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Articles 8221 through 8320 of 9764:
- Vote For Status Quo (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 2003)
THE Samajwadi Party can justifiably take pride in the fact that it could win both the Harora and Mahasi seats for which byelections were held on Monday. What has made the victory sweeter for Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav is that both constituencies..
- Wooing Obcs For Votes (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 2003)
THE Union Cabinet’s decision on Tuesday to expand the Other Backward Classes (OBC) list with new castes and communities from Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Punjab and Sikkim is yet another attempt by the Centre to strengthen the vote...
- 'Satyendra Dubey Is As Brave As A Kargil Martyr' (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2003)
On November 30, The Indian Express reported how Satyendra Dubey, a young NHAI engineer wrote confidentially to the PMO about corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral project in Bihar. He was then murdered. Readers respond with outraged e mails
- To Nda Delight, Mnf Retains Its Hold, Congress Is Lonely Again (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Dec 03, 2003)
Demolishing the theory that the anti-incumbency factor would shut it out, the ruling Mizo National Front (MNF), led by chief minister and former insurgent leader Zoramthanga, today secured a simple majority in a House of 40 to retain power in Mizoram.
- Elections: Does Market Know Better? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 03, 2003)
Exit polls give Madhya Pradesh to the BJP and Delhi to the Congress(I), and suggest a BJP upset in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. But does the share market know different, from the way it has been going up? Rasheeda Bhagat looks at the post-electio n scene.
- Wanted, A New Safma Patron (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 03, 2003)
BJP ideologue K.R. Malkani, who died recently, will surely be missed by many but none more so than the Pakistan-headquartered South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA), which recently organised the successful visit of Indian MPs (self-led by Laloo Prasad
- Undying Interest (Telegraph, M.R. Venkatesh, Dec 03, 2003)
Murasoli Maran’s contribution to Indian politics is best understood in the context of his larger concern with state autonomy
- All Fired Up For Winter Session, Cong Feels Cold (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Dec 02, 2003)
Party in a huddle, explores strategy if verdict is hung in 2 states
- If The Centre Doesn’t Hold (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 02, 2003)
It is more economic than ethnic in Assam. The BJP-led government, caught between mandir and Modi, does not understand a simple thing like this. When the applicants number 72 lakh for a few vacancies in the railways, the response is not to raise 47 more...
- Almost Free (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2003)
Wonder ceases with familiarity. But any objective observer would be forced to grant that the massive scale of the electoral exercise in India is cause for some amazement. Even when the polling is limited to assembly elections in five states, the manpower,
- Tempestuous Winter Session Ahead (Business Line, R. C. Rajamani, Dec 02, 2003)
With election results coming in and such issues as the Judev tape episode and the stamp-paper scam on hand, the winter session of Parliament may see much polemics and politicking rather than democratic discussion and deliberations. The fate over 50 Bills,
- Free And Fair (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2003)
THE stray incidents of violence reported from some areas do not detract from the fact that Monday's elections to four state assemblies were peaceful. The Election Commission has every reason to pat itself on the back for the arrangements it made. It ...
- Polling Time (Telegraph, Vijaya Kumar, Dec 02, 2003)
The high point of the assembly elections is the realization of the Bharatiya Janata Party that it is not possible to come to power piggyback on Hindutva alone. So it has decided to shift gear and take up “development” as its focus. Arun Jaitley, master...
