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Articles 3421 through 3520 of 3665:
- Quality Of Justice Is Not Strained (Indian Express, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Nov 27, 2003)
Don’t blindly increase the strength of the judiciary. Make the process of judge selection more rigorous
- For An Ocean Outlook (Hindu, B.G. Verghese, Nov 25, 2003)
India's perspective on the world is indeed changing. But the pace needs to be quickened and the ocean dimension never forgotten.
- Dreadful E-Bombs Are More Sci Than Fi (Business Line, Vinson Kurian, Nov 22, 2003)
AS an increasingly wired world comes to grips with the constructive (GSM/CDMA phones) and destructive (e-bombs) abilities of digital wireless technology, experts are wondering if all the electromagnetic waves unleashed would not pose a health hazard.
- Us And Them (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Nov 22, 2003)
A look at the best and worst of foreign media
- Slow On E-Governance (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 21, 2003)
INDIA, WHICH TAKES pride in being one of the leaders in the field of Information Technology, especially software, ranks very low when it comes to electronic governance — e-governance, as it is called. It actually ranks 77 in a list of 133 countries that h
- Karunakaran Sets A Deadline: Sack Antony (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 20, 2003)
More than two decades after Marine Drive in Kochi saw the unification of Congress factions in Kerala, senior leader K. Karunakaran today lined up 21 MLAs, including two Ministers, (the Congress has 62 in a House of 140) before an estimated 2 lakh people a
- Review Of The Economy - The Good, Bad And Ugly (Business Line, Alok Ray, Nov 18, 2003)
The global perception about India's growth potential is changing for the better. Going by the standard indicators, the economy is in good shape.
- Review Of The Economy - The Good, Bad And Ugly (Business Line, Alok Ray, Nov 18, 2003)
The global perception about India's growth potential is changing for the better. Going by the standard indicators, the economy is in good shape.
- The Crippled Poet (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 17, 2003)
Grace that shone in Guruvayoor
- Why Most E-Government Projects Fail (Business Line, Ashok Vardhan Shetty , Nov 15, 2003)
The simplistic assumption that e-governance is all about technology, and not reform, is one of the main reasons why many an e-government project fails. Only countries strong in governance and committed to reform can hope to succeed in their e-government e
- Why Most E-Government Projects Fail (Business Line, Ashok Vardhan Shetty , Nov 15, 2003)
The simplistic assumption that e-governance is all about technology, and not reform, is one of the main reasons why many an e-government project fails. Only countries strong in governance and committed to reform can hope to succeed in their e-government e
- Kerala Police Black List Leavesips Officers Out (Indian Express, Arjun Raghunath, Nov 15, 2003)
Resentment is brewing among the middle-level police officers in Kerala over the preparation of a black-list of police officers, sparing the IPS officers.
- Cross Cultures (Indian Express, Payam Sudhakaran, Nov 07, 2003)
As a Keralite in Nagaland, times were uncertain
- Lotteries: Regressive Taxation? (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Nov 07, 2003)
Do lotteries constitute a regressive form of taxation that ruins the poor? Those who play them are generating funds for projects that benefit the public, without tax rates having to be hiked. But, as most lotteries are played by people who can least affor
- Laugh, And Then Think (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Nov 05, 2003)
A dead man walks, we refuse to set our records straight
- Lessons From Track Two (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Nov 04, 2003)
As India embarks upon a new peace initiative with Pakistan, the experience of an Israeli professor who has led various experiments in Track Two or ‘Citizens Diplomacy’ worldwide might be instructive. Edy Kaufman, a professor at Hebrew University and in th
- Tea Trade Upset Over 10th Plan Targets - Ambitious And Unachievable, Complains Industry (Business Line, Deeptha Rajkumar, Nov 03, 2003)
`An unbridled increase in production with no corresponding rise in demand, will prove to be disastrous for the industry in the long term.'
- Karnataka Top Software Exporter: Esc (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2003)
KARNATAKA exported software worth Rs 14,100 crore ($2.91 billion) in 2002-03 to emerge as the leading software exporting State in the country, according to the Electronic and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC)
- Roll-On Roll-Off Short Sea Service Ideal For West Coast: Expert (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2003)
IMAGINE a situation where the members of a family driving in their car to the under deck of the ship from New Mangalore port and relaxing in the cabin or dormitories provided on the upper decks. If this comes true, the family members could drive out in Mu
- Deep-Rooted Connections (Hindu, Girish Menon, Nov 02, 2003)
In Kerala, the liquor tade has its roots in caste and communal politics.
- A Dangerous Mix (Hindu, SURESH NAMBATH, Nov 02, 2003)
While the liquor lobby is powerful in all the States, the cartels formed by the retailers have of late begun to tell on Government revenue.
