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Articles 6821 through 6920 of 11444:
- Start Counting (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 15, 2005)
The election results are just a prelude to democracy in Iraq. The country remains a fractious constituency, without any neat political divisions, and trapped between occupation and insurgency.
- Kerala's Sandalwood Mafia (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 15, 2005)
In the face of adverse observations by the judiciary linking him to the sandalwood mafia, Kerala Forests Minister K.P. Viswanathan did the right thing in stepping down
- Moving On From The Metro Mindset (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Feb 15, 2005)
If a new commission is set up to look into Centre-State relations, its mandate should be to demarcate the functions of each, empowering the States to create regions of excellence.
- Averted Showdown (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 15, 2005)
AFTER conjuring up the possibility of a showdown with the Election Commission, Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala has stepped back from the battlefront almost at the last minute.
- Morality Play Comes To Town (Indian Express, Rakesh Shukla, Feb 15, 2005)
THE continuing harassment of Anara Gupta even after the findings by the Central Forensic Lab in Hyderabad nudges us to go beyond the limited issue of whether she is the woman in the CD.
- Bare Life (Telegraph, Ananya Vajpeyi, Feb 15, 2005)
Once again, Syed Abdul Rahman Geelani meets, before his time, in an only half-unexpected fashion, his old friend, Death.
- Reading The Future In Tehran (Indian Express, K. Subrahmanyam, Feb 14, 2005)
Even as the US and Western European countries (UK, Germany and France) are discussing with Iran the need for Tehran to completely abjure its uranium fuel cycle activities
- Tear-Ing Us Together (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Feb 14, 2005)
THE legal wrangle over cricket telecast rights has gone on too long (do you even remember when it began? Last August, just before the Australians kangarooed across the country).
- The Windsor Knot (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 14, 2005)
Prince Charles andCamilla Parker Bowles propose to get married in Windsor Castle in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, where the local council charges a fee of under 300 pounds sterling for a wedding.
- Vague Promises (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 14, 2005)
The prime minister has set out a wish list for different ministries, listing policy changes to be carried out over the next six months. This reflects commitments made in the national common minimum programme.
- A Budget For Public Governance (The Economic Times, U. R. Bhat, Feb 14, 2005)
With the process of budget-making in full swing, the national pastime these days is to give myriad suggestions to the finance minister about some aspect or the other of taxation and government finances.
- A Time For Democracy (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Feb 14, 2005)
Democratic urges are manifesting themselves worldwide. In Iraq the voter turnout was way beyond expectations — of the Americans, the world community
- Low Credibility Of Police (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Feb 14, 2005)
I am surprised at the Delhi police complaint that they were not immediately informed about the attack on Syed Abdul Rahman Geelani, Delhi University lecturer. This is a sad commentary on the credibility of the force.
- Matter Of Uniform Disgrace (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, Feb 14, 2005)
The degeneration of standards in the institutions of power, authority and governance seems to be all-pervasive in the country. It can either be found in the form of disorder in the UP Assembly
- Doing Right By The Nepalese (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Feb 14, 2005)
As of now there seems to be a policy vacuum in New Delhi towards Nepal. An executive monarch, by posing the choice as stability versus Maoist disorder
- Lower Learning (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 14, 2005)
The Supreme Court’s decision invalidating more than a 100 private universities in Chhattisgarh has again highlighted the regulatory disarray in higher education. It is almost as if it is in the grip of Murphy’s law: every wrong step that can be taken will
- Fake Universities (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 14, 2005)
A controversial decision of the Ajit Jogi government in Chhattisgarh had opened a floodgate for private universities in that state, with as many as 112 being registered in one year.
- Fear Not The Fed (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Feb 14, 2005)
Financial markets do not have to fear the Fed. Mr Alan Greenspan has decided that the process of reversal of the US current account deficit is well under way and that there is no need to do anything drastic.
- Can The King Save The Monarchy? (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Feb 13, 2005)
It’s an old palace ploy, they say. By pitting noble notions of democracy against the crime of insurgency, Nepal’s King Gyanendra is simply flexing the muscles of his own sovereignty.
- Riots ’84: The Truth (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 12, 2005)
The victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots have been victimised twice by the Indian State. Whoever may have been responsible for the riots, the state failed to give the victims protection in any substantial measure.
- Is Poverty The Best Policy? (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Feb 12, 2005)
The poor are engaged in a struggle within the hierarchies of poor countries. When the prospects of their succeeding in this struggle are bleak, they willingly accept poverty.
