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Articles 5221 through 5320 of 11444:
- Shot In The Foot (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Oct 24, 2005)
The author is former director-general, National Council for Applied Economic Research
- Slow Foxtrot With India (Dawn, M.P. Bhandara, Oct 23, 2005)
GIVEN our roller-coaster relationship with India, most people are curious if the current ‘Slow Fox Trot detente’ will lead to a settlement on Kashmir.
- Carrot And Stick Policy (Daily Excelsior, Arun Nehru, Oct 23, 2005)
The first phase of the Bihar poll starts and 57 seats go to the polls and nothing reflects the 'fragmented' vote better than the last result where the RJD won 23 seats, the JD[U]/BJP 18 and the LJP 9.
- The Enigma Of Values (Dawn, Anwar Syed, Oct 23, 2005)
SOME three weeks ago, a gentleman who is a member of the Human Rights Commission in Pakistan sent me the following account of an incident that had occurred in a village called Bhila Hithar (Kasur district).
- It’S Our Right (Statesman, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 23, 2005)
The conduct of the West Bengal government in taking steps to implement the Right to Information Act has been akin to that of a reluctant child on the first day of school
- Facts, Not Merely Fax (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Oct 22, 2005)
T. C. A. Ramanujam on a case where the valuables carried by an individual were seized based on inadequate information
- An Invidious Move To Tax Knowledge (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2005)
It is not uncommon for the bureaucracy framing subordinate legislation in the form of rules and circulars to seek to change, and go beyond the reach of, the law as originally envisaged by Parliament.
- Quakes, Quirks And Kashmir! …… (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Oct 22, 2005)
I am afraid I will have to return to my last week's theme of how or why all Congressmen, even those who have remained out of power for the past decade or so, continue to believe in the their divine right to rule.
- Quake Rocks Everything Minus Cong Culture (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Oct 22, 2005)
I am afraid I will have to return to my last week's theme of how or why all Congressmen, even those who have remained out of power for the past decade or so, continue to believe in the their divine right to rule. It has nothing to do with Sonia Gandhi's
- Centre Wants Divestment By Private Sector Too (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2005)
Financial sector reform to get top priority, says Chidambaram
- Motor Vibrator Regulating The Flow Into A Screw Feeder (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 22, 2005)
What is usually a simple thing for most of us is often complex for the taxman. One such problem was about `motor-vibrator with actuator', that came up in the Western India Plywoods Ltd vs Collector of Customs, Cochin case. Interestingly, . . .
- Threat To Nepal (Statesman, J R Mukherjee, Oct 22, 2005)
Nepal, sandwiched between India and China has a population of 27,070,666.
- Iraq’S Miracle Constitution (Dawn, Reza Aslan, Oct 22, 2005)
Even before Iraq’s constitution was ratified, dire predictions were being made that it would pave the way for the creation of an Islamic theocracy. But whatever problems the new constitution poses for the future of Iraq, the role of Islam in the state is
- Does India Have A World-View? (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Oct 22, 2005)
US Under Secretary of State Nick Burns is in New Delhi at an important period in the context of the July 18 Indo-US agreement on nuclear co-operation. He will, of course, answer a host of questions, not least a formidable list furnished on September 26 by
- On Record (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 22, 2005)
We will allow the relief goods. Yes I will allow Kashmiris. But we have to formalise the methodology. I mean, it cannot be free for all. But we would like to encourage it. — President Pervez Musharraf, a day after Pakistan offered to open the LoC . . .
- Political Pollution (Statesman, Jagmohan , Oct 21, 2005)
Is the Indian President nothing but a robot according automatic approval to every resolution that his Council of Ministers submits to him? Is he totally helpless in stopping the dirty games to which our politicians sometimes resort?
- Why Didn’T The Quake Move Us? (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, Oct 21, 2005)
A standout feature of the recent earthquake in Kashmir has been the deafeningly mute response from Indian civil society to the plight of the affected. Ten months ago, when the tsunami struck the east coast, business houses, media outfits and NGOs were....
- Indian Awarded World Food Prize (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 21, 2005)
Indian scientist Modadugu V Gupta has been awarded the prestigious World Food Prize for year 2005 for developing a low-input, high-yield aqua-culture technique for the rural people of Asia.
- Bold Initiative Towards Indo-Us Partnership (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Oct 21, 2005)
US Undersecretary Nicholas Burns is to have discussions with Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran today to discuss the implementation schedule for mutual commitments under the civil nuclear agreement.
