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Articles 25121 through 25220 of 27558:
- Leave cinema alone (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2001)
CINEMA IS THE newest art form which continues to explore, learning and unlearning as it moves along. Its freshness of ideas, its novelty of experiments and its ease with technology amaze us no end. And it is this medium that the Government at the Centre s
- Friendship Of Opportunists (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 05, 2001)
ASSAM IS not quite the place where one will look for the kind of impact which the tehelka.com revelations has made on the BJP.
- Sex ratio shows a positive trend (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2001)
CHENNAI, APRIL 4. The sex ratio in the State has shown a positive trend with an increase in the female sex ratio in all but one district - Dharmapuri-as per the provisional figures of the Census 2001.
- Stand-Off In China (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 05, 2001)
THE SINO-AMERICAN confrontation could not have come at a worse time considering that it has followed the recent hardening of Washington’s attitude towards Beijing.
- The odd couple (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 05, 2001)
The BJP negates itself when it aligns with the AGP.
IT’S certain that divided they fall. But it’s not so certain that united they stand. It’s because of this realisation that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) have decided
- Lucre through babies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2001)
CRASS SOCIETAL FAILURE is now manifest in yet another shameful form: the sale of girl infants from impoverished Lambada tribal pockets of Gulbarga district in Karnataka. Poverty, though inseparable from the painful practice, should not, by any justificati
- Lecturing relic (Pioneer, Sudhansu Mohanty , Apr 05, 2001)
Professor Mencinger sported a beard, all grey, and a forehead furrowed with deep creases. The specs on his nose-bridge coupled with the grey beard gave his face a scholarly look. Handsome in a tired sort of a way, he began his lectures on Macroeconomics w
- Global competition: strategies for Indian businesses (Hindu, R. Parthasarathy , Apr 05, 2001)
In a complex and dynamic global competitive environment, adaptive capability is the key to survival and growth. Indian businesses will find themselves on the road to rapid growth when they have learned to think and act adaptively, say Raghavan Parthasarth
- Quest for Settlement on Kashmir (Daily Excelsior, B K Karkra, Apr 05, 2001)
Fires of insurgency are burning in many parts of the country, but our main area of worry at the moment is, of course, Kashmir. Here, Pakistan has been fighting a proxy war with us for over a decade at hardly any cost to itself. This roguishness has its ro
- Jammu Border (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 05, 2001)
At a time when the lull continues to prevail along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, war of attrition has begun between New Delhi and Islamabad. Clearly, Pakistan has supplied the ignition spark, making the International Border in Jammu sect
- Verma’s dirt: Both Sinha and Vittal have their reasons (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin & Sunil Jain, Apr 05, 2001)
New Delhi, April 4: Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha’s comment that there was ‘‘nothing on record’’ to prevent the appointment of B P Verma as the Customs chief is disputed by Central Vigilance Commissioner N Vittal. For, Vittal was the one who had warned
- Chief of Defence Staff (Hindu, V. R. Raghavan , Apr 05, 2001)
THERE ARE indications that a Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) would be nominated by the Government. This would probably be the most dramatic outcome of the deliberations of the Group of Ministers who effectively form the National Security Council.
- Fencing row (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 05, 2001)
General Pervez Musharraf's argument that India should not build defensive structures along its borders is premised on a shaky ground.
- The long march of the zeroes (Pioneer, Shibani Dasgupta, Apr 05, 2001)
The political scenario in the country can be compared to a brewing pot. Some ingredients like the Congress party and the BJP have boiled and softened due to their political experience. However, the smaller regional parties, that once formed the United Fro
- Wages of Venality (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Apr 05, 2001)
India has risen a notch higher in the hierarchy of corrupt societies where it already occupied a top slot, according to a survey conducted by businessmen with worldwide experience of dealing with different countries. Such dubious distinction is not earned
- The tobacco epidemic (Daily Excelsior, Dr Roopa Vajpeyi, Apr 05, 2001)
The Tobacco Products Bill 2000 that has been introduced by the NDA government has brought back tobacco-related problems into sharp focus. India has for long been a soft target for tobacco companies who have been reaping rich rewards due to lax and ambival
- S.C. breather for Delhi Govt. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2001)
NEW DELHI, APRIL 4. The Supreme Court today directed the Delhi Chief Secretary to file an affidavit on the reported statements of the Chief Minister and the Transport Minister on its order regarding the conversion of public transport vehicles in Delhi int
- Uzbek smuggling: Customs officers escape CBI net (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2001)
NEW DELHI, APRIL 3. In the Olga Korizeva smuggling case, the Central Bureau of Investigation has zeroed in only on small fries. So far, it has preferred to ignore the big fish allegedly responsible for letting off the Uzbek woman with just fines on her sm
- The two faces of public health (Hindu, Ritu Priya, Apr 05, 2001)
PUBLIC POLICY debates have voiced concern about the content of education and pedagogic methods, but little is being debated about the approach to public health problems and the content of public health interventions.
