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Articles 4121 through 4220 of 4523:
- Faceless, Voiceless Protest (Indian Express, S B EASWARAN, Sep 12, 2003)
While survivors of the Naroda Patiya massacre were deposing before an inquiry commission in Ahmedabad, the prime accused in the case was holding forth outside. Muslims, this Bajrang Dal leader declared, were like diabetes: We have to live with them but ke
- Bjp’s Six-Fold Path (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2003)
There's no one quite like Venkaiah Naidu. Words come fast and furious to this party president, as in a torrential flow. Before he knows it, they arrange themselves into pretty lines and catchy slogans, and politics begins to rhyme and chime. Venkaiahspeak
- Militant’s Words Cost J&k Minister His Job, Mufti His Sleep (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Sep 12, 2003)
Quickly moving in for damage control in the Mufti Mohammad Sayeed coalition government, senior PDP leader and J&K Agriculture Minister Abdul Aziz Zargar resigned today after a key witness claimed that the Minister’s native residence was frequently used by
- Terror Infrastructure In Pakistan (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Sep 12, 2003)
Candlelight vigils at the Wagah border, and sentimental reminiscing about common culture and values cannot dilute the fact that the military establishment in Pakistan and the ISI are using the fundamentalist organisations and the terror infrastructure to
- Images That Promote Fear (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Sep 12, 2003)
An event-driven media on both sides of the border does its job by reporting only the most sensational news. As a result, it fails to play a role in building greater understanding.
- ‘they Made Me Chant Slogans, I Did And Yet They Didn’t Spare Me’ (Indian Express, Milind Ghatwai, Sep 11, 2003)
‘‘I told them, ‘You are like my brothers and uncles, please leave me alone.’ They made me chant slogans. We did everything they ordered us to do, and yet they didn’t spare me, killed my three-year-old daughter Saleha and the others.’’
- India Without A Clue At Cancun (Hindu, Subramanian Swamy , Sep 11, 2003)
India has thus far made only feeble attempts to get an opportunity for professionals and semi-skilled to work anywhere in the world without visa harassment.
- Dawood, Henchmen, Isi: 82 In All Caught In Gujarat Pota Net (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 11, 2003)
The Gujarat Police today filed a chargesheet in a POTA court against 82 people alleging that as revenge for the atrocities on Muslims in the riots, they were ‘‘waging war against the state’’ and obtaining terrorist training in Pakistan from the ISI.
- Now Science Is Behind Us On Ayodhya, Says The Deputy Pm (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Sep 11, 2003)
: Joining the debate over the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) report on the Ayodhya excavations,
- The Story Of Two Sayyeds (Indian Express, Mohammed Wajihuddin, Sep 11, 2003)
The community doesn’t heed the call of the grand old man of Aligarh anymore
- Raped, Child & Family Killed, She’S Told Take A Walk (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Sep 11, 2003)
: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his sympathisers will find it hard to dismiss Harish Salve as a ‘‘pseudo-secularist’’ whining over the riots.
- Will Someone Get A Hospital Bed For This Akshardham Hero In Delhi? (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 10, 2003)
While the Gujarat police are having a hard time plugging the holes in their version of who are behind the Akshardham strike, few are sparing a thought for this unsung hero.
- The Right To Strike (Hindu, Alladi Kuppuswami, Sep 10, 2003)
It is true that in some cases the right to strike is being misused but that is no reason why all strikes should be condemned as immoral.
- Lions Of Zion (Indian Express, BIBEK MAITRA, Sep 09, 2003)
The problem is not Israel. It is the rest of the neighbourhood
- Gujarat’s Blindspot (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Sep 09, 2003)
What is the difference between dictatorship and democracy? In the first, one person changes the people; in the second, the people change that person. When I read about the treatment meted out to Zakia Jaffrey after she had deposed before the Nanavati-Shah
- Atrocity Video Motivated Killers: Cbi (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2003)
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday wrapped up investigations in the Haren Pandya murder and also the attempt on the life of a local VHP leader, filing a single chargesheet and seeking in-camera trial to protect witnesses.
