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Articles 31321 through 31420 of 31829:
- The General’s Global Obsession (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Jul 25, 2003)
One reason Pak is in such a mess today is that in the pursuit of an illusory international status, Pak Govts neglected domestic, regional affairs
- Karzai To Pak: Indians Building Schools, You Want Me To Stop Them? (Indian Express, AHMED RASHID, Jul 25, 2003)
Afghan leaders blame Pak for brainwashing jehadis into believing India with Northern Alliance has taken over Kabul
- Is India's `Best' Justice Good Enough? (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Jul 25, 2003)
Indian justice came to be tested in the Best Bakery riots case... Unfortunately, it has been put in doubt.
- ‘‘it Is In India’s Interest To Be Involved In Iraq’’ (Indian Express, Raja Menon, Jul 23, 2003)
Regarding transborder deployment, the history of our strategic culture is hesitant, unsure, timid. It should go far beyond our territorial limits
- A New Policy To Turn Iraq Around (Indian Express, K. P. Fabian, Jul 23, 2003)
It is time the international community, especially the United States and the Arab states, gave serious consideration to a paradigm shift in their policy on Iraq. It is painfully clear that the current policy is not working.
- Beyond The Iraq Decision (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jul 23, 2003)
India's "no troops" decision suggests that the creeping "American veto" in our internal affairs is not irreversible.
- Avoid The 'Peacekeeping' Trap (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 23, 2003)
FOUR MONTHS INTO their high-tech war against Iraq, the United States and its junior partner, the United Kingdom, are beginning to realise that the ground beneath their occupying boots is nothing but quicksand. This realisation is dawning on the ...
- India On Mind, Us To Relook At Un Option In Iraq: Bremer (Indian Express, T.V. Parasuram, Jul 21, 2003)
The United States is looking into the possibility of securing a UN resolution which will make it easier for India to send its troops to Iraq, the top US civilian official in Iraq, L Paul Bremer, said today. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is look
- Millennium Goals A Dream, Time To Wake Up (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Jul 20, 2003)
As you read this on a Sunday morning, a child is born in a remote village in Rajasthan. She — a girl child — is one among thousands of children born at the very moment she emerged from her mother’s womb. If she survives, and she has a 90 per cent chance
- Post-Heroic War: Why Us Wants Our Troops (Indian Express, EJAZ HAIDER, Jul 19, 2003)
The Indian Government has finally refused to send its troops to Iraq and formally notified the Bush administration of its decision. But the issue is still open in Pakistan. The question of why the United States would want Pakistani and Indian troops in
- A New Big Game In Central Asia (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Jul 18, 2003)
The U.S. has moved to put a bigger foot in the South Caucasus and Central Asia... Russia has responded by boosting its military and economic presence, and building multilateral security structures in the region.
- Criminal Justice Reviewed (Hindu, K N Bhat, Jul 18, 2003)
The core philosophy behind the Malimath Committee's recommendation is that the criminal justice system should aim at finding out the truth.
- Shimla Memories (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Jul 17, 2003)
Shimla is replete with sentimental memories for Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Apparently, the Himachal Capital was one of the family’s favourite holiday spots. Sonia has not been back to stay since Rajiv Gandhi passed away so she snatched some moments
- Govt.'S Decision-Making 'Revealed' (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Jul 17, 2003)
The Vajpayee Government's decision not to send Indian troops to Iraq, except under an "explicit U.N. mandate", has not only been widely welcomed but also sheds revealing light on the decision-making processes in New Delhi. Even at the best of times
- Some Real Action For Fake Drugs? (Indian Express, Harinder Sikka, Jul 16, 2003)
All those raking profit from fake drugs businesses are knowingly killing patients and deserve to be sent to dungeons... I am going to push for a bill in the Parliament’s Monsoon Session that would seek death penalty for the merchants of death.” This was
- Us, India Aur Woh (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Jul 16, 2003)
There was some irrational gloating in India when Musharraf did not get the F-16s from the United States. The general assessment here was that the general’s visit to Washington was only a partial success. Wishful thinking is all very well but some ...
- Wasteful Rituals (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 16, 2003)
WHEN the United States emerged after the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the first thing that the founding fathers did was to do away with the elaborate rituals, dress codes and titles that the British had introduced. In fact, emissaries to the Royal
- The Right And Sensible Decision (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 15, 2003)
THE VAJPAYEE GOVERNMENT'S decision not to send troops to occupied Iraq will be widely welcomed. It is the triumph of democratic national opinion and political good sense over vacillating tendencies and grandiose visions of realpolitik, which ...
- Samata Rules Out Support For Any Law On Ram Temple (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Jul 14, 2003)
The Samata Party is likely to oppose any Sangh Parivar move to explore the legislative option for construction of a temple at Ayodhya as well as deployment of Indian troops in Iraq. The party is also gearing up to mount an attack on the Congress for ...
