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- The President's New Year Speech (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Jan 07, 2005)
The President's New Year speech to Parliament is the Government's manifesto for the incoming year — by which it must be judged.
- Vote In Iraq (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Jan 07, 2005)
Each day we get closer to the Iraqi elections, more voices are suggesting that they be postponed. This is a tough call, but I hope the elections go ahead as scheduled on January 30.
- What Will Be Left? (Deccan Herald, TIMOTHY GARTON ASH, Jan 07, 2005)
A tsunami of human solidarity is sweeping across the surface of the globe in response to the physical tsunami that has ravaged the shores of the Indian Ocean. Every day brings a staggering upward estimate of deaths — and of aid donations.
- Why Not Mobiles For Rural India? (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 07, 2005)
Expansion of the telephone network deep into Rural India is a task that must always merit wholehearted support. With the Universal Services Obligation Fund, to which all telecom operators contribute 5 per cent of
- Needed, A Strategy (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Jan 07, 2005)
Apropos KPS Gill's article, "What is India's grand strategy?" (The Pioneer, December 11), India's "grand strategy" should begin with its national aspirations. Since the country has no desire to conquer alien territory, its foreign policy would be essentia
- An Angry Earth Wobbles (Asia Times, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 07, 2005)
Had it not been for the devastating Boxing Day tsunami that hit southern Asia, engulfing parts of India in its wake, 2004 might have passed off as a relatively uneventful year.
- Need To Break Business-Politics Nexus (Tribune, Arvind Bhandari, Jan 07, 2005)
Bangaru Laxman and Jaya Jaitly, former presidents of the BJP and the Samata Party respectively, against whom cases have been registered by the CBI for taking bribes as alleged in the Tehelka sting operation, should be investigated and prosecuted. The law
- Insurance: Recovering From Tsunami's Wrath (Business Line, N. C. Vijairagavan, Jan 07, 2005)
Nature's fury has left behind an trail of death and destruction. What should assume priority now is to bring back to normal the survivors and those who have suffered economic loss.
- A Vital Task (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 07, 2005)
The wide-ranging recommendations made by the Vaidyanathan Task Force to revitalise the ailing co-operative sector in the country have come when the functioning of the co-operative institutions is causing concern.
- Enter, The Market Bell Is Rung (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 07, 2005)
After the latest crash of the Sensex, analysts are still trying to find out why the big fall happened, but many are just too resigned to attribute any sense to the mega movements.
- Industry In 2004: Manufacturing Momentum Quickens (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Jan 07, 2005)
The Indian manufacturing story, which began gradually unfolding since 2002, had witnessed a substantial improvement in efficiency but a hesitant recovery in 2003.
- Hail The New Textile Maharaja (Asia Times, Siddharth Srivastava, Jan 07, 2005)
Beginning this year, the world has moved from a four-decade paradigm that limited the developing countries' textile exports to advanced nations, unleashing trade worth ...
- Help Not Wanted (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 07, 2005)
Asia's tsunami has had an unlikely fallout: The bruised ego of the world's rich nations. The West's comfort level with less developed parts of the globe hits high water mark whenever the latter can be kept on dole.
- More Open Skies (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 07, 2005)
THE UNION CABINET'S decision to allow established private airlines to operate to foreign destinations with the exception of West Asia is on expected lines and represents another step towards a liberal open skies policy in the civil aviation sector.
- Most Nris Wear Loincloths, Not Suits (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jan 07, 2005)
Yet again, on the day Gandhi came back from South Africa, India prepares to celebrate another Pravasi Bharatiya Divas. This annual function has multiple objectives:
- Peering Over Great Wall (Indian Express, JIM YARDLEY, Jan 06, 2005)
China's response to the tsunami disaster shows the nation’s limitations as an aspiring superpower, despite its new and growing influence in Asia. China’s offer of aid, if slightly belated, is sizable, given its often inward-looking history.
- Preventing Political Tsunami (Pioneer, VK Grover, Jan 06, 2005)
As one sits down to put pen to paper, one cannot shake away the images of grief and the colossal tragedy which struck on the 26th of December.
- Local Monitor (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 06, 2005)
It is prudent of the government of India not to have reacted strongly to the United States of America’s naval presence in Sri Lanka.
- Let Not Financing Be A Disaster After Rapid (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 06, 2005)
Disaster, donations, distribution, and delay, form only a predictable combination that plays out whenever a major blow strikes.
- Tsunami And The Net (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 06, 2005)
The power of the Internet to knit people in far-flung countries into a truly global community is on display in the wake of the catastrophic tsunami.
