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Articles 4421 through 4520 of 4523:
- 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.
- Marking The End Of Innocence (Telegraph, Monobina Gupta, Dec 31, 2001)
This is a flourishing trade which never goes into recession. The supply of children and women goes on endlessly to meet the demands of a burgeoning flesh trade.
- Difficult Sail For India Inc (Business Line, D. Sampathkumar , Dec 29, 2001)
PERFORMANCE-WISE, it has been a forgettable year for the Indian corporate sector. The growth in industrial production looks set to slip for the second year running.
- Immigrant Assimilation In Britain (Tribune, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 29, 2001)
IT seems quite illogical that Britain’s Home Secretary, Mr David Blunkett, should even have to advise Asian immigrants, or Britasians to coin an appropriate description, to learn English.
- Year Of Setback For Economy (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Dec 26, 2001)
THE ECONOMY took a downturn in 2001, after sustaining a six per cent growth over almost a decade, with recessionary trends persisting in industry, aggravated by the cyclical swings in agriculture.
- The Rot Within (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 23, 2001)
The "party with a difference", is not, it appears, very different after all. The recent defection, in the newly-formed state of Chhattisgarh, of 12 MLAs from the 35-member Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bloc in the 90-member state assembly.
- Bjp's Woes In Chhattisgarh Now (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 22, 2001)
THE SPLIT IN the Chhattisgarh unit of the BJP may not surprise anyone.
- Using Tnt To Blast T&d (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 22, 2001)
ENRON’S Dabhol power project is a mess, several global power majors have quit the country in disgust, power subsidies have crossed Rs 40,000 crore this year.
- ‘Our Govt’s Performance Has Been Better Than Congress’ (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 22, 2001)
He’s a chief minister in a hurry. Less than two-and-a half months after donning the mantle in Gujarat, that too at a crucial time when the ruling BJP has just about a year to shed the image of a non-performing government.
- Bjp's Woes In Chhattisgarh Now (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 22, 2001)
THE SPLIT IN the Chhattisgarh unit of the BJP may not surprise anyone.
- The Rot Within (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 22, 2001)
The "party with a difference", is not, it appears, very different after all.
- Gm Crops And The World Market (Hindu, Mihir Shah, Dec 20, 2001)
Most countries have imposed bans or very strict regulations on genetically-modified crops... We need to be vigilant against discredited technologies and products being sneaked in.
- Gm Crops And The World Market (Hindu, Mihir Shah, Dec 20, 2001)
Most countries have imposed bans or very strict regulations on genetically-modified crops... We need to be vigilant against discredited technologies and products being sneaked in.
- 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.
- Distress Sale Of Cotton (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 19, 2001)
THERE seems to be no end to the woes of cotton growers. First, the crop suffered an attack of American bollworm which has become an annual occurrence.
- Unquiet On The Western Front (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Dec 19, 2001)
THE work of the Task Force on Agriculture clearly brought out that the Indian farm sector had suffered over decades from massive negative subsidies amounting to over Rs 300,000 crore.
- The `Britasian' Psyche (Business Line, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 19, 2001)
IT IS surprising that the British Home Secretary should even have to advise Asian immigrants to learn English.
- Two Time Zones Or One? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 19, 2001)
DEBATE has been going on right since the time of independence but there is no unanimity on whether the country should continue to have one time zone as of now or go in for two time zones.
- Harassed By Wives, Husbands Unite (Tribune, Ramesh Tanna, Dec 19, 2001)
IT all began when Dasharath Devada was arrested along with his parents for allegedly torturing his wife for dowry.
- Restrain The War Mongers (Indian Express, A.J. Philip, Dec 18, 2001)
The much touted Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (Poto) failed to avert December 13.
- Bt Cotton Fiasco -- Stepping Onto A Booby Trap (Business Line, Devinder Sharma , Dec 18, 2001)
"ISN'T it like sending a soldier to the battle front and then ask him not to use the latest sophisticated assault rifle,'' a British radio journalist asked me the other day.