- Not Our War (Hindu, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Jul 14, 2003)
If India had sent troops to Iraq, the soldiers would have lost their lives in vain -- they would have died not defending their own country's freedom but in place of U.S. soldiers as targets of desperate Iraqis.
- Victory And Defeat For Us In Geneva (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jul 14, 2003)
The US has been presented with two WTO rulings in the space of a month, one has gone in its favour and the other against.
- Afghan, Pak Forces Exchange Fire Again (Indian Express, Reuters, Jul 13, 2003)
Afghan and Pakistani troops exchanged fire on their border on Saturday and an Afghan commander said encroaching Pakistani forces had been driven back. Clashes between Afghan and Pakistani forces have been erupting intermittently for several weeks with
- Beyond Memories And Complexes (Telegraph, J. N. Dixit , Jul 10, 2003)
J.N. Dixit argues that India should distinguish between being suspicious and being alert with regard to China
- What Summits Are All About (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Jul 09, 2003)
If, instead of greeting each other with the usual handshake, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, had hugged and kissed each other the way Leonid Brezhnev used to greet his east European counterparts, it is very likely that much of
- Informed To Understand (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 08, 2003)
Although most adults do not naturally think of working in collaboration with children, many have been convinced of the value of doing so, whether by public-education campaigns or more specific training. Those who live and work most closely with children
- On A New Note (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Jul 07, 2003)
June 3, 2003 marked the end of an era of India’s dependence on aid. The government of India issued a press note on June 3, 2003, which announced that not only will India discontinue receiving grants aid from many countries, but also all outstanding
- Are We Ready For The Flip? (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Jul 07, 2003)
The World Meteorological Organization normally produces statistics-heavy reports at the end of the year, not news bulletins about today’s weather. Its announcement on July 2 that the record extremes in weather being experienced globally this year are
- Working For Safety (Telegraph, BRIJESH D. JAYAL, Jul 04, 2003)
The recent visit of the deputy prime minister to the United States of America received extensive media coverage and comment within this country. However, little was said on his scheduled visit to the Rand Corporation, a prestigious “think tank” on
- In Anticipation (Telegraph, Kaushik Roy, Jul 04, 2003)
The term national security has been borrowed by Indian security analysts from their American counterparts. It broadly means securing a country’s long term objectives — an amalgam of military strategy, politics, economics, diplomacy and social security.
- Road Too Far (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 01, 2003)
India’s foreign policy is clearly unprepared to meet the aggressive diplomacy unleashed by Pakistan’s president, Mr Pervez Musharraf, in Washington. Although the Indian prime minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was responsible for initiating the latest ...
- The Absurd Reasoning (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jun 27, 2003)
This was unavoidable. Once the campaign for reservations was extended to its illogical extreme, the Brahmins could not be left behind. If the supposedly reasonable assumption that the state should be compassionate to all is taken for granted, everything
- Perils Of Peace (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2003)
Indian diplomacy seems to have floundered once again. The growing popular belief that New Delhi’s foreign policy had been injected with new realism will be deeply eroded because of the latest news from Beijing and Washington, unarguably the two most ...
- Measuring The Mood (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Jun 26, 2003)
Globalization can help reduce poverty but it needs to be complemented with national and international actions
- Imprints On The Human Face (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Jun 25, 2003)
The current US policy could take the world towards the kind of cold war George Orwell portrayed in Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Is India Prepared For Guilt By Association In Iraq (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Jun 25, 2003)
Those in New Delhi who enthusiastically support the White House request for Indian troops in Iraq should have been at a hearing of the American house of representatives armed services committee last Wednesday. At least the more sensible among them would
- One More Kargil (Telegraph, V.R. RAGHAVAN, Jun 24, 2003)
General Pervez Musharraf has threatened another Kargil if India does not engage his government on Jammu and Kashmir. That is the crux of his now famous and recent interview to a television channel. His subsequent denials, clarifications and obfuscations
- Across Borders (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 24, 2003)
The visit of the prime minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to China will assume real significance if it manages to inject fresh momentum into Sino-Indian relations. Relations between India and China have often shown promise, but this latent potential has
- The Outsourcing Backlash (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Jun 23, 2003)
Businessworld has just (June 16) done an excellent story on the outsourcing backlash India faces in the United States of America. Since 70 per cent of information technology exports are headed to the US and the share is even more for business process outs
- The Australian Way (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Jun 22, 2003)
When I first visited Australia, 15 years ago, I was struck by some superficial resemblances to the United States of America. The signage on the highways and supermarkets, the sprawl of the cities out towards the suburbs, the popular love of the outdoors
- Yet It Moves (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2003)
The man who invented the wheel is the forefather of Henry Ford, whose first motor car trundled out of the factory a hundred years ago
- Officious (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2003)
There is nothing official about it. That is the pronouncement of the Union ministry of external affairs on the proposed trip to the United States of America by the chief minister of Rajasthan, Mr Ashok Gehlot, and his 14-member delegation. Invited as ...
