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Articles 21021 through 21120 of 21907:
- Naxalite Violence: Legacy Of Another Era (Times of India, BHASKAR ROY, Jul 10, 2002)
India, a nuclear power and satellite manufacturer, is grappling with an armed political campaign that best belongs to another era, and is admittedly an outcome of the unresolved contradictions of a backward agrarian society.
- The Moderate Deputy Pm (Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi, Jul 06, 2002)
As reshuffles go, it is hard to deny that last week’s effort was a bit of a dud.
- Highs And Lows (Financial Times, Edward Luce, May 30, 2002)
General Pervez Musharraf interview held at the Army Chief's official residence in Rawalpindi, Pakistan's military headquarters, took place immediately after Gen Musharraf had addressed the Pakistan nation in a televised broadcast.
- Caution On Kashmir (Boston Globe, Editorial, Boston Globe, May 30, 2002)
In the present circumstances the United States has no choice but to use all its influence with India and Pakistan to compel those nuclear-armed neighbors to back down from the brink of war.
- Pakistan Cannot Expect The Support Of India's Muslims (Independent (UK), M.J. Akbar, May 30, 2002)
A revealing but rarely revealed fact is that Muslims in the rest of India give no support whatsoever to the separatist insurgency in the Muslim-majority valley of Kashmir, that charming bit of paradise that could trigger off history's first nuclear war.
- Musharraf's Order Or Disorder? (News International, Farhan Bokhari, Apr 25, 2002)
The success of Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's General President, at next Tuesday's referendum may already be a foregone conclusion, thanks to the widespread state-cum-'nazim' backed struggle to make his campaign anything but a failure.
- Musharraf Opens A New Political Front (Gulf News, Nasim Zehra, Apr 12, 2002)
Wearing army fatigues and throwing caution to the wind, Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf launched his political career at the Lahore referendum rally.
- An Epistle To Mr Advani (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Feb 05, 2002)
Dear Advaniji,
You have begun what is unquestionably the most profound and consequential interaction between our country and the United States of America since the two meetings between the then president, Bill Clinton, and the prime minister.
- Clash By Night (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 05, 2002)
At first glance, this fact seems to confirm the arguments of the Harvard political scientist, Samuel Huntington, who insists that the problem is not Islamic fundamentalism but Islam itself.
- Air War And Ground Reality (Telegraph, V. R. Raghavan , Feb 05, 2002)
The ground offensive of the Northern Alliance has quickly cleared most of Afghanistan from the control of the taliban. The powerful air attacks could not by themselves force the taliban out of their strongholds.
- Bangladesh: Worrisome Indicators (Business Line, B. Raman , Feb 05, 2002)
THE recent incidents on the Indo-Bangladeshi border are under enquiry by the Government and one has to await the results before assessing whether these were isolated incidents unlikely to have an adverse impact on the bilateral relations.
- New Great Guessing Game: Where’s Osama? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 05, 2002)
WHEN Osama bin Laden seemed to melt into the snow-capped mountains of in eastern Afghanistan more than a week ago, many speculated that he had made a simple escape, taking an obvious route.
- Bono Who? (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Feb 05, 2002)
Young Omar Abdullah, the 31-year-old minister of state in the MEA, makes no pretence of enjoying the good life outside South Block.
- Ivanov’s Cold War Comfort For India (Indian Express, Sonia Trikha, Feb 05, 2002)
As the stakes rise in the subcontinent, the Washington Wizards are scoring over Moscow. New Delhi, for now, is cheering on the winning side.
- Corporates: On The Fine Line Of Ethics (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Feb 05, 2002)
THE outgoing chief of the Securities and Exchange Board (SEBI), Mr D. R. Mehta, in the swan-song interviews he has been giving the media in the last few months, has sought to explain his lack of success in regulating the capital market satisfactorily.
- In Search Of The Thermidor (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Feb 05, 2002)
KATHMANDU, DEC. 21. Political life has been on a fast track in Nepal.
- Polls In Uttar Pradesh (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 05, 2002)
WITH THE FORMALISATION of alliances and the various parties announcing their candidates and releasing their manifestoes, the poll scene in Uttar Pradesh has now reached a decisive phase.
