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Articles 18421 through 18520 of 25647:
- Slavery, Then And Now (Indian Express, Devaki Jain , Sep 10, 2001)
A GRIPPING aspect of the words, the stories and the anger in Durban was the reference to slavery.
- The Picture In The Frame (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Sep 10, 2001)
When you set yourself impossibly high standards, it’s impossible to scale them. This should not inhibit you from baying at the moon but chances are you won’t land upon it. Still, if at first you don’t succeed...
- 300 Days For Murder (Indian Express, Indra Mohan Sahai, Sep 10, 2001)
Surely serious crime needs more serious punishment.
- Sound Economy The Only Deliverance (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Sep 10, 2001)
There are finally some signs of governance as the Cabinet is reshuffled and the Prime Minister has started talking tough on matters economic.
- Useless Surpluses (The Economic Times, Norma Louis, Sep 10, 2001)
THE DEBATE that took place on surplus food stocks (ET, September 4) generated much more heat than light on the issue of ‘poverty amidst plenty’.
- Testing Middlescence (Pioneer, Sudhansu Mohanty , Sep 10, 2001)
Two decades into bureaucracy, the Government of India in its wisdom decided that I did a Master's from a foreign university - the University of Ljubljana in the newly created state of Slovenia.
- Personal Law Reform (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 10, 2001)
THE PASSAGE OF the Indian Divorce (Amendment) Bill last week by Parliament is welcome insofar as it incorporates current norms of gender equality into the more than a century old Indian Divorce Act that governs the Christian communities in this country.
- Recipe For Economic Revival (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 10, 2001)
AT THE END of a flurry of meetings last week on how to deal with the present slump in the economy.
- Credibility, Timeliness, Adequacy Of Statistics Key To Good Policy-Making (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 10, 2001)
The industrial sector is one of the important sectors of the economy both in terms of its spread over the economy and its contribution to the generation of income, employment, and foreign exchange earnings.
- Who Does The Small Investor Turn To? (The Financial Express, Harjeet Ahluwalia, Sep 10, 2001)
The chief of a financial institution (FI) was in good spirits as he tried to woo reporters to seek a toning down of their criticism of his organisation.
- It Isn’t Just Agnihotri. Ifs Is Losing It On Many Battlefronts (The Financial Express, Rohit Bansal, Sep 10, 2001)
Incredible, but true. RSS chief KS Sudarshan has done a great favour to the Indian Foreign Service (IFS). Unwittingly though.
- Vision 2020 -- Dream Budgets And Real Nightmares (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Sep 10, 2001)
LAST February, the Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, produced what was hailed as a `dream Budget'.
- Implementation Issues In The Wto (Hindu, Muchkund Dubey , Sep 10, 2001)
MOST OF the agreements and understandings reached during the Uruguay Round trade negotiations are unequal and unbalanced from the point of view of developing countries.
- Infosys And Microsoft - I (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 10, 2001)
INFOSYS SYMBOLISES the information technology (IT) economy in India.
- Electricity Bill: No Light At The End Of Seb Reforms Tunnel (The Economic Times, S. L. Rao, Sep 10, 2001)
AFTER almost two years of labour, over ten drafts, and extensive discussion, the central government has submitted a Bill to Parliament on electricity.
- For Whom The Wealth Tolls? (The Economic Times, U. R. Bhat, Sep 10, 2001)
DURING the go-go days of early 2000, when the stock market created new millionaires by the day, counting the billions was a front-page journalistic sport.
- Public Money, Private Gain (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 10, 2001)
THE PARADOX of food stocks being at an all-time high while people starve may be hogging the headlines, but the government seems to be blissfully unaware.
- 'Factor In Land As A Resource' (The Economic Times, E. Jayashree Kurup, Sep 10, 2001)
INDIAN corporates are a long way off from encashing their real estate assets.
- Churning In Assam (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 09, 2001)
The AGP is down and out, but the Congress has to give a better account of itself, says Barun Das Gupta.
- Waiter, There’s A Stimulant In My Tea (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 09, 2001)
A California public interest group has sued Starbucks Corp., claiming that America’s largest coffee retailer secretly spikes its Tazo Chai Tea with ephedrine, an herbal stimulant banned in food by U.S. regulators.
