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Articles 20121 through 20220 of 25064:
- Get Ready For A Repeat Performance (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Jan 12, 2005)
Laloo Yadav’s victory will not only reinforce his distinctive politics, but also that which is old and needs to be replaced
- For That Sweet Feeling Of Home (Telegraph, SWAPAN SETH, Jan 12, 2005)
There are cities that ruffle your hair when you land in them. Cities that put their arms around your shoulder and welcome you in. There are very few cities that will still ask a 37-year-old man, “Kaise ho baba?”
- Fiscal Muscle Dystrophy (The Economic Times, M. Y. Khan, Jan 12, 2005)
Maharashtra had for long occupied pride of place among Indian states in fiscal management.
- Schooling In Rural India (Hindu, Krishna Kumar, Jan 11, 2005)
One must ask why India can meet global standards in civil aviation, software, and defence, and not in its provision for rural children.
- Sting In The Tail (OutLook, S. ANAND, Jan 11, 2005)
There is more trouble in the offing for the Shankara Math in Kanchipuram. Not only have the police nabbed all the conspirators in the Sankararaman murder case
- The Foreign Policy Hand (Indian Express, Mukund B. Kunte, Jan 11, 2005)
To engage a changing world, argued the late J.N. Dixit in these columns, India needs a flexible foreign policy. He went on to steer our foreign and security policy with an unshakeable faith in India’s unrealised potential.
- Mad Sacred Cows (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Jan 11, 2005)
“Today, economics is separated from, and opposed to both ecological processes and basic needs. While the destruction of nature has been justified on grounds of improving human welfare
- Ageism Affects Young And Old (Hindu, Emma Lunn, Jan 11, 2005)
Prejudice against job applicants over 50 is rife, but youngsters face discrimination too.
- The Spellbinding Beauty Of Aihole (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 11, 2005)
Aihole is a quiet village, about 146 kms from Hampi and 483 kms from Bangalore. As we drove up from Pattadakkal, we saw all the usual signs of rural life in progress: bright eyed children in long skirts and cholis with pigtails looped up in coloured ribbo
- Delivering On Doha's Promise (Economist, Editorial, Economist, Jan 11, 2005)
THE Doha trade round was supposed to be finished by now. When the world's trade ministers launched the global trade talks in November 2001
- Feed The Soil, Not The Crop (Tribune, Bhai Mahavir, Jan 11, 2005)
OUR green revolution that signified high yielding varieties, widespread use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides as well as far greater reliance on tractors and other mechanised farm implements presented an imposing paraphernalia which...
- Advantage Upa (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 11, 2005)
The countdown has begun for elections to the State Assemblies of Bihar, Jharkhand, and Haryana, and what better evidence of this than the hectic behind-the-scenes bargaining for seats by the major political players.
- Report On Currency And Finance 2003-2004... (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jan 10, 2005)
We have had a profusion of progress reports on the Indian economy in recent weeks, the most recent being the Finance Minister's report on the fiscal outturn following the requirements of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budgetary Management (FRBM) Act.
- Poetry And Patriotism (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 10, 2005)
Should the word Sindh be substituted with the name of some other Indian State, say, Kashmir, in the national anthem?
- Only For The Poor (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Jan 10, 2005)
Subsidies on food, fertilizers and petro-products have been a continuing and disturbing feature of our budgets.
- On With The Relief (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 10, 2005)
The extraordinary Jakarta summit on the tsunami disaster has provided the launch pad for a massive, coordinated international relief effort to help the victims of Nature's fury across the Indian Ocean
- Resuscitating The Nsc (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Jan 10, 2005)
THE task before the Prime Minister in selecting the next National Security Adviser is first to determine whether he wants the National Security Council to function with the NSA as its Secretary or to continue with the existing system without the council e
- Ambani Struggle: Camouflages Flare Up (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Jan 10, 2005)
The battle between the Ambani brothers has moved from thevicious and entertaining to the bizarre. December 28, the birth anniversary of the Reliance group patriarch Dhirubhai Ambani
- ‘The Other’ Comes To The Rescue (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma, Jan 10, 2005)
The tsunami catastrophe brought the world together. Yet it widened the deep blue sea dividing the Third World from the First. This is not as paradoxical as it sounds.
- A People Still At Sea (OutLook, S. ANAND, Jan 10, 2005)
When Baskaran, a fisherman in Nochikuppam, Chennai, is asked what the fisherfolk normally eat for breakfast—is it gruel with dried fish?—he gets angry.
- Access To Power Provides Influence (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Jan 10, 2005)
Mr. George Bush will be sworn in on January 20 for his second term of office as President of the US. The inaugural festivities will include several lunches and dinners in the days preceding the inauguration, the actual swearing-in function, and a parade.
