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Articles 23821 through 23920 of 27558:
- Sheer Will Power (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 08, 2001)
IN THE name of liberalising the telecom services, the government seems to have entered a field where angels fear to tread.
- Forward Defence (Hindustan Times, Brahma Chellaney , May 08, 2001)
THE VAJPAYEE government continues to confound its supporters and critics.
- A Post-Dated Superpower (Indian Express, Rahul Sagar, May 08, 2001)
THE border imbroglio with Bangladesh has had three principal effects upon the Indian polity.
- Interest Rates: Senior Citizens Dilemma (Business Line, R. Y. Narayanan, May 08, 2001)
AS the single largest borrower, the Centre seems determined to bring down the interest rates on small savings, provident funds and bank deposits, affecting investors' post-retirement savings plans.
- Congress Is Heading Towards Extinction In Tamil Nadu (The Financial Express, N. Madhavan, May 07, 2001)
The Congress in Tamil Nadu is an endangered species heading towards extinction. The party, which ruled the state for more than 18 years, immediately after Independence, is an non-entity today and is hurtling rapidly into oblivion.
- Island Of Acrimony In The Floods (Telegraph, TILAK D. GUPTA, May 07, 2001)
Orissa seems to be caught in a never-ending cycle of misfortune. After the supercyclone of 1999 and last summer’s severe drought, this eastern state is now being ravaged by floods.
- To Work With Dignity And Freedom (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 07, 2001)
Most of the 36.1 million people infected with HIV are in the prime of their working lives.
- Escape Clause On Ayodhya (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 07, 2001)
IT SEEMS to be a season of loopholes.
- The Ayodhya Reprieve (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 07, 2001)
A PROCEDURAL FLAW should not be permitted to become the basis of a remittance - particularly, in a matter as significant as that of the detestable conspiracy to demolish the Babri Masjid.
- Breastfeeding, A Child’s Birthright (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 07, 2001)
The theme of this year’s breastfeeding week in August is breastfeeding as a human right.
- The Road To Ranchi (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 07, 2001)
This might be the ultimate test of Mr Laloo Prasad Yadav’s legendary inventiveness.
- Sezs: India Has No Hong Kong, Mr Maran (Business Line, S. Majumder , May 07, 2001)
IF CHINA is a lesson for the Industry and Commerce Minister, Mr Murasoli Maran, and if he thinks that setting up SEZs (Special Economic Zones) would accelerate the future growth of export, he is wrong.
- A Joke Called Choice (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, May 07, 2001)
The elections in five states have once again demonstrated that democracy is alive and well in India, that the will of the people can be exercised freely to elect their representatives, some of whom will lead them to a better life.
- For Community Grain Banks (Hindu, M. S. Swaminathan , May 07, 2001)
ON APRIL 24, the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, released the Food Insecurity Atlas of Rural India prepared jointly by the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation and the United Nations World Food Programme.
- New Delhi’s Dilemma (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 07, 2001)
IN an unprecedented diplomatic decision India has asked Pakistan to treat the Agra summit as a non-event and revert back to the substance and spirit of the Shimla Agreement and the Lahore Declaration.
- A General’s Warped History Lecture (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, May 07, 2001)
ONE turning-point in the India-Pakistan summit at Agra was Gen Pervez Musharraf's breakfast meeting with certain Delhi-centric editors picked up at random.
- It’s Murder, They Said (Telegraph, MADHUSHREE C. BHOWMIK, May 07, 2001)
Titli flits around her foster home. She lurches from one room to another on unsteady legs and loves to look at the Sydney harbour from the windows of her “penthouse’’ in the Australian capital.
- Collective Obsession (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, May 07, 2001)
There is a Bengali word that isn’t easy to translate, but which very aptly describes the behaviour of the media before, during and after the visit of Pervez Musharraf to India.
- A Rare Mix Up (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 07, 2001)
It seems a good thing that Ms J. Jayalalitha was allowed to become chief minister of Tamil Nadu.
