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Articles 18821 through 18920 of 20008:
- Unvalued Water Is Wasted Water (Indian Express, Venkatesh Dutta, Oct 28, 2003)
Urban water supply in India continues to have a reputation for poor performance for citizens. The sector is often characterised by limited hours of supply, sometimes only for an hour; low pressure during the hours of supply, often less than 20 per square
- Hartals And Hideaways (Indian Express, J. L. Gupta, Oct 28, 2003)
It was October 1956. I had moved from the princely town of Patiala to the country’s most well-planned city, Chandigarh. Exactly 46 years later, on October 31, 2002, I was on board the Boeing to report for my new assignment in the state of Kerala.
- Go Organic, Go Global (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2003)
WITH CONSUMERS BECOMING increasingly concerned and `informed' about the quality of what they consume, food safety is assuming a crucial role. Food safety, quality and hygiene standards are becoming stricter by the day, especially in developed countries. I
- Towards Integrated Health Policy (Deccan Herald, P H Reddy, Oct 28, 2003)
The state government should identify mechanisms for integration of various components of its health policy
- Towards Integrated Health Policy (Deccan Herald, P H Reddy, Oct 28, 2003)
The state government should identify mechanisms for integration of various components of its health policy
- Dissent In Dadar Has Just Gone Global (Indian Express, Sonu Chhina, Oct 27, 2003)
Packaged as counter to WEF in Davos, stage being set for WSF in Mumbai
- Finding Funds For Drug R&d (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2003)
THE STRENGTH OF the Indian pharmaceutical industry can be traced to a facilitatory role played by the government three decades ago when patent laws were amended to nurture the domestic drug sector. Few, at that time, would have foreseen the biggest names
- The Future Of The `Bric' Group - Brazil, Russia, India And China Will Come Into Their Own (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 27, 2003)
A recent Goldman Sachs report has forecast that Brazil, India and China together with Russia (BRIC) will outstrip the current dominant members of the global economy within half a century. It will be heartwarming if the BRIC nations turn out to be affluent
- Unsettled Frontiers (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2003)
We need steady, even if slow, progress in addressing the border dispute with China
- Management Of India's Forex Reserves (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Oct 27, 2003)
It is a matter of pride that India has moved from being a country that faced a BoP crisis to one that has official foreign exchange reserves of nearly $90 billion. The RBI has done an admirable job of managing the country's external liquidity and debt pos
- Promoting Coastal Shipping — To Take The Load Off Road And Rail (Business Line, Amit Mitra, Oct 27, 2003)
Coastal shipping is all set to come into its own, with coastal cargo movement forming a major link in the proposed Sagar Mala project. A recent TCS report says a key factor in the project's success will be the development of infrastructure at the nine min
- The Imperative Fractal Journey (Business Line, Pravir Malik, Oct 27, 2003)
To the degree that an organisation centred at the physical level can call on attitudes and strategies from higher levels in the fractal journey, it will function more successfully than an organisation that perceives and acts solely from a brick-and-mortar
- Bad Values (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Oct 26, 2003)
On October 10, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) barred 12 companies and all their directors from the capital market for five years for failing to redress investor grievances. Three out of these were Indo Biotech Herbal Remedies, Indo Biot
- Express Your Voice (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2003)
It’s such a pity to hear from learned people like P Chidambaram to talk about infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure like Tony Blair harping on about education in UK (October revolution, 2003, The Sunday Express, October 19). Did you think for a m
- Kyunki, We May Soon Be A Nation Of Cry Babies (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Oct 26, 2003)
It is a great deal worse than I had feared. The unprecedented and unbounded ability of Ekta Kapoor to capture not just the eyeballs but the lachrymal glands of the nation, through her chest-heaving, hanky-soaking teledramas would, I had imagined, turn us
- Dissent In Dadar Just Went Global (Indian Express, Sonu Chhina, Oct 26, 2003)
Packaged as a counter to the World Economic Forum in Davos, stage being set for World Social Forum in Mumbai
- He Helps Robots Spot The Difference Just Like Us (Indian Express, Sweta Ramanujan, Oct 26, 2003)
Indian heads think-tank at MIT, is named as key innovator in technology of future
- Ship-Breakers Ahoy: Clean Up Time (Indian Express, Milind Ghatwai, Oct 25, 2003)
Last week, as Alang celebrated the arrival of Hellespont Grand—the biggest vessel to arrive at the ship-breaking yard — the Supreme Court ordered ship-breakers and their regulators to get their priorities right: worker safety and environment protection fi
- The World Through New Eyes (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, Oct 25, 2003)
