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Articles 19921 through 20020 of 25647:
- In Good Humour (Business Line, G. S. Balakrishnan , Aug 02, 2001)
WHILE none can dispute the significant strides made by English humour writers over the years, greater heights could have been scaled if Britain's social climate had been free of taboos and constraints.
- Walk Straight With Love And Humility (Tribune, K. L. Batra, Aug 02, 2001)
THE beauty of life lies in our capacity to maintain contact with our inner self and to uphold the highest ethical standards.
- What They Don’t Tell Their Spouses (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 02, 2001)
ABOUT 40 per cent of married Americans admit keeping a secret from their spouses, but most have nothing to do with an affair or fantasy, a new poll has found. The most common secret is how much they spend.
- Recognition For Water Conservationist (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 02, 2001)
IT was a scintillating achievement for Rajendra Singh.
- Resignation That Never Was (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 02, 2001)
POLITICIANS are believed to have a thick skin but Prime Minister Vajpayee is an honourable exception. His offer to resign on Tuesday strengthens this popular impression.
- Why Cadaver Transplants Are Still Few (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 02, 2001)
DESPITE the cadaver transplant legislation being passed by the Central Government in 1994, ``a pathetic number of heart transplants -- less than 20 -- have been done in the country,''
- Kashmir Issue Should Be Put In Cold Storage For Some Years (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 02, 2001)
Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf talks like an evangelist who brings the gospel of Kashmir to peoples in Pakistan and India.
- How Best To Manage Other People’s Affairs (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 02, 2001)
The importance of creating a more effective conflict prevention paradigm is underscored by the alarming global trends forecast in the recent National Intelligence Council’s report, Global Trends 2015.
- A Look At India’s Strategic Interests (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Aug 02, 2001)
FOR the last two months the media and its young television anchors spent huge amounts of time and money trying to discover “concessions” that should be given to Pakistan’s military ruler even before he arrived in India.
- Shuffling Officers As Chess Pawns (Tribune, V. Eashwar Anand, Aug 02, 2001)
THE Union Government’s directive to the Tamil Nadu Government to relieve three IPS officers for posting at the Cabinet Secretariat in New Delhi.
- The Fall Guy (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 02, 2001)
With the opposition baying for a statement from the prime minister, the finance minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, may not have had his say and has promised a point-by-point response to the charges, when given the chance.
- Trade Buzz (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 02, 2001)
Throwing a tantrum is always a good way to call attention. The 24-hour “all-Bengal trade strike” on Wednesday, organized by the Confederation of West Bengal Trade Associations, was just such a tantrum.
- New Commission Must First Articulate Its Philosophy (The Economic Times, T.T.Ram Mohan, Aug 02, 2001)
THE GOVERNMENT'S decision to reconstitute the Disinvestment Commission could hopefully mark a return to realism in its approach to privatisation.
- India And The Great Powers (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 02, 2001)
IF INDIA can overcome the political hangover from Agra, it will find itself in the middle of some remarkable developments on the world scene.
- Lessons From California: Status Quo On Power Reforms Is The Riskiest Alternative (The Financial Express, Kandula Subramaniam, Aug 02, 2001)
The power crisis in California has generated debate both within and outside India on the prospects, merits and de-merits of opening up electricity markets.
- Centre Won’t Get Tn Ips Officers Until Jaya Wishes So (The Financial Express, Rohit Bansal, Aug 02, 2001)
The Centre is on a losing wicket in its latest salvo against Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalitha.
- Rajasthan Steps To Boost Solar Energy (The Financial Express, M. P. Jain, Aug 02, 2001)
The Rajasthan government is taking renewed steps to harness solar energy. As part of this move, the state plans to set up a 140mw integrated solar combine cycle project at Mathania, near Jodhpur, estimated to cost Rs 900 crore.
- How Putin Learnt To Love Missile Defence (Indian Express, Sonia Trikha, Aug 02, 2001)
FOR those who think George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin are an odd couple engaging in a march towards a common destiny that has been called worse things than merely odd.
- All The Fm’s Men (The Economic Times, Shankar Acharya, Aug 02, 2001)
IN THE nine years since the economic crisis of 1991, economic growth has averaged 6.3 per cent, the highest decadal average in India’s recorded history.
- Monsoon Causes Rs 1,613-Cr Loss, Signals Fall In Farm Output (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Aug 02, 2001)
As the south-west monsoon completes its mid-course (July-end), it is time to take stock of the situation.
