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Articles 17121 through 17220 of 25647:
- Peace, Trust And Impartiality (Hindu, Manabi Majumdar, Nov 13, 2001)
THOSE OF us who condemn at once the recent terrorist attack on innocent lives in the United States as well as the American war hysteria in Afghanistan.
- Turn The Spotlight On The East (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Nov 13, 2001)
In the eighties, Indian agriculture was doing well, particularly in the eastern states.
- Dismal Dividends (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 13, 2001)
INDIA'S REFUSAL TO jettison an ill-advised and ill-timed hardline stance and its continuing disinclination to engage Pakistan bilaterally has once again handed the propaganda advantage to Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
- What Is The French For `Phase Out?' (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Nov 13, 2001)
The word in French for `phase out' is `elimination.' But is there another word that is a more innocuous translation of `phase out'?
- Jyoti Malhotra (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 13, 2001)
THE corridors of the UN General Assembly in New York are a great place to network in, especially in session, when the building is crawling with leaders of all shapes, sizes and colours.
- A Melted Bid (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 13, 2001)
THE GOVERNMENT HAS failed the strategic sale test in the case of Hindustan Zinc.
- Gasping For Breath (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 13, 2001)
THE TRAGIC DEATHS of twelve infants in a hospital in Lucknow within a span of forty-eight hours last week is an alarming signal of the poor state of post-natal care available to the general public.
- Salem Steel Plant In Search Of A New Mooring (The Financial Express, S. Rohini, Nov 13, 2001)
Salem Steel Plant (SSP), which belongs to the Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) group of companies, is slated for divestment. SSP manufactures high-class quality steel using imported technology and capital equipment.
- Defining Terrorism (Business Line, K. Ramesh, Nov 13, 2001)
THE human ingenuity in drafting will be soon put to test when the global coalition gets to defining what constitutes 'terrorism'?
- Killing Caste By Conversion (Hindu, DIPANKAR GUPTA, Nov 13, 2001)
There is no reason why a single Dalit should still remain a Hindu. What has Hinduism done for them except to cripple and handicap them in every conceivable way?
- Potential For Swiss Investment Into India Yet To Be Fully Tapped (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Nov 13, 2001)
Switzerland has been one of the stable trading partners of India.
- Early Retirement Blues (Tribune, Vijay Oberoi, Nov 13, 2001)
RETIREMENTS in the Army are predictable events, with a few officers preparing for them, with jobs or other occupations lined up in advance.
- Bjp New Face An Old Rss Hand (Indian Express, Darshan Desai, Nov 13, 2001)
Remember the anti-Christian propaganda in Dangs in 1998. Or the elopement cases in Bardoli in Gujarat and Randhikpur in the Panchmahals that took on a communal hue. Or the Bible-burning incident in Rajkot.
- A Beautiful Woman’S Face Activates Man’S Brain (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 13, 2001)
A beautiful woman’s face is like chocolate, cash or cocaine to a young man’s brain, according to Harvard University researchers.
- Memory Bank (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 12, 2001)
THE best scientific brains are yet to unravel, and, indeed, even to understand, the mysteries of memory.
- Afghan Warlord Allows Women’s Schools, Tv (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 12, 2001)
Northern Afghanistan’s ethnic Uzbek warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum ended on Saturday at Taliban ban on women’s schools and television in areas he captured from the hardline Islamic movement.
- Soothe-Sayers (Pioneer, Onkar Chopra , Nov 12, 2001)
The coming week was crucial for me. I had taken a month's leave. My exams of PR course were on. I checked the astrology column of my Sunday newspaper with a prayer on my lips.
- Afghan Crisis: The Unresolved Dilemmas (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Nov 12, 2001)
Why is the current crisis, arising out of the anti-terrorism operation in Afghanistan, getting deepened?
- India’s Major Gains (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 12, 2001)
UNDERSTATED, if not unstated, is the knitting of a close strategic relationship between India and the USA.
- Lessons From Christianity (Pioneer, A. Surya Prakash, Nov 12, 2001)
The process of modernism began in Christianity long before the Hindus got into the act.
