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Articles 7321 through 7420 of 9936:
- Debate On Reform And Development (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Jun 18, 2004)
Reforms in India have failed to focus on the end objectives of development, namely, reduction of poverty and improvement in the quality of life of bulk of the population.
- Pakistan And China: The Manmohan Singh Approach (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Jun 18, 2004)
The President, Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam's address to the joint session of Parliament and the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh's recent remarks indicate that New Delhi is perhaps finding the recipe to make foreign policy seem less Pakistan-centric.
- The Track To Success (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Jun 18, 2004)
Given the complexities of the India-Pakistan relationship, back-channel diplomacy needs to be employed on a sustained basis.
- Needed, Many More Irmas (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Jun 18, 2004)
The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development is understood to have recently lectured the dons of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) — Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta — on the advisability of their helping the government set up one new IIM...
- Star Performer Goes Public (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 15, 2004)
The advent of India's largest information technology company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), in the Indian capital market might have been long delayed, but already, within days of the filing of its draft prospectus, there is a tremendous interest all...
- Strategies To Meet Oil Demand (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Jun 15, 2004)
With the world oil demand this year set to spurt the highest in a quarter century, the natural limits to production and the increasing impact of depletion and disruption in West Asia, it is vital that India develops an oil strategy for the medium term ...
- Keeping Off The Gm Bandwagon (Hindu, Suman Sahai , Jun 15, 2004)
It is embarrassing that India, with such agricultural strengths and dependencies, is lurching from biotech product to product with no defined policy to guide it.
- Economic Compulsions Of Coalition (Business Line, T. N. Ashok, Jun 15, 2004)
More than the Common Minimum Programme, it is the Budget that will set the tone for UPA's economic agenda. Especially watched by the investing community will be the fate of reform and if it will be accelerated. Can coalition politics see this through?
- Asia's Male Tilt (Christian Science Monitor, editorial, Christian Science Monitor, Jun 15, 2004)
This year, millions of young men in China and India will reach their 19th birthday with little prospect of finding a wife. It's not that young, single women aren't available - it's that they don't exist in the same numbers.
- Will Tcs Offer Be A Market Stimulant? (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Jun 14, 2004)
Will Tata Consultancy Services' public offer enthuse the stock market? Some contend that it will. TCS is the largest software company in the country. If the tech sector does well, TCS will be the major beneficiary.
- Jindal Leads Again (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 14, 2004)
Remember Bobby Jindal, the Indian-American, who lost a high-profile gubernatorial race in Louisiana last November? Well, he is leading in the US congressional race again even as his family battles a private crisis.
- The Upa And The Cauvery Dispute (Hindu, Ramaswamy R. Iyer, Jun 14, 2004)
What is needed is an agreement on a sharing formula for distress years. Whatever the flows, they must be shared and shared fairly.
- Fighting Aids (Tribune, Rami Chhabra, Jun 14, 2004)
The UK’s prestigious Economist magazine provided unprecedented four-page coverage to India (April 17) — not because of the then forthcoming elections, but “the subject not figuring in election issues” and proposed as the new government’s ...
- ‘Stoning’ In Public Interest (Tribune, Shriniwas Joshi, Jun 14, 2004)
There is a 500-feet long tunnel at Lower Bazaar in Shimla which used to be 10 feet wide. It runs North and South and was constructed during the Raj for diverting the mule and coolie traffic from the sacrosanct Mall.
- No Troops For Iraq (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 14, 2004)
External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh’s clarification that there is no move to send Indian troops to Iraq under the prevailing circumstances should end the controversy caused by his statement made in Washington.
- One For The Road: Another Kind Of Exclusion Politics (Tribune, Sridhar K. Chari, Jun 13, 2004)
Irrespective of the party you support, and laudable though the voters’ independence and the “democratic success” of the recent electoral exercise are, there is one thing that is worrying.
- National Election Study 2004 (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 13, 2004)
Unless otherwise indicated, all the information used in this article draws upon the National Election Study [NES], 2004 carried out by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi.
- Not Garlands All The Way (Tribune, Chanchal Sarkar, Jun 13, 2004)
Forty years after the death of Nehru, there is still an irrepressible wish to play the game of, “What might have been” if circumstances had panned out differently. Would independence have come earlier? Would there not have been that terrible bloodshed...
- Economic Reforms In The Mirror Of Public Opinion (Hindu, Yogendra Yadav, Jun 13, 2004)
The supporters and opponents of economic reforms often forget that the people too have an opinion on this matter. Verdict 2004 is a warning against taking public opinion for granted
- Women Seek A Gender-Balanced Budget (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Jun 13, 2004)
This week several women heading national women’s organisations met Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram and requested him to include women’s representatives as an interest group in the pre-Union Budget consultation.
