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Articles 15021 through 15120 of 16306:
- Confused Arbitrary System? (Hindu, G. Ananthakrishnan, Sep 21, 2003)
For now, CAS presents a fuzzy picture, a far cry from the promise of a new digital era
- Mission Baghdad Is Wide Open As Pm Lands In The Us (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 21, 2003)
By the time Prime Minister A B Vajpayee arrived in New York last evening, Hurricane Isabel had left town, leaving in her wake a warm, anticipatory glow over meetings with major leaders here, including a first, key encounter between External Affairs ...
- A Developing Relationship (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 20, 2003)
PRIME MINISTER ATAL Bihari Vajpayee's visit to Turkey has added content to the relationship between the two countries. These secular democracies were estranged from each other till about a decade ago, largely because each perceived the other as ...
- China: The Gen-Next Export Destination? (Business Line, S. Majumder , Sep 19, 2003)
MORE than a threat, China has emerged a saviour to South-East Asian nations, especially those hit by the currency turmoil. There was a fear that with the entry of cheap Chinese-made goods into the global market, the recovery efforts of these economies ...
- Disinvestment And Parliament (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Sep 19, 2003)
Questions of disinvestment are not to be decided by super-Ministers and accountants. Public companies are the nation's assets.
- Us' Concern Over Job Outsourcing - Old-World Style Protectionism (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Sep 19, 2003)
There is continuing debate in the US on how liberal it should be with visas for foreign workers and the effects of job outsourcing. For India, a major issue of concern is the US' moves through law to cap the number of visas for foreign workers and
- China And India — A Study In Contrast: Perspectives In Economic Growth (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Sep 18, 2003)
While the contrasts between the two countries are stark, it may be too early to write off India as a "lumbering giant" which has lost the race to the "Crouching Tiger". India's stable financial system and the better-organised legal machinery may still ...
- Israel Eye In Space On Indian Shoulder (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Sep 18, 2003)
Who said terror is the only common ground between New Delhi and Tel Aviv? Both sides are joining hands—in space.
- The Fast Breeder Reactor (Hindu, M. R. Srinivasan, Sep 17, 2003)
India is the only country in the world that is committed to using thorium as a nuclear fuel and has, over the years, accumulated considerable knowledge on the various steps involved in thorium utilisation.
- Milan To Tel Aviv: Naidu Switches Gears From Fast Tracks To Slow Drip (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Sep 17, 2003)
If it beats you how a boulevard city can spring in the middle of a semi-arid land, come to Tel Aviv. Because it’s here that you get to see what technology and common sense can deliver: underneath the city runs a network of pipes and, on the surface, holes
- Inside Iran, A Persian Paradox (Indian Express, Jasjit Singh, Sep 17, 2003)
There are civilisations and there are states, but there are few civilisational states, and even fewer civilisational nation-states. India and China represent the latter, and so does Iran which has undergone some remarkable changes in the past quarter ...
- Power Of Justice (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2003)
Staines case: The court gives reason to believe that the guilty don’t always get away
- Telecom Needs A Magic Bullet Solution (Indian Express, Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, Sep 17, 2003)
Get political interests and the plethora of opinions out of India’s most troubled industry
- Cola Jpc Settles For Tea, Places Order For Experts (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Sep 17, 2003)
Neither Coke nor Pepsi nor any other beverage (barring tepid tea) was served at the first meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee this afternoon investigating the issue of pesticides in soft drinks this afternoon.
- Law Versus Practice (Indian Express, Suchita Vemuri, Sep 16, 2003)
The wise men in government who believe that ‘‘Indian society is intolerant to the practice of homosexuality’’ have a rude shock coming. A recent study of sexual practices in rural India by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) found that ‘‘male-to-
- How Many Votes For A Suicide? (Indian Express, SHANTANU DATTA, Sep 16, 2003)
The land of a zillion mouse-clicks is focused on the morbid these days. Suicides among the farming community are the subject of heated debate. The Silicon Capital is also doing its bit, and studies by the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro
- Dying By The Gun (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2003)
The brutal killing of the former militant-turned militia, Kuka Parrey, proves once again that those who live by the gun ultimately die by one. Parrey’s life tells a strange story. A folk-singer in his youth who joined the separatist movement as a member
- Choices Before The Mobile User (Business Line, Vikrant Gandhi, Sep 16, 2003)
THE latest entrants into the mobile communications, the limited mobility service providers, have provided a new impetus to the already dynamic Indian mobile communications market.
- Rbi's Annual Report 2002-03: Positive Outlook Blurred By Concerns (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Sep 16, 2003)
Despite the pervading optimism and positive outlook for 2003-04, the RBI Report highlights the medium-term issues and concerns. The growth rate of the economy envisaged under the Tenth Plan period is beyond reach going by the current economic parameters.
