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- ‘it’S A First: A Cm’S Letter To Pm Is Basis For An Alleged Crime’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2003)
You are a Christian by birth. Then how do you still claim to be a tribal since Christianity has always claimed to be a religion of equality
- Time’S Changing, So Must Un: Sinha (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2003)
If diplomatic observers were looking for divergent views on India’s foreign policy they wouldn’t have been disappointed at the ninth Field Marshal Cariappa memorial lecture on Saturday evening.
- President’S First Foreign Trip: Kalam At Home (Indian Express, Samar Halarnkar, Oct 19, 2003)
On Day One his hotspots: plant that converts sea water to drinking water, a pharma factory
- Pak, The Predictable: Don’S Not Here (Indian Express, K.J. Varma, Oct 19, 2003)
Denying that Mumbai underworld Don Dawood Ibrahim lived in Karachi, Pakistan on Saturday accused the US of going to the UN with ‘‘unsubstantiated linkages’’ despite repeated clarifications.
- Welcome, And Come Via Mauritius (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Oct 18, 2003)
The message is loud and clear. India has come of age as a destination for international investments and it will not be squeamish any longer about a sharp practice called treaty shopping. In a judgment delivered last week, the Supreme Court blew away the c
- Who'll Take The Call? (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Oct 18, 2003)
It is no job of the state to shield entrepreneurs against tech change, against gusts of competition
- Fighting To Keep What Is Theirs (Hindu, Larry Rohter, Oct 18, 2003)
The Bolivian Government's plans to export natural gas have run up against widespread anti-globalisation protests.
- Stars & Stripes Go Down The Hill (Indian Express, Paul Krugman, Oct 18, 2003)
The future that stares at America: Budget deficits equal to a quarter of govt spending for next decade
- Don Under The Scanner (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2003)
Now surely there is enough evidence for Pervez Musharraf to honour his pledges
- Raw Life, Raw Films (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2003)
The festival reminds us cinema is still the best medium to capture a world in ferment
- Ram Versus Rajya (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 18, 2003)
It’s poll time in two weeks, will the BJP trust its wisdom or succumb to instinct
- The `Don' Has Been Grounded (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 18, 2003)
The Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, has reasons to be a somewhat satisfied man, after the United States decided to designate Dawood Ibrahim a "designated global terrorist". Officials associated with the intelligence community were all praise for Mr.
- A Noble Iranian (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2003)
THE NORWEGIAN NOBEL Committee surprised many people, and disappointed a few, when it decided to award this year's Peace Prize to the Iranian human rights activist, Shirin Ebadi. That Ms. Ebadi is not as well known internationally as some of the ...
- Gender And The City (Indian Express, Puja Birla, Oct 18, 2003)
Battle against a mindset
- Dawood Blacklist Moves To Un, Pak Gets Reminder (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2003)
US decision vindicates our stand: Advani
- Why A Canadian Town Is In Love With This Nri (Indian Express, Clifford Krauss, Oct 18, 2003)
Doctor wants to go to US, his city offers free food, hair cuts to make him stay
- Tying Down The Cbi (Hindu, R.K. Raghavan, Oct 18, 2003)
The most objectionable feature of the CVC Act is that it revives the infamous Single Directive, which cuts at the root of the CBI's autonomy and freedom of action.
- Bullets With A Message (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2003)
BULLETS, EVERYONE KNOWS, bear death. What is less widely understood is they also carry political messages. In November 2002, even as Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed took office, two grenades went off outside his home on the outskirts of ...
