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Articles 12121 through 12220 of 27558:
- The President’s Mind (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 26, 2002)
PRESIDENT K.R. Narayanan has lived up to his reputation for making the customary Republic Day-eve address to the nation a testament of personal belief.
- Let It Flutter (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 26, 2002)
THOUSANDS, perhaps millions, of Indians who whisk out their Tricolours every Republic Day, need no longer pack them away until another national day arrives.
- From America With (Well) Love (Pioneer, Premvir Das, Jan 26, 2002)
Defence Minister George Fernandes is back from the US, where he signed a Security Agreement, obtained a 'no objection' from the Americans for the purchase of Israeli Phalcons.
- Friends Without Life-Jackets (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 26, 2002)
IT was easy to call it Scariana Airways. Ariana, the Afghan national carrier which resumed operations with a flight to New Delhi this week, had a style entirely its own.
- Single Regulator: A Troubled Exercise (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 26, 2002)
THE Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), which is currently inquiring into the stock market scam, is set to extend its remit for recommending the appointment of a `super-regulator' for the financial sector. This would form part of its report on the scam.
- Aftershocks (Hindu, Harsh Sethi , Jan 26, 2002)
As we celebrate another Republic Day it might be worthwhile to spare a thought for the many ways in which our power elite nobs our weakest citizens of the little they have.
- Pvt Sector To Be In N-Power Field (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 26, 2002)
HYDERABAD: The private sector can look forward to building nuclear power plants, with more than 51 per cent equity share in joint ventures by the end of 2004.
- Will Higher Inflation Spur Growth? (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Jan 26, 2002)
FOR various understandable reasons, a powerful viewpoint has gained ground in recent months calling for a larger fiscal deficit and a higher growth rate of money supply than the current 15-16 per cent per annum.
- The Incentive Disincentive (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Jan 26, 2002)
T. C. A. Ramanujam on why exemptions and deductions have become a drag on revenue mobilisation.
- A Vat Of Worries (Business Line, D. Sundaram, Jan 26, 2002)
THE present tax base for mobilisation of revenue is quite narrow. There is excessive dependence on the manufacturing sectors' performance for revenue mobilisation by the Centre and the States.
- A Year After (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 26, 2002)
IT IS A year today since the terrible Kutch earthquake took 30,000 lives and caused a loss of some Rs. 13,000 crores through destruction of private and public economic assets.
- Firm Policy Needed To Revive Economy: Manmohan (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jan 26, 2002)
`All our problems by and large are still our problems, which have to be resolved by our own domestic means.
- A Snooze For Vat (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 26, 2002)
THE CLOCK HAS been turned back by a year for the scheduled switchover to a VAT regime. The new D-Day is to be April 1, 2003 and not the approaching fiscal start.
- Unsteady Foundation (Pioneer, Yoga Rangatia, Jan 26, 2002)
The problem of population explosion has absorbed India's policymakers for the last several decades.
- Sunny Deol (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 26, 2002)
Terror for terror
The catchphrase “Doodh mangoge to kheer denge, Kashmir mangoge to cheer denge” (If you want milk we’ll give you cream, but if you ask for Kashmir, we’ll rip you apart) in Maa Tujhe Salaam — Sunny Deol’s latest film released yesterday —
- Gods Never Fail (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 26, 2002)
If you have run out of luck, lost everything you owned and are reluctant to work for your living, there is a formula for survival in comfort.
- The Quiet Man (Telegraph, AMIT CHAUDHURI, Jan 26, 2002)
The old Minerva theatre, converted into the Chaplin: this was where a crowd of invitees gathered on the evening of January 9.
- Reinventing Tradition (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 26, 2002)
Fifty-two years make India a young republic. It is fitting therefore that it faces a crisis of identity rather than the problems of middle age.
- Tea Exporters To Get Market Growth Assistance (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 26, 2002)
TO give a boost to drooping tea exports, the Union Commerce Ministry has decided to extend market development assistance to orthodox and packet tea exporters during the last three months of the current financial year.
