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Articles 25421 through 25520 of 25647:
- Ayodhya will not go away (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 14, 2001)
AYODHYA has come back to haunt the BJP-led alliance government. A seemingly favourable High Court directive has revived the eight-year old controversy, giving the opposition in Parliament much ammunition. The single-Judge Bench has squashed a state govern
- What was that again? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 14, 2001)
HERE are a few interpretations of nature from actual junior high, high school, and college test papers and essays submitted to science and health teachers in the USA (spelling errors preserved)....
- Weighed down by bureaucracy (Deccan Herald, J N SADHU , Feb 14, 2001)
THE Himachal Pradesh Government is today crumbling under the weight of its own bureaucratic set-up, which has expanded many fold over the past two decades. With successive State governments using employment in government and public sector undertakings as
- Dangers of appeasement (Deccan Herald, ASHOK MITRA , Feb 14, 2001)
It may seem to be a bit of an enigma. Of the National Democratic Alliance partners, the Telugu Desam Party and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam for that matter, even the Shiromani Akali Dal have a larger number of members in the Lok Sabha than the Trinamul
- The Gujarat phoenix will fly, government permitting (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Feb 14, 2001)
THE WORLD was stunned at the enormity of the misfortune that struck the state of Gujarat as the death toll climbed beyond the impossible-looking figure of one lakh. Most people started wondering if this was at all true and if they were not living through
- Tragedy realpolitik (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Feb 14, 2001)
CONGRESSMEN LIKE to complain that the media are biased against them. The good work done by Congress chief ministers, they say, is rarely acknowledged. Nor do journalists acknowledge that the party is flourishing in the states where it is in power. The BJP
- Citrus queen (Pioneer, Mohinder Singh, Feb 14, 2001)
At the end of a typical Japanese meal in a restaurant, you are offered succulent orange slices as a dessert fruit. Besides being refreshing, the slices leave a nice feel in the mouth.
- All quiet on new third front (Pioneer, Chiranjib Haldar, Feb 14, 2001)
The Indian Marxists after the CPI(M) central committee meet at Bhubaneshwar decided to shun the ideological doctrines adopted 36-years-ago. They have however not accepted the stark reality.
- Gujarat quake: Opening Pandora's box (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Feb 14, 2001)
FIRST there was the disaster in Gujarat. Then there was the usual bureaucratic inertia, and sloth in coming to terms with the devastation and beginning the relief work. Next came the generosity of the people, Indians in India and abroad, as also the globa
- Creative conflict (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 14, 2001)
JUST AS there is creative writing, creative accounting and the like, I sometimes feel that there is need to deliberately bring about a situation when persons in the same field or enterprise are forced to confront one another and slug it out on their theor
- HURRIYAT AGENDA (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Feb 14, 2001)
At long last Hurriyat Conference, an amalgam of 23 outfits, spells out its agenda for the proposed visit to Pakistan. It States that the main objective is to make unilateral ceasefire in Jammu & Kashmir a 'two-way traffic'. This is something although Hurr
- NCERT curriculum excludes Sanskrit from schools (Daily Excelsior, Dr Ashutosh Dayal Mathur, Feb 14, 2001)
The NCERT has come out with a ‘National Curriculum Framework for School Education’. This curriculum seeks to banish Sanskrit from schools in as much as it provides for the study of Sanskrit only as a part of the first language and not as an independent op
- Blood transfusion and disaster management (Tribune, J. G. Jolly, Feb 14, 2001)
THERE has been total absence of transfusion preparedness during the course of national disasters resulting in innumerable loss of life during these national emergencies. This has been evident during the Indo-Chinese war in 1962, the Indo-Pak wars in 1965,
- Question of food security-II The need for a viable alternative (Tribune, M. G. Devasahayam , Feb 14, 2001)
