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Articles 31221 through 31320 of 31829:
- Hard Realities About Soft Drinks (Indian Express, ANURADHA VASHISHT, Sep 10, 2003)
Even with zero pesticides and super-clean water, colas can prove a health menace
- Push For Labour Standards (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 10, 2003)
The World Trade Organisation's ministerial meeting at Cancun from September 10 is set to face protests from influential trade unions from developed countries, which demand linking trade issues with labour standards. The question that needs to be ...
- Hail The Conquering Bunglers (Hindu, Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Sep 10, 2003)
The world's private sector giants are not brave mariners on the free-market ocean but frightened children hiding behind mummy state's skirts.
- The Wrong Signal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2003)
INDIA AND ISRAEL share a relationship that has grown rapidly and covers diverse fields. Official visits by the leaders of countries having ties of this sort are important since they reinforce and add impetus to exchanges of a more mundane nature. ...
- Making New Friends (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Sep 09, 2003)
By identifying with Israel as a victim of terrorism, India may damage its own cause.
- Shma’yisrael! (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Sep 08, 2003)
General Sharon arrives amidst cries of Shalom (Salaam/Peace), on the first official visit by an Israeli prime minister to India. Since most of the Indian Jewish community has migrated since the 1940s to Israel, England and the United States, some ironies
- Hail Mogambo (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Sep 08, 2003)
On the 15th of Xanthicus (roughly, April), AD 74, Eleazer ben Yair, leader of a Jewish community besieged by invading Romans in their rock fortress of Masada, rose to address his people. He had a simple message: There would be no surrender. They would all
- In Jammu, Sajjad Tries To Chart Lone Course (Indian Express, RAKESH ROCKY, Sep 08, 2003)
People's Conference chairman Sajjad Lone today alleged that both India and Pakistan had failed to deliver a lasting solution to the Kashmir issue and said the only way forward was ‘‘international intervention.’’ He also called people of Jammu to ‘‘join ..
- Wto Gridlock Likely To Remain (Deccan Herald, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 08, 2003)
The Cancun ministerial is unlikely to produce major agreements on significant new liberalisation
- National Consensus (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Sep 08, 2003)
Has it occurred to the politicians on the two sides of the political fence that they owe it to the country to work unitedly in matters related to the safety and security of the people?
- Blossoming Of India-Asean Ties (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2003)
THE INDIA-ASEAN Business Summit was perhaps the right forum for Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to articulate his views on forging closer ties with the Southeast Asian nations. Relations with the regional grouping have been cemented and ...
- ‘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
- Unifying Personal Laws (Hindu, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Sep 06, 2003)
Personal laws may be reformed from within, without a quantum leap into a common code.
- 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 ...
- India Avoids Isolating Myanmar (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 04, 2003)
The Government's high-level defence engagement with Myanmar this week draws an unforgiving spotlight on to India's ties with an important neighbour whose military rulers are under growing international pressure to ease their tight grip on power.
- The World Alleges And Pak Denies It (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Sep 03, 2003)
Pakistan faces, once again, a barrage of allegations ranging from charges of covert support of terrorists to accusations about illegally exporting components for other nations’ nuclear and missile programmes.
- 'We Are Not Terrorists' -- Palestinian Foreign Minister (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Sep 02, 2003)
THE PALESTINIAN Foreign Minister, Nabil Sha'ath, a Ph.D from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, U.S., is both articulate and forceful in what he says. Describing The Hindu as the "Le Monde of India," the Minister has no hesitation in ...
- Walking That Tightrope On Arab Street (Indian Express, Raghav Gupta, Aug 30, 2003)
In its eagerness to befriend Israel, India risks sending wrong signals to the Arab world. A more nuanced approach would work fine
- Doha Round In Trouble (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2003)
WHEN MINISTERS FROM the 146 member-countries of the World Trade Organisation assemble in a fortnight's time in Cancun, Mexico, they will have the difficult task of ending the impasse in the Doha round of negotiations. The Ministerial declaration ...
- 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 ...
- India, With A Can-Do Spirit (Indian Express, R A MASHELKAR, Aug 26, 2003)
From launching satellites to cracking illiteracy: a nation held back by self-doubt
- Moment Of Opportunity? (Hindu, Rajmohan Gandhi, Aug 26, 2003)
The moment that has to be seized is one where, spurred by India, the world may save itself and America from an unwise continuation of a unilateral bid by the U.S. to reorder the world.
