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- In Raipur, Cbi Switches To Jogi Audio (Indian Express, Ashwani Sharma, Dec 22, 2003)
Cash-for-MLA: Party summons ex-CM to Delhi, may soon decide his fate
- ‘it’s Not Just Bihar, The Rot Is Everywhere’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2003)
It is the taxpayer’s money that is being looted by the mafia. Let the NHAI stand up to periodic financial audits. If the media highlights such an audit and the follow up action, and keeps the public posted about the progress of the Golden Quadrilateral
- Fogged Out (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2003)
IT is the same story year after year. Come winter and air travel in the country becomes a near impossibility due to fog. All along, the tantalising hope of the harassed travellers was that once state-of-the-art instrument landing system was installed, the
- A Step Forward? (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 22, 2003)
The departure from the extreme, maximal positions taken by India and Pakistan could be a helpful factor though, by itself, it would not bring an acceptable solution within sight.
- Na Re Na Re (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2003)
He may not have been an Ace of Spades, with the world’s sharpest shooters hot on his heels. But bhangra popstar Daler Mehndi’s arrest in a South Delhi home invites an eerily similar curiosity about the circumstances of his capture. Where had he been ...
- Stars Who Stood Out From Stripes (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Dec 22, 2003)
The MTV IMMIES. Some great performances but poor presentations. Cyrus Broacha and Saif Ali Khan were masters of ceremonies: Saif was perfectly suited for the part in matching trousers and jacket (that’s why it’s called a suit) but nobody laughed at his...
- Two Alone (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Dec 22, 2003)
In the week the general unleashed his goodwill offensive on the question of plebiscite in Kashmir, Britain’s FINANCIAL TIMES offered a provocative thesis. India and Pakistan have so far relied on Washington to coax and pressure them into talking, but the
- Take It Or Fall Behind (Telegraph, Barun De, Dec 22, 2003)
Does south Asia have genuinely independent alternatives for more self-respecting national futures
- Open Borders And Closed Minds (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 22, 2003)
The recent call by the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, for open borders in the subcontinent has generated an enthusiastic response. But on both sides of the Indo-Nepal border, one of the most open in the world, there are voices demanding its tight
- Words And Whispers 2003 (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Dec 21, 2003)
Every year throws up new words or old-new words. Like shells, they gleam and resonate on the sands of a dying year. Each word colourcodes the year for you. Each embedded word waves a flag of the times.
- ‘poll Managers? Jaitley Never Fought One, Mahajan Lost His Ls Election’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2003)
• Congress seems to be suffering from cancer. A popular government, cooperative allies, and a chief minister with a clean image. I am talking about Kerala where senior leader K Karunakaran and his son-elect-KPCC chief is trying to destabilise the ...
- Cross-Border Terror Tap Is Now A Trickle (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Dec 21, 2003)
Infiltration across border last month dips to double digits, first time in 3 years
- Rashtrapati Bhawan Denies Meeting Report (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2003)
New Delhi: Rashtrapati Bhavan on Saturday termed as “without any basis” media reports that Abdul Rehman, a lawyer of Abdul Karim Telgi, key accused in the stamp scam, met President A.P.J. Abdul and allegedly tried to implicate Maharashtra Dy CM Chhagan...
- Us Visa Makes Blood Relatives, Literally (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Dec 21, 2003)
Outside a sprawling bungalow in New Delhi’s posh Vasant Vihar, stand an unusual number of Tata Sumos with Punjab numberplates. As each new one comes to a halt, families from villages near Jalandhar and Ludhiana alight and troop in. They are all here for
- From India To Bharat (Tribune, Dimple Dhaliwal Srivastava , Dec 20, 2003)
HERE I sit in my airy little office in a rural dispensary in a sleepy little village of a small district of Punjab, where things and people seem to be at a standstill. The huge banyan trees swinging gently with the wind, the street dogs chasing and ...
