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Articles 15121 through 15220 of 16306:
- Mystery Of Us Economic Growth (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Sep 02, 2003)
The US second quarter GDP growth, revised up to 3.1 per cent from 2.4 per cent, supposedly came from higher estimates for consumer spending, investments and a lower trade deficit. But the real news, says V. Anantha Nageswaran, is that without the defence
- Fta Success Lies In Partner Choice (Business Line, S. Majumder , Sep 02, 2003)
India should not expect any big FDI flows from the proposed FTAs, as most of the countries concerned, barring Singapore and South Africa, receive FDIs rather than invest abroad.
- A Changed Ownership Structure May Have Bottled Cola Row (Business Line, D. Sampathkumar , Sep 02, 2003)
BY ANY reckoning the recent controversy over pesticide residue in carbonated beverages has been a public relations disaster for the cola majors. To be in the limelight and often for reasons not entirely of their choice is not something new for them...
- Tasks Before Dr Reddy At Rbi (Business Line, A. Seshan, Sep 02, 2003)
DR Y. Venugopal Reddy is taking over as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). I had an opportunity to work with him during the tumultuous days of the Gulf Crisis in the early 1990s. He was then Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. He and I
- Taj: Cbi Points Finger At Central Secy (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2003)
The CBI has accused Union Enviornment and Forest Ministry Secretary K.C. Mishra of tampering with files pertaining to start of work at the controversial Taj Heritage Corridor project at Agra.
- The Dating Game At Ayodhya (Indian Express, R P Subramanian, Sep 01, 2003)
There’s a scientific way to determine the age of the lime-mortar found by the ASI
- Govt Wants Colas To Get A Euro Fizz (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2003)
Though the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Sushma Swaraj announced in Parliament that the soft drinks including Pepsi and Coke were ‘‘safe’’, the government has issued a draft notification on standards to regulate pesticides and heavy metals
- Feats Unlimited: Woman Sarpanchs On Feet (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2003)
She is in her mid-’30s, a mother of four and a Dalit woman sarpanch who has studied till Std V. Urmila Dhonde is proud of her background, proud of the administrative experience and insight she has gained as sarpanch over the last three years. And now she
- Mumbai Spirit (Indian Express, Soli Sorabjee, Aug 31, 2003)
Mumbai again has been the target of terrorism. Blood-thirsty murderers in the recent bomb blasts have killed over fifty innocent civilians and injured many more. But they dismally failed to kill the spirit of Mumbai.
- Let’s Do The Cancun (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2003)
Indian negotiators are on the right track so far in the run up to the Cancun WTO meeting
- Hanuman Meets Seeta (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2003)
Truly has the Upper House of Parliament touched celestial heights
- Non-Proliferation Problems (Hindu, M. R. Srinivasan, Aug 29, 2003)
Given the policies the U.S. is pursuing unilaterally, the world will have to prepare itself to face a highly unstable nuclear future.
- Danger From Elbowing Out American Workers (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 29, 2003)
IN A context in which legislatures of some States in the US have sought to ban offshore outsourcing and engagement of non-American workers and immigrants, it is not surprising that the suicide at California of an employee of the Bank of America following
- India Must Condition Itself To Cas (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Aug 29, 2003)
AFTER all the hype, the Conditional Access System (CAS) that was set for release on September 1 may not make it at all. Or, so it seems with the Government putting off its implementation in Delhi till after the State Assembly elections. This gives the ...
- Bureaucracy: Flaw Is In System, Not Workers (Business Line, Devendra Mishra, Aug 29, 2003)
THE government may be the biggest industry in the world, but the statement, "I am from the government and here to help you" is still considered a bad joke. Increasingly, the people do not think that the government knows how to help or is bothered...