- Does India Have A World-View? (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Oct 21, 2005)
US Under Secretary of State Nick Burns is in New Delhi at an important period in the context of the July 18 Indo-US agreement on nuclear co-operation.
- Fears Of Irregularities In Constitution Vote (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Oct 21, 2005)
Figures are a matter of concern, says official
- India, China And Asean — Competing, Complementing, Cooperating (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 21, 2005)
Accounting for half the world's population but less than a tenth of global income, China, Asean and India are the emerging economic powerhouses. But India has a lot of catching up to do, both in matters economic and social. Mohan Guruswamy mak es a . . .
- No Sense Of Shame (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 21, 2005)
At Least about the weather, everyone talks about it though no one does anything about it. About corruption, which bids fair to become a shameless way of life, nobody finds any need even to talk about it, let alone do something about it.
- In A New Court (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 21, 2005)
Histrionics are an important part of a dictator’s equipment. So even during his appearance in the courtroom for the first time for his trial, Mr Saddam Hussein sought to be dramatic, striving to create the larger-than-life figure of a hero unvanquished...
- India's Iaea Vote Helped Gain Support For Nuclear Deal, Says Us Official (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2005)
On the eve of his visit to New Delhi, US Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns has said that with India voting in favour of the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] resolution on Iran's nuclear programme,
- After The Verdict By Subroto Roy (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 20, 2005)
The last and only time a Head of State of India “resigned” was when Edward VIII (uncle of the present Queen of England) abdicated in 1936 because he wished to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American, and the British Government under Stanley Ba
- Prevailing Myths About Maths (Deccan Herald, Jagdish R Malhotra, Oct 20, 2005)
Age-old elitist prejudices against maths have made it appear unattainable to many and frustrating to others
- Ricoh To Develop Software In Eight Indian Languages (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2005)
Japanese office automation major — Ricoh Company Ltd, will develop software in eight Indian languages for schools and is looking at a turnover of Rs 172.5 crore from its Indian operations this fiscal.
- Japanese Jingoism (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 20, 2005)
Signs of rise of militant nationalism in Japan have alarmed China and South Korea
- One Half Of The Red Sky (Telegraph, NEHA SAHAY, Oct 20, 2005)
Where in the world would you expect to find a rule which says that women applying for a job must have symmetrical breasts? Not in the US where breasts are flaunted from every billboard, not in Thailand where women contribute to the national economy
- I Do Not Respond To This So-Called Court, Asserts Saddam Hussein (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Oct 20, 2005)
Co-defendant challenges prosecution; trial adjourned to November 28; protest in Tikrit
- Special Adoption Law Needed (Deccan Herald, Vishal Arora, Oct 19, 2005)
By not recognising the right of minorities to adopt, the Govt violates their right to equality before law
- Murder & Militancy In A Shaken State (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 19, 2005)
In carrying out attacks that resulted in the death of a State Minister and several others even as the Government of Jammu and Kashmir was trying to cope with the fallout of the October 8 earthquake, the terrorist groups have once again demonstrated ...
- Iraqis Indifferent To Trial Of Saddam Hussein (Hindu, Rory Carroll , Oct 19, 2005)
Sunnis see the prosecution by "kangaroo court" as a Shia stratagem
- Beyond Repair? (Dawn, Hafizur Rahman, Oct 19, 2005)
Even the most recalcitrant group in Pakistan — be it political, social, economic or administrative — is willing to listen to wise counsel of some kind in some circumstances. But I always wonder why government leaders waste their time by giving advice ....
- Third-Party Certifying Ngos — A Blow To Wto's Hong Kong Ministerial? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Oct 19, 2005)
The rich nations appear to have shifted serious business from the WTO ministerial negotiating table to a forum of third-party certifying NGOs. The Singapore agenda is back even before headway is made in the matter of respecting the national . . .
- Mumbai's Happiness And Hardship Index (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Oct 19, 2005)
INDIA is home to the fourth happiest group of people in the world. Only the Australians, the Americans and the Egyptians are happier than us.
- Nuggets Of Judicial Wisdom (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 19, 2005)
"The most vital `community need' at present is the reversal of the environmental degradation. There are virtually no `lung spaces' in the city. The Master Plan indicates that about 34 per cent of recreational areas have been lost to other uses," ...
