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Articles 20121 through 20220 of 20587:
- Growth Bulls On Rampage... But Wait For Exhaustion To Set In (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Aug 04, 2003)
The unjustified euphoria and desperation in financial markets will sort themselves out eventually. Needed now is patience underpinned by a sound understanding of the underlying economic fundamentals
- Bollywood Connection (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Aug 03, 2003)
Ketan Parekh, the face of Scam 2000 was always a hero to Bollywood. He was the toast of their parties and helped many production houses pocket a few hundred crore rupees at hefty premia from the public or the Unit Trust of India (UTI).
- Dd Wants Agriculture Ministry Funds For Rural Boom (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Aug 03, 2003)
It is the turn of Doordarshan (DD) to show what it is capable of. Launch a 1,000 rural channels, though their upkeep holds the promise of a different story.
- Govt Has A Design On Your Coins: A Brand New One (Indian Express, ANNA M M VETTICAD, Aug 03, 2003)
Anyone who watched TV last week will know that Design means Big Money. Well, it’s also about Cold, Hard Cash. The Union Finance Ministry has commissioned the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad to conceptualise ‘‘people-friendly’’ currency
- Raipur Cholera Outbreak: Seven Killed (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2003)
At least seven people have died due to a confirmed outbreak of gastroenteritis in Raipur. Two cholera cases have also been reported and over 40 people suffering from gastroenteritis admitted to various hospitals.
- Embarrassment Of Riches (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2003)
RBI has a Hobson’s choice in managing its foreign exchange reserves and the exchange rate
- Mid-Day Meal Best Course For Schools Yet States Don’t Bite (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Aug 02, 2003)
There is some good news on the Mid Day Meal (MDM) scheme. Findings of a survey released today show that because of this scheme, school enrolment between July 2001 and July 2002 went up by 14%, with a particularly impressive jump (19%) for girls. The
- Cornered, Gujarat Govt Looks At Hc Exit (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2003)
With the BJP continuing its attack on the NHRC—party spokesman V K Malhotra said the commission could be perceived as ‘‘anti-Hindu’’—two senior Gujarat ministers arrived in New Delhi to meet Law Minister Arun Jaitley to explore what their next step should
- Success Through Failure (Hindu, Helen Kirwan-Taylor, Aug 02, 2003)
If you want to make it to the very top today, you have to first fall flat on your face.
- The Battle In Britain's Universities (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Aug 01, 2003)
New Labour's resolve to open up access to higher education... has created a numbers crisis which universities are finding hard to cope with.
- Sangh Gives Nhrc Its Cec Treatment (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2003)
Just as it had done with the CEC during the polls, the Sangh Parivar slammed the NHRC today, ccusing it of being biased and partisan.
- Why Derivatives Market Signals Caution (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Aug 01, 2003)
RETAIL investors seemed to be enthused with the record volumes in the NSE derivatives segment. On July 30, the turnover was Rs 6,076 crore; 67 per cent more than the turnover in the spot market. But mere trading in the derivatives segment need not portray
- Hold Your Breath (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 31, 2003)
It took the “peasouper” fog of December 1952, which had caused several deaths, for London to clean up its air. Delhi, on its part, needed a combination of widespread pulmonary diseases and an activist Supreme Court to acknowledge that it had become a vast
- The Noor Effect (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Jul 30, 2003)
In symbolic terms, there is little to match this story. A two-year-old girl child in dire need of heart surgery rides the first bus after the road link between Delhi and Lahore is resumed.
- Andhra Killer Is A New Virus, Back From The Cold (Indian Express, MADHAV GOKHALE, Jul 30, 2003)
Contrary to reports that Japanese encephalitis was to blame for the death of 250 children in north Andhra Pradesh and central-eastern Maharashtra, scientists at Pune’s National Virology Institute (NIV) have identified Chandipura, a rhabdovirus, as the
- A Forgotten People (Hindu, Mihir Shah, Jul 30, 2003)
Worst is the plight of those who are being made to pay the price for someone else's development.
