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Articles 221 through 320 of 500:
- Don't Turn Away Aids Patients, Doctors Told (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 12, 2007)
Medical officers and healthcare providers in private and government hospitals who refuse to treat AIDS patients will be severely dealt with, Health Minister R. Ashok has said.
- Reuse Of Syringes (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, May 12, 2007)
At a recent seminar in Karachi on the need for greater awareness of HIV/Aids, concerns were exposed over the reuse of syringes.
- Literally Pleasing (Hindu, ANUJ KUMAR, May 11, 2007)
Vishal Bhardwaj on his ability to make literature tick on celluloid.
To me script is the bible. Once it’s bound i don’t want to fiddle with it.
- Kerala To Subsidise 6,000 Water-Harvesting Units (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 09, 2007)
The Kerala Government will subsidise construction of nearly 6,000 water-harvesting units this financial year.
- Judge Who Targeted Gere Transferred (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2007)
A judge who issued an arrest warrant against Richard Gere for publicly kissing a Bollywood actress has been transferred from his job, reports The Associated Press.
- 3 Indian Americans Recongnised By Us (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2007)
Three Indian Americans are among the 65 students selected from across the US for this year's $30,000 Truman scholarship.
- Slum Dwellers In Indian City Lead By Example (Washington Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2007)
Impoverished and mostly illiterate slum dwellers in this southern Indian city have become role models in the battle against HIV-related discrimination by taking in some of India's tragic AIDS orphans.
- Over 5,000 Hit By Aids Virus In Nizamabad (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2007)
Over 5,000 people, including 600 pregnant women, were detected to be carrying the HIV/AIDS virus when 1.60 lakh people were examined in the district.
- Gere Case: Magistrate Transferred (Indian Express, PALAK NANDI, May 04, 2007)
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Dinesh Gupta who hit the headlines recently after issuing a non-bailable arrest warrant against Richard Gere has been transferred to Kishangarh.
- Literally Pleasing! (Hindu, ANUJ KUMAR, May 04, 2007)
Vishal Bhardwaj on his ability to make literature tick on celluloid.
To me script is the bible. Once it's bound i don't want to fiddle with it.
- The Bigger Picture (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 03, 2007)
The test must be part of a comprehensive rehabilitation strategy.
- India Joins Aids Vaccine Initiative (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2007)
The Department of Biotechnology today joined hands with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) to work on a global project to search for an AIDS vaccine, using a new approach. Under the programme, two scientists each from India and the . . . .
- Why Richard Gere Was Out Of Line (Tribune, Shakuntala Rao, May 03, 2007)
I am tired of listening to the media chatterati incessantly talk of all these ‘parochial’ and ‘non-modern’ elements of our society who are making a big deal of Gere’s enthusiastic pecking of Shilpa Shetty.
- Where Are We Headed? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 30, 2007)
First it was the opposition to women’s participation in the marathon, calling it immoral and unethical and against the principles of Islam.
- Contempt Of Court (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 30, 2007)
The judiciary usually, and very often rightly, pulls up and punishes people who have broken the law. But it should now turn its gaze on a member of its own fraternity, who has clearly overstepped his brief.
- Departed Khalistani (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Apr 28, 2007)
The death, last month, of Dr Jagjit Singh Chohan (79) in his village Tanda reminded me of his case against me and my encounter with other protagonists of a Separate Sikh State, notably Ganga Singh Dhillon, Gurmeet Singh Aulakh and Simranjeet Singh Mann...
- Hiv-Aids Testing Centre To Come Up In Central Jail (Hindu, Sahana Charan , Apr 28, 2007)
There are 28 HIV positive persons in prisons in the State'
Proposal submitted to NACO for funding a five-year project
Training programmes held for medical officers in prisons
- Actor Gere Says 'Obscene' Kiss Was Nothing (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 28, 2007)
Hollywood actor Richard Gere downplayed an Indian court order for his arrest for publicly kissing Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty on the cheek.
- Kissing Sense Goodbye (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 28, 2007)
Jaipur's additional chief judicial magistrate is certainly in high Gere. His non-bailable arrest warrant against Shilpa Shetty and Richard Gere for committing an “obscene act”, because of their good-humoured clinch during an AIDS awareness function . . .
- Manchu — The Fight To Keep It Alive (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Apr 27, 2007)
What is startling about the Ozymandian-like linguistic trajectory of Manchu is the rapidity with which it first rose to prominence and then declined to the verge of extinction.
