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Articles 19821 through 19920 of 20008:
- Changing The Rules Midstream (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Dec 16, 2001)
IN 1994, the Narmada Bachao Andolan had filed a writ petition as public interest litigation seeking to halt the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP).
- Can One Man Carry Them All Along? (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Dec 16, 2001)
As Hamid Karzai prepares to take over the reins in Afghanistan, he faces formidable challenges from within and without.
- Can One Man Carry Them All Along? (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Dec 16, 2001)
As Hamid Karzai prepares to take over the reins in Afghanistan, he faces formidable challenges from within and without.
- Changing The Rules Midstream (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Dec 16, 2001)
IN 1994, the Narmada Bachao Andolan had filed a writ petition as public interest litigation seeking to halt the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP).
- Causes Of The Taliban Collapse (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Dec 16, 2001)
When the war clouds first started gathering over Afghanistan following the terrorist strikes on the United States on September 11.
- Monitoring The Borders (Hindu, Varun Sahni, Dec 15, 2001)
It is high time Indian defence planners started analysing the viability of a more technology-intensive force structure.
- Here Comes The Son (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 15, 2001)
When small town boy Manoj Bajpai took on the role of the polo-playing playboy prince of Jodhpur in Khalid Mohammad’s film, Zubeida.
- Causes Of The Taliban Collapse (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 15, 2001)
When the war clouds first started gathering over Afghanistan following the terrorist strikes on the United States on September 11.
- Sezs: Hubs Of Economic Activity? (Business Line, Alice George, Dec 15, 2001)
SPECIAL Economic Zones (SEZs), introduced by the EXIM Policy 2000, may not have the desired economic results in terms of increased foreign exchange earnings and foreign investments if the fundamental issues and systemic bottlenecks are not resolved.
- Tamil Nadu Plans To Make Tourism ‘A Spiritual Experience’ (The Financial Express, Joseph Vackayil, Dec 15, 2001)
Tamil Nadu is right now in the green room, dressing up to entice the world to its enduring heritage and enchanting beauty.
- Motivating ’Em For Self-Policing (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, Dec 15, 2001)
Three years ago on my return to the Delhi Police after an experience of prison management, I was posted as Joint Commissioner of Police (Training).
- Sept 11, Dec 13: Pak Dates With Policy Change (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Dec 15, 2001)
Musharraf’s U-turn on Afghanistan should have been accompanied by a change in other aspects of Pakistani policy.
- The Foxhole Mindset (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 15, 2001)
IF someone suggested within a day of the attack on Parliament that we were exaggerating the terrorist threat, he would not even need to get his head examined before being thrown into the mental asylum.
- Monitoring The Borders (Hindu, Varun Sahni, Dec 15, 2001)
It is high time Indian defence planners started analysing the viability of a more technology-intensive force structure.
- A Challenge To Strategic `Order' (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 14, 2001)
THE U.S. PRESIDENT, Mr. George W. Bush, seems poised to notify Russia of his intention to end his country's adherence to the bilateral Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty of 1972.
- Banning Biological Weapons (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Dec 14, 2001)
It is difficult to see how any verification regime acceptable and uniformly applicable to all countries could meet U.S. requirements for reliable verification as well as its objections to intrusive inspections.
- How Strong Is Nhb’s Case Against Anz? (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 14, 2001)
Between 23rd March 1992 and 20th April 1992, ANZ received 9 cheques drawn on the Reserve Bank of India all crossed ‘A/c Payee only’. In all the cheques the ANZ was the payee.
- Never Mind The Wicket, India Inc. Needs To Take The Bat And Score Runs (The Financial Express, Veeshal Bakshi, Dec 14, 2001)
For a nation which used sheer determination, will power and optimism as the most effective weapons to win its Independence, the depth of pessimism today, especially in Indian industry, over the future of the country is quite shocking.
- A Challenge To Strategic `Order' (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 14, 2001)
THE U.S. PRESIDENT, Mr. George W. Bush, seems poised to notify Russia of his intention to end his country's adherence to the bilateral Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty of 1972.
- Beyond The Uneasy Afghan Setting (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Dec 14, 2001)
IN the face of growing violent tendencies, intolerance and conflicts, the collapse of the Taliban regime, symbolically speaking, is a landmark development in the history of human civilisation.
