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Articles 26321 through 26420 of 27558:
- Mr Sinha's budget bughear (Daily Excelsior, Sisir Basu, Feb 08, 2001)
It must be said to the credit of the Finance Minister, Mr. Yashwant Sinha, that he has been taking great pains, ever since he took over, to de-mystify the budgetary process and make it a participatory exercise. This year too he has had sittings with econo
- The State of Republic (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Feb 08, 2001)
The President, Mr. K.R. Narayanan, has developed an image which is closer to that of being a critic of the present standards of the country's governance than a supportive rubberstamp of the Government's policies and actions. A great many citizens have wel
- Rebuilding Gujarat, a challenge (Business Line, Menka Shivdasani , Feb 08, 2001)
WHAT does it feel like to be cheated by nature, to lose your home, loved ones, livelihood and confidence? What does it feel like to survive all this and still be afraid that the ground under you may shake yet again -- and maybe this time round, you won't
- The Malaise of 'over populated Government (Daily Excelsior, S. Vaidya Nathan, Feb 08, 2001)
Pre-budget consultations or what passes for these in the North Block, usually traverse the entire landscape of economic policy. They rarely come to grips with the daunting challenges that lie in the domain of governance. Media reports on the Finance Minis
- Mixing good economics with bad politics (Pioneer, Abhimanyu, Feb 07, 2001)
Notwithstanding economic reforms, oil continues to remain a sticky issue for the Indian economy.
- PMK pullout from NDA -- Politics of pressure or blackmail? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Feb 07, 2001)
BY WITHDRAWING both his ministers from the Union Cabinet and his party's support to the National Democratic Alliance Government in Delhi, the Pattali Makkal Katchi founder, Dr S. Ramadoss, has fired the first salvo of the Tamil Nadu Assembly electoral bat
- Southern breeze (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Feb 07, 2001)
NOTHING DEMONSTRATES the primacy of opportunism in today’s politics more effectively than the PMK’s decision to leave the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance for the sake of greener pastures in Tamil Nadu.
- National accounts: Facts versus fiction (Business Line, P R Brahmananda , Feb 07, 2001)
THE Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) has released its quick estimates of national income, consumption expenditure, saving and capital formation for 1999-2000. Gross domestic product at factor cost increased at 6.6 per cent in 1998-99 and at 6.4 per
- Churning in TN politics (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 07, 2001)
POLITICS in Tamil Nadu is blatantly promiscuous. Walking out of one marriage of convenience to another hastily rigged one is the most popular sport. So it is that the DMK, the pillar of the anti-BJP United Front of 1996-99 vintage is these days a key elem
- Focus on farms (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Feb 07, 2001)
THERE IS bad news on the economic front. The latest estimates for GDP growth for 2000-01 by the Central Statistical Organisation show clear signs of a slowdown. Even if it is only a marginal decline of 0.5 per cent from the estimated growth of 6.5 per cen
- Mixing good economics with bad politics (Pioneer, Abhimanyu, Feb 07, 2001)
Notwithstanding economic reforms, oil continues to remain a sticky issue for the Indian economy.
- Sikhs mount pressure for security, warn migration (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Feb 07, 2001)
NEW DELHI, Feb 6: Sikh leaders today mounted pressure on the Centre for adequate security to protect the community from being targeted by militants in Jammu and Kashmir even as Home Minister L K Advani said the recent attacks on it were aimed at triggerin
- Russian help for LCA (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 07, 2001)
THE OFFER FROM Mr. Mikhail Pogosyan, head of the Russian Sukhoi Aircraft company, to help India with its project for the making of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) should come as a surprise to the Government of India which would have regarded it as very un
- Handling a disaster (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 07, 2001)
IT HAS TAKEN a calamity of the magnitude of the Gujarat earthquake for the Central Government to decide to constitute a permanent and high-powered disaster management committee. This follows the decision last week to set up an empowered Group of Ministers
- Shotgun polygamy (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Feb 07, 2001)
WHILE HERE in India, everyone’s uncle is wracking his brains to find a way of solving the nation’s population problem, in Russia things are different. With the population there falling by half a million every year and the rate of decrease speeding up, Rus
- Sonia Gandhi's political dip (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Feb 07, 2001)
If you can't beat them, join them, seems to be the resolution made by the Congress(I) President, Ms. Sonia Gandhi. Hence, perhaps, her visit to the Kumbh Mela for a semi-snan at the sangam of the Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati.
