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Articles 13821 through 13920 of 16899:
- Amid The New, China Seeks Out The Old (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Jun 22, 2005)
The success of Xintiandi in Shanghai has fuelled demands for the preservation of historic buildings across China.
- The Winning Combination (Telegraph, Sanjay Kumar, Jun 22, 2005)
Going by past performance, the RJD has the best chances in the coming assembly polls. But in Bihar, you never know, says Sanjay Kumar
- Us Says 1,907 People Died In International Terror Last Year (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
More than 1,900 people died in international terrorist attacks last year according to US data released today. It was triple the figure for 2003 but officials said this reflected more aggressive government efforts to track such violence.
- Time For Constitutional Statesmanship (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jun 22, 2005)
After the recent talkfest at the Conference of Governors, it is time for follow-up action.
- This History Can Be Tricky (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Jun 22, 2005)
Advani can claim some credit for his courage in pointing out to Pakistanis what Jinnah really stood for
- The View From Pakistan (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 21, 2005)
The controversy over opposition leader L.K. Advani’s praise of Mohammed Ali Jinnah has had an adverse fallout in Pakistan.
- Don’T Dismiss Bjp, Or Advani (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Jun 21, 2005)
Whatever happens to him personally, L.K. Advani has shifted the debate in the BJP, the Sangh parivar, and indeed in the subcontinent, on the definition of secularism and the role of Jinnah, Nehru, Gandhi.
- Elections For Bolivia (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 21, 2005)
FOR the second time in less than two years mobs have defeated democratic institutions in the South American nation of Bolivia.
- What Terri Schiavo Saw (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 21, 2005)
According to Terri Schiavo’s autopsy report, her “lateral geniculate nucleus (visual) demonstrated transneuronal degeneration with gliosis”.
- Murmurs Over Andhra Pradesh Move On Quotas (Hindu, W. Chandrakanth, Jun 21, 2005)
The Andhra Pradesh Government's decision to provide five per cent reservation in education and employment for Muslims has sparked a debate
- Beyond Politics (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 21, 2005)
The Govt did well by pushing for PSU disinvestment and the oil price hike
- Nehru At Root Of India’S Problems: Rss Chief (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
K S Sudarshan averred that Muslims were not foreigners and they should not ask for minority status; he avoided mentioning Advani in his speech.
- Deuba's Detention Is "Unconstitutional" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
Senior leaders of the seven-party alliance in Nepal on Sunday met the former Prime Minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba, who is in police custody after defying the royal anti-graft Commission, and expressed solidarity with the ousted leader.
- The Leader Article: Such A Rewarding Partnership (Times of India, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Jun 20, 2005)
On June 18, the warring Ambani siblings announced the settlement of their much-publicised dispute over the ownership and control of a vast industrial empire.
- Candour On Immigration (Dawn, Robert J. Samuelson, Jun 20, 2005)
Immigration is crawling its way back onto the national agenda — and not just as a footnote to keeping terrorists out.
- Politics Of Partition (Tribune, K. Subramanyam, Jun 20, 2005)
There is a belated debate on the responsibility for the partition of India and the role played by Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
- 'Til Death Do Us Part (Yahoo! News, Ari Berman, Jun 20, 2005)
Last April, with little media coverage, the House voted 272-162 to permanently repeal the estate tax, which by then had been re-christened the "death tax" by anti-tax conservatives.
- Politicos Feeding Off Turmoil (Japan Times, RONALD MEINARDUS, Jun 20, 2005)
MANILA -- These days the political class in the Philippines is preoccupied with other things besides governing. Attention is focused on what one commentator has termed "the worst crisis any administration" has ever experienced. The opposition is . . . .
- Reinventing The Bjp (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jun 20, 2005)
Indian politics is in flux. The United Progressive Alliance is an alliance of unlikely bedmates, formed to keep the Bharatiya Janata Party out of government. It cannot last.
