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Articles 17721 through 17820 of 21784:
- More Flights To Us (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 20, 2005)
The civil aviation agreement recently finalised between India and the USA will be the beginning of a new era for the country’s aviation industry. The agreement, to be signed in February 2005
- Interim Report On Godhra Incident (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jan 20, 2005)
One can find fault with the timing of the release of the interim report of the Justice U. C. Banerjee Committee and the BJP can heap all the accusations it wishes on the Railway Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal
- Say Chak De Phatte To That (The Economic Times, Shubhrangshu Roy, Jan 20, 2005)
This past month I have been pumping the accelerator up and down the Grand Trunk Road to Chandigarh and beyond, to Ludhiana, taking in the sights and smells of a rich countryside
- Saying No To Aid (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Jan 20, 2005)
Many in the West were offended by India turning down offers of aid immediately after the tsunami. Is this a carryover of the colonial mentality?
- Technically Speaking... (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 20, 2005)
Pakistan, it appears, has made up its mind to seek World Bank intervention over the Baglihar project issue. While it is within its rights to do so, it may not be the wisest of moves.
- Advanced Education Stumbling Along (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Jan 20, 2005)
Advanced education is in poor shape partly because of the perception that in a country with a large number of poor, the state should focus on primary and secondary education.
- Cruel Witness (Telegraph, BRIJESH D. JAYAL, Jan 20, 2005)
It is premature to write on calamities even as events are unfolding. But when one is cruel witness to a comic drama being enacted by the very ones
- Pipeline Of Opportunity (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 19, 2005)
The in principle agreement arrived at earlier this month in Yangon among the Oil Ministers of India, Myanmar and Bangladesh on cooperation in gas exploration and building an overland pipeline holds ...
- 2005 For Delhi-Ites (Tribune, S. Raghunath, Jan 19, 2005)
I have been gazing intently into my crystal ball in a bid to ensnare the ethereal psychic waves and find out just what 2005 has in store for the Delhi-ites. My findings.
- A New Resolve On Reforms (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jan 19, 2005)
Speaking in Kolkata, the Prime Minister sent a bold message to the allies to be partners in progress in creating a caring economy.
- Assembly Poll Shadow Over New Delhi (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jan 19, 2005)
Irrespective of who wins or loses the coming Assembly elections, there will be no change to the numbers in the Lok Sabha. But the chemistry of dependency at the Centre could change.
- Lure Of Luxury (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Jan 19, 2005)
A real estate promotional write-up in a newspaper inviting people to “live in luxury” came as a revelation. Conspicuous consumption in his country saddened the American economist Thorstein Veblen, who coined the phrase a hundred years ago.
- In The Pipeline (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 19, 2005)
It is always a matter of time before economic logic triumphs over political or nationalist rhetoric. So the pipeline that can now be laid to carry natural gas from Myanmar to India through Bangladesh is actually a victory for the economic argument.
- Tsunami Thaws Nuclear Chill (Toronto Star, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2005)
urgent help to India's coastal nuclear installations in the wake of last month's tsunami, setting aside a 30-year ban on atomic co-operation between the two countries, Prime Minister Paul Martin has revealed.
- How To Rebuild Better (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jan 18, 2005)
On the tsunami front, the real and strenuous work on relief and other structural changes will have to be addressed. How do you rebuild? Do you leave the conceptualizing and planning of the reconstruction to the PWD and government
- Killing The Truth (Deccan Herald, VARALOTTI RENGASAMY, Jan 18, 2005)
Killing the truth while holding on to the facts seems to be the way of life for people in a number of vocations — lawyers, ad agencies, bureaucrats, company executives, accountants, stock brokers, press reporters et al.
- Bus To Muzaffarabad (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 18, 2005)
PAKISTAN President Pervez Musharraf’s remarks about the proposed Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service show that he is not as much interested in providing this facility to the people of Kashmir as in exploiting their sentiments.
- Fire Alarm (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 18, 2005)
GURGAON is fast becoming the mall capital of the country, with one gleaming hi-rise building coming up after another. The towers look impressive but they still ring alarm bells because of the apprehensions about safety measures available in them.
- Sonia And Her Cow Dust Hour (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Jan 18, 2005)
Last week Sonia Gandhi set off on a kisan yatra. Rural India is so distant from our genteel, middle-class lives that Sonia appears to have felt the need to dress the part. Perfect grooming and elegant silk saris were
- Same-Sex Marriage Debate Follows Pm To India (CBC News, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2005)
The debate over same-sex marriage followed Prime Minister Paul Martin on his overseas trip Tuesday, prompted by an edict two days earlier by the spiritual leader of Sikhism in India denouncing the practice.
