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Articles 14221 through 14320 of 25647:
- Let Us Politicise Growth (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Aug 15, 2003)
Democratic politics and competitive political activity are the two prime forces that comprehensively permeate India's economic space. The key to kick-starting and sustaining growth lies in politicising it. Politicising economic reform and growth will ...
- Bullock-Cart Diplomacy (Indian Express, M D NALAPAT, Aug 15, 2003)
If the attitude of immigration authorities worldwide to an Indian passport has changed during the past five years, the reason has nothing to do with the Vajpayee government, but is the result of the software boom. Suddenly, Indians have become chic, no
- A Visitor With A Past (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Aug 15, 2003)
Some in India may discover affinities with Ariel Sharon's type of politics. They would do well to examine his track record.
- Is Epf Running The Danger Signal? (Business Line, Jayanthi Iyengar, Aug 15, 2003)
The Government failed to use opportunities to prescribe prudential norms for the EPF, mark its portfolio to market, free it in terms of investment decisions and align returns with performance.
- Strong Rules, Weakly Enforced (Business Line, A. V. Ram Mohan, Aug 15, 2003)
A. J. P. TAYLOR, the famous and popular historian applied for a fellowship in one of the premier Oxford colleges, while starting out on his student career. A committee of history professors interviewed him. Upon studying a sample of Taylor's student essay
- Spinning To A Macho Media (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Aug 13, 2003)
The David Kelly incident has again turned the focus on the increasingly confrontationist relationship between the British Government and the media, leading to calls for "reflection".
- Spectrum Management: The Telecom Lifeline (Business Line, Asha Ram Sihag, Aug 13, 2003)
SPECTRUM is the fundamental resource in wireless communication. It is scarce and is allotted by the government to various users. The increase in number and the popularity of wireless communications have led to a situation of demand pressure on the limited
- Cess Vs Toll (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2003)
THESE ARE NOT heady times for the road transport sector. The National Highway Development Project, in reality a bundle of long overdue road improvements but often touted as the biggest infrastructure development project, is not progressing to schedule ...
- Why Nasa Is A Culture In Denial (Indian Express, Earl Lane, Aug 13, 2003)
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board is expected to be unsparing in its critique of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) management and culture in its report due by the end of August 2003, but prescriptions for change may be ...
- China And India - Is Democracy The Defining Difference? (Business Line, Alok Ray, Aug 12, 2003)
The democratic system in India makes for slow and sometimes tortuous progress as it has to rely on consensus building. But this may turn out to be more stable and irreversible than what has happened in China
- Who Killed Fatima Jinnah? (Indian Express, Khaled Ahmed, Aug 12, 2003)
In Pakistan, there are far too many mysterious deaths among the elite. If you think Liaquat Ali Khan was the first leader murdered by an assassin in 1951, you are wrong. Many people think the Quaid-e-Azam, the founder of the state, was murdered too, by
- Babucracy Needs A Change Menu (Indian Express, R. K. Pachauri, Aug 12, 2003)
Newspaper reports indicate that under Deputy Prime Minster L.K. Advani’s initiative, two professors from IIM Ahmedabad carried out a daylong training programme, attended by 30 secretaries to the Government of India.
- Governmental Audit System - A Prisoner Of Procedures? (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Aug 11, 2003)
The Prime Minister's recent criticism of the government's audit system for making the executive a prisoner of procedure should provoke introspection by the CAG's auditors.
- Award And Caveat (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 11, 2003)
I DO not want to be hypocritical and join the chorus of those who are singing hallelujahs to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Mr J. M. Lyngdoh, for being the recipient of this year's Magsaysay award. I know that many will consider me churlish, but
- Holding Society To Ransom (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Aug 11, 2003)
There is a subtle difference between government employees going on a strike and a strike being called by employees of a public limited company or a private organisation, whose salaries, strictly speaking, are not paid by the state — that is, from revenue
- Reviving The Directive (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 11, 2003)
THERE WAS SOME fierce criticism of the Central Vigilance Commission Bill before it was passed in the Rajya Sabha, thus paving the way for its enactment. Unfortunately, there was not enough. More than one provision in the Bill — which gives ...
