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Articles 1621 through 1720 of 3108:
- Who’S Afraid Of Kgb Wolves? (Indian Express, Balbir K Punj, Oct 13, 2005)
The front-page article ‘‘When KGB got cosy with BJP’’ by Bhibhuti Bhusan Nandy, a retired RAW official (The Statesman October 3, 2005) has kicked off dust.
- 'No American Can Treat India Like A Pet' (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2005)
K Subrahmanyam is India's leading strategic thinker and the most vocal supporter of the country's weapons programme. The man who wanted India to make bombs is now, surprisingly, ready to cap its weapons programme. He says his change of heart comes . . .
- If The Peace Process Is To Succeed (Dawn, Maqbool Ahmad Bhatty, Oct 11, 2005)
WITH the visit of Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh, between October 3 and 6, the second round of the composite dialogue, following the landmark 2004 agreement at the summit level to restart the peace process, has been concluded.
- No ‘Moral Policing’; ‘Amoral Policing’ Instead? (Indian Express, S Gurumurthy , Oct 10, 2005)
A cine actress publicly justified pre-marital sex. No educated man would expect to marry a virgin, she asserted. Many, mainly women, protested, spontaneously.
- Congress Governing The Country Under Extreme Pressure From The Communists - Prime Minsiter Manmohan Singh Confesses (India Daily, Sudhir Chadda, Oct 09, 2005)
Why rule then? Why not resign and call for a fresh mandate. Why compromise with the communists?
- Creating Political History Through Computer Graphics (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Oct 09, 2005)
What a ‘feat’ it is - getting Hari Singh’s signatures through computer, quips Abdul Majid Mattu
- Political Biography This Is Not! (Deccan Herald, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 09, 2005)
It appears as if the author is being deliberately bland while narrating Indira Gandhi’s life, which makes the book different from other biographies on her.
- Contempt Proceedings Against Govt. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2005)
High Court takes cognisance of reports on "violation" of its order on use of Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Notices sent to Editor and photographer of Dinamalar
Advocate-General to file report on measures taken by Government to comply with the order
- The Ideology Of Success (Deccan Herald, Avijit Pathak, Oct 08, 2005)
Life consists of everyday resistance against the societal ideologies of success, towards making Utopia a reality
- The True Role Of Religion (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Oct 08, 2005)
Founders of every major religion of the world addressed themselves to the problems facing human societies of their time. They were clear in their priorities. Hebraic religions like Judaism, Christianity and Islam made one God the centre-piece of their....
- Ias Forever? (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 07, 2005)
Every section of opinion in the country has looked askance at the Indian Administrative Service, the successor to the "heaven-born" Indian Civil Service (which Jawaharlal Nehru once castigated as being neither Indian, nor civil nor service!),
- The Rare Fibre Of An Artist (Deccan Herald, Deepti Ganapathy, Oct 06, 2005)
E P Alamelu has mastered a rare art. She paints with fibre and has nearly 80 works in her collection.
- Belgium Keen On Developing Indian Inland Waterways (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2005)
With the country's inland waterways ferrying barely 0.15 per cent of the country's total inland cargo, the Belgium government has expressed willingness to share its expertise with India to increase its inland water cargo transportation capacity.
- India, Pakistan Sign Accord On Pre-Notification Of Missile Tests (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 04, 2005)
Natwar Singh, Khurshid Kasuri review the status of composite dialogue
Communication links will help facilitate information on fishermen who stray into each other's territories
Pakistan wants quickening of pace of negotiations; India wants a conducive
- Annular Eclipse Witnessed By Thousands (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2005)
People thronged the banks of the Ganga in Varanasi and Hardwar
- The ‘Inoperative’ Interview (Dawn, F.S. Aijazuddin, Oct 04, 2005)
WAS it just jet lag? Or could it have been simply tiredness after a long and gruelling schedule? Over-confidence, perhaps?
- India’S Interest First (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 04, 2005)
While the CPM can afford to reduce foreign policy to a set of slogans,
- Rahul Causes A Tehelka' (Daily Excelsior, Kshama Sunil, Oct 03, 2005)
It could not have come at a worse time. The Rahul Gandhi 'interview' has come at a time when the Congress was getting its act together in Bihar along with Lalu Prasad Yadav's RJD and other allies to put its best foot forward ahead of the Assembly polls.
