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Articles 23521 through 23620 of 26693:
- Winning Ways (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 13, 2004)
In politics, as in social life, party-hopping can pay rich dividends. The important thing is to choose the right party at the right time.
- U.S. Security Plan Rests On Hope (Hindu, Peter Galbraith, Oct 13, 2004)
America does not have the troops to deal with North Korea and Iran.
- The Follow-On Trap (Telegraph, Ruchir Joshi, Oct 13, 2004)
This column is being written after the second day’s play in the Bangalore test. Having wagered with one of my Australian cricketing mates that India was going to win this series
- A New Internal Security Agenda (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 13, 2004)
The Indian state's obligation to protect itself and its citizens has to be anchored in the democratic sentiment. There can be no basic conflict between the interests of the state and those of the citizens.
- Donkey Work (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 13, 2004)
Three hundred donkeys and 5,000 mobile phones. These were the essentials, together with Russian jeeps, helicopters and a cargo plane, that the UN had to organize for the Afghan elections.
- A Festive Season Every Year (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Oct 13, 2004)
It is festival time and everyone loves a good festival, I believe. While festivals and festivities are part of our living heritage, they embody many of our beliefs and customs and also our worldview.
- Quotas For Companies (Telegraph, André Béteille, Oct 12, 2004)
By creating expectations about reservations in the private sector, the Congress has raised the stakes in competitive populism to new heights.
- Return Of The Native (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 12, 2004)
Political battlelines will need to be redrawn in Haryana, now that the Haryana Vikas Party of former Chief Minister Bansi Lal is set to merge with the Congress.
- Rhyme And Reason (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Oct 12, 2004)
The "question mark" that once plagued the Congress now hangs ominously over the Bharatiya Janata Party.
- Victory For Afghans (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 12, 2004)
Saturday's peaceful presidential elections in Afghanistan, the first such exercise in this landlocked country, marked a turning point in its history.
- Minorities And Backwardness (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 12, 2004)
The election commission has shown over-the-top zeal in objecting to the timing of the Union Cabinet's September 29 decision to set up a special commission for the "socially and economically" backward among religious and linguistic minorities.
- Breathtaking (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 12, 2004)
Calcuttans will simply have to learn to live with it, and to die of it. The West Bengal government is either too inept to ever meet the national vehicular emission standards, which came into effect from October 1, or it could not care less.
- Make Or Break Time In Vidharbha (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Oct 12, 2004)
The issue is not whether the Bahujan Samaj Party will get any seats at all. The question is whom will it hurt more.
- Bjp’S Quest For New Ideas (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Oct 12, 2004)
While Ms Uma Bharati’s recent Tiranga Yatra exercise of waving the national flag across 3,000 miles caught the eye for symbolising the intra-party struggle in the Bharatiya Janata Party among second-tier leaders, it was meant to serve a deeper purpose.
- Congress Comeback In Arunachal (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 12, 2004)
A congress victory in the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly election was a foregone conclusion after Gegong Apang, the former Chief Minister, rejoined the party last month.
- From Strength To Strength (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Oct 12, 2004)
The eclipse of the older formations that held in them the seeds of an alternative political grouping is responsible for the rise of the BSP in Maharashtra
- Gene Revolution And Patent Rights (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Oct 12, 2004)
In this "International Year of Rice," India is being nudged by the US and its cohortsto take up genetically modified rice to "solve the problems" on the this cereal .
- Kerry Must Learn From Reagan (Hindu, Tristram Hunt, Oct 11, 2004)
Mr. Kerry's challenge is to link the $200 billion expenditure on Iraq to faltering economic confidence at home.
- Money For Nothing (Telegraph, Raju Mukherji, Oct 11, 2004)
The Board of Control for Cricket in India has finally decided that the international players would receive annual remuneration as retainership for their services to Indian cricket.
- Not Howard's End (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 11, 2004)
Had the Iraq war been the only issue in the Australian general election, Prime Minister John Howard might well have lost his bid for another term.
- The Hard Facts (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Oct 11, 2004)
Whither optimism in the face of two Nuclear Deterrents sitting cheek by jowl in the Indian sub-continent?
