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Articles 16121 through 16220 of 16899:
- Changing Colours Of The Uniform (Telegraph, MADHUSHREE C. BHOWMIK, Dec 16, 2003)
Could this be the beginning of the era of the righteous? Or is khaki showing its true colour after washing off the grime in Bihar’s political badlands? It may be too early to hazard a guess, but the suspended Bihar director-general of police, D.P. Ojha
- Oil Sector Disinvestment: The End Or Means? (Business Line, Ruddar Datt , Dec 16, 2003)
AS ON March 31, 2002, 13 public sector enterprises were engaged in producing, refining and selling oil and other allied products. All these enterprises (excluding Bongaigaon Refinery) recorded a total net profit of Rs 12,715 crore in 2001-02, and ...
- Deficiencies And The Defection Law (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2003)
THE FAILURE OF the existing anti-defection law is reflected by the simple fact that it has, albeit unwittingly, promoted the very phenomenon it set out to check — political defections. As the National Commission to Review the Working of the ...
- Trading Chairs (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2003)
Why it takes an outburst by Najma Heptulla to reduce Rajya Sabha to silence
- The Mandate And Its Pieces (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Dec 15, 2003)
The Judeo-Jogi affair has not ended with the Chhattisgarh election. In the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls next year, the Congress and the BJP are both using it to score points against each other. The Congress has demanded that the probe against Dilip Singh
- Light At The End Of The Tunnel (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 15, 2003)
The more things change, the more they are the same. It was in 1968 that the proposal to limit the size of the Cabinets, at the Centre and in the States, was first mooted by Y.B. Chavan, the Home Minister in the Indira Gandhi Government. The ceiling was
- Of Hindutva And Governance (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Dec 15, 2003)
Signs of Hindutva were unmistakable in the elections... [But] we are so used to equating it with belligerence that we do not notice it when it takes subtler forms.
- The Message From Assembly Elections 2003 - Give The People What They Want (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 15, 2003)
THE din and dust of the State elections in the heartland of India has not yet settled down. Analysts and commentators are busy explaining the rout of the Congress in most of the States.
- Check The Retail (Telegraph, CP Bhambri, Dec 15, 2003)
Rules are unquestionably important in the operations of both the legislature and the executive. Yet a set of written guidelines, like the proposed 97th amendment bill, can never take the place of good sense and ordinary decencies. Till 1985, when the ...
- For Sonia, Unity Doesn’t Begin At Home (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Dec 14, 2003)
Even AS Congress chief Sonia Gandhi repeated her call to secular parties to join in her ‘‘fight against communalism’’, storm clouds gathered over the AICC headquarters here today.
- The Stung Never Go Unsung (Indian Express, Raju Santhanam, Dec 14, 2003)
‘‘Welcome to the first ever spy scam award. Unlike the Oscars and other such awards in India, it is always difficult to nominate the winner because the main player does not know he is ‘acting’ in front of the camera.’’
- Nothing Has Changed In The Congress (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Dec 14, 2003)
To the exclusion of almost every other subject of importance, Delhi has been discussing, with much surprise and dismay, the Congress' self-inflicted wounds in the national capital. For this, there are good reasons.
- Let The Spirit Flow (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2003)
Taking a moralistic stance on the government’s decision to license more liquor shops exposes the protesters’ silliness
- Sing Vande Mataram Or Face The Music: New Rajasthan Govt’s First Decision (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2003)
Vasundhara Raje doesn’t seem to be a Chief Minister in a hurry. Rajasthan officials have been told by the new CM to prepare a 100-day development programme and that she wouldn’t be inaugurating anything for the next one month. But one of the first ...
- ‘judiciary Should Ensure Justice For Dubey’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2003)
It is time for every true Indian to wake up. Shoot corrupt politicians and officers. We cannot let Satyendra Dubey’s death go to waste.
- Don’t Get Carried Away (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Dec 13, 2003)
After the recent assembly poll success, it’s celebration time for the BJP. But the way it is jubilant about its election managers and software experts, it seems it has well and truly written the Congress epitaph. If BJP leaders care to pause and ponder
- Campaign Fund-Raising (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 13, 2003)
Republicans and Democrafts are squaring off for a new fight over the ways campaign finance can be raised in the U.S.