- Severe Doses Prescribed To Check Spurious Drugs (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Aug 11, 2003)
The Mashelkar Committee, looking into the menace of spurious drugs, proposes death penalty as one of the ‘‘more deterrent measures’’ needed to check the manufacture and distribution of such drugs.
- Hi, This Is Uncle Sam (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 11, 2003)
Gone are the days when pop lyrics could recruit the world’s young to America’s cause
- Musharraf Has A Vision For Tomorrow, A Mirage For Today (Indian Express, Najam Sethi, Aug 09, 2003)
General Pervez Musharraf’s tour de force with Lahore editors last Monday spanned a framework of geo-economics, geo-politics and geo-strategy in which he outlined his vision of Pakistan as a country that was ‘‘secure’’, ‘‘stable’’, ‘‘democratic’’ and ‘‘
- An Indian In Pakistan Sees A Glimmer At End Of Death Row Tunnel (Indian Express, RAMANINDER K BHATIA, Aug 09, 2003)
12 ys ago, Sarabjit was held in Pak for ‘spying,’ now activists from Canada, daughters in Punjab work to save him
- How India's Fields Got `Swaraj' (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Aug 08, 2003)
MR CHANDRA MOHAN'S name is synonymous with `Swaraj' and Punjab Tractors Ltd (PTL), which he built from the scratch to a Rs 1,300-crore-plus engineering conglomerate with a product line spanning tractors and harvester combines to engines, light commercial
- Too Soft On Drinks (Business Line, Sudhirendar Sharma, Aug 08, 2003)
THE charge that a set of soft-drinks contains a cocktail of pesticide residues may put the MNC giants in the dock, but it also exposes the inherent weakness of a system to ensure quality of products, especially those mass-consumed.
- Neocon Vs Old Con (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Aug 07, 2003)
Is it just a fevered imagination or is there a direct correlation between Indo-Pakistani romanticism and the screeching and hollering that scuppered the idea of India sending an “occupying army” to northern Iraq? In a week when half of New Delhi seems
- Strike Not Your Right Any More: Sc To Govt Staff (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2003)
A day after it forced the Tamil Nadu Government to reinstate 1.65 lakh employees who had been dismissed for going on strike, the Supreme Court today delivered a strongly deterrent ruling that government employees do not have ‘‘a legal or fundamental or
- A Constitution For Europe (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Aug 07, 2003)
The fundamental issue is not as much about technocratic management of the E.U.'s institutions as it is about its very identity. It involves deciding what Europe is, what it aspires to be.
- Modi Note Should Go To President Kalam’s Trashcan, Says Oppn (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Aug 07, 2003)
The President, under India’s parliamentary system, has no individual discretion on matters regarding governance and administration, and therefore Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s letter to President A P J Kalam is nothing short of a ‘‘distasteful
- Pak Discomfiture (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2003)
The bitter truth of Blackwill’s plainspeak has provoked Pakistan to take potshots at him
- Kosovo To Delhi: Death Came A Phone Call Later (Indian Express, Amba Batra, Aug 06, 2003)
Satish Chandra Menon of BSF is first UN casualty in Kosovo in 4 years
- The Pentagon Alternative (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 05, 2003)
The man who, on behalf of the US, invited India to send combat troops to Iraq, will get together with Defence Secretary Ajay Prasad this week for the annual Defence Policy Group dialogue in Washington.
