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Articles 16421 through 16520 of 25647:
- As Us Shuffles Deck, Arafat Is Joker In The Pack (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 05, 2001)
Even the US seems to have run out of words and deeds of patience for the Palestinian leader, Steve Mufson reports.
- End Of A Mystery Tour (Telegraph, SREYASHI DASTIDAR, Dec 05, 2001)
George Harrison is not the first or the only Westerner to have expressed the wish to be cremated and have his ashes immersed in the Ganges.
- Will Spiralling Costs Sink Ssp? (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Dec 05, 2001)
IT MAY not need a Medha Patkar or Arundhati Roy to spoil the party for the ambitious Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) long heralded as Gujarats life line.
- For A Different Truck (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Dec 05, 2001)
Great news. The National Highway Development Project will be completed ahead of schedule.
- A War Psychosis In West Asia (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 05, 2001)
RAISING THE STAKES in the incessant confrontation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the Prime Minister of the Jewish state, Mr. Ariel Sharon, has now sought to redefine the war itself.
- Right To Food And Public Accountability (Hindu, Jean Dreze, Dec 05, 2001)
IN THE month of October, Surguja district in Chhatisgarh looks like a land of milk and honey. Endless waves of green fields, lush forests and clear streams give an impression of natural abundance.
- The Textbook Controversy (Hindu, Achin Vanaik , Dec 05, 2001)
THAT THE BJP-RSS can do what it is doing to school textbooks and garner support for this from some professionals.
- Jayalalithaa Scores A Point (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 05, 2001)
Ms Jayalalithaa, the famous or infamous former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, is having the last laugh. She has walked free from the three-year sentence in a land deal, which blocked her way to become an MLA and Chief Minister.
- Concessions To Tourists (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 05, 2001)
Recently it was announced that the East Bengal Railway was undertaking certain schemes for facilitating the transshipment of tourists and for giving them all possible facilities over the railways.
- Maoists On The Rampage In Nepal (Tribune, Vijay Oberoi, Dec 05, 2001)
The recent events in Nepal, where militancy and terrorism unleashed by Maoists have forced the Government of Nepal to declare a state of emergency in the kingdom.
- Trade With Nepal -- India's Achilles Heel (Business Line, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 05, 2001)
NEPAL'S Maoist uprising diverted attention from another danger averted for the time being by India's decision to extend the bilateral trade treaty that lapses today by three months.
- Gas Chamber For Mosquitoes (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Dec 05, 2001)
A NEW, innovative gadget that promises to lure the mosquito, especially the deadly female of the species, into a trap and rid people of the varied infections it can cause them, will soon be available.
- `Bright Future For Indian Banking' (Business Line, Rajalakshmi Menon, Dec 05, 2001)
IT HAS been ten years since it was recognised that the banking industry cannot continue to drive the economy by merely collecting deposits and lending to predetermined borrowers at predetermined rates.
- Curbs On Ocbs (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 05, 2001)
THE BAN IMPOSED on overseas corporate bodies (OCBs) from investing in portfolio schemes by the Reserve Bank of India does not come as a surprise at all.
- A War Psychosis In West Asia (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 05, 2001)
RAISING THE STAKES in the incessant confrontation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the Prime Minister of the Jewish state, Mr. Ariel Sharon, has now sought to redefine the war itself.
- The Best Bet For Pakistan Today Is Democracy (The Financial Express, Satish Kumar, Dec 05, 2001)
Pakistan has gone through various phases of political instability and systemic changes in its chequered history of 54 years.
- Is Mr Joshi Parochialising History A La Pakistan? (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 05, 2001)
It all began with a question on the Policy for Writing Text-books in the Rajya Sabha.
- Right To Food And Public Accountability (Hindu, Jean Dreze, Dec 05, 2001)
IN THE month of October, Surguja district in Chhatisgarh looks like a land of milk and honey. Endless waves of green fields, lush forests and clear streams give an impression of natural abundance.
- Crisis-Hit Bangla Textile Sector Pins Hopes On Us Word (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 05, 2001)
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s premier textile sector is in crisis because of slow demand after the September 11 air attacks on the United States and denial of duty free access to the American market, a key business leader said.
- Going Up In Smoke (Telegraph, Jack Fairweather, Dec 05, 2001)
On November 1, the World Health Organization issued a statement urging developing countries to take action against tobacco advertising:
- `Bright Future For Indian Banking' (Business Line, Rajalakshmi Menon, Dec 05, 2001)
IT HAS been ten years since it was recognised that the banking industry cannot continue to drive the economy by merely collecting deposits and lending to predetermined borrowers at predetermined rates.
