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Articles 14021 through 14120 of 25647:
- Reform Has To Be Transparent (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Oct 07, 2003)
It cannot be anybody’s case that economic reform would not include a policy of reforming the public sector. But the kind of knee jerk reactions we have been seeing in the last few days and, more generally, the partial and at times strongly ideological ...
- Uma Bharti Thinks She Is Already The Cm (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Oct 07, 2003)
If she had somehow managed to put behind the controversy over her cake offering to Hanuman, BJP’s chief minister hopeful Uma Bharti has walked into a new one in the final run-up to the Assembly polls: she had to cancel a Dussehra dinner for the who’s who
- Dangerous Tactics (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2003)
ISRAEL'S AIR RAID into Syria on Sunday was a blatant act of military aggression against a sovereign country that had not offered any provocation. Palestinian militants might have, at some time in the past, trained at the site. However, the ...
- Louisiana’s Great Indian Hope Trick (Indian Express, Lee Hockstader, Oct 07, 2003)
Bobby Jindal is a deeply religious Republican whizkid. Can he save a whole American state
- Secularism Is In Luck Now (Indian Express, Syed Shahabuddin, Oct 07, 2003)
If Mulayam succeeds in Uttar Pradesh, he could trigger a national alliance
- Political Suicide Of Ariel Sharon (Deccan Herald, K Mario Soares, Oct 06, 2003)
The Israeli Prime Minister’s strategy is a sure recipe for
irreversible disaster in the Middle-East
- Bobby Jindal One Step Away From Us Poll History (Indian Express, Scott Gold, Oct 06, 2003)
Touting Republican values, he defies Indian label and is favourite in the race
- Politics Of Cancun Failure — Us Stance Hardens Towards G-20+ Nations (Business Line, Seema Gaur, Oct 06, 2003)
American negotiators are criticising leaders of the G-20+, especially Brazil which is one of the world's largest agricultural producer of soy beans, beef, oranges and coffee, for posing as less-developed countries when their economies are, in fact ...
- World Economic Outlook — Lesson Of Growth Without Inflation Ignored (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 06, 2003)
THE International Monetary Fund brings out its World Economic Outlook (WEO) twice every year, once in April and the second time in September. These coincide with the semi-annual meetings of Finance Ministers and central bankers, hosted by the Bretton Wood
- Enemy’s Enemies (Indian Express, Robin Wright, Oct 05, 2003)
US and Iran to swallow differences over Iraq
- An Attack Seeks Answers (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Oct 05, 2003)
Terrorism nearly claimed the life of my good friend, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr Chandrababu Naidu. The attempt on his life deserves to be condemned, and has been rightly condemned, by everyone.
- Not Just Numero Uno (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Oct 05, 2003)
Film star and producer Sanjay Khan’s Numero Uno is among the many film and television companies that dumped equity at astronomical prices on Unit Trust of India (UTI) under the chairmanship of P. S. Subramanyam during the Ketan Parekh-led boom.
- Talking To Pakistan (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Oct 04, 2003)
Raised expectations and abject failures are not prescriptions for long-term, meaningful engagement between India and Pakistan.
- Just Deserts (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Oct 04, 2003)
It's just as well, now they tell us, that India and Pakistan did not send troops to Iraq. A report in the NEW YORK TIMES this week suggested it isn’t just Islamabad and New Delhi that are relieved — Baghdad is relieved as well. Because Indian and Pakistan
- Schools, Colleges Closed As Landslides Continue (Indian Express, S M A Kazmi, Oct 04, 2003)
With landslides hitting Uttarkashi for the 10th consecutive day today, nearly one-fourth of the population has been evacuated. As a precautionary measure, the Gangotri National Highway has been closed to pilgrims and the district administration directed..
- The Importance Of Government Audit (Business Line, Subramanyan Sundaresan, Oct 02, 2003)
TWO months ago, the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, addressing a conference of the Comptroller and Auditor General officers, criticised the government audit system, and said it had reduced the Executive to a prisoner of procedures rather than ...
- Ban On Strikes: A Judicial Excess? (Hindu, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Oct 02, 2003)
Within socially sensitive bounds and liberal legal limits, the right to strike has a permissible home in Indian jurisprudence.
- Ltte's Hunt For Legitimacy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2003)
SINCE THE CURRENT peace process in Sri Lanka began some five years ago, one of the strategic aims of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been to win legitimacy and parity of status with the Government of Sri Lanka. The Tigers have won ...
