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Articles 11321 through 11420 of 11444:
- Birendra's Nepal (Times of India, Dubby Bhagat, Jun 04, 2001)
AFTER the funeral of King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah on Saturday night, the immediate grief that swept the country turned to formal mourning and a degree of introspection. Old stories were retold.
- The General's Dialogue (Times of India, K.S. Ambi, Jun 04, 2001)
THERE have been suggestions that Gen Musharraf should meet leaders of the All-Party Hurriyat Conference during his visit to Delhi.
- Money Talks (Hindustan Times, Jyoti Trehan, Jun 04, 2001)
Policy makers and law enforcement agencies world over have realised that one should hit at the criminals where it hurts them the most. They have thus started targeting the proceeds of crime because making money is the be all and end all for criminals and
- The Tragedy In Nepal (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 04, 2001)
THE MACABRE MASSACRE of King Birendra of Nepal and several other ranking scions of the royal order, including Queen Aishwarya, has left the constitutional monarchy of the poor Himalayan state in utter disarray.
- Waiting For The General (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Jun 03, 2001)
IN THE Valley of distress and discontent, the Government of India (GoI) interlocutor, Mr. K.C. Pant's ``Mission Kashmir'' has been overshadowed by the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee's peace talks invitation to Pakistan's military ruler, Gen. Per
- After Ceasefire And Talks Initiatives Fizzled Out (The Kashmir Times, Balraj Puri, Jun 03, 2001)
The unilateral ceasefire in J&K state that the Prime Minister announced in November last had fizzled out and its final termination by the May end is only a formal recognition of the reality. For it failed in its primary objective of building a constituenc
- Commission Of Inquiry (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Jun 03, 2001)
The Government has invariably found it expedient to set up an Inquiry Commission when its law-enforcing agency transgresses its legitimate authority to alienate the public and create a volatile situation.
- Will It Happen Here? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 03, 2001)
PRESIDENT Bush’s 19-year-old daughter, Jenna, is in the news because she tried to get a drink with a false ID in a country where no one below the age of 21 can legally be served alcohol. The nightclub owners called in the cops and the President’s daughter
- Sore About Stories (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Jun 02, 2001)
UNACCOUNTED cash and unproved credit often prove to be the bane of the Income-Tax (I-T) Department.
- Is A Factory Building Plant? (Business Line, V.K. Subramani, Jun 02, 2001)
ACCORDING to Section 43(3), `plant' includes ships, vehicles, books, scientific apparatus and surgical equipment used for business/profession.
- It’s Not As Scary A Provision As Is Made Out To Be (The Economic Times, A.N. Prasad, Jun 02, 2001)
THE FINANCE Act of 2001 has a new section (14 A), which says that any spending on income that is already tax exempt, cannot be used to get relief off against other taxable income.
- Unfriendly Bear-Hug (Times of India, Minhaz Merchant, Jun 01, 2001)
IS the Indian stock market today deeply undervalued, as most analysts agree? What then is its true and fair valuation? Both questions need a definitive answer in the backdrop of the current market crisis.
- Coping With A Slump (Hindustan Times, Prem Shankar Jha, Jun 01, 2001)
A FEW days ago, the Planning Commission told the government bluntly that it was not possible to achieve a nine per cent growth rate. This year’s Economic Survey told us why.
- Abandoning Consistency In The Search For Peace (The Economic Times, Narendar Pani, Jun 01, 2001)
THOSE who are addicted to consistency are bound to find the Vajpayee government’s Kashmir initiative somewhat disconcerting. The initiative first appeared to be built around the cease-fire, and then the cease-fire was withdrawn.
- Musharraf: From Cia With Love? (Business Line, B. Raman , Jun 01, 2001)
SOME CIRCLES in the US see a link between the recent high-profile visit to New Delhi of the US Deputy Secretary of State, Mr Richard Armitage, the unpublicised visit of the CIA Director, Mr George Tenet, to Islamabad where he had an unusually long meeting
- The Making Of A Police State (Pioneer, Wilson John, May 31, 2001)
General Pervez Musharraf is working at two levels to consolidate his illegitimate rule over Pakistan.
- President Pervez (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 31, 2001)
General Pervez Musharraf's elevation to the office of the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is the latest Act in the continuing drama of Pakistan's search for an internationally acceptable and stable political order.
- Getting Unreal (Pioneer, Abhijit Bhattacharyya , May 31, 2001)
The Hurriyat is an "honorable", household name today, and its leaders, with or without Kashmir, have attained unmatched status thanks to the media blitz.
- Socio-Cultural Integration Imperative (The Kashmir Times, Dhurjati Mukherjee, May 31, 2001)
Religious intolerance has become manifest in recent times because of the tendency of certain sections of religious groups to violate the principles of civil society.
