|
|
|
|
|
|
Articles 17521 through 17620 of 27558:
- Assets Of Dabhol Power Company -- Whose Property Are They Anyway? (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Aug 30, 2001)
IT IS customary in India to begin public debates with an `'at-the-outset'' disclaimer based on reasoned neutrality.
- 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.
- A Votary Of United Punjab (Tribune, Ashok B Sharma, Aug 30, 2001)
TWO years ago on this day (Aug 30) Punjab lost a brilliant leader, Pandit Mohan Lal, former Home and Finance Minister in Pratap Singh Kairon’s and Mussafir’s Cabinets and the President of the Sanatan Dharam Pratinidhi Sabha.
- Assets Of Dabhol Power Company -- Whose Property Are They Anyway? (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Aug 30, 2001)
IT IS customary in India to begin public debates with an `'at-the-outset'' disclaimer based on reasoned neutrality.
- Rbi’s Reservations (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 30, 2001)
THE RESERVE Bank of India’s annual report is an eagerly awaited document.
- Violence Over Hardwar (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 30, 2001)
THE demand for separating Hardwar from Uttaranchal on Tuesday took a violent turn.
- Weaknesses Of Musharraf Regime (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Aug 30, 2001)
MANY people saw the Agra Summit as a great triumph both domestically and internationally for Gen Pervez Musharraf.
- 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.
- Nice Guys Come Last (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 30, 2001)
India had only challenged three of the 20 claims of the Basmati patents.
- The Forgotten Days And Hounded Heroes (Tribune, R. N. Prasher, Aug 30, 2001)
THOSE were the days when officers of Punjab bloated with authority under the prolonged President’s (read bureaucrats’) rule trembled in their trousers and repainted their car registration plates in violation of the law.
- The Joy Of Sharing (Tribune, Dalip Singh Wasan, Aug 30, 2001)
MY friend’s daughter was married to a young man in Najibabad in Uttar Pradesh and she was having some problem with her in-laws.
- The War Over Rice And What It Means (Telegraph, Devinder Sharma , Aug 30, 2001)
The United States patent and trademark office ruling, which upholds the patent granted to the American food company, RiceTec, is in reality a “back-door” patent on Basmati rice.
- A Bare Pass (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 30, 2001)
THE RBI's RATING of the Government's stewardship of the economy is out.
- Starting Young: The Risk Of Hiv -- And Why Early Education Is Vital (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 30, 2001)
Around here, there is only football, drink and sex. When it is dark there is only drink and sex. And when the drink runs out, there is sex.
- Drugs Gain New Ground In The Sub-Continet (Business Line, Menka Shivdasani , Aug 30, 2001)
IN THE bylanes of Mumbai, the back alleys of Karachi, in the midst of the middle- and upper classes, there is a sub-culture that thrives.
- Delhi’s Cng Crisis (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 30, 2001)
The CNG crisis in Delhi is becoming curioser and curioser with each passing day. This is one example of how political leaders have been acting in a very irresponsible and hamhanded manner, holding the transport system in Delhi to ransom.
- Time To Get The Cds Act Together (Pioneer, Ranjit B Rai and P K Jain, Aug 30, 2001)
The selection of India's first CDS and his duties are still to be spelt out with clarity, but Defence Secretary Yogendra Narain recently stated that the MoD is going ahead with the new structure full steam.
- More Rough Than Smooth (Telegraph, Tapas Chakraborty, Aug 30, 2001)
Sixty-two year old Umadhar Prasad Singh, an independent member of legislative assembly from Darbhanga, spends his evenings sitting behind a cluttered wooden desk.
- Honour Or Power? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 30, 2001)
It’s a choice the Madhya Pradesh CM has to make.
- Wishes Are Not Horses (Telegraph, BHASKAR DUTTA , Aug 30, 2001)
The recent downgrade by two leading international ratings agencies of India’s foreign currency outlook from stable to negative could not have come at a worse time for Yashwant Sinha.
- Deadly Fare (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 30, 2001)
Starvation deaths are only too common in Orissa.
- Will The Centre Heed Rbi’s Suggestions On Agricultural Reforms? (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Aug 30, 2001)
THE Centre seems to care little about the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) suggestions on the urgent need for institutional reforms in agriculture.
- Literacy In Bihar Remains Low And Uneven (Pioneer, Sanjay Kumar, Aug 30, 2001)
The figures released by the census of India with regard to the level of literacy confirm that Bihar with 47 per cent literacy still remains the most illiterate state of India.
- Israeli-Palestinian Cock-Fight (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 30, 2001)
THE unending bloodletting involving the Israelis and the Palestinians is threatening to destroy all the gains of the peace process that began with the signing of the 1993 Oslo accords.
