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Articles 4021 through 4120 of 4523:
- Hindutva Rate Of Growth (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Oct 14, 2003)
There is hype and hypocrisy in economic projections
- Party Pooper Vhp (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
If BJP’s anniversary do is overshadowed by Ayodhya, it has only itself to blame
- Trains, Buses Diverted To Keep Out Kar Sevaks (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Oct 13, 2003)
As the Sabarmati Express pulled in at the Ayodhya railway station this evening, very few got off. And not a single one from S-6, the infamous Godhra coach. In the near empty coach, a passenger said police in Jhansi forced people off the train. He was not
- Please Spare Us Our Silly Points (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Oct 13, 2003)
Hurry back, all is forgiven. Ditch MAX for Morrison or Atul Wassan. Bring with you, your lovely, moist smile, your transparent saris and ignorance of cricket. Rescue the India-New Zealand cricket series from the commentary of men more dead than alive and
- ‘delay In Taking Decisions Can’T Be Dubbed A Failure’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2003)
Do you think it would be appropriate not to take any action against K Muraleedharan and K Karunakaran in Kerala, both considered by majority Malayalees as obstacles worse than CPM to the current Antony administration
- Enlightenment, Buddha Style (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 11, 2003)
If India’s east is to emerge at all, Kolkata and West Bengal must be the engine
- Which Way Will Political India Go? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2003)
THE IMPORTANCE OF the Assembly elections in five States — Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi and Chhattisgarh — scheduled for November-December 2003 stretches beyond the immediate. This is the final round of Assembly polls ...
- The Curdled Controversy (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Oct 10, 2003)
IT IS now almost a year since the simmering tensions between Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF or Amul) Chairman, Dr Verghese Kurien, and his counterpart at the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Dr Amrita Patel, came out in the..
- Best Bakery: Sc Turns Another Screw (Indian Express, Prabhakar Rao Voruganti, Oct 10, 2003)
Appoints rape victim Bilkis’s counsel Harish Salve as amicus curae in High Court; CJ refers to Express expose on VHP-linked public prosecutors, says find better ones
- The Use And Misuse Of Pota (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Oct 10, 2003)
The curious case of the Union Minister of State for Non-conventional Energy Sources, M. Kannappan, should have woken the country to the problems being created by the use and misuse of the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) but it evidently has
- Motera’S Empty Standing Ovation (Indian Express, Sandeep Dwivedi, Oct 10, 2003)
Not alarming, says Dalmiya, this is the TV age
- Here Comes The New Prime Minister (Indian Express, Balbir K Punj, Oct 09, 2003)
A swadeshi Don Quixote is on the loose with his magic lathi, promising to make a Bihar out of everything he touches
- Judicial Responsiveness (Hindu, Rajindar Sachar , Oct 08, 2003)
Overall the Judiciary seems to be on the right track but the journey is still long and hazardous.
- Gujarat’s Gaurav (Indian Express, B.G. Verghese, Oct 08, 2003)
The state requires remorse and justice to be vibrant again
- Green Fuels Sooner Rather Than Later (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Oct 08, 2003)
Govt says its plan on ethanol and biodiesel well on track
- Pushed, Gujarat Moves On Bakery: Books Bjp Mla, Cong Cousin For ‘threatening’ Witnesses (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2003)
Pushed and prodded by the Supreme Court, the Gujarat government has finally moved against sitting BJP MLA Madhu Srivastava, named by Best Bakery witnesses Zaheera Sheikh and mother Sehrunissa as the man who intimidated them into lying in court.
- Secularism Is In Luck Now (Indian Express, Syed Shahabuddin, Oct 07, 2003)
If Mulayam succeeds in Uttar Pradesh, he could trigger a national alliance
- Heartening News: Have Triple Bypass, Walk Out Next Day (Indian Express, Sujeet Rajan, Oct 06, 2003)
Indian’s new technique at US hospital could soon be here
- Chasing The Monsoon (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2003)
AFTER LAST YEAR'S drought, one of the worst in the past hundred years, has come a monsoon that has spread cheer across the country. The countrywide rainfall between June 1 and September 30, which for official purposes constitutes the period of ...
