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Articles 16521 through 16620 of 16899:
- Beg Or Borrow (Indian Express, Richard Simon, Oct 19, 2003)
Congress okays $87 bn for Iraq, Afghanistan, with conditions
- Dealing With The Danger (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Oct 19, 2003)
New Delhi's role is considerably less interventionist than in other violence-scarred regions
- Neighbour Retaliates (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Oct 19, 2003)
The Indian government has not taken kindly to the news that some Pakistanis have illegally occupied 63 Clifton in Karachi, the Indian consul general’s residence until it was closed down in 1992 after a Pakistani mob stormed the building in the wake of the
- News Reel 12.10.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2003)
India's most-wanted becomes the world’s wanted as the United States blacklists fugitive Mumbai underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. In a huge embarrassment to Pakistan, the US Department of Treasury lists his location as Karachi and publicises his Pakistan Pass
- White Hand On Our Nuke Button? (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Oct 19, 2003)
As a steadfast member of the school of political thinking that totally opposes foreign prime ministers for India I never fail to take up the issue whenever it slips back into the news.
- Double-Speak: Antony Gives It Left, Right, Centre (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Oct 19, 2003)
Accusing the Marxists of double standards, Kerala Chief Minister A.K. Antony today said the activities of the Left parties, especially the CPI(M), in Kerala should serve as ‘‘an eye-opener’’
- Bjp Strikes Balance: Sp Can Stay, Let Vhp Play (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2003)
With UP Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav having acquitted himself rather well over the VHP’s Sankalp Sabha programme, it was obviously time for the BJP to come to his defence today.
- Do Nothing, Risk Nothing, Hopefully (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Oct 19, 2003)
With the crucial ‘‘semi-final’’ round of Assembly elections less than six weeks away, the Congress is trying hard to come out of the blue phase it is stuck in, but as of now the party leadership appears bereft of any action plan but one — keep things in l
- 9 Congressmen File Amicus Plea (Indian Express, T.V. Parasuram, Oct 19, 2003)
Nine US Congressmen, including Frank Pallone, co-founder of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans, have filed an amicus brief on behalf of over 20,000 victims of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal.
- ‘it’S A First: A Cm’S Letter To Pm Is Basis For An Alleged Crime’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2003)
You are a Christian by birth. Then how do you still claim to be a tribal since Christianity has always claimed to be a religion of equality
- Now Smart-Card-Carrying Cong Worker (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Oct 18, 2003)
Workers to get smart-cards to log on, talk directly to Sonia and brass
- The Day Before, Mulayam Tries To Cool Ayodhya Heat (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 17, 2003)
Signalling that some sort of an agreement had been reached with the VHP on the eve of its planned assembly in Ayodhya, the Uttar Pradesh government today announced that all Ram bhakts would be allowed darshan of the idol at the disputed site under certain
- Vajpayee On Vacation (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Oct 16, 2003)
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee gave himself a day out in Indonesia last week, wrapping up an afternoon of bilateral meetings before the ASEAN summit with a shopping expedition at an upmarket department store in the resort city of Nusaduwa. It was his
- Wealth: Agriculture Plus Services (Indian Express, Gopal Krishna Agarwal, Oct 16, 2003)
Rachel Carson, in her landmark book Silent Spring, has stated that the power of an idea can be greater than political power. In the economic development of a country, there are two factors at work:
- Sonia's Friends And Foes (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 16, 2003)
Her friends and foes alike refuse to let Sonia Gandhi's natural handicaps define the limits of her leadership
- Messy Grain Management (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
THE MESS THAT foodgrains management has become needs to be sorted out quickly. In just about one year, the grain inventory is down by exactly half — from 55.4 million tonnes in September 2002 to 27.8 million tonnes last month.
- Cancun: A Mere Show Of Strength (Business Line, Alok Ray, Oct 15, 2003)
NOT totally unexpectedly, the Cancun Ministerial of the World Trade Organisation meeting has concluded without yielding any agreement. The major stumbling blocks were the massive agricultural subsidies (estimated at be around $300 billion annually by the
- Iraq... Where There Are More Questions Than Answers (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 15, 2003)
ONE of the saddest and, perhaps in the long term, the most horrific, aspects of the ouster of the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq is the push the country seems to be getting in the direction of religious fundamentalism. About 60 per cent of the country's po
- Hindutva Rate Of Growth (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Oct 14, 2003)
There is hype and hypocrisy in economic projections
- All Pawared Up (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
Unfulfilled ambition makes shining nationalists of us all
- Cong Lowers Pawar Heat As It Rushes To Douse More Fires (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
Drops NCP ultimatum, works on Jogi back-up
- Bellwether For 2004? (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 13, 2003)
THE elections scheduled to be held in November-December for the State assemblies of Chattisgarh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram and Rajasthan are bound to be keenly watched by psephologists, media pundits and political players for any clues they may ...