- Wrong Way To Peace (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 20, 2003)
If Jesus Christ was betrayed for 30 pieces of silver, it is no surprise that $25 million secured Saddam Hussein. The wonder is that it took impoverished and long-suffering Iraqis who are being killed like flies eight months to lead the Americans to the ..
- A Change In Rhetoric (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2003)
IN OFFERING to leave aside Pakistan's long-standing demand for the implementation of United Nations resolutions on a plebiscite in Kashmir, President Pervez Musharraf has changed the tone of his country's rhetoric on the subject. This departure ...
- Red Faces In Advani Office As Telgi Lawyer Swings A Meeting (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2003)
There were many red faces in the office of the Deputy Prime Minister today after Abdul Rehman, who’s representing stamp paper scam kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi, managed a meeting with L K Advani and emerged to level serious charges at Maharashtra Deputy ...
- ‘what Are The Issues Between Us Minus Kashmir? Even I Would Want To Ask People. Nobody Knows’ (Indian Express, Simon Denyer, Dec 20, 2003)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf told Simon Denyer of Reuters that he had "left aside" the 50-year-old demand for a UN-mandated plebiscite in Kashmir and was willing to meet India ‘‘halfway’’ in a bid for peace: Excerpts from the interview:
- Welcome, Say Delhi And Washington (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2003)
Musharraf’s UN rethink: It’s constructive to relinquish referendum demand: US State Department
- Fishing And Troubled Waters (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Dec 20, 2003)
Tamil Nadu has several security concerns about the evolving situation in Sri Lanka.
- Congress Itself To Blame (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2003)
A decision delayed also turns out to be a decision denied. Punjab is facing this unfortunate situation because of the Amarinder-Bhattal standoff which the Congress high command has not yet resolved fully. The high command should have taken a firm decision
- Hero On Every Turf (Telegraph, Novy Kapadia, Dec 19, 2003)
Nation’s Pride Dhanraj Pillay By K. Armugam, Field Hockey, Rs 60
- Last Salute To The Lion Of 1965 (Indian Express, Patwant Singh, Dec 19, 2003)
The death of Lieutenant General Joginder (Jogi) Singh Dhillon on November 20 at the age of 89 received no coverage in the Indian papers, although it was his inspiring generalship that helped smash the superior Pakistani armour, poised to head for the ...
- Good Job, Bhutan (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2003)
It must now complete the process it has begun and secure the future of the region
- Not Quite Right (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Dec 19, 2003)
Let me admit at the very outset that on this count I am in a minuscule minority in Lutyens’s Delhi, in Hampstead and Islington, in Manhattan’s Upper West side and in all the watering holes of radical cosmopolitanism.
- Us Foreign Policy — Is There An India Tilt? (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Dec 19, 2003)
There has been a sea-change in the US foreign policy approach to India since the Nixon-Kissinger days. If Washington sees India as a vibrant democracy, pursuing accelerated economic growth, it views Pakistan as a problem child; it cannot afford to allow
- Omar Abdullah As Envoy To Us? (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2003)
THE US remains the most sought after diplomatic assignment in New Delhi. A little bird discovered this week that a high-profile candidate has joined the race for the post of Indian Ambassador in Washington. The post is due to fall vacant in March next ...
- ‘flexible’ Musharraf Ready To Bend On His Un Kashmir Baggage (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2003)
As Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf today offered the tantalising possibility of new beginnings with India by saying he had ‘‘left aside’’ the 50-year-old demand for a UN-mandated plebiscite in Kashmir and meet India ‘‘halfway’’ in a bid for...
- Bhutan: No To Ulfa, Captives To India (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Dec 19, 2003)
CRACKDOWN:Baruah’s ceasefire call rejected, his key men trapped
- American Tilt Towards India (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Dec 18, 2003)
Dr Henry Kissinger proclaimed at the height of the Bangladesh conflict that it was the intention of the Nixon Administration to “tilt” in favour of Pakistan and against India. Ever since the 1971 conflict, policies of successive US Administrations have...
