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Articles 2721 through 2820 of 3686:
- Political Hiccups (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Nov 28, 2003)
A pathetic pursuit of ratings, the quest for more advertising has caused TV channels, newpapers and weeklies to focus so heavily on elections in the four northern states that Mizoram seems almost outside the Indian Union.
- Vajpayee Is Confident: Pak Took Its Time But I’M Sure It’Ll Work (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 27, 2003)
On Day One of the border ceasefire, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said Pakistan agreed to it after ‘‘long persuasion’’ and sounded confident that the truce would hold and cross-border terrorism would end.
- Politics Of Drought Favours Gehlot (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 26, 2003)
ALMOST all opinion polls have placed the Congress(I) in a pretty comfortable position in Rajasthan. In the villages around Jaipur and Ajmer that this correspondent visited, the Rajasthan Chief Minister, Mr Ashok Gehlot, is looked upon as an annadata.
- Politics Of Drought Favours Gehlot (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 26, 2003)
ALMOST all opinion polls have placed the Congress(I) in a pretty comfortable position in Rajasthan. In the villages around Jaipur and Ajmer that this correspondent visited, the Rajasthan Chief Minister, Mr Ashok Gehlot, is looked upon as an annadata.
- Murasoli Maran, 1934-2003 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 25, 2003)
FOR SOMEONE REGARDED as the quintessential backroom strategist, Murasoli Maran found himself pitch-forked on to centrestage on quite a few occasions. Television clips of an incensed Mr. Maran challenging the Tamil Nadu police during the notorious midnight
- Development Via The It Road (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Nov 25, 2003)
All efforts to build a modern India will fall flat if efforts are not made to enlist the support of the IT professional, who has demonstrated his abilities in distant shores.
- Development Via The It Road (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Nov 25, 2003)
All efforts to build a modern India will fall flat if efforts are not made to enlist the support of the IT professional, who has demonstrated his abilities in distant shores.
- Report On Trend And Progress In Banking 2002-2003 — Revitalising Banking Through Radical Reform (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Nov 24, 2003)
THE latest review of the Trend and Progress of Banking in India, which covers the year 2002-03, is comprehensive, analytical and insightful.
- Report On Trend And Progress In Banking 2002-2003 — Revitalising Banking Through Radical Reform (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Nov 24, 2003)
THE latest review of the Trend and Progress of Banking in India, which covers the year 2002-03, is comprehensive, analytical and insightful.
- Atrophied Roots Of American Capitalism (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Nov 24, 2003)
From being a beacon for the free world, America could end up as an example of the anarchy that results from brute and unchecked financial Darwinism, with disclosures about the American corporate world and financial market shenanigans showing no signs of a
- Breaking The Kadam Taal In Kashmir (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 24, 2003)
OVER THE YEARS, efforts to bring about a negotiated end to carnage in Jammu and Kashmir have resembled what soldiers call the Kadam Taal: the parade-ground art of marching briskly on one spot without actually moving forward. But even hardened sceptics con
- Corruption... A Canker No More? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 23, 2003)
Society is more tolerant of those operating on the fringes of the law and this has allowed the political class to be blase about certain things, which were a strict `no-no' in the past. Alok Mukherjee reports.
- Report On Trend And Progress Of Banking In India (2002-03) — The System Is On A Roll (Business Line, A. Seshan, Nov 22, 2003)
Despite all the scams in the financial sector, the latest Report on Trend and Progress of Banking in India brings the tidings that the system is in good shape. There are, of course, bad patches, as in the case of urban cooperative banks and ot her financi
- Sena Goons Follow Ulfa, Attack Rly Examinees From Bihar (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 22, 2003)
For many in Mumbai, this seems to be a replay of the Shiv Sena agitations of the Sixties and Seventies to demand reservations for ‘sons-of-the-soil’.
- Report On Trend And Progress Of Banking In India (2002-03) — The System Is On A Roll (Business Line, A. Seshan, Nov 22, 2003)
Despite all the scams in the financial sector, the latest Report on Trend and Progress of Banking in India brings the tidings that the system is in good shape. There are, of course, bad patches, as in the case of urban cooperative banks and ot her financi
- 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
- The Education Challenge (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 20, 2003)
THE UNESCO EDUCATION For All (EFA) report on the elimination of gender disparities in enrolments raises many questions for governments and civil society in India and other developing countries.
- Build Consensus On Divestment (Business Line, S. M. Dewan, Nov 19, 2003)
Once a consensus is achieved, political logjams can be averted and petitions in court that lead to delays and derailment of the development process reduced, if not eliminated. It will also improve India's image internationally.
