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Articles 521 through 620 of 7145:
- The Totally Tedious Nature Of Iniquity (The Economic Times, MUKUL SHARMA, Sep 29, 2006)
A lot of people don’t choose the way of evil not because they intrinsically prefer good but because they fear the consequences — both earthly and perhaps divine — of doing bad things.
- Politics Of Durga Puja (Pioneer, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Sep 29, 2006)
While West Bengal erupts in what Union Information & Broadcasting Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi calls "stree shakti" (women's power), two very dissimilar strees are jostling for Durga's tiara.
- Reservation Rumbles (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 29, 2006)
Buffered vigilance on the OBC quota
- Upa-Left Coordination Committee Meets On Oct 4 (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 29, 2006)
The UPA Government’s "pro-rich" economic policies, "deviation" from the country’s independent foreign policy and the controversy over Special Economic Zones (SEZs) will dominate the discussions at the UPA-Left Coordination panel meet here on October four.
- Maoists To Improve Coordination (Hindu, K. Srinivas Reddy, Sep 29, 2006)
Decision came at a meeting in Nepal of Maoist Parties and Organisations
Need for people's movements to draw closer
South Asia a burning cauldron of revolutionary movements
Committee to deepen links between genuine Maoists.
- Faling Revolution (Daily Excelsior, Jayant Muralidharan, Sep 29, 2006)
What is today described as "Naxalism" in Andhra Pradesh actually began as a Communist-led, Marxism-oriented peasant movement in Telengana in 1944. This Telengana movement was the outcome of a strained social fabric and an iniquitous . . .
- Chaturvedi Calls For Probity And Ethics In Public Life (Hindu, S. Rajendran, Sep 29, 2006)
`Bureaucracy has to be immunised from politicisation' .
- "Globalisation Will Only Work If The Winners Share With The Losers" (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 29, 2006)
Economist and Nobel laureateJoseph Stiglitz,author, most recently, ofMaking Globalisation Work, spoke to Nobel Laureates Plus editor Nathan Gardels on September 22.
- Jharkhand Needs Elections: Karat (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 28, 2006)
The party will suggest amendments to the SEZ Act in five areas
- Autonomy Row (Frontline, S. Viswanathan, Sep 28, 2006)
The move to grant autonomy to JIPMER raises fears that the poor will no longer benefit from the Institute's services.
- Over To Koda (Frontline, Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Sep 28, 2006)
It may not be long before the Madhu Koda Ministry in Jharkhand meets the fate of the ones that preceded it in the past six years.
- The Cag Report (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 28, 2006)
The CAG's latest report indicts the NDA government's disinvestment exercise which resulted in grave losses to the exchequer.
- Manmohan Bin Tughlaq (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 28, 2006)
In a detailed article headlined ‘Capitulation! Manmohan as Mohammad bin Tughlaq’, Organiser’s foreign affairs expert M.D. Nalapat launches a no-holds-barred attack against the Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi for allegedly surrendering India’s . . .
- Panel Okays 3 New Iims (Tribune, Smriti Kak Ramachandran, Sep 28, 2006)
The Oversight Committee, after its final meeting here today, opted to leave the contentious issue of the “creamy layer” for the government to decide. It has, however, recommended setting up of three new IIMs in the country and more IIT-like . . .
- Armed For Democracy? (Indian Express, YUBARAJ GHIMIRE, Sep 27, 2006)
Unwilling to give up their arms, Maoists insist they’ll organise a ‘people’s revolt’ in Kathmandu. Their tactic is to project the pro-democracy coalition and judiciary as anti-people, and the security forces as violators of human rights
- Court Holds No Magic Wand (Indian Express, Ajay K. Mehra, Sep 27, 2006)
Veteran communist leader Indrajit Gupta, then Union home minister, prophetically concluded his letter to chief ministers on police reforms and restructuring on April 3, 1997 thus: “if the political executives do not take the desired measures even . . .
- Return Of Nam (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Sep 27, 2006)
The Non-Aligned Movement summit in Havana comes out with a robust response to U.S. hegemony in a unipolar world.
- Dmk To Contest Four Mayor Posts (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
Congress will contest two; details being worked out at district level.
- Terming Pak Bomb 'Islamic' Is Racist: Musharraf (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
Terming the Islamic tag given to Pakistan's nuclear bomb as "racist", President Pervez Musharraf has said nuclear testing by his country evoked a stronger protest from the global community as compared to India's test just because it was the first . . .
- Uma Rules Out Return To Bjp (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
Bharatiya Janashakti president Uma Bharti today ruled out her return to the BJP but offered her party’s support for being ready to be a part of a forum of nationalistic forces to defend the country from the twin threats — market invasion by outsidE . . .
