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Articles 24921 through 25020 of 25647:
- Sudarshan chakra (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 20, 2001)
Members of the sangh parivar and particularly the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh are proving to be far more serious adversaries of the Vajpayee government than the Congress party or the rest of the Opposition. The thunder from Bangalore does not cause half a
- Vajpayee turns to Jaswant for Defence (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 19, 2001)
NEW DELHI, MARCH 18: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today entrusted the key Defence portfolio to Minister for External Affairs Jaswant Singh, his confidant, on a day when the Government was grappling with more discordant noises from within the Sangh
- The triumph of neo-liberalism (Hindu, Achin Vanaik , Mar 19, 2001)
NEO-LIBERALISM AS ideology has triumphed when it becomes impervious to refutation by empirical evidence. The hosannas for this year's budget are a measure of just how complete this victory is amongst the Indian elite. The budget simply consolidates and ex
- The ubiquitous party fund (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Mar 19, 2001)
JUST UTTER the two magic words ``party funds'' and get away with murder. This had been the case with our political elite for decades - they sought to cover, blatantly and shamelessly, their sins in collecting huge sums by invoking the name of their party.
- Fate of 35 Bills under cloud as Oppn sticks to its guns (The Economic Times, G Ganapathy Subramaniam & Jayanthi Iyengar, Mar 19, 2001)
THE CRISIS may be political, but the economy will bear the brunt. With the Opposition adamant on stalling proceedings in Parliament, the fate of more than 35 legislative bills has come under cloud.
- Timely warning (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Mar 19, 2001)
THE RUN on the Madhavpura Mercantile Co-operative Bank is a timely reminder to the Reserve Bank of India on the perils of ignoring this small, but important, segment of the banking industry.
- Culture as Diplomacy (Times of India, M D NALAPAT, Mar 19, 2001)
IN most countries, foreign policy subserves domestic interests. Whenever the flood of Chinese imports into the US crosses levels that the media in that country cannot ignore, human rights are used to divert attention away from the balance of trade. Althou
- Sebi widens probe to cover price-rigging (The Economic Times, Vivek Law, Mar 19, 2001)
THE SEBI probe into the stockmarkets crash on March 2 will no longer be confined to the bear cartel. The regulator has widened the scope of its inquiry to the entire build-up of positions prior to the crash to detect whether or not there was rampant marke
- Were Russian shells good enough? (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Mar 19, 2001)
NEW DELHI, MARCH 18. The reference to the Rs. 150-crore Krasnopol artillery shells contract in the Tehelka tapes has indicated that the deal was not about corruption alone; the quality of the shells may also have been compromised on.
- Solheim happy with Indian support (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Mar 19, 2001)
NEW DELHI, MARCH 18. The Norwegian special envoy, Mr. Erik Solheim, engaged in facilitating contacts between the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE, is happy at the ``absolute support'' extended by India to the peace process. Indian support for ``our effo
- In the arms of the Ganga (Hindu, T. V.VENKATARAMAN, Mar 18, 2001)
The Ganga is much more than a river. One must look beyond the obvious, into the inner meaning that it represents, says T. V.VENKATARAMAN
- Restoring faith (Hindu, VIMALA RAMACHANDRAN, Mar 18, 2001)
The destruction caused by the Gujarat earthquake and the controversies that came in its wake made good stories. Why, asks VIMALA RAMACHANDRAN, cannot the media write about the silent contribution of many sensitive and caring people to help those affected
- Destroying symbols of hope (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 18, 2001)
The destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan should be seen as representing a larger peril - an attack on a composite and pacific culture symbolised by these giant images. RANJIT HOSKOTE traces the forces that led to this carnage of statues.
- Towards oblivion (Hindu, RAJENDAR MENEN, Mar 18, 2001)
Aged sex-workers have no option that allows them to lead a dignified life. Unable to go back to their villages or to their families, the lucky ones survive on menial jobs on the fringes of their erstwhile profession, says RAJENDAR MENEN.
- My father and I (Hindu, VASANTHI SUNDARAM, Mar 18, 2001)
We have known him as a minister, governor and a senior statesman. Very few actually knew him as a person. S. S. Rajsekar, son of the late C. Subramaniam, provides some intensely personal insights into the relationship that he shared with his father. Cheri
- Army Lays Down Terms Of Tehelka Inquiry (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Mar 18, 2001)
NEW DELHI, MARCH 17. Keen to plug any erosion of confidence in its senior leadership, the Army has directed the court of inquiry probing the Tehelka bribery allegations against some of its officers to conclude its findings soon.
