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Articles 9621 through 9720 of 9764:
- Unbiased View (The Economic Times, A. Srikantaiah, Sep 09, 2001)
I was pleasantly shocked to read the article ‘Let’s not make it a total cop out’ by Antony Thomas. Kudos to him. For a change, a suggestion by L K Advani has found favour with any English press writer.
- Robbed Of Their Childhood (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 09, 2001)
Eighty child-couples were married amid night-long revelry in the villages of Kotar, Beda and Jeevda in Rajasthan's Pali district. But the authorities took no notice. Sunny Sebastian reports.
- Bjp’S Stars (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 09, 2001)
The stars of the BJP continue to be on the ascendant with the satraps of its principal adversary — the Congress — coming under negative focus one after the other.
- Education: Elusive Consensus (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2001)
THE 83rd Constitution Amendment Bill has been kept on hold for more than four years, putting the statutory milestone of time — the year 1960 — in the limbo of redundancy.
- The M.S.Swaminathan Report -- Food To Subsist First, Before Food For Work (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Sep 08, 2001)
THE compelling visuals on NDTV of the Orissa starvation deaths have impinged, in some small measure, on the sensitivity of the Central Government.
- The Golden Cage Syndrome (Indian Express, Sunil Jain, Sep 08, 2001)
APART from a few celebrated BJP MPs such as ex-chief ministers Madan Lal Khurana and Sahib Singh Verma, and of course the residents of illegal encroachments like Sainik Farms.
- Shying Away From The Ideological Fight (Hindu, V. KRISHNA ANANTH , Sep 08, 2001)
The two rising stars in the Congress - Mr. Digvijay Singh and Mr. A.K.Antony - have done it again.
- ‘If It Weren’t For Tehelka, We Wouldn’t Have Left Nda’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 08, 2001)
Mamata Banerjee has truly come full circle in just six months. She’s back in the NDA after walking out of the coalition just before the West Bengal Assembly elections.
- Why Sacrificing Jagmohan To Bjp’s Unholy Trinity Is A Sin Against The Nation (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 08, 2001)
THERE has to be something frightfully wrong with our capital city if its most prominent losers continue to so dominate our front pages.
- The Political Risks Of Further Dividing The Divided (The Economic Times, Narendar Pani, Sep 07, 2001)
IT IS now quite clear that reservations will play a crucial role in the BJP’s strategy for survival in Uttar Pradesh.
- A Janus-Like Government (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Sep 07, 2001)
AFTER riding high on popular support, the BJP-led NDA government headed by Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee appears to have betrayed the people.
- In Gujarat, The Bjp Govt’s Road Not Taken (Indian Express, Darshan Desai, Sep 07, 2001)
A RULE free from ‘‘fear, hunger and corruption’’. It was this slogan that powered the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a massive mandate to rule Gujarat for the first time in 1995 and then again in 1998.
- Railway Privatisation Is Not An Easy Proposition (The Financial Express, A. V. Poulose, Sep 07, 2001)
Analysing the Rakesh Mohan Experts Group’s key recommendations to corporatise Indian Railways (IR) and separate policy from operations.
- Clueless On Economy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 06, 2001)
IT would sound cynical, even needlessly critical, to say that the BJP-led alliance government is out of its depth to arrest and reverse the economic slowdown.
- Timely Exit (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 06, 2001)
Scandals add glamour to some careers. For others they could be rather unglamorously inconvenient.
- The Tmc And The Congress (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 06, 2001)
THE PACE AT which the Congress president, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, acted in nominating the trustees to govern the properties owned by the TNCC Trust (hitherto controlled by G. K. Moopanar and Mr. N. Ramasamy Udayar).
- Truth Must Be Out (The Economic Times, R. S. Raghavan, Sep 06, 2001)
THE charge levelled against Mr Vajpayee by Mr D B Ray, a former BJP MP, is that the PM had been fully privy to the plot to demolish the Babri Masjid on December 5, 1992.
