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Articles 16721 through 16820 of 16899:
- The Road To Lucknow (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2003)
From a familiar matrix, the UP politician has crafted an original drama
- Our Son, The Fanatic (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 06, 2003)
Is it already time for us to revisit our favourite post-9/11 boast? If you are an optimist, you might say it is still early days, or that these are mere straws in the wind. Truth to tell, straws in the wind these are and while there is still time to do...
- In The Red (Indian Express, Amrith Lal, Sep 05, 2003)
When CPI(M) members in Kerala accuse each other of being CIA agents, the party’s in trouble
- Maya Out, Mulayam-Rajnath In (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Sep 04, 2003)
The Mulayam Singh-Rajnath Singh nexus is no longer a secret. It’s being flaunted on the streets of Lucknow. Their faces peer down from banners and hoardings everywhere. They appeared overnight, as soon as it became clear that Mulayam would be the new ...
- Who’s Responsible In Daman? (Indian Express, Milind Ghatwai, Sep 04, 2003)
The bridge that collapsed in Daman last week claiming the lives of 29 children and an adult could well be a symbol of the apathy with which this union territory has for long been administered.
- Stuck In The Muddle East (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 03, 2003)
At his last cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Vajpayee would have done well to get the highly articulate Palestinian foreign minister, Nabil Sha’ath, into the foreign office, if only to explain the government’s position on the continuing chaos in the ...
- Ambedkar’s Orphans (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Sep 03, 2003)
In UP, the dalit queen is gone, and the OBC chieftain rules. Yadav masses and the cocktail circuit are both dancing attendance on Mulayam Singh Yadav.
- Managing The Nuclear Deterrent (Indian Express, Jasjit Singh, Sep 03, 2003)
The announcement about the very first meeting of the National Command Authority more than five years after the country declared itself a nuclear weapons state would naturally raise more questions than it answers. The most crucial element of nuclear ...
- Off With Maya Men, Say Digvijay’s Men (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Sep 03, 2003)
Mayawati’s parting of ways with the NDA may make the Congress look at her differently. But that’s in the future. As for the present, the Digvijay Singh government has been under pressure from Congress MLAs to shunt out Dalit officials believed to be BSP
- Cancun: Keep The Wheels Moving (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Sep 03, 2003)
With Cancun just days off, various groups of nations are sitting in conclaves to work out ways and means to ensure that the bicycle of trade negotiations does not fall, and the WTO ministerial does not end in abject failure. This would be a serious ...
- This Is How Congress Plays Opp: Says Stop All Trains For An Hour (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Sep 02, 2003)
Warning its cadres of the likelihood of early general elections, the Congress high command has instructed its state units to bring to a halt rail traffic across the country for an hour on September 22. This is intended to be the first Congress salvo again
- 'Centre Is Indifferent Towards Us. They Come Here Only When There's A Blast' (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 01, 2003)
Days after the twin blasts ripped through Mumbai city, Maharashtra CM Sushilkumar Shinde spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief, The Indian Express, at the Gateway of India, one of the sites where the tragedy had struck. Excerpts from the interview ...
- No Pangs (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Aug 31, 2003)
Believe it or not, ‘‘nationalism’’ has lured new Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Gegong Apang to the BJP. Apang, who was admitted to the BJP amid much fanfare at the party headquarters, told mediapersons today that he and his fellow MLAs had joined the
- Sonia Spells Relief (Indian Express, Ashwani Sharma, Aug 31, 2003)
Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s proposed visit on September 1 has added pace to relief work in Chhattisgarh. Chief Minister Ajit Jogi was busy making aerial surveys of flood-affected areas today — supervising relief work and dropping food packets for
- Trips Empire Strikes Back (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Aug 31, 2003)
The agreement reached yesterday at the World Trade Organisation to sew up the 2001 Declaration on Trade-related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and Public Health has been hailed as a humanitarian gesture that will provide expensive ...
- Poll Plot Fizzles (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Aug 31, 2003)
Mayawati’s moves have put paid to L K Advani and Venkaiah Naidu’s plan to call an early General Election. The BJP think tank first calculated that the party would benefit from a General Election this year itself cashing in on the good monsoon and the ...
- Ulta Pulta Tributes To Ulta Pradesh (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Aug 31, 2003)
People tend to look down on Ulta Pradesh (UP). Look at its human development indices, they sneer, its mosquito-infested swamps, its run-down schools. I find this finger-pointing in extremely bad taste. Okay, UP’s schools may have no roofs, but that’s ...
- Power To The People, And How! (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Aug 31, 2003)
Last week, as the squalid political soap opera that was the collapse of the Mayawati government played itself out wearily on our television screens did you notice how much Indian politics has changed?