IN the last over five decades, India’s PDS has emerged as the largest food security network in the world, covering 177.8 million households, 981.3 million people, 195.9 million ration cards and 0.46 million fair price shops. With the growing size of the P
- Adult illiteracy (Daily Excelsior, Dr Renu Nanda, Feb 14, 2001)
Galileu once remarked, "You cannot teach people anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves." The universal concern for illiterate and suffering of unorganised masses, was articulated emphatically in the communist Manifesto authored by
- Old bully, new fad (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 14, 2001)
WHAT KIND of man likes to drink his beer at room temperature (“like they do in the pubs in England”), puffs away on a pipe, idolises Walt Disney and still points out to visitors that it was in a lavatory in his house that Michael Jackson made a brief (but
- More vulnerable, less sure (Deccan Herald, SUBODH GHILDIYAL, Feb 13, 2001)
IF anything differentiates the Rajnath Singh government from the Ram Prakash Gupta regime, it is the quality of public relations. As the young turk of an uneasy BJP completed 100 days in office without much to show for, there were no trenchant commentarie
- A thousand Gujarats in the making! (Tribune, Amar Chandel, Feb 13, 2001)
AFTER the damage is done, it is customary to find a villain and lay all the blame at his door. In the case of the Gujarat devastation, this identification exercise has been completed quickly: the unscrupulous builders brought upon the misery, with the gov
- Globalisation: Problems of small states (Business Line, S. Gurumurthi , Feb 13, 2001)
THERE are 45 developing states with populations of less than 1.5 million. Their incomes and stages of development vary widely, from very poor African countries such as Guinea-Bissau, with a per capita GNP of $160, to affluent countries such as Brunei, Cyp
- The question of India’s food security Evolution and working of PDS (Tribune, M. G. Devasahayam , Feb 13, 2001)
IF we care about true food security in a nation wherein live one-sixth of the human race, many of whom in poverty and penury, an efficient and effective mechanism to access food to all people at all times at affordable prices in an essential pre-requisite
- Bandhs: Progress vs mischief (Business Line, P. S. Sundaram, Feb 13, 2001)
A BANDH or hartal as a form of political strike unfolds in a set pattern:
- Diabetes: `Diagnosis is the key in India' -- Dr C. B. Sanjeevi, Professor, Dept of Molecular Medicine, Karolinska University, Stockholm (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Feb 13, 2001)
THE methodology for classifying diabetics in India as insulin dependent or not needs to undergo a change, with a crucial test, now not available in India, being brought in as a standard diagnostic technique, says Dr C. B. Sanjeevi, a Professor at the Depa
- Bengal: Escape into magical realism (Business Line, Premen Addy , Feb 13, 2001)
``I have seen the future and it works,'' is the remark attributed to an enthusiastic visitor to the Soviet Union in the 1920s. A few years later, Sydney and Beatrice Webb described the USSR as a ``new civilisation''. In a way it was. None of the old civil
- Punjab slowing down as engine of growth (Tribune, P. P. S. Gill, Feb 13, 2001)
PUNJAB, as an engine of growth, is showing signs of fatigue and beginning to slow down. Unless overhauled it may shut down sooner than expected. This is the message that emanates from the fourth Punjab science congress that concluded its two-day session a
- The map of mankind (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Feb 13, 2001)
THE COMPLETION of the human genome — a map of man’s genetic constitution — marks a scientific milestone which will transform biology from being a descriptive science to a predictive one. In a sense, biology is at a point where chemistry was at the end of
- Death rides (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 13, 2001)
There are tragedies, which should never have occurred. Those at Surajkund and the New Okhla Industrial Development Area (NOIDA) toll bridge on Sunday are two such. It is not that accidents like these do not happen in other countries. The only difference i
- Loss of height (Pioneer, Rajeev Ahuja, Feb 13, 2001)
Passengers are requested to fasten their seat belts. Weather ahead is likely to be turbulent," announced our captain in his clipped accent.
