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Articles 1021 through 1120 of 10500:
- Us Muslim Wins Bid To Us Congress (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2006)
State lawmaker Keith Ellison did not let questions about his past slow down his campaign to become the first Muslim in US Congress.
- Rain Deficit In The Northeast (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 14, 2006)
Much of the verdant northeastern region of India, some of it ordinarily inundated at this time of the year, has experienced deficient rainfall.
- Leaders From India, Brazil, Sa Hold Parleys (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2006)
Ahead of the first-ever summit of India, Brazil and South Africa, leaders from the three countries met on Wednesday to discuss UN reforms, terrorism, West Asia situation as also WTO issues.
- Indian Ideas Are Pirated Abroad (Times of India, MUKUL SHARMA, Sep 13, 2006)
Do the so-called developed countries think intellect is a 20th century phenomenon that they can stamp intellectual property rights on certain things while conveniently ignoring others? Take turmeric for example.
- Embrace Life (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 13, 2006)
September 10 was designated as Suicide Prevention Day only three years ago by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
- Payback Time (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 13, 2006)
Non-resident Indian professionals particularly scientists who made it good abroad are now happy to plough back their expertise.
- India, Brazil To Elevate Relations To Strategic Partnership (Hindu, N. Ravi, Sep 13, 2006)
Gigantic step in increased cooperation, says President Lula
- `Suvarna Gramodaya' Programme To Be Launched On October 2 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2006)
Each village will require nearly Rs. 4 crore: Kumaraswamy
Committee headed by Chief Minister to ensure speedy implementation of the programme
Ration cards to be issued to over 70 lakh BPL families in January
Toilets to be provided in 1,000 villages.
- Cpi(m) Polit Bureau Meet Begins (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2006)
Organisational note on consolidating party's strength to be finalised
- Political Parties Told To Focus On Development, Poverty Alleviation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2006)
Minister stresses need for restoration of traditional values to end social conflicts
- Arrangements For Smooth Procurement Of Paddy, Bajra (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2006)
Haryana Government has arranged Rs.1,000 crore to make payment to the farmers for the purchase of their produce.
- Sweet Times (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 13, 2006)
India may not get a more opportune time than the immediate future to free the complex sugar sector of unwanted and crippling controls.
- Hindi Chini Chai-Chai (Business Line, PALLAVI AIYAR, Sep 13, 2006)
Tea, introduced to India from China, is on its way back a century and half later.
- An Emerging Economic Order (Business Line, AJAY KHANNA, Sep 13, 2006)
India, Brazil and South Africa Association meet
The coming together in Brasilia of the three key economies of Asia, South America and Africa signals the first step towards looking at sustainable and inclusive model of globalisation. A great leap . . .
- Art Of Public Posturing (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Sep 13, 2006)
At the Rio, on Monday, the meeting of the G-20 group of developing countries — which have formed an effective bloc in the ongoing WTO negotiations on the Doha Round — ended (not surprisingly) on a lacklustre note with no progress being made that . . .
- To Save Afghanistan, Destroy Opium Farms (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 13, 2006)
Millions of dollars in aid and NATO's efforts to eliminate Taliban will come to naught if opium farms flourish, says C Brand in Brussels
- Man Of Wisdom (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2006)
Self-realisation is described in the scriptures as the ultimate goal of human life attaining which there is nothing more to be gained.
- Too Little, Too Late (Telegraph, Gyan Pathak, Sep 13, 2006)
With the spiralling prices of essential commodities and the rising discontent among the public, the United Progressive Alliance government is resorting to expediency to mollify the people’s resentment.
- India To Join Brazil’S Ethanol Initiative (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Sep 12, 2006)
India is mindful of the old adage “Never keep all your eggs in one basket” when it comes to the field of energy security. This Indian strategy will come under deep focus when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh holds talks with the Brazilian leadership . . .
- Naidu's New Clothes (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 12, 2006)
The Telugu Desam Party's decision to refashion its economic policies is part of a strategy to reclaim the political space it once occupied in Andhra Pradesh.
- Game Is Up For U.S. Hegemony (Hindu, Peter Preston, Sep 12, 2006)
American business chiefs are so greedy because globalisation means that the game is up for them.
