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Articles 3021 through 3120 of 25647:
- Of Plastic Rain And Tigers (Deccan Herald, VIJAY NAMBISAN, Apr 14, 2006)
Tourists cannot afford to pollute the environment with plastic bags and biscuit wrappers
- Cbi Raids On Punjab Bureaucrats (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 14, 2006)
Amarinder resents action, says they are "among the finest officers''
- `Joint Centre-State Efforts Needed To Check Naxalism' (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Apr 13, 2006)
Accelerate socio-economic development: Patil
Easy availability of arms across the borders endangers internal security
Constant vigil needed to prevent spread of naxal influence
- The Way To Salvage Nepal (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 13, 2006)
Given political will, it's still possible to redeem the Himalayan nation from the mess it is in, says NN Jha
- More Power To Bank Chiefs (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 13, 2006)
Competition demands that lending decisions are made at the operational level, rather than by the bank board.
- In India, Maoist Guerrillas Widen 'People's War' (New York Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 13, 2006)
Soldiers with an armed cadre of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) round up villagers for a rally in Bhanupratapur, in east-central India
- Narmada Project: The Points At Issue (Hindu, Ramaswamy R. Iyer, Apr 13, 2006)
What the NBA is asking for is a suspension of work on the project until the prescribed conditions on resettlement and rehabilitation have been fully met in all respects.
- In India, Maoist Guerrillas Widen 'People's War' (International Herald Tribune, Somini Sengupta , Apr 13, 2006)
India The gray light of dawn broke over the bamboo forest as the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army prepared for a . . .
- Journalism Is About Giving Voice To The Voiceless: Manmohan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 13, 2006)
Praveen Swami, Barkha Dutt and Varghese George are journalists of the year
Freelance journalist Ramesh Menon received the award for "Environmental Reporting" (Print)
Awards on different aspects of journalism distributed
- Indian Fire ‘Cover Up’ Sparks Violent Protests (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 13, 2006)
Doctors go on strike after being beaten by angry relatives
- Tit For Tat (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 13, 2006)
There is an enormous difference between a voluntary exit and a forced one under a shadow.
- Lessons From The New Intolerance (Hindu, Harish Khare , Apr 12, 2006)
Whether or not the IIMs and IITs are forced to open their doors a little wider, the new fashionable intolerance exhibited in these last few days should be a sobering experience for all of us.
- Clean Is Healthy (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Apr 12, 2006)
One should feel satisfied that one has not yet developed cynicism about the need for keeping environment clean and healthy.
- Burning Desire (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 12, 2006)
Pending an inquiry into Monday’s fire at a trade fair in Meerut, just one thing can be said with absolute certainty.
- While Facilitating Access To High-Quality Institutions, Quality Itself Must Not Suffer’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 12, 2006)
Ten days before Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh revealed a plan for 27 per cent reservation in higher education, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had spoken in detail about the need to balance social equity with a commitment to excellence
- Will Congress Survive As Fiefdom Of Gandhi Dynasty? (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Apr 12, 2006)
On the last day of his life Mahatama Gandhi wrote a will wanting the Congress to be dissolved. In his view it was a movement not a political outfit to govern the country. Alive, he would have destroyed it.
- The Tube Keeps The Commuter Happy (Deccan Herald, Deepak K Upreti, Apr 12, 2006)
Thanks to the metro, commuters are no longer a harassed lot in Delhi
- Mayawati: "No Promises, No Manifesto, Only Performance" (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Apr 12, 2006)
From a negatively perceived champion of narrow caste interests to a confident, self-assured leader of all communities,Mayawatihas transformed beyond recognition. Today, all eyes are on her — to see if the Bahujan Samaj Party can reach the finish . . .
- Maoists Rule The Roost In Nepal (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Apr 11, 2006)
The two leaders said their banned party would also prevent payment of taxes and other government dues and take action against administration officials and people supporting them.