- Tripartite ventures -- Backdoor entry for foreign insurers? (Business Line, S. Subramanyan , Feb 07, 2001)
The emergence of tripartite ventures could create problems for the insurance industry. Parliament should take the earliest opportunity to debate whether its passing the Bill with a 26 per cent equity cap could be circumvented by the Executive and the indu
- Invitation to disaster (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 07, 2001)
FROM the debris of the earthquake devastated region of Gujarat have emerged tales of the nexus between the builders and corrupt politicians and civil servants. The scale of destruction of life and property would have been much less had the realtors helped
- Knowing more about persistent organic pollutants (Daily Excelsior, Dr B K Fotedear, Feb 07, 2001)
Everything about pollution in water, pollution near industries of various concerns, vehicular pollution, noise pollution has been heard of, but a common man is ignorant about persistant organic pollutants, which presently have created a havoc globally. Pe
- A dangerous turn (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 07, 2001)
THE situation is taking a turn for the worse in Kashmir, perhaps as scripted across the border. After the migration of over three lakh Pandits from the valley, it may now be the turn of the Sikhs to say "alvida" to their Muslim compatriots, with whom they
- Did Clinton’s visit help women of Naila? (Tribune, Reeta Sharma, Feb 07, 2001)
WOMEN of Naila village in Jaipur district of Rajasthan were suddenly on all TV channels of the world on March 23 last year. And why not ? After all they had the super power of the world — America’s President Bill Clinton — visiting them as a guest. He had
- Political slogans - Past and present (Daily Excelsior, Ajit Jamwal, Feb 07, 2001)
Digging deep into historical past, we find slogans coined by freedom fighters and authors of various revolutions finding massive popularity with the people. To be precise they have helped in changing the course of history. In 1773, when the American colon
- Chattisinghpora picket attacked SOG Srinagar nabs 7 ultras (Daily Excelsior, Excelsior Correspondent, Feb 07, 2001)
SRINAGAR, Feb 6: Two days after the gunning down of six Sikhs here, militants attacked a police picket set up for protection of minority community in Sikh-dominated Chattisinghpora in Anantnag district last night.
- Heading nowhere (Pioneer, V. K. Grover, Feb 07, 2001)
January was a cold month. The tragic earthquake and the loss of lives was very disturbing.
- Indigenous fighter aircraft LCA flies, but has long distance to cover (Tribune, R. S. Bedi, Feb 07, 2001)
JANUARY 4, 2001, will go in the annals of Indian aviation history in golden letters. After 17 years of labour and Rs 3000 crore of investment, the much-maligned LCA (light combat aircraft) took to the air at 10.15 a.m. with Wg Cdr Rajive Kothiyal at the c
- Uniformed thugs (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 06, 2001)
Like police forces in most other parts of the country, Delhi Police has a rather sordid record of brutality.
- IDENTITY POLITICS BECOMES MILITANT (Telegraph, MURARI MOHAN MUKHERJEE, Feb 06, 2001)
Last year, nearly 90 Hindi-speaking people were killed in Assam. A new militant outfit called the Assam Tiger Force claimed responsibility for the massacre. But the Assam police claims that the killings were engineered by the United Liberation Front of As
- Someone interesting (Pioneer, Madhav Acharya, Feb 06, 2001)
So have you met anyone...interesting?" my mother asked casually in our last phone conversation. I knew exactly what she meant.
- Is FDI the real panacea for LDCs? (Business Line, Arun Ghosh, Feb 06, 2001)
THE LATEST UNCTAD Report, The Competitiveness Challenge: Transnational Corporations and Industrial Restructuring in Developing Countries (2000), addresses an issue vitally relevant for the evaluation of the ongoing process of globalisation and liberalisat
- Fresh signals from Kashmir (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 06, 2001)
THE apparently planned killing of six Sikhs in Srinagar's Mahjoornagar locality on Saturday makes one believe that the enemies of the cause of peace in Kashmir are hyper-active again. After the failure in provoking the security forces by selectively targe
- VRS catches on (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 06, 2001)
PUBLIC sector banks are trying to cope with the massive response of employees, both senior and junior officers and assistants, to the VRS (voluntary retirement scheme). More than a dozen banks have offered generous packages under a plan devised by the Ind
- The output gap? (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 06, 2001)
GOING BY THE latest release of the Central Statistical Organisation, the economy seems to have performed reasonably well in 1999-2000 despite a number of constraints.
