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Articles 17921 through 18020 of 20008:
- Will Opec Restore Stability To Oil Market? (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Sep 15, 2004)
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries is meeting in Vienna at a time when crude prices are on a high with the ability to affect the stability of markets and impact world economic growth, especially developing countries such as India that ...
- Waiting For Teachers (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 15, 2004)
Rural schools in Punjab have often been in a terrible mess. Their condition has only deteriorated despite occasional media focus.
- To Ignite Growth, Put The Smile Back On Smes (Business Line, N. Seshadri Kumar , Sep 15, 2004)
The time is ripe not only for a quick revival of small and medium enterprises, badly affected by the open-door policy, but also for newer ones to bloom.
- Those Three (Deccan Herald, APARNA MOHILE, Sep 15, 2004)
Their friendship symbolised everything that is called ‘national integration’
- Serious Charge (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 15, 2004)
A serious accusation has been levelled against the UPA Government at the Centre by Mr L. K. Advani that it is not paying adequate attention to national security.
- Save It From Decay (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Sep 15, 2004)
There are different degrees of conservation and a variety of interventions to choose from but each has a price tag.
- Washington Is In A Fix (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Sep 14, 2004)
The central US dilemma in Iraq is gradually sinking in in America’s corridors of power. The Bush administration’s salvation lies in pulling its troops out of Iraq. On the other hand, an early withdrawal of forces can only be on humiliating terms.
- A Day Of Crowded Images (Deccan Herald, A MADHAVAN, Sep 14, 2004)
The sights and sounds of a tour by car with kindred souls can be highly enlightening
- Back To Directed Credit (Business Line, A. Seshan, Sep 14, 2004)
The Finance Minister's advice to bankers to trim excess investments in government securities and lend more to agriculture, small industries and infrastructure has serious implications.
- Environment And State Rights (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 14, 2004)
It was only to be expected that the Environment and Forest Ministers from various States should have opposed the Centre's move to arrogate to itself the power to grant environmental clearance for projects.
- Hurtling From Crisis To Crisis (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Sep 14, 2004)
The state govt has tied itself up in knots and seems to have created more problems than solutions
- Reforms In The Power Sector (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Sep 14, 2004)
The Centre has to clearly spell out the power policy. The Tenth Plan target is to add over 41,000 MW of generation capacity and time is running out.
- Investors, Frogs And Yellowstone Effect (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Sep 13, 2004)
The current firmness in equity prices is akin to the warm glow of pleasure that a frog may feel when water begins to boil. Resistance to the fundamental deterioration through manipulation of technical indicators and through the provision of liquidity ...
- Index Funds Do Not Really Lower Risks (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Sep 13, 2004)
The Pension Fund Regulation and Development Authority (PFRDA) has suggested in its draft proposal that pension funds should only invest in index funds. The reason is that non-index funds run active risk.
- Pseb Losses Not Due To Thein Dam (Tribune, Harpal Singh, Sep 13, 2004)
This refers to the article “Why PSEB is in a financial mess” written by Harbans Singh (July 28). The present financial status of the Punjab State Electricity Board has been attributed by Harbans Singh, a former Chairman of the PSEB to two major factors...
- Protect Nature (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 13, 2004)
The NEP should address serious concerns of environmentalists
- Powerless In The North (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 13, 2004)
IN this sultry weather nothing irritates more than frequent power disruptions, scheduled as well as unscheduled. Apart from the ordinary citizen getting inconvenienced, industrial and agricultural activity has been hit in Punjab and Haryana.
- Playing For Pride And Passion (Telegraph, Uttam Sengupta, Sep 13, 2004)
India’s dismal showing in Athens was not surprising. But a sporting boom appears to be round the corner
- Trends In Patent And Trademark Law (Business Line, Rama Sarma, Sep 13, 2004)
THE intellectual property law confer legal exclusivity in the market place. The right to prevent copying of ideas or information is recognised and this has recently made intellectual property (IP) law somewhat esoteric and specialised.
- Let’S Demystify The Roots Of Leadership (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, Sep 12, 2004)
When does leadership begin? Can we not de-mystify it? This was one question, which kept coming back to me, as I heard Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Rudy Giuliani, Francis Ford Coppola, and Warren Bennis speak at the Global Brand Forum in Singapore on “Defining Leaders
- Striving To Restore Sanskrit Glory (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Sep 12, 2004)
Rare are persons like Prof Govind Chandra Pande. He is historian, philosopher, Sanskrit scholar, poet and linguist combined in one. He is, perhaps, the only scholar who has vowed to restore the pristine glory of Sanskrit, fast vanishing as the classical
- After Killing Children (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 12, 2004)
How much smaller did the militants want them to be? As the images of cowering, traumatized, wounded and dead children from the desecrated school in Beslan go out into the world, this is perhaps the only question that seems relevant.