- Women In Science (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 12, 2004)
Why aren't there more women in science? Their under-representation in the sciences is being recognised round the world as an important issue. It is not that they are not studying science.
- Can The Upa Pull It Off? (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Jun 12, 2004)
There is a lot riding on the success of the Manmohan Singh Government. India cannot afford to lose yet another opportunity to promote inclusive economic and social growth.
- Don't Vacillate On Iraq (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 12, 2004)
If External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh's statement at a joint press conference in Washington with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell can be taken as a guide to the latest twist in official thinking, the United Progressive Alliance
- Presidential Shrug (Tribune, Roopinder Singh, Jun 12, 2004)
It was a crisp cold morning on Tuesday, the 20th of October, 1987, a day after what the Press called Black Monday which had seen the worst fall of the stock market in the recent past.
- Avoiding Policy Capers (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jun 12, 2004)
By every account, including the initial shock to the stock market by statements made by a couple of Marxist functionaries, there is much to cheer regarding the "functioning" of the United Progressive Alliance Government the past three weeks.
- An Economics Book To Help You Sleep Better (Business Line, D. Murali , Jun 12, 2004)
Hello, howdy, are common greets, and nobody takes the `how' as a serious poser. A majority will have trouble answering "Are you healthy?" because it is not easy to know if one is really healthy.
- Laloo Yatra (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 12, 2004)
Mr Laloo Prasad Yadav's decision to introduce kulhars for serving tea on the vast rail network was just a down-to-earth beginning of a fascinating journey. His media adviser has released figures to show that the decision to use clay cups would provide...
- Flame Of Discord (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 12, 2004)
Running is both our national industry and pastime. Politicians run everything. People are kept running from pillar to post. Film stars run around trees. Sponsors are always running after stars.
- A Solution At The Iims (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 11, 2004)
With the change in government in New Delhi, the controversy about fee revision at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) appears to be heading towards a solution.
- Unleashing Indian Entrepreneurship — I : The Changing Mindset (Business Line, R. Gopalakrishnan, Jun 11, 2004)
An entrepreneurial mindset is re-emerging in India. Unlike the generations before them, young Indians are no longer obsessed with poverty, but with the country's future. This gives India a fighting chance. R. Gopalakrishnan presents the devel opments ...
- The Airport Controversy (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 11, 2004)
After the initial faux pas of announcing without adequate consultation changes in the norm for foreign direct investment in building new airports, the Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Praful Patel, appears to be heading in the right direction.
- The `Tainted' Debate (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Jun 11, 2004)
Ideally, those undergoing trial should be excluded from office until acquitted. But this requires changes in the law.
- Healthy Politics (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jun 11, 2004)
THE Defence Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, has done the unthinkable in the Indian context. He has set a heart-warming example of unusual broadmindedness in Parliament while making a statement on a decision taken on a very sensitive matter by the ...
- Kargil Clean Chit (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 11, 2004)
By absolving the previous NDA government of the charge that its delay in giving political clearance to the use of air power during the Kargil war had led to higher casualties, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee has displayed rare maturity and proved ...
- Sarus Crane On The Verge Of Extinction (Tribune, Baljit Singh, Jun 11, 2004)
On May 28, 2004, the media was flush with news of the maiden test flight of India’s first indigenous civil aircraft, named after Sarus crane. Sadly, that is a crude paradox though, because not many Indians are aware that the beautiful and graceful ...
- Farm Sector Is Crucial (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Jun 11, 2004)
LAL Bahadur Shastri, who succeeded India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964, had coined a famous slogan: “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan”.
- Driving In India (Tribune, Coen Jeukins, Jun 10, 2004)
For the benefit of people visiting India and daring to drive on Indian roads, I offer a few hints for survival. This is applicable to every place in India except Bihar, where life outside a vehicle is only marginally safer.
- Cmp: Will It Work? (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Jun 10, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme (CMP) was unveiled on a Thursday and the stock market, quite deservedly, gave it a - 223-point thumbs-down on Friday. One wishes the message had been stronger.
- The Power Of Ideas (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Jun 10, 2004)
Development should be the new mantra. Approaches are many, but an idea can be had from a Plan document prepared by Prof Raj Krishna and Prof D. T. Lakdawala in 1978, that underscored private sector dynamism to propel growth and create jobs.
- Celestial Delight (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 10, 2004)
Tuesday's celestial extravaganza must have made even a super power realise that it has no control over the movement of the planetary bodies.
- Fdi Versus Fii (Business Line, Sudhanshu Ranade , Jun 10, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme of the new Government at the Centre stresses Foreign Direct Investment over Foreign Institutional Investment.
