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Articles 33121 through 33220 of 35809:
- Labour Reforms (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2003)
ONE SUSPECTS THAT the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was only indulging in a bit of diplomatic double-speak when he spoke of the need to bring in changes to the labour laws so that they become instruments "for speedy employment generation in all
- National Judicial Commission (Hindu, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Oct 20, 2003)
The bill to constitute a National Judicial Commission is a good beginning, but falls short of sensitive specifications, purposeful guidelines and popular expectations from such a Commission.
- Hr Department: A New Agenda (Business Line, S. Sudarshan, Oct 20, 2003)
THE HISTORY of the human resource (HR) departments in India has been reactive rather than pro-active. The HR department has always looked outside for recognition.
- Pura And The Government Input (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Oct 20, 2003)
While the private sector must build on the PURA concept, the foundation itself needs to be laid by the government, especially by allocating resources. For this, it can re-look at various existing programmes and re-allocate resources for PURA. For this the
- The Demographic Advantage (Hindu, N. Vittal, Oct 20, 2003)
We should think of a strategy to replicate success stories with the focus on productive employment opportunity for the youth.
- Mulayam Too Has A Vision, With A Little Help From Friends (Indian Express, Raman Kirpal, Oct 20, 2003)
Barely two months in power and fresh from calming Ayodhya, Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav on Sunday packaged a major corporate deal to chart a new roadmap for Uttar Pradesh.
- No Screen Savers (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2003)
Before formulating responses to party workers’ e-mails, Congress must strive for coherence
- Business Corruption And Individual Values (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Oct 20, 2003)
THE survey results on corruption released annually by Transparency International generate the usual comments on which countries have improved their ranking and which have not. The perception of corruption is now so widespread that the organisation's 2002
- And The Nominees For Best Use Of The Internet Are... (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Oct 19, 2003)
India’s e-industry takes another step forward when, over the next few days, the work of eight of the best networks, services and applications come up for scrutiny before a grand jury sitting in Dubai that will decide on nominations to the UN World Summit
- Sterilisation Gets A Good Name, That Too In Haryana (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Oct 19, 2003)
Chautala’s unique scheme: get sterilised, we pay Rs 500 per month until your daughter turns 20, Rs 200 if it’s a son
- October Revolution, 2003 (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Oct 19, 2003)
How many in this century remember V I Lenin? Lenin believed and declared that two ‘E’s were imperative for the building of a modern and a mighty state — Education and Electricity. He was absolutely right. Though communism collapsed by the end of the last
- Dealing With The Danger (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Oct 19, 2003)
New Delhi's role is considerably less interventionist than in other violence-scarred regions
- News Reel 12.10.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2003)
India's most-wanted becomes the world’s wanted as the United States blacklists fugitive Mumbai underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. In a huge embarrassment to Pakistan, the US Department of Treasury lists his location as Karachi and publicises his Pakistan Pass
- Forex Kitty Swelling: Touches $90 Bn (Indian Express, Reuters, Oct 19, 2003)
India’s foreign exchange reserves surged to a record $90.35 billion, thanks to heavy central bank intervention in the currency market.
- Apec Ceos Spend Big For Deals Over Airline Meals (Indian Express, Reuters, Oct 19, 2003)
Pacific Rim businessmen are paying $1,000 a day to eat airline food and rub shoulders with the likes of Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Thailand next week.
- An Insidious Campaign (Hindu, K. Srinivas Reddy, Oct 19, 2003)
From being confined to isolated backward pockets of Andhra Pradesh and Bihar, the naxalites have spread their network across several States
- Welcome, And Come Via Mauritius (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Oct 18, 2003)
The message is loud and clear. India has come of age as a destination for international investments and it will not be squeamish any longer about a sharp practice called treaty shopping. In a judgment delivered last week, the Supreme Court blew away the c
- Fighting To Keep What Is Theirs (Hindu, Larry Rohter, Oct 18, 2003)
The Bolivian Government's plans to export natural gas have run up against widespread anti-globalisation protests.
- Stars & Stripes Go Down The Hill (Indian Express, Paul Krugman, Oct 18, 2003)
The future that stares at America: Budget deficits equal to a quarter of govt spending for next decade
- Ram Versus Rajya (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 18, 2003)
It’s poll time in two weeks, will the BJP trust its wisdom or succumb to instinct
- The 4.50 To Bangalore (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 17, 2003)
Call centres in India could end up servicing Britain’s railway system. So why the worry?
