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Articles 5621 through 5720 of 6237:
- `Chandrika's Regime Degenerated Into An Ordinary Corrupt Regime' -- Professor Jayadeva Uyangoda, Political Science, University Of Colombo (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 31, 2001)
THE ruling classes' ``insensitivity to human suffering', failure to institutionalise the peace process by involving all political parties, and hardened attitudes on both sides have taken Sri Lanka to the brink.
- Vision 2020 -- India In 2002: Que Sera Sera? (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Dec 31, 2001)
WILL I be rich? Will I be pretty? Will I have rainbows day after day? According to the famous song, the answer is "Que sera, sera!
- Misusing Power (Hindu, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 31, 2001)
The politician who uses a public servant for political purposes and the public servant who allows himself to be used are both debasing themselves and doing a signal disservice to the country.
- What News, Pussycat? (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Dec 31, 2001)
This is the story of buildings. Buildings which shook, buildings which were attacked, buildings which crumbled. A story of brick and mortar revealing human frailty, vulnerability and merciless cruelty.
- Courting Thought (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 31, 2001)
This year has seen one improvement in the justice system that should make a difference.
- The Jayalalithaa Saga (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Dec 31, 2001)
INDIAN POLITICS is as vindictive in its revenge as it is uneasy in its virtue.
- `Chandrika's Regime Degenerated Into An Ordinary Corrupt Regime' -- Professor Jayadeva Uyangoda, Political Science, University Of Colombo (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 31, 2001)
THE ruling classes' ``insensitivity to human suffering', failure to institutionalise the peace process by involving all political parties, and hardened attitudes on both sides have taken Sri Lanka to the brink.
- The Jayalalithaa Saga (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Dec 31, 2001)
INDIAN POLITICS is as vindictive in its revenge as it is uneasy in its virtue.
- Better Late Than Never (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Dec 30, 2001)
The best thing about the dialogue between the junta and Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar is that it is taking place at all.
- Systemic Overhaul Needed To Fight Terror (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Dec 30, 2001)
India's justice system has become the strongest and most favoured ally and alibi of the terrorists operating on Indian soil, and of their sponsors across borders.
- Better Late Than Never (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Dec 30, 2001)
The best thing about the dialogue between the junta and Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar is that it is taking place at all.
- Prowling Around For The Biggest Cakes (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 30, 2001)
Remember Balmiki Prasad Singh? The man LK Advani removed quite unceremoniously as his home secretary and who subsequently managed the most coveted post of executive director, World Bank.
- Fdi: Lessons To Be Learnt From The Argentina’s Crisis (The Financial Express, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Dec 29, 2001)
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has promised Japanese investors that his government will remove all hurdles in the path of increased foreign direct investment (FDI).
- Systemic Overhaul Needed To Fight Terror (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Dec 29, 2001)
India's justice system has become the strongest and most favoured ally and alibi of the terrorists operating on Indian soil, and of their sponsors across borders.
- Those Juicy Textbooks (Telegraph, RUKUN ADVANI, Dec 29, 2001)
“What are your bestsellers?” Journalists frequently ask publishing houses this question, expecting a straightforward list of English fiction and popular titles with numbers sold written against each.
- Another Legal Victory (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 28, 2001)
IN A WAY, Ms. Jayalalithaa could not have asked for more. Her second legal victory, in the coal import deal case, has come less than a month after she was judicially absolved by the Madras High Court in the TANSI and Pleasant Stay Hotel cases.
- Let’s Talk Up (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 28, 2001)
IT was on the cards, yet Wednesday’s announcement of the schedule for elections to Uttar Pradesh and other states is somewhat reassuring. Ever since December 13, as the government has weighed its options, the nation has been on edge.
- Another Legal Victory (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 28, 2001)
IN A WAY, Ms. Jayalalithaa could not have asked for more. Her second legal victory, in the coal import deal case, has come less than a month after she was judicially absolved by the Madras High Court in the TANSI and Pleasant Stay Hotel cases.
