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Articles 3521 through 3620 of 3665:
- Going Ahead With A Disastrous Project (Deccan Herald, Sudhirendar Sharma, Aug 20, 2003)
A systematic programme to counter the opposition to river-linking project ignores the danger of water-logging
- Soft-Drinks And Low-Gluten Wheat - Nourishing The Bottomline (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Aug 20, 2003)
IN THIS era of unbridled globalisation — where making a fast buck has become the market mantra — two events have cast a deep shadow on the nation. While one rocked Parliament, the other has escaped the attention of most.
- Congress And Dissent (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2003)
THERE COULD BE two explanations for the decision of the veteran Maharashtra Congressmen, Vasant Sathe and N.K.P. Salve, to form a new party, the Vidarbha Rajya Nirman Congress (VRNC). The first, and less flattering one, is that the decision was ...
- Mnc Boss Finds His Vocation: He’s His Village Schoolmaster (Indian Express, Vijay Rana, Aug 18, 2003)
DuPont’s South Asia chief returned home to Bichaula and, in 3 yrs, transformed lives of girls from poor homes
- ‘bring Law To Curb Pesticide Use’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 16, 2003)
The alarming presence of hazardous pesticides in our environment poses a problem no different from such ills as fake medicines and food products. As you have said in your article, the real shock of this cola episode is the fact that now we have an ...
- Drink On India, The Law’s An Ass (Indian Express, RATNA RAJAIAH, Aug 15, 2003)
Is the ‘pesticides in Pepsi and Coke’ controversy a case of gross systemic failure or simply NGO activism gone mad
- Opposition Table Talk: Let’s Meet Again (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 14, 2003)
Leaders of major Opposition parties, in their very first meeting after the Congress made it known in Shimla that it was open to alliances, tonight decided to put up ‘‘a united fight’’ to oust the BJP-led government at the Centre.
- ‘your Poison May Be My Food’ (Indian Express, CITHARA PAUL, Aug 13, 2003)
A day after the Union Cabinet okayed the move to ban cow slaughter across the country, Kerala became the first state to oppose the proposed law, saying beef constituted nearly 40 per cent of the total meat consumed in the state.
- No Beef In This Law (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2003)
This Bill could have been drafted by the VHP. In this parliamentary session, before the upcoming assembly polls in November, the government is set to shepherd legislation that proposes a nationwide ban on cow slaughter.
- Per Capita Income Growth In The States (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Aug 12, 2003)
Much of the discussion of the growth performance of States stems from perceptions of aggregate output performance rather than per capita output growth. In this edition of Macroscan, investigate trends in per capita State Domestic Production of the major
- Polls In Mind, Govt Herds Its Cow Bill (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 12, 2003)
The Cabinet today approved two proposals which would give the BJP much to tom-tom about in the run-up to the Assembly elections. At a hastily-called meeting, the Cabinet okayed a Bill banning cow slaughter throughout the country and another granting state
- The Shah Bano Legacy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2003)
THE SHAH Bano case was a milestone in the Muslim women's search for justice and the beginning of the political battle over personal law. A 60-year-old woman went to court asking maintenance from her husband who had divorced her. The court ruled in her
- The Great Justice Divide (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Aug 09, 2003)
‘‘If there’s a divide here, it is between those who want to see justice done and those who don’t’’, Zaheera Sheikh, prime complainant and star witness in the Best Bakery Case, told TIME. But the magazine wasn’t persuaded by Sheikh’s unshaken faith. Its...
- Ushering In Computer Literacy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2003)
SOME TIME NEXT week Chamravattom village in the Malappuram district of Kerala will claim to be the first in the country to be "one hundred per cent computer literate," in a manner of speaking. One person in each one of the 850 households in the ...
- No Sufia, Not You (Indian Express, Samar Halarnkar, Aug 08, 2003)
What could drive a soft-spoken, God-fearing doctor to inhumanity? What could lead him to believe his God wanted him to learn about explosives, and then detonate bombs in buses and trains? What did he feel when his innocent victims were literally torn ...
- The Road Goes Uphill From Shimla (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Aug 08, 2003)
At Shimla the Congress ostensibly reversed the decision it had taken in Pachmarhi in September 1998. The question at Pachmarhi, as at Shimla, was: Should the Congress open up for coalitions?
- Supreme Court Strikes (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2003)
IT WOULD BE no exaggeration to state that the Supreme Court's decision in the Tamil Nadu Government staff strike case has largely gone the State Government way. True, the Court has not upheld as valid the orders issued under the Tamil Nadu Essential ...
