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Articles 25221 through 25320 of 26693:
- Read Their Lips (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2003)
In Uttar Pradesh, it’s time to swear by good governance once more
- Mayawati’s Win-Win Gambit (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Sep 08, 2003)
Mayawati's balancing act is amazing. Her party may be headed for a split, the CBI may be sniffing around for wrongdoings in the Taj corridor case, but there she sits, with ladoos in both hands. A jubilant Congress was all set to do a deal with her, and...
- Settle Ayodhya Before Vhp Gets Into Act: Rss (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Sep 08, 2003)
Encouraged by the Archaeological Survey of India report on the excavations carried out at the Ayodhya site, the entire RSS leadership, led by Sarsanghchalak K S Sudarshan, met Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani today and urged him to resolve the temple ...
- You Need To Play It Again, Sam (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Sep 07, 2003)
Cong sits on Sam Pitroda’s key proposal: send fossils home, remove party brokers
- Cong To Play It Safe, Give Support From Outside (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Sep 07, 2003)
Seeking to play it safe, the Congress today turned down the SP offer to join the UP government in tomorrow’s Cabinet expansion and decided instead to support from outside.
- 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
- Unifying Personal Laws (Hindu, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Sep 06, 2003)
Personal laws may be reformed from within, without a quantum leap into a common code.
- 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.
- Open A Dialogue (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2003)
THE U.S. STATE Department's expression of concern at the health of Myanmar's Nobel laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, and the appeal to release her and all political activists in that country is expected to set off a fresh round of international ...
- Growing Up In The House (Indian Express, SHABANA AZMI, Sep 04, 2003)
No two cities are as unlike as Mumbai and Delhi. The first, of course, is my city. I grew up and became what I am here. The other, I got to know a bit better during my stint as a Member of the Rajya Sabha. In Delhi, there are two clear divides. You can
- Stuck In The Muddle East (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 03, 2003)
At his last cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Vajpayee would have done well to get the highly articulate Palestinian foreign minister, Nabil Sha’ath, into the foreign office, if only to explain the government’s position on the continuing chaos in the ...
- The World Alleges And Pak Denies It (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Sep 03, 2003)
Pakistan faces, once again, a barrage of allegations ranging from charges of covert support of terrorists to accusations about illegally exporting components for other nations’ nuclear and missile programmes.
- Fraudulent Bank (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Aug 31, 2003)
On August 25, the Haryana police finally arrested one Manik Lal Maitra, a non-resident Indian (NRI) operating from Germany who was brazenly running a ‘fraudulent bank’ at Copola Towers, Rajendra Place in New Delhi without Reserve Bank permission.
- Feats Unlimited: Woman Sarpanchs On Feet (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2003)
She is in her mid-’30s, a mother of four and a Dalit woman sarpanch who has studied till Std V. Urmila Dhonde is proud of her background, proud of the administrative experience and insight she has gained as sarpanch over the last three years. And now she
- Wretched Of The Earth (Indian Express, Syed Shahabuddin, Aug 30, 2003)
Muslim Indians are natural allies of others marginalised by an upper caste Hindu elite. Second in a two-part series
- Mumbai On The Map (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Aug 30, 2003)
Mumbai has been to this tragic place before. But this time was different in at least one sense. This time, echoes of the twin blasts in the city travelled farther abroad than ever before. Instant empathy poured in from foreign shores. Comparisons were
- Let’s Do The Cancun (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2003)
Indian negotiators are on the right track so far in the run up to the Cancun WTO meeting
- Media: More Business, Less Diversity (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Aug 30, 2003)
Within each kind of media business there is a real threat of domination that dilutes the basic tendency towards diversity and pluralism characteristic of the Indian media marketplace.
- For One Delhi Evening, Poetry Over Politics (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Aug 28, 2003)
In the cynical world of realpolitik in New Delhi, maybe it’s poetry that can ensure this unprecedented alignment. Four former Prime Ministers—all bitter rivals at one time or another—have got together to host an evening in honour of their fifth ...
- Centre Stage At Srinagar (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2003)
It’s time to consider fresh initiatives to keep the Kashmir process going
- Pak, Give Us Our Most Wanted, Says Advani (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2003)
: The morning after, the death toll at 53, the crumpled metal of a taxi at Mumbadevi and the Gateway of India hosted two very important visitors.
- 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 ...
- Moment Of Opportunity? (Hindu, Rajmohan Gandhi, Aug 26, 2003)
The moment that has to be seized is one where, spurred by India, the world may save itself and America from an unwise continuation of a unilateral bid by the U.S. to reorder the world.
