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Articles 27421 through 27520 of 27558:
- EXLUSIVE POLITICAL INITIATIVE (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jan 03, 2001)
If New Delhi’s unilateral ceasefire, though temporary, demonstrated its boldness and realism, its failure to initiate the logical, sincere and well-meaning political process to resolve the prolonged crisis betrays its schizophrenia. The very decision to a
- Vajpayee's message (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 03, 2001)
Parliamentary decorum ordains that the Prime Minister has the last word. Even outside Parliament, this should be the norm not because of the exhalted position of Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee but because of the combustible nature of the Ayodhya-Babri mosque con
- Intelligence update (Hindustan Times, Bibhuti Bhushan Nandy, Jan 03, 2001)
THANKS TO the Pakistani intrusion in Kargil in the summer of 1999 and the Subrahmanyam Committee report pointing to serious intelligence lapses, there is a broad consensus that the Indian intelligence services urgently need reforms.
- Words of wisdom (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 03, 2001)
The sense of realism, sought to be injected by Karnataka Planning Board Deputy Chairman Jairam Ramesh in the appraisal of performance of different sectors of the State economy, has come as a whiff of fresh air. This was much needed in the corridors of eco
- To boss, with apology (Pioneer, Sudhansu Mohanty , Jan 03, 2001)
Happy New Year: My thousand apologies for conveying my wishes this novel way. Since the iron-clad laws of bureaucracy limit me in talking turkey, I thought this was the only way of letting my ideas reach you unadulterated in the New Year. Hence these thou
- Talibanised Pakistan will be brutal (Pioneer, D C Pathak, Jan 03, 2001)
The Vajpayee Government's announcement of unilateral Ramzan ceasefire in Jammu & Kashmir gave India the advantage of being the first to take a fresh initiative for facilitating possible return of peace to this troubled State.
- Flight philosophy (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Jan 03, 2001)
The single biggest and composite deal in the history of India's weapons acquisition programme was signed this week in Moscow (28 December).
- Dealing with Pakistan (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Jan 03, 2001)
The attack on the Red Fort in Delhi by the Lashkar-e-Toiba is an “internal affair” of India, said Gen Parvez Musharraf. One wonders if the good General would voice the same views if strikes were launched against the headquarters of the Lashkar at Murdhike
- Myth and reality (Deccan Herald, ASHOK MITRA , Jan 03, 2001)
THE new Brahmins in Indian society are the tribe who pass as NRI`s, the Non-Resident Indians. They have, as a matter of fact, ceased to be Indians: they have travelled to other shores and taken up citizenship there. Technically they are therefore non-Indi
- Malkani way of losing friends (Tribune, P. H. Vaishnav, Jan 03, 2001)
MR K.R. Malkani’s statement has established beyond doubt the Sangh Parivar’s gift for “Losing Friends and Infuriating People”. He might as well be chosen as the best author of the overdue antithesis of Dale Carnegie’s “Winning Friends and Influencing Peop
- STOP THINKING ALONG THE SAME OLD LINES (Telegraph, S. Subramanyan , Jan 03, 2001)
The ministry of railways is considering entrusting the job of reservation to the private sector. The Indian railways’ own reservation systems will continue to be operated by it. Private sector partners are expected to bear the cost of the investment. A fe
- Political pantomime of poverty (The Kashmir Times, Poonam I. Kaushish , Jan 03, 2001)
FAMOUS poet Samuel Coleridges lines "Water, water every where not a drop to drink", have come to haunt India as seldom before. There is food, food everywhere but not a morsel to eat! On the one hand drought and starvation deaths stare us in the face. On t
- An enigmatic queen of hearts (Pioneer, Dipankar Chakrovorty, Jan 03, 2001)
She was almost what Winston Churchill commented about the former Soviet Union a riddle wrapped in mystery inside an enigma.