- Echo In The Corridors Of Power (Hindu, Mahesh Vijapurkar, Aug 31, 2003)
The Maharashtra Government is under fire.
- September 11, August 25 (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 30, 2003)
As we walk into the lobby of the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, Maharashtra Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde looks to his left, at the front office. We have no intention of checking in. We are merely strolling in for breakfast and Shinde somehow looks more
- Problem-Solving: The Up Test (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Aug 29, 2003)
The turn of events in Uttar Pradesh, bomb blasts in Mumbai, Archaeological Survey of India’s findings on Ayodhya, prime minister in Srinagar — more than one political process is in operation. The preoccupation in New Delhi is with the drama in UP. In ...
- Up Is Down Is Up (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2003)
Amidst these amazing incongruities, here’s hoping for some responsive governance
- After The No-Trust Move (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Aug 29, 2003)
There is a potential for closer cooperation among the Opposition parties within Parliament and for coordination outside.
- A New Regime In Uttar Pradesh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2003)
BY INVITING THE Samajwadi Party leader, Mulayam Singh Yadav, to form a Government, the Uttar Pradesh Governor, Vishnu Kant Shastri, has played it by the book. After the fall of the Mayawati Government, democratic convention required the Governor ...
- Danger From Elbowing Out American Workers (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 29, 2003)
IN A context in which legislatures of some States in the US have sought to ban offshore outsourcing and engagement of non-American workers and immigrants, it is not surprising that the suicide at California of an employee of the Bank of America following
- Cooperatives Spat Leaves Capital Crying For Milk (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Aug 29, 2003)
MILK shortages in cities make news, more so when they occur in the capital of a country that prides itself as the world's leading milk producer. But if there is something that the current milk supply crisis in Delhi really exposes, it is the deep fissures
- Up Village Inspired Kalam (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Aug 28, 2003)
For those who wondered what the source of inspiration was for the dominant communal harmony theme of President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s Independence Day eve address, here’s the answer. It was his unpublicised trip to a tiny village named Magher where the ...
- When Mumbai Is Wounded, India Aches (Indian Express, RAFIQ ZAKARIA, Aug 28, 2003)
Mumbai can be hurt, bombed, maimed — but never broken. It has the spirit of World War II London
- With Delhi In Kashmir, Militants Let Guns Talk (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Aug 28, 2003)
As Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee presided over the inter state chief ministers’ conference this evening, militants struck barely a few kilometres away in a clear attempt to chill the current thaw in the Valley.
- It Doesn’t Seem To Care (Indian Express, Amrita Shah, Aug 28, 2003)
Who are the people who died in Monday’s bomb blasts in Mumbai? When you see visuals of the empty, blood-splattered area abutting the Gateway of India, it is not hard to imagine it instantly filled with people. People whose faces you don’t usually notice.
- Left & The Struggle Against Bjp (Deccan Herald, Ranen Sen, Aug 28, 2003)
The Left parties should not hesitate to join hands with the Congress to fight the Sangh Parivar
- Cm In Up Is Confused Mulayam (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Aug 28, 2003)
It was another sleepless Lucknow night. Mulayam Singh Yadav waving a list of 210, his flunkeys spreading the word that the Governor had called him for the swearing-in tomorrow at 3 pm, no official word from Raj Bhavan, Mayawati screaming blue murder as a
- Seeds Of Trouble (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Aug 28, 2003)
What can only be called the blackest of Black Days proves the point that it doesn't rain but pours. On Monday, besides the most horrific and dastardly bomb blasts in Mumbai that made the citizens of that metropolis relive, albeit on a smaller scale, the
- It’s Now Mulayam & His Maths (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Aug 27, 2003)
Mulayam asked to show numbers after Maya resigns, he stakes claim
- Miracle Called Atal, Illusion Named Sonia (Indian Express, Balbir K Punj, Aug 27, 2003)
The country replied to the Sonia Gandhi piloted opposition no-confidence motion many hours before the vote in the Lok Sabha.
- Better Security? Better Politics (Indian Express, Keki N. Daruwalla , Aug 27, 2003)
The debris may have been cleared from the Gateway of India and the Zaveri Bazar, but they will continue to litter the dreams of the people of this metropolis. The blame game is on already and politicians will reach out over the 50-odd corpses to grab vote
- Strengthening The Inter-State Council (Deccan Herald, Ambrose Pinto , Aug 27, 2003)
The Inter-State Council has been underutilised so far. It should be given a greater role in federal matters
- Lucknow Up For Grabs Again (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Aug 26, 2003)
Mayawati promised a lot of ‘‘spicy’’ news and on Monday, she did not disappoint. She ended her party’s third honeymoon with the BJP and demanded dissolution of the Assembly.