- On The Economics Of Media Diversity (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Aug 26, 2003)
Recent controversies point not just to the weaknesses inherent in India's media policy but to the complex marketplace created by the nature of expansion of the media over the last decade. In this edition of Macroscan ...
- Growth With Integration (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2003)
THE SRI LANKAN Prime Minister, Mr Ranil Wickremesinghe's reference to a trade off between freedom and economic progress in his speech at the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation Millennium Lecture Series 2003 has all the ingredients to set off a ...
- Who Won? Vajpayee And Sonia (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Aug 25, 2003)
It was not the disruptions, the personal allegations, the noise, or the rancour that was the most worrying aspect of last week’s no trust motion against the government. They cause concern but they were not the most objectionable aspect. The most objection
- Making Our People Rich (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2003)
NEARLY six decades ago momentous things happened in both our countries. We made our people free. We established institutions and secured a system of Government where the people were able to elect the Parliament and enjoy basic democratic freedoms. This...
- Making Our People Rich (Hindu, Ranil Wickremesinghe, Aug 25, 2003)
Sri Lanka and India, working as an integrated marketplace, offer strong opportunities for potential investors. Together, we can offer greater economies of scale and build a more competitive commercial environment.
- ‘let This Change Be Permanent’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2003)
The Indian Express readers respond to Arun Shourie’s three-part Independence Day special on the innovative new India.
- Panchayati Raj, Pakistani Style (Indian Express, George Mathew, Aug 23, 2003)
Bhurban near Murree, a beautiful hill station near Islamabad, was recently the venue of a path-breaking conference on local government. Pakistan’s National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB), established in 2000, organised it. Its mandate is to provide clean ...
- Voice Of Hindustan (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Aug 23, 2003)
There was a time when most people of northern India extending from Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s Peshawar to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's Calcutta down to Bapu Gandhi’s Sabaramati spoke a language all Indians down to Andhra Pradesh could understand and speak
- Panchayats In Practice (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2003)
OVER A DECADE after the 73rd Amendment to the Constitution was enacted, devolution of powers to Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) remains in many respects a distant dream. To be sure, grass roots bodies have now acquired a permanent place within ...
- The Right To Strike (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Aug 22, 2003)
To avoid strikes is everyone's responsibility. But to assert that strikes under any circumstances are illegal, immoral, inequitable and unjustified is contrary to our law and industrial jurisprudence.
- India’s Magic Realism (Indian Express, Arun Jaitley, Aug 22, 2003)
Producing 30 per cent of America’s doctors but not one Al-Qaida terrorist
- Tracks To Diplomacy (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Aug 22, 2003)
I enjoy meeting my Indian friends,” says the suave young businessman as he takes the turn towards a huge, palatial mansion in Lahore’s Gulberg. “It is the idea of India we are uncomfortable with.” Inside, the decor shimmers with opulence. Rugs on the wall
- Pm Opening Hurriyat Door: Mufti (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Aug 21, 2003)
The Prime Minister’s Independence Day announcement that he will be in Srinagar later this month acquires a new significance with Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed saying that the Centre will soon initiate a serious dialogue process at the ‘‘highest ...
- The Politics Of No-Confidence (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2003)
WITH THE NUMBERS never stacking up, the no-confidence motion was doomed to failure even as it was moved. Given this, its success or failure must be measured not so much by the defeat of the motion (by a margin of 312 to 186) as by evaluating ...
- Laloo Show: Paswan Sore Loser (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Aug 21, 2003)
Rivalries in Bihar are almost as intense as the clash of the Tamil titans. The Laloo Prasad Yadav-Ram Vilas Paswan tussle shadowed the recent visit of parliamentarians to Pakistan from the time they left Delhi.
- How About Eu Norms For Drinking Water? (Indian Express, BARUN MITRA, Aug 21, 2003)
Over 200 years ago, a French queen advised her citizens to eat cake when they were struggling to find bread. The present outcry against bottled soft drinks and colas is similar.
- Terms Of Re-Engagement (Indian Express, JAGAT S. MEHTA, Aug 21, 2003)
The reach and responsibilities of professional diplomacy have expanded immeasurably and so have the pitfalls.
- The Two Images Of Lahore (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Aug 20, 2003)
Image number one. It was a nightmarish experience to drive on Lahore's Mall on August 14, Pakistan's Independence Day. The posh wide road, with four lanes and side streets, was insufficient to contain the boisterous throngs, using all means of transport
- Modi In London (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Aug 20, 2003)
Narendra Modi triggered multiple word associations on his recent trip to London, all of them sinister. The GUARDIAN took one look at the visitor and thought Pinochet. His enemies, it noted, liken him to Hitler, Milosevic, Pol Pot. The paper remembered
- Late Showers Bring Mud In Monsoon Term (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2003)
Day one of the no-confidence debate in the Lok Sabha was full of sound and fury and although in the beginning it seemed that it would signify little, by the end of the day, it sent three key signals.
