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Articles 25221 through 25320 of 25647:
- The law of arrest (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Feb 23, 2001)
INDIA'S LAW on arrest and pre-trial detention are in a mess. The harsh realities are worse. The National Police Commission's Third Report states that 60 per cent of the arrests were unnecessary or unjustified; 42 per cent of the expenditure in the jails w
- American nightmare? (Pioneer, Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Feb 23, 2001)
In my analysis of the Bangalore Air Show on February 16, I had noted that "the US is still caught in the Cold War mentality of not trusting India's defence initiatives. India may be a prospective economic and commercial partner in the power and fast food
- Who opts for teaching? (Hindu, Amrik Singh , Feb 23, 2001)
THIS QUESTION was posed to me sharply by someone connected with the ICSSR. Currently there is a controversy about who should become the next Secretary of this research body. The selection committee recommended a serving IAS officer and this created some c
- Friendship in the time of Bush (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Feb 23, 2001)
If some of the of the straws now floating in the wind are any indication, the continuing improvement in relations between India and the United States may soon hit a squally patch.
- Army relishes Kutch more than Kargil (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Feb 23, 2001)
Every village with Army presence has a central Sahayata centre for the needs of the people. Most NGOs and relief providers have insisted on involving the Army in distribution of aid.
- Short-changing small shareholders (Business Line, K. Srinivasan , Feb 22, 2001)
THE Companies (Second Amendment) Bill, 1999, introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 23, 1999, has been modified to ensure its general acceptance. Opportunity has also been taken to incorporate some suggestions made by the Working Group set up by the Gove
- Evading a probe (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Feb 22, 2001)
Despite sleeping it out on that fateful day, former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao deserves two cheers for appearing before the Justice Liberhan Commission probing the demolition of the Babri masjid. In the last eight years since that outrageous act, he is
- Leadership in the time of earthquake (Hindu, Harish Khare , Feb 22, 2001)
IF YOU are given to day-dreaming, then just close your eyes and dream of this brief news item: ``after touring earthquake-hit Gujarat, the Congress President, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, ordered suspension, say, of Mr. Amarsinh Chaudhary and Mr. Narhari Amin from t
- A.P.'s financial agony (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 22, 2001)
ONE CLEAR MESSAGE from the Andhra Pradesh Budget is that state finances are under severe strain. Coming as it did after a string of strategy papers by the Government, the Budget presented by the Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister, Mr. Y. Ramakrishnudu, invol
- Sops for SEZs (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 22, 2001)
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN the Ministries of Commerce and Finance over the tax sops for Special Economic Zones may once again lead to undesirable delays and uncertainties in the development of such zones. It is rather surprising that within a week of the ann
- Where everything is in the past tense (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Feb 22, 2001)
Reliving the tragedy of the Kutch earthquake with Army and Air Force units deployed in aid to civil authority there was a self-cleansing experience. It is enough to bring anyone down to earth. For those who survived, the shock was so devastating that they
- Solutions to low growth (Deccan Herald, PARTHA MAJUMDAR, Feb 22, 2001)
In the weeks before the annual budget, the economy is presumed to be doing well if certain indices are seen to be positive. Of these, the first of course is the rate of GDP growth. Then there are several other parameters, not necessarily in any order of i
- Eco restoration (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 22, 2001)
The measures outlined in the report of the Eco-Committee headed by former Environment Secretary A N Yellappa Reddy on eco-restoration along the irrigation canals and reservoirs need to be translated into action in a given timeframe. The other recommendati
- A strident Congress (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 22, 2001)
IT is a cliché but it is closest to truth: the Congress is reinventing itself. Also repositioning itself as a critical opposition party. Three developments attest to this. One, Mrs Sonia Gandhi has been in a denouncing mode. First she bitterly castigated
- Ceasing to impress (Pioneer, Anil Narendra, Feb 22, 2001)
The "moderates" may be calling the Jammu & Kashmir ceasefire an Indian victory. They may be trying to convince the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, that Pakistan stands isolated, and that the day may not be far when General Pervez Musharraf will f
- Earth-like life "common in our galaxy" (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 22, 2001)
FOR THE FIRST time, astronomers have indirect evidence that there could be billions of earth-like planets in the galaxy, many of them home to forms of extraterrestrial life.
