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Articles 4821 through 4920 of 10500:
- Bird Flu Spreads, India Tests Dozens Of People (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
India said it was testing dozens of people for bird flu on Sunday.
- Help, Before Fear Takes Wing (Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Feb 20, 2006)
Loss to life from a disease is typically computed on the basis of mortality rates. By that reckoning avian influenza, with rates up to 90-100 per cent, would be as deadly as it gets, right?
- India Tests For H5n1, France Urges "Eat Chicken" (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Feb 20, 2006)
India was testing dozens of people for bird flu on Sunday, while France sought to ease consumer fears after its first avian case of the H5N1 virus by urging people to eat chicken.
- Salman Should Have Known The Bishnois (Indian Express, DEVYANI ONIAL, Feb 20, 2006)
Whoever told Salman Khan about Jodhpur’s graceful chinkara and black buck obviously forgot to tell him about their formidable protectors, the Bishnois. Known for their commitment to conserving wildlife, in Jodhpur they inhabit about 24 villages in the Gud
- 'Karunanidhi Is Chief Of Dpa. He Will Be Chief Minister When We Win Elections’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
‘Karunanidhi is chief of DPA. He will be chief minister when we win elections’
- The Utopian Third Front (Daily Excelsior, Sondip Bhattacharya, Feb 19, 2006)
Will the rainbow coalition called the third front take a shape once again? If the past experience is any guide the CPI (M) general secretary Prakash Karat's plan of cobbling the third front is a pipe dream.
- Mr Cm, End Graft, Strengthen Panchayats (Deccan Herald, Benjamin Fernandez, Feb 19, 2006)
What should be the new Chief Minister priorities? This was our question to readers last week and we were flooded with responses. We published a few letters last week. This week we publish those, mostly from outside Bangalore, on the government’s . . .
- Power Supply And Education Need Cm’S Urgent Attention (Deccan Herald, Dr R G Kumble, Feb 19, 2006)
The new Chief Minister’s willingness to listen to citizens’ suggestions brings a ray of hope to those living in rural Karnataka. Two areas need his urgent attention: power supply and education. As a retired Central Government officer living and . . .
- Poultry Farmer Dies In India, Bird Flu Suspected (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
A poultry farmer has died of suspected bird flu in western India, where the country's first outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu virus has been recorded, the official news agency reported Sunday.
- Priority For Farm, Irrigation Sectors, Says Ysr (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
Replies to the debate on motion of thanks to Governor
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy said that the guiding principle of his Government would be giving priority to agriculture and irrigation without neglecting other . . .
- Bird Flu Ruled Out In Death Of Indian Man (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
Indian health officials said Sunday laboratory tests had shown that a man earlier suspected to have died of bird flu was in fact killed by bacterial infection.
- 27,000 Poultry Birds Died In Last 15 Days (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
India has two months' stock of vaccine imported from Europe
Poultry farms where the deaths took place are all located in a single taluka
Ring vaccine to be administered to farms within three to 10 km radius
- Bird Flu Strikes India, Eight Hospitalised (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
Avian influenza has struck India. After the Maharashtra government on Saturday confirmed that the recent deaths of chickens in Nandurbar and Dhule districts of North Maharashtra were caused by bird flu, eight people were reportedly admitted . . .
- Bird Flu Alert Sounded In J&k, 10 Days Ban (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
In the first outbreak of bird flu in India, eight people were today admitted to a hospital with suspected deadly Avian virus after 50,000 birds had died in Nandurbar and Dhule district of Maharashtra.
- Bird Flu Has Landed (Indian Express, Reshma Patil, Feb 19, 2006)
8 samples from maharashtra farm test positive • 8 lakh birds to be culled today • no human cases, samples of 3 kids, one woman being tested • no national alert yet
- H’Bad Am-Bushes B’Lore (Deccan Herald, K Subrahmanya, Feb 19, 2006)
Bangalore has again lost the opportunity to play host to a visiting American President.
- Agribusiness Clinics (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Bhushan, Feb 19, 2006)
Traditionally, Indian has been subsistence oriented with low energy and low amounts of inputs use and with very low involvement of private sector.
- Protection Of Foreign Investment (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Feb 18, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf has held out a categorical assurance for full protection to foreign investment, saying Pakistan’s rapidly growing economy and friendly economic regime offers profitable business prospects in a host of fields.
- Bilateral Barometer (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Feb 18, 2006)
Seafarers have always kept an eye on the “glass” to check if the weather was closing in. In recent years the fate of fisherfolk seeking a livelihood off the Gujarat coastline has become an accurate index of the health of Indo-Pak relations.
- Fresh Chance For Tea Exports (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 18, 2006)
After being thwacked all over the park over the last decade or so by the competition, India at last has a chance of getting a bit of its tea export market back, courtesy the drought in Kenya which could shrink that country’s ‘06 crop by 25% from .. .
