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Articles 5821 through 5920 of 6237:
- Jhootistan Strikes Against Cotton Farmers (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Nov 07, 2001)
DURING the 1965 war with Pakistan, the official radio companies of the two adversary countries carried on their own propaganda war.
- Where Have All The Pandits Gone? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 07, 2001)
WHENEVER you travel to Kashmir and write about the alienation evident in the people of the Valley, the question that comes up is: `Where are all the Kashmiri Pandits?' Have they become refugees in their own land?
- Untying The Red Knot (Indian Express, Ayesha Chawla, Nov 06, 2001)
Why must we waste so much time just pleading?
- Repairing Rather Than Reinventing Railways Is The Need Of The Hour (The Financial Express, Aarti Khosla, Nov 06, 2001)
While scarce resources were sunk in unremunerative projects, the budgetary support was reduced and the share of the Indian Railways (IR) in the Plan outlay was drastically cut.
- Burnt Out Ends (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 05, 2001)
Smoking in public places will be forbidden soon in India.
- A Marketing Story (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Nov 05, 2001)
The Indian economy has since the Eighties moved out of the 3.5 per cent “Hindu” rate of growth of the Fifties and Sixties. But this growth tapered off after 1996-97.
- Vision 2020 -- Why Rbis Moves Wont Work (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 05, 2001)
The high transaction cost and the lack of commitment to fulfilling contracts because of the corruption in high places make a mockery of monetary policies. P. V. Indiresan explains why Dr Bimal Jalan cannot do a Greenspan.
- Good Governance (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 05, 2001)
ALTHOUGH its emergence in public discourses may be of recent origin, good governance was always regarded in India's ancient lore as an imperative touchstone of benevolent kingship.
- Exuding Confidence (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 04, 2001)
Ms. AMBIKA SONI, Congress Working Committee member and AICC general secretary, believes her party is on course.
- Legislating A Police State (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Nov 04, 2001)
IT IS not the best kept secret of the Government that the police is thoroughly criminalised and corrupt and the judicial system is teetering on the brink of collapse.
- Fraught Times (Hindu, HAROON HABIB, Nov 04, 2001)
THE NEW Khaleda Zia Government in Bangladesh has set itself 25 targets to achieve in the first 100 days in office.
- Exuding Confidence (Hindu, Javed M. Ansari , Nov 04, 2001)
Ms. AMBIKA SONI, Congress Working Committee member and AICC general secretary, believes her party is on course.
- Fraught Times (Hindu, HAROON HABIB, Nov 04, 2001)
THE NEW Khaleda Zia Government in Bangladesh has set itself 25 targets to achieve in the first 100 days in office.
- Legislating A Police State (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Nov 04, 2001)
IT IS not the best kept secret of the Government that the police is thoroughly criminalised and corrupt and the judicial system is teetering on the brink of collapse.
- Governance And Security (Hindu, P. R. Chari , Nov 03, 2001)
THE DRAMATIC events following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have completely deflected attention from the inadequacies of our governance processes in grappling with the perennial threats to our national security.
- After Tehelka, Repression (Tribune, Tavleen Singh, Nov 03, 2001)
OUR politicians were, and still are, quite unprepared for television.
- Healthy Move (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 02, 2001)
This is only the beginning of a long lasting test. But it is a good beginning.
- Double A Therapy (Tribune, Shriniwas Joshi, Nov 02, 2001)
JAYALALITHA with one “a” was a disaster. She lost her chair, charm and charisma. Court case upon court case was piled on her. Then she thought to adding another “a” to her name.
- Challenges Ahead (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 01, 2001)
PUNJAB and Haryana happily celebrate the anniversaries of their statehood today. It is a historic occasion for the two states which have had the distinction of several firsts — some laudatory and some not so flattering.
- Needed Change (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 01, 2001)
The Union cabinet, as is its wont, has conflated two issues in its efforts to clean up elections to the Rajya Sabha.
- Bjp’s ‘Congressisation’ Problem (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Oct 31, 2001)
HOME Minister L.K. Advani’s recent warning to his partymen that they should guard against being “Congressised” comes rather late in the day.
- Needed Change (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 31, 2001)
The Union cabinet, as is its wont, has conflated two issues in its efforts to clean up elections to the Rajya Sabha.
