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- A Minefield Ahead (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Dec 09, 2001)
Hamid Karzai will need all the luck in the world to balance the contradictions and bring a semblance of governance to Afghanistan.
- New Jordan Envoy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 09, 2001)
Jordan 's new envoy to India, Nabil Talhouni, took over very recently. This week he and his spouse hosted a reception for the delegates from Jordan Phosphate Mines and the Arab Potash companies.
- Tight Ropewalk (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 09, 2001)
As tension escalates in West Asia, India's foreign policy vis-a-vis that region seems to be going through a phase of walking a tight-rope. In his speech at the Libyan function, read in absentia, Prime Minister Vajpayee did condemn the ongoing actrocities.
- Criminal Neglect Of Primary Schools (Tribune, T. R. Sharma, Dec 08, 2001)
Article 45 (Directive Principles of State Policy) lays down that within a period of 10 years commencing from the date of promulgation of the Constitution of India (January 26, 1950) the State shall endeavour to provide free.
- Winds Of Change In Sri Lanka? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 08, 2001)
THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE of Sri Lanka seems to be expanding.
- Onus Of The Law (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 08, 2001)
AFTER FEROCIOUSLY RESISTING genuine demands to cede political space to women and eventually scuttling the Bill aiming to reserve for them 33 per cent of the seats in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies last December.
- Sinha's Bravado? (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 08, 2001)
THE GOVERNMENT IS willing to prime the pump and risk a higher fiscal deficit than budgeted.
- Advani On Corruption (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Dec 08, 2001)
THE other day, the Union Home Minister, Mr L. K. Advani, did well to warn the nations industry and business interests generally that they should not try to violate or shortchange established laws and policies for achieving short-term gains.
- ‘If Nda-Dmk Equation Changes, It Will Be Karunanidhi’s Doing’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 08, 2001)
Cho S Ramaswamy, journalist and nominated Rajya Sabha member, is credited with a deep understanding of the rough and tumble of Tamil Nadu politics.
- The Enron Saga (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Dec 08, 2001)
The market did not punish Enron, the company killed itself with its financial practices.
- Of Monarchs And Maoists (Telegraph, Sundara K. Datta-Ray, Dec 08, 2001)
The Nepalese cannot be blamed for jumping to the conclusion that only the Maoist insurrection has saved them from being browbeaten by India into accepting rigorous trade terms.
- Private Universities: Why Not? (Tribune, Tavleen Singh, Dec 08, 2001)
Before commenting on the latest utterances of the man in charge of India’s education system, Mr Murli Manohar Joshi, let me set for you the backdrop. We have the largest number of illiterate people in the world.
- The Fashion Conscious (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 08, 2001)
Among other things, the AB Vajpayee regime is also likely to be remembered for being a patron of the world of glitz.
- Words Of Wisdom (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 08, 2001)
A pearl of wisdom from that great lover of all things Indian — the Metro Rail in West Bengal. At the Tollygunge Metro station:
- Food For Talk (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 08, 2001)
If in spring, a young man’s fancy turns to love, the onset of winter does strange things to a Bengali patriarch’s soul.
- Well-Deserved Victory (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 08, 2001)
The good news is that the game of cricket is alive and kicking.
- Education As Fundamental Right (Tribune, L. H. Naqvi, Dec 08, 2001)
I am sure that the daily wage workers, the coolies and the rickshaw-pullers have not sent a thank you note to the Prime Minister for making education a fundamental right for children in the 6-14 age group.
- Globalising The Anti-Terror 'War' (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Dec 08, 2001)
A truly worldwide battle against the politics of terror cannot be waged by the U.S. within the framework of its own military prowess and political `ideals' or even strategic compulsions.
- Big Men With A Little Madness (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 08, 2001)
YOU can go to Mohali to see cricket. Or to get an insight into this peculiar Indian inability to digest success, to tolerate somebody who leaves visible, lasting evidence of his success staring in your envious face.
- Equity Market: Rising Above The Crises (Business Line, Virendra Verma, Dec 08, 2001)
MARKETs thrive on sentiment particularly the stock exchange, which is nothing but a pressure-cooker of emotions and biases making the best bet.
- Winds Of Change In Sri Lanka? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 08, 2001)
THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE of Sri Lanka seems to be expanding.
