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Articles 22621 through 22720 of 25122:
- What The Assembly Verdicts Foretell (Telegraph, SURENDRA MOHAN, May 16, 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.
- Ifci And Market Failure In The Asset Market (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 16, 2001)
THERE is a big debate currently about what to do with IFCI? One needs to evaluate the discussion in the historical backdrop under which IFCI was formed.
- World Disappearing From View (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, May 16, 2001)
IN a democratic polity, the mainstream Press reflects a country’s pecking order in the world and its ambitions beyond its own borders.
- Gift Of A Cheque (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 16, 2001)
India’s oldest political party, the Indian National Congress, has once again taken on a pioneering role in a sphere that has always been under the shadow of notoriety.
- Face To Face With Failure (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindu, May 16, 2001)
THE BJP’s choice of Mussoorie for discussing the poll outcome is a wise one.
- Healing In Kashmir? (Hindu, Rajmohan Gandhi, May 16, 2001)
``EACH TIME I hear footsteps coming towards me, I imagine someone bringing news of peace.''
- The Pm’s Economic Advisors Spelt Apocalypse (The Financial Express, S. S. Tarapore, May 16, 2001)
Following the advice of the prime minister’s Economic Advisory Council (EAC), the finance minister announced, in the union budget, a large cut in interest rates on small savings and provident funds.
- Jaya First Needs To Address Complaints On The Economic Front (The Financial Express, N. Madhavan, May 16, 2001)
MORE than political, economic issues seem to have weighed on the minds of people when they gave an overwhelming mandate to J Jayalalitha and her party, the AIADMK.
- Current Unviability Of Sebs Main Cause For Worry (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 16, 2001)
Following is the Executive Summary of the Report of the Expert Group on the Settlement of SEB Dues submitted by Planning Commission member, Montek S Ahluwalia to the Union minister for power, Suresh Prabhu, on May 11, 2001:
- Two Thoughts On People's Verdict (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , May 16, 2001)
THE OUTCOME of the elections to the five State Assemblies has generally belied the expectations of the opinion and exit polls.
- High And Low (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 16, 2001)
Japan has good news in unlikely quarters. It took eight years, but the crown princess is finally pregnant.
- Different Strokes For Different Folks (The Financial Express, Murali Gopalan, May 16, 2001)
It’s unfair for oil PSUs to continue to market Reliance’s products.
- Why Kerala Is Not Bengal (Indian Express, Amrith Lal, May 16, 2001)
The Long March of Indian communists started from Kerala in 1957. Forty four years later, the march has not covered much distance. They may have won West Bengal for the sixth consecutive term, but Yenan has been lost yet another time.
- Life And Times Of World’s First Commercial Radio (Indian Express, Yochi J. Dreazen, May 16, 2001)
On November 6, 1920, Leo Rosenberg climbed into a wooden shack on the roof of a Westinghouse plant here, picked up a converted telephone mouthpiece and uttered the first words ever carried by a commercial radio station:
- The Hand That Rocked Agp (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 16, 2001)
Samudra Gupta Kashyap analyses why Mahanta lost despite an alliance with the BJP.
- Death Wish (Hindustan Times, Ashok Kapur, May 16, 2001)
WITH THE Indian government succumbing to the new ‘Son of Star Wars’ nuclear paradigm floated by Bush, and with the controversy on the proposed post of the Chief of Defence Staff still simmering, it would be worthwhile to learn a few lessons from the past.
- Dentists In Us Battle Gag Over Warning About Fillings (The Financial Express, Kathryn Kranhold, May 16, 2001)
Dentists are suing state regulators in the US over what they contend is a gag order preventing them from discussing with patients the potential health hazards of the most common form of dental fillings.
- Puratchi Politics (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 15, 2001)
The Tamil Nadu governor Fatima Beevi's decision to invite J Jayalalitha to form the government in the state has put the cat of popular politics squarely among the pigeons of constitutional propriety.