- Richard Gere Issued Arrest Warrant By Indian Court (Chicago Sun Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2007)
A court issued arrest warrants for Hollywood actor Richard Gere and Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty on Thursday, saying their kiss at a public function ''transgressed all limits of vulgarity,'' media reports said.
- Arrest Warrant Out For Richard Gere And Shilpa Shetty (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2007)
An Indian court has issued arrest warrants for Richard Gere, the Hollywood actor, and Shilpa Shetty, the Bollywood star, after he kissed her on the cheek at a public event to promote Aids awareness.
- Judge Orders Gere's Arrest Over That Kiss (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2007)
An Indian court issued arrest warrants yesterday for Richard Gere, the Hollywood actor, and Shilpa Shetty, the Bollywood star, after he kissed her on the cheek at a public event to promote Aids awareness.
- Arrest Warrant For Richard Gere (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2007)
A city court here issued an arrest warrant against Hollywood actor Richard Gere on Thursday and asked film actress Shilpa Shetty to appear before it on May 5 in connection with a case of kissing in public.
- 45 Lakh Hiv-Hit People Unaware Of Their Plight (Deccan Herald, KALYAN RAY, Apr 25, 2007)
Almost 45 lakh HIV positive people, many of whom may be from Karnataka, do not know they are HIV-positive. At the same time, more than three lakh HIV positive patients do not know how they get the virus.
- Condemned To Die (Pioneer, Yoga Rangatia, Apr 25, 2007)
National AIDS Control Organisation's reluctance to give second line treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS, thus denying them an enhanced lifespan, is ludicrous as there is no dearth of funds to expand its programme
- Naco's Flawed Policy (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 24, 2007)
The National AIDS Control Organisation has possibly pronounced the sentence of doom on at least 5,000 people living with HIV/AIDS and may have condemned them to an easily preventable early death.
- India Lags Behind Other Countries In Access To Anti-Aids Dru (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2007)
India is lagging behind many countries in providing anti-retroviral drugs to people afflicted with the AIDS virus. Officials say efforts are being made to step up access to the drugs, in the country estimated to have the highest number of HIV . . .
- Growing Incidence Of Hiv-Aids Among Women: Naco Study (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2007)
Need to build capacities of women in rural areas'
5.7 million infected persons in the country: PPN
Women in some pockets not part of social networks
- Myths On Aids Prevalence (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 23, 2007)
HIV-AIDS figures in India will have to be drastically slashed as a result of more accurate HIV data. But United Nation’s Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) continues to stand by its exaggerated guesstimates that distort the magnitude of the Indian epidemic.
- India Ticking With Aids Time Bomb (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2007)
Most of Mumbai bar girls, 95 per cent of them being from UP alone, were found to be infected with HIV. Summers are particularly conducive for spreading the scourge, as large number of migrant workers from UP and Bihar, working in the megapolis, come . . .
- In And Out Of Africa (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Apr 23, 2007)
The material girl seems to have turned the maternal girl with her adoption of a little Malawian boy. In keeping with the ‘We are the world’ sentiment, she now plans to adopt her new son’s country also.
- Eyesight: Hiv-Infected Need Not Lose Hope (Hindu, Govind D. Belgaumkar, Apr 22, 2007)
Most HIV-infected persons reach ophthalmologists when the vital parts of their eyes have been damaged beyond repair though most complications are preventable, say ophthalmologists.
- Sex And Sensibility (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 21, 2007)
He was nicknamed a ‘buffalo’. A muscular youth, he became the butt of ridicule in our village when on his first night, his nubile, bleeding bride ran out of his thatched house with thatched walls screaming for life.
- Sex Education Termed A Crime Against Youth (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 21, 2007)
Moral education is better, claims Shankaramurthy
Says it is a more powerful tool than safe-sex campaign
- Natural Hiv Blocker Found (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 21, 2007)
A compound found naturally in blood could form the basis for an entirely new class of Aids drugs, according to research scientists in Germany.
- Loving One’S Neighbours (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Apr 21, 2007)
The political scene in Bangladesh is more confused and the army has virtually taken over the administration. But in both countries, the liberal-minded and the forward-looking outnumber the narrow-minded followers of bigoted mullahs.
- Militancy And Small Arms Proliferation (Hindu, R. Hariharan, Apr 20, 2007)
It is essential that South Asian countries unite not only in fighting terrorism but also in curtailing the proliferation of small arms.
- K’Taka Defers Sex Education Decision (Indian Express, JOHNSON T A, Apr 19, 2007)
Following a meeting with doctors, psychologists, teachers, parent groups and non-government organisations, the Karnataka Government today decided to postpone its decision on continuing with the adolescent education programme for schools in the state.
