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Articles 21321 through 21420 of 27558:
- The Hot Pot (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 21, 2001)
COFFEE IS NO more the hot favourite of growers, particularly in India. Growers have perhaps not had such a long run of steeply falling prices as now.
- Who Will Pay? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 21, 2001)
THE GOVERNMENT has reportedly decided that it will extend various subsidies to exporters of agricultural commodities who are handicapped by high minimum support prices to help them fight subsidised exports from other parts of the world.
- Off The Cuff: Gentle Whipping Is Okay (The Financial Express, Chandra Shekar, Jun 21, 2001)
In the erstwhile princely state of Junagadh it was considered fortunate to be born as dogs rather than as humans.
- Ending Corruption (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 21, 2001)
TRANSPARENCY International’s latest report is out. And as in the past, India is close to the bottom of the list as one of the most corrupt countries of the world.
- Gulls And Frauds (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 21, 2001)
Something must be terribly wrong with a society in which the passion for learning produces herds of gulls and frauds.
- A Washington Itinerary (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Jun 21, 2001)
When Brajesh Mishra, national security adviser and principal secretary to the prime minister, walked into the Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters near Washington a few days ago for his scheduled.
- Dumb Charade (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 21, 2001)
There is nothing better for the national morale than a show of solidarity vis-a-vis Pakistan.
- Restore Sanity To The System (Telegraph, Abhijit Banerjee, Jun 21, 2001)
Finally, we come to credit, perhaps the most significant constraint faced by small and new businesses.
- Ulterior Motives (The Kashmir Times, SURENDRA MOHAN, Jun 21, 2001)
THE extremely irresponsible vendetta by the Tamilnadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha has provided the Union Government an opportunity, which it was looking for since after her installation as Chief Minister by the Governor.
- Nepal At The Crossroads (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Jun 21, 2001)
The shocking tragedy that engulfed Nepal's Royal Family when the traditional Friday night get together turned into an appaling carnage is going to leave deep scars on the psyche of Nepal's people and on its body politic-scars that will take years to heal.
- The Name Game (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 21, 2001)
Reports on Jayalalitha will now have to include an additional `letter'.
- Advantage Ethanol (Pioneer, Ram Niak, Jun 21, 2001)
India imported 70 per cent of its annual crude requirement of 107 million tonnes during 2000-01. Crude prices have been ruling at a price band level of US $25-30 per barrel and even touched US $37 per barrel in 2000.
- The Making Of A Police State (Pioneer, Wilson John, Jun 21, 2001)
General Pervez Musharraf is working at two levels to consolidate his illegitimate rule over Pakistan.
- Contempt Power - I (Hindu, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Jun 21, 2001)
A VAGARIOUS branch of judicial jurisprudence, popularly known as contempt power, of ancient British vintage and regal mintage, has incarnated as part of the corpus juris of free India, with some constitutional sanction.
- Success Stories Spell Out Scope For It Use In Agriculture (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Jun 21, 2001)
Though the application of e-commerce in the agriculture sector is currently limited to certain areas in the country, the results so far have been remarkable.
- Pakistan As A Bridge State? (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jun 21, 2001)
HAVING APPOINTED himself the President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf arrives here next month as the all powerful leader of Pakistan.
- Indian Cocktail: Enron Alone? Check Out Canadian Firms (The Financial Express, Subhash Agrawal, Jun 21, 2001)
It is a pity that Enron’s reputation has numbed our senses about continuing political risk faced by foreign investors in India, and the country’s terrible image abroad among serious players.
- To China With Love (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jun 21, 2001)
Conveying silk to China is like carrying coal to Newcastle.
- Punish The Guilty (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 21, 2001)
It is hardly surprising that the murder of five members of a Dalit family in Hasnapur village in Uttar Pradesh's Fatehpur district on Sunday, has sent waves of shock and revulsion throughout India.
- Sadr-E-Pakistan (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 21, 2001)
The announcement on Wednesday about general Musharraf assuming the office of president will hardly come as a surprise to long-term observers of Pakistan's political scene.
- Moolah Down The Drain (The Economic Times, Sauvik Sauvik Chakraverti verti , Jun 21, 2001)
THE OTHER evening it poured in Delhi. That is only to be expected: it has been announced by the met authorities that the monsoon has arrived in full swing.
