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Articles 33221 through 33320 of 35809:
- Enlightenment, Buddha Style (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 11, 2003)
If India’s east is to emerge at all, Kolkata and West Bengal must be the engine
- Which Way Will Political India Go? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2003)
THE IMPORTANCE OF the Assembly elections in five States — Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi and Chhattisgarh — scheduled for November-December 2003 stretches beyond the immediate. This is the final round of Assembly polls ...
- Can Mumbai Become Shanghai? (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Oct 11, 2003)
Cities are increasingly a joint enterprise of the rich and the poor. A vision for their future must integrate the needs of both.
- The Asean Tango (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2003)
INDIA AND THE Association of South-East Asian Nations have come closer than ever before with the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, participating in the Bali summit of Asean where India enjoyed partner status along with China, Japan and South Korea.
- The Painful Reality Imf Ignores (Deccan Herald, Joseph Stiglitz, Oct 10, 2003)
The Fund has again failed in its most urgent task of reforming itself and has dealt with issues beyond its mission
- Pressure On Asian Currencies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2003)
GOVERNMENTS OFTEN BEND economic theory to justify policy decisions that they feel will advance their economic interests. A good example is the argument the United States has been advancing in its attempts to pressure China to make its renminbi ...
- Appointments & Disappointments (Hindu, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Oct 10, 2003)
Every judge must be an activist who shares the vision, the mission and the passion of the Constitution.
- Disinvestment Over A Barrel (Business Line, S. Arvind, Oct 10, 2003)
The idea of breaking up the Fortune 500 Indian Oil Corporation, just because two other oil PSUs could not be divested, does not make good business sense especially when world over oil companies are merging for size. To really succeed, the disinvestment pr
- Avoidable Confrontation (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 10, 2003)
THE people of the Bengal Presidency, during the British regime, as also of the successor State of West Bengal, in independent India, have always been politically aware and in the forefront of mass movements for causes which they regarded as important.
- Trans Asia (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2003)
For India, a decade’s efforts to look east are beginning to bear fruit
- A Neighbour’S Paranoia (Indian Express, Jasjit Singh, Oct 10, 2003)
Pakistan’s search for parity with India is leading it up a blind alley
- Look East Policy: Phase Two (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Oct 09, 2003)
Phase two of the Look East policy will help break out of the political confines of the subcontinent that have severely limited India's strategic options.
- Books And Papers Redefined (Business Line, S. Kannan, Oct 09, 2003)
On the company law provisions relating to accounts and audit on the anvil
- India And Asean (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2003)
THE SECOND INDIA-ASEAN summit in Bali has provided the much-needed thrust and framework for taking the partnership forward. Two broad agreements, for Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and combating terrorism, have been signed. India has also ...
- High On Fii (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2003)
BY FUNNELLING OVER $4 billion into the Indian markets this year, foreign institutional investors have sent strong signals about their positive perception of the Indian economy. It is true this flow has come when the rupee has appreciated by nearly 6 per..
- Regional Trade Agreements — The Right Way To Go For India (Business Line, M. Ramesh , Oct 09, 2003)
BY SIGNING the Free Trade Agreement with Thailand, and announcing that it is working on another one with Singapore, India has indicated to the world that it has at last abandoned its anti-bilateralism, anti-regionalism stand, and joined the RTA bandwagon.
- Arnie Swaggers In (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2003)
Does the Californian result symbolise the best of democracy? Or the worst?
- Making Services Work For Poor (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Oct 09, 2003)
Broad improvements in human welfare will not happen till poor people receive wider access to affordable services in health, education, water, sanitation and electricity, warns WDR 2004. Rightly concluding that no one size fits all, it describes eight, and
- Towards A Post-Democratic Age? (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Oct 08, 2003)
It would be stretching logic to pretend that the proliferation of delegation is synonymous with democracy itself.
- Visa Vicissitudes (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2003)
THE SCALING DOWN by the United States of the annual H1B visa cap from 1,95,000 to 65,000 with effect from October 1 may not leave India's software industry unduly perturbed in the near term. No doubt, the apex software association, Nasscom, will feel ...
- `Strength Of Indo-British Ties Lies In People-To-People Link' (Business Line, Vinay Kamath, Oct 08, 2003)
SIR ROB YOUNG, British High Commissioner to India since January 1999, returns to the UK after four tumultuous years when powerful events gripped the world stage. As he says, the last few months of his assignment have been spent in defending his government
- Green Fuels Sooner Rather Than Later (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Oct 08, 2003)
Govt says its plan on ethanol and biodiesel well on track
- Issues Of Autonomy (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2003)
THE CALL BY Dr Bimal Jalan, the immediate past Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, for autonomy for the RBI to be put in place through consensus, rather than statute, has a beguiling quality about it. After all, a statutory instrument for conferring...