- Blowing The Whistle (Hindu, Harish Khare , Mar 18, 2001)
Only those totally indifferent to the demands of ethics and morality in public life can seek to rubbish the revelations by questioning the methods Tehelka used, writes HARISH KHARE.
- Rajasthan's drought: Abundance of food, scarcity of vision (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Mar 18, 2001)
Districts in southern Rajasthan are reeling from a series of hunger-related deaths. The problem is that these occurred not because of poor rainfall or drought. Rather, the policy-driven assault on people's living standards has made them vulnerable, says n
- Stem the rot (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2001)
THE MUCH DELAYED resignation of Mr. George Fernandes as the Defence Minister, which should have ensued immediately after Tehelka went public with its video footage on sleaze in arms deals, has all the attributes of a desperate salvage operation by the Vaj
- Four-month coma (The Economic Times, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 17, 2001)
THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the prime minister that the government is setting up a judicial probe into the revelations of the Tehelka tapes has come not a day too soon.
- Naidu kept up pressure on PM (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2001)
HYDERABAD, MARCH 16. The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, kept a low profile on the Delhi developments, but played his part behind the scenes on Friday.
- Train to Kolkata (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 17, 2001)
The Vajpayee government still has a lot of firefighting to do if it is to ride the storm whipped up by the Tehelka tapes. But even amid the ongoing uncertainty, one thing is certain: when (if?) the crisis blows over, the NDA government is not likely to ov
- DCA to inspect portal's accounts (Hindu, J. Venkatesan, Mar 17, 2001)
NEW DELHI, MARCH 16. Shocked at the exposure made by Tehelka.com, the Centre today directed the Department of Company Affairs to inspect the records, books of accounts and the pattern of shareholding of the website to find out the source of its funding fo
- Peace award for a Gandhian of our times (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2001)
NEW DELHI, MARCH 16. For the first time since the award was instituted in 1995, the Gandhi Peace Prize was shared today by an institution and a man who has become an institution. Though the award presentation ceremony was eclipsed by the political turmoil
- An Open Letter To Mullah Omar (Hindu, Shamsul Islam , Mar 17, 2001)
RESPECTED MULLAH Saheb! Assalamo Alaikum. I know you will not like this Islamic greeting which means peace and security for everyone. You as Head of the Taliban of Afghanistan and a great Mullah are out to teach a lesson to all infidels. How could one tal
- National Insecurity (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2001)
It is unlikely the results would have been different, had Tehelka's spy camera zoomed in on any other area of national activity. It is unlikely they would have been different had the year been 1980 or 1986, instead of today. The truth is that corruption c
- Supreme Court judge to probe Armsgate (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2001)
NEW DELHI: The government on Friday announced a commission of inquiry into the Tehelka revelations on the murky world of defence deals. The single-member commission will be notified after a Supreme Court judge is picked up for the job in consultation with
- Sense at last (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2001)
THE WORLD Bank has at last woken up to the potential of efficient transportational networks in removing poverty in the Third World. This is an area that had largely been ignored by the Bank so far. If only it had paid more attention, it would have discove
- Religion is a Bond Between Man & Nature (Times of India, MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI, Mar 17, 2001)
IT is religion that helps a person to maintain the awareness that he or she is not separate from nature. Without religion mankind loses that awareness. Religion teaches us to love Nature. In truth, the progress and prosperity of mankind depend solely on t
- No defence, Minister (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Mar 17, 2001)
What does the Tehelka expose say about our higher defence organisation? How are things so porous, so loose in an establishment otherwise so obsessed with secrecy and security? Forget whether they fixed any deals or not. How come half-witted, whisky-drunk
- Plunder raj (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Mar 17, 2001)
IT USED to be called the licence permit raj. It has now become the plunder raj. The abolition of controls was to end decision- making by discretion. And reform was supposed to usher in an era of transparency where there would be little scope for corruptio
- Confucian Wisdom (Times of India, ASHIS RAY, Mar 17, 2001)
MAO Zedong's mammoth portrait continues to adorn the main entrance of the Forbidden City (home of Chinese emperors from the first quarter of the 15th century, adjacent to which the hierarchy of the Communist Party of China are now lodged); the great helms
- Mamata pulls Trinamul out of NDA (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 16, 2001)
NEW DELHI: The Trinamul Congress on Thursday carried out its now on, now off threat. Party chief Mamata Banerjee announced Thursday that her party was pulling out of the government and ruling National Democratic Alliance, and resigned from the Vajpayee go
- Tape and Tell (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Mar 16, 2001)
Indians may have come to accept corruption as an endemic part of life; few have any expectations of their elected representatives. By that standard, tehelka.com's revelations should have been just another piece of evidence of what we knew all along. But t
- The Tehelka tapes -- Look, there are some holes (Indian Express, Sunil Jain, Mar 16, 2001)
NEW DELHI, MARCH 15: The Tehelka tapes which have rocked the Government have some gaping holes which need to be looked into.
