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Articles 10021 through 10120 of 11444:
- Three Presidents And A Terrorist (Tribune, Amardeep S. Dahiya, Oct 03, 2001)
IT’S a strange world they say and a violent and unpredictable one as well.
- Battle Of The Begums (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 03, 2001)
Khaleda’s victory shows her new maturity as a politician.
- Panchayat Raj In Karnataka - I (Hindu, M. Y. Ghorpade, Oct 03, 2001)
FOR CENTURIES, India has had the experience of gram panchayats but they were based on traditional values, male dominated and caste ridden.
- Political Tremors In Gujarat (Indian Express, Vipin Pubby, Oct 03, 2001)
GUJARAT has long been considered the political laboratory for the Sangh Parivar.
- A Government That Has Gone To Sleep At The Most Crucial Juncture (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 03, 2001)
New Delhi once again gives you the feeling of disarray. The war has come closer to India.
- Unseated, But Not Entirely Undone (Telegraph, M. Siva Ram Prasad, Oct 03, 2001)
The dubious distinction of becoming the first chief minister to be removed from office by a court of law, goes to J. Jayalalithaa, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader.
- Mahatma Gandhi’s Vision Of India (Tribune, Poonam I. Kaushish , Oct 02, 2001)
“IT'S a week of ironies. At one end, war clouds gather on the horizon as superpower USA flexes its muscle. At the other, India pays homage to the apostle of peace, Gandhi,” exclaimed a schoolgirl.
- Bombay: When Freedom Was The Buzzword (Indian Express, Madhu Dandavate, Oct 02, 2001)
Though Bombay (now Mumbai) was not considered the nucleus of the Independence Movement, the role it played was crucial.
- Veerappan Cases - Ii: Confessions And Corroborative Evidence (Hindu, Mukund Padmanabhan, Oct 02, 2001)
MYSORE, OCT. 1. ``I hold that no reliance can be placed on these confessional statements,'' the Mysore special court judge, Mr. Krishnappa, ruled in one of the `Veerappan associates' cases.
- In Defence Of Handlooms (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Oct 02, 2001)
IN SEPTEMBER, Hyderabad was the location for an unusual conference organised by Dastkar Andhra, a non-governmental organisation working with handloom weavers.
- For A Bureaucrat, Working With Him Was Living In The Days Of Camelot (The Financial Express, Yogesh Chandra, Oct 02, 2001)
We met when I was director-general tourism, and he took over as my minister, in the Cabinet of Narasimha Rao.
- Veerappan Cases-I: Mass Acquittals Overshadow Few Convictions (Hindu, Mukund Padmanabhan, Oct 01, 2001)
MYSORE, SEPT. 30. Only the defence lawyers broke into smiles as the Mysore Special Court Judge, Mr. Krishnappa, announced the string of acquittals in the so-called ``Veerappan associates'' cases.
- U.N. And The Anti-Terror Focus (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 01, 2001)
THE UNITED NATIONS Security Council has enthusiastically spelt out a comprehensive framework of do's and don'ts to promote a global-scale campaign to combat terrorism.
- Advani Can Learn From Bush (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 01, 2001)
It may seem ironical but it is not surprising that the day Prime Minister Vajpayee was cautioning Opposition leaders that the battle against terrorism should not acquire communal overtones.
- The Many Unanswered Questions Of (Tribune, Anupam Gupta, Oct 01, 2001)
APART from a non-legislator’s appointment as Minister or Chief Minister under Article 164 (4) of the Constitution — on which I focussed last week — the September 21.
- The Battle To Breathe (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 01, 2001)
The apex court must hang on to that broom for Delhi skies.
- An Uninspiring And Disconcerting Picture (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 01, 2001)
Education is...the most important dominion of our national life. Needless to reiterate that education holds the key to development and progress in every sphere of our existence.
- Sri Lanka: Dimensions Of A Crisis (Hindu, Jayadeva Uyangoda, Oct 01, 2001)
WHILE SRI LANKA'S present political crisis deepens, the ruling People's Alliance administration of Ms. Chandrika Kumaratunga has averted a regime collapse by entering into a surprise understanding.