- Imaginary Homeland (Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, May 15, 2001)
Narayan is dead, but his Malgudi lives.
- The Scenario In Its Entirety (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 15, 2001)
THE QUEST FOR cheaper credit to boost the faltering industrial production has come in sharp focus recently.
- Je Reviens: But When? (The Economic Times, Ruchir Sharma, May 15, 2001)
IF YOU are still lusting for the Winter of 1999-2000, hoping tech will do a Je Reviens (I return) then Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ epic tale Love in the Time of Cholera is recommended reading.
- The Wages Of Vendetta (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 15, 2001)
The clock strikes thirteen for the NDA.
- Planning On Third-Rate Ideas (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, May 15, 2001)
This was the week for many to rubbish the Planning Commission. An NRI economist said, perhaps with some justification, that it was a dumping ground for failed bureaucrats, to give them government houses and cars.
- Child Slave Trade Thrives In West Africa (Tribune, Hari Sharan Chhabra, May 15, 2001)
WHILE the complicated adoption law is leading to child trafficking in Andhra Pradesh, which is indeed shocking, the recent reports of child slave trade in West and Central Africa are hurting the conscience of mankind.
- Welcome, Astrology (Tribune, D. R. Sharma, May 15, 2001)
MY Webster hurts me when it defines astrology as “a pseudo-science claiming to foretell the future by studying the supposed influence of the relative positions of the moon, sun, and stars on human affairs”.
- Haryana To Check Migratory Cattle From Rajasthan For Foot-And-Mouth (The Financial Express, C. R. Rathee, May 15, 2001)
Cattle-herd from the drought-hit districts of Rajasthan have once again started migrating towards Haryana, via Narnaul and Rewari districts, in search of fodder and water.
- On The Right Side Of History, For A Change (The Economic Times, Indrani Bagchi, May 15, 2001)
REMEMBER the time when bricks-and-mortar papas and mamas shuddered at Generation X tramping off to spend unspeakable hours with a computer and using ones-and-zeroes to carve out entire careers?
- Balancing Act (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , May 15, 2001)
The planning commission has been at the receiving end of much abuse and criticism.
- Goodbye To The Guide (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 15, 2001)
A FEW hours after his death on Sunday, the BBC called him a great writer but R K Narayan always saw himself as just a story-teller.
- Aids To Development (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 15, 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.
- Task Force On Pharmaceuticals Keen To See India As Global R&d Destination (The Financial Express, Sanjay Sardana, May 15, 2001)
Radical changes recommended by the task force on pharmaceuticals and knowledge-based industries will have a far-reaching impact on the industry.
- Why Poll Jyotishis Get The Seats Wrong (Indian Express, Ajit Kumar Jha, May 15, 2001)
Statistics is like a bikini clad person, it reveals the uninteresting, but hides the significant.
- Foreign Affairs (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, May 15, 2001)
As they savour the sweet, sweet taste of victory, good neighbourliness must be farthest from the minds of the victors in Tamil Nadu, Assam and West Bengal. But real life has a curious way of intruding into celebratory moments.
- There Is No Oasis For The Elderly (Telegraph, P. S. M. Rao, May 15, 2001)
The government, following the economic reforms, has a much reduced role in the problem areas of poverty, unemployment and social security.
- A Gentle Way With Words (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, May 15, 2001)
A week before he died at 95, news of his precarious health began appearing in all our national dailies.
- Power Problems Haunt Even The Powerful (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 15, 2001)
SO FAR, it appears that the US economy is weathering the economic slowdown pretty well.
- What The Assembly Verdicts Foretell (Telegraph, SURENDRA MOHAN, May 15, 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.
- The Growth And Exports Chemistry Can Do Wonders By 2010 (The Financial Express, Kalyan Raipuria, May 15, 2001)
A closer and dispassionate view of further direction of economic reforms and liberalisation for growth can be facilitated if a quantitative perspective of growth and trade in the years to come is considered in the light of performance in the last decade.
