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Articles 18221 through 18320 of 20587:
- When The Scales Of Justice Tilt Too Far (Indian Express, T S R SUBRAMANIAN, Dec 11, 2004)
The judicial system is in urgent need of reform. Without it India cannot become a competitive economy
- Ten Ways To Fight The C-Word (Indian Express, ARUN DUGGAL, Dec 11, 2004)
The issue of corruption is serious, widespread and increasing by the day. Respected institutions, such as the judiciary and defence forces, which were free of it a few years ago, now seem to be getting increasingly corrupt.
- Children Of Jehad — Or Victims? (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Dec 11, 2004)
AS providence would have it, the Srinagar-based journalist did not have to search for the man who left his wife and daughters in India when he crossed the Line of Control (LoC) in pursuit of “azadi” and reached what India refers to as Pakistan Occupied ..
- Let Them Have Their Exits And Their Entrances (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 11, 2004)
A Mother Goose rhyme reads: "Jerry Hall, he was so small, a rat could eat him, hat and all." True, small may be beautiful, but to be small and yet survive is tough, not only for Hall but also more than half of the small players in business.
- Dying Art Of Dropping In (Deccan Herald, MAYA JAYAPAL, Dec 11, 2004)
My daughter, who lives in the US, was telling her daughter about evenings at my parents’ house in Anna Nagar, Chennai. Of how, come evening and the air cooled, the cane chairs and little occasional tables would be brought out on to the front lawn and kept
- Bhopal Remembered (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Dec 11, 2004)
Although in the immediate aftermath of the disaster a number of environmental laws were enacted, they are inadequate in content and implementation.
- Ambition Gets Asean Aggressive (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Dec 10, 2004)
Asean is now seeking Asia-wide opportunities for sustained export-led growth and the intricate web of trade accords planned will certainly lead to a significantly higher share of Asian exports in world trade in the coming decades.
- Checking Martian Health Threat (Hindu, Seth Shostak, Dec 10, 2004)
Just as the plague came to Europe from Asia's distant habitats so too might Nasa unwittingly import extraterrestrial pathogens from Mars for which we have no defence, fear scientists.
- Cristiano’S Last Goal (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 10, 2004)
Brazilian striker Cristiano de Lima Junior is dead and reached the final goal of mortals. What remains very much alive is the abounding speculation over the circumstances leading to his death, and whether he could have been saved.
- `Logistics, India's Weakest Link In Exports' (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Dec 10, 2004)
Exporters face innumerable infrastructure bottlenecks. Inland movement of goods remains a major obstacle, as exporters are helpless in the face of high cost of transport and inter-State and intra-State barriers.
- The Patent Controversy (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Dec 10, 2004)
By rushing through the Third Patents Amendment without proper parliamentary scrutiny, India is short changing its post-Doha obligations to both its own and the world's poor
- Issues Patently Questionable (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Dec 10, 2004)
In less than two months, India will be obliged to do the follow-up on the WTO-mandated product patent stipulations, and the Commerce Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, made a strident statement:
- Women In Love (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 10, 2004)
The Chandigarh police are in a soup. And the Amritsar police have given up. Two young women from the Sandhu Colony of Amritsar, aged 25 and 22, have not only run away together
- Forget Efficiency. Let’S Do It (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Dec 10, 2004)
In the normal course, I would oppose any new government activity on the grounds that it is probably unnecessary, is likely to increase the power and the influence of an already ...
- Iraq: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Dec 10, 2004)
Since there is a total ban on reports of the inch-by-inch decimation of all life and property in Falluja (for the sake of democracy, of course).
- Jail Houses Rock (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 10, 2004)
On Wednesday, the Patna High Court had the right idea. To source the anarchy that blows through Bihar, it sought a peep into the prisons where powerful dons and petty criminals have been housed, presumably to keep them well isolated from pursuing any misc
- A Needless Ceiling (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 09, 2004)
Allowing foreign Institutional iinvestors to put money in corporate debt paper is welcome, even if does not go far enough. For a start, the aggregate outstanding investment of $500....
- The Man Behind The Bomb (Tribune, K. S. Parthasarathy, Dec 09, 2004)
During May 1990, I attended the College on Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics at the erstwhile International Centre for Theoretical Physics at Trieste, Italy. There I met Professor Abdus Salam, the Nobel Laureate and the then Director of the Centre.
