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Articles 14121 through 14220 of 25647:
- Hail The Conquering Bunglers (Hindu, Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Sep 10, 2003)
The world's private sector giants are not brave mariners on the free-market ocean but frightened children hiding behind mummy state's skirts.
- Democracy And Adult Suffrage (Deccan Herald, R G Subramanyam, Sep 10, 2003)
There is need to formulate new norms and rules to make democracy more effective and meaningful
- Seven Pillars Of Wisdom (Indian Express, L. PAUL BREMER, Sep 10, 2003)
The road map towards a functional, constitutional, Saddam-free Iraq is ready
- Gujarat’s Blindspot (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Sep 09, 2003)
What is the difference between dictatorship and democracy? In the first, one person changes the people; in the second, the people change that person. When I read about the treatment meted out to Zakia Jaffrey after she had deposed before the Nanavati-Shah
- Russia's Economic Rebound (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Sep 09, 2003)
Russia badly needs diversification to sustain high growth rates if there is a dramatic fall in oil prices once oil from Iraq hits the market.
- Mayawati’s Win-Win Gambit (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Sep 08, 2003)
Mayawati's balancing act is amazing. Her party may be headed for a split, the CBI may be sniffing around for wrongdoings in the Taj corridor case, but there she sits, with ladoos in both hands. A jubilant Congress was all set to do a deal with her, and...
- ‘show Change On The Ground, People Will Join You’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 08, 2003)
Close on the heels of the Taj Heritage Corridor controversy, Union Minister for Tourism and Culture J Jagmohan spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-chief, The Indian Express, in front of the Taj Mahal. Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s Walk
- National Consensus (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Sep 08, 2003)
Has it occurred to the politicians on the two sides of the political fence that they owe it to the country to work unitedly in matters related to the safety and security of the people?
- Facing Up To Corporate Responsibilities (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Sep 08, 2003)
A SIGN on the wall of the men's locker room at the Madras Boat Club would read, `When the going gets tough, the tough get going.' That is how it is with facing a crisis. That is how it must be inside Coca Cola and PepsiCo these days. And when you are an
- Enough, Says Abbas (Indian Express, WAFA AMR, Sep 07, 2003)
Palestinian PM Mahmoud Abbas submitted his resignation on Saturday in a power struggle with Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian President was considering the offer.
- Driven Out By Jats, Harsola Dalits Too Scared To Return (Indian Express, RAJENDRA KHATRY, Sep 07, 2003)
Chased away from their homes by Jats seven months ago, the Dalits of Harsola village are too scared to return, preferring to live on alms within the Guru Ravidas Mandir here.
- Skip Periods Sans Pregnancy (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 07, 2003)
A new birth-control pill named Seasonale promises to reduce the frequency of women’s periods, from every month to four times a year. The contraceptive pills, approved by Food and Drug Administration yesterday, aren’t a new chemical. They contain the same
- Can Democrats Take The War To Bush? (Hindu, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Sep 07, 2003)
The Democrats could make a contest of the U.S. Presidential elections
- Miracle Medicine Or Mirage Again? (Deccan Herald, P R Parthasarathy , Sep 05, 2003)
Will our law-makers enact the necessary legislation based on Malimath’s recommendations on perjury?
- No Order In Pervez’s House (Indian Express, Benazir Bhutto, Sep 05, 2003)
Musharraf rides roughshod over Parliament and manipulates the political process. Should this man be trusted with Pakistan
- Cms As Ceos (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 05, 2003)
IT WAS the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr Chandrababu Naidu, who first thought of calling himself the Chief Executive Officer of the State some years ago. He was obviously keen to incorporate in the State administration the salient features of ...
- Who’s Responsible In Daman? (Indian Express, Milind Ghatwai, Sep 04, 2003)
The bridge that collapsed in Daman last week claiming the lives of 29 children and an adult could well be a symbol of the apathy with which this union territory has for long been administered.