- BATTLE OF THE BOOKWRITERS (Telegraph, BRINDA BOSE, Feb 06, 2001)
One must grant,” says Ramachandra Guha in a recent bitter invective, “that Arundhati Roy is a courageous woman. Other novelists like to shut themselves away from the world, but she has sought engagement with it…Most writers have been individualists and ca
- A nuclear force structure for India (Daily Excelsior, Gurmeet Kanwal, Feb 06, 2001)
While India's nuclear doctrine and strategy are still being debated and fine-tuned, it is necessary to simultaneously move towards establishing a balanced and overtly visible nuclear force structure, with a viable command and control system in order to en
- Safeguarding farmers rights (Daily Excelsior, Satyendra Pratap Singh, Feb 06, 2001)
The Joint Parliamentary Committee on "the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Bill, 1999" has held discussions with several interested groups to ascertain their views on the changes to be incorporated in the revised Bill.
- Jharkhand to rewrite its destiny (Daily Excelsior, Fazal Mehmood, Feb 06, 2001)
India's 28th state, Jharkhand, has waxed and waned as an idea. The political overtones of the demand have shifted, with parties engaging in fierce turf wars to retain the loyalty of Jharkhandis and champion the move for a new state. As circumstance would
- DASTARDLY ACT (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Feb 06, 2001)
Massacre of 6 people belonging to Sikh community and causing severe injuries to another eight by Pak-sponsored terrorists in Srinagar is most cowardly, dastardly and despicable act. It has been condemned by every citizens irrespective of race, creed and c
- Heightening provocation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 06, 2001)
THE GUNNING DOWN of six persons belonging to the Sikh community in Srinagar last Saturday, an obvious and desperate attempt by the pan-Islamic militant groups to scuttle the tenuous peace process now under way in Jammu and Kashmir, is qualitatively somewh
- Bureaucracy should not let it be (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, Feb 06, 2001)
The National Capital is in the midst of another crisis, where almost all political parties are making all efforts; to guard or cultivate vote banks.
- Scenario after new insurance policy Challenges and opportunities for companies (Tribune, Satya Prakash Singh , Feb 06, 2001)
THE globalisation — liberalisation — privatisation wave supported by the information and communications revolution has impacted the insurance sector in India also. After a lot of hullabaloo, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Act came into effect ab
- Waiting for a new Asian drama (Pioneer, APS Chauhan, Feb 06, 2001)
On the morrow of the twenty-first century, Asia has edged forward to claim the global centre-stage, for reason overwhelmingly geo-strategic than-geo-economic. The national missile defence (NMD) system that the newly sworn in US President, George W Bush is
- Understanding Himachal Health Vision-2020 (Tribune, Shriniwas Joshi, Feb 06, 2001)
Himachal Pradesh is ranked first among the other states of India by committing itself to Himachal Health Vision-2020. The political and administrative commitment to see that the contents of Health Vision turn into a reality was given by the Chief Minister
- Book on Rajan Pillai to open Pandora’s box (Tribune, Sanu George, Feb 06, 2001)
THE controversy over the death of business magnate Rajan Pillai in Delhi’s Tihar Jail in July, 1996, is back in the news with a new book that looks at his life, his rise and the furore over his death.
- Royal India’s jewellery taken out of country (Tribune, Shyam Bhatia, Feb 06, 2001)
INDIA’S most spectacular royal jewels are believed to have been taken out of the country after Independence from the British and disposed of in foreign capitals, according to the authors of a newly published book “Maharaja’s Jewels.”
