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Articles 19321 through 19420 of 27558:
- The Body Snatchers (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 28, 2001)
Why they will not allow Phoolan Devi to rest in peace.
- Big Surprises In Big China (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 28, 2001)
IT was a revelation visiting China as a member of a Parliamentary delegation a few weeks ago.
- Gen Shelton’s Pathbreaking Journey (Tribune, Ashok K Mehta, Jul 28, 2001)
PREOCCUPIED with Pervez Musharraf, the Indian media has ignored serious developments in Nepal and Sri Lanka.
- Attention Mr Advani (Hindustan Times, Khushwant Singh, Jul 28, 2001)
It is scarcely believed that the home minister is unaware of the proliferation of private armies being raised and trained in the use of firearms right across the country.
- Out Of Justice’s Way (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 28, 2001)
The provision granting immunity to government officials from prosecution for actions taken while discharging their duties was originally intended to ensure that, first, they will not be subjected to frivolous litigation.
- Deuba's Task (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 28, 2001)
The internal churning of the Nepali Congress in recent months has finally come out in the open with the removal of Mr GP Koirala as Prime Minister.
- The Day Uti Went To Sleep (Indian Express, Sunil Jain, Jul 28, 2001)
On Monday, the 28th of May, after a relaxed week-end, you’d have thought Ajeet Prasad would have been wide awake, but the UTI nominee on the board of the Rs 140-crore Kalyani Steels continued to sleep.
- Share The Pain (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 28, 2001)
EVEN a pauper knows a distress sale when he sees one. That is the lesson from the meeting of the Godbole Committee with various states on selling surplus power from Dabhol II.
- Forward Markets Commission -- Taking The Produce Economy Forward (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Jul 27, 2001)
When forward trading in certain items is banned, it is sought to be justified on grounds of its intrinsic undesirability.
- And Now, Scams Siphon Out The Savings Surplus! (The Financial Express, R.K. Roy, Jul 27, 2001)
The retail (household) saver has been hurt by l’affaire KP (Ketan Parekh), the Unit Scheme-64 capers and the disappointing performance of private mutual funds.
- Tina Factor (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Jul 27, 2001)
Prime Minister Vajpayee seems to be a lucky man as his Government has nothing much to fear from the Opposition, at least for the time being.
- Blood-Splattered Life, & Death! (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 27, 2001)
THE daylight murder of Phoolan Devi on Wednesday is as shocking as the Behmai massacre of 20 persons that she perpetrated in 1981.
- Listen To The Discontent (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 27, 2001)
IF THE renewed focus on Kashmir in the wake of the Agra summit persuades the Centre to pay greater attention to the state’s internal problems, it will be a welcome development.
- America And The New World Order (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Jul 27, 2001)
INDIA is moving closer and closer to America. This is now much in evidence. Are we destined to be a satellite of America? Or, can we have a meaningful relation?
- How Not To Handle A Summit (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Jul 27, 2001)
NOTWITHSTANDING the statement by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in Parliament on Tuesday.
- Impasse At Agra (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Jul 27, 2001)
HE CAME, he saw, he left. He did not conquer. But, he claimed a victory. This was predictable; and, indeed, inevitable. Whether the Agra summit was a success or failure is irrelevant. It collapsed. We need to know why.
- Bumpy Road To Peace (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Jul 27, 2001)
That the prime minister’s statement in the Lok Sabha has failed to dispel the general public feeling of his government’s utter ineptitude in handling the Agra summit is not surprising.
- Building Blocks (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 27, 2001)
The appointment of Ms Megawati Sukarnoputri as IndonesiaF’s fifth president has generated new hope that economic and political stability will return to Indonesia, the world’s fifth largest country.
- Brajesh Is Back (Indian Express, Harish Gupta, Jul 27, 2001)
THE Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary Brajesh Mishra may be maintaining a low profile and may not be as much of a regular on TV any more. But he’s still calling the shots, never mind what his detractors in the Sangh Parivar say.
- Reconstructing The Agra Summit (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Jul 27, 2001)
NEW DELHI, JULY 26. In seeking a deal on Kashmir at Agra, Pakistan counted on the ``moderate elements'' within the Indian leadership in the hope that the latter would eventually relent on the question of ``cross-border'' terrorism.
