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Articles 1921 through 2020 of 7145:
- The Central Banker's Puzzle (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jun 19, 2006)
Different central bankers have their own national experience and policy objectives to go by in determining their anti-inflation stance. While maintaining a reasonable threshold for inflation levels, Governor Reddy has to keep in mind the need to . . .
- India’S Egregious Hr Record (Pakistan Observer, Mohammad Jamil, Jun 19, 2006)
In the past there have been negotiations between India and Pakistan, and whenever the thorny issue of Kashmir came under discussion, India did find some excuse to derail the process.
- Missile Warning To N Korea (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2006)
Japan today warned North Korea of “a harsh response” from Tokyo and Washington if it went ahead with the launch of a long-range missile.
- China, India Agree To Reopen Historic Trade Route (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2006)
China and India have agreed to reopen border trade at the historic Nathu-la pass after more than 40 years, a symbol of rapprochement between Asian giants who fought a Himalayan war in 1962.
- Learn From Left, Says Atal (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2006)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee wants the men and women in his party to learn from the communists — about how to climb back to power.
- Vajpayee Praises Communists At Bjp Meeting (Tribune, Girja Shankar Kaura, Jun 19, 2006)
The return to power by the Left parties in the recent state elections has come in for a praise from veteran BJP leader and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who while pointing to the success of the Communists has asked his party to . . .
- Shaken By Shanghai (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Jun 19, 2006)
While the painful prose of the declarations from the Shanghai summit last week might put most people to sleep, it has begun to shake America out of its strategic stupor in Asia.
- It’S A Jungle Out There (Indian Express, JAY MAZOOMDAAR, Jun 19, 2006)
This week the Cabinet will probably consider the tribal bill. A joint parliamentary committee (JPC) has worked on it.
- Nepal Marches On (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 19, 2006)
The agreement signed on June 16 by the top leaders of the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) and Prachanda, chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), on eight key issues is remarkable by any standards. Mr. Prachanda did not indulge in hyperbole when . .
- Nepal King's Veto Powers Scrapped (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2006)
Bills need no royal assent
Concept of `King in Parliament' abolished
All the authority the King once had in Parliament eliminated
First face-to-face meeting between officials and Maoists
- More Punch For Para-Military (Deccan Herald, Bidanda M Chengappa, Jun 19, 2006)
Resources must be improved for better intelligence gathering
- "Bjp Should Learn How To Get Re-Elected From Communists" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2006)
There is no doubt NDA did well. Yet something was lacking: Vajpayee
We should introspect about exit of senior leaders
Work out strategy to retain power in BJP-ruled States
Let us face problems collectively
- Left Smells A Threat (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 19, 2006)
Would like nothing better than the status quo
The CPI-M states the obvious by declaring it will snap ties with the Congress if it decides on a mid-term poll.
- Manmohan May Have To Labour On Policy (Pioneer, Santanu Banerjee, Jun 19, 2006)
The approach papers of the XIth Plan requires the UPA Government to undertake a range of politically sensitive measures to achieve the objective of high growth target.
- Vajpayee Praises Communists At Bjp Meeting (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2006)
In a rare praise of the commmunists by a BJP leader, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has said the saffron party should learn from them the art of getting re-elected to power and admitted there was "something lacking" in his Government . . .
- Japan, Us Warn N Korea Against ‘Provocative’ (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
The United States and Japan warned North Korea on Saturday to drop plans for a long-range missile test, warning it would be “grave and provocative.”
- Maoist Rebel Leader Among Four Killed In India (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
Police killed four suspected Maoist rebels, including a key leader, in shootouts in a dense forest in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, a police officer said on Saturday.
- Nepal Govt, Maoists Power Deal Welcomed (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
A landmark deal between Nepal’s authorities and Maoist rebels, which will see parliament dissolved and power shared in a new interim government, was hailed in the troubled Himalayan kingdom on Saturday.
- Game In Shanghai (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 18, 2006)
Ignore SCO, but not Central Asia ---- In criticising Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for not attending the fifth summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the Indian Left has yet again made evident its craven surrender to blind . . .
