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Articles 7921 through 8020 of 25647:
- Mumbai Shanghaied To Patna (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Feb 19, 2005)
Just a drive around Patna could help you see the ongoing slum demolition controversy in Mumbai in a comprehensive perspective.
- Muddle In Nepal (Tribune, Mohan Guruswamy, Feb 19, 2005)
India has seven neighbours, including Nepal. Our relationship with each one of them is based on a different set of historical, geographical and cultural factors. But a generally shared perspective of history and a substantially common culture especially b
- Metropolis, Stalled (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 19, 2005)
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh is a deeply disappointed man today. His ambitious attempt — the first serious one since Independence
- Kick-Starting The Vat Debate (Business Line, Prasanth Penugonda, Feb 19, 2005)
The Centre has finally tabled its White Paper on State-level value-added tax. The tax, which is to come into force from April 1, was being contemplated for the past five years but could not be implemented with
- It’S Never Ec (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 19, 2005)
Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala’s latest outburst is yet another reminder of the increasingly strained relationship between political parties and the Election Commission. In many state assembly elections
- India: Nepal’S Friendly Neighbour (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Feb 19, 2005)
It was an odd coincidence that a week or so after Manjushree Thapa’s book Forget Kathmandu (Penguin Viking) was launched with much fanfare in Delhi and widely covered by the Indian media, King Gyanendra declared an Emergency in his kingdom.
- On The Brink (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Feb 19, 2005)
It is a cruel dilemma for many liberals: Is it right that a good thing like democracy should be ushered in Afghanistan and Iraq by an imperial power like the United States?
- History In The Box (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Feb 19, 2005)
Unlike economists and sociologists, who usually write for their peers, historians have sought to reach a wider audience.
- Go For It In Nagaland (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 19, 2005)
The State Human Development Report 2004 for Nagaland, the first for the State, is revealing in many respects. According to conventional wisdom
- Further Descent Into Lawlessness In Nepal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2005)
King Gyanendra's order, setting up the Royal Commission on Corruption Control, flies in the face of the fundamental principle of law, that investigating and prosecuting bodies must be separate from the adjudicating authority.
- Dogged Ways Of Strays (Indian Express, Mukul Dube, Feb 19, 2005)
I was born into a household which contained two greyhounds. The Pekinese, who bore the noble name Tillu, was either there already or else came soon after.
- Delegated Power Needs Diligent Exercise (Business Line, T. N. Pandey, Feb 19, 2005)
A good deal of government legislation gets enacted outside of the Legislature. It bears varied nomenclature, such as rides, regulations, byelaws, schemes, orders, notifications, and so on.
- Centre's Revenue Performance: Need For Sharper Focus (Business Line, V. K. Srinivasan, Feb 19, 2005)
As the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, commences the final round of exercises for Budget 2005-06, a few creases may be appearing on his forehead as it might be difficult to reconcile to the grim fiscal performance of the first nine months of 2004-05.
- Building Confidence (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Feb 19, 2005)
Pakistanis feel that the relationship-building process between India and Pakistan has slowed down under the Congress regime. During my recent trip to Pakistan, comparisons were often drawn to the slick pace at which the Vajpayee government moved to boost
- Broad-Base The Slabs (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Feb 19, 2005)
As the Budget approaches, there is a growing expectation that the Finance Minister may announce major tax breaks and raise the basic exemption limit.
- Un Official Lands In Sex Scandal (Tribune, Leonard Doyle, Feb 19, 2005)
Ruud Lubbers, the UN’s high commissioner for refugees, has been found guilty of misconduct involving sexual harassment by an official investigation carried out by the UN’s watchdog.
- Three Keys To Direct Tax Reforms (Business Line, H. P. Ranina, Feb 19, 2005)
The tax code defies simplification, and a new one drafted with precision and simplicity is imperative. Tax administration needs toning up...
- This Is What He Said (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 19, 2005)
Bowing to pressure from his faculty, the president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers, on Thursday released a month-old transcript of his contentious closed-door remarks about the shortage of women in the sciences and engineering....
- Stifling Natural Enterprise (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Feb 19, 2005)
At the very apex of technical and technological skills, India has established itself as a world player - if not, yet, as a world power. Freed, in some measure
- Sari For Camilla, Pheta For Charles (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 19, 2005)
Mumbai's dabbawallas are now consulting their wives on sari colours and blouse-pieces. Soon after word spread of the Royal wedding between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles in April
- Research Without Barriers (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 19, 2005)
The global movement seeking open access to credible research reports took a significant step forward when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States recently unveiled its Public Access Policy that urges the scientific
- Will It Or Won't It? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 18, 2005)
The United Kingdom's first referendum in three decades is likely to be held in early 2006. Its people will vote on the Treaty of Rome that established a Constitution for the European Union (EU).