- Spread Ratios In Public Sector Banks (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Dec 08, 2001)
IF WE assume that the ratio of non-interest to income to interest income is either not significant or is the same in each public sector bank.
- The Enron Saga (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Dec 08, 2001)
The market did not punish Enron, the company killed itself with its financial practices.
- No Choice, Chandrika (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 08, 2001)
THE voters in Sri Lanka have shown greater maturity than their leaders in the just-concluded parliamentary election.
- Globalising The Anti-Terror 'War' (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Dec 08, 2001)
A truly worldwide battle against the politics of terror cannot be waged by the U.S. within the framework of its own military prowess and political `ideals' or even strategic compulsions.
- Onus Of The Law (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 08, 2001)
AFTER FEROCIOUSLY RESISTING genuine demands to cede political space to women and eventually scuttling the Bill aiming to reserve for them 33 per cent of the seats in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies last December.
- Emerging Tasks For Mr Sinha (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Dec 08, 2001)
THE Budget time is at hand, and the Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, is sending mixed signals.
- Child Labour Should Be On Forefront Of National Agenda (The Financial Express, Jyoti Mehta, Dec 08, 2001)
Though child labour in some countries is played down, in many others it has become a crisis which governments are trying to deal with. Latest statistics show that about 250 million child workers exist in the age group of 5-14 years the world over.
- Japan Needs To Remodel Its Investment Outlook (The Financial Express, Smita Banerjee, Dec 08, 2001)
Japan has been a significant partner of India in terms of economic benefits. It was given overriding importance as an engine for the growth of India’s market-driven economy in the post-liberalisation period.
- How Do They Get There? (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 08, 2001)
Intelligence failure? Our chief minister is not too sure, but he is mightily upset with the fact that state secrets should not remain secrets at all.
- Fragrance Of A Flower (Indian Express, Sohaila Kapur, Dec 08, 2001)
SHE is 70 years and is no relation of mine — just an aunt-in-law. Yet, if anyone could fill the gap my mother left after she passed away, it was her. In fact, I felt closer to her than I did to my mother, on many occasions.
- This Is How The Others Would Like It (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 08, 2001)
Talking about discipline, veteran journalist and member of the Rajya Sabha, Kuldip Nayar, has a complaint.
- A Goliath Runs Amuck (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Dec 07, 2001)
It is symbolic of the dangers ahead in the Afghan peace process that Hamid Karzai, chairman of the interim administration in Kabul, was hurt in an explosion near Kandahar in which three US marines lost their lives in what is described as “friendly fire”.
- Evolution Of The Debt Market -- A Long, But Rapid Journey (Business Line, Rukmani Vishwanath, Dec 07, 2001)
TILL 1991, money was collected and lent according to Plan. If planning went awry, the government sent word to its banker.
- History Is Not “A Pack Of Tricks” (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Dec 07, 2001)
History is a mirror of society—the mirror which reflects realities and, as such, is expected not to distort right images or project wrong ones.
- The Wima Windfall (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Dec 07, 2001)
If you are a Delhi journalist and write a sort of political column, the question most frequently put to you, even by perfect strangers, is, ‘‘So will the Vajpayee government last?’’
- A Continuing Exclusion (Indian Express, Seema Alavi, Dec 07, 2001)
This Ramzan I have observed more fasts than I normally do. I have thought much more about the community.
- `Banking On Prudential Reforms' -- Mr V. Leeladhar, Cmd, Union Bank Of India (Business Line, Rajalakshmi Menon, Dec 07, 2001)
REFLECTING over a decade of reforms in the banking industry, Mr V. Leeladhar, Chairman and Managing Director, Union Bank of India, feels that the most significant steps forward has been the laying down of prudential norms for bankers.
- Heal Thyself (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 07, 2001)
Doctors do not like being treated on par with sellers of goods.
- Emerging Economic Challenges To Diplomacy (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Dec 07, 2001)
EVEN as the entire nation remained glued to television sets watching the Taliban collapse under sustained American bombings and onslaughts of the Northern Alliance.
- A New Ray Of Hope In Afghanistan (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 07, 2001)
THE UNITED NATIONS seems to have drawn a rough but promising road map that might help steer Afghanistan, a failed state, towards a civilised political future.
- Too Much Emphasis On Capital Adequacy? (Business Line, M. Ramesh , Dec 07, 2001)
AMONG the more significant measures that came under banking sector reforms is the linkage of a bank's capital to its risk-weighted assets, better known as the capital adequacy ratio norm.
