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Articles 8421 through 8520 of 9764:
- Tempering Of The Temple Man (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Oct 21, 2003)
Is Swami Chinmayanand the VHP’s BJP man or the BJP’s VHP man
- A 'Crisis' Deftly Defused (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2003)
THE LATEST ROUND of Ayodhya-centred mobilisation spearheaded by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad has made one thing clear to political India. It is that, in India's most populous State and also elsewhere, the Ramjanmabhoomi movement does not evoke ...
- Politics Of Common Civil Code (Deccan Herald, Vishal Arora, Oct 20, 2003)
It is possible that a common civil code could become a stick in the hands of communal organisations
- Politics Of Common Civil Code (Deccan Herald, Vishal Arora, Oct 20, 2003)
It is possible that a common civil code could become a stick in the hands of communal organisations
- A Pawarpoint Presentation (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Oct 20, 2003)
Only the politically naive would believe that Sharad Pawar’s seemingly innocuous comment about the “imported leadership” of the Congress was made casually. The NCP had made sure the electronic media was there to cover it even though Pawar’s observation wa
- Ramming It All Down The Tube (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Oct 20, 2003)
Friday’s news. It’s like a film reel in delirium. It breaks free of the rotating spool and spins out of control onto the floor. Somewhere in the jumble, you’ll see kar sevaks rush forward in hundreds, policemen in hundreds run after them; a loudspeaker ho
- Onion Prices To Rocket This Diwali (Indian Express, Rakshit Sonawane, Oct 20, 2003)
This Diwali, it won’t just be the rockets going up. There’s grim news from the country’s onion bowl: prices of onions are all set to climb dizzying heights for a while.
- Express Your Voice (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2003)
This refers to Contempt of Quote (The Sunday Express, Oct 12). Advani’s trial by media in the Babri Masjid demolition case continues relentlessly. However, the interpretation of facts leaves a lot to be desired. Anju Gupta, who was in charge of Advani’s s
- Neighbour Retaliates (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Oct 19, 2003)
The Indian government has not taken kindly to the news that some Pakistanis have illegally occupied 63 Clifton in Karachi, the Indian consul general’s residence until it was closed down in 1992 after a Pakistani mob stormed the building in the wake of the
- Double-Speak: Antony Gives It Left, Right, Centre (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Oct 19, 2003)
Accusing the Marxists of double standards, Kerala Chief Minister A.K. Antony today said the activities of the Left parties, especially the CPI(M), in Kerala should serve as ‘‘an eye-opener’’
- Bjp Strikes Balance: Sp Can Stay, Let Vhp Play (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2003)
With UP Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav having acquitted himself rather well over the VHP’s Sankalp Sabha programme, it was obviously time for the BJP to come to his defence today.
- Do Nothing, Risk Nothing, Hopefully (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Oct 19, 2003)
With the crucial ‘‘semi-final’’ round of Assembly elections less than six weeks away, the Congress is trying hard to come out of the blue phase it is stuck in, but as of now the party leadership appears bereft of any action plan but one — keep things in l
- Swaraj Saviour To Docs With Russian Stamp (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2003)
Adding more bitterness to the already soured relations between the Union Health Ministry and the Medical Council of India (MCI), Health Minister Sushma Swaraj announced today that doctors, who have graduated from recognised Russian medical colleges before
- ‘it’S A First: A Cm’S Letter To Pm Is Basis For An Alleged Crime’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2003)
You are a Christian by birth. Then how do you still claim to be a tribal since Christianity has always claimed to be a religion of equality
- Ram Versus Rajya (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 18, 2003)
It’s poll time in two weeks, will the BJP trust its wisdom or succumb to instinct
- Mellowed Mulayam Thanks Centre As He Calms Ayodhya (Indian Express, Raman Kirpal, Oct 18, 2003)
In Ayodhya, the day belonged to security forces who, braving stone showers and iron rods hurled by kar sevaks resisting arrest, foiled VHP attempts to hold an assembly for the Ram temple construction.
