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Articles 7721 through 7820 of 9936:
- Challenges In Rural Credit - Rbi Advisory Committee Must Sow The Right Seeds (Business Line, V. Jagan Mohan , Dec 19, 2003)
The financial sector reforms without social and rural sensitivity would only aggravate the complexities of agrarian sector reforms, which are yet to take shape. It is thus hoped that the Advisory Committee, being constituted by the RBI, will be a High ...
- Supreme Court And The Common Man (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 19, 2003)
The Supreme Court breathed life into Article 21 of the Constitution by expanding the meaning of the words "right to life" as not mere animal existence, but as life with dignity.
- ‘flexible’ Musharraf Ready To Bend On His Un Kashmir Baggage (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2003)
As Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf today offered the tantalising possibility of new beginnings with India by saying he had ‘‘left aside’’ the 50-year-old demand for a UN-mandated plebiscite in Kashmir and meet India ‘‘halfway’’ in a bid for...
- Bhutan: No To Ulfa, Captives To India (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Dec 19, 2003)
CRACKDOWN:Baruah’s ceasefire call rejected, his key men trapped
- Operation Desert Storm (Telegraph, ANURADHA KUMAR, Dec 19, 2003)
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s landslide win by a margin of 120 seats in Rajasthan surprised even its most ardent supporters. The portents were evident as early as last year’s by-elections in three assembly constituencies. The present election campaign ...
- ‘ Thousands Of Dubeys Have Suffered Fighting Corruption ’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2003)
The prime minister has made a statement condemning Satyendra Dubey’s murder. But businessmen like N.R. Narayana Murthy have already beaten him to it. The ruling party is so busy celebrating its victory in the recent assembly elections, it can’t spare time
- American Tilt Towards India (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Dec 18, 2003)
Dr Henry Kissinger proclaimed at the height of the Bangladesh conflict that it was the intention of the Nixon Administration to “tilt” in favour of Pakistan and against India. Ever since the 1971 conflict, policies of successive US Administrations have...
- Pension Reform, This Time For Mps, Too (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Dec 18, 2003)
Cabinet:Decides today on proposal to relax norms, benefit another 1400
- Supreme In Law (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
The perspective of pure legality may not always square with concepts in other spheres. In upholding the Prevention of Terrorism Act on the grounds of legal and constitutional validity, the Supreme Court has made clear that the discomfort regarding the act
- A Fashion Tag Called Corporate Governance (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Dec 18, 2003)
On the need for a more broad-based code for governance
- Family Calling (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Dec 18, 2003)
Visitors to 10 Janpath on Sonia Gandhi’s birthday were surprised to see Priyanka in active attendance. Usually she keeps herself well hidden from hoi polloi flocking to Sonia’s residence, bearing flowers, dholaks and good wishes. This year, however, she
- `India Rising' - Will It Ride The Demographic Wave? (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Dec 18, 2003)
In about 50 years, India's surging population may be more a boon than a bane, if a recent Goldman Sachs projection comes true. With a surplus of working age people vis-à-vis current G-6 biggies such as the US and Japan, India could benefit fro m low ...
- When Accounting For `Goods', Don't Ignore The `Bads' (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
ACCOUNTING'S job is to measure all that goes to hit the bottomline. There is a risk, however, of missing the woods when counting the trees.
- For A Smile On India’s Face (Indian Express, A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM , Dec 18, 2003)
India dreams big, creates well, competes better. All it needs now is a conducive system, based on fairplay
- Cheating In Polls (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
WHEN Chief Election Commissioner James Michael Lyngdoh says cheating is the bane of Indian elections, one cannot but sit up and take notice. Obviously, what weighed on his mind is his recent experience in holding elections in five states. As he admitted
- Loosen Their Iron Grip (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Dec 18, 2003)
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee realizes the need to rein in teachers’ unions, but convincing his party colleagues will not be an easy task
- How The Reporters Won Him The War (Telegraph, Gouri Chatterjee, Dec 18, 2003)
Finally, it was the Iraqi journalists who gave George Bush his biggest public relations victory. The dishevelled, disoriented images of the deposed dictator were dramatic enough. But it was the roar of approval that rose from Iraqi journalists gathered to
- False Flag (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
Secularism is an absolute value. It should be valued absolutely. One cannot be a secularist one day and a soft Hindutvawallah the day after. Ms Sonia Gandhi has an identity problem but this has nothing to do with the fact that she is an Italian born India
- Hsbc Acquiring Uti Bank: A Palace Coup (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Dec 18, 2003)
While framing the Articles of Agreement connected with the share issue to CDC, the UTI Bank seems to have tripped up. The Agreement stipulated that the UTI should continue to hold 26 per cent equity in the bank. While the UTI was subject to these ...