- Left & The Struggle Against Bjp (Deccan Herald, Ranen Sen, Aug 28, 2003)
The Left parties should not hesitate to join hands with the Congress to fight the Sangh Parivar
- From A Sinner To A Priest (Business Line, D. Murali , Aug 28, 2003)
COMPANY failures make for great stories, though not their resurrections. That WorldCom fell like a giant stirred much dust — with all the drama of scandals such as the `$10 billion plus' accounting irregularities, firing of its top man Ebbers and so on
- Soul Searcher (Business Line, Peter Switzer, Aug 28, 2003)
On how critical it is to be ethical — especially for CAs
- Soft-Drinks, Hard Lessons (Business Line, M. A. Venkat, Aug 28, 2003)
IS THE Government report a complete vindication of the soft-drink makers, whose products the Centre for Science and Environment said contained high levels of pesticides? Regardless of the claims and counters, the jury is still out on the issue, as a Joint
- Here’s My Daily Pesticide Intake (Indian Express, Ravi Agarwal, Aug 28, 2003)
The consumer is hungry, both for safe food and water as well as for information. If anything, 2003 can be termed as a ‘‘safe food awareness’’ year. Never in the past has the increasingly powerful urban middle class been shocked as much by what it eats and
- Cancun: Heavy Mantle On Jaitley (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Aug 28, 2003)
At Cancun where WTO Trade Ministers meet to take stock of the headway made in the Doha Development Agenda, the Commerce Minister, Mr Arun Jaitley, faces a heavy responsibility in taking forward the achievements of his predecessor, Mr Murasoli Maran, who
- Leander Alarm Could Be Your Wake-Up Call (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Aug 27, 2003)
When doctors at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre concluded that Leander Paes was not suffering from a tumour but from a parasitic infection called neurocysticercosis, the tennis star’s family and his army of fans heaved a sigh of relief.
- Miracle Called Atal, Illusion Named Sonia (Indian Express, Balbir K Punj, Aug 27, 2003)
The country replied to the Sonia Gandhi piloted opposition no-confidence motion many hours before the vote in the Lok Sabha.
- Beyond The Blasts (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2003)
MUMBAI CAN BE down but never out. A day after the bomb blasts shook the megapolis, the city is fast coming back to normal, with old and young crowding suburban trains and BEST buses for the long trudge to work places. The Sensex, which is more the measure
- Dream On, For The Future (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Aug 27, 2003)
Words slide, slip, perish, decay with imprecision, but some continue to assail the amnesia of time. Among the famous words of the last century that continue to have a rare resonance in this one, are those from Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a Dream’ oration
- The Hindu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2003)
THE HINDU, FOUNDED on September 20, 1878, is the oldest surviving major newspaper of Indian nationalism, by which we mean the great socio-political movement that won freedom for India from colonial bondage and helped consolidate the gains ...
- Cbi Heat Makes Maya’s Man Sweat Over A ‘forged’ Taj File (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Aug 27, 2003)
Ex-Environment Minister had special status, only one to share dais with Kanshi & Maya
- Cancun: What Should Be India's Stand (Business Line, Dolly Mishra, Aug 27, 2003)
The issues that India should lay strong emphasis at the WTO meet in Cancun are food security, poverty reduction and economic growth. It is also time the developing countries united to put genuine pressure on the developed world to bring in such reforms as
- Auto Component Industry - Time It Got Its Parts Together (Business Line, B.S. Rathor, Aug 27, 2003)
THE auto component industry is coming out of the learning curve and appears all set to step on the accelerator. But the journey was arduous, especially in dealing with a new set of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). When in the 1990s global car
- Protectionism, Free Market And Global Regulator (Business Line, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Aug 27, 2003)
EVEN as the world strives to open up, economies continue to practice protectionism in myriad ways. One strident voice against this form of protectionism is that of Prof Raghuram Rajan, International Monetary Fund's new Chief Economist, who opposes the ...
- Behind The Terrorist Strikes (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2003)
TWO TERRORIST BOMB strikes in the heart of Mumbai on Monday have taken a terrible human toll and sent a shiver through the country. They are a challenge to civilised India and the very concept of Indian nationhood. Nine bombings in as many ...
- India, With A Can-Do Spirit (Indian Express, R A MASHELKAR, Aug 26, 2003)
From launching satellites to cracking illiteracy: a nation held back by self-doubt
- Market Equanimity (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2003)
THE ONGOING RALLY in share prices has been interpreted in various, often contrary, ways. The first big question to which there has been no unanimous answer is: will the rise in the share prices — the benchmark share indices have climbed to ...
