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Articles 22121 through 22220 of 25647:
- Such A Waste Of Money (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 13, 2001)
THE Planning Commission is on a lateral march to irrelevance.
- Musharraf’s Shrewd Call To Jehadis (Tribune, Ashok Kumar Mehta, Jun 13, 2001)
GEN Pervez Musharraf’s call to jehadis in Pakistan to act more responsibly so that Pakistan is not seen as an irrational state is a good and shrewd move to create a conducive environment for the Delhi summit.
- Dirty Pictures (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 13, 2001)
Sometimes speculation could be fun.
- Capriati's Return (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 13, 2001)
Sportsmen saying "No" to drugs has become an advertising platform to promote the good life. However, a sportsman coming back from drugs to clinch the highest honours is something more unique.
- Blind Confidence (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 12, 2001)
It is good to see confidence. The chief minister of West Bengal has it in abundance.
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 12, 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.
- Mist Over Nepal (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jun 12, 2001)
There are several lessons to be learnt from the tragic events that have unfolded in Nepal over the last ten days.
- Iran And The People's Will (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 12, 2001)
THE TRIUMPHAL MARGIN recorded by Iran's high-profile President, Mr. Mohammed Khatami, in his bid for re-election on a ``reform'' ticket leaves him now on course for a place in the history of the Islamic republic.
- An S.C. Bench For The South - I (Hindu, K. Subramaniam, Jun 12, 2001)
WHILE ADDRESSING the members of the Supreme Court Bar Association on November 26, 1982, on the eve of ``Law Day''.
- Give Psychometric Tests A Shot (The Financial Express, Manjari Raman, Jun 12, 2001)
Starting out with right fits beats having to rightsize later, right?
- Of Human Rights And Human Wrongs (Tribune, Shelley Walia, Jun 12, 2001)
ALL human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
- The Akali Agenda: Past And Present (Tribune, S. S. Dhanoa, Jun 12, 2001)
IF one tries to prepare a balance-sheet of gains and losses for the Sikhs achieved through all the successful Akali morchas, it comes out to be a very negative balance-sheet.
- Political Interference ‘Becoming Blatant’ (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Jun 12, 2001)
WITH the expected turn of events on the bureaucratic front — present Cabinet Secretary T.R. Prasad’s term getting extended for another two years.
- The Comeback Pair (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 12, 2001)
AN AP wire-service colour photograph said it all. Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi propping up the French Open doubles trophy between them.
- Time To Act (The Economic Times, Rajnish Kumar, Jun 12, 2001)
THIS is with reference to your article 'Prepare for a long and inactive silly season' (ET, June 4). How else can one react to the sordid state of affairs in this directionless country?
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Developing Hiv Vaccines Is Just Not Enough (The Economic Times, Neeraj Kaushal, Jun 12, 2001)
IN 'The Constant Gardener', British novelist John Le Carre spins a horrific tale of a global conspiracy by profiteering pharmaceutical companies against hapless AIDS victims in Africa.
- Israel, The Real Technology Power (The Economic Times, Vinnie Mehta, Jun 12, 2001)
THE SOFTWARE boom is not difficult to understand — it has got all-out backing from the government in the form of tax exemptions, waivers of many levies, sops on electricity charges and so on.
- Bill Gets Bigger (Times of India, Vikas Singh, Jun 12, 2001)
JUNE 28, 2001 is undoubtedly a red-letter day for Redmond - and all the other offices of software giant Microsoft.
- Excise Holiday Sop In Kutch Irks North-Eastern States (The Financial Express, Santanu Saikia, Jun 12, 2001)
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s announcement of a five-year excise holiday for industries in Kutch district of Gujarat may yield rich dividends for the earthquake-ravaged region.
- Economy Unlikely To Get Back On 7% Growth Path (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jun 12, 2001)
Major initiatives required to stimulate investment and remove speed-breakers.
- Tackling Ipr Excuses Through The New Competition Law (The Financial Express, Pradeep S. Mehta, Jun 12, 2001)
India risks throwing away its right to regulate the abuses of intellectual property rights (IPRs), if the new Competition Bill is adopted in its present form.