- Change Of Guard In Bangladesh (Hindu, Muchkund Dubey , Oct 29, 2001)
THE WAY the recent parliamentary elections were conducted in Bangladesh once again confirmed its position as one of the largest functioning democracies of the world. On the basis of my observance of the 1996 elections.
- Winnie Mandela’s Nine Lives (Telegraph, ANSU DATTA, Oct 29, 2001)
Once eulogized as “the mother of the nation”, then denounced by some as an inveterate populist and a huge embarrassment to the party.
- Two Years Of Nda Rule (Hindu, Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Oct 29, 2001)
IT IS two years since this edition of the Vajpayee Government came into office. The CPI(M) had warned that the formation of a BJP-led Government poses a threat to national unity and to the secular fabric of our country.
- How Jp Movement Helped Bjp (Tribune, M. G. Devasahayam , Oct 29, 2001)
ADDRESSING the BJP’s golden jubilee celebrations the other day, Mr L.K. Advani indulged in a bit of hyperbole when he drew a parallel between the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the birth of the Bharatiya Janata Party in 1980;
- Mixed Mandate (Hindu, SURESH NAMBATH, Oct 28, 2001)
FOR THOSE who were claiming that Tamil Nadu was going the Bihar way, the election to the local bodies was only another pointer.
- The Time's Come To Pay The Piper (Hindu, J. P. SHUKLA, Oct 28, 2001)
ELEVEN YEARS ago the Bharatiya Janata Party played the `Ram' card in Uttar Pradesh to counter the `Mandal' masterstroke of Mr. V. P. Singh.
- The Party And The Puja (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Oct 28, 2001)
The festive chaos of the last few days might have prompted an outsider to wonder whether the same mobs that fill puja pandals also vote for the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and its allies.
- Were The Tehelka Tapes Doctored? (Tribune, Tavleen Singh, Oct 27, 2001)
WOULD I like to see how the Tehelka tapes had been doctored, said the voice on the telephone, because if I did I could come along and take a look?
- Whose Win? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 25, 2001)
Bofors case threatens to end up as a trial of the dead.
- Waging War On Bureaucratic Terrorism (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Oct 24, 2001)
Truth, tolerance, justice, a sense of lifes beauty and a near-violent rejection of their opposites - the system itself must be forced to reflect these virtues, or it had no business. -- John le Carre in The Constant Gardener.
- Though Slowly, The Indo-Dutch Trade Is Steadily On The Rise (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Oct 23, 2001)
India and the Netherlands, traditionally share strong political ties. The highly successful visit of Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok in 1999 facilitated detailed discussions on issues of importance to both sides.
- Middle Class Backlash Against Vajpayee (Tribune, P. Raman , Oct 23, 2001)
‘VINASHAKALE viparita buddhi’ has been a quote nauseatingly used by disgruntled politicians to snipe at each other.
- Bihar Gangsters Go Hi-Tech (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 22, 2001)
LOCAL terrorism has gone hi-tech in Bihar and this is bad news for those who have been arguing that if the Laloo Yadav group is demoralised numerically and outmanoeuvred legally, there would be a change in the non-governance process.
- Plumbing New Depths (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Oct 21, 2001)
STRANGELY, THE Government has chosen to defend the re-induction of Mr. George Fernandes as Defence Minister not by stating that the move was right, but by pointing out that the Opposition parties had no right to criticise.
- ‘The Heavens Wouldn’t Have Fallen If George Had Waited’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 20, 2001)
Shatrughan Sinha joined the BJP when he was at the peak of his film career.
- The Lick And Kick System (Tribune, Mary Parmar, Oct 19, 2001)
PUBLIC administration is a discipline which comes in direct contact with the public. Students form an important segment of the citizenry and have their own perceptions about the theory and practice of the discipline.
- Stirring The Communal Cauldron (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Oct 18, 2001)
A SERIES of recent events ought to awaken all those who had been lulled into complacency by the fact that the BJP appeared to have been acting as if it were a moderate party at the centre of the ideological spectrum.
- One Grand Conspiracy (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 17, 2001)
THE ENGLISH language does not provide us with a word that would do for ``murder of republican virtues''.
