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Articles 4421 through 4520 of 10500:
- The Importance Of Being Raj Thackeray (Indian Express, KUMAR KETKAR , Mar 11, 2006)
It is difficult to predict whether Raj Thackeray will be a maverick comet or a new star on the political firmament of Maharashtra. Whatever be his fate, one thing is for certain.
- Fm Lists Steps To Prosperity (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Friday declared that there would be no cut in food and fertiliser subsidies and asserted that the government would spend on developmental projects in social and infrastructure projects to boosts economic growth.
- "We Will Be Global Hub For Small Cars" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
Says proposals will also boost agriculture; no cut in food, fertilizer subsidy
Urges members to throw away their "ideological and political blinkers"
Stresses growth alone is best antidote to poverty
- Mounting Energy Subsidies To Weigh Heavily On Dycm (Deccan Herald, B S Satish Kumar , Mar 11, 2006)
Handling the complex issue of mounting power subsidies will be a major task for Deputy Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa who is presenting the state budget on March 20.
- Ltte Promulgates "Lands Act" (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Mar 11, 2006)
It contains provisions for distributing agricultural land
- Rain Toll Mounts To 71; Crops Damaged (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
Madhya Pradesh is worst affected; Snowfall in Himachal areas
- Adverse Verdict (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 11, 2006)
Hopes of Sarabjit Singh, a farmer from Punjab languishing in a Pakistani jail, escaping the gallows have been dashed with the Pakistan Supreme Court upholding the death sentence on him.
- Budget Low On Fdi Initiative (Business Line, S. Majumder , Mar 10, 2006)
Growth in FDI has been catalysed by the general spurt in the economy and not by special measures in the Budget. The Finance Minister should ponder over fiscal incentives to woo foreign investors.
- A Practical, Managerial Effort (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Mar 10, 2006)
Budget 2006 is exciting because it discards many shibboleths and debunks myths about savings, subsidies, supply-led growth and planned capital expenditure. Instead, it celebrates consumption by ordinary . . .
- Rbi Wants Immediate Action On Interest Relief To Farmers (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Banks to be reimbursed within a month of claims
All crop loans for kharif and rabi disbursed to the farmers during the financial year 2005-06 will be eligible for the relief.
- Bird Flu Spreads Fast Across Russia (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Mar 10, 2006)
As the bird flu spreads fast across Russia, scientists have warned that the deadly H5N1 virus is only a step away from infecting humans.
- B’Lore Metro Gets Gom Impetus (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The GoM also considered metro proposals for Mumbai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Bhopal.
- State Budget Should Revive Economy (Deccan Herald, B S Satish Kumar , Mar 10, 2006)
Agri fact: Desired growth rate: 4 % Actual rate in state: 1.5 %
- All-Round Criticism Of Budget (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Brinda Karat seeks more funds for the farm sector
- Innovative Steps In Budget To Boost Economy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Gender auditing, outcome budgeting, protection of all stakeholders to boost economy
New policy to encourage private investments health sector soon
10 knowledge centres to be established
- Iran Unites On Nuclear Programme (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Mar 10, 2006)
Iran is digging its heels after its nuclear file on Wednesday was transferred from the IAEA to the powerful United Nations Security Council.
- Great Leap Sideways (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Mar 10, 2006)
The tenth Chinese National People’s Congress (NPC) has been remarkable for several reasons.
- Corruption Plays Role In World Water Shortage - U.N. (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Corruption plays a crucial yet nearly invisible role in depriving nearly a fifth of the world's population of access to safe drinking water, a new U.N. report on water and development said on Thursday.
- Budget Spurs Competitive Spirit (Times of India, Tarun Das, Mar 10, 2006)
The greatest quality of Budget 2006 is its focus on continuity and consolidation.
- India, Myanmar Sign Three Accords (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Taking bilateral cooperation to a higher plane, India and Myanmar today signed three agreements in petroleum, space and education sectors in the presence of President A P J Abdul Kalam and Chairman of the State Peace and Development . . .
- Clarity And Control (Telegraph, BHASWATI CHAKRAVORTY, Mar 10, 2006)
To come to the deeply uncomfortable — and often taboo — subject of suicide as a researcher in the subject of contemporary history has, perhaps, more advantages than disadvantages.
