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Articles 20421 through 20520 of 21907:
- India Mustn't Devalue Best Business Brains: Mukherjee (Correct) (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, Mar 02, 2004)
Here's lopsided social justice at its worst.
India is raising the subsidy for the nation's top 1,500 management students at a time when the government doesn't have enough money to provide blackboards to all primary schools.
- One Never Knows What To Say To The Servants (Wall Street Journal, Tunku Varadarajan, Jan 16, 2004)
It's not possible to spend an hour in urban India without ingesting life's unfairness.
- Advances Against Shares - Dividing The Multiplier Effect (Business Line, A. Seshan, Jan 08, 2004)
The latest raising of minimum margin from 40 per cent to 50 per cent on advances against shares means that the potential value of the multiplier is reduced from 2.5 to 2. One good aspect of the measure is that, unlike in the past instances, the rise in
- Aicpa's Tech Top 10 (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
THE American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) has announced its roster of Top 10 Technologies for 2004. These are the items expected to wield a powerful influence over business in the coming year. The 2004 list breaks two records.
- Washing Dirty Money (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
CLEANLINESS is a virtue, normally. In some cases, however much you clean, there is the stigma that never goes. For instance, funds that are born of illicit origin can never shake off the tainted tag in spite of best of efforts. Bhure Lal's book Money
- Dramatic Progress At Islamabad (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jan 08, 2004)
Gestures and personal dynamics were as important as the bilateral Indo-Pak issues that dominated the recent SAARC Summit in Islamabad. But most significant was the joint statement issued to the media, where Pakistan said it would not allow any terror ...
- Another Attempt At Safta (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
HISTORIC IS PERHAPS an exaggerated description of the decision taken by the leaders of South Asia to make this region a free trade bloc by 2006. This is the third and not the first time that the member-countries of the South Asian Association for ...
- Strong On Safta (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
THOUGH THE RAPPROCHEMENT between India and Pakistan all but eclipsed the 12th summit of the seven-nation South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation in Islamabad, it may be crucial as it could smoothen the functioning of the association, which has
- The Ruins Hold The Answers (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Jan 08, 2004)
Research on why the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed like they did could help improve the safety of future high rises.
- Teeing For Peace (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Jan 07, 2004)
Golf, it can safely be said at the conclusion of the 12th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, is now a vital element in the conceptualization and execution of Indian diplomacy. A little known aspect of the diplomacy which ...
- Precious And For Sale (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Jan 07, 2004)
The UNESCO convention of 1970 was held in Paris and its significant focus was to urge its member countries, among which India is one, to adopt measures to safeguard and protect its cultural property and to find ways of preventing cultural treasures from
- Saarc Pledge (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
THE 12th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) session that ended at Islamabad on Tuesday was, perhaps, the most hyped in its 20-year history. This was bound to happen as it came in the midst of India and Pakistan making earnest efforts
- Wah Bhai Waugh (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
BOTH India and Australia deserve a special round of applause from the growing tribe of global cricket fanatics. The four-Test cricket series between the World Champions and India will certainly be ranked among the best in the history of the game. Over
- Kashmir’s Orphans Spread Trust And Goodwill (Tribune, Usha Rai, Jan 07, 2004)
WE hear often of the widows of Kashmir and the agonising search for the missing men in their lives but there are hardly any stories about the children who have been orphaned by the 13 years of turmoil in the valley. So it came as a surprise to meet this
- ‘sorry, We Don’t Fly Air Marshals’ (Indian Express, ANDREW CAWTHORNE, Jan 07, 2004)
Airlines in Europe and Africa vowed on Tuesday to cancel flights rather than comply with US demands to carry armed air marshals on US-bound planes to guard against more 9/11-style attacks. The statements by South African Airways and Thomas Cook Airlines,
- Heroes Miss Out On History (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
Saurav Ganguly wore his heart on his sleeve, and on his collar, his pocket, his trouser leg. Sitting at Tuesday’s press conference, face unshaven and funereal, his demeanour reflected perfectly the disillusionment of the day. He knew he had too many ...
