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Articles 4321 through 4420 of 4401:
- The Financial Express: Analysis (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 17, 2001)
Following is the International Monetary Fund’s Executive Board’s Assessment of India’s economy (Public Information Notice No. 01/88, August 14, 2001).
- Sword And The Chrysanthemum (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Aug 16, 2001)
Shadows of the past remain embedded in a nation’s subconscious.
- Press Council Gets A New Chairman (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 16, 2001)
MR Justice K Jayachandra Reddy takes over as the new chairman of the Press Council of India at a crucial time in its history.
- Delhi At Sea (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 16, 2001)
The rains that paralysed the city of Delhi on Tuesday were a reminder of the fact that when it comes to the essentials of civic life, we continue to be, most definitely, a third world country.
- Full Disclosures -- Corporate Governance Or Fad? (Business Line, Ashish Aggarwal, Aug 15, 2001)
WHAT started as a corporate fad in the second half of the 1990s, has now crystallised into corporate governance.
- The Gods Are Happy (Indian Express, Reshma Patil, Aug 15, 2001)
The numbers pitter patter to a lucky 13. For the rainman chasing a monsoon excess by five per cent over normal to date, there’s special reason to claim so far so good.
- A ‘Legitimate’ Sort Of Violence (Indian Express, Anjali Modi, Aug 15, 2001)
CHENNAI Police Commissioner, K Muthukaruppan told a national TV station that the police had used ‘‘water canons, tear gas and rubber bullets’’ against protesting DMK supporters.
- Good Tidings (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 14, 2001)
The basis of the CMIE forecast is the presumed growth of agricultural production by 9 per cent over the previous year.
- For A New Freedom Movement (The Economic Times, Sauvik Sauvik Chakraverti verti , Aug 14, 2001)
THE OTHER morning I strolled into the CR Park No. 1 market to buy some mutton.
- All In The Attitude (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 14, 2001)
It would be unfair to hold the government solely responsible for the dismal situation in the agricultural sector.
- Pds And India's Food Security (Business Line, M. G. Devasahayam , Aug 13, 2001)
IF WE care about true food security, an efficient and effective mechanism to reach food to all people at all times at affordable prices is an essential prerequisite.
- Seeking Indo-Pakistan Settlements (Hindu, K. Shankar Bajpai , Aug 11, 2001)
WHAT CAN possibly remain to say about Agra? Simply that it should not be viewed, as in endless commentaries, as part of a continuum, much less a new beginning, but as an ending.
- Gm Crops: The Need For Right Technology (Hindu, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Aug 11, 2001)
There are some 800 million people who do not have adequate food, and 1.2 billion people in the world who live on only $1 a day. Genetically Modified (GM) crops are not a silver bullet that can feed them.
- Can India's Growth Be Faster? (Hindu, Gilbert Etienne , Aug 10, 2001)
DATA ON GDP and GDP growth are doubtful, even in the most advanced countries.
- Grim Finale To The Copper Story (Telegraph, MADHUSHREE C. BHOWMIK, Aug 09, 2001)
Moosaboni, one of the oldest copper mines in the country, is a ghost of its former self.
- A Message On Labour Linkage For Mr Zoellick And Mr Maran (The Financial Express, Pradeep S. Mehta, Aug 09, 2001)
It might surprise him to know this, but commerce minister Murasoli Maran could be doing US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick a big favour.
- Treaty With Nepal Should Include Flood Control, Vanaspati Imports (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Aug 09, 2001)
India should thrash out all contentious issues while renewing the trade protocol treaty with Nepal, which is likely to expire in the first week of December.
- Thoughts In A Burns Ward (Indian Express, Prathanan Gahilote, Aug 07, 2001)
IT is the spill over effect. Actually, sitting here now, there is little comprehension of the world and life beyond the green walls of this hospital corridor.
- Hiroshima Haunts (Hindustan Times, Ashok Ashta, Aug 07, 2001)
The US Deputy Secretary Armitage’s recent visit to Delhi also took him to Tokyo, where it created a media reaction.
