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Articles 22921 through 23020 of 23072:
- Pakistan: Reaping The Whirlwind? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 22, 2001)
PAKISTAN today is in the unenviable position of having two enemies, vis-`-vis the developments in Afghanistan.
- Neutralising Afghanistan (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Nov 22, 2001)
AS THE American military campaign to oust the Taliban from its last strongholds continues and the first steps of a peace process unfold in the German capital Berlin on Monday, there is broad international consensus on four issues.
- Win-Win At Doha (Hindu, Amit Dasgupta, Nov 22, 2001)
SELF-INTEREST motivates all negotiations, but good negotiators know that the only successful strategies are those that strive for win-win solutions.
- Poto Politics (Business Line, K. Ramesh, Nov 22, 2001)
INDIA has joined the global coalition in fighting terrorism, yet, internally, it is struggling to find support for a just and necessary legal framework to counter the same.
- Eu's Single-Market Directives -- Potion For Global Competitiveness (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Nov 22, 2001)
Europe must become a globally competitive economy built on knowledge and innovation and on a strategy of sustainable economic development.
- This Is No Misa (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 22, 2001)
IN 1969, Henry Kissinger, newly appointed national security adviser, was talking off the record to the media. ‘‘Will you repeat your predecessors’ mistakes in Vietnam?’’
- The Secularism Of Celebration (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 22, 2001)
SOCIOLOGISTS claim that the farther the contemporary Indian travels from his roots the more he seeks to return to them.
- Alcoa Gets Major Foothold In China Upstream Metals (The Financial Express, Kathleen Kearney, Nov 22, 2001)
HONG KONG: Alcoa Inc, the world’s largest aluminium producer will finally acquire a 50 per cent stake in China’s most modern aluminium plant following years of discussions, and the key to the deal is alumina, analysts said.
- Europe's 'General' Views On Nine-Eleven (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Nov 21, 2001)
Strange are the ways of the world, even stranger the ways of warfare, especially George Bush's first war of the 21st century.
- Amid Hills & Greenery, Barnala Turns Painter (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 21, 2001)
WITH a lot of politics expected after Uttaranchal state’s first-ever elections to be held next year, the Governor of the state, Surjit Singh Barnala, cools his heels taking time out to indulge in some paintings.
- Radical Changes In Suffrage (Pioneer, Anuradha Bhattacharjee, Nov 21, 2001)
Bangalore is witnessing some hectic campaigning by 'hooch queen' Marimuttu. A veteran of 27 cases, she is harbouring political ambitions inspired by the late Bandit Queen Phoolan Devi.
- A Voyage And The Elusive Vision - Ii (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Nov 21, 2001)
IMAGE POLITICS is not the real answer to the difficulty that Official India encounters in acquiring a strategic vision and a roving focus to keep pace with the U.S.-led campaign against global terrorism.
- History Rubbished To Rouble (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Nov 21, 2001)
If vandalising a historic monument and reducing it to rouble, and reducing the rouble to finer dust can increase the space in any part of Jammu city, then why end at the Bibi Chand Kour Samadhi.
- Shrinking Space Of Hinduism (Hindu, Kancha Ilaiah, Nov 21, 2001)
THE DALITS embracing Buddhism in Delhi on November 4 became a national issue as it was made controversial.
- Temple Plots And Holy Men (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Nov 21, 2001)
Why are Punjab’s Sikhs trapped in this medieval morass?
- After The Fall Of Kabul (Indian Express, Himmat Singh Gill, Nov 21, 2001)
India must take the initiative and reopen its diplomatic mission.
- Eu-India Initiative For Corporate Social Responsibility (The Financial Express, Navtej Dhillon, Nov 21, 2001)
Indian and European business representatives are meeting in New Delhi today* (Wednesday) to see how best to meet their responsibilities to society at large.
- The Fight For Human Rights Has To Include The Excluded (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Nov 21, 2001)
Kabul fell one day after some 500 men and women from South Asia, at a meeting in New Delhi, adopted a statement on the sovereignty of Afghanistan.
- Reviving India's Economy: Time To Think Of Offbeat Recipes -- I (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 21, 2001)
THERE has been no letup in the bad news on the economic front. India, in common with the rest of the world, is face to face with the spectre of a recession -- a word that nobody dares even to breathe.
