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Articles 7321 through 7420 of 25647:
- Shifting Sands Of Discretion (Hindu, N. Ravi, Mar 15, 2005)
The choice of Chief Ministers based on the shifting sands of discretion of partisan governors has become increasingly more bitter and contentious, and clear guidelines need to be evolved through the political process.
- Patent Ordinance — Innovator Still To Get Desired Comfort (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , Mar 15, 2005)
On Devember 26, 2004, the Government promulgated an Ordinance to provide for product patents in all areas of technology — agrochemicals...
- Shocking Signals (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Mar 15, 2005)
Taken separately, the political shenanigans we have witnessed in recent days and weeks are nothing to write home about. Governors' role in the states has frequently come in for criticism.
- The Case For Reverse Mortgage (Business Line, Subasri Sitaraman, Mar 15, 2005)
One of the chief worries of the elderly is that they will outlive their savings, and this is especially true of the Indian middle-class, often called asset-rich but income-poor.
- The Pm And The Tigers (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Mar 15, 2005)
The tragedy of the extermination of tigers continues unabated. The Central ministry of environment and forests is misleading and fooling the prime minister and his government about the seriousness of the situation because when the
- Nepal Maoists Plan To Launch Fresh Protests (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2005)
The stir comes at a time when the UN Human Rights Commission is about to discuss Nepal during its 61st session in Geneva.
- When Cricket Threatened Peace (Tribune, Syed Nooruzzaman, Mar 15, 2005)
Does cricket really promote peace? It is, no doubt, playing a cementing role in the case of India and Pakistan. It has given a fillip to the idea of people-to-people contacts to bridge the gulf between the two countries.
- Yakshagana: Riding The Crest Of A New Wave (Deccan Herald, Shankaranarayana, Mar 15, 2005)
SHANKARANARAYANA analyses the new face of yakshagana and appreciates the fact that this particular form of folk art has kept itself alive by constantly reinventing itself, by roping in new ambassadors, formulating a new wave of yakshagana or conducting wo
- Time For Us And India To Go Steady (Deccan Herald, STANLEY A WEISS, Mar 15, 2005)
Washington can no longer take India for granted, as there are other suitiors waiting on the sidelines
- Budget: Innovative And Worrisome (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Mar 15, 2005)
THE Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, has introduced innovations in Budget-making.
- Not Good Enough (Telegraph, ABHIRUP SARKAR, Mar 15, 2005)
Whether we like it or not, two or three centuries co-exist side by side in our blessed land. Modern, futuristic skyscrapers have ugly shanties in their neighbourhood...
- Media: ‘Faster, Looser And Cheaper’ (Tribune, James Raine, Mar 15, 2005)
Consumers confront an ever-broader river of news from myriad sources, but the standard for gathering and presenting the information tends to be “faster, looser and cheaper” than in the past, according to a survey of the news business released on Monday by
- A World Born Of Vision And Love (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2005)
Vanitha Poojary Nainwal enters the folkworld - Janapadaloka -and comes back impressed with the vision which has brought the past alive for the present and the future.
- Aerospace Command A Necessity: New Air Chief (Tribune, Gulshan Luthra, Mar 15, 2005)
Facing tough challenges of modernisation and new warfare concepts, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is looking for space-based assets to overcome the 21st century threats...
- Branding Health Tourism (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 15, 2005)
What the Union Tourism Minister, Renuka Chowdhury, outlined for promoting health tourism, and her advocacy of positioning India as a medical hub, have been on the drawing ...
- ‘Vajpayee Misled Country On River-Linking Project’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2005)
The BJP MPs said the UPA regime was trying to ‘trivialise’ the project even as water shortage was becoming a major problem.
- All Shook Up (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 15, 2005)
Limelight is not the best thing for everybody. The governors of two states, Goa and then Jharkhand, threw themselves into the limelight recently. The focus was not kind to them and their kind.
- Law Of The Hill (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 15, 2005)
Laws are no substitutes for political will. A new law has now been put in place to change some features of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council. But even this legislative move may not end the deadlock...
- End Of An Era (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 15, 2005)
Fifteen years ago, Lalu Prasad exploded on the political canvas of Bihar as a messiah of the underclass and thus commenced the still substantially semi-feudal State's eventful tryst with social change.
- Kanchi Seer Formally Granted Advance Bail (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2005)
The seer has obtained anticipatory bails in Tirukottiyur Madhavan assault case, approver Ravi Subramaniam intimidation case and mutt accounts tampering case.
