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Articles 27321 through 27420 of 27558:
- Lashkar-e-Toiba: Spreading the jehad (Business Line, B. Raman , Jan 05, 2001)
THE REPORTED claim of a spokesman of the Lashkar-e-Toiba in Pakistan that two of its suicide cadres were responsible for the murderous attack on some Indian Army personnel inside the Red Fort in New Delhi on December 22, is under verification by the India
- Indian farmer is the loser (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Jan 05, 2001)
There is trouble ahead on the farm front. With George Bush finally designated as the President-elect, the world will witness a still greater tilt in providing financial support to the dwindling number of farmers in the industrialised countries. Bush`s ass
- Back to the high command mode (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 05, 2001)
WITH ALMOST ALL the State units of the party having passed resolutions authorising Ms. Sonia Gandhi to constitute the Congress Working Committee (CWC) entirely with her nominees (rather than hold elections for at least 12 out of the 24 seats), the entrenc
- Vajpayee invites Musharraf (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 05, 2001)
AFTER SHUNNING Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Chief Executive of Pakistan, for more than a year, the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, has finally offered to meet him under certain conditions. In his ``Musings from Kumarakom'', Mr. Vajpayee has extended a
- Restructuring defence & security (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Jan 05, 2001)
BY THE end of September, the four special task forces set up by the Government to look at the recommendations of the Subrahmanyam Committee (that reviewed the security system in the wake of Kargil), submitted their reports to the Group of Ministers (GoM)
- RBI stumbles (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 05, 2001)
AFTER NODDING IN favour of private sector entry into banking, the Reserve Bank of India has run into a logical snafu in barring large industrial houses.
- Making a mark in foreign trade (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 05, 2001)
FIRST, let us take the latest actual performance figures for visible trade in the current financial year.
- Science fiction (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jan 05, 2001)
ATAL BIHARI Vajpayee, speaking before this year’s Indian Science Congress, put forward a three-point strategy to boost knowhow. One part was the standard promise to increase Government expenditure in research and development. The second was to remove bure
- Ayurvedic research : Need of the hour (Daily Excelsior, Jabina Bano, Jan 05, 2001)
Ayurvedic Research is as old as Vedas. The full vedic studies will reveal all the methods of maintaining our health. We are now in the 21st Century, but still have miles to go ahead in Ayurvedic research. In the pre-independence period so many of our sold
- THE CHINESE INVASION (Telegraph, BHASKAR DUTTA , Jan 05, 2001)
One of the most famous and colourful streets in Delhi is Chandni Chowk. This 350-year old street was once a favourite hunting ground of Emperor Shah Jahan, and renowned all over the world for the wide array of merchandise available in the shops lining the
- SHAM PANCHAYAT ELECTIONS (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jan 05, 2001)
The unilateral ceasefire by India, now extended till January 26 next, have created a conducive climate and generated hopes for the initiation of a meaningful peace process in the strife-torn State. While New Delhi has yet to fully make up its mind how to
- YET ANOTHER FARCE (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jan 05, 2001)
Nothing much can be expected from a government that assumed office through a farcical election and which does not reflect the will of the people. Gandhiji had rightly said that means justify the ends. Pure means are essential for achieving the pure object
- Trouble in Kishtwar (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jan 05, 2001)
Army had to be called out in the communally sensitive Kishtwar township which was placed under curfew on late Monday evening after violence broke out in the wake of burning down of the old Jamia Masjid in a devastating fire. The troops had to be summoned
- New Year revives peace hopes in Kashmir (The Kashmir Times, M K Dhar, Jan 05, 2001)
THE peace process in Kashmir should not be allowed to be derailed by acts of desperation on the part of terrorist groups opposed to India-Pakistan reconciliation. The understanding reached between the Government of India and All Parties Hurriyat Conferenc
- BROADBASED (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 05, 2001)
Even before the proposed dialogue with some secessionist and militant groups get underway, there are many heart-burns manifesting abundantly. There are some who question the desirability of dialogue with those who have brought the State to present sorry p
- VISION (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 05, 2001)
