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Articles 21921 through 22020 of 25122:
- Communication Breakdown (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 30, 2001)
While an alarmist view of any situation must be avoided, it is clear that the government’s handling of the North-east has inflamed passions in the region and grievously complicated the political scenario.
- Laptops & Liberalism (Times of India, Mahesh Daga, May 30, 2001)
LAST week, the Taliban made it mandatory for minority Hindu men in Afghanistan to wear distinctive clothing and the women to wear burqas.
- Aum: The Sound That Liberates (Times of India, P.V. Narayana Swamy, May 30, 2001)
THE Mandukya Upanishad starts with an arresting declaration - "The word AUM is all this, that was in the past and all that would be in future.
- Rising Profit Rate In Us Economy (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , May 30, 2001)
THE rate of profit is an important concept in economics. In classical economics, according to Ricardo, the net product in an economy can be equated with national income minus rents. The net product is then distributed between profits and wages.
- Tough Talks By The Week (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, May 30, 2001)
Few can excel our leaders in talking tough and in yielding to force, especially when it threatens their chairs.
- Reinventing The Centre (Hindu, Harish Khare , May 30, 2001)
LAST MONTH, the politically fashionable thing to do, it seemed, was to decry the presumed concentration of power in the Prime Minister's Office;
- Terminator Technology In Agriculture (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, May 30, 2001)
Seedsavers of crops worldwide have been threatened as never before. A technology appropriately called the 'terminator technology', has been creating waves in agricultural circles since March.
- The Full Monty: He’s Hot, He’s Not (The Economic Times, Shubhrangshu Roy, May 30, 2001)
A LITTLE bird flew across the world wide Web the other day with an interesting piece of gossip:
- Hair-Dos & Don’ts (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 30, 2001)
SHAHRUKH Khan may be charging a fortune for endorsing the need for hair-care.
- Well Begun But ... (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 30, 2001)
THE GOVERNMENT has finally agreed to the long-standing demand of the Reserve Bank of India to take over its stake in the State Bank of India. This is a welcome move, albeit more than a trifle delayed.
- Dangerous Games (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 30, 2001)
The violent demonstrations against and attacks on cinema halls showing the film Gadar: Ek Prem Kahani, on the ground of its being "anti-Islamic", deserves the strongest condemnation. Rioting and assault cannot be defended in the name of religion.
- The Intolerance Industry (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 30, 2001)
It’s difficult to predict what will hurt the sensibilities of people and leave them so humiliated that they have to resort to violent protest.
- Turkey On His Mind (Hindustan Times, Gajendra Singh, May 30, 2001)
General Pervez Musharraf has anointed himself President of Pakistan while retaining the all-powerful post of army chief.
- Mother Of All Crimes (Hindustan Times, Kusum Mehta, May 30, 2001)
The last few years have witnessed miraculous advancements in medical science.
- Practicing Untouchability (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, May 30, 2001)
OUR former defence minister, the ever irrepressible and maverick, George Fernandes can never be accused of shying away from taking a separate stand.
- Curbing Pollution (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 30, 2001)
A breath of fresh air, may soon turn out to be the rarest of rare commodities in India. According to a regional survey carried out in Asia by the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd (PERC), India is the most polluted country in the continent. In g
- Steeling For The Next `Big One' (Business Line, Eva Haridas, May 30, 2001)
WHEN the earth rocked under Gujarat on Republic Day, it laid waste entire townships and colonies.
- Manipur Conundrum (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 30, 2001)
THE LEADERS OF the BJP and the Samata party may have agreed to ``forget'' the Manipur developments and decided to ``stay out'' of any exercise leading towards the formation of a new Government in the State.
- One More Kashmir Summit (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , May 30, 2001)
PERHAPS it is appropriate that the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, should have invited Pakistan's chief executive, Gen Pervez Musharraf, for a dialogue.
- No Scope For Detours (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 30, 2001)
BY SPECIFYING that India’s sovereignty over Kashmir is non-negotiable, New Delhi has made it clear that the “high road to peace” with Pakistan will not involve any detours.
- Msp Muddle And Food Exports -- Boasts Aside, Can We Make The Grade? (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, May 30, 2001)
BOTH the US and Canada have cried foul and dragged India to the World Trade Organisation's dispute settlement body complaining that India is `exporting' `subsidised' wheat in violation of WTO norms.