- Nicholas Buys Ici's Drug Business For Rs 70 Cr (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 26, 2002)
PHARMACEUTICAL major Nicholas Piramal India Ltd (NPIL) has acquired the pharmaceutical business of ICI (India) Ltd for Rs 70 crore in an all-cash deal, on a going concern basis.
- Up And The Algebra Of Infinite Flip-Flops (Indian Express, Ajit Kumar Jha, Jan 25, 2002)
Read their lips, politicians have mastered the fine art of political somersaults in Uttar Pradesh.
- Insat-3c Launch Successful (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 25, 2002)
TELECOM satellite Insat-3C, which was launched in the early hours today from the European Kourou spacepad, is showing normal performance.
- Terrorism: Now In The East? (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Jan 25, 2002)
On December 22, 1994, two boys in Domkal in West Bengal's Murshidabad district discovered several bombs very near a temporary dais from which Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, now Chief Minister of West Bengal.
- No Options Left (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 25, 2002)
It is difficult to accept at face value the claim by the Dubai-based don, Aftab Ansari, that Tuesday's attack on Calcutta Police personnel in front of the city's American Center was meant to avenge the death of his associate Asif Reza Khan.
- The Trouble With Musharraf (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 25, 2002)
WHY do we mistrust General Musharraf? Because he had a hand in Kargil?
- Oh, What A Lovely War (Indian Express, Ratna Rajiah, Jan 25, 2002)
“War was return of earth to ugly earth,/ War was foundering of sublimities,/ Extinction of each happy art and faith/ By which the world had still kept head in air.” — Robert Graves
- Tata Steel Net Down 73 Pc At Rs 34.54 Cr (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 25, 2002)
IN a scenario of gloom for the steel sector, Tata Iron and Steel Company has maintained profitability with a net profit at Rs 34.54 crore during the October-December 2001 quarter, down 73 per cent from Rs 127.69 crore in the year-ago period.
- Rajnath Clean But Elections Dirty (Pioneer, Najar Mahmood, Jan 25, 2002)
The Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections are going to be held next month.
- A Wise Decision (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 25, 2002)
THE DECISION TO postpone by a year the shift to a value-added tax (VAT) regime in the States does not come as a surprise;
- A New Foundation Of Goodwill (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 25, 2002)
IMAGINE A SCENE far worse than that portrayed by Afghanistan's chief interim administrator, Hamid Karzai.
- A Stain On Indian Democracy (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Jan 25, 2002)
Good constitutional practices include the duty of political parties and their leaders to ensure that chargesheeted and communal persons are not permitted to stand for election on their party ticket.
- A Spy And A Gentleman (Indian Express, M.K. Narayanan, Jan 25, 2002)
Few saw him and fewer heard him, but Rameshwar Nath Kao’s shadow spread far and wide.
- When Terror Knocked On A Forgotten Address (Indian Express, Jayaditya Gupta, Jan 25, 2002)
PERHAPS it was inevitable. A city struggling to live up to its past, unable to come to terms with its current irrelevance in the national sphere.
- Marching To Danger (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 25, 2002)
AS the Sant Chetavani Yatra from Ayodhya draws closer to Delhi, a question has reared its tired head once again.
- Betrayed By Computers (Business Line, Timeri N. Murari , Jan 25, 2002)
IT IS not easy being a terrorist nowadays, especially if you are going to be hunted down.
- Hard Times (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Jan 25, 2002)
With the Assembly elections to Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Manipur nearing, political parties are once again looking for funds for their election campaigns.
- General's About-Turns Are All Too Frequent (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Jan 25, 2002)
In the light of Pakistan's theocratic history, for General Musharraf to immediately accept the call of the US led anti-terrorist coalition could be termed as surprising.
- Welcome Move On Coal Mining (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 25, 2002)
NEW DELHI'S LATEST decision to permit coal and lignite mining by State government companies or their subsidiaries appears to be intended to facilitate a new tier for the development of the sector.
- A Powerless And Degenerating Sector? (Business Line, R. Ramaseshan, Jan 25, 2002)
THE power sector is much maligned.
