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Articles 3621 through 3720 of 5550:
- Mandal Served With A Pinch Of Saffron (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Sep 04, 2001)
When the Bharatiya Janata Party swept the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh in the summer of 1991, the former prime minister, V.P. Singh, made a prescient remark, “Kalyan bina kalyanva nahin.”
- All Pawns, No Bishops (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Sep 04, 2001)
HEDGED in from all sides, his government torn with contradictions, his governance discredited in the eyes of the country as never before.
- Shuffling The Deck (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 04, 2001)
IT SEEMS FAIRLY evident that the sweeping Ministerial changes are intended to signal a reassertion of Prime Ministerial authority, severely dented as it has been in recent times.
- Walk The Talk (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 04, 2001)
A DAY after expanding the council of ministers, Prime Minister Vajpayee listed ‘downsizing’ government as one of his 14 reform points.
- Decade Of Power Reforms -- Hardly Electrifying (Business Line, N. Ramakrishnan , Sep 04, 2001)
``INDIA'S power sector is a leaking bucket; the holes deliberately crafted and the leaks carefully collected as economic rents by various stakeholders that control the system.
- Man Of Power (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 04, 2001)
Lord Mountbatten had advised India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, that he should routinely shuffle around his ministerial colleagues.
- Kursi Kinetics (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 03, 2001)
Cabinet reshuffle: different strokes for different folk.
- To Beat Them When They Are Down (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 03, 2001)
Human rights violations occurred throughout India, with socially and economically disadvantaged sections of society continuing to be particularly vulnerable.
- Food For Work (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 03, 2001)
THE REPORTS OF starvation deaths in western Orissa have catalysed the Central Government and political parties into examining how to mitigate rural malnutrition.
- Pm's Spring-Cleaning (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 03, 2001)
THE DECISION OF Singapore Airlines to abandon Air-India on the day the Prime Minister was twiddling with the pecking order in the Union Cabinet can be taken as a sample of the foreign perspective on India's reforms.
- One Embassy, Two Ambassadors (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Sep 03, 2001)
IT is simply amazing that we should have two ambassadors to the US.
- Half-Hearted Reshuffle (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 03, 2001)
PRIME Minister Vajpayee wanted to give a facelift to his Council of Ministers but ended up causing heartburn to several senior ministers and party men.
- Fixing Targets Isn't Enough (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 03, 2001)
THE NDA government led by Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee perhaps thinks that one must aim at a high target even if this amounts to being unrealistic.
- Indo-Us Relations On An Even Keel (Tribune, N K Pant, Sep 03, 2001)
IT is now confirmed that Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will be meeting President George Bush and hold parleys with him when the former travels to New York to attend the UN General Assembly session.
- A Revolving Door Called The Nda (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 02, 2001)
In politics there may be no permanent friends or enemies...
- Don’t Miss The Wood (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 02, 2001)
THE CHANGES that Prime Minister Vajpayee has brought about in the composition of his ministerial team and in the allocation of portfolios among them seem designed to send out at least two specific signals.
- Reality Check From Tehran (The Financial Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 02, 2001)
Get it right: entire Muslim world hasn’t ganged up on us.
- Cake With The Icing (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 02, 2001)
With Bollywood such a remarkable and enduring presence in Indian culture, it is no wonder that Delhi is aiming to be ...well, “Dollywood”?
- Digvijay’S Diplomatic Deeds (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 02, 2001)
AFTER the July Indo-Pak Agra summit, Union Minister of State for Commerce and Railways Digvijay Singh has got another international assignment having a diplomatic fallout.
- Mamata's Return To The Nda (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Sep 01, 2001)
BANGALORE, AUG. 31. Ms. Mamata Banerjee is not an important person.
- Forgotten And Forgiven (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Sep 01, 2001)
Mamata Banerjee’s return to the National Democratic Alliance and Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s shrewd promise regarding the Ramjanmabhoomi controversy have answered the question that Time posed five months ago.
- Absolute Power (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 01, 2001)
A weak beginning is often a misleading omen for the future. When Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee became prime minister in 1998, he, like Indira Gandhi in 1966, did not operate from a position of strength.
- The Poll Posturing In Kashmir (Indian Express, SANKARSHAN THAKUR, Sep 01, 2001)
National attention, or at least the attention of the Atal Behari Vajpayee establishment, is now getting focused on elections in Uttar Pradesh but there is another equally if not more key election round the corner — in Jammu and Kashmir.
- `Love And Affection' (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 01, 2001)
IF NOTHING else, the re-induction of the Trinamool Congress and the Pattali Makkal Katchi into the NDA provides the firmest proof that the chief objective of those responsible for the alliance's policies is to remain in power by any means instead.
- Vajpayee-Musharraf Meeting Again (Tribune, R. L. Bhatia, Sep 01, 2001)
THE decision of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to meet President Musharraf at the UN conference reopens the vainness of his first encounter with him.
- G. K. Moopanar (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 31, 2001)
THE PASSING OF G. Karuppiah Moopanar, president of the Tamil Maanila Congress, but who remained at heart ``a Congressman'', has taken away from the national arena a staunch nationalist and an uncompromisingly secular leader.
