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Articles 18921 through 19020 of 20008:
- Appointments & Disappointments (Hindu, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Oct 10, 2003)
Every judge must be an activist who shares the vision, the mission and the passion of the Constitution.
- Dengue Spreads Wings Across India (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Oct 09, 2003)
4,720 cases, 78 deaths reported
- Here Comes The New Prime Minister (Indian Express, Balbir K Punj, Oct 09, 2003)
A swadeshi Don Quixote is on the loose with his magic lathi, promising to make a Bihar out of everything he touches
- Books And Papers Redefined (Business Line, S. Kannan, Oct 09, 2003)
On the company law provisions relating to accounts and audit on the anvil
- Pakistan: The Siege Within And Without (Indian Express, Shireen M Mazari, Oct 09, 2003)
Pakistan is caught between an India waiting to cash in on the doctrine of premption and a society fast imploding
- Holy Waters (Indian Express, C D Verma, Oct 09, 2003)
The value of tirtha
- On A Genetically Modified Diet (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2003)
Why environmentalists are bound to embrace biotechnology
- Making Services Work For Poor (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Oct 09, 2003)
Broad improvements in human welfare will not happen till poor people receive wider access to affordable services in health, education, water, sanitation and electricity, warns WDR 2004. Rightly concluding that no one size fits all, it describes eight, and
- Making Nfl Privatisation Work (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , Oct 08, 2003)
FOLLOWING the lukewarm response to the Government offer for divestment of 51 per cent of its equity holding in the National Fertilisers Limited (NFL) the Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers, Mr S. S. Dhindsa, has reportedly renewed his demand for
- Transesterification — The Magic Solution For Bio-Diesel (Business Line, B. S. Murthy, Oct 08, 2003)
THE recent press report regarding the automobile giant DaimlerChrysler and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) joining hands for a five-year partnership project to develop bio-diesel from the seeds of the jatropha plant must gladden..
- `Strength Of Indo-British Ties Lies In People-To-People Link' (Business Line, Vinay Kamath, Oct 08, 2003)
SIR ROB YOUNG, British High Commissioner to India since January 1999, returns to the UK after four tumultuous years when powerful events gripped the world stage. As he says, the last few months of his assignment have been spent in defending his government
- Green Fuels Sooner Rather Than Later (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Oct 08, 2003)
Govt says its plan on ethanol and biodiesel well on track
- Urban Amenities, Rural Ambience (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Oct 06, 2003)
The President may be an evangelist for PURA and the Prime Minister may want 5000 of these urbanised rural settlements, but for that the Government needs to reinvent itself. PURA requires the cooperation of various ministries, and policy changes to infuse
- That Festive Feeling (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, Oct 06, 2003)
Spend, urges the FM, to sustain the feel good feeling
- Brand Gandhi At Modi Mela (Indian Express, Amrita Shan, Oct 05, 2003)
It was a simple card. Off-white, oblong, with a sketch of a pair of round-framed spectacles. It was the kind of card that would not have merited a second glance had the sender not been Narendra Modi.
- Puja Ends Today, Govt Prays For River Hooghly (Indian Express, Santanu Banerjee, Oct 05, 2003)
As the Durga Puja festival ends tomorrow, the State Environment Ministry and an NGO here are keeping their fingers crossed. They are worried about the Hooghly River where more than ‘‘20 thousand clay-idols’’ will be immersed after the puja.
- Politicians And Security (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2003)
THE DEADLY CLAYMORE explosions in Tirupati, the suspected lapses in security, and the probe ordered by the Andhra Pradesh Government into the entire incident have sharpened the focus on the security of politicians and VVIPs across India. Given ...
- Three Parts To A Whole (Indian Express, Vinod Patney, Oct 03, 2003)
A good way to assess the required level and nature of defence expenditure is to estimate the superiority ratio against the adversary. One set of estimates, purportedly calculated by our army on a single service basis, suggests that since 1971, our ...
- Baalu Bawls At Low Media Coverage Of Ministry (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Oct 03, 2003)
Peeved at being ignored by the media and concerned at the backlash on the Taj Corridor controversy, Environment Minister and senior DMK MP T.R. Baalu has complained to Information and Broadcasting Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad that his Ministry’s ...
- The War Within (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2003)
Attack on Naidu: let’s not forget that terrorism has a domestic angle too
- Twisted Policy (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2003)
THE DRAFT POLICY for development of the gas pipeline network proposed by the Petroleum Ministry last week is incompatible with the current environment of deregulation and free play of market forces. The policy proposes that all inter-State trunk pipelines
- The Importance Of Government Audit (Business Line, Subramanyan Sundaresan, Oct 02, 2003)
TWO months ago, the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, addressing a conference of the Comptroller and Auditor General officers, criticised the government audit system, and said it had reduced the Executive to a prisoner of procedures rather than ...