- In Modi’S Service (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 15, 2005)
THE irony could not have gone unnoticed. The day newspapers carried reports of BJP president L. K. Advani defending Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi...
- Icici’S First Weather Insurance Policy (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2005)
ICICI Lombard General Insurance, has structured India’s first–ever weather insurance deal in the non-agro sector providing a unique insurance cover to a salt producing company.
- Gandhi Is Universal (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 15, 2005)
The 75th anniversary of the Dandi March has invited controversy with the Congress party politicising the commemoration of this national event.
- Fully Immunized And Aware (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 15, 2005)
The data collected indicates that there is significant gender bias in immunization in non-tribal villages, but such gender bias is not significant in tribal villages.
- Not Much Dignity In Defeat (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 14, 2005)
The change of course in Jharkhand with the de-induction of Shibu Soren and the induction of Arjun Munda as Chief Minister is the United Progressive Alliance's attempt at damage limitation.
- Need To Clarify Grey Areas In New Anti-Defection Law (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Mar 14, 2005)
The new anti-defection law enacted by Parliament last year through the ninety-first amendment of the Constitution was lauded across the political spectrum as it ...
- Living (It Up) On The Fringes (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Mar 14, 2005)
Until last week’s Budget I had not heard the term ‘‘fringe benefit’’. It’s the sort of unattractive turn of phrase lawyers use and as I am not a lawyer I would not have understood it even had I heard it in normal conversation.
- India As A Brand (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Mar 14, 2005)
The Brand Summit organised at Chennai last month by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) did not provide a conclusive answer on what could make a brand of India and whether it is already
- Governors In The Dock (Tribune, P. P. Rao, Mar 14, 2005)
The Governors of Goa and Jharkhand are caught in the storms of controversy. In Goa, even the offices of Speaker and Deputy Speaker have suffered damage.
- Energising Power Sector (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Mar 14, 2005)
Nuclear power and wind energy: Two sides of the same coin as power generation goes. The first is slowly gaining currency in India but still has a lot of detractors mainly on account of the opacity of safety issues.
- Dandi Minus Gandhi (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 14, 2005)
If the re-enactment of the Dandi march 75 years after the historic event is proving to be a damp squib, it is because the present leadership just does not have the sincerity, honesty and vision of the great Mahatma.
- Bihar May Get A Government But What About Governance? (Indian Express, N K Singh, Mar 14, 2005)
Bihar has gone under President’s rule and the initial statements by the Governor strike the right chord. No one knows if any subsequent permutation combination will yield a viable ...
- Avoiding Confrontation (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 14, 2005)
DR Manmohan Singh government’s decision not to seek a Presidential reference to the apex court on separation of powers under Article 143 of the Constitution is sound.
- A New-Look Hillary Clinton (Hindu, Paul Harris, Mar 14, 2005)
A transformation is taking place in Senator Clinton as she tries to appeal to the lost Democrat middle ground in her quest for the White House.
- Rewind The Tape, Please (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Mar 14, 2005)
Taxing foreign money, as was suggested by the RBI Governor, may, after all, be a good idea. India may not really be able to prevent such hot monies coming and leaving at short notice.
- A Double-Edged Sword (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Mar 14, 2005)
If the Chinese flood of textiles exports continues to grow, there’s no guarantee India will remain unscathed
- Unprincipled Politics (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 14, 2005)
No one in the Central Government or the United Progressive Alliance leadership has emerged unscathed from the murky drama that played out in Jharkhand in the last two weeks
- Wto Completes A Decade (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Mar 14, 2005)
There is little doubt that, if one excludes the United Nations, the World Trade Organisation is perhaps the most important international body with a multilateral membership that has been set up after the Second World War.
- Playing Cowboys In Basra (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Mar 14, 2005)
The British establishment still remains in denial regarding the brutalising effects of its actions in Iraq.
- When Man Proposes, Sarpanch Disposes (Deccan Herald, Narendra kaushik, Mar 13, 2005)
Zahira looks petrified every time she is asked to recall the incident that happened in Meerut and almost claimed her life in November this year. She was tied to a tree and hit with stones and bricks on the orders of a local panchayat.
- Right To Question And Ban Don’T Go Together (Deccan Herald, Tavleen Singh, Mar 13, 2005)
The latest victim of our twisted version of secularism has been Vinod Pandey’s film Sins. Last week the Jammu & Kashmir government banned it for fear of hurting Christian sentiments.
