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Articles 9621 through 9720 of 11444:
- Denness' Mens Rea (Pioneer, Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Nov 22, 2001)
Dear Uma Bharatiji - Today a proud and free citizen of a free India is compelled to write this open letter for your urgent intervention to save India from the clutches of the ICC.
- Should Octroi Go? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 22, 2001)
The Punjab and Haryana High Court, in a ruling on Monday, cleared the way for the Punjab Government to abolish octroi.
- Sense On Poto (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 21, 2001)
The readiness shown by the government to have a re-look at the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (Poto) bodes well for its early passage.
- Nation Doesn’t Need Draconian Laws (Tribune, V. Eshwar Anand, Nov 21, 2001)
TERRORISM may have acquired a new dimension after the attacks on New York’s World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon in Washington on September 11.
- Radical Changes In Suffrage (Pioneer, Anuradha Bhattacharjee, Nov 21, 2001)
Bangalore is witnessing some hectic campaigning by 'hooch queen' Marimuttu. A veteran of 27 cases, she is harbouring political ambitions inspired by the late Bandit Queen Phoolan Devi.
- Ban Mike Deness (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 21, 2001)
No one can object to cricketers being punished for misconduct on the field.
- A Soldier: Why Should I Fight Terrorism? (Tribune, PN Khera, Nov 21, 2001)
INDIAN soldiers posted on the international border and the Line of Control have to fight an unseen enemy who has been infiltrated into the country to strike at strategic targets and innocent civilians or set up booby traps to blow up military convoys.
- Temple Plots And Holy Men (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Nov 21, 2001)
Why are Punjab’s Sikhs trapped in this medieval morass?
- Much Ado About Nothing (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Nov 21, 2001)
The ill-informed and prejudiced wran-gling between the ruling National Con-ference and BJP, its ally at the Centre and adversary in the State.
- Reviving India's Economy: Time To Think Of Offbeat Recipes -- I (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 21, 2001)
THERE has been no letup in the bad news on the economic front. India, in common with the rest of the world, is face to face with the spectre of a recession -- a word that nobody dares even to breathe.
- Woman Kills Unfaithful Spouse With Frying Pan (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 21, 2001)
A Japanese woman has been sentenced to 4½ years in prison for beating her husband to death with a frying pan after he confessed to having an affair, domestic media reported on Tuesday.
- Resettlement Act: Was The Supreme Court Right? (The Kashmir Times, Karuna Thakur, Nov 20, 2001)
The Presidential reference in respect of J&K Resettlement Act (The Act provides for resettlement of all those permanent residents of erstwhile J&K in this part of J&K from areas known as Pakistan occupied Kashmir).
- Democracy In Dire Straits (Tribune, Bhim S. Dahiya, Nov 20, 2001)
Whenever the thought of our democracy occurs to me, and it occurs quite often, a scene from an old Hindi movie named “Railway Platform” appears on my mind’s screen.
- Fresh Opportunity In Valley (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 20, 2001)
With the ejection of the extremist Taliban regime from Kabul and the disclosure of how it was being controlled by foreign elements to the detriment of the Afghans.
- Minister For Siachen (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 20, 2001)
Defence means more than notching up frequent flier points.
- A Post-Taliban Dispensation (Hindu, Chinmaya R. Gharekhan, Nov 20, 2001)
DESPITE ALL the talk about establishing a broad-based, multi- ethnic, representative post-Taliban government in Afghanistan.
- Primitive Accumulation Versus The Rule Of Law (The Financial Express, Chanakya , Nov 20, 2001)
Some of the politicians and civil servants who made money used it to live well, fulfilling their feudal dreams. Some who knew the ropes sent the money abroad.
- Court Rejects Return Of Cash Given To Ex-Lover (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 20, 2001)
A man who took his ex-lover to court to get back the cash he had showered upon her received no sympathy from a Singapore judge who ruled the money was a gift of love, it was reported on Monday.
- Politics Of Poto (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 19, 2001)
Opposition to POTO (Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance) is building up and the Congress, which will decide its fate in the Rajya Sabha, has promised to block its passage.
- I’m Back With Many Trophies From The Battlefront: Murasoli Maran (The Financial Express, Murasoli Maran, Nov 19, 2001)
With his pencil-thin moustache and his long sideburns commerce minister Murasoli Maran looks like a comical villain in a spaghetti-western movie.
