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Articles 26521 through 26620 of 27135:
- The News On 24x7=168 (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Sep 22, 2003)
6.30 am.
TV Anchor: On a morning of fast developing events, the major story is whether Murli Manohar Joshi will resign and if L K Advani will follow suit if charged in Rae Bareli. Let’s go across to our correspondent at BJP headquarters for the very late
- Beijing-Moscow-New Delhi Trialogue (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Sep 22, 2003)
The significance of the upcoming trialogue is not to be underestimated because China, India and Russia represent the vast majority of the global population.
- Your Q, His A: Defense & Security Affairs (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 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
- Mod Refuses To Appoint Navy Chief’s Choice As Cids (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Sep 21, 2003)
By appointing Vice-Admiral Raman Puri as Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (CIDS) and pushing for a top naval brass reshuffle, the Defence Ministry seems to have over-ruled Navy Chief Admiral Madhavendra Singh who was apparently not in favour of such an
- Keep Off Neocons (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 19, 2003)
THE neocons now dominating the Bush Administration in the US have been doing their damnedest to cause revulsion and hostility against that country in every possible way. The hauteur with which they have been dealing with other nations, and the total lack
- The Mad, Bad World Of France (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Sep 19, 2003)
The French have no plan for the Middle East. They want America to fail, even if anarchy results
- Kanshi Ram’s 95-Yr-Old Mother Battles The Personal And Political (Indian Express, Bajinder Pal Singh, Sep 19, 2003)
Telephone lines are dead in Kanshi Ram’s Ropar village home, family waits for TV, press updates on his health
- Transforming The Bjp (Hindu, Harish Khare , Sep 18, 2003)
Even after five years in power at the Centre, the BJP has not undertaken the essential task of transforming itself into a `normal' political organisation.
- The Iraq Quagmire (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Sep 18, 2003)
The U.N. is "relevant" once again because Iraq is in a mess... Mr. Bush wants a bailout.
- Let’s Get To Know The Leh Of The Land (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Sep 18, 2003)
Forget big armies, small crack units are the in thing. The Indo-US military exercises in Ladakh indicate India’s Special Forces thrust
- Using Insider-Trading As A Weapon (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Sep 17, 2003)
THE Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) seems to be a bit jittery about front running by mutual fund managers, if one is to go by the reports of a mandatory, closed-door meeting held by its Chairman, Mr G. N. Bajpai, with the heads of asset ...
- Musharraf Has No Nose For Diplomacy (Indian Express, Benazir Bhutto, Sep 17, 2003)
Decision making in Pakistan once took place in an institutional framework, allowing debate between different governmental departments. This resulted in credible, legitimate, serious and acceptable policies, based on consensus.
- Asleep At The Wheel (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Sep 16, 2003)
Since private preference must yield to public obligation, I regret I cannot cheer the nomination to the Rajya Sabha of my four-decades old friend and university-mate, Bimal Jalan, whose expertise as an economist I have long admired.
- Desperate Mamata’s Saffron Dip (Indian Express, Diptosh Majumdar, Sep 16, 2003)
The Centre’s minister-minus-portfolio Mamata Banerjee today showed up at an RSS book-release function and, erasing all her past utterances against the RSS and VHP, simpered: ‘‘Yours is a truly patriotic organisation.’’
- A Coat Of Justice On A National Stain: Dara Is Convicted (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2003)
More than four years after Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons were burnt alive while asleep in their station wagon in an Orissa village, prime accused Dara Singh and 12 others were today convicted by the Bhubaneswar district and session
- Rbi's Annual Report 2002-03: Positive Outlook Blurred By Concerns (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Sep 16, 2003)
Despite the pervading optimism and positive outlook for 2003-04, the RBI Report highlights the medium-term issues and concerns. The growth rate of the economy envisaged under the Tenth Plan period is beyond reach going by the current economic parameters.
- A Question Of Credibility (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 15, 2003)
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Tony Blair, facing the worst political crisis of his six years in office, must draw no cheer from a parliamentary committee report that has cleared his Labour Government of the serious charge that it "sexed up" an ...
- Monsoon Session: Dry In Business (Business Line, R. C. Rajamani, Sep 15, 2003)
EXPECTED to do a great deal of legislative business, the just-concluded monsoon session of Parliament will be best remembered for the no-confidence motion against the BJP-led NDA Government that fell through, as expected. The Congress, which sponsored the
- News Reel 07.09.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2003)
LAW takes its famed course and reins in the ghosts of the post-Godhra riots. In a special leave petition filed by the National Human Rights Commission seeking retrial of all riot-related cases, specifically the Best Bakery, outside Godhra, the Supreme ...
