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Articles 7921 through 8020 of 9936:
- Mind That Messenger (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 10, 2003)
That corruption today permeates all walks of life is widely accepted. It is even tolerated as a necessary evil. What is, however, less known is that from time to time there have been individuals who have refused to join the comfortable mainstream and who
- Kudos To Murthy (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2003)
Kudos to N.R. Narayana Murthy (Infosys chief to PM: Probe, speak to family, get Whistleblower Act, December 9) for speaking his mind and asking for justice in the Satyendra Dubey murder case. But I am afraid unless the demand is raised continuously, at ..
- Few Takers For Tv Pay Channel Boxes (Tribune, Sumeet Chatterjee , Dec 10, 2003)
COME December 15, and hundreds of thousands of television viewers in southern neighbourhoods of the Indian capital may not be able to watch their favourite soaps or sports events on cable television.
- He Quit It Job To Pursue His Dream In Us (Tribune, Reeta Sharma, Dec 10, 2003)
The humble village boy now runs a top food chain
- Pm Speaks: Guilty Won’t Be Spared, Wherever They Are (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2003)
Govt committed to ensure fear-free work environment in NHAI; outpouring of sympathy shows Indians care for honesty, have stake in future’
- Naresh Chandra Flight Plan (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2003)
IF THE DOMESTIC airline industry is in a crisis, airlines are all running up huge losses, and growth in passenger traffic is not as fast it ought to be, blame it all on Government policy. The Naresh Chandra Committee, set up to provide inputs for a new...
- For The World To Admire (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Dec 10, 2003)
A dinner-time conversation, a strenuous mental exercise, or an amusing activity while travelling with the family would be to count what you think should be the top of the charts — the super-star ten, then the super 50, and then the 100 all-time favourite
- Whose Intellect, What Property? (Business Line, Kanchi Kohli , Dec 09, 2003)
EVERYTHING seems up for sale today and the stakes are high! The global trade regime is ready to commodify it all as long as there is a market value, be it seeds, labour, technology and even knowledge. There is competition and the push to rise above the...
- A New Form Of Colonialism (Business Line, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Dec 09, 2003)
Holding as much as 30 per cent of the equity capital of the 10 largest Indian companies, and nearly 20 per cent of the equity of the top 50 firms, foreign institutional investors are today responsible for determining the mood of the stock market. While...
- Positive Tones In The Telecom Sector (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Dec 09, 2003)
Though the Indian economy had undertaken comprehensive reforms it is only in telecom that the results are best visible.
- Warming Up For Summit: Both Pms Say Hello, See You Soon (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 09, 2003)
India and Pakistan have entered the final lap that precedes the SAARC summit in Islamabad in January with a short telephone call this evening by Pakistan PM Mir Zafarullah Jamali to Prime Minister A B Vajpayee at 7.30 pm this evening.
- Calling Justice (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
Thank you, Indian Express, who has come out as a responsible newspaper in a country which is growing ignorant day by day. The murder of Satyendra Dubey for his honesty & sincerity has come as a shock for a person like me who has always believed that ...
- Muck Unspooled (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
Leaders must step in, clean up political practices if our democracy is not to go down the tube
- Minorities In South Asia Live In Fear (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 09, 2003)
THE SAHR literally means dawn. This abbreviation is of the South Asian for Human Rights. The two-year-old organisation met informally the other day at Delhi. It could not meet formally nor invite the Press because the Indian mission at Islamabad issued...
- ‘had Govt Acted On Our Draft Whistleblower Bill, Passed Law, Dubey Wouldn’t Have Died’ (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Dec 09, 2003)
Says author of whistleblower draft Justice Jeevan Reddy:Hopes Dubey murder, outrage will prod Govt conscience
- Aids Scare Is For Real (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
IT IS EASY to be cynical of the fuss made about Acquired-Immune Deficiency Syndrome, especially around the World AIDS day on December 1. The sight of many celebrity campaigners for HIV/AIDS may lead people to trivialise the issue. However, scepticism on..
