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Articles 4621 through 4720 of 7145:
- Has India Crossed The Inflection Point? (The Financial Express, V ANANTHA NAGESWARAN, Dec 03, 2005)
The Indian economy registered an impressive 8% growth rate in the second quarter of the current fiscal year, 2005-06.
- Why Should Sonia Gandhi Resign, Asks Cpi (M) (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2005)
Enforcement Directorate will probe Matherani's claim'
Opposition demand bizarre: Finance Minister
Unfair to say we are defending Natwar: Nilotpal Basu
Prime Minister's statement disappointing, says BJP
- Maoist Activists Conduct A Novel Operation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2005)
Stop vehicles and make passengers attend a midnight meeting
Maoists did not exert force
Meeting held in rice mill
Exhort people to join dalams
- Dozens Injured As Leftists, Royalists Clash In Nepal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2005)
Maoists announce extension of unilateral ceasefire by a month
- Poland's Small Farmers Fear For The Future (Hindu, Nicholas Watt , Dec 03, 2005)
Expansion is the key to survival in the EU as subsidies rise but prices and profits fall.
- Sleuths Sniff Out Maoist Meet (Deccan Herald, Anirban Bhaumik , Dec 03, 2005)
The intelligence agencies in the northeastern states and West Bengal were put on alert following a report that leaders of some of the ultra-leftist movements across South Asia would meet somewhere along the India-Bangladesh border this month.
- The Imperative Of Reforming State Intervention (The Financial Express, Malvika Singh, Dec 03, 2005)
‘Impropriety.’ That is what the BJP is going on and on about, as they reduce parliamentary debate to endless accusations that lead nowhere.
- Land Of Buddha (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 03, 2005)
Bengal’s CM can make history, by helping EC to help his state
- Intimations Of Mortality (Indian Express, PALLAVI AIYAR, Dec 03, 2005)
Intimations of mortality
Everyone’s talking about China. Well, not quite everyone. India, which should perhaps be obsessing about its northern neighbour, is not an avid China watcher. The proportion of public discussion and media space . . .
- Footsie With Terror (Pioneer, Hari Jaisingh, Dec 03, 2005)
After 15 years of Lalu-Rabri caste-based misrule and non-governance, Bihar is once again at a crossroads. Will Mr Nitish Kumar's JD(U)-BJP combine be able to give Bihar a new direction and usher in an era of clean governance and faster development, . . .
- Traps Of The Past (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 03, 2005)
Arguably, Bangladesh might never have exploded in violence if geography had not tucked the world’s third most populous Muslim nation into the folds of Bharat Mata’s sari.
- Left To Protest (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 02, 2005)
Biman’s objection to Bihar-like poll
Biman Bose, the Left Front chairman, had disgraced himself during the last parliamentary election by encouraging cadres to drive out Election Commission officials if they dared to come in the way at polling booths.
- Embattled Nepal King To Return To Face New Challenge (Reuters, Gopal Sharma, Dec 02, 2005)
Nepal's King Gyanendra faces a fresh challenge to his rule on his return home from Africa on Friday after the main political parties and Maoist rebels joined hands to end absolute monarchy and restore democracy.
- Dan And Now (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Dec 02, 2005)
There is something about politics that encourages amnesia. Surely, the BJP would not like to remember how they helped a Congress government to survive a no-confidence motion in the mid-Nineties.
- Iraq — Another Vietnam? (Dawn, Maqbool Ahmad Bhatty, Dec 02, 2005)
THE writer recalls the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings of 1966 when Senator Fulbright brought under debate the growing US involvement in Vietnam. Though the conflict was proving costly, it was considered critical to the “war against communi
- More Than A Pinch (Indian Express, T V R Shenoy, Dec 02, 2005)
My doctors tell me I should cut down on the salt. I respond that this is not possible for an Indian journalist today, we must take every political statement with whole tablespoons of the briny stuff. Does anyone believe the high-sounding sentiments . . .
- Left In A Lurch (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 02, 2005)
The conundrum over the Pension Fund Regulatory Development Authority Bill is only the latest manifestation of the Left's innate contradictions. At the time of its return to the UPA-Left Coordination Committee in the last week of October, the CPI(M) had in
- Left In A Lurch (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 02, 2005)
The conundrum over the Pension Fund Regulatory Development Authority Bill is only the latest manifestation of the Left's innate contradictions. At the time of its return to the UPA-Left Coordination Committee in the last week of October,
- Left In A Lurch (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 02, 2005)
Ever since Health Ministers' Conference in London in January 1988, December 1 has been observed as World AIDS Day. The global struggle against the killer virus turned 18 this year, almost universally recognised as the age of consent, when adolescents . .
