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Articles 21021 through 21120 of 23072:
- World's Enemy (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2004)
The 22 heads of State and Government who gathered at Arromanches, France, on Sunday, did more than observe the 60th anniversary of one of the most remarkable military feats of our time-the 'D-Day' landing of the allied forces on Normandy beach.
- Primary Education: Low Coverage, Poor Quality (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Jun 09, 2004)
The really critical aspect of the Indian public education system is its low quality. Even in educationally advanced States, an unacceptably low proportion of children who complete all grades of primary school have functional literacy.
- The Challenges Ahead (Hindu, R.K. Raghavan, Jun 09, 2004)
Shivraj Patil starts with a clean image and we can expect him to fulfil his new role of stewarding what is generally looked upon as a political task with great aplomb.
- Populism Versus Responsibility (Hindu, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jun 09, 2004)
With the Railways Minister planning a populist Rail Budget, the divestment agenda hamstrung by the Left and power sops being doled out to farmers and domestic consumers in some States
- The Bjp's Past Is Not Its Future (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jun 09, 2004)
Hindutva once paid electoral dividends because it answered the needs of the moment. And that moment has passed.
- Ronald Reagan’S Legacy: Bush Draws Sustenance (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma, Jun 09, 2004)
There are parallels that can be noticed between many policies and actions of Reagan and Bush
- Pakistan Caught In Violence (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2004)
Should India join the efforts for the Iranian natural gas pipeline via Pakistan?
- Gas Pipeline Again: Security Guarantees Can Help (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2004)
Should India join the efforts for the Iranian natural gas pipeline via Pakistan?
- The Bjp's Past Is Not Its Future (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jun 09, 2004)
Hindutva once paid electoral dividends because it answered the needs of the moment. And that moment has passed.
- How Healthy Is Our System? (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jun 08, 2004)
There is an urgent need to overhaul and strengthen the public health system.
- Mr Singh's History (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2004)
We beg your pardon Mr Arjun Singh, but if the textbooks published by the Delhi State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) constitute "secular" learning, then secularism itself is in deep trouble.
- She Stoops To Conquer? (Pioneer, Harish C Gaur, Jun 03, 2004)
All along Ms Gandhi was projected to occupy the coveted post, being the president of the Congress.
- Sagarmala Project: Kochi Port Charts Major Plans (Business Line, Sajeev Kumar. V , May 31, 2004)
The Kochi port is taking initiatives under the Sagarmala Project to emerge as "a global hub port of India" offering single-window services for diverse requirements of the maritime trade.
- Singh Sworn In As India Pm (CNN.com, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2004)
India's newly appointed prime minister, Manmohan Singh, was sworn in Saturday evening, marking the first time a non-Hindu has led the country.
- India's First Non-Hindu Leader (Christian Science Monitor, editorial, Christian Science Monitor, May 21, 2004)
The founders of modern India knew that the only way to hold together such a diverse country was through secular government. In recent elections, voters decided to return to that basic necessity.
- Is Manmohan Singh Right For India's Top Job?: Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, Andy Mukherjee, May 20, 2004)
It was the autumn of 1970, and the Delhi School of Economics was abuzz with left-wing fervor.
- Singh: Reform With 'Human Face' (CNN.com, Correspondent or Reporter, May 20, 2004)
In his first address to the Indian nation, prime minister-elect Manmohan Singh said the country needed reform but with a "human face."
- Blood And Soil (Guardian (UK), Mike Marqusee, May 20, 2004)
India's general election saw the first major reversal in 20 years for the Bharatiya Janata party and the forces of the Hindu right. But no sooner had the advocates of "Hindu rashtra" lost at the polls than they launched a strident campaign to alter . . .
- Blind To Progress (Washington Post, Sebastian Mallaby, May 17, 2004)
When he was young and so was India, Jagdish Bhagwati left Oxford to work at the Indian Planning Commission. He was assigned to grapple with his country's biggest problem -- how to raise the incomes of the poorest -- and he soon came to the . . .