- Executive Summary (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 12, 2006)
National executive meetings of national political parties are usually pleasant gatherings where the main purpose is to conduct pat-on-the-back exercises and to trumpet the good work done.
- Wheat Imbroglio (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 12, 2006)
Allowing wheat imports with two fungal pathogens not found in India is sacrificing food safety and plant protection.
- Air Strips To Come Up At Moradabad, Chitrakoot (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2006)
Uttar Pradesh Government on Monday decided to construct two new air strips in Moradabad and Chitrakoot districts at a cost of Rs 31 crores.
- For Farmers, The Real Issue Is Access To Credit (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 12, 2006)
Credit is the most important resource, which the rural populace lacks. The farmers we have spoken to do not have banks they can borrow from. Despite the priority sector lending of PSU banks, farmers are still borrowing from local moneylenders at . . .
- Govt Faces Hard Fight To Beat Aids In Uttar Pradesh (Reuters, Kamil Zaheer, Sep 12, 2006)
Sitting on a wooden bench under a slowly whirring fan, 43-year-old Prempal says he urgently needs anti-retroviral drugs to fight the HIV illness in his body.
- Bjp Wants Land Act Repealed (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
The BJP has decided to launch a signature campaign on the “wrong implementation” of the Punjab Land Preservation Act (PLPA) in the kandi belt of the state.
- Cm Rapped Over Demand To Transfer Chandigarh (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
The BJP has decided to launch a signature campaign on the “wrong implementation” of the Punjab Land Preservation Act (PLPA) in the kandi belt of the state.
- Bjp Will Support Women's Reservation Bill In Any Form, Says Rajnath (Pioneer, Rajeev Ranjan Roy, Sep 11, 2006)
Bharatiya Janata Party national president Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that his party would support the Women's Reservation Bill in whatever form the Bill was brought to Parliament.
- Manmohan For Revitalising Nam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
To consolidate bilateral relations with Brazil
"Brazil, India enjoy an excellent tradition of cooperation in international fora"
To raise energy security and international terrorism in IBSA forum meet
- Showpiece Of An Independent Foreign Policy (Hindu, N. Ravi Kumar, Sep 11, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's nine-day trip to Brasilia and Havana
- Cenvat Abolition Led To Textile Industry "Revival" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
Several mills were reopened, thanks to UPA Government decision: Chidambaram
- A Perilous Journey Driven By Poverty (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 11, 2006)
In the past week, around 3,000 illegal immigrants from West Africa have reached the Spanish Canary Islands by boat, taking advantage of a window of perfect sailing conditions from the coast of Senegal and Mauritania.
- Negative Generates Positive Interest (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
The ‘World Photography Day’ function held in Gulbarga on Sunday was unlike other programmes. The ‘world’s biggest’ negative was exhibited on the occasion.
- Pm Seeks Greater Nam Unity (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for greater unity among the 116 NAM countries to fight terrorism.
- Pm Rejects Bjp Plea On Musharraf (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday virtually rejected the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party’s demand that he should not meet Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in Havana during the NAM Summit.
- Jinnah’S Vision Of Pakistan (Dawn, Sharif al Mujahid, Sep 11, 2006)
Jinnah was not a mere political leader, but also a statesman. Indeed, his statesmanship streak influenced and determined his political leadership role increasingly as he negotiated the tortuous road to Pakistan in the 1940s.
- Employers Hold The Key (Pioneer, Shailaja Chandra, Sep 11, 2006)
Apart from providing basic healthcare facilities, it is necessary to influence the mindset of society to actively promote the idea of safe motherhood
- `Infertility Cases On The Rise In Erode' (Hindu, Karthik Madhavan, Sep 11, 2006)
This region, known for its fertile lands, efficient labour force and booming textile industry, has a dark side to it - one that is directly related to the above.
- "Tata Motors Must Look For Alternative Site" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
Mamata says State is "robbing" peasants
- J&k Flood Loss Put At Rs 359 Crore (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
As life limps back to normal in the flood-affected areas of Anantnag and Pulwama districts in South Kashmir, residents of Arwani township, near Beijbehara, continue to toil hard for restoring routine business by shifting back the stocks of . . .