- Doing Justice To A Great Moment (Indian Express, Soli Sorabjee, Jan 10, 2005)
Dowry is regarded as an evil and its practice today is penalised. It was not so in the past. In 1665, the island of Bombay, then a little fishing village, changed hands as a dowry from the King of Portugal to Charles II
- Focus On Accelerating Growth (The Financial Express, Saumitra Chaudhuri, Jan 10, 2005)
The view from the centres of global capitalism is unsettling and so is the outlook. Structural imbalances and long-term difficulties — principally the current account and budget deficit in the US, one running above
- How The Pictures Lie (Telegraph, PARIMAL BHATTACHARYA, Jan 10, 2005)
Urban, upwardly-mobile families may not want girls, but that does not prove that the backward classes do
- India Should Spare More Personnel ... (Hindu, SUJATA SRINIVASAN, Jan 10, 2005)
"I think the very presence of a woman officer reduces violence ... She is a symbol of peace, life, dignity, and reconciliation ..
- The Poet’S Hour (Indian Express, Mohammed Wajihuddin, Jan 09, 2005)
AL-Biruni, the 11th century Arab traveller, noted that there are 88,000 hells as per the Vishnu Purana. He went on to quote different kinds of sins committed by people and the corresponding hells prescribed for them.
- Rjd Got Its Share In Jharkhand, Says Harikesh Bahadur (Tribune, Prashant Sood, Jan 09, 2005)
Soft-spoken and friendly, Harikesh Bahadur is among the most accessible Congress leaders in the AICC office. A member of the Congress Working Committee
- Sonia Gets Friendly (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 09, 2005)
When Manmohan Singh went to Chennai to seal a ‘‘new relationship of trust and confidence’’ between Sonia’s Congress and Karunanidhi’s DMK. Will Congress watchers and political commentators look back at this moment as a significant milestone in the career
- From Islamabad, With Care (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Jan 09, 2005)
In the coming months, officials in New Delhi and Islamabad will repeatedly refer the media to the 153 words of the joint press statement issued in Islamabad on January 6 after nail-biting suspense.
- This Is World War Iii, Get Used To It (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Jan 09, 2005)
Airline flights into the United States are cancelled from France, Mexico and London. Armed guards are put onto other flights coming to America. Westerners are warned to avoid Saudi Arabia, and synagogues are bombed in Turkey and France.
- Alvi: Befitting Honour For Noted Urdu Writer (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jan 09, 2005)
Urdu is considered one of the sweetest languages of the world. It is spoken by about 104 million people around the globe. Its birth was the direct result of the synthesis between the invading armies of Mahmud of Ghazni with the civilian population ...
- Squeeze Water Off Chinese Data, Add A Dash Of Guesswork (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 08, 2005)
For those who do not know, these are just a few proverbs from China. If, as a businessman, you want to look at a big market, where the 1.3 billionth consumer was born two days ago
- Song Sung True (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 08, 2005)
The single-storeyed house is as anonymous as the colony it stands in. Banaswadi is on the extreme edge of Bangalore, and the no-frills house is seemingly off the map as well.
- No Closed Doors (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 08, 2005)
The Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department’s (RDPD) recommendation that dalits be appointed as priests in temples is a welcome move and needs to be implemented with earnestness.
- Mr Dixit, I Presume (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jan 08, 2005)
The first time I met J.N. ‘Mani’ Dixit, in September 1985, I had not particularly given him a reason for me to be in his good books. I had just been arrested by the Sri Lankan military for nosing around “sensitive installations” near Trincomalee.
- Tax Implications Of Software Sale (Business Line, H. P. Ranina, Jan 08, 2005)
Are pieces of software `goods' that can attract sales and other taxes? The Supreme Court held that software may be intellectual property but as the property contained in a medium is bought and sold, it is an article of value.
- The Buck Starts Here (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Jan 08, 2005)
They often say that Indians lack in spirit of nationalism and patriotism. In the face of the tsunami tragedy, there’s been a noticeable change in the attitude of Indians and they are not hesitant to show their kind and benevolent selves.
- Wages Of Critical Neglect (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Jan 08, 2005)
Muddling through has become the essence of India's crisis management strategies, and each new challenge or disaster produces new evidence of gross incompetence, failure and institutional collapse
- Wave Of Compassion Or New Tide? (Hindu, Syed Saleem Shahzad, Jan 08, 2005)
A US-backed peace initiative in South Asia began more than a year ago. Apart from several confidence-building measures, several new ideas were floated in an attempt to resolve the half-century Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan.