- Up Politics -- Yet Another Act In Theatre Of Absurd? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 05, 2001)
The Congress(I) President, Ms Sonia Gandhi, and the Samajwadi Party Chief, Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav There are no permanent friends or foes in politics.
- The Textbook Controversy (Hindu, Achin Vanaik , Dec 05, 2001)
THAT THE BJP-RSS can do what it is doing to school textbooks and garner support for this from some professionals.
- Advani At An Iftaar (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Dec 05, 2001)
Advani made a rare exception when he showed up at Civil Aviation Minister Shahnawaaz Hussain’s Iftaar last week.
- The Challenger: Nice Smile, Better Pr (Indian Express, Dayan Candappa, Dec 04, 2001)
COLOMBO: Former Prime Minister and leader of the Opposition Ranil Wickremesinghe is an unlikely veteran of the tough and dangerous world of Sri Lankan politics.
- Let Everyone Find His Level (Indian Express, R. C. Hansoti, Dec 04, 2001)
The Supreme Court judgement to consider only merit in admission to super specialities in medicine and engineering to prevent deterioration in the standards of competence in these fields tackles only the tip of the iceberg.
- The House Needs New Rules (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 04, 2001)
It is not a handout. Nor is it a PR exercise. I can reaffirm after completing two-thirds of my term in the Rajya Sabha that Parliament is the nation’s commitment to resolving differences peacefully and democratically.
- Sound, Fury And Significance (Hindu, Sudhanshu Ranade , Dec 04, 2001)
It is odd that the discussion on revising history textbooks has stirred up debate on such abstruse questions as whether it is true that Guru Tegh Bahadur (or the Jats or Shivaji) engaged in loot or plunder.
- Fight The Menace (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 04, 2001)
MARX AND MAO are hung upside down in their erstwhile places of worship.
- Swearing By Economic Reforms (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 04, 2001)
THE CURRENT RECKONING is that the Indian economy will hardly be able to achieve a 5 per cent GDP growth during 2001-2002.
- `Financial Reforms Have Worked, But Rigidities Persist' (Business Line, P. Devarajan, Dec 04, 2001)
Dr Yaga Venugopal Reddy is the only central banker who comes out of his chamber to escort visitors with a warm laugh and a big hullo.
- Fao Urges Poor Nations To Boost Organic Food Sales (The Financial Express, David Brought, Dec 04, 2001)
ROME: The United Nations food body urged poor nations on Monday to boost exports of organic produce to take advantage of booming markets in developed countries.
- Cloning Human Embryos (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 04, 2001)
THE STUNNING ANNOUNCEMENT that a small Massachusetts-based biotech company cloned human embryos has evoked a predictable storm of protest.
- From Agra To Kathmandu (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 04, 2001)
PROVIDED THE Maoists' revolt in Nepal does not come in the way of the SAARC Summit, a meeting between the Prime Minister, Mr. A. B. Vajpayee, and the Pakistani ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, on its sidelines in Kathmandu is a certainty.
- Beans And Peas Lower Heart Disease Risk (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 04, 2001)
BULKING up the diet with legumes such as beans and peas can lower the risk of heart disease, study findings suggest.
- Institution Of Government Audit (Tribune, Dharam Vir, Dec 04, 2001)
THE Geneva-based Transparency International rates India at 72 out of 91 countries in its Corruption Perception Index 2001 and that makes it the 20th most corrupt nation today.
- Sensitising Officials - Ii (Hindu, P. Radhakrishnan, Dec 04, 2001)
AS THE effective implementation of the measures of the first two categories (political and educational reservation) is a necessary (though not sufficient) condition for actualising the measures of the third (job reservation).
- Vajpayee’s Fairy Tales (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 04, 2001)
No, Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha has not gone delusional.
- Will Doha Open Window For Non-Trade Issues? (Business Line, Sandeep Singh, Dec 04, 2001)
INDIA has reasons to celebrate after securing major gains in the hard fought agenda of the fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation.
- What Next After Doha? (Business Line, K. Prabhakaran Nair, Dec 04, 2001)
WHEN the curtain fell on the WTO Ministerial at Doha, there were mixed feelings.
