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Articles 20221 through 20320 of 22438:
- Common Minimum Programme (Business Line, Raghu Dayal , Nov 30, 2004)
So very often the ubiquitous comrades remind the United Progressive Alliance Government to function within the Common Minimum Programme parameters.
- Diminishing Numbers (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 30, 2004)
Habitat destruction and associated degradation and fragmentation are the greatest threats to assessed terrestrial species.
- Manipur’S Middle Class Is Angry (Indian Express, PREM NARAIN, Nov 30, 2004)
The unrest in Manipur deserves special attention because, in many ways, it is very different from that prevailing in the rest of the country and presents twin challenges
- For Better Babus, Look Beyond (Indian Express, S. S. Gill, Nov 30, 2004)
An administrator’s real education begins only after he starts dealing with people
- Policy On Admissions (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 29, 2004)
THE Centre’s new policy on entrance tests for admission to all professional educational institutions is in conformity with its avowed objective of respecting the autonomy in this sphere.
- Picking Pockets (Tribune, J. L. Gupta, Nov 29, 2004)
I have a family. I run a household. I drink. I smoke. I have a car. For something that costs ten, I pay thirty five. I pay tax on what I earn. Also on what I purchase with my money.
- Ensuring People’S Welfare (Tribune, P. P. Rao, Nov 29, 2004)
THE Founding Fathers, after due deliberations, opted for the parliamentary form of government instead of the presidential system, preferring accountability to stability.
- Aids Threatens India's Progress (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 29, 2004)
As a pandemic that has affected 39.4 million citizens worldwide, HIV/AIDS is a development challenge like no other.
- Mid-Day Meal Shame (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 29, 2004)
THE school authorities in Haryana have been prompt in reacting to the story about children being served worm-infested and fungus-affected food under the mid-day meal scheme of the Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan
- Fooling Around (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 28, 2004)
What is fun? The schoolboy in Delhi, who recorded on a camera phone the sexual interlude he had with his classmate on the school premises, would have one answer.
- Recognise Teachers’ Worth To Suit Changing Times (Tribune, Vikram Chadha, Nov 28, 2004)
What a society values is usually reflected in its system of rewards. For instance, if the American society values the services of a doctor, lawyer or even a taxi driver, its reward system pays for their services correspondingly.
- Slim Chance (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 27, 2004)
MANY are the virtues of sleep and many are the poets, writers and philosophers who can be quoted in praise of losing oneself in Sleepytown. As Friedrich Nietzsche said, "Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day."
- Tryst With The Charpoy (Deccan Herald, SNEHLATHA BALIGA, Nov 27, 2004)
This inevitable part of the courtyard of every North Indian house, offers itself up for varied uses
- We Are In Denial (Indian Express, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Nov 27, 2004)
If you come across a Communist, with a Hindu name, and ask him about his identity, he will deny being a Hindu.
- A Heady Brew Of Religion, Law And Politics (Hindu, N. Ravi, Nov 27, 2004)
With faith-based assertions of innocence and shock contending with swift condemnation and gloating over the discomfiture of a religious leader, the notion of holding one's judgment till the trial is concluded is receding.
- Ba Pass, Ma Pass, Give Talent A Pass (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Nov 27, 2004)
Higher education is about excellence. It cannot be made hostage to simple truisms about equal opportunities
- Callous Attitude (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Nov 27, 2004)
The callousness of the management of the Renukamba Hostel in Shikaripur in Shimoga district, which made its student residents starve and forced them to fend for themselves for a month, as reported in this newspaper on Wednesday, is shocking.
- Fight Corruption Through Religion (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Nov 27, 2004)
Year after year some international organisation or the other publishes a list of nations in the order of corruption that exists in them. And year after year India is listed among ten of the most corrupt in the world.
- For A Child To Be A Child Again (Indian Express, Anees Jung, Nov 27, 2004)
Today, they are unveiling a statue symbolising action against child labour in Delhi’s India Habitat Centre where no child who works can dare to tread.
- Is Pre-School Coaching Right For A Child? (Tribune, Richard Garner, Nov 27, 2004)
CHILDREN who start nursery school by the age of two are up to a year ahead in maths and English when they begin full-time schooling, a major research project shows.
- Meals For Students (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 26, 2004)
The Supreme Court’s directive to all the states and Union Territories on Wednesday to provide cooked mid-day meal to school children up to Class V by January 2005 is timely.
