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Articles 34721 through 34820 of 35809:
- As Hong Kong To China, We See Sri Lanka To India -- Mr Milinda Moragoda, Sri Lanka's Minister For Economic Reforms (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 22, 2001)
Even while in the Opposition the United National Party had strong links with India.
- Removal Of Us Sanctions: Illusion And Reality (The Financial Express, G. Balachandran, Dec 22, 2001)
Magic, it is said, is done with mirrors and illusions. It has to do with the sleight of hand, twist of the wrist and the presence of a good-looking stage assistant.
- Doha May Pry Open Eu Farm Sector To Global Competition (The Financial Express, N. Madhavan, Dec 22, 2001)
LONDON: If the European Union (EU) symbolises free market and open borders, its Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) epitomises just the opposite — protectionism at its best.
- On The Brink, Watch Your Step (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 22, 2001)
FORTY EIGHT hours from now, when Maulana Masood Azhar celebrates the second anniversary of the IC-814 hijack that made him a free man again, he would have a very special cause for satisfaction.
- ‘Our Govt’s Performance Has Been Better Than Congress’ (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 22, 2001)
He’s a chief minister in a hurry. Less than two-and-a half months after donning the mantle in Gujarat, that too at a crucial time when the ruling BJP has just about a year to shed the image of a non-performing government.
- The Lost Year (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Dec 22, 2001)
If only the Government had not been burdened by the orthodoxy against public spending, 2001 could have been very different.
- China And The Wto (Hindu, Raviprasad Narayanan, Dec 22, 2001)
The real test for the Chinese Government, more than the state of external trade, lies in the internal restructuring of the economy.
- The Tough, Not The Rough, Road (Pioneer, Shobori Ganguli, Dec 22, 2001)
Fifty four years and four wars later, "war" and "peace" continue to dominate the verbal exchange between India and Pakistan, neither country's foreign policy ever exploring an eminently possible middle ground.
- Civil Aviation: Policy Crash Landing (Business Line, M. R. Sivaraman, Dec 21, 2001)
THE Ministry of Civil Aviation is about to announce yet another policy, this time to allow 49 per cent equity participation by foreign players in the airline sector.
- Overtaken Once More (Indian Express, Rajeev Ahuja, Dec 21, 2001)
A FEW days ago, it was corruption in defence purchases. Today, it’s the attack on Parliament that corners the nation’s attention.
- Victory Lies In The Air (Indian Express, H. Moolgavkar, Dec 21, 2001)
THE happenings in Afghanistan triggered by the bombings of September 11 in New York City and Washington have only gone to further confirm the potential and effectiveness of air power that had already become so clear during its application in World War II.
- Of Pak-Linked Terrorism (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 21, 2001)
PRIME MINISTER Atal Behari Vajpayee has rightly stated, "There can be no two definitions of terrorism. Terrorism cannot be divided in bits and pieces."
- Failure At The Core (Business Line, S.S. Bhandare, Dec 21, 2001)
IN the ongoing discussions on economic slowdown, the lacklustre progress of Indias infrastructure sector invariably comes to the forefront.
- India’s Economic Balancesheet (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Dec 21, 2001)
AFTER nerve-racking terrorism-related events inside and outside Parliament, the time has come to have yet another look at the state of the economy.
- Image & Image-Makers Of Mea (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Dec 21, 2001)
INDIA fascinated the world for millennia. “Fabulous” — that was how India was described.
- Centre Of The Currency (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Dec 21, 2001)
Ever try to remember those hazy days twenty years ago? The country was riven by a ferocious campaign to restructure Centre-state relations.
- Divestment Vis-A-Vis National Interest (Business Line, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 21, 2001)
THE DISINVESTMENT Minister, Mr Arun Shourie, is a conscientious person. But like an evangelist he knows no bounds. He must succeed, whatever the cost.
- The India-Sri Lanka Equation (Hindu, V. Suryanarayan, Dec 21, 2001)
Bilateral relations can be put on a secure footing if Colombo and New Delhi are determined to tackle certain important issues, which unfortunately have not received adequate attention.
- No Women Jehadis! (Business Line, Timeri N. Murari , Dec 21, 2001)
I HAVE never considered suicide as a good option. I guess that could be because I am very uncertain about what is on the other side of the fence.
- ‘We Need Proactive State Govts To Implement Track-Ii Reforms’ (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 21, 2001)
One of the few professional managers to be elected as president of an apex industry body, K K Nohria wants Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham) to encash on its unique advantage of having as members a large number of regional and trade.