- Airwaves For Panchayats (Deccan Herald, Manu N Kulkarni, Aug 04, 2003)
The decision of the Ministry of Broadcasting to allow educational institutions like universities, IITs and schools to launch their own radio and broadcast educational programmes is a good step in delicensing and deregulation of the all powerful All-India
- Wolf Shopping For Sheep's Clothing (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Aug 04, 2003)
SUCCESSIVE governments at the Centre have made a complete mess of India's foreign policy, subsidised with growing reluctance by the tax payer. Thus, in a manner of speaking, the BJP-led National Front Government was only perpetuating an established
- Murders Most Foul (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 04, 2003)
WILL it be too far-fetched if I say that the US and the UK ganged up to commit murders of their own soldiers and innocent Iraqi civilians and therefore, their leaders should face trial by an International Crimes Tribunal, just as Goering, Ribbentrop and
- Newsreel: 27.07.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2003)
INSTITUTIONS, not individuals, is what makes a democracy tick. Against a backdrop of farcical investigations and fleeing victims, the National Human Rights Commission decides to take the Best Bakery case — one among the many gruesome incidents during the
- ‘rituals Can Be Governed By Religion, But Rights Must Be As Per Constitution’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2003)
Can the Deputy PM be treated differently than an ordinary citizen in the court of law? Can’t the Law Ministry or any concerned party place the entire chargesheet as a PIL before the appropriate court? Hasmukh A Mehta Every person irrespective of the
- Not Tired, Or Retired (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Aug 03, 2003)
Ever since he snubbed Venkaiah Naidu promising that he was neither tired nor retired, Prime Minister Vajpayee seems to be re-invigorated. The latest evidence of the PM’s toughness was the way the normally-pugnacious Mayawati hastily backed down on her
- "You Can't Imagine How Our People Are Living!" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2003)
The Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, Yasser Arafat, speaks of the plight of his people in an exclusive interview to Vikram Sura for the The Hindu.
- Woman Mayor To Take ‘war’ To Sonia (Indian Express, S. M. A. Kazmi, Aug 02, 2003)
Dehra Dun’s first woman Mayor is learning bitter lessons from none else than her own party’s state government. Despite being from the ruling Congress, which believes in giving more powers to local bodies and panchayats, Mayor Manorama Sharma has been
- Iim Comes To Freshen North Block Air (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Aug 02, 2003)
In his quest for a qualitative change in governance in today’s complex and competitive environment, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani has roped in two top management gurus from Ahmedabad to train senior bureaucrats in the fine art of leadership.
- Cbi And Deja Vu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2003)
WITH THE HEARINGS on in the Rae Bareli court on the Ayodhya case, a controversy has broken out over the Central Bureau of Investigation's admission that it has no taped evidence of the allegedly inflammatory speeches made by high-ranking ...
- In Praise Of Terror Futures (Indian Express, Justin Wolfers, Aug 02, 2003)
Financial markets are powerful aggregators of information, and are often better predictors than traditional methods. They could have done a better job in predicting future terror attacks too
- Here They Push Stray Cattle Off The Cliff To Die (Indian Express, Harpreet Bajwa, Jul 31, 2003)
Le Corbusier would have been appalled. In its hurry to get stray cattle off the cityscape, the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has launched a quiet but horrifying drive: cattle are being driven up a hill road and pushed off the edge.
- The September Test (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Jul 31, 2003)
How many of you believed Richard B. Myers when he said that he hadn’t come to ask for troops? At the risk of spoiling the image of journalists as a sneering, cynical lot, I thought he was telling the truth. Think about it: Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of
- Mumbaikar’s Agony (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 31, 2003)
This is the time for government and opposition to work together to defeat a common threat
- The Bane Of Bureaucracy (Business Line, P. P. Prabhu, Jul 31, 2003)
THE ratio of modal incomes in the government and the public sector to modal incomes in the private sector is 5.08 in India (Business Line, July 10). This data only confirms the popular perception that bureaucrats and public sector employees look after the
- No Winners In U.P. Drama (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 31, 2003)
A SHREWD POLITICAL leader should know that if she exceeds the limits of her power she will invite rebuff, even retribution. The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Ms. Mayawati, has been made to understand the limits of her power — as well as the ...
- Obscuring The Real Issues (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jul 30, 2003)
The purpose of law ought to be to expand choice as a means of securing justice and preserving the dignity of the individual. The point is not integration or assimilation.