- Measure For Measure: States Vie To Do Better (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Dec 18, 2003)
State-specific HDRs throw up piquant data. No wonder they are becoming part of poll discourse
- False Flag (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
Secularism is an absolute value. It should be valued absolutely. One cannot be a secularist one day and a soft Hindutvawallah the day after. Ms Sonia Gandhi has an identity problem but this has nothing to do with the fact that she is an Italian born India
- Telgi’s Jigsaw Puzzle (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Dec 18, 2003)
A pet peeve for Delhiites is the multiplicity of authorities who operate in the city, or rather the utter lack of communication between them. No sooner has the Jal Board finished digging up a road that it is the turn of the Municipal Corporation to do so
- Flushing Out Ulfa (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
THE MILITARY ACTION by Bhutan against insurgents of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and other Northeastern militant groups camping in its southern jungles will go a long way in addressing India's security concerns in the region. The ...
- Asian Balance And The Subcontinent (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 18, 2003)
A creative Indian policy must aim at leveraging the rise of China and Japan and the Sino-U.S. entente to transform its own security condition in the subcontinent.
- High Time Govt. Put Down Corporal Punishment (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 18, 2003)
What happened at a school near Villupuram recently was nothing short of barbaric. This was not the first time it happened in a school and, going by reports and the trend, may not be the last.
- Battered Ulfa Appeals: Let Us Out (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Dec 18, 2003)
Crackdown:Admitting heavy casualties, Paresh Baruah appeals to Bhutan King for ceasefire
- Out Of Pokharan Shadow, India, Us To Sign Hi-Tech Deal (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 18, 2003)
Agreement on Friday likely on space, civilian nuclear cooperation
- Crackdown Hardens, So Does The Build-Up (Indian Express, Subrata Nag Choudhury, Dec 17, 2003)
Day Two of the Bhutanese Army operations against N-E and north Bengal camps in Bhutan saw a perceptible heightening in the deployment of Indian Army jawans along the India-Bhutan border as reports of heavy casualties on both sides trickled in this ...
- Cleared Out (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2003)
A state that does not exercise its authority runs the risk of losing it. For far too long, rebel groups from India’s North-east had challenged Bhutan’s sovereignty by setting up camps there. The offensive that the Royal Bhutanese Army has now launched to
- How Old Is An Antique? (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Dec 17, 2003)
The English term, “antiquity”, is derived from the Latin word “antiques” or from “antico” in Italian, which referred originally to the decorative items found in ancient Roman remains, that have captured the imagination of English art collectors in the ...
- Bhutan Fights In India’s War On Terror (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Dec 16, 2003)
Bhutanese Army cracks down on N-E, north Bengal rebel camps, casualties on both sides on Day One
- 2004 Will Be Fought On 3 Issues: Vajpayee Vs Sonia, Nda Vs Disunited Opposition & Five Years Vs Fifty (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 16, 2003)
Fresh from overseeing his party’s successful state election campaign, Pramod Mahajan, BJP general secretary and former Union minister, spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express. Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s Walk
- Foggy Regulations (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 16, 2003)
THE RELUCTANCE OF New Delhi to move out of the banking sector is seen in its persistence with opaque laws on bank mergers and acquisitions. The role and powers of the Reserve Bank of India in such issues has been left far too vague. For instance, the RBI'
- Hc Gives Vaiko One Day Of Freedom, Hrs Later Takes It Away (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 16, 2003)
MDMK leader Vaiko’s joys were short-lived.
Three hours after a single-judge bench of the Madras High Court let him—after 17 months in prison—a day of freedom tomorrow to participate in the POTA debate in Parliament, the Jayalalithaa government challen
- Naresh Chandra Report - What Is On Horizon For National Carriers? (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Dec 16, 2003)
The recommendations of the Naresh Chandra Committee on civil aviation expectedly plumped for root-and-branch reforms in the country's highly cosseted civil aviation sector, besides suggesting disinvestment in the national carriers.