- Soon: A Hot, Upscale Residency Called Dharavi (Indian Express, Manju Mehta, Aug 25, 2003)
Asia’s biggest slum to become an urban sprawl with housing complexes, supermarkets
- A Market For Terrorism Information (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Aug 25, 2003)
IT WOULD probably go down as the shortest-lived idea in the US. Within 24 hours of its being made public, everyone important in both the political parties was scrambling to announce that it was `ghoulish' and the proposal was buried. The irony is that it
- Unified Licence - Fairness Alone Can Redeem The Government (Business Line, Krishnan Thiagarajan, Aug 25, 2003)
The unified licence proposal can be used as a plank to settle all the long-pending issues before TRAI and the government.
- Making Our People Rich (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2003)
NEARLY six decades ago momentous things happened in both our countries. We made our people free. We established institutions and secured a system of Government where the people were able to elect the Parliament and enjoy basic democratic freedoms. This...
- Just Plain Gas? (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2003)
Is this a case of pouring cola over troubled waters? See how Parliament’s alacrity in constituting a joint committee to inquire into pesticide contamination of carbonated soft drinks has altered the dynamics at Sansad Bhavan. Just the other day, Lok Sabha
- Prevention The Better Cure (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2003)
THE BIG industries, which are more easily noticed and monitored, are not always the biggest polluters. By sheer numbers, small industries can create major problems. A classic example is Tirupur in Tamil Nadu, which exports some 71,000 tonnes of ...
- Hauled Up (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Aug 24, 2003)
On September 9 last year, two MiG-21s crashed, one in Rajasthan, the other in Ambala. The Indian Air Force, as is the norm, ordered an inquiry but this inquiry is turning out to be far from routine.
- Madura Coats (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Aug 24, 2003)
Next week, Madura Coats’ Extraordinary General Body Meeting (EGM) at Chennai will pass a resolution to buy out the shares of all residual shareholders, other than promoter J&P Coats and their nominees at a price of Rs 40 per share. This is the third ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- Sc Tells Cbi Go After The Taj ‘high & Mighty,’ Get Back Fast (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2003)
In a serious setback to the Mayawati Government, the Supreme Court today directed the CBI to interrogate ‘‘four to five’’ senior state officers mentioned in the agency’s secret interim report for their alleged complicity in the unauthorised construction
- 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
- India’s Magic Realism (Indian Express, Arun Jaitley, Aug 22, 2003)
Producing 30 per cent of America’s doctors but not one Al-Qaida terrorist
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Remedying Techno Lethargy (Deccan Herald, S N Roy Chaudhury, Aug 21, 2003)
Efforts in the field of science and technology are largely bereft of the spirit of invention and value addition
- Tackling Pesticides, The Ozone Way (Business Line, Sivabrata Chatterjee, Aug 21, 2003)
THE alleged finding of pesticides in soft-drinks and bottled water has raised the issue of water treatment. One method is using ozone for the treatment, first mooted in 1886 by Meritens. Kirk-Othmer's Encyclopaedia of Chemical Technology records that ...
- Unified Licence - Level-Playing Field, The Great Leveller (Business Line, Krishnan Thiagarajan, Aug 21, 2003)
HOW is the onging, unrelenting battle between the cellular and basic operators for the consumer's wallet likely to play out? If they want to avoid a further recourse to law, the warring parties — basic and cellular — will have come to the negotiating ...
- Terms Of Re-Engagement (Indian Express, JAGAT S. MEHTA, Aug 21, 2003)
The reach and responsibilities of professional diplomacy have expanded immeasurably and so have the pitfalls.
- Which Master’s Voice? (Indian Express, B.G. Verghese, Aug 20, 2003)
Prasar Bharati celebrated a proud moment in its history earlier this month, the 60th anniversary of Broadcasting House in Delhi. Many referred to Gandhiji’s inspiring words in praise of openness and pluralism inscribed over its portal and hoped for a new
- 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
- Fiscal Consolidation, The Real Payoff (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Aug 20, 2003)
The mere announcement of an avalanche of measures without ensuring how they will deliver is not good economics, though maybe savvy politics, particularly when elections are round the corner. Dividends will come only from correcting and shoring up the
- Power Cuts And Hot Spells (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2003)
THE DEVELOPING WORLD will react with understanding and even sympathy to the type of problems some rich nations are facing just now — and apparently not coping with remarkably well. Unannounced power outages, sweltering heat, medical ...
- Soft-Drinks And Low-Gluten Wheat - Nourishing The Bottomline (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Aug 20, 2003)
IN THIS era of unbridled globalisation — where making a fast buck has become the market mantra — two events have cast a deep shadow on the nation. While one rocked Parliament, the other has escaped the attention of most.