- Newsreel: 28.09.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2003)
Andhra CM N Chandrababu Naidu survives with a shoulder injury after PWG activists set off landmine blasts on the Tirumala-Tirupati road. Probe is ordered by the Andhra government and several cops are suspended.
- Kalam’s Birthday Is Gift For Gujarat (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Oct 05, 2003)
A meet for religious harmony in Surat is President’s idea of celebration
- Brand Gandhi At Modi Mela (Indian Express, Amrita Shan, Oct 05, 2003)
It was a simple card. Off-white, oblong, with a sketch of a pair of round-framed spectacles. It was the kind of card that would not have merited a second glance had the sender not been Narendra Modi.
- Don’t Give Terrorists Easy Targets (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Oct 04, 2003)
The ghastly attack on N. Chandrababu Naidu by PWG is an eye-opener. What compounded intelligence failure was that even routine procedures — like installing jammers that block remote control devices — were not followed. This made Naidu’s cavalcade a soft t
- Just Deserts (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Oct 04, 2003)
It's just as well, now they tell us, that India and Pakistan did not send troops to Iraq. A report in the NEW YORK TIMES this week suggested it isn’t just Islamabad and New Delhi that are relieved — Baghdad is relieved as well. Because Indian and Pakistan
- Dogma Becomes Dated, True Feeling Liberates You! (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Oct 04, 2003)
Satish Gujral, as they say, has been there, done that: at 77, he can look back on a life of constant artistic evolution since his first show in Delhi in 1952, which legendary critic Charles Fabri hailed as the work of a genius. His enthusiasm is a lesson
- `No Standards World-Wide For Pesticide Residues In Soft-Drinks' (Business Line, Ameer Shahul, Oct 03, 2003)
IN RESPONSE to the article "Killing pests or poisoning people?" by Ameer Shahul (Business Line, September 2), Mr Sanjiv Gupta, President and Chief Executive Officer of Coca-Cola India, writes
- Justice In A Secular Society (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Oct 03, 2003)
Confronted with communal terrorism from within, India's justice system is in danger of losing its secular soul.
- Dubai Storekeeper Reveals Let Link (Indian Express, S. Ahmed Ali, Oct 03, 2003)
Patane, fourth man, completes conspiracy picture
- Shah Of Diamonds Blames Politicians (Indian Express, Ujjayini Das, Oct 02, 2003)
Shah gets one year, but walks free as he’s served his term
- Let's Start From The Scratch (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Oct 02, 2003)
Cheap credit, SMP/SAP, crop insurance, free power... Agriculture policy-making has been reduced to tinkering with an eye on votes. It is time the slate of farm policies was wiped clean for a new draft with a new architecture and a new ambition
- Ban On Strikes: A Judicial Excess? (Hindu, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Oct 02, 2003)
Within socially sensitive bounds and liberal legal limits, the right to strike has a permissible home in Indian jurisprudence.
- Maha Mess (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2003)
Solapur shows that the Congress-NCP alliance is going nowhere
- Vegetarian_power (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 01, 2003)
THE recent news that eminent personalities, with the former President of India, Mr R. Venkataraman, in the lead, took part in a meeting in the Theosophical Society, Chennai, on Rukmini Devi's contribution to vegetarianism roused my curiosity.
- The Consistency Of Inconsistency (Indian Express, Swami Agnivesh, Oct 01, 2003)
We love Atal Behari Vajpayee because he is a simple man. He is too human to be complicated. Being so very human, he is also a divided man. K.N. Govindacharya should not have rubbished Atal’s human-ness as a mukhota or mask. He may have had a point, but...
