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Articles 4421 through 4520 of 5238:
- 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
- Sonia For Alliance First, Leadership Later (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2003)
2004: ‘Let people decide if I’m acceptable as PM, I want to work with other parties’
- The Righteous Warrior (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Dec 27, 2003)
Owing to the vagaries of the Vikrami calendar, there are years when Guru Gobind Singh’s birthday comes twice. This year it will be celebrated on December 29. It is unfortunate that Guru Gobind Singh has been projected only as a warrior who founded the ...
- Rain And Shine (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 27, 2003)
He is one Vedic god who refuses to oblige. But this has been the year when Lord Varuna has been more than kind to India. So much so, that the showers might result in early general elections
- In High Disdain (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Dec 27, 2003)
Back in the Sixties, it used to be said that India’s most successful export were economists. Our economy was resolutely insulated from the rest of the world, but our economists occupied high posts in famous universities in Europe and America. Later, the
- In The War Against Graft (Telegraph, SRINJAY CHAKRAVARTI, Dec 26, 2003)
The cross-border anti-corruption treaty signed by about 100 nations in mid-December 2003 is a milestone in the long-drawn battle against global corruption. India has also extended its support to the convention against corruption, organized under the ...
- Ec Strikes (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2003)
Amarinder, Jogi, Sonia asked for the rap
- Pitching It Too High (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 26, 2003)
Gymkhana ground, Bombay, December 15,1933. India’s captain, C.K. Nayudu, wins the toss and elects to bat in the first test match against the Douglas Jardine-led England team, fresh from their victory in the “Bodyline” series against Australia. Making his
- Dissidence In Congress (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2003)
WITH THE DISSIDENT faction in the Punjab unit of the Congress agreeing to let the AICC president, Sonia Gandhi, handle the inner-party rivalry, the Chief Minister, Amarinder Singh, appears to have earned a respite. The Agriculture Minister, ...
- Who Is Afraid Of India? (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Dec 26, 2003)
Three days in Karachi and two in Lahore do not provide sufficient credentials for a summary statement on Pakistan. One impression is still overwhelming. Men and women at practically all levels could not be friendlier. Gestures of affection spilled over
- Use The Rod And Spoil The Child (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2003)
Case 5: National Human Rights Commission’s intervention against the corporal punishment of Aarti Saroj
- A Story Of Factional Oneupmanship (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Dec 25, 2003)
In the end, it was to be a mega non-event — the talk of "resignation" by the central office-bearers of the Congress and the members of the Congress Working Committee. It turned out to be a story of factional oneupmanship, and of lessons unlearnt. After
- Food Diplomacy For Dissidents (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 24, 2003)
THE Army, it is said, moves on its stomach. So does the army of dissidents. Sumptuous meals were the order of day at Punjab Bhavan where the dissidents camped till last week. The Amarinder Singh camp too did not lag behind in food diplomacy. Apart from
- Political Bosses As Reformers (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 24, 2003)
The new anti-defection law does not address the core of the problem: entrenched traditions and practices of bossism in every political party.
- Union Bank Ups Home Loan Rates, Others Say Not Yet (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 23, 2003)
Going against the existing trend of banks slashing home loan rates, Union Bank of India took everyone by surprise when it announced a 0.5 per cent hike in interest rates for fresh home loans, across all maturities of fixed and floating rate options ...
- The Migrant Effect On Punjabi Society (Tribune, K.S. Chawla, Dec 23, 2003)
THE demographic complexion of Punjab has changed sharply in the recent years with the influx of migrants from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, besides Nepal.
- Confusion After Polls (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 23, 2003)
THE en-mass resignation of Congress Working Committee (CWC) members and All-India Congress Committee (AICC) office-bearers is too hackneyed to enthuse party workers. Whoever had thought of this idea had not been original for beginning with the Kamaraj ...
- Cong Leaders Quit For Madam, She Says Who Asked You For It (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Dec 22, 2003)
Thrashing for answers in a sea of crises, AICC leaders today clutched at every Congressman’s last straw, resignation, with most of them ‘‘voluntarily’’ quitting their posts in the Congress Working Committee.
- First Step In Pds Reform (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2003)
THE DECISION OF the Union Cabinet to maintain the minimum support price (MSP) for wheat produced in the rabi crop of 2003-04 at effectively the same level as last year is a welcome development. The Government had earlier this year pegged the MSP ...