- Telgi’s Jigsaw Puzzle (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Dec 18, 2003)
A pet peeve for Delhiites is the multiplicity of authorities who operate in the city, or rather the utter lack of communication between them. No sooner has the Jal Board finished digging up a road that it is the turn of the Municipal Corporation to do so
- Statecraft Of The Vanities (Indian Express, Amrita Shah, Dec 18, 2003)
NTR, Amitabh Bachchan, Jayalalithaa, Shabana Azmi, Vinod Khanna, Hema Malini — okay, so now it’s a well established fact that film stars have a yen for politics. But what’s with these new filmi political hoardings? In case you haven’t noticed or the trend
- Does Gandhi Need Another Statue? (Indian Express, R. K. Murthi, Dec 18, 2003)
Tristram Hunt, an eminent historian who teaches at Queen Mary College, London, in a recent article in The Guardian, has made a strong plea for installing a statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Trafalgar Square, the heart of London. He wants the man who fought ...
- ‘satyendra Dubey Is The Embodiment Of The Geeta’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
Two things must be done in the Satyendra Dubey case. First, the media must follow it till the end. The news should not die.
- Flushing Out Ulfa (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
THE MILITARY ACTION by Bhutan against insurgents of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and other Northeastern militant groups camping in its southern jungles will go a long way in addressing India's security concerns in the region. The ...
- Asian Balance And The Subcontinent (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 18, 2003)
A creative Indian policy must aim at leveraging the rise of China and Japan and the Sino-U.S. entente to transform its own security condition in the subcontinent.
- When Vajpayee Spoke Like Nehru (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 18, 2003)
Because of the media's preoccupation with the Indian cricket victory in Australia and with the excitement over the POTA amendment, not much attention has been paid to the import of the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee's performance in the Rajya ...
- High Time Govt. Put Down Corporal Punishment (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 18, 2003)
What happened at a school near Villupuram recently was nothing short of barbaric. This was not the first time it happened in a school and, going by reports and the trend, may not be the last.
- Out Of Pokharan Shadow, India, Us To Sign Hi-Tech Deal (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 18, 2003)
Agreement on Friday likely on space, civilian nuclear cooperation
- Land Link Opens On India’s ‘assurance’ (Indian Express, Subrata Nag Choudhury, Dec 18, 2003)
For two days, this landlocked hill kingdom had remained cut off from the rest of the world. Today as the ULFA leadership appealed to its king for a ceasefire, the Royal Government lifted the ban on the entry and exit of vehicles from Bhutan.
- Courtesy Sc, Bilkis 1st Riot Case With Cbi (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2003)
More than 20 months after the Gujarat riots, the Modi government today agreed to finally refer a riot case to the CBI.
- Feeling Good (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2003)
The finishing, and all important, touch to the feelgood factor being experienced by most Indians was provided by the Indian cricket team on Tuesday morning. There is, perhaps, a coincidental correlation between the pride of Indians and the performance of
- The Future’s Down Under (Indian Express, Jayaditya Gupta, Dec 17, 2003)
Whether you are a footballer or cricketer, hockey player or jockey, success depends largely on one quality: the ability to Seize the Moment. It comes to everyone but only the great can see it coming, prepare themselves and make the most of it. If that is
- End Of Story (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 17, 2003)
Francis Fukuyama was supposed to have at least set the Yamuna on fire during his reincarnated sessions in the capital these past few days. Instead, the author of the End of History was as cold as a deflated souffle, pedantically explaining notions of ...