- Unilateralism_and_the_u.N. (Hindu, R. Kannan, Oct 01, 2003)
Unilateralism will increasingly be looked upon as an aberration but recourse to the U.N. needs to be demonstrably more beneficial.
- Cancun Collapse: Opportunities And Threats (Business Line, Pradeep S. Mehta, Oct 01, 2003)
Can the developing countries sustain the solidarity they forged at Cancun? In that lies the answer to the future of the WTO and what it stands for — equitable trade. The developing countries can do it if they first start trading among themselves more
- Vegetarian_power (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 01, 2003)
THE recent news that eminent personalities, with the former President of India, Mr R. Venkataraman, in the lead, took part in a meeting in the Theosophical Society, Chennai, on Rukmini Devi's contribution to vegetarianism roused my curiosity.
- State's Role In Basic Servics (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 30, 2003)
Governments cannot, citing a lack of resources or poor administrative capabilities, hand over basic services in large part or in full to the market.
- Energy Security (Hindu, M. R. Srinivasan, Sep 30, 2003)
Even after 50 years of planning, the country has not achieved self-reliance in energy supply.
- Deprive The Villains Of Their Heroin (Indian Express, BULBUL ROY MISHRA, Sep 30, 2003)
Several hundred tonnes of opium gets refined into heroin in secret, makeshift laboratories in Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan. It then finds its way to the West.
- World Bank-Imf Review: Will Asia Lead The World Growth Charge? (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Sep 30, 2003)
The global economy may be on a rebound but it is not yet time for cheer because of underlying risks of the large fiscal and current deficits the US has run up and the imbalances in growth and distribution of reserves. Emerging Asia has a big role to play.
- Crowded Out Of The House (Indian Express, K S DUGGAL, Sep 29, 2003)
Are we making any use of their expertise and experience in running the Indian democracy?
- Riots In Male (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 29, 2003)
At first glance, the recent rioting in Male, bears no apparent connection to the elections. Judging by the targets the mobs chose, it seems their anger was directed not just at the prison guards but also at Mr. Gayoom's Government.
- Because Food Matters (Indian Express, Bharat Dogra, Sep 29, 2003)
The solution is out there. So why are we still poisoning ourselves?
- What Next, After Cancun? (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Sep 26, 2003)
While many experts had predicted that the Cancun negotiations would fail over the question of agricultural subsidies, they actually collapsed because of the insistence of developed countries to bring on board the Singapore issues. However, the ministerial
- Differential Pricing (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2003)
THE REPORTED RELUCTANCE of the Petroleum Minister, Mr Ram Naik, to allow differential pricing of petroleum products in coastal and inland locations is not surprising in the least. It is only yet another manifestation of the Petroleum Ministry's obvious
- Farmers: Distanced By Globalisation (Business Line, Kumar Venkat, Sep 26, 2003)
IN the run-up to the World Trade Organisation's failed meeting in Cancun, most writers on both sides of the economic divide called for an end to unfair farm subsidies and tariffs in rich countries. After all, who could be against an open global market in
- ‘india Can Be A Little More Magnanimous’ (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Sep 25, 2003)
Major General (retd) Mahmud Ali Durrani was head of the Board of the Pakistan Ordnance Factories when he retired from the Pakistan Army in September 1998. Member of the Balusa Group started by Shirin Tahir-Kheli — who is senior director for democracy ...
- Where Competition Ends And Collective Conscience Begins (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Sep 25, 2003)
THE commitment of the business community to lend a new dimension to development by embracing the principles of responsibility and obligation to society and humanity can be traced to the UN's Global Compact initiative notwithstanding the Enron and World...
- Markets And Efficient Corruption (Hindu, S.N. Gajanan, Sep 24, 2003)
All that the state has to do is to allow the market to sort itself out and elicit the palatable corruption level by strategically predetermining the modest wage gains.
- Price It Right (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 24, 2003)
The government should allow oil PSUs to plan and strategise as corporate entities
- A Good Beginning (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 24, 2003)
THE CHANDRABABU NAIDU-S.M. Krishna meeting at Bangalore on Saturday came as a whiff of fresh air in an environment sullied by inter-State river water disputes. The setting was familiar: a 62 per cent deficient monsoon cutting flows in the Krishna ...
- Challenging Times Ahead (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 23, 2003)
THERE IS A new man at the helm of the Indian Space Research Organisation. G. Madhavan Nair takes over an organisation that has earned itself a reputation for delivering on its promises. From small beginnings in the early 1960s launching imported ...
- Sustaining Reform, Reducing Poverty (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 22, 2003)
SEPTEMBER 15, 2003 saw a unique seminar organised by the Madras School of Economics to discuss the World Bank's recent report on "India: Sustaining Reform, Reducing Poverty". Chaired by eminent economist Dr Raja Chelliah, the seminar was attended by a ...
