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Articles 5321 through 5420 of 25647:
- Children Dying Of Hunger Haunt Maharashtra (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Sep 01, 2005)
With the monsoon coming to a close, the Maharashtra government has begun its annual charade of downplaying the deaths of children from malnutrition in different parts of the state.
- No Punishment Has Ever Had Enough Power To Deter A Repeat Of The Penalised Crime (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 01, 2005)
K FOR Klynveld, from the name of a firm founded in Amsterdam in 1917; P for Peat, from another firm dating back to 1870 in London; M for Marwick, from yet another accounting firm started in New York in 1897; and G is for Goerdeler.
- Constitutional Obligation (Deccan Herald, Ambrose Pinto S J, Sep 01, 2005)
Colleges must be free to make admissions but they cannot say ‘no’ to the constitutional obligation of quotas
- The Latest Shakespeare Conspiracy (Hindu, Polly Toynbee , Sep 01, 2005)
Conspiracies are profoundly satisfying. They solve every problem, explain everything difficult and give form and shape to things that are otherwise untidily complicated.
- Searching For The Right Formula For Success (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Sep 01, 2005)
Despite all the talk about pursuing the public-private partnership (PPP) route to implementing infrastructure projects, neither the Central nor the State Governments have been able to come up with a viable formula to encourage investment.
- Manmohan Invites Hurriyat For Talks (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
No formal invitation, no fixed agenda for talks
- Bharti Project Puts Gaur Government In A Dilemma (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
Panch-J project becomes a bone of contention in Madhya Pradesh
- How To Stop Civil War (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 01, 2005)
Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow of occupation. Whatever the parliamentarians in Iraq do to try to prevent total meltdown, their efforts are compromised by the fact that their power grows from the barrel of someone else’s gun.
- Who Created Pakistan? (Indian Express, Balbir K Punj, Aug 31, 2005)
On August 11 last, Pakistan test fired its first crude missile named Babur (Haft 7). Though Pakistan has downplayed its Islamic connotations (as much as its Chinese connection) the choices of names for its ballistic missiles like Abdali (Haft 2),
- How Andhra Was Duped (Tribune, Ramesh Kandula, Aug 31, 2005)
The Volkswagen affair in Andhra Pradesh, nicknamed Hoaxwagen scam, is a classic case of what can go wrong when there is mindless competition among politicians to attract FDI into their states.
- Pluck This Debate From The Air (Indian Express, Ramesh V Phadke, Aug 31, 2005)
The Indian Express and the former air chief, S. Krishnaswamy, deserve to be congratulated for starting a long overdue debate on India’s aviation sector (‘Fly over the divide’, IE, August 19).
- The Giant Push Backward (Telegraph, Sumanta Sen, Aug 31, 2005)
The pro-peasant stance of the RSP and Forward Bloc can be seen as an effort to placate their cadre and spoil the show of the Left Front’s largest constituent, writes Sumanta Sen
- Japan Awakening To New Realities (Business Line, Raghu Dayal , Aug 31, 2005)
Recongising the country's archetypal resoluteness, creativity and vitality, John Nathan's Japan Unbound makes a convincing case that Japan, now a showpiece of nationalist pride "has a long history of discovery in the darkest days... a source of renewal".
- How To Avoid Civil War In Iraq (Hindu, George Monbiot, Aug 31, 2005)
Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow of occupation. Whatever the parliamentarians in Iraq do to try to prevent total meltdown,
- Helpless Villagers (Dawn, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 31, 2005)
There are sound reasons for reformers who have the good of the country at heart to say that Pakistan can never change for the better unless feudalism in its various forms in completely eliminated.
- New Constructions Near Water Bodies, Catchment Areas Opposed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2005)
Protection of natural resources sought at public hearing on Hussainsagar Protection of natural resources sought at public hearing on Hussainsagar
Feeble support for beautification of Necklace Road
1,300-acre-Hussainsagar lakebed shrunk to 900 acres
- Civic Polls To Test Cong Yet Again (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2005)
The municipal elections in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on September 24, will be the first test of popularity for the Congress government since it came to power in May last year.
- Dy Cm Upset Over 17 More Ias Transfers (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2005)
The Chief Minister has even appointed a regional commissioner for Bangalore, a newly created post, without consulting his deputy.
