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Articles 5421 through 5520 of 10500:
- Azad Calls Upon Nris To Invest In J&k (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 09, 2006)
Spelling out various incentives and concessions announced by the Jammu & Kashmir Government to attract investors...
- A Harvest Of Treachery (NEWSWEEK, Ron Moreau, Jan 09, 2006)
Jan. 9, 2006 issue - In the privacy of his sparsely furnished house in Kabul, a veteran Afghan Interior Ministry official says the situation may already be hopeless. Although he has no authorization to speak with the press, and he could be in . . .
- Party Supports Brinda: Karat (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
Questions raised by her not personal but those of the party and the CITU
Most Ayurvedic medicines not prepared under required regulations
Left to submit alternative budget proposals
To protest against U.S. President's planned visit
- How Many Sebis? (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
A key element for modernising Indian agriculture is well-functioning markets for agricultural products.
- Focus On Farms (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
When Prime Minster Manmohan Singh called for a second green revolution during his address at the Indian Science Congress earlier this week, he was not doing so for the first time
- No Compromise On Party Ideology, Says Rajnath ..... (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 09, 2006)
While preferring to steer clear of the ongoing debate on the relationship between the RSS and his party, BJP President Rajnath Singh appears to be in a tearing hurry to cleanse the 25-year-old organisation of all the ills afflicting it.
- Generating Rural Wealth By Marrying Commerce, Tech (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Jan 09, 2006)
Last week I wrote about how major retailers and consumer product companies were opening up employment opportunities across a large swathe of urban and semi-urban India without emphasis on education and technical skills.
- Chidambaram For Early Action On Rural Credit (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
NABARD asked to make detailed presentation to States
Focus on revival of short-term credit structure Three-pronged programme to provide financial assistance Small and marginal farmers to benefit
- Lives Of The Powerful (Greater Kashmir, Dr Syed Amir, Jan 08, 2006)
They record their events for us to read them, writes Dr Syed Amir
More than 150 years ago, the Scottish historian and essayist, Thomas Carlyle, in his book On Heroes and Hero Worship noted that “the history of the world is but the biography . . .
- Water Wars Everywhere - I (Greater Kashmir, Zahid Samoon, Jan 08, 2006)
Land disputes have ended paving way for battles over water resources, Zahid Samoon (Abraham) responds to Saadut Hussain’s article Water Wars
- Need For Sound Fiscal Management: Manmohan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
To increase interaction with Chief Ministers on sound economic policies
We cannot spend our way to prosperity
Development is not a dinner party
India on the verge of unprecedented opportunities
- Low Agriculture Growth May Hit Economy (Daily Excelsior, Satyendra Pratap Singh, Jan 08, 2006)
The parliamentary review committee on agriculture has suggested that in the eleventh plan a sum of Rs. 3, 60,000 should be invested to propel agricultural growth in the country, which has remained stagnant over the last 10-years.
- After Kisan-Speak, Pm, Rajnath Must Walk The Talk (Indian Express, SUDHEENDRA KULKARNI , Jan 08, 2006)
Those who wish to see India emerge as a developed nation in a holistic sense—prosperous, harmonious, egalitarian and culturally vibrant—know very well the critical importance of two large but long-neglected sections of our economy:
- India On Threshold Of Good Opportunities, Says Pm (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the country was on the threshold of unprecedented opportunities and development would occur "only if we make the right choices."
- A Challenging Role For Rajnath (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jan 08, 2006)
The new BJP President, Rajnath Singh has gained wide experience at his age. He is just 54. Known as a soft spoken and low profile gentleman-politician, he lacks the stature to lead the second biggest political party after the Congress.
- Tslushnami Of Human Rights (The Week, Kavitha Muralidharan, Jan 08, 2006)
What a year has wrought in Tamil Nadu and Kerala—the good, the bad and the ugly...
- This Rumpus Over The Dam (Dawn, M.P. Bhandara, Jan 08, 2006)
I happen to be in the ranks of the ordinary citizenry that is baffled by the passionate rhetoric on the passions aroused by the current debate on new large water reservoirs. Needless to say, when tongues lash one another, the flickering candle of . . .
- Conserving A Priceless Heritage (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
People should be aware of the value of the Ambarnath Shivalaya in Maharashtra and help beautify it, Dr Kumud Kanitkar, winner of the Justice K T Telang Fellowship in Indology, tells Vimla Patil.
- Enterprises In The Unorganised Sector (Daily Excelsior, H C Katoch, Jan 08, 2006)
Economic institutions grow not because of the consideration of general welfare, as Adam Smith, the father of economics once said, but because the livelihood of the enterprising people rests on it.