- Telgi Taints Cong, Sena: 2 Ex-Cms, 3 Ministers (Indian Express, SHAILESH GAIKWAD , Dec 13, 2003)
Stamp Duty and Registration Dept’s list says Deshmukh, Rane, Cong and Sena ministers pushed for Telgi, associates
- Behind The Election Outcomes (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2003)
A NUMBER OF explanations have been offered for the emphatic victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the recent round of State Assembly elections, in which the result in Delhi has been the only consolation for the Congress. However, the detailed ...
- Congress Vs Congress (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2003)
In Punjab the two factions have given proof of their own limitations
- Fifth Year, Fifth Gear (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 13, 2003)
Why the Vajpayee govt’s last-year-as- slog-overs attitude is good governance and shrewd politics
- Refreshingly Unchanged (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2003)
Old Bajrang Dal hand and new Social Welfare Minister Madan Dilawar, who issued the order, has his own reasons: ‘‘Why not? It is a prayer praising the motherland and it is important that children recite it. We have reversed the Congress order and any ...
- Over Butter Chicken, They Bring Knives Out (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Dec 13, 2003)
His deck burning, Captain sends out SOS; AICC takes its time, rivals cheer
- The Isolation Of Ajit Jogi (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Dec 12, 2003)
Remember what was said about Mussolini and his Fascists when they lost the state power that made them invincible? They were like street urchins without it. Ajit Jogi’s situation is somewhat similar, now that he’s lost the trappings of office. Neither his
- Sore Losers, Inc (Indian Express, SHREEKANT SAMBRAN , Dec 12, 2003)
In fact, the true architects of the BJP victory are Congressmen and women
- The World According To Sonia (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Dec 12, 2003)
It requires no complicated analysis to conclude that Sonia Gandhi probably has the job she wants. Number 10, Janpath is any day a superior bungalow to 7, Race Course Road. Every world statesman, representative of think tanks, scholar who visits New Delhi
- Subverting The Mandate (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2003)
THE FRESH CRISIS engulfing the ex-Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, Ajit Jogi — this time in a criminal case revolving round an alleged attempt to bribe Bharatiya Janata Party members of the newly constituted Legislative Assembly — has ...
- Empire Of Spoils (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2003)
America is taking its ‘you are with us or against us’ motto too far in Iraq
- Mamata Hoping For Coal And More (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2003)
TRINAMOOL Congress leader Mamata Banerjee, who is a minister without portfolio in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, is on pins for a portfolio. She has been assured by the Prime Minister over the telephone that the needful will be done earlier that ...
- Jogi Is Black And White, Judeo Case Is Fuzzy: Vajpayee (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2003)
PM Reply: Takes political swipe: says polls show people believe in Judeo
- New Mizoram Govt On Slippery Ground (Tribune, David M. Thangliana, Dec 12, 2003)
CHIEF Minister Zoramthanga, who has been sworn in for his second term in office, says his government will concentrate on development and peace.
- The Sheila Parable (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2003)
Delhi demonstrates the Congress party’s capacity to diminish its own victories
- That Head Beneath The Cap (Telegraph, Kaushik Roy, Dec 12, 2003)
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- Delay In Delhi (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2003)
Systems and conventions determine individual action. The inordinate delay in announcing that Ms Sheila Dikshit will be the next chief minister of Delhi can be explained by a prevailing set of democratic practices in India. By any reckoning, Ms Dikshit was
- The Great Indian Tragedy (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Dec 12, 2003)
Jawaharlal Nehru was without question one of the principal architects of India’s freedom movement. While Gandhi Maharaj was the inspiring deity, Nehru was, to the millions, the prince charming. Nehru was also the independent nation’s first prime ministery
- Pm: No Remote Control In Judeo Video Probe (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2003)
ls: Vajpayee says he sent Express story to CBI; Oppn slams Govt, CBI
- India’s Degenerated Polity (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Dec 11, 2003)
Judeo and Jogi are its telling symbols
- Slow Death Of Public Decency (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 11, 2003)
All this unlocking of the cupboards would not be a bad project if the idea was to cleanse politics of dirty money and rogue politicians. Unfortunately, the current itch is driven by partisanship.
- Not So Happy A Birthday (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 11, 2003)
Today marks the second anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization when it became the 143rd member of that world body. The negotiations for the accession took fifteen long years and were marked by many twists and turns. Finally, China
- Add One More To Sonia’s Headaches: Punjab Cong (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2003)
Still reeling from the rout in the Assembly polls, the Congress was today nursing a new headache: dissident MLAs in Punjab ganged up against Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and flocked to rival Rajinder Kaur Bhattal. A worried Amarinder had to rush 38 ...
