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Articles 321 through 363 of 363:
- Mending Fences (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 22, 2005)
It is difficult to question a country’s right to defend its borders. It is another matter, though, if the borders are both a contentious legacy of the past and a source of trouble in the present.
- Indo-Bangla Border Village Tense After Bdr Firing (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2005)
The BSF has clarified that the fencing is not a defence structure. But the BDR has increased its strength on the border by three times.
- A Paler Shade Of Red (Telegraph, Sumanta Sen, Mar 10, 2005)
The CPI and CPI(M) continue to lose ground in Bihar and Jharkhand, while the CPI(M-L) makes new inroads
- Take The Jungle To The Law (Indian Express, SANJIB BARUAH , Mar 09, 2005)
When the five-member panel reviewing the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), headed by Justice B P Jeevan Reddy, visited Manipur, the majority of Apunba Lup—the coalition of organisations campaigning against the law...
- Two Contrasting Reports (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Mar 09, 2005)
I have received two annual reports on the state of human rights. One is by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on India and the other by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
- Human Rights In India, Pakistan (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Mar 09, 2005)
I have received two annual reports on the state of human rights. One is by the National Human Rights Commission on India and the other by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan on its own country.
- The Coterie Can Destroy The Party (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Mar 04, 2005)
One of the most unsettling elements for the UPA government in New Delhi is the Congress desire to revive in UP and Bihar. The UPA rests on a sort of tripod, the three legs of which are Congress, Left, Laloo and company.
- Troubles In The Pipeline (Indian Express, Sudha Mahalingam, Feb 16, 2005)
Finding gas while prospecting offshore for oil is every driller’s nightmare — even if it’s better than drilling a dry hole. Offshore gas finds spell substantial investments to pipe the gas to the nearest landfall point
- Pipeline To Trust (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jan 30, 2005)
The most important of many reasons for welcoming the Myanmar-Bangladesh-India agreement is the impact on relations between two distant neighbours.
- Managing An Iim (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Jan 28, 2005)
Assam and Meghalaya have locked horns over which state should get the country’s seventh Indian Institute of Management (IIM) that the Centre wants to establish in the Northeast.
- Gas From Myanmar (Tribune, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jan 25, 2005)
THE most important of many reasons for welcoming the Myanmar-Bangladesh-India agreement is the impact on relations between two distant neighbours. India and Bangladesh will survive without Myanmar gas but they will not survive comfortably if, in the absen
- Not A Pipe Dream (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 15, 2005)
The agreement reached between Bangladesh, Myanmar and India over the transportation of gas through Bangladesh to Kolkata, from Myanmar’s offshore gas fields, represents a major breakthrough in regional cooperation.
- Gas From Myanmar (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 15, 2005)
Following Thursday’s trilateral agreement, India will get natural gas from Myanmar through a pipeline via Bangladesh
- In A Buffalo Economy (Indian Express, RAVINDER KAUR, Dec 15, 2004)
On a field trip to rural Haryana, what struck me was the dissonance between per capita incomes and living conditions, especially as they affect women.
- New Rules For The Old Bullies (Telegraph, Sayantani Biswas, Nov 23, 2004)
The ban on corporal punishment in schools could become a mere declaration of intent without sincere implementation
- Time For Peace (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 18, 2004)
It seems to be a time of new peace initiatives in the North-east. The prime minister’s promise to open peace talks with the United Liberation Front of Asom adds to this air of optimism.
- Policy Of The Principle (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Nov 12, 2004)
Only a handful of old fogeys still believe in quoting Oliver Goldsmith: “Ill fares the land, to hast’ning ills a prey,/ Where wealth accumulates and men decay.”
- No Alternative To Reforms (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Oct 18, 2004)
The Left has always been a marginal force in India. Given the belief that its ideology has a special appeal for the poor, it can seem odd that the Left has never made much headway in this country, except at a regional level such as other non-Left
- The Role Of Diplomacy (Deccan Herald, G Parthasarathy, Oct 18, 2004)
India needs to take imaginative initiatives in its relations with its neighbours to contain extremism in its north-east
- Ending India-Bangladesh Impasse (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jul 26, 2004)
In a happy diplomatic accident, the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, will have the rare opportunity this week to interact with both the women who dominate the political landscape in Bangladesh — the Opposition leader, Sheikh Hasina, and the Prime Minister,
- Bdr: India Sheltering Anti-Bangla Separatists (Indian Express, Bhavna Vij, Jan 07, 2004)
Bangladesh today categorically denied the presence of terrorist camps on its soil and instead, turned around to accuse India of nurturing 90 camps of anti-Bangladesh separatists. Caught completely by surprise, India said, this was the first time it
- How To Win Allies And Form Fronts (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Jan 01, 2004)
With increasingly clear signals that general elections may be less than six months away, the cauldron of Opposition politics — simmering for the past five years — started bubbling with new vigour on New Year’s eve today. Congress president Sonia
- Bihar, Bengal Trucks To Skip Assam (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Nov 28, 2003)
While Assam limps back to normal after the weeklong spate of anti-Bihari violence, the entire N-E faces a boycott of a different kind.
