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Articles 17921 through 18020 of 27558:
- Wages Of Trade (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 23, 2001)
The fear that the functioning of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) might turn out to be detrimental to the interests of the developing nations is voiced every now and then.
- Day Of The Underdog (Hindustan Times, Bhaskar Ghose, Aug 23, 2001)
Lagaan, the film about a group of villagers in 19th century colonial India who learn the strange English game of cricket and then take on the local team of English officers, has surprised very many people by the measure of its success.
- The Alcohol Test (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 23, 2001)
Defence lawyers in Panama, Florida, are unhappy with the technology employed by the police to test for drunken driving.
- That Yen For Cutting The Flab (The Economic Times, Harish Bijoor, Aug 23, 2001)
THE INDIAN work environment is getting obsessive. Obsessive for results and profits. Rightly so.
- This Ain’t Democracy (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 23, 2001)
BY almost unanimously passing the Constitution (91st amendment) Bill, the Lok Sabha has made a mockery of one of the most fundamental tenets of parliamentary democracy — the principle of one man, one vote.
- Sweet Nothings (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 23, 2001)
TO sweeten the sale of Air-India to private buyers, the government says it will not meddle in the running of the airline.
- Chinese Shadow Over Russian Far East (Pioneer, Pran Chopra , Aug 23, 2001)
For some years now, many Russians have worried about what a Russian newspaper described, in early July this year, as "A China Town the size of Siberia".
- ‘I Have Good Stuff, My Secretary Is Very Nice’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 23, 2001)
VENUE: A New Delhi hotel.
DATE: Sept 18, 2000.
T and T1 are from Tehelka, S and S1 from the Army.
- The Healing Touch Of Love (Tribune, C D Verma, Aug 23, 2001)
EVERY one in the factory called Ram Bharose a guru. He was respected because he was an excellent skilled worker, always willing to help and guide others.
- Transit Moon (Pioneer, Vishwas, Aug 23, 2001)
My sister has a very good command over Astrology and in a few months from now she maybe a practising astrologer. She keeps reading books and watching TV programmes on astrology.
- Vajpayee, To The Manner Born (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Aug 22, 2001)
HE may not have given the country Ram Rajya but Vajpayee’s certainly put the Hindutva stamp on Race Course Road.
- Stem Cells -- Excitement And Controversy (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Aug 22, 2001)
IN Egyptian mythology Osiris is considered the God of regrowth and rejuvenation. Deriving inspiration from this, a Baltimore-based biotechnology firm Osiris Therapeutics is set on unravelling the mysteries of the human stem cells.
- Hope Of Cure For Sleep That Kills (Tribune, Peter Beaumont, Aug 22, 2001)
IT begins with a low-grade fever, pain in the joints and itchy skin. Later the patient displays the symptoms that give the disease its name - lethargy, drooping eyes, vague movement and disconnected speech.
- Not A Freudian Slip (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Aug 22, 2001)
It is unfortunate that the prime minister’s recent observations on matters concerning the religious minorities should have raised a needless controversy.
- The Pm's Saffron Yearnings (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 22, 2001)
TRUE TO HIS habit of flaunting his ``swayamsevak'' credentials and harking back to the Hindutva ideology whenever the exigencies - whether political or personal - warranted it.
- U.S. & The Sino-Russian Paradigm (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Aug 22, 2001)
THE U.S. President, Mr. George W. Bush, has erased a vision- deficit in his world view.
- Unholy Alliances (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 22, 2001)
THE Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has been talking of coalition dharma for quite some time, and had recently even offered to resign because of his inability to bring cohesion and order to the functioning of the National Democratic Alliance.
- End Of The Bifr Era (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 22, 2001)
THE UNION CABINET's decision to repeal the Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act of 1985 ends the unsuccessful 15-year experiment with the Board for Industrial Finance and Reconstruction (BIFR).
- Mahathir Proposes ‘World Tax’ To Help Poor (The Financial Express, William Maclean, Aug 22, 2001)
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad proposed rich nations pay a “world tax” to help build infrastructure in poor countries and in return developing countries.