- Build Consensus On Divestment (Business Line, S. M. Dewan, Nov 19, 2003)
Once a consensus is achieved, political logjams can be averted and petitions in court that lead to delays and derailment of the development process reduced, if not eliminated. It will also improve India's image internationally.
- Who Rules The Automobile Market Really? (Business Line, Shyam G. Menon, Nov 19, 2003)
JUST how important is Hero Honda or for that matter how relevant is Tata Motors' plan for a people's car? To figure it out, discount first the high-decibel advertising by car manufacturers and try this simple analysis of monthly sales figures from the Soc
- Rss Saffron Has Many Colours: One For Dalit Bangaru, Another For Judeo (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Nov 18, 2003)
When the BJP’s first Dalit president Bangaru Laxman was caught on tape accepting Rs 1 lakh in cash, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was quick to condemn him the same evening as a ‘‘failed swayamsevak.’’ But in the case of Dilip Singh Judeo, the Sang
- Frames Of Shame (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 17, 2003)
The NDA govt has many achievements to its credit, it should quickly clean this ugly blot
- Congress Hopes It Can Milk Judeo Tape And So Whitewash Jogi (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Nov 17, 2003)
The Congress, so far on the defensive in Chhattisgarh as it battles the cloud over Chief Minister Ajit Jogi—facing alleged forgery charges and EC stinkers—seized upon the videotape in The Sunday Express expose and made it clear that it would be utilised b
- Higher Education: Perilous Prospects (Hindu, K. N. Panikkar, Nov 17, 2003)
What is undesirable is the concept of self-financing as practised today, as it represents a clear shift towards commercialisation.
- Cong Parties, Hopes For Bigger Do On Dec 4 (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Nov 16, 2003)
At Iftar, Sonia stokes ‘complete hope of success’
- Initiative With The Incumbent (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 16, 2003)
The BJP is Delhi is handicapped by the absence of any major election issue, says SUJAY MEHDUDIA.
- Cpm Set To Back Cong In Andhra (Indian Express, Santwana Bhattacharya, Nov 16, 2003)
The CPI(M) today decided to commit itself to an alliance with the ‘‘Congress-as-the-opposition’’ for the Andhra polls to defeat the BJP-TDP combine after having backed out in the other states as the Congress is the ruling party there.
- Hands Full (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Nov 16, 2003)
With a few smaller parties in the fray, CM has more than BJP to reckon with
- Festive Oct Drives Car, 2-Wheeler Sales (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 15, 2003)
THE festive month of October has brought in good news for the automobile industry, particularly the two-wheeler manufacturers.
- Is It Advantage Congress? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 14, 2003)
From first impressions it appears the Congress(I) is ahead in Delhi, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, which go to the polls next month along with Madhya Pradesh, where, however, the party is not so happily placed. Rasheeda Bhagat surveys the electi on scene.
- Is It Advantage Congress? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 14, 2003)
From first impressions it appears the Congress(I) is ahead in Delhi, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, which go to the polls next month along with Madhya Pradesh, where, however, the party is not so happily placed. Rasheeda Bhagat surveys the electi on scene
- Rattled Rabri Cracks The Whip, Her Fingers Crossed (Indian Express, Varghese K George, Nov 14, 2003)
Bihar-Assam tension simmers, re-test soon
- Privilege Unlimited (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Nov 14, 2003)
If Indians and their media cannot criticise their rulers in the legislatures, who will?
- The Japanese Verdict (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 13, 2003)
FOR A COUNTRY where the two-party system was not even a dream for half a century, Sunday's parliamentary election result in Japan had one clear message. It announced the arrival of an opposition party that can offer an alternative to the Liberal Democrati
- Personal Undertakings (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 11, 2003)
The PSU expose reveals that our ministers have learnt little from the Petrol Pump Scam.
- Personal Policies (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Nov 09, 2003)
Minister of State for Finance A V Adsul wanted his loyal political worker Anwar Ibrahim Qasi to be appointed as his assistant personal secretary. But the Shiv Sena minister was thwarted by the Department of Personnel which turned down his candidate on the
- Fission And Fusion (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 06, 2003)
THE LEADERS WHO were part of the Janata Party experiment in the post-Emergency period have been part of an endless cycle of squabbling among themselves and coming together to form new political formations. The merger of the Samata Party and the ...
