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Articles 14921 through 15020 of 16306:
- Affordability Is The Key (Hindu, Sudha Mahalingam, Oct 15, 2003)
FROM JANUARY next year, India will begin importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) to quench its growing thirst for energy. The first consignment will arrive at Dahej on the western coast where a terminal is being built to handle 5 million tonnes a year.
- Leopards Cross Over From Park To Urban Jungle (Indian Express, Vijay Singh, Oct 15, 2003)
After 10th death, kid in affluent suburb, Mumbai debates loss of forest cover
- Breaking Free From Industrial Agriculture (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Oct 15, 2003)
WHAT are the real costs of food? When we buy a kg of rice or wheat, have we at any time wondered what its real cost could be against what we pay in the shop? We only are concerned about the `market' price of food, and not what it costs to produce.
- Dial Reform (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Oct 15, 2003)
First in a four-part series on the bureaucratic, legal mess that’s crippling the future of Indian telecom
- Indo-Us Defence Ties Come Alive (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Oct 14, 2003)
Indo-US observers love to tell this story. Secretary of State John Forster Dulles once explained American interests in Pakistan. Pakistan, said Dulles, in an interview to Walter Lippmann given in the fifties, were the true fighters in South Asia. After al
- Corporate Credit Portfolio — Baking Assets On The Fire Of Securitisation (Business Line, Venkat Ramaswami, Oct 14, 2003)
The Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act (SRFESI) was definitely a strong indication that the corridors in New Delhi were waking up to calls from Wall Street. It is time for the wake-up signal to b
- Stretching Exercises And Real Yoga (Deccan Herald, Dipankar Khanna, Oct 14, 2003)
Yoga can bridge the distance between the physical and mental sheaths through advanced psychic work-outs
- Stretching Exercises And Real Yoga (Deccan Herald, Dipankar Khanna, Oct 14, 2003)
Yoga can bridge the distance between the physical and mental sheaths through advanced psychic work-outs
- A Nobel For Techniques (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
ECONOMICS PROPOUNDS MANY theories but has few tools to test the validity of hypotheses proposed. It is inevitable that the discipline often comes up short in offering empirical proof for its theories. For one thing, while economics claims to be a ...
- Newsreel 05.10.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2003)
Smooth sailing Indo-US relationship is getting on to a new ‘Gliding Path’. Secretary of State Colin Powell tells the US media that the agreement on cooperation in high-technology, space launch equipment, civilian nuclear energy and missile defence would..
- Jaipur Foot Gets Spring In Its Step (Indian Express, Anuradha Nagaraj, Oct 12, 2003)
It’s going to be lighter, better and cheaper
- Astrological Falsehoods (Deccan Herald, Kushwant Singh, Oct 11, 2003)
Some weeks ago one of our leading national dailies carried the findings of a group of scientists who examined the claims made by astrologers about their ability to forecast future events. They scrutinised thousands of biodatas of people born on the same..
- Groping For Answers (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Oct 11, 2003)
Why did they do it, the Californians? It’s not just the Indian media that is asking questions. The American media is asking them too.
- Click! Now You Can Shoot At The Airport (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Oct 11, 2003)
Photos in-flight or of planes landing, taking off? For that you have to wait
- In-The-Black Friday: Infy Leads The Way (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2003)
Sensex at 39-month high; Infosys set to tap China market
- Astrological Falsehoods (Deccan Herald, Kushwant Singh, Oct 11, 2003)
Some weeks ago one of our leading national dailies carried the findings of a group of scientists who examined the claims made by astrologers about their ability to forecast future events. They scrutinised thousands of biodatas of people born on the same d
- Policing The Net? Not Possible (Indian Express, Subimal Bhattacharjee, Oct 11, 2003)
Come October 14 and you will be unable to chat in MSN messenger, Microsoft’s chat services. Many in India and in some 30 odd countries will find this harsh. Microsoft claims that the reason for the move is to reduce the criminal solicitation of children..
- Appointments & Disappointments (Hindu, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Oct 10, 2003)
Every judge must be an activist who shares the vision, the mission and the passion of the Constitution.
- Avoidable Confrontation (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 10, 2003)
THE people of the Bengal Presidency, during the British regime, as also of the successor State of West Bengal, in independent India, have always been politically aware and in the forefront of mass movements for causes which they regarded as important.