- Generating Budgetary Resources In 21st Century (Business Line, Mukul Asher, Jul 30, 2003)
In the 21st century, the task of revenue generation will be quite complex, requiring concomitant reforms on the expenditure side and in budgeting systems, more effective use of information technology and better e-governance. India can certainly make good
- Mayawati Overplays Hand, Burns Fingers (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 30, 2003)
Less than 24 hours after she breathed fire demanding the dismissal of Union Minister Jagmohan over the Taj controversy, a sheepish Mayawati fell into line—at least, for now.
- Deaths And Resistance (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2003)
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION is fooling itself if it thinks that the killing of the sons of the overthrown Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, will quell the resistance to its occupation of the country. In the U.S. projection, Mr. Hussein and the ...
- For Haryana Govt, These Farmers Are Almost Terrorists (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Jul 29, 2003)
You don’t need even POTA in Haryana. Six farmers are in jail for trying to “overthrow the government,” charged with sedition under Section 124 A. At least 30 are in hiding, trying to evade arrest.
- Towards Safer Skies (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Jul 29, 2003)
Once the GPS and Geo Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) system is operational, It is likely to improve air safety over India.
- ‘war Against Terror Cannot Be Won Till Terror Against India Ends Permanently’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jul 28, 2003)
US Ambassador to India Robert Blackwill spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-chief, The Indian Express, on the security situation in the subcontinent and the rapid advancements in the Indo-US relations. Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s ...
- Cause Of Poverty (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 28, 2003)
SCHOLARS round the world have for years been hard at work on a number of theories to explain the levels of affluence and poverty of nations. The broad consensus used to be that resources are critical in maintaining a reasonable growth rate, equitably ...
- Future Shock (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jul 27, 2003)
To save Islamabad any embarrassment during the fledgling peace process, New Delhi may have spared him the ignominy of a Kargil victory reminder but the Pak President has little reason for comfort. His fellow Kargil architect and coup plotter, General
- ‘there’s No Political Vendetta... We Had Promised To Expose Badal’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2003)
On a scale of 1 to 10, how much is your crusade against the Badal family motivated by political vendetta? Jatinder Haye Our drive is motivated by nothing other than a strong desire to, as far as possible, root out corruption, nepotism and all other such
- River Sutra Woes (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Jul 26, 2003)
INDIA’S giant river linking project is still on the drawing board but criticism may already be rising to the high water mark. We heard the critics at home. This week in the GUARDIAN, a report filed from Dhaka spoke of the concerns these ambitious plans
- Amma’s Strike (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2003)
Zero tolerance for those holding government to ransom signals reform-minded leadership
- Dangerous Games (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2003)
IN A STATE like Kerala where denominational identities such as caste and religion influence the political discourse substantially, a waspish remark by the Chief Minister, A.K. Antony, to the effect that minority religious groups wield undue clout ...
- Arunachal Noises From China: India Downplays (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2003)
The Government maintained a stoic silence today in the face of Chinese disclaimers that Arunachal Pradesh was not a part of India, with officials here insisting that transgressions across the Line of Actual Control was an old story and both sides reported
- Dunk ’em In Water (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2003)
Sports administrators should be held to account for treating our champions so shabbily
- The General’s Global Obsession (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Jul 25, 2003)
One reason Pak is in such a mess today is that in the pursuit of an illusory international status, Pak Govts neglected domestic, regional affairs
- Sky Wars (Indian Express, J.C. Malik, Jul 25, 2003)
India has become the new battlefield for global aircraft firms
- A Shot In The Arm? (Hindu, Richard W. Stevenson, Jul 25, 2003)
White House advisers say the development marks an important turn of fortune that will help Mr. Bush frame the political debate for the rest of the summer and into the fall on terms more favourable to him.
- China: Opening Up To A New World (Business Line, Ranjani Karthik, Jul 25, 2003)
SINCE December 11, 2001 — a year and three months after China's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) — it is apparent that the erstwhile communist economy has emerged from behind the Iron Curtain to take global competition head on. However,
- Familiar Refrain (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2003)
AS EXPECTED, THE Government's spokespersons have contradicted some of the critical observations of the World Bank on the economy, contained in its recent report entitled "India: Sustaining Reform, Reducing Poverty." Indeed, the Bank while making ...
