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Articles 21621 through 21720 of 22438:
- The Message From Assembly Elections 2003 - Give The People What They Want (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 15, 2003)
THE din and dust of the State elections in the heartland of India has not yet settled down. Analysts and commentators are busy explaining the rout of the Congress in most of the States.
- Doomed In The Womb? (Hindu, Asha Krishnakumar , Dec 14, 2003)
Is the fall in the number of girl children closely linked to the declining sex ratio at birth resulting from female foeticide? On the situation in the four southern States.
- Little Miss Crackskull (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 14, 2003)
What is it about political correctness that brings out the blackest parody from the nicest people? Two Canadian medics have published, in a serious medical journal earlier this week, an article, which is an entertaining send-up of north American PC. In
- Bitten By The Bug? (Hindu, R. Krishna Kumar, Dec 14, 2003)
There is a view that Kerala may no longer be an exception to the worsening gender bias in India.
- Haryana-Born Contesting For Mayorship In Us (Tribune, Ela Dutt , Dec 13, 2003)
AN Indian American woman politician seeking to become the mayor of a California county wants buses there to ply on compressed natural gas (CNG) a la New Delhi.
- A Question Of Honour (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Dec 13, 2003)
Since its birth, the Indian nation-state has been challenged by rebellion and insurgency. In the late Forties, it was the Communist Party of India, who launched a countrywide insurrection claiming that the freedom we got from the British was false (in the
- Behind The Election Outcomes (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2003)
A NUMBER OF explanations have been offered for the emphatic victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the recent round of State Assembly elections, in which the result in Delhi has been the only consolation for the Congress. However, the detailed ...
- A Symbol Of Hope (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2003)
At least Lalita’s labour is not lost
- No Study, All Fest (Indian Express, V GANGADHAR, Dec 13, 2003)
On the annual sports day, if students insisted, the college declared a holiday on the next day. The College Day function was held in the evening, but classes were dropped. The principal read out the report on the college activities, the chief guest raised
- Fiscal Deficit, The Real Villain? (Business Line, Alok Ray, Dec 12, 2003)
The real villain for India is not the fiscal deficit but the composition of government expenditures. A better index of fiscal health could be the size of revenue deficit — the gap between government's current expenditure and current revenue...
- Joshi Grabs Architecture Colleges (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Dec 11, 2003)
HRD:Council of Architecture stripped of powers, Council of Technical Education now calls shots
- The Budget As The Bsp Test (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Dec 11, 2003)
There’s a difference between packaging a promise and delivering it
- Export Jobs Or Import Workers (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 11, 2003)
Those railing against outsourcing ignore demographic realities. The alternative is huge migration
- Your Obedient Maid Servant (Tribune, Iqbal Sachdeva, Dec 11, 2003)
ALMOST two decades before the independence of India, Vijay Laxmi Ramgoolam from Karnataka worked in All India Radio and by dint of sheer hard work, she rose to number two position, as number one always had to be an English boss. Her master’s degree in ...
- Vidarbha - A Model Farmers' State? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Dec 10, 2003)
Vidarbha could be an ideal pilot for the kind of economic and political system that the mainstream farmers' movement in India has been demanding and agitating for. The movement for a separate Vidarbha was so far led bypoliticians who treated it as a flag
- ‘muslims Don’t Provoke. They’re Scared. This Scared Indian Muslim Is A Big Threat To The Unity Of Our Country’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 10, 2003)
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, at his native village Saifi in Etawah.Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s Walk The Talk:
- For That Sense Of Belonging (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2003)
From the Asian Centre for Human Rights’ alternate report to India’s first periodic report for the UN committee on the rights of the child
- He Quit It Job To Pursue His Dream In Us (Tribune, Reeta Sharma, Dec 10, 2003)
The humble village boy now runs a top food chain
- Pm Speaks: Guilty Won’t Be Spared, Wherever They Are (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2003)
Govt committed to ensure fear-free work environment in NHAI; outpouring of sympathy shows Indians care for honesty, have stake in future’
- Paradox Of Hunger Amid Plenty (Business Line, K. Parthasarathi, Dec 09, 2003)
The anomaly of hunger amidst the plenty signifies something basically wrong in the system. The question arises why the poor have no access to the food they sorely need.
- Bjp Turns The Tables On Congress (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Dec 09, 2003)
THE Bharatiya Janata Party’s sweep in three of the five states in the assembly elections — it was never a serious contender in Mizoram which nevertheless kept the Congress at bay - portends the future in more ways than one. By circumstance or design, the
- Aids Scare Is For Real (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
IT IS EASY to be cynical of the fuss made about Acquired-Immune Deficiency Syndrome, especially around the World AIDS day on December 1. The sight of many celebrity campaigners for HIV/AIDS may lead people to trivialise the issue. However, scepticism on..
