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Articles 4821 through 4920 of 5550:
- Call His Bluff (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 21, 2001)
IF reports are to be believed, the government has once again succumbed to political blackmail.
- What The Assembly Verdicts Foretell (Telegraph, SURENDRA MOHAN, May 21, 2001)
The assembly elections for the states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Union territory of Pondicherry have caused great joy within the Congress.
- Assam’s Lost Decade (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, May 20, 2001)
Any journalist of my vintage would have paid his dues somewhere in the course of a long career. I believe I paid mine as a reporter for this newspaper covering internal strife in the troubled eighties, more in the Northeast than in Bhindranwale’s Punjab.
- Terms Of Engagement (Times of India, B. S. Malik, May 20, 2001)
POST-KARGIL, many people were of the opinion that general Pervez Musharraf was a brilliant tactician but not a good strategist.
- Small Step To Peace (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 20, 2001)
The tremendous attention that the forthcoming Atal Bihari Vajpayee-Pervez Musharraf summit meeting has attracted is reflective of the growing constituency for peace in India and Pakistan.
- Crowding Out, Courtesy Aphc (Hindu, Sajid Gani Lone, May 20, 2001)
THE SIMULTANEOUS announcement of the withdrawal of the ceasefire and the invitation to General Musharraf from Mr. Vajpayee has established an unequivocal relationship between the Kashmir issue and Pakistan.
- Media Arm-Twisting: Ominous Portents (Tribune, P. Raman , May 19, 2001)
“TODAY, the newspaper world is gripped by an unarticulated fear - the fear of consequences that can follow non-conformist writing. New Delhi is always willing to use its arm-twisting skills against the press barons to fix the newspapers...
- What The Assembly Verdicts Foretell (Telegraph, SURENDRA MOHAN, May 19, 2001)
The assembly elections for the states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Union territory of Pondicherry have caused great joy within the Congress.
- After The Polls (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , May 19, 2001)
SO NOW the elections are over and the results are there for all the world to see -- and think about. Except for West Bengal, the point can perhaps be made that the Congress(I) has emerged the winner, so to speak.
- General Musharraf V. President Musharraf (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, May 19, 2001)
HOW different will be General Pervez Musharraf in the new civilian robe of presidency? Does it make him more respectable and acceptable to the world community, especially to India?
- Tax Holiday For Whom? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 19, 2001)
THE Centre has exempted industries in Kutch from paying excise duty for five years. The Gujarat government in a matching-show of generosity has decided not to charge sales tax on goods sold in the same territory for the same period.
- Feeding Superman Naidu How (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 19, 2001)
How far can budgets be stretched to please special allies?
- A Melting Pot (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 19, 2001)
Tamil Nadu politics is in a state of flux following the rout of the DMK and its allies in the Assembly elections.
- The Wholly Owned Subsidiary (Indian Express, Sunil Jain, May 19, 2001)
While most respectable analysts continue to spend time cogitating over US President Bush’s National Missile Defence programme.
- The Bjp Has No Mandate To Rule (The Financial Express, Sitaram Yechury, May 19, 2001)
How can a party with nothing at stake in a fifth of India pretend otherwise?
- Chasing A Mirage (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 18, 2001)
IT IS GOOD to be ambitious about the targets for economic growth, but such ambitions must be based on what is possible and not the impossible.
- Bleak House (Hindustan Times, Prem Shankar Jha, May 18, 2001)
WHEN TEHELKA’S exposure of all-pervasive corruption in arms purchases rocked the nation in March.
- Slippery In Kuala Lumpur (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 18, 2001)
Palmoil dominates the relationship.
- Vietnam: Wooing Fdi And Succeeding (Business Line, Kanthi Tripathi, May 18, 2001)
IN THEIR recently-held Ninth Communist Party Congress which discussed the ten-year strategy for socio-economic development.
- The Unexpurgated (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, May 18, 2001)
What’s democracy got to do with it?