- Cmp: What Face The Reforms? (Hindu, Sharad Joshi , Jun 09, 2004)
The new Government's Common Minimum Programme promises reforms with a human face. But this is easier said than done, as implementation would encounter problems political and fiscal. Sharad Joshi examines the CMP, putting it in historical perspective.
- Marriage Bureau For Hiv Positive People (Tribune, Amrit Dhillon, Jun 09, 2004)
“I’M KALYANI, I'm a teacher and HIV-positive. Can you find a match for me please?” This is typical of the emails sent to Kottaram George, a social worker in Kerala, who runs a marriage bureau for people who are HIV-positive.
- Primary Education: Low Coverage, Poor Quality (Business Line, Sangeeta Goyal, Jun 09, 2004)
The really critical aspect of the Indian public education system is its low quality. Even in educationally advanced States, an unacceptably low proportion of children who complete all grades of primary school have functional literacy. Moreover, the ...
- Promoting Urdu (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 09, 2004)
Petty minds will question the motive for including the promotion of Urdu in the President's Address to the joint session of Parliament and the government’s intention to declare it a classical language.
- Revisiting Kargil (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 09, 2004)
Five years after the end of the Kargil war, a chairborne brigade has charged into action, ready to relive the murderous battles of that 1999 campaign.
- The Challenges Ahead (Hindu, R.K. Raghavan, Jun 09, 2004)
Shivraj Patil starts with a clean image and we can expect him to fulfil his new role of stewarding what is generally looked upon as a political task with great aplomb.
- Disinvestment By Another Name? (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 09, 2004)
The new Government's initial views on the public sector sale programme were both so strong and negative that many, and not just those in the stock market, had reason to fear that a sea-change in policy was in the offing.
- Cmp: What Face The Reforms? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Jun 09, 2004)
The new Government's Common Minimum Programme promises reforms with a human face. But this is easier said than done, as implementation would encounter problems political and fiscal. Sharad Joshi examines the CMP, putting it in historical persp ective.
- African Blooms Threaten Indian Roses (Tribune, Pamela Bhagat, Jun 09, 2004)
Owing to its moderate temperate climate throughout the year, Bangalore has emerged as a major flower growing region, contributing 60 per cent of the total rose cultivation in India. Dodballapuram, 50 km from Bangalore on the Hyderabad road, was best known
- The Return Of Milon Banerji (Tribune, S.S. Negi , Jun 08, 2004)
Milon Kumar Banerji may not be entirely surprised over his appointment as the Attorney-General of India. He had held the post of the topmost law officer of the country for four years during the P.V. Narasimha Rao regime from 1992 to 1996.
- How Healthy Is Our System? (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jun 08, 2004)
There is an urgent need to overhaul and strengthen the public health system.
- Generating Ill Wind? (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Jun 08, 2004)
"AN ill wind bloweth no man good," so said the poet. Now, it is alleged that the windmills too, do no good. Gujarat, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, and even North Wales, are now reaping the whirlwind of opprobrium of obscurantists and self-proclaimed ...
- Buyer's Credits For Imports: A Win-Win Proposition (Business Line, P. V. B. N. Murthy, Jun 08, 2004)
Liberalisation of the economy, coupled with the significantly lower interest rates prevailing internationally, have thrown up an opportunity to top-notch companies to source global funds even for their working capital needs. Foreign currency funding...
- A Case For Good Protectionism (Business Line, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Jun 08, 2004)
THE defeat of the NDA Government and the victory of the Congress(I) supported by the Left is one more symptom of the growing worldwide backlash against globalisation.
- Mr Singh's History (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2004)
We beg your pardon Mr Arjun Singh, but if the textbooks published by the Delhi State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) constitute "secular" learning, then secularism itself is in deep trouble.
- She Stoops To Conquer? (Pioneer, Harish C Gaur, Jun 03, 2004)
All along Ms Gandhi was projected to occupy the coveted post, being the president of the Congress.
- Grounded Jaguars (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 01, 2004)
For the common man, it matters little whether the Indian Air Force has “grounded” its Jaguar aircraft or “brought them to ground”.
- Cess For A Great Cause (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 01, 2004)
The most prominent social sector commitment in the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) relates to basic education: the United Progressive Alliance Government will impose a cess on Central taxes to achieve the goal of universalisation of elementary schooling.
- In Defence Of Hierarchy (Business Line, Devendra Mishra, Jun 01, 2004)
WHEN the Chief Vigilance Commissioner, Mr P. Shankar, blamed the "entire hierarchy" of ministers and bureaucrats for the stifled working of the PSUs, the much-debated issue of desirability of such hierarchies has once again grabbed the centre- stage.
- Interlinking Of Rivers - Buffetted By International Politics (Business Line, S. Padmanabhan , Jun 01, 2004)
Inter-linking of rivers has been much in the news. That the new Government at the Centre is also looking at the idea is clear from the Union Water Resources Minister, Mr Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi's recent statement that he would study the report of the ...
