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- Energy At A Price (Telegraph, S.L. Rao, Jul 31, 2006)
We are very short of electricity in India.
- Pointless Fears (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 31, 2006)
It is not surprising that apprehensions about the United States of America continue to inform sections of public opinion in India, even while bilateral relations are getting better.
- ‘Risks Covered Up’ (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Jul 31, 2006)
‘GM food risks include unexpected food allergies, toxins in food, hastening the spread of antibiotic-resistant disease. Science has been been made subservient to corporate interests.’
- Cpi(m) Demands Full Discussion On Nuclear Deal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 31, 2006)
Karat: when the U.S. Congress can discuss it, why not Parliament?
- Tough Times For Trade (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 31, 2006)
The Geneva meeting of the G 6 group, comprising the US, the EU, Australia, Japan, Brazil and India, has hit a roadblock once again and it is over agriculture again.
- Cpm For Parliament Debate On Nuke Deal (Asia Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 31, 2006)
The CPI(M) on Sunday demanded a discussion on the Indo-US nuclear deal in the ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament and asked the Congress-led UPA government to consult main Opposition BJP on an issue of vital national importance.
- Iranian Trail To Pakistan (OutLook, B. Raman , Jul 31, 2006)
That the the two arrested for suspected role in terror attacks on Mumbai clandestinely travelled to Pakistan through Iran to undergo a training course in a jihadi training camp, putting the Iran angle under the scanner.
- Post Doha Failure, Playing The Blame Game (The Financial Express, RUPA CHANDA, Jul 31, 2006)
This finger-pointing reflects the divisions between the US, the EU and the developing countries.
- Textile Stalemate (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 31, 2006)
Unions ought to take a closer look at the changing character of the textile industry and employment in India.
- ‘Safety A Prerequisite’ (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 31, 2006)
Scientists, as consumers of GM crops, are as conscious of safety as anyone else. They carry out rigorous tests to ensure that such crops are safe for human consumption’
- Eight Doha Myths (Business Standard, Bibek Debroy, Jul 31, 2006)
The future of Doha Work Programme (DWP), meaning the timeframe, is now uncertain. We are probably looking at 2009/2010 for resurrection.
- Hooda To Be New Jat Face Of Congress? (Tribune, Yoginder Gupta, Jul 31, 2006)
The Congress seems to have decided to project the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, as its “face” before the Jat electorate of Western Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan where the elections are due in a year or so.
- New Planning Strategies (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 31, 2006)
Prime minister Shaukat Aziz wants to convert the Planning Commission (PC) into a “think-tank” with much wider responsibilities.
- Doha Round In Doldrums (Dawn, Dr Akhtar Hasan Khan, Jul 31, 2006)
The Doha Round World Trade Organisation talks was launched in November 2001 as a development round.
- Tn Budget: Politically Adroit, Yet Fiscally Responsible (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jul 31, 2006)
While the Tamil Nadu Budget incorporates the schemes the Chief Minister had unveiled in his manifesto, its estimates have not violated any of the limits laid down in the fiscal responsibility legislation. Blending compassion with fiscal prudence, . . .
- Q&a: 'We Need A Land-Use Policy For Forests' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 30, 2006)
professor and chairman, Centre for Ecological Sciences at the IISc, Bangalore, recently won the International Cosmos Prize, a top international award in ecology.
- Indo-Bangla Border Tense As Bsf Thwarts Land-Grab Bid (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 30, 2006)
Tension gripped Harinagar along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Cachar district on Saturday when Bangladeshi farmers for the third time in a month began cultivating a 200-acre plot of Indian land.
- Sanctuary Of Green (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 30, 2006)
Parambikulam houses one of the tallest and oldest teak trees in the world, writes Susheela Nair . . .
- Uncared Forever (Business Line, P. Devarajan, Jul 30, 2006)
"As long as the farming community is not in direct touch with the buyers, farming will be a business failure."
- Transatlantic Tensions Over Lebanon (Dawn, Shadaba Islam, Jul 30, 2006)
IT looks set to be an autumn of transatlantic discord.