Trade and terrorism shape our international relationships now
- Welcome Aboard A Sexist Flight (Indian Express, Jayanthi Natarajan, Oct 25, 2003)
To hold ‘unpresentable’ air hostesses responsible for the woes of AI and IA is hogwash
- This Diwali, Heart Of Darkness Is Bright & Shining (Indian Express, Varghese K George, Oct 25, 2003)
Ex-Leftist, builder-turned-activist, revived water system have brought revolution
- Talking Turkey Is Not Enough, Mr President (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Oct 24, 2003)
Sending Turkish troops will only convince Iraqis they are being colonised
- Uneasy Peace In Baghdad (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 24, 2003)
THOSE who might have been delighted with the UN Security Council's unanimous resolution last Thursday authorising a multinational military force in Iraq under the single command led by the United States need to think again. The resolution, which calls for
- Sweetener For Cane Growers (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2003)
THE CENTRE's DILEMMA over fixing Statutory Minimum Price (SMP) for sugarcane — arguably the most contentious in the pricing of agricultural crops — is palpable. At a time when elections to some States are round the corner, the Centre is straining every ne
- Anticipatory Bail And Justice (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 23, 2003)
THE SUPREME COURT observed recently that the mere filing of a chargesheet by an investigating agency or cognisance of a complaint by a court cannot in itself be a ground for declining anticipatory bail to the accused. In January this year, it ...
- Cancun: India's Stand Must Be Guarded (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Oct 23, 2003)
THE WTO, it is hoped, has learnt some useful lessons from the recent failure of negotiations at Cancun It should begin the work of restructuring the organisation to make the consultative process more open, and to engender a spirit of give and take between
- Spaces The City Wants To Forget (Indian Express, Yaaminey Mubayi, Oct 23, 2003)
Urban poverty is one of the greatest challenges human society will face in the future. Worldwide, urban populations are expected to cross 2 billion within the next generation. In India, urban dwellers will constitute 50 per cent of the total population by
- India-Thailand Fta: Who Is The Real Gainer? (Business Line, S. Majumder , Oct 23, 2003)
Thailand is one-tenth the size of India. While the goal of any FTA is market enlargement and improvement of the investment environment, how can India gain from Thailand which competes with it?
- Sino-Indian Boundary Talks (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Oct 23, 2003)
Conditions seem more propitious today than ever before for rapid progress in the border talks between the two Asian giants.
- October Spring (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 23, 2003)
• PM Vajpayee’s daring gambit on poll-eve
• A dozen radical proposals to the General
• Talks with Hurriyat raised to level of DPM
Let Srinagar bus to Muzaffarabad
- The General In The Jig-Saw (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Oct 22, 2003)
To further Indo-US ties, we need to first understand Pak-US ties
- Jobs, Medical Aid Thrust Areas In Marad Package (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2003)
Job creation, infrastructure expansion, medical aid and water and power supply are the thrust areas in the massive Marad development package of which a draft was prepared today. The draft, evolved at a meeting of senior officers of various government depa
- Opening Up The Skies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2003)
WHETHER IT WAS planned or spontaneous, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's limited open skies offer to the designated airlines of ASEAN countries has set the ball rolling. The Civil Aviation Minister, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, has announced a limited ...
- India Opens Pursestrings For Rs 50 Cr More To Iraq (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Oct 21, 2003)
India is set to put in an additional $10 million (around Rs 50 crore) for reconstruction and humanitarian efforts in Iraq. The announcement will be made at the donors’ conference in Madrid this week. With this, India’s contribution in post-war Iraq will b
- General Council Meeting Of Wto — Picking Up The Threads From Cancun (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 21, 2003)
It is time India took a pragmatic view of the emerging situation in the international trading arena, in general, and at the WTO, in particular. The two-day General Council meeting of the WTO beginning today in Geneva is thus crucial for India to watch the
- A Saint For The World To Cherish (Indian Express, Navin Chawla, Oct 21, 2003)
Mother Teresa stood out not merely for her compassion but for being just so non-judgmental
- Ltte And Muslims (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Oct 21, 2003)
At the heart of the problem is the LTTE's view of itself as the absolute ruler of the north-east.
- Watering Down A Water Plan (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Oct 21, 2003)
The watershed development movement in India gathered steam in the mid-eighties. In the beginning, the nation used canal-based irrigation as its major salvation.
