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Articles 20021 through 20120 of 20587:
- How Safe Is Our Water? (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Aug 24, 2003)
Groundwater is easily polluted and restoring its quality is impossibly expensive
- ‘let This Change Be Permanent’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2003)
The Indian Express readers respond to Arun Shourie’s three-part Independence Day special on the innovative new India.
- Cola: Day After, It’s Your Test Vs My Test (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2003)
That the central issue of regulation of the quality of aerated drinks hasn’t been addressed—despite the claims and counter-claims from all sides—is becoming evident now.
- Confusion Confounded (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2003)
THE GOVERNMENT'S STATEMENT in Parliament on the quality of soft drinks produced in the country does not satisfactorily address concerns about the health standards of these products. In fact, the statement only adds to the prevailing confusion ...
- Kalam’s 2nd Call In A Week: Get Real (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Aug 23, 2003)
It couldn’t have been better timed. Two days after the Parliament debate on the no-confidence motion that was high on rhetoric, low on content, President A P J Abdul Kalam has sent a reminder to all Members of Parliament on what they need to do the ...
- Panchayats In Practice (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2003)
OVER A DECADE after the 73rd Amendment to the Constitution was enacted, devolution of powers to Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) remains in many respects a distant dream. To be sure, grass roots bodies have now acquired a permanent place within ...
- Proposal For Zero Customs Duty - With Right Environment, Industry Can Cope (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Aug 22, 2003)
The US' zero-for-zero Customs duty proposal envisages allowing imports at zero duty and expecting reciprocal treatment for exports. Is Indian industry prepared to face the onslaught of imports and remain successful? Sure, it can many sectors already hav
- Colas: And All Live Happily Ever After (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2003)
The Government today declared in Parliament that soft drink samples from Coca-Cola and PepsiCo that it got tested—following a High Court directive—did not contain as much pesticide residues as was alleged in a report by the Centre for Science and ...
- Riding The Bull (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2003)
The feel-good factor, which had eluded the stockmarkets for quite some time, is back. The 30-share BSE Sensitive Index soared past the crucial 4,000 mark this week and continues its upward journey, much to the relief of market players, investors and the
- Cola And Pesticides: The Bigger Picture (Business Line, Alok Ray, Aug 22, 2003)
The real problem is that there are no Indian standards. In the absence of such mandatory standards, private companies would try to cut corners to maximise their bottomlines. The Government needs to involve the Indian scientific community to evolve a ...
- Can A Banker Be Creative? (Business Line, K. Malikarjunan, Aug 21, 2003)
"CERTAINLY! If only he is a little somnolent!" waxes a paunchy, retired banker having nothing else to do after retirement. "In fact, such a banker can be more creative than a filmmaker. Unlike the celluloid creation, a banker's creature lurks in the stack
- How About Eu Norms For Drinking Water? (Indian Express, BARUN MITRA, Aug 21, 2003)
Over 200 years ago, a French queen advised her citizens to eat cake when they were struggling to find bread. The present outcry against bottled soft drinks and colas is similar.
- Sonia’s Rusty Utopia (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2003)
Her no-confidence motion against the NDA expressed a lack of confidence in her party’s reforms
- South Asia’s Four Play (Indian Express, SHAHID JAVED BURKI, Aug 20, 2003)
The road to Indo-Pakistani cooperation flows through four key areas of the economy. For a start, New Delhi can trade its IT expertise for Islamabad’s energy
- Healthcare For The Poor (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Aug 19, 2003)
The public sector health set-up remains practically the only real option for the poor.
- The Challenge Of Diabetes (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2003)
DIABETES IS A major public health concern as more and more people are falling prey to the disease in both the developed and the developing world. The World Health Organisation estimates the number of diabetics in India today at 30 million ...
- Sushma Opens A Direct Lifeline With Midwives (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Aug 18, 2003)
If you are a midwife working in some remote hamlet, chances are that you might not even know the name of the country’s frequently changing health minister. But all that and more is to change if a new plan by Union Health Minister Sushma Swaraj bears ...
