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Articles 22721 through 22820 of 25647:
- Not So Kind Hearts And Coronets (Telegraph, David Cannadine, May 27, 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, May 27, 2001)
M.S. Banga, chairman, Hindustan Lever Limited, delivered a talk titled “Food Revolution.
- 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.
- Silly As A Wheel (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 27, 2001)
``Re-inventing the wheel'' may well be the patented practice of out-of-work politicians and career-minded mandarins.
- The Fall Guys (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 27, 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.
- The Promise Of Equality (Hindu, Andre Beteille , May 27, 2001)
IN THE past, Indian society was unique in the extremes to which it carried the principle and practice of inequality; today Indian intellectuals appear unique in their zeal for promoting the adoption of equality in every sphere of society.
- On Changing The Course Of History (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, May 27, 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.
- Beijing's Triumph And Challenge (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 27, 2001)
FROM THE TIME of the ancient Olympics, politics and sport - always deemed to be far apart with little in common by the idealists - have indeed mixed with explosive effect.
- Using Police As Cms’ Private Army (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, May 27, 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.
- Fiscal Reform (Hindu, Amaresh Bagchi, May 27, 2001)
WHILE FEW would disagree that the economic reforms of the 1990s have changed the face of India, one area where reform efforts have stumbled and apparently fallen flat is in the fiscal sector.
- Let Them Have Temples! (Tribune, Abu Abraham, May 27, 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.
- Two Steps Backward (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 27, 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.
- How To Prevent Female Foeticide (Tribune, K.B. SAHAY, May 27, 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.
- Saving Trust Of Uti (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 27, 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.
- Preparing For Agra (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 27, 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.
- The Elusive Extra Mile To Peace (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 27, 2001)
A `POSITIVE' SPIN preferred by India to explain the slow collapse of the Agra summit.
- Home Ministry’s Order Is A Throwback To The Stalinist Era (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 26, 2001)
Explosions in ammunition dumps show MoD in a bad light.
- Unmollified Manipur (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 26, 2001)
IN its desperate search for a quick fix, the Centre has taken one half-step to muddy the Manipur situation.
- Play Straight (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 26, 2001)
Former British metropolitan police commissioner Paul Condon's findings on corruption in cricket, made public a few days ago, have failed to reveal anything more than what we already know.
- Valley’s Own Voice (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 26, 2001)
Agha Shahid Ali is an unusually gifted poet from Srinagar. He is now settled in the United States and is teaching creative writing in the University of Massachussetts.
- A Primer On Religion And Politics From Koizumi, Bush (Indian Express, S. Gurumurthi , May 26, 2001)
THE West is stunned. Almost the first act of Junichiro Koizumi, the newly elected Prime Minister of Japan was to announce that he would officially worship at the Yasukuni Shrine in central Tokyo, on August 15.
- A Gentle Way With Words (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, May 26, 2001)
A week before he died at 95, news of his precarious health began appearing in all our national dailies.
- Paying The Price (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 26, 2001)
THE DEMANDS OF coalition politics are understandable. But why should governance go for a toss?
- Aids To Development (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 26, 2001)
The chief minister of Andhra Pradesh seems to have hit upon a unique method of measuring development in his state.
- What The Assembly Verdicts Foretell (Telegraph, SURENDRA MOHAN, May 26, 2001)
The assembly elections for the states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Union territory of Pondicherry have caused great joy within the Congress.
- There Is No Oasis For The Elderly (Telegraph, P. S. M. Rao, May 26, 2001)
The government, following the economic reforms, has a much reduced role in the problem areas of poverty, unemployment and social security.
- Gulls And Frauds (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 26, 2001)
Something must be terribly wrong with a society in which the passion for learning produces herds of gulls and frauds.
- Uncivil Rites (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 26, 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.
- Subcontinental Reality (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 26, 2001)
Economic development, not bigotry, can bring peace.
- A Washington Itinerary (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , May 26, 2001)
When Brajesh Mishra, national security adviser and principal secretary to the prime minister, walked into the Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters near Washington a few days ago for his scheduled.
- Muslim Rishis Of Kashmir (Hindu, Gail Omvedt , May 26, 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.
- The System Is Complicit, Not Paralysed (The Financial Express, Jagadish Shettigar, May 26, 2001)
The JPC must nail the institutions that are implicated in the stockmarket scam.
