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Articles 22221 through 22320 of 22438:
- 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
- Police Bust Fake Delhi Exam Board (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 17, 2003)
Delhi Police today arrested two persons for running a fake education board that they reportedly claimed was parallel to the CBSE.
- When Sky Is The Limit (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Aug 16, 2003)
The problems that have bedevilled Japanese banks are well known — the quicksand of ‘‘directed lending’’, NPAs, and the rest — as is the way these problems have been at the heart of Japan’s inability to pull itself out of the trough for over a decade. The
- College Mess: Sc Clears, Only A Little (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Aug 15, 2003)
In a bid to clear the confusion created by its own judgment, the Supreme Court today ordered that seats in private professional colleges be filled up this year by the institutions and state governments in the ratio of 50:50.
- Mutual Funds And Malfeasance (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 14, 2003)
LAST WEEK THE capital market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India, took a decisive step forward in checking malfeasant acts in the stock exchanges. It banned Samir Arora, till recently the Chief Investment Officer of Alliance ...
- Reservation And Economic Criteria (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 14, 2003)
BY SETTING UP a Group of Ministers (GoM) to study the possibilities of a Constitution Amendment Bill to provide for job reservation to the forward castes on economic grounds, the Union Government has set the ball rolling for yet another ...
- Pump Dealer Selection Ban Lifted, But Riders For Psus (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Aug 13, 2003)
Petroleum Minister Ram Naik today lifted the ban on PSUs appointing dealers for petrol pumps and gas agencies but instituted a set of rules that favours private firms in appointing such vendors.
- Who's Afraid Of A Uniform Civil Code? (Hindu, B.G. Verghese, Aug 13, 2003)
A uniform civil code will focus on rights, leaving the rituals embodied in personal law intact within the bounds of constitutional propriety.
- Per Capita Income Growth In The States (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Aug 12, 2003)
Much of the discussion of the growth performance of States stems from perceptions of aggregate output performance rather than per capita output growth. In this edition of Macroscan, investigate trends in per capita State Domestic Production of the major
- Give Them Quotas (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 12, 2003)
It's that time of the year again. Amid the hectic swirl of election rallies, politicians make promises and voters want to believe them. So should we just put down Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s renewal of the pledge for a quota for the upper castes, at Jaipur on
- A Vasco Da Gama, In Reverse (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 12, 2003)
There’s many a slip between the cup and the lip, but Shashank, the seniormost secretary in the MEA, is clearly hoping that his African journeys over the last few months will give him enough ballast to turn around the flag-embellished corner of South Block
- Synchronising Elections (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Aug 11, 2003)
It is difficult to avoid the feeling that the proposal for fixed tenures for the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies is sought to be pushed through the back door after it failed to find takers from among the enlightened sections.
- `Accounting Needs To Be Forward-Looking' (Business Line, D. Murali , Aug 11, 2003)
People are investing for the future, and I want research in that field and, indeed, I am doing that. Accountants don't want forward-looking statements. I am not asking them to be forecasters; just give me what is happening six months from now, one year
- Holding Society To Ransom (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Aug 11, 2003)
There is a subtle difference between government employees going on a strike and a strike being called by employees of a public limited company or a private organisation, whose salaries, strictly speaking, are not paid by the state — that is, from revenue
- Muted Voices Of Change (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2003)
THE WORK done by women's organisations working with Muslim women has, over the last decade, created an environment where they are asking for change. According to Hasina Khan of the Mumbai-based Awaz-e-Niswaan "70 to 80 per cent of women want a change in
- Neither Civil, Nor Serving (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Aug 10, 2003)
What is the ‘‘business’’ of a government? The question has been debated over the years, but there is no resolution in sight. In India, if governments take two steps forward in re-inventing themselves, soon thereafter they take one step backward.
- Drinks On The House (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Aug 10, 2003)
Sixty-one per cent of Indians do without clean drinking water, 44 per cent have no electricity, 91 per cent do without telephones and 38 per cent live in one-room hovels. And what do our elected representatives become passionate about? Coca-Cola.
