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Articles 23621 through 23720 of 25647:
- Big On Symbolism (Times of India, C. Uday Bhaskar, May 08, 2001)
But the Devil's in NMD's Detail.
- Dismal Message Of The Mini-Poll (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, May 08, 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.
- Benazir And I (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 08, 2001)
That first interview is difficult to forget.
- Who Will Tell On Airtel? (The Financial Express, Umesh Anand, May 08, 2001)
Telecom firms play sufferer while gouging consumers.
- Mother's Land (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 08, 2001)
Among the pantheon of India's colonial administrators, those with the scholarly bent always reckoned that there was a strain in indigenous folklore.
- Governance Quality In Haryana (Tribune, Karan Singh Dalal, May 08, 2001)
IN the democratic set-up of a civilised society, individuals delegate their right to rule over themselves to their representatives through vote for systematic governance.
- Laloo's Pitch (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 08, 2001)
Time was when cricket was a safe haven for the Indian princely tribes - the maharajas who abdicated their rude little kingdoms for the grand empire of civility.
- India's New Pointman In Moscow (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 08, 2001)
EVEN after losing its super power status Russia occupies a unique place in India's scheme of things.
- Badla’s Diehard Supporters (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 08, 2001)
IT can happen only in India – resorting to cheap tricks to stall an important decision.
- Selective Memory (Hindustan Times, Meenakshi Jain , May 08, 2001)
NON-IDEOLOGICAL NEWSPAPER readers may be forgiven for wondering if there is more than meets the eye in the high-voltage Leftist hysteria over moves to re-examine the contents of NCERT history textbooks.
- Theory Of ‘Karma’ And Rebirth (Tribune, Nand Kishore Kapoor, May 08, 2001)
ALMOST all religions and sects of the world believe in the theory of “karma” and reincarnation in one form or the other.
- Cpi(m)'s Economic Activism -- Moulding A Growth Model In Kerala (Business Line, M. K. Das, May 08, 2001)
IN INVESTMENT-starved Kerala, the report on an innovative financial and technical tie-up with a foreign company for a major project in the State with enormous employment potential ought to grab headlines.
- Corporate Governance: How Not To Misgovern (Business Line, A. N. Madhavan, May 08, 2001)
THE IMPORTANCE of corporate governance lies in its contribution both to business prosperity and to accountability.
- Grain Policy, What Policy? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 08, 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.
- On Paying Taxes... To A Kleptocracy (The Economic Times, Sauvik Sauvik Chakraverti verti , May 08, 2001)
THE NEWS-MAGAZINE Outlook posed an extremely pertinent question on its recent cover: Why the @#$% should we pay taxes? About four years ago, I asked myself the same question.
- Us Slowdown Hard On Indian Software (Business Line, S. Sivakumar, May 08, 2001)
LATEST information from the US seems to suggest that its economic `slowdown' is more serious than what was thought of earlier.
- Black Humour (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 08, 2001)
PETER Sellers couldn’t have done better. After beating his chest about India’s lack of openness on March 31, commerce minister Murasoli Maran has let loose with a barrage of non-tariff barriers that effectively block the imports of 300, mainly foodstuff.
- The Regulator Should Set An Example In Governance (The Economic Times, Samir K Barua, May 08, 2001)
AT THE close on Friday (May 4), the market was delicately poised, waiting with baited breath for a final pronouncement by Sebi on the fate of deferral products.
- Balancing Act (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , May 08, 2001)
The planning commission has been at the receiving end of much abuse and criticism.
- A Joke Called Choice (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, May 08, 2001)
The elections in five states have once again demonstrated that democracy is alive and well in India, that the will of the people can be exercised freely to elect their representatives, some of whom will lead them to a better life.
- The Case Of Contempt (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, May 08, 2001)
The majesty of law cannot be so easily tarnished.
- Aids To Development (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 08, 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.
- Powell's Flawed Gift Of Prophecy (Business Line, Premen Addy , May 08, 2001)
POLITICAL correctness is a confection least calculated to promote moral disquiet and political disorder.
