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Articles 13221 through 13320 of 13380:
- Just Gas? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 29, 2001)
BRITISH Gas, which has a stranglehold on gas retail in the state of Gujarat, has bought out Sea King from the Pipavav liquefied natural gas terminal.
- Of Political Tantrums And Burquas (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 29, 2001)
KASHMIR is at centre stage again, though for a different reason.
- Can Tehri Dam Withstand A Quake? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 29, 2001)
HERE'S news that will send tremors up your spine.
- 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.
- Not By Peace Talks Alone (Indian Express, Bharat Wariavwalla, Aug 29, 2001)
Diplomacy seldom resolves conflicts between deeply righteous nations.
- Short-Term Anger (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 28, 2001)
ANGRY outbursts are nothing new from Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah.
- Wages Of War Paid By The Weak (Pioneer, Ajoy Bagchi, Aug 28, 2001)
Bharat Jhunjhunwala, in his article "Unjust peace" (August 14), raves against the United Nations' Decade of Peace and Non-violence and advances a convoluted thesis against peace.
- Not Too Late (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 28, 2001)
It is obvious from recent events in Calcutta and its environs that organized crime, based in Dubai, is attempting to gain a foothold in the city.
- Terrorism: Glossing Over The Real Issues (Business Line, Premen Addy , Aug 28, 2001)
``GANGSTERS, not freedom fighters'' was the excoriating title of the Sunday Telegraph report on the arrest, recently, of three suspected members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Colombia.
- We Have Nothing To Hide In J&k (Indian Express, Manpreet Sethi, Aug 28, 2001)
THE ‘internationalisation’ of the Kashmir issue has remained a fearful prospect for Indian diplomacy. All efforts have been directed at keeping the issue away from international spotlight.
- 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.
- Perilous Signal (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 27, 2001)
THE UNION HOME Minister, Mr. L. K. Advani's announcement that the Centre is considering extending ``relief'' to security personnel accused of human rights violations in their operations against militancy gives rise to serious misgivings.
- Doors Closed To Difference (Telegraph, ANURADHA KUMAR, Aug 27, 2001)
Despite several high-profile measures and publicity garnering acts, little effort has been expended by either the Centre or the state governments to alleviate the plight of the disabled or the differently-abled, in India.
- 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.
- Third Year Is Come Atalji, But Not Gone (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Aug 27, 2001)
What is it that people of this country desire most today? Is it ideology that guides preference for one party over another?
- Militant Diktats Contrary To Islamic Thought (Tribune, Bimal Bhatia, Aug 27, 2001)
MILITANT diktats in the Kashmir valley commanding women to wear a burqa (veil) have terrorised them.
- There Is Life After Poonch! (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 27, 2001)
THE account of the death and disability written brazenly on Friday night by Pakistani militants in Poonch city cannot be routinely added to the current year’s black book of terror in Jammu and Kashmir.
- 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.
- Lawless In Uniform (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 26, 2001)
The graph of security personnel flouting the law has shown an upward trend. Vinay Kumar reports.
- 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.
- A Saga Of Tragedies And Triumphs (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Aug 26, 2001)
PERCY Bysshe Shelley’s immortal lines “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought”.
- 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.
- Towards Controlled Democracy (Tribune, Syed Nooruzzaman, Aug 25, 2001)
IT is now clear that Pakistan is on the way to a military-controlled democracy. This may have a constitutional sanction too if President Pervez Musharraf succeeds in implementing his scheme of things.
- Defence Restructuring Agenda (Tribune, Ashok K Mehta, Aug 25, 2001)
THE Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) controversy is evergreen, mainly because of the strong reservations of the IAF. Recently the Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal A.Y. Tipnis, did one unusual and one not so unusual thing.
- Kashmir And The Prisoners’ Dilemma (The Financial Express, Sandeep M. Kunte, Aug 25, 2001)
The Indo-Pak stand-off can be usefully analysed by the Game Theory which economists call “the prisoners’ dilemma”.
- Saffronisation And Textbooks (Hindu, Amrik Singh , Aug 25, 2001)
TO UNDERSTAND the issue of saffronisation in the right perspective, we have to look at the decline of the Congress as a ruling party and the rise of the BJP as a rival.
- Naughty Boys (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 24, 2001)
It cannot be pleasant for the speaker of the Lok Sabha to have to decide on doses of disgrace to be doled out to members of parliament as if to unruly schoolboys.
- General Window Dressing (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 24, 2001)
Pakistan’s ‘‘crackdown’’ on militants is pure PR.
- Is Intolerance Overtaking Us? (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Aug 24, 2001)
THE other day, at a farewell party for a western diplomat, I was holding forth on religious tolerance and composite culture when the diplomat placed his hand on my shoulder and walked with me to the far corner of the room.
- Pakistan In The Dock For Rights Violations (Pioneer, ADNI, Aug 24, 2001)
The 53rd session of the Commission on Human Rights at Geneva was occasion for speakers to detail evidence of suborning of the Pakistani judiciary, regional inequities perpetrated by the military regime.