- Boycott Lunch And Dinner (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 09, 2003)
You may raise some questions about our politicians’ intellect or integrity but there is no faulting their instincts. So how does the Parliament of India assert its sovereign authority the moment the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), which is now
- Musharraf Has A Vision For Tomorrow, A Mirage For Today (Indian Express, Najam Sethi, Aug 09, 2003)
General Pervez Musharraf’s tour de force with Lahore editors last Monday spanned a framework of geo-economics, geo-politics and geo-strategy in which he outlined his vision of Pakistan as a country that was ‘‘secure’’, ‘‘stable’’, ‘‘democratic’’ and ‘‘
- No Sufia, Not You (Indian Express, Samar Halarnkar, Aug 08, 2003)
What could drive a soft-spoken, God-fearing doctor to inhumanity? What could lead him to believe his God wanted him to learn about explosives, and then detonate bombs in buses and trains? What did he feel when his innocent victims were literally torn ...
- 79 Punjab Teachers With Fake Degrees Dismissed (Indian Express, ANJU AGNIHOTRI CHABA, Aug 08, 2003)
Seventy nine primary school teachers in Punjab have been dismissed after an Education Department inquiry revealed that their appointments were based on fake degrees.
- 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.
- Home And The World: Revisiting Violence (Indian Express, BINA AGARWAL, Aug 07, 2003)
While there is no simple answer to why men abuse their wives, balance of property could prove a deterrent. An analysis.
- Strike Not Your Right Any More: Sc To Govt Staff (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2003)
A day after it forced the Tamil Nadu Government to reinstate 1.65 lakh employees who had been dismissed for going on strike, the Supreme Court today delivered a strongly deterrent ruling that government employees do not have ‘‘a legal or fundamental or
- Medical Colleges In A Wheeze (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Aug 07, 2003)
THE mushrooming of medical colleges woefully lacking in both faculty and basic infrastructure came in for concerned attention in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, even as the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Mrs Sushma Swaraj, said the Centre was al
- Towards Optimal Infant Feeding (Deccan Herald, Asha Benakappa, Aug 07, 2003)
Food, health and care are necessary for the growth of the child, and breastfeeding alone provides for all these elements
- Dear Mr President... (Indian Express, Narendra Modi, Aug 06, 2003)
Dear Mr President... Text of Gujarat CM Narendra Modi’s letter to President A P J Abdul Kalam urging him to direct compilation of details of convictions and acquittals in all major group clashes and communal riots in India since Independence and
- Don't Short-Change Small Shareholders (Business Line, Subramanyan Sundaresan, Aug 06, 2003)
"SMALL investors may lose direct access to markets" says a report (Business Line, July 18). This reported move, apart from being retrograde, does not say much of the `vision' of the authorities concerned and needs to be opposed strongly. The Chairman of
- Can You See The Ferment Within? (Indian Express, Firoz Bakht Ahmed, Aug 05, 2003)
It seems that Indian Muslim women — admittedly, not all — are on the fast track. Thanks mainly to awareness owing to education. Though still grappling with the travails of a ghettoised past, these women are trying to balance the challenges of modernity
- Reforming School Education (Deccan Herald, Vatsala Vedantam, Aug 05, 2003)
A continuous assessment during the primary, middle and high school stag-es will give a better picture of students’ abilities
- Learning Through Doing (Indian Express, VINITA DESHMUKH, Aug 05, 2003)
When concern for the poor is largely missing in today’s world, the passing away of Dr Srinath Kalbag, whose monumental contribution in making hundreds of rural youngsters, mostly school dropouts, into self-made rural entrepreneurs, is a sad event.
- A Predicament Of Plenty (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 05, 2003)
SOME YEARS AGO, it would have been difficult to imagine a situation in which the supply of engineering seats greatly exceeded the demand. This is precisely the situation, or rather predicament, in Tamil Nadu today. The State has about 240 ...