- Dfid Pledges Rs 250 Cr To Andhra For Poverty Removal (The Financial Express, K. V. V. V. Charya, Jun 12, 2001)
In a bid to provide financial support to Andhra Pradesh (AP) government, in furtherance of the reforms initiated since 1999, the Department of International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom (UK) government has committed to spend about $55 million
- Haryana Wakes Up To Wto Impact On Ssi, And Tiny Units (The Financial Express, C. R. Rathee, Jun 12, 2001)
In their anxiety to avert the adverse impact of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) regime on the agriculture sector, policy makers in Haryana did not pay desired attention to the small-scale industry (SSI) and tiny sectors.
- Outward Bound (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 12, 2001)
TODAY, the numbers might be small but there are distinct signs, nevertheless, that domestic capital is getting restless and itching to go abroad.
- In The City Of Joy, Industry Hope Flares Anew (The Financial Express, D. N. Ghosh, Jun 12, 2001)
But the Left first needs to initiate sweeping changes to turn this into reality.
- Marriages Or M&as (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Jun 12, 2001)
MATCH-making may be a business for marriage brokers. For the parents, it is not.
- Dams And The People (Business Line, Arun Ghosh, Jun 12, 2001)
THE World Commission on Dams (WCD) published its report in November 2000.
- National Commission On Agriculture -- Don't Waste The Opportunity This Time (Business Line, K.P.Prabhakaran Nair , Jun 12, 2001)
RECENTLY, the Union Minister for Agriculture, Mr Nitish Kumar, announced the setting up of a National Commission on Agriculture, and the media reported that Dr M. S. Swaminathan has agreed to chair it.
- China Before Doha (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jun 12, 2001)
US and EU close in on WTO deal with China.
- The Mountains Of My Life (Telegraph, Walter Bonatti, Jun 12, 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.
- Return From Exile (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 12, 2001)
Pro-Khalistan ideologue Jagjit Singh Chauhan has returned to India in a glare of publicity. And from all outward appearances the Indian government is not overly perturbed by this.
- The Education Leviathan (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jun 12, 2001)
THE UNIVERSITY Grants Commission (UGC) seems determined to set higher education in India on a path that subverts its own mission, makes a mockery of all reason and jeopardises the future of higher education.
- Ornamentalism: How The British Saw Their Empire (Telegraph, David Cannadine, Jun 12, 2001)
The British Empire, David Cannadine argues in his new book, “was first and foremost a class act.”
- India’s Food Revolution (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Jun 12, 2001)
M.S. Banga, chairman, Hindustan Lever Limited, delivered a talk titled “Food Revolution.
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 12, 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.
- Hazratbal To Shopian (Hindustan Times, Inder Malhotra, Jun 12, 2001)
One of the many consequences of the almost daily death dance in Jammu and Kashmir for over a decade has been that more and more people are getting inured to the unending horrors in the lost paradise.
- The Dalits To Durban (Hindu, Garimella Subramaniam, Jun 12, 2001)
Denial is deadlier than the crime, and thwarting attempts to debate caste-based discrimination in the forthcoming `United Nations World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance'.
- Mig Crashes Again, Pilot Killed Again (The Kashmir Times, B. K. Mathur , Jun 12, 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.
- Murder Most Foul (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 12, 2001)
UNIDENTIFIED ASSAILANTS murdered in cold-blood an elderly couple in broad daylight in posh Trikuta Nagar Colony on Sunday.
- Clueless Congress (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 12, 2001)
The paradox of the Indian political scene today is that while the BJP, the principal ruling party, finds itself in a state of serious drift, even disarray, the health of the main opposition party is hardly anything to write home about.
- The Seeds Of Separatism In The North-East (Tribune, Rakshat Puri, Jun 12, 2001)
THERE are two aspects of the demand for which the Isaac Swu-Thuingaleng Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland is engaged in insurgency.
- Beyond Texas (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 11, 2001)
Now that president George Bush is done with his Europe trip, his policy advisers can let out a sigh of relief. Mispronunciation of the Spanish prime minister's name aside, Dubya made a concerted effort to keep his famous penchant for gaffes under control.