- Wto Bares Its Heart (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Sep 04, 2003)
Uncle Sam is set to enter the WTO meet at Cancun wearing a halo. In the run-up to the biennial ministerial this month, the US suddenly gave up its longstanding objections to a humanitarian deal aimed at providing expensive life-saving drugs to poor ...
- Open A Dialogue (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2003)
THE U.S. STATE Department's expression of concern at the health of Myanmar's Nobel laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, and the appeal to release her and all political activists in that country is expected to set off a fresh round of international ...
- Internal Accountability (Hindu, Harish Khare , Sep 03, 2003)
Pakistan's involvement and its intractable hostility to our safety and security is an old song. But we cannot keep on wringing our hands in despair, petitioning the "international community" to do something about Islamabad.
- The Art Of `Green' Governance (Business Line, K. P. S. Chauhan, Sep 03, 2003)
THE Government of India recently set up a National Environment Authority (NEA) and six regional authorities which are expected to start functioning within three months. The NEA will have the appellate jurisdiction to hear appeals against decisions made by
- Mystery Of Us Economic Growth (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Sep 02, 2003)
The US second quarter GDP growth, revised up to 3.1 per cent from 2.4 per cent, supposedly came from higher estimates for consumer spending, investments and a lower trade deficit. But the real news, says V. Anantha Nageswaran, is that without the defence
- Us To General: Open A Line With Benazir (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2003)
Reports of contacts between the Pakistan government and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairperson Benazir Bhutto are being given increasing credence here by well-informed sources who name two very important personalities, one from the United States and...
- Sonia Spells Relief (Indian Express, Ashwani Sharma, Aug 31, 2003)
Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s proposed visit on September 1 has added pace to relief work in Chhattisgarh. Chief Minister Ajit Jogi was busy making aerial surveys of flood-affected areas today — supervising relief work and dropping food packets for
- Socialism With A Yadav Face (Indian Express, Vrinda Gopinath, Aug 30, 2003)
The public image of Mulayam Singh Yadav swerves between Mullah Mulayam and Madhav Mulayam -- his credentials as a secular, anti-Hindutva cheerleader are under intense scrutiny as he begins his innings as Uttar Pradesh chief minister. But the self-claimed
- Mumbai On The Map (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Aug 30, 2003)
Mumbai has been to this tragic place before. But this time was different in at least one sense. This time, echoes of the twin blasts in the city travelled farther abroad than ever before. Instant empathy poured in from foreign shores. Comparisons were
- Ethnic War Clouds In Iraq: Blast Kills 75, Top Shia Cleric (Indian Express, Michael Georgy, Aug 30, 2003)
A car bombing killed atleast 75 Iraqis, including a top Shia leader, on Friday, dealing a grave blow to the US occupation and causing carnage at the Shias’ holiest shrine.
- Socialites Cheer Lucknow Socialist (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Aug 30, 2003)
The waters of the Gomti glimmered in the soft morning sunshine, helicopters showered rose petals from the cloud-strewn skies, and India’s rich and famous flashed their glamourous smiles. As spectacles go, the swearing-in ceremony of the biggest mass ...
- Killer Surge (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2003)
The stampede at Nashik should have been anticipated, given past experience
- Queue, Sera, Sera (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Aug 29, 2003)
It was while waiting at the Moscow airport some years back that realisation dawned. India, like Russia, has experienced its own economic revolution, even if ours has been less dramatic and more gradual. The serpentine queue at the Moscow immigration ...
- Behind The Kumbh Melee (Indian Express, Rakshit Sonawane, Aug 29, 2003)
What happened at Nashik? Unlearnt lessons from the previous week. Tightly packed crowds. And disaster
- Danger From Elbowing Out American Workers (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 29, 2003)
IN A context in which legislatures of some States in the US have sought to ban offshore outsourcing and engagement of non-American workers and immigrants, it is not surprising that the suicide at California of an employee of the Bank of America following
- Bureaucracy: Flaw Is In System, Not Workers (Business Line, Devendra Mishra, Aug 29, 2003)
THE government may be the biggest industry in the world, but the statement, "I am from the government and here to help you" is still considered a bad joke. Increasingly, the people do not think that the government knows how to help or is bothered...