- Narayanan invites criticism for his utterances (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Jan 03, 2001)
You may question the appropriateness of President K R Narayanan's allusion in his R-Day telecast to the nation to Field Marshal Ayub Khan's concept of basic democracy, sought to be promoted as an alternative constitutional framework. But you cannot doubt
- THE LIMITS OF THE HINDU RASHTRA (Telegraph, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Jan 03, 2001)
The new year has begun with a kick to our national funny bone. Nepal, the only Hindu rashtra in the world, has turned its pent-up fury on that high priest of the Hindu rashtra, K.R. Malkani. It’s like the Catholics throwing eggs at the Pope for being an a
- Emerging as IT superstate (Deccan Herald, Parag Rabade, Jan 03, 2001)
Maharashtra, which has launched several ambitious projects such as developing the Mumbai-Pune belt as a knowledge corridor by setting up of software technology parks at various places to give a boost to information technology, is fast emerging as an IT su
- Reservations on women's Bill (Pioneer, H P Misra, Jan 03, 2001)
The Women's Reservation Bill has once again been stalled in the last session of Parliament.
- The wish-list on Kashmir (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 03, 2001)
THE DIPLOMATIC `MUSINGS' of the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, on the ``legacy of the last century'' - the Kashmir dispute - address some but not all of the relevant complex realities. In his reflections, the Prime Minister has certainly done w
- After the flood (Pioneer, Shubha Singh, Jan 03, 2001)
Barely half a dozen years ago, the weeks of the hot summer months would be heralded in Delhi with a terse government regulation that banned the manufacture of milk products within the National Capital.
- Unwarranted (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 03, 2001)
The proposal to include the word dharmic after 'secular` in the Indian Constitution, made at a seminar in Bangalore on Sunday, is not only unnecessary but would also send wrong signals to the people. The suggestion was made at a seminar on incorporating s
- BEATEN TRACK (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 03, 2001)
Prime Minister A B Vajpayee wants to come out of narrow cocoons of the past and solve contentious problems that have defied solution all the years. Making specific reference to Kashmir issue that is the legacy of 1947 partition, Prime Minister says that h
- By George, he has done it! (Pioneer, Wilson John, Jan 03, 2001)
There is one thing good about George Fernandes. He misses no chance to show his solidarity with the troops.
- Clearing the air (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 03, 2001)
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has done well to clearly set forth his positions on the Ayodhya and Kashmir issues in two separate articles written during his recent vacation in Kerala.
- B-schools must create global managers (Business Line, Justin Paul, Jan 03, 2001)
BUSINESS administration, an unorganised science in the 1970s and the 1980s, has become a professional discipline. The so-called `management' education, synonym for business administration, has been evolving as an important academic discipline in India in
- I cry for my green Valley (The Kashmir Times, Suneethi Bakshi, Jan 03, 2001)
I have just concluded a seven day trip to Srinagar, and I pen these lines as I sit in the departure lounge at the airport. Seven days after a lapse of seven years! Seven days of slowly savoring the sights and sounds and the aromas and flavors-the total am
- Hopeful sign (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 03, 2001)
The above 20 per cent growth rate in exports during the first eight months of the current financial year (April-November 2000) is an encouraging sign for several reasons. First, this has been achieved in spite of the acute demand recession in the domestic
- Platform: Horizon in the east (Hindustan Times, Ramesh Thakur, Jan 03, 2001)
THE NIGHTMARE scenario for some US analysts is for China, India and Russia to form an anti-Western axis. This would bring together 2.5 billion people of three nuclear weapon States in an alliance of convenience forged solely to counter US global ‘hegemony
- STATUS QUO (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 03, 2001)
Prime Minister A B Vajpayee makes it abundantly clear that none will be allowed to disturb status quo at Ayodhya, Kashi or Mathura. His reference is to Hindutva organisations who have vowed to go ahead with construction of temple as also change the status
- Cheating consumers (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 03, 2001)
The issues raised in the Comptroller and Auditor General's latest report on food and consumer affairs will interest those who for some inexplicable reason continue to have faith in the system. At no point of time in free India have consumers been given a
- Bio-medical wastes in Hospitals and clinics (Daily Excelsior, Som Dutt, Jan 03, 2001)
All leading hospitals and clinics in Delhi have been rapped by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee for their failure to properly dispose of bio-medical wastes generated on their premises. Some of them have been charged with manipulating records. The pre
