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Articles 15721 through 15820 of 16899:
- Informed Debate, Mellowed Mood (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Jul 27, 2004)
From the days when a mere walk-out shocked Dewan Mirza Ismail, the legislative council has come a long way
- Human Development Report: The Good News And Bad News (Business Line, K. Parthasarathi, Jul 27, 2004)
The US Department of Health Services is to establish a registry that will ensure that the results of all clinical trials conducted in the US are available to the public on an electronic database.
- Re-Assess Water Needs (Pioneer, Ramaswamy R. Iyer, Jul 26, 2004)
THERE are three different but inter-connected ways of looking at the recent water-related developments in Punjab: as political developments, as legal questions, and as issues of water management.
- Left Provides Life Support To Manmohan (Tribune, Tripti Nath, Jul 25, 2004)
D. Raja, National Secretary of the Communist Party of India perhaps knew that he was a cut above the rest in his student days when he earned the distinction of being the first graduate in his village, Chiththoor in Tamil Nadu.
- Punjab’S Decision On Syl Sticks In Centre’S Throat (Tribune, Rajinder Puri, Jul 25, 2004)
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh protected his political interests by rushing through the Punjab Termination of Agreements Act (2004), abrogating water-sharing agreements with neighbouring states.
- Nepal's Expanding Insurgency (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 25, 2004)
Nepal is in the grip of a Maoist insurgency that has claimed nearly 10,000 lives since 1996. On a visit to the mountain kingdom, Nirupama Subramanian found people unhappy with both the monarchy and the politicians.
- Gp Koirala Emphasises Restoration Of Pratinidhi Sabha (Statesman, PARMANAND, Jul 24, 2004)
Girija Prasad Koirala, the Nepali Congress president, celebrated his 80th birthday on 4 July in New Delhi’s general and political heat.
- Gender Budgeting (Hindu, Brinda Karat, Jul 24, 2004)
Gender budgeting, if it is to be useful as a tool for women's advance, has to be implemented in conjunction with an egalitarian and democratic vision.
- Gender Budgeting (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Jul 24, 2004)
So may be it's safe now to speak about the market without its leaping off a cliff, screaming. (Or maybe not quite. By close on Monday, share prices recovered nearly half the losses they logged soon after opening.)
- Siding With Beasts In Wildlife Habitats (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Jul 24, 2004)
Recently there have been reports of leopards entering bustees on the outskirts of Mumbai and taking human lives. Elephants are known to emerge from their forests and destroy crops, hutments and trample people underfoot.
- The Colour Of Investment (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jul 24, 2004)
The ruckus over the proposed enhancement of the foreign direct investment limit in telecommunications, civil aviation and insurance has muddied UPA relations to such an extent that an important member of the
- Welcome Stay (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 24, 2004)
THE Andhra Pradesh High Court has rightly suspended the state's order that provided for 5 per cent reservation for Muslims in educational institutions and for government jobs.
- Not Just The Centre, The Periphery, Too (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Jul 24, 2004)
It is not just happening in Lhasa, but in smaller towns and villages too. If Lhasa is bustling with construction activity and new stores are filled with electronic
- Andhra Goes Ahead (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 23, 2004)
The Congress government in Andhra Pradesh has taken a bold step in going ahead with the necessary steps for holding talks with the Marxist-Leninist People's War Group.
- Time To Renew The Congress (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jul 22, 2004)
The Congress, as the oldest political outfit in the country and still the only all-India party, has to take the lead in reviving itself as a political organisation.
- Quota For Muslims (Tribune, Ramesh Kandula, Jul 22, 2004)
For the rudderless BJP weighed down by the electoral defeat, the issue of quota on the basis of religion has come as a potential political weapon for launching a long-drawn conflict with the UPA government.
- Sanatani Sonia: Subtle Shakti Of Renunciation (Times of India, K SUBRAHMANYAM, Jul 22, 2004)
This is a shining moment for India, its civi-lisation and culture, because a unique act of renunciation has occurred that upholds the quintessential tradition of the Sanatana Dharma.
- India Somersaulting (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 22, 2004)
Congress win symbolises the yearning for change
That gloriously unpredictable entity - the Indian electorate - has astonished spectators and participants alike by executing a perfect somersault and neatly reversing the foregone conclusion of . . .
- Right Choice, Baby (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 22, 2004)
Manmohan Singh, the man who steered India out of its worst economic crisis ever, will be the next prime minister of the country. We expect no major glitches — apart from the howls of some Congress netas anguished by the refusal of Sonia Gandhi to . . .
