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Articles 2421 through 2520 of 10500:
- Satellite-Based Navigation Aids For Civil Aviation By 2010, Says Nair (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 05, 2006)
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Airports Authority of India (AAI) will implement a satellite-based navigation system over Indian air-space for civil aviation in the coming years, said ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair on Tuesday.
- For An Alternative (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 05, 2006)
Budget making for a State in India in the neo-liberal era is indeed an unenviable task. On the one side, the terrible state of finances has seriously undermined the ability of States to meet rising obligations in social services.
- Leadership Needs No Authority (Deccan Herald, Manu N Kulkarni, Jul 05, 2006)
The task of leadership consists of orchestrating, guiding, inspiring and directing the learning processes
- Heartless In Gaza (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Jul 05, 2006)
The proposed Israeli military re-invasion of Gaza will destabilise the region
- Afghanistan’S Forgotten Generation (Deccan Herald, Deepali Gaur Singh, Jul 05, 2006)
War ridden An invisible generation of young Afghans many of whom have lost either their father or all male members of the family to a war that refuses to end.
- Wrong Prescription, Doctor (Indian Express, Kavery Nambisan, Jul 04, 2006)
The recent interview with Dr Devi Shetty by Shekhar Gupta has spurred me to write this.
- India, G-5 May Meet To Break Deadlock (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
In a bid to salvage the collapsed WTO talks, trade ministers of India and other five key players — US, EU, Brazil, Australia and Japan — are likely to meet in Geneva shortly.
- State Govt Files Review Plea In Sc On Bmic (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
The State Government on Monday filed a petition before the Supreme Court seeking review of its order of April 20 relating to the controversial Bangalore-Mysore four-lane expressway project, and rehearing of the matter.....
- Wto Deadlock (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 04, 2006)
The consensus failure on the modalities—WTO jargon for mathematical formulae to guide tariff reductions—on agriculture and industrial products at the Geneva mini-ministerial is a setback for finalising the Doha work programme.
- Unlocking The Rural Potential (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 04, 2006)
In 1992 Deng Xiaoping, China’s paramount leader, reinvigorated economic reforms during a visit to southern China.
- Vidarbha’S Ground Reality (Indian Express, Sharad Joshi , Jul 04, 2006)
Vidarbha's farmers had looked forward to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit with great eagerness in the belief that if their local politicians had failed them, surely the honest prime minister of India would bring some lasting relief.
- Capt Seeks One-Time Debt Relief (Tribune, Manoj Kumar, Jul 04, 2006)
Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today called on Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Dr Montek Singh Ahuluwalia and urged him to bail out farmers from indebtedness by recommending a financial package.
- The Doha Talks Must Fail For The World's Poor (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 04, 2006)
Among those who care about multilateral trade negotiations the air is thick with talk of crisis in the Doha trade round.
- South Canara Co-Op. Bank Bags Nabard Award (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
It has formed the largest number of self-help groups in the country
The bank has formed 20,000 self-help groups
Rs. 20 crore deposits mobilised and Rs. 42 crore lent
The bank has achieved 100 per cent farm loan recovery
- A Vital Visit To Vidharbha (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 04, 2006)
The standout feature of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Vidharbha is its socio-political significance.
- Developers Vs Generic Manufacturers — Innovators Need A Booster Dose (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , Jul 04, 2006)
Innovations are key in the pharma and agro-chemicals sectors, and innovators must have the chance to recoup R&D and product stewardship costs.
- Poultry Team For West Asia To Allay Bird Flu Fears (Business Line, G. Gurumurthy, Jul 04, 2006)
To press for lifting of import ban on poultry products
To put in perspective on the disease-free status of the farms in the South, especially Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
A detailed video presentation will also be made to show that products from the . . .
- Atlanta Pumps In Jv With Italian Company (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
The Bangalore-based Atlanta Pumps Private Limited has entered into a joint venture with the Italian company Kerself Spa, which is engaged in the manufacture of electric motors and pumps for agriculture, irrigation and thermohydraulics.
- Expected Wto Failure (The Financial Express, Biswajit Dhar, Jul 04, 2006)
For most WTO watchers, the breakdown of the talks over the weekend was expected. Negotiating positions of most major countries have been so far apart in the key areas of agriculture and non-agricultural market access, that too much was left for the . . .
- Bill Gates, Ngos And The Role Of The State (News International, Ethan Casey, Jul 04, 2006)
In mid-June, Bill Gates announced that over the next two years he will be handing over many of his duties at Microsoft Corporation to two other executives and moving into a part-time role with the company, in order to devote most of his attention . . .