- A Thread Of Hope (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2003)
WITH THE high-power steering group,under the Planning Commission member, Mr N. K. Singh, handing out the much-anticipated debt restructuring scheme for the organised domestic textile sector, yet another textile relief package, the Textile Reconstruction
- Kalam Makes Way For The Precedent (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Aug 18, 2003)
The poor President. His address to the nation on the eve of Independence Day is telecast live on DD and then consigned to the nether regions of bulletins on the private news channels — after a commercial break, after Sonia Gandhi, the Supreme Court, the
- Cancun & Doha Round Prospects (Hindu, Muchkund Dubey , Aug 18, 2003)
The main negotiating challenge will be defensive — to prevent further loss of policy options in several areas.
- Dr Jalan Bids Adieu To Rbi (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Aug 18, 2003)
WHEN Dr Bimal Jalan took over as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in November 1997, his eminent predecessor, Dr C. Rangarajan, a successful practitioner of central banking, remarked: "I was a war-time general. I hope Bimal Jalan can be a peace-time
- Naresh Chandra Reports: A Pale Shadow Of Sox (Business Line, Amit C. Kamath, Aug 18, 2003)
IN THE last few months most business newspapers and magazines have been occupied with the reports of the Naresh Chandra Committee Report, also called the Committee on Corporate audit and Governance. While acknowledging the efforts of the Committee and its
- Half A Freedom (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Aug 17, 2003)
In keeping with the festive spirit of the 56th happy birthday of our Tryst with Destiny let me begin on happy note. The good news is that much has changed for the better since Nehru made his Freedom at Midnight speech with — as I see it — most of the good
- Its Teeth Cut On Cola, Govt Gets Food Act Bite (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Aug 17, 2003)
Amid the cola controversy, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare will be moving an amendment Bill for the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954. This is to give more teeth to the Act, to ensure safety in consumption of these food items and for
- Vidarbha: Sathe Set To Quit Cong (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Aug 17, 2003)
In a move that could realign Maharashtra politics, two former Union ministers Vasant Sathe and N.K.P. Salve are planning to quit the Congress and form a new political party tomorrow.
- Latin American Script, A Punjab Story (Indian Express, SANJEEV CHOPRA, Aug 17, 2003)
Uruguay water-treatment plant sets the standards here, Govt asks for more
- ‘bring Law To Curb Pesticide Use’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 16, 2003)
The alarming presence of hazardous pesticides in our environment poses a problem no different from such ills as fake medicines and food products. As you have said in your article, the real shock of this cola episode is the fact that now we have an ...
- Smuggler Raj To Swaraj (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 16, 2003)
Come to Mumbai’s Heera Panna. Once socialist India’s Grey Market No 1, today they give you Christian Dior — with a receipt
- Trade Is A Gender Issue (Indian Express, Sakuntala Narasimhan, Aug 16, 2003)
When a new UN task force on globalisation and trade came into being on July 23 to focus on the impact of trade and trade policies on women, most mainstream media ignored this landmark initiative. The initiative was, however, of special interest to the ...
- Freedom Drips Through Tap, Skirts A Wall (Indian Express, Anuradha Nagaraj, Aug 15, 2003)
For over 30 years, Rukmani Devi’s life was hostage to the empty pots in her house. All her waking moments and sleepless nights were spent trying to fill them to the brim. She never imagined life beyond the monotony of queuing up for water at odd hours or
- Trial By Kangaroo Courts (Indian Express, RAJEEV BAKSHI, Aug 15, 2003)
These have been very unfortunate and sad days for our civil society. Guilty even if innocent or until proved innocent is the new credo of the new breed of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), media outlets and lumpen political elements.
