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Articles 23021 through 23120 of 26693:
- A Turn In The South (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Nov 24, 2004)
The arrest of the sankaracharya of the Kancheepuram math is more than a flash-point for the sangh parivar in its search for a new symbol of substance in the wake of its electoral routs in recent months.
- Lie Detection (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 24, 2004)
Somewhere in England, presumably in James Bondian surroundings, M16 agents are being trained to spot liars.
- Does The Room Have A View? (Indian Express, MOHAN K. TIKKU, Nov 24, 2004)
I don't want one more bed- room added to my home,” Israeli writer Amos Oz once argued, while opposing his government’s policy of building housing settlements on occupied lands leading to even more bloodshed
- The Right Choice, Baba! (Tribune, Vepa Rao, Nov 24, 2004)
NO!” I said firmly, “I shall not accept governorship.” But the veteran politician’s voic from Delhi persisted: “Please don’ break my heart. Think again — it’s after all a big state where I hope to become the chief in the coming elections.
- Learning From Washington's Economic Woes (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Nov 24, 2004)
Recently released OECD figures show that the US is no longer the No. 1 destination for foreign direct investment. Its apparent disregard for both economic and diplomatic fundamentals, and blithe glossing over of gigantic deficits and huge underfunded....
- Peace Is Not A Posture (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Nov 23, 2004)
Kashmir is nowhere near a solution. Still the noise is getting louder. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Srinagar, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s proposals and the thinning of troops in Kashmir are all adding to expectations.
- Internal Democracy Subversion (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Nov 23, 2004)
The less-than-skin-deep love for inner party democracy is the common thread of ideology, or lack of it, running through almost all the centrist political parties.
- The Impact Of Bush Re-Election (Deccan Herald, G Parthasarathy, Nov 23, 2004)
The ‘sacking’ of Colin Powell and other changes in the Bush administration are good news for India
- India's Bush Backers (Hindu, T. Jayaraman, Nov 23, 2004)
The pre-election rhetoric of the current Government appears to be giving way to policy perceptions that are influenced by India's Bushies.
- A Stake In The Future (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 23, 2004)
The world conservation Congress, a summit for governments and civil society, has got under way in Bangkok at a time when competitive pressures on natural resources are at a new high and biodiversity is under unprecedented threat.
- Bjp Sends Postcards To The Sangh (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Nov 23, 2004)
With the BJP’s protest against the Shankaracharya’s arrest, VHP and BJP stand united after a long time
- Above Board (Telegraph, BRIJESH D. JAYAL, Nov 23, 2004)
On petitions filed by two air vice-marshals of the Indian Air Force who were overlooked by a Special Promotion Board in 2003, the Delhi high court recently quashed the promotions of four air marshals of the IAF who were cleared by this SPB.
- Rahul Came, Rahul Saw (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Nov 22, 2004)
Last week’s four-day visit to Guwahati and Shillong by young Congress MP Rahul Gandhi continues to find space on the front pages of the local media several days after his departure.
- Purana Qila, Naya Manzil (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Nov 22, 2004)
The common noun congress means a coming together of like-minded people. However, in India, the Congress as in the name of India’s grand old political party has come to symbolise the reverse!
- Pms In Valley (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Nov 22, 2004)
Britain's Financial Times homed in on the contrast between two prime ministers in Kashmir. For the paper, the difference between Manmohan Singh’s November 17 speech and Atal Behari Vajpayee’s address to the rally in Srinagar 18 months ago was unambiguous:
- No To Politicians (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Nov 22, 2004)
Templetion Mutual Fund proposes to launch a fund that will invest in stocks without restriction on market capitalisation. The fund can, hence, construct a portfolio depending on the market condition.
- No To Politicians (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 22, 2004)
AS A survey, it is not earthshaking nor unusual. Such surveys are hardy annuals, and hold no startling discoveries. They only prove the age-old adage:
- The Old Order Lurks (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Nov 22, 2004)
It’s not just Ukraine’s fate that is at stake in that polls that took place on Sunday; it is probably Russia’s as well. If the Kremlin’s favoured candidate, Viktor Yanukovych, wins, then Ukraine will end up inside a Russia-dominated
- Electric Truths (Telegraph, L. Rao, Nov 22, 2004)
Support and incentives to farmers are not unique to India. In the United States of America and the European Union, there are even incentives to farmers not to produce and to keep land fallow.