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 21, 2001)
Seedsavers of crops worldwide have been threatened as never before. A technology appropriately called the 'terminator technology', has been creating waves in agricultural circles since March.
- New Entrants To The Scam Club (The Financial Express, P. N. Vijay, Jun 21, 2001)
Regulate foreign institutional investors and brokers more stringently.
- From Lahore With Hope (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 21, 2001)
Lahore looked different when I went there in the bus carrying Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee nearly two years ago.
- Blending Ethanol With Petrol Can Do Wonders (The Financial Express, Ram Niak, Jun 21, 2001)
Ethanol is being successfully blended with petrol in Brazil since 1931.
- Us Urged To Prevent Rise Of A Regional Hegemony In S Asia (The Financial Express, HUMA SIDDQUI, Jun 21, 2001)
India, and especially China, are rising powers that seek their place in the world, and in the process, could potentially disrupt the regional order.
- Aqua Bina (Business Line, D. Murali , Jun 21, 2001)
WHEN the ICAI chief visited the parched city of Chennai, the society of `aquators' decided to stage a protest with empty pots and cans.
- Centreless Corporation (The Economic Times, A. Pasternack, Jun 20, 2001)
WHEN we consider the great shifts that have been shaping the economy in recent decades, and the deep, persisting evidence of disarray, we are pondering a genuine and radical transformation.
- Manipur Discord (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 20, 2001)
Any accord that is secretive and clinched in an unseemly hurry is by definition suspect.
- Fire From Ceasefire (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jun 20, 2001)
Even before Manipur could recover from the unprincipled antics of its politicians, it has plunged into a kind of lawlessness which may not be easy to quell because of the ethnic sub-text.
- Fire And Ceasefire (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 20, 2001)
MANIPUR burnt on Monday reflecting accurately, if also alarmingly, the white hot rage of the people against the Centre’s recognition of the influence of the leading Naga militant organisation over two-thirds of the state.
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 20, 2001)
Seedsavers of crops worldwide have been threatened as never before. A technology appropriately called the 'terminator technology', has been creating waves in agricultural circles since March.
- Sankara's Atmabodha: Vision Of The Self (Times of India, Pranav Khullar, Jun 20, 2001)
SANKARA'S Atmabodha, `Knowledge of the Self', goes to the very core of Advaitic thought by encapsulating, as it were, the tremendous speculative thought contained in the Brahma-Sutra Bhashya.
- Caste Violence In Up (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 20, 2001)
IT is only a matter of time before Uttar Pradesh may follow the example of Bihar for dealing with incidents of caste violence.
- Gods Who Failed (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 20, 2001)
Indira Gandhi lost the general elections of 1977 to a people angered by a god who forgot that her magnificence could only be heightened by their prayers; yet she was promptly brought back in 1980, by a nation who felt she had repented.
- Much Ado About Little (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jun 20, 2001)
Musharraf’s budget can do little for Pakistan.
- Treaty On The Dirty Dozen (Business Line, Mahendra Pandey , Jun 20, 2001)
OFFICIALS from 90 countries recently signed a landmark UN treaty in Stockholm, designed to curb the use of some of the world's most dangerous and toxic chemicals.
- Flush And Dredge (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 20, 2001)
The authorities never gave importance to the flushing techniques but only concentrated on the dredging process.
- How To Clean Up A Very Dirty River (Telegraph, SAHELI MITRA, Jun 20, 2001)
It runs through the heart of India enriching its lands and providing livelihood to millions of countrymen.
- Gastronomic Adventurers (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jun 20, 2001)
A recent study on ‘The Indian food ethos’ by a leading advertising agency has thrown up the finding that Indians are increasingly embracing international cuisine.
- Pakistan's Interest (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 20, 2001)
To interpret Pakistan's first-ever defence budget cut as a meaningful gesture before the forthcoming summit in India would be to stretch the point.
- The D Segment Is The Emerging Segment (The Economic Times, Nandini Sen Gupta, Jun 20, 2001)
IT'S the latest D-segment debutante to entice the Indian market.