- Musharraf's Pakistan, Post-Agra (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Aug 30, 2001)
Most people saw the Agra Summit as a great triumph both domestically and internationally for General Pervez Musharraf.
- The Cocaine Curse (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 30, 2001)
The arrest of well-known hotel owner Neeraj Wadhera last week on charges of possessing cocaine has unwittingly unveiled what has always been known but never exposed: The seamier side of Delhi's party circuit.
- No Time To Talk (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 30, 2001)
General Pervez Musharraf's recent address to the newly-'elected' members of Pakistan occupied Kashmir's (PoK's) 'legislative assembly' clearly indicates that his scheduled meeting with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New York.
- Taxing Times, Or How Taxes Sap The Nation (Indian Express, Raghu Bakul, Aug 30, 2001)
YOUR editorial, ‘A very sick idea’ (August 21), which had argued that getting healthy firms to revive sick ones is very foolish, was great. We in India have been suffering from such sick ideas for the last 50 years.
- Double Talk (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 30, 2001)
It is difficult to take threats by the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mr Farooq Abdullah, very seriously.
- Censoring Scholarship (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 30, 2001)
THERE is a new threat to national security and it is the foreign scholar.
- Structural Constraints Impede Growth, Says Rbi (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 30, 2001)
The deceleration of economic activity for the second year in succession has raised some concerns about the feasibility of rapidly moving the economy to a higher growth path in the medium term.
- Rich China, Poor Subcontinent (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 30, 2001)
THE CHINESE prosper by finessing political differences. South Asians stay poor rather than compromise on principles.
- Ups And Downs Of The Poverty Line (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 30, 2001)
In east Asia, poverty declined most rapidly during the 1990s, falling sharply in China.
- Years Of Awakening (Pioneer, Narendra Modi, Aug 30, 2001)
Any time is a good time to take stock of where we are headed as a nation.
- Defence Purchases And Transparency (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 30, 2001)
IT IS QUITE clear that the veil of secrecy drawn over defence procurements has played a major role in contributing to corruption and sleaze.
- Brother Courage (Pioneer, Onkar Singh, Aug 30, 2001)
From the time he suffered four heart attacks, nobody had expected NC Johannes (Joe to his friends) would live long.
- Will China Change For The Better? (The Economic Times, Prabhat Kumar, Aug 30, 2001)
CHINA’S impending accession to the World Trade Organisation has raised huge expectations that the Chinese will become more rule-bound and transparent in their behaviour.
- The Worsening Fiscal Scenario (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Aug 30, 2001)
RECENT literature on the sequencing of economic reforms accords high priority to fiscal consolidation.
- Feeling The Pinch (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Aug 30, 2001)
Come September All India Radio’s FM (2) channel will hit the road and if it sounds like the main channel (that is, if the trial runs are any indication) don’t blame the planners.
- The Cruelty Index (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 30, 2001)
Total civic breakdown — the aim of the Poonch outrage.
- From Reform To Crisis: Tales From Another Continent (The Economic Times, T.T.Ram Mohan, Aug 30, 2001)
THIS year the world economy will crawl at around two per cent.
- Taking God On Trust (Indian Express, Swami Chaitanya Keerti, Aug 30, 2001)
TRUTH is not a belief, it is an experience. The experience does not happen in the domain of thought or mental processes.
- Bumpy Road To Doha (The Economic Times, Veena Jha, Aug 30, 2001)
SO far there is no consensus on launching a new round of trade negotiations at the Doha Ministerial Conference.
- Retrograde Step (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 30, 2001)
THE PETROLEUM ministry is reportedly toying with the idea of keeping diesel under retail price controls even after the administered pricing mechanism is given a formal burial in March next year.
- The Growth Illusion (The Economic Times, Richard Doutwaite, Aug 30, 2001)
MAINSTREAM economics... still believes in Adam Smith’s `invisible hand’. Yet Smith’s contention was not true when he made it and is even less true now in a resource-constrained world.
- At Home With Chinua Achebe In Exile (Indian Express, Abhik Siddiqui, Aug 29, 2001)
In his collection of essays, Edward Said wrote about his encounter with the great Urdu poet, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, who was exiled from Pakistan by General Zia’s regime.
- Biotech Battles -- Blunting The Competitive Edge (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Aug 29, 2001)
THIS is the tale of two biotech start-ups, both entrepreneurial ventures that came up in Hyderabad.
- The Unlawful Culture (Hindu, Manabi Majumdar, Aug 29, 2001)
IN HIS powerful novel `Yama,' the Russian novelist Alexander Kuprin talked about the age-old practice of prostitution and ruefully commented that ``the horror is just in this that there is no horror''.
