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Articles 23221 through 23320 of 26855:
- Immoral Or Natural - Divided Verdict (Deccan Herald, MANJULA SHELKE, Mar 20, 2005)
Homosexual marriages will destroy the traditional family. Emotional bonding, sexual purity and the sanctity of marriage will suffer
- Naxal Killed In Encounter; Ap Considers Ban On Outfit (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2005)
Escalating violence in the state has forced the govt to take stern steps, while police associations are demanding a free hand in curbing Maoist activities.
- Theatre On Wheels: Spreading Messages (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2005)
Subodh Patnaik and his friends are cycling through rural Orissa to spread theatre and share a social message. These are not morality plays, or street theatre either, they say. They’d rather you termed it “Cyco-theatre”.
- A Quaint Hill Station: Matheran (Deccan Herald, R VISWANATH, Mar 20, 2005)
For those denizens of Mumbai who are tired of pollution, traffic snarls, local trains, and clutter of the town, a visit to the nearest hill station like Matheran can prove to be an ideal restorative
- Pakistan Test-Fires Shaheen Ii Missile (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2005)
Gen Musharraf, complimenting his scientists, said Pakistan’s nuclear capability was developed for its own security.
- Club Before Country (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Mar 19, 2005)
On the second evening of the Mohali test, when the rest of India was salivating at the idea of Virender Sehwag being 90 not out overnight....
- Hinduism & Conversion (Pioneer, Shridhar Pant, Mar 19, 2005)
Ram Gopal's argument in the letter, "Regain lost glory" (March 7), that regards Hinduism as the oldest proselytising religion, is distressing. He asserts,
- The Lowly Dhoti (Deccan Herald, Padma Ramachandran, Mar 19, 2005)
I have heard great praise for the saree and eulogies on how elegant it is as a dress. But not so of the ‘lowly’ dhoti, which is considered beneath the purview of fashion designers.
- Progress: Importance Of The Big Picture (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Mar 19, 2005)
The "big picture" must be given precedence in matters of economic development, the justification being the premise that no development, especially in a poor country, can be painless.
- Don't Hand Religion To The Right (Hindu, William Whyte, Mar 19, 2005)
In the United Kingdom, the secular Left must stop sniping and realise it has Christian allies.
- ‘Red-Light’ Street Named After Gandhi (Tribune, Basildon Peta, Mar 19, 2005)
The fashion in South Africa is to rename streets, cities and towns after famous historical figures, but Durban city authorities may regret their decision to honour the memory of Mahatma Gandhi.
- A Slap In Mr. Modi's Face (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 19, 2005)
In a singular instance of the Ides of March for the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, the United States has rejected his application for a diplomatic visa
- Battle Of The Bottles (Business Line, D. Murali , Mar 19, 2005)
Bottles come in all shapes and sizes. And a few were even seen being tossed about in courtrooms recently. Take the case of Hindustan National Glass and Industries Ltd.
- ``Insult To India'' (Hindu, MANAS DASGUPTA, Mar 19, 2005)
The Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, has described the denial of a visa by the United States to him as ``an insult to the Constitution of India and its people and [a] threat to [the] sovereignty and democratic traditions of the country.''
- Gas Realities (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Mar 18, 2005)
In February, the US Ambassador in New Delhi, Mr David Mulford, had met the Petroleum Minister, Mr Mani Shankar Aiyar, to convey Washington's reservations on the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline deal.
- Getting Better (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 18, 2005)
The visit of the American secretary of state, Ms Condoleezza Rice, to India has gone along predicted lines. As expected, Washington expressed reservations about the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline because of its concerns about the political regime i
- Separation Of Powers (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Mar 18, 2005)
While the judiciary must step in when necessary, how it does so requires craft and statesmanship. Jharkhand should not become a precedent.
- Shaking Hands With Us (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Mar 18, 2005)
THE US Secretary of State, Dr Condoleezza Rice, during her first visit to India indicated two likely changes in the US policy towards India.
- The Softest Pillow Is A Clear Conscience (Business Line, D. Murali , Mar 18, 2005)
Conscience. I knew I'd have to come to terms with it one day or the other, and so was consciously keeping it outside this column.
