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Articles 13321 through 13420 of 20008:
- India To Be Key Player In Knowledge Process Outsourcing (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 21, 2005)
After success in business process outsourcing (BPO),
- Bmw To Invest Rs. 100 Cr. In Chennai Facility (Hindu, K. T. Jagannathan, Oct 21, 2005)
Maraimalainagar plant to assemble 1,000 cars
To source door panels, seat covers from domestic vendors Cost advantage in assembling CKDs Car purchase finance facility
Both petrol and diesel models to be produced
- India-U.S. Deal: Negotiating The Nuclear Fine Print (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Oct 21, 2005)
India needs to play its hand carefully on sequencing, separation, and safeguards.
- Bmw To Invest Rs. 100 Cr. In Chennai Facility (Hindu, K. T. Jagannathan, Oct 21, 2005)
Maraimalainagar plant to assemble 1,000 cars
- Far-Sighted Ruling (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 21, 2005)
Public interest has reigned supreme in the eye of the court
- Regimen For Self-Restraint (Dawn, S.G. Jilanee, Oct 21, 2005)
Ramazan is the month of fasting. The process is apparently strict; you may call it rigorous. Not a drop of water or a grain of food should be allowed to pass down the throat from early dawn until sunset.
- Economic Impact Of The Disaster (Dawn, Shahid Kardar, Oct 21, 2005)
In a fleeting moment of nature’s anger, lives and properties worth billions were wiped out on October 8.
- Behold The Banana Boards (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Oct 21, 2005)
Just who is an independent director? A person who is not a stakeholder in the affairs of a company but helps direct its affairs, someone with a broader perspective than the management’s who adds value to the company without taking . . .
- Army Modernisation Drive Will Go On: Manmohan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 21, 2005)
"Demand to peg defence expenditure will be considered"
- The Void In Mumbai’S Heart (Indian Express, MILIND DEORA, Oct 21, 2005)
The Bombay High Court’s recent judgment on Mumbai’s mill lands has sparked off a serious debate on how Mumbai should be developed.
- Bill To Check Food Contaminants (Tribune, J. George, Oct 21, 2005)
The official approval to release the report of toxic heavy metal contamination by the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PCCB) is timely. A legislative remedy in the form of an integrated food law Bill is rumoured.
- Did You Do It? (Tribune, K. Rajbir Deswal, Oct 21, 2005)
Nosey Parker was snooping around as usual with his beak buried deep in the garbage when to his utter exhilaration he heard the cries in the sky, “Did ye du et — Did ye du et did did?” Nosey Parker looked up to shoot; I mean record in his camera, ....
- No Sense Of Shame (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 21, 2005)
At Least about the weather, everyone talks about it though no one does anything about it. About corruption, which bids fair to become a shameless way of life, nobody finds any need even to talk about it, let alone do something about it.
- Jp Movement (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 21, 2005)
This time, it is to undermine free elections
- Saving The Nathpa-Zhakri Project (Daily Excelsior, R N Malik, Oct 21, 2005)
Nathpa-Zhakri beats all other gigantic hydro-power projects in India in terms of generation capacity, size of underground powerhouse and length of the main tunnel.
- Indian Army Must Gird Up For Global Role: Pm (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 21, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday called upon the armed forces to prepare for a multi-polar world in which India, despite an unstable neighbourhood, would be a centre of power.
- Contentment, A Virtue (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 21, 2005)
Righteous life is built on contentment. Its value is repeatedly stressed while the ills arising from discontentment are highlighted as the cause of misery. It is this valuable and beneficial advice that the Supreme Being offers, when He had incarnated ...
- Politics Poses New Threat To Indian Software: Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, Oct 20, 2005)
India's computer-software exporters are slowly sinking into the quagmire of disruptive politics, in the process losing one of their key advantages over traditional businesses such as manufacturing and banking services.
- China Redraws Its Roadmap (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Oct 20, 2005)
As New Delhi hotly chases the unprecedented economic strides being taken by its big neighbour, China — which recorded two straight years of an annual growth exceeding nine per cent — the Asian dragon has realised its folly. It has decided to scrap the....
