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Articles 27121 through 27220 of 27558:
- IMPENDING CHANGES IN SOUTH BLOCK The importance of economic diplomacy (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Jan 10, 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
- Insurance sector : The new hope (Daily Excelsior, K R Sudhaman, Jan 10, 2001)
Opening up of the Indian In-surance sector could not be more timely than now as it has come at a time when the country is looking for big investments in the Infrastructure sector which is choked due to lack of capacity impeding development. It is a recogn
- Barbarism is real face of fundamentalism (Daily Excelsior, Dr Farida Khanam, Jan 10, 2001)
On the publication of the 'Sa-tanic Verses' by Salman Rushdi, the Muslim reaction was to have him killed forthwith; he had committed an unpardonable offence against Islam and its prophet. Fundamentalist Muslim across the world demanded his head. They were
- BORDER MANAGEMENT (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 10, 2001)
Highly disturbing reports continue to pour in from Indo-Nepal long border. UP Border Police specially constituted to take care of 550 km border with of the State with Nepal considers present status not equal to the assigned tasks in teams of equipment, we
- Action behind the projector (Pioneer, Aarti, Jan 10, 2001)
The events leading to the seizure of negatives of multi-crore Bollywood film "Chori Chori Chupke Chupke", (just before release) and the arrest of its producer Nazim Hassan Rizvi has generated sharp reactions from several quarters.
- Don't run down the LCA (Pioneer, Wilson John, Jan 10, 2001)
It was an event which should have made any self-respecting nation proud. The maiden flight of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) early this month was not a mean achievement nor was it merely a military affair.
- Maoists in the land of monarchs (Hindustan Times, Ashok K Mehta, Jan 10, 2001)
NEPAL COULD have done without the country-wide riots over a non-event attributed to a film star and fanned by the media. Nepal is already torn by internal conflict. The Himalayan kingdom is afflicted with two wars: a people’s war and a political war betwe
- VIOLENT TRAIL (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 10, 2001)
Reality, philosophers say, is elusive. Despite this, it is clear that the village of Chhoto Angaria was the site of largescale violence last Thursday night. There is still a question mark over death — if people died, how many died and so on. This doubt li
- West Bengal developments (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 10, 2001)
EVER SINCE THE Trinamool Congress managed to wrest a foothold in West Bengal, supplanting the Congress, Ms. Mamata Banerjee has not missed a single opportunity to press for the dismissal of the Left Front Government in the State. The developments during t
- Quake hazards (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 10, 2001)
THE EARTH TREMORS which have rocked fairly extensive parts of Kerala and Tamil Nadu should come as a warning against any sense of complacency about this part of the country being safe from earthquakes simply because there has been so far no incidence of s
- Chinks in the armour (Hindu, Ajay K. Mehra, Jan 10, 2001)
ISSUES OF internal security have emerged at three interlinked levels in the country in recent months - at the organisational level, at the level of ground realities and at the attitudinal level. At each of these levels, both nationally and in the States,
- The economy in calendar 2000 (Business Line, P R Brahmananda , Jan 10, 2001)
WHAT was the state of the economy during the calendar year 2000? While the complete data till December 2000 end is not yet available, it is possible to outline the broad course of the economy during the year. According to the latest data, the inflation ra
- Knotty relations (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 10, 2001)
THERE IS LITTLE doubt that the Hrithik Roshan episode has set the calendar back for normalising India-Nepal ties, which have been under increasing strain since the hijacking of IC-814 in December 1999. Since the early 1990s, New Delhi has been making seri
- Kashmir: Where is the passport to peace? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jan 10, 2001)
THE HAGGLING between the Government of India and the All Party Hurriyat Conference of Kashmir over the issue of passports to the Hurriyat members to enable their visit to Pakistan, is akin to the squabble between two groups of high school boys. Worse, it
- Cow and the social good (Pioneer, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Jan 10, 2001)
A child once spent his time grazing cows. Another newborn was placed in a cow's manger to protect him from the cold. One went on to become Lord Krishna and another Jesus Christ.