- India Struggles To Carve Out New U.N. Role (Toronto Star, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2005)
India's self-reliance in the tsunami disaster has shown the new face of an emerging regional power that wants to punch its weight in the United Nations — with help from Canada — says Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
- Don’T Send The Nagas Away Empty-Handed (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Jan 17, 2005)
On February 2, we are likely to witness the beginning of a substantive and sustained dialogue for peace with the Nagas.
- To Take On Competition, Air India Must Expand (Business Line, Tunia Cherian George, Jan 17, 2005)
The Air-India Chairman and Managing Director, Mr V. Thulasidas, looks back on an `exciting' first year at the helm.
- Handshake Freezeframed (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Jan 17, 2005)
They’re squinting hard at the road from Islamabad and it looks foggy. This week, it was the ECONOMIST’s turn to congratulate Vajpayee and Musharraf for their warm handclasp.
- Dixit Worked Too Hard To Promote Indo-Pak Relations (Tribune, David Devadas, Jan 16, 2005)
The death of J.N. Dixit last fortnight not only created a void in the national security apparatus but also affected the negotiations with Pakistan over Kashmir. One of the first tasks Dixit addressed himself to when he took over as National Security Advis
- Estranged Bedfellows (Telegraph, Avijit Ghosh, Jan 16, 2005)
Congress plus or minus Laloo. Paswan alone. BJP plus JD(U). Or whatever else works. It’s the season of shifting electoral alignments in Bihar.
- Bori Shame: Intolerance Tolerated (Indian Express, DILIP CHITRE, Jan 16, 2005)
This is the first time in my life that I am sitting down to write an article while an commando sits in my living room to protect me from possible assailants. This provision has been made by the home minister of my state
- Portrait Of A Revolutionary As A Young Woman (Indian Express, MADHU TREHAN, Jan 15, 2005)
Pentimento — in art, the reappearance in an oil painting of original elements of drawing or painting that the artist tried to obliterate by over painting. If the covering pigment becomes transparent
- The .In Thing (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 15, 2005)
More and more national service providers, including BSNL, are providing access to broadband services, at rates which individuals can afford.
- The Power Of Sycophancy (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Jan 15, 2005)
A year or so after he had been elected president of the Republic, Gyani Zail Singh invited me over to the Rashtrapati Bhavan for a chat. As I was about to leave, Gyaniji gave me a set of six biographies written on him by his admirers. Back home
- Gas From Myanmar (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 15, 2005)
Following Thursday’s trilateral agreement, India will get natural gas from Myanmar through a pipeline via Bangladesh
- Open Invitation (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 14, 2005)
Despite politicians’ penchant for doublespeak, it actually helps to be candid in politics. The prime minister, Mr Manmohan Singh, is known to value transparency in both public policy and politics.
- Has The Un Arrived? (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Jan 14, 2005)
A monumental human tragedy like the one that devastated communities along the Indian Ocean rim on December 26 should not, ideally, become a trigger for settling scores. The case for restraint is all the more compelling in view of the staggering generosity
- National Tax Tribunal (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Jan 14, 2005)
With the establishment of the National Tax Tribunal, all matters pending in appeals under the direct and indirect tax laws before the High Courts will stand transferred to the Tribunal.
- ‘Our Govt Is Committed To Creating ... (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 14, 2005)
In a judicious choice of venue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh chose Left Front-ruled West Bengal for a seminal statement on the economic goals of his government. Addressing the CII partnership summit 2005, in Kolkata on
- Doctor’S Savvy (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 14, 2005)
Meetings with representatives of industry catch Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his most persuasive. In the presence of men and women impatient with the thickets of political rhetoric around economic policy, he visibly relaxes.
- Agony Over Seat-Sharing (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Jan 14, 2005)
AFTER breathing fire and brimstone a week ago against the Congress over the sharing of seats in the assembly elections in Bihar and Jharkhand, Mr Laloo Prasad Yadav had cooled down rather quickly.
- Brilliance Is Not Enough (Indian Express, Raja Menon, Jan 14, 2005)
The untimely passing of J.N. Dixit has raised some old questions of why the country went in for the National Security Council/Advisor system that the US follows in a presidential system of governance.
- Memories Etched On Sand (Telegraph, Debabrata Mohanty, Jan 13, 2005)
Tsunami-struck Tamil Nadu has much to learn from Orissa, which has repeatedly faced the wrath of nature
- Keeping Good Company (Indian Express, Manoj Prasad, Jan 13, 2005)
Finally, some good news for Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Chaibasa, Latehar, Ramgarh, Saraikela and Lohardaga — long in the news for Naxalite violence or scams — which are now the focus of new investment.
