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Articles 6921 through 7020 of 11444:
- Illegal Takeover (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 04, 2005)
Political seismologists at the Centre are doubtless hailing the Goa quake. But all right-thinking citizens are prompted to ask whether the Congress's contempt for democratic norms-of which assaults on federalism is only one avatar-has any limits.
- India's Nepal Stand Driven By Concern For Maoist Danger (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Feb 04, 2005)
The principal concern driving the Indian Government's policy towards King Gyanendra is not democracy but how his palace putsch is going to affect the Royal Nepal Army's counter-insurgency operations against Maoist rebels.
- Godhra’S Truth, Again (Indian Express, Ram Punyani, Feb 04, 2005)
Ashok Malik's attempt to find the ‘Truth about Godhra’ (IE, Feb 1), lacks any logic and merely repeats the arguments put forward by Narendra Modi’s politically motivated analysis about the Sabramati coach burning immediately after the incident.
- From Amritsar To Us Congress (Tribune, Roopinder Singh, Feb 04, 2005)
Now a post office in the USA will soon be named after a person from a village that did not even have a school, let alone a post office when he lived there.
- Intending To Outrage (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Feb 03, 2005)
In an earlier column, I began to talk about gender biases in Indian laws, given the background of reports submitted by the task force on women and children and the National Commission for Women
- India And The King (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 03, 2005)
India's Nepal policy just collapsed. Indian policy-makers now need to introspect because Nepal is vital to India's security interests. Nepal should have been a test case for India's ability to cultivate good relations with its neighbours
- Himalayan Blunder (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 03, 2005)
King Gyanendra’s dismissal of the government and his assumption of absolute control over the country is a deadly blow to democracy in Nepal that will plunge the country into a deeper crisis.
- Gained In Transit (Indian Express, D.C. Pathak, Feb 03, 2005)
The smooth return of George W. Bush to the White House in the face of an Al-Jazeera telecast renewing Osama bin Laden’s threat of further attacks on the US will probably weaken the focus on the debatable issues of intelligence raised on 9/11 as also on th
- India's Media Agog Over Ads-For-Equity Gambit (Asia Times, Indrajit Basu, Feb 03, 2005)
It is a move that is being called alternately brilliant and bizarre. Some even call it a coup. Even as India's largest media company - Bennett, Coleman and Co (BCCL)
- Ec Takes It Easy (Pioneer, Amba Charan Vashishth, Feb 03, 2005)
It may be too much to say that the Election Commission is a toothless body. It does have teeth. Occasionally, it also grins. But, of late, the lion in the EC seems to have turned vegetarian.
- Budget Season Or Sorrows? (Deccan Herald, L C JAIN, Feb 03, 2005)
The Budget season has begun. It is time to mind and mend our finances and minimise our sorrows. A critical input is provided by the Twelfth Finance Commission which handed over its report a few days ago to the President of India.
- A Performing Value For Npls (Business Line, Ashwani Puri, Feb 03, 2005)
The existing asset reconstruction company (ARC) framework envisages banks and financial institutions transferring their non-performing loans (NPLs) at "fair value"
- Iraq's Election (Economist, Editorial, Economist, Feb 03, 2005)
Shia Muslims and Kurds have turned out in force for the country’s first elections since the toppling of Saddam Hussein. The insurgents have failed in their bid to wreck the elections, though they are unlikely to go away soon
- The Takeover In Nepal (Hindu, Kanak Mani Dixit, Feb 03, 2005)
It would have been a much more popular and realistic move for King Gyanendra to have brought the bickering parties together at this critical juncture.
- The King Of A Jungle (Indian Express, ARAVINDA R DEO, Feb 03, 2005)
In a country beset with massive poverty the Maoists of Nepal represent mass resentment against economic exclusion. Will Gyanendra be able to address Nepal’s immense problems?
- Straws Of Hope (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 03, 2005)
The level of voter participation in the civic elections in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) provides yet another indication of the changed popular mood in the State, which was first visible during the Assembly elections of October, 2002.
- Nepalis Want Democracy, Not Monarchy (Hindu, Yogendra Yadav, Feb 03, 2005)
The key to the future of Nepal after the dismissal of the Deuba Government and the imposition of Emergency lies in a question that everyone finds difficult to answer at this stage: how would the Nepali citizen respond to this act of the King?
- Money Doesn't Grow On Trees (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Feb 03, 2005)
In the Gospel, according to St. Matthew, is the verse `the tree is know by its fruit.' Promoters of teak and other plantation companies seem to have forgotten this while offering double-digit returns to investors for
- Paswan's Laden In Lalu's Bihar (Pioneer, Kanchan Gupta, Feb 02, 2005)
He prefers the name "Laden", as in Osama bin Laden, because "nobody will remember my real name". The other reason why Maulana Meraj Khalid Noor has opted for this nom de guerre is because he looks like Osama bin Laden.