- Tourism Hubs To Pop Up Along 800-Km Long ‘riverbed’ (Indian Express, Vrinda Gopinath, Oct 21, 2003)
The mythical Saraswati is yet to be traced but Union Minister for Tourism and Culture Jagmohan has already announced an ambitious Rs 5-crore Saraswati Heritage Project, which aims to develop the ‘‘Saraswati river belt’’ as a ‘‘cultural-tourist’’ hub with
- Doing Business In Rich And Poor Countries (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 20, 2003)
Businessmen around the world face — and complain about — the different policy regimes, especially when it comes to questions of starting a business. But doing business in poor countries, which score poorly in regulation, credit delivery and infrastructure
- Labour Reforms (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2003)
ONE SUSPECTS THAT the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was only indulging in a bit of diplomatic double-speak when he spoke of the need to bring in changes to the labour laws so that they become instruments "for speedy employment generation in all
- Pura And The Government Input (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Oct 20, 2003)
While the private sector must build on the PURA concept, the foundation itself needs to be laid by the government, especially by allocating resources. For this, it can re-look at various existing programmes and re-allocate resources for PURA. For this the
- Petrifying Prospect (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 20, 2003)
THE faint-hearted are advised to keep away from the just published Times Atlas of the World which grimly details the ravages being wrought by exploding population. The most conspicuous of them is the bursting of the cities at their seams.
- Dealing With The Danger (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Oct 19, 2003)
New Delhi's role is considerably less interventionist than in other violence-scarred regions
- An Insidious Campaign (Hindu, K. Srinivas Reddy, Oct 19, 2003)
From being confined to isolated backward pockets of Andhra Pradesh and Bihar, the naxalites have spread their network across several States
- Ram Versus Rajya (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 18, 2003)
It’s poll time in two weeks, will the BJP trust its wisdom or succumb to instinct
- On A New Flight Path (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 17, 2003)
By all accounts it was not a well-debated plan, but the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, apparently trusted his guts and donned the cloak of a visionary,
- Ssis In New Economic Environment (Deccan Herald, M Prahladachar , Oct 17, 2003)
It has become a ritual to preface any discussion on the small-scale industry (SSI) sector in India with encomiums showered on its significant contribution to industrial production, employment generation and exports.
- Treaties And Cancun (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Oct 17, 2003)
In India, a treaty should be circulated before it is signed with information being made available to the people who, along with the States, should be widely consulted.
- India Inc, Getting Lean And Nimble (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 17, 2003)
No longer is VRS a bad word. As much as it has made corporates, banks and PSUs leaner and nimbler, it has also enriched the retirees. And, contrary to the perception that VRS means job erosion, it has made for continuous job enrichment. A Business. . .
- Eyes Wired Shut (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Oct 17, 2003)
Decades ago, Arthur Clarke formulated two axioms about the advance of technology.
- Vajpayee On Vacation (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Oct 16, 2003)
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee gave himself a day out in Indonesia last week, wrapping up an afternoon of bilateral meetings before the ASEAN summit with a shopping expedition at an upmarket department store in the resort city of Nusaduwa. It was his
- Winged Fears (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
Dengue is a reminder that disease prevention should never go off the national radar
- Sonia's Friends And Foes (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 16, 2003)
Her friends and foes alike refuse to let Sonia Gandhi's natural handicaps define the limits of her leadership
- Biotechnology: Hope & Hype (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
IN SOME WAYS, biotechnology is nothing new. Breeding domestic animals and cultivable crops were prerequisites for civilisation. Less essentially perhaps, early societies discovered fermentation and alcoholic beverages. But modern biotechnology ...
- Senseless Dispute Over Ayodhya (Deccan Herald, R G Subramanyam, Oct 15, 2003)
Neither a temple nor a mosque should be built at the disputed site. A university of religions should come up there
- Ebcs? Quite Untenable (Indian Express, S. S. Gill, Oct 15, 2003)
When the Mandal Commission submitted its Report in 1980, B.P. Mandal told me, “Mr Gill, I know how much work you have put in as secretary of the Commission. But let me tell you that today we have performed the immersion ceremony of our Report
- Message From The East (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2003)
The India-Thailand free trade agreement is part of a wider good neighbour policy
- Leopards Cross Over From Park To Urban Jungle (Indian Express, Vijay Singh, Oct 15, 2003)
After 10th death, kid in affluent suburb, Mumbai debates loss of forest cover
- Breaking Free From Industrial Agriculture (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Oct 15, 2003)
WHAT are the real costs of food? When we buy a kg of rice or wheat, have we at any time wondered what its real cost could be against what we pay in the shop? We only are concerned about the `market' price of food, and not what it costs to produce.