- Love Your Body, Love Yourself (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jan 08, 2005)
The long-distance call was from Osho’s commune in Pune. On the line was the editor of Osho Times, Amrit Sadhana.
- Agent Orange From The Ocean (Indian Express, Trevor Chesterfield, Jan 08, 2005)
: In Vietnam the enemy was often unseen; unseen that is to those who were reporting a war that at that stage wasn’t really a war but a battle of attrition.
- Caste Away (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 08, 2005)
Disasters test a society in diverse ways. They take proof of the country’s preparedness to spring to the rescue of people struck by nature’s fury. In the relief and rehabilitation operations undertaken, they extract an account of the norms and principles
- Change The Mindset (Pioneer, Prem P Kapoor, Jan 08, 2005)
N Jamal Ansari puts forward a baffling and convoluted logic in his article, "Ayodhya and after" (The Pioneer, December 25). He laments that even after 12 years
- Life’S Little Joys (Deccan Herald, Sudha Narasimhachar, Jan 08, 2005)
Life is beautiful. Beautiful only for its small joys, surprises and fun. But for them, life would have become one boring, drab stretch of time. Sharing small experiences with our near and dear is one such good moment of life and that’s what my daughter
- Looking For A National Security Adviser (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jan 08, 2005)
The Prime Minister should look for a compatible philosophical vision of foreign policy in his next National Security Adviser.
- Great Budget Expectations — Helping The Economy Take Wings (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 08, 2005)
Subject to the considerations set out earlier, what are the options before the Finance Minister? It is a constant refrain of the financial commentariat (the latest coinage signifying the commentators as a class!)
- Drifts In The Desert (Indian Express, Arun Firordia, Jan 08, 2005)
India is very rich in water resources. We get 5 per cent of the worldwide rains though we account for only 2 per cent of the total land mass. So, we should rank high in water availability but we rank a poor 133 among 170 countries in water
- The Land Of Penny Pinchers (Indian Express, NICHOLAS D KRISTOF, Jan 07, 2005)
Americans give 15 cents per day per person in official development assistance to poor countries. The average American spends four times that on soft drinks daily
- Plane Truths (Indian Express, Ashwani Sharma, Jan 07, 2005)
The state government’s two aircraft—a five-seater plane and a four-seater twin-engine helicopter—have become the bone of contention between Chief Minister Raman Singh and Governor Lt Gen (retd) K M Seth.
- Public Debate On Privacy (Telegraph, Sanjay Banerjee, Jan 07, 2005)
The baazee.com incident, and the one involving Kareena Kapoor and her male companion, pose vital questions already forgotten by the media — the right of privacy, freedom of expression and the archaic Indian laws on public decency and morality.
- Running India Into The Ground (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Jan 07, 2005)
Some years ago, the UN and/or the World Bank told us that we had an environment problem, on the assumption that we did not know. We promptly did what we do best.
- Running India Into The Ground (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Jan 07, 2005)
Some years ago, the UN and/or the World Bank told us that we had an environment problem, on the assumption that we did not know. We promptly did what we do best.
- Textile Quotas Go (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 07, 2005)
The US and EU-imposed country-by-country quotas on imports of textile and clothing items came to an end on January 1, 2005.
- New Realities For Ocean’S 10 (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Jan 07, 2005)
Accelerated globalisation in adversity: this could well be one of the striking consequences of the tsunami. Altruism or its exact opposite on the part of donors and administrators of aid will be spotted by recipients in distress.
- The Legacy Of Narasimha Rao (Deccan Herald, Kancha Ilaiah, Jan 07, 2005)
When P V Narasimha Rao, the former Prime Minister of India, died I was in the US working on my post-doctoral fellowship project.
- The President's New Year Speech (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Jan 07, 2005)
The President's New Year speech to Parliament is the Government's manifesto for the incoming year — by which it must be judged.
- The Unexploited Rural Market (Business Line, K. Dadoo, Jan 07, 2005)
THE Indian marketeer has come a long way from the 1960s and the 1970s, when supply could never effectively reach demand and shortages and scarcity prevailed all over the country.
- Tsunami: The Robots Next Time? (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Jan 07, 2005)
Two news items deserve special attention as the world tries painfully to come to grips with life after tsunami. According to the first, eight elephants that take tourists around at Thailand's Khao Lak beach began to cry loudly
- Media: Disturbing Shifts (Tribune, N. Bhaskara Rao, Jan 07, 2005)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Justice A.S. Anand made very pertinent observations recently at the IPI-India Award function for Excellence in Journalism.
- Words Were What She Had (Indian Express, SUGUNA RAMANATHAN, Jan 07, 2005)
It is now over a month since Shama Futehally passed away. The memories continue to linger, especially of the time in the eighties spent in Gujarat, where her husband Javid Chowdhury was a civil servant.