- Fast-Paced Development In Fata (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 10, 2006)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that additional funds will be made available for fast track development in the Tribal Areas. Talking to Tribal Maliks and elders, who called on him in Rawalpindi on Wednesday, he said that the Government . . .
- Mumbai On A Realty High (The Financial Express, VIJAY VANCHESWAR, Mar 09, 2006)
The Indian real estate sector is witnessing an interesting phase of evolution and transition.
- Leveraging The Mobile Phone Revolution (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Mar 09, 2006)
The mobile phone is now being used for small-time financial activities, such as information on prices and billing settlements. But the important development that service providers and bankers should work towards is to make it drive a retail credit . . .
- Is The Bird Flu Over? (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
Don’t just have it on your mind. Have it on your plate too!” So runs one of the series of advertisements that the ministry of health and family welfare and the department of animal husbandry are putting out in newspapers.
- Organic Agriculture (Daily Excelsior, Dr K C Bhagat, Mar 09, 2006)
Agriculture is the key human profession as it is linked with the entire process of environment (that is comprising air, water, land, climate, biodiversity, forest etc) on the one hand and constitutes the life line of human species . . .
- Govt-Left Relations Getting Worse (Daily Excelsior, Sondip Bhattacharya, Mar 09, 2006)
Relations between the Left parties and the Manmohan Singh Government are set to get more fractious in the days to come over India’s ties with the United States
- Bird Flu Kills Chinese Girl, Sparks Fresh Fears (Reuters, Ben Hammersley, Mar 09, 2006)
A nine-year-old girl has died of bird flu in China, state media said on Wednesday, as the World Health Organisation (WHO) said action was needed now to prepare for an influenza pandemic.
- Prime Minister's Statement On Discussions On Civil Nuclear Energy Cooperation With The Us (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
In my Statement on February 27, 2006, I had provided an assurance that this august House will be informed of developments in our discussions with the United States on separation of our civilian and military nuclear facilities.
- Seed Bill Draft On Net Will Not Reach Farmers: Bsy (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
Stating that the trend in India is towards pushing farmers out of agriculture and following the US model of machine-oriented agriculture, he said water, land and seeds are slowly slipping out of our hands.
- You Are Greedy, India To Us, Eu (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Mar 09, 2006)
India, on Tuesday, told the trade majors – United States and European Union – that they are getting much more “greedy” in the critical Doha trade negotiations by insisting on more onerous concessions than what is agreed in the mandate, sources said.
- Woes Of Women (Daily Excelsior, R P Shah, Mar 08, 2006)
International Women's Day is celebrated in India with pomp and show where achievements of a few celebrated Indian women - past and present - are cited proudly. In such gatherings, heart rendering sufferings and exploitation being undergone by Indian . . .
- Budget For Deceptions (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 08, 2006)
An analysis of this year’s budget by JNU professor Prabhat Patnaik, a key figure in the CPM’s group on economic affairs, pinpoints inadequacies in the document from the Left’s standpoint:
- Annan's Plans For Un Overhaul Prompts Staff Outcry (Reuters, Evelyn Leopold , Mar 08, 2006)
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan outlined on Tuesday a radical overhaul of U.N. procedures, recruitment and training, prompting protests by staff on proposed outsourcing from New York headquarters.
- Reading The Feminine Fine Print (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 08, 2006)
Last year’s literary lasses did not just muddy hemlines in dark myths and edgy fiction, but also refused to skirt issues of gender in the run-up from one International Women's Day to another.
- Issues Remain Unaddressed In Budget (Hindu, Subramanian Swamy , Mar 08, 2006)
The 2006-07 budget has no solutions for the pressing problems of the economy. Instead, we find a tax on kitchen tiles, packaged software, and share transactions just to make budgetary ends meet and not for dynamic policy.
- Self-Correction Is In National Interest Now (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 08, 2006)
In his meeting with the editors of Pakistan’s leading newspapers and electronic media on Monday, President Pervez Musharraf used the word “Indiacentric” to describe a foreign policy stance that he intends to shun in the future.
