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Articles 2521 through 2620 of 11253:
- Magnanimity For Millions On The Margins? (The Financial Express, Jayaprakash Narayan, Jul 28, 2006)
Thinking sections of society need to act fast and mobilise those suffering from misgovernance.
- Salwa Judum Will Be A Watershed (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 28, 2006)
The police term Salwa Judum as the people's response to the Left-wing extremist group.
- Maruti Rides On Back Of High Sales (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Strong sales and enhanced cost control measures enabled car market leader Maruti Udyog report a massive 63.1 per cent rise in profits in the first quarter of this fiscal at Rs 369.5 crore, against Rs 226.4 crore in the year-ago period.
- Saddam Verdict Put Off To Oct (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Saddam and the seven others are charged with the killing of 148 Shi’ites after an attempt on his life in 1982. He faces a second trial, starting in a month, on charges of genocide against the Kurds.
- Naxals Cremated In Hyderabad (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Balladeer Gadar, poet Varavara Rao call on family members
- Reddy Reckoner (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jul 28, 2006)
The first quarter review of the RBI’s monetary and credit policy for 2006-07 has answered one critical question. For the first time, the central bank has said it is following a policy of ‘inflation targeting’ — using monetary management to keep inflation
- Thomas Citation Laureate Award For Five Researchers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Five researchers were awarded the "Thomson Citation Laureate Award" by Thomson Scientific on Thursday for their "prolific research over the past decade".
- Demand To Amend Panel's Terms Of Reference Rejected (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Commission has been empowered to probe bribery allegation, asserts Prakash
Panel set up to look into mining activity in the State
36 cases of illegal mining detected in Bellary district
Iron ore and dust valued at Rs. 1.73 crore seized in . . .
- Going Soft In The Knee (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jul 28, 2006)
Who was the mole in P.V. Narasimha Rao’s office, and who cares about that past history? It is dead and gone, not relevant to the realities of today. And for the press to pursue, relentlessly, a non-story is even more farcical than the story itself.
- Turning A Reluctant Rebel Into A National Icon (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 28, 2006)
That last quotation might surprise readers of the present book which claims to be a biography of Lakshmi Bai.
- Dishonourable Silence (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Behind the noise and scurry that has accompanied the ‘non-revelatory revelations’ made by Jaswant Singh in his memoirs, A Call To Honour, there lies the matter of serious irresponsibility.
- Aids Awareness Programme For Volunteers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
35 per cent HIV infected people are youth: expert
- Sensex Advances Further Triggered By Asian Markets (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Strong global cues helped the stock markets advance higher for the fourth straight session on Thursday with the benchmark index gaining another 124 points on hectic short-covering amid a flow of encouraging corporate news.
- Mysterious Mole (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 28, 2006)
The BJP leader, Mr Jaswant Singh, could not have found a surer way of getting embroiled in an unseemly controversy and tying himself into knots while struggling to get out of it than the one he has chosen in popping the mysterious mole in the . . .
- Rate Hike Gets Good Billing (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
The surest sign of the rise of the Great Indian Middle Class has been the coverage of the RBI’s latest interest rate hike in the regional press. A
- 25-Yr-Old Woman Naxal Commander In Police Net (Indian Express, Manoj Prasad, Jul 28, 2006)
In a major success, the Jharkhand Police have arrested Phul Kumari, alias Phulo, the 25-year-old chief of the CPI(Maoist)’s women’s wing in Chhattisgarh.
- Bpos Located At Home Are Ideal (Business Standard, Subir Roy, Jul 28, 2006)
Genpact topped Nasscom’s list of Indian BPO firms with a turnover of just under $500 million in 2005-06. Pramod Bhasin, president and CEO, spoke to Business Standard on the exciting road ahead. Excerpts:
- News Dished Out As Soap Opera (Tribune, Chetna Keer Banerjee, Jul 28, 2006)
Five-year-old Siddhi Ganesh slipped into a canal in Jammu and died unsung the same day that little Prince was rescued from a bore well in Kurukshetra in the glare of media publicity and to nail-biting, nationwide concern.
- Enter Oic (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 28, 2006)
After days of dilly-dallying the Organisation of Islamic Conference has finally decided to get into the act -- perhaps to refute the many who think its days are numbered -- and do and say something with regarding to Israel's invasion of Lebanon.