- Scarcity Amid Plenty: A Paradox (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 01, 2001)
THE great Indian mystery of a mountain of foodgrains amidst episodes of starvation deaths has eluded answers over the years.
- Kerala Pilot-Study On Corruption Put Borderline Cases To Shame (The Financial Express, Rohit Bansal, Oct 01, 2001)
It hasn’t got the attention it deserved. But a recent pilot study on azhimathi (Malayalam for corruption) under jurist N R Madhava Menon of Transparency International in Kerala.
- Salary Tops The Bill-Boards (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Sep 10, 2001)
The monsoon session of Parliament ended on August 31. It was significant for two reasons.
- My Task Is To Unite The Various Akali Dals Into The Panthic Morcha (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 10, 2001)
A respected religious leader of the Sikh community, Baba Sarabjot Singh Bedi has always remained in the sidelines.
- Strong Winds In Tamil Nadu (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Sep 10, 2001)
In the battle to cleanse Indian politics of corruption, few cases have been as sensational as that of J Jayalalitha.
- They Risked Their Lives To Save Citizens (Tribune, Chandra Mohan, Sep 10, 2001)
There could be no greater act of ingratitude for a society than marshalling of guns against men of the ilk of Ribeiro and KPSG’s band of securitymen who risked their lives to save innocent citizens from those trigger-happy terrorists.
- Back To Our Abcs (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 10, 2001)
Astrological prediction: without literacy we are nothing.
- For A Better Work Environment (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 10, 2001)
In view of the increase of cases reported on sexual harassment of women, the Supreme Court of India, on a writ filed by women’s NGOs, has laid down guidelines to obviate such harassment at places of work.
- Running On Empty Ideas (Indian Express, Anil Agrawal, Sep 10, 2001)
THE ministry of petroleum has shown extreme sagacity in reducing air pollution control to a high school debate: CNG vs Diesel.
- The Picture In The Frame (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Sep 10, 2001)
When you set yourself impossibly high standards, it’s impossible to scale them. This should not inhibit you from baying at the moon but chances are you won’t land upon it. Still, if at first you don’t succeed...
- 300 Days For Murder (Indian Express, Indra Mohan Sahai, Sep 10, 2001)
Surely serious crime needs more serious punishment.
- Sound Economy The Only Deliverance (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Sep 10, 2001)
There are finally some signs of governance as the Cabinet is reshuffled and the Prime Minister has started talking tough on matters economic.
- Personal Law Reform (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 10, 2001)
THE PASSAGE OF the Indian Divorce (Amendment) Bill last week by Parliament is welcome insofar as it incorporates current norms of gender equality into the more than a century old Indian Divorce Act that governs the Christian communities in this country.
- Vision 2020 -- Dream Budgets And Real Nightmares (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Sep 10, 2001)
LAST February, the Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, produced what was hailed as a `dream Budget'.
- Waiter, There’s A Stimulant In My Tea (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 09, 2001)
A California public interest group has sued Starbucks Corp., claiming that America’s largest coffee retailer secretly spikes its Tazo Chai Tea with ephedrine, an herbal stimulant banned in food by U.S. regulators.
- What’s Life Without A Snort? (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 09, 2001)
Another siege after Tehelka. After the arrest of the Afghan cocaine dealer, the party scene in the capital has become so jaded that the supplements of local newspapers appear drab.
- The Different Shades Of Hatred (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 09, 2001)
Xenophobia, one of the major causes of intolerance driven by racism, and the related issue of asylum-seekers, has hardly figured at the Durban Conference, writes M. S. Prabhakara.
- Agp’s New Mahout Is An Old Party Hand (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Sep 09, 2001)
He helped propel Prafulla Kumar Mahanta to power, he helped draft the party’s constitution and now, he has been called to head the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) in its darkest hour.
- Time To Tackle Starvation Deaths (Tribune, V. Eashwar Anand, Sep 09, 2001)
REPORTS of 21 starvation deaths in Kashipur block of Rayagada district in Orissa are a matter of serious concern.
- Murder Weapon In Kashipur (Telegraph, MUKUL KESAVAN, Sep 09, 2001)
The deaths in Kashipur in Orissa have become a national scandal.