- Managing The Hurricane (Indian Express, Ajey Lele, Sep 22, 2003)
It is not always the terrorist threat that puts Americans on guard. It could be a sudden electrical power breakdown. Or it could be Hurricane Isabel.
- Useles Jaunts (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 22, 2003)
IT WAS an ugly surprise for me to notice the presence of the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Dr Y. V. Reddy, at a meeting of the Inter-Governmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development held at Dubai on September 19
- ‘politicians Fail To Give The Impression That We Lead’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 22, 2003)
Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi, spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, at Connaught Place. Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s Walk The Talk.
- Real Software Of The Workplace (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Sep 22, 2003)
WORK scheduling in retail businesses can create a lot of heartburn for both the manager and the employee. The manager would like to maximise efficiency by making full use of the employees' time in deciding who will do what and when. Meanwhile, the ...
- Beijing-Moscow-New Delhi Trialogue (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Sep 22, 2003)
The significance of the upcoming trialogue is not to be underestimated because China, India and Russia represent the vast majority of the global population.
- Krishna, Naidu Bury Hatchet, Goodwill Flows Upstream (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2003)
The bitterness seems to have gone from the relationship between Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh if the bonhomie at today’s joint press conference of the two Chief Ministers, S.M. Krishna and N. Chandrababu Naidu, is any indication.
- Sonia Calls Maya To Ask About Kanshi, Establishes Connection (Indian Express, Vrinda Gopinath, Sep 20, 2003)
Setting off a buzz of speculation in political circles, BSP leader Mayawati today sang Sonia Gandhi’s praises and lashed out at the BJP questioning its ‘‘Hindu’’ credentials.
- Indian Railways: Time To Improve Standards (Business Line, Poonam Madan Sarmah, Sep 19, 2003)
CARRYING an average 13 million passengers in 8,250 passenger-trains daily, the Indian Railways is one of the world's largest transporters of passenger traffic. But despite such phenomenal dependence by the travelling public on this critical service, its
- Monument And Folly (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2003)
OVER THE LAST few months, the Supreme Court has set the pace and the broad direction of the inquiry into the irregularities relating to the Taj Heritage corridor project. The most recent, and possibly the most dramatic, example of this is the ...
- Back To The Future — Q4 To Look Like Q2 (Business Line, Anantha Nageshwaran, Sep 19, 2003)
THE US Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) left the target for the federal funds rate unchanged at 1 per cent. It was not a surprise. Their communication too was quite similar to the one that they released after the August meeting minutes. The...
- Book Mayawati: Cbi Gets The Order (Indian Express, Prabhakar Rao Voruganti, Sep 19, 2003)
The law is finally closing in on former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati, her former ministerial colleague Nasimuddin Siddiqui for the alleged irregularities in the Rs 175-crore Taj Heritage project without taking approval from the appropriate ...
- Commending Modi (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2003)
This newspaper has had few occasions to commend Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat. Indeed, the recent history of the state has prompted bitter words against him in these columns, everyone of which we believe is perfectly justified considering the
- Taj Project: Plan Panel Rang First Alarm Bell, No One Heard (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Sep 19, 2003)
The Supreme Court is not the only one to have spoilt the Taj party for Mayawati’s Government. Just a week before its intervention, the Planning Commission had already played spoilsport and refused to clear the Central allocation of Rs 120.4 crore for the
- Maya’s Tax Returns, List Of Her Assets On Way To Apex Court (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Sep 18, 2003)
Former Chief Minister Mayawati will have reason to squirm when the Supreme Court takes up the Taj corridor case tomorrow.
- Telecom Needs A Magic Bullet Solution (Indian Express, Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, Sep 17, 2003)
Get political interests and the plethora of opinions out of India’s most troubled industry
- Rbi's Annual Report 2002-03: Positive Outlook Blurred By Concerns (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Sep 16, 2003)
Despite the pervading optimism and positive outlook for 2003-04, the RBI Report highlights the medium-term issues and concerns. The growth rate of the economy envisaged under the Tenth Plan period is beyond reach going by the current economic parameters.
- Computerised Accounting — Is It The Way To Go? (Business Line, Gowthaman Muruganandan, Sep 16, 2003)
Despite many companies having computerised accounting there are difficulties with accounting packages.
- Final Attempts To Save Cancun After South Rejects Draft (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Sep 15, 2003)
Negotiations at Cancun headed for a breakdown after developing countries like India and Brazil rejected the World Trade Organisation draft resolution, saying it failed to address their main concerns and was heavily loaded in favour of the US and European
- India's Civil Aviation Needs Free Flight (Business Line, Danish A. Hashim, Sep 15, 2003)
THE first commercial flight in India was made on February 18,1911, when a French pilot Monseigneur Piguet flew airmails from Allahabad to Naini, covering a distance of about 10 km in as many minutes. Since then several attempts have been made to boost ...
