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Articles 21621 through 21720 of 21784:
- How To Keep The Dynasty Going (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 09, 2001)
Land of the rising sons. Which means Jyotiraditya Scindia is not the only one on the horizon.
- Calibrating A Conflagration (Hindu, J. P. SHUKLA, Dec 09, 2001)
The VHP's various programmes ensure that the communal fire is stoked for electoral gains while the BJP can keep the Ram temple issue out of its election manifesto.
- Politicians Of All Hues Keep Busy With Iftaar Parties (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 09, 2001)
Two Iftaars, hosted on Dec 5 — one by Samajwadi duo Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh and the other by Dr Farooq Abdullah — apparently affected the turn out at the ICCR programme on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people.
- Calibrating A Conflagration (Hindu, J. P. SHUKLA, Dec 09, 2001)
The VHP's various programmes ensure that the communal fire is stoked for electoral gains while the BJP can keep the Ram temple issue out of its election manifesto.
- Emerging Trends In University Administration (Tribune, Prithipal Singh Kapur, Dec 09, 2001)
University education before the advent of independence was the privilege of the elite or the children of such employees of the government who happened to occupy a few high places that were being progressively offered to Indians.
- Some Solid Effort (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 09, 2001)
Love’s labour lost? Congresswallahs in Bengal and beyond, and former Congresswallahs in the Trinamool, think it is not so much affection as self-promotion that has prompted the political couple Samir and Krishna Chakraborty.
- The Exit Of A Busybody (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 09, 2001)
Another very natural consequence. Now that Jagmohan is out, the urban development ministry has come back to square one.
- Making Big Issue Out Of Merchant Banking (Business Line, Shaji Vikraman , Dec 08, 2001)
IN 1993-94, at the height of the capital market boom, when several primary issues would open on one day, even flunkies to the bosses of Indias leading merchant banks would fly business class, jetting from one town to another, hawking these issues.
- What The Cbse Wanted Deleted From History Textbooks (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 08, 2001)
Medieval India: A History Textbook for Class XI, by Satish Chandra Pages: 236-237 Chapter: Climax and Disintegration of the Mughal Empire-1 Section: The Sikhs
- Of Monarchs And Maoists (Telegraph, Sundara K. Datta-Ray, Dec 08, 2001)
The Nepalese cannot be blamed for jumping to the conclusion that only the Maoist insurrection has saved them from being browbeaten by India into accepting rigorous trade terms.
- Fasten Seat Belts, Please (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 08, 2001)
AS in most things these days, it took a conscientious PIL leading to a Supreme Court order.
- Big Men With A Little Madness (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 08, 2001)
YOU can go to Mohali to see cricket. Or to get an insight into this peculiar Indian inability to digest success, to tolerate somebody who leaves visible, lasting evidence of his success staring in your envious face.
- Spread Ratios In Public Sector Banks (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Dec 08, 2001)
IF WE assume that the ratio of non-interest to income to interest income is either not significant or is the same in each public sector bank.
- The Wima Windfall (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Dec 07, 2001)
If you are a Delhi journalist and write a sort of political column, the question most frequently put to you, even by perfect strangers, is, ‘‘So will the Vajpayee government last?’’
- ‘Itc Hotels’ Schemes For Ex-Servicemen Have Been Mutually Beneficial’ (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 07, 2001)
The Indian Armed Forces are historically acknowledged to comprise the finest professional and chivalrous soldiers in the world.
- A Continuing Exclusion (Indian Express, Seema Alavi, Dec 07, 2001)
This Ramzan I have observed more fasts than I normally do. I have thought much more about the community.
- Heal Thyself (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 07, 2001)
Doctors do not like being treated on par with sellers of goods.
- Emerging Economic Challenges To Diplomacy (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Dec 07, 2001)
EVEN as the entire nation remained glued to television sets watching the Taliban collapse under sustained American bombings and onslaughts of the Northern Alliance.
- India, U.S. Bury The Ghosts Of 1971 (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 07, 2001)
NEW DELHI, DEC. 6. When the American aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson, docks at Mumbai in the next few days, India and the United States will have finally buried the ghosts of the 1971 war for the liberation of Bangladesh.
- Pwg, Mcc Attract Poto (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 07, 2001)
As was widely expected, the Centre has outlawed the Peoples War Group (PWG) of Andhra Pradesh and the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) of Jharkhand.
