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Articles 15221 through 15320 of 16306:
- Making Water Safe For Drinking (Deccan Herald, K Jayalakshmi, Aug 15, 2003)
While setting the standard for potable water, the key factors to be considered are achievability and actionability
- Changing Corporate Genetic Codes (Business Line, A. B. Shivkumar , Aug 15, 2003)
ALMOST a decade after it was first published in 1994, the path-breaking book "Competing for the future", by Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad, is the guiding principle behind many a strategy in hundreds of organisations round the world.
- Parliament And Military Secrecy (Hindu, V.R. RAGHAVAN, Aug 15, 2003)
On the PAC issue, it is difficult to avoid the impression that the Opposition and the Government are engaged in seeking and denying political advantage
- Great Communicator, Mr Terminator (Indian Express, TIM RUTTEN, Aug 14, 2003)
Until 1966, John Wilkes Booth was the only actor to make much of an impact on American politics. Then Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for governor of California and the rest — as no practitioner of higher punditry ever likes to admit — was ...
- From Melting Snow, Emerges The Story Of Another Missing Soldier (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Aug 14, 2003)
Team recovers belongings of Lance Naik Bhandari; IAF plans to collect aircraft parts strewn across glacier
- 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.
- Choice Is Off The Records (Business Line, R. Narayanaswamy, Aug 14, 2003)
On how the desi-videshi tussle sidelines the consumer.
- 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
- Don’t Shoot Down Iaf Over The Mig Myths (Indian Express, A. K. GOEL, Aug 13, 2003)
If there is anything more important for the Indian Air Force than defending the country, it is to ensure cost of such defence is minimum. Thus, while we must train and prepare for perhaps the most demanding profession on Earth, we aim to ensure accidents
- The Shimla Consensus (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Aug 13, 2003)
Issues related to national security were given prominence at the brainstorming session of the Congress Party in Shimla last month. Party President Sonia Gandhi emphasised many points in her inaugural address.
- 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 ...
- 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
- 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.
- On This Bountiful Breeze (Indian Express, Bharat Dogra, Aug 12, 2003)
Although the cause of alternative, renewable sources of energy — such as wind energy — has been enthusiastically advocated by environmentalists for long, mainstream opinion has been that these sources combined together can at best play only a marginal
- The Price Of Power (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Aug 12, 2003)
Electricity, water, fertiliser and seeds are the needs of a farmer. With bad roads and inadequate communication infrastructure, village markets are difficult places under the best of circumstances. In addition we also find it difficult to create the
- A Vasco Da Gama, In Reverse (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 12, 2003)
There’s many a slip between the cup and the lip, but Shashank, the seniormost secretary in the MEA, is clearly hoping that his African journeys over the last few months will give him enough ballast to turn around the flag-embellished corner of South Block
- 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
- `Accounting Needs To Be Forward-Looking' (Business Line, D. Murali , Aug 11, 2003)
People are investing for the future, and I want research in that field and, indeed, I am doing that. Accountants don't want forward-looking statements. I am not asking them to be forecasters; just give me what is happening six months from now, one year
- India Needs A Town Like Alice (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Aug 11, 2003)
Rural transformation needs a trigger in the form of investment by organised business to create high paid employment. Influx of families with large disposable incomes induces a major shift in consumer demand that, given favourable conditions, induces rapid
- Achuthan’s Order (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Aug 10, 2003)
Reports about Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) order in the Kishore Chhabria-Vijay Mallya dispute suggest that SAT has overturned the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (Sebi) ruling against Chhabria. But the order has an interesting twist. In
- Wirelessly Wired? Not Yet (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Aug 10, 2003)
WiFi may be hip and happening. But with laptop prices still high in India, there still a long way to go for the technology to realise its full potential
- ‘i Am Not The Vhp’s Bonded Labourer’ (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Aug 10, 2003)
First flutter within the hawks as temple trust chief says peaceful talks with ‘younger brother’ Muslims only option; On Kashi & Mathura, less dovish: let’s have 10-12 yrs of peace, we’ll see
- Just One Degree Of Separation From Liberia (Indian Express, Amba Batra, Aug 10, 2003)
While Charles Taylor, Liberia’s beleaguered president, is preparing for life in exile, a college in south Delhi has reasons for concern.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- How India's Fields Got `Swaraj' (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Aug 08, 2003)
MR CHANDRA MOHAN'S name is synonymous with `Swaraj' and Punjab Tractors Ltd (PTL), which he built from the scratch to a Rs 1,300-crore-plus engineering conglomerate with a product line spanning tractors and harvester combines to engines, light commercial
- Corporate Irresponsibility (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2003)
MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES HAVE been put in the dock once again by the Centre for Science and Environment: its laboratory tests have revealed that the soft drinks marketed by these firms contain pesticide residues well in excess of European Union ...
- It's Social Aspects (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 08, 2003)
ANY new technology inevitably brings in its wake social costs and consequences. Information technology (IT) is no exception. However, there has as yet been no definitive work on its social aspects and their precise implications and ramifications.