- Election Lessons (Telegraph, Barun De, Dec 09, 2003)
The BJP’s victory shows that the electorate, concerned with more immediate issues, has chosen a party of order over one of diffuse choices
- A Little Learning Or None (Telegraph, Suhas Chakma, Dec 09, 2003)
The Union human resource development minister, Murli Manohar Joshi, has reportedly taken an affront to UNESCO’s 2003 Education For All Monitoring Report, and flayed the organization for making wrong projections on India. Joshi stated that the report’s ...
- Remember Europe (Telegraph, J. N. Dixit , Dec 09, 2003)
The last week of November witnessed important meetings between leaders of the European Union and the government of India, a major event following the Indo-European summit to which the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, went last year. The president of
- Freedom In A Prison (Indian Express, Sadhna Shanker, Dec 09, 2003)
Long walk to freedom. The name evokes images of a timeless journey. While reading the story of Nelson Mandela’s epic struggle, I didn’t know that some day I would visit Robben Island. It was muggy as we searched for the tour that would take us there....
- Power Of ‘parkati’ Women (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Dec 08, 2003)
The educated woman is not as politically irrelevant as the pundits think
- Why Is Assam Burning? (Hindu, Walter Fernandes, Dec 08, 2003)
The Centre has treated insurgency in the Northeast as a law and order issue or given it a communal colour by focussing on the Bangladeshi immigrants and ignoring those from the Hindi heartland.
- All The World’s An Asylum (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2003)
From the Asian Centre for Human Rights’ alternate report to India’s first periodic report for the UN committee on the rights of the child
- Abjuring Alcohol (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 08, 2003)
RECENTLY I had occasion to watch about 200 social activists, a majority of whom were women from rural areas, observing a daylong fast to back up their demand for introduction of total prohibition. A number of well-meaning persons prominent in public life
- Trial By Fire (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Dec 08, 2003)
The author is former director general, National Council for Applied Economic Research, and chairman, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission raosl@hotmail.com
- Sing A Song To Stree 2003 (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Dec 07, 2003)
From the pink precincts of royal Jaipur,
To the sun-dappled rocks of Jabalpur,
From Gangaur, Bhilwara, Ujjain and Katni,
To the forts, minars and gardens of Dilli.
On the sands of Jodhpur, the forests of Jhabua,
On the banks of the rivers, Yamuna and
- Bumpy Roads Overturn Digvijay (Hindu, Lalit Shastri, Dec 07, 2003)
The BJP subtly kept aside its Hindutva agenda and built its entire election campaign around the issue of development in Madhya Pradesh.
- ‘ensuring Accountability Is Not Interference’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2003)
By making CAT a universal entrance exam for all MBA courses isn’t the government trying to interfere in autonomous bodies like the IIMs
- And He Wrote: If You Die, Go So Quietly That No One Gets To Know (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Dec 07, 2003)
In her one-room Delhi flat, behind IIT, the last person Dubey spoke to recalls her close friend
- Mature Verdict (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
IT was a tidal wave that swept the ruling Congress off its official perch in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. That it had no clue about what was in store for the party shows how far it was removed from the common people. It is not that the ...
- ‘in The End, India Rid Satyendra Of His Pain’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
On November 30, The Indian Express reported how Satyendra Dubey, a young NHAI engineer, wrote confidentially to the PMO about corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral project in Bihar. He was then murdered. The e-mail deluge just doesn’t seem to end
- Computer-Men Have Nothing To Lose But Spam (Tribune, Roopinder Singh, Dec 05, 2003)
ANYONE who knows what e-mail is also knows about its flip side, spam. One of the most common uses for the Internet has been e-mailing, which allows computer users to communicate with others sitting at their terminals far away within seconds. E-mail has ..
- Catching The Light Of History (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
RAJA DEEN DAYAL: PRINCE OF PHOTO- GRAPHERS (Creative Point, price not mentioned) by Narendra Luther is a lavish exploration of the life and work of an extraordinary Indian artist. Deen Dayal was born in 1844 in an affluent Jain family in Uttar Pradesh and
- Letter To A Murdered Mate (Indian Express, Raj Kamal Jha, Dec 05, 2003)
(if I may, that’s what one of your batchmates said you were called at IIT Kanpur):
- Short Take On A Revolution (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
A History of Capitalism: 1500-2000 By Michel Beaud, Aakar, Rs 650
- Start Again (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
Doctors to administer hospitals. That is what the new bill in West Bengal is about. So far the state health service had two cadres, the medical education service for teaching doctors and the West Bengal health service for medical officers. The West Bengal
- Writers' Wrath (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Dec 04, 2003)
Three British writers of foreign descent have set off a storm by spurning awards of the empire.