- Hartals And Hideaways (Indian Express, J. L. Gupta, Oct 28, 2003)
It was October 1956. I had moved from the princely town of Patiala to the country’s most well-planned city, Chandigarh. Exactly 46 years later, on October 31, 2002, I was on board the Boeing to report for my new assignment in the state of Kerala.
- A Watchdog Weighed Down (Hindu, Anjali Modi, Oct 26, 2003)
The National Human Rights Commission is caught in a dysfunctional relationship with government and state.
- The Old Man And The Trap (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Oct 23, 2003)
What will prevent the Left from ditching Karunakaran as it sees fit?
- All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Rally (Indian Express, Anuradha C, Oct 20, 2003)
The recent order of the Kolkata high court seeking to exile rallies during busy weekday hours falls into a pattern of similar judgements since 1997, when the Kerala court banned bandhs in the state. Ironically, the ruling comes at a time when rallies are
- Double-Speak: Antony Gives It Left, Right, Centre (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Oct 19, 2003)
Accusing the Marxists of double standards, Kerala Chief Minister A.K. Antony today said the activities of the Left parties, especially the CPI(M), in Kerala should serve as ‘‘an eye-opener’’
- Do Nothing, Risk Nothing, Hopefully (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Oct 19, 2003)
With the crucial ‘‘semi-final’’ round of Assembly elections less than six weeks away, the Congress is trying hard to come out of the blue phase it is stuck in, but as of now the party leadership appears bereft of any action plan but one — keep things in l
- Indusind To Open Office In Dubai (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2003)
Indusind Bank, a technology-driven Indian private-sector bank is opening its first ever overseas office in Dubai this month to strengthen NRI and international trade services. IndusInd MD Bhaskar Ghose said here that the move will also strengthen its Gulf
- An Insidious Campaign (Hindu, K. Srinivas Reddy, Oct 19, 2003)
From being confined to isolated backward pockets of Andhra Pradesh and Bihar, the naxalites have spread their network across several States
- 7-Cm Indian Purple Frog Leaps 100 Million Yrs (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Oct 17, 2003)
It’s just 7 cm long. It’s purple in colour. It looks like a balloon and lives a metre below the surface. It’s a frog. Hitherto unknown, it’s our very own though it has been around for a while: 140 million years.
- Winged Fears (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
Dengue is a reminder that disease prevention should never go off the national radar
- States And Fiscal Reforms (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Oct 16, 2003)
The complaint of the more developed States is that they are being punished for performance.
- Breaking Free From Industrial Agriculture (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Oct 15, 2003)
WHAT are the real costs of food? When we buy a kg of rice or wheat, have we at any time wondered what its real cost could be against what we pay in the shop? We only are concerned about the `market' price of food, and not what it costs to produce.
- Speeding Up Justice (Indian Express, Arun Firordia, Oct 14, 2003)
Reform, reform, reform: that’s the need of the hour if justice is to be done
- Cong Lowers Pawar Heat As It Rushes To Douse More Fires (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
Drops NCP ultimatum, works on Jogi back-up
- ‘delay In Taking Decisions Can’T Be Dubbed A Failure’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2003)
Do you think it would be appropriate not to take any action against K Muraleedharan and K Karunakaran in Kerala, both considered by majority Malayalees as obstacles worse than CPM to the current Antony administration
- The Curdled Controversy (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Oct 10, 2003)
IT IS now almost a year since the simmering tensions between Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF or Amul) Chairman, Dr Verghese Kurien, and his counterpart at the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Dr Amrita Patel, came out in the..
- Dengue Spreads Wings Across India (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Oct 09, 2003)
4,720 cases, 78 deaths reported
- Making Services Work For Poor (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Oct 09, 2003)
Broad improvements in human welfare will not happen till poor people receive wider access to affordable services in health, education, water, sanitation and electricity, warns WDR 2004. Rightly concluding that no one size fits all, it describes eight, and
- Muzzling Democratic Expression (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2003)
THE RULING BY the Calcutta High Court prohibiting processions and rallies on weekdays — after taking suo motu notice of inconvenience caused to the public in the form of a traffic snarl — is the latest in a sequence of judicial ...
- Green Fuels Sooner Rather Than Later (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Oct 08, 2003)
Govt says its plan on ethanol and biodiesel well on track
- Chasing The Monsoon (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2003)
AFTER LAST YEAR'S drought, one of the worst in the past hundred years, has come a monsoon that has spread cheer across the country. The countrywide rainfall between June 1 and September 30, which for official purposes constitutes the period of ...
- Confluence Of Artists Gives Final Touch To Finale (Indian Express, K. Shivakumar, Oct 05, 2003)
THE countdown has begun. With just two days left for the grand finale — the Vijayadashmi procession — the premises of the Mysore Palace has transformed into a melting pot of skilled labours, artists and petty businessmen from different states.