- India ho! (Hindustan Times, Ishan Chaudhuri, Feb 06, 2001)
WHILE FINGERS were kept crossed in Delhi about who would be stepping into Karl Inderfurth’s shoes as US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia ("Please god, not that Shirin Tahir-Kheli woman! We all know what she wants!"), far far away in Washington,
- "We have to grow more from less land" (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 06, 2001)
WITH the population growing steeply in the developing countries, scientists estimate that world food production would have to increase by 50 per cent in the next 25 years to sustain the growing numbers. This has to be achieved from less land, pesticides,
- Tyrannical servants (Pioneer, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Feb 06, 2001)
In his Republic Day eve address to the nation, President KR Narayanan has rightly pointed out that the governance of this vast country was not to be left in the hands of an "elite class". But the Honourable President fails to appreciate that his suggestio
- Logjam in logistics (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 06, 2001)
DECONGESTING THE NATION'S economic gateways has for long remained an ignored facet of the overall reform process. The commissioning of the Ennore port by the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, is therefore an initial step towards expanding the infr
- Dhanbad tragedy (Tribune, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 06, 2001)
DHANBAD did not attract the attention it deserved because of the unfolding tragedy of mind-boggling dimension in Gujarat. However, a comparison of the two incidents would reveal that the science for predicting earthquakes is still imperfect. It can be sai
- The hollowness of gestures (Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi, Feb 06, 2001)
THE CANCELLATION of the Prime Minister’s trip to Japan and Malaysia was not entirely unexpected. However, there was an ironic note concealed within the announcement of the cancellation. The Prime Minister’s Office had decided, it was announced, to postpon
- Still in denial (Hindustan Times, Prem Shankar Jha, Feb 06, 2001)
BY EXTENDING the cease-fire in Kashmir for a third month in the face of growing misgivings in the Home and Defence Ministries, and despite mounting jehadi violence, the Prime Minister has demonstrated the sincerity of his quest for peace in Kashmir. Atal
- MONEY FOR RELIEF (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Feb 06, 2001)
Government has announced surcharge on personal and corporate taxes for meeting the relief and rehabilitation needs of the earthquake affected Gujarat. This will result in additional revenue of around Rs 1200 crore. Aid worth over Rs 3500 crore has reached
- SEAMS OF DEATH (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 06, 2001)
Perhaps the deaths of miners trapped in a flooded or collapsed mine count among the many passing embarrassments for the authorities. Nothing else can explain the inundation of the Bagdigi mine, under Bharat Coking Coal Limited, one of the subsidiaries of
- DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH (Telegraph, BHASKAR DUTTA , Feb 06, 2001)
What is the most persistent problem troubling the Indian economy? It is reasonably safe to bet that an overwhelming majority of respondents would answer that it is the fiscal indiscipline which is rampant in all tiers of government in India. The fiscal de
- Dialling for Delhi (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 06, 2001)
General Pervez Musharraf's telephone call to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee last Friday, which followed Pakistan's despatch of relief material for the earthquake-stricken in Gujarat, is a development to be welcomed.
- Quake codes against houses of cards (Pioneer, Arabinda Ghose, Feb 06, 2001)
What we want to know is the whereabouts of the school's managing trustee... and his builder son who built this grave for our children. Both are conspicuous by their absence."
- Organs on order (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Feb 05, 2001)
IT IS not every day that politicians get to do their bit for the advancement of science. The other day, however, the members of Britain’s House of Lords did just that when they gingerly nodded their ayes to the controversial legislation on the cloning of
- Now, PSUs looking for bank-type VRS package -- Govt in a fix over downsizing (Business Line, Shaji Vikraman , Feb 05, 2001)
THE runaway success of the voluntary retirement scheme introduced by almost a dozen commercial banks has now put pressure on the Finance Ministry, with several public sector companies seeking VRS packages at least on par with that offered by these banks.
- Thaw in ties (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Feb 05, 2001)
FIRST, THERE was a plane-load of relief material from Pakistan. Then, a decision in favour of India-Pakistan cricket matches (along with Bangladesh) to raise money for the quake victims. And now the first conversation between Prime Minister Atal Bihari Va
- Is there a final option (Daily Excelsior, Gen V K Madhok, Feb 05, 2001)
The situation in Kashmir remains grim and unyielding. While con-tradictory official claims of success-due to ceasefire are being dished out for public consumption, Grenade attacks, vehicles being blown up with mines, the assassination of political leaders
- Defence strategy based on Vedas (Tribune, Rakesh Datta, Feb 05, 2001)
INDIA is a land of many virtues. It was more so during ancient times when India had contributed distinctly to philosophy, art, culture, literature, politics, medicine and defence. Though big strides in all such areas could have catapulted the country to e
- Liberalisation and culture The new aristocracy in India (Tribune, Darshan Singh Maini, Feb 05, 2001)
SINCE the “globalisation” wave in South Asian countries, which reached India a decade ago with Dr Manmohan Singh as its “high priest”, we have seen a rapid rise of what may loosely be styled as “the new aristocracy”. The new “nawabs” and “maharajas” and t
- A delayed decision (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 05, 2001)