- Clearing The Clouds, Pm Style (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Aug 02, 2001)
THE gloom that descended on gripping the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), triggered by the reported offer of the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
- After The Knocks (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 02, 2001)
Keep the political track alive in J&K.
- Why Cadaver Transplants Are Still Few (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 02, 2001)
DESPITE the cadaver transplant legislation being passed by the Central Government in 1994, ``a pathetic number of heart transplants -- less than 20 -- have been done in the country,''
- Deja Vu (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 02, 2001)
AS THE contours of the IFCI and the weak banks’ rescue package become clearer, there is a tremendous sense of deja vu.
- Cell Sweepstakes (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 02, 2001)
THE VACATION OF the stay by the Madras High Court sets the stage for the finalisation of the third and final round in the bidding process and grant of licences for the fourth cellular operator across the country.
- Eleventh Finance Commission -- North-Eastern States' Weightage Still Low (Business Line, M. Y. Khan, Aug 02, 2001)
FINANCE Commissions are appointed not only to work out a framework to allocate tax and duty collections among the States but also to help them cover their non-Plan revenue deficit by devolution of grant-in-aid.
- Risk Management By Commercial Banks -- Time To Hammer Out The Chinks (Business Line, R.G.Bhatnagar, Aug 02, 2001)
ONE of the important decisions taken recently by the RBI panel on banking supervision, under the chairmanship of its deputy governor, Mr Y. V. Reddy, was on the risk management strategies of commercial banks.
- Seeds Of Chaos (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Aug 02, 2001)
THE new Section 86 inserted in the Companies Act, 1956 permits a company to issue either or both of the following two types of equity shares.
- In Search Of Mogambo (Hindustan Times, Pritish Nandy, Aug 02, 2001)
WE ARE a nation in search of villains. So obsessive is this search that when we are unable to find a big enough villain in real life, we create one.
- Murder As Warning (Indian Express, Madhu Kishwar , Aug 02, 2001)
Phoolan was no Durga, she was just a battered woman.
- Show Zee The Money (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 02, 2001)
IT’S not without reason that Zee TV has chosen to christen its clutch of new programmes Project Lakshmi.
- Obsessed With Vengeance (Hindustan Times, Prakash Patra, Aug 02, 2001)
THE NDA government’s arbitrary and unprecedented decision to transfer the services of three IPS officers, involved in the arrest of DMK leader M. Karunanidhi and two Union ministers, does not augur well for a federal polity like ours.
- Pm Scores An Own-Goal (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Aug 02, 2001)
FEW INDIAN politicians are as universally respected as Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Mr Vajpayee’s stature and his essential decency cause him to rise above his colleagues in the NDA.
- Future Liquidity (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 02, 2001)
This is really a Magsaysay award for traditional wisdom.
- Mobile Inequalities (Telegraph, Anup Sinha, Aug 02, 2001)
A full decade of economic reforms has led to many evaluations of the economy, and its prospects for the immediate future.
- Countdown To The Convergence (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Aug 02, 2001)
THE integration of global capital markets and the inevitable consequent need for the harmonisation of accounting standards to facilitate cross-country listings as also the meaningful transmission of information.
- Learning From Jordan (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 02, 2001)
CALIPH Haroun-al-Rashid would have approved. More than a 1,000 years after him, Jordan’s King Abdullah II followed his example.
- How To Recover From Defeat (Tribune, Neasa Macerlean, Aug 02, 2001)
1. Understand that losing out plays a major part in everyone’s life. If you see each loss as a personal blow and bitter rejection, you make yourself a permanent victim and are on the road to unhappiness.
- Through The Third Eye (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 02, 2001)
TWO months ago, when Subir Raha took over as CMD of ONGC, asset managers and project heads in distant outposts had no idea he hates tomato soup, loves prawns, and is fond of Glenfiddich.
- Of Women’s Hearts And Problems (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 01, 2001)
IN the wake of recent study findings that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may not protect older women’s hearts as once thought, the American Heart Association (AHA) is cautioning doctors not to prescribe HRT for heart reasons alone.
- Officers As Pawns (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 01, 2001)
When will the politics of vendetta end in Tamil Nadu?
- Shooting Galleries (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 01, 2001)
ON July 28, a US court sentenced a 14-year old boy who shot his teacher dead for no apparent reason to 28 years in prison without parole or time off for good behaviour, followed by two years in house arrest and a further five years of probation.
