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Articles 21721 through 21820 of 25647:
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 20, 2001)
Seedsavers of crops worldwide have been threatened as never before. A technology appropriately called the 'terminator technology', has been creating waves in agricultural circles since March.
- Sankara's Atmabodha: Vision Of The Self (Times of India, Pranav Khullar, Jun 20, 2001)
SANKARA'S Atmabodha, `Knowledge of the Self', goes to the very core of Advaitic thought by encapsulating, as it were, the tremendous speculative thought contained in the Brahma-Sutra Bhashya.
- Two Men And Two Choices (Tribune, Punam Khaira Sidhu, Jun 20, 2001)
IT's the examination results season. Every day has results splashed across the newspapers: ICSE, CBSE, ....the list seems endless.
- Flush And Dredge (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 20, 2001)
The authorities never gave importance to the flushing techniques but only concentrated on the dredging process.
- Pakistan's Interest (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 20, 2001)
To interpret Pakistan's first-ever defence budget cut as a meaningful gesture before the forthcoming summit in India would be to stretch the point.
- The D Segment Is The Emerging Segment (The Economic Times, Nandini Sen Gupta, Jun 20, 2001)
IT'S the latest D-segment debutante to entice the Indian market.
- Democratic Deficit, Wto Farm Talks And India’s Silence (The Financial Express, Raghav Narsalay , Jun 20, 2001)
The term ‘democratic deficit’ used in the context of discussions taking place at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) became conspicuous as a phenomenon during the Seattle Ministerial Conference of the WTO during 1999.
- Securing The Delhi Summit (Hindu, V. R. Raghavan , Jun 20, 2001)
THE VAJPAYEE-MUSHARRAF summit in New Delhi is not unlike two mountaineers deciding to meet atop Mount Everest, after agreeing to climb it from two different directions.
- Who’s Afraid Of Debt Recovery Tribunals? (The Financial Express, Ram Kishan, Jun 20, 2001)
To expedite adjudication and recovery of debts due to banks and financial institutions (FIs) at the instance of the Tiwari Committee (1984), appointed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the government enacted the Debt Recovery Tribunal Act, 1993 (DRT).
- Why Doesn’t The Muslim Intelligentsia In India Speak Up? (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 20, 2001)
OUR Muslim intelligentsia reminds me, at times, of nationalist Muslims before Partition. They were so steadfast in their conviction to keep India united that they withstood the ridicule of the community.
- Fixing The Price Of Hope (Telegraph, Sandhya Srinivasan, Jun 20, 2001)
“A diagnosis of HIV positivity is no reason to lose hope,” says the man on television.
- All About Horses (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jun 20, 2001)
ARE you a horse fancier? Well, then, the English language has paid copious and heartwarming tributes to horses in a number of figures of speech.
- The Great Holiday Rush (The Financial Express, Mimmy Jain, Jun 20, 2001)
THE Great Panic of 2001 is upon us. And has the Jain family firmly in its grip. Amma has been seen muttering over the sambhar pot, “How can I fit the aloe vera into a book to press it?” She considers every moment spent away from a leaf a waste of time.
- India Needs Free Trade (The Economic Times, Arvind Panagariya , Jun 20, 2001)
SINGAPORE and Hong Kong, China have been the most open economies in the world during the past fifty years.
- For A Smooth Field (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 20, 2001)
IT is no secret that the Indian market for alcoholic drinks is fragmented and grossly mismanaged, thanks to our convoluted taxation and licensing policies.
- Of Kings And Exiles (Business Line, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jun 20, 2001)
ALL men, wrote Oscar Wilde, are kings, and, like kings, they die in exile.
- Eco-Friendly Process To Make Intermediary (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Jun 20, 2001)
AN ECO-FRIENDLY process to produce mono nitro toluene (MNT), a widely used intermediary in the dyes, pharma and pesticide industries, has been developed by scientists at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad.
- The Com After The Storm (Business Line, Vijay Rangarajan, Jun 20, 2001)
UNDER the settling dust of the recent dotcom crash lie the symptoms that caused the hysteria and the ensuing collapse.
- Talisman Of Love (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 20, 2001)
Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming, was charged in an English court, some 24 years ago, with kidnapping Kirk Anderson, a Mormon missionary and former boyfriend.
