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Articles 3321 through 3420 of 3665:
- Tragic Death (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 30, 2004)
The suicide of a student has snowballed into an unwarranted political issue
- J.R.D. Tata — The Humane Entrepreneur (Hindustan Times, T. Damu , Jul 29, 2004)
A hundred years ago on July 29 was born one of the heroes of Indian industrial revolution — Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata.
- Crusading Courts (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 28, 2004)
Right to protest should not infringe on another’s fundamental right
- Suicidal Matters (Business Line, K.G. Kumar, Jul 26, 2004)
THE gruesome suicide of 22-year-old Rajani S. Anand has shaken the conscience of Kerala. A student in computer engineering at the College of Engineering, Adoor, run by the Institute of Human Resource Development
- Politics Sullies Water Disputes In India (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 26, 2004)
Seven Christian missionaries were attacked allegedly by RSS workers at a Scheduled Caste colony on Saturday in Kerala, for providing material assistance to a Dalit family.
- Left Provides Life Support To Manmohan (Tribune, Tripti Nath, Jul 25, 2004)
D. Raja, National Secretary of the Communist Party of India perhaps knew that he was a cut above the rest in his student days when he earned the distinction of being the first graduate in his village, Chiththoor in Tamil Nadu.
- Siding With Beasts In Wildlife Habitats (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Jul 24, 2004)
Recently there have been reports of leopards entering bustees on the outskirts of Mumbai and taking human lives. Elephants are known to emerge from their forests and destroy crops, hutments and trample people underfoot.
- To All Those Missing Daughters (Business Line, D. Murali , Jul 24, 2004)
On that fateful Friday last week, the Kumbakonam calamity was already top on international news feeds, reporting of the blaze in an ill-fated girls school.
- Caste Iron (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 21, 2004)
The Bombay High Court has sent a strong message to bandh organisers-too strong perhaps to serve as a holistic answer to the problem at hand.
- Aicc Revamp: Reward And Punishment (Hindu, K. V. PRASAD, Jul 19, 2004)
Nearly two months after the Congress came to power at the Centre via the coalition route, the party president, Sonia Gandhi, set herself to the task of re-building a team to run the affairs of the All-India Congress Committee.
- Punjab Slowdown Dismays World Bank (Tribune, P. P. S. Gill, Jul 16, 2004)
Hold your breath! Here is a warning: the World Bank has forecast a gloomy future for Punjab. And if its current growth slowdown persists for another decade, by the end of it Punjab would no longer be the most prosperous state in the country.
- India Considers Historic Rewrite (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 16, 2004)
In the past five years, Indian schoolchildren of all faiths have learned quite a bit about the culture of the Hindu majority.
- India Playing With Maoist Fire (Asia Times, Sultan Shahin, Jul 01, 2004)
India appears to be taking a big gamble with Maoist insurgents. Encouraged by the central government in Delhi, the ruling Congress-led coalition government in the state of Andhra Pradesh has removed a nine-year-old ban on the People's War Group . . .
- Sometimes Some People Can Ride On A Tractor (Business Line, D. Murali , Jun 26, 2004)
Is Tractor a road transport vehicle? This question came up before the Allahabad High Court recently when deciding the case of an investment allowance claim by a UP Government undertaking which was giving on hire tractors fitted with trolleys.
- Tackling Droughts (Tribune, Mohan Dharia, Jun 26, 2004)
Droughts in the country have become a permanent feature and the severe drought during this year is perhaps the worst since the past few years. The matter was discussed in Parliament and during his intervention the then Prime Minister ...
- Tap Tourism Potential With Brand India (Business Line, P. Srivatsan, Jun 25, 2004)
Tourism is an important sector, though it accounts for just about one per cent of GDP. It has immense potential and can reach 5 per cent of GDP if proper policy support and related infrastructure are put in place.
- When Farmers Die (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Jun 22, 2004)
Almost every sector failed the Andhra Pradesh farmer — the Government, the political class, intellectuals, planners, human rights groups, a once-activist judiciary and the media.