- Democratic Deficit, Wto Farm Talks And India’s Silence (The Financial Express, Raghav Narsalay , Jun 20, 2001)
The term ‘democratic deficit’ used in the context of discussions taking place at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) became conspicuous as a phenomenon during the Seattle Ministerial Conference of the WTO during 1999.
- Securing The Delhi Summit (Hindu, V. R. Raghavan , Jun 20, 2001)
THE VAJPAYEE-MUSHARRAF summit in New Delhi is not unlike two mountaineers deciding to meet atop Mount Everest, after agreeing to climb it from two different directions.
- Who’s Afraid Of Debt Recovery Tribunals? (The Financial Express, Ram Kishan, Jun 20, 2001)
To expedite adjudication and recovery of debts due to banks and financial institutions (FIs) at the instance of the Tiwari Committee (1984), appointed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the government enacted the Debt Recovery Tribunal Act, 1993 (DRT).
- Why Doesn’t The Muslim Intelligentsia In India Speak Up? (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 20, 2001)
OUR Muslim intelligentsia reminds me, at times, of nationalist Muslims before Partition. They were so steadfast in their conviction to keep India united that they withstood the ridicule of the community.
- Fixing The Price Of Hope (Telegraph, Sandhya Srinivasan, Jun 20, 2001)
“A diagnosis of HIV positivity is no reason to lose hope,” says the man on television.
- More Of A Pr Exercise (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 20, 2001)
THE slashing of the defence budget is a tiny stone with which Gen Pervez Musharraf has tried to kill many birds.
- All About Horses (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jun 20, 2001)
ARE you a horse fancier? Well, then, the English language has paid copious and heartwarming tributes to horses in a number of figures of speech.
- The Great Holiday Rush (The Financial Express, Mimmy Jain, Jun 20, 2001)
THE Great Panic of 2001 is upon us. And has the Jain family firmly in its grip. Amma has been seen muttering over the sambhar pot, “How can I fit the aloe vera into a book to press it?” She considers every moment spent away from a leaf a waste of time.
- Un-Civic Sense, Civic Non-Sense (The Kashmir Times, Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal, Jun 20, 2001)
If divergent views and diverseissues or objects co-exist in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
- India Needs Free Trade (The Economic Times, Arvind Panagariya , Jun 20, 2001)
SINGAPORE and Hong Kong, China have been the most open economies in the world during the past fifty years.
- For A Smooth Field (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 20, 2001)
IT is no secret that the Indian market for alcoholic drinks is fragmented and grossly mismanaged, thanks to our convoluted taxation and licensing policies.
- Reviving Bombay Dyeing (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 20, 2001)
THE HOSTILE bid on Bombay Dyeing by Arun Bajoria, the jute baron from Kolkata, last year seems to have shaken the company’s management.
- Of Kings And Exiles (Business Line, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jun 20, 2001)
ALL men, wrote Oscar Wilde, are kings, and, like kings, they die in exile.
- Eco-Friendly Process To Make Intermediary (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Jun 20, 2001)
AN ECO-FRIENDLY process to produce mono nitro toluene (MNT), a widely used intermediary in the dyes, pharma and pesticide industries, has been developed by scientists at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad.
- The Com After The Storm (Business Line, Vijay Rangarajan, Jun 20, 2001)
UNDER the settling dust of the recent dotcom crash lie the symptoms that caused the hysteria and the ensuing collapse.
- Sheltering Sita (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Jun 20, 2001)
THE Shetkari Mahila Aghadi, the women's front of the Shetkari Sanghatana -- the farmers' organisation in Maharashtra that has made history over the last 20 years by putting the issue of economic viability of agriculture on the national agenda.
- The Infosys Way (Times of India, N. R. Narayana Murthy, Jun 20, 2001)
TODAY, my mind goes back to a sultry, fateful morning in July 1981, to my meeting with the other six founders of Infosys.
- Murderers Call The Shots (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jun 20, 2001)
There is not a single political party in India which does not play the Dalit card, even the ones who stand solely for the interests of the upper castes in a landscape still dominated by the logic of feudalism.
- What The Tiwari Congress Needs To Know About Reforms (The Economic Times, Abheek Barman, Jun 20, 2001)
AJIT Jogi came to power in Chhattisgarh with a clang, shutting down the aluminium plant of Balco at Korba which had been privatised by the government in New Delhi.