- Fdi And The Future Of Farmers (Hindu, N. Bala Ganesan, Jan 08, 2006)
The farm sector, taken as a whole, has no sustainable, long-term prospect of increasing its revenue
- Upa’S Plan For Minorities: We Will Fix Govt Spending As Per Their Population Share (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Jan 08, 2006)
In what could open the floodgates to political and legal controversy, the UPA Government is ready to announce a “15-point programme” for what it calls the “welfare” of minorities despite a categorical opinion from the Union Law Ministry that the . . .
- Priority Action For 2006 (Indian Express, N K Singh, Jan 08, 2006)
With the New Year festivities behind us there is need for real action. The Prime Minister has over the last few weeks articulated some priorities of the Government. Some of these must include the following:
- India’S Killing Fields (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Jan 08, 2006)
The first politician I met in 2006 was Sharad Pawar. It was a fortuitous meeting because this column now has a new cause. Agriculture.
- Express Your Voice (Indian Express, Madhu Agrawal, Jan 08, 2006)
There have always been two approaches—positive and negative—of looking at things (‘Hoping the new year will usher change—for the better’, January 1), and the year 2005 is no exception. No doubt the year gone by saw tsunami, earthquakes and bomb blasts;
- Overseas Indians Get Multiple Entry Visas (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched the Overseas Citizen of India scheme that confers a hassle-free, life-long multiple entry visa for overseas Indians here on Saturday at the fourth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, an annual three-day get-together . . .
- ‘Education Cannot Be Based On Money’ (Deccan Herald, K Jayalakshmi, Jan 08, 2006)
To achieve the task of making India a knowledge-based society, we simply have to decommercialise education” - Dr P M Bhargava
- Ancient City Modern Hues (Deccan Herald, Soumya Sitaraman, Jan 08, 2006)
What’s in a name? Plenty, it seems, if the impassioned debate surrounding the renaming of Bangalore as Bengaluru is anything to go by. Soumya Sitaraman looks back on a time when the city was, indeed, called Bengaluru.
- Jayalalithaa Opposes Reservoir Across Palar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
In a letter to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, she says bid to withhold flows is a breach of inter-State accord
- On The Grow (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jan 07, 2006)
The Green Revolution which in India spanned a period of approximately 10 years, from 1967 to 1978, is considered by many to be responsible for changing the country from one bordering on starvation to one of the world's leading agricultural nations.
- Check List: Things To Do During The Year (The Financial Express, NK SINGH, Jan 07, 2006)
With the New Year festivities happily behind us, there is need for real action. The Prime Minister has over the last few weeks articulated some priorities of the government. Some of these must include the following:
- Elitist Orientation Of The Economy (Dawn, Ishrat Husain, Jan 07, 2006)
Several observers have asked me to update the latest assessment of my thesis propounded in the book Pakistan: the economy of an elitist state. They are interested in exploring the question whether or not the policies and programmes pursued during . . .
- Growing Opium Menace (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 07, 2006)
The recent seizure by security forces of 17 kg of heroin in Karachi once again highlights two areas of growing concern regarding the wide prevalence of narcotics.
- India's Wealth And Squalor (Daily Excelsior, Sisir Basu, Jan 07, 2006)
The international media have covered the upswing of the Indian and Chinese economies. It is suggested that the Chinese economy would overtake Japan's currently the second largest, by 2016 and would be as big as that of the United States of America . . .
- Science For The People (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
IF the 93rd session of the Indian Science Congress, under way in Hyderabad, was to have been any different from previous meets, it should have thrown up some concrete suggestions for improving rural India.
- Even Lohiaites Are Learning (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jan 07, 2006)
If, like this writer, you too are a believer in economic reform leading to free markets, shrinking of the state’s role in economics and unshackling India’s creative and entrepreneurial energies, and are dismayed at the road-blocks and rollbacks at . . .
- Another Revolution (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 07, 2006)
The second Green Revolution will require sustainable technology
Four decades after the first Green Revolution that changed India from a starving nation to one of the world’s leading agricultural nations, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, . . .
- Those Blessed With Gene-Sharkmen, Matters, Memories (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Jan 07, 2006)
A news item I read in one of the Delhi papers the other day describes how a little striped fish had helped scientists to solve one of the biggest mysteries in biology- which genes were responsible for differences in human skin, eye and hair colour.
- In The Name Of The Buffalo (Indian Express, J.P. YADAV, Jan 07, 2006)
A popular saying goes ‘jiski lathi uski bhains’. Roughly put, it means that the one with the strongest stick owns the buffalo. Although this holds true across civilisations, one of its crudest manifestations can be found in Bihari society.