- The Post-Modern Woman (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Oct 18, 2005)
Louise Story wrote a front-page story in New York Times of September 20. She began with Cynthia Liu, a bright female student of Yale who expects to do law and then stay at home and become a mom.
- ‘Yes’ Vote In Iraq (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 18, 2005)
Even though the official results in Iraq’s referendum will take some time to come, all indications are that the constitution has been approved by the Iraqi people.
- Movement Of Capital And Labour (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 18, 2005)
While the rich countries are all for the free movement of capital, they block the free movement of labour
- No Respect For The Pm? (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
Everyone in the Congress knows that Manmohan Singh holds the office of prime minister thanks to supreme leader Sonia Gandhi.
- People’S Welfare (Statesman, AK BASU, Oct 17, 2005)
The Right of Citizens to Information has come into operation. Withholding information from natives suited the rulers of India before 1947.
- Women’S Inheritance: Next Steps (Indian Express, BINA AGARWAL, Oct 17, 2005)
The livelihood and empowerment prospects of millions of women who depend on agriculture for survival are affected by their legal rights in land.
- India Gives Equal Rights To Minorities (Daily Excelsior, Uma Shankar Joshi, Oct 17, 2005)
India is the second most populous nation in the world and its dimensions are sub-continental.
- Proposal For A 'Police Mission' (Daily Excelsior, Uma Shankar Joshi, Oct 17, 2005)
India is the second most populous nation in the world and its dimensions are sub-continental. For as long as one can remember it has been a plural society.
- Last Mile Problems With The Nagas (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Oct 17, 2005)
After eight years of cease-fire, the Naga peace process has finally started making some progress.
- Divisions In Sunni Ranks (Hindu, Peter Beaumont, Oct 17, 2005)
Many in Iraq's minority feel that after boycotts the time is ripe for compromise. That is why some voted for the constitution on Saturday.
- Child Labour (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 17, 2005)
Child labour is a vexed issue, since it is seen to be utterly destructive of human potential.
- No Respect For The Pm? (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
Everyone in the Congress knows that Manmohan Singh holds the office of prime minister thanks to supreme leader Sonia Gandhi.
- Bush Urges Iraqis To Defeat Terrorism In Their Homeland (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2005)
Observing that Iraq's national Constitution referrendum is a "critical step forward", US President George W Bush today said the vote would help usher in democracy in the war-ravaged nation.
- Bush Says U.S. "Will Not Run" From Iraq (Reuters, Caren Bohan, Oct 16, 2005)
President George W. Bush vowed on Saturday that the United States "will not run" from Iraq as it did from Vietnam, as he welcomed voting on a new Iraqi constitution and called it step forward for democracy.
- Crusader On Foreign Origin Issue (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Oct 16, 2005)
In the weird world of politics, morality and ethics have been the biggest casualty and rare are persons who hold on to these values.
- The Year Of The Novel (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 15, 2005)
Two thousand and five deserves to be flagged as an exceptional year for British and Commonwealth fiction (with one literary critic characterising it as "the richest year since the launch of the Man Booker Prize in 1969").
- An Encroachment Into Space And Time (Business Line, S. Sridharan, Oct 15, 2005)
S. Sridharan on how the new noise on advertising service may traverse the legislation
- Tales Of Horror From The Belly Of The Beast (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2005)
Anti-Veerappan operations were not merely of bravery of uniformed personnel and the exploits of the bandit. The seamier side was laid bare by poor villagers.
- Who Is Winning The War On Terror? (Dawn, Mustafa Malik, Oct 14, 2005)
WAEL Abdul Latif, a Shia member of the Iraq constitutional committee, fears that he may have participated in the disintegration of his country.
- Nsc Irrelevance (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 14, 2005)
The Frontier Chief Minister, Mr Akram Khan Durrani, attended the National Security Council meeting held in Islamabad on Wednesday.
- Propagate Gandhi's Views On Hinduism (Daily Excelsior, Jagmohan , Oct 14, 2005)
On Gandhi's birthday (Oct 2), instead of going round the 'Samadhis' and attending prayer meetings ritualistically, . . .
- Mishandling The North-East (Tribune, Maj-Gen Ashok Mehta (retd), Oct 14, 2005)
MOST of our policy-makers have little sense of history and even less of geography. Otherwise, the North-East of the country would not languish in a state of neglect.
- Let New Ideas Flowmalvika Singh (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 14, 2005)
I have never been able to comprehend why India makes the straightforward things of life, living and work so complicated.