- Abduction Of Bihar (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 22, 2004)
Laloo has not kept his tryst with the people. The widespread lawlessness indicates this
- Bush Fixes The Moral Compass (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma, Nov 22, 2004)
Though Bush won the election on a moral plank, he is now underplaying the moral values
- Don’T Throw In The Towel Yet (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Nov 22, 2004)
Of all the images I saw on a short visit to Iraq last week, two stand out in my mind. One was a display that the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, in the Sunni Triangle, prepared for the visiting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen Richard Myers
- Dubious Package (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 22, 2004)
It is not a very exciting prospect to have to think of Mr Narendra Modi as part of one’s private, conjugal decisions. But the chief minister of Gujarat could become an important factor in the size of the family that an elected representative in Mr Modi’s
- The Road To Mumbai (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Nov 22, 2004)
Thirty years ago when I shifted from Bombay — it had not yet been re-christened Mumbai — to Delhi I drew much sympathy for moving from India’s urbs prima to a backwater.
- Electric Truths (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Nov 22, 2004)
Support and incentives to farmers are not unique to India. In the United States of America and the European Union, there are even incentives to farmers not to produce and to keep land fallow.
- Employment As A Social Responsibility (Hindu, Jean Dreze, Nov 22, 2004)
An Employment Guarantee Act places an enforceable obligation on the state and gives bargaining power to the labourers. It creates accountability.
- Games Musharraf Plays (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Nov 22, 2004)
AS a soldier who has been through all command and staff courses up to the British Royal College of Defence Studies, General Musharraf appears to believe in psyops vis-a-vis India. So he seems to be blowing hot and cold on the Kashmir issue.
- This Is Not Music (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 21, 2004)
At a recent paper-reading by, and discussion with, Perry Anderson at the Seagull Resource Centre, the subjects attended to were multiculturalism; its relationship with religion;
- Peace Must Return To Assam, Says Indira Goswami (Tribune, Gaurav Choudhury, Nov 21, 2004)
Dr Indira Goswami, Jnanpith Award winner and noted literatteur from Assam, is presently treading a difficult path. From an intense writer, who shot to fame with
- Human Recorders (The Economic Times, RAGHUKRISHNAN, Nov 21, 2004)
Journalists are voyeurs. Each tragedy brings in its wake not just cops, not just ambulance-chaser attorneys but the members of the Fourth Estate. The greater the suffering, the more the number.
- Looking Beyond The Episode; Time To Look Within (Deccan Herald, Hari Jaisingh, Nov 21, 2004)
Leaving aside the question of who is right and who is wrong in the unsavoury Kanchi Mutt affair to the judiciary, the cause of Hinduism has certainly been damaged in the whole episode.
- A Comparative Reality Circus (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, Nov 21, 2004)
While being in New York, I watched the Presidential elections with a great deal of curiosity and 'comparative' interest.
- Moms' Party (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Nov 21, 2004)
At the height of the Kargil conflict of 1999, the mother of an Indian Army officer who had been killed in action was quoted as saying that while she grieved for her son...
- Pontiff In Jail (The Economic Times, R K NANDAN, Nov 21, 2004)
When DMK leader Karunanidhi was arrested at midnight from his Chennai residence a few summers ago, critics of the action accused the AIADMK government of indulging in the politics of vendetta.
- Prince And The Showboy (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 21, 2004)
Light, as one of Walter Bagehot’s memorable injunctions warned, destroys the magic of royalty. Charles, the prince of Wales, has allowed in too much light for royalty to maintain its dignity in the modern world.
- Succession Battles In The Bjp (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Nov 21, 2004)
Those who are inclined to make a bid for the top position in the BJP are not going to give up easily
- The Undoing Of An Alliance (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Nov 21, 2004)
By 2004 the BJP's alliance magic had started to wear off, unnoticed by a world immersed in raising a toast to "Shining India,"
- Significant Move (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Nov 20, 2004)
The co-op sector needs greater reach and should be made stronger
- Balle-Balle Is Not Peace (Tribune, H. K. Dua, Nov 20, 2004)
Plenty of hopes have been raised in India, Pakistan and among international do-gooders that the recent contacts between the two countries are going to lead to the dawn of a new era on the sub-continent.
- Too Fond A Wish To Show On The Field (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Nov 20, 2004)
There was a time when every income-tax return used to be scrutinised by income-tax officers (ITOs). As the workload expanded rapidly, the Department began believing in the maxim, "We trust you, you trust us."
