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Articles 10121 through 10220 of 16899:
- Chances Slipping For West Bengal ‘Mahajot’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
With Assembly polls around the corner in West Bengal, the formation of a united ‘‘mahajot’’ against the ruling Left Front continues to evade the opposition parties in the State.
- Priority Action For 2006 (Indian Express, N K Singh, Jan 08, 2006)
With the New Year festivities behind us there is need for real action. The Prime Minister has over the last few weeks articulated some priorities of the Government. Some of these must include the following:
- India’S Killing Fields (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Jan 08, 2006)
The first politician I met in 2006 was Sharad Pawar. It was a fortuitous meeting because this column now has a new cause. Agriculture.
- Vishwanath Plea To Sonia On Aicc Revamp (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
A senior backward class leader of the Congress in Karnataka on Saturday urged party President Sonia Gandhi to give representation of forward communities in the AICC.
- ‘Education Cannot Be Based On Money’ (Deccan Herald, K Jayalakshmi, Jan 08, 2006)
To achieve the task of making India a knowledge-based society, we simply have to decommercialise education” - Dr P M Bhargava
- Let’S Tango, Bjp Tells Jd(s) (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Cashing in on the simmering discontent among the coalition partners – the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular) – following the Taluk and Zilla Panchayat election results, the State Unit of BJP is prepared to form an alternative government . . .
- 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.
- Clarify Stand On Nuclear Plan: Bjp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
"Centre must keep all parties informed"
Concern over plan being shared with U.S. Congress
Wonders whether it amounts to capping India's n-resources
Wants Government to take other political parties into confidence
- Full Independence Of Kashmir Not Possible: Mirwaiz (Daily Times, Umer Farooq, Jan 07, 2006)
Leader advocates co-existence
* Says self-governance and demilitarisation of Kashmir can be interim arrangement
- A Strategy For Up Assembly Polls (The Economic Times, V KRISHNA ANANTH, Jan 07, 2006)
While the change of guard was expected at the BJP’s silver jubilee meet at Mumbai, Rajnath Singh was indeed a surprise choice. Mr Singh, no doubt, was not a dark horse in any sense; he is certainly not another Bangaru Laxman or Jana Krishnamurthy.
- Check List: Things To Do During The Year (The Financial Express, NK SINGH, Jan 07, 2006)
With the New Year festivities happily behind us, there is need for real action. The Prime Minister has over the last few weeks articulated some priorities of the government. Some of these must include the following:
- Time To Reconstruct Hr Practices, Approach (The Financial Express, YRK REDDY, Jan 07, 2006)
The boom in the new economy industries and the service sector has brought human resources (HR) centre stage. In recent years, the HR profession has captured the mind share of top management and boards immensely.
- 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 . ..
- Year 2005: Best And Worst Of Times For Parliament (Business Line, R.C. Rajamani, Jan 07, 2006)
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times... It was the spring of hope; it was the winter of despair.
- Bjp After Advani’S Exit (Dawn, Afzaal Mahmood, Jan 07, 2006)
Under fire from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and party hawks after he praised Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah during his Pakistan trip, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president L.K. Advani has been forced to quit the top party post.
- `Harness Forensic Science To Thwart Terror Plans' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
Scientist advocates `preventive forensics' as traditional methods failed to handle terrorists
Crime base shifting from urban areas to rural areas
Forensic planning has to be formulated for rural and tribal population
- Now, Pc For Rs. 3,500! (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
A network personal computer costing only Rs.3,500, developed by Novatium, promoted by the faculty of IIT, Madras, is to hit the market soon.
- Despite The Obituaries, Newspapers Refuse To Die (Hindu, Simon Jenkins, Jan 07, 2006)
Newspapers have shown they can grasp each new technology and bend it to their will.
- India's Wealth And Squalor (Daily Excelsior, Sisir Basu, Jan 07, 2006)
The international media have covered the upswing of the Indian and Chinese economies. It is suggested that the Chinese economy would overtake Japan's currently the second largest, by 2016 and would be as big as that of the United States of America . . .