- Animal Sacrifice At Its Peak In Orissa (Deccan Herald, S T BEURIA, Oct 14, 2005)
Thousands of innocent animals have been brutally killed in the name of sacrifice during the Dussehra festival in Orissa despite protests from animal protection groups and animal rights activists.
- How To Shuffle (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2005)
It would be naive to expect Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to drop his tainted ministers in the course of the impending Cabinet reshuffle, more so since the UPA government appears to have decided to brazen it out in the Bihar dissolution case despite the
- Sc Reverses Hc Order On Power Dispute (Business Standard, M J Antony, Oct 13, 2005)
The Supreme Court last week set aside the judgment of the Allahabad High Court, which had held that the UP State Electricity Board and the co-operative units buying power from it were public sector undertakings and therefore they should settle . . .
- Waiting For A Messiah. Will He Come! - Ii (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 13, 2005)
They need us, our help, our support and everything that we can offer, Tanvir Sadiq narrates his emotional encounter with lepers
- Independent Directors And Vicarious Liability (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Oct 13, 2005)
Independent directors are invited to sit on the board purely for their special skills and expertise in particular fields and they represent the conscience of the investing public.
- Test For East And West (Telegraph, Salman Rushdie, Oct 13, 2005)
The work room of the writer Orhan Pamuk looks out over the Bosphorus, that fabled strip of water which, depending on how you see these things, separates or unites — or, perhaps, separates and unites — the worlds of Europe and Asia.
- Open Government Law To Raise Accountability (Business Standard, T N C Rajagopalan, Oct 13, 2005)
The Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI) will come into full effect on October 12, 2005. How will RTI make life easier for importers and exporters?
- Bridging The Turkey-Eu Divide (Dawn, Syed Mohibullah Shah, Oct 13, 2005)
THE accession talks for Turkish membership to the EU that began last Monday have a significance that goes far beyond the borders of Europe.
- Iqbal And Jinnah (Greater Kashmir, Jinnah, Oct 13, 2005)
Bilal Ahmad writes about the coherence of a concept laid down by Iqbal and upheld by Jinnah
- Existential Crisis Of Pakistan (Daily Excelsior, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 13, 2005)
Pakistan’s accentuated existential crisis has made historians to write new books for school students, distorting the basic facts that the Islamic Republic was ever a part of India.
- Storm Over The Man Booker Prize (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Oct 13, 2005)
The history of the Booker Prize is full of bad choices.
- Test For East And West (Telegraph, Salman Rushdie, Oct 12, 2005)
The work room of the writer Orhan Pamuk looks out over the Bosphorus, that fabled strip of water which, depending on how you see these things, separates or unites — or, perhaps, separates and unites — the worlds of Europe and Asia.
- Red-Faced Leaders In New Delhi (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Oct 12, 2005)
The Congress high command has to decide how much longer it can tolerate Laloo who treats Bihar as his fiefdom
- Bjp Into The Political Twilight? (Frontline, Praful Bidwai, Oct 12, 2005)
IF proof were at all needed that the Bharatiya Janata Party can no longer summon up a half-way cogent response to major events of the day, then recent developments provide it in ample measure.
- Anti-Majoritarian, Pro-Globalisation (Frontline, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 12, 2005)
IN 2001, Madhu Purnima Kishwar, an activist and academic, published in Manushi, a periodical from New Delhi, two articles, one dealing with the working conditions of rickshaw-pullers in the capital and the other about street vendors whom she had made a fi
- The Temblor's Footprint (Indian Express, Arun Bapat, Oct 12, 2005)
Every natural calamity has some new lesson to teach us. The last two - the tsunami of December 26, 2004, and the heavy flooding of Mumbai on 26th July this year brought their own insights.
- Why Osama Roams Free: South Asia Could Soon Face Its Biggest Ever Crisis (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Oct 12, 2005)
The Supreme Court judgment on the Bihar Assembly dissolution compels far-reaching systemic changes.
- A Momentous Vote Ahead (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 11, 2005)
IRAQ stands less than a week away from a momentous vote on a new constitution, the first of a series of events that in the next several months will make or break the US-backed attempt to unite the country under a new political system.
- Understanding The Emerging Media Ecology (Hindu, Sashi Kumar, Oct 11, 2005)
With both technology and the advertiser sorting the vast amorphous viewership into tiered and profiled purchasing power segments, a fragmentation takes place that may actually work against dumbing down.
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