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Articles 10421 through 10520 of 27558:
- A Prodigal Son All Set To Return (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jan 04, 2004)
POLITICS is a weird game. A few years back former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh had turned into a bete noire of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and called him “a tired and retired leader”. Now he stands in the front row at a BJP workers
- Cereb Circuit (Indian Express, Murali K Menon, Jan 04, 2004)
THE butterflies in my stomach had butterflies in their stomachs as I waited at the poolside of a city hotel for Koneru Humpy. Mumbai’s skyline peeked far ahead from behind a smattering of mist and across a still ocean. A perfect setting for one of the
- Golden Hain Kalaiyaan (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
Bappi Lahiri, the original remix man, tells Monica Bathija he’s now eyeing the Grammies
- Misplaced Honour (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
By refusing an honorary doctorate, possibly bestowed for political reasons rather than academic, Mr Vajpayee has behaved as a prime minister should. Honorary doctorates are double-edged instruments. They can be used to bestow genuine honour and to show
- Fog Over The Capital (Telegraph, G.S. Mudur, Jan 04, 2004)
Stuck at the airport? Be prepared for a long wait. And thank the greening of Delhi for your woes.
- Anti-Incumbency Will Help Cong In (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Jan 04, 2004)
Whether it was the National Front, the Janata Dal, the United Front and now the Congress, every political party or formation that Lok Sabha MP S. Jaipal Reddy has been associated with, he has always been its most visible face. He is also known for his ...
- Ideological Roadblocks On The Road (Tribune, Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia, Jan 04, 2004)
THE Hot Peace among different communities of the world, in the beginning of the 21st century, marked by its advent by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre towers in New York, is, in a sense, more explosive than the earlier Cold War between nation
- Sonia, Undisturbed (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Jan 04, 2004)
Sonia, we know, answers no questions. Her biographer does not trouble her with too many
- Loc ... The Real Story (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Jan 04, 2004)
The rain has stopped and the sunshine peers wearily through the curtain of dense clouds. Our car slips and slides over the dirt track made muddy by the early morning downpour, as it clings to the meandering path up towards the Haji Pir mountains. Around
- ‘i Did Not Want To Get Out, Come What May’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
On his lean patch I have not done much in the series, so I am not really tired. I felt this year was not great Test-wise. In one-dayers I was okay. I think it was just a coincidence and some bad luck. (In this series) I needed to hang in there instead
- Against The Grain (Indian Express, I. P. SINGH, Jan 04, 2004)
IT had been Punjab’s last unchallenged male preserve. It was a profession controlled and run by men. The profession of Arhat or commission agent is now seeing some new faces. In Banga two young sisters of neighbouring village Mahil Gaila—Manita and ...
- Just Around The Corner (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
Part monarchy, mostly Buddhist and a little hop across the border. Bhutan, for Ketaki Ghoge, is both foreign and familiar
- In That Brave Old World (Indian Express, UMA MAHADEVAN, Jan 04, 2004)
Calliope Helen Stephanides is born in January 1960, in Detroit, to a prosperous Greek-American family. Milton and Tessie are so eager to have a daughter that they perform the necessary act 24 hours prior to ovulation — just as advised in an article in the
- Tendulkar And The Principle Of Moments (Indian Express, Jayaditya Gupta, Jan 04, 2004)
Life can now return to normal. A nation that had held its breath, after endless debate and agonising, can get back to enjoying the cricket. Sachin Tendulkar has finally done what had long been expected — demanded — of him, and how! It’s not often that
- Bypoll Ahead, Mulayam Complains To Ec About Poll Roll (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
Just days before the by-election to the State Assembly from Gannaur constituency, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav today visited the Nirvachan Sadan here and complained to the EC about the huge discrepancies and mismanagement of electoral
- Heartening Developments In Saarc (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
THE APPROVAL OF a draft framework treaty for a South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) to be signed at the 12th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in Islamabad next week is a huge morale-booster for the region. The ...
- Sluggish Growth (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
AT a time when the Indian growth story is being widely celebrated, it is necessary to have a close look at the exports, which alone can decide whether growth is sustainable in the long run. After registering a 20-per cent growth in the initial years of
- Tendulkar Passes 9000-Mark (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
Sachin Tendulkar today became only the fourth cricketer in the world to score 9,000 Test runs when he reached 36 in the fourth and final Test between India and Australia here. Tendulkar achieved the milestone when he took a single off Jason Gillespie ...
