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Articles 17721 through 17820 of 22140:
- Developing Ideas On Development (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Jun 23, 2005)
Good governance and sound policy reforms will not be enough if the growth rate is to go up and expand employment.
- The Boss Who Disappeared From His Yacht (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 23, 2005)
In Corporate governance there are not always `right' and `wrong' answers, writes Robert Wearing in Cases in Corporate Governance from Sage (www.indiasage.com).
- Learn To Work (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 23, 2005)
The census figures indicate that 17 per cent of India's graduates are jobless. If employment is defined as productive work, this figure goes up to 40 per cent
- Brief Case: Numb And Number (Times of India, JUG SURAIYA, Jun 23, 2005)
524873? 6103421! Is that what a conversational exchange between two people look and sound like in the not-all-that-remote future?
- Change Admission Rules, Hc Tells Tn (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2005)
The Madras High Court said on Wednesday that it was inclined to strike down the controversial Tamil Nadu Government order, scrapping the Common Entrance Test ...
- Is It Really Worth Going To University? (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jun 23, 2005)
The policy of one-size-fits-all has played havoc with higher education in the countries where it has been tried, including India, and the signs are that it is not likely to work in Britain.
- Foreign Workers Face Battle To Win Jobs (New Zealand Herald, Julie Middleton , Jun 22, 2005)
Recruiters discriminate heavily against Chinese and Indian job seekers, according to a new study which probed the behaviour of 350 New Zealand managers and professionals.
- Grieving Tsunami Mothers Turn To Fertility Surgery (New Zealand Herald, Y.P. Rajesh, Jun 22, 2005)
AKKARAPETTAI, India - Like hundreds of mothers on India’s southeastern coast, Vasantha lost all her children -- a son and two daughters -- to the Indian Ocean tsunami.
- Chinese And Indian Economies To Overtake Japan By 2020 (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
China and India will be the world's second and third largest economies by 2020, pushing Japan into fourth place, according to research by Deutsche Bank.
- Nepal Slips Back To Medieval Rule (New Zealand Herald, Justin Huggler, Jun 22, 2005)
The King of Nepal has just seized absolute power, sacked the entire Government and put the country's Prime Minister under house arrest.
- Exporter Importing Talent (New Zealand Herald, Owen Hembry , Jun 22, 2005)
Fonterra is the world’s leading exporter of dairy products but, in the fight for international executives, it has shown bottle as an importer.
- Paying The Price To Enjoy Beauty Of The Himalayas (New Zealand Herald, Amanda Kyne, Jun 22, 2005)
The Maoist rebel appeared out of nowhere. It was 6.30am and I had been up at Poon Hill watching the sun rise over the Himalayas.
- Japan Set To Drop Out Of World's Big Three (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
China and India will be the world's second and third largest economies by 2020, pushing Japan into fourth place,
- Australia: Regional Profile (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
History: Australia is the world's smallest continent but the sixth largest country.
- Nepal King Names New Cabinet, World Condemns (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Nepal's King Gyanendra unveiled a 10-member cabinet under his leadership on Wednesday, a day after he sacked the prime minister
- Rice To Challenge North Korea To Return To Nuke Talks (New Zealand Herald, Saul Hudson , Jun 22, 2005)
TOKYO - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will challenge North Korea on Saturday to give up its nuclear weapons as she presses partners in Asia to make Pyongyang return to six-party arms talks.
- Rethink Reservation (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 22, 2005)
Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy would like to take credit for redeeming his poll promise to Muslims.
- Kashmir Peace Bus Passengers Cross Ceasefire Line (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
India-Pakistan border - Showered with tears and rose petals from relatives thought long lost, two groups of Indian and Pakistani Kashmiris walked over the "Peace Bridge"
- Be Free And Be Creative (Indian Express, NANDITA PATEL, Jun 22, 2005)
While altogether banning smoking on the Indian screen, as recently demanded by the Health Ministry, does seem excessive,
- Reviving Circular Railway (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Jun 22, 2005)
There are three elements that are essential for any development project to be executed smoothly and with the minimum of public dislocation and discontent.