- Cooperation, Not Conflict (Dawn, Henry A. Kissinger, Jun 20, 2005)
THE relationship between the United States and China is beset by ambiguity. On the one hand, it represents perhaps the most consistent expression of a bipartisan, long-range American foreign policy.
- Hooda’S Blunder (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 20, 2005)
Only recently Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had spoken against giving free power to farmers.
- Shirdi’S Salute To Bollywood (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Jun 20, 2005)
AS he emerges from the little mosque, 85-year-old Ghulam Habib Abdul Rehman Pathan seems an unlikely candidate to sing paeans to Bollywood.
- Stray Incidents Mar Kolkata Civic Polls (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
Jyoti Basu criticises police for failing to arrest troublemakers
- Elections For Bolivia (Washington Post, Editorial, The Washington Times, Jun 19, 2005)
FOR THE SECOND time in less than two years mobs have defeated democratic institutions in the poor South American nation of Bolivia. President Carlos Mesa, who tried to settle paralyzing political conflicts through a referendum and accords with Congress,
- Sethu Project: Madurai Venue For Foundation Laying Ceremony (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2005)
Anti-Sethu project movement threatens to greet Prime Minister with black flags
- U.P. Congress Plans To Bring Dalits Back (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2005)
Dissension blamed for drift of faithful
- The Situation Must Be Met (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jun 19, 2005)
We returned to Calcutta on Direct Action Day, August 16, 1946.
- Advani’S Charm Offensive (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2005)
After the Musharraf-Manmohan Singh April meeting in New Delhi and their joint statement, the week-long visit to Pakistan of India’s opposition leader and president of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) L.K. Advani is unquestionably the second most important. .
- Some Scars Of The Emergency (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 18, 2005)
SOME scars do not go away. They remind a nation of the rough period it has gone through. One ugly mark on the face of India is the emergency.
- Congress Awakens (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2005)
WHILE THE BUSH administration and the courts have tangled over the perplexing legal problems of the war on terrorism, Congress has remained on the sidelines
- Reducing Rollovers (Washington Post, Editorial, The Washington Times, Jun 18, 2005)
ROLLOVER CRASHES claim more than 10,000 lives annually; they account for just 3 percent of accidents but one-third of vehicle occupant deaths.
- Secularism In The Subcontinent (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 18, 2005)
The multiplicity of identities alone can check the exclusivity and negative features of any single identity
- Sonia And Manmohan, Party And Government (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jun 18, 2005)
When Manmohan Singh sees off Congress president Sonia Gandhi at the airport, he is merely acknowledging that though he heads the United Progressive Alliance Government, he remains a Congressman.
- Mayawati’S Makeover (Indian Express, Vrinda Gopinath, Jun 18, 2005)
The resounding cries of Ganesh, Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh at the last Bahujan Samaj Party-sponsored Brahmin Sammelan in Lucknow could not have been a better welcome by Dalits to their new partners, the Brahmins.
- The Price Of Occupation (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 18, 2005)
SIX more American soldiers were killed in Iraq on Wednesday. Even though this is not the single biggest casualty toll for a day,
- Understanding Jinnah (Tribune, Chaman Lal, Jun 17, 2005)
THE controversy created by BJP President L.K. Advani’s comments on Jinnah has brought into focus the role of different political personalities during freedom
- Flying The Leader, Protocol And Propriety (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jun 17, 2005)
Leaders of all political parties find themselves, from time to time, having to request the use of aircraft belonging to this or that industrialist or industrial house.
- Indifference To History (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Jun 17, 2005)
LET a diminished Mr L. K. Advani run the shaken BJP as best he can after taking back his resignation as the party president even though the so-called compromise
- Governors’ Dharma (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 17, 2005)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have rightly advised Governors to rise above partisan politics while discharging their constitutional duties.