- Another Verma associate held (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2001)
NEW DELHI, APRIL 4. Yet another arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today in the corruption and bribery case, involving the former Customs and Excise chief, Mr. B.P. Verma, took the total number of arrests so far to six.
- Stink In The Tale (Hindustan Times, Bhaskar Ghose, Apr 05, 2001)
THE PAST few weeks have really brought the maggots out in the open. First, it was the tehelka.com sting operation.
- No custom of duty (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 05, 2001)
It is a measure of the rottenness of the system that a man like BP Verma, against whom there is a long list of allegations of manipulation and corruption, could rise to the sensitive and, for the venal, extremely lucrative post of chairman of the Central
- A Little Exposé Of Their Own (Hindustan Times, Ajit Bhattacharjea , Apr 05, 2001)
ON THE surface, little distinguishes Beawar from other small towns in Rajasthan and the rest of the country.
- Navy defends Barak deal (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Apr 05, 2001)
NEW DELHI, APRIL 4. The Navy today defended the Barak missile deal with Israel, citing the unavailability of the indigenous Trishul system and acquisition of state-of-the-art weaponry by Pakistan, as reasons.
- City student to be honoured (Hindu, Harichandan A.A, Apr 05, 2001)
BANGALORE, APRIL 4. Last September, ten-year-old Vikas Sarangadhara wanted to take uni- cellular algae in a test tube to Mars. The idea was to see if elementary living organisms would survive on the Martian surface. He was the youngest student scientist s
- Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 05, 2001)
But New Delhi’s decision to do just that in Kashmir appears to have triggered the latest spat between India and Pakistan.
- The Exim Step (The Economic Times, H. H. Desai, Apr 05, 2001)
THE EXIM policy will not change the ground realities. It has liberalised almost everything — toothbrushes, agarbatti, apples and so on.
- Policy Lessons From The Recent Stock Market Crisis (The Economic Times, L C Gupta, Apr 05, 2001)
IT IS now clear that not implementing the rolling settlement system, nor enforcing a uniform settlement cycle across all stock exchanges, was a great folly on the Sebi’s part.
- Irrational Exuberance (The Economic Times, Prabhat Kumar, Apr 05, 2001)
THE 1990s was the Nasdaq decade. The index gained 600 per cent, against 300 per cent for Dow and S&P.
- Bad Faith (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 05, 2001)
THE `holy cows’ of the exim policy — cigarettes, alcohol and automobiles — leave free traders with a bad taste in the mouth.
- Defence deals revelations expose India's poor governance (Daily Excelsior, Maj Gen (Retd) V K Madhok, Apr 05, 2001)
Tehelka.com revelations on discreditable defence deals have shaken the NDA Government. Besides exposing the reputation of armed forces to public censure, these have uncovered the rotten and disgusting system of governance from which India is suffering. Fu
- The rot in the core (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2001)
THE PUBLIC PERCEPTION of pervasive corruption in the system of tax administration has now only been reinforced. The sensational allegations made against the former Chairman of the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), Mr. B.P. Verma, on Monday at th
- India: Waking up to mother's rights (Daily Excelsior, J Niti, Apr 04, 2001)
A Canadian woman who attended the special United Nations Assembly on Women in New York last year was shocked when the world body refused to allow her to breast-feed her five-month-old-baby while attending meetings.
- Now for some action (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 04, 2001)
FINANCE minister Yashwant Sinha has made no bones about his commitment to the reform process. As also of his determination to cleanse stock markets. Markets can take heart from this.