- Who’S Who? (Dawn, Hafizur Rahman, Jun 22, 2005)
March 23, Pakistan Day, came three months ago, and August 14, Independence Day, is nearer — two months away.
- Caterpillar Group Boycotted For Selling Bulldozers To Israel (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
From boots to baseball caps, the Caterpillar fashion range is marketed as upmarket outdoors wear for label-conscious youth.
- Meanwhile, Our Energy Consumption Keeps On Going Up (New Zealand Herald, Chris de Freitas, Jun 22, 2005)
The Kyoto Protocol, an icon of the global environmental movement, is finally taking legal effect after years of controversy since it was agreed in 1997.
- Insight Into Indonesia (New Zealand Herald, Andrew Clifford, Jun 22, 2005)
A sadfact reinforced by the Boxing Day tsunami is that our awareness of other cultures is often limited to their presence in world media headlines in times of strife.
- Women Fear Dentist More Than Men (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 22, 2005)
A new study conducted at the University of Toronto suggests that women are 2.5 times more likely than men to fear a visit to the dentist.
- Did Whale Beaching Foretell Disaster? (New Zealand Herald, Michael McCarthy, Jun 22, 2005)
On the internet it is already a spreading legend: did the mass stranding and deaths of whales and dolphins on an Australian beach signal the advent of the earthquake that caused the Boxing Day tsunami?
- Riding On Oil (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 22, 2005)
The story of oil price hikes in India is as tedious as a tale told many times over. Political parties refuse to accept the simple premise that changes in the domestic prices of petrol and diesel should reflect global oil prices.
- Tiff Over Bhel (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Jun 22, 2005)
In the coming months, tension between the Congress and the communist parties is expected to exacerbate,
- Ascending Order (Tribune, Seema Jain, Jun 22, 2005)
MY little poppet, all of five years, is a no nonsense person when it comes to “school”.
- Tcs To Employ 13,500 This Year (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) will recruit 13,500 people during 2005-06, including 2,000 from abroad.
- Outsourcing Thriving In Philippines (New Zealand Herald, Stuart Grudgings , Jun 22, 2005)
There never used to be much to do after midnight in this northern Philippine university city except study or hit the lively bar scene.
- Us Being Left Behind As Locale For Tech Investment, Says Intel (New Zealand Herald, Daniel Sorid , Jun 22, 2005)
The United States may be left behind when technology companies decide where to make their next big capital investments, Intel chief executive Craig Barrett says.
- Muslims Sceptical Over Newsweek Back-Track On Koran (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan were sceptical on Monday about an apparent retraction by Newsweek magazine of a report that US interrogators desecrated the Koran and said US pressure was behind the climb-down.
- Giving A Raw Deal (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Jun 22, 2005)
“We are very sorry and apologise to viewers and other people who felt offended,”
- Annan Urges China And Japan To Resolve Differences (New Zealand Herald, Evelyn Leopold , Jun 22, 2005)
A Chinese man places flowers in front of a giant poster depicting World War II for the 60th anniversary of Japan's defeat in World War II.
- Private Aid Opportunities (Japan Times, DOUG BANDOW, Jun 22, 2005)
NIAS ISLAND, Indonesia -- The flotsam of disaster was everywhere: trash, bricks, splintered wood, household effects, clothes, debris.
- Assembly Time (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 22, 2005)
What is common to government offices, cabinet meetings and schools in Madhya Pradesh?
- Bigger The City, The Bigger The Disaster (New Zealand Herald, Michael Richardson, Jun 22, 2005)
For the first time in human history, more people will soon live in cities than do not. Urbanisation is intensifying as greater numbers of people, especially in Asia, leave the countryside in search of jobs, better living standards and wider opportunities.
- Foreign Brains Wooed With Lower University Fees (New Zealand Herald, Audrey Young , Jun 22, 2005)
Study fees for foreign PhD students will be slashed and their children will be able to attend school for free in new measures aimed at the rich education market.
- Stop The World So The West Can Get Off (New Zealand Herald, Jason Nisse, Jun 22, 2005)
Are the traditional Western capitalist economies, which felt so comfortable in their success only a few years ago,
- Just How Moral Are The Moral Police? (Deccan Herald, R AKHILESHWARI, Jun 22, 2005)
When it comes to love in India, even the neighbourhood watchman turns into a moral policeman. The concept of privacy is not understood.
