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Articles 19621 through 19720 of 20008:
- Rethinking Spending Norms (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 31, 2001)
RECENT REPORTS CONCERNING the non-utilisation of budgetary allocations in the newly created Ministry of Tribal Welfare.
- India's Coercive Diplomacy (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 31, 2001)
NEW DELHI, DEC. 30. Coercive diplomacy has never been a characteristic feature of India's foreign policy.
- Misusing Power (Hindu, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 31, 2001)
The politician who uses a public servant for political purposes and the public servant who allows himself to be used are both debasing themselves and doing a signal disservice to the country.
- Whither Environmental Protest (Hindu, Harsh Sethi , Dec 31, 2001)
The issues raised by environmental struggles remain much too important to be frittered away. This is why protest movements bear a responsibility greater than what their leaderships may realise.
- India Shouldn’t Be Hasty In Exhausting Non-Military Options Against Pak (The Financial Express, B. Raman , Dec 31, 2001)
In continuation of its earlier decision to withdraw its High Commissioner from Islamabad and to discontinue rail and road links with Pakistan.
- Rethinking Spending Norms (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 31, 2001)
RECENT REPORTS CONCERNING the non-utilisation of budgetary allocations in the newly created Ministry of Tribal Welfare.
- Reshaping Human Nature In Beijing (Business Line, Alex Abraham, Dec 31, 2001)
MAYOR Liu Qi of Beijing has decided to reshape human behaviour on a massive scale.
- Punish Pakistan Hard And Decisively (Pioneer, Bobby Sharma, Dec 31, 2001)
The terrorists attack on Indian Parliament on December 13, 2001, was an attack on our national pride.
- Misusing Power (Hindu, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 31, 2001)
The politician who uses a public servant for political purposes and the public servant who allows himself to be used are both debasing themselves and doing a signal disservice to the country.
- Corporates Become More Responsible, But There Is A Long Way To Go (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 31, 2001)
More corporates attend CSR programmes now
The year 2001 witnessed some changes in the attitude of the industries towards corporate social responsibility.
- Whither Environmental Protest (Hindu, Harsh Sethi , Dec 31, 2001)
The issues raised by environmental struggles remain much too important to be frittered away. This is why protest movements bear a responsibility greater than what their leaderships may realise.
- India's Coercive Diplomacy (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 31, 2001)
NEW DELHI, DEC. 30. Coercive diplomacy has never been a characteristic feature of India's foreign policy. But by threatening an all-out war with Pakistan that could escalate to the nuclear level.
- Courting Thought (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 31, 2001)
This year has seen one improvement in the justice system that should make a difference.
- Marking The End Of Innocence (Telegraph, Monobina Gupta, Dec 31, 2001)
This is a flourishing trade which never goes into recession. The supply of children and women goes on endlessly to meet the demands of a burgeoning flesh trade.
- Phrasal Verve (Pioneer, Ramesh C Shukla, Dec 31, 2001)
While thinking about my New Year resolutions, I formulated one which has been the easiest to keep. I have been noticing for some time that Bollywood film-makers are titling their films not by words, but by phrases or even a full sentence.
- Turn Of The Screw (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 30, 2001)
By announcing a second round of measures against Pakistan, India has stepped up the diplomatic offensive it has mounted against its recalcitrant neighbour.
- Birthday In Style (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 30, 2001)
Power changes, and absolute power changes absolutely. Not long ago, the BJP was the bitterest critic of personality cults, or what it called adhinayakvad.
- Fdi: Lessons To Be Learnt From The Argentina’s Crisis (The Financial Express, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Dec 29, 2001)
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has promised Japanese investors that his government will remove all hurdles in the path of increased foreign direct investment (FDI).
- Steel Up The Ore Policy (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 29, 2001)
IT IS TO be hoped that New Delhi will formalise fresh policy directions for mining and export of iron ore well before the WTO norms that envisage lifting of quantitative restrictions on its external trading come into effect, from 2003.
- $9-Bn Cake Cooking! Can India Inc Go Beyond The Crumbs? (The Financial Express, Rohit Bansal, Dec 29, 2001)
Officials in the United Nations believe that Afghan water is no good. Naturally, they see a crying need for pouring a few million dollars in purification.
- Turn Of The Screw (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 29, 2001)
By announcing a second round of measures against Pakistan, India has stepped up the diplomatic offensive it has mounted against its recalcitrant neighbour.
