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Articles 21821 through 21920 of 23072:
- The Good Doctors (Indian Express, Krishan Kalra, Feb 02, 2002)
Neeru Verma is a qualified pediatrician who has worked in a hospital for many years, but has given up now. Her husband, also a doctor, has a thriving practice.
- Mission Kashmir (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 01, 2002)
Jammu and Kashmir is labouring under many disadvantages.
- Passport To Terror (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 01, 2002)
ALL it took Aftab Ansari, alias Farhan, the Dubai-based terrorist who masterminded the recent attack on the American Center in Kolkata to procure an Indian passport for himself, was Rs 500.
- Peak Season Blues (Indian Express, Sukhmani Singh, Feb 01, 2002)
IT’S peak tourist season in old world Bikaner, but the town looks desolate and dead. The slew of heritage resorts — palaces, havelis, hunting lodges, et al, present a sombre appearance.
- Why Saarc Does Not Spark? (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Feb 01, 2002)
KATHMANDU, JAN. 3. The failures of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation over the last two decades have led to agonising soul searching among sections of the intelligentsia in the subcontinent.
- Pak-Sponsored Terrorism -- Diplomacy, Not War, Is The Key (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Feb 01, 2002)
THE attack on the Parliament complex and what might have happened but for the quick response of the security guards have left the nation stunned and furious.
- E-Mail Nationalism (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Feb 01, 2002)
INDIA, it was once said, was nothing but a figment of the British imagination.
- Tackling Fiscal Termites (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, Feb 01, 2002)
IN THE area of financial sector reforms, the policy-makers appear to be more worried about form than content.
- The `Awesome' Wedding Draws Aussies (Business Line, M. R. Subramani, Feb 01, 2002)
ONE Monsoon Wedding has done what many public relations campaigns have failed to do, at least as far as Australia is concerned.
- India And The Global Slowing (Hindu, Pulapre Balakrishnan, Feb 01, 2002)
The prevalent tendency to link the slowing of the Indian manufacturing sector to the recession in the U.S. economy needs to be rejected as deluding.
- Sino-Indian Ties (Hindu, Jing-dong Yuan, Jan 31, 2002)
The leaders of the two countries should have the foresight to look beyond the security prism.
- Searching For Growth (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 31, 2002)
THE EUROPEAN UNION is India's largest trading partner, but considering the history of India's economic links with the members of the E.U. the volume of two-way economic flows is a very small proportion of Europe's trade with the rest of the world.
- Us And Them (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 31, 2002)
The United States of America has been transformed by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. So has the US president, Mr George W. Bush, if his first state-of-the-union speech is good evidence.
- Collective Obsession (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Jan 31, 2002)
There is a Bengali word that isn’t easy to translate, but which very aptly describes the behaviour of the media before, during and after the visit of Pervez Musharraf to India.
- A Gentle Way With Words (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jan 31, 2002)
A week before he died at 95, news of his precarious health began appearing in all our national dailies.
- India And Pak. In The New Scenario (Hindu, Muchkund Dubey , Jan 31, 2002)
THE LAUNCHING of the global campaign against terrorism by an international coalition led by the United States has already resulted in a reordering of the foreign policies of major powers.
- India Must Go All Out To Fight Terrorism (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Jan 31, 2002)
THE shock and outrage at the terrorist attack on Parliament, the most powerful symbol of a democratic nation, has given way to a sense of bewilderment at the ease with which the perpetrators could drive into a fortified complex.
- High Living, Simple Thinking (Business Line, K. Gopalan, Jan 31, 2002)
EVER since the times of Upanishads, simple living and high thinking has been a basic tenet of all religious writings.
- Study Your Competitor Before Picking A Fight (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Jan 31, 2002)
THE Taliban should have taken a few courses in competitive strategy.
- Beyond Terrorism And Recession... -- Us Looks Ahead With Hope (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Jan 31, 2002)
AMERICANS opened the New Year with a renewed sense of confidence, overcoming the traumatic experience of the terrorist attacks of 2001, and with strong expectations of economic recovery in the first half of 2002.