- Wearing The Mantle Of Untruth (Tribune, Ram Verma, Nov 19, 2001)
The TV images of the bizarre spectacle of passenger planes going straight into the World Trade Center towers and a monstrous fireball enveloping them, billowing black clouds rising ominously to the sky.
- Feather In Mr Maran's Cap (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Nov 19, 2001)
THERE is one school of thought which holds that, after two years, the severe consequences of the Doha Declaration.
- No More Middle Ground On The Tamil Question (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Nov 19, 2001)
COLOMBO, NOV. 18. At a recent workshop organised by the Sri Lanka Tamil Media Alliance, one of the speakers was critical of the role of Tamil journalists in the country's ethnic conflict.
- The Challenges In J&k (Hindu, Balraj Puri, Nov 19, 2001)
THE WORLD, they say, changed on September 11. How does the change affect the situation in Jammu and Kashmir?
- Flawed Arguments, Sirs (Indian Express, Abhishek Singhvi, Nov 19, 2001)
Recent defences of the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO) range from Arun Shourie’s invocation of the US law to Law Minister Arun Jaitley’s reference to the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
- ‘Political Issues Will Take Precedence Over Economy In The Winter Session’ (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Nov 19, 2001)
Former Lok Sabha Speaker Shivraj Patil’s chief asset for his new role as Deputy Leader of Opposition in place of Madhavrao Scindia is his sound grasp of parliamentary rules and procedures.
- Of Cows & Beggars (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 18, 2001)
Two road hazards that drivers of motorised vehicles have to reckon with everyday everywhere are cows chewing the cud in middle of the roads and road dividers and beggars at road-crossings.
- This ‘Smart’ Surgeon Is More Dangerous Than Osama (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Nov 18, 2001)
NOW that the Taliban rule is coming to an end , Osama bin Laden’s days appear to be numbered.
- Clearest Voice Of Dissent (Pioneer, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Nov 18, 2001)
Professor Noam Chomsky is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with which he has been associated for four and a half decades.
- Operation Freedom Abroad, And Assault On Liberties At Home (Indian Express, George Lardner Junior, Nov 18, 2001)
Military tribunals spark fears, on left and right, that Bush is trampling on too many rights.
- The Gloves Are Off (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Nov 18, 2001)
NEITHER Mr. Jacques Chirac, the conservative President of France, nor his Socialist Prime Minister, Mr. Lionel Jospin, have officially declared they are candidates in the next presidential election in May.
- De-Legitimise Terror As State Policy (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Nov 18, 2001)
Most ruthless in the suppression of their own hapless people, and most cowardly in battle.
- Resting Their Case? Objection, My Lord (Indian Express, Smruti Koppikar, Nov 17, 2001)
Bharat Shah may still be behind bars, but has MCOCA really struck at the heart of Mumbai’s underworld?
- De-Legitimise Terror As State Policy (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Nov 17, 2001)
Most ruthless in the suppression of their own hapless people, and most cowardly in battle.
- Clearest Voice Of Dissent (Pioneer, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Nov 17, 2001)
Professor Noam Chomsky is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with which he has been associated for four and a half decades.
- Specious Arguments (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 17, 2001)
THE UNION CABINET'S proposal to replace the Foreign Contributions Regulation Act (FCRA) with a more stringent law.
- The Demand For Autonomy (Hindu, Ajay K. Mehra, Nov 17, 2001)
THOUGH THE Indian state, even as it came into existence, became aware of the potential of pluralism and identities constituting society to articulate itself to demand a political system with an `adequate' power-sharing arrangement.
- Converting Dalit Politics, Udit Raj Style (Indian Express, Ajit Kumar Jha, Nov 17, 2001)
HE IS a civil servant who has not attended office for the past four years.
- No Backtracking On Fiscal Responsibility Bill (The Financial Express, Udayan Bose, Nov 17, 2001)
Ten years of economic reform. The economist Manmohan Singh started it, the lawyer P Chidambaram furthered it, and former civil servant Yashwant Sinha.
- The Supreme Text (Pioneer, A. Surya Prakash, Nov 16, 2001)
The time has come to end the agony of the Muslim masses who are torn between the advice of the Imams on being part of an Islamic brotherhood transcending Indian boundaries and the constitutional mandate of subscribing only to an Indian brotherhood.
