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Articles 20521 through 20620 of 21681:
- How To Deal With The Gang In New York (Indian Express, Shubh Saumya, Oct 11, 2003)
Treat the UN-centred order as a crime cartel. As the new toughie in town, India has to hustle its way in
- The Elephant & Panicking Flamingos (Indian Express, Trevor Chesterfield, Oct 11, 2003)
Bowling to a teenager who was then just plain Gary Sobers and barely an emerging force in the West Indies side in the mid-1950s was a frightening experience for this writer, a leg-spinner who had his own dreams of glory.
- Groping For Answers (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Oct 11, 2003)
Why did they do it, the Californians? It’s not just the Indian media that is asking questions. The American media is asking them too.
- In The Land Of Pure, Law Is On Trial (Indian Express, Najam Sethi, Oct 11, 2003)
Pakistan’s justice system, based on blind enforcement of Islamic provisions, outdoes even Arab countries
- The Use And Misuse Of Pota (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Oct 10, 2003)
The curious case of the Union Minister of State for Non-conventional Energy Sources, M. Kannappan, should have woken the country to the problems being created by the use and misuse of the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) but it evidently has
- Army Scraps 87,000 Swadeshi Shells Meant For T-72 Tanks (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Oct 10, 2003)
The Indian Army’s main strike formations are staring down an empty barrel. It is understood that the Army has rejected as defective a massive consignment of 87,000 shells for its mainstay T-72 Main Battle Tank.
- A Neighbour’S Paranoia (Indian Express, Jasjit Singh, Oct 10, 2003)
Pakistan’s search for parity with India is leading it up a blind alley
- Here Comes The New Prime Minister (Indian Express, Balbir K Punj, Oct 09, 2003)
A swadeshi Don Quixote is on the loose with his magic lathi, promising to make a Bihar out of everything he touches
- Look East Policy: Phase Two (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Oct 09, 2003)
Phase two of the Look East policy will help break out of the political confines of the subcontinent that have severely limited India's strategic options.
- Pakistan: The Siege Within And Without (Indian Express, Shireen M Mazari, Oct 09, 2003)
Pakistan is caught between an India waiting to cash in on the doctrine of premption and a society fast imploding
- Uncertain Times In Afghanistan (Hindu, M.K. Bhadrakumar, Oct 09, 2003)
Afghanistan continues to fragment politically. The blame is being put on the warlords but the malaise runs deeper.
- Kashmir: Averting Fragmentation (Deccan Herald, Balraj Puri, Oct 08, 2003)
The people of Kashmir, in whose name militancy was launched, are today divided into antagonistic groups
- What Price The Sri Lanka Peace Process? (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Oct 08, 2003)
Efforts by Sri Lanka to reach a peaceful settlement to the prolonged ethnic conflict appear to have reached a dead end. By bending over backwards to accept the demands of the LTTE, the Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Mr Ranil Wickramasinghe, has alienated an..
- `Strength Of Indo-British Ties Lies In People-To-People Link' (Business Line, Vinay Kamath, Oct 08, 2003)
SIR ROB YOUNG, British High Commissioner to India since January 1999, returns to the UK after four tumultuous years when powerful events gripped the world stage. As he says, the last few months of his assignment have been spent in defending his government
- Looking East (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2003)
THE MOVE TO upgrade the level of the Bangladesh-India-Myanmar-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) forum to a summit needs to be welcomed. For six years now, the regional economic cooperation forum, which seeks to bridge South Asia ...
- They Have A Different View (Hindu, Sudha Ramachandran, Oct 07, 2003)
In the perception of the women, the crisis in Kashmir was primarily related to issues of livelihood and employment rather than rigged elections and the crisis of political democracy.
- The Chinese Are Coming (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 07, 2003)
Did Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee bring forward his visit to Bali by a day so as to accommodate a meeting with Chinese premier Wen Jiabao? That was the speculation on the eve of Vajpayee’s departure for the Asean summit in Indonesia on Sunday, on ..
- 'The Captain Should Be Appointed For A Year, And Allowed To Settle Down' (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 06, 2003)
Saurav Ganguly, the Indian captain, spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief, The Indian Express, at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens. Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk
- Need To Engage Pakistan (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Oct 06, 2003)
Hardliners in India and Pakistan sustain each other through their actions. How their pressures are to be de-linked from the decision-taking processes is the main task for the two Governments.
- Key Indo-Us Deal Is Gliding Ahead: Powell (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 06, 2003)
Defence, N-tech and space are covered in agreements
- India And Proliferation Security (Hindu, Raja Mohan, Oct 06, 2003)
India will soon have to make up its mind on whether to join the new and far-reaching plans of a United States-led coalition to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction through muscular military action.
