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Articles 22221 through 22320 of 25122:
- Pakistan Welcomes Talks On Kashmir (Washington Post, Pamela Constable, May 24, 2001)
The government's surprise invitation to Pakistan's military ruler to visit India for talks on the disputed territory of Kashmir has received a cautious welcome from Pakistan, making it likely that the leaders of the world's two newest nuclear powers will
- Indian It & Japan’s I-Mode (The Economic Times, P. S. Thomas, May 24, 2001)
IN January 2001, Fortune magazine named K Tachikawa (61), the president of DoCoMo, NTT’s mobile communication subsidiary, as the Asian Businessman of the Year 2000.
- In Memory Of A Soldier And A Braveheart (Indian Express, General (Retd) V. P. Malik, May 24, 2001)
SUDHIR Kumar would have been 33 years old on May 24 this year. Balraj Kakkar, my ADC (Security), recommended him to me as his own relief before quitting the Army.
- Dollarisation: When... And Not If (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , May 24, 2001)
I WONDER when they will begin to talk about it.
- Pointless Ranting (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 24, 2001)
BEYOND SAYING THAT the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture will result in infinite harm to the Indian farmer and is, therefore, detrimental to the agriculture sector, the recent meeting of Chief Ministers in New Delhi sprang no surprises.
- Lift The Ban (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 24, 2001)
THE GOVERNMENT is reportedly initiating a big crackdown on foreign firms that are retailing their products in India under the garb of test marketing them.
- Of Heads And Tales (Indian Express, Bajinder Pal Singh, May 24, 2001)
How other countries have tackled the issue of sikhs wearing helmets.
- Now For The Hard Part (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 24, 2001)
Governing will take more than winning did in Tamil Nadu.
- Completely Rubbish (Hindustan Times, Bharati Chaturvedi, May 24, 2001)
pla1.jpg IMAGINE INDIA without its kabariwalas. The men who buy the waste that ragpickers pick that consumers throw away.
- Through The Third Eye (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 24, 2001)
S M KRISHNA may have been `christened’ Somanahalli Malliah Krishna by his fond parents but in bureaucratic circles in Karnataka he’s known by a better name — Simply Marvellous Krishna.
- A Washington Itinerary (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , May 24, 2001)
When Brajesh Mishra, national security adviser and principal secretary to the prime minister, walked into the Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters near Washington a few days ago for his scheduled.
- The Mahabharata: Epic For All Time (Times of India, P. Venkatraman, May 24, 2001)
THE realities of life are idealised by genius and given the form that makes drama, poetry or prose.
- Out Of The Cold (Hindustan Times, MANVENDRA SINGH, May 24, 2001)
A REFERENCE to the archives is necessary if only to update one’s memory as to how times are changing and where they are headed. For it is certain that most of what has been written about missile defences is based on memories rooted in the Cold War.
- Mobbing The Pitch (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 24, 2001)
IT READS like a report investigating the Cosa Nostra. It is actually the latest preliminary report on the murky affairs of international cricket match-fixing.
- Gulls And Frauds (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 24, 2001)
Something must be terribly wrong with a society in which the passion for learning produces herds of gulls and frauds.
- The Digital Revolution (Times of India, Rahul Sagar, May 24, 2001)
ALBERT EINSTEIN once said: ``I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.''
- Burying The Indira Doctrine (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, May 24, 2001)
AS IT draws closer to the United States, India must prepare to deal with the inevitable political consequences in the Subcontinent of its romance with America.
- The Cds Appointment (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 24, 2001)
THE APPOINTMENT OF the country's first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) has been marred by unfortunate controversy.
- Three Women (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 24, 2001)
The story of contemporary Indian politics can be written up as an account of the relationship of three powerful women: Ms Sonia Gandhi, Ms J. Jayalalitha and Ms Mamata Banerjee.
- Vajpayee’s Dialogue With Pakistan (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, May 24, 2001)
WILL the forthcoming dialogue between Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan’s Chief Executive Pervez Musharraf be different from such exercises in the past?