- Crimes Against Parliament (Hindu, Pran Chopra , Aug 19, 2003)
What seems likely at the moment is that proper parliamentary procedures, evolved over decades, will go the way many other institutions have.
- Trade Unionism Must Reinvent Itself (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Aug 19, 2003)
The Indian trade union movement is badly organised and much politicised. It is splintered and leaves out of its pale vast numbers of unorganised workers. Only a confederation of the working class of all hues can serve as a political watchdog, as it can
- Vajpayee's Pakistan Policy (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 18, 2003)
Four months after launching yet another initiative towards Pakistan at Srinagar, the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, seems unfazed by the lack of progress on the official front with Pakistan. Patience, persistence and a series of positive gestures
- Some Curators Change Their Frames Of Reference (Indian Express, BLAKE GOPNIK, Aug 18, 2003)
Looking for a way out from collectors wanting to possess paintings by wrapping all the gilding around it
- Half A Freedom (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Aug 17, 2003)
In keeping with the festive spirit of the 56th happy birthday of our Tryst with Destiny let me begin on happy note. The good news is that much has changed for the better since Nehru made his Freedom at Midnight speech with — as I see it — most of the good
- This Is India’s Moment But It’s Only A Moment, Can We Grasp It (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Aug 17, 2003)
On the one hand, we have unbounded opportunities and incomparable advantages to seize them. On the other, there is the fate that will surely befall us if we falter. Unemployment will reach such proportions that social unrest will become unmanageable...
- Messenger’s The Message (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2003)
The Prime Minister’s Red Fort speech was a familiar message of unity and progress
- Thank You, Mr Modi (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2003)
On Independence Day weekend we treasure this reminder of our fragile freedoms
- Trial By Kangaroo Courts (Indian Express, RAJEEV BAKSHI, Aug 15, 2003)
These have been very unfortunate and sad days for our civil society. Guilty even if innocent or until proved innocent is the new credo of the new breed of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), media outlets and lumpen political elements.
- Preparing For Cancun (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 15, 2003)
The Indian policy making system has to find a way out of the dilemmas it faces in negotiating multilateral agreements. When Pranab Mukherjee went to Marrakesh to sign on behalf of India on the Uruguay Round Agreement, the Opposition political parties in
- Let Us Politicise Growth (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Aug 15, 2003)
Democratic politics and competitive political activity are the two prime forces that comprehensively permeate India's economic space. The key to kick-starting and sustaining growth lies in politicising it. Politicising economic reform and growth will ...
- Tomorrow, It’s A New Day (Indian Express, Mohammed Wajihuddin, Aug 14, 2003)
During my college days, on an Independence Day eve, I wanted to contribute an essay to a newspaper in Patna. After toying with several catchy titles for the essay, the best I could come up with was: “India of My Dreams.” A tired expression used zillions
- ‘your Poison May Be My Food’ (Indian Express, CITHARA PAUL, Aug 13, 2003)
A day after the Union Cabinet okayed the move to ban cow slaughter across the country, Kerala became the first state to oppose the proposed law, saying beef constituted nearly 40 per cent of the total meat consumed in the state.
- The Shimla Consensus (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Aug 13, 2003)
Issues related to national security were given prominence at the brainstorming session of the Congress Party in Shimla last month. Party President Sonia Gandhi emphasised many points in her inaugural address.
- Supreme Court And The Right To Strike (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2003)
A CLOSE READING of the Supreme Court's August 6, 2003 judgment in T.K. Rangarajan vs Government of Tamil Nadu & Others shows that the Court has, following in the footsteps of a string of illiberal verdicts on Government servants beginning ...
- Election Reforms And `Shekhawat Formula' (Business Line, Pradeep S. Mehta, Aug 13, 2003)
To have 107 elections in a litlle over a decade-and-a-half is something developing countries, such as India, can ill afford.
