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Articles 19221 through 19320 of 21907:
- Civilisation Fat (The Economic Times, RAJA M, Dec 12, 2004)
AT a gym facing Mumbai's Marine Drive, pear-shaped patrons pant on imported cardio machines and tread mills while gazing city lights across the Arabian Sea bay.
- Hockey League's Designer Duds (The Economic Times, MANOJ NAIR, Dec 12, 2004)
Our own PHL is set to step out from a very imaginative package. Such innovative ideas could resurrect a sport that was at one time as popular as cricket.
- Seizing The Moment (The Economic Times, Soumya Kanti Mitra, Dec 12, 2004)
MS Neena Gill, Labour MEP from UK and head of the European Parliament's South Asia & Saarc Delegation, has the best explanation for why EU-India relations have been upgraded to a ‘strategic’ level at the Amsterdam Nov 8 EU-India Summit.
- Timely Medical Aid Could Have Made The Difference (Deccan Herald, N ULAGANATHAN, Dec 12, 2004)
Football is a very fast and risky game. In a period of 90-plus minutes, where a player has to run full steam, anything can happen. It brings a player frequently in contact with the ball and with other players. So the chances of injury are greater
- Rumour Ambushed (Tribune, Brig Harwant Singh, Dec 11, 2004)
IN 1983-85, I was posted as General Staff Officer Grade One, Operations [GSO-1 (Ops)], at HQ 8 Mountain Division at Zakhama near Kohima.
- Children Of Jehad — Or Victims? (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Dec 11, 2004)
AS providence would have it, the Srinagar-based journalist did not have to search for the man who left his wife and daughters in India when he crossed the Line of Control (LoC) in pursuit of “azadi” and reached what India refers to as Pakistan Occupied ..
- Manmohan Singh In The Northeast (Hindu, Walter Fernandes, Dec 11, 2004)
The Northeast needs not more packages but serious steps towards a solution to the problems that have resulted in insurgency.
- Iron Man Rumsfeld (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Dec 11, 2004)
The timing could have been much better, but we can still see some positives out of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s visit to India.
- Ambition Gets Asean Aggressive (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Dec 10, 2004)
Asean is now seeking Asia-wide opportunities for sustained export-led growth and the intricate web of trade accords planned will certainly lead to a significantly higher share of Asian exports in world trade in the coming decades.
- Changing Face (Deccan Herald, GAYATRI CHANDRASHEKAR, Dec 10, 2004)
The passive train traveller is the one constant feature of a London that has changed over the years
- Insurgents Target Aid Workers In Iraq (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Dec 10, 2004)
International aid workers, whose humanitarian mission afforded them protection in areas of conflict, now find that their flags offer little defence against an unprecedented spate of terrorist attacks in Iraq.
- Name Of The New War Is `Trade' (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 10, 2004)
The world's second largest economy, Japan, hinges its hopes on trade surplus to help in achieving growth beyond the 0.1 per cent recorded for the last quarter....
- Now For A Breakthrough (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 10, 2004)
The centre and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) have shown commendable clear-headedness in putting aside their differences to make possible the meeting ...
- Road Block (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 10, 2004)
Talks between India and Pakistan on the opening of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road linking Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) with Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) have hit a roadblock.
- Forget Efficiency. Let’S Do It (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Dec 10, 2004)
In the normal course, I would oppose any new government activity on the grounds that it is probably unnecessary, is likely to increase the power and the influence of an already ...
- Iraq: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Dec 10, 2004)
Since there is a total ban on reports of the inch-by-inch decimation of all life and property in Falluja (for the sake of democracy, of course).
- Next Steps (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 10, 2004)
If Donald Rumsfeld, the US secretary of defence, has a sense of recent history, he may find it intriguing to learn that Indo-US ties got consolidated only towards the end of the second term of the Clinton presidency.
- A Pawar Highway (Indian Express, Prafulla Marpakwar, Dec 10, 2004)
On the night of November 28, NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s Landcruiser was jammed in the Kasara ghats (about 125 kms from Mumbai) for two hours.
- Temples Of Dissent (Indian Express, S. M. A. Kazmi, Dec 09, 2004)
The Uttaranchal government has proposed a move to bring a legislation in the next Assembly session to bring the famous Char Dham temples under direct government control.
- The Buzz Over The Bus (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 09, 2004)
The differences between India and Pakistan over the travel documents required for the proposed bus service between Muzaffarabad and Srinagar exemplify contradictory views of Kashmir’s status.
