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Articles 6521 through 6620 of 10500:
- Pay Less And Get Rich (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Nov 02, 2005)
Experience shapes expectations. When India became free, it had behind it almost a century of economic stagnation under British rule. Growth itself seemed a matter of high ambition.
- Building On A Secure Foundation (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 01, 2005)
Extracts from the government of India’s status report on Disaster Management in India, August 2004
- We Need To Start Caring About Fish (Deccan Herald, Max Hastings, Nov 01, 2005)
The world’s oceans are being plundered and nobody seems to be willing or able to stop the slaughter
- France Demurs On Farm Subsidy Cuts (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 01, 2005)
France, the biggest beneficiary of the European Union's (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), has threatened to veto the 25-member grouping's latest proposal at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that is regarded as critical for the success . . . .
- A Silent Revolution In Kerala (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 01, 2005)
Kudumbashree, a micro-credit scheme in Kerala, has helped women mop up billions of rupees to set up small business ventures, bringing about a silent revolution and becoming a model for women’s empowerment.
- "India Is Free From Bird Flu" (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Nov 01, 2005)
Random samples of poultry and migratory birds tested
Migratory birds in high-risk category
Farmers will be compensated in case of breakout
No need to import H5N1 vaccine
- Shamrao Khatale Breaks His Appointment (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Oct 31, 2005)
The National Commission on Farmers team, the public at large, and even sections of the media have signalled the crisis, its causes and its appalling human toll. Failure to intervene in Vidharbha now has no excuses at all.
- The Retail Fdi Bugbear (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 31, 2005)
The political opposition to direct investment by foreign retail chains is a case of two old phobias hopelessly mixed up — of large size and the private sector, on the one hand, and the `foreign hand', on the other.
- Sustainability Of Gdp Growth (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2005)
In its annual report on the national economy, the State Bank of Pakistan has cautioned the Government that the GDP growth rate may suffer due to lower agricultural output and increase in fiscal deficit. The real GDP growth is expected to range between ...
- Hassles At The Airport (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Oct 31, 2005)
In the prehistoric days of P-forms and foreign exchange restrictions, getting out of the country wasn’t loaded with so much political innuendo.
- Experiment In Organic Farming To Be Extended (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2005)
Good results from trial on 100 hectares in each district
Three-day trade fair on organic farming from November 4
Goal is to develop an assured market for farmers
World market for organic produce estimated at $35 billion
- Make The Job Guarantee Act Sustainable (Tribune, Janak Raj Gupta, Oct 30, 2005)
The National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) Act, 2005 enacted on September 7, 2005 is a historic legislation for the simple reason that it has put the onus of providing employment on the government.
- Pension Plan (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 30, 2005)
This is the right juncture for pension reform
- India Seeks Improved Offers On Agri Before Hong Kong Meet (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2005)
Critical of the slow progress in WTO negotiations, India Thursday blamed developed countries for dragging their feet over eliminating farm subsidies in a time bound manner and sought improved offers from the US and EU for a successful outcome at the Hong
- Advantage, Ftas (Business Line, Anil K. Kanungo, Oct 29, 2005)
The mid-1990s witnessed a renewed interest in regional trade agreements (RTAs).
- Spl Purpose Fund For The Tea Sector (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2005)
The Government is considering setting up of a special purpose Tea Fund to revive the Indian tea industry, Union Commerce Minister Kamal Nath said on Friday.
- Centre Floats Public Private Appraisal Panel For Projects (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2005)
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), on Thursday, gave its approval for setting up of the Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPPAC) on the model of the Public Investment Board (PIB) with the authority to apprise projects . . .
- Tata Tetley Scouts For Allies In South Africa (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2005)
Looking to expand its global distribution network
- Fighting For The Centre Ground (Hindu, Polly Toynbee , Oct 29, 2005)
Though horrified by the market let loose on public services, the U.K.'s ruling Labour MPs know dissent is the route to opposition.