- Govt Seeks Rs 8,565 Crore More (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
Supplementary demand for grants includes debt repayment of Rs 4,20,203 crore.
- A Poor Yield For The Farmer (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Mar 08, 2006)
The Government has committed itself to raising the rate of growth of the agricultural sector to 4 per cent. But it has no concrete plans for achieving this. An effective solution would be to develop a land market where farmers on the brink . . .
- Finances In Good Health (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 08, 2006)
Budget not as populist as feared
- How Has The Tax-Gdp Ratio Gone Up (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Mar 07, 2006)
The increase in Central Government tax revenues has been described as a victory for the Laffer curve in India. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh examine the real reasons behind the recent increase . . .
- Analysis - India-U.S. Ties Surge But Some Mistrust Lingers (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Mar 07, 2006)
A successful visit to India by U.S. President George W. Bush has dramatically bolstered ties between the two countries but decades of mistrust will not be erased overnight
- Tax Free, Zero Deficit Budget Worth Rs 14436-Cr (Daily Excelsior, Sanjeev Pargal, Mar 07, 2006)
Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig, Incharge Finance and Planning didn’t impose any fresh taxes nor increased or reduced the existing taxes in his fourth successive zero deficit and revenue surplus budget worth Rs 14,436 crore presented . . .
- Budget Needs A People Orientation (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Mar 07, 2006)
If the Finance Minister is serious about responding to what people want, rather than what the coalition dharma demands, then, there may be merit in making certain critical changes.
- Trade Framework Signed With Australia (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 07, 2006)
Energy, mining and infrastructure development included
Energy, mining and infrastructure development included
- Some Questions Raised By The Budget (Hindu, Brinda Karat, Mar 07, 2006)
In sharp contrast to the approach to the corporate sector is the inhumane approach to the agricultural sector and the food economy in the budget.
- Foodgrain Paradox (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Mar 07, 2006)
Continuing fluctuation and near-stagnation in foodgrains — wheat, rice, coarse cereals and pulses. . ,
- Ing Vysya Bank, And The Hindu Business Line To Hold `Budgetalk' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 07, 2006)
Experts to deliberate on the impact of budget today
- Friends, Not Allies (Telegraph, Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, Mar 07, 2006)
An entente with the US does not compromise India’s independent, or non-aligned, foreign policy, argues Chandrashekhar Dasgupta The author is former ambassador to China
- Farm Produce Marketing To Get A Boost (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 07, 2006)
The Karnataka Government will soon decide whether to allow the private sector into agriculture produce marketing, Agriculture Minister Bandeppa Kashempur said here on Monday.
- The Taxation Turnaround (Deccan Herald, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Mar 07, 2006)
Growing inequality in the distribution of income between the rich and poor has has shifted income in favour of the higher tax bracket
- Foreign Policy Approach Against Cmp And Security Interest, Says Cpi(m) (Hindu, K. V. PRASAD, Mar 07, 2006)
"Sum total of Bush's visit was to draw India closer into U.S. strategic plans in Asia"
India will have to pay unacceptable price for nuclear deal
Tie-up will trigger more American demands
Wrong to see nuclear deal in isolation from emerging alliance
- Left Flays Indo-Us Strategic Partnership (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 07, 2006)
The Indo-US strategic partnership today came in for sharp criticism from the Left parties who charged the UPA government with deviating from an "independent foreign policy" outlined in the Common Minimum programme of the ruling alliance backed by them.
- Muffled Cheer (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 07, 2006)
Both Budgets ignore North-east realities
Both the Railway and Central Budgets for 2006-07 have belied North-east expectations.
- Bush's Journey To India (US News & World Report, Thomas Omestad, Mar 06, 2006)
Where, in a world rife with anti-Americanism, can you find most people owning up to warm feelings for the Bush administration? One of those few places is here, in the South Asian giant of India, where President Bush arrives this week to mark . . .
- Mulford Praise For N-Deal (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 06, 2006)
Terming the Indo-US nuclear deal as “very constructive and credible”, American Ambassador to India Mr David Mulford tonight said he believed that it deserved “positive attention” of the US Congress and the agreement was aimed at ending . . .
- Selling Energy Giants To Foreigners (Dawn, Dr. Akhtar Hasan Khan, Mar 06, 2006)
Energy is the most critical sector in the world economy today.