- Self Goal On Prime Time (Indian Express, Jayaditya Gupta, Oct 01, 2003)
We are not concerned about the media.’’ With this sentence, K.P.S. Gill has probably done more harm to the cause of Indian hockey than at any other point of time in his 10-year reign as head of the Indian Hockey Federation. Gill’s statement was in ...
- Bengal Won’t Be Left Behind (Indian Express, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Oct 01, 2003)
The deliberations at the WTO’s ministerial conference at Cancun must have served as an eye opener for the developed nations as the continuance of huge subsidies to agriculture in these countries became the focal point of the debate. Further, there was...
- Meaning_of_asia_cup_triumph (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2003)
THE FIRST WIN in six Asia Cup hockey championships since their inception in 1982 is significant in two aspects. First, it ensured India a place in the 2006 World Cup. India has been regularly competing in the qualifiers from 1989. Secondly, the ...
- Cla: Regulations Versus Guidelines (Business Line, Amit K. Vyas, Sep 30, 2003)
THE Securities and Exchange Board of India has set the stage for the Central Listing Authority (CLA). The objective behind the CLA Regulations has been to bring about uniformity in the conduct of due diligence to scrutinise listing applications.
- Insats - Flying High (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 30, 2003)
ISRO has demonstrated that it can build world class communication satellites. One of its aims must now be to make sure the Insat system serves much of the country's communications and broadcasting needs.
- Energy Security (Hindu, M. R. Srinivasan, Sep 30, 2003)
Even after 50 years of planning, the country has not achieved self-reliance in energy supply.
- The Bitter-Sweet Cane Arrears (Business Line, A. Seshan, Sep 30, 2003)
If a factory does not get adequate credit it has no choice but face arrears in payments.
- Inroads Into Road Funds (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 30, 2003)
Let go, minister. Micro-managing the national highways projects doesn’t make sense
- Crowded Out Of The House (Indian Express, K S DUGGAL, Sep 29, 2003)
Are we making any use of their expertise and experience in running the Indian democracy?
- To Islamabad Via Washington (Indian Express, V A Pai Panandiker, Sep 29, 2003)
Like it or not, march to peace with Pak will require US ‘vehicle’
- Chronicle Of A Collapse Foretold (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Sep 29, 2003)
"Victory" or "failure" are wrong words to describe the outcome of the Cancun meeting. Cancun was just one event in a continuing struggle over the role of the WTO in the economies of the world.
- Riots In Male (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 29, 2003)
At first glance, the recent rioting in Male, bears no apparent connection to the elections. Judging by the targets the mobs chose, it seems their anger was directed not just at the prison guards but also at Mr. Gayoom's Government.
- Pakistan: Taking The Longer View (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 29, 2003)
The Government has come to attach far too much political importance to bilateral meetings with Pakistan by refusing to have them on the margins of international gatherings.
- Growth Has Its Pains (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 29, 2003)
India as an economic powerhouse? Joy! But it also means there’s a lot more to be done
- For Liberty's Sake, Pota Must Go (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 29, 2003)
Political India must wake up to the truth that the only use of POTA can be its misuse.
- Silent Treatment (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Sep 27, 2003)
Now the court case has complicated matters at a time when the BJP was considering using Ayodhya as a political plank in the coming elections. But if it does so, the lawlessness underlined by the court will come into focus.
- Perverse Pervez (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2003)
Ask not what President Musharraf says, but who he says it to
- Europe Versus America? (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Sep 26, 2003)
Although the crisis over America's war on Iraq has unquestionably weakened European unity for now, it may well have the opposite long-term effect.
- Pm Blows Chill Wind Over Gen Musharraf’s Hot Air (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 26, 2003)
‘Musharraf admitted to UN that Pak has hand in terror’; ‘World doesn’t talk to Al-Qaeda...we won’t negotiate too’
- Blair Faces Hard Labour (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Sep 26, 2003)
The Labour party's own rank and file is in revolt against the Prime Minister, Tony Blair's policies.
- International Terrorrism — The Saudi-Pakistani Nexus (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Sep 25, 2003)
Even as evidence is emerging about how Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have worked hand in hand to support international terrorism by the Al Qaeda, the Bush Administration continues to chase shadows and blame Iran for allegedly supporting terrorism, as it did
- Against Unilateralism (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2003)
UNITED STATES PRESIDENT George W. Bush stands in dire need of the international community's assistance to extricate his country from the mess he has led it to in Iraq. However, such is the arrogance of imperialism and conquest that he prefers to ...
- India, U.S. And Non-Proliferation (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 25, 2003)
The Indo-U.S. negotiations reflect a political commitment to deal with a problem that has long hobbled bilateral relations.