- Conduct Control (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 2003)
Control can be addictive. The Left Front government in West Bengal has always been particularly loath to part with its prerogatives with regard to the schools in the state. This long relationship of patronage and intervention has had its peaks and ...
- Information Comes At A Price (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 2003)
From the Asian Centre for Human Rights’ alternate report to India’s first periodic report for the UN committee on the rights of the child
- State Of Progress (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 2003)
A surprise in the first result of the series of assembly elections in five states can be unnerving for all parties. Mizoram was not a battleground for the two national parties fighting it out in the other four states. Still, if it is the morning that ...
- Feeling Threatened (Telegraph, Chaitali Chakraborty, Dec 04, 2003)
The fracas between the Centre and the Indian Institutes of Management over the subject of autonomy has got its fair share of publicity. It is time for us in Bengal to turn our attention to a similar attempt to deny autonomy to deserving colleges here...
- Chutney Polls And Mixed Metaphors (Telegraph, Gouri Chatterjee, Dec 04, 2003)
Once upon a time, say ten years ago, elections, in a newspaper office, were like weddings. The build-up began months ago. There was much discussion on who would go where, much argument over the issues that would define the election, much rivalry over the
- Look, The Elephant Gallops (Indian Express, Tarun Das, Dec 03, 2003)
This has been an incredible year for India and the pace of change has been so rapid that the world is yet to catch up with it. Most people, even supposedly well-informed public opinion builders outside India, still perceive India in the traditional way.
- Learning To Care For Their World (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Dec 03, 2003)
In 1991, the Supreme Court, in response to a writ petition by our most eminent environment lawyer, M.C. Mehta, directed every state in India to make environment education a compulsory subject in all schools and colleges, and demanded compliance to this...
- When The Bosses Squabble (Telegraph, Kalyan Sanyal, Dec 03, 2003)
Invariably, whenever an important issue arises, experts and analysts immediately take their clear and well-defined stands, and then confidently pontificate. I have always envied the courage of these wise men and women because I have discovered to my ...
- Outsourcing For Development (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Dec 02, 2003)
UNCTAD's E-Commerce and Development Report 2003 uses India's experience to argue that the growing market for IT services and business process outsourcing offers poor countries a new development opportunity.
- Sir Indravadan’s Last War (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Dec 02, 2003)
Although I have known I.G. Patel for over half a century, I could not say I had known him well; 14 years is a huge age difference when one is young, though the distance diminishes with age. He was a close friend of my brother, Mahendra, and it was with...
- Born With A Silver Spoon, Now Looking For One (Tribune, Roopinder Singh, Dec 02, 2003)
IT came up in a flash and produced generations of doctors; it is now dragging along and is no longer inspirational. Government Medical College, Patiala, has been a premier medical institution for a long time, but it now shows symptoms that are alarmingly
- Soldiers Of Misfortune (Hindu, Somini Sengupta , Dec 02, 2003)
Disarming the fighters from the disbanded factions could pose the biggest test for the U.N. mission in Liberia.
- Post-Iraq Blair Faces Rough Weather (Tribune, K.N. Malik, Dec 01, 2003)
PROTEST rallies against continued occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, a sulking Chancellor of the Exchequer, unions in a rebellious mood and revolt by back-benchers notwithstanding, even the staunchest critics of British Prime Minister Tony Blair believe
- Competitive Exam Mania (Tribune, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Dec 01, 2003)
THE current debate over management examinations seems to be unduly restricted to narrow questions. Should there be one single examination for all institutions? Who should conduct such an examination? Will it benefit applicants? We are missing a proper ...
- If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It (Indian Express, Rashmi Bansal, Dec 01, 2003)
An appeal to the HRD minister: lay off the IIMs
- From The Back Benches To The Front (Telegraph, Rimi B. Chatterjee, Dec 01, 2003)
A meaningful debate on reservation is only possible if we rethink the basic premises of our systems of instruction
- Academic Heritage (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2003)
Things begin to look madly wrong when someone trying to buy a place for his son in a medical college complains to the police of being cheated of his money. This outraged parent had advanced Mr Sudip Ghosh five lakh rupees for securing his son’s seat at...
