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Articles 821 through 920 of 11253:
- This Is No Way To Fight Terror (Pioneer, Maninderjit Singh Bitta, Oct 07, 2006)
It is very unfortunate that we have not learnt lessons from history. The decade-long festering wound in Punjab was cured with firm commitment, political will and non-interference under the leadership of then Prime Minister Narasimha Rao, then . . .
- Big Footprint, Small Vision (Indian Express, SAUBHIK CHAKRABARTI, Oct 07, 2006)
Jaipal Reddy was our guest this Friday for “Ideas Exchange”, the weekly interaction between Indian Express journalists and important/interesting newsmakers (the full account of the interaction will appear, as usual, in The Sunday Express).
- Five Reformers (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 07, 2006)
Five ardent reformers, who between them can lay claim to some of the most dramatic and significant course corrections in India’s economic policy, were found on one stage in Mumbai on Friday.
- Sting Operation (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 07, 2006)
The country is suddenly looking at the Aedes aegypti mosquito a little more closely than it has in a long, long while.
- Violence Wracks Mangalore (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Arson, looting and group clashes continued unabated for the second consecutive day on Friday in many parts of the Dakshina Kannada district, forcing the administration to impose a curfew on Ullal and certain parts of Konaje and Mangalore Rural police . .
- Ril Gets Gmr's Fuel Farm Contract (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
GHIAL to have multi-modal transport system
RIL plans 20-25 aviation fuel stations.
- Doing The Write Thing (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Kommuri Venugopala Rao was a sentinel of sentimental fiction in Telugu. His soft narration and vibrant themes made him a popular novelist, recollects senior journalist VEERAJI.
- Chikungunya Is Now An Epidemic (Times of India, Kounteya Sinha, Oct 07, 2006)
India, which declared chikungunya an epidemic on Friday, has been hit by the African strain of the virus.
- Employee Has No Right To Engage Lawyer In Domestic Enquiry: Court (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
"Right to representation available only to the extent provided for in the Rules"
- Dr. Reddy's Plans No Acquisitions At The Moment (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Dr. Reddy's, India's second-biggest pharmaceutical company, has no current plans to make acquisitions as it digests its 480 million euro takeover of Germany's Betapharm earlier this year.
- Islam, Muslims And Europe (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 06, 2006)
As we entered the mosque of Córdoba I realised its isolation from its historical environ that once housed almost eighty thousand shops and workshops of artisans; there was nothing left of the marvellous public baths and inns which once surrounded . . .
- A Hundred Beats (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 06, 2006)
A hundred beats of the heart, my heart.
How else can I tell you the things I see and feel?
Through every closing and opening of my eyes I promise to be true and open, looking at the world at home and ahead of us so that I may show you the . . .
- Naxalites Setting Up Support Centres In Urban Areas (Times of India, SUBODH GHILDIYAL, Oct 06, 2006)
Naxalites are effecting 'structural changes' in their movement by creating the support structures in urban areas in what is a strategic attempt to adapt to the changed security scenario.
- Mlas Against Entertainment Centre At Old Gmc Land (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Want GMC land to be allotted to Hyderabad Collectorate
- Temple Closed After `Entry' Of Security Guard Into Sanctum (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
To be reopened today morning after performance of `prayaschitta homam'
- Clash Sparks Violence In Mangalore (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Miscreants attacked shrines belonging to two communities at two places in Mangalore on Thursday. A group of at least 50 people threw stones and broke the window panes of a religious place at Padil by the side of the National Highway 48.
- Violence Rocks Mangalore (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Mobs went on the rampage during the bundh called by the Bajrang Dal activists to protest against the illegal transportation of cattle in the district.
- Use Science Career For Social Development, Students Told (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
US official bowled over by city school students' questions
- Aiims Struggles To Cope With Dengue, Toll Rises To 17 (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
The country's fight with the deadly disease dengue continues as the toll went up to 17 in the Capital alone.
- Shooting Itself In The Foot: K'taka Can Do Without Such Bandhs (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 05, 2006)
Will Bangalore be Bangalored? As normal life in India’s Silicon Valley came to a standstill on Wednesday, courtesy the bandh call by pro-Kannada outfits protesting the ‘Centre’s step-motherly attitude’, that’s a question the government and civil . . .