- Airwaves For Panchayats (Deccan Herald, Manu N Kulkarni, Aug 04, 2003)
The decision of the Ministry of Broadcasting to allow educational institutions like universities, IITs and schools to launch their own radio and broadcast educational programmes is a good step in delicensing and deregulation of the all powerful All-India
- 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
- Dd Wants Agriculture Ministry Funds For Rural Boom (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Aug 03, 2003)
It is the turn of Doordarshan (DD) to show what it is capable of. Launch a 1,000 rural channels, though their upkeep holds the promise of a different story.
- Nepal: The Real Hindu Sthan? (Indian Express, Anil Chamadia, Aug 02, 2003)
Which is the state in the world where the ‘one nation, one people, one culture’ weltanschauung of the Hindu rashtra is already in place? To put it more bluntly, which is the state in the world which has made religious conversion an offence and where the
- Mid-Day Meal Best Course For Schools Yet States Don’t Bite (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Aug 02, 2003)
There is some good news on the Mid Day Meal (MDM) scheme. Findings of a survey released today show that because of this scheme, school enrolment between July 2001 and July 2002 went up by 14%, with a particularly impressive jump (19%) for girls. The
- The Battle In Britain's Universities (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Aug 01, 2003)
New Labour's resolve to open up access to higher education... has created a numbers crisis which universities are finding hard to cope with.
- Rejection Slips Only? Not Really (Indian Express, J.S. Rajput, Aug 01, 2003)
The National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) stands for professionalism in school education planning and development. Since 1961, this institution has acquired a quiet dignity in the world of curriculum modernisation. In recent years
- Bpos And Backlash (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2003)
EVERY PASSING DAY brings news of a growing backlash in the European Union and the United States against the outsourcing of business in information technology enabled services (ITES) to India. Since it is the search to cut salary costs that is ...
- Loyola’s Dreams (Indian Express, HERMAN CASTELINO, S J, Jul 31, 2003)
Ignatius of Loyola, born in 1491 in Spain, is a man hardly known outside Catholic circles. His band of followers, the Jesuits with their numerous schools and colleges all over the world, are certainly better known than he is. These educational institution
- 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
- The American Dream - Made In China (Indian Express, EDWARD BERNARD GLICK, Jul 30, 2003)
In the early 1990s, I lived and worked in Japan, and my wife and I occasionally travelled in the region. However, we refused to go to mainland China because we were still fuming over the spectacle of Chinese troops massacring Chinese students in Beijing’s
- Voices In The Dark (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Jul 30, 2003)
The Ayodhya Wedge has distorted Hindu-Muslim mutual perception to a degree that presently seems past correction. But is it really so? Has the last decade nullified centuries of mutual appreciation? What are the main points that upset communities about
- A Forgotten People (Hindu, Mihir Shah, Jul 30, 2003)
Worst is the plight of those who are being made to pay the price for someone else's development.
- ‘true Religion Must Be An Agent Of Peace, Not War’ (Indian Express, Humra Quraishi, Jul 29, 2003)
At a time when religious intolerance seems to be the order of the day, Sudhamahi Regunathan, vice-chancellor of the Jain Vishwa Bharati Institute in Rajasthan, talks to Humra Quraishi about her attempts to preach secularism through a series of lectures
- The Eu Push To Development Finance (Business Line, Poul Nielson, Jul 29, 2003)
The European Union is the world's biggest provider of development assistance. Following its renewed commitment to the UN target at the 2001 European Council in Sweden, the EU decided to step up its development assistance.
- Getting Women Into Parliament - Why The Quota System Is Crucial (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jul 29, 2003)
THE Women's Reservation Bill has been put on the backburner once again with the BJP coming out with the improbable suggestion that one-third of the Lok Sabha constituencies should have two MPs — one male and one female! Extrapolating that logic, each ...