- Deteriorating Groundwater Quality Needs To Be Arrested (The Financial Express, Sunil Ghorawat, Dec 17, 2001)
Groundwater is a sustainable and reliable source of water supply. Since there is more groundwater than surface water, it is universally available and can be instantly developed and used.
- 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...
- Changing The Rules Midstream (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Dec 16, 2001)
IN 1994, the Narmada Bachao Andolan had filed a writ petition as public interest litigation seeking to halt the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP).
- 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...
- Changing The Rules Midstream (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Dec 16, 2001)
IN 1994, the Narmada Bachao Andolan had filed a writ petition as public interest litigation seeking to halt the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP).
- Never Mind The Wicket, India Inc. Needs To Take The Bat And Score Runs (The Financial Express, Veeshal Bakshi, Dec 14, 2001)
For a nation which used sheer determination, will power and optimism as the most effective weapons to win its Independence, the depth of pessimism today, especially in Indian industry, over the future of the country is quite shocking.
- 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.
- Leveraging On Capacity (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Dec 13, 2001)
DIG trenches only to fill them up! Behind the surface joviality, this Keynesian precept is pregnant with grave implications.
- Drip Irrigation -- Low-Cost Systems For Small Farmers (Business Line, Mahendra Pandey , Dec 12, 2001)
FRESH water available for human consumption and for agricultural and environmental requirements is rapidly becoming scarcer.
- Useful Product From Oil Palm Waste (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Dec 12, 2001)
EMPTY fruit bunches (EFB), a waste from oil palm that is routinely dumped at mill sites or burnt could be a source for conversion into useful fibres.
- Cii’s Social Summit Begins In Pune Today (The Financial Express, Rajiv Tikoo, Dec 10, 2001)
Business with responsibility seems to be the flavour of the season.
- Samsung Organises Free Eyecare Camps (The Financial Express, HUMA SIDDQUI, Dec 10, 2001)
In line with its philosophy of contributing to the welfare of communities it operates in, Samsung India Electronics Ltd is organising 25 free eye check-up camps in Delhi and neighbouring states of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Haryana.
- (Un)fair Game (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Dec 10, 2001)
It is a truth, universally acknowledged that Indians are more colour conscious than a chameleon and certainly, the experience of television reinforces the view.
- Will Spiralling Costs Sink Ssp? (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Dec 05, 2001)
IT MAY not need a Medha Patkar or Arundhati Roy to spoil the party for the ambitious Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) long heralded as Gujarats life line.
- Brew That Kills (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 04, 2001)
It's a measure of the lack of effective deterrent against bootleggers and their thriving nexus with the law-enforcers that Tamil Nadu has been struck by the third major liquor tragedy in the last two months with a cumulative loss of nearly 100 lives.
- Delete And Control - The Parivar's Mantra (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 02, 2001)
Freedom of thought is not something the BJP/Sangh Parivar is big on... It wants believers not thinkers. Anjali Mody on the changes in the school history syllabus.
- Delete And Control - The Parivar's Mantra (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 02, 2001)
Freedom of thought is not something the BJP/Sangh Parivar is big on... It wants believers not thinkers. Anjali Mody on the changes in the school history syllabus.
- Removing Poverty For Real Human Development (Business Line, P. P. Sangal , Nov 29, 2001)
THE Human Development Report 2001 has highlighted the plight of the rural poor in India.
- Cementing Time (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 27, 2001)
THE RECENT STRATEGIC alliance resulting from Grasim buying a 10 per cent stake in L & T carries forward the structural changes that the cementdomestic cement industry has been witnessing in the last four years or so.
- Whither Transgenic Agriculture? (Hindu, Carine Pionetti, Nov 27, 2001)
THE CASE of Bt cotton has led to several surprises and rebounds lately: first, in June, when Mahyco was denied the authorisation to commercialise its transgenic cotton hybrid in India.