- Road To Hope, Optimism And Warmth (Pioneer, Bobby Sharma, May 31, 2001)
In a bold decision, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has invited Pakistan's Chief Executive General Pervez Musharraf for talks.
- Murderers In Uniform (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 31, 2001)
MORE THAN a generation ago, Justice A.N. Mulla of the Allahabad High Court had held that the police in India were possibly the most “lawless” among armed groups in the country.
- Science In Public Policy (The Economic Times, Parth J Shah, May 31, 2001)
IS OUR public policy on economic to environmental issues based on science? Do facts, evidence, and objective deliberations determine it? Or do we rely largely on our hunches and gut feelings, our ideological sense of how the world works -- what Thomas Sow
- From Tiger To Pussy Cat (Hindustan Times, Sujata Anandan, May 30, 2001)
MAHARASHTRA’S PUGNACIOUS Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal is currently under attack from a section of Muslims owing allegiance to the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).
- Shooting The Monkey (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 30, 2001)
ATTACHMENT is based on the fixed belief that security will be gained through external symbols that validate the individual desiring them.
- New Twist To Sensitive Cases (Hindu, V. Jayanth , May 30, 2001)
CHENNAI, JULY 16. The sudden and tragic suicide of businessman Ramesh and his family has provided a new twist to the politically sensitive cases in the State.
- Reinventing The Centre (Hindu, Harish Khare , May 30, 2001)
LAST MONTH, the politically fashionable thing to do, it seemed, was to decry the presumed concentration of power in the Prime Minister's Office;
- Dangerous Games (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 30, 2001)
The violent demonstrations against and attacks on cinema halls showing the film Gadar: Ek Prem Kahani, on the ground of its being "anti-Islamic", deserves the strongest condemnation. Rioting and assault cannot be defended in the name of religion.
- Turkey On His Mind (Hindustan Times, Gajendra Singh, May 30, 2001)
General Pervez Musharraf has anointed himself President of Pakistan while retaining the all-powerful post of army chief.
- Mother Of All Crimes (Hindustan Times, Kusum Mehta, May 30, 2001)
The last few years have witnessed miraculous advancements in medical science.
- From Tiger To Pussy Cat (Hindustan Times, Sujata Anandan, May 30, 2001)
M AHARASHTRA’S PUGNACIOUS Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal is currently under attack from a section of Muslims owing allegiance to the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).
- Curbing Pollution (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 30, 2001)
A breath of fresh air, may soon turn out to be the rarest of rare commodities in India. According to a regional survey carried out in Asia by the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd (PERC), India is the most polluted country in the continent. In g
- Farooq’s Autonomy Gimmick (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, May 30, 2001)
While rejecting the Centre’s plea to the chief minister to revise the State Autonomy Committee report and submit another plan for deolution of power.
- Ulterior Motives (The Kashmir Times, SURENDRA MOHAN, May 30, 2001)
THE extremely irresponsible vendetta by the Tamilnadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha has provided the Union Government an opportunity, which it was looking for since after her installation as Chief Minister by the Governor.
- Brand Royalty (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 30, 2001)
The notorious tight-fistedness of the Indian consumer has caused much grief to many a marketer.
- Who Comes First? Cleric Or Reformer (Pioneer, Ehtashamuddin Khan, May 30, 2001)
The landslide victory of President Mohammad Khatami in the recently-concluded Presidential election in Iran indicates an important fact-that religion, the 'opium of the masses', can no longer numb the aspirations of Iranians.
- Muslim Women And The Law (Hindu, Sona Khan, May 30, 2001)
THE GOVERNMENT'S decision to introduce a Bill in Parliament to amend legal provisions to enable women and other dependents to seek higher maintenance is a welcome move.
- Beyond The Original Message (Hindustan Times, Imtiaz Ahmad, May 30, 2001)
SHOULD MUSLIM women have the right to maintenance in the event of divorce? This question has acquired importance in view of the announcement that the government proposes to bring in two legislations to ensure that women get early relief in cases of marita
- Read Writing On The Political Wall (Pioneer, CJM Mathew, May 30, 2001)
The Tehelka expose showed in a dramatic fashion the dangerous ramifications of corruption in our polity and bureaucracy. Honest politicians and bureaucrats welcomed the expose while some deflected its impact and weaved a conspiracy tale.
- Himalayan Challenge (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 29, 2001)
The shock and outrage over the killing of King Birendra and his family members and the outbursts of grief by the hundreds of thousands who thronged the funeral procession attests to the monarchy's strong, unifying hold over the Nepalese people.
