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Articles 26821 through 26920 of 27558:
- Map this hunger (Hindustan Times, Poornima Joshi, Jan 20, 2001)
The only evidence of Bolangir existing in our times is a marked territory on Orissa’s map. The place otherwise belongs to another era, a different planet. It is as difficult to spot a healthy tree in the vast, empty stretches of the dusty countryside as y
- VAJPAYEE'S SUBMISSION KASHMIR Government’s initiatives raise disturbing questions (Tribune, Sumer Kaul, Jan 20, 2001)
IT is typical of the growing trivialisation of the purpose and functions of the media that the selective release of the Prime Minister’s Musings from Kumarakom has provoked more comment than the contents of the disquisition, particularly and most disturbi
- Dairy based Integrated farming system in Agriculture (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 20, 2001)
Animal production in J&K has been a phenomenal growth in recent years. The dream of white revolution in J&K has become a reality with abundant production of milk and also of eggs, wool, meat etc. through appropriate technology and its adoption by farmers.
- FIXED TENURE (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 20, 2001)
Prime Minister A B Vajpayee's advocacy of fixed tenure of five years for Lok Sabha and State assemblies has advantages as also disadvantages when compared to the prevailing system. He justifies such tenure for ensuring 'good governance'. He should have ad
- Paying price for peace-initiative in J&K (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Jan 20, 2001)
These are crazy times indeed. We are talking of peace when the hounds of war are closing in. And the hounds, we are asked to believed, are uncontrollable and that they can be controlled only on their terms. A suicide attack by Lashkar-e-Toiba on Srinagar
- Kashmiri Pandits - Live Ling in Limbo! (Daily Excelsior, Dr R L Bhat, Jan 20, 2001)
It is eleven years that January evening of 1990 when pandemonium broke loose on the streets of Srinagar city and a thousand megaphones from mosques rang out: yeth banavoov Pakistan (this land we'd turn to Pakistan). There was a second rhyming line to this
- Chinese activities along LAC trigger whispers (Daily Excelsior, B.L.Kak, Jan 20, 2001)
China has, for obvious political and strategic reasons, placed India under a discreet watch. And India, too, is monitoring all that is happening across the borders with China. The number of binoculars, used by the border guards of the two countries, is sa
- NO TIME-FRAME (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 20, 2001)
Unlike his predecessors, Army Chief General Padmanabhan informs the nation correctly that weeding out insurgency in Jammu & Kashmir cannot be put in any time-frame. Earlier he had mentioned that none can give them guarantee for zero infiltration from acro
- Dreamers Inc (Pioneer, Sunil Kapoor , Jan 20, 2001)
Some years ago an astrologer predicted that between the years 2007-2017, China would rule over India. I did not believe him. I smiled.
- Professional problems (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 20, 2001)
Santanu K. Ganguli on the tardy treatment of the term profession in the I-T Act
- Poverty of imagination, not resources (Business Line, Vinay Kamath, Jan 20, 2001)
Dr C. K. Prahalad, Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan Business School, was in Chennai recently to address the eighth CEOs' Forum at the Academy of Management Excellence (ACME). While he jousted with some of the sharpest minds fr
- Promoting textiles (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 20, 2001)
India's textile exports have registered 8.3 per cent growth, in the first eight months of fiscal 2000-01. This should not create complacency
- Onerous task of Generalship (Hindustan Times, Kanwar Sandhu, Jan 20, 2001)
Military command is all about owning responsibility, both for success and failure. Unfortunately, none of our Generals owned up their role and responsibility for the surprise that the Pakistan army sprung in Kargil. It is apparent that even one year after
- VAJPAYEE'S SUBMISSION KASHMIR Government’s initiatives raise disturbing questions (Tribune, Sumer Kaul, Jan 20, 2001)
IT is typical of the growing trivialisation of the purpose and functions of the media that the selective release of the Prime Minister’s Musings from Kumarakom has provoked more comment than the contents of the disquisition, particularly and most disturbi
- Banking operations in 1999-2000 -- Efforts to increase profit per (Business Line, P R Brahmananda , Jan 20, 2001)
THE intermediational cost (IC) as a percentage of total assets came down in 1999-2000 to 2.56 from 2.63 the previous year in 19 nationalised banks. This is the lowest ratio in the past nine years. The highest intermediational cost ratio was 3.13 per cent,
- It pays to act tough (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 20, 2001)
THE reaction of the global community to India's test-firing of the 2000 kilometre-range Agni II missile on Wednesday has followed a predictable pattern. The genuine peaceniks, which includes Japan and with a bit of reservation even Australia, have valid r
- Which way is the ceasefire going? (Pioneer, M L Kotru, Jan 20, 2001)
New Delhi's unilateral ceasefire offer in Jammu and Kashmir is into its sixth week but there is not a shred of evidence from across the border to suggest that Gen Pervez Musharraf and his military junta give the thoughtful consideration the offer deserves
- Encouraging start (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 20, 2001)
Some of the observations made by the United States' Secretary of State-elect, Gen Colin Powell, before the United States' Senate Committee on Foreign Relations during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday, deserve close attention.
