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Articles 21721 through 21784 of 21784:
- Make No Mistake: This War Will Be Nasty, Brutish And Long (Indian Express, Ivo H. Daalder, Nov 30, 2001)
The post-Cold War era ended abruptly on the morning of September 11, 2001.
- ‘Ethical Hackers’ Gain Popularity As Security Consultants (The Financial Express, Prashant Bakshi, Nov 30, 2001)
America’s war against terror has acquired a fresh dimension with the formation of YIHAT (Young Intelligent Hackers Against Terrorism).
- Towards A United Front? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 30, 2001)
AFTER HAVING PLUNGED into a battle where both refused to hold back their punches, the leaders of the Samajwadi Party and the Congress(I) seem to be showing signs of realising the compulsion before them.
- Work Culture Of No 1s (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 30, 2001)
THERE has been any number of articles and seminars on work culture, mostly talking down, or at, readers and participants.
- India To Face Water Shortage By 2030: Expert (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 30, 2001)
All parts of India will face water shortage by 2030 though there is currently a trend of increasing rainfall, an expert has said, lamenting little government spending on water availability and sanitation.
- Some Clarity, Please (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Nov 29, 2001)
The most accomplished foreign minister/diplomatist in contemporary history was Charles Maurice Tallyrand (1754-1838).
- ‘Musharraf Weaker After Kabul’s Fall’ (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Nov 29, 2001)
Benazir Bhutto makes no secret of the fact that she wants to return to Pakistan. And wants desperately to fill the political vacuum there, particularly since General Pervez Musharraf seems to be on a weak wicket.
- Foundation For Foreign Funds (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 29, 2001)
THE GOVERNMENT CONTINUES to view foreign investments in the housing sector with suspicion, if the latest draft policy is any guide.
- ‘We Must Give India Mfn Status, But With A New Name’ (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Nov 29, 2001)
An avalanche of interviews has left the former prime minister nursing her throat. But how could she complain!
- Politics And Terror In Nepal (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 29, 2001)
THE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT seems to have encouraged the Nepalese Government to take a stern view of the Maoist rebels of the Himalayan kingdom at the present moment.
- Sgpc & Punjab Poll (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 29, 2001)
Elections to the Punjab Assembly early next year had a lot to do with the selection of the SGPC executive, including the president, on Tuesday.
- Talking Point (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 29, 2001)
There can be no meaningful dialogue without an atmosphere of trust.
- Salaries That Are Hard To Swallow (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Nov 29, 2001)
While much of what is happening these days in New Delhi is believed to be influenced by the impending elections in Uttar Pradesh, the news from Lucknow is about a funny legal dilemma suddenly faced by the BJP MLAs.
- Will The Benazir Charm Work? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 28, 2001)
IT IS not going to endear her to Islamabad, but Ms Benazir Bhutto, the ousted and discredited former Prime Minister of Pakistan, is doing a creditable job in New Delhi of walking the tightrope on Indo-Pak relations.
- Hilsa And Gulab Jamun (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 28, 2001)
But the Opposition must beware of the fishbones.
- Pushing The Poto (Hindu, Kuldip Nayar, Nov 28, 2001)
I THOUGHT we had closed the chapter on the right to stay free.
- Focus Shifts To Nepal (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Nov 28, 2001)
For nearly seven weeks this country's attention has understandably been focussed almost completely on the ongoing war on terrorism in Afghanistan.
- Sonia’s Comfort (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 28, 2001)
Sonia Gandhi’s comfort level with CPI(M) leader Somnath Chatterjee is growing with every Parliament session. And she’s not shy of showing it.
- The Trade-Labour Linkage Is Not ‘Dead’ As Yet (The Financial Express, Pradeep S. Mehta, Nov 27, 2001)
“Show me one piece of evidence where any government has asked for a social clause in the WTO, except when Bill Clinton asked for such an arrangement at Seattle”, said Pascal Lamy.
- Communalising Crafts (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 27, 2001)
THE NDA government, accused of Talibanising education, has exposed itself to another serious charge.
- Behind “Wonderful Fiction” (Tribune, Sumer Kaul, Nov 27, 2001)
IT may be an indication of the loss of perspective in national politics but I find it remarkable.
- ‘Indian Business Should Focus On Marketing Their Products’ (The Financial Express, HUMA SIDDQUI, Nov 27, 2001)
Though Korea and India can complement each other’s trade to a far greater extent, bureaucratic hassles in India are proving a hindrance, Ambassador Lee Chong Moo tells Huma Siddiqui in an interview.