- Every One Wants To Be Minister In Goa (The Kashmir Times, Arun Nehru, May 29, 2001)
Manipur shocks every one but should anyone get shocked? Remember Goa where the public verdict has been changed several times as everyone wants to become a minister.
- Maintenance Matters (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 29, 2001)
A full fifteen years after the plight of Shah Bano stymied India's political class into intractable polarities.
- Commission Of Inquiry (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, May 29, 2001)
The Government has invariably found it expedient to set up an Inquiry Commission when its law-enforcing agency transgresses its legitimate authority to alienate the public and create a volatile situation.
- Blaring Its Way To Decline (Pioneer, Chanchal Sarkar, May 29, 2001)
The only day of silence in Kolkata was voting day.
- Complain And Be Damned (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, May 29, 2001)
ABOUT 60 residents of Bahota village and adjoining villages in Marmat area of Doda district have migrated to Doda township following a reign of terror let loose by the security forces.
- Sending The Wrong Signal (Pioneer, Arshi Khan, May 29, 2001)
India in the eyes of the world has always been a symbol of protest and resistance against colonialism and imperialism. But the recent visit of a high-level delegation of Indian officials to Israel, however, tarnishes this image.
- More Weird Tales (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 28, 2001)
The group of ministers which examined the national security requirements in the aftermath of the Kargil conflict seems to have come up with more controversial ideas than genuinely useful ones.
- Speak Out Of Turn (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 28, 2001)
Among the Samata Party and BJP leaders from Manipur who have descended on New Delhi is Speaker S. Dhananjay Singh. He has no business to be here. A Speaker is supposed to play a neutral role.
- Slip Through Legal Loopholes (Telegraph, Basudev Ray, May 28, 2001)
J. Jayalalitha is believed to have remarked a few days ago that she wants corruption cases against her to be handled firmly and that her immediate task would be to probe the charges of corruption against M. Karunanidhi’s son, M.K. Stalin.
- Puppets On A String (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 28, 2001)
Shadows of the party have already begun to lengthen over the government in West Bengal even though the tenure of the new chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, is not yet a fortnight old.
- Power Games (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 28, 2001)
THE Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission has decided to hike power tariffs in the Capital. It is neither the first ERC to do so, nor is it likely to be last. What makes such decisions contentious, however, is the extent to which power supplied is not b
- Himalayan Challenge (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 28, 2001)
The shock and outrage over the killing of King Birendra and his family members and the outbursts of grief by the hundreds of thousands who thronged the funeral procession attests to the monarchy's strong, unifying hold over the Nepalese people.
- A Remedy That’s Much Worse Than The Malady (The Economic Times, Mythili Bhusnurmath, May 28, 2001)
AN INCENTIVE fund to push state governments into improving their finances? In theory, it sounds great. But in practice, given the prickly and complex nature of Centre-state fiscal relations, it is more than contentious.
- Accountability And Information Sharing (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, May 28, 2001)
Every regulator summoned by the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) investigating the payments crisis on the stock markets is bound to whine about the multiplicity of regulatory agencies and the absence of adequate supervisory and punitive powers.
- Police Accountability (Hindu, Ajay K. Mehra, May 28, 2001)
IT IS not surprising that Kuldip Nayar in his article (``Police atrocities'', May 22) received the standard reply he did from the Delhi Police on their use of third degree methods.
- Reining In The Pmo (Hindu, P.S. Appu, May 28, 2001)
AN OVER-GROWN, all-powerful Prime Minister's Office has been at the centre of a major political controversy. The attack on the present setup of the PMO has been spearheaded by the hard core of the BJP and some elements in the National Democratic Alliance.
- Enemy Inside The Gates (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, May 28, 2001)
It is just as well that we are a liberal democracy and don’t believe in marking ‘outsiders’ with yellow stickers. Otherwise, the Foreigners (Report to Police) Order, 1971, would have smacked of xenophobia.
- Puppets On A String (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 28, 2001)
Shadows of the party have already begun to lengthen over the government in West Bengal even though the tenure of the new chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, is not yet a fortnight old.
- Arundhati Roy Talks Bluntly Of Judicial Excess (Tribune, Anupam Gupta, May 28, 2001)
“IN deciding to confront authority, one must be ready for the counterattack — for therein lies the challenge,” India’s greatest poet, Rabindranath Tagore, wrote to Bengal’s greatest writer, Sarat Chandra, in February, 1927.
- Fire In Army Ammunition Depots (Tribune, Harwant Singh, May 28, 2001)
Outbreak of fire in army ammunition depots with unerring regularity, has resulted in great financial loss to the state and caused apprehensions and misgivings in the public mind.