- The Silent War Within (Telegraph, ANURADHA KUMAR, Feb 02, 2002)
The meeting of the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, with senior leaders of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) on his recent visit to Japan, has been widely welcomed as a move which would take the Naga peace process further.
- 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.
- Spy Who Knew Bangladesh Better Than Its President (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 22, 2002)
‘‘A foreign intelligence agency is the eyes and ears of the government.
- No Soft Options (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 16, 2002)
Ethnic killings have long been the most deplorable aspect of militancy in Tripura.
- Dollar Babu (Pioneer, Sudhansu Mohanty , Dec 30, 2001)
Around the world with eight dollars!
- Dollar Babu (Pioneer, Sudhansu Mohanty , Dec 29, 2001)
Around the world with eight dollars! How off-mark Raj, you my favourite thespian! Circumambulation of the world today, far from spending your pretty dollar bestows immeasurable largesses: tax-free lucre.
- The Silent War Within (Telegraph, ANURADHA KUMAR, Dec 20, 2001)
The meeting of the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, with senior leaders of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) on his recent visit to Japan, has been widely welcomed as a move which would take the Naga peace process further.
- Citizens And Non-Citizens (Indian Express, Prakash Singh, Dec 06, 2001)
Northeast continues to be a neglected frontier. Some NGOs like the Astha Bharati and the Centre for North-East Studies continue to educate people about the problems of the region.
- Triumphant Return Of Khaleda Zia (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Nov 08, 2001)
JUST over a week ago, National Security Adviser Brajesh Misra paid a brief and low-key visit to Bangladesh carrying a message of greetings from Prime Minister Vajpayee to his newly elected Bangladesh counterpart Begum Khaleda Zia.
- Time To Turn The Clock Back? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 08, 2001)
VRINDA GOPINATH looks at whether every corner of the country is in sync with Indian Standard Time.
- Return Of Khaleda Zia -- Prospects For India-Bangladesh Relations (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Nov 08, 2001)
JUST over a week ago, the National Security Adviser, Mr Brajesh Misra, paid a brief and low-key visit to Bangladesh carrying a message of greetings from the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to his newly elected Bangladeshi counterpart.
- A Blow To Human Rights (Hindu, K. G. Kannabiran, Oct 30, 2001)
The Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance 2001 (POTO) has notified all the militant organisations we have been hearing about all these years operating in Jammu and Kashmir.
- Poto Is Very Much Here (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 27, 2001)
THERE are some simple truths about terrorist outfits. And everybody knows them and the exception is the government.
- Look Back In Euphoria (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Oct 25, 2001)
Communist or socialist parties anywhere in the world claim to be parties of the future.
- Not An Excess Of Activity At All (Telegraph, NIRMALENDU BIKASH RAKSHIT , Oct 16, 2001)
In a momentous judgment, the Supreme Court has recently shown that it is duty-bound to take sides with the poor people and it can rigorously direct the ruling authorities to take proper measures in the interests of the underprivileged.
- Beyond Rhetoric (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 11, 2001)
Electoral politics is not necessarily a dependable guide to a government’s diplomatic priorities.
- Wtc: The Saudi Connection (Telegraph, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Oct 09, 2001)
The American Federal Bureau of Investigation has released photographs of the 19 accused in the Boeing Bombings of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
- History Lesson (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 04, 2001)
This is by no means a “historic meeting”. Ms Sheila Dixit’s sense of the importance of the meeting organized by Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to take a stand against the National Democratic Alliance’s policies on education.
- 'Hindu Militancy' In The Northeast (Pioneer, Debraj Mookerjee, Aug 19, 2001)
The construction of a Hindu national identity predicates on the notion that there is a clear understanding of what is "Hindu" and indeed what is "nationalism".
- 'Hindu Militancy' In The Northeast (Pioneer, Debraj Mookerjee, Aug 18, 2001)
The construction of a Hindu national identity predicates on the notion that there is a clear understanding of what is "Hindu" and indeed what is "nationalism".
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