- We have right to build defences in J&K: India (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2001)
NEW DELHI, APRIL 3. Citing sponsorship of cross-border terrorism by Pakistan, India today asserted its right to construct ``defensive structures'' in Jammu and Kashmir as and when required.
- Kashmiri leaders discuss steps to resolve crisis (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2001)
GENEVA, APRIL 3. Representatives of various political outfits in Jammu and Kashmir, including the All-Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) met here informally, for the first time, to discuss the scenario in the State.
- Verma's Chennai middleman held (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2001)
NEW DELHI, APRIL 3. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today made one more arrest in the corruption case involving the former Chairman of the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), Mr. B.P. Verma, taking the total arrests to five.
- Weaknesses in the BJP and NDA (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Apr 04, 2001)
AS the two main political formations digest the consequences of the tehelka.com tapes, the Bharatiya Janata Party has finally got the message while the Congress is still unsure of its next move. The BJP has begun its Herculean task of repairing its compro
- Messages from the census (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 04, 2001)
THERE are both comforting and depressing messages from the census figures. The cheerful development is that the annual population growth rate has come down to 1.93 per cent from 2.14 per cent in 1991, when last census operations were conducted, though the
- Lessons learnt from Mumbai (Hindu, Jyoti Punwani, Apr 04, 2001)
NASHIK, PANDHARPUR, Aurangabad, Pune, Kanpur, Srinagar. The spark lit by the burning of the Koran in Delhi has spread steadily despite the media's attempt to suppress the news initially. Mumbai too was scorched by the news, but a combination of factors pr
- The post-Tehelka scenario (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Apr 04, 2001)
THE POLITICAL turmoil, caused by the Tehelka expose, threw up many a question but only a few answers are available as of now, after a gap of three weeks. The Government and the National Democratic Alliance were badly shaken in the immediate aftermath of t
- 'Afghan situation a threat to regional stability' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2001)
GENEVA, APRIL 3. India today expressed fears that the current Afghan situation would threaten the stability of the entire region and dismissed Pakistan's recent pleas to the international community to engage with the Taliban as they were a ``reality''.
- Delhi Govt. defies S.C. order on CNG issue (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2001)
NEW DELHI, APRIL 3. Amid sporadic incidents of violence, arson and chaos on the Capital's roads, the Delhi Government and the Supreme Court today appeared heading for a confrontation over environment-friendly CNG buses with the Chief Minister, Ms. Sheila
- In the dock (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Apr 04, 2001)
THE CHAOS IN the Capital that has followed a near-total breakdown of the public transport system is yet another example of how government agencies do not take adequate steps to prepare themselves for a new situation only to wake up when the crisis is on t
- UN survey predicts 7 per cent growth (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2001)
NEW DELHI, APRIL 3. India is expected to sustain about 7 per cent GDP growth rate from 2001 to 2003 with inflation forecast at around 5 per cent over this period, according to the United Nations' survey of Asia and the Pacific. This level of expansion, th
- Omissions and emissions (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 04, 2001)
The chaos witnessed in the Capital's public transport that has thrown the entire city out of gear is, indeed, shocking. What is worse, the chaos is the product of a conspiracy by the unholy politician-mafia nexus. It is the result of a systematic sabotage
- Only 446 fast track courts start work (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2001)
NEW DELHI, APRIL 3. Though the Union Government had sanctioned Rs. 502 crores to set up 1,734 fast track courts from April 1, the response from various States indicate that only 446 such courts could commence functioning from Monday, the Union Law Ministe
- New BARC chief assumes charge (Hindu, ARUNKUMAR BHATT, Apr 04, 2001)
MUMBAI, APRIL 3. Mr. B. Bhattacharjee, the scientist-engineer who led the effort to develop uranium enrichment technology and put India among the select band of countries having this capacity, took over today as the director of the Bhabha Atomic Research
- A mountain out of mutterings (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2001)
IT TAKES the British tabloid press to remind us of the nasty bristles attached to unconventional investigative journalism.