- Why Maya Is Memsaab (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 16, 2005)
It is the season of change on the political landscape. First Hindutva ideologue Lal Krishna Advani travels to Pakistan,
- Defend Advani Against Attacks: Vajpayee (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Jun 16, 2005)
Mind your own business, BJP tells VHP
- United They Stand, Divided They Lose (Telegraph, Sumanta Sen, Jun 16, 2005)
Despite the cries against Laloo Yadav’s “misrule”, neither the CPI nor the CPI(M) is likely to part ways with the RJD, writes Sumanta Sen
- Andhra Cm Asks Naxals To Eschew Violence (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2005)
HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, has asked naxalites to exchew violence and join the national mainstream.
- Maoist Problem Was Main Focus Of Talks" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2005)
I have returned with the goodwill of the Indian Government and the people: Girija Prasad Koirala
- Another Test For West Bengal's Opposition (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Jun 16, 2005)
West Bengal's Opposition parties have another chance to challenge the Left Front before next year's Assembly election.
- Talking To Insurgents (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 15, 2005)
After the recent cease-fire pact signed with the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB),
- Advani’S Blunder (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Jun 14, 2005)
IF L.K. Advani’s efforts to reinvent himself have misfired in view of his party’s refusal, presumably under pressure from the RSS,
- Is The Us Economy Slowing? (Tribune, Tom Petruno , Jun 14, 2005)
Very little is ever obvious in commentary by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, and that’s by design: He likes to keep his options open.
- Two Makeover Artists (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Jun 14, 2005)
Last month I described the transformation of General Musharraf from a no-holds-barred adversary of India to a jigarjaan dost.
- Trouble In The Agp (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Jun 14, 2005)
THE ASOM Gana Parishad (AGP) could be heading for a split. The cracks have widened after the party's steering committee served
- Naxals Blow Up Tenali Mp’S House (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2005)
Maoists blasted the ancestral house of Congress MP from Tenali Lok Sabha constituency, Balashoury, and looted cash and gold ornaments worth Rs two lakhs, police said.
- Apotheosis Of Jinnah? (Tribune, G S Bhargava, Jun 13, 2005)
Has Lal Krishna Advani set the cat among the pigeons? Or more aptly, considering that Pravin Togadia, Ashok Singhal and their likes have got his scalp, hawks in pigeons’ plumes?
- Back On The Ram Rath (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Jun 13, 2005)
The author is an independent researcher. He has recently co-edited the book, Battles Over Nature
- Mayawati Makes A Move (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 13, 2005)
Eventually extremes meet. Politics being no exception to this iron law, Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati seeking to join hands with Brahmins is not surprising.
- Sanyas Over Jinnah? No Way (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Jun 13, 2005)
L.K. Advani unfortunately is no Jassi when it comes to makeovers.
- What Have The Collectors Collected? (Hindu, P. K. Doraiswamy, Jun 12, 2005)
At present, there is practically no review by the Centre of how well the All India Services are being managed in the States
- Idea Of Jinnah’S Secularism Difficult To Digest’ (Deccan Herald, Ibrahim Afghan , Jun 12, 2005)
A recent remark of the BJP president L K Advani on the Founder of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah has started the expected debate,
- Rjd Will Win Bihar Polls: Raghuvansh (Tribune, Prashant Sood, Jun 12, 2005)
Union Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh has the onerous task of implementing three of the six components of the UPA government’s...
- Dalits In Private Sector Will Make India Stronger (Telegraph, Udit Raj, Jun 12, 2005)
The United Progressive Alliance Government was able to muster the support of dalits by promising them reservation in private sector, filling up backlog posts, distribution of land etc.
- Reformer Tamed (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 12, 2005)
Most critics of Mr L.K. Advani believe that he will always be the bridesmaid and never be the bride.
- Big Debate To Small Drama (Telegraph, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jun 12, 2005)
The author is president, Centre for Policy Research
Slipped through the fingers
The BJP’s resolution that facilitated Advani’s withdrawal is a painfully blinkered return to its own past.