- Argentina’s Covertibility Czar Domingo Cavallo Bows Out Amidst Riots (The Financial Express, Brian Winter, Dec 21, 2001)
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Not even the raw energy of Domingo Cavallo, one of the emerging market world’s most well-known and creative economists, could slay the overwhelming pessimism of Argentina’s three-year recession.
- Corporate Lending Requires A Paradigm Shift (The Financial Express, D. K. Goswami, Dec 21, 2001)
The corporate lending scene has undergone radical changes in the last three decades although these are still inadequate to cope with the tumult.
- The India-Sri Lanka Equation (Hindu, V. Suryanarayan, Dec 21, 2001)
Bilateral relations can be put on a secure footing if Colombo and New Delhi are determined to tackle certain important issues, which unfortunately have not received adequate attention.
- International Financial System And G-20 (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Dec 21, 2001)
THE International Monetary and Financial System (IMFC, formerly known as the Interim Committee) met in the middle of November to discuss the problematic international finance issues.
- Calling All Cynics... (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 20, 2001)
REMEMBER the time not so long ago when, at 16 rupees a minute, cellular telephony was dismissed as a rich man’s toy, and allowing global majors in this area just ‘proved’ foreign investment wasn’t going to come in areas of real interest to the country?
- Between War And Peace (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 20, 2001)
The international diplomatic dimension will be as important as the military moves that India and Pakistan may make in the next few days.
- 2001: The Year In Retrospect (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Dec 20, 2001)
Human beings invariably shed their innocence and grow up before they reach the age of 50.
- Time To Get Over The Fiscal Deficit Obsession (The Financial Express, P Vinod Kumar, Dec 20, 2001)
The wheel has turned full circle for the Indian economy. When the country bit the structural adjustment bullet following the balance of payments (BoP) crisis in 1990-91, a bitter pill it has to swallow.
- Rich Nations Should Go Easy On Anti-Dumping In The Times Of Recession (The Financial Express, T. S. Vishwanath , Dec 20, 2001)
Is recession the world over forcing developed countries like the United States to become more protectionist or are developing countries resorting to mass-scale dumping to overcome the problem of shrinking global markets?
- `Crude' Impact Of War (Business Line, Nilanjan Banik , Dec 20, 2001)
CAN you guess the likely impact of war on terrorism in Afghanistan? A rise in oil price.
- Asia Hopes To Let Good Times Roll In 2002 (The Financial Express, Jennifer Chen, Dec 20, 2001)
SINGAPORE: Asian economies are set for better times in 2002 after months of plummeting exports left many showing their worst performance in years.
- Counter-Terrorism Operations Need Better-Equipped Security Forces (The Financial Express, HUMA SIDDQUI, Dec 20, 2001)
Having seen television images of the shoot-out in Parliament on December 13, doubts were raised about the inadequate armament and equipment with the security forces.
- Techniques Of Privatisation (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Dec 20, 2001)
IT IS admitted on all hands through a series of studies that output, profitability and efficiency increase significantly in the years after firms are privatised.
- Shooting From The Lip (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 20, 2001)
THE trouble with having a press secretary who doubles up as the official spokesman of the army; a press secretary who also happens to be a major general, is that routine media briefings turn almost instantaneously into exercises in sabre rattling.
- Phone Wars Begin (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 20, 2001)
THE PUBLIC SECTOR monopoly in domestic long-distance telephony has ended with Bharti Telesonics entry.
- Distress Deaths (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 20, 2001)
THE CONTINUING SPATE of suicides among farmers in Karnataka is a manifestation in the most brutal manner of the increasingly volatile socio-economic dynamics of the agriculture sector in contemporary times.
- Distress Deaths (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 20, 2001)
THE CONTINUING SPATE of suicides among farmers in Karnataka is a manifestation in the most brutal manner of the increasingly volatile socio-economic dynamics of the agriculture sector in contemporary times.
- Between War And Peace (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 20, 2001)
The international diplomatic dimension will be as important as the military moves that India and Pakistan may make in the next few days.
- Concerns For A Growing India (Telegraph, P.K. Vasudeva, Dec 20, 2001)
Indian farmers are likely to benefit from the Doha declaration that was arrived at following the World Trade Organization’s 4th ministerial conference.
- Options And Hunches (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Dec 20, 2001)
The shrill cries for a singing response to the terrorist assault on Parliament House in the form either of hot pursuit of militants in future or of bombing raids on bases of such jihadi outfits as Jaish-e-Mohammad are easy to understand.