- Newsreel: 28.09.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2003)
Andhra CM N Chandrababu Naidu survives with a shoulder injury after PWG activists set off landmine blasts on the Tirumala-Tirupati road. Probe is ordered by the Andhra government and several cops are suspended.
- ‘us, Israel, India Fighting Same Menace, But We’re Not Axis’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2003)
DAVID DANIELI, ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO INDIA
- Talking To Pakistan (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Oct 04, 2003)
Raised expectations and abject failures are not prescriptions for long-term, meaningful engagement between India and Pakistan.
- Just Deserts (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Oct 04, 2003)
It's just as well, now they tell us, that India and Pakistan did not send troops to Iraq. A report in the NEW YORK TIMES this week suggested it isn’t just Islamabad and New Delhi that are relieved — Baghdad is relieved as well. Because Indian and Pakistan
- Open Goal, Closed Minds (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 04, 2003)
Hockey’s out of its hole, but an establishment that doesn’t value its stars is pushing it back in
- Three Parts To A Whole (Indian Express, Vinod Patney, Oct 03, 2003)
A good way to assess the required level and nature of defence expenditure is to estimate the superiority ratio against the adversary. One set of estimates, purportedly calculated by our army on a single service basis, suggests that since 1971, our ...
- Time To Get Reel (Indian Express, G. Srinivas Rao, Oct 03, 2003)
Back to the ’40s with a Pancholi romance
- Perverse Logic (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 03, 2003)
IT WAS really a treat to watch the British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, deliver his keynote address at the annual Labour Conference held at Bournemouth. Treat, because it packed a lot of punch and took his critics head on with impressive eloquence and..
- Strangers Within (Deccan Herald, Leela Ramaswamy, Oct 03, 2003)
To be wary of strangers is a natural thing, but it could be a total stranger who bails you out.
- Dubai Storekeeper Reveals Let Link (Indian Express, S. Ahmed Ali, Oct 03, 2003)
Patane, fourth man, completes conspiracy picture
- Knowledge-Hungry Yes, Food-Hungry No (Business Line, Kala S. Sridhar, Oct 03, 2003)
AT A panel discussion at IIM-Lucknow, Jean Dreze pointed to a paradox of Indian media and/or mindset. Newspapers and magazines are full of articles on such issues as nuclear war, globalisation and even cricket, but it is rare to see writings on as basic..
- Let's Start From The Scratch (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Oct 02, 2003)
Cheap credit, SMP/SAP, crop insurance, free power... Agriculture policy-making has been reduced to tinkering with an eye on votes. It is time the slate of farm policies was wiped clean for a new draft with a new architecture and a new ambition
- Icc’s New Rain-Rule Will Favour High-Scoring Team (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2003)
Though most Indians would like to forget the 2003 ICC World Cup final, there was a stage when India were 12 runs and a heavy shower away from winning the match. To prevent such a travesty of justice actually taking place, the International Cricket Council
- Neighbour’s Envy (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Oct 02, 2003)
While the Indian mission’s media managers in New York couldn’t arrange much coverage for Atal Behari Vajpayee in American newspapers, they tried to gloss over their inadequacies by gleefully parading the negative publicity Pervez Musharraf got.
- India Backs Un Restructuring (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Oct 02, 2003)
THE 2003 UN General Assembly began its 58th session with an agonising introspection of failings of the world body in the face of ever-growing threats to peace and security, and the "fundamental challenge" posed by unilateralism to the founding principle..
- Self Goal On Prime Time (Indian Express, Jayaditya Gupta, Oct 01, 2003)
We are not concerned about the media.’’ With this sentence, K.P.S. Gill has probably done more harm to the cause of Indian hockey than at any other point of time in his 10-year reign as head of the Indian Hockey Federation. Gill’s statement was in ...
- After_the_quarrel_in_new_york (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 01, 2003)
We ended up fielding our Prime Minister in a ritualistic spat, without sorting out the confusion at the heart of our policy.
- Meaning_of_asia_cup_triumph (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2003)
THE FIRST WIN in six Asia Cup hockey championships since their inception in 1982 is significant in two aspects. First, it ensured India a place in the 2006 World Cup. India has been regularly competing in the qualifiers from 1989. Secondly, the ...