- Too Soft On Drinks (Business Line, Sudhirendar Sharma, Aug 08, 2003)
THE charge that a set of soft-drinks contains a cocktail of pesticide residues may put the MNC giants in the dock, but it also exposes the inherent weakness of a system to ensure quality of products, especially those mass-consumed.
- Democracy Versus Demography (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Aug 08, 2003)
To deny the right to be elected undermines Indian democracy to create two classes of people on a suspect classification based on the number of children a person has.
- Home And The World: Revisiting Violence (Indian Express, BINA AGARWAL, Aug 07, 2003)
While there is no simple answer to why men abuse their wives, balance of property could prove a deterrent. An analysis.
- Strike Not Your Right Any More: Sc To Govt Staff (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2003)
A day after it forced the Tamil Nadu Government to reinstate 1.65 lakh employees who had been dismissed for going on strike, the Supreme Court today delivered a strongly deterrent ruling that government employees do not have ‘‘a legal or fundamental or
- Govt Ready With Bill To Protect Rights, Of Cows (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Aug 07, 2003)
Hardening its earlier stand and making it compulsory for all states to implement, the Centre is ready with a Bill prohibiting the sale of beef across the country, slapping jail terms and fines for ‘‘cruelty’’ against cows.
- Greenpeace For Closure Of Kerala Coca-Cola Plant (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2003)
International environment campaigner Greenpeace has demanded closure of the Coca-Cola plant at Plachimada in Palakkad district claiming that the sludge from the plant was found to contain hazardous heavy metal contents and for violation of ground water an
- Because Ayesha’s Consent Matters (Indian Express, Murlidhar C. Chandare, Aug 06, 2003)
Ayesha attended one of the legal awareness camps. She had come with her two young daughters, Amina and Aziza. The speakers had impressed upon the participants that under our Constitution women had equal rights with men.
- Kosovo To Delhi: Death Came A Phone Call Later (Indian Express, Amba Batra, Aug 06, 2003)
Satish Chandra Menon of BSF is first UN casualty in Kosovo in 4 years
- Interlinking Problems (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2003)
THE DECADES-OLD proposal to link all of India's major rivers with one another was revived with much fanfare last year. Most political parties welcomed it then as a solution to the country's drinking water and irrigation problems. But it has not ...
- A Predicament Of Plenty (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 05, 2003)
SOME YEARS AGO, it would have been difficult to imagine a situation in which the supply of engineering seats greatly exceeded the demand. This is precisely the situation, or rather predicament, in Tamil Nadu today. The State has about 240 ...
- More Food For Thought (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2003)
Here's a thought. They should make the mid-day meal scheme an index of effective governance. Not just because its benefits are immense in relation to its costs, but because it targets the most vulnerable and the least articulate section of Indian citizens
- Advani Pitches For A Uniform Poll Code (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Aug 03, 2003)
Lok Sabha, state polls together for better governance, he says; real reason could be to ensure lonely Cong pitted against allies
- Waiting For The Two (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Aug 03, 2003)
All indicators point to a revival of the economy. No one will be happier than the BJP. In the five years that Atal Behari Vajpayee has been Prime Minister, he has been served by two Finance Ministers and three Ministers of Industry and Commerce.
- Treating Mother Cauvery Well (Indian Express, S. VENKATARAMAN, Jul 30, 2003)
The article,‘Barren Mother Cauvery’by Mani Shankar Aiyar (IE, July 8) is a well-reasoned one. But some of what he says needs an appraisal.
- The Silence At 10, Janpath (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Jul 28, 2003)
They say the Congress picked up the gauntlet at Shimla. Sonia’s party declared its readiness for elections, anytime, anywhere. It announced its willingness to strike bargains with other political parties to defeat the BJP and allies. It asserted it will
- Chugging Along The Samata Track (Indian Express, Raju Santhanam, Jul 27, 2003)
The following resolutions were passed at a ‘‘secret’’ conclave to resolve the crisis in the Samata Party. • The party condemned the casteist politics of Laloo Prasad Yadav. It was decided that Nitish Kumar would head a panel that would look at discrim
- Dangerous Games (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2003)
IN A STATE like Kerala where denominational identities such as caste and religion influence the political discourse substantially, a waspish remark by the Chief Minister, A.K. Antony, to the effect that minority religious groups wield undue clout ...
- Rajya Sabha: Bjp Can Finally Swing An Nda Majority (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Jul 26, 2003)
If the BJP were to replace the eight retiring nominated members of the Rajya Sabha with its own men and women on August 26, the NDA is all set to acquire a majority in the 243-seat upper house.