- When Wariness Is Best (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Jun 19, 2003)
Did the Pentagon team in New Delhi return home red-faced? Its members did their job in pressing the case for the despatch of 20,000 Indian troops to Iraq for peacekeeping duties in the northern, largely Kurdish, part of the country and spelling out the
- Settling The Price (Telegraph, Alok Ray, Jun 18, 2003)
The Indian economy runs the risk of becoming unstable in the long run if the rupee continues to appreciate against the dollar
- Cleverly Embedded (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Jun 18, 2003)
The military forces, led by the United States of America, attacking Iraq cannot really claim too many acts which have won universal admiration and applause. Their precision-bombing killed and maimed a number of women and children; they used cluster bombs,
- China’s Historic Failure (Telegraph, Achin Vanaik , Jun 17, 2003)
At a time when the United Nations has obsequiously legitimized the American occupation of Iraq and erstwhile opponents like France, Russia, Germany and China have quietly gone along with this, it is hardly surprising that the voices in India calling for
- Surely More Than Cannonfodder (Telegraph, SUJAN DUTTA, Jun 16, 2003)
By sending its troops to assist US forces in Iraq, India stands to gain little, but could lose the goodwill it enjoys among the Iraqis,
- Just Dropping By (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2003)
It is too early to determine the real impact of the visit of the deputy prime minister, Mr L.K. Advani, to the United States of America on relations between India and the US. But it is clear that Mr Advani’s visit has given a fresh momentum to bilateral
- As Real As A Handshake (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Jun 14, 2003)
John Ashcroft is not someone who is easily impressed. George W. Bush’s attorney-general would easily bond with those in the Bharatiya Janata Party, including some personal friends of the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who rightly argue that ...
- Different Beds, Same Dreams (Telegraph, Jairam Ramesh, Jun 12, 2003)
In Beijing in December 1988, the octogenarian Deng Xiaoping told the 44-year-old Rajiv Gandhi that “if there should be an ‘Asian Age’ in the next century, then it could be realized only after India and China became developed economies”. When the ...
- Jobs Drain (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 11, 2003)
Across the world, resistance is increasing to outsourcing jobs moving to India. The British media complains of 200,000 banking and insurance jobs moving to India, CNN reports that 1 million Indians work for US-based companies, and within India, there are
- It Is Still Cold Beyond The Wall (Telegraph, M.L. Sondhi, Jun 10, 2003)
China must think beyond Sikkim in framing its India policy given the new warmth between India and the US
- Make Haste Slowly (Telegraph, J. N. Dixit , Jun 10, 2003)
Six weeks have gone by since the offer of the Indian prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to resume the dialogue with Pakistan. It has got a reticently positive response from Pakistan. The media, as usual, proceeded to be enthusiastic about break-through
- Us Asks India To Send Troops To Iraq (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma , Jun 10, 2003)
The Bush administration took the first opportunity to convey to the visiting Indian Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani that it wanted Indian peacekeeping forces in Iraq.
- Iways Vs Webworld -- Reliance Infocomm (The Financial Express, Senthil Chengalvarayan, Jun 10, 2003)
Mukesh and Anil Ambani could soon be running the world’s second largest coffee chain after Starbucks.
- Indian Airlines: To Get It Off Ground (Danish A. Hashim) (Business Line, Danish A. Hashim, Jun 10, 2003)
The state-owned Indian Airlines is on the verge of completing 50 years of its journey.
- Decline And Fall (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Jun 09, 2003)
India’s foreign exchange reserves stand at an all-time high of more than $ 77 billion. Concerns are, however, being expressed not only about the desirability of a high level of reserves but also about the risks in investing them in securities of countries
- Weapons Of Mass Deception (Lk Sharma) (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma , Jun 09, 2003)
In the run up to the Iraq war, Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) occupied acres of newsprint and bombarded the airwaves, all of which had the desired result.
- Major British Banks Plan To Shift Two Lakh Jobs To India (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2003)
Notwithstanding the opposition from various quarters over outsourcing to India,
- Company Act Helps Monopoly (Shubha Ghosh & Vidisha Barua) (The Financial Express, SHUBHA GHOSH & VIDISHA BARUA, Jun 09, 2003)
The new Competition Act of 2002, although to a certain extent in line with the agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), is a disappointment for many
- Reform In Reverse Gear? (N. Venkiteswaran) (Business Line, N. Venkiteswaran, Jun 09, 2003)
Some of the Government's recent policy announcements give the unmistakeable impression that the logic of a coherent economic philosophy has been given the complete go-by.
