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Articles 17821 through 17920 of 27558:
- Back To Paper Raj (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 25, 2001)
If saral forms have worked, why not stick to them?
- Cry Of A Patriotic Pakistani (Pioneer, M L Kotru, Aug 25, 2001)
Pakistani military ruler leader, General Pervez Musharraf, has promulgated an ordinance ostensible to regulate Deeni Madaris (madarsas or religious seminaries) in the country.
- Casting Away Casteism (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 25, 2001)
Need of the hour: address the issue at home.
- Head Of Japan’s Think-Tank Wants Inflation Target (The Financial Express, Hideyuki Sano, Aug 25, 2001)
THE Bank of Japan (BOJ) should take even more aggressive monetary easing steps to fight deflation and adopt an explicit inflation target as part of its strategy, the head of a Japanese government think-tank said.
- ‘I Want My Client To Be Happy In All Ways’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 25, 2001)
VENUE: R K Jain’s office at Connaught Place, New Delhi
DATE: January 3, 2001.
- Saffronisation And Textbooks (Hindu, Amrik Singh , Aug 25, 2001)
TO UNDERSTAND the issue of saffronisation in the right perspective, we have to look at the decline of the Congress as a ruling party and the rise of the BJP as a rival.
- Bill Of Mortality (Pioneer, Ahtesham Qureshy, Aug 25, 2001)
The Lokpal Bill has for the eighth time been introduced in the Lok Sabha.
- Putting Conflict Before Cricket (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 25, 2001)
THE CENTRE'S REFUSAL to allow the Indian cricket team to play the Asian Test Championship in Pakistan seems driven by excessive paranoia and reflexive bellicosity towards Pakistan.
- The Near Collapse Of Rural Education (Tribune, Sukhpal Singh Khaira, Aug 25, 2001)
THE state of rural education in the country has gone from bad to worse, nearing total collapse if not controlled immediately.
- Ajt Nowhere On The Horizon (Tribune, Amar Chandel, Aug 25, 2001)
MiGs crash out of the sky with sickening regularity. Pilots die an inglorious death. And yet the search for an advance jet trainer (AJT) continues in a leisurely, babu pace.
- Bengal Starts Happening (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Aug 25, 2001)
When the American consultancy firm, McKinsey, made a presentation on the state’s economic recovery map two years ago, it held out the example of the amazing transformation of Pittsburgh.
- Another Great Indian Novel (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Aug 25, 2001)
The story begins in January 1977, with the arrival in Delhi of Rudyard Hart, a Coca-Cola executive, his wife, Katharine, and their two children, Priscilla and Kim.
- Star Gazing (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 25, 2001)
THE GOVERNMENT of West Bengal appears to have imbibed the advice of Cassius: ``The fault, dear Brutus, lies in our stars, not in us.’’
- Caste On The Map (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 25, 2001)
Martinbhai Chhotubhai Macwan was swamped by a wave of hostility.
- Crime And Punishment (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Aug 25, 2001)
THE Tehelka.com affair -- which was (some say deliberately) relegated to the background of national affairs (thanks to the Agra summit, among other things) -- has suddenly stirred itself out of its `hibernation', and is again holding centrestage.
- World Bank Aid For Up Water Project A Boon For Farm Sector (The Financial Express, Devsagar Singh, Aug 24, 2001)
At a time when agricultural produce is stagnating in Uttar Pradesh, the World Bank’s $130 million assistance for water sector restructuring, including irrigation and drainage, has come as a boon.
- Fighting Heart Disease For $ 1.40 A Day (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 24, 2001)
A simple new treatment for heart disease victims costing just US dollars 1.40 a day was described by doctors as the biggest breakthrough in fighting Britain’s number one killer for 20 years.
- India Should Go Ahead With Stem Cell Research (The Financial Express, Parul Malhotra, Aug 24, 2001)
"Embryonic stem cell research is a white Christian man’s issue”, says Dr Uttam Pati.
- Washing Linen At Durban (Indian Express, Fali S. Nariman, Aug 24, 2001)
THE Government of India is opposed to ‘‘caste discrimination’’ being placed on the agenda of the UN Conference on Racism and Intolerance to be held in Durban later this month.