- Behind The Surprise In India (Washington Post, Jim Hoagland, May 16, 2004)
That question is code for this scribe's personal and disappointed reaction to the defeat of Atal Bihari Vajpayee's coalition government in India just as it threatened to become an important U.S. partner and a major player in global economics and politics.
- India's Election Results Defeat Pollsters (AlterNet, Editorial, The Alternet, May 14, 2004)
The lesson of India is a bizarre one for American poll watchers. At a time when elections seem to turn into a mere validation of the opinion polls, there is a sense of cheeky delight in how an electorate can actually hoodwink the pollsters.
- Micro-Level Reality Blanks Macro Illusions (Business Line, Ajit Ranade, May 14, 2004)
THE verdict was dramatic and stunning. Who would have expected that the `feel-good' factor would sour so decisively for the ruling alliance? If the exit polls got it wrong, it was not in the direction, but only in the magnitude
- The Dynasty Continues (Guardian (UK), editorial, Guardian UK, May 14, 2004)
The result came as a complete surprise to everyone but the people who matter in an Indian election. Not online India, the India of software developers, the India that produces 2 million graduates a year, the India with a runaway economy widely . . .
- Vajpayee’S Gamble Fails (Arab News, Correspondent or Reporter, May 14, 2004)
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s gamble to call early elections backfired as Indians voted his right-wing coalition out of power.
- Dynastic Duties In India (Christian Science Monitor, editorial, Christian Science Monitor, May 14, 2004)
For the masses of poor in China who resent being left out of their nation's rush to riches, often the only choice is to revolt. In India, by contrast, the poor can vote.
- India's New Era (Washington Post, Salman Rushdie, May 14, 2004)
The fall of the Indian government is a huge political shock that strikingly echoes the only comparable electoral upset, the defeat of Indira Gandhi in 1977. Then as now, just about the entire commentariat was convinced that the incumbent would . . .
- India's Pm Expected To Form Coalition (The Scotsman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 11, 2004)
INDIA’S prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, was expected to scrape back into power this week, after voting ended yesterday in the fifth and final stage of the country’s marathon election.
- India's Remarkable Dance Of Democracy (Boston Globe, Editorial, Boston Globe, Apr 26, 2004)
India, seen variously as a country with massive poverty, an information technology power, and more recently as an outsourcing destination taking away jobs, is over the next two weeks staging the dance of democracy.
- Gandhis Pin Their Hopes On New Boy (The Scotsman, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 30, 2004)
Sweeping through dusty hamlets and accompanied by drum-beaters, the heir- apparent of India’s Gandhi-Nehru dynasty made his political debut yesterday.
- War Minus The Shooting (Guardian (UK), Mike Marqusee, Mar 10, 2004)
India's superstar cricketers - among the country's most famous faces - will today visit Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at his Delhi residence, to receive his official blessing before boarding a chartered flight for Lahore. It's a short hop, but . . .
- An Unseen Peril Of Outsourcing (Business Line, David Gelernte, Mar 03, 2004)
An offshore alliance seemed to answer a struggling outfit's prayers. Instead, the U.S. parent has been wound up and its intellectual crown jewels are in India
- India Mustn't Devalue Best Business Brains: Mukherjee (Correct) (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, Mar 02, 2004)
Here's lopsided social justice at its worst.
India is raising the subsidy for the nation's top 1,500 management students at a time when the government doesn't have enough money to provide blackboards to all primary schools.
- An Alliance Of Insecurity (AlterNet, Editorial, The Alternet, Feb 12, 2004)
When Ariel Sharon traveled to India last September, it was the first visit of an Israeli Prime Minister since the two nations achieved independence more than 55 years ago.
- One Never Knows What To Say To The Servants (Wall Street Journal, Tunku Varadarajan, Jan 16, 2004)
It's not possible to spend an hour in urban India without ingesting life's unfairness.
