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Articles 17321 through 17420 of 25647:
- Negativism (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 07, 2001)
AMONG the commonly encountered traits which cause no end of irritation, if not conflict, is a negative attitude to ideas and proposals.
- Bureaucratic Bungling (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 07, 2001)
Sir, - This is with reference to your Editorial ``Abu Salem's escape'' (Oct. 30).
- Each With His Own Albatross (Tribune, Darshan Singh Maini, Nov 06, 2001)
THE celebrated Coleridge poem, “The Ancient Mariner” has, for generations, held the reader captive almost in the manner of the afflicted mariner holding “the wedding guest” by the coat-button, as it were, pouring out his weird, uncanny tale.
- Threat To Periphery (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 06, 2001)
THE Punjab Government’s decision to regularise illegal constructions which had come up in Chandigarh’s periphery till November 3, 2001.
- B-52 Diplomacy (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 06, 2001)
Rumsfeld’s visit was about them, not us
- The War On Television (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 06, 2001)
‘‘The tens of thousands of refugees are scattered all over the place and it is really difficult to access them.
- India’s Anthrax Warrior: Unseen, Untested (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 06, 2001)
India’s battle against anthrax is being plotted in an institution which still hasn’t identified the recent mysterious fever in Siliguri.
- Us Nightmare: Broken Arrow From Pak N-Arsenal (Indian Express, Steven Mufson, Nov 06, 2001)
About two weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks, a group of medium-level Bush administration officials met with experts on South Asia for a discussion of whether war in Afghanistan might detonate bigger problems in Pakistan.
- Untying The Red Knot (Indian Express, Ayesha Chawla, Nov 06, 2001)
Why must we waste so much time just pleading?
- Indo-Russian Nuclear Cooperation (Tribune, O. P. Sabherwal, Nov 06, 2001)
EXCHANGE of information and knowhow in nuclear science and technology has been taking place between the nuclear establishments of India and Russia for two decades.
- Foreign Affairs (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Nov 06, 2001)
Prime Minister’s Vajpayee’s visit to Russia, the US and Great Britain, all in the same breath, indicates just how much the world has changed.
- The Schroeder Visit (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Nov 06, 2001)
THE RECENT visit of the German Chancellor, Mr. Gerhard Schroeder, to India was significant from several angles, particularly for the signals it conveyed that there is life after September 11; that it is business as usual for the two countries.
- The Adivasis Of Orissa (Hindu, Sanjay Kumar, Nov 06, 2001)
BIHAR IS generally considered the worst-off of India's States with little hope of things getting better.
- Bjp: Quest For Survival Strategy (Tribune, P. Raman , Nov 06, 2001)
A series of incidents in the past few weeks in the ruling BJP and the RSS parivar have led to different kinds of interpretations about the nature and extent of the increased rumblings.
- Repairing Rather Than Reinventing Railways Is The Need Of The Hour (The Financial Express, Aarti Khosla, Nov 06, 2001)
While scarce resources were sunk in unremunerative projects, the budgetary support was reduced and the share of the Indian Railways (IR) in the Plan outlay was drastically cut.
- There's Gold In Them Thar Wars! (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Nov 06, 2001)
Frankly, Id like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
- Wto: Why All The Fuss Over The Doha Ministerial? (The Financial Express, Pradeep S. Mehta, Nov 06, 2001)
The hype in India over the ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), scheduled to begin this week at Doha, can only match the Niagara Falls in its fury, but in substance it is as nonsensical as an elephant climbing the Mount Everest.
- Not Quite Cricket, This (Business Line, Premen Addy , Nov 06, 2001)
WHEN the history of the present events in Afghanistan is written, there surely will be room for a footnote, or even a chapter, on the crisis of faith.
- Our Role In Their War (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 06, 2001)
South Asia can teach the world to deal with the crisis.
- Contract Farming And Forward Contracts -- Way To Go, Way To Grow (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Nov 06, 2001)
Despite the corporate organisation's appearance of universal suitability, it is not the only form that zealously pursues efficiency and competitiveness.
