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Articles 20721 through 20820 of 21681:
- News Reel 17.08.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2003)
• The Monsoon Session gets over, but skies hardly clear up. Days after a Congress-led No-Trust motion is defeated by voice vote convincingly, the BJP gets an egg on the face as its allies rise up in arms over a proposed Bill to ban cow slaughter across
- Our Lady Of Diminishing Returns (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Aug 24, 2003)
Sonia Gandhi achieved an astonishing political feat last week. She became the target of her own motion of no confidence. I base this assertion on comments that drifted my way afterwards from Delhi’s drawing rooms and corridors of power. My, how confident
- Your Q, His A (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 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
- Punjab Reclaims Its Astroturf, And How (Indian Express, Manish Kumar, Aug 24, 2003)
Gagan Ajit, Jugraj, Prabhjot, Deepak...nation’s gain after terrorism’s lost years
- ‘first Freedom For Kashmir, Peace Later’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2003)
Pakistan intends to establish peaceful relations with India but Kashmir will remain the ‘‘central bone of contention’’ until Kashmiris get ‘‘self-determination,’’ Pakistani premier Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has said.
- Panchayati Raj, Pakistani Style (Indian Express, George Mathew, Aug 23, 2003)
Bhurban near Murree, a beautiful hill station near Islamabad, was recently the venue of a path-breaking conference on local government. Pakistan’s National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB), established in 2000, organised it. Its mandate is to provide clean ...
- Voice Of Hindustan (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Aug 23, 2003)
There was a time when most people of northern India extending from Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s Peshawar to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's Calcutta down to Bapu Gandhi’s Sabaramati spoke a language all Indians down to Andhra Pradesh could understand and speak
- Cricket And The Faithful (Indian Express, HASAN MANSOOR, Aug 23, 2003)
As Saeed Anwar begins preaching at a mosque, his former team-mates rethink religion too
- Cooperating Against Terror (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Aug 23, 2003)
The ASEAN-U.S. Joint Declaration on combating international terrorism will be put to the test by Washington's stand on Jakarta's request regarding Hambali.
- Our Gold Lining In Amsterdam Cloud (Indian Express, Manish Kumar, Aug 23, 2003)
You can be sceptical and say that India played at its best when it didn’t really matter. And that maybe it was Pakistan being the rival that stokes passions. But the bottomline was: India played its best hockey in years, overwhelmed Pakistan 7-4 with a
- Tracks To Diplomacy (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Aug 22, 2003)
I enjoy meeting my Indian friends,” says the suave young businessman as he takes the turn towards a huge, palatial mansion in Lahore’s Gulberg. “It is the idea of India we are uncomfortable with.” Inside, the decor shimmers with opulence. Rugs on the wall
- Waiting For Prem Nath (Indian Express, V. MOHINI GIRI, Aug 22, 2003)
Some 32 years ago, the newspaper had headlines screaming, ‘Plane Missing’. A young girl named Shammi Malhotra, beautiful and intelligent, holding two small children, came to see me at the office of the War Widows’ Association. An IAF plane, AN-12-BL-534,
- Let Them Go (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2003)
The apex court is right in allowing Pak prisoners who’ve served their terms to go home
- Pm Opening Hurriyat Door: Mufti (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Aug 21, 2003)
The Prime Minister’s Independence Day announcement that he will be in Srinagar later this month acquires a new significance with Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed saying that the Centre will soon initiate a serious dialogue process at the ‘‘highest ...
- Laloo Show: Paswan Sore Loser (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Aug 21, 2003)
Rivalries in Bihar are almost as intense as the clash of the Tamil titans. The Laloo Prasad Yadav-Ram Vilas Paswan tussle shadowed the recent visit of parliamentarians to Pakistan from the time they left Delhi.
- Conflicting Viewpoints Sans Acrimony (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Aug 21, 2003)
"May Allah bless your efforts with success," these words, in one form or the other, were used by the public to greet us — the group of parliamentarians, journalists and experts — who visited Pakistan earlier this month.
- Terms Of Re-Engagement (Indian Express, JAGAT S. MEHTA, Aug 21, 2003)
The reach and responsibilities of professional diplomacy have expanded immeasurably and so have the pitfalls.