- ‘dubey Enforces Our Belief In Human Values ’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2003)
There is no place for honest people in our system. If they do not get killed — they are shunted out on branch lines to obscurity. The only solution is to dismantle the system.
Raghubir Singh
- Bhutan Acting Under Indian Pressure: Ulfa (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Dec 17, 2003)
Reeling under heavy losses in flush-out operations carried out since Monday by the Royal Bhutan Army, ULFA chief Paresh Barua today said Bhutan was acting under ‘‘tremendous’’ pressure from India
- Crackdown Hardens, So Does The Build-Up (Indian Express, Subrata Nag Choudhury, Dec 17, 2003)
Day Two of the Bhutanese Army operations against N-E and north Bengal camps in Bhutan saw a perceptible heightening in the deployment of Indian Army jawans along the India-Bhutan border as reports of heavy casualties on both sides trickled in this ...
- Restructuring Postal Services (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 17, 2003)
It is important to protect the Government's role in providing mail services, since it has invested substantially in men, money and infrastructure. At the same time, promoting a monopoly does not suit the times.
- Both Jogi, Judeo Cases A Disgrace: Vajpayee (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2003)
Calling the Judeo and Jogi cases a ‘‘disgrace’’ and ‘‘black spots’’, a visibly upset Prime Minister today tried to take a bitter debate to a higher plane when he urged all parties to rise above politics and ponder on ‘‘what’s happening in the country’’ an
- Cheating Is Bane Of Indian Elections: Lyngdoh (Tribune, Tarun Basu , Dec 17, 2003)
THE Election Commission is finding it more and more difficult to conduct elections in India because the “kind of cheating that goes on today is stupendous”, the Chief Election Commissioner says. Mr James Michael Lyngdoh said in an interview: “The ...
- Cleared Out (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2003)
A state that does not exercise its authority runs the risk of losing it. For far too long, rebel groups from India’s North-east had challenged Bhutan’s sovereignty by setting up camps there. The offensive that the Royal Bhutanese Army has now launched to
- How Old Is An Antique? (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Dec 17, 2003)
The English term, “antiquity”, is derived from the Latin word “antiques” or from “antico” in Italian, which referred originally to the decorative items found in ancient Roman remains, that have captured the imagination of English art collectors in the ...
- Vajpayee's Utopian Saarc (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2003)
AT A TIME when the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is struggling to finalise a South Asian Preferential Trade Arrangement (SAPTA), leading to a South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA), Prime Minister Vajpayee has spoken of a ...
- Cds Is Welcome But Doubts Remain (Tribune, Brig Kiran Krishan , Dec 17, 2003)
THE recent indication by Defence Minister George Fernandes that the government might soon appoint a Chief of Defence Staff has been received with a mixture of incredulity, apprehension and scepticism — incredulity that it should be happening at all after
- A Problem Not Named (Telegraph, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Dec 17, 2003)
The deadly riots occasioned by the Railway Recruitment Board exams in Ass- am and Maharashtra, were a grim reminder of a potentially serious social crisis India might face in the near future. Amidst all the upbeat predictions being made about the India...
- With Eyes Open (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Dec 16, 2003)
Yashwant is doing his job better than Jaswant is doing his
- Careful Fences (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 16, 2003)
On the face of it, there is nothing wrong with Meghalaya wanting to make work permits mandatory for “outsiders” employed in the state. It is easy to understand a small north-eastern state’s anxiety to protect its population from being swamped by outsiders
- Is Corporate Farming Really The Solution For Indian Agriculture? (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Dec 16, 2003)
Contract farming is increasingly being presented as the way out of the morass in which Indian agriculture now finds itself, and is being actively promoted by major international donor agencies, multinational companies and the Central Government. In this
- The Mahatma And The Bjp (Telegraph, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Dec 16, 2003)
Now that the frenzied investigation into the causes of the state assembly elections outcome has run its course, we must turn our attention to the consequences. In a belt across the waist of Mother India are to be seen three of the most communal faces of
- Uma Ministers Will Get Osds: Officers On Sangh Duty (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Dec 16, 2003)
Soon after they took oath in the Assembly today, Chief Minister Uma Bharti and her newly-elected MLAs made it a point to call on BJP organising general secretary Kaptan Singh Solanki. So who’s this man? Loaned to the BJP, this RSS functionary will soon...
