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Articles 19121 through 19220 of 27558:
- Reigning Supreme (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 31, 2001)
The prime minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has an extraordinary guardian angel looking over him.
- Reflections On An Assassination (Telegraph, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Jul 31, 2001)
I must be among the select few to not think Seema Biswas when talking Phoolan Devi. For I never did get around to seeing the film.
- Passing The Buck (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 31, 2001)
This was despite the government’s claim that it has doubled the allocation of food to “all poor families” under the PDS and has launched a new Antyodaya Anna Yojana for the poorest 10 million families.
- Hunger Among Full Granaries (Telegraph, Devinder Sharma , Jul 31, 2001)
The Supreme Court has finally donned the robes of annadata — food-giver.
- The Perils Of Secrecy (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Jul 31, 2001)
THERE used to be a healthy relationship between editors and the government. Prime ministers would take them into confidence on matters of importance.
- Taking Students For A Ride (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 31, 2001)
THE report that Punjabi University, Patiala, and Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, have introduced a number of unrecognised technical and professional courses.
- Fateful Decision (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 31, 2001)
Even today, nearly 85 per cent of India is still rural with no access to financial resources other than crops grown by them. In a bad season, families have no grain, and therefore no income.
- Endron? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 31, 2001)
Make no mistake, Dabhol has become a white elephant.
- Mega Chhaye (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jul 31, 2001)
IT was raining heavily the day a baby girl was born to Fatimawati and Sukarno in the late 1940s, and on hand to share the joy and celebration was Biju Patnaik — sent by Nehru to unnerve the Dutch colonialists who ruled over Indonesia till 1948.
- Lovers’ Marriages Last Longer (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 31, 2001)
DIAMOND anniversary or divorce court? Researchers suggest that the long-term health of a marriage is rooted in a couple’s level of love and commitment as they say their “I do’s”.
- Nmd: A Case Of Misplaced Logic (Indian Express, Manpreet Sethi, Jul 31, 2001)
FOR anybody who has been following the debate on the deployment of a national missile defence (NMD) in the US, and its spillover effects in Russia.
- Police Politics (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 31, 2001)
TAMIL Nadu and the Centre are inching towards an unscripted but explosive confrontation. New Delhi wants to punish three senior police officers of the state for their role in the midnight arrest of former Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi.
- Disinvestment Debates (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 31, 2001)
A FEW RECENT proposals concerning the disinvestment process are administrative in nature and by themselves will not lead to coherence either conceptually or procedurally.
- Here’s No Place Like Home (Indian Express, Janyala Sreenivas, Jul 31, 2001)
IT HAS taken six months for the Gujarat government to get its figures right on the earthquake.
- Fresh Study Of The Wto Agenda (Tribune, Sucha Singh Gill, Jul 31, 2001)
INDIA has been a member of the WTO for the last six and half years. As a successor to GATT, the WTO has a much larger agenda.
- Kyoto: Implications For India (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 31, 2001)
FINALLY, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on controlling the emission of greenhouse gases has been saved with an agreement reached among the developed countries minus the USA.
- Undp's Human Development Report 2001 -- Biotechnology Will Bypass The Hungry (Business Line, Devinder Sharma , Jul 31, 2001)
THE former Prime Minister, Morarji Desai, strictly followed an unwritten principle. He would not inaugurate any conference -- national or international -- which did not focus on rural development.
- The Tradition Of Torture In Custody (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 31, 2001)
Serious human rights abuses include extrajudicial executions and other political killings and excessive use of force by security forces combating active insurgencies in Jammu and Kashmir and several northeastern states.
- Gadar’: Why Spread Hatred? (Tribune, Apurva Bose, Jul 31, 2001)
I saw “Gadar” last week and my instant reaction was that it was a nice movie. But later after pondering over it for some time, I asked myself: what was nice about it any way?
- Proper Abt Implementation Can Help Power Utilities (The Financial Express, Sunil Mukhopadhyay, Jul 31, 2001)
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) is getting ready to give its verdict on re-introduction of availability-based tariff (ABT).
