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Articles 17521 through 17620 of 25647:
- Who Only Stand And Wait (Telegraph, J. N. Dixit , Oct 31, 2001)
Pakistan has again trounced India diplomatically and politically by joining the anti-terrorist campaign of the United States of America.
- Shahi Imam, You’ve Got Mail (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 31, 2001)
The prayer call behoves you, not politics and jihad.
- Pointless Talk (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 31, 2001)
The call of the Pakistan president, Mr Pervez Musharraf, for the resumption of the India-Pakistan dialogue cannot be taken very seriously.
- Remembering Indira Gandhi (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Oct 31, 2001)
On Indira Gandhi's Seventeenth death anniversary, there are intimations of a perceptible change for the better in the public opinion about her.
- The Court And The Political Order (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 31, 2001)
TOMORROW THE country will have a new Chief Justice when Mr. Justice A. S. Anand leaves office after a three-year innings.
- Pakistan Says Debt Relief Will Give Fiscal Space (The Financial Express, Sabyasachi Mita, Oct 31, 2001)
HONG KONG: Pakistan is seeking to convert bilateral debt owed to Paris Club creditors to easier terms and stretch it out over a longer period to provide the economy with some breathing room, its finance minister said on Tuesday.
- In Walled City, Open House On Hawala (Indian Express, Dalip Singh, Oct 31, 2001)
VERY, very long ago, it was the crucible for Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib’s imagination. Today, the bustling blind alley of Balliraman in old Delhi’s Walled City is a favoured hunting ground of hawaladars, as hawala operators are also known.
- Time To Drive Out Satans From The Temples Of Modern India (The Financial Express, Chandra Shekar, Oct 31, 2001)
When you buy petrol, you think you are paying for the cost of fuel and taxes levied by an elected government.
- Kashmir: Why Is Delhi Becoming Shrill? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 31, 2001)
OBVIOUSLY inspired by the Americans flexing their muscles in Afghanistan, both the Home Minister, Mr L. K. Advani, and surprisingly, the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, are speaking the language of war vis-a-vis Kashmir.
- Bjp’s ‘Congressisation’ Problem (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Oct 31, 2001)
HOME Minister L.K. Advani’s recent warning to his partymen that they should guard against being “Congressised” comes rather late in the day.
- The Long Journey From Joi Bangla To Zia’s Bangla (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 31, 2001)
Even if history repeats itself, it is nowhere so true as in Bangladesh. One of the two women, Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina Wajed, alternately come to head the country and indulge in the same rhetoric, make the same promises and weave the same dreams.
- Highly Retrograde (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 31, 2001)
THE UNION CABINET'S decision to initiate a statute change to dispense with the `domicile' qualification for election to the Rajya Sabha is a highly retrogressive one and, worse, it seeks to undermine its Constitution-endowed distinctive character.
- Reputed Daily (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 31, 2001)
The Tribune Group of newspapers has gained tremendous popularity among the people by its unbiased reporting and upholding the rich literary and cultural values of the country.
- Changeover (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 30, 2001)
The Bharatiya Janata Party is determined to get its act together in its most prized states.
- How To Feel More Intelligent (Tribune, Neasa Macerlean, Oct 30, 2001)
1. Capitalise on your enthusiasm. If you do things you genuinely like, your performance improves. A football fan, for instance, will effortlessly remember old scores, but could struggle to recall Health & Safety regulations at work.
- The Post-Wtc Peacenik: Soft Words, Softer Stick (Indian Express, Elizabeth Mehren, Oct 30, 2001)
As never before, their dance cards are full. Scholars of peace and diplomacy say that with little effort — and no exaggeration — they could schedule three speaking engagements per night.
- Not Without The Muduvans (Indian Express, George N Netto, Oct 30, 2001)
Tea planting would’ve been different without this tribe.
- Implementation Ideas For The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (The Financial Express, Rohit Bansal, Oct 30, 2001)
“I’m a big eater, I can only talk over lunch,” declares Hans Christoph von Rohr, 64, as he piles heaps of potato, cheerfully explaining his job as founder chairman of The New German Lander Industrial Investment Council GMBH.
- The Failure Of Indian Diplomacy (The Financial Express, Chanakya , Oct 30, 2001)
Here we are. The whole world knows that Pakistan had nurtured the Taliban.
