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Articles 22621 through 22720 of 25647:
- The Luncheon Meeting And After (Pioneer, Anil Narendra, May 30, 2001)
Few understood the significance of the impromptu meeting between the Prime Minister and the Home Minister on Tuesday, the first of May.
- The Millennium Round Won’t Help The Millions (The Economic Times, T.K. Bhaumik, May 30, 2001)
THE EUROPEAN Union has been relentless in its efforts to launch a comprehensive new round of trade negotiations in the WTO.
- Beyond The Original Message (Hindustan Times, Imtiaz Ahmad, May 30, 2001)
SHOULD MUSLIM women have the right to maintenance in the event of divorce? This question has acquired importance in view of the announcement that the government proposes to bring in two legislations to ensure that women get early relief in cases of marita
- Read Writing On The Political Wall (Pioneer, CJM Mathew, May 30, 2001)
The Tehelka expose showed in a dramatic fashion the dangerous ramifications of corruption in our polity and bureaucracy. Honest politicians and bureaucrats welcomed the expose while some deflected its impact and weaved a conspiracy tale.
- Panja’s Passion Play (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 29, 2001)
ALL the world’s a stage, the good old Bard said. Ex-minister and full-time acting politician Ajit Panja has so far performed with his theatre group in London, New York, Washington DC, Chicago and LA, apart, of course, from Kolkata and Delhi.
- Inviting Ridicule (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 29, 2001)
A classic example of how a government can tie itself up in knots over a serious issue is reflected by the needless controversy being generated over the appointment of a Chief of Defence Staff (CDS).
- Every One Wants To Be Minister In Goa (The Kashmir Times, Arun Nehru, May 29, 2001)
Manipur shocks every one but should anyone get shocked? Remember Goa where the public verdict has been changed several times as everyone wants to become a minister.
- Take The High Road (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 29, 2001)
As New Delhi prepares to spread out the welcome mat for Pervez Musharraf, there is a marked divergence of views on how the operative word is spelt.
- Blaring Its Way To Decline (Pioneer, Chanchal Sarkar, May 29, 2001)
The only day of silence in Kolkata was voting day.
- Tintin In Our Mind (Hindustan Times, Soumya Bhattacharya, May 29, 2001)
IN ONE unforgettable scene in David Lodge’s sidesplitting comic novel Nice Work, Vic Wilcox, a managing director at an engineering firm.
- Rethinking Fiscal Orthodoxy (The Economic Times, Mythili Bhusnurmath, May 29, 2001)
AT THE concluding session of the World Bank sponsored seminar on fiscal reforms in Delhi recently, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India set the cat among the pigeons.
- Neither Here Nor There (The Kashmir Times, Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal, May 29, 2001)
One is said to be fashionable and trendy if one brings about revolutionary changes in ones appearance.
- Earthquake Relief (Times of India, Aditi Kapoor, May 29, 2001)
WHEN the first rains lash the earthquake-stricken areas of rural Gujarat, many people may not be able to run for cover.
- Complain And Be Damned (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, May 29, 2001)
ABOUT 60 residents of Bahota village and adjoining villages in Marmat area of Doda district have migrated to Doda township following a reign of terror let loose by the security forces.
- Monkey Diplomacy (Hindustan Times, Brahma Chellaney , May 29, 2001)
WITH ITS continuing ‘war of a thousand cuts’ against India, Pakistan poses the single biggest challenge to Indian foreign policy.
- Right Choice, Baby? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 29, 2001)
PEPSI’S success in creating a brand almost from scratch in India is the stuff that marketing case studies are made of. Given the problems of doing business in markets like ours, Pepsi entered the market as an under-dog.
- Sending The Wrong Signal (Pioneer, Arshi Khan, May 29, 2001)
India in the eyes of the world has always been a symbol of protest and resistance against colonialism and imperialism. But the recent visit of a high-level delegation of Indian officials to Israel, however, tarnishes this image.
- Kathmandu Killings & India (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, May 29, 2001)
THE cold-blooded elimination of vir-tually the entire family of Nepal.
- India’s Pak Syndrome (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, May 29, 2001)
Now that Gen. Musharraf has ac cepted Prime Minister’s invitation in a very mature yet friendly language.
- `Compassionate Conservatism' At Work -- Bush Sets Us On New Course (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , May 29, 2001)
THE US President, Mr George W. Bush, during his campaign for the top job, was widely seen as a bumbler, lacking in gravitas and that mysterious, undefinable quality known as presidential timbre.
- Of Mice And Men (Business Line, Bharat Kumar, May 29, 2001)
``MY COMPANY is doing fine but I know others that are not,'' is a common refrain from CEOs in the struggling software industry.