- Take It Or Fall Behind (Telegraph, Barun De, Dec 22, 2003)
Does south Asia have genuinely independent alternatives for more self-respecting national futures
- 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 ...
- ‘poll Managers? Jaitley Never Fought One, Mahajan Lost His Ls Election’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2003)
• Congress seems to be suffering from cancer. A popular government, cooperative allies, and a chief minister with a clean image. I am talking about Kerala where senior leader K Karunakaran and his son-elect-KPCC chief is trying to destabilise the ...
- Us Visa Makes Blood Relatives, Literally (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Dec 21, 2003)
Outside a sprawling bungalow in New Delhi’s posh Vasant Vihar, stand an unusual number of Tata Sumos with Punjab numberplates. As each new one comes to a halt, families from villages near Jalandhar and Ludhiana alight and troop in. They are all here for
- Now Potato Dumping (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2003)
FOR the past six years potato prices have ruled low in Punjab due to excess production. Three years ago for the first time farmers came out on the roads in large numbers with their tractor-trailers and dumped potatoes in Jalandhar to protest against the
- From India To Bharat (Tribune, Dimple Dhaliwal Srivastava , Dec 20, 2003)
HERE I sit in my airy little office in a rural dispensary in a sleepy little village of a small district of Punjab, where things and people seem to be at a standstill. The huge banyan trees swinging gently with the wind, the street dogs chasing and ...
- This Woman Of Beauty Loves Her Roots (Tribune, Ela Dutt , Dec 20, 2003)
Saira Mohan, one of the hottest models in the US, is today thankful that her Indian father never objected to her missing school to follow a career in fashion.
- Congress Itself To Blame (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2003)
A decision delayed also turns out to be a decision denied. Punjab is facing this unfortunate situation because of the Amarinder-Bhattal standoff which the Congress high command has not yet resolved fully. The high command should have taken a firm decision
- Despair Of The Jobless (Tribune, H. K. Dua, Dec 19, 2003)
IT is a pity that because of the excitement of the recent Assembly elections and the making and unmaking of ministries, the violence in Mumbai, Bihar and Assam has not received serious attention in the country.
- Last Salute To The Lion Of 1965 (Indian Express, Patwant Singh, Dec 19, 2003)
The death of Lieutenant General Joginder (Jogi) Singh Dhillon on November 20 at the age of 89 received no coverage in the Indian papers, although it was his inspiring generalship that helped smash the superior Pakistani armour, poised to head for the ...
- Over 300 Ministers To Lose Their Jobs, Happy New Year (Indian Express, Aasha Khosa, Dec 19, 2003)
For once, stop blaming politicians. They all got together in Parliament to pass a landmark law that makes it next to impossible to switch camps for jobs. They also stand to lose: Cabinet size can’t be more than 15% of House strength. So they will bring...
- Punishment With A Human Touch (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 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
- Post-Reform Anomaly — Parts Not Keeping `Full' Pace (Business Line, K. Parthasarathi, Dec 17, 2003)
THE overall growth rate of the country should not blur our vision to the growing disparities in the prosperity level, per capita income and job opportunities from State to State. The strategy for a higher growth in these sub-par States should be multi
- Breaking New Ground (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2003)
DECEMBER 2003 COULD well go down as a watershed month in the country's agriculture history. It is no ordinary coincidence that two significant events are taking place this month. The launch of futures trading in wheat and rice earlier this week is ...
- Is Corporate Farming Really The Solution For Indian Agriculture? (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Dec 16, 2003)
Contract farming is increasingly being presented as the way out of the morass in which Indian agriculture now finds itself, and is being actively promoted by major international donor agencies, multinational companies and the Central Government. In this
- Netaji Desires (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 16, 2003)
THE release of the Katwal audio tapes, in which Mr Virbhadra Singh and two of his colleagues, Mr Singhi Ram and Mr Kuldeep Kumar, had allegedly sought from Mr S.M Katwal, the then Chairman of the HPSSB, the favour of appointment of some candidates when...