- Computerised Accounting — Is It The Way To Go? (Business Line, Gowthaman Muruganandan, Sep 16, 2003)
Despite many companies having computerised accounting there are difficulties with accounting packages.
- Why Silicon Valley Needs To Reinvent Itself (Business Line, Kumar Venkat, Sep 16, 2003)
It has become clear that the knowledge sector is no longer immune to job losses.
- Waiting In The Wings (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Sep 15, 2003)
China is on the verge of becoming the third nation, after Russia and the U.S., to have the independent capability for manned spaceflight.
- Doubts About An Ally (Indian Express, Bernard-Henri Levy, Sep 15, 2003)
What’s the necessity of the US-Pak alliance? Was it necessary to continue funding Musharraf ‘s regime? Is it not possible at least to tie this aid to certain simple political conditions like that Pakistanis must give proof of a genuine effort to reform
- Another Stitch For The Mills (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 15, 2003)
THE PROPOSED REVIVAL scheme for textile units tending towards sickness is one more bail-out package from a Government which seems impervious to the moral hazard implications of throwing good money after bad. As per the latest scheme, the Rs 6,000 crore
- World Investment Report 2003 — Internal Governance Matters A Great Deal (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 15, 2003)
THE World Investment Report 2003 carries forward the rich traditions of UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) in surveying the progress of investment by transnational corporations in various countries. It notes the increasing role...
- Desalination: Answer To Chennai's Water Woes (Business Line, M. S. Srinivasan, Sep 15, 2003)
A reliable and low-cost desalination-based water generation and distribution system has the potential to overcome the shortage, provided there is an agreement on the payment of usage charges.
- What Set Top Box? (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Sep 14, 2003)
Here are some new truths about set top boxes without comment. The Associated Press (http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60377,00.html) reported on September 10, 2003 from Washington that: “regulators adopted rules on Wednesday to make cable ...
- Last Act At Los Alamos (Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Sep 13, 2003)
The things we are working on are so terrible that no amount of protesting or fiddling with politics will save our souls.
- Divestment As A Sweetheart Deal (Indian Express, Sitaram Yechury, Sep 13, 2003)
Perils of an economic model that posits rapid growth as fundamentally incompatible with democracy
- The Future Of Cas (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2003)
THE CONFUSION AND disorder that has attended the implementation of the Conditional Access System (CAS) raises significant questions about the manner in which the new cable television regime has been introduced. Deferred in Delhi, resisted and ...
- First Delhi Head Rolls In Taj Dirt: Environment Secy Told To Go And Rest (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2003)
In the latest in the Taj Corridor controversy, the Centre today put Union Environment Secretary K C Mishra, accused of fudging related files, on compulsory waiting.
- Nukes: Iran Told To Face The Iraq Test (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2003)
A last-minute compromise between the developing and Western world at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna this evening allowed the passage of a unanimous resolution demanding that Iran meet an October 31 deadline to prove it was not ...
- Farming A Friendship (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2003)
The India-Israel relationship is about more than just fighting terrorism
- Sharon’s Roaring Goodbye (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Sep 12, 2003)
It is, of course, only a coincidence that the Israeli premier and an important US state department official were both in New Delhi on the second anniversary of 9/11. If observing 9/11 was a purpose, there could not have been a more appropriate guest than
- India And The War On Terror (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 12, 2003)
Rather than bank on international cooperation, India will have to develop its own means to vacate the threat of terrorism.
- Where Is Manufacturing Headed? (Business Line, A. V. Ram Mohan, Sep 12, 2003)
Some years ago, there was expectation that the Indian manufacturing sector would be the world's source of components. But its impact on the international manufacturing base has been nowhere near that of Korea, Taiwan or China. And policy hurdles are large
- Forensics Gets Back: Taj File Was Fudged By Secy, Minister (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Sep 12, 2003)
The Taj corridor case has taken another serious turn with forensic experts confirming that forgery and fraud were allegedly committed by Union Environment Secretary K C Mishra and Uttar Pradesh’s former Environment Minister Nasimuddin Siddiqui.
- India Without A Clue At Cancun (Hindu, Subramanian Swamy , Sep 11, 2003)
India has thus far made only feeble attempts to get an opportunity for professionals and semi-skilled to work anywhere in the world without visa harassment.
- Banking Turnaround (Hindu, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 11, 2003)
THERE ARE A number of reasons explaining the distinct turnaround in the perception, if not in the actual performance, of public sector banks. While continuing to be the dominant force in Indian banking — their share in a quite competitive ...
- Confronting The Heavyweights (Business Line, K. Ramesh, Sep 11, 2003)
India, with relatively stronger fundamentals and macro-economic parameters, appears to be armed-to-the-teeth to canvas its own case and those of other developing nations at Cancun.