- India To Provide Costly 'Second-Line' Aids Drugs (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2007)
India could start providing expensive “second-line” drugs to AIDS patients as early as next year, the country’s top official for controlling the spread of the deadly virus told reporters on Tuesday.
- 'Un Reform Incomplete Without Nsc Expansion' (Silicon India.com, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2007)
Warning that any reform of the United Nations would be incomplete without the expansion of the Security Council, India has asserted that mere administrative reorganisation cannot be a substitute for "genuine institutional" reform.
- Gere, Shilpa Accused Of Obscenity (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2007)
Hollywood star Richard Gere and Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty have landed in legal trouble after a light-hearted hug and kiss at an AIDS awareness event last weekend, a press report said.
- The Missing Face (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 19, 2007)
To be written about in reports and surveys, and be forgotten in the real world, seems to be the fate of a great number of children today.
- Babubhai Jolted Party (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2007)
A BJP member of Parliament was today arrested trying to ferry two persons abroad on the passports of his wife and son, jolting his party and its affiliates off the moral high horse.
- Stern Action (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 18, 2007)
The acts of extremism that Hindu right-wing groups have been unleashing on the public over the past week call for stern action. Diktats have been issued and mobs have gone on rampage in the name of defending Hindu values and Indian culture.
- Steep Learning Curve For Ban (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 18, 2007)
Mr. Ban has soft power -- the power to persuade, to preach from his pulpit, rather than the hard power of military might or economic force.
- Fury Over Gere's Kiss With Bollywood Star (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 18, 2007)
Shilpa Shetty, the Bollywood star and Celebrity Big Brother winner, has become involved in an outcry after Richard Gere repeatedly kissed her on stage at an Aids awareness event that the pair were promoting.
- Shooting The Messenger (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 18, 2007)
The forces of intolerance, which are out to crush pluralist expressions and any presumed ‘deviation from cultural norms’, have taken to venting their fury against the media for reporting news.
- Kiss That Shocked India (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 18, 2007)
Richard Gere's kisses on the cheeks of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty in an event to promote Aids awareness sparked protests in India yesterday with protesters burning effigies of the actors.
- Institutional Deliveries Key To Prevent Mother-To-Child Transmission (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 18, 2007)
``Women need to be counselled before and after the test, and much also depends on risk perception''
- Naco To Give Out Free Second-Line Aids Drugs (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 18, 2007)
In what might bring hope to scores of poor AIDS patients who are unable to get relief from the existing treatment using first-line drugs, the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has announced its plans to provide the second-line drugs freely . . . .
- The U.N. And The Women's Movement (Hindu, Padmini Swaminathan, Apr 17, 2007)
A southern perspective of the progress of feminist thought, language and ideas that enriched the U.N.
- Indians Angered By Gere's Passionate Embrace With Shilpa (Independent (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2007)
The evening was supposed to focus international attention on the sexual misadventures of India's famously promiscuous lorry drivers.
- Demystifying Sex Education (Tribune, Seema Bhatia, Apr 15, 2007)
After the board exams recently, children rejoiced like every year. There was a sense of relief, like a heavy burden had just been lifted.. The places were buzzing with plans.
- Fighting On In Zimbabwe (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Apr 14, 2007)
VETERAN Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, who has been head of government - first as Prime Minister and then as President - since his country gained independence in 1980, faces his biggest political challenge yet.
- Global Experience (Frontline, T.K. RAJALAKSHMI, Apr 14, 2007)
THE People's Health Movement (PHM) originated in the Third World. It first began with the People's Health Assembly (PHA) in Savar, Bangladesh, where some 1,500 people from 75 nations met in December 2000 to endorse a People's Health Charter and . . .
- India To Hike Free Treatments Against Aids (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 13, 2007)
As India gears up to implement the third phase of its National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) this month, all districts will be made implementing authorities and the number of free treatments will be raised.
- Aids Vaccine Costlier Than Its Effect (Deccan Herald, KALYAN RAY, Apr 12, 2007)
Coinciding with the not-so-encouraging results emanating from the first stage of India’s first AIDS vaccine trial, a global group pushing AIDS vaccines, has issued the first note of caution – the future AIDS vaccine would be expensive but not very . . .
- Government Turns A Deaf Ear (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 11, 2007)
Shrinking health services are a growing concern for people with disabilities in India.
