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Articles 16921 through 17020 of 25647:
- The Politics Of Poto (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 20, 2001)
IF THE UNION GOVERNMENT banked on achieving a measure of consensus on the proposed legislation to check terrorism, its plan seems to have come totally unstuck.
- A Voyage And The Elusive Vision - I (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 20, 2001)
DOES AMERICA need a foreign policy? The poser, popularised by Dr. Henry Kissinger, reflects the present status of the U.S. as the sole superpower.
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Nov 20, 2001)
Seedsavers of crops worldwide have been threatened as never before.
- A Post-Taliban Dispensation (Hindu, Chinmaya R. Gharekhan, Nov 20, 2001)
DESPITE ALL the talk about establishing a broad-based, multi- ethnic, representative post-Taliban government in Afghanistan.
- Poto: Pity It Is Confrontation, Not Consensus (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Nov 20, 2001)
NEW DELHI, NOV. 19. It will be a pity that just when the country needs consensus on core issues of national interest, the ruling side and the opposition head towards a sharp confrontation.
- All That The Pakistani Can’t Leave Behind (Indian Express, Khaled Ahmed, Nov 20, 2001)
The attitude of the expatriate Pakistani tends to be more extreme than Pakistan’s domestic opinion.
- Primitive Accumulation Versus The Rule Of Law (The Financial Express, Chanakya , Nov 20, 2001)
Some of the politicians and civil servants who made money used it to live well, fulfilling their feudal dreams. Some who knew the ropes sent the money abroad.
- Messing Up With People's Savings (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, Nov 20, 2001)
IT IS indeed difficult to reconcile the monetary policy measures, announced by the RBI Governor, Mr Bimal Jalan, with the prevailing macro-economic conditions.
- Trade And Environment: ‘Trade Off’ At Doha Is No Loss (The Financial Express, Pradeep S. Mehta, Nov 20, 2001)
While India is rejoicing on major gains in several areas of the hard-fought agenda of the fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), it is a bit upset on the inclusion of environment in the Ministerial Declaration.
- Oil Price Slump Could Help Global Economy (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Nov 20, 2001)
INTERNATIONAL oil prices fell to a new two-year low of less than $l8 a barrel on November 15, with Opec failing to win support from non-Opec producers, notably Russia.
- Organisational Renewal (Business Line, A. B. Shivkumar , Nov 20, 2001)
EVERY organisation needs to `renew' itself, in as much as it needs to re-focus on its areas of strengths, exploit opportunities, and emerge as a viable entity, and to face up to every challenge.
- The Afghan Kaleidoscope (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 20, 2001)
NOT FOR the first time nor, one suspects, the last, Afghanistan is playing a role in world history unmerited by its economic weight, unwarranted by its military power.
- Made In Pakistan (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 20, 2001)
Atal Behari Vajpayee, 77, just couldn’t decide on the right kind of jacket for himself.
- Parents Win Right To Shorter Hours (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 20, 2001)
Parents of young children are to get the right to ask for shorter hours at work under legal guidelines designed to improve family life.
- Politics Of Poto (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 19, 2001)
Opposition to POTO (Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance) is building up and the Congress, which will decide its fate in the Rajya Sabha, has promised to block its passage.
- How Humans Learnt To Walk (Tribune, Robin McKie, Nov 19, 2001)
It is the key, defining ability of our species, the one critical evolutionary feature that sets us apart from other creatures.
- Making Money In The Great Game Of Social Advancement (The Financial Express, Chanakya , Nov 19, 2001)
You cannot walk an inch in India, it seems, without coming near the putrid smell of corruption and nepotism. Bribery seems to be all pervading. Every one complains about it.
- I’m Back With Many Trophies From The Battlefront: Murasoli Maran (The Financial Express, Murasoli Maran, Nov 19, 2001)
With his pencil-thin moustache and his long sideburns commerce minister Murasoli Maran looks like a comical villain in a spaghetti-western movie.
- Wearing The Mantle Of Untruth (Tribune, Ram Verma, Nov 19, 2001)
The TV images of the bizarre spectacle of passenger planes going straight into the World Trade Center towers and a monstrous fireball enveloping them, billowing black clouds rising ominously to the sky.
