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Articles 24821 through 24920 of 26693:
- Bt Cotton Fiasco - Pushing Farmers Into A `Booby' Trap (Business Line, Devinder Sharma , Nov 14, 2003)
THE failure of Bt cotton, and that too in its very first year of planting is well-documented. So much so that even a Parliamentary Committee has put its stamp over the scientific blunder. According to an official report of the Andhra Pradesh Government on
- Bt Cotton Fiasco - Pushing Farmers Into A `Booby' Trap (Business Line, Devinder Sharma , Nov 14, 2003)
THE failure of Bt cotton, and that too in its very first year of planting is well-documented. So much so that even a Parliamentary Committee has put its stamp over the scientific blunder.
- Sharon And The House Of Saud (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Nov 14, 2003)
Israel and Saudi Arabia have to do a deal to neutralise in-house conflict mongers
- Poll Iron Hot, So Naidu Strikes (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 14, 2003)
Ending weeks of speculation, the general body meeting of the ruling Telugu Desam Party today unanimously favoured early polls, setting the stage for dissolution of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly.
- Effecting Change Sans Hype & Hoopla (Deccan Herald, Binu S Thomas, Nov 13, 2003)
Civil society groups, which demand transparency in governance, need to be transparent in their own functioning
- The Never Never Land Of Democracy (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 13, 2003)
The alternative to Musharraf is not religious dictatorship, it is the people’s will. The West must wake up to this
- Effecting Change Sans Hype & Hoopla (Deccan Herald, Binu S Thomas, Nov 13, 2003)
Civil society groups, which demand transparency in governance, need to be transparent in their own functioning
- Safdar's Spirit And The Work Ahead (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 13, 2003)
NEARLY 15 YEARS after a radical theatre activist was cut down in his prime simply because his views and action did not suit the interests of the local political mafia, many of the issues underlying that tragedy are still with us. The murder of Safdar Hash
- Looking At ‘Contempt’ In Context (Indian Express, Rakesh Shukla, Nov 11, 2003)
The decision of the apex court to grant an interim stay on the arrest of journalists of the The Hindu is salutary and will hopefully have a restraining effect on the Tamil Nadu Assembly.
- India’s Bridge To Mongolia (Indian Express, Aasha Khosa, Nov 11, 2003)
In the late eighties, Mongolia was at the crossroads of history. It was the presence of Indian monk Lama Kushok Bakula Rimpoche that really helped at that crucial stage.
- Slugging It Out For The Top Slot (The Financial Express, Senthil Chengalvarayan, Nov 11, 2003)
Birla should worry with Agarwal going global
- Personal Undertakings (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 11, 2003)
The PSU expose reveals that our ministers have learnt little from the Petrol Pump Scam.
- An Unreasonable Restriction (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Nov 10, 2003)
Political leaders in India should realise that arbitrary governance also creates political and policy uncertainty and destabilises the environment for business.
- Climate Change: Think Out Of The Box (The Financial Express, Robert O. Blake, Nov 10, 2003)
For too long, the debate on climate change has been deadlocked. It’s time to move beyond that.
- Personal Policies (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Nov 09, 2003)
Minister of State for Finance A V Adsul wanted his loyal political worker Anwar Ibrahim Qasi to be appointed as his assistant personal secretary. But the Shiv Sena minister was thwarted by the Department of Personnel which turned down his candidate on the
- The Nephew Also Rises (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Nov 09, 2003)
The nephew also rises
- Cong Between Mulayam And A Hard Place (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Nov 09, 2003)
The season of hunting with the hound and running with the hare seems to be coming to an end for the Congress in Uttar Pradesh. With an alliance with the ruling Samajwadi Party in UP and a ‘tacit understanding’ with the BSP in Madhya Pradesh, the Congress
- Sops Galore In Ap But Naidu Mum On Polls (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 09, 2003)
Skirting the much-awaited issue of dissolution of Assembly, the marathon four-hour-long cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, confined its focus to approving a slew of welfare packages for handloom weavers, fishermen and industr
- Don Your Monkey Cap And Chew This (Indian Express, Raju Santhanam, Nov 09, 2003)
"Monkey Menace in South Block reaches alarming proportions" - News item
- This Mrs G And That Mrs G (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Nov 09, 2003)
Indira Gandhi’s death anniversary went by almost unnoticed. There was that little fracas over grandson, Feroze Varun, being denied entry (or so he said) to her samadhi and there were the usual pictures of Sonia, family and flunkeys seated in mournful reme
- Lanka: That Sinking Feeling (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Nov 09, 2003)
If we have a troubled neighbour on the northern border, our neighbour on the southern border has plunged itself into a major constitutional crisis.