- True For All Times? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 05, 2006)
Nothing, as the 19th century romantic writer Victor Hugo once said, can stop an idea whose time has come. Satyagraha was one such idea, enunciated by Mahatma Gandhi after years of persevering with developing a philosophy or worldview that backed his . . .
- Paying Proposition (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 05, 2006)
This newspaper has consistently argued that all efforts to reform public services and state-run corporations will be flawed without realistic reviews of government pay structures.
- Dna Work Wins American Nobel Chemistry Prize (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
American Roger D Kornberg, whose father won a Nobel Prize nearly 50 years ago, was awarded the prize in chemistry today for his studies of how cells take information from genes to produce proteins.
- Indian Writing In English (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 05, 2006)
In the first few years after Independence, most Indian probably thought it right that English should be largely removed from the face of the country, and believed that this would happen within a decade or two.
- Data Exclusivity And National Interest (Hindu, Sarah Hiddleston, Oct 05, 2006)
In an exercise in non-transparency, the UPA Government is set to concede Data Exclusivity privileges to pharmaceutical multinationals and amend drug registration laws without public debate.
- Sad, Bjp Seek Kalam’S Intervention For Farmers’ Relief (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP combine today accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of neglecting farmers’ issues in Punjab and sought immediate intervention of President A P J Abdul Kalam so that relief could be provided to them without any delay.
- Delhi: Dengue Death Toll Rises To 16 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
AIIMS postpones semester examinations; task force to monitor situation.
- Court Martial (Tribune, Brig Harwant Singh, Oct 05, 2006)
I was posted as Brigade Major (BM), of an artillery brigade at Kaluchak near Jammu in 1974 and was to be “Officer Commanding” of all Other Ranks of the Brigade Headquarters.
- Service Innovations (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 05, 2006)
E-Seva is the name of a massive e-governance project of the Andhra Pradesh Government.
- State Stands Still For Belgaum (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
The State-wide bundh called by pro-Kannada organisations against the Centre’s stand on the boundary dispute between Karnataka and Maharashtra on Wednesday, was total and incident-free in Bangalore City.
- Ministers To Meet On Chikungunya (Deccan Herald, K S Narayanan, Oct 05, 2006)
Financial aid, increased supply of fogging machines and the setting up of a special laboratory in South India are some of the issues that would be discussed at an anti-chikungunya meet, to be attended by the health ministers of eight affected . . .
- Indian Team ‘Narrowly Missed’ Nobel (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
An Indian researcher at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad believes that he and members of his former group “narrowly missed” this year’s Nobel Prize for medicine...
- Sharks At Large (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 05, 2006)
The state govt needs to tackle land mafia with determination.
- Poor Patient Turnout At Hospitals (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Hospitals in the City had geared up to meet any emergency during the 12-hour bundh on Wednesday. In a move to prevent last minute chaos, the KC General Hospital performed eight Caesarean surgeries on Tuesday.
- The Rise And Rise Of India’S Private Sector (The Financial Express, AJAY KHANNA, Oct 05, 2006)
Just over a decade ago, India Inc. was written off as inefficient. Today, Indi-an companies are scaling new heig-hts. Many are now recognised as world-class—Bharat Forge, Ranbaxy, Tata Steel, Asian Paints, the AV Birla group, Tata Motors, Infosys, to. . .
- Dengue Death Toll In Delhi Goes Up To 16 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
589 reported cases in hospital; many more screened for symptoms at AIIMS.
- Tragedy Of Women (Hindu, Prema Nandakumar , Oct 03, 2006)
Aconversation-gripped novel that seeks to give a complete view of Islamic existence in contemporary Tamil Nadu, Irandaam Jaamangalin Kathai has chipped a crevice to allow some fresh breeze into a psychological cellar.
- Pak Hand In Mumbai Blasts Vindicates Maha Govt Stand (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
With investigations into the Mumbai serial train blasts pointing towards a Pakistani hand, the Maharashtra Government's view that the recent terror trend was part of Islamabad-sponsored jehadi terrorism stands vindicated.
- Mufti Heads Non-Official Team To Unga (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Oct 03, 2006)
Former J&K CM Mufti Mohammed Sayeed will lead the non-official delegation from India to the UN General Assembly this year. The delegation includes Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who is already in the US.
- Carnivalesque End To Mysore Dasara (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Jamboo Savari, the Vijayadashami procession which marks the finale of the 10-day long Dasara festivities, concluded in the ‘City of Palaces’ with traditional fervour and gaiety on Monday with lakhs of people witnessing the splendid annual spectacle.