- Election Lessons (Telegraph, Barun De, Dec 09, 2003)
The BJP’s victory shows that the electorate, concerned with more immediate issues, has chosen a party of order over one of diffuse choices
- A Little Learning Or None (Telegraph, Suhas Chakma, Dec 09, 2003)
The Union human resource development minister, Murli Manohar Joshi, has reportedly taken an affront to UNESCO’s 2003 Education For All Monitoring Report, and flayed the organization for making wrong projections on India. Joshi stated that the report’s ...
- Cast Out (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
Ironies abound in Indian politics, and the permutations and combinations that win or lose votes comprise some of the most striking ones. Rajasthan’s chief minister is a woman, for the first time in the state’s history. Projected as a Jat by the Bharatiya
- Remember Europe (Telegraph, J. N. Dixit , Dec 09, 2003)
The last week of November witnessed important meetings between leaders of the European Union and the government of India, a major event following the Indo-European summit to which the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, went last year. The president of
- Feminist Concerns (Tribune, Shivalli M. Chouhan, Dec 09, 2003)
I hope you are not a feminist", as soon as I heard these words from one of the fellow civil services trainee officers who had a very concerned frown on his forehead, at Lal Bahadur Shasatri Academy of Public administration, Mussorie, all my feminist hopes
- No Missing Saffron In Uma Red Carpet (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Dec 09, 2003)
The elections may have been all about development but today when Uma Bharti took the oath of office at a public function in Bhopal, she raised many eyebrows: with her on the dais were some of the leading lights of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement and one of..
- Aviation Panel To Govt: Sky Is The Limit For Reforms (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
The Naresh Chandra committee on development of civil aviation has recommended foreign equity (including foreign airlines) of up to 49% in scheduled domestic and international airlines, 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in non-scheduled air services...
- A Sound And Just Proposal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
THE TAMIL NADU Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa's suggestion that the Governments of India and Sri Lanka take up joint naval exercises to eliminate the threat of unauthorised operations by the sea arm of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam could not ...
- Satyavadi Harischandra (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Dec 08, 2003)
The seed of Harischandra’s story lies in the earliest thoughts of our people, indeed of mankind, for is not the Rig Veda the common heritage of humanity as the first known book ever: in the Tenth Mandala, a short Creation Hymn (190) says: From Fervour ...
- A Tale Of Two Uday Singhs (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Dec 08, 2003)
Uddu and Subbu were friends. Both were commissioned together, they cleared their rigorous probation together and joined the elite 1 Para (Special Forces), the oldest battalion in the Indian Army. Both are dead today.
- Power Of ‘parkati’ Women (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Dec 08, 2003)
The educated woman is not as politically irrelevant as the pundits think
- History, Live And Alive (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Dec 08, 2003)
While celebrating Indian advertising in the pink city, the industry might have sought advice from Vasundhara Raje Scindia or Pramod Mahajan on creating a winning campaign. The latest Nirma TV commercial looks like the entrails of peacock who has just ...
- Tariff Tangle (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2003)
ON THE FACE of it, the US President, Mr George Bush's decision to scrap the `safeguard duty' imposed on steel imports does demonstrate a newfound commitment to the principle of freer market access to global players in the steel industry. But, in reality,
- Why Dollar Will Remain Weak In 2004 (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Dec 08, 2003)
With savings not rising in the US, with America sucking in more imports than it can sell, and with foreigners showing fatigue in buying dollar assets, the bulk of the burden of reducing the US current account deficit must fall on the dollar. Which is why
- On Murder Night, Dubey Vehicle Didn’t Move And A Likely Witness Disappeared (Indian Express, Subrata Nag Choudhury, Dec 08, 2003)
Missing links: I Police say his body shouldn’t have been where it was
- Bjp Victory Without Hindutva Card (Tribune, Satish Misra, Dec 08, 2003)
THE raging debate after the spectacular victory of the BJP in the Hindi-speaking Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in political circles is whether the BJP-led NDA is going to get another term at the Centre.