- Spare A Thought For These Places As They Fell Off This Year’s Monsoon Map (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Jul 25, 2003)
Yesterday when a Karnataka MP demanded that the Centre provide free grains for drought, heads turned, bewilderment written all over. Drought during the monsoon fury? How’s that possible?
- Kerala’s Minority: Secularists (Indian Express, V K MADHAVAN KUTTY, Jul 24, 2003)
Not one political party in Kerala has the right to point fingers at any party. Every one of them has succumbed to various pressures to gain power or stay in power. This process has made communalism in the state grow from strength to strength. In fact ...
- Attack On Panchayati Raj (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 23, 2003)
A LITTLE OVER a decade after the 73rd and 74th Amendments to the Constitution were enacted, the dream of panchayati raj is turning sour. While in a few States — West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh are notable examples — elections have been ...
- Divided Fronts (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 22, 2003)
In Kerala, the UDF and the LDF are too busy fighting themselves to worry about the world
- Negligent Karnataka (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 21, 2003)
RECENTLY, I had occasion to go on a sightseeing tour of Kerala and Karnataka with my relations who had come from the US. Kerala lived up to the brand image it has successfully built up all over the world as "God's own country". Indeed, this is how tourist
- 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
- Bjp Dispute: Sonia Janmabhoomi (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Jul 19, 2003)
The Bharatiya Janata Party, on the inaugural day of its three-day national executive, linked Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origin to the country’s security, but promptly retracted. The party first fielded general secretary Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who, reacted
- The Marad Impasse - Ominous Portent (Hindu, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Jul 18, 2003)
Marad is a beautiful beach along which Hindu and Muslim fisherfolk live in proximity but separately. The communal carnage there has convulsed Kerala. The criminal episode is under investigation by the State police. Bitterness among the Arayas (Hindus)
- No Surprise This: Met Got Monsoon Forecast Wrong (Indian Express, Ashok B Sharma, Jul 18, 2003)
In April, it predicted ‘below normal’ rains while US and European forecasters get it right
- The Spirit Of Sauda And Mir (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Jul 18, 2003)
Tod kar butkhana masjid toh beena ki toone Sheikh; Barhaman ke dil ki bhi kuch fikr hai taameer ki? (O Sheikh, when you destroyed that idolhouse, you did two things: You broke the temple and you broke the heart of the Hindu who worshipped there. Now that
- 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.
- Unresolved At Shimla (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Jul 17, 2003)
History tells us that the rulers of Delhi have always lost the battles of Panipat. (When Rajiv Gandhi, then prime minister and thus master of Delhi, described the Haryana Vidhan Sabha polls of 1987 as “the fourth battle of Panipat” he betrayed a gift for
- After Shimla (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Jul 14, 2003)
The Congress has sought to do away with a self-imposed handicap and deny the BJP the advantage of the exclusive use of the coalition strategy.
- Demographic Demonology (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Jul 10, 2003)
Spectres of demographic pollution and inundation inhabit all modern right-wing ideologies. They kindle fears of conversion, miscegenation, the blurring of identities and, above all, in a democratic age where numbers matter in politics, the swamping of ...
- Change Of Role (Telegraph, Janaki Nair, Jul 09, 2003)
By forcing the sankaracharya to become their message bearer, the sangh parivar has reasserted its right to have the final say on Ayodhya
- Plenty Out Of Reach (Telegraph, BHASKAR DUTTA , Jul 03, 2003)
There are reports that this year’s rains may also be deficient. Since the total rainfall last year was also below normal, these reports have raised the spectre of droughts and starvation deaths in some parts of India. Not surprisingly, a recent panel ...
- Wanted: A Sportsman In Parliament Team (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 29, 2003)
Milkha Singh wants sportspeople included in the decision-making process. Shamya Dasgupta talks to some and gets their ideas for a better sporting system
- 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
- Get ’em To Class And Keep ’em There (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Jun 17, 2003)
We are witnessing an unprecedented thrust on “empowerment” — a target pivotal in achieving the right balance between equality and social responsibility. There is no doubting the fact that education is the basic necessity for attaining such empowerment.
- 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 ...
- Much Ado Over The Poor Cows (Telegraph, A.J. Singh, Jun 11, 2003)
The fact that politicians can go to any length to win elections and retain power is no secret. This was very much in evidence in the debate over the issue of banning cowslaughter. Digvijay Singh, the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, tried to rework a
- 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.
- Karnataka Flays Formula For Distress Season (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2003)
The Cauvery Monitoring Committee has decided to set up a technical experts’ panel to hammer out differences on the draft formula for sharing water during a distress season as Karnataka refused to accept the formula straightaway at today’s meeting as . . .
