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Articles 19421 through 19520 of 21784:
- The World According To Sonia (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Dec 12, 2003)
It requires no complicated analysis to conclude that Sonia Gandhi probably has the job she wants. Number 10, Janpath is any day a superior bungalow to 7, Race Course Road. Every world statesman, representative of think tanks, scholar who visits New Delhi
- Japan All Set To Woo India (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 12, 2003)
After years of ignoring India, Japan is now all set to woo it. Surprised by New Delhi's big power diplomacy, its growing engagement with East Asia, and the resilience of the Indian economy, Japan is now determined to make up for the lost decade in ...
- Whistles, Stings And Slapps (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Dec 12, 2003)
Corruption in India is a mega industry to which public exposés are no match. Pro-whistle blower laws need to be enacted.
- Look East, But Via The Northeast (Indian Express, SANJIB BARUAH , Dec 12, 2003)
Without using the Northeast as a conduit, India’s wooing of southeast Asia will fail. China offers a model
- Preparing For Drought (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2003)
Need to implement recommendations
- Creating Jobs In Haryana (Tribune, D. R. Chaudhry, Dec 12, 2003)
‘Suraksha Sathi’ scheme is not the answer
- Unhealthy Suspense (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2003)
Indecision is harmful for Punjab
- The Sheila Parable (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2003)
Delhi demonstrates the Congress party’s capacity to diminish its own victories
- Bitter Advice (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2003)
AT A TIME when the world sugar market is full of distortions, it is strange the International Sugar Organisation (ISO) should advise New Delhi to end the regime of statutory minimum price (SMP) for cane and further deregulate the sugar sector. For long...
- Delay In Delhi (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2003)
Systems and conventions determine individual action. The inordinate delay in announcing that Ms Sheila Dikshit will be the next chief minister of Delhi can be explained by a prevailing set of democratic practices in India. By any reckoning, Ms Dikshit was
- The Great Indian Tragedy (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Dec 12, 2003)
Jawaharlal Nehru was without question one of the principal architects of India’s freedom movement. While Gandhi Maharaj was the inspiring deity, Nehru was, to the millions, the prince charming. Nehru was also the independent nation’s first prime ministery
- Pvt Airlines Can Spread Wings Beyond Colombo, Across Saarc (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2003)
Private air carriers were celebrating today after the Cabinet gave them the go-ahead to fly on international routes, for long the sole prerogative of Air India and Indian Airlines.
- Pm: No Remote Control In Judeo Video Probe (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2003)
ls: Vajpayee says he sent Express story to CBI; Oppn slams Govt, CBI
- Slow Death Of Public Decency (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 11, 2003)
All this unlocking of the cupboards would not be a bad project if the idea was to cleanse politics of dirty money and rogue politicians. Unfortunately, the current itch is driven by partisanship.
- Rising Expectations (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Dec 11, 2003)
For the India-Pakistan dialogue to succeed it must entail private engagement and public agreement, backed at the highest level.
- Add One More To Sonia’s Headaches: Punjab Cong (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2003)
Still reeling from the rout in the Assembly polls, the Congress was today nursing a new headache: dissident MLAs in Punjab ganged up against Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and flocked to rival Rajinder Kaur Bhattal. A worried Amarinder had to rush 38 ...
- Winter In The House (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2003)
MPs shouldn’t let the current political excitement deter them from getting down to business
- The Judeo-Jogi Test (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Dec 11, 2003)
The sight of Judeo accepting a bribe. The sound of Jogi offering a bribe. The Express exposed the Union minister’s shenanigans three weeks before Law Minister Arun Jaitley did the same to the officiating chief minister of Chhattisgarh. Political ...
- The Budget As The Bsp Test (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Dec 11, 2003)
There’s a difference between packaging a promise and delivering it
- Clearing The Clouds (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2003)
THE NARESH CHANDRA committee's report has made a clear pitch for far-reaching reforms in the aviation sector and suggested disinvestment in the national carriers — Air India and Indian Airlines. Though the report, submitted to the Civil ...
- At The Risk Of Losing Credibility (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 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
- Time To Consolidate Process (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 10, 2003)
In diplomacy, process is often the product. Engagement between adversarial governments is generally seen as a mere instrument to achieve certain outcomes. But the interaction between them is a reward in itself. It allows small steps of cooperation ...