- Chinese Dragon Hits Japanese Shore With A Vengeance (The Financial Express, Prabhat Kumar, Aug 22, 2001)
China has created a powerhouse of world-class manufacturing. Growing on the strength of domestic demand, it is consistently clocking 8-10 per cent growth rate.
- ‘Second Generation Reforms Will Be More Challenging’ (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 22, 2001)
Responding to the Article IV review of the Indian economy by the International Monetary Fund, India’s Executive Director on the IMF Board.
- Two-In-One Minister (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 22, 2001)
Will the real Murli Manohar Joshi please stand up?
- Saffronising Education (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 22, 2001)
HUMAN Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi's reply to the debate in the Lok Sabha on the alleged attempt to "saffronise education" did sound convincing.
- Fatal Attraction (Hindustan Times, Brahma Chellaney , Aug 22, 2001)
According to international-relations theory, history is shaped by impersonal forces, including the perceived interests of a nation.
- Pak Lecturer Sentenced To Death (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 22, 2001)
A medical lecturer in Pakistan has been sentenced to death under the country’s blasphemy laws after his students complained to a hardline Islamic organisation about one of his classes.
- Odissi Dancer In Pakistan (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 22, 2001)
SHEEMA Kirmani remembers when she gave out 50 invites for her debut solo classical dance performance in 1984 and was overwhelmed when more than 300 enthusiasts attended.
- A New Wto Policy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 22, 2001)
INDIA has softened its stand on a new round of talks on global trade. Until now it was stoutly opposed to fresh negotiations until the commitments made in the earlier Uruguay round were implemented.
- Woolly Thinking At The World Racial Jamboree (Telegraph, ANSU DATTA, Aug 22, 2001)
Even in the best of circumstances, the word, “race”, generates all kinds of feelings, some of them couched in convenient clichés.
- Joyful Learning Without Textbooks (Tribune, V. Radhika, Aug 22, 2001)
THEIR teacher has taken a day off, but that does not affect the academic schedule of these first standard students.
- Kleptocrats' Creativity (Pioneer, Sudhansu Mohanty , Aug 22, 2001)
One of the cardinal rules of kleptocracy that the practitioners beware and follow to the hilt is determining the time to quit.
- Time Is Of The Essence In Power Reforms (The Economic Times, P. Abraham, Aug 22, 2001)
ACCORDING to the latest annual report of the Planning Commission on `The Working of State Electricity Boards (SEBs)’, there has been a substantial deterioration in the performance parameters of SEBs since 1996.
- Rice And Shine (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 22, 2001)
IN the basmati wars there is no final triumph, only endless battles. That is a lesson India still has to learn.
- Shared Space For War And Peace (Telegraph, N K Pant, Aug 22, 2001)
There is some good news for the Indian military establishment. Media reports suggest that the Indian Space Research Organization is shortly going to launch its next polar satellite launch vehicle rocket with the Cartosat surveillance satellite.
- Another Kind Of Love (Indian Express, Mushirul Hasan, Aug 22, 2001)
WITH debates on colonialism and nationalism receding into the background and being replaced by an odd, unwieldy and often unintelligible combination of esoteric themes, it is no wonder that several important texts are consigned to the dustbin of history.
- High Time Milkha Got Angry (Indian Express, Norris Pritam, Aug 22, 2001)
SOME 40 years ago, Milkha Singh shot into fame worldwide by finishing fourth in an Olympic record.
- No Big Deal (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 22, 2001)
The decision to allow agents a legitimate role in defence purchases is, to a large extent, a progressive step towards eliminating corruption in defence deals.
- Musharraf: Buccaneer In Baluchistan (Pioneer, Wilson John, Aug 22, 2001)
The next time Pakistan's soldier President Pervez Musharraf opens his mouth on Kashmir, some one in India should remind him of a province called Baluchistan.
- Tagore Through Music And Dance (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Aug 22, 2001)
At 7 pm on Sunday, August 19, three women set out to do the near-impossible at the auditorium of the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
- Sonia Gandhi’s Ram Factor (Indian Express, S. C. N. Jatar, Aug 22, 2001)
In the next election, Rajiv might just emerge as the Congress mascot.