- POLITICAL LEADERSHIP & BUREAUCRACY Uneasy equations (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 13, 2001)
The lurking fears in the minds of the people that some sections of the official and political classes of the present ruling establishment might be at loggerheads do not seem to be groundless at all now. Even as there were enough indications of this in the
- Dastardly crime (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 13, 2001)
It is most fortunate that Mr Subash Ghisingh, chairman of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHS) and leader of the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF), escaped the dastardly attempt on his life near Darjeeling last Saturday. Nevertheless, the very
- Disinvestment: Is this the right way? (Business Line, M. A. Hakeem, Feb 13, 2001)
THE NEED for restructuring and right sizing the public sector is well understood and appreciated by all including the employees of the PSUs. It is also realised that the much-needed autonomy which has eluded the public sector so far could come through a s
- Disaster management (Daily Excelsior, Dipankar Choudhury, Feb 13, 2001)
Over just 15 months India has experienced the Orissa cyclone, water scarcity in Gujarat and Rajasthan, floods in Bihar and West Bengal and now the massive Gujarat earthquake. And shortly after the rubble is cleared, we will have to deal with a severe drou
- Good concerns, bad solutions (Daily Excelsior, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Feb 13, 2001)
In his Republic Day eve address to the nation President K R Narayanan has rightly pointed out that the governance of this vast country was not to be left in the hands of an 'elite class'. But the Honourable President fails to appreciate that his suggestio
- The 2001-02 Budget (Hindu, Nirupam Bajpai and Jeffrey D. Sachs , Feb 13, 2001)
ONCE AGAIN it is Budget time and the Union Government needs to put together some bold decisions for 2001-02. India's political system is more than ever in consensus about the basic direction of reforms. The current Government enjoys a reasonably strong el
- Death traps (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Feb 13, 2001)
ONLY IN this country can a police officer arrive at an accident site and say that an inquiry is underway to determine whether there was a “lapse in maintenance” when it is clear as daylight that no safety measures existed in the first place. What is appal
- Restructuring the RBI even while ... Retaining its `monetary sovereignty' (Business Line, A.Seshan, Feb 13, 2001)
IN 1999, when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) completed 50 years of nationalisation, it was suggested that a high-powered Commission be appointed under an eminent personality, such as N. A. Palkhivala, to review the functions and working of the central ba
- CONTRACT KILLERS (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Feb 13, 2001)
Both Governor G.C. Saxena and Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah have visited the carnage site and shared the grief agony of the sleepy village of Kot Chadwal. Earlier to this top brass of the State remained busy in similar rituals in the wake of Mehjoor N
- Gujarat: Accountability first, Mr Vajpayee (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Feb 13, 2001)
It is sad commentary on this country's sense of public accountability and political morality that over two weeks after Gujarat's apocalyptic earthquake the effete and incompetent Keshubhai Patel continues as chief minister. National and international reli
- Vision 2020 -- The real disaster behind disasters (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Feb 12, 2001)
The best thing a Prime Minister or a Chief Minister can do in an emergency, as in Gujarat, is appoint a highly-competent administrator, and invest him with full authority to handle the situation -- and stay religiously away from the scene.
- The season of school admissions (Tribune, R. Vatsyayan, Feb 12, 2001)
APART from summer, rain, winter and spring there comes another season which is known as season of school admissions. Usually this season starts from mid-February and under normal circumstances lasts till May or June. During this period every person, howso
- POLITICAL COMPULSIONS (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Feb 12, 2001)
Come election time and strange bed-fellows surface with reckless abandon. Scruples, principles and ideologies are given short shrift. Instead, it is the theme of 'running with the hare and hunting with the hound'. They weigh and gauge winning aspects and
- Scapegoat on hire (Pioneer, Onkar Chopra , Feb 12, 2001)
Some people are constantly on the lookout for scapegoats. I don't know how such people are able to easily trace me out to make a scapegoat of me. They keep sleeping over a problem and catch me at the last moment so that they can pass the buck to me.
- Counting heads (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Feb 12, 2001)
BEFORE FEBRUARY is out, two million enumerators — a figure larger than the population of many countries — would have spread themselves across 650,000 villages and 5,500 towns and cities to log in crucial demographic and socio-economic data pertaining to t
- Another exercise in introspection (Deccan Herald, ABHA SHARMA, Feb 12, 2001)
The Congress government led by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is going for yet another introspection camp. The State government has completed two years in office and the chief minister thinks it necessary to have a look at the past performance.
- More militant killings (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 12, 2001)
EVEN by the standard of Jammu and Kashmir, 25 killings in two days is brutal and benumbing. And both were somewhat expected. The sneak attack on a police control room in Srinagar carries the patented signs of a suicide squad of the Lashkar-e-Toiba. Yet th
- Right turn (Pioneer, Shubha Singh, Feb 12, 2001)
A couple of days after the devastating earthquake hit Gujarat, a baby girl was born in one of the relief camps.
- Political and natural disasters (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Feb 12, 2001)
The nation is yet to come to terms with the Gujarat catastrophe. The earthquake has attracted a considerable amount of expressions of sympathy from all over the world. It is not uncommon to find the media competing with each other to report 'authentic' st
- Smash the nexus (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 12, 2001)
The flooding of the Bagdigi mine, near Dhanbad, in which 31 miners have almost certainly perished, is another man-made disaster which serves to underline the callousness of the Indian bureaucracy at all levels to human life and suffering.