- The winds of change (Business Line, Menka Shivdasani , Feb 22, 2001)
EVER since the economic reform process began, it has been fashionable to criticise the policies followed by Jawaharlal Nehru. There is, of course, much merit in these arguments; he was a dreamer and not an economist. Not surprising then that he made a has
- Railway Budget 2001 -- Will it run on prudence track? (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Feb 22, 2001)
COURTING controversy and being obdurate on issues dear to her are nothing new to the firebrand leader of the Trinamul Congress, Ms Mamata Banerjee. In keeping with her credentials as a simple leader with wider appeal and mass base, the Railway Minister, M
- Shockingly similar (Pioneer, Abhimanyu, Feb 22, 2001)
Managing family budgets is not easy, particularly for the middle class. For most families, the comfort level starts declining after the first ten days of the month. The last week of the month usually involves intense efforts for minimising expenditure. Th
- Scared of solution (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 22, 2001)
The opposition sought to be whipped up in Karnataka and Maharashtra to the idea mooted by Prime Minister A B Vajpayee on calling a tripartite meeting to resolve the border dispute between the two States clearly indicates how politicians in both the States
- Protecting India (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 22, 2001)
The recent International Fleet Review in Bombay, held to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Indian Republic, also underlined the need for a constant review of India's security environment in its totality.
- Facing a crisis of initiative (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 22, 2001)
INDIA'S INTRACTABLE PUZZLE of winning the confidence of the alienated sections in Jammu and Kashmir as also breaking the barrier of an escalating estrangement with Pakistan calls for political courage and diplomatic finesse. Having taken the surprisingly
- America’s silly move on Tarapur Time for firm response, not overreaction (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Feb 22, 2001)
AFTER several positive statements and promising indications about its determination to maintain the upswing in Indo-US relations, the month-old Bush administration has made its first false move. It is as hurtful as it is unnecessary. Its baneful consequen
- Is the Vajpayee Government really pro-poor? (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , Feb 22, 2001)
THE chief purpose of the public distribution system (PDS) is to make foodgrains available to the economically weaker sections at affordable prices. However, it took decades for the political bosses to realise that the system needs to be restructured to ta
- Heavenly prisons (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 22, 2001)
It's actually a matter of perspective. When you're outside looking inside, you could well feel the goosepimples on your skin.
- Rethinking perils of globalisation (Pioneer, Ashok K Singh, Feb 22, 2001)
Globalisation is up for attack these days. The debate on the efficacy of globalisation as an economic and cultural idea had never raised so much heat as it has done in the last one year. In the global economic boom of the 1990s, globalisation emerged as a
- The greatest gathering of them all (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Feb 22, 2001)
Faith moves mountains. In the case of the Mahakumbh, it also gathers millions of people and makes them share a singular experience. Those who visited Kumbhnagar in Allahabad between January 9 and February 21 have returned to wherever they came from with a
- Many a slip... (Pioneer, Vandana Kumari Jena, Feb 21, 2001)
When he learnt about his official meeting scheduled in Kanpur, he immediately recalled the acrimonious encounter he had had with his favourite cousin four years ago.
- Storm warning (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Feb 21, 2001)
If both time and tempers were lost during the last parliamentary session over the Ayodhya issue, it may not be much different this time either. On the last occasion, the right of ministers who have been charge-sheeted in the Babri masjid demolition case t
- Will Jaya pull off a mahajot in TN? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Feb 21, 2001)
The Dravidian fronts are preparing for the showdown in Tamil Nadu, with the AIADMK leader, Ms Jayalalitha, scoring the first point by winning over the Pattali Makkal Katchi. Now she has to pull the TMC-Congress(I) to her side if she is to steel her front.
- Basu enjoying unprecedented privileges (Tribune, Subhrangshu Gupta, Feb 21, 2001)
Kolkata, February 20
A controversy has arisen over the granting of official privileges and other favours to the octogenarian Marxist leader, Mr Jyoti Basu, who is now an ordinary MLA, like 294 others in the state Assembly.