- New Kashmir Idea (Tribune, Balraj Puri, Nov 26, 2004)
As an author of the revised Naya Kashmir document, I was pleasantly surprised over the reference to it by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a public meeting in Srinagar on his maiden visit to the state on November 17.
- Taking The Xiith Standard Country-Leaving Exam (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Nov 26, 2004)
India’s education system is in a shambles. Unless education is made a legitimate profit-making business, the country will lose its best future citizens
- That Pantomime Artist Known As ‘The Police’ (Indian Express, Manoje Nath, Nov 26, 2004)
Arbitrary transfers, politicians with criminal connections, old laws, sympathise a little with the men in khaki
- The Sankaracharya Case (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Nov 26, 2004)
The controversy over the arrest of the Sankaracharya of the Kanchi Mutt exposes the hypocrisy of political Hinduism.
- “rebibal” Of Haryana Connexion (Tribune, K. Rajbir Deswal, Nov 26, 2004)
“Axe-kyooj me Bhai Shaab, are you note Raaz-Beer!” He held me by the shoulder at the World Trade and made me turn a full hundred and eighty degrees. “Yes I am but…sorry I couldn’t place you, sir,” I said, meekly protesting against the whack.
- A New Diplomacy For Destination India (Business Line, G. B. Prabhat, Nov 26, 2004)
To make India an attractive destination for work, the country needs to make the proposition attractive. This can be accomplished by addressing the twin aspects of physical and emotional health.
- A Step Forward (Tribune, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Nov 26, 2004)
India and Pakistan took one more step forward to consolidate their relations with each other through a meeting of their Prime Ministers in New Delhi on Wednesday.
- A Moronic Gas-Guzzling Republic (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Nov 26, 2004)
Brave young US soldiers are dying defending the values of a land given over to petty politics and selfish consumerism
- Terrorism Rooted In Malnutrition (Deccan Herald, SANKAR RAY, Nov 25, 2004)
Researchers see a link between malnutrition from the post-natal phase and the antisocial mindset in teens
- Here To Stay (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 25, 2004)
A great many English teachers in West Bengal owe an easy life to what calls itself communism in the state. Getting to teach a language without bothering to know it very well is a rare privilege.
- No One Taken In By Us Lies (Deccan Herald, RANA KABBANI, Nov 24, 2004)
The graves of Fallujah tell the real story of the US occupation of Iraq and the present situation in that country
- Of Discretion And Allotments (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 24, 2004)
By changing the allotment of a plot of land to a Calcutta High Court judge in 1987, the Supreme Court has stepped in to undo an instance of the blatant misuse of judicial authority.
- The Economic Fallout Of Outsourcing (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Nov 24, 2004)
IT IS a horror staring at US professionals these days: Receiving pink slips and their jobs going to lowly recruits abroad.
- Unmentionable (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 24, 2004)
HIV is a virus and not a form of punishment for having sex. Nor is the fear of death a moral sentiment. So any attempt to use morality or theology to prevent an AIDS epidemic is misguided and epidemiologically dangerous.
- Another Promise To Keep (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 24, 2004)
Following Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's very worthwhile visit to Jammu and Kashmir, it was natural that expectations at his next port of call and the country's other trouble
- Afghanistan— Abandoned To Drugs (Tribune, Leonard Doyle, Nov 24, 2004)
Three years after the fall of the Taliban, the United Nations issued a dramatic plea for help yesterday, saying that Afghanistan’s opium crop is flourishing as never before and the country is well on the way to becoming a corrupt narco-state.
- Learning From Washington's Economic Woes (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Nov 24, 2004)
Recently released OECD figures show that the US is no longer the No. 1 destination for foreign direct investment. Its apparent disregard for both economic and diplomatic fundamentals, and blithe glossing over of gigantic deficits and huge underfunded....
- Food For Thought (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 24, 2004)
THE proverbial route to a child's heart is through his stomach, but this is obviously a lesson lost on those entrusted with the education of children.
- Olive Branch (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Nov 23, 2004)
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, tried to reach out to the people of Manipur with his appeal to shun arms and seek constitutional redress to their grievances during his maiden two-day visit to the state as Prime Minister which concluded on Sunday.
