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Articles 18621 through 18720 of 23072:
- Don't Hand Religion To The Right (Hindu, William Whyte, Mar 19, 2005)
In the United Kingdom, the secular Left must stop sniping and realise it has Christian allies.
- Welcome Release (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 19, 2005)
NO President, certainly not Gen Pervez Musharraf, releases hundreds of prisoners of a neighbouring country on the spur of the moment or on the prodding of a visiting Chief Minister.
- Canada's Shame (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Mar 19, 2005)
Justice has been raped in Canada. These are strong words. No other description, however, would be appropriate for the shocking acquittal of the two accused in the Kanishka bombing case by a judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
- ‘Red-Light’ Street Named After Gandhi (Tribune, Basildon Peta, Mar 19, 2005)
The fashion in South Africa is to rename streets, cities and towns after famous historical figures, but Durban city authorities may regret their decision to honour the memory of Mahatma Gandhi.
- A New Beginning In Manipur (Tribune, Gaurav Choudhury, Mar 19, 2005)
Manipur Governor Shivinder Singh Sidhu feels that giving out dollops of money alone will not solve the problems of insurgency afflicting the north-eastern region. A career bureaucrat and an economist
- Around The World On A T-Shirt Trail (Business Line, D. Murali , Mar 19, 2005)
Year 1999. Georgetown University, US. A young woman seizes the microphone and asks the crowd of WTO-protesters: "Who made your T-shirt?"
- European Anxieties (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 18, 2005)
Europe's ambitious stability and Growth Pact, conceived as the bedrock of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and personified in the single Euro currency
- Gorby’S Glasnost (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 18, 2005)
Asked for his views on the French revolution, some 50 years back, Mao Tse-Tung retorted that it was too early to comment. Distance being critical to judge events and history
- Justice In Canada (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 18, 2005)
Twenty years of investigation and 19 months of trial have come to a naught with a Canadian judge acquitting Indian-born Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri in the Kanishka bombing trial on Wednesday.
- No Such Thing As Free Lunch (Business Line, S. Srinath, Mar 18, 2005)
All items covered by FBT will be affected either by VAT or service tax, which cannot be treated as input tax.
- Sartre And French Culture (Hindu, Hywel Williams, Mar 18, 2005)
Sartre barely makes the top 100 national figures in a poll, but he was the last great French intellectual.
- Separation Of Powers (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Mar 18, 2005)
While the judiciary must step in when necessary, how it does so requires craft and statesmanship. Jharkhand should not become a precedent.
- Shaking Hands With Us (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Mar 18, 2005)
THE US Secretary of State, Dr Condoleezza Rice, during her first visit to India indicated two likely changes in the US policy towards India.
- The Softest Pillow Is A Clear Conscience (Business Line, D. Murali , Mar 18, 2005)
Conscience. I knew I'd have to come to terms with it one day or the other, and so was consciously keeping it outside this column.
- Another Time, Another Man (Tribune, Sudarshan Agarwal, Mar 18, 2005)
I have had the privilege to serve as Secretary-General, Rajya Sabha, when Justice M. Hidayatullah was the Vice-President and Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. I fondly recall a few incidents
- Space Security Under Threat (Deccan Herald, U R RAO, Mar 17, 2005)
Since the dawn of creation, earth's environment has been bombarded by meteoroids or “shooting stars”, ranging in size from 0.001 mm to several millimetres and travelling at speeds of over 20 km/sec.
- Home, New Home (Telegraph, Bishnupada Sethi, Mar 17, 2005)
With some more hard work, the Upper Krishna Project’s success with resettlement could be replicated in other states
- Fair Exchange (Tribune, Raj Chatterjee, Mar 17, 2005)
He was a small, compact man, with thinning hair, a round face, a short nose and a well-trimmed, grey moustache.
- The Politics Of Development (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Mar 17, 2005)
Development strategies and budgets reflect the political economy of the times. Political factors always influence and shape economic development strategies and the processes that follow from their adoption in any country.
- Serving Whose Cause? (Telegraph, Sarmila Bose, Mar 17, 2005)
The reputation and career of the former Dutch prime minister, Ruud Lubbers, lies in ruins, but his forced resignation as United Nations high commissioner for refugees amidst allegations of sexual harassment has in no way advanced the cause of women.
