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Articles 31121 through 31220 of 31829:
- Oil Smoothens A Dynasty's Rule (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Oct 14, 2003)
The big game in the Caucasus is bound to gain momentum after the presidential elections in Azerbaijan where both Russia and the U.S. have decided dynastic succession is the best option.
- A Nobel For Techniques (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
ECONOMICS PROPOUNDS MANY theories but has few tools to test the validity of hypotheses proposed. It is inevitable that the discipline often comes up short in offering empirical proof for its theories. For one thing, while economics claims to be a ...
- Mercy Or Murder? (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Oct 14, 2003)
In France the medical profession has been calling for some legal framework for the widely practised act of euthanasia.
- Patents For Peace And Happiness (Hindu, M. S. Swaminathan , Oct 13, 2003)
Indian scientists should be encouraged to assign their patents to a bank to be used for the common good.
- Can Wesley Clark Take On George Bush? (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2003)
Liberals’ fascination with the general is rather mystifying
- Getting Back On The Growth Path (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 13, 2003)
What the developed world needs to do is to "coordinate" monetary policy, which will bring about stability in capital flows and an orderly realignment in exchange rates but only if it is "combined with coordinated fiscal expansion".
- ‘we Made Mistakes Like Discouraging Private Sector, We Are Changing Now’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 13, 2003)
You are the only Marxist ruler, if I could call you so, in the whole world. Isn’t it so, and an elected one at that, barring the small government in Tripura
- After The Battle In Iraq .... Is The War On Asian Currencies Right? (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Oct 13, 2003)
Given the US focus on Asian currencies, if the yen strength persists, the risk of a currency war rises, with pressure on China to do something. The Bank of Japan would be forced into aggressive intervention. Central banks would race to destroy the value o
- Newsreel 05.10.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2003)
Smooth sailing Indo-US relationship is getting on to a new ‘Gliding Path’. Secretary of State Colin Powell tells the US media that the agreement on cooperation in high-technology, space launch equipment, civilian nuclear energy and missile defence would..
- Presidential Shuttle (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Oct 12, 2003)
It's not just the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister who are bitten by the travel bug. President Abdul J. Kalam is also constantly on the move, shuttling between Delhi and other parts of the country
- The Maya Behind The Raids (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Oct 12, 2003)
What I like about Mayawati is her honesty. That may sound like a funny thing to say but I am being completely serious. I like her for never having made any attempt to hide her millions.
- Jaipur Foot Gets Spring In Its Step (Indian Express, Anuradha Nagaraj, Oct 12, 2003)
It’s going to be lighter, better and cheaper
- Express Your Voice (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2003)
P. Chidambaram, commenting on the attack on Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, advocates a separate Telengana state as a solution to the endemic Naxalite violence that is plaguing the state for the past two decades (An attack seeks answers,
- The Shia-Sunni Equation (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Oct 12, 2003)
THE EXIT of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime has set off a power struggle among Iraq's two main Muslim sects. The Shias, who form the single largest community in Iraq and constitute 62 per cent of the population, are the chief contenders.
- A Land Under Siege (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Oct 12, 2003)
Signs of anger at the American occupation are visible all over Baghdad.
- Astrological Falsehoods (Deccan Herald, Kushwant Singh, Oct 11, 2003)
Some weeks ago one of our leading national dailies carried the findings of a group of scientists who examined the claims made by astrologers about their ability to forecast future events. They scrutinised thousands of biodatas of people born on the same..
- How To Deal With The Gang In New York (Indian Express, Shubh Saumya, Oct 11, 2003)
Treat the UN-centred order as a crime cartel. As the new toughie in town, India has to hustle its way in
- Groping For Answers (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Oct 11, 2003)
Why did they do it, the Californians? It’s not just the Indian media that is asking questions. The American media is asking them too.
- Astrological Falsehoods (Deccan Herald, Kushwant Singh, Oct 11, 2003)
Some weeks ago one of our leading national dailies carried the findings of a group of scientists who examined the claims made by astrologers about their ability to forecast future events. They scrutinised thousands of biodatas of people born on the same d
- In The Land Of Pure, Law Is On Trial (Indian Express, Najam Sethi, Oct 11, 2003)
Pakistan’s justice system, based on blind enforcement of Islamic provisions, outdoes even Arab countries
- A Bother For Bush (Hindu, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Oct 11, 2003)
The row over the leak of an undercover CIA operative's name to the media refuses to die down, much to the Bush administration's discomfort.