- When Losers Are Victors (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Jun 21, 2004)
AS a cub reporter in the early seventies, I found it quite thrilling interviewing Mr P.M. Sayeed, who had just been elected for the first time from Lakshadweep. And a few years ago, when he visited our village as the chief guest at a church's centenary...
- Not Left Out (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 20, 2004)
"Power without responsibility. This is a canard spread by bourgeois commentators and superficial television journalism, which seeks to tar all parties with the same brush," says the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member, Prakash Karat.
- The Power Of Steam (Business Line, Surendra Bhargava, Jun 19, 2004)
That energy can be of any form — mechanical, electrical, wind or thermal — is the crux of a recent tax tribunal decision
- The Upa And The Cauvery Dispute (Hindu, Ramaswamy R. Iyer, Jun 14, 2004)
What is needed is an agreement on a sharing formula for distress years. Whatever the flows, they must be shared and shared fairly.
- Women Mps Resent Reduced Strength (Tribune, Tripti Nath, Jun 12, 2004)
The demand for 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament seems to be a pipe dream in an environment that stunts the growth and advancement of women.
- Somnath As Speaker (Hindu, Era Sezhiyan, Jun 10, 2004)
Somnath Chatterjee as Lok Sabha Speaker symbolises the hopes for the dignity and credibility of Parliament.
- Marriage Bureau For Hiv Positive People (Tribune, Amrit Dhillon, Jun 09, 2004)
“I’M KALYANI, I'm a teacher and HIV-positive. Can you find a match for me please?” This is typical of the emails sent to Kottaram George, a social worker in Kerala, who runs a marriage bureau for people who are HIV-positive.
- Primary Education: Low Coverage, Poor Quality (Business Line, Sangeeta Goyal, Jun 09, 2004)
The really critical aspect of the Indian public education system is its low quality. Even in educationally advanced States, an unacceptably low proportion of children who complete all grades of primary school have functional literacy. Moreover, the ...
- Primary Education: Low Coverage, Poor Quality (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Jun 09, 2004)
The really critical aspect of the Indian public education system is its low quality. Even in educationally advanced States, an unacceptably low proportion of children who complete all grades of primary school have functional literacy.
- Oceans And Kerala (Business Line, K.G. Kumar, Jun 08, 2004)
LAST weekend was World Environment Day, and today is World Oceans Day. This time round, both are linked by a common theme - the need to protect oceans. The World Environment Day's theme for 2004 is `Wanted! Seas and Oceans: Dead or Alive?'
- Sagarmala Project: Kochi Port Charts Major Plans (Business Line, Sajeev Kumar. V , May 31, 2004)
The Kochi port is taking initiatives under the Sagarmala Project to emerge as "a global hub port of India" offering single-window services for diverse requirements of the maritime trade.
- The Reds Under Manmohan's Bed (Asia Times, Sultan Shahin, May 28, 2004)
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government is now in place. The inevitable hiccups in the appointment of a 68-member council of ministers (cabinet) from as many as 12 alliance parties have been sorted out.
- The Dynasty Continues (Guardian (UK), editorial, Guardian UK, May 14, 2004)
The result came as a complete surprise to everyone but the people who matter in an Indian election. Not online India, the India of software developers, the India that produces 2 million graduates a year, the India with a runaway economy widely . . .
- India's Pm Expected To Form Coalition (The Scotsman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 11, 2004)
INDIA’S prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, was expected to scrape back into power this week, after voting ended yesterday in the fifth and final stage of the country’s marathon election.
- Sharing River Waters (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
THE BROAD AGREEMENT reached between Tamil Nadu and Kerala to revise the Parambikulam-Aliyar inter-State water accord, which lapsed in 1988, clearly signals that the best way forward in resolving such disputes lies in negotiation and conciliation, ...
- Amway Comes Under Scanner Of Drug Control Authorities (Business Line, Ratna Bhushan, Jan 06, 2004)
AMWAY India, wholly-owned subsidiary of the US-based Amway Corporation, has been caught in a controversial situation.