- Inclusiveness, Not Quotas, Best In Industry (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 30, 2006)
In April this year, the Prime Minister called on private sector industry to take affirmative action in education, employment opportunities and employment for weaker sections.
- Government To Seek Rs. 600-Crore Aid From Nabard (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 30, 2006)
Assistance to be sought under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund
Government has finalised proposal
Rs. 300 crore to be used for improvement of rural roads
Rs. 125 crore earmarked for constructing school buildings and classrooms
- Iranian Trail To Pakistan (OutLook, B. Raman , Jul 30, 2006)
That the the two arrested for suspected role in terror attacks on Mumbai clandestinely travelled to Pakistan through Iran to undergo a training course in a jihadi training camp, putting the Iran angle under the scanner.
- Special Economic Zone For Leather Products In A.P. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 30, 2006)
Tatas to invest Rs.100 crore, says Union Minister
- No Fresh Outbreak Of Bird Flu: Pawar (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Jul 30, 2006)
Meet resolves for better coordination
Move expected to regain control of egg export market
Disease resulted in losses of $200 billion in South-East Asia alone
India developed prototype vaccine with indigenous virus strain
- Upa Govt Left Red In The Face Over Rising Prices (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
The Congress-led UPA government on Friday faced quite an embarrassment in the Lok Sabha as some members of the ruling Congress party expressed concern over the ongoing phenomenon of rise in prices of essential commodities thus adding more strength . . .
- Kalam Moots 9-Pronged Plan For J&k Prosperity (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam on Friday said the peace and development in Jammu and Kashmir is a guarantee for the peace and development in the country.
- Bird Flu: India Wary Of Saarc (Deccan Herald, KALYAN RAY, Jul 29, 2006)
India is reluctant to share its container facilities with its SAARC neighbours fearing fresh outbreaks of the virus from poorly-packed cargos, even as it has agreed to cooperate with 10 other Asian nations to make South Asia impregnable against the . . .
- Q&a: 'We Need A Land-Use Policy For Forests' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 29, 2006)
Raman Sukumar , professor and chairman, Centre for Ecological Sciences at the IISc, Bangalore, recently won the International Cosmos Prize, a top international award in ecology.
- Want To Buy A Fake Vacation? (Deccan Herald, KIM MURPHY, Jul 29, 2006)
Want to buy a degree or purebred alley cat? Anything’s possible, as long as you don’t care if it’s real....
- Farming Is Unviable (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 29, 2006)
If the best farmland can offer a profit of just Rs 2,000 a month per hectare, what of those farmers trying to coax yields from lesser land?
- Has Wto Lost Its Meaning? (Business Line, Geethanjali Nataraj, Jul 29, 2006)
Collapse of the Doha Round
The bottomline is that countries should follow unilateral trade policies suited to their own domestic needs but within the framework of the changing international trade . . .
- Asian Officials Make Pact To Tackle Bird Flu (Reuters, Nita Bhalla, Jul 29, 2006)
Asian countries hit by bird flu made plans on Friday to join forces to fight the H5N1 virus, which killed a teenager in Thailand and was found in chickens in Laos this week.
- Paltry Hike (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 29, 2006)
A small hike of Rs 10 in the minimum support price of paddy is bound to leave farmers disappointed. Regardless of the coming elections in Punjab, the Centre has stuck to its policy of avoiding a significant increase in the MSPs for cereals year . . .
- Chief Minister To Hold Talks With Nabard On Cut In Refinances . . . (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
Officials told to complete distribution of ration cards before August 15
NABARD advances to district cooperative bank reduced to Rs. 40 crore from Rs. 58 crore
Sowing operations taken up in 1.1 lakh hectares of land
7,324 girls identified . . .
- A Matter Of Some Relief (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 29, 2006)
The decision of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal to close the hearing and reserve its final order in the inter-State dispute over sharing of the Cauvery waters has brought some cheer to the southern States and their farmers.
- Govt. Dumps 5500 Million Tonnes Of Solid Waste Per Day (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
Chief Minister advocates judicious use of pesticide by farmers
- Failed Trade Talks Usher In Uncertainty (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 29, 2006)
So now it’s official: Global talks to lower trade barriers are ``suspended,’’ perhaps never to resume.
