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Articles 18321 through 18420 of 25647:
- Begin At Home (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 03, 2001)
There is nobody more zealous, it is said, than a reformed rake.
- Fewer Bidders (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 03, 2001)
THE FALTERING DISINVESTMENT programme has got another push. In a show of new-found determination, the Government identified 13 undertakings, a cutback from 27 for stake sale this fiscal.
- A Government That Has Gone To Sleep At The Most Crucial Juncture (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 03, 2001)
New Delhi once again gives you the feeling of disarray. The war has come closer to India.
- Technology Business Incubators (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Oct 03, 2001)
INCUBATORS, as commonly understood, are life support gadgets used by doctors to help pre-mature infants catch up and face the world like normal ones.
- Us Attacks: Reaping Whirlwind (Business Line, D. S. Soman , Oct 03, 2001)
THE unprecedented attack on the US has some lessons for not only the mightiest nation, but also the world.
- Musharraf, Brazening It Out (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 03, 2001)
THOSE of us who watched Pakistan's President, General Pervez Musharraf's much-publicised breakfast meet with Indian editors in Agra a couple of months ago.
- ‘Foreign Policy Isn’t Sacred, It Changes To Suit National Interest’ (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Oct 03, 2001)
FORMER prime minister I.K. Gujral’s foreign policy initiatives, whether in government or out of it, has always been driven by the conviction that stability in South Asia should be the desired end of any move India makes.
- Unmitigated Terror (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 03, 2001)
THE SUICIDE BOMBER attack on the Jammu and Kashmir Legislature complex in Srinagar on Monday, by far the most dastardly act in the nearly three weeks since the U.S. declared a global `war' on terrorism.
- Neglecting Neighbours (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 03, 2001)
Even before September 11, when the World did change, this country, including its lively media, had paid scant attention to Bangladesh and the campaign for the election there that has ended in the victory of Begum Khaleda Zia.
- Unseated, But Not Entirely Undone (Telegraph, M. Siva Ram Prasad, Oct 03, 2001)
The dubious distinction of becoming the first chief minister to be removed from office by a court of law, goes to J. Jayalalithaa, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader.
- The Citizen And The Faithful (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 03, 2001)
SPARE A thought, if you will, for Mr. Amitabh Bachchan.
- Repeal Evil With Good (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 03, 2001)
What Gandhi would have told the US: war won’t ensure safety.
- Keeping Away From Us Will Not Help India’s Interests (The Financial Express, B. P. Singh, Oct 03, 2001)
This refers to Kuldip Nayar’s article “A wishy-washy foreign policy will not work to India’s advantage” (The Financial Express, September 26).
- Lost Fight (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 02, 2001)
Drama has always been Ms Mamata Banerjee’s forte. It is thus peculiarly fitting that her fall from popularity should be so spectacular.
- Penalised For Good Work (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 02, 2001)
THERE are striking similarities in the career graph of the displaced Ludhiana Municipal Commissioner, Mr Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, and the controversial former Commissioner of the Pune Municipal Corporation, Mr Arun Bhatia.
- Don’t Ignore Warning Signals (Tribune, P. Raman , Oct 02, 2001)
WITH everyone remaining glued to George Bush’s war against Bin Laden, Delhi’s political establishment finds it convenient to ignore all the unpleasant warning signals on the home front.
- Bapu, You Count Less And Less With The Nation (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 02, 2001)
Bapu, if you come here on your birthday, you would not recognise the country you once led to freedom. We are now a high-flying nation.
- Not Cricket (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 02, 2001)
The election of the office bearers of the Board of Control for Cricket in India proves one thing: those who administer cricket have little or nothing to do with the game.
- Our Future Is In Forests (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Oct 02, 2001)
SOME experts say that India is not changing and is stagnating. They say that the country was changing fast in the eighties and is not doing so now.
- Lighting Bush Fires (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 02, 2001)
ARE we fighting USA’s war on terrorism? Or are the Americans fighting our war on terrorism?
- Moronic Measure (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 02, 2001)
THE ministry of health is really on a moronic ego trip, going by the Express report of Saturday.