- 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.
- Pak Move Against Militants (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 24, 2001)
When the successive regimes in Pakistan encouraged the setting up of terrorist training camps for the proxy war in India's Jammu and Kashmir, they did not realise that they were patronising a two-edged weapon.
- `Human Rights Reporting Getting Ghettoised' -- Mr Val Williams, Veteran Journalist And Consultant To Thomson Foundation (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 24, 2001)
ONE of the most experienced newspaper trainers in Britain, Mr Val Williams has worked for Reuters, BBC and a number of British newspapers and business magazines.
- The Hate Agenda (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 23, 2001)
NDA is back to minority bashing.
- 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.
- Breakfasts: Stale Yet Necessary (Pioneer, Premvir Das, Aug 23, 2001)
The unceasing media obsession with General Pervez Musharraf is now a thing of the past.
- 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.
- Not By Rice Alone (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 23, 2001)
The controversy over Basmati, and other areas of intellectual property, generates more heat than light.
- Wildlife Thrives Under Militancy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 22, 2001)
Militancy in the state of Jammu and Kashmir has had one positive fall-out: wildlife has shown a remarkable increase — despite the fact that the state has pro-hunting laws — because it is too dangerous for people to go into the forests to shoot animals.
- Fatal Attraction (Hindustan Times, Brahma Chellaney , Aug 22, 2001)
According to international-relations theory, history is shaped by impersonal forces, including the perceived interests of a nation.
- Pak Lecturer Sentenced To Death (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 22, 2001)
A medical lecturer in Pakistan has been sentenced to death under the country’s blasphemy laws after his students complained to a hardline Islamic organisation about one of his classes.
- Odissi Dancer In Pakistan (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 22, 2001)
SHEEMA Kirmani remembers when she gave out 50 invites for her debut solo classical dance performance in 1984 and was overwhelmed when more than 300 enthusiasts attended.
- Curb Naxal Menace (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 22, 2001)
From a law and order problem, confined till recently to a few districts in Andhra Pradesh, Naxalite violence is fast assuming a serious internal security dimension.
- Musharraf: Buccaneer In Baluchistan (Pioneer, Wilson John, Aug 22, 2001)
The next time Pakistan's soldier President Pervez Musharraf opens his mouth on Kashmir, some one in India should remind him of a province called Baluchistan.
- Pyrrhic Victory (Pioneer, GS Bhargava, Aug 22, 2001)
The exposure by Nikita Khrushchev of US spy flights over Soviet territory in the run up to the much vaunted Paris Summit of May 1960 was the high point in Soviet diplomacy during the Cold War years.
- Now, It Is The Hurriyat's Call (Hindu, Harish Khare , Aug 22, 2001)
IT IS one of those delicious absurdities of modern India that very many people are relieved that starting with his Independence Day speech the Prime Minister has put in a few competent speaking appearances.
- Musharraf’s Government And The Great Divide (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 22, 2001)
I have vainly looked through the Pakistan press and the writings of its columnists for a word of condemnation against these killings of Hindus in Doda or Jammu and earlier at the Amarnath pilgrimage.
- Style Without Substance (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Aug 21, 2001)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s Independence Day speech was notable for more than one reason.
- Militancy And Amnesty (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 21, 2001)
THE decade of militancy in Punjab spanning the eighties and early nineties is a dark chapter in the recent history of the state. Guns spoke out to make a point or crush a violent tendency.
- Empowered Combat (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 21, 2001)
Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani has finally dealt a body blow to the enemies within.
- Needed: Globalisation Of The Mind (Pioneer, Sidharth Bhatia, Aug 21, 2001)
For a country with such an overwhelming global presence-militarily, politically, economically and even culturally-the United States of America has always been chary of internationalism.
- Spurt Of Terror In The Valley (Pioneer, N K Pant, Aug 21, 2001)
The post Vajpayee-Musharraf summit days have witnessed a spurt in violence in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).
- For A 'Framework' Of Goodwill (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 21, 2001)
THE POLITICAL WILL and even determination being exuded by both India and Pakistan to move beyond the controversies of the recent Agra summit suggests a shared sense of diplomatic urgency.
- Jammu On The Brink (Hindu, Balraj Puri, Aug 21, 2001)
THE KILLINGS of Hindus in the Jammu region should not be dismissed as stray terrorist acts of desperate militants.
- Fostering Cult Of Hatred (Tribune, P. Raman , Aug 21, 2001)
AMIDST all our preoccupation with hard politics and a crumbling economy, we tend to overlook certain highly disturbing trends on the social front
- Sabotaging Good Intentions (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 20, 2001)
PAKISTAN’S Foreign Office has thrown a spanner in the works by insidiously criticising Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s full account of the intent, purpose, course and consequence of the Agra summit.
- Structural Infirmities In The Economy (Tribune, L. R. Sharma, Aug 20, 2001)
THE Tenth Plan approach paper proposes an 8 per cent average GDP growth rate for the period 2002-7.