- ‘We Are Not Opposed To Agnihotri. Nor Are We For Him’ (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 06, 2001)
Late last year, the government finally woke up to the huge potential locked in non-resident Indians (NRIs) and persons of Indian origin (PIOs) across the length and breadth of the globe.
- Cabinet Reshuffles And Aftershocks (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Sep 05, 2001)
With the exception of the fall of a Government (six of them collapsed in the Nineties) and perhaps the Budget, no other political event excites New Delhi so much as a Cabinet reshuffle. The point was proved yet again last week.
- The Gentleman `Kingmaker' (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Sep 05, 2001)
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms Jayalalithaa, hit the nail on the head when she described G. K. Moopanar as a ``gentleman politician''.
- Baying For Badal’s Blood (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Sep 05, 2001)
The Panthic Morcha has brought together radical Akali leaders opposed to Parkash Singh Badal on a single platform.
- End Of Compact Between Govt & People (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Sep 05, 2001)
THE compact between the rulers and those they govern in a democracy even as chaotic as in its Indian variation is that beyond the rules and regulations and the instruments of enforcing authority, there is an almost intangible moral force that prevails.
- The Crisis Of Our Times (Indian Express, Mushirul Hasan, Sep 05, 2001)
In 1953, Encounter’s first issue carried an article on India that concluded on the following note: ‘‘Between a past reduced to practical impotence but offering a resistance to depth, and a future only skin-deep, India’s present seems to lack substance.’’
- Moan Of The Mos (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Sep 05, 2001)
The ministers of state who were dropped in Saturday’s reshuffle are as puzzled as they are angry. Non-performance?
- The Hindu Rate Of Governance (Hindu, Harish Khare , Sep 05, 2001)
THE PRIME Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, has just effected a kind of reshuffle in his Cabinet.
- ‘What Turf War? See Me And Mansingh As Two Service Centres’ (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 05, 2001)
When Atal Bihari Vajpayee travelled to Louisiana way back in 1983, Bhishma Kumar Agnihotri made sure he addressed the state’s legislature.
- The Gentleman `Kingmaker' (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Sep 05, 2001)
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms Jayalalithaa, hit the nail on the head when she described G. K. Moopanar as a ``gentleman politician''.
- Ananth Under Watch (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 04, 2001)
Shunting Jagmohan out of ministry sends a wrong signal.
- Mandal Served With A Pinch Of Saffron (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Sep 04, 2001)
When the Bharatiya Janata Party swept the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh in the summer of 1991, the former prime minister, V.P. Singh, made a prescient remark, “Kalyan bina kalyanva nahin.”
- Educating The People (Hindu, Fali S. Nariman, Sep 04, 2001)
The recent review of the Government's Education Policy has come under attack.
- All Pawns, No Bishops (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Sep 04, 2001)
HEDGED in from all sides, his government torn with contradictions, his governance discredited in the eyes of the country as never before.
- Saffronised Education (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 04, 2001)
THE non-Sangh Parivar Chief Ministers' effort to stop the saffronisation of school textbooks deserves a loud round of applause.
- Shuffling The Deck (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 04, 2001)
IT SEEMS FAIRLY evident that the sweeping Ministerial changes are intended to signal a reassertion of Prime Ministerial authority, severely dented as it has been in recent times.
- Decade Of Power Reforms -- Hardly Electrifying (Business Line, N. Ramakrishnan , Sep 04, 2001)
``INDIA'S power sector is a leaking bucket; the holes deliberately crafted and the leaks carefully collected as economic rents by various stakeholders that control the system.
- Kursi Kinetics (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 03, 2001)
Cabinet reshuffle: different strokes for different folk.
- Now, That Surely Is Governance With A Capital G (The Financial Express, Inder Malhotra, Sep 03, 2001)
None of the lords and masters of the foreign policy establishment can pretend to be taken by surprise by the understandably sharp reaction to their shemozzle of appointing Bhishma Kumar Agnihotri as some kind of a rival.