- In Praise Of Diplomatic Exuberance (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, May 07, 2001)
NEW DELHI, MAY 6. Was it a political blunder? Or a stroke of diplomatic genius?
- All Dressed Up But.. (Hindustan Times, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, May 07, 2001)
FOR THE ebullient Mamata Banerjee, the middle of the road might prove to be a very dead end.
- Rise Of Caste In Dravida Land (Indian Express, Amrith Lal, May 07, 2001)
REPORTS from Tamil Nadu speak of senior members of the Dravidian movement discovering their caste identities.
- Not The Ugc’s Business (Indian Express, A.J. Philip, May 07, 2001)
Theory and practice of priesthood.
- Debate That Is Not On: Waiting For Godot (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, May 07, 2001)
With five States going to the polls on May 10, India is having a sort of a mini general elections where the issue is not the role of the Union Government but the performance of the State governments belonging to a variety of parties.
- Democratic Matrix (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , May 07, 2001)
IT IS strange that so far no reliable yardstick has been evolved to measure the maturity and health of a democracy.
- Dangerous Threshold (Hindustan Times, Mohit Sen, May 07, 2001)
THE BJP has reasons for boasting that from 1999 it has been able to break its isolation.
- Condemned In The Womb (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 07, 2001)
IT’S THE writing on the wall, often with a not-so-hidden subtext, which sends out the first dubious signal.
- Rbi Must Tell More (Business Line, ASeshan, May 07, 2001)
THE Reserve Bank of India's Monetary and Credit Policy is noteworthy also for its detailed review of the previous year, issued as a separate document. Not many central banks prepare such a document.
- False Spring (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 07, 2001)
A MOOD OF unwarranted optimism prevailed in Washington D.C. during this year's Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
- Vision 2020 -- Leveraging Nri Coffers And Sincerity (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , May 07, 2001)
THIS article is being written in the US where I am on a lecture tour.
- It’s Geography — And History — Stupid! (The Financial Express, Shefali Misra, May 07, 2001)
Why trade bilateralism is not an Indian option yet.
- Sezs: India Has No Hong Kong, Mr Maran (Business Line, S. Majumder , May 07, 2001)
IF CHINA is a lesson for the Industry and Commerce Minister, Mr Murasoli Maran, and if he thinks that setting up SEZs (Special Economic Zones) would accelerate the future growth of export, he is wrong.
- White Is White, Black Is Black -- And The Twain Shall Never Meet? (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , May 07, 2001)
CINCINNATI, an important city of Ohio in the US, and the eighth most segregated in the country, was recently rocked by three days of arson and violence following the shooting of an unarmed black youth of 17.
- Cold War Comeback (Times of India, K. Subramaniam, May 07, 2001)
WASHINGTON: President George Bush launched his programme on national missile defence, with his speech at the National Defence College on May 1.
- We Can’t Afford Any Leakages In The Pension Bucket (The Financial Express, P. C. Gupta, May 07, 2001)
The Oasis report recommendations are full of shortcomings.
- Security As Primary Concern (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 07, 2001)
MILITANT organisations active in Jammu and Kashmir as their main area of operation, with all kinds of support from Pakistan's ISI.
- Breach Of Promise (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 07, 2001)
The crisis of political accountability in West Bengal has been confirmed again with a rather disgraceful clarity.
- The Cutting Edge (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 07, 2001)
The finance minister is aggrieved that the rest of the world appears to be more optimistic about India's economic prospects than the country itself is.
- Paradise Of Insider Information (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, May 07, 2001)
This mockery of a JPC can hardly do justice to investigating guilty FIIs.
- The Economic Profile Of South Asia (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, May 07, 2001)
FOR two thousand years, South Asia was the most developed region of the world. It produced cotton 2000 years before anyone else.