- Out of the woodwork (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 16, 2001)
Suddenly the Third Front is in the news again. The Tehelka revelations, exposing the murky goings-on in the corridors of power, seem to have given its tired, ageing constituents a new high. These worthies are already behaving as if the NDA government is o
- Targeting the ceasefire (Hindu, Sonia Jabbar, Mar 16, 2001)
THE MUTABILITY of truth is a phenomenon best demonstrated in Kashmir. Last month I had joined a host of other journalists censuring the Indian Government on its inability to implement the ceasefire on the ground, particularly with the human rights violati
- Weep for Afghanistan - she is dying! (Hindu, Lolita Nehru, Mar 16, 2001)
SEVERAL THOUSAND years of human history and artistic achievements, 80 years of archaeological excavations by European and Afghan teams, are being destroyed in a matter of days. While the world looks on. It was the same, not so long ago, when thousands of
- Armsgate Fells George (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 16, 2001)
NEW DELHI: Under mounting pressure from NDA partners, a powerful section of the BJP and the Opposition as well, Defence Minister George Fernandes finally bowed out of the government at 8 pm on Thursday. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee accepted his res
- Karunanidhi sees no adverse impact (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2001)
CHENNAI, MARCH 14.The DMK today sought to play down the political fallout of the `defence procurement expose' by the website, Tehelka.Com, saying that the `charges made' will have no adverse impact on the DMK, as an ally of the BJP-led NDA Government at t
- 'Graft' in defence deals rocks Houses (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2001)
BANGALORE, MARCH 14. The alleged bribe-taking in Defence deals had its reverberations in both Houses of the Karnataka Legislature, leading to their adjournment without transacting any business, till March 20.
- Sebi may revoke licences of erring brokers (The Economic Times, Sanjeev Sharma, Mar 15, 2001)
THE Securities and Exchange Board of India is likely to cancel the broking licences of operators found guilty of rigging the market to artificially depress share prices.
- Fernandes defiant, allies troubled (Hindu, Harish Khare , Mar 15, 2001)
NEW DELHI, MARCH 14. The day after the Tehelka.com ``expose'' of its dirty defence deal-makings, the beleaguered NDA Government was precariously perched, with its moral authority visibly depleted and a significant ally, the Trinamool Congress, threatening
- Exit the hot house (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Mar 15, 2001)
MR PRABIR Sengupta's statement that agri-export quotas will be around for a while yet goes against Mr Yashwant Sinha's stated objective of ``speeding up agricultural sector reforms and better management of the food economy'' as the first point of his six-
- Clean up the system (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 15, 2001)
Decisive moments demand decisive action. One such moment was that revealing glimpse of the rot within the state, as captured by Tehelka's spycam. And it stinks to high heavens, how it stinks! It was not just the wrongdoings of a few individuals that were
- Where is the space for all the vehicles? (Hindu, N. N. Sachitanand, Mar 15, 2001)
IT IS not just the pollution they cause or the heavy foreign exchange outgo on providing fuel to them that should make one think twice about continuing with automobiles as a means of personal transport in India. There is another scarce resource in the cou
- Naidu calls for independent probe (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2001)
HYDERABAD, MARCH 14. The Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, has called for an independent investigation into the sensational dotcom disclosures involving the BJP president, Mr. Bangaru Laxman, prominent leaders of the NDA and others.
- Are Exposes Non-Events? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Mar 15, 2001)
WILL the Tehelka expose make any difference to the sordid reality that every political party uses power to make money, mostly under the table? Not unless the law becomes a force to reckon with instead of the farce it has become.