- All Set For Round One (Business Line, Rup Lal Sharma, Dec 01, 2003)
EVERY THING is set for the electoral battle in five States, including four in the Hindi heartland. The Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Delhi, Rajasthan and Mizoram assume special significance as their outcome is likely to set the stage
- Himachal Politics Has Its Cricketers Clean Bowled (Indian Express, Ateet Sharma, Dec 01, 2003)
If the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) was to conduct a coaching camp today for its players, the venue would probably be either Patiala in Punjab or Panchkula in Haryana. Not Una, Bilaspur or Mandi, all Himachal towns possessing cricket ground
- Poll-Itics 2003 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2003)
If this is only the semi-finals, let’s hope we survive the finals
- Voter Must Know Criminal Tendencies Of A Minister (Indian Express, T. R. Andhyarujina, Dec 01, 2003)
The video exposure of Judeo, Minister of State for Environment and Forests, accepting currency notes by way of bribe in a sting operation raises intriguing questions of the legitimacy of such an exposure. Certain facts require to be noticed. The exposure
- Two Parties, Two Pyramids (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Dec 01, 2003)
This round of assembly elections has brought into sharp focus the leadership dilemmas of both the Congress and the BJP. The Congress has a galaxy of new contenders at the state level, but there are hardly any leaders besides Sonia Gandhi who have come ...
- We’re Like This And That Only (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Dec 01, 2003)
It's strange to be going back to the idea of “national unity”, one of those school textbook formulations that we learnt by rote. Surely we’ve been there, done that. We’ve explored the idea of India, mouthed aphorisms about unity in diversity, turned ...
- Daddy’s Day Out (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Nov 30, 2003)
Arjun Singh sweats it out to firm up son Ajay’s turf
- Media’s Discord Of Conduct (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Nov 30, 2003)
Not long ago I happened to be on a flight with BJP President Venakaiah Naidu. He was returning from Jodhpur after campaigning for Vasundhara Raje and because the flight was a longish one we got talking about this and that and during the course of the ...
- Out Of Sync (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Nov 30, 2003)
Civil Aviation Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy would no doubt like to inform the folks back in Bihar that he is going places in New Delhi. Perhaps that is why he instructed the Airports Authority of India, which participated in the recent Trade Fair at ...
- Jogi Versus Jogi (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Nov 30, 2003)
The Congress party’s national slogan is ‘‘Congress ka haath, garibon ke saath’’, but in Chhattisgarh it has been given a new twist. In towns, kasbas and villages, posters show Ajit Jogi smiling down a renewed slogan ‘‘Congress ka haath, vikas ke saath’’.
- Gold Run (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Nov 30, 2003)
If gold prices in India have soared past Rs 6,000/10 gm, it is not exactly an Indian wedding phenomenon. The world gold market is looking extremely buoyant. In fact, the octogenarian market forecaster, Richard Russell, is so bullish that wrote in his ...
- Govt As Your Delivery Boy (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Nov 30, 2003)
When this piece is published, the dust and din of the election campaign would have settled in the States of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and in the Union of Territory of Delhi. Tomorrow (December 1) is the day of the poll. Mizoram went to...
- All The Bjp’s Men (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 30, 2003)
Party forges task force for polls, summons ministers
- Bjp’s Conspiracy Theories (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Nov 29, 2003)
It is difficult to make sense of the diversionary chaos over the Judeo video. As part of the BJP’s firefighting strategy, the focus is being deliberately shifted to secondary issues like who filmed the tape, who fetched it to The Indian Express office...
- Unabashed Graft (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Nov 29, 2003)
For both TIME and NEWSWEEK, the acceptance of corruption was the bigger story. Are the incessant scandals making the Indian people more cynical? Or does public cynicism stem from the reaction of India’s political class to the scandals?
- A Five-Point Deprogramme (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Nov 29, 2003)
From cue cards etched in stone to de-hyping Saarc: rough primer on how to build on the current ceasefire
- Law Minister Jaitley Claims Proof: Jogi & Jogi Jr Behind Video (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 29, 2003)
Three days before the polls, Union Law Minister Arun Jaitley claimed today that the BJP had collected ‘‘proof’’ which directly linked Chief Minister Ajit Jogi and son Amit Jogi to the Judeo video. But asked to explain Judeo’s acceptance of the money ...
