government must have been conscious of not having delivered ...
- Soldiering On (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 04, 2005)
Sacked from the Cabinet, former minister Major Vijai Singh Mankotia was conspicuously absent all through Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh’s winter sojourn in Dharamsala.
- What Will The Budget Hold? (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Feb 04, 2005)
In the run up to Budget 2005-06, the penultimate year of the Tenth Plan (2002-07), the air is thick with irrational exuberance over what it might contain for the various constituents of the economy.
- Spoiling The Show (Telegraph, DEBAKI NANDAN MANDAL, Feb 04, 2005)
Now that the left has its way with the provident fund issue, will it stop being a hindrance to governance? Unlikely. Only a few days back, at the central committee meeting of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),
- A Veto On Misplaced Arrogance (Indian Express, C S R MURTHY, Feb 04, 2005)
The much awaited report of the 16-member high level panel headed by Thailand’s former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun on the changes required in the UN has become public.
- A Vote For Liberation (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Feb 04, 2005)
The dinner at our house turned violent. The lady, a dear friend of ours, was talking about the elections held in Iraq that day. ‘‘Now that elections have taken place, what do you have to say?’’
- Crisis In Nepal (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Feb 04, 2005)
If electoral democracy was suspended in Nepal in 2002, the sacking of Prime Minister Deuba and the assumption of total autocratic powers by the King now have totally buried any semblance of constitutional governance in Nepal.
- Adding Value To The Food Chain (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 04, 2005)
The draft food processing policy 2005, on which the Government has invited comments, takes stock of several constraints that have stood in the way of growth of the industry in India.
- India's Nepal Stand Driven By Concern For Maoist Danger (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Feb 04, 2005)
The principal concern driving the Indian Government's policy towards King Gyanendra is not democracy but how his palace putsch is going to affect the Royal Nepal Army's counter-insurgency operations against Maoist rebels.
- Future Of Indo-Pak Peace Process (Deccan Herald, P R CHARI, Feb 04, 2005)
Abelief is rife in Pakistan that the bilateral peace process has stalled. Perhaps hopes that India-Pakistan relations would normalise after Prime Minister Vajpayee and President Musharraf met in Islamabad in January 2004
- Egs As Investment, Not Welfare (Indian Express, MADAN M. JHA, Feb 03, 2005)
Amartya Sen recently expressed the hope that the diversion of funds for the employment guarantee law should not be at the cost of creating rural infrastructure, including investment in education and health.
- Gained In Transit (Indian Express, D.C. Pathak, Feb 03, 2005)
The smooth return of George W. Bush to the White House in the face of an Al-Jazeera telecast renewing Osama bin Laden’s threat of further attacks on the US will probably weaken the focus on the debatable issues of intelligence raised on 9/11 as also on th
- India's Media Agog Over Ads-For-Equity Gambit (Asia Times, Indrajit Basu, Feb 03, 2005)
It is a move that is being called alternately brilliant and bizarre. Some even call it a coup. Even as India's largest media company - Bennett, Coleman and Co (BCCL)
- Congress Game Plan (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 03, 2005)
Common sense suggests that no political party fighting three simultaneous elections will want to open up a fourth front. The Congress evidently feels up to the adventure, for it has chosen precisely such a moment to do battle with the Mulayam Singh Govern
- Congress Big Dreams (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Feb 03, 2005)
The Congress reached out to friends when the arc lights were trained on the BJP. Back in media glare, it seems unwilling to show the same warmth to them.
- Britain's Terror Suspects (Economist, Editorial, Economist, Feb 03, 2005)
Be careful what you wish for. After months of demanding (publicly, at least) that the Americans release the remaining four British prisoners from the Guantánamo Bay detention camp
- Lest We Forget (Telegraph, UDDALAK MUKHERJEE, Feb 03, 2005)
In speaking up about the 1984 riots, Amu reminds us of the importance of revisiting past mistakes
- A Performing Value For Npls (Business Line, Ashwani Puri, Feb 03, 2005)
The existing asset reconstruction company (ARC) framework envisages banks and financial institutions transferring their non-performing loans (NPLs) at "fair value"
- Iraq's Election (Economist, Editorial, Economist, Feb 03, 2005)
Shia Muslims and Kurds have turned out in force for the country’s first elections since the toppling of Saddam Hussein. The insurgents have failed in their bid to wreck the elections, though they are unlikely to go away soon
- It Industry — Indian Firm Clicks As Well As Mnc (Business Line, G. B. Prabhat, Feb 03, 2005)
A few years ago, Indian and multinational consulting firms all but ignored each other capitalising on exclusive profit sanctuaries. As the onsite-offshore model assumed gradually began to dominate
- What Will Be American Role? (Pioneer, VK Grover, Feb 03, 2005)
The United Nations Department of Economic and social Affairs (DESA), in a report submitted on January 26, has warned against the dangers of a rapidly falling US Dollar.