- Taking Judiciary Out Of The Dock (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Aug 22, 2001)
The need to review and improve the functioning of the judiciary has for long been acknowledged.
- The Early Death Of A Dream (Hindustan Times, Avijit Pathak, Aug 22, 2001)
Education, particularly school education in India, fails to liberate and enlighten. Instead, as we often experience, it makes life miserable for the young learner.
- Power From Government To The People (The Economic Times, Arun Maira, Aug 22, 2001)
ONLY one-quarter of the American public today trust the federal government to do the right thing most of the time, whereas in 1964 as many as three-quarters of the American public did so.
- Supreme Judgement (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 22, 2001)
THIS refers to your editorial ``The corrupt can’t stay’’ (ET, August 6). The Supreme Court judgement will go a long way towards ``tackling the long pending issue of corruption among public servants’’.
- Now, It Is The Hurriyat's Call (Hindu, Harish Khare , Aug 22, 2001)
IT IS one of those delicious absurdities of modern India that very many people are relieved that starting with his Independence Day speech the Prime Minister has put in a few competent speaking appearances.
- Flexible Ethical Standards (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Aug 22, 2001)
Like a bucketful of water thrown on hot desert sands, the excitement over Mr. George Fernandes's disclosure - that the former chairman of the UTI, now under arrest on various charges, was recommended for this post by Ms. Jayalalithaa has evaporated fast.
- Onus Is On India (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Aug 22, 2001)
If an American company RiceTec develops three different strains of basmati rice, can India really quarrel with it?
- An Economist For A Finance Minister? (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Aug 22, 2001)
THESE days, many economists prefer to express their views on current economic affairs and policies in articles in financial newspapers. Newspapers currently do not report fully the speeches and viewpoints of economists.
- Post Wto-Entry... -- Is The Chinese Challenge Real? (Business Line, S. Majumder , Aug 22, 2001)
THE prospect of foreign investment in India is under threat in the wake of China's entry into the WTO next year.
- Promote Oilseeds Cultivation (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 22, 2001)
THE CENTRE DESERVES to be commended for its efforts, albeit somewhat belated, to eliminate suspected under-invoicing and loss of revenue in the import of edible oils.
- Peaceful Purposes (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 22, 2001)
The INSAT communication series is built indigenously by ISRO, but is launched by Ariane IV launchers of the European Space Agency.
- Chota Shakeel: Smoke Without Fire? (Business Line, B. Raman , Aug 22, 2001)
AT 8.10 pm on August 17, one or more persons moving fast in a car in an unidentified area of Karachi threw a hand-grenade at some persons.
- Ballistic Development (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 22, 2001)
For India, the capacity to launch satellites into the earth’s orbit is closely linked to ballistic development.
- Patently Negligent (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 22, 2001)
THE US Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) decision to uphold the Texas-based RiceTec Inc’s patent on a `superior strain’ of basmati rice is bound to be accompanied by much hand-wringing in India.
- Prevention Is Better... (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 22, 2001)
THE SUPREME Court has held that the government is under an obligation to provide food to the destitute, even if this means giving it to them free.
- A Time To Borrow (The Economic Times, Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar, Aug 22, 2001)
GOOD economic management is often about contrarianism. Today, economic conditions are slack, and many businessmen are gloomy and utterly lacking in confidence in their ability to compete.
- ‘The States Take No Interest In Pds’ (The Economic Times, Raja Awasthi, Aug 22, 2001)
THE CENTRE spends nearly Rs 13,000 crore, annually on the public distribution system. Yet, starvation deaths are not unknown.
- Poor Fiscal Health (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 22, 2001)
Total overdrafts by state governments have a normal method by which states are supposed to adjust for any temporary mismatch between receipts and payments.
- Going Native (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 22, 2001)
There is a sad irony about some of the ethnic movements in India’s Northeast.
- In Search Of A Success Story (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Aug 22, 2001)
Reading sections of the Indian media, an impression is apt to be formed that the central issue in American foreign policy which is engaging the wholesale attention of the George W. Bush administration these days.