- Bangladesh, 32 Years After (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 16, 2003)
The unity that once bound our eastern neighbour to us is forgotten
- Rule Book Flouted (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 16, 2003)
FORMER Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal, who retired last month, was known to be a stickler to rules till the last but when the news of posting of his Director Renu Pal to Washington as Minister Press became public, eyebrows were raised.
- Far From Judeo And Jogi (Indian Express, V. N. Kakar, Dec 16, 2003)
Don't bolt the bathroom door from inside while taking your bath,’’ said the good cardiologist, smiling despite the frowns on his forehead. ‘‘And don’t go out in the forest all alone. Always carry your walking stick with you. Lean on it when you find your
- Citizens Need To Play Active Role (Tribune, Pushpa Girimaji, Dec 15, 2003)
PATPARGANJ in East Delhi is a small locality. However, consumers there have shown the way for others to follow. Some time ago, when a large garbage bin in the area was repaired, but repaired shabbily, the residents suspected that the contractor had not...
- To Chase A Crooked Shadow (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Dec 15, 2003)
In what is perhaps the “late Indian stage” in our civilization, the idea is to take what you can and give back as little as possible
- Open Borders (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2003)
PRIME MINISTER Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s impassioned plea to the South Asian nations to follow the European model would have been dismissed as a Nehruvian dream had it been made two decades ago. The European Union has been in existence since November 1993...
- Fast Running Out Of Jobs (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Dec 15, 2003)
Unemployment is growing, and economic theory has no clear answer to the problem. It is not merely the unemployed who suffer, the nation loses because it does not get what the unemployed could have produced. Its socio-economic impact is considerable ...
- Turbanator Ii, Dd’s Comedy Show & A (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Dec 15, 2003)
Doordarshan is so delightfully predictable you never know what to expect from it. For example, on a lazy Sunday afternoon, you would have encountered the unexpected sight of an estimated one lakh people waving saffron yellow and bleeding orange flags in
- Delhi Metro: A Quality Project At Low Cost (Tribune, J.T. Vishnu, Dec 15, 2003)
“MY dream is to take the Metro to all the 14 cities in the country and in the next five years. I am sure the Metro will be operational in at least five cities like Chennai. Hyderabad, Bangalore, Mumbai and Ahmedabad,” observes the Chairman and Managing Di
- Information Society: Go Beyond Declarations (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Dec 15, 2003)
As a result of detailed and intensive exchanges, valuable declarations have been agreed upon. They set out important principles. They set out a sound work programme.
- Dubey: Cbi Files Fir, Leaving For Bihar (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2003)
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today registered an FIR taking over the murder case of Satyendra Dubey, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) manager who blew the whistle on corruption in the Bihar stretch of the Golden Quadrilateral
- The Message From Assembly Elections 2003 - Give The People What They Want (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 15, 2003)
THE din and dust of the State elections in the heartland of India has not yet settled down. Analysts and commentators are busy explaining the rout of the Congress in most of the States.
- Pak Open To Pm’s Dream (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 14, 2003)
Pakistan today termed as ‘‘not unrealistic’’ PM A.B. Vajpayee’s suggestion of open borders and common currency in South Asia, but said the objectives could be achieved if problems like Kashmir were settled amicably. It took a long time for the EU to ...
- Doomed In The Womb? (Hindu, Asha Krishnakumar , Dec 14, 2003)
Is the fall in the number of girl children closely linked to the declining sex ratio at birth resulting from female foeticide? On the situation in the four southern States.
- Bright Idea: Ask People (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 14, 2003)
Call it plebiscite or referendum, Albright wants people to resolve the Kashmir issue
- For Sonia, Unity Doesn’t Begin At Home (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Dec 14, 2003)
Even AS Congress chief Sonia Gandhi repeated her call to secular parties to join in her ‘‘fight against communalism’’, storm clouds gathered over the AICC headquarters here today.
- Nothing Has Changed In The Congress (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Dec 14, 2003)
To the exclusion of almost every other subject of importance, Delhi has been discussing, with much surprise and dismay, the Congress' self-inflicted wounds in the national capital. For this, there are good reasons.