- Military Rules, Not Okay (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Jul 21, 2004)
The nation's political parties and politicians are continuously losing credibility as a result of increasing criminalisation of politics.
- Karnataka's Predictable Budget (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 21, 2004)
After the Central and Andhra Pradesh budgets, it was very much on the cards that the Congress-led coalition Government in Karnataka would also come up with what it could project as a "pro-farmer, pro-poor budget."
- Fake Killing (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 20, 2004)
Higher revenue and the social sector have been kept in mind in the surplus budget
- Slave Labour In Brazil (Hindu, Paul Brown, Jul 20, 2004)
An unpublished report for the ILO says that despite the best efforts of the Brazilian Government, slave labour continues in the country's interior.
- Reviving Good Practice (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 20, 2004)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh — a cerebral leader who takes the challenges and burdens of governance seriously — must be commended for reviving an excellent tradition: Jawaharlal
- Great Metamorphosis (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 20, 2004)
Higher revenue and the social sector have been kept in mind in the surplus budget
- Is There Political Will? (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Jul 20, 2004)
The State CMP lacks foresight, but its pro-poor measures could be effective if the corrupt are weeded out
- Resignations A Charade (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 20, 2004)
Political leaders in Haryana seem to be playing oneupmanship on the sensitive waters issue. The BJP called a Haryana bandh on Monday, which evoked a limited
- Cmp Sans Vision (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 19, 2004)
The much-delayed announcement of the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) of the Congress and the Janata Dal(S) coalition ministry of Karnataka has belied the expectation that it would serve as a five-year perspective plan for
- Aicc Revamp: Reward And Punishment (Hindu, K. V. PRASAD, Jul 19, 2004)
Nearly two months after the Congress came to power at the Centre via the coalition route, the party president, Sonia Gandhi, set herself to the task of re-building a team to run the affairs of the All-India Congress Committee.
- Gorbachev's Ghost (Pioneer, Ajoy Bagchi, Jul 19, 2004)
Saddam Hussein gave international currency to the phrase "mother of all battles" during the first Gulf War. The Elections 2004 could be, in a manner of speaking, described as the mother of all electoral battles in Independent India.
- Peace On The Guillotine, Again (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jul 19, 2004)
Dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir cannot succeed unless the central precondition for democracy exists: a commitment by all parties to resolve differences through discourse, not military means.
- Reformed Regime-I A Ploy To Deprive The Poor (Statesman, DIPAK BASU, Jul 19, 2004)
According to the media, corporate world, and private institutional finance houses, everything was fine in India because the balance of payment was in surplus, the growth rate was high, the foreign
- The Wily Third Man (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Jul 19, 2004)
In a machiavellian game, the US is playing India against Pakistan while having a separate relationship with both
- Farmer Can’T Wait (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 18, 2004)
The faltering monsoon poses a tough challenge for the government given how rhetoric drips with “concern” for the poor farmer. What poor farmers need when rainfall is inadequate, or worse, when there is drought, is quick delivery of assistance.
- Amarinder Singh's Terminator Act (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Jul 18, 2004)
Never before has any Chief Minister in this country acted so outrageously as has Amarinder Singh in Punjab by enacting — suddenly and somewhat surreptitiously
- Reality Bites (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 18, 2004)
As a Finance Minister concerned with projecting his Budget as investor-friendly, Mr P Chidambaram did the right thing by announcing hikes in FDI caps in telecom, civil aviation and insurance.
- A Severe Indictment (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 17, 2004)
As the World Bank’s report has confirmed it, Punjab has been a victim of poor governance. Its decline started in the nineties and still continues.
- A Fractious War On Aids (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 17, 2004)
In another kind of global war there seems to be a growing chasm between the policies being unilaterally pursued by the United States and the perceptions of the international community.
- Reality Bites (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 17, 2004)
As a Finance Minister concerned with projecting his Budget as investor-friendly, Mr P Chidambaram did the right thing by announcing hikes in FDI caps in telecom, civil aviation and insurance.
- Incendiary Act (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 16, 2004)
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav's as yet fledgling tenure has been spotted by several grave incidents of violence and dacoities on trains. But, evidently, his mind is elsewhere
- From Green To Hyderabad Blues (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Jul 16, 2004)
One small step for man on moon was a giant leap for mankind. "Secularists" might be dismissive of five per cent reservation in education and employment for Muslims in Andhra Pradesh.
- India Considers Historic Rewrite (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 16, 2004)
In the past five years, Indian schoolchildren of all faiths have learned quite a bit about the culture of the Hindu majority.