- Gujarat Cop Story Weakens: Held Men Never Met Each Other (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Sep 08, 2003)
In another setback to the Guajrat police in the Akshardham attack case, five men, booked under POTA and brought from Ahmedabad to Srinagar, failed to recognise Chand Khan who has all along told the Jammu and Kashmir police that he alone accompanied the...
- ‘terrorists Are Recruiting Youth Deeply Hurt By Gujarat’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 07, 2003)
As a politician who has changed colours from the Shiv Sena to the NCP, what makes you think you are secular? If Bal Thackeray had made you the chief minister, would you have still been Secular? Aslam Khan
- Vhp Trains Guns On Pm... (Indian Express, RAKESH ROCKY, Sep 07, 2003)
VHP president Ashok Singhal today said the VHP does not want to see a ‘‘secular’’ A.B. Vajpayee again as the Prime Minister of the country. He also announced that the Parishad’s support (to BJP) in the next elections will be ‘‘conditional’’.
- Pandya’s Role In Riots My Motive: Murder Suspect (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Sep 07, 2003)
‘‘He was a leader who during the riots went to the police control room and removed security from Muslim areas so that Hindus could attack the Muslims. On his orders, the security was withdrawn from the Muslim areas so that Hindus could enter into those
- Joshi To ‘showcase’ Nda Cms On Literacy Day (Indian Express, Santwana Bhattacharya, Sep 07, 2003)
One person will be missing from Union HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi’s VIP guestlist for International Literacy Day celebrations on September 8.
- Stem This Alien Nation (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Sep 07, 2003)
I can fill this column — nay, the whole page — with names of Muslim men and women, all Indians, who have achieved distinction in different walks of life. Because, among the 110 million Muslims, there are thousands of distinguished men and women. We can...
- Telling Tone And Tenor (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2003)
Cussedness again marks the Gujarat govt’s counter affidavit on the riot cases
- From Mumbra, With Fear (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Sep 06, 2003)
Last week, they agonised about subcontinental peace. Will the Mumbai blasts rock the frail India-Pakistan truce? This week, the section of the British and US media that usually keeps an eye on South Asia sounded more concerned about what the deadly strike
- Our Son, The Fanatic (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 06, 2003)
Is it already time for us to revisit our favourite post-9/11 boast? If you are an optimist, you might say it is still early days, or that these are mere straws in the wind. Truth to tell, straws in the wind these are and while there is still time to do...
- Gujarat Cops In Srinagar Begin To See Holes In Their Akshardham Story (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Sep 06, 2003)
The Gujarat Police version of who was behind the Akshardham attack is threatening to come unstuck with the first official confirmation that it was Chand Khan, a J&K militant now in custody, who travelled with the two attackers to Gujarat.
- Split Milk (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2003)
Something as crucial as milk supply should not be held hostage to ego clashes
- Bjp’s Favourite West Asian (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Sep 05, 2003)
Ariel Sharon began his career in 1946-47 with one of the Zionist terrorist gangs who flung themselves against the British mandate. He was then involved in the war of 1948, when lakhs of innocent Palestinians, whose only fault was that they were not ...
- Milk Debate Gone Sour (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2003)
THE UNSEEMLY ROW over the proposed import of milk powder assumes importance not because it is seen as a fight between the country's two best-known dairy cooperatives, but because it has at once focussed everyone's attention on the inherent inadequacies in
- Blasts And Breakthrough (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2003)
THE MUMBAI POLICE deserve the nation's commendation for the swift and apparently decisive breakthrough in the investigation of the dreadful twin bomb explosions that shook the metropolis on August 25. This is no mean achievement given the fact ...
- Internal Accountability (Hindu, Harish Khare , Sep 03, 2003)
Pakistan's involvement and its intractable hostility to our safety and security is an old song. But we cannot keep on wringing our hands in despair, petitioning the "international community" to do something about Islamabad.
- Storm In A Milk Bottle (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Sep 03, 2003)
AN UNTIMELY milk shortage in Delhi, even as pretty much the rest of the country seems to be milching on merrily, seems to have got the goat of some of the leading proponents of White Revolution. Though the battlefield is Delhi, the address of the ...