- Kashmir crisis: peace hiccups (Tribune, Gobind Thukral, Jan 20, 2001)
PERHAPS for the first time in the history of blood-soaked state of Jammu and Kashmir diplomatic moves have inspired some hope for peace. There is considerable optimism, and if no one plays foul, some compromises may be possible. This may open ways for a l
- Devil is in the details (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Jan 20, 2001)
Though the shift to `transaction value' in excise valuation is welcome, inequities remain, says S. Murlidharan
- Militancy back in J & K (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 20, 2001)
DARK clouds have gathered over the peace process horizon in the Kashmir valley. Prime Minister Vajpayee leads those who doubt the intentions of the Hurriyat and Pakistan and question the very wisdom of persisting with the nearly two-month old cease-combat
- No democratic culture (Pioneer, Rana Ajit, Jan 20, 2001)
Billed, not long ago, as "the leader-in-making" of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), "52-year-young" Saifuddin Chowdhury found the party too stifling. A progressive Left leader and an effective parliamentarian, whose contribution to the work of a nu
- True objective is justice for the weak (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Jan 20, 2001)
The Indian legal system is, today, among the most licentious in the world. Apart from the sluggishness and formalism of procedures that keeps cases dragging on for decades, it suffers from a chronic inability to punish even when guilt is established which
- Interesting moves (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 20, 2001)
VIEWED FROM ONE angle, the interest rate outlook might as Dr. Bimal Jalan, RBI Governor, says appear positive. But it is by no means clear either from that statement or available economic data whether a bank rate cut is in the offing or, for that matter,
- Burdensome granary (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 20, 2001)
IRONICALLY, THE RECENT announcement by the Agriculture Ministry that the country harvested 209 million tonnes of foodgrains in 1999-2000 -- the highest ever, particularly for rice and wheat -- failed to generate the usual euphoria because of the ongoing s
- Line of Communication (Pioneer, Maharajakrishna Rasgotra, Jan 19, 2001)
General Parvez Musharraf has been asking for resumption of the India-Pakistan dialogue ever since he took over power in October, 1999.
- CRIMINALISATION OF POLITICS (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 19, 2001)
All the big-wigs who spoke during Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Election Commission are unanimous that criminalisation of politics poses greatest threat to our democratic dispensation. President K R Narayanan strongly advocates that criminals must be den
- Power politics -- Time to free the SEBs (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jan 19, 2001)
THE `Black Tuesday' of January 2, 2001, when eight North Indian States, including the capital, were plunged into darkness due to a power failure at dawn, and the subsequent power shutdown for several days only highlighted the dismal state of affairs in th
- A good and a bad idea (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jan 19, 2001)
A commendable idea and a pernicious one — neither fresh from the baker’s oven — were aired at the golden jubilee function of the Election Commission. President K.R. Narayanan rightly reminded the country that the entry of criminal elements into legislativ
- Fire in the sky (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jan 19, 2001)
The second flight test of the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) Agni-II is unlikely to have caused any surprise. The Agni system forms a key component of India’s deterrence capability and it made no sense to delay the development of its operatio
- Giving shape to “Look East” policy (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Jan 19, 2001)
IT has been said that “non-alignment” was no foreign policy. There is an element of truth in it. But “Look East” is different. It is positive. It promotes India’s national interests. But we have not examined it in depth.