- India Protests Possible Sale Of Fighter Jets To Pakistan (Washington Post, Glenn Kessler, Mar 17, 2005)
Indian officials objected Wednesday to the possible U.S. resumption of F-16 fighter jet sales to Pakistan,
- Home, New Home (Telegraph, Bishnupada Sethi, Mar 17, 2005)
With some more hard work, the Upper Krishna Project’s success with resettlement could be replicated in other states
- Pak Must Deliver On Terror, Pm Tells Rice (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2005)
The US Secretary of State was effusive in her praise for India’s strengths. But on its demand for a permanent UN seat, she remained non-committal.
- Political Perfidy In Jharkhand (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Mar 17, 2005)
NOW that Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda has "proved" his majority on the floor of the House, it is time to reflect on the role played by Governor Syed Sibtey Razi, who has been universally berated, if not condemned.
- Rice Brings Reality Check On India-U.S. Ties (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Mar 17, 2005)
In publicly expressing her concerns about the Iran-India gas pipeline during her press conference here on Wednesday, the visiting United States Secretary of State
- Rice’S Agenda: To Scuttle Pipeline? (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Mar 17, 2005)
If America succeeds in putting the pipeline on hold, it will strengthen its influence in South Asia
- Stand Firm On The Iran Pipeline (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 17, 2005)
The statements of "concern" made by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the proposed gas pipeline from Iran to India represent the first time the United States has gone public with its opposition to the energy project.
- Kanishka Bombing: Both Sikhs Acquitted (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2005)
After a two-year trial, a Canadian judge on Wednesday acquitted two Indian-born Sikhs of murder and other charges in the killing of 331 people in the bombing of an Air India plane Kanishka over the Atlantic and another explosion at Tokyo’s airport 20 year
- Foreigners Can’T Dictate Terms To Us: Khaleda (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2005)
The prime minister has raised objection to UNDP’s recommendation to bring about changes to the caretaker government and the election commission
- A Quiet Weekend Steeped In History (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2005)
A small village 100 km from Bangalore is Lepakshi in Anantapur district, famed for its temples and the monolithic Nandi statue.
- Toying With Culture And Tradition (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2005)
Indira Swaminathan has been teaching young children using traditional Indian toys she herself makes.
- Discount Sale (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Mar 17, 2005)
The Public offer of Punjab National Bank, which managed to raise as much as Rs 3,100 crore, may appear to have satisfied the bank's principal constituents.
- Citing Indian Arsenal, Pak Says It Needs F-16s (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2005)
Islamabad told Rice that it needed the US help to maintain minimum deterrence for the sake of peace
- In Asia, Rice Says North Korea More Isolated From Neighbors (Washington Post, Glenn Kessler, Mar 16, 2005)
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asserted Tuesday that North Korea's "isolation from its neighbors has deepened" as it has bolstered its nuclear stockpile in the past year,
- Engineering Quality (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Mar 16, 2005)
The time has come to step up the level of monitoring and regulation to ensure that States are not saddled with too many sub-standard, self-financing engineering colleges.
- Victory At Last (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 16, 2005)
The expected has happened in Jharkhand with Chief Minister Arjun Munda winning the vote of confidence in the State Assembly. Yet the final figures
- Papers Out Of A Bag (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Mar 16, 2005)
The budget speech was a great success. The finance bill was an utter disaster.
- Judiciary Vs Parliament (Tribune, K N Bhat, Mar 16, 2005)
Mr Somnath Chatterjee, the seasoned lawyer opted for a sagacious course of a Presidential reference because he, as Speaker of the ultimate legislature — the Lok Sabha....
- Nepal’S Prospective Allies And Dilemma (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Mar 16, 2005)
At home it is engaged in battling the Maoist insurgents and opposition parties, both of whom have announced fresh protests. And now, Nepal is also slugging it out at the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) in Geneva,
- Conniving At Torture (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Mar 16, 2005)
By refusing to ratify the international anti-torture convention, the rulers in New Delhi are showing their true colours
- Mild Tremors Jolt Mumbai, Parts Of North Karnataka (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2005)
The earthquake, measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, rocked furniture and window-panes of buildings, triggering a panic.
- Shocking Signals (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Mar 15, 2005)
Taken separately, the political shenanigans we have witnessed in recent days and weeks are nothing to write home about. Governors' role in the states has frequently come in for criticism.
