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Articles 23221 through 23320 of 25647:
- What’s In It For Us? (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , May 17, 2001)
On NMD, it is perilous to be impetuous.
- Don’t Go Wrong, Mr Clean (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 17, 2001)
Antony must not include the indicted in his Cabinet.
- Something's Rotten... (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 17, 2001)
THE ALBATROSS round the government's neck is proving difficult to dislodge.
- Tamil Nadu Poll Outcome -- Implications For Good Governance (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , May 17, 2001)
THERE will always be different sections of opinion which will be upset or upbeat in varying degrees over the outcome of any election.
- Presumptuously Futuristic (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , May 17, 2001)
ACCOUNTING Standard (AS) 20 `Earnings per share' issued by the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India is mandatory in that non-compliance therewith would invite auditor's comments in his report to the members.
- Ia's Woes (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 17, 2001)
EARLY IN APRIL, Indian Airlines officials were quoted as saying that ``there is a growth in traffic whenever airlines add capacity in the market''.
- Children Of A Lesser God? (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, May 17, 2001)
``To catch them young'' is to spot talented young kids, especially in sports.
- Tn Mandate: The Wake-Up Call? (Business Line, Menka Shivdasani , May 17, 2001)
A NATION that bristles at the Tehelka corruption charges elects a person who was not even supposed to be eligible for the polls thanks to her conviction.
- Networking The Right Way (Business Line, T. H. Chowdary , May 17, 2001)
ONE OF the most progressive, non-controversial, technology-neutral, competition-promoting and people-friendly policies the Government has promulgated is the one on the Internet.
- The Business Of Defence (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 17, 2001)
RSS and Left respond predictably and quixotically.
- Four-Wheelers Could Drive India To Prosperity (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 17, 2001)
INDIA’S manufacturing can play a powerful role only if we can focus preferentially (not exclusively) on certain industries / segments in which we can become world class.
- Life Beyond India’s Immediate Circle (The Economic Times, Soumya Kanti Mitra, May 17, 2001)
THE PRIME Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s visit to Malaysia follows his January trip to Indonesia and Vietnam.
- Poor Afghans, Defiant Taliban (Indian Express, Hafizur Rahman, May 17, 2001)
... I object to so many things in the Taliban of Afghanistan, for they take a very narrow view of religion, of administration, of the social needs of their people and of culture; in fact of life as it should be lived.
- Turkey's Unending Crisis (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 17, 2001)
CAUGHT IN THE battle between a military top brass that zealously guards its self-proclaimed role as protector of democracy and an Islamic political group with an extremist agenda, Turkey appears set to slip deeper into crisis.
- Dismal Message Of The Mini-Poll (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, May 17, 2001)
EVEN more sensational than the outcome of the Assembly elections in five states is the smooth manner in which Ms Jayalalitha, having swept the polls, swept into the office of Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister.
- A General And A Swayamsevak (Hindu, Harish Khare , May 17, 2001)
THE PAKISTANI High Commissioner has just announced the revised rules of international diplomacy: summits do not have agendas.
- India's New Pointman In Moscow (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 17, 2001)
EVEN after losing its super power status Russia occupies a unique place in India's scheme of things.
- Theory Of ‘Karma’ And Rebirth (Tribune, Nand Kishore Kapoor, May 17, 2001)
ALMOST all religions and sects of the world believe in the theory of “karma” and reincarnation in one form or the other.
- An Agenda For The Summit (Hindu, Suba Chandran, May 17, 2001)
THE DATE is fixed. The venue is fixed. But what are we going to talk Gen. Pervez Musharraf?
- Two To Tatami (Times of India, ASHIS RAY, May 17, 2001)
No Welcome Mat for India Yet.
- Jai Kisan And All That (Hindustan Times, Bhaskar Ghose, May 17, 2001)
THE RECENT announcements on steep tariffs on foreign goods, and press comment and stories on television just before the removal of the ban on imports agreed by the WTO have been incomprehensible.
- Aids To Development (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 17, 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.
- Balancing Act (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , May 17, 2001)
The planning commission has been at the receiving end of much abuse and criticism.
- Now It Is The Turn Of Chinese To Hunt For Smoking Guns (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 17, 2001)
Tong Lihua is preparing for a fight — a big fight.
- The Khaki Revolution (Indian Express, Pradeep Dutta, May 17, 2001)
July 1998: A police team led by Shahzada Parveen, then in charge of Women Police Station, Ram Bagh conducted a raid and busted five brothels in the heart of Srinagar City.
- Mother's Land (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 17, 2001)
Among the pantheon of India's colonial administrators, those with the scholarly bent always reckoned that there was a strain in indigenous folklore, if not high political theory.
- Grain Policy, What Policy? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 17, 2001)
MUCH was expected of the Abhijit Sen committee on long-term grain policy. Disappointingly, it has solely concentrated on suggesting ways to reduce the bulging stock (about 65 million tonnes by July) with the FCI.