- Tdsat Judgment - Will They Converge On Compromise? (Business Line, Krishnan Thiagarajan, Aug 20, 2003)
While the immediate outcome of the TDSAT judgment may be to raise the hackles of both basic and cellular operators, in the long run, it seems inevitable that the warring parties will arrive at a compromise environment where they can compete on an equal
- A No-No To Negaholism (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2003)
Political leaders should take Arun Shourie’s prescription on dealing with the world seriously
- Engineering A Reverse Brain Drain (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Aug 19, 2003)
AMIDST the din and cackle of political debates on cow slaughter and reservation it is heartening to learn that the Communications Minister, Mr Arun Shourie, has endowed his entire entitlement under the MP Local Area Development scheme to set up a biotech
- 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 ...
- The Success Of Microeconomics (Business Line, S. Venu , Aug 19, 2003)
REFLECTING on their failure to be able to explain or forecast the economy as a whole, macroeconomists lack a certain intellectual buoyancy at present. Their subject matter is as exciting as ever — more so, with globalisation, financial cases, and the New
- Unified Licence: Travesty Of Justice? (Business Line, Krishnan Thiagarajan, Aug 19, 2003)
One can only hope that the introduction of the unified licence were so easy and simple. For the Government and the TRAI, it will be hard to shrug off the final TDSAT judgment and its contents as it builds up a consensus towards implementation of the ...
- Adding Value To Commodity Futures (Business Line, Kalyan Raipuria, Aug 19, 2003)
THE FUTURE of futures in commodities is closely linked with the emerging trends in global economy and in prices, unlike security derivatives where national sentiments play a major role. But system improvement can do wonders. Last year commodity prices as
- 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
- Vajpayee's Pakistan Policy (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 18, 2003)
Four months after launching yet another initiative towards Pakistan at Srinagar, the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, seems unfazed by the lack of progress on the official front with Pakistan. Patience, persistence and a series of positive gestures
- The Case For A Stronger Rupee (Deccan Herald, J Rajagopalachari, Aug 18, 2003)
Instead of propping up the dollar, RBI should use the fabulous reserves to bolster the rupee
- This Is India’s Moment But It’s Only A Moment, Can We Grasp It (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Aug 17, 2003)
On the one hand, we have unbounded opportunities and incomparable advantages to seize them. On the other, there is the fate that will surely befall us if we falter. Unemployment will reach such proportions that social unrest will become unmanageable...
- When Sky Is The Limit (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Aug 16, 2003)
The problems that have bedevilled Japanese banks are well known — the quicksand of ‘‘directed lending’’, NPAs, and the rest — as is the way these problems have been at the heart of Japan’s inability to pull itself out of the trough for over a decade. The
- ‘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
- Long And Short Of It (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2003)
An American research organisation has come to the conclusion that tall men get a better deal in life than their shorter cousins. Commenting on its findings Natalie Angier of The New York Times writes: “Tall men give nearly all the orders, win most ...
- U.S. Blackout: Lessons For India (Hindu, Anand Parthasarathy, Aug 16, 2003)
How well can today's high tech communication systems such as the Internet and mobile telephony cope with disaster situation?
- Kalam Prayer: No Mandir-Masjid (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Aug 15, 2003)
President A P J Abdul Kalam today made a passionate plea to pull India out of the politics of religion and called for a ‘‘moratorium’’ on issues that seek to impede the country’s development.
- Before The Whining Drowns It Out, Listen To The New India (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Aug 15, 2003)
Twenty to twenty-five years ago, even 10 years ago, few of us had heard of Information Technology. Today, exports from this industry are worth $10 billion — that is, over Rs 45,000 crore a year. That figure is 20 per cent of our total exports.
- 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
- Bullock-Cart Diplomacy (Indian Express, M D NALAPAT, Aug 15, 2003)
If the attitude of immigration authorities worldwide to an Indian passport has changed during the past five years, the reason has nothing to do with the Vajpayee government, but is the result of the software boom. Suddenly, Indians have become chic, no
- A Visitor With A Past (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Aug 15, 2003)
Some in India may discover affinities with Ariel Sharon's type of politics. They would do well to examine his track record.
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