- Karat Demands Changes In Special Economic Zone Act (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
Amid the controversy over the creation of Special Economic Zones (SEZs), the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Tuesday demanded urgent changes in the Act, and decided to send a comprehensive note to the Government suggesting corrections.
- What Bengal Thinks Today... (Business Standard, A K Bhattacharya, Sep 27, 2006)
What the West Bengal government has done today at Singur, 50 kilometres north-west of Kolkata, the rest of India should do in the coming days.
- Forsyth Falters On Facts (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Sep 27, 2006)
I was inspired to buy Frederick Forsyth’s latest offering, The Afghan, by my friend and Malayalam writer N.S. Madhavan’s column in a mass-circulation Malayalam daily. The desire was solidified by a front-page report in The Indian Express which . . .
- Zone Of Confusion (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 27, 2006)
The much-publicised Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have landed the UPA Government and the Congress in a bit of a spot.
- Chinese Troops In Lebanon (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Sep 26, 2006)
While India makes a heavy weather of its participation in the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, China has stepped in by expanding its military presence there five fold. Paralysed by the fear of domestic criticism, India chose not to increase its . . .
- China Should Worry About Its High Savings (The Financial Express, ILA PATNAIK, Sep 26, 2006)
The high savings rate of its state-owned enterprises could lead to a macroeconomic problem
- Linguistic Division Of Provinces (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 26, 2006)
ABOUT a fortnight ago, the Federal Parliamentary Affairs Minister Sher Afgan had indicated that Punjab could be sub-divided into three smaller provinces for several reasons. Soon after, a high functionary of the state denied the possibility saying . . .
- So Far, So Good (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 26, 2006)
Though the Congress party’s Nainital conclave was billed as a meeting of Chief Ministers belonging to the party, it turned out to be a good occasion to display the sound political health of the UPA coalition that governs the country.
- Musharraf: Terming Pak Bomb 'Islamic' Is Racist (Press Trust of India, K J M Varma, Sep 26, 2006)
Terming the Islamic tag given to Pakistan's nuclear bomb as "racist", President Pervez Musharraf has said nuclear testing by his country evoked a stronger protest from the global community as compared to India's test just because it was the first . . .
- Telengana Ii : Much Ado About Nothing (Daily Excelsior, SREEDHAR, Sep 26, 2006)
The Telengana I was enacted in the 1970s and the recent Telengana II is very much in the news nowadays especially due to the formation of the Telengana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and its ascendancy to power.
- Stirrings Of Land War Across The Country (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
In Bengal, Mamata Banerjee is on hunger strike against land acquisition for a Tata car factory
Tribals in Orissa announce effigy-burning on Dussehra to protest the Vedanta alumina project
Also in Orissa, a mass hunger strike is on in Bhubaneswa . . .
- More Stress On Positives (Dawn, Shahid Javed Burki, Sep 26, 2006)
I have written this article and the few that will follow in response to a request from a senior official of a development agency based in Washington.
- Shot-Down Idea (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 26, 2006)
This newspaper has always maintained that ceasefire with the Ulfa is utterly unacceptable. But the home ministry had insisted that negotiations with a group of extortionists was feasible.
- Call Them By Any Name, They Are Bonded Labourers (Tribune, Ruchika M. Khanna, Sep 25, 2006)
For the past 22 years, Amarjit Singh, who is the manager of a 55-acre farm in Mansa Khurd village here, has been working from dawn to dusk for a measly daily wage of Rs 52.05.
- It’S A Dog Life, But Some People Have Had Enough (Deccan Herald, MARK MAGNIER, Sep 25, 2006)
After suffering humiliation and being a butt of jokes for a millenium, the chinese jing clan is happy after the authorities decided to restore its former name.
- In Russia, Cautious Generosity (Tribune, Peter Finn, Sep 25, 2006)
Russia’s tycoons, whose flamboyant spending has rung cash registers from the Mediterranean isles to London’s Mayfair district, have found a new use for their supersize wallets: philanthropic foundations.
- Those Terrible Twins (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Sep 25, 2006)
“I am afraid that with Jaroslaw Kaczynski as prime minister, Poland will become more extreme, more anti-European and a more xenophobic country”, warned Bronislaw Komorowski, a member of the opposition Civic Platform party, when the . . .
- From One Long March To Another (News International, Prof Khwaja Masud, Sep 25, 2006)
The Chinese people stood up under the leadership of the Communist Party, founded by a dozen progressive intellectuals in 1921.
