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Articles 30921 through 31020 of 35809:
- Bloody End To The Gory Chapter Of Veerappan (Deccan Herald, S N S MURTHY, Oct 24, 2004)
With the successful execution of ‘Operation Cocoon’, the curtain has come down on a gory chapter relating to Veerappan. The Governments and the Special Task Forces of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka deserve to be complimented over this operation.
- Centre Won’T Shy Away From Labour Reforms In Textile Sector (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 24, 2004)
THE textile sector is passing through a critical phase. The quota regime which has helped industry achieve a decent growth over the years will end this December.
- Contract Farming: Joining Hands For Mutual Gains (Tribune, K.N. Rai, Oct 24, 2004)
Globalisation has brought enormous opportunities for Indian agrarian economy. Besieged with problems like fragmented landholdings, the lack of infrastructure
- The Bipartisan Predicament (The Economic Times, Arvind Panagariya , Oct 23, 2004)
Few proponents of reforms had thought that in a controversy between the Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia who symbolises pro-market reforms and the Left that abhors them, they could side with the latter.
- Man With A Golden Gun (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 23, 2004)
In the latest battle between good and evil, Veerappan was clearly Ravana. And STF chief K. Vijayakumar is — at least for the moment — Rama
- Punjab’S Progress (Tribune, Mohan Guruswamy, Oct 23, 2004)
The spectrum of regional inequalities in India is a very wide one with Punjab and Bihar having per capita incomes of Rs 25, 048 and Rs 5,466 respectively at the opposite ends.
- Smells From The Kitchen (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Oct 23, 2004)
There is so much emphasis on what one should eat or drink in our religious traditions which have neither logic nor any bearing on health.
- Onions More Pungent (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 23, 2004)
The Union Cabinet’s decision to hike foreign investment in aviation to 49% and to put such investment on the automatic route is welcome.
- Collapse Of A Flyover (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 23, 2004)
While Panipat badly needs a flyover on the Sher Shah Suri Marg cutting through the city, the one it had on the road to Rohtak collapsed suddenly on Thursday morning.
- Another Most-Disturbing Setback (The Economic Times, R PRATAP RUDY, Oct 23, 2004)
The Maharashtra election is the second-most disturbing setback for the BJP after the Lok Sabha polls.
- Advantage People's War (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 22, 2004)
At the end of the first round of talks between People's War, now called the Communist Party of India (Maoist), and the Andhra Pradesh Government, the naxalite groups seem to have wrested the initiative.
- Ambitious On Fdi (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 22, 2004)
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, is confident that India can attract as much $150 billion, over a ten-year period, in Foreign Direct Investments in the infrastructure sector if a transparent and independent regulatory structure is put in place.
- Another Most-Disturbing Setback (The Economic Times, R PRATAP RUDY, Oct 22, 2004)
The Maharashtra election is the second-most disturbing setback for the BJP after the Lok Sabha polls.
- Bhakra Dam: An Engineering Monument (Tribune, Narinder Sharma, Oct 22, 2004)
The world-famous concrete monument, Bhakra Dam, is a prized possession of India. It is a reservoir of prizes and surprises. The Bhakra Dam, standing 740 ft from its foundation, is the highest dam in Asia and the second largest in the world.
- A Poll Tear-Jerker? (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 22, 2004)
That onion is an election issue in some States is well known, the latest case in point being the Maharasthra Assembly elections. In the run-up to the Assembly elections, the National Congress Party (NCP) leader and
- Rights Before Welfare (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 22, 2004)
NHRC wants rights approach to tackling the inhuman practice of untouchability
- The World Economic Disorder (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Oct 22, 2004)
Despite six decades of their existence, multilateral agencies such as the UN, the World Bank and the IMF, have not been able to make the world a better place in terms of peace, security and development with equal opportunities for all citizens.
- The Bipartisan Predicament (The Economic Times, Arvind Panagariya , Oct 22, 2004)
Few proponents of reforms had thought that in a controversy between the Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia who symbolises
- Small Step (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 22, 2004)
In the budget, the finance minister promised hikes in sectoral foreign direct investment equity caps for telecommunications, civil aviation and insurance, implying placing these on automatic approval and rendering Foreign Investment Promotion Board ...
- Revolt Brewing In Pakistan? (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Oct 22, 2004)
There is potential for a popular agitation against the dictatorship in Pakistan but will it materialise?