- Sangh Is The Soul (Indian Express, Harish Gupta, May 18, 2001)
If President K.R. Narayanan is proceeding to Shimla for a week beginning May 19, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will be holidaying at Manali from May 23 onwards.
- What The Assembly Verdicts Foretell (Telegraph, SURENDRA MOHAN, May 18, 2001)
The assembly elections for the states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Union territory of Pondicherry have caused great joy within the Congress.
- The Abc To Nmd Of Sanctions (The Financial Express, Sunil Jain, May 17, 2001)
Or why just going ga-ga about how great NMD is won’t help.
- Tn Mandate: The Wake-Up Call? (Business Line, Menka Shivdasani , May 17, 2001)
A NATION that bristles at the Tehelka corruption charges elects a person who was not even supposed to be eligible for the polls thanks to her conviction.
- Life Beyond India’s Immediate Circle (The Economic Times, Soumya Kanti Mitra, May 17, 2001)
THE PRIME Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s visit to Malaysia follows his January trip to Indonesia and Vietnam.
- Dismal Message Of The Mini-Poll (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, May 17, 2001)
EVEN more sensational than the outcome of the Assembly elections in five states is the smooth manner in which Ms Jayalalitha, having swept the polls, swept into the office of Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister.
- A General And A Swayamsevak (Hindu, Harish Khare , May 17, 2001)
THE PAKISTANI High Commissioner has just announced the revised rules of international diplomacy: summits do not have agendas.
- An Agenda For The Summit (Hindu, Suba Chandran, May 17, 2001)
THE DATE is fixed. The venue is fixed. But what are we going to talk Gen. Pervez Musharraf?
- Two To Tatami (Times of India, ASHIS RAY, May 17, 2001)
No Welcome Mat for India Yet.
- What The Assembly Verdicts Foretell (Telegraph, SURENDRA MOHAN, May 17, 2001)
The assembly elections for the states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Union territory of Pondicherry have caused great joy within the Congress.
- Trade Union Unity And Politics (Hindu, V. KRISHNA ANANTH , May 16, 2001)
ALMOST A decade after the Congress(I) was emboldened to give up its socialist pretensions and allow the then Finance Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, to announce in Parliament the decision to adopt the principles of market economy (July 1991).
- Poetic Licence (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 16, 2001)
THE CASE of Aftab Husain, the Pakistani poet, calls for a poetic rather than a prosaic approach.
- A Neat Operation (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 16, 2001)
THE siege of the Shangus mosque in Anantnag district ended on Monday. For once the terms for ending the siege were dictated by the security forces and not the militants who had turned the mosque into a mini fortress.
- Jaya's People (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 16, 2001)
The happiest lot of people in the aftermath of Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalitha's whirlwind tour of the capital must surely be in the Bharatiya Janata Party.
- Security Compromised (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , May 16, 2001)
ALTHOUGH the media in India made much of the news that the Hinduja brothers accompanied the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Mr Brajesh Misra.
- What The Assembly Verdicts Foretell (Telegraph, SURENDRA MOHAN, May 16, 2001)
The assembly elections for the states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Union territory of Pondicherry have caused great joy within the Congress.
- Vajpayee Can Still Smile (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 16, 2001)
THE CONGRESS party has done rather well in the state elections, but Sonia Gandhi looks unlikely to come to power at the Centre.
- Face To Face With Failure (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindu, May 16, 2001)
THE BJP’s choice of Mussoorie for discussing the poll outcome is a wise one.
- Healing In Kashmir? (Hindu, Rajmohan Gandhi, May 16, 2001)
``EACH TIME I hear footsteps coming towards me, I imagine someone bringing news of peace.''
- Advantage Congress (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 16, 2001)
But UP and Bihar are hard nuts to crack for the party.
- A Rebuff For The Bjp (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 16, 2001)
Indial voters have delivered a depressing message to the BJP-led government in the state elections held on May 10.