The company has, for the second time, come under the scanner of the Drug Control Authority at least in one state - Kerala — for ...
- Congress In Catch-22 Situation (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jan 06, 2004)
NEVER before in its long history has the once venerable Congress party faced the crisis it is undergoing today. Because it is, in national terms, in danger of becoming the perennial second party. There are many reasons for the Congress predicament, but
- Force Of Corruption (Telegraph, SANKAR SEN, Jan 06, 2004)
In a matter of a few decades, corruption has taken deep roots among the police, mainly owing to political interference
- Kerala To Conduct Cb Probe (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
The Kerala government has decided to conduct a Crime Branch (CB) probe into the fake stamp paper transactions in the state and all other related cases on the basis of the report submitted by the Thiruvananthapuram sub-collector.
- Kerala, Tn To Sign Pact On River Waters In March (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
THE Chief Ministers of Kerala and Tamil Nadu will meet in March to sign a revised Parambikkulam-Aliyar inter-State river water sharing agreement, as per the understanding reached at the end of `successful' ministerial-level talks held here on Sunday.
- Lal Badshah (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Jan 04, 2004)
IN the telegrammatic world of newspaper headline writers, a chestnut that resurfaces periodically, especially in the murky, confusing seasons before and after an election, when coalitions are simultaneously evaporating and solidifying is ‘‘Surjeet active
- Anti-Incumbency Will Help Cong In (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Jan 04, 2004)
Whether it was the National Front, the Janata Dal, the United Front and now the Congress, every political party or formation that Lok Sabha MP S. Jaipal Reddy has been associated with, he has always been its most visible face. He is also known for his ...
- Sultans Of Swing (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Jan 04, 2004)
Until the 1980s, who knew peanuts about Sufi music? Except in Kashmir and Punjab, or in the inner world of baateen (esoteric) Islam, in Delhi, in Nagaur, in Lucknow, Hyderabad and Bhopal, in Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, at secret samas (Sufi musical
- How To Win Allies And Form Fronts (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Jan 01, 2004)
With increasingly clear signals that general elections may be less than six months away, the cauldron of Opposition politics — simmering for the past five years — started bubbling with new vigour on New Year’s eve today. Congress president Sonia
- Leading The Alliance (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
IF SONIA GANDHI came tantalisingly close, last Sunday, to suggesting that the Congress party would not make her prime ministerial candidature a necessary condition for a pre-electoral alliance, a day later the party's spokesman came close to ...
- Congress Badly Bruised By Poll Defeat (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Jan 01, 2004)
POLITICS is like a game of cricket. A team could be cruising along comfortably but one fine bowling spell can prove devastating, converting a certain victory into defeat. Something similar appears to have happened to the Congress this year. It was riding
- Two-Child Norm (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
THE Population Foundation of India’s concern in its annual report over spurt in female foeticide in 11 states including Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh is timely. Figures speak for themselves on the magnitude of the problem. From 945 per 1000 in 1991
- In 2004, Just Ban Bans (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Dec 31, 2003)
Those who browse around on the internet are familiar with the www.dhmo.org website and several chain e-mail messages resulting from it. After all, this stuff has been floating aro–und for at least two years. I won’t give you all the details. You can look
- Congress, Bjp And Coalition Politics (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Dec 30, 2003)
The Bharatiya Janata Party said today that the Congress ``had not learnt the correct lessons'' in conducting coalition politics. The party was reacting to the statements made by the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, at a press conference in Mumbai on...
- Coming: A Happy New Year (Telegraph, Shankar Aiyar, Dec 30, 2003)
“Writing,” wrote Hazlitt, “concentrates the mind wonderfully.” Defeat does so even more wonderfully. Even while those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad, so as the Bharatiya Janata Party reels drunken with triumphalism over its upset ...
