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Articles 4121 through 4220 of 7145:
- Polavaram Project Gets Tacit Consent (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 13, 2006)
Second all-party meeting held on the project concludes on a positive note
- States To Meet Today Over Naxal Menace (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 13, 2006)
Thirteen Naxal-affected states would participate in the Coordination Centre meeting, headed by Union Home Secretary V K Duggal, tomorrow in New Delhi to come up with strategies to deal with Naxalism.
- Wanted: A Nitish In West Bengal (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Jan 13, 2006)
Mamata Banerjee may be whimsical but she is not stupid. So, why is the Trinamool Congress leader pursuing the mirage of a Mahajot in West Bengal?
- Demolition Drives: Dramas Of The State? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 13, 2006)
To each his own An American, a Russian, a Chinese and an Israeli are standing at a street corner when they are approached by a pollster. “Excuse me, what is your opinion of the meat shortage?” asks the pollster. The American says, “What’s a shortage?
- Meet To Review Steps To Combat Naxalism (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 13, 2006)
Focus on streamlining of efforts to strengthen security
The 19th Coordination Centre meeting on naxalism will be held here on Friday to review and coordinate the steps being taken by the naxal affected States to combat the menace.
- Not The Answer (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 13, 2006)
Wrong Marxist approach to Maoists
That the CPI-M is given to speaking in more than one voice is par for the course.
- Choosing Friends Carefully (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 13, 2006)
With the Communist Party of India opposing the entry of the Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran) into the Left Democratic Front, the breakaway Congress group will have to face the possibility of being forced to float a third front in Kerala's . . .
- Of Faith And Distrust (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Jan 13, 2006)
The winter vacation on Capitol Hill is the moment for senators and congressmen to familiarize themselves with a world outside the Beltway and their constituencies.
- Cuba Solidarity Conference On January 20, 21 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 12, 2006)
The Third World has lessons to learn from the Cuban experience
Conference being held in India as it has been experiencing the brunt of the imperialist strategies in the guise of neo-liberal economic policies
- India’S Communist Parties Get Ready To Protest George Bush’S Visit Next Month (India Daily, Balaji Reddy, Jan 12, 2006)
The Left parties of India - the communists and socialists whose support is needed for the current Congress Led UPA coalition Government to survive is getting ready to show biggest protest in their history as US President George Bush visits India . . .
- View From The Right (Indian Express, Ramdev versus Reds, Jan 12, 2006)
The front-page article in the issue dates January 15 is devoted to the controversy raised by CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat over the Ayurvedic medicines produced by Swami Ramdev’s Divya Yoga pharmacy.
- What’S Under The Carpet? (Telegraph, Debabrata Mohanty, Jan 12, 2006)
Debabrata Mohanty looks at how an indus- trially resurgent Orissa continues to ignore the issue of tribal resettlement and rehabilitation
- Countdown To Armageddon? (Washington Times, Editorial, The Washington Times, Jan 12, 2006)
Iran's removal of U.N. seals at its Natanz nuclear-enrichment plant and its resumption of nuclear research should be seen for what it is: the latest example of a 20-year campaign -- much of it documented by the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy . . . .
- Funding Or Fiddling? (Deccan Herald, L C JAIN, Jan 11, 2006)
The scheme for state funding of poll expenses leaves the floodgates open for private funding.
- Sharad Pawar Puts On Hold Food Subsidy Cut (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 11, 2006)
Responding to criticism from the United Progressive Alliance constituents, Food Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday stayed the implementation of the Centre's decision to cut food subsidy.
- Fm Prefers Fdi, Remittances Over Fii Inflows (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 11, 2006)
Finance minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said India welcomed all kinds of capital flows into the country but added there is a hierarchy of preferences.
- Golfing Buddha (The Financial Express, Golfing Buddha , Jan 11, 2006)
For a capitalist, what could be a better gift than an island with a do-it-yourself golf course?
- Karat And Stick Show, 24x7 (The Economic Times, P R RAMESH, Jan 11, 2006)
Indian Left has a fascination for contrarian positions. When India powered its way into the world of the nuclear powerfuls,
- Serious Threat-Ii (Statesman, PR DUBHASHI, Jan 10, 2006)
It has been stated on behalf of the BJP that they had no alternative but to boycott Parliament because all along they had been treated by the UPA government as an enemy rather than an adversary and were not even allowed to speak on the floor . . .
