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Articles 25421 through 25520 of 26855:
- Congress In Catch-22 Situation (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jan 06, 2004)
NEVER before in its long history has the once venerable Congress party faced the crisis it is undergoing today. Because it is, in national terms, in danger of becoming the perennial second party. There are many reasons for the Congress predicament, but
- Ulfa Send New Warning To Bhutan (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
The proscribed ULFA has threatened Bhutan of sleepless nights for flushing out North East-based insurgents from the Himalayan kingdom even as its ideologue Bhimkanta Buragohain remanded to police custody, accused both Bhutan and the Indian Army of
- Don’t Need Strategy For Friendship: Pm (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
In a rare interview given a few hours before his departure for Islamabad, Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee told Nasim Zehra of The News: ‘‘I think we can have a dialogue with President Musharraf and the dialogue will take us to some results.’’ A confident
- Moscow Welcomes Meeting (Indian Express, Dadan Upadhyay, Jan 06, 2004)
Russia today welcomed the meeting between Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on the sidelines of the SAARC summit in Islamabad and expressed hope that it would lead to the resumption of a full-scale dialogue between New
- Movement Towards Peace: Parties Hoping For Results (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
The BJP promptly described the meeting between Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad today as a ‘‘positive step’’ in the right direction. Party chief Venkaiah Naidu said: ‘‘It is a positive step in the right...
- Back Home: Valley Pins Hope On Summit (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
The thaw in relations between India and Pakistan during Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee’s visit to Islamabad, has raised a sense of optimism among separatist leaders who hope that this could lead to resolution of Kashmir issue. Hurriyat Conference chair
- Mistrust Brushed Under Huge, Red Carpet (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jan 06, 2004)
If ever Prime Minister A B Vajpayee wanted to contest elections from Islamabad rather than his beloved Lucknow, remarked a wag here, winning wouldn’t be difficult. ‘‘Welcome Ataljee,’’ said the headline of an editorial article in the mass-circulated
- Fears Delay Uk Flights; Fbi Eye On Vegas Hotels (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
Extra security checks delayed a British Airways flight to Washington Dulles International Airport on Sunday, the fourth in a week as the US entered a third consecutive week on a high state of alert for terrorists. ‘‘The ports of LA and Long Beach are
- Beyond Courtesy (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
THE much-awaited meeting between Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan finally came about at the Presidential Palace in Islamabad on Monday. That they would interact for a short while on the sidelines of the 12th
- A Mullah-Military Alliance In Pakistan (Tribune, Syed Nooruzzaman, Jan 06, 2004)
GEN Pervez Musharraf has once again exposed the politicians of his country as being rank opportunists, always ready to barter their principles for political gains. He has done this by entering into a well-calculated deal with the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal
- Beyond Courtesy (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
THE much-awaited meeting between Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan finally came about at the Presidential Palace in Islamabad on Monday. That they would interact for a short while on the sidelines of the 12th
- North Wind (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
Bhutan’s offensive against Indian rebels has offered Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee both an opportunity and a challenge. It has broken the back as well as the morale of the militants belonging to the Kamtapur Liberation Organization. It has also gone a long
- On A Home Run (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Jan 06, 2004)
The new year, 2004, will witness the fourth consecutive general elections in which Atal Bihari Vajpayee will lead the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies into battle. No former Indian prime minister, save for Indira, the original Mrs Gandhi, has done
- Getting Together (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
In the mid-fifties, when I was a first year college student in Jalandhar, I remember an Indo-Pak cricket test series was organised to better relations between the two nations. For the Lahore Test, they opened the border. India made a simple ID available
- Debating Islam (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jan 06, 2004)
There is concern that the current climate threatens long-term Christian-Muslim ralations.
- Life Term For One In Post-Godhra Case (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
In one of the most sensational cases of post-Godhra violence in Ahmedabad, Additional Sessions Judge H.B. Antani today sentenced to life imprisonment one Dinesh for murdering Mumtaz Bano alias Geeta, and causing life-threatening injuries to her husband
- Ny, West Bengal To Be Sister States (Times of India, Nirmalya Banerjee, Jan 05, 2004)
A visiting US delegation to the city said it was keen on putting in place a "sister state" arrangement between New York and West Bengal to further strengthen business and social ties between the two regions, particularly in areas like IT . . .