- In Iraq, It’s All The Way Up From Ground Zero (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Aug 28, 2003)
Don’t underplay the challenge. Iraq is not about rebuilding an old society, it’s about building a brand new one
- Deploying Troops (Hindu, Chinmaya R. Gharekhan, Aug 28, 2003)
Any country acting even under a U.N. resolution will, in effect, be assisting the occupying authority in Iraq.
- Miracle Called Atal, Illusion Named Sonia (Indian Express, Balbir K Punj, Aug 27, 2003)
The country replied to the Sonia Gandhi piloted opposition no-confidence motion many hours before the vote in the Lok Sabha.
- Dust And Deception (Indian Express, Paul Krugman, Aug 27, 2003)
The 9/11 legacy: Ground Zero was a bigger source of air pollution than the authorities let on to New Yorkers
- Do Us A Favour (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2003)
Just appoint Madan Lal Khurana as the chief minister of Delhi and be done with it
- What’s Wrong With Conversion Laws? (Deccan Herald, Vishal Arora, Aug 26, 2003)
The conversion laws enacted in the country are designed to target the Christian community
- On Their Toes, The Ones Who Will Bring The City Back On Its Feet (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2003)
Within half an hour of an ambulance bringing in the first casualties of today’s blasts to the JJ Hospital, Byculla, serpentine queues were visible outside the casualty ward — all offering their services, including blood.
- Nukes, Missiles And Rogue States — China's Tools For Global Influence (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Aug 26, 2003)
China uses missile and nuclear transfers to Pakistan and North Korea, both widely regarded as rogue states, to keep countries that it sees as adversaries, such as Japan and India, on their toes. Given the ambivalence of the US Administrations to the ...
- A Market For Terrorism Information (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Aug 25, 2003)
IT WOULD probably go down as the shortest-lived idea in the US. Within 24 hours of its being made public, everyone important in both the political parties was scrambling to announce that it was `ghoulish' and the proposal was buried. The irony is that it
- Taxing The Citizen (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2003)
Govt should ignore protests of tax employees and go ahead with IT outsourcing plans
- Express Your Voice (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2003)
P Chidambaram has rightly said that BJP do not want to discuss the real issues and that’s why they keep the Opposition busy on non-issues like Mandir and Uniform Civil Code (Back to the future, The Sunday Express, Aug 17). The Opposition must realise BJP’
- Panchayati Raj, Pakistani Style (Indian Express, George Mathew, Aug 23, 2003)
Bhurban near Murree, a beautiful hill station near Islamabad, was recently the venue of a path-breaking conference on local government. Pakistan’s National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB), established in 2000, organised it. Its mandate is to provide clean ...
- Cola: Day After, It’s Your Test Vs My Test (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2003)
That the central issue of regulation of the quality of aerated drinks hasn’t been addressed—despite the claims and counter-claims from all sides—is becoming evident now.
- Protecting Special Interests (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2003)
THE CLAIM MADE by the Bush administration, that it fought the Iraq war in order to reform West Asia, gets progressively exposed as it implements measures that benefit Iraqis less and others more. A decision taken by George W. Bush to grant wide ...
- Delhi Still Far Away From Power Seat (Indian Express, T V RAJESWAR, Aug 22, 2003)
The Union Government has announced that it proposes to bring in legislation for conferring statehood on Delhi with the provision that law and order and the Delhi Police administration would be directly under the Central Government. Additionally, the New
- Negative Peace In Sri Lanka (Deccan Herald, P. Sahadevan , Aug 22, 2003)
There are no signs of a breakthrough in the Sri Lanka-LTTE dialogue but the peace process is going on
- Proposal For Zero Customs Duty - With Right Environment, Industry Can Cope (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Aug 22, 2003)
The US' zero-for-zero Customs duty proposal envisages allowing imports at zero duty and expecting reciprocal treatment for exports. Is Indian industry prepared to face the onslaught of imports and remain successful? Sure, it can many sectors already hav
- Flat Yield Curve Is Top Priority (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Aug 22, 2003)
Keeping the yield curve low and flat will be the apt objective of monetary administration and policy over the next five years. This period will be characterised by fiscal discipline imposed by Parliament and by all-round economic growth. But the flat ...