- The Return To Community (Indian Express, Pradip Biswas, Dec 08, 2003)
Narrative cinema based on a rich literary source will never age
- All The World’s An Asylum (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2003)
From the Asian Centre for Human Rights’ alternate report to India’s first periodic report for the UN committee on the rights of the child
- Microbes And Mindsets (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2003)
AIDS doesn’t adjust to social niceties. We must take it on before it takes us on
- Captain Confident Leads India Charge (Indian Express, Rohit Brijnath, Dec 08, 2003)
Ganguly cracks century barrier, his team takes first-innings lead
- Supreme Sacrifice (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2003)
It is indeed exemplary in this day and age that somebody has given the supreme sacrifice to expose corruption. I think his sacrifice is no lesser than a soldier making the ultimate sacrifice for the country or any freedom fighter who laid down his life...
- Abjuring Alcohol (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 08, 2003)
RECENTLY I had occasion to watch about 200 social activists, a majority of whom were women from rural areas, observing a daylong fast to back up their demand for introduction of total prohibition. A number of well-meaning persons prominent in public life
- Trial By Fire (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Dec 08, 2003)
The author is former director general, National Council for Applied Economic Research, and chairman, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission raosl@hotmail.com
- Power Bonanza (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Dec 07, 2003)
The new Electricity Act is providing conclusive proof that electricity shortage is mainly due to distribution mismanagement. A steel unit in Maharashtra’s most power starved region, who advertised for long term power supply bids was surprised to get over
- Nothing’s Post-1898 (Indian Express, Bhavna Vij, Dec 07, 2003)
Each time you send a letter through a private courier, you break the law. And there’s more
- N Korea Comes To Ask For Missile Parts, India Says Pay For Ship, Forget Arms (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Dec 07, 2003)
New Delhi has asked Pyongyang to cough up Rs 8 crore sovereign guarantee for North Korean ship Ku Wol San, that was ‘‘arrested’’ carrying missile parts and production manuals by the Indian Custom authorities off the Kandla Coast at the height of Kargil...
- For J&k Talks To Move, Please Say No To Leaks, Whisper Campaigns (Indian Express, Sajad Lone, Dec 07, 2003)
Writes Sajad Lone, son of Abdul Gani Lone who was killed for standing up to jehadis in Kashmir. As the stage is set for first-ever Hurriyat-New Delhi talks, Sajad drafts the To-Do and Not-to-Do lists—for both sides
- Beware The Core Ideology (Telegraph, RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE, Dec 07, 2003)
Standing in the courtyard of the Indian International Centre in New Delhi one morning in late October, a prominent member of the Congress think tank and an ardent advocate of the free market told me, “The Congress will have shot itself in the foot if ...
- Mumbai Office Under Scanner (Indian Express, Prafulla Marpakwar, Dec 07, 2003)
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the multicrore stamp paper racket has now shifted its focus on the Mumbai Stamp Office, the licensing authority for stamp vendors.
- ‘ensuring Accountability Is Not Interference’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2003)
By making CAT a universal entrance exam for all MBA courses isn’t the government trying to interfere in autonomous bodies like the IIMs
- ‘this Sense Of Outrage Must Boil To Surface Each Time A Dubey Is Killed’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2003)
Why should there be so much hue and cry about one murder? Aren’t there people getting killed in India in every possible manner any single day? Here’s this boy coming from a remote village in Bihar braving all the economic odds to study at IIT. Quite ...
- Eye On Ls Polls, Bjp To Cement Ties With Allies (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Dec 07, 2003)
Having swept the Assembly elections in three states, the BJP is getting ready for the big fight — the Lok Sabha polls. And the party, not one to leave anything to chance, is all set to tone up the NDA and has even initiated a massive exercise to cement...
