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Articles 25521 through 25620 of 26855:
- Pakistan: Chickens Coming Home To Roost (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Jan 01, 2004)
The recent assassination attempts on Gen Musharraf can best be described as the wages of sin that Pakistan's rulers have inevitably to pay for the policies they have followed for over a decade. The ISI's inducting and training of terrorists and the ...
- ‘inshallah Kashmir Will See Peace This Year’ (Indian Express, Mufti Islah, Jan 01, 2004)
Standing against the backdrop of the idyllic Dal Lake, Hurriyat Conference Chairman Maulvi Abbas Ansari points above—to the migratory birds who sail against the water currents. That’s who Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee and President Pervez Musharraf have to
- Leading The Alliance (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
IF SONIA GANDHI came tantalisingly close, last Sunday, to suggesting that the Congress party would not make her prime ministerial candidature a necessary condition for a pre-electoral alliance, a day later the party's spokesman came close to ...
- Siddharth Claims Scottish Open U-19 Boys Crown (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
Siddharth Suchde clinched the first ever gold for India in the under-19 event of the Scottish Junior Squash Open as he defeated top-seed Jose Angel Becerill of Mexico in the final round. Second-seed Suchde showed a good form to upset the Mexican in three
- Setting Bloodhounds On The Watchdogs' Trail (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 01, 2004)
TODAY is January 1, and you want to wish everybody, "Happy New Year!" Yet, if you run into any accountant, the greeting may not be appropriate. The CA Act is undergoing change, and the forebodings are already on the DCA's site for all to see — "a Bill
- From Kiribati To New York, Billions Welcome 2004 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
Millions of revellers from Sydney to Shanghai celebrated the coming of 2004 today with fireworks and parties as authorities tightened security against possible terrorist attacks. First to greet the new year were residents of Kiribati, a tiny island
- Reading The Bible (Tribune, D. R. Sharma, Jan 01, 2004)
THE other day an old friend dropped by and casually asked what I had been lately reading. “Well, just some stories from the Bible”, I said. Being a pious Hindu he began to pray for my soul saying that if I liked stories our two epics would be a far better
- Allahabad Bank Plans Overseas Foray, Cuts Plr (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
Allahabad Bank on Wednesday announced a slew of measures to expand its presence in overseas countries and also improve net asset base through combination of increased use of technology and productivity. The bank is also planning to raise Rs 200 crore ...
- Tdp Legislator Abducted Telgi Men In ’98: Sit Chargesheet (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
Andhra Pradesh MLA C.B. Krishna Yadav, arrested in the stamp scam case, had abducted two associates of prime accused Abdul Karim Telgi in Hyderabad in 1998 and released them only after Telgi paid him a ransom amount, Special Investigation Team (SIT) has
- Mother Prayer (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Jan 01, 2004)
There is not a day someone does not lose a loved one here: Far from Saarc arclights, a Kashmiri mother prays for peace
- Attempts On Musharraf’s Life (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Jan 01, 2004)
THE chickens are coming home to roost for Pakistan’s military ruler. Just after he seized power in October 1999, Gen Pervez Musharraf became the first ruler in Pakistan to justify the violence unleashed by his jihadis in Kashmir as being a noble jihad
- Straw Wishes Sinha Ahead Of Saarc Summit (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw today conveyed his best wishes to External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha on the eve of his departure for the SAARC summit in Islamabad.
In his telephonic conversation with the External Affairs Minister, Straw ...
- India Inc Hopeful On Removal Of Safta Roadblocks (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
FICCI is “very hopeful” that seven Saarc nations would be able to clear all roadblocks on the way to signing of Saarc Free Trade Agreement (Safta) at the Islamabad summit. FICCI president Y.K. Modi said, “as of today we are very hopeful.” He said support
- Pasricha Moves Out Encounter Cop Again (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
Another high-profile encounter specialist has been transferred in a major reshuffle in the Mumbai police force.
Pradeep Sharma, who is reputed to have gunned down over 90 gangsters over the past 12 years, is among 20 officers who were transferred ...
- Newspapers Circulation Goes Up 24 Pc (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
THE total circulation of newspapers across the country grew by 24 per cent, from 11.52 crore copies in 2001 to 14.2 crore copies in 2002-03 according to the 47th Press In India report. This increase can be attributed to the larger number of publishers
- Asean Ties: India Must Look To The East With Greater Vision (Business Line, Gautam Murthy, Dec 31, 2003)
INDIA has moved purposefully in developing a broad economic and strategic partnership with the dynamic countries of South-East Asia.