- India-China Military Equations (Deccan Herald, Bidanda M Chengappa, Jan 13, 2005)
The visit of General N C Vij, Chief of Army Staff, to China in December 2004, is one more step towards military diplomacy between New Delhi and Beijing. He is the second serving army chief to visit China
- Settlers' Fume Over Bias (Gulf News, Neena Gopal, Jan 13, 2005)
This is the showcase relief camp in Port Blair, where about 2,000 indigenous Nicorabese have everything they can ask for.
- How Not To Respond To A Tsunami (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Jan 13, 2005)
Following Christiano Junior’s death the Football Federation is insisting on ambulances at all grounds. This could make more of a difference than the Government of India’s promise to establish a tsunami warning system. If that sounds cynical there is some
- 15 Years For A Report! Why? (Tribune, Balraj Puri, Jan 13, 2005)
January 13, 1989, was a black day in Jammu when, in anti-Sikh riots, 15 innocent Sikhs were killed in a pre-planned attack on a Gurpurb procession. The provocation to the attack was provided by a group of Sikh youngmen who had joined at the end
- Anxieties Of Control (Telegraph, NIVEDITA MENON, Jan 13, 2005)
So once again the Great Indian Value System has triumphed over sex, mobile phones, the internet and any or all possible combinations of the three.
- Beware And Be Aware (Deccan Herald, Nirmala Ramaswamy, Jan 13, 2005)
‘One more case of chain snatching,’ says the headline. Chain snatching incidents take place in broad daylight. An old woman was once walking down a semi-deserted road inside a residential colony in the afternoon when a youth
- The Age Of Apocalypse (AL-Ahram, Rajeshree Sisodia, Jan 12, 2005)
In Hindu mythology, Kali Yug is the apocalyptic age of darkness which sparks the annihilation of mankind. On 26 December, it seemed to many that Kali Yug had indeed descended on India -- the birthplace of Hinduism -- when an earthquake off the . . .
- Re-Engineering Capart (Hindu, Mihir Shah, Jan 12, 2005)
While "re-engineering" an institution, it must not lose its vital ethos somewhere along the way.
- Pre-Poll Coalition Confusion In Upa (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jan 12, 2005)
In the run-up to the Assembly elections in Bihar, Jharkhand and Haryana, the Congress(I) seems to be taking a leaf out of the BJP's book on how not to deal with allies.
- Post Tsunami, India Inclusive (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Jan 12, 2005)
As tribes in the Andamans come in contact with organised economy, the forest area needed to ‘sustain’ them may decline
- High-Octane Initiative (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 12, 2005)
The first round-table of Asian oil ministers that New Delhi hosted last week was a path-breaking initiative that sought to bring together buyers from the continent, accounting for 35 per cent of world oil consumption,
- India's Bridge To East (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Jan 12, 2005)
The shock of the tsunami that flattened Thailand's beach resorts was resounding. We escaped the tragedy but could not get away from its echoes.
- Selective Morality? (Pioneer, Neha Mehta, Jan 12, 2005)
The pronouncement of guilt against the rapists of a student of Maulana Azad Medical College by a Delhi court is welcome. However, it would serve a larger purpose only if it is seen as a reminder of numerous other rape cases pending with the judiciary.
- The Agenda Is Anti-Amnesia (Indian Express, Neera Kuckreja Sohoni, Jan 12, 2005)
Sometimes you need to witness a lifetime’s journey to clear your vision. Shonali Bose provides that catalyst through her film Amu.
- Through The Third Eye (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 12, 2005)
Guess whose passion it is to wash dirty linen, literally? It’s none other than our censor board chairperson Sharmila Tagore.
- Us-Pakistan: A Pampering Relationship (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Jan 12, 2005)
The symbolism of the proposed sale of F-16 aircraft by the US to Pakistan cannot be underestimated when terror is still the instrument of state policy for Islamabad.
- Why Say No To Foreign Aid? (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Jan 12, 2005)
Tsunami was the worst violation of human rights which nature committed in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and India.
- Government’S Hypocritical Stand (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Jan 12, 2005)
While rejecting foreign aid, the Government accepts funds from foreign-aided organisations, for its relief measures
- Good Spies, Bad Spies (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Jan 12, 2005)
When Atal Bihari Vajpayee said, after one of his prime ministerial meetings with President George W. Bush, that India and the United States of America were "natural allies"
- An Ageless Wonder (Tribune, Surendra Miglani, Jan 12, 2005)
Mughal-e-Azam is in the news once again! The movie which had never faded from the memory of the older generation has now found admirers among the younger generation as well following its colourisation.