- Advances Against Shares - Dividing The Multiplier Effect (Business Line, A. Seshan, Jan 08, 2004)
The latest raising of minimum margin from 40 per cent to 50 per cent on advances against shares means that the potential value of the multiplier is reduced from 2.5 to 2. One good aspect of the measure is that, unlike in the past instances, the rise in
- Aicpa's Tech Top 10 (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
THE American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) has announced its roster of Top 10 Technologies for 2004. These are the items expected to wield a powerful influence over business in the coming year. The 2004 list breaks two records.
- Washing Dirty Money (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
CLEANLINESS is a virtue, normally. In some cases, however much you clean, there is the stigma that never goes. For instance, funds that are born of illicit origin can never shake off the tainted tag in spite of best of efforts. Bhure Lal's book Money
- Dramatic Progress At Islamabad (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jan 08, 2004)
Gestures and personal dynamics were as important as the bilateral Indo-Pak issues that dominated the recent SAARC Summit in Islamabad. But most significant was the joint statement issued to the media, where Pakistan said it would not allow any terror ...
- Another Attempt At Safta (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
HISTORIC IS PERHAPS an exaggerated description of the decision taken by the leaders of South Asia to make this region a free trade bloc by 2006. This is the third and not the first time that the member-countries of the South Asian Association for ...
- Strong On Safta (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
THOUGH THE RAPPROCHEMENT between India and Pakistan all but eclipsed the 12th summit of the seven-nation South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation in Islamabad, it may be crucial as it could smoothen the functioning of the association, which has
- The Ruins Hold The Answers (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Jan 08, 2004)
Research on why the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed like they did could help improve the safety of future high rises.
- Teeing For Peace (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Jan 07, 2004)
Golf, it can safely be said at the conclusion of the 12th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, is now a vital element in the conceptualization and execution of Indian diplomacy. A little known aspect of the diplomacy which ...
- Precious And For Sale (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Jan 07, 2004)
The UNESCO convention of 1970 was held in Paris and its significant focus was to urge its member countries, among which India is one, to adopt measures to safeguard and protect its cultural property and to find ways of preventing cultural treasures from
- Saarc Pledge (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
THE 12th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) session that ended at Islamabad on Tuesday was, perhaps, the most hyped in its 20-year history. This was bound to happen as it came in the midst of India and Pakistan making earnest efforts
- Wah Bhai Waugh (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
BOTH India and Australia deserve a special round of applause from the growing tribe of global cricket fanatics. The four-Test cricket series between the World Champions and India will certainly be ranked among the best in the history of the game. Over
- Kashmir’s Orphans Spread Trust And Goodwill (Tribune, Usha Rai, Jan 07, 2004)
WE hear often of the widows of Kashmir and the agonising search for the missing men in their lives but there are hardly any stories about the children who have been orphaned by the 13 years of turmoil in the valley. So it came as a surprise to meet this
- ‘sorry, We Don’t Fly Air Marshals’ (Indian Express, ANDREW CAWTHORNE, Jan 07, 2004)
Airlines in Europe and Africa vowed on Tuesday to cancel flights rather than comply with US demands to carry armed air marshals on US-bound planes to guard against more 9/11-style attacks. The statements by South African Airways and Thomas Cook Airlines,
- Heroes Miss Out On History (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
Saurav Ganguly wore his heart on his sleeve, and on his collar, his pocket, his trouser leg. Sitting at Tuesday’s press conference, face unshaven and funereal, his demeanour reflected perfectly the disillusionment of the day. He knew he had too many ...
- Saarc Says No To Terror (Indian Express, V.S.CHANDRASEKAR, Jan 07, 2004)
: In A significant accord on tackling terrorism in South Asia, leaders of seven SAARC countries, including from India and Pakistan, today pledged to eliminate the menace in all forms and manifestations in the region and to deal effectively with financing
- Welcome To Free Trade Zone (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Jan 07, 2004)
The seven SAARC countries on Tuesday signed a treaty that would lead to free trade and movement of goods paving the way for South Asian economic Union along the lines of EU in future. The South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) framework treaty signed by ...