- Come Home To Kandahar (Indian Express, Manjeet Kripalani, Oct 01, 2003)
To Afghans, India is ‘most favoured nation’. But the idea of India is stuck in the era when Bollywood still meant Amitabh and Mithun
- Energy Security (Hindu, M. R. Srinivasan, Sep 30, 2003)
Even after 50 years of planning, the country has not achieved self-reliance in energy supply.
- Deprive The Villains Of Their Heroin (Indian Express, BULBUL ROY MISHRA, Sep 30, 2003)
Several hundred tonnes of opium gets refined into heroin in secret, makeshift laboratories in Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan. It then finds its way to the West.
- To Islamabad Via Washington (Indian Express, V A Pai Panandiker, Sep 29, 2003)
Like it or not, march to peace with Pak will require US ‘vehicle’
- Pakistan: Taking The Longer View (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 29, 2003)
The Government has come to attach far too much political importance to bilateral meetings with Pakistan by refusing to have them on the margins of international gatherings.
- Perverse Pervez (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2003)
Ask not what President Musharraf says, but who he says it to
- Pm Blows Chill Wind Over Gen Musharraf’s Hot Air (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 26, 2003)
‘Musharraf admitted to UN that Pak has hand in terror’; ‘World doesn’t talk to Al-Qaeda...we won’t negotiate too’
- Issues Clarified (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2003)
PRIME MINISTER ATAL Bihari Vajpayee appears to have killed two birds with one stone when he spoke of India's security concerns in the course of a conversation with the United States President, George W. Bush. The essence of Mr. Vajpayee's message ...
- Decline Of The Hurriyat And After (Hindu, Balraj Puri, Sep 25, 2003)
The Hurriyat Conference's relevance has been increasingly challenged in post-election Jammu and Kashmir.
- ‘india Can Be A Little More Magnanimous’ (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Sep 25, 2003)
Major General (retd) Mahmud Ali Durrani was head of the Board of the Pakistan Ordnance Factories when he retired from the Pakistan Army in September 1998. Member of the Balusa Group started by Shirin Tahir-Kheli — who is senior director for democracy ...
- Pm, Bush Lunch, Gen Serves Old Whine (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 25, 2003)
‘Kashmir most dangerous dispute, end brutal suppression, stop weapons sale’
- London To Gwalior, Defence To History (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Sep 25, 2003)
By the time you read this, British Chief of Defence Staff General Michael Walker and wife Lady Victoria will already be on the old Agra road, headed for Gwalior to keep a lunch appointment with Sikander Saab’s regiment.
- International Terrorrism — The Saudi-Pakistani Nexus (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Sep 25, 2003)
Even as evidence is emerging about how Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have worked hand in hand to support international terrorism by the Al Qaeda, the Bush Administration continues to chase shadows and blame Iran for allegedly supporting terrorism, as it did
- India, U.S. And Non-Proliferation (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 25, 2003)
The Indo-U.S. negotiations reflect a political commitment to deal with a problem that has long hobbled bilateral relations.
- Disquiet On The Northern Front (Indian Express, Ajai Shukla, Sep 25, 2003)
The Northern Areas, the forgotten corner of Jammu and Kashmir, is set to become Pakistan’s new mess
- India Does Some Shelling In New York (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 24, 2003)
Furious that General Musharraf had secured the floor and grabbed media attention, India on Monday stayed away from an international conference and dismissed an opportunity to explain the battering it continues to receive from cross-border terrorism.
- Pm Lunch With Bush Has Joint Statement And Iraq On The Menu (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 23, 2003)
A reinvented relationship between India and the US is on the anvil as both sides seek to sidestep their recent differences over Iraq and Pakistan, and move into fresh gear with the signature of a joint statement between Prime Minister A B Vajpayee and ...
- Don Blows In Pak Face (Indian Express, Amir Mir, Sep 23, 2003)
After a decade in denial, Pakistan has begun to realise the security implications of having this NRI gangster at home.
- The Worst Kept Secret (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 23, 2003)
Dawood Ibrahim as double-edged sword: Pakistan is just discovering this
- From Mumbai To Karachi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 23, 2003)
AN UNWITTING ADMISSION? A calculated leak? A misquoted remark? The exact reasons why two Pakistan officials drew attention to Dawood Ibrahim's business interests in Karachi are far from clear. Not surprisingly though, the statements they ...
- Riding The Waves (Indian Express, G Parthasarathy, Sep 22, 2003)
Just a few days before the recent bomb blasts that shook Mumbai, I was attending an international conference organised by the Asia-Pacific Centre for Security Studies in Honolulu, to discuss India’s role in the Indian Ocean. The conference was taking ...
- Fishing In Troubled Waters (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Sep 22, 2003)
The problems of the Indian fishing community are almost a mirror image of the Pakistani fishermen's experiences of recent years.
