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Articles 2821 through 2920 of 3686:
- Battle For The Silver Medal (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 25, 2003)
There's an unholy tussle on between the Advani camp and Joshi loyalists on the mechanics of resolving the latest crisis in the BJP. Advani supporters want Murli Manohar Joshi to withdraw his resignation, which would leave him looking silly. The Joshi camp
- ‘india Can Be A Little More Magnanimous’ (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Sep 25, 2003)
Major General (retd) Mahmud Ali Durrani was head of the Board of the Pakistan Ordnance Factories when he retired from the Pakistan Army in September 1998. Member of the Balusa Group started by Shirin Tahir-Kheli — who is senior director for democracy ...
- Justice Delayed... (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Sep 25, 2003)
To nobody's surprise the Rae Bareli Special Court's judgment in the Babri Masjid demolition case continues to dominate most discussions in the nation's capital, as elsewhere. It has overshadowed even the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee's ongoing
- Dogmas Prevail Over Pragmatism (Deccan Herald, J Rajagopalachari, Sep 25, 2003)
If economic efficiency is achieved, there will be more than enough money for the uplift of the downtrodden
- Joshi At Home, His Deputy At Work With A Cobra Necklace (Indian Express, Varghese K George, Sep 24, 2003)
His resignation on the table, Murli Manohar Joshi may already have a worthy successor in the Union HRD Ministry. Minister of State Sanjay Paswan who, after Joshi’s love for Vedic mathematics and astrology, wants tantrik practices and exorcism included in
- Divestment Blues (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 24, 2003)
BY ALL ACCOUNTS, the Supreme Court judgment of last week is a blow to the disinvestment process. By ruling that the Government cannot privatise HPCL and BPCL without the approval of Parliament, the Court has, at the very least, set the clock ...
- Warning From Rae Bareli (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Sep 23, 2003)
The right or wrong of an action is all that morality is. It is how you perceive it. Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi felt that the right thing for him to do was to quit if the special court at Rae Bareli decided in favour of framing
- The Bank Disconnect (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 23, 2003)
CAN NUMBERS ON bank credit offtake provide clues to economic trends when a large number of medium and big corporates are consciously staying out of the banking system? Quite a large number of companies run treasuries playing the equity and debt markets,
- Politicians And Real Issues (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Sep 22, 2003)
Politicians believe that they will prosper forever by targeting outdated issues such as reservation. What they have not realised is that election gimmicks yield fruit only once. However, they are not solely to blame. Those who parade as pro-poor intellect
- Useles Jaunts (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 22, 2003)
IT WAS an ugly surprise for me to notice the presence of the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Dr Y. V. Reddy, at a meeting of the Inter-Governmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development held at Dubai on September 19
- Wanted: Vision (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 22, 2003)
Vajpayee addresses the UN at a crucial point in history. This should impact his speech
- Cancun And Its Aftermath (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Sep 22, 2003)
The developed economies will not make the extra sacrifice not merely because it is not in their nature to hurt their domestic industry and farm lobbies beyond a point, but because their hackles have been raised by the success of the developing countries
- ‘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.
- Beijing-Moscow-New Delhi Trialogue (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Sep 22, 2003)
The significance of the upcoming trialogue is not to be underestimated because China, India and Russia represent the vast majority of the global population.
- Sitting Ducks And Cold Turkey (Indian Express, Raju Santhanam, Sep 21, 2003)
Finally it had to happen.
I had become the NDA’s latest Mamata interlocutor. When the Cabinet secretary requested me to sort out the Mamata ‘thing’. I was wondering whether describing Mamata as a ‘thing’ was an apt way to describe her. The only ‘thing
- Unspeakable Bias (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Sep 21, 2003)
Normally a change of guard in the state government is followed by the removal of the assembly speaker. But Mulayam Singh Yadav is happy to allow the BJP MLA Kesrinath Tripathi to continue as speaker of the UP assembly. After all Tripathi has been most ...