- India's Fast Growth Seen Fuelling Price Pressures (Reuters, Thomas Kutty Abraham and Suresh Seshadri, Oct 20, 2005)
Indian manufacturers have passed on higher costs to consumers on the back of a buoyant economy, company executives and analysts say, a development which threatens to fuel inflation and push up interest rates.
- To Mitigate And Prevent Disasters (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2005)
Extracts from the government of India’s status report on Disaster Management in India, August 2004
- The Rise And Fall Of A Nation Called Muslims -Ii (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Oct 20, 2005)
They once witnessed a period of great glory and grandeur. History had an ugly turn and it was all different.
- Trusteeship To Careerism (Daily Excelsior, Rajendra Singh, Oct 20, 2005)
Every warrant of appointment issued by the British Crown carries the preamble, "Our Trusty and We beloved".
- China’S Growth To Hit Environment (Tribune, Michael McCarthy, Oct 20, 2005)
Western politicians queue up to sing its praises. Economists regard it with awe and delight.
- Where Reason And Religion Clash (Dawn, Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Oct 20, 2005)
An American raised an interesting question in Dawn’s letters column (Oct 11). Hurt by remarks from “Muslims worldwide” who saw a relationship between the Katrina disaster and America’s war on Iraq, Steve Elisha, from Colorado Springs, Co., asked whether
- A Bold Proposal (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 20, 2005)
President Pervez Musharraf has just offered to open the Line of Control in Kashmir to let people from across the LoC help their stricken brethren in Azad Kashmir. India has welcomed the offer.
- Managing Long-Term Recovery (Dawn, SHAHID JAVED BURKI, Oct 20, 2005)
What are the long-term consequences of natural disasters? John Stuart Mill, the great 19th century English economist and philosopher and the author of a classic work on economics, made some prescient observations on the long-term effects of natural disast
- Traditional Programmes, Additional Resources (Hindu, Jairam Ramesh, Oct 20, 2005)
Where will money for increased spending in the social sector come from?
- The Un-Stated Major Premise (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Oct 20, 2005)
U.S. opposition to Iran's nuclear programme is aimed at protecting Israel's interests.
- Japanese Jingoism (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 20, 2005)
Signs of rise of militant nationalism in Japan have alarmed China and South Korea
- Kalam Witnesses True Face Of Goa Politics (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2005)
Kalam’s roadmap for Goa envisaged a trebling of tourist arrivals. Every tourist national or international generated at least four jobs, he said.
- Behold The Banana Boards (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Oct 20, 2005)
Just who is an independent director? A person who is not a stakeholder in the affairs of a company but helps direct its affairs, someone with a broader perspective than the management’s who adds value to the company without taking anything . . . .
- China's Major Leap In Space (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 19, 2005)
Two years, almost to the day, after China's first astronaut, Yang Liwei, circled the Earth for over 21 hours in the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft, the country's manned space effort took a big leap forward.
- Retreat To The Silent Resort (Hindu, ANAND SANKAR, Oct 19, 2005)
A stay at Kairali Ayurvedic Health Resorts is not just about getting your oil massage but also soaking in some much-needed peace and quiet
- India's Fast Growth Seen Fuelling Price Pressures (Reuters, Thomas Kutty Abraham and Suresh Seshadri, Oct 19, 2005)
Indian manufacturers have passed on higher costs to consumers on the back of a buoyant economy, company executives and analysts say, a development which threatens to fuel inflation and push up interest rates.
- Anamalais Awaits Project Tiger (Hindu, M. Gunasekaran, Oct 19, 2005)
It will help in improving facilities and providing employment to tribals
- A Creditable Performance At Kalpakkam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
FBTR completes 20 years
Though the FBTR was based on the design of the French reactor Rapsodie, it was built with design changes to make it a mini power station by itself
- Will It Affect The Dialogue? (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Oct 19, 2005)
When the natural elements strike they show no respect for man-made borders.
- Pakistan’S Image Problem (Dawn, Shamshad Ahmad Khan, Oct 19, 2005)
Another year has gone by in our country’s chequered history as an independent state.
- The Task Before New Nazim (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 19, 2005)
Each of the new nazims, sworn in on Monday, faces a daunting task of putting their cities in order,
- Building The Region (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 19, 2005)
During his meetings with the Haryana and Punjab Chief Ministers in Chandigarh on Monday, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani made two promises: to set up a special economic zone in Haryana and start a fruit and vegetable export project in Punjab.