- Global Software Giants Can Emerge From India (The Economic Times, Shubhrangshu Roy, May 07, 2001)
NEVER mind the Nasdaq crash or the petering out of the infotech hype, there’s hope yet for India’s software services companies. At least that’s what Microsoft’s president for Asia Michael Rawding believes, as he told Shubhrangshu Roy. Excerpts!
- Internet: Time For Second Revolution (The Economic Times, S. Rajagopalan, May 07, 2001)
DEVELOPMENTS that are taking place in the United States in the internet area are of relevance to us in India since whatever happens in the US in the technology area gets repeated here after a small time lag.
- It Is Time We Abandoned Nehru’s Economic Ideas (The Economic Times, S. L. Rao, May 07, 2001)
IT IS difficult for those born in the 1960s and later to understand or believe the influence that Jawaharlal Nehru exerted on the minds and imaginations of his countrymen.
- The Remedy Foments The Disease, But It Is Feel-Good Time (The Financial Express, R.K. Roy, May 07, 2001)
In April, the first month of this fiscal, the Centre’s ways and means borrowings from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) exceeded the agreed limit by a conspicuously large margin.
- The Buddha As An Avatar Of Vishnu (Times of India, ASeshan, May 07, 2001)
THE story of Gautama, the Buddha (the enlightened one), is well known.
- A Primer For The Fisc (The Economic Times, Mythili Bhusnurmath, May 07, 2001)
SHOULD the fact that the government has borrowed Rs 29,500 crore — almost 25 per cent of its projected borrowing for the year — in just one month (April 2001) be a matter of concern? Of alarm?
- Silver Lining (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 07, 2001)
The consensus seems to be that the gross domestic product growth rate this year will not touch the 6.5 or 7 per cent promised in the budget.
- Indo-Us Ties In The Bush Era (The Financial Express, Prakash Shah, May 07, 2001)
There was a time when, in the wake of Jaswant Singh-Strobe Talbot honeymoon.
- Some Are Ever More Equal (The Financial Express, S. R. Kasbekar, May 07, 2001)
George Bernard Shaw spoke of true socialism as the British prime minister and a scavenger in the London street being paid the same wages.
- Idea Of State Funding Of Elections (Tribune, Sumer Kaul, May 07, 2001)
THE Tehelka episode has revived the debate on — indeed, the demand for — state funding of political parties.
- This Iniquitous World (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 07, 2001)
More evidence, but the quest for reasons goes on.
- Din, Dust And Vanishing Decorum (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 06, 2001)
The political class resorting to abusive language and disruptionist behaviour is perhaps inevitable given the larger phenomenon of criminalisation of politics...
- The Road To Ranchi (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 06, 2001)
This might be the ultimate test of Mr Laloo Prasad Yadav’s legendary inventiveness.
- Enforcing Democracy? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 06, 2001)
By setting a course for tough action, Ms. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has done nothing to calm things down in the Philippines, writes Amit Baruah.
- The Eagle Eyes The Field (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 06, 2001)
Washington is watching with more than ordinary interest the moves of Moscow and Beijing, says Sridhar Krishnaswami.
- Assam’s Lost Decade (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, May 06, 2001)
A ‘people’s movement’ that became a cruel joke.
- Mad Cows And Englishmen (The Economic Times, Raghu Krishnan, May 06, 2001)
I HAVE just the right kind of trip for the long, hot summer," the representative of the leading travel agency OTBIE (Oh To BeIn England) smiled at the seasoned globetrotting journalist.
- High Stakes Poker (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 06, 2001)
Russia has to tread carefully to be a player rather than a card in the U.S.-China game. Vladimir Radyuhin on the implications of the attempt by Moscow and Beijing to draw closer
- Potential Of Becoming A Great Leader (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , May 06, 2001)
THE dreaded militant outfit-Al Ummer Mujahideen has held out a death threat to Shabir Shah if he accepted the offer for a dialogue with the Centre's chief negotiator, Mr K.C. Pant, but Shabir is not the person to succumb to such intimidation.