- Money & Mosques (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 04, 2001)
Disturbing, indeed, are the disclosures about finance from Saudi Arabia for new mosques to be built in India. And India includes Jammu and Kashmir for the purpose. For one, the timing of the largesse could not have suited the busybodies of the Hindu Divid
- Step into Ali Baba’s magic cave (The Economic Times, Shubhrangshu Roy, Apr 04, 2001)
CRITICS of India’s free trade policy have called the March 31 announcement by commerce minister Murasoli Maran an April Fool’s joke.
- George's 1001 nights (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Apr 03, 2001)
One thousand and one nights ago -- or thereabouts -- the prime minister took the extraordinary step of naming as the nation's defence minister a man who had spent time in jail on a charge of naked terrorism. True, this was the same prime minister whose fi
- Corruption is custom (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2001)
It is unnerving enough that for the first time in the nation's history, its top customs official has been raided, and then arrested by the CBI in a corruption case. But what is even more disturbing in the aftermath of the CBI's nationwide swoop on the Cus
- Poor-quality pesticides abound (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2001)
AROUND 30 per cent of pesticides marketed in developing countries with an estimated market value of $900 million annually do not meet internationally accepted quality standards. They are posing a serious threat to human health and the environment, warn th
- Quake toll not less than 1 lakh: survey (Hindu, MANAS DASGUPTA, Apr 03, 2001)
BHUJ (Kutch), APRIL 2. An extensive survey conducted by the Social Studies Department of Saurashtra University has put a question mark over the Gujarat Government's official death toll in the January 26 earthquake in Kutch district.
- Jayalalitha seeks stay on conviction (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2001)
CHENNAI, APRIL 2. The former Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalitha, today moved the Madras High Court, seeking to stay the operation of the Special Court judgments convicting her in two TANSI land deal cases. The AIADMK leader specifically sought a direction to
- WTO steps will be invoked: Maran (Hindu, SUSHMA RAMACHANDRAN , Apr 03, 2001)
NEW DELHI, APRIL 2. In a bid to dispel fears of cheap imports swamping the agriculture and industry sectors, the Government is determined to use seven steps available under the World Trade Organisation rules to protect the economy. These include health an
- Case Of Too Little, Too Late? (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Apr 03, 2001)
The Government's decision to draft Mr. K. C. Pant, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, for talks with various sections of the Kashmiri people is commendable and is to be welcomed though it is a case of too little, too late.
- Tehelka in a teacup? (Hindu, Radhika Desai, Apr 03, 2001)
A WEEK into the Tehelka, after the initial shockwaves have died down, it would seem that it achieved little in the annals of corruption in this country. Like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, it has merely swelled them a scene further. The dramatic moment, if
- Buddha Saved Me (Tribune, G. K. Sharma, Apr 03, 2001)
RECENT Press Reports: "Buddha Statues (of Bamiyan) are gone", brought memories tumbling of happenings of yesteryears.
- An Accord To Auction Vital Resources (Hindu, Vandana Shiva, Apr 03, 2001)
The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is the agreement being most aggressively pushed through the ``built-in agenda'' of the WTO through no new round was possible in Seattle because of people's protests and a developing country backlash agains
- Malfeasance and markets (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2001)
THE ALLEGED SHENANIGAN perpetuated by a high profile stock-broker and his arrest ought to be viewed as a manifestation of the deep- seated malaise in the capital market environment. It will be sheer folly to assume that everything else will be hunky-dory
- Learning is a life-long process (Hindu, R. Suguna, Apr 03, 2001)
``LEARNING,'' says Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary,'' is to gain knowledge or understanding of a skill by study, instruction or experience.'' Psychologists define `learning' as the process by which changes in behaviour result from experience o
- Pak. militant groups reject Advani's offer of talks (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Apr 03, 2001)
ISLAMABAD, APRIL 2. Pakistan-based militant organisations have ``rejected'' the offer of talks with Kashmiri groups without the involvement of Pakistan even as the Musharraf Government has said that the Union Home Minister, Mr. Lal Krishna Advani's statem
- What ails the Indian stock market? (Hindu, Subramanian Swamy , Apr 03, 2001)
MY ECONOMICS teacher and later my senior co-author on the theory of index numbers, Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson, had once told me that if I wanted to play the stock market, then I should just paste the list of stocks on a notice board, throw a dart and t
- Is telecom an SSI? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 03, 2001)
THE GOVERNMENT has jeopardised the bidding process for the fourth cellular licence with its unthinking policy of allowing `limited’ mobility on CDMA platforms.
