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Articles 20221 through 20320 of 25647:
- Learn Your Economics From Squirrels (Tribune, Satya Prakash Singh , Jul 26, 2001)
ONE of the trees in my compound on the Panjab University campus is a beri. It is a large tree, the fruit is good, but we hardly get any to eat.
- Megawati's Burden (Pioneer, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 26, 2001)
For long, Indonesians had been preparing themselves for a change of leadership.
- Soft And Steady In Jakarta (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 26, 2001)
MEGAWATI SUKARNOPUTRI should have been president of Indonesia as a matter of right two years ago.
- Beijing Vows To Keep Yuan Stable After Wto Entry (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 26, 2001)
China will maintain the stability of its yuan currency after the country joins the World Trade Organisation, central bank governor Dai Xianglong was quoted on Wednesday as saying.
- Will Megawati Be Her Own Person? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jul 26, 2001)
TWO years ago, when Indonesia's presidentship was snatched away from her by Islamic zealots, for a number of reasons, not the least of which was her gender, she had burst into tears.
- One More Panel (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 26, 2001)
HAVING wound up the earlier disinvestment commission, headed by G V Ramakrishnan, two years back, the government has now decided to reconstitute the commission.
- Biased From The Start (Hindustan Times, Jayanthi Natarajan, Jul 26, 2001)
THERE IS a permanent malaise that affects this country, and most of the time we do not even think about it.
- Perjury Here And There (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Jul 26, 2001)
THE conviction in the UK of bestselling novelist and peer in the House of Lords Jeffrey Archer on the charge of perjury comes as a wake-up call to India.
- Virtual Diplomacy (Indian Express, Rajdeep Sardesai, Jul 26, 2001)
THE caste system is clear on board the prime minister’s aircraft. The people’s representative from 7 Race Course Road rests in his luxurious cabin with all the facilities of a modern emperor.
- Bonds Of Beads (Indian Express, Mehru Jaffer, Jul 26, 2001)
Prayers are linked in unexpected ways.
- What An Ashram! (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 26, 2001)
Bhondsi exemplifies all that is wrong in society.
- Out Of The Action (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Jul 26, 2001)
This may well have gone down as just another meeting on a day when no one is particularly bothered about news, save for one omission.
- General, How About A Lesson In European History? (Indian Express, Lalit Mohan, Jul 26, 2001)
If the Alsace-Lorraine problem could be solved, so can Kashmir.
- The King-Makers Behind The ‘Bandit Queen’ (Indian Express, Anupreeta Das, Jul 26, 2001)
There are 14,600 websites that give you information on Phoolan Devi. Amid the litter of precis biographies, news reports, poems and paeans dedicated to her, some pet ideas can easily be rescued.
- Shady Girl, Blazing Guns And The Political Fast Lane (Telegraph, Arundhati Roy, Jul 26, 2001)
At the premiere screening of Bandit Queen in Delhi, Shekhar Kapur introduced the film with these words: “I had a choice between Truth and Aesthetics. I chose Truth, because Truth is Pure.”
- Counter-Voice To Agra Extravaganza (Pioneer, Chanchal Sarkar, Jul 26, 2001)
The higher the peak the deeper the trough. The more the media blow up a balloon, the more abject is its whimpering collapse.
- Dacoits Massacre 22 Near Kanpur (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 26, 2001)
At least 22 persons were killed when dacoit gangs led by Phoolan Devi and Ram Autar clashed with villagers last night.
- The Crass Menagerie (Hindustan Times, Bhaskar Ghose, Jul 26, 2001)
ONE OF the recent decisions taken by the central government has been to amend the rules governing the age of retirement of government officers, in favour of one particular officer, the cabinet secretary.
- Defective Law To Check Rank Opportunism (Pioneer, Jagdeep Dhankar, Jul 26, 2001)
The Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, the anti-defection law, came to be inserted ostensibly with the laudable object to strengthen our parliamentary democracy by curbing unethical defection and unprincipled politics.