- The paradox of plenty (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Jan 03, 2001)
THIRTY-FIVE years back, before the onset of the Green Revolution under Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, had anybody suggested that by 2000, the foodgrain godowns in India would not only be full to the brim but actually overflowing, he would have been l
- The Nepal Realpolitik (Business Line, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jan 03, 2001)
NEPAL is too important a country for India to alienate. Not because the king is an avatar of Vishnu, as a former Indian ambassador never failed to stress by unbecomingly prostrating himself at the royal feet, but because of geopolitical factors. So, I can
- PAST TENSE (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 03, 2001)
The use of the verb, “was”, instead of “is”, may have become for the prime minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, something akin to a double-edged sword. He has emphasised that he had said that the Ramjanmabhoomi movement was a manifestation of nationalist ca
- DWINDLING BOUNTY (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jan 03, 2001)
The new Brahmins in Indian society are the tribe who pass as NRIs, the non-resident Indians. They have, as a matter of fact, ceased to be Indians: they have travelled to other shores and taken up citizenship there. Technically they are therefore non-India
- MORE WORRIES FOR THE COALITION (Telegraph, SURENDRA MOHAN, Jan 03, 2001)
With hindsight it is possible to say that some of the decisions taken by the government last year or those that have been implemented will prove to be crucial for India’s political history. These include Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s endorsement of the sangh par
- Tea stained (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 03, 2001)
THE TEA INDUSTRY has been in a state of agitation for the past two years. Falling prices, sluggish exports, stagnant domestic consumption and poor trade margins have all combined to create a sense of frustration among the stakeholders in the sector -- be
- Coalition cabinets (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 03, 2001)
THE Cabinet system of government in India is coming under severe strain in the coalition era. The dominant principles of that system are two-fold: The prerogative of the Prime Minister to choose the Ministers and the collective responsibility of the Cabin
- Food security and the environment -- Focal issues of Science Congress (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Jan 03, 2001)
THE new millennium's first Indian Science Congress, beginning today in the Capital, will address the crucial issues of ``Food, nutrition and environmental security.'' With a decade of economic reforms behind us, and the promised improvement in the quality
- Water conservation (Daily Excelsior, Daya Sagar, Jan 03, 2001)
Water has attracted the attention of a common man, a social worker, a voluntary Organisation, the scientists, a politician and those planning in the Government, a little more beyond what has been laid down in the National Water Policy (where the emphasis
- Enron ennui: Who is to blame? (Business Line, V. Ranganathan, Jan 02, 2001)
THE ENRON project is back in the news again. Now, the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) is facing an untenable situation where it cannot even lift the first-phase supply fully. It is caught in a vicious circle of high fuel prices leading to low o
- More teeth for EC (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 02, 2001)
WHEN it comes to giving up or even sharing its tremendous powers, the government can be more stubborn than a mule. All citizens who have had to deal with the government know this bitter truth. Even the Election Commission has now learnt this lesson. Way b
- A year of bitter sweet memories (Deccan Herald, ABHA SHARMA, Jan 02, 2001)
At the dawn of the new year with lots of festivities around, the state can look back at the year 2000 as a year of bitter-sweet memories. While drought was a big challenge for the state government and the people in the year 2000, Rajasthan had the pleasur
- Fear of elections (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 02, 2001)
It is now clear that the Congress(I) Working Committee will be constituted not through elections but by nominations by the party president, Ms Sonia Gandhi. All party units in States have sent in resolutions to the high command authorising the president t
- Nepal needs to learn a lesson (Tribune, Amar Chandel, Jan 02, 2001)
WHILE Nepal slides back to normalcy after all the violence and furore over a Hrithik Roshan remark that never was, the authorities there ought to do a lot of soul-searching. They may not have the courage of conviction to offer an apology to India and Indi
- Global Economic Prospects Report -- Don't close doors on developing nations (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jan 02, 2001)
INDIA's resolute resistance to any inclusion of labour standards on the trade agenda under the umbrella of the World Trade Organisation's so-called new Round of Trade Negotiations appears well-founded.