- Why bureaucracy loves globalisation (Tribune, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Jan 19, 2001)
THERE are two ways that India can grab the opportunities of globalisation. First is to tone up the bureaucracy, use our own wealth to create infrastructure and push Indian businesses to face global competition. Economic reforms are here understood as glob
- SAY 'NO' TO CRIMINALS IN POLITICS Time for all-round reforms in public life (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Jan 19, 2001)
THE Election Commission of India, which is celebrating its golden jubilee, has grown both in importance and public esteem. It has already begun to shine by contrast in the wake of the US presidential poll trauma. It showed once again that the Indian elect
- Agni passes "pariksha" (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 19, 2001)
IF Chinese leader Li Peng has a sense of humour, he may allow himself the luxury of smiling at the timing of the test-firing of Agni II by India. In fact, had China known that India would imitate its policy of exploding nuclear devices and testing missile
- The mind of God (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jan 19, 2001)
Irrespective of the special events including a scientific convention on ‘string’ theory which made Stephen Hawking come to India, it may not be too far-fetched to suggest that the country needed such a visit. At a time when fundamentalists of various hues
- Flotsam & jetsam: Rajni Patel remembered (Hindustan Times, Bhaichand Patel, Jan 19, 2001)
I guess I was lucky. On October 28, 1966, I landed in Bombay off a ship from Fiji by way of Sydney and Colombo. Two days later, I was a junior in Rajni Patel’s law chambers. I stayed with him for five years and he influenced me enormously. He was one of B
- Space programme -- India forges ahead (Daily Excelsior, Dr. K. Kasturirangan, Jan 19, 2001)
The Indian space programme continues to progress towards development and application of space science and technology for socio-economic development. The launch of INSAT - 3B on March 22, 2000 and its successful commissioning after post-launch operations i
- Imminent crisis (Hindustan Times, Prem Shankar Jha, Jan 19, 2001)
IN 1996, in what is almost certainly the best book written so far on India’s economic development, Vijay Joshi and I.M.D. Little pointed out that India’s attempt to develop within a closed, command economy gave it not only one of the slowest growth rates
- MP as a tenure job (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 19, 2001)
ELECTION time is when contentious issues crop up and conflicting arguments and solutions fill the air. This democratic spirit entered the impressive function to mark the 50th anniversary of the Election Commission. President Narayanan wanted all parties t
- Light first, twilight later (Pioneer, Chanchal Sarkar, Jan 19, 2001)
First Light is the name of one of Dhaka's leading newspapers. It is also the name of a historical novel by the well known writer Sunil Gangopadhyaya.
- Not by fiat alone (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 19, 2001)
THE CHANGES PROPOSED by the Securities and Exchange Board of India to the regulatory framework of listed companies for enhanced corporate governance are unlikely to achieve their purpose unless there is a genuine change in promoter mindset. SEBI's set of
- Systemic reforms (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 19, 2001)
The proposition that the Indian Constitution be amended to guarantee Parliament a full five-year term has been doing the rounds since the irresponsible no-confidence motion that brought down the last Vajpayee Government in 1999. Prime Minister Atal Bihari
- PM’s cease-fire and CM’s panchayat elections (Daily Excelsior, O P Modi, Jan 19, 2001)
The readers may have noted that the ongoing cease-fire in Jammu & Kashmir, till recently, was being described as Prime Minister Vajpayee’s cease-fire offer. However, after his return from Vietnam and Indonesia there seems to be a rethinking over the very
- India’s No to Trilateral Talks (Daily Excelsior, K.N. Pandita, Jan 19, 2001)
External Affairs Ministry spokesman categorically rejected trilateral talks on Kashmir. This takes the wind out of the sails of the beleaguered APHC. The team waiting in wings for talks with whosoever in Pakistan will have to rehearse its homework.
- Can globalisation reduce poverty? (Pioneer, Rajindar Sachar , Jan 19, 2001)
The scourge of poverty was highlighted in a message given last October, in observance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty by the UN Secretary-General, who reminded us of "how many times have we said that it (poverty) was incompatible w
- Where the rights panel failed (Hindu, Kuldip Nayar, Jan 19, 2001)
THE NATIONAL Human Rights Commission is more than 12 years old. But it has made little impact on those who are wont to violate human rights: the police and security forces. I imagined that the commission would foster among them the culture of good treatme
- A home for the child (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 19, 2001)
A HOME FOR an orphan child still remains sadly elusive. There are hundreds of thousands of children in India living a joyless life in innumerable orphanages, where conditions are deplorably wretched. Denied parental care and affection, most of these boys
- Fire in the sky (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 19, 2001)
WHEN AGNI-II UNDERWENT its first test flight in April 1999, the Indian defence establishment claimed that the missile system was fully operationalised. The Defence Minister, Mr. George Fernandes, suggested that Agni-II was combat ready while the DRDO chie
- Surplus foodgrains -- Fodder for hunger (Business Line, Kuldip Nayar, Jan 19, 2001)
AT THE height of the Soviet Union's glory, Prime Minister A. N. Kosygin received the then Foreign Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, at Moscow.