- Shooting Priest (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Feb 18, 2005)
PUT down the Bible and pick up the gun” said one of the dacoits to the late Fr Thomas Chakalakkal when he was in their custody somewhere in the jungles of West Champaran in Bihar.
- New Border Lines (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 18, 2005)
The ambit of the composite dialogue India and Pakistan have undertaken to address is so very vast that affixing milestones can appear dismally complicated. Is it material progress on the gas pipeline and consolidation of economic cooperation that’s requis
- Our Legacy Of Modernity (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Feb 18, 2005)
I am trying to piece together seemingly unrelated views on the Indian aesthetic sensibility and create an integrated perspective.
- Raman Is One (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 18, 2005)
About five months back, he was under attack from his own partymen for being a lazy chief minister. Now, a news magazine has crowned Raman Singh the No. 1 CM. And nobody is more upset than his predecessor, Ajit Jogi, who claims
- Reservations And Competing Nations (Deccan Herald, SURYAKANT WAGHMORE, Feb 18, 2005)
The current debate over reservations in the private sector unravels competing nationalities of our delicately constructed nation — one of the traditionally privileged castes for whom caste- based identity and assertion has now turned into a bane.
- Shoot For Indo-Us Missile Ties (Indian Express, K. Subrahmanyam, Feb 18, 2005)
US willingness to share information on missile defence indicates its recognition of the realities of the globalising world and India’s role in it
- Taj Corridor Case (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 18, 2005)
The Supreme Court has rightly questioned the propriety of the Central Bureau of Investigation in recommending the peremptory closure of the Taj corridor case in which former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati...
- The Impossible Quadrangle (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 18, 2005)
In the fourth Dr Ambirajan memorial lecture organised at Chennai on February 16 by the Public Expenditure Round Table and the Institute of Economic Education, the Chairman
- Major Flaws, Serious Lapses (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Feb 18, 2005)
At a time when food quality standards are acquiring an international dimension, and with food laws being re-written to conform to the needs of the food companies and agribusiness giants, the proposal to enact a Food Safety and Standards Act in 2005
- Welcome To The Chinese (International Herald Tribune, William Pesek Jr., Feb 18, 2005)
Everyone has an opinion on who will lead Asia in the years ahead, including the Group of 7 industrial nations. This month, the group clearly seemed to be putting its money on China.
- New Route (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 18, 2005)
In Kashmir, firecrackers greeted the news that the Srinagar-Muzaffarbad bus route was to become operative from April 7.
- Wrong Note (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 18, 2005)
Scoring debating points is not exactly the idea behind peace initiatives. Peace in Assam cannot, therefore, be a matter of how the rebels define the concept of “sovereignty”.
- A Route To Peace (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 18, 2005)
The composite dialogue between India and Pakistan received further impetus during the Islamabad visit of External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh.
- A More Public Role (Telegraph, SURYAKANT WAGHMORE, Feb 18, 2005)
The current debate over reservations in the private sector unravels the claims of competing nationalities. Especially now that the policy threatens, once again, the traditionally privileged castes for whom caste-based identity has become a bane.
- Love, Actually (Indian Express, JAYSHREE MISRA TRIPATHI, Feb 18, 2005)
The nearest our grandmothers got to saying, “I love you” in Oriya was “I like you!” And even that was said with a blush. Dad’s mother, Ma, left us too soon.
- A Small Step For Mankind (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 18, 2005)
The erratic weather patterns are there for all to see and scientists ascribe these to the increasing greenhouse emissions or heat-trapping gases that are produced when fossil fuels like oil and gas are burnt.
- After The Sock In The Eye (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Feb 18, 2005)
India’s garrulous foreign minister has received a sock in the eye. This gentleman, on induction in office last May, had chosen Kathmandu as his first official port of call.
- Airlines Are Rarely Profitable (Business Line, Pankaj Narayan Pandit, Feb 18, 2005)
Richard Branson, the maverick CEO of Virgin Atlantic, famously observed: "How to make $1 million in airline industry? Start with $1 billion!"
- An Unhealthy Plan For The Poor (Indian Express, Balbir K Punj, Feb 18, 2005)
It is a matter of national shame that the Centre has to be reminded by an American daily about how the UPA Government has surrendered to American MNCs’ interests in drawing up the patents ordinance.