- Naughty Boys (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 24, 2001)
It cannot be pleasant for the speaker of the Lok Sabha to have to decide on doses of disgrace to be doled out to members of parliament as if to unruly schoolboys.
- Against All Odds (Hindu, Jyoti Punwani, Aug 24, 2001)
AS MUMBAI'S former Police Commissioner, Mr. Ram Deo Tyagi, lies in the intensive care unit of one of the city's state-of-the-art hospitals, half-a-dozen constables guard him.
- Is There Need For Yet Another Hydel Power Project In Kerala? (The Financial Express, Ajayan, Aug 24, 2001)
Work on the tunnel for the 24-million unit Vagamon diversion hydel project in Keralsa began in right earnest.
- New Twist No Cover For Murky Deals (Hindu, Harish Khare , Aug 24, 2001)
NEW DELHI, AUG. 23. The Defence Ministry says it did not leak the ``damaging'' portions of the Tehelka tapes. The Venkataswami Commission says it cannot be the source of the leakage.
- Fall From Grace (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Aug 24, 2001)
OCTOBER 14, 1985 is counted as an red-letter day for regional politics.
- India's Apartheid (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Aug 24, 2001)
IT IS no disservice to the heroic struggle in South Africa against apartheid to compare it with the struggle of Dalits and tribals to fight the cumulative injustice of centuries.
- Caste Inequities And The Power Of Globalisation (The Economic Times, Narendar Pani, Aug 24, 2001)
THE CONTROVERSY over caste and untouchability being discussed at the World Conference Against Racism brings to the fore the conflict that can emerge between individual rights and national sovereignty.
- Those Prophets Of Doom (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Aug 24, 2001)
What is it that we haven’t done wrong in all these years?
- Euro-Puzzle: Us Self-Interest May Help (Business Line, D. Sambandhan, Aug 24, 2001)
EUROPE'S single currency is 32-months-old. Despite several months, the perplexing nature of its journey is obvious and apparent.
- Indian Extortionate Service (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Aug 24, 2001)
Efforts are on to nullify the consequences of a great blow struck by the Supreme Court of India to ensure probity in public life.
- Is Intolerance Overtaking Us? (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Aug 24, 2001)
THE other day, at a farewell party for a western diplomat, I was holding forth on religious tolerance and composite culture when the diplomat placed his hand on my shoulder and walked with me to the far corner of the room.
- Such A Long Journey (Indian Express, Indra Mohan Sahai, Aug 24, 2001)
When will Sakina Begum reach her final resting place?
- Pakistan In The Dock For Rights Violations (Pioneer, ADNI, Aug 24, 2001)
The 53rd session of the Commission on Human Rights at Geneva was occasion for speakers to detail evidence of suborning of the Pakistani judiciary, regional inequities perpetrated by the military regime.
- Is India A Failed State? (Pioneer, Ranjit B Rai and P K Jain, Aug 24, 2001)
Many feathers may get ruffled by this provocative heading but it is prompted by Minister of Planning Arun Shourie's bold statement in Parliament on 20 August that if steps are not taken fast.
- Disentangle From Njmc (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 24, 2001)
IT IS BEST that the Union Textiles Ministry gives up its move for unit-wise sale of the six jute mills under the National Jute Manufacturers Corporation (NJMC).
- 'India Definitely Needs Transgenic Technology' (The Economic Times, Shoba Naidu, Aug 24, 2001)
TRANSGENIC technology has the potential to usher in a second green revolution but there are several apprehensions and misconceptions about this new technology.
- Basmati Patent -- Going Against The Grain (Business Line, Devinder Sharma , Aug 24, 2001)
NOTWITHSTANDING the controversy, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ruling that upholds the patent granted to the American food company, RiceTec, is in reality a `back-door' patent on basmati rice.
- Power: Winners & Losers (The Economic Times, Sanjeev S Ahluwalia, Aug 24, 2001)
THE PRIMARY beneficiaries of the 1991 reforms were power suppliers.
- Dot Finally Gets It (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 24, 2001)
THE DEPARTMENT of Telecommunications wants to dispense with licence fees and allow a second cellular phone operator in Anadaman and Nicobar, Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal.