- Ava Garderner And The London Bobby (Tribune, V. N. Kakar, Jan 03, 2004)
AVA Garderner was one of the most ravishing Hollywood beauties of her time. The Lord had apparently created her in a moment of extreme ecstasy. Life magazine once commissioned her to draw the attention of the London bobby posted at the Buckingham Palace
- Loc Kargil: Caricaturing The Indian Soldier (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Jan 03, 2004)
HISTORY is often the account of the victor. The numerous books and articles on the Kargil conflict bear this out. Among them, Captain Amarinder Singh's A Ridge Too Far: War in the Kargil Heights 1999 is the most authentic as he does not gloss over the lap
- Nri Implements Bill Gates’ Goals (Tribune, Ela Dutt , Jan 03, 2004)
Traditional educationists may find the radical ideas and unconventional vocabulary of Indian American Shivam Mallick Shah surprising, but these fit in well with the goals of Bill Gates and his wife Melinda. The billionaire couple has hired Harvard ...
- Mad About Words (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jan 03, 2004)
Not many of us are aware that when Shakespeare wrote his plays and sonnets, there were no dictionaries. There were some compilations of difficult words with their meanings but no one dictionary giving origins, meanings and usages of all words in the
- Afghans, Us Scramble To Salvage Constitution (Indian Express, MIKE COLLETT-WHITE, Jan 03, 2004)
Afghan leaders met US and UN officials behind closed doors on Friday, to try to end an impasse over a new Constitution that has exposed ethnic fault lines and undermined Washington’s vision of a strong presidential system. The Loya Jirga, or Grand
- It’s Raining Runs On Waugh’s Parade (Indian Express, Rohit Brijnath, Jan 03, 2004)
So there finally, amidst the stretching shadows at day’s end, washed by the soft evening sunlight, he stood, the golden boy. That stern language of authority his bats speaks, well it hadn’t quite arrived, the hesitancy was passing but the command had not
- Sikhs In France Seek Help On Turbans (Indian Express, TOM HENEGHAN, Jan 03, 2004)
France's tiny Sikh community is seeking help from India’s Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee to have their traditional turbans exempted from a planned French law to ban Muslim headscarves and other religious symbols from schools. Chain Singh, spokesman for
- N Korea To Let Us Team Visit Nuke Site (Indian Express, Reuters, Jan 03, 2004)
A US delegation will visit North Korea next week to tour the North’s controversial nuclear complex at Yongbyon, a South Korean foreign ministry official said on Friday. He was confirming a ,USA Today report. Though the report said the January 6-10
- Indo-Pak Game Continues (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 03, 2004)
ONCE more, the ante has been upped regarding efforts to normalise relations between India and Pakistan, the hope of course being that, this time, the effort will succeed.
There is nothing unrealistic about such a hope if for no other reason than the
- Kirkuk On Ethnic Boil; Falluja Downs Us Chopper, 1 Dead (Indian Express, FADIL BADRAN, Jan 03, 2004)
A US soldier was killed and another wounded in a helicopter crash in central Iraq on Friday, while ethnic tensions flared again in Kirkuk, leading to at least one death. A policeman who witnessed the helicopter crash near Falluja said it was shot down
- No Prima Facie Case, Trial Court Discharges All 13 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
The Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) here suffered a major setback on Friday when all 13 persons, accused of conspiring to kill Chief Minister Narendra Modi after the 2002 riots, were discharged by a trial court. The court held that ‘‘there was no prima
- Libya Pushes For A Deadline On Us To End Sanctions (Indian Express, PATRICK E. TYLER, Jan 03, 2004)
Libya's Prime Minister said on Thursday that the US should act quickly to reward his country for abandoning its secret weapons programmes. He warned that unless the US lifted sanctions by May 12, Libya would not be bound to pay the remaining $6 million
- Case For Indo-Pak Missile Talks (Tribune, Ashok K Mehta, Jan 03, 2004)
CLEARLY, the motivation to acquire missiles falls under political, strategic and economic-commercial and technology-related heads. Missiles are nice to have and keep. They add to a nation’s standing and prestige. Besides the political and commercial ...