- Fresh crackdown on shahtoosh network (Hindu, Bindu Jacob, Apr 03, 2001)
NEW DELHI, APRIL 2. The Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) has urged the External Affairs Ministry to issue circulars to all heads of diplomatic missions here warning them that trading in and possession of shahtoosh shawls is illegal. It has also asked the Min
- Religion of Life: A comparative view (Daily Excelsior, M S Rao, Apr 03, 2001)
Religion, in the widest sense of the word, is an attitude to life and a code of conduct based upon a certain conception of the origin and evolution of the universe, the relation of man to the world he lives in the meaning and purpose of existence.
- The Tehelka fallout (Hindu, Satya Prakash Malaviya, Apr 03, 2001)
THE TEHELKA revelations are a bold `expose' of the murky deals and gross malpractices being indulged in by top ruling class politicians, bureaucrats and some defence officers. The present Union Government has come into disrepute, its credibility to govern
- Indian focus on racism & racial discrimination (Daily Excelsior, P N Tiku, Apr 03, 2001)
Racism and racial discrimination continue unabated the world over. The serious ethnic conflicts, the discrimination against minorities, hate sites on the Internet and youth groups promoting intolerance and xenophobia persist in various parts of the world.
- Expose or skulduggery? (Hindu, A. T. Thiruvengadam, Apr 03, 2001)
AN ANCHOR of a TV network while discussing the Tehelka episode said ``we have become the laughing-stock of the world''. The demand of the opposition parties, especially the Congress, for the resignation of the government and not for a thorough probe to fi
- Life of Indian in Australia hangs on holistic hopes (Tribune, Paritosh Parasher, Apr 03, 2001)
THE family of an Indian in Australia, who was diagnosed as brain dead, has moved the Melbourne Supreme Court to get the hospital where he is admitted not to turn off his life support system on the ground that holistic help from a New Delhi-based healing c
- J&K TALKS (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2001)
Talk of the talks on Jammu and Kashmir has, once again, begun. Significance, not much, though, is being attached to the talk of the talks, primarily because the Home Minister, LK Advani, has made public the Centre’s "decision" to hold talks with Kashmiri
- Strategy paper on higher education - a response (Hindu, Syed Sami Ullah, Apr 03, 2001)
The GOVERNMENT of Andhra Pradesh has released a strategy paper on higher education for obtaining guidance from the public in formulating priorities and policies in a sensitively vital area like higher education.
- 'Pakistan facing serious sectarian trouble' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2001)
NEW DELHI, APR. 2. With the threat of Talibanisation sweeping Pakistan, the country has been faced with another major challenge - that of rising sectarian violence, which has seen scores of people being killed in different parts of the country in the past
- Pak. protests 'provocative acts' on working boundary (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Apr 03, 2001)
ISLAMABAD, APRIL 2. Pakistan is believed to have apprised the United Nations and other important world capitals, including Washington and Beijing, about the alleged ``provocative'' acts by India on the `working boundary' between the two countries in the r
- The electoral rights of a convicted person (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2001)
THE MEDIA has become unusually active and busy to solve the imaginary problem threatening the prospects of a citizen to contest the forthcoming election to the State legislature, in view of the judgment of conviction and sentence rendered under the Preven
- Corruption as ‘political fodder’! (Tribune, M. G. Devasahayam , Apr 03, 2001)
IN the wake of the tehelka.com expose the Congress has launched a crusade, nay an “all-out war”, against corruption and has condescended to lead a coalition to unseat the much-maligned BJP-led government at the Centre. Congress president Sonia Gandhi, but
- A Blurry Political Vision (Hindu, Malini Parthasarathy, Apr 02, 2001)
ON ALL accounts, these are dismal times for the ruling BJP-led NDA coalition. Television screens in middle class homes across the country carry endless replays of incriminating footage of an audacious sting operation which caught redhanded leading politic
- Why The Bjp Lords Over The Rss (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Apr 02, 2001)
Last week the Prime Minister gave awards to eight journalists at a function organised by the RSS weekly Panchjanya. Atal Bihari Vajpayee walked on to the stage at Vigyan Bhavan where other important leaders waited for him, including RSS chief K.S. Sudersh
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