- Banning Biological Weapons (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Dec 14, 2001)
It is difficult to see how any verification regime acceptable and uniformly applicable to all countries could meet U.S. requirements for reliable verification as well as its objections to intrusive inspections.
- Queen, King And Executioner (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Dec 14, 2001)
RAMADAN, the ninth month of the Islamic year, is in progress. It is a holy month that is observed with fasting from dawn to sunset.
- ‘Guidelines Weren’t Followed; Troops Had To Make Do With Defective Gloves During Operation Vijay’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 14, 2001)
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India, in its report on procurement for Operation Vijay, has stumbled upon cases of contracts being signed for ammunition with little or no shelf life.
- Strengthen Indo-Japan Co-Operation In The Agro-Rural Sector (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Dec 13, 2001)
Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s recent visit to Japan indicates a warming up of relations between the two countries. There is a need to carry this relationship forward for mutual economic and diplomatic gains.
- Bangla Gas Export To India: Economics Should Prevail Over Politics (The Financial Express, Sunil Mukhopadhyay, Dec 13, 2001)
Whether Bangladesh will finally export natural gas to India is still uncertain.
- Leveraging On Capacity (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Dec 13, 2001)
DIG trenches only to fill them up! Behind the surface joviality, this Keynesian precept is pregnant with grave implications.
- Time For Golden Opportunities (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Dec 13, 2001)
In the midst of this gloom and doom about the economy and lack of reforms, the national highway development project seems to be progressing well.
- Concerns, Problems And Proposals (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 13, 2001)
We would also like to have some indications as to what the phrase “further focussed analytical work” means.
- Democracy For A Price (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 13, 2001)
THE just-concluded election to the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has inflicted a humiliating and well-deserved defeat on the outgoing SAD-BJP combine for its non-performance and the undignified conduct of its councillors.
- Go Gasohol (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 13, 2001)
THE CENTRE SHOULD be complimented for deciding to permit blending of petrol with ethanol.
- Roots Of Recession (Business Line, S. Goswami, Dec 13, 2001)
THE anthrax scare and the Afghan war aside, the main worry is of the world slipping deeper into a recession.
- Sri Lanka’s New Prime Minister (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 13, 2001)
MR Ranil Wickremesinghe’s assumption of office as Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister on December 9 marks a watershed in the annals of the strife-torn island.
- The End Of Wisdom, Not History (Indian Express, Ratna Rajiah, Dec 12, 2001)
I Don't think they really need to worry about what’s in those history textbooks. As long as history lessons are as excruciatingly boring as they are, no child remembers very much of them anyway.
- End Of Judicial Activism (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 12, 2001)
In a landmark judgement the Supreme Court has shrunk its jurisdiction to decide only on constitutional and statutory issues.
- ‘Jinnah’s Solution For Muslims Was A Disaster, Nehru And Patel Lacked Foresight’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 12, 2001)
Dr Rafiq Zakaria’s book The Man Who Divided India:An Insight into Jinnah’s Leadership and its Aftermath (see box) has come in for sharp criticism in Pakistan.
- Occasional Splashes In The Placid Pool Of Politics Do Not Last Long (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 12, 2001)
Making a splash is not difficult. Benazir Bhutto did that at New Delhi.
- An Indo-Japan Core Agenda (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 12, 2001)
INDIA AND JAPAN seem inclined to evolve a core agenda of cooperation in the specific context of their search for a ``global partnership''.
- Drip Irrigation -- Low-Cost Systems For Small Farmers (Business Line, Mahendra Pandey , Dec 12, 2001)
FRESH water available for human consumption and for agricultural and environmental requirements is rapidly becoming scarcer.
- An Indo-Japan Core Agenda (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 12, 2001)
INDIA AND JAPAN seem inclined to evolve a core agenda of cooperation in the specific context of their search for a ``global partnership''.
- Vietnam Formally Recognises Private Sector Equality (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 12, 2001)
HANOI: Communist-ruled Vietnam’s National Assembly on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing equal treatment to the private sector.
- Useful Product From Oil Palm Waste (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Dec 12, 2001)
EMPTY fruit bunches (EFB), a waste from oil palm that is routinely dumped at mill sites or burnt could be a source for conversion into useful fibres.
- Bricks From Marble Dust (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Dec 12, 2001)
Scientists at the Roorkee-based Central Building Research Institute (CBRI) have found a useful application for wastes generated in the marble industry.
