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Articles 30621 through 30720 of 31829:
- Too Easy To Manage (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jan 05, 2004)
The scandalous leaking of the Indian Institutes of Management admission test papers and the attempts of the ministry to gain greater control over the IIMs heighten the need for a thorough review of management education in India, its content and governance
- India, Pakistan Leaders Meet (CNN.com, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
The leaders of India and Pakistan have met formally for the first time since the two nuclear powers came close to war over the disputed territory of Kashmir.
- Return Of The King (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
What a life. As Kapil Dev turns 45, Shamya Dasgupta analyses the enduring myth of India’s icon
- 2004? It's So Predictable (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
Tomorrow is yesterday by another name. This is not karmic philosophy. It is only cynicism, which seems to come just so easily if you’re Indian. So sitting down with a notional crystal ball, on a gloomy, sun-eclipsd day in January, to predict the rest
- Still At Sea (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jan 04, 2004)
The promise of this new year allows me to atone in sackcloth and ashes for an injustice perpetrated in these columns in July 2000. I mistook “a decrepit tub strewn with rubbish beyond an ancient jetty” for “India’s first floating hotel” or floatel which
- Combat Cure (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Jan 04, 2004)
PARTY season is officially over, but the lingering effects refuse to go away. A slight heaviness in the tummy, a sour taste in the throat, a general lethargy... does it sound familiar? If so, you’re probably just one in the thousands of party animals who
- A Prodigal Son All Set To Return (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jan 04, 2004)
POLITICS is a weird game. A few years back former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh had turned into a bete noire of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and called him “a tired and retired leader”. Now he stands in the front row at a BJP workers
- In No Man's Land (Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Jan 04, 2004)
The Second Gulf War is put in perspective in Simpson’s world
- Golden Hain Kalaiyaan (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
Bappi Lahiri, the original remix man, tells Monica Bathija he’s now eyeing the Grammies
- 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
- Fog Over The Capital (Telegraph, G.S. Mudur, Jan 04, 2004)
Stuck at the airport? Be prepared for a long wait. And thank the greening of Delhi for your woes.
- Eco-Blunder (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
The vast network of canals bringing water to arid regions, thousands of tubewells sucking out groundwater, and millions of hectares of rice in northern India might have helped feed the nation. But the long-term consequences of transforming the ecology of
- Ideological Roadblocks On The Road (Tribune, Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia, Jan 04, 2004)
THE Hot Peace among different communities of the world, in the beginning of the 21st century, marked by its advent by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre towers in New York, is, in a sense, more explosive than the earlier Cold War between nation
- 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
- In That Brave Old World (Indian Express, UMA MAHADEVAN, Jan 04, 2004)
Calliope Helen Stephanides is born in January 1960, in Detroit, to a prosperous Greek-American family. Milton and Tessie are so eager to have a daughter that they perform the necessary act 24 hours prior to ovulation — just as advised in an article in the
- Heartening Developments In Saarc (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
THE APPROVAL OF a draft framework treaty for a South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) to be signed at the 12th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in Islamabad next week is a huge morale-booster for the region. The ...
- Nri Implements Bill Gates’ Goals (Tribune, Ela Dutt , Jan 03, 2004)
Traditional educationists may find the radical ideas and unconventional vocabulary of Indian American Shivam Mallick Shah surprising, but these fit in well with the goals of Bill Gates and his wife Melinda. The billionaire couple has hired Harvard ...
- Mad About Words (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jan 03, 2004)
Not many of us are aware that when Shakespeare wrote his plays and sonnets, there were no dictionaries. There were some compilations of difficult words with their meanings but no one dictionary giving origins, meanings and usages of all words in the
- N Korea To Let Us Team Visit Nuke Site (Indian Express, Reuters, Jan 03, 2004)
A US delegation will visit North Korea next week to tour the North’s controversial nuclear complex at Yongbyon, a South Korean foreign ministry official said on Friday. He was confirming a ,USA Today report. Though the report said the January 6-10
- Libya Pushes For A Deadline On Us To End Sanctions (Indian Express, PATRICK E. TYLER, Jan 03, 2004)
Libya's Prime Minister said on Thursday that the US should act quickly to reward his country for abandoning its secret weapons programmes. He warned that unless the US lifted sanctions by May 12, Libya would not be bound to pay the remaining $6 million
- Case For Indo-Pak Missile Talks (Tribune, Ashok K Mehta, Jan 03, 2004)
CLEARLY, the motivation to acquire missiles falls under political, strategic and economic-commercial and technology-related heads. Missiles are nice to have and keep. They add to a nation’s standing and prestige. Besides the political and commercial ...