A report card on the government’s — central and the state — response to the Gujarat earthquake will read something like this. It is the ninth day after the havoc and an all-party meeting decides to set up a national disaster management committee. Decides,
- Lucrative returns of terrorism (Daily Excelsior, K P S Gill, Feb 05, 2001)
The spoilers have got their voices back. Fifty-two years after a devastating Partition; nearly thirty years after the creation of Bangladesh gave the unequivocal lie to the "two-nation theory"; in the wake of frequent reports from Pakistan of the militant
- Feel-good diplomacy (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 05, 2001)
A NEW IDIOM, indicative of a potentially substantive bilateral engagement, has been spelt out by the U.S. Secretary of State, Gen. Colin Powell, in a warm reference to India. Responding to questions during a Senate panel's hearings over the confirmation o
- Ganga does not flow to Delhi (Daily Excelsior, M.J. Akbar, Feb 05, 2001)
How token can you get? Mrs Sonia Gandhi's toe-dip (or was it knee-dip) into the holy waters of Hinduism was crass, patronising and, although her spin doctors will not tell her this, will be counterproductive. Kumbh is not an exclusive pilgrimage; the etho
- Thaw in ties (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Feb 05, 2001)
FIRST, THERE was a plane-load of relief material from Pakistan. Then, a decision in favour of India-Pakistan cricket matches (along with Bangladesh) to raise money for the quake victims. And now the first conversation between Prime Minister Atal Bihari Va
- Breaking the Chill (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Feb 05, 2001)
After 16 month long hesitation, Chief Executive Officer of Pakistan Gen Musharraf has finally talked to Prime Minister Vajpayee on phone. It may be recalled that during UN General Assembly session both Musharraf and Vajpayee were in New York and there was
- After Pandits, Sikhs new target (Pioneer, Khursheed Wani, Feb 05, 2001)
On the face of it there seems little justification in targeting a community that has survived even in the worst days of violence in the Valley. But the brute truth is that the Sikhs, which form just less than one percent of the overall population of the V
- Controversy over 'who called whom' (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Feb 05, 2001)
NEW DELHI, FEB. 4. Even the expression of just a little goodwill by Pakistan amid the Gujarat disaster has not been without the usual bit of depressing diplomatic posturing. A needless controversy in Pakistan over ``who called whom'' now hangs over the te
- Musharraf scores a point (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 05, 2001)
PAKISTAN Chief Executive General Pervez Musharraf caused a political coup of sorts by ringing up Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee on Friday. The ostensible objective was to convey through the Prime Minister to the people of Gujarat his country’s sympathy and promi
- Musharraf talks tough (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Feb 05, 2001)
ISLAMABAD, FEB. 4. Barely 48 hours after the feel-good factor generated in India and Pakistan thanks to the brief telephonic conversation between their heads of the state on the Gujarat earthquake, the Pakistan Chief Executive, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, toda
- Sunny side up (Hindustan Times, Jayashree Sengupta, Feb 05, 2001)
THE CORPORATE world gathered in Davos recently to be enlightened about the state of the world economy. They were not there just to hear ministers from developing countries make speeches about the inequities of globalisation, but also to scout around for t
- Organs on order (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Feb 05, 2001)
IT IS not every day that politicians get to do their bit for the advancement of science. The other day, however, the members of Britain’s House of Lords did just that when they gingerly nodded their ayes to the controversial legislation on the cloning of
- Ceasefire meaningless till Pak reins in militants: Farooq (Daily Excelsior, Excelsior Correspondent, Feb 05, 2001)
CHENNAI, Feb 4: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah today said the unilateral ceasefire initiative in Kashmir would be meaningless unless Pakistan reined in militants operating from there.
- In praise of dialogue (Hindustan Times, Dominic Emmanuel, Feb 05, 2001)
AS THE last years of the second millennium came to a close, conflicts on the international and national levels continued to fester. None of them, however, have ended up in enormous human tragedies such as the Holocaust during World War II or the annihilat
- Not a harmless exercise (Hindustan Times, Amulya Ganguli, Feb 05, 2001)
LIKE THE saffronisation of education, the setting up of a committee to review the Constitution represents an insidious attempt by the Sangh parivar to make the democratic system conform to its own sectarian outlook. The panel was set up by the Vajpayee Go
- Controversial, not consultation, papers (Tribune, Anupam Gupta, Feb 05, 2001)
IT is President K.R. Narayanan versus the Constitution Review Commission once again. And no matter how hard the Commission’s head, Mr Justice M.N. Venkatachaliah, might try to explain away the dark intentions of some of his colleagues on the panel, the pr
- Srinagar tense as Sikhs violate curfew (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Feb 05, 2001)
SRINAGAR, FEB. 4. Violating the curfew imposed in Srinagar, hundreds of Sikhs today cremated the bodies of six members of their community, killed by unidentified gunmen on Saturday evening, amid chanting of religious slogans. (A PTI report said the Shirom
- Musharraf regime is power crazy (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 04, 2001)
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was jailed for "trying to sow dissension" within the ranks of the military. Yet, when the Jamaat Islami chief asked the Army to replace Chief Executive Officer, General Pervez Musharraf, he was invited to a dialogue. Thi
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