- Of Tall Claims And Unfulfilled Plans (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Dec 20, 2001)
PROJECTIONS have all gone awry in the final year of the Ninth Plan (2001-02) despite the best Budget the Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, could craft for the economy.
- Jack Welch, A Master Ceo (Business Line, S. Subramanyan , Dec 20, 2001)
JACK-Straight from the Gut (Warner Books 2001), by GE CEO Jack Welch, has received raving reviews.
- Behnji's Samaj Party (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 20, 2001)
Mr Kanshi Ram last week merely formalised an arrangement that has existed within the Bahujan Samaj Party ever since it became a potent political force in Uttar Pradesh.
- The Silent War Within (Telegraph, ANURADHA KUMAR, Dec 20, 2001)
The meeting of the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, with senior leaders of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) on his recent visit to Japan, has been widely welcomed as a move which would take the Naga peace process further.
- Special To The Express (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 19, 2001)
The assault has two prongs. On the one hand violence and terror: these aim at tiring out the victims by inflicting death and carnage.
- ‘A State That’s Patronising Terrorists Should Wake Up To The Consequences; In Any Case Its Immediate Neighbours Must’ (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Dec 19, 2001)
• Corresponding to the four ‘‘don’ts’’ are six ‘‘do’s’’: Believe what the ideologues and organisations of the terrorists say.
- Pakistani Connection (Pioneer, J Mohan Malik , Dec 19, 2001)
Myanmar's military junta, known as the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), has granted sanctuary to two Pakistani nuclear scientists following a telephone call from General Pervez Musharraf.
- Stepping Up International Pressure On Pakistan (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 19, 2001)
INDIA'S MORAL AUTHORITY to prepare for prudent action against the terrorist threats to its democratic and secular polity should not be put to risk by rhetoric of the kind that the Union Home Minister, Mr. L. K. Advani, resorted to in the Lok Sabha on Tue.
- Afghan War And American Gains (Tribune, T. V. Rajeswar, Dec 19, 2001)
THE first war of the new millennium, “Operation Enduring Freedom”, has led to many new paradigms and milestones.
- A Sobering Survey Of Drinking Habits (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 19, 2001)
We use a household survey conducted by India’s National Council of Applied Economic Research in 1993-94.
- Embarrassment Of Riches (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 19, 2001)
IN TWO MONTHS foreign exchange reserves could touch $50 billion going by the present inflow of a billion dollars a month.
- Ustr Zoellick Hopes To Boost Russia Wto Bid (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 19, 2001)
WASHINGTON: US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick said he hoped a meeting in Paris on Monday with Russian Economic Trade and Development Minister German Gref would boost Russia’s bid to join the World Trade Organisation.
- Exasperation Playing A Key Role In The South Asian Drama (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 19, 2001)
People in South Asia are angry and anguished. They react in the same way. When they go to the polls, they are reluctant to return those in power. They don’t want to put their faith in one political party. They prefer a coalition.
- Of Bluechip Stocks And Vanishing Wealth (The Financial Express, Jai Kumar N.R, Dec 19, 2001)
John Maynard Keynes once said that “we are all dead in the long run”.
- Focus On Financial Infrastructure To Propel Banking Reforms (The Financial Express, Renu Kohli, Dec 19, 2001)
The recently released Report on Trends and Progress in Banking in India, brought out by the Reserve Bank of India, identifies financial stability as the main issue of concern for policy-makers.
- Pak-Sponsored Terrorism -- Diplomacy, Not War, Is The Key (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 19, 2001)
THE attack on the Parliament complex and what might have happened but for the quick response of the security guards have left the nation stunned and furious.
- The `Britasian' Psyche (Business Line, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 19, 2001)
IT IS surprising that the British Home Secretary should even have to advise Asian immigrants to learn English.
- Fr Index (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 19, 2001)
THE Public Expenditure Round Table (PERT), a Chennai think-tank specialising on issues relating to pruning government expenditure and getting the maximum output and return from every rupee spent.
- Decisive Stage In Disinvestment (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Dec 19, 2001)
THE SUPREME Court has spoken. After the Balco verdict, the argument against disinvestment, or privatisation, is no longer Res Integra.
- Looking At Prabhu For More Power (Pioneer, Shibani Dasgupta, Dec 19, 2001)
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), the country's premier power generation and distribution channel, has approached the Centre for a budgetary support of Rs 18,000 crore to finance its plans to add generation capacity of 40,000 mw by 2012.
- Enough Is As Good As A Feast (Telegraph, Jaydev Jana, Dec 19, 2001)
Nutritional security is one of the integral factors determining sustainable food security.