- There Is No Oasis For The Elderly (Telegraph, P. S. M. Rao, May 17, 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 17, 2001)
A week before he died at 95, news of his precarious health began appearing in all our national dailies.
- What The Assembly Verdicts Foretell (Telegraph, SURENDRA MOHAN, May 17, 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.
- Millennium Declaration -- Are Development Targets Within Reach? (Business Line, Harri Holkeri, May 16, 2001)
LAST September, the largest gathering ever of world leaders met at the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in New York.
- Didi The Self-Destroyer (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 16, 2001)
MS Mamta Banerjee has only herself to blame for the electoral drubbing she and her party received in West Bengal.
- Wronged In Rights (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 16, 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”.
- Parallel Pursuit To Cure Cancer (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, May 16, 2001)
THIS is the tale of two scientist-technocrats who have traversed their own independent path over the last two decades and are on the verge of making significant contributions in one common area -- cancer cure.
- Trade Union Unity And Politics (Hindu, V. KRISHNA ANANTH , May 16, 2001)
ALMOST A decade after the Congress(I) was emboldened to give up its socialist pretensions and allow the then Finance Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, to announce in Parliament the decision to adopt the principles of market economy (July 1991).
- A Neat Operation (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 16, 2001)
THE siege of the Shangus mosque in Anantnag district ended on Monday. For once the terms for ending the siege were dictated by the security forces and not the militants who had turned the mosque into a mini fortress.
- Dirty Pictures (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 16, 2001)
Sometimes speculation could be fun.
- Jaya's People (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 16, 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.
- Parallel Pursuit To Cure Cancer (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, May 16, 2001)
THIS is the tale of two scientist-technocrats who have traversed their own independent path over the last two decades and are on the verge of making significant contributions in one common area -- cancer cure.
- Security Compromised (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , May 16, 2001)
ALTHOUGH the media in India made much of the news that the Hinduja brothers accompanied the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Mr Brajesh Misra.
- Aids To Development (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 16, 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.
- Sebi's Flip Flop (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 16, 2001)
THE INTRODUCTION OF option contracts in individual scrips and the promise of more derivative instruments are welcome news for the stock market.
- Fresh Reverberations On Nuclear Issue (Tribune, Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, May 16, 2001)
THE Bush administration has put its European allies on notice that it intends to move quickly to develop a missile defence, and plans to abandon or fundamentally alter the treaty that has been the keystone of arms control for nearly three decades.
- Banishing Badla (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 16, 2001)
After much dithering, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has finally swung its axe, ending the 135-year existence of badla in its various forms.
- Much Ado Over Nmd (Times of India, Raja Menon, May 16, 2001)
MOST countries rarely interact with each other on a single track.
- Kangaroo Democracy (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 16, 2001)
Politicians and members of Parliament often complain that as a class they are the favourite whipping boys of the media and the writers of funny edits.
- The Trouble With Inquiry Commissions (Tribune, Rahul Singh, May 16, 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:
- What Ails Privatisation In India? (The Economic Times, V. Ranganathan, May 16, 2001)
THE VERY word privatisation seems to scare people. In Sri Lanka they coined the word "peopilisation" and in China they call it "strategic adjustment of the lay out of the state sector".
- Balancing Act (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 16, 2001)
The planning commission has been at the receiving end of much abuse and criticism.
- What The Assembly Verdicts Foretell (Telegraph, SURENDRA MOHAN, May 16, 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.
- Ifci And Market Failure In The Asset Market (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 16, 2001)
THERE is a big debate currently about what to do with IFCI? One needs to evaluate the discussion in the historical backdrop under which IFCI was formed.
- World Disappearing From View (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, May 16, 2001)
IN a democratic polity, the mainstream Press reflects a country’s pecking order in the world and its ambitions beyond its own borders.
- Gift Of A Cheque (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 16, 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.
- Face To Face With Failure (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindu, May 16, 2001)
THE BJP’s choice of Mussoorie for discussing the poll outcome is a wise one.
- Healing In Kashmir? (Hindu, Rajmohan Gandhi, May 16, 2001)
``EACH TIME I hear footsteps coming towards me, I imagine someone bringing news of peace.''
- The Pm’s Economic Advisors Spelt Apocalypse (The Financial Express, S. S. Tarapore, May 16, 2001)
Following the advice of the prime minister’s Economic Advisory Council (EAC), the finance minister announced, in the union budget, a large cut in interest rates on small savings and provident funds.
- Jaya First Needs To Address Complaints On The Economic Front (The Financial Express, N. Madhavan, May 16, 2001)
MORE than political, economic issues seem to have weighed on the minds of people when they gave an overwhelming mandate to J Jayalalitha and her party, the AIADMK.
