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Articles 14321 through 14420 of 25647:
- Wmd: White House Has New Defence (Indian Express, GREG MILLER, Jul 20, 2003)
Defending its pre-war claims about Iraq, the White House, on Friday, released excerpts of a report which shows that US intelligence advised administration officials that Baghdad was amassing banned weapons and was reconstituting its nuclear programme.
- Post-Heroic War: Why Us Wants Our Troops (Indian Express, EJAZ HAIDER, Jul 19, 2003)
The Indian Government has finally refused to send its troops to Iraq and formally notified the Bush administration of its decision. But the issue is still open in Pakistan. The question of why the United States would want Pakistani and Indian troops in
- The Lost World Of Space Travel (Indian Express, MARK R. WHITTINGTON, Jul 19, 2003)
Thirty-Four years ago this Sunday, two men travelled to Earth’s nearest neighbour, the moon, and spent a little more than two hours walking on its surface, performing experiments and collecting rock and soil samples. It was the culmination of a great ...
- India’s Punch (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Jul 19, 2003)
Ouch, said the NEW YORK TIMES. India’s decision not to send troops to Iraq was a ‘‘sharp blow’’, it said, to ‘‘America’s post-war plans in Iraq’’. The paper tersely pointed out that the Bush administration had ‘‘exerted considerable pressure’’ on Prime
- Debris-Clearing Operation Stepped Up In Shilagarh (Indian Express, DHARMENDRA RATAUL, Jul 19, 2003)
Even though the debris-clearing operation in Shilagarh village, the site of the flash floods caused by the cloud burst, was speeded up today, confusion continued to prevail over the count of the dead with the administration and locals having different
- Lessons From Andhra Pradesh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 19, 2003)
FOR ABOUT A month now, a virulent viral fever suspected to be encephalitis has afflicted Andhra Pradesh and claimed at least 120 lives. Central teams of paediatricians and virologists are studying the epidemic, but the unfortunate truth is that ...
- Caste Out The Demon (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2003)
It is ironical indeed that Maharashtra, which has long prided itself on being one of India’s most progressive states, should be witnessing a spate of attacks on Dalits. Sushil Kumar Shinde, much-hailed as the state’s first Dalit chief minister, believes
- More Lies, Usual Suspects (Indian Express, MICHAEL KINSLEY, Jul 18, 2003)
Once again a mysterious criminal stalks the nation’s capital. First there was the mystery sniper. Then there was the mystery arsonist. Now there is the mystery ventriloquist. The media are in a frenzy of speculation and leakage. Senators are calling for
- From Bureaucracy To ‘kleptocracy’ (Indian Express, M. G. Devasahayam , Jul 18, 2003)
A new word, ‘‘Robberocracy’’, is floating around to describe corruption in our bloating bureaucracy. But there is much more to the rottenness of governance than just corruption by some ‘‘babus’’. The fact is that India’s democracy is slowly drifting ...
- Pension By Subsidy (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2003)
A STATE-DIRECTED PUBLIC provision of goods at subsidised rates is something that one normally associates with such essential commodities as foodgrains or fuel. To the ranks of such goods as wheat, rice and kerosene now joins an investment product Varishta
- Over 35 Workers Washed Away In Kullu Flash Floods (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2003)
At least 35 people were washed away and property worth lakhs of rupees damaged when a cloudburst flash-flooded Shilagarh village in Gursa Valley of Kullu district in Himachal Pradesh early Wednesday morning. However, Deputy Police Commissioner R D Nazeem
- Ominous Signs In Sri Lanka (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2003)
WAR CLOUDS APPEAR to be gathering over Sri Lanka, with the recent actions and behaviour of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) portending no good for anyone. While the Ranil Wickremesinghe Government is trying its best to keep the ...
- Sc Orders Cbi Probe Into Taj Whodunit (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2003)
Disregarding the Mayawati Government’s protestations of innocence, the Supreme Court today ordered a CBI probe into the recently stalled Rs 175-crore project to build entertainment parks, restaurants and shopping malls behind Taj Mahal.