- The Infosys Way (Times of India, N. R. Narayana Murthy, Jun 20, 2001)
TODAY, my mind goes back to a sultry, fateful morning in July 1981, to my meeting with the other six founders of Infosys.
- Murderers Call The Shots (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jun 20, 2001)
There is not a single political party in India which does not play the Dalit card, even the ones who stand solely for the interests of the upper castes in a landscape still dominated by the logic of feudalism.
- Health Tips For Happy Summer Holidays (Tribune, Helen Foster, Jun 20, 2001)
IT's summer time and the living is easy — right? The temperature nudges upwards and gradually we feel more relaxed.
- What The Tiwari Congress Needs To Know About Reforms (The Economic Times, Abheek Barman, Jun 20, 2001)
AJIT Jogi came to power in Chhattisgarh with a clang, shutting down the aluminium plant of Balco at Korba which had been privatised by the government in New Delhi.
- Is Copper Good For You? Just Eat Better (Tribune, Zach Howard, Jun 20, 2001)
THE Aztecs, Egyptians and Romans all used copper, one of the earth’s most common metals, for thousands of years as a folk remedy in bangles, bandages, cosmetics and even drinks to ward off a host of ailments.
- Culled Flowers From Customer Services (The Financial Express, S. S. Tarapore, Jun 20, 2001)
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the banks have, for years, emphasised the need for polite, efficient and hassle-free customer service.
- Price Of The ‘New World Blitzkrieg’ (The Kashmir Times, GWYNNE DYER, Jun 20, 2001)
"The survivors are scraps," says evolutionary biologist Dr. John Alroy about the large mammal species that remain in North America after the wave of extinctions that followed the arrival of the first humans less than 14,000 years ago.
- Chic Coffee (Pioneer, Mohinder Singh, Jun 20, 2001)
Once ice-cream was the rage in America. Then came pizza. Now it's the turn of coffee. People go out for coffee, like it's for a meal or movie.
- A Feel-Good Summit Of Tough Talk (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 20, 2001)
A MUTUAL RAPPORT, which the leaders of the United States and Russia have established by their own reckoning at a summit in Slovenia, does not conceal their differences over Washington's futurist plans for a missile defence system.
- No Smoke Without A Fire (The Financial Express, Sourav Majumdar, Jun 20, 2001)
The latest takeover battle to hit Corporate India, this time over tobacco company VST Industries, promises to be one of the most intense in recent years.
- Talk About A Tete-A-Tete (Hindustan Times, Anand K.Sahay , Jun 20, 2001)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s sudden about-turn invitation to the Pakistani dictator must have come to General Musharraf as a pleasant surprise.
- Hello, Goodbye (Hindustan Times, S.M. Agarwal, Jun 20, 2001)
Over 95 crore Indians will not hear the telephone ring in their homes for decades to come.
- Tragedy In Himalayan Kingdom (The Kashmir Times, Arun Nehru, Jun 20, 2001)
Events in Nepal are truly baffling as the murder of the royal family gets into one controversy or the other.
- Caste, The Academy And Dalit Women (Hindu, Kalpana Kannabiran, Jun 20, 2001)
THE ONGOING debate on caste and race is taking place in the context of a larger advocacy on discrimination and Dalit human rights and has centred on the articulation of caste as discrimination, and the various forms of that discrimination.
- The Need For Accountability (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 20, 2001)
A crucial factor that can make governance successful and the implementation of schemes beneficial to the people is to ensure the accountability of officials.
- Uneasy Lies The Head That Wears The Crown (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Jun 20, 2001)
The tragic royal thriller set in the Narayanhity Palace in Kathmandu is over. But the sequel is already being written.
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 20, 2001)
Seedsavers of crops worldwide have been threatened as never before. A technology appropriately called the 'terminator technology', has been creating waves in agricultural circles since March.
- The Budget In Jeopardy (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Jun 20, 2001)
It has taken less than three months for the “dream” part of Yashwant Sinha’s budget for the current year to dissolve into thin air.
- Kingdoms Go And Come Again (Telegraph, ANURADHA KUMAR, Jun 20, 2001)
Till 1990, most newspapers and even the electronic media had one favourite sobriquet to describe Nepal — the peaceful Himalayan kingdom.