- Annul Sugar Factory Board, Government Urged (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2005)
Mazdoor Sangha says there has been misuse of funds
- Pension Plan (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 29, 2005)
This is the right juncture for pension reform
- Cm Scheme For Farmers' Wards On Track (Hindu, Shastry V Mallady, Oct 29, 2005)
Farmers' Social Security Scheme to benefit college students in six districts
- Vodafone Returns To India With $1.5 Bln Bharti Deal (Reuters, Shailendra Bhatnagar and Kirstin Ridley, Oct 29, 2005)
UK-based mobile phone giant Vodafone Group Plc returned to India on Friday with a $1.5 billion deal to buy 10 percent of the country's top mobile phone company Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd.
- Make Mehbooba Deputy Cm, Say Legislators (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Oct 29, 2005)
She convenes a meeting of legislators for Monday
Hectic consultations begin
"Mufti cannot say `no' to rank and file"
Ghulam Nabi Azad to meet PDP leaders
- India And The European Union Have Decided To Initiate Discussions . . . (India Daily, Sonia Chopra, Oct 28, 2005)
According to media reports, India and the European Union have decided to initiate discussions on a horizontal civil aviation agreement.
- Better Your Farm Sops Offers: India To Us, Eu (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2005)
The developing countries, including India, have also asked the European Union and the US to make further deeper cuts in their farm subsidies proposals they have currently submitted.
- 'India Can Grow @8+%' (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday the economic environment in the country was favourable for a growth rate of more than eight per cent.
- Manmohan: Aim At 4% Farm Growth Rate (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Oct 28, 2005)
Country poised for higher growth
- Perils Of Fighting Insurgents (Tribune, Lieut-Gen Harwant Singh (retd), Oct 28, 2005)
Consequent on the incident of killing of Manorma Devi in Imphal by Assam Rifles personnel and the agitation for the abrogation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) that followed, the government set up the Justice Jeevan Reddy Commission . . .
- Agriculture, Development, And Freedom From Want (Hindu, Daniel Gustafson, Oct 28, 2005)
THE IDEA of freedom from want ... expresses an aspiration as old as mankind ... But in this generation freedom from want has been taken out of the realm of utopian ideas.
- The World Should Have Known Better (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2005)
It could turn out to be one of the costliest mistakes the global community has ever made — and it happened despite repeated warning, indeed pleading, from scientists and public health experts.
- Exit Agriculture, Enter Services (Business Line, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Oct 28, 2005)
With limited opportunities in agriculture, the country must focus on areas where demand is not limited — the services sector appears to be the best bet.
- World Bank Loan For Vss (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2005)
World Bank has sanctioned Rs. 650 crores for 2005-06 for promotion of Vana Samrakshana Samithis (VSS) in the State, Environmental Consultant of World Bank Reena Gupta said on Thursday.
- Vidharbha: Awaiting A Deadly Harvest (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Oct 28, 2005)
In the three days the National Commission on Farmers team toured Vidharbha, there were six suicides. In Panderkauda, the body of the latest farmer to take his life entered that town's hospital the same day the team arrived there for a meeting . . .
- Misery Persists In Bangalore (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2005)
Deve Gowda, Dharam Singh, Ministers visit affected areas; toll 13
Two BMP employees die of suffocation while cleaning manholes
People block Bangalore-Mysore Highway to protest water logging
Life yet to return to normal in severely inundated areas
- Know Your Onions (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 27, 2005)
The rising price of onions — a highly political agricultural commodity — is causing public alarm again.
- Rbi Upbeat On Growth (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 27, 2005)
The Reserve Bank of India’s annual monetary policy statement on Tuesday raised the key reverse repo rate by 0.25 per cent to 5 per cent. This means banks will get higher interest on their short-term deposits with the RBI.
- Europe Is Hanging By A Thread (Hindu, Will Hutton, Oct 27, 2005)
The European Union today is a bit like a Tom and Jerry cartoon. Tom has run over the cliff edge chasing Jerry and his legs are still pumping furiously in thin air, he's yet to plummet to earth to meet some grizzly end.
- Rate Hike Is For Price Stability: Chidambaram (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2005)
Terming as “encouraging” the upward revision of GDP growth forecast by RBI, Finance Minister P Chidambaram, on Tuesday, said hike in repo and reverse repo rates were aimed at price stability and would not have adverse impact on lending rates.