- Last Resort? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 02, 2005)
Is politics really the last resort of scoundrels? The perception continues to grow that yes, indeed, it is a sphere of activity dominated by money and muscle power.
- Textbook Of Laughter And Forgetting (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2005)
Literature can define the way we perceive and express our worlds. Why then is there no wider debate on the kind of English textbooks that are prescribed, asks AMITAVA KUMAR.
Literature can define the way we perceive and express our worlds
- Spying Days That Were (Tribune, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Oct 01, 2005)
A Marxist mayor of Calcutta once suggested to the American consul-general that the city should be twinned with San Francisco. When the surprised American replied that Calcutta already had a twin in Odessa in what was still the Soviet Union, . . . .
- Call Karat’S Bluff (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 01, 2005)
Do Cong leaders have courage to tell the Left?
- By Law, Tobacco Be Gone! (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Oct 01, 2005)
Jawaharlal Nehru smoked a cigarette after every meal. Jinnah was a chain smoker. Winston Churchill had a cigar in his mouth most of the time.
- Diplomacy At Gunpoint (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 01, 2005)
When interests come into conflict with policies, the latter suffer. Something like that happened to India at Vienna where it voted against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to ensure the supply of civil nuclear reactors and their . . .
- New Actors, Old Script (Indian Express, Balbir K Punj, Sep 30, 2005)
The Vasili Mitrokhin bombshell must have exploded in the minds of many good intentioned intellectuals who had held the Left in some esteem for its supposedly pro-poor activism. But to those few who were privileged to be on the ringside in the arena of his
- Pm Promises Two More Iisc-Quality Institutes (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 29, 2005)
The institutes, one in Pune and another in Kolkata, will be built at a cost of Rs 500 crore each.
- Is It A Case Of Too Much Of A Good Thing? (Hindu, Harish Khare , Sep 28, 2005)
Judges increasingly find themselves getting involved in adjudicating essentially political disputes. This trend ought to be reversed. The institutional balance originally envisaged in the Constitution must be restored.
- India's Backing Of Iaea Resolution Against Iran Is A Signal Of The End Of Nonaligned Movement (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 28, 2005)
When India decided to side with United States and Europeans against Iran and vote accordingly in the IAEA resolution,
- Can We See A Real ‘Change’? (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Sep 26, 2005)
Can Canada in general and Pakistanis in Canada in particular play a leading role in changing Pakistan’s destiny? Minhaj Qidwai comments
- Save It (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Sep 26, 2005)
Notwithstanding the noises about its conservation, the Dal Lake is dying a slow but a sure death.
- Maharaja Hari Singh's Tiff With Nehru (Daily Excelsior, Major (retd) Dr Brahma Singh, Sep 23, 2005)
In March 1946 came the Cabinet Mission to India for negotiating with the Indian leaders the manner in which the transfer of power was to be made.
- Education Bonanza For Girl Child (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 23, 2005)
India’s often neglected girl child is set to get a huge boost with the government today unveiling a scheme that would virtually give free education to her.
- Storm Over Kgb Funding (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Sep 23, 2005)
Reactions to the revelations about the activities in this country of the KGB, the notorious spy agency of the late Soviet Union,
- Games Nations Play (Indian Express, K SUBRAHMANYAM, Sep 22, 2005)
Surely Indira Gandhi would not have reacted in the way political party leaders have done to the ‘‘Mitrokhin Archives’’.
- When Hp Got Its First Chief Parliamentary Secretary (Tribune, A. N. Barowalia, Sep 22, 2005)
After Himachal Pradesh attained statehood status on November 1, 1971, on the recommendations of the then Chief Minister,
- Not Enough Done For Farmers: M.S. Swaminathan (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Sep 21, 2005)
Lack of investment in farm sector, a big challenge: Hanumantha Rao
In China interest rate for farm credit is zero per cent whereas in India it ranges between 10 and 16 per cent
A survey says that 40 per cent farmers would quit farming given the choice
- Kgb Penetrated Indian Embassy, Says Book (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2005)
Soviets instructed CPI to overthrow Nehru Government, it says
The agency used `honey traps'
IB intercepted secret correspondence
- A Prime Minister's Road Trip And After (Hindu, Harish Khare , Sep 21, 2005)
How do we insulate the pursuit of diplomatic affairs and strategic interests from the vagaries of a domestic discourse that remains mired in sensationalism?