- Why The Taxman Didn't Join The Party At Club Mandap (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 12, 2005)
Among the many dull and lousy cases on tax is an exception: Dalhousie Institute vs Assistant Commissioner, Service Tax Cell.
- A Landmark Victory In Thailand (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 12, 2005)
With the landslide victory of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's Thai Rak Thai party, electoral history has been rewritten in Thailand.
- Breach Of Contract (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 12, 2005)
THE Punjab and Haryana High Court’s directive to the Haryana Government to pay all outstanding dues to the state’s former Lokayukta, Justice I.P. Vasishth, is welcome and needs to be appreciated.
- Critics Beware Rising Passions (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Feb 12, 2005)
“The very name evokes awe and reverence,” writes Sinjita Gupta, translator and compiler of ten short stories by Rabindranath Tagore in a collection entitled Mystic Moods.
- Dismissal Of Democracy In Goa (Hindu, Era Sezhiyan, Feb 12, 2005)
Unless the Governor and the Speaker function justly within the powers assigned to them and cooperate with each other, it is difficult to work out successfully the legislative system.
- Flotsam And Jetsam (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 12, 2005)
The Stella Awards (2005), one may say, have just been announced. These awards were inspired by Stella Liebeck, who in 1992 spilled a cup of McDonald’s coffee onto her lap, burning herself.
- Entry Tax On Earthmoving Machinery (Business Line, Joseph Prabakar, Feb 12, 2005)
Entry tax was first levied by Karnataka in 1979 on certain specified goods. The concept of entry tax on motor vehicles was adopted by certain States to prevent diversion of trade and consequent loss of revenue.
- Test Of Skill (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 11, 2005)
There are two ways to look at the imbroglio over the elections to the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council. Having extended the term of the present council twice, the state government has no option but to hold the elections by March 25
- Kingly Faith (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Feb 11, 2005)
“We’re going to come down on those guys like a ton of bricks,” President Bill Clinton swore that fateful morning in May 1998 on being told that India had exploded a nuclear device in the Rajasthan desert.
- Outrageous Assault (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 11, 2005)
The outrageous attack on S.A.R. Geelani is not merely "disturbing" as the Supreme Court has observed. It also raises the gravest of suspicions.
- Tourists At Kangla (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 11, 2005)
More than a month after the the historic Kangla Fort in the heart of Imphal was vacated of the Assam Rifles and the keys handed over to the state government, the seat of governance of the erstwhile independent kingdom of Manipur has become a major attract
- Importance Of Iraq (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Feb 11, 2005)
In the past week, I’ve received several e-mail notes from Democrats about the Iraq elections, or heard comments from various Democratic lawmakers—always along the following lines
- Goa Mess Only A Symbol (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Feb 11, 2005)
What has gone on in Goa over the last few days is a shame not only on that tiny and notoriously unstable state but also on the country as a whole, especially on its political class.
- Flotsam And Jetsam (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 11, 2005)
The Stella Awards (2005), one may say, have just been announced. These awards were inspired by Stella Liebeck, who in 1992 spilled a cup of McDonald’s coffee onto her lap, burning herself.
- Norms? Only Susegado! (Indian Express, UDAY BHEMBRE, Feb 10, 2005)
Several things have been tarnishing the otherwise fair image of Goa; but nothing causes irreparable damage like the greed for power of politicians who have neither love for democracy nor respect for the Constitution.
- Right Royal Headache For India (Asia Times, Sultan Shahin, Feb 10, 2005)
Though India has not quite made up its mind yet on how it should react to what is being described as a palace coup in Nepal, the contours of a likely response are beginning to emerge.
- Directive And The Nexus (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 10, 2005)
The Union Government’s stand in the Supreme Court on the issue of the Single Directive, even after the Solicitor-General’s admission of an expanding nexus between criminals, politicians and officials
- Lessons In Geography (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Feb 10, 2005)
Vladimir Putin says that Russia backs India’s bid for a permanent seat in the Security Council. “Mapping the Global Future”, the final report of the US National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project....
- A Carnival Of Greed (Indian Express, PETER RONALD DESOUZA, Feb 10, 2005)
Democracy in Goa has indeed been murdered. L K Advani got it right when he said so but, like all things Advani, he spoke only half a truth. For not only should he have blamed Governor S C Jamir for what has happened in Goa
- Contract Enforcement — Whither Time Value Of Money? (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Feb 10, 2005)
Enforcing contracts is not easy. Considering the backlog at courts, private channels have become active especially for the Proprietorship and Partnership sector with relatively low financial flexibility.