- Of Aya Rams And Gaya Rams (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 02, 2005)
The tiny state of Goa, no stranger to political flux and uncertainty, has been plunged into yet another crisis with the emergence of doubts about whether the Manohar Parrikar Government continues to enjoy a majority.
- Rise Of Shias In The Arab World (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Feb 02, 2005)
The American-ordered tensely-awaited first countrywide multiparty election in Iraq in half a century, did go through on Sunday despite the insurgents’ attempts to disrupt it.
- Nepal's Palace Coup (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 02, 2005)
By dismissing Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba for the second time in a little more than two years, King Gyanendra has not only acted against the spirit of Nepal's system of constitutional monarchy.
- Why I Say Yes To The No (Indian Express, SAMEER KUMAR, Feb 02, 2005)
I disagree with your contentions expressed in the editorial, ‘Nay Fever’ (IE, Jan 26). You have stated that “middle class dissatisfaction with politics should not be confused with dissatisfaction in general”.
- Route Of Controversy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 02, 2005)
THE Union Government’s decision to disburse the “Rajiv Gandhi Rehabilitation Package for Tsunami-Affected Areas” directly through banks, thereby sidelining the Tamil Nadu Government in the process, violates the federal spirit of the Union.
- The Last Temptation Of Padma (Indian Express, SUMIT CHAKRAVARTTY, Feb 02, 2005)
With historian Professor Romila Thapar turning down the Padma Bhushan award conferred on her on Republic Day this year, the controversy over the acceptance or non-acceptance of these civilian awards announced by the state on such an occasion has once more
- What Lies Beneath (Pioneer, SK Srivastava, Feb 02, 2005)
"Islam has provided women more rights than any other religion. But the ignorance among them renders it impossible to implement the above mentioned provisions...",
- Make It Less Taxing (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 02, 2005)
No law, least of all a tax legislation, is unchangeable especially in a civil society which has found its moorings in a democratic system of governance. But the amendments to the Income-Tax Act
- Deprived Of A Future (Telegraph, Amit Bhaduri, Feb 02, 2005)
The promise of guaranteeing employment to the poor was made in the common minimum programme of the United Progressive Alliance government in power.
- Same-Sex Marriages Against Our Ethos (Tribune, Maj-Gen Himmat Singh Gill (retd) , Feb 02, 2005)
THE Bill on same-sex marriages slated for introduction in Canada shortly raises some disturbing questions on the necessity, legality and morality of the measure.
- A King-Sized Dilemma (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 02, 2005)
By dismissing the government of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, Nepal’s King Gyanendra has added yet another chapter in the tragically repetitive pattern of Nepali politics; a pattern where the monarch appoints a prime minister only to dismiss him with
- Benny Hinn And Dog-Girl Wedding (Deccan Herald, REUBEN DAVID, Feb 02, 2005)
I am appalled as an Indian to read of my country so deeply lost in mindless religious barbarism. While BJP leaders and Hindu seers rant and rave against a Christian prayer gathering
- Duping Biharis (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 02, 2005)
The Congress's "Sonia blitzkrieg" in Bihar, one would have thought, was aimed at organisational resuscitation. Such revival, it seemed logical to assume, presupposed plainspeak about the lawlessness that is the State's lot-mafia running riot, goons snatch
- Exit Of A Savant (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 02, 2005)
Even as a concept the blend of rationalism with spiritualism may sound quite contradictory. But this is precisely what epitomised the persona of Dr Hosur Narasimhaiah who is now just a memory for his innumerable admirers and traducers.
- Iraq: No Vote On Clarity (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Feb 02, 2005)
Elections in Iraq have come and gone, bringing more people out to vote than expected and fairly peacefully too. But in a country whose future continues to be more uncertain than ever
- Drastic Steps (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 02, 2005)
Monarchs are not the best defenders of democracies. By dismissing the government and assuming all powers for three years, Nepal’s King Gyanendra has not only dealt a deadly blow to the country’s fledgling democracy but also put the monarchy itself under a
- Republic Of Fear (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 01, 2005)
Yesterday's election in Iraq should have been a defining moment. For two generations of Iraqis, casting a democratic ballot presented a fitting way to end the cruelty and dictatorship of the Saddam Hussein years.
- Stalemate In Goa (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 01, 2005)
GOA, the little state known for its lovely beaches, is again back to the politics of instability. The fear of defections has always haunted every Chief Minister and the present incumbent, Mr Manohar Parrickar, is no exception.
- The Icra Online Mutual Fund Rankings 2005 (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 01, 2005)
Investors in equity found appreciation in calendar year 2004 both because of the bullish trend in the market and the superior performance of the fund managers in picking up the right stocks.