- Feather In Mr Maran's Cap (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Nov 19, 2001)
THERE is one school of thought which holds that, after two years, the severe consequences of the Doha Declaration.
- Scrap The Pds! (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 19, 2001)
THE NEWS of the Centre considering the discontinuation of foodgrains procurement will gladden those who had been watching the alarming proportions this indefensibly costly racket had assumed over the years.
- Why India Is Insulated From Oil Shock (Business Line, S. Majumder , Nov 19, 2001)
IN THE fluid world situation, especially vis-a-vis the Afghan war, the oil-producing nations are in two minds about cutting production to raise prices.
- Doha Ministerial: A Triumph Of Sorts? (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Nov 19, 2001)
PREDICTABLY, the fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that wound up on November 14.
- Afghan Girl Weds Punjabi Boy (Tribune, Satinder Singh, Nov 19, 2001)
An Afghan woman who fled her homeland when the Taliban wrested control is making a new beginning in India just as the Islamic militia is being driven out of power.
- Vision 2020 -- Making A Beeline In Wrong Direction? (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Nov 19, 2001)
MAKING a beeline is a well-known expression. It emphasises the way bees go straight to their goal.
- Developments In Afghanistan (Tribune, Pran Chopra , Nov 19, 2001)
Events have been moving so fast in Afghanistan that each passing day raises more questions, and faster than the questions raised by the preceding day can be answered.
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Nov 19, 2001)
Seedsavers of crops worldwide have been threatened as never before. A technology appropriately called the 'terminator technology', has been creating waves in agricultural circles since March.
- The Road From Doha (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 19, 2001)
THE WORLD TRADE Organisation's meeting at Doha has been quickly followed by claims and counter-claims about what the agreement on a negotiating agenda means for India.
- Feats Of Focus (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Nov 19, 2001)
AS the days shorten and assorted seasonal aches afflict us, it’s normal to succumb to post-Deepavali gloom.
- Including The Excluded (The Kashmir Times, Kuldip Nayar, Nov 19, 2001)
Kabul, fell one day after some 500 men and women from South Asia adopted at a meeting in New Delhi a statement on the sovereignty of Afghanistan. It was a premonition or wishful thinking on their part.
- Talk Talk, Little Action (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Nov 19, 2001)
All India Women’s Conference chairperson, who attended a seminar on women in Jammu has spoken about the need for educating women about their rights so that they can fight injustice.
- Coming Soon: A Pill To Cure Forgetfulness (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 19, 2001)
You know the symptoms. You spend half an hour trying to remember where you left your half-filled trolley in the supermarket;
- On The First Morning Of Ramadan (Indian Express, Syeda Saiyidain Hameed , Nov 19, 2001)
What can the Afghans expect for Iftar? Food for the lucky, bombs for the unlucky
- Flawed Arguments, Sirs (Indian Express, Abhishek Singhvi, Nov 19, 2001)
Recent defences of the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO) range from Arun Shourie’s invocation of the US law to Law Minister Arun Jaitley’s reference to the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
- An Opportunity For India (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Nov 19, 2001)
THE DEVELOPMENTS in, and in relation to, Afghanistan have overtaken the outcome of the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee's trip abroad, not particularly shining in any case.
- ‘Political Issues Will Take Precedence Over Economy In The Winter Session’ (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Nov 19, 2001)
Former Lok Sabha Speaker Shivraj Patil’s chief asset for his new role as Deputy Leader of Opposition in place of Madhavrao Scindia is his sound grasp of parliamentary rules and procedures.
- Meanwhile, In Other News... (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Nov 19, 2001)
Advertisements for liquor may have been banned from television but when the spirit is willing, alcohol will find a way to beat prohibition.
- Doon’s Tailors And The National Fabric (Indian Express, Anil Nauriya , Nov 19, 2001)
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Hindu Jagran Manch tell women not to visit Kotdwar’s male (predominantly-Muslim) tailors to give measurements...(News item)
- Ritual Of Convenience (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 19, 2001)
THERE is no likelihood of any business being conducted in Parliament today.