- Saarc Says No To Terror (Indian Express, V.S.CHANDRASEKAR, Jan 07, 2004)
: In A significant accord on tackling terrorism in South Asia, leaders of seven SAARC countries, including from India and Pakistan, today pledged to eliminate the menace in all forms and manifestations in the region and to deal effectively with financing
- Welcome To Free Trade Zone (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Jan 07, 2004)
The seven SAARC countries on Tuesday signed a treaty that would lead to free trade and movement of goods paving the way for South Asian economic Union along the lines of EU in future. The South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) framework treaty signed by ...
- Interlinking Of Rivers: Ripples Of Concern (Business Line, Sudhirendar Sharma, Jan 07, 2004)
NEVER before has any proposal won the unstinted support of the apex court, the first citizen and the chief executive of the country all at the same time. With this unprecedented backing, the Government has pressed in all available resources to steamroll
- The Renaissance Man (Indian Express, JOHN MEHAFFEY, Jan 07, 2004)
Wearing his beloved Australian cap and allowing himself a rare smile, Steve Waugh left the Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday with an imperishable legacy to the international game he graced for 18 years. Waugh’s singular contribution was to blend both ...
- Friendship Vista (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
A new phase of India’s engagement with Pakistan has begun. The decision by India’s prime minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to meet Pakistan’s president, Mr Pervez Musharraf, and its prime minister, Mr Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, has, as expected, ...
- This Is Better Than ’71, Says Wadekar (Indian Express, KUMAR SHYAM, Jan 07, 2004)
1971. An unfancied team led by Ajit Wadekar humbled the mighty West Indies on their home turf, winning at Port of Spain and drawing the other matches to take the series 1-0. An overseas victory over a team led by Sobers and including Kanhai, Fredericks
- Sleep After Retiring (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Jan 06, 2004)
AEONS ago, it was thought that those tactically well placed to receive bribes and did so would lose their daily dose of "gentle sleep from Heaven that slid into the soul". We do not know whether those who believed in this adage, slept well or not. But
- Rain Harvests And Water Woes (Hindu, T. N. Narasimhan, Jan 06, 2004)
Intensive rain harvesting over large areas can significantly disrupt the hydrological cycle.
- 1-1, 50-50, 433-10 (Indian Express, Rohit Brijnath, Jan 06, 2004)
THE FINAL EQUATION: The series is level, the Test in fine balance, Australia need runs and India wickets
- Mistrust Brushed Under Huge, Red Carpet (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jan 06, 2004)
If ever Prime Minister A B Vajpayee wanted to contest elections from Islamabad rather than his beloved Lucknow, remarked a wag here, winning wouldn’t be difficult. ‘‘Welcome Ataljee,’’ said the headline of an editorial article in the mass-circulated
- `Change In Definition Of Resident Status Will Hit It Professionals' (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
THE change in the definition of `Resident but not Ordinarily Resident' (RNOR) Indians, as effected in the Finance Act 2003, will have severe repercussion on Indian professionals and others who are employed in the software and IT-enabled services (ITES) in
- Restoring Lal Qila (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
AFTER bringing the historic Red Fort under the unified control of the Archaeological Survey of India recently, Union Culture and Tourism Minister Jagmohan has a plan to get the Shahjahan-built fort declared as a heritage monument by UNESCO and make it as
- Fears Delay Uk Flights; Fbi Eye On Vegas Hotels (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
Extra security checks delayed a British Airways flight to Washington Dulles International Airport on Sunday, the fourth in a week as the US entered a third consecutive week on a high state of alert for terrorists. ‘‘The ports of LA and Long Beach are
- Force Of Corruption (Telegraph, SANKAR SEN, Jan 06, 2004)
In a matter of a few decades, corruption has taken deep roots among the police, mainly owing to political interference
- North Wind (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
Bhutan’s offensive against Indian rebels has offered Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee both an opportunity and a challenge. It has broken the back as well as the morale of the militants belonging to the Kamtapur Liberation Organization. It has also gone a long
- On A Home Run (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Jan 06, 2004)
The new year, 2004, will witness the fourth consecutive general elections in which Atal Bihari Vajpayee will lead the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies into battle. No former Indian prime minister, save for Indira, the original Mrs Gandhi, has done
- Getting Together (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
