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Articles 24221 through 24320 of 25647:
- Looking Alright (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 23, 2001)
Mr Tony Blair thinks his landslide victory is remarkable and historic.
- It’s Murder, They Said (Telegraph, MADHUSHREE C. BHOWMIK, Apr 23, 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.
- Family Business (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 23, 2001)
Industrialist M V Subbiah has stepped down as chairman of the Murugapa Group as ``part of an exercise to improve corporate governance and to transform a family-run business into a professionally managed one''.
- Strategies For Development - I (Hindu, Nirupam Bajpai and Jeffrey D. Sachs , Apr 23, 2001)
IN HIS address to the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort, the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, announced on August 15, 2000, that the Government had set a target of doubling India's per capita income by 2010.
- Silence Is Golden (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 23, 2001)
The Congress seems to have taken the adage “silence is golden” quite seriously. Of late the party spokesman’s favourite comment is “no comments”. He has been taking recourse to this rather crude stratagem of avoiding answers a little too often.
- Ups Segment Is No Longer Just A Peripheral (The Economic Times, Sudha Nagaraj, Apr 23, 2001)
ROBERT S Griffith has been with American Power Conversion for the past nine years. Currently the regional director for Asia Pacific, Mr Griffith was with IBM, Canada for 25 years before joining APC.
- Private Servants (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 23, 2001)
ARE THERE two standards for taxation in India?
- Breach Of Promise (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 23, 2001)
The crisis of political accountability in West Bengal has been confirmed again with a rather disgraceful clarity.
- A Strategic It Policy (The Economic Times, Prabhat Kumar, Apr 23, 2001)
THE American economy is heading towards recession and the Indian information technology sector, heavily dependent on US markets (58 per cent of its exports go to the US) is looking worried.
- Establish Saarc Parliament Like Eu (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 23, 2001)
IT became amply clear at the last meeting of the SAARC heads of government in Colombo, in the summer of 1998, that discussion of subjects on the basis of political approach and attitude may not any more easily be kept out of debate.
- Sita’s Fate (Hindustan Times, Jayashree Sengupta, Apr 23, 2001)
IT WAS a gathering of feminists, both men and women, at a book release function in Delhi:
- A Biodegradable Law (Hindustan Times, M. K. Ranjitsinh, Apr 23, 2001)
THE OXFORD Dictionary of Natural History (1985) and A Dictionary of Biology (1986) by F.W. Roberts explain terminologies like biological clock, biological control and biosphere reserves.
- Castes Of Mind (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 23, 2001)
Given our hypersensitivity to international opprobrium, it comes as no surprise that the Indian government is trying hard to scuttle any discussion on caste-based discrimination under the auspices of the forthcoming UN-sponsored `World Conference.
- The Self-Effacing Giani Kartar Singh (Tribune, Dharam Singh, Apr 23, 2001)
This brief write-up, based primarily on an account narrated in the yet-unpublished memoirs of Giani Kartar Singh and an article by Master Tara Singh.
- Their World Is Still In Ruins (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 22, 2001)
Three months after Gujarat was devastated by an earthquake, problems remain in dealing with orphaned children and ruined villages. Manas Dasgupta reports.
- A Creeping Chill In The Valley (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 22, 2001)
There is little enthusiasm among Kashmiris about the Centre's appointment of Mr. K. C. Pant as its pointman for the State, reports Vinay Kumar.
- Their World Is Still In Ruins (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 22, 2001)
Three months after Gujarat was devastated by an earthquake, problems remain in dealing with orphaned children and ruined villages. Manas Dasgupta reports.
- Morality Cannot Be Damned (The Economic Times, Abinash Panda, Apr 22, 2001)
THE world is in a mess/And blind with sin and woe/You show a man the truth/And he becomes your foe. -- Kabir.
- Step In Time (The Economic Times, P. D. Sampat, Apr 22, 2001)
THIS refers to the item:` Lower interest rates, but not now.’(ET on Sunday of March 18).