- The Message From Doha (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 12, 2001)
ON Sunday China’s Foreign Trade Minister handed over to WTO chief Mike Moore in Doha a document from President Jiang Zemin, thus concluding China’s 15-year quest for WTO membership.
- To Us, With Hypocrisy (Indian Express, Ratna Rajiah, Nov 12, 2001)
‘‘The United States dominates the world in a way that inevitably arouses envy or anger or opposition. That comes with the power’’. Fareed Zakaria.
- Missing In Action (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Nov 12, 2001)
You require a perspective longer than a telescope and extraordinary reservoirs of patience to sit through this. Otherwise, you’re likely to feel enraged, frustrated, even humiliated.
- Why Are Bjp’s Allies Like Lambs? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 12, 2001)
The BJP is behaving as if it is running a one-party government.
- The Rot In Revenue (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin & Sunil Jain, Nov 12, 2001)
The taint in our revenue-earning depts is from top echelons to the bottom.
- The Way We Are (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Nov 12, 2001)
It was from those oldtime Deepavali Specials that many of us first learnt that the Lamp Festival in the North celebrates Rama’s return to Ayodhya while in the South it marks the killing of the titan Narakasura.
- Dousing The Fires (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 12, 2001)
The rejection last week by the Supreme Court of India of the petition that sought to glorify sati is to be welcomed unequivocally.
- Global Recession Challenge -- Wake Up Call For Central Bankers (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Nov 12, 2001)
``The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to lower its target for the federal funds rate by 50 basis points to 2 percent.
- Pakistan On Fire: Scenario I (Pioneer, Bobby Sharma, Nov 12, 2001)
In the 'Second Opinion' 'Is Pakistan Burning' (November 5, 2001) three scenarios under which Pakistan's President General Musharraf may be ousted were outlined.
- Will Pervez Deliver? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 12, 2001)
Finally, we are making our point loud and clear and it is being heard.
- Corporate Diversification, Again? (Business Line, Kala Seetharam Sridhar, Nov 12, 2001)
INDIA INC. seems to have been bitten by the diversification bug. Companies are on over-drive diversifying into related and unrelated areas.
- Simple George's High Ideals (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, Nov 12, 2001)
The return of George Fernandes to the Cabinet is being frowned at, not only by the opposition parties, but also by the self-proclaimed defenders of the morality of the Nation.
- A Bird In The Bush (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 12, 2001)
It may not be in hand as yet, but it’s worth cultivating.
- ``We May Stay, But We'll Never Be Indians'' (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 12, 2001)
THE alienation felt by the people in Kashmir Valley is well-known. However, when an angry and anguished 24-year-old postgraduate student at Kashmir University is prepared to die for ``the cause'', it strikes a chord.
- Issue Of Indo-Pak Dialogue (Tribune, T. V. Rajeswar, Nov 12, 2001)
THE course the Indian leadership has adopted on General Musharraf’s repeated request for a meeting in the New York is unfortunate.
- ‘Our Thrust Is On Good Governance And Infrastructure’ (The Financial Express, Sunil Mukhopadhyay, Nov 12, 2001)
Chattisgarh, carved out of Madhya Pradesh on November 1, 2000, is one of the richest states in mineral and forest resources in the country.
- Malegam Committee Report On Uti -- Strategic Partner, No Solution (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Nov 12, 2001)
THE much-awaited report of the Malegam Committee on UTI has been placed before the public.
- Enron In Trouble; Microsoft Sees Reprieve (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Nov 12, 2001)
ENRON is facing corruption charges, and this time it has nothing to do with Maharashtra!
- Pay And Use (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 12, 2001)
IF IT WAS power yesterday, it is water today.
- Us Needs A ‘Few Good Men’ For Cracking Osama’s Code (The Financial Express, Prashant Bakshi, Nov 12, 2001)
The key to clandestine operations lies in covert communications: a fundamental principle that is only well understood and cleverly mastered by Al Qaeda’s chief architect, Osama bin Laden.
