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Articles 24521 through 24620 of 26693:
- Afghans, Us Scramble To Salvage Constitution (Indian Express, MIKE COLLETT-WHITE, Jan 03, 2004)
Afghan leaders met US and UN officials behind closed doors on Friday, to try to end an impasse over a new Constitution that has exposed ethnic fault lines and undermined Washington’s vision of a strong presidential system. The Loya Jirga, or Grand
- Join Nda, Lead The Front In Tn: Bjp To Admk (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
The BJP came out today for the first time with an appeal to the AIADMK to join the NDA and lead the alliance in Tamil Nadu in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls. BJP state president C.P. Radhakrishnan said his party had no other option but to revive its
- Indo-Pak Game Continues (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 03, 2004)
ONCE more, the ante has been upped regarding efforts to normalise relations between India and Pakistan, the hope of course being that, this time, the effort will succeed.
There is nothing unrealistic about such a hope if for no other reason than the
- Looking Back, Looking Ahead (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Jan 03, 2004)
It is increasingly becoming clear that without a flow of funds to the farm sector, the Indian economy will remain haunted by periodic production declines.
- Kalyan Attacks Mulayam, Says He Has Followed Coalition Dharma (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
Two days ahead of crucial meeting of Rashtriya Kranti Party, its president Kalyan Singh on Friday attacked the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led coalition saying he had nurtured it even after suffering humiliation and even after this if the coalition breaks, others
- Coming Soon, Radio-On-Campus From Chennai (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Jan 03, 2004)
Come January 15 and a little cubicle in a corner of Chennai will turn into what is being seen as the world’s smallest radio studio and the country’s first campus community radio. Anna University’s own radio station is likely to get kicking then with
- Loner’s Lamentation (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
NOBEL laureate Amartya Sen has held the Narendra Modi government responsible for the riots that followed the Godhra carnage in Gujarat. In a programme broadcast by the BBC on the New Year day, he has asked for a judicial examination of the allegations ...
- It Shows Soundness And Stability Of Economy: Fm (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
Buoyed by 8.4 per cent growth in the second quarter, Finance Minister Jaswant Singh said on Friday that GDP growth would be even better in the subsequent quarters and the Sensex crossing 6,000 mark on Friday reflected the strong economic fundamentals and
- 200 Years Of Turmoil (Hindu, Lydia Polgreen, Jan 03, 2004)
After 200 years of independence, Haiti remains an impoverished and troubled nation.
- Left Unity Under Telangana Cloud In Andhra (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Jan 03, 2004)
The demand for a separate Telangana — that will include the premier cyber city of Hyderabad — threatens not just the unity of Andhra Pradesh but has cast a shadow over the prospects of ‘‘Left unity’’ in the state which is likely to witness simultaneous
- Polls Near, Govt May Hold Short House Session (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
With elections round the corner, speculation is rife about the Government’s intention to convene a short Parliamentary session to pass a vote-on-account to help it conduct its business beyond March 31. While BJP president Venkaiah Naidu called it
- Boycott Blow To Afghan Assembly (Indian Express, SAYED SALAHUDDIN, Jan 02, 2004)
Afghanistan's constitutional convention began voting on Thursday, but up to a quarter of the 502 delegates refused to cast ballots for a draft charter backed by the US after a long, acrimonious meeting. Men and women from across the country lined up
- Target 6,000: Sensex Set To Hit Bull’s Eye (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
Up by 76.51 pts to 5,915.47, best close since Feb 14, 2000. Beware, valuations already gone through the roof
- Why Interest Rates Should Go Up (Business Line, A. V. Vedpuriswar, Jan 02, 2004)
If, as policymakers claim, India is moving towards a market driven interest regime, then rates should be determined by demand and supply. Lower interest rates cannot be achieved through administrative diktats but by increasing the availability of capital
- Cement Down The Spine (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Jan 02, 2004)
In early 1991, when the ramshackle Chandra Shekhar government was at the helm, a senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader hosted a small dinner for the then party president, L.K. Advani. For the BJP, those were heady days. The Somnath to Ayodhya rath yatra of
- Jamaat Quits Hurriyat, Won’t Join Geelani Now (Indian Express, Mufti Islah, Jan 02, 2004)
The new year began on a bad note for the Hurriyat Conference with the right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami formally announcing its decision to dissociate from the separatist amalgam.