- Has Democracy Arrived? (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 10, 2003)
ONE of the arguments the white colonial die-hards, notable or notorious among whom was Winston Churchill, used against quitting India was that the country steeped in feudalism and fragmented along ethnic, linguistic, sectarian, caste and religious lines..
- 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..
- A Progressive Conservative (Hindu, K. Natwar Singh, Dec 10, 2003)
Rajaji's character never showed to better advantage than during those periods when he was almost completely isolated politically.
- ‘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:
- Indo-Pak Ties: ‘stove, Several Frontburners, Many Meals Cooking, Including Kashmir’ (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 10, 2003)
As the stage is set for another meeting of the leaderships of India and Pakistan, three high-profile former US diplomats with inside access into the Bush administration are offering new solutions to regional tensions, especially on Kashmir.
- Why Evms Are So Dicey (Indian Express, Vivek Deshpande, Dec 10, 2003)
When a frustrated Congress was blaming its poll debacle on, among other things, the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in New Delhi, a man in his late seventies was preparing to set out on a walkathon from Kanyakumari for a cause that India’s oldest ...
- An Uncertain Ceasefire (Hindu, Pran Chopra , Dec 10, 2003)
Both New Delhi and Srinagar will have to keep a keener eye open for whatever Pakistan may lob up across the Line of Control.
- Sad Times For Sonia (Tribune, H. K. Dua, Dec 10, 2003)
And the party has run out of ideas
- Flying At Low Cost (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2003)
Naresh Chandra shows the way
- A Notable Milestone (Tribune, S. Raghunath, Dec 10, 2003)
IT is a matter of pride that the country has achieved near-total self-sufficiency in the manufacture of slogans. I hope the habitual India baiters will take note of this signal achievement.
- Few Takers For Tv Pay Channel Boxes (Tribune, Sumeet Chatterjee , Dec 10, 2003)
COME December 15, and hundreds of thousands of television viewers in southern neighbourhoods of the Indian capital may not be able to watch their favourite soaps or sports events on cable television.
- For The World To Admire (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Dec 10, 2003)
A dinner-time conversation, a strenuous mental exercise, or an amusing activity while travelling with the family would be to count what you think should be the top of the charts — the super-star ten, then the super 50, and then the 100 all-time favourite
- Bjp Turns The Tables On Congress (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Dec 09, 2003)
THE Bharatiya Janata Party’s sweep in three of the five states in the assembly elections — it was never a serious contender in Mizoram which nevertheless kept the Congress at bay - portends the future in more ways than one. By circumstance or design, the
- Warming Up For Summit: Both Pms Say Hello, See You Soon (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 09, 2003)
India and Pakistan have entered the final lap that precedes the SAARC summit in Islamabad in January with a short telephone call this evening by Pakistan PM Mir Zafarullah Jamali to Prime Minister A B Vajpayee at 7.30 pm this evening.
- 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...
- Election Lessons (Telegraph, Barun De, Dec 09, 2003)
The BJP’s victory shows that the electorate, concerned with more immediate issues, has chosen a party of order over one of diffuse choices
- Remember Europe (Telegraph, J. N. Dixit , Dec 09, 2003)
The last week of November witnessed important meetings between leaders of the European Union and the government of India, a major event following the Indo-European summit to which the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, went last year. The president of
- Saving Saarc (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 09, 2003)
There is no ambiguity about the steps India and Pakistan need to take to save SAARC. Will they muster the required political will?
- No Missing Saffron In Uma Red Carpet (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Dec 09, 2003)
The elections may have been all about development but today when Uma Bharti took the oath of office at a public function in Bhopal, she raised many eyebrows: with her on the dais were some of the leading lights of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement and one of..
- Nineteen Years After (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
THE Supreme Court is right in rapping the Central government for its decision to withdraw a case filed in the context of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The grounds advanced by the Commissioner of Police, Delhi, for seeking the withdrawal of the case were ...
- A Tale Of Two Uday Singhs (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Dec 08, 2003)
Uddu and Subbu were friends. Both were commissioned together, they cleared their rigorous probation together and joined the elite 1 Para (Special Forces), the oldest battalion in the Indian Army. Both are dead today.