- The Day Before, Mulayam Tries To Cool Ayodhya Heat (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 17, 2003)
Signalling that some sort of an agreement had been reached with the VHP on the eve of its planned assembly in Ayodhya, the Uttar Pradesh government today announced that all Ram bhakts would be allowed darshan of the idol at the disputed site under certain
- Vajpayee On Vacation (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Oct 16, 2003)
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee gave himself a day out in Indonesia last week, wrapping up an afternoon of bilateral meetings before the ASEAN summit with a shopping expedition at an upmarket department store in the resort city of Nusaduwa. It was his
- Vhp Show Begins With A Whimper But Early Days Yet (Indian Express, Raman Kirpal, Oct 16, 2003)
Ayodhya: Low turnout at Lucknow march; karsevaks held, sent back
- Put Development On Top Of The Agenda (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 16, 2003)
In this crucial second half of the fiscal, with Assembly elections round the corner and a comfortable enough macro-economic situation, the Government should shed its obsessive concern with disinvestment and the 8 per cent economic growth target and turn,
- Making Trouble But Going Nowhere (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2003)
THE SHOCK FORCES OF THE Sangh Parivar, spearheaded by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, have nowhere to go in Ayodhya — having demolished the Babri Masjid more than a decade ago but unable to take forward the project of building a Ram temple on ...
- Sonia's Friends And Foes (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 16, 2003)
Her friends and foes alike refuse to let Sonia Gandhi's natural handicaps define the limits of her leadership
- 1992 Mandir Poster Boy Gets His Face Read The Night Before (Indian Express, Raman Kirpal, Oct 15, 2003)
Just hours away, the VHP rally is the talk of Lucknow. But in No. 2 Mall Avenue, barely 7 km from tomorrow’s rally venue, a man flits in and out of the living room, studiously avoiding all talk on the VHP. It’s the last thing Kalyan Singh wants to discuss
- Temple Versus Terror (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Oct 15, 2003)
October 17 is not a climactic point. VHP is in it for the long haul
- Hindutva Rate Of Growth (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Oct 14, 2003)
There is hype and hypocrisy in economic projections
- All Pawared Up (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
Unfulfilled ambition makes shining nationalists of us all
- Cong Lowers Pawar Heat As It Rushes To Douse More Fires (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2003)
Drops NCP ultimatum, works on Jogi back-up
- Disinvestment In Danger (Business Line, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Oct 14, 2003)
The imbroglio over the attempts to privatise HPCL/BPCL, and now bringing up the issue of splitting up IOC could actually jeopardise the entire divestment programme of the Union Government, says Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, who looks at the oil PSU s privatisat
- Bellwether For 2004? (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 13, 2003)
THE elections scheduled to be held in November-December for the State assemblies of Chattisgarh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram and Rajasthan are bound to be keenly watched by psephologists, media pundits and political players for any clues they may ...
- Mulayam Sends Ayodhya Sos, Pm Says Trust Vhp (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2003)
VHP MEET: MoS Chinmayanand’s role shameful, says angry CM
- Trains, Buses Diverted To Keep Out Kar Sevaks (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Oct 13, 2003)
As the Sabarmati Express pulled in at the Ayodhya railway station this evening, very few got off. And not a single one from S-6, the infamous Godhra coach. In the near empty coach, a passenger said police in Jhansi forced people off the train. He was not
- Oh God, What A Game! (Indian Express, V. Gangadhar, Oct 13, 2003)
Saeed Anwar, at the batting crease, was a delight to watch. The small-built Pakistan former opening batsman leaned into effortless off drives and cover drives and cut with precision.
- Stamps Of Dishonour (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2003)
A LOCAL PUNE court recently remanded Krishna Yadav, the Telugu Desam MLA and former Andhra Pradesh Minister, to custody in connection with the fake stamp papers scam. Mr. Yadav, who was arrested last month by the Maharashtra police under the ...