- The Partition Debate - Ii (Hindu, Mushirul Hasan, Jan 30, 2002)
As a metaphor, an event and memory, Partition has to be interpreted and explained afresh to remove widely-held misconceptions.
- From Gladstonian Collars To Loin-Cloth: The Mahatma’s Journey (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 30, 2002)
Another year, another anniversary — and another opportunity to look back on the influence Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi still wields on the consciousness.
- Out On Dolly’s Limb (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 30, 2002)
Dolly the Sheep has arthritis. And once again all’s not quite well in our brave new world.
- What About The War On Economic Front? (Pioneer, Brij Bhardwaj, Jan 30, 2002)
With the threat of war receding from the horizon, it's time to turn the attention towards economy.
- Rooted Cosmopolitans (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Jan 30, 2002)
Back in the Seventies, a group of political scientists advanced the theory that India was a “multinational” state rather than a simple “nation-state”.
- Making It With Dolly (Telegraph, Indranil Basu, Jan 30, 2002)
From gene therapy to genetically modified foods, issues involving DNA evoke ethical rhetoric and fiercely polarized opinions.
- Don't Dump This Issue (Business Line, Menka Shivdasani , Jan 30, 2002)
AS someone who believed in the importance of hygiene, what would you say if you were told you generate 450 gm of garbage per day?
- Changing Contours Of Indo-Pak Summit (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jan 30, 2002)
WHETHER it is the media or the cocktail circuit, a hot point of discussion these days is the forthcoming summit between the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and the Pakistan President-cum-Chief Executive, Gen Pervez Musharraf.
- December 13 And After (Business Line, B. Raman , Jan 30, 2002)
EVEN WHILE lauding the remarkable reflexes and the bravery of the security personnel who prevented the terrorists from gaining access to the sanctum sanctorum of the Parliament House on December 13.
- Mask Of Acharya (Pioneer, Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, Jan 30, 2002)
During the run up to the 1989 general election, I was fortunate to work with an editor who had considerable insight and connections into the BJP.
- December 13: Who Is To Blame? (Business Line, H. Kaushal , Jan 30, 2002)
THE December 13 attack on Parliament on December 13 is a challenge to the free world, not only in India.
- After The Expose (Indian Express, Tarun J Tejpal, Jan 30, 2002)
In my 18 years in journalism, had I spent more time hanging around with politicians, and less with other kinds of achievers, I would have known better.
- Resolving Ayodhya (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 30, 2002)
To put it mildly, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's expression of the hope in Lucknow on Sunday that the Ayodhya dispute would be resolved before March next year, came as a surprise.
- How She Got There (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 30, 2002)
In Delhi, the summit doesn’t seem to have deflated too many egos.
- More To Rape (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 30, 2002)
Indian law needs to broaden its understanding of rape. The law commission’s level-headed revaluation of the rape laws might prove to be more useful than the Union home minister’s unthinking advocacy of capital punishment for convicted rapists.
- Hi-Tech History (Business Line, G. S. Balakrishnan , Jan 30, 2002)
THE historian of today has an edge over his worthy predecessor.
- ‘Ncert Has Corrected The Approach Towards The Teaching Of Civilisation’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 29, 2002)
Though the controversy over the newly-overhauled syllabi structure for schools still hasn’t simmered down, it has Human Resources Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi’s blessings.
- Argentina: The Bitterest Pill Yet (Business Line, S. Hari Kumar, Jan 29, 2002)
IN THE last week of December 2001, Argentina made the biggest-ever sovereign debt default ($152 billion) in the history of global financial markets.
- The Punjab Puzzle (Hindu, Nonica Datta, Jan 29, 2002)
The rural-urban distinction, rooted in the Unionist tradition, still defines and limits the parameters of Punjab politics.
- Detecting Crime @ The Speed Of Light (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 29, 2002)
WITH INCREASING EVIDENCE of the abuse of the Internet by terrorist organisations, the moves to create cyber cells at the State level mark the start of a demanding and sensitive task.