- Bhutan Fights In India’s War On Terror (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Dec 16, 2003)
Bhutanese Army cracks down on N-E, north Bengal rebel camps, casualties on both sides on Day One
- 2004 Will Be Fought On 3 Issues: Vajpayee Vs Sonia, Nda Vs Disunited Opposition & Five Years Vs Fifty (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 16, 2003)
Fresh from overseeing his party’s successful state election campaign, Pramod Mahajan, BJP general secretary and former Union minister, spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express. Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s Walk
- Foggy Regulations (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 16, 2003)
THE RELUCTANCE OF New Delhi to move out of the banking sector is seen in its persistence with opaque laws on bank mergers and acquisitions. The role and powers of the Reserve Bank of India in such issues has been left far too vague. For instance, the RBI'
- She May Be Cong But Najma’s Returning To Rs With Govt Help (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Dec 16, 2003)
Rajya Sabha deputy chairperson Najma Heptulla is all set to get a Presidential nomination to the Upper House. Highly placed sources confirmed to The Indian Express that her file had gone to Rashtrapati Bhavan for the President’s signature and an ...
- Naresh Chandra Report - What Is On Horizon For National Carriers? (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Dec 16, 2003)
The recommendations of the Naresh Chandra Committee on civil aviation expectedly plumped for root-and-branch reforms in the country's highly cosseted civil aviation sector, besides suggesting disinvestment in the national carriers.
- Aiims: A Look Back (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 16, 2003)
AMONG the temples of modern India which Jawaharlal Nehru designed was a centre of excellence in the medical sciences. Nehru's dream was that such a centre would set the pace for medical education and research in South-East Asia , and in this he had the...
- Export Of Talent From Punjab (Tribune, Amrik Singh , Dec 16, 2003)
RECKONED in terms of its population, perhaps no other state in India has been exporting as much talent as Punjab has been doing. According to most well-informed estimates, more than a million Punjabis have already settled down in other countries, and the
- The Naval Gaze Is Hazy (Indian Express, S.C. N. JATAR , Dec 16, 2003)
None in his right senses will contest the need for an aircraft carrier for India. Regrettably, however, the question “Why Gorshkov?” remains unanswered in ‘Naval gazing into the future’ by Kailash Kohli (IE, December 13). He has not even discussed the ...
- Bangladesh, 32 Years After (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 16, 2003)
The unity that once bound our eastern neighbour to us is forgotten
- Consolidation In The Banking Sector (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 16, 2003)
THE RECENT ACQUISITION by the British multinational bank, HSBC, of a chunk of shares in the UTI Bank, a new generation private bank, has major implications for the Indian financial sector. Both the investing bank and the target bank have claimed ...
- Oil Sector Disinvestment: The End Or Means? (Business Line, Ruddar Datt , Dec 16, 2003)
AS ON March 31, 2002, 13 public sector enterprises were engaged in producing, refining and selling oil and other allied products. All these enterprises (excluding Bongaigaon Refinery) recorded a total net profit of Rs 12,715 crore in 2001-02, and ...
- To Chase A Crooked Shadow (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Dec 15, 2003)
In what is perhaps the “late Indian stage” in our civilization, the idea is to take what you can and give back as little as possible
- Needed Autonomy (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2003)
THE controversy over the removal of Prof M.G.S. Narayanan from the post of Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) is unfortunate. It not only erodes the autonomy of the premier institution but also affects its administrative ...
- Who Is Afraid Of The Immigrant? (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Dec 15, 2003)
AS I gazed at the photograph depicting a Bihari job-seeker fleeing from the two-legged hounds who call themselves Shiv Sainiks at a railway station in Mumbai last week, I was reminded of my uncle's favourite story. After his pre-university course, he had
- Fast Running Out Of Jobs (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Dec 15, 2003)
Unemployment is growing, and economic theory has no clear answer to the problem. It is not merely the unemployed who suffer, the nation loses because it does not get what the unemployed could have produced. Its socio-economic impact is considerable ...