- The King Of A Jungle (Indian Express, ARAVINDA R DEO, Feb 03, 2005)
In a country beset with massive poverty the Maoists of Nepal represent mass resentment against economic exclusion. Will Gyanendra be able to address Nepal’s immense problems?
- Money Doesn't Grow On Trees (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Feb 03, 2005)
In the Gospel, according to St. Matthew, is the verse `the tree is know by its fruit.' Promoters of teak and other plantation companies seem to have forgotten this while offering double-digit returns to investors for
- Peer Review Can Work If It Doesn't Simply Scratch (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 02, 2005)
Peer review is much in the news. For instance, Uganda plans to implement African Peer Review Mechanism or APRM of the New Partnership for Africa's Development a.k.a. Nepad.
- Rise Of Shias In The Arab World (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Feb 02, 2005)
The American-ordered tensely-awaited first countrywide multiparty election in Iraq in half a century, did go through on Sunday despite the insurgents’ attempts to disrupt it.
- Why I Say Yes To The No (Indian Express, SAMEER KUMAR, Feb 02, 2005)
I disagree with your contentions expressed in the editorial, ‘Nay Fever’ (IE, Jan 26). You have stated that “middle class dissatisfaction with politics should not be confused with dissatisfaction in general”.
- The Last Temptation Of Padma (Indian Express, SUMIT CHAKRAVARTTY, Feb 02, 2005)
With historian Professor Romila Thapar turning down the Padma Bhushan award conferred on her on Republic Day this year, the controversy over the acceptance or non-acceptance of these civilian awards announced by the state on such an occasion has once more
- Deprived Of A Future (Telegraph, Amit Bhaduri, Feb 02, 2005)
The promise of guaranteeing employment to the poor was made in the common minimum programme of the United Progressive Alliance government in power.
- Condoleezza’S Choices (Indian Express, WALTER ANDERSEN, Feb 02, 2005)
George W. Bush was sworn in as president in 2001 with no intention of focusing on foreign policy. The second inauguration of George W. Bush on January 20 was quite the reverse.
- Let The Party Begin (Hindu, Harish Khare , Feb 02, 2005)
If the Congress leadership undertakes the task of organisational renewal, it could begin the larger process of reform of the entire party system.
- Kislay Kaushik’S Cry (Tribune, H. K. Dua, Feb 02, 2005)
ANY country which takes genuine care of its children would have felt a sense of indignation on what happened in Bihar last week. Placards in hand, in large numbers schoolchildren marched down the streets of Patna and onto Raj Bhawan to demand...
- Three Affirmative Tax Actions (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Feb 02, 2005)
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, hates being a peripheral nibbler. He chomps his way to the core of economic issues with piercing swiftness.
- India Beyond Delhi And Mumbai (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Feb 01, 2005)
Unlike in the US, where the metros and other cities have distinct reputations in such fields as industry, commerce, education and culture, their Indian counterparts hardly have any activity specialisation
- Integrating Economies Into Growth (The Financial Express, Nagesh Kumar, Feb 01, 2005)
Dhaka will be hosting the 13th summit of Saarc towards the end of the week. The Islamabad summit last year adopted a landmark framework agreement on South Asian Free Trade Area (Safta).
- Working At It (Telegraph, ABHIRUP SARKAR, Feb 01, 2005)
Probably no piece of legislation has attracted more apprehension, cynicism or praise in the recent past than the national rural employment guarantee bill introduced in parliament last December.
- Pay As You Go Along (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Feb 01, 2005)
The recently presented white paper on VAT seems to clear all doubts regarding the subject
- Discovering Ways To A Peaceful World (Deccan Herald, A K MERCHANT, Feb 01, 2005)
“It is the small-minded that say: This is mine and this yours. For those endowed with a larger vision, the whole world is but one family.”
- China Ahead (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 01, 2005)
The just concluded five-day Annual Meet of the World Economic Forum (WEF) held at Davos witnessed a brainstorming session on the business prospects in India and China and New Delhi’s ongoing efforts to project the country as an ideal destination for Forei
- Can Congress Turn The Corner? (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Feb 01, 2005)
“He came, he saw and he conferred.” This should be the slightly modified version
of the Shakespearean quote as regards the just concluded Bangalore mission of Mr A K Antony, AICC(I) General Secretary in charge of Karnataka affairs.
- Another False Dawn (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 01, 2005)
While the result of the election held in Iraq on January 30 will not be finally known for some more days to come, those who conducted the exercise sought to portray it as a turning point.
- In Pursuit Of Energy Security (Hindu, Sudha Mahalingam, Feb 01, 2005)
For ensuring energy security, all options for diversification of our fuel basket need to be pursued vigorously. This also means the process of inter-fuel substitution in industrial processes must begin now.