- Supporting New Initiatives In Politics (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , May 30, 2001)
AN IMPORTANT hypothesis concerning developing countries such as India is that the poorer they are, the more important seem the political differences between such countries preventing closer economic and related spheres.
- The Union Of India And The Wto (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 30, 2001)
THE ABSENCE OF an informed debate on the implications of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) among Indian political parties requires urgent correction.
- Misgivings Stay (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 30, 2001)
Mr Jaswant Singh's reiteration on Monday of the Government's stand that Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) was an integral part of India is good in so far as it goes.
- Brand Royalty (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 30, 2001)
The notorious tight-fistedness of the Indian consumer has caused much grief to many a marketer.
- Who Are We Talking To? (Pioneer, Wilson John, May 30, 2001)
The irony of choosing May 23 to invite General Pervez Musharraf for peace talks seems to have been lost on Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
- Life After Debt (Times of India, Gurudas Chatterjee, May 30, 2001)
A substantial part of my everyday mail consists of an assortment of letters from banks and financial institutions eager to send me a draft or lend money for buying a car or a house, none of which I need.
- Cultural Question (Pioneer, Avijit Pathak, May 30, 2001)
Enough has already been said and written about the need for intensifying the cultural component in education. It has been repeatedly asserted, particularly by the dominant political force, that cultural knowledges - from Vedic mathematics to astrology, fr
- See-Through Money For Fair Elections (Pioneer, Ahtesham Qureshy, May 30, 2001)
The Congress party has after a long time taken a right step in the direction of electoral reform.
- Planning Delusions (Pioneer, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, May 30, 2001)
Prime Minister Vajpayee had advised the Planning Commission to aim for a nine per cent growth rate in the Tenth Plan.
- Who Comes First? Cleric Or Reformer (Pioneer, Ehtashamuddin Khan, May 30, 2001)
The landslide victory of President Mohammad Khatami in the recently-concluded Presidential election in Iran indicates an important fact-that religion, the 'opium of the masses', can no longer numb the aspirations of Iranians.
- The Luncheon Meeting And After (Pioneer, Anil Narendra, May 30, 2001)
Few understood the significance of the impromptu meeting between the Prime Minister and the Home Minister on Tuesday, the first of May.
- The Millennium Round Won’t Help The Millions (The Economic Times, T.K. Bhaumik, May 30, 2001)
THE EUROPEAN Union has been relentless in its efforts to launch a comprehensive new round of trade negotiations in the WTO.
- Beyond The Original Message (Hindustan Times, Imtiaz Ahmad, May 30, 2001)
SHOULD MUSLIM women have the right to maintenance in the event of divorce? This question has acquired importance in view of the announcement that the government proposes to bring in two legislations to ensure that women get early relief in cases of marita
- Read Writing On The Political Wall (Pioneer, CJM Mathew, May 30, 2001)
The Tehelka expose showed in a dramatic fashion the dangerous ramifications of corruption in our polity and bureaucracy. Honest politicians and bureaucrats welcomed the expose while some deflected its impact and weaved a conspiracy tale.
- Panja’s Passion Play (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 29, 2001)
ALL the world’s a stage, the good old Bard said. Ex-minister and full-time acting politician Ajit Panja has so far performed with his theatre group in London, New York, Washington DC, Chicago and LA, apart, of course, from Kolkata and Delhi.
- Inviting Ridicule (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 29, 2001)
A classic example of how a government can tie itself up in knots over a serious issue is reflected by the needless controversy being generated over the appointment of a Chief of Defence Staff (CDS).
- Every One Wants To Be Minister In Goa (The Kashmir Times, Arun Nehru, May 29, 2001)
Manipur shocks every one but should anyone get shocked? Remember Goa where the public verdict has been changed several times as everyone wants to become a minister.
- Take The High Road (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 29, 2001)
As New Delhi prepares to spread out the welcome mat for Pervez Musharraf, there is a marked divergence of views on how the operative word is spelt.
- Blaring Its Way To Decline (Pioneer, Chanchal Sarkar, May 29, 2001)
The only day of silence in Kolkata was voting day.
- Tintin In Our Mind (Hindustan Times, Soumya Bhattacharya, May 29, 2001)
IN ONE unforgettable scene in David Lodge’s sidesplitting comic novel Nice Work, Vic Wilcox, a managing director at an engineering firm.
- Rethinking Fiscal Orthodoxy (The Economic Times, Mythili Bhusnurmath, May 29, 2001)
AT THE concluding session of the World Bank sponsored seminar on fiscal reforms in Delhi recently, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India set the cat among the pigeons.
