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Articles 19421 through 19520 of 20587:
- In High Disdain (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Dec 27, 2003)
Back in the Sixties, it used to be said that India’s most successful export were economists. Our economy was resolutely insulated from the rest of the world, but our economists occupied high posts in famous universities in Europe and America. Later, the
- Jaswant Singh Can Smile (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Dec 26, 2003)
STOCK markets are booming with the sensitive index having touched a 45-month high. India is supposed to be shining brighter than ever before. The so-called “feel good” factor is reportedly permeating right through the economy. The country’s foreign ...
- Embarrassing Riches (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2003)
Haste in policy should not make waste of the forex reserves built up painstakingly
- Five `I's For Budget 2004-05 (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Dec 26, 2003)
In the coming Budget, the Government ought to focus on `I's: Interest rates, Investment, Infrastructure, Information and Image. The Finance Minister who, in his previous portfolio, did a lot to enhance the country's prestige should use the Budget to ...
- Growth Of Chinese Textile Industry - Can India Weave The Same Magic? (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 26, 2003)
CHINA and India have significant similarities. For both countries, the chief task at hand is how best to juxtapose economic development with social upliftment of the masses, who account for about 40 per cent of world's population.
- Who Is Afraid Of India? (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Dec 26, 2003)
Three days in Karachi and two in Lahore do not provide sufficient credentials for a summary statement on Pakistan. One impression is still overwhelming. Men and women at practically all levels could not be friendlier. Gestures of affection spilled over
- Industry In 2003 — Increased Efficiency, Hesitant Recovery (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Dec 25, 2003)
Three years ago, most experts had virtually given up on India's manufacturing sector because of the all-pervading pall of gloom. Today, not only is India Inc confident of taking on competition from China, the number of Indian companies wishing to set up
- Till Health Do Us Part (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Dec 25, 2003)
AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa may be ‘‘Amma’’ for the rest of us, but not for the DMK’s A. Raja, former minister of state for health. His Amma is Sushma Swaraj. The secret came out when his boss, M. Karunanidhi, ordered he resign from the Union council of
- Resignation, For What? (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2003)
MR Chagan Bhujbal resigned as Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra owning up "moral” responsibility for the attack on the office of a television network by his supporters. Had they just carried the flags of the NCP, Mr Sharad Pawar and not Mr Bhujbal ...
- Right Way To Divest (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2003)
THE DISINVESTMENT PROCESS is back to square one. It all began in the mid-1990s with the government offloading small parcels of its holdings in select companies and that is where it is back to now with the Centre proposing to sell a 10 per cent stake each
- Health Mustn’t Hinge On Wealth (Indian Express, K. SUJATHA RAO , Dec 24, 2003)
When the “buy one, take one free” sales pitch hits the market for healthcare, it is time to sit up. “Buy a heart bypass and take a week’s holiday in Goa” or “Get the second bypass at 50% discount” is no longer a joke. It is on offer today. The question is
- A Water War Brews In Satara (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Dec 24, 2003)
Control of water resources by the government means their control by a few leaders who can continue in power. There is a temptation for these leaders to leverage water management projects electorally. Citing instances of diversion of water from one region
- Don’t Stress, It May Just Make You Sick (Indian Express, SHANKAR VEDANTAM, Dec 24, 2003)
Scientists say shy men are more likely to have AIDS. Because temperament and disease are correlated
- Moment Of Triumph (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 24, 2003)
THE FORMER PRIME Minister, P.V. Narasimha Rao, must feel that the legal clouds that hung gloomily over him have finally lifted. With his acquittal in the Lakhubhai Pathak case, Mr. Rao has been cleared in the third and last corruption case in ...
- Terms Of Reference Of 12th Finance Commission — The Deficit In Fiscal Discipline (Business Line, Mony K. Mathew , Dec 23, 2003)
One of the views is that the emphasis on fiscal deficit reduction without paying attention to its quality has led to the Centre and the States resorting to the softer option of cutting productive capital and necessary maintenance and social sector ...
- Indian Students Wowed By Us College Culture (Tribune, Dhruv, Dec 23, 2003)
CLUBS are one of the greatest institutions on American college campuses. They provide a great way of getting to know people, making friends, and participating in campus life.
- The Migrant Effect On Punjabi Society (Tribune, K.S. Chawla, Dec 23, 2003)
THE demographic complexion of Punjab has changed sharply in the recent years with the influx of migrants from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, besides Nepal.
- The Spamsters Are Here! (Tribune, Bibhuti Mishra , Dec 23, 2003)
WHEN for the first time Michael urged me to claim my free digital camera I was lured. I went on clicking and one link led to another till I was stumped. But by the time I realised that I had been taken for a royal ride. I had used up my Internet and ...