- Kanishka Bombing: Both Sikhs Acquitted (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2005)
After a two-year trial, a Canadian judge on Wednesday acquitted two Indian-born Sikhs of murder and other charges in the killing of 331 people in the bombing of an Air India plane Kanishka over the Atlantic and another explosion at Tokyo’s airport 20 year
- A Quiet Weekend Steeped In History (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2005)
A small village 100 km from Bangalore is Lepakshi in Anantapur district, famed for its temples and the monolithic Nandi statue.
- Toying With Culture And Tradition (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2005)
Indira Swaminathan has been teaching young children using traditional Indian toys she herself makes.
- In Asia, Rice Says North Korea More Isolated From Neighbors (Washington Post, Glenn Kessler, Mar 16, 2005)
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asserted Tuesday that North Korea's "isolation from its neighbors has deepened" as it has bolstered its nuclear stockpile in the past year,
- Through The Smokescreen (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 16, 2005)
The objective of this Convention and its protocols is to protect present and future generations from the devastating health, social, environmental and economic consequences...
- Papers Out Of A Bag (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Mar 16, 2005)
The budget speech was a great success. The finance bill was an utter disaster.
- Judiciary Vs Parliament (Tribune, K N Bhat, Mar 16, 2005)
Mr Somnath Chatterjee, the seasoned lawyer opted for a sagacious course of a Presidential reference because he, as Speaker of the ultimate legislature — the Lok Sabha....
- Indian Media Blog Shuts Down After Legal Threats From Times Of India (Online Journalism Review, Mark Glaser, Mar 15, 2005)
Mediaah Weblog is shuttered after the Times of India threatens libel lawsuits, causing an uproar and petition in the Indian blogosphere. Can media criticism gain a foothold in the subcontinent?
- Protecting Consumers (Hindu, N.L. Rajah, Mar 15, 2005)
Changes are needed in the Consumer Protection Act and in its implementation to deal with the challenges of globalisation.
- Twin Treat For Architecture Lovers (Deccan Herald, V S SRINIVASA PRASANNA , Mar 15, 2005)
V S SRINIVASA PRASANNA explores the beautiful Hoysala architecture of the twin temples and discovers that the antiquities of these temples are yet to be unraveled.
- Yakshagana: Riding The Crest Of A New Wave (Deccan Herald, Shankaranarayana, Mar 15, 2005)
SHANKARANARAYANA analyses the new face of yakshagana and appreciates the fact that this particular form of folk art has kept itself alive by constantly reinventing itself, by roping in new ambassadors, formulating a new wave of yakshagana or conducting wo
- Time For Us And India To Go Steady (Deccan Herald, STANLEY A WEISS, Mar 15, 2005)
Washington can no longer take India for granted, as there are other suitiors waiting on the sidelines
- Not Good Enough (Telegraph, ABHIRUP SARKAR, Mar 15, 2005)
Whether we like it or not, two or three centuries co-exist side by side in our blessed land. Modern, futuristic skyscrapers have ugly shanties in their neighbourhood...
- Branding Health Tourism (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 15, 2005)
What the Union Tourism Minister, Renuka Chowdhury, outlined for promoting health tourism, and her advocacy of positioning India as a medical hub, have been on the drawing ...
- All Shook Up (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 15, 2005)
Limelight is not the best thing for everybody. The governors of two states, Goa and then Jharkhand, threw themselves into the limelight recently. The focus was not kind to them and their kind.
- Icici’S First Weather Insurance Policy (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2005)
ICICI Lombard General Insurance, has structured India’s first–ever weather insurance deal in the non-agro sector providing a unique insurance cover to a salt producing company.
- Gandhi Is Universal (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 15, 2005)
The 75th anniversary of the Dandi March has invited controversy with the Congress party politicising the commemoration of this national event.
- On Fringe Taxes And All That — Rollback Is Not A Dirty Word (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Mar 14, 2005)
The excitement about the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram's Budget is still stoking the market, which is on a roll. But as the corporates and individuals read the fine-print, the fascination may wear off.
- Need To Clarify Grey Areas In New Anti-Defection Law (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Mar 14, 2005)
The new anti-defection law enacted by Parliament last year through the ninety-first amendment of the Constitution was lauded across the political spectrum as it ...
- Dandi Minus Gandhi (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 14, 2005)
If the re-enactment of the Dandi march 75 years after the historic event is proving to be a damp squib, it is because the present leadership just does not have the sincerity, honesty and vision of the great Mahatma.