- Rib Redemption — Mere Blip On Rupee Radar (Business Line, A. Seshan, Oct 07, 2003)
THE redemption process for the Resurgent India Bond is underway. A sum of $5.5 billion will be available for banks to mobilise as deposits. In this connection, the State Bank of India, Union Bank and Punjab National Bank and ICICI Bank have already ...
- Asian Currencies: New Global Scapegoats (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Oct 07, 2003)
America's twin deficits, many economists fear, would lead to a collapse of the dollar and global recession. In their desperation to find a solution, they have turned their attention to Asia, with the demand that governments, especially the Chinese ...
- The Chinese Are Coming (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 07, 2003)
Did Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee bring forward his visit to Bali by a day so as to accommodate a meeting with Chinese premier Wen Jiabao? That was the speculation on the eve of Vajpayee’s departure for the Asean summit in Indonesia on Sunday, on ..
- That Festive Feeling (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, Oct 06, 2003)
Spend, urges the FM, to sustain the feel good feeling
- Chasing The Monsoon (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2003)
AFTER LAST YEAR'S drought, one of the worst in the past hundred years, has come a monsoon that has spread cheer across the country. The countrywide rainfall between June 1 and September 30, which for official purposes constitutes the period of ...
- World Economic Outlook — Lesson Of Growth Without Inflation Ignored (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 06, 2003)
THE International Monetary Fund brings out its World Economic Outlook (WEO) twice every year, once in April and the second time in September. These coincide with the semi-annual meetings of Finance Ministers and central bankers, hosted by the Bretton Wood
- A Warning On Global Economy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2003)
THE UNITED NATIONS Conference on Trade and Development is less sanguine than the International Monetary Fund about the outlook for the global economy. While the IMF's World Economic Outlook is confident about an acceleration in global ...
- ‘us, Israel, India Fighting Same Menace, But We’re Not Axis’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2003)
DAVID DANIELI, ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO INDIA
- Mulayam Forms Mother Of All Ministries In Lucknow (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Oct 04, 2003)
Trying to balance the weight of a coalition and aspirations of legislators prone to switching sides, Mulayam Singh Yadav, a known critic of jumbo cabinets, today announced the biggest ever council of ministers in the history of Uttar Pradesh.
- `No Standards World-Wide For Pesticide Residues In Soft-Drinks' (Business Line, Ameer Shahul, Oct 03, 2003)
IN RESPONSE to the article "Killing pests or poisoning people?" by Ameer Shahul (Business Line, September 2), Mr Sanjiv Gupta, President and Chief Executive Officer of Coca-Cola India, writes
- The All-Important Fdi Flow Factor (Business Line, K. Ramesh, Oct 03, 2003)
FOREIGN direct investment as an important factor of the economy cannot be disputed, although it has become fashionable for many experts to make endless comparison with China, being the significant beneficiary of FDI in the region and, that India too ...
- Not A Spectacular Recovery? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2003)
A NUMBER OF leading indicators on the economy confirm that a revival is taking place in 2003-04. But the first estimate of agricultural production in the kharif season suggests that the rebound from the trough of 2002-03 may not be as spectacular ...
- Leaders In Focus (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Oct 03, 2003)
The importance of political leadership remains undiminished in the emerging era of e-governance in East Asia.
- Pseudo-Victory At Cancun? (Business Line, Geethanjali Nataraj, Oct 03, 2003)
No doubt, the firm stand by the G-21 was a major moral victory for the developing world at Cancun. But the latter also lost out by the sidelining of other issues vital to their progress. As much as the rich countries need to pay serious attention to the..
- Withdrawal Symptoms (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2003)
US cutbacks on H-1B visas: disappointing, but no reason for despair
- Controversy Unlimited (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2003)
THE DEPARTMENT OF Telecommunications is in a spot over its permissive handling of the case of fixed service operators providing subscribers the freedom to use their phones beyond the local area, usurping a mandate available to cellular phone ...
- Khadi Gets New Spin In Africa (Indian Express, V K Cherian, Oct 02, 2003)
In the land where Gandhi learnt the ropes, ‘Afrikhadi’ is the new buzzword. The Mahatma is alive in Mandela country
- Tomorrow Never Dies (Indian Express, Manjeet Kripalani, Oct 02, 2003)
India as a political role model, Dubai as an economic one. Afghanistan has a future as a democratic, free trade zone. It needs luck. And patience
- India Backs Un Restructuring (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Oct 02, 2003)
THE 2003 UN General Assembly began its 58th session with an agonising introspection of failings of the world body in the face of ever-growing threats to peace and security, and the "fundamental challenge" posed by unilateralism to the founding principle..