- Effects Of The Narmada Verdict (Hindu, Jai Sen, Jul 31, 2001)
``THE GOVERNMENT wants us to flee like the rats as the submergence water rises, as they have done all these years in the other dams.
- Decade Of Corporate Churning And Change (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Jul 31, 2001)
THE internal and external liberalisation measures introduced over the last decade and the dramatic changes that have taken place in the international business environment have had a far-reaching impact on Indian business.
- Central Pettiness (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 31, 2001)
In taking umbrage at the habit of the BJP’s allies to treat the ruling coalition in a somewhat casual manner, the party’s president, K. Jana Krishnamurthi, has chosen to ignore the basic reason for such behaviour.
- All The Saffron Linen (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 31, 2001)
In the end, perhaps, it all boils down to reading the horoscope.
- Colonial Cousins (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 31, 2001)
In a poll carried out by a leading British daily, it was found that most Britons don’t care much about figures like Lord Nelson, Queen Victoria and Winston Churchill — the bright stars of British imperial history.
- Why Are We Tongue-Tied? (Hindustan Times, Kanwar Sandhu, Jul 31, 2001)
Nearly three years ago, when General Pervez Musharraf was appointed the chief of army staff in Pakistan.
- By The Bullet Alone (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 31, 2001)
Crime and politics: the heady cocktail fizzes over.
- The Limits Of The State (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Jul 31, 2001)
WHEN STATES turn from aggression to diplomacy, typically a combination of factors account for this shift.
- Divestment Panel Gets New Life (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 31, 2001)
THE APPOINTMENT LAST week of a new chairman of the Disinvestment Commission after a lapse of over 20 months is but a feeble attempt to stop the drift in the policy of divestment that the Centre has been pursuing in the last seven-eight years.
- Committees And Commissions -- Take Them Seriously (Business Line, R. J. Venkateswaran , Jul 31, 2001)
THE Expert Group on Railways, under the chairmanship of Dr Rakesh Mohan, in its interim report submitted in March, said: ``Indian Railways is one of the most studied institutions on the planet.
- Coupled Careers (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Jul 31, 2001)
IN the recent surge of voluntary retirements, particularly in banks, it was the women who quit jobs in droves so that their husbands may continue with their careers even when some of them were smarter than their spouses.
- Measuring The Levels Of Development (The Financial Express, Bhanoji Roa, Jul 31, 2001)
From simply calling countries as developed and under-developed or developing, improvements have been devised from time to time by professional economists.
- Wto Ruling Against Us On Steel Can Work In India’s Favour (The Financial Express, P.K. Vasudeva, Jul 31, 2001)
Rejection of US appeal by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel and its upholding a ruling that the United States had acted illegally in increasing duties on Japanese steel.
- Banking On Blind Dates (The Economic Times, S. K. Saksena, Jul 31, 2001)
THIS bears reference to Norma Louis’ letter (ET, July 27) regarding the importance of a firm date for returned/bounced cheques.
- On Chandrashekhar... And Jagmohan (The Economic Times, Sauvik Sauvik Chakraverti verti , Jul 31, 2001)
In the USSR, top bosses had dachas; here, as Chandrashekhar, arch-socialist and former PM has shown, they have 500 acre ashrams.
- What’ll Succeed On Internet? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 31, 2001)
OVER the past year, there have been a number of forums that have tried to address the very risky question: What will really succeed on the internet?
- Hard Times (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 31, 2001)
ADVERSITY has always been known to be a great teacher. Indian corporates are no exception to this rule, it would appear. The economic slowdown may have kept sales flat or nearabouts but has done no such thing to their bottom lines.
- Cynical Manoeuvres (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 31, 2001)
IN REQUISITIONING THE services of three senior IPS officers of the Tamil Nadu cadre, including the Chennai Commissioner of Police, Mr. K. Muthukaruppan, the Atal Behari Vajpayee regime has demonstrated that it would not feel `constrained' by such factors.
- Competition Law On The Anvil (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Jul 31, 2001)
PARLIAMENT is all set to consider the Draft Competition Regulation Bill shortly.
- Farm Credit: Banks Must Be More Proactive (Business Line, B. Yerram Raju, Jul 31, 2001)
THE Reserve Bank of India is on the threshold of preparing a policy perspective for the next 15 years, and another committee may be constituted to develop it.