- India Playing With Maoist Fire (Asia Times, Sultan Shahin, Jul 01, 2004)
India appears to be taking a big gamble with Maoist insurgents. Encouraged by the central government in Delhi, the ruling Congress-led coalition government in the state of Andhra Pradesh has removed a nine-year-old ban on the People's War Group . . .
- Behind The Facade Of Indian Subsidies (Asia Times, Kunal Kumar Kundu, Jun 29, 2004)
Good politics is quite often bad economics, and nothing epitomizes this better than India's subsidy system. The subsidy policies in India are being advocated by those same policy makers who appear in public as pro-poor, but are driven by the . . .
- Taxman's Date With Death (Business Line, K. Parthasarathi, Jun 26, 2004)
As the new Finance Minister is grappling with the problem of raising the revenues of the government without hurting large sections of the people, he has very few choices.
- Professionals Need Crutches In Politics (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jun 26, 2004)
The other day, in his first address to the nation on television, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, said that "well-meaning citizens" who had strong views on the decline of "morals and ethics in public life" should ...
- Tamil Nadu Heads For Bankruptcy (Tribune, Arup Chanda, Jun 26, 2004)
THE recent rollback measures by Chief Minister Ms J. Jayalalithaa will cost the state exchequer at least Rs 3,000 crore a year and within two years of her regime, which is expected to last till May 2006, the state government will be left with a deficit...
- Punjab Finances In Disarray (Tribune, P. P. S. Gill, Jun 25, 2004)
Punjab continues to be an enigma. It knows what is wrong with its body politic and economy and is aware of its stalled industrial and agricultural production and productivity.
- Pm’S Concern (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 25, 2004)
All parties are equally guilty of undermining the dignity of Parliament
- His Power And Her Glory? (Pioneer, Rupa Sengupta, Jun 25, 2004)
Rumour has it that the Congress-led UPA and its Marxist backers have woken up to the need to avoid any 'impropriety' undermining the Prime Minister's authority.
- Without Jurisdiction (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 25, 2004)
The Election Commission has plainly exceeded its constitutional brief while dealing with the Rajya Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh.
- When Neighbours Talk (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Jun 25, 2004)
In India-Pakistan talks, "fixing" is legitimate, even necessary, to keep the dialogue process on track.
- India's Gandhi Must Burn Mother-In-Law's Recipe: Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, Andy Mukherjee, Jun 22, 2004)
Since last month's surprise change in India's federal government, the Mumbai stock exchange Sensitive Index has shed 13.6 percent in dollar terms, more than any other benchmark equity index in the world.
- Reforms Take Back Seat In Andhra (Tribune, Ramesh Kandula, Jun 22, 2004)
From Ferraris to farmers is the paradigm shift the new Congress government led by Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy has brought about in its over one month in power in Andhra Pradesh.
- Globalisation Gets A Riposte In India (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Jun 22, 2004)
Political analysts have been attempting to delve deeper into the outcome of Elections-2004 that led to the downfall of the BJP-led NDA Government and the emergence of a stronger countervailing (secular) force
- Shirkers As Members (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 22, 2004)
ON Wednesday, the day the Punjab Vidhan Sabha was to discuss the Budget for 2004-05, most of the ruling party members chose to stay away. Now a Budget is a very dry subject to talk about.
- Budget Pulls And Pressures (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 22, 2004)
UNION Finance Minister P. Chidamabaram, who had been eulogised in the 90s for unveiling a “dream” Budget, is cautioning everyone in the Congress-led UPA government that it might not be possible for him to give full and proper play to all suggestions ...
- Sheer Numbness (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jun 22, 2004)
Whatever its statements for the record, the Bharatiya Janata Party has been amply demonstrating that it is at sea in coping with its unexpected defeat in the general election.
- Poor And Fat (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 21, 2004)
Various government agencies report that poor Americans are more likely to be fat than the non-poor. Threadbare analysis has spotted the villain. Commercial establishments call it fast food, but food analysts say it is junk.
- When Losers Are Victors (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Jun 21, 2004)
AS a cub reporter in the early seventies, I found it quite thrilling interviewing Mr P.M. Sayeed, who had just been elected for the first time from Lakshadweep. And a few years ago, when he visited our village as the chief guest at a church's centenary...
- Team Manmohan Charting A New Course (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 20, 2004)
The message from the new Government at the Centre is clear. While economic reforms will continue, it will not be a mindless pursuit keeping the weak and the downtrodden out of its beneficial loop.
- Not Left Out (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 20, 2004)
"Power without responsibility. This is a canard spread by bourgeois commentators and superficial television journalism, which seeks to tar all parties with the same brush," says the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member, Prakash Karat.