- Fatted Calf (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 16, 2001)
The return of the prodigal is not always a story with a happy ending.
- Emerging Dilemmas In Afghanistan (Hindu, V. R. Raghavan , Oct 16, 2001)
THE MILITARY campaign in Afghanistan has commenced on expected lines and is proceeding rapidly towards dilemmas instead of victory.
- For Whom The State Acts (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Oct 16, 2001)
The government is meant to be for the people. But it is understandable that there should be serious doubts on this score.
- Diagnosing A Sick System (Tribune, D. R. Chaudhry, Oct 16, 2001)
TWO news items appeared prominently on the front page of The Tribune on September 10.
- Attention Cvc (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 15, 2001)
INDIA'S political structure and the governing class in more than half-a-century of Independence have become masters in getting round every system and institution meant to call them to account.
- The Bnp And India (Hindu, Padmaja Murthy, Oct 15, 2001)
ON OCTOBER 1, Bangladesh went to the polls to elect the eighth Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament).
- Arduous Task On Hand To Revitalise Govt, Party (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Oct 14, 2001)
BARELY a decade and half back, Narendra Modi was an unknown RSS worker in Ahmedabad, holding “sakhas” and propagating ideology of his organisation.
- Jayaprakash Narayan Symbolised Humanity (Tribune, M. G. Devasahayam , Oct 13, 2001)
“QUIT India Movement” launched by Mahatma Gandhi on August 8, 1942, was only making halting progress in the initial months despite Mahatma's mass following and the efforts of the Congress to make it a massive movement.
- Musharraf Finds English Press Helpful (Tribune, Gobind Thukral, Oct 13, 2001)
OBVIOUSLY it is the US bombing of Afghanistan and the consequent protests in several cities that continues to dominate the mainline newspapers in Pakistan.
- The New Lady Next Door (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Oct 10, 2001)
As the October 1 general election day in Bangladesh approached, Sheikh Hasina Wajed and her party, the Awami League, had one fervent prayer: the United States of America’s attack on Afghanistan should not happen before the poll day.
- This War Is Not Ours (Indian Express, Devaki Jain , Oct 09, 2001)
Since September 11, one of US President George W. Bush’s more astute remarks has been ‘‘this enemy likes to hide’’. Terrorism hides in many places and is stimulated by many reasons.
- Power Of Modern Corporations (Business Line, S. Subramanyan , Oct 09, 2001)
"CORPORATES rule Mumbai", says Mr S. S. Tinaikar, former Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai and a retired senior IAS official.
- Medieval Age (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 08, 2001)
A senior minister of Uttar Pradesh even defended his government’s indifference to the Alinagar incident on the plea that both parties involved had agreed on killing the young couple and therefore the administration could not interfere.
- Politicisation Of Police & Bureaucracy (Tribune, Sukhpal Singh Khaira, Oct 08, 2001)
THE bureaucratic and policing system, inherited from the erstwhile British Empire, has failed to deliver justice to an ordinary Indian controlled as it is by politicians.
- Hounded And Harassed (Hindu, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 08, 2001)
BEHIND THE historical Red Fort, a weekly bazaar had come up from the days of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Moghul ruler, more than 150 years ago.
- The Verdict And After (Hindu, HAROON HABIB, Oct 07, 2001)
THE FOUR-PARTY alliance led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief, Begum Khaleda Zia has got a stunning and unprecedented two-thirds majority in the elections held on October 1.
- Paradox Of Development (Tribune, B. R. Lall, Oct 07, 2001)
“AM I not a son of India?'' “Can’t we have even a single good classroom in our school?''
- After The Word, What? (Indian Express, Sunil Jain, Oct 06, 2001)
Read various newspaper reports of how the government got egg all over its face in the hijack that never was, and one of the things that strikes you immediately is that of the unlocked cockpit door.
- Privy Purse To Politics (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Oct 06, 2001)
Summoning one of Gwalior’s sirdars, Madhavrao Scindia once showed me the swathe of cloth that hung from a peak of the man’s tilted Maratha turban.
- Politics Sans Values (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 05, 2001)
THE EXIT OF Mr. Keshubhai Patel as Chief Minister of Gujarat (for the second time now) is yet another instance of the BJP's claims of being a party with a different political culture getting eroded.