- Hunger In A Land Of Plenty (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 09, 2001)
Even as a controversy rages over whether there were starvation deaths, what is clear is that the plight of the people of Kashipur in Orissa has worsened over the years.
- The Unbearable Lightness (The Economic Times, Manik Kher, Sep 09, 2001)
IF the slump in the economy has affected the performance of companies in the large sector, worse still is the plight of those in the small scale sector.
- Agp’s New Mahout Is An Old Party Hand (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Sep 09, 2001)
He helped propel Prafulla Kumar Mahanta to power, he helped draft the party’s constitution and now, he has been called to head the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) in its darkest hour.
- Many Dr Spocks For The Congress Baby (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 09, 2001)
It is not only her future role as the possible prime minister of India that the Congress president takes seriously.
- Humanity Denied (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 09, 2001)
The `new boat people' are seen as a `threat' to Australian society by the Government, says Amit Baruah.
- Murder Weapon In Kashipur (Telegraph, MUKUL KESAVAN, Sep 09, 2001)
The deaths in Kashipur in Orissa have become a national scandal.
- Churning In Assam (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 09, 2001)
The AGP is down and out, but the Congress has to give a better account of itself, says Barun Das Gupta.
- ‘Lift India From The Despondency In (Tribune, Sardar Dayal Singh, Sep 09, 2001)
THE article has been excerpted from Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia’s address to the 1893 Lahore session of the Indian National Congress in his capacity as the Chairman of the Reception Committee.
- Unbiased View (The Economic Times, A. Srikantaiah, Sep 09, 2001)
I was pleasantly shocked to read the article ‘Let’s not make it a total cop out’ by Antony Thomas. Kudos to him. For a change, a suggestion by L K Advani has found favour with any English press writer.
- Hunger In A Land Of Plenty (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 09, 2001)
Even as a controversy rages over whether there were starvation deaths, what is clear is that the plight of the people of Kashipur in Orissa has worsened over the years.
- A Hack’s Work Is Rarely Done In... (The Economic Times, Raghu Krishnan, Sep 09, 2001)
THE problem with those who keep scribbling notes to all and sundry is that, sometimes, the wrong note goes to the wrong person!
- Not Just A Whim (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 09, 2001)
THE LOGIC behind ITC’s proposal to merge ITC Bhadrachalam — the paper and paper-board subsidiary in which it holds 60 per cent — with itself may seem inexplicable at first glance.
- Bjp’S Stars (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 09, 2001)
The stars of the BJP continue to be on the ascendant with the satraps of its principal adversary — the Congress — coming under negative focus one after the other.
- Constitution As Touchstone (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 08, 2001)
The rule of law is what this is all about.
- A Reluctant Stowaway (Tribune, Trilochan Singh Trewn, Sep 08, 2001)
DURING those days I used to stay in Dhanraj Mahal close to the Gateway of India and happened to have some preliminary knowledge of spoken Japanese.
- Wired To Win (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 08, 2001)
Even as a thousand flashbulbs popped to capture the gorilla of a merger between Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer Corp earlier this week, one frame captured — rather uncannily — the essence of Carleton Fiorina.
- The Internet And Democracy In China (Hindu, Sonika Gupta, Sep 08, 2001)
THE GROWTHof the Internet in the United States has been accompanied by a debate on its emancipatory potential in ushering in democracy in an authoritarian state like China.
- The M.S.Swaminathan Report -- Food To Subsist First, Before Food For Work (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Sep 08, 2001)
THE compelling visuals on NDTV of the Orissa starvation deaths have impinged, in some small measure, on the sensitivity of the Central Government.
- All That Prefatory Gush (Telegraph, RUKUN ADVANI, Sep 08, 2001)
Fiction writers usually thank friends, relatives and publishers in small type at the end of their books, inviting readers to move straight into the story.
- Lines With Which To Rest In Peace (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Sep 08, 2001)
Raja Ram Mehrotra is professor of English at the Benares Hindu University. He specializes in the use and misuse of English by Indians.
- No Partners For The Maharaja (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 08, 2001)
BOLTING FROM PROPOSALS for commercial alliances often suggest a deeper malaise.
- The Golden Cage Syndrome (Indian Express, Sunil Jain, Sep 08, 2001)
APART from a few celebrated BJP MPs such as ex-chief ministers Madan Lal Khurana and Sahib Singh Verma, and of course the residents of illegal encroachments like Sainik Farms.
