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Articles 21921 through 22020 of 27558:
- Dams And The People (Business Line, Arun Ghosh, Jun 12, 2001)
THE World Commission on Dams (WCD) published its report in November 2000.
- Bankable Stake (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 12, 2001)
LIC'S DECISION TO pick up a strategic stake in Corporation Bank signals a coming together of two important segments of the financial services industry and is entirely in keeping with trends worldwide.
- National Commission On Agriculture -- Don't Waste The Opportunity This Time (Business Line, K.P.Prabhakaran Nair , Jun 12, 2001)
RECENTLY, the Union Minister for Agriculture, Mr Nitish Kumar, announced the setting up of a National Commission on Agriculture, and the media reported that Dr M. S. Swaminathan has agreed to chair it.
- China Before Doha (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jun 12, 2001)
US and EU close in on WTO deal with China.
- Return From Exile (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 12, 2001)
Pro-Khalistan ideologue Jagjit Singh Chauhan has returned to India in a glare of publicity. And from all outward appearances the Indian government is not overly perturbed by this.
- The Education Leviathan (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jun 12, 2001)
THE UNIVERSITY Grants Commission (UGC) seems determined to set higher education in India on a path that subverts its own mission, makes a mockery of all reason and jeopardises the future of higher education.
- Killing Them Softly (Hindustan Times, Sudhanshu Ranjan, Jun 12, 2001)
A Petition filed in the Patna High Court some time ago, for the mercy killing of one Kanchan Devi, has triggered off a fresh debate on the issue.
- Ornamentalism: How The British Saw Their Empire (Telegraph, David Cannadine, Jun 12, 2001)
The British Empire, David Cannadine argues in his new book, “was first and foremost a class act.”
- India’s Food Revolution (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Jun 12, 2001)
M.S. Banga, chairman, Hindustan Lever Limited, delivered a talk titled “Food Revolution.
- Small Step To Peace (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 12, 2001)
The tremendous attention that the forthcoming Atal Bihari Vajpayee-Pervez Musharraf summit meeting has attracted is reflective of the growing constituency for peace in India and Pakistan.
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 12, 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.
- Hazratbal To Shopian (Hindustan Times, Inder Malhotra, Jun 12, 2001)
One of the many consequences of the almost daily death dance in Jammu and Kashmir for over a decade has been that more and more people are getting inured to the unending horrors in the lost paradise.
- Food For The Poor (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jun 12, 2001)
The nagging problems in the public distribution system are finally being tackled with some seriousness.
- The Dalits To Durban (Hindu, Garimella Subramaniam, Jun 12, 2001)
Denial is deadlier than the crime, and thwarting attempts to debate caste-based discrimination in the forthcoming `United Nations World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance'.
- Murder Most Foul (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 12, 2001)
UNIDENTIFIED ASSAILANTS murdered in cold-blood an elderly couple in broad daylight in posh Trikuta Nagar Colony on Sunday.
- Clueless Congress (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 12, 2001)
The paradox of the Indian political scene today is that while the BJP, the principal ruling party, finds itself in a state of serious drift, even disarray, the health of the main opposition party is hardly anything to write home about.
- The Seeds Of Separatism In The North-East (Tribune, Rakshat Puri, Jun 12, 2001)
THERE are two aspects of the demand for which the Isaac Swu-Thuingaleng Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland is engaged in insurgency.
- Beyond Texas (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 11, 2001)
Now that president George Bush is done with his Europe trip, his policy advisers can let out a sigh of relief. Mispronunciation of the Spanish prime minister's name aside, Dubya made a concerted effort to keep his famous penchant for gaffes under control.
- After The Famous Win (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 11, 2001)
IT is tempting to believe that armed with a massive mandate President Mohammed Khatami will briskly restart his aborted reforms programme. He will not because he cannot.
- Murdering Dialouge (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 11, 2001)
No words of condemnation are too strong for last Friday's grenade attack in the Charar-e-Sharief complex in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) which killed four women and injured around 60 persons who were among a large crowd that was about to offer prayers
- Universities And Bridging The Divide (Hindu, M. S. Swaminathan , Jun 11, 2001)
A CONTEMPORARY challenge before the academic world is to show how higher education can become a powerful instrument for furthering the social and economic well-being of scholars from under- privileged families.
