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Articles 24721 through 24820 of 27558:
- Easy Does It (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 18, 2001)
FINANCE minister Yashwant Sinha’s initial reaction to the fall in the exchange rate reflects a new (and welcome) maturity to the external value of the rupee.
- A Gentle Way With Words (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Apr 18, 2001)
A week before he died at 95, news of his precarious health began appearing in all our national dailies.
- Coming Soon: The Dollar Crash (The Economic Times, Ruchir Sharma, Apr 17, 2001)
ONLY a thin line exists between being early and wrong on the financial marketplace. As Lord Keynes put it: "Markets can be irrational for a lot longer than you can remain solvent."
- Prime Cut (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 17, 2001)
Good sense and international pressure seem to be finally prevailing in Pakistan.
- Teething Trouble (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 17, 2001)
The first government of a new state has the daunting task of living up to the popular aspirations that gave birth to it.
- When British Cops Were Found To Be Racist (Tribune, Reeta Sharma, Apr 17, 2001)
WITH the Durban conference on racism going full swing, the word racism is talk of the universe today.
- Lahore: City Of Fading Gardens (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 17, 2001)
MUGHAL Emperor Shahjahan who built the Taj Mahal could never have imagined that 500 years after he constructed Lahore’s famous Shalimar Gardens, the latter would be on the World Heritage list as an endangered site.
- Crouching Asian Tigers (Times of India, Meenakshi Shedde, Apr 17, 2001)
WITH Taiwanese director Ang Lee's kinetic poem, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Asian cinema has exploded into our collective consciousness.
- Prime Cut (Telegraph, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 17, 2001)
Good sense and international pressure seem to be finally prevailing in Pakistan.
- A Non-Executive President (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 17, 2001)
EMBRACING the greater evil is sometimes an occupational hazard of Presidents and Prime Ministers.
- Watch This Space! (Tribune, S. Raghunath, Apr 17, 2001)
TEASER ads are my “bete noire”. There is something in them which isn’t quite playing cricket with a straight bat and I take particular exception to the tantalising and dangling the carrot in the whole scheme of things.
- Package For Kashmir (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 17, 2001)
SOCIAL peace, political stability and economic development always go together. Remove any of the three, the rest will be automatically in serious trouble.
- The Budget In Jeopardy (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Apr 17, 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.
- The Enemy Within (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 17, 2001)
MR L. K. Advani's statement that some portion of the funds meant for the development of the North-East may be finding its way to militant organisations raise serious security-related questions.
- Kingdoms Go And Come Again (Telegraph, ANURADHA KUMAR, Apr 17, 2001)
Till 1990, most newspapers and even the electronic media had one favourite sobriquet to describe Nepal — the peaceful Himalayan kingdom.
- Deed And Speech (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 17, 2001)
The seriousness of the proposals mooted by the prime minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, at the National Development Council meeting is evident from one simple fact. Mr Vajpayee, while formulating a 14 point programme to reverse the economic slowdown.
- Zenmaster Rinzai & Voice Of The Vacuum (Times of India, Kailash Vajpeyi, Apr 17, 2001)
ONCE on a crowded street in Japan Buddhist monk Rinzai Roku was thrashing his arms around as though he wanted to slay someone with a sword.
- Silver Lining (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 17, 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.
- Programmer Of Dreams (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 17, 2001)
How does one explain the spontaneous outpouring of grief over the death of Dewang Mehta?
- Hungry And Exiled (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 17, 2001)
To say that April is the cruellest month for the poor would be to get trapped in a metaphor, which can be easily manipulated as cold-blooded official statistics.
- The Power Of Storytelling (Hindu, Neera Chandhoke , Apr 17, 2001)
THE EDUCATIONAL apparatus of the Indian state has done it again: left-leaning historians have been dropped from the project of writing the history of the Indian nation-state, this time by the NCERT.
- A Testing Time Ahead (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 17, 2001)
MR K.C. Pant has begun the political dialogue on Jammu and Kashmir in right earnest.
