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Articles 18821 through 18920 of 23072:
- Transition In Togo (Hindu, Lydia Polgreen, Feb 28, 2005)
Togo's African neighbours took the lead to ensure the country stayed on the road to democracy.
- Can Chidambaram Be Santa Claus Tomorrow? (Indian Express, N K Singh, Feb 27, 2005)
On Budget eve, an astrologer rather than an analyst would be more helpful in predicting outcomes. This is particularly so when a new security paranoia has reportedly gripped the Budget-making exercise.
- When Are You Guys Going To Get It? (Indian Express, DEBORAH BLUM, Feb 26, 2005)
In victorian times, scientists argued that women’s brains were too small to be fully human. On the intelligence scale, researchers recommended classifying human females with gorillas.
- Will The Fm Deliver Enough Bang For The Budget Buck? (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 26, 2005)
Budget expectations differ across various industry segments. Presented below are a few of these, from corporate chiefs and tax experts.
- Stirrings In A Hopeless Land (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Feb 26, 2005)
Nobody goes to Bihar too often. Actually, nobody goes there unless he or she has to. No surprise then that for all but one member of our group of Limousine Liberals
- Added Nauseam (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 26, 2005)
Last year, the newly-installed UPA regime drew justified flak for politicising the first post-poll presidential address to Parliament. Dr APJ Abdul Kalam read out a speech projecting Election 2004
- Buying Us Aircraft (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Feb 26, 2005)
India has sent out requests for information (RFI) to various leading aircraft manufacturers in the world as a preliminary step to float tenders to purchase 126 multi-role combat aircraft.
- Gurudev As Story-Teller (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Feb 26, 2005)
“The very name evokes awe and reverence,” writes Sinjita Gupta, translator and compiler of ten short stories by Rabindranath Tagore in a collection entitled Mystic Moods (UBPSD).
- Horrendous Howlers (Tribune, Suchita Vemuri, Feb 26, 2005)
Correcting answer-sheets of the college students, otherwise a cumbersome and tiring routine exercise for any teacher, can be a hilarious experience also at times.
- Let The Iron Rooster Take Wing (Indian Express, ILA PATNAIK, Feb 26, 2005)
Introducing competition into the Railways would provide a range of choices to the consumer and make train travel more efficient
- Remembering The Holocaust (Deccan Herald, SHASHI THAROOR, Feb 25, 2005)
Whenever I think of Auschwitz or Birkenau, or Mauthausen, or Theresienstadt, the names that, in this season of Holocaust remembrance, are coming back to haunt us from 60 years ago
- Railways: Too Much On The Track (Business Line, R. C. Acharya, Feb 25, 2005)
The Indian Railways appears to have hit a roadblock of sorts in its headlong rush to modernise and upgrade technology in all areas, including the vital track maintenance.
- Railways: Making It The Beast Of Burden (Business Line, Santanu Sanyal, Feb 25, 2005)
The cumulative effect of years of apathy and neglect is beginning to really tell on the Railways. The biggest challenge facing the Railways Minister, Mr Lalu Prasad, will be to step up its share in the total transportation of traffic.
- On Unconscionable Dropout Rates (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 25, 2005)
At a time when there is a great deal of buzz about India taking off as a "knowledge-based economy and society," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's admission that the dropout rate in schools
- Netaji Beyond Taihoku Aircrash (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Feb 25, 2005)
The de-classified Soviet archives may or may not be the Holy Grail of Netaji's "disappearance" mystery. But why is the Justice MK Mukherjee Commission's access to it being curtailed by not allowing it an extension?
- Making India An R&d Powerhouse (Business Line, Habil Khorakiwala, Feb 25, 2005)
India and innovation? Global pharmaceutical majors would have laughed at such an association 10 years ago when it was fashionable to brand India as a nation of copycats and pirates.
- Look Beyond The Picture-Postcard (Indian Express, AVANTIKA REGMI, Feb 25, 2005)
In the past Nepal was only known as a popular tourist destination with quaint traditions, thousands of festivals, exquisitely carved temples, beer-guzzling gods, blood-thirsty goddesses, and even living goddesses, in exquisite natural beauty.
- Warm Winter Nights (Telegraph, NEHA SAHAY, Feb 25, 2005)
If Mumbai is shivering, South China is freezing. Even heaters aren’t enough in Guangdong’s cities this winter, cities normally criticized as “uncomfortably hot” by Northerners who flock to these special economic zones for jobs.