- Interlinking Of Rivers: Ripples Of Concern (Business Line, Sudhirendar Sharma, Jan 07, 2004)
NEVER before has any proposal won the unstinted support of the apex court, the first citizen and the chief executive of the country all at the same time. With this unprecedented backing, the Government has pressed in all available resources to steamroll
- Shakespeare Plays With Economics (Business Line, D. Sambandhan, Jan 07, 2004)
"NO HUMAN capacity ever yet saw the whole of a thing, but we may see more and more of it the longer we look," said Ruskin. This was internalised by Mr Frederick Turner, the Founder Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas, when he made
- The Renaissance Man (Indian Express, JOHN MEHAFFEY, Jan 07, 2004)
Wearing his beloved Australian cap and allowing himself a rare smile, Steve Waugh left the Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday with an imperishable legacy to the international game he graced for 18 years. Waugh’s singular contribution was to blend both ...
- Friendship Vista (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
A new phase of India’s engagement with Pakistan has begun. The decision by India’s prime minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to meet Pakistan’s president, Mr Pervez Musharraf, and its prime minister, Mr Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, has, as expected, ...
- This Is Better Than ’71, Says Wadekar (Indian Express, KUMAR SHYAM, Jan 07, 2004)
1971. An unfancied team led by Ajit Wadekar humbled the mighty West Indies on their home turf, winning at Port of Spain and drawing the other matches to take the series 1-0. An overseas victory over a team led by Sobers and including Kanhai, Fredericks
- Sleep After Retiring (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Jan 06, 2004)
AEONS ago, it was thought that those tactically well placed to receive bribes and did so would lose their daily dose of "gentle sleep from Heaven that slid into the soul". We do not know whether those who believed in this adage, slept well or not. But
- Congress In Catch-22 Situation (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jan 06, 2004)
NEVER before in its long history has the once venerable Congress party faced the crisis it is undergoing today. Because it is, in national terms, in danger of becoming the perennial second party. There are many reasons for the Congress predicament, but
- Rain Harvests And Water Woes (Hindu, T. N. Narasimhan, Jan 06, 2004)
Intensive rain harvesting over large areas can significantly disrupt the hydrological cycle.
- 1-1, 50-50, 433-10 (Indian Express, Rohit Brijnath, Jan 06, 2004)
THE FINAL EQUATION: The series is level, the Test in fine balance, Australia need runs and India wickets
- Mistrust Brushed Under Huge, Red Carpet (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jan 06, 2004)
If ever Prime Minister A B Vajpayee wanted to contest elections from Islamabad rather than his beloved Lucknow, remarked a wag here, winning wouldn’t be difficult. ‘‘Welcome Ataljee,’’ said the headline of an editorial article in the mass-circulated
- `Change In Definition Of Resident Status Will Hit It Professionals' (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
THE change in the definition of `Resident but not Ordinarily Resident' (RNOR) Indians, as effected in the Finance Act 2003, will have severe repercussion on Indian professionals and others who are employed in the software and IT-enabled services (ITES) in
- Restoring Lal Qila (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
AFTER bringing the historic Red Fort under the unified control of the Archaeological Survey of India recently, Union Culture and Tourism Minister Jagmohan has a plan to get the Shahjahan-built fort declared as a heritage monument by UNESCO and make it as
- Fears Delay Uk Flights; Fbi Eye On Vegas Hotels (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
Extra security checks delayed a British Airways flight to Washington Dulles International Airport on Sunday, the fourth in a week as the US entered a third consecutive week on a high state of alert for terrorists. ‘‘The ports of LA and Long Beach are
- Force Of Corruption (Telegraph, SANKAR SEN, Jan 06, 2004)
In a matter of a few decades, corruption has taken deep roots among the police, mainly owing to political interference
- North Wind (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
Bhutan’s offensive against Indian rebels has offered Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee both an opportunity and a challenge. It has broken the back as well as the morale of the militants belonging to the Kamtapur Liberation Organization. It has also gone a long
- On A Home Run (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Jan 06, 2004)
The new year, 2004, will witness the fourth consecutive general elections in which Atal Bihari Vajpayee will lead the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies into battle. No former Indian prime minister, save for Indira, the original Mrs Gandhi, has done
- Getting Together (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
In the mid-fifties, when I was a first year college student in Jalandhar, I remember an Indo-Pak cricket test series was organised to better relations between the two nations. For the Lahore Test, they opened the border. India made a simple ID available
- Gm To Give Away 1,000 Cars In Largest-Ever Sales Promotion (Indian Express, Reuters, Jan 06, 2004)
General Motors Corp said it will give away 1,000 cars and trucks over the next two months as part of its ‘‘Hot Button’’ sales promotion, a $50 million marketing programme that GM bills as the largest in automotive history. Beginning on Monday, GM will
- The Joy Of Human Life (Hindu, A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM , Jan 05, 2004)
Religions are beautiful gardens. But they are islands. If we can connect all the islands with love and compassion, in a `garland project' for the new millennium, we will have a prosperous India.