- In Foreign Baby Labs, Nris Are Fast Making The White Choice (Indian Express, Reshma Patil, Dec 07, 2003)
From UK to US, Indian couples facing waitlists for Asian eggs are bringing up mixed-race babies with Caucasian donors
- How The Media Lost Its Money (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Dec 07, 2003)
Introspection. If you were politically interested enough to have remained transfixed by your television set when the results of the assembly elections came out last Thursday you would have heard it a lot. It tripped gaily and recurrently off the tongues..
- Human Rights Matter (Indian Express, Soli Sorabjee, Dec 07, 2003)
We have come a long way since 10th December 1948 when the Universal Declaration on Human Rights was adopted by the General Assembly in Paris by an unanimous vote of 48 with 8 abstentions. It was a momentous achievement. The central theme of the ...
- A Knock At The Door (Tribune, T.R. Ramachandran, Dec 06, 2003)
Congress leaders from Punjab found to their discomfort the new levels of efficiency of the Chhattisgarh police. The leaders, who had gone to campaign for Motilal Vora’s son because of the personal rapport they enjoyed with the senior AICC leader, found...
- Poll Notes Of A Limo Liberal (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 06, 2003)
View from Rajasthan’s ground zero: How Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory
- Enable The Disabled (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2003)
ONE way to find out how just and humane a society is, is to study how it treats its disabled members. Measured by this yardstick, the Indian society is unlikely to rank very high. Laws have been passed and reservations made for the benefit of the physical
- Police Chief’s Whistle Makes Laloo Restless (Indian Express, Varghese K George, Dec 06, 2003)
While the public outcry from across the world over whistle-blower Satyendra Dubey’s murder in Bihar following a series of reports in The Indian Express was strong enough for RJD chief Laloo Prasad to get pro-active, the state’s de-facto CM does not know
- Body Politics Has Begun: Your Mafia Vs Your Leak (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2003)
After one week of silence despite the growing clamour for justice, the Bihar government today recommended a CBI probe into the Satyendra Dubey murder case. And in the first such official acknowledgment, RJD chief Laloo Prasad Yadav said that Dubey, ‘‘ ...
- And Now They Speak: Joshi Says Protect The Dubeys (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2003)
Union HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi said today that ‘‘people like Satyendra Dubey’’ need to be protected. For, if incidents like his murder continue, they will ‘‘have a demoralising effect on people who raise their voice when they see things not happen
- Politics After Reform (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2003)
At last some indication that the benefits of economic reform can actually swing votes
- Let’s Define Obscenity, Mr Kher (Indian Express, Anuraha Raman, Dec 06, 2003)
What could possibly be common to a set-top box and the regulation of content the government speaks about? To put it simply, the little box on the television set would have allowed every single parent to decide for herself what is good for her and the ...
- In Ceasefire Season, India & Pak Promptly Settle A Little Cross-Fire (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Dec 06, 2003)
In a signal that both India and Pakistan are committed to the ceasefire on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, Director General of Military Operations on both sides got working to defuse a tense standoff in the Tangdhar sector after troops ...
- Bpo And The Indian Economy (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Dec 06, 2003)
All the euphoria that very easily becomes hype cannot change one thing. IT services cannot do for India what manufacturing did for China.
- Saffron Smiles (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
The saffron flag flies high in three of the four states that went to the polls on Monday. The victories of the Bharatiya Janata Party are convincing and pregnant with messages for the BJP, the Congress and the overall political scenario in northern India.
- An Image That Many Pakistanis Resent (Tribune, Ethan Casey, Dec 05, 2003)
WHEN you are in Lahore, in the north-east of Pakistan near the Indian border and the main city of the country’s dominant Punjabi ethnic group, it’s possible to feel remote from Peshawar along the country’s north-west frontier — barely 300 km away.