- Living History (Tribune, B.K. Karkra, Feb 25, 2005)
COMMODORE Babru Bahan Yadav, Mahavir Chakra — the man who led the charge on Karachi” in our war with Pakistan in 1971. This is how our then Naval Chief, Admiral S.M. Nanda, has referred to him, though the Commodore
- The Epic Tale Of Bilkis Bano (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Feb 25, 2005)
A historic event in the evolution of our democracy is taking place in a Mumbai court and we do ourselves disservice by allowing it to be crowded out by other admittedly important stories.
- India Must Back King (Pioneer, Rai Singh, Feb 25, 2005)
Mr Gautam Sen's article, "Nepal: What does India do now?" (Agenda, February 13), is a vivid account of the role of monarchy in Nepal. Apart from providing a historical perspective
- Get A Life (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 25, 2005)
The subcontinent seems to have woken up to the shamefulness of the kiss. Many forms of kissing harmonize sweetly with “family values” on either side of the line of control.
- Mlas All The Way (Deccan Herald, L C JAIN, Feb 24, 2005)
Democracy is described as the rule of the people, by the people, for the people. But if we don’t watch out, Karnataka MLAs seem all set to soon alter this definition of democracy, to become the rule of the MLAs, by MLAs, for MLAs.
- Pipelines Or Pipe Dreams? (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Feb 24, 2005)
New Delhi has indulged in two notable flip-flops in its relations with Pakistan in recent days. After initially insisting that passports would be required for travel across the LoC in the proposed Srinagar-Muzzafarabad bus service, we backtracked on this
- Security For The Self-Employed — (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Feb 24, 2005)
The Government must recognise the limitations of taxing the self-employed and must take note of the social security and health-care needs of this group, particularly in their old age.
- Snow And The Sonia Thaw (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 24, 2005)
As Congress president Sonia Gandhi became the first and till now only national leader to visit the snow-hit areas of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, many saw her trip as another proof of her love for the state.
- Kuldip Nayar’S Valley Of Unfounded Fears (Indian Express, MADHU PURNIMA, Feb 24, 2005)
The veteran journalist who once built bridges with the estranged people of Kashmir fails to realise that there is a historic new dawn in the state
- When Two Powers Meet (Hindu, Alexander Konovalov, Feb 24, 2005)
The Putin-Bush summit offers Russia an opportunity to reorder its relations with the West.
- Tale Of Two Democracies (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Feb 24, 2005)
Every vote counts, and every vote must be counted! That was the Democrats’ battle cry after the infamous American elections in 2000. What a shame that those words are now heard in the world’s largest democracy
- Average Bihari Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai (Indian Express, Shaibal Gupta, Feb 24, 2005)
The assembly election in Bihar has been convulsed by several high-profile criminal incidents. In fact, over the years Bihar has acquired the dubious distinction of being the most lawless state of the country.
- Budget 2005 And Economic Equity (Business Line, B.S. Rathor, Feb 24, 2005)
The Budget has to juxtapose the complex functions of pursuing the `profit' idiom to create wealth for the nation and of taking a range of socio-economic benefits to the people.
- Bus And Beyond (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Feb 24, 2005)
During the last conversation that this columnist had with J.N. Dixit shortly before his death, the late national security adviser said he was working ...
- From Shyness To Social Phobia (Tribune, Peter Jaret, Feb 24, 2005)
Years ago, when parents came to him worried because their kids seemed abnormally shy, Murray Stein, a psychiatrist at UC San Diego, would tell them not to worry — that most children outgrow periods of intense shyness. “Now we’re not so quick to dismiss...
- Converting Truth? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 24, 2005)
Six years after the Graham Staines tragedy, proselytisation continues to thrive in Orissa. None of the three sides to the dispute over conversions-government, missionary and Hindu protectionist-seems to have learnt a lesson.
- Rebuilding Lives In Andamans (Hindu, Ramachandra Ganesh Kapse, Feb 23, 2005)
Almost two months after `Black Sunday,' the Andaman &Nicobar Islands are bustling with activity.
- Overcrowded To Death (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 23, 2005)
This is not the first of this kind of accident. Mishaps seem to follow marriage parties travelling in overcrowded vehicles. These are naturally prone to accidents, as safety norms are hardly observed by drivers and passengers.
- Mellow Modi For Valentine’S (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 23, 2005)
For once youngsters in Gujarat celebrated Valentine’s Day without worry about moral policing by the Sangh Parivar. Though the celebrations were low-key, some people from Rajkot to Surat and Vadodara to Ahmedabad made the most of February 14.
- Tsi: `A Good Measure Of How Blood Flows In An Economy' ... (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Feb 23, 2005)
On January 29 last year, the US Secretary of Transportation, Mr Norman Y. Mineta, ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, announced the rollout of the first-ever Transportation Services Index ...