- Iftars - Then And Now (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 07, 2001)
NEW DELHI, DEC. 6. One day in early seventies, Mr. I.K. Gujral, then a member of Indira Gandhi's Cabinet, invited Mr. Shafi Quereshi, Minister of State for Railways, to a meal.
- India, U.S. Bury The Ghosts Of 1971 (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 07, 2001)
NEW DELHI, DEC. 6. When the American aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson, docks at Mumbai in the next few days, India and the United States will have finally buried the ghosts of the 1971 war for the liberation of Bangladesh.
- Double Defence (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 07, 2001)
The growing strategic convergence between India and the United States of America was again demonstrated during the recent meeting of the bilateral defence policy group in New Delhi.
- Sony Ceo On Head-Hunt (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Dec 07, 2001)
This one’s about the head of an organisation who for the moment looks like he has his throne, but very little of the kingdom he once used to lord over.
- Iftars - Then And Now (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 07, 2001)
NEW DELHI, DEC. 6. One day in early seventies, Mr. I.K. Gujral, then a member of Indira Gandhi's Cabinet, invited Mr. Shafi Quereshi, Minister of State for Railways, to a meal.
- Big Birthday Bash For Pawar (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 06, 2001)
Such is the strength and resilience of our political system that birthdays of political leaders are always regarded as memorable events by themselves.
- Emerging Economic Challenges (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Dec 06, 2001)
Even as the entire nation remained glued to television sets watching the Taliban collapse in the face of sustained American bombings and onslaughts of the Northern Alliance.
- What The Cbse Wanted Deleted From History Textbooks (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 06, 2001)
Although there have been clashes between the Sikh guru and the Mughals under Shah Jahan, there was no clash between the Sikhs and Aurangzeb till 1675.
- Self-Defeating Strategies (Hindu, Malini Parthasarathy, Dec 06, 2001)
As a consequence of the American military campaign in Afghanistan, a host of giddy and self-deluding notions have surfaced... India, Sri Lanka or Israel now have the temptation to solve problems militarily.
- New-Look Delhi Cabinet (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 06, 2001)
As we had predicted in an editorial some days ago, the big gamble of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in asking her entire Cabinet to resign has not really paid off.
- Leverage Technology To Tackle Competition -- Mr Janki Ballabh, Chairman, State Bank Of India (Business Line, Rajalakshmi Menon, Dec 06, 2001)
WITHOUT being unfair to practising bankers, it has to be said that they hold back more than they reveal in interviews.
- Self-Defeating Strategies (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 06, 2001)
As a consequence of the American military campaign in Afghanistan, a host of giddy and self-deluding notions have surfaced... India, Sri Lanka or Israel now have the temptation to solve problems militarily.
- Leverage Technology To Tackle Competition -- Mr Janki Ballabh, Chairman, State Bank Of India (Business Line, Rajalakshmi Menon, Dec 06, 2001)
WITHOUT being unfair to practising bankers, it has to be said that they hold back more than they reveal in interviews.
- Not Quite A Stranger In The Night (Telegraph, Rajyasree Sen, Dec 06, 2001)
An upper-middle-class Punjabi family has gathered in a farmhouse in Delhi to celebrate a wedding.
- That’s Not The Punjab I Know (Indian Express, Gurtej Singh, Dec 05, 2001)
Hartosh Singh Bal’s article, ‘Temple plots and holy men’ (IE, November 21) pegged on to V.S. Naipaul’s comments made interesting reading. Naipaul’s earlier comments on India and those of Nirad Chaudhri would have made even more gripping reading.
- Preparing Toddlers To Face The World (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 05, 2001)
Little boys and girls not yet two summers old can be seen being hurried to play schools to arm themselves with the right tools to face the battle ahead, the all important admission in an upmarket institution.
- For A Different Truck (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Dec 05, 2001)
Great news. The National Highway Development Project will be completed ahead of schedule.
- Trade With Nepal -- India's Achilles Heel (Business Line, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 05, 2001)
NEPAL'S Maoist uprising diverted attention from another danger averted for the time being by India's decision to extend the bilateral trade treaty that lapses today by three months.
- Is Mr Joshi Parochialising History A La Pakistan? (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 05, 2001)
It all began with a question on the Policy for Writing Text-books in the Rajya Sabha.