- ‘Lift India From The Despondency In (Tribune, Sardar Dayal Singh, Sep 09, 2001)
THE article has been excerpted from Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia’s address to the 1893 Lahore session of the Indian National Congress in his capacity as the Chairman of the Reception Committee.
- Writing On The Wall (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 09, 2001)
EVERY passing day makes it clearer that time is running out for Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalitha.
- The Different Shades Of Hatred (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 09, 2001)
Xenophobia, one of the major causes of intolerance driven by racism, and the related issue of asylum-seekers, has hardly figured at the Durban Conference, writes M. S. Prabhakara.
- Constitution As Touchstone (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 08, 2001)
The rule of law is what this is all about.
- Education: Elusive Consensus (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2001)
THE 83rd Constitution Amendment Bill has been kept on hold for more than four years, putting the statutory milestone of time — the year 1960 — in the limbo of redundancy.
- Better Now Than Later (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 08, 2001)
THE SUPREME COURT order on Ms. Jayalalithaa's appeals against her convictions has effectively sealed all hope of her being elected to the Tamil Nadu Assembly before the mid-November deadline.
- Upholding The Constitution (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 08, 2001)
The Constitution of India is sovereign. This allows for no ambiguity in the relationship between the Constitution and the people’s will.
- India-Pakistan Intransigence (Business Line, B. S. Malik, Sep 08, 2001)
THE Agra Summit has been analysed ad nauseam.
- Writing On The Wall (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 08, 2001)
EVERY passing day makes it clearer that time is running out for Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalitha.
- Don’t Abet Rebating (The Economic Times, Muralidhar Rao, Sep 08, 2001)
APROPOS of the story “Private insurers clamp down on cut” ((ET, September 4), there is no doubt that rebating is rampant in India.
- Durban Diary: All The Soundbites Fit To Mouth (Indian Express, Suchita Vemuri, Sep 08, 2001)
Imagine it as a melting pot. All of humanity was here, with their stories of pain and hope. It even had its own special acoustics: all manner of voices speaking all manner of tongues.
- Why Sacrificing Jagmohan To Bjp’s Unholy Trinity Is A Sin Against The Nation (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 08, 2001)
THERE has to be something frightfully wrong with our capital city if its most prominent losers continue to so dominate our front pages.
- Constitution And People’s Will (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2001)
FOR far too long, wily politicians have been trampling on the spirit of the law by focussing only on its letter.
- Lashkar-E-Jhangvi: The Zia Connection (Tribune, Syed Nooruzzaman, Sep 08, 2001)
SECTARIAN and ethnic terrorism is a hotly debated subject in Pakistan these days. And the most dreaded outfit, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, one of the groups recently banned, consumes the maximum time and energy during such discussions.
- Tehelka: What Next? (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Sep 07, 2001)
TEHELKA'S INVESTIGATIONS open up important questions relating to the media. Tehelka-I uncovered incipient corruption in defence deals through covert uses of pin-hole cameras.
- Relief That Kills (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Sep 07, 2001)
LET us remember some forgotten words of our daily discourse.
- A Billion People’s Power To “Strike” (Tribune, P. P. S. Gill, Sep 07, 2001)
I do not have an iota of doubt about the power of the nation, a billion-strong, to “strike”.
- Panchayat Planning May Be Made Mandatory For Plan Allocation (The Financial Express, Joseph Vackayil, Sep 07, 2001)
The Planning Commission is working on a system to ensure that states adhere to the demand-driven micro-level planning process by making District Planning Committees (DPCs) operational.
- Shome Report: A Job Half Done (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Sep 07, 2001)
A FAVOURITE pastime of successive governments in India over the past decade and more has been to set up committees to examine and re-examine the tax structure to make the administration tax-payer friendly.
- Just Food (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 06, 2001)
Speaking up for a right cause gives the champion a kind of automatic immunity.
- God Help Those Who Can’t Help Themselve (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 06, 2001)
Despite safeguards in the Constitution and in law, certain groups remained particularly vulnerable to human rights abuses based on discrimination.
- The Tmc And The Congress (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 06, 2001)
THE PACE AT which the Congress president, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, acted in nominating the trustees to govern the properties owned by the TNCC Trust (hitherto controlled by G. K. Moopanar and Mr. N. Ramasamy Udayar).