- Newsreel: 28.09.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2003)
Andhra CM N Chandrababu Naidu survives with a shoulder injury after PWG activists set off landmine blasts on the Tirumala-Tirupati road. Probe is ordered by the Andhra government and several cops are suspended.
- Kpcc Chief To Explain Bypoll Defeat To Sonia (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2003)
Maharashtra PCC chief Ranjit Deshmukh having already met Congress president Sonia Gandhi today, it is now the turn of the party’s Kerala unit chief K. Muraleedharan to explain what went wrong in the Ernakulum bypoll.
- Mpcc Finds A New Reason For Solapur Fiasco: Pota (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Oct 04, 2003)
There is a new reason for the Solapur disaster. Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee chief Ranjit Deshmukh has said the party lost the seat because of POTA. A report that the PCC sent to the high command says as many as 37 POTA cases were registered ...
- Cpm To Fight Cong In States, Ls Option Open (Indian Express, Santwana Bhattacharya, Oct 02, 2003)
Almost making the party’s anti-Congress move in Kerala the guiding principle, the CPI-M today ruled out the possibility of an alliance with the Congress in the forthcoming Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh or Chhattisgarh.
- Left Tempts ‘leader’ With Red-Carpet Offer (Indian Express, Santwana Bhattacharya, Oct 01, 2003)
A day after Chief Minister A K Antony’s candidate was defeated in the Ernakulam Lok Sabha by-election, the CPI(M) moved in for a bigger kill: it tempted Antony’s bete noire K Karunakaran, whose support for Left-backed Sebastian Paul led to the Congress...
- Warning_signals_for_congress (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2003)
WITH LESS THAN a year to go for the parliamentary polls, the defeat in the two Lok Sabha by-elections in Kerala and Maharashtra should serve as a warning to the Congress. The losses, to the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front in Ernakulam and to the ...
- Security’s Vain Apparatus (Indian Express, Sakuntala Narasimhan, Sep 26, 2003)
In the wake of September 11 2001, rules governing international travel have been tightened and security checks intensified for visas, immigration, and flight check-ins. But how foolproof are these procedures?
- Will The Real Indian Investor Stand Up? (Business Line, R. Y. Narayanan, Sep 25, 2003)
SOUTH Indians, normally considered to be risk averse when it comes to investing, have thrown a surprise by piping the people of Western region to emerge as the largest investing group in capital market related investments.
- Birthday Party Thoughts (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Sep 25, 2003)
Most Indians were gratified to hear that J.M. Lyngdoh had been awarded the Magsaysay Prize. But should that mean that the (doubtless overworked) Chief Election Commissioner should rest on his laurels, ignoring his primary responsibility — namely the duty
- Why No Ayurvedic Oil Can Make Cong Bend Back To Please The Two (Indian Express, E. P. Unny, Sep 25, 2003)
The Karunakaran-Antony feud, celebrating its silver jubilee, threatens even to alter the state’s bi-polar polity
- A Special Cocoon Called Spc (Business Line, K. Srinivasan , Sep 25, 2003)
THE Naresh Chandra Committee expresses the view that clause (d) of Section 13(1) of the Companies Act, 1956 lacks clarity with regard to what constitutes `incidental objects'. It is pointed out that this lack of clarity has caused companies to draft ...
- Why This Cuts A Sorry Picture For Cong Only Karunakaran Can Say (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 24, 2003)
The posters said it all: Karunakaran and Indira Gandhi beaming at the voters with Sebastian Paul posing alongside.
Ernakulam today saw a Congress nightmare on the streets as supporters of K Karunakaran, who is at loggerheads with partyman and Chief...
- Showcasing Gujarat, The Vibrant Way (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Sep 24, 2003)
FINALLY, Vibrant Gujarat, the latest in the long running saga of international investor meets featured in various parts of the country, is just around the corner. While the last one to make a big hurrah in this direction was the Global Investor Meet (GIM)
- To Help You Choose, Govt To Rank Private Colleges (Indian Express, Diptosh Majumdar, Sep 23, 2003)
HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi may be now keeping his entire department in limbo but days before he resigned, he took a far-reaching decision: the Government will grade and rank all licensed private engineering and management colleges across the country
- ‘cpm Distributed Anti-Govt Pamphlets In Mosques’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 22, 2003)
Shortly before concluding his three-day campaigning for the party candidate M.O. John, Kerala Chief Minister A.K. Antony alleged CPM hands behind the large scale distribution of anti-Government pamphlets in various mosques in Ernakulam these days.
- Pricing Problems (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2003)
IN THE entire CAS controversy, the role of the pay channel broadcasters remains the most puzzling, and has led to allegations that they are still not willing to countenance a CAS future. Even after the introduction of CAS, they were offering prices of
- Living On Myths (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Sep 20, 2003)
People believe in myths of their own making; the greatest of these is that they are more peace-loving than others and if there is violence, it is never caused by them but by their enemies. We Indians proclaim our being peace-loving from our house tops ...