- Pentagon’s ‘hit Hussein, Lambast Laden Plan’ (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Sep 14, 2003)
This is for Your Eyes Only. Absolutely Top Secret stuff that has just come to me through my source at the Pentagon. US Secretary of Defence, Donny Rumsfeld, who has smashed Iraq into smithereens without being able to lay his hands on either Osama bin ...
- Last Act At Los Alamos (Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Sep 13, 2003)
The things we are working on are so terrible that no amount of protesting or fiddling with politics will save our souls.
- Gypsy Lives (Indian Express, Rita Mathews, Sep 13, 2003)
Mid palaces and places though we may roam, be it ever so humble there’s no place like home’’. In the defence services some houses are humbler and sometimes the humblest of abodes. But we count ourselves as the lucky ones. Not everyone gets a chance to
- Ink Barely Dry On Israel Story, Delhi Calls Arab Envoys For Little Edit (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 13, 2003)
The sense of disquiet in the Arab world over the official bond of brotherhood forged on the banks of the Yamuna between India and Israel this week brought all 18 Arab ambassadors accredited to New Delhi for a briefing to the MEA early this morning.
- The Arithmetic Of Annexation (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Sep 12, 2003)
THE WAR waged by the US and some of its allies against Iraq rested on one promise and one premise. The premise was that the Saddam Hussein regime possessed a clandestine cache of weapons of mass destruction which, in conjunction with its waywardness,
- Dawood, Henchmen, Isi: 82 In All Caught In Gujarat Pota Net (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 11, 2003)
The Gujarat Police today filed a chargesheet in a POTA court against 82 people alleging that as revenge for the atrocities on Muslims in the riots, they were ‘‘waging war against the state’’ and obtaining terrorist training in Pakistan from the ISI.
- So Who’S Winning This War? (Indian Express, Mahir Ali, Sep 11, 2003)
In the immediate aftermath of the extraordinary terrorist attacks on New York and Washington two years ago, some commentators outside the United States were sceptical of the claim that the world had changed forever.
- This War On Terror Is Bogus (Deccan Herald, Michael Meacher, Sep 11, 2003)
The 9/11 attacks gave America an ideal pretext to use force to
secure its global domination
- Lost Ground (Indian Express, N K Singh, Sep 11, 2003)
In his column called ‘Stop Politics of Vendetta’ (July 26 ,2003) journalist turned politician and member of the Rajya Sabha, Rajeev Shukla targeted the V P Singh government for its decision to ground the Airbus 320 fleet more than a decade ago.
- Girl, Interrupted (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 11, 2003)
The last census had proved an eye-opener. It revealed that the sex ratio of the population in the 0-6 age group had declined in 10 years from 945 to 927 which, in turn, pointed to the widespread practice of female foeticide despite legislation banning it.
- All The Noise In New Delhi Adds Up To Two Words: Oh Jerusalem! (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 10, 2003)
Vajpayee’s gift to Sharon: replica of 1624-year-old Cochin document that gave Jews the right to own land
- Friendship Occupies All The Territory (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 10, 2003)
Stepping out of its decades-old lakshman rekha with Israel, Prime Minister A B Vajpayee today set the tone for a red carpet welcome for its Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, emphasising bonds in defence, agriculture and in the fight against terrorism that both
- Lions Of Zion (Indian Express, BIBEK MAITRA, Sep 09, 2003)
The problem is not Israel. It is the rest of the neighbourhood
- Russia's Economic Rebound (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Sep 09, 2003)
Russia badly needs diversification to sustain high growth rates if there is a dramatic fall in oil prices once oil from Iraq hits the market.
- Militants Melt Away Despite Heat Being On (Indian Express, Arun Sharma, Sep 09, 2003)
Seven days after intensive operations in this densely forested ravine in the Ghati area, security forces today called off their search saying the holed-up militants—estimated to be seven Lashkar members—have escaped.
- Atrocity Video Motivated Killers: Cbi (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2003)
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday wrapped up investigations in the Haren Pandya murder and also the attempt on the life of a local VHP leader, filing a single chargesheet and seeking in-camera trial to protect witnesses.