- Tiger By Its Tail (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 22, 2003)
THE horrendous blast that reduced the UN headquarters at Baghdad to a pile of rubble will be neither the last nor the worst nor the most lethal of its kind, given the utter insensitivity tantamount to megalomania on the part of the Bush Administration in
- The Trouble With China Trade (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Aug 22, 2003)
UNTIL around 2000, there was a scramble for trade with China among the industrialised countries. They evolved special strategies to promote trade. Delegations led by Presidents and Prime Ministers went and signed glitzy agreements with China. China played
- Cola And Pesticides: The Bigger Picture (Business Line, Alok Ray, Aug 22, 2003)
The real problem is that there are no Indian standards. In the absence of such mandatory standards, private companies would try to cut corners to maximise their bottomlines. The Government needs to involve the Indian scientific community to evolve a ...
- Remedying Techno Lethargy (Deccan Herald, S N Roy Chaudhury, Aug 21, 2003)
Efforts in the field of science and technology are largely bereft of the spirit of invention and value addition
- Devastating Strike In Baghdad (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2003)
THE SUICIDE ATTACK on the headquarters of the United Nations in Baghdad is a big blow to the attempts of the United States to induct the U.N. in some kind of legitimising role for the occupation. No terrorist group has claimed responsibility for ...
- Bush And Energy Politics (Hindu, Elisabeth Bumiller, Aug 21, 2003)
Although George Bush's energy policy contained recommendations to improve America's electric grid that everyone agreed on, they were lost in the shouting and have been dormant in Congress for the past two years.
- Lessons For India From The Us Blackout (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 20, 2003)
The massive blackout across the US showed up the holes in the power policy framework of the supposedly most technologically advanced nation.
- Electricity Act 2003 - Seeking To Transform The Network Access System (Business Line, Mudit Kulshreshtha, Aug 20, 2003)
WITH the successful passage of the Electricity Act 2003 through both Houses of Parliament, this important sector is all set for major changes. Despite a certain circumspection about the mechanics of implementation, the recommendations of the Act appear to
- Geneva Ashes: New Resting Place Is A Dump In This Town (Indian Express, D V Maheshwari, Aug 19, 2003)
When Chief Minister Narendra Modi returns from Geneva with the ashes of freedom fighter Shyamji Krishna Verma, Gujarat will turn out in strength to receive the urn. It will, after all, be the end of a 73-year-old wait for the ashes.
- Engineering A Reverse Brain Drain (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Aug 19, 2003)
AMIDST the din and cackle of political debates on cow slaughter and reservation it is heartening to learn that the Communications Minister, Mr Arun Shourie, has endowed his entire entitlement under the MP Local Area Development scheme to set up a biotech
- A Number Of Positives (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Aug 19, 2003)
Abid and Abida narrate the story of their stay in Washington in the early 1990s — how they established a feeling of togetherness, a good working relationship and, thereby, confused the United States administration. Abid Hussain, an accomplished civil
- Washington’s Oil Spill (Indian Express, G Parthasarathy, Aug 18, 2003)
Browsing through a bookshop that was full of Indian IT professionals and their families in California’s Silicon Valley, my eyes fell on a book intriguingly titled: Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold our Soul for Saudi Crude.