- A Poor Picture (Tribune, J.L. Gupta, Oct 19, 2005)
My father’s friend was a good painter. Long back, he had painted a life-size portrait of Sardar Patel. The childhood memories of the painting are still vivid. The Sardar looked serious, stern and straight.
- Baglihar: The Points At Issue (Hindu, Ramaswamy R. Iyer, Oct 19, 2005)
The specific points of difference relate to the design of the Project, the extent of pondage, and the placement of the spillway gates and the water intake.
- 3 Cheers For 2 Articles (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 19, 2005)
At the Bombay High Court, while arguing for Environmental Action Group, Mr I. M. Chagla clarified that he was not seeking a freeze on all development in the mill land.
- Distant Neighbours (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 19, 2005)
Sufferings efface identities. I thought something like that would happen when the earthquake struck Islamabad and both sides of Kashmir, causing more death and destruction in the areas under Pakistan’s control than in India.
- Third-Party Certifying Ngos — A Blow To Wto's Hong Kong Ministerial? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Oct 19, 2005)
The rich nations appear to have shifted serious business from the WTO ministerial negotiating table to a forum of third-party certifying NGOs. The Singapore agenda is back even before headway is made in the matter of respecting the national . . .
- Land Eight Times The Size Of Nariman Point (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 19, 2005)
Money buys land, and wives are sold by fate, wrote the Bard in Merry Wives of Windsor. But it looks like the fate of land sales is bleak considering how NTC's plans have crash-landed.
- The Cloud Of Environment Clearance (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 19, 2005)
One of the objections raised by Mr I. M. Chagla, while arguing against the thirty-plus parties before the Bombay High Court was that none of the respondents who have started construction of residential/commercial premises have obtained the mandatory. . .
- Mumbai's Happiness And Hardship Index (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Oct 19, 2005)
INDIA is home to the fourth happiest group of people in the world. Only the Australians, the Americans and the Egyptians are happier than us.
- Nuggets Of Judicial Wisdom (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 19, 2005)
"The most vital `community need' at present is the reversal of the environmental degradation. There are virtually no `lung spaces' in the city. The Master Plan indicates that about 34 per cent of recreational areas have been lost to other uses," ...
- Land Locked (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 19, 2005)
The Bombay High Court ruling on the quantum of land available to textile mills in Mumbai for commercial development is a clear victory for environmental action groups that had spearheaded the legal challenge.
- Lessons From Nash And The Nobel (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Oct 18, 2005)
What can one learn from Nash, the Nobel and the movie? Mainly that children need to be exposed to the masters in mathematics and science to begin dreaming early on about becoming great. How many Indian children are exposed to the Ramanujans and the Ramans
- Editorials (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 18, 2005)
Cracking up and wilting in the wilderness after the last Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party seems to be floundering in its quest for a leader.
- Intellectuals Raise Voice For Pollution Free Deepavali (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Form a group in each area and burst crackers together in open fields, instead of disturbing peace in residential areas.
- Identity And Acculturation (Hindu, Pratibha Bhattacharya, Oct 18, 2005)
An interesting book bringing forth the issues of ethnic assimilation
- Waking Up Late (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 18, 2005)
It has happened many times in the past. The administration makes tall claims about its preparedness to meet any eventuality, which are duly highlighted in the media, but when it comes to the crunch, it is found wanting.
- E-Waste: A Global Problem (Daily Excelsior, Dr Pragya Khanna, Oct 18, 2005)
E-waste or electronic waste includes computers, entertainment electronics, mobile phones and other items that have been discarded by their original users.
- Few Women, Children Left In Balakot (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Oct 18, 2005)
There aren’t many women and children left alive in Balakot. The adult male residents of this small Pakistani town were out at work on the morning the deadly earthquake struck; their womenfolk and children were indoors — at home or in school.
- Huangpu And Hooghly (Telegraph, Sumit Mitra, Oct 18, 2005)
Why does Calcutta hesitate to become like Noida and Gurgaon while Shanghai dares Paris and New York? asks Sumit Mitra
- Coping With Disaster On All Fronts (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 18, 2005)
Extracts from the government of India’s status report on Disaster Management in India, August 2004
- Stuck In The Middle (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Oct 18, 2005)
Uma Bharti has now openly asserted her strength and is making a concerted bid to get back into the gaddi.