- Collared! (Indian Express, NIVEDITA SEN , Dec 23, 2003)
It’s a white collar disease. It doesn’t afflict the working class, or people who make use of their bodies to eke out a living, despite the numerous health and environmental hazards they are exposed to. It is only people with ‘desk jobs’ who claim to be it
- Polio War Critical, Top Panel Turns To Pm, Kalam (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Dec 22, 2003)
Next six months may well decide eradication, strong govt leadership essential at all levels
- Santa At The Stockmarket (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2003)
As we celebrate the Sensex’s rise and rise, keep an eye on rising disparities too
- Good Flagoff (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2003)
VIGYAN Rail, which was flagged off by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, is a good initiative to showcase the nation’s achievements in science and technology. Both the President and the Prime Minister can take justifiable pride in the scientific and ...
- Still Not The Perfect Shine (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Dec 22, 2003)
At a recent conference on globalization the discussion was focussed on the “how” rather than the “what” or “why” issues that had dominated the subject until recently. The success stories of Indian companies that had begun to look at the world as the ...
- Dmk Ministers Ignore Last Minute Bjp Request, Resign (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2003)
Unmoved by conciliatory voices from the BJP camp, the two DMK ministers in the NDA Government—Environment Minister T.R. Baalu and Minister of State for Health A. Raja—called on Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee here today and put in their papers.
- Can We Have Some Arrogance Now? (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Dec 21, 2003)
We hear the word vikas a lot since the assembly elections. Development. It’s all about vikas political pundits have taken to saying ever since their predictions for Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh were proven embarrassingly wrong. If you are...
- Preventive Intelligence (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Dec 21, 2003)
Among the Millennium Development, goals are the following: Goal 4: Reduce child mortality — reduce by two-third, between 1990 and 2015 under-five mortality rate. Goal 5: Improve health — reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the ...
- Hanging As Deterrent (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2003)
A major initiative for reforms in the health sector was taken by the Union Cabinet on Thursday when it recommended the penalty of death for fake drug makers. The Drugs and Cosmetics Act will now be amended to incorporate the recommendation in favour of...
- The Ajoy Ghosh Story (Tribune, A.S. Anand , Dec 20, 2003)
THE need for penal reform, we hope, remains a priority. It is quite evident that civil society, the judiciary and the prison authorities have all failed to protect the human rights of prisoners. They do not shed all their constitutional rights at the gate
- From India To Bharat (Tribune, Dimple Dhaliwal Srivastava , Dec 20, 2003)
HERE I sit in my airy little office in a rural dispensary in a sleepy little village of a small district of Punjab, where things and people seem to be at a standstill. The huge banyan trees swinging gently with the wind, the street dogs chasing and ...
- Aids And Insurance (Hindu, Nicole Itano, Dec 19, 2003)
In South Africa, AIDS remains a challenge for the insurance industry and a sticky issue for the Government.
- Supreme Court And The Common Man (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 19, 2003)
The Supreme Court breathed life into Article 21 of the Constitution by expanding the meaning of the words "right to life" as not mere animal existence, but as life with dignity.
- Supreme In Law (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
The perspective of pure legality may not always square with concepts in other spheres. In upholding the Prevention of Terrorism Act on the grounds of legal and constitutional validity, the Supreme Court has made clear that the discomfort regarding the act
- Measure For Measure: States Vie To Do Better (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Dec 18, 2003)
State-specific HDRs throw up piquant data. No wonder they are becoming part of poll discourse
- `India Rising' - Will It Ride The Demographic Wave? (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Dec 18, 2003)
In about 50 years, India's surging population may be more a boon than a bane, if a recent Goldman Sachs projection comes true. With a surplus of working age people vis-à-vis current G-6 biggies such as the US and Japan, India could benefit fro m low ...
- When Accounting For `Goods', Don't Ignore The `Bads' (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
ACCOUNTING'S job is to measure all that goes to hit the bottomline. There is a risk, however, of missing the woods when counting the trees.
- Bee-Ing A Queen (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
IT is no longer a royal pleasure to be a queen in this age of republicanism (not to be confused with the Republican values of President George W. Bush). Life for the shrinking royalty is getting tough. It is getting even tougher for the queen bees from
- Telgi’s Jigsaw Puzzle (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Dec 18, 2003)
A pet peeve for Delhiites is the multiplicity of authorities who operate in the city, or rather the utter lack of communication between them. No sooner has the Jal Board finished digging up a road that it is the turn of the Municipal Corporation to do so
- Check On Promoters (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
THE ADDITIONAL CHECKS proposed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India on the use of the preferential allotment route by companies must be welcomed. SEBI's Primary Markets Advisory Committee wants promoters not to sell any shares six months before
- All Those Fishing Rods In The Recovery Pool (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Dec 18, 2003)
On a case that discussed the constitutional validity of the new securitisation law
- When Vajpayee Spoke Like Nehru (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 18, 2003)
Because of the media's preoccupation with the Indian cricket victory in Australia and with the excitement over the POTA amendment, not much attention has been paid to the import of the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee's performance in the Rajya ...