- `Railneer' To Quench Commuters' Thirst (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 29, 2002)
THE lucrative and possibly single largest captive market for packaged water, the Indian Railways, seems to have gone beyond the reach of corporates, currently battling it out in the estimated Rs 1,000-crore bottled water segment.
- Confusion Worse Confounded (Business Line, Premen Addy , Jan 29, 2002)
The Soviet Union and China gave their benediction to opportunistic arrangements with reactionary forces committed to an anti-Western agenda.
- Treading Dangerous Ground (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 29, 2002)
IT WOULD SEEM that the Vajpayee Government has bought time on the demand of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and its `sant parivar' — that a big chunk of the Government-acquired land in the disputed Ayodhya complex be handed over to them.
- The Dancer’s Caste (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Jan 29, 2002)
There seems no end to the re-writing of Indian history. It’s as though everyone with an agenda has suddenly cottoned on to this shortcut.
- Kabul Calling (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Jan 29, 2002)
It may or may not be an entirely apocryphal story: Prime Minister Charan Singh, on hearing about the landing of the Soviet troops at Kabul in December 1979, asked: “Afghanistan?
- Warning Bells (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 29, 2002)
The VHP’s Ayodhya-Delhi roadshow has mercifully wound up.
- Rebuilding A Nation (Pioneer, Shubha Singh, Jan 28, 2002)
The situation in Afghanistan has seen rapid changes which could not have been foreseen even a few weeks ago.
- Vision 2020 -- Can Mr Sinha Avoid A Budget Disaster? (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Jan 28, 2002)
THIS is the time of the year when final touches are given to the national Budget.
- Snapshots (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 28, 2002)
Setting The Tone
You would think Syed Shahnawaz Hussain would be jet-setting all over the country considering he is the minister for civil aviation. Right? Wrong. His preferred mode of travelling is the Indian Railways.
- Destructive Creation (Pioneer, C K G Nair, Jan 28, 2002)
Joseph A Schumpeter, noted economist, has not been able to sleep even in his grave ever since the Public Works Departments (PWD) in India adopted him.
- What's Wrong With A 'Third Party'? (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Jan 28, 2002)
There have been many visitors from the US to India in recent months and this is a very positive development for the future of the relationship between the two countries as well as cementing concrete strategic tie-ups.
- Jaswant And Lord Curzon's Legacy (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 28, 2002)
NEW DELHI, JAN. 27. Is Lord Curzon of Kedleston back in political favour? Two very different men recently invoked his ideas to define India's new standing in the world.
- Biggest And The Best... Only In The Us (Business Line, Alex Abraham, Jan 28, 2002)
Americans are wonderful, cheerful and friendly people, ready to lend a helping hand and even more eager to tell you of the glory and wonders of their chosen land.
- A New Dd Channel But Who Wants Bad News (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Jan 28, 2002)
As a Republic Day gift to the nation, Doordarshan has bestowed upon us a new channel: DD Bharati. Simultaneously, it has relieved DD News of its responsibilities.
- The Quiet Man (Telegraph, AMIT CHAUDHURI, Jan 27, 2002)
The old Minerva theatre, converted into the Chaplin: this was where a crowd of invitees gathered on the evening of January 9.
- The Nation's State (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 27, 2002)
The unprecedented security arrangements in the midst of which the country is celebrating Republic Day is an eloquent commentary on its state on this historic anniversary.
- The General Just Cannot Deliver (Pioneer, Ajoy Bagchi, Jan 27, 2002)
Before General Pervez Musharraf's speech of January 12, Washington had already hyped its trajectory, forecasting that it would change the course of South Asia's history.
- Gods Never Fail (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 27, 2002)
If you have run out of luck, lost everything you owned and are reluctant to work for your living, there is a formula for survival in comfort.
- Unleashing A Whirlwind (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 27, 2002)
The VHP has been allowed to beat the Ayodhya drum again... To reach a crescendo by the next Lok Sabha poll? Nenna Vyas reports with inputs from J.P.Shukla.
- The Law And The Land (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Jan 27, 2002)
The Supreme Court has virtually made it impossible for the Government to part with even a square inch of the acquired land in Ayodhya before the final settlement.