- Mute Witness To Injustice (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Sep 27, 2003)
The threatening of witnesses in the Gujarat riot cases came to light recently when Zaheera Sheikh pleaded that the high profile Best Bakery matter be tried outside the state for justice to prevail.
- Will The Real Indian Investor Stand Up? (Business Line, R. Y. Narayanan, Sep 25, 2003)
SOUTH Indians, normally considered to be risk averse when it comes to investing, have thrown a surprise by piping the people of Western region to emerge as the largest investing group in capital market related investments.
- What The Cobra Didn’t Tell Mr Paswan (Indian Express, Diptosh Majumdar, Sep 25, 2003)
Maybe it’s because his boss Murli Manohar Joshi is sulking at home. For, his deputy Sanjay Paswan, who is going gaga over the virtues of tantra and exorcism, is perhaps not aware that the HRD Ministry annually allocates funds to propagate ‘‘reason and
- The Judge Who Wiped Staines Blot (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Sep 24, 2003)
He brought justice to a judge who died on board a train. He awarded life-sentences to the accused in a much-publicised gangrape case. He dared to indict powerful bureaucrats in another case—even returned half of the money he received to run his commission
- Justice, Before We Move On (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Sep 24, 2003)
Cancun conqueror, Union Law Minister Arun Jaitley, seized the moment with characteristic legal panache. Dismissing the charges made against Union HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi and six others by the Rae Bareli court, he pronounced that it was “only a
- The Art Of Confessing (Indian Express, Rakesh Shukla, Sep 24, 2003)
The Akshardham attack case has already been solved twice while the police the world over struggle to solve a case even once! Salim Sheikh has confessed to hatching the plan in Riyadh and Hyderabad. Chand Khan of Bareilly has confessed to plotting in ...
- Showcasing Gujarat, The Vibrant Way (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Sep 24, 2003)
FINALLY, Vibrant Gujarat, the latest in the long running saga of international investor meets featured in various parts of the country, is just around the corner. While the last one to make a big hurrah in this direction was the Global Investor Meet (GIM)
- Srivastava In Us, Wife Denies ‘flight’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 23, 2003)
BJP legislator Madhu Srivastava, who was at the centre of a controversy after Sehrunissa Sheikh and her daughter Zaheera, key witnesses in the Best Bakery case, accused him of threatening her, flew to New Jersey on Saturday night.
- At Last, A Refinancing Harvest (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Sep 23, 2003)
An interesting change taking place in Indian agriculture is on the financing side. The central bank, as is well known, had a preoccupation with external parameters and interest rate policies to garner large exchange reserves. With a sensible policy on ...
- Warning From Rae Bareli (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Sep 23, 2003)
The right or wrong of an action is all that morality is. It is how you perceive it. Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi felt that the right thing for him to do was to quit if the special court at Rae Bareli decided in favour of framing
- The News On 24x7=168 (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Sep 22, 2003)
6.30 am.
TV Anchor: On a morning of fast developing events, the major story is whether Murli Manohar Joshi will resign and if L K Advani will follow suit if charged in Rae Bareli. Let’s go across to our correspondent at BJP headquarters for the very late
- Reject Devil In The Guise Of God (Deccan Herald, Valson Thampu , Sep 22, 2003)
When religiosity is driven by selfishness, there is a good chance that the devil is being worshipped in the name of God
- This Village Is Gaga Over The Radio: It Changed Its Face Forever (Indian Express, RAMA LAKSHMI, Sep 22, 2003)
Karnataka village’s lead in community radio is a cable radio service since rules don’t permit airwave rides
- Law’s Long Arm, Late Embrace (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Sep 21, 2003)
Our justice system was in the news for two reasons recently but, sadly, the more significant reason for its making headlines was virtually ignored in our excitement over the damning of Narendra Modi.
- Sc Heat Makes Gujarat See Some Light (Indian Express, Prabhakar Rao Voruganti, Sep 20, 2003)
In a dramatic climbdown, the Gujarat Government today conceded practically all the prayers made by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) before the Supreme Court to salvage the Best Bakery case.