- Adjournments Galore In Bihar Legislature (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2001)
The ruling Rashtriya Janata Dal, along with its allies and the Left parties, paralysed the functioning of the State Legislature and demanded the dismissal of the NDA Government at the Centre.
- Take on the challenge of Chinese competition: Maran (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2001)
NEW DELHI, MARCH 14. The Union Commerce and Industry Minister, Mr. Murasoli Maran, today warned that competition from China was a challenge that could not be met by anti-dumping measures alone. ``The ultimate answer is to improve our competitiveness,'' he
- De-Islamizing Islam: The Taliban Project (Times of India, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, Mar 14, 2001)
WHEN I visited Afghanistan during the last days of communist Russia's political domination, I found Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, entirely intact, but today, under the so-called Islamic regime of the Taliban, the greater part of Kabul has been destroyed.
- States to share cost of river projects (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2001)
NEW DELHI, MARCH 13. States would have to bear 30 per cent of the cost of projects undertaken under the national river conservation programme. Currently, the entire expenditure is borne by the Centre.
- Acrobatics in Tamil Nadu (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 14, 2001)
Tamil Maanila Congress leader P. Chidambaram's statement, distancing himself from his party's decision to align with Jayalalitha, conforms to the politics of opportunism being practised in Tamil Nadu. His holier-than-thou attitude does not carry convictio
- Quit now (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Mar 14, 2001)
THE tehelka tapes come as a shock even to those who have long believed that corruption is routine in government. For, what these tapes suggest is an establishment that is utterly and thoroughly corrupted, one that is indifferent even to national defence n
- Strategy for Stability (Times of India, M G VAIDYA, Mar 14, 2001)
PRESIDENT K R Narayanan's controversial speech on January 25, 2001 drew flak from many people in the media and outside. I think we should take a more liberal view and allow the President to express his musings openly. I do not view it as a confrontation b
- Opp smells blood, to stall Parliament over the tapes (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2001)
NEW DELHI, March 13: Armed with the explosive Tehelka expose, the Opposition will go for the jugular in Parliament tomorrow.
- The majesty of law and the objectivity of the state? (The Economic Times, Abheek Barman, Mar 14, 2001)
THE HEADING above is a quote from the 1999 election manifesto of the National Democratic Alliance. It comes on page 8 of the document, titled `For a Proud, Prosperous India,’ under a subheading called `Corruption.’ The original does not end with the quest
- Jogi asks Sterlite to call off deal (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Mar 14, 2001)
RAIPUR, MARCH 13. The Chhatisgarh Chief Minister, Mr. Ajit Jogi, has told Sterlite Industries that under no circumstances would it be allowed to run the Bharat Aluminium Company Limited plant (BALCO) at Korba. Virtually warning the management that the Gov
- A bankrupt bid (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Mar 14, 2001)
Mr Ajit Jogi, you were mistaken. The Rs 100 crore you thought was paid for the Balco deal was actually tehelka’s attempt to bribe defence officials.
- End doublespeak (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Mar 14, 2001)
NEARLY a fortnight after finance minister Sinha eliminated excise duties on processed food products, you would have expected most companies to cut retail prices. A few, like Pepsico and HLL have announced price cuts, several have not, one — Dabur — actual
- Nemesis overtaking Osama? (Hindu, Chinmaya R. Gharekhan, Mar 14, 2001)
ACCORDING TO reports published in the media on February 10, 2001, datelined Islamabad, Afghanistan's Taliban militia has reiterated its willingness to discuss sending Osama bin Laden for trial by Muslim clerics in an Islamic country. A spokesman of Pakist
- The great betrayal (Indian Express, Asghar Ali Engineer , Mar 14, 2001)
IS Islam undemocratic by the very nature of its teachings? Why is it that no Muslim country has a democratic dispensation? Why is it that almost every Muslim country is governed either by a king, a sheikh,a military dictator or has only a partly-democrati
- Opportunism guides alliance politics in TN (Times of India, Srinivasa Prasad, Mar 14, 2001)
CHENNAI: If the name of the game is political realignment in Tamil Nadu, the rules are: sheer opportunism and simple election arithmetic. Even as the two major alliances led by AIADMK's Queen Bee Jayalalitha and DMK's Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi are fas
- Buddhist protest march in Colombo (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Mar 14, 2001)
COLOMBO, MARCH 13. Hundreds of Buddhists, including a large contingent of monks, marched through the streets of the Sri Lankan capital today to protest against the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues by the Taliban.