- Beware, Big Brother Is Watching (Business Line, Jayanthi Iyengar, Jul 30, 2003)
THERE was a furore some years ago when it became public that the Internet had the capabilities to track the movement of Web-surfers and that Web site owners, including employers, could store a lot of personal information regarding the surfing habits of
- `Gains From Demerger In Next Few Years' (Business Line, P.T. Jyothi Datta, Jul 30, 2003)
POISED to kick-off a restructuring process in its overseas businesses, Dabur India Ltd is bullish on what lies ahead. Having recently undertaken restructuring in its domestic operations — with its FMCG and pharma business set to chart their own respective
- Deaths And Resistance (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2003)
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION is fooling itself if it thinks that the killing of the sons of the overthrown Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, will quell the resistance to its occupation of the country. In the U.S. projection, Mr. Hussein and the ...
- ‘true Religion Must Be An Agent Of Peace, Not War’ (Indian Express, Humra Quraishi, Jul 29, 2003)
At a time when religious intolerance seems to be the order of the day, Sudhamahi Regunathan, vice-chancellor of the Jain Vishwa Bharati Institute in Rajasthan, talks to Humra Quraishi about her attempts to preach secularism through a series of lectures
- The Eu Push To Development Finance (Business Line, Poul Nielson, Jul 29, 2003)
The European Union is the world's biggest provider of development assistance. Following its renewed commitment to the UN target at the 2001 European Council in Sweden, the EU decided to step up its development assistance.
- Making Rural India Magnetic (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Jul 28, 2003)
The rural development model of the last 50 years has helped villages little, though governments have wasted thousands of crores of rupees on infructuous projects. If private enterprise, to develop the market, wants to make villages `attractive', it must
- Hdr 2003 And The Millennium Development Goals - Each Country To Chalk Out Own Strategy (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jul 28, 2003)
THE Human Development Report (HDR) 2003 brought out by the UNDP has been the subject of special attention, particularly because India's rank in terms of human development indicators has hit a new low. It stands at a disgraceful 127 among 175 countries of
- Manipur Cm Survives Rebel Attack, 2 Dead (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2003)
Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh today survived an attempt on his life by suspected members of the outlawed People’s Liberation Army (PLA) when powerful IEDs exploded on the road while his convoy was travelling from Thoubal to Imphal.
- Central Bureau Of Inquisition? (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jul 27, 2003)
The CBI is seen and used as a prime instrument of control, manipulation harassment or blandishment
- Where Life Is Cheap (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Jul 27, 2003)
It was an obituary advertisement in the Hindu. It bore the smiling face of a young, handsome man. Head tilted to one side, happy and on top of the world. He was 27 when he died. Below the picture was the family that remembered him. Father, mother, wife.
- How Am I Different: Hiv Positive Asks Pm (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Jul 27, 2003)
Clad in a black T-shirt, 27-year-old P.Koushalya asked the 500-strong gathering, including PM A.B. Vajpayee, Leader of Opposition Sonia Gandhi and Union Health Minister Sushma Swaraj to look around and locate her friends in black T-shirts. As eyes in
- Stop Politics Of Vendetta Now (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Jul 26, 2003)
Not many took note of the fact that the CBI has recently sought the court’s permission to close the Airbus 320 case. The agency has stated that after probing the purchase deal for 15 long years, it has found no evidence to suggest any irregularities.
- A Shot In The Arm? (Hindu, Richard W. Stevenson, Jul 25, 2003)
White House advisers say the development marks an important turn of fortune that will help Mr. Bush frame the political debate for the rest of the summer and into the fall on terms more favourable to him.
- Downside To Upside (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 24, 2003)
Last month, the International Monetary Fund praised India’s external economic management. This month the World Bank has criticised the government for weaknesses in internal economic management. Just as the government took a grateful bow last month, it ...
- You Can’t Use ‘babu’ For Tn Bureaucrats: Top Ones Are Women (Indian Express, J BALAJI, Jul 24, 2003)
The debate over the Women’s Reservation Bill for women’s empowerment in politics may go on until kingdom come but in bureaucracy, at least, women are being empowered in one state—run by Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.