- After 16 Months In Prison, Vaiko Rues The Day He Supported Pota (Indian Express, Jayaraj Sivan, Nov 05, 2003)
Sixteen months is a long time, longer if it is in the loneliness of a prison cell. ‘‘It has given me enough time for introspection. Two major mistakes I committed in my political career were supporting POTA in Parliament and aligning with the AIADMK in th
- George Fails To Move Dmk On Pota (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 04, 2003)
The Centre’s efforts to mollify the DMK on the issue of POTA fell flat tonight after the party president, M. Karunanidhi, stuck to his ground that nothing short of a repeal of the act was acceptable.
- To Bargain With Bjp, Stall Cong, Regional Players Come Closer (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Oct 30, 2003)
Pushed against the wall and wary of the upcoming polls, regional parties within the NDA have begun the process of getting together to increase their collective clout vis a vis the BJP.
- An Amendment With A Message (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Oct 30, 2003)
The Centre and the Tamil Nadu Government seem to be in a ``conflict mode'' now, with State authorities feeling the heat on two crucial and sensitive issues: the ordinance amending the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act and the notification making
- The Thirteenth Step (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Oct 28, 2003)
Indo-Pak normalisation not possible without dialogue
- Bill Gates Flogs A Dead Horse (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Oct 27, 2003)
A premier agricultural research body’s misplaced priorities are increasing rather than decreasing hunger in the world
- ‘bjp Doesn’T Have Double Standards, They Say Whatever’S In Their Mind’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 27, 2003)
You are very proud of your humble origins, and the fact that you still live life more or less in the same style...
- Georgian Mystery (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Oct 23, 2003)
Something’s cooking in defence minister and NDA convenor George Fernandes’ pot. But apart from dropping hints calculated to whet appetites, he’s not letting anyone in on his secret.
- Assam Bjp Gets New Chief, To Whip Up Anti-Influx Stir (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Oct 21, 2003)
The newly-elected president of BJP’s Assam unit, Indramani Bora, who took over on Monday said the party would renew its pledge to get the controversial Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, saying infiltration of Bangladeshis was the most imp
- Ram Versus Rajya (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 18, 2003)
It’s poll time in two weeks, will the BJP trust its wisdom or succumb to instinct
- Vajpayee On Vacation (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Oct 16, 2003)
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee gave himself a day out in Indonesia last week, wrapping up an afternoon of bilateral meetings before the ASEAN summit with a shopping expedition at an upmarket department store in the resort city of Nusaduwa. It was his
- Uncertainty After Cancun Collapse (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 16, 2003)
The collapse of the ministerial signals the beginning of a tension-ridden holiday for the WTO in the immediate future
- Making Trouble But Going Nowhere (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
THE SHOCK FORCES OF THE Sangh Parivar, spearheaded by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, have nowhere to go in Ayodhya — having demolished the Babri Masjid more than a decade ago but unable to take forward the project of building a Ram temple on ...
- Sonia's Friends And Foes (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 16, 2003)
Her friends and foes alike refuse to let Sonia Gandhi's natural handicaps define the limits of her leadership
- Cancun: A Mere Show Of Strength (Business Line, Alok Ray, Oct 15, 2003)
NOT totally unexpectedly, the Cancun Ministerial of the World Trade Organisation meeting has concluded without yielding any agreement. The major stumbling blocks were the massive agricultural subsidies (estimated at be around $300 billion annually by the
- Hindutva Rate Of Growth (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Oct 14, 2003)
There is hype and hypocrisy in economic projections
- Party Pooper Vhp (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
If BJP’s anniversary do is overshadowed by Ayodhya, it has only itself to blame
- Disinvestment In Danger (Business Line, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Oct 14, 2003)
The imbroglio over the attempts to privatise HPCL/BPCL, and now bringing up the issue of splitting up IOC could actually jeopardise the entire divestment programme of the Union Government, says Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, who looks at the oil PSU s privatisat
- ‘we Made Mistakes Like Discouraging Private Sector, We Are Changing Now’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 13, 2003)
You are the only Marxist ruler, if I could call you so, in the whole world. Isn’t it so, and an elected one at that, barring the small government in Tripura
- Suspicious Times (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2003)
CBI would do well to remember that it, finally, is accountable only to the public
- Enlightenment, Buddha Style (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 11, 2003)
If India’s east is to emerge at all, Kolkata and West Bengal must be the engine
- Return Of The Hawala Calculations? (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 10, 2003)
Suddenly, the BJP's political rivals find themselves having to answer to the investigative agencies.
- Mci Diagnosis To Govt: 11 Medical Colleges You Cleared Too Sick To Work (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Oct 08, 2003)
AP prime culprit, may affect 900 students
- Jogi Charged, So Is His Party And The State (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2003)
Queering the pitch for the Congress ahead of the Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, the CBI today filed a chargesheet against Chief Minister Ajit Jogi for ‘‘dishonestly or fraudulently’’ using a forged document to tarnish the image of the Intelligence...