- Political Parties Fish For Issues As Poll Fever Begins In Up (The Financial Express, Devsagar Singh, Aug 07, 2001)
With assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh round the corner, political parties are vying with each other in raising issues of their choice.
- Agony And Apathy (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 07, 2001)
INDIA'S CHALLENGE IN moderating the consequences of natural disasters has come under yet another serious test in Orissa, which has been a continued victim of nature's fury.
- Saarc: Inside & Outside (Hindu, Anil Nauriya , Aug 07, 2001)
CHINA IS reported to have expressed a desire to join the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).
- Contingency Plan Needed To Tackle Drought (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Aug 07, 2001)
Government and policymakers should lose no time and spin into action to prepare region-wise contingency plans to meet the threat of emerging drought in large tracts of the country due to deficient rainfall.
- That's The Way The Cookie Crumbles (The Economic Times, Shubham Mukherjee, Aug 07, 2001)
THE GOVERNMENT has been tinkering with the food processing sector for a long time but only on a piecemeal basis. But a full fledged new policy has yet to see the light of day.
- Monsoon Hopes (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 07, 2001)
THE MIXED-BAG that India Meteorological Department's mid-season review of south-west monsoon covering rainfall during June-July.
- State Of The World (The Economic Times, Lester R. Brown, Aug 06, 2001)
FOR us, the key limits as we approach the twenty-first century are fresh water, forests, range-lands, oceanic fisheries, biological diversity, and the global atmosphere.
- Economic Competence: The Global Gulf Widens (Business Line, Anantha Nageshwaran, Aug 06, 2001)
US INDICATORS signal economic bottom is at hand. In the week that ended, the US dollar continued to lose ground against the euro, and, to a lesser extent, against the yen as well.
- How To Deal With Natural Disasters (Tribune, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Aug 06, 2001)
FLOODS in Orissa, Poland and Pakistan, volcanic eruption in Sicily and the continuing plight of victims of the Gujarat earthquake are reminders that the only way of saving a world that is hostage to act of God —
- Harvesting Of Rainwater Only Way Out For India (The Financial Express, Sunil Ghorawat, Aug 06, 2001)
Inter-state feuds over water are becoming more and more common in India over fear of water shortages.
- On Paper Only (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 05, 2001)
THE IRONY is rather striking. Tamil Nadu is one of the few States which has an exclusive law on the Right to Information.
- Information Drought In Tamil Nadu (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 05, 2001)
For someone who claims the ``people's verdict is the ultimate verdict'', Ms. Jayalalithaa is unwilling to grant the people the right to information and the freedom of expression. Our Tamil Nadu Bureau reports.
- Information Drought In Tamil Nadu (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 05, 2001)
For someone who claims the ``people's verdict is the ultimate verdict'', Ms. Jayalalithaa is unwilling to grant the people the right to information and the freedom of expression. Our Tamil Nadu Bureau reports.
- Sena’s Proxy War (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 03, 2001)
Naked power play to topple the Maharashtra government.
- Politics Of Hunger (Telegraph, Yougendra Yadav, Aug 03, 2001)
The establishment has finally discovered that there is a drought in the country. It happened at the Supreme Court on July 23.
- Recognition For Water Conservationist (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 02, 2001)
IT was a scintillating achievement for Rajendra Singh.
- Submerged Orissa (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 02, 2001)
NATURE has been unsparingly harsh on Orissa. From 1995 to 1998, the state remained in the grip of a merciless drought in which more than 300 persons perished. In October, 1999, it was visited by a super cyclone that killed more than 20,000 persons.
- The Migrant As Scapegoat (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Aug 02, 2001)
RECENT EVENTS and discussions in India's commercial capital should concern everyone in the country.
- How Best To Manage Other People’s Affairs (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 02, 2001)
The importance of creating a more effective conflict prevention paradigm is underscored by the alarming global trends forecast in the recent National Intelligence Council’s report, Global Trends 2015.
- Monsoon Causes Rs 1,613-Cr Loss, Signals Fall In Farm Output (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Aug 02, 2001)
As the south-west monsoon completes its mid-course (July-end), it is time to take stock of the situation.
- Future Liquidity (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 02, 2001)
This is really a Magsaysay award for traditional wisdom.