- Laudable Effort (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 24, 2001)
THE Tamil Nadu Government in the Finance Department has set a commendable example in transparency for all other States, and indeed, even the Centre, to follow.
- Force To Reckon With (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Aug 24, 2001)
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has been put on a waitlist to re-join the National Democratic Alliance.
- Save The Poor (Business Line, Timeri N. Murari , Aug 24, 2001)
THE Nobel prize winning novelist, Gunther Grass, accused the middle-class of India of being indifferent to the poor around them.
- The Cure’s Here (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 24, 2001)
WITHIN a week of Eli Lilly’s blockbuster $2.6 billion anti-depressant drug Prozac coming off patent on 3 August, nearly 80 per cent of its US users are reported to have shifted to the cheaper generic form of Prozac, fluoxetine.
- Euthanesia Of Politics, Starvation And Sc Intervention (The Financial Express, R K Roy, Aug 24, 2001)
It is strange that the Supreme Court has had to remind the government of its obligation to provide food to all, even if this has to be given free.
- Chaff On Basmati (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 24, 2001)
THE CAPACITY OF both Parliament and the Government to obfuscate issues has been on display once again in the heat and dust that has been raised over the U.S. patent to ``Basmati-like'' rice strains developed by a U.S. company, RiceTec.
- Distortions Galore (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 24, 2001)
COME election time and the Uttar Pradesh government is reportedly all set to hike the state advised price for sugarcane by Rs 100 per tonne. So what’s new? Nothing, it is true.
- Humorous Story Turns Residents Sour (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 24, 2001)
A humorous Oriya story in a primary school textbook hasn’t quite tickled the funny bone of some western Orissa residents, who say it is a deliberate attempt to demean their culture.
- Changing Colours Of The Media (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Aug 24, 2001)
There has of late been considerable criticism of the way the Indian media has conducted itself on various matters of vital importance, especially during and after the flop show of the India-Pakistan summit at Agra.
- Sleaze, Not Journalism (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 24, 2001)
HAVING SHAKEN THE nation with its expose on the scandalous manner in which defence deals are struck, Tehelka now stands exposed of having employed the most ugly and detestable ways to obtain it.
- Pak Move Against Militants (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 24, 2001)
When the successive regimes in Pakistan encouraged the setting up of terrorist training camps for the proxy war in India's Jammu and Kashmir, they did not realise that they were patronising a two-edged weapon.
- Lok Pal: America Has Something To Teach Us (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Aug 24, 2001)
The founding fathers of America were highly suspicious of states and governments. It followed: they had no great faith in men, either. Everything they did was to check the evil in men.
- Other Face Of Tehelka (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 24, 2001)
Armsgate has grown one more arm, a weak one but very freak one.
- `Human Rights Reporting Getting Ghettoised' -- Mr Val Williams, Veteran Journalist And Consultant To Thomson Foundation (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 24, 2001)
ONE of the most experienced newspaper trainers in Britain, Mr Val Williams has worked for Reuters, BBC and a number of British newspapers and business magazines.
- Some Are More Equal Than Others (The Economic Times, Shakar Raghuraman, Aug 24, 2001)
THE OTHER day, the Lok Sabha passed the Consti-tution (91st Am-endment) Bill by an overwhelming 297 votes to two.
- Comparative Picture (Pioneer, Roswitha Joshi, Aug 24, 2001)
I have two friends in Germany who could not be more different from each other, and, yet, have something in common: They own stunning homes which reflect their personalities.
- A Material Girl: Bess Of Hardwick (1527-1608) (Telegraph, Kate Hubbard, Aug 24, 2001)
Kate Hubbard’s A Material Girl: Bess Of Hardwick (1527-1608) is another triumph of the “Short lives” series.
- How The Other Half Dies (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Aug 23, 2001)
The Supreme Court’s observation that it is the government’s responsibility to ensure that the overflowing stocks of foodgrains in the FCI godowns reach the starving people has come at an appropriate time.
- Living Without A Heartbeat (Tribune, Dug Begley, Aug 23, 2001)
ROBERTS Tools, the world’s first recipient of a self-contained mechanical heart, has said the biggest adjustment had been having a “whirring sound” in his chest rather than a heartbeat.