- Why Poll Talk In Alwar Refers To The Asian Development Bank (Indian Express, Anuradha Nagaraj, Nov 29, 2003)
In the land where Ashok Gehlot scored his biggest victory in the run-up to these elections by arresting Pravin Togadia, drains and pipelines are the only thing that anybody is interested in. Trishuls and Togadia just don’t matter, much to the ...
- In Fast-Track City, Old-World Khurana Runs A Solitary Race (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 28, 2003)
If elections are won on favours and pavement-thumping activism, then the BJP’s candidate for chief minister of Delhi, Madan Lal Khurana, should be well ahead of his rival, Congress Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
- Political Hiccups (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Nov 28, 2003)
A pathetic pursuit of ratings, the quest for more advertising has caused TV channels, newpapers and weeklies to focus so heavily on elections in the four northern states that Mizoram seems almost outside the Indian Union.
- Didi Kept On Hold So She Turns In Phones (Indian Express, Diptosh Majumdar, Nov 28, 2003)
PM reminder: no dial tone
- Verdict Need Not Indicate Trends In Ls Poll, Feel Bjp, Congress (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Nov 28, 2003)
With pollsters forecasting a mixed verdict, the mainstream political parties, BJP and Congress, are wary of projecting the coming Assembly contests as a curtain raiser for the Lok Sabha elections next year.
- It’S All In The Stars (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 27, 2003)
Are film actors real crowd pullers or mere crutches for nervous candidates?
- Politics Of Drought Favours Gehlot (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 26, 2003)
ALMOST all opinion polls have placed the Congress(I) in a pretty comfortable position in Rajasthan. In the villages around Jaipur and Ajmer that this correspondent visited, the Rajasthan Chief Minister, Mr Ashok Gehlot, is looked upon as an annadata.
- Politics Of Drought Favours Gehlot (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 26, 2003)
ALMOST all opinion polls have placed the Congress(I) in a pretty comfortable position in Rajasthan. In the villages around Jaipur and Ajmer that this correspondent visited, the Rajasthan Chief Minister, Mr Ashok Gehlot, is looked upon as an annadata.
- Sustaining The Centre's Myth (Hindu, Harish Khare , Nov 26, 2003)
We have heard the jarring notes from Assam to Maharashtra. These are timely reminders of the precariousness that continues to define the Centre's myth.
- Two Ministries And A Turf War (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Nov 26, 2003)
The power principle has been in overdrive between the Ministries of External Affairs and Human Resource Development for some time now, including over the much-coveted Unesco job in Paris.
- Maran: A Tough Strategist (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 25, 2003)
AFTER the end of single-party rule at the Centre in 1996 and the advent of coalition governance with multiple parties, the role of regional outfits has assumed a new meaning.
- Maran: A Tough Strategist (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 25, 2003)
AFTER the end of single-party rule at the Centre in 1996 and the advent of coalition governance with multiple parties, the role of regional outfits has assumed a new meaning.
- `Rajasthan Needs More Investments And Jobs' (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 24, 2003)
IF THE ordinary man in Jaipur, who has some links or the other with the villages of Rajasthan, is grateful to the Gehlot Government for good drought management, a section of the business community is unhappy with the Congress(I) Government for "its failur
- The Incredible Adventures Of Jassi (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Nov 24, 2003)
I am Jassi. Like lassi. Or hussy — that’s what Pari and Mallika Madam think I am. Armaan-Sir, he thinks I am Jaspreet. Always I must correct him, ‘‘Jasmeet-Sir’’. Jus-meet me on television and you won’t be disappointed.
- `Rajasthan Needs More Investments And Jobs' (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 24, 2003)
IF THE ordinary man in Jaipur, who has some links or the other with the villages of Rajasthan, is grateful to the Gehlot Government for good drought management, a section of the business community is unhappy with the Congress(I) Government for "its failur
- Breaking The Kadam Taal In Kashmir (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 24, 2003)
OVER THE YEARS, efforts to bring about a negotiated end to carnage in Jammu and Kashmir have resembled what soldiers call the Kadam Taal: the parade-ground art of marching briskly on one spot without actually moving forward. But even hardened sceptics con
- Venality On Videotape (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 23, 2003)
First it was the Tehelka. Now it is the Judev video. As it were, Indian politics is still to come to terms with the interventionist potential of the 24-hour news channel. Television has already redefined, in many ways, how the leaders and political partie
- The Mask Comes Off (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 23, 2003)
Voters in Madhya Pradesh feel that the judev footage only reflects the true face of politicians, says Lalit Shastri.