- Kalam Asks It Sector To Log Into New Markets (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 18, 2006)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam today urged the IT sector to look at new markets like ASEAN and Africa to sustain long-term growth. Addressing industry leaders at the Nasscom meet here,Dr Kalam said the Indian industry should aim for 50 per cent . . .
- Team Hdk (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 18, 2006)
Governor T N Chaturvedi, who returned to Raj Bhavan late on Friday night after attending the Art of Living’s Silver Jubilee celebrations is expected to sign the notification on allocation of portfolios to new ministers on Saturday morning....
- Creative Solutions, Sarkari Style (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Feb 18, 2006)
The many ways in which officials in a region gripped by crisis try to deal with it can be intriguing. Even entertaining. From advising farmers to plant crops in line with zodiac signs to suggesting they bear arms against moneylenders — it's all happening
- Reading The Growth Signals (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 18, 2006)
Official statistics seem to vindicate the optimism on the economy articulated at the highest levels of the Government, most recently by President Abdul Kalam.
- Globalisation Poses Serious Challenge To The Indian Economy: Acting Vc (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 18, 2006)
Says it should be faced with courage and determination as it cannot be wished away
- Comprehensive Wasteland Development Programme Being Implemented (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 18, 2006)
Groundnut crop has been raised on 29,374 hectares
Paddy cultivation has been taken up in an area of one lakh hectares in the district from April 2005.
- Bihar’S Babus Gobble Up Rs 2,000-Cr Public Funds (Deccan Herald, Abhay Kumar, Feb 18, 2006)
In what could further open a can of worms, the office of the Accountant General has stumbled upon “misappropriation” of funds to the tune of Rs 2,000 crore by the sarkari babus during the last three years.
- Iran: Left For Immediate Discussion (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 18, 2006)
Somnath urges them to listen to PM
India should not tie itself down to uranium supplies
Need to develop thorium because of the reserves
Low availability of foodgrains, says Yechury
- Inside China’S Angry Villages (Tribune, Anthony Kuhn, Feb 18, 2006)
AT a roadside store across the street from a kindergarten in Panlong village, a local man sat beside his motorcycle having a soft drink and chatting with a visiting reporter on the recent violence the village had experienced.
- The President Speaks (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 18, 2006)
Address exudes hope and confidence
THE President’s Address to Parliament on Thursday makes three key economic announcements: a 10-year national manufacturing initiative, a common market for agricultural produce and special zones for petroleum, . . .
- Making Money Dearer (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 17, 2006)
ICICI Bank has pushed up its Benchmark Prime Lending Rate (BPLR) by 50 basis points to 11.75 per cent and SBI, the major domo, is threatening to follow suit.
- Spending Isn’T Shining (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Feb 17, 2006)
How is the economy doing? Pretty well. We have clocked real GDP growth of 8.5 per cent in 2003-04, 7.5 per cent in 2004-05 and perhaps 8.1 per cent in 2005-06.
- India, Pak Lodge Protests On Air, Sea Violations (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 17, 2006)
Trading Charges New Delhi says Pakistan killed Indian fisherman, Pak claims airspace intrusion
- A Crisis We Could Do Without (Dawn, Ahmad Fraz Khan, Feb 17, 2006)
Our policymakers are a daring lot. In the name of free-market economy, they are busy liberalizing trade of even essential food commodities like wheat and sugar, thus exposing these items to the unfettered greed of hoarders, millers and other stakeholders.
- Pakistan Protests Airspace Violation By India (News International, Mariana Baabar, Feb 17, 2006)
An uncalled-for provocation by India has prompted the government of Pakistan to lodge a protest with New Delhi through the Indian High Commission in Islamabad for violation of its airspace and Exclusive Economic Zone by an Indian maritime aircraft and ...
- `Farmers Pension A Good Beginning' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 17, 2006)
Finance Minister Vakkom Purushothaman on Thursday criticised the Opposition for belittling the newly launched pension scheme for small farmers in the State.
- Benefits Of Free Trade (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 17, 2006)
Thefederal cabinet ratified the South Asia Free Trade Area (Safta) agreement, drafted by the Islamabad Saarc Summit 2004, on Wednesday and decided that bilateral trade with India would continue under the positive list of 773 items.
- Pak Accuses Indian Maritime Aircraft Of Violating Its Airspace (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 17, 2006)
Pakistan today alleged that an Indain maritime aircraft violated its airspace and two naval vessels from the neighbouring country sailed in its territorial waters in the Arabian sea.