- Trading Charge (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 11, 2004)
Pavements are for everything but walking. Calcutta has never been kind to pedestrians, and the wide, even pavements once laid out along its broader streets have been subjected to various unhappy fates long since.
- "Multilateralism The Best Solution" (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Oct 11, 2004)
Sergei Lavrov looks and sounds more like a professor than a diplomat. In an exclusive interview to The Hindu, the Russian Foreign Minister spelt out his country's stand on Chechnya and its
- Engaging North-East Militants (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Oct 11, 2004)
Two questions are being asked in the Indian establishment in the wake of the recent series of bomb blasts in Assam and Nagaland.
- Graded Chaos (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 11, 2004)
The education sector in West Bengal is beyond ideal solutions. The latest progressive idea waiting to be tested out in secondary schools under the West Bengal board is the introduction of grades.
- Rebel Threat In Sugar Heartland (Hindu, Javed M. Ansari , Oct 10, 2004)
If you want to see the power of the Indian politician — good and bad — you must come to the vast sugar heartland of Western Maharashtra.
- Singing The Wrong Tune (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 10, 2004)
Politics has a tendency to overwhelm values and integrity. Think of the young Rajiv Gandhi when he became prime minister. He was fresh, totally uncontaminated by the unseemly side of politics and eager to break from the
- End Of The Trs-Congress Honeymoon? (Hindu, Dasu Kesava Rao, Oct 10, 2004)
The honeymoon between the Congress and its alliance partner, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), appears to be almost over, if the on-going slanging match
- Board Of Chaos For Cricket In India? (The Economic Times, R K NANDAN, Oct 10, 2004)
Appointing a professionally-competent CEO could salvage the reputation of the BCCI which has, over the last few weeks, been shown up in a controversial and unprofessional light
- Taking Over Tide Country (Telegraph, Debashis Bhattacharyya, Oct 10, 2004)
The ecologically fragile Sundarbans is already gasping for breath. And experts warn it may soon be delivered its coup de gráce.
- Maharashtra: The Last Lap (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Oct 09, 2004)
The Maharashtra Assembly election is still one that could be lost by the Congress rather than won by the Shiv Sena-BJP combine.
- Never At Home (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 09, 2004)
It takes more than a fondness for painting, farming and horse-riding to manage this ministry. And Shivraj Patil may find that out to his cost
- No Ideological Lines Drawn (Tribune, J. Sri Raman, Oct 09, 2004)
WHICH has a greater bearing on the forthcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections
— Mr Bal Thackeray’s beard or the Shiv Sena’s ideological baggage? By all accounts thus far, the answer is unmistakable: the former.
- Remembering Mulk, The Pioneer (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Oct 09, 2004)
Way back in the 1940s a few friends with literary ambitions formed a circle which met once a week to read poems and stories we had written. It was a mutual admiration society where glasses of whisky were refilled at the end of each recitation.
- Whom To Disqualify (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 09, 2004)
Politics, they say, is the art of the possible. Possible, however, is not necessarily plausible.
- King Without The Crown (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Oct 09, 2004)
Late on the night of January 16, 1941 Subhas Bose dressed as a maulvi with a beard, fez on head and long coat.
- Saffron Siblings Vs Congress Parivar (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Oct 09, 2004)
The theme song of the moment in Maharashtra’s assembly poll, scheduled for October 13, is the shrill notes of despair emanating from the camps of the challenger and the defender alike.
- An Exercise In Cynicism (The Economic Times, V. KRISHNA ANANTH , Oct 09, 2004)
The Union government’s decision to wind up the Justice Phukhan Commission of Enquiry and entrust the CBI with investigating into the charges of corruption made out by Tehelka may have raised a storm.
- Holding Out Carrots (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 09, 2004)
Finance minister P Chidambaram, while addressing investors in New York city, has brushed aside Kerry’s outcry against offshoring as a pre-poll rhetoric!
- C.K. Prahalad Is Now A Seeker At The Bottom Of The Pyramid (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 09, 2004)
YOU know C. K. Prahalad as the professor who has helped leading companies of the world to make more profits. Now, in his new book, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, from Wharton School and
- Democrats Bounce Back (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 09, 2004)
With less than a month to go before the presidential election in the United States, Democratic candidate John Kerry at last got his act together and demonstrated that he can be a strong
- Political Mess In Pakistan (Tribune, M B NAQVI, Oct 08, 2004)
Sensitive people draw cynical conclusions about Pakistan politics. They follow the unending pointless debate over the wardrobe of President Pervez Musharraf. It occupies the maximum newspaper space and consumes considerable time on TV channels.