- ‘we Made Mistakes Like Discouraging Private Sector, We Are Changing Now’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 13, 2003)
You are the only Marxist ruler, if I could call you so, in the whole world. Isn’t it so, and an elected one at that, barring the small government in Tripura
- Ayodhya Gates Shut, Sena Men Held (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2003)
Over 1,500 Shiv Sena activists were arrested on Saturday while trying to proceed towards the venue of their proposed Ram Bhakt Sammelan here banned by the Uttar Pradesh government.
- Tiwari Baits Rebels, Mlas With Postings (Indian Express, S. M. A. Kazmi, Oct 12, 2003)
Threatened by a rebellion from his own party legislators, Uttaranchal Chief Minister Narain Dutt Tiwari threw a bait of offices to them and managed to win two other MLAs decimating the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in the Uttaranchal Assembly.
- Ministry Size: Bjp Proposes New Ceiling (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Oct 12, 2003)
There is a change in the BJP stand on the size of ministries. Having proposed a ceiling of 10 per cent of the strength of legislatures on ministries in the 97th Constitution Amendment Bill, it has now mooted a ceiling of 15 per cent. The amendment bill mo
- Contempt Of Quote (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Oct 12, 2003)
She was in charge of Advani’s security on the day Babri fell. Her testimony is the most damning against him. And yet, Rae Bareli magistrate quotes her to discharge Advani
- Enlightenment, Buddha Style (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 11, 2003)
If India’s east is to emerge at all, Kolkata and West Bengal must be the engine
- Which Way Will Political India Go? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2003)
THE IMPORTANCE OF the Assembly elections in five States — Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi and Chhattisgarh — scheduled for November-December 2003 stretches beyond the immediate. This is the final round of Assembly polls ...
- Return Of The Hawala Calculations? (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 10, 2003)
Suddenly, the BJP's political rivals find themselves having to answer to the investigative agencies.
- The Use And Misuse Of Pota (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Oct 10, 2003)
The curious case of the Union Minister of State for Non-conventional Energy Sources, M. Kannappan, should have woken the country to the problems being created by the use and misuse of the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) but it evidently has
- Jobs For The Boys (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Oct 09, 2003)
Getting the numbers to form a government in Uttar Pradesh was a piece of cake for Mulayam Singh Yadav compared to portfolio allotment. His core cabinet of six remains jobless more than a month after being sworn in while he juggles their demands. Now he’s
- Mr. Jogi In A Fix (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2003)
ONE CAN SPECULATE about why Ajit Jogi, the intelligent Congress Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, chose to accuse the Intelligence Bureau, evidently without any basis, of fabricating information with a view to dragging him and his family into ...
- Pakistan: The Siege Within And Without (Indian Express, Shireen M Mazari, Oct 09, 2003)
Pakistan is caught between an India waiting to cash in on the doctrine of premption and a society fast imploding
- Jogi Charged, So Is His Party And The State (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2003)
Queering the pitch for the Congress ahead of the Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, the CBI today filed a chargesheet against Chief Minister Ajit Jogi for ‘‘dishonestly or fraudulently’’ using a forged document to tarnish the image of the Intelligence...
- Congress Needs Inner Coalitions (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Oct 08, 2003)
Sonia Gandhi had her cup full of woes after Ernakulam and Solapur. Now Ajit Jogi has just added to them, with the CBI chargesheeting the Chhattisgarh chief minister. The implications of these developments go beyond the loss of two Lok Sabha seats in the..
- Shutting Out The House (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 07, 2003)
Privatisation by executive order is undemocratic
- Pushed, Gujarat Moves On Bakery: Books Bjp Mla, Cong Cousin For ‘threatening’ Witnesses (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2003)
Pushed and prodded by the Supreme Court, the Gujarat government has finally moved against sitting BJP MLA Madhu Srivastava, named by Best Bakery witnesses Zaheera Sheikh and mother Sehrunissa as the man who intimidated them into lying in court.