Yet another document titled 'Vision' has been released at the 88th Indian Science Congress. It is by far the most hopeful document as regards making India poverty-free by the year 2020. It makes some suggestions in technical terminology which are beyond t
- LoC as the International Border (Daily Excelsior, Omkar Dattatray, Jan 05, 2001)
Eversince the unfortunate division of the country and the birth of theocratic State of Pakistan in August 1947 due to the pro-Mulsim fervour of Late Jinnah that country has been at logger heads with India. The cunning tactics of British and their covert s
- Pakistan : The Mohajir -Sindhi feud (Daily Excelsior, Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, Jan 05, 2001)
The fierce ethnic hostilities that broke out in Karachi and other parts of Sindh on August 28, although a recurrent phenomenon in Pakistan, have once again brought into focus the failure of the military junta to find a solution to the long-standing proble
- Defaulters (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jan 05, 2001)
The Power Development Department is facing a serious financial crisis of its own making. According to a statement filed by the PDD in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, in just three divisions of Jammu, an astronomical amount of Rs 164 crore was recoverabl
- Bloody killings in Assam AGP a manifestation of Chauvinism (The Kashmir Times, Bijoy Handique, Jan 05, 2001)
Union Home Minister L.K Advani made a statement in the Lok Sabha on the latest happenings in the North-East, particularly Assam, in reply to a calling Attention Notice a few days before the house adjourned sine die at the end of its winter session. Yet ce
- India’s week of crying shame (The Kashmir Times, Inder Malhotra, Jan 05, 2001)
SADLY, the week preceding Christmas Eve has been a period of utter shame and sorrow for this country of a billion people. Merely to list the three disgraceful developments in quick succession-the exposure by the Delhi High Court of the Samba spy case as a
- Agriculture is the topic for Indian Science Congress 2001 (The Kashmir Times, Arabinda Ghose, Jan 05, 2001)
In an agricultural year marked by record foodgrains production, record foodgrains stock, record procurement of foodgrains by the Food Corporation of India and the record degree of pressure applied by food surplus states to compel the Centre to procure unw
- Congress democracy? (Pioneer, C P Bhambhri, Jan 05, 2001)
The old death wish of the Congress party has come back in the form of the nomination of 24 CWC members by the so-called elected president. Does it mean that the drama of election of the president of the party was in a sense enacted in an absent-minded man
- (M)e-business (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 05, 2001)
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is the craze and the rage, and inevitably, the IT-enabled e-CRM is the talk of the town. In the industrialised countries, that is. India which is nowadays compared to a lumbering elephant rather than to a springing t
- Free periods (Pioneer, Amrit Hallan, Jan 05, 2001)
Mine was a government school for boys that is, after I had left the special school (I have cerebral palsy). It is a well-corroborated fact that being government employees, teachers in most government schools do not believe in the horrendous concept that s
- A mini poll is just round the corner (The Kashmir Times, Brij Bhardwaj, Jan 05, 2001)
India may not be heading for a mid term poll as is being predicted in some circles after the recent events particularly the harsh line taken by the BJP on the temple issue in Ayodhya, but a mini dress rehearsal is certainly on cards when important states
- A campus decayed (Pioneer, Chanchal Sarkar, Jan 05, 2001)
Visva Bharati and Santiniketan are in deeply troubled waters. The media and people's conversations are full of sharp accusations-students fighting against students and against teachers, quarrels among the staff, the Vice Chancellor's home gheraoed, bombs
- Solutions for Delhi's industries (Pioneer, Shiv Charan Gupta, Jan 05, 2001)
The people of Delhi are worried about their existence on account of sealing of factories. They are apprehensive that the Government of India and the Delhi government have not placed their case well before the Supreme Court.
- Twists and turns of Indian polity (The Kashmir Times, Kuldip Nayar, Jan 05, 2001)
The last decade, which dies with the millenium, was neither a period of righteousness, nor of just governments. It was a mishmash. Indian polity had to stay content with what was available or, more so, feasible. Too many Cabinets fell at the Centre and to
- A level-playing field in telecom (Business Line, T. H. Chowdary , Jan 05, 2001)
ON A REQUEST from the MTNL (and other fixed, that is, wired basic telephone service providers) to introduce limited mobility telephone services through wireless local loop (WLL) equipment, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has asked the Telecom R
- Happy New Year from your PM (Business Line, Timeri Murari, Jan 05, 2001)
DEAR citizens of India: First, I would like to wish you all a very happy 2001. If we give India a chance, we might even get to 2002. We should all hold our collective breaths.