- Looking Alright (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 24, 2001)
Mr Tony Blair thinks his landslide victory is remarkable and historic.
- Birendra's Finest Moment (Times of India, Sanjoy Hazarika, May 24, 2001)
IN April 1990, a small demonstration in Kathmandu demanding the restoration of democracy in Nepal was fired upon by security forces.
- Wages Of Maladministration (Hindu, Amrik Singh , May 24, 2001)
THE INDIAN school system is steeped in stagnation. Both its history and its statutory status make this abundantly clear.
- Ambiguities In Law Relating To Auditors (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , May 24, 2001)
SECTION 224 (1B) declares that ``no company or its board of directors shall appoint or reappoint any person who is in full-time employment elsewhere.
- Shrouded Open Secrets (Tribune, D. P. Sabharwal, May 23, 2001)
The armed forces have a mystique of their own. Colourful uniforms, amazing weaponry, interesting games like squash and polo, and fascinating club-life, all contribute to it.
- Bad Old Punjab Police (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 23, 2001)
It is evident from the manner in which the protesters on the Kharar-Morinda highway were manhandled on Monday that personnel of the Punjab Police derive some kind of a vicarious pleasure in the excessive use of force for dealing with any situation.
- Allergies And Slimming Tips (Tribune, Jane Clarke, May 23, 2001)
Research by Prof John Warner at Southampton University shows that it is unfamiliar or exotic foods that are the cause of allergies in an increasing number of children.
- Fruits Of Indiscipline (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 23, 2001)
THE RECENT meeting of chief ministers with central leaders in New Delhi to discuss the WTO agreement on agriculture and problems of food security has led to an impasse.
- Post-Verdict, Introspection Is The Need Of The Hour For Bjp (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, May 23, 2001)
WHATEVER the BJP may say in defence, it has to admit that it has been decimated in the recent state elections. True, the party has had no base at these places.
- Coating Surfaces With The D-Gun (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, May 23, 2001)
SAI Surface Coating Technologies is a small and medium enterprise (SME) parked in the technology entrepreneurship park promoted by the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI).
- Elections And Ethics: The Jayalalitha Case (Business Line, V. K. Srinivasan, May 23, 2001)
THE `appointment' of Ms Jayalalitha as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu following her election as the leader of the AIADMK, which won 133 seats in the 234-member Assembly.
- Apex Court Shows The Way (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 23, 2001)
Law is said to be an ass. There is some substance in this observation. Since interpretation of legal provisions is not only a matter of detail but also of manipulation, those familiar with the system do often make an ass of law.
- Hastening Towards Vat (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 23, 2001)
THE NEAR-UNANIMITY AMONG the States on switching over to the Value Added Tax (VAT) system from next April can at best be seen as a new resolve to clear the sales tax ``jungle'' which has operated against economic progress.
- What The Assembly Verdicts Foretell (Telegraph, SURENDRA MOHAN, May 23, 2001)
The assembly elections for the states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Union territory of Pondicherry have caused great joy within the Congress.
- Balancing Act (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , May 23, 2001)
The planning commission has been at the receiving end of much abuse and criticism.
- Aids To Development (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 23, 2001)
The chief minister of Andhra Pradesh seems to have hit upon a unique method of measuring development in his state. Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu thinks that the rise in the incidence of AIDS in Andhra Pradesh is the result of its high development profile.
- A Gentle Way With Words (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, May 23, 2001)
A week before he died at 95, news of his precarious health began appearing in all our national dailies.
- Ape And Essence (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 23, 2001)
As the Capital reluctantly lays to rest the bizarre spectre of the mythical monkey-man, a number of intriguing questions remain unanswered.
- What They Can Agree On (Hindu, Zia Mian, M. V. Ramana & Hui Zhang , May 23, 2001)
IN AGRA, the Pakistan President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, and the Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, can agree on many issues that would build mutual trust, which is much-needed given the dismal relationship between the two countries.