- The Constitutional Dilemma -- Liberal Or Socialist Economy? (Business Line, A. M. Bhattacharjee, Jan 25, 2002)
WHEN the Constitution was framed, B. R. Ambedkar, echoing the same sentiment, declared that there is "complete absence" of one thing in Indian society — equality and that "on the Economic Plane.
- More Backward (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 25, 2002)
Although the Bharatiya Janata Party is putting a brave face on it, it has lost a small gamble.
- Run On Enron (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 25, 2002)
Enron is a dirty word in India and people have complaints about what was proposed in Maharashtra. Some complaints are legitimate, others less so.
- Bank Guarantee For Box Movement By Domestic Liners Cut To 15 Pc (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 25, 2002)
The thrust of the 10th Plan in the port sector, according to Mr R.K. Jain, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Shipping, would be directed not so much towards creation of additional capacity through construction of new berths.
- Something Left Undone (Telegraph, BHASWATI CHAKRAVORTY, Jan 25, 2002)
Something very strange happened in Calcutta on Tuesday morning.
- Strategic Friends (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 25, 2002)
Of all the changes that have taken place post-December 13, the most significant is the alacrity with which the world's two biggest democracies-the US and India-have decided to draw closer for strategic reasons.
- Vsnl Set To Lose 45-50 Pc Market Share: Study (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 25, 2002)
VIDESH Sanchar Nigam Ltd will lose at least 45 to 50 per cent of its market share in international long distance telephony over the next three to four years, says a joint paper released by Crisil Advisory Services and PA Consulting Group.
- Corruption Begins From Home (Pioneer, Krishan Kalra, Jan 24, 2002)
On December 19, 2001, Mr Joginder Singh wrote the article, 'The anatomy of corruption' - on how, at least in India, corruption exists because none of us want to stand up for our rights.
- The Winner Controls The Flow (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Jan 24, 2002)
For all the measures taken post-December 13 to exert pressure on Pakistan, India has so far resisted the temptation of abrogating the Indus Water Treaty.
- Battle Of Colapath (Pioneer, Ramesh C Shukla, Jan 24, 2002)
By the end of the year 2001, the Cola Wars attained a real frenzy. Big B tried to snatch away the bonny lad's bottle.
- Guns Down (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 24, 2002)
There never was a good war, Benjamin Franklin once wrote, or a bad peace.
- A Change In The General (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Jan 24, 2002)
The first U-turn made by Pakistan when it joined the coalition led by the United States of America was a great wrench for Pervez Musharraf.
- The ‘Third’ Front (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Jan 24, 2002)
With eunuchs making electoral waves, the Congress has decided to swim with the current.
- Capital Talk: A Reticent Spymaster (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Jan 24, 2002)
Compared with several other stalwarts of his vintage and distinction, R.N. Kao (Ramji to friends), who died on Sunday at age 84, has received wider recognition for his yeoman services to this country in the field of intelligence and national security.
- Of Tigers And Dragons (Pioneer, Anil Narendra, Jan 24, 2002)
Last week, in a significant initiative, Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji proposed that India and China work together in the Information Technology sector.
- Open A New Chapter Against Abuse (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 24, 2002)
We therefore recommend that a new section, namely, section 376E be inserted in the Indian Penal Code in the following terms: 376E.
- In A Perfectly Normal Job (Telegraph, Monobina Gupta, Jan 24, 2002)
Feminism is essentially about empowering women and improving their status.
- ‘What’s Needed Are Small But Sincere Steps Towards Resolving Bilateral Issues Peacefully’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 24, 2002)
Excerpts from My India: The Vision for the Future, Home Minister L K Advani’s address at the India Today conclave which was held in New Delhi
- The Kolkata Challenge (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 24, 2002)
Not only must the attack on the American Centre in Kolkata be condemned in the strongest terms, but its significance should be seen in its correct perspective.
- Advani’s Vision (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 24, 2002)
Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani is a level-headed, down-to-earth political leader who does not mince his words.
- Be Practical And Reasonable (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Jan 24, 2002)
India shifted its Pakistan policies into a high pro-active gear in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Parliament on December 13.