- Unwise And Belligerent (Hindu, V. R. Lakshminarayanan, Jul 31, 2001)
The reported transfer of three IPS officers to the Centre in a lightning stroke has rocked both police circles and citizens alike.
- Of Mice And Women (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 30, 2001)
First, the good news: you don’t have to find a member of the opposite sex to produce an offspring any longer.
- Worst-Ever Flood Wreaks Havoc, May Cost Orissa Rs 1,000 Crore (The Financial Express, Dilip Bisoi, Jul 30, 2001)
The four spells of floods that hit Orissa in July this year have left a trail of devastation, killing hundreds of people, thousands of cattle, and washing away entire villages.
- A Chat Show (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 30, 2001)
The group of eight (Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, United States) summit may have failed on Kyoto, but it did produce an action plan for Africa.
- Win Peace Back, Bit By Bit (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 30, 2001)
Centre’s negotiating tactics in Northeast need reviewing.
- Tough Guy Wins (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 30, 2001)
Consider what happened in the Philippines last year.
- Speculation In Securities (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 30, 2001)
Mr K.R.P. Shroff, President of the Native Share and Stock Brokers’ Association, Bombay, has submitted a lengthy representation to Sir Basil Baichett, Finance Member.
- Clause And Effect (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 30, 2001)
The Centre's decision to amend its Bangkok agreement with the NSCN (I-M) on the extension of the four-year old Naga ceasefire with territorial limits, will serve to further the cause of peace and harmony in the Northeast.
- Who Is Afraid Of Globalisation? (Indian Express, Ash Narain Roy, Jul 30, 2001)
IT wasn’t long ago that the most astringent critiques of globalisation came from the Left.
- Difficult Times (Business Line, J. Nanda Gopal , Jul 30, 2001)
THE economic reforms that have necessitated the dismantling of rigid institutional structures in a time-bound manner to facilitate the induction of new norms of work culture, product quality and volumes in a globally competitive atmosphere.
- Learning Tootoo Late (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 30, 2001)
After the Centre’s decision to revoke the June 14 notification that extended the ceasefire in Nagaland “without territorial limits”, it might seem cynical to argue that governments never learn.
- Revenue Portents (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 30, 2001)
BE WARNED. A dismal performance on the revenue collection front last fiscal and its repeat in the current April-June quarter.
- Needed: A New Confidence Building Measure (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 30, 2001)
ANYONE reading the papers, especially the pink papers, during the past few days could perhaps be excused for imagining we are in the midst of a full blown financial sector crisis.
- No Stomach For Reform (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 30, 2001)
THE GOVERNMENT wants private refiners to sell kerosene only through the public distribution system, not through the parallel market where prices are higher.
- Reforms: Why Things Aren't Hunky-Dory (Business Line, Gautam Murthy, Jul 30, 2001)
GLOBALISATION and marketisation of economics, politics and culture are primarily spearheaded by global capitalism. Many individuals are opposed to the crass commercialism and consumerism that globalisation brings with it.
- Centre Retreats (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 30, 2001)
In keeping with the habit of rolling back earlier decisions, which used to apply mainly to economic measures, the Centre has now followed the same ‘one step forward, two steps back’ routine in the North-east.
- Autonomy Will Redeem Ladakh (Pioneer, Ajoy Bagchi, Jul 30, 2001)
In his article, 'Ladakh revisited' (July 10), Bharat Jhunjhunwala laments that the motivation for the Ladakhi Buddhists' campaign to carve Ladakh out as a Union Territory is the Central dole for economic development.
- Vision 2020 -- Grain, Grain Everywhere, But... (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Jul 30, 2001)
A MOUNTAIN of food is currently piled up in the Government's godowns. At the same time, there is an alarming level of destitution in many parts of the country.
- Us Institutions In State Of Disarray (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 30, 2001)
IT has been a sizzling summer for the US. An apparently unending flow of dispiriting news has pricked its pride in being mankind's mentor.