- Who Won The Banana Dispute? (The Financial Express, Pradeep S. Mehta, May 26, 2001)
Last month, the eight-year old EC-US banana dispute came to a swift end with the signing of a bilateral agreement between the two parties.
- Dogfight Over Privatisation (Indian Express, Sunil Jain, May 26, 2001)
IN retrospect, it was too good to be true, the surrender too abject to be real. After his dogged resistance to privatising Air-India, suddenly aviation minister Sharad Yadav appeared to give in.
- A Bold Turnaround (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, May 26, 2001)
Resuming the bus ride to Pakistan.
- Mrigendu’s Choice (Indian Express, M. Gopal, May 26, 2001)
POLLUTION is a word I had the pleasure of not hearing for the first two decades of my existence. Not in my village where I grew up, not in the town where I studied.
- Will: Going Round In Loops (Business Line, H. Kaushal , May 26, 2001)
NEVER has a telecom issue kicked up so much dust as the case of limited mobility through wireless-in-local-loop (WiLL).
- Everyone A Spy (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 26, 2001)
Home ministry’s order is a throwback to the Stalinist era.
- A Mess Called Dvb (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 26, 2001)
Expect more power tariff hikes, unless Delhi reforms.
- 34 Years On, Liberation Is Spilt Wide Open (Indian Express, Arun Srivastava, May 26, 2001)
ON May 25 34 years ago, India witnessed a twist in the traditional communist line.
- Karunakaran Promises To Give Cochin Airport New Lease Of Life (The Financial Express, Ajayan Menon, May 26, 2001)
THE return of the United Democratic Front to power in Kerala and recent utterances by Congress leader K Karunakaran appear to be signals of giving a new thrust to activities at the Cochin International Airport at Nedumbassery.
- Institutional Reforms To Boost China’s Technology (The Financial Express, Kenneth J DeWoskin, May 26, 2001)
FROM the beginning of China’s opening to the outside world, and launch of economic reforms in the late 1970s, the acquisition and proliferation of science and technology have been durable principles of national policy.
- Banks And Fis Want Enron To Continue In Their Own Interest (The Financial Express, Raghu Mohan, May 26, 2001)
Lenders to the Dabhol Power Company (DPC) are, indeed, a curiously divided lot. Offshore bankers, cushioned by a sovereign guarantee, are all for the termination of the project.
- A Reversal Of Tactics With Pakistan (The Financial Express, Inder Malhotra, May 26, 2001)
Let us cut out the spin both sides are putting on it and look dispassionately at the main features of Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s sudden and dramatic initiative to invite Pakistan’s military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, for talks in Delhi.
- Balancing Act (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , May 26, 2001)
The planning commission has been at the receiving end of much abuse and criticism.
- Principle Of Discounting Given The Go-By? (Business Line, K. Ramesh, May 26, 2001)
THE Supreme Court is expected to have the last word in settling an issue.
- Tourism Market: A Case Of Unequal Exchange (The Economic Times, Madhu Suri, May 26, 2001)
ALARM bells should ring in the corridors of the Union finance ministry.
- Gm Revolution Vs Languid Government Policies (Business Line, Gurumurti Natarajan, May 26, 2001)
GENETIC modifications and the selection of favourable traits have been the fountainhead of agricultural advancement over thousands of years.
- The Filmy Chakkar (Tribune, K.J.S. Chatrath, May 26, 2001)
IT was hardly two months since I returned to Bhubaneswar after my last, long and lazy trip in the Garhwal Himalayas.
- Question Of Railway Safety (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 26, 2001)
HARDLY a year passes when there is no major train accident in India. Immediately an enquiry committee is constituted to go into the circumstances leading to the tragedy, and everything ends there.
- Sustaining The Consensus (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , May 26, 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.
- Still Taxiing (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 26, 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 26, 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.
- Poverty Of Politics (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , May 26, 2001)
THE central point is: to what extent should political parties base their policies and actions on firm ideological considerations, which at once would rule out expediency -- of every sort -- as an acceptable yardstick?
- Gourmet’s Nemesis? (The Economic Times, Bhavdeep Bhatt, May 26, 2001)
THE WTO Secretariat’s Annual Report 2001, released on May 24 admits a ``global economic slowdown’’.
- An Evasive Dialogue (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 26, 2001)
INDIAN AGRICULTURE, WITH all its inherited structural constraints, should continue to be insulated from the logic of market forces.