- Peace Common Desire In India, Says Vajpayee (Indian Express, M. ZIAUDDIN, Jan 03, 2004)
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has said the entire spectrum of mainstream political opinion in India is for peace, cooperation and friendship with Pakistan. In an exclusive interview with Dawn at his residence here on Thursday, the PM made it
- 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 ...
- Not By Nationalism (Telegraph, Andre Beteille , Jan 03, 2004)
Sociology, as the empirical and systematic study of society and its institutions, is now widely practised in our universities and independent centres of research. It entered the university system in India in the Twenties, barely two or three decades after
- The Muddle Over Tds Interest - Ii (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Jan 03, 2004)
THE fundamental structure of Chapter XVII-A has been analysed in ACC Ltd vs ITO (74 ITD 369).
Section 191 mandates tax authorities to recover tax which has not been deducted, only from the assessee (that is, the payee from whose income the deduction
- 200 Years Of Turmoil (Hindu, Lydia Polgreen, Jan 03, 2004)
After 200 years of independence, Haiti remains an impoverished and troubled nation.
- Life After 6,000 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
Devang Shah, 27, day trader
After the markets closed today, I headed to my favourite pub to celebrate. It was amazing. When the Sensex touched the golden figure, everyone started clapping. I’ve always wanted to enter the markets, but when I was in ...
- Us Prepares For Massive Troop Rotation (Indian Express, WILL DUNHAM, Jan 02, 2004)
The Pentagon is gearing up for a massive rotation of about a quarter million troops in and out of Iraq, a giant logistics chore complicated by concerns about opportunistic attacks targeting Americans as they arrive or depart. Between late January and
- And The Empire Lives On (Telegraph, DIPANKAR DAS, Jan 02, 2004)
Early December, a high-profile East African Indian immigrant, Yasmin Alibhai Brown, stunned the world by belatedly returning the title of Member of the British Empire to the Queen. This came within days of the refusal of Benjamin Zephaniah, the dread ...
- A Watershed Year For Indian Diplomacy (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Jan 02, 2004)
WHAT seemed to be a Sisyphean labour till a couple of years ago in the context of Indo-Pakistan relations, now looks possible. The two countries were on the road to detente in the year just ended.
During the past 56 years of turbulent Indo-Pakistan ...
- Indo-Pakistan Talks: Ten Issues (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 02, 2004)
India and Pakistan have been trapped for too long in arguing about procedural issues and defending past political postures.
- Disgruntled Diaspora (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 02, 2004)
THE Ministry of External Affairs and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry are jointly organising the second Pravasi Bharathiya Divas on January 9-11 at New Delhi with the usual pomp and circumstance. The significance of January 9
- Missiles Are Cost-Effective (Tribune, Ashok K. Mehta , Jan 02, 2004)
RECENTLY the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, UK, hosted the first ever workshop on missile issues in South Asia that was attended by strategic experts from India, Pakistan and China, the three countries in the region with ballistic missiles.
- How Do They Get Rich? (Hindu, Virginia Postrel, Jan 02, 2004)
The process of economic development is hard to repeat. The great mystery is why.
- Worked Up (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
Saving a coalition is not the same thing as making it work. Jharkhand’s chief minister, Mr Arjun Munda, may have managed to prevent his National Democratic Alliance government from disintegrating, but even he knows that it is not working. Mr Munda’s ...
- Dumping Suit Against Indian Shrimp Export To Us - China, Thailand & Vietnam Also Face Problems (Business Line, C. J. Punnathara, Jan 02, 2004)
A COALITION of US shrimp farmers has filed a trade complaint seeking to curb $2.4 billion of annual shrimp imports from India, Thailand, China, Brazil, Vietnam, and Ecuador. The SSA, which represents the interests of eight shrimp producing US States,
- Love, Actually (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Jan 02, 2004)
It is arguable that John le Carré’s real subject, all those years when we supposed him to be writing the classic espionage novel, was not politics but love. Love ran like a crack, a fissure undermining the most solid of ideological foundations, through...
- Love Angle In Doubles Tangle (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
A first-round showdown between newly-engaged tennis stars Lleyton Hewitt and Kim Clijsters will grab centre-stage in the $752,000 Hopman Cup starting here Saturday. Australian Hewitt and Belgian world No.2 Clijsters go head-to-head in doubles of the ...
- The Shattered European Dream (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Jan 01, 2004)
The year gone by saw the masks of unity and integration torn off to reveal an E.U. rife with fragmentation, infighting and personal rivalry.