- Reforms, ‘via Bathinda’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 20, 2003)
While some of the more unabashed supporters of economic reforms may now be blaming the Supreme Court for spoiling the party and even puncturing the bull balloon on the stock markets, the truth is that real opposition to all deregulation and privatisation
- Slow Drift On First Track (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Sep 19, 2003)
Is the sweetness in Indo-Pak relations about to end? We shall know when General Pervez Musharraf addresses the UN General Assembly on September 24. The gaps that must have been left in Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s speech scheduled for September 2
- The Taliban In Our Midst (Indian Express, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Sep 18, 2003)
The biggest indoor stadium in Ohio City, USA, was recently alive and vibrant with thousands of people. The event: India Day celebrations. Thousands of Indians from all religious groups were present and participated exuberantly in the festivities. One ...
- Two Fugitives And Their Undying News Video Show (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 18, 2003)
Forget the written word, the spoken word is making itself heard now — more so than ever in Iraq and Afghanistan. And the spoken word is itself raising a lot of questions.
- A Reckless Approach (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 18, 2003)
ISRAEL WILL THROW Palestinian society into utter turmoil, invite disaster upon itself and totally destabilise West Asia if it carries out its threat to assassinate the Palestinian Authority President, Yasser Arafat. This threat has not been ...
- The Last Lesson At Nalanda (Indian Express, PARSHU NARAYANAN, Sep 18, 2003)
I had to attend a wedding at Patna and managed a side trip to Nalanda. As I walked into the ruins, a huge dark sadness descended on me. Nalanda, the greatest ever Buddhist university, with its hundreds of monks and thousands of books, was destroyed by ...
- A Nadir Over A Summit (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 18, 2003)
Yashwant Sinha’s right: Saarc is the only event New Delhi should confirm for now
- The Hurriyat Meltdown (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2003)
AT ONE LEVEL, the formation of a parallel All Parties Hurriyat Conference led by Islamist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani is not news. The new organisation simply gives formal shape to the long-standing de facto schism among secessionist ...
- Why Everyone Loves A Good Psu (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Sep 17, 2003)
No wonder Union Minister Ram Naik was celebrating today’s decision. For once again, the NDA Government has directed the autonomous Navratna and Miniratna public sector undertakings, including BPCL and HPCL, to shell out Rs 29.50 crore to enable its blue
- Anti-Reformers Stock Up On Gas (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2003)
Though the Supreme Court made it clear that its decision today has nothing to do with the policy of disinvestment, the NDA Government will be forced to go on the backfoot on the entire process.
- On The Road To Ayodhya (Indian Express, MIRZA A. BEG, Sep 17, 2003)
Muslims should be magnanimous to resolve the Ayodhya dispute. A laudable idea! Compromise is better if it brings peace. Three questions need to be addressed to attain this worthy aim: Sanctity of religious beliefs; compromise with whom; and will the ...
- His Fight To Read Begins In Goa Jail, Ends With A Library In Up (Indian Express, SUMANT BHATTACHARYA, Sep 16, 2003)
After Express report which led to PIL, Sudhir Sharma got books to read in jail, now free he gets others to read
- How Many Votes For A Suicide? (Indian Express, SHANTANU DATTA, Sep 16, 2003)
The land of a zillion mouse-clicks is focused on the morbid these days. Suicides among the farming community are the subject of heated debate. The Silicon Capital is also doing its bit, and studies by the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro
- Asleep At The Wheel (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Sep 16, 2003)
Since private preference must yield to public obligation, I regret I cannot cheer the nomination to the Rajya Sabha of my four-decades old friend and university-mate, Bimal Jalan, whose expertise as an economist I have long admired.
- What Next For The Wto? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2003)
A FIASCO IN 1999 at Seattle and now a collapse at Cancun in 2003 speak poorly of the World Trade Organisation. After two major failures at ministerial conferences in the past four years, the WTO now faces a crisis of legitimacy. This is a crisis ...