- Hunger Is The Terror No 1 (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 26, 2005)
Right now we are being haunted by the horrific images of the earthquake on either side of the Line of Control and in Pakistan where thousands of lives have been wiped out in a matter of few seconds.
- The European Maze (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 26, 2005)
Hampton Court palace is a far more congenial venue for an EU summit than the fortress-like council of ministers’ building in Brussels, though Tony Blair and his 24 fellow leaders are still not going to be making any big decisions when they gather . . .
- Rain Claims 11 Lives In Districts, Widespread Damage To Crops (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2005)
Surplus discharge from Stanley reservoir scaled down to 1.51 lakh cusecs
- Know Your Onions (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2005)
Only way to tackle the high price of a politically sensitive vegetable: free up the market
- Rbi's Price Concerns (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 26, 2005)
In pitching for a high interest rate regime to slow an upward price spiral fuelled by volatile crude prices, the Reserve Bank of India seems to have shuffled its agenda from growth to price stability.
- Rbi Revises Gdp Growth Projection Upwards (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2005)
Leaves Bank Rate unchanged; IBA to review PLR systems
- `Repo Rate Hike Not To Push Up Lending Rates' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2005)
Chidambaram welcomes upward revision of GDP growth forecast
- Strive To Improve Agricultural Productivity, Ysr Tells Scientists (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2005)
Chief Minister inaugurates `lab-to-land' workshop at farm varsity
Scientists urged to visit fields and help farmers
Government to ensure seed production centres in each mandal
ANGRAU Vice-Chancellor presents a report on academic activities
- Chandy Seeks Sonia's Intervention For Aid (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2005)
A Congress delegation from Kerala, led by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy,
- Oecd's Survey Of China — Lessons From The Middle Kingdom (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 25, 2005)
In its first country survey of China, OECD says that the Middle Kingdom's economic impact on the world has been accentuated by its rapidly increasing openness to trade.
- Canara Bank Q2 Net Up 64 Per Cent (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2005)
Canara Bank has posted a 64 percent growth in its net profit at Rs 306.51 crore for the second quarter ending September 2005 over the first quarter.
- Honing Skills And Capabilities (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 25, 2005)
Extracts from the government of India’s status report on Disaster Management in India, August 2004
- Indian Farmers Facing Poverty And Death (Daily Excelsior, Satyendra Pratap Singh, Oct 25, 2005)
The latest statistics released on October 18 by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) damns the claims of successive Government's how the rural India has been impoverished.
- Know Your Onions (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 25, 2005)
Only way to tackle the high price of a politically sensitive vegetable: free up the market
- Centre To Import Onions From Pakistan, China (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Oct 25, 2005)
They will be available at an average wholesale price of Rs. 16 per kg
- Nabard Study On Kuttanad To Be Completed Soon (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2005)
Improving paddy cultivation, life part of agenda
- India Places Onion Order With China, Pakistan (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2005)
Despite rising prices across the border, the Centre on Monday placed an order for 650 tonnes of onions from Pakistan—and 2,000 tonnes from China.
- Disturbing Signs (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 25, 2005)
Battle lines are drawn for the coming Sri Lankan polls
- U.S. Forging A Partnership Of Expediency? (Hindu, Sudha Mahalingam, Oct 25, 2005)
The six-country Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development & Climate has put paid to any hopes of getting the U.S. into the Kyoto Protocol.
- Of Fish, Fishermen And Tigers (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Oct 25, 2005)
A significant contribution to the Kachchathivu debate analysing the problems of the Palk Bay fishermen on both sides of the maritime boundary
- Archimedes' Killer Rays Probably A Myth (Hindu, Ian Sample , Oct 25, 2005)
The Greek mathematician "harnessed sun's rays to burn Roman fleet" — U.S. scientists manage small blaze that fizzles out.
- Wider Choices, Smarter Development (Hindu, Maxine Olson, Oct 24, 2005)
Solution Exchange, a unique experiment by the United Nations, provides an impartial platform for exchange of knowledge and ideas among development practitioners.