- We’ve Suggested A Roadmap For It Industry (The Economic Times, Neeraj Saxena, Aug 01, 2001)
E-COMMERCE is said to be on its death-bed. But Boston Consulting Group has just concluded a study for Nasscom on e-biz.
- Scanning The Oceans From Floats (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Aug 01, 2001)
`EL NINO' and its less well known cousin `La Nina', were two crucial phenomena that had a major impact on the variations in global climate and natural disasters during the last decade.
- Water Man Gets His Due (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 01, 2001)
HOUNDED at home, feted elsewhere! That is the life story of many a bright Indian. Hargobind Khurana, Anna Hazare, Khairnar, Nek Chand, Kiran Bedi ….
- E-Governance: For India Or Bharat? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Aug 01, 2001)
ON July 23, even casual Internet surfers were surprised to find some confidential and secret files of the External Affairs Ministry scattered all over cyberspace.
- Don't Make Phoolan An Icon (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 01, 2001)
PHOOLAN Devi led a most unusual life. At the risk of sounding cruel, one can only conclude about her gruesome death that those who live by the sword must also perish by it. Granted she was an oppressed woman.
- Democracy In Indonesia -- Dogged By Rebellion (Business Line, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Aug 01, 2001)
UNFASHIONABLE though it might be to say so, the contrast between Indonesia's turbulent change of guard and the orderliness with which power is transferred in India after elections highlights the difference between Dutch and British colonialism.
- United Colours Of The Opposition (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 01, 2001)
ONE and a half weeks into the monsoon sitting of Parliament, the Government is realising that it may have misread the signals of Opposition disunity sent out by the failure of Sonia Gandhi’s session-eve tea party.
- Transparency Versus Confidentiality (The Economic Times, Gauri Kamath, Aug 01, 2001)
PHARMACEUTICAL multinational Bayer is reportedly working on an alternative to Ranbaxy’s once-a-day dosage form of the drug ciprofloxacin with another unnamed firm.
- Why Vajpayee Should Stop Sulking & Start Asking Questions (The Economic Times, Abheek Barman, Aug 01, 2001)
I’M writing this a few hours after Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee told a gathering of Bharatiya Janata Party MPs that he was going to resign.
- Automating Power Distribution (Business Line, Alfred Manohar, Aug 01, 2001)
WITH the focus shifting to offshore software development, the demand-supply gap in power is expected to grow by at least twenty per cent this year.
- Climate Change Agreement (The Economic Times, Jeffrey D Sachs, Aug 01, 2001)
DESPITE US opposition to the Kyoto Treaty on Climate Change, the world reached an historic agreement in Bonn, Germany, on implementing the treaty.
- Corruption And A Pro-Active Media (Hindu, N. Bhaskara Rao, Aug 01, 2001)
Are we, as a nation, insensitive to corruption? For whatever reasons.
- Phoolan Didn’t Frame A Will, Her Husband Gets Everything (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 01, 2001)
When Mala Sen, the author of India’s Bandit Queen, approached Kamini Jaiswal in November 1999 with the case of a ‘woman dacoit’ languishing in jail, the Supreme Court lawyer was initially hesitant.
- Insurance, Retail Sector Opening-Up Will Take Care Of Real Estate Slump (The Financial Express, Rajeev Jayaswal, Aug 01, 2001)
Retail, insurance, infotech-enabled services and the leisure & entertainment sectors will be the driving forces in bailing the real estate industry out of global recession, says a study conducted by property consultants Chesterton Meghraj.
- Life Is Elsewhere (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Aug 01, 2001)
RESEARCHERS FROM ISRO and the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics seem to have stumbled on to what can possibly be extraterrestrial microbes in the higher reaches of the atmosphere.
- The Outsider Stays Back (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 01, 2001)
THERE WILL be considerable relief that Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was dissuaded by his senior colleagues from carrying out the threat to resign that he made earlier on Tuesday.
- Indo-Pak. Nuclear Asymmetry (Hindu, M. R. Srinivasan, Aug 01, 2001)
THE AGRA summit between India and Pakistan would no doubt have discussed the nuclear issue, even if Gen. Pervez Musharraf wished to talk only about Kashmir.
- A Draconian Measure (Hindu, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 01, 2001)
IT IS unfortunate that the Supreme Court has dismissed at the admission stage a writ petition which challenged the Home Ministry's memorandum on the invitees from abroad.