- Dungarpur’s foot in mouth (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 21, 2001)
THE former Maharaj Kumar of Dungarpur has served Indian cricket in various capacities. Controversy is his second name. Even if there is no occasion, he creates one for starting a controversy, as he did while inaugurating an international cricket coaches’
- Cancer fells a titan (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 21, 2001)
TO live to be 82 is nature’s benediction. But to die at 82 is more than the loss of one life if the person happens to be Indrajit Gupta whom cancer has claimed. It is a sharp snapping with all that is, rather was, the best in Indian politics and parliamen
- TN Assembly Poll (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 21, 2001)
JUDGING by all the to-ings and fro-ings on the political front in Tamil Nadu, in the context of the State Assembly election in May, the welfare of the people and ethical considerations are not even blips on the radar screens of parties. Their sole obsessi
- WTO and Centre-State relations -- Proactive stand could make a difference (Business Line, Bipul Chatterjee, Feb 21, 2001)
PUNJAB is again in the news -- this time, for a different reason. Punjabi farmers have been raising a hue and cry about the impact of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) on their livelihoods.
- Tactless attack (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 21, 2001)
SADDAM HUSSEIN was one wild horse that George Bush Sr could not lasso and tame when he was US President. Ten years down the line, now that the sunny boy is in the saddle, he is out to get even and ride roughshod in true cowboy style. That is the kind of a
- Disengage for peace in Kashmir (Pioneer, Wilson John, Feb 21, 2001)
It is easy to blame everyone for the mess in Kashmir. It is so easy to see where and why we went so horribly wrong in Kashmir. What is not so easy is to find a way out.
- Plug census loopholes (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 21, 2001)
THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT rendered the President, Mr. K. R. Narayanan, unable to register his sub-caste, leaving many among the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SCs and STs) in a similar muddle, should be seized upon to incorporate necessary corrective
- Need for a longer ceasefire (Hindu, V. R. Raghavan , Feb 21, 2001)
THERE IS talk of whether the ceasefire in Jammu and Kashmir should be extended once again. Some good reasons can be always be advanced for terminating it. There are however stronger reasons and greater benefits to be had from continuing with it. It has be
- Too quick with quake tax (Pioneer, Soumyajit Guha, Feb 21, 2001)
If 2000 was the year of the "Kargil Budget", could it be that this year we will end up with the Earthquake Budget?
- Bombing Baghdad (Pioneer, Arshi Khan, Feb 21, 2001)
The massive bombardment of Iraqi defence establishments in Baghdad on February 16 by the US and British warplanes, is yet another instance of brazen violation of international law by the two nations.
- Storm warning (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Feb 21, 2001)
If both time and tempers were lost during the last parliamentary session over the Ayodhya issue, it may not be much different this time either. On the last occasion, the right of ministers who have been charge-sheeted in the Babri masjid demolition case t
- Protracted political crisis (Deccan Herald, Utpal Bordoloi, Feb 21, 2001)
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.” Nobody in India today may be appreciating the truth of this adage more than Mr Radhabinod Koijam, or RB as he is popularly known.More than three days after he was sworn in as the 24th Chief Minister of Manipur l
- Alliance to check fundamentalism (Pioneer, APS Chauhan, Feb 21, 2001)
At a time when the Republican administration of George W Bush is settling down in Washington to develop a fresh perspective on global and regional issues, India needs to see how the new dispensation responds to the emerging South Asian scenario.
- Statement of intent (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 21, 2001)
GOING BY THE address to Parliament by the President, Mr. K. R. Narayanan, to mark the beginning of the Budget session, the Central Government has major plans for the economy. But given the Government's record of moving in fits and starts it is one thing t
- Resilient Gujaratis (Business Line, M. Thiagarajen , Feb 20, 2001)
AFTER having stayed in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, for well over 13 years, I decided to move down South with a heavy heart. Gujaratis are some of the most wonderful people I have come across. I always carried sweet memories of Gujarat, thanks to the warmth and ho
- Fiscal responsibility and the budget Restoring the health of govt’s finances (Tribune, Dharam Vir, Feb 20, 2001)
THE winter session of Parliament will be remembered in the annals of the financial administration of the country for the introduction of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Bill, 2000. Having featured in the manifesto of the main opposition pa
- Learning from China (Pioneer, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Feb 20, 2001)
Prime Minister Vajpayee is anxious to increase India's economic growth rate to nine per cent. In order to achieve this he is everyday throwing open new sectors of the economy to foreign investment.
- Body of evidence (Pioneer, Hilal Bhat, Feb 20, 2001)
Call a man a vandal and it is quite likely that he may live up to this reputation." I always held a contrary view until I met Elhaj. Youthful, stout, with an innocent Arabic face red as a ripe tomato, Elhaj was determined to become a nuclear scientist.