- Contentious Coverings (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
THE recent move, endorsed by the French President, Mr Jacques Chirac, to ban the wearing of religious symbols in state schools has managed to unite the minorities there. A French commission said the Muslim headscarf, the Jewish skullcap and large crucifix
- Making An India-Pakistan Deal (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 05, 2004)
If the present up-beat mood here on Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's visit continues for another couple of days, it might not be entirely unrealistic to expect a broad political agreement between India and Pakistan on how to revive the peace proces
- A Jamali Show All The Way (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Jan 05, 2004)
The suspense has ended and the drama has begun. With the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali meeting soon after the SAARC inaugural session, the focus has shifted completely to India-Pakistan ...
- Spreading Guru’s Message Of Compassion (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Jan 05, 2004)
IT’S nice to watch this mother-daughter duo — writer Ajeet Caur and artist Arpana Caur — for they seem so very alike (except that both spell “Kaur” so very differently) even now when Ajeet is in her late sixties and Arpana in her late forties. They seem
- Freeing Trade (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation has agreed to make the south Asian free trade agreement operational from January 2006. The debate over multilateral liberalization vis-à-vis regional liberalization is clichéd. The fact remains that ...
- Year Of Some Big Decisions (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Jan 05, 2004)
History normally runs on rails, with one development following another in fairly obvious succession. It may seem like a roller-coaster ride at times, but twenty years later the outcome is just about what you would have expected at the start. Once in a ...
- It’s Time To Make New Friends (Telegraph, M.R. Venkatesh, Jan 05, 2004)
The BJP’s refusal to rein in Jayalalithaa as also contradictions inherent in their coalition drove the DMK and MDMK out of the NDA
- Saarc Initiative On Free Trade (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 05, 2004)
In its essence, a free trade area means trading in a tariff-free environment, which should normally lead to a sharp increase in trade volume and value with the most efficient manufacturers of select products in the "area" raking in the maximum profits.
- Funny Bandh (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
It takes a special kind of humour to find bandhs funny. Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was seized with a sense of the absurd when contemplating the latest form of political “action” being planned by his opponent, Ms Mamata Banerjee. The leader of the ...
- India, Pakistan Leaders Meet (CNN.com, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
The leaders of India and Pakistan have met formally for the first time since the two nuclear powers came close to war over the disputed territory of Kashmir.
- Vajpayee’s Trip To Islamabad Generates Goodwill All Around (Tribune, David Devadas, Jan 04, 2004)
There is new hope around as the curtain goes up on the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) at Islamabad. I am reminded of the Colombo summit in July ’98. No other summit attracted foreign mediapersons by the hundred. They were waiting
- Pakistan: The Two-Nation Theory (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jan 04, 2004)
ON THE plane to Pakistan, peer as hard as you like through the scratched window of PIA’s ramshackle Boeing, you still can’t see the border line that divides the democracy from the dictatorship. It’s shrouded in the fog of history, some say, others point
- 2004? It's So Predictable (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
Tomorrow is yesterday by another name. This is not karmic philosophy. It is only cynicism, which seems to come just so easily if you’re Indian. So sitting down with a notional crystal ball, on a gloomy, sun-eclipsd day in January, to predict the rest
- A Prodigal Son All Set To Return (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jan 04, 2004)
POLITICS is a weird game. A few years back former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh had turned into a bete noire of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and called him “a tired and retired leader”. Now he stands in the front row at a BJP workers
- Misplaced Honour (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
By refusing an honorary doctorate, possibly bestowed for political reasons rather than academic, Mr Vajpayee has behaved as a prime minister should. Honorary doctorates are double-edged instruments. They can be used to bestow genuine honour and to show
- Ideological Roadblocks On The Road (Tribune, Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia, Jan 04, 2004)
THE Hot Peace among different communities of the world, in the beginning of the 21st century, marked by its advent by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre towers in New York, is, in a sense, more explosive than the earlier Cold War between nation
- Sultans Of Swing (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Jan 04, 2004)
Until the 1980s, who knew peanuts about Sufi music? Except in Kashmir and Punjab, or in the inner world of baateen (esoteric) Islam, in Delhi, in Nagaur, in Lucknow, Hyderabad and Bhopal, in Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, at secret samas (Sufi musical
- Sonia, Undisturbed (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Jan 04, 2004)
Sonia, we know, answers no questions. Her biographer does not trouble her with too many
- Just Around The Corner (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
Part monarchy, mostly Buddhist and a little hop across the border. Bhutan, for Ketaki Ghoge, is both foreign and familiar
- Heartening Developments In Saarc (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
THE APPROVAL OF a draft framework treaty for a South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) to be signed at the 12th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in Islamabad next week is a huge morale-booster for the region. The ...