- The Hand That Rocked Agp (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 16, 2001)
Samudra Gupta Kashyap analyses why Mahanta lost despite an alliance with the BJP.
- The Wages Of Vendetta (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 15, 2001)
The clock strikes thirteen for the NDA.
- Foreign Affairs (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, May 15, 2001)
As they savour the sweet, sweet taste of victory, good neighbourliness must be farthest from the minds of the victors in Tamil Nadu, Assam and West Bengal. But real life has a curious way of intruding into celebratory moments.
- What The Assembly Verdicts Foretell (Telegraph, SURENDRA MOHAN, May 15, 2001)
The assembly elections for the states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Union territory of Pondicherry have caused great joy within the Congress.
- Jaswant's Pax Americana Doctrine (Tribune, P. Raman , May 15, 2001)
THE rather ironical part of Jaswant Singh's hasty endorsement of US President George Bush's NMD system has been that it comes in the wake of the third anniversary of the Pokhran blast.
- Disadvantage Nda (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 15, 2001)
The voter is sovereign, but the law is supreme.
- The Missile's Message (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 15, 2001)
TUESDAY'S SUCCESSFUL TESTING of a supersonic cruise missile in collaboration with Russia should be hailed as a leap forward in India's defence effort.
- Vajpayee Under Pressure (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , May 14, 2001)
WHATEVER the outcome of the recent State Assembly elections, there is little doubt that the Vajpayee Government is under some pressure right now.
- Decisive Verdicts In The States (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 14, 2001)
THE PEOPLE'S VERDICT in the May 10 round of Assembly polls, despite the varied political and other divergences of the States involved, has been remarkably forthright and unequivocal.
- Us-China: Measured Brinkmanship (Business Line, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, May 14, 2001)
LOUD AND clear, the crisis in Sino-American relations warns that no viable foreign policy can be based only on opportunism, which is a synonym for what Dr Henry Kissinger exalted as pragmatism.
- A Matter Of Taste (Tribune, M. K. Kohli, May 14, 2001)
FORTY years ago — when I was a young man of 30 — I invited to lunch an old classfellow who had been recently posted as sub-divisional magistrate in the town I lived in.
- Towards A Summit Of Friendship (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 14, 2001)
THE DIPLOMATIC COUNTDOWN to the India-Pakistan summit, now scheduled for July 14-16 in Agra, has begun on a conspicuously contentious note during a sensitive cross-border telephone conversation.
- Pakistan As A Bridge State? (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, May 14, 2001)
HAVING APPOINTED himself the President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf arrives here next month as the all powerful leader of Pakistan.
- What The Assembly Verdicts Foretell (Telegraph, SURENDRA MOHAN, May 14, 2001)
The assembly elections for the states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Union territory of Pondicherry have caused great joy within the Congress.
- From Jogi To The Hindujas (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 14, 2001)
IT DID NOT end the way it began. The Balco issue showcased itself as a big political tug-of-war, rarely witnessed between a State Government and the Centre on an economic reform programme.
- America Rules, Okay? (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 14, 2001)
FROM PTBT (Partial Test Ban Treaty) in the early Sixties to CTBT and an indefinite extension of NPT in the Nineties, and now to the missile shield, it has all been a technology- driven American quest for military supremacy.
- Hindujas And A Shameless Sarkar (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, May 14, 2001)
After Tehelka the Government has increasingly shown signs of a shamelessness in the way it is functioning. Undoubtedly the trend is not new. But it is gathering momentum, and does not portend well for democracy.
- Disarming Armitage (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 14, 2001)
India must nuance its response to American overtures.
- Take The High Road (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 14, 2001)
As New Delhi prepares to spread out the welcome mat for Pervez Musharraf, there is a marked divergence of views on how the operative word is spelt.
- Assam’s Lost Decade (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, May 13, 2001)
A ‘people’s movement’ that became a cruel joke.