- DIRTY HABITS (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 10, 2001)
When a shutdown and a shake-up happen together in the same state, it does speak of a schizoid system. The West Bengal government joins a countrywide strike today to protest against the Centre’s policies on disinvestment and retrenchment. While the All Ind
- Company Law changes -- Groping towards better governance (Business Line, T. S. Krishna Murthy, Jan 10, 2001)
AS THE Companies Act, 1956, had become obsolete, the government in 1996 had appointed a Working Group to review it and suggest changes to make the law investor-friendly and fall in line with international developments in Company Law, having regard to the
- TO GET OVER THE TRAUMA OF THE GREAT DIVIDE (Telegraph, TILAK D. GUPTA, Jan 10, 2001)
A shrunken Bihar, now almost half its former size and almost totally dependent on agriculture, faces yet another crisis. The farmers of the state cannot sell their paddy even after producing a bumper harvest. “We have lost our mineral resources and indust
- CAUGHT IN A CROSSFIRE (Telegraph, SUDIPTA BHATTACHARJEE, Jan 10, 2001)
They can kill militants, but why are they targeting the innocent?” This anguished cry pierced the tension in Manipur’s Malom village after a woman lost her son in police firing following an attempted ambush by militants on an Assam Rifles convoy. The inci
- HOW SECULAR IS THE NEW CENTURY? (Telegraph, Mohit Sen, Jan 10, 2001)
India ended the last year of the previous millennium with the declaration of a war on secularism. It came from no less than the prime minister himself, and his private musings from Kumarakom have done nothing to alter this significantly. There was some he
- Traditional technique that enhances drug availability (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Jan 10, 2001)
RESEARCHERS at the Regional Research Laboratory (RRL), Jammu, while studying Ayurvedic formulations, chanced on an unusual phenomenon. In nearly 200 medical formulations, falling under a generic category known as trikatu, they found a common ingredient --
- The right of return (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Jan 10, 2001)
The day in June 1967 the Arabs admitted decisive defeat in war with Israel, Mr Sayyid, social secretary to the Indian ambassador in Cairo, folded his arms on his office desk, buried his head in them and wept inconsolably. This very dignified middle-aged s
- SLIPPING INTO COMPLACENCY (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Jan 10, 2001)
One day, shortly after Jas- want Singh was sworn in as external affairs minister, this columnist was leaving South Block when the new minister was briskly walking up the steps to the corridor which houses his office as well as that of the foreign secretar
- A thin Labour win, but not too bad (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Jan 09, 2001)
The ruling Labour Party`s victory last week in the Scottish constituency of Falkirk West has given party strategists plenty of food for thought, but it is unlikely to change Prime Minister Tony Blair`s plans for calling a general election in the first hal
- Amartya Sen & the Kerala 'model' (Hindu, George Mathew, Jan 09, 2001)
THE `KERALA model' has come into vogue in contemporary literature on development. Questions are being asked whether the Kerala model is sustainable. Is it replicable? Dr. Amartya Sen during his recent visit to Kerala repudiated the argument that there is
- Politics of violence (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jan 09, 2001)
PERHAPS MORE than any other state in the country, recurring political violence would appear to have become a distinguishing characteristic of West Bengal. Seen in this light, the recent bloodletting in Midnapore district — which has led the Trinamool Cong
- Not a credible exercise (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 09, 2001)
THE ATTEMPT BY a hardcore Sangh Parivar functionary, Mr. Vinay Katiyar, to start a dialogue on the Ayodhya temple issue has understandably, and quite legitimately, met with stiff resistance from those sections of the Muslim community that are directly inv
- SOUL CAUSE (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 09, 2001)
The beauty business will go on. This is a simple fact, and the sooner the moral brigade gets used to the idea the better. The fashion show-cum-beauty contest continued uninterrupted inside Great Eastern Hotel in Calcutta on Sunday while members of the lef
- CHANGING EXPRESSIONS (Telegraph, ANSU DATTA, Jan 09, 2001)
Prince Metternich, Austrian chancellor in mid-19th century, and no friend of Italy’s, once said that Italy was nothing more than a geographical expression. Despite Metternich’s sarcasm and in spite of being the cockpit of Europe, Italy was unified in the
- Confronting reality in Kalahandi (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 09, 2001)
KALAHANDI district in western Orissa has repeatedly been in the news during the last two or three decades as extreme forms of poverty and deprivation have been reported from here, including starvation deaths and sale of children. This led to a lot of admi
- Sinister violence (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 09, 2001)
The very fact that the details of the latest massacre in West Bengal's Midnapore district remain unclear is an indictment of the State administration.