- The Quest For A People's Computer (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 22, 2005)
The widespread use of computers in various walks of life has remained an elusive goal in countries where a deep digital divide exists and this is primarily due to economic poverty and illiteracy.
- A Woman With A Will Of Steel (Deccan Herald, NICHOLAS D KRISTOF, Jun 22, 2005)
How many women defy tradition like Mukhtaran Bibi who was not cowed down?
- Science In The Need Of Idiom (Deccan Herald, JAYALAKSHMI K, Jun 22, 2005)
Commercial pressures and funding drive much of research in the US today. Nothing proves this than a survey that showed that scientists indulge in fact-bending. More than five per cent of scientists admitted to having rejected data that contradicted their
- An Expansionary Budget (Dawn, SHAHID JAVED BURKI, Jun 21, 2005)
OMAR Ayub Khan, minister of state of finance, presented an expansionary budget to the National Assembly on June 6.
- Eu: More Than A Squabble (Dawn, Peter Mandelson, Jun 21, 2005)
THE Brussels summit has highlighted the stark choice before Europe: “carry on as before” or, in the light of the French and Dutch no votes, “rethink fundamentally our priorities and policies”.
- Image And Reality (Dawn, Mahjabeen Islam, Jun 21, 2005)
The Pakistani preoccupation with image and impressions has always been somewhat mystifying.
- Tsunami Leaves A World Of Ghosts' (Hindu, John Aglionby , Jun 21, 2005)
Before the December 26, 2004 tsunami I had never met anyone who had suffered so much that they had effectively lost their identity.
- Happier Stopover (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 21, 2005)
It could be that we have been spoiled. In India we grow up so cradled in remains of past grandeur and achievement that the coexistence of centuries is taken for granted.
- How The Patriarchs Speak (Telegraph, NIVEDITA MENON, Jun 21, 2005)
Not surprisingly, dramatic dialogues in any episode of the long-running sangh parivar soap draw heavily from the Ramayana,
- Realising The Eu Vision (Deccan Herald, Peter Mandelson, Jun 21, 2005)
The EU faces a fundamental choice — either to go in for painful reforms, or suffer economic decline
- Through The Prism Of Human Collectivity (Dawn, Huck Gutman, Jun 21, 2005)
William Wordsworth tells us that it is only in retrospect that one can sort out what has been most significant, most telling, in our experience.
- Make Them Pay For It (Telegraph, Tarunabh Khaitan, Jun 21, 2005)
Gujarat riot victims have claimed damages against the VHP and BJP. Tarunabh Khaitan explores the precedents and implications
- Basically Wrong (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 21, 2005)
Backwardness is sometimes the result of daftness in the high places. This was recently the case in Uttar Pradesh — India’s largest state, with a population of 170 million . . .
- From One Grind To Another (Telegraph, PARIMAL BHATTACHARYA, Jun 21, 2005)
For those who have failed to make it to the JEE merit lists, college is a stop-gap measure
- The Business Of Business (Deccan Herald, Alok Ray, Jun 21, 2005)
The theory of corporate social responsibility is essential for the success of businesses in the long term
- Why Quota For Muslims? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 21, 2005)
WE are for more jobs and opportunities for the Muslims in different areas, but Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy
- Is India Inching Towards A Hunger Trap? (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Jun 21, 2005)
In the dust kicked up by the resignation of Mr Advani, two things of grave concern escaped attention.
- Andhra Pradesh To Seek Grants For Social Sector (Hindu, Y. Mallikarjun, Jun 21, 2005)
Finance Commission should not disappoint performing States'
- Murmurs Over Andhra Pradesh Move On Quotas (Hindu, W. Chandrakanth, Jun 21, 2005)
The Andhra Pradesh Government's decision to provide five per cent reservation in education and employment for Muslims has sparked a debate
- Jawans Reach Out To People In Ladakh (Tribune, Tsewang Rigzin, Jun 21, 2005)
The deployment of the Army for the last five decades in Ladakh has gone through several stages, and the Army has touched every aspect of Ladakh’s life, economy, employment and the environment.
