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Articles 3721 through 3820 of 4523:
- India's Refugee Law And Policy (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Jun 25, 2004)
South Asia requires India to take the lead to devise a policy consistent with the region's needs and the capacity to absorb refugees under conditions of global equity.
- Modi Burden (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 22, 2004)
THE BJP does not seem to recognise the wisdom in the adage, "it is better late than never". The party has decided to persist with the folly of retaining Mr Narendra Modi as the Chief Minister of Gujarat.
- L'affaire Modi (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 22, 2004)
On the face of it, the outcome of the Bharatiya Janata Party's parliamentary board meeting is intriguing. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will not be replaced "at the present juncture."
- Sheer Numbness (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jun 22, 2004)
Whatever its statements for the record, the Bharatiya Janata Party has been amply demonstrating that it is at sea in coping with its unexpected defeat in the general election.
- The Left Will Help Manmohan Complete His Term: Bardhan (Tribune, Tripti Nath, Jun 20, 2004)
Communist Party of India General Secretary A.B. Bardhan has grown up with the party. He became its member during the student movement in the late forties.
- Question Of Credibility (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 19, 2004)
So many bizarre things have happened in Mr Narendra Modi's Gujarat in the recent past that it is difficult to take anything said by the police there without a large pinch of salt.
- Stability Can Be Dicey (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Jun 18, 2004)
The sensex doesn’t seem to have been able to shed its nervousness which followed the Vajpayee government’s defeat. There is apparently still a lingering nostalgia for the pro-business inclinations of the NDA government as opposed to the populist and ...
- Tasks Before The Bjp National Executive In Mumbai (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Jun 14, 2004)
The three-day Bharatiya Janata Party national executive committee meeting in Mumbai from June 22 has a major task before it — analysing the recent general election results in detail, coming to grips with the main reasons why it lost and taking corrective
- Tardy Flows The Money Back (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Jun 12, 2004)
Even after decades, the Income-Tax Department has hardly made any changes to the mechanism of refund claim. The promises on settling refund claims expeditiously have remained unfulfilled.
- The `Tainted' Debate (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Jun 11, 2004)
Ideally, those undergoing trial should be excluded from office until acquitted. But this requires changes in the law.
- Cmp: Will It Work? (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Jun 10, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme (CMP) was unveiled on a Thursday and the stock market, quite deservedly, gave it a - 223-point thumbs-down on Friday. One wishes the message had been stronger.
- Muddied Waters (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 10, 2004)
PUNJAB Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has received a rap over the knuckles for his inaction on the Supreme Court's order to complete the Sutlaj-Yamuna Link canal in time.
- Fetters On Fees (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Jun 10, 2004)
On the recent move to counter undercutting of audit fees
- The Challenges Ahead (Hindu, R.K. Raghavan, Jun 09, 2004)
Shivraj Patil starts with a clean image and we can expect him to fulfil his new role of stewarding what is generally looked upon as a political task with great aplomb.
- The Challenges Ahead (Hindu, R.K. Raghavan, Jun 09, 2004)
Shivraj Patil starts with a clean image and we can expect him to fulfil his new role of stewarding what is generally looked upon as a political task with great aplomb.
- The Bjp's Past Is Not Its Future (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jun 09, 2004)
Hindutva once paid electoral dividends because it answered the needs of the moment. And that moment has passed.
- The Bjp's Past Is Not Its Future (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jun 09, 2004)
Hindutva once paid electoral dividends because it answered the needs of the moment. And that moment has passed.
- Generating Ill Wind? (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Jun 08, 2004)
"AN ill wind bloweth no man good," so said the poet. Now, it is alleged that the windmills too, do no good. Gujarat, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, and even North Wales, are now reaping the whirlwind of opprobrium of obscurantists and self-proclaimed ...
- Mr Vajpayee Can Play A Sobering Role (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 03, 2004)
The BJP criticised the Congress for changing the party constitution and making Mrs Sonia Gandhi the Chairman of the Congress parliamentary party. But it has had to do exactly the same itself, thus making Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee the Chairman and Mr L.K. Ad
- Reconstructing India (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , May 31, 2004)
India needs healing. Its governance must return to the secularism and distributive justice goals of the Constitution.
- Narendra Modi As Super Scapegoat (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 31, 2004)
While the bharatiya Janata Party still swears by Hindutva, as is evident from L.K. Advani's statement on Friday, there is serious rethinking about the current worth of Moditva.
- Transgenic Muddle (Hindu, Meena Menon, May 31, 2004)
The focus must be less on biotechnology and more on cheaper and simpler ways of growing crops.
- Gas Price: De-Regulation Brooks No Delay (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , May 31, 2004)
The removal of price and distribution controls on domestic natural gas brooks no further delay if the suppliers of gas — both domestic and imported — are to get an impetus to augment supplies to the level of projected demand and help achieve full ...