- Sonia Gandhi Reconstitutes Cwc - Rahul Made To Wait (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
Ahead of the AICC plenary session in Hyderabad, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday made some cosmetic changes in the party organisation, going by the adage, Old is Gold.
- Science For The People (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
IF the 93rd session of the Indian Science Congress, under way in Hyderabad, was to have been any different from previous meets, it should have thrown up some concrete suggestions for improving rural India.
- Third Decree Treatment (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 07, 2006)
As in real estate, so in minority politics. When in trouble, ordinance
- Bjp Deserts Nepal King? (Statesman, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Jan 07, 2006)
Is one reading too much into it or is the BJP finally throwing its weight behind Nepal’s Opposition?
- Coalition: Jd(s)to Wait & Watch (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
Unhappy with the Congress high command move to leave the issue of forging alliances in the hung zilla panchayats of the state to the local party units, the Janata Dal (Secular) is likely to take a decision on...
- Making A ‘Menace’ Of Migrants (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 07, 2006)
Do you know how many illegal Bangladeshi immigrants there are in India? Are there 30 million of them? What about 20 million? Or is the figure as low as 10 million?
- Even Lohiaites Are Learning (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jan 07, 2006)
If, like this writer, you too are a believer in economic reform leading to free markets, shrinking of the state’s role in economics and unshackling India’s creative and entrepreneurial energies, and are dismayed at the road-blocks and rollbacks at . . .
- Water Scarcity? Blame It On Population Explosion (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
Water is not getting scarce. It is the demographic growth that is skewing the scenario. From a 1.6 billion in 1900 to 6 billion in 2000, the population growth has resulted in a doubling of the rate of water withdrawal.
- Lights Out In Power Ministry (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Jan 07, 2006)
Despite the hype and expectations, the ministry of power continues to hold back progressive initiatives of successive Central governments.
- All Parties Are To Blame (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Jan 07, 2006)
Action against terrorists should not have led to torture and killing of innocents, and humiliation of all Kashmiris
- 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,
- More Trickle Out Of Sena (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
Rocked by rebellion and its morale at an all-time low, the Shiv Sena today suffered another setback after two more MLAs quit the party.
- The Dream Team: A Critique-Ii (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 07, 2006)
What would convertibility entail? For a decade now, India has had limited ease of availability of foreign exchange for importers, businessmen, students and tourists.
- Query On Inquiry (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 07, 2006)
Some years ago Justice R.S. Sarkaria was approached for his reaction to the delay in the implementation of his voluminous report on the Centre-State relations.
- Natwar Not Included In Revamped Cwc (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Jan 07, 2006)
Congress President Sonia Gandhi today chose to make minor and necessary changes instead of going in for a major overhaul of the party organisation when she reconstituted the Congress Working Committee (CWC) and the AICC secretariat today.
- As The Others See Us (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Jan 07, 2006)
After the Mitrokhin and Volcker disclosures and seeing clips of Members of Parliament accepting bribes to put questions in Parliament, the question uppermost in our minds is how do these blighters face members of their own family and friends?
- Nuclear Plan Presented To Washington (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Jan 06, 2006)
India awaits U.S. response on separation of facilities
Fast-breeder reactor programme not included in civilian facilities
India has no problem if Washington shares the separation plans with U.S. Congress
- Politics Rarely Takes A Vacation (Daily Excelsior, Arun Nehru, Jan 06, 2006)
The New Year is upon us and politics rarely takes a vacation. Last six months I have written consistently about the Third Front and this is more than a reality and by the middle of 2006 we will see two large groups emerging to change the current . . .
- Phone Tapping Issues (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
The controversy over the tapping of the telephone of the Samajwadi Party General Secretary, Amar Singh, is a disquieting reminder of the urgent need to review the safeguards of the surveillance system.
- Centre Tapping My Phone Calls, Alleges Jayalalithaa (Tribune, Arup Chanda, Jan 06, 2006)
Even while the Amar Singh phone tapping controversy continues to rock the Central Government, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa today dropped a bombshell alleging that her telephones were also being tapped by the Centre.