- Mulayam Sends Ayodhya Sos, Pm Says Trust Vhp (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2003)
VHP MEET: MoS Chinmayanand’s role shameful, says angry CM
- Stamps Of Dishonour (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2003)
A LOCAL PUNE court recently remanded Krishna Yadav, the Telugu Desam MLA and former Andhra Pradesh Minister, to custody in connection with the fake stamp papers scam. Mr. Yadav, who was arrested last month by the Maharashtra police under the ...
- ‘we Made Mistakes Like Discouraging Private Sector, We Are Changing Now’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 13, 2003)
You are the only Marxist ruler, if I could call you so, in the whole world. Isn’t it so, and an elected one at that, barring the small government in Tripura
- Newsreel 05.10.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2003)
Smooth sailing Indo-US relationship is getting on to a new ‘Gliding Path’. Secretary of State Colin Powell tells the US media that the agreement on cooperation in high-technology, space launch equipment, civilian nuclear energy and missile defence would..
- Map Blues For Cong In Amethi (Indian Express, Diptosh Majumdar, Oct 12, 2003)
Chhatrapati Shahuji dist is history, more work for party
- Tiwari Baits Rebels, Mlas With Postings (Indian Express, S. M. A. Kazmi, Oct 12, 2003)
Threatened by a rebellion from his own party legislators, Uttaranchal Chief Minister Narain Dutt Tiwari threw a bait of offices to them and managed to win two other MLAs decimating the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in the Uttaranchal Assembly.
- Presidential Shuttle (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Oct 12, 2003)
It's not just the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister who are bitten by the travel bug. President Abdul J. Kalam is also constantly on the move, shuttling between Delhi and other parts of the country
- ‘delay In Taking Decisions Can’T Be Dubbed A Failure’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2003)
Do you think it would be appropriate not to take any action against K Muraleedharan and K Karunakaran in Kerala, both considered by majority Malayalees as obstacles worse than CPM to the current Antony administration
- Suspicious Times (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2003)
CBI would do well to remember that it, finally, is accountable only to the public
- Enlightenment, Buddha Style (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 11, 2003)
If India’s east is to emerge at all, Kolkata and West Bengal must be the engine
- Which Way Will Political India Go? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2003)
THE IMPORTANCE OF the Assembly elections in five States — Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi and Chhattisgarh — scheduled for November-December 2003 stretches beyond the immediate. This is the final round of Assembly polls ...
- A Bother For Bush (Hindu, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Oct 11, 2003)
The row over the leak of an undercover CIA operative's name to the media refuses to die down, much to the Bush administration's discomfort.
- Appointments & Disappointments (Hindu, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Oct 10, 2003)
Every judge must be an activist who shares the vision, the mission and the passion of the Constitution.
- Return Of The Hawala Calculations? (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 10, 2003)
Suddenly, the BJP's political rivals find themselves having to answer to the investigative agencies.
- Arnie, The Son-In-Law Of Camelot (Indian Express, Elizabeth Mehren, Oct 10, 2003)
At a family conclave, the largely Democrat Kennedys resolved to help Republican Schwarzenegger
- A Neighbour’S Paranoia (Indian Express, Jasjit Singh, Oct 10, 2003)
Pakistan’s search for parity with India is leading it up a blind alley
- Here Comes The New Prime Minister (Indian Express, Balbir K Punj, Oct 09, 2003)
A swadeshi Don Quixote is on the loose with his magic lathi, promising to make a Bihar out of everything he touches
- Look East Policy: Phase Two (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Oct 09, 2003)
Phase two of the Look East policy will help break out of the political confines of the subcontinent that have severely limited India's strategic options.
- Mr. Jogi In A Fix (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2003)
ONE CAN SPECULATE about why Ajit Jogi, the intelligent Congress Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, chose to accuse the Intelligence Bureau, evidently without any basis, of fabricating information with a view to dragging him and his family into ...
- Jogi Charged, So Is His Party And The State (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2003)
Queering the pitch for the Congress ahead of the Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, the CBI today filed a chargesheet against Chief Minister Ajit Jogi for ‘‘dishonestly or fraudulently’’ using a forged document to tarnish the image of the Intelligence...
- Muzzling Democratic Expression (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2003)
THE RULING BY the Calcutta High Court prohibiting processions and rallies on weekdays — after taking suo motu notice of inconvenience caused to the public in the form of a traffic snarl — is the latest in a sequence of judicial ...