- `Financial Reforms Have Worked, But Rigidities Persist' (Business Line, P. Devarajan, Dec 04, 2001)
Dr Yaga Venugopal Reddy is the only central banker who comes out of his chamber to escort visitors with a warm laugh and a big hullo.
- Leveraging India's Tourism Potential (Business Line, Gautam Murthy, Dec 04, 2001)
INDIA, once considered the land of ``snake charmers'' is today known in the West as a land of ``mouse movers'' with proven prowess in information technology.
- Time Ripe For Opening Defence Industry To Private Players (The Financial Express, Ranjit B Rai and P K Jain, Dec 04, 2001)
The Indian Navy knows it has a friend in George Fernandes, who is back as defence minister.
- Sunset For Enron, Sunrise For Maharashtra (The Financial Express, Kandula Subramaniam, Dec 04, 2001)
PENNSYLVANIA: Newspaper headlines over the past two days are related to the collapse of Houston-based energy giant Enron.
- A Classroom Of One’s Own (Indian Express, Megha Bahree, Dec 04, 2001)
Education matters. I was surprised to see the thousands who had camped at Delhi’s Ram Lila grounds on November 30.
- Strengthening The Basmati Case (Business Line, P. Krishna Rao, Dec 04, 2001)
THERE are conflicting reports on the 'success' of the Indian Government in protecting Basmati from patent piracy.
- Sinha’s Nightmares (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 04, 2001)
FINANCE Minister Yashwant Sinha, a born-again optimist and the original feel-good-factor votary, is under intense work place stress. He admits that the government faces a full-blown fiscal crisis.
- Sensitising Officials - Ii (Hindu, P. Radhakrishnan, Dec 04, 2001)
AS THE effective implementation of the measures of the first two categories (political and educational reservation) is a necessary (though not sufficient) condition for actualising the measures of the third (job reservation).
- Us Ignores Pak Hand (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 04, 2001)
Scores of Pakistanis, both commissioned and irregular soldiers, are said to have been amongst the many Arabs and Afghans killed in last week’s revolt by Taliban prisoners in the Kala-i-Jangi prison near Mazar-i-Sharif.
- From Agra To Kathmandu (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 04, 2001)
PROVIDED THE Maoists' revolt in Nepal does not come in the way of the SAARC Summit, a meeting between the Prime Minister, Mr. A. B. Vajpayee, and the Pakistani ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, on its sidelines in Kathmandu is a certainty.
- Northeast Muddle (Telegraph, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Dec 04, 2001)
G eorge Fernandes’ re-induction into the cabinet have implications beyond the Tehelka tapes, extending to the future of the Northeast.
- Karthi’s Winter Bundobust (Tribune, K. Rajbir Deswal, Dec 04, 2001)
THE onset of winter once again brought alive in my memory my friend Karthikeyan, a cool guy who worked in my office.
- Sound, Fury And Significance (Hindu, Sudhanshu Ranade , Dec 04, 2001)
It is odd that the discussion on revising history textbooks has stirred up debate on such abstruse questions as whether it is true that Guru Tegh Bahadur (or the Jats or Shivaji).
- Trade Debate (Business Line, K. Ramesh, Dec 04, 2001)
THE Commerce Minister, Mr Murasoli Maran, and his team deserve credit for their efforts at the Fourth Ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Doha.
- Cloning Human Embryos (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 04, 2001)
THE STUNNING ANNOUNCEMENT that a small Massachusetts-based biotech company cloned human embryos has evoked a predictable storm of protest.
- Swearing By Economic Reforms (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 04, 2001)
THE CURRENT RECKONING is that the Indian economy will hardly be able to achieve a 5 per cent GDP growth during 2001-2002.
- A Bigger Challenge For Pm (Tribune, P. Raman , Dec 04, 2001)
NO one can any more ignore the strong political undercurrents taking shape in the past few weeks.
- Red Terror (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 04, 2001)
In the land of its origin, Maoism today is not only discredited but also discarded by the Chinese Communist party.
- Let Quality Prevail (Indian Express, A.J. Philip, Dec 03, 2001)
The Central government has been clever enough not to tie itself in knots while granting children in the 6-14 age group the fundamental right to education under the Constitution (93rd) Amendment Bill, 2001.
- Connecting Culture (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Dec 03, 2001)
George Harrison's death on Guru Purab Friday (Kartik Poornima) makes one think of the mysterious laws that seem at work in our universe, flashing a tantalising glimpse now and then of their hidden ways.