- Your Q, His A (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2003)
Air commodore Jasjit Singh, Editorial Advisor (Defence and Strategic affairs) to The Indian Express, answers your questions on strategic issues. Singh, a former director of the Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis
- 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 ...
- Waking Up To Wto (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Aug 24, 2003)
One of the persistent myths in developing countries is that developing countries do not need the World Trade Organisation (WTO). And that the WTO is more pain than gain. On the eve of every Ministerial meeting convened by the WTO, there is a bout of WTO
- How Safe Is Our Water? (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Aug 24, 2003)
Groundwater is easily polluted and restoring its quality is impossibly expensive
- A Unique Alliance At Wto (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2003)
IN A REMARKABLE display of unity at the World Trade Organisation, a group of 14 developing countries, which includes large economies like India, China, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa and Thailand, has formulated a cogent proposal on trade in ...
- India’s Magic Realism (Indian Express, Arun Jaitley, Aug 22, 2003)
Producing 30 per cent of America’s doctors but not one Al-Qaida terrorist
- Devastating Strike In Baghdad (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2003)
THE SUICIDE ATTACK on the headquarters of the United Nations in Baghdad is a big blow to the attempts of the United States to induct the U.N. in some kind of legitimising role for the occupation. No terrorist group has claimed responsibility for ...
- How About Eu Norms For Drinking Water? (Indian Express, BARUN MITRA, Aug 21, 2003)
Over 200 years ago, a French queen advised her citizens to eat cake when they were struggling to find bread. The present outcry against bottled soft drinks and colas is similar.
- Power Cuts And Hot Spells (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2003)
THE DEVELOPING WORLD will react with understanding and even sympathy to the type of problems some rich nations are facing just now — and apparently not coping with remarkably well. Unannounced power outages, sweltering heat, medical ...
- Nuclear Power Safety Concerns (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2003)
THE ACCIDENT AT the Kalpakkam Atomic Reprocessing Plant of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre last January, which the head of BARC has described as the worst in the history of the organisation, raises once more serious issues about safety at the ...
- Going Ahead With A Disastrous Project (Deccan Herald, Sudhirendar Sharma, Aug 20, 2003)
A systematic programme to counter the opposition to river-linking project ignores the danger of water-logging
- The Challenge Of Diabetes (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2003)
DIABETES IS A major public health concern as more and more people are falling prey to the disease in both the developed and the developing world. The World Health Organisation estimates the number of diabetics in India today at 30 million ...
- A Number Of Positives (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Aug 19, 2003)
Abid and Abida narrate the story of their stay in Washington in the early 1990s — how they established a feeling of togetherness, a good working relationship and, thereby, confused the United States administration. Abid Hussain, an accomplished civil
- Trade Unionism Must Reinvent Itself (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Aug 19, 2003)
The Indian trade union movement is badly organised and much politicised. It is splintered and leaves out of its pale vast numbers of unorganised workers. Only a confederation of the working class of all hues can serve as a political watchdog, as it can
- Cancun & Doha Round Prospects (Hindu, Muchkund Dubey , Aug 18, 2003)
The main negotiating challenge will be defensive — to prevent further loss of policy options in several areas.
- Some Curators Change Their Frames Of Reference (Indian Express, BLAKE GOPNIK, Aug 18, 2003)
Looking for a way out from collectors wanting to possess paintings by wrapping all the gilding around it
- A Bonanza For Big Oil (Hindu, V. Sridhar, Aug 17, 2003)
George W. Bush has passed an Executive Order that effectively provides legal immunity to the oil majors for their actions in Iraq.
- Chopper Crash Course (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Aug 17, 2003)
Why are they in free fall? The Sunday Express finds a story of double standards and often no standards at all
- Security Council Resolution 1483 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 17, 2003)
"Noting the letter of 8 May 2003 from the Permanent Representatives of the United States of America and the United Kingdom... to the President of the Security Council and recognising the specific authorities, responsibilities and obligations ...
- When Sky Is The Limit (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Aug 16, 2003)
The problems that have bedevilled Japanese banks are well known — the quicksand of ‘‘directed lending’’, NPAs, and the rest — as is the way these problems have been at the heart of Japan’s inability to pull itself out of the trough for over a decade. The
- U.S. Blackout: Lessons For India (Hindu, Anand Parthasarathy, Aug 16, 2003)
How well can today's high tech communication systems such as the Internet and mobile telephony cope with disaster situation?
