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Articles 25321 through 25420 of 26693:
- Ethnicity And Politics In Fiji (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2003)
POLITICS IN THE Pacific island nation of Fiji has come a long way, with a Supreme Court ruling helping to heal the wounds inflicted by three coups since Fiji won independence from Britain in 1970. It is not clear whether the mainly Indian origin ...
- Bjp Vs Sonia: The Great Indian Show (Indian Express, Swami Agnivesh, Jul 24, 2003)
The more the BJP vitiates the national discourse with non-issues, the less faith people will have in the party
- ‘‘it Is In India’s Interest To Be Involved In Iraq’’ (Indian Express, Raja Menon, Jul 23, 2003)
Regarding transborder deployment, the history of our strategic culture is hesitant, unsure, timid. It should go far beyond our territorial limits
- A National, Not Communal, Issue (Indian Express, Gopal Krishna Agarwal, Jul 23, 2003)
The Ramjanambhoomi issue is not a religious but a political issue. The moment we consider it a religious matter, it becomes a conflict between Hindus and Muslims. Hindu philosophy talks of God being universal, omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent.
- Why We Should Go To Iraq (Indian Express, Radha Kumar, Jul 23, 2003)
The ends do not justify the means — but the means should not doom the ends either. India has a chance to help the right ends come about
- Pak’s New Jihad: Riding With Uncle Sam (Indian Express, Ayaz Amir, Jul 22, 2003)
Pitiless are the wages of jihad. True to its General Zia-bestowed motto of ‘‘Jihad in the cause of Allah,’’ the high command of that quintessentially Islamic force, the Pakistan Army, is keen, nay desperate, to ride out into the Iraqi desert to do sergean
- A Question Of Accountability (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Jul 22, 2003)
For two long years and more, the scams and scandals which led to the collapse of the stock market in March 2001 resulted in market capitalisation tottering at half the peak figure of February 2000. Stagnation in capital markets has gravely impacted on
- Tamil Nadu's Assault On Elitism (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Jul 21, 2003)
WHEN "Tilting Tamil Nadu towards prosperity" was written at the time of the Tamil New Year in 2002, there was unbounded hope that the State Tamil Nadu will be transformed into India's foremost State (Business Line, April 16, 2002). The hope was founded on
- A Forward-Looking Visit? (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Jul 21, 2003)
The people are puzzled when the leader of a major politico-religious party from Pakistan chooses to visit India on a goodwill mission. Their bewilderment is all the greater when he speaks the language of moderation on Indo-Pakistan relations. Wide
- A New Big Game In Central Asia (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Jul 18, 2003)
The U.S. has moved to put a bigger foot in the South Caucasus and Central Asia... Russia has responded by boosting its military and economic presence, and building multilateral security structures in the region.
- ‘our Ties Mature, Will Continue To Climb’ (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Jul 18, 2003)
US Ambassador Robert Blackwill today made it clear that New Delhi’s decision to keep its troops out of Iraq until there’s an explicit UN mandate would not invite any backlash from his country.
- Make It An Asian Century (Indian Express, JAGAT S. MEHTA, Jul 18, 2003)
By bureaucratic happenstance, I am the only Indian professional who witnessed all the four seasons that marked our ties with China. I accompanied S. Radhakrishnan, then vice president, on his official visit in September 1957. It was the High Summer of the
- The Spirit Of Sauda And Mir (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Jul 18, 2003)
Tod kar butkhana masjid toh beena ki toone Sheikh; Barhaman ke dil ki bhi kuch fikr hai taameer ki? (O Sheikh, when you destroyed that idolhouse, you did two things: You broke the temple and you broke the heart of the Hindu who worshipped there. Now that
- From Bureaucracy To ‘kleptocracy’ (Indian Express, M. G. Devasahayam , Jul 18, 2003)
A new word, ‘‘Robberocracy’’, is floating around to describe corruption in our bloating bureaucracy. But there is much more to the rottenness of governance than just corruption by some ‘‘babus’’. The fact is that India’s democracy is slowly drifting ...