- Making New Friends (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Sep 09, 2003)
By identifying with Israel as a victim of terrorism, India may damage its own cause.
- Hail Mogambo (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Sep 08, 2003)
On the 15th of Xanthicus (roughly, April), AD 74, Eleazer ben Yair, leader of a Jewish community besieged by invading Romans in their rock fortress of Masada, rose to address his people. He had a simple message: There would be no surrender. They would all
- It’s Not About Sharon (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2003)
As the first visit by an Israeli prime minister commences, it is an opportune moment to recommend a third way on West Asia. Even in the most tranquil of times, the question of official ties with Israel instantly polarises hard-nosed pragmatists from dewy-
- Wto Gridlock Likely To Remain (Deccan Herald, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 08, 2003)
The Cancun ministerial is unlikely to produce major agreements on significant new liberalisation
- Another Hole In The Sky (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Sep 07, 2003)
The MiG-21s may be prone to accidents but India’s latest, state-of-the-art Sukhoi-30 fleet is now under a cloud.
- When Sharon Takes The Stage, In The Wings Will Be Defence Deals (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Sep 07, 2003)
No bilateral defence agreement is going to be signed during Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s visit to New Delhi beginning Monday. But that doesn’t matter. For, in the sidelines of the first ever official visit of an Israeli prime minister, the issue
- Stem This Alien Nation (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Sep 07, 2003)
I can fill this column — nay, the whole page — with names of Muslim men and women, all Indians, who have achieved distinction in different walks of life. Because, among the 110 million Muslims, there are thousands of distinguished men and women. We can...
- Can Democrats Take The War To Bush? (Hindu, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Sep 07, 2003)
The Democrats could make a contest of the U.S. Presidential elections
- Homecoming (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Sep 06, 2003)
Past brings nostalgia. But it haunts the displaced. When I visited Pakistan recently, I met Islamabad billionaire Md Alvi. Now in his 70s, Alvi, left Karol Bagh when he was just 14. But he remembers every detail of the Delhi neighbourhood that constituted
- A Ravine, A River, Hills And Forests: Terrain Helps Terror (Indian Express, Arun Sharma, Sep 06, 2003)
Encounter still on, forces hope militants will run out of supplies and turn themselves in
- From Mumbra, With Fear (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Sep 06, 2003)
Last week, they agonised about subcontinental peace. Will the Mumbai blasts rock the frail India-Pakistan truce? This week, the section of the British and US media that usually keeps an eye on South Asia sounded more concerned about what the deadly strike
- Us Special Forces Join Indians On Ladakh Mountains (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Sep 06, 2003)
Indo-US military cooperation set out on a new road today when Indian and US Special Forces flew into Leh for joint exercises not far from the Chinese border.
- Better Late Than Never (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2003)
HOW DOES ONE react to the fact that a vital arms contract has taken two decades to finalise after the first proposal was made for acquisition? Should one despair about the inordinate delay in settling the contract? Or should one feel satisfaction ...
- No Order In Pervez’s House (Indian Express, Benazir Bhutto, Sep 05, 2003)
Musharraf rides roughshod over Parliament and manipulates the political process. Should this man be trusted with Pakistan
- India Avoids Isolating Myanmar (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 04, 2003)
The Government's high-level defence engagement with Myanmar this week draws an unforgiving spotlight on to India's ties with an important neighbour whose military rulers are under growing international pressure to ease their tight grip on power.
- The Hawk Has Landed (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Sep 04, 2003)
After 20 yrs, Govt decides to go for Advanced Jet Trainer; boosts IAF morale, says Air chief
- Tel Aviv Will Move In Heavy Artillery On Delhi Red Carpet (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 04, 2003)
When Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon arrives here on Sunday, it’s the defence and security component of his delegation that all eyes will be set on.
- No Scary Stuff In Caro (Business Line, G. Ananthakrishnan, Sep 04, 2003)
Analyses the CARO requirements
- Internal Accountability (Hindu, Harish Khare , Sep 03, 2003)
Pakistan's involvement and its intractable hostility to our safety and security is an old song. But we cannot keep on wringing our hands in despair, petitioning the "international community" to do something about Islamabad.
- 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 ...
- Md, Ma, Mba: The New Degrees Of Terror (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2003)
Gujarat cited as reason by many arrested and they aren’t exactly madarsa products
- Gazi Baba’s Ghosts Strike In J&k (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2003)
Militants killed five members of a family to plunge a wedding into mourning in Doda district while police and security personnel gunned down five militant commanders of different outfits in Poonch district today.