- Eighty-Seven And Still Batting! (Hindu, Fali S. Nariman, Nov 16, 2001)
Mr. V. R. Krishna Iyer's most outstanding contribution has been that whatever he has given to the law he has also given unstintedly to public life.
- World's 'Chief Justice' Must Stand Scrutiny (Pioneer, Debraj Mookerjee, Nov 16, 2001)
As macabre as this may sound, it is good that the US is bombing Afghanistan the way it is.
- Sikdar A Bangla Bangaru? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 16, 2001)
AFTER writing about nothing but Afghanistan since September 11, I turn with some relief to a domestic issue which has been bothering me for some months.
- With Hope From Doha (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 16, 2001)
THE FOURTH WTO Ministerial conference at Doha was a success of a sort considering the fiasco at Seattle in 1999.
- Poto : An Assult On Democracy (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Nov 16, 2001)
ACRONYMS ARE dangerous. POTO (the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance), is one such acronym being marketed as a panacea to fight terrorism in India for the next five years.
- U.N. And Afghanistan (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 16, 2001)
AS THE U.S.-LED coalition against terror pursues its military objective of hunting down Osama bin Laden and his outfit and bringing them to justice, the Taliban army is either regrouping around its stronghold of Kandahar.
- Hostile Witnesses (Business Line, Timeri Murari, Nov 16, 2001)
As there seems to be a countless number of 'hostile witnesses' wandering around our judicial system today, I thought I'd better find out a bit more about this tribe.
- The Difference Between A Militant And A Terrorist (The Financial Express, G. V. Ramakrishnan , Nov 15, 2001)
We frequently hear the terms militant and terrorist in newspapers and on television.
- Unconstitutional Tenets (Pioneer, A. Surya Prakash, Nov 15, 2001)
Talking about the Afghan invasion of India in 1919 and the attitude of Indian Muslim leaders to this and other related issues.
- Crisis Of Hindu Bengalis (Pioneer, Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Nov 15, 2001)
The ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party's call for imposition of Jaziya on the Hindu Bengalis (as reported in the Bangla daily, Sangbad) typifies the phrase:
- Poto Opportunity For The Police (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Nov 14, 2001)
Weeks before POTO was promulgated, a senior IPS officer was arrested for his alleged complicity in the killing of Muslims during the Bombay riots of 1993.
- Politics Before Independence (Tribune, V. N. Datta, Nov 14, 2001)
IT was at the all-India Congress session held at Wardha on January 15, 1942, that Mahatma Gandhi designated Jawaharlal Nehru as his heir.
- Crisis Of Hindu Bengalis (Pioneer, Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Nov 14, 2001)
The ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party's call for imposition of Jaziya on the Hindu Bengalis (as reported in the Bangla daily, Sangbad) typifies the phrase:
- Unconstitutional Tenets (Pioneer, A. Surya Prakash, Nov 14, 2001)
Talking about the Afghan invasion of India in 1919 and the attitude of Indian Muslim leaders to this and other related issues.
- Quieter Divali (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 14, 2001)
IF all goes well, Divali will be a little easier on one's ears and lungs this year than on previous occasions. Normally, there is brisk sale of crackers right from Dasehra but that is not the case this time.
- Reject The Poto Cunning, Not The Law (Hindu, Harish Khare , Nov 14, 2001)
THESE DAYS Mr. Lal Kishen Advani has that satisfied grin of an alley cat that has just managed to get into a jar full of POTO- fied cream.
- Education And Professional Councils (Hindu, Amrik Singh , Nov 14, 2001)
I REMEMBER Late Prof. V.K.R.V. Rao telling me once (soon after he got appointed as a Minister for the first time) that he had preferred shipping to education for one simple reason.
- Code For Mps, Mlas (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 14, 2001)
THE entire country will welcome the initiative taken by the Lok Sabha Speaker, Mr G. M. C. Balayogi, to convene a high-level conference of leaders of political parties, presiding officers of State Assemblies and the chief whips.
- Dying Unwept And Unsung (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Nov 14, 2001)
Some may consider it rather late in the day for me to write about B.K. Nehru, one of the most distinguished Indians of our times and a rare blend of a civil servant.
- All Accused Acquitted (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 13, 2001)
Rawalpindi: Lieut. Col. Firzella, and District Sessions Judge, Rawalpindi, began the hearing of the Mughal Dharamsala arson case, committed to the Sessions by Mr J.E. Keough, Special Magistrate, Rawalpindi, against Rahima and other Mohamedans.