- Bombay: When Freedom Was The Buzzword (Indian Express, Madhu Dandavate, Oct 02, 2001)
Though Bombay (now Mumbai) was not considered the nucleus of the Independence Movement, the role it played was crucial.
- Manhattan’s Mumbai Connection (Indian Express, J. Dey, Oct 02, 2001)
The E plot to hijack the Indian Airlines flight IC 814 was hatched by the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) sometime in 1997 after Maulana Masood fell into the hands of Indian authorities.
- Battle Hymn Of The Republic (Telegraph, Partha Chateerjee, Oct 02, 2001)
Let me say at the outset that I consider the attacks carried out in this city on September 11 as heinous and barbaric.
- The Loss Of Vision (Telegraph, SURENDRA MUNSHI, Oct 02, 2001)
Ever since the terrorist attack on critical targets in the United States, officially characterized as war against the US, a peculiar situation has emerged from the images and words that the tragedy has thrown up.
- From The Classroom To The World (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 02, 2001)
Inculcating the national feeling and enabling the student to develop a national vision is another important aspect of education.
- Pakistan-U.S. Strategic Idiom (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Oct 02, 2001)
AMERICA'S ``WAR'' on international terrorism is now being plotted in a nebulous strategic environment.
- The Man To Emulate (Business Line, N. R. Krishnan , Oct 02, 2001)
IN THE untimely demise of Madhavrao Scindia, the country has lost a political leader of commendable dynamism and vision.
- In Defence Of Handlooms (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Oct 02, 2001)
IN SEPTEMBER, Hyderabad was the location for an unusual conference organised by Dastkar Andhra, a non-governmental organisation working with handloom weavers.
- For A Bureaucrat, Working With Him Was Living In The Days Of Camelot (The Financial Express, Yogesh Chandra, Oct 02, 2001)
We met when I was director-general tourism, and he took over as my minister, in the Cabinet of Narasimha Rao.
- Now To Make It Work (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 02, 2001)
THE FORMAL LAUNCH of the Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana, the new Rs. 10,000-crore food-for-work programme.
- ‘There Is Enormous Scope For Co-Operation In Information Technology’ (The Financial Express, HUMA SIDDQUI, Oct 02, 2001)
Brazil’s Ambassador to India, Vera Barrouin Machado, spoke to Huma Siddiqui on various avenues of bilateral co-operation. Excerpts:
- Madhavrao Scindia, 1945-2001 (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 02, 2001)
TO SAY THAT the death of Madhavrao Scindia is a loss to the Congress is to understate the overwhelming tragedy of his sudden unforeseen departure.
- Corporate India In For Another Round Of Restructuring (The Financial Express, George Skaria, Oct 02, 2001)
Once again it’s the season of discontent and break-up of corporate marriages.
- Economy Is The Key (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 02, 2001)
THE RECENT ban on the Students' Islamic Movement of India was necessitated by allegations (probably backed by concrete evidence) of links between the organisation and outfits and individuals answering to the description of terrorist.
- Madhavrao Scindia (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 02, 2001)
TO be 56 and close to the pinnacle of political power and yet die a fiery death — it is unthinkably grotesque but shockingly true in the case of Madhavrao Scindia. The Congress will take years to get over the t
- Packing Off Patel (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 02, 2001)
THE question is no longer whether Gujarat Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel should go, but when he will go.
- They Don’T Feel Pain (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 02, 2001)
Two brothers in Taiwan are the first persons on the island to be diagnosed with a rare condition that prevents them from feeling physical pain and unable to sweat.
- Britons Most Miserable In Europe (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 02, 2001)
Britons are the most miserable people in Europe, and the Spanish the least depressed, according to a study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. Cities in Britain and Ireland top a European league table for rates of depression.
- U.N. And The Anti-Terror Focus (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 01, 2001)
THE UNITED NATIONS Security Council has enthusiastically spelt out a comprehensive framework of do's and don'ts to promote a global-scale campaign to combat terrorism.