- Reforming Babudom (Tribune, R. S. Bedi, Oct 22, 2004)
Ever EVER since Dr Manmohan Singh’s government took charge, it has focused attention on good governance. A dedicated and dynamic bureaucracy, sensitive to the changing times, is all that is essentially required for good governance.
- Onions More Pungent (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 22, 2004)
The Union Cabinet’s decision to hike foreign investment in aviation to 49% and to put such investment on the automatic route is welcome.
- Interest Rates Can Move Down Too (Business Line, Akshat Lakhera, Oct 22, 2004)
The secular downward movement in interest rates in the last few years has made the market insensitive to the fact that there exist "interest rate cycles".
- Stability Of Prices Or Inflation? (Business Line, A. Seshan, Oct 22, 2004)
Though the preamble to the RBI Act, 1934 mentions "monetary stability" as the objective of the central bank, it was quietly changed to mean a stability in the rate of inflation, variously mentioned as 5, 6 or 7 per cent, depending on the latest trend ...
- Nuclear Power In Asia (Hindu, M. R. Srinivasan, Oct 22, 2004)
The time has come for India, Russia, China, and Pakistan to harmonise their nuclear security and energy development policies.
- Good Move (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 22, 2004)
Increase in FDI cap in domestic airlines will make them more competitive
- Learning From History (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Oct 22, 2004)
In 1979, against a backdrop of unceasing strikes, soaring inflation, a million people out of work and economic decline, the British electorate voted out the Labour government of James Callaghan and installed Margaret Thatcher as prime minister.
- Oppressed By Irrational Dichotomy (The Economic Times, K. Srinivasan , Oct 21, 2004)
The Companies Act, 1956 has undoubtedly undergone a large number of changes during the last five decades and calls for a re-codification.
- An Asian Union (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 21, 2004)
It is time to have an Asian Economic Community. Dr Manmohan Singh floated this idea at the India-ASEAN summit in Delhi on Tuesday.
- The Iron Man Cometh (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 21, 2004)
It speaks for the panic in the Bharatiya Janata Party that it has turned for help to Lal Krishna Advani — the man who, 14 years ago, set the BJP on the belligerent path of Hindutva, thereby rewriting the course both of his party and the country.
- Three Cs Of Cost-Cutting On The Path To Profits (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 21, 2004)
NOT ALL the inhabitants of paradise are intelligent, nor all that technology promises, paradise. "The 1990s way of doing business is dead," declares Erik Keller in Technology Paradise Lost, from Dreamtech Press (www.wileydreamtech.com).
- An Opportunity For Sonia Gandhi (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 21, 2004)
The ostentatious deadlock over the question of chief ministership in Maharashtra constitutes another opportunity for the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, to redefine the quality of her leadership:
- Tricky Destiny (Deccan Herald, A N SUDARSAN RAO, Oct 21, 2004)
Until now, Fate seems to have decided events in my life, on which I have had little control
- Taxman Turns Friend (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 21, 2004)
FIIs are on a buying binge and have invested nearly Rs 2,558 crore last fortnight; this is an increasingly visible trend.
- Power Play (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 21, 2004)
India’s courting of the generals will affect Myanmar’s pro-democracy struggle
- Unshackling Rural Markets - Key Vectors Of An Overdue Agenda (Business Line, R. Gopalakrishnan, Oct 21, 2004)
The widening gap in per capita income between the farm and non-farm sectors has huge economic and social implications. Agriculture must be brought to centre-stage and, more important, the emphasis must shift from production to marketing.
- Auditors Can Soon Get Neck-Deep In Legal Lagoons (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 21, 2004)
War is too serious a job to be left to the generals, so we embed media people inside armoured cars.
- Making Contract Farming A Success (Tribune, Sharanjit S. Dhillon, Oct 21, 2004)
The Government of India’s National Agricultural Policy envisages that private sector participation will be promoted through contract farming and land leasing arrangements to allow accelerated technology transfer, capital inflow and assured market for...
- It Is A Close Race (Hindu, Bhargavi Shiva, Oct 21, 2004)
With less than two weeks to election day in America, the Bush-Cheney strategy of creating a fear psychosis seems to have had an impact.
- Babes In The Advertising Wood (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Oct 21, 2004)
There was a news item, recently, regarding a case filed against a bottled-drink maker by a child labour activist at Hyderabad, for glorifying child labour.