- Billed To Last (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Nov 23, 2003)
Andhra Pradesh Congress chief D Srinivas who stayed at Andhra Bhavan in Delhi earlier this month was infuriated when he was presented with a bill of Rs 2,500. As an MLA, Srinivas is accustomed to being charged at the nominal rate of Rs 2 per day as room r
- Small Screen Magic (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 23, 2003)
A new breed of politicians owes its rise to television, says Anjali Mody.
- A New Identikit (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Nov 23, 2003)
Jogi peddles ‘Chhattisgarhia’ pride in language, dress and movies
- Brazening It Out (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Nov 23, 2003)
There is little doubt that it was primarily the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who insisted that the man in the eye of the storm over the "cash on camera affair" must go.
- Newsreel 16.11.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 23, 2003)
The historic port city of Istanbul becomes ground zero as international terror chooses it as its next target. Over 50 are dead in two days of attacks, more than 500 wounded.
- Money Matters (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 23, 2003)
Winning an election is a sure way of making those fast and vast quantities of bucks which can keep generations living in style. Neena Vyas reports.
- Bjp Flags Self In, Steps On Gas (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Nov 23, 2003)
Internal study puts party on No 1 slot
- Why The Abhijit Kale Story Is Less Likely Elsewhere (Indian Express, Chandresh Narayanan, Nov 23, 2003)
The most surprising point in the Kale controversy is not that it happened, but that it took so long — more than 70 years into India’s Test history — for something like this to happen. Because the appointment and functioning of Indian cricket selectors is
- Chargesheeted (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 23, 2003)
‘Badals worth Rs 4,326 cr’
- Corruption... A Canker No More? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 23, 2003)
Society is more tolerant of those operating on the fringes of the law and this has allowed the political class to be blase about certain things, which were a strict `no-no' in the past. Alok Mukherjee reports.
- Fathers’ Figures (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Nov 23, 2003)
History and church’s contribution in development bust Judeo’s charges
- Judeo Video, Govt Audio (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Nov 22, 2003)
Why this spycamaraderie when none of the Govt’s Top Eleven will drink themselves silly, fondle cash in hotel rooms?
- The Biharis Who Never Saw Bihar Until Last Night (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Nov 21, 2003)
: Twenty eight-year-old Mukti Yadav has never been to Bihar. He has only seen its outline on a map of India. And that was very long ago: he was a child then, studying in an Assamese-medium school. Home has always been Assam for Mukti, a Bihari.