- New Key (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 10, 2006)
It is impossible to miss the irony in the change. Communists in India have always put the compulsions of mass politics above economic logic.
- Wrong Place To Tap (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jan 10, 2006)
What a strange way to start the New Year — to have Prakash Karat tell us with a smirk on his face that the private sector should never have been allowed to enter the telecommunications sector because someone broke the law and indulged in phone tapping.
- Jehanabad Jail-Break: Hc Pulls Up Bihar Govt (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
Taking serious note of the lapse, the High Court on Monday asked the government to explain it by January 30 how the lapse occurred, and what steps had been taken to prevent recurrence of such incidents.
- Nepal Says Maoist Threats Will Not Delay Polls (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
Nepal’s chief election commissioner said on Monday that long-delayed municipal elections set for February would not be postponed despite a threat from Maoist rebels to disrupt polling.
- Bengal’S New Deal (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 10, 2006)
The Left Front government appears to be floundering in its quest for FDI, paradoxically a Marxist panacea to shore up infrastructure.
- Return To Nuclear Talks: Us Urges North Korea (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
The United States has urged North Korea to return to international nuclear talks, saying economic sanctions levelled at the communist-led country are unrelated to diplomatic efforts to rid the North of nuclear weapons.
- Bones Of Contention (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
The dictates of reason suggest that the key question in l'affaire Swami Ramdev is whether the ayurvedic `herbal' medicines manufactured by his Divya Yoga Pharmacy meet the requirements of law and public health.
- A Widening Chasm (Dawn, Shahid Javed Burki, Jan 10, 2006)
Americans, more than most people, treat the passing of one year and the dawn of another as a moment of deep reflection. Many questions get asked. Among them the most frequent ones raised this year are those related to the way the country has . . .
- Forest Department `Reclaims' M.M. Hills (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
Top official camped in the area for two days
Fifteen more anti-poaching camps sought
Government urged to recruit 270 forest guards
Orders to clear encroachments issued
- Pravasi Sanghom Seeks Help For Norks (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
Activists go on fast at Thekkinkadu Maidan
The supporters and members of the Kerala Pravasi Sanghom observed `Pravasi Bharatiya Divas-2006' on Monday by going on a fast at the Thekkinkadu Maidan here to draw attention to the various problems of the . . .
- Unemployment, Inflation And Education (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Jan 09, 2006)
Undoubtedly by promoting unemployable education policy-makers have raised unemployment.
- Yechury Condemns Killing Of Tribals (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
"Don't evict them by use of force in the name of industrialisation"
- Upa Plan For Minorities May Fragment Society, Warns Bjp; Not On, Agrees Left (Hindu, Varghese K George, Jan 09, 2006)
The UPA government’s controversial move to reserve a ‘‘certain percentage’’ of all development funds for minorities has been criticised by the BJP and the Left too has expressed concern.
- Checking Mamata -Police Cruelly Exposed In Bengal (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
On the face of it, the warrant of arrest against Mamata Banerjee follows a directive from the Election Commission to the police to nab those said...
- 4000 Gelatine Sticks Seized In Ranchi, 5 Held (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
Five persons found possessing four thousand gelatine sticks weighing about three quintal were arrested by the police
- Yechury Condemns Killing Of Tribals (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
"Don't evict them by use of force in the name of industrialisation"
- Chidambaram Seeks Left's Cooperation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
"State Government has not submitted detailed project report for desalination plant"
- Left Front Seeks A Massive Mandate (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
No alternative to the Front, says Buddhadeb
Opposition's attempt to forge alliance "an unprincipled exercise"
Industrialisation to be top priority if voted back to power
- 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
- Woman Leader Of Nepal Maoists Held In India (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
An executive member of the women's wing of Nepal Communist Patry (Maoist) who was arrested from a tea estate in Darjeeling.
- Pranayamarx (Indian Express, SANDIPAN DEB, Jan 09, 2006)
Ramdev fans willing to eat crushed bones; CPM fighting for vegetarians. What next?