- Durban, Caste And Indian Democracy (Hindu, Kancha Ilaiah, Jun 11, 2001)
TO ASCERTAIN public opinion on the question of inclusion of caste on the agenda of the United Nations World Conference on Racism being held in Durban, South Africa, a national committee was constituted by the Prime Minister headed by Mr. Ranganath Mishra,
- Circling Allies (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jun 11, 2001)
Between the Congress and the BJP, the former fared much better in the recent assembly elections.
- A doctor’s eureka (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jun 11, 2001)
The liver is a unique organ. Even if you remove more than 80 per cent of it, the remaining part would continue to function and, remarkably, within a few months it would have reconstituted itself to its original size.
- Rag The Colleges (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jun 11, 2001)
That the age-old tradition of ragging can at times turn ugly is good enough reason for it to be seen as more of a nuisance than plain fun.
- Brash Neighbours Need Bashing (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, Jun 11, 2001)
The game of cat and mouse goes on between India and Pakistan.
- Landmarks In Aids (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 11, 2001)
JUNE 2001 IS a landmark in the history of the pandemic that is HIV/AIDS.
- Recipe For Increasing Non Performing Assets (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, Jun 11, 2001)
The chickens, one would say, are coming in to roost. After an aggressive expansion policy and tough loan recovery programme, ICICI seems to have run into serious trouble this time.
- Better Late Than Never (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 11, 2001)
THE MOOD OF helplessness which has so far prevailed in the Government about how to cope with the food mountain of cereals has finally begun to clear.
- Risk-Profile, Efficiency And Depressed Interest Rates (The Financial Express, R K Roy, Jun 11, 2001)
The M S Verma Committee’s report on banking supervision recommends bank- wise credit risk management, risk-pricing and risk-provisioning (alongwith risk-based supervision) to replace the Reserve Bank’s current formula-based provisioning regime.
- Pay-Order Scam Was A Result Of Collective Wrong-Doing (The Financial Express, Suresh S Bankeshwar, Jun 11, 2001)
A lot has been said and written about the recent pay-order scam and bullion scam, involving co-operative banks, three public sector banks and a foreign bank.
- Normal Monsoon Alone Will Not Do The Trick For The Economy (The Financial Express, Sangeeta Singh, Jun 11, 2001)
For those who are expecting a major turnaround in the economy based on the assumption of a normal monsoon there may be some bad news.
- Long-Terms Savings Need To Be Encouraged (The Financial Express, Raja J Chelliah, Jun 11, 2001)
It is not easy to stimulate net savings by individuals through tax measures.
- Vetoed Us Asserts Rights In Un (Pioneer, A Balu, Jun 11, 2001)
Last month, in space of a week, the United States suffered two diplomatic setbacks.
- India’s Path To Fiscal Consolidation (The Financial Express, Saumitra Chaudhuri, Jun 11, 2001)
In December 2000, government introduced the Financial Responsibility and Budget Management Bill (FRBM), committing itself to a gradual reduction in its borrowing, by 0.4 percentage points of GDP each year.
- Azad Sans Azadi (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 11, 2001)
IF every election on this side of Jammu and Kashmir has been rigged, the electoral exercises conducted periodically across the Line of Control in the socalled Azad Kashmir, under occuptaion of Pakistan, have been equally farcical.
- Reviving Investment (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jun 11, 2001)
The latest update on the economy prepared by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) appears to reflect the shadow of its former director-general, who is now chief economic advisor in the union finance ministry!
- Central Excise Revenue And Industrial Growth (The Economic Times, V S Krishnan, Jun 11, 2001)
FISCAL forecasting in the 1990s has generally gone awry primarily due to a tendency to overestimate revenues and underestimate expenditure.
- Sell-Off Drift (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 11, 2001)
IT IS A long path to disinvestment no doubt. But in India, it is also tortuous, uncertain, and most times leading nowhere.
- Backseat For Economy? (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jun 11, 2001)
SATURDAY'S morning papers carried a report which said that the Government had decided to call ``an urgent meeting of public sector banks and financial institutions next week to chalk out a full-fledged revival strategy''.