- India-Pakistan Intransigence (Business Line, B. S. Malik, Sep 08, 2001)
THE Agra Summit has been analysed ad nauseam.
- Not Just A Whim (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 08, 2001)
THE LOGIC behind ITC’s proposal to merge ITC Bhadrachalam — the paper and paper-board subsidiary in which it holds 60 per cent — with itself may seem inexplicable at first glance.
- Ration Card To Smart Card (The Economic Times, N. Vittal, Sep 08, 2001)
THE GOVERNMENT of India has declared the year 2001 to be the year of e-governance.
- Making India Proud, And How! (The Economic Times, Nitin Nohria, Sep 08, 2001)
IT WAS so unexpected that the effect it had on us was uncanny.
- Don’t Abet Rebating (The Economic Times, Muralidhar Rao, Sep 08, 2001)
APROPOS of the story “Private insurers clamp down on cut” ((ET, September 4), there is no doubt that rebating is rampant in India.
- At Last, Things Do Seem To Be Moving In Bengal (The Financial Express, Sumanta Ray Chaudhuri, Sep 08, 2001)
The sixth Left Front government in West Bengal completed 100 days on August 28.
- Railways Will Be Better Off As A Departmental Undertaking (The Financial Express, A. V. Poulose, Sep 08, 2001)
Over the last decades and more suggestions have been made in various quarters for converting the railways into a corporation.
- ‘Focus On Marketing And Distribution’ (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 08, 2001)
THE Indian food business is on the move. Rabobank is an internationally acknowledged food and agri-business knowledge-based institution.
- Sex, Bribes And Videotape (Hindu, Mukund Padmanabhan, Sep 08, 2001)
TALKING HEADS on television and commentaries in many newspapers have spent a great deal of time debating the question: was Tehelka justified in using call girls to conduct its investigation?
- Wallowing In Poverty Still In Fashion (Tribune, Tavleen Singh, Sep 08, 2001)
THIS piece started to write itself in my head in a wayside restaurant between Mumbai and Alibagh where I stopped for lunch last weekend. It was, even by dhaba standards, a poor sort of place.
- Reforms Long Overdue In The Agriculture Sector (The Economic Times, Raghuvendra Pratap, Sep 08, 2001)
INDIA'S long-term economic prospects depend heavily on the agricultural sector which contributes a quarter of the GDP and provides livelihood to two-thirds of the population.
- Not By Economics Alone (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2001)
IF the government retreats from all commercial activities and scraps all regulations on commercial activities, there is a big reward to be had: a 10 per cent economic growth.
- Vanishing Samaritans (Indian Express, Anurita Rathore, Sep 08, 2001)
SENTIMENTS are usually transparent, I would like to think. Unusually though they can be generated too! Realisation dawns... and for me, it has.
- Why The Govt Should Take Shah Rukh Khan Seriously (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Sep 08, 2001)
WHILE information technology is being hyped by many as India’s key to economic emancipation — and quite rightly so — the potential of our entertainment industry is being often overlooked. Recently, I visited Japan with Shah Rukh Khan.
- Durban Diary: All The Soundbites Fit To Mouth (Indian Express, Suchita Vemuri, Sep 08, 2001)
Imagine it as a melting pot. All of humanity was here, with their stories of pain and hope. It even had its own special acoustics: all manner of voices speaking all manner of tongues.
- ‘If It Weren’t For Tehelka, We Wouldn’t Have Left Nda’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 08, 2001)
Mamata Banerjee has truly come full circle in just six months. She’s back in the NDA after walking out of the coalition just before the West Bengal Assembly elections.
- Why Sacrificing Jagmohan To Bjp’s Unholy Trinity Is A Sin Against The Nation (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 08, 2001)
THERE has to be something frightfully wrong with our capital city if its most prominent losers continue to so dominate our front pages.
- A Reluctant Stowaway (Tribune, Trilochan Singh Trewn, Sep 08, 2001)
DURING those days I used to stay in Dhanraj Mahal close to the Gateway of India and happened to have some preliminary knowledge of spoken Japanese.