- An Nri Family Gets Faith Amid Its Grief (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2003)
Death Row for man who killed Sikh in post-9/11 hate crime
- 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..
- Pressure On Asian Currencies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2003)
GOVERNMENTS OFTEN BEND economic theory to justify policy decisions that they feel will advance their economic interests. A good example is the argument the United States has been advancing in its attempts to pressure China to make its renminbi ...
- Enter The Terminator (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2003)
EVEN FOR A Hollywood superstar famed for performing superman deeds on the screen, the election campaign for the Governorship of California and the outcome must read like an off-the-wall film script. For Arnold Schwarzenegger the real life ...
- Arnie, The Son-In-Law Of Camelot (Indian Express, Elizabeth Mehren, Oct 10, 2003)
At a family conclave, the largely Democrat Kennedys resolved to help Republican Schwarzenegger
- Motera’S Empty Standing Ovation (Indian Express, Sandeep Dwivedi, Oct 10, 2003)
Not alarming, says Dalmiya, this is the TV age
- Postcards From Europe’S Heart (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Oct 10, 2003)
Prime Minister Vajpayee told his hosts at the Indonesian resort of Bali that India was experiencing a demographic revolution: 54 per cent of its population is below 25 years. When he receives Pascal Couchepin, president of the Swiss Confederation early ne
- For Us Author, It’S A Copy But In Ncert It’S A ‘tally’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2003)
It’s plagiarism, I don’t like it one bit’
- Pakistan: The Siege Within And Without (Indian Express, Shireen M Mazari, Oct 09, 2003)
Pakistan is caught between an India waiting to cash in on the doctrine of premption and a society fast imploding
- Uncertain Times In Afghanistan (Hindu, M.K. Bhadrakumar, Oct 09, 2003)
Afghanistan continues to fragment politically. The blame is being put on the warlords but the malaise runs deeper.
- Regional Trade Agreements — The Right Way To Go For India (Business Line, M. Ramesh , Oct 09, 2003)
BY SIGNING the Free Trade Agreement with Thailand, and announcing that it is working on another one with Singapore, India has indicated to the world that it has at last abandoned its anti-bilateralism, anti-regionalism stand, and joined the RTA bandwagon.
- On A Genetically Modified Diet (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2003)
Why environmentalists are bound to embrace biotechnology
- A Spammer In The Works (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 09, 2003)
EVERYBODY is a king in a democracy, proclaims a popular saying. And Raja is too common a name, either as a standalone or as a suffix. The latest, however, to join the band of Rajas is Pulli Raja and nobody seems to know who he is.
- Visa Vicissitudes (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2003)
THE SCALING DOWN by the United States of the annual H1B visa cap from 1,95,000 to 65,000 with effect from October 1 may not leave India's software industry unduly perturbed in the near term. No doubt, the apex software association, Nasscom, will feel ...
- 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.
- `Strength Of Indo-British Ties Lies In People-To-People Link' (Business Line, Vinay Kamath, Oct 08, 2003)
SIR ROB YOUNG, British High Commissioner to India since January 1999, returns to the UK after four tumultuous years when powerful events gripped the world stage. As he says, the last few months of his assignment have been spent in defending his government
- Looking East (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2003)
THE MOVE TO upgrade the level of the Bangladesh-India-Myanmar-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) forum to a summit needs to be welcomed. For six years now, the regional economic cooperation forum, which seeks to bridge South Asia ...
- Dangerous Tactics (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2003)
ISRAEL'S AIR RAID into Syria on Sunday was a blatant act of military aggression against a sovereign country that had not offered any provocation. Palestinian militants might have, at some time in the past, trained at the site. However, the ...
- India And Proliferation Security (Hindu, Raja Mohan, Oct 06, 2003)
India will soon have to make up its mind on whether to join the new and far-reaching plans of a United States-led coalition to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction through muscular military action.
- An Attack Seeks Answers (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Oct 05, 2003)
Terrorism nearly claimed the life of my good friend, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr Chandrababu Naidu. The attempt on his life deserves to be condemned, and has been rightly condemned, by everyone.