- Welcome rain (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 02, 2001)
THE weather gods have relented at last. After a prolonged dry spell the region comprising Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Haryana has reported heavy snowfall in the upper reaches and rain in the plains. Other parts of India too have a reas
- Ritual assurances (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 02, 2001)
THE RESPONSE OF the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, to the concern voiced by a group of Kerala bishops - who met him during his sojourn at Kumarakom - over the ``increasing atrocities'' on the Christian community has a familiar ring about it, go
- Elected coterie (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 02, 2001)
IT is now official, as the cliche goes. The Congress has no use for inner-party democracy. It craves for humane authoritarian rule, preferably under a scion from the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. It showed this urge in a shy manner during the election of its pres
- Increasing stresses and strains (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Jan 02, 2001)
The slight traces of residual anger perceptible in the recent utterances of Chief Minister S M Krishna against bureaucracy may just indicate that the equations between the official and political components of the ruling establishment are not smooth as sil
- New colleges (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 02, 2001)
The Karnataka government has approved the opening of 36 new engineering colleges from 2001-2002 with variation in courses and an increase in the intake capacity now totalling 7967 seats, up by 2267 seats. In all, 72 applications have been put in, of which
- DHR MODEL OF GOVERNANCE (Tribune, D. R. Chaudhry, Jan 02, 2001)
INDIA has adopted the Westminster style of democracy. Its important characteristics such as a multiple party system, periodic elections, adult franchise, separation of the legislature, the executive and the judiciary etc deal more with form than with the
- Boldness required in credit expansion (Business Line, V. Subramaniam, Jan 02, 2001)
UNTIL the late 1980s, banks placed great emphasis on achieving deposit targets, and this has been the yardstick for further career development. No stone was left unturned to mobilise deposits. Even today, branch heads feel the pressure to achieve targets,
- The Red Fort (in)security (Tribune, Pritam Bhullar, Jan 02, 2001)
THE security inside the premises is virtually nil as otherwise it would cause a major problem to those who visit this historic place”, remarked the Defence Minister, Mr George Fernandes, on the shooting incident by militants in the Red Fort on December 22
- The transfer gambit (Business Line, C. V. Aravind, Jan 02, 2001)
BUREAUCRATS are, by and large, a supplicant species, and Indian bureaucrats are no exception. The urge to rise and shine in their professions usually leads to the habit of pleasing the bosses, for bosses, as a rule, are always susceptible to flattery.
- Mysteries of the brain (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 02, 2001)
PENETRATING STUDIES CARRIED out so far suggest conclusively that the human brain is the most unexplored and mystifying territory which would baffle scientists for quite a long time yet. Dr. V. S. Ramachandran, Professor and Director of the Centre for Brai
- Kashmir: Abominable abdication (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Jan 02, 2001)
It would be churlish to deny ISI credit for the speed and skill with which it has encircled India with hostile bases and virtually paralysed it from within.
- Demolition and other antiquities (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Jan 02, 2001)
Just as a villain is often more interesting a character than the hero, Raja Jai Chand of Kanauj arouses my curiosity.
- Agenda for peace in sub-continent (Pioneer, APS Chauhan, Jan 02, 2001)
In the prevailing climate of international relations, a nation's struggle to defeat its adversaries runs parallel to its struggle to make peace with them.
- LCA prototype to fly in Jan (Tribune, Imran Qureshi, Jan 02, 2001)
THE first prototype of India’s indigenously developed multi-role fighter, the light combat aircraft (LCA), will fly in the first week of January, officials say. The Rs 30 billion project of prestige, bogged down by U.S. sanctions in the aftermath of India
- Living with terror (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 02, 2001)
As the new year gets under way, India needs to brace itself up to face a massive increase in Pakistan sponsored cross border terrorism.
- Oil and sugar industries -- Not so slick `n sweet? (Business Line, G. Chandrashekhar, Jan 01, 2001)
AMONG the various commercially important agricultural sectors, the one that went through a roller-coaster ride during 2000 was oilseeds and vegetable oils. Over the past 12 months, the vegoil market saw a series of developments that left most market funct
- First things first (Tribune, Trilochan Singh Trewn, Jan 01, 2001)
THE Swedish pine and birchwood furniture is famous for its strength, light weight and its suitability to fine finish. Dense tall forests of Sweden produce this fine construction wood. This furniture is quite costly. Her excellency Vijay Laxmi Pandit was H
- A tale of two attitudes (Hindu, P. V. Indiresan , Jan 01, 2001)
THERE IS a story about two boys. As a curtain-raiser to his birthday celebrations, the fond parents of one of the boys left a large collection of sweets at his bedside while he was asleep. On waking up, he saw the sweets and started wailing, ``You had a p
- Win over the region first (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Jan 01, 2001)
FOR THE third time in a row, the new year finds New Delhi grappling with neighbourhood challenges, varying in form but unchanged at the core - intractable. If the dawn of 1998 saw the makings of a bus diplomacy (which did not take long to come unstuck), l
- No room for complacency (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 01, 2001)
THE NOBEL LAUREATE, Prof. Amartya Sen, has given a timely warning to Kerala - not to be complacent on the education front. True, Kerala has achieved 100 per cent literacy. It can boast of high standards not only in education but in all social sectors. So
- On the threshold (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 01, 2001)
On the threshold of 2001 AD, India stands as a politically stable and confident nation whose growing economic strength, military capability and commitment to global and regional peace, is widely recognised.