- Spread Of Saffron (Telegraph, RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE, Dec 31, 2003)
A civilized country is one where people don’t have to waste their time on politics. — Javier Cercas, Soldiers of Salamis
- That Lift Which They Sing About (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Dec 31, 2003)
There is much talk these days about the common school system, free and compulsory education and that India has not fulfilled her vow to give at least primary education to all the children in this country.
- Indo-Pak: Breaking The Ice (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 30, 2003)
Zulfi, I know that we must find a solution for Kashmir. But we have got caught in a situation which we can’t get out of without causing damage to the systems and structures of our respective societies...”
- Couplet Express (Tribune, Nirupama Dutt, Dec 29, 2003)
THE romance of a train journey is hard to get over and it is an experience that I just cannot resist and the longer the distance the better it is. So I was not intimidated by the 48 hours the train would take from Nizamuddin to Madurai. I had to make this
- Your Q, His A (Indian Express, RAJIV K. LUTHRA , Dec 28, 2003)
I am an unmarried woman and I wish to adopt a child. I have sufficient means to care for the child. Is it possible for me to adopt a child? What is the procedure for the same
- Politicians As Easy Targets (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Dec 27, 2003)
A society that acquires habitual contempt for politics and politicians is not a society on the road to moral enlightenment; it is a society opening itself up to despotism.
- The Whistle Echoes (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Dec 27, 2003)
It seems Satyendra Dubey’s story touches someone new everyday. This week, the ECONOMIST retold the tale of the young engineer with the very direct gaze who lived in Bihar and was murdered for blowing the whistle on corruption in the prime minister’s pet
- Banning The Headscarf (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Dec 25, 2003)
Backers of the ban on headscarves in schools say they are defending the principles on which French society has been founded.
- The Chinese Are Changing (Telegraph, Jairam Ramesh, Dec 25, 2003)
Bonhomie between India and Pakistan is in the air yet again. Somewhat unexpectedly, the rhetoric emanating from Islamabad is subdued, moderate and even statesmanlike. Many believe that American pressure is finally paying off and that Pakistan is, at last,
- Could Musharraf Be Right? (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Dec 25, 2003)
There are three things that Pakistan’s President General Pervez Musharraf must not do if the process of normalization of ties with India is to proceed apace.
- Same Caste, Different Benefits (Indian Express, Dominic Emmanuel, Dec 24, 2003)
Satya Narayan Jatiya, Union minister of social justice and empowerment, decided to make a unique Christmas gift, this time not only to the Indian Christian community but also to international Christian and Muslim communities on behalf of the NDA ...
- India Shining? Indeed, In Its People! (Business Line, P.T. Jyothi Datta, Dec 23, 2003)
AT AN inter-city airport in South Africa, a photo-journalist covering the Cricket World Cup earlier this year was confronted by a charming lady who quipped: "Are you from India? Pity your boys lost in the finals!" This admiration-filled remark was indeed
- Take It Or Fall Behind (Telegraph, Barun De, Dec 22, 2003)
Does south Asia have genuinely independent alternatives for more self-respecting national futures
- Sri Sarada Devi (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2003)
Why are such heavy prices demanded of exemplary lives? Today is the 150th birthday of a modern Hindu saint. Hark at her tale. One day, Shyamsundari, the wife of a poor but pious priest, Ramchandra Mukhopadhyay, made her way back from her father’s house to
- Small Piece Of History (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2003)
If history can be made in the historic town of Ayodhya, it can also be made in an alley in Calcutta. In the very heart of Kidderpore lies Metiabruz, an area that developed when the last Nawab of Awadh, Wajid Ali Shah, came to live there in exile from ...
- ‘ostracise The Corrupt And Unprincipled From All Spheres Of Public Life’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2003)
• The Indian Express is doing a commendable job in exposing the fake stamp paper scam as well as highlighting the death (murder) of Satyendra K Dubey. It seems that our Government is not really serious in wanting to eradicate corruption. Honesty no longer
- God And Constitutions (Indian Express, Soli Sorabjee, Dec 21, 2003)
God and religion, especially Christianity, have become highly controversial subjects in drafting of the Constitution for the European Union (EU). The first 15 draft articles of the Constitution which were released on 6th February 2003 made no mention of
- Have They Got More Than They Bargained For? (Hindu, KESAVA MENON, Dec 21, 2003)
Now that Saddam Hussein is in American hands what happens in Iraq? On the unfolding situation.
- Across The Thin Saffron Line (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 19, 2003)
Hinduism in Public and Private: Reform, Hindutva, Gender and Sampraday Edited by Antony Copley, Oxford, Rs 595
- The Loya Jirga (Hindu, Robert O. Blake, Dec 18, 2003)
We are seeing Afghanistan determine its own destiny as it undertakes a democratic approach to ascertain the will of the nation.