- 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
- Withdrawal Symptoms (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2003)
US cutbacks on H-1B visas: disappointing, but no reason for despair
- Ltte's Hunt For Legitimacy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2003)
SINCE THE CURRENT peace process in Sri Lanka began some five years ago, one of the strategic aims of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been to win legitimacy and parity of status with the Government of Sri Lanka. The Tigers have won ...
- Indian Urban Wars As Us Classrooms (Indian Express, Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, Oct 02, 2003)
The US Special Forces doctrine of ‘three block war’ clones Indian experience in insurgency-hit regions
- Neighbour’s Envy (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Oct 02, 2003)
While the Indian mission’s media managers in New York couldn’t arrange much coverage for Atal Behari Vajpayee in American newspapers, they tried to gloss over their inadequacies by gleefully parading the negative publicity Pervez Musharraf got.
- Tomorrow Never Dies (Indian Express, Manjeet Kripalani, Oct 02, 2003)
India as a political role model, Dubai as an economic one. Afghanistan has a future as a democratic, free trade zone. It needs luck. And patience
- After_the_quarrel_in_new_york (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 01, 2003)
We ended up fielding our Prime Minister in a ritualistic spat, without sorting out the confusion at the heart of our policy.
- Come Home To Kandahar (Indian Express, Manjeet Kripalani, Oct 01, 2003)
To Afghans, India is ‘most favoured nation’. But the idea of India is stuck in the era when Bollywood still meant Amitabh and Mithun
- 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...
- Insats - Flying High (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 30, 2003)
ISRO has demonstrated that it can build world class communication satellites. One of its aims must now be to make sure the Insat system serves much of the country's communications and broadcasting needs.
- Deprive The Villains Of Their Heroin (Indian Express, BULBUL ROY MISHRA, Sep 30, 2003)
Several hundred tonnes of opium gets refined into heroin in secret, makeshift laboratories in Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan. It then finds its way to the West.
- World Bank-Imf Review: Will Asia Lead The World Growth Charge? (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Sep 30, 2003)
The global economy may be on a rebound but it is not yet time for cheer because of underlying risks of the large fiscal and current deficits the US has run up and the imbalances in growth and distribution of reserves. Emerging Asia has a big role to play.
- To Islamabad Via Washington (Indian Express, V A Pai Panandiker, Sep 29, 2003)
Like it or not, march to peace with Pak will require US ‘vehicle’
- Because Food Matters (Indian Express, Bharat Dogra, Sep 29, 2003)
The solution is out there. So why are we still poisoning ourselves?
- Issues Clarified (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2003)
PRIME MINISTER ATAL Bihari Vajpayee appears to have killed two birds with one stone when he spoke of India's security concerns in the course of a conversation with the United States President, George W. Bush. The essence of Mr. Vajpayee's message ...
- Birthday Party Thoughts (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Sep 25, 2003)
Most Indians were gratified to hear that J.M. Lyngdoh had been awarded the Magsaysay Prize. But should that mean that the (doubtless overworked) Chief Election Commissioner should rest on his laurels, ignoring his primary responsibility — namely the duty
- Justice Delayed... (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Sep 25, 2003)
To nobody's surprise the Rae Bareli Special Court's judgment in the Babri Masjid demolition case continues to dominate most discussions in the nation's capital, as elsewhere. It has overshadowed even the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee's ongoing
- International Terrorrism — The Saudi-Pakistani Nexus (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Sep 25, 2003)
Even as evidence is emerging about how Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have worked hand in hand to support international terrorism by the Al Qaeda, the Bush Administration continues to chase shadows and blame Iran for allegedly supporting terrorism, as it did
- Riding The Waves (Indian Express, G Parthasarathy, Sep 22, 2003)
Just a few days before the recent bomb blasts that shook Mumbai, I was attending an international conference organised by the Asia-Pacific Centre for Security Studies in Honolulu, to discuss India’s role in the Indian Ocean. The conference was taking ...
- The Fast Breeder Route (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 22, 2003)
THE UNION CABINET'S nod to the proposal of the Department of Atomic Energy to set up a 500 MW Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam brings to fruition more than 25 years of research and development on fast breeder technology. The breeder ...