- Psu And Usp (Business Line, K. Ramesh, Feb 05, 2002)
UNIQUE Sale positioning (USP) is not only the general marketing technique meant for competing products, but, applies equally to sale of equity in public sector undertakings (PSUs).
- As Hong Kong To China, We See Sri Lanka To India -- Mr Milinda Moragoda, Sri Lanka's Minister For Economic Reforms (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Feb 05, 2002)
Even while in the Opposition the United National Party had strong links with India.
- Poverty Of Politics (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Feb 05, 2002)
THE central point is: to what extent should political parties base their policies and actions on firm ideological considerations, which at once would rule out expediency -- of every sort -- as an acceptable yardstick?
- Witness To A Decline (Indian Express, Ashwani Sharma, Feb 05, 2002)
Having worked and lived in Jammu, it is depressing for me to see what is happening to the city.
- Watch How The Money Goes (Telegraph, Sumon Kumar Bhaumik, Feb 04, 2002)
Our generation of financial market-watchers has finally found the mother of all anti-heroes.
- The Past Is Not Another Country (Telegraph, Nandini Chaterjee, Feb 04, 2002)
The furore over moves to rewrite the National Council for Educational Research and Training history textbooks and expunge them of passages.
- Moment Of Parting (Telegraph, DIPANKAR GUPTA, Feb 04, 2002)
Most historical events have heroes and villains — perhaps more villains than we actually care to record.
- To Believe It Or Not (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 04, 2002)
If it is eventually found that the Enron management had deliberately misinformed investors about Enron’s future, and had bailed itself out by offloading its shares while the price was still respectable, no one would be surprised.
- Joshi’s History (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 04, 2002)
MURLI MANOHAR JOSHI’S jaw is getting the better of him. As the union minister of Human Resource Development, he is required to conduct himself as a national leader.
- Divided Fight (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 04, 2002)
They are out in force, but they find it impossible to come together.
- ‘Three Pms Couldn’t Have Been Wrong In Inducting Me’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 04, 2002)
With assembly elections just two years away, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is a man in a hurry.
- Will Musharraf Endure? (Business Line, B. Raman , Feb 04, 2002)
FOR nearly two months now, there have been no major public demonstrations in Pakistan over the US-led `war' against terrorism in Afghanistan and over the co-operation extended to this `war' by Gen Pervez Musharraf.
- Messing Up With People's Savings (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, Feb 04, 2002)
IT IS indeed difficult to reconcile the monetary policy measures, announced by the RBI Governor, Mr Bimal Jalan, with the prevailing macro-economic conditions.
- Oil Price Slump Could Help Global Economy (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Feb 04, 2002)
INTERNATIONAL oil prices fell to a new two-year low of less than $l8 a barrel on November 15, with Opec failing to win support from non-Opec producers, notably Russia.
- Business Vigilance In A Consumer Society (Business Line, A. V. Swaminathan , Feb 04, 2002)
AMERICAN business is full of peculiarities, hooked to a rolling economy and a fast changing consumer society.
- A Cautionary Tale (Telegraph, MUKUL KESAVAN, Feb 03, 2002)
Reading Pervez Musharraf’s famous speech well after it was delivered, I was impressed by how craven it was. Not in the sense of being a command performance ordered by the Americans;
- Globalisation And Decentralisation (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Feb 03, 2002)
Where existing structures of inequality are left intact and become compounded with the disadvantages of marketisation, political empowerment is a useful slogan, not a realistic or genuine goal.
- 2001: Banks Floating In Sea Of Liquidity (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Feb 02, 2002)
THE PERIOD from 1970-71 to 2000-01 has witnessed interest rates offered on deposits by banks rise and fall.
- Bjp-Vhp `Spat' (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Feb 02, 2002)
TO MOST observers of saffron politics, the VHP's recent outburst against the BJP and the Prime Minister came as a bit of a surprise, mainly because of its virulence and timing.
- Gm Crops And The World Market (Hindu, Mihir Shah, Feb 02, 2002)
Most countries have imposed bans or very strict regulations on genetically-modified crops... We need to be vigilant against discredited technologies and products being sneaked in.
- `Crude' Impact Of War (Business Line, Nilanjan Banik , Feb 02, 2002)
CAN you guess the likely impact of war on terrorism in Afghanistan? A rise in oil price.