- Remembering Shah-I-Hamadan (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 07, 2006)
The great saint is not only remembered for his saintliness but there is much more than is being read and heard about him.The great saint is not only remembered for his saintliness but there is much more than is being read and heard about him.
- The Dream Team: A Critique-I (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 06, 2006)
Dr Manmohan Singh has spoken of how pleasantly surprised he was to be made Finance Minister in July 1991 by P V Narasimha Rao.
- Punjab’S View On Dams Shows Nationalism’ (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi said on Thursday Punjab’s view on big dams reflected nationalism, and it had always negated regionalism and provincialism, hoping that all reservations on water reservoirs would be removed.
- Return Of The Natives (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 06, 2006)
The question of Pandit return looms large over the larger Kashmir dispute.
- Kalabagh: The Question Of Alternatives (Dawn, S.M. Naseem, Jan 06, 2006)
The rush to build the Kalabagh dam is taking General Musharraf and many of his supporters, including some born-again superpatriots, to heights of irrationality.
- India's Gdp Likely To Grow By 7.7% Next Year: Bank Of America (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Booming manufacturing and services sector is likely to push up India's GDP growth to 7.7 per cent in 2006-07, but inflationary pressure may lead to hike in interest rates, Bank of America said today.
- Manmohan Announces Livelihood Plans For Andaman And Nicobar (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Jan 06, 2006)
One daily wage job to be provided for a year to each family affected by the tsunami
- Flawed Wheat Policy (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 06, 2006)
The government’s explanation for abolishing a 15 per cent duty on the export of wheat raises questions about its policy on crop pricing and its ability to keep the markets for essential food items free of hoarders.
- Trade And Social Concerns (Dawn, Najma Sadeque, Jan 06, 2006)
There were 6,000 negotiators, 3,000 registered business and NGO lobbyists, and some 5,000 stakeholder-protesters from 149 countries at the WTO’s recent Hong Kong ministerial.
- Fao Chief Sees Role For Indian Scientists In Food Security (Hindu, P. Sunderarajan , Jan 06, 2006)
They could share expertise for modernising small-scale farming
Collaborative initiative to eliminate hunger in 10 years
To be done in a phased manner with developed countries' support
- A Farmer's Record (Hindu, K. Srinivas Reddy, Jan 06, 2006)
Chinthala Venkat Reddy wanted a cost-effective way to restore soil fertility without using fertilizers. His efforts have borne fruit and the farmer from Lothukunta is now waiting for a patent for his technique.
- Scientists Must Play Leading Role In Pura Project, Says Kalam (Hindu, P. Sunderarajan , Jan 06, 2006)
They must provide scientific, technological leadership
Says the community can help set up 100 PURA centres
Must comprise village knowledge centres, agri-clinics, tele-education, water treatment plants
- Turning On Genes To Treat Diseases (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
However, there are concerns on account of insects becoming resistant to the Bt toxin and of a foreign gene being consistently present in the cotton plant.
- Kalam Gives Tips To Farmers (Deccan Herald, K Jayalakshmi, Jan 06, 2006)
“My theatre of action, Pokhran is beautiful to me.” It was President A P J Abdul Kalam at his candid best at the 93rd Science Congress answering a query from a farmer in faraway Rajasthan.
- Will Govt Apathy Kill Good Cinema? (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, Jan 06, 2006)
On the tenth day of the screening of ‘Beru’, the national award-winning Kannada film on corruption, in Shimoga last fortnight, the movie’s director P Seshadri got a call from the theatre: “Sir, there are two people in the audience. What do we do?”
- Naveen Patnaik Government Under Fire (Hindu, PRAFULLA DAS, Jan 06, 2006)
The Kalinga Nagar incident has put the already strained BJD-BJP relationship under further pressure.
- Ysr Seeks Scientists' Counsel On Projects (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Modern practices is a must for farmers to reap benefits
Farmer suicides almost stopped in the State, says YSR
- Kalam Launches `Kidney Care Project' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Says it is time adequate attention is paid to the healthcare sector
Calls for solution to kidney transplant through stem cell research
Stresses the need to create awareness about cadaver kidney transplant
- Bjp Behind `Saleli Episode,' Says Rane (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
As the "Saleli landlord murder" controversy continued to hot up, Goa Chief Minister Pratapsing Rane on Wednesday alleged that BJP is behind the episode and asked Leader of the Opposition Manohar Parrikar to desist from politicising the issue and . . .
- Safta Comes Into Force (Daily Excelsior, Pallab Bhattacharya, Jan 05, 2006)
With the onset of new year, the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) was set into motion.