- Goa's Aids Campaign (Pioneer, Yoga Rangatia, Jan 24, 2002)
Goa's intention to mandate couples to declare their HIV status before marriage, may not be in the interest of the HIV-infected or public health.
- Janus-Faced General Needs Deft Handling (Pioneer, V. K. Grover, Jan 24, 2002)
We must give the devil his due; President Musharraf is a great showman.
- There’s Something About Andipatti (Indian Express, Jayaraj Sivan, Jan 24, 2002)
There's something about Andipatti that has consistently given the AIADMK good news.
- Chinese Premier's Visit -- Caution Dilutes India's Gains (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 24, 2002)
IF INDIA wished, it could have reaped any number of strategic advantages from the momentous visit of the Chinese Premier, Mr Zhu Rongji.
- A Counter-Terror Consensus (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 24, 2002)
THE GRUESOME ATTACK on the Indian security personnel guarding the American Center in Kolkata has once again exposed the vulnerabilities of civilised and democratic societies in the present phase of globalised violence.
- Vat Switchover To Take One More Year (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 24, 2002)
The official reasons cited for not being able to stick to the April 1, 2002 deadline included the inability of the Centre to introduce amendments to the Central Sales Tax Act in the Winter session due to the terrorist strike on Parliament.
- Govt Plans Base Price For Basmati Exports (Business Line, M. R. Subramani, Jan 24, 2002)
THE Government is considering implementing price advisory for export of basmati rice, especially for shipments to the European Union (EU).
- Budget And Taxation (Business Line, Akhilesh Kumar Sah, Jan 24, 2002)
The Finance Minister must take into account the following factors while preparing the 2003 Budget: Due to continuous decline in interest rates, bank deposits are under pressure. This is adversely affecting the economy.
- Countering Insurgency In Kashmir (Business Line, H. Kaushal , Jan 24, 2002)
MANY developments have been taking place on the India-Pakistan front. The Pakistani President, Gen Pervez Musharraf, has promised to crack down on terrorists operating from Pakistan.
- Games Cousins Play (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 24, 2002)
One is not quite sure why people celebrate with such enthusiasm, the birthdays of politicians. Is it to mark a happy occasion, or to notch another year off from their illustrious lives?
- Linking The Lost India (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 24, 2002)
THE DICHOTOMIES THAT cut across India cannot be better explained than through the wide differences between rural and urban road linkages.
- Labour Market Reforms -- Need For Credible Safety Nets (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Jan 24, 2002)
AFTER dithering for years, the Government appears to have finally made up its mind to push through much-needed labour market reforms.
- For A United Afghanistan (Hindu, Pran Chopra , Jan 24, 2002)
What Afghanistan needs most for preserving its independence and unity is time to discover its own balance between federal decentralisation and centralisation for unity.
- For Victory That Lasts (Indian Express, Ashok Kapathia, Jan 24, 2002)
After the attack on Parliament, the government is, apparently, working to a well thought out plan of pressurising Pakistan into rolling back its policy of aiding and abetting cross-border terrorism and also keeping open war as a last option.
- Transparent Ploys (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 24, 2002)
The trouble with being too clever by half is getting away with it-which can often be difficult. Pakistan, which has elevated the articulation of untruth to the level of fine art, is now finding this out to its cost.
- Delivering On Power Reforms (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 24, 2002)
AFTER TINKERING WITH various options for almost a decade, the Union Power Ministry seems to be getting its act together at last.
- Bharti Tele Prices Ipo At Rs 45 (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 24, 2002)
BHARTI Televentures Ltd on Wednesday announced a floor price of Rs 45 per share for its initial public offering which opens on January 28.
- Parle Agro Mulls Product Expansion (Business Line, Latha Venkataraman, Jan 24, 2002)
THE Rs 300-crore Parle Agro Private Ltd is looking at product expansion in its various business segments to sustain growth in a sluggish market.
- Two Old Men (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 24, 2002)
There is an example unfolding right now of how a long and bitter struggle can end, right in the region.
- Happy End To Revenge Tragedies (Telegraph, Gywnne Dyer, Jan 24, 2002)
The Palestinians are clearly forgetful people, so Avi Pasner’s task is probably hopeless.
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