- What The Assembly Verdicts Foretell (Telegraph, SURENDRA MOHAN, May 08, 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.
- Too Many Books, Too Much Hype (Telegraph, RAVI VYAS, May 08, 2001)
“Globalization had become unavoidable,” a critic said recently, “because the nation-state had become too small for the big problems of life and too big for the small problems of life.”
- Sheer Will Power (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 08, 2001)
IN THE name of liberalising the telecom services, the government seems to have entered a field where angels fear to tread.
- Too Forward By Half (The Economic Times, C. Anthony Lewis, May 08, 2001)
I AM not terribly well versed about the mechanisms of forward trading, badla and so on, yet I feel that these are deviations from basic rules and have facilitated the scams.
- A Post-Dated Superpower (Indian Express, Rahul Sagar, May 08, 2001)
THE border imbroglio with Bangladesh has had three principal effects upon the Indian polity.
- Interest Rates: Senior Citizens Dilemma (Business Line, R. Y. Narayanan, May 08, 2001)
AS the single largest borrower, the Centre seems determined to bring down the interest rates on small savings, provident funds and bank deposits, affecting investors' post-retirement savings plans.
- Congress Is Heading Towards Extinction In Tamil Nadu (The Financial Express, N. Madhavan, May 07, 2001)
The Congress in Tamil Nadu is an endangered species heading towards extinction. The party, which ruled the state for more than 18 years, immediately after Independence, is an non-entity today and is hurtling rapidly into oblivion.
- Island Of Acrimony In The Floods (Telegraph, TILAK D. GUPTA, May 07, 2001)
Orissa seems to be caught in a never-ending cycle of misfortune. After the supercyclone of 1999 and last summer’s severe drought, this eastern state is now being ravaged by floods.
- The Ayodhya Reprieve (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 07, 2001)
A PROCEDURAL FLAW should not be permitted to become the basis of a remittance - particularly, in a matter as significant as that of the detestable conspiracy to demolish the Babri Masjid.
- Sezs: India Has No Hong Kong, Mr Maran (Business Line, S. Majumder , May 07, 2001)
IF CHINA is a lesson for the Industry and Commerce Minister, Mr Murasoli Maran, and if he thinks that setting up SEZs (Special Economic Zones) would accelerate the future growth of export, he is wrong.
- A Joke Called Choice (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, May 07, 2001)
The elections in five states have once again demonstrated that democracy is alive and well in India, that the will of the people can be exercised freely to elect their representatives, some of whom will lead them to a better life.
- For Community Grain Banks (Hindu, M. S. Swaminathan , May 07, 2001)
ON APRIL 24, the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, released the Food Insecurity Atlas of Rural India prepared jointly by the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation and the United Nations World Food Programme.
- I Suspect The Governor Had A Role In Brokering The Agp-Bjp Alliance (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 07, 2001)
Assam Pradesh Congress Committee President and Lok Sabha MP Tarun Gogoi is one man to be watched in the next few days.
- A General’s Warped History Lecture (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, May 07, 2001)
ONE turning-point in the India-Pakistan summit at Agra was Gen Pervez Musharraf's breakfast meeting with certain Delhi-centric editors picked up at random.
- It’s Murder, They Said (Telegraph, MADHUSHREE C. BHOWMIK, May 07, 2001)
Titli flits around her foster home. She lurches from one room to another on unsteady legs and loves to look at the Sydney harbour from the windows of her “penthouse’’ in the Australian capital.
- The Restaurant-And-Bar Economy - I (Hindu, Gail Omvedt , May 07, 2001)
HAS POVERTY declined in the 1990s, the years of ``reform''? The question has been heatedly debated, and unfortunately the most recent of India's prestigious National Sample Surveys, the 55th round carried out in 1999-2000, has not provided a clear answer.