The move is being viewed as a serious setback for the moderates led by ...
- Musharraf Wins House Trust (Indian Express, Amir Zia, Jan 02, 2004)
President Pervez Musharraf won a vote of confidence in both houses of Pakistan’s Parliament and four provincial assemblies on Thursday, keeping him in power until late 2007. The vote means Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup, will remain ...
- Pawar Play: Each Of Them Has Got An Axe To Grind (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Jan 02, 2004)
At a time when everybody in the political scene is on the move, it comes as no surprise that NCP chief Sharad Pawar, whose political mobility stands little comparison, is the latest hit. Pawar’s possible alignment with the NDA has been a perennial issue
- Ready To Face Polls: Vajpayee (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
With the air ringing with the talk of early Lok Sabha polls, Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee has said that he is ‘‘fit and ready’’ to face elections and confident that the people ‘‘are in a mood to give us another five years’’. The PM’s remarks, made in
- The Course Reunion (Tribune, Raj Kadyan, Jan 02, 2004)
WE were meeting over 40 years after our commissioning into the Indian armed forces. The venue was an Army officers’ mess in Delhi Cantonment, and the purpose a contributory lunch. Age-wise, most of us were looking back at 60. Physically, most were afight
- Indo-Pakistan Talks: Ten Issues (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 02, 2004)
India and Pakistan have been trapped for too long in arguing about procedural issues and defending past political postures.
- India Shining (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
HURRAH TO THE Indian economy. People across the country walked into 2004 with bugles and drums, crackers and whistles, perhaps intuitively aware of good tidings which morning newspapers brought with the GDP growth touching 8.4 per cent in the second ...
- Statutory Minimum Price: Bitter News For Sugar Industry (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jan 02, 2004)
THE Vajpayee Government has again yielded to populist pressure at the cost of an industry which tried its best to reason otherwise with the administration. But the sugar industry stands isolated in the face of combined pressure exerted by the Agriculture
- `Stock Market Is A Buffet Waiting To Be Relished' (Business Line, Virendra Verma, Jan 02, 2004)
Mr Rakesh Jhunjhunwala loves stocks. It has been that way since his childhood. Today he is arguably the largest individual proprietary investor and one of the biggest single taxpayers of Mumbai. Mr Jhunjhunwala describes the current market as a buffet ...
- Why Interest Rates Should Go Up (Business Line, A. V. Vedpuriswar, Jan 02, 2004)
If, as policymakers claim, India is moving towards a market driven interest regime, then rates should be determined by demand and supply. Lower interest rates cannot be achieved through administrative diktats but by increasing the availability of capital
- Worked Up (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
Saving a coalition is not the same thing as making it work. Jharkhand’s chief minister, Mr Arjun Munda, may have managed to prevent his National Democratic Alliance government from disintegrating, but even he knows that it is not working. Mr Munda’s ...
- Patch-Up For A Return To The Past (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Jan 02, 2004)
The wheel has come full circle. The Congress, which last aligned with the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in 1980, is now preparing to align with the party again. And the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which formed an alliance with the All-India Anna
- Roadblocks For Congress (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
TWO grand alliances contesting against each other in the coming Lok Sabha elections is the stuff electoral dreams are made of. It was Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s announcement about her party’s readiness to forge an alliance against the National ...
- Mutiny In Punjab Congress (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
SOLDIERS UNDER ENEMY fire know how to survive: they bunker down and conserve their ammunition until an opportunity to hit back presents itself. For reasons known only to the Congress rebels in Punjab, they have chosen to charge out of the ...
- India Shining (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
The year 2003 has ended with good news and not just because foreign exchange reserves have crossed 100 billion US dollars. In 2003-04, the Central Statistical Organization’s first quarter estimates showed a gross domestic product growth of 5.7 per cent.