- Reservations: an undiscovered aspect (Tribune, Sagarpreet Hooda, Feb 20, 2001)
Reservations have been a controversial issue in the Indian polity since their very inception. Much of the controversy is inherent in the subject due to its complexity. The intensity of the controversy has varied with differences in social locations and co
- Few takers for educational websites (Tribune, Sharvani Pandit, Feb 20, 2001)
Educational sites targeting Indian students may have mushroomed on the Internet in recent years, but they do not fetch the kind of eyeballs that their creators had envisaged.
- Pre-modernist agenda for modern India (Pioneer, Sidharth Bhatia, Feb 20, 2001)
Culture and tradition are in the news. In the last two years or so, not only institutions but also ideas have come under attack from the cultural police, both official and extra-constitutional.
- Case for caution (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 20, 2001)
If some of the straws floating in the wind during the last few days are any indication, optimism about the future of India-United States ties under the Bush administration need to be tempered with caution.
- Fiscal responsibility -- to whom? (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 20, 2001)
The Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Bill, 2000, which has already been tabled in Parliament, involves an attempt to reduce the capacity of future governments to respond to national needs and democratic pressures, in favour of adhering to arbit
- Disaster management -- A national responsibility (Business Line, Arun Ghosh, Feb 20, 2001)
IT IS heartening to see that the Centre has agreed to reimburse the Gujarat Government the full cost of rebuilding the property, totally lost or damaged by the earthquake that shook Bhuj, Anjar, et al down to rubble, with even the distant Ahmedabad suffer
- Meeting economic growth agenda (Business Line, Nirupam Bajpai and Jeffrey D. Sachs , Feb 20, 2001)
India should try to achieve rapid growth via the export route as it has the resource base, the entrepreneurship, access to the sea coast, a vast labour force, everything except the interest of the government which has neglected this for long. It must also
- Road to Yangon (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 20, 2001)
THERE ARE AT least three ways in which the recent visit of the Union External Affairs Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh, to Myanmar can be evaluated. One, on grounds of strengthening economic relations. Two, of integrating Myanmar in a regional framework of whic
- No Sikh migration from Valley (Deccan Herald, Zahoor Malik, Feb 20, 2001)
Sikhs in Kashmir Valley have finally decided not to migrate to other parts of the country. Killing of six members of their at Mehjoornagar-Srinagar caused panic among them and they had threatened mass migration. But almost everybody from Central leaders i
- Retain the initiative (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Feb 20, 2001)
IT IS hardly surprising that with the approach of the deadline for the extension of the ceasefire in Kashmir, there is considerable uncertainty within the Government and outside about persisting with the peace initiative. The two extensions so far haven’t
- The T-90 tank deal (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 20, 2001)
THE FORMAL INKING of the deal for 310 T-90 tanks with Russia concludes the extended rounds of negotiation which, at one time, seemed in danger of getting bogged down in a disagreement over pricing. What the Defence Minister had described as only ``a small
- Napstered forever (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Feb 20, 2001)
WHEN THE photocopier was invented in 1937, people expected the publishing industry to go into a blue funk. The scenario was that publishers would come out with books only to find leather-bound photocopies stacked up in people’s bookshelves. It was only lo
- Loss of political momentum (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 20, 2001)
THE INSENSITIVITY SHOWN by the security forces in handling the protest demonstrations in the wake of a suspected `custodial death' in Haigam - palpable in the way the army men opened fire killing in all seven civilians in Haigam and Maisuma - has seriousl
- Murders In Chandigarh (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 20, 2001)
LAST week a 55-year-old man, H.S. Brar, was done to death at his Sector 44 residence allegedly by two young representatives of a credit card company. On Sunday 67-year-old Pritha Singh, wife of a retired Army officer, was reportedly killed at her Sector 1
- Foul is fair (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Feb 19, 2001)
MANIPUR IS one state where the weird is often the ordinary. It is perhaps only in this state that a leader like Radhabinod Koijam had to float three political fronts in as many days to become Chief Minister. First, the Samata Party members led by Mr Koija
- Quake relief and politics (Hindu, V. KRISHNA ANANTH , Feb 19, 2001)
``I FEEL no despondency in me... I am not feeling helpless... The nation has got energy of which you have no conception but I have.'' This was Mahatma Gandhi's response to a group of Congressmen (the Indian National Congress) who in April 1934 went to him
- Handling waste (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 19, 2001)
The proposals based on the environmental impact assessment done by the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) with respect to dump sites in Bangalore should be heeded by the Mahanagara Palike and suitable action taken without delay.