- Grizzly Season (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Mar 14, 2001)
The Ides of March have hit the stockmarkets, with the Sensex plummeting like a stone every day. Indeed, over Rs 100,000 crore worth of investors' wealth has been eroded since the finance minister unveiled a Budget that was expected to recharge the bulls.
- Indo-U.S. dialogue on NMD? (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Mar 14, 2001)
AS INDIA prepares to engage the Bush Administration in the next few weeks, there will a renewed focus on the perennial theme of nuclear weapons and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. As it turns out, the advent of the Bush Administration ma
- One-track Democracy (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Mar 14, 2001)
Railway minister Mamata Banerjee isn't the first person to compare the running of trains to the way a democratic government functions, both being essentially of the people, by the people.
- Driven by Sentiment (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Mar 14, 2001)
In the din raised by the accolades that followed Union Budget 2001, voices of dissent remained unheard. One such voice of dissent belongs to the consumer durables industry. After closing its books on a sluggish year, consumer durables manufacturers are ro
- Issue rocks Parliament (Hindu, Javed M. Ansari , Mar 14, 2001)
NEW DELHI, MARCH 13. Revelations of corruption in defence deals made by the website Tehalka.com rocked Parliament today as angry Opposition members demanded a detailed explanation from the Government.
- Deshmukh Triumphs (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Mar 13, 2001)
The timing, nature and sweep of the cabinet reshuffle in Maharashtra, which recalls the Kamaraj Plan in the Nehru era, projects chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh in an entirely new light. His adversaries had dismissed him as a lightweight. The Congress Hig
- Delay not the poll (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 10, 2001)
The Government of Karnataka will do well to comply with the directive of the State High Court on completing civic election process by April 19. Any attempt by the Government to look for an option other than this might give room for wrong impressions to ga
- BALCO, Congress and Parliament (Hindu, V. KRISHNA ANANTH , Mar 10, 2001)
THE EVENTS leading to the Lok Sabha ``approving'' the Union Government's decision to transfer the Bharat Aluminium Company (BALCO) to a private bidder have revealed again absurdities in the contemporary political discourse. For example, the view that the
- Bombarding at Bamiyan (Times of India, Sanjoy Hazarika, Mar 10, 2001)
The devastation of history as seen in the Taliban's systematic destruction of the Buddhas at Bamiyan in Afghanistan should have been expected. After all, this is not some revisionist group or radical fundamentalist gang out to stamp its own special terror
- Race and caste (Hindu, Andre Beteille , Mar 10, 2001)
AS A student of anthropology in Calcutta in the 1950s, I was recommended a book written by the well-known physical anthropologist, M.F. Ashley Montagu, some of whose other works we also had to study. The book to which I now refer was entitled ``Man's Most
- Brain Gain (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Mar 10, 2001)
To paraphrase J Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, a crore just ain't what it used to be. Not so long ago, a financial executive made headlines by being offered a salary of Rs 1 crore a year. Today, five freshly-minted MBAs from the Indian Ins
- Declining fertility trend (Deccan Herald, P H Reddy, Mar 10, 2001)
In recent years, two large-scale health and family planning surveys have been conducted in India. The first National Family Health Survey (NFHS-1) was conducted in 1992-93 with financial assistance from the USAID. The NFHS-1 covered 25 States which compri
- Lacking direction (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 10, 2001)
Any gains that might have been made over the last few months with regard to addressing the Kashmir issue appear to have been frittered away with the continuing lack of direction in the Central Government’s approach to the problem. With regard to the issue
- Time for introspection (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Mar 08, 2001)
The manner in which the people here celebrate a festival like Eid does not reflect anyway the pain and trauma they have been undergoing and the unabated bloodshed they witness. With over eighty thousand of people killed thousands of women destituted and m
- Package for power (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Mar 07, 2001)
The meeting of Chief Ministers and state power ministers convened by the Prime Minister last week recommended a package of measures to reform the power sector.
- A ban that will be lost in the haze (Pioneer, Amar Jit, Mar 07, 2001)
The Central Government's decision to ban smoking in public places and to end all forms of tobacco advertisements and sponsorships of sporting and cultural events is a welcome step indeed. It should have come long back, considering that nearly 30 lakh pers
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