- Cong Focus On Punjab, Mlas Called To Delhi (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
The Punjab Congress imbroglio seems headed for a solution with clear indications that Chief Minister Amarinder Singh will not be shifted out at least till the general elections. At the same time, the rebels will have the satisfaction of a concession-rich
- Loc Kargil: Caricaturing The Indian Soldier (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Jan 03, 2004)
HISTORY is often the account of the victor. The numerous books and articles on the Kargil conflict bear this out. Among them, Captain Amarinder Singh's A Ridge Too Far: War in the Kargil Heights 1999 is the most authentic as he does not gloss over the lap
- Nri Implements Bill Gates’ Goals (Tribune, Ela Dutt , Jan 03, 2004)
Traditional educationists may find the radical ideas and unconventional vocabulary of Indian American Shivam Mallick Shah surprising, but these fit in well with the goals of Bill Gates and his wife Melinda. The billionaire couple has hired Harvard ...
- Mad About Words (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jan 03, 2004)
Not many of us are aware that when Shakespeare wrote his plays and sonnets, there were no dictionaries. There were some compilations of difficult words with their meanings but no one dictionary giving origins, meanings and usages of all words in the
- Afghans, Us Scramble To Salvage Constitution (Indian Express, MIKE COLLETT-WHITE, Jan 03, 2004)
Afghan leaders met US and UN officials behind closed doors on Friday, to try to end an impasse over a new Constitution that has exposed ethnic fault lines and undermined Washington’s vision of a strong presidential system. The Loya Jirga, or Grand
- It’s Raining Runs On Waugh’s Parade (Indian Express, Rohit Brijnath, Jan 03, 2004)
So there finally, amidst the stretching shadows at day’s end, washed by the soft evening sunlight, he stood, the golden boy. That stern language of authority his bats speaks, well it hadn’t quite arrived, the hesitancy was passing but the command had not
- Sikhs In France Seek Help On Turbans (Indian Express, TOM HENEGHAN, Jan 03, 2004)
France's tiny Sikh community is seeking help from India’s Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee to have their traditional turbans exempted from a planned French law to ban Muslim headscarves and other religious symbols from schools. Chain Singh, spokesman for
- Foreigners See Backlash At Pak Madarsas (Indian Express, MIKE COLLETT-WHITE, Jan 03, 2004)
Walk across the marble courtyard of the Abu Bakar Islamic University in the teeming port city of Karachi and you will see as many foreign students as Pakistanis.
The looks from young skull-capped, bearded Muslims from Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and
- Indo-Pak Game Continues (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 03, 2004)
ONCE more, the ante has been upped regarding efforts to normalise relations between India and Pakistan, the hope of course being that, this time, the effort will succeed.
There is nothing unrealistic about such a hope if for no other reason than the
- Case For Indo-Pak Missile Talks (Tribune, Ashok K Mehta, Jan 03, 2004)
CLEARLY, the motivation to acquire missiles falls under political, strategic and economic-commercial and technology-related heads. Missiles are nice to have and keep. They add to a nation’s standing and prestige. Besides the political and commercial ...