- What Now, After Saddam's Capture? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 17, 2003)
The manner in which Saddam Hussein was captured has given rise to the suspicion whether the Americans have struck some kind of a deal with him. What if Mr Hussein himself, after several rounds of questioning, admits that he did, indeed, have WMD but ...
- Holiday Blues (Hindu, Richard A. Friedman , Dec 17, 2003)
The consensus seems to be that holidays are a time of high expectations and stress. So if things do not go as planned, the holiday blues cannot be far behind.
- Restructuring Postal Services (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 17, 2003)
It is important to protect the Government's role in providing mail services, since it has invested substantially in men, money and infrastructure. At the same time, promoting a monopoly does not suit the times.
- Post-Reform Anomaly — Parts Not Keeping `Full' Pace (Business Line, K. Parthasarathi, Dec 17, 2003)
THE overall growth rate of the country should not blur our vision to the growing disparities in the prosperity level, per capita income and job opportunities from State to State. The strategy for a higher growth in these sub-par States should be multi
- No More A Personal Problem (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 17, 2003)
Sexual harassment in the work place is an offence. It must be punished
- Is Corporate Farming Really The Solution For Indian Agriculture? (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Dec 16, 2003)
Contract farming is increasingly being presented as the way out of the morass in which Indian agriculture now finds itself, and is being actively promoted by major international donor agencies, multinational companies and the Central Government. In this
- Blair 'Then' And 'Now' (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Dec 16, 2003)
Saddam Hussein's capture has certainly eased the pressure on Tony Blair but the country and his own party remain deeply divided over his Iraq misadventure.
- Foggy Regulations (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 16, 2003)
THE RELUCTANCE OF New Delhi to move out of the banking sector is seen in its persistence with opaque laws on bank mergers and acquisitions. The role and powers of the Reserve Bank of India in such issues has been left far too vague. For instance, the RBI'
- Aiims: A Look Back (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 16, 2003)
AMONG the temples of modern India which Jawaharlal Nehru designed was a centre of excellence in the medical sciences. Nehru's dream was that such a centre would set the pace for medical education and research in South-East Asia , and in this he had the...
- Oil Sector Disinvestment: The End Or Means? (Business Line, Ruddar Datt , Dec 16, 2003)
AS ON March 31, 2002, 13 public sector enterprises were engaged in producing, refining and selling oil and other allied products. All these enterprises (excluding Bongaigaon Refinery) recorded a total net profit of Rs 12,715 crore in 2001-02, and ...
- Retrograde Verdict (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2003)
Eye-for-an-eye concept must be abandoned
- Bombastic Jamboree (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 15, 2003)
THE UN, never at its wits' end in organising jamborees or dipping into its scant budget for chasing wild geese, went to great lengths on December 10-12 to provide a retreat at Geneva for the governments of 175 countries to ponder over measures to bridge
- Powered By Science, Special Train Today (Indian Express, Bhavna Vij, Dec 15, 2003)
The Army’s main battle tank, Arjun, will roll out of the Capital tomorrow to set out on a cross-country ride. So will its various missiles—Agni, Prithvi, Nag and Brahmos—and the multi-role Light Combat Aircraft Tejas and pilotless Nishant. Close behind
- Feel Good, But Not Better (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 15, 2003)
India’s forex reserves must be turned into a tool to spur growth
- The Message From Assembly Elections 2003 - Give The People What They Want (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 15, 2003)
THE din and dust of the State elections in the heartland of India has not yet settled down. Analysts and commentators are busy explaining the rout of the Congress in most of the States.
- Doomed In The Womb? (Hindu, Asha Krishnakumar , Dec 14, 2003)
Is the fall in the number of girl children closely linked to the declining sex ratio at birth resulting from female foeticide? On the situation in the four southern States.
- Little Miss Crackskull (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 14, 2003)
What is it about political correctness that brings out the blackest parody from the nicest people? Two Canadian medics have published, in a serious medical journal earlier this week, an article, which is an entertaining send-up of north American PC. In
- Cashing In On Desperation (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 14, 2003)
Despite the official crackdown, misuse of pre-natal diagnostic techniques is rampant in parts of Karnataka.
- What The Law Says (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 14, 2003)
Legislation is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to enhance sex ratios.
- Bitten By The Bug? (Hindu, R. Krishna Kumar, Dec 14, 2003)
There is a view that Kerala may no longer be an exception to the worsening gender bias in India.