- The Day Before, Mulayam Tries To Cool Ayodhya Heat (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 17, 2003)
Signalling that some sort of an agreement had been reached with the VHP on the eve of its planned assembly in Ayodhya, the Uttar Pradesh government today announced that all Ram bhakts would be allowed darshan of the idol at the disputed site under certain
- Stop The Rot (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 17, 2003)
Far from India evolving into a casteless society, assertion of caste and community identities is becoming more and more aggressive, to the point of promoting internecine violence and vitiating orderly governance.
- Ssis In New Economic Environment (Deccan Herald, M Prahladachar , Oct 17, 2003)
It has become a ritual to preface any discussion on the small-scale industry (SSI) sector in India with encomiums showered on its significant contribution to industrial production, employment generation and exports.
- Sickness In The Halls Of Healing (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Oct 17, 2003)
The Government of India’s Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) in Mumbai has asked the Union ministry of health to shut down the Radiotherapy Department of New Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital.
- Un Okays Us-Led Iraq Force; Delhi Cautious (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 17, 2003)
India reacted with cold silence tonight to the unanimous passage of a US-sponsored resolution on Iraq by the UN Security Council as the rest of the world quietly fell in line with Washington’s proposal to create a UN-authorised multinational force . . .
- Always Loud And Clear (Indian Express, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Oct 17, 2003)
I first heard of Ram Gopal when I was at Santiniketan. He had notched up huge successes though he was not well known at that time in India.
- India Inc, Getting Lean And Nimble (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 17, 2003)
No longer is VRS a bad word. As much as it has made corporates, banks and PSUs leaner and nimbler, it has also enriched the retirees. And, contrary to the perception that VRS means job erosion, it has made for continuous job enrichment. A Business. . .
- China's Big Leap In Space (Hindu, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 17, 2003)
WITH THE LAUNCH of its first "yuhang yuan" (or space traveller), China has joined Russia and the United States as elite, space-faring nations of the world, becoming the first developing country to achieve this distinction. Rocketry was conceived ...
- Cancun Failure Is Nobody's Gain (Business Line, B.S. Rathor, Oct 17, 2003)
India, on the threshold of sustained economic growth, will be affected by the stalemate at Cancun.
- Farm Sector Woes (Hindu, Bhanu Pratap Singh , Oct 17, 2003)
The decline in agricultural growth and increase in rural poverty have been due to the long persisting government indifference towards the farm sector.
- Want To Be An Ia Airhostess? Rudy Says Your Face First, Then Iq (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Oct 16, 2003)
Tells IA and Air India: focus less on tests, first look at looks; his reason: I am answerable to Parliament
- Wealth: Agriculture Plus Services (Indian Express, Gopal Krishna Agarwal, Oct 16, 2003)
Rachel Carson, in her landmark book Silent Spring, has stated that the power of an idea can be greater than political power. In the economic development of a country, there are two factors at work:
- Bali Raises Visions Of Asian Century (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Oct 16, 2003)
Since the "Look-East" policy was enunciated in 1993, India has made good headway in promoting greater co-operation with South-East Asia. Those gains were consolidated further at the Asean Summit, where member-nations committed themselves to creating a con
- Licensed To Crawl (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Oct 16, 2003)
Telecom sector — where tech change is the fastest— remains the last bastion of the licensing regime
- Put Development On Top Of The Agenda (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 16, 2003)
In this crucial second half of the fiscal, with Assembly elections round the corner and a comfortable enough macro-economic situation, the Government should shed its obsessive concern with disinvestment and the 8 per cent economic growth target and turn,
- States And Fiscal Reforms (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Oct 16, 2003)
The complaint of the more developed States is that they are being punished for performance.
- Messy Grain Management (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
THE MESS THAT foodgrains management has become needs to be sorted out quickly. In just about one year, the grain inventory is down by exactly half — from 55.4 million tonnes in September 2002 to 27.8 million tonnes last month.
- Engineering A Makeover For Gujarat (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Oct 16, 2003)
FOR the Gujarat Chief Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, the last couple of months have been all about re-engineering, restructuring and reinventing the business outlook of his State.
- Jarring Notes In Accounts (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Oct 16, 2003)
The proposed company law amendments to ensure greater transparency, while welcome, need to be fine-tuned
- Biotechnology: Hope & Hype (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
IN SOME WAYS, biotechnology is nothing new. Breeding domestic animals and cultivable crops were prerequisites for civilisation. Less essentially perhaps, early societies discovered fermentation and alcoholic beverages. But modern biotechnology ...