- The Problem In Goa Lies In Delhi (Indian Express, V A Pai Panandiker, Feb 23, 2005)
A spate of articles on Goa suggests that democracy in Goa has gone. Nothing is farther from the truth. What happened in the Goa assembly on February 2 is a ...
- Gonzo Goes To Bihar (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Feb 23, 2005)
Contemporary Bihar has become a graveyard of reputations, not least its own renown as a historical centre of scholarship and prosperity. As such, this year’s assembly election has seen a puncturing of, admittedly minor, egos.
- Vicious Attack (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 23, 2005)
It is doubtful whether in all the history of vituperative venting of spleen by politicians against persons holding public offices, there had been anything so venomous as the abuses flung at the Chief Election Commissioner...
- Introspect To Identify Divinity (Deccan Herald, RAMNATH NARAYANSWAMY, Feb 23, 2005)
What is spirituality? There is an invisible yet no less profound sense of order that connects, binds and governs the universe we live in. As human beings who tend to be wholly absorbed in the business of worldly engagement
- Beyond Strife (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 23, 2005)
Sectarian strife is always regressive. Every religion has seen the disruptive senselessness of it in the course of history, and in the present. In the case of Indian Muslims, inability to resolve intermittently violent conflicts within the ...
- Bulldozing Basic Rights (Indian Express, MILOON KOTHARI, Feb 23, 2005)
Compare what has occurred in Mumbai with evictions and homelessness in Kenya or Mexico City or New Delhi. Certainly, in terms of both the sheer numbers of poor people affected and the brutality of the demolitions
- Clouds Gathering For February 28 (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Feb 23, 2005)
What will the Budget that the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, presents on February 28 look like? Will he produce another "Dream Budget"?
- Europeans Intrigued (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma, Feb 23, 2005)
Mrs Margaret Thatcher may not have been amused to read of the visiting US Secretary of State, Dr Condoleezza Rice, being described as the most powerful woman in the world. Headlines in the world media justified the description.
- For A Farm-Friendly Budget (Business Line, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Feb 23, 2005)
The Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, has said that agriculture will be focus of the coming Budget. But agriculture is not synonymous with the common man.
- India Is Fertile Soil For Budget Airlines (Washington Post, John Lancaster, Feb 22, 2005)
As Air Deccan Flight 204 soared away from the runway, Ramana Murthy looked out the window and chatted animatedly on his cell phone. Never mind the rules.
- Sense And Sensex (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 22, 2005)
The sensex, the benchmark stock market index, reached its all-time high of 6700 during intraday trading last Monday. Mercifully, there has been less hype this time than might have been expected.
- Two Winter Conclaves (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Feb 22, 2005)
Hundreds of NRIs descended on Bombay on 7 January. That was slightly irregular, for the BJP government had fixed 9 January as the Travelling Indians’ Day (TID);
- Together, But Not There (Tribune, Ramesh Luthra, Feb 22, 2005)
Everyone at home. Still a lonely evening. It had rained heavily during the day. Fierce sleet was lashing the city now. We had made the bedrooms cosy with the blowers whirring endlessly.
- The Demise Of Languages (Deccan Herald, PANDURANG HEGDE, Feb 22, 2005)
On February 14, people all over the world celebrated Valentine’s Day, to express their love and affection for one another. But the media as well as the people in different countries
- Budget 2005-06: Will Upa Government Pass The Litmus Test? (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Feb 22, 2005)
A 7-8 per cent GDP growth can become possible in the coming fiscal year on the strength of the remarkable upturn in industry and buoyant growth in services
- Babus Don’T Travel (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Feb 22, 2005)
This year, India has been through a tourism boom. There are no hotel rooms available for love or money anywhere in Delhi or in Rajasthan.
- Dawood Shifts To Retail And Tourism (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Feb 22, 2005)
Far from the probing eyes of the media and the law enforcement authorities, the Dawood Ibrahim gang has been gradually moving into legitimate businesses in India and abroad. Investments in film distribution
- Nation In Turmoil, King In Trouble (Deccan Herald, ANIRUDHA DASGUPTA, Feb 21, 2005)
By clamping an emergency and banning all political parties, King Gyanendra Bikram Shah has triggered — most probably — a major avalanche in the Himalayas.
- Nepal: An Indian Faux Pas? (Business Line, A. Seshan, Feb 21, 2005)
The Government of India has reacted in a knee-jerk fashion to the developments in Nepal. It has issued a strong statement condemning the action of the King in dismissing the Cabinet and imposing an emergency.
- Trigger-Happy (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Feb 21, 2005)
Three separate incidents that recently took place in different parts of the country: they nonetheless form a pattern. Militarymen occupying a compartment in a mail train hurtling ...