- Stop Struggling & Become Free (Times of India, Andrew Cohen, May 23, 2001)
MOST people are lost in what seems to be an almost endless struggle.
- There Is No Oasis For The Elderly (Telegraph, P. S. M. Rao, May 23, 2001)
The government, following the economic reforms, has a much reduced role in the problem areas of poverty, unemployment and social security.
- Electoral Eccentricities (Hindu, P. Radhakrishnan, May 23, 2001)
CALL IT eccentricities, aberrations, usurpation of power.
- Use The Homing Instinct (The Economic Times, Arvind Panagariya , May 23, 2001)
CAN the Indian diaspora play the same role in the economic transformation of India that the Chinese diaspora has played in the People’s Republic of China (PRC)? At first blush, the answer would seem to be “no”.
- Of Murder, Parallel Banking & Police Inaction (Tribune, Reeta Sharma, May 23, 2001)
Chandigarh: In a sensational killing, Naresh Mahajan, a young bank officer, was found murdered in his car on October 22, 1998, at Amritsar.
- The Space Sellers (The Financial Express, Iqbal Sachdeva, May 23, 2001)
If advertising is the life blood of a newspaper, space sellers are those articulate men and women who provide the daily blood transfusion to many publications.
- Oil Psus Have Role To Play In Frontier Basins (The Financial Express, Santanu Saikia, May 23, 2001)
UNION Petroleum Minister Ram Naik loves to believe that private sector participation in oil exploration is a huge success. He has reasons to be optimistic.
- China Gets The Attention, But The Returns Are In India (The Financial Express, Philip Segal, May 23, 2001)
China and India each promise markets of more than a billion people. But somehow. China gets all the attention, even though there’s little evidence that it’s more profitable to invest in Beijing than in Bombay.
- Laughing Buddha(deb) (The Financial Express, Sourav Majumdar, May 23, 2001)
After the clear mandate, it’s time for performance.
- Midas Gone Wrong (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 23, 2001)
AS BJP leaders return from Mussoorie after agonising over the recent Assembly elections, they could ask themselves the question: what is the reason that the state parties touched by the ‘blossoming lotus’ came to grief?
- Drugged By Patents (Hindustan Times, Vandana Shiva, May 23, 2001)
THE AIDS epidemic has made evident the fact that the cost of health care and drugs is becoming prohibitive in the entire world as a result of implementing US-style patent regimes.
- Grains Of Truth (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 23, 2001)
Paradox after paradox. That's what you encounter when you survey the food sector in India.
- Good Ambition (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 23, 2001)
A Silicon Valley can’t lack an international airport.
- Why The Cash Reserve Ratio Had To Be Cut (The Financial Express, S. S. Tarapore, May 23, 2001)
Use every possible excuse to lower it further, slowly.
- A Habitat For The Hangul (Indian Express, Mufti Islah, May 23, 2001)
Debate over where the hangul belongs, to Dachigam or Kishtwar?
- The Growing Sino-Pakistan Nexus (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, May 23, 2001)
All Pakistan’s military rulers have invariably professed their commitment to improving relations with India, especially to gullible visitors from India.
- Design For Disassembly -- Vital To Green Manufacturing (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , May 23, 2001)
CONSIDER this: Over 90 per cent of the resources taken out of the ground globally enter the waste stream within months. India, for various reasons.
- Coating Surfaces With The D-Gun (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, May 23, 2001)
SAI Surface Coating Technologies is a small and medium enterprise (SME) parked in the technology entrepreneurship park promoted by the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI).
- Need For Nuanced Diplomacy (Business Line, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, May 23, 2001)
THE word `crisis' in Mandarin is composed of two syllables that stand for `danger' and `opportunity'.
- This Is No War Room (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 23, 2001)
IN A MOVE that is bound to reflect rather poorly on the Centre's decision-making and implementing skills, the port of entry regulation imposed on 300 sensitive items early this month has been withdrawn in less than three weeks.