- How Old Is An Antique? (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Dec 17, 2003)
The English term, “antiquity”, is derived from the Latin word “antiques” or from “antico” in Italian, which referred originally to the decorative items found in ancient Roman remains, that have captured the imagination of English art collectors in the ...
- This One Is For The Islamic Peoples (Telegraph, Shirin Ebadi, Dec 17, 2003)
From the lecture given by Shirin Ebadi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2003, on receiving the award at Oslo, December 10
- These Kids Told: You Are Dalit, Go Eat Elsewhere (Indian Express, Janyala Sreenivas, Dec 16, 2003)
At least seven Dalit teachers have been transferred in Gujarat’s Surendranagar district for objecting to segregation of upper- and lower-caste students during mid-day meals in some schools.
- The Mahatma And The Bjp (Telegraph, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Dec 16, 2003)
Now that the frenzied investigation into the causes of the state assembly elections outcome has run its course, we must turn our attention to the consequences. In a belt across the waist of Mother India are to be seen three of the most communal faces of
- Different Rules For Different People (Telegraph, Shirin Ebadi, Dec 16, 2003)
From the lecture given by Shirin Ebadi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2003, on receiving the award at Oslo, December 10
- Drinking Water For All - A Mission That Needs Vision (Business Line, C. Chandramouli, Dec 15, 2003)
THE Approach Paper to the Tenth Plan went thus: "Despite good monsoons continuously for the last twelve years and high priority from the Government of India for the programme of augmenting the supply of drinking water by way of funds and attention, the...
- Of Hindutva And Governance (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Dec 15, 2003)
Signs of Hindutva were unmistakable in the elections... [But] we are so used to equating it with belligerence that we do not notice it when it takes subtler forms.
- A Monarch Of All That He Surveys (Tribune, Amar Chandel, Dec 13, 2003)
Phalke award comes to Dev Anand rather late
- Creating Jobs In Haryana (Tribune, D. R. Chaudhry, Dec 12, 2003)
‘Suraksha Sathi’ scheme is not the answer
- Fdi-Led Vs Entrepreneurial Growth - Divergent Paths Taken By India And China (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2003)
China's rapid growth, increasing openness, developing consumer market, and large, low-cost labour force, are all making it the global focal point for FDI. But the FDI-driven manufacturing boom has its limitations. Indeed, India's home-grown entrepreneurs
- The Budget As The Bsp Test (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Dec 11, 2003)
There’s a difference between packaging a promise and delivering it
- The Strategies That Win Elections (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 10, 2003)
IN response to the article "Introspection time for Congress-I" (Business Line, December 6) by his author urging the Congress(I) to introspect on its poor performance in the Assembly elections in the Hindi heartland, a couple of readers wrote to say that..
- ‘muslims Don’t Provoke. They’re Scared. This Scared Indian Muslim Is A Big Threat To The Unity Of Our Country’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 10, 2003)
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, at his native village Saifi in Etawah.Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s Walk The Talk:
- 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...
- The Equations In Europe (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Dec 09, 2003)
Intensification of Franco-German cooperation might now hold back European integration.
- Singapore At Crossroads & Why A Little Anarchy Would Help (Business Line, V. Ranganathan, Dec 08, 2003)
Until now, much to the discomfort of critics, Singapore's strength has been its discipline, followed by well-conceived Government intervention, both thanks to its former Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kwan Yew. But the very same factors that were the seeds of ...
- After Victory, Hard Grind (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2003)
ONCE the heady excitement of the victories tapers off, the new chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh will have to settle down to realise the burden of the new responsibilities. It will be all too easy to mistake the triumph as a...
- Sirens Of Change (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2003)
That three women have become chief ministers is a sign of the churning in
Indian politics. The keynote of the elections was change
- This Is Our Hell Or Heaven (Deccan Herald, Karen Armstrong, Dec 07, 2003)
Afterlife is a minority interest in the great religions. For them, this world matters more than the next
- 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.
- Saffron Sweep (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
THE LOTUS HAS flowered again, and spectacularly so, in three of the four Congress(I)-ruled States that went to the polls on December 1. The victory must be that much sweeter for the Bharatiya Janata Party because in all the States it was directly pitted..
- A Brutal Blow To Congress Ambitions (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
WHILE CONFOUNDING MOST poll pundits, the Bharatiya Janata Party has surprised itself by wresting three out of the four Hindi-belt States decisively from its chief adversary. Contrary to popular expectation, the BJP scored an emphatic win in ...