- The Mess In Afghanistan (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 21, 2001)
IF TRUTH be told, despite the success of the US-led coalitions attack on Afghanistan, the fall of Kabul.
- Distorting The Spirit Of Islamic Reconstruction (Indian Express, Syed Ali Mehdi, Nov 20, 2001)
Terrorism, particularly after Black September, poses the greatest threat to human civilisation.
- Business Vigilance In A Consumer Society (Business Line, A. V. Swaminathan , Nov 20, 2001)
AMERICAN business is full of peculiarities, hooked to a rolling economy and a fast changing consumer society.
- Yesterday’s Dream Machines (Indian Express, Shymola Khanna, Nov 20, 2001)
On the 8th of October, as the Indian Air Force celebrated its 69th anniversary, the Hunter flew for the last time.
- South Africa-India Bilateral Trade Picks Up Well Despite A Late Start (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Nov 20, 2001)
Bilateral trade between India and South Africa started in 1993 since earlier there were trade restrictions on account of apartheid pursued by the then South African regime.
- Democracy In Dire Straits (Tribune, Bhim S. Dahiya, Nov 20, 2001)
Whenever the thought of our democracy occurs to me, and it occurs quite often, a scene from an old Hindi movie named “Railway Platform” appears on my mind’s screen.
- Minister For Siachen (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 20, 2001)
Defence means more than notching up frequent flier points.
- National Games In Punjab (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 20, 2001)
The first National Games of the millennium opened in Ludhiana on Monday. For the next 10 days athletes from across the country will rekindle the spirit of competition and sportsmanship through healthy and fair competition.
- The Shadow And The Throne (Indian Express, T. N. Gopalan, Nov 20, 2001)
The ageing M. Karunanidhi must still rue the day he chose to send his police to ferret out Jayalalithaa’s resignation letter from the residence of her confidante Sasikala’s husband, Natarajan, way back in early 1989.
- A Voyage And The Elusive Vision - I (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 20, 2001)
DOES AMERICA need a foreign policy? The poser, popularised by Dr. Henry Kissinger, reflects the present status of the U.S. as the sole superpower.
- The War On Tv (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 20, 2001)
‘‘He (bin Laden) is not one single man. He is armed with very heavy bodyguards when he moves around, so it is impossible that he would have left the country and not be tracked.
- A Post-Taliban Dispensation (Hindu, Chinmaya R. Gharekhan, Nov 20, 2001)
DESPITE ALL the talk about establishing a broad-based, multi- ethnic, representative post-Taliban government in Afghanistan.
- Primitive Accumulation Versus The Rule Of Law (The Financial Express, Chanakya , Nov 20, 2001)
Some of the politicians and civil servants who made money used it to live well, fulfilling their feudal dreams. Some who knew the ropes sent the money abroad.
- Messing Up With People's Savings (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, Nov 20, 2001)
IT IS indeed difficult to reconcile the monetary policy measures, announced by the RBI Governor, Mr Bimal Jalan, with the prevailing macro-economic conditions.
- Oil Price Slump Could Help Global Economy (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Nov 20, 2001)
INTERNATIONAL oil prices fell to a new two-year low of less than $l8 a barrel on November 15, with Opec failing to win support from non-Opec producers, notably Russia.
- The Afghan Kaleidoscope (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 20, 2001)
NOT FOR the first time nor, one suspects, the last, Afghanistan is playing a role in world history unmerited by its economic weight, unwarranted by its military power.
- Made In Pakistan (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 20, 2001)
Atal Behari Vajpayee, 77, just couldn’t decide on the right kind of jacket for himself.
- How Humans Learnt To Walk (Tribune, Robin McKie, Nov 19, 2001)
It is the key, defining ability of our species, the one critical evolutionary feature that sets us apart from other creatures.
- Wearing The Mantle Of Untruth (Tribune, Ram Verma, Nov 19, 2001)
The TV images of the bizarre spectacle of passenger planes going straight into the World Trade Center towers and a monstrous fireball enveloping them, billowing black clouds rising ominously to the sky.
- Cut Diesel Price (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 19, 2001)
THE PETROLEUM MINISTER, Mr Ram Naik, last week handed out an assurance that the Government would not increase prices of petro-products till March next year.