- Safta: Much Effort For Little Gains? (Business Line, Sanjib Pohit, Jan 03, 2004)
SAFTA seems set for take off, but it may not as it is modelled now, liberalising commodity trade first and then services. For, apart from India, other countries have little to gain from a trading bloc; their industries would lobby against SAFTA fearing
- Why Budget Needs A Fair Face (Business Line, T. N. Pandey, Jan 03, 2004)
Irrational tax policies inhibit desire for compliance
- Peace Common Desire In India, Says Vajpayee (Indian Express, M. ZIAUDDIN, Jan 03, 2004)
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has said the entire spectrum of mainstream political opinion in India is for peace, cooperation and friendship with Pakistan. In an exclusive interview with Dawn at his residence here on Thursday, the PM made it
- No Permanent Enemies (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
The art of the possible: this is the best known definition of politics. A more cynical view would define politics as the pursuit of interest masquerading as the contest of principles. Both views can draw enough support from the prevailing state of play in
- On The Wings Of Cbms (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
THE ongoing efforts to normalise relations between India and Pakistan provide an encouraging setting for the success of the Islamabad session of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. The latest confidence-building measures (CBMs) announced
- Left Unity Under Telangana Cloud In Andhra (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Jan 03, 2004)
The demand for a separate Telangana — that will include the premier cyber city of Hyderabad — threatens not just the unity of Andhra Pradesh but has cast a shadow over the prospects of ‘‘Left unity’’ in the state which is likely to witness simultaneous
- Promoters Using Preferential Route To Take Advantage: Sebi Panel (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
The resurgence of stock markets has given ample opportunities to promoters to cash in on the stock rally. A host of promoters have come out with preferential offers to themselves to take advantage of the fast-paced rally and get shares of their companies,
- Boycott Blow To Afghan Assembly (Indian Express, SAYED SALAHUDDIN, Jan 02, 2004)
Afghanistan's constitutional convention began voting on Thursday, but up to a quarter of the 502 delegates refused to cast ballots for a draft charter backed by the US after a long, acrimonious meeting. Men and women from across the country lined up
- Quake Eases Iran-Us Ties (Indian Express, EDMUND BLAIR, Jan 02, 2004)
Iranian officials hinted on Thursday that US aid to earthquake victims may have eased decades of mistrust between the US and Iran. Meanwhile, 11 more survivors were pulled from the devastation in Bam, state radio said today. Relief workers pulled a
- Cement Down The Spine (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Jan 02, 2004)
In early 1991, when the ramshackle Chandra Shekhar government was at the helm, a senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader hosted a small dinner for the then party president, L.K. Advani. For the BJP, those were heady days. The Somnath to Ayodhya rath yatra of
- Jamaat Quits Hurriyat, Won’t Join Geelani Now (Indian Express, Mufti Islah, Jan 02, 2004)
The new year began on a bad note for the Hurriyat Conference with the right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami formally announcing its decision to dissociate from the separatist amalgam.
The move is being viewed as a serious setback for the moderates led by ...
- Musharraf Wins House Trust (Indian Express, Amir Zia, Jan 02, 2004)
President Pervez Musharraf won a vote of confidence in both houses of Pakistan’s Parliament and four provincial assemblies on Thursday, keeping him in power until late 2007. The vote means Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup, will remain ...
- Pawar Play: Each Of Them Has Got An Axe To Grind (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Jan 02, 2004)
At a time when everybody in the political scene is on the move, it comes as no surprise that NCP chief Sharad Pawar, whose political mobility stands little comparison, is the latest hit. Pawar’s possible alignment with the NDA has been a perennial issue
- Ready To Face Polls: Vajpayee (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
With the air ringing with the talk of early Lok Sabha polls, Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee has said that he is ‘‘fit and ready’’ to face elections and confident that the people ‘‘are in a mood to give us another five years’’. The PM’s remarks, made in
- And The Empire Lives On (Telegraph, DIPANKAR DAS, Jan 02, 2004)
Early December, a high-profile East African Indian immigrant, Yasmin Alibhai Brown, stunned the world by belatedly returning the title of Member of the British Empire to the Queen. This came within days of the refusal of Benjamin Zephaniah, the dread ...
- A Watershed Year For Indian Diplomacy (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Jan 02, 2004)
WHAT seemed to be a Sisyphean labour till a couple of years ago in the context of Indo-Pakistan relations, now looks possible. The two countries were on the road to detente in the year just ended.
During the past 56 years of turbulent Indo-Pakistan ...
- Indo-Pakistan Talks: Ten Issues (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 02, 2004)
India and Pakistan have been trapped for too long in arguing about procedural issues and defending past political postures.