- Arnie, The Son-In-Law Of Camelot (Indian Express, Elizabeth Mehren, Oct 10, 2003)
At a family conclave, the largely Democrat Kennedys resolved to help Republican Schwarzenegger
- The Man Who Refused To Go Quietly (Indian Express, M. G. Devasahayam , Oct 10, 2003)
As JP’s centenary year ends, politicians barely bother with him. But to anyone who remembers the Emergency, he is immortal
- Army Scraps 87,000 Swadeshi Shells Meant For T-72 Tanks (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Oct 10, 2003)
The Indian Army’s main strike formations are staring down an empty barrel. It is understood that the Army has rejected as defective a massive consignment of 87,000 shells for its mainstay T-72 Main Battle Tank.
- A Neighbour’S Paranoia (Indian Express, Jasjit Singh, Oct 10, 2003)
Pakistan’s search for parity with India is leading it up a blind alley
- Worst Jobs In Science (Indian Express, Peter Carlson, Oct 09, 2003)
And you thought research was fun...
- Regional Trade Agreements — The Right Way To Go For India (Business Line, M. Ramesh , Oct 09, 2003)
BY SIGNING the Free Trade Agreement with Thailand, and announcing that it is working on another one with Singapore, India has indicated to the world that it has at last abandoned its anti-bilateralism, anti-regionalism stand, and joined the RTA bandwagon.
- On A Genetically Modified Diet (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2003)
Why environmentalists are bound to embrace biotechnology
- A Spammer In The Works (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 09, 2003)
EVERYBODY is a king in a democracy, proclaims a popular saying. And Raja is too common a name, either as a standalone or as a suffix. The latest, however, to join the band of Rajas is Pulli Raja and nobody seems to know who he is.
- Towards A Post-Democratic Age? (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Oct 08, 2003)
It would be stretching logic to pretend that the proliferation of delegation is synonymous with democracy itself.
- Mci Diagnosis To Govt: 11 Medical Colleges You Cleared Too Sick To Work (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Oct 08, 2003)
AP prime culprit, may affect 900 students
- Visa Vicissitudes (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2003)
THE SCALING DOWN by the United States of the annual H1B visa cap from 1,95,000 to 65,000 with effect from October 1 may not leave India's software industry unduly perturbed in the near term. No doubt, the apex software association, Nasscom, will feel ...
- Kashmir: Averting Fragmentation (Deccan Herald, Balraj Puri, Oct 08, 2003)
The people of Kashmir, in whose name militancy was launched, are today divided into antagonistic groups
- Transesterification — The Magic Solution For Bio-Diesel (Business Line, B. S. Murthy, Oct 08, 2003)
THE recent press report regarding the automobile giant DaimlerChrysler and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) joining hands for a five-year partnership project to develop bio-diesel from the seeds of the jatropha plant must gladden..
- The Science Of Firewalking (Indian Express, R. P. Subramanian, Oct 08, 2003)
Don’t just rubbish Sanjay Paswan’s performance. Explain it scientifically
- Bobby Ready To Change Diapers And Louisiana (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Oct 08, 2003)
In-laws ecstatic: how whizkid is expecting his 2nd kid and the top job
- Reform Has To Be Transparent (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Oct 07, 2003)
It cannot be anybody’s case that economic reform would not include a policy of reforming the public sector. But the kind of knee jerk reactions we have been seeing in the last few days and, more generally, the partial and at times strongly ideological ...
- So Many Degrees Of Superstition (Indian Express, Shobhit Mahajan, Oct 07, 2003)
How are Sanjay Paswan’s antics different from chanting hymns at public functions
- An Indian Biomed Scientist ‘one Of The 10 Most Brilliant’ (Indian Express, Sujeet Rajan, Oct 07, 2003)
31-year-old works to get rid of diabetics’ daily insulin shot
- Sc Clean Air Plan Up In Govt Smoke (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2003)
Cabinet pushes back key deadlines, dilutes pollution norms for vehicles
- Govt Plans Tools Of The Trade For Std 9 Students (Indian Express, Diptosh Majumdar, Oct 06, 2003)
Vocational schooling to meet the expected rise in numbers at secondary level
- Key Indo-Us Deal Is Gliding Ahead: Powell (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 06, 2003)
Defence, N-tech and space are covered in agreements
- Heartening News: Have Triple Bypass, Walk Out Next Day (Indian Express, Sujeet Rajan, Oct 06, 2003)
Indian’s new technique at US hospital could soon be here
- Blast: Pwg Stuffed Iron Balls In Mines (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2003)
Probably for the first time, the People’s War Group (PWG) used orange-sized iron balls as projectiles in the claymore mines which they set off in the assassination attempt on Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu at Tirupati on Wednesday.