- Is Modernisation Of Tn's Ginneries Viable? (Business Line, M. B. Lal, Sep 19, 2003)
THE Government of India offers subsidy of up to Rs 27 lakh to every newly set up or modernised composite ginning and pressing (G&P) factory through Mini Mission IV of the Technology Mission on Cotton (TMC), a scheme launched in February 2000. The TMC ...
- Slow Drift On First Track (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Sep 19, 2003)
Is the sweetness in Indo-Pak relations about to end? We shall know when General Pervez Musharraf addresses the UN General Assembly on September 24. The gaps that must have been left in Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s speech scheduled for September 2
- Commending Modi (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2003)
This newspaper has had few occasions to commend Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat. Indeed, the recent history of the state has prompted bitter words against him in these columns, everyone of which we believe is perfectly justified considering the
- Justice? When P In Vhp Stands For Prosecution (Indian Express, Janyala Sreenivas, Sep 19, 2003)
In the larger interest of justice, it’s necessary that not only justice should be done but it should appear to have been done. It can be hoped that the government will...expeditiously take appropriate decision to increase the confidence of the public in
- A Community, Strangely Connected (Indian Express, Seema Alavi, Sep 18, 2003)
The liberal ambience of Lucknow where I grew up ensured I was unconscious of my Muslim identity. The Babri masjid demolition made me aware I was a Muslim. The Gujarat riots underlined my difference with others because of being a Muslim. And yet, being...
- Transforming The Bjp (Hindu, Harish Khare , Sep 18, 2003)
Even after five years in power at the Centre, the BJP has not undertaken the essential task of transforming itself into a `normal' political organisation.
- A Page Cong Should Take From Modi’s Book: Psu Reforms (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 18, 2003)
Congress Chief Ministers may disinvest in their PSUs in fits and starts as their central leadership can’t make up its muddled mind on reforms—witness its smug celebration of yesterday’s Supreme Court order.
- In Defence Of The Voiceless (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Sep 17, 2003)
The Chief Justice's recent strictures on the Gujarat Government for its failure to prosecute the culprits in the Best Bakery case highlight the growing strength of judicial activism. If the "voiceless and hopeless" cannot get justice from their " ...
- Justice Done (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2003)
THE CONVICTION OF Rabindra Kumar Pal — - better known by the assumed name of Dara Singh — and 12 others for the gruesome murder of the Australian missionary, Graham Stuart Staines and his two sons in Orissa, is indeed a cause for ...
- Milan To Tel Aviv: Naidu Switches Gears From Fast Tracks To Slow Drip (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Sep 17, 2003)
If it beats you how a boulevard city can spring in the middle of a semi-arid land, come to Tel Aviv. Because it’s here that you get to see what technology and common sense can deliver: underneath the city runs a network of pipes and, on the surface, holes
- Power Of Justice (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2003)
Staines case: The court gives reason to believe that the guilty don’t always get away
- Laloo Gets An Art Attack (Indian Express, Varghese K George, Sep 16, 2003)
Political culture finds literal meaning in Mandalised Bihar. From Prakash Jha’s Gangaajal to music albums by decidedly lesser known Bhojpuri singers, the Yadav power factory is inspiring the entertainment industry. Gangaajal is rather dispassionate about
- Asleep At The Wheel (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Sep 16, 2003)
Since private preference must yield to public obligation, I regret I cannot cheer the nomination to the Rajya Sabha of my four-decades old friend and university-mate, Bimal Jalan, whose expertise as an economist I have long admired.
- Exit Via Gujarat (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 16, 2003)
When Prime Minister Vajpayee lands in Zurich at the end of this week after Turkey and en route to the UN meetings in New York, the reception committee will not include India’s honorary consul for 13 years in the city, Thomas Wach. Seems that Wach’s ...