- The Favourite Whipping Boy (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Dec 09, 2004)
Is India conspiring to wipe a neighbour called Bangladesh out of the face of the earth through “desertification” of the country or
- Why Dollar Is In The Doldrums (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Dec 09, 2004)
While a major withdrawal from the US market has not taken place so far, there is a limit to the investment by foreign banks because of the ever-increasing risk of over-exposure to a fall in the dollar.
- Bbc To Cut 2,900 Jobs To Save £320m A Year (Tribune, Ciar Byrne, Dec 09, 2004)
THE BBC will save £320m a year through job cuts and other savings in a major overhaul of the broadcaster announced yesterday by the director general, Mark Thompson.
- Kashmir Roadblock (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 09, 2004)
Negotiations can never bring out the desired result if either of the two parties involved has a rigid attitude. This explains why the technical-level talks between India
- A Void In The Ranks (Telegraph, Arshi Khan, Dec 08, 2004)
Yasser Arafat’s death on November 11 was a real setback to the west Asia peace process. The French president, Jacques Chirac, who went to the Paris hospital after hearing of the death
- Orchestrating Crisis In Ukraine (Hindu, Mark Almond, Dec 08, 2004)
People power is on track to score another triumph for western values in Ukraine. Over the last 15 years, the old Soviet bloc has witnessed recurrent fairy tale political upheavals.
- The Price Of Rice (Business Line, K.G. Kumar, Dec 07, 2004)
Not many people may be aware that this year has been declared the International Year of Rice by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations.
- A Space Of Delusions (Telegraph, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Dec 07, 2004)
Swapan Dasgputa’s article, “On another plane” (Dec 3), argues that “India will be better served by carving out our own definite space within Pax Americana”.
- Institutions Must Survive Us All (Business Line, S. Ramachander, Dec 07, 2004)
The emergence of the large, impersonal organisation built on egalitarian contracts between people is a recent development in human history, more so the 20th Century.
- Bollywood On The Beach (Tribune, Chetna Keer Banerjee, Dec 07, 2004)
Back in the 1970s, Bollywood made the nation swing to the strains of Goa with “Ghe ghe ghe…ghe re sahiba” from the blockbuster “Bobby”.
- Earning Trust (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 07, 2004)
Ethnic politics is primarily a quest for identity. It is understandable, therefore, why Mr Thuingaleng Muivah, general secretary of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim, wants “the uniqueness of the history of the Naga people”
- Festival Amid The Ruins (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Dec 07, 2004)
A wonderfully sunny, early-winterish December morning in Delhi was the setting that launched the Old World Theatre Festival supported by Mahindra and Mahindra.
- Malnad Splendour (Deccan Herald, Padma Ramachandran, Dec 07, 2004)
Shimoga is one of the rainiest and most scenic districts of Karnataka. This is where the river Sharavathi has its source (there is a small Shiva temple on top of that source). Called ‘Ambutheertha’,
- Prabakaran's Warning — Text And Context (Hindu, V. Suryanarayan, Dec 07, 2004)
Anything the LTTE leader says has to be viewed against his uncompromising commitment to the establishment of a separate, independent state.
- Weak Dollar Serves The World Right (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Dec 06, 2004)
If American demand can be supported only by a weaker dollar, the rest of the world has no option but to play along, until the costs of that policy become intolerable. Growth has halted in Europe and in Japan.
- In Search Of Horizon (Tribune, Inderdeep Thapar, Dec 06, 2004)
“WHAT is a horizon, mom, my little one questions as she reads her geography chapter. I give her a scientific explanation. It is a line where earth and sky appear to meet but in reality they do not meet.
- Of Many Forked Tongues (Hindu, Jyotirmaya Sharma, Dec 06, 2004)
The BJP has begun to speak of Hindutva and Bharatiyata interchangeably to make its ideology more acceptable to allies.
- Peace Comes Knocking Once Again (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Dec 06, 2004)
Thuingaleng Muivah, the general secretary of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) is given to saying
- The Only Show In Town (Deccan Herald, Martin Jacques, Dec 06, 2004)
The left, as history knew it, is dead but the concerns that gave rise to it remain as relevant as ever
- The Brethren In Goa (Telegraph, GITHA HARIHARAN, Dec 05, 2004)
Since their defeat in the parliamentary elections, the BJP seems to be losing one mask a day, and in full public view.