- Germany: Angela Merkel Faces Tough Challenges (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 02, 2005)
After cumbersome negotiations over several weeks, Angela Merkel got elected on the November 22, 2005, as the first woman Chancellor in Germany’s history with the votes of the Christian Democratic and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) as well as . . .
- Under The Thumb (Economist, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
In dampening resentment, nothing succeeds like success
- Freedom Unlimitted, Disaster Indescribable (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Dec 01, 2005)
We can call it a sexual Glasnost. A world where buggery, bestiality, adultery, incest and all such diabolic deeds of a human being have made even devil blush with himself.
- Cpi(m) Polit Bureau To Decide On Entry Of Karunakaran Outfit Into Ldf (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Stir planned to highlight `anti-people' policies of Kerala Government
- Pakistan Courting Israel (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Dec 01, 2005)
Just on the eve of its nuclear tests on May 28, 1998, Pakistan summoned India’s High Commissioner Satish Chandra and alleged that Israeli F-16 aircraft based in Chennai were preparing to strike at its nuclear installations.
- It’S Only The First Round (Dawn, M.J. Akbar, Dec 01, 2005)
No matter which way the numbers are stacked, there is only one clear winner in the long-drawn Bihar Sudoku: a Sikh gentleman generally resident in Delhi who barely intervened in the turmoil of India’s most turbulent state except to give . . . .
- Rehabilitation Not Possible In A Week (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Patil asks flood-hit States to submit detailed plans
"Rehabilitation cannot be done in a week"
"It took two to three years to reconstruct Latur"
"We did not take one minute to sanction relief to Gujarat and Tamil Nadu"
- Govt Tells Home To Set Up Special Anti-Naxal Cell (Indian Express, SUDHI RANJAN SEN, Dec 01, 2005)
Worried over the growing Naxal violence, the government has directed the Union Home Ministry to set up a special cell to deal with the ultra-Left extremism. Cabinet Secretary B K Chaturvedi had recently passed the direction to Home Secretary V K Duggal,..
- View From The Left (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 01, 2005)
Laloo Prasad Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal’s poor record in governance is a key factor in the defeat of the RJD-led alliance in the Bihar polls, a front page editorial says. “The general dissatisfaction against the style and content of governance in Bihar.
- After The Cop Out, Let’S Find Some Cops (Indian Express, ABHINAV KUMAR, Dec 01, 2005)
K C Surendrababu was a dyed-in-the-wool Telugu bidda. When I first met him during training at Hyderabad, he spoke Hindi haltingly with a lyrical style in tune with the rest of his endearing personality.
- India's Road Map For West Asia (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Dec 01, 2005)
Just on the eve of its nuclear tests on May 28, 1998, Pakistan summoned India's High Commissioner Satish Chandra and alleged that Israeli F-16 aircraft based in Chennai were preparing to strike at its nuclear installations.
- Running With Accolades (Pioneer, Archana Dalmia, Dec 01, 2005)
Sonia Gandhi has come into her own like a triumphant contender after a long race, says Archana Dalmia
- India's Economy Set To Grow 7.5 Pct And More - Pm (Reuters, Kamil Zaheer, Nov 30, 2005)
India's economy is set to grow 7.5 percent in the year to March, 2006, and Asia's third largest economy should see that rising to 10 percent in 2-3 years, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday.
- ‘India Unable To Stem Maoist Violence’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 30, 2005)
The Indian government said Tuesday it has been unable to stem growing Maoist insurgencies in parts of the country.
- Dharam Singh Warns Police Against Complacency (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 30, 2005)
`Be sensitive to needs of coalition government'
- Sc Seals Fate Of Kiocl Mines (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 30, 2005)
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition by the Kudremukh Shram Shakti Sangathan, which sought a review of the Court’s judgment that asked the Karnataka government to close down the mines permanently from December 31.
- Divide And Lose (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Nov 30, 2005)
While sections within two of India’s most ideologically driven and, as a result, sectarian parties — the BJP and the CPM — have recently woken up to the perils of their divisive politics, a third, the RJD of Mr Lalu Yadav, has been taught the . . .
- Nitish Asks Govt To Declare Bihar Backward State, Seeks Tax Relief (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 30, 2005)
Asserting that Bihar deserved ‘‘special treatment’’ in view of the ills that have plagued the state, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today urged the Centre to declare it ‘‘a backward state’’ and extend all-possible tax relief to it.
- National Alternative (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 30, 2005)
The Volcker Report demolished the government’s credibility. The Bihar elections destroyed its authority. The Supreme Court judgment eroded its legality.
- Centre, States Working On Naxalite Menace: Patil (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 30, 2005)
Not able to bring down naxalite activities as successfully as terrorism, admits Centre
Assistance given for police modernisation
`States should tackle political, social aspects'
- Small Start To The Great Game (Indian Express, Ajai Shukla, Nov 30, 2005)
A question for South Block: Can we be in Afghanistan without our own military back-up?
