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Articles 13121 through 13220 of 25647:
- Cattle Unity Zindabad! (Tribune, Amar Chandel, Dec 06, 2003)
A massive rally of stray cows, bulls and buffaloes of Chandigarh was held last night on one of the busy roads of the city to discuss the situation arising out of the increasingly militant postures adopted by human beings and brazen encroachment on cattle
- If Only Dubey Knew: It Was Vajpayee Who Inspired A Whistle Blower Law For India (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Dec 06, 2003)
Don't tell this to Satyendra Dubey’s family. One full year before he blew the whistle on the Prime Minister’s showpiece project and two full years before he was killed, there was a Whistle Blower Act for India on paper. That paper gathers dust but what is
- Paradox Of U.S. Economy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2003)
THE U.S. ECONOMY is in a paradoxical situation. It grew by an astonishing Chinese-style 8.4 per cent in the quarter ended September 2003, the fastest quarterly burst in years. Yet this scorching growth has given comfort to few outside the George ...
- ‘did The Pmo Think That Only Those With Z-Grade Security Need To Be Protected?’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2003)
As a 15 year old girl, I am absolutely shocked and shattered by the Satyendra Dubey episode. It has crushed my hopes for my country. I believed in President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s vision for India 2020, but now that seems very distant future. As a young ...
- The Judeo Episode And After (Tribune, B.G. Verghese, Dec 05, 2003)
UNTIL the advent of Mr Dilip Singh Judeo, erstwhile Minister of State for Forests and Environment, most simple people thought corruption was something to be viewed with abhorrence. No longer. None other than the Deputy Prime Minister has urged that it be
- Fatal Corruption (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
THE murder of a young engineer who tried to blow the whistle on the open loot of public money and poor implementation of the Golden Quadrilateral expressway project in Bihar is symptomatic of the collapse of administration in Lalooland. Mafia rules the...
- ‘in The End, India Rid Satyendra Of His Pain’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
On November 30, The Indian Express reported how Satyendra Dubey, a young NHAI engineer, wrote confidentially to the PMO about corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral project in Bihar. He was then murdered. The e-mail deluge just doesn’t seem to end
- A Brutal Blow To Congress Ambitions (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
WHILE CONFOUNDING MOST poll pundits, the Bharatiya Janata Party has surprised itself by wresting three out of the four Hindi-belt States decisively from its chief adversary. Contrary to popular expectation, the BJP scored an emphatic win in ...
- Divisions Over Emissions (Hindu, Andrew C. Revkin, Dec 05, 2003)
The Kyoto Protocol has been dealt a blow by Russia's threat not to ratify it.
- The Rainmaker Cometh (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 05, 2003)
Pramod Mahajan and Arun Jaitley have brought to the BJP campaign a new alchemy and have delivered.
- There For The Long Term (Telegraph, Achin Vanaik , Dec 04, 2003)
The US is seeking the cultural commitment of elites in west Asia
- The Prime Ministerial Palace (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Dec 04, 2003)
The seat of power is shifting from South Block to Race Course Road. After years of debate, RCR is finally being customised as an exclusive high-security residence-cum-office complex for the prime minister. All six bungalows on the street have been ...
- Information Comes At A Price (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 2003)
From the Asian Centre for Human Rights’ alternate report to India’s first periodic report for the UN committee on the rights of the child
- Redress Doesn't Get Addressed (Business Line, N. R. Moorthy , Dec 04, 2003)
The ombudsman mechanism of SEBI may result in delayed redressal of investor grievance
- Peace Initiative Is Fine (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Dec 04, 2003)
THE resumption of overflights is merely a small step in a long journey for peace and good neighbourly relations. The litmus test of General Musharraf’s sincerity would be determined on whether he, the ISI and their favourite jihadi outfits continue using
- Gap -Filling Approach To Grants-In-Aid: Proven Instrument Of Equalisation Transfer (Business Line, R. Srinivasan, Dec 04, 2003)
Criticism of the gap-filling approach to grants-in-aid, if seen in proper perspective, can be dismissed, respecting its role as an equalisation transfer instrument. It is hoped the Twelfth Finance Commission, respecting the need for such equalisation ...
- Blasphemy Yesterday, Policy Today: Left Shows The Way With Id Cards (Indian Express, Subrata Nag Choudhury, Dec 03, 2003)
Until very recently, it would have been sacrilege to even suggest such a move in Left-ruled West Bengal. But last week, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s Left Front government, brushing aside objections to signal it’s aware of the dangers the state’s porous ...