- A New India Policy (Dawn, SHAHID JAVED BURKI, Sep 20, 2005)
Stare decisis is a Latin term used in legal parlance to connote the importance attached to precedence.
- Alienating The Middle Class (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Sep 20, 2005)
If the CPM is the Don Quixote of the Left, tirelessly tilting at the windmills of LPG (liberalisation, privatisation, globalisation), then the CPI is surely its devoted Sancho Panza.
- Population And Economics (Deccan Herald, Rishi Trivedi, Sep 19, 2005)
Breaking News: Sania Mirza first Indian to enter 4th round of Grand Slam in 18 years! This news item flashed across Indian news channels on September 1, 2005. For a nation terribly starved of sports icons,
- The Thinking Indian? (Indian Express, Ananya Vajpeyi, Sep 19, 2005)
In an interview published last month in The New York Times, V S Naipaul has pronounced that there are no thinkers in India today.
- Case Of The Lawyer Wife (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Sep 19, 2005)
The finance minister is an honourable man. We have therefore to accept, and with grace,
- The Kashmir Saga (Hindu, Bhashyam Kasturi, Sep 18, 2005)
The Instrument of Accession now available on the Home Ministry's website gives us a glimpse of the original document
- Own Goal (Telegraph, MUKUL KESAVAN, Sep 18, 2005)
The Quit India movement launched by the Congress in 1942 was an act of political desperation,
- The Familiar Script (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Sep 17, 2005)
There are many reasons why the joint statement by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President General Pervez Musharraf is so insipid and so disappointing.
- Ask Sonia, Singh To Quit, Jd(u) Tells Rahul (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2005)
He should be asked to take his remarks to the logical conclusion
For the first time a member of the Nehru family has come out with the truth
The RJD and the Congress are responsible for the state of affairs in Bihar
- Flights, Trains, Road Traffic, Power Supply Hit Hard (Hindu, Sandeep Joshi, Sep 17, 2005)
Incessant rain accompanied by squalls since early morning disrupted life in the Capital on Friday with almost all incoming flights at Indira Gandhi International Airport being diverted due to strong winds and vehicular movement on the roads badly . . .
- Growth Of Technology (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 17, 2005)
Plato might not have had technology in mind when he wrote “Necessity is the mother of invention”,
- Indo-Us Cooperation In Nuclear Technology (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will probably have had ample opportunity to explain the Indian position on the country's relations with Iran to his American interlocutors by the time you get to read this.
- Why Cooperatives Do Not Work (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 16, 2005)
By any reckoning, India would seem a natural home for the cooperative movement.
- When Jaswant Took Indian Politics To Foreign Shores (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Sep 16, 2005)
When the Bharatiya Janata Party chose to protest the fact that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had made a reference to Atal Bihari Vajpayee's opposition to the India-United States nuclear agreement....
- India Stamps On Myanmar Rebels (Asia Times, Bibhu Prasad Routray, Sep 16, 2005)
Indian police in Mizoram claim to have destroyed one of the largest Myanmar rebel bases in India, deep in the mountainous jungles of Mizoram state.
- Options Narrow For Nepal's Isolated Monarch (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Sep 16, 2005)
Pressure is mounting on Nepal's King Gyanendra to restore democracy after he seized power earlier this year, but there is no sign yet of the monarch relenting despite his increasing isolation, analysts say.
- Indian Intelligence Agencies Under Fire (Statesman, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 15, 2005)
Following the example of a section of the American intelligence operatives,
- Forty-Three Years On (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 14, 2005)
The spin doctors on both sides would probably portray it as being of marginal significance;
- The Problem With Reforms... (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 12, 2005)
Over the last few weeks, votaries of economic liberalisation (including this newspaper) have been wringing their hands at the inability of the UPA government to make headway on economic reforms.
- Mapping History Of The Garden City (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2005)
Much-loved Bangalore was, it seems, a hit with the British too. Giridhar Khasnis on Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha’s book Deccan Traverses, which traces the history of the city.