- Prices: Cpi (M), Sp To Continue Protest (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
Asking States to reduce ST on petrol, diesel wrong: Karat
Left-run States to reduce sales tax on fuel after Centre rolls back hike
Left parties to discuss support to UPA next month
- Nitish Kumar Seeks More Central Forces For Bihar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
Calls for disaster management institute in the State
- The Patriarch (Statesman, DEBAKI NANDAN MANDAL, Jun 18, 2006)
THE cabinet of the seventh Left Front government has excess baggage of 14 if the prescribed norm of 10 per cent of the 294-strong state legislature is taken into account.
- China No To Pak N-Plea, Nod To Energy (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
China has maintained a silence on Pakistan’s persistent requests to make more nuclear plants for it but agreed to develop the South Asian country into an energy corridor for oil supplies to the Communist nation.
- Naidu Sees Cracks In Upa (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
The disintegration of the UPA has started, observed the BJP former president and MP M. Venkaiah Naidu. UPA is an alliance formed without any common agenda or an agreement except anti-BJP stand, and after two years of its formation the internal . . .
- Three Naxals Killed In Andhra Encounter (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
Three Maoists, including a woman, were killed in an encounter with the police in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh on saturday, police said.
- Defence No To Naxal Duty (Pioneer, Rahul Datta, Jun 18, 2006)
Army should train State forces instead ---- The demand for deployment of Army to combat the overgrown Naxalite-Maoist menace has been put on hold with the Defence Ministry not favouring any such move.
- Nepal To Set Up Interim Government With Rebels (Reuters, Gopal Sharma, Jun 18, 2006)
Nepal's Maoist rebel leader held ground-breaking talks on Friday with the government, which agreed to dissolve parliament and set up an interim administration to include the rebels.
- Seat-Sharing Accords Elude All Parties (Hindu, W. Chandrakanth, Jun 18, 2006)
CPI complains to All-India Congress Committee against State Congress
- Du Students Visit Srinagar Orphanages (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Jun 18, 2006)
Ever since the series of earthquake jolted some areas of the Kashmir valley, activist Shabnam Hashmi has taken batches of Delhi University (DU) students to live and work in the affected villages.
- Irrational, Even Absurd (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 17, 2006)
A case of naivety and self-deception?
- Fishing In Troubled Up Waters (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Jun 17, 2006)
Vishwanath Pratap Singh, a former Prime Minister and father of Mandalisation of upcountry politics, is back at it.
- Ominous Signs For Upa Government (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Jun 17, 2006)
The Congress-led UPA government is in trouble as its allies are pulling in different directions.
- Nepal To Set Up Interim Government With Rebels (Reuters, Gopal Sharma, Jun 17, 2006)
Nepal's Maoist rebel leader held ground-breaking talks on Friday with the government, which agreed to dissolve parliament and set up an interim administration to include the rebels.
- New Phase In Ties With India: Hu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
Beijing committed to forging long-term strategic cooperation
Discussed energy cooperation: Deora
Says developing friendly ties with Beijing is top priority
- Nepal Govt, Maoists Reach Agreement To End Insurgency (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
Nepal’s government and the Maoist militants reached an agreement Friday aimed at ending the decade-long insurgency after a day of unprecedented meetings between rebel leaders and the government, the home minister said.
- Central Asia Rediscovers Islamic Roots (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 17, 2006)
Turkestan, Kazakhstan: In Soviet days, people walked past the Khoja Ahmed Yasawi mausoleum, a holy Muslim site in the steppe of southern Kazakhstan, and pretended it wasn’t there.
- Private Quota May Haunt Monsoon Session (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Jun 17, 2006)
The Congress leadership may have put a lid on Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Meira Kumar’s call for SC/ST quotas in the private sector, but the demand for a consitutional amendment to bring that about is gaining strength and could be raised . . .
- ‘The Phobia Felt By Dalits Is Very Real’ (Deccan Herald, K S Narayanan, Jun 17, 2006)
Chandra Bhan Prasad is a Dalit columnist and writer. In his latest book, Dalit Phobia: Why do they hate us? he argues that Dalit phobia is passed on from generation to generation....
- Game In Shanghai (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 17, 2006)
In criticising Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for not attending the fifth summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the Indian Left has yet again made evident its craven surrender to blind anti-Americanism.
- Fuel Prices: What's Going On? (Rediff on the Net, T V R Shenoy, Jun 17, 2006)
Petroleum Minister Murli Deora has asked every state government to follow the Maharashtra model, and cut sales tax rates on petrol and diesel. Alas for the harassed minister, his cherished Maharashtra model is falling apart.
