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Articles 16321 through 16420 of 16899:
- Verdict Need Not Indicate Trends In Ls Poll, Feel Bjp, Congress (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Nov 28, 2003)
With pollsters forecasting a mixed verdict, the mainstream political parties, BJP and Congress, are wary of projecting the coming Assembly contests as a curtain raiser for the Lok Sabha elections next year.
- Kerala Crisis: Congress Waits For Deadline To End (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 27, 2003)
While the Congress decided to put every other issue on the backburner till the end of Assembly polls, senior party leader K. Karunakaran’s sustained offensive is making it difficult for the party to wait and watch before dealing with the Kerala crisis.
- Why This Digvijay Village Doesn’T Speak For Him (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Nov 27, 2003)
Thanera is an average village in an average constituency, where none of the main contestants has an appeal outside party affiliations. So like any Madhya Pradesh village, it shows precisely why Digvijay Singh’s biggest boasts over the past five years—achi
- We’Re Not Trying To Fix Jogi: Cbi (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 27, 2003)
CBI Director P C Sharma today denied the Congress’s charge that it had fabricated evidence and tried to implicate Chattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi’s son in the Dilip Singh Judeo bribery case.
- It’S All In The Stars (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 27, 2003)
Are film actors real crowd pullers or mere crutches for nervous candidates?
- Politics Of Drought Favours Gehlot (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 26, 2003)
ALMOST all opinion polls have placed the Congress(I) in a pretty comfortable position in Rajasthan. In the villages around Jaipur and Ajmer that this correspondent visited, the Rajasthan Chief Minister, Mr Ashok Gehlot, is looked upon as an annadata.
- Politics Of Drought Favours Gehlot (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 26, 2003)
ALMOST all opinion polls have placed the Congress(I) in a pretty comfortable position in Rajasthan. In the villages around Jaipur and Ajmer that this correspondent visited, the Rajasthan Chief Minister, Mr Ashok Gehlot, is looked upon as an annadata.
- Realism On The China Border (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Nov 25, 2003)
If there was any need for more evidence to confirm that the Government is exploring an early and final settlement to the boundary dispute with China and has the political will to make the necessary political adjustments, we have it from the External Affai
- Govt Should Report On Use Of Forex Reserves: Chidambaram (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 25, 2003)
We haven't found a way to make good use of our resources. Every Government should account for what they are doing about public sector assets and forex reserves, Mr Chidambaram said.
- The Us-China Trade Spat (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Nov 24, 2003)
Whether the differences between the world's biggest and fifth biggest trading nation will affect the thawing Sino-American trade ties in the immediate future is still uncertain, but the fact remains that it could lead to hiccups on the international trade
- `Rajasthan Needs More Investments And Jobs' (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 24, 2003)
IF THE ordinary man in Jaipur, who has some links or the other with the villages of Rajasthan, is grateful to the Gehlot Government for good drought management, a section of the business community is unhappy with the Congress(I) Government for "its failur
- The Us-China Trade Spat (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Nov 24, 2003)
Whether the differences between the world's biggest and fifth biggest trading nation will affect the thawing Sino-American trade ties in the immediate future is still uncertain, but the fact remains that it could lead to hiccups on the international trade
- `Rajasthan Needs More Investments And Jobs' (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 24, 2003)
IF THE ordinary man in Jaipur, who has some links or the other with the villages of Rajasthan, is grateful to the Gehlot Government for good drought management, a section of the business community is unhappy with the Congress(I) Government for "its failur
- On The Wrong Track (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 24, 2003)
THE RANSACKING OF the Railway Recruitment Board's office in Mumbai and the blockade of suburban trains at the city's nodal Churchgate station last Wednesday, by activists affiliated to the Shiv Sena deserve the most emphatic condemnation.
- The Cbi Should Be Given A Free Hand To Investigate The Fake Stamp Paper Scandal (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 24, 2003)
The decision of the Union Government to ask the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to take up the investigation into the fake stamp paper scandal, which had surfaced in several States, has come not a day too soon.
- How Can You Say There Was Progress In J&k In One Year Of Mufti Rule? (Indian Express, Hari Om, Nov 24, 2003)
I am in full accord when you say in your editorial, ‘Mufti’s long year’ (IE, November 7) that “there is no doubt that the violence directed from across the borders in still a major handicap in turning the situation around to sustainable peace and prosperi
- Venality On Videotape (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 23, 2003)
First it was the Tehelka. Now it is the Judev video. As it were, Indian politics is still to come to terms with the interventionist potential of the 24-hour news channel. Television has already redefined, in many ways, how the leaders and political partie
- The Mask Comes Off (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 23, 2003)
Voters in Madhya Pradesh feel that the judev footage only reflects the true face of politicians, says Lalit Shastri.