- This Is No Vietnam (Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Oct 30, 2001)
These are the days of the ventriloquist. A month and more after a multinational alliance of 19 kamikaze artistes edited the New York City skyline, they have acquired an army of translators.
- Norway And India Share A Lot, But Trade Yet To Reach The Desired Level (The Financial Express, HUMA SIDDQUI, Oct 30, 2001)
For Norway, India is still an untapped market. With over 60 joint ventures in India, it is willing to invest more in this country.
- Death Of An It Project (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 30, 2001)
THE DEATH OF Sankhya Vahini, which is what the withdrawal of the U.S.-based IUNet implies whatever the Department of Telecom Services may claim about reviving it in another form.
- Change Of Guard In Bangladesh - Ii (Hindu, Muchkund Dubey , Oct 30, 2001)
ANOTHER MAJOR concern in India is that the BNP's accession to power would adversely affect Indo-Bangladesh relations.
- ‘Us Shouldn’t Hit Where It Hurts Us’ (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Oct 30, 2001)
The US must not waver from its avowed target — bringing global terrorism to heel — and its awoved enemy — bin Laden and the Al Qaeda network — if it wants to win the battle of the Muslim mind.
- ‘India Still Miles Away From Making Housing Constitutional Right’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 30, 2001)
He has several path-breaking judgements to his name and credit, on issues as diverse as housing and homosexuality.
- Beyond Clones Of Osama (Hindu, Pran Chopra , Oct 30, 2001)
IT IS an irony of our times that the greatest military alliance put together against the kind of terrorism that has swept across the world from Afghanistan has America at its head and Pakistan as its forward base.
- Great Expectations (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Oct 30, 2001)
IN THE aftermath of the Black Tuesday, first, Mr Brijesh Mishra, the man for all seasons from our PMO, goes to the US. Not to be outdone, the country's Cabinet Minister with the drawl follows. Only, the purpose is not clear.
- Abu Salem's Escape (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 30, 2001)
IT IS DISTRESSING that one of the most notorious figures of Mumbai's underworld has been permitted to escape after being detained, possibly as a result of official bungling.
- New Great Game In Afghanistan (Tribune, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Oct 30, 2001)
TWO men who need watching so far as Afghanistan’s post-war future is concerned are the errant and enigmatic Foreign Minister, Maulawi Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, and Commander Jalaluddin Haqqani.
- Christians’ Killings: The Lessons (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 30, 2001)
THE shocking massacre of 18 innocent Christians in Pakistan's Bahawalpur on Sunday provides yet another proof of dehumanisation of society in that country.
- Quest For The Moderate Taliban (Telegraph, MANVENDRA SINGH, Oct 30, 2001)
At first it was l’affaire Muttawakil, and now it is the name of Haqqani that is doing the rounds.
- Where It Now Stands (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Oct 30, 2001)
The 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh was a time to celebrate the ascendancy of the Hindutva movement in the polity.
- Clean-Shaven Nationalism Needs A Beard (Indian Express, Ashok Lal, Oct 30, 2001)
What’s the difference between being terrorised by Shiv Sena or Dawood, Bush or Osama?
- Cotton And A Tale Of Two Cities (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Oct 30, 2001)
The genetic cotton seed issue is creating a furore in Gujarat in particular and western India in general. Behind it is a tale of two cities.
- Fdi: Heeding The China Model (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 30, 2001)
THE Union Commerce and Industry Minister, Mr Murasoli Maran, deftly combined industry and trade in his portfolio since his return to the Union Cabinet under the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in 1999.
- Deregulation Is The Magic Word (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 30, 2001)
Sustained poverty reduction depends on rapid growth in both quantity and quality of labour demand.
- India’s Debt Burden (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 30, 2001)
INDIA is one of the most indebted countries in the world – it owes in all about $ 100.3 billion at March end this year.
- Smile Awhile (Tribune, Raj Chatterjee, Oct 30, 2001)
SOME people have an odd sense of humour. Take, for instance, the DVB which initials stand for the Delhi Vidyut Board, direct descendant of DESU or the Delhi Electric Supply Undertaking all of whose faults it has inherited, and some more.
- No Time For Peace (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 30, 2001)
Talking to insurgents can sometimes be as tortuous for a government as fighting them.
- Change Of Guard In Bangladesh (Hindu, Muchkund Dubey , Oct 29, 2001)
THE WAY the recent parliamentary elections were conducted in Bangladesh once again confirmed its position as one of the largest functioning democracies of the world. On the basis of my observance of the 1996 elections.