- Disquiet On The Northern Front (Indian Express, Ajai Shukla, Sep 25, 2003)
The Northern Areas, the forgotten corner of Jammu and Kashmir, is set to become Pakistan’s new mess
- Nightmare On Arab Street (Indian Express, Raghav Gupta, Sep 24, 2003)
Forget the military war, what is America doing to win the cultural war in West Asia? Precious little actually
- ‘politicians Fail To Give The Impression That We Lead’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 22, 2003)
Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi, spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, at Connaught Place. Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s Walk The Talk.
- Berlin Talks On, Iraqi Council Member Shot (Indian Express, Reuters, Sep 21, 2003)
As Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder renewed calls for a stronger UN role in Iraq as Germany and France kicked off a fence-mending summit with Britain on Saturday, gunmen in Baghdad opened fire on a car carrying one of the three women on Iraq’s 25-member US
- Krishna, Naidu Bury Hatchet, Goodwill Flows Upstream (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2003)
The bitterness seems to have gone from the relationship between Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh if the bonhomie at today’s joint press conference of the two Chief Ministers, S.M. Krishna and N. Chandrababu Naidu, is any indication.
- Engaging Arafat (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 20, 2003)
It must be recognised that only Yasser Arafat can sell a less than fully satisfactory deal to his people. He should be made a part of the solution, rather than be considered a part of the problem.
- Monument And Folly (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2003)
OVER THE LAST few months, the Supreme Court has set the pace and the broad direction of the inquiry into the irregularities relating to the Taj Heritage corridor project. The most recent, and possibly the most dramatic, example of this is the ...
- Keep Off Neocons (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 19, 2003)
THE neocons now dominating the Bush Administration in the US have been doing their damnedest to cause revulsion and hostility against that country in every possible way. The hauteur with which they have been dealing with other nations, and the total lack
- Mutual Funds - The Importance Of Hedging Short-Term (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Sep 19, 2003)
The problem at present is that portfolio managers do not seem to have a hedging strategy at all.
- Problematic Privatisation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2003)
AFTER PROLONGED DITHERING, the Union Cabinet has finally cleared the privatisation of the Delhi and Mumbai airports. But it is doubtful if the last word on this privatisation exercise has been said. It now transpires that one arm of the ...
- Disinvestment And Parliament (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Sep 19, 2003)
Questions of disinvestment are not to be decided by super-Ministers and accountants. Public companies are the nation's assets.
- Us' Concern Over Job Outsourcing - Old-World Style Protectionism (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Sep 19, 2003)
There is continuing debate in the US on how liberal it should be with visas for foreign workers and the effects of job outsourcing. For India, a major issue of concern is the US' moves through law to cap the number of visas for foreign workers and
- Justice? When P In Vhp Stands For Prosecution (Indian Express, Janyala Sreenivas, Sep 19, 2003)
In the larger interest of justice, it’s necessary that not only justice should be done but it should appear to have been done. It can be hoped that the government will...expeditiously take appropriate decision to increase the confidence of the public in
- Track This Tibetan Arc (Indian Express, P. Stobdan, Sep 18, 2003)
Regardless of New Delhi recently closing its Tibet option, the Dalai Lama continues to receive immense support in the Western world for his lonely struggle to arrive at a settlement with Beijing. His recent meetings in Washington with American President
- Too Small And Too Private (Business Line, K. Srinivasan , Sep 18, 2003)
How private should private companies be allowed to get
- Transforming The Bjp (Hindu, Harish Khare , Sep 18, 2003)
Even after five years in power at the Centre, the BJP has not undertaken the essential task of transforming itself into a `normal' political organisation.
- The Iraq Quagmire (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Sep 18, 2003)
The U.N. is "relevant" once again because Iraq is in a mess... Mr. Bush wants a bailout.
- Lakhs Turn Literate In A Year: Bihar’s New Rewriting On The Wall (Indian Express, Varghese K George, Sep 18, 2003)
Volunteers, officials work together. Result: 3 lakh new literates in Muzaffarpur, 1 lakh women literates in Kishenganj
- Justice Done (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2003)
THE CONVICTION OF Rabindra Kumar Pal — - better known by the assumed name of Dara Singh — and 12 others for the gruesome murder of the Australian missionary, Graham Stuart Staines and his two sons in Orissa, is indeed a cause for ...
- Musharraf Has No Nose For Diplomacy (Indian Express, Benazir Bhutto, Sep 17, 2003)
Decision making in Pakistan once took place in an institutional framework, allowing debate between different governmental departments. This resulted in credible, legitimate, serious and acceptable policies, based on consensus.