- A Taxing Budget (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 14, 2005)
The most notable feature of the Himachal Pradesh Budget, presented on Friday, is a fairly heavy dose of taxation, which naturally will hit the ordinary citizen.
- Wto Completes A Decade (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Mar 14, 2005)
There is little doubt that, if one excludes the United Nations, the World Trade Organisation is perhaps the most important international body with a multilateral membership that has been set up after the Second World War.
- Playing Cowboys In Basra (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Mar 14, 2005)
The British establishment still remains in denial regarding the brutalising effects of its actions in Iraq.
- Right To Question And Ban Don’T Go Together (Deccan Herald, Tavleen Singh, Mar 13, 2005)
The latest victim of our twisted version of secularism has been Vinod Pandey’s film Sins. Last week the Jammu & Kashmir government banned it for fear of hurting Christian sentiments.
- Violating The Constitution In Letter And Spirit (Deccan Herald, SANDEEP SHASTRI, Mar 13, 2005)
The office of the Governor has the uncanny ability to remain shrouded in controversy even when no controversy should really exist!
- Where Dolphins Dance (Deccan Herald, PRIYANKA HALDIPUR, Mar 13, 2005)
Waking up in the morning knowing that an azure beach awaits you about fifty steps away is a divine feeling altogether. Devbagh is where that thought becomes real.
- The Culture Of Common People (Deccan Herald, M S MURALI KRISHNA, Mar 13, 2005)
M S MURALI KRISHNA writes about Bharatiya Lok Kala Mandal- a folk and tribal arts centre in Udaipur, which is making commendable efforts to keep the culture of Rajasthan alive.
- Dandi, But Where’S The Salt? (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2005)
To propagate the ideals of Gandhiji in today’s world and to focus on the person who is considered to be singularly responsible for driving the Britishers out of the country
- May The Green Force Be With You (Deccan Herald, BITTU SAHGAL, Mar 13, 2005)
In recent days I have been involved with a number of conflict resolution exercises to try win support for wildlife conservation and environmental protection.
- No Gain Without Pain (Hindu, LARRY ELLIOT, Mar 12, 2005)
The key to development in sub-Saharan Africa is partnership with the West.
- Wages Of Compliance Is Inequity (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Mar 12, 2005)
ALL along, the salaried taxpayer had to be content with standard deduction, with no special treatment either by way of tax rate concessions or by way of rebates and relief.
- At Least There’S Gandhi (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 12, 2005)
The one quiet moment in Friday’s maelstrom of parliamentary acrimony was when the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha paid rich tributes to the father of the nation on the 75th anniversary of the Dandi March.
- ‘An Open Society And Open Economy Are The Pillars... (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 12, 2005)
The test of the vibrancy and resilience of a democracy is not just the ability to conduct elections and convene legislatures.
- Cash Is A Way Of Life (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Mar 12, 2005)
It used to be a joke in the Calcutta high court that it was a good job that Pesi Ginwala, the octogenarian barrister-at-law (Charterhouse, Balliol and Inner Temple) who has now retired to Bombay
- Cry For Mumbai, Our Little India (Indian Express, Amrita Shah, Mar 12, 2005)
Mumbai is in the news. Not like Jharkhand and Bihar and the Indo-Pak series are in the news, but in a more fundamental, a more reflective sort of way.
- Economy On The Upswing (Tribune, D.N. Patodia, Mar 12, 2005)
Indian economy, for the second consecutive year, has performed well. GDP growth for the year 2004-05 has now been projected at 6.9 per cent after a record growth of 8.5 per cent in the previous year.
- Living With The Pain (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Mar 11, 2005)
Terribly scarred by the Madrid train bombings of a year ago, most Spaniards are unhappy at the slow pace of the investigation.
- Jharkhand, And Chhattisgarh Ka Ankra (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 11, 2005)
Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand have lots in common, and the recent political crisis in Ranchi has bound them even closer. The two states are geographically contiguous, were born at the same time
- The Significance Of Mr. Chavez (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 11, 2005)
The visit to India last week of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez marked an important milestone in not just New Delhi's relations with Caracas but also in the ongoing Indian effort to
- Agenda For New Haryana Govt (Tribune, R. N. Malik, Mar 11, 2005)
THE new Chief Minister of Haryana, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, faces a daunting task. Most Chief Ministers have failed to adopt a visionary approach and an agenda of development.
