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Articles 21821 through 21920 of 25647:
- Soaped-Up Life (Times of India, Raghu Krishnan, Jun 18, 2001)
THESE days, soap gets into my eyes, especially from a Tamil TV serial called Chithi where the noble protagonist's well-behaved hubby gets tired of everyone but everyone doing the dirty on him and his better-half.
- Lured By Weakness (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jun 18, 2001)
Politics is a game where the winner takes all.
- Blind Confidence (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 18, 2001)
It is good to see confidence. The chief minister of West Bengal has it in abundance.
- Is Technology A Solution To Global Poverty? (Business Line, Kumar Venkat, Jun 18, 2001)
HAVING penetrated the market in the US and other wealthy countries, many hi-tech companies are now eager to do the same elsewhere.
- Prime Cut (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 18, 2001)
Good sense and international pressure seem to be finally prevailing in Pakistan.
- Sustaining The Consensus (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Jun 18, 2001)
WHATEVER THE outcome of the Agra summit, it has provided a precious byproduct in the domestic context - activation of the national consensus on foreign policy.
- Muslim Rishis Of Kashmir (Hindu, Gail Omvedt , Jun 18, 2001)
WITH THE heads of two antagonistic states having met in Agra, a limping but absolutely necessary and extended process of dialogue is going on.
- New Cover For An Old Dogma (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jun 18, 2001)
It seems like a chapter from a book long forgotten and read no more.
- Fast Breeders: Tall Promises, Poor Performance (Hindu, M.V. Ramana, Jun 18, 2001)
I would like to respond to the article ``Need for fast breeder reactors'' by S. B. Bhoje (The Hindu Friday, June 15, 2001, replying to my article in The Hindu of May 28, 2001), since it is misleading on many counts.
- Monetary Magic Precludes Prudence (The Financial Express, Ajit Ranade, Jun 18, 2001)
The Central Statistical Organisation (CSO), the economic data watchdog for the country, revealed last week that last year’s growth was only 5.2 per cent and not 6 as was earlier estimated and popularly believed.
- Pakistan Wrests The Initiative (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jun 18, 2001)
THE new initiative on the Kashmir issue, taken by the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, on May 23 is now in clear danger of being hijacked by the Pakistani military strongman, General Pervez Musharraf.
- Divine Rights Of Kings And Governments (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Jun 18, 2001)
THERE is an ironical twist to the regicide in Nepal. The new King Gyanendra was once enthroned in 1950, when King Tribhuvan fled to India with his son, Prince Mahendra, in the wake of the first revolution to oust the Ranas.
- Let Us Have The 'No-War' Pact First (Hindu, Murkot Ramunny, Jun 18, 2001)
The reported offer by the Pakistan President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, that he was prepared for a no-war pact with India gives a new direction to the talks in Agra.
- Co-Operative Banking System -- Free It From Government Shackles (Business Line, P. Satish, Jun 18, 2001)
THE LATEST Monetary and Credit Policy statement of the RBI Governor, Mr Bimal Jalan, perhaps for the first time talked about the cooperative banking system and its regulation.
- Fruits Of Multipolarity (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jun 18, 2001)
Post-Cold-War partnership between India and Russia.
- `Reduce Government Debt By Rs 2000 Crore’ (The Economic Times, Shalini Singh, Jun 18, 2001)
FOR an organisation that has done its best to boost sentiment by repeatedly announcing that it expects the economy to grow by 6.5 to 7 per cent this year.
- Patents And Licensing (The Economic Times, Biswajit Dhar, Jun 18, 2001)
THE MUCH debated WTO Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights has come into full public gaze once again in recent months as controversy has raged in South Africa over access to medicines at affordable prices.
- Saving Trust Of Uti (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 18, 2001)
OPERATION Salvage has started in the UTI with the virtual sacking of chairman P.S. Subramaniam as a prelude to revamping the board of trustees. Now the government proposes to have a nominee as it used to have until the mid-nineties.
- Two Steps Backward (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 18, 2001)
There are distressing signs that India and Pakistan are both upping the ante ahead of the forthcoming summit between general Musharraf and prime minister Vajpayee.
- Islamabad Signals (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 18, 2001)
The significance of general Musharraf's exclusive interview to this paper cannot be overstated, containing as it does refreshing new departures from earlier Pakistani formulations.
- Growth Fears (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 18, 2001)
THERE IS NO mistaking the direction of the economy. It slipped into the downturn started in the second half of 2000 and the skid has become more pronounced.
- Vsnl’s Tangled Lines (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 18, 2001)
MARKET capitalisation is purely notional. It represents the sum total of the worth of all shares of a company on any given day based on the stock market price.
- India’s Food Revolution (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Jun 18, 2001)
M.S. Banga, chairman, Hindustan Lever Limited, delivered a talk titled “Food Revolution.
- Message For Bush (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 18, 2001)
Allies, US president George W Bush might sigh, loyally wagged their tails in the good old Cold War days.
- The Mountains Of My Life (Telegraph, Walter Bonatti, Jun 18, 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.