- Nepal Rocks Again (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 27, 2001)
Maoist insurgency is a pointer to deep popular disquiet.
- Lambah, To Bonn Via Rome (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Nov 27, 2001)
As India’s special envoy on Afghanistan Satinder Lambah flies into Bonn, Germany, to participate in the Afghan roundtable that begins today, New Delhi seems to be—in what amounts to a very pleasant change—thinking on its feet.
- Untold Woes Of The Indian Farmer (Telegraph, Prabhakar Kulkarni, Nov 27, 2001)
The struggle against poverty and the plight of the rural poor should not lose its priority in the context of the American war against global terrorism.
- Benazir Talks Of Tearing Down The ‘Berlin Wall’ (The Financial Express, Rohit Bansal, Nov 27, 2001)
• For far too long have there been Berlin Walls...
- What’s In An Investment Accord (The Financial Express, Pradeep S. Mehta, Nov 26, 2001)
“It is the Wall Street’s agenda’, observed the noted trade economist, Jagdish Bhagwati, at an Asia-Pacific regional conference on international investment agreements organised by the UNCTAD at New Delhi a few summers ago.
- Mr Chomsky And The Left World (The Financial Express, K. P. Sethunath, Nov 26, 2001)
If Noam Chomsky was not there, what would have been the fate of India’s professional dissenters?
- Strong Case For Enhancing India-Eu Relations (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Nov 26, 2001)
The outcome of the second India-EU summit (in New Delhi last week) should take care of the criticism that the relationship between them lacks direction.
- A Missed Opportunity (Hindu, Harsh Sethi , Nov 26, 2001)
DESPITE THE heightened global talk about human rights, the inaugural South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) convention held in New Delhi on November 11 and 12 went virtually unnoticed.
- Searching For Growth (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 26, 2001)
THE EUROPEAN UNION is India's largest trading partner, but considering the history of India's economic links with the members of the E.U.
- Breaking The Taliban-Osama Axis (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 26, 2001)
THE TALIBAN'S ROUT in Kabul, the Afghan capital, has not settled the fundamental issues of concern to the global community as regards the ongoing U.S.-led military `campaign' against international terrorism.
- Laloo, And The Law (Indian Express, E. P. Unny, Nov 26, 2001)
E.P. UNNY meets a leader waiting for luck to catch up with him before courts do. Meanwhile, he tempts both...
- Medical Corruption Of India (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 26, 2001)
When the president of a body, that is cranked out to be the central regulator of the medical profession in the country, is himself discovered to be corrupt, it says something about the state of the profession today.
- First Impressions (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 26, 2001)
A new government may not redeem its pledges in six months, but it is a long enough time to make the first impressions.
- Lawful Rights (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 26, 2001)
These rights are protected by law, not only in Thailand and Singapore, but also in India.
- Quickfix History (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 26, 2001)
HISTORY changes every time the government changes in New Delhi. So it has this month when the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) ordered the NCERT, and through it the CBSE.
- Partitioned Spaces (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 26, 2001)
The most charitable view of the segregation of ‘‘minority handicrafts’’ at the ongoing India International Trade Fair (IITF) in New Delhi is that there is nothing more than meets the eye in the decision.
- Departmental Stores Mushroom In Delhi Despite Recession (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 26, 2001)
THERE is no stopping the mushrooming of super-markets and departmental stores in Delhi. Most trade gurus feel that there is a conscious shift of consumers from the unorganised to the organised retail market.
- A Dose Of Death? (Hindu, BARUN DASGUPTA, Nov 25, 2001)
THE UNICEF campaign to prevent blindness among children has run into rough weather in Assam. With the help of the State Directorate of Family Welfare, it is implementing a programme of giving five six-monthly doses of Vitamin A as part of its campaign.
- Hotels On A Platter (Hindu, SUSHMA RAMACHANDRAN , Nov 25, 2001)
THE HOSPITALITY industry is not quite the Government's cup of tea. The public sector hotels are notable largely for musty smells, slow service, and cockroaches in the woodwork.
- Selling The Family Silver? (Hindu, SUSHMA RAMACHANDRAN , Nov 25, 2001)
THE PRIVATISATION of public sector companies has always been accompanied by vociferous protests on the ground that the country is selling off valuable ``crown jewels''.
- A Dose Of Death? (Hindu, BARUN DASGUPTA, Nov 25, 2001)
THE UNICEF campaign to prevent blindness among children has run into rough weather in Assam. With the help of the State Directorate of Family Welfare, it is implementing a programme of giving five six-monthly doses of Vitamin A as part of its campaign.