- How China Has Surged Ahead Of India (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Dec 07, 2001)
AFTER 15 years of hard work and tough bargaining, China has become a full member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) at the recent Doha Ministerial Meet.
- Ambiguous Economics (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 07, 2001)
THE world has long fallen for the claims of economists to the status of a science for their somewhat nebulous field.
- Food For Learning (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 07, 2001)
One of the aspects of primary education that does not often get the attention it deserves is the mid-day meal scheme.
- China Says 2002 Exports Vital To 7 Pct Gdp Growth (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 07, 2001)
BEIJING: China said on Thursday, its exports faced worse prospects than during the Asian economic crisis and that it needed to maintain measurable exports growth to help attain seven percent economic growth in 2002.
- `Banking On Prudential Reforms' -- Mr V. Leeladhar, Cmd, Union Bank Of India (Business Line, Rajalakshmi Menon, Dec 07, 2001)
REFLECTING over a decade of reforms in the banking industry, Mr V. Leeladhar, Chairman and Managing Director, Union Bank of India, feels that the most significant steps forward has been the laying down of prudential norms for bankers.
- Fdi: Putting It In Perspective (Business Line, S. Venu , Dec 07, 2001)
There is a constant refrain in many quarters that India has not seen adequate FDI inflows, despite a decade of liberalisation, to an extent comparable with China, Brazil or even Malayasia.
- India, U.S. Bury The Ghosts Of 1971 (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 07, 2001)
NEW DELHI, DEC. 6. When the American aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson, docks at Mumbai in the next few days, India and the United States will have finally buried the ghosts of the 1971 war for the liberation of Bangladesh.
- Pwg, Mcc Attract Poto (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 07, 2001)
As was widely expected, the Centre has outlawed the Peoples War Group (PWG) of Andhra Pradesh and the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) of Jharkhand.
- Terrorist Law Again And Again - Ii (Hindu, K. G. Kannabiran, Dec 07, 2001)
The Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO), like its predecessor, the TADA, defines only a terrorist act and not terrorism. In POTO, ``overawing Government by law established'' is no longer a terrorist act.
- Iftars - Then And Now (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 07, 2001)
NEW DELHI, DEC. 6. One day in early seventies, Mr. I.K. Gujral, then a member of Indira Gandhi's Cabinet, invited Mr. Shafi Quereshi, Minister of State for Railways, to a meal.
- India, U.S. Bury The Ghosts Of 1971 (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 07, 2001)
NEW DELHI, DEC. 6. When the American aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson, docks at Mumbai in the next few days, India and the United States will have finally buried the ghosts of the 1971 war for the liberation of Bangladesh.
- Caste And Social Structure - Ii (Hindu, Satish Deshpande, Dec 07, 2001)
Contrary to the inflated rhetoric of the anti-Mandal backlash, the OBCs are not overtaking the upper castes - not even in the rural areas where they are undoubtedly a force to reckon with.
- Afghanistan As A Land Bridge (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 07, 2001)
A cooperative endeavour to build pipelines and transport corridors in the region with Afghanistan as a key transit nation will help reinforce the efforts to have a moderate regime in Kabul.
- Politics & Public Finance (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 07, 2001)
THE TAMIL NADU Chief Minister, Mr. O. Paneerselvam's announcement of a partial rollback of the recent price hikes shows the sharp conflict between politics and economics.
- A New Ray Of Hope In Afghanistan (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 07, 2001)
THE UNITED NATIONS seems to have drawn a rough but promising road map that might help steer Afghanistan, a failed state, towards a civilised political future.
- Terrorist Law Again And Again - Ii (Hindu, K. G. Kannabiran, Dec 07, 2001)
The Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO), like its predecessor, the TADA, defines only a terrorist act and not terrorism. In POTO, ``overawing Government by law established'' is no longer a terrorist act.
- Double Defence (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 07, 2001)
The growing strategic convergence between India and the United States of America was again demonstrated during the recent meeting of the bilateral defence policy group in New Delhi.
- Sony Ceo On Head-Hunt (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Dec 07, 2001)
This one’s about the head of an organisation who for the moment looks like he has his throne, but very little of the kingdom he once used to lord over.