- A Christmas Carol (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Dec 15, 2003)
Those in their seventies recall how they disliked English missionaries for trashing Hinduism but got their own back singing “God shave the king” in morning assembly while the Indian teachers hid their grins and pretended not to hear this punishable act of
- Turbanator Ii, Dd’s Comedy Show & A (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Dec 15, 2003)
Doordarshan is so delightfully predictable you never know what to expect from it. For example, on a lazy Sunday afternoon, you would have encountered the unexpected sight of an estimated one lakh people waving saffron yellow and bleeding orange flags in
- ‘we Want Firm Action, Not Just Reassurances’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2003)
Endorsing the views expressed in your moving editorial (Wisdom of the helmsman), December 11, permit me to add a few of my thoughts, as one whose heart is larger than his life span, at 80. My heart bled when I read about Satyendra Dubey, martyred at the a
- Blame Not The Fta (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2003)
IS INDIA'S FREE trade agreement with Sri Lanka fast becoming the favourite whipping boy of those frustrated with the dynamics of a free market? Why else should the FTA come under renewed attack from different quarters — especially people's representatives
- Information Society: Go Beyond Declarations (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Dec 15, 2003)
As a result of detailed and intensive exchanges, valuable declarations have been agreed upon. They set out important principles. They set out a sound work programme.
- Powered By Science, Special Train Today (Indian Express, Bhavna Vij, Dec 15, 2003)
The Army’s main battle tank, Arjun, will roll out of the Capital tomorrow to set out on a cross-country ride. So will its various missiles—Agni, Prithvi, Nag and Brahmos—and the multi-role Light Combat Aircraft Tejas and pilotless Nishant. Close behind
- Dubey: Cbi Files Fir, Leaving For Bihar (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2003)
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today registered an FIR taking over the murder case of Satyendra Dubey, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) manager who blew the whistle on corruption in the Bihar stretch of the Golden Quadrilateral
- ‘i Don’t Have Sachin’s Gifts, But I Fight And Do My Best’ (Indian Express, Rohit Brijnath, Dec 15, 2003)
On Sunday night, his face an unshaven study in exhaustion, still finding the energy to smile back at Adelaide diners who stopped by to salute him, Rahul Dravid gave a fleeting glimpse of what moves him.
- Of Hindutva And Governance (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Dec 15, 2003)
Signs of Hindutva were unmistakable in the elections... [But] we are so used to equating it with belligerence that we do not notice it when it takes subtler forms.
- Feel Good, But Not Better (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 15, 2003)
India’s forex reserves must be turned into a tool to spur growth
- The Message From Assembly Elections 2003 - Give The People What They Want (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 15, 2003)
THE din and dust of the State elections in the heartland of India has not yet settled down. Analysts and commentators are busy explaining the rout of the Congress in most of the States.
- Check The Retail (Telegraph, CP Bhambri, Dec 15, 2003)
Rules are unquestionably important in the operations of both the legislature and the executive. Yet a set of written guidelines, like the proposed 97th amendment bill, can never take the place of good sense and ordinary decencies. Till 1985, when the ...
- Madmen, Lovers, Artists (Telegraph, AMIT CHAUDHURI, Dec 14, 2003)
Chokher Bali is to Bengali film what the fall of the Berlin Wall was to Europe
- Little Miss Crackskull (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 14, 2003)
What is it about political correctness that brings out the blackest parody from the nicest people? Two Canadian medics have published, in a serious medical journal earlier this week, an article, which is an entertaining send-up of north American PC. In
- First Step Forward: Cops Track Dubey’s Cellphone, Live After His Murder (Indian Express, Varghese K George, Dec 14, 2003)
Gaya cops say man who had phone is on the run; 10 days after murder, steno called, someone picked up
- For Sonia, Unity Doesn’t Begin At Home (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Dec 14, 2003)
Even AS Congress chief Sonia Gandhi repeated her call to secular parties to join in her ‘‘fight against communalism’’, storm clouds gathered over the AICC headquarters here today.
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