- Vajpayee - Winner Or Loser? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 13, 2001)
The all-too-apparent limits of the `Vajpayee effect' could embolden the rest of the Sangh Parivar to encroach on the Government, writes Harish Khare.
- Vajpayee - Winner Or Loser? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 13, 2001)
The all-too-apparent limits of the `Vajpayee effect' could embolden the rest of the Sangh Parivar to encroach on the Government, writes Harish Khare.
- What The Assembly Verdicts Foretell (Telegraph, SURENDRA MOHAN, May 13, 2001)
The assembly elections for the states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Union territory of Pondicherry have caused great joy within the Congress.
- Yashwant Sinha Is There To Stay (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 13, 2001)
THERE is no let-up in the criticism for Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha from within the Sangh Parivar. In this context, one is often not surprised when so-called knowledgeable sources talk about his imminent ouster from the Vajpayee Cabinet.
- Now, A Charisma Count (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 13, 2001)
THE ``MINI-ELECTION'' results should help observers meditate on that most elusive asset of a political leader - charisma, especially a capacity to garner votes.
- Realism And The J&k Initiative (Tribune, Rakshat Puri, May 13, 2001)
THE Vajpayee Government’s approach on the Kashmir issue has often been described as “policy-less”.
- Morality Be Damned (Hindustan Times, B. K. Chandrashekar, May 12, 2001)
More than 20 years ago, the well-known Oxford philosopher Prof Stuart Hampshire edited a collection of illuminating essays on politics and morality and raised such questions as: What sort of persons do we want and need to be politicians?
- Telecom Scams, The Ongoing Saga (Indian Express, Sunil Jain, May 12, 2001)
You could be excused if you felt India’s fledgling telecom revolution is turning out to be just another version of Dial-a-Scandal.
- Improprieties Galore In The Go-Between Story (The Financial Express, Inder Malhotra, May 12, 2001)
The Hinduja facilitation act is a first-rate embarrassment.
- A Larger Playing Field (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 11, 2001)
The multitude of post-Tehelka problems which the Vajpayee government has had to face do not seem to have dampened its ardour for economic reforms.
- And Shun Contrarian Talk (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 11, 2001)
ON THE very day that the Union Cabinet was approving a slew of reform measures, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee decided to shun the cold logic of the reforms for rather more populist rhetoric.
- Why The Hurry To Support Nmd? (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, May 11, 2001)
There is a suggestion making the rounds that the Prime Minister was not aware of the fact that External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh was about to endorse President Bush’s National Missile Defence.
- Small Step To Peace (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 11, 2001)
The tremendous attention that the forthcoming Atal Bihari Vajpayee-Pervez Musharraf summit meeting has attracted is reflective of the growing constituency for peace in India and Pakistan.
- A Neat Operation (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 11, 2001)
THE siege of the Shangus mosque in Anantnag district ended on Monday. For once the terms for ending the siege were dictated by the security forces and not the militants who had turned the mosque into a mini fortress.
- The Upturn Down Under (The Financial Express, Sanjaya Baru, May 11, 2001)
Australia-India relations come in from the cold.
- Dialogue On Jammu & Kashmir (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , May 11, 2001)
IT IS hard not to be repetitive on Jammu and Kashmir. That is because there is no marked advance in the efforts, initiated from time to time, to resolve this issue.
- Mobilising “Collective Reaction” Against Militants (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, May 11, 2001)
AMIDST confusing signals emanating from the valley, it is not clear whether New Delhi is working according to a plan to tackle the Kashmir tangle. Total clarity in policy and coordination in approach are essential ingredients for its successful handling.
- Hawking Peace (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 11, 2001)
Whoever crafted Atal Behari Vajpayee's urbane invite to Pervez Musharraf might well be wringing his hands.
- Irrational Exuberance (Times of India, MANOJ JOSHI, May 11, 2001)
THE elements of the Bush administration's new nuclear doctrine, hailed so exuberantly by New Delhi, are simple enough:
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