- Downgrading Respect For Accuracy And Truth (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Oct 05, 2001)
TEHELKA dot com has won applause in India and the world for its daring piece of investigative journalism.
- Governors, Politicians, Courts (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Oct 05, 2001)
THE TAMIL Nadu case on Ms. Jayalalithaa's appointment as Chief Minister confronts many hidden issues in the Constitution.
- Where The State And The People Complement Each Other (The Financial Express, Kavita Kakani, Oct 05, 2001)
Scandinavia, the northern part of Europe, consists of three countries— Denmark, Finland and Sweden.
- Rule By Proxy In Tamil Nadu (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 04, 2001)
MR O. Paneerselvam’s assumption of office as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on September 21 following the Supreme Court judgement quashing the appointment of Ms Jayalalitha by the then Governor, Mrs Fathima Beevi.
- The Black Sheep In Black Robes (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Oct 04, 2001)
DURING the 50 years since the Constitution came into force, we have seen a lot of officers and ministers being thrown out of their jobs on the charge of corruption or for misusing their powers.
- A New Wave In Bangladesh? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 04, 2001)
THE MASSIVE MANDATE obtained by Begum Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh National Party and its allies has provoked her chief adversary, Sheikh Hasina, to dispute the fairness of the latest parliamentary election.
- Panchayat Raj In Karnataka - Ii (Hindu, M. Y. Ghorpade, Oct 04, 2001)
THE BASIC principles which should govern administrative decentralisation are well established.
- Unpleasant Stay (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 03, 2001)
The Constitution bench was not satisfied with Jayalalithaa’s submission that a quo warranto writ should not be issued, as the six-month period of article 164(4) ends on November 13.
- Terrorists All! (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 03, 2001)
Terrorists do not all come from out of the blue to crash hijacked planes into twin towers.
- Battle Of The Begums (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 03, 2001)
Khaleda’s victory shows her new maturity as a politician.
- Political Tremors In Gujarat (Indian Express, Vipin Pubby, Oct 03, 2001)
GUJARAT has long been considered the political laboratory for the Sangh Parivar.
- Unseated, But Not Entirely Undone (Telegraph, M. Siva Ram Prasad, Oct 03, 2001)
The dubious distinction of becoming the first chief minister to be removed from office by a court of law, goes to J. Jayalalithaa, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader.
- Mahatma Gandhi’s Vision Of India (Tribune, Poonam I. Kaushish , Oct 02, 2001)
“IT'S a week of ironies. At one end, war clouds gather on the horizon as superpower USA flexes its muscle. At the other, India pays homage to the apostle of peace, Gandhi,” exclaimed a schoolgirl.
- Bapu, You Count Less And Less With The Nation (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 02, 2001)
Bapu, if you come here on your birthday, you would not recognise the country you once led to freedom. We are now a high-flying nation.
- The Many Unanswered Questions Of (Tribune, Anupam Gupta, Oct 01, 2001)
APART from a non-legislator’s appointment as Minister or Chief Minister under Article 164 (4) of the Constitution — on which I focussed last week — the September 21.
- Kerala Pilot-Study On Corruption Put Borderline Cases To Shame (The Financial Express, Rohit Bansal, Oct 01, 2001)
It hasn’t got the attention it deserved. But a recent pilot study on azhimathi (Malayalam for corruption) under jurist N R Madhava Menon of Transparency International in Kerala.
- Cyber Challenges & Priorities (Tribune, Satya Prakash Singh , Oct 01, 2001)
STEPHEN Hawking recently recommended in an interview to German magazine Focus “that humans change their DNA through genetic modification in order to keep ahead of advances in computer technology and stop intelligent machines from taking over the world”.
- Strong Winds In Tamil Nadu (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Sep 10, 2001)
In the battle to cleanse Indian politics of corruption, few cases have been as sensational as that of J Jayalalitha.
- Useless Surpluses (The Economic Times, Norma Louis, Sep 10, 2001)
THE DEBATE that took place on surplus food stocks (ET, September 4) generated much more heat than light on the issue of ‘poverty amidst plenty’.
- Vision 2020 -- Dream Budgets And Real Nightmares (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Sep 10, 2001)
LAST February, the Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, produced what was hailed as a `dream Budget'.
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