- Monsoon Sets In Over Kerala (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2003)
Thiruvananthapuram, June 8
The southwest monsoon set in over the Kerala coast on Sunday, a full week behind schedule.
- Probe Sought Into Atrocities Against Children (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2003)
Thiruvananthapuram June 2. The State Council for Child Welfare has urged the National Human Rights Commission to conduct a special investigation into the alleged atrocities against children during and after the police action against tribals at Muthanga. .
- Rci India To Focus On China (Business Line, Anjali Prayag, Jun 03, 2003)
Developing China as a favoured holiday destination among Indians will be RCI India's biggest focus this year,
- Motorcycle Sales Surge In May (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2003)
Motorcycle sales increased in May, with Hero Honda Motors recording a jump of 12 per cent, while that of LML surged by over eight times.
- Budget Class Hotels Thriving In Kovai (Business Line, R. Y. Narayanan, Jun 03, 2003)
Business class hotels in the medium budget category were still having good occupancy rate in the city despite the industrial recession.
- Cauvery Meet Put Off (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Jun 03, 2003)
The 17th meeting of the Cauvery Monitoring Committee, scheduled for June 6, will now be held on June 9.
- Double Fault (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 05, 2002)
TWENTY days after Gandhiji's birthday, not many years ago, a police inspector of Chalakudy intercepted Rajendra Prabhu (RP) and recovered 30 gold biscuits of foreign markings from his car.
- The Law And The Circulars (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Feb 05, 2002)
FISCAL laws depend on a proper administration for their success. The bare Act and the rules merely lay down the policy structure. Rigorous implementation will throw up conundrums and questions of interpretation will arise.
- ‘Three Pms Couldn’t Have Been Wrong In Inducting Me’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 04, 2002)
With assembly elections just two years away, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is a man in a hurry.
- Sorry State (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 04, 2002)
FEW STATES ARE in the comfort zone vis-à-vis finances. With deficits running high, their recent report cards look depressing. Its coffers empty, the Orissa Government has little breath to manage its affairs.
- Sorry State (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 04, 2002)
FEW STATES ARE in the comfort zone vis-à-vis finances. With deficits running high, their recent report cards look depressing. Its coffers empty, the Orissa Government has little breath to manage its affairs.
- Globalisation And Decentralisation (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Feb 03, 2002)
Where existing structures of inequality are left intact and become compounded with the disadvantages of marketisation, political empowerment is a useful slogan, not a realistic or genuine goal.
- India And The Global Slowing (Hindu, Pulapre Balakrishnan, Feb 01, 2002)
The prevalent tendency to link the slowing of the Indian manufacturing sector to the recession in the U.S. economy needs to be rejected as deluding.
- The Other Front (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 31, 2002)
The NDA leaders are not too worried about its biggest possible challenger, namely, the People’s Front.
- New Roads (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 31, 2002)
It also suffered a humiliating defeat in the prestigious Shahjahanpur parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh, where its nominee was the widow of the late Jitendra Prasada, a stalwart of the party.
- What The Assembly Verdicts Foretell (Telegraph, SURENDRA MOHAN, Jan 31, 2002)
The assembly elections for the states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Union territory of Pondicherry have caused great joy within the Congress.
- ‘Ncert Has Corrected The Approach Towards The Teaching Of Civilisation’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 29, 2002)
Though the controversy over the newly-overhauled syllabi structure for schools still hasn’t simmered down, it has Human Resources Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi’s blessings.
- Kitted Out (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 28, 2002)
The relationship between law, science and society could be fraught with problems.
- Farmer Suicides In Kerala's Rice-Bowl -- High-Input Tech Kills Agriculture (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Jan 28, 2002)
EVEN as the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns continue to be stacked to the ceiling and New Delhi remains directionless as regards food management, down South, in Palakkad, once Kerala's `rice bowl'.
- Unleashing A Whirlwind (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 27, 2002)
The VHP has been allowed to beat the Ayodhya drum again... To reach a crescendo by the next Lok Sabha poll? Nenna Vyas reports with inputs from J.P.Shukla.
- The President’s Mind (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 26, 2002)
PRESIDENT K.R. Narayanan has lived up to his reputation for making the customary Republic Day-eve address to the nation a testament of personal belief.
- Kerala's Financial Crisis (Business Line, A. Jacob Sahayam, Jan 25, 2002)
Faced with mounting financial difficulties `Kerala unveils harsh steps to overcome financial crisis' (Business Line, January 10).
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