- China And India - Is Democracy The Defining Difference? (Business Line, Alok Ray, Aug 12, 2003)
The democratic system in India makes for slow and sometimes tortuous progress as it has to rely on consensus building. But this may turn out to be more stable and irreversible than what has happened in China
- Epochal, Absolutely Epochal (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Aug 12, 2003)
The Supreme Court has offered its view that employees of government do not have a mechanistic "right to strike". It is epochal since it creates room for ordinary people, and because it debunks divisiveness. The Supreme Court has offered all a chance to
- Savour The Taste Of Harmony Brew (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Aug 11, 2003)
Far away from Indo-Pak talking shops, here’s a real confidence building measure. Civil Junction coffee shop, a funkily decorated tiny haven for coffee drinkers in Gol Market, Islamabad, is Pakistan’s first ‘independent’ coffee bar. It serves South Asia
- Lok Sabha Polls: The Sooner The Better, Thinks Bjp (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Aug 09, 2003)
Regardless of what Chief Election Commissioner J M Lyngdoh thinks, the BJP leadership is set on holding the general elections much before schedule and may go in for Lok Sabha polls as early as November 2003.
- The Road Goes Uphill From Shimla (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Aug 08, 2003)
At Shimla the Congress ostensibly reversed the decision it had taken in Pachmarhi in September 1998. The question at Pachmarhi, as at Shimla, was: Should the Congress open up for coalitions?
- Democracy Versus Demography (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Aug 08, 2003)
To deny the right to be elected undermines Indian democracy to create two classes of people on a suspect classification based on the number of children a person has.
- The Power Play In Nepal (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Aug 06, 2003)
The political parties (in Nepal) fear the king will make a deal with the Maoists and move them even further on to the margins of power.
- Widen That Lens (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, Aug 04, 2003)
When Raj Kapoor sang, “Mera jootha hai Japani, patloon Inglistani,” he was neither singing the virtues of globalisation nor was he reaching out to the hearts and minds of the Japanese and the English. Song-writer Shailendra’s line about the “red Russian
- The Two-Child Norm Is Plainly Unfair (Indian Express, V. MOHINI GIRI, Aug 04, 2003)
It was just the other day that an eminent journalist, P. Sainath, wrote about how children were being deprived of going to school as the result of the two-child norm. The sarpanchs had to hide their children to avoid being debarred from office on account
- Wolf Shopping For Sheep's Clothing (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Aug 04, 2003)
SUCCESSIVE governments at the Centre have made a complete mess of India's foreign policy, subsidised with growing reluctance by the tax payer. Thus, in a manner of speaking, the BJP-led National Front Government was only perpetuating an established
- Resurgent Tribalism In Fiji (Hindu, Sam Rajappa, Aug 04, 2003)
Over decades, the gulf between the indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians has widened.
- Newsreel: 27.07.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2003)
INSTITUTIONS, not individuals, is what makes a democracy tick. Against a backdrop of farcical investigations and fleeing victims, the National Human Rights Commission decides to take the Best Bakery case — one among the many gruesome incidents during the
- Indian Position On Peacekeeping (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Aug 03, 2003)
The Indian position was clear enough. As New Delhi awaits an "explicit'' United Nations mandate to consider the possibility of deploying troops in Iraq, previous positions taken by the Vajpayee Government at the U.N. are instructive. ``We believe that
- Cec Lyngdoh Gets Magsaysay For Standing Up To J&k Militants And Modi (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Jul 31, 2003)
The normally stern James Michael Lyngdoh, who’s preparing to conduct his last elections in November as he demits office of the Chief Election Commissioner in February 2004, was all smiles today when news came in that he had been awarded this year’s Ramon
- Towards More Neighbourly Ties (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Jul 31, 2003)
Karzai needs Pak to fight terrorism while Musharraf cannot allow Pak to be sucked into a new Afghan quagmire
- Detested Abroad, Unpopular At Home (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jul 31, 2003)
Amid growing disillusionment in Britain with the new Tony Blair, and mounting criticism by the Americans of their President pushing them into an unnecessary war, Washington think-tanks are suggesting the involvement of Iraqi people in the clean up, while
- Time For Pm To Put His Foot Down? (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Jul 30, 2003)
For more than two years, this country has been remonstrating with the United States that it is not doing enough to persuade or pressure Pakistan to end cross-border terrorism directed against India even though India and the U.S. are "partners" in the
- Mayawati Overplays Hand, Burns Fingers (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 30, 2003)
Less than 24 hours after she breathed fire demanding the dismissal of Union Minister Jagmohan over the Taj controversy, a sheepish Mayawati fell into line—at least, for now.
- The News According To Star (Hindu, Sashi Kumar, Jul 28, 2003)
Star News may be making a monkey of regulatory guidelines, but the Indian Media Group initiative is a case of making too much of a public cause of powerful private interests. There are also troubling questions about censoring the other side of the story
- River Sutra Woes (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Jul 26, 2003)
INDIA’S giant river linking project is still on the drawing board but criticism may already be rising to the high water mark. We heard the critics at home. This week in the GUARDIAN, a report filed from Dhaka spoke of the concerns these ambitious plans
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