- Doha Ministerial: A Triumph Of Sorts? (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Nov 19, 2001)
PREDICTABLY, the fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that wound up on November 14.
- Vision 2020 -- Making A Beeline In Wrong Direction? (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Nov 19, 2001)
MAKING a beeline is a well-known expression. It emphasises the way bees go straight to their goal.
- Feats Of Focus (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Nov 19, 2001)
AS the days shorten and assorted seasonal aches afflict us, it’s normal to succumb to post-Deepavali gloom.
- The U.S.- Russia Consensus (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 19, 2001)
THE U.S. PRESIDENT, Mr. George W. Bush, and his Russian counterpart, Mr. Vladimir Putin, seem eager to downplay divisive issues that can only cloud their joint commitment to combat international terrorism.
- Including The Excluded (The Kashmir Times, Kuldip Nayar, Nov 19, 2001)
Kabul, fell one day after some 500 men and women from South Asia adopted at a meeting in New Delhi a statement on the sovereignty of Afghanistan. It was a premonition or wishful thinking on their part.
- The Challenges In J&k (Hindu, Balraj Puri, Nov 19, 2001)
THE WORLD, they say, changed on September 11. How does the change affect the situation in Jammu and Kashmir?
- Flawed Arguments, Sirs (Indian Express, Abhishek Singhvi, Nov 19, 2001)
Recent defences of the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO) range from Arun Shourie’s invocation of the US law to Law Minister Arun Jaitley’s reference to the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
- An Opportunity For India (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Nov 19, 2001)
THE DEVELOPMENTS in, and in relation to, Afghanistan have overtaken the outcome of the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee's trip abroad, not particularly shining in any case.
- Meanwhile, In Other News... (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Nov 19, 2001)
Advertisements for liquor may have been banned from television but when the spirit is willing, alcohol will find a way to beat prohibition.
- Caught In The Quicksand (Hindu, Muralidhar Reddy, Nov 18, 2001)
``NEVER IN the field of human conflict have so many experts of the highest renown been so thoroughly wrong.
- This ‘Smart’ Surgeon Is More Dangerous Than Osama (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Nov 18, 2001)
NOW that the Taliban rule is coming to an end , Osama bin Laden’s days appear to be numbered.
- Palestine: The Core Issue (Tribune, Abu Abraham, Nov 18, 2001)
THOSE who are asking why the Muslim community, barring a few liberal exceptions, haven’t denounced Osama bin Laden and his devilish disciples.
- Re-Inventing A Political Buddha (Pioneer, Priyadarsi Dutta, Nov 18, 2001)
Through some of his dulcet poems Rabindra Nath Tagore brought Buddha and Shivaji closer to every Bengali's heart.
- Maharaja Ranjit Singh: Punjab’s Benevolent Ruler (Tribune, Mohinder Singh, Nov 18, 2001)
POPULARLY known as the Lion of Punjab, Ranjit Singh was not only the greatest man of his time in Punjab but was also among the few leading figures of the history of that period.
- Erroneous Zone (Pioneer, G. K. Sharma, Nov 18, 2001)
The computer is as much an conduit of inaccuracies as an instrument of accuracy.
- Clearest Voice Of Dissent (Pioneer, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Nov 18, 2001)
Professor Noam Chomsky is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with which he has been associated for four and a half decades.
- Maulana Azad (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 18, 2001)
According to evidence unearthed by the Director of Archives, Government of West Bengal, Dr Pranab Kumar Chatterjee, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was born on 5June, 1888, in Mecca.
- Caught In The Quicksand (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Nov 18, 2001)
``NEVER IN the field of human conflict have so many experts of the highest renown been so thoroughly wrong.
- Hindu Exodus From Bangladesh: It’s Economics Again (Indian Express, Subrata Nag Choudhury, Nov 18, 2001)
EARLY last week, Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia promised at a victory rally in Dhaka that her government would rebuild the historic Ramna Kali temple that was razed in the aftermath of the Babri demolition.
- De-Legitimise Terror As State Policy (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Nov 18, 2001)
Most ruthless in the suppression of their own hapless people, and most cowardly in battle.
- Their Cupboard Is Bare (Hindu, J. P. SHUKLA, Nov 18, 2001)
THE Bharatiya Janata Party has enjoyed an uninterrupted position of power in Uttar Pradesh for the past five years.