- The Story Of Two Sayyeds (Indian Express, Mohammed Wajihuddin, Sep 11, 2003)
The community doesn’t heed the call of the grand old man of Aligarh anymore
- Food Standards And Market Access — Time For A New Engagement (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 11, 2003)
The cola controversy in terms of the trade negotiations at the World Trade Organisation appears well timed.
- Girl, Interrupted (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 11, 2003)
The last census had proved an eye-opener. It revealed that the sex ratio of the population in the 0-6 age group had declined in 10 years from 945 to 927 which, in turn, pointed to the widespread practice of female foeticide despite legislation banning it.
- All The Noise In New Delhi Adds Up To Two Words: Oh Jerusalem! (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 10, 2003)
Vajpayee’s gift to Sharon: replica of 1624-year-old Cochin document that gave Jews the right to own land
- Hard Realities About Soft Drinks (Indian Express, ANURADHA VASHISHT, Sep 10, 2003)
Even with zero pesticides and super-clean water, colas can prove a health menace
- Will Someone Get A Hospital Bed For This Akshardham Hero In Delhi? (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 10, 2003)
While the Gujarat police are having a hard time plugging the holes in their version of who are behind the Akshardham strike, few are sparing a thought for this unsung hero.
- Fractals And The Future Of Organisations (Business Line, Pravir Malik, Sep 10, 2003)
Fractal patterns, which repeat themselves on an ever-larger scale, are widely present in natural phenomena. If nature employs fractal structures in building much of the physical universe, is a similar structure being unconsciously employed in the ...
- For 20 Years, India’s Hawk-Eyed View (Indian Express, S G INAMDAR , Sep 10, 2003)
The air force needs the AJT to bridge a crucial gap in a fighter pilot’s ‘stage 3’ training
- Democracy And Adult Suffrage (Deccan Herald, R G Subramanyam, Sep 10, 2003)
There is need to formulate new norms and rules to make democracy more effective and meaningful
- What Harvest Will It Be At Cancun? (Business Line, Gopal Naik, Sep 10, 2003)
The Fifth WTO Ministerial to meet in Cancun in Mexico will take forward the agenda set forth in the Fourth Ministerial at Doha in 2001. As of now, negotiations on the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) have has not yielded any significant benefits to the ...
- One Area Israel Wants Less Of The Indian Govt (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Sep 10, 2003)
While the governments of Israel and India speak the same language on fighting terror, there is one area where Israel would much rather work with private companies and institutes—rather than the government: agriculture.
- Economics Of Demonstrations Against Globalisation (Business Line, V. Kumaraswamy, Sep 09, 2003)
BEGINNING with Seattle, Genoa, and the cities of Geneva, Laussanne, and Evian during the recent G-8 summit, there is an increasing wave of protests against globalisation (as indeed other local issues not subjecting themselves to democratic processes).
- Towards A Cancun Harvest (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Sep 09, 2003)
What suggestions do we have for our negotiators at Cancun? It is not enough to prepare the terrain in terms of the arguments used by our interlocutors in trade policy discussions — particularly since most arguments made in academic debates in India, apart
- Maneaters Of The Desert (Indian Express, Shelley Walia, Sep 09, 2003)
Israeli democracy is a facade. For non-Jews it is an unequal, unjust society
- Should Banks Trade In Shares? (Business Line, R. Viswanathan , Sep 09, 2003)
Trading in shares by banks is close to speculation or gambling and the risks could, thus, be enormous. This calls for deeper scrutiny both by banks and the RBI, besides SEBI, lest the economy is visited yet again by another scam, with huge losses for the
- Wto Drugs Deal: Does It Really Benefit Developing Countries? (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 09, 2003)
The recent eleventh-hour agreement on TRIPs and public health concerns of poor countries has been hailed by some as a major breakthrough, while others argue that the resolution is purely cosmetic. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandra sekhar and ...
- Rbi Annual Report 2002-03: Credible And Creditable (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 08, 2003)
DR BIMAL Jalan, the RBI Governor who just relinquished charge last week, and his institution have dominated the news in the last few days, mainly because of the commendable achievements of the central bank under his tutelage. Compliments to Dr Jalan's
- Facing Up To Corporate Responsibilities (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Sep 08, 2003)
A SIGN on the wall of the men's locker room at the Madras Boat Club would read, `When the going gets tough, the tough get going.' That is how it is with facing a crisis. That is how it must be inside Coca Cola and PepsiCo these days. And when you are an
- Putting The Bottle First (Business Line, Sudhirendar Sharma, Sep 08, 2003)
By sidestepping the issue of consumer safety, the Government has made it clear that it favours the growing market for soft drinks in the country.