- A Sino-U.S. Re-Engagement (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 01, 2001)
CHINA'S NEW DETERMINATION to shape a futurist international order is becoming increasingly evident on two inter-related fronts.
- Agra Summit: Diplomacy And The Propaganda Dimension (The Financial Express, GS Bhargava, Aug 01, 2001)
If a fresh edition of Fred Charles Ikle’s seminal treatise on international negotiations is to be published.
- Chinese Checkers (Hindustan Times, Mohit Sen, Aug 01, 2001)
THE AGRA summit has quite naturally been at the centre of political activity and comments in recent weeks. It would be, however, ‘unifocal’ — to use Jaswant Singh’s felicitous phrase — not to take account of another summit meeting that has concluded.
- A Quiet Revolution (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Aug 01, 2001)
BETWEEN THE expanse of sand and rocky terrain without an iota of green, there are two colours which emerge from the emptiness like magic: crimson red and deep blue.
- Nobody In This World Is Liberal With Money (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 01, 2001)
Among foreign bankers, ABN Amro Bank’s country-head, Romesh Sobti, is a senior citizen.
- Being Always On The Defensive Won’t Do (Tribune, K. F. Rustamji , Aug 01, 2001)
I wonder why we are always on the defensive in dealing with Pakistan.
- Till We Meet Again: Lessons From Agra (Hindustan Times, Kanti Bajpai, Aug 01, 2001)
THE SUMMIT is over. Long live the summit. Agra was a failure in the sense that a piece of paper was not initialed by India and Pakistan. But it was not a complete failure.
- 377 Cases Filed Against Magsaysay Winner (Tribune, Paloma Ganguly, Aug 01, 2001)
RAJENDRA Singh, who won the 2001 Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership on Monday, quit a cozy government job 16 years ago determined to transform the lives of the rural poor.
- Accept Loc As Border (Indian Express, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, Aug 01, 2001)
IF Pakistan is to stand shoulder to shoulder on the world stage with developed nations it must see that its options are not — as it would appear at first sight — between military and democratic rule.
- No Limit To Optimism (The Financial Express, Mimmy Jain, Aug 01, 2001)
It was in May that I first caught sight of the anklets. Initially, I stopped to look because you seldom see anklets displayed in a jeweller’s window. But then I fell in love.
- Personal Becomes National (Indian Express, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Aug 01, 2001)
THE UTI imbroglio is due to two misconceptions. One, that the government must not do business. Two, we make an artificial separation between the individual and the family.
- Beyond Containment (Telegraph, Chandra Shekar, Jul 31, 2001)
After the end of the Cold War, many optimists expected that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would be dismantled.
- Wrong Goal (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 31, 2001)
If there was hardly any element of surprise in the statement of Mr Pranab Mukherjee, the president of the West Bengal state Congress, that the party’s alliance with the Trinamool Congress was over.
- Checking On The Chin (Tribune, Mohinder Singh, Jul 31, 2001)
THE chin remains a puzzle. Why did it emerge? What purpose does it serve? Is it as redundant as the appendix?
- Party Slips, But Govt Is Safe (Tribune, P. Raman , Jul 31, 2001)
ADI Shankara’s biggest contribution has been his theory of two levels of reality — the common man’s virtual awareness of the universe and the ultimate reality of brahman as universe.
- Sri Lankan Tourism May Go Down By Half (The Financial Express, Scott McDonald, Jul 31, 2001)
Tourism in Sri Lanka is expected to slump over the next six months as the country struggles to overcome images of its only international airport under rebel attack and foreign visitors scurrying for cover, a senior official said on Monday.
- Mr Advani's Advice (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 31, 2001)
Mr LK Advani's valedictory address to the three-day session of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) national executive, which ended on Sunday, deserves more than passing attention.
- Structuring A National Agenda (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Jul 31, 2001)
The Prime Minister's assurance on a party forum that future talks with Pakistan would be held on the basis of a structured agenda is his first indirect admission that the Agra summit failed due to inadequate preparations at various levels.
- Diplomats, Media Playing Flip Game (Pioneer, A. Balu, Jul 31, 2001)
Much has been written about the extreme secrecy that Indian officials had maintained during the Agra summit between Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and President Pervez Musharraf.
- Heaping Insult Upon Injury (Indian Express, Ravi Agarwal, Jul 31, 2001)
No place to park the garbage? How about some precious forest land?
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