- Will Summit Mean Better Trade? (Business Line, Kuldip Nayar, May 29, 2001)
IT IS understandable that New Delhi could not have continued with a rigid attitude towards Islamabad for long.
- Us-64: Big Daddy Throws In The Towel (Business Line, V. Pattabhi Ram, May 29, 2001)
WE MUST doff a hat at the Big Daddy of the mutual fund industry, the Unit Trust of India (UTI).
- This Is Not Submissiveness (Telegraph, BRIJESH D. JAYAL, May 28, 2001)
The American president, George W. Bush, chose an address to the National Defence University in Washington to unveil his administration’s plans for the Nuclear Missile Defence shield.
- Speak Out Of Turn (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 28, 2001)
Among the Samata Party and BJP leaders from Manipur who have descended on New Delhi is Speaker S. Dhananjay Singh. He has no business to be here. A Speaker is supposed to play a neutral role.
- Slip Through Legal Loopholes (Telegraph, Basudev Ray, May 28, 2001)
J. Jayalalitha is believed to have remarked a few days ago that she wants corruption cases against her to be handled firmly and that her immediate task would be to probe the charges of corruption against M. Karunanidhi’s son, M.K. Stalin.
- Financing The Tenth Plan: A Conundrum (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, May 28, 2001)
THE Planning Commission has taken another plunge in opting for an eight per cent GDP growth in the Tenth Plan period (2002-07), in the midst of a looming fiscal crisis that would be even more difficult to grapple with than the 1991 crisis.
- Puppets On A String (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 28, 2001)
Shadows of the party have already begun to lengthen over the government in West Bengal even though the tenure of the new chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, is not yet a fortnight old.
- Power Games (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 28, 2001)
THE Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission has decided to hike power tariffs in the Capital. It is neither the first ERC to do so, nor is it likely to be last. What makes such decisions contentious, however, is the extent to which power supplied is not b
- Party In Extremis (Hindustan Times, Amulya Ganguli, May 28, 2001)
Three people can be held responsible for the Congress party’s sixth failure in a row in West Bengal — Pranab Mukherjee, Somen Mitra and Mamata Banerjee. The first two played a key role in hounding Banerjee out of the party after the 1996 election. Had the
- Women Too Can Benefit From Viagra (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 28, 2001)
Viagra, the anti-impotence drug that has improved the sex lives of men, also works for women, Italian sexologists reported on Sunday.
- Manali Musings (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, May 28, 2001)
Prime Minister Vajpayee has done enough in his three years in office to earn his place in history. But almost all of it on the national security and foreign policy front.
- Taliban And The Colour Yellow (Indian Express, Himmat Singh Gill, May 28, 2001)
Khorasan' of the Middle Ages and ‘Aryana’ in the antiquity’, Afghanistan has seen them all pass by.
- Fast-Breeder Reactors - A Dying Breed (Hindu, M.V. Ramana, May 28, 2001)
Near the town of Kalkar in Germany, close to the border with Holland, a new amusement park is being built by a Dutch entrepreneur for about $ 3 crores.
- Accountability And Information Sharing (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, May 28, 2001)
Every regulator summoned by the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) investigating the payments crisis on the stock markets is bound to whine about the multiplicity of regulatory agencies and the absence of adequate supervisory and punitive powers.
- Police Accountability (Hindu, Ajay K. Mehra, May 28, 2001)
IT IS not surprising that Kuldip Nayar in his article (``Police atrocities'', May 22) received the standard reply he did from the Delhi Police on their use of third degree methods.
- Blowing The Fuse (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 28, 2001)
EVEN GOING BY the standards of the Dabhol Power Company's controversial innings so far, the current developments are truly frenetic.
- Growth & Rural Poverty (The Economic Times, Raghbendra Jha, May 28, 2001)
IT IS widely accepted now that rural poverty fell more sharply in response to the growth in the 1980s than in the 1990s. However, the trend rate of economic growth in the 1990s (excluding the crisis year of 1991) was higher and more stable over time than
- Grain Mountain, Drought And Hunger (The Financial Express, Saumitra Chaudhuri, May 28, 2001)
Did anybody say that year 2001-02 was going to be a good year? Not that one can recollect. Glum comments about GDP (gross domestic product) growth being lower because of drought are surely an afterthought. What is it that has just been discovered?
- Business Riding On Cultural Events (Business Line, C. Gopinath , May 28, 2001)
CINCO DE MAYO is a minor event in Mexico that commemorates a Mexican victory over French invaders on May 5, 1862 in the Battle of Puebla.
