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Articles 11621 through 11720 of 27558:
- `Strength Of Indo-British Ties Lies In People-To-People Link' (Business Line, Vinay Kamath, Oct 08, 2003)
SIR ROB YOUNG, British High Commissioner to India since January 1999, returns to the UK after four tumultuous years when powerful events gripped the world stage. As he says, the last few months of his assignment have been spent in defending his government
- An Attack Seeks Answers (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Oct 05, 2003)
Terrorism nearly claimed the life of my good friend, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr Chandrababu Naidu. The attempt on his life deserves to be condemned, and has been rightly condemned, by everyone.
- Naidu’s Attackers Took Time, Not Chances (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2003)
Planted 17 mines on the road over 3-6 months
- Cla: Regulations Versus Guidelines (Business Line, Amit K. Vyas, Sep 30, 2003)
THE Securities and Exchange Board of India has set the stage for the Central Listing Authority (CLA). The objective behind the CLA Regulations has been to bring about uniformity in the conduct of due diligence to scrutinise listing applications.
- Insats - Flying High (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 30, 2003)
ISRO has demonstrated that it can build world class communication satellites. One of its aims must now be to make sure the Insat system serves much of the country's communications and broadcasting needs.
- State's Role In Basic Servics (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 30, 2003)
Governments cannot, citing a lack of resources or poor administrative capabilities, hand over basic services in large part or in full to the market.
- Energy Security (Hindu, M. R. Srinivasan, Sep 30, 2003)
Even after 50 years of planning, the country has not achieved self-reliance in energy supply.
- A Town Sitting On A Powder Keg (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Sep 30, 2003)
Sri Lanka's most volatile spot in the ethnically mixed eastern region, Muttur, about 15 km south of Trincomalee, symbolises all that can go wrong with the fragile peace process.
- Tangles Unlimited (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 30, 2003)
PREDICTABLY, THE MAJORITY verdict of the Telecom Disputes Settlement Appellate Tribunal on the vexatious technology interface issue has once again left both parties claiming victory.
- The Bitter-Sweet Cane Arrears (Business Line, A. Seshan, Sep 30, 2003)
If a factory does not get adequate credit it has no choice but face arrears in payments.
- Inroads Into Road Funds (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 30, 2003)
Let go, minister. Micro-managing the national highways projects doesn’t make sense
- Hyperbolic About Arun (Indian Express, S.P. Shukla, Sep 30, 2003)
After the return of the Indian delegation from Cancun, one has seen a series of reports and analyses which sound more like the hosannas of the faithful and the loyal.
- Deprive The Villains Of Their Heroin (Indian Express, BULBUL ROY MISHRA, Sep 30, 2003)
Several hundred tonnes of opium gets refined into heroin in secret, makeshift laboratories in Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan. It then finds its way to the West.
- World Bank-Imf Review: Will Asia Lead The World Growth Charge? (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Sep 30, 2003)
The global economy may be on a rebound but it is not yet time for cheer because of underlying risks of the large fiscal and current deficits the US has run up and the imbalances in growth and distribution of reserves. Emerging Asia has a big role to play.
- Crowded Out Of The House (Indian Express, K S DUGGAL, Sep 29, 2003)
Are we making any use of their expertise and experience in running the Indian democracy?
- To Islamabad Via Washington (Indian Express, V A Pai Panandiker, Sep 29, 2003)
Like it or not, march to peace with Pak will require US ‘vehicle’
- Chronicle Of A Collapse Foretold (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Sep 29, 2003)
"Victory" or "failure" are wrong words to describe the outcome of the Cancun meeting. Cancun was just one event in a continuing struggle over the role of the WTO in the economies of the world.
- Riots In Male (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 29, 2003)
At first glance, the recent rioting in Male, bears no apparent connection to the elections. Judging by the targets the mobs chose, it seems their anger was directed not just at the prison guards but also at Mr. Gayoom's Government.
- Pakistan: Taking The Longer View (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 29, 2003)
The Government has come to attach far too much political importance to bilateral meetings with Pakistan by refusing to have them on the margins of international gatherings.
- Because Food Matters (Indian Express, Bharat Dogra, Sep 29, 2003)
The solution is out there. So why are we still poisoning ourselves?
- Growth Has Its Pains (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 29, 2003)
India as an economic powerhouse? Joy! But it also means there’s a lot more to be done
- 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.
- Mute Witness To Injustice (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Sep 27, 2003)
The threatening of witnesses in the Gujarat riot cases came to light recently when Zaheera Sheikh pleaded that the high profile Best Bakery matter be tried outside the state for justice to prevail.