- Let’s Map Mumbai’s Villages (Indian Express, Amrita Shah, Dec 04, 2003)
THE road is big in America. Fast cars, freeways, motels are all an intrinsic part of American folklore. Yet some years ago at a seminar on urban planning in Mumbai, a participant talked about how something that is meant to connect can also disconnect...
- ‘satyendra’s Murderers Are Like Terrorists’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 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. Readers’ e mails just keep pouring in
- Information Comes At A Price (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 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
- If The Centre Doesn’t Hold (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 02, 2003)
It is more economic than ethnic in Assam. The BJP-led government, caught between mandir and Modi, does not understand a simple thing like this. When the applicants number 72 lakh for a few vacancies in the railways, the response is not to raise 47 more...
- No Defence, Mr Chairman (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2003)
We need to reject any extraneous influence in the administration of our defence forces
- Audacious Outrage! (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 01, 2003)
ALL talk of knowledge explosion and information revolution comes to naught in the case of certain categories of thinkers and writers morbidly determined to live in unfathomable depths of ignorance about countries and cultures other than their own. A large
- West Bengal’s Lajja (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2003)
The ban order against Nasreen’s book is neither democratic, nor a recipe for social order
- Belling The Cat (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2003)
TODAY is the day when the dirty tricks departments of most political parties will go on overdrive to influence the electoral verdict in Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. However, it is unlikely that the Election Commission is going to be
- We’re Like This And That Only (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Dec 01, 2003)
It's strange to be going back to the idea of “national unity”, one of those school textbook formulations that we learnt by rote. Surely we’ve been there, done that. We’ve explored the idea of India, mouthed aphorisms about unity in diversity, turned ...
- Your Q His A (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 30, 2003)
I am a Hindu Brahmin girl and forced into a situation by my husband where I have to seek divorce from him. Please tell me about divorces. Which is faster, mutual or one sided. What are the requirements and process
- ‘gujarat Govt Justified Violence, We Condemned It’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 30, 2003)
Don’t you think that the present problems in Assam are a result of mass scale unemployment in the state, the reason for which is the failure of sucessive state governments to hasten economic development
- Bubblegum Universe (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 29, 2003)
Censor Board chief Anupam Kher’s empire has expanded considerably. His predecessors had to satisfy their scissor-happy instincts by snipping away four-letter words in big screen releases. Kher, in contrast, will preside over a larger terrain. For, to him
- Transferred Justice (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Nov 28, 2003)
The jubilance that the Supreme Court's verdict has averted injustice asserts the pride that the Indian judicial system has the innate capacity to find just solutions. This merits introspective scrutiny.
- Political Hiccups (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Nov 28, 2003)
A pathetic pursuit of ratings, the quest for more advertising has caused TV channels, newpapers and weeklies to focus so heavily on elections in the four northern states that Mizoram seems almost outside the Indian Union.
- A People's Car For Rs 1 Lakh — Can Ratan Tata's Dream Be Realised? (Business Line, B.S. Rathor, Nov 28, 2003)
More than one-third of the global population of six billion lives in China and India. A small car project will always be viable considering the prospective market size in the region.
- Verdict Need Not Indicate Trends In Ls Poll, Feel Bjp, Congress (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Nov 28, 2003)
With pollsters forecasting a mixed verdict, the mainstream political parties, BJP and Congress, are wary of projecting the coming Assembly contests as a curtain raiser for the Lok Sabha elections next year.
- Rural India And Media: Emerging Permutations (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Nov 28, 2003)
It is all about the dialectics of change in the Indian media. The novelty is that for once this change is not being triggered by anything that is happening in the urban pockets of the country.
- Ambala’S Aromas (Indian Express, K K Khullar, Nov 28, 2003)
Truly does a good dhaba bring people together
- The Good Ship India (Indian Express, R P Subramanian, Nov 27, 2003)
At times of internal strife one sometimes wonders: will India ever be united? Open the atlas and look at Europe. Start at Ireland, and trace a path eastwards across the Irish Sea to England, and onwards across the Dover Straits through Belgium, the Nether
- No Full Stops In Mulayam Home (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Nov 27, 2003)
All in little Saifai, home to 30,000, agree that Mulayam Singh Yadav put it on the map. And this December, Saifai will have more reason to thank the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister: for 10 days, it will be a world transformed, hosting bigwigs, celebrities, s
- At Last A Ceasefire (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 27, 2003)
THE FORMAL AGREEMENT between the armies of India and Pakistan to observe a ceasefire along the Line of Control, the Actual Ground Position Line in the Siachen Glacier and a segment of the international border is a positive development in itself.
- For Whom The Polls Don’T Toll (Indian Express, Lalit Mohan, Nov 27, 2003)
Your name may figure in the voters’ list, but then again it may not
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