- Stepping Up International Pressure On Pakistan (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 19, 2001)
INDIA'S MORAL AUTHORITY to prepare for prudent action against the terrorist threats to its democratic and secular polity should not be put to risk by rhetoric of the kind that the Union Home Minister, Mr. L. K. Advani, resorted to in the Lok Sabha on Tue.
- Restrain The War Mongers (Indian Express, A.J. Philip, Dec 18, 2001)
The much touted Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (Poto) failed to avert December 13.
- Dealing With December 13 (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 18, 2001)
If the Government needs to avoid utterances of the type made by Mr. Advani - that there was no security lapse - the Congress(I) could do without some of the noises emanating from its camp.
- Maoists In Nepal (Hindu, Sangeeta Thapliyal, Dec 18, 2001)
India should be cautious while dealing with Nepal. Any kind of military or material support from India becomes an emotive issue in Nepal and can be misinterpreted as interference.
- What If Osama Were Caught In India? A Debate Would Explode: Should He Be Tried Under Evidence Act? Poto? (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Dec 18, 2001)
The technology of inflicting large-scale violence is becoming easier to obtain, and — per quotient of lethality — less and less expensive. This in turn yields three lemmas:
- I For Indoctrination (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 18, 2001)
December 13, as September 11, as indeed so many days that have passed unmarked on the calendar, when innocents have fallen to the terrorist’s bullet, hammer home a realisation: this challenge will not be met by the military strategy alone.
- Diversity Through Subaltern Prism (Pioneer, Syed Ali Mehdi, Dec 18, 2001)
There has been a tendency among scholars of Muslim history to view it as a biography of caliphs, sultans, shahs and shaykh al-Islams:
- Yashwant Sinha’s Hidden Agenda (Indian Express, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Dec 18, 2001)
While addressing the World Economic Forum, Yashwant Sinha has outlined six areas on which he would lay thrust in the coming days. These reflect the interests of the bureaucracy and foreign investors more than that of the economy.
- Special To The Express (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 18, 2001)
Temporary expedients will boomerang: giving handsome amounts to the SULFA cadre, giving them jobs, allowing them to retain weapons — these steps have resulted in Assam now having not one set of extortionists — ULFA — but two.
- Work Culture In The Us And India -- The Difference Says It All (Business Line, A. V. Swaminathan , Dec 18, 2001)
A COMPARISON of work practices in the United States and India reveals stunning differences.
- Dealing With December 13 (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 18, 2001)
If the Government needs to avoid utterances of the type made by Mr. Advani - that there was no security lapse - the Congress(I) could do without some of the noises emanating from its camp.
- Maoists In Nepal (Hindu, Sangeeta Thapliyal, Dec 18, 2001)
India should be cautious while dealing with Nepal. Any kind of military or material support from India becomes an emotive issue in Nepal and can be misinterpreted as interference.
- Women Constituencies (Pioneer, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Dec 18, 2001)
The premise behind the Women's Reservation Bill is that women are an "oppressed" social group like that of caste or race, and hence they need affirmative action to compensate for the past omissions.
- Germans Crowd Banks For New Coins (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 18, 2001)
BERLIN: Germans crowded into banks on Tuesday to get their hands on starter kits of the euro coins, swapping their cherished deutschemarks for the new european currency.
- India's Corporate Economy -- Fallen Between Two Stools (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Dec 18, 2001)
GROWTH is uniquely dependent on household savings. Long-term investments are aggregated from household savings that flow in trickles.
- ‘Dsp Has Started Reaping The Benefits Of Modernisation’ (The Financial Express, S. K. Bhattacharyya, Dec 18, 2001)
Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP) in West Bengal, one of the four integrated steel plants of government-owned Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), is struggling hard to come out of the red.
- India Must Go All Out To Fight Terrorism (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Dec 18, 2001)
THE shock and outrage at the terrorist attack on Parliament, the most powerful symbol of a democratic nation, has given way to a sense of bewilderment at the ease with which the perpetrators could drive into a fortified complex.
- Script Kiddies Behind ‘Goner’ Worm Or... (The Financial Express, Prashant Bakshi, Dec 18, 2001)
The creators of the most recent worm on the Internet — ‘Goner’ (also called Pentagone)— have apparently been traced to a northern city in Israel.
- India Must Go All Out To Fight Terrorism (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Dec 18, 2001)
THE shock and outrage at the terrorist attack on Parliament, the most powerful symbol of a democratic nation, has given way to a sense of bewilderment at the ease with which the perpetrators could drive into a fortified complex.
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