- Before The Whining Drowns It Out, Listen To The New India (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Aug 15, 2003)
Twenty to twenty-five years ago, even 10 years ago, few of us had heard of Information Technology. Today, exports from this industry are worth $10 billion — that is, over Rs 45,000 crore a year. That figure is 20 per cent of our total exports.
- A Visitor With A Past (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Aug 15, 2003)
Some in India may discover affinities with Ariel Sharon's type of politics. They would do well to examine his track record.
- Sting Operation Nets Uk-Indian Missile Dealer (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 14, 2003)
An Indian arms dealer, Mumbai underworld, a Russian connection and a sting operation — it is not crime fiction. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested a British national of Indian origin, Hemant Lakhani, for smuggling sophisticated surface
- No Easy Going For India In Cancun (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Aug 14, 2003)
10 million people in four African countries are facing starvation after they implemented free market reforms
- India's Economic Diplomacy (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 14, 2003)
To derive the full political benefits of economic diplomacy, the leadership will have to act decisively to break the old mindset, which defines national security and trade policy in separate and narrow terms.
- Politics Of Indo-Pak. Ceasefire (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 14, 2003)
The Indian reaction to the proposal from Pakistan's President, Pervez Musharraf, for a ceasefire along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir has been predictable. While the foreign office is right in stating that there is nothing new in the proposal,
- Don’t Shoot Down Iaf Over The Mig Myths (Indian Express, A. K. GOEL, Aug 13, 2003)
If there is anything more important for the Indian Air Force than defending the country, it is to ensure cost of such defence is minimum. Thus, while we must train and prepare for perhaps the most demanding profession on Earth, we aim to ensure accidents
- Alien Tort Legislation In The Us - Why It Should Not Be Tampered With (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Aug 13, 2003)
THE Centre, after over a decade of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Bhopal, declaring him a proclaimed absconder and issuing a non-bailable warrant of arrest against him in the Bhopal gas tragedy case, has finally initiated certain preliminary moves ...
- The Big Bang (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2003)
The anniversary of Hiroshima, where the first nuclear bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, has invited progressively less attention worldwide. It is possible that we are all becoming more cynical, or at least less sensitive, to the death and destruction
- A Constitution For Europe (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Aug 07, 2003)
The fundamental issue is not as much about technocratic management of the E.U.'s institutions as it is about its very identity. It involves deciding what Europe is, what it aspires to be.
- Pak Discomfiture (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2003)
The bitter truth of Blackwill’s plainspeak has provoked Pakistan to take potshots at him
- Domain Name Hindutva (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2003)
Aryavarta reaches Silicon Valley. The saffronised history spawned on innumerable websites by amateur NRI historians may well be the most tangible, if not most agreeable product of India’s globalisation.
- The Power Play In Nepal (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Aug 06, 2003)
The political parties (in Nepal) fear the king will make a deal with the Maoists and move them even further on to the margins of power.
- In A Mesopotamian Muddle (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Aug 05, 2003)
General Richard Myers, US military bossman, has come and gone. He said he did not discuss Indian troops for Iraq. Oh yeah. Like pigs have wings. Presumably he visited because he wanted to see our monsoon rains pouring down as relief from the arid wastes
- Widen That Lens (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, Aug 04, 2003)
When Raj Kapoor sang, “Mera jootha hai Japani, patloon Inglistani,” he was neither singing the virtues of globalisation nor was he reaching out to the hearts and minds of the Japanese and the English. Song-writer Shailendra’s line about the “red Russian
- Road To Cancun (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2003)
THE CONTOURS OF a possible breakthrough at the September ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Cancun, Mexico, in the Doha round of trade talks are now beginning to take shape. But even if such a deal, driven by a likely ...
- Resurgent Tribalism In Fiji (Hindu, Sam Rajappa, Aug 04, 2003)
Over decades, the gulf between the indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians has widened.
- Indian Position On Peacekeeping (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Aug 03, 2003)
The Indian position was clear enough. As New Delhi awaits an "explicit'' United Nations mandate to consider the possibility of deploying troops in Iraq, previous positions taken by the Vajpayee Government at the U.N. are instructive. ``We believe that
- "You Can't Imagine How Our People Are Living!" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2003)
The Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, Yasser Arafat, speaks of the plight of his people in an exclusive interview to Vikram Sura for the The Hindu.