- Diesel Engines On Vegetarian Diet (Business Line, B. S. Murthy, Sep 10, 2004)
Diesel engines, unlike their petrol counterparts, are omnivorous in fuel consumption habits and can easily run on vegetable oils without any major changes in the engine.
- Against The Grain (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Sep 10, 2004)
While terms of trade are tilted against agriculture, any move to help farmers is seen as harmful to the economy
- Farmers' Distress: Causes & Cures (Hindu, M. S. Swaminathan , Sep 10, 2004)
Education, social mobilisation and regulation are necessary to arrest the expansion of the agrarian crisis.
- Indescribable Barbarity (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 10, 2004)
The world has lived with terrorism for many years now, and has seen the many forms of brutality it takes.
- International Trade And Economic Growth (Business Line, S. Venu , Sep 10, 2004)
Openness to trade is not by itself sufficient to promote growth. Macroeconomic and political stability and other policies are needed as well.
- Watching Hypertension (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 10, 2004)
The revelation that there has been a sharp rise in the prevalence of high blood pressure in the United States over the last decade must prompt a closer review of the public health challenge hypertension poses worldwide.
- Preaching Vs Implementing Best Practices (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Sep 10, 2004)
Though the World Bank asserts that assisting India with best practice knowledge and financing for development are central to the Bank group's mission, doubts persist about the Bank's adherence to its own social and environmental policies.
- Zoo Deaths (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 10, 2004)
The death of three animals at Mysore zoo proves that its facilities need to be upgraded
- The Basel-Ii Blushes (Business Line, Katuri Nageswararao, Sep 09, 2004)
BANKS, being highly leveraged entities, need to guard against failures, which could cause significant distress to the economy. Basel-I norms were principally to ensure adequacy of capital of banks as a defined proportion of the risk weighted assets.
- Historic Declarations (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 08, 2004)
Certain statements made by famous persons in certain historical contexts are indelibly etched in memory. The exclamation by King Louis IV, "L'etat c'est moi!" (The State! I am the State!) is the earliest that comes to mind.
- Changing Face Of The Global Indian (Deccan Herald, Janaki Murali, Sep 08, 2004)
The urban Indian metrosexual is busy carving a niche in the world and moulding himself as a global citizen
- Financing Cmp: Banking On World Bank (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Sep 08, 2004)
INDIA is desperately short of investment resources. Public investment on a massive scale is needed in key areas of economic and social development if India is to get rid of poverty in two decades while achieving higher growth rates, which would help place
- A Mega Clean-Up In Us (Business Line, A. V. Swaminathan , Sep 08, 2004)
Utility companies, municipal agencies and, lately, the Department of Environmental Quality in the US act with deep concern for ensuring unpolluted water for the citizens.
- Will Nuclear Energy Gain Greater Acceptability? (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Sep 08, 2004)
WILL the 21st century see an upswing in the fortunes of nuclear power? Will this clean source of electricity be able to put behind it the lingering threat of a holocaust, and power ahead?
- Terror In Beslan — Not Justified By Any Cause (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Sep 08, 2004)
Fanaticism and fundamentalism have their limits, when these are crossed, as they were with horrific and tragic consequences in Beslan, people who rebel for a cause not only make themselves and their cause a grotesque comedy, they paint an entire community
- Psu — Paradox Or Dream? (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 08, 2004)
Going by this latest pronouncements about public sector units (PSUs), the Prime Minister qualifies eminently for the famous definition of a superior mind that can at once hold two opposing ideas in balance.
- India By Night (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 07, 2004)
After having shone for a while, India is now set to become incredible. The Central tourism minister, Ms Renuka Chowdhury, is now full of ideas about her “Incredible India” campaign to bring tourists into the country.
- Glitzy Ghaggar (Tribune, Anurag, Sep 07, 2004)
The havoc wrought by the swollen waters of the Ghaggar river was disproportionate to its inconsequential size and shape most months of the year. Riding on the crest of torrential rains and relying on clogged troughs, any water body would run revengeful br
- Bombay Plan And Mixed-Up Economy (Business Line, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Sep 07, 2004)
After the shift quite far to the Right under the previous BJP-led regime, the economy is seeing a shift Leftward, harking back to the Bombay Plan and the mixed economy concept of Jawaharlal Nehru. But is it moving towards a "mixed-up" economy?