- Blair For Promotion Of Indo-British Educational Links (Deccan Herald, DH news, Sep 09, 2005)
The British Govt seems keen on promoting Indo-British educational ties. This bid is in view of providing students with mutli- cultural experiences.
- Heroes And Charlatans (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Sep 09, 2005)
Over the past few weeks, I have busied myself trying to understand the dynamics of an encounter that agitated corporate India of the Twenties and Thirties — the conflict between the fledgling Scindia Steam Navigation Company and the well-entrenched Britis
- Forty Years After 1965 War (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Sep 09, 2005)
COME September 6 and every year our neighbour to the west observes the “Defence of Pakistan Day”.
- Face The New Reality (Telegraph, Barun De, Sep 07, 2005)
A commoner or a statesman, in today’s world both are vulnerable to the same fate — murder without any hope of justice,
- Court's Remarks Against Geelani Unfair, Say Teachers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2005)
"The comments amount to passing a civil death sentence and must be expunged"
- Story Of Blunders By Delhi And Islamabad In Kashmir (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Sep 05, 2005)
It’s been a real tragedy of errors which has made Kashmir suffer.
- Issues Unaddressed (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Sep 05, 2005)
The tourist season is about to come to an end and so is the first phase of the coalition rule.
- Now And Again : Summer Of ’52 (Statesman, MAITREYI CHATTERJEE, Sep 05, 2005)
My schooldays in the early fifties had one important day. November 14 was a holiday just for schools because it was Chacha Nehru’s birthday.
- Teachers’ Day In Our Times (Tribune, R. Vatsyayan, Sep 05, 2005)
For most of the people of my fifty-plus generation Teachers’ Day brings nostalgic memories of our school days.
- We Don’T Have A Minority Status, Says Jamia Vc (Tribune, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 04, 2005)
Leading historian, academician and educationist, Professor Mushirul Hassan, the Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Milli Islamia is committed to changing the face of the university.
- Ode To Mercurial India (Deccan Herald, JAYALAKSHMI K, Sep 04, 2005)
The versatile nature of this vast country is revealed through the pen as well as through some spectacular images in this book.
- Communists Will Change — If It Suits Them (Deccan Herald, SUNANDA SANYAL, Sep 04, 2005)
Who says Communists do not change? They do, over time. The costs the people pay as a result are enormous, though.
- Speed Up Growth: Manmohan Singh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
Prime Minister unveils statues of Gandhiji, Ambedkar, Nehru at Assembly complex
- Discovery Of Pakistan? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
Given the historical baggage that weighs the two nations down, Aitzaz Ahsan's The Indus Saga: From Pataliputra to Partition may just reinforce established mindsets on both sides of the Indo-Pak border. After all,
- Square Peg In A Round Hole (Hindu, Usha Bhagat, Sep 04, 2005)
So much has been written about Indira Gandhi that not much can be expected from any new book on her.
- Demystifying General Dyer (Hindu, Aditi De, Sep 04, 2005)
He does not think he would have enjoyed Dyer's company if he had met him in the officer's mess. Nigel Collett talks about the controversial General and his recently-published book.
- Retold, In A Hurry (Hindu, S. SIVADAS, Sep 04, 2005)
Dharker was given three months to write the book, the deadline for the re-enactment of the Dandi march. That shows...
- Should Congress And (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Sep 04, 2005)
Unconventional wisdom is rarely honoured. But what is happening in India in political permutation and combination is a rarity as yesterday’s friends and foes are friends today.
- "India Can Become An Economically Powerful Nation" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2005)
Youth power will provide it the necessary edge, says Chidambaram
- A Doubter Who Likes Bhajans, Keertans (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Sep 03, 2005)
“He who doubts the existence of God perishes,” wrote Bapu Gandhi. I count myself among the doubters but I have not perished yet; as a matter of fact I’ve had a longer innings than Bapu’s and am still batting.
- Bhatnagar Award For B’Lore Scientists (Deccan Herald, DH news, Sep 03, 2005)
Two Bangalore-based scientists are among the 11 selected for this year’s Bhatnagar award, one of the country’s most prestigious prizes given in science and technology research.
- Last Words On The Raj (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Sep 03, 2005)
“A historian must make do with such ideas as he has, but he might always try to send them out in better shape.”
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