- Ficci-Cii Perspective On Wto Strategy (The Financial Express, Rahul Bajaj, Nov 06, 2001)
After the debacle at Seattle, the Prime Minister invited the FICCI and CII to come forward with their views on India’s strategy towards trade negotiations at the World Trade Organisation.
- A Farce Of Conversion (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 06, 2001)
INDIAN politicians are a nervous lot and the police is both unthinking and servile to the political masters.
- Cut And Paste Doesn’t Work In Education (Indian Express, Sanjiv Kaura, Nov 06, 2001)
The education bill, in its present form, is a damp squib.
- Food Exports And Right To Food (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Nov 06, 2001)
IT APPEARS that New Delhi is bent on pursuing a food `export' policy, throwing to the winds any semblance of economic rationality or financial prudence.
- Avoid Taking Your Cold To Sauna (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 06, 2001)
Anyone with a cold should avoid going to the sauna in the hope of ridding themselves of viruses and bacteria through a hard sweat.
- Nothing Statesman-Like (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 06, 2001)
Sir, - Mr. Rajeev Dhavan's ``Assault on Ayodhya'' (Nov. 2) brings out the sequential planning of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad for the construction of a Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya, the first phase of which is over now.
- Reddy Committee Report On Small Savings -- Hasten Slowly On Recasting Tax Sops (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Nov 05, 2001)
IN THE 2001-02 Budget, the Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, had announced the setting up of an Expert Committee for determination of interest rates on savings.
- Get The Best Out Of Meetings (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 05, 2001)
1. Recognise that most meetings will be chaotic and unproductive without a good chair and an agenda.
- Recycle Waste Water For A Cleaner Future (The Financial Express, Sunil Ghorawat, Nov 05, 2001)
Ninety per cent of waste water in developing countries is released without any kind of treatment, according to a recent report by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
- Rumsfeld: At The Right Place And Right Time (Indian Express, Sonia Trikha, Nov 05, 2001)
THERE are going to be very few senior leaders in the country when US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld comes calling on Monday.
- From Nam Giant To A Client (Tribune, Sumer Kaul, Nov 05, 2001)
CALL it exquisite irony or what you will, even as the Prime Minister’s special envoy Brajesh Mishra was in Dhaka on “a goodwill mission”, conveying his boss’s “greetings” to the new government and talking of “further strengthening” bilateral relations —
- Poto, What It Does Not Say And What It Says (Tribune, Anupam Gupta, Nov 05, 2001)
PROMULGATED late evening on October 24, the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance, 2001 — known popularly by its highly pronounceable acronym, POTO — is already bristling with controversy.
- The Freedom Of Shakti (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Nov 05, 2001)
Fasting has more scope than we suspect.
- Meeting India's Concerns (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 05, 2001)
INDIA'S LONG, LONELY battle against fundamentalist terrorism on its soil may be about to be joined, even if indirectly and remotely, by the global coalition as the U.S expands its campaign to include terrorism in its multifarious forms.
- The War Band (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Nov 05, 2001)
If Band of Brothers fails to inspire us with awe, blame it on the Afghan war, the memory of body bags returning from Kargil. Real war is so dehumanised, the mini-series on HBO fails to match our experience of it.
- Burnt Out Ends (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 05, 2001)
Smoking in public places will be forbidden soon in India.
- India & Pakistan: Doing The Impossible (Hindu, Shirin Tahir Kheli, Nov 05, 2001)
SEPTEMBER 11 changed the world. Sadly, nothing is different in the India-Pakistan relationship.
- Nice Guys Are Always Remembered (Indian Express, Ajit Bhattacharjea , Nov 05, 2001)
WHEN Braj Kumar Nehru entered a room, everybody noticed. He had an imposing personality, an agile westernised intellect tempered by the innate courtesy of a traditional upbringing in Allahabad.
- The Abyss Of The Future (Hindu, Noam Chomsky, Nov 05, 2001)
I HAD intended to discuss some rather general issues that have unpleasant, possibly ominous, implications for a decent future: issues of democracy, human rights, social and economic development, the role of force in world affairs, and others.
- Banning The Smoke That Kills (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 05, 2001)
THE SUPREME COURT has done well by the people of India in ordering a ban on smoking in public places throughout the country.