- War Against Terror: The Public Opinion Conundrum (Tribune, Sreeram Chaulia, Nov 25, 2001)
There is a fundamental contradiction in the renewed love fest that the present war against terrorism has contrived between the United States and its old Cold War ally, Pakistan.
- Ambedkar And Partition (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Nov 25, 2001)
According to Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi was a Hindu and an Indian, the greatest in many generations, and he was proud of being a Hindu and an Indian.
- Chomsky And The American Political Fraud (Tribune, Shelley Walia, Nov 25, 2001)
“War on Afghanistan constitutes a greater terrorist act than the September 11 attacks”.
- Why Bush Wouldn't Condemn Pakistan (Pioneer, M L Kotru, Nov 25, 2001)
If you were one of those who watched President Mush (Musharraf) trying to steal the show from President Bush when the two went centre-stage at their New York Press conference.
- A Ray Of Hope For The Victims Of Oppression (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Nov 25, 2001)
The Irish poet and Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney presented a vintage, out of print, book — “The Golden Bough”— to Mary Robinson hours before she left Dublin for New York to take up her new assignment as UN High Commissioner.
- Composite Culture: Then & Now (Tribune, Tavleen Singh, Nov 24, 2001)
Indian politicians are masters at taking a fine idea and making it sound like nothing more than empty words.
- Nri Adopts Historic Sanghol Village (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 24, 2001)
The historical Sanghol village has been adopted by a United Kingdom-based NRI entrepreneur, Dr Diljit Rana, to be developed into a place of learning and a model village on the lines of the garden village concept in Britain.
- Ambedkar And Partition (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Nov 24, 2001)
According to Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi was a Hindu and an Indian, the greatest in many generations, and he was proud of being a Hindu and an Indian.
- The Left And The Wto Regime (Hindu, V. KRISHNA ANANTH , Nov 24, 2001)
A REPORT on the rally organised in New Delhi recently by the ``Indian People's Campaign Against WTO''.
- Capital Account Convertibility -- Necessary To Save The Savers? (Business Line, S. K. Shanthi, Nov 24, 2001)
CAPITAL account convertibility means that the people of a country can invest in foreign assets, financial or otherwise.
- Can The Roc File A Complaint Against An Errant Company? (The Financial Express, Amit K. Vyas, Nov 24, 2001)
The Registrar of Companies (RoC) is a competent authority under Section 621 of the Companies Act 1956 (the Act) to file a criminal complaint against a company in event of defaults in complying with the provisions of the Act.
- Why Bush Wouldn't Condemn Pakistan (Pioneer, M L Kotru, Nov 24, 2001)
If you were one of those who watched President Mush (Musharraf) trying to steal the show from President Bush when the two went centre-stage at their New York Press conference.
- Snip, Snip (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 24, 2001)
If history doesn’t suit us, away with it.
- Education Bill Needs A Relook If It’s To Serve Desired Purpose (The Financial Express, Shikha Chadha, Nov 24, 2001)
India tops the world in having the highest number of illiterates. Recent estimates point out that the number of children below 15 years joining the labour force varies from 17.4 million to 44 million.
- Do Our Sacrifices Count, Ask Dogras (Indian Express, Arun Sharma, Nov 23, 2001)
THEY acceded the single-largest composite state — having boundaries with China and Afghanistan — to India 55 years ago, but the Dogras have been fighting a battle for recognition of own language for 10 years.
- Quick On The Draw (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 23, 2001)
The arrival of an Indian diplomatic mission in Kabul on Wednesday was truly a historic event. It symbolised, as few other things have, the total change of scene that has taken place in Afghanistan.
- Reviving Afghan Relations (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 23, 2001)
INDIA'S decision to station in the Afghan capital medical and paramedical personnel and set up a liaison office can be considered a good beginning to reconstruct its Afghan policy.
- Floating Rates (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 23, 2001)
THE CENTRE SHOULD easily complete its borrowing programme this year and if possible exceed it.
- Discourse On Wheel (Pioneer, Mohinder Singh, Nov 23, 2001)
This car is a virgin. It won't go all the way. Do not touch. I'm not that sort of car. Not too close.
- Building New Strategic Ties (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Nov 23, 2001)
Moscow: "Shout for us across the Himalayas whenever you need us."
- Informal Sector: A Dilemma Between Removal And Revival (The Financial Express, Siddartha Mitra, Nov 23, 2001)
There have been several attempts to control the size of the informal sector through licensing or physical controls. The cycle rickshaw sector in Delhi has been the object of one such attempt. The policy has clearly failed.
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