- Murdering Dialouge (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 11, 2001)
No words of condemnation are too strong for last Friday's grenade attack in the Charar-e-Sharief complex in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) which killed four women and injured around 60 persons who were among a large crowd that was about to offer prayers
- Universities And Bridging The Divide (Hindu, M. S. Swaminathan , Jun 11, 2001)
A CONTEMPORARY challenge before the academic world is to show how higher education can become a powerful instrument for furthering the social and economic well-being of scholars from under- privileged families.
- Durban, Caste And Indian Democracy (Hindu, Kancha Ilaiah, Jun 11, 2001)
TO ASCERTAIN public opinion on the question of inclusion of caste on the agenda of the United Nations World Conference on Racism being held in Durban, South Africa, a national committee was constituted by the Prime Minister headed by Mr. Ranganath Mishra,
- Circling Allies (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jun 11, 2001)
Between the Congress and the BJP, the former fared much better in the recent assembly elections.
- Rag The Colleges (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jun 11, 2001)
That the age-old tradition of ragging can at times turn ugly is good enough reason for it to be seen as more of a nuisance than plain fun.
- Brash Neighbours Need Bashing (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, Jun 11, 2001)
The game of cat and mouse goes on between India and Pakistan.
- River Sutra (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 11, 2001)
No amount of publicity gimmick and loud rhetoric will clean the Yamuna, a river that has seen the rise and fall of countless empires since times immemorial.
- Landmarks In Aids (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 11, 2001)
JUNE 2001 IS a landmark in the history of the pandemic that is HIV/AIDS.
- Recipe For Increasing Non Performing Assets (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, Jun 11, 2001)
The chickens, one would say, are coming in to roost. After an aggressive expansion policy and tough loan recovery programme, ICICI seems to have run into serious trouble this time.
- Day Of The Moderate (Hindustan Times, Amulya Ganguli, Jun 11, 2001)
For Prime Minister Vajpayee, whose three tenures have not been marked by conspicuous success in any field, a thaw in India’s relations with Pakistan may feature as an achievement which he expects will cement his place in history.
- Normal Monsoon Alone Will Not Do The Trick For The Economy (The Financial Express, Sangeeta Singh, Jun 11, 2001)
For those who are expecting a major turnaround in the economy based on the assumption of a normal monsoon there may be some bad news.
- Long-Terms Savings Need To Be Encouraged (The Financial Express, Raja J Chelliah, Jun 11, 2001)
It is not easy to stimulate net savings by individuals through tax measures.
- Vetoed Us Asserts Rights In Un (Pioneer, A Balu, Jun 11, 2001)
Last month, in space of a week, the United States suffered two diplomatic setbacks.
- Azad Sans Azadi (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 11, 2001)
IF every election on this side of Jammu and Kashmir has been rigged, the electoral exercises conducted periodically across the Line of Control in the socalled Azad Kashmir, under occuptaion of Pakistan, have been equally farcical.
- Central Excise Revenue And Industrial Growth (The Economic Times, V S Krishnan, Jun 11, 2001)
FISCAL forecasting in the 1990s has generally gone awry primarily due to a tendency to overestimate revenues and underestimate expenditure.
- Sell-Off Drift (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 11, 2001)
IT IS A long path to disinvestment no doubt. But in India, it is also tortuous, uncertain, and most times leading nowhere.
- Backseat For Economy? (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jun 11, 2001)
SATURDAY'S morning papers carried a report which said that the Government had decided to call ``an urgent meeting of public sector banks and financial institutions next week to chalk out a full-fledged revival strategy''.
- Nepal Doesn’t Need Maoism But A Stable, Democratic Setup (The Financial Express, Salil Tripathi, Jun 11, 2001)
THE curfew imposed to prevent fresh riots has been lifted and the streets have returned to relative calm but the massacre of Nepal’s royal family will likely bring new dangers to the troubled Himalayan-Hindu nation.