- `No Standards World-Wide For Pesticide Residues In Soft-Drinks' (Business Line, Ameer Shahul, Oct 03, 2003)
IN RESPONSE to the article "Killing pests or poisoning people?" by Ameer Shahul (Business Line, September 2), Mr Sanjiv Gupta, President and Chief Executive Officer of Coca-Cola India, writes
- The All-Important Fdi Flow Factor (Business Line, K. Ramesh, Oct 03, 2003)
FOREIGN direct investment as an important factor of the economy cannot be disputed, although it has become fashionable for many experts to make endless comparison with China, being the significant beneficiary of FDI in the region and, that India too ...
- General Loudmouth And His Empty Words (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Oct 03, 2003)
Musharraf’s promise-action gap means Western public opinion doesn’t trust him
- The War Within (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2003)
Attack on Naidu: let’s not forget that terrorism has a domestic angle too
- Controversy Unlimited (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2003)
THE DEPARTMENT OF Telecommunications is in a spot over its permissive handling of the case of fixed service operators providing subscribers the freedom to use their phones beyond the local area, usurping a mandate available to cellular phone ...
- Naidu Survives Landmine Blast (Indian Express, S Gopinath Reddy, Oct 02, 2003)
Naidu suffers minor injuries, minister, MLAs hurt; blast hits CM’s car in convoy
- India Backs Un Restructuring (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Oct 02, 2003)
THE 2003 UN General Assembly began its 58th session with an agonising introspection of failings of the world body in the face of ever-growing threats to peace and security, and the "fundamental challenge" posed by unilateralism to the founding principle..
- Cbi Probes Cash-For-Tender Deals In Two Telecom Psus (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Oct 01, 2003)
THE Department of Telecom (DoT) has been rocked by a CBI investigation into corruption in several tenders relating to the two PSUs—Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL).
- Kanpur Gets Mega Lab In A ‘green’ House (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Oct 01, 2003)
Arun Shourie’s MPLADS fund creates a cutting-edge biotech centre
- Comfort Food, Discomforting Theory (Indian Express, Rob Stein, Oct 01, 2003)
A new study establishes stress increases appetite. Sounds fun? What happens later doesn’t
- Where_core_competence_soars (Business Line, Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Oct 01, 2003)
With its ability to understand user needs in a niche market, quick absorption of technological capabilities, and focus on cost competitiveness, the Brazilian aircraft maker, Embraer, has become a model for success of emerging market companies in high ...
- Insats - Flying High (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 30, 2003)
ISRO has demonstrated that it can build world class communication satellites. One of its aims must now be to make sure the Insat system serves much of the country's communications and broadcasting needs.
- Tangles Unlimited (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 30, 2003)
PREDICTABLY, THE MAJORITY verdict of the Telecom Disputes Settlement Appellate Tribunal on the vexatious technology interface issue has once again left both parties claiming victory.
- Pakistan: Taking The Longer View (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 29, 2003)
The Government has come to attach far too much political importance to bilateral meetings with Pakistan by refusing to have them on the margins of international gatherings.
- On Building Lasting Institutions (Business Line, A. V. Ram Mohan, Sep 26, 2003)
In these days of dramatic corporate collapse, it is unbelievable that an organised entity lasted as long as a million years. When you read a thing like that you want to look around to see what kind of organisations have lasted long.
- Go Singapore (Indian Express, Cookie Maini, Sep 26, 2003)
East is East and West is West and the twain shall never meet — was an adage that echoed in my post colonial upbringing. It was affirmed in themes of colonial literature. But today, as one moves eastwards from India, the scenario showcases an antithesis of
- Look Who Goes To Israel Every Year (Indian Express, APARNA CHANDRA, Sep 26, 2003)
The farmers of Maharashtra didn’t need Chandrababu Naidu to tell them Israel was the Promised Land. Long before the Government task force decided to tap the country’s knowhow, thousands from the state have been making the trip to Israel to learn about its
- Farmers: Distanced By Globalisation (Business Line, Kumar Venkat, Sep 26, 2003)
IN the run-up to the World Trade Organisation's failed meeting in Cancun, most writers on both sides of the economic divide called for an end to unfair farm subsidies and tariffs in rich countries. After all, who could be against an open global market in
- New Problems For Teacher Leadership (Deccan Herald, Amrik Singh , Sep 26, 2003)
The new economic equation in the education system should make teachers more responsive to academic concerns.