- Making Rural India Magnetic (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Jul 28, 2003)
The rural development model of the last 50 years has helped villages little, though governments have wasted thousands of crores of rupees on infructuous projects. If private enterprise, to develop the market, wants to make villages `attractive', it must
- Hdr 2003 And The Millennium Development Goals - Each Country To Chalk Out Own Strategy (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jul 28, 2003)
THE Human Development Report (HDR) 2003 brought out by the UNDP has been the subject of special attention, particularly because India's rank in terms of human development indicators has hit a new low. It stands at a disgraceful 127 among 175 countries of
- Personal Laws And Common Sense (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2003)
THE SUPREME COURT of India has yet again turned the spotlight, fleetingly, on the issue of evolving a uniform or common civil code. It has regretted that Article 44 of the Constitution "has not been given effect to" by Parliament. Everyone knows ...
- A Damaging World Bank Report (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jul 28, 2003)
The World Bank's development policy review report on India suggests not only that the development road ahead is long and very difficult, but also that if the right steps are not taken now the economy could be in grave trouble.
- The Other `E' In Education (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Jul 28, 2003)
MANAGERS are fond of using the word `strategic' as a prefix to anything they consider important. The generalized use of the word has diluted the original meaning. Similarly, the letter `e' has appeared as a generic prefix to signify some connection with
- History With A Twist (Hindu, Timeri N. Murari , Jul 28, 2003)
We are back in the 1950s, and back in history too. Except, instead of bringing people to the jobs, the jobs go out to the people where they live.
- Vhp Rampage (Indian Express, Reshma Patil, Jul 27, 2003)
Let kids learn Ram is superman, take Parivar exam; Mahabharata next year for std VII-VIII
- Where Life Is Cheap (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Jul 27, 2003)
It was an obituary advertisement in the Hindu. It bore the smiling face of a young, handsome man. Head tilted to one side, happy and on top of the world. He was 27 when he died. Below the picture was the family that remembered him. Father, mother, wife.
- Cow Dung To The Rescue For Lightning-Struck Kids (Indian Express, Manoj Prasad, Jul 27, 2003)
The students of Hesalagarha Rajkiya Vidyalaya, a government-run school located in Angara block of Jharkhand’s Ranchi district, are yet to get over the bolt from the blue that rocked this school on Friday afternoon. More than 399 students were in the
- Martyr’S Father Holds His Own ‘kargil Divas’ (Indian Express, Rakesh Sinha , Jul 27, 2003)
His son’s been gone four years. But there’s not a day when he doesn’t speak to him, turning to his picture and cracking jokes, filling him in with all that’s happening at home. But this morning, Prof S.K. Nayyar rose early. He was in a hurry: His son,
- ‘they (Hurriyat) Want A Signal From Pm...There Is A Thaw ’ (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Jul 26, 2003)
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed is optimistic about the latest peace initiative. On a visit to the Capital this week, during which he met Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, he spoke to Neerja Chowdhury
- Another Kind Of Prison (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jul 26, 2003)
Women in the Iraqi capital do not feel secure enough even to venture out for routine chores such as shopping.
- Centre Proposes One All-India Test To Clean Up Mess In Colleges (Indian Express, Prabhakar Rao Voruganti, Jul 25, 2003)
In what could be the first step towards clearing up the admission mess in private medical colleges, the Centre today told the Supreme Court that it was willing to conduct a combined all-India examination for selection of students to government and private
- China: Opening Up To A New World (Business Line, Ranjani Karthik, Jul 25, 2003)
SINCE December 11, 2001 — a year and three months after China's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) — it is apparent that the erstwhile communist economy has emerged from behind the Iron Curtain to take global competition head on. However,
- India's Unbending Funding Problem (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Jul 25, 2003)
The probability that the unbending funding problem would become an unending funding problem is high. The problem is structural. The structural adjustment programme that began in 1991 has failed to address the issue of elitism in the government sector.