- Challenge Ahead (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Mar 06, 2006)
It is not without any reason that President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam often drives home the necessity of ameliorating the lot of people living below poverty line (BPL). His overview of India's Mission 2020 is to make the country a developed nation.
- Poland Identifies First Cases Of Bird Flu (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 06, 2006)
Poland has detected the country's first two cases of H5N1 bird flu, the Agriculture Minister said on Sunday.
- Indo-Us Partnership Can Transform World: Bush (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 06, 2006)
US President George W Bush on Friday night wound up his first ever visit to India, clinching a groundbreaking nuclear deal.
- Pm’S Deal With Us Turns Left Red (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 06, 2006)
The Left parties on Sunday said the “bad bargain” by India with the US in economic, defence, agriculture and other crucial fields dealt during President George W Bush's visit was detrimental to the country's commercial and strategic interests.
- Wen Pledges Growth Will Lift Rural Poor (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 06, 2006)
China will channel its surging economic growth to narrow the chasm dividing its rich cities and restive countryside, Premier Wen Jiabao told parliament on Sunday in a speech tempering optimism with stark warnings.
- Economics & Politics Of It All (Deccan Herald, Alok Ray, Mar 06, 2006)
Revenue deficit and fiscal deficit is the samebut primary deficit has worsened
- Blinkered Approach Of Nationalised Bank Unions (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, Mar 06, 2006)
Strike called to protest the outsourcing of ‘normal banking services’ smacks of short-sightedness
- Wrong Priorities (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Mar 06, 2006)
No right-thinking person will quarrel with the spirit of finance minister P Chidambaram’s renewed thrust to agriculture in his Budget for the coming fiscal.
- How Does Nuclear Deal Serve Our Interest? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
Manmohan will make statement next week
Knowledge Initiative will help MNCs: Acharia
CPI(M) leaders cite need to adhere to three principles
- George Bush Gets A Glimpse Of Rural Andhra Pradesh (Hindu, S. Nagesh Kumar, Mar 04, 2006)
U.S. President interacts with farm scientists
- His Parting Words: With Power, Responsibility (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Mar 04, 2006)
Let’s work together to expand circle of prosperity, advance freedom,’ says democracy is most potent weapon in war against terror
- Budget Session From March 22 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
Centre help sought to meet drought
The budget session of Uttaranchal Assembly will begin on March 22, the State Chief Secretary M. Ramachandran said on Friday
- For A Taste Of Rural India (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
United States President George W Bush had an encounter with rural India in the urban settings of the Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University on the outskirts of the city on Friday.
- Focus On Farmers (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 04, 2006)
Agriculture needs more from budgets
- India Has Arrived: Bush (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Mar 04, 2006)
Mr George W. Bush today wooed India like no other US President had ever done before and admitted that he had been “dazzled” by India.
- Bush Visits Hyderabad And More (Tribune, Ramesh Kandula, Mar 04, 2006)
It was a day out for US President George W. Bush in the city today.
- Pm’S Statement On N-Deal In Parliament On March 6 (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will make a statement and give details of the Indo-US nuclear deal in Parliament on March 6.
- Naturally Allied (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 04, 2006)
Love and hate before the age of Bush
Politics and Play Ramachandra Guha
- Let It Grow (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Mar 04, 2006)
With the Indo-US nuclear deal dominating the Bush visit, an unprecedented number of agreements between the two countries have gone largely unnoticed.
- Bush Fire Continues To Rage (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
Protests continued to echo in the Lok Sabha for the second consecutive day on Friday over the ongoing visit of US President George W Bush even as he was engaged with Indian leaders.
- Bush Declares Us-India Closer Than Ever Before (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
US President George W. Bush declared on Friday that the United States and India were “closer than ever before” and united in the drive against terrorism but said New Delhi needs to lower trade barriers.
- India In Neocon Embrace? (News International, Praful Bidwai, Mar 04, 2006)
The writer, a former newspaper editor, is a researcher and peace and human-rights
activist based in Delhi
- Pakistan Steadfast Partner For Us: Bush (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
Says US-India strategic partnership could transform the world
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