- Pm Leaves For Brazil, Cuba (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today left for a nine-day visit to Brazil and Cuba to attend the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) and Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summits in Brasilia and Harana, respectively.
- Farmers Being Neglected, Says Sampat (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
Former Haryana Minister Sampat Singh said today that the Congress governments at the Centre and in Haryana were governments of the brokers, exporters and importers and farmers and people were a neglected lot in the present set up.
- Ec Rejects Complaints Against 13 Mps (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 10, 2006)
Providing major relief to 13 MPs, including several high-profile leaders cutting across party lines, the Election Commission is understood to have rejected the disqualification complaints against them in the light of the recently enacted . . .
- Under And Mal-Employment (Daily Excelsior, Ramesh Pandita and Meenakshi Koul, Sep 10, 2006)
Thank God the notion of employment has changed a lot, it was time when a person working in a govt. sector was only considered as an employed and every other employment of any sort used to be counted as an . . .
- Strengthen The Alternative World Order (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 10, 2006)
NAM needs to be revitalised as a dynamic and effective mechanism to coordinate, aid, represent and defend the interests and priorities of its member-states that are mostly Third World countries
- When Government Falls Prey To Businessmen (The Financial Express, Malvika Singh, Sep 10, 2006)
For instance, the Haryana government is willing to hand over vast tracts of land to an Indian MNC
- Wrong Focus (Business Standard, T N Ninan, Sep 10, 2006)
Someone said the other day that India is becoming pro-business, instead of pro-markets.
- Camel Milk For Sex ? (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Sep 10, 2006)
In Greek mythology one comes across the story of Iphyles who was advised to drink urine mixed with iron rust in order to improve his sexual prowess.
- Suicide Epidemic Among Farmers (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 10, 2006)
The suicide epidemic that has hit our farmers is not confined to just one district, one state or one particular crop.
- India, China Should Work Together: Sibal (Hindu, Ashok Dasgupta , Sep 10, 2006)
Collaboration will be mutually beneficial
MNCs entering China due to low manufacturing costs
India's USP is its large talent pool.
- Search For A Silver Lining (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 10, 2006)
The art of weaving and warping silver by hand is slowly dying for want of support.
- Commercialisation Of Water Must Stop: Pandey (Tribune, Vibha Sharma, Sep 10, 2006)
For Magsaysay Award winner Sandeep Pandey, Mahatma Gandhi’s statement that the earth has enough resources to take care of everyone’s needs but not enough to fulfill even one person’s greed forms the basis of his fight against cola majors — Coca-Cola . .
- Strengthen The Alternative World Order (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 09, 2006)
NAM needs to be revitalised as a dynamic and effective mechanism to coordinate, aid, represent and defend the interests and priorities of its member-states that are mostly Third World countries
- Naidu Tears Upa Claims On Pro-Aam Aadmi Policies (The Economic Times, DEVESH KUMAR, Sep 09, 2006)
On the second day of its national executive meeting, the BJP trained its guns on the Congress-led UPA government for messing up the country’s economy — as manifest by the spurt in the farmers’ suicides across the country and the back-breaking prices.
- Bank Loans Made Easy For Poor Students (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
Government scheme to cover students pursuing professional courses
10.5 to 11.5 per cent interest to be charged on loans
Banks will be asked to waive third party guarantee
Loans up to Rs. one lakh will be granted.
- ‘Pak Stand To Decide Course Of Talks’ (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Sep 09, 2006)
Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran today confirmed that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf would be meeting on the sidelines of the NAM summit in Cuba which will take place on September 15-16.
- Farmer Politics On Centrestage (Daily Excelsior, Sunil Gatade, Sep 09, 2006)
Farmers suicides in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and even in Punjab have brought into sharp focus the plight of farmers in various states at a time when the country has been boasting of a record growth rate and India is being . . .
- Bjp Calls For Jpc To Study Agrarian Crisis (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
BJP on Friday called for a Joint-Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on farmers’ suicide and to study “the multi-dimensional agrarian crisis” in the country.
- Rural Finance (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 09, 2006)
There are two rural financial sectors in India, one is the rural cooperative credit institution and the other is the regional rural bank. Professor A Vaidyanathan, chairman of the task force on the revival of rural credit institutions submitted . . .