- When Inflation Is Good And Bad News (Business Line, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Jul 04, 2006)
Inflation will, undoubtedly, put pressure on both individuals and organisations alike in the short run. But, eventually, price rise will help strengthen developing countries vis-à-vis industrialised countries.
- Sonia Wants States’ Info On Price Rise (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
After realising that the Centre may not be able to tackle the price rise effectively, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has asked AICC general secretaries and those in charge in party-ruled states to give her a ground-level feedback on this issue on . . .
- Smelling Gunpowder (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 04, 2006)
Steady violence unleashed by LTTE is fast shifting into a 'low-intensity' war in Sri Lanka, says Matthew Rosenberg in Batticaloa.
- Rescuing The Doha Round (Dawn, Shahid Javed Burki, Jul 04, 2006)
In the last week’s column, I suggested that time may be running out for the Doha round of trade discussions to be concluded with an agreement that would satisfy the developing world.
- Govt Cuts Duties On Safta Imports (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
380 tariff lines covered under trade liberalisation programme
Level of duty ranges from five per cent to 117.5 per cent
Move expected to give boost to intra-SAARC trade
Many items remain in sensitive list to protect domestic industry/farmers
- All The Greatest Missions Have Crept Spectacularly. This Is No Exception (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
For the past decade or so, whenever there has been any substantial British military deployment, a moment comes when pundits and former generals are invited to worry about the danger of something called “mission creep”.
- Subsidizing Food Items (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 03, 2006)
The Government provided subsidy worth Rs 21.12 billion to the Trading Corporation of Pakistan during the year ending June 30, 2006 for import of wheat, sugar and urea.
- Indo-Us Nuclear Deal & Its Dark Shadows (Pakistan Observer, Rizwan Ghani, Jul 03, 2006)
Within 24 hours of US Foreign Relations Committee’s backing for the deal which now awaits voting from full Senate and House of Representatives, reportedly Indian PM had to dash to Maharashtra to have firsthand view of debt crisis that has resulted . . .
- More Package Than Relief? (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 03, 2006)
How does one ensure Dr Manmohan Singh won’t be going down again to Vidarbha, relief package in hand, in July 2007? This isn’t cynicism: after all, the state legislature had been convulsed by the same issue —desperate farmers committing suicide—seven . . .
- Nath Hopes For New Wto Talks This Month (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Union commerce minister Kamal Nath on Sunday expressed hope that there would be another round of mini-ministerial meeting by July-end to make another attempt to hammer out an agreement for completion of the Doha Round of negotiations at the World . . .
- Essential Amendment (The Financial Express, Ed Vulliamy, Jul 03, 2006)
The proposal to incorporate a provision to restrict the enforcement of the Essential Commodities Act (ECA) to war or war-like situations or in natural calamities will remove a big barrier to the emergence of national markets in agriculture.
- Revenue Growth And Social Imperatives (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 03, 2006)
The Rs690 billion tax revenue target set for the last financial year is stated to have been exceeded by Rs10.3 billion, indicating a long-term trend in revenue growth.
- Sbi Aims For 25 Pc Fy07 Loan Growth (The Financial Express, Reuters, Jul 03, 2006)
India's largest lender State Bank of India is forecasting 25 per cent loan growth in the year to March 2007 as growth remains strong in Asia's third-largest economy.
- Congo's Jungle Terrorists Disband (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 03, 2006)
One of Africa's most-feared militias has crumbled and now faces the wrath of the population it terrorised. The mayi-mayi, warrior-mystics who have ravaged the Democratic Republic of Congo for 10 years, are surrendering in droves.
- The Uses Of Rhetoric (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 03, 2006)
The author is former director-general, National Council for Applied Economic Research.
- Congress Cms To Meet On July 5 (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Congress President Sonia Gandhi has called a meeting of Chief Ministers of party-ruled states in the Capital on July 5 to discuss the spiralling food item price rise during the last month....
- Cm Announces Rs 10,000 Cr For Vidarbha (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
While opposition parties boycotted his customary session-eve tea meeting, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh announced Rs 10,000 crore in funds for improving irrigation in the drought-prone Vidarbha over the next few years.
- Grass-Roots Realities (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 03, 2006)
Prime minister Manmohan Singh's Rs 3,750 crore debt relief package for Vidarbha treats the symptoms of agrarian distress without addressing their root causes.
- Package For Farmers (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 03, 2006)
As expected, the Prime Minister announced on Saturday a Rs 3,750-crore package for distressed farmers of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala to address the problems of rural indebtedness, crop failure and water deficiency, which have . . .