- Challenge of merger (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 09, 2001)
The positive signs noticed in the process of merger between the two estranged halves of the Janata Dal in Karnataka are to be greeted with guarded optimism, given the fragile structural nature of this political formation. No doubt, the hopes on the proces
- Mishandled situation (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 09, 2001)
It was the mishandling of an ordinary law and order situation that has led to violence and the rise of communal tension in Ranchi, the capital of the newly-formed State of Jharkhand. The BJP-led coalition government of Mr Babulal Marandi and the State pol
- Sane advice (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 09, 2001)
THE recent visit of the Premier of British Columbia, Mr Ujjal Dosanjh, gave ever Punjabi reason to feel good and proud. It was the homecoming of a "Punjab da puttar" who had made it big in the land across the seven seas. His success story was understandab
- Simian shindig (Pioneer, Aseem K Jha, Jan 09, 2001)
I looked at the sight agape. Several pairs of monkeys were lazing around in the soothing sun of December, plucking out lice from one another's body. I was intrigued no less by the fact that the passersby couldn't care less about the simian scene.
- Past imperfect, future tense (Pioneer, M L Kotru, Jan 09, 2001)
You don't have to be particularly prescient to foretell that the Hurriyat Conference of Kashmir is a divided house.
- Bofors and after (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, Jan 09, 2001)
My article in the Opinion column on Monday discussed the genesis of the Bofors scandal and, towards its end, how Mr HR Bhardwaj played a role in creating legal problems for the CBI.
- Need for tangible measures (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 09, 2001)
The cease-fire contrary to expectations of the commoner has not brought the much needed respite to the hapless people of Kashmir. Not only do the people suffer at the hands of the security personnel and the renegades but the anti-militancy operations have
- India facing the Chinese dragon (The Kashmir Times, P N Tiku, Jan 09, 2001)
The influx of cheap Chinese goods in the Indian market is sending shivers down the spine of one industry segment after another. The threat is alleged to be especially strong where quantitative restrictions (QRs) on imports have been removed. India has rem
- Unlearnt lessons of Nepal upheaval (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jan 09, 2001)
THERE is no dearth of reasonable Nepalese who readily admit that the recent upheaval and mayhem in their country over a remark that Indian film actor Hrithik Roshan never made was entirely unjustified. The Royal Nepalese government, and its ambassador in
- Make a beginning (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jan 09, 2001)
over the last one month and a half there has been much activity in and on Kashmir but all the huffing and puffing has been more of a display of verbal exercise and not action. There has been little progress towards a meaningful peace process, let alone th
- Science for growth (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 09, 2001)
The 88th science congress with its focus on food, nutrition and environmental safety took off last week with much promise. The vision document released on the occasion foresees an India free of poverty, hunger and malnutrition by 2020. This, it said, coul
- PROBLEM OF GROWING NUMBERS Strategy to confront the crisis (Tribune, J. L. Gupta, Jan 09, 2001)
WHERE does this nation of a billion stand at the end of the year 2000 of the Christian era? What is our position in the comity of nations? What is the worst crisis that confronts the country today? What do we need to do?
- WHEN PEACE TAKES THE LEAD (Telegraph, MANVENDRA SINGH, Jan 09, 2001)
The emotional seesaw of 1999 continued throughout 2000. But the major difference was that 2000 ended on a far more positive note than it had begun on. The highs and lows of 1999, chiefly the Lahore bus visit of the Indian prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpa
- Keeping Ayodhya alive (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 09, 2001)
THE Sangh Parivar spin doctors deserve praise for the deftness with which they have revived the Ayodhya issue without bringing the Bharatiya Janata Party in the picture. Only a keen political observer would be able to see the BJP, as a faint blur, in the
- With a bamboo sword (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 09, 2001)
INDIA is trying to form an economic non-aligned movement by mobilising the developing countries against the harsh WTO conditions on agriculture. This is evident from the “initial” response to the mandated consultations on the Uruguay Round-related farm pr
- HOW TO SWEETEN THE ELECTRICITY SHORTFALL (Telegraph, G.V. JOSHI, Jan 09, 2001)
Although India is generating more power than before, the country is still unable to meet its commercial and domestic needs in both rural and urban areas. At present, 70 per cent of power in India is generated from coal while the rest comes from hydro-elec
- PRIVATE JOYS AND PUBLIC WOE (Telegraph, KALIPADA BASU, Jan 09, 2001)
The Centre is keen to privatize 20 nationalized banks on grounds of “sickness” and inefficiency. Not surprisingly, protests against the denationalization of commercial banks have been mounting.