- River Of Ashes (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 07, 2004)
Officials ignore directives, act slowly and then deny anything is wrong. This familiar reaction is all too common. The fly ash from a breach in a dyke of the Guru Gobind Singh Super Thermal Plant, Ropar, continues to pollute the Sutlej.
- Sezs Have To Be Special (Business Line, P. P. Prabhu, Sep 07, 2004)
The Special Economic Zones will become popular and really take off in the manner desired only if the proposed law governing them conforms to and upholds the basic concept behind the zones. Further, the rules and procedures must place minimal restrictions
- Real Diseases, Weird Cures (Deccan Herald, JAYALAKSHMI K, Sep 07, 2004)
Is exercise not better than cutting off your tummy if you are fat? Apparently not, in the consumerist world
- Unforgivable (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 06, 2004)
There was only one thing to consider when the nightmare began in Middle School No. 1 in Beslan. The extremists had hundreds of children as hostage.
- Summer Of ’72 (Deccan Herald, MALATHI RAO, Sep 06, 2004)
Memories of my mother’s healing touch still touch me, today, years after she left me
- Spare The Children (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 06, 2004)
Moscow must learn from the Beslan tragedy and change its stance on the Chechen issue
- Rbi's Annual Report 2003-2004 (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 06, 2004)
There have been suggestions that some part of the RBI's forex reserves should be placed with Indian scheduled banks, which can lend them to creditworthy Indian corporates, which are otherwise raising ECBs in the external financial markets
- Beslan Lessons (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 06, 2004)
The three-day school hostage drama in Russia came to a heart-rending end on Friday. More than 330 people died — half of them children. At least 700 others were maimed or injured when violence erupted at the school in Beslan, North Ossetia,
- Wages Of Town Non-Planning (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Sep 06, 2004)
The panel probing the Kumbakonam school fire tragedy will discover many culprits but almost certainly overlook the worst offence: Poor town planning.
- A Confident Prime Minister (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 06, 2004)
BY the very act of agreeing to address an open Press conference – the first by a Prime Minister in more than a decade — Dr Manmohan Singh sent out a clear message that he was very much in the driver’s seat.
- Importance Of Public Investment In Infrastructure (Business Line, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Sep 06, 2004)
One of the planks on which the Congress(I) came to power was seeing greater role for the government in the economy. This is welcome. One only hopes the party will not get derailed from this policy by the World Bank's advice.
- River Link Needed Only In Haryana, Rajasthan And Tamil Nadu (Tribune, Ram Niwash Malik, Sep 05, 2004)
THE concept of interlinking of rivers is very old in India. Dr K.L. Rao, the celebrated engineer and former Union Minister, wrote about linking the Ganga with the Cauvery through a 2640-km-long canal in his famous book “India’s Water Wealth”.
- Challenges Facing Indian Media (Tribune, Chanchal Sarkar, Sep 05, 2004)
AT home in India there cannot but have been a surge of admiration at the superlative performance of China in the Olympics. Second after the United States with golds only a little less, it was a superb record and this after taking part in all the ...
- Congress, Trinamool Moving Closer? (Hindu, MALABIKA BHATTACHARYA, Sep 05, 2004)
A section of the Congress appears keen on forging links with the party's one-time election ally, Mamata Banerjee, according to reports reaching here.
- Entering The Environment (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Sep 04, 2004)
This article is about an interesting, important, but as yet little-analysed phenomenon in contemporary Indian politics — the entry into the environmental movement of the organized left.
- The Free Power Debate (Hindu, Meena Menon, Sep 04, 2004)
The Maharashtra Government's decision to supply power free to farmers may create more problems than it will solve.
- The Benefits Of Doubt (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Sep 04, 2004)
Most scriptural writings warn us against the pitfalls of dual thinking (dubhida) or doubt. All religions claim to hold the monopoly over knowledge and denounce doubters as renegades. It is ironic that every religion began by doubting the veracity of ...
- Space-Age Science Policy (Tribune, Dhirendra Sharma, Sep 04, 2004)
ON May 18, 1974, the first atomic device code named “Smiling Buddha” was tested in Pokhran. As sanctions were imposed upon us, the policy of self-reliance in high-tech Engineering became necessary.
- Rbi Annual Report 2003-04 — Exhaustive And Rigorous (Business Line, A. Seshan, Sep 03, 2004)
Though the RBI, in its Annual Report 2003-04, has failed to shed light on the tremendous risk of the depreciation of government securities faced by commercial banks in case of a rise in interest rates, it maintains high standards of data presentation and
- Infrastructure Is The Key (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 03, 2004)
Within days of announcing his decision to focus on coordinated development of infrastructure, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has constituted a high-powered committee, which he himself will head.