- The Isi, Once More (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 03, 2006)
The ISI is once again in the eye of a worldwide media storm. Over the last couple of weeks, the country's premier secret agency has repeatedly grabbed the headlines, being accused of a catalogue of alleged misdemeanours by a variety of familiar sources.
- A Multilateral Initiative To Combat Corruption (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Oct 03, 2006)
There may be protests from member-countries if the international financial institutions' initiative to combat corruption leads to new lending conditionalities.
- New Pharma Policy In Offing; Drug Prices Set To Crash (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
A new pharma policy is likely to be taken up for approval by Union Cabinet after a 14-member committee set up by Chemicals and Fertiliser Minister Ram Vilas Paswan submits its report by this month end.
- Diy Hinduism (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 03, 2006)
Dalits in UP villages are reinventing Ambedkarism in the golden jubilee year of Bhim Rao Ambedkar's conversion from Hinduism to Buddhism.
- Q&a: 'Bombard The Government With Rti Queries' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 03, 2006)
For the last three years, Shailesh Gandhi, 59, has been spreading awareness about Right to Information (RTI) Act across Maharashtra.
- Medical Seats In For Quantum Jump In A.P. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
With three new colleges coming up, 450 seats are added
The total number of seats in the State now will be 4,700 in 14 Government medical colleges
The total number of engineering seats to go up to 99,000 with addition of two JNTU colleges
- Scholarships For Sri Lankan Students (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 03, 2006)
On the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka launched a programme to award scholarships to 100 A level students, four from each of the 25 districts in the country.
- Another Tiger In The Cross-Hairs (Indian Express, Amar Farooqui, Oct 03, 2006)
Not much ingenuity is required to grasp the divisive political agenda that prompted D H Shankaramurthy, Karnataka Minister for Higher (!) Education, to declare recently that all references to Tipu Sultan should be deleted from school textbooks . . .
- Good, Not Great (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Drizzle of yesteryears and other stories; M K Ajay, Frog Books, 2006, pp 113, Rs 195.
- Cotton’S Other Reality Check: Boom May Take India Past Us (Indian Express, VIKAS DHOOT, Oct 03, 2006)
For those who thought India’s cotton story was only about farmer suicides, attributed to failed crops despite the Centre clearing a Rs 17,000-crore package for distressed farmers in four states on the back of the Vidarbha package announced by . . .
- Stories Of Grit And Gumption (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
The book highlights individuals, often ignored in studies of the violence in Assam.
- Afterlife Of Sherlock Holmes (Hindu, MEENAKSHI MUKHERJEE, Oct 03, 2006)
Both the books are playful and ingenuous pastiches, recreating familiar voices from the past.
- Letting The Light In (Hindu, S. JAGADISAN , Oct 03, 2006)
V.P. Ranga Rao, novelist and scholar, talks about the nature of R.K. Narayan's artistic vision.
- Buddha Balm On Singur Cut (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has virtually regretted the police action against Mamata Banerjee and her colleagues in an unusual conciliatory gesture, but stopped short of handing the apology that Trinamul Congress is seeking.
- Foreign Hand (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 30, 2006)
Prime Ministers of India who have also held the portfolio of external affairs
- India Rising: Gdp Goes Up To New Height At 8.9 Pc (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
The gross domestic product clocked a robust growth of 8.9 per cent in the first quarter of the current fiscal year over the same period last year, aided by a strong performance in the manufacturing sector, the government said on Friday.
- Gram Sabha Passes Resolution Against Special Economic Zone (Hindu, Meena Menon, Sep 30, 2006)
People register protest against land acquisition for Reliance Group's Mumbai SEZ
- Package For Farmers (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Sep 30, 2006)
The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on Friday approved a Rs.16,978.69-crore rehabilitation package for farmers in the predominantly suicide-prone districts of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra.
- Reforms: Chidambaram Seeks Political Space (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Unless they are completed, it will be difficult to sustain high growth.
- Soz Calls On Rajapaksa (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Sep 30, 2006)
Union Minister for Water Resources Saifuddin Soz called on Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the temporary Presidential Palace and exchanged views on the current situation in the island nation and issues of interest between India and Sri Lanka.