- Tasks Before Hooda Govt: A Blueprint For Progress (Tribune, Raj Kumar Siwach, Mar 13, 2005)
THE Haryana Assembly election results demonstrate the maturity and wisdom of the electorate. Though the outcome is being interpreted by psephologists as a vote
- The Murky, Quirky Side Of Politics (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2005)
The game of politics cannot get better in Goa, Bihar and Jharkhand. Is it a sign of things to come? Is it an erosion of the UPA government’s confidence.
- The Theatre Of Feminist Identity (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2005)
UTKAL MOHANTY familiarises one with the nuances of Angika’s ‘Cupid’s Broken Arrow,’ a combination of three classic plays, that was widely appreciated by theatre audiences in Bangalore.
- Violating The Constitution In Letter And Spirit (Deccan Herald, SANDEEP SHASTRI, Mar 13, 2005)
The office of the Governor has the uncanny ability to remain shrouded in controversy even when no controversy should really exist!
- You Be The Sky...But How? (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, Mar 13, 2005)
WE had a documentary screening at the United Nations’ of ‘You Be the Sky’...It was watched by a mixed audience typical of the United Nations.
- China’S Foreign Minister Plans To Visit Nepal (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2005)
Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zaoxing will be in Kathmandu on an official visit during the first week of April, making it the first visit of its kind by a foreign government representative since King Gyanendra sacked the Sher Bahadur Deuba government and us
- The Culture Of Common People (Deccan Herald, M S MURALI KRISHNA, Mar 13, 2005)
M S MURALI KRISHNA writes about Bharatiya Lok Kala Mandal- a folk and tribal arts centre in Udaipur, which is making commendable efforts to keep the culture of Rajasthan alive.
- Blessed With A Chance To Be Reborn (Deccan Herald, SUJOY DHAR, Mar 13, 2005)
There have been bouquets and brickbats for Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman’s ‘Born into Brothels,’ filmed on the sex workers’ children, that bagged the Oscar for Best Documentary
- Most Audacious Naxal Strike (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2005)
The Maoist attack on an Andra Pradesh police station on Friday night was one of their most gruesome.
- Dmk-Cong Spat: Is It Really Over? (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2005)
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) President M Karunanidhi and senior Congress leader and Union Minister EVKS Elangovan may have kissed and made up.
- Drugs In State To Cost Less (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2005)
This will perhaps score as a brownie point for Finance Minister Siddaramaiah. With Karnataka finally committing itself to the VAT regime, the prices of medicine is about to see a considerable drop, DHNS reports from Bangalore.
- Elusive Traders Outsmart Police (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2005)
Alerted by the raid on poppy crop in Kolar, the elusive opium traders have upped their game. The State police have discovered that in their short trek from Kolar to Mandya.
- Hooda: Leader With A Clean Image (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Mar 13, 2005)
Bhupinder Singh Hooda's clean image over his formidable rival Bhajan Lal helped him to win the race for the post of Chief Minister of Haryana.
- May The Green Force Be With You (Deccan Herald, BITTU SAHGAL, Mar 13, 2005)
In recent days I have been involved with a number of conflict resolution exercises to try win support for wildlife conservation and environmental protection.
- Hizb Commander Among Six Ultras Killed In J&k (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2005)
A self-styled district commander of Hizbul Mujahideen and a counter-insurgent associated with Ikhwan were among six militants killed in separate encounters in Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said here on Saturday.
- Vat Of States (Business Line, D. K. Acharyya, Mar 12, 2005)
Some of the State governments are all set to introduce VAT from April 1, 2005. They have already introduced VAT Bills in their respective Legislative Assemblies.
- Medieval Views In Modern Times (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Mar 12, 2005)
For the last few months, despite being a non-believer, I have been religiously tuning into Quran TV every evening to listen to Dr Zahir Naik answering questions and carrying on his lengthy debate with a Dr William Campbell on the Bible versus
- New Deal For Rural India, Powered By Panchayats (Business Line, D. Murali , Mar 12, 2005)
Lost in the din on withdrawal tax, and pushed to fringes by the FBT protests, is the `Bharat Nirman' that Chidambaram spoke of as a business plan
- Progressing Towards A Flat Tax? (Business Line, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Mar 12, 2005)
The main argument against flat tax is that it is socially unjust. The solution to this problem, however, is not high tax rates because the rich pay less taxes despite that.
- Telephone Is No `Capital Good' If You Manufacture H{-2}o{-2} (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Mar 12, 2005)
CASES, they say, are of two types: funny and not-so-funny. To explain the difference, here's the story of Ginni, a company that manufactures cotton filament and yarn.