- Md, Ma, Mba: The New Degrees Of Terror (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2003)
Gujarat cited as reason by many arrested and they aren’t exactly madarsa products
- ‘black Monday Gujarat Revenge’ (Indian Express, S. Ahmed Ali, Sep 02, 2003)
An artisan from Surat who claims he was ‘‘victimised’’ during the Gujarat riots and saw women ‘‘being killed and raped’’ is said to have confessed to the police that Black Monday was his way of ‘‘seeking revenge.’’
- Between 1 Militant And 5 Prisoners (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Sep 02, 2003)
It took Gujarat’s Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) just one day to ‘‘crack’’ the year-old Akshardham attack mystery. It’s also taken just one day for holes to appear in the police version amid conflicting claims made both here and in distant Srinagar.
- Vignettes Of Studied Eloquence (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Sep 01, 2003)
A lonely chappal, a twitching purple saree, a toy bus falling off a broken bridge. Images from violent tragedies in the course of one, terrible week: bomb blasts in Mumbai, the stampede at Nashik and the collapse of a Daman bridge. Last Monday, we saw ...
- 'Centre Is Indifferent Towards Us. They Come Here Only When There's A Blast' (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 01, 2003)
Days after the twin blasts ripped through Mumbai city, Maharashtra CM Sushilkumar Shinde spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief, The Indian Express, at the Gateway of India, one of the sites where the tragedy had struck. Excerpts from the interview ...
- Mumbai Blasts: Probe Picks Pace, 5 Held (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2003)
Five suspected militants, including a woman, have been picked up by Crime Branch officials investigating the August 25 twin blasts in combing operations across Mumbai in the last 24 hours. Among those nabbed was also a suspected operations chief of the...
- Poll Plot Fizzles (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Aug 31, 2003)
Mayawati’s moves have put paid to L K Advani and Venkaiah Naidu’s plan to call an early General Election. The BJP think tank first calculated that the party would benefit from a General Election this year itself cashing in on the good monsoon and the ...
- On The Trail (Hindu, Anupama Katakam, Aug 31, 2003)
The use of RDX shows that the twin blasts in Mumbai are not the handiwork of small time militants but could involve SIMI or LeT
- The Spreading Tentacles Of Terror (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Aug 31, 2003)
Kashmir is just a bridgehead for a larger war on the whole of India. On the jehadis' gameplan.
- Mumbai On The Map (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Aug 30, 2003)
Mumbai has been to this tragic place before. But this time was different in at least one sense. This time, echoes of the twin blasts in the city travelled farther abroad than ever before. Instant empathy poured in from foreign shores. Comparisons were
- In Name Of The Cow, 150 Carcasses Rot (Indian Express, Janyala Sreenivas, Aug 30, 2003)
On the face of it, this shouldn’t be a story: massive flooding leads to death of 150 cows. Carcass-disposal contractor is called in, goes about his work.
- Problem-Solving: The Up Test (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Aug 29, 2003)
The turn of events in Uttar Pradesh, bomb blasts in Mumbai, Archaeological Survey of India’s findings on Ayodhya, prime minister in Srinagar — more than one political process is in operation. The preoccupation in New Delhi is with the drama in UP. In ...
- Modi’s Vibrant Gujarat Misses Many A Beat (Indian Express, SHASWATI GHOSH, Aug 29, 2003)
Govt hypes investment fair but only a fifth of presentations will be ready
- Cooperatives Spat Leaves Capital Crying For Milk (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Aug 29, 2003)
MILK shortages in cities make news, more so when they occur in the capital of a country that prides itself as the world's leading milk producer. But if there is something that the current milk supply crisis in Delhi really exposes, it is the deep fissures
- A Tale Of Three Cities (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Aug 28, 2003)
I spent the best part of last week exploring the temples of the Kaveri delta. Actually, there is such a wealth of architecture in this area that ‘‘scratching the surface’’ is a better description than ‘‘exploring’’; in the few days at my disposal I could
- It Doesn’t Seem To Care (Indian Express, Amrita Shah, Aug 28, 2003)
Who are the people who died in Monday’s bomb blasts in Mumbai? When you see visuals of the empty, blood-splattered area abutting the Gateway of India, it is not hard to imagine it instantly filled with people. People whose faces you don’t usually notice.