- Vvip Squatters (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 26, 2001)
NOW that the Supreme Court has given its firm verdict, former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar will have no option but to start leaving the Bhondsi “ashram” in Gurgaon which had been expanding ever since it came into existence in 1983.
- No Middle Ground (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 26, 2001)
The whole truth that the law wants to elicit from those who appear in court is, in real life, elusive.
- Driving Home A Point (Pioneer, Anil Narendra, Jul 26, 2001)
Agra was perhaps the only India-Pakistan summit where India did not lose what it had won on the battle field.
- Good, But Not Enough (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 26, 2001)
APROPOS of the article by Arvind Panagariya (ET, July 18) it cannot be gainsaid that the opening up of the insurance sector to private investors.
- The Right To Food (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 26, 2001)
THIS can happen only in India. Surplus food stocks on the one hand, and prospects of starvation deaths on the other. And yet little action.
- Taxing Services: Generality Versus Selectivity (The Economic Times, M. Govinda Rao, Jul 26, 2001)
EXTENDING taxes to services is an important option if not an imperative to arrest the declining contribution from domestic trade taxes in the country.
- Deal On Climate Change (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 26, 2001)
AGAINST ALL EXPECTATIONS, signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have been able to arrive at an agreement on how to operationalise the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
- Constitutional Imbroglio In Sri Lanka (Hindu, V. Suryanarayan, Jul 26, 2001)
THE ANNOUNCEMENT by Sri Lanka's President, Ms. Chandrika Kumaratunga, that Parliament would be prorogued and a national referendum would be held on August 21.
- Technofixes With A Sugar Coating (Hindu, Ashish Kothari, Jul 26, 2001)
DELIGHT FOR the technocrat and the multinational corporation, dismay and disappointment for the advocate of justice and sustainability in human development.
- Competition And Policy? (The Economic Times, Parth J Shah, Jul 26, 2001)
THE CABINET has approved the competition Bill despite crucial differences among the members of the Committee on Competition Policy.
- Regulation: A Bump In India’s Biotech Lane (The Financial Express, Parul Malhotra, Jul 26, 2001)
“We have three levels of approval committees with increasing order of incompetence”.
- Driving In The Slow Lane (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 26, 2001)
MANUFACTURING companies have begun to bleed as India’s economic slowdown inflicts a thousand cuts on balance sheets.
- Pragmatic Solution (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 26, 2001)
FOR the first time, UTI seems to have hit upon a workable solution to the US-64 problems.
- Tough Solutions Needed For Economy (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jul 26, 2001)
DESPITE the reform-oriented Budget for 2001-02, unveiled amid much praise, macroeconomic indicators point to a none-too-encouraging economic position.
- Beyond The Botched Summit (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Jul 26, 2001)
AS a people we are strangely disinterested in history which perhaps explains why we are condemned to repeat our mistakes all too often.
- Debating The Latest Flops (Business Line, Menka Shivdasani , Jul 26, 2001)
THIS is not a good week for the Vajpayee government.
- At The Crossroads Again (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Jul 26, 2001)
``As we enter the last decade of the 20th century, India stands at the crossroads.
- The Act Means Business (Business Line, N. R. Moorthy , Jul 26, 2001)
COME December 13, 2002, a new class of companies will emerge. The Companies (Amendment) Act, 2000 has made a significant amendment to the Companies Act, 1956.
- To Compete With China On Fdi, Image Is As Important As Reality (The Financial Express, Rohit Bansal, Jul 26, 2001)
No one would want the Centre or Maharashtra to buckle down in front of any inherent anti-consumer elements inherited from the Enron deal, visiting US assistant secretary of state Christina B Rocca notwithstanding.
- Untrustworthy (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 25, 2001)
THE RECENT decision to allow the repurchase of Units for Rs 10, with an appreciation of 10 paise per month till 2003 is preposterous and criminal.
- Electronic Vehicle Monitoring System (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Jul 25, 2001)
THE Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), Hyderabad and the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), New Delhi have jointly developed an Automatic Vehicle Counting Classification and Axle Load Weighing System.