- Closer Ties With Britain (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Oct 21, 2004)
After imperial Britain packed up and left the Indian subcontinent in August 1947, Indian leaders found a ready excuse for the country’s maladies. Whenever floods, drought or famine occurred we blamed the British.
- First Hurdles (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 21, 2004)
The first hurdles are often the most difficult to cross in peace talks. It is a good omen that both the Assam government and the National Democratic Front of Bodoland have overcome mutual suspicion and begun the first round of peace negotiations.
- Fast-Forwarding Indo-Vietnamese Ties (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 21, 2004)
The historic occasion of the golden jubilee of the Nehru-Ho Chi Minh meeting in Hanoi has provided a valuable opportunity for India and Vietnam to review the whole gamut of bilateral relations so that they can be put on a fast track.
- Nobel And Consistent (Telegraph, BHASKAR DUTTA , Oct 21, 2004)
During the first fortnight in October, economists all over the world speculate on who are likely to win the Nobel prize.
- Exploitation On Tap (Hindu, George Monbiot, Oct 21, 2004)
Why is Britain using aid money to persuade South Africa to privatise its public services?
- Maharashtra Elections — War Is Over, Skirmishes Are On (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 20, 2004)
That Indian voters will never cease to spring surprises has been proved yet again, in Maharashtra. In fact, they have shown their ability to spring double surprises.
- Back To Advani (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 20, 2004)
The change in the leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party is nothing but dramatic. The explanation Mr Venkaiah Naidu proffered for quitting the post was just for public consumption.
- The New Hindu Growth Rate! (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Oct 20, 2004)
Ironically, economic prosperity and higher literacy levels seem to lead to mass slaughter of the girl child in India
- End Of Veerappan (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 20, 2004)
The end of forest brigand and serial killer Veerappan comes as a great relief to the Governments of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka whose police resources were put to a tough challenge, on and off, during a 20-year manhunt.
- Politics Of Gas (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 20, 2004)
Commerce often succeeds where politics fails, especially in these market-driven times. The Tata Group’s decision to invest nearly $2 billion in new projects in Bangladesh could do more to ease relations between Dhaka and New Delhi than politicians and ...
- Was The Encounter Stage-Managed? (Tribune, Arup Chanda, Oct 20, 2004)
The death of Koosai Muniasamy Veerappan (65) in an encounter with the Special Task Force of the Tamil Nadu Police last night at Papparapatti village in Dharmapuri district in Tamil Nadu has pulled the curtains on a torturous history of crime which ...
- Unshackling Rural Markets - For Authentic Engagement, First (Business Line, R. Gopalakrishnan, Oct 20, 2004)
Corporates should think about rural markets more holistically rather than from a pure consumer marketing viewpoint. There is a crucial role also for the government, which must move to authentic ...
- Predatory Pricing: Lessons For India Inc (Business Line, M.R. Venkatesh, Oct 20, 2004)
Predatory behaviour constitutes a class of anti-competitive action where prices are set so low as to eliminate competing undertakings and, thereby, threaten the competitive process itself.
- Rbi On The Edge (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 20, 2004)
A section of market players sees the scrapping of this week's auction of dated securities worth Rs 5,000-crore as an indication from the Reserve Bank of India that it has no idea of marking up the Bank Rate or the repo rate ahead of the Credit Policy ...
- Top Three States - A Socio-Economic Comparison (Business Line, Jeevan Prakash Mohanty, Oct 20, 2004)
The Assembly election in Maharashtra is crucial for its possible ramifications on national politics. The election is being fought on several issues.
- Whither The Technological Development Plan? (Business Line, Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Oct 19, 2004)
The Tenth Plan (2002-07) does not look at the role of government in the upgradation of technological capabilities or in addressing the technological challenges ahead.
- The Kremlin Consolidates (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Oct 19, 2004)
Vladimir Putin's planned political reforms will strengthen his hold on Russia's restive regions and Parliament.
- Bidar By-Election Pointer (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Oct 19, 2004)
The fact that the Congress and the JD(S) did not unite against the BJP is not necessarily a bad thing
- Self-Reliance In National Defence (Hindu, C. Manmohan Reddy, Oct 19, 2004)
Building self-sufficiency in critical areas of technology is a matter of long-term national policy.
- Generally Speaking (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 19, 2004)
WHEN a former Deputy Chief of Army Staff argues in public that the induction of women in the Army’s officer cadre does not augur well for the force, one cannot but sit up.