- Watch Out For This Poto-Hole (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 26, 2001)
By definition no law can ever be perfect or complete. Nor can it anticipate every situation.
- Partitioned Spaces (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 26, 2001)
The most charitable view of the segregation of ‘‘minority handicrafts’’ at the ongoing India International Trade Fair (IITF) in New Delhi is that there is nothing more than meets the eye in the decision.
- A Collective Failure (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 24, 2001)
Consecutive cotton crop failure for the third year in Punjab and Haryana because of the American Bollworm has not moved any government in either of the states or the one at the Centre to take any remedial action.
- ‘Bt’en In The Race? (Indian Express, Vivek Deshpande, Nov 24, 2001)
INDIAN scientists have been trying to develop superior strains of genetically altered cotton for the past two years, much before Bt cotton hit the headlines.
- Defence Forces Deserve Izzat In Society (Pioneer, Bobby Sharma, Nov 23, 2001)
The Services of yore were known for eschewing profligacy and ostentation. Their institutions exuded awe-inspiring elegance, dignity and simplicity.
- Search For A Suitable Head For Sebi Gets Tough (The Financial Express, Sharad Mistry, Nov 23, 2001)
Here's a golden chance for all those who love challenges and controversies, are adept at walking the tight-rope doing a fine balancing act between the strong corporate lobby and a status quo-loving finance ministry.
- Eu's Single-Market Directives -- Potion For Global Competitiveness (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Nov 22, 2001)
Europe must become a globally competitive economy built on knowledge and innovation and on a strategy of sustainable economic development.
- Bt Or Not Bt: That Is The Question (Pioneer, V. Shruti Dev, Nov 21, 2001)
Much furore has been created over the decision of the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC), a body under the Central Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF).
- Specious Arguments (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 17, 2001)
THE UNION CABINET'S proposal to replace the Foreign Contributions Regulation Act (FCRA) with a more stringent law.
- Poto : An Assult On Democracy (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Nov 16, 2001)
ACRONYMS ARE dangerous. POTO (the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance), is one such acronym being marketed as a panacea to fight terrorism in India for the next five years.
- When Putin Met Vajpayee (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 15, 2001)
Bilateral relations with Russia are coming back on track.
- Reject The Poto Cunning, Not The Law (Hindu, Harish Khare , Nov 14, 2001)
THESE DAYS Mr. Lal Kishen Advani has that satisfied grin of an alley cat that has just managed to get into a jar full of POTO- fied cream.
- Dying Unwept And Unsung (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Nov 14, 2001)
Some may consider it rather late in the day for me to write about B.K. Nehru, one of the most distinguished Indians of our times and a rare blend of a civil servant.
- Automobile Industry -- More Variety, More Competition (Business Line, N. Ramakrishnan , Nov 13, 2001)
WHEN THE first car rolled out of Maruti Udyog's plant in Gurgaon on December 14, 1983, it marked the beginning of a revolution in the Indian automobile industry.
- Bjp New Face An Old Rss Hand (Indian Express, Darshan Desai, Nov 13, 2001)
Remember the anti-Christian propaganda in Dangs in 1998. Or the elopement cases in Bardoli in Gujarat and Randhikpur in the Panchmahals that took on a communal hue. Or the Bible-burning incident in Rajkot.
- ‘Our Thrust Is On Good Governance And Infrastructure’ (The Financial Express, Sunil Mukhopadhyay, Nov 12, 2001)
Chattisgarh, carved out of Madhya Pradesh on November 1, 2000, is one of the richest states in mineral and forest resources in the country.
- Myth And Reality Of The `Powerful' Farmer (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Nov 12, 2001)
The farming community is often pilloried for being the main stumbling block behind power sector reforms.
- No Need For Draconian Laws (Tribune, Tavleen Singh, Nov 10, 2001)
IT is puzzling that in the debate that POTO (Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance) has generated there has been no mention of the Nadeem case.