- The Two Images Of Lahore (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Aug 20, 2003)
Image number one. It was a nightmarish experience to drive on Lahore's Mall on August 14, Pakistan's Independence Day. The posh wide road, with four lanes and side streets, was insufficient to contain the boisterous throngs, using all means of transport
- Delhi Tightrope On Israel Red Carpet (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 20, 2003)
Nervous about the possible reaction to a first-ever visit by Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon from September 9-11, India has invited Palestinian foreign minister Nabil Sha’ath to New Delhi on August 29.
- South Asia’s Four Play (Indian Express, SHAHID JAVED BURKI, Aug 20, 2003)
The road to Indo-Pakistani cooperation flows through four key areas of the economy. For a start, New Delhi can trade its IT expertise for Islamabad’s energy
- Modi In London (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Aug 20, 2003)
Narendra Modi triggered multiple word associations on his recent trip to London, all of them sinister. The GUARDIAN took one look at the visitor and thought Pinochet. His enemies, it noted, liken him to Hitler, Milosevic, Pol Pot. The paper remembered
- Flights Of Fancy (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 19, 2003)
Throw open the doors and windows between India and Pakistan, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said on Independence Day address. Tell that to the MEA. The latest is civil aviation teams from both countries will finally meet on August 27-28 in Islamabad
- Does Bjp Really Want The Code? (Indian Express, COLIN GONSALVES, Aug 19, 2003)
Both in the Shah Bano case and in the Sarla Mudgal case, the Supreme Court found successive governments ‘‘wholly remiss’’ in acting in accordance with Article 44 of the Constitution in bringing into force a uniform civil code and requested the prime ...
- Leave It To Laloo (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Aug 19, 2003)
As an extra in Laloo’s roadshow to Pakistan, I watched with fascinated interest the media focus at the New Delhi railway station turn to media frenzy as we crossed the border at Attari-Wagah, Pakistani cameramen and anchors elbowing out each other to gain
- A Number Of Positives (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Aug 19, 2003)
Abid and Abida narrate the story of their stay in Washington in the early 1990s — how they established a feeling of togetherness, a good working relationship and, thereby, confused the United States administration. Abid Hussain, an accomplished civil
- Blame Game On Reservation (Deccan Herald, S Simhadri, Aug 19, 2003)
All major political parties, except those of the oppressed castes, subtly oppose empowerment of the OBCs
- Washington’s Oil Spill (Indian Express, G Parthasarathy, Aug 18, 2003)
Browsing through a bookshop that was full of Indian IT professionals and their families in California’s Silicon Valley, my eyes fell on a book intriguingly titled: Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold our Soul for Saudi Crude.
- Kalam Makes Way For The Precedent (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Aug 18, 2003)
The poor President. His address to the nation on the eve of Independence Day is telecast live on DD and then consigned to the nether regions of bulletins on the private news channels — after a commercial break, after Sonia Gandhi, the Supreme Court, the
- Delhi Says ‘nothing Unusual’ In Kargil (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2003)
India today rejected reports of massive mobilisation by the Army near the Line of Control in the Kargil-Drass sector terming all troop movement as ‘‘normal.’’
- Vajpayee's Pakistan Policy (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 18, 2003)
Four months after launching yet another initiative towards Pakistan at Srinagar, the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, seems unfazed by the lack of progress on the official front with Pakistan. Patience, persistence and a series of positive gestures
- Winning Hearts With A `Japha' (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Aug 18, 2003)
`Japha' is the Punjabi word for a tight, affectionate embrace and no one does it better than Indians and Pakistanis. This was rediscovered as we, a mixed group of parliamentarians, journalists and experts from India, entered the border at Wagah earlier
- Reverse Brain Drain: Us Asians Head Home (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 17, 2003)
Many foreign nationals no longer view America as the land of opportunity and growing numbers of immigrants are returning to their home countries — India, Pakistan, China, Singapore and Vietnam, countries with job and economic growth sometimes double or
- Here Is Iaf’s Most Wanted Aircraft (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Aug 17, 2003)
Pakistan also wants these Mirage-2000-5s, Delhi team back from recce in Qatar
- Durable Bhai Sahib (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Aug 17, 2003)
Mayawati’s hard core supporters may stick with her through thick and thin, but the high profile recruits to the BSP found it difficult to adjust for long in a party where customarily everyone squats on the floor while Mayawati presides from a chair.