- Jaswant's Pax Americana Doctrine (Tribune, P. Raman , May 15, 2001)
THE rather ironical part of Jaswant Singh's hasty endorsement of US President George Bush's NMD system has been that it comes in the wake of the third anniversary of the Pokhran blast.
- Clean Contributions (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 15, 2001)
State funding is necessary but not sufficient.
- Neglect Of Industry (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, May 15, 2001)
IT IS difficult to recall when in the past decade there was a thicker pall of gloom enveloping the economy than today.
- Beauty And The Beast (Hindu, Asma Khan, May 15, 2001)
I know the colour rose and it is lovely,
- Reversing Slowdown Of Development (Tribune, Sucha Singh Gill, May 15, 2001)
PUNJAB and Haryana had remained star performers for many years following the Green Revolution ushered in the mid-sixties.
- Lost In Corporate Language (Business Line, Chitra Phadnis, May 15, 2001)
JOURNALISTS have a lot of catching up to do on the constantly changing corporate language.
- Mandate For Change (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 15, 2001)
THE PEOPLE HAVE signalled a thumbs down for the rulers in all the States that went to the polls last week, except West Bengal, where the Left Front has been voted back to power for a record sixth time.
- From Food-For-Work To Fight-For-Work (Hindu, Jean Dreze, May 15, 2001)
NUKSAAN ZYADA aur raahat kam (more hardship and less relief).
- Enter The Rising Sun (Hindustan Times, Ashok Ashta, May 15, 2001)
THE TRAGIC earthquake in Gujarat made headlines in the Japanese media, and rightly so.
- Mixed Signals On The Economy (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 15, 2001)
WHILE INDIA is getting kudos from the World Bank and the IMF for its economic performance, the scene is not all that rosy.
- Beyond Big Science (Hindustan Times, Avijit Pathak, May 15, 2001)
WITH THE GSLV-D1 launch, India has entered into a multi-billion dollar commercial satellite launch business.
- Cng: A Cost-Effective Alternative (Business Line, P. P. Sangal , May 15, 2001)
A STRONG debate is going on over the use of CNG as an alternative fuel for public transport in Delhi in the wake of the Supreme Court order to replace diesel-driven vehicles by CNG vehicles.
- The Missile's Message (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 15, 2001)
TUESDAY'S SUCCESSFUL TESTING of a supersonic cruise missile in collaboration with Russia should be hailed as a leap forward in India's defence effort.
- Fixing The Cricket Fixers (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 15, 2001)
THE International Cricket Council could not have picked a better person than Sir Paul Condon, former head of Scotland Yard, for getting at the bottom of the match-fixing controversy.
- Indian Islam Shares Our Common Heritage (Times of India, Jamal Ahmed Khan, May 15, 2001)
THERE has been a clamour for the Indianisation of Islam - based on the wrong premise that Islam and Hinduism are incompatible and so cannot co-exist.
- Sino-Us Economic Relations -- Will They Break Or Make? (Business Line, B. Raman , May 15, 2001)
FOR the post-1979 Chinese leadership, military strength is only one component of national security. There are other equally important elements such as economic strength and technological capability.
- Vajpayee Under Pressure (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , May 14, 2001)
WHATEVER the outcome of the recent State Assembly elections, there is little doubt that the Vajpayee Government is under some pressure right now.
- Kenyans See Green And Red Over Forest (Indian Express, Mathew Green, May 14, 2001)
Kaptagat (Kenya): A man whirls a whip round his head and brings the lash down hard on a Kenyan youth clad in a ‘‘Save our Forests’’ T-Shirt.
- Polls Apart (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 14, 2001)
As in the case of divinity, sometimes the will of the people works in mysterious ways.
- Reprieve For Congress (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 14, 2001)
THE waiting is over and the verdict is in. The Congress has two more Chief Ministers and if there is a miracle, even Pondicherry may join Kerala and Assam to anoint the party.
- Stock Exchanges Should Not Be Run Like Grocery Shops (The Financial Express, G. S. Patel, May 14, 2001)
Stung for being in the spotlight, accused of being a part of the problem.