- Last Of Gang Of Four, Yao Wenyuan, Dies In Obscurity. It Remains An Uncomfortable Subject For China (Indian Express, Ching-Ching Ni, Jan 09, 2006)
Yao Wenyuan, the last living member of the Gang of Four blamed for the chaos and political extremism of China’s decade-long Cultural Revolution, has died, state media reported on Friday.
- `Strengthen Sino-Indian Ties' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Improve trade and diplomatic relations between the two countries: Governor
- Cigar And The Loincloth (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 08, 2006)
Historical archives, when they are opened for researchers, sometimes throw up startling revelations.
- Shotgun Weeding (The Week, R. Prasannan, Jan 08, 2006)
Television stings have caused a stir; the big battles will follow
- India Must Bring Down High Fiscal Deficit - Pm (Reuters, Reuters, Jan 08, 2006)
India's fiscal deficit remains unacceptably high and must be brought down, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a business conference on Saturday.
- ‘Cpm Not Against Indian Medicine’ (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Senior CPI-M leader, Mrs Brinda Karat today said attempts were being made to deflect attention from the core issue of violation of labour laws in Baba Ramdev’s ayurveda pharmacy.
- We Are Not Against Ayurveda: Brinda Karat (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
"My objection was only to violation of labour laws and Drugs and Cosmetics Act"
Human and animal bones were used to prepare medicines, say some workers of Baba Ramdev's Divya Pharmacy
- 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...
- Cpi Condemns Cut In Food Subsidy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
`Government seems to be bent upon imposing burden on the poor'
- Pm’S Left Hook (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Jan 08, 2006)
The Left saw another side to the usually soft-spoken Manmohan Singh when it made an issue over the joint Indo-US air force exercise in Kalaikunda, West Bengal, last November.
- Holding The Banner Of Harmony Aloft (Hindu, S. Dorairaj , Jan 07, 2006)
It all occurred over 18 years ago. A gang of terrorists stormed Sohal, a tiny village in Amritsar district of Punjab, around midnight on July 21, 1987. The gun-toting Khalistanis opened fire using automatic weapons.
- West Bengal Is Not Bihar, Says Jyoti Basu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal is not unduly concerned over any step the Election Commission might be contemplating for the State in the run up to the coming Assembly elections, senior Polit Bureau member Jyoti Basu said on Friday.
- The Case For Disinvestment (The Economic Times, Surinder Singla, Jan 07, 2006)
Disinvestment has come to be a central focus of the government’s economic reforms agenda. True, there are other pressing issues such as the employment guarantee scheme (EGS) that attempt to deal with poverty eradication while creating infrastructural . ..
- Conversation With Manmohan Singh (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Jan 07, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been always effusive and warm whenever I have discussed India-Pakistan relations with him. This time I found him a bit distressed and disappointed. He is not as optimistic as before because he says he does not know . . .
- Ltte Testing The Waters In Tamil Nadu? (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Jan 07, 2006)
There appears to be a renewed pro-Eelam campaign by some parties in Tamil Nadu. Why now?
- Why Are They Running Scared Of Ideology? (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jan 07, 2006)
Increasingly, ideology is portrayed as something to be despaired of — a hang-up, and a hindrance to progress in a world in search of quick fixes. But pragmatism without a political vision seldom works in the long run.
- Shanghai Surprise: The Last Merchant-Ivory Film Has Glamour But No Guts (Indian Express, DAVID ANSEN, Jan 07, 2006)
It would be nice to report that the final collaboration between James Ivory and his late producing partner, Ismail Merchant, ranked with their best work, such as the luminous Howards End and A Room With a View. Though The White Countess, from an original
- Just Too Long (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 07, 2006)
There are always two ways to look at the same thing. While an oft-heard saying wisely pronounces, “Justice delayed is justice denied,” another, with equal wisdom, and some degree of sombreness, assures the disappointed that “the mills of god grind slowly,
- Jobs And Sops (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 07, 2006)
Basu becomes source of embarrassment
How Jyoti Basu could use a rally organised by the coordination committee of state government employees to announce a “cabinet decision’’ to recruit 40,000 people in various departments of the government and . . .