- Kalam Moots 9-Point Development Plan For J&k (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam today suggested a nine-point developmental plan for militancy-hit Jammu and Kashmir, including a people’s movement to eliminate terrorism and the creation of an economic zone along the Line of Control.
- Inclusiveness, Not Quotas, Best In Industry (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 29, 2006)
SC/ST representation in our workforce will boost industrial growth through multiplier effects on consumption and investment
- Peace Must For J&k’S Progress, Says Kalam (Tribune, Ehsan Fazili, Jul 29, 2006)
Stressing the need for restoration of peace and prosperity, the President, Dr A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, here today put forth nine-point “prosperity mission” for Jammu and Kashmir that could be undertaken on the basis of its core competence.
- A Common Stance In Wto For South Asia (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 29, 2006)
Regions such as Asean, Mercosur have gained from such a strategy; is the same possible for South Asia?
- Sri Lanka Keeps Up Air Attacks For Third Straight Day (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
Sri Lanka's air force bombed suspected Tamil Tiger positions in the northeast of the island for the third straight day amid a deepening crisis over water.
- Ahd Seeks 'Bird-Flu Free' Tag In August (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
Keeping its fingers crossed for no more outbreak of bird-flu cases, Ministry of Agriculture's Department of Animal Husbandry is likely to seek 'bird-flu free' certificate in first week of August.
- When Onions Brought Some Governments Down (The Financial Express, S Narendra, Jul 28, 2006)
Its shortage in 1998 brought grief to many BJP-led state governments, who lost elections
- This Land Is Their Land (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 28, 2006)
As someone who has spent several years working with aboriginal Australians, it is with great sadness that I watch the great efforts being undertaken to pass the tribal bill in India.
- Ministry Of Ocean Development Renamed (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
In an announcement made on Wednesday, the Ministry of Ocean Development has been renamed as the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and was given an additional mandate of atmospheric sciences among other things.
- Trick, Tax And Trade (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 28, 2006)
If you thought that the new electronic meters cannot be tampered with, think again.
- Oppn, Upa Rap Govt On Price Rise (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government today came under a blistering joint attack from the Bhartiya Janata Party - led Opposition partiesand its own allies, including the Rashtriya Janata Dal and Left parties , on the unprecedented price . . .
- Wto Talks Suspended Over Agricultural Tariffs (Times of India, AMIT SAXENA, Jul 28, 2006)
The WTO is not merely about signing deals. It is meant to create a climate for rules-based trading. If deadlocks are the norm in WTO talks, it is because WTO is a relatively democratic multilateral organisation, based on one-country-one-vote.
- India's Other Suicides (Times of India, SWAGATO GANGULY, Jul 28, 2006)
Farmer suicides, and distress in the agricultural sector that they reveal, hog political and media attention. It doesn't follow that the government has devised a panacea — revolving around debt relief — that's going to work.
- Breach In Nanganjiar Dam Affects Farm Operations (Hindu, K. Raju, Jul 28, 2006)
Farmers want repair works initiated before the next rains With no water in the dam, farmers depend on seasonal rain to protect their crops .
- Nabard: Cultivating The Farm Sector With Credit (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 28, 2006)
From a modest beginning, Nabard has grown into an apex hybrid organisation. It is the pioneer in the self-help group-bank linkage programme that has brought banking to the doorsteps of the poor. Into its 25th year, Nabard is at the crossroads, and . . .
- Indian Bristles At Bangladeshi Hostility (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
A minister in the northeastern Indian state of Assam has accused Bangladesh of grabbing two square kilometres (500 acres) of Assam’s land by shifting international boundary markers.
- A Major Setback (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 28, 2006)
The world, especially the developing world, has been extremely concerned, at least since the Doha round of July 2003, over the way the global trade talks had progressed.
- 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.
- Sri Lanka Launches Air Strikes In North, East (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Jul 28, 2006)
The target is an illegal airstrip under construction by the LTTE
- Idle Crop (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 28, 2006)
Land reforms have become an obsession for the unreformed among Bengal’s leftists.