- A Presidential Accession (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 27, 2001)
INDONESIA'S DEMOCRATIC CREDENTIALS are being reinterpreted yet again in the emotion-charged context of a unanimous impeachment of the President, Mr. Abdurrahman Wahid, by the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR).
- Caste System In Un Peacekeeping (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Jul 27, 2001)
LAKHDAR Brahimi’s presence at a seminar on UN peacekeeping triggered memories of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where the Indian police contingent played a key role in restoring peace.
- The Agra Summit Factsheet (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 27, 2001)
o The Indian draft was primarily an amalgam of the points of agreement hammered out at Shimla in 1972 and Lahore in February, 2001.
- There Is No Competition In Power Sector’# (The Economic Times, Soma Banerjee, Jul 27, 2001)
POWER sector reforms have become the new catchwords in Shram Shakti Bhavan. The first report on securitisation of bonds by the Montek Singh Ahluwalia committee is already a debating point.
- Is This A Freedom Struggle? (Hindustan Times, Prem Shankar Jha, Jul 27, 2001)
THE MURDER of 15 Hindu villagers, including five women and children in a remote village in Doda, forces one to ask if this is what General Pervez Musharraf meant when he said in his breakfast meeting with some Indian editors.
- The General Stands Still To Keep Moving (The Economic Times, Narendar Pani, Jul 27, 2001)
NOW that the dust has settled in Agra, it is possible to get a clearer picture of President Musharraf’s agenda for the summit.
- Rolling Downhill (The Economic Times, Norma Louis, Jul 27, 2001)
WHEN rolling settlements came into picture, punters disappeared from the market.
- Us-Eu To Work For Stronger Rules-Based System In Doha (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 27, 2001)
Excerpts from the statement of US Trade Representative Robert B Zoellick, July 17, 2001 :
- Supercomputing Can Help Bridge The Digital Divide (The Financial Express, Geeta Nair, Jul 27, 2001)
Buying computer power may just be like buying electric power. There will be no need to buy a computer with all the hardware/software/peripherals just as you do not need a generator to use electricity.
- Move To Revive Silent Valley Hydel Project Raises A Storm (The Financial Express, Hari S. Kartha, Jul 27, 2001)
The decision of the Kerala government to revive the Silent Valley hydro electric project has brought back into focus the controversy that led to the project being shelved two decades ago.
- Monarchy In Nepal (Hindu, Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, Jul 27, 2001)
ON JULY 7, Maoist rebels shot dead 47 policemen and a civilian in a string of attacks on security posts in Lamjung, 190 km west of the capital Kathmandu, and in Nuwakot, 90 km north of the capital.
- By The Sword (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 27, 2001)
The brutal murder of Samajwadi Party's Member of Parliament, Phoolan Devi, in New Delhi on Wednesday seems to have provided a grim vindication of the famous biblical saying about those living by the sword perishing by it.
- Need To Ponder Phoolan's Caveat (Pioneer, Arijit Sen, Jul 27, 2001)
The name Phoolan Devi means the goddess of flowers. Phoolan's life, however had little similarity with the gentle existence of a flower.
- Omens From Katunayake (Business Line, B. Raman , Jul 27, 2001)
THE omens from Katunayake bode ill for the ultimate success of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces' counter-insurgency operations against the LTTE and even for the continued unity and territorial integrity of Sri Lanka.
- Face-Lift (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 27, 2001)
FOR at least one booming development in the US public life, the credit squarely belongs to politicians:
- Forward Markets Commission -- Taking The Produce Economy Forward (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Jul 27, 2001)
When forward trading in certain items is banned, it is sought to be justified on grounds of its intrinsic undesirability.
- Core Sector Projects -- Rev Up The Debt Market (Business Line, Antara Nanda, Jul 27, 2001)
WHEN Mr T. V. Rao, treasury manager of a financial institution, charts out the FI's investment line up for the day, putting money in India's infrastructure projects is an option he ponders on.
- The Summit And The Bandar-Log (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Jul 27, 2001)
The jungle people, in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, did not think much of the Bandar-log or Monkey people. Baloo, the bear, told Mowgli, the man-cub whom he had taught the ways of the jungle.