- Unemployed professionals (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jan 09, 2001)
Jobs are scarce for army of professionals in Jammu and Kashmir. That is why MBAs churned out by the two universities in Jammu and Srinagar from year to year find no takers in the State. Jammu and Kashmir’s large number of post-graduates may have suffered
- Education, ethics and spirituality (Hindu, Deepa Nag Haksar, Jan 09, 2001)
INDIA ASPIRES to be information- rich, never mind its being poverty-stricken. That is, ``Info-Pov' in short, since with the rest of the world we scramble to become just `.com'! With this recent hype about `information technology' or IT, what does the Gove
- Water is not for wasting (Tribune, Rohin Dharmakumar, Jan 09, 2001)
PROVIDING water for human use is not an easy job because water is unevenly spread. Topographical, hydrological and other constraints make it difficult for any authority to take it to the places where it is scarce. When it comes to the management of water,
- Ad-Hocism again (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 09, 2001)
A SLEW OF decisions have been announced in the telecom sector, but, as in the recent past, the manner in which these decisions have been taken draws more attention than their content. It is unfortunate that even after years of controversy over the decisio
- Turning to the mother country (Pioneer, Sidharth Bhatia, Jan 09, 2001)
At a dinner party recently, someone posed an interesting question. If an ethnic Indian, now a citizen of another country, were to be sentenced to the electric chair, how should the Indian government react?
- Economy: Enter the crucial fourth quarter (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jan 09, 2001)
AS THE crucial final quarter of this fiscal begins, it is time to review the state of the economy, particularly when conflicting signals are emanating from the Government with equally defensive demands by beleaguered Indian industry. That industrial produ
- Globalisation, and its paradoxes (Business Line, Arun Ghosh, Jan 09, 2001)
SOME RECENT paradoxes of globalisation appear to have escaped the attention of economists. First, one has been taught that `the major source of savings are profits' (vide, Arthur Lewis, as far back as 1954). However, the experience of India, post-liberali
- True happiness lies within and not without (Daily Excelsior, Lt Col R K Langar, Jan 09, 2001)
Happiness in the main pursuit of every living being. It is difficult to define happiness as applicable to all beings, because happiness is a relative term and its meaning depends so much on the particular individual himself.
- Cementing the gains (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 09, 2001)
THE PROPOSED WEEK-LONG shut down by cement producers next month aimed at liquidating stocks and a further price hike of Rs 3.50-4 per bag of 50 kg effected in Mumbai on January 2 amidst increasing consumer resistance, may finally prove counterproductive.
- Budget 2001 (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jan 09, 2001)
BUDGET 2001 WILL be critical for the revival of the economy as pointed out by Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha. However, despite Mr Sinha’s reassurances about a robust economy, some dark clouds are visible that could lower the GDP growth rate in the
- A bubble called Enron (Hindustan Times, Shripad Dharmadhikary, Jan 09, 2001)
ENRON IS in the news again. The current mess that the Government of Maharashtra finds itself in with Enron is at once farcical and frightening. It is strange to see the same politicians who had brazenly defended and pushed the deal with Enron now squirmin
- Looking East (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 09, 2001)
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's visit to Vietnam and Indonesia reflects India's keen desire to consolidate and expand its ties with two countries which occupy important positions in South-East Asia.
- Success in Sierra Leone (Pioneer, Chandra B Khanduri, Jan 09, 2001)
Historically, Sierra Leone a former British colony until 1961, had opted for a presidential form of governance.
- POWER SCENARIO-II (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 09, 2001)
State Government is clearly in the dock for gross mismanagement of power supply. It has miserably failed to learn any lessons from last winter's failings and make suitable amends. It will more apt to describe that action if any taken during the interregnu
- The talk of LCA turning obsolete is rubbish (Daily Excelsior, Avinash Shirodkar, Jan 09, 2001)
The 20-minute maiden flight of India's own all-weather multi-role air superiority fighter aircraft on January 4 has more than one reason to be termed as historical.
- A race to grab Central Asian riches (Daily Excelsior, M R Rao, Jan 09, 2001)
The Central Asian region was the pocketbrought of Moscow at one time. Even now, says Kemlin, though there are no takes for its contention. Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, the four CAR countries, are shining examples of what communism
- Raja Dillu & Lord Hardinge (Hindustan Times, Vinod Kapoor, Jan 09, 2001)
NO CAPITAL in the world would have the distinction of having shifted 17 times other than Delhi. Belying the theory that it was constructed seven times, archaeologists, with updated data, have arrived at this conclusion.