- Neither Here Nor There (The Kashmir Times, Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal, May 29, 2001)
One is said to be fashionable and trendy if one brings about revolutionary changes in ones appearance.
- Earthquake Relief (Times of India, Aditi Kapoor, May 29, 2001)
WHEN the first rains lash the earthquake-stricken areas of rural Gujarat, many people may not be able to run for cover.
- Complain And Be Damned (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, May 29, 2001)
ABOUT 60 residents of Bahota village and adjoining villages in Marmat area of Doda district have migrated to Doda township following a reign of terror let loose by the security forces.
- Monkey Diplomacy (Hindustan Times, Brahma Chellaney , May 29, 2001)
WITH ITS continuing ‘war of a thousand cuts’ against India, Pakistan poses the single biggest challenge to Indian foreign policy.
- Right Choice, Baby? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 29, 2001)
PEPSI’S success in creating a brand almost from scratch in India is the stuff that marketing case studies are made of. Given the problems of doing business in markets like ours, Pepsi entered the market as an under-dog.
- Sending The Wrong Signal (Pioneer, Arshi Khan, May 29, 2001)
India in the eyes of the world has always been a symbol of protest and resistance against colonialism and imperialism. But the recent visit of a high-level delegation of Indian officials to Israel, however, tarnishes this image.
- Kathmandu Killings & India (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, May 29, 2001)
THE cold-blooded elimination of vir-tually the entire family of Nepal.
- India’s Pak Syndrome (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, May 29, 2001)
Now that Gen. Musharraf has ac cepted Prime Minister’s invitation in a very mature yet friendly language.
- `Compassionate Conservatism' At Work -- Bush Sets Us On New Course (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , May 29, 2001)
THE US President, Mr George W. Bush, during his campaign for the top job, was widely seen as a bumbler, lacking in gravitas and that mysterious, undefinable quality known as presidential timbre.
- Of Mice And Men (Business Line, Bharat Kumar, May 29, 2001)
``MY COMPANY is doing fine but I know others that are not,'' is a common refrain from CEOs in the struggling software industry.
- Will Summit Mean Better Trade? (Business Line, Kuldip Nayar, May 29, 2001)
IT IS understandable that New Delhi could not have continued with a rigid attitude towards Islamabad for long.
- Us-64: Big Daddy Throws In The Towel (Business Line, V. Pattabhi Ram, May 29, 2001)
WE MUST doff a hat at the Big Daddy of the mutual fund industry, the Unit Trust of India (UTI).
- This Is Not Submissiveness (Telegraph, BRIJESH D. JAYAL, May 28, 2001)
The American president, George W. Bush, chose an address to the National Defence University in Washington to unveil his administration’s plans for the Nuclear Missile Defence shield.
- Speak Out Of Turn (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 28, 2001)
Among the Samata Party and BJP leaders from Manipur who have descended on New Delhi is Speaker S. Dhananjay Singh. He has no business to be here. A Speaker is supposed to play a neutral role.
- Slip Through Legal Loopholes (Telegraph, Basudev Ray, May 28, 2001)
J. Jayalalitha is believed to have remarked a few days ago that she wants corruption cases against her to be handled firmly and that her immediate task would be to probe the charges of corruption against M. Karunanidhi’s son, M.K. Stalin.
- Financing The Tenth Plan: A Conundrum (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, May 28, 2001)
THE Planning Commission has taken another plunge in opting for an eight per cent GDP growth in the Tenth Plan period (2002-07), in the midst of a looming fiscal crisis that would be even more difficult to grapple with than the 1991 crisis.
- Puppets On A String (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 28, 2001)
Shadows of the party have already begun to lengthen over the government in West Bengal even though the tenure of the new chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, is not yet a fortnight old.
- Power Games (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 28, 2001)
THE Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission has decided to hike power tariffs in the Capital. It is neither the first ERC to do so, nor is it likely to be last. What makes such decisions contentious, however, is the extent to which power supplied is not b
- Party In Extremis (Hindustan Times, Amulya Ganguli, May 28, 2001)
Three people can be held responsible for the Congress party’s sixth failure in a row in West Bengal — Pranab Mukherjee, Somen Mitra and Mamata Banerjee. The first two played a key role in hounding Banerjee out of the party after the 1996 election. Had the
- Women Too Can Benefit From Viagra (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 28, 2001)
Viagra, the anti-impotence drug that has improved the sex lives of men, also works for women, Italian sexologists reported on Sunday.
