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Articles 10221 through 10320 of 12768:
- 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
- Pota Remains Self-Defeating (Tribune, Rajindar Sachar , Dec 24, 2003)
THE two-judge judgement upholding the validity of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002 (POTA), will understandably cause disappointment. The verdict negatived the submission that legislative competence to pass POTA rests in the State (Public Order Entry)
- New Delhi De-Hypes January Summit (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 24, 2003)
Announcing that the ceasefire was holding and infiltration across the border was down—as first reported by The Sunday Express—Prime Minister A B Vajpayee today led the charge to tone down expectations of a breakthrough at the January SAARC summit.
- Peace By Piece (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 24, 2003)
As India and Pakistan enter the final week in the run-up to the SAARC summit in Islamabad, little gestures that help to significantly improve at least the bilateral atmosphere if not the substance, seem to be the order of the day. Such as the courtesy ...
- In Denver, Madhuri Is Her Own Domestic Help (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 23, 2003)
Back home in Mumbai from the US, superstar MADHURI DIXIT spoke to SHEKHAR GUPTA, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, about balancing career and baby — and of a husband clueless about Hindi cinema. Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s ...
- Oil Psus: About Turn On Cross-Holdings (Business Line, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Dec 23, 2003)
The December 18 CCEA decision to allow oil PSUs to dilute their cross-holdings is a tacit admission that the Government had erred in its February 1998 move to allow such holdings in the first place. The Government has implicitly acknowledged that the ...
- 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.
- A Step Forward? (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 22, 2003)
The departure from the extreme, maximal positions taken by India and Pakistan could be a helpful factor though, by itself, it would not bring an acceptable solution within sight.
- Two Alone (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Dec 22, 2003)
In the week the general unleashed his goodwill offensive on the question of plebiscite in Kashmir, Britain’s FINANCIAL TIMES offered a provocative thesis. India and Pakistan have so far relied on Washington to coax and pressure them into talking, but the
- Arjun Tank Nowhere In Sight (Tribune, Maj-Gen Himmat Singh Gill (retd) , Dec 22, 2003)
MAIN Battle Tank (MBT) Arjun, slated to be added to India’s armoured might at the turn of the century, appears to be having serious birth-pangs. The 57th report of the Public Accounts Committee (2003-2004) on the design and development of MBT, presented
- Open Borders And Closed Minds (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 22, 2003)
The recent call by the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, for open borders in the subcontinent has generated an enthusiastic response. But on both sides of the Indo-Nepal border, one of the most open in the world, there are voices demanding its tight
- The Shadow Over Musharraf (Indian Express, G Parthasarathy, Dec 22, 2003)
The last vehicle of General Musharraf’s convoy had barely crossed the Ammar Chowk Bridge in Rawalpindi on December 14, when five bombs placed under the bridge detonated simultaneously. General Musharraf was returning to his residence from the Islamabad...
- They Have Gone To War After 138 Years, For Us (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 21, 2003)
This week, the govt TV channel in this Bhutanese border town has been broadcasting appeals to citizens to donate blood. Across the border, at an Indian Air Force hospital, doctors are giving blood transfusions and performing emergency surgery on Royal ...
- 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
- Hanging As Deterrent (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2003)
A major initiative for reforms in the health sector was taken by the Union Cabinet on Thursday when it recommended the penalty of death for fake drug makers. The Drugs and Cosmetics Act will now be amended to incorporate the recommendation in favour of...
- A Change In Rhetoric (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2003)
IN OFFERING to leave aside Pakistan's long-standing demand for the implementation of United Nations resolutions on a plebiscite in Kashmir, President Pervez Musharraf has changed the tone of his country's rhetoric on the subject. This departure ...
- Indian Unification (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2003)
Mr Vajpayee’s call for a common currency is more than an economic agenda. It looks towards a deeper unification
- Doing Nothing Is Hard Work (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Dec 20, 2003)
I spent my childhood and youth shirking work by bunking school and college lectures. But for the fear of parents and teachers, I had no problem spending my days playing and loafing about. That attitude to life continued into the years in office. I found
- Acknowledging Realities (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2003)
A LOT of water has flowed down the Jhelum during the five decades and much has changed in the subcontinent and the world. Of late, President Pervez Musharraf has been taking into account these changes. He is trying to be realistic when he expresses his...
