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Articles 26321 through 26420 of 27135:
- Resistance Intensifies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2003)
THE IRAQI RESISTANCE appears to have initiated a new phase of guerrilla insurgency with five suicide bomb attacks on Monday. That targets located in different parts of Baghdad were hit within a span of 45 minutes shows that these attacks were ...
- A Brief History Of Meaning (Indian Express, John E. Mcintyre, Oct 30, 2003)
The story of the OED is a combination of period play, human drama and adventure
- Obligations Of Peace In Kashmir (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 30, 2003)
Now once again, it becomes New Delhi's obligation as well as Kashmiri leaders' duty to seize the moment and explore the potential of the unabated desire for normality and peace.
- Sorry To Be The Party Pooper (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Oct 29, 2003)
Will ‘Shining India’ ever breach the feel good/feel bad divide?
- Why Ali Is The Greatest (Indian Express, Jayaditya Gupta, Oct 29, 2003)
Sport doesn’t often make good film. Perhaps because great sporting moments are better than anything cinema can offer, it’s the little moments, those that don’t figure top of the mind, that offer a chance to shine (Chariots of Fire, is one such). One film,
- Desperate Measures (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2003)
ISRAEL'S RECENT MURDEROUS assault on the Gaza Strip, in which 11 Palestinians were killed and a hundred wounded, marked a further intensification of the violent policy it has pursued. Civilians appear to have been deliberately targeted in the ...
- Shock And Shock (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2003)
This is not the battle the Bush administration started out with. This is a new Iraq war
- Wave Of Attacks In J-K, Let Warns (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2003)
Day one of Ramzan in Jammu and Kashmir saw a sharp escalation in violence as militants ambushed an Army convoy and carried out a grenade attack on the BSNL office in Srinagar, killing three jawans and a civilian and leaving 48 wounded.
- In Nahan, Army Gets Its Cutting Edge (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Oct 28, 2003)
A few weeks after Gen N C Vij took over as the army chief, he sent out a letter asking for a comprehensive review of the special forces, their training and the on-hold modernisation. The immediate beneficiary of the initiative was the Special Forces Train
- A Few Good Men (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2003)
Hazy policy-making will blunt the edge enjoyed by Special Forces
- Special Forces: Shot In The Foot (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Oct 28, 2003)
The Army’s elite contingent is haemorrhaging as the best and the brightest choose corporate over combat.
- Positive On Offer, Pak Tests Negative On George: Talks Like A Warmonger (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2003)
Robust reply, promises Pak; Delhi’s Nov dates for airlink talks
- Strategic Defence Review (Hindu, C. Manmohan Reddy, Oct 28, 2003)
A central tenet of a strategic approach is the need to integrate all land, sea and air surveillance assets regardless of which service actually controls or operates individual systems.
- Trai For One-Licence Regime (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2003)
Cell & WLL: Group of Ministers to now debate proposal
- From Bhai, With Love (Indian Express, Raja Menon, Oct 27, 2003)
India must urgently augment its punch against terrorists
- Army May Not Vacate Loc Posts This Winter (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Oct 27, 2003)
Army chief Vij will brief Prime Minister, Cabinet on Nov 1
- Srinagar-Jammu Highway Blast: 15 Civilians Injured (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2003)
Fifteen civilians were injured when militants detonated a powerful improvised explosive device (IED) on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway at Bijbehara today, official sources said.
- India's Positive Unilateralism (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Oct 27, 2003)
After making a big impression with its offer of a package of confidence-building measures last week to Pakistan, the Government must now be prepared to sustain this initiative irrespective of the nature of Islamabad's reaction.