- Krishna, Naidu Bury Hatchet, Goodwill Flows Upstream (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2003)
The bitterness seems to have gone from the relationship between Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh if the bonhomie at today’s joint press conference of the two Chief Ministers, S.M. Krishna and N. Chandrababu Naidu, is any indication.
- Cms As Ceos (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 05, 2003)
IT WAS the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr Chandrababu Naidu, who first thought of calling himself the Chief Executive Officer of the State some years ago. He was obviously keen to incorporate in the State administration the salient features of ...
- ‘women To Remain Political Extras In Male Monopolies’ (Indian Express, Vrinda Gopinath, Sep 04, 2003)
The flag-waving, activist-member of the CPM’s women’s wing, the All-India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), Brinda Karat, could smash the bourgeois contempt for the ‘‘mahila mandal’’ types in a jiffy. With stout conviction, Karat lashes out at the
- Divine Communication (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Aug 24, 2003)
Considering that it is the wettest monsoon in Delhi in decades and it had been raining steadily till noon on August 15, Rashtrapati Bhavan officials were apprehensive about holding the President’s At Home on Independence Day in the gardens. But when it
- Big Brother Hits Big Time (Indian Express, Vrinda Gopinath, Aug 23, 2003)
Now that the no-confidence motion has blown over with the NDA coalition sailing through, it is a moment of calculation for the smaller partners of the alliance. Many are torn by infighting and leadership tussles. The fact that all warring factions voted
- Slaughtering A Bill (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2003)
The fate of this bill should remind the BJP it mustn’t take its allies for granted
- Allies Make Bjp Climb Down The Cow (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2003)
TDP, Trinamool, JD (U), PMK, Left, RJD all oppose, Govt agrees to all-party meeting
- No-Confidence Motion - All Sound And Little Fury (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 21, 2003)
With the result of the no-confidence motion against the Vajpayee Government a foregone conclusion, the exercise does seem to have been an utter waste of public money and valuable Parliament time. But it served to prove that the Opposition is capable of...
- Congress And Dissent (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2003)
THERE COULD BE two explanations for the decision of the veteran Maharashtra Congressmen, Vasant Sathe and N.K.P. Salve, to form a new party, the Vidarbha Rajya Nirman Congress (VRNC). The first, and less flattering one, is that the decision was ...
- Vote: Dmk’s Trust Test (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Aug 17, 2003)
As NDA leaders got together today to give final touches to their strategy to turn the tables on the Congress during the no-confidence debate in the Lok Sabha, the DMK squirmed over reports of the BJP’s efforts to enlist the support of its arch-rival ...
- Why Laloo Was Mobbed In Pakistan (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Aug 15, 2003)
There are three strands in the four-day visit to Pakistan by 50 Indian parliamentarians, journalists and experts. The Laloo roadshow, Musharraf’s final performance and the two-day exchange of ideas between parliamentarians representing every political ...
- Track Ii Express Pulls Into Islamabad (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Aug 10, 2003)
In Islamabad, the air is thick with mohabbat. The largest ever delegation of Indian parliamentarians (31 in all) is visiting Pakistan as part of a conference organised by the South Asia Free Media Association and although the honourable members are soft
- Pm Tells Mps: Do Not Subvert Justice (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2003)
Cancelling all engagements, including a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today sat through a marathon discussion in Lok Sabha where Opposition members tore into his government, accusing it of
- No Proposal Yet, Says Ec (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2003)
Asserting that holding simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly polls was not possible under the existing Constitutional provisions, Election Commissioner T S Krishnamurthy today said they had not received any such proposal from the Government yet.
- Ayodhya, Polls Gather Storm Clouds (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Aug 04, 2003)
In a bid to take the wind out of the gathering storm over his Ayodhya remarks, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today said there was no change in the Government’s stand on the Ayodhya dispute which he felt could only be resolved through a negotiated
- Pm May Wish He Never Promised ‘last Wish’ (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Aug 03, 2003)
The BJP leadership, which was left isolated in face of concerted Opposition attack over the CBI chargesheet against Advani, Joshi, et al., in the first two weeks of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, is set to experience more of the same treatment, come
- Advani Pitches For A Uniform Poll Code (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Aug 03, 2003)
Lok Sabha, state polls together for better governance, he says; real reason could be to ensure lonely Cong pitted against allies
- Waiting For The Two (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Aug 03, 2003)
All indicators point to a revival of the economy. No one will be happier than the BJP. In the five years that Atal Behari Vajpayee has been Prime Minister, he has been served by two Finance Ministers and three Ministers of Industry and Commerce.