- `Stock Market Is A Buffet Waiting To Be Relished' (Business Line, Virendra Verma, Jan 02, 2004)
Mr Rakesh Jhunjhunwala loves stocks. It has been that way since his childhood. Today he is arguably the largest individual proprietary investor and one of the biggest single taxpayers of Mumbai. Mr Jhunjhunwala describes the current market as a buffet ...
- How Do They Get Rich? (Hindu, Virginia Postrel, Jan 02, 2004)
The process of economic development is hard to repeat. The great mystery is why.
- Worked Up (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
Saving a coalition is not the same thing as making it work. Jharkhand’s chief minister, Mr Arjun Munda, may have managed to prevent his National Democratic Alliance government from disintegrating, but even he knows that it is not working. Mr Munda’s ...
- Lashkar's New Wave Of Recruits From Indian Expatriates (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jan 02, 2004)
Even as the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba has come under pressure to de-escalate its jihad in Jammu and Kashmir, the organisation has unleashed its formidable capabilities to inflict a far more painful all-India war. Lashkar cells operating from Dubai,
- Love, Actually (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Jan 02, 2004)
It is arguable that John le Carré’s real subject, all those years when we supposed him to be writing the classic espionage novel, was not politics but love. Love ran like a crack, a fissure undermining the most solid of ideological foundations, through...
- Home And The World (Telegraph, ARNAB BHATTACHARYA , Jan 02, 2004)
Western secular modernity viewed history as a panoptical narrative produced by rigorous scholastic enterprise and based on solid, unalterable archival evidence. It scornfully dismissed other possible sources like autobiographies, memoirs and local lore
- A Question Of Identity (Telegraph, SHAMS AFIF SIDDIQI , Jan 02, 2004)
The rise of Hindutva in our country has brought to the fore issues of religious, social and cultural identity. It has led to a fresh evaluation of India’s heritage, its culture and religious thoughts. In the circumstances, Indians must learn to think ...
- Tyre Imports From China To Enjoy Duty Sops (Business Line, K. R. Srivats, Jan 02, 2004)
DOMESTIC tyre manufacturers will have to contend with tyre imports from China at much lower protection levels from January 1. The Finance Ministry has formally included China in the list of countries (Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and South Korea) that can
- Vajpayee's Challenge (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jan 01, 2004)
While Mr. Vajpayee may be able to lead the NDA back to power, this may not be enough for him to leave a permanent stamp on history.
- Jaish Dy Chief Missing After Attack On Musharraf (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
Some activists of the banned militant outfit Jaish-e-Muhammad have been arrested in connection with the December 25 attack on Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and police were looking for its deputy chief who has been missing. Jaish deputy chief
- A Weekly Is Born (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jan 01, 2004)
Were he around, Sachin Chaudhuri, the founder-editor of the journal, Economic and Political Weekly, would have been bemused to see that his journal has become a phenomenon, the imprimatur of recognition for young social scientists, and èminences grises to
- Get Saarc Going (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
EVERY SUMMIT OF the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) raises the same question: can this grouping of seven nations ever get its act together to achieve any of its goals? In the nearly two decades of its existence, SAARC has ...
- Engaging In Talk About Talks (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Jan 01, 2004)
New Delhi's thinking on the nature of contacts with Pakistan's leadership, at the time of next week's SAARC summit, is crystallising in the light of the flow of signals from Islamabad. The meaning and implications of each word is carefully examined. The
- No Longer The Stereotype Terrorist (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jan 01, 2004)
Indian intelligence officials are increasingly concerned over the emergence of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia as new hubs for the Lashkar-e-Taiba. The organisation is known to have been recruiting energetically among Indian expatriates in the wake of the
- India’s Davis Cup Plans Hit As Bopanna Injured (Indian Express, MICKY AIGNER, Jan 01, 2004)
India's Davis Cup campaign received a major set-back just when things seemed to be slowly getting back into place. With Leander Paes returing to training after a four-month lay-off, Rohan Bopanna who has been diagnosed with a stress fracture of the should
- India Offers Fresh Peace Pack To Pak (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jan 01, 2004)
As part of its new year gift to the sub-continent, India today proposed to hold talks with Pakistan on starting bus routes across the Line of Control in Kashmir and the international boundary in Rajasthan, hiking the strength of their respective missions
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