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Articles 5421 through 5520 of 16899:
- Da Political Code (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 04, 2006)
Who’s secular? Those banning ‘The Da Vinci Code’ in India while it plays in a theatre near the Vatican?
- In A New Light (Hindu, A.J. THOMAS, Jun 04, 2006)
"I would not be surprised if this novel turns out to be his magnum opus eventually."
- Simple Sorry Can’T Wipe Out Ghraib, Guantanomo Abuses (Deccan Herald, N J Nanporia , Jun 04, 2006)
Acknowledging a mistake is not an apology, nor is it an act of contrition.
- Alternative To Communal And Casteist Politics (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jun 03, 2006)
The stark reality of the Indian politics has moved it's full circle: Congress brand of socialism and secularism to the BJP's communalism, and, now it is the turn of casteism.
- Siachen Is Strategically Important (Daily Excelsior, J N Raina, Jun 03, 2006)
India will be deluding itself if it feels sanguine that Siachen conflict will be negotiated with Pakistan amicably.
- Schemes To Mark Karunanidhi's Birthday (Hindu, R.K. Radhakrishnan, Jun 03, 2006)
He will launch Rs. 2 a kg rice scheme, reinstall Kannagi statue on the Marina
Marriage assistance scheme for poor women to be implemented
CM to inaugurate refurbished farmer's market and Samuthuvapuram
Karunanidhi to meet Manmohan, Sonia Gandhi . .
- Valid Protest (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jun 03, 2006)
It is seldom that the legislators of the Jammu region cut across party lines to take up a common cause.
- What About Women’S Reservations? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 03, 2006)
Good things done with wrong intentions by politicians who are otherwise perfectly wise, are bound to have adverse repercussions.
- Nagpur Alert (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 03, 2006)
We are fortunate that, much like the attempt to storm the makeshift temple at Ayodhya last July, the attack on the RSS headquarters was foiled by some quick and effective police action.
- Stability Depends On Cmp Implementation: Mufti (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
Although he does not foresee any immediate threat to the Government headed by Ghulam Nabi Azad, patron of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and former Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed today, however, observed that stability of Congress-PDP . . .
- Da Political Code (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 03, 2006)
Who’s secular? Those banning ‘The Da Vinci Code’ in India while it plays in a theatre near the Vatican?
- Reservation Question (Tribune, Ashok Kundra, Jun 03, 2006)
The debate about reservation for OBCs in the premier educational institutions is raging in the country. Pro and anti-reservationists are out in streets demonstrating, striking and protesting.
- Sonia Still Holding Offices Of Profit: Sp (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
Despite the Congress starting the office of profit controversy by raking the issue of Jaya Bachchan's nomination to the Rajya Sabha, its President Sonia Gandhi still held on several posts of profit charged the Samajwadi Party here today.
- Dmdk Council To Decide Local Body Polls Strategy (Hindu, Ramya Kannan , Jun 03, 2006)
Vijayakant does not rule out forging an alliance
A concrete plan will emerge by September, says DMDK chief
`Captain' busy consolidating his gains and strengthening party
"I will participate in Assembly proceedings only if they are relevant to people
- The (Vicious) Cycle Of Progress (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 03, 2006)
Chandni Chowk sees a turf battle between minister and MP, Centre and State, over a move to replace rickshaws with CNG buses
- Republicans In Trouble (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 03, 2006)
After the United States President, George W. Bush, won re-election in 2004, the Republican party believed it had a good chance of preserving its majorities in the two Houses of Congress over the next few electoral cycles.
- Oil Price Hike: "Government Should Consider People's Needs" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
Congress says people's needs must be factored into any decision
- Bush Circles The Wagons As Approval Ratings Slip (Washington Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
With just five months to go before the midterm elections, President Bush, whose once-faithful base has abandoned him in droves, is turning to the same conservative hot-button issues that won him re-election in 2004 -- homosexual "marriage" and . . .
- Will India Run Aground Or Muddle Through? (The Financial Express, V ANANTHA NAGESWARAN, Jun 03, 2006)
Either way, India’s future seems flawed; eternal optimists should tone down expectations from it.
- No Movement On Reform By The Upa (The Financial Express, Malvika Singh, Jun 03, 2006)
The perception is of a subservient, backtracking and indecisive government.