- Power Of ‘parkati’ Women (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Dec 08, 2003)
The educated woman is not as politically irrelevant as the pundits think
- Comfort Level (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2003)
Since anti-incumbency has become the democratic mantra of the moment, nothing can distract from the feat of the chief minister, Ms Sheila Dikshit, in holding on to Delhi for a second, consecutive term. She was the natural beneficiary of the visible ...
- Tariff Tangle (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2003)
ON THE FACE of it, the US President, Mr George Bush's decision to scrap the `safeguard duty' imposed on steel imports does demonstrate a newfound commitment to the principle of freer market access to global players in the steel industry. But, in reality,
- Jogi Admits He Goofed, But Cong’s Cold: Don’t Even Call (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Dec 08, 2003)
The day after the BJP claimed ‘‘entrapping’’ Ajit Jogi in a cash-for-MLA sting, the ignominy of the defeated Chhattisgarh CM was complete: the Congress washed its hands of the matter and, ignoring his repeated requests, kept him out of the Congress Work
- Two Shot Dead In South Delhi Encounter, Cops Say They Were Hizb Men (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2003)
The Delhi police special cell shot dead two suspected Hizbul Mujahideen militants outside the Bahai temple in South Delhi tonight.
- Bjp Victory Without Hindutva Card (Tribune, Satish Misra, Dec 08, 2003)
THE raging debate after the spectacular victory of the BJP in the Hindi-speaking Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in political circles is whether the BJP-led NDA is going to get another term at the Centre.
- Nuclearisation A Dangerous Policy (Tribune, Dhirendra Sharma, Dec 08, 2003)
DEFENCE Minister George Fernandes had recently disclosed that a nuclear command chain, including alternative “nerve centres”, had been established, giving India an effective retaliatory capability. “We have established more than one (nuclear control) ...
- Supreme Sacrifice (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2003)
It is indeed exemplary in this day and age that somebody has given the supreme sacrifice to expose corruption. I think his sacrifice is no lesser than a soldier making the ultimate sacrifice for the country or any freedom fighter who laid down his life...
- Bad Times (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2003)
Mr Ajit Jogi seemed to have been his own worst enemy. When awareness dawned on the Congress, especially after the exit polls, that the party was less the target of the voter’s projected lack of faith than the chief minister, it came too late to be ...
- After The Vote (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 07, 2003)
Is the country ready for a new grammar of political contestation in which the political parties are judged by the voters for their record/promise of delivering on basic issues.
- 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
- Sing A Song To Stree 2003 (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Dec 07, 2003)
From the pink precincts of royal Jaipur,
To the sun-dappled rocks of Jabalpur,
From Gangaur, Bhilwara, Ujjain and Katni,
To the forts, minars and gardens of Dilli.
On the sands of Jodhpur, the forests of Jhabua,
On the banks of the rivers, Yamuna and
- The Great Indian Vote Trick (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Dec 07, 2003)
My most interesting day was the day after the counting — more than the day of the voting or the day of the counting. I have read the tortuous explanations offered by analysts and columnists on the results of the elections in three States and in the Union
- Positive Vote For Governance (Hindu, Sujay Mehdidia, Dec 07, 2003)
The BJP brand of "negative politics" failed to cut ice with the Delhi electorate, writes Sujay Mehdidia.
- A Silent Transformation (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Dec 07, 2003)
The undercurrent against the incumbent Congress Government went unnoticed in Chhattisgarh.
- Bumpy Roads Overturn Digvijay (Hindu, Lalit Shastri, Dec 07, 2003)
The BJP subtly kept aside its Hindutva agenda and built its entire election campaign around the issue of development in Madhya Pradesh.
- N Korea Comes To Ask For Missile Parts, India Says Pay For Ship, Forget Arms (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Dec 07, 2003)
New Delhi has asked Pyongyang to cough up Rs 8 crore sovereign guarantee for North Korean ship Ku Wol San, that was ‘‘arrested’’ carrying missile parts and production manuals by the Indian Custom authorities off the Kandla Coast at the height of Kargil...