- Will Ram Deliver? (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Aug 31, 2001)
What is Prime Minister Vajpayee's game plan in Ayodhya? With whom is he negotiating? Why such secrecy about the talks?
- Charging For Safety (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 31, 2001)
The imposition of safety surcharge on all classes of passenger fares by the Railways hardly comes as a surprise.
- We Are Not China, Mr Shourie (Business Line, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 31, 2001)
IT CANNOT be denied that China is making far more progress than India. But to make a fetish of the growth is neither here nor there.
- Weaknesses Of Musharraf Regime (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Aug 30, 2001)
MANY people saw the Agra Summit as a great triumph both domestically and internationally for Gen Pervez Musharraf.
- Fumbling Finance Minister (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Aug 30, 2001)
MONEY is like manure,” goes a Hebrew saying, “Hoard it, and all you end up with is a big stink. Spread it wisely, and you are rewarded with a fortune.”
- Honour Or Power? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 30, 2001)
It’s a choice the Madhya Pradesh CM has to make.
- Deadly Fare (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 30, 2001)
Starvation deaths are only too common in Orissa.
- Musharraf's Pakistan, Post-Agra (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Aug 30, 2001)
Most people saw the Agra Summit as a great triumph both domestically and internationally for General Pervez Musharraf.
- No Time To Talk (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 30, 2001)
General Pervez Musharraf's recent address to the newly-'elected' members of Pakistan occupied Kashmir's (PoK's) 'legislative assembly' clearly indicates that his scheduled meeting with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New York.
- Double Talk (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 30, 2001)
It is difficult to take threats by the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mr Farooq Abdullah, very seriously.
- Whither Panja (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Aug 29, 2001)
Poor Ajit Panja. He’s turned out to be the fall guy in Mamata Banerjee’s remarriage with the NDA.
- Open-Door Policy (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 29, 2001)
If Mamata comes, can Jayalalithaa be far behind?
- Of Rising Perks And Diminishing Responsibilities (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 29, 2001)
TWO things have left me cold. One is the proposal by members of Parliament (MPs) to raise their own emoluments, and the other is the bungling in handling of relations between New Delhi and the Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa.
- Prodigal's Return (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 29, 2001)
It was clear, even in the immediate aftermath of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) and Trinamool Congress's departure from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
- The Fall (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 29, 2001)
With her return to the National Democratic Alliance, Ms Mamata Banerjee has confirmed her place among those Indian politicians whose rank opportunism has reduced their profession to an entertainment of the gutters.
- Towards A Fast Track Of Parleys? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 29, 2001)
SUSTAINING THE MYSTIQUE of summit-level talks, the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, has rightly decided to meet Pakistan's President and Chief Executive, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, on the sidelines of the annual session.
- Crisis Of Coalitions (Pioneer, C P Bhambhri, Aug 29, 2001)
Messrs VP Singh, Chandra Shekhar, HD Deve Gowda, IK Gujral and Atal Bihari Vajpayee have been the only beneficiaries of unstable, faceless, shapeless and directionless coalition governments at the Centre.
- Of Political Tantrums And Burquas (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 29, 2001)
KASHMIR is at centre stage again, though for a different reason.
- Nda’s Re-Entry Made Free (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 29, 2001)
COALITION politics is good enough to win elections and come to power. But it suffers from a built-in handicap— absence of policy cohesion, whimsical conduct of petty leaders and ineffective implementation.
- Ayodhya Takes Centre-Stage (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 29, 2001)
FEW leaders in the Sangh Parivar have the ability to rake up a controversy without inviting criticism.
- Up In Election Mode (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 28, 2001)
UTTAR Pradesh has been brought on the election mode.
- Short-Term Anger (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 28, 2001)
ANGRY outbursts are nothing new from Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah.
- No Scope For "Negotiations" (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 28, 2001)
GIVEN THE HORRIFYING demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992, and its traumatic impact on the national psyche and the blow it caused to India's cherished image as an upholder of a plurality of cultures and faiths.
- Friendly Interests (Telegraph, J. N. Dixit , Aug 28, 2001)
Our obsessive focus on the Pervez Musharraf-Atal Bihari Vajpayee summit at Agra was logical and inevitable.
- Dalits And Durban - Ii (Hindu, P. Radhakrishnan, Aug 28, 2001)
IF THESE lower castes (whom some States have classified under the Most Backward Classes category) have not been included among the Scheduled Castes it is for the reason that they were not identified as untouchables.
- Unity On Wto Issues (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 28, 2001)
THE COMMON POSITION that the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation has decided to take on the issues that will be deliberated at the Doha ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation.
- How `Temporary' The Slowdown, Mr Sinha? (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Aug 28, 2001)
AT LAST, the NDA Government has come to accept what has been obvious to everyone outside that all is not well with the economy.