- India: Why Life Is Elsewhere (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Nov 23, 2003)
Jet-lagged and bleary eyed I landed at Mumbai airport in the early hours of a morning last week to be accosted, while waiting for my bags to arrive, by a young man who wanted to know my views on the airport. He was doing a survey for the Airports Authorit
- Firing Line: Ashok Gehlot, Cm, Rajasthan (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 23, 2003)
'Casteism? We suggested economic reservations'
- Billed To Last (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Nov 23, 2003)
Andhra Pradesh Congress chief D Srinivas who stayed at Andhra Bhavan in Delhi earlier this month was infuriated when he was presented with a bill of Rs 2,500. As an MLA, Srinivas is accustomed to being charged at the nominal rate of Rs 2 per day as room r
- A New Identikit (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Nov 23, 2003)
Jogi peddles ‘Chhattisgarhia’ pride in language, dress and movies
- Brazening It Out (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Nov 23, 2003)
There is little doubt that it was primarily the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who insisted that the man in the eye of the storm over the "cash on camera affair" must go.
- Money Matters (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 23, 2003)
Winning an election is a sure way of making those fast and vast quantities of bucks which can keep generations living in style. Neena Vyas reports.
- Bjp Flags Self In, Steps On Gas (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Nov 23, 2003)
Internal study puts party on No 1 slot
- Finance Ministry Asks Cbi To Probe Stamp Paper Scam (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 23, 2003)
A week after the Allahabad High Court’s direction, the government has decided to handover the investigation into the Rs 30,000 crore stamp paper scam to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
- One Region, Two Rules (Indian Express, Raja Menon, Nov 22, 2003)
The US allows China access to hi-tech but says ‘no’ to India
- Battle For The Shrunken Pie (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Nov 22, 2003)
The policy debate mostly ignored the divisive potential of fragmenting the Railways into 17 zones.
- An Alternative Union In Europe? (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Nov 21, 2003)
While the noises about a possible Franco-German union are essentially early warning shots aimed principally at Poland and Spain, they are also a pragmatic setting-out of scenarios for possible future action if the E.U. Constitution fails to win acceptance
- The Biharis Who Never Saw Bihar Until Last Night (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Nov 21, 2003)
: Twenty eight-year-old Mukti Yadav has never been to Bihar. He has only seen its outline on a map of India. And that was very long ago: he was a child then, studying in an Assamese-medium school. Home has always been Assam for Mukti, a Bihari.
- Ajit Jogi And The Talking Mynah (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Nov 21, 2003)
A soft, thin wire mesh has been thrown around an 80 feet tall wild tree in the compound of the forest department in Jagdalpur, headquarters for the Bastar division of Chhattisgarh. This unique caged tree is the habitat for four Bastar Hill mynahs, the wor
- Steel War Across The Atlantic (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Nov 21, 2003)
A trade war between the EU, ready with its $2.2-billion sanctions through tariffs on select American goods, and the US is looming large and is likely to engulf other nations aggrieved over Washington's protectionism.
- Steel War Across The Atlantic (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Nov 21, 2003)
A trade war between the EU, ready with its $2.2-billion sanctions through tariffs on select American goods, and the US is looming large and is likely to engulf other nations aggrieved over Washington's protectionism.
- Are They Sadder In Sudder Street? (Business Line, D. Murali , Nov 20, 2003)
YEARS after much was in the news about the goings-on in the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICWAI), there is finally some action from the Department of Company Affairs (DCA).
- Are They Sadder In Sudder Street? (Business Line, D. Murali , Nov 20, 2003)
YEARS after much was in the news about the goings-on in the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICWAI), there is finally some action from the Department of Company Affairs (DCA).