- Tea_in__hot_water (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2003)
THE TEA SECTOR continues to remain in the doldrums with low primary producer prices, sluggish domestic consumption and falling exports. Even as owners abandon estates, the plight of plantation workers is worsening by the day. While entrenched interests...
- Cla: Regulations Versus Guidelines (Business Line, Amit K. Vyas, Sep 30, 2003)
THE Securities and Exchange Board of India has set the stage for the Central Listing Authority (CLA). The objective behind the CLA Regulations has been to bring about uniformity in the conduct of due diligence to scrutinise listing applications.
- State's Role In Basic Servics (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 30, 2003)
Governments cannot, citing a lack of resources or poor administrative capabilities, hand over basic services in large part or in full to the market.
- Energy Security (Hindu, M. R. Srinivasan, Sep 30, 2003)
Even after 50 years of planning, the country has not achieved self-reliance in energy supply.
- The Bitter-Sweet Cane Arrears (Business Line, A. Seshan, Sep 30, 2003)
If a factory does not get adequate credit it has no choice but face arrears in payments.
- Hyperbolic About Arun (Indian Express, S.P. Shukla, Sep 30, 2003)
After the return of the Indian delegation from Cancun, one has seen a series of reports and analyses which sound more like the hosannas of the faithful and the loyal.
- Deprive The Villains Of Their Heroin (Indian Express, BULBUL ROY MISHRA, Sep 30, 2003)
Several hundred tonnes of opium gets refined into heroin in secret, makeshift laboratories in Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan. It then finds its way to the West.
- World Bank-Imf Review: Will Asia Lead The World Growth Charge? (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Sep 30, 2003)
The global economy may be on a rebound but it is not yet time for cheer because of underlying risks of the large fiscal and current deficits the US has run up and the imbalances in growth and distribution of reserves. Emerging Asia has a big role to play.
- Chronicle Of A Collapse Foretold (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Sep 29, 2003)
"Victory" or "failure" are wrong words to describe the outcome of the Cancun meeting. Cancun was just one event in a continuing struggle over the role of the WTO in the economies of the world.
- Riots In Male (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 29, 2003)
At first glance, the recent rioting in Male, bears no apparent connection to the elections. Judging by the targets the mobs chose, it seems their anger was directed not just at the prison guards but also at Mr. Gayoom's Government.
- Because Food Matters (Indian Express, Bharat Dogra, Sep 29, 2003)
The solution is out there. So why are we still poisoning ourselves?
- Growth Has Its Pains (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 29, 2003)
India as an economic powerhouse? Joy! But it also means there’s a lot more to be done
- Non-Event At Dubai (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2003)
NO MAJOR DECISIONS were taken by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank at their 2003 annual meetings held in Dubai earlier this week. The event was noteworthy for discussions peripheral to the business of the two international ...
- What Next, After Cancun? (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Sep 26, 2003)
While many experts had predicted that the Cancun negotiations would fail over the question of agricultural subsidies, they actually collapsed because of the insistence of developed countries to bring on board the Singapore issues. However, the ministerial
- Farmers: Distanced By Globalisation (Business Line, Kumar Venkat, Sep 26, 2003)
IN the run-up to the World Trade Organisation's failed meeting in Cancun, most writers on both sides of the economic divide called for an end to unfair farm subsidies and tariffs in rich countries. After all, who could be against an open global market in
- Empty Bowls At Mexican Fiesta (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Sep 26, 2003)
The no-show at Cancun being tom-tommed by India as a major achievement can only be good politics and rhetoric, but this is certainly not good economics. Coming once every two years, a World Trade Organisation ministerial should be looked at as an ...
- Subject India: (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2003)
When the Financial Times launched its Beijing edition on Monday, several copies had four pages missing. The buzz is these were removed by Chinese authorities. Plausible reason: an article showing the Indian political system in better light than the ...
- Markets And Efficient Corruption (Hindu, S.N. Gajanan, Sep 24, 2003)
All that the state has to do is to allow the market to sort itself out and elicit the palatable corruption level by strategically predetermining the modest wage gains.
- Pfbr - Atoms Of A Power Dream (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 24, 2003)
Success means accomplishments as a result of our own efforts and abilities. Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thinking. Our thinking can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thoughts can be no wiser than our ...