- A Vasundhara Raje Show (Tribune, Girja Shankar Kaura, Dec 11, 2003)
Women find a voice in Rajasthan
- She Is A Factor, Not A Figure (Telegraph, Gouri Chatterjee, Dec 11, 2003)
If the market will not come to politics then politics will have to be brought to the market. Newsroom bosses may have accepted their marketing department’s wisdom that politics does not sell, but they are a long way off from knowing how to fill their ...
- A Faceless Election Ahoy! (Business Line, M. A. Venkat, Dec 11, 2003)
THE first phase of elections is over, and the results have not been flattering to the Congress(I).
- The Judeo-Jogi Test (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Dec 11, 2003)
The sight of Judeo accepting a bribe. The sound of Jogi offering a bribe. The Express exposed the Union minister’s shenanigans three weeks before Law Minister Arun Jaitley did the same to the officiating chief minister of Chhattisgarh. Political ...
- Sting In The Tail (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2003)
Real magnanimity does not trample even upon a worm. The Bharatiya Janata Party, if it does not change its ways, may fail this test. It has not stopped gloating over its sting operation on Mr Ajit Jogi, the outgoing chief minister of Chhattisgarh. The ...
- The End Of The Line? (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Dec 11, 2003)
A traveller who got lost in the countryside came across a farmer standing by a fence. He stopped to ask him for directions. The farmer, chewing on a blade of grass, told him, “If I were you, I wouldn’t start from here.”
- Exit In Disgrace (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2003)
A VC who harmed HPU
- Bjp Campaign Paid Dividends (Tribune, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 11, 2003)
Chhattisgarh awaits decision on Jogi’s fate
- Vidarbha - A Model Farmers' State? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Dec 10, 2003)
Vidarbha could be an ideal pilot for the kind of economic and political system that the mainstream farmers' movement in India has been demanding and agitating for. The movement for a separate Vidarbha was so far led bypoliticians who treated it as a flag
- The Strategies That Win Elections (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 10, 2003)
IN response to the article "Introspection time for Congress-I" (Business Line, December 6) by his author urging the Congress(I) to introspect on its poor performance in the Assembly elections in the Hindi heartland, a couple of readers wrote to say that..
- A Progressive Conservative (Hindu, K. Natwar Singh, Dec 10, 2003)
Rajaji's character never showed to better advantage than during those periods when he was almost completely isolated politically.
- ‘muslims Don’t Provoke. They’re Scared. This Scared Indian Muslim Is A Big Threat To The Unity Of Our Country’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 10, 2003)
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, at his native village Saifi in Etawah.Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s Walk The Talk:
- Chorus: We Shall Sign The Whistleblower Bill (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2003)
Parliament: From TDP to BSP, all parties say we need to protect whistleblowers, Somnath demands statement in LS
- Why Evms Are So Dicey (Indian Express, Vivek Deshpande, Dec 10, 2003)
When a frustrated Congress was blaming its poll debacle on, among other things, the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in New Delhi, a man in his late seventies was preparing to set out on a walkathon from Kanyakumari for a cause that India’s oldest ...
- An Uncertain Ceasefire (Hindu, Pran Chopra , Dec 10, 2003)
Both New Delhi and Srinagar will have to keep a keener eye open for whatever Pakistan may lob up across the Line of Control.
- Bush’s Sinking Ship (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Dec 10, 2003)
Coming back to Washington after a month abroad is like returning to a land which has changed beyond comprehension in so short a time. It is okay once again to poke fun at POTUS, the president of the United States. Talk show hosts like Bill Maher are no...