- One Embassy, Two Ambassadors (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Sep 03, 2001)
IT is simply amazing that we should have two ambassadors to the US.
- Half-Hearted Reshuffle (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 03, 2001)
PRIME Minister Vajpayee wanted to give a facelift to his Council of Ministers but ended up causing heartburn to several senior ministers and party men.
- Fixing Targets Isn't Enough (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 03, 2001)
THE NDA government led by Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee perhaps thinks that one must aim at a high target even if this amounts to being unrealistic.
- Riot Riddles (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 02, 2001)
There is bafflement how an incident of extortion could have sparked riots in Ahmedabad, writes Manas Dasgupta.
- A Revolving Door Called The Nda (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 02, 2001)
In politics there may be no permanent friends or enemies...
- Don’t Miss The Wood (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 02, 2001)
THE CHANGES that Prime Minister Vajpayee has brought about in the composition of his ministerial team and in the allocation of portfolios among them seem designed to send out at least two specific signals.
- Bouncers Might Just Spin Off (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 02, 2001)
The CPI(M) veteran, Somnath Chatterjee, leader of the party in Lok Sabha, managed to have the entire opposition walk out of Lok Sabha on the issue of the appointment of RSS functionary BK Agnihotri as ambassador to the US.
- The Lamp Of Unforgiveness (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 02, 2001)
It was a mega show. It was a Suresh Kalmadi show. Sonia Gandhi was guest of honour at the Pune festival along with the likes of Hema Malini, Jackie Shroff, Rahul Bajaj, Subhash Ghai and Ritu Beri.
- Jaya’s Game Is Up (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 01, 2001)
SUDDENLY, as it were, an impregnable roadblock has risen on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s yearning to retain power beyond November 13.
- The Age Of Indifference (Indian Express, Sunil Jain, Sep 01, 2001)
SO this session of Parliament is finally over, the Opposition’s had its fun pillorying the government on Tehelka, Telecom, and a few other Things, but what was achieved?
- Precept & Practice In Governance (Hindu, T. N. R. Rao, Sep 01, 2001)
OF LATE, the country is being treated to new nuggets of wisdom on administrative law by the Government.
- G. K. Moopanar (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 31, 2001)
THE PASSING OF G. Karuppiah Moopanar, president of the Tamil Maanila Congress, but who remained at heart ``a Congressman'', has taken away from the national arena a staunch nationalist and an uncompromisingly secular leader.
- Stop Press (Indian Express, Janyala Sreenivas, Aug 31, 2001)
Why did the BJP government in Gujarat contemplate bringing the Press under the Consumer Protection Act?
- Will Ram Deliver? (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Aug 31, 2001)
What is Prime Minister Vajpayee's game plan in Ayodhya? With whom is he negotiating? Why such secrecy about the talks?
- The Declining Parliamentary Standards (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Aug 31, 2001)
THE monsoon session of the Lok Sabha comes to an end today on the usual lacklustre note.
- A Bandh To Bandhs (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 31, 2001)
Nothing could illustrate more vividly the meaninglessness of bandhs than a Reuters photograph of a protester smashing the windscreen of a car in Patna during an NDA-bandh called on August 21.
- We Are Not China, Mr Shourie (Business Line, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 31, 2001)
IT CANNOT be denied that China is making far more progress than India. But to make a fetish of the growth is neither here nor there.
- Mobsters As Leaders (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 30, 2001)
THE tributes have been paid and the embers are cooling off. So are Shiv Sainiks’ passions in Thane.
- Rbi Finds Economy Sick (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 30, 2001)
CLINICAL reports on all aspects of the economy are in and the top medical consultant, the RBI, has declared the condition grim.
- Mahanta: The Fall Of A Hero (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 30, 2001)
FORMER Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta is in serious trouble these days.
- Honour Or Power? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 30, 2001)
It’s a choice the Madhya Pradesh CM has to make.
- Whither Panja (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Aug 29, 2001)
Poor Ajit Panja. He’s turned out to be the fall guy in Mamata Banerjee’s remarriage with the NDA.