- Do Guns Speak A New Language? (Indian Express, Anil Bhat, Dec 03, 2003)
The earlier distinction made between militant groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir and those active in the Northeast, the former being termed as terrorists and the latter as insurgents, does not hold any longer. While the “tanzeems” in Jammu and Kashmir
- In Laloo’s Bihar, Dgp Hits Out At ‘criminalisation’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2003)
Undeterred by RJD Chief laloo Prasad Yadav’s caution against ‘‘crossing limits’’ in attacking politician-criminal nexus, Bihar DGP D.P. Ojha today hit out at criminalisation of politics and said the civil administration in the state had ‘‘virtually ...
- Is India Really Shining? (Hindu, Mohan Guruswamy, Dec 03, 2003)
India seems to be entering the post-industrial phase without having industrialised.
- Wanted, A New Safma Patron (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 03, 2003)
BJP ideologue K.R. Malkani, who died recently, will surely be missed by many but none more so than the Pakistan-headquartered South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA), which recently organised the successful visit of Indian MPs (self-led by Laloo Prasad
- Paranoid Existence (Telegraph, Ranjan Basu, Dec 03, 2003)
The Bush administration is fast turning into a joke — and one that few people find amusing at all. Look at the games to prevent the world from knowing George W. Bush was about to descend on Iraq in his flying chariot (Flight to Baghdad: Untold story ...
- Something Rotten (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2003)
Corruption in high places is India’s best known secret. Everybody talks about it. Enquiry commissions are set up, the Central Bureau of Investigation is called in, the media reports and so on. These are as familiar as conviction of a powerful person is...
- Keepers Of The Law? (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2003)
WHAT a fall! The Maharashtra Police was once highly rated and respected in the country. Today, its reputation is in mud, what with two IPS officers and eight other policemen behind bars in connection with the stamp paper scam. The just-retired Mumbai ...
- Epidemics And The Public Good Approach (Business Line, S. Venu , Dec 03, 2003)
ONE of the most direct results of globalisation is how much more likely we are to share diseases, with the explosion in foreign travel. Tuberculosis has re-emerged in Western cities, cholera is in danger of once again becoming epidemic. And, then, there..
- Outsourcing For Development (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Dec 02, 2003)
UNCTAD's E-Commerce and Development Report 2003 uses India's experience to argue that the growing market for IT services and business process outsourcing offers poor countries a new development opportunity.
- Governance Of The Internet (Hindu, CP Bhambri, Dec 02, 2003)
LESS THAN A fortnight before the United Nations-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society is to take place in Geneva, there remain wide differences between countries on the text of the declaration and the plan of action that is to be ...
- The Moment Of Radicals At Harvard (Tribune, Darshan Singh Maini, Dec 02, 2003)
OF all the Ivy League universities, Harvard, at the top of the table, enjoys a very special kind of reputation for several reasons, one of which is that it was established in Cambridge, Massachusets, as the first university that could match the standards
- Cross-Border Flights From New Year, Train Next On Line (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 02, 2003)
Ending a two-year-old impasse, Pakistan threw open its airspace from January 1 to allow Prime Minister A B Vajpayee to fly directly to the SAARC summit a couple of days later, even as both sides began to prepare the ground for additional communication ...
- Almost Free (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2003)
Wonder ceases with familiarity. But any objective observer would be forced to grant that the massive scale of the electoral exercise in India is cause for some amazement. Even when the polling is limited to assembly elections in five states, the manpower,
- Born With A Silver Spoon, Now Looking For One (Tribune, Roopinder Singh, Dec 02, 2003)
IT came up in a flash and produced generations of doctors; it is now dragging along and is no longer inspirational. Government Medical College, Patiala, has been a premier medical institution for a long time, but it now shows symptoms that are alarmingly
- Challenging Times For Free Trade (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Dec 01, 2003)
TRADE ministers from 34 countries in the North and South American continents initiated a process, on November 20, that will create a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Now that the speeches have been made and the flags waved, the ministers will leave
- Limited Entry (Telegraph, Avishedk Ganguly, Dec 01, 2003)
The decision of the West Bengal chief minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, to ban the media from hospitals shows where liberty and democracy are headed in this state. That corruption is rampant among doctors and hospital staff in government hospitals is ...
- But On The Ground, Militants Won’t Quit: 3 Killed Near Jammu (Indian Express, Arun Sharma, Dec 01, 2003)
Gunbattle rages in forest, IAS official among eight injured
- Prabhakaran: Back To The Old Game (Hindu, V. Suryanarayan, Dec 01, 2003)
Owing to the pressure of circumstances or for tactical reasons, Prabhakaran may adopt different courses at different times but the ultimate objective is an independent state of Tamil Eelam.