- God alone is worthy of immortal love (Pioneer, Harish C Gaur, Feb 19, 2001)
God bestows His mercy, love and grace equally on all beings. He said in Bhagavada Gita, "I am the same (meaning impartial) to all beings. To Me there is none hateful or dear, but those who worship Me with devotion exist in Me and I exist in them" (Gita, 9
- Growing uncertainty of equity market outlook (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Feb 19, 2001)
IT IS normal for fund managers to visit us from time to time to commend the virtues of investing in their funds. On February 16, we had a conference call with Putnam Investments -- a well-known fund house in the US. Two of the charts they had sent us caug
- The spreading malaise of corruption (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, Feb 19, 2001)
In the perception of the people, politicians have become a maligned lot. Hardly anybody believes them, even when they raise a voice against injustice faced by the public. The issues raised by them always appear, or at least give an impression of having a
- Railways burden (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 19, 2001)
Ms Mamata Banerjee's efforts to raise resources internally by the Railways as an alternative to steep increases in freight and fare, deserves a welcome.
- Privatising Bihar (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 19, 2001)
The fact that members of the IAS association in Bihar have finally shown some signs of dissatisfaction with continued unconscionable interference in their functioning by "leaders" of the ruling Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), is welcome.
- Budget session at a critical juncture (Tribune, S. Sethuraman, Feb 19, 2001)
PARLIAMENT'S budget session is going to begin in a sombre setting with the nation’s thoughts centred on the aftermath of the Gujarat earthquake which took thousands of lives and has darkened the lives of millions in the state. Gigantic tasks of rehabilit
- Old is gold (Tribune, M. K. Agarwal, Feb 19, 2001)
OLD is Gol ” is a familiar saying, but the present obsession for everything that is new and modern has almost driven the maxim from people’s mind. Especially those in a hurry have little time and even less inclination to give it a thought. I beseech them
- Communalising quake relief (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 19, 2001)
THE Bharatiya Janata Party high command has allowed Gujarat Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel to stay put evidently because it wants to spare the state the trauma of a political aftershock close on the heels of the devastating earthquake. He was under pressu
- Road to Mandalay (Pioneer, Shubha Singh, Feb 19, 2001)
The first all-weather road between India and Myanmar was inaugurated last week during External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh's visit to that country.
- When Atlas shrugged (Pioneer, P N Banerji, Feb 19, 2001)
It was an ironic Republic Day. Ironic in the sense that while India - I wonder why we haven't switched over to Bharat - displayed its cultural heritage and armed might, nature was busy wreaking dreadful havoc and fury upon Gujarat.
- Parity in politics for French women A lesson for Indian activists (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Feb 19, 2001)
WHILE Indian male politicians of all stripes have successfully devised stratagems sidelining legislation for fixing quotas for women in legislatures, France has acted dramatically in striking a blow for the fair sex. According to a new French law, all pol
- Militants blast main line of power supply to Valley (Daily Excelsior, Excelsior Correspondent, Feb 19, 2001)
JAMMU, Feb 18: Power supply to the entire Kashmir valley was disrupted last mid-night after militants blew-up 220 KV Kishenpur-Pampore electricity tower at Sher Bibi near Banihal on Jammu-Srinagar national highway. All four legs of the tower collapsed und
- Budget and the development decade (Business Line, Nirupam Bajpai and Jeffrey D. Sachs , Feb 19, 2001)
NEW DELHI has proclaimed the new decade as a Decade of Development, during which India will meet bold targets for economic growth and social development. What are the challenges in meeting these goals? We suggest that the 2001-02 Budget should be the oper
- Fundamentalists are now ranked next only to Army (Daily Excelsior, B.L.Kak, Feb 19, 2001)
NEW DELHI, Feb 18: Pakistan military is confronted with a serious challenge from the home-made Islamic fundamentalism. The Pak Army, of course, holds the key to power. But fundamentalists have become so powerful that they are now ranked next only to the A
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