- Men Willingly Believe What They Wish (Business Line, D. Murali , Jul 17, 2003)
FROM time to time, media carry reports of some members of our fraternity who get involved with not so savoury matters". Thus goes a line in the ICAI president's message written in early June, as if he had the foreboding of things that were to happen weeks
- Abbas: Focussing On The Big Picture (Indian Express, DENNIS ROSS, Jul 17, 2003)
As the American envoy to the Middle East peace process during the Clinton administration, I worked closely with Mahmoud Abbas, often sitting across a table from him around the clock, seven days a week. Of course, I knew him by his patronymic, Abu Mazen
- Us, India Aur Woh (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Jul 16, 2003)
There was some irrational gloating in India when Musharraf did not get the F-16s from the United States. The general assessment here was that the general’s visit to Washington was only a partial success. Wishful thinking is all very well but some ...
- State Vat: Take Measures To Counter Effects (Business Line, R. Srinivasan, Jul 16, 2003)
The implementation of VAT as part of the reforms process is inevitable, though its implication for the public revenue of the States is a cause for concern. Corrective measures need to be put in place to counter the adverse impact of this tax system on the
- Corrupt Vortex (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Jul 15, 2003)
Personal rivalries can destroy families but when they assume political dimensions, they can damage the system itself. The tendency to settle personal scores is inexorably demolishing values like fairplay and democratic procedures. Politicians seeking
- The Post-War Afghan Economy (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jul 15, 2003)
Over the last year, a strategy to reconstruct and revive the war-ravaged economy of Afghanistan has been put in place with the support and under the influence of international donors. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar a nd Jayati Ghosh ...
- The Right And Sensible Decision (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 15, 2003)
THE VAJPAYEE GOVERNMENT'S decision not to send troops to occupied Iraq will be widely welcomed. It is the triumph of democratic national opinion and political good sense over vacillating tendencies and grandiose visions of realpolitik, which ...
- Promises To Keep (Hindu, Richard W. Stevenson, Jul 15, 2003)
George W. Bush will have to show a stendy willingness to use his political clout and capital on Africa's behalf, often in the face of domestic pressures that will only intensify as election season heats up.
- After Shimla (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Jul 14, 2003)
The Congress has sought to do away with a self-imposed handicap and deny the BJP the advantage of the exclusive use of the coalition strategy.
- Not Our War (Hindu, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Jul 14, 2003)
If India had sent troops to Iraq, the soldiers would have lost their lives in vain -- they would have died not defending their own country's freedom but in place of U.S. soldiers as targets of desperate Iraqis.
- 43 Children Die As Encephalitis Revisits Vidarbha (Indian Express, Vivek Deshpande, Jul 14, 2003)
With the killer encephalitis beginning to get the better of him, five-year-old Swapnil Patil clings to his worried grandmother at Satona village near Bhandara. His mother sits expressionless at the door of the hut, yet to recover from the death of her ...
- Idea Par Excellence (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 14, 2003)
THE Vice-President, Mr Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, gets the year's Best Idea Award for proposing that elections to State Assemblies and the Lok Sabha should be held simultaneously and in the same month every five years, instead of separately and in isolation
- Victory And Defeat For Us In Geneva (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jul 14, 2003)
The US has been presented with two WTO rulings in the space of a month, one has gone in its favour and the other against.
- No The Truth About Elitism (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Jul 14, 2003)
IT IS quite incorrect to hold the view that the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and other services that enable administration and tax-collection constitute the Indian bureaucracy in its entirety. The bureaucracy and the public sector together ...