- Dmk Gets Opposition Status In Pondicherry Assembly (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
A M H Nazeem becomes Opposition leader in the House
- Affirmative Action The Only Answer (The Economic Times, V KRISHNA ANANTH, Jun 03, 2006)
There is no basis to argue that caste identities will be sharpened by setting aside 27% of seats in institutions of higher learning to the socially and educationally backward classes.
- Bhatt Masala (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 03, 2006)
For someone who first tasted success directing two future MPs - Vinod Khanna to the right and Shabana Azmi to the left - in Lahu ke Do Rang, Mahesh Bhatt has, appropriately, established himself as a deft exponent of the "rent a cause" game.
- The Myth Of Ownership Society (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 03, 2006)
No,” said former Fox News journalist Tony Snow, newly appointed as one of George W Bush’s closest aides, his press secretary, when asked recently about his retirement savings. “As a matter of fact, I was even too dopey to get in on a 401(k) pension plan.
- Parliament To Discuss Oop Bill In Monsoon Session (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
The Office of Profit (OoP) Bill, returned by President APJ Abdul Kalam for reconsideration by Parliament, will be taken up by the two Houses in the Monsoon Session beginning last week of July.
- Manmohan, Patil Condemn Terrorist Bid (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Soft policies of the government encouraging militancy, say BJP leaders Advani and Rajnath Singh
Remain united, Manmohan tells nation
Government will defeat terrorist designs: Patil
- Congress-Communist Camaraderie (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Jun 02, 2006)
There are moments in history when forked tongues will no do, and when overly nuanced appraisals of events amount only to equivocation.
- Gujarat Communalised (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 02, 2006)
The BJP attempted to make Gujarat chauvinism synonymous with Hindutva for better poll prospects
- India's Gains Predicated On Competitiveness (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 02, 2006)
The Free Trade Agreement with ASEAN is a link up with a group of dynamic economies that can test India's mettle in several areas of trade. More than the comfort of tariff quotas it will be the country's sustained competitiveness that would bring it . . .
- Jihadis Hit Again (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 02, 2006)
There is no denying the fact that had the terrorists who set out on Thursday morning to blow up the RSS headquarters in Nagpur succeeded in their mission, jihadis both in India and abroad would have celebrated while the Government and its security . . .
- Waving, Not Drowning (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Jun 02, 2006)
If the BJP wants to stage a comeback, it must regain the Opposition space that it has lost to the Left -
- Appeasement As State Policy (Pioneer, Sanjog Maheshwari, Jun 02, 2006)
While the past decades have witnessed relentless competition among various political organisations to appease the minority community in a bid to cultivate the Muslim vote-bank, none can match the UPA Government's firestorm of minorityism.
- Trinamool Fans Farmers' Ire On Land For Tatas (Pioneer, Saugar Sengupta, Jun 02, 2006)
For the first time after the elections, the Nationalist Trinamool Congress on Thursday got down to testing the political waters in Hooghly district by galvanising disgruntled farmers at Singur block to protest against the "unlawful and impetuous . . .
- Left Tells Ec To Keep Off Oop Issue, Says Parliament Has Right (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
In the wake of President APJ Abdul Kalam returning the Office-of-Profit Bill, the Left on Thursday warned the Election Commission not to "get embroiled in another controversy by proceeding on disqualification notices."
- Saudi Media Calls Arjun An ‘Icon Of Indian Secularism’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
The Saudi media has heaped praise on the visiting Union Minister for Human Resource and Development Arjun Singh, describing him as a very “seasoned politician” and an “icon of Indian secularism”. Giving wide coverage to Singh’s visit to Saudi . . .
- Freedom Fighter Passes Away (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Eminent freedom fighter and former MLA Narendrapal Singh Choudhary died in Nathadwara town earlier this week. An associate of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Mr. Choudhary was 104. He is survived by two sons and five daughters.
- Council Poll: Cong Wins 'Prestige Battle' (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly, Mr N Dharam Singh, said the victory would mark the beginning of the end of the JD (S)-BJP government.
- Left Takes A Right Hand Turn (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 02, 2006)
Under Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, West Bengal's lapse into capitalism is a foregone conclusion,
- Keep Out Of Profit Row, Karat Tells Ec (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
As the office-of-profit controversy locks the country’s President and Parliament in a stalemate, the woman with whom it all began shook herself free from its shadow today.