- Nitish Plays Status Card, Says ‘Backward’ Bihar Needs Special Treatment (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 30, 2005)
Asserting that Bihar deserves special treatment in view of its multi-faceted problems, the state’s new chief minister, Mr Nitish Kumar,
- Chine's Second Thoughts On Nuclear Issue (Daily Excelsior, SREEDHAR, Nov 30, 2005)
A People Daily article (October 26) said ''The US put forward a proposal at a meeting of Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) on Oct. 20, demanding a lift of the ban on sales of nuclear technologies to India, but was turned down."
- Civil Service (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 30, 2005)
While the Andhra political leadership is rolling out the red carpet for investors, here is a classic case of bureaucracy-as-usual. At the recent textile summit in Hyderabad, organised by the CII and co-sponsored by the Andhra Pradesh government, . . .
- Iraq’S Road To Serfdom (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Nov 29, 2005)
What goes on in the Middle East is an interplay of forces between Jews, Arabs, Persians. In the six-day war in 1967, Israel defeated the Arabs and seized Sinai and Gaza from Egypt, the West Bank (of the Jordan River) from Jordan . . .
- Let The Monarchy Pass Into History (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Nov 29, 2005)
The Nepali monarchy has sought and received 18 truck-loads of arms and ammunition from China. That is a development that New Delhi can ill-afford to ignore. The government should continue with its embargo on supply of armaments to Nepal . . .
- Left Oppose Airport Privatisation, Writes To Pm (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 29, 2005)
Opposing attempts to privatise the airports in Mumbai and Delhi, Left Parties have shot off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding stoppage of the process, which they said violated the spirit of the Common Minimum Programme.
- Now, Focus On Bengal (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Nov 29, 2005)
Corrupt poll machinery subverts the democratic ideal, holding the people's will to ransom. The Bihar election results, while testament to the relevance of anti-incumbency factors, has been hailed as the triumph of a clean electoral process.
- Give Ec A Chance (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 29, 2005)
With the exception of Lalu Prasad, no one complained that the Election Commission had exceeded its brief in the Bihar election. With public opinion against him, it was expected that he would try to find an escape route.
- Set Up Monitoring Panels For Relief Work: Vasan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 29, 2005)
Says proper data should be collected on the magnitude and nature of damage
- Supreme Court To Examine Quota For Dalit Christians (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 29, 2005)
Seeks report on progress of Justice Ranganath Misra Commission, which is studying the issue
Reservation only the basis of social status, untouchability, says Gopal Subramaniam
1950 Order violates right to equality, says Prashant Bhushan
- Nepal: Democracy In Thin Air (International Herald Tribune, A N Sudarsan Rao , Nov 28, 2005)
Nepal's Maoist rebels and a coalition of opposition parties agreed on a program to try to end direct rule by King Gyanendra.
- Changes Ahead (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Nov 28, 2005)
The Nepalese government, which has been fighting a Maoist insurgency since 1996, is now at the political crossroads as the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and the mainstream political parties have come together owing to the authoritarian rule of King Gy
- Rjd’S Over-Dependence (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Nov 28, 2005)
The CPI(M) has conceded that the RJD’s over-dependence on the Muslim-Yadav (M-Y) factor and its neglect of the most backward and oppressed castes were some of the main reasons for the debacle of the "secular forces" in the Bihar polls.
- Indian Workers In Afghanistan To Get Extra Security (Hindu, Staff Reporter , Nov 28, 2005)
Stands by statement that Pakistan may have had hand in Maniappan's killing
- Naxals Injured In Encounter (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 28, 2005)
Some naxals were injured when police used mortar fire during an encounter in the Bastar jungle on Sunday.
- Nda Storms Ahead In Bihar, Lalu's 15-Year-Rule To End (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 28, 2005)
The Janata Dal (United)-led NDA combine appeared set to cruise to victory winning two seats and establishing leads in 103 seats, while its main rival the RJD-led Secular Democratic Front led in 56 of the 187 constituencies in Bihar as counting of votes fo
- Left To Consider Selling Equity In Psus (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 28, 2005)
Left parties on Monday agreed to consider government proposals to divest small percentage of equity in non-Navratna profit-making PSUs on a case-to-case basis.
- Democratic Snub (Hindustan Times, Pankaj Vohra, Nov 28, 2005)
If there were any doubts in people’s minds that democracy in India was still in its early stages, they must have vanished after the verdict of the Bihar assembly polls.
- Nepal's Top Communist Leader Has Urged People's Republic Of China Not To Provide Military Assistance To Nepal (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 28, 2005)
A top communist leader has urged People's Republic of China not to provide military assistance to Nepal.