- Ancient Village Dholavira Gets Mr Fix-It Mahajan (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 13, 2003)
The village of Dholavira, near the legendary Indus Valley site, has been a makeshift home to archaeologists. It was further pushed off the map by the killer quake three years ago. Now, it’s emerging from the ruins: telephones, drinking water, electricity,
- A Question Of Honour (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Dec 13, 2003)
Since its birth, the Indian nation-state has been challenged by rebellion and insurgency. In the late Forties, it was the Communist Party of India, who launched a countrywide insurrection claiming that the freedom we got from the British was false (in the
- Astounding Admission (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2003)
THE admission by a senior vice-president of GlaxoSmithKline that 50 to 70 per cent of the drugs are ineffective in treating the ailment for which they are prescribed is simply astounding. Was it a troublesome conscience that made Dr Allen Rose, in a ...
- What To Do About Spurious Drugs (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2003)
THE MASHELKAR COMMITTEE'S recommendations to check the proliferation of counterfeit and substandard drugs dovetail with the Government's pharmaceutical policy that was unfurled in 2002. But implementing its proposals will require a real ...
- Fiscal Deficit, The Real Villain? (Business Line, Alok Ray, Dec 12, 2003)
The real villain for India is not the fiscal deficit but the composition of government expenditures. A better index of fiscal health could be the size of revenue deficit — the gap between government's current expenditure and current revenue...
- Mountain Development: Rappelling Up, The Chinese Way (Business Line, Dharmalingam Venugopal, Dec 12, 2003)
Mountains occupy two thirds of China and support nearly one half of the population. Mountain regions contribute significantly to the Chinese economy accounting for 31 per cent of GDP and producing 35 per cent of grains and 54 per cent of primary ...
- Testing A Great Institution (Indian Express, P. V. Indiresan , Dec 12, 2003)
A nationwide entrance exam is not the best way to identify talent
- The Budget As The Bsp Test (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Dec 11, 2003)
There’s a difference between packaging a promise and delivering it
- It’s Time You Opened Your Eyes To The Truth (Indian Express, MADHUMITA DUTTA , Dec 11, 2003)
A substance called asbestos and India’s complicity in a continuing crime
- Your Obedient Maid Servant (Tribune, Iqbal Sachdeva, Dec 11, 2003)
ALMOST two decades before the independence of India, Vijay Laxmi Ramgoolam from Karnataka worked in All India Radio and by dint of sheer hard work, she rose to number two position, as number one always had to be an English boss. Her master’s degree in ...
- ‘muslims Don’t Provoke. They’re Scared. This Scared Indian Muslim Is A Big Threat To The Unity Of Our Country’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 10, 2003)
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, at his native village Saifi in Etawah.Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s Walk The Talk:
- Bush’s Sinking Ship (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Dec 10, 2003)
Coming back to Washington after a month abroad is like returning to a land which has changed beyond comprehension in so short a time. It is okay once again to poke fun at POTUS, the president of the United States. Talk show hosts like Bill Maher are no...
- He Quit It Job To Pursue His Dream In Us (Tribune, Reeta Sharma, Dec 10, 2003)
The humble village boy now runs a top food chain
- Touching The Horizon (Indian Express, Gopal Krishna Agarwal, Dec 09, 2003)
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the broadest measure of the health of the economy. Real GDP is defined as the total money value of final goods and services produced by labour and property located within a country during an accounting year. Gross value ...
- Paradox Of Hunger Amid Plenty (Business Line, K. Parthasarathi, Dec 09, 2003)
The anomaly of hunger amidst the plenty signifies something basically wrong in the system. The question arises why the poor have no access to the food they sorely need.
- Aids Scare Is For Real (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
IT IS EASY to be cynical of the fuss made about Acquired-Immune Deficiency Syndrome, especially around the World AIDS day on December 1. The sight of many celebrity campaigners for HIV/AIDS may lead people to trivialise the issue. However, scepticism on..
- Remember Europe (Telegraph, J. N. Dixit , Dec 09, 2003)
The last week of November witnessed important meetings between leaders of the European Union and the government of India, a major event following the Indo-European summit to which the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, went last year. The president of
- Justice Within Prisons (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2003)
DESPITE LANDMARK JUDGMENTS by the Supreme Court in the 1990s that spelt out the norms of humane and fair procedures of arrest, the track record of the police continues to be marked by disregard for legal niceties and human rights laws. Execution ...
- Microbes And Mindsets (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2003)
AIDS doesn’t adjust to social niceties. We must take it on before it takes us on
- Abjuring Alcohol (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 08, 2003)
RECENTLY I had occasion to watch about 200 social activists, a majority of whom were women from rural areas, observing a daylong fast to back up their demand for introduction of total prohibition. A number of well-meaning persons prominent in public life
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