- Marketing The American Anti-Missile Shield (Tribune, V. Gangadhar, May 06, 2001)
THEY may well be singing “God Bless America” and “Star Spangled Banner” at the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
- Elections And Ethics In India, The Jayalalitha Factor (Tribune, M. G. Devasahayam , May 06, 2001)
FOR the past few years there has been a running battle between institutions trying to uphold probity and integrity in public life and forces of corruption and criminality working against these values.
- Brunner's Canvas (Times of India, Sabina Sehgal Saikia, May 06, 2001)
HANDS gnarled with arthritis, a stiff gait, a voice which quivered with age - these were my first impressions of her, almost two decades ago.
- Ethics Of Expose (Times of India, Mahesh Daga, May 06, 2001)
Two Wrongs don't Make a Right.
- Cosmos Of An Indian Storytell (Telegraph, R. K. Narayan, May 06, 2001)
R.K. Narayan’s The Indian Epics Retold is a valuable omnibus edition of three of this important writer’s works.
- May Day Globaloney (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 06, 2001)
Protests against globalisation have become mandatory on Labour Day, and this year was no exception.
- A Joke Called Choice (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, May 06, 2001)
The elections in five states have once again demonstrated that democracy is alive and well in India, that the will of the people can be exercised freely to elect their representatives, some of whom will lead them to a better life.
- Silver Lining (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 06, 2001)
The consensus seems to be that the gross domestic product growth rate this year will not touch the 6.5 or 7 per cent promised in the budget.
- The Eagle Eyes The Field (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 06, 2001)
Washington is watching with more than ordinary interest the moves of Moscow and Beijing, says Sridhar Krishnaswami.
- Small-Change Squabbles On Bangla Border (Tribune, Rakshat Puri, May 06, 2001)
THE setting on the India-Bangaladesh border seems tailor-made for the kind of incident that has taken place with 16 members of the Border Security Force brutally done to death.
- Wasteminister Model (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 06, 2001)
In the 1960s, when Ram Manohar Lohia mocked Jawaharlal Nehru's physical infirmity, he had to apologise for his solecism.
- Lack Of Focus On Africa Day (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, May 06, 2001)
THIS week two important events didn’t really get the attention they ought to have received.
- Rich Man Running (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 06, 2001)
In Italy, it's election time again. And, says Vaiju Naravane, the country's wealthiest man, Silvio Berlusconi, is one of the main contenders for power.
- What About The Common Man? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 06, 2001)
It is not the leaders but the people who have been making the sacrifices, says Neena Vyas.
- Network In A Flap Over The Dark Side Of Bugs Bunny (Indian Express, Sally Beatty, May 06, 2001)
It's a side of Bugs Bunny many fans have never seen.
- Cricket, Laloo Cricket! (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 06, 2001)
BIHAR cricket has found a new godfather after the creation of Jharkhand saw the bosses of Jamshedpur moving lock, stock, barrel and wicket into the other fold.
- Fence The Borders (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, May 06, 2001)
The unprovoked adventurism of the Bangladesh Rifles in Meghalaya has kicked off a national debate.
- Ps And Qs Of The Nmd (Indian Express, Sonia Trikha, May 06, 2001)
India’s enthusiastic response to the Bush administration’s National Missile Defence (NMD) system has generated a great deal of interest, and is being described as a ‘‘shift’’ in India’s policy on space warfare.
- Din, Dust And Vanishing Decorum (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 06, 2001)
The political class resorting to abusive language and disruptionist behaviour is perhaps inevitable given the larger phenomenon of criminalisation of politics...
- India Plays A Key Role For Oracle Corp (The Economic Times, THOMAS ABRAHAM, May 06, 2001)
ORACLE India Development Center has had among the best product quality numbers in Oracle Corporation, and has moved from being a development resource to becoming a strategic partner for Oracle product divisions.
- Teach Your Children (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 06, 2001)
THE PRINCIPAL of the school in New Delhi who rusticated a senior student of the school for hosting a website containing pornographic material has surely never walked into the 'men's' room of this very school or any other.
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