- What's Lacking In The `Black' Fight (Business Line, T. N. Pandey, Mar 12, 2005)
Much before the Budget date, there were discussions both within and outside the Government on ways to check tax evasion and black money.
- The Draft Patent Law (Hindu, T.N. Srinivasan, Mar 12, 2005)
Its generic manufactures are too crucial for India, and for the world, to be allowed by a misguided patent law to be wiped out.
- The Curious Relationship Between Congress And Democracy (Indian Express, N K Singh, Mar 12, 2005)
The results of the last Lok Sabha elections in 2004 and elections to some of the state assemblies thereafter, including Haryana, showed emergence of a resurgent Congress, under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi.
- That Sinking Feeling (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 12, 2005)
As the battle for Ranchi sets off yet more dangerous confrontations, it would be useful to return to the moment when it all began.
- Guardians Of Our Democracy (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Mar 12, 2005)
The controversy on the powers of the Judiciary vis-à-vis the Executive and the Legislature — focusing on the Supreme Court's recent directive to the Jharkhand Governor to bring forward the date to test the
- A Former Banker Turns Author (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Mar 12, 2005)
While reading KP Singh's debut novel "The Road to Raisina" (Harper Collins) I kept wondering why this young writer decided to use his initials, especially in the backdrop of the fact that it's a politically potent novel.
- A Plane Tale From The Past (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Mar 12, 2005)
This is a story from the summer of 1996 that I had salted away for my memoirs, but am tempted to tell now because it may have some relevance to the muddying politics of these times.
- ‘An Open Society And Open Economy Are The Pillars... (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 12, 2005)
The test of the vibrancy and resilience of a democracy is not just the ability to conduct elections and convene legislatures.
- The Small C (Tribune, Punam Khaira Sidhu, Mar 12, 2005)
There was a time when advertisements for condoms featured sensuous young women like Pooja Bedi and Viveka Babajee. When these advertisements appeared on TV, my young sons usually looked away.
- Belated Wisdom (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 12, 2005)
THE resignation of the Jharkhand Chief Minister, Mr Shibu Soren, will be welcomed by all right-thinking people. It is surprising that the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader waited till the Centre asked him to quit.
- Bureaucrat Likely To Be Next Chief Executive Of Hong Kong (Tribune, Philip P. Pan, Mar 12, 2005)
Hong Kong’s unpopular chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, submitted his resignation to the Chinese government on Thursday, ending his difficult tenure as the territory’s first post-colonial leader and leaving China with the delicate task of picking a
- Cry For Mumbai, Our Little India (Indian Express, Amrita Shah, Mar 12, 2005)
Mumbai is in the news. Not like Jharkhand and Bihar and the Indo-Pak series are in the news, but in a more fundamental, a more reflective sort of way.
- Democracy For A Few (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Mar 12, 2005)
Now that we have the results of the elections in Haryana, Bihar and Jharkhand, I begin to doubt whether our electoral system does in fact reflect what the people think is best for their country, state or themselves.
- Economy On The Upswing (Tribune, D.N. Patodia, Mar 12, 2005)
Indian economy, for the second consecutive year, has performed well. GDP growth for the year 2004-05 has now been projected at 6.9 per cent after a record growth of 8.5 per cent in the previous year.
- Priorities Make Clever Politics (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Mar 11, 2005)
Is Jayalalithaa attempting something in Tamil Nadu that should be noted? Is she positioning herself as a Brahmin playing backward caste politics?
- Revolt Against Modi (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 11, 2005)
THE rebellion in the Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat is not a sudden development. Rather, it was precipitated by the alleged incident of telephone tapping in which even party MLAs became victims.
- Should Wastelands Be Privatised? (Deccan Herald, Sudhirendar Sharma, Mar 11, 2005)
A brand new Mercedes car covered some 5,900 kilometres across 11 major cities in the country last year! Neither was the automobile giant showcasing its new car nor was it testing the fuel efficiency of its new machine.
- Living With The Pain (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Mar 11, 2005)
Terribly scarred by the Madrid train bombings of a year ago, most Spaniards are unhappy at the slow pace of the investigation.
- Tempering Vigilance With Restraint (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 11, 2005)
The Supreme Court's strong words on the possibility of a fraud on the Constitution in the appointment of Mr. Shibu Soren as Chief Minister of Jharkhand and its direction to advance the
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