- Villagers See Benefits Of Urbanisation (The Financial Express, Manik Gupta, Nov 12, 2001)
It is one of the few autonomous organisations under the government that is carrying out social programmes for the uplift of the villages around it.
- India's Concerns Half-Met (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 12, 2001)
ON THE DAY the Northern Alliance, a friend of India and present ally of the U.S., scored a breakthrough victory in Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan.
- Twists And Turns In Public Policy (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 12, 2001)
ECONOMIC THINKING THROUGHOUT the developed world is undergoing a major transformation in areas such as the role of government in business and social sectors.
- Security Of Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal (Hindu, K. Santhanam, Nov 12, 2001)
AS THE war in Afghanistan enters the fifth week, concerns have emerged about the safety and security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.
- House Of Shadows (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 11, 2001)
Finally it took four weeks and a foreign television channel to broadcast the truth that the George Bush administration would rather keep buried deep.
- Eligible Bachelor (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 11, 2001)
Rahul Gandhi was in Delhi last week and the cricket match he and his brother-in-law Robert Vadra played with a team of Congress-covering journalists remained a topic of discussion in the Congress circles for quite a few days.
- New Equations (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 11, 2001)
Politics makes strange bedfellows. It was only the other day that the BJP top brass was hurling abuses at the Tamil Nadu strongwoman J. Jayalalithaa for what she did to the Vajpayee Government in its second stint of 13 months.
- They Have Only Their Chains To Lose (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Nov 11, 2001)
ALMOST every day there is a story about some unspeakable atrocity committed on a person because he or she is a Dalit.
- Soft-Spoken Patil (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 11, 2001)
The Congress decision to make Mr Shivraj Patil its Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha did not come as a surprise as he was seen a frontrunner for the post since the vacancy arose following the demise of Mr Madhavrao Scindia in a plane crash.
- India Is Us Friend In Need And Deed (Indian Express, Bill Richardson, Nov 11, 2001)
WITH each passing day, the US military action in Afghanistan puts greater focus on America’s allies in South Asia.
- Iran Keeps All Its Options (Hindu, KESAVA MENON, Nov 11, 2001)
THEY HAVE more reason to hate the Taliban than almost anyone else, they are allied with arguably the most competent anti- Taliban commander in the field and they have a lot to gain from the collapse of the Taliban.
- Chomsky Speaks Out His Mind Without Fear (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Nov 11, 2001)
MY meeting with Prof Noam Chomsky last weekend left me in a rather introspective mood.
- Myanmar: The Core Of India’s ‘Look East’ Policy (Tribune, Ashok Kapur, Nov 11, 2001)
FOLLOWING its independence in 1948, Myanmar had a policy of neutralism and isolationism up to the 1980s but when the Myanmar military disallowed Sui Kyi to assume power following the 1990 elections, the country’s external stance changed.
- Poto Is A Must To Tackle Terrorism (Tribune, I. D. Swami, Nov 11, 2001)
THE promulgation of the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO) 2001 on October 24 has set off heated discussion in political circles.
- Straight Walk (Pioneer, Krishan Kalra, Nov 11, 2001)
On a Saturday in February 2001, Pawan Verma ruined my plans. It's a different matter that he may not be aware of the grave harm he has caused me.
- Blanking Out Of Afghanistan (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 11, 2001)
Professor Noam Chomsky teaches Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with which he has been associated for four and a half decades.
- Statutory Effect On Hindus (Pioneer, A. Surya Prakash, Nov 11, 2001)
Let us now examine some Hindu scriptural injunctions and see whether they yielded to the will of our Constitution and if they did, what remains of them after they passed through our constitutional sieve.
- When Hospitality Makes Up For Glitches (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Nov 11, 2001)
The Qataris have pulled out all stops to make the WTO meeting a success.
- Top Specialist In Biological Weapons And Defences (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Nov 11, 2001)
BEFORE defecting to the USA, Dr Ken Alibek was the top biological weapon specialist in erstwhile Soviet Union.
- History Of Conflict (Pioneer, Priyadarsi Dutta, Nov 11, 2001)
Hagia Sophia was built as a Christian Cathedral between AD 532 and 537 by the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justin I at Constantinople, now Istanbul (Turkey).