- When Camels Fly (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Feb 21, 2005)
It’s good news, bad news time again for the Middle East. The good news is that what you are witnessing in the Arab world is the fall of its Berlin Wall.
- Economy: Build Like The Ant (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Feb 21, 2005)
Ants build big hills that last and prosper for hundreds of generations but we build towns the way grasshoppers do; the type that become unliveable within one generation.
- For The Love Of Neighbours (Telegraph, Deb Mukharji, Feb 21, 2005)
The foreign secretary’s recent speech has sparked off a debate on inter-state relations in south Asia
- Forget Shanghai, Remember Mumbai (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Feb 21, 2005)
We need to put aside our obsession with becoming "world class". Let us make our cities liveable for all the people.
- Women’S Panel Not A Jhoom Jhooma (Tribune, Chanchal Sarkar, Feb 20, 2005)
Subhashini Ali of Kanpur was a formidable speaker when she was a CPI(M) member of the Lok Sabha. One afternoon in 1982 I heard her on the newly constituted National Commission for Women.
- How The Cpm Sees Its Future (Indian Express, SHIKHA MUKERJEE, Feb 19, 2005)
From 1996, the CPM has been operating in a reactive mode, summed in Jyoti Basu’s famous observation that rejecting the prime ministership was a "historic blunder". In the nine years since 1996
- Muddle In Nepal (Tribune, Mohan Guruswamy, Feb 19, 2005)
India has seven neighbours, including Nepal. Our relationship with each one of them is based on a different set of historical, geographical and cultural factors. But a generally shared perspective of history and a substantially common culture especially b
- Italian Connections (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 19, 2005)
It is welcome that India and Italy have set a bilateral trade target of 5 billion euros, to be attained in two years, as there exists considerable scope to step up the economic ties which are now worth 3 billion euros.
- In The Name Of Democracy, Go! (Indian Express, COLIN GONSALVES, Feb 19, 2005)
India's policy in Nepal is determined by the desire to neutralise the Maoists. In the process gruesome acts are condoned causing democracy incalculable harm.
- History In The Box (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Feb 19, 2005)
Unlike economists and sociologists, who usually write for their peers, historians have sought to reach a wider audience.
- Go For It In Nagaland (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 19, 2005)
The State Human Development Report 2004 for Nagaland, the first for the State, is revealing in many respects. According to conventional wisdom
- Building Confidence (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Feb 19, 2005)
Pakistanis feel that the relationship-building process between India and Pakistan has slowed down under the Congress regime. During my recent trip to Pakistan, comparisons were often drawn to the slick pace at which the Vajpayee government moved to boost
- Between The Lines (Pioneer, Priyadarsi Dutta, Feb 19, 2005)
In the article, "Wonder that was India" (Foray, February 6), Dina Nath Mishra criticises Amulya Ganguli for his uncharitable remarks on ancient Indian science.
- Broad-Base The Slabs (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Feb 19, 2005)
As the Budget approaches, there is a growing expectation that the Finance Minister may announce major tax breaks and raise the basic exemption limit.
- This Is What He Said (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 19, 2005)
Bowing to pressure from his faculty, the president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers, on Thursday released a month-old transcript of his contentious closed-door remarks about the shortage of women in the sciences and engineering....
- Stifling Natural Enterprise (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Feb 19, 2005)
At the very apex of technical and technological skills, India has established itself as a world player - if not, yet, as a world power. Freed, in some measure
- Sari For Camilla, Pheta For Charles (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 19, 2005)
Mumbai's dabbawallas are now consulting their wives on sari colours and blouse-pieces. Soon after word spread of the Royal wedding between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles in April
- Will It Or Won't It? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 18, 2005)
The United Kingdom's first referendum in three decades is likely to be held in early 2006. Its people will vote on the Treaty of Rome that established a Constitution for the European Union (EU).
- New Border Lines (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 18, 2005)
The ambit of the composite dialogue India and Pakistan have undertaken to address is so very vast that affixing milestones can appear dismally complicated. Is it material progress on the gas pipeline and consolidation of economic cooperation that’s requis
- Our Legacy Of Modernity (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Feb 18, 2005)
I am trying to piece together seemingly unrelated views on the Indian aesthetic sensibility and create an integrated perspective.
- New Route (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 18, 2005)
In Kashmir, firecrackers greeted the news that the Srinagar-Muzaffarbad bus route was to become operative from April 7.
- A Route To Peace (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 18, 2005)
The composite dialogue between India and Pakistan received further impetus during the Islamabad visit of External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh.
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