- Don’t Delink Muslims From The Rest Of India (Indian Express, M. N. BUCH, Sep 17, 2003)
Proposals that seek to institutionalise a Muslim vote bank are certainly not tools for empowerment
- Desperate Mamata’s Saffron Dip (Indian Express, Diptosh Majumdar, Sep 16, 2003)
The Centre’s minister-minus-portfolio Mamata Banerjee today showed up at an RSS book-release function and, erasing all her past utterances against the RSS and VHP, simpered: ‘‘Yours is a truly patriotic organisation.’’
- Good News Pours: There’s Water, Water In Reservoirs Everywhere (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Sep 15, 2003)
To get an idea of why it has been raining good news, visit the country’s reservoirs: last year’s depleted levels are a thing of the past, the reservoirs considerably replenished.
- India's Civil Aviation Needs Free Flight (Business Line, Danish A. Hashim, Sep 15, 2003)
THE first commercial flight in India was made on February 18,1911, when a French pilot Monseigneur Piguet flew airmails from Allahabad to Naini, covering a distance of about 10 km in as many minutes. Since then several attempts have been made to boost ...
- Bjp’s Six-Fold Path (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2003)
There's no one quite like Venkaiah Naidu. Words come fast and furious to this party president, as in a torrential flow. Before he knows it, they arrange themselves into pretty lines and catchy slogans, and politics begins to rhyme and chime. Venkaiahspeak
- Sree Narayana Guru (Indian Express, V. MANIYAN , Sep 11, 2003)
Like Adi Sankaracharya, Sree Narayana Guru (whose birth anniversary was yesterday) propagated Advaita (non-duality) in the early 20th century.
- Now Science Is Behind Us On Ayodhya, Says The Deputy Pm (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Sep 11, 2003)
: Joining the debate over the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) report on the Ayodhya excavations,
- Forest Dept To Sue Kseb For Elephant Deaths (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 07, 2003)
The Forest Department will initiate legal action against the Kerala State Electricity Board for its alleged laxity which caused the electrocution of four wild elephants in Thannithode forest station limits under Ranni forest division on Wednesday.
- In The Red (Indian Express, Amrith Lal, Sep 05, 2003)
When CPI(M) members in Kerala accuse each other of being CIA agents, the party’s in trouble
- Md, Ma, Mba: The New Degrees Of Terror (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2003)
Gujarat cited as reason by many arrested and they aren’t exactly madarsa products
- Thanksgiving Time For Sharon (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 02, 2003)
One hot summer morning in Haifa three years ago, a group of Bene Israelis from Bombay turned out to greet travelling Indian journalists with stories of their recharged lives since they had migrated to Israel in the late 1960s. The older women, dressed up
- Marad Probe: Govt Says It Sent Reply, Nhrc Says No (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Aug 29, 2003)
The reply which the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) sought from the Kerala government over the Marad issue is fraught with confusion as the DGP claims that he had sent the report and the Commission denying it.
- Leander Alarm Could Be Your Wake-Up Call (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Aug 27, 2003)
When doctors at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre concluded that Leander Paes was not suffering from a tumour but from a parasitic infection called neurocysticercosis, the tennis star’s family and his army of fans heaved a sigh of relief.
- Miracle Called Atal, Illusion Named Sonia (Indian Express, Balbir K Punj, Aug 27, 2003)
The country replied to the Sonia Gandhi piloted opposition no-confidence motion many hours before the vote in the Lok Sabha.
- Dream On, For The Future (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Aug 27, 2003)
Words slide, slip, perish, decay with imprecision, but some continue to assail the amnesia of time. Among the famous words of the last century that continue to have a rare resonance in this one, are those from Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a Dream’ oration
- Bull By The Horns (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Aug 26, 2003)
The proposed ban on cow slaughter is bad politics, worse economics. It will only make life tougher for the animals
- The Ramanandis (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Aug 25, 2003)
This is not about upholding agendas but about our right to know. Thus, when Swami Nritya Gopal, who succeeded Swami Paramahans as head of the Ramanandi sect in Ayodhya, says, “Hindus and Muslims will build the temple together”, it may not necessarily be a
- How Safe Is Our Water? (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Aug 24, 2003)
Groundwater is easily polluted and restoring its quality is impossibly expensive
- Allies Make Bjp Climb Down The Cow (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2003)
TDP, Trinamool, JD (U), PMK, Left, RJD all oppose, Govt agrees to all-party meeting
- Modi In London (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Aug 20, 2003)
Narendra Modi triggered multiple word associations on his recent trip to London, all of them sinister. The GUARDIAN took one look at the visitor and thought Pinochet. His enemies, it noted, liken him to Hitler, Milosevic, Pol Pot. The paper remembered
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