- Assam Pumps Out Water To Stay Afloat (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2003)
With the waters of the Brahmaputra entering Guwahati and inundating several parts of the city last evening, the flood situation in Assam has worsened. Round-the-clock pumping out of water continued to save the city from imminent danger even as the
- Cia Takes Stick For Bush’s Iraq Claim (Indian Express, WALTER PINCUS, Jul 13, 2003)
President Bush and his National Security Adviser on Friday placed full responsibility on the Central Intelligence Agency for the inclusion in this year’s State of the Union address of questionable allegations that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein was trying to buy
- Dragging Feet (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 09, 2003)
A sluggish bureaucracy is the bane of enterprise in India. Even a well-known company like Tata Steel, therefore, has to struggle hard and long with official inertia to secure some basic approvals. It is a telling commentary on administrative inefficiency
- On A New Note (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Jul 07, 2003)
June 3, 2003 marked the end of an era of India’s dependence on aid. The government of India issued a press note on June 3, 2003, which announced that not only will India discontinue receiving grants aid from many countries, but also all outstanding
- Working For Safety (Telegraph, BRIJESH D. JAYAL, Jul 04, 2003)
The recent visit of the deputy prime minister to the United States of America received extensive media coverage and comment within this country. However, little was said on his scheduled visit to the Rand Corporation, a prestigious “think tank” on
- Road Too Far (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 01, 2003)
India’s foreign policy is clearly unprepared to meet the aggressive diplomacy unleashed by Pakistan’s president, Mr Pervez Musharraf, in Washington. Although the Indian prime minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was responsible for initiating the latest ...
- Is Iraq The Second Vietnam? (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Jul 01, 2003)
When John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in November, 1963, American military deaths in Vietnam had just passed fifty. Military deaths of the United States of America in Iraq since the war “ended” two months ago is nearing that total. Is this the start of
- Did It Happen? (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 01, 2003)
Vanishing tricks can sometimes be surreally frightening. The Gujarat genocide is now beginning to unhappen right in front of everybody’s eyes. All the 21 people accused of burning 12 Muslims in a Vadodara bakery, following the Godhra carnage last year ...
- The Principal Problem (Telegraph, Dev Lahiri, Jun 30, 2003)
The choice of an academic who is not a schoolteacher as the head of Doon School prompts Dev Lahiri to explore the shortage of heads in Indian schools Only recently, Doon School, a leading public school in
- The Absurd Reasoning (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jun 27, 2003)
This was unavoidable. Once the campaign for reservations was extended to its illogical extreme, the Brahmins could not be left behind. If the supposedly reasonable assumption that the state should be compassionate to all is taken for granted, everything
- Dead Wood (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2003)
It is impossible to make a bench without cutting a tree. This truism could make sad sense to the green bench of the Calcutta high court. The West Bengal Trees (Protection and Conservation in Non-Forest Areas) Act, 2003, has been drafted, and is likely to
- Bring In The Masses To Police (Telegraph, TUMPA MUKHERJEE, Jun 24, 2003)
The Bapi Sen incident brought to the fore the reluctance on the part of the common people to cooperate with the law enforcement agencies. This unwillingness to assist the police results from a mistrust that has been nurtured over and has seeped into
- Living Too Closely Apart (Telegraph, ANURADHA KUMAR, Jun 23, 2003)
The caste-violence in Jalandhar’s Talhan village is the culmination of a longstanding animosity between the Jats and the local Dalits
- The Fallen Wives Of God (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Jun 20, 2003)
The act of definition is a powerful tool in both understanding a social phenomenon as it is in atomizing it. When law backs the process of defining a social process, the effects can be far-reaching. The obliteration of the devadasis, a community of ritual
- When Wariness Is Best (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Jun 19, 2003)
Did the Pentagon team in New Delhi return home red-faced? Its members did their job in pressing the case for the despatch of 20,000 Indian troops to Iraq for peacekeeping duties in the northern, largely Kurdish, part of the country and spelling out the
- Caught In A Vicious Trap (Telegraph, SANKAR SEN, Jun 19, 2003)
Not much is being done about women and children being brought into the flesh trade in India from Nepal and Bangladesh
- Just Dropping By (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2003)
It is too early to determine the real impact of the visit of the deputy prime minister, Mr L.K. Advani, to the United States of America on relations between India and the US. But it is clear that Mr Advani’s visit has given a fresh momentum to bilateral
- As Real As A Handshake (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Jun 14, 2003)
John Ashcroft is not someone who is easily impressed. George W. Bush’s attorney-general would easily bond with those in the Bharatiya Janata Party, including some personal friends of the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who rightly argue that ...