- Bureaucracy Beware (Hindu, R.K. Raghavan, Sep 16, 2003)
The Best Bakery case has renewed concerns about the relationship between the police and the prosecution... the two could conspire to sabotage justice in its widely perceived sense.
- Final Attempts To Save Cancun After South Rejects Draft (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Sep 15, 2003)
Negotiations at Cancun headed for a breakdown after developing countries like India and Brazil rejected the World Trade Organisation draft resolution, saying it failed to address their main concerns and was heavily loaded in favour of the US and European
- Looking Beyond Saarc (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 15, 2003)
The Government will soon make up its mind on whether the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, should travel to Islamabad in January. India will shortly receive a formal invitation from Pakistan to join the delayed summit of the seven South Asian nation
- The Un Undone (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Sep 15, 2003)
With the United States seeking to bring the United Nations into the process of peacekeeping in Iraq, it’s useful to note the disadvantageous context in which the UN’s peacekeeping role has been evolving since the end of the Cold War. For nearly four ...
- Monsoon Session: Dry In Business (Business Line, R. C. Rajamani, Sep 15, 2003)
EXPECTED to do a great deal of legislative business, the just-concluded monsoon session of Parliament will be best remembered for the no-confidence motion against the BJP-led NDA Government that fell through, as expected. The Congress, which sponsored the
- Temple: Parivar Seals Cracks (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Sep 14, 2003)
Whatever their dividing lines in public, the Sangh Parivar is now closing ranks over Ram temple. After the RSS’ support to a proposed VHP agitation over Ayodhya yesterday, it was the turn of the BJP to give its green signal to the stir today.
- Probe Ordered Into Pota Notification (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Sep 14, 2003)
The UP government had invoked POTA against Independent MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya after recovering an AK-56 rifle and other weapons from his residence in Kunda during a police search on January 28. However, notings in the files at the CM
- Boosting The Religious Right (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2003)
PAKISTAN'S PRESIDENT, PERVEZ Musharraf, might not have given in to the demands of the hard-Right religious forces as yet. But he has treated the religious parties as if they were the foremost representatives of the political class. His approach ...
- Ministry Is Mundane: Artist Mamata At Work (Indian Express, Diptosh Majumdar, Sep 12, 2003)
What's the Minister without a Ministry, Mamata Banerjee, doing the night before she’s scheduled to meet the Prime Minister? She’s just arrived from Kolkata—and she’s drawing.
- India And The War On Terror (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 12, 2003)
Rather than bank on international cooperation, India will have to develop its own means to vacate the threat of terrorism.
- 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,
- Jaitley’s Brief (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 10, 2003)
At Cancun, he must remember Kanpur. Because, ultimately, there’s no escape from reform
- Wto And Agriculture - Make Fair Costs The Basis Of Trade (Business Line, Ruddar Datt , Sep 10, 2003)
While the developed countries want unhindered access to the markets of developing countries, they go to great lengths to support their farmers. To share the benefits of globalisation equitably, developed countries must effect reductions in tariffs and sub
- Nfl Divestment Frozen As All Three Bids Very Very Low (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Sep 10, 2003)
The Government attempt to sell 51 per cent share of National Fertilisers Limited (NFL) has come a cropper. None of the three bids submitted last Thursday crossed the reserve price fixed by the Inter-Ministerial Group.
- What Harvest Will It Be At Cancun? (Business Line, Gopal Naik, Sep 10, 2003)
The Fifth WTO Ministerial to meet in Cancun in Mexico will take forward the agenda set forth in the Fourth Ministerial at Doha in 2001. As of now, negotiations on the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) have has not yielded any significant benefits to the ...
- Read Their Lips (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2003)
In Uttar Pradesh, it’s time to swear by good governance once more
- Socialites Cheered At Party But I’m Still Socialist: Mulayam (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Sep 09, 2003)
With Mayawati staying away to let her truncated flock sulk on the benches and Kunda’s Raja Bhaiyya announcing it was celebration time, there was very little work for Mulayam Singh Yadav in the House today.