- Immigrant Assimilation In Britain (Tribune, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 29, 2001)
IT seems quite illogical that Britain’s Home Secretary, Mr David Blunkett, should even have to advise Asian immigrants, or Britasians to coin an appropriate description, to learn English.
- A Healer Of Hearts In Chandigarh (Tribune, Darshan Singh Maini, Dec 29, 2001)
IN scores of “middles” published in various papers and magazines, I’ve sought to put into focus one genre that comes closet to my pulse-beat.
- Saarc & S. Asia Dispensation (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Dec 28, 2001)
THE SAARC summit may take place, or it may not. But it is time to turn out focus on it.
- Armed Response And International Law (Hindu, V. S. Mani, Dec 28, 2001)
The best legally-justifiable course open to India now is to go to the U.N. Security Council... Let us not go headlong into use of armed force.
- While Governments Talk War (Indian Express, Muqtida A. K. Mansoor, Dec 28, 2001)
AS a reaction to the dastardly attack by terrorists on the Indian Parliament, the Indian government has taken some extremely drastic and provocative steps against Pakistan.
- E-Mail Nationalism (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Dec 28, 2001)
INDIA, it was once said, was nothing but a figment of the British imagination.
- Armed Response And International Law (Hindu, V. S. Mani, Dec 28, 2001)
The best legally-justifiable course open to India now is to go to the U.N. Security Council... Let us not go headlong into use of armed force.
- `People Were Fed Up With Mismanagement' -- Dr Saman Kelegama, Ed, Institute Of Policy Studies, Colombo (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 28, 2001)
THE mandate for change in Sri Lanka was more for economic reasons, than for ushering in peace and ending the ethnic conflict, says Dr Saman Kelegama, Executive Director of the Institute of Policy Studies in Colombo.
- Living In A Yellow Submarine (Pioneer, Syed Ahmed, Dec 28, 2001)
George Harrison visited India in September 1966. The following year, in February 1967, he had his first meeting with his Holiness the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
- Gsp, A Prelude To Eu’s Efforts To Bring Labour On Wto Agenda (The Financial Express, T. S. Vishwanath , Dec 28, 2001)
Core labour standards has always remained on top of the agenda for European Union.
- India Should Negotiate Cautiously To Guard Its Interests Well (The Financial Express, P Vinod Kumar, Dec 28, 2001)
A time bomb is ticking right under India’s nose but babudom, as usual, is yet to notice it.
- `People Were Fed Up With Mismanagement' -- Dr Saman Kelegama, Ed, Institute Of Policy Studies, Colombo (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 28, 2001)
THE mandate for change in Sri Lanka was more for economic reasons, than for ushering in peace and ending the ethnic conflict, says Dr Saman Kelegama, Executive Director of the Institute of Policy Studies in Colombo.
- Coal Sector Growth Stifled By Sickness (Business Line, Rabindra Nath Sinha, Dec 28, 2001)
THE COAL sector closes 2001 with none of the key issues, such as unrestricted entry of the private sector, sickness of three subsidiaries of Coal India Ltd.
- Designs For High Growth And Income (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Dec 28, 2001)
INDIA is zealously struggling to transform itself from a weak-strong model to a strong-weak model of economic governance.
- National Anthem And Nation (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 27, 2001)
DECEMBER 13 is said to have outraged the nation the way it did because Parliament is cherished as a symbol of our democracy.
- Do We Want War? (Hindu, Shail Mayaram, Dec 27, 2001)
The only ones who stand to benefit from war are those who hope for more votes in the wake of nationalist jingoism, the military-industrial complex and the hawks in India and Pakistan.
- The Madrassa Mindset (Indian Express, Mehru Jaffer, Dec 27, 2001)
TO mention the twin words ‘Muslim’ and ‘madrassa’ today is to send a chill down the spine of many.
- Is War On The Nri Agenda? (Indian Express, Balgrim Ragoonanan, Dec 27, 2001)
MOST of the people who are calling on India to wage war on Pakistan are probably of Indian origin but living outside India.
- First Blood (Pioneer, Anil Narendra, Dec 27, 2001)
If September 11 was a turning point in the modern history of America, December 13 could well prove to be so for India.