- Tickets To Ride (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 03, 2001)
Let no one say the Congress cannot move with the times.
- For An Intolerant Secularism (Hindu, DIPANKAR GUPTA, Dec 03, 2001)
SECULARISM HAS been identified for too long with warm hearts, and soft shoulders. It is about time to break this image as it does not seem to have done much good for the cause of secularism anyway.
- Pwg's Discredited Means (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 03, 2001)
THE MINDLESS AND brutal attacks by naxalites of the People's War Group (PWG) last Thursday on the milk processing unit owned by members of the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu's family.
- Sensitising Officials - I (Hindu, P. Radhakrishnan, Dec 03, 2001)
AS INDIAN society entered into a covenant with itself to be secular, democratic, and egalitarian, encumbered by a heavy socio-cultural baggage of a rigidly caste-based hierarchical structure.
- Gaddafi's Son Comes Calling (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 03, 2001)
NEW DELHI, DEC. 2. Guess who is in the capital this week? Besides a host of American officials who will be here to discuss cooperation in defence, there is one `Engineer' Saiful Islam Muammar Al-Gaddafi.
- War Against People (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 03, 2001)
The recent maelstrom of violence unleashed by the People’s War Group (PWG) in Andhra Pradesh seems to have caught the Chandrababu Naidu government not just unprepared, but totally clueless.
- Back To Cricket (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 03, 2001)
THE LATEST POSITIONS taken by cricket's administrators mark a welcome climb-down from the entrenched positions that threatened to tear the game along its seam.
- Poto And The Jurisprudence Of Hue And Cry (Tribune, Anupam Gupta, Dec 03, 2001)
“It may be......the duty of a citizen,” said Chief Justice Marshall of the United States, “to accuse every offender, and proclaim every offense which comes to his knowledge;
- A Code For Mps And Mlas (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Dec 03, 2001)
THERE can be no two views on the need to ensure that proceedings in the nations legislatures should be toned up in the sense that members should give a far better account of themselves than has been the case till now.
- For An Intolerant Secularism (Hindu, DIPANKAR GUPTA, Dec 03, 2001)
SECULARISM HAS been identified for too long with warm hearts, and soft shoulders.
- Cricket Short-Changed (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 03, 2001)
There is nothing much to celebrate. Yes, the International Cricket Council and the Board of Control for Cricket in India have reached an agreement that would allow the first of the three Test cricket series between India and England to commence at Mohali.
- Terror Days In Andhra (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 03, 2001)
Naxalites have resumed the violent campaign in Andhra Pradesh with a repackaged plan and heightened ferocity. Their attacks in the past weeks and days proclaim this.
- Assembly Session Or Choreographed Theatre (Tribune, Ram Verma, Dec 03, 2001)
The winter session of the Haryana Assembly opened on November 7 and concluded on November 8. Short and sour, not sweet. Assembly sessions have become a ritual like the Dasehra festival providing fun and fireworks.
- Resisting Temptation (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Dec 03, 2001)
Shannon and Andy have been noncommittal for five and a half years. So have Ytossie and Taheed. Whereas Mandy and Billy, Valerie and Kaya have lived together for only eighteen months.
- After 17 Years Of Gas Leak Disaster (Tribune, N. D. Sharma, Dec 03, 2001)
Some people are endowed with unbelievable capacity for turning their failures and lapses into an instrument of refurbishing their public image. Few can rival Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh in this respect.
- A Laymans Look At Us Recession (Business Line, A. V. Swaminathan , Dec 03, 2001)
MISFORTUNES seem to be dogging the American economy.
- The Politics Of Food -- Keeping The Other Half Hungry (Business Line, Devinder Sharma , Dec 03, 2001)
SOME months ago, a few hundred people in the US mostly agricultural scientists signed an AgBioWorld Foundation petition appealing to the seed multinational giant Aventis CropScience to donate some 3,000 tonnes of genetically-engineered experimental rice.
- Vision 2020 -- Why India Has No Silicon Valleys (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Dec 03, 2001)
THE pioneers of the Silicon Valley took a conscious decision not to build closer than 400 feet from the highway.
- Caution, Development In The Making (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 03, 2001)
Modalities for the further commitments, including provisions for special and differential treatment, shall be established no later than 31 March 2003.
- Art Of Selling Nothing (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 03, 2001)
WHILE on the one hand enormous amounts are dished out to advertisers, marketing executives and salespersons for pushing up sales by hook or by crook.
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