- The Mirage Of Farm Exports (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Aug 02, 2003)
The risks are too high and the promised gains too few to warrant a dramatic opening up of Indian agriculture to foreign competition.
- The Vajpayee Peace Process: Directions And Prospects (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Aug 01, 2003)
The Prime Minister's peace initiative is moving in a measured manner. There is no need to get hustled by Pakistan to move faster. Mr A. B. Vajpayee has acknowledged the mistake made at Agra of staging a summit without proper groundwork. Now, Foreign ...
- Bpos And Backlash (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2003)
EVERY PASSING DAY brings news of a growing backlash in the European Union and the United States against the outsourcing of business in information technology enabled services (ITES) to India. Since it is the search to cut salary costs that is ...
- Now That The Nhrc Has Made Its Courageous Move, The Nation Looks To The Court (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2003)
Last month the tidy acquittal of all 21 accused by the fast track court in the Best Bakery case was a betrayal of justice, and hope. It was a message that survivors and relatives of the victims of that gruesome massacre would not be permitted any closure.
- Towards More Neighbourly Ties (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Jul 31, 2003)
Karzai needs Pak to fight terrorism while Musharraf cannot allow Pak to be sucked into a new Afghan quagmire
- The September Test (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Jul 31, 2003)
How many of you believed Richard B. Myers when he said that he hadn’t come to ask for troops? At the risk of spoiling the image of journalists as a sneering, cynical lot, I thought he was telling the truth. Think about it: Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of
- Trading With Pakistan (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jul 31, 2003)
The new debate in Pakistan on trade with India is a welcome one... Instead of waiting to see the outcome, India must seek to actively influence it.
- Detested Abroad, Unpopular At Home (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jul 31, 2003)
Amid growing disillusionment in Britain with the new Tony Blair, and mounting criticism by the Americans of their President pushing them into an unnecessary war, Washington think-tanks are suggesting the involvement of Iraqi people in the clean up, while
- Time For Pm To Put His Foot Down? (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Jul 30, 2003)
For more than two years, this country has been remonstrating with the United States that it is not doing enough to persuade or pressure Pakistan to end cross-border terrorism directed against India even though India and the U.S. are "partners" in the
- Beware, Big Brother Is Watching (Business Line, Jayanthi Iyengar, Jul 30, 2003)
THERE was a furore some years ago when it became public that the Internet had the capabilities to track the movement of Web-surfers and that Web site owners, including employers, could store a lot of personal information regarding the surfing habits of
- Parting Thoughts (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2003)
US Ambassador Robert Blackwill has his disappointments. We understand them.
- Towards Safer Skies (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Jul 29, 2003)
Once the GPS and Geo Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) system is operational, It is likely to improve air safety over India.
- Bush Team: ‘indian’ Face From Delhi (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jul 29, 2003)
The ‘‘Indian connection’’ is growing in the White House. In the wake of the appointment of the outgoing US ambassador to India Robert Blackwill as ‘‘deputy assistant’’ to President George Bush—he takes over his new job next week—Blackwill’s friend and ...
- ‘war Against Terror Cannot Be Won Till Terror Against India Ends Permanently’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jul 28, 2003)
US Ambassador to India Robert Blackwill spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-chief, The Indian Express, on the security situation in the subcontinent and the rapid advancements in the Indo-US relations. Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s ...
- The News According To Star (Hindu, Sashi Kumar, Jul 28, 2003)
Star News may be making a monkey of regulatory guidelines, but the Indian Media Group initiative is a case of making too much of a public cause of powerful private interests. There are also troubling questions about censoring the other side of the story
- How About Some Lessons On Security? (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Jul 27, 2003)
Muneer's story made it onto the inside pages of a couple of national newspapers for one day last week. It is a terrible story that reflects the stupidity and ugliness of the Indian state in all its horror but, because us political pundits like to ponder
- Blackwill Fires Parting Shot At Pak (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2003)
‘Terrorism across LoC still on, consequences if promises made to US President not kept’
- End Game (Indian Express, MATTHEW MCALLESTER, Jul 27, 2003)
Five or six days after US troops seized this city in April, Saddam and his sons, Uday and Qusay, gathered secretly with a handful of aides at a house in Adhamiya. The men were shocked at their defeat. They had not planned for any kind of guerrilla ...
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