- Intelligent Analysis Of International Accounting Standards (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 10, 2005)
Technically reviewed by Liesel Knorr, Secretary General of the German Accounting Standards Board, and written by Barry J. Epstein and Abbas Ali Mirza is IAS 2004, from Wiley (www.wiley.com).
- Iraqi Voters Raise Bush’S Morale (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma, Feb 09, 2005)
The Iraqi voters came out on the polling day to brave bombs and bullets and exercised their right in an election riddled with flaws. Of course, the imperfections of any system presided over by the United States do not get much publicity.
- Pils Beyond The Sugar Coat (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 09, 2005)
After the MMS scandal that hit the mobile phones, we now have the apex court frowning upon unsolicited calls. Thus, in response to a public interest litigation, or PIL, filed by Harsh Pathak
- Stop Intrusion (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 09, 2005)
THE invasion of an individual’s privacy in this computer age, whether on the Internet or the mobile phone, has become so irritatingly common place that a responsive government would have itself pushed some sort of legal protection for the harried citizens
- Defeating The Anti-Defection Law (Hindu, K. V. PRASAD, Feb 09, 2005)
The decision of the Congress to reward two former Bharatiya Janata Party legislators with ministerial berths in the newly-installed Pratapsinh Rane Government in Goa is perhaps the first calculated move by a political party to circumvent...
- Coup Disgrace (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 09, 2005)
Even as the Indian government was busy expressing concern over King Gyanendra’s undemocratic Kathmandu coup, Goa governor S C Jamir administered one himself, ably aided by the Speaker of the House.
- A Simple ‘Sorry’ Will Do (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Feb 09, 2005)
It is quite in order to apologise. I remember, I remember. I remember the pessimistic prophecies of large sections of the media in the US and Britain. “The US will get stuck in a quagmire in Afghanistan.
- Politics Of ‘Criminal’ Cases (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Feb 08, 2005)
It is not at all a heartening feature to see the Leader of the Opposition at the receiving end and more so considering the healthy convention which confers the status of a shadow chief minister on the one who adorns the first but one seat on the first row
- Round And Round (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 08, 2005)
All indications point to a bleak outlook for the ongoing Doha Round of multilateral negotiations. The strongest confirmation of this came at the Davos World Economic Forum where the World Trade
- Framing Of Anara G. (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 08, 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
- Framing Of Anara G. (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 08, 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
- Promises To Keep (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 07, 2005)
In his reply to the debate on the Governor’s address in the Assembly, Karnataka Chief Minister N Dharam Singh has painted a rosy picture of the State’s economy and given assurances on a wide range of both urban and rural projects. Yet, most of them seem f
- Swift Justice For Rape (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 07, 2005)
The public response to the rape of a Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) student in late 2002 was unprecedented. The fact that it took place in the heart of the Capital in daylight seemed to have touched a raw nerve and the spirited
- Trouble In The Neighbourhood (Tribune, H. K. Dua, Feb 07, 2005)
There is trouble in India’s neighbourhood and Dr Manmohan Singh and his government may have to spend time and effort to decide what exactly to do in the evolving solution which is certainly not to its liking.
- No Western Monopoly On Modernity (Hindu, Martin Jacques, Feb 07, 2005)
In his inauguration speech, American President George W. Bush pledged to support "the expansion of freedom in all the world," deploying the words free or freedom no less than 25 times in 20 short minutes.
- Ukraine Democratically Moves West (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Feb 07, 2005)
People with time to count report that the US President, Mr George Bush, mentioned `freedom,' `free' and `liberty' 49 times in his inaugural address to the nation on January 20, when he took the oath of office for his second term.
- Cj Goes To Guwahati (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 07, 2005)
ON the face of it, the transfer of Mr Justice B.K. Roy, Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, to the Guwahati High Court was not unexpected.
- Relief For Tsunami Victims And Human Rights (Tribune, Suhas Chakma, Feb 06, 2005)
The emergency phase of providing relief to the tsunami survivors is over. The difficult task of rebuilding the lives of the communities and individual survivors has begun.