- Export Of Talent From Punjab (Tribune, Amrik Singh , Dec 16, 2003)
RECKONED in terms of its population, perhaps no other state in India has been exporting as much talent as Punjab has been doing. According to most well-informed estimates, more than a million Punjabis have already settled down in other countries, and the
- Citizens Need To Play Active Role (Tribune, Pushpa Girimaji, Dec 15, 2003)
PATPARGANJ in East Delhi is a small locality. However, consumers there have shown the way for others to follow. Some time ago, when a large garbage bin in the area was repaired, but repaired shabbily, the residents suspected that the contractor had not...
- Retrograde Verdict (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2003)
Eye-for-an-eye concept must be abandoned
- Who Is Afraid Of The Immigrant? (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Dec 15, 2003)
AS I gazed at the photograph depicting a Bihari job-seeker fleeing from the two-legged hounds who call themselves Shiv Sainiks at a railway station in Mumbai last week, I was reminded of my uncle's favourite story. After his pre-university course, he had
- Doomed In The Womb? (Hindu, Asha Krishnakumar , Dec 14, 2003)
Is the fall in the number of girl children closely linked to the declining sex ratio at birth resulting from female foeticide? On the situation in the four southern States.
- For Sonia, Unity Doesn’t Begin At Home (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Dec 14, 2003)
Even AS Congress chief Sonia Gandhi repeated her call to secular parties to join in her ‘‘fight against communalism’’, storm clouds gathered over the AICC headquarters here today.
- What The Law Says (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 14, 2003)
Legislation is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to enhance sex ratios.
- Nothing Has Changed In The Congress (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Dec 14, 2003)
To the exclusion of almost every other subject of importance, Delhi has been discussing, with much surprise and dismay, the Congress' self-inflicted wounds in the national capital. For this, there are good reasons.
- The Horror Of It All (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Dec 13, 2003)
Innumerable novels, short stories and poems have been written on the unbelievable violence that took place with the Partition of the country in 1947. Upwards of a million innocent men, women and children; Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs were massacred in cold
- Congress Vs Congress (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2003)
In Punjab the two factions have given proof of their own limitations
- Over Butter Chicken, They Bring Knives Out (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Dec 13, 2003)
His deck burning, Captain sends out SOS; AICC takes its time, rivals cheer
- What To Do About Spurious Drugs (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2003)
THE MASHELKAR COMMITTEE'S recommendations to check the proliferation of counterfeit and substandard drugs dovetail with the Government's pharmaceutical policy that was unfurled in 2002. But implementing its proposals will require a real ...
- 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
- Legacy Of Two Gentlemen (Tribune, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 12, 2003)
ONCE two gentlemen “graced” the land of five rivers (now two and a half only) with their presence. One belonged to the royal family while the other hailed from an aristocratic family of landlords. As the stars willed it, they happened to be staunch ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- ‘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:
- He Quit It Job To Pursue His Dream In Us (Tribune, Reeta Sharma, Dec 10, 2003)
The humble village boy now runs a top food chain
- 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 ...
- 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.
- Army Man Arrested For Attempt To Rape (Indian Express, Manoj Prasad, Dec 07, 2003)
An army havaldar has been arrested on charges of molestation and attempt to rape a passenger on Tata-Jammu Tavi.
- A Wake-Up Call For The Congress (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Dec 06, 2003)
NOW that the all-important assembly elections are over and the people having given their verdict, it is time for the Congress to take a good, hard and most importantly an honest look at what exactly went wrong. While drawing vital lessons from its ...
- A Knock At The Door (Tribune, T.R. Ramachandran, Dec 06, 2003)
Congress leaders from Punjab found to their discomfort the new levels of efficiency of the Chhattisgarh police. The leaders, who had gone to campaign for Motilal Vora’s son because of the personal rapport they enjoyed with the senior AICC leader, found...
- An Image That Many Pakistanis Resent (Tribune, Ethan Casey, Dec 05, 2003)
WHEN you are in Lahore, in the north-east of Pakistan near the Indian border and the main city of the country’s dominant Punjabi ethnic group, it’s possible to feel remote from Peshawar along the country’s north-west frontier — barely 300 km away.
- Cancun To Geneva — Caution Should Be The Watchword (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Dec 04, 2003)
LONG before the formation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), late President, Jules Nyrere of Tanzania, the committed socialist and visionary African leader, told the industrialised West "Do not give us `aid', instead, give our products (he meant ...