- News Reel 19.10.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2003)
Let people meet first, leaders can wait. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee sends this message to Islamabad by announcing a dozen measures to normalise relations with Pakistan. The highlight of the package: proposed bus services between Muzaffarabad in P
- Off To The Market (Indian Express, Arundhati Bakshi-Dighe, Oct 26, 2003)
Looking at her, you wouldn’t think Asha Todawal (36) actually played the stock market. Till about six months back, this housewife, after finishing her household chores and dealing with her maid, would sit in front of her computer terminal at home to keep
- Peace Proposals To Pak Is Our Final Effort: George (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2003)
Defence Minister George Fernandes today said the slew of measures offered to Pakistan were part of India’s “last effort” to take Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s peace initiative to its logical end and make Islamabad sit across the negotiating table.
- Pak Opposition Intensify Strike Against General, Launch Rallies (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2003)
Stepping up their agitations against President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s mainstream Opposition parties today launched their public campaign to oust the General and pledged to take action against army generals and judges, who “legalised” military takeov
- Track Is Being Laid For Train To Pakistan (Indian Express, Bhavana Vij, Oct 26, 2003)
Gauge conversion on, 2,500 km to Sindh will be just 100 km from Barmer
- Survivors Of Vietnam War Killings Seek Retribution (Indian Express, Christina Toh-Pantin, Oct 26, 2003)
Ricefarmer Nguyen Dam still remembers the day that 10 elderly farmers were gunned down by American soldiers while tending their fields in July 1967 during the Vietnam War.
- A Watchdog Weighed Down (Hindu, Anjali Modi, Oct 26, 2003)
The National Human Rights Commission is caught in a dysfunctional relationship with government and state.
- Rise And Rise Of Hegemonism (Deccan Herald, Max Boot, Oct 25, 2003)
The National Security Strategy released last month by the Government of the United States may be the most significant US foreign-policy statement since NSC-68, the 1950 paper that codified the containment doctrine. Yet oddly most of the debate has focused
- Sound Bites Are Okay, Now Bite The Bullet General (Indian Express, Najam Sethi, Oct 25, 2003)
Musharraf should live up to his worldly promises, make Pakistan a modern state
- The World Through New Eyes (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, Oct 25, 2003)
Trade and terrorism shape our international relationships now
- Iran Makes Its Move (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2003)
The world community needs to re-examine the nuclear non-proliferation regimes objectively
- Rise And Rise Of Hegemonism (Deccan Herald, Max Boot, Oct 25, 2003)
The National Security Strategy released last month by the Government of the United States may be the most significant US foreign-policy statement since NSC-68, the 1950 paper that codified the containment doctrine. Yet oddly most of the debate has focused
- Talking Turkey Is Not Enough, Mr President (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Oct 24, 2003)
Sending Turkish troops will only convince Iraqis they are being colonised
- Warming Relations? (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Oct 24, 2003)
We need a political culture in both India and Pakistan that is prepared to pay a short run price for a new architecture for the subcontinent.
- Sindhis As An Indo-Pak Bridge (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Oct 24, 2003)
A few hundred Sindhis, all Hindus, who had gathered in Jodhpur for an extraordinary meeting earlier this week must be rubbing their eyes with disbelief at the announcements made by External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha to clear the Indo-Pak air. They h
- Military Raj (Indian Express, Mubashir zaidi, Oct 24, 2003)
Forget sham democracy. From sports to universities to power plants, khaki runs Pakistan
- Uneasy Peace In Baghdad (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 24, 2003)
THOSE who might have been delighted with the UN Security Council's unanimous resolution last Thursday authorising a multinational military force in Iraq under the single command led by the United States need to think again. The resolution, which calls for
- Change The Subject (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Oct 24, 2003)
In Uttar Pradesh, ask about the common minimum programme
- `Roll Call Of Shame' (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 24, 2003)
THAT is the heading under which India Today in its October 20 issue has listed the major scams taken up by the CBI for investigation which are either in the doldrums or have been closed, leading to the suspicion of extraneous pulls and pressures being at
- A Strong Signal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 23, 2003)
THE LATEST VISIT by the Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, to New Delhi has brought forth a perceptible change in India's approach to the peace process in that country. Instead of a plain repetition of its commitment to a negotiated ...