- Vajpayee's Pakistan Policy (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 18, 2003)
Four months after launching yet another initiative towards Pakistan at Srinagar, the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, seems unfazed by the lack of progress on the official front with Pakistan. Patience, persistence and a series of positive gestures
- Strike Shifts Focus To Union, Opposition Rights (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Aug 18, 2003)
What began as a strike by government employees' unions and associations on July 1 and 2 has got transformed into a major a trade union issue and a huge a political battle in Tamil Nadu. With all but 6,072 of the sacked employees finally reinstated after
- Naresh Chandra Reports: A Pale Shadow Of Sox (Business Line, Amit C. Kamath, Aug 18, 2003)
IN THE last few months most business newspapers and magazines have been occupied with the reports of the Naresh Chandra Committee Report, also called the Committee on Corporate audit and Governance. While acknowledging the efforts of the Committee and its
- After 14 Years, Libya Takes Onus (Indian Express, PETER SLEVIN, Aug 17, 2003)
After 14 years of defiance and denials, Libya took formal responsibility on Friday for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, an attack that killed 270 people and cemented Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s international isolation.
- Right To Strike (Indian Express, Soli Sorabjee, Aug 17, 2003)
It is indisputable that frequent and indiscriminate strikes cause serious inconvenience to the public and also impair the smooth functioning of the administration. But why do workers strike work and suffer loss of earnings during the period of strike ...
- A Bonanza For Big Oil (Hindu, V. Sridhar, Aug 17, 2003)
George W. Bush has passed an Executive Order that effectively provides legal immunity to the oil majors for their actions in Iraq.
- Togadia Out, Laloo Sends Giriraj Back From Airport (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 17, 2003)
After VHP general secretary Pravin Togadia, it was the turn of Acharya Giriraj Kishore, the organisation’s international vice-president, to be packed off to Delhi by Bihar soon after his arrival at Patna airport.
- Chopper Crash Course (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Aug 17, 2003)
Why are they in free fall? The Sunday Express finds a story of double standards and often no standards at all
- Durable Bhai Sahib (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Aug 17, 2003)
Mayawati’s hard core supporters may stick with her through thick and thin, but the high profile recruits to the BSP found it difficult to adjust for long in a party where customarily everyone squats on the floor while Mayawati presides from a chair.
- Modi Books Us On Freedom Day (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2003)
On the night the Gujarat government was finalising its Independence Day celebrations, it instructed the Ahmedabad police to lodge an FIR against The Indian Express, Gujarati daily Divya Bhaskar and social activist Nafisa Ali.
- When Sky Is The Limit (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Aug 16, 2003)
The problems that have bedevilled Japanese banks are well known — the quicksand of ‘‘directed lending’’, NPAs, and the rest — as is the way these problems have been at the heart of Japan’s inability to pull itself out of the trough for over a decade. The
- Thank You, Mr Modi (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2003)
On Independence Day weekend we treasure this reminder of our fragile freedoms
- Liberia's Woes (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2003)
THE PEOPLE OF Liberia have been so exhausted by the deprivations of war that there is little energy left to celebrate the ouster of the abominable Charles Taylor as President. Any relief that Liberians may feel over the warlord's departure into ...
- Six In A Row (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2003)
AN ADDRESS FROM the ramparts of the historic Red Fort is an occasion for a Prime Minister to salute the nation as well as to showcase his administration's political and economic achievements. Atal Bihari Vajpayee became the first Prime Minister ...
- Togadia Gets A Jab From Laloo’s Trishul, Packed Off From Patna (Indian Express, Varghese K George, Aug 16, 2003)
Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Pravin Togadia received the Laloo Prasad Yadav treatment today. When Togadia arrived in Patna to hoist the national flag at a Saraswati Shishu Mandir in the Muslim majority Phulwari Sharif, he was stopped at the airport
- Preparing For Cancun (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 15, 2003)
The Indian policy making system has to find a way out of the dilemmas it faces in negotiating multilateral agreements. When Pranab Mukherjee went to Marrakesh to sign on behalf of India on the Uruguay Round Agreement, the Opposition political parties in
- Bihar Behind Bars (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 15, 2003)
We don’t want to prick the afterglow. Laloo Prasad Yadav is just back from a track two jamboree in Pakistan, where he was crowned Stealer of the Show. But may we point out, again, that in the Republic of Bihar the emperor wears no clothes. The daily ...
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