- Standards Vs Internalisation (The Economic Times, Raghbendra Jha, Jul 30, 2001)
THE HARD fought Kyoto Protocol on curbing greenhouse gas emissions is, for all practical purposes, in a state of irreversible decay.
- Alas, The Government Thinks It Is Not Accountable! (The Financial Express, R K Roy, Jul 30, 2001)
The government is at its wit’s end: people starve even as godowns overflow with foodgrains and rot.
- We Need Protection Against Piracy’ (The Economic Times, Neena Prui, Jul 30, 2001)
THE INDIAN music resale business has undergone tremendous change in the last couple of years and has become a Rs 1,500 crore industry.
- Give Peace A Chance In North-East (Hindu, Rajindar Sachar , Jul 30, 2001)
THE SITUATION in the North-East, especially in Manipur, is a cause of national concern.
- Little To Cheer For Nda (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Jul 30, 2001)
A SERIES of curious twists has given the ruling combine at the Centre, the National Democratic Alliance, the benefit of numbers it needed badly.
- India And The Asean Ambit (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 30, 2001)
THE DIPLOMATIC DIVIDEND of the Agra summit has been put to some good use by India during its latest interactions in Hanoi with the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN).
- An Avoidable Step (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 30, 2001)
THE DECISION BY the Union Government, at long last, to restrict the ceasefire agreement with the NSCN(I-M) to the State of Nagaland alone.
- Lanka Blast Sounds A Warning Bell For Airport Security In India (The Financial Express, HUMA SIDDQUI, Jul 30, 2001)
LAX security has once again cost the Sri Lankan armed forces and government very dearly.
- Belated Fiscal Prudence In The Time Of Sustained Economic Slowdown (The Financial Express, P Vinod Kumar, Jul 30, 2001)
First the good news. Though the economy has lost the ‘feel good factor’ with the growth rate slipping to the below 6 per cent mark for the second time in the past six years.
- Lifting Of Remaining Sanctions Will Benefit Us More Than India (The Financial Express, G. Balachandran, Jul 30, 2001)
Recent reports from Washington coupled with the statement of visiting US Assistant Secretary of State, Christina B Rocca, that the US Administration is working with the Congress.
- All Or Nothing (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 30, 2001)
GLOBAL majors like Siemens, Alstom and ABB have reportedly evinced interest in setting up power transmission projects in India.
- On The Brink (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 30, 2001)
Though few now buy the line, Pakistani diplomacy has tried a great deal in recent years to hide the fact that Islamabad sends down trained terrorist mercenaries into Jammu and Kashmir to wreak violence.
- Peace In Our Time? (Pioneer, Shubha Singh, Jul 30, 2001)
Despite efforts made by the Central Government through its peace initiative, the situation in Jammu & Kashmir has shown few signs of settling down.
- A Trek Through Doda In Times Of Strife (Indian Express, Rakesh Shukla, Jul 30, 2001)
The region is precariously sandwiched between the military and the militants.
- Blind In Diplomacy And Complicit In Scams (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Jul 30, 2001)
The media is full of the 'blame factor' and everyone is trying to blame every one else for its by now infamous role in the recently concluded Agra summit.
- An Interesting Lie (Hindustan Times, Amit Sengupta, Jul 30, 2001)
It’s once again catharsis time for the media, for the male (and female) managers of middle class morality, and for the political class which is, of course, beyond good and evil.
- The Terms For Trade (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, Jul 30, 2001)
Which way will India sway at the Doha WTO meet?
- The Poverty Of Affluence (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Jul 30, 2001)
Not money but manners win a vote!
- Easy Come, Easy Go (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 30, 2001)
Isn’t promiscuity a sin in politics?
- Agra’s Real Breakthrough, The Triumph Of Tv (Indian Express, Khaled Ahmed, Jul 30, 2001)
THE Musharraf-Vajpayee summit may not have yielded sensational results but, during the visit, what the private TV channels of India achieved cannot be ignored.
- In The Fullness Of Prayer (Pioneer, Harish C Gaur, Jul 30, 2001)
Upanisads invariably start with invocation, which could be eulogising some aspect of one reality (the Brahman), a prayer for a purposeful long life or for virtuous conduct and end with (the chanting of) shanti (peace) mantra.
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