- Murder Most Foul (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 18, 2001)
UNIDENTIFIED ASSAILANTS murdered in cold-blood an elderly couple in broad daylight in posh Trikuta Nagar Colony on Sunday.
- Ornamentalism: How The British Saw Their Empire (Telegraph, David Cannadine, Jun 18, 2001)
The British Empire, David Cannadine argues in his new book, “was first and foremost a class act.”
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 18, 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.
- Mig Crashes Again, Pilot Killed Again (The Kashmir Times, B. K. Mathur , Jun 18, 2001)
This column was initially planned for a different subject, on what military rulers and Generals in Pakistan used to tell their sports teams and managers prior their departure for international competitions abroad, like the Olympiad and Asiad.
- Doubts That Will Not Down (The Kashmir Times, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 18, 2001)
Dead men tell no tales. Nor do burning pyres. But they can bring out the poignancy of a tragedy.
- Big Task , Small Talk (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 18, 2001)
Paradoxically while the coming Vajpayee-Musharraf summit has generated a euphoria in both the countries a trivial issue like the invitation to Hurriet leaders by the Pakistan high commission.
- Mr Sinha, No Dummy Figureheads At The Uti, Please (The Financial Express, Sharad Mistry, Jun 18, 2001)
Silence is normally considered golden. But some times it can even be deafening, if used strategically. Master strategist that he is, the Unit Trust of India’s former chairman, PS Subramanyam’s, silence is of the second type.
- Dark Shadow Over Agra Summit (The Kashmir Times, Inder Malhotra, Jun 18, 2001)
Both: Prime Minister: 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.
- The Fall Guys (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 18, 2001)
The race for the top job at Unit Trust of India is on, and in many ways, it epitomises much of what has gone wrong with the Trust over the years.
- Which Scam Is The Jpc Investigating? (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, Jun 18, 2001)
Last week, Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) members turned the heat on an entire line-up of investigative, regulatory agencies and government departments.
- Using Police As Cms’ Private Army (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Jun 18, 2001)
THE barbaric show put up by the police in Chennai in the wee hours of last Saturday at the prompting of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha carries far darker shades than we saw during the 1975 Emergency.
- How To Prevent Female Foeticide (Tribune, K.B. SAHAY, Jun 18, 2001)
EVER since the publication of the Census 2001 Provisional Report highlighting the decline in the child (0-6 years) sex-ratio from 945 in 1991 to 927 female child per 1000 male child in 2001.
- On Changing The Course Of History (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Jun 18, 2001)
A World Bank report says that South Asia is the poorest region of the world. It was the richest for two thousand years. Who is responsible for its present debacle? Pakistan.
- ‘Let Them Have Temples!’ (Tribune, Abu Abraham, Jun 18, 2001)
A combination of missile technology and spirituality (our ancient remedy for all the ills of mankind) seems to be the driving force of our nation. Or at least that’s what I think.
- Preparing For Agra (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 18, 2001)
BOTH India and Pakistan are making the right moves to ensure that the mood even after the July 14 Agra Summit remains that of love and bonhomie.
- Know Your Nature To Live Joyously (Times of India, A. S. Negi, Jun 18, 2001)
A zen master in Japan had two monks as his disciples. One day he asked one of them to observe fast for three days but he did not say anything to the other.
- Silly As A Wheel (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 18, 2001)
``Re-inventing the wheel'' may well be the patented practice of out-of-work politicians and career-minded mandarins.
- Unwrapping Kashmir (Hindustan Times, Vasant Sathe, Jun 18, 2001)
With a few days to go before President Pervez Musharraf arrives, expectations are building up in both India and Pakistan.
- Going Against The Grain (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 17, 2001)
A part of the problem of plenty is because the coalitions ruling the Centre have been bulldozed by allies into relaxing quality norms and raising procurement prices.
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 17, 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.
- Will The Generals Prove Gentlemen? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 17, 2001)
The guessing game goes on in Myanmar. However, says AMIT BARUAH, the recent visit of the U.N. envoy, Mr. Razali Ismail, has raised hopes that the dialogue between the Generals and Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi was back on track.
- Miles To Go, Promises To Keep (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 17, 2001)
Mr. Khatami and his supporters know that the patience of their people is running thin, writes KESAVA MENON.
- Bracing A Brigand (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 17, 2001)
After accusing the DMK regime of colluding with Veerappan, Ms. Jayalalithaa knows it is important to not only be different but to appear to be so, says SURESH NAMBATH.
- Trellis Of Entitlements (Pioneer, C K G Nair, Jun 17, 2001)
Like other rules and instructions for babus there are volumes written and unwritten but practised on the civil servants entitlements.
- Crouching Asian Tigers (Times of India, Meenakshi Shedde, Jun 17, 2001)
WITH Taiwanese director Ang Lee's kinetic poem, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Asian cinema has exploded into our collective consciousness.
- Orchestrated Anti-India Sentiment (Tribune, Rakshat Puri, Jun 17, 2001)
THERE seems an uncanny resemblance in the way that anti-Indian sentiment began coordinatedly to be expressed in Kathmandu after the massacre of King Birendra and his family members.