- Coping With Aids (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 2003)
IT is scary. At least 40 million people are reportedly infected with the HIV virus today —most of them in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Some 4.5 million AIDS patients live in India alone; China’s figures are equally disturbing. Anti-AIDS programmes have
- Wooing Obcs For Votes (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 2003)
THE Union Cabinet’s decision on Tuesday to expand the Other Backward Classes (OBC) list with new castes and communities from Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Punjab and Sikkim is yet another attempt by the Centre to strengthen the vote...
- Badals Under Cloud (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2003)
The onus is on Amarinder Singh to ensure the case is not seen as a personal vendetta
- Drugs, Liquor, Opium Everywhere (Tribune, Amar Chandel, Dec 03, 2003)
ADDRESSING the annual convention of the Punjab IPS Officers Association at the CII in Chandigarh recently, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh challenged the police brass to name a single village where drug and addiction problem had not attained frightening...
- Prescription For Kanshi Ram: No Politics (Indian Express, Vrinda Gopinath, Dec 03, 2003)
The BSP may be looking to play a crucial role in the next few days as talks begin on government formation in states which just saw polls, but there is one man who will be kept totally in the dark. BSP founder, leader and chief strategist Kanshi Ram.
- Wanted, A New Safma Patron (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 03, 2003)
BJP ideologue K.R. Malkani, who died recently, will surely be missed by many but none more so than the Pakistan-headquartered South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA), which recently organised the successful visit of Indian MPs (self-led by Laloo Prasad
- The Status Of Children In India (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 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
- Something Rotten (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2003)
Corruption in high places is India’s best known secret. Everybody talks about it. Enquiry commissions are set up, the Central Bureau of Investigation is called in, the media reports and so on. These are as familiar as conviction of a powerful person is...
- ‘honour’ Killings Continue Unabated (Tribune, Ruchika M. Khanna, Dec 03, 2003)
THE recent incident of a youth being hacked to death by his wife’s relations in Jahan Khelan village in Hoshiarpur district has once again brought to light the growing intolerance to women exercising their right to choice of a life partner, and the sharp
- And In Punjab, It’s Ex-Cm, His Son (Indian Express, Bajinder Pal Singh, Dec 02, 2003)
Amid high drama, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh closed in on his arch rival today. Akali Dal leader Parkash Singh Badal, his son Sukhbir Singh Badal and three of their associates were sent to jail on corruption charges after a Ropar court rejected
- Almost Free (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2003)
Wonder ceases with familiarity. But any objective observer would be forced to grant that the massive scale of the electoral exercise in India is cause for some amazement. Even when the polling is limited to assembly elections in five states, the manpower,
- Born With A Silver Spoon, Now Looking For One (Tribune, Roopinder Singh, Dec 02, 2003)
IT came up in a flash and produced generations of doctors; it is now dragging along and is no longer inspirational. Government Medical College, Patiala, has been a premier medical institution for a long time, but it now shows symptoms that are alarmingly
- All Set For Round One (Business Line, Rup Lal Sharma, Dec 01, 2003)
EVERY THING is set for the electoral battle in five States, including four in the Hindi heartland. The Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Delhi, Rajasthan and Mizoram assume special significance as their outcome is likely to set the stage
- Himachal Politics Has Its Cricketers Clean Bowled (Indian Express, Ateet Sharma, Dec 01, 2003)
If the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) was to conduct a coaching camp today for its players, the venue would probably be either Patiala in Punjab or Panchkula in Haryana. Not Una, Bilaspur or Mandi, all Himachal towns possessing cricket ground
- Need For Democratic Restraint (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2003)
THE ELECTION COMMISSION has a duty to ensure that there exists a level electoral battlefield. One of the important objectives of the Model Code of Conduct is to see that parties in power, whether at the Centre or in a State, do not misuse their ...
- Yes, Mr President (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 30, 2003)
Last week, in our mailbox came a very special letter. From one of our very special readers, President A P J Abdul Kalam. Responding to our announcement that we were building a memorial in Chandigarh for over 6000 soldiers who sacrificed their lives for...
- ‘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
- Govt As Your Delivery Boy (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Nov 30, 2003)
When this piece is published, the dust and din of the election campaign would have settled in the States of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and in the Union of Territory of Delhi. Tomorrow (December 1) is the day of the poll. Mizoram went to...
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