- Those Lara Sixes (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jun 13, 2003)
The first day of June. Something quite out of the ordinary happened in St. George’s, capital city of the state of Grenada. The teeny-weeny island-country in the Caribbeans was the locale of the last of the seven one-day cricket fixtures between Australia
- A Sanctioned Killing (Telegraph, Arshi Khan, Jun 12, 2003)
The instability and insecurity in Iraq are the result of US action, deliberate global ignorance and the UN’s failure to deliver justice
- Changing Face Of Diplomacy (Upendra Choudhury) (Business Line, Upendra Choudhury, Jun 10, 2003)
The growing interest in economic diplomacy stems from increasing liberalisation and globalisation, as well as the growth of regional trading blocs.
- The President Comes Calling (Telegraph, Tapas Chakraborty, Jun 09, 2003)
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has tried to ignite the Bihar debate again during his visit to the state. But are the state’s leaders interested
- Where Did All The Weapons Go? (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Jun 09, 2003)
“We know where [the weapons] are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, north and south somewhat.” — US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, 30 March 2003 It is...possible that they decided that they would destroy them prior to
- Reform In Reverse Gear? (N. Venkiteswaran) (Business Line, N. Venkiteswaran, Jun 09, 2003)
Some of the Government's recent policy announcements give the unmistakeable impression that the logic of a coherent economic philosophy has been given the complete go-by.
- Build Bridges (For Communal Harmony) (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2003)
The manner in which a minor altercation between two individuals sparked off communal riots in Hyderabad is worrying.
- Promises Gone Awry (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Jun 05, 2003)
The Bush administration has got away with its invasion of Iraq in defiance of the United Nations. It is the permanent members of the security council, who denied a UN cover to what was essentially an Anglo-American operation, who have to make amends for
- Iit Graduates In The Ias (T.K. Ramachandran) (Hindu, T.K. Ramachandran , Jun 03, 2003)
The issue of IIT graduates getting into the civil services has always attracted attention and even a bit of censure. I still remember the first few days at the LBS Academy in Mussoorie in 1991:
- Sivaganga Set For A 'Paperless Collectorate' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2003)
Sivaganga June 2. The Sivaganga Collectorate took a small step towards becoming the `first paperless Collectorate in the State' with the introduction of e-governance in the administration section.
- Brake On Acceleration (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jun 02, 2003)
At the World Bank annual development economics conference in Bangalore in May 2003 on “Accelerating Development”, the private sector and its role in development was discussed. Innovation is through new product development. Financing innovation requires
- To Deliver A Baby That Is Europe’s Own (Telegraph, Shada Islam, Jun 02, 2003)
Notwithstanding the US’s unilateral action in Iraq, the EU has its own plans when it comes to northern Africa and west Asia
- Battles Brewing In The Backyard (Deccan Herald, Sudhirendar Sharma, Jun 02, 2003)
Be it Bhopal or Bangalore, tankers supply water extracted from places that have little connection to the areas serviced
- Goodwill At Any Cost? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 11, 2002)
Given the traumatic experience this country has had with the LTTE, India would have to adopt a proactive strategy of pressing Sri Lanka to extradite the terrorist leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
- Presidential Poll And Polemics Of Consensus (Business Line, R. C. Rajamani, Jul 11, 2002)
THOUGH any election is all about politics, the presidential poll in the country has been sought to be freed from competitive and combative vehemence of electoral politics and polemics.
- Jayalalithaa: In The Eye Of Another Storm (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jul 11, 2002)
THE Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms J. Jayalalithaa, is right back at the centre of another political controversy. Her government has invoked POTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act) to arrest eight MDMK functionaries for their utterances eulogising the LTTE.
- Writing On The Wall (Business Line, R. Anand, Jul 11, 2002)
The Indian accounting profession has lessons to learn from the WorldCom fallout.