- India's Extinct Green Prime Ministers (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 30, 2005)
To grow as a nation without depriving future generations of a rich natural heritage is a tough ask.
- Turmoil In The Bjp (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Aug 30, 2005)
TO say that the Bharatiya Janata Party is in a crisis would be an understatement. It would seem that the party has lost its mooring and is undergoing a period of intense turmoil before it can re-invent itself or revert to its traditional constraining.....
- Hyderabad Blues (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 30, 2005)
The image of Hyderabad as India’s happening city has started to erode.
- Unheard Of Outcomes (Business Line, S. Ramachander, Aug 30, 2005)
The Finance Minister Mr P. Chidambaram is no stranger to advocacy, paid or otherwise.
- Judges Deserve Justice (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 30, 2005)
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice has rightly recommended a raise in the pension of the judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts. In its report introduced in Parliament,
- The Committed State (Telegraph, BHASKAR DUTTA , Aug 30, 2005)
The author is professor of economics, University of Warwick
- Emissary Holds Talks With Hurriyat (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Aug 30, 2005)
Bid to resume stalled dialogue process with the moderate faction of the Hurriyat.
- The Bihar Stables (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 30, 2005)
CEC’s cleansing operation raises hopes
- For Some Mental Exercise (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Aug 30, 2005)
When parliament is in session, the press gives us — the guinea pigs who read newspapers — no real reportage of the debates in the two houses, the differences of opinion, the arguments, the pros and cons of the bills that have been tabled.
- Paradise Calling (Greater Kashmir, NAILA NEELOFAR, Aug 29, 2005)
What are the roots that clutch out of this ‘Firdous’, writes
- Employment Guarantee Shield (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Aug 29, 2005)
The National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) Bill has been passed but the debate it engendered will possibly never achieve closure given the polarised positions on it.
- Crisis Deferred (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 29, 2005)
Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda has got a reprieve.
- Making Food Safe (Business Line, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 29, 2005)
A combination of robust economic growth leading to rising incomes, population growth and access to imported foods following a liberal foreign trade policy is set to push the market for processed foods onto a high growth path.
- Inequality In Equality (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Aug 29, 2005)
The author is former director general, National Council for Applied Economic Research
- National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme — Last Straw On The Camel's Back? (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Aug 29, 2005)
While it is all right for the political parties to bask in the praise for bringing in the NREGS, it is important to communicate to those who matter that there can be no free lunch in the economy.
- Military’S Inroads Into Job Market (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Aug 29, 2005)
President Musharraf never ceases to astonish the nation with his frequent, carefully calibrated exhortations on the merits of democracy.
- They Stayed With Sarabjit For Years (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2005)
There is little knowledge about his mental and physical condition
Nobody remains the same after being in the Lahore jail
Prisoners have faced several kinds of torture
A mechanism for releasing civilian prisoners not in place
- Breast Cancer Spreading Tentacles In Urban Areas (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
Breast cancer has become the most common cancer affecting women in urban India. This startling fact came to light at the press meet prior to the three -day ‘Breast Cancer Summit ‘05’, organised by pharmaceutical major AstraZeneca in Bangalore which ....
- The Leopard Has No Vote To Cast (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
The average age of the forest guard in service is 45 years! There is around 50 percent vacancy for the frontline posts in the forest department. Everyone from the politician to the forester is busy raking in profits from the forest. So who protects the ti
- Trans-Yamuna Area Gets 32 Garbage Removal Trucks (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday dedicated 32 garbage removal trucks and 1,600 garbage segregation dustbins to residents of the Capital's trans-Yamuna area at a function near the Municipal Corporation of Delhi office in Shahdara North Zone.
- 'I Am Not Trying To Make General Dyer A Hero' (Deccan Herald, Dipti Nair, Aug 28, 2005)
Nigel Collett, 52, is sort of an accidental tourist in India. Author of the much-talked about biography of General Dyer, The Butcher of Amritsar, Collett would have easily bypassed India had Dyer never committed the carnage at Jallianwala Bagh in 1919. .