- Cops Won’t Give Up On Geelani (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Dec 14, 2003)
13/12:Acquitted under POTA, so Delhi cops try TADA through backdoor
- Sing Vande Mataram Or Face The Music: New Rajasthan Govt’s First Decision (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2003)
Vasundhara Raje doesn’t seem to be a Chief Minister in a hurry. Rajasthan officials have been told by the new CM to prepare a 100-day development programme and that she wouldn’t be inaugurating anything for the next one month. But one of the first ...
- Haryana-Born Contesting For Mayorship In Us (Tribune, Ela Dutt , Dec 13, 2003)
AN Indian American woman politician seeking to become the mayor of a California county wants buses there to ply on compressed natural gas (CNG) a la New Delhi.
- Don’t Get Carried Away (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Dec 13, 2003)
After the recent assembly poll success, it’s celebration time for the BJP. But the way it is jubilant about its election managers and software experts, it seems it has well and truly written the Congress epitaph. If BJP leaders care to pause and ponder
- A Question Of Honour (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Dec 13, 2003)
Since its birth, the Indian nation-state has been challenged by rebellion and insurgency. In the late Forties, it was the Communist Party of India, who launched a countrywide insurrection claiming that the freedom we got from the British was false (in the
- Behind The Election Outcomes (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2003)
A NUMBER OF explanations have been offered for the emphatic victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the recent round of State Assembly elections, in which the result in Delhi has been the only consolation for the Congress. However, the detailed ...
- The Horror Of It All (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Dec 13, 2003)
Innumerable novels, short stories and poems have been written on the unbelievable violence that took place with the Partition of the country in 1947. Upwards of a million innocent men, women and children; Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs were massacred in cold
- Congress Vs Congress (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2003)
In Punjab the two factions have given proof of their own limitations
- Fifth Year, Fifth Gear (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 13, 2003)
Why the Vajpayee govt’s last-year-as- slog-overs attitude is good governance and shrewd politics
- Naval Gazing Into The Future (Indian Express, KAILASH KOHLI , Dec 13, 2003)
Why Gorshkov? Is our navy not strong enough to thrash Pakistan’s? Why do we now need to spend $650 million to acquire this Russian aircraft carrier? The answers lie in the strategic vision enunciated by Prime Minister Vajpayee when be addressed the ...
- Refreshingly Unchanged (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2003)
Old Bajrang Dal hand and new Social Welfare Minister Madan Dilawar, who issued the order, has his own reasons: ‘‘Why not? It is a prayer praising the motherland and it is important that children recite it. We have reversed the Congress order and any ...
- Over Butter Chicken, They Bring Knives Out (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Dec 13, 2003)
His deck burning, Captain sends out SOS; AICC takes its time, rivals cheer
- What To Do About Spurious Drugs (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2003)
THE MASHELKAR COMMITTEE'S recommendations to check the proliferation of counterfeit and substandard drugs dovetail with the Government's pharmaceutical policy that was unfurled in 2002. But implementing its proposals will require a real ...
- The Isolation Of Ajit Jogi (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Dec 12, 2003)
Remember what was said about Mussolini and his Fascists when they lost the state power that made them invincible? They were like street urchins without it. Ajit Jogi’s situation is somewhat similar, now that he’s lost the trappings of office. Neither his
- Unwanted Yesterday, Kartik Is Flown In The Night Before The Test (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2003)
This can happen only in Indian cricket. A tour that had begun beyond expectations ran into controversy and intrigue today when, a day ahead of the Second Test at Adelaide, it was revealed — in bits and pieces — that Murali Kartik was flying out from ...
- Remembering Morris (Indian Express, P. K. BOSE , Dec 12, 2003)
It was not like a present-day ‘people’s car’, manufactured and sold in the thousands, to rust sooner than later, and finally abandoned as junk. Our companion of over four decades had a different story.
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