- Harvesting The World Market (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 11, 2002)
When traditional export items such as gems and jewellery, textiles and engineering goods showed negative to modest growth last fiscal, agriculture and allied products registered a 3.34 per cent growth by value in 2001-02.
- The Next President (Hindu, S. Varadan, Jul 11, 2002)
THE WAY our political parties and their leaders went about the task of choosing a candidate for the office of the President of India does not do any credit to them.
- Cosmology In Rigveda -- The Third Premise (Hindu, PATRIZIA NORELLI-BACHELET, Jul 11, 2002)
History is indeed recorded in the Rigveda, as well as in the Epics, but one has to use correct cosmic formulas to make this discovery, bearing in mind that the ancients were not at all concerned with keeping records for posterity as we do today.
- Time For A Reality Check (Hindu, Asma Khan, Jul 11, 2002)
Kashmir is back on the world consciousness and is the focus of major world powers. This is a welcome albeit late development; nonetheless, it encompasses great scope for ending the protracted impasse in Kashmir.
- The Border Confrontation (Hindu, P. R. Chari , Jul 11, 2002)
The test of success in the present coercive diplomacy is not the discomfiture of Pakistan but the resolution of the Kashmir problem.
- Discrimination At Work (Hindu, Andre Beteille , Jul 11, 2002)
Legitimate discrimination on the basis of ability and performance is obstructed by the pervasive suspicion that all discrimination, at least in India, is at bottom and by its nature invidious.
- Conflicting Political Signals (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 11, 2002)
THE DECISION BY the two emissaries of the People's War Group (PWG) of naxalites to pull out of the ongoing dialogue with the Andhra Pradesh Government is somewhat of an anti-climax in the negotiating process.
- Cabinet Reshuffle -- Check, Checkmate (Business Line, Harihar Swarup , Jul 11, 2002)
Establishing Mr L. K. Advani's supremacy both in the government and the party, and the indication that the BJP would henceforth adopt hard line functioning, were obviously the twin objectives of the recent Cabinet and organisational changes.
- Hard Bargain (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 11, 2002)
Almost all the initial promises of a serious, across-the-table political dialogue that could curb militancy in Andhra Pradesh seems to have evaporated.
- Krishna’s Cabinet (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 11, 2002)
Karnataka chief minister S.M. Krishna was virtually given carte blanche to rehaul his ministry when all the 43 ministers handed in their resignations last week. But what followed the next day was in more ways than one disappointing.
- Yawn! (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 11, 2002)
The paucity of talent at his disposal and internal contradictions that have plagued him from the very beginning have made a mess of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s promise of a "new, improved look" to his Union Cabinet.
- Mamata Misfires (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 11, 2002)
Ms Mamata Banerjee’s roadshow is getting to be boring and tiresome indeed.
- Photo-Stink (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 11, 2002)
The government’s response to the unearthing of the Xerox Modicorp scandal is shocking and callous.
- Grafty People (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 11, 2002)
The story of Sukh Ram, once the undisputed boss of Sanchar Bhawan who used telecom as a tool for illegal indemnification, is simple.
- Naxalite Violence: Legacy Of Another Era (Times of India, BHASKAR ROY, Jul 10, 2002)
India, a nuclear power and satellite manufacturer, is grappling with an armed political campaign that best belongs to another era, and is admittedly an outcome of the unresolved contradictions of a backward agrarian society.
- The Moderate Deputy Pm (Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi, Jul 06, 2002)
As reshuffles go, it is hard to deny that last week’s effort was a bit of a dud.
- Nuclear Brinkmanship (Providence Journal, Editorial, Providence Journal, Jun 03, 2002)
A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could cost 10 million lives or more. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf engages in such provocative activities as testing missiles and implying that his nation might use nuclear weapons first.
- Nuclear High-Wire Act (Washington Times, Jed Babin, May 30, 2002)
Some wars are avoidable. It appears that the coming war between India and Pakistan over the disputed Kashmir region is not. We may not be able to act soon enough to stop war from breaking out, but we must take action to prevent nuclear escalation.
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