- Pontiff Remembered (Deccan Herald, U. S. Iyer, Nov 23, 2004)
Amid the controversy raging round the arrest of Jayendra Saraswathi of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham and protests rocking the country, I slipped into memory lane and remembered my several meetings with the previous pontiff — H H Chandrasekara Saraswati
- The Impact Of Bush Re-Election (Deccan Herald, G Parthasarathy, Nov 23, 2004)
The ‘sacking’ of Colin Powell and other changes in the Bush administration are good news for India
- New Rules For The Old Bullies (Telegraph, Sayantani Biswas, Nov 23, 2004)
The ban on corporal punishment in schools could become a mere declaration of intent without sincere implementation
- Clubbable Cops (Tribune, Raj Chatterjee, Nov 23, 2004)
BELIEVE it or not, there are, or were, such people. Behind that khaki uniform, more so when it is exchanged for ‘civvies’, lie many a heart in tune with your own. Someone who lets his hair down and joins you in a convivial evening.
- Eradicating Polio (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Nov 23, 2004)
Use of inactivated poliovirus vaccine could be the answer for complete eradication of the disease.
- Rahul Came, Rahul Saw (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Nov 22, 2004)
Last week’s four-day visit to Guwahati and Shillong by young Congress MP Rahul Gandhi continues to find space on the front pages of the local media several days after his departure.
- Pms In Valley (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Nov 22, 2004)
Britain's Financial Times homed in on the contrast between two prime ministers in Kashmir. For the paper, the difference between Manmohan Singh’s November 17 speech and Atal Behari Vajpayee’s address to the rally in Srinagar 18 months ago was unambiguous:
- On Filene's Basement, Other Matters (The Economic Times, NANDAN M NILEKANI, Nov 22, 2004)
My first trip to the US took me to Boston in the spring of 1979. With an ominous New England winter looming, and being a software engineer on a modest stipend, getting warm clothes on the cheap was of the essence.
- When Religion Ends, Politics Begins (Business Line, D. Murali , Nov 22, 2004)
A simple prayer that often tags onto many a vedic ritual reads: "Asatoma Sadgamaya, Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya, Mrityor Ma Amrutam Gamaya."
- Don’T Throw In The Towel Yet (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Nov 22, 2004)
Of all the images I saw on a short visit to Iraq last week, two stand out in my mind. One was a display that the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, in the Sunni Triangle, prepared for the visiting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen Richard Myers
- Dubious Package (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 22, 2004)
It is not a very exciting prospect to have to think of Mr Narendra Modi as part of one’s private, conjugal decisions. But the chief minister of Gujarat could become an important factor in the size of the family that an elected representative in Mr Modi’s
- Key To Hope (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 22, 2004)
A gesture is symbolic on many levels. By freeing the Kangla Fort of occupation by the Assam Rifles, the prime minister, Mr Manmohan Singh, has, first and foremost, fulfilled a demand of the Manipuri people.
- Games Musharraf Plays (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Nov 22, 2004)
AS a soldier who has been through all command and staff courses up to the British Royal College of Defence Studies, General Musharraf appears to believe in psyops vis-a-vis India. So he seems to be blowing hot and cold on the Kashmir issue.
- Freedom Without Responsibility (Deccan Herald, Vatsala Vedantam, Nov 22, 2004)
Although no spade work has been done, there is a move to confer autonomy on select colleges
- Badhwar: The Rarest Of The Breed (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Nov 21, 2004)
Inderjit Badhwar is a hardcore journalist-turned writer. Recall the oft repeated adage - scribes produce literature in a hurry.
- Looking Beyond The Episode; Time To Look Within (Deccan Herald, Hari Jaisingh, Nov 21, 2004)
Leaving aside the question of who is right and who is wrong in the unsavoury Kanchi Mutt affair to the judiciary, the cause of Hinduism has certainly been damaged in the whole episode.
- A Comparative Reality Circus (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, Nov 21, 2004)
While being in New York, I watched the Presidential elections with a great deal of curiosity and 'comparative' interest.
- Making World A Better Place To Live In (Tribune, Sitakant Mahapatra, Nov 21, 2004)
AN issue that is being hotly debated these days is the changing focus of culture and development. A host of parameters have entered into the debate as to what
- Pontiff In Jail (The Economic Times, R K NANDAN, Nov 21, 2004)
When DMK leader Karunanidhi was arrested at midnight from his Chennai residence a few summers ago, critics of the action accused the AIADMK government of indulging in the politics of vendetta.