- Expert Panel’s Approach May Do More Harm Than Good (The Financial Express, Aarti Khosla, Nov 05, 2001)
The report of the expert group (Rakesh Mohan Committee) on Indian Railways is a subject matter of much debate among Railway personnel. Corporatisation/privatisation are the buzzwords of this report.
- Alarming Rise In Cross-Border ‘Hack-Tivism’ (The Financial Express, Prashant Bakshi, Nov 05, 2001)
The reverberations of the World Trade Centre terrorist attacks are being felt on Indian cyberspace, too, with a conspicuous spurt in web site defacements.
- Puffing Off-Track (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 05, 2001)
THE RAILWAYS DOES not appear to have made much headway in implementing its scheme for commercial utilisation of surplus land and airspace to raise revenues from non-traditional sources.
- Modernising The Dairy Industry (Business Line, Satyan Kashu, Nov 05, 2001)
THE Indian dairy industry is characterised by small, labour- intensive units and marginal growth.
- Targetting The Butt (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 05, 2001)
THE Supreme Court should be complimented for issuing the recent directive to all States and Union Territories immediately to issue orders banning smoking in public places.
- Vision 2020 -- Why Rbis Moves Wont Work (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 05, 2001)
The high transaction cost and the lack of commitment to fulfilling contracts because of the corruption in high places make a mockery of monetary policies. P. V. Indiresan explains why Dr Bimal Jalan cannot do a Greenspan.
- Good Governance (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 05, 2001)
ALTHOUGH its emergence in public discourses may be of recent origin, good governance was always regarded in India's ancient lore as an imperative touchstone of benevolent kingship.
- Focus On Naval Cooperation During Rumsfeld Visit (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Nov 05, 2001)
NEW DELHI, NOV. 4. Several issues relating to the military operations against Afghanistan and the stability of Pakistan are likely to figure prominently in the talks.
- Bridge Promise (Tribune, D. R. Sharma, Nov 05, 2001)
AT a recent sangat darshan the Punjab Chief Minister promised to get a bridge built between Gharota and Mirthal spanning the unruly Chakki that I crossed every time with a sense of trepidation.
- Up Ministers May Not File Returns (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 05, 2001)
Defying moves towards greater accountability and transparency in public affairs, Uttar Pradesh is set to scrap a law requiring ministers to file details of their income.
- After The War (Hindu, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Nov 04, 2001)
IT WAS only a matter of time before the United Nations decided to get involved in Afghanistan; and if anyone in the Bush administration felt the world body would be a silent spectator to the goings on it would have been a delusion.
- Exuding Confidence (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 04, 2001)
Ms. AMBIKA SONI, Congress Working Committee member and AICC general secretary, believes her party is on course.
- Waiting For A Wave (Hindu, Javed M. Ansari , Nov 04, 2001)
WHAT A difference a year makes in Indian politics.
- Legislating A Police State (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Nov 04, 2001)
IT IS not the best kept secret of the Government that the police is thoroughly criminalised and corrupt and the judicial system is teetering on the brink of collapse.
- Fraught Times (Hindu, HAROON HABIB, Nov 04, 2001)
THE NEW Khaleda Zia Government in Bangladesh has set itself 25 targets to achieve in the first 100 days in office.
- Change Of Vocation (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 04, 2001)
Probably it’s time to hop jobs. The chief minister of Chhattisgarh, who has already taken to writing in a big way, might ultimately find his pen the only weapon he can wield against commissions and other demons.
- Waiting For A Wave (Hindu, Javed M. Ansari , Nov 04, 2001)
WHAT A difference a year makes in Indian politics. Almost to the month, last year, the Congress was a house divided.
- Nice Guy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 04, 2001)
In his death, B.K.Nehru proved the title of his book “Nice Guys Finish Second” wrong. Of what one saw and heard during his final journey, he came first.
- Koshiari Wedded To Rss Tradition & Philosophy (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Nov 04, 2001)
NEW Chief Minister of Uttaranchal, Bhagat Singh Koshiari, is indeed a dark horse.