- The Dynasty Continues (Guardian (UK), editorial, Guardian UK, May 14, 2004)
The result came as a complete surprise to everyone but the people who matter in an Indian election. Not online India, the India of software developers, the India that produces 2 million graduates a year, the India with a runaway economy widely . . .
- India's New Era (Washington Post, Salman Rushdie, May 14, 2004)
The fall of the Indian government is a huge political shock that strikingly echoes the only comparable electoral upset, the defeat of Indira Gandhi in 1977. Then as now, just about the entire commentariat was convinced that the incumbent would . . .
- Let Us Hope The Darkness Has Passed (Guardian (UK), Arundhati Roy, May 14, 2004)
For many of us who feel estranged from mainstream politics, there are rare, ephemeral moments of celebration. Today is one of them. When India went to the polls, we were negotiating the dangerous cross-currents of neo-liberalism and neo-fascism - . . .
- India's Pm Expected To Form Coalition (The Scotsman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 11, 2004)
INDIA’S prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, was expected to scrape back into power this week, after voting ended yesterday in the fifth and final stage of the country’s marathon election.
- India's Remarkable Dance Of Democracy (Boston Globe, Editorial, Boston Globe, Apr 26, 2004)
India, seen variously as a country with massive poverty, an information technology power, and more recently as an outsourcing destination taking away jobs, is over the next two weeks staging the dance of democracy.
- Supreme Court Ruling Applauded; Government Should Now Take Steps To Comply (Human Rights Watch, Editorial, Human Rights Watch, Apr 14, 2004)
The Indian government should promptly implement the Supreme Court's order to create an effective witness-protection program and conduct impartial investigations to determine who was responsible for the 2002 Gujarat riots, Human Rights Watch said today.
- An Alliance Of Insecurity (AlterNet, Editorial, The Alternet, Feb 12, 2004)
When Ariel Sharon traveled to India last September, it was the first visit of an Israeli Prime Minister since the two nations achieved independence more than 55 years ago.
- Kashmir’s Orphans Spread Trust And Goodwill (Tribune, Usha Rai, Jan 07, 2004)
WE hear often of the widows of Kashmir and the agonising search for the missing men in their lives but there are hardly any stories about the children who have been orphaned by the 13 years of turmoil in the valley. So it came as a surprise to meet this
- Opposition Can Still Do It (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jan 07, 2004)
Any Opposition party or a combination of Opposition parties that wants to displace the BJP-led Government will need to devise a strategy to exploit the thinness of the saffron spread.
- Flying Kites And Soaring Fortunes (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Jan 07, 2004)
THIS is the kite-flying season in Gujarat and coming right after the Navratri Global Investors' Summit of September 2003, the State is readying for yet another business summit of the Vibrant variety. But, then, vibrancy seems to be the leit motif of the
- Cas: The Fading Picture (Business Line, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Jan 06, 2004)
The script is all muddled for the Conditional Access System. Instead of rushing to implement an ill-conceived system, the Government could have waited for the enactment of the Convergence Bill, which envisages a super-regulator that could have resolved
- Don’t Need Strategy For Friendship: Pm (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
In a rare interview given a few hours before his departure for Islamabad, Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee told Nasim Zehra of The News: ‘‘I think we can have a dialogue with President Musharraf and the dialogue will take us to some results.’’ A confident
- `Change In Definition Of Resident Status Will Hit It Professionals' (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
THE change in the definition of `Resident but not Ordinarily Resident' (RNOR) Indians, as effected in the Finance Act 2003, will have severe repercussion on Indian professionals and others who are employed in the software and IT-enabled services (ITES) in
- Cbi Investigation May Not Follow Sit Findings (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
The CBI, which is expected to start probing the fake stamp paper racket, may not rely on the investigation done by Karnataka’s StampIT.
‘‘We may accept its (StampIT) findings if we are convinced, otherwise we have our own way of investigating the case
- On A Home Run (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Jan 06, 2004)
The new year, 2004, will witness the fourth consecutive general elections in which Atal Bihari Vajpayee will lead the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies into battle. No former Indian prime minister, save for Indira, the original Mrs Gandhi, has done
- Misplaced Honour (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
By refusing an honorary doctorate, possibly bestowed for political reasons rather than academic, Mr Vajpayee has behaved as a prime minister should. Honorary doctorates are double-edged instruments. They can be used to bestow genuine honour and to show
- Sultans Of Swing (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Jan 04, 2004)
Until the 1980s, who knew peanuts about Sufi music? Except in Kashmir and Punjab, or in the inner world of baateen (esoteric) Islam, in Delhi, in Nagaur, in Lucknow, Hyderabad and Bhopal, in Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, at secret samas (Sufi musical
- Loner’s Lamentation (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
NOBEL laureate Amartya Sen has held the Narendra Modi government responsible for the riots that followed the Godhra carnage in Gujarat. In a programme broadcast by the BBC on the New Year day, he has asked for a judicial examination of the allegations ...