- Sick Of Information? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 11, 2006)
Information is power. It can be irrelevant absurdity, too. And if the various questions with the chief information officer’s office are anything to go by, then one could easily claim that the Right to Information Act is allowing people to traverse . . .
- Let Opportunity Not Slip (The Economic Times, Raghu Dayal , Apr 11, 2006)
For India to emerge as a contender for a global hub for aviation, gems and jewellery and other high potential sectors like leather, a whole panoply of infrastructural, fiscal and regulatory conditions is essential.
- Not Another Quota Raj (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 11, 2006)
India has limits on FII (or foreign institutional investor) ownership of a company, implemented in a sensible way.
- It May Not Make A Difference In Bihar' (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Apr 11, 2006)
"Talks about IT, for example, is for the consumption of some people... My understanding of the Bihar economy is such that these things will not make much difference."
- India Through Dalit Paradigm (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 11, 2006)
Jagjivan Ram's birth centenary year gives us an opportunity to debate how best to take education and progress to marginalised sections, says . . .
- Corruption And Development~ii (Statesman, SANKAR SEN, Apr 11, 2006)
In his work “Grand Corruption in Third World Development”, George Moody-Stuart, identified areas which are most vulnerable to corruption.
- A Friend In Need (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Apr 11, 2006)
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai’s second visit to New Delhi in less than a year is in keeping with the growing congruence of interests between the two South Asian countries.
- Fiction Anthology (Hindu, Prema Nandakumar , Apr 11, 2006)
Disguises: Indira Parthasarathi; Kalaignan Pathippagam, 19, Kannadasan Salai, T. Nagar, Chennai- 600017. Rs. 75.
- A Different Historical Trajectory (Hindu, R. CHAMPAKALAKSHMI, Apr 11, 2006)
This concluding part of the review focusses on Sanjay Subrahmanyam's main contributions to a better understanding of the complex historical processes
- `Bjp Dictating Terms To Kumaraswamy' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 11, 2006)
Poojary opposes plan to make Idgah Maidan a park
Inquiry sought into Bhatkal violence
Chief Minister urged to give priority to maintaining law and order
- Make Team's Report Public, Says Medha (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 10, 2006)
Ministers yet to submit findings to Manmohan
Who should be blamed and punished is the question the nation must answer: Medha
Every democratic process and institution subverted and every human right submerged
All that the NBA said was proved to . . .
- A Peep Into The Recent Past (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Apr 10, 2006)
Two plays of Gurcharan Das were staged in New Delhi recently, each taking you to a different period, neither of them contemporary. It could be because he wrote them at a certain stage of his life.
- An Indian Role In Africa (Telegraph, S.L. Rao, Apr 10, 2006)
The author is former director-general, National Council for Applied Economic . . .
- New Future…Old Problems (News International, Chris Cork, Apr 10, 2006)
Standing beneath the tree next to the ruins of the mosque in the village of Kot Galla the enormity of both the devastation and the task of reconstruction is cruelly evident.
- Living In A World Of Make-Believe (Dawn, Murtaza Razvi, Apr 10, 2006)
There is a waning sense of reality in national politics as each day passes.
- Indo-Us Deal: Not Without Amendments (News International, Nasim Zehra, Apr 10, 2006)
The writer is an Islamabad-based security
- Universal Hazard (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 10, 2006)
A ‘cuppa’ comes first
- Fashion Police (Times of India, ARCHANA JAHAGIRDAR, Apr 10, 2006)
Government functionaries in the state of Maharashtra are a happy lot. After spending years pushing mouldering files in dark, dingy offices, they have gotten a chance at doing some real work and work which for once they aren't complaining about.
- Walled City, Not World City (Times of India, Gautam Bhatia, Apr 10, 2006)
At electricity and ticket counters, you encounter miserable faces. Traffic proceeds in disordered screeches, bumps and starts; horns blare for no reason at all. People shout when they can whisper.