- Need To Manage Water (Shebonti Ray Dadwal) (The Financial Express, Shebonti Ray Dadwal, Jun 09, 2003)
Time was when water was regarded as a god-given resource, to be used freely — and thoughtlessly.
- The General’S Musharraf) Problems (M B Naqvi) (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Jun 08, 2003)
After getting himself elected as Pakistan’s President, amending the Constitution and holding a bogus election, General Musharraf should have been firmly in the saddle of power. But, his troubles are only beginning
- Seriously Trivial (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jun 07, 2003)
We Indians have a penchant for making trivia into issues of national importance: baat ka batangar, making mountains of molehills. The latest example is the hoo-ha being made over conversions from one religion to another. Whose business is it save of the
- Not Yet Dawn (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2003)
The “new dawn” that Ms Aung Sang Suu Kyi had seen for Myanmar last May, after her release from house arrest, has long since become the common day. Myanmar’s icon of democracy is back in “protective custody” again. With her are 17 officials of her party,
- Key To Coordination: Computer For The Handicapped (Sudha Hegde) (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2003)
A computer centre for the mentally challenged started by Mythri Charitable Trust in Mysore, hopes to improve motor skills and enable children to perform routine tasks independently
- Dr Gangadhara Swamiji On A Less Trodden Path (Shyam Vattam) (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2003)
A few years ago, when communal clashes erupted in Hubli City the police found it hard to control the situation.
- A Small Piece (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 05, 2003)
Regardless of what trading partners want, China is unlikely to change its exchange rate mechanism soon. Since 1994, the Chinese currency has been pegged to the US dollar in a band between 8.2760 and 8.2800 yuan, with central bank intervention used to ...
- Promises Gone Awry (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Jun 05, 2003)
The Bush administration has got away with its invasion of Iraq in defiance of the United Nations. It is the permanent members of the security council, who denied a UN cover to what was essentially an Anglo-American operation, who have to make amends for
- An Indian In Pakistan (Telegraph, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Jun 04, 2003)
Back in Pakistan last week after a gap of two years, I found myself back again on the familiar terrain of everyone wanting to know whether this time it is for real — or whether we are once again chasing chimeras. To demonstrate national solidarity, I
- Past Rebuke (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2003)
It has begun to look as if West Bengal is past rebuke when it comes to public health. When the World Health Organization named the state recently as among the top in the global polio menace list — second only to Uttar Pradesh and worse than Bihar — the
- Record Blood Donation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2003)
Hundreds of people in Mumbai today made their way into the Guinness Book by donating a record 5,500 units . . .
- It Never Rains But Pours (Prem Shankar Jha) (Hindu, Prem Shankar Jha, Jun 03, 2003)
The flood of dollars into India, which has swelled its foreign exchange reserves by $1.591 billion in a single week and taken them beyond the $80 billion mark to $80.816 billion,
- Students Turned Away From Varsities In Myanmar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2003)
Yangon June 2. Myanmar authorities turned away students from universities on Monday, the first day of a new semester,
- Trafficking In Bangladeshi Women Cause For Concern (Hindu, HAROON HABIB, Jun 03, 2003)
DHAKA June 2. An estimated 20,000 Bangladeshi women and children are trafficked in every year,
- An Asian Century, Perhaps (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 03, 2003)
The Half-Hour Meeting that the Prime Minister had on Saturday with the new Chinese President, Hu Jintao, was perhaps the most significant of Mr. Vajpayee's many interactions in the former imperial capital of St. Petersburg.
- Bifr Approves Plan To Recover Dues From Llyods Steel (Business Line, Richa Mishra, Jun 03, 2003)
The Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) has given its nod to the financial institutions (FIs) and banks to proceed against Llyods Steel Industries Ltd (LSIL) for recovery of their dues.
- Cosmology In Rigveda -- The Third Premise (Hindu, PATRIZIA NORELLI-BACHELET, Jul 11, 2002)
History is indeed recorded in the Rigveda, as well as in the Epics, but one has to use correct cosmic formulas to make this discovery, bearing in mind that the ancients were not at all concerned with keeping records for posterity as we do today.
- The Border Confrontation (Hindu, P. R. Chari , Jul 11, 2002)
The test of success in the present coercive diplomacy is not the discomfiture of Pakistan but the resolution of the Kashmir problem.
- Discrimination At Work (Hindu, Andre Beteille , Jul 11, 2002)
Legitimate discrimination on the basis of ability and performance is obstructed by the pervasive suspicion that all discrimination, at least in India, is at bottom and by its nature invidious.
- Nuclear Brinkmanship (Providence Journal, Editorial, Providence Journal, Jun 03, 2002)
A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could cost 10 million lives or more. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf engages in such provocative activities as testing missiles and implying that his nation might use nuclear weapons first.
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