- Wto Members May Meet Again To Rescue Doha Round (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
With the mini-ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation in Geneva ending in an impasse, key trading nations of the world may make another attempt by July-end to hammer out an agreement for completion of the Doha round of negotiations . . .
- Sustaining The Pace Of Services-Led Growth (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jul 03, 2006)
A coherent integrated services policy, in line with the agricultural and industrial policies, needs to be developed.
- Rs. 190-Crore Project For Kolar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Chief Minister to discuss spread of chikungunya with officials on Wednesday
Centre identifies six districts in State for providing relief Kumaraswamy to tour districts for three days in a week
- Government Seeks Options To Make Probe Effective (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
CBI investigation in Kiliroor sex scandal case
- Buddhadeb Allays Misgivings Of Partners Over Land Issue (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
"Farmers' interests will not be compromised"
Buddhadeb meets AIFB, RSP leaders separately
Survey of agricultural land to help earmark land for industry
Affected farmers to get compensation, to be rehabilitated
- First Step (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 03, 2006)
Govt must go to underlying cause of farmers’ suicides
- Connecting Rural India (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 03, 2006)
Co-ops are ideal bases to connect rural areas, as they foster economic activity
- Pak-Us Talks On Rozs Next Month (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
The US and Pakistan will negotiate next month the technical aspects of setting up reconstruction opportunity zones (ROZs) on the Pak-Afghan border and in the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).
- Rs. 190-Cr. To Provide Drinking Water In Kolar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Chief Minister to discuss spread of chikungunya in the State with officials on Wednesday
Centre identifies six districts in State for providing relief
Kumaraswamy to tour districts for three days in a week
- Wto Members Meeting By This Month End: Nath (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Union Commerce Minister Kamal Nath, who came back to India on Sunday after a deadlock in the WTO meeting in Geneva, expressed hope that there would be another meeting by this month end.
- Bjp Wants Quota In Minority-Run Institutions (Pioneer, Rajeev Ranjan Roy, Jul 03, 2006)
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all set to intensify the fight for reservation for the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other backward classes in the institutes of higher learning being run by the minority communities.
- After Pulses, Onion Trading May Make Aam Aadmi Cry (Pioneer, Sidharth Mishra, Jul 03, 2006)
The Congress high command proposes, the UPA Government disposes. Last week the party's apex body, the Congress Working Committee (CWC) took the Government to task for the spiralling prices of food grains.
- The Root Of The Real Inequality Problem (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 02, 2006)
Linguistic diversity in itself is not sufficient rationalisation for wide use of a non-native language in schools and colleges
- Poverty, Deprivation And Rural Indebtedness (Times of India, Humra Quraishi, Jul 02, 2006)
Here we are crying hoarse, tamatars are out of our grasp, but as attention gets focused to the Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region, horror stories tell us of what deprivation and stark poverty can do to the human being.
- Pm Announces Rs 3,750 Cr For Distressed Farmers (Deccan Herald, Parag Rabade, Jul 02, 2006)
After touring the suicide zone of Vidarbha in Maharashtra on Friday and Saturday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh disappointed the distressed farmers by refusing to waive their unpaid debts, which is the major cause behind the suicides, and announced . . .
- Pm’S Yavatmal Visit ‘Washed Out’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 02, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s scheduled visit to Kolejhari village in Yavatmal district – the death field of Vidarbha – on Saturday was literally washed out in rains and turned out to be just a flying exercise....
- Kamal Nath Hints At Another Wto Meet By July End (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 02, 2006)
Key trading nations of the world are expected to make another attempt to hammer out an agreement for completion of the Doha round of negotiations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
- Your Coffee And Your Conscience (Indian Express, SAUBHIK CHAKRABARTI, Jul 02, 2006)
When you are in a coffee shop, a cup of latte and a wedge of blueberry pie keeping you company, where do you keep your social conscience?
- The End Of Distress (Indian Express, ILA PATNAIK, Jul 02, 2006)
Vidarbha’s problems are real and palpable. The solution has to be all-India reform
- A Parade Of Payas (Hindu, Sudha Mahalingam, Jul 02, 2006)
Bagan, a 12-hour boat ride down the Irrawaddy from Mandalay, is Myanmar's ode to Buddhism.
Our first stop is Ananda Paya, Bagan's oldest and most beautiful edifice. Its tower bears the unmistakable influence of North Indian architecture.
- One Character In Search Of An Agenda (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jul 02, 2006)
What do Vishwanath Pratap Singh and Amitabh Bachchan have in common -- apart from the Allahabad and poetry connections, that is?