- Threat To Democracy-Ii (Statesman, AMLAN DATTA, Feb 17, 2006)
Maoism should be thanked for drawing attention to the rural problem in India. Since Independence, the country has been ruled by an elite of which the leading component is an urban educated middle class which dominates the administration . . .
- Govt Stands Up For Ties With Us (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 17, 2006)
The government today defended India’s growing ties with the US as it brushed aside criticism from its Left allies to assert that enlightened national interest guided its foreign policy.
- Vidharbha: The `Forced Privatisation' Of Cotton (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Feb 17, 2006)
Disputes over output do not hide the trouble Maharashtra's cotton economy is in. Small farmers face another year of huge losses. The role of nature is very minor compared to conscious policy measures that have undermined the farmer and world cotton prices
- Hamas Ignores The Quartet (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Feb 17, 2006)
Hamas, which has won in the Palestinian elections, has already begun to register in an effort to impose order in Palestinian areas, a move which will counter attempts to curb its powers.
- Kalam Airs Concern Over Infiltration (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 17, 2006)
The President, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, today expressed the UPA government's commitment to the ongoing composite dialogue with Pakistan but underlined India's concerns over infiltration and cross-border terrorism.
- India Lodges Protest (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 17, 2006)
Pakistan’s Deputy High Commissioner Munawwar Bhatti was called in to the Ministry of External Affairs today and conveyed India’s strong protest over the killing of an Indian fisherman by Pakistani forces in the Indian waters off the Gujarat . . .
- President Outlines Upa Govt’S Reform Agenda (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 17, 2006)
In the backdrop of Left parties’ serious differences with the government over economic policies, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam today rolled out the government’s reform agenda for the economy announcing ambitious plans in the several . . .
- Centre For Corporate Excellence To Be Set Up (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 16, 2006)
Ministry of Company Affairs has finalised long-pending proposal for establishing the institute in Bangalore
- What's Love Got To Do With Any Of This? (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Feb 16, 2006)
Those who speak of morality and the corrupting influences of Valentine's Day seem to have no problem with the real corruption of consumerism gone out of control.
- Vidharbha Suicides: A Scenario Of Post-Mortems 24x7 (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Feb 16, 2006)
Post-mortem registers at some centres in Vidharbha show poisoning cases outnumber all other cases put together. Meanwhile, farm suicides are up sharply after November and spreading to the paddy belt. A study also shows that in districts such as Amravati,
- Over Rs. 1 Cr. Sanctioned For Micro Farming (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 16, 2006)
Farmers will be given subsidy: Collector
The State Government has sanctioned Rs. 1.41 crores for the district under Micro Farming Scheme and with this amount 105 hectares will be developed, said Collector D. Karthikeyan at Pettikkampalayam . . .
- Multilateralism Key To Growth (Deccan Herald, JAYALAKSHMI K, Feb 16, 2006)
It’s only through multilateralism that India and other developing countries can reach the MDGs
- Who Is To Blame? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 16, 2006)
There is no point in blaming the markets for the abysmal quality of public services available for the poor
- Wto Deal Should Be In Favour Of Developing World: India (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 16, 2006)
India today made it clear that any deal at WTO should be in favour of developing nations to make the current round of talks development oriented, even as EU emphasised that its offer was a "real sacrifice".
- Price Fluctuations (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 16, 2006)
Farmers need protection
IT may seem a bit odd for a chief minister, who has been vigorously working for crop diversification, that is, a shift from the wheat-paddy cycle, to plead for a higher minimum support price for wheat.
- Naxalite Menace In Bihar (Tribune, Ambarish Dutta, Feb 16, 2006)
With the new dispensation in Bihar completing three months in office on February 23, it has finally worked out a roadmap to contain the growing Naxalite menace in the state.
- Wto’S Shifting Paradigms (Dawn, Fateh M. Chaudhri, Feb 16, 2006)
Eversince the multilateral trade negotiation were first conducted under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the process has been variously described as a “roller-coaster”, “muddling-through” or “limping forward”.
- Forward Markets Commission: A Toothless Tiger (The Financial Express, P VAIDYANATHAN IYER, Feb 16, 2006)
If you have a problem, you must nip it in the bud to avoid it getting out of hand. Particularly, when it relates to regulation.
- A.P. Economy On An Upswing: Governor (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 15, 2006)
Cites good monsoon and better performance in core sector as `indicators'
- India Will Have Its Own Jurisdiction In Space In 15 Years: U.R. Rao (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 15, 2006)
`Satellites have become a vital component in medical world'
- America's Plan Is To Force Gm Food On The World (Hindu, John Vidal, Feb 15, 2006)
Just A few years ago, World Trade Organisation officials used to act hurt when described by social activists as irresponsible, secretive bureaucrats who trampled over national sovereignty and placed free trade over the environment or human rights.
