|
|
|
|
|
|
Articles 10321 through 10420 of 16899:
- No Serious Effort Made To Curb Terrorism: Bjp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2006)
Dattatreya accuses MIM, Congress and Left parties of pursuing vote-bank politics
- `Global Events Will Boost Development Of State' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2006)
Good things are in store and Opposition parties creating hurdles, says YSR
- An Insensitive Index (Hindu, Oommen A. Ninan , Jan 01, 2006)
Political India must sensitise corporate India to the social environment in which its profit-driven enterprises are staged.
- Shaping New Lives In Kashmir (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Jan 01, 2006)
In the absence of a cohesive response from society to the Kashmir earthquake, the challenge of rehabilitating the survivors remains an uphill task.
- Bjp’S Reincarnation May Be A Death Blow To Congress – For Now Now Congress Believes Otherwise (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2006)
While BJP’s new boss will follow a careful line to unite the party, the rejuvenated BJP can be a catastrophe for Congress on the long run.
- Making A ‘Menace’ Of Migrants (Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi, Jan 01, 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?
- Political Corruption (Statesman, ISHAN JOSHI, Jan 01, 2006)
It’s the system, stupid! After all, intense government-citizen interaction based on dependency is a breeding ground for corruption
- ‘What Are You Doing About Dawood, Pm?’ (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2006)
The BJP today sought an answer from the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, about the efforts being made by his government “to secure the extradition of Dawood Ibrahim” even as the party flayed the UPA’s failure to curb terrorist activities in the country,
- Advani Quits, It’S Over To Gennext (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2006)
Mr Lal Krishna Advani today formally quit as the president of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Expulsion Enhanced Parliament’S Image: Sharad (Tribune, Tripti Nath, Jan 01, 2006)
Janata Dal (United) leader Sharad Yadav’s maiden election to the Fifth Lok Sabha in 1974 at the age of 25 coincided with the present Speaker Somnath Chatterjee also entering the portals of Parliament.
- `Agriculture Sector Should Embrace Technology' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2006)
IT and nanotechnology can modernise agriculture: P.J. Joseph IT and nano technology can help modernise agricultures, says P.J. Joseph
- Chennithala Rejects Bjp Call For Joint Movement Against Cpi(m) (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2006)
He says it is a pre-meditated move by the saffron outfit to weaken the Congress
Says Congress is capable of taking on LDF and CPI (M) on its own
Blames CPI(M) for disrupting the democratic process in Palakkad
- Only Party High Command Can Decide On Leadership Change: Dharam Singh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2006)
Kharge-Krishna meeting gives rise to speculation
- Cong To Bjp: Control Hunger For Power (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2006)
Even as BJP President L K Advani announced the passing of the baton to Rajnath Singh, the Congress Party on Saturday said good governance and a responsible Opposition could not be expected unless the hunger for power within the BJP is first controlled.
- Mulayam Reiterates Charges (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2006)
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Saturday reiterated his allegation that the Congress was behind the phone tapping of senior leaders of his party including Amar Singh, despite denial by the Union Home Ministr
- Right Move (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Dec 31, 2005)
Often in these columns we have called for urgent need for applying certain necessary correctives to the State's polity.
- Mr Prime Minister, You Have Wasted This Year (The Financial Express, Malvika Singh, Dec 31, 2005)
It is the last day of the year, a year of exposed shame, as some newspapers and television channels describe it. Shameful, it sure was, with members of Parliament caught with their hands in the till and, worse, with senior parliamentarians defending . . .
- `Bjp Leadership Gives Nod For Udf-Bjp Alliance' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
Communist Party of India (Marxist) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan said that the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) political resolution calling for forging ties with the Congress to defeat the Left parties in their strongholds, including Kerala, . . .
- Bjp Pledges Ram Temple, Abrogation Of Article 370 (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
Out of power for the last 18 months, BJP today came out with a declaration pledging its commitment to Uniform Civil Code, abrogation of Article 370 and Ram temple as party chief L K Advani asserted that the recent scams that hit the party were shortcoming
- Whither Bjp (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 31, 2005)
When Sunday dawns tomorrow, people will be wishing “Happy New Year” to one another. However, the BJP men extending the customary greetings to each other will be doing so with less of conviction and more of trepidation. Mr L.K. Advani who cannot celebrate
- Year Of India (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 31, 2005)
It was the year of India. George W. Bush confirmed that he would make India a world power. WaterAid, the British charity dedicated to propagating proper (read Western) toilets, countered that India already leads the world in squatters in fields and . . .
- Back To Basics: Bjp Finds Silver Lining In Bad Times (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
The BJP on Friday decided to go back “to the basics”, announcing its commitment to Uniform Civil Code, abrogation of Article 370 and Ayodhya issue and asked party workers to constantly exercise caution against “contagious diseases” like corruption.