- 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.
- Nalgonda, A Hub Of Militant Activity? (Hindu, K. Srinivas Reddy, Jan 06, 2006)
Police suspect that the youth received training in Pakistan, Bangladesh Youth came into contact with hardened terrorists while serving time in prison for various crimes. This helped organisations build their terror network.
- Pak- Nepal Nexus (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Jan 06, 2006)
It should have been expected that sooner or later both China and Pakistan would want to fish in the troubled waters in Nepal and, sure enough, Beijing has already delivered truckloads of weapons for the Royal Nepal Army and Pakistan is preparing . . .
- Ramdev's Supporters Arrested (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
They gathered outside the CPI(M) office in Delhi and raised slogans against Brinda Karat
20 supporters of Swamy Ramdev arrested; one person injured
Protest is handiwork of RSS, VHP hoodlums, says CPI (M)
- Prakash Karat Rejects Ramdev's Charges (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
"CPI(M) in the forefront of opposing multi-national corporations" "The economic growth was good but it had benefited only a few making them wealthier"
- Earful Of Trouble (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 06, 2006)
The telephone tapping issue has snowballed into a political controversy, with allegations and counter-allegations swirling around, and the real matter relegated to the backburner.
- Fm Prefers Fdi, Remittances Over Fii Inflows (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Finance minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said India welcomed all kinds of capital flows into the country but added there is a hierarchy of preferences.
- Laloo Throws Weight Behind Yoga Guru (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Laloo’s comments came a day after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav backed the spiritual leader. Demonstrations by the guru’s followers against the communists were also reported from several places around the country.
- View From The Left (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 06, 2006)
A year-end front page editorial gives the Left credit for much that is going right with the UPA. “Crucially dependent upon the Left for its survival, the UPA government had agreed to many proposals that no bourgeois-landlord government would agree . . .
- Who Are The Unions Serving? (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Jan 06, 2006)
During a rare moment of lucidity, trade union leader Gurudas Dasgupta had acknowledged in a television programme that the Indian labour leaders hadn’t always paid much attention to telling workers about the value of productivity.
- 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.
- Latin America’S Two Left Wings (Indian Express, JORGE CASTANEDA, Jan 06, 2006)
Don’t confuse those leaders who spring from a communist or socialist past with those who trace their roots to old-fashioned populism, says JORGE CASTANEDA
- Bjp Backs Yoga Guru (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
The Bharatiya Janata Party says it is fully with yoga guru Swami Ram Dev, who has come under attack from CPI (M) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat
- Taking The Left Front (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
The winter air has got a needed dash of heat from the thunder and lightening accompanying the clash between telegenic Brinda Karat of the CPI(M)
- Ramdev Medicines Did Carry Animal, Human Traces: Govt (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Samples of medicines allegedly prepared by yoga guru Ramdev did test positive for animal and human contents, Union Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said today.
- Uncover Plot In Phone Tapping: Karat (Hindu, K.V. Prasad, Jan 05, 2006)
Amar Singh to meet Jayalalithaa
The Samajwadi Party on Wednesday sought to mobilise political support for its case against the Congress and the Centre in the phone-tapping issue, with its leader Amar Singh calling on Communist Party of India (Marxist)..
- Police Claim Maoist Rout (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Battling Maoists through eight days in dense jungles on the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border, police claim to have shot dead five guerrillas including a deputy commander, injured five and arrested 15.
- Maoist Mayhem -Purulia A Case Study For Cpi-M (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 05, 2006)
By complaining to the Centre that Maoists now have a convenient passage to south Bengal from Jharkhand, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, the Chief Minister is suggesting that Bengal is bearing the brunt because these states have failed to rein . . .
- Riverside Drama -Sudip Returns To The Stage (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 05, 2006)
It is encouraging that a former member of Parliament has revived a concern for the banks of the Hooghly in Kolkata, which are in distressing shape even when there is evidence of beautification in some pockets.
- Tainted Mps Reply To Probe Panel (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 05, 2006)
The Lok Sabha MPs named in last month’s television expose on corruption in the MP Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) have filed their replies to the inquiry committee set up by the Speaker, Mr Somnath Chatterjee.
- 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
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