- Is India Heading For A Hunger Trap? (Deccan Herald, K P Prabhakaran Nair, Oct 24, 2005)
The Malthusian theory of population outstripping food production is proving to be correct in our country
- Co-Ops Need Total Revamp, Says Fm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2005)
Bemoaning that public agricultural cooperative societies have been captured by undersirable elements, Union Finance Minister P Chidambram, on Sunday, called for complete overhaul of cooperative socities in the country.
- Land Is Green, Air Is Pure By Sunrit Mullick (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 24, 2005)
From the air, Manipur looked like a lush green jewel surrounded on all sides by verdant hills, the tops of some of which were lost in fluffy white clouds fixed and suspended in space.
- Cooperative Societies Need Restructuring: Chidambaram (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2005)
"Newer forms of credit delivery need to be identified'
- Practical Approach To Rehabilitation (Dawn, Kunwar Idris, Oct 23, 2005)
THERE are practical lessons to be drawn from the tragedy of the earthquake. The reactions of the people who must learn the lessons, however, range from fatalism to pipe dreams.
- India, Pakistan Joint Statement After Natwar Singh, Khurshid Kasuri Meeting (Hindu, Special Correspondent, The Hindu, Oct 23, 2005)
This is the text of the Joint Statement issued at the conclusion of the meeting of Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and India.
- It’S Our Right (Statesman, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 23, 2005)
The conduct of the West Bengal government in taking steps to implement the Right to Information Act has been akin to that of a reluctant child on the first day of school
- Threat Of Avian Flu (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 23, 2005)
ONE does not know how real is the threat of an outbreak of avian flu among humans in Pakistan, or elsewhere for that matter.
- Asia-Pacific Countries Vigilant To Avoid Bird-Flu (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 23, 2005)
The UN’s point man on bird flu has warned that migrating towl appear more susceptible to the disease, while Asia-Pacific countries banned poultry imports and discussed readiness plans that could involve sealing borders.
- Asia Grapples With Rural Poverty Despite High Growth (Reuters, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 23, 2005)
In a remote village in northern India, a group of women try to save just 10 rupees each every month. Sometimes even that isn't easy.
- Making Farms Competitive (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Oct 23, 2005)
Going by the trends of agricultural exports and imports since 1991, it would appear that Indian economic reforms led to a perceptible spurt in exports but the advent of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 1995 blunted this trend and encouraged agro-impo
- Amazon Forest Vanishing Faster Than Estimated (Hindu, Alok Jha, Oct 22, 2005)
Satellite images show that an average of 15,500 sq km of forest is being cut down by selective logging each year.
- Old Friends Now Foes In The Konkan (Hindu, ARUNKUMAR BHATT, Oct 22, 2005)
The November 19 byelection for the Malvan-Kankavali seat of the Maharashtra Assembly, promises to be a no-holds-barred fight.
- Farm Talks Flounder (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2005)
By pressuring the Government to evolve a national consensus before making any commitment at the Hong Kong Ministerial scheduled for December, the alliance partners may have done the farm sector a big favour.
- India, Mexico Ink Five Pacts (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2005)
India and Mexico, on Friday, signed five agreements for enhancing cooperation in education, science and technology and other areas, providing a major impetus to bilateral ties.
- Agri Policy Monitor Set Up, Pm At Helm (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2005)
In A bid to put agricultural growth on the fast track and pinpoint problem areas in development and policy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has set up a high-level Agriculture Coordination Committee.
- Storm In A Coffee Cup (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 22, 2005)
For how much longer will the people of West Bengal have to suffer the presence of such people who profess to call themselves politicians but whose only vocation appears to be to upstage each other in the public eye and switch colours when . . .
- Lack Of Cohesion (Greater Kashmir, BASHIR ASSAD, Oct 22, 2005)
Disjointed system of relief won’t do. Agencies will have to cooperate and coordinate to ensure that nothing unfair happens while helping the quake hit people,
- Threat To Nepal (Statesman, J R Mukherjee, Oct 22, 2005)
Nepal, sandwiched between India and China has a population of 27,070,666.
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