- Lashkar's New Wave Of Recruits From Indian Expatriates (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jan 02, 2004)
Even as the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba has come under pressure to de-escalate its jihad in Jammu and Kashmir, the organisation has unleashed its formidable capabilities to inflict a far more painful all-India war. Lashkar cells operating from Dubai,
- Npa Chase With Millstones Tied (Business Line, K. Srinivasan , Jan 01, 2004)
On the rough road ahead for banks and financial institutions in managing non-performing assets
- Vajpayee's Challenge (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jan 01, 2004)
While Mr. Vajpayee may be able to lead the NDA back to power, this may not be enough for him to leave a permanent stamp on history.
- No Longer The Stereotype Terrorist (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jan 01, 2004)
Indian intelligence officials are increasingly concerned over the emergence of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia as new hubs for the Lashkar-e-Taiba. The organisation is known to have been recruiting energetically among Indian expatriates in the wake of the
- Congress Badly Bruised By Poll Defeat (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Jan 01, 2004)
POLITICS is like a game of cricket. A team could be cruising along comfortably but one fine bowling spell can prove devastating, converting a certain victory into defeat. Something similar appears to have happened to the Congress this year. It was riding
- Catching Seshanitis (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2003)
IT IS HARDLY a secret that the Chief Election Commissioner, J.M. Lyngdoh, is no admirer of the country's political class. His blunt manner and his plain-speaking ways have raised the hackles of politicians across the ideological divide. But Mr. ...
- Spread Of Saffron (Telegraph, RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE, Dec 31, 2003)
A civilized country is one where people don’t have to waste their time on politics. — Javier Cercas, Soldiers of Salamis
- Sooner Or Later (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2003)
Arbitrary and clueless experiments with school English have a long history in West Bengal. For more than two decades, the Left Front has played a sort of disastrous bagatelle with the exact stage in which English is introduced in the government schools...
- Congress, Bjp And Coalition Politics (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Dec 30, 2003)
The Bharatiya Janata Party said today that the Congress ``had not learnt the correct lessons'' in conducting coalition politics. The party was reacting to the statements made by the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, at a press conference in Mumbai on...
- Swim Out Of Ghost Waters (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Dec 30, 2003)
Sardar Sarovar is a fascinating controversy; not in reality but in the world of ideas. There was a feeling that now that the water has started flowing, the focus would shift from speculation to the real world for the counterfactual is on the ground for...
- The Bittersweet Saga Of Sugar (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Dec 30, 2003)
Though the cycle of shortage and surplus in the sugar industry has been overcome in the last six years with the emergence of efficient and modern mills, the carryover stock of sugar in the last four years has resulted in hefty carry-over costs, insurance
- Don’t Go By The Book (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
From the Asian Centre for Human Rights’ alternate report for the UN committee on the rights of the child
- Rehabilitation Incomplete (Hindu, Mike Levien, Dec 30, 2003)
Thousands of families in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra who are affected at the current Sardar Sarovar dam height have not yet been rehabilitated, much less those who will be affected at 110 metres.
- Bjp Gains Ascendancy In Nda In 2003 (Tribune, Satish Misra, Dec 30, 2003)
THE last one year of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has been marked by an intense struggle between ideology and “realpolitik”, precipitating the beginning of the process of realignment of political forces.
- Not Just Iran’s Pain (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
The heartening sign in a scene of great tragedy is the way the world rushes in to help
- Coming: A Happy New Year (Telegraph, Shankar Aiyar, Dec 30, 2003)
“Writing,” wrote Hazlitt, “concentrates the mind wonderfully.” Defeat does so even more wonderfully. Even while those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad, so as the Bharatiya Janata Party reels drunken with triumphalism over its upset ...
- Iran's Calamity And Its Lessons (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2003)
IT COULD TAKE days before the world knows exactly how many people died in the massive earthquake that hit the town of Bam in south-eastern Iran. From the initial reports of the devastation, it is evidently a tragedy of epic proportions — ...