- We’re Like This And That Only (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Dec 01, 2003)
It's strange to be going back to the idea of “national unity”, one of those school textbook formulations that we learnt by rote. Surely we’ve been there, done that. We’ve explored the idea of India, mouthed aphorisms about unity in diversity, turned ...
- Success... At Any Cost (Hindu, Anjali Mody, Nov 30, 2003)
Anjali Mody on why success in competitive examinations means so much.
- A Bolt From The Blue (Hindu, Anita Joshua, Nov 30, 2003)
That the CAT question paper could be leaked was unthinkable... the incident can be used to clip the IIMs' wings
- A Testing Time For All (Hindu, G. Ananthakrishnan, Nov 30, 2003)
The fact that students are under great stress helps touts who scout for those willing to shell out a big sum to get ahead of the others in an examination. G. Ananthakrishnan writes.
- Between Real And Imaginary Threats (Indian Express, Najam Sethi, Nov 29, 2003)
Musharraf feels religious extremism is the biggest threat to Pakistan yet he has done little so far to curb it
- In Fast-Track City, Old-World Khurana Runs A Solitary Race (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 28, 2003)
If elections are won on favours and pavement-thumping activism, then the BJP’s candidate for chief minister of Delhi, Madan Lal Khurana, should be well ahead of his rival, Congress Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
- This Man Wants The Idiot Back In The Idiot Box (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Nov 28, 2003)
Cable:Ravi Shankar Prasad directs all TV channels: you can show movies, videos, only if you get under-18 certificate from our censors
- Managing The Test (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 28, 2003)
THE COUNTRY'S TOP management education institutes are shaken by the discovery that the question paper for their prestigious Common Admission Test was put on the street by touts for a price, near the national capital.
- Verdict Need Not Indicate Trends In Ls Poll, Feel Bjp, Congress (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Nov 28, 2003)
With pollsters forecasting a mixed verdict, the mainstream political parties, BJP and Congress, are wary of projecting the coming Assembly contests as a curtain raiser for the Lok Sabha elections next year.
- Is Uk Slowly Slipping Into Third World Status? (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Nov 27, 2003)
IT IS amazing. For an Indian, it feels no different to be in the UK, nowadays. For instance, the litany of woes against public services seem to go on and on endlessly.
- Is `Outsourcing' The New Virus Around? (Business Line, D. Murali , Nov 27, 2003)
`GIVE the goodies to those at home' seems to be the refrain of the day. The latest issue is that people are beginning to view outsourcing as a deadly virus. Whether you are against multinationals setting up shop here, or beat up people from other States c
- Ftas And The Para-Tariff Effect (Business Line, Sanjib Pohit, Nov 27, 2003)
It is common knowledge that inadequate physical infrastructure inhibits trade. Border delays, for instance, reflect a constraint on the volume of imports/exports that can be processed in a given time-frame.
- Is Uk Slowly Slipping Into Third World Status? (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Nov 27, 2003)
IT IS amazing. For an Indian, it feels no different to be in the UK, nowadays. For instance, the litany of woes against public services seem to go on and on endlessly.
- Is Uk Slowly Slipping Into Third World Status? (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Nov 27, 2003)
IT IS amazing. For an Indian, it feels no different to be in the UK, nowadays. For instance, the litany of woes against public services seem to go on and on endlessly.
- A Child Says My Friends Need To Know What I Saw (Indian Express, Arun Sharma, Nov 27, 2003)
Border, day: People relax but no one’s jumping: let’s wait, watch
- Digital Divide And Poor Nations (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kant, Nov 27, 2003)
At next month’s Information Summit, poor countries cannot hope for major concessions to bridge the digital divide
- And Physicists Find Cold Particles Just So Hot (Indian Express, Kenneth Chang, Nov 27, 2003)
The dating habits of bosons and fermions have revved up the superconductivity debate
- No Full Stops In Mulayam Home (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Nov 27, 2003)
All in little Saifai, home to 30,000, agree that Mulayam Singh Yadav put it on the map. And this December, Saifai will have more reason to thank the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister: for 10 days, it will be a world transformed, hosting bigwigs, celebrities, s
- Digital Divide And Poor Nations (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kant, Nov 27, 2003)
At next month’s Information Summit, poor countries cannot hope for major concessions to bridge the digital divide
- Chaos Rules In Somalia (Hindu, Marc Lacey, Nov 27, 2003)
A decade after the U.S. withdrawal, anarchy reigns in Somalia, a reminder that the `war on terrorism' will not be over even if calm someday replaces chaos in Iraq.
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