In the mid-fifties, when I was a first year college student in Jalandhar, I remember an Indo-Pak cricket test series was organised to better relations between the two nations. For the Lahore Test, they opened the border. India made a simple ID available
- Gm To Give Away 1,000 Cars In Largest-Ever Sales Promotion (Indian Express, Reuters, Jan 06, 2004)
General Motors Corp said it will give away 1,000 cars and trucks over the next two months as part of its ‘‘Hot Button’’ sales promotion, a $50 million marketing programme that GM bills as the largest in automotive history. Beginning on Monday, GM will
- India In $100-B Forex Club Sans Export Boom! (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Jan 05, 2004)
WITH disaggregated balance of payments data available up to September, a clear picture has now emerged as to how India has managed to pile up a $100 billion plus foreign exchange reserves kitty. Between end-March 1991 and September 2003, total forex
- In The Stands, Too, Indians Maintain The Mental Edge (Indian Express, NEENA BHANDARI, Jan 05, 2004)
It has been days of sheer delight for the Indian fans who had booked their tickets for the fourth Test being played at the Sydney Cricket Ground here way back in August although they hardly expected their team to throw up a challenge to world champions
- Making An India-Pakistan Deal (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 05, 2004)
If the present up-beat mood here on Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's visit continues for another couple of days, it might not be entirely unrealistic to expect a broad political agreement between India and Pakistan on how to revive the peace proces
- A Jamali Show All The Way (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Jan 05, 2004)
The suspense has ended and the drama has begun. With the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali meeting soon after the SAARC inaugural session, the focus has shifted completely to India-Pakistan ...
- On Saving Face (Tribune, Girish Bhandari, Jan 05, 2004)
I had been kind of clairvoyant so far as shaving systems are concerned. When I was a student, the quality of blades was appalling. The governmental euphoria of developing indigenous industrial talent meant one had to constantly tear and hack at one’s ...
- Spreading Guru’s Message Of Compassion (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Jan 05, 2004)
IT’S nice to watch this mother-daughter duo — writer Ajeet Caur and artist Arpana Caur — for they seem so very alike (except that both spell “Kaur” so very differently) even now when Ajeet is in her late sixties and Arpana in her late forties. They seem
- U-19 Tourney Shifted From Dharmshala (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
The under-19 Cooch Behar tournament scheduled to be held at Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh — which is reeling under intense cold wave — has been finally shifted. The BCCI working committee today decided to conduct the tournament in West Zone after The
- Year Of Some Big Decisions (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Jan 05, 2004)
History normally runs on rails, with one development following another in fairly obvious succession. It may seem like a roller-coaster ride at times, but twenty years later the outcome is just about what you would have expected at the start. Once in a ...
- 6000 And Going Strong (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
AS MILESTONES GO for the nation's stock market, the breaching of the 6000 mark by the Sensex — the Bombay Stock Exchange's bellwether index of equity prices — would easily rank among the more significant events in its chequered history. The palpable sense
- It’s Time To Make New Friends (Telegraph, M.R. Venkatesh, Jan 05, 2004)
The BJP’s refusal to rein in Jayalalithaa as also contradictions inherent in their coalition drove the DMK and MDMK out of the NDA
- No Choice But Limited Mobility (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
In a small survey conducted among medical personnel in Sri Lanka in 1994, Bloom et al found that 75 per cent of hospital staff agreed with the statement that “AIDS patients are very infectious and should, therefore, be isolated in separate wards to reduce
- ‘we’ve Never Been Under This Pressure’ (Indian Express, Ashish Shukla, Jan 05, 2004)
Australia may be rated as the top batting side in the world but Justin Langer thinks his side could learn a lot from the “awesome” Indian batsmen who look so patient and apply themselves so well. Langer, who struck his second century of the series ...
- Saarc Initiative On Free Trade (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 05, 2004)
In its essence, a free trade area means trading in a tariff-free environment, which should normally lead to a sharp increase in trade volume and value with the most efficient manufacturers of select products in the "area" raking in the maximum profits.
- India, Pakistan Leaders Meet (CNN.com, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
The leaders of India and Pakistan have met formally for the first time since the two nuclear powers came close to war over the disputed territory of Kashmir.