- West Bengal’s Lajja (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2003)
The ban order against Nasreen’s book is neither democratic, nor a recipe for social order
- Poll-Itics 2003 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2003)
If this is only the semi-finals, let’s hope we survive the finals
- The Chant Not Heard (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Dec 01, 2003)
Why the Left needs to get beyond its opposition to the war and start pitching in with its own ideas
- Radiological Devices: Anytime, Anywhere (Indian Express, Joby Warrick, Dec 01, 2003)
When police caught up with him on May 31, Tedo Makeria was headed toward Tbilisi’s main rail station, his lethal cargo hidden in boxes lined with lead so thick his taxi sagged from the weight. The suspicious policeman who halted the cab had barely cracked
- Need For Democratic Restraint (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2003)
THE ELECTION COMMISSION has a duty to ensure that there exists a level electoral battlefield. One of the important objectives of the Model Code of Conduct is to see that parties in power, whether at the Centre or in a State, do not misuse their ...
- It’s Voters' Day (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2003)
TODAY is the day when the dirty tricks departments of most political parties will go on overdrive to influence the electoral verdict in Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. However, it is unlikely that the Election Commission is going to be
- We’re Like This And That Only (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Dec 01, 2003)
It's strange to be going back to the idea of “national unity”, one of those school textbook formulations that we learnt by rote. Surely we’ve been there, done that. We’ve explored the idea of India, mouthed aphorisms about unity in diversity, turned ...
- Daddy’s Day Out (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Nov 30, 2003)
Arjun Singh sweats it out to firm up son Ajay’s turf
- Citizens Cry It’s Rape Of Democracy, Govt Works Hard To Find Who Caught The Rapist (Indian Express, Harish Salve, Nov 30, 2003)
Why no FIR in Judeo case after 2 weeks, asks former Solicitor General, now SC amicus curiae
- Govt As Your Delivery Boy (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Nov 30, 2003)
When this piece is published, the dust and din of the election campaign would have settled in the States of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and in the Union of Territory of Delhi. Tomorrow (December 1) is the day of the poll. Mizoram went to...
- Us Watching China’s Success In Space (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma, Nov 30, 2003)
The United States does not like competition or potential competition in space. China has ruffled its feathers
- Between Real And Imaginary Threats (Indian Express, Najam Sethi, Nov 29, 2003)
Musharraf feels religious extremism is the biggest threat to Pakistan yet he has done little so far to curb it
- Bijli, Sadak, Paani (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 29, 2003)
Has development finally made it as top of the pops on the political agenda? Possibly
- Steel Tariffs: Pitting Us Against Half The World (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Nov 28, 2003)
For developing countries such as India and Brazil, the steel sector is pivotal to growth. If it slumps due to the vicissitudes of international trade, these countries would be seriously hurt.
- In Fast-Track City, Old-World Khurana Runs A Solitary Race (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 28, 2003)
If elections are won on favours and pavement-thumping activism, then the BJP’s candidate for chief minister of Delhi, Madan Lal Khurana, should be well ahead of his rival, Congress Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
- This Man Wants The Idiot Back In The Idiot Box (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Nov 28, 2003)
Cable:Ravi Shankar Prasad directs all TV channels: you can show movies, videos, only if you get under-18 certificate from our censors
- No Escape From Fear In Cyberspace (Indian Express, Subimal Bhattacharjee, Nov 28, 2003)
Microsoft recently announced cash awards of US$ 250,000 each for information leading to the arrest of the Sobig worm and Blaster virus writers. These two online global attacks led to serious damage in August last across the globe including India. The awar
- Wah, Waugh! (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 28, 2003)
Here is a great cricketer, and a great human being too
- Aids: Act Now Or Pay Later (Business Line, Peter Piot, Nov 28, 2003)
AIDS is a problem for all. It is time to transform good words and warm sentiments into effective programmes on the ground.
- 12 Days, Still No Fir, If Only Cbi Lets The Law Take Its Course (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Nov 28, 2003)
Twelve days after The Sunday Express expose on Union Minister Dilip Singh Judeo, 10 full days after Prime Minister A B Vajpayee secured his resignation, a week after Judeo himself alluded to a money exchange—even invoking the Mahatma and Birla— the CBI ha
- Central Asia Is Central To India (Indian Express, P. Stobdan, Nov 28, 2003)
The ‘gas and Great Game’ region sees India as a role model
- Transferred Justice (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Nov 28, 2003)
The jubilance that the Supreme Court's verdict has averted injustice asserts the pride that the Indian judicial system has the innate capacity to find just solutions. This merits introspective scrutiny.
- Political Hiccups (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Nov 28, 2003)
A pathetic pursuit of ratings, the quest for more advertising has caused TV channels, newpapers and weeklies to focus so heavily on elections in the four northern states that Mizoram seems almost outside the Indian Union.
- A People's Car For Rs 1 Lakh — Can Ratan Tata's Dream Be Realised? (Business Line, B.S. Rathor, Nov 28, 2003)
More than one-third of the global population of six billion lives in China and India. A small car project will always be viable considering the prospective market size in the region.