- A Vital Task (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 07, 2005)
The wide-ranging recommendations made by the Vaidyanathan Task Force to revitalise the ailing co-operative sector in the country have come when the functioning of the co-operative institutions is causing concern.
- Chipping At Babudom (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 07, 2005)
It is a cruel paradox that even as the services sector is expanding, the archetypal symbol of service – the clerk – is threatened with extinction. The Himachal Pradesh Government too has decided to wield the axe on clerks: it has abolished 300 of these po
- Clueless (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 07, 2005)
The saddest thing about the Indian Museum’s stolen Buddha is the comedy of the aftermath. This is the comedy of belatedness, of a bemused, but concerted ineffectuality that is left with nothing much to cling to other than desperate
- Hail The New Textile Maharaja (Asia Times, Siddharth Srivastava, Jan 07, 2005)
Beginning this year, the world has moved from a four-decade paradigm that limited the developing countries' textile exports to advanced nations, unleashing trade worth ...
- More Open Skies (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 07, 2005)
THE UNION CABINET'S decision to allow established private airlines to operate to foreign destinations with the exception of West Asia is on expected lines and represents another step towards a liberal open skies policy in the civil aviation sector.
- Framing Of Anara G. (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 07, 2005)
The Jammu and Kashmir police certainly has much to account for. With forensic experts in Hyderabad declaring that the woman in the pornographic CD is not Anara Gupta, the ‘‘ex Miss Jammu’’ the J&K police have flamboyantly flaunted
- Save The Retailer (Tribune, Mohan Guruswamy, Jan 06, 2005)
The retail industry in India is often hailed as one of the sunrise sectors. AT Kearney, the well-known international management consultancy, recently identified India as the “second most attractive retail destination” from among 30 emerging markets.
- Public Institutions (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 06, 2005)
Although it is widely if not universally endorsed and admired, democracy as a political system is still on trial in many parts of the world.
- Let Not Financing Be A Disaster After Rapid (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 06, 2005)
Disaster, donations, distribution, and delay, form only a predictable combination that plays out whenever a major blow strikes.
- Lip Service (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 06, 2005)
Teachers must look dull: that alone would convey the misery of their profession. The impulse behind the circular for teachers in Bonhooghly Girls’ High School could have had no other source but this belief.
- We Need Our Mohan Bhargavas (Indian Express, NANDITA PATEL, Jan 06, 2005)
‘Swades’ makes a strong case for patriotism seen not as Pakistan-bashing but as unabashed India-loving
- Can Someone Answer My Questions? (Indian Express, M. G. Devasahayam , Jan 06, 2005)
Govt excuse is the disaster caught everyone by surprise. But that is what a disaster is all about
- Colonisation Of The English Language (Deccan Herald, Avijit Pathak, Jan 06, 2005)
Recently, I was in West Bengal, a state known for its elevated culture, its immense sensitivity to the literary heritage of Bengali, and its extraordinary achievements. But then, I also experienced a deep-rooted anxiety prevailing over the entire state.
- Dangerous Currents (Hindu, Maria Aurora Couto, Jan 06, 2005)
History and memory need to be recovered by both the Hindu and Catholic communities of Goa but not with crude productions that distort and telescope unrelated events to create divisive hatreds.
- Drills For Natural Disaster Management (The Financial Express, S NARAYAN, Jan 06, 2005)
In the winter of 1977, a huge tidal wave, an aftermath of a cyclonic depression in the Bay of Bengal, struck the coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh.
- A View From The Water (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Jan 06, 2005)
What better way to celebrate New Year’s Eve than in Goa? The western coast, the safer coast, where fairy lights still glitter on beach shacks while on the opposite side of the peninsula, the hydra-headed monster that rose out of the sea ten days ago conti
- Economy On The Move (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 06, 2005)
It has been rare for the country to usher in a New Year with such optimism. The state of the economy inspires hope. Foreign institutional investors and rating agencies are upbeat on India’s future.
- Fdi In Retailing — Short-Changing The Kirana Store? (Business Line, Mohan Guruswamy, Jan 06, 2005)
The retail industry in India is often hailed as one of the sunrise sectors. AT Kearney recently identified India as the ``second most attractive retail destination'' from among 30 emergent markets.
- J.N. Dixit - A Tribute (Hindu, Gopal Gandhi, Jan 05, 2005)
"I will come and call on you at Banga Bhavan, Gopal," he said when I spoke to J.N. Dixit a fortnight ago, "protocol is protocol."
- Make Way (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 05, 2005)
Those who want to change things should know what they are up against. Some of his comrades seem to be Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s worst enemies.
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