- Uma Bharti Thinks She Is Already The Cm (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Oct 07, 2003)
If she had somehow managed to put behind the controversy over her cake offering to Hanuman, BJP’s chief minister hopeful Uma Bharti has walked into a new one in the final run-up to the Assembly polls: she had to cancel a Dussehra dinner for the who’s who
- Secularism Is In Luck Now (Indian Express, Syed Shahabuddin, Oct 07, 2003)
If Mulayam succeeds in Uttar Pradesh, he could trigger a national alliance
- 100 Per Cent Reservations Anyone? (Indian Express, Rakshit Sonawane, Oct 06, 2003)
The move of the BJP-led NDA government towards legislating a separate quota for the economically backward among the “forward” castes by amending the Constitution represents one step forward, two backwards.
- Need To Engage Pakistan (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Oct 06, 2003)
Hardliners in India and Pakistan sustain each other through their actions. How their pressures are to be de-linked from the decision-taking processes is the main task for the two Governments.
- Instant Walk-Out (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Oct 05, 2003)
The Congress party General Secretary Ambika Soni came to participate in the BBC talk show, Question Time, India, and discovered to her annoyance that Sonia Gandhi’s bete noire Subramaniam Swamy was to be a fellow panelist. Soni did not waste any time ...
- Newsreel: 28.09.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2003)
Andhra CM N Chandrababu Naidu survives with a shoulder injury after PWG activists set off landmine blasts on the Tirumala-Tirupati road. Probe is ordered by the Andhra government and several cops are suspended.
- No Money For Bail, 15-Yr-Old Girls Stay In Pota Net (Indian Express, Manoj Prasad, Oct 05, 2003)
Etwa Oraon, mercifully, doesn’t know this. The whims of Jayalalithaa have suddenly got BJP chief M. Venkaiah Naidu talking about the misuse of POTA. For more than a year, the father of 14-year-old Mayanti Raj Kumari, held under the draconian Act while on
- Where’s The Culture In Nationalism? (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Oct 05, 2003)
For reasons I have never fully understood religious fanatics love writing letters. No sooner do I mention Hindutva or jehad in this column than fanatics of one kind or other start bombarding my mailbox with venomous epistles. And, because Hindu fanaticism
- Bjp To Cash In On Upper Caste Quota In Elections (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2003)
The upper-caste poor may have to wait a long time to see the actual reservation benefits to come by, but the BJP is all ready to cash in on its positioning on the issue during the Assembly polls in the five states.
- Kpcc Chief To Explain Bypoll Defeat To Sonia (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2003)
Maharashtra PCC chief Ranjit Deshmukh having already met Congress president Sonia Gandhi today, it is now the turn of the party’s Kerala unit chief K. Muraleedharan to explain what went wrong in the Ernakulum bypoll.
- Solapur Sky Has A Saffron Tinge (Indian Express, Prafulla Marpakwar, Oct 04, 2003)
Is the saffron combine in Maharashtra on the comeback trail in view of the humiliating defeat meted out in the Solapur by-election to Congress candidate Anandrao Deokate at the hands of sugar baron Pratapsinh Mohite Patil? That’s the question that is ...
- Toy Train Tantrums (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2003)
The BJP and Congress are being childish in their unseemly sparring over the Delhi metro
- Reserved: Upper-Caste Vote (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2003)
Constitution to be amended for quota for ‘economically backward’
- Mpcc Finds A New Reason For Solapur Fiasco: Pota (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Oct 04, 2003)
There is a new reason for the Solapur disaster. Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee chief Ranjit Deshmukh has said the party lost the seat because of POTA. A report that the PCC sent to the high command says as many as 37 POTA cases were registered ...
- Justice In A Secular Society (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Oct 03, 2003)
Confronted with communal terrorism from within, India's justice system is in danger of losing its secular soul.
- Congress(i) And Poll Preoccupations (Business Line, Rup Lal Sharma, Oct 02, 2003)
THE by-poll results are out and most major parties have some gains but also suffered major upsets, especially the Congress(I). Its losing the by-elections to the two Lok Sabha constituencies of Sholapur (Maharashtra) and Ernakulam no doubt came as a ...