- Afghanistan As A Land Bridge (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 07, 2001)
A cooperative endeavour to build pipelines and transport corridors in the region with Afghanistan as a key transit nation will help reinforce the efforts to have a moderate regime in Kabul.
- Why Blood Red Becomes A Colour Of Choice (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 07, 2001)
The means of the Maoists are unjustified, but their ends find resonance in the Nepalese countryside where poverty’s the rule and governance, the exception.
- Caste And Social Structure - Ii (Hindu, Satish Deshpande, Dec 07, 2001)
Contrary to the inflated rhetoric of the anti-Mandal backlash, the OBCs are not overtaking the upper castes - not even in the rural areas where they are undoubtedly a force to reckon with.
- Politics & Public Finance (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 07, 2001)
THE TAMIL NADU Chief Minister, Mr. O. Paneerselvam's announcement of a partial rollback of the recent price hikes shows the sharp conflict between politics and economics.
- Rituals Of December 6 (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 07, 2001)
That 60-point charter of dos and don’ts our legislators pledged themselves to only days ago should, most definitely, have included one more: Don’t force the House to adjourn amid pandemonium on December 6.
- Crusade On The Field (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Dec 07, 2001)
In the matter of overseas performance, the Indian cricket team and the country’s prime minister are truly made for each other.
- Dogs Under House Arrest To Improve Shanghai Image (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 07, 2001)
Thousands of dogs in Shanghai will be put under “house arrest” as China’s largest city tries to polish its international image and attract tourists.
- Maoists Deserve Taliban Fate (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Dec 07, 2001)
Yesterday, it was the Taliban. Today, it is the Maoists of Nepal. There is no difference between the two.
- Passing The Test! (Tribune, P. Lal , Dec 07, 2001)
The minister’s countenance showed curiosity and amusement. I had just finished explaining to him the police side of a case.
- Iftars - Then And Now (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 07, 2001)
NEW DELHI, DEC. 6. One day in early seventies, Mr. I.K. Gujral, then a member of Indira Gandhi's Cabinet, invited Mr. Shafi Quereshi, Minister of State for Railways, to a meal.
- Emerging Economic Challenges (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Dec 06, 2001)
Even as the entire nation remained glued to television sets watching the Taliban collapse in the face of sustained American bombings and onslaughts of the Northern Alliance.
- Madame Nui’s Toad And Other Stories (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 06, 2001)
With government debt at a whopping 130 percent of GDP, a near-recession for close to a decade, annual corporate bankruptcies close to three times those a decade ago, and unemployment at an all-time high of 5.4 percent.
- ‘Pak Should Realise Its Days Of Control In Kabul Are Over’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 06, 2001)
Yuly Mikhailovich Vorontsov was in India as President of the Russian American Business Council.
- Terrorist Law Again And Again - I (Hindu, K. G. Kannabiran, Dec 06, 2001)
Restrictive legislation is almost always a signal of repressive institutional change, but is, of course, not the cause of it...
- Caste And Social Structure - I (Hindu, Satish Deshpande, Dec 06, 2001)
The National Sample Survey Organisation has collected data that allow rational debate on a question that has generally been prejudged by both sides: whether and to what extent, the OBCs are really `backward'
- Self-Defeating Strategies (Hindu, Malini Parthasarathy, Dec 06, 2001)
As a consequence of the American military campaign in Afghanistan, a host of giddy and self-deluding notions have surfaced... India, Sri Lanka or Israel now have the temptation to solve problems militarily.
- The Mystic Night (Indian Express, Syed Amir Ali Hashmi, Dec 06, 2001)
Devotion is a quality that pays rich dividends. If you are fully devoted to the Supreme Authority, He, the gracious lord, has promised to recompense profusely.
- Points Of Interest (Indian Express, T. V. R. Sher, Dec 06, 2001)
How often have you seen the elder in a family placing a gold necklace around a newborn? Don’t bother! Fate has already placed a chain around the child — an iron chain of debt.
- Bonn Again (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 06, 2001)
Well wishers of the Afghan people will definitely be enthused by the broad agreement reached at the Bonn talks, which paves the way for a representative government in Kabul.
- Leverage Technology To Tackle Competition -- Mr Janki Ballabh, Chairman, State Bank Of India (Business Line, Rajalakshmi Menon, Dec 06, 2001)
WITHOUT being unfair to practising bankers, it has to be said that they hold back more than they reveal in interviews.
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