- The General Just Cannot Deliver (Pioneer, Ajoy Bagchi, Jan 26, 2002)
Before General Pervez Musharraf's speech of January 12, Washington had already hyped its trajectory, forecasting that it would change the course of South Asia's history.
- The Nation's State (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 26, 2002)
The unprecedented security arrangements in the midst of which the country is celebrating Republic Day is an eloquent commentary on its state on this historic anniversary.
- Being Hashim Qureshi (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin & Sunil Jain, Jan 26, 2002)
Dismissed as an ‘Indian plant’, the ‘new factor’ in Kashmir politics has the promise of stirring things up.
- Draconian Moves (Hindu, Kuldip Nayar, Jan 26, 2002)
POTO is a blot on the democratic escutcheon... Experience worldwide has shown that state terrorism is counter-productive.
- ‘For Anyone Who’s Interested In The World Economy, India Is The Biggest Test Case’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 26, 2002)
A couple of years ago, a curious e-mail appeared in thousands of inboxes.
- Gods Never Fail (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 26, 2002)
If you have run out of luck, lost everything you owned and are reluctant to work for your living, there is a formula for survival in comfort.
- The Quiet Man (Telegraph, AMIT CHAUDHURI, Jan 26, 2002)
The old Minerva theatre, converted into the Chaplin: this was where a crowd of invitees gathered on the evening of January 9.
- Up And The Algebra Of Infinite Flip-Flops (Indian Express, Ajit Kumar Jha, Jan 25, 2002)
Read their lips, politicians have mastered the fine art of political somersaults in Uttar Pradesh.
- Terrorism: Now In The East? (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Jan 25, 2002)
On December 22, 1994, two boys in Domkal in West Bengal's Murshidabad district discovered several bombs very near a temporary dais from which Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, now Chief Minister of West Bengal.
- The Trouble With Musharraf (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 25, 2002)
WHY do we mistrust General Musharraf? Because he had a hand in Kargil?
- Oh, What A Lovely War (Indian Express, Ratna Rajiah, Jan 25, 2002)
“War was return of earth to ugly earth,/ War was foundering of sublimities,/ Extinction of each happy art and faith/ By which the world had still kept head in air.” — Robert Graves
- A New Foundation Of Goodwill (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 25, 2002)
IMAGINE A SCENE far worse than that portrayed by Afghanistan's chief interim administrator, Hamid Karzai.
- A Stain On Indian Democracy (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Jan 25, 2002)
Good constitutional practices include the duty of political parties and their leaders to ensure that chargesheeted and communal persons are not permitted to stand for election on their party ticket.
- A Spy And A Gentleman (Indian Express, M.K. Narayanan, Jan 25, 2002)
Few saw him and fewer heard him, but Rameshwar Nath Kao’s shadow spread far and wide.
- When Terror Knocked On A Forgotten Address (Indian Express, Jayaditya Gupta, Jan 25, 2002)
PERHAPS it was inevitable. A city struggling to live up to its past, unable to come to terms with its current irrelevance in the national sphere.
- Marching To Danger (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 25, 2002)
AS the Sant Chetavani Yatra from Ayodhya draws closer to Delhi, a question has reared its tired head once again.
- Fitting Three For Two (Pioneer, Sanjay K. Bose, Jan 25, 2002)
When I got into the chair car compartment, it was already full.
- General's About-Turns Are All Too Frequent (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Jan 25, 2002)
In the light of Pakistan's theocratic history, for General Musharraf to immediately accept the call of the US led anti-terrorist coalition could be termed as surprising.
- Something Left Undone (Telegraph, BHASWATI CHAKRAVORTY, Jan 25, 2002)
Something very strange happened in Calcutta on Tuesday morning.
- Capital Talk: A Reticent Spymaster (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Jan 24, 2002)
Compared with several other stalwarts of his vintage and distinction, R.N. Kao (Ramji to friends), who died on Sunday at age 84, has received wider recognition for his yeoman services to this country in the field of intelligence and national security.
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