- Why The Terror Tag Is Bad News For The D-Company (Indian Express, J. Dey, Oct 18, 2003)
In the city where he went from a petty neighbourhood thief to the godfather of the underworld, there is quiet celebration in the police. Officials are hopeful that Dawood Ibrahim’s branding as a terrorist will be a blow to the Rs 5,000-crore D-Company emp
- Rights And Duties (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Oct 18, 2003)
In the name of freedom and Fundamental Rights we have got away with the habit of depriving others of the rights we claim for ourselves. Two glaring examples of these which came to the attention of the Calcutta High Court were the misuse of loudspeakers at
- Terror Comes Right Up To Mufti’S Door (Indian Express, Mufti Islah, Oct 18, 2003)
Militants holed up in building across, 2 BSF men killed, 12 hurt
- ‘no Talks With Pwg’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2003)
Entering the Andhra Pradesh Secretariat for the first time after the assassination attempt on him on October 1, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu talked tough about Naxalites of the outlawed People’s War Group rejecting suggestions from certain quarters
- On A New Flight Path (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 17, 2003)
By all accounts it was not a well-debated plan, but the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, apparently trusted his guts and donned the cloak of a visionary,
- Stop The Rot (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 17, 2003)
Far from India evolving into a casteless society, assertion of caste and community identities is becoming more and more aggressive, to the point of promoting internecine violence and vitiating orderly governance.
- Ssis In New Economic Environment (Deccan Herald, M Prahladachar , Oct 17, 2003)
It has become a ritual to preface any discussion on the small-scale industry (SSI) sector in India with encomiums showered on its significant contribution to industrial production, employment generation and exports.
- The Irony That’S Oic (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 17, 2003)
It is doubtful if the heads of 57 countries that constitute the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in Malaysia recognise the contradictions that mark its very role and functions.
- Nailing Pak Lie, Washington Brands Dawood Global Terrorist In Karachi (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Oct 17, 2003)
: This is what New Delhi has been waiting for a very very long time.
- Sickness In The Halls Of Healing (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Oct 17, 2003)
The Government of India’s Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) in Mumbai has asked the Union ministry of health to shut down the Radiotherapy Department of New Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital.
- Treaties And Cancun (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Oct 17, 2003)
In India, a treaty should be circulated before it is signed with information being made available to the people who, along with the States, should be widely consulted.
- Un Okays Us-Led Iraq Force; Delhi Cautious (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 17, 2003)
India reacted with cold silence tonight to the unanimous passage of a US-sponsored resolution on Iraq by the UN Security Council as the rest of the world quietly fell in line with Washington’s proposal to create a UN-authorised multinational force . . .
- Prosecution For Cheque Bouncing — Where Does The Nominee Director Stand? (Business Line, T. S. Asokraj , Oct 17, 2003)
There is a debate over whether a nominee director enjoys full immunity under the newly enacted provisions of the Negotiable Instruments (NI) Act.
- Now They Won’T Search Your Cabin Bags After X-Ray (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Oct 17, 2003)
: Continuing its ‘‘passenger-friendly’’ initiative which began with allowing photography at airports, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has started an exercise to do away with pre-tarmac security check of hand baggage at all airports.
- India Inc, Getting Lean And Nimble (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 17, 2003)
No longer is VRS a bad word. As much as it has made corporates, banks and PSUs leaner and nimbler, it has also enriched the retirees. And, contrary to the perception that VRS means job erosion, it has made for continuous job enrichment. A Business. . .
- In The Cradle Of Anarchy (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 17, 2003)
"The CIA is now talking of 9000 terrorists penetrating the country... The Americans have turned Iraq into a battlefield for international terrorism against the forces of the free world...
- Eyes Wired Shut (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Oct 17, 2003)
Decades ago, Arthur Clarke formulated two axioms about the advance of technology.
- Cancun Failure Is Nobody's Gain (Business Line, B.S. Rathor, Oct 17, 2003)
India, on the threshold of sustained economic growth, will be affected by the stalemate at Cancun.
- Cancun: A Mystery Story (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Oct 17, 2003)
There have been several post-mortems of what happened in Cancun.
- How Not To Sell A War (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 17, 2003)
After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States put together a historic, worldwide coalition to overthrow the Taliban in Afghanistan and destroy al Qaeda.
- Vajpayee On Vacation (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Oct 16, 2003)
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee gave himself a day out in Indonesia last week, wrapping up an afternoon of bilateral meetings before the ASEAN summit with a shopping expedition at an upmarket department store in the resort city of Nusaduwa. It was his
- Best Supporting Actor To Play The Lead (Indian Express, Sandeep Dwivedi, Oct 16, 2003)
The man who’s made his reputation as cricket’s eternal runner-up takes top billing tomorrow on the biggest stage of all. Rahul Dravid will captain India for the first time in Tests when he leads the team out against New Zealand at Mohali.