- Sponging Off The Liquidity (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 24, 2003)
THE DOLLAR ARBITRAGE stampede of recent months may have just about been reined in. That seems to be the message implied in the Reserve Bank of India Governor, Dr Bimal Jalan's ruling out open market operations (OMO) in the immediate future. Chances of
- Idbi: Yielding To Bureaucratic Pressures (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, Jul 24, 2003)
With net non-performing assets as high as 14 per cent and fresh lending tapering off because of resource constraint, the IDBI may be said to have become dysfunctional. It is against this broad canvas that the various proposals to restructure IDBI need to
- ‘‘it Is In India’s Interest To Be Involved In Iraq’’ (Indian Express, Raja Menon, Jul 23, 2003)
Regarding transborder deployment, the history of our strategic culture is hesitant, unsure, timid. It should go far beyond our territorial limits
- Why We Should Go To Iraq (Indian Express, Radha Kumar, Jul 23, 2003)
The ends do not justify the means — but the means should not doom the ends either. India has a chance to help the right ends come about
- Beyond The Iraq Decision (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jul 23, 2003)
India's "no troops" decision suggests that the creeping "American veto" in our internal affairs is not irreversible.
- In Search Of Leader Regulators (Business Line, Pradeep S. Mehta, Jul 23, 2003)
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." — Chinese proverb.
INDIAN regulatory reforms have not quite outsmarted other institutional reforms in terms of tardiness. But this in itself may be salutary and afford time for constructive ...
- `Chicken And Egg' Problem (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jul 21, 2003)
Assistance from the rich is conditioned on the "governance performance" of the poor, which really is tantamount to begging the question as the poor are poor because of improper and weak governance, among other things.
- Pm’s Age Vs Sonia’s Origin (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 20, 2003)
The Congress today countered the BJP’s attack on Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origin by questioning the competence of ‘‘ageing’’ Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. ‘‘We don’t want to make a personal attack against anyone. But we are aware of Vajpayee’s
- Tony And The Coalition (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Jul 20, 2003)
The hottest day of summer so far was drawing to a close. Tony Blair, prime minister of United Kingdom, a trim fiftyish, salt-and-pepper-haired man, wearing the slightly unhealthy look of someone who had avoided the sun for a great part of the summer,
- Check That Booming Billion Now (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Jul 20, 2003)
It has been some time since this column had anything nice to say about our Deputy Prime Minister. For two reasons. I consider Hindutva a distraction we cannot afford and see him as its chief patron, and the fight against terrorism as top priority and hold
- Millennium Goals A Dream, Time To Wake Up (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Jul 20, 2003)
As you read this on a Sunday morning, a child is born in a remote village in Rajasthan. She — a girl child — is one among thousands of children born at the very moment she emerged from her mother’s womb. If she survives, and she has a 90 per cent chance
- 35 Or 150? Exact Toll May Never Be Known (Indian Express, DHARMENDRA RATAUL, Jul 20, 2003)
: While officials and locals continue to differ on the death toll in the flash floods that ravaged Shilahgarh village on the bank of the Pulia Nalla in Kullu, the exact number of casualties may never be known. Officials say the toll may not exceed 35
- Booked By Maya, Bjp Mla Sits On A Dharna (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Jul 20, 2003)
The BJP legislator, who was booked yesterday under the SC/ST Act by Mayawati government, today staged a dharna at the local police station even as police said raids were being conducted to arrest those involved in Thursday’s clash between BSP and BJP work
- Lessons From Andhra Pradesh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 19, 2003)
FOR ABOUT A month now, a virulent viral fever suspected to be encephalitis has afflicted Andhra Pradesh and claimed at least 120 lives. Central teams of paediatricians and virologists are studying the epidemic, but the unfortunate truth is that ...
- Development Approaches (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Jul 19, 2003)
If the human development approach is to lead anywhere in the formulation of alternative policy perspectives, its advocates have to look at taking it further than refinement of the human development index.