- Indefensible act (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 05, 2001)
The incendiary vandalism indulged in by the activists of the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha on Wednesday at an agricultural field wherein the Bt (bio-technology) cotton crop had been cultivated at Sowlanga in Davangere district is most deplorable. The Rait
- GEELANI’S GARBLING (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jan 05, 2001)
Intriguingly at a time when the Hurriet Conference had responded positively for moves to break the deadlock and find a peaceful solution to the protracted tangle Syed Ali Shah Geelani, representing the fundamentalist Jammat Islami in the congloemerate of
- To follow or to lead: that’s the question (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Jan 05, 2001)
FOR a thousand years, India led the world. For the next thousand years, it was on the tow. What is in store for it in the third millennium?
- Importance of Point 5353 (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 05, 2001)
THE faux pas committed by the office of the Additional Principal Information Officer (PIO) Defence on Monday has yet again raked up the controversy over the occupation of the strategically important Point 5353 in the Kargil region of Jammu and Kashmir. A
- Gift for the grabbers (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 05, 2001)
THE Punjab government took three decisions on land grant on Wednesday, one shocking, one half-hearted and the third suspicious Urban land grabbers of five years standing will soon own their precious possession after paying a puny price and no fine. Those
- Technology mission (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 05, 2001)
MR Atal Behari Vajpayee's invitation to Indian scientists to take bold and unconventional initiatives for making the country a global leader in the field of applied science and technology is essentially a reiteration of what Jawaharlal Nehru had said as t
- HISTORY AND ITS MANY CAUSES (Telegraph, RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE, Jan 05, 2001)
If one were to be asked to name the three most influential books on Indian history to be published in the second half of the 20th century, the answer would include The Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556-1707 by Irfan Habib which was published in 1963 a
- Two new militant groups in focus (Deccan Herald, Zahoor Malik, Jan 05, 2001)
Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad are two big names in Kashmir militancy. The former started operating in Kashmir Valley in 1995. Hizbul Mujahideen and Harkatul Mujahideen were the only two strong militant outfits at that time. Army and paramilitary fo
- Fog and infotech (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 05, 2001)
To an outsider, it may well appear that the Y2K bug has finally struck India, a full one year after it threatened to do so.
- Making PSUs leaner (Business Line, Kuldip Nayar, Jan 05, 2001)
A PARLIAMENTARY committee took me to headquarters of several public sector undertakings (PSUs) in Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. It was an outstanding performance which they projected on the screen with the help of computers. The PSUs do us proud. What
- The leaders and the laggards -- A look at who leads the pack in managing intellectual capital (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 04, 2001)
KNOWLEDGE management is in danger of becoming another management fad. In many companies existing knowledge, which may or may not be relevant to current priorities, is being shared, but the new knowledge needed to deliver greater customer and shareholder v
- "Magic" wand (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 04, 2001)
There is good news for nervous kids-and adults-who are fearful of painful dental injections. A new device called the “Wand” may reduce pain in kids getting injections into the roof of the mouth during dental visits, according to a new study.
- Age of(un)reason? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 04, 2001)
The reports of human sacrifice that have come from Belgaum and Kolar Districts in quick succession over the weekend are not only shocking but induce serious doubts about our having stepped into the 21st century. In both the Belgaum and Kolar incidents it
- STRAY CATTLE (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 04, 2001)
One really does not know what mechanism is in place to ensure that no stray cattle moves around in the city of temples. All one knows is that Municipality has some vehicles/teams to catch them and send them to certain undefined homes or restore to the law
- Non-lethal weapons : Trends and prospects (Daily Excelsior, Gurmeet Kanwal, Jan 04, 2001)
More than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu said in 'The Art of War' that armed force should be applied to gain victory in battle in the shortest possible time, at the least possible cost in terms of lives and effort, and by inflicting the fewest possible casualti
- MAROONED IN CHAOS (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 04, 2001)
Manipur is collapsing. It has been collapsing for the last twenty years. The state was declared a disturbed area in 1980. Since then, it has been under Central rule six times. If Article 356 is slapped on again, it might be pertinent to ask what the presi
- Problems and challenges (Deccan Herald, AMAL RAY, Jan 04, 2001)
With a somber outlook on national governance as demonstrated by the boisterous winter session of Parliament, the year 2000 ended on a note of despair. And, the New Year evokes no hope as the Indian state seems immobilised to formulate a positive approach
- Controversy over restoration work (Deccan Herald, DEVIKA SEQUEIRA , Jan 04, 2001)
''We believed the BJP in Goa would be different. But it has proved to be as communal as its counterparts elsehwere,`` former Chief Minister Francisco Sardinha remarked recently. Indeed, just nine weeks into government, and the BJP`s objectivity is already
- Musings on globalisation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 04, 2001)
IF THERE IS one area where the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, in his ``Musings from Kumarakom'' has made unequivocal statements, it is on economic reforms and specifically on India's engagement with globalisation. The assertive stance that Mr.