- It Rules For Compounding Of Technical Offences Eased (Business Line, Mohan Padmanabhan, Jan 03, 2004)
It has also now been clarified that the CCIT/DGIT shall not reject an application for compounding of a technical offence, if all conditions prescribed in the guidelines are satisfied.
- Bill In Ca Shop (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
THE NEW BILL to amend the Chartered Accountants Act appears to have set the cat among the pigeons. Accounting professionals are peeved that self-regulation is giving way to a bureaucratic regime, and that new fetters are going to be in place if the Bill
- To Know The Road Ahead, Ask Those Coming Back (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 03, 2004)
WOULD you add legs to a snake after you have finished drawing it? Probably not, but that is a Chinese proverb about doing something that is totally unnecessary and thus spoiling what you have already done, and perhaps also revealing one's ignorance about
- Safta: Much Effort For Little Gains? (Business Line, Sanjib Pohit, Jan 03, 2004)
SAFTA seems set for take off, but it may not as it is modelled now, liberalising commodity trade first and then services. For, apart from India, other countries have little to gain from a trading bloc; their industries would lobby against SAFTA fearing
- They're No Country Cousins Of Commercial Banks (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Jan 03, 2004)
Do NBFCs need a level-playing field
- The Tussle Over Receipt Type (Business Line, R. Anand, Jan 03, 2004)
On the evergreen debate, capital versus revenue
- Looking Back, Looking Ahead (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Jan 03, 2004)
It is increasingly becoming clear that without a flow of funds to the farm sector, the Indian economy will remain haunted by periodic production declines.
- Why Budget Needs A Fair Face (Business Line, T. N. Pandey, Jan 03, 2004)
Irrational tax policies inhibit desire for compliance
- Peace Common Desire In India, Says Vajpayee (Indian Express, M. ZIAUDDIN, Jan 03, 2004)
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has said the entire spectrum of mainstream political opinion in India is for peace, cooperation and friendship with Pakistan. In an exclusive interview with Dawn at his residence here on Thursday, the PM made it
- Economics And Emotion (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
JUST AHEAD OF the second Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, the Centre has got the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2003, passed in Parliament. This enables People of Indian Origin (PIOs) in selected countries to have a dual nationality status. In doing so, ...
- Coming Soon, Radio-On-Campus From Chennai (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Jan 03, 2004)
Come January 15 and a little cubicle in a corner of Chennai will turn into what is being seen as the world’s smallest radio studio and the country’s first campus community radio. Anna University’s own radio station is likely to get kicking then with
- Loner’s Lamentation (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
NOBEL laureate Amartya Sen has held the Narendra Modi government responsible for the riots that followed the Godhra carnage in Gujarat. In a programme broadcast by the BBC on the New Year day, he has asked for a judicial examination of the allegations ...
- Not By Nationalism (Telegraph, Andre Beteille , Jan 03, 2004)
Sociology, as the empirical and systematic study of society and its institutions, is now widely practised in our universities and independent centres of research. It entered the university system in India in the Twenties, barely two or three decades after
- No Permanent Enemies (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
The art of the possible: this is the best known definition of politics. A more cynical view would define politics as the pursuit of interest masquerading as the contest of principles. Both views can draw enough support from the prevailing state of play in
- Investors’ Wealth Up Rs 7,91,771 Cr (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
Stock investors have reaped a historical bonanza in the last eight months. Even as Sensex crossed the 6,000 level to 6,026 from 2,932.34 on April 24, 2003, market capitalisation (the total market value of all listed shares) soared by 146 per cent, or Rs 7
- On The Wings Of Cbms (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
THE ongoing efforts to normalise relations between India and Pakistan provide an encouraging setting for the success of the Islamabad session of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. The latest confidence-building measures (CBMs) announced
- Bangla, Myanmar Next After Bhutan, Says Army Chief (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
Army Chief Gen N.C. Vij today claimed that the Bhutan operations against the ULFA, NDFB and KLO have been ‘‘very successful’’ and that apart from breaking the back of the three militant outfits, the total number of rebels ‘‘neutralised’’ so far has ...
- The Muddle Over Tds Interest - Ii (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Jan 03, 2004)
THE fundamental structure of Chapter XVII-A has been analysed in ACC Ltd vs ITO (74 ITD 369).