- Going Up In Smoke (Telegraph, Jack Fairweather, Dec 05, 2001)
On November 1, the World Health Organization issued a statement urging developing countries to take action against tobacco advertising:
- Dinner Diplomacy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 05, 2001)
Believers in the adage that the leaders who sup together come together are in for a disappointment.
- Up Politics -- Yet Another Act In Theatre Of Absurd? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 05, 2001)
The Congress(I) President, Ms Sonia Gandhi, and the Samajwadi Party Chief, Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav There are no permanent friends or foes in politics.
- Swearing By Economic Reforms (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 04, 2001)
THE CURRENT RECKONING is that the Indian economy will hardly be able to achieve a 5 per cent GDP growth during 2001-2002.
- From Agra To Kathmandu (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 04, 2001)
PROVIDED THE Maoists' revolt in Nepal does not come in the way of the SAARC Summit, a meeting between the Prime Minister, Mr. A. B. Vajpayee, and the Pakistani ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, on its sidelines in Kathmandu is a certainty.
- Will Doha Open Window For Non-Trade Issues? (Business Line, Sandeep Singh, Dec 04, 2001)
INDIA has reasons to celebrate after securing major gains in the hard fought agenda of the fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation.
- Leveraging India's Tourism Potential (Business Line, Gautam Murthy, Dec 04, 2001)
INDIA, once considered the land of ``snake charmers'' is today known in the West as a land of ``mouse movers'' with proven prowess in information technology.
- Time Ripe For Opening Defence Industry To Private Players (The Financial Express, Ranjit B Rai and P K Jain, Dec 04, 2001)
The Indian Navy knows it has a friend in George Fernandes, who is back as defence minister.
- A Classroom Of One’s Own (Indian Express, Megha Bahree, Dec 04, 2001)
Education matters. I was surprised to see the thousands who had camped at Delhi’s Ram Lila grounds on November 30.
- Us Ignores Pak Hand (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 04, 2001)
Scores of Pakistanis, both commissioned and irregular soldiers, are said to have been amongst the many Arabs and Afghans killed in last week’s revolt by Taliban prisoners in the Kala-i-Jangi prison near Mazar-i-Sharif.
- From Agra To Kathmandu (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 04, 2001)
PROVIDED THE Maoists' revolt in Nepal does not come in the way of the SAARC Summit, a meeting between the Prime Minister, Mr. A. B. Vajpayee, and the Pakistani ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, on its sidelines in Kathmandu is a certainty.
- Karthi’s Winter Bundobust (Tribune, K. Rajbir Deswal, Dec 04, 2001)
THE onset of winter once again brought alive in my memory my friend Karthikeyan, a cool guy who worked in my office.
- Swearing By Economic Reforms (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 04, 2001)
THE CURRENT RECKONING is that the Indian economy will hardly be able to achieve a 5 per cent GDP growth during 2001-2002.
- Let Quality Prevail (Indian Express, A.J. Philip, Dec 03, 2001)
The Central government has been clever enough not to tie itself in knots while granting children in the 6-14 age group the fundamental right to education under the Constitution (93rd) Amendment Bill, 2001.
- Gaddafi's Son Comes Calling (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 03, 2001)
NEW DELHI, DEC. 2. Guess who is in the capital this week? Besides a host of American officials who will be here to discuss cooperation in defence, there is one `Engineer' Saiful Islam Muammar Al-Gaddafi.
- A Code For Mps And Mlas (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Dec 03, 2001)
THERE can be no two views on the need to ensure that proceedings in the nations legislatures should be toned up in the sense that members should give a far better account of themselves than has been the case till now.
- The Politics Of Food -- Keeping The Other Half Hungry (Business Line, Devinder Sharma , Dec 03, 2001)
SOME months ago, a few hundred people in the US mostly agricultural scientists signed an AgBioWorld Foundation petition appealing to the seed multinational giant Aventis CropScience to donate some 3,000 tonnes of genetically-engineered experimental rice.
- Vision 2020 -- Why India Has No Silicon Valleys (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Dec 03, 2001)
THE pioneers of the Silicon Valley took a conscious decision not to build closer than 400 feet from the highway.
- ‘Engage Early And Vigourously, And Seek Market Access’ (The Financial Express, Rohit Bansal, Dec 03, 2001)
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) expert seems to be in love with India’s forts.