- Drink On India, The Law’s An Ass (Indian Express, RATNA RAJAIAH, Aug 15, 2003)
Is the ‘pesticides in Pepsi and Coke’ controversy a case of gross systemic failure or simply NGO activism gone mad
- Clear On Cancun (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 15, 2003)
THE WTO NEGOTIATIONS position paper circulated by the Centre reveals clearly the country's stand on a number of critical issues that will figure at the World Trade Organisation's Cancun Ministerial. The burden of the position paper is that the overall ...
- Is Epf Running The Danger Signal? (Business Line, Jayanthi Iyengar, Aug 15, 2003)
The Government failed to use opportunities to prescribe prudential norms for the EPF, mark its portfolio to market, free it in terms of investment decisions and align returns with performance.
- Placebos Won’t Do (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Aug 14, 2003)
What images come to mind when you see the words ‘‘drugs’’, ‘‘crime’’ and ‘‘South Asia’’ in the same sentence? Poppy fields glowing gold under the sun in Afghanistan? The infamous cave laboratories of Pakistan where the raw product is transformed into ...
- Labour In The New World (Hindu, Manabi Majumdar, Aug 14, 2003)
The terms on which the new labour interacts with its employers, global or local, are highly unfavourable to it.
- No Easy Going For India In Cancun (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Aug 14, 2003)
10 million people in four African countries are facing starvation after they implemented free market reforms
- With Caution To Cancun (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Aug 14, 2003)
URUGUAY 1986, Seattle 1999, Doha 2001 and now Cancun 2003. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) seems to be inching forward on a tortuous path which may end in despair for the developing world as a whole with the possible exception of China.
- ‘your Poison May Be My Food’ (Indian Express, CITHARA PAUL, Aug 13, 2003)
A day after the Union Cabinet okayed the move to ban cow slaughter across the country, Kerala became the first state to oppose the proposed law, saying beef constituted nearly 40 per cent of the total meat consumed in the state.
- All That’s Not Right In This World (Indian Express, SHAILI CHOPRA, Aug 13, 2003)
Have you ever felt ‘left’ behind sometimes? Whatever is ‘left’ should be given away. Right is credit but left is debit. I luckily was not forced ‘right’ into being a right-handed person. I am a lefty, as the world refers to my left hand usage, sometimes
- No Beef In This Law (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2003)
This Bill could have been drafted by the VHP. In this parliamentary session, before the upcoming assembly polls in November, the government is set to shepherd legislation that proposes a nationwide ban on cow slaughter.
- Football Of Partisan Politics (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Aug 13, 2003)
Even if the country were not in the election mode, the defence deals during the Kargil War would almost certainly have led to the kind of acrimonious controversy that rages inside and outside Parliament. For, over the years, almost everything in this
- Who's Afraid Of A Uniform Civil Code? (Hindu, B.G. Verghese, Aug 13, 2003)
A uniform civil code will focus on rights, leaving the rituals embodied in personal law intact within the bounds of constitutional propriety.
- Light In A Bushel (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 13, 2003)
I CAME across some days ago, and that too quite by accident, references to the good work being done by the Indian Federation of the United Nations Association (IFUNA) and its Tamil Nadu chapter (TUNA). IFUNA and its State affiliates function under the ...
- Where The Mind Is Without Fear (Deccan Herald, SHABANA AZMI, Aug 13, 2003)
Marital and domestic violence may be a private affair but its public consequences are serious
- Cancun Ministerial - Rough Edges And Loose Ends (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Aug 13, 2003)
Trade experts contend that the Cancun Ministerial may turn out to be an eventful affair if attention is focussed on access to medicine, special and differential treatment for developing countries and liberalisation of agricultural trade so as to lessen
- Alien Tort Legislation In The Us - Why It Should Not Be Tampered With (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Aug 13, 2003)
THE Centre, after over a decade of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Bhopal, declaring him a proclaimed absconder and issuing a non-bailable warrant of arrest against him in the Bhopal gas tragedy case, has finally initiated certain preliminary moves ...
- Why Nasa Is A Culture In Denial (Indian Express, Earl Lane, Aug 13, 2003)
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board is expected to be unsparing in its critique of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) management and culture in its report due by the end of August 2003, but prescriptions for change may be ...