- The Disorder Of Law (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 28, 2001)
The abysmally low rate of conviction in criminal cases is a matter of serious concern. The latest figures of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) are, in fact, a sharp indictment of the criminal justice system.
- Taming Of The Monetary Hawks (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, May 28, 2001)
THE former RBI Deputy Governor, Dr S. S. Tarapore, confesses in his new book, Monetary Management and Institutional Reforms, of being labelled a ``primordial monetary hawk''.
- Reining In The Pmo (Hindu, P.S. Appu, May 28, 2001)
AN OVER-GROWN, all-powerful Prime Minister's Office has been at the centre of a major political controversy. The attack on the present setup of the PMO has been spearheaded by the hard core of the BJP and some elements in the National Democratic Alliance.
- Pakistani 'In A Tight Spot' Over Kashmir (Washington Post, Pamela Constable, May 28, 2001)
For months, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's military ruler, has been telling anyone who would listen that he is willing to meet India's prime minister "any time, any place" to talk about resolving the conflict over Kashmir. Now India has called his bluf
- Puppets On A String (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 28, 2001)
Shadows of the party have already begun to lengthen over the government in West Bengal even though the tenure of the new chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, is not yet a fortnight old.
- Financing The Tenth Plan: A Conundrum (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, May 28, 2001)
THE Planning Commission has taken another plunge in opting for an eight per cent GDP growth in the Tenth Plan period (2002-07), in the midst of a looming fiscal crisis that would be even more difficult to grapple with than the 1991 crisis.
- Us Market In The Months Ahead (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , May 28, 2001)
ON MAY 15, the US Federal Reserve cut the Federal Funds rate by 50 basis points to 4.0 per cent, and fretted a good deal about the state of capital spending in the US.
- Plans For A Brew (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 28, 2001)
THERE ARE CLEAR indications that the WTO Agreement on Agriculture and the already competitive market scenario have forced the Department of Commerce (DoC).
- Bis Reviews Global Financial Systems (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , May 28, 2001)
BIS (The Bank of International Settlements), headquartered at Basel in Switzerland, is acknowledged to be the Central Bank of Central Banks.
- Earthquake Relief (Times of India, Aditi Kapoor, May 28, 2001)
WHEN the first rains lash the earthquake-stricken areas of rural Gujarat, many people may not be able to run for cover.
- ...And Bad (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 28, 2001)
EVEN as the met department gave us reason to hope, the news on the ground gets gloomier and gloomier.
- Arundhati Roy Talks Bluntly Of Judicial Excess (Tribune, Anupam Gupta, May 28, 2001)
“IN deciding to confront authority, one must be ready for the counterattack — for therein lies the challenge,” India’s greatest poet, Rabindranath Tagore, wrote to Bengal’s greatest writer, Sarat Chandra, in February, 1927.
- Fire In Army Ammunition Depots (Tribune, Harwant Singh, May 28, 2001)
Outbreak of fire in army ammunition depots with unerring regularity, has resulted in great financial loss to the state and caused apprehensions and misgivings in the public mind.
- Birendra's Nepal (Times of India, Dubby Bhagat, May 28, 2001)
AFTER the funeral of King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah on Saturday night, the immediate grief that swept the country turned to formal mourning and a degree of introspection. Old stories were retold.
- Enron Woos Regulators In Era Of Deregulation (The Financial Express, Bob Davis, May 28, 2001)
EVERY energy executive in America would have liked a half-hour with Vice President Dick Cheney as he fashioned the Bush administration’s national energy program.
- Imd Lacks Confidence In Predicting Normal Rains In Drought-Hit Regions (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, May 28, 2001)
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has not been able to predict with confidence the possibility of a normal rainfall in the drought affected regions of the country in its recent long-range forecast for the current year’s southwest monsoon.
- Slip Through Legal Loopholes (Telegraph, Basudev Ray, May 28, 2001)
J. Jayalalitha is believed to have remarked a few days ago that she wants corruption cases against her to be handled firmly and that her immediate task would be to probe the charges of corruption against M. Karunanidhi’s son, M.K. Stalin.
- Kerala Has No Choice But To Adopt Austerity Measures (The Financial Express, P Vinod Kumar, May 28, 2001)
THE proof of the pudding lies in eating it. And the billion dollar question nagging Keralites is: will Arakkaparmbil Kurian Antony, the ‘Mr Clean’ of Kerala politics, drop his favourite ‘simplicity for publicity’ gestures and be brave enough to bite the r
- Threatened By The Economics Of Sheer Scale (Telegraph, RAHUL GHOSH, May 28, 2001)
With the quantitative restrictions on imports lifted on 715 articles, Indian industry is presently going through a rough phase.