- From Compliment To A Supplement: Modi Makes News (Indian Express, Janyala Sreenivas, Oct 16, 2003)
Slips in Gujarat Satya Samachar in his ex-ally Gujarat Samachar
- Keep Counting (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
Swiss diplomat decides to leave India after being raped at IFFI; Delegate attacked too; police, I&B don’t know where to hide
- Want To Be An Ia Airhostess? Rudy Says Your Face First, Then Iq (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Oct 16, 2003)
Tells IA and Air India: focus less on tests, first look at looks; his reason: I am answerable to Parliament
- Wealth: Agriculture Plus Services (Indian Express, Gopal Krishna Agarwal, Oct 16, 2003)
Rachel Carson, in her landmark book Silent Spring, has stated that the power of an idea can be greater than political power. In the economic development of a country, there are two factors at work:
- Winged Fears (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
Dengue is a reminder that disease prevention should never go off the national radar
- Bali Raises Visions Of Asian Century (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Oct 16, 2003)
Since the "Look-East" policy was enunciated in 1993, India has made good headway in promoting greater co-operation with South-East Asia. Those gains were consolidated further at the Asean Summit, where member-nations committed themselves to creating a con
- Licensed To Crawl (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Oct 16, 2003)
Telecom sector — where tech change is the fastest— remains the last bastion of the licensing regime
- Put Development On Top Of The Agenda (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 16, 2003)
In this crucial second half of the fiscal, with Assembly elections round the corner and a comfortable enough macro-economic situation, the Government should shed its obsessive concern with disinvestment and the 8 per cent economic growth target and turn,
- States And Fiscal Reforms (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Oct 16, 2003)
The complaint of the more developed States is that they are being punished for performance.
- Making Trouble But Going Nowhere (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
THE SHOCK FORCES OF THE Sangh Parivar, spearheaded by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, have nowhere to go in Ayodhya — having demolished the Babri Masjid more than a decade ago but unable to take forward the project of building a Ram temple on ...
- Sonia's Friends And Foes (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 16, 2003)
Her friends and foes alike refuse to let Sonia Gandhi's natural handicaps define the limits of her leadership
- Uncertainty After Cancun Collapse (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 16, 2003)
The collapse of the ministerial signals the beginning of a tension-ridden holiday for the WTO in the immediate future
- Engineering A Makeover For Gujarat (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Oct 16, 2003)
FOR the Gujarat Chief Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, the last couple of months have been all about re-engineering, restructuring and reinventing the business outlook of his State.
- Hasten Cautiously In Oil Sector Divestment (Business Line, K. Parthasarathi, Oct 16, 2003)
THE proposed break-up of Indian Oil Corporation and privatisation of its retail-marketing with a vast network of retail sales points across the country defies logic and a rationale. More so when it is a star performer and commands a major share of the mar
- Let's Be Guided To Be Independent (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Oct 16, 2003)
On how the Indian accounting body can borrow a leaf from its British counterpart
- Get All Those Asis Asap (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 16, 2003)
THE Archaeological Survey of India is ASI, so is American Sightseeing International, Actuarial Society of India and so forth. As a new jargon in the world of Indian accounting, ASI is Accounting Standards Interpretation, the work of a committee, naturally
- Jarring Notes In Accounts (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Oct 16, 2003)
The proposed company law amendments to ensure greater transparency, while welcome, need to be fine-tuned
- Biotechnology: Hope & Hype (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
IN SOME WAYS, biotechnology is nothing new. Breeding domestic animals and cultivable crops were prerequisites for civilisation. Less essentially perhaps, early societies discovered fermentation and alcoholic beverages. But modern biotechnology ...
- China’S Leap Upward (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
Our neighbour joins the club of space powers, while we spend time fobbing off kar sewaks
- My Nightmare: Rapists Get Away And Say, ‘hey That’S Easy’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
Her house overlooks the parking lot, she was at the film fest too, she’s played rape victim in films. Actor Nandita Das on why she’s angry
- Hunger Deaths In Union Food Minister’S Constituency (Indian Express, Varghese K George, Oct 16, 2003)
Madhepura is no ordinary constituency: in the last elections, it rejected Laloo Prasad Yadav to send Sharad Yadav to Delhi where he is today the Union Minister for Food and Civil Supplies. The two heavyweights promise to be back for another showdown next
- I Think Therefore I’M Not (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Oct 16, 2003)
The decline of the public intellectual in India
- The Ltte And The `Kp Factor' (Hindu, Iqbal Athas, Oct 15, 2003)
The LTTE has made it unequivocally clear that the future of the ceasefire will depend on Colombo's response to its counter-proposals.