- Current Unviability Of Sebs Main Cause For Worry (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 16, 2001)
Following is the Executive Summary of the Report of the Expert Group on the Settlement of SEB Dues submitted by Planning Commission member, Montek S Ahluwalia to the Union minister for power, Suresh Prabhu, on May 11, 2001:
- Two Thoughts On People's Verdict (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , May 16, 2001)
THE OUTCOME of the elections to the five State Assemblies has generally belied the expectations of the opinion and exit polls.
- High And Low (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 16, 2001)
Japan has good news in unlikely quarters. It took eight years, but the crown princess is finally pregnant.
- Different Strokes For Different Folks (The Financial Express, Murali Gopalan, May 16, 2001)
It’s unfair for oil PSUs to continue to market Reliance’s products.
- Why Kerala Is Not Bengal (Indian Express, Amrith Lal, May 16, 2001)
The Long March of Indian communists started from Kerala in 1957. Forty four years later, the march has not covered much distance. They may have won West Bengal for the sixth consecutive term, but Yenan has been lost yet another time.
- Life And Times Of World’s First Commercial Radio (Indian Express, Yochi J. Dreazen, May 16, 2001)
On November 6, 1920, Leo Rosenberg climbed into a wooden shack on the roof of a Westinghouse plant here, picked up a converted telephone mouthpiece and uttered the first words ever carried by a commercial radio station:
- The Hand That Rocked Agp (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 16, 2001)
Samudra Gupta Kashyap analyses why Mahanta lost despite an alliance with the BJP.
- Death Wish (Hindustan Times, Ashok Kapur, May 16, 2001)
WITH THE Indian government succumbing to the new ‘Son of Star Wars’ nuclear paradigm floated by Bush, and with the controversy on the proposed post of the Chief of Defence Staff still simmering, it would be worthwhile to learn a few lessons from the past.
- Dentists In Us Battle Gag Over Warning About Fillings (The Financial Express, Kathryn Kranhold, May 16, 2001)
Dentists are suing state regulators in the US over what they contend is a gag order preventing them from discussing with patients the potential health hazards of the most common form of dental fillings.
- Puratchi Politics (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 15, 2001)
The Tamil Nadu governor Fatima Beevi's decision to invite J Jayalalitha to form the government in the state has put the cat of popular politics squarely among the pigeons of constitutional propriety.
- Imaginary Homeland (Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, May 15, 2001)
Narayan is dead, but his Malgudi lives.
- The Scenario In Its Entirety (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 15, 2001)
THE QUEST FOR cheaper credit to boost the faltering industrial production has come in sharp focus recently.
- Je Reviens: But When? (The Economic Times, Ruchir Sharma, May 15, 2001)
IF YOU are still lusting for the Winter of 1999-2000, hoping tech will do a Je Reviens (I return) then Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ epic tale Love in the Time of Cholera is recommended reading.
- The Wages Of Vendetta (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 15, 2001)
The clock strikes thirteen for the NDA.
- Planning On Third-Rate Ideas (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, May 15, 2001)
This was the week for many to rubbish the Planning Commission. An NRI economist said, perhaps with some justification, that it was a dumping ground for failed bureaucrats, to give them government houses and cars.
- Child Slave Trade Thrives In West Africa (Tribune, Hari Sharan Chhabra, May 15, 2001)
WHILE the complicated adoption law is leading to child trafficking in Andhra Pradesh, which is indeed shocking, the recent reports of child slave trade in West and Central Africa are hurting the conscience of mankind.
- Welcome, Astrology (Tribune, D. R. Sharma, May 15, 2001)
MY Webster hurts me when it defines astrology as “a pseudo-science claiming to foretell the future by studying the supposed influence of the relative positions of the moon, sun, and stars on human affairs”.
- Haryana To Check Migratory Cattle From Rajasthan For Foot-And-Mouth (The Financial Express, C. R. Rathee, May 15, 2001)
Cattle-herd from the drought-hit districts of Rajasthan have once again started migrating towards Haryana, via Narnaul and Rewari districts, in search of fodder and water.
- On The Right Side Of History, For A Change (The Economic Times, Indrani Bagchi, May 15, 2001)
REMEMBER the time when bricks-and-mortar papas and mamas shuddered at Generation X tramping off to spend unspeakable hours with a computer and using ones-and-zeroes to carve out entire careers?
- Balancing Act (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , May 15, 2001)
The planning commission has been at the receiving end of much abuse and criticism.
- Goodbye To The Guide (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 15, 2001)
A FEW hours after his death on Sunday, the BBC called him a great writer but R K Narayan always saw himself as just a story-teller.
- Aids To Development (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 15, 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.
- Task Force On Pharmaceuticals Keen To See India As Global R&d Destination (The Financial Express, Sanjay Sardana, May 15, 2001)
Radical changes recommended by the task force on pharmaceuticals and knowledge-based industries will have a far-reaching impact on the industry.
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