- Is Copper Good For You? Just Eat Better (Tribune, Zach Howard, Jun 20, 2001)
THE Aztecs, Egyptians and Romans all used copper, one of the earth’s most common metals, for thousands of years as a folk remedy in bangles, bandages, cosmetics and even drinks to ward off a host of ailments.
- Culled Flowers From Customer Services (The Financial Express, S. S. Tarapore, Jun 20, 2001)
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the banks have, for years, emphasised the need for polite, efficient and hassle-free customer service.
- Back To Basics (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 20, 2001)
THE ONGC'S NEW chairman-cum-managing director, Mr Subir Raha, should be complimented for bringing back the corporation's focus to its traditional competence of exploration and production rather than lose energy in diversification.
- Price Of The ‘New World Blitzkrieg’ (The Kashmir Times, GWYNNE DYER, Jun 20, 2001)
"The survivors are scraps," says evolutionary biologist Dr. John Alroy about the large mammal species that remain in North America after the wave of extinctions that followed the arrival of the first humans less than 14,000 years ago.
- Chic Coffee (Pioneer, Mohinder Singh, Jun 20, 2001)
Once ice-cream was the rage in America. Then came pizza. Now it's the turn of coffee. People go out for coffee, like it's for a meal or movie.
- A Feel-Good Summit Of Tough Talk (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 20, 2001)
A MUTUAL RAPPORT, which the leaders of the United States and Russia have established by their own reckoning at a summit in Slovenia, does not conceal their differences over Washington's futurist plans for a missile defence system.
- No Smoke Without A Fire (The Financial Express, Sourav Majumdar, Jun 20, 2001)
The latest takeover battle to hit Corporate India, this time over tobacco company VST Industries, promises to be one of the most intense in recent years.
- Talk About A Tete-A-Tete (Hindustan Times, Anand K.Sahay , Jun 20, 2001)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s sudden about-turn invitation to the Pakistani dictator must have come to General Musharraf as a pleasant surprise.
- Hello, Goodbye (Hindustan Times, S.M. Agarwal, Jun 20, 2001)
Over 95 crore Indians will not hear the telephone ring in their homes for decades to come.
- Tragedy In Himalayan Kingdom (The Kashmir Times, Arun Nehru, Jun 20, 2001)
Events in Nepal are truly baffling as the murder of the royal family gets into one controversy or the other.
- Caste, The Academy And Dalit Women (Hindu, Kalpana Kannabiran, Jun 20, 2001)
THE ONGOING debate on caste and race is taking place in the context of a larger advocacy on discrimination and Dalit human rights and has centred on the articulation of caste as discrimination, and the various forms of that discrimination.
- The Need For Accountability (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 20, 2001)
A crucial factor that can make governance successful and the implementation of schemes beneficial to the people is to ensure the accountability of officials.
- Uneasy Lies The Head That Wears The Crown (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Jun 20, 2001)
The tragic royal thriller set in the Narayanhity Palace in Kathmandu is over. But the sequel is already being written.
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 20, 2001)
Seedsavers of crops worldwide have been threatened as never before. A technology appropriately called the 'terminator technology', has been creating waves in agricultural circles since March.
- Manipur In Flames (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 20, 2001)
The unprecedented violence that marked the sixty-six hour strike called by the All Manipur Students' Union, and abetted by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of Manipur, to protest against the recently extended ceasefire, without "territorial limits".
- Fudging Figures (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 20, 2001)
The announced cut in Pakistan's defence budget fits neatly into the scheme of things General Pervez Musharraf has been plotting cleverly to gain legitimacy in the global community.
- A Rare Mix Up (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 20, 2001)
It seems a good thing that Ms J. Jayalalitha was allowed to become chief minister of Tamil Nadu.
- The Budget In Jeopardy (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Jun 20, 2001)
It has taken less than three months for the “dream” part of Yashwant Sinha’s budget for the current year to dissolve into thin air.
- Kingdoms Go And Come Again (Telegraph, ANURADHA KUMAR, Jun 20, 2001)
Till 1990, most newspapers and even the electronic media had one favourite sobriquet to describe Nepal — the peaceful Himalayan kingdom.
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