- At Deoband, They Ask About A Brand New Dove: Why’s He Here? (Indian Express, Rakesh Sinha , Jul 17, 2003)
In his dingy room at Darul-Uloom, second only to Cairo’s Al Azhar in the list of Islam’s hallowed seminaries, Mohammed Afzal shakes his head as he reads the papers: ‘‘Do you know what they say of the madarsas? That it’s a breeding ground for terror. Why
- Investment In Equity Is A Different Kettle Of Fish (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Jul 17, 2003)
Looks at the proposals on inter-corporate investments, guarantees and loans
- High Risks, Low Benefits (Indian Express, Ajai Shukla, Jul 16, 2003)
At the end of 1992, the US had asked India to quickly send a brigade group — over 4000 soldiers — to control the situation spiraling out of control in Somalia. Although there was already a UN Observer Group under a Pakistani commander in Somalia, there
- Us, India Aur Woh (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Jul 16, 2003)
There was some irrational gloating in India when Musharraf did not get the F-16s from the United States. The general assessment here was that the general’s visit to Washington was only a partial success. Wishful thinking is all very well but some ...
- Wasteful Rituals (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 16, 2003)
WHEN the United States emerged after the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the first thing that the founding fathers did was to do away with the elaborate rituals, dress codes and titles that the British had introduced. In fact, emissaries to the Royal
- Not Our War (Hindu, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Jul 14, 2003)
If India had sent troops to Iraq, the soldiers would have lost their lives in vain -- they would have died not defending their own country's freedom but in place of U.S. soldiers as targets of desperate Iraqis.
- Idea Par Excellence (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 14, 2003)
THE Vice-President, Mr Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, gets the year's Best Idea Award for proposing that elections to State Assemblies and the Lok Sabha should be held simultaneously and in the same month every five years, instead of separately and in isolation
- Is A Storm Brewing In The Valley? (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jul 13, 2003)
The 'Healing Touch' policy of the Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Government in Jammu and Kashmir could soon be tested by sterner challenges than it has had to face so far, writes PRAVEEN SWAMI.
- Red Is The Colour Of Reform (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Jul 02, 2003)
Hu Jintao may have initiated the democratization of the Chinese polity, but it is not yet time to pronounce him a liberal
- Power Corrupts (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 02, 2003)
Corruption in the corridors of power has become the bane of Indian political life. Things have come to such a pass that many people believe that an honest politician is an oxymoron which has ceased to be funny. It is no longer possible to brush this ...
- Tanked Up (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 29, 2003)
Political parties in India enjoy an importance in the body politic that is disproportionate to what they should enjoy in a parliamentary democracy. They are often given a voice over that of the parliamentary party and exercise an influence over policy
- The Absurd Reasoning (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jun 27, 2003)
This was unavoidable. Once the campaign for reservations was extended to its illogical extreme, the Brahmins could not be left behind. If the supposedly reasonable assumption that the state should be compassionate to all is taken for granted, everything
- Imprints On The Human Face (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Jun 25, 2003)
The current US policy could take the world towards the kind of cold war George Orwell portrayed in Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Jet Sets And Socialists (Telegraph, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Jun 20, 2003)
In the early years of reform, I found myself, one day, standing next to a somewhat corpulent businessman at Netaji Subhas Airport, Calcutta, waiting for the bus to take us to our aeroplane. Ranged in a row in front of us was a fleet of shiny new private
- When Wariness Is Best (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Jun 19, 2003)
Did the Pentagon team in New Delhi return home red-faced? Its members did their job in pressing the case for the despatch of 20,000 Indian troops to Iraq for peacekeeping duties in the northern, largely Kurdish, part of the country and spelling out the
- Great Dictator (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2003)
Making peace is always more arduous than making war. Parleys across a table demand more patience and tact than shelling borders and bombing towns. It is impossible for a military leader to fully appreciate the difficulties involved in a peace process. He
- On A Palace Coup (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Jun 11, 2003)
Nepal’s royalty is exploiting the constitutional crisis which it had itself created to subvert parliamentary democracy in the nation
- It Is Still Cold Beyond The Wall (Telegraph, M.L. Sondhi, Jun 10, 2003)
China must think beyond Sikkim in framing its India policy given the new warmth between India and the US
- Cas: Clear Signals For Consumers (Pradeep S. Mehta) (Business Line, Pradeep S. Mehta, Jun 10, 2003)
Under the Conditional Access System, cable TV operators will neither be able to bundle popular channels along with the less popular ones, nor charge high premiums on the popular ones and a notional sum for others.