- Crime and code of silence (Pioneer, Bhushan Bhat, Jan 19, 2001)
For all the concern and publicity the state of organised crime in India has generated, it has received scanty attention from our academic researchers. It is important to understand the term `organised' crime and to judge whether the Indian crime scene war
- Line of Communication (Pioneer, Maharajakrishna Rasgotra, Jan 19, 2001)
General Parvez Musharraf has been asking for resumption of the India-Pakistan dialogue ever since he took over power in October, 1999.
- The tale till now (Pioneer, Ramesh C Shukla, Jan 19, 2001)
There was a book launch in October at the Gora Parishad (White Council). Man, I seem to be developing a book launch fixation. But what to do? There are so many launches, and some of them are so hyped that they positively invite scrutiny. One starts wonder
- Importance of Agni (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 19, 2001)
The successful test-firing of the Agni-II missile in its "final operational configuration", another feather in the cap of India's defence scientists, must be followed by quick completion of the residual tests and its early serial production.
- Deregulation slick (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 18, 2001)
IF ONE GOES by the policy already accepted by the Government, the deregulation of the administered pricing mechanism for the oil sector should be in place by April 2002.
- MADRASSAS (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 18, 2001)
Troubled by the rising influence of fundamentalists in Pakistan, Musharraf Government issued orders asking all the 40,000 madrassas in Pakistan to register themselves and follow the conditionalities. These conditions are that every madrassa thus registere
- Pond of blood (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 18, 2001)
It is a national disgrace that illegal slaughter of cattle should be carried out on such a large-scale and with such impunity in Uttar Pradesh that a blood pool of the kind recently reported by this paper should exist on the Delhi-Aligarh highway.
- Review options (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 18, 2001)
It is entirely to the credit of the Indian security forces that they succeeded in foiling the attack made by Lashkar-e-Toiba militants on Srinagar Airport.
- An avoidable controversy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 18, 2001)
A wholly avoidable controversy is being sought to be ended by the RSS accepting that the Sikhs are a separate religion with a distinct identity. So far so good. But more efforts are needed to defuse the situation and ensure that the communal harmony in Pu
- Throwaway crisis (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 18, 2001)
AN exasperated British farmer had said many decades ago that of many ways to lose money, farming was the most dependable. This harsh reality rings all the more true in India even in the year 2001. The farmer here is twice unblessed. On the one hand, he ha
- Child labour in India (Daily Excelsior, B L Raina, Jan 18, 2001)
Eversince the creation of this universe human beings have swam across a series of vicissitudes. As a result of greed and lust for power and pelf, man has stooped so low that he sunk into oblivion the aims and ideals for which he was descended on to this e
- Jitendra Prasada (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 18, 2001)
THERE are mainly two categories of fighters. Among the first are those who must indulge in this activity on the slightest pretext, not bothering about the consequences. They are the compulsive type, who mostly waste their energy and earn a bad name for th
- Theory of mask, mosque and temple (Pioneer, Seema Sengupta, Jan 18, 2001)
At a time when Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is sincerely engaged in furthering the Kashmir peace process he is being subjected to immense pressure by friends and foes alike.