- Modi Books Us On Freedom Day (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2003)
On the night the Gujarat government was finalising its Independence Day celebrations, it instructed the Ahmedabad police to lodge an FIR against The Indian Express, Gujarati daily Divya Bhaskar and social activist Nafisa Ali.
- Messenger’s The Message (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2003)
The Prime Minister’s Red Fort speech was a familiar message of unity and progress
- Vajpayee Goes Out In The Rain With His Pak Olive Branch (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Aug 16, 2003)
Sending his most categorical signal ever that he was committed to the peace process with Pakistan, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today invited Islamabad to walk ‘‘together with India on the road to peace,’’ a road he said would be littered with land
- Six In A Row (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2003)
AN ADDRESS FROM the ramparts of the historic Red Fort is an occasion for a Prime Minister to salute the nation as well as to showcase his administration's political and economic achievements. Atal Bihari Vajpayee became the first Prime Minister ...
- Long And Short Of It (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2003)
An American research organisation has come to the conclusion that tall men get a better deal in life than their shorter cousins. Commenting on its findings Natalie Angier of The New York Times writes: “Tall men give nearly all the orders, win most ...
- Kalam Prayer: No Mandir-Masjid (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Aug 15, 2003)
President A P J Abdul Kalam today made a passionate plea to pull India out of the politics of religion and called for a ‘‘moratorium’’ on issues that seek to impede the country’s development.
- Why Laloo Was Mobbed In Pakistan (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Aug 15, 2003)
There are three strands in the four-day visit to Pakistan by 50 Indian parliamentarians, journalists and experts. The Laloo roadshow, Musharraf’s final performance and the two-day exchange of ideas between parliamentarians representing every political ...
- Bullock-Cart Diplomacy (Indian Express, M D NALAPAT, Aug 15, 2003)
If the attitude of immigration authorities worldwide to an Indian passport has changed during the past five years, the reason has nothing to do with the Vajpayee government, but is the result of the software boom. Suddenly, Indians have become chic, no
- A Non-Starter (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 15, 2003)
THE PROPOSAL BY Pakistan's President, Pervez Musharraf, that he will enforce a ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) if India meets certain conditions has been rightly dismissed by official India. Among the conditions that India has been ...
- Parliament And Military Secrecy (Hindu, V.R. RAGHAVAN, Aug 15, 2003)
On the PAC issue, it is difficult to avoid the impression that the Opposition and the Government are engaged in seeking and denying political advantage
- Why Arunachal’s Marathon Man Faces Hurdles (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Aug 14, 2003)
Politics in the Northeast is often synonymous with defection. But while Manipur and Meghalaya are known for alliances that keep changing compositions, in Arunachal Pradesh it’s usually a mass exodus that decides the issue. As the recent re-installation
- Placebos Won’t Do (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Aug 14, 2003)
What images come to mind when you see the words ‘‘drugs’’, ‘‘crime’’ and ‘‘South Asia’’ in the same sentence? Poppy fields glowing gold under the sun in Afghanistan? The infamous cave laboratories of Pakistan where the raw product is transformed into ...
- It’s A Deal, General (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 14, 2003)
There can be little doubt that the Pakistani leadership believes promises are made only to seek opportunities to break them; and they are broken so that space is created for new ones to be made. And so the cycle could go on whereby their narrow interests
- India's Economic Diplomacy (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 14, 2003)
To derive the full political benefits of economic diplomacy, the leadership will have to act decisively to break the old mindset, which defines national security and trade policy in separate and narrow terms.