- Better Security? Better Politics (Indian Express, Keki N. Daruwalla , Aug 27, 2003)
The debris may have been cleared from the Gateway of India and the Zaveri Bazar, but they will continue to litter the dreams of the people of this metropolis. The blame game is on already and politicians will reach out over the 50-odd corpses to grab vote
- Pak, Give Us Our Most Wanted, Says Advani (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2003)
: The morning after, the death toll at 53, the crumpled metal of a taxi at Mumbadevi and the Gateway of India hosted two very important visitors.
- The Hindu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2003)
THE HINDU, FOUNDED on September 20, 1878, is the oldest surviving major newspaper of Indian nationalism, by which we mean the great socio-political movement that won freedom for India from colonial bondage and helped consolidate the gains ...
- Mumbai, Shaken But Not Broken (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 27, 2003)
By targeting Mumbai, the country's financial capital, the terrorists hoped to strike at the heart of the nation. But the megapolis' resilience and vibrancy saw it back in action the very next day. The Maharashtra Government owes it to the Mumbaikars to
- What’s Wrong With Conversion Laws? (Deccan Herald, Vishal Arora, Aug 26, 2003)
The conversion laws enacted in the country are designed to target the Christian community
- Seeking Anonymity (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Aug 26, 2003)
While the media might feel justified in using images of people who have not been identified, once the person in the picture stops being anonymous, is it right to continue to use the photograph
- On The Economics Of Media Diversity (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Aug 26, 2003)
Recent controversies point not just to the weaknesses inherent in India's media policy but to the complex marketplace created by the nature of expansion of the media over the last decade. In this edition of Macroscan ...
- Our Lady Of Diminishing Returns (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Aug 24, 2003)
Sonia Gandhi achieved an astonishing political feat last week. She became the target of her own motion of no confidence. I base this assertion on comments that drifted my way afterwards from Delhi’s drawing rooms and corridors of power. My, how confident
- Prevention The Better Cure (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2003)
THE BIG industries, which are more easily noticed and monitored, are not always the biggest polluters. By sheer numbers, small industries can create major problems. A classic example is Tirupur in Tamil Nadu, which exports some 71,000 tonnes of ...
- Divine Communication (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Aug 24, 2003)
Considering that it is the wettest monsoon in Delhi in decades and it had been raining steadily till noon on August 15, Rashtrapati Bhavan officials were apprehensive about holding the President’s At Home on Independence Day in the gardens. But when it
- How Safe Is Our Water? (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Aug 24, 2003)
Groundwater is easily polluted and restoring its quality is impossibly expensive
- Slaughtering A Bill (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2003)
The fate of this bill should remind the BJP it mustn’t take its allies for granted
- Voice Of Hindustan (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Aug 23, 2003)
There was a time when most people of northern India extending from Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s Peshawar to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's Calcutta down to Bapu Gandhi’s Sabaramati spoke a language all Indians down to Andhra Pradesh could understand and speak
- Dry Gujarat May Break Its First Bottle Of Whine (Indian Express, SHASHWATI GHOSH, Aug 22, 2003)
Gess what the Modi government’s planning to gift Gujarat this Navratri? High spirits.
With the Tourism Corporation of Gujarat Limited (TCGL) recommending a relaxation in dry Gujarat’s liquor policy, the state government is looking at a plan that will
- The Right To Strike (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Aug 22, 2003)
To avoid strikes is everyone's responsibility. But to assert that strikes under any circumstances are illegal, immoral, inequitable and unjustified is contrary to our law and industrial jurisprudence.