- Visa Vicissitudes (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2003)
THE SCALING DOWN by the United States of the annual H1B visa cap from 1,95,000 to 65,000 with effect from October 1 may not leave India's software industry unduly perturbed in the near term. No doubt, the apex software association, Nasscom, will feel ...
- Congress Needs Inner Coalitions (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Oct 08, 2003)
Sonia Gandhi had her cup full of woes after Ernakulam and Solapur. Now Ajit Jogi has just added to them, with the CBI chargesheeting the Chhattisgarh chief minister. The implications of these developments go beyond the loss of two Lok Sabha seats in the..
- Pushed, Gujarat Moves On Bakery: Books Bjp Mla, Cong Cousin For ‘threatening’ Witnesses (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2003)
Pushed and prodded by the Supreme Court, the Gujarat government has finally moved against sitting BJP MLA Madhu Srivastava, named by Best Bakery witnesses Zaheera Sheikh and mother Sehrunissa as the man who intimidated them into lying in court.
- Louisiana’s Great Indian Hope Trick (Indian Express, Lee Hockstader, Oct 07, 2003)
Bobby Jindal is a deeply religious Republican whizkid. Can he save a whole American state
- Asian Currencies: New Global Scapegoats (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Oct 07, 2003)
America's twin deficits, many economists fear, would lead to a collapse of the dollar and global recession. In their desperation to find a solution, they have turned their attention to Asia, with the demand that governments, especially the Chinese ...
- Secularism Is In Luck Now (Indian Express, Syed Shahabuddin, Oct 07, 2003)
If Mulayam succeeds in Uttar Pradesh, he could trigger a national alliance
- 100 Per Cent Reservations Anyone? (Indian Express, Rakshit Sonawane, Oct 06, 2003)
The move of the BJP-led NDA government towards legislating a separate quota for the economically backward among the “forward” castes by amending the Constitution represents one step forward, two backwards.
- Oiling The Way (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2003)
The CCD clarifies: privatisation has not been halted by the Supreme Court verdict
- To Call Or Not To Call (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Oct 06, 2003)
IT IS not easy to get consumers to unite. Non-violent boycotts and protests are few and far between when it comes to consumer products. Even when there is a group of activists not afraid to tear down posters or resort to arson, there will always be enough
- Intelligence Fraud (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 06, 2003)
BOTH THE US President, Mr George W. Bush, and the British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, are in serious trouble for their suspected manipulation of intelligence in order to justify their attack on Iraq.
- Politics Of Cancun Failure — Us Stance Hardens Towards G-20+ Nations (Business Line, Seema Gaur, Oct 06, 2003)
American negotiators are criticising leaders of the G-20+, especially Brazil which is one of the world's largest agricultural producer of soy beans, beef, oranges and coffee, for posing as less-developed countries when their economies are, in fact ...
- Instant Walk-Out (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Oct 05, 2003)
The Congress party General Secretary Ambika Soni came to participate in the BBC talk show, Question Time, India, and discovered to her annoyance that Sonia Gandhi’s bete noire Subramaniam Swamy was to be a fellow panelist. Soni did not waste any time ...
- An Attack Seeks Answers (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Oct 05, 2003)
Terrorism nearly claimed the life of my good friend, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr Chandrababu Naidu. The attempt on his life deserves to be condemned, and has been rightly condemned, by everyone.
- Newsreel: 28.09.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2003)
Andhra CM N Chandrababu Naidu survives with a shoulder injury after PWG activists set off landmine blasts on the Tirumala-Tirupati road. Probe is ordered by the Andhra government and several cops are suspended.
- Bjp To Cash In On Upper Caste Quota In Elections (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2003)
The upper-caste poor may have to wait a long time to see the actual reservation benefits to come by, but the BJP is all ready to cash in on its positioning on the issue during the Assembly polls in the five states.
- Kpcc Chief To Explain Bypoll Defeat To Sonia (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2003)
Maharashtra PCC chief Ranjit Deshmukh having already met Congress president Sonia Gandhi today, it is now the turn of the party’s Kerala unit chief K. Muraleedharan to explain what went wrong in the Ernakulum bypoll.
- Just Deserts (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Oct 04, 2003)
It's just as well, now they tell us, that India and Pakistan did not send troops to Iraq. A report in the NEW YORK TIMES this week suggested it isn’t just Islamabad and New Delhi that are relieved — Baghdad is relieved as well. Because Indian and Pakistan
- Solapur Sky Has A Saffron Tinge (Indian Express, Prafulla Marpakwar, Oct 04, 2003)
Is the saffron combine in Maharashtra on the comeback trail in view of the humiliating defeat meted out in the Solapur by-election to Congress candidate Anandrao Deokate at the hands of sugar baron Pratapsinh Mohite Patil? That’s the question that is ...