- Teesta Is My Heart-Throb (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Nov 20, 2004)
Like all men I admire good-looking women like Aishwarya Rai and others who became Miss India’s, Miss World’s and Miss Universe’s! I like them from a distance because I never get a chance to get close to any of them.
- Goodbye, Galliwasp! (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 20, 2004)
The Vietnamese warty pig and Fernandina rice rat are back from the dead. They have been spotted again, after being written off as extinct in the mid-Nineties.
- Bjp: Back To The Basics (Hindu, K. N. Panikkar, Nov 20, 2004)
The BJP is left with no other alternative but to appeal to the RSS for succour.
- Don't Ask The Way To The Village If You Don't Want To Get There (Business Line, D. Murali , Nov 20, 2004)
The US State Department has voiced serious concern about "jailed monk's trial," informs the headline of a hot story on www.phayul.com, reporting what the now outgoing US Secretary of State Colin Powell and ...
- A New Recipe For Peace (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 20, 2004)
For the past several years, peacemaking in Jammu and Kashmir has resembled what Hindi-speakers would describe as a khwaabi (imaginary pulao): all the right ingredients for a ...
- It On A Roll (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 20, 2004)
The biggest software company in the world ties up with the two largest players in India. A few days later the leading chip maker says it is evaluating India as a manufacturing base.
- Civilising The State (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 19, 2004)
Only the other day the National Human Rights Commission awarded compensation to the families of 109 persons killed and clandestinely cremated by the Punjab police between 1984 and 1994.
- Bush-Blair Bond (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 19, 2004)
Anyone watching the US President, Mr George W. Bush, and the British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, on the TV during their joint appearance before the media at the White House on November 12, would have been struck by a few interesting facets.
- Blair’S Proximity To Bush (Tribune, K.N. Malik, Nov 19, 2004)
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been ruminating about his country’s place in the world and its relations with its principal allies, the US and Europe.
- Bihar Basics (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 19, 2004)
Buoyed by the vote of confidence it secured from its allies in the National Democratic Alliance, the Bharatiya Janata Party has set its eyes on Bihar.
- Why John Kerry Lost (Hindu, Bhargavi Shiva, Nov 19, 2004)
George W. Bush's re-election is a wake-up call to Democrats to strengthen and clearly define their policies on the economy and national security.
- Trials Of A Pioneer (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Nov 19, 2004)
Monastic intrigues have been a source of macabre fascination for the laity. From Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose to Dan Brown’s best-selling
- The Wilting Lotus (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Nov 19, 2004)
The secular camp could not have written a better script for itself. Not only has its main political opponent, the BJP, lost two elections in a row, the party has fallen into such disarray that its plight is almost embarrassing to behold.
- Empowering Cooperatives (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 19, 2004)
It is indeed a sad commentary on the state of affairs of the cooperative movement that it requires a prime ministerial promise of a constitutional amendment to secure for cooperative institutions rights which should have
- Polls In Palestine (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Nov 19, 2004)
Elections are likely to be the key to stability and unity inside the Palestinian territories.
- Linking Trade To Human Rights (Deccan Herald, Sakuntala Narasimhan, Nov 19, 2004)
Many human rights organisations hold that diversity trade audits can be used to eliminate Dalit discrimination
- More Than A Gesture (Telegraph, SUDIPTA BHATTACHARJEE, Nov 18, 2004)
In this season of elections, another has popped up online. This one pertains to Manipur, the state Manmohan Singh is scheduled to visit on Monday.
- Nda Capitulation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 18, 2004)
That the national Democratic Alliance is driven primarily by the interests and concerns of the Bharatiya Janata Party became clear on Monday
- Wrestling With Religious Hatred (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Nov 18, 2004)
Instead of enacting a law against inciting religious hatred, the British Government should fine-tune and enforce the existing anti-racist laws.
- Economic Growth: Savings Score Over Reforms (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Nov 18, 2004)
The economic growth of the 1990s is largely attributed to the reforms by the Centre. But this is only half the story. For the real credit must go to the phenomenal rise in household savings, including of proprietorship and partnership firms.
- Uma Bharti, Bjp And Sonia (Deccan Herald, B. K. Chandrashekar, Nov 18, 2004)
The BJP has to move forward from its Sonia fixation and start looking at roti and makan issues
- Basic Instinct (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Nov 18, 2004)
British newspapers have been carrying reports of the sacking of the Conservative MP Boris Johnson as a frontbencher and spokesperson for the arts.
