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Articles 7421 through 7520 of 11444:
- Market Hegemony And Health (Deccan Herald, Sakuntala Narasimhan, Dec 16, 2004)
On December 16 the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) convenes its final hearing on health care and human rights at New Delhi, to listen to testimonies from real life experiences that will be narrated by citizens and activists.
- Put Up A United Front (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Dec 15, 2004)
It’s not even a free trade area yet, but when it grows up it wants to be just like the European Union. The whole history of the continent is against it, of course, but then Europe’s previous history didn’t leave much room for optimism either.
- A Place In The World (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Dec 15, 2004)
Two unrelated events, separated by several weeks, have reinforced the perception that India’s place in the world in the new millennium is full of promise
- Sena-Nigans! (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 15, 2004)
The subterfuges employed by NCERT to get around its own commitments are indeed disingenuous. Its director, Mr Krishna Kumar, talks of preserving NCERT's autonomy
- Musharraf’S New Strategy (Tribune, M B NAQVI, Dec 15, 2004)
News, newspaper columns and drawing room gossip normally sustain Pakistani politics. These are now being used to sidetrack and divide the Opposition. The Opposition is making preliminary moves to start a mass agitation.
- Land Grab In Shadow Of Wall (Hindu, Chris McGreal, Dec 15, 2004)
Bulldozers were preparing the ground for hundreds of new homes, despite the Israeli Government's claim that it is not expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
- Promotion Muddle (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 15, 2004)
With the Supreme Court ordering the Indian Air Force to re-evaluate the promotions of all six officers, including the four quashed by the Delhi High Court recently, the entire procedure of promotions in the IAF has come under a cloud.
- Preserving Proprieties (Hindu, Ramaswamy R. Iyer, Dec 14, 2004)
There are many questions on the role of the President and the Supreme Court vis-à-vis the project for interlinking rivers.
- Crisis Of Confidence Deepening (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Dec 14, 2004)
The absence of common wavelength between coalition partners has compounded the woes of the Chief Minister
- Punjab On The Mat (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 14, 2004)
THE Punjab Government's decision to remove all the Punjab Police Service (PPS) officers from the posts meant for the Indian Police Service (IPS) officers should be seen in the context of the latter's long fight for justice.
- Towards Saner Road Mobility (Deccan Herald, B V SHENOY, Dec 14, 2004)
Every day multitudes of motor vehicles traverse our roads, burning hydrocarbon fuels and spewing masses of noxious fumes. The streets of Bangalore are clogged with traffic.
- Treaty Shopping — Plugging The Mauritius Loophole (Business Line, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Dec 14, 2004)
The India-Mauritius Double Taxation Avoidance Treaty is under the scanner, with New Delhi keen on re-negotiating some of the controversial provisions.
- Private Sector Job Reservation — Striking The Middle Path (Business Line, P. K. Doraiswamy, Dec 14, 2004)
The principle of job reservation for certain categories cannot, per se, be faulted by anyone with a social conscience. But there are problems in applying such a policy in the private sector.
- A Contentious Report By Un Panel (Tribune, T.P. Sreenivasan, Dec 14, 2004)
BY an unhappy coincidence, the much-awaited UN high-level panel report on “Threats, Challenges and Change” came within hours after the Wall Street Journal carried the opinion of an influential Congressman that Mr Kofi Annan should step
- December Brings Another Reminder (Indian Express, Murlidhar C. Chandare, Dec 14, 2004)
December is a special month in the history of a world that has witnessed some horrific scenes of blood-letting. It was on December 10, 1948, that United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in a bid to make the world
- Erasing The Past (Telegraph, Barun De, Dec 14, 2004)
Park Street is now Mother Teresa Sarani. But if public memory is left to such demagogic mercy, our urban pride will wither away
- Autonomy For Kashmir (Tribune, H. K. Dua, Dec 13, 2004)
With the militants having unleashed a wave of violence and killings in the Valley, the nation was facing a serious situation in Kashmir. Besides deploying the security forces in numbers, the Union government did not know what else to do.
- Corruption Index And India (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Dec 13, 2004)
A first achieved by India in the Global Corruption Barometer survey is the pessimism over the decline of corruption in the next three years or so.
- The Confusion Continues (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 13, 2004)
There is an urgent need for policy that will bring order and clarity to the admissions process for technical education in the country.