- `One Country, Two Systems' Formula Under Test (Business Line, Dharmalingam Venugopal, Oct 15, 2003)
AS IF to test the tenacity of its unique "one country, two systems" paradigm, Hong Kong has been constantly buffeted by challenges — economic, political and social ever since its reunification with China in July 1997.
- Fiis Breathe Easy (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
FOREIGN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS must have heaved a sigh of relief after the recent Supreme Court ruling on their tax status. Though they have invested close to $20 billion in the decade since the market was opened up to them, the FIIs are widely perceived
- Market Forces In The Animal Kingdom (Indian Express, Alan C. Miller, Oct 14, 2003)
The US may allow trade in endangered animals if it subsidises conservation projects
- 50-Yr Record Haul Of Tiger, Leopard Skins In Tibet; India Likely Source (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Oct 14, 2003)
When the Prime Minister convenes the annual Indian Wildlife Board meeting on Wednesday, it will be under the shadow of the largest-ever seizure of tiger and leopard skins since 1951.
- Corporate Credit Portfolio — Baking Assets On The Fire Of Securitisation (Business Line, Venkat Ramaswami, Oct 14, 2003)
The Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act (SRFESI) was definitely a strong indication that the corridors in New Delhi were waking up to calls from Wall Street. It is time for the wake-up signal to b
- Stretching Exercises And Real Yoga (Deccan Herald, Dipankar Khanna, Oct 14, 2003)
Yoga can bridge the distance between the physical and mental sheaths through advanced psychic work-outs
- Stretching Exercises And Real Yoga (Deccan Herald, Dipankar Khanna, Oct 14, 2003)
Yoga can bridge the distance between the physical and mental sheaths through advanced psychic work-outs
- Patents For Peace And Happiness (Hindu, M. S. Swaminathan , Oct 13, 2003)
Indian scientists should be encouraged to assign their patents to a bank to be used for the common good.
- Getting Back On The Growth Path (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 13, 2003)
What the developed world needs to do is to "coordinate" monetary policy, which will bring about stability in capital flows and an orderly realignment in exchange rates but only if it is "combined with coordinated fiscal expansion".
- Industrial Policy Options — Going Beyond Mere Reforms (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 13, 2003)
I RECENTLY came across a seminal contribution to the ongoing debate on economic reforms in India, written by a bright economist, Dr R. Nagaraj of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research.
- Coasting On Cross-Subsidies (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2003)
THE ROAD TO reforms, even a die-hard would concede, is full of bumps. The cross-currents of interests, post-adjustment hiccups, together with memories of initial disappointments, have led to a general downgrading of expectations, which were never very ...
- The Maya Behind The Raids (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Oct 12, 2003)
What I like about Mayawati is her honesty. That may sound like a funny thing to say but I am being completely serious. I like her for never having made any attempt to hide her millions.
- Bhel To Set Up Hydro-Electric Project In Mizoram (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2003)
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel) will set up a small hydro electric project of 12 mega watt (MW), at a cost of Rs 100 crore, in Mizoram.
- Astrological Falsehoods (Deccan Herald, Kushwant Singh, Oct 11, 2003)
Some weeks ago one of our leading national dailies carried the findings of a group of scientists who examined the claims made by astrologers about their ability to forecast future events. They scrutinised thousands of biodatas of people born on the same..
- How To Deal With The Gang In New York (Indian Express, Shubh Saumya, Oct 11, 2003)
Treat the UN-centred order as a crime cartel. As the new toughie in town, India has to hustle its way in
- The Road Less Travelled (Indian Express, Vikram Kumar, Oct 11, 2003)
Detours through unexpected bursts of kindness
- Astrological Falsehoods (Deccan Herald, Kushwant Singh, Oct 11, 2003)
Some weeks ago one of our leading national dailies carried the findings of a group of scientists who examined the claims made by astrologers about their ability to forecast future events. They scrutinised thousands of biodatas of people born on the same d
- 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.
- A Bother For Bush (Hindu, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Oct 11, 2003)
The row over the leak of an undercover CIA operative's name to the media refuses to die down, much to the Bush administration's discomfort.
- An Nri Family Gets Faith Amid Its Grief (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2003)
Death Row for man who killed Sikh in post-9/11 hate crime
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