- How Enron Connected To The Powers-That-Be (Indian Express, Dan Morgan, Dec 27, 2001)
DURING the administration of the first President George Bush, a new party fundraiser named Kenneth Lay was invited to spend the night at the White House.
- Paper Tigress (Pioneer, Mohinder Singh, Dec 27, 2001)
Every newspaper wants more women readers. Advertisers are convinced that married women make most of consumer decisions in households.
- Revenge Of The Enlightened (Tribune, C. L. Gulati, Dec 27, 2001)
A dog sat beside the railway track when a train passed by, cutting off an inch of his tail.
- Do We Want War? (Hindu, Shail Mayaram, Dec 27, 2001)
The only ones who stand to benefit from war are those who hope for more votes in the wake of nationalist jingoism, the military-industrial complex and the hawks in India and Pakistan.
- Argentina’s New Currency Seen Easing Move From Peg (The Financial Express, Ovais Subhani, Dec 27, 2001)
SINGAPORE: Argentina’s plan to print its way out of economic crisis by issuing a second currency will buy the country time before an inevitable devaluation and may mark the beginning of the end of the peso, analysts said on Wednesday.
- Saarc Should Include Afghanistan And Myanmar (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Dec 27, 2001)
The 11th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is scheduled to take place from January 4 to 6 in Kathmandu. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is slated to attend the crucial meet.
- Tamil Nadu Shakes Off Lanka’s Ghost (Indian Express, T. N. Gopalan, Dec 27, 2001)
WAY back in the seventies, the then Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Srimavo Bandaranaike was received at Chennai airport by the then Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi.
- Foundation For The Future (Telegraph, N.R. MADHAVA MENON, Dec 27, 2001)
Foreign direct investment is a term usually associated with trade and development in the economic sphere.
- Mining The Depths Of Decline (Telegraph, Sudhir Kumar Mishra, Dec 27, 2001)
The coal sector in India is reported to have been under tremendous pressure during the last one decade or so.
- New Homes For Old Xmas Gizmos (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 27, 2001)
Australians were urged not to simply dump their old computers and mobile phones if they received new ones during this Christmas season.
- Guess One Big Winner Of Afghan War: Russia (Indian Express, David Ignatius, Dec 26, 2001)
AS THE dust begins to settle in Afghanistan, it’s increasingly clear that the big winner in terms of post-September 11 energy politics is Russia, which now rivals Saudi Arabia as the world’s dominant energy producer.
- Terrorism From The Sea (Pioneer, Mukund B. Kunte, Dec 26, 2001)
Successive coalition governments in New Delhi have led Islamabad to believe that terrorism can be initiated and fuelled across our borders with impunity, a misconception that needs to be dispelled immediately.
- Whither Peace In Sri Lanka? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 26, 2001)
THIS Christmas will be a memorable one for Sri Lanka, or so hope its people.
- Pressures On India’s Foreign Policy (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Dec 26, 2001)
The tragedy of Indian foreign policy is that more than 50 years after Independence, the country’s efforts at pursuing wider objectives in the region and the world are being dragged by a legacy of Partition, animosity with Pakistan.
- Open To Evil Eyes (Telegraph, BRIJESH D. JAYAL, Dec 26, 2001)
Ever since the aborted terrorist assault on the Indian Parliament, there has been abundant speculation on the likely Indian response.
- Year Of Setback For Economy (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Dec 26, 2001)
THE ECONOMY took a downturn in 2001, after sustaining a six per cent growth over almost a decade, with recessionary trends persisting in industry, aggravated by the cyclical swings in agriculture.
- Bacteria In Waste Management (Business Line, Mahendra Pandey , Dec 26, 2001)
MICRO-ORGANISMS constitute an antique group of living organisms which appeared on earth's surface almost 3,000 million years ago.
- Border Flashpoint (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 26, 2001)
Tension along the Indo-Pakistan border is reaching flashpoint. Both countries are deploying armed corps, tanks and missiles on the international border and the Line of Control in the Kashmir valley.
- Protecting The Young (Telegraph, ANURADHA KUMAR, Dec 26, 2001)
Last year in December, a Swiss couple was arrested after activists belonging to the Forum Against Child Sexual Exploitation tipped off the Mumbai police about their involvement in a possible child abuse racket.
- Response To Pakistan's Terrorism (Hindu, V. R. Raghavan , Dec 25, 2001)
There are leverages available to India in the economic, political and societal arenas that are potentially as and perhaps more effective than the military ones.