- Of Rising Perks And Diminishing Responsibilities (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 29, 2001)
TWO things have left me cold. One is the proposal by members of Parliament (MPs) to raise their own emoluments, and the other is the bungling in handling of relations between New Delhi and the Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa.
- Three Chiefs In Search Of A Chair (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Aug 29, 2001)
The rumour mill in South Block has been working overtime, churning out stories that another Bhagwat is in the offing, spurred by the reported spat between Defence Minister Jaswant Singh and Chief of Air Staff AY Tipnis.
- The Fall (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 29, 2001)
With her return to the National Democratic Alliance, Ms Mamata Banerjee has confirmed her place among those Indian politicians whose rank opportunism has reduced their profession to an entertainment of the gutters.
- Crisis Of Coalitions (Pioneer, C P Bhambhri, Aug 29, 2001)
Messrs VP Singh, Chandra Shekhar, HD Deve Gowda, IK Gujral and Atal Bihari Vajpayee have been the only beneficiaries of unstable, faceless, shapeless and directionless coalition governments at the Centre.
- Nda’s Re-Entry Made Free (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 29, 2001)
COALITION politics is good enough to win elections and come to power. But it suffers from a built-in handicap— absence of policy cohesion, whimsical conduct of petty leaders and ineffective implementation.
- Ayodhya Takes Centre-Stage (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 29, 2001)
FEW leaders in the Sangh Parivar have the ability to rake up a controversy without inviting criticism.
- Up In Election Mode (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 28, 2001)
UTTAR Pradesh has been brought on the election mode.
- No Scope For "Negotiations" (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 28, 2001)
GIVEN THE HORRIFYING demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992, and its traumatic impact on the national psyche and the blow it caused to India's cherished image as an upholder of a plurality of cultures and faiths.
- A Dangerous Pay-Off (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 28, 2001)
Members of Parliament are shamelessly seeking raises in pay and perks.
- Avoidable Communal Incident (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 28, 2001)
IT is not clear why the Intelligence Bureau has been asked to investigate the incident of communal violence in the walled city area of Ahmedabad.
- Resolving Ayodhya (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 28, 2001)
To put it mildly, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's expression of the hope in Lucknow on Sunday that the Ayodhya dispute would be resolved before March next year, came as a surprise.
- Speak Up, Pm (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 28, 2001)
There cannot be a secret solution to Ayodhya.
- Nda: Rumblings Over Waning Stock (Tribune, P. Raman , Aug 28, 2001)
CALL it rumblings or the onset of a protracted cold war in the BJP establishment. Either way, the message is loud and clear.
- Keep The Guns (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 28, 2001)
Over 37 hardcore Naxalites surfaced in Giridih, his home turf, at a media-studded official event.
- Gagging, Gujarat Style (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 27, 2001)
Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel clearly has a lot to hide.
- Third Year Is Come Atalji, But Not Gone (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Aug 27, 2001)
What is it that people of this country desire most today? Is it ideology that guides preference for one party over another?
- Change And Continuity (Pioneer, Shubha Singh, Aug 27, 2001)
External Affairs and Defence Minister Jaswant Singh's short two-day visit to Kathmandu was aimed at establishing the initial political contact with the new Nepalese establishment that brings a generational change in the Himalayan kingdom.
- Disinvestment Blues (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 27, 2001)
Replicate the Modern Foods success in other PSUs.
- A Mockery Of Justice (Hindu, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 27, 2001)
As the Union Home Minister, Mr. L. K. Advani should be more circumspect in expressing his views, particularly when they come in conflict with the established order.
- Amnesty For Brutality? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 26, 2001)
The idea of amnesty for security personnel accused of human rights violations is most untenable, writes Harish Khare.
- Amnesty For Brutality? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 26, 2001)
The idea of amnesty for security personnel accused of human rights violations is most untenable, writes Harish Khare.
- Happy Days Again (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 26, 2001)
After being on the receiving end for months, fortune seems to be finally smiling on the BJP.
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