- Mobilising Democratic Opinion For 'War' (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 27, 2001)
It is incumbent on the Prime Minister to ensure that warmongering does not get out of hand and to calibrate public rhetoric and posturing only as an aid to measured policy response.
- Mobilising Democratic Opinion For 'War' (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 27, 2001)
It is incumbent on the Prime Minister to ensure that warmongering does not get out of hand and to calibrate public rhetoric and posturing only as an aid to measured policy response.
- Whither Peace In Sri Lanka? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 26, 2001)
THIS Christmas will be a memorable one for Sri Lanka, or so hope its people.
- Open To Evil Eyes (Telegraph, BRIJESH D. JAYAL, Dec 26, 2001)
Ever since the aborted terrorist assault on the Indian Parliament, there has been abundant speculation on the likely Indian response.
- Rajnath’s Nightmare (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 26, 2001)
The Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta has put Mr Rajnath Singh in a spot of bother.
- The Myth Of The Popular Will (Hindu, Swami Agnivesh, Dec 25, 2001)
It is always risky, and often unfair, to read situations by speculating on the motives that are alleged to underlie them.
- Conference On Fraud? (Business Line, K. Gopalan, Dec 25, 2001)
THIS seems to be an age of seminars and symposia.
- The Myth Of The Popular Will (Hindu, Swami Agnivesh, Dec 25, 2001)
It is always risky, and often unfair, to read situations by speculating on the motives that are alleged to underlie them.
- Going From Bad To Verse (Pioneer, Sidharth Bhatia, Dec 25, 2001)
As another year draws to a close and the nation takes stock of the triumphs and tribulations-mainly the latter-that it brought, it is time to cast aside gloom and get into a cheerful mood.
- Dial M For Mozart (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Dec 24, 2001)
As war clouds gather over the world, the Christmas gift market abroad has reportedly dropped by as much as 70 per cent. The Argentine president had to quit because of poverty riots.
- War By Other Means (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 22, 2001)
India should send two unambiguous messages to Washington. First, if 9/11 (as Americans call it) determined the United States of America’s policing role in the new millennium, the Srinagar.
- Young State, Old Politics (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 22, 2001)
FOR such a young state, Chhattisgarh politics is terribly worldly-wise. The buntings from its first birthday party are yet to be packed away and the state is back in the headlines for a very familiar, very stale set of reasons.
- As Hong Kong To China, We See Sri Lanka To India -- Mr Milinda Moragoda, Sri Lanka's Minister For Economic Reforms (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 22, 2001)
Even while in the Opposition the United National Party had strong links with India.
- Overtaken Once More (Indian Express, Rajeev Ahuja, Dec 21, 2001)
A FEW days ago, it was corruption in defence purchases. Today, it’s the attack on Parliament that corners the nation’s attention.
- Credulous Politics And Our Soft State (Pioneer, V. K. Grover, Dec 21, 2001)
The gruesome attack on the parliament building on December 13 showed what we have known all along.
- ‘Three Pms Couldn’t Have Been Wrong In Inducting Me’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 21, 2001)
With assembly elections just two years away, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is a man in a hurry.
- Argentina’s Covertibility Czar Domingo Cavallo Bows Out Amidst Riots (The Financial Express, Brian Winter, Dec 21, 2001)
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Not even the raw energy of Domingo Cavallo, one of the emerging market world’s most well-known and creative economists, could slay the overwhelming pessimism of Argentina’s three-year recession.
- Techniques Of Privatisation (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Dec 20, 2001)
IT IS admitted on all hands through a series of studies that output, profitability and efficiency increase significantly in the years after firms are privatised.
- A Bend In The River (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Dec 20, 2001)
On December 5, the day preceding the ninth anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya, Hindu belief suffered a serious blow.
- Fr Index (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 19, 2001)
THE Public Expenditure Round Table (PERT), a Chennai think-tank specialising on issues relating to pruning government expenditure and getting the maximum output and return from every rupee spent.