- Nepal Doesn’t Need Maoism But A Stable, Democratic Setup (The Financial Express, Salil Tripathi, Jun 11, 2001)
THE curfew imposed to prevent fresh riots has been lifted and the streets have returned to relative calm but the massacre of Nepal’s royal family will likely bring new dangers to the troubled Himalayan-Hindu nation.
- Lure Of The Forest (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 11, 2001)
Who should have the final say in the use of forest land?
- The Trouble With Inquiry Commissions (Tribune, Rahul Singh, Jun 11, 2001)
EVER since our independence and the horrific communal riots that accompanied it, there have been two major communal outbursts that have traumatised the nation:
- Violence In Bhopal Over ‘Gadar’ (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 11, 2001)
A chance remark by a person watching the film “Gadar,” produced by actor Sunny Deol, at the Lily Talkies in Bhopal sparked off violence in the Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday.
- Soft Spoken But Tough Taskmaster (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 11, 2001)
SOFT spoken but a tough taskmaster, Brij Bihari Tandon, who has assumed charge as an Election Commissioner in the three-member Election Commission, is yet another civil servant capable of meeting peer pressure and challenge.
- Misgivings About Monarchical Order (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Jun 11, 2001)
THE shocking tragedy that engulfed Nepal’s royal family when the traditional Friday night gettogether turned into an appalling carnage is going to leave deep scars on the psyche of Nepal’s people.
- The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jun 11, 2001)
TWO years ago, the Harvard historian, Mr David Landes, wrote a book entitled The Wealth and Poverty of Nations.
- Supersonic Development (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 11, 2001)
It is rather unusual for the test flight of as advanced and path-breaking a missile as the supersonic PJ-10 to be undertaken in the kind of secrecy that marked the Pokhran explosions.
- World Disappearing From View (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jun 11, 2001)
IN a democratic polity, the mainstream Press reflects a country’s pecking order in the world and its ambitions beyond its own borders.
- Sadr-E-Pakistan (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 11, 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.
- Business Of Politics (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 11, 2001)
Can - and should - a political party function like a corporate house?
- In Touch And Always In The Know (Telegraph, RAHUL GHOSH, Jun 11, 2001)
At last e-governance has become a reality in West Bengal. Terminal connections from village panchayats to the state administrative headquarters, the Writers’ Buildings, have been established to help the government transact business faster.
- Dialectics Of Dialogue (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 11, 2001)
``Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish question'', say authors W C Sellar, et al in their hilarious book on British history, 1066 & All That.
- Cleanse The Existing Temples (Pioneer, Valson Thampu , Jun 11, 2001)
Jesus did not build any temple. But he did cleanse a temple: The temple of Jerusalem.
- Run-Up To The Summit (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 11, 2001)
THE countdown has started for the Indo-Pakistan summit but the diplomatic temperature in the two capitals are dramatically different. It is a leisurely pace in New Delhi with only High Commissioner to Pakistan Vijay Nambiar stirring things up a bit.
- Role Of Governors (The Kashmir Times, S. Venkatesh, Jun 11, 2001)
Ms Fatima Beevi’s decision to swear-in Ms Jayalalitha as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu has emrboiled the office of the Governor in a major controversy.
- High Road Or Low Comedy? (The Kashmir Times, Praful Bidwai, Jun 11, 2001)
Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee has ce tainly not enhanced his claim to consistency by executing yet another flip-flop on Pakistan and inviting Gen Pervez Musharraf, the very man New Delhi has been pursuing in every conceivable forum since October 1999.
- Welcome Signs (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 11, 2001)
What Gen. Musharraf told the fundamentalists and anti-Indian elements of his own country on the 5th and 7th was music to the ears of most of us.
- The Reddening Mountains (Telegraph, SUJAN DUTTA, Jun 11, 2001)
At first dismissed for being too smooth or too simplistic, they were taken by journalists, as well as the public — in Nepal as also elsewhere — as the stuff of which potboilers are made.
- A Victory Not Quite Famous (Telegraph, Mohit Sen, Jun 11, 2001)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has reason to feel relieved about being able to retain West Bengal.
- Madness And Method (Telegraph, V.R. RAGHAVAN, Jun 11, 2001)
The balance of nuclear deterrence in the years of the Cold War rested on mutually assured destruction, known by the curiously apt acronym, MAD.