- Lonely Paper Chase (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 26, 2003)
During my six-year stint in the Rajya Sabha, I requested the government many times to publish the Henderson-Brooks report on the 1962 India-China war. The refusal was firm and consistent. Once, in a reply to my question in Parliament, Defence Minister
- Maya’s Monday (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2003)
Only one thing can be said with any degree of certainty in Uttar Pradesh today: That no single individual commands the confidence of the state legislature. Whether this renders the state a fit case for imposition of president’s rule, pending fresh ...
- Who Won? Vajpayee And Sonia (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Aug 25, 2003)
It was not the disruptions, the personal allegations, the noise, or the rancour that was the most worrying aspect of last week’s no trust motion against the government. They cause concern but they were not the most objectionable aspect. The most objection
- A Market For Terrorism Information (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Aug 25, 2003)
IT WOULD probably go down as the shortest-lived idea in the US. Within 24 hours of its being made public, everyone important in both the political parties was scrambling to announce that it was `ghoulish' and the proposal was buried. The irony is that it
- Just Plain Gas? (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2003)
Is this a case of pouring cola over troubled waters? See how Parliament’s alacrity in constituting a joint committee to inquire into pesticide contamination of carbonated soft drinks has altered the dynamics at Sansad Bhavan. Just the other day, Lok Sabha
- News Reel 17.08.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2003)
• The Monsoon Session gets over, but skies hardly clear up. Days after a Congress-led No-Trust motion is defeated by voice vote convincingly, the BJP gets an egg on the face as its allies rise up in arms over a proposed Bill to ban cow slaughter across
- Blow To College Barons: High Court Holds Up Merit, Cracks Down On Fees (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2003)
In a significant order, the Bombay High Court today lifted its earlier stay on admissions to professional courses in Maharashtra and ruled that admissions to medical courses would be only through the state-conducted MH-CET while those for engineering ...
- Our Lady Of Diminishing Returns (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Aug 24, 2003)
Sonia Gandhi achieved an astonishing political feat last week. She became the target of her own motion of no confidence. I base this assertion on comments that drifted my way afterwards from Delhi’s drawing rooms and corridors of power. My, how confident
- Your Q, His A (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2003)
Air commodore Jasjit Singh, Editorial Advisor (Defence and Strategic affairs) to The Indian Express, answers your questions on strategic issues. Singh, a former director of the Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis
- 'Do We Have A National Vision? Not When One Looks At Parliament, Sections Of Media' (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2003)
I distinctly remember the Railway, BEST strikes and your passionate speeches justifying them during your trade union days in Mumbai. How do you react to the SC verdict banning government workers’ strike?
- Likely: Jalan Mp, (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Aug 24, 2003)
Former RBI governor Bimal Jalan is likely to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha, while speculation over a return of Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee to the Cabinet has been revived. Top BJP leaders met at the residence of Prime Minister A.B. Vajpaye
- Divine Communication (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Aug 24, 2003)
Considering that it is the wettest monsoon in Delhi in decades and it had been raining steadily till noon on August 15, Rashtrapati Bhavan officials were apprehensive about holding the President’s At Home on Independence Day in the gardens. But when it
- Cowering Down (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2003)
Stirring up the drama surrounding the cow slaughter ban Bill, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh finally seems to have fallen in line with his party’s stand. In a complete reversal of his earlier stand, addressing a press conference here today,
- In Income Tax Dept, I-T Means Inspector Terror (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Aug 23, 2003)
Staff warn strike against Govt plans on e-filing and key process reforms
- Big Brother Hits Big Time (Indian Express, Vrinda Gopinath, Aug 23, 2003)
Now that the no-confidence motion has blown over with the NDA coalition sailing through, it is a moment of calculation for the smaller partners of the alliance. Many are torn by infighting and leadership tussles. The fact that all warring factions voted
- Slaughtering A Bill (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2003)
The fate of this bill should remind the BJP it mustn’t take its allies for granted
- Voice Of Hindustan (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Aug 23, 2003)
There was a time when most people of northern India extending from Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s Peshawar to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's Calcutta down to Bapu Gandhi’s Sabaramati spoke a language all Indians down to Andhra Pradesh could understand and speak
- Motion’s Over, Now Move (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 23, 2003)
Everybody who participated in, or witnessed, this week’s debate on the no-confidence motion in Parliament obviously must have his or her own take on it.
- Allies Make Bjp Climb Down The Cow (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2003)
TDP, Trinamool, JD (U), PMK, Left, RJD all oppose, Govt agrees to all-party meeting
- The Trouble With China Trade (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Aug 22, 2003)
UNTIL around 2000, there was a scramble for trade with China among the industrialised countries. They evolved special strategies to promote trade. Delegations led by Presidents and Prime Ministers went and signed glitzy agreements with China. China played
- Colas: And All Live Happily Ever After (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2003)
The Government today declared in Parliament that soft drink samples from Coca-Cola and PepsiCo that it got tested—following a High Court directive—did not contain as much pesticide residues as was alleged in a report by the Centre for Science and ...