- Anatomy Of Power Crises (Daily Excelsior, Vikram Gour, Aug 28, 2005)
Only the other day early in the morning an unknown young face knocked at our gate to tell me that he is an Electrical Engineer graduate and wanted my advice in pursuing further studies in the engineering field.
- In Praise Of Delhi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
So what, if it is — and this includes its modern face — as the intelligentsia claim, a parvenu city?
- Antics Of Suki (Hindu, MANDIRA MODDIE, Aug 28, 2005)
One of the nicest things that Manjula Padmanabhan's cartoon character Suki does for you is that she makes you laugh uncontrollably at an absurd person doing absurd things:
- Irda Shuts Preferential Route To Raising Capital (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority (IRDA), on Thursday, barred insurers and intermediaries from infusing capital through issue of preference shares or any other hybrid instruments other than equity shares.
- Sheer Tedium Of Sarkari Hospitality (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Aug 27, 2005)
There was a time when I looked forward to receiving invitations from the Rashtrapatis, Prime Ministers, Cabinet Ministers and Governors. They made me feel important. And why not?
- A First Welcome Step (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
An outcome budget is aimed at “converting outlays into outcomes”. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s idea is commendable, but the first such budget presented on Thursday could be better.
- The Second Round (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 27, 2005)
Rigging and violence seem to have become an intrinsic part of elections in Pakistan.
- Volatile Atmosphere At Birla Corp Agm (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
Company to create additional cement capacity at Satna
- Natwar Singh’S Obsession (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 27, 2005)
An obsession, magnificent or otherwise, is an obsession. It is an impulse that a person cannot escape. Foreign Minister Natwar Singh is overpowered by the idea that India must be on the UN Security Council.
- Rising Consumption Of Oil (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 27, 2005)
Oil prices are touching new heights and the IMF has warned that the robust energy demand from Asia will help keep world oil prices high and this could result in slower economic growth in the region.
- Defence Postings (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 27, 2005)
The defence community and its well-wishers would welcome the announcement pertaining to the next Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff. The appreciation would revolve not around the individual so much (no disrespect intended to that particular officer)
- Cakes Or Bread (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 27, 2005)
He won’t be removed. He is my nominee.’ Thus spake the ex-CM, who recently lost a state election, of the Governor, who now rules the state in the name of president under the constitution. Does this head of the state rule at the behest of his former Chief
- Vipitis (Tribune, Anurag, Aug 27, 2005)
Patrolling on highways was introduced to check crime on roads but vehicles inducted for the purpose have failed to yield results.
- A Liability Called Buta Singh (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 27, 2005)
The more things change, the more they remain the same — so goes the lament in Bihar, with Governor Buta Singh reportedly quite happy to act on the `aid and advice' of Union Railway Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad.
- On Jharkhand Rebels, Bjp Scrambles To Form Panels (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
Fearing that the outbreak of dissidence in Jharkhand could spell the end of Arjun Munda's BJP-led government, the party's central leadership on Thursday decided to form two coordination committees - one at the party level and the other which will include
- Water Harvesting To Become Mandatory In Mangalore Soon (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
Model rainwater harvesting unit inaugurated
Civic bodies directed to include rainwater harvesting clause in licence document
Recharging will help improve groundwater quality
- Security For Unorganised Workers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
The Arjun Sengupta Commission on enterprises in the informal economy that is considering a new set of laws on work and livelihood and social security for the unorganised sector to replace the 2003 Bill put forward by the previous . . .
- The Price Tag Of Alliance With The Us (Dawn, Mustafa Malik, Aug 26, 2005)
In his Independence Day message President Pervez Musharraf reiterated his vow to defeat terrorists and extremists.
- Governors As Tools (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 26, 2005)
There are very rightly many admirers of Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Union Minister Jagmohan in this State.
- Managing And (Daily Excelsior, Subhash Mansotra, Aug 26, 2005)
Undoubtedly, we as a Nation are developing and growing amidst many maladies and fiscal felonies.
- River Sutra (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 26, 2005)
For years, the idea of linking rivers has had a sci-fi quality to it — one that is constantly dismissed as being too expensive and politically fraught to work.
- River-Linking Hits Milestone: Pm Watching, Up And Mp Shake Hands (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
The Government on Thursday showed it means business on the ambitious river-linking project with Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) - the first of its kind - for connecting the Ken and Betwa rivers.