- Poverty Is Good Business (The Financial Express, Ravi Kapoor, May 28, 2001)
What if there were no poor people in India? Well, there would be many to mourn the thriving poverty sector. The mourners would include politicians of various ideological persuasions, countless bureaucrats, representatives of myriad philanthropic agencies
- Defusing Dabhol (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 28, 2001)
In the present brouhaha over the Dabhol power project, it's all too easy to lose sight of one fact: there is life beyond Enron.
- The Rise And Decline Of The Hindu Rate Of Growth (The Financial Express, R.K. Roy, May 28, 2001)
The finance minister has been thinking aloud: GDP growth in 1999-2000 may turn out to be less than estimated (6.1 per cent) because of a decline in foodgrain output. CSO is slated to come out with a revised GDP estimate. The finance minister is keeping hi
- This Is Not Submissiveness (Telegraph, BRIJESH D. JAYAL, May 28, 2001)
The American president, George W. Bush, chose an address to the National Defence University in Washington to unveil his administration’s plans for the Nuclear Missile Defence shield.
- Shoring Up State Finances (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 28, 2001)
THE TIME HAS come to take politics out of State finances. As the new Tamil Nadu Government, headed by Ms. Jayalalitha, sets out to present its White Paper on the State's finances, it will do well to go about the task in a measured and apolitical manner, b
- The Devil’s In The Numbers (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 28, 2001)
Just how bad is the slowdown? Even as the media gets inundated with conflicting projections on the impact of the US slowdown on the Indian software industry, it is hard to separate a skein of sense from all the noise around the slowdown.
- Wrong End Of The Stick (Hindustan Times, Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, May 28, 2001)
India is fast emerging as a major production centre for cyberpornography. Today there are over 18,000 pornographic websites featuring Indians, up from only 4,000 at the beginning of 2001. At least 25 Indian sites feature in the top 500 list of most-visite
- Poaching On States’ Power (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 28, 2001)
IT would appear that the Group of Ministers (GoM) which authored an elaborate paper on internal security, had landed from Mars only a few weeks back. Otherwise, it would not have raked up a heated controversy which has remained dormant for some years now.
- All The World In A Basket! (Times of India, Deepak Hiranandani, May 28, 2001)
A basket, that common object of daily use, can powerfully affect the senses and mind - somewhat as the contemplation of a grain of sand can lead to insights on the nature of the world.
- The Return Of Intifada (Times of India, Sujata Ashwarya Cheema, May 28, 2001)
INTIFADA II, or al-Aqsa intifada, as the current Palestinian protests in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are popularly called, is the most serious uprising in the history of the Palestinian resistance movement against the Israeli occupation.
- Blind Confidence (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 27, 2001)
It is good to see confidence. The chief minister of West Bengal has it in abundance.
- Agra: A Failure Foretold (Hindu, Harish Khare , May 27, 2001)
NEW DELHI, JULY 17. Just before the Pakistan President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, arrived in India, one of the intelligence agencies was asked to produce a psychological profile.
- Swadeshi Gives Way To The Reforms Juggernaut (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 27, 2001)
It is becoming clear that the Vajpayee Government will go ahead with its reforms agenda. All that the SJM, the BMS and the RSS can do is raise a shindy, reports Neena Vyas.
- The Mountains Of My Life (Telegraph, Walter Bonatti, May 27, 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.
- Still Taxiing (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 27, 2001)
INDIAN Airlines has, for once, provided a different colour to the familiar story of public sector companies steadily ceding market share to the private sector.
- Stalled At Cannes! (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 27, 2001)
I&B minister Sushma Swaraj has justified her visit to the Cannes film festival by noting that the Indian pavilion set up there for the first time has done Rs one crore worth of business even if there were no Indian entries at the festival.
- Tourism Market: A Case Of Unequal Exchange (The Economic Times, Madhu Suri, May 27, 2001)
ALARM bells should ring in the corridors of the Union finance ministry.
- Islamabad Signals (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 27, 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.
- Know Your Nature To Live Joyously (Times of India, A. S. Negi, May 27, 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.
- Uncivil Rites (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 27, 2001)
To Indira Gandhi goes the dubious credit of lending to Indian political discourse the paranoid rhetoric of the `foreign hand', a spectre that has regrettably survived her.
- Trouble In Telangana (Indian Express, K. Ramakrishna, May 27, 2001)
Until a couple of months, Chandrababu Naidu seemed to have little trouble in his state.
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