- Horses Are Left Out (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Feb 01, 2005)
The splendid Beating the Retreat happened last Saturday at the spectacular Vijay Chowk in New Delhi. Sadly, Doordarshan had their worst cameraman filming this event.
- Blast From The Past (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 01, 2005)
Every once in a way a verdict from one court or other indicates how indifferent the justice system is to ensuring substantive equality between men and women. But when the court in question happens to be the highest in the land
- Arms And Votes (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 01, 2005)
Despite the shadow of arms and uncertainty looming large over Iraq, over 60 per cent of the 14 million voters defied insurgents’ bullets to opt for democracy.
- Anti-Federal And Breach Of Faith (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 01, 2005)
The decision reportedly taken by the Central Government, on the recommendation of the Union Finance Ministry, on a "Rajiv Gandhi Rehabilitation Package for Tsunami-Affected Areas,"
- Cast About (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 31, 2005)
To lay bare in one stroke all the joints that creak within the anomalies and suppressions inherent in India’s culture and polity, it needed only one case.
- The Great Game In Central Asia (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Jan 31, 2005)
The American encouragement of velvet revolutions in the former Soviet republics poses a threat to peace and stability in Central Asia.
- Not Too Late To Seize The Day (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Jan 31, 2005)
Isak Chishi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) have come to Delhi armed with the widest possible support of their people to negotiate a permanent settlement of the Naga issue.
- Justice For The Disabled (Hindu, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 31, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has issued orders for opening all non-technical Group `A' and Group `B' Civil Services to the disabled. In addition to enforcing existing legal provisions
- Hail To The Republic, But Also To Richard Gere (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Jan 31, 2005)
This may be a politically incorrect sentiment but the soldiers and the fly past on Republic Day are such a stirring sight, you want to march or fly alongside. The
- Check It Out (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jan 31, 2005)
The media in India is apparently free. But much of the large print media is concentrated in the hands of families. Many are driven by the urge to maximize profits
- Riding The Tiger (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 30, 2005)
The grenade attack on an Awami League rally at Habiganj, Sylhet, on Thursday, which caused the death of a former finance minister of Bangladesh, SAMS Kibria and three others, and injuries to around 150
- Right To Negative Vote (Pioneer, Hari Jaisingh, Jan 30, 2005)
Looking at India's fractured polity and the quality of persons picked up for state and parliamentary elections, I tend to endorse the support extended by the Election Commission to the petition filed before the Supreme Court
- In Honour Bound (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 30, 2005)
Acknowledging excellence, and that alone, is a tough act to follow, year after year. When the state institutes awards for excellence, this becomes doubly difficult, for a government, even in its neutral role, cannot be entirely dissociated from its domina
- Failure To Ensure Democracy And Regional Harmony ... (Tribune, Balraj Puri, Jan 30, 2005)
AS the Government of India has reopened the issue of greater autonomy for Jammu and Kashmir state, it would be worthwhile to ponder over the reasons due to which it could not be maintained.
- Dr Ambedkar And The Constitution (Indian Express, Soli Sorabjee, Jan 30, 2005)
We celebrated the 55th Republic Day and held the traditional Republic Day parade with the usual pomp. My thoughts turned to our Constitution and our founding fathers, particularly Dr B R Ambedkar, the principal architect of our Constitution.
- Country Prisons (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 29, 2005)
It might seem the ultimate contradiction but recent statistics put out by the International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS) indicate that the self-styled ‘Land of the Free’
- Bush's Vision Of Terror-Free World (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 29, 2005)
The US-led grand alliance against terror needs an institutional base, in the form of a Global Network for the Elimination of Terror, with Russia, China, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan and countries of the Arab world and G-7 as members
- Balochistan On The Boil (Tribune, M B NAQVI, Jan 29, 2005)
MOST observers of Pakistani scene are running scared today: many expect the military establishment to order a crackdown on the mainly Bugti tribesmen in Balochistan’s Sui area where “miscreants” had succeeded in damaging the gas purification plant in an a
- Till Elections, Foxes Will Let Poultry Live (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 29, 2005)
Even as the US mourns its `deadliest day' in the land that Saddam bequeathed to Bush, the world watches if Uncle Sam's election gamble in Iraq will pay off. But that may matter little to our netas who are busy
- Thy Kingdom Come (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jan 29, 2005)
I have added two new words to my vocabulary: thearchy and millenarianism. Thearchy (as opposed to theocracy meaning government by priests) means rule by god. Millenarianism is the belief in the end of the world in our lifetime.
- The End Of Truth (Telegraph, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jan 29, 2005)
The timing and manner in which the judge, U.C. Banerjee, disclosed the interim findings of his inquiry into the burning of the train at Godhra have done grave harm to the cause of truth.