- Killing The Innocent (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 01, 2004)
Saudi Arabia's security forces demonstrated some tactical expertise in rescuing expatriates held hostage by a group of terrorists in a residential complex in the city of Al Khobar.
- Mcmedia & Market Jihad (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Jun 01, 2004)
So may be it's safe now to speak about the market without its leaping off a cliff, screaming. (Or maybe not quite. By close on Monday, share prices recovered nearly half the losses they logged soon after opening.)
- Upa's Common Minimum Programme I: Issues And Implications (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jun 01, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme has done a good job of delineating the "human face" of economic reforms. It contains a "solemn pledge" to provide a Government that will not only be accountable, transparent, responsible and responsive "at all times" but ...
- Who Is The Real Manmohan Singh? (Business Line, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Jun 01, 2004)
Praised by supporters as a man with determination and unquestioned personal integrity, Dr Manmohan Singh's journey from economist to politician as been long and eventful.
- ‘I Want To Build A Great Airport In Delhi’ (Tribune, Gaurav Chaudhury, May 31, 2004)
Telecom conglomerate Bharti Enterprises recently joined the elite club of billion dollar companies. Its founder, Chairman and group Managing Director, Mr Sunil Bharti Mittal, has often been credited by many as being one of the principal personalities ...
- Return Of The Reformers (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , May 31, 2004)
THE reformers are back in power. The original reformers are back in place of the erstwhile converts, who apparently had taken their new religion too seriously and believed, wrongly though, that it was they who had brought the shine to parts of India.
- Reconstructing India (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , May 31, 2004)
India needs healing. Its governance must return to the secularism and distributive justice goals of the Constitution.
- The Flight Of Saras (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 31, 2004)
Saras, The first civilian passenger aircraft to be designed and developed in the country, has spread its wings and taken to the air.
- Flight Of Saras (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 31, 2004)
THE successful test flight of the prototype of India’s first locally designed civilian aircraft Saras on Saturday can give a big boost to the country’s indigenisation effort. The need of such a plane cannot be overstressed. It has been in the works ...
- Wages Of Unemployment (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , May 31, 2004)
More than failing the farmers, the NDA fell because unemployment became excessive. But tackling rural and urban joblessness requires a broad-spectrum approach that goes beyond ideological purity. Needed are less simplistic and more comprehensive ...
- The Reds Under Manmohan's Bed (Asia Times, Sultan Shahin, May 28, 2004)
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government is now in place. The inevitable hiccups in the appointment of a 68-member council of ministers (cabinet) from as many as 12 alliance parties have been sorted out.
- Blood And Soil (Guardian (UK), Mike Marqusee, May 20, 2004)
India's general election saw the first major reversal in 20 years for the Bharatiya Janata party and the forces of the Hindu right. But no sooner had the advocates of "Hindu rashtra" lost at the polls than they launched a strident campaign to alter . . .
- Man Behind India's Economic Boom Named Prime Minister (San Francisco Chronicle, Correspondent or Reporter, May 20, 2004)
Manmohan Singh, the architect of India's economic boom, was named prime minister of the world's largest democracy on Wednesday -- a magnanimous act of patriotism and just plain street smarts by Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born leader of his party.
- Sonia Lays Down Her Legacy (Asia Times, Siddharth Srivastava, May 20, 2004)
It is said that in politics a week is a long time. In Indian politics, a couple of hours can change a situation upside down. Such is the case with Congress president Sonia Gandhi refusing to be prime minister, a position that was for her taking, . . .
- Gandhi Rejects Office Of Prime Minister (The Scotsman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2004)
The post of prime minister has never been my aim. My aim has always been to protect the secular foundations of our nation. I request you to accept my decision, and I will not revert" - Sonia Gandhi, Congress party president
- Gandhi Says She Will Not Become Prime Minister (Sydney Morning Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2004)
Sonia Gandhi announced yesterday she will not become prime minister of India.
- Gandhi Won't Become India's Prime Minister (CBC News, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2004)
Sonia Gandhi has decided she will not become the next prime minister of India.
"The post has not been my prime aim," Gandhi told stunned supporters on Tuesday.
- India Shining On A New Leader (The Seattle Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2004)
Ooops. All the experts and pundits in India got it wrong. Very wrong. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party was rudely tossed out in an election defeat no one saw coming.
- Blind To Progress (Washington Post, Sebastian Mallaby, May 17, 2004)
When he was young and so was India, Jagdish Bhagwati left Oxford to work at the Indian Planning Commission. He was assigned to grapple with his country's biggest problem -- how to raise the incomes of the poorest -- and he soon came to the . . .
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