- World Investment Report 2003 — Internal Governance Matters A Great Deal (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 15, 2003)
THE World Investment Report 2003 carries forward the rich traditions of UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) in surveying the progress of investment by transnational corporations in various countries. It notes the increasing role...
- Bhutan Opts For Happiness (Indian Express, Anita Anand, Sep 15, 2003)
In 1949, the year I was born, India and Bhutan signed a treaty of friendship. However, it wasn’t until 1989 that I made a trip to Bhutan. I did not know much about the country. And there were no handy guidebooks available. On the Delhi-to-Paro flight that
- Driven To Desperation (Hindu, PARVATHI MENON, Sep 14, 2003)
There has been a spate of suicides by farmers in even fairly prosperous farming regions of Karnataka.
- First Delhi Head Rolls In Taj Dirt: Environment Secy Told To Go And Rest (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2003)
In the latest in the Taj Corridor controversy, the Centre today put Union Environment Secretary K C Mishra, accused of fudging related files, on compulsory waiting.
- Musharraf On Osama, Sectarian Violence In Pakistan And His Worries Over The India-Israel-Us Military Axis (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2003)
Excerpts from Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s question-answer session with BBC’s Robin Lustig in special series Talking Point on Islam and the West.
- Images That Promote Fear (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Sep 12, 2003)
An event-driven media on both sides of the border does its job by reporting only the most sensational news. As a result, it fails to play a role in building greater understanding.
- Forensics Gets Back: Taj File Was Fudged By Secy, Minister (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Sep 12, 2003)
The Taj corridor case has taken another serious turn with forensic experts confirming that forgery and fraud were allegedly committed by Union Environment Secretary K C Mishra and Uttar Pradesh’s former Environment Minister Nasimuddin Siddiqui.
- Strategic Delusions (Hindu, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 11, 2003)
THOSE WHO CRITICISED the Government for its decision to host Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at this particular juncture stand vindicated by developments. There was always a strong possibility that terror outrages, akin to the two incidents ...
- Banking Turnaround (Hindu, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 11, 2003)
THERE ARE A number of reasons explaining the distinct turnaround in the perception, if not in the actual performance, of public sector banks. While continuing to be the dominant force in Indian banking — their share in a quite competitive ...
- Cancun: Tentative And On Tenterhooks (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Sep 11, 2003)
The WTO Fifth Ministerial aims to set a framework for putting the Doha trade talks back on track.
- Chasing Windmills (Indian Express, VASANT GOWARIKER, Sep 11, 2003)
A political leader wanted to know recently whether the windmills in the districts of Satara and Sangli in Maharashtra have reduced the rainfall in that region.
- Food Standards And Market Access — Time For A New Engagement (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 11, 2003)
The cola controversy in terms of the trade negotiations at the World Trade Organisation appears well timed.
- Senior Executive Must Be Jack Of All Trades, Master Of Few (Business Line, R. Devarajan, Sep 11, 2003)
Senior executives play a vital and significant role in the upper echelons of management.
- Uneasy Lies The Up Head... (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Sep 10, 2003)
After much horse-trading, the Samajwadi Party leader, Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav, has won the vote of confidence in the UP Assembly. But the political shenanigans are far from over in the State, and for Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav the crown is but of thorns
- Hard Realities About Soft Drinks (Indian Express, ANURADHA VASHISHT, Sep 10, 2003)
Even with zero pesticides and super-clean water, colas can prove a health menace
- Wto And Agriculture - Make Fair Costs The Basis Of Trade (Business Line, Ruddar Datt , Sep 10, 2003)
While the developed countries want unhindered access to the markets of developing countries, they go to great lengths to support their farmers. To share the benefits of globalisation equitably, developed countries must effect reductions in tariffs and sub
- Fractals And The Future Of Organisations (Business Line, Pravir Malik, Sep 10, 2003)
Fractal patterns, which repeat themselves on an ever-larger scale, are widely present in natural phenomena. If nature employs fractal structures in building much of the physical universe, is a similar structure being unconsciously employed in the ...
- Friendship Occupies All The Territory (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 10, 2003)
Stepping out of its decades-old lakshman rekha with Israel, Prime Minister A B Vajpayee today set the tone for a red carpet welcome for its Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, emphasising bonds in defence, agriculture and in the fight against terrorism that both
- Economics Of Demonstrations Against Globalisation (Business Line, V. Kumaraswamy, Sep 09, 2003)
BEGINNING with Seattle, Genoa, and the cities of Geneva, Laussanne, and Evian during the recent G-8 summit, there is an increasing wave of protests against globalisation (as indeed other local issues not subjecting themselves to democratic processes).
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