- Test Pepsi, Get Back To Us In Three Weeks: Hc Tells Govt (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 12, 2003)
The Delhi High Court today directed the Government to conduct laboratory tests on the soft drinks of PepsiCo and submit its report within three weeks.
- Aids And The Public Health Challenge (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 12, 2003)
SOUTH AFRICA HAS taken a historic decision to begin treatment in public hospitals of the five million citizens who are infected with HIV. Now that the country with the world's largest HIV population has decided to provide medical care for the ...
- Epochal, Absolutely Epochal (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Aug 12, 2003)
The Supreme Court has offered its view that employees of government do not have a mechanistic "right to strike". It is epochal since it creates room for ordinary people, and because it debunks divisiveness. The Supreme Court has offered all a chance to
- Give Them Quotas (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 12, 2003)
It's that time of the year again. Amid the hectic swirl of election rallies, politicians make promises and voters want to believe them. So should we just put down Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s renewal of the pledge for a quota for the upper castes, at Jaipur on
- Public Apathy To Pesticide Poisoning (Deccan Herald, Binu S Thomas, Aug 11, 2003)
It is necessary to put in place a strict and effective food safety regime in the country, and the people should demand it
- Severe Doses Prescribed To Check Spurious Drugs (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Aug 11, 2003)
The Mashelkar Committee, looking into the menace of spurious drugs, proposes death penalty as one of the ‘‘more deterrent measures’’ needed to check the manufacture and distribution of such drugs.
- Congress Lags Behind Eager Bjp (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Aug 11, 2003)
Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani has everyone guessing about what lies behind his suggestion that Lok Sabha and assembly elections should be clubbed. Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat prepared the ground for the debate. Politicians rarely enunciate
- A System On Trial (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 11, 2003)
The Best Bakery case highlights the need for new changes and use of old provisions
- Bihar Flood Situation Critical, Toll 64 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 11, 2003)
At least 64 people have so far lost their lives in floods in Bihar while nearly 34.40 lakh people been affected in 2,551 villages in 17 districts.
- Muted Voices Of Change (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2003)
THE WORK done by women's organisations working with Muslim women has, over the last decade, created an environment where they are asking for change. According to Hasina Khan of the Mumbai-based Awaz-e-Niswaan "70 to 80 per cent of women want a change in
- Neither Civil, Nor Serving (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Aug 10, 2003)
What is the ‘‘business’’ of a government? The question has been debated over the years, but there is no resolution in sight. In India, if governments take two steps forward in re-inventing themselves, soon thereafter they take one step backward.
- Newsreel: 10.08.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2003)
A day after Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani moots the idea of holding synchronised elections to Lok Sabha and state Assemblies, Election Commissioner T.S. Krishnamurthy says they have not received any proposal from the Government yet. He also asserts
- Drinks On The House (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Aug 10, 2003)
Sixty-one per cent of Indians do without clean drinking water, 44 per cent have no electricity, 91 per cent do without telephones and 38 per cent live in one-room hovels. And what do our elected representatives become passionate about? Coca-Cola.