- ‘what Are The Issues Between Us Minus Kashmir? Even I Would Want To Ask People. Nobody Knows’ (Indian Express, Simon Denyer, Dec 20, 2003)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf told Simon Denyer of Reuters that he had "left aside" the 50-year-old demand for a UN-mandated plebiscite in Kashmir and was willing to meet India ‘‘halfway’’ in a bid for peace: Excerpts from the interview:
- Uri’s Winter Wish: Road To Reunion (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Dec 20, 2003)
With the latest thaw in Indo-Pak relations silencing the guns here, this ceasefire has come with a new hope. Prospects have risen of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road, once linking the two parts of Kashmir, re-opening and uniting a people divided by history.
- General Shift (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2003)
Before we take Musharraf’s new stance on Kashmir seriously it must have wider domestic support
- Last Salute To The Lion Of 1965 (Indian Express, Patwant Singh, Dec 19, 2003)
The death of Lieutenant General Joginder (Jogi) Singh Dhillon on November 20 at the age of 89 received no coverage in the Indian papers, although it was his inspiring generalship that helped smash the superior Pakistani armour, poised to head for the ...
- And Islamabad Plays Footsie With Islamism (Indian Express, ZAFFAR ABBAS , Dec 19, 2003)
It’s ‘inaction replay’. Pakistan’s fresh ban on jehadi groups is as much a dead letter as the January 2002 one
- 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.
- Attack On Musharraf (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2003)
SUNDAY'S unsuccessful attempt on General Musharraf’s life near Rawalpindi’s Chaklala airbase was shocking. This was the second such incident during the past two years. The latest blast is believed to be the handiwork of Al-Qaida, which continues to exist
- 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
- ‘flexible’ Musharraf Ready To Bend On His Un Kashmir Baggage (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2003)
As Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf today offered the tantalising possibility of new beginnings with India by saying he had ‘‘left aside’’ the 50-year-old demand for a UN-mandated plebiscite in Kashmir and meet India ‘‘halfway’’ in a bid for...
- 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...
- Family Calling (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Dec 18, 2003)
Visitors to 10 Janpath on Sonia Gandhi’s birthday were surprised to see Priyanka in active attendance. Usually she keeps herself well hidden from hoi polloi flocking to Sonia’s residence, bearing flowers, dholaks and good wishes. This year, however, she
- Punishment With A Human Touch (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
From the Asian Centre for Human Rights’ alternate report to India’s first periodic report for the UN committee on the rights of the child
- Cbi Or Not Cbi? Let Sc Decide, Says Hc (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
Telgi taint: Nervous politicians keep fingers crossed as net closes in
- Asian Balance And The Subcontinent (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 18, 2003)
A creative Indian policy must aim at leveraging the rise of China and Japan and the Sino-U.S. entente to transform its own security condition in the subcontinent.
- The Loya Jirga (Hindu, Robert O. Blake, Dec 18, 2003)
We are seeing Afghanistan determine its own destiny as it undertakes a democratic approach to ascertain the will of the nation.
- Feeling Good (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2003)
The finishing, and all important, touch to the feelgood factor being experienced by most Indians was provided by the Indian cricket team on Tuesday morning. There is, perhaps, a coincidental correlation between the pride of Indians and the performance of
- End Of Story (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 17, 2003)
Francis Fukuyama was supposed to have at least set the Yamuna on fire during his reincarnated sessions in the capital these past few days. Instead, the author of the End of History was as cold as a deflated souffle, pedantically explaining notions of ...
- ‘dubey Enforces Our Belief In Human Values ’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2003)
There is no place for honest people in our system. If they do not get killed — they are shunted out on branch lines to obscurity. The only solution is to dismantle the system.
Raghubir Singh
- The Post-Saddam Moment (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 17, 2003)
This capture changes equations — both within Iraq and the world
- What Now, After Saddam's Capture? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 17, 2003)
The manner in which Saddam Hussein was captured has given rise to the suspicion whether the Americans have struck some kind of a deal with him. What if Mr Hussein himself, after several rounds of questioning, admits that he did, indeed, have WMD but ...
- How Old Is An Antique? (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Dec 17, 2003)
The English term, “antiquity”, is derived from the Latin word “antiques” or from “antico” in Italian, which referred originally to the decorative items found in ancient Roman remains, that have captured the imagination of English art collectors in the ...
- Vajpayee's Utopian Saarc (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2003)
AT A TIME when the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is struggling to finalise a South Asian Preferential Trade Arrangement (SAPTA), leading to a South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA), Prime Minister Vajpayee has spoken of a ...