- A Vvip Village Called Bathindi (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Nov 19, 2001)
Mahatma Gandhi saw the vision of new India in the villages of the country.
- Fall From Grace (Hindu, KESAVA MENON, Nov 18, 2001)
WHEN the U.S. administration began mapping out its strategy against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, after the September 11 attacks, it was clear that it believed support from Saudi Arabia was indispensable.
- Caught In The Quicksand (Hindu, Muralidhar Reddy, Nov 18, 2001)
``NEVER IN the field of human conflict have so many experts of the highest renown been so thoroughly wrong.
- Fishing In Troubled Waters (Hindu, ARUNKUMAR BHATT, Nov 18, 2001)
THE political games being played in the aftermath of the communal riots in Malegaon are more abhorrent than the violence itself. Political parties of all hues are engaged in scoring over each other and if the macabre manipulations lead to a fresh bout.
- This ‘Smart’ Surgeon Is More Dangerous Than Osama (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Nov 18, 2001)
NOW that the Taliban rule is coming to an end , Osama bin Laden’s days appear to be numbered.
- Palestine: The Core Issue (Tribune, Abu Abraham, Nov 18, 2001)
THOSE who are asking why the Muslim community, barring a few liberal exceptions, haven’t denounced Osama bin Laden and his devilish disciples.
- Timely Concern (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 18, 2001)
THE concern voiced by Abu Abraham in his article “A legacy denied: All that Nehru stood for is now under attack” (Nov 11) is timely.
- Re-Inventing A Political Buddha (Pioneer, Priyadarsi Dutta, Nov 18, 2001)
Through some of his dulcet poems Rabindra Nath Tagore brought Buddha and Shivaji closer to every Bengali's heart.
- Maharaja Ranjit Singh: Punjab’s Benevolent Ruler (Tribune, Mohinder Singh, Nov 18, 2001)
POPULARLY known as the Lion of Punjab, Ranjit Singh was not only the greatest man of his time in Punjab but was also among the few leading figures of the history of that period.
- Erroneous Zone (Pioneer, G. K. Sharma, Nov 18, 2001)
The computer is as much an conduit of inaccuracies as an instrument of accuracy.
- Clearest Voice Of Dissent (Pioneer, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Nov 18, 2001)
Professor Noam Chomsky is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with which he has been associated for four and a half decades.
- Maulana Azad (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 18, 2001)
According to evidence unearthed by the Director of Archives, Government of West Bengal, Dr Pranab Kumar Chatterjee, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was born on 5June, 1888, in Mecca.
- Fishing In Troubled Waters (Hindu, ARUNKUMAR BHATT, Nov 18, 2001)
THE political games being played in the aftermath of the communal riots in Malegaon are more abhorrent than the violence itself. Political parties of all hues are engaged in scoring over each other and if the macabre manipulations lead to a fresh bout.
- Kashmir At The Crossroads (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Nov 18, 2001)
THE fallout of the Taliban's debacle in Afghanistan is bound to have its impact over the next phase of the armed struggle in Jammu and Kashmir.
- India Trips Rich (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 18, 2001)
India's numerically impressive team (only four less than the one from the US) of officials, led from the front by Commerce and Industry Minister Murasoli Maran.
- Terrorism: Don’t Allow The Momentum To Die (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Nov 18, 2001)
Terrorism has a long antiquity. But it never took such a macabre proportion that it has assumed of late.
- Caught In The Quicksand (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Nov 18, 2001)
``NEVER IN the field of human conflict have so many experts of the highest renown been so thoroughly wrong.
- Hindu Exodus From Bangladesh: It’s Economics Again (Indian Express, Subrata Nag Choudhury, Nov 18, 2001)
EARLY last week, Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia promised at a victory rally in Dhaka that her government would rebuild the historic Ramna Kali temple that was razed in the aftermath of the Babri demolition.
- Back To The Future In Kabul? (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Nov 18, 2001)
THE fall of Kabul to the Northern Alliance marks the beginning of the end of Taliban rule in Afghanistan.
- The Gloves Are Off (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Nov 18, 2001)
NEITHER Mr. Jacques Chirac, the conservative President of France, nor his Socialist Prime Minister, Mr. Lionel Jospin, have officially declared they are candidates in the next presidential election in May.