- Look Delhi, talk Tokyo (Hindustan Times, Ashok Ashtha, Jan 09, 2001)
IN THE New Year, two and a half years after the Pokhran tests, soon after Prime Minister Mori’s visit to India, and after all the hype in the Indian press about the warming Indo-Japanese relations — where does India really stand in the Japanese mind? The
- Perfect knowledge in the Book of God (Pioneer, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, Jan 08, 2001)
When the Prophet Muhammad claimed that the Quran was a divine book revealed to him by God for the guidance of man, there were many who did not believe him. The scriptures to them were a human rather than a divine composition.
- Weighing the cost of 'peace' (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 08, 2001)
MR. BILL CLINTON, outgoing U.S. President, is left with little time to broker a decisive phase of the intractable negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians for determining the outlines of a settlement. But both the Jewish state and the Arab countri
- Lower phone tariff (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 08, 2001)
TELECOM revolution gathered further momentum on Friday with the government initiating four steps. Short distance trunk calls will cost a lot less. MTNL will enter the mobile service this year with a target of a modest one lakh users and also offer the ans
- India’s Ethiopia (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jan 08, 2001)
IF THERE is one ravaged territory in India which stands as testimony to the State’s absolute apathy, it is the Kalahandi-Bolangir-Koraput (KBK) region of western Orissa. Often compared with the shocking visual pictures despatched from Ethiopia and Somalia
- CONSTRICTED BY THE CHICKEN NECK (Telegraph, BARUN KUMAR SAHU, Jan 08, 2001)
The feeling of being isolated from the mainland is common throughout the Northeast, despite the region’s location at the confluence of south and southeast Asia. Even small distances appear enormous. The classic example is Agartala, which is a mere 325 kil
- Broad policy framework for the NE (Daily Excelsior, Sanchet Barua, Jan 08, 2001)
The External Affairs Minister, Mr. Jaswant Singh, will be leaving shortly for Myanmar to inaugurate the 144 Km road that engineers of our Border Roads Organisation have built, linking the township of Tamu with the railhead at Kalemyo in Myanmar. This road
- PLAN FINALISED (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 08, 2001)
At long last annual plan for the current year 2000-01 is finalised by the Planning Commission. It looks quite ridiculous in that only 3 months are left for the current fiscal. Further, plan is project specific under the MoU signed by the State with the Ce
- POWER SCENARIO (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 08, 2001)
It is officially 11 hour curtailment now. It excludes other disruptions, abrupt cuts and non-replacement of transformers for days and sometimes weeks wherever they get out-of-action. So people of this wretched State shall be deprived of all that accrues f
- The future loop (Hindustan Times, R. Krishnan , Jan 08, 2001)
THE FIGHT for the expanding Indian telecom market has reached the final stage with the Government announcing new guidelines for the entry of a fourth cellular operator. Besides the existing two players in each telecom circle, the Government has permitted
- Perils of populism (Hindustan Times, Amulya Ganguli, Jan 08, 2001)
THE CONGRESS’ rethinking on reforms may seem strange considering that the party was the initiator of market-oriented policies a decade ago. But it is a move typical of Indian political parties which are guided less by ideology than by perceptions of elect
- Coal the answer to oil crisis (Daily Excelsior, Siddhartha Budhiraja, Jan 08, 2001)
Thanks to the steep increase in oil price in the recent past, our oil import bill will now increase by Rs. 27,368 crore to reach a hefty Rs. 81,000 crore, and all in dollars. Strangely, we remain unperturbed and accept all this meekly as something inevita
- Take a break (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jan 08, 2001)
THE GLIMMER of hope that the Ayodhya dispute may eventually be resolved in a manner different from the strong-arm methods employed by the kar sevaks in the infamous December 6, 1992, episode, has once again been dumped in the garbage can of contemporary h
- Politics of the blues (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Jan 08, 2001)
POLITICIANS, AS a class, long ceased to enjoy a good reputation but the trends revealed of late by the ruling National Democratic Alliance and the main Opposition, Congress, have further discredited them apart, of course, from damaging the polity. The ugl
- Himalayan hurdles (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 08, 2001)
The relationship between a popular filmstar and his fans is complex. Media reports in Nepal quoted Hrithik Roshan as saying in a television interview that the country he disliked the most was Nepal.
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