- Responsibility (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Dec 13, 2004)
Srisri Jayendra Saraswati Swamigal’s case has seen the most peculiar reactions and they are predictable from a mile away.
- When Linda Was Refused Admission (Indian Express, T. R. Andhyarujina, Dec 13, 2004)
Fifty years ago, in 1952, eight-year-old, Linda Brown, was refused admission to a public school in Topeka, Kansas, because she was Black and the school was reserved for White students.
- Shift Them Out (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 13, 2004)
It has never been a secret that under the successive regimes of Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav and Ms Rabri Devi, jails in Bihar have become sovereign States ruled by 'imprisoned' mafia bosses.
- Democracy Quickening In India, Slowing In West (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 13, 2004)
Charles Taylor has been described as a leading interrogator of modernity. He sees its grandeur. And its malaise — the alienation, sense of impending social dissolution, and what he calls the ‘‘spiritual flatness’’ at the heart of the secular age.
- Giving Terror A Chance (Pioneer, M. C. Joshi, Dec 13, 2004)
On December 9, Parliament repealed the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) 2002 and passed the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill with Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil declaring that "those involved in terrorist activities are also our ...
- Needed, Politics Of Moderation (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 13, 2004)
There are few holidays in coalition governments and as the United Progressive Alliance completes six months in office, we would do well to look at the formations both within the ruling coalition and the Opposition.
- When The Scales Of Justice Tilt Too Far (Indian Express, T S R SUBRAMANIAN, Dec 11, 2004)
The judicial system is in urgent need of reform. Without it India cannot become a competitive economy
- Time To Act Upon An Old Promise (Indian Express, Rajeev Ahuja, Dec 11, 2004)
Why is there a need for an Employment Guarantee Act? This is because the employment guarantee scheme called Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana, which has been in place for a while now, holds the promise to alleviate poverty if the scheme becomes widespread a
- Ten Ways To Fight The C-Word (Indian Express, ARUN DUGGAL, Dec 11, 2004)
The issue of corruption is serious, widespread and increasing by the day. Respected institutions, such as the judiciary and defence forces, which were free of it a few years ago, now seem to be getting increasingly corrupt.
- Reining In The Military (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 11, 2004)
The NHRC should step in to investigate the extent of human rights violations by the security forces in J&K
- Powering Up The High-Power Committees (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Dec 11, 2004)
It was pranklin Delano Roosevelt who said "We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution, not over it. In our courts, we want a government of laws and not of men."
- Bhopal Remembered (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Dec 11, 2004)
Although in the immediate aftermath of the disaster a number of environmental laws were enacted, they are inadequate in content and implementation.
- Agriculture Is No Holy Cow (Business Line, T. N. Pandey, Dec 11, 2004)
THE one issue on which no political party wants to express a firm view is the taxation of rich agriculturists under the income and wealth tax Acts.
- Out In The Cold (Business Line, Joseph Prabakar, Dec 11, 2004)
Excise valuation based on `normal wholesale price' was in vogue till June 2000. The Government thought it fit to replace the wholesale price concept with transaction value, which is a WTO-approved method for Customs valuation.
- Where The Ribbon Got Stuck In The Old Typewriter (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 11, 2004)
We have long forgotten the old and faithful typewriters that had rollers to chug along and inked ribbons to give form to thoughts. To evoke your nostalgic memories, however, is the Kores India Ltd case that the apex court decided recently.
- Ministers By Proxy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 10, 2004)
Wednesday's observation by the Himachal Pradesh High Court that Chief Parliamentary Secretaries and Parliamentary Secretaries are not ministers under Article
- Consumers Unite! (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 10, 2004)
It is a call specially directed to consumers in India, since they are often left in the lurch when they most need help.
- `Logistics, India's Weakest Link In Exports' (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Dec 10, 2004)
Exporters face innumerable infrastructure bottlenecks. Inland movement of goods remains a major obstacle, as exporters are helpless in the face of high cost of transport and inter-State and intra-State barriers.
- Laloo-Paswan Spat (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 10, 2004)
Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav has denied the accusations he had made against Lok Janshakti Party leader Ram Vilas Paswan.
