[caption id="attachment_2047118" align="alignnone" width="200"] Arun Shourie[/caption] The writer, a former Rajya Sabha MP from the BJP, was Union minister for communications, information technology and disinvestment.
December 15, 2003 00:00 IST
Mr President, distinguished participants, As a result of detailed and intensive exchanges, valuable declarations ha...
October 18, 2003 00:00 IST
Lessons for licensing systems are just as clear: • Minimise licenses.• Where you just must have them, let the licences not be ...
October 17, 2003 00:00 IST
Decades ago, Arthur Clarke formulated two axioms about the advance of technology. One, whatever is thought possible — and much of what ...
October 16, 2003 00:00 IST
The mal-effects are made all the more certain by the fact that bunches of licences have, necessarily, been given over time — one appurt...
October 15, 2003 00:00 IST
At a seminar in Delhi recently, the Chief Technical Officer of Motorola — she is an Indian, Padmasree Warrior, a graduate of the Delhi ...
August 17, 2003 00:00 IST
On the one hand, we have unbounded opportunities and incomparable advantages to seize them. On the other, there is the fate that will surely...
August 16, 2003 00:00 IST
The problems that have bedevilled Japanese banks are well known — the quicksand of ‘‘directed lending’’, NPAs, and ...
August 15, 2003 00:00 IST
Twenty to twenty-five years ago, even 10 years ago, few of us had heard of Information Technology. Today, exports from this industry are wor...
July 08, 2003 00:00 IST
All of us are here today to hear the President. So, I will be very brief. And to be briefer still, I will read what I typed on the plane las...
August 21, 2002 00:00 IST
The most predictable case is that of West Bengal, in that, reality leaves no alternative to doing the right thing, but also in that, because...
August 20, 2002 00:00 IST
Click on to the website www.pbdisinvest.nic.in. What do you find? It is the site of a ‘‘Directorate of Disinvestment.’’ ...
May 08, 2002 00:00 IST
Reputation is all. Even by itself it is enough to lead the investor to look elsewhere. We delude ourselves believing that investors will com...
May 07, 2002 00:00 IST
Japan is the second largest economy in the world. Till the other day it was the byword for ‘‘miracle’’. Today it is in i...