- Terrorising A Fractured Sri Lanka (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 25, 2001)
A SIGNATURE CAMPAIGN of terror has been launched by the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to confound the Sri Lankan President, Ms. Chandrika Kumaratunga, at a time of turmoil in the hapless country's mainstream politics.
- Ouster In Disgrace (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 25, 2001)
IN October, 1999, Mr Abdurrahman Wahid was sworn in as Indonesia's first democratically elected President with much fanfare and tremendous public enthusiasm.
- Travails Of A Neighbour (Tribune, M. K. Agarwal, Jul 25, 2001)
THERE is a profusion of literature of the “How to do” variety, on subjects ranging from the commonplace to the splendid and the most esoteric. These recipes could be in the nature of.
- The Agra Saga Continues... (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jul 25, 2001)
AGAINST Pakistan's belligerence in harping on the centrality of the Kashmir issue at Agra and beyond, the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, only reiterated in Parliament on Tuesday his government's resolve to continue talking to Pakistan.
- The Agra Saga Continues... (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jul 25, 2001)
AGAINST Pakistan's belligerence in harping on the centrality of the Kashmir issue at Agra and beyond, the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, only reiterated in Parliament on Tuesday his government's resolve to continue talking to Pakistan.
- Driving The Pm (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 25, 2001)
NO matter how hard it tries, the SPG just can’t seem to get rid of the Ambassador car.
- Before And After Indo-Pak Summit (Tribune, Sumer Kaul, Jul 25, 2001)
A strong reluctance to call a spade a spade signifies in a nutshell what is wrong with Indian governmental thinking and diplomacy at the very top.
- Reforms: Getting Back To Basics (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 25, 2001)
IT IS INDEED ironic that the label of `reform' (connoting change of a positive nature) pinned so readily on the government in 1991.
- Managing India: A Single Point Plan Of Action (The Economic Times, Arun Maira, Jul 25, 2001)
MANY experts are proposing solutions to address the malaise in India’s economy.
- Caught In The Food Muddle (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Jul 25, 2001)
EITHER the babus in the Agriculture, Food and Commerce Ministries have no mind of their own, which most likely is the case, or it is pure chicanery or, perhaps, a combination of both.
- Agra And After (Hindu, Balraj Puri, Jul 25, 2001)
IF THE India-Pakistan summit did not fail, as the Foreign Ministers maintain, it did not succeed either.
- Clueless In Agra (Hindustan Times, Brahma Chellaney , Jul 25, 2001)
IT IS a classic case of a big, blind gamble passing off as diplomacy.
- How 1919 Punjab Rebellion Was Suppressed (Tribune, Gobind Thukral, Jul 25, 2001)
THE British imperialists unhesitatingly showed their cruel and ugly face when they imposed martial law on Punjab in April, 1919.
- Now, The Third Decade In Kashmir (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jul 25, 2001)
NOW THAT the principled prejudices have been so firmly and so unequivocally re-stated at Agra, it is time for India to start preparing itself for the third decade of the Kashmir problem.
- Stumble And Fall, Stumble And Fall (Hindustan Times, P. Chidambaram, Jul 25, 2001)
IF A thing can go wrong, it will go wrong. That’s Murphy’s law. In the last fortnight, this bitter truth was brought home forcefully to two cabinet ministers of the government of India: Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha.
- The K-Fatigue In Pakistan (Indian Express, Santwana Bhattacharya, Jul 25, 2001)
THE General on the other side of the Partition seems a bit like the indomitable Gaul of the famous comic strip.
- Agra Summit: Did The Media Play Spoiler At The Agra Party? (Indian Express, Samina Yasmeen, Jul 25, 2001)
EVEN a week after the Agra Summit, questions are being asked about why and how it turned out to be the way it did.
- A Simple And Honest Answer (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 25, 2001)
PRIME Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee fielded himself to respond to General Musharraf's some misplaced observations at his press conference in Islamabad late last week.
- Us And India Can Be Natural Partners In The Global Economic Arena: Rocca (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 25, 2001)
I have a simple but, I think, powerful message for you today: the Bush Administration is committed to strengthening and intensifying our relations with India.