- Swarajists At The Savoy (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jun 17, 2006)
In Paris, during the students’ riots of the late Sixties, a pretty young Indian girl, now high in the Communist hierarchy, smoked foul-smelling French Gauloise cigarettes because they reminded her of Char Minars.
- Politics Above Law (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Jun 16, 2006)
Recent goings-on in the country remind me of a saying in the United States, popular during the prohibition era there, “The administration’s folly makes you feel like crying into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into”.
- J&k Figures In Upa-Left Meet (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2006)
Rising prices of essential goods and the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, including the dialogues initiated by the Government, figured prominently at a meeting of the UPA and the Left Coordination Committee here today.
- Nepal Rebel Chief To King: Abdicate Or Face Execution (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Jun 16, 2006)
A ceremonial monarchy will never work in Nepal and if the king does not abdicate he could end up facing trial and even execution, the Himalayan nation's powerful Maoist rebel chief said on Thursday.
- Strange Bedfellows Of Politics (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Jun 16, 2006)
CPM's alliance with TDP in Andhra Pradesh could destabilise the UPA if the experiment succeeds in the panchayat election, says Kalyani Shankar
- Assembly Resumes Sitting Today; Stormy Session Likely (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2006)
Governor R.L. Bhatia set to deliver policy address in the House
- Jihadi-Islamist Compact (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Jun 16, 2006)
Former world chess champion and then Fidé president Max Euwe had reportedly exclaimed, after being defeated by a Nepalese competitor in the late 1970s, "Alekhine lives in Nepal!"
- Unfit To Print (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 16, 2006)
---- The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has notched one more medallion from its political master, the Human Resource Development Ministry.
- Telengana Caught In Power Politics (Daily Excelsior, G.S.Bhargava, Jun 15, 2006)
Failure to redeem the promise to carve a separate Telengana State out of incumbent Andhra Pradesh sticks out like a sore thumb in the two-year record of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
- Too Old To Bat (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 15, 2006)
Purge India’s sclerotic gerontocracy
No major country in the world is as gerontocratic, or as sclerotic in its politics, as we are in India.
- Maoist Call Freezes Jharkhand, Neighbours (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 15, 2006)
Jharkhand has more or less been turned to a mini war zone overnight, with the call of a two-day long economic blockade along with a Chakka Jam protest programme in Jharkhand, Bihar, Orissa, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, by CPI (Maoist), which . . .
- 8.5 P.C. Growth Target Set For 11th Plan (Hindu, Sushma Ramchandran, Jun 15, 2006)
Approach paper sent to Chief Ministers, all Union Ministers before the NDC meeting
Growth path ``feasible but not inevitable''
Focus on agriculture, social sector and manufacturing
NDC likely to meet in August
- Ramadoss Moots Separate Police Wing To Deal With Rowdy Elements (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 15, 2006)
"Reservation should be fixed on the basis of caste-wise census"
- Naxal Blockade: Security Beefed Up In Jharkhand (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 15, 2006)
Two-day naxal blockade began on Tuesday midnight
- Parties Field Candidates For Municipal Chairperson Posts (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 15, 2006)
AIADMK has more number in fray than its allies
S. Tamizhselvi and S. Saraswathy, are contesting for chairperson posts of Pondicherry and Karaikal respectively
While DMK has fielded B. Sridevi and Bhuvaneswari in Pondicherry and Karaikal
- Brewing Unrest In The Land Of Jewels (Pioneer, Anil Bhat, Jun 15, 2006)
It's strange that militants who raised their guns to allegedly protect 'their people' are today killing and raping them, says Anil Bhat.
- Two-Nation Theory (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 15, 2006)
For CPI(M), Bengal is not India ---- It is typical of the CPI(M)'s schizophrenic existence that in a week when India's leading Communist party took to the streets to protest against the rise in petroleum prices and organised a "state-sponsored bandh" . .
- Left Plans To Go On Offensive At Today's Upa Coordination Meet (Pioneer, Santanu Banerjee, Jun 15, 2006)
The Left-UPA coordination committee will meet on Thursday to discuss a range of issues, including oil price hike and internal security.
- Left Leaders To Meet Their Upa Counterparts Tomorrow (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 15, 2006)
After presenting a virtual chargesheet against the government on its performance so far, top Left leaders would meet their UPA counterparts here tomorrow and focus on implementation of 'pro-people' policies and promises made in the Common Minimum . . .