- A Separate Harvest (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2003)
There is more good news from the "real" economy, the production sectors, even as the fiscal numbers look worrisome. The economy is growing despite poor governance and in the face of fiscal misgovernance, especially in the states, thanks to a good monsoon
- For The Love Of The Game (Indian Express, AJIT KUMAR DUTTA, Aug 09, 2003)
As the cycle rickshaw turned into the colony, posters announced a grand benefit match. Many wellknown football stars of today and yesteryear would take part in the forthcoming match, which was being organised in honour of one Thakurda, obviously a local
- Boycott Lunch And Dinner (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 09, 2003)
You may raise some questions about our politicians’ intellect or integrity but there is no faulting their instincts. So how does the Parliament of India assert its sovereign authority the moment the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), which is now
- Supreme Court ’s Message: No More Zaheeras (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Aug 09, 2003)
Gujarat govt told to report on action taken to protect witnesses; also show its appeal
- Pepsi Maange A Lot: Wants Court To Gag Cse And Tell Govt Not To Act On Report (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2003)
Pepsico has filed a petition in the Delhi High Court seeking to restrain the Centre for Science and Environment and its director Sunita Narain from publishing ‘‘any unsubstantiated statements or materials against Pepsico and to forthwith withdraw all such
- The Right And Wrong Of Strikes (Business Line, A. Seshan, Aug 08, 2003)
THE Supreme Court has pronounced that government employees do not have the right to strike work. In its judgment, it has taken exception to the widespread inconvenience suffered by the public when a large number of government staff go on strike. Trade
- Democracy Versus Demography (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Aug 08, 2003)
To deny the right to be elected undermines Indian democracy to create two classes of people on a suspect classification based on the number of children a person has.
- When The Voiceless Sing (Indian Express, PRAVEEN KUMAR TALWAR, Aug 07, 2003)
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna — the chanting was loud in the hall, but did not seem to be coming from most mouths. Most wore lost looks. Out of a hundred-odd inmates around, some ten seemed involved. The rest were only waiting listlessly for the clock to
- Cola Toxins: Full Flow In India, Tight Leash Abroad (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Aug 07, 2003)
Zero pesticide residues were found in Coke and Pepsi samples taken in the US, said the Centre for Science and Environment yesterday. One reason could be that the use of four carcinogenic pesticides singled out by the CSE is severely ‘‘restricted,’’ one
- Medical Colleges In A Wheeze (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Aug 07, 2003)
THE mushrooming of medical colleges woefully lacking in both faculty and basic infrastructure came in for concerned attention in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, even as the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Mrs Sushma Swaraj, said the Centre was al
- Cold Drinks, Hard Facts (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2003)
Laxity is toxic: Cola companies need to read the fine print and clean up
- Towards Optimal Infant Feeding (Deccan Herald, Asha Benakappa, Aug 07, 2003)
Food, health and care are necessary for the growth of the child, and breastfeeding alone provides for all these elements
- Why Coke, Pepsi Can Get Away (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Aug 06, 2003)
The Centre for Science and Environment’s claim that carbonated drinks sold by Pepsico and Coca-Cola have toxic ‘‘pesticide residues’’ 35 times the globally accepted level shows just one thing: food and drinking water are contaminated and authorities are
- Can You See The Ferment Within? (Indian Express, Firoz Bakht Ahmed, Aug 05, 2003)
It seems that Indian Muslim women — admittedly, not all — are on the fast track. Thanks mainly to awareness owing to education. Though still grappling with the travails of a ghettoised past, these women are trying to balance the challenges of modernity
- The Pentagon Alternative (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 05, 2003)
The man who, on behalf of the US, invited India to send combat troops to Iraq, will get together with Defence Secretary Ajay Prasad this week for the annual Defence Policy Group dialogue in Washington.
- In New York, They Live On Borrowed (Indian Express, Howard Kurtz, Aug 05, 2003)
Some journalistic sins are crystal clear, like Jayson Blair plagiarising out-of-town stories without leaving New York. And some situations are much murkier. John Sutter, publisher of the Villager, says The New York Times has been stealing story ideas from
- For An Alternative Food Policy (Hindu, Brinda Karat, Aug 05, 2003)
If the Government is serious about dealing with the problems of the PDS, it will have to give up the targeted system and adopt a universal system so as to ensure that no section of the population is deprived of food.
- Docs Count His Last Days, He Battles Polygon (Indian Express, PETER LANDERS, Aug 04, 2003)
Cancer-stricken mathematician has a crack at riddle no one took seriously
- Secures Little (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2003)
ASKING COMPANIES TO earmark assets as security for the deposits they take from the public may look like an important move towards investor safety. However, much as it may make regulators feel good, it is unlikely to make the lot of investors any better. I
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