- Cold To Cbi, Cong Feels The Telgi Heat (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 20, 2003)
Governor writes to Shinde, agency gets foothold in Bangalore
- Karunakaran Sets A Deadline: Sack Antony (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 20, 2003)
More than two decades after Marine Drive in Kochi saw the unification of Congress factions in Kerala, senior leader K. Karunakaran today lined up 21 MLAs, including two Ministers, (the Congress has 62 in a House of 140) before an estimated 2 lakh people a
- Assam, Centre Count Bodies And Excuses (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Nov 20, 2003)
29 killed in attacks against biharis: ULFA rushes in where state Govt takes time to tread, Centre says polls so we can’t send ‘so many forces’
- L'affaire Judev Puts Bjp In Dock (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 19, 2003)
EQUITY analysts have been at pains to point out that in the current stock market rally, liquidity has been provided mainly by retail investors. While the foreign institutional investors and institutions have been mopping up blue-chips as well as mid-cap s
- L'affaire Judev Puts Bjp In Dock (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 19, 2003)
EQUITY analysts have been at pains to point out that in the current stock market rally, liquidity has been provided mainly by retail investors. While the foreign institutional investors and institutions have been mopping up blue-chips as well as mid-cap s
- Tncc Turntable (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 19, 2003)
I HAVE never been in such a fix as when I was frantically casting about for the right title for this piece. Should I call the happenings leading to the dismissal of the President of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC), Mr S. Balakrishnan, and its Wor
- Tncc Turntable (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 19, 2003)
I HAVE never been in such a fix as when I was frantically casting about for the right title for this piece. Should I call the happenings leading to the dismissal of the President of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC), Mr S. Balakrishnan, and its Wor
- Judeo-Gate’S Missing Hero (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Nov 19, 2003)
What happens to 24-hours TV news channels when they wake up to read The Sunday Express exclusive on a VCD of Minister of State for Environment Dilip Singh Judeo accepting a bribe? Immediately, rush to get a reaction from the moustachio macho man of Chhatt
- Judeo’S Head Helps Pm, Dpm Put Their Foot Down On Cong (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2003)
Campaign: Look who’s talking, they say; in Bikaner, PM says sack Jogi
- Is It A Cong. Signal On Alignments? (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Nov 19, 2003)
Though the appointment of G.K. Vasan as president of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee was not unexpected, the timing of the announcement has certainly taken political circles in the State by surprise.
- The Government Has Acted With Commendable Swiftness On The Judeo Expose (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 18, 2003)
Dilip Singh Judeo is not likely to substitute his volleys of recrimination with expressions of remorse in a hurry. But Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has acted with admirable swiftness in banishing his tainted minister from his council and promising
- Talking With E. Sreedharan (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Nov 18, 2003)
‘I don’t budge just to please somebody else. When politicians find they can’t interfere, they respect’
- Damage Control Day: Mulayam Fires Lawyer, Does A Babri Rewrite (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 18, 2003)
His allies and Muslims quick to notice the sudden softening of his attitude towards the Vajpayee government, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav today launched an exercise in damage control: he fired his government’s counsel in the Supreme Co
- Rss Saffron Has Many Colours: One For Dalit Bangaru, Another For Judeo (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Nov 18, 2003)
When the BJP’s first Dalit president Bangaru Laxman was caught on tape accepting Rs 1 lakh in cash, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was quick to condemn him the same evening as a ‘‘failed swayamsevak.’’ But in the case of Dilip Singh Judeo, the Sang
- Party’S Fear In Poll Year: Judeo Video May Play, Replay (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Nov 18, 2003)
Monday morning for the top brass of the BJP and the Government was a lot clearer. Prime Minister A B Vajpayee had set the stage the previous night and with both Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani and party president M Venkaiah Naidu agreeing with the PM tha
- Frames Of Shame (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 17, 2003)
The NDA govt has many achievements to its credit, it should quickly clean this ugly blot
- Party Hits Delete, Pm Pause (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Nov 17, 2003)
If he is guilty, he will have to go: PM
- Tolerance Paves The Way, Jaya (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Nov 17, 2003)
It is incomprehensible why Jayalalithaa, who is known to have national ambitions, chose to blot her copybook by attacking a national media institution like the Hindu. By that one act, she ended up uniting the media behind that organisation, as seldom befo
- Congress Hopes It Can Milk Judeo Tape And So Whitewash Jogi (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Nov 17, 2003)
The Congress, so far on the defensive in Chhattisgarh as it battles the cloud over Chief Minister Ajit Jogi—facing alleged forgery charges and EC stinkers—seized upon the videotape in The Sunday Express expose and made it clear that it would be utilised b
- Winds Of Change? (Hindu, Lalit Shastri, Nov 16, 2003)
Can the BJP take advantage of the anti-incumbency sentiment in Madhya Pradesh
- Backburner Bench (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Nov 16, 2003)
Many fear that the Supreme Court intervention in the arrest of five journalists for breaching the Tamil Nadu Assembly’s privilege will lead to a judiciary versus legislature confrontation. But indications are that the highest court in the land will avoid
- A Harvest After The Drought? (Hindu, Sunny Sebastian, Nov 16, 2003)
In Rajasthan, the Congress is approaching the elections with a great deal of confidence
- Cong Parties, Hopes For Bigger Do On Dec 4 (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Nov 16, 2003)
At Iftar, Sonia stokes ‘complete hope of success’
- Dry Run (Indian Express, Anuradha Nagaraj, Nov 16, 2003)
Gehlot hopes to ride drought wave to power
- Bahu Adopts Parivar (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Nov 16, 2003)
They seem to be made for each other. Both stand for trademark tradition and the values of the Parivar. Meet the ideal Hindu naari of soap world, Tulsi of Kyonki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi fame, the BJP’s latest tinsel mascot.