- Has Pakistan Turned Around? (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jun 10, 2003)
When General Pervez Musharraf seized power in Pakistan from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his initial charge sheet was full of complaints on economic mismanagement.
- Narayan Murthy (Infosys) Bags E&y Entrepreneur Award (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2003)
MUMBAI, JUNE 8: Infosys Technologies chairman and chief mentor NR Narayana Murthy has become the first Indian recipient of the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year (WEOY) award.
- Weapons Of Mass Deception (Lk Sharma) (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma , Jun 09, 2003)
In the run up to the Iraq war, Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) occupied acres of newsprint and bombarded the airwaves, all of which had the desired result.
- Globalisation: The Great Leveller (Jayanthi Iyengar) (Business Line, Jayanthi Iyengar, Jun 09, 2003)
Business process outsourcing is the best thing that could have happened to globalisation. It is a test that the developed world will have to pass if it wants to see the continuation of free markets.
- Reform In Reverse Gear? (N. Venkiteswaran) (Business Line, N. Venkiteswaran, Jun 09, 2003)
Some of the Government's recent policy announcements give the unmistakeable impression that the logic of a coherent economic philosophy has been given the complete go-by.
- Build Bridges (For Communal Harmony) (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2003)
The manner in which a minor altercation between two individuals sparked off communal riots in Hyderabad is worrying.
- Need To Manage Water (Shebonti Ray Dadwal) (The Financial Express, Shebonti Ray Dadwal, Jun 09, 2003)
Time was when water was regarded as a god-given resource, to be used freely — and thoughtlessly.
- The General’S Musharraf) Problems (M B Naqvi) (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Jun 08, 2003)
After getting himself elected as Pakistan’s President, amending the Constitution and holding a bogus election, General Musharraf should have been firmly in the saddle of power. But, his troubles are only beginning
- Not Yet Dawn (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2003)
The “new dawn” that Ms Aung Sang Suu Kyi had seen for Myanmar last May, after her release from house arrest, has long since become the common day. Myanmar’s icon of democracy is back in “protective custody” again. With her are 17 officials of her party,
- Beyond The Hyphenated Perspective (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Jun 05, 2003)
India has often complained of being bracketed with Pakistan by the international community. The “India-Pakistan” hyphenated perspective of south Asia has led to a sense of frustration in New Delhi. Pakistan is seen as a shackle that prevents India from...
- Promises Gone Awry (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Jun 05, 2003)
The Bush administration has got away with its invasion of Iraq in defiance of the United Nations. It is the permanent members of the security council, who denied a UN cover to what was essentially an Anglo-American operation, who have to make amends for
- Reforms And Urban Poverty (Supriya Roychowdhury) (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Jun 03, 2003)
Several dimensions of our economic reform model reflect the impact of an abrasive marketisation policy, entirely
- Students Turned Away From Varsities In Myanmar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2003)
Yangon June 2. Myanmar authorities turned away students from universities on Monday, the first day of a new semester,
- Protecting Kids From Peak-Hour Traffic (Hindu, Anil Sastry, Jun 03, 2003)
Bangalore June 2. Imagine this situation: about five lakh vehicles, including school buses, transporting 11 lakh schoolchildren, are off the roads during peak hours, starting 8.30 a.m.