- The Pota Sword (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2003)
As the PM mulls over Kannappan’s case he should consider the perils of a bad law
- Jharkhand To Centre: This Chairman Is Too Old For Us (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2003)
A cosy post-retirement posting for a bureaucrat is nothing unusual in India. But this case is not. The Jharkhand government has protested against the Power Ministry’s decision to give an extension to J C Jaitley, chairman of the Damodar Valley Power ...
- Cpm To Fight Cong In States, Ls Option Open (Indian Express, Santwana Bhattacharya, Oct 02, 2003)
Almost making the party’s anti-Congress move in Kerala the guiding principle, the CPI-M today ruled out the possibility of an alliance with the Congress in the forthcoming Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh or Chhattisgarh.
- Neighbour’s Envy (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Oct 02, 2003)
While the Indian mission’s media managers in New York couldn’t arrange much coverage for Atal Behari Vajpayee in American newspapers, they tried to gloss over their inadequacies by gleefully parading the negative publicity Pervez Musharraf got.
- Jogi Hints He Will Not Go Out Easily (Indian Express, Ashwani Sharma, Oct 01, 2003)
Breaking his silence over his meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi amid reports about the CBI planning to chargesheet him in a forgery case, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi today indicated he won’t bow out willingly.
- Left Tempts ‘leader’ With Red-Carpet Offer (Indian Express, Santwana Bhattacharya, Oct 01, 2003)
A day after Chief Minister A K Antony’s candidate was defeated in the Ernakulam Lok Sabha by-election, the CPI(M) moved in for a bigger kill: it tempted Antony’s bete noire K Karunakaran, whose support for Left-backed Sebastian Paul led to the Congress...
- Joshi Gets A Stay, Also Gets To Stay (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Oct 01, 2003)
BJP damage-control after HC stays Rae Bareli court proceedings against Joshi
- Warning_signals_for_congress (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2003)
WITH LESS THAN a year to go for the parliamentary polls, the defeat in the two Lok Sabha by-elections in Kerala and Maharashtra should serve as a warning to the Congress. The losses, to the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front in Ernakulam and to the ...
- For Liberty's Sake, Pota Must Go (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 29, 2003)
Political India must wake up to the truth that the only use of POTA can be its misuse.
- Silent Treatment (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Sep 27, 2003)
Now the court case has complicated matters at a time when the BJP was considering using Ayodhya as a political plank in the coming elections. But if it does so, the lawlessness underlined by the court will come into focus.
- Cong’s Jogi Headache Worsens (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Sep 26, 2003)
As if Congress president Sonia Gandhi didn’t have enough headaches. Her latest one is an old one but it’s suddenly got worse: the legal noose is tightening over Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi.
- Ayodhya’s Labyrinth (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Sep 26, 2003)
Judgements, chargesheets, legalese, lawyers... they will be coming out of our ears in the coming days and months and not only because of Sessions Judge V.K. Singh’s judgement in Rae Bareli chargesheeting Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar
- Empty Bowls At Mexican Fiesta (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Sep 26, 2003)
The no-show at Cancun being tom-tommed by India as a major achievement can only be good politics and rhetoric, but this is certainly not good economics. Coming once every two years, a World Trade Organisation ministerial should be looked at as an ...
- Battle For The Silver Medal (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 25, 2003)
There's an unholy tussle on between the Advani camp and Joshi loyalists on the mechanics of resolving the latest crisis in the BJP. Advani supporters want Murli Manohar Joshi to withdraw his resignation, which would leave him looking silly. The Joshi camp
- Justice Delayed... (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Sep 25, 2003)
To nobody's surprise the Rae Bareli Special Court's judgment in the Babri Masjid demolition case continues to dominate most discussions in the nation's capital, as elsewhere. It has overshadowed even the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee's ongoing
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