- The Gods That Failed At Agra (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Jul 25, 2001)
The Agra summit, more than the preceding ones, had the merit of exposing problems between India and Pakistan and defining them.
- Goodwill Hunting (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 25, 2001)
The gains at Agra have eclipsed Shimla.
- Dwarfs Grill A Whale (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 25, 2001)
The NDA government’s best friend: a fractured Opposition.
- Kinder Gardens (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 25, 2001)
Next time parents enroll their ward in a school, they should remember that apart from homework and such-like burden, they need to be prepared to fight forces beyond their control as well.
- India Travels (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 25, 2001)
THE World Travel and Tourism Council (in association with Oxford Economic Forecasting) has come out with a study that finds Indians to be among the fastest growing travellers in the world.
- Cooperation Shouldn’t Be Held Hostage To Resolution Of One Issue (The Financial Express, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 25, 2001)
Following is the text of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s statement made on Tuesday in both houses of Parliament on summit-level talks between India and Pakistan from 14-16 July 2001.
- An Avoidable Tragedy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 25, 2001)
THE road mishap which claimed the lives of over 50 pilgrims near Ropar on Monday should be included in the list of avoidable accidents.
- Indian Steel Industry In A Tight Spot (The Financial Express, S. R. Kasbekar, Jul 25, 2001)
It is ironic that US President George W Bush’s first trade act betrays his protectionist bias.
- Figures Of Hitch (Pioneer, C K G Nair, Jul 25, 2001)
One of the major reasons (about 50 per cent) for the discord between my wife and me is my fascination with figures.
- A Decade Of Reforms: Where To Now? (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Jul 25, 2001)
THE LAST week of July marks a decade of reforms in the Indian economy.
- Tabs On Net (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 25, 2001)
THE sky-rocketing growth of Internet and Web sites has produced two directly opposite reactions.
- Musharraf's Other Face Should Trouble All (Pioneer, Wilson John, Jul 25, 2001)
While the wise men of Indian media remain busy squabbling over the breakfast coverage and how right or wrong President Pervez Musharraf was on Kashmir.
- Political Master Stroke At Agra (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Jul 25, 2001)
In terms of real politic, the outcome, or the apparent lack of it, of the Agra summit, will prove to be a master stroke of Indian diplomacy.
- Feud May Be Brewing In Jackson Family (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 25, 2001)
IT appears that a family feud may be brewing among pop superstar Michael Jackson and his five brothers over plans for what would be their first performance together since their 1984 “Victory” tour.
- Nest In Trouble (The Financial Express, Mimmy Jain, Jul 25, 2001)
Nobody, not even my own mother, can accuse me of being house proud. I am clean, methodical, even precise at times, but putting things away at the end of the day is not my cup of tea.
- Will Tdp’s Poor Show In Local Polls Affect Reforms? (The Financial Express, K. V. V. V. Charya, Jul 24, 2001)
Once again the question arises: Will Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu go ahead with the World Bank-sponsored economic reform process in the state in the aftermath of a political setback in the recently concluded local body polls.
- Passing Of A Veerapandiyan (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 24, 2001)
THERE was once a Tamil stage actor who played the role of Maratha warrior-king Shivaji with such elan that he was nicknamed Sivaji Ganesan.
- Challenges Before Deuba (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 24, 2001)
NEPAL is a difficult country to rule from outside the palace. The new Prime Minister, Mr Sher Bahadur Deuba, is not exactly a novice in politics.
- Investment Cycle In The Information Age (The Economic Times, Ramesh Adiga, Jul 24, 2001)
WHEN Gordon Moore propounded his famous Moore’s law in 1965, he was heading Intel and the law was an observation on memory chip performance. He observed that chip capacity doubled every 18 months.
- More The Merrier (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 24, 2001)
ACTING LIKE a vacuum cleaner, the BJP has been sweeping up all the loose debris in the political field.
- Tackling Fiscal Termites (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, Jul 24, 2001)
IN THE area of financial sector reforms, the policy-makers appear to be more worried about form than content. Application of Basle norms is all that banking sector reforms is about.
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