- Project Should Be A Public Sector Venture' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 15, 2006)
The State unit of Communist Party of India (Marxist) has suggested that the coalition Government treat the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor project as a public sector venture and implement it on priority in the interest of the State.
- Petrol And Protest (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 15, 2006)
IT is ironical that while the main Opposition party, the BJP, is no more than lukewarm in its protest against the fuel price hike, the Left parties, which are supporting the UPA government from outside, are going hammers and tongs at it.
- Tdp, Cpi(m) Stage Joint Protests Against Petrol Price Hike (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
CPI(M), TDP together stage demonstrations in Tirupati
- On Banning The Da Vinci Code (Hindu, N.L. Rajah, Jun 14, 2006)
To ban the film in India, reacting to demands from some, is grave constitutional impropriety, besides being imprudent.
- Telugu Desam, Left Hold Protest Rallies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
After over seven years, yellow and red flags fluttered high jointly as the Telugu Desam and the CPI(M) came together to organise protest rallies, "rasta" and "rail roko" agitation at some towns in the State on Tuesday against the hike in petroleum prices.
- Left Takes To The Streets (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
The Left parties, joined by regional forces like the Samajwadi Party and Telugu Desam Party, today staged street protests to demand the rollback of the hike in fuel prices as the Communists said the UPA government could not take their support for granted.
- Pm Under Siege (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Jun 14, 2006)
Main Threat From Within?
The Constitution defines how politics should be conducted. The system determines how politics is actually run.
- Price Of Power (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 14, 2006)
Congress paints itself into a corner ---- The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has once again done it! While extending support to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government at the Centre without participating in it, it has joined . . .
- Protests Mount Against Fuel Price Hike (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
Political activists stopped trains and buses across the country on Tuesday and truckers kept off the roads as a one-day strike to protest against a rise in retail fuel prices took hold.
- Bogged Upa May Call Ndc Meet By June-End (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
Threatened by growing restlessness in the Opposition as well as among its key allies, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government is going to call a meeting of National Development Council (NDC) for a consensus on the issues of petroleum prices . . .
- `Rail Roko, Chakka Jam' Mark U.P. Bandh Against Price Hike (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
Government claims protest symbolic; rail passengers inconvenienced
- Congress To Spend Rs.30 Crores On Campaign: Bjp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
Party to complain to EC on 'violation of code' by Congress
CPI(M) flayed for tying up with the TDP even after describing its chief as World Bank agent
CPI(M)'s truck with the TDP aimed at gaining political power
- Strike Against Fuel Prices Halts Transport In India (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
Trucks, buses and some train services ground to a halt in India on Tuesday as part of a nationwide one-day strike against a government decision to raise fuel prices.
- Tackling Threats (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 14, 2006)
Raising more Central forces is not the best solution
- Does The Mha Need To Change Tack? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 14, 2006)
The upsurge in left-wing violence in a number of states currently poses the most serious threat to India’s internal security.
- Politics And Football: Bridgeable Divide? (Rediff on the Net, Vikram S Mehta, Jun 14, 2006)
More than any other public event, the ongoing world cup is witness to the brotherhood of merit.
- Left Protests Against Oil Price Hike (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
Restructure customs and excise duties; do not pass on the burden to States: Karat
- Plenty Of Enemies To Go (Deccan Herald, Thomas L Friedman, Jun 14, 2006)
Al-Zarqawi reminds us that open societies are threatened by his kind of ruthless jihadists
- Choice Is Clear (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 13, 2006)
Kumaraswamy's way, or highway----It is typical of the infuriating ironies of Indian politics that the Golden Quadrilateral, the highway development programme that is contemporary India's showpiece infrastructure project, has swiftly seen a change . . .
- Cpi(m) Gesture To People Of Palestine (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 13, 2006)
Appeals to all citizens to donate money
Concerned over `illegal and immoral financial blockade' imposed by U.S., E.U.
Palestinians facing a serious assault on basic rights, livelihood
- 'Muslim Groups Feel We Practise What We Preach' (Times of India, Rajesh N Singh, Jun 13, 2006)
Jan Morcha, a newly constituted front of various political outfits with the patronage of former prime minister V P Singh, has given a new lease of life to Raj Babbar's political career.
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