- Gift Of A Cheque (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 11, 2001)
India’s oldest political party, the Indian National Congress, has once again taken on a pioneering role in a sphere that has always been under the shadow of notoriety.
- Inter-Service Integrator (Times of India, R. H. Tahilliani, Jun 11, 2001)
THE release of the recommendations of the group of ministers to the cabinet committee on security is a major milestone and a welcome departure from the excessive security which has attended such matters hitherto.
- Selling Of Education (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 11, 2001)
THE earmarking of 17 seats for NRIs for admission to the MBBS course run by Pt B.D. Sharma Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences and three seats in Government Dental College, both in Rohtak, amounts to cost-based reservation.
- In The Midst Of Life (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Jun 10, 2001)
A little over a week ago, one sat in the quiet of Hathiban, a spot in the hills above Kathmandu from where one could get a spectacular view of the valley and the city.
- The Games Politicians Play (Hindu, BARUN DASGUPTA, Jun 10, 2001)
FOLLOWING THE imposition of President's Rule in Manipur on June 2, not only the Assembly but also the State's politics is in suspended animation.
- Privatising Heritage (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 10, 2001)
THE INDIAN Hotels Company, owners of the Taj Group of hotels, is all set to adopt one of the seven wonders of the world: the Taj Mahal.
- What Penalty? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 10, 2001)
THE POWER ministry is reportedly proposing to amend the Indian Electricity Act to make punishments for theft of power more stringent.
- The Games Politicians Play (Hindu, BARUN DASGUPTA, Jun 10, 2001)
FOLLOWING THE imposition of President's Rule in Manipur on June 2, not only the Assembly but also the State's politics is in suspended animation.
- Little Relief For Vajpayee (Hindu, MANAS DASGUPTA, Jun 10, 2001)
DESPITE THE best efforts of the Gujarat Government to convince the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, that its rehabilitation and reconstruction package for the earthquake- affected people was the ``best and the fastest in the world'', he apparentl
- Your Home May No More Be Your Castle (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Jun 10, 2001)
FOUR WEEKS ago, the Union Home Ministry routinely breathed fresh life into an old circular, perhaps without bothering to apply its mind (to use a legal cliche).
- On The Backfoot (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Jun 10, 2001)
THE FOREIGNERS (Report to Police) Order, 1971 - notified by the Centre on December 14 that year - was meant to be an emergency measure after the creation of Bangladesh to check the huge influx of refugees from there. The Union Government exercised its pow
- Thunder In The Mountains (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Jun 10, 2001)
THE JUNE 1 killing of almost the entire royal family, which has triggered shock, anger, confusion and grief, has left Nepal at the crossroads.
- Indefensible Gag (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 10, 2001)
The massacre in Kathmandu on June 1 night, in which King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya, and several other members of the royal family perished, has doubtless thrown Nepal into a serious crisis.
- Musharraf's 'Western' Audience (Pioneer, Shobori Ganguli, Jun 10, 2001)
Pakistan Chief Executive Gen Pervez Musharraf's rather surprising message to a gathering of Islamic clerics in Islamabad, deviating from a prepared text on the occasion of Prophet Mohammed's birthday, was perhaps intended less for India's ears and more fo
- General Concern Critical For Peace (Pioneer, Dhananjay Kumar, Jun 10, 2001)
The forthcoming talks between India's Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistan's Chief Executive General Pervez Musharraf has evoked plenty of speculation.
- Turmoil In Pok's Balawaristan (Pioneer, Gurmeet Kanwal, Jun 10, 2001)
In launching its military misadventure across a well-defined Line of Control (LoC) through perennially snow-covered gaps in the summer of 1999, the Pakistan army led by General Pervez Musharraf had many dubious feats to its credit.
- Games Political Parties Play (Telegraph, SURENDRA MOHAN, Jun 10, 2001)
The statements of the former Union minister, Ajit Panja, and some of his colleagues that the Trinamool Congress under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee was willing to return to the National Democratic Alliance have not been categorically contradicted by t
- Castes Of Mind (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 10, 2001)
Given our hypersensitivity to international opprobrium, it comes as no surprise that the Indian government is trying hard to scuttle any discussion on caste-based discrimination.
- Software Salvation (Times of India, Brooks Entwistle, Jun 10, 2001)
EARLY April was a brutal time for the India technology scene.
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