- Office-Of-Profit: Special House Session May Not Be Convened (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
PM Manmohan Singh who consulted some of his ministerial colleagues, including parliamentary affairs minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi on the office of profit issue, is reportedly unwilling to appear completely impervious to President Kalam's view on the issue
- Reserve And Destroy (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jun 02, 2006)
As the populism fire rages, Indian forests are under profound threat.
- Terror Attack On Rss Hq Foiled, 3 Lashkar Men Shot Dead (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
The Centre breathed a huge sigh of relief after Nagpur police foiled a plot to trigger large-scale communal violence across the country with a terror attack on the RSS headquarters.
- Striking Difference (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 02, 2006)
Politicians couldn’t have ended the doctors’ agitation. They were only talking politics
- Fuel Price Hike: Left Threatens Strike (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
The Left on Thursday warned the UPA government against hiking prices of petro products for the fifth time during its tenure and threatened a nationwide protest involving non-Congress and non-BJP parties.
- Ruthless Merit (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 02, 2006)
There is an English disease, peculiar to a particular class, of using language to mask feelings rather than express them.
- Sheila-Bashing (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 01, 2006)
The cat is out of the proverbial bag. The active participation of the Union urban development minister at a local Congress jamboree to laud passage of the controversial, yet to be judicially-endorsed, Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Act confirms . . .
- Checks And Imbalances (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jun 01, 2006)
President Kalam’s return of the Office of Profit Bill raises three questions.
- Sonia Must Quit: Bjp (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2006)
The BJP President, Mr Rajnath Singh, today demanded that Congress President Sonia Gandhi should resign from her Lok Sabha seat on the “grounds of morals and principles” after President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam returned the Office of Profit Bill passed . . .
- ‘Kalam Move No Setback For Party, Govt’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2006)
A day after the President returned the Office-of-Profit Amendment Bill, the Congress party’s response was a calibrated defiance.
- Look Who Profits (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 01, 2006)
With the government in effect refusing to admit there’s anything too convenient by half in the amended office of profit rules — the president will reportedly be asked to sign the very bill he has questioned — probably the last chance for injecting . . .
- Office Of Profit: Kalam Move Has Mps On Toes (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2006)
The ghost of disqualification is revisiting several MPs, including Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and ministers, in the light of President A P J Abdul Kalam returning the controversial Office of Profit Bill to Parliament with the main . . .
- The Fallout And The Falling Out (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Jun 01, 2006)
The more one searches for credible political rationale behind Mandal II, the more baffled it leaves you. It is only going to leave a trail of losers, not winners.
- Hurdles To Be Tackled In Indian Growth (The Financial Express, JAYANTA ROY, Jun 01, 2006)
A steady GDP expansion is essential and can’t be assured without economic and political drive
- Credit It To ‘‘Condi’’ Law Makers (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jun 01, 2006)
After all that was said and done by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President George Bush last month, the real person who is pushing the nuclear deal is Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.
- Stop Them (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jun 01, 2006)
In the first four months this year 141 persons including a number of security personnel have been killed in the State in 466 incidents of terrorist violence.
- "V. P. Singh Dancing To Congress' Tune" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2006)
Uttar Pradesh Transport Minister Naresh Agrawal on Wednesday alleged that former Prime Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh was dancing to the Congress' tunes.
- The 'Rent A Quota' Drama (Pioneer, ASHOK MALIK, Jun 01, 2006)
Cruel as it may sound, the medical students' strike in Delhi - with occasional add-ons in other cities - hasn't really gripped middle India.
- Nobody Profits (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 01, 2006)
While sending the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Amendment Bill back to Parliament for its reconsideration, President APJ Abdul Kalam has highlighted what could be deep flaws in the proposed law to exempt MPs holding certain offices of . . .
- Poll In Mind, Punjab Announces Sops (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2006)
The Punjab Council of Ministers today gave approval to refer cases of 9,000 terrorism-affected persons in the state to the Union Government so as to seek ex-gratia and rehabilitation grant for them on a par with 1984-riot victims.