- Don't Throw Stones, General (Pioneer, Maninderjit Singh Bitta, Aug 20, 2001)
There was yet another headline in the newspapers on August 5, when 15 Hindus were killed in Doda.
- Children Turn To Srinagar Orphanages (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 20, 2001)
There are thousands of children at orphanages in Srinagar. They huddle together to forget a traumatic past and take up studies to build up a secure future.
- India, U.S. On The Same Side (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 20, 2001)
NEW DELHI, AUG. 19. It can no longer be seen either as an accident or a passing phase of ``irrational exuberance''.
- J&k Crisis Is Not Only A Law And Order Problem (Tribune, Rakshat Puri, Aug 19, 2001)
IT is astonishing that a politician of Mr L. K. Advani’s experience and maturity should have succumbed to pressure from his own partymen as well as the Opposition to extend the Armed Forces (J & K) Special Powers Act of 1990 to the Jammu area.
- A Culture Of Lawlessness (Tribune, David Devdas, Aug 19, 2001)
SUHAIL used to be a militant. In fact he was a commander of the Hizbullah outfit, which dominated the area around his house in Batmaloo in the early 1990s.
- J And K: Government’s Cruel Joke On Mine Blast Victims (Indian Express, Pradeep Dutta, Aug 19, 2001)
When you lose a limb in the state, compensation does not depend on the injury, but on the type of mine that caused it. The difference — Rs 1,000 to Rs 75,000 — snuffs out hopes and breeds corruption.
- The Big Question (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 19, 2001)
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee clearly used his reply to the discussion on the Agra summit in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday to reiterate the basic contours of this country's policy towards Pakistan with special reference to Kashmir.
- The Need For A Paradigm Shift In Defence (Tribune, Avinash Prem, Aug 19, 2001)
THE constant refrain of our leadership ever since independence has been, “There is no sacrifice too great that the nation will not make to ensure that the armed forces are equipped with the best equipment, having the latest technology.
- Mr Vajpayee's Performances (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Aug 18, 2001)
IT IS being said the Prime Minister's performance in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday was of vintage quality and that, more importantly, it should be interpreted as a signal to the nation that he is not a spent force.
- Agra’s Bitter Aftertaste (Hindustan Times, K.R. Malkani, Aug 18, 2001)
The Agra summit has left a lingering bad taste in the mouth. The Indian government had originally taken the position that there would be no India-Pakistan talks until cross-border terrorism ended.
- ‘Jammu Was Brought Under The Disturbed Areas Act Because Of Farooq’ (Indian Express, Chaman Lal, Aug 18, 2001)
Chaman Lal Gupta represents Doda-Udhampur — the current trouble spot in J&K — in the Lok Sabha.
- Autonomy Is No Bargaining Chip (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Aug 18, 2001)
The subject of autonomy for Kashmir has again come into the limelight. The latest outlook apparently is that while the Centre is unwilling to restore the pre-1953 status to the state, it is ready to provide it with ‘special’ powers.
- Not Troops, But Trust (Hindustan Times, Khushwant Singh, Aug 18, 2001)
By now we should have learnt quite a lot about the plague known as terrorism and how to fight it.
- The Three Word Trick (Telegraph, Yogendra Yadav, Aug 18, 2001)
New Delhi believes in the three-word trick. The government has persuaded itself that the crisis in Manipur has been resolved by dropping three words from the Naga ceasefire declaration.
- The Big Question (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 18, 2001)
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee clearly used his reply to the discussion on the Agra summit in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday to reiterate the basic contours of this country's policy towards Pakistan with special reference to Kashmir.
- ‘The State Is Tied Up In Knots’ (Tribune, Gobind Thukral, Aug 18, 2001)
PAKISTAN'S most influential weekly, The Friday Times, has taken Gen Pervez Musharraf to task.
- Uti Scandal: Behind The Scenes (Business Line, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 17, 2001)
IT IS still a mystery how the Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, has been able to escape the ugliness of the UTI mess.
- Time To Discard The Soft State Image (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Aug 17, 2001)
IN my last column I stated that the Vajpayee government lacked political will to tackle terrorism and other pressing socio-economic problems.
- Friendship, Then And Now (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Aug 17, 2001)
The domestic situation is precarious enough, Kashmir looms as a giant threat; it however never rains but pours.
- There Is No Game Plan (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Aug 17, 2001)
THIRTY years ago, an American journalist went to interview Chairman Mao. ‘‘Mr Chairman,’’ he asked the Communist dictator, ‘‘What do you think was the historic consequence of the French Revolution?’’
- The Consummate Equivocator (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 17, 2001)
Some lies are hard to nail. It has taken more than two years for one such lie, a colossal one at that, to be nailed.
- Hell Out Of Heaven (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 17, 2001)
The unprecedented security, and violent incidents, that both preceded and followed the Independence Day celebrations, especially in Kashmir and Delhi, are a clear indication of Pakistan's renewed attempts to blackmail India through a proxy war.
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