- What Is Appropriate Asset Allocation Now? (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Oct 01, 2001)
IT MUST be interesting for the readers to know what sort of advice we (Credit Suisse, Asia Pacific) are giving our clients now, in the aftermath of the attacks on the US.
- Welcome Merger (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 01, 2001)
SEVERAL years ago, when information technology and telecom policies were being formulated, the merger of these two vital ministries into a single communication information technology Ministry was mooted.
- Advani Can Learn From Bush (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 01, 2001)
It may seem ironical but it is not surprising that the day Prime Minister Vajpayee was cautioning Opposition leaders that the battle against terrorism should not acquire communal overtones.
- Thoughts To Remember (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Oct 01, 2001)
It’s frightening, the amount of spleen being vented on the Muslims of the world as a consequence of the Tuesday Terror, that Americans are killing Sikhs because they sport beards and turbans.
- The Death Of Promise (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 01, 2001)
Scindia: another politician of energy and integrity departs.
- Second Thoughts On The Taliban! (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Oct 01, 2001)
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 30. What should the United States do with the Taliban?
- Video Games And Media Wars (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Oct 01, 2001)
‘The media,’’ spluttered Pramod Mahajan on Star News, ‘‘is fighting a war before it has started.’’
- Handle With Care (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 01, 2001)
Banning any organization is an extreme step, and the two-year ban on the Students’ Islamic Movement of India has naturally provoked violence, outrage and frenzied arguments among political parties.
- Driven To Death (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 01, 2001)
Most Calcuttans are resigned to their city being a form of slow death. But the killing machinery is speeding up.
- The Many Unanswered Questions Of (Tribune, Anupam Gupta, Oct 01, 2001)
APART from a non-legislator’s appointment as Minister or Chief Minister under Article 164 (4) of the Constitution — on which I focussed last week — the September 21.
- An American Somersault (Telegraph, J. N. Dixit , Oct 01, 2001)
The world at large remains concerned and bemused by the policy statement made by the president of the United States of America, George W. Bush, on May 1 at the US National Defence University.
- There’s A Time Bomb Close By (Telegraph, Ashok Kapur, Oct 01, 2001)
The world today reveals a major fault line. It involves on one side those who attack civilian targets — something the communists did not do vis-à-vis innocent citizens of countries who opposed their policies.
- Survivor Sickness (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 01, 2001)
THE global economy has entered a bad patch, with the IMF predicting an all-round recession.
- India's Oilseeds Revolution (Business Line, Devinder Sharma , Oct 01, 2001)
INDIA recorded a spectacular increase both in area under oilseeds as well as its output, with production doubling from 11 million tonnes in 1986-87 to 22 million tonnes in 1994-95, thereby justifying the term ``yellow revolution''.
- Crime Doesn’t Pay! Nor Does Farming! (Tribune, Khushwant Ahluwalia, Oct 01, 2001)
SITTING comfortably in a bar in Delhi drinking rum with water and swallowing pork sausages on sticks, I was introduced to a rich businessman of Delhi by my host.
- Three Indians On Forbes List (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 01, 2001)
Three Indian Americans, including 12 Technologies CEO Sanjiv Sidhu whose company’s stocks have nosedived during the IT industry recession, are on the just released list of Forbes 400 richest people in the USA.
- Sri Lanka: Dimensions Of A Crisis (Hindu, Jayadeva Uyangoda, Oct 01, 2001)
WHILE SRI LANKA'S present political crisis deepens, the ruling People's Alliance administration of Ms. Chandrika Kumaratunga has averted a regime collapse by entering into a surprise understanding.
- Fallout From Terrorism -- Bailing Out The Us Airline Industry (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Oct 01, 2001)
FOR several months now, the US' corporate announcements of layoffs have just about become a routine event.
- Scarcity Amid Plenty: A Paradox (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 01, 2001)
THE great Indian mystery of a mountain of foodgrains amidst episodes of starvation deaths has eluded answers over the years.
- America's Script For Afghanistan (Hindu, T. Sreedhar, Oct 01, 2001)
THE DEVELOPMENTS in the international system since September 11 clearly indicate that the U.S. is attempting coercive diplomacy to defeat its adversary in Afghanistan.