- The Trouble With Inquiry Commissions (Tribune, Rahul Singh, Jun 11, 2001)
EVER since our independence and the horrific communal riots that accompanied it, there have been two major communal outbursts that have traumatised the nation:
- Soft Spoken But Tough Taskmaster (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 11, 2001)
SOFT spoken but a tough taskmaster, Brij Bihari Tandon, who has assumed charge as an Election Commissioner in the three-member Election Commission, is yet another civil servant capable of meeting peer pressure and challenge.
- Supersonic Development (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 11, 2001)
It is rather unusual for the test flight of as advanced and path-breaking a missile as the supersonic PJ-10 to be undertaken in the kind of secrecy that marked the Pokhran explosions.
- Jaya's People (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 11, 2001)
The happiest lot of people in the aftermath of Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalitha's whirlwind tour of the capital must surely be in the Bharatiya Janata Party.
- World Disappearing From View (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jun 11, 2001)
IN a democratic polity, the mainstream Press reflects a country’s pecking order in the world and its ambitions beyond its own borders.
- Sadr-E-Pakistan (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 11, 2001)
The announcement on Wednesday about general Musharraf assuming the office of president will hardly come as a surprise to long-term observers of Pakistan's political scene.
- Business Of Politics (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 11, 2001)
Can - and should - a political party function like a corporate house?
- In Touch And Always In The Know (Telegraph, RAHUL GHOSH, Jun 11, 2001)
At last e-governance has become a reality in West Bengal. Terminal connections from village panchayats to the state administrative headquarters, the Writers’ Buildings, have been established to help the government transact business faster.
- Cleanse The Existing Temples (Pioneer, Valson Thampu , Jun 11, 2001)
Jesus did not build any temple. But he did cleanse a temple: The temple of Jerusalem.
- Run-Up To The Summit (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 11, 2001)
THE countdown has started for the Indo-Pakistan summit but the diplomatic temperature in the two capitals are dramatically different. It is a leisurely pace in New Delhi with only High Commissioner to Pakistan Vijay Nambiar stirring things up a bit.
- Role Of Governors (The Kashmir Times, S. Venkatesh, Jun 11, 2001)
Ms Fatima Beevi’s decision to swear-in Ms Jayalalitha as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu has emrboiled the office of the Governor in a major controversy.
- High Road Or Low Comedy? (The Kashmir Times, Praful Bidwai, Jun 11, 2001)
Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee has ce tainly not enhanced his claim to consistency by executing yet another flip-flop on Pakistan and inviting Gen Pervez Musharraf, the very man New Delhi has been pursuing in every conceivable forum since October 1999.
- Welcome Signs (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 11, 2001)
What Gen. Musharraf told the fundamentalists and anti-Indian elements of his own country on the 5th and 7th was music to the ears of most of us.
- The Reddening Mountains (Telegraph, SUJAN DUTTA, Jun 11, 2001)
At first dismissed for being too smooth or too simplistic, they were taken by journalists, as well as the public — in Nepal as also elsewhere — as the stuff of which potboilers are made.
- Wronged In Rights (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 11, 2001)
The concept of rights can go very wrong. The Madhya Pradesh human rights commission seems to have lost sight of both rights and humanness in its report, "Caste-Based Prostitution in Madhya Pradesh".
- Gift Of A Cheque (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 11, 2001)
India’s oldest political party, the Indian National Congress, has once again taken on a pioneering role in a sphere that has always been under the shadow of notoriety.
- Inter-Service Integrator (Times of India, R. H. Tahilliani, Jun 11, 2001)
THE release of the recommendations of the group of ministers to the cabinet committee on security is a major milestone and a welcome departure from the excessive security which has attended such matters hitherto.
- In The Midst Of Life (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Jun 10, 2001)
A little over a week ago, one sat in the quiet of Hathiban, a spot in the hills above Kathmandu from where one could get a spectacular view of the valley and the city.
- What Penalty? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 10, 2001)
THE POWER ministry is reportedly proposing to amend the Indian Electricity Act to make punishments for theft of power more stringent.
- Little Relief For Vajpayee (Hindu, MANAS DASGUPTA, Jun 10, 2001)
DESPITE THE best efforts of the Gujarat Government to convince the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, that its rehabilitation and reconstruction package for the earthquake- affected people was the ``best and the fastest in the world'', he apparentl
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