- Those Unreliable, Moody Communists (Indian Express, Balbir K Punj, Jan 31, 2005)
Many breakfasts later, the Left is still acting as if they are the Opposition rather than allies of the Manmohan Singh Government
- The Great Game In Central Asia (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Jan 31, 2005)
The American encouragement of velvet revolutions in the former Soviet republics poses a threat to peace and stability in Central Asia.
- The Geo-Green Alternative (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Jan 31, 2005)
One of the most striking things I’ve found in Europe these past two weeks is the absolute conviction that the Bush team is just itching to invade Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.
- Tea Troubles (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 31, 2005)
A far from refreshing performance of tea exports two years in a row must make all stakeholders sit up and take note. Decline in export volumes and loss of export market share to competing producers
- Shaky Ground (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 31, 2005)
Goa’s BJP-led coalition government is tottering on the brink of collapse. The crisis exploded on Saturday when three BJP MLAs quit the party and two MLAs belonging to the BJP’s coalition partners in the government withdrew support to the government.
- Regulatory Impact Assessment — Useful Tool For Informed Debate (Business Line, Manisha Gulati, Jan 31, 2005)
Regulatory Impact Analysis is a tool that enables the systematic assessment of positive and negative impacts of proposed and existing regulations
- Pension Off The Old (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 31, 2005)
The finance ministry’s decision to liberalise the investment guidelines for trusts, superannuation funds, provident funds, and so on, enabling 5 per cent investment in equity was long overdue.
- Bihar, Now (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Jan 31, 2005)
Metropolitan India has numerous ways to swat Bihar. Take the old joke: “Yaar, we should agree to give J&K to the Pakistanis if they agree to take Bihar as well.” So static is the big picture of the state that news agencies are known to recycle old picture
- Moving Ahead With An Old Idea (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 31, 2005)
Finance Minister P. Chidambaram's most recent statement on the public sector disinvestment programme must be understood as an exercise in addressing and resolving policy ambiguities in a contentious area.
- Little To Mourn For (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Jan 31, 2005)
After two weeks of dithering and delay, the Chin-ese Communist Party permitted a low-key memorial ceremony for the disgraced former premier, Zhao Ziyang, at Beijing’s Babaoshan cemetery for communist heroes this Saturday.
- Justice For The Disabled (Hindu, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 31, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has issued orders for opening all non-technical Group `A' and Group `B' Civil Services to the disabled. In addition to enforcing existing legal provisions
- Help Industry Globalise (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 31, 2005)
India enters the manufacturing age. The clear implication is that the government must accelerate the process of slashing import duties, in spite of the prospect of a hardening rupee, to help Indian manufacturing globalise effectively.
- Heartland Trouble (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 31, 2005)
As statements of political intent go, this one is arresting. Asked about his party’s support to the Mulayam Singh government in Uttar Pradesh — in the context of the UP Congress vociferously turning up the heat on Mulayam in Lucknow on the law and order i
- Greenspan's Choice: Party Or Pain (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Jan 31, 2005)
The options before the Fed chief, Mr Alan Greenspan, are clear. Prolong the party and risk a bigger and longer hangover in America and, by extension, the rest of the world
- Charter For World Citizens (Indian Express, Amrita Shah, Jan 31, 2005)
On Republic Day last week, victims of a building collapse in Ahmedabad prepared to move back into their new homes four full years after the Gujarat earthquake that caused large scale devastation in the state.
- Practical Move (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 31, 2005)
THE annual return that the government gives to provident fund contributors flies in the face of financial logic. While it gets only 6 or 7 per cent from the deployments of these funds, it gives out as much as 9 per cent.
- Commerce & Crisis Hit Wayanad Students (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Jan 30, 2005)
At age five, Anushree is the youngest commuter on the bus. The Class I student spends 12 hours a week this way. That too, crossing the State border twice each day.
- Right To Negative Vote (Pioneer, Hari Jaisingh, Jan 30, 2005)
Looking at India's fractured polity and the quality of persons picked up for state and parliamentary elections, I tend to endorse the support extended by the Election Commission to the petition filed before the Supreme Court
- Pipeline To Trust (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jan 30, 2005)
The most important of many reasons for welcoming the Myanmar-Bangladesh-India agreement is the impact on relations between two distant neighbours.
- Help Industry Globalise (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 30, 2005)
India enters the manufacturing age. The clear implication is that the government must accelerate the process of slashing import duties, in spite of the prospect of a hardening rupee, to help Indian manufacturing globalise effectively.
- "Global World Needs Rule Of Law" (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jan 30, 2005)
The first Chilean head of state to visit India, President Ricardo Lagos, spoke to Siddharth Varadarajan of The Hindu about the anti-neoliberal mood in Latin America, the trial of the former dictator, Augusto Pinochet, and the nee d for a world that...
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