- The Politics Of No-Confidence (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2003)
WITH THE NUMBERS never stacking up, the no-confidence motion was doomed to failure even as it was moved. Given this, its success or failure must be measured not so much by the defeat of the motion (by a margin of 312 to 186) as by evaluating ...
- No-Confidence Motion - All Sound And Little Fury (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 21, 2003)
With the result of the no-confidence motion against the Vajpayee Government a foregone conclusion, the exercise does seem to have been an utter waste of public money and valuable Parliament time. But it served to prove that the Opposition is capable of...
- The Advani Problem (Hindu, Harish Khare , Aug 21, 2003)
Mr. Advani's loyalty has never been in doubt; the problem is of an ambition unfulfilled.
- Bush And Energy Politics (Hindu, Elisabeth Bumiller, Aug 21, 2003)
Although George Bush's energy policy contained recommendations to improve America's electric grid that everyone agreed on, they were lost in the shouting and have been dormant in Congress for the past two years.
- That Tightrope Called Tibet (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 21, 2003)
The Dalai Lama is happy with Vajpayee’s word-play and so is Beijing. The story of confusion as triumph
- Sonia’s Rusty Utopia (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2003)
Her no-confidence motion against the NDA expressed a lack of confidence in her party’s reforms
- Delhi Tightrope On Israel Red Carpet (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 20, 2003)
Nervous about the possible reaction to a first-ever visit by Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon from September 9-11, India has invited Palestinian foreign minister Nabil Sha’ath to New Delhi on August 29.
- Vajpayee Carries The Night, Sonia Too Has Her Day (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Aug 20, 2003)
Playing the PM card, NDA breezes through; Sonia holds her own, draws the battlelines sharper
- Fiscal Consolidation, The Real Payoff (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Aug 20, 2003)
The mere announcement of an avalanche of measures without ensuring how they will deliver is not good economics, though maybe savvy politics, particularly when elections are round the corner. Dividends will come only from correcting and shoring up the
- Defence Is Not Football (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2003)
National security issues should only be addressed in a non-partisan manner
- Lessons For India From The Us Blackout (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 20, 2003)
The massive blackout across the US showed up the holes in the power policy framework of the supposedly most technologically advanced nation.
- Why Did The State Turn On Gujarat's Farmers? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Aug 20, 2003)
On August 14, hundreds of thousands of farmers got on the National Highway 8 but were blocked by policemen who also used force.
- Late Showers Bring Mud In Monsoon Term (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2003)
Day one of the no-confidence debate in the Lok Sabha was full of sound and fury and although in the beginning it seemed that it would signify little, by the end of the day, it sent three key signals.
- Old Men In A Hurry (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2003)
What do you do when you’re past your prime and face political extinction? You stir the pot
- No One Has Been Born Who Can Buy George, Says George (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2003)
Expending fire and self-righteousness in equal measure, Defence Minister George Fernandes told the Lok Sabha this evening that he was incorruptible and had fought against corruption all his life.
- Flights Of Fancy (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 19, 2003)
Throw open the doors and windows between India and Pakistan, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said on Independence Day address. Tell that to the MEA. The latest is civil aviation teams from both countries will finally meet on August 27-28 in Islamabad
- Congress And Dissent (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2003)
THERE COULD BE two explanations for the decision of the veteran Maharashtra Congressmen, Vasant Sathe and N.K.P. Salve, to form a new party, the Vidarbha Rajya Nirman Congress (VRNC). The first, and less flattering one, is that the decision was ...
- Blame Game On Reservation (Deccan Herald, S Simhadri, Aug 19, 2003)
All major political parties, except those of the oppressed castes, subtly oppose empowerment of the OBCs
- For A Slice Of Vidarbha (Indian Express, Vivek Deshpande, Aug 19, 2003)
The Vidarbha Statehood issue has taken a dramatic turn with veteran Congressmen and former Union ministers N.K.P. Salve and Vasant Sathe quitting the party ‘‘for the cause’’. The stir, which has seen more lows than highs, hadn’t witnessed anything of the
- Trade Unionism Must Reinvent Itself (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Aug 19, 2003)
The Indian trade union movement is badly organised and much politicised. It is splintered and leaves out of its pale vast numbers of unorganised workers. Only a confederation of the working class of all hues can serve as a political watchdog, as it can
- Now It Is Up To The Bond Market (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Aug 18, 2003)
How will the US bond market behave when the Federal Reserve is fighting deflation not with any unconventional or daring monetary policy but by merely keeping short-term interest rates at low levels and promising to do so credibly for as long as is ...
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