- Musharraf Puts Mullahs On Notice (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jun 20, 2001)
``HOW DOES the world look at us? The world sees us as backward and constantly going under.
- India's Ailing Cinema (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 20, 2001)
MOST FILM FESTIVALS the world over are not run by Governments. India is an exception.
- Hot Pursuit Of Total Victory (Pioneer, Anil Bhat, Jun 20, 2001)
Operation Poorna Vijay was conducted in the hottest of summers with the mercury touching 50 in the bush-dotted sands of Rajasthan.
- Even Symbolism Will Do (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jun 20, 2001)
Islamabad’s decision to scale down its defence spending by Rs 1.86 billion in the current year will be seen as a positive gesture at a time when there is some hope about an improvement in relations between India and Pakistan.
- Chic Coffee (Times of India, Mohinder Singh, Jun 20, 2001)
THERE was the American ice-cream craze. And then came the pizza craze.
- The Demand For Telangana (Tribune, T. V. Rajeswar, Jun 20, 2001)
THE Telangana movement is slowly spreading like a bushfire and the momentum is increasing day by day.
- Kautilya And Kathmandu (Pioneer, Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Jun 20, 2001)
Following the assassination of the Nepalese king and his entire family on Friday, June 1, 2001, it is time to take cue from the security blue book of 4th century BC, the Arthashastra of Kautilya.
- On Fast Track (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 20, 2001)
For 24-year-old Narain Karthikeyan, June 14 will go down as a memorable day when he test drove on the Formula 1 circuit at Silverstone in England.
- Why Leadership Needs Nurturing (Times of India, Marguerite Theophil, Jun 19, 2001)
THE effects of leadership touch all our lives whether or not we give them much thought or attention.
- Taliban Decree Is Contrary To Shari'a (Times of India, Asghar Ali Engineer , Jun 19, 2001)
THE Taliban, after demolishing the statues of Buddha have now issued a decree that all Hindus in Afghanistan should wear a yellow badge so that they can be recognised.
- A Football Team In Search Of A Nation (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jun 19, 2001)
A football team may not be everyone’s idea of the ultimate symbol of a nation, but the formation of a Tibetan Eleven may unnerve those who deny the very existence of Tibet.
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 19, 2001)
Seedsavers of crops worldwide have been threatened as never before. A technology appropriately called the 'terminator technology', has been creating waves in agricultural circles since March.
- Blind Confidence (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 19, 2001)
It is good to see confidence. The chief minister of West Bengal has it in abundance.
- Tragedy In Himalayan Kingdom (The Kashmir Times, Arun Nehru, Jun 19, 2001)
Events in Nepal are truly baffling as the murder of the royal family gets into one controversy or the other.
- Dark Shadow Over Agra Parleys (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Jun 19, 2001)
BOTH the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, and Pakistan’s military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, have made it impossible for me to stick to my resolve to give the Agra summit a miss until it actually takes place.
- Privacy Vs Public Interest (Hindustan Times, AG Noorani , Jun 19, 2001)
In a landmark judgment delivered on May 31 this year, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the media can disclose an illegally intercepted cellular telephone conversation.
- Wheat Mountain And Mouse (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 19, 2001)
IN another desperate move to reduce the suffocating but steadily rotting foodgrain stock, the government has slashed the prices of wheat and rice to non-poor ration card-holders by 26.5 per cent.
- The Need For Accountability (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 19, 2001)
A crucial factor that can make governance successful and the implementation of schemes beneficial to the people is to ensure the accountability of officials.
- How Justified Are Hopes Being Raised By Indo-Pak Summit (The Kashmir Times, Brij Bhardwaj, Jun 19, 2001)
An air of expectancy is getting built around the proposed summit meeting between Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan Chief Executive Gen Musharraf despite, the caution being exercised by both the sides.
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 19, 2001)
Seedsavers of crops worldwide have been threatened as never before. A technology appropriately called the 'terminator technology', has been creating waves in agricultural circles since March.
- Economics Of Upstream Oil Sector (Business Line, Vaidyanathan Nateshan , Jun 19, 2001)
THE term upstream oil industry generally describes players engaged in the exploration, development and production (EDP) of crude oil.
- India’s Food Revolution (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Jun 19, 2001)
M.S. Banga, chairman, Hindustan Lever Limited, delivered a talk titled “Food Revolution.