- The Challenges In An Era Of Liberalisation (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Apr 10, 2006)
A Pay Commission is often not the culmination of difficulties, but their starting point. An unending exercise in lobbying and activist interventions by various coalition partners seems to be on the Government's agenda in the next few years.
- Price Controls Not The Answer (Jordan Times, Yusuf Mansur, Apr 10, 2006)
There is a flurry to control prices, to put out the looming flame of inflation in light of the rise of oil prices and to stop abuse by wholesalers and retailers. However, price control may spur further inflation and cause prices to rise even further.
- Un Systems (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 10, 2006)
One has to agree with Mr Shaukat Aziz’s assertion that the high level UN panel on systemwide coherence might prove to be the ‘historic effort’ needed to promote the objective of a more advanced and peaceful world ‘through improving its efficiency . . .
- Kerala's Highway To Nowhere (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 10, 2006)
K Govindan Kutty on why grandiose projects like metro have support of politicians and bureaucrats alike in Kerala
- Corruption And Development~i (Statesman, SANKAR SEN, Apr 10, 2006)
Slowing Down The Wheels Of Administration
- Immigration Logjams And Incompetence (Washington Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 10, 2006)
Lawmakers who think the United States government could process 11 million illegal aliens in a "guest worker" program should be forced to listen to what whistleblower Michael J. Maxwell told a panel of angry lawmakers last week.
- Great Rip-Off In Name Of Development (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Apr 10, 2006)
Why do we Indians find it so difficult to believe that foreigners are waiting to pour billions of dollars into India and are unable to digest the claim that a Sensex of 11,900 is based purely on fundamentals?
- Pakistan's Economic Miracle (Jordan Times, Fahed Fanek, Apr 10, 2006)
The prime minister of Pakistan, Shaukat Aziz, is well-known in Amman. Two decades ago, was manager of Citibank in Jordan for two years, during which he built many friendships in the Jordanian business and political communities.
- A Pil(l) For Headache (Pioneer, Shailaja Chandra, Apr 10, 2006)
Despite doing well on social and environmental fronts, issues addressed through PILs are often quite technical, says Shailaja Chandra
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear - George Orwell
- A Bearer's Chit (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 10, 2006)
There is nothing subtle about the UPA Government's attempt to secure a 'clean chit' for Election Commissioner Navin Chawla against whom the Opposition NDA has levelled serious charges of gross impropriety and pronounced political bias.
- Send Petition On Navin Chawla To Cec, Nda Urges President (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 09, 2006)
Plea follows reports that the A-G had given a clean chit to him
- A-G's Clean Chit `Irrelevant': Advani (Hindu, MANAS DASGUPTA, Apr 09, 2006)
"Only Chief Election Commissioner can comment on Chawla's conduct"
- Chalta Hai’ For Politicians (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Apr 08, 2006)
Men, Matters, Memories
When it comes to feathering one's nest there is hardly anyone who can better the Indian political class.
- Not A Matter Of Politics (Deccan Herald, Satish Nambiar, Apr 08, 2006)
The political leadership appears not to be serious about managing national security
- The Tragedy That Can Strike Us Too (Deccan Herald, VIJAY NAMBISAN, Apr 08, 2006)
Meher Bhargava’s murder underlines an ugly truth: that any citizen can be killed at any time on the slightest provocation
- A Bus Service Going Nowhere? (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Apr 08, 2006)
The Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service seems to have been virtually grounded by the complicated documentation process and the attitude of the intelligence agencies.
- Hooda's Bid To Create Healthy Society (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
Extension of medical facilities at the doorsteps of the poorest of the poor
- Hooda's Policies Win Praise From Prime Minister (Hindu, Rajesh Ahuja, Apr 08, 2006)
Bid to transform Haryana into No. 1 State gets a shot in arm by bonanza announced by Manmohan Singh
- Fight, But Talk (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 08, 2006)
A government minus BJP or Congress? The prospect should make the two more mutually civil
- Aligarh Adm, Sp Suspended (Tribune, Shahira Naim, Apr 08, 2006)
The Aligarh District Magistrate, the SSP, the ADM (City) and the SP (City) were suspended following yesterday’s communal violence which left four dead in the city. A probe has been ordered.