- Bureaucracy Beware (Hindu, R.K. Raghavan, Sep 16, 2003)
The Best Bakery case has renewed concerns about the relationship between the police and the prosecution... the two could conspire to sabotage justice in its widely perceived sense.
- A Question Of Credibility (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 15, 2003)
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Tony Blair, facing the worst political crisis of his six years in office, must draw no cheer from a parliamentary committee report that has cleared his Labour Government of the serious charge that it "sexed up" an ...
- Nothing But Conspiracies (Hindu, Timeri N. Murari , Sep 15, 2003)
A 9/11, like a Hiroshima, had never happened before. And because the events are so complex, we try to simplify them and to fit conspiracies into the reality.
- The Un Undone (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Sep 15, 2003)
With the United States seeking to bring the United Nations into the process of peacekeeping in Iraq, it’s useful to note the disadvantageous context in which the UN’s peacekeeping role has been evolving since the end of the Cold War. For nearly four ...
- Desalination: Answer To Chennai's Water Woes (Business Line, M. S. Srinivasan, Sep 15, 2003)
A reliable and low-cost desalination-based water generation and distribution system has the potential to overcome the shortage, provided there is an agreement on the payment of usage charges.
- Streetfighting Fears (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Sep 14, 2003)
On a perfect morning in Srinagar last week as I sat on the roof of a houseboat on the Dal Lake listening to happy, hopeful tales of the Valley’s first real tourist season in a decade, news came of the explosion in Sabzi Mandi. Six people were killed and a
- Modification (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2003)
A day after the Supreme Court asked him to follow Raj Dharma or quit, Chief Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a day-long seminar on ‘Good Governance’. However, when he delivered the opening speech, he made sure mediapersons weren’t there to hear him.
- The Vulnerable (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2003)
FROM WITHIN an ocean of agrarian distress and poverty, there are but a few individuals who give up on life. Indebtedness may be the common factor in the suicides by farmers, but it is clearly not the only or the most immediate reason, as there ...
- Axing The Axis (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Sep 13, 2003)
Indo-Israeli sweet-somethings, timed to rhyme with 9/11 commemorations, were abruptly cut off by the suicide bombings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. But the US and British media had drawn their conclusions.
- Clouds Over Panchayati Raj (Hindu, Pran Chopra , Sep 13, 2003)
Panchayats have become local agencies for implementing a plethora of Centrally-sponsored schemes and those drawn up in distant State capitals.
- Dealing With Debt (Hindu, Tony Smith, Sep 13, 2003)
Argentina has got away with a less-than-stringent deal on its debt burden with the International Monetary Fund; and Brazil looks to follow suit.
- The Arithmetic Of Annexation (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Sep 12, 2003)
THE WAR waged by the US and some of its allies against Iraq rested on one promise and one premise. The premise was that the Saddam Hussein regime possessed a clandestine cache of weapons of mass destruction which, in conjunction with its waywardness,
- Patriotism Under Fire (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2003)
It is worth reminding ourselves, on this day particularly, that we come no closer to understanding the significance of 9/11, at home and abroad, if we use the memory of what happened that morning falsely and vainly. It seemed as if two great tides emanate
- Scandal! Clinton, Monica In Madhya Pradesh (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Sep 12, 2003)
We came for Sonia Gandhi, we stumbled upon Bill Clinton. Brown but fired by the monsoon and standing in the middle of a muddy field in Madhya Pradesh, not very far from Saddam Hussein. Looking on were Vajpayee, Bal ‘Thakre’, even Winston Churchill.
- A Cloud Over Korea (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2003)
EAST ASIA MIGHT have to deal with a very dire situation if the multilateral effort to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapon programme does not succeed. Representatives of the United States, China, Russia, South Korea and Japan met ...
- Learning From Columbia (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2003)
ON FEBRUARY 1 this year, as it was descending to land and only about a quarter of an hour from the end of its mission, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke up in the skies over the United States. All seven astronauts on board, including Kalpana ...
- The Crisis Of Governance (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Sep 12, 2003)
The National Security Advisory Board — yes, it is still around and soldiering on — is currently working on governance, the appalling quality of which is arguably this country's most serious problem. The NSAB has, in fact, submitted to the Government ...
- Girl, Interrupted (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 11, 2003)
The last census had proved an eye-opener. It revealed that the sex ratio of the population in the 0-6 age group had declined in 10 years from 945 to 927 which, in turn, pointed to the widespread practice of female foeticide despite legislation banning it.
- Uneasy Lies The Up Head... (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Sep 10, 2003)
After much horse-trading, the Samajwadi Party leader, Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav, has won the vote of confidence in the UP Assembly. But the political shenanigans are far from over in the State, and for Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav the crown is but of thorns
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