- Koljheri Upset Over Cancellation Of Manmohan Singh's Visit (Hindu, Meena Menon, Jul 02, 2006)
Most of the villagers are on hunger strike demanding he pay the visit
- Ditched By Pm, Suicide Hamlet Fasts (Telegraph, Satish Nandgaonkar, Jul 02, 2006)
Two months ago, on a day it was to celebrate a triple wedding, Kolzari was forced to hold a funeral. Today, when the village was supposed to be meeting the country’s most powerful man, it was holding a protest fast.
- Rs. 3,750-Crore Relief For Vidharbha (Hindu, Meena Menon, Jul 02, 2006)
Manmohan announces interest waiver, debt rescheduling, and more credit flow
Manmohan: Not come on fault-finding mission
Rural indebtedness a national problem
- Bjp Holds Demonstration Against Price Rise (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 02, 2006)
Congress accused of overlooking the issue
- Plea To Write Off Farm Loans From Nationalised Banks (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 02, 2006)
The Kotagiri Taluk Committee of the Tamil Nadu Farmers Sangam has, in a memorandum sent to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, emphasised the need to extend the benefits of the loan waiver scheme to farmers who had obtained loans from . . .
- The Urban Nightmare (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 02, 2006)
The world is entering a historic urban transition; in 2007, for the first time in history, the world's urban population will exceed the rural population.
- Not Just Sound Bytes (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 02, 2006)
There is this very articulate Union minister who, in his earlier avatar as a party spokesman, used to dismiss critical TV correspondent comments as “Sound bytes! Sound bytes!”
- Karzai Losing Out To Taliban (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 02, 2006)
The rising graph of violence in Afghanistan has underscored the problems of security, governance and stability of a nation that has not seen peace since April 1978.
- Kamal Won’T Barter Rights Of Poor, Leaves (Asian Age, PTI, Jul 02, 2006)
The WTO talks here collapsed on Saturday today as trade ministers of 60 key countries failed to arrive at a common ground on agriculture and industrial tariffs. An upset commerce minister Kamal Nath stated that he saw "no negotiating space" and . . .
- Prime Minister’S Heart Bleeds For Farmers’ Kin (Deccan Herald, Parag Rabade, Jul 01, 2006)
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stepped into Vidarbha for his two-day visit to the suicide zone of Vidarbha, reports about at least nine farmers committing suicides in the past 48 hours greeted him.
- Misplaced Priorities? (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 01, 2006)
Farm production enhancement is the key to checking soaring prices, not the fire-fighting measures the Government is adopting.
- A Patchy Record (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 01, 2006)
The findings of the recently released report of the Fifth Economic Census conducted in 2005 are relevant to policies promoting employment growth and entrepreneurship.
- A Time To Kill, A Time To Regret (Hindu, R. Hariharan, Jul 01, 2006)
Despite the appeal to India, it hardly appears that the LTTE is about to turn over a new leaf. India needs to consider its course of action vis-à-vis Sri Lanka with care.
- Come, Let’S Trade (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 01, 2006)
The first tariff reduction under the Trade Liberalisation Programme (TLP) of the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) will be effected on 1 July 2006 by all South Asia Association of Regional Cooperation member-states save Nepal which will . . .
- Panel Set Up To Monitor Prices (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Jul 01, 2006)
NCP chief and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, who has been in the dock for the present jump in prices of essential commodities, finds his wings further clipped with the government setting up a ministerial panel to look into this matter.
- Pm’S Farm Package (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 01, 2006)
The first instalment of the Rs 4,000-crore rehabilitation package for distressed farmers in 31 suicide-struck districts of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, to be announced by the PM in Vidarbha, is long on noble intentions but short . .
- Undp's New Hdr For Asia-Pacific — For An Inclusive Development Strategy (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jul 01, 2006)
Strategic, rather than indiscriminate, integration into the global economy remains the key to successfully managing globalisation.
- Getting At The Root (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 01, 2006)
Tak...tak... The steady beat caught my attention after I'd stopped singing and began to dip a biscuit into my early morning cup of tea. Out of the back window, a furlong away, loomed the steep bund that hid a largish fresh-water tank.
- One Character In Search Of An Agenda (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jul 01, 2006)
What do Vishwanath Pratap Singh and Amitabh Bachchan have in common -- apart from the Allahabad and poetry connections, that is? Like the Angry Young Man who, after some years in the wilderness,
- Almost At The Gate (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jul 01, 2006)
Adapting and only slightly exaggerating Rabindranath Tagore, it could be said that one sees India everywhere in Cornwall but finds Indians nowhere.
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