- Desperate Mamata’s Saffron Dip (Indian Express, Diptosh Majumdar, Sep 16, 2003)
The Centre’s minister-minus-portfolio Mamata Banerjee today showed up at an RSS book-release function and, erasing all her past utterances against the RSS and VHP, simpered: ‘‘Yours is a truly patriotic organisation.’’
- Ensuring Justice (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2003)
BY REPRIMANDING THE Gujarat Government for not showing seriousness in its appeal against the acquittal of the 21 accused in the Best Bakery burning case, the Supreme Court has validated the apprehension of the National Human Rights Commission and ...
- Bureaucracy Beware (Hindu, R.K. Raghavan, Sep 16, 2003)
The Best Bakery case has renewed concerns about the relationship between the police and the prosecution... the two could conspire to sabotage justice in its widely perceived sense.
- Good News Pours: There’s Water, Water In Reservoirs Everywhere (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Sep 15, 2003)
To get an idea of why it has been raining good news, visit the country’s reservoirs: last year’s depleted levels are a thing of the past, the reservoirs considerably replenished.
- ‘pandya Murder Accused Knew Of Mumbai Blast Plans’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 15, 2003)
Had Asghar Ali, prime accused in the murder of former Gujarat Home minister Haren Pandya, been properly grilled, the police may have possibly averted the August 25 twin blasts in Mumbai. According to sources, Asghar Ali was aware of the plan to carry out
- Combating Spectre Of Terrorism (Deccan Herald, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 15, 2003)
India should co-operate with all international coalitions that promote counter-terrorism
- Grid-Locked Into Darkness (Indian Express, P J JOGLEKAR, Sep 15, 2003)
The power collapse that plunged North America and parts of Canada into darkness in August has set into motion a great debate in the US. There are some important lessons for India in that debate, as there must be from the subsequent blackout in London a
- Combating Spectre Of Terrorism (Deccan Herald, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 15, 2003)
India should co-operate with all international coalitions that promote counter-terrorism
- Streetfighting Fears (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Sep 14, 2003)
On a perfect morning in Srinagar last week as I sat on the roof of a houseboat on the Dal Lake listening to happy, hopeful tales of the Valley’s first real tourist season in a decade, news came of the explosion in Sabzi Mandi. Six people were killed and a
- News Reel 07.09.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2003)
LAW takes its famed course and reins in the ghosts of the post-Godhra riots. In a special leave petition filed by the National Human Rights Commission seeking retrial of all riot-related cases, specifically the Best Bakery, outside Godhra, the Supreme ...
- Express Your Voice (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2003)
In Stem this Alien Nation, P Chidambaram has cited the Punjab precedent. In my view there is no comparison between the Sikh situation in the 80’s and the Muslim situation now. The Sikh militancy did not arise from despair or alienation but from the ...
- Look Who’s Just Got The Keys To Justice In Riots (Indian Express, Janyala Sreenivas, Sep 14, 2003)
On VHP panel, he defended all 35 accused of murder of Jafri, 38 others. He’s new Public Prosecutor
- That R-Word Again (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2003)
The apex court has asked Narendra Modi a big question. He would do well to ponder over it
- Black Monday’s ‘brain’ Shot Dead (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2003)
The Mumbai police today shot dead Nasser, a key suspect in the August 25 twin bomb blasts, in an encounter late on Friday at Matunga in north central Mumbai.
- How Modi Govt Stooped Low In Its Bid To Conquer (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2003)
The Narendra Modi Government today came up with two politically loaded arguments while countering the NHRC’s legal plea for a retrial of the Best Bakery case.
- Screws Tighten (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Sep 13, 2003)
Angry Chief Justice wants Modi’s DGP, Chief Secy to appear
- Gujarat Plots Debt Swap (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Sep 12, 2003)
THE Gujarat Government yet again leads the rest of the country, taking a leaf out of the fiscal prudence book of Corporate India.
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