- Flames Of War In West Asia (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Jul 28, 2006)
Even at the best of times, this country is heavily polarised and therefore in a confrontational mood.
- Inclusive Growth (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 27, 2006)
India Development Policy Review (DPR) 2006, the World Bank flagship report for the country, unfolds a more flexible reforms package for improving delivery of services and expanding inclusive growth.
- Waive Loans, Demand Agitating Farmers (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Farmers from Punjab, Haryana and other northern states today staged a protest near Parliament under the banner of the BKU demanding the waiving of loans of farmers in distress conditions, increase in the MSP and bringing down the interest rate on . . .
- Towards Adopting The First Best Trade Policies (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 27, 2006)
Industry can partner the government in this endeavour by stating clearly the constraints it faces
- 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.
- Breakdown In Geneva (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 27, 2006)
To blame, rich nations' failure to work out compromises on NAMA demands acceptable to the developing countries.
- 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 . . .
- 500,000 Evacuated As Typhoon Lashes China (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Typhoon Kaemi struck the coast of East China’s Fujian Province yesterday afternoon, prompting the evacuation of more than 5,00,000 residents.
- Dhaka Grabs 2 Sq Km Of India's Land (Pioneer, Syed Zarir Hussain, Jul 27, 2006)
Assam Minister says Bangladeshis have moved border posts ---- In a sudden and daring move, Bangladeshis, backed by their country's Army, have uprooted pillars demarcating the Indo-Bangla border along Dhubri and Karimganj districts of Assam, and . . .
- Need To Get Agro (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jul 27, 2006)
Nearly a month since the Prime Minister visited Vidarbha and announced a relief package for its farmers, there’s not much that has changed on the ground.
- Sri Lanka Air Force Renews Raids On Ltte (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Sri Lankan Air Force jets pounded suspected Tamil Tiger positions in north-eastern parts of the country on Wednesday after the guerrillas allegedly closed sluice gates of an irrigation tank there, a military spokesman said.
- It’S Raining Big Bucks In The North (Indian Express, Vipin Pubby, Jul 27, 2006)
Waking up to the need of attracting private investment and raise standards of living of their people, governments in the northern states of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh are becoming pro-active to attract investments and their efforts appear . . .
- Not Working (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 27, 2006)
The expected has happened. The meeting of the six major members of the World Trade Organization (the United States . . .
- Shots Outside The Book (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Jul 27, 2006)
Two questions are being asked about next Sunday’s elections to the Cricket Association of Bengal. One, who will win — Jagmohan Dalmiya or Prasun Mukherjee? As in the run-up to any polls, the answer varies, depending on which camp in Maidan . . . .
- Don’T Blame It All On America (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 27, 2006)
From the Middle East to WTO talks, it is self-defeating to hold the US guilty
- ‘Doha Failure Not To Affect Indo-Us Ties’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Even as India blamed U S for the collapse of the World Trade Organisation talks in the Doha Round of talks, the US on Tuesday said that “it would not affect the bilateral trade between the two countries.”
- No Breakthrough In Sight (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 27, 2006)
After the most recent suspension of the Doha round of trade talks in Geneva, only the diehard optimists can hope for an early revival, leave alone a satisfactory resolution.
- Gatekeeper Of World Trade? (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Jul 27, 2006)
India hopes to manage its economic ties with other countries despite a breakdown of the Doha Round.
- Failed Agenda (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 27, 2006)
The failure to reach an agreement in the latest round of World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks on the subsidy issue is a major setback to the mutually-agreed process for lowering trade barriers among global economies.
- 'The West Is Developing Cold Feet' (OutLook, Kamal Nath, Jul 26, 2006)
The commerce and industry minister had made clear his opposition to the USA's refusal to offer more cuts in farm subsidies before he set out for the Doha round of trade talks that got suspended on Monday, 24/7 for that very reason. The line was clear. . .
- Govt Pits Tribals Against Progress (Pioneer, Yoga Rangatia, Jul 26, 2006)
Acquiring land for major industrial projects in tribal areas is going to get more difficult, if the proposed tribal policy is fully endorsed by the Centre.
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