- ‘terrorists Are Recruiting Youth Deeply Hurt By Gujarat’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 07, 2003)
As a politician who has changed colours from the Shiv Sena to the NCP, what makes you think you are secular? If Bal Thackeray had made you the chief minister, would you have still been Secular? Aslam Khan
- You Need To Play It Again, Sam (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Sep 07, 2003)
Cong sits on Sam Pitroda’s key proposal: send fossils home, remove party brokers
- Up, Up To The Upper House (Indian Express, Raju Santhanam, Sep 07, 2003)
“I am a journalist who always opposed any kind of emergency whether in India or at home imposed by my dictatorial wife,’’ I wailed.
‘‘That’s not good enough,’’ said my ‘‘connected’’ friend taking a second look at my application for a nomination to
- Mp Sex Scandal: Bjp Demands Fir Against Cong Spokesperson (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Sep 07, 2003)
In the first political fallout of allegations of sexual exploitation that surfaced recently, the BJP has demanded that an FIR be registered against Congress spokesperson and former bureaucrat Man Dahima on these charges. The charges surfacing as they do,
- Stem This Alien Nation (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Sep 07, 2003)
I can fill this column — nay, the whole page — with names of Muslim men and women, all Indians, who have achieved distinction in different walks of life. Because, among the 110 million Muslims, there are thousands of distinguished men and women. We can...
- Our Son, The Fanatic (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 06, 2003)
Is it already time for us to revisit our favourite post-9/11 boast? If you are an optimist, you might say it is still early days, or that these are mere straws in the wind. Truth to tell, straws in the wind these are and while there is still time to do...
- World Investment Report 2003 — A Note Of Caution To Developing Countries (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Sep 05, 2003)
AHEAD of the Fifth World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial, scheduled to start in Cancun (Mexico) on September 10, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) has cautioned the developing world against investment issues being pushed into the
- Asean And Us (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2003)
Look at this relationship with a more nuanced understanding
- Hunger Deaths In Laloo Loyal Country (Indian Express, Varghese K George, Sep 05, 2003)
Scarred by the Bhagalpur riots, the Muslims here have for long voted Laloo Prasad’s RJD, hoping it will make a difference in their lives. But Mohammed Ehsan Ansari will tell you what they have received in return: he had to give up weaving Bhagalpur’s ...
- The Arab Idol (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Sep 05, 2003)
American dream: Giving Iraq democracy and changing Arab cultural certitudes
- Nuclear Escalation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2003)
THE FIRST MEETING of the Nuclear Command Authority (NCA) has decided to develop India's weapons programme further. This will take the country another step down the dangerous path of acquiring and assembling weapons of mass destruction that will ...
- Make Industrial Sector The Engine Of Growth (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Sep 04, 2003)
With the business environment for the industrial sector turning favourable, it is the right time to initiate measures to make this sector an engine of growth and to raise its share in GDP. The thrust of the growth strategy should be more public and ...
- Good Cop, Good Cop (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2003)
Success should lead to success in fighting terrorism but there’s no room for complacency
- Scientists Are Barc-Ing Up The Banana Tree (Indian Express, Reshma Patil, Sep 03, 2003)
At nuclear lab, bananas’ new forms ripen: juice, wine and baby food
- The World Alleges And Pak Denies It (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Sep 03, 2003)
Pakistan faces, once again, a barrage of allegations ranging from charges of covert support of terrorists to accusations about illegally exporting components for other nations’ nuclear and missile programmes.
- Cancun: Keep The Wheels Moving (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Sep 03, 2003)
With Cancun just days off, various groups of nations are sitting in conclaves to work out ways and means to ensure that the bicycle of trade negotiations does not fall, and the WTO ministerial does not end in abject failure. This would be a serious ...
- Measuring Bank Efficiency: Productivity Versus Profitability (Business Line, V. Pitre, Sep 03, 2003)
"... the driving force in the path ahead will be the immense capabilities that we possess in terms of human resource. In the years to come the `human bias' is likely to get stronger and the quality of human resource would become the cutting edge of ...
- The Art Of `Green' Governance (Business Line, K. P. S. Chauhan, Sep 03, 2003)
THE Government of India recently set up a National Environment Authority (NEA) and six regional authorities which are expected to start functioning within three months. The NEA will have the appellate jurisdiction to hear appeals against decisions made by
- Md, Ma, Mba: The New Degrees Of Terror (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2003)
Gujarat cited as reason by many arrested and they aren’t exactly madarsa products
- India And Israel Need Each Other (Indian Express, BHARAT KARNAD, Sep 02, 2003)
It was only in the mid-1990s that New Delhi, realising how injurious it was proving to national interest, jettisoned its hoary, unbalanced, West Asia policy and brought its close, covert and longstanding ties with Tel Aviv, including in the military ...
- Make Wto Work, Alternative Is Worse (Deccan Herald, Emma Bonino, Sep 02, 2003)
It is in the intertest of both developing and developed countries to overcome the crisis in WTO
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