- The Left Will Help Manmohan Complete His Term: Bardhan (Tribune, Tripti Nath, Jun 20, 2004)
Communist Party of India General Secretary A.B. Bardhan has grown up with the party. He became its member during the student movement in the late forties.
- The Men Who Matter (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 20, 2004)
The Prime Minister himself: No certificates are required to establish Manmohan Singh's credentials as a reformer. But his role has changed from the one he had 13 years ago and in the last eight years he is understood to have imbibed many political nuances
- Reduce Nuclear Risk With Pakistan (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 19, 2004)
The Nuclear weapons in the hands of India and Pakistan have made the region a much more dangerous place is in the nature of an axiom that only advocates of the discredited doctrine of deterrence will bother to contest.
- Road Map For Kashmir (Tribune, K. Subramaniam, Jun 19, 2004)
The talks between the central leadership and various Kashmiri dissident groups are expected to begin shortly. There is an expectation on the part of Pakistanis of progress on the Kashmir issue in the forthcoming meeting among the foreign ministers ...
- Politics And Rajya Sabha Nominations (Hindu, K. V. PRASAD, Jun 18, 2004)
What were the compulsions behind the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi's decision to nominate three senior leaders for the coming biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha even though they were rejected by the people in the recent Lok Sabha elections?
- Stability Can Be Dicey (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Jun 18, 2004)
The sensex doesn’t seem to have been able to shed its nervousness which followed the Vajpayee government’s defeat. There is apparently still a lingering nostalgia for the pro-business inclinations of the NDA government as opposed to the populist and ...
- The Track To Success (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Jun 18, 2004)
Given the complexities of the India-Pakistan relationship, back-channel diplomacy needs to be employed on a sustained basis.
- Containing States' Profligacy (Hindu, Amaresh Bagchi, Jun 15, 2004)
Fiscal discipline in a democracy cannot be secured by rules or legislation alone. Rules can work only when backed by well-informed public opinion.
- Economic Compulsions Of Coalition (Business Line, T. N. Ashok, Jun 15, 2004)
More than the Common Minimum Programme, it is the Budget that will set the tone for UPA's economic agenda. Especially watched by the investing community will be the fate of reform and if it will be accelerated. Can coalition politics see this through?
- Jindal Leads Again (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 14, 2004)
Remember Bobby Jindal, the Indian-American, who lost a high-profile gubernatorial race in Louisiana last November? Well, he is leading in the US congressional race again even as his family battles a private crisis.
- Food For Work (Hindu, SUSHMA RAMACHANDRAN , Jun 14, 2004)
The new Government should ensure that food-forwork programmes adhere to the basic principle of distributing food rather than cash.
- Tasks Before The Bjp National Executive In Mumbai (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Jun 14, 2004)
The three-day Bharatiya Janata Party national executive committee meeting in Mumbai from June 22 has a major task before it — analysing the recent general election results in detail, coming to grips with the main reasons why it lost and taking corrective
- ‘Taint-Free’ Judeo (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 14, 2004)
There is an old apocryphal story about a preacher who would pronounce harsh judgements on the residents of his village if they so much as missed keeping a fast.
- Uttar Pradesh On The Boil (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 14, 2004)
Congress leaders may make out that their recently intensified disquiet over law and order in Uttar Pradesh is motivated by genuine concern for the well being of the people of the State.
- One For The Road: Another Kind Of Exclusion Politics (Tribune, Sridhar K. Chari, Jun 13, 2004)
Irrespective of the party you support, and laudable though the voters’ independence and the “democratic success” of the recent electoral exercise are, there is one thing that is worrying.
- Winning Back The Electorate With Sops (Hindu, MALABIKA BHATTACHARYA, Jun 13, 2004)
The Trinamool Congress leader, Mamata Banerjee, appears to have taken one last gamble to win back popular support which all but evaporated in the May 10 parliamentary election leaving her with only one seat against 10 held earlier.
- Manmohan Became Pm On Merit And Due To Compulsions: Atwal (Tribune, Prashant Sood, Jun 13, 2004)
THE first MP of the Shiromani Akali Dal to be elected to the post of the Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker, Mr Charanjit Singh Atwal, seems comfortable about his new role.
- Not Garlands All The Way (Tribune, Chanchal Sarkar, Jun 13, 2004)
Forty years after the death of Nehru, there is still an irrepressible wish to play the game of, “What might have been” if circumstances had panned out differently. Would independence have come earlier? Would there not have been that terrible bloodshed...
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