- D-School Bottomline, Despite Being Under The Indian State (The Financial Express, Rohit Bansal, Oct 29, 2001)
No one remembers when the main gates of Delhi School of Economics were opened last. Perhaps, that wasn’t too long after 1948, when economist VKRV Rao conceived the school!
- Withdrawal Symptoms (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 29, 2001)
The US had put an embargo on the sale of GE 404 jet engines, which were to be fitted into the LCA.
- Fighting Tamas (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Oct 29, 2001)
For the last few months, my little office cabin looked like a war zone. Books, papers, cards, faxes and packages piled up in mountains. I don’t understand what ‘tamas’ or force of dark inertia made me allow this.
- Winnie Mandela’s Nine Lives (Telegraph, ANSU DATTA, Oct 29, 2001)
Once eulogized as “the mother of the nation”, then denounced by some as an inveterate populist and a huge embarrassment to the party.
- Who Wants Charity? (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, Oct 29, 2001)
Demand markets, attract investment, forget aid.
- Fiscal Stimulus Needed For Growth (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Oct 29, 2001)
THE Mid-year Monetary and Credit Policy is a valiant attempt at making money cheaper and increasing liquidity in the hope of seeing an upturn in industrial output and keeping the economy on track to ensure at least 5 per cent growth this year.
- Shadows In The East (Indian Express, ANURADHA KUMAR, Oct 29, 2001)
Indo-Bangla tensions have ebbed but today there’s a new factor that must be addressed.
- Globalisation Of Terrorism (Business Line, Sumantra Banerjee, Oct 29, 2001)
PAKISTAN just cannot believe its luck. If it isn't a multi-million dollar gift cheques, then it is the rescheduling of even larger amounts of debt.
- Civil Society And Small Families (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 29, 2001)
A committee of international and Indian experts, voluntary and non-government organizations and government may be set up to regularly review and recommend specific incorporation of the advances in contraceptive technology.
- World In Disarray (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 29, 2001)
THE terrorists of the world must be doing what cricket players do when they make a catch or bowl a batsman out:
- Gender: The Inequality (Business Line, Jasjit Kaur, Oct 29, 2001)
THE Economic Survey of 2000-01 expressed the need for the social and economic empowerment of women.
- Farm Stakes (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 29, 2001)
WITH KHARIF 2001 foodgrains and commercial crops production improving over the previous year and the prospects for the ensuing rabi (summer) harvest looking bright.
- Rourkela Steel Losses Blamed On Political Interference (The Financial Express, Sunil Mukhopadhyay, Oct 29, 2001)
Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) is again on the downhill track.
- Polaroid: Slowly Fading Away? (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Oct 29, 2001)
WHY cant I see them now? As the story goes, Edwin Lands daughter wanted to see the pictures right away during a vacation in 1943 when Land had just completed a roll of film.
- From Shah Bano To Daniel Latifi (Tribune, Anupam Gupta, Oct 29, 2001)
“MUSLIMS will allow attacks on Allah,” wrote Wilfred Cantwell Smith, the noted scholar of Islam, “there are atheists and atheistic publications, and rationalist societies;
- Call Waiting (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 29, 2001)
After having been stuck, reforms seem to be inching forward on three fronts.
- Vajpayee's Us Trip Best Shelved (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 29, 2001)
ALL INDICATIONS are that the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayees projected meeting with the US President, Mr George W. Bush, in Washington, on November 9 will end up in a big letdown for India.
- The Mapping Of Muslims (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Oct 29, 2001)
Osama Bin Laden has been gently fading from the screen. He no longer dominates the headlines or iconography of this media war. Have you been alert to the apparent shift in focus?
- No Picnic This (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 29, 2001)
Haq’s execution calls for a reassessment of US strategy.
- Pm's Travels: Focus On Missile Defence (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Oct 29, 2001)
NEW DELHI, OCT. 28. The Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee's travels to Moscow and Washington next week is likely to put India back in the middle of the international politics of missile defence.
- Two Years Of Nda Rule (Hindu, Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Oct 29, 2001)
IT IS two years since this edition of the Vajpayee Government came into office. The CPI(M) had warned that the formation of a BJP-led Government poses a threat to national unity and to the secular fabric of our country.