- The Biggest Threat (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Jul 28, 2006)
In the dominant political culture of India, citizens are encouraged to treat terrorism as an unavoidable feature of modern existence and undertake no independent initiatives to counter it.
- Mountain Out Of Mole Hill (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Jul 28, 2006)
It's hardly a secret that the Americans have kept close watch on India's nuclear programme for several decades -------- Should politicians publish their memoirs in their lifetime? Former Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh with his book, A Call to Honour, . .
- Stop Burning The Future (Deccan Herald, R Akhileshwari , Jul 28, 2006)
Environment- Solar Generation, the youth wing of Green Peace, is making a big difference in a very impressive way.
- The Spy Who Flew Away (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 28, 2006)
What's in a name, asked the Bard. “There is a lot”, the author of A Call to Honour seems to say.
- Bpo Firm Employee Held On Charge Of Killing Colleague (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Police say Gururaj Kishore killed Tania after an argument
Gururaj Kishore was in love with Tania
He was unhappy with her "high-society lifestyle"
- Tanya Murdered By Colleague (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Kishore, a colleague of Tanya, murdered her in his Honda City car after an altercation with her on Tuesday night near Sadashivanagar police station.
- Let Us Wait For The End Product: Manmohan (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Jul 28, 2006)
He admits U.S. Bills contain elements that are of "concern to us"
Let the legislation process be over in U.S. I will come before this House if there is any departure: Manmohan
U.S. stipulation on IAEA violates Manmohan's assurance, says CPI(M) . . .
- ‘This Secret Will Perish Along With Me’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 28, 2006)
Tell me of your experience in dealing with (Bill) Clinton.
- Musharraf Rules Out Political Change (News International, Azfar-ul-Ashfaque, Jul 27, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf has ruled out any change at the Centre and provincial level and declared that the current political set-up would continue working till the holding of 2007 general elections.
- No Change In Federal Or Sindh Setup (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
President tells Sindh PML members to get behind Arbab
* Says united PML would rout ARD and MMA in elections
- Bpo Firm Employee Murdered, Body Found In Shiradi Ghats (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Police Commissioner says needle of suspicion points towards colleague
The victim was stabbed in the neck, chest and abdomen
Tania's friends received SMS saying she was going to Kolkata
She was not using the company vehicle to come to work or go home
- Why Farming Has Become Unviable (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Jul 27, 2006)
Falling profitability of farming operations, the drying up of non-farming opportunities and the growing fragmentation of landholdings all make agriculture a losing proposition. Three-fourths of Indian farmers take home less than Rs 3,000 a month . . .
- New Vistas In Micro Finance (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jul 27, 2006)
Finally, there seems to be a will to take a re-look at financial services for the poor. Much lobbying with the government and the RBI by those who work with financial services for the poor resulted in the government announcing on June 26 that it had . . .
- Tariq Sees Foreign Hand In Balochistan Unres (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Tariq Azeem on Wednesday said that there were strong indications of involvement of foreign hand in creating law and order situation in Balochistan.
- Big Lessons From Small Institutes (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jul 27, 2006)
Several educational centres in Maharashtra have gone off the beaten track on industry-academia linkage.
- Time For The Oic To Wake Up (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 27, 2006)
While Israeli jets continue to pound innocent Lebanese on the false pretext of tracking down Hezbollah, the Muslim countries' watchdog body, the OIC, has as usual not yet come up with a unified stand nor has it given any signal of doing so.
- On Our List, Gujarat Cops Who Didn’T Act: Terror Suspect (Indian Express, Stavan Desai, Jul 27, 2006)
Sohail Md Sheikh, a Pune-based Lashkar-e-Toiba suspect who was arrested yesterday, has told police that his module had been instructed to draw up a list of Gujarat policemen “who didn’t react sufficiently” during the 2002 riots, sources in the . . .
- Jaswant Yet To Meet Pm On Mole (Asian Age, Sanjay Basak, Jul 27, 2006)
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has not yet given an appointment to former external affairs minister Jaswant Singh, who is waiting to hand over documents relating to the "mole", who had allegedly leaked information to the United States, . . .
- Plot Thickens: More Mole Sightings (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
More evidence has emerged of the existence of a mole in the upper echelons of the Government of India during the PV Narasimha Rao regime.