- Managing The Test (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 28, 2003)
THE COUNTRY'S TOP management education institutes are shaken by the discovery that the question paper for their prestigious Common Admission Test was put on the street by touts for a price, near the national capital.
- Didi Kept On Hold So She Turns In Phones (Indian Express, Diptosh Majumdar, Nov 28, 2003)
PM reminder: no dial tone
- Rateria Admits: We Did Meet (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Nov 28, 2003)
Judeo video:Dilip Singh Judeo’s asst PS says ‘Rahul’ has left the country; provides CBI with crucial leads
- For A U.N. Role In Iraq (Hindu, R. Kannan, Nov 28, 2003)
For the political process to succeed, it is important that any semblance of occupation is removed.
- Rural India And Media: Emerging Permutations (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Nov 28, 2003)
It is all about the dialectics of change in the Indian media. The novelty is that for once this change is not being triggered by anything that is happening in the urban pockets of the country.
- Is `Outsourcing' The New Virus Around? (Business Line, D. Murali , Nov 27, 2003)
`GIVE the goodies to those at home' seems to be the refrain of the day. The latest issue is that people are beginning to view outsourcing as a deadly virus. Whether you are against multinationals setting up shop here, or beat up people from other States c
- Ftas And The Para-Tariff Effect (Business Line, Sanjib Pohit, Nov 27, 2003)
It is common knowledge that inadequate physical infrastructure inhibits trade. Border delays, for instance, reflect a constraint on the volume of imports/exports that can be processed in a given time-frame.
- Fighting Hiv & Aids (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 27, 2003)
THE GLOBAL AIDS epidemic shows no sign of abating, according to the latest update issued by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organisation (WHO). Globally, 40 million people are currently carrying the human immun
- Report On The Trend And Progress Of Banking (2002-03) — Rbi's Concerns Over `Narrow Banking' (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Nov 27, 2003)
The RBI feels that the banks have been neglecting their primary function of credit creation in favour of "narrow banking" for short-term gains. While this could be appropriate in times of easy liquidity, the macro-economic performance of the banking syste
- Cross-Selling Musings (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Nov 27, 2003)
THE other day two things happened simultaneously that left me bemused — the ICAI, I read, was all set to bring in a thaw in its regulations to permit CAs to collaborate with other professionals in preparation of project report et al.
- A Child Says My Friends Need To Know What I Saw (Indian Express, Arun Sharma, Nov 27, 2003)
Border, day: People relax but no one’s jumping: let’s wait, watch
- Quality Of Justice Is Not Strained (Indian Express, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Nov 27, 2003)
Don’t blindly increase the strength of the judiciary. Make the process of judge selection more rigorous
- Digital Divide And Poor Nations (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kant, Nov 27, 2003)
At next month’s Information Summit, poor countries cannot hope for major concessions to bridge the digital divide
- And Physicists Find Cold Particles Just So Hot (Indian Express, Kenneth Chang, Nov 27, 2003)
The dating habits of bosons and fermions have revved up the superconductivity debate
- No Full Stops In Mulayam Home (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Nov 27, 2003)
All in little Saifai, home to 30,000, agree that Mulayam Singh Yadav put it on the map. And this December, Saifai will have more reason to thank the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister: for 10 days, it will be a world transformed, hosting bigwigs, celebrities, s
- Digital Divide And Poor Nations (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kant, Nov 27, 2003)
At next month’s Information Summit, poor countries cannot hope for major concessions to bridge the digital divide
- Chaos Rules In Somalia (Hindu, Marc Lacey, Nov 27, 2003)
A decade after the U.S. withdrawal, anarchy reigns in Somalia, a reminder that the `war on terrorism' will not be over even if calm someday replaces chaos in Iraq.
- Tansi Judgement (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 26, 2003)
IT WOULD APPEAR that the Supreme Court disapproves morally of the act of the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Ms Jayalalithaa, in dealing in the land belonging to a State Government undertaking even as it acquits her of all charges of legal wrong doing.
- Bihari Rabri And Assamese Tea (Indian Express, Rajat S. Bhattacharjee, Nov 26, 2003)
The people of these two states had lived together harmoniously for years
- Tansi Judgement (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 26, 2003)
IT WOULD APPEAR that the Supreme Court disapproves morally of the act of the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Ms Jayalalithaa, in dealing in the land belonging to a State Government undertaking even as it acquits her of all charges of legal wrong doing.
- 56 Years After Birth, Mha Hands Over Jakli To Mod (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Nov 26, 2003)
The Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry is finally coming home. An order signed and stamped recently has finally brought the regiment to the Ministry of Defence nearly 56 years after it was hastily raised to save Srinagar and other parts of the state.
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