- Orders for doctors (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 12, 2001)
THE Medical Council of India has drawn up a fresh set of guidelines for making the profession patient-friendly. However, the introduction of a comprehensive set of guidelines may not be enough for making the medical fraternity give up exploiting, rather t
- Where Sikhs stand in Kashmir (Daily Excelsior, Mohan Singh Kala, Feb 12, 2001)
After Chittisingh Pora carnage, Sikhs living in the Kashmir valley were feeling insecure. At that time assurance was given to them that their lives and property will be protected, they will be provided employment in the State Services and other type of he
- A deadly addiction (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 12, 2001)
ANY MOVE TO stub the cigarette out is to be welcomed. The Union Cabinet's decision to ban smoking in public places all over the country - it is already in force in some States - will help millions of those who have to suffer the intrusive puffs of smoke o
- Ceasefire in J&K : Questions and answers (Daily Excelsior, Fazal Mehmoo, Feb 12, 2001)
Was the ceasefire decision wise ? Yes, it was and still is, but as a prelude to inducing genuine Kashmiri organisations to enter into a dialogue with the Government. Unfortunately, it has been made to appear as a gesture to Pakistan and as a prelude to th
- Shame indeed (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 12, 2001)
The utter indifference shown by all concerned towards the upkeep of the 457-hectare Tataguni Estate containing the treasured paintings of world famous artist Svetoslav Roerich and the jewellery of his actress-wife Devika Rani, does not reflect well both o
- Unknown crisis (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Feb 12, 2001)
VIRTUALLY UNNOTICED by the rest of the country, a constitutional crisis is brewing in Manipur as a result of the refusal of Speaker S. Dhananjay Singh to convene the Assembly to discuss a no-confidence motion against the United Legislature Front Ministry
- Grave impropriety (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 12, 2001)
Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee ought to have known better than holding the all-party meeting she did last Friday to discuss the Railway Budget. Any possible argument that her aim was to incorporate suggestions from every quarter to produce the bes
- The international fleets salute to the Indian President (Daily Excelsior, Avinash Shirodkar, Feb 12, 2001)
There will be 19 foreign navies with 25 ships saluting the President of India on February 17, 2001, during the International Fleet Review (IFR), of which 12 are Indian Ocean states. Clearly, there appears a common maritime strategic interest, if not ambit
- Far-reaching' telecom revolution (Business Line, T. H. Chowdary , Feb 12, 2001)
THE beneficial effect of demonopolising telecommunications and introducing competition in India is becoming evident. First, the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of India brought down the lease charges to one-fifth of what they were under the earlier
- Destabilising role of ISI in Pakistan (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Feb 12, 2001)
THE liberation of Kashmir is not our only task. Our next goal is the liberation of Indian Muslims from Hindu rule.'' These were the words of the leader of the Harkat ul Mujahideen, Mr Farooq Kahmiri, while speaking in Islamabad on January 29. Mr Kashmiri
- Unemployment, private sector and role of the state (Business Line, Ruddar Datt , Feb 12, 2001)
THE Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, announced that public sector employment will be cut by 10 per cent during the next three years and people should not harbour undue expectations for public sector jobs. The basic aim of Mr Vajpayee's declaration
- PM's economic advisers have spoken (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Feb 12, 2001)
THE BUDGET season is on in full swing. Advice inundates the Finance Minister. The Gujarat earthquake shocks mean a further burden of Rs 21,000 crore. The FM's task is rendered all the more difficult by the corporate slowdown. While in the first quarter of
- Should import of `used' cars be banned? (Business Line, D. S. Mehta , Feb 12, 2001)
STRANGELY enough, though the major small car manufacturers, in India -- Maruti Udyog, Daewoo, Hyundai, Tata Engineering -- are engaged in cut-throat competition to increase their market share, they are all united on the issue of banning import of used, or
- A warning with a sacred solution (Pioneer, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, Feb 12, 2001)
What is the reality of life? Normally people do not like to think of such things. For them there is one life - that of the world - and they try to live it in as prestigious and comfortable a way as possible, for afterwards neither man nor anything that co
- Farm failure (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 12, 2001)
IT WAS NOT much of a surprise when the Central Statistical Organisation forecast GDP growth for 2000-01 at 6 per cent, sharply down from the ambitious target of 7 per cent and also last year's 6.4 per cent.