- Will World's Poor Unite (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2003)
THE PRIME MINISTER, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee's appeal to developing countries to band together at the fifth World Trade Organisation ministerial has come not a day too soon in view of the developed nations' efforts to break the ranks of the poor. The proof
- Riding Up Swing Of Fortunes, Raja Bhaiyya Simply Can’t Help Grin (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Sep 08, 2003)
Yesterday’s POTA accused is today a symbol of Thakur pride; Kunda’s boss says he will help Mulayam
- ‘terrorists Are Recruiting Youth Deeply Hurt By Gujarat’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 07, 2003)
As a politician who has changed colours from the Shiv Sena to the NCP, what makes you think you are secular? If Bal Thackeray had made you the chief minister, would you have still been Secular? Aslam Khan
- Car Sewa Petitions (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Sep 07, 2003)
Even after the courts settle whether or not Sachin Tendulkar has to pay Customs duty on his Ferrari, he may have to wait a while before he gets to drive his new car. The rules stipulate that foreign car models which are not generally imported have to be
- Joshi To ‘showcase’ Nda Cms On Literacy Day (Indian Express, Santwana Bhattacharya, Sep 07, 2003)
One person will be missing from Union HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi’s VIP guestlist for International Literacy Day celebrations on September 8.
- What’s In Wto For Us? (Indian Express, Gopal Krishna Agarwal, Sep 06, 2003)
During the 18th century imperialism had a physical form. Countries which had military power colonised other countries and exploited their resources. Today developed countries exercise control over poorer ones in a more subtle way. International financial
- Decision Time At Cancun (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2003)
THE FIFTH MINISTERIAL meeting of the World Trade Organisation, which will be held in Cancun, Mexico, next week, is the last chance for the 146 member-countries to impart a true development dimension to the Doha Development Agenda (DDA), the ...
- Wto: Sidelining Of Implementation Issues (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Sep 06, 2003)
One set of issues of concern to the developing countries that held centre-stage in three previous ministerial meetings of the World Trade Organisation may well occupy only the sidelines at next week's conference in Cancun, Mexico.
- 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
- Why This 13-Yr-Old Inspires The Master (Indian Express, Chandresh Narayanan, Sep 05, 2003)
Till last Saturday, Abhimanyu Yalamanchili was just another teenage fan hoping to meet Sachin Tendulkar. When the master batsman and his teammates finally agreed to meet the 13-year-old, they were impressed with what they saw. He could bowl both mediu. ..
- Wto Ministerial - Beat Developed Countries At Their Own Game (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , Sep 05, 2003)
India's strategy at Cancun should be to get increased market access by beating the developed countries at their own game. To start with, Indian negotiators should force the latter to drastically cut their present high levels of trade-distorting subsidies
- Civilian Targets (Hindu, Timeri N. Murari , Sep 04, 2003)
Killing civilians does not work because the state is not affected. The state is soulless and remote, well protected by walls and armies.
- The Hawk Has Landed (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Sep 04, 2003)
After 20 yrs, Govt decides to go for Advanced Jet Trainer; boosts IAF morale, says Air chief
- Maya Out, Mulayam-Rajnath In (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Sep 04, 2003)
The Mulayam Singh-Rajnath Singh nexus is no longer a secret. It’s being flaunted on the streets of Lucknow. Their faces peer down from banners and hoardings everywhere. They appeared overnight, as soon as it became clear that Mulayam would be the new ...
- ‘women To Remain Political Extras In Male Monopolies’ (Indian Express, Vrinda Gopinath, Sep 04, 2003)
The flag-waving, activist-member of the CPM’s women’s wing, the All-India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), Brinda Karat, could smash the bourgeois contempt for the ‘‘mahila mandal’’ types in a jiffy. With stout conviction, Karat lashes out at the
- Wto Bares Its Heart (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Sep 04, 2003)
Uncle Sam is set to enter the WTO meet at Cancun wearing a halo. In the run-up to the biennial ministerial this month, the US suddenly gave up its longstanding objections to a humanitarian deal aimed at providing expensive life-saving drugs to poor ...