- Where Modernisation Is Seen As An Enemy Of Islam (Tribune, Tavleen Singh, Nov 17, 2001)
LAST week my travels took me to a couple of Muslim villages near the Rajasthani town of Nagaur.
- Gas Sparks In Bangladesh (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 17, 2001)
IT does not take much time or effort to organise a strike in Bangladesh. In fact, it is done so often that it appears to be a national pastime.
- The Afghan Endgame (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 17, 2001)
INDIA won two points in its Afghan policy on Thursday. It is formally recognised by the UN as a key member to decide on the future set-up in Afghanistan.
- De-Legitimise Terror As State Policy (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Nov 17, 2001)
Most ruthless in the suppression of their own hapless people, and most cowardly in battle.
- Erroneous Zone (Pioneer, G. K. Sharma, Nov 17, 2001)
The computer is as much an conduit of inaccuracies as an instrument of accuracy.
- Clearest Voice Of Dissent (Pioneer, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Nov 17, 2001)
Professor Noam Chomsky is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with which he has been associated for four and a half decades.
- Maulana Azad (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 17, 2001)
According to evidence unearthed by the Director of Archives, Government of West Bengal, Dr Pranab Kumar Chatterjee, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was born on 5June, 1888, in Mecca.
- Re-Inventing A Political Buddha (Pioneer, Priyadarsi Dutta, Nov 17, 2001)
Through some of his dulcet poems Rabindra Nath Tagore brought Buddha and Shivaji closer to every Bengali's heart.
- Maran's Finest Hour -- Doha Rescues Wto From Doldrums (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 17, 2001)
LOOKING BACK as a participant in all the international organisations, including the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT).
- The Afghan Melon (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 17, 2001)
INDIA’S inclusion in the expanded group of countries entrusted with Afghanistan’s post-Taliban transition chimes well with Indo-Afghan historical and strategic affinities.
- The Demand For Autonomy (Hindu, Ajay K. Mehra, Nov 17, 2001)
THOUGH THE Indian state, even as it came into existence, became aware of the potential of pluralism and identities constituting society to articulate itself to demand a political system with an `adequate' power-sharing arrangement.
- Bangkok’s Rich Sardars (The Financial Express, Iqbal Sachdeva, Nov 17, 2001)
Much before the Second World War, it had taken almost four days for Desa Singh and his brother Banarsi Das to reach Calcutta by train, and yet another fortnight of the perilous sea journey to reach Bangkok.
- State Governments In Business (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 17, 2001)
THE NEED TO restructure public sector enterprises at the State level is becoming increasingly evident.
- The Inherent Contradiction (Hindu, K. Shankar Bajpai , Nov 17, 2001)
THE UNITED States' discussions with our Prime Minister and with Pakistan's leader, which must inevitably be seen together, confirm, at the summit level, the approach its other leaders have been already indicating: with India.
- Converting Dalit Politics, Udit Raj Style (Indian Express, Ajit Kumar Jha, Nov 17, 2001)
HE IS a civil servant who has not attended office for the past four years.
- `Fiscal Crunch' And Bonus (Business Line, R. Sthanumoorthy, Nov 16, 2001)
THE employees of the Tamil Nadu State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) and Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation (TNCSC) are on indefinite strike in protest against the State Government's decision to offer minimum bonus of 8.33 per cent.
- Eighty-Seven And Still Batting! (Hindu, Fali S. Nariman, Nov 16, 2001)
Mr. V. R. Krishna Iyer's most outstanding contribution has been that whatever he has given to the law he has also given unstintedly to public life.
- World's 'Chief Justice' Must Stand Scrutiny (Pioneer, Debraj Mookerjee, Nov 16, 2001)
As macabre as this may sound, it is good that the US is bombing Afghanistan the way it is.
- Good Lord! (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 16, 2001)
The theft of two idols from the Jagannath temple of Puri (one reportedly since recovered from a well in the temple complex) raises much more than merely law and order questions;
- Poto : An Assult On Democracy (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Nov 16, 2001)
ACRONYMS ARE dangerous. POTO (the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance), is one such acronym being marketed as a panacea to fight terrorism in India for the next five years.
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