- President Kalam's Stress On Conserving Water Bodies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
First Citizen holds interaction with farmers and children
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has stressed on the need for conserving water bodies as part of drought mitigation measures, and asked farmers in dry land areas to cultivate jatropha.
- A Good Start, Indeed, To The New Year (The Financial Express, S SADAGOPAN, Jan 06, 2006)
BSNL, the public sector telecom giant, gave its landline customers a New Year gift by slashing rentals by as much as 28%, from Rs 250 per month to Rs 180 per month, ...
- Trade And Social Concerns (Dawn, Najma Sadeque, Jan 06, 2006)
There were 6,000 negotiators, 3,000 registered business and NGO lobbyists, and some 5,000 stakeholder-protesters from 149 countries at the WTO’s recent Hong Kong ministerial.
- Tormenting The Tormented (The Economic Times, ARVIND KALA, Jan 06, 2006)
If You jump off a building and die, your family faces police questioning. If you jump and survive, you face a one-year prison term. Suicide attempters in the west are given emergency medical treatment and escorted back to their families
- India Wants Peace With Neighbours: Mukherjee (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Underlining the need for living in peace with neighbours, Indian Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said New Delhi was holding talks with Islamabad to achieve this end.
- Kalam Greets Kids (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam today announced an essay competition and gave homework to students at the Indian Science Congress.
- Can’T Change Our Tory (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Jan 06, 2006)
There's a frisson in the British media ever since David Cameron arrived on the scene. Cameron is fresh-faced and, at 39, the new leader of the Conservative party travels light. He is relatively unburdened by the cynicisms and disbeliefs . . .
- Lalu Backs Sonia On Phone-Tapping Issue - End Of Democracy? (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
The phone-tapping issue, on Thursday, acquired a new dimension with RJD, a key ally of Congress at the Centre, coming out in support of Sonia Gandhi and embarrassing the Samajwadi party by demanding that the contents of the recorded conversations . . .
- Fao Chief Sees Role For Indian Scientists In Food Security (Hindu, P. Sunderarajan , Jan 06, 2006)
They could share expertise for modernising small-scale farming
Collaborative initiative to eliminate hunger in 10 years
To be done in a phased manner with developed countries' support
- Kalam Plans Big Solar Plant (Hindu, P. Sunderarajan , Jan 06, 2006)
A five-MW solar plant will be set up in the Rashtrapati Bhavan will by the year-end, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam said on Thursday.
- Scientists Must Play Leading Role In Pura Project, Says Kalam (Hindu, P. Sunderarajan , Jan 06, 2006)
They must provide scientific, technological leadership
Says the community can help set up 100 PURA centres
Must comprise village knowledge centres, agri-clinics, tele-education, water treatment plants
- A Little Bit Of Modesty, Perhaps (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 06, 2006)
It’s heartening to hear that the country’s proposed tsunami warning system will be in place soon and will be based on state-of-the-art technology.
- Some Friends (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 06, 2006)
The Congress must sometimes wonder whether the Left is really its ally.
- 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 . . .
- Speculation Rife On Change Of Governor (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
There was intense speculation here on Thursday over the possible shifting of Karnataka...
- Phone Tapping: Amar Singh To Move Sc (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Alleging that a doctored version of a taped conversation, involving him, was in circulation, Mr Singh said he would take action, including raising privilege issue, if anyone used it against him.
- Turning On Genes To Treat Diseases (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
However, there are concerns on account of insects becoming resistant to the Bt toxin and of a foreign gene being consistently present in the cotton plant.
- Kalam Gives Tips To Farmers (Deccan Herald, K Jayalakshmi, Jan 06, 2006)
“My theatre of action, Pokhran is beautiful to me.” It was President A P J Abdul Kalam at his candid best at the 93rd Science Congress answering a query from a farmer in faraway Rajasthan.
- Elaborate Arrangements Made For Aicc Plenary (Hindu, W. Chandrakanth, Jan 06, 2006)
Prime Minister to camp from January 21 to 23 in Hyderabad
The city will virtually turn into the nation's capital for three days between January 21 and 23 with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh camping here during the period to attend the AICC plenary.
- 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.