- Stem Cells, Cloning, And Ethics (Hindu, Lewis Wolpert, Dec 09, 2004)
There is no moral justification for banning research using embryonic stem cells. It offers great hope to all those suffering from a wide variety of illnesses.
- Reforming The United Nations (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 09, 2004)
The recommendations of the panel mandated to propose reforms for making the United Nations a more effective instrument of collective security might not satisfy either the countries that fret at restraints imposed by international norms or those that seek
- Valley Of Individual Trauma (Indian Express, Humra Quraishi, Dec 08, 2004)
In J&K, there are still over 6000 ‘missing’ young men. They were taken for interrogation by security agencies. Never to return home. Needless to add this violation of human rights is just one of the factors that widens the alienation of the civilians in t
- Vultures And Values (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 08, 2004)
For long has the United States been described as a “vulture culture” which is very different from having a few culture vultures, like we do in India.
- Aid From Expatriates (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 08, 2004)
There are more than three million persons of Indian origin who have settled down in the UK and the US, either as citizens or under the non-resident category.
- A Void In The Ranks (Telegraph, Arshi Khan, Dec 08, 2004)
Yasser Arafat’s death on November 11 was a real setback to the west Asia peace process. The French president, Jacques Chirac, who went to the Paris hospital after hearing of the death
- Junior’S Death As Reality Check (Indian Express, Jayaditya Gupta, Dec 08, 2004)
The lynch mobs are out again. Cricket is off the boil so they need a new target. The tragedy of Cristiano Junior pops up nicely for the national jury that is our TV audience (and, distressingly, the Talking Heads with more at stake) to have a go at Subrat
- The Corporate Road To An Industrial Disaster (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Dec 08, 2004)
Words cannot capture the magnitude of the disaster that struck Bhopal on that fateful night of December 2, 1984. One author describes it as `the Hiroshima of chemical industry.'
- Constitution, Parliament, And The People (Hindu, Somnath Chatterjee, Dec 08, 2004)
Unless we eliminate the nexus between politics and crime and also between politics and religion, the country is in danger of losing its identity.
- Prisoners Of Another War (Telegraph, SANKAR SEN, Dec 08, 2004)
Only greater vigilance and activism of the US judiciary can assure that detainees at Guantanamo Bay get justice
- The Ballooning Of Americans (Business Line, Sharad Varde, Dec 07, 2004)
America is splitting at the seams, literally. But no one seems to care. For now, big is beautiful and obesity, a business. Feeding off the fat of the land, garment companies are launching a whole new range of
- Computers And Rural Poverty (Deccan Herald, Sudhirendar Sharma, Dec 07, 2004)
As some of the leading development protagonists wield the magic wand of information and communication technology to root out rural poverty, the poor are being targeted yet again for another round of experimentation.
- Coughing Up An Epidemic (Indian Express, MEETA LALL, Dec 07, 2004)
Tuberculosis remains a scourge in India, increasingly complicated with its partner-in-death: the HIV virus.
- Festival Amid The Ruins (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Dec 07, 2004)
A wonderfully sunny, early-winterish December morning in Delhi was the setting that launched the Old World Theatre Festival supported by Mahindra and Mahindra.
- Friendship Reaffirmed (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 06, 2004)
Russia and India used the opportunity presented by President Vladimir Putin's visit to sort out differences that could have damaged the time-tested and healthy relations between them.
- Care Givers (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 06, 2004)
Reverence can be overdone. Especially if it is public reverence for a religious official in a secular country. The arrest of the sankaracharya of Kanchi
- Touch Of Class (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Dec 06, 2004)
Corporate training and development is a major activity conducted by business schools, consulting firms, human resource departments of companies, management associations and others.
- Report On Trend And Progress Of Banking 2003-04 (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 06, 2004)
The latest report on Trend and Progress of Banking in India for 2003-04 follows the lines of its predecessors in presenting a workmanlike account of the health of the banking industry and its prospects.
- The Brethren In Goa (Telegraph, GITHA HARIHARAN, Dec 05, 2004)
Since their defeat in the parliamentary elections, the BJP seems to be losing one mask a day, and in full public view.
- Uk Most Conducive For Indian Companies, Says Swaraj Paul (Tribune, Tripti Nath, Dec 05, 2004)
Lord Swaraj Paul, one of the most successful Indians in the UK, is the third Asian to be nominated to the House of Lords.