- Berlin Talks On, Iraqi Council Member Shot (Indian Express, Reuters, Sep 21, 2003)
As Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder renewed calls for a stronger UN role in Iraq as Germany and France kicked off a fence-mending summit with Britain on Saturday, gunmen in Baghdad opened fire on a car carrying one of the three women on Iraq’s 25-member US
- Celebrate Cancun, But With Caution (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Sep 21, 2003)
Arun Jaitley, the Commerce Minister, has a neat, legal mind. Before he went to Cancun, he had identified the three possible results of the ministerial meeting: good deal, no deal or bad deal. And he had concluded that while a good deal would be the most
- Your Q, His A: Defense & Security Affairs (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2003)
Air Commodore Jasjit Singh, Editorial Advisor (Defence and Strategic affairs) to The Indian Express, answers your questions on strategic issues. Singh, a former director of the Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis
- Newsreel: 14.09.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2003)
The much-awaited Rae Bareli special court verdict on Ayodhya has the Sangh Parivar all charged and the BJP a wee bit confused. While the party heaves a sigh of relief in the exoneration of Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, cases against HRD Minister ...
- Mission Baghdad Is Wide Open As Pm Lands In The Us (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 21, 2003)
By the time Prime Minister A B Vajpayee arrived in New York last evening, Hurricane Isabel had left town, leaving in her wake a warm, anticipatory glow over meetings with major leaders here, including a first, key encounter between External Affairs ...
- Slow Drift On First Track (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Sep 19, 2003)
Is the sweetness in Indo-Pak relations about to end? We shall know when General Pervez Musharraf addresses the UN General Assembly on September 24. The gaps that must have been left in Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s speech scheduled for September 2
- Talking Turkey (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2003)
A great deal more has to be done if our ties with Turkey are to assume significance
- A Community, Strangely Connected (Indian Express, Seema Alavi, Sep 18, 2003)
The liberal ambience of Lucknow where I grew up ensured I was unconscious of my Muslim identity. The Babri masjid demolition made me aware I was a Muslim. The Gujarat riots underlined my difference with others because of being a Muslim. And yet, being...
- Two Fugitives And Their Undying News Video Show (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 18, 2003)
Forget the written word, the spoken word is making itself heard now — more so than ever in Iraq and Afghanistan. And the spoken word is itself raising a lot of questions.
- Ensuring The Future Of Democracy (Deccan Herald, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 18, 2003)
Citizens’ council can meet the need for intelligent and adequate organisation of voters in our democracy
- The Mutual Suspicion Stays (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Sep 18, 2003)
It may not have been enshrined in the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation charter, but extending "personal invitations" to heads of state/government for summit meetings has become a SAARC convention.
- A Nadir Over A Summit (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 18, 2003)
Yashwant Sinha’s right: Saarc is the only event New Delhi should confirm for now
- Both General & Pak Board Chief To India: Let’s Play Ball (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 18, 2003)
Even as the Indian government sits on its decision to send a Test cricket team across the border, Pakistan has gone on a charm offensive. Over the past 24 hours, President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan Cricket Board chief Rameez Raja and even ICC Chairman...
- Let’s Get To Know The Leh Of The Land (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Sep 18, 2003)
Forget big armies, small crack units are the in thing. The Indo-US military exercises in Ladakh indicate India’s Special Forces thrust
- The Hurriyat Meltdown (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2003)
AT ONE LEVEL, the formation of a parallel All Parties Hurriyat Conference led by Islamist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani is not news. The new organisation simply gives formal shape to the long-standing de facto schism among secessionist ...
- Inside Iran, A Persian Paradox (Indian Express, Jasjit Singh, Sep 17, 2003)
There are civilisations and there are states, but there are few civilisational states, and even fewer civilisational nation-states. India and China represent the latter, and so does Iran which has undergone some remarkable changes in the past quarter ...
- Don’t Delink Muslims From The Rest Of India (Indian Express, M. N. BUCH, Sep 17, 2003)
Proposals that seek to institutionalise a Muslim vote bank are certainly not tools for empowerment
- Musharraf Has No Nose For Diplomacy (Indian Express, Benazir Bhutto, Sep 17, 2003)
Decision making in Pakistan once took place in an institutional framework, allowing debate between different governmental departments. This resulted in credible, legitimate, serious and acceptable policies, based on consensus.
- Oh, To Be British! (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Sep 16, 2003)
Once entertained only on the fringes of the far Right, the idea has now been enthusiastically embraced by the Tony Blair Government.
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