- The Morning After (Indian Express, RATNA RAJAIAH, Sep 03, 2003)
Let your kids have it for one month, then we will drink even if someone says we’re drinking pesticide laced with coliform bacteria
- Off With Maya Men, Say Digvijay’s Men (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Sep 03, 2003)
Mayawati’s parting of ways with the NDA may make the Congress look at her differently. But that’s in the future. As for the present, the Digvijay Singh government has been under pressure from Congress MLAs to shunt out Dalit officials believed to be BSP
- Cancun: Keep The Wheels Moving (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Sep 03, 2003)
With Cancun just days off, various groups of nations are sitting in conclaves to work out ways and means to ensure that the bicycle of trade negotiations does not fall, and the WTO ministerial does not end in abject failure. This would be a serious ...
- This Is How Congress Plays Opp: Says Stop All Trains For An Hour (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Sep 02, 2003)
Warning its cadres of the likelihood of early general elections, the Congress high command has instructed its state units to bring to a halt rail traffic across the country for an hour on September 22. This is intended to be the first Congress salvo again
- Blair In A Whirl (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2003)
Has the spin meister spun out of control? Or is Alastair Campbell, British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s director of communications, in fact doctoring the agenda to his former boss’s advantage? Campbell’s resignation is a narrative with many strands, not...
- No Pangs (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Aug 31, 2003)
Believe it or not, ‘‘nationalism’’ has lured new Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Gegong Apang to the BJP. Apang, who was admitted to the BJP amid much fanfare at the party headquarters, told mediapersons today that he and his fellow MLAs had joined the
- Poll Plot Fizzles (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Aug 31, 2003)
Mayawati’s moves have put paid to L K Advani and Venkaiah Naidu’s plan to call an early General Election. The BJP think tank first calculated that the party would benefit from a General Election this year itself cashing in on the good monsoon and the ...
- On The Trail (Hindu, Anupama Katakam, Aug 31, 2003)
The use of RDX shows that the twin blasts in Mumbai are not the handiwork of small time militants but could involve SIMI or LeT
- Socialites Cheer Lucknow Socialist (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Aug 30, 2003)
The waters of the Gomti glimmered in the soft morning sunshine, helicopters showered rose petals from the cloud-strewn skies, and India’s rich and famous flashed their glamourous smiles. As spectacles go, the swearing-in ceremony of the biggest mass ...
- Govt Puts Refinery Spoke In Hpcl Divestment Wheel (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Aug 29, 2003)
In what complicates the disinvestment process of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, the Petroleum Ministry is insisting that shortlisted bidders submit two price quotes for the strategic control of the oil firm.
- Problem-Solving: The Up Test (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Aug 29, 2003)
The turn of events in Uttar Pradesh, bomb blasts in Mumbai, Archaeological Survey of India’s findings on Ayodhya, prime minister in Srinagar — more than one political process is in operation. The preoccupation in New Delhi is with the drama in UP. In ...
- After The No-Trust Move (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Aug 29, 2003)
There is a potential for closer cooperation among the Opposition parties within Parliament and for coordination outside.
- Doha Round In Trouble (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2003)
WHEN MINISTERS FROM the 146 member-countries of the World Trade Organisation assemble in a fortnight's time in Cancun, Mexico, they will have the difficult task of ending the impasse in the Doha round of negotiations. The Ministerial declaration ...
- Political Factors And Indo-Pak Trade (Deccan Herald, Bidanda M Chengappa, Aug 29, 2003)
Pakistan definitely stands to gain from free trade with India but political considerations will not allow it
- Up Village Inspired Kalam (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Aug 28, 2003)
For those who wondered what the source of inspiration was for the dominant communal harmony theme of President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s Independence Day eve address, here’s the answer. It was his unpublicised trip to a tiny village named Magher where the ...
- Left & The Struggle Against Bjp (Deccan Herald, Ranen Sen, Aug 28, 2003)
The Left parties should not hesitate to join hands with the Congress to fight the Sangh Parivar
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