- India And Israel Need Each Other (Indian Express, BHARAT KARNAD, Sep 02, 2003)
It was only in the mid-1990s that New Delhi, realising how injurious it was proving to national interest, jettisoned its hoary, unbalanced, West Asia policy and brought its close, covert and longstanding ties with Tel Aviv, including in the military ...
- Make Wto Work, Alternative Is Worse (Deccan Herald, Emma Bonino, Sep 02, 2003)
It is in the intertest of both developing and developed countries to overcome the crisis in WTO
- 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
- Mystery Of Us Economic Growth (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Sep 02, 2003)
The US second quarter GDP growth, revised up to 3.1 per cent from 2.4 per cent, supposedly came from higher estimates for consumer spending, investments and a lower trade deficit. But the real news, says V. Anantha Nageswaran, is that without the defence
- Coincidences That Came In From The Cold (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Aug 31, 2003)
A JNU student’s accident, his startling discovery, a gap of 18 long years, the student becomes the professor, another student another accident, the professor returns, another startling discovery: this is a story about amazing coincidences.
- Socialism With A Yadav Face (Indian Express, Vrinda Gopinath, Aug 30, 2003)
The public image of Mulayam Singh Yadav swerves between Mullah Mulayam and Madhav Mulayam -- his credentials as a secular, anti-Hindutva cheerleader are under intense scrutiny as he begins his innings as Uttar Pradesh chief minister. But the self-claimed
- Walking That Tightrope On Arab Street (Indian Express, Raghav Gupta, Aug 30, 2003)
In its eagerness to befriend Israel, India risks sending wrong signals to the Arab world. A more nuanced approach would work fine
- 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.
- Bureaucracy: Flaw Is In System, Not Workers (Business Line, Devendra Mishra, Aug 29, 2003)
THE government may be the biggest industry in the world, but the statement, "I am from the government and here to help you" is still considered a bad joke. Increasingly, the people do not think that the government knows how to help or is bothered...
- Tension Eases In Naga Town (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Aug 29, 2003)
Three days after the Nagaland town of Mokokchung witnessed the first-ever public protest against the high-handedness of NSCN(K) cadres, the state today announced the setting up of a three-man fact-finding team to look into the circumstances that led to
- Mumbai, A Salaam (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2003)
This metropolis and its people from all walks have shown the world how to fight terrorism
- Soul Searcher (Business Line, Peter Switzer, Aug 28, 2003)
On how critical it is to be ethical — especially for CAs
- Here’s My Daily Pesticide Intake (Indian Express, Ravi Agarwal, Aug 28, 2003)
The consumer is hungry, both for safe food and water as well as for information. If anything, 2003 can be termed as a ‘‘safe food awareness’’ year. Never in the past has the increasingly powerful urban middle class been shocked as much by what it eats and
- The Hindu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2003)
THE HINDU, FOUNDED on September 20, 1878, is the oldest surviving major newspaper of Indian nationalism, by which we mean the great socio-political movement that won freedom for India from colonial bondage and helped consolidate the gains ...
- Services Exports: Opportunities And Barriers (Business Line, H. A. C. Prasad, Aug 27, 2003)
THE services sector is a very important one for India. Commercial services account for some 25 per cent of India's total exports. If labour services are included, the percentage will be higher. In 2002-03, for the first time India had a positive balance
- 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.
- Nukes, Missiles And Rogue States — China's Tools For Global Influence (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Aug 26, 2003)
China uses missile and nuclear transfers to Pakistan and North Korea, both widely regarded as rogue states, to keep countries that it sees as adversaries, such as Japan and India, on their toes. Given the ambivalence of the US Administrations to the ...
- 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
- Another Question Stares At Ajt Deal (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Aug 25, 2003)
The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) faces a Rs 300-crore question when it takes up the Hawk advanced jet trainers (AJT) proposal for clearance. There is a Rs 300-crore difference between the British Aerospace’s final price for 66 Hawk advanced jet ...
- 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
- Brazil Rocket Explodes, Kills 21 (Indian Express, AXEL BUGGE, Aug 24, 2003)
A brazilian rocket exploded on Friday and killed 21 people after an engine ignited by mistake days before a planned lift-off from a jungle launch site.
- 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?
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