- Advani, Jinnah And The Secularism Debate (Hindu, Anil Nauriya , Jun 11, 2005)
To define the nation on the basis of religion and then to say that the state would be non-religious is an oxymoron
- Dissolution A Fraud: Nda (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 11, 2005)
Arun Jaitley alleged that the government had misled President Abdul Kalam by not giving him the correct picture about the situation in Bihar.
- Advani Down But Not Out (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 11, 2005)
The semantic jugglery could not hide the fact that Advani’s take on Jinnah had no takers. All it provided was a face-saver for the resignation drama to end.
- Sc Asks Centre For Affidavit On Bihar (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 11, 2005)
Four former NDA legislators from Bihar charged the UPA government with subverting democratic norms at the behest of RJD chief Laloo Prasad Yadav.
- Now, Let’S Talk Gandhi (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 11, 2005)
In this season of revisionism, the RSS can take another look at the father of our nation
- Who"s Secular, Who Is Not? (Deccan Herald, Tavleen Singh, Jun 11, 2005)
The Congress party seems as worried by Advani’s newfound secularism as Hindutva fanatics are.
- Borrow More, Spend More (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 11, 2005)
Indians are already so heavily taxed that any budget that avoids fresh taxes is welcome. But governments need funds to run state affairs and meet demands of growth.
- Netaji Remains An Idol (Tribune, T.P. Sreenivasan, Jun 11, 2005)
Austria had a major role to play in Netaji’s life, not in the least because his wife, Emilie Schenkl, and their daughter, Anita, lived here.
- Kendriya Sarkar (Tribune, Shriniwas Joshi, Jun 11, 2005)
I was driving from Shimla to Dehradun via Sarahan and Nahan. The curvaceous road had churned my stomach well and I thought of filling the vacuum thus created at a dhaba in Markanda, a small village throbbing in the shadows of the town of Nahan.
- Has The Debate On Jinnah Begun? (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Jun 10, 2005)
"Bid to put Congress on the defensive" "It seems that at least one section of the BJP feels that it can `win' the debate and the hearts and minds of the people by juxtaposing Jinnah with Jawaharlal Nehru, and blame Nehru for Partition"
- Bsp Showcases Its `Brahmin Might' (Hindu, Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Jun 10, 2005)
Party had never been against upper castes or Hindu religion, says Mayawati
- Which Way Will Bjp Go? (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Jun 10, 2005)
A Jinnah story few people know is part of Lord Denis Healy’s repertoire.
- From Military Coups To People's Coups (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 10, 2005)
Latin America's political elites need to accept the new reality that power has passed from the drawing room to the street.
- France Casts Shadows Across The Bosphorous (Hindu, M.K. Bhadrakumar, Jun 10, 2005)
A sense of unease prevails that Turkey will have to settle for a vastly different European Union than it may have sought.
- Advani's Resignation — Cathartic, Yes; Catastrophic, No! (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jun 10, 2005)
There are some happenings of history which it has never been possible for perspicacious mind-readers to explain to anyone's full satisfaction.
- Advani's Karachi Speech Decoded (Hindu, Suhas Palshikar, Jun 09, 2005)
The RSS has failed to understand the line of legitimation Mr. Advani has opened up; and the Congress, in its enthusiasm to mock him, has chosen to neglect the challenge this speech has thrown up for it.
- So Many Jinnahs (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 09, 2005)
The furore surrounding L.K. Advani’s recent visit to Pakistan and his homage to its founder at Jinnah’s mausoleum in Karachi has reopened the debate about the Quaid-e-Azam’s vision for the subcontinent
- It Is A Very Mixed Blessing To Be Brought Back From The Dead (Business Line, D. Murali , Jun 09, 2005)
Don't go to the grave with life unused, advises Bobby Bowden, and professional firms normally don't end their life unsued, which is what happened in the case of Arthur Andersen.
- Eastern Disturbances (Telegraph, Sumanta Sen, Jun 09, 2005)
Both the Centre and the Assam government are turning a blind eye to the collaboration between ULFA and the ISI, writes Sumanta Sen
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