- Religious Centres And Public Scrutiny (Deccan Herald, G K GOVINDA RAO, Dec 05, 2004)
History has illustrated from the time of Buddha that criminals, thiefs and murderers would run to the fold of religion downing saffron robes to escape the hand of law.
- Amtrax & Shatabdi: A Study In Contrast (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, Dec 05, 2004)
I went home to Delhi for Diwali holidays. During this period I also travelled to my second home, which is Amritsar. I took the train called the Shatabdi Express from Delhi.
- The Key Institutional Weaknesses (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 04, 2004)
At the third `ASEAN + India Summit' held in Vientiane, a few days ago, there was talk of `deepening' of the `partnership'.
- Life After Death (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 04, 2004)
He is not just another victim of the world’s worst industrial disaster. Even two decades on, Abdul Jabbar continues to lend his strident voice to a movement to avert another Bhopal
- Look Around, God Is Everywhere (Indian Express, Teja Shrikant Lele, Dec 04, 2004)
An oblong bit of stone, a smear of vermilion. A few grains of rice came one day, a diya was lit on another. A few days later, the oblong bit of stone was a stone no more: it had attained iconic status. God had been born.
- A Beach Eye View (Indian Express, RAJU NAYAK, Dec 04, 2004)
Celebrated artiste Subodh Kerkar has presented half a kilometre of installations at Miramar beach, Panaji, as part of the celebrations of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa.
- Porn Free (Indian Express, Mahesh Bhatt, Dec 04, 2004)
Khajuraho paintings survived because the public then was willing to ‘purchase’ what was being offered to them. Similarly, cyber porn thrives because there is a consumer waiting to click his mouse
- Corporate India (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Dec 04, 2004)
WHAT is it about highly successful entrepreneurs who are able to judge people with brilliant instinct that they cannot come to terms with the obvious possibility of their own children or progeny tearing their legacy into shreds after they are no more?
- Filth In God’S Abode (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Dec 04, 2004)
The arrest of the seer of Kancheepuram brings to light once more the sordid goings-on in places of worship.
- Parochialism At Its Worst (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 03, 2004)
True to form, the Shiv Sena has betrayed parochialism of the worst kind by objecting to the appointment of the former Karnataka Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, as Governor of Maharashtra.
- Talk Of Court News: Who Loses And Who Wins (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 03, 2004)
These days, there is more action in courts than elsewhere, and judges seem to have the last word on almost anything. What fills the media is the "talk of court news,"
- Woman Allowed To Go Abroad For Assisted Suicide (Tribune, Robert Verkaik, Dec 03, 2004)
A travel ban on a terminally ill woman who asked her husband to help her commit suicide abroad was lifted in the High Court on Tuesday.
- Birth Of A Science City (Tribune, Reeta Sharma, Dec 03, 2004)
For a follow-up of Pushpa Gujral Science City, a trip to Kapurthala left this columnist in awe. The very first phase of the science city project is mind-boggling.
- Airport Restructuring — Obstacles To A Smooth Take-Off (Business Line, R. Krishnan , Dec 03, 2004)
In the Delhi and Mumbai airport modernisation, the crucial issue is the lack of adequate runway facilities. This cramps quick turnaround of aircraft and the problem is aggravated by the absence of parking bays.
- An Avoidable Tragedy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 03, 2004)
The death of 12 passengers near Bhopal in a rail accident was a tragedy that could well have been averted. If only the passengers, who were arguing on the tracks after getting off another train, had noticed the second train coming towards them;
- God’S Gender (Indian Express, BRAJESH KR. SINGH, Dec 03, 2004)
Is God male or female? It troubles both rationalists and those of immense faith. Since God is formless and absolute in nature, followers don’t bother about gender identity.
- Horizontal Fiscal Imbalances (Business Line, N. Sreedevi, Dec 03, 2004)
The Twelfth Finance Commission (TFC) must be toiling on different criteria for the horizontal distribution of shareable tax revenue — the most crucial and critical part of the recommendations.
- Seven-Year Hitch (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 02, 2004)
The decision by the two leaders of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) to cancel their visit to India is a disappointing development for the Naga peace process.
- On The Beat (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 02, 2004)
Violence is an intoxicating habit. There is no better exemplar of this than the police in West Bengal.