- A year marked by reform (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 01, 2001)
IN A nutshell, apart from the halting progress made on the reforms front, there is nothing to write home about as far as 2000 is concerned -- of course, not taking into the historical fact that it was the last year of the second millennium according to th
- Slow motion (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 01, 2001)
LIKE SWAMI IN Swami and Friends, the Indian economy will be a bit reluctant to get up from bed on New Year's Day, it being a Monday, after a week-end of fun.
- Infrastructure: The bottlenecks persist (Business Line, N. Ramakrishnan , Jan 01, 2001)
IF MERE expression of intent and the number of seminars on the subject mean anything, surely infrastructure must be the most happening sector in the country. There have been, and will continue to be, innumerable policy initiatives in the roads, ports, air
- Old anxieties and New Year thoughts (Business Line, S. Ramachander, Jan 01, 2001)
IT IS that time of year again when gifts, warm clothes, holidays and resolutions occupy our minds. This New Year has little hype to offer and will probably slip in quietly unlike the last, which was surrounded by the global buzz and din of excitement over
- Agenda for New India (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 01, 2001)
INDIA is at the crossroads. This is a well-known fact since most problems have stayed with us even as governments have come and gone. Why is it so? A lack of vision and commitment to the people? Or, is it because of the absence of a will to govern? The po
- Solving the Kashmir tangle (Daily Excelsior, Lt Col Mukund Singh Jamwal (Retd, Jan 01, 2001)
So we have had a unilateral ceasefire in Kashmir once again, and now its extension, both announced by the Government of India. This indeed is a laudable and bold step and has been welcomed by all the right thinking people, especially the general public in
- Beyond a bizarre tale (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 01, 2001)
THE DRAMATIC RETURN to India of a `prodigal' hijacker, an advocate of political hatred against New Delhi during a bygone period in its relationship with Pakistan, triggers some complex questions about the Vajpayee administration's diplomatic game plan in
- NEW YEAR (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 01, 2001)
As the second year of the millennium starts today, it is time to take stock of the year just left behind. First and the foremost aspect relates to relative stability. Barring Mamata's tantrums that are largely habitual, NDA government has done reasonably
- Rubbing it in (Pioneer, Anil Narendra, Jan 01, 2001)
The daring assault on unarmed people by a suicide squad of Lashkar-e-Toiba militants inside the historic Red Fort is a reminder that the road to peace in Jammu & Kashmir is going to be tough and long.
- Sharp cut in cargo dwell-time achieved (Daily Excelsior, D. K. Arora, Jan 01, 2001)
The dwell-time of import and export cargo at major Indian airports has come down considerably. In the case of imports, the dwell-time has come down from 26 days in the 80s to the present level of 10.58 days in Mumbai and 8.6 days in Delhi.
- A silent educational revolution (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Vishiesh Verma, Jan 01, 2001)
New regimes have new brain waves. It is natural and right so.
On Nov 14, Children's Day Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, Human Resources Development Minister, presented to the nation revised version of 'National Curriculum Framework' for all stages of school ed
- To seek death is legal, at last (Tribune, Anupam Gupta, Jan 01, 2001)
I will not relinquish old age,” said Seneca, the great Roman statesman and writer, “if it leaves my better part intact. But if it begins to shake my mind, if it destroys its faculties one by one, if it leaves me not life but breath, I will depart from the
- N. states becoming IT savvy: Dewang (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 01, 2001)
INFORMATION Technology is the buzzword today. Though the Southern states are the first choice for investors, Northern states are vying with each other to attract potential investors, says Mr Dewang Mehta, the President of the National Association of Softw
- WHAT AILS DRDO LCA will fly straight into IAF museum (Tribune, Harwant Singh, Jan 01, 2001)
THE news that the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) will now be ready only by 2015-2020, some 19-23 years after the promised date, is no news for those who are better acquainted with the DRDO; with the gap between its promise and performance. When finally deliv
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