- Scanning The Oceans From Floats (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Aug 01, 2001)
`EL NINO' and its less well known cousin `La Nina', were two crucial phenomena that had a major impact on the variations in global climate and natural disasters during the last decade.
- Water Man Gets His Due (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 01, 2001)
HOUNDED at home, feted elsewhere! That is the life story of many a bright Indian. Hargobind Khurana, Anna Hazare, Khairnar, Nek Chand, Kiran Bedi ….
- A Quiet Revolution (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Aug 01, 2001)
BETWEEN THE expanse of sand and rocky terrain without an iota of green, there are two colours which emerge from the emptiness like magic: crimson red and deep blue.
- Being Always On The Defensive Won’t Do (Tribune, K. F. Rustamji , Aug 01, 2001)
I wonder why we are always on the defensive in dealing with Pakistan.
- 377 Cases Filed Against Magsaysay Winner (Tribune, Paloma Ganguly, Aug 01, 2001)
RAJENDRA Singh, who won the 2001 Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership on Monday, quit a cozy government job 16 years ago determined to transform the lives of the rural poor.
- Personal Becomes National (Indian Express, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Aug 01, 2001)
THE UTI imbroglio is due to two misconceptions. One, that the government must not do business. Two, we make an artificial separation between the individual and the family.
- Trial By Water (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 31, 2001)
Nature's fury can upset the man's best-laid plans.
- Undp's Human Development Report 2001 -- Biotechnology Will Bypass The Hungry (Business Line, Devinder Sharma , Jul 31, 2001)
THE former Prime Minister, Morarji Desai, strictly followed an unwritten principle. He would not inaugurate any conference -- national or international -- which did not focus on rural development.
- Worst-Ever Flood Wreaks Havoc, May Cost Orissa Rs 1,000 Crore (The Financial Express, Dilip Bisoi, Jul 30, 2001)
The four spells of floods that hit Orissa in July this year have left a trail of devastation, killing hundreds of people, thousands of cattle, and washing away entire villages.
- Passing Thoughts (Pioneer, Adhip Iyer, Jul 30, 2001)
Life in Delhi is governed by the principle of chaos. And nowhere is this more evident than in its roads.
- Orissa - Laid Waste (Hindu, PRAFULLA DAS, Jul 29, 2001)
The floods have drowned the hopes of the people of Orissa, who are yet to recover from the effects of the super-cyclone and drought.
- Foreign Investors Play Big Part In Dollar’s Run (The Financial Express, Jon E Hilsenrath, Jul 28, 2001)
Those doubting the staying power of the strong US dollar earlier this year clearly weren’t in touch with Chinese investor sentiment.
- Drowning Of Orissa (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 28, 2001)
There’s more to disaster management than aerial surveys.
- Tina Factor (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Jul 27, 2001)
Prime Minister Vajpayee seems to be a lucky man as his Government has nothing much to fear from the Opposition, at least for the time being.
- Core Sector Projects -- Rev Up The Debt Market (Business Line, Antara Nanda, Jul 27, 2001)
WHEN Mr T. V. Rao, treasury manager of a financial institution, charts out the FI's investment line up for the day, putting money in India's infrastructure projects is an option he ponders on.
- Combat The Devastation (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 27, 2001)
TUESDAY’S PHOTOGRAPH in a newspaper tells it all. A mother trying to stop her daughter from rushing towards a helicopter distributing food packets at Badchana, near Bhubaneswar.
- Sos: Allahabad On Life Support (The Economic Times, Shubhrangshu Roy, Jul 27, 2001)
THERE’S this mile-long stretch of a high-street that cuts through the centre of Allahabad, bang in the heart of the Hindi heartland. The Brits first built the street and named it after one of their Viceroys, Lord Canning.
- What If We Had Not Reformed? (The Economic Times, Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar, Jul 25, 2001)
ON THE tenth anniversary of economic liberalisation, few people remember how utterly improbable any meaningful reform looked in early 1991.
- The K-Fatigue In Pakistan (Indian Express, Santwana Bhattacharya, Jul 25, 2001)
THE General on the other side of the Partition seems a bit like the indomitable Gaul of the famous comic strip.