- Lal Badshah (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Jan 04, 2004)
IN the telegrammatic world of newspaper headline writers, a chestnut that resurfaces periodically, especially in the murky, confusing seasons before and after an election, when coalitions are simultaneously evaporating and solidifying is ‘‘Surjeet active
- Vajpayee’s Trip To Islamabad Generates Goodwill All Around (Tribune, David Devadas, Jan 04, 2004)
There is new hope around as the curtain goes up on the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) at Islamabad. I am reminded of the Colombo summit in July ’98. No other summit attracted foreign mediapersons by the hundred. They were waiting
- 2004 Cast (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
There is some solution in sight for the growing city’s constant problem. Expect a flood of cheap housing this year. There will also be more 35-40 storey buildings. Affordable housing will be this year’s chant.
Education is the other area of growth. 40
- The Northeast Notebook (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Jan 04, 2004)
Saving the migration cycle
THIS winter, school and college students in Jorhat in Upper Assam are using their holidays to spread an important message. Working for an NGO, they are going from door to door telling people about the importance of saving the
- Among Cricket's Ace Batsmen, Lara Is The Trump Card (Indian Express, Trevor Chesterfield, Jan 04, 2004)
For the ability to excite as much as disappoint, and score runs along the way, the West Indian has few peers
- A Prodigal Son All Set To Return (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jan 04, 2004)
POLITICS is a weird game. A few years back former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh had turned into a bete noire of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and called him “a tired and retired leader”. Now he stands in the front row at a BJP workers
- In No Man's Land (Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Jan 04, 2004)
The Second Gulf War is put in perspective in Simpson’s world
- Cereb Circuit (Indian Express, Murali K Menon, Jan 04, 2004)
THE butterflies in my stomach had butterflies in their stomachs as I waited at the poolside of a city hotel for Koneru Humpy. Mumbai’s skyline peeked far ahead from behind a smattering of mist and across a still ocean. A perfect setting for one of the
- Eco-Blunder (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
The vast network of canals bringing water to arid regions, thousands of tubewells sucking out groundwater, and millions of hectares of rice in northern India might have helped feed the nation. But the long-term consequences of transforming the ecology of
- Ideological Roadblocks On The Road (Tribune, Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia, Jan 04, 2004)
THE Hot Peace among different communities of the world, in the beginning of the 21st century, marked by its advent by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre towers in New York, is, in a sense, more explosive than the earlier Cold War between nation
- Sultans Of Swing (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Jan 04, 2004)
Until the 1980s, who knew peanuts about Sufi music? Except in Kashmir and Punjab, or in the inner world of baateen (esoteric) Islam, in Delhi, in Nagaur, in Lucknow, Hyderabad and Bhopal, in Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, at secret samas (Sufi musical
- Sonia, Undisturbed (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Jan 04, 2004)
Sonia, we know, answers no questions. Her biographer does not trouble her with too many
- In That Brave Old World (Indian Express, UMA MAHADEVAN, Jan 04, 2004)
Calliope Helen Stephanides is born in January 1960, in Detroit, to a prosperous Greek-American family. Milton and Tessie are so eager to have a daughter that they perform the necessary act 24 hours prior to ovulation — just as advised in an article in the
- Tendulkar And The Principle Of Moments (Indian Express, Jayaditya Gupta, Jan 04, 2004)
Life can now return to normal. A nation that had held its breath, after endless debate and agonising, can get back to enjoying the cricket. Sachin Tendulkar has finally done what had long been expected — demanded — of him, and how! It’s not often that
- Loc Kargil: Caricaturing The Indian Soldier (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Jan 03, 2004)
HISTORY is often the account of the victor. The numerous books and articles on the Kargil conflict bear this out. Among them, Captain Amarinder Singh's A Ridge Too Far: War in the Kargil Heights 1999 is the most authentic as he does not gloss over the lap
- Mad About Words (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jan 03, 2004)
Not many of us are aware that when Shakespeare wrote his plays and sonnets, there were no dictionaries. There were some compilations of difficult words with their meanings but no one dictionary giving origins, meanings and usages of all words in the
- It’s Raining Runs On Waugh’s Parade (Indian Express, Rohit Brijnath, Jan 03, 2004)
So there finally, amidst the stretching shadows at day’s end, washed by the soft evening sunlight, he stood, the golden boy. That stern language of authority his bats speaks, well it hadn’t quite arrived, the hesitancy was passing but the command had not