- Manmohan Likely To Launch Ongc Project In Mangalore Next Month (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 15, 2006)
Kumaraswamy meets President, Union Ministers, Plan panel Deputy Chairman
State's demands
Rs. 500 crores for improving infrastructure in Bangalore
Classical language status for Kannada
Funds for the development of northern Karnataka
- State's Economy On An Upswing, Says Governor (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 15, 2006)
Rameshwar Thakur's maiden address to the Assembly
Governor Rameshwar Thakur has painted a bright picture of the State's economy by projecting a growth rate of 7.55 per cent in the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) for the current fiscal, . . .
- Maharashtra Grants Relief For Onion Farmers (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 15, 2006)
The Maharashtra Agricultural Marketing Board has announced a relief package for onion farmers after the crop’s crashing prices led a farmer to commit suicide and caused widespread protest in Vidharbha and Marathwada.
- Onions, Without Tears (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 15, 2006)
A futures market in full play could prove the perfect buffer for volatile onion prices
- What Makes The Economy Grow? (Deccan Herald, GOPAL K KADEKODI, Feb 15, 2006)
The disparity between statistics and actual growth is prevalent in most studies
- Wto Deal Should Be In Favour Of Developing World: India (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 15, 2006)
India today made it clear that any deal at WTO should be in favour of developing nations to make the current round of talks development oriented, even as EU emphasised that its offer was a "real sacrifice".
- Military, Not Iran, Drives Bjp (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 15, 2006)
Senior leaders of the NDA today complained to President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam about what they described as the government’s decision to assess the level of Muslim representation in the armed forces.
- More Retail Fdi Needed (The Financial Express, Arvind Singhal, Feb 15, 2006)
The need of the hour is for the government to devise pragmatic policies for FDI in the retail business.
- Budget Must Focus On Growth With Equity (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Feb 15, 2006)
The major challenge before the Finance Minister is not only to initiate measures to sustain and accelerate the growth momentum of the economy but also to ensure that overall economic growth is accompanied by greater equity.
- History Takes Wing (Telegraph, Shahid Amin, Feb 15, 2006)
If there is one area where the United Progressive Alliance has succeeded in initiating far-reaching changes, it is arguably in the field of the school curriculum.
- Saving India's Endangered Wildlife (Daily Excelsior, G L Khajuria, Feb 14, 2006)
We deserve no right to live over this globe, if we don't bear sympathy in mind for a variety of animal life that surrounds us,
- Villagescope — Reviving The Rural Economy (Business Line, Sudhansu R. Das, Feb 14, 2006)
During the British Raj, indigenous products were given a silent burial. But many of them still survive and are catering to the global market. The government has to ensure that market reform does not encourage sophisticated middlemen.
- Techseeds For Farmland (Daily Excelsior, Rakesh Raman, Feb 14, 2006)
If the policymakers in India aspire to bridge the digital divide, there would hardly be any other potential area than agriculture where they could apply information and communication technologies (ICTs).
- Opium Country (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Feb 14, 2006)
Any avid reader of this newspaper will notice a disturbing regular occurrence. Hardly a week passes without the report of seizure of opium in one corner or the other of the State.
- Remembering A Liberal Humanist (Deccan Herald, Satya Narayana Sahu, Feb 14, 2006)
K R Narayanan wanted safe pedestrian crossings for the unempowered in the fast lane of liberalisation, privatisation & globalisation
- Rising Temperature In Past 5 Years Hits Wheat Yield (Tribune, Sarbjit Dhaliwal, Feb 14, 2006)
The per hectare yield of wheat has been falling in Punjab for the past five years. The state meets 60 per cent of the country’s total requirement of wheat.
- The Cooperative Movement (Hindu, S. Vydhianathan, Feb 14, 2006)
It is unfortunate that the cooperative movement in India, which is 100 years old, is passing through a difficult phase.
- Cabinet To Be Expanded On Friday (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 14, 2006)
Kumaraswamy refutes reports raising doubts over expansion
- A Budding Relationship Between U.S. And India (US News & World Report, Thomas Omestad, Feb 14, 2006)
Through a period of foreign policy upheaval dominated by the Bush administration's war on terrorism, a major shift in U.S. policy with enduring consequences has received far less public attention in America: Washington's embrace of New Delhi and . . .
- Festival To Promote Tea And Tourism Begins Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 14, 2006)
An exhibition will also be conducted
Elaborate arrangements have been made by the district administration in association with the Department of Tourism for the 2006 Tea and Tourism Festival to be organised at the Breeks Open Air Stadium here . . .
- Doha Round — The Challenge Beyond Hong Kong (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , Feb 14, 2006)
Are the decisions that were taken at Hong Kong being implemented? The developing countries need to be extremely careful and guard against pressure being mounted again.
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