- Power Play (Pioneer, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Aug 28, 2001)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Murasoli Maran should be congratulated on their bold and forthright stand that a new round of trade negotiations will be acceded to only after the built-in agenda of the Uruguay round has been satisfactorily addressed.
- Resolving Ayodhya (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 28, 2001)
To put it mildly, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's expression of the hope in Lucknow on Sunday that the Ayodhya dispute would be resolved before March next year, came as a surprise.
- Speak Up, Pm (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 28, 2001)
There cannot be a secret solution to Ayodhya.
- Nda: Rumblings Over Waning Stock (Tribune, P. Raman , Aug 28, 2001)
CALL it rumblings or the onset of a protracted cold war in the BJP establishment. Either way, the message is loud and clear.
- A Matter Of Credit (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 27, 2001)
AVAILABILITY of easy and cheap credit is the second major crippling factor in agricultural operations.
- Squaring A Round (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, Aug 27, 2001)
LAST week turned out to be important for India’s foreign trade policy calendar.
- What Will Be The Powell Effect? (Indian Express, Himmat Singh Gill, Aug 27, 2001)
THIS writer cannot claim to know US Secretary of State Colin L. Powell in the conventional sense of the word.
- Amnesty For Brutality? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 26, 2001)
The idea of amnesty for security personnel accused of human rights violations is most untenable, writes Harish Khare.
- Twist In The Tale (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 26, 2001)
What was the need for a sequel to the Tehelka Twister? If the Raisina Hills grapevine is to be believed, it is because George the Fernandes prayed for it. Quite natural.
- It’s Not Only The Govt Which Is Holding India Back (The Economic Times, Lalit Bagai, Aug 26, 2001)
OF late, I have been reading quite a few articles by India’s leading journalists and economic pundits painting a scenario of gloom and doom.
- Amnesty For Brutality? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 26, 2001)
The idea of amnesty for security personnel accused of human rights violations is most untenable, writes Harish Khare.
- Tehelka Aftershocks Turn Spotlight On George (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 26, 2001)
NOW that the heat is on Tehelka.com, the Samata Party is the happiest of the affected lot. Samata was the most affected political party as the heads of its two leaders, George Fernandes and Jaya Jaitley, rolled because of the Tehelkaquake.
- Bill Of Mortality (Pioneer, Ahtesham Qureshy, Aug 26, 2001)
The Lokpal Bill has for the eighth time been introduced in the Lok Sabha.
- Mind Control - The Parivar's Project (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 26, 2001)
The Sangh Parivar's aim is to mould the minds of the young, writes Neena Vyas.
- The Global Mindscape Of Durban Conference (Tribune, Rakshat Puri, Aug 26, 2001)
THE World Conference on Racism scheduled to be held at Durban in South Africa has included in its agenda a discussion on caste prejudices and its ill-effects.
- The President’s Unbearably Hot Tea Party (Tribune, Tavleen Singh, Aug 25, 2001)
IMAGINE celebrating India’s 55th Independence Day with an English tea party in an Indian Garden in monsoon weather so muggy that it was like entertaining in a steam bath.
- Bill Of Mortality (Pioneer, Ahtesham Qureshy, Aug 25, 2001)
The Lokpal Bill has for the eighth time been introduced in the Lok Sabha.
- New Twist No Cover For Murky Deals (Hindu, Harish Khare , Aug 24, 2001)
NEW DELHI, AUG. 23. The Defence Ministry says it did not leak the ``damaging'' portions of the Tehelka tapes. The Venkataswami Commission says it cannot be the source of the leakage.
- Force To Reckon With (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Aug 24, 2001)
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has been put on a waitlist to re-join the National Democratic Alliance.
- Changing Colours Of The Media (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Aug 24, 2001)
There has of late been considerable criticism of the way the Indian media has conducted itself on various matters of vital importance, especially during and after the flop show of the India-Pakistan summit at Agra.
- The Hate Agenda (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 23, 2001)
NDA is back to minority bashing.
- Nizam’s Jewels Set To Dazzle Delhi (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 23, 2001)
WHEN an exhibition of the Nizam’s jewels opens in New Delhi next week, the common man will for the first time get a glimpse of the treasure trove meant only for princes.
- Dealing With Musharraf’s Pakistan (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Aug 23, 2001)
WITHIN a month of the failed Agra summit this country is mercifully beginning to learn how rude are the realities of having to live with a neighbour like Pakistan, especially when it is ruled by a military dictator like General Pervez Musharraf.
- Don’t Play With Cricket (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 23, 2001)
THE Union Government's decision not to allow the Indian cricket team to visit Pakistan next month is unfortunate.
- Falling Graph (Pioneer, Anil Narendra, Aug 23, 2001)
The popularity graph of the NDA Government in general and its leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee in particular has been on the decline. However, in the past few months, this has sunk to an all-time low.
- Functioning Anarchy (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Aug 23, 2001)
The institutions of the state are not supposed to work at cross-purposes.
- Wheels In The Mire (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Aug 23, 2001)
THE last three weeks have left one with apprehensions about our country as a democracy. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, regardless of his political affiliations, is a rare exception in the current political milieu.
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