- Sneaking Through The Barriers (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 02, 2002)
THE CONTINUED VULNERABILITY of airport security systems to the cunning of the subversive mind lay exposed yet again with the nabbing of a sneaker bomber in a U.S. bound flight from France.
- Difficult Sail For India Inc (Business Line, D. Sampathkumar , Feb 02, 2002)
PERFORMANCE-WISE, it has been a forgettable year for the Indian corporate sector.
- No Family Matter (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 02, 2002)
So what must we make of the latest round of posturing on Ayodhya, with just over a fortnight to go for the Uttar Pradesh polls, by the BJP and the VHP? Or should that be, the BJP vs the VHP?
- ‘There Is No Shift In Bjp’s Position, We Only Want Govt To Put A Decisive End To Terrorism’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 02, 2002)
Pakistan-bashing has been the staple diet of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and its re-incarnation, the Bharatiya Janata Party.
- The Good Doctors (Indian Express, Krishan Kalra, Feb 02, 2002)
Neeru Verma is a qualified pediatrician who has worked in a hospital for many years, but has given up now. Her husband, also a doctor, has a thriving practice.
- Mission Kashmir (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 01, 2002)
Jammu and Kashmir is labouring under many disadvantages.
- Passport To Terror (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 01, 2002)
ALL it took Aftab Ansari, alias Farhan, the Dubai-based terrorist who masterminded the recent attack on the American Center in Kolkata to procure an Indian passport for himself, was Rs 500.
- Peak Season Blues (Indian Express, Sukhmani Singh, Feb 01, 2002)
IT’S peak tourist season in old world Bikaner, but the town looks desolate and dead. The slew of heritage resorts — palaces, havelis, hunting lodges, et al, present a sombre appearance.
- Why Saarc Does Not Spark? (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Feb 01, 2002)
KATHMANDU, JAN. 3. The failures of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation over the last two decades have led to agonising soul searching among sections of the intelligentsia in the subcontinent.
- E-Mail Nationalism (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Feb 01, 2002)
INDIA, it was once said, was nothing but a figment of the British imagination.
- Tackling Fiscal Termites (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, Feb 01, 2002)
IN THE area of financial sector reforms, the policy-makers appear to be more worried about form than content.
- The `Awesome' Wedding Draws Aussies (Business Line, M. R. Subramani, Feb 01, 2002)
ONE Monsoon Wedding has done what many public relations campaigns have failed to do, at least as far as Australia is concerned.
- India And The Global Slowing (Hindu, Pulapre Balakrishnan, Feb 01, 2002)
The prevalent tendency to link the slowing of the Indian manufacturing sector to the recession in the U.S. economy needs to be rejected as deluding.
- Searching For Growth (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 31, 2002)
THE EUROPEAN UNION is India's largest trading partner, but considering the history of India's economic links with the members of the E.U. the volume of two-way economic flows is a very small proportion of Europe's trade with the rest of the world.
- Us And Them (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 31, 2002)
The United States of America has been transformed by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. So has the US president, Mr George W. Bush, if his first state-of-the-union speech is good evidence.
- Collective Obsession (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Jan 31, 2002)
There is a Bengali word that isn’t easy to translate, but which very aptly describes the behaviour of the media before, during and after the visit of Pervez Musharraf to India.
- A Gentle Way With Words (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jan 31, 2002)
A week before he died at 95, news of his precarious health began appearing in all our national dailies.
- High Living, Simple Thinking (Business Line, K. Gopalan, Jan 31, 2002)
EVER since the times of Upanishads, simple living and high thinking has been a basic tenet of all religious writings.
- Study Your Competitor Before Picking A Fight (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Jan 31, 2002)
THE Taliban should have taken a few courses in competitive strategy.
- Beyond Terrorism And Recession... -- Us Looks Ahead With Hope (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Jan 31, 2002)
AMERICANS opened the New Year with a renewed sense of confidence, overcoming the traumatic experience of the terrorist attacks of 2001, and with strong expectations of economic recovery in the first half of 2002.
- The Partition Debate - Ii (Hindu, Mushirul Hasan, Jan 30, 2002)
As a metaphor, an event and memory, Partition has to be interpreted and explained afresh to remove widely-held misconceptions.