- Treatment Travails (Hindu, Ramya Kannan , Dec 05, 2004)
Accessibility and affordability of the drugs to treat HIV/AIDS are a major issue
- Perils Of Peer Pressure (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 05, 2004)
Young men are vulnerable too, but in a very different way. They mature to adulthood in the community of other young men with little contact with women of their own age.
- Doctor In The House (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 05, 2004)
Perhaps the chief minister of West Bengal has something priceless to give away. The king who searched far and wide for a man who would cure the unsmiling princess of her disease of grumpiness promised the successful healer his daughter’s hand.
- Tide Of Misfortune (Telegraph, Debashis Bhattacharyya, Dec 05, 2004)
Five years after the super-cyclone, many women survivors along coastal Orissa live in a nightmarish world, stalked by human predators.
- A Ticking Time Bomb? (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Dec 05, 2004)
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in India is no longer confined to high-risk groups. There are warning signs that it is women, especially the young, who are among the most vulnerable
- Chitra Mudgal: A Rare Writer In Hindi (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Dec 05, 2004)
Chitra Mudgal is a rare writer in Hindi literature, combining many facets in her personality. She is a born rebel, a dedicated trade unionist, social activist, virtual demi goddess to slum dwellers and, at the same time, a dedicate house wife.
- Life After Death (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 04, 2004)
He is not just another victim of the world’s worst industrial disaster. Even two decades on, Abdul Jabbar continues to lend his strident voice to a movement to avert another Bhopal
- Politicians And Their Party-Hopping (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Dec 04, 2004)
The best time to watch antics of politicians on the make are elections: before the names of candidates are announced by the parties, during the campaign and after the results are announced.
- Justice Denied (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 04, 2004)
It is 20 years since a lethal gas escaped from the Union Carbide Plant in Bhopal, which changed the lives of those living in the ill fated city forever for the worse.
- "Second" Ring Ceremony (Tribune, Rajan Chugh, Dec 04, 2004)
A 65-year-old worrying-woman’s relatives conveyed that she had been brought for the eye operation just as a child who was promised toys if he attended the school! (Baccha Boodha Ek Barabar, they say).
- Bhopal: 20 Years After (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 04, 2004)
Twenty years after the world’s worst industrial disaster at Bhopal left some 20,000 dead and one lakh suffering from chronic, untreatable diseases, relief is yet to reach
- Corporate India (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Dec 04, 2004)
WHAT is it about highly successful entrepreneurs who are able to judge people with brilliant instinct that they cannot come to terms with the obvious possibility of their own children or progeny tearing their legacy into shreds after they are no more?
- Globalisation: Need For Fairness (Hindu, Juan Somavia, Dec 04, 2004)
More fairness should be injected at all levels. That includes respecting core labour standards, promoting basic social protection, and reducing unbalanced patterns of investment and trade.
- South-South Trade Co-Operation (Business Line, S. Srinath, Dec 03, 2004)
The recently announced National Foreign Trade Policy (NFTP) 2004-2009 lays down an ambitious target of achieving an export growth rate that will enable India to account for 1.5 per cent of the world trade by 2009.
- To Fight Common Problems... (Business Line, K. Parthasarathi, Dec 03, 2004)
Over the last year India's forex reserves have grown to a staggering $123 billion, and rising. Other Asian countries too hold large reserves in relation to their GDP.
- View With Equanimity (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 03, 2004)
India's most widely watched stock index, the Bombay Stock Exchange's 30-share index, Sensex, closed at an all time high of 6234.20.
- Birth Of A Science City (Tribune, Reeta Sharma, Dec 03, 2004)
For a follow-up of Pushpa Gujral Science City, a trip to Kapurthala left this columnist in awe. The very first phase of the science city project is mind-boggling.
- Cracks In The Wall (Telegraph, NEHA SAHAY, Dec 03, 2004)
Since 1978, when Deng Xiaoping set China upon the road to a “socialist market economy”, the number of poor Chinese has reduced from 250 million to 29 million, says the government.
- Global Action Against Terrorism Should Be Concerted And United (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Dec 03, 2004)
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, is not a leader who flinches from answering difficult questions. In a written response to questions provided by The Hindu, President Putin does not believe that it is possible...