- Rajya Sabha: Bjp Can Finally Swing An Nda Majority (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Jul 26, 2003)
If the BJP were to replace the eight retiring nominated members of the Rajya Sabha with its own men and women on August 26, the NDA is all set to acquire a majority in the 243-seat upper house.
- Lessons From Andhra Pradesh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 19, 2003)
FOR ABOUT A month now, a virulent viral fever suspected to be encephalitis has afflicted Andhra Pradesh and claimed at least 120 lives. Central teams of paediatricians and virologists are studying the epidemic, but the unfortunate truth is that ...
- Congress: A New Resolution In Shimla (Business Line, Roop Lal Sharma, Jul 16, 2003)
Rattled by its failure to regain power in April 1999 after the fall by one vote of the Vajpayee Government, the Congress(I) is keen to tie up all loose ends well ahead of time, leaving nothing to chance.
- Idea Par Excellence (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 14, 2003)
THE Vice-President, Mr Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, gets the year's Best Idea Award for proposing that elections to State Assemblies and the Lok Sabha should be held simultaneously and in the same month every five years, instead of separately and in isolation
- The Uncertain Labyrinth (Telegraph, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jul 02, 2003)
A big question hovering over Indian politics is this: if there is to be a government not led by the Bharatiya Janata Party at the Centre after the next general election, who will head it? Who are the non-BJP contenders for the prime minister’s office?
- Build Bridges (For Communal Harmony) (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2003)
The manner in which a minor altercation between two individuals sparked off communal riots in Hyderabad is worrying.
- Seat Slash Order To Colleges (Telegraph, Mita Mukherjee, Jul 12, 2002)
The pro vice-chancellor of academics, Suranjan Das, has issued a circular to over 200 colleges instructing them to limit the number of admissions at the undergraduate level to 150 for non-laboratory based pass courses.
- Goodwill At Any Cost? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 11, 2002)
Given the traumatic experience this country has had with the LTTE, India would have to adopt a proactive strategy of pressing Sri Lanka to extradite the terrorist leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
- Presidential Poll And Polemics Of Consensus (Business Line, R. C. Rajamani, Jul 11, 2002)
THOUGH any election is all about politics, the presidential poll in the country has been sought to be freed from competitive and combative vehemence of electoral politics and polemics.
- Jayalalithaa: In The Eye Of Another Storm (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jul 11, 2002)
THE Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms J. Jayalalithaa, is right back at the centre of another political controversy. Her government has invoked POTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act) to arrest eight MDMK functionaries for their utterances eulogising the LTTE.
- Writing On The Wall (Business Line, R. Anand, Jul 11, 2002)
The Indian accounting profession has lessons to learn from the WorldCom fallout.
- Contract Farming: Sowing Promise (Business Line, Amalendu Jyotishi, Jul 11, 2002)
AGRICULTURAL commodity production is susceptible to institutional and market failure. Contract farming is often seen as an answer to these systemic imperfections.
- Harvesting The World Market (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 11, 2002)
When traditional export items such as gems and jewellery, textiles and engineering goods showed negative to modest growth last fiscal, agriculture and allied products registered a 3.34 per cent growth by value in 2001-02.
- The Next President (Hindu, S. Varadan, Jul 11, 2002)
THE WAY our political parties and their leaders went about the task of choosing a candidate for the office of the President of India does not do any credit to them.
- Cosmology In Rigveda -- The Third Premise (Hindu, PATRIZIA NORELLI-BACHELET, Jul 11, 2002)
History is indeed recorded in the Rigveda, as well as in the Epics, but one has to use correct cosmic formulas to make this discovery, bearing in mind that the ancients were not at all concerned with keeping records for posterity as we do today.
- Not A Bridge Too Far (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 11, 2002)
Once a feasibility report is made and accepted by India and Sri Lanka, the exciting possibility of a road link between the two countries might come true. And it might come about in five years at an estimated cost of Rs 3,000 crores.
- Time For A Reality Check (Hindu, Asma Khan, Jul 11, 2002)
Kashmir is back on the world consciousness and is the focus of major world powers. This is a welcome albeit late development; nonetheless, it encompasses great scope for ending the protracted impasse in Kashmir.
- The Border Confrontation (Hindu, P. R. Chari , Jul 11, 2002)
The test of success in the present coercive diplomacy is not the discomfiture of Pakistan but the resolution of the Kashmir problem.
- Discrimination At Work (Hindu, Andre Beteille , Jul 11, 2002)
Legitimate discrimination on the basis of ability and performance is obstructed by the pervasive suspicion that all discrimination, at least in India, is at bottom and by its nature invidious.