- Burning Farmers' Fields - I (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 09, 2001)
TEN YEARS ago, when the debate about GATT, patents and ``intellectual property rights'' was at its height, opponents raised a storm of fear.
- Reject Poto In Toto (The Kashmir Times, Praful Bidwai, Nov 09, 2001)
Nothing has recently caused as much disquiet in India’s political and journalistic communities as the promulgation of the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance. At stake is the citizen’s freedom and the fairness of the judicial system.
- Standard Of Political Debate (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Nov 09, 2001)
NOBODY expects India’s present rulers to play by the Queensberry Rules but the recent exchanges with Pakistan indulged in by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.
- Voice The Right Farm Concerns At Doha (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Nov 09, 2001)
THAT this is no more a bipolar world is now a reality to live with. Indeed, it seems to be emerging as a `rich man's world'.
- The Saving Clause (Business Line, K. Ramesh, Nov 08, 2001)
FORCE MAJEURE clauses envisage eventualities beyond the control of contracting parties. Such clauses are of two types: open and close ended.
- Enter The Last Lap Cm (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Nov 07, 2001)
Is the BJP’s strategy too clever by half?
- Watch It, There’s A Blackbuck In The Field (Indian Express, Stavan Desai, Nov 07, 2001)
Blackbuck are on the rampage in Mehsana’s fields—even as the Forest Department watches on.
- The Irony Of Illegal Bt Cotton (Hindu, C. S. Prakash, Nov 07, 2001)
THE ISSUE of illegal Bt cotton making headlines in the Indian media provides some valuable lessons.
- 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.
- Cotton And Controversy (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 06, 2001)
THE CONTROVERSY OVER the planting of illicitly-manufactured genetically-modified (GM) cotton in Gujarat seems unlikely to subside in a hurry.
- Nice Guys Are Always Remembered (Indian Express, Ajit Bhattacharjea , Nov 05, 2001)
WHEN Braj Kumar Nehru entered a room, everybody noticed. He had an imposing personality, an agile westernised intellect tempered by the innate courtesy of a traditional upbringing in Allahabad.
- 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.
- Koshiari Wedded To Rss Tradition & Philosophy (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Nov 04, 2001)
NEW Chief Minister of Uttaranchal, Bhagat Singh Koshiari, is indeed a dark horse.
- 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.
- Pitch For Pithead Power (Business Line, S. Padmanabhan , Nov 03, 2001)
IT IS ten years since the new power policy was announced. Hailed as a revolutionary step, the policy attracted many foreign companies, and a large number of MoUs were signed.
- Gm Cotton: To Kill Or Not To Kill (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Nov 01, 2001)
THE cotton growers of Gujarat may be excused if they feel caught in the freeze frame of a surrealistic movie that has suddenly taken a sinister turn.
- A New Leader For Uttaranchal (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 01, 2001)
THE MEMBERS OF the BJP Legislature Party in Uttaranchal have ``exercised'' their ``prerogative'' in electing a Chief Minister for the second time since the State was carved out in November 2000.
- Gm Cotton: To Kill Or Not To Kill (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Nov 01, 2001)
THE cotton growers of Gujarat may be excused if they feel caught in the freeze frame of a surrealistic movie that has suddenly taken a sinister turn.
- Will Fiscal Expansion Help? (Business Line, S.S. Bhandare, Nov 01, 2001)
THE APPALLING terrorist attack on the United States has sent shock waves across the world.
- ‘Changing Cms Is Like Passing The Baton In A Relay Race. It Can Be For The Pm As Well’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 01, 2001)
Jana Krishnamurthy became the BJP president by default, thanks to the Tehelka tapes. But the unassuming Tamil lawyer was quick to find his feet.
- Diluting Mlas’ Rights (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 31, 2001)
INDIA is taking the wrong route to electoral reforms. Now the emphasis is on stripping the voters, even if they are honourable members of Vidhan Sabhas, of their right to vote according to their choice.
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