- Senseless Dispute Over Ayodhya (Deccan Herald, R G Subramanyam, Oct 15, 2003)
Neither a temple nor a mosque should be built at the disputed site. A university of religions should come up there
- Affordability Is The Key (Hindu, Sudha Mahalingam, Oct 15, 2003)
FROM JANUARY next year, India will begin importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) to quench its growing thirst for energy. The first consignment will arrive at Dahej on the western coast where a terminal is being built to handle 5 million tonnes a year.
- In This Vrs, Your Take-Home Deal Means Take Your Home (Indian Express, Rohit Bansal, Oct 15, 2003)
In the midst of the disinvestment brouhaha, two fertiliser PSUs have been carrying out perhaps the quietest closure of a sick state-owned unit.
- Cancun: A Mere Show Of Strength (Business Line, Alok Ray, Oct 15, 2003)
NOT totally unexpectedly, the Cancun Ministerial of the World Trade Organisation meeting has concluded without yielding any agreement. The major stumbling blocks were the massive agricultural subsidies (estimated at be around $300 billion annually by the
- Temple Versus Terror (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Oct 15, 2003)
October 17 is not a climactic point. VHP is in it for the long haul
- Message From The East (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2003)
The India-Thailand free trade agreement is part of a wider good neighbour policy
- That Sinking Feeling (Indian Express, Paul Krugman, Oct 15, 2003)
During the 1990s I spent much of my time focusing on economic crises around the world — in particular, on currency crises like those that struck south-east Asia in 1997 and Argentina in 2001. The timing of such crises is hard to predict. But there are war
- Breaking Free From Industrial Agriculture (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Oct 15, 2003)
WHAT are the real costs of food? When we buy a kg of rice or wheat, have we at any time wondered what its real cost could be against what we pay in the shop? We only are concerned about the `market' price of food, and not what it costs to produce.
- Iraq... Where There Are More Questions Than Answers (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 15, 2003)
ONE of the saddest and, perhaps in the long term, the most horrific, aspects of the ouster of the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq is the push the country seems to be getting in the direction of religious fundamentalism. About 60 per cent of the country's po
- Cancun Is Dead, Long Live Wto (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Oct 15, 2003)
Those who are gloating over the failure of the Cancun Ministerial and hoping that the WTO is dead are as wrong as they can be. The trade body and negotiations will live on, but hopefully become more open and less complex
- Dial Reform (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Oct 15, 2003)
First in a four-part series on the bureaucratic, legal mess that’s crippling the future of Indian telecom
- `One Country, Two Systems' Formula Under Test (Business Line, Dharmalingam Venugopal, Oct 15, 2003)
AS IF to test the tenacity of its unique "one country, two systems" paradigm, Hong Kong has been constantly buffeted by challenges — economic, political and social ever since its reunification with China in July 1997.
- After Rape Taint, President’S Guards Face Tough Call Of Duty (Indian Express, Bhavna Vij, Oct 15, 2003)
Will be sent for counter-insurgency work
- Govt’S Wish: A Happy Vhp And No One Hurt (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Oct 15, 2003)
Ban on trains lifted, security forces sent
- Indo-Us Defence Ties Come Alive (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Oct 14, 2003)
Indo-US observers love to tell this story. Secretary of State John Forster Dulles once explained American interests in Pakistan. Pakistan, said Dulles, in an interview to Walter Lippmann given in the fifties, were the true fighters in South Asia. After al
- Hindutva Rate Of Growth (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Oct 14, 2003)
There is hype and hypocrisy in economic projections
- Govt In Sc And Naik Are Like Oil And Water (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
Soli tells court in Jessop case to reconsider HPCL/BPCL sale verdict
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