- Iuc Deferred Till Feb 1, With New Numbering (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Wednesday deferred by a month the implementation of new interconnect usage charges (IUC) regime, which will now become effective from February 1, 2004, along with a change in the numbering scheme for mobile
- A Weekly Is Born (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jan 01, 2004)
Were he around, Sachin Chaudhuri, the founder-editor of the journal, Economic and Political Weekly, would have been bemused to see that his journal has become a phenomenon, the imprimatur of recognition for young social scientists, and èminences grises to
- Pakistan: Chickens Coming Home To Roost (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Jan 01, 2004)
The recent assassination attempts on Gen Musharraf can best be described as the wages of sin that Pakistan's rulers have inevitably to pay for the policies they have followed for over a decade. The ISI's inducting and training of terrorists and the ...
- Toasting Time Again For All In It Sector (Business Line, V. Rishi Kumar, Jan 01, 2004)
THE year 2004 promises to be full of excitement for the technology sector where domestic players — big, small and medium and multinational corporations have struck a positive mood. Herewith a perspective on the general outlook for the sector that is
- From Kiribati To New York, Billions Welcome 2004 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
Millions of revellers from Sydney to Shanghai celebrated the coming of 2004 today with fireworks and parties as authorities tightened security against possible terrorist attacks. First to greet the new year were residents of Kiribati, a tiny island
- Stepping Out (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
Ideology, or even unease in partnership, can no longer be accepted as a convincing reason for exiting a power alliance. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has offered the second for leaving the National Democratic Alliance and giving it “issue-based” support
- Reading The Bible (Tribune, D. R. Sharma, Jan 01, 2004)
THE other day an old friend dropped by and casually asked what I had been lately reading. “Well, just some stories from the Bible”, I said. Being a pious Hindu he began to pray for my soul saying that if I liked stories our two epics would be a far better
- Israel Set To Double Number Of Settlers In Golab Heights (Indian Express, MARK HEINRICH, Jan 01, 2004)
Israel intends to double the number of Jewish settlers in the Golan Heights over the next three years to tighten its grip over the plateau seized from Syria in a 1967 war, a Cabinet minister said on Wednesday. There was no immediate comment from Syria
- Attempts On Musharraf’s Life (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Jan 01, 2004)
THE chickens are coming home to roost for Pakistan’s military ruler. Just after he seized power in October 1999, Gen Pervez Musharraf became the first ruler in Pakistan to justify the violence unleashed by his jihadis in Kashmir as being a noble jihad
- The Year Of The Declining Dollar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2003)
FOR THE CALENDAR year 2003, the big news in the foreign exchange markets, in many ways for the global economy, has been the steady decline in the value of the American dollar. It is true that the dollar, like any other currency, has moved up and ...
- Doha Round Blues (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
THERE CAN BE no illusions about the fact that the Doha round of trade talks of the World Trade Organisation is in a limbo. The message from the recent meetings of the WTO General Council is that differences among countries on the major issues are ...
- $100 Billion: Understated, Underexplained (Business Line, Sudhanshu Ranade , Dec 30, 2003)
A surfeit of dollars, unless taken off the market, automatically raises the price of the rupee on account of the `excess demand'. India, like China, has been trying hard to resist this increase in the `value' of its domestic currency, which has an ...
- Waiting For Fields Of Gold (Telegraph, P.S.M. RAO, Dec 30, 2003)
The finance minister, Jaswant Singh, recently announced his government’s plans to raise the “gross national contentment”, stressing the need to usher in a second green revolution. But his government’s track record betrays a lack of seriousness in the ...
- ‘please Don’t Make This An India Vs Iit Issue’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
The murder of Satyendra Dubey, whistleblower in Bihar’s Golden Quadrilateral scandal, has triggered a fire that refuses to die down. As these letters make apparent, from emotion and counter-emotion, to the evocation of old memories, the case has done it a
- Year Of A Small War Made Big (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Dec 29, 2003)
While truly historic regime-changes took place and an epidemic killed hundreds, the world remained obsessed with a minor war for most of 2003
- Teaching Shops (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 29, 2003)
While discussing how successfully Indian higher education is “globalizing”, a colleague pointed out a remarkable anomaly. At any stage of school education, an Indian child is taught far more than the product of an American or British school, and is likely
- 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
- Fighting `Jehadis' At Home (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Dec 28, 2003)
According to an old saying, no place is more remote and therefore more unfamiliar than that on the other side of the hill. To an extent this remains true even in this age of instant communication and round-the-clock television coverage. The intense ...