- Government Should Walk The Talk (Deccan Herald, Pradeep Kumar, Dec 03, 2004)
A study conducted by the State’s Commissioner for Disabilities shows a neglect of such issues especially in rural areas
- Bhopal's Poisonous Legacy (Boston Globe, GARY COHEN , Dec 02, 2004)
Twenty years ago today, families in Bhopal, India, were awakened in the middle of the night by terrible burning in their eyes and lungs.
- Muscle Drill (Telegraph, ABHIRUP SARKAR, Dec 02, 2004)
The season of bandhs is back again. Political parties, covering virtually the whole ideological spectrum, are calling them all over the country over various issues and at the
- On The Beat (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 02, 2004)
Violence is an intoxicating habit. There is no better exemplar of this than the police in West Bengal.
- Poisoned Futures (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Dec 02, 2004)
The apex court's guidelines on dealing with hazardous waste are observed more in the breach.
- The Law On Brotherhood (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Dec 02, 2004)
"Business has only two basic functions — marketing and innovation," said Peter Drucker.
- Be Aware (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 02, 2004)
World AIDS Day can only be a day of rather grim reckoning in West Bengal. The government’s latest surveys of the spread of the virus among sex workers in the state show unnaturally high prevalence in a number of areas.
- Ethical Dilemmas In Decision-Making (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 02, 2004)
Like accountants, economy, busy as it is with the use of resources, has nothing to do with ethics. "However, the Chinese word for economy — Jing Ji (or Ching Chi) — is related to ethical value,"
- Helping Indian Airlines Fly High (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Dec 02, 2004)
For Indian Airlines, the route to profitability could include undertaking maintenance operations for other airlines.
- Let There Be Justice In Bhopal! (Rediff on the Net, editoral, rediff on the net, Dec 02, 2004)
20 years ago, on this very day, the Union Carbide gas leak struck at the very heart of India.
- Trips: Patently Challenging (Business Line, S. Goswami, Dec 01, 2004)
There have been significant efforts to harmonise national laws on intellectual property rights through multilateral agreements. The Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights
- Omissions In The Commissions (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Dec 01, 2004)
Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up and set to true time.
- Look Beyond Figures (Telegraph, AMITAVA BANERJEE, Dec 01, 2004)
Mamata Banerjee perhaps thinks otherwise, but people with disability in India have enough reasons to celebrate World Disability Day on December 3.
- Nightwatch (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 01, 2004)
Of the few things left remarkable beneath the visiting moon, the Taj Mahal happens to be one. But looking at it in moonlight is not as simple a pleasure as it sounds like.
- Women More Vulnerable To Aids (Tribune, Neelam Sharma, Dec 01, 2004)
Have you heard me today?’’ screams this year’s slogan of the World AIDS day falling on December 1. More than one-fourth of the total 5.1 million HIV positive persons living in India are women.
- Women At Risk (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 01, 2004)
As a pandemic that has affected 39.4 million citizens worldwide, HIV/AIDS is a development challenge like no other.
- Towards A Nanny State (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Dec 01, 2004)
There is concern that as a result of a package of proposals, unveiled recently by the Tony Blair Government, no aspect of a citizen's life will remain his private domain.
- A Mushroom Cloud Of Poison (Indian Express, GARY COHEN , Dec 01, 2004)
The Bhopal catastrophe is the Hiroshima of the chemical industry. The after-effects of the gas leak continue to maim and kill
- Innocent Victims (Hindu, David C. Mulford, Dec 01, 2004)
Protecting women and girls, like the fight against HIV/AIDS generally, is an effort in which everyone has a part to play.
- In Search Of A Creative Alternative (Telegraph, Vandana Shiva, Dec 01, 2004)
Terra Madre celebrated an honest agriculture that does not lie about prices and does not exploit the earth or its caretakers
- Amendment To Companies Act — Should Reflect The Spirit Of Times (Business Line, R. Parthasarathy , Dec 01, 2004)
That the proposed amendment of the Companies Act, 1956 envisages fewer sections, instead of more, is welcome in itself. In all other areas too
- Asbestos: Housed In Controversies (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Dec 01, 2004)
Are chrysotile asbestos (or white asbestos) products hazardous to health? The Chrysotile Asbestos Cement Products Manufacturers Association (CACPMA) asserts that they are not.
- Flaws In Anti-Aids Fight (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 01, 2004)
It is heartening to know that Pune’s National AIDS Research Institute is closer to developing an AIDS vaccine with its trial on volunteers beginning in January next year.
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