- Brain Surgery By Robot Gives Hope (Tribune, Anthony Browne, Aug 29, 2001)
A robot that can perform microsurgery on the brain could make Parkinson’s disease almost routinely treatable and inoperable brain tumours a thing of the past.
- Patient Hearing Needed (Pioneer, Urmi A Goswami, Aug 29, 2001)
Should there be a code of ethics which demands that doctors provide care to persons in emergency and trauma-related situations, irrespective of their ability to pay for the treatment or the presence of a medico-legal implication?
- Honour Not Immunity (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Aug 29, 2001)
THE UNION Home Minister, Mr. L. K. Advani's offer to provide relief to hundreds of security personnel facing prosecution for alleged human rights violations in Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and the Northeast is a move in the wrong direction.
- Open-Door Policy (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 29, 2001)
If Mamata comes, can Jayalalithaa be far behind?
- 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.
- Prodigal's Return (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 29, 2001)
It was clear, even in the immediate aftermath of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) and Trinamool Congress's departure from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
- 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.
- It's Not Amnesty But Legal Protection (Pioneer, Prakash Singh, Aug 29, 2001)
Public memory is short, politicians' is shorter. Promises made and assurances given are conveniently forgotten.
- Torture Without A Trace (Telegraph, Rajashri Dasgupta, Aug 29, 2001)
A few days ago, most of the city dailies missed a significant news item.
- 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.
- The Exile (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 29, 2001)
There is a sense of déja vu in the government’s approach to the millennium round.
- Will Economics Bridge Strait Of Taiwan (Business Line, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Aug 29, 2001)
WILL economics drive politics across the 165-km Strait of Taiwan, often described as the world's most dangerous waterway and the last Cold War frontier?
- Towards A Fast Track Of Parleys? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 29, 2001)
SUSTAINING THE MYSTIQUE of summit-level talks, the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, has rightly decided to meet Pakistan's President and Chief Executive, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, on the sidelines of the annual session.
- 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.
- Of Political Tantrums And Burquas (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 29, 2001)
KASHMIR is at centre stage again, though for a different reason.
- Problem Of Finding Ph.D Principals (Tribune, P. P. S. Gill, Aug 29, 2001)
PUNJAB colleges — government, aided or unaided — are in a piquant situation over the appointment of principals due to the norms prescribed by the UGC. There are not enough teachers who hold a Ph.D degree to become eligible for appointment as principals.
- Stop Meddling (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 29, 2001)
The UGC is also critical of the multiple agencies, meddling with Indian higher education.
- Can Tehri Dam Withstand A Quake? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 29, 2001)
HERE'S news that will send tremors up your spine.
- Castles In The Air (Telegraph, BRIJESH D. JAYAL, Aug 29, 2001)
Of late the Indian air force has been regularly in the news.
- Campaign Against Discrimination (Tribune, Amar Chandel, Aug 29, 2001)
AFTER heated deliberations, it has been finalised that the caste question will indeed be raised forcefully at the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance to be held at Durban (South Africa).
- 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.
- India Needs To Have A Registry Of Ideas (The Financial Express, Bhanoji Roa, Aug 29, 2001)
The world is run by ideas. Some are the foundation for inventions and innovations.
- Re-Orienting India's Labour Laws (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 29, 2001)
THE AMENDMENTS TO the Trade Unions Act (1926) made by Parliament marks the commencement of a long process that lies ahead in modifying India's labour laws.
- 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.
- The Poor Are The True Poverty Experts (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 29, 2001)
Poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon, encompassing inability to satisfy basic needs, lack of control over resources, lack of education and skills.
- How Beijing Is Deepening Reforms In The Railways (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 29, 2001)
Excerpt from the speech of Wang Xiankui, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Railways, China:
- A 119-Year-New Company And Other Parables For Recession (The Economic Times, Abheej Barman, Aug 29, 2001)
IN 1881, five years after Graham Bell patented the telephone, the colonial government of India issued a licence to a British firm — the Oriental Telephone Company — to start phone exchanges in Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, Rangoon and Karachi.
- Right To Control (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 29, 2001)
Bangladesh has set up a separate university for conducting examinations alone.
- Not By Peace Talks Alone (Indian Express, Bharat Wariavwalla, Aug 29, 2001)
Diplomacy seldom resolves conflicts between deeply righteous nations.
- In The Battlefield Of Doha (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Aug 29, 2001)
THE opposing forces to meet on the battlefield of the WTO meet at Doha in November are now clearly discernible as their battalions have been arraigned by their veteran generals with decades of experience.
- Blacked Out (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 29, 2001)
PRECIOUS EIGHT YEARS have passed since New Delhi formalised its decision to involve the private sector in coal mining for captive consumption in power, steel and cement projects.
Previous 100 Telugu Desam Party Articles | Next 100 Telugu Desam Party Articles
Home
Page
|
|