- Prince And The Showboy (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 21, 2004)
Light, as one of Walter Bagehot’s memorable injunctions warned, destroys the magic of royalty. Charles, the prince of Wales, has allowed in too much light for royalty to maintain its dignity in the modern world.
- Umar Will Have To Do Some Deft Tightrope Walking (Tribune, David Devadas, Nov 21, 2004)
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq will be the centre of attention over the coming week. Strategists in both India and Pakistan will be keenly watching his moves.
- Sex Sells, As Always (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Nov 20, 2004)
Whenever young people toying with the idea of starting a publishing house come to consult me, I tell them, “if you do not have government
- The Vat And Its Centre Of Gravity (The Economic Times, V BHASKAR, Nov 20, 2004)
The momentum for implementation of VAT by all state governments has strengthened. A mistaken impression, however, lingers that VAT is purely a state issue and the ...
- The Pull Of Chandigarh (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 20, 2004)
While out-of-job IT professionals in America go about moaning, wearing T-shirts “I’ve been Bangalored” — we Changarhians could perhaps use the same device for a nobler cause.
- Rice And Shine (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 20, 2004)
Coming first is by now second nature to America’s chief diplomat. And it’s also clear that Condoleezza Rice is de facto member of the globe’s First Family
- Teesta Is My Heart-Throb (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Nov 20, 2004)
Like all men I admire good-looking women like Aishwarya Rai and others who became Miss India’s, Miss World’s and Miss Universe’s! I like them from a distance because I never get a chance to get close to any of them.
- In Dock With A Document Processor Off The Dockyard (Business Line, D. Murali , Nov 20, 2004)
IBM Global Services India P Ltd knocked the doors of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT), Bangalore
- The Practical Joke (Deccan Herald, G R MULKY, Nov 20, 2004)
People with a real knack for practical jokes are usually able get away with them too
- Bjp: Back To The Basics (Hindu, K. N. Panikkar, Nov 20, 2004)
The BJP is left with no other alternative but to appeal to the RSS for succour.
- Don't Ask The Way To The Village If You Don't Want To Get There (Business Line, D. Murali , Nov 20, 2004)
The US State Department has voiced serious concern about "jailed monk's trial," informs the headline of a hot story on www.phayul.com, reporting what the now outgoing US Secretary of State Colin Powell and ...
- Disturbing Lags In Education (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 20, 2004)
The education for All global monitoring report (2005) has turned the spotlight on substantive questions of quality of teaching and learning.
- It On A Roll (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 20, 2004)
The biggest software company in the world ties up with the two largest players in India. A few days later the leading chip maker says it is evaluating India as a manufacturing base.
- Not An Outsider (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Nov 20, 2004)
A Singaporean friend who minces no words was blunt on the telephone. “Bush’s ‘house nigger’ has gone,” he bellowed,
- Where Are The Toilets? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 19, 2004)
Even though India has established itself as a major power in the comity of nations, it is a shame that most people in the country do not have toilets. This is a sad reflection on the insensitivity of successive governments and the failure of the planning
- Trials Of A Pioneer (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Nov 19, 2004)
Monastic intrigues have been a source of macabre fascination for the laity. From Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose to Dan Brown’s best-selling
- The Challenges Before Sri Vijayendra Saraswathi (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Nov 19, 2004)
There can be no doubt that the Kanchi Sankara Mutt is going through a rough patch and its followers are totally upset with the developments climaxing in the arrest of the
- Privatisation Needs An Update (The Economic Times, Manoj Pant, Nov 19, 2004)
For quite some time now, economists have been shouting from the rooftops that the logic for privatisation is quite obvious: the government has no business being
- Policies For Development (Deccan Herald, Montek singh Ahluwalia, Nov 19, 2004)
There are many areas in our domestic policy agenda which should also receive priority attention
- Old Beliefs Die Hard (Telegraph, NEHA SAHAY, Nov 19, 2004)
A record number of babies have been born this year in Beijing: 60,000 already, despite the strict population control policy. This is the Year of the Monkey, considered lucky by the Chinese.
- Linking Trade To Human Rights (Deccan Herald, Sakuntala Narasimhan, Nov 19, 2004)
Many human rights organisations hold that diversity trade audits can be used to eliminate Dalit discrimination
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