- Surviving Change — Looking Beyond The `Here And Now' (Business Line, A. B. Sivakumar, Mar 15, 2005)
If the management itself adopts "here and now" strategies, managing change can be a miserable process, and the conglomerate can start cracking up.
- Twin Treat For Architecture Lovers (Deccan Herald, V S SRINIVASA PRASANNA , Mar 15, 2005)
V S SRINIVASA PRASANNA explores the beautiful Hoysala architecture of the twin temples and discovers that the antiquities of these temples are yet to be unraveled.
- Yakshagana: Riding The Crest Of A New Wave (Deccan Herald, Shankaranarayana, Mar 15, 2005)
SHANKARANARAYANA analyses the new face of yakshagana and appreciates the fact that this particular form of folk art has kept itself alive by constantly reinventing itself, by roping in new ambassadors, formulating a new wave of yakshagana or conducting wo
- Time For Us And India To Go Steady (Deccan Herald, STANLEY A WEISS, Mar 15, 2005)
Washington can no longer take India for granted, as there are other suitiors waiting on the sidelines
- Aerospace Command A Necessity: New Air Chief (Tribune, Gulshan Luthra, Mar 15, 2005)
Facing tough challenges of modernisation and new warfare concepts, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is looking for space-based assets to overcome the 21st century threats...
- Law Of The Hill (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 15, 2005)
Laws are no substitutes for political will. A new law has now been put in place to change some features of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council. But even this legislative move may not end the deadlock...
- End Of An Era (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 15, 2005)
Fifteen years ago, Lalu Prasad exploded on the political canvas of Bihar as a messiah of the underclass and thus commenced the still substantially semi-feudal State's eventful tryst with social change.
- Gandhi Is Universal (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 15, 2005)
The 75th anniversary of the Dandi March has invited controversy with the Congress party politicising the commemoration of this national event.
- Buddhadeb's Strategy Pays Off (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Mar 14, 2005)
Blowing hot and cold with threats of bandhs is part of the political strategy of Subash Ghising, chairman of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Autonomous Council.
- A New-Look Hillary Clinton (Hindu, Paul Harris, Mar 14, 2005)
A transformation is taking place in Senator Clinton as she tries to appeal to the lost Democrat middle ground in her quest for the White House.
- Playing Cowboys In Basra (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Mar 14, 2005)
The British establishment still remains in denial regarding the brutalising effects of its actions in Iraq.
- Right To Question And Ban Don’T Go Together (Deccan Herald, Tavleen Singh, Mar 13, 2005)
The latest victim of our twisted version of secularism has been Vinod Pandey’s film Sins. Last week the Jammu & Kashmir government banned it for fear of hurting Christian sentiments.
- The Murky, Quirky Side Of Politics (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2005)
The game of politics cannot get better in Goa, Bihar and Jharkhand. Is it a sign of things to come? Is it an erosion of the UPA government’s confidence.
- The Culture Of Common People (Deccan Herald, M S MURALI KRISHNA, Mar 13, 2005)
M S MURALI KRISHNA writes about Bharatiya Lok Kala Mandal- a folk and tribal arts centre in Udaipur, which is making commendable efforts to keep the culture of Rajasthan alive.
- Dandi, But Where’S The Salt? (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2005)
To propagate the ideals of Gandhiji in today’s world and to focus on the person who is considered to be singularly responsible for driving the Britishers out of the country
- Drugs In State To Cost Less (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2005)
This will perhaps score as a brownie point for Finance Minister Siddaramaiah. With Karnataka finally committing itself to the VAT regime, the prices of medicine is about to see a considerable drop, DHNS reports from Bangalore.
- Iran Snubs Us Incentives, To Pursue N-Plan (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2005)
The nuclear technology will only be used for peaceful purposes and “we will not give up our legitimate right”, asserts Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman.
- Medieval Views In Modern Times (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Mar 12, 2005)
For the last few months, despite being a non-believer, I have been religiously tuning into Quran TV every evening to listen to Dr Zahir Naik answering questions and carrying on his lengthy debate with a Dr William Campbell on the Bible versus
- The Curious Relationship Between Congress And Democracy (Indian Express, N K Singh, Mar 12, 2005)
The results of the last Lok Sabha elections in 2004 and elections to some of the state assemblies thereafter, including Haryana, showed emergence of a resurgent Congress, under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi.