- Peace Talks Again (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 19, 2001)
Peace talks may take long to achieve breakthroughs, but the important thing is to ensure that they do not break down.
- What If Osama Were Caught In India? A Debate Would Explode: Should He Be Tried Under Evidence Act? Poto? (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Dec 18, 2001)
The technology of inflicting large-scale violence is becoming easier to obtain, and — per quotient of lethality — less and less expensive. This in turn yields three lemmas:
- Fragile Edifice (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 18, 2001)
Corruption is so routine in the country at all levels that one report more or less hardly causes a ripple. And the reports keep coming.
- Civil Servants Bribed With Sex Trips (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 18, 2001)
Twelve civil servants in Hong Kong were arrested for allegedly accepting bribes from government contractors with free sex trips to China and Macau, anti-corruption investigators have said.
- Those Unsettling Compulsions (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Dec 17, 2001)
The 'Iftar' season is on and now we will also have birthday bashes, besides numerous other parties. Christmas and New Year are around the corner and we will witness new acts of political gymnastics.
- Divali Gift (Tribune, Anurag, Dec 17, 2001)
“I would accept a gift if it is reasonable, if it is big I would not. One needs to look at the practice of giving Divali gifts from the Indian cultural perspective rather than saying in general that receiving of gifts by government servants is corruption.
- History As Told By Non-Historians (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 16, 2001)
For too long, the illusion of a `debate' between evenly matched sides has been maintained...
- History As Told By Non-Historians (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 16, 2001)
For too long, the illusion of a `debate' between evenly matched sides has been maintained...
- Deep Impact (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Dec 16, 2001)
As I write this column, I am watching the ghastly attack inside the premises of the Indian Parliament.
- Sectarian Outfits Cash In On Rival Fronts’ Blame-Game On Kerala Violence (The Financial Express, K. P. Sethunath, Dec 15, 2001)
The sectarian violence rocking Kerala since December 6, the ninth anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya.
- Deep Impact (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Dec 15, 2001)
As I write this column, I am watching the ghastly attack inside the premises of the Indian Parliament.
- Govt Procurement Agreement: A Chance To Reduce Corruption (The Financial Express, Pradeep S. Mehta, Dec 15, 2001)
Government procurement was one of the four new issues which was brought under the work programme of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) at its first Ministerial Conference in Singapore in December 1996.
- The Nizam's Jewels (Business Line, Timeri N. Murari , Dec 14, 2001)
AT times the present - Afghanistan, Osama, Kargil corruption scams - becomes too much for us to absorb.
- Beyond The Uneasy Afghan Setting (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Dec 14, 2001)
IN the face of growing violent tendencies, intolerance and conflicts, the collapse of the Taliban regime, symbolically speaking, is a landmark development in the history of human civilisation.
- Criminals In Legislatures? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 14, 2001)
IT has often been alleged that criminals have joined the ranks of politicians, defiling the holy precincts of legislatures.
- Righteous Rajnath (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 14, 2001)
At another moment, in another context, it might have been an act of political propriety, even courage, no questions asked.
- Flex-Ible Manoeuvres (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 13, 2001)
There was a time when the Vajpayee government talked loudly about zero tolerance of corruption.
- Coffingate (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 13, 2001)
The last word on the Kargil war has not been said.
- Strike The Proper Balance (Telegraph, Sarmila Bose, Dec 12, 2001)
As Afghanistan starts its reconstruction from its very own Ground Zero, there is much it could learn from the experience of India.
- A Coffin Scam! (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 12, 2001)
The nature of the irregularities committed in clearing certain defence deals mentioned in the Comptroller and Auditor-General's report would fill any normal person with a sense of revulsion. How low can human beings fall?
- From Ayodhya To Dandi (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 12, 2001)
When Mr. Advani invokes the Dandi March symbolism for his rath yatra he is seeking moral acceptability and historic endorsement for a blatantly divisive political ploy.