- Congress Discusses Assembly Polls (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
The Congress began a preliminary exercise for States going to the Assembly polls next year. Party president Sonia Gandhi held discussions with State leaders here to attend the two-day conclave of Congress Chief Ministers.
- Cpm Meet To Focus On Upa Govt Failure (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
The CPM leaders are likely to come down heavily on the UPA government for its “failure” to take corrective measures on various issues of public concern including price rise raised jointly by the Left parties.
- `Media Not Singling Out Hindutva For Attack' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
The ideology has gained from media exposure, says Shanth Kumar.
- Blair Is Churchillian (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 25, 2006)
The most justifiable war in recent history is the one the 'English-speaking' people are fighting against the Taliban and Al Qaeda elements, says Andrew Robert.
- Bengal Blues (Statesman, AK SEN SARMA, Sep 25, 2006)
Commentators over the years have often lamented the sense of deprivation that Bengal occasionally suffers. This is embedded in the insensitivity of the rest of India to the crippling blows suffered by Bengal, particularly between the 1930s and the . . .
- Pm To Discuss Stalled Asset Sales With Allies (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Sunday he would discuss the issue of stake sales in state-run firms before moving forward with any plans.
- Pm Warns Of Terror Strikes, Asks Cms To Tone Up Intelligence (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 24, 2006)
A grim warning about "further intensification" of terrorist attacks involving greater use of fidayeen elements to target religious, economic and other "sensitive objects" was the centrepoint of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's address to the . . .
- Nato Seeks To Widen Strategic Contacts (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 24, 2006)
Formed to contain the might of the erstwhile Soviet Union-led communist alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is now focussing its efforts to fight terrorism and was seeking to widen its "strategic contacts", including that with India.
- Naxalite Can Take Home Reward On His Head: Chhattisgarh’S New Plan (Indian Express, Nitin Mahajan, Sep 24, 2006)
This is the biggest bait yet for Chhattisgarh’s Naxalites to come overground.
- Violence Level Down In J&k, Infiltration Diminishes: Pm (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 24, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said infiltration across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir had diminished and his Government was sincerely pursuing dialogue with Pakistan and the people of the State in its endeavour to give them a . . .
- Pm Warns Of Terror Attacks (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Sep 24, 2006)
Obviously concerned at their party's dipping popularity among the minorities, both Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today took up cudgels for the minority community and asked the security agencies and state . . .
- Waiting To Grow Old (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 24, 2006)
Age is an advantage in India.
- Oil’S Well Between Manmohan And Left (Indian Express, ANANDA MAJUMDAR, Sep 24, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has taken note of a positive offer from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of supplying oil to India at a stable price during a meeting the two leaders had in Havana, and suggested to Left leaders that relations with . . .
- Sonia: Tough Anti-Terrorist Action Should Not Polarise Society (Hindu, K.V. Prasad, Sep 24, 2006)
It is not correct to accuse minority communities of terrorist sympathies: Manmohan.
- Pm Warns Of Terror Strikes (Deccan Herald, Utpal Borpujari, Sep 24, 2006)
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Saturday warned that there could be more “externally-sponsored” terrorist attacks targeting a wide a range of religious, economic and sensitive places...
- Kerala-Cola War: Coke,pepsi Godowns Attacked (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 24, 2006)
Pro-Left organisations on Saturday stepped up attacks on godowns stocking cola products across Kerala even as the state government decided to challenge a court decision lifting the ban on the sale of colas here.
- A Policy Of Wink And Fudge (Indian Express, P.V. Ramana, Sep 24, 2006)
Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil will be making a presentation on internal security at the two-day Congress conclave of chief ministers at Nainital.
- Pm Warns Of More Fidayeen Attacks (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 24, 2006)
Describing as 'worrisome' the activities of externally-sponsored terror groups, prime minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday warned of a spurt in suicide attacks targeting religious, economic and sensitive institutions in the country.
- Eia Norms May Hit Upa, Left Relation (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 23, 2006)
The revised set of environment impact assessment norms announced last week may become a bone of contention between the ruling UPA coalition and its Left allies as allegations have surfaced that the government’s move came at the behest of foreign . . .
- War Is Not An Option: Manmohan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 23, 2006)
Joint mechanism a two-tier system
An experiment to find a solution to long-standing problems
- Police Focus On Local Body Polls, Anti-Naxal Drive (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 23, 2006)
LAW &ORDER 1,885 polling stations in west zone identified as sensitive The West Zone police are gearing up to ensure a peaceful local body polls, writes V.S. Palaniappan.