- Beyond Politics (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 21, 2005)
The Govt did well by pushing for PSU disinvestment and the oil price hike
- Heritage Sites Set To Regain Lost Sheen (Hindu, T. Ramakrishnan, Jun 20, 2005)
CHENNAI: Nearly a hundred heritage sites in the State, languishing for years, look set to regain their lost sheen, thanks to a Rs. 40 crores cash injection for their renovation.
- Reforming The Joint Entrance Examination System (Hindu, S.S. Vasan , Jun 20, 2005)
The JEE is a time-tested mechanism that deserves full credit for keeping the IIT system well-oiled and excellent. But well-conceived reforms aimed at spreading quality and improving access are overdue.
- Yoga For Livelihood (Hindu, ADITI CHATTERJEE, Jun 20, 2005)
Help the stressed-out people by teaching them yoga
- A Religious Dose To Help Fight Aids (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 20, 2005)
Faith institutions are being encouraged to integrate HIV/AIDS related messages.
- Empowering Women, The Teresian Way (Hindu, R. Krishna Kumar, Jun 20, 2005)
RANKED AMONG the premier educational institutions in Karnataka, the Teresian College affiliated to the University of Mysore has carved out a niche for itself for empowering women through quality education.
- Globalising Wisdom (Deccan Herald, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Jun 20, 2005)
There is strength in peace. There is strength in calmness. There is strength in love, but it goes unnoticed.
- Counterview: Level Playing Field Doesn't Exist (Times of India, SWAGATO GANGULY, Jun 20, 2005)
Should we celebrate because 70,000 dollar- millionaires were discovered in India at last count? Or because the number of millionaires worldwide bloated by 600,000 in 2004?
- Outsourcing Moves To Knowledge Arena (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
BPO business may soon be passe as the country is ready to become the leading destination for knowledge process outsourcing in areas of healthcare, pharma, biotech, writes Aditya Raj Das.
- Ysr, It’S Regressive (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
The fact that it was redeeming an election promise, does not make it right. The fact that opposition parties,
- Cet: What’S Common Every Year Is The Mess (Deccan Herald, Vijesh Kamath, Jun 20, 2005)
Over the last two years, the Common Entrance Test (CET) has become synonymous with confusion and controversy with the Karnataka government and private professional college managements locking horns over the sharing of seats and fee structure.
- Beach Safety (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 20, 2005)
With the onset of summer, Karachi’s beaches are once again thronged by thousands of visitors at a time when the sea is particularly choppy because of the approach of the monsoon season.
- Candour On Immigration (Dawn, Robert J. Samuelson, Jun 20, 2005)
Immigration is crawling its way back onto the national agenda — and not just as a footnote to keeping terrorists out.
- The Mukhtaran Mai Fiasco (Dawn, Omar R. Quraishi, Jun 20, 2005)
Whoever came up with the bright idea that stopping Mukhtaran Mai from proceeding to the US to attend a conference organized by an association of Pakistani-American professionals would help protect Pakistan’s international image should be taken to . . .
- Why Downplay A Rich Legacy? (Hindu, C. R. L. Narasimhan, Jun 20, 2005)
A subdued start to SBI's bi-centenary celebrations
- The Retail Road To Nirvana (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Jun 20, 2005)
The Government's stand on allowing FDI in retail trade is still not very clear. It cannot reveal all its cards, as much would depend on what others offer.
- Bhel Divestment — Vision For Dynamic Psu Development (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jun 20, 2005)
Contrary to the general impression, the public sector in India is operating broadly on profitable lines, contributing substantial resources to its own expansion. While the government is considering divestment in profitable PSUs, it should also undertake..
- Seven Brothers (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 20, 2005)
The vice-chancellor of Jadavpur University, Mr Ashok Nath Basu, must have been deeply reassured. Seven of his peers,
- Decline In Quality Of Life (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Jun 20, 2005)
There are five national themes that are mauled in the national press on a regular basis — human rights, intolerance, education, corruption and the increasing militarization of civil society.
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