- The Ltte And The `Kp Factor' (Hindu, Iqbal Athas, Oct 15, 2003)
The LTTE has made it unequivocally clear that the future of the ceasefire will depend on Colombo's response to its counter-proposals.
- Senseless Dispute Over Ayodhya (Deccan Herald, R G Subramanyam, Oct 15, 2003)
Neither a temple nor a mosque should be built at the disputed site. A university of religions should come up there
- 1992 Mandir Poster Boy Gets His Face Read The Night Before (Indian Express, Raman Kirpal, Oct 15, 2003)
Just hours away, the VHP rally is the talk of Lucknow. But in No. 2 Mall Avenue, barely 7 km from tomorrow’s rally venue, a man flits in and out of the living room, studiously avoiding all talk on the VHP. It’s the last thing Kalyan Singh wants to discuss
- Political Earthquake (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 15, 2003)
FROM body building to body politic? Well, that is the nature of the dramatic transition the former fitness buff and the current hero of action-cum-adventure packed movies, Mr Arnold Schwarzenegger has made in California by replacing the State's Governor .
- Cancun: A Mere Show Of Strength (Business Line, Alok Ray, Oct 15, 2003)
NOT totally unexpectedly, the Cancun Ministerial of the World Trade Organisation meeting has concluded without yielding any agreement. The major stumbling blocks were the massive agricultural subsidies (estimated at be around $300 billion annually by the
- Ebcs? Quite Untenable (Indian Express, S. S. Gill, Oct 15, 2003)
When the Mandal Commission submitted its Report in 1980, B.P. Mandal told me, “Mr Gill, I know how much work you have put in as secretary of the Commission. But let me tell you that today we have performed the immersion ceremony of our Report
- Temple Versus Terror (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Oct 15, 2003)
October 17 is not a climactic point. VHP is in it for the long haul
- Message From The East (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2003)
The India-Thailand free trade agreement is part of a wider good neighbour policy
- Pied Pipers Inc (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2003)
Desperation feeds a shadowy migration industry - so does inequitable globalisation
- That Sinking Feeling (Indian Express, Paul Krugman, Oct 15, 2003)
During the 1990s I spent much of my time focusing on economic crises around the world — in particular, on currency crises like those that struck south-east Asia in 1997 and Argentina in 2001. The timing of such crises is hard to predict. But there are war
- Leopards Cross Over From Park To Urban Jungle (Indian Express, Vijay Singh, Oct 15, 2003)
After 10th death, kid in affluent suburb, Mumbai debates loss of forest cover
- Breaking Free From Industrial Agriculture (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Oct 15, 2003)
WHAT are the real costs of food? When we buy a kg of rice or wheat, have we at any time wondered what its real cost could be against what we pay in the shop? We only are concerned about the `market' price of food, and not what it costs to produce.
- Dial Reform (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Oct 15, 2003)
First in a four-part series on the bureaucratic, legal mess that’s crippling the future of Indian telecom
- `One Country, Two Systems' Formula Under Test (Business Line, Dharmalingam Venugopal, Oct 15, 2003)
AS IF to test the tenacity of its unique "one country, two systems" paradigm, Hong Kong has been constantly buffeted by challenges — economic, political and social ever since its reunification with China in July 1997.
- Hindutva Rate Of Growth (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Oct 14, 2003)
There is hype and hypocrisy in economic projections
- Party Pooper Vhp (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
If BJP’s anniversary do is overshadowed by Ayodhya, it has only itself to blame
- Smelling The Tokyo Rose (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 14, 2003)
Defence Minister George Fernandes makes no attempt at hiding his affection for Japan. Apart from a painting of Mahatma Gandhi — said to be painted by a Burmese refugee who lives in his house — the only other decoration on the walls of Fernandes’ South....
- Fiis Breathe Easy (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
FOREIGN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS must have heaved a sigh of relief after the recent Supreme Court ruling on their tax status. Though they have invested close to $20 billion in the decade since the market was opened up to them, the FIIs are widely perceived
- Boost To India-Thailand Ties (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
BUT FOR THE 1997 economic meltdown, Thailand might have emerged as the leading Asian Tiger among the Southeast Asian countries. Its economy was growing at a robust eight per cent of GDP. The country has now recovered from the problem, though the ...