- Farming It Out (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 19, 2003)
Not all the recent concessions to farmers are unwarranted, but some smack of populism
- Sick Scams - Long On Greed, Short On Ethics (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Jul 18, 2003)
THE opening up of the Indian insurance sector, the changed perception of health care not as a public service but a legitimate commercial activity (which, among other things, has resulted in it attracting investments by `entrepreneurs' long on greed and
- Make It An Asian Century (Indian Express, JAGAT S. MEHTA, Jul 18, 2003)
By bureaucratic happenstance, I am the only Indian professional who witnessed all the four seasons that marked our ties with China. I accompanied S. Radhakrishnan, then vice president, on his official visit in September 1957. It was the High Summer of the
- Shred The Women’s Bill (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2003)
As a catalyst for exchanging political niceties it is brilliant. With one election after another clogging up the calendar, political parties are perpetually in campaign mode. There is hardly any issue of national import on which they can conduct a civil
- Some Real Action For Fake Drugs? (Indian Express, Harinder Sikka, Jul 16, 2003)
All those raking profit from fake drugs businesses are knowingly killing patients and deserve to be sent to dungeons... I am going to push for a bill in the Parliament’s Monsoon Session that would seek death penalty for the merchants of death.” This was
- Round 1 To Politics: Pm Says No To Nalco Sale (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 16, 2003)
Prime Minister A B Vajpayee virtually put the brakes on the disinvestment of NALCO by announcing at a rally here today that it would not happen but kept a window open by adding that it would not happen ‘‘for now.’’ Addressing a rally to mark the
- The Complete Swayamsewak (Indian Express, GOVINDACHARYA, Jul 16, 2003)
I first met Rajendra Singh, or Rajju Bhaiyya, in February 1961. I was studying at Benaras Hindu University, and as a student leader I had invited him to a function we had organised. It struck me then that here was a man who combined a love for academics
- Moving Saarc Forward (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 16, 2003)
SOUTH ASIAN COOPERATION can make headway in a meaningful manner for the region's huge population only if India and Pakistan show genuine progress towards normality in their bilateral relations. Their continuing differences have stunted the growth ...
- India Rains On Us Parade, Wants Un Umbrella (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 15, 2003)
After dragging its foot for weeks, India today put it down rejecting a US request to send troops to Iraq but kept a window open, saying the deployment could be considered under a UN mandate. Growing bilateral ties with the US and its attempt to
- The Post-War Afghan Economy (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jul 15, 2003)
Over the last year, a strategy to reconstruct and revive the war-ravaged economy of Afghanistan has been put in place with the support and under the influence of international donors. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar a nd Jayati Ghosh ...
- Millennium Development Goals - Concrete Targets Needed (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jul 15, 2003)
The Millennium Development Goals, endorsed by all members of the UN, set out a raft of time-bound and quantifiable targets ranging from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015.
- After Shimla (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Jul 14, 2003)
The Congress has sought to do away with a self-imposed handicap and deny the BJP the advantage of the exclusive use of the coalition strategy.
- A Harsh Prescription (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 14, 2003)
IF THE HEALTH MINISTER, Ms Sushma Swaraj, has her way nothing less than a death sentence awaits those manufacturing spurious drugs, as she is reported to have told an industry delegation to that effect the other day. This can of course be taken as being
- 43 Children Die As Encephalitis Revisits Vidarbha (Indian Express, Vivek Deshpande, Jul 14, 2003)
With the killer encephalitis beginning to get the better of him, five-year-old Swapnil Patil clings to his worried grandmother at Satona village near Bhandara. His mother sits expressionless at the door of the hut, yet to recover from the death of her ...
- A Stakeholder View To Ease Traffic Congestion (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Jul 14, 2003)
A COMMON complaint heard on Indian roads today is that traffic is chaotic. Drivers resort to the horn as an alternative to the brake but it does not seem to make a difference except for increasing the noise pollution. As heterogeneous vehicles jostle with
- Disappointing Record (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 14, 2003)
THE INDIAN ECONOMY grew at an impressive pace during the 1990s. India is in the top 20 of the 175 countries for which the 2003 Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Programme has estimated growth rates of per capita income ...