- Right Not To Vote (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 29, 2005)
From the point of view of the argument that the right to vote is an extremely precious attribute of Indian parliamentary democracy and that, therefore, the right in question ought to be protected at all cost, it is easy to
- Regional Harmony Lacking (Hindu, Balraj Puri, Jan 29, 2005)
As the government of India has reopened the issue of greater autonomy for J&K state, it would be worthwhile to ponder over the reasons due to which it could not be maintained.
- Rallying Around (Indian Express, S. M. A. Kazmi, Jan 29, 2005)
Spate of rallies and dharnas by almost all the opposition parties during the just concluded Assembly session indicated that state assembly elections are not far away. The main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has got a shot in the
- Protein To Help Stay Lean And Mean, With Less Tax Flab (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 29, 2005)
"Get back to mischief," instructs Pfizers's Viagra site, but what brought the company before the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) was not the blue diamond pill. Instead, the issue was about Protinex and Dumex,
- Politics Of Families (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 29, 2005)
I have written in the past about 'dynastic' control within the political system, and since political and financial control are inextricably linked, the 'virus' has spread to all political parties regardless of their size and status.
- Election And Iraq's Sovereignty (Hindu, Jonathan Steele, Jan 29, 2005)
Stroll, if you dare, along the Shatt al Arab, the fast-flowing waterway that connects Basra to the Persian Gulf, and you come across a sad looking park.
- New Dimension (Hindu, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 29, 2005)
The UPA government’s decision to set up a separate dedicated fund comprising proceeds from the sale of government equities in public sector undertakings (PSUs), whose earnings will finance social schemes and ailing
- Gandhi’S Approval For My Disapproval (Hindu, Khushwant Singh, Jan 29, 2005)
We celebrate Bapu Gandhi’s birthday (on October 2nd) and we pay homage to his memory on anniversaries of his martyrdom on January 30. Of the two, the one of greater significance is the latter, because it sums up our failures:
- `Open To All Interests, Subject To None' (Hindu, M.J. Akbar, Jan 29, 2005)
It might be of some comfort to contemporary newspaper owners to realise that the first newspaper, a weekly called Hickey's Bengal Gazette had a second name, the Calcutta General Advertiser. It was published on January 29, 1780
- Kathmandu Under Siege (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Jan 28, 2005)
If the extremist violence continues in Nepal and economic development remains on the back-seat, India may be faced with a situation of growing Maoist violence in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, coupled with a large influx of Nepalese nationals.
- Killing Of Mlas (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 28, 2005)
The ruthless killing of Allahabad MLA Raju Pal of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh and of Anantapur MLA Paritala Ravindra of the Telugu Desam in Andhra Pradesh typify the rising cult of political and faction-ridden violence today.
- Lawlessness In Bihar (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 28, 2005)
With the third student going missing in Patna in the last one week, and the police reaching no breakthrough in any of the three cases, the law and order situation in Bihar has only gone from bad to worse.
- We Will Not Discriminate Against Ltte-Held Areas: Kadirgamar (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Jan 28, 2005)
A MONTH after the tsunami wrecked two-thirds of Sri Lanka's coastal areas, its Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is of the view that the island-nation's worst recorded natural disaster "has been a spur...
- Politics Of Murder (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 28, 2005)
Events this week reminded us that Indian politics has the potential of degenerating from noisy theatre into violent gang warfare. Two MLAs in states as diverse as Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh were brutally gunned down in broad daylight over the ...
- A Message For Gayoom (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 28, 2005)
There is little that is democratic about parliamentary elections in the Maldives. Political parties are banned. Candidates can contest only as "independents" and cannot campaign.
- Compass Needle On West Asia (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Jan 28, 2005)
The appointment of Chinmoy Gharekhan as special envoy to West Asia has come at a time when the Arabs were beginning to wonder if New Delhi has any views on the extraordinary events taking place in that part of the world.
- Divided By Diversity (Indian Express, Balraj Puri, Jan 28, 2005)
Among the internal causes that contributed to or accentuated the problems the state of Jammu and Kashmir is faced with, most were inherent in its over centralised unitary form of Constitution which has in-built provisions for tensions
- Myths About Spirituality (Indian Express, YOGI ASHWINIJI, Jan 27, 2005)
Spirituality, as the word suggests, is a dimension which dwells in the world of the spirit, the etheric world.
- Towards A Strong Partnership (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 27, 2005)
China and India took a significant step towards their common objective of restoring balance in international affairs by holding their first strategic dialogue.
- War Preparations (Indian Express, Varghese K George, Jan 27, 2005)
Bihar elections always stretch the Election Commission and this one is no different. Besides doubling the central paramilitary deployment compared to the Lok Sabha elections, the commission is also trying other mechanisms for coordinated and fair election
- Spreading Maoist Menace (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Jan 27, 2005)
Nepal's Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh YS Rajasekara Reddy seem to be afflicted by the same malady.
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