- Home And The World (Telegraph, ARNAB BHATTACHARYA , Jan 02, 2004)
Western secular modernity viewed history as a panoptical narrative produced by rigorous scholastic enterprise and based on solid, unalterable archival evidence. It scornfully dismissed other possible sources like autobiographies, memoirs and local lore
- Statutory Minimum Price: Bitter News For Sugar Industry (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jan 02, 2004)
THE Vajpayee Government has again yielded to populist pressure at the cost of an industry which tried its best to reason otherwise with the administration. But the sugar industry stands isolated in the face of combined pressure exerted by the Agriculture
- First Call For Socialists Aboard Nda (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Jan 02, 2004)
: In the season of fronts formation, NDA convenor and Defence Minister George Fernandes today said there is need to bring in ‘‘socialists to strengthen the NDA’’. Fernandes’s remark is expected to keep the pot boiling, coming as it does close on the
- Advancing Ls Polls (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
WITH Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani giving ample indications of advancing the general elections because of the feel good factor for the BJP-led NDA, the stage is set for the party’s National Executive in Hyderabad on January 11 and 12. Andhra Pradesh
- Spin Options Might Play A Part (Indian Express, Reuters, Jan 02, 2004)
South Africa and West Indies are both considering including a spinner for the third Test which begins at Newlands on Friday. Home captain Graeme Smith and his opposite number Brian Lara hinted they were in favour of selecting a specialist slow bowler ...
- The Shattered European Dream (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Jan 01, 2004)
The year gone by saw the masks of unity and integration torn off to reveal an E.U. rife with fragmentation, infighting and personal rivalry.
- Vajpayee's Challenge (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jan 01, 2004)
While Mr. Vajpayee may be able to lead the NDA back to power, this may not be enough for him to leave a permanent stamp on history.
- New Year Pronouncements (Business Line, S. Ramachander, Jan 01, 2004)
While India will emerge stronger in 2004, it is only political will that can bring about a real change in the economy, society and politics.
- You Can’t Scoop The Future (Telegraph, Gouri Chatterjee, Jan 01, 2004)
It’s that time of year again when every newspaper, every magazine, every television channel you turn to is awash with year-end remembrances and new-year predictions. Not because the year gone by is truly memorable (though some are arguing 2003 will make
- Come Clean (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
If the time for poll alliances comes, Mr Harkishen Singh Surjeet’s season cannot be far behind. It is not easy, however, to make out what kind of alliances the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is striving to strike up this time.
- Punjab The Victim (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
THE crisis in the Punjab Congress that has brought administration in the state to a virtual standstill is far from over. Chief Minister Amarinder Singh's placatory measures to win the dissidents over to his side are yet to yield the desired results...
- How To Win Allies And Form Fronts (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Jan 01, 2004)
With increasingly clear signals that general elections may be less than six months away, the cauldron of Opposition politics — simmering for the past five years — started bubbling with new vigour on New Year’s eve today. Congress president Sonia
- India Must Gamble On The Highest Stakes Of Them All (Indian Express, PETER ROEBUCK, Jan 01, 2004)
India sits on the threshold of mighty achievement and on the verge of predictable destruction. Already Saurav Ganguly and his men have surpassed all expectations, a point worth bearing in mind amidst the disappointment of an opportunity missed in
- Leading The Alliance (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
IF SONIA GANDHI came tantalisingly close, last Sunday, to suggesting that the Congress party would not make her prime ministerial candidature a necessary condition for a pre-electoral alliance, a day later the party's spokesman came close to ...