- Protect Us (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2003)
The third quarter of this year may have been good for the American economy, with a gross domestic product growth rate of 7.2 per cent and with manufacturing indices and productivity figures also perking up. But the administration in the United States of
- Sad Times For Sonia (Tribune, H. K. Dua, Dec 10, 2003)
And the party has run out of ideas
- Fall Of The Reforms Messiah (Telegraph, Shaibal Gupta, Dec 10, 2003)
The Congress’s failure to factor in the OBCs and the absence of regional support for reforms account for its defeat in Madhya Pradesh
- Not Through Acrimony (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2003)
THE political corruption issue, whether it relates to Mr Dilip Singh Judeo, Mr Ajit Jogi or numerous lesser mortals, has occupied the centre-stage, so much so that it can perhaps be considered the most vital one facing the country. Sleaze at the top has a
- Harsh Reality (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
The fact that opinion polls had mentally prepared the political class for the one-sided outcome does not lessen the impact of the rout suffered by the Congress in Madhya Pradesh. In his 10 years at the helm, Mr Digvijay Singh had successfully projected a
- Bjp Turns The Tables On Congress (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Dec 09, 2003)
THE Bharatiya Janata Party’s sweep in three of the five states in the assembly elections — it was never a serious contender in Mizoram which nevertheless kept the Congress at bay - portends the future in more ways than one. By circumstance or design, the
- It’s Simple, Sonia (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
The Congress needs more eye contact with the reality around it, not endless talk sessions
- Defeat And Its Consequences (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Dec 09, 2003)
Kudos to the BJP for overturning what most agreed was a certain Congress victory in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and a possible retention by the Congress of Madhya Pradesh. The Congress is, of course, beaten — and the pollsters more so.
- Muck Unspooled (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
Leaders must step in, clean up political practices if our democracy is not to go down the tube
- Election Lessons (Telegraph, Barun De, Dec 09, 2003)
The BJP’s victory shows that the electorate, concerned with more immediate issues, has chosen a party of order over one of diffuse choices
- Cast Out (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
Ironies abound in Indian politics, and the permutations and combinations that win or lose votes comprise some of the most striking ones. Rajasthan’s chief minister is a woman, for the first time in the state’s history. Projected as a Jat by the Bharatiya
- Cong Tries To Wash Away Jogi Stain, Bjp Keeps Rubbing It In (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
In a reversal of roles in Parliament today, the Opposition came under fire from the treasury benches: ruling party members demanded that Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh, Leaders of Opposition in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, come up with statements to ...
- Jogi In The Dustbin (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
IT has been a double blow for Mr Ajit Jogi. First he lost the Chhattisgarh battle tamely and now he is in a soup following the audio tape scandal. But he has only himself to blame. Despite the fact that he has proved more than once his abiding faith in...
- Nineteen Years After (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
THE Supreme Court is right in rapping the Central government for its decision to withdraw a case filed in the context of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The grounds advanced by the Commissioner of Police, Delhi, for seeking the withdrawal of the case were ...
- Jogi In The Dustbin (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
IT has been a double blow for Mr Ajit Jogi. First he lost the Chhattisgarh battle tamely and now he is in a soup following the audio tape scandal. But he has only himself to blame. Despite the fact that he has proved more than once his abiding faith in...
- Power Of ‘parkati’ Women (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Dec 08, 2003)
The educated woman is not as politically irrelevant as the pundits think
- Comfort Level (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2003)
Since anti-incumbency has become the democratic mantra of the moment, nothing can distract from the feat of the chief minister, Ms Sheila Dikshit, in holding on to Delhi for a second, consecutive term. She was the natural beneficiary of the visible ...
- History, Live And Alive (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Dec 08, 2003)
While celebrating Indian advertising in the pink city, the industry might have sought advice from Vasundhara Raje Scindia or Pramod Mahajan on creating a winning campaign. The latest Nirma TV commercial looks like the entrails of peacock who has just ...
- Jogi Admits He Goofed, But Cong’s Cold: Don’t Even Call (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Dec 08, 2003)
The day after the BJP claimed ‘‘entrapping’’ Ajit Jogi in a cash-for-MLA sting, the ignominy of the defeated Chhattisgarh CM was complete: the Congress washed its hands of the matter and, ignoring his repeated requests, kept him out of the Congress Work
- Bjp Victory Without Hindutva Card (Tribune, Satish Misra, Dec 08, 2003)
THE raging debate after the spectacular victory of the BJP in the Hindi-speaking Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in political circles is whether the BJP-led NDA is going to get another term at the Centre.
- Sonia Shares Rout Blame, Her Party Hunts For More Excuses (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2003)
CWC:From EVMs to BJP money power, none spared; and then a ‘secular’ call
- Presidents Remade By War (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Dec 08, 2003)
Lincoln, Wilson and now Bush... how war can transform a president
- After Victory, Hard Grind (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2003)
ONCE the heady excitement of the victories tapers off, the new chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh will have to settle down to realise the burden of the new responsibilities. It will be all too easy to mistake the triumph as a...
- Bad Times (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2003)
Mr Ajit Jogi seemed to have been his own worst enemy. When awareness dawned on the Congress, especially after the exit polls, that the party was less the target of the voter’s projected lack of faith than the chief minister, it came too late to be ...
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