- Celebrate Cancun, But With Caution (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Sep 21, 2003)
Arun Jaitley, the Commerce Minister, has a neat, legal mind. Before he went to Cancun, he had identified the three possible results of the ministerial meeting: good deal, no deal or bad deal. And he had concluded that while a good deal would be the most
- A Developing Relationship (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 20, 2003)
PRIME MINISTER ATAL Bihari Vajpayee's visit to Turkey has added content to the relationship between the two countries. These secular democracies were estranged from each other till about a decade ago, largely because each perceived the other as ...
- Seven Days At Cancun (Indian Express, Tarun Das, Sep 19, 2003)
In the end India seemed to have come closer to the trade centre stage
- Ensuring The Future Of Democracy (Deccan Herald, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 18, 2003)
Citizens’ council can meet the need for intelligent and adequate organisation of voters in our democracy
- Israel Eye In Space On Indian Shoulder (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Sep 18, 2003)
Who said terror is the only common ground between New Delhi and Tel Aviv? Both sides are joining hands—in space.
- Let’s Get To Know The Leh Of The Land (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Sep 18, 2003)
Forget big armies, small crack units are the in thing. The Indo-US military exercises in Ladakh indicate India’s Special Forces thrust
- The Hurriyat Meltdown (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2003)
AT ONE LEVEL, the formation of a parallel All Parties Hurriyat Conference led by Islamist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani is not news. The new organisation simply gives formal shape to the long-standing de facto schism among secessionist ...
- Jaitley’s Cancun (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2003)
Ever since Seattle, the ministerial meetings of the World Trade Organisation have acquired a dramatic edge that may harm the cause of economic liberalisation and globalisation in the long run more than they would benefit the interests of the world’s poor.
- Doubts About An Ally (Indian Express, Bernard-Henri Levy, Sep 15, 2003)
What’s the necessity of the US-Pak alliance? Was it necessary to continue funding Musharraf ‘s regime? Is it not possible at least to tie this aid to certain simple political conditions like that Pakistanis must give proof of a genuine effort to reform
- Looking Beyond Saarc (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 15, 2003)
The Government will soon make up its mind on whether the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, should travel to Islamabad in January. India will shortly receive a formal invitation from Pakistan to join the delayed summit of the seven South Asian nation
- A Minefield Called Iraq (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Sep 12, 2003)
Yesterday was the anniversary of the day that Ground Zero was created in New York, a time of mourning for many not just in the United States but elsewhere. How do they perceive that epochal moment in Iraq, the day which started the chain of events which
- India And The War On Terror (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 12, 2003)
Rather than bank on international cooperation, India will have to develop its own means to vacate the threat of terrorism.
- Learning From Columbia (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2003)
ON FEBRUARY 1 this year, as it was descending to land and only about a quarter of an hour from the end of its mission, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke up in the skies over the United States. All seven astronauts on board, including Kalpana ...
- Strategic Delusions (Hindu, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 11, 2003)
THOSE WHO CRITICISED the Government for its decision to host Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at this particular juncture stand vindicated by developments. There was always a strong possibility that terror outrages, akin to the two incidents ...
- Chasing Windmills (Indian Express, VASANT GOWARIKER, Sep 11, 2003)
A political leader wanted to know recently whether the windmills in the districts of Satara and Sangli in Maharashtra have reduced the rainfall in that region.
- Confronting The Heavyweights (Business Line, K. Ramesh, Sep 11, 2003)
India, with relatively stronger fundamentals and macro-economic parameters, appears to be armed-to-the-teeth to canvas its own case and those of other developing nations at Cancun.
- So Who’S Winning This War? (Indian Express, Mahir Ali, Sep 11, 2003)
In the immediate aftermath of the extraordinary terrorist attacks on New York and Washington two years ago, some commentators outside the United States were sceptical of the claim that the world had changed forever.
- This War On Terror Is Bogus (Deccan Herald, Michael Meacher, Sep 11, 2003)
The 9/11 attacks gave America an ideal pretext to use force to
secure its global domination
- Indo-Pak. Rivalry In Afghanistan (Hindu, Aunohita Mojumdar, Sep 11, 2003)
Without the problems of a contiguous border, India has been able to reap the rewards of being a neighbourhood friend.
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