- Too Soft On Drinks (Business Line, Sudhirendar Sharma, Aug 08, 2003)
THE charge that a set of soft-drinks contains a cocktail of pesticide residues may put the MNC giants in the dock, but it also exposes the inherent weakness of a system to ensure quality of products, especially those mass-consumed.
- Right To Contest (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2003)
IN A NARROW legal sense, there can be no objection to the Supreme Court judgment that upholds the constitutionality of the Haryana law that bars anyone having more than two children from becoming a sarpanch or a panch of a panchayat. The ...
- 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
- Money Theories In Rotation (Business Line, T. S. Viswanathan, Aug 07, 2003)
THE theory of money has undergone a sea change. It is gladdening to note that a monetary theorist, Dr Raghuram Rajan, has been appointed Chief Economist of the IMF.
- 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
- 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
- India: The Emerging R&d Hub (Business Line, P. Balakrishna, Aug 06, 2003)
EVER since Texas Instruments set up a research and development centre in Bangalore in 1985, more and more foreign companies have realised the benefits of carrying out significant R&D work in India. According to a study conducted by the Administrative
- No Mere Dispute, It’s Aggression (Deccan Herald, N Haridas, Aug 06, 2003)
When China invaded Tibet in 1950, the world wanted Nehru to rush to the defence of the monks. But he did not
- Interlinking Problems (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2003)
THE DECADES-OLD proposal to link all of India's major rivers with one another was revived with much fanfare last year. Most political parties welcomed it then as a solution to the country's drinking water and irrigation problems. But it has not ...
- Learning Through Doing (Indian Express, VINITA DESHMUKH, Aug 05, 2003)
When concern for the poor is largely missing in today’s world, the passing away of Dr Srinath Kalbag, whose monumental contribution in making hundreds of rural youngsters, mostly school dropouts, into self-made rural entrepreneurs, is a sad event.
- Airwaves For Panchayats (Deccan Herald, Manu N Kulkarni, Aug 04, 2003)
The decision of the Ministry of Broadcasting to allow educational institutions like universities, IITs and schools to launch their own radio and broadcast educational programmes is a good step in delicensing and deregulation of the all powerful All-India
- ‘to Make Sure We Build World-Class Business, We’ll (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 04, 2003)
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries, spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, at the Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City in Navi Mumbai. Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s Walk The Talk
- Convergence Of Gasoline, Diesel Technologies - A Vision For The Next Decade (Business Line, B. S. Murthy, Aug 04, 2003)
EVs, fuel cell and hybrid vehicles may be the buzz in the auto industry but there is no getting away from conventional gasoline and diesel technologies. The focus now, therefore is to combine the best features of the two systems to develop an engine that
- 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
- Murders Most Foul (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 04, 2003)
WILL it be too far-fetched if I say that the US and the UK ganged up to commit murders of their own soldiers and innocent Iraqi civilians and therefore, their leaders should face trial by an International Crimes Tribunal, just as Goering, Ribbentrop and
- The James-Justice Test (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 02, 2003)
How would the Best Bakery picture now look from Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s exalted perch? With smoke still rising in rioting Gujarat he had openly, and emotionally, reminded Narendra Modi on his rajdharma. His deputy, L.K. Advani, has said often that what
- 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.
- Mechanistic Elitism Hurts Investors (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Aug 01, 2003)
The convergence of equity and commodity marketplaces will indeed bring significant gains from economies of scale and scope pertinent to trading and customer servicing, monitoring and regulation by SEBI. But will India's commodity producers, including mill
- Rejection Slips Only? Not Really (Indian Express, J.S. Rajput, Aug 01, 2003)
The National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) stands for professionalism in school education planning and development. Since 1961, this institution has acquired a quiet dignity in the world of curriculum modernisation. In recent years
- Bpos And Backlash (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2003)
EVERY PASSING DAY brings news of a growing backlash in the European Union and the United States against the outsourcing of business in information technology enabled services (ITES) to India. Since it is the search to cut salary costs that is ...
- Cec Lyngdoh Gets Magsaysay For Standing Up To J&k Militants And Modi (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Jul 31, 2003)
The normally stern James Michael Lyngdoh, who’s preparing to conduct his last elections in November as he demits office of the Chief Election Commissioner in February 2004, was all smiles today when news came in that he had been awarded this year’s Ramon
- Towards More Neighbourly Ties (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Jul 31, 2003)
Karzai needs Pak to fight terrorism while Musharraf cannot allow Pak to be sucked into a new Afghan quagmire
- For Clean Coal (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 31, 2003)
GIVEN THAT NOT even 20 per cent of the over 350 million tonnes of coal produced in the country is washed before use, the Coal Ministry's desire to see conditions created for use of only beneficiated, or clean, coal is not going to be fulfilled in a hurry.
- Trading With Pakistan (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jul 31, 2003)
The new debate in Pakistan on trade with India is a welcome one... Instead of waiting to see the outcome, India must seek to actively influence it.
- ‘i Never Met A Better Improviser Than Johnny’ (Indian Express, ABRAR ALVI, Jul 31, 2003)
I first met Johnny Walker on the sets of Baazi, which featured Guru Dutt, Geeta Bali, Johnny Walker, among others. There was something special about this thin, energetic fellow. His infectious humour, his presence of mind, his great witticism amazed me.