- Reading It So Wrong (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Dec 07, 2003)
Vasundhara Raje Scindia blames the generally negative assessment of her chances in the assembly polls on the media and says that towards the end of the campaign she had stopped reading newspaper reports or watching TV so as not to get upset by their bias.
- Beware The Core Ideology (Telegraph, RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE, Dec 07, 2003)
Standing in the courtyard of the Indian International Centre in New Delhi one morning in late October, a prominent member of the Congress think tank and an ardent advocate of the free market told me, “The Congress will have shot itself in the foot if ...
- ‘this Sense Of Outrage Must Boil To Surface Each Time A Dubey Is Killed’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2003)
Why should there be so much hue and cry about one murder? Aren’t there people getting killed in India in every possible manner any single day? Here’s this boy coming from a remote village in Bihar braving all the economic odds to study at IIT. Quite ...
- Eye On Ls Polls, Bjp To Cement Ties With Allies (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Dec 07, 2003)
Having swept the Assembly elections in three states, the BJP is getting ready for the big fight — the Lok Sabha polls. And the party, not one to leave anything to chance, is all set to tone up the NDA and has even initiated a massive exercise to cement...
- On Saturday Night, Bjp Catches Jogi With His Cash Down (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2003)
Jaitley plays audio of BJP sting: Jogi offering Rs 20 lakh and more plus letter of support to BJP leaders to get them to defect; Jogi denies it’s his voice, Sonia dumps him
- And He Wrote: If You Die, Go So Quietly That No One Gets To Know (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Dec 07, 2003)
In her one-room Delhi flat, behind IIT, the last person Dubey spoke to recalls her close friend
- Women On Top (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2003)
IT is a foregone conclusion that Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi will have women as chief ministers. Of course, it is not the first time that women have made it to the top in states. Ms Jayalalithaa has been the chief minister of Tamil Nadu for quite
- Poll Notes Of A Limo Liberal (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 06, 2003)
View from Rajasthan’s ground zero: How Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory
- Politics After Reform (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2003)
At last some indication that the benefits of economic reform can actually swing votes
- Let’s Define Obscenity, Mr Kher (Indian Express, Anuraha Raman, Dec 06, 2003)
What could possibly be common to a set-top box and the regulation of content the government speaks about? To put it simply, the little box on the television set would have allowed every single parent to decide for herself what is good for her and the ...
- Party Sick So Hospital Good Place For A Truce? (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Dec 06, 2003)
Leaving partymen to brood on what went wrong in the three states they lost in one day, at least one worried Congress chief minister decided to make a dash to hospital: for the sake of his party’s health and of his own government.
- In Ceasefire Season, India & Pak Promptly Settle A Little Cross-Fire (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Dec 06, 2003)
In a signal that both India and Pakistan are committed to the ceasefire on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, Director General of Military Operations on both sides got working to defuse a tense standoff in the Tangdhar sector after troops ...
- Mature Verdict (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
IT was a tidal wave that swept the ruling Congress off its official perch in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. That it had no clue about what was in store for the party shows how far it was removed from the common people. It is not that the ...
- The Judeo Episode And After (Tribune, B.G. Verghese, Dec 05, 2003)
UNTIL the advent of Mr Dilip Singh Judeo, erstwhile Minister of State for Forests and Environment, most simple people thought corruption was something to be viewed with abhorrence. No longer. None other than the Deputy Prime Minister has urged that it be
- 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..
- 10 Years And Sonia Poster Boy Crumples (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Dec 05, 2003)
Digvijay:I am not sure if she will see me, he says on Sonia appointment
- Twenty Countries, Single Concern (Telegraph, SRINJAY CHAKRAVARTI, Dec 05, 2003)
A significant meeting of the developed and the poor nations in Morelia, a sleepy colonial city west of the Mexican capital, in October has been overlooked in this part of the world. Nevertheless, the Morelia summit of the group of 20 countries focussed on
- Will The Bjp Hasten The Elections? (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Dec 05, 2003)
There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at a flood, leads onto fortune
- Pil Enters Sc To Protect Dubeys (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
A Delhi-based lawyer, Rakesh Upadhyay, has filed a PIL urging the Supreme Court to deal with the legal issues raised by the tragic fate of IIT Kanpur graduate and whistleblower Satyendra Dubey who was killed after his identity was leaked out by the ...
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