- View From The Outside (Telegraph, Purabi Panwar, Dec 05, 2003)
Rohinton Mistry: Ethnic Enclosures and Transcultural Spaces By Nilufer E. Bharucha, Rawat, Rs 475
- ‘in The End, India Rid Satyendra Of His Pain’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
On November 30, The Indian Express reported how Satyendra Dubey, a young NHAI engineer, wrote confidentially to the PMO about corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral project in Bihar. He was then murdered. The e-mail deluge just doesn’t seem to end
- The Food Of Paradise (Tribune, Roshni Johar, Dec 05, 2003)
IN his travel diary entitled “Delhi — Chunking”, the author K.P.S. Menon (who was India’s first ambassador to China in 1947) narrates an interesting incident regarding not China, but the delicious Bengali sweet, the rasgulla.
- Caught Behind (Telegraph, Bharat Ghelani, Dec 05, 2003)
Why is everyone blaming the Board of Control for Cricket in India for suspending Abhijit Kale before starting an inquiry? The national selectors are respectable officials of the board, and when they report against a player in writing, the BCCI must act...
- Catching The Light Of History (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
RAJA DEEN DAYAL: PRINCE OF PHOTO- GRAPHERS (Creative Point, price not mentioned) by Narendra Luther is a lavish exploration of the life and work of an extraordinary Indian artist. Deen Dayal was born in 1844 in an affluent Jain family in Uttar Pradesh and
- Dubey’s Boss Breaks Silence: He Was Honest, Bihar Is To Blame (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Dec 05, 2003)
Khanduri:Asked about breach of secrecy, says: ‘letter may have come through ordinary dak’
- Issues In Ssi Financing (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
SMALL-SCALE INDUSTRY, it seems, is not only labour-intensive but also committee-intensive. Abid Hussain, Nayak, S.L. Kapur, S.P. Gupta, S.S. Kohli — these are popular nomenclatures of official committees that have, in the past two decades, ...
- Bjp Has 3-Course Cong Lunch (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Dec 05, 2003)
As news of its humiliating defeat in the Assembly elections started coming in today, India’s Grand Old Party seemed caught in a daze—handing out tired excuses of ‘‘anti-incumbency’’ (when till yesterday it claimed pro-incumbency was its winning card), its
- Letter To A Murdered Mate (Indian Express, Raj Kamal Jha, Dec 05, 2003)
(if I may, that’s what one of your batchmates said you were called at IIT Kanpur):
- Our Stock Is Bluechip So No Hurry To Sell, Says Bjp (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Dec 05, 2003)
With good news pouring in every minute from Bhopal, Jaipur and Raipur, BJP spirits soared and leaders, putting behind the rout in Delhi, prepared to strike at their principal adversary, the Congress. By evening, when the picture was clear as day, the ...
- Short Take On A Revolution (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
A History of Capitalism: 1500-2000 By Michel Beaud, Aakar, Rs 650
- At Seventeen You Are Not Serious (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
New writing 12 (Picador, £ 8.99) edited by Diran Adebayo, Blake Morrison and Jane Rogers is an absorbing selection of literary gobbets. The writers are mostly from Britain (“based in London or its surrounds”), but also include Ireland, South America...
- The Rainmaker Cometh (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 05, 2003)
Pramod Mahajan and Arun Jaitley have brought to the BJP campaign a new alchemy and have delivered.
- Words Without Meanings (Telegraph, Abhijit Mukherjee, Dec 05, 2003)
The most important weapons in the armour of politicians on their election campaigns are words. Of words are made promises, meant to be forgotten soon after the elections. In Chhattisgarh, the Congress’s Ajit Jogi pleaded that he was a “jogi who was asking
- Flavour Of The Times (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Dec 04, 2003)
Incompetence and delays mark the working of key institutions
- Hurriyat Doves Fly In To Bounce Roadmap Off Top Us Experts (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Dec 04, 2003)
As the Hurriyat doves led by Maulvi Abbas Ansari wait for the start of the dialogue with Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, they are also preparing to bounce off their ‘‘roadmap’’with influential US foreign policy thinktanks.
- Vajpayee's Experiment With Pakistan (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 04, 2003)
The best way for India to take the peace process forward is to focus on unilateral actions.
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