- Sweet and sour shield (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Feb 12, 2001)
THE VISIT of China’s number two, Li Peng, injected a different mood in the security dialogue between India and China. He provided an atmosphere that will help ease the dialogue’s difficulties in constructing a tangible bilateral relationship
- Women in command (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 11, 2001)
SUDDENLY, women are everywhere. Though they may have worn the uniform for only a few years, but women have certainly earned themselves laurels. A woman doctor has reached the rank of Major-General and now we have Padma Bandopadhya, the first woman Air Com
- The 'other' side (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 11, 2001)
EVEN AN earthquake cannot shatter caste barriers. In Dudhai village, just off the road which now marks the destructive path of the January 26 killer earthquake, everyone is unhappy. Not because their houses are shattered, or because they have lost their l
- Dressed to kill? (Tribune, Satya Mira, Feb 11, 2001)
IT could well be a panic reaction. But there are quite a few people who suspect that wearing brassieres (bras), especially those with underwires, could be increasing the risk of breast cancer. “We have started special educational programmes in the city,”
- Drifting Congress (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 11, 2001)
The contretemps that the Congress finds itself in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal is a result of the loss of its ideological moorings and the deepening of a policy of drift under the leadership of Ms Sonia Gandhi.
- Who is answerable for these 'massacres' ? (Daily Excelsior, Dr.Jitendra Singh, Feb 11, 2001)
The question is not who has done this ? The question is what next after this? With the mass massacres and public killings becoming a routine in Kashmir and with the killers going scotfree each time, the common man is left with no choice but to wait for th
- 'Relief' Orissa-style (Hindu, PRAFULLA DAS, Feb 11, 2001)
Orissa sent blankets and tents to Gujarat. The irony: these were meant for the cyclone victims but had not been distributed. PRAFULLA DAS reports.
- Picking up the pieces (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Feb 11, 2001)
Two weeks after the earthquake devastated Gujarat, the overwhelming need is for shelter - for tents or other material to help the people survive in the open, says KALPANA SHARMA.
- Ten minutes from Pakistan! (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Feb 11, 2001)
ISLAMABAD, FEB. 10. ``Half the size of Arlington Cemetery and twice as dead''. That is an American description of the capital city of Pakistan. A small sleepy town, with some impressive big buildings on empty boulevards, Islamabad could easily bring you t
- Tolerance to corruption has been paid for with lives (Tribune, Rakshat Puri, Feb 11, 2001)
THEY may not have found all the bodies lying under the debris of quake-felled buildings in Ahmedabad. But what the horrified rescuers did find are clues to the cruel and criminal approach of the builders who constructed the high-rise and other new structu
- Suspect structures of Delhi (Tribune, Prem Kumar , Feb 11, 2001)
WOLF, wolf," he used to cry and nobody took him seriously for he had lost credibility. So says a popular tale narrated in children's books. An earthquake is not a matter for children to play games with. Yet, the adult authorities of Delhi have been playin
- Tenet's testimony (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 11, 2001)
Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet's testimony before the United States Senate Committee on Intelligence on Wednesday amply reflects the tenuous state of affairs in a world increasingly held hostage by fundamentalist terrorist organisations
- A Mahatma's earthquake (Daily Excelsior, M.J. Akbar, Feb 11, 2001)
Mahatma Gandhi did not once mention the name of the Indian National Congress during his tour of north Bihar after the great earthquake of 1934. This was deliberate and no made this plain in case anyone had missed the point. He had come to help a ravaged p
- Li visit : A new start ? (Daily Excelsior, Jagmohan Mathur, Feb 11, 2001)
Senior Chinese leader Li Peng's nine-day visit to India was a firm indication that our northern neighbour has decided to normalise relations freezed after May, 1998 nuclear blasts. After the tests China joined other four members of UN Security Council who
- Break the deadlock (Daily Excelsior, S K Bhalla, Feb 11, 2001)
The prevailing unrest among the college students of Jammu province which at times took an ugly turn has left all the right thinking people bamboozled. More than 4 weeks have elapsed but no glimmer of a break through appears at the end of dark tunnel. The
- Don't call us, we'll call you (Pioneer, Shobori Ganguli, Feb 11, 2001)
Natural disasters, across the world, have often occasioned the coming into operation of surrogate diplomacy with international governments and societies rushing to the aid of the affected country, prioritising human suffering over political differences.
- Geo-administrative order of Maharaja's J&K (Daily Excelsior, Daya Sagar, Feb 11, 2001)
Jammu & Kashmir State, a princely State of British Empire (Greater
India), as it existed in August 1947 must draw the attention of all those who are occupied with the agony of the turmoil hit State of Jammu & Kashmir of modern India.
- A corrupt and inefficient Tihar (Pioneer, Anwar Ahmed, Feb 11, 2001)
This has reference to The Cutting Ed 'Teaching for the record' (December 17) by Chandan Mitra. The author is on the mark when he says universities are cesspools of intrigue and caste-based politics.
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