- Bid To Trigger Blasts In Jammu Hospital Foiled (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
Security forces foiled an attempt by terrorists plan to set off blasts in hospital foiled to set off blasts at sub-district hospital Beerwah and Agriculture department in Kishtwar, while a Border Security Force (BSF) jawan was injured in a grenade . . .
- Scientists Return To Their Roots (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
In the Sixties and Seventies, they left India on scholarships to go to the US. Today they head leading-edge science at the world's top institutes - and have no plans of returning home.
- Us Trade Chief Heads To Brazil To Boost Wto (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
US Trade Representative Susan Schwab said she would try to breathe new life into the embattled WTO at a meeting of developing countries in Brazil this weekend.
- If Only Tax Disputes Had The Pace Of Turnkey Projects (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 09, 2006)
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Godavari Fertilisers and Petrochemicals, Petronet LNG and Essar Oil.
- Wrong Focus (Business Standard, T N Ninan, Sep 09, 2006)
Someone said the other day that India is becoming pro-business, instead of pro-markets.
- When Government Falls Prey To Businessmen (The Financial Express, Malvika Singh, Sep 09, 2006)
For instance, the Haryana government is willing to hand over vast tracts of land to an Indian MNC
- Saving Water (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 09, 2006)
Pakistan suffers severely from a number of chronic water problems.
- Bjp Decides Gel Vande Mataram With Aam Aadmi Issues (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
The BJP strategists met here on Friday at the party's national executive and decided to launch a nationwide agitation against spiralling prices. The party has also sought a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) to study farmers' suicides and suggest . . .
- The Telgi ‘Creators’ Shouldn’T Go Scot Free (Deccan Herald, Ramakrishna Upadhya, Sep 09, 2006)
How and why did a “confession” statement made three years ago suddenly surface now and what could be the motive of those behind the deliberate leak could certainly be debated.
- Suicide Epidemic Among Farmers (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 09, 2006)
The suicide epidemic that has hit our farmers is not confined to just one district, one state or one particular crop. There could be some debate about the quantum of the epidemic and its nature.
- Software To Control Weeds Launched (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
53 different weed species have been incorporated
- India, China Ink Pact On Science And Technology (Hindu, Ashok Dasgupta , Sep 08, 2006)
India and China on Thursday inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for "useful and purposive" cooperation in Science and Technology with the objective of entering into a strategic relationship in all fields of mutual benefit.
- Racism New And Old (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 08, 2006)
When Iraqi Sunni terrorists killed 11 Pakistani and three Indian Shia pilgrims on the same bus to Karbala the other day, they did not check passports or wait to hear discourses from their victims about the validity of Jinnah's Two-Nations . . .
- 'The Anti-Quota Attitude Is Over' (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Sep 08, 2006)
Veerappa Moily, a veteran Congress leader from Karnataka, became chief minister of the state briefly during 1992-94 and was credited with cleaning up the administration.
- What The Heart Does Not Feel, The Eye Cannot See (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Sep 08, 2006)
After 15 years of a battering from hostile policies and governments, the world of the peasant has turned highly fragile. But the onus of changing is on the farmer. Not on those driving a cruel process and system.
- Brisk Business Is Risk Business (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 08, 2006)
Apropos the editorial, "Special for whom?" (September 6), there is a debate going on whether Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are means of creating world-class exporting areas or they are mere tools to grab the land from poor farmers to help big . . .
- Rbi Sounds Farm Warning (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 08, 2006)
Halting and indecisive steps have meant little progress on the farm front.
- We Want To Push Energy Conservation And Efficiency Strongly' (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Sep 08, 2006)
The Government is serious and you can see reform in the coal and power sectors and in many areas of non-conventional energy in the next few years. — DR KIRIT S. PARIKH, MEMBER, PLANNING . . .
- Ict Application Role Of Cooperatives (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 08, 2006)
Can the cooperatives compete with the corporates in the market -driven economy? Information and Computer Technology (ICT) is one area where they can do so successfully.
- Manic Development (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Sep 08, 2006)
Money, more aptly, the mafia, with the help of corrupt public servants, is destroying our national heritage in the shape of forests and fields. This is supposed to be modernisation.
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