- Each State To Its Own Growth (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 23, 2001)
This approach paper proposes that the tenth plan should aim at an indicative target of 8 per cent gross domestic product growth for the period 2002-07.
- The Hate Agenda (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 23, 2001)
NDA is back to minority bashing.
- Through The Third Eye (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 23, 2001)
HOW do you throw out a challenge and ensure you win? Taj Mahal tea can give you some useful tips.
- Competing Over Competition (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 23, 2001)
FINALLY, Europe is taking competition seriously, as the decision to block the merger of General Electric and Honeywell demonstrates. Competition is the basis of a dynamic market economy.
- More Than Teachers (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 23, 2001)
The educational wing of the mission has always maintained an enviable record.
- Wrong Floor (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 23, 2001)
The sorry performance of the Trinamool Congress in the West Bengal assembly elections does not seem to have had a sobering effect on its legislators.
- It Is Roy’s Tirade, Not Cause (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Aug 23, 2001)
SHE got a notice alright for participating in a demonstration in front of the Supreme Court to protest its Narmada judgment. But let’s get this clear:
- Nizam’s Jewels Set To Dazzle Delhi (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 23, 2001)
WHEN an exhibition of the Nizam’s jewels opens in New Delhi next week, the common man will for the first time get a glimpse of the treasure trove meant only for princes.
- Dealing With Musharraf’s Pakistan (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Aug 23, 2001)
WITHIN a month of the failed Agra summit this country is mercifully beginning to learn how rude are the realities of having to live with a neighbour like Pakistan, especially when it is ruled by a military dictator like General Pervez Musharraf.
- Don’t Play With Cricket (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 23, 2001)
THE Union Government's decision not to allow the Indian cricket team to visit Pakistan next month is unfortunate.
- Breakfasts: Stale Yet Necessary (Pioneer, Premvir Das, Aug 23, 2001)
The unceasing media obsession with General Pervez Musharraf is now a thing of the past.
- An Unacceptable Freeze (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 23, 2001)
MINOR denting and painting but no major overhaul of the rickety car of the people’s representation in the Lok Sabha.
- Storm In Rice Bowl (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 23, 2001)
THE basmati rice patents issue is so emotive that it can lead to a panic seizure throughout the country. There is indignation that India has been robbed of its rightful due.
- Falling Graph (Pioneer, Anil Narendra, Aug 23, 2001)
The popularity graph of the NDA Government in general and its leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee in particular has been on the decline. However, in the past few months, this has sunk to an all-time low.
- Functioning Anarchy (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Aug 23, 2001)
The institutions of the state are not supposed to work at cross-purposes.
- Not By Rice Alone (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 23, 2001)
The controversy over Basmati, and other areas of intellectual property, generates more heat than light.
- Tibetans Elect Their Prime Minister (Pioneer, Vijay Kranti, Aug 23, 2001)
In the ongoing 50-year-long war of nerves between the mighty rulers of Beijing and the Dalai Lama, the latter has scored a major point.
- Corporate Governance In The Financial System (The Economic Times, Girija Upadhyaya, Aug 23, 2001)
THE ROLE of governments in financial systems has been a subject of many debates amongst policy makers.
- Where The Rivers Meet (Indian Express, R. P. Subramanian, Aug 23, 2001)
THE NCERT’s biology textbook begins by listing ‘Science Related Values’:
- At The Heart Of The Matter (Telegraph, K.B. SAHAY, Aug 23, 2001)
Nongovernmental organizations can save the world from the ill-effects of a rapid population growth.
- Wheels In The Mire (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Aug 23, 2001)
THE last three weeks have left one with apprehensions about our country as a democracy. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, regardless of his political affiliations, is a rare exception in the current political milieu.
- Only On Dd (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Aug 23, 2001)
IT can happen only on Doordarshan. Though CEO Anil Baijal has been talking tough, sending ‘Perform or Perish’ vibes all around, one hears that DD’s Metro channel officials are in auto-destruct mode.
- Degrees Of Entrapment (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 23, 2001)
Tehelka’s despicable means don’t make Armsgate less grave.
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