- Agriculture: Tough To Quantify Benefits Now (The Financial Express, Pradeep S. Mehta, Dec 25, 2001)
“We have agreed to address only the trade-distorting subsidies and not the whole gamut of agriculture subsidies, said Pascal Lamy, European Union’s trade commissioner, at a meeting with the civil society in Delhi recently.
- Textile In Tatters (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 25, 2001)
THE Textile Minister, Mr Kashiram Ranas admission that the countrys textile exports will slip this year is merely a confirmation of the drop in despatches that began mid-year.
- Changing Profile Of Terrorism (Tribune, V.K. Kapoor, Dec 25, 2001)
Terrorism is death and destruction by design when victims are totally unrelated to the cause espoused. Attacks on New York’s World Trade Center on September 11 and India’s Parliament on December 13 point to a sharp change in the profile of terrorism.
- A Nation On The Edge: Abort, Retry, Escape (Indian Express, Najam Sethi, Dec 25, 2001)
PAKISTAN’S military leaders have had a propensity for adventure unmatched by other dependent states in the modern age.
- Fractured Verdict From Doha (Business Line, Anil K. Kanungo, Dec 25, 2001)
WHETHER the verdict from Doha went largely in favour of India or against its interests is still not quite clear.
- Response To Pakistan's Terrorism (Hindu, V. R. Raghavan , Dec 25, 2001)
There are leverages available to India in the economic, political and societal arenas that are potentially as and perhaps more effective than the military ones.
- Call Of Duty And Line Of Fire (Pioneer, Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, Dec 25, 2001)
The injury caused to ANI cameraman Vikram Singh Bisht in the attack on Parliament has once again turned the spotlight on the hazardous nature of journalism.
- This Is Where The Terrorists Work (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 25, 2001)
“Infrastructure facility” means any publicly or privately owned facility providing or distributing services for the benefit of the public, such as water, sewerage, energy, fuel or communications.
- Babus Beyond Belief (Pioneer, C K G Nair, Dec 25, 2001)
The boss revolved in his high-back chair and laughed loud enough to shake me and my over-sized ego. Just like Gabbar Singh.
- Double Standards (Pioneer, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Dec 25, 2001)
The American people are unable to comprehend why their culture of markets, democracy and freedom evokes such a lot of hostility across much of the world.
- No Resting On Oars (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 25, 2001)
External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh's presence at the inauguration of the interim Afghan government in Kabul last Saturday and the warm welcome given to Indians in the Afghan capital, are developments that should not cause surprise.
- Implications Of Doha For India - I (Hindu, Muchkund Dubey , Dec 24, 2001)
Some important gains were made and some of the losses minimised even while India had to give in on several critical issues because of its essentially weak bargaining position.
- Global Inequalities (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 24, 2001)
An article by William Easterly and Ross Levine in a recent issue of the World Bank Economic Review discusses what we have learnt from a decade of empirical research on growth.
- How To Delight The Tourist (Business Line, Alex Abraham, Dec 24, 2001)
SEMINARS, conventions, papers, and forums on the topic of leveraging India's tourism potential abound.
- Aftershocks From Enron's Collapse (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 24, 2001)
FOR THE last few years, Enron Corporation has been in the centre-stage of Indias financial news. The future of Dabhol Power Corporation is in doubt, with suitors for its assets still unsure of its revival prospects.
- Implications Of Doha For India - I (Hindu, Muchkund Dubey , Dec 24, 2001)
Some important gains were made and some of the losses minimised even while India had to give in on several critical issues because of its essentially weak bargaining position.
- Global Inequalities (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 24, 2001)
An article by William Easterly and Ross Levine in a recent issue of the World Bank Economic Review discusses what we have learnt from a decade of empirical research on growth.
- What Is The Way Ahead? (Indian Express, H. Kaushal , Dec 24, 2001)
The prime minister and Home minister have spoken about tackling Pakistan.
- The Right(s) Approach To Globalisation (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, Dec 24, 2001)
Income inequality is growing, as are the number of people in abject poverty.
- ‘Our Critics Would Have Liked Us To Be Trigger-Happy’ (The Financial Express, S. S. Tarapore, Dec 24, 2001)
S S Tarapore is no stranger to the world of banking and finance.
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