- India Should Strengthen Its Database (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Jul 27, 2006)
Given the lack of detailed data on the unorganised sector, much of the discussion on the economy is centred on India Inc, resulting in a distortion in policy formulation and deficiencies in resource allocation.
- Saddam Prefers Firing Squad To Hanging, If Convicted (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
A thinner but combative Saddam Hussein told the court today he would prefer to die by firing squad rather than hang “like a common criminal,” as the defiant ex-president made his final scheduled appearance before the tribunal until it renders a verdict.
- Monsoon Deaths (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 27, 2006)
With the death of seven persons, including children, in parts of Lahore by Wednesday, the countrywide rain-related death toll has risen to above 30 since last Sunday.
- Spooked By A Mole (Indian Express, Inder Malhotra, Jul 27, 2006)
To discuss dispassionately former Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh’s somewhat curious and shifting statements about there being a mole in the PMO during P.V. Narasimha Rao’s time, it is necessary first to grasp the nature of spying, the second . . .
- Quota For Muslims Against Law: Govt (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
The Centre has turned down the demand for a separate job quota for Muslims on the ground that it would be antithetical to the Constitution.
- The Foreign Hand (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 27, 2006)
It is rare to see an Indian politician write about the workings of the state with some amount of insight and introspection. Jaswant Singh's memoir, A Call to Honour — In Service of Emergent India, is a welcome departure from the play-it-safe . . .
- 'Air Traffic Between Small Cities To Take Off' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Paramount Airways is out to disprove that low-cost airlines have to compromise luxury. It's doing so by eliminating the divide between business and economy classes at a price that is less than the economy class fare. Paramount managing director . . .
- Mumbai's Storm Water Drains To Be Upgraded (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Rs. 475 crores will be released soon for the first phase
Funds for the metro railway have also been approved in principle
In the last one year, there were a lot of improvements in the city and the Mithi river was cleaned up
- Aids: Policemen Told To Take Preventive Steps (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Commissioner of Police Neelam Achuta Rao urged the police force to be more responsive to the challenge of HIV/AIDS.
- Ensuring Elementary Education For All (Hindu, Krishna Kumar, Jul 27, 2006)
Indian society regards children not as a collective responsibility but as a parental burden. Few realise that the nation loses when children do not attend school.
- Sensex Up 114pts; Bhel Gains 3% (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
The Sensex touched a high of 10,762, and is now up 114 points at 10,731.
- Governor Sends Report On Mining To Centre (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
In a significant development, Governor T N Chaturvedi is understood to have sent a report to the Centre, along with his critical comments, on the mining activities in the State and recent related developments.
- No Surprises Here (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jul 27, 2006)
If Mint Road were a human being, it would have smiled on Tuesday hearing the collective sigh of relief from bond dealers after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced its decision to hike the short-term reverse repo rate by 25 basis points to 6 . . .
- A “Doggie” Tale — Fido (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 27, 2006)
Proclaiming to be owner of a mongrel could be embarrassing at times.
- Bjp Flays Speaker For 'Misinformation' (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
Strongly refuting charges that it had gone back on its promise to allow Question Hour in Lok Sabha, the BJP has expressed its reservation on Speaker Somnath Chaterjee's briefing the media about deliberation in his chamber with Opposition leaders.
- Target The Stimulus (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 26, 2006)
War on Maoism must begin in AP ---- The killing of Burra Chinnaiah, better known by his nom de guerre, 'Madhav', in the jungles of Prakasam district, is the most salient evidence that Andhra Pradesh's renewed war against red terror is working.
- Manmohan To Make Statement On Deal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
No decision on dates to discuss nuclear deal
Mumbai blasts, terrorism to be discussed in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday
"Office of profit" Bill in Upper House on Thursday
Manmohan to make statement in both Houses on nuclear deal .
- Jaswant Hints, Drops No Name (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
Former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh has kept the suspense alive for another day.
- Leaking From Top (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 26, 2006)
Something about Congress in PMO --- Only those who are extremely naive will display shock and horror over senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh's disclosure that "a civil servant in high position in PV Narasimha Rao's PMO leaked information about India's . . .
- Home, Car Loans Set To Rise As Rbi Signals Hike In Interest Rate (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
Get ready for another round of rise in interest rates.