- Get Ready For A Repeat Performance (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Jan 12, 2005)
Laloo Yadav’s victory will not only reinforce his distinctive politics, but also that which is old and needs to be replaced
- Ec Asserts (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 12, 2005)
THE Om Prakash Chautala government has only itself to blame for earning the wrath of the Election Commission of India.
- For That Sweet Feeling Of Home (Telegraph, SWAPAN SETH, Jan 12, 2005)
There are cities that ruffle your hair when you land in them. Cities that put their arms around your shoulder and welcome you in. There are very few cities that will still ask a 37-year-old man, “Kaise ho baba?”
- Overlapping Faults (Economist, Amitav Ghosh, Jan 11, 2005)
Amitav Ghosh, the internationally renowned novelist, visited the Andaman and Nicobar Islands recently to see for himself how the system and ordinary people have coped with the devastation caused by the tsunami of December 26.
- My Pet Aversion (Tribune, Raj Chatterjee, Jan 11, 2005)
I am strongly and violently allergic to cats, and I don’t mean the two-legged variety whose caustic comments about other members of their sex I find highly entertaining. My fear and dislike of cats began when, as a child
- The Foreign Policy Hand (Indian Express, Mukund B. Kunte, Jan 11, 2005)
To engage a changing world, argued the late J.N. Dixit in these columns, India needs a flexible foreign policy. He went on to steer our foreign and security policy with an unshakeable faith in India’s unrealised potential.
- The Rani’S Domain (Indian Express, Noel Lobo, Jan 11, 2005)
Car Nicobar has sadly been in the news in this period of mourning, specially the Air Force base there. And what of the Rani of Nancowrie? Is she safe?
- Mad Sacred Cows (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Jan 11, 2005)
“Today, economics is separated from, and opposed to both ecological processes and basic needs. While the destruction of nature has been justified on grounds of improving human welfare
- Indo-Pak Talks Going Nowhere (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Jan 11, 2005)
Over a year has elapsed after the much-publicised January 6, 2004 accord between Indian Prime Minister A B Vajpayee and Pakistan’s General Pervez Musharraf, to resume 1997’s structured, eight-point Indo-Pakistan dialogue for normalising relations between
- Asian Oil Diplomacy Initiative (Business Line, S. Narayan, Jan 11, 2005)
Petroleum purchasing and selling nations met in Delhi last week to forge an Asian market for crude and products. Discussions centred on the possibility of a price band for Asian countries, besides changing the nature of the crude purchase contracts.
- India’S Quality Of Mercy (Indian Express, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 11, 2005)
The quality of mercy, Shakespeare wrote, is not strained. It is twice blessed. He went on: “It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes”.
- Real Crisis Management (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Jan 10, 2005)
Emergency is the time for action, not for deliberation. A Crisis Management Committee is needed not to decide what orders should be issued during the emergency but to decide what should be done in the future to handle such crises better.
- New Delhi's Oil Initiative (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 10, 2005)
The flight into ambition on the part of the Union Petroleum Minister should be overlooked because it is clear that his main objective is to develop an integrated Asian crude market, the centrepiece of which would be an Asian pricing system.
- Some Designs Are Not For Everyone (Telegraph, SHRADHA AGARWAL, Jan 10, 2005)
I remember a time when designer clothes were available only in France and Italy. “Designer clothes” implied Versace, Gucci, Calvin Klein or any name that we pronounced wrong.
- Matter Of Relief (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 10, 2005)
The January 5 summit of tsunami-hit nations in Jakarta testifies to the earnestness of the global community to get their act together for ensuring speedy distribution of effective relief.
- Musharraf: From Gen To President (Indian Express, Najam Sethi, Jan 10, 2005)
President Pervez Musharraf should be pleased as punch. In one month, he has had two brushes with death and lived to tell the tale.
- 50 Lakh Indians Hiv Positive (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 10, 2005)
I believe this meeting is a sequel to the Global Media Initiative hosted by the United Nations Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, in January 2004 in New York.
- Delhi’S Space Phone! (Tribune, S. Raghunath, Jan 10, 2005)
THE giant American telecommunications company AT & T has just unveiled what it calls a “space phone” in the atrium of its New York headquarters. This is a futuristic concept in long-range communications and visitors will be encouraged to try it and establ
- How The Pictures Lie (Telegraph, PARIMAL BHATTACHARYA, Jan 10, 2005)
Urban, upwardly-mobile families may not want girls, but that does not prove that the backward classes do
- India Should Spare More Personnel ... (Hindu, SUJATA SRINIVASAN, Jan 10, 2005)
"I think the very presence of a woman officer reduces violence ... She is a symbol of peace, life, dignity, and reconciliation ..
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