- Labour Laws -- Amend With Caution (Business Line, K. Jacob Samuel, Jul 27, 2001)
MAJOR trade unions are agitated with what they call the Government's anti-labour policies.
- Needed, Summit With A Structured Agenda (Pioneer, Brij Bhardwaj, Jul 27, 2001)
Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf is either naive or he has very low opinion of the power of understanding of Indians.
- Down The Garden Path (Pioneer, Vandana Kumari Jena, Jul 27, 2001)
In the heart of Thamel, that exotic bazaar in Kathmandu, which is every tourist's dream-come-true, is the restaurant Rum Doodle.
- Cast As Bandit (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 27, 2001)
There is an unfortunate symmetry in the life and death of Phoolan Devi.
- For Our Tomorrow (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 27, 2001)
July 26 is a special day for India. On this day, the country celebrates, since 1999, the courage and raw determination of its brave.
- Combat The Devastation (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 27, 2001)
TUESDAY’S PHOTOGRAPH in a newspaper tells it all. A mother trying to stop her daughter from rushing towards a helicopter distributing food packets at Badchana, near Bhubaneswar.
- A Partial Strike (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 27, 2001)
GOVERNMENT employees both at the Centre and in the states have grown somewhat out of their traditional exuberant enthusiasm for militant direct action and strikes.
- The Digital Provide (The Economic Times, Robert Jensen, Jul 27, 2001)
SEVERAL high-tech leaders, including Bill Gates, question the value of information technology (IT) for developing countries, especially when compared to priorities like food, medicines and schools.
- Why The Emperor Needs No Clothes (Business Line, M. K. Anil, Jul 27, 2001)
EVERY society has its own myths about the emperor's new clothes.
- Sos: Allahabad On Life Support (The Economic Times, Shubhrangshu Roy, Jul 27, 2001)
THERE’S this mile-long stretch of a high-street that cuts through the centre of Allahabad, bang in the heart of the Hindi heartland. The Brits first built the street and named it after one of their Viceroys, Lord Canning.
- Make Haste Slowly (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 27, 2001)
Old fears mustn’t be stoked in Northeast peace initiatives.
- Getting The Hang Of Biosafety (Indian Express, Monica Kaul, Jul 27, 2001)
We are not prepared for the imminent flood of genetically modified foods and organisms.
- A Breakfast Story (Indian Express, SANKARSHAN THAKUR, Jul 27, 2001)
MASOOD MALIK, till recently chief reporter of the Nawa-i-Waqt of Islamabad, should remind us how fortunate we on this side of the subcontinental fence still are — we are not demoted by our managements for asking the wrong questions at press conferences.
- Sleep To Lose Weight (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 27, 2001)
RESEARCHERS say people who want to lose weight would be better off lying in bed than trying the latest crash diet. A study from the University of Chicago has found lots of sleep speeds up metabolism and leads to weight loss.
- Health Propaganda In Karnal (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 26, 2001)
A very lively function was held in the Karnal city on the 6th of July in connection with health propaganda.
- How They Use Net (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 26, 2001)
THE average Internet cybersex aficionado spends only about three hours per week cruising or online thrills — although men log twice the time that women do, according to a new survey.
- A Deadly Attack (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 26, 2001)
IF there is an international award for perfect guerrilla attack, the LTTE of Sri Lanka will walk away with it.
- Megawati's Burden (Pioneer, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 26, 2001)
For long, Indonesians had been preparing themselves for a change of leadership.
- Soft And Steady In Jakarta (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 26, 2001)
MEGAWATI SUKARNOPUTRI should have been president of Indonesia as a matter of right two years ago.
- Beijing Vows To Keep Yuan Stable After Wto Entry (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 26, 2001)
China will maintain the stability of its yuan currency after the country joins the World Trade Organisation, central bank governor Dai Xianglong was quoted on Wednesday as saying.
- Will Megawati Be Her Own Person? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jul 26, 2001)
TWO years ago, when Indonesia's presidentship was snatched away from her by Islamic zealots, for a number of reasons, not the least of which was her gender, she had burst into tears.
- One More Panel (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 26, 2001)
HAVING wound up the earlier disinvestment commission, headed by G V Ramakrishnan, two years back, the government has now decided to reconstitute the commission.