- Cash Is A Way Of Life (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Mar 12, 2005)
It used to be a joke in the Calcutta high court that it was a good job that Pesi Ginwala, the octogenarian barrister-at-law (Charterhouse, Balliol and Inner Temple) who has now retired to Bombay
- Cry For Mumbai, Our Little India (Indian Express, Amrita Shah, Mar 12, 2005)
Mumbai is in the news. Not like Jharkhand and Bihar and the Indo-Pak series are in the news, but in a more fundamental, a more reflective sort of way.
- Revolt Against Modi (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 11, 2005)
THE rebellion in the Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat is not a sudden development. Rather, it was precipitated by the alleged incident of telephone tapping in which even party MLAs became victims.
- Living With The Pain (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Mar 11, 2005)
Terribly scarred by the Madrid train bombings of a year ago, most Spaniards are unhappy at the slow pace of the investigation.
- A Theatre Of Mistaken Missiles (Indian Express, KARTIK BOMMAKANTI, Mar 11, 2005)
India’s policy needs to be attuned to the political realities of South Asia’s strategic context, instead of serving as an extension of US security policy
- Involving Constitutional Offices In Partisan Politics (Hindu, Harish Khare , Mar 11, 2005)
On May 30, 1996 this newspaper published on the front page a super-exclusive, report entitled, "A Confrontation Avoided."
- Democracy In West Asia (Hindu, Seumas Milne, Mar 11, 2005)
Managed elections are the latest device to prop up pro-Western regimes.
- Very Important Problems (Tribune, Priyanka Singh, Mar 10, 2005)
For reasons incomprehensible to me, we as a people are expected to be in awe of authority. wilfully or otherwise, we have to take it in a spirit that is markedly Indian
- Taking On Syria (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 10, 2005)
It was rose in Georgia, orange in Ukraine, purple in Iraq — and now it’s cedar in Lebanon. This is how Mr George W. Bush has been counting his revolutions. He missed out Afghanistan.
- Mukhtaran’S Choice (Indian Express, NICHOLAS D KRISTOF, Mar 10, 2005)
The Pakistani gangrape victim suffered what in her society was the most extreme shame, and emerged as a symbol of virtue, faith and hope
- Power And Risk (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 10, 2005)
Power and popularity can be risky things for a leader who is unsure of how to use them. Mr Subash Ghisingh wants to use them to paralyse life in the Darjeeling hills.
- That March, 75 Years Ago (Indian Express, B.R. NANDA, Mar 10, 2005)
At midnight on December 31, 1929, as a new year dawned, the Indian National Congress unfurled the flag of independence on the banks of Ravi at Lahore.
- Vanishing Point (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Mar 10, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently responded to the SOS of India's endangered-and now disappearing- tigers.
- Time To Bridge The God Gap (Telegraph, Gouri Chatterjee, Mar 10, 2005)
With the Page 3 revolution in the bag, will the media turn to the almighty next? It would be a stroke of genius if we could expiate our untold sins and enhance our bottom-lines all at the same time.
- A Paler Shade Of Red (Telegraph, Sumanta Sen, Mar 10, 2005)
The CPI and CPI(M) continue to lose ground in Bihar and Jharkhand, while the CPI(M-L) makes new inroads
- Dismembering Truth (Hindu, Jyotirmaya Sharma, Mar 10, 2005)
A half-hearted attempt at bringing about reconciliation between communities based on mendacity and self-deception will not help assuage the feelings of the victims of the Gujarat riots.
- Don't Lower Guard (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Mar 10, 2005)
It was once said of the NDA Government that its officials often went overboard to ensure that Pakistan-sponsored terrorism made the front pages almost everyday.
- Sunrise In The Mideast? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 09, 2005)
The ripples of change are gathering momentum in the Middle East. Syria has just announced a partial withdrawal of troops to Lebanon’s Bekka Valley.
- Sex Queries In Pak School Survey Spark Protests (Tribune, Muhammad Najeeb, Mar 09, 2005)
A “health survey” by a prominent private educational board in Pakistan, questioning students about sex and drinking habits, is being protested against and termed “un-Islamic”.
- Two Contrasting Reports (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Mar 09, 2005)
I have received two annual reports on the state of human rights. One is by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on India and the other by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
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