- Making Nfl Privatisation Work (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , Oct 08, 2003)
FOLLOWING the lukewarm response to the Government offer for divestment of 51 per cent of its equity holding in the National Fertilisers Limited (NFL) the Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers, Mr S. S. Dhindsa, has reportedly renewed his demand for
- So Many Degrees Of Superstition (Indian Express, Shobhit Mahajan, Oct 07, 2003)
How are Sanjay Paswan’s antics different from chanting hymns at public functions
- Looking East (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2003)
THE MOVE TO upgrade the level of the Bangladesh-India-Myanmar-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) forum to a summit needs to be welcomed. For six years now, the regional economic cooperation forum, which seeks to bridge South Asia ...
- 100 Per Cent Reservations Anyone? (Indian Express, Rakshit Sonawane, Oct 06, 2003)
The move of the BJP-led NDA government towards legislating a separate quota for the economically backward among the “forward” castes by amending the Constitution represents one step forward, two backwards.
- Bobby Jindal One Step Away From Us Poll History (Indian Express, Scott Gold, Oct 06, 2003)
Touting Republican values, he defies Indian label and is favourite in the race
- Key Indo-Us Deal Is Gliding Ahead: Powell (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 06, 2003)
Defence, N-tech and space are covered in agreements
- Politics Of Cancun Failure — Us Stance Hardens Towards G-20+ Nations (Business Line, Seema Gaur, Oct 06, 2003)
American negotiators are criticising leaders of the G-20+, especially Brazil which is one of the world's largest agricultural producer of soy beans, beef, oranges and coffee, for posing as less-developed countries when their economies are, in fact ...
- Hiv-Positive Children Will Get Free Drugs (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Oct 05, 2003)
Sushma makes a promise which will cost ministry thrice its budget
- Left Front Meet Decides To Take Judiciary Head On (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2003)
The CPI(M)-led Left Front (LF) today decided to put the West Bengal government in confrontation with the judiciary vis-a-vis the Calcutta High Court order banning political processions and meetings on working days between 8 am to 8 pm.
- Ioc In Privatisation Ambit; No Judicial Review In Hpcl, Bpcl Case (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2003)
The Cabinet Committee on Disinvestment (CCD) on Friday brought Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) into the ambit of privatisation. The government said it could sell its stake in the IOC, a Fortune 500 company, exercising its executive power while looking into..
- Open Goal, Closed Minds (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 04, 2003)
Hockey’s out of its hole, but an establishment that doesn’t value its stars is pushing it back in
- Reserved: Upper-Caste Vote (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2003)
Constitution to be amended for quota for ‘economically backward’
- Pseudo-Victory At Cancun? (Business Line, Geethanjali Nataraj, Oct 03, 2003)
No doubt, the firm stand by the G-21 was a major moral victory for the developing world at Cancun. But the latter also lost out by the sidelining of other issues vital to their progress. As much as the rich countries need to pay serious attention to the..
- Let's Start From The Scratch (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Oct 02, 2003)
Cheap credit, SMP/SAP, crop insurance, free power... Agriculture policy-making has been reduced to tinkering with an eye on votes. It is time the slate of farm policies was wiped clean for a new draft with a new architecture and a new ambition
- Congress(i) And Poll Preoccupations (Business Line, Rup Lal Sharma, Oct 02, 2003)
THE by-poll results are out and most major parties have some gains but also suffered major upsets, especially the Congress(I). Its losing the by-elections to the two Lok Sabha constituencies of Sholapur (Maharashtra) and Ernakulam no doubt came as a ...
- Cancun Collapse: Opportunities And Threats (Business Line, Pradeep S. Mehta, Oct 01, 2003)
Can the developing countries sustain the solidarity they forged at Cancun? In that lies the answer to the future of the WTO and what it stands for — equitable trade. The developing countries can do it if they first start trading among themselves more
- Blair Faces Hard Labour (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Sep 26, 2003)
The Labour party's own rank and file is in revolt against the Prime Minister, Tony Blair's policies.
- Wto Must Survive - On The Paradigm Of Give And Take (Business Line, Anil K. Kanungo, Sep 26, 2003)
The development dimension of the developing countries was a key aspect of the Cancun Ministerial. Unfortunately, that did not take off.
- Empty Bowls At Mexican Fiesta (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Sep 26, 2003)
The no-show at Cancun being tom-tommed by India as a major achievement can only be good politics and rhetoric, but this is certainly not good economics. Coming once every two years, a World Trade Organisation ministerial should be looked at as an ...
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