- Panchayats Powerless In A.P. (Hindu, George Mathew, Apr 17, 2001)
WHEN THE World Bank President, Mr. James D. Wolfensohn, visited Andhra Pradesh in November 2000 a briefing note on the State prepared by the Bank team stated that the Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, was India's leading State reformer.
- The Menace Of Poaching (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 17, 2001)
ANIMAL POACHING CONTINUES relentlessly despite a tough law.
- Errors Of Commission (Hindustan Times, AG Noorani , Apr 17, 2001)
Its threat to press freedom apart, the Tehelka commission is utterly irrelevant as an exercise for restoring public confidence and unworkable as a mechanism for ascertaining the truth.
- In Cold Blood (Hindustan Times, Vinod Raina, Apr 17, 2001)
The land of Dewas which inspired E.M. Foster’s writings and Kumar Gandharva’s musical creations (both lived here), and where the messengers of peace, the Kabir panthis have performed for centuries, has finally been bloodied.
- Knocked Senseless (The Economic Times, Alok Sharma, Apr 17, 2001)
THE SENSEX crashed over 1,200 points to 3,183 after Yashwant Sinha’s `historic’ budget and the stockmarkets are in a shambles.
- Vsnl: A Golden Goose Or A Lame Duck? (The Economic Times, Vardharajan Sridhar, Apr 17, 2001)
WHEN the Cabinet announced its intention to offload 25 per cent government equity in VSNL on February 1, the market reacted sharply. The price of VSNL touched Rs 382, an increase of Rs 52 over the previous day’s close.
- Sign Of Ill-Health (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 17, 2001)
THE LATEST estimates suggest that the annual inflation rate has dropped to below 5 per cent.
- Don’t Blame Globalisation For Growing Inequalities (The Economic Times, Neeraj Kaushal, Apr 17, 2001)
ONCE upon a time, it used to be the foreign hand. If there was anything wrong with the economy, politicians blamed the ubiquitous foreign hand. If there were any major law and order problems, the invisible foreign hand became the scapegoat.
- End Of Compact Between Govt & People (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Apr 17, 2001)
THE compact between the rulers and those they govern in a democracy even as chaotic as in its Indian variation is that beyond the rules and regulations and the instruments of enforcing authority, there is an almost intangible moral force that prevails.
- Role Of Govt In Economic System (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 17, 2001)
ONE of the great advantages of writing in the early 1990s is that the supremacy of the market system over the centrally-planned systems is beyond dispute.
- The Road To Ranchi (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 16, 2001)
This might be the ultimate test of Mr Laloo Prasad Yadav’s legendary inventiveness.
- Grounded Phoenix (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 16, 2001)
It will be difficult for this phoenix to rise again. Mr Shibu Soren’s occupation seems to have gone with the loss of his Rajya Sabha membership from Jharkhand.
- No Use Blaming The General (Telegraph, BHASKAR DUTTA , Apr 16, 2001)
The Agra summit has naturally generated a great deal of media attention on Pakistan.
- A Thief In The Night: Understanding Aids (Telegraph, Vishwas R. Gaitonde, Apr 16, 2001)
Vishwas R. Gaitonde’s A Thief in the Night: Understanding Aids is a thoroughly researched and informative book that has freed itself from many of the prejudices and reticences that dog the Indian HIV/AIDS campaign.
- Peace Or Pandemonium? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 16, 2001)
OMENS are not very good for peaceful and purposeful conduct of Parliament which meets today for its second phase of the budget session.
- June Elections In The States (Tribune, T. V. Rajeswar, Apr 16, 2001)
THE elections due in early June in the states of Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry are likely to produce results which may hold out big surprises and upset the NDA government at the Centre.
- Anandgarh: A Project Corbusier Would Not Have Liked (Tribune, Anupam Gupta, Apr 16, 2001)
“I have welcomed very greatly one experiment in India: Chandigarh,” Jawaharlal Nehru said in 1959, speaking at a seminar and exhibition of architecture. “It is the biggest example in India of experimental architecture.