- ‘We Indians Are A Suspicious Lot, Envious To The Core Of Anyone Who Makes It Big’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 06, 2001)
As a nation, we never celebrate those who create wealth, instead our elite swears by the principle: poverty is our birthright and you shall have it.
- A Flip-Flop For The Better (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Sep 06, 2001)
The new judgment is more pragmatic as it seeks to be fair to industry as well as contract labour.
- Truth Must Be Out (The Economic Times, R. S. Raghavan, Sep 06, 2001)
THE charge levelled against Mr Vajpayee by Mr D B Ray, a former BJP MP, is that the PM had been fully privy to the plot to demolish the Babri Masjid on December 5, 1992.
- Right To Food As Fundamental Right? (The Economic Times, Prabhat Kumar, Sep 06, 2001)
AMARTYA Sen would indeed be a happy man with the Supreme Court directing the central and state governments to ensure that starving people are supplied with foodgrain.
- Ratings: Tainted As Well (Business Line, Menka Shivdasani , Sep 06, 2001)
IT IS tough being a media planner. Here you are, with dozens of television channels to choose from, scores of soaps that bubble over and vanish, and game shows that collapse into nothing.
- Disgrace Abounding (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Sep 06, 2001)
There is something obscene about the way the Central government has denied the fact of starvation deaths in the Kashipur taluka of Orissa, one of the most backward areas in that near-destitute state.
- When British Cops Were Found To Be Racist (Tribune, Reeta Sharma, Sep 05, 2001)
WITH the Durban conference on racism going full swing, the word racism is talk of the universe today. Racism was born and reared, fed and patted only in the First World.
- Drawn To Many Centres (Telegraph, Indrajit Ray, Sep 05, 2001)
This is the time of the year when our 18-year olds literally step into their future lives as they take their first steps into a new college or a university building.
- Justice Delayed And Denied (Telegraph, NIRMALENDU BIKASH RAKSHIT , Sep 05, 2001)
The law minister of West Bengal has estimated that till March this year, 2,79,370 cases were pending before the Calcutta high court.
- Judicial Injustice (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 05, 2001)
It is, of course, true that the judicial process is inherently slow because the judges must pronounce the final verdict after having heard all arguments and examined all documents. Interrogation and cross-examination also require much time.
- Outworn Legacy (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 05, 2001)
A great deal of delay is also caused by the adjournment of cases for insufficient reasons.
- A Non-Executive President (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 05, 2001)
EMBRACING the greater evil is sometimes an occupational hazard of Presidents and Prime Ministers.
- End Of Compact Between Govt & People (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Sep 05, 2001)
THE compact between the rulers and those they govern in a democracy even as chaotic as in its Indian variation is that beyond the rules and regulations and the instruments of enforcing authority, there is an almost intangible moral force that prevails.
- If Education Is Expensive, Try Ignorance (The Economic Times, Sanjiv Kaura, Sep 05, 2001)
WHY are people averse to opening the financial black box of UEE (Universalisation of Elementary Education)?
- Judges In Their Own Cause - Ii (Hindu, Prashant Bhushan, Sep 05, 2001)
IN ITS order directing issue of the second contempt notice to Arundhati Roy for her affidavit, the Supreme Court has said that she has ``imputed motives to specific courts for entertaining litigation or passing orders against her''.
- Debating Decentralisation (Indian Express, Yogesh Vajpeyi, Sep 05, 2001)
: ‘‘Decentralisation is not merely a matter for increasing managerial efficiency as often presented in some discussions of development.
- Mapping Hunger (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 05, 2001)
Game politicians play: passing the empty plate.
- The Crisis Of Our Times (Indian Express, Mushirul Hasan, Sep 05, 2001)
In 1953, Encounter’s first issue carried an article on India that concluded on the following note: ‘‘Between a past reduced to practical impotence but offering a resistance to depth, and a future only skin-deep, India’s present seems to lack substance.’’
- The Hindu Rate Of Governance (Hindu, Harish Khare , Sep 05, 2001)
THE PRIME Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, has just effected a kind of reshuffle in his Cabinet.
- Criminal Negligence (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 05, 2001)
THERE could not be a more telling commentary on the collapse of governance in India.
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