- Breaking Free With Reality, In Grand Style (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Jul 13, 2003)
As I watched Sonia Gandhi’s lady-in-waiting, Ambika Soni, articulate her leader’s ‘‘new vision’’ last week I realised that it was time for me to revise my political views. My main objection to Sonia being prime minister of India used to be that as she was
- Sports Quota (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Jul 13, 2003)
The constitution states that the 12 Rajya Sabha seats nominated by the President are meant for ‘‘persons with special knowledge or practical experience in respect of literature, fine art and social service.’’ Since a dozen prominent journalists are in the
- Afghan, Pak Forces Exchange Fire Again (Indian Express, Reuters, Jul 13, 2003)
Afghan and Pakistani troops exchanged fire on their border on Saturday and an Afghan commander said encroaching Pakistani forces had been driven back. Clashes between Afghan and Pakistani forces have been erupting intermittently for several weeks with
- Still Too Slow (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 10, 2003)
General gloom with patches of diffuse light. This is the picture afforded by the Human Development Report, 2003, released by the United Nations Development Programme a couple of days ago. It looks as if the millennium development goals, set up in 2000 and
- Valuable Inputs For Better Policies (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 09, 2003)
Children and young people are virtually invisible in terms of public policy and of voices expressed on the national stage. Even in the healthiest democratic societies run in the service of voters’ interests, children tend to be marginalized — on the ...
- Informed To Understand (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 08, 2003)
Although most adults do not naturally think of working in collaboration with children, many have been convinced of the value of doing so, whether by public-education campaigns or more specific training. Those who live and work most closely with children
- Lost Ground (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 08, 2003)
A peace process is never easy, and hurdles are only to be expected. What cannot be anticipated is a sudden annihilation of the very grounds the process had begun to build on. The letter of the Sankaracharya of Kanchi, written on July 1 in answer to the
- On A New Note (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Jul 07, 2003)
June 3, 2003 marked the end of an era of India’s dependence on aid. The government of India issued a press note on June 3, 2003, which announced that not only will India discontinue receiving grants aid from many countries, but also all outstanding
- Waste Of Shame (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 06, 2003)
A city with a wasteland at its heart would not have much to boast about. If the gradual destruction of the Maidan continues at its present ever-accelerating pace, however, that is exactly what Calcutta will be. The guardians of this once-pristine stretch
- Princes As Keepers (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jul 05, 2003)
Our rajas, ranas, maharajahs, maharanas, maharoos, nizams, sultans, nawabs, nawabzadas and others of the ilk who had pretensions of being the blue-blooded aristocracy of India had unwritten but commonly accepted codes of morality which even they could not
- Red Is The Colour Of Reform (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Jul 02, 2003)
Hu Jintao may have initiated the democratization of the Chinese polity, but it is not yet time to pronounce him a liberal
- To Help The Army Fight Better (Telegraph, P.K. Vasudeva, Jul 02, 2003)
Operation SarpVinash has indisputably been the most high-profile counter-insurgency operation being conducted at the level of Jammu Corps. According to army sources, it has also been one of the most successful. The operation, of building a road to Hill
- In Work And In Play (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 02, 2003)
States parties recognize that a mentally or physically disabled child should enjoy a full and decent life, in conditions which ensure dignity, promote self-reliance and facilitate the child’s active participation in the community. States parties agree
- Importance Where It Is Due (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 01, 2003)
Through participation and engagement at early ages in issues that concern children — far from promoting anarchy or disrespect for authority, or undermining parental authority — we see a generation of young people who are more respectful and concerned ...
- Russian Salad On Wimbledon Grass (Indian Express, MARTYN HERMAN, Jun 30, 2003)
After six days of glorious weather, marauding giants, invading Russians, Anglo-Saxon language and a healthy dose of Henmania, Wimbledon enters its second week full of intriguing storylines. Following the first-round exit of men’s top seed and
- Concrete Foundations (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 30, 2003)
Much has been learned over the years: that work with families, parents, communities and local authorities can create the conditions and context for development; that it is those people affected by policies who should be involved in their design, implement
- Weak Hearts, Strong Minds (Indian Express, Jayaditya Gupta, Jun 29, 2003)
Foe’s death is balanced by the stories of those who’ve overcome cardiac and other problems to win the race
- Tanked Up (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 29, 2003)
Political parties in India enjoy an importance in the body politic that is disproportionate to what they should enjoy in a parliamentary democracy. They are often given a voice over that of the parliamentary party and exercise an influence over policy
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