- Centre's Economic Policies Identical To Nda's: Dasgupta (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 23, 2006)
Gurudas Dasgupta, CPI leader in the Lok Sabha, on Friday warned of a "much bigger confrontation" with the Union Government if it failed to listen to the Left parties.
- Proposed Sale Of Uni: Cpi (M) Seeks Manmohan's Intervention (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 23, 2006)
Government should act as regulatory agency, demands Prakash Karat .
- Russia-U.S. Ties To Worsen: Report (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Sep 23, 2006)
The United States will pursue a hostile policy towards Russia regardless of who comes to power in the White House, a Russian Parliament report has warned.
- Pmk Design To Change Jipmer Status, Free Medical Care Alleged (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 23, 2006)
Leaders of political parties hold a demonstration to protest autonomy decision
Apolitical activities interrupted although other sections given full liberty, say leaders
Centre had not responded to Chief Minister's efforts to revoke suspension orders.
- Naxalite Can Take Home Reward On His Head: Chhattisgarh’S New Plan (Indian Express, Nitin Mahajan, Sep 23, 2006)
This is the biggest bait yet for Chhattisgarh’s Naxalites to come overground.
- A Policy Of Wink And Fudge (Indian Express, P.V. Ramana, Sep 23, 2006)
In his presentation on national security at the Congress conclave in Nainital, will the home minister reveal the full picture on Naxalites?
- September 11: Before And After (Dawn, Shameem Akhtar, Sep 23, 2006)
IF a catastrophe of the magnitude of September 11 were to occur in the horrific manner in which it did in New York, any nation would go mad, and if the victims of this brutal act were to see the hidden hand of militants of whatever persuasion . . .
- India Must Try Anti-Terror Mechanism, Says Singh (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 23, 2006)
India must try a joint mechanism with Pakistan to tackle terrorism, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday.
- Naxal Menace Is In Check: Ysr (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 23, 2006)
Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy on Friday said recruitment into the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) had stopped because of the development initiatives launched by his government.
- S.Korea, U.S. Working To Spur Nuclear Talks (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Sep 23, 2006)
The United States and South Korea are working on an initiative to try to restart stalled six-country talks on the North's nuclear program, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon said on Friday.
- S. Korea's Ban Seeks To Build On Lead In U.N. Race (Reuters, Paul Eckert, Sep 23, 2006)
Informal polls showing South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon as the leading contender to succeed U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan have strengthened his resolve to press for U.N. reforms, Ban said on Friday.
- Chinese Checkers (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Sep 23, 2006)
Unfortunately for Mr Shashi Tharoor, the winning candidate has to be the one who gets the unqualified support of either the US or China, no matter what France, the UK or Russia may think.
- How Terror Corrodes The Economy (Business Line, Sudhansu R. Das, Sep 22, 2006)
Sans the trouble of terror, India would have made far greater economic strides.
- High On Opium For Masses (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 22, 2006)
In the beginning was the word and the word was with Marx.
- Man In A Hurry (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 22, 2006)
Not many can boast a CV that reads `Chief Minister at age 35.' Yet that is not all there is to Madhu Koda, the newest head of government in Jharkhand and among a handful of independents to reach the high office in any State.
- Special Article (Statesman, DIPAK BASU, Sep 22, 2006)
As the reservation system India is based on caste, the government has not been able to improve the lot of the backward or the poor as they may not belong to the castes or tribes entitled to receive aid from the state.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 22, 2006)
Deaths in police firing, widespread violent public protest, disruption of normal life, all these arouse the sentiments upon which politicians thrive (induce?) but which have no place in policy formulation or administrative action.
- Cong Conclave To Focus On Agararian Crisis (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 22, 2006)
The cooler climes of Nainital are expected to become hot for some Union Ministers and Chief Ministers when a Congress conclave gets underway here tomorrow to focus on the agrarian crisis which saw a spate of farmers' suicides in at least four states.
- Spread The Butter, Not Non-Usable Nukes (Indian Express, JAGAT S. MEHTA, Sep 22, 2006)
If the aftermath of the Bush-Singh agreement on civil nuclear cooperation has been tortuous, with the US Senate set to vote on it today, it may be an apt moment to recall that the original principles behind the Non-Proliferation Treaty were . . .
- Cong Conclave To Focus On Agrarian Crisis (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 22, 2006)
The cooler climes of Nainital are expected to become hot for some Union Ministers and Chief Ministers when a Congress conclave gets underway in Nainital on Saturday to focus on the agrarian crisis which saw a spate of farmers' suicides in at least . . .
- Koda’S Troubles (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 22, 2006)
Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda has won the confidence vote.
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