- From Gladstonian Collars To Loin-Cloth: The Mahatma’s Journey (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 30, 2002)
Another year, another anniversary — and another opportunity to look back on the influence Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi still wields on the consciousness.
- Out On Dolly’s Limb (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 30, 2002)
Dolly the Sheep has arthritis. And once again all’s not quite well in our brave new world.
- What About The War On Economic Front? (Pioneer, Brij Bhardwaj, Jan 30, 2002)
With the threat of war receding from the horizon, it's time to turn the attention towards economy.
- Making It With Dolly (Telegraph, Indranil Basu, Jan 30, 2002)
From gene therapy to genetically modified foods, issues involving DNA evoke ethical rhetoric and fiercely polarized opinions.
- Don't Dump This Issue (Business Line, Menka Shivdasani , Jan 30, 2002)
AS someone who believed in the importance of hygiene, what would you say if you were told you generate 450 gm of garbage per day?
- Changing Contours Of Indo-Pak Summit (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jan 30, 2002)
WHETHER it is the media or the cocktail circuit, a hot point of discussion these days is the forthcoming summit between the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and the Pakistan President-cum-Chief Executive, Gen Pervez Musharraf.
- Mask Of Acharya (Pioneer, Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, Jan 30, 2002)
During the run up to the 1989 general election, I was fortunate to work with an editor who had considerable insight and connections into the BJP.
- December 13: Who Is To Blame? (Business Line, H. Kaushal , Jan 30, 2002)
THE December 13 attack on Parliament on December 13 is a challenge to the free world, not only in India.
- After The Expose (Indian Express, Tarun J Tejpal, Jan 30, 2002)
In my 18 years in journalism, had I spent more time hanging around with politicians, and less with other kinds of achievers, I would have known better.
- Resolving Ayodhya (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 30, 2002)
To put it mildly, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's expression of the hope in Lucknow on Sunday that the Ayodhya dispute would be resolved before March next year, came as a surprise.
- How She Got There (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 30, 2002)
In Delhi, the summit doesn’t seem to have deflated too many egos.
- More To Rape (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 30, 2002)
Indian law needs to broaden its understanding of rape. The law commission’s level-headed revaluation of the rape laws might prove to be more useful than the Union home minister’s unthinking advocacy of capital punishment for convicted rapists.
- Hi-Tech History (Business Line, G. S. Balakrishnan , Jan 30, 2002)
THE historian of today has an edge over his worthy predecessor.
- ‘Ncert Has Corrected The Approach Towards The Teaching Of Civilisation’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 29, 2002)
Though the controversy over the newly-overhauled syllabi structure for schools still hasn’t simmered down, it has Human Resources Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi’s blessings.
- Argentina: The Bitterest Pill Yet (Business Line, S. Hari Kumar, Jan 29, 2002)
IN THE last week of December 2001, Argentina made the biggest-ever sovereign debt default ($152 billion) in the history of global financial markets.
- The Punjab Puzzle (Hindu, Nonica Datta, Jan 29, 2002)
The rural-urban distinction, rooted in the Unionist tradition, still defines and limits the parameters of Punjab politics.
- Detecting Crime @ The Speed Of Light (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 29, 2002)
WITH INCREASING EVIDENCE of the abuse of the Internet by terrorist organisations, the moves to create cyber cells at the State level mark the start of a demanding and sensitive task.
- `Railneer' To Quench Commuters' Thirst (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 29, 2002)
THE lucrative and possibly single largest captive market for packaged water, the Indian Railways, seems to have gone beyond the reach of corporates, currently battling it out in the estimated Rs 1,000-crore bottled water segment.
- Treading Dangerous Ground (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 29, 2002)
IT WOULD SEEM that the Vajpayee Government has bought time on the demand of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and its `sant parivar' — that a big chunk of the Government-acquired land in the disputed Ayodhya complex be handed over to them.
- The Dancer’s Caste (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Jan 29, 2002)
There seems no end to the re-writing of Indian history. It’s as though everyone with an agenda has suddenly cottoned on to this shortcut.
- Kabul Calling (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Jan 29, 2002)
It may or may not be an entirely apocryphal story: Prime Minister Charan Singh, on hearing about the landing of the Soviet troops at Kabul in December 1979, asked: “Afghanistan?
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