- Left? Congress Couldn't Care Less (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 28, 2005)
Manmohan Singh has marched on with his pro-US tilt as if the comrades don't matter or exist, says Kalyani Shankar
- In Russia We Trust? (Wall Street Journal, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 28, 2005)
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported last week that Iran possesses detailed drawings showing ways to "cast and machine enriched natural and depleted uranium into hemispherical forms," which is another way of saying the inner core . . .
- Bush And N Korea (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 27, 2005)
Finally, the Bush Administration’s diplomacy has something to cheer about. After months of protracted negotiations, that came on the verge of collapsing a number of times, North Korea finally agreed to end its nuclear weapons programme in return . . .
- Highway To Hell (Telegraph, Ruchir Joshi, Nov 27, 2005)
Using his column in a Delhi broadsheet, Sitaram Yechury, CPI(M) Rajya Sabha member from Bengal, recently made some cogent points about the ominous spreading of American cultural hegemony across the world.
- Ukraine’S Struggle For Law (Daily Times, YULIYA TYMOSHENKO, Nov 27, 2005)
We must not be tricked by the fact that those who gained economic power by looting state assets now employ lawyers, invoke free market nostrums, and claim to follow the letter of the law. For there is such a thing as a lawless legality.
- Left Denounces Centre's Policies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 27, 2005)
Congress should remember that it cannot run government without Left support: Bardhan
- 46 Naxalites Surrender With Arms (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 27, 2005)
Deputy commander of CPI (Maoist) among senior cadre to give up
- India In A Dilemma – Wants Gas From Iran And Nuke Agreement From America – Confused On Which Side To Take? (India Daily, Kiran Chaube, Nov 27, 2005)
India is between two hard rocks. It needs natural gas and oil in the short run from Iran.
- Lessons In Bihar, For Vanquished And Victors (Indian Express, SUDHEENDRA KULKARNI , Nov 27, 2005)
Despots don’t learn the ways of democracy easily. Laloo Prasad Yadav, whose party’s 15-year misrule turned Bihar into a byword for backwardness and lawlessness,
- Good Riddance, But Road All Uphill Ahead (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Nov 27, 2005)
Last week provided us with a rare moment of hope in politics — the defeat of Mr and Mrs Laloo Yadav. No defeat was more deserved, more reassuring for those of us who remain recklessly optimistic about the future of Bharat Mata despite the abysmal . . .
- Communists In India – Exerting Control On The Government From Behind The Curtain (India Daily, Sudhir Chadda, Nov 27, 2005)
You will not see them. They do not have any minister.
- Political Turnaround In Bihar (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Nov 26, 2005)
The post-election scenario in Bihar is not bright because of two things: too much visibility for the BJP and former chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav’s non-reconciliation to his defeat.
- It’S Action Replay In Bihar (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Nov 26, 2005)
As in the old movies, pirates rummage through everything until they find a crumpled map to the treasure. They put their heads back and guffaw.
- Law-Makers And Breakers Too? (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Nov 26, 2005)
Within the bounds of the Constitution, at times a political animal may have to break the law to make a point. But if that animal is an MP what is the state of play between the different roles?
- Igp Radha (Indian Express, Rakesh Shukla, Nov 26, 2005)
Mira had to drink the chalice of poison because of her love for Krishna. As the popular bhajan records, ‘Log kahen Mira bawri’ (people say Mira has gone mad). Gone are the feudal Ranas of Mewar, the country has gained independence —we have democracy. . .
- Varieties Of Extremism (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , Nov 26, 2005)
“Age of extremes” is how Eric Hobsbawm described the 20th century. His own book of that title was less than even-handed in its analysis of the extremist ideologies of the age.
- Polemical Blather (Statesman, Subhas Chakraborty, Nov 26, 2005)
A thoroughly non-performing minister, almost direly comical on occasions, has now found an appropriate forum to play to the gallery, red flags fluttering amidst tight-fisted comrades.
- India’S Bastille (Hindustan Times, Khushwant Singh, Nov 26, 2005)
The storming of Jehanabad jail on the night of November 13 reminded me of the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, which triggered off the French Revolution.
- Precept Of Protest (Pioneer, K Govindan Kutty , Nov 26, 2005)
Everybody must have heard of Kushboo's shrine in Chennai. It was a tribute to her histrionic talent, which has not been rated very high by conventional critics.
- Sonia Sees Bihar Lesson For Secular Forces (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 26, 2005)
Four days after Congress lost Bihar polls, the party president Sonia Gandhi today sought to cement her ruling coalition at the Centre, by dwelling aloud on secular unity.
- For Us, India After China (Pioneer, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Nov 25, 2005)
If George W Bush sounded censorious in a Beijing church last Sunday, he undoubtedly enjoyed cycling in the mountains. And, ultimately, it's the cycling that will pedal Sino-American relations away from the "strategic competition" (Bush's term) . . .
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