- All Dressed Up But.. (Hindustan Times, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, May 07, 2001)
FOR THE ebullient Mamata Banerjee, the middle of the road might prove to be a very dead end.
- Rise Of Caste In Dravida Land (Indian Express, Amrith Lal, May 07, 2001)
REPORTS from Tamil Nadu speak of senior members of the Dravidian movement discovering their caste identities.
- Not The Ugc’s Business (Indian Express, A.J. Philip, May 07, 2001)
Theory and practice of priesthood.
- Complex Complications Jest A Minute (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, May 07, 2001)
The stories we think up: take this for titillating your tail bone (well...): the husband and woman are about to become man and wife when the bridegroom’s aunt (mausi) whispers not-such sweet nothings into her sister’s receptive ears.
- Debate That Is Not On: Waiting For Godot (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, May 07, 2001)
With five States going to the polls on May 10, India is having a sort of a mini general elections where the issue is not the role of the Union Government but the performance of the State governments belonging to a variety of parties.
- Democratic Matrix (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , May 07, 2001)
IT IS strange that so far no reliable yardstick has been evolved to measure the maturity and health of a democracy.
- Condemned In The Womb (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 07, 2001)
IT’S THE writing on the wall, often with a not-so-hidden subtext, which sends out the first dubious signal.
- Rbi Must Tell More (Business Line, ASeshan, May 07, 2001)
THE Reserve Bank of India's Monetary and Credit Policy is noteworthy also for its detailed review of the previous year, issued as a separate document. Not many central banks prepare such a document.
- False Spring (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 07, 2001)
A MOOD OF unwarranted optimism prevailed in Washington D.C. during this year's Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
- Vision 2020 -- Leveraging Nri Coffers And Sincerity (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , May 07, 2001)
THIS article is being written in the US where I am on a lecture tour.
- It’s Geography — And History — Stupid! (The Financial Express, Shefali Misra, May 07, 2001)
Why trade bilateralism is not an Indian option yet.
- Sezs: India Has No Hong Kong, Mr Maran (Business Line, S. Majumder , May 07, 2001)
IF CHINA is a lesson for the Industry and Commerce Minister, Mr Murasoli Maran, and if he thinks that setting up SEZs (Special Economic Zones) would accelerate the future growth of export, he is wrong.
- Security As Primary Concern (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 07, 2001)
MILITANT organisations active in Jammu and Kashmir as their main area of operation, with all kinds of support from Pakistan's ISI.
- Breach Of Promise (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 07, 2001)
The crisis of political accountability in West Bengal has been confirmed again with a rather disgraceful clarity.
- Grounding The Ufos (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 07, 2001)
Both print and electronic media took in their somewhat casual stride the closure of the British Flying Saucer Bureau last week.
- Boost For Bjp (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 07, 2001)
For the BJP, the timing could not have been better if the script had been written by its guardian angel.
- The Cutting Edge (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 07, 2001)
The finance minister is aggrieved that the rest of the world appears to be more optimistic about India's economic prospects than the country itself is.
- Paradise Of Insider Information (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, May 07, 2001)
This mockery of a JPC can hardly do justice to investigating guilty FIIs.
- The Economic Profile Of South Asia (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, May 07, 2001)
FOR two thousand years, South Asia was the most developed region of the world. It produced cotton 2000 years before anyone else.
- Global Software Giants Can Emerge From India (The Economic Times, Shubhrangshu Roy, May 07, 2001)
NEVER mind the Nasdaq crash or the petering out of the infotech hype, there’s hope yet for India’s software services companies. At least that’s what Microsoft’s president for Asia Michael Rawding believes, as he told Shubhrangshu Roy. Excerpts!
- Internet: Time For Second Revolution (The Economic Times, S. Rajagopalan, May 07, 2001)
DEVELOPMENTS that are taking place in the United States in the internet area are of relevance to us in India since whatever happens in the US in the technology area gets repeated here after a small time lag.