- "Assam Polls A Pointer To New Front" (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Apr 08, 2006)
History will be rewritten if AGP wins, say Mulayam and Naidu
Congress, BJP enemies to Assam development: Naidu
We will speak up for the State in Parliament: Amar Singh
- Third Front? For Whom, And For What? (The Financial Express, Malvika Singh, Apr 08, 2006)
Mulayam Singh and Chandrababu Naidu’s proposed coalition promises all that India doesn’t need
- Endangered Cbm (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 08, 2006)
Red tape proves a roadblock
- Protests, Carnage Rock Nepal (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
Police fired tear gas to break up stone-throwing anti-monarchy protesters in Nepal today after a fierce overnight attack on a town by Maoist rebels left 22 people dead, including an Indian, witnesses and authorities said.
- 'Peer' Trouble (Daily Excelsior, Tushar Charan, Apr 07, 2006)
By an odd coincidence, a raging though not an entirely identical controversy has erupted in recent days over nominating members to the upper chambers of Parliament in India and Britain.
- Insufferable Subhas (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 07, 2006)
Sections of the party and government have long been disgusted with this particular minister.
- Renuka’S Gambit (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 07, 2006)
Worth some consideration
- Of Ur, Office Of Profit And English (Deccan Herald, K Subrahmanya, Apr 07, 2006)
Dr U R Ananthamurthy’s presence is needed to create an awareness about the importance of English
- An Ideal Opportunity To Act Decisively (The Financial Express, Jayaprakash Narayan, Apr 07, 2006)
The failure of prosecution in several cases has re-focused public attention on our justice . . .
- Laws Are Not For All (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 07, 2006)
When the finance minister proposed a controversial fringe benefits tax last year, I don’t think he had in mind the kind of ‘‘fringe benefits’’ that I am referring to this week.
- New Political Outfit To Contest Five Seats (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
Pondicherry: "Uzhaippaali Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam", a new political party, has planned to field candidates in five segments in the Union Territory.
- `Manmohan, Sonia Should Intervene' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
Bring legislation: Ram Babu
- Indo-Us Deal: Lobbyists Pulling Out All The Stops (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Apr 06, 2006)
Given Bush’s low ratings in opinion polls, it would be surprising if his Republican Party manages to cling on to its slim majority
- Development' Binds Nitish's Coalition Of Extremes (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Apr 06, 2006)
The coalition Mr Nitish Kumar leads in Bihar includes not only the marginalised sections but also people from the upper crust and castes.
- Justice For All, For Social Stability (The Economic Times, KIRAN KARNIK, Apr 06, 2006)
It is a matter of self-interest for the power-class to quickly mend the system before it breaks.
- Modernisation In The Air (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 06, 2006)
Airport upgradation brooks no delay
- Jitters On The Left (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 05, 2006)
The memorandum submitted to the Election Commission by Left Front leaders on Monday, protesting against the manner in which the former has been going about arranging for the forthcoming Assembly election in West Bengal, is a clear indication of the . . .
- Lust And The Lonely City (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 05, 2006)
While political authority demands more taxes, living itself has become burdensome in Delhi, says Gautam Sen
- Sp To Field “Strong” Candidate Against Sonia (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
The ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh is confident of winning the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat by fielding a “strong candidate” who will defeat AICC President Sonia Gandhi in the May 8 by poll.
- Austerity Pays (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 05, 2006)
Although the State was late in adopting the measure the downsizing of the ministry has expectedly meant less burden on the exchequer.
- Investigating Disappearances (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 05, 2006)
A disturbing phenomenon that has late surfaced in Pakistan is that of ‘disappearances’.
- Where India’S Brave New World Is Headed (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
When 322 of 413 suicides have occurred since just November 1, and 77 take place in March alone, you’d believe it newsworthy. You’d be wrong, though.
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