- We Are Different (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 22, 2001)
EVER since the idea was implemented in Europe in the 1970s when instances of acid rain were reported off and on in the industrial heartland of the Ruhr, car-free days have been considered care-free days by environmental activists and the like.
- Action At Last! (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 22, 2001)
WITHIN days of the prime minister attributing the stock market crisis to mismanagement, a cornered Sebi has struck with a vengeance.
- Opencourseware: Mit Throws A Mighty Bolt (The Economic Times, Arkadev Chatterjea, Apr 22, 2001)
INTERNET is an interesting medium. Along with television, it is being used for `distance learning’ — students stay at home, learn at their own pace, exchange information with faculty.
- Militants In Retreat? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 22, 2001)
The arrest of a key Bhindranwale aide and statements by him and others indicate that Punjab may be rid of the politics of violence, at least for now, says Sarabjit Pandher.
- Social Justice Initiative (Tribune, Shyam Ratna Gupta, Apr 22, 2001)
FOR the first time in free India, social welfare has been upgraded to a ministerial status.
- Sparring In The Skies (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 22, 2001)
Washington and Beijing will have to come to terms with the spy plane crisis.
- A Cauldron Called Lebanon (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 22, 2001)
Israel's attack on a Syrian radar post inside Lebanon ensures that the Syrians will not leave in a hurry.
- How Merciful Is The Killing? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 22, 2001)
The Dutch Parliament's nod for euthanasia re-kindles the debate about how far individuals should be allowed to control life and death. Vaiju Naravane reports.
- Supreme Leader Of Iran (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Apr 22, 2001)
WHEN Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee met Iran's supreme leader, Ayatullah Seyed Ali Khamenei, a newspaper headline screamed: ‘‘Saffron man face to face with Ayatullah’’.
- Pranic Healing Is For Body And Soul (Times of India, Harleen Kaur, Apr 22, 2001)
WE might not understand why we exist, why we suffer why there is so much pain.
- Taste Of Official ‘Honey’ (Tribune, Swaraj Chauhan, Apr 22, 2001)
THE Tehelka revelation is yet another dramatic manifestation of an age-old malaise — the abuse of public office for private gain — that was vividly recorded by ancient India’s foremost theorist, Chanakya, in the first scientific treatise on statecraft.
- Maharaja Who Put An End To Invasions (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Apr 22, 2001)
THE bicentennial celebrations of the coronation of Maharaja Ranjit Singh start at Vigyan Bhavan here on April 21.
- Disinvestment Blues (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 22, 2001)
Disinvestment appears to be the Achilles heel of the Vajpayee Government. Hardly has the Opposition heat died over the disinvestment of government equity in Balco, the Government has been facing criticism from within the Sangh Parivar.
- Pakistan — A Failed State? (Tribune, Rakshat Puri, Apr 22, 2001)
IS it appropriate to speak of a state as having failed? Ordinarily no. A state emerges historically to its particular identity as an evolutionary process.
- Siwan As A Metaphor For Bihar (The Economic Times, Sudhir Kumar Mishra, Apr 21, 2001)
A MYSTERIOUS silence now prevails in Bihar.
- Akal Takht On Girl-Child (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 21, 2001)
ALARMED at the increasing imbalance in the male-female ratio, as revealed by the latest census, in the region an NGO has sought the intervention of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
- Soaped-Up Life (Times of India, Raghu Krishnan, Apr 21, 2001)
THESE days, soap gets into my eyes, especially from a Tamil TV serial called Chithi where the noble protagonist's well-behaved hubby gets tired of everyone.
- The Us Role In West Asia (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 21, 2001)
MONDAY night’s Israeli action in occupying a small chunk of Palestinian territory near Beit Hanoun, a border town in the Gaza Strip.
- Great Leap Forward (Hindustan Times, Keshav Pradhan, Apr 21, 2001)
FOR NEPALESE communists, it’s no longer a case of one-step-forward-two-steps-back.
- Preparing For Agra (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 21, 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.
- Stopped In Her Tracks (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 21, 2001)
THE FILING of papers by J. Jayalalitha from two constituencies has implications beyond her own political career.