- Mess On The Ground (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Oct 08, 2004)
Despite pious proclamations to the contrary, political discourse in a media-driven society invariably centres on personalities. Consequently, governments and their ...
- Make Them Service Centres (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 08, 2004)
At a time when the Department of Posts, now popularly known as Indiapost, is celebrating its 150th anniversary, there is a real opportunity to take stock and see how the huge network of
- `Nobel' Heroes Of The Dismal Science (Business Line, A. Seshan, Oct 08, 2004)
It is Nobel season. The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel or, in short, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for 2004 will be announced on October 11.
- Quota — An Idea Whose Time Has Come (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 08, 2004)
Quota is "an idea whose time has come", according to Dr Manmohan Singh, though the private sector may never come to terms with ``job reservation for the weaker sections'', law or no law.
- Visa Issues (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 08, 2004)
The filling up of the annual quota of 65,000 H1B visas on the opening day is a reflection of the outsourcing momentum the Indian software companies have seen over the past six months.
- Maharashtra Poll Pot (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 07, 2004)
By all accounts, the Maharashtra Assembly election is turning out to be a close contest. This is not surprising given the high-voltage campaign by the main contenders — the Congress-NCP and the BJP-Shiv Sena — as well as the marginal players such as ...
- Look East, Find Friend (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 07, 2004)
The visit of Korean president Roh Moo-Hyun to India coincides with a qualitative change in economic relations between the two countries.
- Laloo Can’T Say “no” (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 07, 2004)
IF anything epitomises criminalisation of politics, it is the fielding of Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav on the Rashtriya Janata Dal ticket from Madhepura in Bihar.
- Kerry’S Brain, Bush’S Heart (Deccan Herald, ANTOINE AUDOUARD, Oct 07, 2004)
What if a hi-tech surgery were performed, creating the new US President out of a merger of Bush and Kerry?
- First Law Of Business Is To Know The Law Right (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 07, 2004)
In mid-September, with only an hour to go before the AGM, Birla Corporation Ltd rushed to the Company Law Board (CLB) and asked if R. S. Lodha could chair the meeting.
- Fill In The Blank (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 07, 2004)
A political vacuum tends to become the anarchist’s workshop. The Maoist menace in Nepal has long been a case in point.
- Us Just Wants Karzai To Win (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Oct 07, 2004)
Since the US-led invasion in 2001 and the resultant fall of the Taliban government in Kabul, the American presence has been ubiquitous in Afghanistan.
- Village Energy Security (Hindu, Indrani Bagchi, Oct 07, 2004)
In India, non-conventional energy resources remain untapped in the absence of policy directions.
- Remote Control (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Oct 07, 2004)
The United Progressive Alliance government will soon have to make some hard choices on Nepal.
- Civil Welcome (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 07, 2004)
The decision of the government of India to allow a large group of journalists from Pakistan to visit Jammu and Kashmir needs to be welcomed and supported.
- Is Your Job Coming To India? Get Used To It: William Pesek Jr. (Bloomberg.com, William Pesek Jr., Oct 06, 2004)
George W. Bush and John Kerry sure did span the globe in their first presidential debate when they argued who would make a better U.S. leader.
- Pardon Him, Sir! (Tribune, Vepa Rao, Oct 06, 2004)
Most Hon’ble Sir,
My friend in the death-row needs your help. The media has already done most of the job, sir — it has shown even his undergarments, explained his philosophy behind the way he bathes, and why he prefers small onions to big ones.
- Vote For Stability (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 06, 2004)
Yudhoyono must provide an effective govt and ensure democracy lasts in Indonesia
- Maharashtra Assembly Polls — Advantage, Congress-Ncp (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 06, 2004)
The opinion polls give the Congress-NCP alliance more than an edge in the ensuing Maharashtra Assembly elections. If the combine wins the election, it would be in defiance of the anti-incumbency factor and would only strengthen and further stabilise the
- Mr. Indonesia (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 06, 2004)
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was confirmed the winner of Indonesia's long-drawn presidential election after the counting of votes was completed in all parts of the vast archipelago.