- The Patent Controversy (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Dec 10, 2004)
By rushing through the Third Patents Amendment without proper parliamentary scrutiny, India is short changing its post-Doha obligations to both its own and the world's poor
- Musharraf’S Ploys (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Dec 10, 2004)
A whole lot of political wheeling and dealing is going on in Pakistan to prevent a revolt against the dictatorship
- Women In Love (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 10, 2004)
The Chandigarh police are in a soup. And the Amritsar police have given up. Two young women from the Sandhu Colony of Amritsar, aged 25 and 22, have not only run away together
- The Trial Of A Seer (Tribune, J. Sri Raman, Dec 10, 2004)
From the whodunit and the ‘howdunit’ to the unholy mess of it all — the arrest of Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati has raised a host of issues.
- Jail Houses Rock (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 10, 2004)
On Wednesday, the Patna High Court had the right idea. To source the anarchy that blows through Bihar, it sought a peep into the prisons where powerful dons and petty criminals have been housed, presumably to keep them well isolated from pursuing any misc
- Kill The New Bill (Telegraph, Gyan Pathak, Dec 10, 2004)
The Lok Sabha has finally scrapped the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act, but made way for another controversy in the form of the unlawful activities (prevention) bill.
- Assisting Crime Victims (Hindu, K. T. Thomas, Dec 09, 2004)
The plight of those who suffer when a crime is committed deserves more attention.
- The Number Plate Game (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Dec 09, 2004)
First the good news. Thanks to a judgment delivered last week by the Supreme Court, we will in a few months be fitting our cars — or any vehicle for that matter — with number plates that have a range of security features.
- There’S No Turning The Flow (Telegraph, SAHELI MITRA, Dec 09, 2004)
The Delhi government recently announced that it would impose a levy on groundwater. The West Bengal government too has said that it intends to pass a new law to restrict exploitation of groundwater and create new waterbodies.
- Will Number-Cruncher Networks Display Better Bandwidth? (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 09, 2004)
Firms of chartered accountants are available in all sizes, ranging from the `S' type having only a lone proprietor, to `XXL' such as the operations of MAF or multinational accounting firm.
- In Election Mode (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 09, 2004)
THE three Haryana Bills facilitating municipal and panchayat elections 120 days before the end of a local body’s term have got the Governor’s assent after an avoidable standoff.
- Empowering The Rural Masses (Deccan Herald, KATHYAYINI CHAMARAJ, Dec 09, 2004)
It seems as though the moment which Jawaharlal Nehru had spoken about so evocatively 57 years ago, of India’s “tryst with destiny” and “the time to redeem our pledge”
- Too Rigid To Work (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Dec 08, 2004)
Labour-market rigidities constrain growth in employment. This argument has often been advanced by economists. In the absence of flexible labour markets in the organized sector
- Vultures And Values (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 08, 2004)
For long has the United States been described as a “vulture culture” which is very different from having a few culture vultures, like we do in India.
- The French Socialist Vote (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 08, 2004)
France's socialist party (Parti Socialiste) has voted convincingly in favour of the European Union Constitution in last week's internal ballot.
- The Corporate Road To An Industrial Disaster (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Dec 08, 2004)
Words cannot capture the magnitude of the disaster that struck Bhopal on that fateful night of December 2, 1984. One author describes it as `the Hiroshima of chemical industry.'
- No Fresh Air (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 08, 2004)
Can West Bengal afford to make its students environmentally aware? Those in charge of carrying out the Supreme Court’s directive earlier this year to make environmental studies compulsory in schools and colleges seem to be having a very difficult time wit
- Constitution, Parliament, And The People (Hindu, Somnath Chatterjee, Dec 08, 2004)
Unless we eliminate the nexus between politics and crime and also between politics and religion, the country is in danger of losing its identity.
- Prisoners Of Another War (Telegraph, SANKAR SEN, Dec 08, 2004)
Only greater vigilance and activism of the US judiciary can assure that detainees at Guantanamo Bay get justice
- Remembering Jack Gibson (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Dec 07, 2004)
IT is tragic that the most important reform of the United Nations in recent times should have come at a time its Secretary-General Kofi Annan is in America’s gun sight. Now in his final second term, the man who reached the top after the
- Sc Order On Pappu (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 07, 2004)
THE Supreme Court order for a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the unruly behaviour of Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Pappu Yadav in Patna’s Beur Central Jail on December 1 is timely.
- Strike It Off (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 07, 2004)
Bandh has become a bad word of Indian politics. The awareness of the destructive and wasteful aspects of bandhs has been driven by the judiciary, which has rightly seen a bandh as a coercive instrument that infringes on the freedom of individuals.