- Stars Of India: The Bling-Bling In The Crown (Washington Post, John Lancaster, Feb 06, 2005)
They wear silk saris, well-cut Nehru jackets and incandescent smiles. They are practiced in the art of air-kissing and social banter.
- Right Royal Headache For India (Asia Times, Sultan Shahin, Feb 05, 2005)
Though India has not quite made up its mind yet on how it should react to what is being described as a palace coup in Nepal, the contours of a likely response are beginning to emerge.
- Seeking The Pardon Of Tax Law (Business Line, H. P. Ranina, Feb 05, 2005)
Can a statement/declaration given under one law to secure pardon be used against the person under the Tax Law for evading or concealing his income?
- No Arms For Nepal (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 05, 2005)
At a time when the direction of foreign policy tends to be set by the strategic calculations of what passes for `national interest' rather than the coordinates of a moral compass, it is commendable that India has chosen to take a clear stand against the c
- The Unbearable Lightness Of Seeing (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Feb 05, 2005)
How agonised we are about how people die. How untroubled we are by how they live.
- Ruling On Compensation (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 05, 2005)
The Supreme Court has rightly directed the railway authorities to pay a compensation of Rs 18 lakh with interest to the family of a passenger who was killed while travelling by the Goa Express due to the faulty vestibule system in October 1995.
- Floor Or Ground' Includes Floor Of The Car Or Vehicle (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 05, 2005)
Matador foam was not too happy that the Central Excise officials were dragging the company all the way to the apex court to unseat a favourable decision of the tribunal on car seats.
- It’S Politics, Stupid (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Feb 05, 2005)
Economic reform has to come through hard politics, not stealth. On telecom, Dr Singh’s govt clears the test
- Fight Dogma With Reason (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Feb 05, 2005)
If the US National Intelligence Council's projections for year 2020 (in its report Mapping the Global Future) are to be believed, the global war on terror is not going all that well.
- Not A State (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 04, 2005)
A reiteration of the obvious is always a sign of prevailing confusion. It is surprising that the Supreme Court, an institution hard-pressed for time, had deliberated and decided whether the Board of Control for Cricket in India constituted a “state” or no
- Partisan Conduct (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 04, 2005)
It is a matter of concern that neither Goa’s Governor S C Jamir nor the Speaker of the Assembly Vishwas Satarkar discharged their duties under the Constitution in a responsible manner.
- Rational Behaviour (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Feb 04, 2005)
It was the première of The Apple Cart at the Old Vic theatre. As the final curtains fell, GBS went up the stage, waves of thundering ovation from all over the hall.
- Mess In Goa (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 04, 2005)
THE dismissal of Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and the installation of Mr Pratapsinh Rane as his successor are mainly a result of Assembly Speaker Vishwas Satarkar’s irresponsible conduct in the House.
- The Reopened Iraq Debate (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Feb 04, 2005)
IRAQ IS back in the headlines, loaded with euphoria. The electoral exercise has been undertaken; the results have yet to be announced.
- Well Done, Mr Bush (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 04, 2005)
One need not be an American to feel stirred by the grandeur of the occasion while watching a US President deliver the State of the Union Address.
- What Next, Guv? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 04, 2005)
L.K. Advani called the Goa governor’s dismissal of the Parrikar government a murder of democracy. The Congress in turn called the way in which the speaker conducted proceedings during the vote on the confidence motion a murder of democracy.
- A Farcical Vote Of Confidence (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 04, 2005)
The sudden political convulsions that gripped Goa have seen the emergence of its 14th Chief Minister since 1990 under circumstances that are bound to be debated fiercely between the main protagonists
- Let's Discuss `Dismiss' (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 04, 2005)
February has begun on a dismal dismissal note. In Nepal, the monarch dismissed democracy; in Goa, dismissal came after a government scraped through a controversial confidence vote;
- A Moment Of Decency (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Feb 04, 2005)
As someone who believed, hoped, worried, prayed, worried, hoped and prayed some more that Iraqis could one day pull off the election they did, I am unreservedly happy about the outcome
- Crisis In Nepal (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Feb 04, 2005)
If electoral democracy was suspended in Nepal in 2002, the sacking of Prime Minister Deuba and the assumption of total autocratic powers by the King now have totally buried any semblance of constitutional governance in Nepal.
- Democracy And Accountability (Pioneer, MN Buch, Feb 04, 2005)
India is a democracy in that there is an elected Parliament and there are elected State legislatures to which the councils of ministers at the Centre and in the states are collectively and individually responsible.
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