- Individual Liberty Vs It (Tribune, Shyam Ratna Gupta, Jun 17, 2001)
SHOULD individual liberty be superceded by state or corporate edicts, backed by political or money power?
- Promoting Honest Thinking By Institutionalising It (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 17, 2001)
ALL talk about honesty is withering away. However, there still are people who cherish honesty.
- Focus Shifts On Devyani Now (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 17, 2001)
GOSSIP was never considered class in Indian journalism till a few years back. The explosion of information age and free availability of reports from abroad have changed all that.
- Tragedy In Himalayan Kingdom (The Kashmir Times, Arun Nehru, Jun 17, 2001)
Events in Nepal are truly baffling as the murder of the royal family gets into one controversy or the other. This is the twenty first century and we have a free press and the electronic media probes into every nook and corner.
- Agriculture: Question Of Producing Enough At Low Cost (Tribune, Surindar Singh Hara, Jun 17, 2001)
THERE is no shortage of food in the world. With the total area under cultivation today, 20 billion people can be fed at the nutritional level of the USA. Malthus had predicted a famine in the 20th century.
- Indo-Pak Exchange (Times of India, K. S. Parthasarathy, Jun 17, 2001)
I had been to Vienna a few times. But still I did not know the city.
- Dipendra Died Soon After Massacre (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 17, 2001)
THE Nepal story ( no, can’t call it a plain and simple love story) is getting more and more complex.
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 17, 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.
- Spice Of Life (Pioneer, Yoga Rangatia, Jun 17, 2001)
Biodiversity is not just about patents; it is about the livelihoods of poor tribals and villagers in India.
- Pro-Reform President Of Iran (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jun 17, 2001)
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, after completing a visit to Iran in December, 1997, observed:
- Haunting Legacy (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 17, 2001)
For the ruling Akali Dal, Bhindranwale even as a symbol epitomises competition. SARABJIT PANDHER on the political churning in Punjab.
- India Must Reassess Us Missile Defence (Pioneer, Cecil Victor, Jun 17, 2001)
Having made its initial response welcoming the US decision to implement its National Missile Defence (NMD) policy.
- The Budget In Jeopardy (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Jun 17, 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 17, 2001)
Till 1990, most newspapers and even the electronic media had one favourite sobriquet to describe Nepal — the peaceful Himalayan kingdom.
- Prime Cut (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 17, 2001)
Good sense and international pressure seem to be finally prevailing in Pakistan.
- Fixing The Price Of Hope (Telegraph, Sandhya Srinivasan, Jun 17, 2001)
“A diagnosis of HIV positivity is no reason to lose hope,” says the man on television.
- The Need For Accountability (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 17, 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.
- Bush Finds It Hot In Europe (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 17, 2001)
Many Europeans see the U.S. as a nation totally absorbed by its own interests and ready to go it alone if its allies fail to come to heel. VAIJU NARAVANE on Mr. George Bush's tour of the Old Continent.
- More Labour In Britain (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 17, 2001)
For Labour, the most daunting task is to deliver on its promises... As for the Tories, they need to get a new wardrobe. HASAN SUROOR on the post-poll scene in Britain.
- Bracing A Brigand (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 17, 2001)
After accusing the DMK regime of colluding with Veerappan, Ms. Jayalalithaa knows it is important to not only be different but to appear to be so, says SURESH NAMBATH.
- Onerous Task For Musharraf (Hindu, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 17, 2001)
Lahore is still Pakistan's political capital, although it is sans politics. Parties have ceased to count. Even their rhetoric does not make news.
- Satisfaction Guranteed (The Economic Times, Rajeev Bhide, Jun 17, 2001)
BUSINESS consists of real people. Every business buyer likes the comfort of being recognised, appreciated and listened to not just as a customer but as a human being as well.
- Price Of The ‘New World Blitzkrieg’ (The Kashmir Times, GWYNNE DYER, Jun 17, 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.
- Agriculture: Question Of Producing Enough (Tribune, Surindar Singh Hara, Jun 17, 2001)
THERE is no shortage of food in the world. With the total area under cultivation today, 20 billion people can be fed at the nutritional level of the USA. Malthus had predicted a famine in the 20th century.
- Flush And Dredge (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 17, 2001)
The authorities never gave importance to the flushing techniques but only concentrated on the dredging process.
- Miles To Go, Promises To Keep (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 17, 2001)
Mr. Khatami and his supporters know that the patience of their people is running thin, writes KESAVA MENON.
- To Make Or Break Is Japan’s Manufacturing Dilemma (The Financial Express, Sudarshan Kumar, Jun 16, 2001)
Toyota’s triumphant year notwithstanding, Japan’s manufacturing economy is facing a rather basic question: that of survival.
- Proxy For The Opposition (Telegraph, Tapas Chakraborty, Jun 16, 2001)
A British journalist once remarked that every politician not in government needed to be in the opposition.
- Is Law Different For Ministers? (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Jun 16, 2001)
Long after the sound and fury generated over the Tamil Nadu happenings die down, several significant questions related to the incidents will in all probability remain unanswered.
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