- Tsunamis Won't Stop Jihadis (Asia Times, B. Raman , Jan 06, 2005)
Some security aspects of the widespread tragedy caused by the December 26 tsunamis have not received the attention they deserve.
- Spot The Tsunami (Indian Express, R. P. Subramanian, Jan 06, 2005)
As we debate the need for a ‘‘Tsunami Early Warning System’’ (TEWS) in the Indian Ocean, it is important to understand the challenges involved.
- America Has A Moral Obligation To (Gulf News, Colin L. Powell, Jan 06, 2005)
Now that George W. Bush has a mandate for a second term, he intends to pursue his goals for economic development with the same determination that made possible the liberation of Iraq and Afghanistan.
- 100 Days That Will Change India (Indian Express, BUNKER ROY, Jan 06, 2005)
The father of modern Punjab, Pratap Singh Kairon, was driving to Chandigarh. A dog tried to cross the road, changed its mind, tried to scramble back and got run over. Kairon observed,”
- In A Cleft Stick (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 06, 2005)
The United States thought that many of the problems it has encountered in its illegal occupation of Iraq would be solved once an elected government was installed in Baghdad.
- Can Someone Answer My Questions? (Indian Express, M. G. Devasahayam , Jan 06, 2005)
Govt excuse is the disaster caught everyone by surprise. But that is what a disaster is all about
- Drills For Natural Disaster Management (The Financial Express, S NARAYAN, Jan 06, 2005)
In the winter of 1977, a huge tidal wave, an aftermath of a cyclonic depression in the Bay of Bengal, struck the coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh.
- Human Nature At Sea (Telegraph, Gouri Chatterjee, Jan 06, 2005)
It should have been the best of times for newsrooms across the world. A gigantic, grotesque catastrophe that had readers actually reading, viewers transfixed, blogs overwhelmed by “unique visitors”.
- Farewell To Arms (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Jan 06, 2005)
Mahmoud Abbas is all set to succeed Yasser Arafat as rais of the Palestinian Authority but he has never thought much of his leader’s mantle. He has no use for the olive green military fatigues Arafat always wore
- Us Slips In Luring The Best (Deccan Herald, SAM DILLON, Jan 05, 2005)
American universities, which for half a century have attracted the world’s best and brightest students with little effort, are suddenly facing intense competition as higher education undergoes rapid globalisation.
- National Time Pass (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 05, 2005)
The ways of the Supreme Court, like that of God, are inscrutable. Instead of dismissing a petition — seeking the deletion of ‘‘Sindh’’ from the national anthem and substituting it with a word like ‘‘Kashmir’’
- Neuromarketing (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 05, 2005)
Well, it had to happen some time: Only it has happened sooner than feared. In the beginning, there was only market research — a study of consumer behaviour through surveys of their purchases and expressed or implied preferences and choices.
- Orphaned Hopes (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 05, 2005)
EACH and every human life is precious. But when untimely death comes to a child, it hurts all the more. And yet, children have been the worst sufferers in the tsunami calamity of December 26.
- War Budget Dwarfs Aid Spending (Hindu, George Monbiot, Jan 05, 2005)
The victims of the tsunami pay the price of war on Iraq as U.S. and British aid is dwarfed by the billions both spend on slaughter.
- The Tsunami Relief Effort (Hindu, Mari Marcel Thekaekara, Jan 05, 2005)
A question many of us ask is: Does India need outside help in a disaster? Technically I would say no. We have the expertise, certainly.
- A Wave To Drown The Tsunami (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jan 05, 2005)
Amid the deep gloom of tsunami devastation, as one watched the almost surreal scenes of thousands of dead and lakhs rendered homeless or reduced to penury, there were a few silver linings too.
- Let The Rivers Of Friendship Flow (Business Line, S. Padmanabhan , Jan 05, 2005)
The project for interlinking rivers in India is so closely intertwined with Bangladesh that the time has come for both countries to finalise a long-term and massive development and disaster prevention plan.
- A Retribution For Warnings Ignored? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Jan 05, 2005)
In less than 24 hours, the tsunami jolted awake the whole nation to the reality of its ill-preparedness to meet a major catastrophe and the inescapably global character of all technology.
- Deaths On Roads (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 05, 2005)
ON the first day of Road Safety Week, 14 girls lost their lives on a cold foggy morning at Khamanon, Fatehgarh Sahib, in Punjab.
- It Is For Us (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 05, 2005)
The National Road Safety Week has been inaugurated with symbolic fanfare. The objective of the Safety Week (January 3 to 9) is to raise awareness of the dangers on the road and how to be safe, and to encourage all road users to take care.