- It’s Murder, They Said (Telegraph, MADHUSHREE C. BHOWMIK, Jun 19, 2001)
Titli flits around her foster home. She lurches from one room to another on unsteady legs and loves to look at the Sydney harbour from the windows of her “penthouse’’ in the Australian capital.
- Ominous Indication (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 19, 2001)
The explosion in the office of the Awami League at Narayanganj near Dhaka, which killed at least 22 persons and injured more than 100 last Saturday.
- Atal's Burden (Times of India, MANOJ JOSHI, Jun 19, 2001)
THE forthcoming Vajpayee-Musharraf summit in Agra is neither the most important nor the most eventful one held between India and Pakistan.
- Ground Realities (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Jun 19, 2001)
THE heavy rains that recently lashed Hyderabad and Secunderabad exposed the unpreparedness of the twin cities in handling nature's largesse.
- An Alternative Food Security System (Business Line, M. G. Devasahayam , Jun 19, 2001)
FOOD security does not mean FCI godowns overflowing with foodgrains procured and stored at costs twice or thrice the prevailing market price, and worse, large quantities rotting.
- General On Contract (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jun 19, 2001)
Pervez Musharraf may have promised to come to India with an open mind, but some of his countrymen seem to regard him with rather a closed mind.
- India's Task In Nepal (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Jun 19, 2001)
THE ASSASSINATION of the royal family in Nepal has brought to the fore a realignment of political forces which pose a serious challenge to India.
- The Mountains Of My Life (Telegraph, Walter Bonatti, Jun 19, 2001)
Walter Bonatti’s The Mountains of My Life gathers, for the first time in English, the extraordinary writings of one of the world’s greatest mountaineers.
- Breach Of Promise (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 19, 2001)
The crisis of political accountability in West Bengal has been confirmed again with a rather disgraceful clarity.
- Whose Country Is It Anyway? (Hindu, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 19, 2001)
A MEXICAN revolutionary once differentiated dictatorship from democracy thus: In the first, the top man changes the people; in the second, the people change the top man.
- A New Paradigm For Indo-U.S. Ties (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 19, 2001)
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION is eager to widen the frontiers of an increasingly vibrant engagement between the United States and India.
- Change Apparent In Bengal’s Sharp Anti-Centre Position (The Financial Express, Sunil Mukhopadhyay, Jun 19, 2001)
When West Bengal chief minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, went to New Delhi to meet Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, it was considered a routine affair.
- Ornamentalism: How The British Saw Their Empire (Telegraph, David Cannadine, Jun 19, 2001)
The British Empire, David Cannadine argues in his new book, “was first and foremost a class act.”
- Why A-I Disinvestment Should Be Hastened (The Economic Times, Cuckoo Paul, Jun 19, 2001)
THERE is a distinct change of tone on the issue of disinvestment in Air-India.
- Gm Revolution Vs Languid Government Policies (Business Line, Gurumurti Natarajan, Jun 19, 2001)
GENETIC modifications and the selection of favourable traits have been the fountainhead of agricultural advancement over thousands of years.
- Import Power, Not Gas (The Economic Times, Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar, Jun 19, 2001)
OIL is relatively scarce, natural gas is relatively abundant. And gas is the cleanest fuel with the least greenhouse effect.
- Indian Wheat Exports: Quality Is The Key (The Economic Times, Mohandas Moses, Jun 19, 2001)
THE REJECTION of Indian wheat shipments at Iraqi ports has shown us that we pay a heavy price when we neglect quality control.
- 'India Has The Advantage Of Starting Late' (The Economic Times, Sangeeta Kulkarni, Jun 19, 2001)
APART from being advisor to the Department of Electronics, Dr Vijay Bhatkar has been vice-president, TCS and director of Electronics Research & Development Centre in the past.
- India A ‘Dynamic Adopter’ Of New Technology: Hdr 2001 (The Financial Express, Parul Malhotra, Jun 19, 2001)
The United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Report-2001, released on Tuesday, has assessed the technological achievements of countries the world over.
- Aes To The Rescue? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 19, 2001)
IF reports are correct, US power utility AES Transpower wants to buy out Enron’s stake in the nearly 2,200-mw Dabhol Power Company.
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