- Towards talks with Pakistan (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 18, 2001)
A `COURTESY CALL' of exceptional importance seems to have generated a new wave of expectations on the India-Pakistan diplomatic front. However, there is no real justification for euphoria at this stage over the latest meeting between India's High Commissi
- Importance of economic diplomacy (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Jan 18, 2001)
Within the next few weeks India's sophisticated and savvy Foreign Secretary Lalit Mansingh will be leaving Delhi to face the challenges of dealing with the new Bush Administration and with Washington's power centres in the White House, Capitol Hill and Fo
- Why bureaucracy loves globalization (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Junjhunwala, Jan 18, 2001)
There are two ways that India can grab the opportunities of globalization. First is to tone up the bureaucracy, use our own wealth to create infrastructure and push Indian businesses to face global competition. 'Economic reforms' are here understood as gl
- An uncalled for race (Daily Excelsior, Ajit Jamwal, Jan 18, 2001)
The nuclear war is a dangerous living thing. All the progress made by the mankind in various spheres would come to a nought in case a nuclear war triggers off. Stockpiling of nuclear weapons continues unabated as more nations of the world compete with eac
- No nude is bad news (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jan 18, 2001)
AFTER THE ban on beauty pageants, the energetic Rajnath Singh Government in Uttar Pradesh has prohibited the filming of nude bathers in the Mahakumbh. Not totally, of course, for long shots will still be allowed, presumably blurring the details. But no cl
- Geelani's fatal scheme for Valley (Pioneer, Cecil Victor, Jan 18, 2001)
Jammu and Kashmir Jamaat-e-Islami leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani's formulation that the issues involving the State concerned a larger Muslim "millat" is an undisguised invitation to foreign interventionism.
- Caste aside (Pioneer, Chandra Bhan Prasad, Jan 18, 2001)
How do we measure development during the Left Front rule in WB? What are the criteria to be adopted? What could be the decisive indices of Dalits' development or lack of it? In Indian context, or in context of any developing society, crucial indices of de
- Advice-osis (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 18, 2001)
NOBODY likes advice. Either to give or receive. Except, of course, the ICAI president. He gives lots of advice in his message through his column in the CA journal. ``The demand for advice on financial matters is on the increase,'' he writes. For instance,
- Eco-logically speaking (Business Line, Steve Toms, Jan 18, 2001)
Steve Toms finds out why it pays for firms to go green
- Exploding the monetary monism myth (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, Jan 18, 2001)
IN recent years, the role of the central bank is being redefined. In the new avatar, the central banks seek to concentrate on a single monetary objective -- control of inflation with the use of its single instrument: Control of short-term interest rates.
- A place in the sun (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jan 18, 2001)
FOR A state beset with the problem of having too many foreigners on its hands — and that too of the subversive kind — it may appear an instance of misplaced priority to be hair-splitting over the Permanent Resident Certificates (PRCs).
- Same old story (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jan 18, 2001)
ONLY THE naive will believe that the admission by the RSS about Sikhism being a religion distinct from Hinduism is its last word on the subject. It is characteristic of the functioning of the Sangh parivar that it floats certain issues to test the popular
- RSS agenda and the Sikhs (Hindustan Times, Gurdarshan Singh Dhillon, Jan 18, 2001)
IN RECENT years, the BJP-RSS combine has brought about a radical shift in the country’s socio-political agenda. By appealing to the sentiments of the majority community, the BJP has been successful in extending its influence in electoral politics and has
- Problems of being connected (Business Line, Menka Shivdasani , Jan 18, 2001)
HOW secure is your PC? Can you be sure that the data on your computer is safe from the prying eyes of a hacker? More important, have you even given any thought to this issue? A friend of mine is in the encryption business. He runs a company -- completely
- LIVING WITH CHINA IN 21ST CENTURY What Li Peng’s visit really means (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Jan 18, 2001)
THE rather prolonged visit to this country by China’s number two leader, Mr Li Peng, has once again underscored both the promise and pitfalls of the relationship between India and the People’s Republic, Asia’s two largest countries. The promise lies in th
- FIRM POLICY (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 18, 2001)
Howsoever noble and honest intentions for ordering unilateral ceasefire, there is indeed something amiss as regards firm Kashmir policy. It was expected that with tough Home Minister Advani and the statesman in Vajpayee would give enough of chance for pea
- Fortuitous Finale (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 17, 2001)
AT LONG last, after 36 days of suspense and the fortunes of both candidates for the US presidency see-sawing, it is curtains down. Mr George W. Bush Jr emerged the victor on the say-so of the Supreme Court, before which the proceedings lasted upto the pro
- Grisly Incident (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 17, 2001)
The grisly violence that occurred at the Baranagar Jute Mill just north of Kolkata last week, in which a worker and two managers were killed, cannot be condoned. At the moment, the facts surrounding the incident are not entirely clear.
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