- Lunging Lyngdoh (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 29, 2003)
APPARENTLY, the privileges and immunities of his post have gone to the head of the Chief Election Commissioner, Mr J. M. Lyngdoh, to an extent that he considers moderation an over-rated virtue. From the safe sanctuary of his position as a Constitutional
- Will Bjp’s Hype Turn Into Votes? (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Dec 29, 2003)
If hype is an indicator of victory, and the BJP has certainly managed to create it around its victory in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, then the party is on its way to notching up the 300 Lok Sabha seats that Venkaiah Naidu has been talking
- Watch The Bakery (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2003)
In the recent history of Mr Narendra Modi’s winning ways, the Best Bakery case is turning out to be an astonishing chapter. As his state and nation march on to higher and greater things, the Gujarat pogrom is becoming part of a forgettable and disposable
- Sonia For Alliance First, Leadership Later (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2003)
2004: ‘Let people decide if I’m acceptable as PM, I want to work with other parties’
- Newsreel 21.12.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 28, 2003)
TOLL goes up to 20,000 as a shocked Iran comes to terms with one of its devastating trysts with tragedy. The Southeastern city of Bam, home to a 2,000 year old civilisation is razed to the ground by the quake that measured 6.3 on the Richter scale. About
- The Stamp Of (Dis)approval (Hindu, Anita Joshua, Dec 28, 2003)
The Government has put various policing mechanisms in place at different levels.
- Our Terror, Now Theirs Too (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Dec 28, 2003)
The end of the year seems always to bring either war or peace between India and Pakistan. This time it is a hesitant, nervous sort of peace that appears to be breaking out. We talk of cross-border trains and flights, instead of terrorism, and hear words
- Gujarat Knows The Pain, Lends A Hand (Indian Express, PRARTHNA GAHILOTE, Dec 28, 2003)
Govt disaster team on alert, blood on stand-by, 23-member rescue unit is ready to go
- Hc Upholds Best Bakery Acquittals, Says Our Reasons After Vacation (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 27, 2003)
Three months after the Gujarat government, prodded by the Supreme Court, challenged the acquittals in the Best Bakery case, the Gujarat High Court today dismissed the appeal and upheld the Vadodara Fast Track Court’s verdict acquitting all the 21 accused.
- Cancerous Cynicism (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 27, 2003)
The CEC may have a point about politicians but he should offer remedies, not barbs
- In High Disdain (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Dec 27, 2003)
Back in the Sixties, it used to be said that India’s most successful export were economists. Our economy was resolutely insulated from the rest of the world, but our economists occupied high posts in famous universities in Europe and America. Later, the
- Missing Pieces In The Jigsaw (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Dec 26, 2003)
In the topsy-turvy universe of insurgency-scarred Jammu and Kashmir, the abnormal became the normal. So thoroughly had violence permeated life, whether it was the terror perpetrated by militants or by the police/army, that blood on the streets became as
- Defective Politics (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Dec 26, 2003)
The latest amendment to the anti-defection law is flawed. Defections will not be eliminated.
- Gujarat Wakes Up: Telgi Ripped Us Off Too (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2003)
It took a casual conversation between two senior police officers last week for the Gujarat government to realise that Abdul Karim Telgi, who is giving sleepless nights to politicians and policemen in Maharashtra and Karnataka, had cheated three ...
- Supreme Court Has Stood Up For The Meek (Tribune, S.S. Negi , Dec 26, 2003)
2003 will certainly go down in the histroy of Indian judiciary as an eventful and significant year with the Supreme Court writing some new chapters in the jurisprudence book by giving candid opinions on controversial issues like the common civil code ...
- Till Health Do Us Part (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Dec 25, 2003)
AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa may be ‘‘Amma’’ for the rest of us, but not for the DMK’s A. Raja, former minister of state for health. His Amma is Sushma Swaraj. The secret came out when his boss, M. Karunanidhi, ordered he resign from the Union council of
- Same Caste, Different Benefits (Indian Express, Dominic Emmanuel, Dec 24, 2003)
Satya Narayan Jatiya, Union minister of social justice and empowerment, decided to make a unique Christmas gift, this time not only to the Indian Christian community but also to international Christian and Muslim communities on behalf of the NDA ...
- Gujarat’s Sc Defence: No One Told Us About The Acquittals (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Dec 23, 2003)
In an affidavit filed last week before the Supreme Court to explain its failure to do justice to the post-Godhra riot victims, the Gujarat government came up with an array of excuses but one stood out: the state government claimed it learnt of acquittals
- Take It Or Fall Behind (Telegraph, Barun De, Dec 22, 2003)
Does south Asia have genuinely independent alternatives for more self-respecting national futures
- Small Piece Of History (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2003)
If history can be made in the historic town of Ayodhya, it can also be made in an alley in Calcutta. In the very heart of Kidderpore lies Metiabruz, an area that developed when the last Nawab of Awadh, Wajid Ali Shah, came to live there in exile from ...
- ‘poll Managers? Jaitley Never Fought One, Mahajan Lost His Ls Election’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2003)
• Congress seems to be suffering from cancer. A popular government, cooperative allies, and a chief minister with a clean image. I am talking about Kerala where senior leader K Karunakaran and his son-elect-KPCC chief is trying to destabilise the ...
- Missing In Action (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2003)
One of the reasons why caste atrocities and birth-based discriminations go unpunished is because they have are so “normal”, so much a part of everyday life and practice, so easily acquiesced to by civil society, that they don’t appear like the heinous ...
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