- Opening A Dialogue (Hindu, BAGESHREE S. , Sep 30, 2006)
Shashi Deshpande's translation of her father Shriranga's memoirs is an important bridge across languages.
- Is The Message Lost In The Medium? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 30, 2006)
Having got himself a breather, Mr Horatti will do well to discuss with the experts on how to take forward the education policy, which meets the concerns of both the medium and the message.
- To Trick Or Teach? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 30, 2006)
The pervasive lack of quality at the base of India’s educational pyramid has had tragic consequences.
- Emotional Scars Haunt Tsunami Victims (Deccan Herald, R Gopakumar, Sep 29, 2006)
Women and children orphaned by the tsunami in the affected villages of Tamil Nadu continue to suffer from psychological disorders even 21 months after the cataclysmic events of December 26.
- A Stretch Teeming With Life (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 29, 2006)
There are two ways of looking at K Kamaraj Road or Cavalry Road as it was known earlier. Depending upon one perspective, it could be a road full of intense traffic and choc-a-block shops or you can treat this as a stretch full of life.
- India`s Ambassadors In The Us (Business Standard, T Thomas, Sep 29, 2006)
If we can get American students to study here, it will prove to be a major advancement in diplomacy.
- Indian Developers Queue For Ipos, Foreign Funds (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 29, 2006)
Tens, and even hundreds, of Indian developers are lining up to raise funds through initial public offerings in an attempt to ramp up construction to fill an estimated shortfall of 20 million homes.
- Rbi To Study Credit Offtake In All Segments: Reddy (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 29, 2006)
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been prompted to consider a detailed study of the composition of credit disbursements by banks in various segments, given the continued high level of growth.
- Beautiful People (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 29, 2006)
Khushwant Singh's Sex, Scotch and Scholarship lay by my side. I'd given up on it: just wasn't in the mood. No sex please, we're Pakistani. Just how we've reached a population of over 165 million isn't too clear.
- Gowda’S Own Country (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 29, 2006)
Going strictly by news coming from government quarters in Bangalore in recent months, it would be easy to forget that this is the metropolis that has almost single-handedly made over the idea of India in the world.
- No Deal Campaigners Set To Lose Battle (Pioneer, ASHOK MALIK, Sep 29, 2006)
Despite the perverse pessimism in some quarters in New Delhi, the overriding consensus in the State Department, on Capitol Hill and in the strategic affairs community here is that the India-United States civil nuclear deal is on course.
- Pain Of Death In Moscow (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 29, 2006)
It is more or less understandable why revenge was taken on the first deputy chairman of Russia's Central Bank, one of the architects of the country's banking system:
- Politics Of Durga Puja (Pioneer, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Sep 29, 2006)
While West Bengal erupts in what Union Information & Broadcasting Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi calls "stree shakti" (women's power), two very dissimilar strees are jostling for Durga's tiara.
- Will There Be Convergence In The Chaos? (The Financial Express, S NARAYAN, Sep 29, 2006)
Economic progress today is driven by private enterprise, while government institutions are faltering
- The Passion To Excel (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 29, 2006)
The passion to excel and reach the top is the key to excellence. The employees at various level of organizational hierarchy must have the fire in their belly to excel in every sphere of operation.
- Belgaum Stokes Passions In Maharashtra, Karnataka (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Sep 29, 2006)
The old row between Maharashtra and Karnataka over the status of Belgaum is all set to be reignited with political parties here pressing for special two-day Assembly session on the issue.
- Faling Revolution (Daily Excelsior, Jayant Muralidharan, Sep 29, 2006)
What is today described as "Naxalism" in Andhra Pradesh actually began as a Communist-led, Marxism-oriented peasant movement in Telengana in 1944. This Telengana movement was the outcome of a strained social fabric and an iniquitous . . .
- Bench Puts Off Hearing In Pappapatti Case (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 29, 2006)
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday witnessed heated arguments over a public interest litigation petition against reserving the post of president of Pappapatti panchayat near here for the Scheduled Castes in the ensuing civic polls.
- Naco Opens More Hiv Treatment Centres (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 29, 2006)
The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has increased the number of centres providing free anti-retroviral treatment (ART) from 54 to 91. Another 9 more centres will get operational soon.
- The Gunner’S Glorious History (Deccan Herald, Gopal K. Piplani, Sep 29, 2006)
The guns are their colours and they are their rallying point too.
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