- Watergate Of India: Jaya (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK General Secretary J Jayalalitha on Thursday likened the tapping of Samajwadi Party leader and Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh’s telephone to the Watergate scandal in the United States which led to the resignation . . .
- Tie-Up In Zps: Congress Leaves It To Local Units (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
The decision was taken at a high-level meeting in Delhi
The Congress on Thursday announced that it will not like to interfere in the formation of zilla panchayats in Karnataka, and left the decision to the local units to chart the future course.
- Ysr Seeks Scientists' Counsel On Projects (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Modern practices is a must for farmers to reap benefits
Farmer suicides almost stopped in the State, says YSR
- Kalam Launches `Kidney Care Project' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Says it is time adequate attention is paid to the healthcare sector
Calls for solution to kidney transplant through stem cell research
Stresses the need to create awareness about cadaver kidney transplant
- Can Pakistan Reform? (Frontpagemag, Robert T. McLean, Jan 05, 2006)
For months, Pakistani President Musharraf has been locked in a fierce political struggle with leaders of Pakistan’s religious schools, or madrasas. Represented by the powerful political organization Wifaqul-Madaris, . . .
- Tight Security In Hyderabad (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Jan 05, 2006)
For Pravasi Bharatiya Divas and AICC plenary session
Manmohan, a large number of NRIs, Central Ministers and leading personalities taking part in the events
Police asked to implement "foolproof" but unobtrusive security plan
- Haryana Plans To Beat Major It Hubs' (The Economic Times, Raja Awasthi, Jan 05, 2006)
‘An accountant by training, a lawyer by profession, an academic by choice and a politician per se, Haryana cabinet’s youngest member Randeep Singh Surjewala wears many hats. Having been the longest-serving president of Indian Youth Congress, . . .
- 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)..
- Accountability Commission? (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 05, 2006)
Immediately after assuming the office, the Chief Minister promised a clean administration.
- Quota For Muslims Case For Constitution Bench (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Apex court won't stay High Court ruling but says admissions, appointments already made not to be disturbed
Reservation for a class of people not adequately represented was permissible: Fali Nariman
- Jd(s) To Await Congress Decision On Alliance (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Deve Gowda dismisses reports of talks with BJP
- For A Second Farm Revolution (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 05, 2006)
Shall we consider it a good New Year augury that at the recent Indian Science Congress, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, called for a second Green Revolution and urged scientists to work towards it?
- Efficiency Has Become The Hallmark Of Our Governance: Ghulam Nabi Azad (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Jan 05, 2006)
Jammu and Kashmir Chief MinisterGhulam Nabi Azadcompleted two months in office on January 2 after taking over from Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. In an interview, Mr. Azad spells out his agenda for the next two years — focus on development, and giving a clean,...
- The Polity Has To Turn Its Back On Politics Of Intrigue (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jan 05, 2006)
There can be no gainers in this game that no leader or party can hope to control fully. Unless the trend is bucked, the polity will stand denuded of its democratic legitimacy.
- Second Green Revolution (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 05, 2006)
Scientists have to lend a helping hand
The Prime Minister’s call to scientists, while addressing the Indian Science Congress in Hyderabad on Tuesday, to play a role in creating rural jobs and making technologies affordable to small farmers . . .
- 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.
- Expert Against Aping Pacific Tsunami-Warning System (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Renowned earthquake expert Mr Harsh Gupta today said that India should not emulate the Pacific Tsunami Warning System as it generates seventy per cent false alarms.
- Indian System Will Rule Out False Tsunami Alarms (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Official says mechanism to be in place by September 2007
Key elements will be in place by March
System incorporates storm surge forecast
Encompasses near-real time determination of parameters in 2 Indian Ocean zones
- Sc Refuses To Stay Hc Ruling (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
The Supreme Court today referred to a Constitution Bench the controversial Andhra Pradesh law providing five per cent reservation to the Muslims, but declined to grant interim stay on the state high court order striking it down as “unconstitutional”.
- Kalam Arrives In City (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam arrived late on Wednesday evening on a 20-hour visit, primarily to participate in the 93rd Indian Science Congress. He will spend at least six hours at the Children's Science Congress.
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