- The New Year spirit (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 04, 2001)
AS HUMANITY GETS back to the routines of everyday life after the festivities to mark the beginning of ``a new millennium'', these recent times have had a striking feature: the birth of a self- generating spirit that is driving more and more people, certai
- History & the enterprise of knowledge (Hindu, Amartya Sen, Jan 04, 2001)
IN AN often-quoted remark, Henry Ford, the great captain of industry, said, ``History is more or less bunk''. As a general statement about history, this is perhaps not an assessment of compelling delicacy. And yet Henry Ford would have been right to think
- Related party disclosures (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Jan 04, 2001)
TRANSPARENCY may be just another buzzword in the corridors of power. But in the relatively rarefied environs of business, it is much more. Image-savvy corporates are prepared to bare themselves to public scrutiny. They are game to disclose through their W
- Happy exporting (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 04, 2001)
HAPPILY THE FINANCE Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, and the Commerce Minister, Mr Murasoli Maran, have been proved right, even if only barely. When everyone else was talking of an export slowdown, the two were sure it would exceed 20 per cent as indeed it ha
- Pakistan's grudge (Business Line, V. C. Paul Bahl , Jan 04, 2001)
WILL Pakistan ever agree to any settlement with India? Its best opportunity came after the Indo-Pak war of 1971. India captured considerable Pakistani territory and took 90,000 prisoners of war (POWs). Zulfikar Ali Bhutto sat at the negotiation table in S
- Moral values still hold sway (Tribune, H. R. Khanna, Jan 04, 2001)
INDIA, not in the very remote past, gave to the world moral titans like Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Gandhi and Tagore. Today, according to international perceptions, India is one of the 10 most corrupt countries. It is also one of the 10 poorest countries. Th
- CLIO’S FAIR (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 04, 2001)
The Indian History Congress is the best known body of professional historians in the country. It will not be unreasonable to assume that its annual sessions represent the interaction between historians. Those who do not know the Indian History Congress an
- Power problem (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 04, 2001)
The northern region power grid collapsed totally early on Tuesday morning, leaving Delhi and large parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh without power for about 15 hours. This is not the first time that
- CARVING UP THE NATION (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Jan 04, 2001)
Inevitably, and as foretold, the three new states, Uttaranchal, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, have sparked off demands for other states. Some of these have been voiced for a fairly long time; to these, however, some new and unlikely ones have been added. Th
- Ajanta goes to China (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 04, 2001)
BATTERED by inexpensive imports, Ajanta Clocks, the market leader in that line, has decided to shift operations to China, yes, China. It has already purchased a 6-acre plot in Shenzhen province to set up manufacturing facilities. It is ready to shift some
- THEY THAT HAVE POWER TO DISOBEY (Telegraph, SASHANKA SEKHAR BANERJEE, Jan 04, 2001)
It has been reported that the Jamaat-e-Islami chief, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, has asked the second rung Pakistan army generals to remove General Pervez Musharraf from power if “they want to save the country from a foreign conspiracy and restore the prestige of
- START AT THE VERY BEGINNING (Telegraph, VANDANA SINHA, Jan 04, 2001)
We have moved from the age of industrial revolution to that of knowledge and information technology. Just as the industrial revolution had ushered in an age of prosperity and improved the quality of life, the age of information is expected to bring a lot
- KNOW HOW TO BUILD FROM SCRATCH (Telegraph, RADHAKRISHNA RAO, Jan 04, 2001)
Traditional building technology, with its undue stress on costly materials like steel and cement, is clearly beyond the reach of most Indians. This has led to the mushrooming of shantytowns in cities. The ambitious plans of successive governments to provi
- High voltage shock (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 04, 2001)
IGNORE a warning and you are bound to suffer a bigger shock. That is the main lesson to learn — if anyone is willing to do so — from the chaos caused by the collapse of the northern power grid a day after the New Year day. Such power shedding and breakdow
- A dangerous trend (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 04, 2001)
AFTER Hrithik Roshan it is now the turn of Ajay Devgan and Manisha Koirala to feel the heat of intolerance. The anti-Nepali views which Hrithik claims he never expressed resulted in anti-India violence in the Himalayan kingdom. However, both Ajay and Mani
- Biodiversity Bill: The missing dimensions (Tribune, Ram Singh, Jan 04, 2001)
WITH objectives of conservation, promotion and equitable use of genetic resources as also to combat bio-piracy, the government has formulated two new laws. The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights (PPV) Bill, and the Biodiversity Bill (BDB).