- Judicial Accountability (Indian Express, Soli Sorabjee, Nov 09, 2003)
Accountability is the sine qua non of democracy. Transparency facilitates accountability. No public institution or public functionary is exempt from accountability although the manner of enforcing accountability may vary depending upon the nature of the o
- Chorus: Amma, Lay Off (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 09, 2003)
The Tamil Nadu Assembly’s decision ordering the arrest of editors and senior journalists of The Hindu and Murasoli for ‘‘breach of privilege of the House’’ evoked widespread protest in the state.
- Repentant, Resolute (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Nov 08, 2003)
Atal Behari Vajpayee spoke to Britain’s FINANCIAL TIMES and the paper immediately spotlighted two moments: ‘‘Justice will be seen to be done’’ in Gujarat, India’s Prime Minister told the FT. He also ‘‘vehemently’’ rejected any suggestion that the economic
- Away With The Critics (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2003)
The trouble is not just what Jayalalithaa does, it is also that she gets away with it
- New Delhi, New Voter (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Nov 08, 2003)
In Raipur, they throw free schoolbags at you; in the capital, lower SPM levels
- Politics Is Not A Cantonment (Indian Express, Najam Sethi, Nov 08, 2003)
The generals in Pakistan have usurped public space and silenced their rivals. This is just not tenable
- Early Elections & Tdp Calculations (Hindu, Jyotirmaya Sharma, Nov 08, 2003)
Chandrababu Naidu's main strength remains the lack of cohesion within the Congress, which is the main opposition in Andhra Pradesh.
- Amma Has Freedom To Press — Hard (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2003)
The Hindu: Citing privilege, House orders arrest of 6 journalists, MLA
- Chandrababu Wants To Logout And Reboot (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Nov 08, 2003)
Decision likely as early as today
- Peace Through The Looking Glass (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2003)
"THE RULE IS," the Queen told Alice in Lewis Carroll's classic, Through the Looking Glass, "jam tomorrow, and jam yesterday — but never jam today." To anyone who has been following the peace process in Jammu and Kashmir since ...
- India To Host The World, Neighbour Seeks Entry (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Nov 08, 2003)
Around 100 legislators from Pakistan are planning to attend the 4th World Parliamentary Forum (WPF) to be held on the sidelines of the World Social Forum Congress in Mumbai in January 2004 - provided the Indian government issues them visas.
- Shrug Off The Cold War, This Is A New World (Indian Express, Atal Behari Vajpayee, Nov 07, 2003)
Pragmatism on the China front, infotech companies as a force multiplier. On security, think out of the box
- Don't Take It Out On The Roads (Business Line, Pradeep Mehta, Nov 07, 2003)
JAIPUR'S image of a city of non-belligerent road-users was dented recently. A minor mishap involving the cars of a bureaucrat and an MLA ended up in a major brawl.
- For A Chief Of Baghdad (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Nov 07, 2003)
The military process in Iraq is overwhelming the political one
- Dalits And The Horizontal Ladder (Deccan Herald, Kancha Ilaiah, Nov 07, 2003)
In the 1984 elections, Kanshi Ram played the game of defeating the otherwise winnable Congress candidates in UP. In the name of Bahujan rhetoric he organised Dalits into an electorally confident group. Slowly in many constituencies, apart from Dalits, he
- The Woman Who Defeated Vajpayee (Indian Express, Sagari Chhabra, Nov 07, 2003)
Subhadra Joshi fought for freedom, for religious peace, for a value system slipping by
- Dalits And The Horizontal Ladder (Deccan Herald, Kancha Ilaiah, Nov 07, 2003)
In the 1984 elections, Kanshi Ram played the game of defeating the otherwise winnable Congress candidates in UP. In the name of Bahujan rhetoric he organised Dalits into an electorally confident group. Slowly in many constituencies, apart from Dalits, he
- All In The Family (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2003)
Check the list of candidates: succession continues to knock out competition
- Andhra Pradesh In Election Mode (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2003)
ALL SIGNALS FROM Andhra Pradesh say early Assembly polls. It is clear now that no sooner had Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu got over the shock of the claymore mine attack on him at Tirupati than he began to think elections. The leading factor ...
- That Anywhere Feeling (Indian Express, Amrita Shah, Nov 06, 2003)
In its last issue, the newsmagazine The Week, carried an extended desi travelogue: an account of ‘‘ten fun cities for the traveling male.’’ It does seem odd for a magazine to focus solely on the male traveler when there is a surge in women traveling for w
- A Media Farce In Two Acts (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Nov 06, 2003)
In Britain's competitive media environment, obsessed with personalities, selection and presentation of news is becoming an increasingly arbitrary exercise.