- Pm, Bush Lunch, Gen Serves Old Whine (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 25, 2003)
‘Kashmir most dangerous dispute, end brutal suppression, stop weapons sale’
- Where Competition Ends And Collective Conscience Begins (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Sep 25, 2003)
THE commitment of the business community to lend a new dimension to development by embracing the principles of responsibility and obligation to society and humanity can be traced to the UN's Global Compact initiative notwithstanding the Enron and World...
- Delayed Action On Trademark Law (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2003)
NEARLY FOUR YEARS after the relevant bills were passed by Parliament, the Union Government has notified the revamped law governing trademarks and the new law granting protection for geographical indications of products. This inordinate delay ...
- India, U.S. And Non-Proliferation (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 25, 2003)
The Indo-U.S. negotiations reflect a political commitment to deal with a problem that has long hobbled bilateral relations.
- Nightmare On Arab Street (Indian Express, Raghav Gupta, Sep 24, 2003)
Forget the military war, what is America doing to win the cultural war in West Asia? Precious little actually
- Joshi At Home, His Deputy At Work With A Cobra Necklace (Indian Express, Varghese K George, Sep 24, 2003)
His resignation on the table, Murli Manohar Joshi may already have a worthy successor in the Union HRD Ministry. Minister of State Sanjay Paswan who, after Joshi’s love for Vedic mathematics and astrology, wants tantrik practices and exorcism included in
- A Cover For Farm Income (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 24, 2003)
MERCIFULLY, POLICY-MAKERS SEEM to be waking up to the genuine needs of the agricultural sector. Close on the heels of cutting interest rate on farm loans, the Government is planning to introduce a comprehensive `income insurance' scheme to protect farmers
- Pfbr - Atoms Of A Power Dream (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 24, 2003)
Success means accomplishments as a result of our own efforts and abilities. Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thinking. Our thinking can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thoughts can be no wiser than our ...
- Democracy That Turns People Off (Deccan Herald, Sudhirendar Sharma, Sep 24, 2003)
As people become uninterested in matters of governance, democracy is slowly being replaced by autocracy
- Pm Lunch With Bush Has Joint Statement And Iraq On The Menu (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 23, 2003)
A reinvented relationship between India and the US is on the anvil as both sides seek to sidestep their recent differences over Iraq and Pakistan, and move into fresh gear with the signature of a joint statement between Prime Minister A B Vajpayee and ...
- To Help You Choose, Govt To Rank Private Colleges (Indian Express, Diptosh Majumdar, Sep 23, 2003)
HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi may be now keeping his entire department in limbo but days before he resigned, he took a far-reaching decision: the Government will grade and rank all licensed private engineering and management colleges across the country
- Warning From Rae Bareli (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Sep 23, 2003)
The right or wrong of an action is all that morality is. It is how you perceive it. Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi felt that the right thing for him to do was to quit if the special court at Rae Bareli decided in favour of framing
- Challenging Times Ahead (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 23, 2003)
THERE IS A new man at the helm of the Indian Space Research Organisation. G. Madhavan Nair takes over an organisation that has earned itself a reputation for delivering on its promises. From small beginnings in the early 1960s launching imported ...
- ‘politicians Fail To Give The Impression That We Lead’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 22, 2003)
Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi, spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, at Connaught Place. Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s Walk The Talk.
- Wanted: Vision (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 22, 2003)
Vajpayee addresses the UN at a crucial point in history. This should impact his speech
- The Fast Breeder Route (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 22, 2003)
THE UNION CABINET'S nod to the proposal of the Department of Atomic Energy to set up a 500 MW Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam brings to fruition more than 25 years of research and development on fast breeder technology. The breeder ...
- Brickbats For The Bouquets (Hindu, Ramya Kannan , Sep 21, 2003)
Chennai subscribers continue to be troubled by the local cable operators' reluctance to play by the rules..
- Getting New Teeth (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Sep 21, 2003)
Ever since the demise of FERA, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has been chafing at the inadequacy of its powers. The mandate to administer the Prevention of Money Laundering Act will however give it back some of its lost teeth and track down cases such
- Well, This Is No Surprise: 4 Indians In Mit Future List (Indian Express, Samar Halarnkar, Sep 21, 2003)
A Delhi university dropout, mridangam-playing prof among those chosen by MIT as faces of the future
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