- The Post-Modern Woman (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Oct 18, 2005)
Louise Story wrote a front-page story in New York Times of September 20. She began with Cynthia Liu, a bright female student of Yale who expects to do law and then stay at home and become a mom.
- Rising Death Toll Of Deadly Quake (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 18, 2005)
Federal Relief Commissioner Maj Gen Farooq Ahmed has said that death toll in the killer earthquake has risen to 39,422 with 65,000 persons suffering injuries.
- More Tents Are Needed (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 18, 2005)
After the October 8 calamity that destroyed most of Azad Kashmir and parts of the NWFP,
- Wetlands In Dire Straits (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 18, 2005)
One hopes that the approval of a Rs 700 million project for conserving Pakistan’s wetlands will result in a new lease of life for the country’s water spots, many of which are drying up or are heavily polluted, . . .
- The Old Villa And America (Hindu, Prensa Latina, Oct 18, 2005)
U.S. blockade hinders restoration of Hemingway home
- Additional Funding For Quake Victims (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
The European Commission on Monday decided to allocate another 10 million euros for the victims of the quake a week after the killer temblor devastated parts of India and Pakistan.
- `Water Literacy Should Be New Mantra' (Hindu, A. A. Michael Raj, Oct 18, 2005)
After the literacy movement that brought enlightenment to many people, the country needs a National Water Literacy Movement to ensure that all citizens had access to adequate drinking water.
- A Fire-And-Ice Trip (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Climbing the Kilimanjaro isn't easy. But Sarath C.R., who scaled the peak recently, says it is a matchless experience
- Bp Eyes Reliance Gas Find (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Chevron, ExxonMobil also in race for stake in Krishna Godavari field.
- Vibrant District (Hindu, R. A. Padmanabhan, Oct 18, 2005)
NIMIRA VAIKKUM NELLAI: K. S. Radha Krishnan; Bharati Putthaka Nilayam, 2, Kuyavar St, Chennai-600015. Rs. 75.
- Banks Must Re-Invent Sme Financing (Business Line, P. P. Pathrose, Oct 18, 2005)
Small and medium enterprises are the engines of growth in an economy. But as the sector is characterised by information asymmetries and high processing costs, banks are reluctant to lend to SMEs.
- India Could Regain Lost Ground On Iran Issue (Rediff on the Net, Editorial, rediff.com, Oct 17, 2005)
India's vote against Iran at the last International Atomic Energy Agency board meeting displays the serious deficiencies in our ability to come up with innovative solutions to complex foreign policy issues of our times.
- Islam In Turkish Politics (Dawn, Najma Sadeque, Oct 17, 2005)
All too often, it takes a tragedy of overwhelming proportions to expose how well a state has served its people, especially the least-privileged, by the way they have been informed and equipped to cope with a disaster.
- Rs.2.04-Cr. Sanction For Tiger Sanctuary (Hindu, P. Sudhakar, Oct 17, 2005)
To preserve forest wealth within Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve
- Kothari Group To Invest Rs. 200 Crores In Education (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
To establish 10 schools and colleges across India
First Kothari International School inaugurated at Noida
Ahmedabad, Lonavala identified for next project
No timeframe specified for setting up of colleges
- Haryana Launches Rs. 700-Crore Drinking Water Scheme (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
Programme to cover 1971 villages; to be implemented by next year
- Policy Sans Power (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 17, 2005)
Conceded that soaring crude prices and rising import dependence force examination of alternatives to fossil fuel, and what better than biofuel — the green, eco-friendly, renewable energy source — as partial replacement.
- The Safety Factor (Dawn, Najma Sadeque, Oct 17, 2005)
All too often, it takes a tragedy of overwhelming proportions to expose how well a state has served its people, especially the least-privileged, by the way they have been informed and equipped to cope with a disaster.
- Avenue Into Past & Present (Deccan Herald, T L Ramaswamy, Oct 17, 2005)
Avenue Road is one of the most prestigious streets of Bangalore City. From the days of the City's founder Kempegowda till today, this road remains as one of the main conduits of Bangalore’s business districts.
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