- Ramzan, Radha And Ram (Indian Express, JAYA RAMANATHAN, Jul 24, 2003)
This is not an exotic story of the bold and beautiful, but an everyday tale of commonplace people like you and me. Of people who are in their own manner very God-fearing and ritualistic but at the same time put into practice the basic tenets of what every
- You Can’t Use ‘babu’ For Tn Bureaucrats: Top Ones Are Women (Indian Express, J BALAJI, Jul 24, 2003)
The debate over the Women’s Reservation Bill for women’s empowerment in politics may go on until kingdom come but in bureaucracy, at least, women are being empowered in one state—run by Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.
- Remembering 1983 (Hindu, V. Suryanarayan, Jul 24, 2003)
The `riots', which began on the night of July 24, 1983, saw Sri Lanka go up in flames... the prolonged conflict has brutalised society.
- 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
- Squandering All Our Capital (Indian Express, MADELEINE K ALBRIGHT, Jul 23, 2003)
Now would not be a bad time to start worrying. Tens of thousands of American troops will be in Iraq, perhaps for years, surrounded by Iraqis with guns. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says this is not a quagmire; I pray he is right. But the practical
- Clean Up Professional Education (Indian Express, Amrik Singh , Jul 22, 2003)
The Supreme Court decision to set up a five-judge Bench to discuss the issues of management quota and the fees to be charged from students in professional colleges cannot but be widely welcomed. Two aspects need to be noted. The first is our inability
- Teacher, Preacher And Geneticist (Business Line, Vanitha Srinivasan, Jul 22, 2003)
HEREDITY matters. If it were not so, there would be no arranged marriages, no patricians and plebeians, no apartheid and no ethnic cleansing. While others were debating how traits were inherited, some arguing that the father was the sole donor and the ...
- Mourners Of Missing Dead Get Rs 2 Lakh To Wipe Tears, 10 Yrs Later (Indian Express, PRACHI JATANIA, Jul 22, 2003)
Riot relief: Rs 30,000 in cash, balance Rs 1.7 lakh in postal certificates; most families say too little, too late
- Mothers And Female Infanticide (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 21, 2003)
CONCERNS ARISING FROM women activist groups in Tamil Nadu about the justice of prosecuting mothers who commit female infanticide may be understandable. However, acceding to the proposal to let off the guilty is bound to cause enormous damage to ...
- `Chicken And Egg' Problem (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jul 21, 2003)
Assistance from the rich is conditioned on the "governance performance" of the poor, which really is tantamount to begging the question as the poor are poor because of improper and weak governance, among other things.
- Monsoon Session Of Parliament - Eschew Politics, Address People's Issues (Business Line, R. C. Rajamani, Jul 21, 2003)
IT HAS become a tedious practice for newspapers to describe the start of any Parliament session as being stormy. The description of the monsoon session, beginning today (July 21), will be no different. The use of the phrase has become monotonously predict
- Check That Booming Billion Now (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Jul 20, 2003)
It has been some time since this column had anything nice to say about our Deputy Prime Minister. For two reasons. I consider Hindutva a distraction we cannot afford and see him as its chief patron, and the fight against terrorism as top priority and hold
- Millennium Goals A Dream, Time To Wake Up (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Jul 20, 2003)
As you read this on a Sunday morning, a child is born in a remote village in Rajasthan. She — a girl child — is one among thousands of children born at the very moment she emerged from her mother’s womb. If she survives, and she has a 90 per cent chance
- At Deoband, They Now Open Windows 98, Click English (Indian Express, Rakesh Sinha , Jul 20, 2003)
When Mohammed Afzal graduated from Darul-Uloom, he thought he had seen the last of Deoband. He was headed, after all, for the big cities of Mumbai and Delhi. With his madarsa training in hadith and fiqh, he hoped to make a mark and spread the Deobandi ...
- Railway Safety... On The Wrong Track Now (Hindu, P.K. Bhardwaj, Jul 20, 2003)
The recent spurt of accidents only reinforces concerns about how safe the country's rail network is. On the issues involved.
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