- The Chip Effect On Business Intelligence Solutions (Business Line, M. J. Xavier, Aug 22, 2001)
MOORE'S law has come true, and it is showing up in every aspect of our lives. Every twenty years, since 1900, the amount of computational power that can be bought with one dollar has increased by a factor of thousand.
- Musharraf’s Government And The Great Divide (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 22, 2001)
I have vainly looked through the Pakistan press and the writings of its columnists for a word of condemnation against these killings of Hindus in Doda or Jammu and earlier at the Amarnath pilgrimage.
- Decade Of Reforms -- Privatisation: A Dismal Report Card (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Aug 22, 2001)
THE gap between plans drawn up and the actual achievement has been the widest in the privatisation of the country's monolithic public sector.
- A Chinese Shadow On Far-Eastern Russia (Tribune, Pran Chopra , Aug 22, 2001)
FOR some years now, many Russians have been worried about what a Russian newspaper described, in early July this year, as “A China Town the Size of Siberia”. Just a week later, President Putin and President Jiang Zemin met in Moscow.
- Respect For The Earth (The Economic Times, Chris Patten, Aug 22, 2001)
THE FIRST, widely accepted hallmark of good, efficient government is that it should be accountable, that those it serves should be able to question what it is doing and change what it is doing.
- Corrupt Or Frightened (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 21, 2001)
Situations like this make these people even more nervous.
- Siege Of Summits (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 21, 2001)
THE DECISION OF the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to substantially reduce the duration of their 2001 annual meetings in Washington is yet another sign that global economic summits and conferences are now under siege from the streets.
- Positively Charged (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 21, 2001)
THE ELECTRICITY BILL, 2001, meant to be a comprehensive piece of legislation that would facilitate fresh investment in generation, transmission and distribution, is all set to be introduced in Parliament.
- Style Without Substance (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Aug 21, 2001)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s Independence Day speech was notable for more than one reason.
- When Workers Become A Rampaging Mob (Telegraph, Janaki Nair, Aug 21, 2001)
Nothing can surpass the mystery of a protest which has no leader, particularly when the protesters are largely women.
- No Small Matter (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 21, 2001)
It seems to have suddenly occurred to the Centre that children have rights. And the state has some sort of responsibility to protect and implement these rights.
- Democracy In Deep Freeze (Indian Express, Yogendra Yadav, Aug 21, 2001)
The 91st Constitution Amendment Bill, which proposes the freezing the number of seats in Lok Sabha and the state assemblies, goes against the one-man one-vote principle of democracy.
- A Very Sick Idea (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 21, 2001)
To get healthy firms to bail out sick ones is foolish.
- Nepal’s Assurance (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 21, 2001)
TO say that the relations between India and Nepal are not what they should be is to state the obvious.
- Growing Dominance Of English In India (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Aug 21, 2001)
WITH his penchant for self-deprecatory humour, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee set aside his prepared English speech at a women’s gathering in New Delhi recently to suggest that he had been accused of murdering the English language.
- Perks And Pinpricks (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Aug 21, 2001)
NOTHING so unites our chattering classes as indignation over Members of Parliament voting themselves fat salary increases for doing little more than walking out on their work.
- Quietly Optimistic In Gujarat (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 21, 2001)
IT has rained in north and central Gujarat and the countryside is lush green after two years.
- Empowered Combat (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 21, 2001)
Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani has finally dealt a body blow to the enemies within.
- Needed: Globalisation Of The Mind (Pioneer, Sidharth Bhatia, Aug 21, 2001)
For a country with such an overwhelming global presence-militarily, politically, economically and even culturally-the United States of America has always been chary of internationalism.
- Spurt Of Terror In The Valley (Pioneer, N K Pant, Aug 21, 2001)
The post Vajpayee-Musharraf summit days have witnessed a spurt in violence in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).
- Groom's Grimace (Pioneer, Adhip Iyer, Aug 21, 2001)
For a Delhiite like me, the prospect of going to Chennai held allure of the beach, great coffee, south Indian food, jaunts in the local electric train and a much more relaxed atmosphere than in the capital.
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