- Oil Smoothens A Dynasty's Rule (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Oct 14, 2003)
The big game in the Caucasus is bound to gain momentum after the presidential elections in Azerbaijan where both Russia and the U.S. have decided dynastic succession is the best option.
- Corporate Credit Portfolio — Baking Assets On The Fire Of Securitisation (Business Line, Venkat Ramaswami, Oct 14, 2003)
The Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act (SRFESI) was definitely a strong indication that the corridors in New Delhi were waking up to calls from Wall Street. It is time for the wake-up signal to b
- A Nobel For Techniques (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
ECONOMICS PROPOUNDS MANY theories but has few tools to test the validity of hypotheses proposed. It is inevitable that the discipline often comes up short in offering empirical proof for its theories. For one thing, while economics claims to be a ...
- Mercy Or Murder? (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Oct 14, 2003)
In France the medical profession has been calling for some legal framework for the widely practised act of euthanasia.
- Patents For Peace And Happiness (Hindu, M. S. Swaminathan , Oct 13, 2003)
Indian scientists should be encouraged to assign their patents to a bank to be used for the common good.
- Trains, Buses Diverted To Keep Out Kar Sevaks (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Oct 13, 2003)
As the Sabarmati Express pulled in at the Ayodhya railway station this evening, very few got off. And not a single one from S-6, the infamous Godhra coach. In the near empty coach, a passenger said police in Jhansi forced people off the train. He was not
- Oh God, What A Game! (Indian Express, V. Gangadhar, Oct 13, 2003)
Saeed Anwar, at the batting crease, was a delight to watch. The small-built Pakistan former opening batsman leaned into effortless off drives and cover drives and cut with precision.
- Getting Back On The Growth Path (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 13, 2003)
What the developed world needs to do is to "coordinate" monetary policy, which will bring about stability in capital flows and an orderly realignment in exchange rates but only if it is "combined with coordinated fiscal expansion".
- Industrial Policy Options — Going Beyond Mere Reforms (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 13, 2003)
I RECENTLY came across a seminal contribution to the ongoing debate on economic reforms in India, written by a bright economist, Dr R. Nagaraj of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research.
- New World Disorder (Deccan Herald, LARRY ELLIOT, Oct 13, 2003)
It’s 30 years since oil prices soared and monetarism triumphed - and there could be more upheaval to come
- New World Disorder (Deccan Herald, LARRY ELLIOT, Oct 13, 2003)
It’s 30 years since oil prices soared and monetarism triumphed - and there could be more upheaval to come
- Free For All (Indian Express, Jaya Basu, Oct 12, 2003)
Consumer goods majors are pouring in the promotional moolah as the festival season gets an extra impetus from a buoyant economy
- Technical Problems? (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Oct 12, 2003)
A large number of investors to United Commercial Bank (UCO) bank’s recent initial public offering (IPO) were in for a surprise when they received physical share certificates instead of credits to their depository accounts. Usually, physical certificates..
- Multi-National Force To Move To Interior Afghanistan (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Oct 12, 2003)
NATO, which has the responsibility for the International Security Force in Kabul, will soon move to main provincial centres and other areas in the interior according to information received here. With that, the external security presence in A
- Presidential Shuttle (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Oct 12, 2003)
It's not just the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister who are bitten by the travel bug. President Abdul J. Kalam is also constantly on the move, shuttling between Delhi and other parts of the country
- The Shia-Sunni Equation (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Oct 12, 2003)
THE EXIT of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime has set off a power struggle among Iraq's two main Muslim sects. The Shias, who form the single largest community in Iraq and constitute 62 per cent of the population, are the chief contenders.
- A Land Under Siege (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Oct 12, 2003)
Signs of anger at the American occupation are visible all over Baghdad.
- ‘delay In Taking Decisions Can’T Be Dubbed A Failure’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2003)
Do you think it would be appropriate not to take any action against K Muraleedharan and K Karunakaran in Kerala, both considered by majority Malayalees as obstacles worse than CPM to the current Antony administration
- How To Deal With The Gang In New York (Indian Express, Shubh Saumya, Oct 11, 2003)
Treat the UN-centred order as a crime cartel. As the new toughie in town, India has to hustle its way in
- Balloons In The Bourses (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2003)
What has helped shore up market enthusiasm are growth projections of over 7 per cent
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