Section 191 mandates tax authorities to recover tax which has not been deducted, only from the assessee (that is, the payee from whose income the deduction
- 200 Years Of Turmoil (Hindu, Lydia Polgreen, Jan 03, 2004)
After 200 years of independence, Haiti remains an impoverished and troubled nation.
- Left Unity Under Telangana Cloud In Andhra (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Jan 03, 2004)
The demand for a separate Telangana — that will include the premier cyber city of Hyderabad — threatens not just the unity of Andhra Pradesh but has cast a shadow over the prospects of ‘‘Left unity’’ in the state which is likely to witness simultaneous
- Telgi’s Key Operative Arrested In Hyderabad (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
A key operative in the multi-crore fake stamp paper scam Raez Quadri was arrested and remanded to police custody today. Quadri, a close associate of Abdul Karim Telgi, was nabbed by Special Investigation Team (SIT) from old city last night while he
- Kaif Out Of Tri-Series (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
Mohammed Kaif has been ruled out for the One-Day International triangular series in Australia from January 9. Kaif, who was included in the 16-member team announced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on December 28, 2003, has been ruled
- Life After 6,000 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
Devang Shah, 27, day trader
After the markets closed today, I headed to my favourite pub to celebrate. It was amazing. When the Sensex touched the golden figure, everyone started clapping. I’ve always wanted to enter the markets, but when I was in ...
- Reins Tightened On Tax Advisers (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
THE Treasury Department and the IRS have issued four items of administrative guidance as part of their ongoing effort to halt abusive tax avoidance transactions and maximise effective use of IRS audit resources. The first of the items is aimed at ...
- Drunk Pilot Almost Got To Controls (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Jan 03, 2004)
An Alliance Air co-pilot has been suspended after he tested positive for alcohol, minutes before entering the cockpit to fly the Chennai-Kolkata plane on New Year’s day. Yet to recover from the alcohol possibly consumed the night before, pilot
- Share The Risks, Split The Spoils (Telegraph, RAVI VYAS, Jan 02, 2004)
All works of fiction that make money for the publisher and author do so only when they are published as co-editions, that is, in an identical format in a number of countries or languages. Co-editions make possible sharing of production costs and, more ...
- Boycott Blow To Afghan Assembly (Indian Express, SAYED SALAHUDDIN, Jan 02, 2004)
Afghanistan's constitutional convention began voting on Thursday, but up to a quarter of the 502 delegates refused to cast ballots for a draft charter backed by the US after a long, acrimonious meeting. Men and women from across the country lined up
- Us Shrimpers Move Against India, 5 Others (Indian Express, Ajayan, Jan 02, 2004)
The new year does not seem to augur well for the $410-million Indian seafood export to the US after shrimp farmers there filed a petition for anti-dumping duties against India and five other countries on Wednesday. According to the petition filed by
- Exports See 13.7% Growth In November (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
The feel-good factor for the economy continues unabated. Exports bounced back to double-digit track to register 13.74 per cent growth in November 2003, at $4.494 billion as against $3.951 billion in the same month in 2002. In rupee terms, exports stood at
- More It Cos Set To Join M&a Bandwagon (Business Line, Preeti Pandey, Jan 02, 2004)
"M&As are an attractive proposition for companies planning to move up the value chain and expand their geographical presence," Mr Ravinder Dattar, Principal Analyst, Gartner.
- Why Interest Rates Should Go Up (Business Line, A. V. Vedpuriswar, Jan 02, 2004)
If, as policymakers claim, India is moving towards a market driven interest regime, then rates should be determined by demand and supply. Lower interest rates cannot be achieved through administrative diktats but by increasing the availability of capital
- Cement Down The Spine (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Jan 02, 2004)
In early 1991, when the ramshackle Chandra Shekhar government was at the helm, a senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader hosted a small dinner for the then party president, L.K. Advani. For the BJP, those were heady days. The Somnath to Ayodhya rath yatra of
- Engines Of Growth (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
THE Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are regarded as the modern engines of growth. Their alumni are well placed both within the country and abroad. However, the movement to enlist their cooperation for raising funds to serve their alma mater better
- Economy On A Roll (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY of 2003-04 has well and truly taken root. The Central Statistical Organisation's estimates of the gross domestic product (GDP) in the second quarter (July-September) of the fiscal year 2003-04 establish this fact beyond any ...