- Biased From The Start (Hindustan Times, Jayanthi Natarajan, Jul 26, 2001)
THERE IS a permanent malaise that affects this country, and most of the time we do not even think about it.
- Perjury Here And There (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Jul 26, 2001)
THE conviction in the UK of bestselling novelist and peer in the House of Lords Jeffrey Archer on the charge of perjury comes as a wake-up call to India.
- Virtual Diplomacy (Indian Express, Rajdeep Sardesai, Jul 26, 2001)
THE caste system is clear on board the prime minister’s aircraft. The people’s representative from 7 Race Course Road rests in his luxurious cabin with all the facilities of a modern emperor.
- What An Ashram! (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 26, 2001)
Bhondsi exemplifies all that is wrong in society.
- Out Of The Action (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Jul 26, 2001)
This may well have gone down as just another meeting on a day when no one is particularly bothered about news, save for one omission.
- General, How About A Lesson In European History? (Indian Express, Lalit Mohan, Jul 26, 2001)
If the Alsace-Lorraine problem could be solved, so can Kashmir.
- The King-Makers Behind The ‘Bandit Queen’ (Indian Express, Anupreeta Das, Jul 26, 2001)
There are 14,600 websites that give you information on Phoolan Devi. Amid the litter of precis biographies, news reports, poems and paeans dedicated to her, some pet ideas can easily be rescued.
- Shady Girl, Blazing Guns And The Political Fast Lane (Telegraph, Arundhati Roy, Jul 26, 2001)
At the premiere screening of Bandit Queen in Delhi, Shekhar Kapur introduced the film with these words: “I had a choice between Truth and Aesthetics. I chose Truth, because Truth is Pure.”
- Counter-Voice To Agra Extravaganza (Pioneer, Chanchal Sarkar, Jul 26, 2001)
The higher the peak the deeper the trough. The more the media blow up a balloon, the more abject is its whimpering collapse.
- Dacoits Massacre 22 Near Kanpur (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 26, 2001)
At least 22 persons were killed when dacoit gangs led by Phoolan Devi and Ram Autar clashed with villagers last night.
- The Crass Menagerie (Hindustan Times, Bhaskar Ghose, Jul 26, 2001)
ONE OF the recent decisions taken by the central government has been to amend the rules governing the age of retirement of government officers, in favour of one particular officer, the cabinet secretary.
- Defective Law To Check Rank Opportunism (Pioneer, Jagdeep Dhankar, Jul 26, 2001)
The Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, the anti-defection law, came to be inserted ostensibly with the laudable object to strengthen our parliamentary democracy by curbing unethical defection and unprincipled politics.
- Saffron Shadow Over Academia (Pioneer, N. Jamal Ansari, Jul 26, 2001)
The removal of Professor ML Sondhi from the Chairmanship of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research' (ICSSR) shows we are inching towards a dictatorial set-up, leaving aside the high ideals of democracy and modernism.
- Fear At Dawn (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 26, 2001)
The precision and effectiveness of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s attack on the Katunayake military airbase and Banadaranaike International Airport close to Colombo indicate the devoted observance of a gruesome anniversary.
- No Middle Ground (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 26, 2001)
The whole truth that the law wants to elicit from those who appear in court is, in real life, elusive.
- India Has A Lot Of Homework To Do In Transgenic Crops (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Jul 26, 2001)
India should take urgent steps to promote agricultural bio-technology, as it has a comparative advantage in terms of rich bio-resources and skilled scientific manpower.
- Driving Home A Point (Pioneer, Anil Narendra, Jul 26, 2001)
Agra was perhaps the only India-Pakistan summit where India did not lose what it had won on the battle field.
- Good, But Not Enough (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 26, 2001)
APROPOS of the article by Arvind Panagariya (ET, July 18) it cannot be gainsaid that the opening up of the insurance sector to private investors.
- The Right To Food (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 26, 2001)
THIS can happen only in India. Surplus food stocks on the one hand, and prospects of starvation deaths on the other. And yet little action.
- Taxing Services: Generality Versus Selectivity (The Economic Times, M. Govinda Rao, Jul 26, 2001)
EXTENDING taxes to services is an important option if not an imperative to arrest the declining contribution from domestic trade taxes in the country.
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