- It's Essential To Bring Pc Prices Down (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 14, 2001)
TAIWAN-BASED Via Technologies, a leading supplier of chipsets and microprocessors, is eyeing the Indian market with elaborate plans to launch 'entry-level' PCs at an amazing price of around Rs 10,000.
- Forget Pump-Priming (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 14, 2001)
IT’S happened so often in the past that by now it’s rather like the story of the boy who cried wolf — no one takes the government very seriously any more when it talks of kick-starting the economy.
- Obstructing Parliament’s Proceedings Is Anti-Constitutional (The Financial Express, M. R. Mayya, May 14, 2001)
The action of any party or group of parties to physically obstruct proceedings in Parliament, which is the sanctum sanctorum of the nation’s most prized possession of democracy, is not only totally undemocratic but also wholly unconstitutional.
- The Political System Needs To Be Partially Funded By The State (The Financial Express, Rahul Bajaj, May 14, 2001)
WITH five assembly elections behind us, this is as good a time as any to consider the issue of financing the political system.
- Boosting The Economy (The Financial Express, Saumitra Chaudhuri, May 14, 2001)
A perilous proposition — siren song wrecks ships.
- The Three Deadly Sins Of Uti (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, May 14, 2001)
It’s now up to the Joint Parliamentary Committee to fix responsibility.
- Balancing Act (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , May 14, 2001)
The planning commission has been at the receiving end of much abuse and criticism.
- Aids To Development (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 14, 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.
- Banking On Fdi In Banks: Are You Kidding? (The Economic Times, Mythili Bhusnurmath, May 14, 2001)
THE MARKET has given its verdict. It's thumbs up for bank stocks after last Wednesday's surprise announcement of a sharp increase in the limit for foreign direct investment in banks.
- Pakistan As A Bridge State? (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, May 14, 2001)
HAVING APPOINTED himself the President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf arrives here next month as the all powerful leader of Pakistan.
- Contempt Power - I (Hindu, V. R. Krishna Iyer , May 14, 2001)
A VAGARIOUS branch of judicial jurisprudence, popularly known as contempt power, of ancient British vintage and regal mintage, has incarnated as part of the corpus juris of free India, with some constitutional sanction.
- The Not-So-New Economy In The Us (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , May 14, 2001)
WELL, either the cookie is crumbling or, one might say, it is just chipped at the edges. One is referring to the US non-farm productivity figures for Q1, 2001 released last week.
- Money Greases Democracy (Indian Express, Rahul Bajaj, May 14, 2001)
The political system needs to be partially funded by the state.
- Commissions Of Enquiry And Jpcs (Tribune, Darshan Singh Maini, May 14, 2001)
THE entire question of the commissions or courts enquiry and of the JPCs (Joint Parliamentary Committees).
- There Is No Oasis For The Elderly (Telegraph, P. S. M. Rao, May 14, 2001)
The government, following the economic reforms, has a much reduced role in the problem areas of poverty, unemployment and social security.
- Earthquake Relief (Times of India, Aditi Kapoor, May 14, 2001)
WHEN the first rains lash the earthquake-stricken areas of rural Gujarat, many people may not be able to run for cover.
- The Disappearing Sex (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 14, 2001)
In a popular cellular telephone TV commercial, an emergency delivery takes place in a football stadium under a makeshift tent.
- A Gentle Way With Words (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, May 14, 2001)
A week before he died at 95, news of his precarious health began appearing in all our national dailies.
- What The Assembly Verdicts Foretell (Telegraph, SURENDRA MOHAN, May 14, 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.
- From Jogi To The Hindujas (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 14, 2001)
IT DID NOT end the way it began. The Balco issue showcased itself as a big political tug-of-war, rarely witnessed between a State Government and the Centre on an economic reform programme.
- Exit: The Polls (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, May 14, 2001)
Since 1998, Indian broadcasters have honed and almost perfected their skills in the art of poll coverage.
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