- Pakistan's Privileged Army - Quest For Hegemony At Home, Abroad (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Aug 14, 2003)
As it moves ahead with its "peace process", New Delhi cannot afford to ignore the pernicious role of the Pakistan army. Compulsive hostility with India is a necessary pre-requisite for the Pakistan army to retain its perks and privileges, and it is not
- Shares With The `Enemy' (Business Line, N. R. Moorthy , Aug 14, 2003)
Investor protection measures must embrace `enemy property'
- Tomorrow, It’s A New Day (Indian Express, Mohammed Wajihuddin, Aug 14, 2003)
During my college days, on an Independence Day eve, I wanted to contribute an essay to a newspaper in Patna. After toying with several catchy titles for the essay, the best I could come up with was: “India of My Dreams.” A tired expression used zillions
- Politics Of Indo-Pak. Ceasefire (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 14, 2003)
The Indian reaction to the proposal from Pakistan's President, Pervez Musharraf, for a ceasefire along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir has been predictable. While the foreign office is right in stating that there is nothing new in the proposal,
- Meeting The Maoists (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 13, 2003)
In the heart of the Himalayas, a nation on the brink of civil war is holding its breath as King Gyanendra directs his men to return to a third round of peace negotiations with Maoist guerrillas in Kathmandu over the next few days.
- Hold Your Fire On Loc, In Valley: General To India (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Aug 13, 2003)
Unleashing his familiar charm offensive on visiting Indian MPs over tea and apple juice in the glittering reception hall of Pakistan’s Aiwan-e-Sadr, President Prevez Musharraf today said India must agree to cease fire on the Line of Control and in the
- Don’t Shoot Down Iaf Over The Mig Myths (Indian Express, A. K. GOEL, Aug 13, 2003)
If there is anything more important for the Indian Air Force than defending the country, it is to ensure cost of such defence is minimum. Thus, while we must train and prepare for perhaps the most demanding profession on Earth, we aim to ensure accidents
- Who's Afraid Of A Uniform Civil Code? (Hindu, B.G. Verghese, Aug 13, 2003)
A uniform civil code will focus on rights, leaving the rituals embodied in personal law intact within the bounds of constitutional propriety.
- A Track Ii Mission To Pakistan (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 13, 2003)
The warm welcome accorded to the delegation of parliamentarians and journalists on a Track II diplomacy mission to Pakistan reflects the yearning for peace of the people of both countries. Such missions are vital in carrying forward the newly-launched ...
- Crossing The Bhacchi Bridge (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Aug 12, 2003)
The real tragedy in Kishtwar is the failure of the political establishment to affirm that the carnage there distinguishes little between Hindu and Muslim.
- Give Us Laloo, You Can Take Maulana Rehman: Jamali’s Offer (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Aug 12, 2003)
Over a lavish feast of haleem and raan, Pak PM wins over Indian delegation; his new fans include BJP MPs
- China And India - Is Democracy The Defining Difference? (Business Line, Alok Ray, Aug 12, 2003)
The democratic system in India makes for slow and sometimes tortuous progress as it has to rely on consensus building. But this may turn out to be more stable and irreversible than what has happened in China
- The Seven Year Hitch (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 12, 2003)
Houseboats in Srinagar give pride of place to leather-bound visitors’ books to record outpourings of impressed guests. The houseboat in which I stayed a few days ago had two entries that struck me, not for the name of the guests but for the time gap ...
- A Vasco Da Gama, In Reverse (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 12, 2003)
There’s many a slip between the cup and the lip, but Shashank, the seniormost secretary in the MEA, is clearly hoping that his African journeys over the last few months will give him enough ballast to turn around the flag-embellished corner of South Block
- Sandstone Can Bind This Indo-Pak Tie (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Aug 11, 2003)
COMMON HERITAGE: INTACH ready to send stones for Jehangir tomb repair
- Force Multipliers (Indian Express, Jasjit Singh, Aug 11, 2003)
Continuing acts of terrorism over the past two decades, first in Punjab and since 1988 in Jammu and Kashmir, require some reflections on how we are dealing with this menace. It would appear that we have dealt with the phenomenon in terms of short-term ...