- From Ayodhya To Dandi (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 12, 2001)
When Mr. Advani invokes the Dandi March symbolism for his rath yatra he is seeking moral acceptability and historic endorsement for a blatantly divisive political ploy.
- Some Hope For Disinvestment (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 12, 2001)
THE FALTERING DIVESTMENT programme of the government may just have received a fresh lease of life from the form of the Supreme Court's judgment in the Bharat Aluminium Company (Balco) case.
- Musharraf’s Equations With Usa (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Dec 11, 2001)
IF consistency is the virtue of fools, politicians are wise men and women.
- Enron Educates India (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 11, 2001)
WHEN the new US Ambassador arrived in Delhi a few months ago, his first public statement was that the future of Indo-US economic relations could be summed up in five little letters: Enron.
- Indonesia’s Laloo Yadav (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 11, 2001)
The selective application of prison rules is not an issue only in India.
- Rourkela Steel Plant -- Passing The Loss Game (Business Line, George Thomas, Dec 11, 2001)
"I fear explanations, explanatory of things explained." -- Abraham Lincoln
- Free The Farmer From The Sarkar (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Dec 11, 2001)
NOW that we have negotiated a vantage position for ourselves — full credit for Murasoli Maran and his team for that — the important issue is to prepare for the negotiations in detail and for the actual trade that would follow.
- Not Quite Friends (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 11, 2001)
Unstable coalitions have long been the bane of politics in some northeastern states.
- Undoing A Heritage (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 11, 2001)
Ethnic divide plays a major role in deciding tribal political fortunes.
- Faction Feuds In Delhi Congress (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 10, 2001)
THE NEW LOOK Cabinet, as the Congress managers sought to describe the induction of four new faces in the six-member-strong Cabinet headed by Ms. Sheila Dikshit in Delhi.
- Faction Feuds In Delhi Congress (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 10, 2001)
THE NEW LOOK Cabinet, as the Congress managers sought to describe the induction of four new faces in the six-member-strong Cabinet headed by Ms. Sheila Dikshit in Delhi.
- Pm’s Economic Diplomacy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 10, 2001)
ECONOMIC diplomacy is a tricky business. It requires a keen appreciation of mutual needs and capabilities and forging a system that benefits both countries.
- Bharatiyar: Bard Of Freedom, Minstrel Of Human Rights (Hindu, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Dec 10, 2001)
Today is Human Rights Day. Let us remember Subramania Bharathi. Never in the contemporary history of free nations did live a celestial composer of revolutionary rage so sublime as Subramania Bharathi.
- Bharatiyar: Bard Of Freedom, Minstrel Of Human Rights (Hindu, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Dec 10, 2001)
Today is Human Rights Day. Let us remember Subramania Bharathi. Never in the contemporary history of free nations did live a celestial composer of revolutionary rage so sublime as Subramania Bharathi.
- Party Bosses Do Not Know Best (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Dec 10, 2001)
The stated reason for bringing the Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill 2001, providing for open voting in the elections to Rajya Sabha, is to combat corruption but the remedy it offers is worse than the disease.
- Indo-Pak Wars & The Kashmir Tragedy (Tribune, K. F. Rustamji , Dec 09, 2001)
Many military writers have written about our conflicts with Pakistan. The 1965 infiltration was an important halt in my police journey as I was appointed DG, BSF — a month before the infiltration and the war, and had to go there almost on joining.
- Defying The Odds (Hindu, SURESH NAMBATH, Dec 09, 2001)
Whether the political victory helped her in the legal battles or not, her victory on the legal front is set to boost Ms. Jayalalithaa's political fortunes.
- Riding To Hounds (Telegraph, MUKUL KESAVAN, Dec 09, 2001)
It’s the hunting season again. Ganguly’s the fox and the hacks who follow the touring cricketers about are riding to hounds.
- Defying The Odds (Hindu, SURESH NAMBATH, Dec 09, 2001)
Whether the political victory helped her in the legal battles or not, her victory on the legal front is set to boost Ms. Jayalalithaa's political fortunes.
- ‘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.
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