- Is Pota Really Dead? (Tribune, Rajindar Sachar , Oct 06, 2004)
A rose will smell the same by any name while the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) 2004 will stink by any other name. I am reminded of this by the cosmetic exercise of the UPA government in purporting to repeal POTA, but ironically providing at the same
- Not By Slogans Only (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 06, 2004)
The Prime Minister has given the country a new slogan—”Rozgar Badhao”. Just as poverty did not go away long years after Indira Gandhi gave a call for “Gharibi Hatao”, employment prospects are unlikely to brighten significantly with the new slogan.
- Flare Up In North-East (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 06, 2004)
The sudden flare up in Assam occurring simultaneously in several districts, close on the heels of disturbances in Manipur, has ominous overtones.
- Sorry, You're Not Part Of The Plan (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Oct 06, 2004)
The debate over the composition of the Planning Commission panels was really a battle over the direction of the economy. And the outcome suggests the electorate's concerns do not count.
- Fall Of A Forum (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 06, 2004)
Every politician goes through a lean season. That is, however, no reason to write him off, especially if that politician has been as resourceful as the former speaker of the Lok Sabha, Mr Purno A. Sangma.
- Afghans Fed Up With Civil War (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Oct 06, 2004)
Amid warnings of violence in Afghanistan’s first presidential elections, human rights groups are adding their concerns to the growing morass of anxiety — that conditions for a free and fair election simply do not exist.
- Bright City, Fading Lights (Telegraph, Tapas Chakraborty, Oct 06, 2004)
The 350th anniversary celebrations of the Taj are yet another occasion for the Uttar Pradesh government to score a political point
- Advantage Rebellion (Telegraph, Madhusree C. Bhowmik, Oct 05, 2004)
While the other Naxal-infested states are trying to broker peace, Jharkhand remains strangely inert
- America Is At War With Itself (Hindu, Gary Younge, Oct 05, 2004)
If Americans choose George W. Bush over John Kerry, it will be from fear, a lack of choice - and a preference for power over safety.
- Mid-Term Poll Phantom Persists (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Oct 05, 2004)
The glib denials will not dispel doubts on the longevity of the coalition ministry in Karnataka
- How The British Left India (Tribune, Anita Inder Singh, Oct 05, 2004)
By the end of World War II the British had realised that they would not be able to hold out against a possible Congress-led mass movement. In fact, Lord Wavell, then Viceroy, advised the Cabinet early in 1946 that the British should withdraw from India by
- Sushma Swaraj Vs Uma Bharti (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 05, 2004)
Sanyasin Uma Bharti and traditional Hindu “grahni” Sushma Swaraj are trying to edge out each other in the ongoing power struggle within the BJP.
- On Protest For Peace Since ’80 (Tribune, Gobind Thukra, Oct 05, 2004)
On a humble, but a very significant patch of land, Concepcion Picciotto, a short gutsy woman in her late sixties and every inch curious, greets the visitors with a broad smile. And as she places in your hands a poem, Dead Little Girl in Hiroshima ...
- Beyond The Khyber Pass (Hindu, M.K. Bhadrakumar, Oct 05, 2004)
Pakistan has long involved itself in Afghanistan's affairs. How will it now deal with the move towards democratic pluralism?
- Bhopal Bonanza (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 05, 2004)
It could be made to look like a bonanza. The last part of the compensation money for survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy will be paid in soon. Most of the 105,000 survivors are pitifully poor, or have been impoverished by the medical costs of the tragedy.
- Left Without Reason (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Oct 05, 2004)
The infantile questioning of government and its policies is carried on relentlessly by those men and women who opted to sit out — the classic syndrome of the big bully who wants everything his way without the responsibility.
- Chastened Jayalalithaa (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 04, 2004)
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa is evidently mulling over her political options and out to win friends and influence other parties with an eye on the state assembly elections scheduled for 2006.
- Fresh Look At Freedom Struggle (Tribune, Anita Inder Singh, Oct 04, 2004)
IN 1947 India paid the price of Partition for freedom. Dismayed at the high cost of Independence, many Indians have debated, time and again the possibility of Independence without Partition.
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