- Nato Norms: Inability To Adopt Hits Defence Exports (Deccan Herald, KALYAN RAY, Dec 31, 2005)
Even after 16 years of organised defence export, the Indian arms and ammunition market outside the country has not picked up because of the Ordnance Factory Board’s (OFB) inability to implement the NATO technical specifications, . . .
- High Security For Isc (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
The shadow of the Bangalore terror attack looms large on the 93rd Indian Science Congress that is to be held here from January 3 to 5.
- Towards Greater Enlightenment (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
On the threshold of a new year, India emerges as a curious amalgam of the modern and the regressive. In his book, The Argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen draws from Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Muslim, agnostic, and atheistic strands of Indian thought to . . .
- Minority Rights And Responsibilities (Hindu, Iqbal A. Ansari, Dec 31, 2005)
Muslims are not enjoying any `privilege' denied to others. However, the concerns raised in Parliament, during the debate on the Constitution (104th) Amendment Bill, on the reservation issue need to be addressed. One way could be to conduct a . . .
- West Bengal Poll (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
EC must mean business
What eventual impact the Election Commission’s directive to West Bengal’s chief electoral officer to correct the “glaring irregularities” in the distribution of photo identity cards of voters would have is not clear.
- The Ordinance Factory (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 31, 2005)
Grab something. Then make law to legitimise the grab. It used to happen in the Emergency.
- Agony, Not Ecstasy (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
We can’t have fun. We can’t be harmlessly anarchic. Congress is raving about morality
- What Next For The Bjp? (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Two leaders have dominated India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during its chequered history - former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and party president Lal Krishna Advani.
- India's Year Of Shame (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Dec 30, 2005)
As the first anniversary of the tsunami trauma reminds us, the year now mercifully drawing to a close had begun with a monumentally destructive disaster. Others followed, most notably the earthquake, far more catastrophic in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir ....
- India, Pak Nukes A Serious Threat (Tribune, Simranjit Singh Mann, Dec 30, 2005)
THE Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) is against the nuclearisation of India and Pakistan and their arsenals of weapons of mass destruction. Our party opposes the policies of some Western democracies in giving nuclear technology to India for civilian purpose
- India Won’T Be Cowed Down’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi saw in Wednesday’s terrorist attack carried out against the country’s premier scientific establishment — Indian Institute of Science campus at Bangalore — a design by enemies to thwart India’s progress and vowed . . .
- Upa Ginger Group Takes Form (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Wracked by dissent and rattled by a debacle in local elections, the Telengana Rashtriya Samiti (TRS) has indicated that it would form a ginger group of non-Congress, non-Left parties in the UPA to act as a “pressure lobby”.
- Cash-For-Query Scam: Bjp Expresses Regret (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
The four page political resolution passed here at BJP’s national convention attacked the UPA-government for taking a “selective” drive against corruption while “unreservedly expressing” its regret over party members’ involvement in the cash for question s
- Terror Can’T Scar Bangalore: Cm (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
The Karnataka chief minister, Mr Dharam Singh, today described yesterday’s attack on the Indian Institute of Sciences campus that had killed an IIT don as an act of terrorism.
- Nation On High Alert (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Vital scientific and defence installations across the country were on Thursday put under heavy security in the wake of the suspected terrorist attack at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in which a scientist was killed and four others injured.
- On Corruption, Party Not With Advani (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Dec 30, 2005)
Virtually snubbing outgoing chief L.K. Advani’s defence of corruption inside the party, the BJP today ‘‘unreservedly’’ expressed ‘‘regret’’ at the involvement of party MPs in the cash-for-questions scandal and Sushma Swaraj said their act ‘‘has made us ha
- Sonia Brushes Aside Mid-Term Poll Idea (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Dismissing BJP’s projections of a mid-term poll, Congress president Mrs Sonia Gandhi today asked the BJP to do some introspection on corruption within instead of levelling charges against her party.
- Bjp Resolution Hits Out At Upa (Statesman, Dipankar Chakrovorty, Dec 30, 2005)
The four-page resolution adopted by the BJP national conclave this afternoon acceded to the need for “rectifying shortcomings” in the party and held the Congress solely responsible for erosion in the quality of public life.
- Mumbai Malaise (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
In disowning its own path-breaking foreign policy, BJP shows how far it has strayed
- Vajpayee’S Man For Future: Mahajan (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Dec 30, 2005)
Atal Behari Vajpayee sent the BJP into a tizzy tonight by declaring his own retirement from electoral politics and publicly anointing high-profile general secretary Pramod Mahajan as the future leader of the party. He made no mention . . .
- Detox As Dharma (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Dec 30, 2005)
What was the big story from the BJP’s silver jubilee conclave in Mumbai? On the face of it, there were two contenders — the sex scandal that claimed Sanjay Joshi, and the underlying factionalism that saw the usual mix of off-the-record statements, . . .