- Value To Rural Markets (Telegraph, Alok K. Chattopadhyay, Jan 05, 2006)
When the regulation regime came into effect, the Agriculture Produce Market Committees in India geared up to the change. West Bengal, with its rich manpower, can easily lead the way in rural development enterprises, provided there is a political . . .
- For A Second Farm Revolution (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 05, 2006)
Shall we consider it a good New Year augury that at the recent Indian Science Congress, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, called for a second Green Revolution and urged scientists to work towards it?
- Ensuring A Successful Doha Round (The Financial Express, RAJIV KUMAR, Jan 05, 2006)
Reports from the Hong Kong Ministerial reflect an uneasy last minute compromise reached to keep the door open for carrying forward the Doha Development Round to a possible successful conclusion within the year.
- Now Sikh History With Pictures (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Jan 05, 2006)
Though Khushwant Singh is an atheist, he has perhaps done much more for the community than any present-day Sikh.
- Safta: India Should Lead By Example (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jan 05, 2006)
Trade is a two-way street. If India opened up to its neighbours, allowing them to enter the domestic market, they might be liberal in opening up their market place, and ultimately price and quality would settle the demand-supply equations.
- Second Green Revolution (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 05, 2006)
Scientists have to lend a helping hand
The Prime Minister’s call to scientists, while addressing the Indian Science Congress in Hyderabad on Tuesday, to play a role in creating rural jobs and making technologies affordable to small farmers . . .
- Development Plan Sought For Rr District (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
It is backward in all spheres: CPI(M) Rajya Sabha member P. Madhu
Government urged to formulate special five-year plans
Fab city and petrochemical complex projects sought
The district is agriculturally the most backward
- Economic Prospects In 2006 (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Jan 05, 2006)
The government in Pakistan faces the new year with a plate full of problems and overflowing. A few of the problems are of its own making or mismanaged by it, and some being the result of external developments like the domestic impact of high world . . .
- Reaching Science To The Farm (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 05, 2006)
From the podium at the Indian Science Congress, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for a second Green Revolution to follow the one that three decades ago turned the country from an abject importer of foodgrain to a self-sufficient producer.
- The Green Card (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 05, 2006)
In an economy heady with its success in information technology, it is easy to forget that industrially advanced regions like California or countries like France are also leading agricultural producers.
- Some Green Light (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 05, 2006)
That second green revolution, Prime Minister, needs crucial changes in policy
- Fear-Stricken Policy (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Jan 05, 2006)
India will have to hold out a vision of a Lanka that recognises cultural and ethnic diversities
- Sri Lankan War Fears Take Shine Off Economic Hopes (Daily Times, Peter Apps, Jan 04, 2006)
Dollar aid after Asia’s tsunami boosted both the local rupee and the stock exchange - but the bourse has fallen sharply after the string of attacks on the military last month
- Pm Unveils 7-Point Package For Second Green Revolution (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today unveiled a seven-point package to bring about second green revolution and promote integrated rural development to enhance productivity and bridge the rural-urban divide.
- Alternative Ways To Meet Social Mandates (The Financial Express, Janmejaya Sinha, Jan 04, 2006)
The Indian state, in its various avatars, requires India’s financial sector to meet a large number of social policy objectives.
- Design For New Year (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 04, 2006)
PM must make the states sing along
After crafting the ambitious Bharat Nirmaan and the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, putting in place the enabling legal framework and even arranging funds, the UPA government under Dr Manmohan Singh ...
- Time To Convert Concepts To Reality (The Financial Express, S NARAYAN, Jan 04, 2006)
The draft report on integrated energy policy fails on key issues; ministries still think within . . .
- The Health Of Nations: Seeking A Way Forward (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Jan 04, 2006)
There's a clamour for `public-private' partnerships in the sphere of Indian health care. But there is very little that is public left in the sector.
- Iit Soldier & Terror On Centre Stage (Telegraph, G.S. RADHAKRISHNA, Jan 04, 2006)
They came to find scientific solutions to poverty, but all the voices rose in anger against a common threat — terrorism.
- Pm Seeks A Second Green Revolution (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today said the nation needs a second Green Revolution as the technologies and strategies unleashed by the first Green Revolution have run their course.
- Panchayati Raj: Rural Business Hub Idea Taking Off (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
The Panchyati Raj ministry’s idea of linking business houses with Panchayati Raj Institutions to develop area-specific products for sale is finally taking shape.
- Trees Planted At Bio-Park (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
The B.V.K. College, in association with the Dolphin Nature Conservation Society and R.C.D. Government Hospital, organised a tree plantation programme at the bio-diversity park at the hospital premises on Monday.
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