- Upa In Bind Over Bill (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Jun 01, 2006)
The UPA government is scrambling to contain the damage caused by President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s decision to withhold his assent to the recently-amended Bill exempting certain posts from being considered as Office of Profit, but the Congress is . . .
- Nda Asks Sonia To Resign From House (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2006)
Seeking to deepen Congress' embarrassment over President Kalam's decision to return the Bill on office of profit to Parliament, BJP on Wednesday trained its guns on Sonia Gandhi demanding her resignation from the House.
- Minority Report (Times of India, Sanjib Baruah, Jun 01, 2006)
It is a myth that Muslims vote for the Congress because of its secular credentials. 'Minority prudence' has always been a factor. Muslims have often voted strategically for the most likely winner.
- The Unrest In Sri Lanka (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Jun 01, 2006)
On May 21, 1991, a suicide bomber strapped with explosives deputed by LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran blew herself up and assassinated former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
- Office Of Profit Issue: Nda Delegation Meets Ec (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2006)
Buoyed by President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s decision to return the Bill pertaining to Office of Profit, the NDA today urged the Election Commission to process all pending cases pertaining to Office of Profit expeditiously and furnish the opinion to . . .
- Pm Meets Kalam, Discusses Office Of Profit Bill (Tribune, T.R. Ramachandran, Jun 01, 2006)
With the prospect of the disqualification of MPs looming large in the wake of President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam returning the Office of Profit Bill for the reconsideration of Parliament, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met the First Citizen this evening . . .
- Assembly Seeks Ordinance To Implement Quota (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2006)
To "ensure advancement of OBCs and bring them on a par with others in society"
- It Is Now Ladakh Singhey Khabab Spring Festival (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2006)
Sindhu Darshan renamed to ensure greater local participation
- Obliterate The Tamil Tigers (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Jun 01, 2006)
On May 21, 1991, a suicide bomber strapped with explosives deputed by the LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran blew herself up and assassinated former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Prabhakaran, who faces charges of involvement in Rajiv Gandhi's . . .
- Reliance Not Given Land At Concessional Rate: Hooda (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2006)
INLD had been making baseless allegations
- Is The Indo-Pak Nuke Deal In Trouble? (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Jun 01, 2006)
Delhi wants watertight assurances from Washington that the nuclear fuel it agrees to supply for India's civil reactors will never be suspended for political reasons
- Round Table Politics: Jihad And Kebabs (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jun 01, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's round-table process calls for a transfiguration of political attitudes in New Delhi and Srinagar.
- Unpredictable Mid-Term Verdict On Bush (Hindu, Martin Kettle, Jun 01, 2006)
In the history of editorial boo-boos, few can out-goof The Chicago Daily Tribune's "Dewey defeats Truman" front page of November 1948.
- Temples And Traditions (Hindu, A. Srivathsan, Jun 01, 2006)
Opening up of temples and the priesthood to all castes is part of the fight against discrimination based on birth.
- Bill Was Correct: Cong (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2006)
Stressing that there have been legislation with retrospective effect earlier, she said, “Parliament needs to examine the issues raised by the President, including whether Parliament can legislate for state legislatures.”
- Congress Vs Congress (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 31, 2006)
Rajiv asked the right quota questions; crudely brushing them aside is sabotage from within
- Upa Loses Face Over Bill To Save Skin (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, May 31, 2006)
Already wracked by the quota crisis, the UPA faced a severe setback today when President A P J Abdul Kalam returned the amended “Office-of-Profit” Bill to Parliament for reconsideration.
- Bjp’S Latest Rider: Form Panel (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, May 31, 2006)
While backing OBC quotas, the BJP added a new rider today. The party national executive demanded that the Government appoint an expert committee to subserve ‘‘three obligations’’ — the space for merit and excellence of institutions is not reduced . . .
- President Returns Office Of Profit Bill (Tribune, S. Satyanarayanan, May 31, 2006)
In a major embarrassment to the UPA government, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam today returned the Prevention of Disqualification Amendment Bill on the Office of Profit to Parliament for reconsideration.
- Speed Up (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, May 31, 2006)
The well-intentioned recommendation of the second roundtable in Srinagar about the constitution of five working groups should be implemented soon.
- Prez Returns Office Of Profit Bill (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 31, 2006)
Government has decided to send back the office of profit Bill to President Kalam in its original form.
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