- A Gesture Of Reconciliation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 16, 2001)
IN A HISTORIC act of reconciliation, even of atonement, the German Chancellor, Mr. Gerhard Schroeder, has paid homage to the victims of Hitler's war in the imperial Russian capital.
- The Indo-U.S. Engagement (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Apr 16, 2001)
WASHINGTON COULD not have been unaware of the problem created for the coalition Government in New Delhi by the Tehelka expose, but did not let it cast a shadow over the first formal contacts between it and the new administration.
- Need For International Attention (Hindu, Harish Khare , Apr 16, 2001)
LONDON: Early this month, about two dozen ``Kashmiri'' groups, based in various parts of Britain, converged in London to pool their energies in engaging British law-makers and opinion- builders on the need for international attention to the Kashmir issue.
- Silver Lining (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 16, 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.
- A Joke Called Choice (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Apr 16, 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.
- Corruption Matters (Times of India, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Apr 16, 2001)
IT is often wrongly claimed that most Indians have become rather cynical about corruption.
- Trips And Aids (Hindu, Arvind Subramanian, Apr 16, 2001)
FOLLOWING THE flurry of frenetic activity over the last few months as western pharmaceutical companies have tumbled over each other to reduce prices of AIDS drugs to Africa, a calm has descended.
- Cruel Month (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 16, 2001)
APRIL, wrote T S Eliot, is the cruellest month. India’s economy seems bent on proving him correct. Stockmarket indices have halved in value in a little more than a year.
- Proceed With Caution (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 16, 2001)
THE LINK BETWEEN the country's banking system and its stock market has been tenuous in the best of times and is far more complicated than what is apparent.
- Rolling Out The Persian Carpet (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 16, 2001)
The cultures of India and Iran successfully mingled in the field of architecture.
- Doctored, Alas! (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 16, 2001)
RECENT events show that in India Ph.D does not stand for Doctor of Philosophy.
- End Rent Control (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 16, 2001)
IF Delhi and many of our other cities are dotted with slums, it is only for one reason: rent control.
- When The Going Gets Tough (The Economic Times, Rama Bijapurkar, Apr 16, 2001)
IT'S the winter of our discontent again, as the pendulum of consumer demand journeys from the 'there's lots more where this came from' end to the 'wonder where it disappeared' end.
- Problems With Judicial Activism (The Economic Times, S. L. Rao, Apr 16, 2001)
UNTIL recently, criticism about judicial activism was confined to its role in hearing and judging petitions filed in the public interest.
- 'The Risk Averse Should Avoid Equity' (The Economic Times, Alok Vajpeyi, Apr 16, 2001)
THE CRISIS ridden Indian stockmarket seems to be under siege on all fronts. Domestic and international factors have conspired to take the BSE Sensex to a 28-month low.
- With Leaders Like This, Who Needs Enemies? (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 16, 2001)
Hindu communalists often run down Indian Muslims by claiming that they are Muslims first and Indians second.
- Inside A Bomb Shell (Hindustan Times, Jacques E. C. Hymans, Apr 16, 2001)
SINCE INDIA explosively announced its intention to become a ‘nuclear power’ in May 1998, the BJP government and the strategic elites have been asking themselves the same question: what in the world does being a ‘nuclear power’ get you?
- Goodbye To All That (Hindustan Times, Amulya Ganguli, Apr 16, 2001)
THERE IS a pithy Bengali saying: Bhuter mookhey Ram nam. It refers to the unlikely event of a ghost taking the name of Ram when, normally, the spectral beings flee if the Hindu god is mentioned.
- Green Laws (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 16, 2001)
First, it was the turn of polluting industries in the Capital. In its relentless endeavour to improve the quality of life, the Supreme Court directed that they relocate to outlying areas.
- Games People Play (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 16, 2001)
THE PAKISTAN Table Tennis Federation’s ‘sudden’ decision to pull out of the Commonwealth tournament being held in India is just not cricket.