- Kerala’s Minority: Secularists (Indian Express, V K MADHAVAN KUTTY, Jul 24, 2003)
Not one political party in Kerala has the right to point fingers at any party. Every one of them has succumbed to various pressures to gain power or stay in power. This process has made communalism in the state grow from strength to strength. In fact ...
- You Can’t Use ‘babu’ For Tn Bureaucrats: Top Ones Are Women (Indian Express, J BALAJI, Jul 24, 2003)
The debate over the Women’s Reservation Bill for women’s empowerment in politics may go on until kingdom come but in bureaucracy, at least, women are being empowered in one state—run by Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.
- Bjp Vs Sonia: The Great Indian Show (Indian Express, Swami Agnivesh, Jul 24, 2003)
The more the BJP vitiates the national discourse with non-issues, the less faith people will have in the party
- Idbi: Yielding To Bureaucratic Pressures (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, Jul 24, 2003)
With net non-performing assets as high as 14 per cent and fresh lending tapering off because of resource constraint, the IDBI may be said to have become dysfunctional. It is against this broad canvas that the various proposals to restructure IDBI need to
- Why We Should Go To Iraq (Indian Express, Radha Kumar, Jul 23, 2003)
The ends do not justify the means — but the means should not doom the ends either. India has a chance to help the right ends come about
- Squandering All Our Capital (Indian Express, MADELEINE K ALBRIGHT, Jul 23, 2003)
Now would not be a bad time to start worrying. Tens of thousands of American troops will be in Iraq, perhaps for years, surrounded by Iraqis with guns. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says this is not a quagmire; I pray he is right. But the practical
- Premji Prodding (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 23, 2003)
S.M. Krishna should have woken up to the state of Bangalore’s infrastructure much earlier
- Beyond The Iraq Decision (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jul 23, 2003)
India's "no troops" decision suggests that the creeping "American veto" in our internal affairs is not irreversible.
- Avoid The 'Peacekeeping' Trap (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 23, 2003)
FOUR MONTHS INTO their high-tech war against Iraq, the United States and its junior partner, the United Kingdom, are beginning to realise that the ground beneath their occupying boots is nothing but quicksand. This realisation is dawning on the ...
- Gujarat Gaurav Yatra Via Geneva (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Jul 22, 2003)
Prepare for another gaurav yatra in Gujarat. Chief Minister Narendra Modi has agreed to accord state honour to late Shyamji Krishna Varma, a veteran freedom fighter and first president of Bombay Arya Samaj, whose ashes will be taken through key districts
- Speeding Up Trials (Hindu, SURENDRA NATH, Jul 22, 2003)
Fast track courts have considerably reduced the backing of sessions cases in the States that have done the most to set them up.
- Negligent Karnataka (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 21, 2003)
RECENTLY, I had occasion to go on a sightseeing tour of Kerala and Karnataka with my relations who had come from the US. Kerala lived up to the brand image it has successfully built up all over the world as "God's own country". Indeed, this is how tourist
- Shifting Sands (Hindu, Timeri N. Murari , Jul 21, 2003)
America's popularity is now at its lowest ebb.. In this unipolar world, the U.S.' security, and ours, depends on honesty as much as armed might.
- America's War Before The War (Hindu, Michael R. Gordon, Jul 21, 2003)
The U.S. carried out air strikes from mid-2002 into the first few months of 2003 as part of a comprehensive plan to disrupt Iraq's military command and control system before the actual war.
- Suicide Theory Stronger, Blair Pleads Restraint (Indian Express, Paul Majendie, Jul 20, 2003)
British PM Tony Blair’s government was shaken to the core by the death of a scientist ensnared in a vitriolic row between BBC and the Labour administration over the Iraq war. As British media tore into the government’s handling of the affair, Blair
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