- Sikhs In France Seek Help On Turbans (Indian Express, TOM HENEGHAN, Jan 03, 2004)
France's tiny Sikh community is seeking help from India’s Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee to have their traditional turbans exempted from a planned French law to ban Muslim headscarves and other religious symbols from schools. Chain Singh, spokesman for
- Bill In Ca Shop (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
THE NEW BILL to amend the Chartered Accountants Act appears to have set the cat among the pigeons. Accounting professionals are peeved that self-regulation is giving way to a bureaucratic regime, and that new fetters are going to be in place if the Bill
- To Know The Road Ahead, Ask Those Coming Back (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 03, 2004)
WOULD you add legs to a snake after you have finished drawing it? Probably not, but that is a Chinese proverb about doing something that is totally unnecessary and thus spoiling what you have already done, and perhaps also revealing one's ignorance about
- Safta: Much Effort For Little Gains? (Business Line, Sanjib Pohit, Jan 03, 2004)
SAFTA seems set for take off, but it may not as it is modelled now, liberalising commodity trade first and then services. For, apart from India, other countries have little to gain from a trading bloc; their industries would lobby against SAFTA fearing
- Peace Common Desire In India, Says Vajpayee (Indian Express, M. ZIAUDDIN, Jan 03, 2004)
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has said the entire spectrum of mainstream political opinion in India is for peace, cooperation and friendship with Pakistan. In an exclusive interview with Dawn at his residence here on Thursday, the PM made it
- Economics And Emotion (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
JUST AHEAD OF the second Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, the Centre has got the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2003, passed in Parliament. This enables People of Indian Origin (PIOs) in selected countries to have a dual nationality status. In doing so, ...
- Not By Nationalism (Telegraph, Andre Beteille , Jan 03, 2004)
Sociology, as the empirical and systematic study of society and its institutions, is now widely practised in our universities and independent centres of research. It entered the university system in India in the Twenties, barely two or three decades after
- Investors’ Wealth Up Rs 7,91,771 Cr (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
Stock investors have reaped a historical bonanza in the last eight months. Even as Sensex crossed the 6,000 level to 6,026 from 2,932.34 on April 24, 2003, market capitalisation (the total market value of all listed shares) soared by 146 per cent, or Rs 7
- 200 Years Of Turmoil (Hindu, Lydia Polgreen, Jan 03, 2004)
After 200 years of independence, Haiti remains an impoverished and troubled nation.
- Arsenal Take First Step Towards Historic Four-Title Quest (Indian Express, JUSTIN PALMER, Jan 03, 2004)
Arsenal begin their quest to become the first club since Blackburn Rovers in 1886 to win the English FA Cup three years in succession with a tough tie against Leeds United at Elland Road on Sunday. Manchester United, record 10-times winners of the
- Nephew Jagat Given Capt’s Security Cover (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
Constable Gurjit Singh of the Punjab Police’s 4th Commando battalion, who has been booked for attempt to murder, had been deputed to Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh’s security from where he was further allocated to the CM’s nephew and Rajasthan MLA
- Cement Down The Spine (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Jan 02, 2004)
In early 1991, when the ramshackle Chandra Shekhar government was at the helm, a senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader hosted a small dinner for the then party president, L.K. Advani. For the BJP, those were heady days. The Somnath to Ayodhya rath yatra of
- J-K Begins New Year With Peace Hope (Indian Express, Mufti Islah, Jan 02, 2004)
Ahead of the SAARC summit, the multi-party J-K coalition government today called for friendship between India and Pakistan which would spell development for the state. At a massive rally for peace on the new year, Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
- Us Prepares For Massive Troop Rotation (Indian Express, WILL DUNHAM, Jan 02, 2004)
The Pentagon is gearing up for a massive rotation of about a quarter million troops in and out of Iraq, a giant logistics chore complicated by concerns about opportunistic attacks targeting Americans as they arrive or depart. Between late January and
- Ready To Face Polls: Vajpayee (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
With the air ringing with the talk of early Lok Sabha polls, Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee has said that he is ‘‘fit and ready’’ to face elections and confident that the people ‘‘are in a mood to give us another five years’’. The PM’s remarks, made in
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