- Birendra's Nepal (Times of India, Dubby Bhagat, May 28, 2001)
AFTER the funeral of King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah on Saturday night, the immediate grief that swept the country turned to formal mourning and a degree of introspection. Old stories were retold.
- Enron Woos Regulators In Era Of Deregulation (The Financial Express, Bob Davis, May 28, 2001)
EVERY energy executive in America would have liked a half-hour with Vice President Dick Cheney as he fashioned the Bush administration’s national energy program.
- Slip Through Legal Loopholes (Telegraph, Basudev Ray, May 28, 2001)
J. Jayalalitha is believed to have remarked a few days ago that she wants corruption cases against her to be handled firmly and that her immediate task would be to probe the charges of corruption against M. Karunanidhi’s son, M.K. Stalin.
- Wrong End Of The Stick (Hindustan Times, Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, May 28, 2001)
India is fast emerging as a major production centre for cyberpornography. Today there are over 18,000 pornographic websites featuring Indians, up from only 4,000 at the beginning of 2001. At least 25 Indian sites feature in the top 500 list of most-visite
- Poaching On States’ Power (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 28, 2001)
IT would appear that the Group of Ministers (GoM) which authored an elaborate paper on internal security, had landed from Mars only a few weeks back. Otherwise, it would not have raked up a heated controversy which has remained dormant for some years now.
- Uncivil Rites (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 27, 2001)
To Indira Gandhi goes the dubious credit of lending to Indian political discourse the paranoid rhetoric of the `foreign hand', a spectre that has regrettably survived her.
- Silly As A Wheel (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 27, 2001)
``Re-inventing the wheel'' may well be the patented practice of out-of-work politicians and career-minded mandarins.
- The Promise Of Equality (Hindu, Andre Beteille , May 27, 2001)
IN THE past, Indian society was unique in the extremes to which it carried the principle and practice of inequality; today Indian intellectuals appear unique in their zeal for promoting the adoption of equality in every sphere of society.
- Beijing's Triumph And Challenge (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 27, 2001)
FROM THE TIME of the ancient Olympics, politics and sport - always deemed to be far apart with little in common by the idealists - have indeed mixed with explosive effect.
- Using Police As Cms’ Private Army (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, May 27, 2001)
THE barbaric show put up by the police in Chennai in the wee hours of last Saturday at the prompting of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha carries far darker shades than we saw during the 1975 Emergency.
- Fiscal Reform (Hindu, Amaresh Bagchi, May 27, 2001)
WHILE FEW would disagree that the economic reforms of the 1990s have changed the face of India, one area where reform efforts have stumbled and apparently fallen flat is in the fiscal sector.
- Unmollified Manipur (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 26, 2001)
IN its desperate search for a quick fix, the Centre has taken one half-step to muddy the Manipur situation.
- A Primer On Religion And Politics From Koizumi, Bush (Indian Express, S. Gurumurthi , May 26, 2001)
THE West is stunned. Almost the first act of Junichiro Koizumi, the newly elected Prime Minister of Japan was to announce that he would officially worship at the Yasukuni Shrine in central Tokyo, on August 15.
- Uncivil Rites (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 26, 2001)
To Indira Gandhi goes the dubious credit of lending to Indian political discourse the paranoid rhetoric of the `foreign hand', a spectre that has regrettably survived her.
- Hobbes' Mistake (Times of India, Sauvik Sauvik Chakraverti verti , May 26, 2001)
IN his classic Leviathan, written in 1651, the English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes established the liberal case for the state.
- The System Is Complicit, Not Paralysed (The Financial Express, Jagadish Shettigar, May 26, 2001)
The JPC must nail the institutions that are implicated in the stockmarket scam.
- Talking At Each Other (Indian Express, Sonia Trikha, May 26, 2001)
THE success of any diplomatic move is directly proportionate to the amount of news-space you corner.
- Will: Going Round In Loops (Business Line, H. Kaushal , May 26, 2001)
NEVER has a telecom issue kicked up so much dust as the case of limited mobility through wireless-in-local-loop (WiLL).
- Principle Of Discounting Given The Go-By? (Business Line, K. Ramesh, May 26, 2001)
THE Supreme Court is expected to have the last word in settling an issue.
- Explosive Neglect (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 26, 2001)
AS if explosions in Badowal and Mamun ammunition depots were not enough for this year, the Birdhwal (Suratgarh) depot has also gone up in flames. Losses cannot be measured in financial terms alone.
- For Whom The Bell Tolls (Tribune, Sumer Kaul, May 26, 2001)
PROVERBIALLY public memory may be short but it is not as short as blundering or bumbling or defaulting governments would like to believe. It is even less so if the blundering and bumbling happens again and again.
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