- Operator-Driven Bourses Won’t Carry Too Far (The Financial Express, Sharad Mistry, Dec 11, 2001)
A little over two months ahead of Union Budget 2002-03, domestic bourses have once again turned vibrant.
- Free The Farmer From The Sarkar (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Dec 11, 2001)
NOW that we have negotiated a vantage position for ourselves — full credit for Murasoli Maran and his team for that — the important issue is to prepare for the negotiations in detail and for the actual trade that would follow.
- Ailing Economy A Key Test For New Government In Sri Lanka (The Financial Express, Chamath Ariyadasa, Dec 11, 2001)
Colombo: Putting Sri Lanka’s ailing economy on a firmer footing will be one of the main challenges facing the island’s new government, economists said on Monday.
- Trade Facilitation: Time To Put Our House In Order? (The Financial Express, Pradeep S. Mehta, Dec 11, 2001)
Amidst claims by commerce minister, Murasoli Maran, that “the Singapore issues” are back at Singapore, experts have a feeling that India has only secured a “postponement” of negotiations while conceding the principle that negotiations will take place.
- Cii’s Social Summit Begins In Pune Today (The Financial Express, Rajiv Tikoo, Dec 10, 2001)
Business with responsibility seems to be the flavour of the season.
- Geopolitics And Security Of Energy Routes (The Financial Express, Jasjit Singh, Dec 10, 2001)
One of the most profound impacts of the tragic terrorist attacks on the United States on 11th September and the consequential war against terrorism has been to alter once again the geopolitics of energy and its supplies from Central Asia-Iran.
- Thinking Really Long Term (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Dec 10, 2001)
FOUNDED in 1379, the New College in Oxford, United Kingdom, was due for some repairs in the 19th century.
- Shift Focus On Trouble Brewing In Neighbouring Countries (The Financial Express, Inder Malhotra, Dec 10, 2001)
In Afghanistan, things seem to be falling into place sooner than even the most optimistic leaders of the war on Al-Qaida and the Taliban had envisaged. Strategists and pundits who had talked of the war lasting years have fallen silent.
- Bharatiyar: Bard Of Freedom, Minstrel Of Human Rights (Hindu, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Dec 10, 2001)
Today is Human Rights Day. Let us remember Subramania Bharathi. Never in the contemporary history of free nations did live a celestial composer of revolutionary rage so sublime as Subramania Bharathi.
- Bharatiyar: Bard Of Freedom, Minstrel Of Human Rights (Hindu, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Dec 10, 2001)
Today is Human Rights Day. Let us remember Subramania Bharathi. Never in the contemporary history of free nations did live a celestial composer of revolutionary rage so sublime as Subramania Bharathi.
- Insured Against Error (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 10, 2001)
However the different environments under which doctors work in India must be recognized.
- Law Against Nature (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 10, 2001)
It is sad when the idea of personal liberty in a modern democracy brutally excludes a man’s right to have sex with another man, or a woman’s with another woman.
- Ancient Monuments (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 10, 2001)
Delhi: The report of the working of the Archaeological Department in the Delhi Province during 1925-1926 shows that out of a sum of Rs 89,233 spent on the conservation and maintenance of Mohammedan and British Monuments in the Delhi Province.
- Criminal Neglect Of Primary Schools (Tribune, T. R. Sharma, Dec 08, 2001)
Article 45 (Directive Principles of State Policy) lays down that within a period of 10 years commencing from the date of promulgation of the Constitution of India (January 26, 1950) the State shall endeavour to provide free.
- Winds Of Change In Sri Lanka? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 08, 2001)
THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE of Sri Lanka seems to be expanding.
- Making Big Issue Out Of Merchant Banking (Business Line, Shaji Vikraman , Dec 08, 2001)
IN 1993-94, at the height of the capital market boom, when several primary issues would open on one day, even flunkies to the bosses of Indias leading merchant banks would fly business class, jetting from one town to another, hawking these issues.
- The Enron Saga (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Dec 08, 2001)
The market did not punish Enron, the company killed itself with its financial practices.
- Corporate Crusaders Inc (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 08, 2001)
CORPORATE wars, we have been told by Home Minister L.K. Advani and Disinvestment Minister Arun Shourie over the last few days, are becoming so serious, they are sabotaging government decisions.