- G-8 Evinces Interest On Graft In Developing Nations (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Jun 03, 2003)
Prime Minister A B Vajpayee said today that the leaders of the seven wealthiest countries and Russia at the G-8 (Group of Eight) at Evian wanted to know why the developing countries are not tackling the endemic problem of “corruption” that is undermining
- Cas And Controversy (Hindu, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 03, 2003)
By Drastically reducing custom duties on set-top-boxes, the Centre has attempted to address the main concern of consumers over the introduction of the Conditional Access System (CAS)
- Blair 'Cooked Up' Intelligence On Iraq (Hasan Suroor) (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jun 03, 2003)
Intelligence is a bit like statistics — easy to manipulate. Just as poverty levels can be made to rise or diminish using the same set of statistics depending. . .
- Presidential Poll And Polemics Of Consensus (Business Line, R. C. Rajamani, Jul 11, 2002)
THOUGH any election is all about politics, the presidential poll in the country has been sought to be freed from competitive and combative vehemence of electoral politics and polemics.
- Time For A Reality Check (Hindu, Asma Khan, Jul 11, 2002)
Kashmir is back on the world consciousness and is the focus of major world powers. This is a welcome albeit late development; nonetheless, it encompasses great scope for ending the protracted impasse in Kashmir.
- The Border Confrontation (Hindu, P. R. Chari , Jul 11, 2002)
The test of success in the present coercive diplomacy is not the discomfiture of Pakistan but the resolution of the Kashmir problem.
- Cabinet Reshuffle -- Check, Checkmate (Business Line, Harihar Swarup , Jul 11, 2002)
Establishing Mr L. K. Advani's supremacy both in the government and the party, and the indication that the BJP would henceforth adopt hard line functioning, were obviously the twin objectives of the recent Cabinet and organisational changes.
- Krishna’s Cabinet (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 11, 2002)
Karnataka chief minister S.M. Krishna was virtually given carte blanche to rehaul his ministry when all the 43 ministers handed in their resignations last week. But what followed the next day was in more ways than one disappointing.
- Partition Revisited (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 11, 2002)
Gone is the surreptitious manner in which the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh had been projecting trifurcation of Kashmir in the past.
- Ec Proposes (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 11, 2002)
Rare indeed are the times when the entire political class stands up as one. But their face-off with the Election Commission raises more questions than it answers and does the political class no good at all.
- Naxalite Violence: Legacy Of Another Era (Times of India, BHASKAR ROY, Jul 10, 2002)
India, a nuclear power and satellite manufacturer, is grappling with an armed political campaign that best belongs to another era, and is admittedly an outcome of the unresolved contradictions of a backward agrarian society.
- Letting Kashmir Simmer (National Post, Editorial, National Post, Jul 08, 2002)
Following a brief period of what seemed like progress, relations between India and Pakistan over Kashmir have returned to their normal state of brewing animosity.
- The Moderate Deputy Pm (Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi, Jul 06, 2002)
As reshuffles go, it is hard to deny that last week’s effort was a bit of a dud.
- The Most Dangerous Place In The World (New York Times, Salman Rushdie, May 30, 2002)
The present Kashmir crisis feels like a déjà vu replay of the last one. Will the outcome also be a replay of three years ago? Will the conflict be contained again?
- Pakistan Cannot Expect The Support Of India's Muslims (Independent (UK), M.J. Akbar, May 30, 2002)
A revealing but rarely revealed fact is that Muslims in the rest of India give no support whatsoever to the separatist insurgency in the Muslim-majority valley of Kashmir, that charming bit of paradise that could trigger off history's first nuclear war.
- Musharraf Set To Win Pakistan Poll, But At A Cost (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Apr 28, 2002)
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is set for a comfortable victory in a referendum on Tuesday to extend his rule for five years, but in the process he has damaged his credibility both at home and abroad.
- Chief Of Riot-Torn Indian State Pleads For Peace (Reuters, THOMAS ABRAHAM, Apr 28, 2002)
The chief minister of India's Gujarat state, who has been accused of turning a blind eye to the country's deadliest religious bloodshed in a decade, appealed for trust between Hindus and Muslims.