- Take That: Now Brazil Fingerprints Us Guests (Indian Express, Reuters, Jan 02, 2004)
Brazil on Thursday began fingerprinting and photographing US visitors on the orders of a judge.
Federal Judge Julier Sebastiao da Silva, furious at US plans to fingerprint and photograph visitors on entering the US, ordered Brazil’s authorities do the
- Focus On Jobs To Counter Ulfa Plan: Gogoi (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Jan 02, 2004)
With the three-week offensive by the Royal Bhutan Army having dealt a severe blow to the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), the state government today said it would create more jobs to prevent the outfit from exploiting the frustration of the ...
- China Not To Shelter Insurgents From N-E (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
Taking note of reports that some Indian insurgents may move northward from Bhutan and enter Chinese territory to seek shelter, China today assured India that it will closely monitor the situation and not allow its territory to be used by anybody for ...
- Govt Wants To Ensure Polio Doesn’t See ’05 (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Jan 02, 2004)
The Union health and family welfare minister made two resolutions for the new year — a polio-free India by the end of 2004 and more than Rs 1,100 crore to spend on the mission. The budget is close to double the 2003 expenditure of Rs 600 crore. Close
- Mod Wants More Teeth: George Eyes Bigger Budget Pie (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
For the first time in years, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has sought ‘‘additional funds’’ from the Finance Ministry. This comes in the wake of the Centre clearing the Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT) for the Indian Air Force. Another deal for the
- Stamping Out Stamp Scams (Business Line, S. Arvind, Jan 02, 2004)
THE latest scam to hit the country, involving the large-scale printing and sale of postal and insurance stamps, non-judicial stamp-paper, court-fee stamps, and so on, has come to light at least now only because of its all-India ramifications, the ...
- Magical Growth Rate (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
THE rosy picture of the economy painted by the Central Statistical Organisation is bound to make every Indian feel proud of the country’s performance this fiscal. The economy grew by a record 8.4 per cent during the second quarter (July-September) and is
- Pawar Play: Each Of Them Has Got An Axe To Grind (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Jan 02, 2004)
At a time when everybody in the political scene is on the move, it comes as no surprise that NCP chief Sharad Pawar, whose political mobility stands little comparison, is the latest hit. Pawar’s possible alignment with the NDA has been a perennial issue
- Ready To Face Polls: Vajpayee (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
With the air ringing with the talk of early Lok Sabha polls, Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee has said that he is ‘‘fit and ready’’ to face elections and confident that the people ‘‘are in a mood to give us another five years’’. The PM’s remarks, made in
- Mulayam Cold, Kalyan Fans Fire Under Tea Pot (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Jan 02, 2004)
If silence speaks louder than words, Mulayam Singh Yadav’s is deafening. Despite all the noises by allies and rivals, the Uttar Pradesh CM has pointedly shied away from talking to partner Kalyan Singh since his open dalliance with the BJP. Now even Kalyan
- And The Empire Lives On (Telegraph, DIPANKAR DAS, Jan 02, 2004)
Early December, a high-profile East African Indian immigrant, Yasmin Alibhai Brown, stunned the world by belatedly returning the title of Member of the British Empire to the Queen. This came within days of the refusal of Benjamin Zephaniah, the dread ...
- A Watershed Year For Indian Diplomacy (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Jan 02, 2004)
WHAT seemed to be a Sisyphean labour till a couple of years ago in the context of Indo-Pakistan relations, now looks possible. The two countries were on the road to detente in the year just ended.
During the past 56 years of turbulent Indo-Pakistan ...
- The Course Reunion (Tribune, Raj Kadyan, Jan 02, 2004)
WE were meeting over 40 years after our commissioning into the Indian armed forces. The venue was an Army officers’ mess in Delhi Cantonment, and the purpose a contributory lunch. Age-wise, most of us were looking back at 60. Physically, most were afight
- Finally, Drdo Picks Up Stress Blip On Army Radar (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Jan 02, 2004)
After conducting counter-terrorism operations for more than a decade in Jammu and Kashmir, the Army is brushing up its stress-management manuals and techniques. As part of it, the DRDO’s Psychological Research Laboratory has listed warning signals for ...
- Indo-Pakistan Talks: Ten Issues (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 02, 2004)
India and Pakistan have been trapped for too long in arguing about procedural issues and defending past political postures.
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