- The Threat From N-Weapons (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Dec 02, 2004)
In its historic ruling on July 8, 1996, the World Court held that countries possessing nuclear weapons had not just a “need” but an “obligation” to commence negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament.
- Commodification Of Education (Deccan Herald, SUDHA SITARAMAN, Dec 02, 2004)
In the heady aftermath of Indian independence, the idea of modernisation took on the dimensions of a national mission. It was an integral part of the Nehruvian vision of modernisation that declares stridently its intentions of building an egalitarian ...
- Looking East (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 02, 2004)
The just concluded third annual summit of India and the 10-member ASEAN group, where both sides entered into a historic partnership pact, reflects the growing importance of India in the geo-politics of the Asia Pacific region, one of the fastest growing e
- Dazzling Divali Of Mughals (Tribune, Roshni Johar, Dec 02, 2004)
Divali without fireworks? Unthinkable. But this is precisely how it was before the advent of Mughals to India. Celebrating Divali with fireworks is of recent origin, dating back to Mughal times.
- About A Chap Called Alexander (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 02, 2004)
The current pointless tussle over the bisexuality of Alexander of Macedon is only the latest and cheapest tribute paid to our fascination with him.
- Favourable Easterlies (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 02, 2004)
There are two ways of seeing the partnership accord signed between India and the Association of South-East Asian Nations in Vientiane on Tuesday.
- Nightwatch (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 01, 2004)
Of the few things left remarkable beneath the visiting moon, the Taj Mahal happens to be one. But looking at it in moonlight is not as simple a pleasure as it sounds like.
- The European Malaise (Telegraph, Ashok Ganguly, Dec 01, 2004)
Soon after the American presidential election results were announced, the British prime minister, Tony Blair, declared to his European Union colleagues that “the American people have spoken”, and it was time to restore
- Towards Asian Community (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 01, 2004)
If it can happen in Europe it can happen in Asia too. That is why Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s idea of an Asian Economic Community
- East Wind (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 01, 2004)
India’s engagement with the Association of South-east Asian Nations is finally coming of age. The “ASEAN-India partnership for peace, progress and shared prosperity” agreement
- Can We Centre The Northeast? (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Dec 01, 2004)
The Northeast is at the center again, this time for the right reasons. The recent VVIP visit emphasised the criticality of the region as a spring board of activity for furthering India’s interests to the east
- Private Eye (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 30, 2004)
Last week a Delhi teenager circulated on mobile phones sexually explicit shots of himself and a friend, sparking off a debate on technology and privacy. By most accounts
- Silver Surfers (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Nov 30, 2004)
THE Microsoft CEO, Mr Steve Balmer, during his recent visit to India pledged to localise software here and urged the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, to take steps to increase computer penetration in the country.
- The Battle For Ukraine (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Nov 30, 2004)
By winning over Ukraine the West hopes to provoke a domino effect of regime change in other ex-Soviet states.
- Nuclear Challenges In Contemporary World (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Nov 30, 2004)
As disparate the nations are, so are their nuclear weapon strategies. While most abide by the rule of non-proliferation, some, despite being part of the NPT, have leaked their knowledge to suspect nations.
- Without Fear Or Favour (Hindu, Nirmala Lakshman, Nov 30, 2004)
In an age where both fear and favour play an influential role in the reporting of news, journalism that stands firm against government and corporate hegemony is the last hope of democracy.
- A Grey Eminence (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Nov 30, 2004)
The story of Indian reforms has been written many times; the more often it is written, the more it will sound the same.
- Faceless And Fearful (Indian Express, AMRITA TRIPATHI, Nov 30, 2004)
Thomas Friedman wrote something in the New York Times about Yasser Arafat’s historical impact being as lasting as a ‘‘footprint on sand’’.
- Manipur’S Middle Class Is Angry (Indian Express, PREM NARAIN, Nov 30, 2004)
The unrest in Manipur deserves special attention because, in many ways, it is very different from that prevailing in the rest of the country and presents twin challenges
- Godmen And Citizens (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Nov 30, 2004)
Ask yourself a question: why did the BJP leaders do their little hunger-strike drama on Parliament Street in Delhi instead of doing it outside the math in Tamil Nadu?
- Issues And Options (Tribune, Pran Chopra , Nov 30, 2004)
IT is just over two months ago that Mr Manmohan Singh said something in New York which hung over India for a few weeks like a shining star of hope in the context of Kashmir. Such hopes have taken wing before as well.
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