- Minorities Get Back Special Rights (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Aug 22, 2003)
After a long time, minorities in India have something to cheer about. Whatever their setbacks on other fronts (Gujarat, Ayodhya, cow slaughter, etc), minorities have received a boost in the field of education. And this is thanks to the Supreme Court, or
- No-Confidence Motion - All Sound And Little Fury (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 21, 2003)
With the result of the no-confidence motion against the Vajpayee Government a foregone conclusion, the exercise does seem to have been an utter waste of public money and valuable Parliament time. But it served to prove that the Opposition is capable of...
- Laloo Show: Paswan Sore Loser (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Aug 21, 2003)
Rivalries in Bihar are almost as intense as the clash of the Tamil titans. The Laloo Prasad Yadav-Ram Vilas Paswan tussle shadowed the recent visit of parliamentarians to Pakistan from the time they left Delhi.
- Why Did The State Turn On Gujarat's Farmers? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Aug 20, 2003)
On August 14, hundreds of thousands of farmers got on the National Highway 8 but were blocked by policemen who also used force.
- Late Showers Bring Mud In Monsoon Term (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2003)
Day one of the no-confidence debate in the Lok Sabha was full of sound and fury and although in the beginning it seemed that it would signify little, by the end of the day, it sent three key signals.
- Terrorists In Saffron (Indian Express, Swami Agnivesh, Aug 19, 2003)
Hindutva is pseudo-Hinduism and derives inspiration from Hitler, Mussolini,
- In Uk, Modi’s The One With The Stiff Upper Lip (Indian Express, Vijay Rana, Aug 19, 2003)
As Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s caravan headed towards Wembley Conference Centre yesterday, hundreds of protesters from London, Birmingham, Bradford and Bolton demanded a ‘‘Pinochet-style’’ arrest. They were shouting ‘‘Modi! Murderer.’’ When one
- Geneva Ashes: New Resting Place Is A Dump In This Town (Indian Express, D V Maheshwari, Aug 19, 2003)
When Chief Minister Narendra Modi returns from Geneva with the ashes of freedom fighter Shyamji Krishna Verma, Gujarat will turn out in strength to receive the urn. It will, after all, be the end of a 73-year-old wait for the ashes.
- People’s Game Breaks Class Barrier, ‘slum’ Soccer Goes National (Indian Express, DHARMENDRA JORE, Aug 19, 2003)
Nagpur to host national soccer tournament for slumdwellers; no age limit, no uniform and no size for ground
- Crimes Against Parliament (Hindu, Pran Chopra , Aug 19, 2003)
What seems likely at the moment is that proper parliamentary procedures, evolved over decades, will go the way many other institutions have.
- Blame Game On Reservation (Deccan Herald, S Simhadri, Aug 19, 2003)
All major political parties, except those of the oppressed castes, subtly oppose empowerment of the OBCs
- Mea Makes Modi Shed Extra Baggage (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2003)
When Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi left late last night on a week-long trip to the UK and Europe, it was without much brouhaha — and without any of his ministers.
- The Case For A Stronger Rupee (Deccan Herald, J Rajagopalachari, Aug 18, 2003)
Instead of propping up the dollar, RBI should use the fabulous reserves to bolster the rupee
- Mnc Boss Finds His Vocation: He’s His Village Schoolmaster (Indian Express, Vijay Rana, Aug 18, 2003)
DuPont’s South Asia chief returned home to Bichaula and, in 3 yrs, transformed lives of girls from poor homes
- Along Narmada Banks, Paleontologists Find Minefield (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Aug 17, 2003)
When Captain William Sleeman uncovered the bones of a large animal on the Bara Simla Hills in Jabalpur in 1828, he would have had little idea that he had taken the first step in a paleontological story that would climax in the discovery of Rajasaurus
- Togadia Out, Laloo Sends Giriraj Back From Airport (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 17, 2003)
After VHP general secretary Pravin Togadia, it was the turn of Acharya Giriraj Kishore, the organisation’s international vice-president, to be packed off to Delhi by Bihar soon after his arrival at Patna airport.
- Modi Books Us On Freedom Day (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2003)
On the night the Gujarat government was finalising its Independence Day celebrations, it instructed the Ahmedabad police to lodge an FIR against The Indian Express, Gujarati daily Divya Bhaskar and social activist Nafisa Ali.
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