- Shelters For Displaced Slum Dwellers (The Financial Express, Manik Gupta, Dec 03, 2001)
In its latest initiative, World Vision, an international non-governmental organisation (NGO), has handed over 221 houses to slum dwellers in the Capital and another 94 houses to widows and orphans in the Tauru block of Gurgaon in Haryana.
- A Mine Of Problems (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 03, 2001)
UNRESTRICTED ENTRY OF the private sector in coal mining, it appears, is not going to be a reality in the near future.
- Other Side Of Diplomacy (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Dec 03, 2001)
Like so many of the institutions of the government of India, our foreign service is also modelled on that of the British.
- The Other Side (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 03, 2001)
The recent visit of the former prime minister of Pakistan, Ms Benazir Bhutto, to India, not surprisingly, generated considerable public and media interest.
- Anti-Abortion Brigade (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 03, 2001)
Though the mindset has not changed, the standards and techniques of female foeticide have.
- Gaddafi's Son Comes Calling (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 03, 2001)
NEW DELHI, DEC. 2. Guess who is in the capital this week? Besides a host of American officials who will be here to discuss cooperation in defence, there is one `Engineer' Saiful Islam Muammar Al-Gaddafi.
- Towards That Elusive Understanding (Hindu, Javed M. Ansari , Dec 02, 2001)
Caution is the buzzword on the Left-sponsored Opposition unity moves.
- Taliban Out, Old Boys Back In Kabul (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Dec 02, 2001)
HOURS after he flew back from Kabul last week, special envoy S.K. Lamba made the point that ‘‘we know how important it is for us to be there, so we will be going there pretty regularly.’’
- A Matter Of National Security (Tribune, S. K. Datta, Dec 02, 2001)
THE debate on the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO) has been politicised.
- Terrorism As Election Fodder (Tribune, M. G. Devasahayam , Dec 02, 2001)
WITH the crucial elections to Uttar Pradesh and Punjab assemblies and the Mumbai and Delhi Municipal Corporations, fast approaching, the BJP has been on a hyperactive mode searching for issues that can enthuse people to vote for them.
- Benazir Awaits Third Chance (Tribune, Rakshat Puri, Dec 02, 2001)
TO judge from the various statements she has made, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Benazir Bhutto’s views appear to represent the views of the “silent majority” in Pakistan.
- She Is No Longer Hawkish & Not The One To Give Up (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Dec 02, 2001)
CALL it a quirk of destiny but what Gen.Musharraf could not perform, Benazir Bhutto has done and this may be a turning point in her tormented life.
- Situation In Pakistan Doesn’t Seem To Be Hopeless (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Dec 02, 2001)
COME winter and this city witnesses a sudden rise in the number of seminars, an expected spurt in visitors from across the border.
- Towards That Elusive Understanding (Hindu, Javed M. Ansari , Dec 02, 2001)
Caution is the buzzword on the Left-sponsored Opposition unity moves.
- Resignation Drama (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 01, 2001)
DELHI Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has tried to make virtue out of compulsion while securing the resignation of her Cabinet.
- Why Nepal Matters (Indian Express, Rajiv Shukla, Dec 01, 2001)
INDIA should watch the developments in Nepal very carefully and extend all possible help to the Himalayan Kingdom — arms, intelligence and otherwise — to tackle the situation emerging out of the Maoist revolt.
- When In Doubt, Delete It Out (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 01, 2001)
I AM so sorry to have to begin this with an apology to Mike Denness.
- A Day In Delhi (Tribune, J. L. Gupta, Dec 01, 2001)
LUTYEN'S Delhi is India’s pride. The majestic Presidential Palace. Probably, the biggest in the world.
- ‘My Maiden Duty’ (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, Dec 01, 2001)
IN the Delhi Police training college we have at present over 1,600 police constable recruits who are under training.
- All Dressed Up And Waiting For Tourists (Tribune, Tavleen Singh, Dec 01, 2001)
THE palaces of Rajasthan, usually bursting with foreign tourists when winter comes, are nearly empty this year.
- Terror Tuesday Worsens Woes Of Garment Exporters (The Financial Express, Parul Malhotra, Dec 01, 2001)
Suspended animation followed the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, with commercial activity in the US grounding to a temporary halt.
- Afghanistan Without Taliban Shadow (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Nov 30, 2001)
TIME often comes to the aid of the timid. Whether we like it or not, such has been the case of India.
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