- India Travels (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 25, 2001)
THE World Travel and Tourism Council (in association with Oxford Economic Forecasting) has come out with a study that finds Indians to be among the fastest growing travellers in the world.
- An Avoidable Tragedy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 25, 2001)
THE road mishap which claimed the lives of over 50 pilgrims near Ropar on Monday should be included in the list of avoidable accidents.
- A Decade Of Reforms: Where To Now? (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Jul 25, 2001)
THE LAST week of July marks a decade of reforms in the Indian economy.
- No Use Blaming The General (Telegraph, BHASKAR DUTTA , Jul 24, 2001)
The Agra summit has naturally generated a great deal of media attention on Pakistan.
- Island Of Acrimony In The Floods (Telegraph, TILAK D. GUPTA, Jul 23, 2001)
Orissa seems to be caught in a never-ending cycle of misfortune. After the supercyclone of 1999 and last summer’s severe drought, this eastern state is now being ravaged by floods.
- Opposition Essaying United Assault On Government Failures (The Financial Express, Rohit Bansal, Jul 23, 2001)
In terms of issues, there is no dearth of embarrassment staring the government in the face during the monsoon session of Parliament which begins today.
- Leave Parleying To Envoys (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jul 21, 2001)
However graceless the Agra summit’s abrupt end may have been, the absence of a joint statement or declaration was no great loss.
- False Hopes (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 21, 2001)
THE RECENTLY released Human Development Report 2001 gives India’s HDR rank as 115, which is significantly higher than the 128 rank of HDR 2000.
- After The Summit: As Newspapers Look At It (Tribune, Gobind Thukral, Jul 21, 2001)
IT is indeed a divided media that has returned home after covering Indo-Pak summit at Agra.
- Saving Kyoto (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 21, 2001)
THE PROSPECTS FOR arresting global warming could not be more bleak as Governments resume negotiations in Bonn on the troubled Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC).
- Consumers Caught In Crossfire Between Broadcasters And Msos (The Financial Express, Sibabrata Das, Jul 21, 2001)
Ram Hingorani, the 65 year-old executive vice-chairman of IndusInd Media & Communications.
- Island Of Acrimony In The Floods (Telegraph, TILAK D. GUPTA, Jul 20, 2001)
Orissa seems to be caught in a never-ending cycle of misfortune.
- Enemies In Wait (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 20, 2001)
According to the Congress, the ruling coalition is busy with its internal squabbles instead of caring for the suffering people. Floodwaters have damaged crops covering about two lakh hectares of land as well as thousands of dwellings.
- Unrelieved Failure (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 20, 2001)
Even as the Orissa government has belatedly taken up the task of distributing relief materials to marooned people, the political fallout of the sacking of the ministers threatens the stability of the BJD-Bharatiya Janata Party government.
- Rains, Death And Displacement (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 20, 2001)
ORISSA'S CONTINUING AGONY, alternating between floods and drought, flies in the face of India's claims to advances made in science and technology.
- Health Deteriorates (Hindu, Gita Sen, Jul 20, 2001)
THE IMPACT of the structural economic reforms of the 1990s on human development in India has been a subject of controversy from the start.
- States In Doldrums (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 19, 2001)
IT HAS now virtually become an annual ritual for the states to run to the Centre, asking for large financial packages to meet the exigencies of floods or droughts or other natural disasters.
- Unprepared For Rain (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 19, 2001)
IMAGINE the plight of the family forced to live with rainwater in the house!
- Island Of Acrimony In The Floods (Telegraph, TILAK D. GUPTA, Jul 18, 2001)
Orissa seems to be caught in a never-ending cycle of misfortune.
- Unrelieved Failure (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 18, 2001)
Even as the Orissa government has belatedly taken up the task of distributing relief materials to marooned people, the political fallout of the sacking of the ministers threatens the stability of the BJD-Bharatiya Janata Party government.
- Beijing Makes It (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 17, 2001)
WHICH city gets to host the Olympic Games depends on two factors. One is, of course, the facilities it offers and its capability to organise the mega-event. On that count, Beijing indeed is an odds-on favourite.
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