- The Bush Second Term (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 18, 2004)
Few countries are as cautious and pragmatic in their conduct of foreign policy as the People’s Republic of China. The Chinese have learnt the art of refraining from passing gratuitous comments on issues that do not directly affect their national interests
- Some Birthdays Are Not So Happy (Telegraph, Nalin Verma, Nov 18, 2004)
The contrasting plights of the BJP in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh explain the differences in the birthday celebrations of the two states
- Bush Second Term — The Emerging World Order (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Nov 17, 2004)
From pragmatic double-speak and open welcome to horror, the re-election of Mr George Bush has drawn diverse responses across the world. While there is scope for strategic cooperation with the US, New Delhi will have to learn to manage its differences with
- Beg Your Pardon, My Lord (Telegraph, DEBAKI NANDAN MANDAL, Nov 17, 2004)
Forming a national judicial commission may be the first step in the much-needed scrutiny of the judiciary
- A Victim Of The Purge Following Gujarat Riots (The Economic Times, Prafull Goradia, Nov 17, 2004)
Uma Bharti has been widely popular for years; especially since 1992 and the fall of the Babri edifice at Ayodhya.
- Case For Chief Of Defence Staff (Tribune, Lt-Gen Vijay Oberoi, Nov 17, 2004)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's emphasis on the need for a joint culture for the three defence services, in all aspects of their functioning, is timely and appropriate.
- Management Of Mutts (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 17, 2004)
The aftermath of the arrest of Sri Jayendra Saraswati, the pontiff of the Kanchi Shankara Mutt, on a murder charge has brought into sharp relief several issues relating to the management of religious Mutts in general.
- A Breather For The Bjp (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 17, 2004)
The Bharatiya Janata Party has been facing turbulent times, with the party reeling from one shock to another right from the unexpected defeat of the National Democratic Alliance it led in the general elections in April, through
- The Chucking Controversy (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 17, 2004)
The International Cricket Council has been presented with a stark choice by the finding by a panel of former international cricketers
- Smile In Place (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 17, 2004)
In India, the ruling party’s agenda often becomes the government’s business. The distinction between partisan and administrative priorities gets even more blurred if elections are round the corner.
- Keep Organisation Above One’S Ambitions (The Economic Times, Balbir K Punj, Nov 17, 2004)
The abrupt exit of Uma Bharti from BJP has been received with glee by the ‘secularists’ but with shock by adherents of Indian nationalism.
- How Safe Is The Temple? (Telegraph, Gyan Pathak, Nov 17, 2004)
We are increasingly losing our sense of security, be it in a crowd, in privacy, in the law court, in the police station or even in places of worship. The arrest of the sankaracharya of Kanchi only heightens that feeling.
- Hamid Karzai’S Victory (Tribune, Anita Inder Singh, Nov 17, 2004)
MR Hamid Karzai’s triumph in Afghanistan’s first-ever election may augur the decline of Pakistan’s influence in Afghanistan. Since the seventies, Pakistan’s influence in Afghanistan rested on its playing the religious and ethnic cards. Created as ...
- Charged Atmosphere (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 17, 2004)
The long “chargesheet” made by Congress leaders in Haryana against Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, which the latter prefers to call a “vague, baseless and politically motivated” memorandum, has come out at an unusual time.
- Religion Census: A Faithful Count (Business Line, N. Rama Rao, Nov 16, 2004)
The recent debate on growth of the population of the various religious groups has somewhat overshadowed the valuable data generated by the Census of India on these groups.
- Outsourcing: Win-Win For All (Business Line, P. K. Goyal, Nov 16, 2004)
In the post-WTO (World Trade Organisation) era, trade barriers are falling as member-nations open out to free market. Goods and services have started moving from one nation to another more freely.
- No Need For Presidential Form (Tribune, P. P. Rao, Nov 16, 2004)
Democracy is based on certain assumptions. It is rooted in the principle of political equality of all citizens. Every voter is expected to cast his vote in a responsible manner. Democracy in theory is different from democracy in practice.
- Making A Business Out Of Politics (Telegraph, Jyoti Punwani, Nov 16, 2004)
The arrogance and political ineptness of its Maharashtra party president cost the Samajwadi Party dear in the assembly elections
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