- Fall From Grace (Hindu, KESAVA MENON, Nov 18, 2001)
WHEN the U.S. administration began mapping out its strategy against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, after the September 11 attacks, it was clear that it believed support from Saudi Arabia was indispensable.
- De-Legitimise Terror As State Policy (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Nov 18, 2001)
Most ruthless in the suppression of their own hapless people, and most cowardly in battle.
- Strings Attached (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Nov 18, 2001)
FOR a while now, the multilateral donor community has expressed concern that liberalisation policies at the State-level in India have not kept pace with the Central Government's overall drive towards economic reforms.
- Good Boards Are Good But Really Hard To Come By (The Financial Express, Bhanoji Roa, Nov 17, 2001)
There is a reason for my curiosity about corporate governance.
- Where Modernisation Is Seen As An Enemy Of Islam (Tribune, Tavleen Singh, Nov 17, 2001)
LAST week my travels took me to a couple of Muslim villages near the Rajasthani town of Nagaur.
- Suzuki And The Wto (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 17, 2001)
The GOI-Suzuki fight provides valuable insights into government thinking on the WTO issue.
- Resting Their Case? Objection, My Lord (Indian Express, Smruti Koppikar, Nov 17, 2001)
Bharat Shah may still be behind bars, but has MCOCA really struck at the heart of Mumbai’s underworld?
- De-Legitimise Terror As State Policy (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Nov 17, 2001)
Most ruthless in the suppression of their own hapless people, and most cowardly in battle.
- Erroneous Zone (Pioneer, G. K. Sharma, Nov 17, 2001)
The computer is as much an conduit of inaccuracies as an instrument of accuracy.
- Clearest Voice Of Dissent (Pioneer, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Nov 17, 2001)
Professor Noam Chomsky is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with which he has been associated for four and a half decades.
- Maulana Azad (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 17, 2001)
According to evidence unearthed by the Director of Archives, Government of West Bengal, Dr Pranab Kumar Chatterjee, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was born on 5June, 1888, in Mecca.
- Re-Inventing A Political Buddha (Pioneer, Priyadarsi Dutta, Nov 17, 2001)
Through some of his dulcet poems Rabindra Nath Tagore brought Buddha and Shivaji closer to every Bengali's heart.
- Giving Readers Good Choices (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, Nov 17, 2001)
THE headlines in the newspapers and visuals on the televisions are becoming predictive and depressive at times.
- India Trips Rich (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 17, 2001)
India's numerically impressive team (only four less than the one from the US) of officials, led from the front by Commerce and Industry Minister Murasoli Maran.
- Specious Arguments (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 17, 2001)
THE UNION CABINET'S proposal to replace the Foreign Contributions Regulation Act (FCRA) with a more stringent law.
- Fear And Learning In New York (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 17, 2001)
Some quiet in J&K, few red faces in Pak: shouldn’t we get more out of Sept 11?
- ‘Us Wants India To Be Right In The Middle Of Talks On Afghanistan’ (Indian Express, Sonia Trikha, Nov 17, 2001)
US ambassador Robert Blackwill is currently with the US Pacific Command in Hawaii discussing proposals for military cooperation between the US and India with Admiral Dennis Blair.
- Did We Succeed In Doha? (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Nov 17, 2001)
THE Fourth Ministerial Conference at Doha concluded with a few surprises. The original idea was perhaps to straight away move towards a further round of discussions.
- Maran's Finest Hour -- Doha Rescues Wto From Doldrums (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 17, 2001)
LOOKING BACK as a participant in all the international organisations, including the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT).
- S M Krishna Factor Helps Congress Sweep Local Polls (The Financial Express, K. P. Sethunath, Nov 17, 2001)
Electoral battle, the touchstone of a functioning democracy, has ceased to be a venue for a meaningful discourse on policies and priorities with the political establishment reducing the whole process into single agenda:
- The Afghan Melon (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 17, 2001)
INDIA’S inclusion in the expanded group of countries entrusted with Afghanistan’s post-Taliban transition chimes well with Indo-Afghan historical and strategic affinities.
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