- How Jp Movement Helped Bjp (Tribune, M. G. Devasahayam , Oct 29, 2001)
ADDRESSING the BJP’s golden jubilee celebrations the other day, Mr L.K. Advani indulged in a bit of hyperbole when he drew a parallel between the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the birth of the Bharatiya Janata Party in 1980;
- Manners Make Relationships (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 29, 2001)
IN a world changed with time and technology, only a boor would ask other diners in a restaurant to keep the noise down so he can hear the person on the other end of his cell-phone.
- Wto And Social Responsibilities (Hindu, Swami Agnivesh, Oct 29, 2001)
We are getting together under the clouds of global tensions and economic uncertainties.
- The Cost Of Aping First World Central Banking Style (The Financial Express, R.K. Roy, Oct 29, 2001)
Pressing down interest rates is an article of faith with our policy makers.
- What Is Wrong With The Ecb? (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Oct 29, 2001)
THE European Central Bank (ECB) met on Thursday and decided to leave its policy rate unchanged at 3.75 per cent.
- Sudershan's Advice (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 29, 2001)
Sir, - The RSS chief, Mr. Sudershan, has advised the Christians to ``reinterpret their scriptures'' and replace their church leaders who are ``conflict mongers'' (Oct. 27).
- Doubting Dragon (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Oct 28, 2001)
THE KEY word for China is ``temporary''. As American forces begin operations in Afghanistan through Pakistan and Central Asia, China, while extending support to the ``war'' against terrorism, is concerned about the nature and outcome of this conflict.
- Keeping The Flock Together (Hindu, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Oct 28, 2001)
THE BUSH administration is in a state of denial. It thinks it has the support of ``allies'' worldwide in the current campaign in Afghanistan when actually they are only from the Western world.
- Festival For All (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 28, 2001)
Once again, the Durga Puja in Calcutta was a mixture of administrative successes and failures.
- Mixed Mandate (Hindu, SURESH NAMBATH, Oct 28, 2001)
FOR THOSE who were claiming that Tamil Nadu was going the Bihar way, the election to the local bodies was only another pointer.
- The Time's Come To Pay The Piper (Hindu, J. P. SHUKLA, Oct 28, 2001)
ELEVEN YEARS ago the Bharatiya Janata Party played the `Ram' card in Uttar Pradesh to counter the `Mandal' masterstroke of Mr. V. P. Singh.
- Ambassador Khalili’s Passport Saved His Life (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Oct 28, 2001)
GRIEVOUSLY injured but miraculously survived Afghanistan’s Ambassador to India, Masood Khalili, is back on his job in New Delhi.
- The Harder It Gets, The Longer It Takes (Hindu, Muralidhar Reddy, Oct 28, 2001)
THE STREET protests in Pakistan against the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan since October 7 had ebbed after the Musharraf Government cracked down on outfits that took the law into their own hands.
- The Cia’s One Billion Dollar Job (Tribune, V. Gangadhar, Oct 28, 2001)
THERE must be lots of laughter and good cheer at the Central Intelligence Agency. ‘Happy days are here again’, the personnel from the Department of Dirty Tricks (DDT) must be singing.
- Would A Bin Laden Trial Be Too Big For Us? (Indian Express, Henry Weinstein, Oct 28, 2001)
AS WARPLANES bomb Afghanistan and commandos scour that country’s forbidding countryside, US military strategists are trying to figure out where Osama bin Laden and his associates are hiding and how to inflict the most punishment on them.
- A Triumph For The Tribals (Hindu, Roy Mathew, Oct 28, 2001)
IT WAS an unusual agitation with an unusual beginning. Tribals from different parts of Kerala erected huts in front of the official residence of the Chief Minister, Mr. A. K. Antony, on August 30.
- Triple Divorce Should Be Abolished (Tribune, Asghar Ali Engineer , Oct 28, 2001)
THE Christian divorce law is being amended. It was quite outdated and heavily loaded in favour of man since it was enacted by the British Government in 19th century.
- The Changing Face Of Terrorism: A Global View (Tribune, A. K. Lal, Oct 28, 2001)
THE concept and nature of classical terrorism is being re-shaped in the modern era. There is an ongoing “Revolution in Terrorist Affairs” (RTA) due to the impact of modern technology, globalisation and the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
- Wto Blues (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 28, 2001)
The Indian Government is jittery about the forthcoming WTO ministerial meet at Doha.
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