- Ajit Jogi And The Talking Mynah (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Nov 21, 2003)
A soft, thin wire mesh has been thrown around an 80 feet tall wild tree in the compound of the forest department in Jagdalpur, headquarters for the Bastar division of Chhattisgarh. This unique caged tree is the habitat for four Bastar Hill mynahs, the wor
- Scary Scene (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 21, 2003)
NO ONE who reads the published reports of the Supreme Court's judgment transferring the disproportionate wealth cases against Ms Jayalalithaa to Karnataka and the unusually strong words used by it to condemn the roles of the State Government and Public Pr
- Scary Scene (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 21, 2003)
NO ONE who reads the published reports of the Supreme Court's judgment transferring the disproportionate wealth cases against Ms Jayalalithaa to Karnataka and the unusually strong words used by it to condemn the roles of the State Government and Public Pr
- Scary Scene (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 21, 2003)
NO ONE who reads the published reports of the Supreme Court's judgment transferring the disproportionate wealth cases against Ms Jayalalithaa to Karnataka and the unusually strong words used by it to condemn the roles of the State Government and Public Pr
- Karunakaran Sets A Deadline: Sack Antony (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 20, 2003)
More than two decades after Marine Drive in Kochi saw the unification of Congress factions in Kerala, senior leader K. Karunakaran today lined up 21 MLAs, including two Ministers, (the Congress has 62 in a House of 140) before an estimated 2 lakh people a
- Judeo Legacy: Lonely Nameplate, Locked Room, Sheepish Staff (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Nov 20, 2003)
Dilip Singh Judeo will surely thank the Prime Minister, his deputy and all in the BJP for rallying to his defence. But wonder what he will say to his former boss and staff when he meets them next. Because a day after the Judeo video unspooled on The Sunda
- L'affaire Judev Puts Bjp In Dock (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 19, 2003)
EQUITY analysts have been at pains to point out that in the current stock market rally, liquidity has been provided mainly by retail investors. While the foreign institutional investors and institutions have been mopping up blue-chips as well as mid-cap s
- L'affaire Judev Puts Bjp In Dock (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 19, 2003)
EQUITY analysts have been at pains to point out that in the current stock market rally, liquidity has been provided mainly by retail investors. While the foreign institutional investors and institutions have been mopping up blue-chips as well as mid-cap s
- Iron Man Nationalism And Polls (Indian Express, Bharat Wariavwalla, Nov 19, 2003)
Chief Ministers of Gujarat often pride themselves as Sardar Patel, the Iron Man, as he was fondly called. Perhaps Narendra Modi, too, thinks he’s another Sardar. As the BJP’s star campaigner in the coming assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan an
- Political Courage Puts Personal Tie On Record (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Nov 19, 2003)
Sethi & Bhandari: ‘Those with illicit ties attack pious relationship’
- Judev Invokes The Mahatma (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Nov 19, 2003)
NEW DELHI NOV. 18. Quite unabashed by the controversy he has generated at a most unfortunate time for the Bharatiya Janata Party, Dilip Singh Judev, who has been in the eye of the political storm raging since Sunday, has now invoked the Mahatma in defence
- Friendship In Deep Waters (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Nov 19, 2003)
There’s something fishy in the budding romance between India and Iran, and methinks it’s got to do with the gas pipeline that Teheran is so keen to build overland via Pakistan and into India. Of course, New Delhi has had other ideas for the longest time —
- Money For Minister (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2003)
The Judeo episode again highlights the pervasiveness of corruption in the system
- Judeo-Gate’S Missing Hero (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Nov 19, 2003)
What happens to 24-hours TV news channels when they wake up to read The Sunday Express exclusive on a VCD of Minister of State for Environment Dilip Singh Judeo accepting a bribe? Immediately, rush to get a reaction from the moustachio macho man of Chhatt
- Judeo’S Head Helps Pm, Dpm Put Their Foot Down On Cong (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2003)
Campaign: Look who’s talking, they say; in Bikaner, PM says sack Jogi
- India's Afghan Stakes (Hindu, M.K. Bhadrakumar, Nov 18, 2003)
India's neglect of its historical partners in Afghanistan, the Pashtuns, is inexcusable. Resetting policy parameters is not going to be easy.
- Corruption On Camera (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 18, 2003)
IN THE FACE of another Tehelka-type exposé, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has done the right thing in obtaining the resignation of the Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Dilip Singh Judev, without taking cover behind the need to co
- The Government Has Acted With Commendable Swiftness On The Judeo Expose (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 18, 2003)
Dilip Singh Judeo is not likely to substitute his volleys of recrimination with expressions of remorse in a hurry. But Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has acted with admirable swiftness in banishing his tainted minister from his council and promising
- Talking With E. Sreedharan (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Nov 18, 2003)
‘I don’t budge just to please somebody else. When politicians find they can’t interfere, they respect’
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