- India In $100-B Forex Club Sans Export Boom! (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Jan 05, 2004)
WITH disaggregated balance of payments data available up to September, a clear picture has now emerged as to how India has managed to pile up a $100 billion plus foreign exchange reserves kitty. Between end-March 1991 and September 2003, total forex
- In The Stands, Too, Indians Maintain The Mental Edge (Indian Express, NEENA BHANDARI, Jan 05, 2004)
It has been days of sheer delight for the Indian fans who had booked their tickets for the fourth Test being played at the Sydney Cricket Ground here way back in August although they hardly expected their team to throw up a challenge to world champions
- Making An India-Pakistan Deal (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 05, 2004)
If the present up-beat mood here on Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's visit continues for another couple of days, it might not be entirely unrealistic to expect a broad political agreement between India and Pakistan on how to revive the peace proces
- A Jamali Show All The Way (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Jan 05, 2004)
The suspense has ended and the drama has begun. With the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali meeting soon after the SAARC inaugural session, the focus has shifted completely to India-Pakistan ...
- On Saving Face (Tribune, Girish Bhandari, Jan 05, 2004)
I had been kind of clairvoyant so far as shaving systems are concerned. When I was a student, the quality of blades was appalling. The governmental euphoria of developing indigenous industrial talent meant one had to constantly tear and hack at one’s ...
- Spreading Guru’s Message Of Compassion (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Jan 05, 2004)
IT’S nice to watch this mother-daughter duo — writer Ajeet Caur and artist Arpana Caur — for they seem so very alike (except that both spell “Kaur” so very differently) even now when Ajeet is in her late sixties and Arpana in her late forties. They seem
- U-19 Tourney Shifted From Dharmshala (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
The under-19 Cooch Behar tournament scheduled to be held at Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh — which is reeling under intense cold wave — has been finally shifted. The BCCI working committee today decided to conduct the tournament in West Zone after The
- Year Of Some Big Decisions (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Jan 05, 2004)
History normally runs on rails, with one development following another in fairly obvious succession. It may seem like a roller-coaster ride at times, but twenty years later the outcome is just about what you would have expected at the start. Once in a ...
- 6000 And Going Strong (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
AS MILESTONES GO for the nation's stock market, the breaching of the 6000 mark by the Sensex — the Bombay Stock Exchange's bellwether index of equity prices — would easily rank among the more significant events in its chequered history. The palpable sense
- It’s Time To Make New Friends (Telegraph, M.R. Venkatesh, Jan 05, 2004)
The BJP’s refusal to rein in Jayalalithaa as also contradictions inherent in their coalition drove the DMK and MDMK out of the NDA
- No Choice But Limited Mobility (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
In a small survey conducted among medical personnel in Sri Lanka in 1994, Bloom et al found that 75 per cent of hospital staff agreed with the statement that “AIDS patients are very infectious and should, therefore, be isolated in separate wards to reduce
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