- ‘The Rich Worry About Longevity, The Poor About Life And Death’ (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Nov 13, 2001)
Supachai Panitchpakdi, 55, is courteous to a fault. As he settles down to this interview by the breathtaking view of the sea from Doha’s Ritz Carlton.
- Century Of Resistance (Pioneer, A. Surya Prakash, Nov 13, 2001)
Past experience shows that they (religious beliefs and social attitudes of Hindus and Muslims) are too irreconcilable and too incompatible to permit Hindus and Muslims ever forming a single nation.
- Opposition To Poto (Pioneer, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Nov 13, 2001)
Former Chief Justices Ranganath Misra and Rajinder Sachar have opposed the promulgation of the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO).
- Automobile Industry -- More Variety, More Competition (Business Line, N. Ramakrishnan , Nov 13, 2001)
WHEN THE first car rolled out of Maruti Udyog's plant in Gurgaon on December 14, 1983, it marked the beginning of a revolution in the Indian automobile industry.
- The Fight Against Terrorism (Tribune, Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, Nov 13, 2001)
AGAINST the background of the US-led international coalition’s war against terrorism, to many people the most frightening prospect is that Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda network might use weapons of mass destruction.
- Bloodshed In Bangladesh (Pioneer, Rai Singh, Nov 13, 2001)
Sandhya Jain's article 'What about atrocities on Bangla Hindus?'
- A Beautiful Woman’S Face Activates Man’S Brain (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 13, 2001)
A beautiful woman’s face is like chocolate, cash or cocaine to a young man’s brain, according to Harvard University researchers.
- Human Rights And The Mother Of All Ordinances (Tribune, Anupam Gupta, Nov 12, 2001)
AFTER years of intellectual barrenness on the Indian political landscape — with table-thumping and cat-calls becoming the principal means of national deliberation — the furious debate that POTO or the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance.
- Electoral Ballet In Uttar Pradesh (Indian Express, Seema Alavi, Nov 12, 2001)
UTTAR PRADESH is gearing up for assembly elections early next year. A war of words has already begun between the Samajwadi Party and the BJP.
- Lessons From Christianity (Pioneer, A. Surya Prakash, Nov 12, 2001)
The process of modernism began in Christianity long before the Hindus got into the act.
- Dousing The Fires (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 12, 2001)
The rejection last week by the Supreme Court of India of the petition that sought to glorify sati is to be welcomed unequivocally.
- Simple George's High Ideals (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, Nov 12, 2001)
The return of George Fernandes to the Cabinet is being frowned at, not only by the opposition parties, but also by the self-proclaimed defenders of the morality of the Nation.
- Enron In Trouble; Microsoft Sees Reprieve (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Nov 12, 2001)
ENRON is facing corruption charges, and this time it has nothing to do with Maharashtra!
- They Have Only Their Chains To Lose (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Nov 11, 2001)
ALMOST every day there is a story about some unspeakable atrocity committed on a person because he or she is a Dalit.
- Poto Is A Must To Tackle Terrorism (Tribune, I. D. Swami, Nov 11, 2001)
THE promulgation of the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO) 2001 on October 24 has set off heated discussion in political circles.
- Statutory Effect On Hindus (Pioneer, A. Surya Prakash, Nov 11, 2001)
Let us now examine some Hindu scriptural injunctions and see whether they yielded to the will of our Constitution and if they did, what remains of them after they passed through our constitutional sieve.
- They Have Only Their Chains To Lose (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Nov 11, 2001)
ALMOST every day there is a story about some unspeakable atrocity committed on a person because he or she is a Dalit.
- No Need For Draconian Laws (Tribune, Tavleen Singh, Nov 10, 2001)
IT is puzzling that in the debate that POTO (Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance) has generated there has been no mention of the Nadeem case.
- Small Enterprises In Dire Distress (Tribune, M. G. Devasahayam , Nov 10, 2001)
INSTEAD of talking endlessly about the political quagmire and economic gloom we are in it is time we turned our attention to specific issues and their solutions.
- Using The Food Mountain (Hindu, M. S. Swaminathan , Nov 10, 2001)
THE PRIME MINISTER and the Government of India are to be commended for three important recent initiatives for dealing with the mounting grain stocks in a socially and environmentally meaningful manner.
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