- Looking Back In Wonder (Telegraph, Deep K. Datta-Ray, Jan 05, 2005)
A tsunami-ravaged exotic Asia once again provides the backdrop to a Western adventure
- Rebels, Not Criminals (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Jan 04, 2005)
I have gone through the gist of talks between the government of Andhra Pradesh and the Naxalite groups in the state. The two sides were proceeding well and the ceasefire was holding firm.
- R-Day In Tragic Times (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 04, 2005)
There have been some suggestions that we either cancel the Republic Day Parade or at least scale it down as a mark of respect for the terrible tsunami tragedy that has befallen us and cost the lives of tens of thousands of Indians.
- Rao, The Prophet Of Boom (Pioneer, A. Surya Prakash, Jan 04, 2005)
The ups and downs in former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao's political career reminds us of an age-old truth - that destiny plays a crucial role in the lives of individuals and nations.
- Nris Must Chip In (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 04, 2005)
THERE could be no better occasion for non-resident Indians and people of Indian origin to come to the aid of the country of their origin.
- Nreg Bill: Fine-Tuning Will Make It Work Better (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Jan 04, 2005)
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill goes beyond describing a set of employment generating schemes, and goes into the nitty-gritty, listing the broad responsibilities of the officials at the district, block and panchayat levels.
- New Vistas (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 04, 2005)
With the onset of 2005, two significant developments in the world of commerce and industry open themselves to India. Both are connected with the new world trade order under the aegis of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
- Nature Retaliates (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Jan 04, 2005)
A heightened vigil is needed in the State, especially in the coastal regions, in the wake of the tsunami tragedy
- Stokes: No Longer Apple Of One’S Eye (Tribune, Ambika Sharma, Jan 04, 2005)
Samuel Evans Stokes, the pioneer of scientific horticulture in Himachal, was remembered as an emancipator of the poverty-ridden hill people a century ago. Today there is none to recall the contribution of Stokes
- Uncertain Certainties (Gulf News, M.J. Akbar, Jan 04, 2005)
It is natural: in the first week of January every right-thinking Indian wants to know what will happen in the coming year.
- The U.N. Must Lead (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 04, 2005)
The scale of the tsunami catastrophe in Indonesia and Sri Lanka has just emerged. Estimates of the death toll in Indonesia are fast approaching the 100,000 mark while Sri Lanka has confirmed at least 40,000 deaths.
- Tsunami: Asia Will Bounce Back (Asia Times, Emad Mekay, Jan 04, 2005)
The world is rallying to aid countries and lives damaged by the tsunamis that have killed more than 120,000 people in Asia and Africa, injuring three or four times as many
- Ukrainian Drama (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 04, 2005)
Viktor Yanuk Ovich's decision to resign as the Prime Minister of Ukraine after his defeat in the repeat presidential election brings the political uncertainty in the former Soviet republic a step closer to resolution.
- Trust In A Time Of Trouble (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jan 04, 2005)
The last week has been grim, truly grim. A natural disaster of enormous magnitude swallowed up thousands of people and rendered hundreds of thousands homeless.
- Winner All The Way (Telegraph, Amitabh Mattoo, Jan 04, 2005)
India’s foreign policy and strategic community has never been short of talent. But there are few, in recent years
- A Diplomat And A Gentleman (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 04, 2005)
In most regional initiatives in South Asia, in crucial negotiations with China, through the sensitive post-Soviet years in Afghanistan, behind tough-talking, no-nonsense deliberations with Pakistan, stood the rock-like presence of J N ‘Mani’ Dixit.
- Tsunami: Distorted Priorities (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jan 04, 2005)
IT is a telling commentary on the United States’ focus on war, rather than peace, that it should have taken President George W. Bush several days publicly to react to the tsunami tragedy that engulfed India and other countries in South and South-East
- Autonomy Needed (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 04, 2005)
The dismal scenario prevailing in the sphere of higher education in the State is summed up by the disclosure made by Bangalore University Vice-Chancellor M S Thimmappa that more than 150 teaching posts, including those of 70 professors, are lying vacant a
- Data Protection Demystified (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , Jan 04, 2005)
The recommendations on the Third Patent (Amendment) Bill to the Government have got bogged down in controversy primarily due to a perception that once the product patent regime comes in to force
- Data Protection, Post-Haste (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 04, 2005)
Commerce minister Kamal Nath said recently that the government was all set to introduce a legislation for data protection.