- Warning From Rae Bareli (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Sep 23, 2003)
The right or wrong of an action is all that morality is. It is how you perceive it. Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi felt that the right thing for him to do was to quit if the special court at Rae Bareli decided in favour of framing
- The Bank Disconnect (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 23, 2003)
CAN NUMBERS ON bank credit offtake provide clues to economic trends when a large number of medium and big corporates are consciously staying out of the banking system? Quite a large number of companies run treasuries playing the equity and debt markets,
- The Political Case For Reform (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Sep 23, 2003)
The Supreme Court has done well in reminding us that the politics of reform and the reform of politics are two sides of the same coin.
- A Torn Safety Net (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Sep 23, 2003)
The Government does not tell anybody anything about the provident funds (defined contribution plans) that it runs and goes out of its way to obfuscate the fact that they are deeply in the red. The banks sell their shares to the public without mentioning
- A Chinese 'Invasion' (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Sep 23, 2003)
The Chinese have emerged as the fastest growing ethnic minority in Russia.
- Sustaining Reform, Reducing Poverty (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 22, 2003)
SEPTEMBER 15, 2003 saw a unique seminar organised by the Madras School of Economics to discuss the World Bank's recent report on "India: Sustaining Reform, Reducing Poverty". Chaired by eminent economist Dr Raja Chelliah, the seminar was attended by a ...
- Politicians And Real Issues (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Sep 22, 2003)
Politicians believe that they will prosper forever by targeting outdated issues such as reservation. What they have not realised is that election gimmicks yield fruit only once. However, they are not solely to blame. Those who parade as pro-poor intellect
- Useles Jaunts (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 22, 2003)
IT WAS an ugly surprise for me to notice the presence of the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Dr Y. V. Reddy, at a meeting of the Inter-Governmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development held at Dubai on September 19
- Wanted: Vision (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 22, 2003)
Vajpayee addresses the UN at a crucial point in history. This should impact his speech
- Real Software Of The Workplace (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Sep 22, 2003)
WORK scheduling in retail businesses can create a lot of heartburn for both the manager and the employee. The manager would like to maximise efficiency by making full use of the employees' time in deciding who will do what and when. Meanwhile, the ...
- Cancun And Its Aftermath (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Sep 22, 2003)
The developed economies will not make the extra sacrifice not merely because it is not in their nature to hurt their domestic industry and farm lobbies beyond a point, but because their hackles have been raised by the success of the developing countries
- Soothsaying On The Global Economy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 22, 2003)
A MOOD OF optimism pervades the global economic forecast made by the International Monetary Fund. The positive outlook of the IMF is not surprising because the last time it made its predictions was in April 2003 when there were two major ...
- Beijing-Moscow-New Delhi Trialogue (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Sep 22, 2003)
The significance of the upcoming trialogue is not to be underestimated because China, India and Russia represent the vast majority of the global population.
- Celebrate Cancun, But With Caution (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Sep 21, 2003)
Arun Jaitley, the Commerce Minister, has a neat, legal mind. Before he went to Cancun, he had identified the three possible results of the ministerial meeting: good deal, no deal or bad deal. And he had concluded that while a good deal would be the most
- Reforms, ‘via Bathinda’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 20, 2003)
While some of the more unabashed supporters of economic reforms may now be blaming the Supreme Court for spoiling the party and even puncturing the bull balloon on the stock markets, the truth is that real opposition to all deregulation and privatisation
- Indian Railways: Time To Improve Standards (Business Line, Poonam Madan Sarmah, Sep 19, 2003)
CARRYING an average 13 million passengers in 8,250 passenger-trains daily, the Indian Railways is one of the world's largest transporters of passenger traffic. But despite such phenomenal dependence by the travelling public on this critical service, its
- Back To The Future — Q4 To Look Like Q2 (Business Line, Anantha Nageshwaran, Sep 19, 2003)
THE US Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) left the target for the federal funds rate unchanged at 1 per cent. It was not a surprise. Their communication too was quite similar to the one that they released after the August meeting minutes. The...
- Us' Concern Over Job Outsourcing - Old-World Style Protectionism (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Sep 19, 2003)
There is continuing debate in the US on how liberal it should be with visas for foreign workers and the effects of job outsourcing. For India, a major issue of concern is the US' moves through law to cap the number of visas for foreign workers and
- Commending Modi (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2003)
This newspaper has had few occasions to commend Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat. Indeed, the recent history of the state has prompted bitter words against him in these columns, everyone of which we believe is perfectly justified considering the
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