- Fasten Seat Belts, Please (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 08, 2001)
AS in most things these days, it took a conscientious PIL leading to a Supreme Court order.
- Big Men With A Little Madness (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 08, 2001)
YOU can go to Mohali to see cricket. Or to get an insight into this peculiar Indian inability to digest success, to tolerate somebody who leaves visible, lasting evidence of his success staring in your envious face.
- Winds Of Change In Sri Lanka? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 08, 2001)
THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE of Sri Lanka seems to be expanding.
- The Enron Saga (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Dec 08, 2001)
The market did not punish Enron, the company killed itself with its financial practices.
- Emerging Tasks For Mr Sinha (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Dec 08, 2001)
THE Budget time is at hand, and the Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, is sending mixed signals.
- Japan Needs To Remodel Its Investment Outlook (The Financial Express, Smita Banerjee, Dec 08, 2001)
Japan has been a significant partner of India in terms of economic benefits. It was given overriding importance as an engine for the growth of India’s market-driven economy in the post-liberalisation period.
- Fdi: Putting It In Perspective (Business Line, S. Venu , Dec 07, 2001)
There is a constant refrain in many quarters that India has not seen adequate FDI inflows, despite a decade of liberalisation, to an extent comparable with China, Brazil or even Malayasia.
- Why Blood Red Becomes A Colour Of Choice (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 07, 2001)
The means of the Maoists are unjustified, but their ends find resonance in the Nepalese countryside where poverty’s the rule and governance, the exception.
- Points Of Interest (Indian Express, T. V. R. Sher, Dec 06, 2001)
How often have you seen the elder in a family placing a gold necklace around a newborn? Don’t bother! Fate has already placed a chain around the child — an iron chain of debt.
- Leverage Technology To Tackle Competition -- Mr Janki Ballabh, Chairman, State Bank Of India (Business Line, Rajalakshmi Menon, Dec 06, 2001)
WITHOUT being unfair to practising bankers, it has to be said that they hold back more than they reveal in interviews.
- The Ordinary Becomes The Hero (Indian Express, Amrita Shah, Dec 06, 2001)
Some years ago there was a British game show on television called The Crystal Maze.
- Reforms Have Added Very Little To India’s Share In The Global Export Basket (The Financial Express, P Vinod Kumar, Dec 06, 2001)
“Colour of the cat seldom matters as long as it catches the mice”.
- Financial Markets -- Buoyed By Hope Of Integration (Business Line, Rukmani Vishwanath, Dec 06, 2001)
MARKETS do not mature overnight. Ask any banker and he will say turmoil and crisis play a `development role' in their evolution.
- Leverage Technology To Tackle Competition -- Mr Janki Ballabh, Chairman, State Bank Of India (Business Line, Rajalakshmi Menon, Dec 06, 2001)
WITHOUT being unfair to practising bankers, it has to be said that they hold back more than they reveal in interviews.
- New Fertiliser Policy Required To Encourage Balanced Nutrient Use (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Dec 06, 2001)
The government has so far failed to introduce a comprehensive fertiliser policy.
- Trade In Services: Needed, A Balanced And Proactive Approach (The Financial Express, Pradeep S. Mehta, Dec 06, 2001)
IN a large international organisation like the World Trade Organisation (WTO), in spite of the “one country, one vote” principle, most of the countries do not get what they deserve.
- For The Cause Of Development (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 06, 2001)
We take note of the work which has been done in the general council and other relevant bodies since the ministerial declaration of May 20, 1998 and agree to continue the work programme on electronic commerce.
- Schoolboy Errors (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 06, 2001)
ENRON is now a fallen giant, unseated like the E in its logo. While auditors like to take credit for corporate successes, few would be interested in debits for failures.
- That’s Not The Punjab I Know (Indian Express, Gurtej Singh, Dec 05, 2001)
Hartosh Singh Bal’s article, ‘Temple plots and holy men’ (IE, November 21) pegged on to V.S. Naipaul’s comments made interesting reading. Naipaul’s earlier comments on India and those of Nirad Chaudhri would have made even more gripping reading.
- Will Spiralling Costs Sink Ssp? (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Dec 05, 2001)
IT MAY not need a Medha Patkar or Arundhati Roy to spoil the party for the ambitious Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) long heralded as Gujarats life line.
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