- Bridging The Rural-Urban Divide (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Feb 18, 2005)
The Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology aims to encourage and promote voluntary action for the implementation of projects meant to increase rural prosperity, with an emphasis on using technology to make a difference.
- Kyoto To New Delhi (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 18, 2005)
The Kyoto Protocol, the first legally binding environmental treaty committed to reducing greenhouse emissions, took effect on Wednesday. It has two great flaws.
- For An Indian Lover's Day (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 18, 2005)
Prince Charles and his fiancée (no longer companion, lover or mistress) Camilla Parker-Bowles have given the Valentine's Day industry a huge boost by announcing their wedding four days before this annual outburst of infantile exhibitionism.
- India Innovating To Thrive (Rediff on the Net, Arvind Singhal, Feb 18, 2005)
Despite the Tsunami-ravaged start, this New Year promises to be yet another landmark one for India in more ways than one.
- A Crisis Made To Measure (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Feb 18, 2005)
If Governor S.C. Jamir was suspicious about the confidence vote in the Goa Assembly, he could have discussed the matter with Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar.
- Destination Peace (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 18, 2005)
THE agreement External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri have reached on starting a bus service between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad from April 7 marks a new milestone in
India-Pakistan relations.
- Political Carnival (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Feb 17, 2005)
Unlike the rustic politician from Jatland, the Goan lawmaker affects sophistication. His immaculate wardrobe goes nicely with his painstakingly acquired English pronunciation.
- Passage To Kabul (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 17, 2005)
External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh's visit to Kabul has once again highlighted the revival of India's ancient and warm ties with Afghanistan that were rudely sundered during
- Naga Talks: The Task Ahead (Hindu, M. S. PRABHAKARA, Feb 17, 2005)
Both the Government of India and the NSCN should move beyond the sterile formulas based on the territorial imperative.
- War Of Reds (Indian Express, Manoj Prasad, Feb 17, 2005)
In Naxal-affected Palamau division, two of the main contenders in the Assembly poll fray are former ultras. Of these, ex-ultra B N Singh, contesting on a CPI(ML) ticket, is being considered a strong candidate.
- New Delhi’S Stakes In Kabul (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 17, 2005)
External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh’s brief visit to Afghanistan will go a long way towards rebuilding India’s traditional relations with the war-torn country.
- South Block's Inconsistencies (Pioneer, Claude Arpi, Feb 17, 2005)
As Nepal has been in the limelight, I read again some of the old official letters from the first Indian Prime Minister to King Tribhuvan of Nepal in the 1950s. Surprisingly
- Temptations To Resist, Challenge To Meet (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Feb 17, 2005)
As the Budget-making gathers momentum, the Finance Minister must not announce actions or policy intentions on areas that do not strictly fall under the category of fiscal policy.
- Tigers Are On The Death Row (Tribune, Usha Rai, Feb 17, 2005)
THE tiger in India has been on the death row since the early nineties. After a tremendous pressure from NGOs, both national and international, there was acknowledgement that the tiger was facing a second crisis
- Justice As Self-Purification (Hindu, Jyotirmaya Sharma, Feb 17, 2005)
The report on the anti-Sikh riots offers the Congress a chance to reinvent itself.
- Laloo’S Defeat Will Be A Defeat For Peace (Indian Express, Andalib Akhter, Feb 17, 2005)
All eyes are on Bihar’s “Muslim vote”. The chattering classes swear that if the Muslim vote swings towards Laloo Prasad Yadav’s political rivals, he will be in deep trouble.
- Truth, Confessions And Videotape (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Feb 17, 2005)
Anara Gupta, beauty queen. S.A.R. Geelani, academic. Shankaracharya, spiritual leader. Vicky Thakur, suspected kidnapper. Jammu, Delhi, Chennai, Patna.
- Back To The Collective Dream (Indian Express, Kofi A. Annan, Feb 17, 2005)
Because of disagreement with earlier actions in Iraq, the United Nations is now well placed to move Iraq forward
- Kyoto Is A Great Leap Forward (Tribune, Hamish McRae, Feb 17, 2005)
After seven years, huge international debate and the freezing out of George Bush’s United States from the international community, the Kyoto Protocol was formally ratified on Wednesday.
- Carrs Can Deliver (Business Line, SANKAR RAY, Feb 17, 2005)
THE Committee on Subordinate Legislation (14th Lok Sabha), in its first report submitted on December 2, 2004, has indicted the Department of Company Affairs (DCA) for lack of seriousness in applying the Cost Accounting Records Rules (CARRs).