- What Makes Anti-Technology People Tick? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , May 23, 2001)
`TECHNOLOGY' has become a foul word.
- Amma Knows Best (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, May 23, 2001)
Jayalalitha’s role of a lifetime.
- Elections And Ethics: The Jayalalitha Case (Business Line, V. K. Srinivasan, May 23, 2001)
THE `appointment' of Ms Jayalalitha as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu following her election as the leader of the AIADMK, which won 133 seats in the 234-member Assembly.
- New Delhi’s Bungle In Kashmir (Indian Express, SANKARSHAN THAKUR, May 23, 2001)
Kashmir must truly not be ours, else we wouldn’t feel the need to incessantly chant claims to it from our tank tops: Kashmir hamara hai, Mera Bharat Mahaan.
- Post-Wto Farming (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 23, 2001)
Farmers can’t remain oblivious of the world market.
- Logo Politics (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 23, 2001)
The BJP could lose more than it gains in Manipur.
- Investors Are Looking For Fixed Incomes (The Economic Times, James Mathew, May 23, 2001)
K R Mohan, CEO, Way2Wealth is enthusiastic about the burgeoning retail investment scenario in the country.
- Minus Power Reforms, Forget India’s It Revolution (The Economic Times, Roopen Roy , May 23, 2001)
INFORMATION technology has emerged as one of the big guzzlers of electrical energy.
- Family Feuds (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 23, 2001)
THE FACE-OFF between the Samata Party and the BJP over events in Manipur seems less threatening to the survival of the union government than it initially did.
- The Soul Of The New Consumer (The Economic Times, David Lewis, May 22, 2001)
SHORTLY before midnight of every new leap year, a secret club of Oxford professors gathers and, as the clock strikes midnight, they all start walking backwards in an effort to stop time!
- There’s No Stopping The Demolition Man (Indian Express, Vived Deshpande, May 22, 2001)
Dr T Chandrashekhar’s reputation preceded his arrival in Nagpur as Municipal Commissioner on May 22 last year.
- Messier And Messier (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 22, 2001)
GIVEN THE LEVEL of acrimony and mutual distrust, it is no surprise that Dabhol Power Company chose to issue a preliminary termination notice to the Maharashtra State Electricity Board, initiating the process to invalidate the power purchase agreement.
- For Australian Farm Exporters... -- India Is Big Market And A Bigger Gamble (Business Line, K. Venugopal , May 22, 2001)
THE BANKS of the Yarra river that flows lazily through Melbourne's central business district are home to flocks of sea gulls.
- It’s Not Just Manipur (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 22, 2001)
WHEN Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee became Prime Minister for the first time he coined the highly evocative expression "the dharma of coalition politics".
- Ways Of Seeing (Indian Express, Anita Rana, May 22, 2001)
The village has changed, and so have the villagers.
- Punchy Start To The British Election (Business Line, Premen Addy , May 22, 2001)
MR JOHN Prescott, Britain's Deputy Prime Minister, is neither of agile mind nor of nimble feet.
- Is All Well In Rajasthan? Ask The Government (Indian Express, Sandeep Pukan, May 22, 2001)
DRIVING through the barren mountains and parched lands of Rajasthan, the one question that comes to your mind is: When is the last time it rained?
- Restore Sanity To The System (Telegraph, Abhijit Banerjee, May 22, 2001)
Finally, we come to credit, perhaps the most significant constraint faced by small and new businesses.
- Shgs: Lending's New Avatar (Business Line, Navin Bhatia, May 22, 2001)
THE ALLEVIATION of poverty has for long been the cherished goal of all planners, administrators and decision-makers in India.
- Myanmar's Custodian Of The Buddhist Way (Times of India, Thelma Menezes, May 22, 2001)
SOME years ago, I made a trip to Yangon to visit members of my family.
- The Digital Revolution (Times of India, Rahul Sagar, May 22, 2001)
ALBERT EINSTEIN once said: ``I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.''
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