- The Tremors Spread Far Afield (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Nov 11, 2001)
THE AMERICAN war in Afghanistan has polarised key South East Asian nations.
- All For Themselves ... (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Nov 11, 2001)
GUESS WHO'S coming to dinner? Last Sunday, gate-crashers stormed Mr. Tony Blair's elegant sit-down dinner for four, turning it into a noisy, argumentative buffet for nine, with the last self- invited guest turning up embarrassingly late.
- Arms And The Agent (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 11, 2001)
ENTREPRENEURS IN the recession-hit economy have been in a state of eager anticipation ever since the Defence Ministry signalled its intention of allowing agents to represent foreign suppliers.
- Hasta La Vista, Baby? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 11, 2001)
Is this the waning dusk of the Sun Kings of soccer? This is the question uppermost in the minds of millions of fans worldwide of the Brazilian brand of football.
- They Have Only Their Chains To Lose (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Nov 11, 2001)
ALMOST every day there is a story about some unspeakable atrocity committed on a person because he or she is a Dalit.
- Convert The Landed (Hindu, V. KRISHNA ANANTH , Nov 11, 2001)
``The social order prescribed by the `Purusha Sukta' has never been questioned by anyone except Buddha.
- Russia’s Putin: Playing A Bad Hand Well (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Nov 10, 2001)
"The Cold War is over," Russian President Vladimir Putin (speaking in German he learned as a KGB officer in Dresden) told the parliament in Berlin in late September.
- Optimists Too Are Stress-Prone (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 10, 2001)
Although optimists are often more resistant to stress, they may actually be more susceptible to stress-related illness when facing severe pressure, according to researchers.
- House Of Shadows (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 10, 2001)
Finally it took four weeks and a foreign television channel to broadcast the truth that the George Bush administration would rather keep buried deep.
- Here A General, There A General (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 10, 2001)
Everywhere, it’s Musharraf but Vajpayee doesn’t have to feel left out.
- Another Case Of Corruption (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 10, 2001)
THE arrest of Mr Someshwar Misra, Chief Excise Commissioner (Delhi Zone) by the CBI allegedly for accepting a bribe of Rs 10 lakh should not be treated as a sensational development.
- Blanking Out Of Afghanistan (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 10, 2001)
Professor Noam Chomsky teaches Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with which he has been associated for four and a half decades.
- Minister Asked To Apologise For Defamation (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 10, 2001)
A senior Indian minister has been slapped a legal notice demanding Rs 10 million and a public apology for defaming a social scientist sacked in August from a top government post.
- No Need For Draconian Laws (Tribune, Tavleen Singh, Nov 10, 2001)
IT is puzzling that in the debate that POTO (Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance) has generated there has been no mention of the Nadeem case.
- Melancholy But Mirthful (Tribune, I.M. Soni, Nov 10, 2001)
MISERY and sorrow are inseparable in day-to-day living. If we revel in gloom and doom, then we see nothing but gloom and doom.
- Severe Blow To Farmers (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 10, 2001)
ANOTHER hare-brained proposal is being floated to tackle the mounting stocks of wheat and rice.
- India And Us Should Align Interests In Future Afghan Policy (The Financial Express, Arvind Virmani, Nov 10, 2001)
The art of foreign policy lies in making other countries (in the current case the US) believe that certain policies and actions that are in our (India’s) interest are also in its own (US’s) interest (and vice-versa).
- Labour Reforms: Time They Happened (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Nov 10, 2001)
THOUGH the reforming of India's labour laws and regulations is still the much-talked about component of the comprehensive economic reforms of the last decade, there has been scarcely any matching action.
- The Rss And The Bjp (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Nov 10, 2001)
THE latest `slanging match' between the RSS and its `political outfit', the BJP, is important not so much because of the impact it could have on the future of the Government at the Centre.
- Hasta La Vista, Baby? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 10, 2001)
Is this the waning dusk of the Sun Kings of soccer? This is the question uppermost in the minds of millions of fans worldwide of the Brazilian brand of football.
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