- Toasting Time Again For All In It Sector (Business Line, V. Rishi Kumar, Jan 01, 2004)
THE year 2004 promises to be full of excitement for the technology sector where domestic players — big, small and medium and multinational corporations have struck a positive mood. Herewith a perspective on the general outlook for the sector that is
- Congress Badly Bruised By Poll Defeat (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Jan 01, 2004)
POLITICS is like a game of cricket. A team could be cruising along comfortably but one fine bowling spell can prove devastating, converting a certain victory into defeat. Something similar appears to have happened to the Congress this year. It was riding
- Stepping Out (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
Ideology, or even unease in partnership, can no longer be accepted as a convincing reason for exiting a power alliance. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has offered the second for leaving the National Democratic Alliance and giving it “issue-based” support
- A Very Busy Year Ahead For The Ec (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Jan 01, 2004)
If the Lok Sabha poll is advanced, as is being speculated, to late April or early May, then the Election Commission is bound to club it with the Assembly poll in Andhra Pradesh. But if it is instead held in the second half of May, then the EC will have
- Dmk Gone, Bjp Opens Arms To Jaya (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Jan 01, 2004)
Abandoned by the DMK, the BJP began courting the AIADMK today. ‘‘We are prepared to align with the AIADMK for the Lok Sabha polls,’’ BJP national secretary L. Ganesan said. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has not yet revealed her mind,
- Rescuing Parties From Bosses (Indian Express, M. G. Devasahayam , Dec 31, 2003)
Let Lyngdoh’s EC supervise inner party elections. That will enhance democracy
- Halfway House (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
Politicians speak in code. Other politicians know how to decipher it. Thus the obvious has a significance which lies beneath the surface and literal meaning. When Ms Sonia Gandhi, the president of the Congress, says that the question about her being a ...
- Coming: A Happy New Year (Telegraph, Shankar Aiyar, Dec 30, 2003)
“Writing,” wrote Hazlitt, “concentrates the mind wonderfully.” Defeat does so even more wonderfully. Even while those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad, so as the Bharatiya Janata Party reels drunken with triumphalism over its upset ...
- Right To Protest: At What Cost? (Business Line, Pradeep S. Mehta, Dec 29, 2003)
TWO recent court judgments that relate to the right to protest have resulted in a raging public debate in the country. On September 29, the Calcutta High Court banned rallies and processions in the city during weekdays between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
- Lunging Lyngdoh (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 29, 2003)
APPARENTLY, the privileges and immunities of his post have gone to the head of the Chief Election Commissioner, Mr J. M. Lyngdoh, to an extent that he considers moderation an over-rated virtue. From the safe sanctuary of his position as a Constitutional
- Reforming Politics (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 29, 2003)
The latest amendment to the Constitution (on defections) should be the beginning of serious reform and not the end.
- Year Of A Small War Made Big (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Dec 29, 2003)
While truly historic regime-changes took place and an epidemic killed hundreds, the world remained obsessed with a minor war for most of 2003
- Keep The Net Free (Telegraph, Subimal Bhattacharjee, Dec 29, 2003)
Keeping the cyberspace free of controls was the subject of much debate at the recent World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva, the first such gathering. Along with ensuring freedom, we also need to find ways to address the issues arising out of
- Our Terror, Now Theirs Too (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Dec 28, 2003)
The end of the year seems always to bring either war or peace between India and Pakistan. This time it is a hesitant, nervous sort of peace that appears to be breaking out. We talk of cross-border trains and flights, instead of terrorism, and hear words
- Cancerous Cynicism (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 27, 2003)
The CEC may have a point about politicians but he should offer remedies, not barbs
- Shining From Within (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, Dec 27, 2003)
The world wants India to rise and shine, the task at hand is at home
- Five `I's For Budget 2004-05 (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Dec 26, 2003)
In the coming Budget, the Government ought to focus on `I's: Interest rates, Investment, Infrastructure, Information and Image. The Finance Minister who, in his previous portfolio, did a lot to enhance the country's prestige should use the Budget to ...
- Making Whistle-Blowing 100 Per Cent Safe (Business Line, K. Parthasarathi, Dec 26, 2003)
Whistle-blowing is one sure way of getting the signals of corruption in high places across before serious damage is done. Otherwise, these may not surface for years, as with the stamp scam. The government's antennae must, therefore, be tuned to catch ...
- Dubey:india’s Hero Number One For 2003 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 24, 2003)
Satyendra Dubey’s courage and honesty have made him India’s hero number one for 2003. His sacrifice is a wake-up call for us.