- Will Bjp’s Hype Turn Into Votes? (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Dec 29, 2003)
If hype is an indicator of victory, and the BJP has certainly managed to create it around its victory in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, then the party is on its way to notching up the 300 Lok Sabha seats that Venkaiah Naidu has been talking
- Sonia For Alliance First, Leadership Later (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2003)
2004: ‘Let people decide if I’m acceptable as PM, I want to work with other parties’
- Gujarat Knows The Pain, Lends A Hand (Indian Express, PRARTHNA GAHILOTE, Dec 28, 2003)
Govt disaster team on alert, blood on stand-by, 23-member rescue unit is ready to go
- Dissidence In Congress (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2003)
WITH THE DISSIDENT faction in the Punjab unit of the Congress agreeing to let the AICC president, Sonia Gandhi, handle the inner-party rivalry, the Chief Minister, Amarinder Singh, appears to have earned a respite. The Agriculture Minister, ...
- A Story Of Factional Oneupmanship (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Dec 25, 2003)
In the end, it was to be a mega non-event — the talk of "resignation" by the central office-bearers of the Congress and the members of the Congress Working Committee. It turned out to be a story of factional oneupmanship, and of lessons unlearnt. After
- Theatre Of The Sacred (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Dec 24, 2003)
As Lithuania’s ambassador to UNESCO explained so aptly — “In 1972, when the World Heritage Convention was adopted, the world was still very Eurocentric and heritage was seen as just churches and castles. A first step towards a broader concept was the ...
- Political Bosses As Reformers (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 24, 2003)
The new anti-defection law does not address the core of the problem: entrenched traditions and practices of bossism in every political party.
- Confusion After Polls (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 23, 2003)
THE en-mass resignation of Congress Working Committee (CWC) members and All-India Congress Committee (AICC) office-bearers is too hackneyed to enthuse party workers. Whoever had thought of this idea had not been original for beginning with the Kamaraj ...
- Cong Leaders Quit For Madam, She Says Who Asked You For It (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Dec 22, 2003)
Thrashing for answers in a sea of crises, AICC leaders today clutched at every Congressman’s last straw, resignation, with most of them ‘‘voluntarily’’ quitting their posts in the Congress Working Committee.
- ‘poll Managers? Jaitley Never Fought One, Mahajan Lost His Ls Election’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2003)
• Congress seems to be suffering from cancer. A popular government, cooperative allies, and a chief minister with a clean image. I am talking about Kerala where senior leader K Karunakaran and his son-elect-KPCC chief is trying to destabilise the ...
- Hideaway In The Hills (Indian Express, George N Netto, Dec 19, 2003)
Few are aware of its existence. Deep inside the core area of Munnar’s famed Eravikulam National Park, and far away from its noisy and overcrowded tourist zone, is a simple, spartan lodge encircled by an elephant trench and shaded by a small copse. Nearby
- Supreme Court And The Common Man (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 19, 2003)
The Supreme Court breathed life into Article 21 of the Constitution by expanding the meaning of the words "right to life" as not mere animal existence, but as life with dignity.
- Measure For Measure: States Vie To Do Better (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Dec 18, 2003)
State-specific HDRs throw up piquant data. No wonder they are becoming part of poll discourse
- Water Problem: Don't Allow It To Precipitate (Business Line, Mathew Kurian , Dec 17, 2003)
NO ONE — not even governments, for that matter — remains complacent about a possible water scarcity that we may have to face — next season next year; may be in the next decade. The UN predicts acute and widespread water shortage the world over by 2030.
- Post-Reform Anomaly — Parts Not Keeping `Full' Pace (Business Line, K. Parthasarathi, Dec 17, 2003)
THE overall growth rate of the country should not blur our vision to the growing disparities in the prosperity level, per capita income and job opportunities from State to State. The strategy for a higher growth in these sub-par States should be multi
- Arrests In Hal Over ‘recruitment Racket’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 16, 2003)
An alleged recruitment racket also involving ‘‘stealing blueprints and spares of the Light Combat Aircraft’’ at the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) was busted today following the arrest of a senior official.