- It Is Time We Abandoned Nehru’s Economic Ideas (The Economic Times, S. L. Rao, May 07, 2001)
IT IS difficult for those born in the 1960s and later to understand or believe the influence that Jawaharlal Nehru exerted on the minds and imaginations of his countrymen.
- The Remedy Foments The Disease, But It Is Feel-Good Time (The Financial Express, R.K. Roy, May 07, 2001)
In April, the first month of this fiscal, the Centre’s ways and means borrowings from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) exceeded the agreed limit by a conspicuously large margin.
- Indo-Us Ties In The Bush Era (The Financial Express, Prakash Shah, May 07, 2001)
There was a time when, in the wake of Jaswant Singh-Strobe Talbot honeymoon.
- Betting On Bounce (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 07, 2001)
DURING the last five months India’s markets have been battered as the new economy bubble has blown.
- Din, Dust And Vanishing Decorum (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 06, 2001)
The political class resorting to abusive language and disruptionist behaviour is perhaps inevitable given the larger phenomenon of criminalisation of politics...
- Enforcing Democracy? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 06, 2001)
By setting a course for tough action, Ms. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has done nothing to calm things down in the Philippines, writes Amit Baruah.
- Can She Wear The Crown? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 06, 2001)
The uncertainty in Tamil Nadu stems not merely from the question of who will win, but who can be Chief Minister, writes Mukund Padmanabhan.
- Out But Not Down (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 06, 2001)
The disqualification of Ms. Jayalalitha is now the major issue in the Tamil Nadu elections. Suresh Nambath, M. R. Venkatesh and Radha Venkatesan look at the prospects of the fronts led by the DMK and the AIADMK.
- Assam’s Lost Decade (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, May 06, 2001)
A ‘people’s movement’ that became a cruel joke.
- Mad Cows And Englishmen (The Economic Times, Raghu Krishnan, May 06, 2001)
I HAVE just the right kind of trip for the long, hot summer," the representative of the leading travel agency OTBIE (Oh To BeIn England) smiled at the seasoned globetrotting journalist.
- High Stakes Poker (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 06, 2001)
Russia has to tread carefully to be a player rather than a card in the U.S.-China game. Vladimir Radyuhin on the implications of the attempt by Moscow and Beijing to draw closer
- Potential Of Becoming A Great Leader (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , May 06, 2001)
THE dreaded militant outfit-Al Ummer Mujahideen has held out a death threat to Shabir Shah if he accepted the offer for a dialogue with the Centre's chief negotiator, Mr K.C. Pant, but Shabir is not the person to succumb to such intimidation.
- Marketing The American Anti-Missile Shield (Tribune, V. Gangadhar, May 06, 2001)
THEY may well be singing “God Bless America” and “Star Spangled Banner” at the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
- Brunner's Canvas (Times of India, Sabina Sehgal Saikia, May 06, 2001)
HANDS gnarled with arthritis, a stiff gait, a voice which quivered with age - these were my first impressions of her, almost two decades ago.
- Know & Integrate Your Many Faces (Times of India, Janina Gomes, May 06, 2001)
MANY people lose their battles on the outside because they waste their energy on the inside.
- Ethics Of Expose (Times of India, Mahesh Daga, May 06, 2001)
Two Wrongs don't Make a Right.
- Cosmos Of An Indian Storytell (Telegraph, R. K. Narayan, May 06, 2001)
R.K. Narayan’s The Indian Epics Retold is a valuable omnibus edition of three of this important writer’s works.
- May Day Globaloney (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 06, 2001)
Protests against globalisation have become mandatory on Labour Day, and this year was no exception.
- Too Many Books, Too Much Hype (Telegraph, RAVI VYAS, May 06, 2001)
“Globalization had become unavoidable,” a critic said recently, “because the nation-state had become too small for the big problems of life and too big for the small problems of life.”
- A Joke Called Choice (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, May 06, 2001)
The elections in five states have once again demonstrated that democracy is alive and well in India, that the will of the people can be exercised freely to elect their representatives, some of whom will lead them to a better life.
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