- Govt Asks Novartis To Withdraw Patent Challenge (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 11, 2007)
The government is "very concerned" that a challenge by Swiss drug giant Novartis AG to local patent law could restrict the global supply of cheap anti-AIDS drugs, the health minister said on Tuesday.
- Victims Of Abuse (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 11, 2007)
If rape is a dark secret which most tradition-bound Indian families don’t want to become public knowledge, sexual abuse of children is something which does not become known even to parents, because children themselves are mortified of the ridicule . . .
- When The Dying Give Birth (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 10, 2007)
Parenthood is a nagging evolutionary force. Nothing weaker could have inspired a growing trend among HIV positive couples to war against all odds and have children.
- Health Workers Told To Work For Hiv-Free Society (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 10, 2007)
Rural health workers should work to ensure that no person becomes a victim of HIV and no baby is born with the virus by the end of 2007 in Krishna district, Collector Navin Mittal has said.Inaugurating the second round of training for Asha Mitra . . .
- Health Security (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 07, 2007)
This year’s theme for the World Health Day is international health security.
- Who Wins Maharashtra’S Sex War? (Indian Express, NANDITA PATEL, Apr 07, 2007)
The Maharashtra government’s decision to ban sex education in high schools with a view to protecting Indian values — and the support of political parties in the opposition on the stance — demonstrates two things.
- Another Embarrassing Development For Pakistan (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Apr 06, 2007)
An American TV channel, ABC News, says that the United States has been secretly “advising and encouraging” a Pakistani militant group to carry out a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran.
- Dirty Classrooms (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 04, 2007)
Let's put aside the Kama Sutra, Khajuraho or even the chilling crimes at Nithari. Let's consider instead three everyday scenarios. First, turn to any sex-advice column.
- ‘Those Who Have Power Decide Who Can Use Resources. We Need A . .. (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 02, 2007)
• Hello, and welcome to Walk the Talk. I am Shekhar Gupta, and my guest this week is the Tree Woman of Africa, actually the Tree Woman of the World, Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, on her first visit to India.
- Karma Sutra (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 02, 2007)
Vatsyayana is fortunate that he lived in India many centuries ago. The current spate of moral outrage at sexual education would have alarmed the author of Kama Sutra, the world's best known treatise on sex.
- Amazing Hypocrisy (Pioneer, Ajoy Bose, Apr 02, 2007)
Maharashtra Government's decision to withdraw sex education from schools is plain stupid, given the rise in HIV/AIDS cases
- Hiv: Free Treatment To 3 Lakh Patients (Indian Express, Amba Batra, Apr 01, 2007)
In a bid to stabilise the HIV epidemic in the country, the Central government will introduce the treatment in a large way for the first time.
- The Widows Of Rasipuram (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 01, 2007)
Tucked away in a small town of Tamil Nadu is a network of strong women who are living with a positive outlook despite being HIV positive, finds Bharathi Ghanashyam
- India Inc Pulling Out All Stops To Curb Aids (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 31, 2007)
The battle against HIV/AIDS, in its new avataar, has moved to the next level. Following a public-private partnership approach, National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) on Friday signed an MoU with Bilt and ACC to supply free anti-retroviral drugs . . .
- Aids Alert For Asia (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 31, 2007)
The number of people in Asia infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS could more than double to 20 million over the next five years without a better government response and more funding, officials warned today.
- Corporates Setting Up Anti-Retroviral Treatment Centres (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 31, 2007)
ACC Cements, CMC, Thapar Group and Godrej Group will be sponsoring four Anti-retroviral Treatment (ART) centres.
- Crippling Cost (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 31, 2007)
The financial burden the Iraq war has brought upon the United States is far heavier than what the administration wants the people to know.
- Containing Aids (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 30, 2007)
According to a news item on Thursday, Chakwal has the highest number of Aids patients and the health department is ill equipped to deal with the situation.
- Sound Theory (Hindu, Aruna Chandaraju, Mar 30, 2007)
Carnatic vocalist S. Sowmya regrets the tendency to regard theory and practise as separate entities of music, and feels it has to be treated as an integral whole
- Aids Bomb (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 29, 2007)
KARNATAKA’S plan to make AIDS test mandatory for couples before getting married is a step in the right direction.
- A For Ashley, B For Bipasha, C For Cause (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 28, 2007)
I don't want to sound ungrateful, but I'm not exactly overjoyed about India becoming the parking-lot of the world's conscience. I'd much rather have Shakira come here for the bare and unapologetic purpose of shaking her hips, than an entire studio . . .
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