- Political Solution Remains Elusive (Tribune, Raman Mohan, Nov 04, 2001)
THIRTY-five years ago, Haryana was born on November 1 with the congenital problem of acute thirst.
- Punjab And Haryana River Waters Dispute, Not A Drop Of Water To Spare (Tribune, G.S. Dhillon, Nov 04, 2001)
THE current water dispute between Punjab and Haryana have views wide apart. Whereas Haryana lays claim to some 3.5 MAF of water, Punjab says that there is ‘not a drop of spare water’ and so nothing can be given to Haryana.
- Vajpayee’s Visit Will Boost Indo-Russian Ties (Tribune, M. L. Madhu, Nov 04, 2001)
AS Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is visiting Russia today, it would be worthwhile to take stock of the Indo-Russian relations which are age old.
- A Legacy Denied: All That Nehru Stood For Is Now Under Attack (Tribune, Abu Abraham, Nov 04, 2001)
IN October, we remember Gandhiji. In November, thoughts of Nehru come to mind.
- The War On Television (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 04, 2001)
‘‘I’m quite happy to accept the definition of terrorism that one finds in the US codes and army manuals.
- Exuding Confidence (Hindu, Javed M. Ansari , Nov 04, 2001)
Ms. AMBIKA SONI, Congress Working Committee member and AICC general secretary, believes her party is on course.
- Another False Dawn? (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Nov 04, 2001)
IT IS a measure of the volatile Northern Ireland politics that its best moments can quickly dissolve into disappointment.
- Fraught Times (Hindu, HAROON HABIB, Nov 04, 2001)
THE NEW Khaleda Zia Government in Bangladesh has set itself 25 targets to achieve in the first 100 days in office.
- Terms Of Engagement, And Misunderstanding (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Nov 04, 2001)
PAKISTAN has always been a reluctant American ally. Islamabad has viewed its relations with Washington through the prism of its rivalry with India.
- Double Standards (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 04, 2001)
Surprising as it may sound, law and order has become a source of tension between the state and the Centre.
- Perfect Optimism (Telegraph, MUKUL KESAVAN, Nov 04, 2001)
India will bat. It’s two in the afternoon and that time of the year again, that perfect virgin moment when India begins a series, batting first.
- After The War (Hindu, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Nov 04, 2001)
IT WAS only a matter of time before the United Nations decided to get involved in Afghanistan; and if anyone in the Bush administration felt the world body would be a silent spectator to the goings on it would have been a delusion.
- ’84 Revisited, This Time With Hope (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Nov 04, 2001)
In a typical government complex in the Capital, a judicial inquiry into India’s biggest massacre since the Partition is in progress.
- Legislating A Police State (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Nov 04, 2001)
IT IS not the best kept secret of the Government that the police is thoroughly criminalised and corrupt and the judicial system is teetering on the brink of collapse.
- Another False Dawn? (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Nov 04, 2001)
IT IS a measure of the volatile Northern Ireland politics that its best moments can quickly dissolve into disappointment.
- Hyderabad Blues (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 04, 2001)
The sprawling Hyderabad House in the capital has been buzzing with activity since the September 11 attacks in the USA.
- Look Who’S In Stockings (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 04, 2001)
Dubbed famously as kali billi by her co-star, the Calcutta model making it big time in Bollywood, Bipasha Basu, is supposedly quite embarrassed by her performance in Ajnabee.
- The Junior Minister’s Tale (Indian Express, I.M. Sahai, Nov 03, 2001)
Why the truth must not be stated during question hour.
- German Finance Minister Turns Film Star To Boost Euro (The Financial Express, Clifford Coonan, Nov 03, 2001)
BERLIN: With two months to go until the introduction of euro notes and coins, Germany is going to major lengths to boost acceptance for the new currency — including turning Finance Minister Hans Eichel into a film star.
- The War In Afghanistan (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Nov 03, 2001)
QUESTIONS are now being asked with disconcerting regularity about the fate of the war in Afghanistan, specifically about its ultimate fate.
- The Killer Amidst Us (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 03, 2001)
THE US attack on Afghanistan has yielded a blessing in disguise for Punjab: the smuggling of brown sugar, opium and other drugs through the border state has almost stopped.
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