- How `Adequate' Is Basel Ii (Business Line, P. S. Iyer, Sep 03, 2004)
THE Bank for International Settlements has, for over the last decade and a half, been grappling with the issue of how much capital a bank should have.
- Ap's Changing Power Equations (Business Line, Ch. Prashanth Reddy , Sep 03, 2004)
WHAT are the implications of supplying power free of cost to all farmers? Earlier, it was thought that it would only mean that the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Dr Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, would have to provide for an additional subsidy of Rs 400 crore
- Who's Afraid Of Michael Moore? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 03, 2004)
Large numbers of people, many of them in positions of great power, from the looks of it. Recently the Saudi Arabian Government began an advertising blitz in 19 American cities that
- The Also-Ran Nation (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Sep 03, 2004)
The 28th Olympic Games are now ended. In the battle for gold medals, China has almost drawn level with the United States of America, although in the tally of medals in all categories, it has lagged behind God’s Own Country.
- Govt's 100 Days In Office — More Promises Than Performance (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Sep 02, 2004)
The other day, my son's friend, a Plus-2 student, was lamenting over the fall of the Indian rupee. "The BJP government had taken it all the way up to Rs 43.5 vis-à-vis the dollar and there were indications it would up to Rs 40.
- Dissection Of A Concept (Business Line, P. T. Giridharan, Sep 02, 2004)
Being slim not only concerns men and women but the law as well. Recently, the Ministry of Company Affairs released for public debate a Concept Paper on Model/Modern Company Law which is basically a re-characterisation in the form of downsizing the 781 ...
- Slightly Worse (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 02, 2004)
In the Reserve Bank of India’s annual report for 2003-04, of particular interest are the Central bank’s views on gross domestic product growth, inflation and interest rates for 2004-05. The RBI suggested 6.5 to 7 per cent in the May credit policy, and the
- Unwriting History (Telegraph, Sumit Mitra, Sep 01, 2004)
Arjun Singh may be looking for a vaccine to detoxify education, but the infection is already too widespread
- Rooting Out Jehadi Terrorism — A New Look For Us Intelligence? (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 01, 2004)
The bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, better known as the 9/11 Commission, recently submitted its report to the US President, Mr George W. Bush.
- New Foreign Trade Policy — Going For The Big League (Business Line, Geethanjali Nataraj, Sep 01, 2004)
In a clear signal that economic reforms are back on track, the thrust of the New Foreign Trade Policy is on export promotion, moving away from quantitative restrictions and improving competitiveness of industry to meet global market requirements.
- How To Sell Culture (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Sep 01, 2004)
The Olympic Games are over, and many in India feel that this large and wonderful country has much to do and miles to go. The 2008 Beijing Olympics is going to be a grand affair — the Chinese are very good at showcasing their culture and giving it a
- Threat To Historic Sites (Hindu, Zainab Bahrani, Sep 01, 2004)
Coalition forces are doing little to prevent the widespread looting and destruction of Iraq's world-famous historical sites.
- Action Needed Now (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 30, 2004)
If depletion of groundwater tables continues, water conflicts will worsen in coming years
- Funny Mismatch (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 30, 2004)
My meetings with those running panchayati raj institutions in Tamil Nadu give the impression that their problems are not taken seriously by functionaries of various levels of administration, including government
- Competition In The Air (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 30, 2004)
It is not surprising that the country's first no-frills airline, Air Deccan, has come up with another scheme slashing fares to unimaginably low levels.
- Seafood Industry Looks For Lifeline (Business Line, Mony K. Mathew , Aug 30, 2004)
For nearly a decade now, the country's seafood industry, that of Kerala in particular, has been finding the going tough after an extended period of smooth sail on the export front both in terms of volume and forex earnings.
- Stem The Rising Tide (Telegraph, Ashok Ganguly, Aug 30, 2004)
By a single act of passing a legislation in the state assembly to prevent the flow of water into Haryana and Rajasthan, the Punjab government has put in train events which will have long-term reverberations across India.
- Tech For Prompt Tax Collection (Deccan Herald, SUBRAMANIAM VINCENT, Aug 30, 2004)
The move to maintain online data of 56 cities and towns in the State will enable citizen participation in planning
- Regulatory Lightness (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Aug 30, 2004)
Indian governance has alienated people from government. Procedures are complex and secretive so that even many government servants find them hard to follow.
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