- Serving To Fly (Business Line, K.G. Kumar, Oct 19, 2004)
Last week, newspapers reported that four international airlines had decided that, from next month, they will raise the frequency of flights that they operate to the Trivandrum International Airport.
- Economic Migration In Asia (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Oct 19, 2004)
While many observers continue to think of cross-border labour migration in terms of the movement of labour from the South to the North, in Asia most of the recent labour movement has been within the continent.
- Rising Costs Of Transport (Tribune, Ravinder N. Batta, Oct 19, 2004)
WHILE the importance of transport in a growing economy cannot be overstated, there are related costs that need to be kept in view by policy-makers. Such costs are usually external to those who make use of transport and are often unaccounted for.
- Sebi Scarred (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 19, 2004)
The securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has suffered a setback with the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) overturning its verdict of `insider trading', among other, charges against Mr Samir Arora
- Why India Needs Stronger Currency. Asia, Too: William Pesek Jr. (Bloomberg.com, William Pesek Jr., Oct 18, 2004)
On Oct. 12, a small conference was convened here in New Delhi on India's huge debt load. The focus was on the need for the new government to be more open and avoid the backroom maneuvers that left Asia's No. 4 economy so indebted.
- Peace-Meal Approach (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 18, 2004)
The start of negotiations between the Andhra Pradesh Government and the Naxalites is a positive beginning. If the first round of talks holds out hope – of sustaining the
- Getting The Cream For Civil Services (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Oct 18, 2004)
If the quality of Indian administration is to improve, staff selection must be pushed down, even beyond the Hota panel suggestion, to the school level. Like the khoa test of dairymen, it will force colleges and
- No Alternative To Reforms (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Oct 18, 2004)
The Left has always been a marginal force in India. Given the belief that its ideology has a special appeal for the poor, it can seem odd that the Left has never made much headway in this country, except at a regional level such as other non-Left
- Petro-Product Prices — Soft-Pedalling Can Hurt Govt Hard (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 18, 2004)
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government appears to be treading on thin ice on the issue of oil price adjustment even as the crude price zooms relentlessly.
- Poll Wonders (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 18, 2004)
If the Lok Sabha elections had proved the poll pundits wrong, the Assembly results have further discredited them. The voters have pooh-poohed their calculations
- No Advantage, Global Investing (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Oct 18, 2004)
UTI Mutual Fund proposes to launch a fund that will invest in stocks constituting the Dow Jones Global Titans 50.
- Mid-Term Appraisal Of Plan Targets (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 18, 2004)
The Mid-Term Appraisal presents the Planning Commission an opportunity to tackle certain problems head-on.
- Meaning Of Life And Spirituality (Deccan Herald, SWAMI GURUDASANANDA, Oct 18, 2004)
The goal of one’s life should be to transcend one’s outer self and realise the inner divine self
- From One Job To The Next (Telegraph, S. S. Chawdhry, Oct 18, 2004)
More flexible labour laws which permit retrenchments and the use of contract labourers are needed if India is to emulate the success of the south Asian economies
- Women Officers In The Army (Tribune, Raj Kadyan, Oct 18, 2004)
We were raising the National Security Guard (NSG) in the mid-eighties. There was a sudden need to train officers of an elite intelligence service officered by the IPS. The joint secretary of the department and I, as the Chief Instructor of the NSG ...
- Connecting Rural India (Hindu, M. S. Swaminathan , Oct 18, 2004)
The task of taking the benefits of the Internet and the space age to the country's 600,000 villages can be achieved by bringing about synergy between technology and public policy.
- Significance Of China's Economy To Global Growth (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Oct 18, 2004)
It should come as no surprise that China is a dominant player in the world economy today. A huge economy that has maintained a consistent
- The Role Of Diplomacy (Deccan Herald, G Parthasarathy, Oct 18, 2004)
India needs to take imaginative initiatives in its relations with its neighbours to contain extremism in its north-east
- War, Peace And The People (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 17, 2004)
When the representatives of the Andhra Pradesh Government and Maoist leaders sat across the table in Hyderabad on October 15 to discuss peace, it was in recognition of the truth that they had to respect the people's wishes.
- The Terror Of Khaps: Leadership Cowers Before Kangaroo Courts (Tribune, L. H. Naqvi, Oct 17, 2004)
Sonia of Asanda is lucky to be alive. So is her husband Rampal. Any number of instances can be dug up of khap panchayats having ordered the killing of couples for defying the oppressive and irrational caste-based social code of the community.
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