- In Diplomat’s Garb (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 16, 2001)
THE detention and the subsequent expulsion of a Pakistani diplomat from Kathmandu following the recovery of 16 kg of explosives from his possession confirms how deep the penetration of Pakistani intelligence in Nepal is.
- Why Dr Bimal Jalan Prefers To Be Unfashionable (The Economic Times, Mythili Bhusnurmath, Apr 16, 2001)
HOW will the US slowdown affect India? Till fairly recently, that was seen more as an academic question.
- Graceland Geek (Times of India, Chidanand Rajghatta, Apr 16, 2001)
HOW typical of Dewang Mehta to walk out on us from a hotel room in Sydney. He was always a difficult guy to catch.
- The Road To Ranchi (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 15, 2001)
This might be the ultimate test of Mr Laloo Prasad Yadav’s legendary inventiveness.
- Apex Court Shows The Way (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 15, 2001)
Law is said to be an ass. There is some substance in this observation. Since interpretation of legal provisions is not only a matter of detail but also of manipulation, those familiar with the system do often make an ass of law.
- Will The Lion And The Tiger Live In Peace? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 15, 2001)
On the face of it, the LTTE's demand that Colombo lift the ban on it is one the Government cannot concede. But, says NIRUPAMA SUBRAMANIAN, the situation does not seem that dire.
- 'Two Many' Fronts (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 15, 2001)
The Antony-Karunakaran feud is decades old. The difference this time is in the reversal of roles with Mr. Karunakaran now the underdog. GIRISH MENON reports.
- Crafting An Alliance (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 15, 2001)
A lot of diplomatic work lies ahead before the idea of strategic cooperation between India and the U.S. is translated into reality, writes C. RAJA MOHAN.
- Will She, Won't She? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 15, 2001)
Will Benazir Bhutto end her self-exile and return? How will the military react? These are questions, writes B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, that are exercising Pakistan society.
- Food For Thought (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 15, 2001)
Now it can be told. Only the uninformed would assume that Uttar Pradesh chief minister Rajnath Singh won the recent by-election on the strength of the political messages he beamed from his campaign platforms.
- India, The U.S. And China's Long Shadow (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 15, 2001)
For all the arguments by Indian officials on the need to see Mr. Jaswant Singh's Washington visit on its own merits, there is no getting away from the Beijing angle, says SRIDHAR KRISHNASWAMI.
- A Thief In The Night: Understanding Aids (Telegraph, Vishwas R. Gaitonde, Apr 15, 2001)
Vishwas R. Gaitonde’s A Thief in the Night: Understanding Aids is a thoroughly researched and informative book that has freed itself from many of the prejudices and reticences that dog the Indian HIV/AIDS campaign.
- Silver Lining (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 15, 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.
- A Joke Called Choice (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Apr 15, 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.
- Congress Leader With Solid Base (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Apr 15, 2001)
SOME people never give up and octogenarian K. Karunakaran is one of them. Completing 83, he has always thrived on controversies and once a challenge is thrown to him, he enjoys the fight.
- Perennially Unsafe Delhi (Tribune, Shyam Ratna Gupta, Apr 15, 2001)
BEFORE attempting a survey of the current messy situation in Delhi after the Gujarat earthquake, it is relevant to recapture the memories of Delhi and its history in 1945-55.
- Four In The Fray (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 15, 2001)
In Japan, the elders in the ruling party, the LDP would have preferred selecting a new leader but the younger lot have forced an election. F. J. KHERGAMVALA reports.
- J&k Elephant And Blind Men (Tribune, Rakshat Puri, Apr 15, 2001)
THE Vajpayee Government has announced a general and open invitation for talks to all those sections and groups in Jammu-Kashmir that want peace.
- 'Fundament'al Rights (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 15, 2001)
CIVIC services are going from bad to worse.
- In Search Of A Homeland (Hindu, Harish Khare , Apr 15, 2001)
NOTTINGHAM (U.K.): Have you ever seen a flag of Kashmir?
- Aids To Development (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 15, 2001)
The chief minister of Andhra Pradesh seems to have hit upon a unique method of measuring development in his state.
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