- The Rot Within (Telegraph, SANKAR SEN, Dec 23, 2003)
R.S. Sharma’s case illustrates that corruption at the top destroys the police force’s commitment and encourages more corruption
- Take It Or Fall Behind (Telegraph, Barun De, Dec 22, 2003)
Does south Asia have genuinely independent alternatives for more self-respecting national futures
- Msrdc’s Moves (Indian Express, DUCHETA DALAL , Dec 21, 2003)
With the Worli-Bandra link, literally stuck mid-sea, the cash-starved Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) has grandly announced another sea link to connect a suburb of Mumbai. Since the corporation finances its activities through bond
- Have They Got More Than They Bargained For? (Hindu, KESAVA MENON, Dec 21, 2003)
Now that Saddam Hussein is in American hands what happens in Iraq? On the unfolding situation.
- Doing Nothing Is Hard Work (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Dec 20, 2003)
I spent my childhood and youth shirking work by bunking school and college lectures. But for the fear of parents and teachers, I had no problem spending my days playing and loafing about. That attitude to life continued into the years in office. I found
- The Golden Bilateral? (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 20, 2003)
Why peace with Pak could be the PM’s dream project as he steps into a poll year and a changed world
- No Coercion But Let’s Work Towards Reserving Jobs In Private Ector: Pm (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2003)
In a remark of far-reaching significance, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today said an atmosphere had to be created for job reservation for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in the private sector, even while emphasising that education rather than
- Despair Of The Jobless (Tribune, H. K. Dua, Dec 19, 2003)
IT is a pity that because of the excitement of the recent Assembly elections and the making and unmaking of ministries, the violence in Mumbai, Bihar and Assam has not received serious attention in the country.
- If China Can, Why Can't India? (Business Line, Gautam Murthy, Dec 19, 2003)
CHINA's economic success is stunning the world as it understands how to move with the times. It is the world's most competitive nation anddesires to modernise rapidly by attracting more foreign investment.
- Not Quite Right (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Dec 19, 2003)
Let me admit at the very outset that on this count I am in a minuscule minority in Lutyens’s Delhi, in Hampstead and Islington, in Manhattan’s Upper West side and in all the watering holes of radical cosmopolitanism.
- Us Foreign Policy — Is There An India Tilt? (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Dec 19, 2003)
There has been a sea-change in the US foreign policy approach to India since the Nixon-Kissinger days. If Washington sees India as a vibrant democracy, pursuing accelerated economic growth, it views Pakistan as a problem child; it cannot afford to allow
- Supreme Court And The Common Man (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 19, 2003)
The Supreme Court breathed life into Article 21 of the Constitution by expanding the meaning of the words "right to life" as not mere animal existence, but as life with dignity.
- ‘ Thousands Of Dubeys Have Suffered Fighting Corruption ’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2003)
The prime minister has made a statement condemning Satyendra Dubey’s murder. But businessmen like N.R. Narayana Murthy have already beaten him to it. The ruling party is so busy celebrating its victory in the recent assembly elections, it can’t spare time
- American Tilt Towards India (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Dec 18, 2003)
Dr Henry Kissinger proclaimed at the height of the Bangladesh conflict that it was the intention of the Nixon Administration to “tilt” in favour of Pakistan and against India. Ever since the 1971 conflict, policies of successive US Administrations have...
- Supreme In Law (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
The perspective of pure legality may not always square with concepts in other spheres. In upholding the Prevention of Terrorism Act on the grounds of legal and constitutional validity, the Supreme Court has made clear that the discomfort regarding the act
- Cheating In Polls (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
WHEN Chief Election Commissioner James Michael Lyngdoh says cheating is the bane of Indian elections, one cannot but sit up and take notice. Obviously, what weighed on his mind is his recent experience in holding elections in five states. As he admitted
- Loosen Their Iron Grip (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Dec 18, 2003)
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee realizes the need to rein in teachers’ unions, but convincing his party colleagues will not be an easy task
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