- Future Shock In Telecom (The Economic Times, N. Vittal, Apr 21, 2001)
AFTER the 1991 policy paradigm shift of the government from the permit licence raj towards a market oriented economy, perhaps no sector has seen as much of change as telecommunications.
- Saving Trust Of Uti (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 21, 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.
- On Changing The Course Of History (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Apr 21, 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.
- Using Police As Cms’ Private Army (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Apr 21, 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.
- Pranic Healing Is For Body And Soul (Times of India, Harleen Kaur, Apr 21, 2001)
WE might not understand why we exist, why we suffer why there is so much pain.
- Priorities Before Pant Are Clear-Cut (Tribune, D.C. Pathak, Apr 21, 2001)
THE course of unilateral ceasefire maintained by India in Jammu and Kashmir during these five months had looked uncertain.
- How To Prevent Female Foeticide (Tribune, K.B. SAHAY, Apr 21, 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.
- Action At Last! (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 21, 2001)
WITHIN days of the prime minister attributing the stock market crisis to mismanagement, a cornered Sebi has struck with a vengeance.
- In The Name Of Good Diplomacy (Hindu, Achin Vanaik , Apr 21, 2001)
CONSIDER THE following behaviour by the overwhelming majority of our strategic community!
- We Are Different (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 21, 2001)
EVER since the idea was implemented in Europe in the 1970s when instances of acid rain were reported off and on in the industrial heartland of the Ruhr, car-free days have been considered care-free days by environmental activists and the like.
- Online Quotes Help Reduce Corruption (The Economic Times, Rohit Gera, Apr 21, 2001)
INDIACONSTRUCTION.COM, India’s first B2B portal dedicated to the construction industry, has successfully completed a year of operations, with revenues growing 40 per cent month-on-month since November 2000 and now surpassing expenses.
- Opencourseware: Mit Throws A Mighty Bolt (The Economic Times, Arkadev Chatterjea, Apr 21, 2001)
Internet is an interesting medium. Along with television, it is being used for `distance learning’ — students stay at home, learn at their own pace.
- Education For Fundamentalism (Hindu, K. N. Panikkar, Apr 21, 2001)
THE EDUCATION system in India, caught within the vicious web of fundamentalism and globalisation, is rapidly changing, both in its structure and content.
- Economic Diplomacy (The Economic Times, P. C. Matlotia, Apr 21, 2001)
THE NEWS item on India’s offer of a $200 million line of credit to Iran shows that foreign minister Jaswant Singh and the NDA government have alerted Indian diplomats.
- Equality — A Dream Forever (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 21, 2001)
“BY the end of 2001, there will be more billionaires, but many millions upon millions will be poorer than they were at the end of 2000. Liberty of sorts-yes, fraternity of sorts-yes. Equality-no.
- Victor's Justice (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 20, 2001)
The arrest by the authorities in Belgrade of Yugoslavia's former president, Slobodan Milosevic, is a logical consequence of everything that has happened in that country since its break-up in 1991.
- A Neglected Minority (Hindu, V. Suryanarayan, Apr 20, 2001)
THE COMMUNAL clashes between ethnic Indians and Malays in early March, which took a toll of six lives and left a number of people wounded, have sent shock waves throughout Malaysia.
- Impasse In Parliament (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Apr 20, 2001)
THERE IS an impasse in Parliament. The Tehelka exposure revealed rampant corruption in defence deals. The trail spread in many different directions.
- A New Crisis On The Border? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 20, 2001)
THE UNCOMMON FEROCITY of the latest clash between some units of the Bangladesh Army as also Bangladesh Rifles.
- Reassuringly Boring (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 20, 2001)
THE monetary policy announced by the Reserve Bank of India for the first half of the current fiscal contains no surprises.
- Angel Of Nagpur” Launches Appeal In Britain (Tribune, Shyam Bhatia, Apr 20, 2001)
A 29-year-old Englishwoman, known as the “Angel of Nagpur” who has sacrificed everything to help lepers of the Indian city, has launched an appeal for funds to help victims of the disease in Britain.