- Manali Musings (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, May 28, 2001)
Prime Minister Vajpayee has done enough in his three years in office to earn his place in history. But almost all of it on the national security and foreign policy front.
- Taliban And The Colour Yellow (Indian Express, Himmat Singh Gill, May 28, 2001)
Khorasan' of the Middle Ages and ‘Aryana’ in the antiquity’, Afghanistan has seen them all pass by.
- Fast-Breeder Reactors - A Dying Breed (Hindu, M.V. Ramana, May 28, 2001)
Near the town of Kalkar in Germany, close to the border with Holland, a new amusement park is being built by a Dutch entrepreneur for about $ 3 crores.
- Accountability And Information Sharing (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, May 28, 2001)
Every regulator summoned by the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) investigating the payments crisis on the stock markets is bound to whine about the multiplicity of regulatory agencies and the absence of adequate supervisory and punitive powers.
- Police Accountability (Hindu, Ajay K. Mehra, May 28, 2001)
IT IS not surprising that Kuldip Nayar in his article (``Police atrocities'', May 22) received the standard reply he did from the Delhi Police on their use of third degree methods.
- Blowing The Fuse (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 28, 2001)
EVEN GOING BY the standards of the Dabhol Power Company's controversial innings so far, the current developments are truly frenetic.
- Growth & Rural Poverty (The Economic Times, Raghbendra Jha, May 28, 2001)
IT IS widely accepted now that rural poverty fell more sharply in response to the growth in the 1980s than in the 1990s. However, the trend rate of economic growth in the 1990s (excluding the crisis year of 1991) was higher and more stable over time than
- Grain Mountain, Drought And Hunger (The Financial Express, Saumitra Chaudhuri, May 28, 2001)
Did anybody say that year 2001-02 was going to be a good year? Not that one can recollect. Glum comments about GDP (gross domestic product) growth being lower because of drought are surely an afterthought. What is it that has just been discovered?
- Business Riding On Cultural Events (Business Line, C. Gopinath , May 28, 2001)
CINCO DE MAYO is a minor event in Mexico that commemorates a Mexican victory over French invaders on May 5, 1862 in the Battle of Puebla.
- The Disorder Of Law (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 28, 2001)
The abysmally low rate of conviction in criminal cases is a matter of serious concern. The latest figures of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) are, in fact, a sharp indictment of the criminal justice system.
- Taming Of The Monetary Hawks (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, May 28, 2001)
THE former RBI Deputy Governor, Dr S. S. Tarapore, confesses in his new book, Monetary Management and Institutional Reforms, of being labelled a ``primordial monetary hawk''.
- Reining In The Pmo (Hindu, P.S. Appu, May 28, 2001)
AN OVER-GROWN, all-powerful Prime Minister's Office has been at the centre of a major political controversy. The attack on the present setup of the PMO has been spearheaded by the hard core of the BJP and some elements in the National Democratic Alliance.
- Pakistani 'In A Tight Spot' Over Kashmir (Washington Post, Pamela Constable, May 28, 2001)
For months, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's military ruler, has been telling anyone who would listen that he is willing to meet India's prime minister "any time, any place" to talk about resolving the conflict over Kashmir. Now India has called his bluf
- Puppets On A String (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 28, 2001)
Shadows of the party have already begun to lengthen over the government in West Bengal even though the tenure of the new chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, is not yet a fortnight old.
- Financing The Tenth Plan: A Conundrum (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, May 28, 2001)
THE Planning Commission has taken another plunge in opting for an eight per cent GDP growth in the Tenth Plan period (2002-07), in the midst of a looming fiscal crisis that would be even more difficult to grapple with than the 1991 crisis.
- Us Market In The Months Ahead (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , May 28, 2001)
ON MAY 15, the US Federal Reserve cut the Federal Funds rate by 50 basis points to 4.0 per cent, and fretted a good deal about the state of capital spending in the US.
- Plans For A Brew (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 28, 2001)
THERE ARE CLEAR indications that the WTO Agreement on Agriculture and the already competitive market scenario have forced the Department of Commerce (DoC).
- Bis Reviews Global Financial Systems (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , May 28, 2001)
BIS (The Bank of International Settlements), headquartered at Basel in Switzerland, is acknowledged to be the Central Bank of Central Banks.
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