- Rbi Raises Reverse Repo, Repo Rates (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has increased the reverse repo rate by 25 basis points to six per cent, while repo rate has been increased from 6.75 per cent to seven per cent, in a bid to contain inflationary pressures building up in the economy.
- Saga Of A Mole Who Leaked N-Data (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
A top civil servant in the Prime Minister's Office during the Narasimha Rao government did leak data on India's nuclear programme to the US, according to former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh.
- Kalam To Address J&k Joint Session (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
President A P J Abdul Kalam will address the joint session of the Jammu and Kashmir legislature here on July 28.
- Teaching Them Young (Business Standard, Mridusmita Bordoloi, Jul 26, 2006)
It is often said that the future of the country lies in its youth, but when it comes to planning and programme implementation, this idiom is more often than not ignored.
- Counter Defamation Suit To Be Filed By Govt Today (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
The JD (S)-BJP governmnet is all set to file a criminal defamation case against suspended BJP MLC Janardhana Reddy at 11 am on Wednesday.
- Rbi Signals Rate Hike To Fight Inflation (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
Third time in current year, to retain growth estimate at 7.5-8% in fiscal 2006-07
- Rbi Hikes Short-Term Interest; Home Loan Rates To Go Up (Indian Express, PTI, Jul 26, 2006)
Striving to keep inflation under check amidst pressure from surging global oil prices and food prices, Reserve Bank on Tuesday, hiked key short-term interest rates by 0.25 per cent, a move that can lead to increase in interest rates of housing . . .
- Feeling For Wildlife (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
Two impressive perspectives on the basis of insights gained as conservationists.
- Wait For October (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Jul 26, 2006)
RBI released “Macroeconomic and Monetary Developments: First Quarter Review 2006-07” on Monday.
- Nature’S Wrath? More Man’S Folly (Indian Express, FARAH BARIA, Jul 26, 2006)
July is Mumbai’s nemesis. Exactly one year ago on this day, Nature unleashed 944 mm of rain on the unsuspecting metropolis, claiming 400 people. This year, Mumbai has already lost over 180 innocent citizens to a dark void of insane violence.
- Rbi Hikes Short-Term Rates (Hindu, Oommen A. Ninan , Jul 26, 2006)
Repo, reverse repo rates raised by 25 basis points
- Relatives' Long Wait For Naxal Bodies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
Court orders post-mortem of bodies in Guntur hospital; 7 out of 8 victims identified .
- Can Mumbai Take Any More? (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jul 26, 2006)
Bombs and floods in the course of just one year are not something we can just shrug off.
- Costly Name! (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 26, 2006)
What’s in a name? Well, it may cost you several crore rupees, as the Andhra government recently learnt.
- Reddy Reckoner (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 26, 2006)
In hiking the reverse repo rate (at which the Reserve Bank of India absorbs liquidity from the market), RBI governor YV Reddy has played true to form. Faced with the choice of playing safe and taking chances when inflationary expectations are . . .
- Politicians Never Fade Away (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 26, 2006)
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away, goes a ballad sung at West Point some 100 years ago and cited by General Douglas MacArthur at the end of a very moving farewell speech to a joint session of the US Congress on April 19, 1951.
- Batting For Palestine (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 26, 2006)
In the face of Israeli raids on Lebanon, the CPM believes that India cannot be a bystander.
- Talking Aimlessly (Frontline, A.G. NOORANI, Jul 26, 2006)
Stephen Miller's book is a lament on and an elegy for the declining art of conversation.
- Rbi Hikes Key Interest Rates; Bank Loans May Turn Costlier (Business Line, Our Bureau, Business line, Jul 26, 2006)
Repo, reverse repo raised; bank rate, cash reserve ratio unchanged
- Unwarranted Tightening Up (Business Line, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 26, 2006)
The interest rate policy, a reaction to the "inflationary expectations," could switch growth to the slow lane.
- Seeking Sanity In The Real Estate Market (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 26, 2006)
"Today, though the real estate sector is growing at a blistering 30 per cent annually, our cities are crumbling with little or non-existent infrastructure — all a result of haphazard or no urban planning." — MR DEEPAK S. PAREKH, CHAIRMAN, HDFC
- Immunisation Drive Against Japanese Encephalitis (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
Vaccination campaign being carried out with the help of PATH
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