- Infrastructure Development — Has The Budget Done Enough? (Business Line, Ramakanta Subudhi, Mar 11, 2005)
Attempts to attract private investment in infrastructure development by way of incentives are not enough. Insufficient outlays in successive Budgets have led to poor and inadequate facilities.
- Manmohan’S Brave New World (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Mar 10, 2005)
In a remarkably forward-looking speech recently, the PM argued that foreign policy exists to push pragmatic economic goals and to build a world of open-minded pluralistic nations
- Left’S Unkindly Cut (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Mar 10, 2005)
THE Communist parties in India cannot be accused of inconsistency. They have a track record of advocating foreign and national security policies designed to make India a surrogate or protectorate of one or another external power.
- Resolving Disputes (Business Line, K. Gopalan, Mar 10, 2005)
The sequence of `thesis-antithesis-synthesis', somewhat cyclical, is what characterises the progress of history, according to Hegel.
- That March, 75 Years Ago (Indian Express, B.R. NANDA, Mar 10, 2005)
At midnight on December 31, 1929, as a new year dawned, the Indian National Congress unfurled the flag of independence on the banks of Ravi at Lahore.
- Wto Rules Cut In Us Cotton Subsidies (Tribune, Dan Morgan, Mar 10, 2005)
A Bush administration proposal that would cut billions of dollars in subsidies to big cotton growers has struck at a core GOP constituency, setting off a battle in
- Communist Recipe For Disaster (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Mar 10, 2005)
The Communist Parties in India cannot be accused of inconsistency. They have a track record of advocating foreign and national security policies designed to make India a surrogate or protectorate of one or another
- Budget: No Change In Gear Or Direction (Business Line, Dharmalingam Venugopal, Mar 10, 2005)
The Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram's Budget was clear-cut, given the current state of the economy.
- Time To Bridge The God Gap (Telegraph, Gouri Chatterjee, Mar 10, 2005)
With the Page 3 revolution in the bag, will the media turn to the almighty next? It would be a stroke of genius if we could expiate our untold sins and enhance our bottom-lines all at the same time.
- Dismembering Truth (Hindu, Jyotirmaya Sharma, Mar 10, 2005)
A half-hearted attempt at bringing about reconciliation between communities based on mendacity and self-deception will not help assuage the feelings of the victims of the Gujarat riots.
- How To Create A New Tomorrow (Business Line, Vidya Hattangadi, Mar 10, 2005)
An oft-asked question about Indians is: In spite of having such rich heritage, an abundance of natural resources and intellectual minds, why we are unable to make a difference to the world economy?
- Future Of Books In The Age Of The Web (Hindu, Caroline Michel, Mar 10, 2005)
Books will confound all predictions and survive the electronic age in much the same form in which they exist today and have existed for hundreds of years.
- The Hold-All Of Yore (Deccan Herald, E D NARAHARI, Mar 09, 2005)
I frequently marvel at the jet-set travellers of today who zoom away to distant destinations as if they were visiting a neighbour for a chat or chaat. But my days were different.
- Two Worlds (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 09, 2005)
THERE is a sharp divide between men and women. And women are not only segregated from the male species but are also further subdivided into two worlds of their own.
- Unavoidable, For A While, In Bihar (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 09, 2005)
It must appear odd that any State can be brought under President's Rule by political consensus. That events have raced towards such a denouement in post-election Bihar is thanks to another seeming contradiction: the reluctance of the State's political par
- Vanishing Wetlands (Hindu, G. Ananthakrishnan, Mar 09, 2005)
Nearly a year after he announced the Government's intention to progressively "repair, renovate and restore all water bodies that are directly linked to agriculture,"
- Where Have Tigers Gone? (Tribune, Earl Lane, Mar 09, 2005)
THE tiger population in India has declined to an extent that these big cats are no longer to be sighted in some sanctuaries. Now that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has written to Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje
- Before Old Soldiers Fade Away (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Mar 09, 2005)
The Communist Parties in India cannot be accused of inconsistency. They have a track record of advocating foreign and national security policies designed to make India a surrogate or protectorate of one or another
- Budget: Another Political Statement? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Mar 09, 2005)
The UPA Government is going the way of Nehru in 1951 and Indira Gandhi in the 1960s. Dangling carrots is the name of the game. The government makes promises
- Budget: Of Straight Bats And Googlies (Business Line, Saurabh Upadhyay, Mar 09, 2005)
THE Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, has a reputation of being a man with the Midas touch. And this time it was a formidable team
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