- The Long Road To Gender Equality (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 07, 2004)
The bill proposed by the Law Minister, H.R. Bhardwaj, to amend the law to grant women equal rights to Hindu undivided family property will be a significant step in bringing the Hindu law of inheritance in accord with the constitutional principle of equali
- Institutions Must Survive Us All (Business Line, S. Ramachander, Dec 07, 2004)
The emergence of the large, impersonal organisation built on egalitarian contracts between people is a recent development in human history, more so the 20th Century.
- Crucial Vote (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 07, 2004)
While the Ukrainian Supreme Court ruling calling for a repeat of the second round of the presidential election might end for now the massive street protests that have rocked the country over the past fortnight, the political crisis is far from over.
- Earning Trust (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 07, 2004)
Ethnic politics is primarily a quest for identity. It is understandable, therefore, why Mr Thuingaleng Muivah, general secretary of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim, wants “the uniqueness of the history of the Naga people”
- Enforcement Without The Force (Telegraph, N.R. MADHAVA MENON, Dec 07, 2004)
A responsible way to promote higher standards of policing is to professionalize the force and upgrade training
- From One Ancient Civilisation To Another: Stop That Bomb (Indian Express, RYAN FLOYD, Dec 07, 2004)
India could win valuable concessions if it brokers peace between Iran and the West
- In A Make-Believe World (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 07, 2004)
I have known BJP president L.K. Advani from the days he was in journalism. I was then information officer at the Press Information Bureau of the Government of India.
- Prabakaran's Warning — Text And Context (Hindu, V. Suryanarayan, Dec 07, 2004)
Anything the LTTE leader says has to be viewed against his uncompromising commitment to the establishment of a separate, independent state.
- India Shifts Gear On Iraq Policy (Asia Times, Editorial, Asian Times, Dec 07, 2004)
India's relations with Iraq appear poised for transformation, with Iraq's interim foreign minister, Hoshiyar Zebari, scheduled to visit New Delhi this month.
- Weak Dollar Serves The World Right (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Dec 06, 2004)
If American demand can be supported only by a weaker dollar, the rest of the world has no option but to play along, until the costs of that policy become intolerable. Growth has halted in Europe and in Japan.
- Peace Comes Knocking Once Again (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Dec 06, 2004)
Thuingaleng Muivah, the general secretary of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) is given to saying
- Uk Most Conducive For Indian Companies, Says Swaraj Paul (Tribune, Tripti Nath, Dec 05, 2004)
Lord Swaraj Paul, one of the most successful Indians in the UK, is the third Asian to be nominated to the House of Lords.
- What Can President Bush Do In His (Tribune, Maj-Gen Himmat Singh Gill (retd) , Dec 05, 2004)
THE foreign policy contours of President Bush's second term slated for mid-January next year, are beginning to emerge in some detail.
- Dignified Debates (Indian Express, Soli Sorabjee, Dec 05, 2004)
The Indo-Pak student seminar Manzar, organised by Miranda House this week at the IIC, was an enjoyable event. Three students each from the Indian and Pakistani side debated the motion
- Doctor In The House (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 05, 2004)
Perhaps the chief minister of West Bengal has something priceless to give away. The king who searched far and wide for a man who would cure the unsmiling princess of her disease of grumpiness promised the successful healer his daughter’s hand.
- Time To Blow The Whistle (Indian Express, N K Singh, Dec 05, 2004)
Laloo Yadav may have a populist profile but has the reputation to secure what he decides to achieve. Can he reverse the decades of neglect that he inherits in Railways?
- The Key Institutional Weaknesses (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 04, 2004)
At the third `ASEAN + India Summit' held in Vientiane, a few days ago, there was talk of `deepening' of the `partnership'.
- Life After Death (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 04, 2004)
He is not just another victim of the world’s worst industrial disaster. Even two decades on, Abdul Jabbar continues to lend his strident voice to a movement to avert another Bhopal
- Look Around, God Is Everywhere (Indian Express, Teja Shrikant Lele, Dec 04, 2004)
An oblong bit of stone, a smear of vermilion. A few grains of rice came one day, a diya was lit on another. A few days later, the oblong bit of stone was a stone no more: it had attained iconic status. God had been born.
- Media’S Into The Gasp Quotient (Indian Express, Amrita Shah, Dec 04, 2004)
What a salacious few weeks these have been! India’s most powerful corporate duo slugging it out in public. A venerated and elderly religious figure facing allegations of murder and friendly relations with a single woman.
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