- It's Not Winning That Matters In Pakistan (Gulf News, Nasim Zehra, Apr 26, 2002)
President Pervez Musharraf has promised to strengthen Constitutionalism, the prime ministership and the parliamentary form of government through a strengthened presidency. And developments during the past few weeks point towards a strong possibility of Mu
- Musharraf's Order Or Disorder? (News International, Farhan Bokhari, Apr 25, 2002)
The success of Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's General President, at next Tuesday's referendum may already be a foregone conclusion, thanks to the widespread state-cum-'nazim' backed struggle to make his campaign anything but a failure.
- The Emperor's New Clothes (Dawn, Iffat Malik, Apr 25, 2002)
Come April 30, Musharraf will get his new clothes. person they - and all the people of Pakistan - should be admiring is Justice (resigned) Tariq Mehmood - the only one who spoke the truth.
- Time To Think Things Out (Dawn, Tahir Mirza, Apr 25, 2002)
The closest the US has come to distancing itself from the referendum is to suggest that the process should be open to review by the courts, a review that is now in progress.
- Musharraf Falters (Sacramento Bee, Editorial, Sacramento Bee, Apr 25, 2002)
Gen. Pervez Musharraf did much to enhance the credibility of his unelected military regime in Pakistan last fall by backing the U.S. war in Afghanistan. In return, Washington offered aid and ended sanctions imposed after Pakistan nuclear testing in 1998.
- Our Long-Term Enemy (Guardian (UK), Peter Preston, Apr 22, 2002)
General Pervez Musharraf has summoned Pakistanis to a wholly spurious referendum on April 30 so that they may vote to keep him as head of state, head of the army and head of anything meaningful for the next five years.
- Musharraf Opens A New Political Front (Gulf News, Nasim Zehra, Apr 12, 2002)
Wearing army fatigues and throwing caution to the wind, Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf launched his political career at the Lahore referendum rally.
- A Western Ally Takes A Wrong Turn (Toronto Star, Haroon Siddiqui, Apr 11, 2002)
This week when Musharraf, now our front-line ally in the war on terrorism, announced a quickie referendum to rubber-stamp his stay for another five years, the West offered an eloquently silent assent.
- Pakistan, Still Unfree (Toronto Star, Editorial, Toronto Star, Apr 11, 2002)
Gen. Pervez Musharraf is a bold reformer, an ally in the global campaign against terror, and a leader who has done much to repair Pakistan's reputation as an incubator for corruption and extremism.
- An Epistle To Mr Advani (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Feb 05, 2002)
Dear Advaniji,
You have begun what is unquestionably the most profound and consequential interaction between our country and the United States of America since the two meetings between the then president, Bill Clinton, and the prime minister.
- Clash By Night (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 05, 2002)
At first glance, this fact seems to confirm the arguments of the Harvard political scientist, Samuel Huntington, who insists that the problem is not Islamic fundamentalism but Islam itself.
- Bangladesh: Worrisome Indicators (Business Line, B. Raman , Feb 05, 2002)
THE recent incidents on the Indo-Bangladeshi border are under enquiry by the Government and one has to await the results before assessing whether these were isolated incidents unlikely to have an adverse impact on the bilateral relations.
- Mr. Bush's Gesture Towards India (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 05, 2002)
THE U.S. PRESIDENT, Mr. George W. Bush, has adopted a cautious yet proactive approach to exert political pressure on Islamabad to address India's spiralling security concerns about the activities of some of the Pakistan-encouraged terrorist organisations.
- Bjp's Woes In Chhattisgarh Now (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 05, 2002)
THE SPLIT IN the Chhattisgarh unit of the BJP may not surprise anyone.
- In Search Of The Thermidor (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Feb 05, 2002)
KATHMANDU, DEC. 21. Political life has been on a fast track in Nepal.
- Polls In Uttar Pradesh (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 05, 2002)
WITH THE FORMALISATION of alliances and the various parties announcing their candidates and releasing their manifestoes, the poll scene in Uttar Pradesh has now reached a decisive phase.
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