- In Relief (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 04, 2005)
Even the most reasonable of stances may have a striking effect. India’s refusal of aid for the tsunami disaster from other countries, such as the United States of America, China, or Australia, has been both polite and reasonable.
- How Nature Changes History (Indian Express, DONALD G MCNEIL JR, Jan 04, 2005)
Two earthquakes in 1999 brought ancient enemies Greek and Turkey together as they rushed to each other’s aid. Will the tsunami bring Lankan govt and rebels to peace table?
- Feminism In The Time Of Mms (Indian Express, Amrita Shah, Jan 04, 2005)
Anybody who keeps asking — and there are many who do — why feminists oppose beauty contests should watch two film clips currently in circulation.
- Iran’S N-Ambitions (Tribune, Sudarshan Bhutani, Jan 03, 2005)
Iran’s nuclear ambitions cannot be considered separated from its relations with the United States of America. Ever since the 1979 revolution in Iran, the US has made no secret of its desire to bring about a change of regime in Teheran.
- Imbalances In The Global Economy (Hindu, Heather Stewart, Jan 03, 2005)
Decline in the dollar means the challenge is how to ward off a global financial crisis.
- For A Memorial To Partition (Tribune, Himmat Singh Gill, Jan 03, 2005)
WHAT do the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Statue of Liberty and the Ellis Island Foundation, both located in New York, possibly have in common with a proposed memorial that I have in mind for our own country, commemorating
- India’S Policy Failure In Nepal (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Jan 03, 2005)
King Gyanendra subverted multi-party democracy within months of becoming the king and appears to be in pursuit of an executive monarchy.
- Blunkett's Exit (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 03, 2005)
The closing months of 2004 saw the British Home Secretary (same as Home Minister), Mr David Blunkett, and his private office, embroiled in a heated and unsavoury controversy in Parliament and the media over the
- Beyond This Place (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jan 03, 2005)
Visiting Karachi, Islamabad or Muree, my preconceptions about the role of fundamentalism in Pakistan, of only burqa-clad women, hostility to India and Indians
- Managing The Andamans Crisis (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 03, 2005)
The Prime Minister's initiative in setting up an Integrated Relief Command (IRC) for the tsunami-hit Andaman and Nicobar Islands and his solemn assurance that "the Centre will meet all the costs of rehabilitation in the islands"
- A New Year's Resolution (The Economic Times, Jeffrey D Sachs, Jan 03, 2005)
It is time for New Year’s resolutions, and this year’s are obvious. When the millennium opened, world leaders pledged to seek peace, the end of poverty, and a cleaner environment.
- Tsunami Relief Should Be Led By U.N. (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jan 03, 2005)
Stung by criticism that its initial response to the tsunami disaster had been "stingy," the United States has moved swiftly to try and impose its "leadership" over the international relief effort underway.
- Not Ready For Greatness (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Jan 03, 2005)
The inability to shed outmoded thoughts is the reason behind the country having taken more than two decades to marginally raise its average economic growth rate from 5.5 per cent to 6.5 per cent despite the potential to sustain double-digit growth rates.
- What The World Press Is Saying (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 03, 2005)
The tsunami will, overwhelmingly, be remembered as a catastrophic natural disaster. But it also marks a milestone in the development of the internet. At first it was total failure.
- The Net For India (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 03, 2005)
The newly liberalised norms for registration of `.in' Internet domain names that came into effect on January 1, 2005 represent another welcome step forward in India's quest for a national identity in cyberspace
- Should We Use Millions, Not Lakhs? (The Economic Times, VIKRAM MURARKA, Jan 03, 2005)
While acknowledging that people need to know how to convert figures in lakhs and crores to millions and billions and vice versa, we also have to acknowledge
- Seeking The Hand Of God In The Waters (Indian Express, JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS, Jan 03, 2005)
Let's turn to history. The date: Nov. 1, 1755. The time: past 9 am on All Saints’ Day, a Catholic holiday. The scene: Lisbon, the devoutly Catholic capital of the devoutly Catholic Portuguese empire, shook — first a big earthquake
- Relief Funds: Safeguards Must Against Misuse (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 03, 2005)
In the wake of calamities, any number of public-spirited institutions, voluntary organisations and citizens' groups spring into action to collect money and relief items.
- Musharraf’S Uniform (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 03, 2005)
Thursday's televised address to his countrymen by Gen Pervez Musharraf was not surprising so far as his decision to hold the post of Chief of Army Staff along with that of President is concerned.
- Rao’S Moment In Indian Politics (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Jan 03, 2005)
The death of P.V. Narasimha Rao is an occasion to evaluate the dichotomous relationship that exists between politics and governance in India.
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