- `Hartal Tourism' (Business Line, Anupama. R , Dec 16, 2003)
COME to Kerala. Experience the magic of the lush green landscapes and backwaters. Have a wonderful time in one of the world's favourite holiday destinations. And occasionally watch your life come to a standstill on a hartal.
- Who Is Afraid Of The Immigrant? (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Dec 15, 2003)
AS I gazed at the photograph depicting a Bihari job-seeker fleeing from the two-legged hounds who call themselves Shiv Sainiks at a railway station in Mumbai last week, I was reminded of my uncle's favourite story. After his pre-university course, he had
- Doomed In The Womb? (Hindu, Asha Krishnakumar , Dec 14, 2003)
Is the fall in the number of girl children closely linked to the declining sex ratio at birth resulting from female foeticide? On the situation in the four southern States.
- For Sonia, Unity Doesn’t Begin At Home (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Dec 14, 2003)
Even AS Congress chief Sonia Gandhi repeated her call to secular parties to join in her ‘‘fight against communalism’’, storm clouds gathered over the AICC headquarters here today.
- Nothing Has Changed In The Congress (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Dec 14, 2003)
To the exclusion of almost every other subject of importance, Delhi has been discussing, with much surprise and dismay, the Congress' self-inflicted wounds in the national capital. For this, there are good reasons.
- Bitten By The Bug? (Hindu, R. Krishna Kumar, Dec 14, 2003)
There is a view that Kerala may no longer be an exception to the worsening gender bias in India.
- A Symbol Of Hope (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2003)
At least Lalita’s labour is not lost
- Sad Times For Sonia (Tribune, H. K. Dua, Dec 10, 2003)
And the party has run out of ideas
- A Little Learning Or None (Telegraph, Suhas Chakma, Dec 09, 2003)
The Union human resource development minister, Murli Manohar Joshi, has reportedly taken an affront to UNESCO’s 2003 Education For All Monitoring Report, and flayed the organization for making wrong projections on India. Joshi stated that the report’s ...
- A Wake-Up Call For The Congress (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Dec 06, 2003)
NOW that the all-important assembly elections are over and the people having given their verdict, it is time for the Congress to take a good, hard and most importantly an honest look at what exactly went wrong. While drawing vital lessons from its ...
- Party Sick So Hospital Good Place For A Truce? (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Dec 06, 2003)
Leaving partymen to brood on what went wrong in the three states they lost in one day, at least one worried Congress chief minister decided to make a dash to hospital: for the sake of his party’s health and of his own government.
- Flavour Of The Times (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Dec 04, 2003)
Incompetence and delays mark the working of key institutions
- Staving Off An Impending Crisis (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 2003)
ON THE EVE of World AIDS Day, the Union Government announced that it would start supplying antiretroviral drugs free of cost to HIV/AIDS sufferers in the country. For the moment the treatment will be available only in six States where the ...
- No Woman Judge In Supreme Court (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 2003)
After India became a nuclear power, Pakistan did not waste much time and immediately responded with its own successful explosion. But it took an awfully long time for Pakistan to be on an even keel with its adversary in the appointment of the first woman
- Waiting Game In Kerala (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2003)
WHILE THE CRISIS is far from over for the A.K. Antony Government in Kerala, the Congress faction led by the former Chief Minister, K. Karunakaran, seems to have lost momentum in its toppling game. Mr. Karunakaran's plan of action involved meeting ...
- Two Parties, Two Pyramids (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Dec 01, 2003)
This round of assembly elections has brought into sharp focus the leadership dilemmas of both the Congress and the BJP. The Congress has a galaxy of new contenders at the state level, but there are hardly any leaders besides Sonia Gandhi who have come ...
- Kerala Crisis: Congress Waits For Deadline To End (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 27, 2003)
While the Congress decided to put every other issue on the backburner till the end of Assembly polls, senior party leader K. Karunakaran’s sustained offensive is making it difficult for the party to wait and watch before dealing with the Kerala crisis.
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