- Conflicting Political Signals (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 11, 2002)
THE DECISION BY the two emissaries of the People's War Group (PWG) of naxalites to pull out of the ongoing dialogue with the Andhra Pradesh Government is somewhat of an anti-climax in the negotiating process.
- Cabinet Reshuffle -- Check, Checkmate (Business Line, Harihar Swarup , Jul 11, 2002)
Establishing Mr L. K. Advani's supremacy both in the government and the party, and the indication that the BJP would henceforth adopt hard line functioning, were obviously the twin objectives of the recent Cabinet and organisational changes.
- Hard Bargain (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 11, 2002)
Almost all the initial promises of a serious, across-the-table political dialogue that could curb militancy in Andhra Pradesh seems to have evaporated.
- Krishna’s Cabinet (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 11, 2002)
Karnataka chief minister S.M. Krishna was virtually given carte blanche to rehaul his ministry when all the 43 ministers handed in their resignations last week. But what followed the next day was in more ways than one disappointing.
- Yawn! (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 11, 2002)
The paucity of talent at his disposal and internal contradictions that have plagued him from the very beginning have made a mess of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s promise of a "new, improved look" to his Union Cabinet.
- Partition Revisited (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 11, 2002)
Gone is the surreptitious manner in which the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh had been projecting trifurcation of Kashmir in the past.
- Mamata Misfires (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 11, 2002)
Ms Mamata Banerjee’s roadshow is getting to be boring and tiresome indeed.
- Photo-Stink (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 11, 2002)
The government’s response to the unearthing of the Xerox Modicorp scandal is shocking and callous.
- The Vaiko Factor (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 11, 2002)
Crucial questions relating to the limits to which the already highly controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) can be used have been brought into sharp focus by l’affaire Vaiko.
- Grafty People (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 11, 2002)
The story of Sukh Ram, once the undisputed boss of Sanchar Bhawan who used telecom as a tool for illegal indemnification, is simple.
- Naxalite Violence: Legacy Of Another Era (Times of India, BHASKAR ROY, Jul 10, 2002)
India, a nuclear power and satellite manufacturer, is grappling with an armed political campaign that best belongs to another era, and is admittedly an outcome of the unresolved contradictions of a backward agrarian society.
- Letting Kashmir Simmer (National Post, Editorial, National Post, Jul 08, 2002)
Following a brief period of what seemed like progress, relations between India and Pakistan over Kashmir have returned to their normal state of brewing animosity.
- The Moderate Deputy Pm (Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi, Jul 06, 2002)
As reshuffles go, it is hard to deny that last week’s effort was a bit of a dud.
- Nuclear Brinkmanship (Providence Journal, Editorial, Providence Journal, Jun 03, 2002)
A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could cost 10 million lives or more. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf engages in such provocative activities as testing missiles and implying that his nation might use nuclear weapons first.
- Nuclear High-Wire Act (Washington Times, Jed Babin, May 30, 2002)
Some wars are avoidable. It appears that the coming war between India and Pakistan over the disputed Kashmir region is not. We may not be able to act soon enough to stop war from breaking out, but we must take action to prevent nuclear escalation.
- Highs And Lows (Financial Times, Edward Luce, May 30, 2002)
General Pervez Musharraf interview held at the Army Chief's official residence in Rawalpindi, Pakistan's military headquarters, took place immediately after Gen Musharraf had addressed the Pakistan nation in a televised broadcast.
- The Most Dangerous Place In The World (New York Times, Salman Rushdie, May 30, 2002)
The present Kashmir crisis feels like a déjà vu replay of the last one. Will the outcome also be a replay of three years ago? Will the conflict be contained again?
- Caution On Kashmir (Boston Globe, Editorial, Boston Globe, May 30, 2002)
In the present circumstances the United States has no choice but to use all its influence with India and Pakistan to compel those nuclear-armed neighbors to back down from the brink of war.
- Pakistan Cannot Expect The Support Of India's Muslims (Independent (UK), M.J. Akbar, May 30, 2002)
A revealing but rarely revealed fact is that Muslims in the rest of India give no support whatsoever to the separatist insurgency in the Muslim-majority valley of Kashmir, that charming bit of paradise that could trigger off history's first nuclear war.
- Musharraf Set To Win Pakistan Poll, But At A Cost (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Apr 28, 2002)
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is set for a comfortable victory in a referendum on Tuesday to extend his rule for five years, but in the process he has damaged his credibility both at home and abroad.
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