- A Biased Document (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 26, 2001)
AN OFFICIAL report on national security is expected to be a neutral document in political terms.
- Managing A Summit 'Sub-Plot' (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 26, 2001)
WITHOUT MUCH ADO, Pakistan's President and Chief Executive, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, succeeded in engaging the Islamabad-friendly leaders of the All Party Hurriyat Conference on the eve of the ongoing Agra summit.
- Ministry Of Cannes (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 26, 2001)
IT WAS a few years ago. I got an early morning call from one of the most distinguished film directors from the North-east.
- India Has The Cost Advantage In Call Centres (The Economic Times, Prasenjit Bhattacharya, May 26, 2001)
COPC is the world’s leading authority on customer contact centre operations.
- Corporates And Poverty Alleviation (The Economic Times, P. P. Sangal , May 26, 2001)
ACCORDING to the World Development Report 2000-2001, `Attacking Poverty’, we have 2.8 billion people in the world living on less than US $2 per day.
- Marketing 2g Reforms (The Economic Times, Vikram S Mehta, May 26, 2001)
IT IS now almost a decade since the phrase `economic reforms’ entered the official vocabulary.
- Turning To Musharraf (Hindu, Balraj Puri, May 26, 2001)
THE UNILATERAL ceasefire announced by the Centre in Jammu and Kashmir had fizzled out and its final termination by May-end is only a formal recognition of the reality.
- Political Mobilisation Paradigms In A Flux (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 25, 2001)
CHENNAI, MAY 24. While several readings of the DMK's defeat in the Assembly polls have attributed it mainly to the AIADMK front's ``alliance arithmetic''.
- The Leopard's Spots (Business Line, Timeri N. Murari , May 25, 2001)
THE other day I read that a leopard had fallen into a well and was trapped there.
- Condon, Cricket, Corruption (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 25, 2001)
At last the International Cricket Council has got a report which it should treat as the Bible for guiding players, administrators and umpires away from the path of "cricket sins".
- Balancing Power And Accountability (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, May 25, 2001)
The Jayalalitha episode has thrown up a number of fundamental politico-electoral, legal and constitutional issues which require both short-term and long-term responses for the growth of democracy on healthy lines.
- Lake Woebegone (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 25, 2001)
Operation Ulsoor Lake is a welcome initiative in the effort to reverse the environmental degradation of Bangalore.
- Honour By Degrees (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 25, 2001)
It was amidst protests from a few professors that US President George Bush was awarded an honorary degree by Yale University on Monday.
- A Career Sleuth With Long Experience (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 25, 2001)
The elevation of K.P. Singh as the next Intelligence Bureau chief in succession to Shyamal Ghosh brings to the fore a career sleuth with more than a quarter century in the IB.
- Defusing Dabhol (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 25, 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.
- There Is No Oasis For The Elderly (Telegraph, P. S. M. Rao, May 25, 2001)
The government, following the economic reforms, has a much reduced role in the problem areas of poverty, unemployment and social security.
- A Gentle Way With Words (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, May 25, 2001)
A week before he died at 95, news of his precarious health began appearing in all our national dailies.
- Balancing Act (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , May 25, 2001)
The planning commission has been at the receiving end of much abuse and criticism.
- Reformed Security Set-Up (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 25, 2001)
SECURITY and intelligence go hand in hand. In fact, intelligence is one of the main ingredients of security.
- Do We Know America Well Enough? (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, May 25, 2001)
NOW that we are hailed as a “great power” do we know how to play the part?
- Aids To Development (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 25, 2001)
The chief minister of Andhra Pradesh seems to have hit upon a unique method of measuring development in his state. Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu thinks that the rise in the incidence of AIDS in Andhra Pradesh is the result of its high development profile.
- What The Assembly Verdicts Foretell (Telegraph, SURENDRA MOHAN, May 25, 2001)
The assembly elections for the states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Union territory of Pondicherry have caused great joy within the Congress.
- Mom’s Cooking, Nice Salary, Why Marry? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 25, 2001)
Japan’s decade-long economic recession has seen the nation’s overall consumer spending drop and corporate restructuring has seen companies put a cap on their expenditure.
- Battle For The Mind (Indian Express, Ajai Shukla, May 25, 2001)
The endgame in Kashmir.
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