- Case For Inter-Linking Of Rivers (Tribune, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 17, 2003)
THE proposal of the government to inter-link rivers has given rise to misgivings among the experts as well as a difference of opinion. Therefore, the whole issue needs an impassionate examination from several angles.
- With Eyes Open (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Dec 16, 2003)
Yashwant is doing his job better than Jaswant is doing his
- The Naval Gaze Is Hazy (Indian Express, S.C. N. JATAR , Dec 16, 2003)
None in his right senses will contest the need for an aircraft carrier for India. Regrettably, however, the question “Why Gorshkov?” remains unanswered in ‘Naval gazing into the future’ by Kailash Kohli (IE, December 13). He has not even discussed the ...
- Bangladesh, 32 Years After (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 16, 2003)
The unity that once bound our eastern neighbour to us is forgotten
- Govt: Pak Protest Over Loc Fencing Meaningless (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Dec 15, 2003)
India has dismissed Pakistan’s charge that the fencing along the Line of Control (LoC) was ‘‘violative of UN resolutions’’.
- Musharraf Survives Bid On His Life (Indian Express, ZEESHAN HAIDER , Dec 15, 2003)
Pakistan’s military President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escaped an assassination attempt on Sunday when a bomb tore up a section of road seconds after his convoy had passed by, officials said.
- Bright Idea: Ask People (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 14, 2003)
Call it plebiscite or referendum, Albright wants people to resolve the Kashmir issue
- Hyper Move (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 14, 2003)
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto admitted today that she had ‘‘hyped up’’ the Kashmir issue during her tenure and that it had been a joint decision with the military establishment to introduce a ‘‘low-intensity’’ conflict into the Valley.
- Your Q, His A (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 14, 2003)
The Chief of Naval Staff recently stated that the deal for the purchase of the Russian old aircraft carrier Gorshkov is almost finalised. But many experts say that this would be a wasteful expenditure. Do we really need an aircraft carrier? By all ...
- This Cross-Loc Intruder No One Has The Heart To Stop (Indian Express, Mufti Islah, Dec 14, 2003)
Two rival armies let 85-yr-old mother walk across, meet son
- Just Too Much In The Pink (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Dec 14, 2003)
Listening to former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto deliver a calm and measured lecture at seminars, another young woman comes to mind. Almost two decades ago, on a summer morning, Benazir was at Oxford University. Years before this, she had been
- A Question Of Honour (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Dec 13, 2003)
Since its birth, the Indian nation-state has been challenged by rebellion and insurgency. In the late Forties, it was the Communist Party of India, who launched a countrywide insurrection claiming that the freedom we got from the British was false (in the
- Fifth Year, Fifth Gear (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 13, 2003)
Why the Vajpayee govt’s last-year-as- slog-overs attitude is good governance and shrewd politics
- Naval Gazing Into The Future (Indian Express, KAILASH KOHLI , Dec 13, 2003)
Why Gorshkov? Is our navy not strong enough to thrash Pakistan’s? Why do we now need to spend $650 million to acquire this Russian aircraft carrier? The answers lie in the strategic vision enunciated by Prime Minister Vajpayee when be addressed the ...
- Commonwealth At Crossroads (Tribune, L. H. Naqvi, Dec 13, 2003)
52 heads failed to look beyond Zimbabwe!
- The World According To Sonia (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Dec 12, 2003)
It requires no complicated analysis to conclude that Sonia Gandhi probably has the job she wants. Number 10, Janpath is any day a superior bungalow to 7, Race Course Road. Every world statesman, representative of think tanks, scholar who visits New Delhi
- Japan All Set To Woo India (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 12, 2003)
After years of ignoring India, Japan is now all set to woo it. Surprised by New Delhi's big power diplomacy, its growing engagement with East Asia, and the resilience of the Indian economy, Japan is now determined to make up for the lost decade in ...
- Pvt Airlines Can Spread Wings Beyond Colombo, Across Saarc (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2003)
Private air carriers were celebrating today after the Cabinet gave them the go-ahead to fly on international routes, for long the sole prerogative of Air India and Indian Airlines.
- Rising Expectations (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Dec 11, 2003)
For the India-Pakistan dialogue to succeed it must entail private engagement and public agreement, backed at the highest level.
- Commonwealth Games (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2003)
THE WITHDRAWAL OF Zimbabwe from the Commonwealth has bared the scandalous manner in which three countries — Britain, Australia and New Zealand — dominate and set the agenda for the 53-member association of former British colonies. ...