- Ride the airwaves (Hindustan Times, Bhaskar Ghose, Jan 04, 2001)
THE GOVERNMENT deserves to be applauded for having put together the Convergence Bill. The Bill has already been considered by a group of Cabinet ministers which has, one understands, cleared it in principle and will shortly give it final approval. It indi
- Work from home leads to stress (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 04, 2001)
WORKING from home causes mental problems that can leave a person feeling isolated, anxious and guilt-ridden, according to a study carried out on journalists in Britain.
- Learning the Dabhol lesson (Business Line, N. Ramakrishnan , Jan 04, 2001)
The lessons of Dabhol are not being learnt, electricity boards still promise escrow cover to projects when they very well know their capacity is nil. The States will be better off with smaller project capacities. This will give them the leeway to match de
- GRID FAILURE (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 04, 2001)
It happens only in India. Entire northern region was plunged into darkness, courtesy failure of Northern Grid. It hurt the national capital as much as other States, namely Punjab, Haryana, J&K, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh besides the union territory of Ch
- SAWAAL KASHMIR KA Who will have the last word? (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Jan 04, 2001)
WHERE do we go from here on Kashmir? I wish someone could give a straight answer to this vital question that has a critical bearing on the future of India, nay, of the sub-continent. Notwithstanding Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's gesture of extendi
- PLATFORM: The great betrayal (Hindustan Times, Ash Narain Roy, Jan 04, 2001)
INITIATING THE process of systemic change and democratic reforms in a country with strong authoritarian traditions is one thing. And keeping abreast of forces released by these reforms and the expectations thus aroused is quite another.
- No simple matter (Daily Excelsior, Joginder Singh, Jan 04, 2001)
A leader has demanded that if the TADA detenues were released on the demand of the outlawed sandalwood smuggler, murderer and kidnapper, it could be a good reason to release all detenues, who have been in jails for the last 16 years. It was basically a wr
- Fear stalks our farmers (Daily Excelsior, G Ravindran Nair, Jan 04, 2001)
Never since Independence has the Indian farmer faced a crisis of such mammoth proportions as of now, marginalised as he is by the irrevocable waves of globalisation and driven to the wall by a succession of crop failures, drought and the plummeting prices
- The ISI hand in Nepal, Bollywood (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jan 03, 2001)
THE unfortunate, and totally unfounded, hate campaign in Nepal against India and Indians, based on the anti-Nepal comments which Bollywood heartthrob Hrithik Roshan claims he never made, is yet another pointer to the simmering dislike for India among its
- Unravel the mysteries (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 03, 2001)
Enforced disappearance of people, particularly the youth, has been the hallmark of the turbulent situation that started in 1989 in this Himalayan state. Parents and the next of kin of the victims as also many a human rights group have been campaigning for
- Another forest fire (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jan 03, 2001)
Timber worth several lakhs was destroyed in yet another ‘mysterious’ fire in Laloor forest area of Doda on Saturday night. After the fire brokeout in the compartment, the leaping flames engulfed the timber logs stacked in the area for their transportation
- BELATED AUTONOMY (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 03, 2001)
When it comes to academic institutions, autonomy and excellence ought to go together. But Calcutta’s Presidency College has suffered enough political ravage to make one wonder about such an assumption. In spite of its distinguished tradition of excellence
- A tale as old as time (Pioneer, Chiranjib Halder, Jan 03, 2001)
A truce between the Israelis and the Palestinians remains distant. A Newsweek report states that should the peace initiative fall apart at seams, the Israeli troops have a contingency plan to reoccupy large chunks of West Bank and Gaza strip. The Oslo Acc
- Sycophancy row (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 03, 2001)
There was a brief moment of hope after the Congress conclave at Panchmarhi about the possibility of the party re-inventing itself.
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