- Partial Victory : But Will Kang Be Able To Perform? (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 26, 2005)
If GS Kang needed a reason to resume his charge as Bihar chief secretary — after abruptly going on leave on 29 July — it came when the Governor divested his adviser,
- Jharkhand Dissidents Want Munda Out (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Aug 26, 2005)
They complain that they were not consulted on crucial decisions
BJP agrees to set up coordination committee
Marandi meets Vajpayee
- Uphill Climb For Asian Museums (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 25, 2005)
When some of its historical literary records got wet in a storm due to seepage,
- Surviving Expensive Oil (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Aug 25, 2005)
The new World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz came on his first visit to Pakistan and has gone back after promising 1.5 billion dollars as development aid for each of the next three years.
- Enactment Of Ega (Daily Excelsior, Sisir Basu, Aug 25, 2005)
The process of enactment of the ambitious National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme' - UPA's pro-poor programme - entered its last lap with a debate in the Lok Sabha on August 18, kicking off a scramble among different players to claim credit for it.
- Cruise Missiles In Neighbourhood (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Aug 25, 2005)
On July 18 President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asserted that India and the United States would “work together to provide global leadership in areas of mutual concern and interest.”
- Reviving The Case Against Ms. Mayawati (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 25, 2005)
The Central Vigilance Commission's report to the Supreme Court has exposed the Central Bureau of Investigation's politically-fixed attempt to give a quiet burial to the Taj Heritage Corridor scam case.
- World Watch: A Surging Demand For Education In India (US News & World Report, Divya Watal, Aug 24, 2005)
Before the golden goose of globalization laid its eggs in India, the poor thought twice about sending their kids to school. Sons needed to work to earn extra money for the household. And daughters, they figured, didn't need an education to cook, clean,
- No End To Corruption (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 24, 2005)
As far as I can recall, it is the first time that a responsible government functionary has said something sensible and realistic about corruption. Some time ago, the Auditor-General of Pakistan stated in a gathering that, in his opinion, bribery and . . .
- National Employment Guarantee Scheme — Well-Intentioned, But Poorly Designed (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Aug 24, 2005)
The National Employment Guarantee Bill may not work because the scheme itself is modelled on earlier schemes that failed and the government, having learnt little from experience, still plays the central role.
- Streamline Health Insurance (Tribune, Aditi Tandon, Aug 24, 2005)
The health insurance sector in India has long been riddled with problems.
- Nepal: Dangerous Drift (Tribune, S.D. Muni, Aug 24, 2005)
A recent study published in an American journal places Nepal at the 37th place in a list of 60 prospective failing states all over the world.
- The Myth Of "Feminisation" (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Aug 24, 2005)
First, A well-known fact: a British workplace is no longer a sea of white and brown men in grey suits;
- India's Economic Opportunities And Perils (Hindu, Prabhudev Konana, Aug 24, 2005)
The prospects of traditional manufacturing sectors such as textiles have become bright.
- Reverse Swing (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 24, 2005)
Australia has acquired a reputation over the last few years for having one of the world’s toughest immigration policies.
- Wanted: A Barefoot Minister (Indian Express, BIMAL JALAN, Aug 24, 2005)
By any reckoning, this is one of the most important pieces of socio-economic legislation in post-Independence India. If the purpose of the amended Bill can be achieved in the next five years, we should be able to reduce poverty to less than 10 per cent...
- Pak Weaponisation Programme (Daily Excelsior, Samuel Baid, Aug 24, 2005)
Three days before Pakistan celebrated its 58th Independence Day on August 14, 2005, it successfully test-fired the Babur Cruise Missile obviously in an attempt to reassure the countrymen that with the military at the helm of affairs their country was. . .
- India : Democracy Eroded (Daily Excelsior, Rakesh Bahl, Aug 24, 2005)
The constitution of In-dia is known to be the best document written and enacted in the world of democracy, but practically the facts on ground seem to be diametrically opposite to the principals of government formation and governance.
- Bjp's Crisis Widens And Deepens (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 23, 2005)
The more the Bharatiya Janata Party tries to stamp out the flames engulfing its house, the fiercer they seem to grow.
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