- The Fair Sex And Services (Tribune, G. S. Aujla, Apr 20, 2001)
IT was one of the golden principles in services that there should be a decent interaction with fair sex on all social occasions and going “stags” (married bachelor) was looked down upon as something socially derelict or “not done”.
- Just Keep Rollin’ Along (Hindustan Times, Bhaskar Ghose, Apr 20, 2001)
MANY DECADES ago I sat in the officers’ gallery of the Lok Sabha, a naive, eager young under-secretary in the information and broadcasting ministry.
- Douse The Fire (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 20, 2001)
THE DEATH of as many as 16 BSF personnel as a result of firing by the Bangladesh Rifles in a border area in Assam is an unusual and highly regrettable incident.
- Mechanics Of The Mind (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 20, 2001)
SCIENCE FICTION has talked about it much before the literary genre even got its name.
- Unbearable Lightness Of Doublespeak (Hindustan Times, Ram Punyani, Apr 20, 2001)
THE RECENT deposition of L.K. Advani before the Liberhan Commission (April 10-11, 2001) is an exercise in sophisticated hypocrisy. It is a subtle assertion meant not only to defend the indefensible act of the Babri masjid demolition.
- Poem That Einstein Wrote (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 20, 2001)
“Oh my! That Johnnie boy!/So crazy with desire/While thinking of his Dollie/His pillow catches fire.” Believe it or not, Einstein himself wrote this poem in 1900, to Mileva Maric.
- India’s Ties With Iran: Building On (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Apr 20, 2001)
CIVILISATIONAL link between India and Iran — that is what has been in focus throughout Mr Vajpayee’s visit to Iran.
- Seeing Punjab In A New Perspective (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Apr 20, 2001)
THOSE who have personally experienced terror-stricken Punjab and other parts of the region bleeding at the hands of the trigger-happy during the militancy-infested days of the eighties and the early nineties will hardly welcome the return of Wassan Singh.
- Space Sailboat (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 19, 2001)
SOMETIME next autumn, the Pasadena-based Planetary Society intends to launch the world’s first space sailboat.
- Dangerous Portents In West Asia (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 19, 2001)
ISRAEL'S FORCED WITHDRAWAL from a re-occupied pocket of Palestinian territory has not really defused the new escalation of hostilities in West Asia.
- U.S.-China Military Brinkmanship (Hindu, V. R. Raghavan , Apr 19, 2001)
THE STANDOFF between the U.S. and China over the spy plane incident is revealing in the approaches they have taken on finding a solution to an awkward incident.
- Akali Alchemy (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 19, 2001)
THE ‘ARREST’ of absconding Sikh terrorist Wassan Singh Zaffarwal introduces a new complication in Akali politics.
- Climbing Mount Improbable (Hindustan Times, Brahma Chellaney , Apr 19, 2001)
FRANCIS BACON said, “Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or State; servants of fame; and servants of business.”
- The Qasim Factor In Kashmir (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 19, 2001)
AFTER a long gap former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Syed Mir Qasim is in the news.
- Vocationalise Learning (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 19, 2001)
IT USED to be assumed that education was a passport to employment — but no longer. Statistics reveal that the higher the education, the greater are the chances of being unemployed in India.
- Politics Takes Further Nosedive (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Apr 19, 2001)
LONG years ago I had learnt the hard way how foolish it is to believe that “things are so bad that they cannot possibly get worse”. Sadly, they do, more often than not.
- Tax Freedom Day (The Economic Times, Parth J Shah, Apr 19, 2001)
NOTHING in life is more certain than death and taxes. Death, however, comes once, taxes every year. How many days of the year does an average citizen work to pay for government expenditures?
- Lok Pal Is Coming? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 19, 2001)
THE report that the Union Cabinet has at last given the go ahead to the introduction of the Lok Pal Bill in the Lok Sabha will need to be taken with a heavy dose of salt.
- The Need To Level The Tax-Paying Field (The Economic Times, Soumya Kanti Mitra, Apr 19, 2001)
WTO means many things to many people, but the major development is that membership of the WTO has put what used to be the sheltered non-exporting sectors on par with exporting ones.
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