- Sri Lanka In Crisis Again (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 06, 2003)
SRI LANKA's TWO-year-old cohabitation experiment now stands at the edge of collapse. The responsibility for precipitating the crisis lies not with President Chandrika Kumaratunga, as Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has alleged, but with his ...
- A Paradigm Shift Called Kanshi Ram (Deccan Herald, Kancha Ilaiah, Nov 06, 2003)
Kanshi Ram suffered a brain stroke on September 15 when he was travelling from Rajahmundry to Hyderabad. Since then he has remained immobile. For a few days he lost his speech but gradually regained his speech. Now both for the reasons of stroke and also
- `We And The Americans Are Looking In The Same Direction' (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 06, 2003)
In the midst of chaos that is Baghdad today, its Deputy Mayor for Technical Affairs, Mr Faris Alasam, retains his calm and sense of humour. In an interview to Business Line in his office in Baghdad, he was optimistic about Iraq's future, but said the Amer
- Sri Lanka: Uncertainty Over Issues Of Governance (Hindu, V. S. Sambandan, Nov 06, 2003)
By asserting her constitutional powers, the Sri Lankan President, Chandrika Kumaratunga, has jolted the ruling United National Front (UNF) into reviewing the status of the island's first real cohabitation government. Tuesday's rapid developments are lik
- Past Imperfect, Present Tense (Indian Express, Raghav Gupta, Nov 06, 2003)
Iraq’s problems have more to do with Saddam’s legacy than with Bush’s intervention
- Fission And Fusion (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 06, 2003)
THE LEADERS WHO were part of the Janata Party experiment in the post-Emergency period have been part of an endless cycle of squabbling among themselves and coming together to form new political formations. The merger of the Samata Party and the ...
- Giving Peace A Second Chance (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Nov 06, 2003)
The Defence Ministry took the unprecedented step last weekend of going to the press twice, on consecutive days, with details of Vajpayee’s address to the Corps Commanders. Yesterday’s news is rarely recycled like this but the ministry’s public relations d
- Babus And The Ballot (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 06, 2003)
The bureaucracy and the polity are separate entities: the CEC’s useful reminder
- A Paradigm Shift Called Kanshi Ram (Deccan Herald, Kancha Ilaiah, Nov 06, 2003)
Kanshi Ram suffered a brain stroke on September 15 when he was travelling from Rajahmundry to Hyderabad. Since then he has remained immobile. For a few days he lost his speech but gradually regained his speech. Now both for the reasons of stroke and also
- Jogi State Worse Than Gujarat: Cec (Indian Express, Ashwani Sharma, Nov 05, 2003)
Says officials are more partisan; and he’s less confident
- Tomorrow: Decision On Safety Net (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 05, 2003)
Central status for Allahabad university also on anvil
- Opaque Delivery Of Subsidies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 05, 2003)
THE DECISION TO ask the public sector oil companies to bear the burden of the subsidy on LPG and kerosene is a shortsighted move, made quite obviously with an eye on the coming State Assembly elections. Last month the Petroleum Minister, Ram ...
- India's Bleeding Head Wound (Hindu, Subramanian Swamy , Nov 05, 2003)
A workable solution to the Kashmir dispute must begin with an ambience for peace and the two countries cutting down rhetoric, and increasing normal diplomatic and political relations.
- Pappapatti: Constitutional Issues (Hindu, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Nov 05, 2003)
The need now is to base reservation for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes of seats and posts in Panchayati Raj institutions on the pattern indicated in the Constitution.
- Mumbai Traffic? Just Fly Over It (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Nov 05, 2003)
Ministry plans chopper service from airport to city by Jan
- Chandrika Strikes Back (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Nov 05, 2003)
For long in corrosive cohabitation with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe, President Chandrika Kumaratunga today dropped a thunderbolt on her island nation when she fired his key ministers, ordered troops out, blocked all roads leading to Colombo and su
- Commission And Omission (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 05, 2003)
THE SUPREME COURT'S scathing observations on the appointment of a top-ranking bureaucrat as chairperson of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) have resulted in the Centre scrambling for cover. Deepak Chatterjee, who was scheduled to retire ...