- The American Dream - Made In China (Indian Express, EDWARD BERNARD GLICK, Jul 30, 2003)
In the early 1990s, I lived and worked in Japan, and my wife and I occasionally travelled in the region. However, we refused to go to mainland China because we were still fuming over the spectacle of Chinese troops massacring Chinese students in Beijing’s
- 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.
- As Metros Clean Up Their Air, Look Who Are Proud To Be The Dirtiest Dozen (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Jul 30, 2003)
Ahmedabad air worst; next Kanpur, Solapur, Lucknow, all waiting to be pushed, prodded
- Will The Monsoon Bring Cheer? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 30, 2003)
THE SOUTH-WEST MONSOON, which is halfway through the four-month season, has turned in as good a performance as farmers could have wished for. Despite starting a week late, the monsoon has brought some of the heaviest and most evenly spread ...
- 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
- Biotechnology In India - Creating A New Market Space (Business Line, Devendra Mishra, Jul 30, 2003)
IN HIS book Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith, wrote that "a true wealth of a nation is measured not by how much gold it possesses but by what it can produce". By this yardstick biotechnology is an unprecedented revolution through which the world's hunger
- Firestorm Rising (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 30, 2003)
South Korea commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the end of Korean War last Sunday. But the North Koreans were not participating, probably busying themselves in reprocessing plutonium for nuclear bombs.
- Generating Budgetary Resources In 21st Century (Business Line, Mukul Asher, Jul 30, 2003)
In the 21st century, the task of revenue generation will be quite complex, requiring concomitant reforms on the expenditure side and in budgeting systems, more effective use of information technology and better e-governance. India can certainly make good
- Cartagena Protocol - A Wake-Up Call For Biosafety (Business Line, Ashesh Tayal, Jul 29, 2003)
NOW that 50 countries have ratified the first international treaty on biosafety, Cartagena Protocol is all set to come into force on September 11. The protocol, once implemented sincerely, will not only save and maintain our mega biodiversities, Indians
- How Not To Measure Fdi (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Jul 29, 2003)
India needs to shed its bias towards the dollar value of FDI, and switch to the utilitarian approach. It can gain much by switching to measures of performance that include the number of `jobs', innovative leadership, methods, processes, organisation ...
- Getting Women Into Parliament - Why The Quota System Is Crucial (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jul 29, 2003)
THE Women's Reservation Bill has been put on the backburner once again with the BJP coming out with the improbable suggestion that one-third of the Lok Sabha constituencies should have two MPs — one male and one female! Extrapolating that logic, each ...
- Distinguished Dozen (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2003)
Read the Constitution to know who the 12 nominated members in the RS should be
- ‘war Against Terror Cannot Be Won Till Terror Against India Ends Permanently’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jul 28, 2003)
US Ambassador to India Robert Blackwill spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-chief, The Indian Express, on the security situation in the subcontinent and the rapid advancements in the Indo-US relations. Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s ...
- 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
- The Other `E' In Education (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Jul 28, 2003)
MANAGERS are fond of using the word `strategic' as a prefix to anything they consider important. The generalized use of the word has diluted the original meaning. Similarly, the letter `e' has appeared as a generic prefix to signify some connection with
- Silence Of The Dca (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Jul 27, 2003)
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) continues to be ridden with controversy over the actions of its president, R. Bhupaty. The latest twist is provided by the letters written by Sunil Bhargava, the government nominee on ICAI’s central
- 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.
- River Links And Judicial Chinks (Indian Express, VIDEH UPADHYAY, Jul 26, 2003)
In early May, the ministry of water resources filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court, annexing with it the resolution constituting the task force for the interlinking of rivers, a time-table for the project, other resolutions nominating part-time and
- Sky Wars (Indian Express, J.C. Malik, Jul 25, 2003)
India has become the new battlefield for global aircraft firms
- China: Opening Up To A New World (Business Line, Ranjani Karthik, Jul 25, 2003)
SINCE December 11, 2001 — a year and three months after China's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) — it is apparent that the erstwhile communist economy has emerged from behind the Iron Curtain to take global competition head on. However,
- Equator Principles - Why Indian Banks Too Should Be Guided By Them (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Jul 25, 2003)
The Equator Principles — a voluntary set of guidelines developed for managing social and environmental issues related to the financing development projects — apply only to projects which cost $50 million or more, as those costing less represent only 3 ...
- India's Unbending Funding Problem (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Jul 25, 2003)
The probability that the unbending funding problem would become an unending funding problem is high. The problem is structural. The structural adjustment programme that began in 1991 has failed to address the issue of elitism in the government sector.
- Bjp Vs Sonia: The Great Indian Show (Indian Express, Swami Agnivesh, Jul 24, 2003)
The more the BJP vitiates the national discourse with non-issues, the less faith people will have in the party
- Remembering 1983 (Hindu, V. Suryanarayan, Jul 24, 2003)
The `riots', which began on the night of July 24, 1983, saw Sri Lanka go up in flames... the prolonged conflict has brutalised society.
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