- Lashkar-E-Jhangvi: The Zia Connection (Tribune, Syed Nooruzzaman, Sep 08, 2001)
SECTARIAN and ethnic terrorism is a hotly debated subject in Pakistan these days. And the most dreaded outfit, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, one of the groups recently banned, consumes the maximum time and energy during such discussions.
- Ten Per Cent Dream (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 08, 2001)
Ideas alone will not pull the economy out of its stupor.
- Mahanta's Exit (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 07, 2001)
THE RESIGNATION OF Mr. Prafulla Kumar Mahanta both as president of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and as leader of the party's legislature wing may have saved him the embarrassment of being asked by the general body to quit.
- Conditionalities Come To Roost (The Economic Times, Soumya Kanti Mitra, Sep 07, 2001)
FROM what used to resemble the reign of an absentee landlord in a faux feudal setting, the IMF is now aiming to become a friendly interlocutor.
- The Political Risks Of Further Dividing The Divided (The Economic Times, Narendar Pani, Sep 07, 2001)
IT IS now quite clear that reservations will play a crucial role in the BJP’s strategy for survival in Uttar Pradesh.
- Tehelka: What Next? (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Sep 07, 2001)
TEHELKA'S INVESTIGATIONS open up important questions relating to the media. Tehelka-I uncovered incipient corruption in defence deals through covert uses of pin-hole cameras.
- Still In The Trough (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 07, 2001)
When will the gloom and doom in the economy disappear and what will be the gross domestic product growth in 2001-02?
- Last Action Hero Of The British Empire: Cdr John Kerans, 1915-1985 (Telegraph, Nigel Farndale, Sep 07, 2001)
Nigel Farndale’s Last Action Hero Of The British Empire: CDR John Kerans, 1915-1985 is not just a naval adventure story (mixing Conrad and Boys’ Own).
- Relief That Kills (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Sep 07, 2001)
LET us remember some forgotten words of our daily discourse.
- The Search For A Global Order (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Sep 07, 2001)
THE world we knew is no more. Of the world to come, we know but little. The human brain has been overtaken by electronics, biology by technology. Can man ever again plan his future?
- A Billion People’s Power To “Strike” (Tribune, P. P. S. Gill, Sep 07, 2001)
I do not have an iota of doubt about the power of the nation, a billion-strong, to “strike”.
- Abm By Other Means (Hindu, Pran Chopra , Sep 07, 2001)
IN DEALING with the U.S. plans for a missile defence system (NMD), the Russian President, Mr. Vladimir Putin, has shown, together, various qualities which he has shown, one by one, in dealing with other tricky situations.
- Get Rid Of The Pak Fixation (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Sep 07, 2001)
When the mind is crowded with petty thoughts, Ghalib said, step out of the house and travel so that the narrow vision ‘‘opens up with the abundance of the spectacle’’.
- Edits Brought To You By... (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 07, 2001)
Just kidding, but sponsorship has touched literature.
- In Gujarat, The Bjp Govt’s Road Not Taken (Indian Express, Darshan Desai, Sep 07, 2001)
A RULE free from ‘‘fear, hunger and corruption’’. It was this slogan that powered the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a massive mandate to rule Gujarat for the first time in 1995 and then again in 1998.
- Panchayat Planning May Be Made Mandatory For Plan Allocation (The Financial Express, Joseph Vackayil, Sep 07, 2001)
The Planning Commission is working on a system to ensure that states adhere to the demand-driven micro-level planning process by making District Planning Committees (DPCs) operational.
- Shanghai (Non) Surprise: It’s All About The Economy (Indian Express, Sonia Trikha, Sep 07, 2001)
ON the eve of its entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO), China will host the Asia Pacific Economic Council (APEC) summit next month.
- Policy-Induced Recession Chokes Growth Potential (The Financial Express, R.K. Roy, Sep 07, 2001)
Six years ago, it was fondly believed that India’s growth potential was over 8 per cent. With an annual 6.5-7 per cent growth, India was an under-achiever.
- When Capital Markets Fail (The Economic Times, Jeffrey D Sachs, Sep 07, 2001)
A CENTRAL argument for capitalism is that capital markets efficiently channel savings to the most profitable investments.
- Prognosis Of A Slowdown (Business Line, Abhimanyu, Sep 07, 2001)
A COUNTRY facing an economic slowdown is like a patient who is ill because of lack of appetite.
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