- Asian Economic Integration: Pathway To Security And Prosperity (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Oct 23, 2003)
The obsession with Pakistan has distorted the conduct of India's foreign policy. This has not allowed the country to emerge as a constructive partner with Asean and SAARC, and other regional powers such as China, Japan and South Korea. The Prime Minister'
- India-Thailand Fta: Who Is The Real Gainer? (Business Line, S. Majumder , Oct 23, 2003)
Thailand is one-tenth the size of India. While the goal of any FTA is market enlargement and improvement of the investment environment, how can India gain from Thailand which competes with it?
- Sino-Indian Boundary Talks (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Oct 23, 2003)
Conditions seem more propitious today than ever before for rapid progress in the border talks between the two Asian giants.
- Third Round At Aksai Chin Table (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 23, 2003)
India and China will sit across the table today, for the third time, to discuss a lingering border dispute
- The Guilty Men Of 1962 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 23, 2003)
Forty one years ago, there was a war. And then along came a crorepati
- October Spring (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 23, 2003)
• PM Vajpayee’s daring gambit on poll-eve
• A dozen radical proposals to the General
• Talks with Hurriyat raised to level of DPM
Let Srinagar bus to Muzaffarabad
- Moderate Medium, Extreme Message (Indian Express, Daniel Drezner, Oct 23, 2003)
Mahathir sums up the Muslim world’s paradox. Western learning is fine, not western liberalism
- Georgian Mystery (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Oct 23, 2003)
Something’s cooking in defence minister and NDA convenor George Fernandes’ pot. But apart from dropping hints calculated to whet appetites, he’s not letting anyone in on his secret.
- Vhp's Specious Logic (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Oct 23, 2003)
Although the Vishwa Hindu Parishad's challenge to the rule of law and peace and tranquillity in Uttar Pradesh, especially at Ayodhya, has mercifully been defeated, it has left behind at least three sources of concern that can cause turmoil in future and
- Beijing Comes To Delhi Today To Put History Behind (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2003)
No 2 in Chinese Foreign Ministry to start boundary talks with Mishra
- The General In The Jig-Saw (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Oct 22, 2003)
To further Indo-US ties, we need to first understand Pak-US ties
- Canada Calling (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 22, 2003)
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien arrives in New Delhi later this week and so what if he’s perceived as a sort of lame duck back home. With Chretien promising to retire in February, a succession race within his Liberal Party has Finance Minister Paul
- Private Airlines Get First Window In Foreign Skies (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Oct 22, 2003)
All Indian airlines, not just Indian Airlines, can fly to Lanka
- Unified Licence Regime — Raising A Spectrum Of Issues (Business Line, Jayanthi Iyengar, Oct 22, 2003)
THE Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) is to make its final recommendation to the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Telecom. Central to these recommendations would be an attempt to resolve the two-year-long battle between the cellular and basic operators by re
- India Opens Pursestrings For Rs 50 Cr More To Iraq (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Oct 21, 2003)
India is set to put in an additional $10 million (around Rs 50 crore) for reconstruction and humanitarian efforts in Iraq. The announcement will be made at the donors’ conference in Madrid this week. With this, India’s contribution in post-war Iraq will b
- J&k Government Fights Its First Hostage Crisis (Indian Express, Tariq Mir, Oct 21, 2003)
A dozen taken hostage by militants including those who tried to negotiate peace
- Track One May Be Frozen With Pak, Mea Says No To Even Track Two (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 21, 2003)
The Ministry of External Affairs has disallowed the highly prestigious Pugwash organisation, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995, to host a workshop on ‘‘South Asian Security’’ later this month, where participants from India and Pakistan were invited.
- Iraq: No Material Change (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 21, 2003)
THE UNITED STATES has agreed to alter the profile of its unjust occupation of Iraq under the pressure of overall circumstances. A new resolution, 1511 (2003), `unanimously' adopted by the United Nations Security Council on October 16, emphasises ...