- Meanwhile, Valley’s Munir Waits For Word To Go Home (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Aug 11, 2003)
This boy does not have a name, and the only word anyone has ever heard him say is Amma(mother). Brought to J-K Police’s Joint Interrogation Centre (JIC) here two and a half years ago, he would weep for hours, crying for this mother and pointing towards
- ‘i See Myself As A Courier Boy, Trying To Deliver My Father’s Message’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 11, 2003)
Uddhav Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray’s son and anointed successor, spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, at the Gateway Of India in Mumbai. Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s Walk The Talk.
- Savour The Taste Of Harmony Brew (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Aug 11, 2003)
Far away from Indo-Pak talking shops, here’s a real confidence building measure. Civil Junction coffee shop, a funkily decorated tiny haven for coffee drinkers in Gol Market, Islamabad, is Pakistan’s first ‘independent’ coffee bar. It serves South Asia
- It Is About Equality, Not Uniformity (Hindu, Anjali Modi, Aug 10, 2003)
The political debate... has revolved around uniformity of civil codes and has largely ignored issues of equality.
- Track Ii Express Pulls Into Islamabad (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Aug 10, 2003)
In Islamabad, the air is thick with mohabbat. The largest ever delegation of Indian parliamentarians (31 in all) is visiting Pakistan as part of a conference organised by the South Asia Free Media Association and although the honourable members are soft
- No Hanging Up On Cross-Border Telephonism (Indian Express, Subrata Nag Choudhury, Aug 10, 2003)
After hilsa, which is the hottest Bangla product in Bengal border villages? Dhaka SIM card
- Newsreel: 10.08.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2003)
A day after Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani moots the idea of holding synchronised elections to Lok Sabha and state Assemblies, Election Commissioner T.S. Krishnamurthy says they have not received any proposal from the Government yet. He also asserts
- A Badla On Lashkar-E-Toiba (Indian Express, Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, Aug 09, 2003)
The political furore that led to the resignation of Admiral John M. Poindexter and forced Pentagon to abandon launching an online futures trading market in which anonymous speculators would bet on possible terrorist events should not eclipse what was an
- Be Swift, Be Just (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2003)
Three events in three different parts of the world hold out powerful lessons for us in how to deal with terrorism. An Indonesian court has found Amrozi bin Nurhasyim guilty in connection with last year’s Bali bombing. The court has pronounced a death sent
- Musharraf Has A Vision For Tomorrow, A Mirage For Today (Indian Express, Najam Sethi, Aug 09, 2003)
General Pervez Musharraf’s tour de force with Lahore editors last Monday spanned a framework of geo-economics, geo-politics and geo-strategy in which he outlined his vision of Pakistan as a country that was ‘‘secure’’, ‘‘stable’’, ‘‘democratic’’ and ‘‘
- Peacekeeping Or Policing: A Dilemma (Hindu, R. Kannan, Aug 09, 2003)
Punitive action, however desirable, does not fall strictly as yet within the realm of peacekeeping.
- An Indian In Pakistan Sees A Glimmer At End Of Death Row Tunnel (Indian Express, RAMANINDER K BHATIA, Aug 09, 2003)
12 ys ago, Sarabjit was held in Pak for ‘spying,’ now activists from Canada, daughters in Punjab work to save him
- Neocon Vs Old Con (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Aug 07, 2003)
Is it just a fevered imagination or is there a direct correlation between Indo-Pakistani romanticism and the screeching and hollering that scuppered the idea of India sending an “occupying army” to northern Iraq? In a week when half of New Delhi seems
- Pak Discomfiture (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2003)
The bitter truth of Blackwill’s plainspeak has provoked Pakistan to take potshots at him
- A Body Trapped In Ice For 36 Years Melts A Waiting Family In Jammu (Indian Express, Arun Sharma, Aug 06, 2003)
Thirty-five years ago, a 20-year-old woman in Palanwala, began waiting for her husband who had gone to work. He did not come back and she was told that her husband, a sepoy in the Army, had gone missing during a flight from Chandigarh to Leh.
- No Mere Dispute, It’s Aggression (Deccan Herald, N Haridas, Aug 06, 2003)
When China invaded Tibet in 1950, the world wanted Nehru to rush to the defence of the monks. But he did not
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