- Pension System Needs Separate Regulatory Body (The Financial Express, Mukul G Asher, Oct 01, 2001)
AS Indian policy makers start focussing on reforming the pension system, one of the major issues is: who should regulate the pensions industry?
- ‘India’s Battle Over Basmati Patent Not Fully Lost Yet’ (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Oct 01, 2001)
India could not present its case well before the United States Patents & Trademark Organisation (USPTO) in the recent battle over basmati rice despite ample evidence given by the country’s scientific community.
- On The Precipice (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 01, 2001)
IN THE WEEKS since the terrorist attacks in the U.S., dark clouds have quickly formed over the global economy.
- Kerala Pilot-Study On Corruption Put Borderline Cases To Shame (The Financial Express, Rohit Bansal, Oct 01, 2001)
It hasn’t got the attention it deserved. But a recent pilot study on azhimathi (Malayalam for corruption) under jurist N R Madhava Menon of Transparency International in Kerala.
- Un Bans Terrorism (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 01, 2001)
IN what is obviously a tentative first step, the United Nations Security Council has called on all member-countries to crackdown on terrorism of all types.
- Cyber Challenges & Priorities (Tribune, Satya Prakash Singh , Oct 01, 2001)
STEPHEN Hawking recently recommended in an interview to German magazine Focus “that humans change their DNA through genetic modification in order to keep ahead of advances in computer technology and stop intelligent machines from taking over the world”.
- Boosters Engaged (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 10, 2001)
In times of crises, it appears, emerge creative thinking.
- The Itinerary Beyond Life (Pioneer, Harish C Gaur, Sep 10, 2001)
Life is a journey. It starts with birth of the body, considered to have three manifestations: gross, subtle and causal.
- Msp And Other Constraints (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 10, 2001)
An increase in the MSP (minimum support prices) of paddy by about 4 per cent will be treated as a joke but for the damaging effect this will have on farmers.
- Salary Tops The Bill-Boards (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Sep 10, 2001)
The monsoon session of Parliament ended on August 31. It was significant for two reasons.
- My Task Is To Unite The Various Akali Dals Into The Panthic Morcha (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 10, 2001)
A respected religious leader of the Sikh community, Baba Sarabjot Singh Bedi has always remained in the sidelines.
- Did Govt Learn Any Lesson From Agra? (Tribune, Sumer Kaul, Sep 10, 2001)
The Vajpayee government appears to be keenly looking forward to another meeting between the Prime Minister and the Pakistani President later this month in New York.
- A Head For Numbers (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Sep 10, 2001)
The government of India (including Union territories without legislatures) has an estimated staff strength in the current financial year of 3.45 million people.
- Strong Winds In Tamil Nadu (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Sep 10, 2001)
In the battle to cleanse Indian politics of corruption, few cases have been as sensational as that of J Jayalalitha.
- China Is The Shopper's Stop (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 10, 2001)
BEIJING, SEPT. 9. The Indian and Chinese governments may want to argue with each other on their contested border, Pakistan, and nuclear weapons for years to come.
- They Risked Their Lives To Save Citizens (Tribune, Chandra Mohan, Sep 10, 2001)
There could be no greater act of ingratitude for a society than marshalling of guns against men of the ilk of Ribeiro and KPSG’s band of securitymen who risked their lives to save innocent citizens from those trigger-happy terrorists.
- Back To Our Abcs (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 10, 2001)
Astrological prediction: without literacy we are nothing.
- Understanding Barriers To Rapid Growth And Employment Creation (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 10, 2001)
Edited excerpts of the McKinsey report that tries to find out if better economic policies can significantly improve India's economic growth.
- Growth Mantras (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 10, 2001)
Revive market activity to tide over economic crisis.
- Running On Empty Ideas (Indian Express, Anil Agrawal, Sep 10, 2001)
THE ministry of petroleum has shown extreme sagacity in reducing air pollution control to a high school debate: CNG vs Diesel.
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