- Ltte And Muslims (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Oct 21, 2003)
At the heart of the problem is the LTTE's view of itself as the absolute ruler of the north-east.
- Beating About The Bush (Business Line, K. Ramesh, Oct 21, 2003)
THE deposed Iraqi chief, Mr Saddam Hussein, poses "danger to the world" is the latest invention of the US President, Mr George Bush.
- Mother A Step Away From St Teresa (Indian Express, Philip Pullella, Oct 20, 2003)
Huge turnout as Vatican bends rules on fast-track to sainthood
- A 'Crisis' Deftly Defused (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2003)
THE LATEST ROUND of Ayodhya-centred mobilisation spearheaded by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad has made one thing clear to political India. It is that, in India's most populous State and also elsewhere, the Ramjanmabhoomi movement does not evoke ...
- All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Rally (Indian Express, Anuradha C, Oct 20, 2003)
The recent order of the Kolkata high court seeking to exile rallies during busy weekday hours falls into a pattern of similar judgements since 1997, when the Kerala court banned bandhs in the state. Ironically, the ruling comes at a time when rallies are
- A Pawarpoint Presentation (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Oct 20, 2003)
Only the politically naive would believe that Sharad Pawar’s seemingly innocuous comment about the “imported leadership” of the Congress was made casually. The NCP had made sure the electronic media was there to cover it even though Pawar’s observation wa
- In Land Of Indian Stereotypes, Kalam Talks Change (Indian Express, Samar Halarnkar, Oct 20, 2003)
Expats can’t help talk cutback in work visas as ethnic rightsizing begins
- Your Q His A (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2003)
Now that the UN Security Council has unanimously approved another resolution on Iraq should we agree to send our troops to assist in stabilisation of Iraq
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Fighting To Keep What Is Theirs (Hindu, Larry Rohter, Oct 18, 2003)
The Bolivian Government's plans to export natural gas have run up against widespread anti-globalisation protests.
- Don Under The Scanner (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2003)
Now surely there is enough evidence for Pervez Musharraf to honour his pledges
- Bullets With A Message (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2003)
BULLETS, EVERYONE KNOWS, bear death. What is less widely understood is they also carry political messages. In November 2002, even as Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed took office, two grenades went off outside his home on the outskirts of ...
- Un Okays Us-Led Iraq Force; Delhi Cautious (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 17, 2003)
India reacted with cold silence tonight to the unanimous passage of a US-sponsored resolution on Iraq by the UN Security Council as the rest of the world quietly fell in line with Washington’s proposal to create a UN-authorised multinational force . . .
- In The Cradle Of Anarchy (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 17, 2003)
"The CIA is now talking of 9000 terrorists penetrating the country... The Americans have turned Iraq into a battlefield for international terrorism against the forces of the free world...
- China's Big Leap In Space (Hindu, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 17, 2003)
WITH THE LAUNCH of its first "yuhang yuan" (or space traveller), China has joined Russia and the United States as elite, space-faring nations of the world, becoming the first developing country to achieve this distinction. Rocketry was conceived ...
- Cancun Failure Is Nobody's Gain (Business Line, B.S. Rathor, Oct 17, 2003)
India, on the threshold of sustained economic growth, will be affected by the stalemate at Cancun.
- Big Brother & His Holding Company (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Oct 17, 2003)
There was a headline that grabbed me in The New York Times the other day. It said, ‘‘Cheney lashes out at critics of policy on Iraq’’.
- How Not To Sell A War (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 17, 2003)
After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States put together a historic, worldwide coalition to overthrow the Taliban in Afghanistan and destroy al Qaeda.
- Of A Takeover In Islamabad (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
Four years ago Musharraf deposed Nawaz Sharif. Why was Benazir so happy?
- Making Trouble But Going Nowhere (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
THE SHOCK FORCES OF THE Sangh Parivar, spearheaded by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, have nowhere to go in Ayodhya — having demolished the Babri Masjid more than a decade ago but unable to take forward the project of building a Ram temple on ...
- 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
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