- After 16 Months In Prison, Vaiko Rues The Day He Supported Pota (Indian Express, Jayaraj Sivan, Nov 05, 2003)
Sixteen months is a long time, longer if it is in the loneliness of a prison cell. ‘‘It has given me enough time for introspection. Two major mistakes I committed in my political career were supporting POTA in Parliament and aligning with the AIADMK in th
- Are Dams A Boon Or A Bane? (Deccan Herald, R G Subramanyam, Nov 05, 2003)
In recent years there has been a sustained campaign against the construction of dams in general, and those on the Narmada in the States of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat in particular. The movement is spearheaded by the likes of Medha Patkar and Arundhati Roy
- `Plantation Sector Needs Structural Change' (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Nov 05, 2003)
"The new thinking is that the plantation sector, comprising the farm and manufacturing segment, should be prepared for a structural change in the 21st century. This means that productivity levels should be linked to the labour employed and marketing strat
- Key To The Kiss Of The Spiderwoman (Indian Express, Donald G. Mcneil, Nov 05, 2003)
Whether it’s spiders or human beings, they both play the mating game alike
- Cancun Collapse And Food Sovereignty (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 04, 2003)
Third World food security is at stake.Unless the developed countries agree to reasonable negotiations, agriculture must be kept out WTO By T N Prakash Kammardi
- Cancun Collapse And Food Sovereignty (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 04, 2003)
Third World food security is at stake.Unless the developed countries agree to reasonable negotiations, agriculture must be kept out WTO By T N Prakash Kammardi
- George Fails To Move Dmk On Pota (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 04, 2003)
The Centre’s efforts to mollify the DMK on the issue of POTA fell flat tonight after the party president, M. Karunanidhi, stuck to his ground that nothing short of a repeal of the act was acceptable.
- Had Govt Kept Its Word, It Would Have Avoided Sc Fire (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Nov 04, 2003)
Competition panel: Draft Bill said CJI or nominee would head appt panel, this was dropped
- Mahathir's Impressive Legacy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2003)
AFTER A DISTINGUISHED reign of 22 years, Mahathir Mohamad has stepped down as Prime Minister of Malaysia and handed over power to a trusted successor, Abdullah Ahmed Badawi. His solid contribution: providing clear-sighted and unwavering leadership to the
- An Interim Separate State (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Nov 02, 2003)
Only those who believed that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had toned down its demands will be surprised by the proposals for an "interim self-governing authority" that the group gave to the Sri Lankan Government on Friday and announced pub
- Shining India Or Area Of Darkness? (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Nov 02, 2003)
In a village in Maharashtra, last week, in the dak edition of a badly printed newspaper I read that by 2050 India’s economy will be number three in the world. The village has no water, erratic electricity, no sanitation, no healthcare and a shabby little
- Fashioning A Comeback (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Nov 02, 2003)
Shahnawaz Hussain went into deep depression when he was first transferred from the high profile Civil Aviation Ministry to the less visible Ministry of Textiles. The general consensus in the media was that he had been demoted. Officials in his new ministr
- India Is A Model For Our Present Age: Hungarian Pm (Hindu, Amar Kumar Sinha, Nov 02, 2003)
ON THE eve of his official visit to India, the Hungarian Prime Minister gave an interview to
- Deep-Rooted Connections (Hindu, Girish Menon, Nov 02, 2003)
In Kerala, the liquor tade has its roots in caste and communal politics.
- A Dangerous Mix (Hindu, SURESH NAMBATH, Nov 02, 2003)
While the liquor lobby is powerful in all the States, the cartels formed by the retailers have of late begun to tell on Government revenue.
- The Enron Question (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Nov 02, 2003)
When P.P. Vora took over as chairman of IDBI (Industrial Development Bank of India), he came with the distinction of having successfully collected over Rs 1,000 crore for the National Housing Bank (NHB), in the 1992 Scam related dispute with ANZ Grindlays
- Barely Bearable (Indian Express, Pamela Constable, Nov 02, 2003)
Afghan beauty’s pageant swimsuit rattles country
- Cong Gives Room, Bsp Opens Door (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Nov 02, 2003)
Sonia declares Madhya Pradesh list, doesn’t name candidates for 10 seats
- Pulled Up By Ec, Jogi & His Men Loudly Knock (Indian Express, Santwana Bhattacharya, Nov 01, 2003)
If you happened to be outside the Election Commission today, you would have got to see a part of the Chhattisgarh Assembly elections. Because Chief Minister Ajit Jogi showed up at the EC door in full force to present his case and counter the ‘‘trumped-up
- The Unfolding Indian Role In Sri Lanka (Hindu, Iqbal Athas, Nov 01, 2003)
New Delhi's task is unenviable. It is to make sure that a Government that has ignored its security forces and remained complacent does not continue to do so.
- Long Overdue (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 01, 2003)
THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT'S draft notification requiring urban property developers to obtain environmental clearance for large projects is a welcome step. Under the terms of this notification, developers of building projects for more than a thousand ...
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