- Corridor Of Doubt (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 17, 2005)
A poor shadow of its former self, the Congress needs troublesome crutches to remain in power at the Centre. It has, consequently, done much loud thinking about reviving itself in UP
- Crumbling Bastion (Pioneer, Subodh Kumar, Feb 17, 2005)
An ideal state gives equal opportunity to every section of society. In this respect, Bihar is way behind its counterparts in the country. Its intra-regional differences are characterised by disparity at the levels of literacy, density of population...
- Do Indians Continue To Trust And Rely On Their Chartered.... (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 17, 2005)
Even as the country's major number-crunching exercise is gathering momentum in the North Block, there are some new and hot entries into the slick and slime of accounting scams.
- A Public Thinker And His Legacy (Deccan Herald, BOB HERBERT, Feb 17, 2005)
Arthur Miller, in his autobiography, Timebends, quoted the great physicist Hans Bethe as saying, “Well, I come down in the morning and I take up a pencil and I try to think...”
- Alternative Sources Needed (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Feb 17, 2005)
Last month the Prime minister and the Petroleum Minister, Mr Mani Shankar Aiyar, did the nation a service by warning it, at the start of the Petrotech-2005 conference in Delhi, that the days of cheap and abundant fossil energy were behind us, possibly for
- Kyoto — Behind And Beyond (Business Line, N. R. Krishnan , Feb 17, 2005)
The much-debated THE MUCH-DEBATED Kyoto Protocol, which seeks to limit emission of greenhouse gases that cause global warming, came into force on Wednesday. With this, one should expect the end of the debate on the need to have such a measure but....
- India's Creaking Infrastructure (Asia Times, Kunal Kumar Kundu, Feb 17, 2005)
The world's biggest passenger plane ever built, the Airbus A380, has rolled out of the Airbus Industries factory in Toulose, France.
- For A Taxpayer-Taxman Chemistry (Indian Express, Ashok Kumar Bal, Feb 17, 2005)
The notification of Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Rules 2004 pursuant to FRBM Act 2003 is a watershed event in our fiscal reform process.
- Not A Bad Idea (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Feb 16, 2005)
Ever since the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission floated the balloon of what the media called “using foreign exchange reserves for infrastructure investment”
- Taxation Breaks (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 16, 2005)
In The Sunday Express, the editor-in-chief of this newspaper had proposed that one of the steps the FM must take in this year’s budget — which the Left will not oppose — is to tax the rich more.
- Saarc Cannot Be Used For Countervailing India... (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 16, 2005)
AS a flourishing democracy, India welcomes more democracy in our neighbourhood, but that too is something that we may encourage and promote; it is not something that we can impose upon others.
- Simply Sania (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 16, 2005)
Tennis sensation Sania Mirza’s wresting of the WTA title in Hyderabad not only made her the first Indian woman to win the honour but has also earned her a place in the top 100 in world ranking.
- The Discovery Of Democracy? (Hindu, David Reznik, Feb 16, 2005)
The growth of true democracy in Palestine has been stunted by a preoccupation with Western democratic technique.
- The Dollar Dilemma (Business Line, Rohit Ramachandran, Feb 16, 2005)
THE US Treasury Secretary, Mr John Snow's remark that the "US current account deficit is a shared responsibility" has thrown open a debate on what and how much should the global central banks do in the current situation.
- Uneasy Lies The Head That Doesn’T Wear The Crown (Indian Express, CHARLES MOORE, Feb 16, 2005)
Kings and princes should be free to marry whom they want, without public rudeness. But titles remain a delicate business
- Well Served, Pappu (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 16, 2005)
The Supreme Court directive shifting the Madhepura Lok Sabha member, Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, from Beur Jail in Patna to Tihar Jail in New Delhi within a week is timely.
- Kyoto — Jinxed At Birth? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 16, 2005)
The Kyoto Protocol on reduction of emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) comes into force on February 16 under circumstances that do not reflect well on policy-makers in many countries.
- Troubles In The Pipeline (Indian Express, Sudha Mahalingam, Feb 16, 2005)
Finding gas while prospecting offshore for oil is every driller’s nightmare — even if it’s better than drilling a dry hole. Offshore gas finds spell substantial investments to pipe the gas to the nearest landfall point
- A Wedding Is Announced (Telegraph, CHARLES MOORE, Feb 16, 2005)
“Quietly pleased” would sum up the general British reaction to the engagement of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles. But does it mean they will accept her as queen?
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