- Toy Train Tantrums (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2003)
The BJP and Congress are being childish in their unseemly sparring over the Delhi metro
- Schools, Colleges Closed As Landslides Continue (Indian Express, S M A Kazmi, Oct 04, 2003)
With landslides hitting Uttarkashi for the 10th consecutive day today, nearly one-fourth of the population has been evacuated. As a precautionary measure, the Gangotri National Highway has been closed to pilgrims and the district administration directed..
- Politicians And Security (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2003)
THE DEADLY CLAYMORE explosions in Tirupati, the suspected lapses in security, and the probe ordered by the Andhra Pradesh Government into the entire incident have sharpened the focus on the security of politicians and VVIPs across India. Given ...
- Reserved: Upper-Caste Vote (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2003)
Constitution to be amended for quota for ‘economically backward’
- Mpcc Finds A New Reason For Solapur Fiasco: Pota (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Oct 04, 2003)
There is a new reason for the Solapur disaster. Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee chief Ranjit Deshmukh has said the party lost the seat because of POTA. A report that the PCC sent to the high command says as many as 37 POTA cases were registered ...
- Naidu’s Attackers Took Time, Not Chances (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2003)
Planted 17 mines on the road over 3-6 months
- Let's Start From The Scratch (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Oct 02, 2003)
Cheap credit, SMP/SAP, crop insurance, free power... Agriculture policy-making has been reduced to tinkering with an eye on votes. It is time the slate of farm policies was wiped clean for a new draft with a new architecture and a new ambition
- Congress(i) And Poll Preoccupations (Business Line, Rup Lal Sharma, Oct 02, 2003)
THE by-poll results are out and most major parties have some gains but also suffered major upsets, especially the Congress(I). Its losing the by-elections to the two Lok Sabha constituencies of Sholapur (Maharashtra) and Ernakulam no doubt came as a ...
- Cpm To Fight Cong In States, Ls Option Open (Indian Express, Santwana Bhattacharya, Oct 02, 2003)
Almost making the party’s anti-Congress move in Kerala the guiding principle, the CPI-M today ruled out the possibility of an alliance with the Congress in the forthcoming Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh or Chhattisgarh.
- Khadi Gets New Spin In Africa (Indian Express, V K Cherian, Oct 02, 2003)
In the land where Gandhi learnt the ropes, ‘Afrikhadi’ is the new buzzword. The Mahatma is alive in Mandela country
- Neighbour’s Envy (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Oct 02, 2003)
While the Indian mission’s media managers in New York couldn’t arrange much coverage for Atal Behari Vajpayee in American newspapers, they tried to gloss over their inadequacies by gleefully parading the negative publicity Pervez Musharraf got.
- Jogi Hints He Will Not Go Out Easily (Indian Express, Ashwani Sharma, Oct 01, 2003)
Breaking his silence over his meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi amid reports about the CBI planning to chargesheet him in a forgery case, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi today indicated he won’t bow out willingly.
- Left Tempts ‘leader’ With Red-Carpet Offer (Indian Express, Santwana Bhattacharya, Oct 01, 2003)
A day after Chief Minister A K Antony’s candidate was defeated in the Ernakulam Lok Sabha by-election, the CPI(M) moved in for a bigger kill: it tempted Antony’s bete noire K Karunakaran, whose support for Left-backed Sebastian Paul led to the Congress...
- Maha Mess (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2003)
Solapur shows that the Congress-NCP alliance is going nowhere
- Vegetarian_power (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 01, 2003)
THE recent news that eminent personalities, with the former President of India, Mr R. Venkataraman, in the lead, took part in a meeting in the Theosophical Society, Chennai, on Rukmini Devi's contribution to vegetarianism roused my curiosity.
- Warning_signals_for_congress (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2003)
WITH LESS THAN a year to go for the parliamentary polls, the defeat in the two Lok Sabha by-elections in Kerala and Maharashtra should serve as a warning to the Congress. The losses, to the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front in Ernakulam and to the ...
- For Liberty's Sake, Pota Must Go (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 29, 2003)
Political India must wake up to the truth that the only use of POTA can be its misuse.
- Cancun Is A Victory For Al-Qaida (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Sep 26, 2003)
World terrorism and world trade are perversely linked. When western protectionism hurts a Pakistani farmer, his son goes to the neighbourhood madarsa
- Bedside Manners (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2003)
Visiting Kanshi Ram in hospital has become the new measure of political relevance
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