- 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
- World By Us (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 27, 2003)
The emergence of the US as the world’s only military power and most powerful economic player is blazoned all over the events of 2003
- Power Of Nationalism (Tribune, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 27, 2003)
IF Jesus Christ was betrayed for 30 pieces of silver, it is no surprise that $25 million secured Saddam Hussein. The wonder is that it took impoverished and long-suffering Iraqis who are being killed like flies eight months to lead the Americans to the...
- A Challenge To Pakistan Army (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Dec 27, 2003)
The assassination attempt on the life of the Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, on Thursday has come as a challenge to the Pakistan Army. Known to be able to defend and look after its own, the twin suicide attacks on Christmas Day reveal that the
- Shining From Within (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, Dec 27, 2003)
The world wants India to rise and shine, the task at hand is at home
- 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
- Under Dangerous Siege (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 27, 2003)
THE ATTEMPT ON the life of Pervez Musharraf, the unelected President of Pakistan, the second in 10 days, is shocking for how close his would-be assassins came to accomplishing their mission. Although it is not clear yet who is responsible for the ...
- Why The Cat Gets All The Cream (Telegraph, Alok Ray, Dec 24, 2003)
Despite the recent leak, the CAT remains the best way to screen students for the IIMs. It is comprehensive, deman- ding, foolproof, and fairly inexpensive
- General Need For A Reality Check (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Dec 24, 2003)
That Iran and Libya have opened their WMD programmes for US inspection should tell Musharraf a few things
- Another Approach To Afghanistan (Hindu, Chinmaya R. Gharekhan, Dec 24, 2003)
Afghanistan could be better off adopting a policy of neutrality.
- The Rot Within (Telegraph, SANKAR SEN, Dec 23, 2003)
R.S. Sharma’s case illustrates that corruption at the top destroys the police force’s commitment and encourages more corruption
- Nuclear Neighbours (Hindu, V.R. RAGHAVAN, Dec 23, 2003)
One effective institutional arrangement is the creation of a nuclear risk reduction centre each in India and Pakistan.
- Opportunity Or Threat? (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 23, 2003)
The shifting of some technology jobs abroad fits into a well-worn historical pattern of economic change and adjustment in the United States.
- Still Not The Perfect Shine (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Dec 22, 2003)
At a recent conference on globalization the discussion was focussed on the “how” rather than the “what” or “why” issues that had dominated the subject until recently. The success stories of Indian companies that had begun to look at the world as the ...
- Take It Or Fall Behind (Telegraph, Barun De, Dec 22, 2003)
Does south Asia have genuinely independent alternatives for more self-respecting national futures
- Us Visa Makes Blood Relatives, Literally (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Dec 21, 2003)
Outside a sprawling bungalow in New Delhi’s posh Vasant Vihar, stand an unusual number of Tata Sumos with Punjab numberplates. As each new one comes to a halt, families from villages near Jalandhar and Ludhiana alight and troop in. They are all here for
- Have They Got More Than They Bargained For? (Hindu, KESAVA MENON, Dec 21, 2003)
Now that Saddam Hussein is in American hands what happens in Iraq? On the unfolding situation.
- Wrong Way To Peace (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 20, 2003)
If Jesus Christ was betrayed for 30 pieces of silver, it is no surprise that $25 million secured Saddam Hussein. The wonder is that it took impoverished and long-suffering Iraqis who are being killed like flies eight months to lead the Americans to the ..
- The Challenge Of Spam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2003)
THE INTERNET REVOLUTIONISED the way people communicate, by making it possible to send and receive electronic mails almost instantaneously across continents. The cost to benefit ratio of e-mail made it possibly the cheapest and fastest way to ...
- Not Quite Right (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Dec 19, 2003)
Let me admit at the very outset that on this count I am in a minuscule minority in Lutyens’s Delhi, in Hampstead and Islington, in Manhattan’s Upper West side and in all the watering holes of radical cosmopolitanism.
- Us Foreign Policy — Is There An India Tilt? (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Dec 19, 2003)
There has been a sea-change in the US foreign policy approach to India since the Nixon-Kissinger days. If Washington sees India as a vibrant democracy, pursuing accelerated economic growth, it views Pakistan as a problem child; it cannot afford to allow
- American Tilt Towards India (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Dec 18, 2003)
Dr Henry Kissinger proclaimed at the height of the Bangladesh conflict that it was the intention of the Nixon Administration to “tilt” in favour of Pakistan and against India. Ever since the 1971 conflict, policies of successive US Administrations have...
- ‘satyendra Dubey Is The Embodiment Of The Geeta’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
Two things must be done in the Satyendra Dubey case. First, the media must follow it till the end. The news should not die.
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