- At The Risk Of Losing Credibility (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2003)
From the Asian Centre for Human Rights’ alternate report to India’s first periodic report for the UN committee on the rights of the child
- Time To Consolidate Process (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 10, 2003)
In diplomacy, process is often the product. Engagement between adversarial governments is generally seen as a mere instrument to achieve certain outcomes. But the interaction between them is a reward in itself. It allows small steps of cooperation ...
- ‘muslims Don’t Provoke. They’re Scared. This Scared Indian Muslim Is A Big Threat To The Unity Of Our Country’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 10, 2003)
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, at his native village Saifi in Etawah.Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s Walk The Talk:
- An Uncertain Ceasefire (Hindu, Pran Chopra , Dec 10, 2003)
Both New Delhi and Srinagar will have to keep a keener eye open for whatever Pakistan may lob up across the Line of Control.
- For That Sense Of Belonging (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2003)
From the Asian Centre for Human Rights’ alternate report to India’s first periodic report for the UN committee on the rights of the child
- A Notable Milestone (Tribune, S. Raghunath, Dec 10, 2003)
IT is a matter of pride that the country has achieved near-total self-sufficiency in the manufacture of slogans. I hope the habitual India baiters will take note of this signal achievement.
- Warming Up For Summit: Both Pms Say Hello, See You Soon (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 09, 2003)
India and Pakistan have entered the final lap that precedes the SAARC summit in Islamabad in January with a short telephone call this evening by Pakistan PM Mir Zafarullah Jamali to Prime Minister A B Vajpayee at 7.30 pm this evening.
- Minorities In South Asia Live In Fear (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 09, 2003)
THE SAHR literally means dawn. This abbreviation is of the South Asian for Human Rights. The two-year-old organisation met informally the other day at Delhi. It could not meet formally nor invite the Press because the Indian mission at Islamabad issued...
- Election Lessons (Telegraph, Barun De, Dec 09, 2003)
The BJP’s victory shows that the electorate, concerned with more immediate issues, has chosen a party of order over one of diffuse choices
- Remember Europe (Telegraph, J. N. Dixit , Dec 09, 2003)
The last week of November witnessed important meetings between leaders of the European Union and the government of India, a major event following the Indo-European summit to which the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, went last year. The president of
- Saving Saarc (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 09, 2003)
There is no ambiguity about the steps India and Pakistan need to take to save SAARC. Will they muster the required political will?
- Pak’s New India Policy? (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2003)
India’s prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, has formally confirmed to Islamabad that he will attend the 12th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation scheduled to be held in Islamabad January 4-6. This is a good beginning...
- Nuclearisation A Dangerous Policy (Tribune, Dhirendra Sharma, Dec 08, 2003)
DEFENCE Minister George Fernandes had recently disclosed that a nuclear command chain, including alternative “nerve centres”, had been established, giving India an effective retaliatory capability. “We have established more than one (nuclear control) ...
- Zimbabwe Haunts Chogm (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 07, 2003)
The Zimbabwe re-entry issue continued to dog the Commonwealth Heads of Government summit today, with the six-member panel appointed by the host President failing to break the impasse.
- After The Vote (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 07, 2003)
Is the country ready for a new grammar of political contestation in which the political parties are judged by the voters for their record/promise of delivering on basic issues.
- For J&k Talks To Move, Please Say No To Leaks, Whisper Campaigns (Indian Express, Sajad Lone, Dec 07, 2003)
Writes Sajad Lone, son of Abdul Gani Lone who was killed for standing up to jehadis in Kashmir. As the stage is set for first-ever Hurriyat-New Delhi talks, Sajad drafts the To-Do and Not-to-Do lists—for both sides
- Centre’s Samjhauta Brief: Be Pleasant, Talk Positive (Indian Express, Bhavna Vij, Dec 07, 2003)
The Government has finalised the delegation which would hold talks with Pakistan on resumption of the Samjhauta Express between the two countries. Headed by an Additional Secretary-level officer, Additional Member (Traffic) S.B. Ghosh Dastidar, the member
- How The Media Lost Its Money (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Dec 07, 2003)
Introspection. If you were politically interested enough to have remained transfixed by your television set when the results of the assembly elections came out last Thursday you would have heard it a lot. It tripped gaily and recurrently off the tongues..
- In Ceasefire Season, India & Pak Promptly Settle A Little Cross-Fire (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Dec 06, 2003)
In a signal that both India and Pakistan are committed to the ceasefire on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, Director General of Military Operations on both sides got working to defuse a tense standoff in the Tangdhar sector after troops ...
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