- Initiative With The Incumbent (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 16, 2003)
The BJP is Delhi is handicapped by the absence of any major election issue, says SUJAY MEHDUDIA.
- Caught On Tape: Union Minister Taking Cash, Saying Money Is No Less Than God (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Nov 16, 2003)
As the polls draw near, the dirt has begun to fly faster and thicker.Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Dilip Singh Judeo, considered a strong BJP chief ministerial candidate for Chhattisgarh, has been caught on camera accepting cash in a
- Sai Hitch In Ncp-Bjp Pre-Poll Alliance (Indian Express, Ashwani Sharma, Nov 16, 2003)
Anxious to avoid a split of the anti-Jogi vote in Chhattisgarh, the BJP is exploring the possibility of a tie-up with the Nationalist Congress Party. One issue, however, stands in the way - the NCP which has fielded Hemwant Porte against Chief Minister Aj
- Cpm Set To Back Cong In Andhra (Indian Express, Santwana Bhattacharya, Nov 16, 2003)
The CPI(M) today decided to commit itself to an alliance with the ‘‘Congress-as-the-opposition’’ for the Andhra polls to defeat the BJP-TDP combine after having backed out in the other states as the Congress is the ruling party there.
- Hands Full (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Nov 16, 2003)
With a few smaller parties in the fray, CM has more than BJP to reckon with
- The First Battle (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 16, 2003)
The only tactic of the BJP, a house divided, is to gun for Ajit Jogi who has his own problems. AARTI DHAR on the first Assembly election in Chhattisgarh.
- Vilasrao In The Dock On Telgi ‘link’ (Indian Express, Haima Deshpande, Nov 16, 2003)
Within days of former Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh’s name surfacing in the stamp paper scam, partymen want him out of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) to ‘‘save the party from getting a bad name’’.
- Uribe And Upheavals (Hindu, Juan Forero, Nov 15, 2003)
Successive resignations of top Government officials have led many in Colombia to question the Right-leaning administration of President Alvaro Uribe.
- Survivor, Andhra Style (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 15, 2003)
The success of Chandrababu Naidu’s gamble hinges crucially on rural Andhra’s response
- Konark & Fibre-Glass Ducks (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Nov 15, 2003)
My Orissa diary: why the state needs to get out of the margins and come on to the national page
- On To The Polls (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 15, 2003)
Chandrababu Naidu wants to strike before the sentiment in his favour goes cold
- Does Bush Have Options In Iraq? (Indian Express, K. P. Fabian, Nov 15, 2003)
There are some signals that America is looking for an exit strategy in Iraq to be implemented as the presidential election in November 2004 approaches. Ambassador Robert Blackwell, currently working as the deputy national security advisor to the president
- Cong Pulls Rama Pilot Out Of Poll Hat (Indian Express, Anuradha Nagaraj, Nov 15, 2003)
She will take on Vasundhara, fight just got more exciting
- Is It Advantage Congress? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 14, 2003)
From first impressions it appears the Congress(I) is ahead in Delhi, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, which go to the polls next month along with Madhya Pradesh, where, however, the party is not so happily placed. Rasheeda Bhagat surveys the electi on scene.
- Tdp Votes For Snap Poll (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 14, 2003)
THE Telugu Desam Politburo on Thursday approved a resolution for dissolution of the State Legislative Assembly and decided to seek a fresh mandate of the people. This could mean a snap poll in the first quarter of 2004, at least six months ahead of its fu
- Is It Advantage Congress? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 14, 2003)
From first impressions it appears the Congress(I) is ahead in Delhi, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, which go to the polls next month along with Madhya Pradesh, where, however, the party is not so happily placed. Rasheeda Bhagat surveys the electi on scene
- Terrorist Threat To Saudi Arabia (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 14, 2003)
THE TERRORIST ATTACK on a residential complex in Riyadh last week is part of an intensifying campaign against a political order that has prevailed for decades. In this political scheme the royal family of Saudi Arabia, the Al Saud, keeps its subjects unde
- Privilege Unlimited (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Nov 14, 2003)
If Indians and their media cannot criticise their rulers in the legislatures, who will?
- Congress Poll Tickets For All Delhi Ministers (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Nov 13, 2003)
Congress in Delhi has decided to send most of the sitting MLAs and all the ministers back into contest for the Assembly elections in a bid to retain the face of the government and count on positive incumbency.
- In The Name Of The Party (Hindu, Harish Khare , Nov 13, 2003)
Under the doctrine of "in the name of the party", bribes are not seen as such but as a legitimate requirement of political outfits.
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