- View From The Left (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
A front page editorial articulates the CPI(M)’s views on control over private educational institutions and the need for a Central legislation that would enable them to reserve seats for SCs, STs and OBCs, and establish guidelines for the fee structure. .
- A Tangled Web Called The Bharatiya Janata Party (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Dec 30, 2005)
The BJP's Rajat Jayanti year finds the party bruised and bereft, and the Parivar at war with its own professed values.
- Congress Mla To Join Oommen Chandy Cabinet (Hindu, Girish Menon, Dec 30, 2005)
This may help Chief Minister manage coalition equations
- Upa Government Suffering From `Policy Paralysis': Bjp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
This has led to serious economic deterioration, it says
- Bjp Promises To Rectify Shortcomings ........ (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
In its first attempt at self introspection, BJP today "unreservedly expressed its regret" over the involvement of some of its MPs in the `cash for questions’ scandal and promised to rectify the shortcomings.
- Congress’S Software (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Ayodhya and Delhi preceded Bangalore. But the UPA’s too busy being ‘nice’
- More Security Cover For Defence Scientists (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Defence installations to be protected
The country's top defence and nuclear scientists and major defence installations were on Thursday given heightened security cover in . . .
- Vajpayee To Keep Off 'Politics Of Power' (Hindu, ARUNKUMAR BHATT, Dec 30, 2005)
Advani calls for campaign to mould public opinion against the Congress on the lack of security, probity
BJP to take severe action against corrupt MPs
Vajpayee's policy on Naxalism given up
Party will not be comfortable till Ram temple is built
- Centre Seeks Report From Gujarat Govt On Mass Grave (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
The Centre has sought a report from the Gujarat Government on the digging out of skeletal remains from a mass grave in Panchmahals district, the Congress party said today.
- Naxalite Violence, Tribal Movement Dominate Events In Chhattisgarh (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Amid Chhattisgarh’s continued struggle to raise the new state’s visibility even in the fifth year after its formation , spurt in Naxalite violence, tribal uprising against left wing extremism, paddy and rice scams and expulsion of a BJP . . .
- Congress Wins 14 Zilla Panchayats (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
JD(S) secures 2, BJP draws a blank; majority eludes parties in 11 zilla panchayats
The Congress has won 1,711 of 3,657 taluk panchayat seats declared
Janata Dal (Secular) has secured 945 taluk panchayat seats
- Kharge Rules Out Mid-Term Polls (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
`Results of panchayat polls will not affect coalition'
The Congress is against mid-term elections in the State, despite its good performance in the zilla and taluk panchayat elections.
- State Funding Of Polls Will Fail In India (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Dec 29, 2005)
In a significant decision with wide-ranging ramifications, the Union Cabinet has given in-principle approval to the proposal of state funding of elections. The government will now refer the proposal to the Election Commission to push it forward . . .
- Come Clean On Volcker, Advani Tells Sonia (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
"Congress fountainhead of corruption but that does not justify the actions of some of our own partymen"
Report reinforces Congress' disregard for probity
BJP committed to NDA's ideological programme
- Congress To Control 14 Zilla Panchayats, Jd(s) 2 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
No party gets a majority in eleven zilla panchayats
- Shock, Awe And Hobbes Have Backfired On Neocons (Hindu, Richard Drayton, Dec 29, 2005)
The Tragid irony of the 21st century is that just as faith in technology collapsed on the world's stock markets in 2000, it came to power in the White House and the Pentagon.
- Clearance To Uranium Project In Nalgonda District Shocks Environmentalists (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Centre acts in utter disregard to public opinion and human rights'
Movement Against the Uranium Project writes to the Union Ministry
- Bombay Nightmares (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Dec 29, 2005)
The Mumbai convention was meant to give the BJP a respite from its year and a half of disasters.
- Not A Credible Victory For The Congress (Deccan Herald, Asha Krishnaswamy, Dec 29, 2005)
The Congress and the JD(S), while taking over the reins of administration in 2004, had announced that the coalition governance had become inevitable to keep the “communal” BJP out of power. But, what have the coalition partners achieved in the last 17 ...
- Grassroots Pointers (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 29, 2005)
All major political parties have suffered an erosion of their support bases in the just concluded elections to the zilla and taluk panchayats in Karnataka, though it is not very clear in the case of the winner by default, the Congress.
- Grassroots Pointers (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 29, 2005)
All major political parties have suffered an erosion of their support bases in the just concluded elections to the zilla and taluk panchayats in Karnataka, though it is not very clear in the case of the winner by default, the Congress.
- Mass Grave: Centre, Nhrc Seek Report (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Taking suo-motu notice of media reports about unearthing of a mass grave in Lunawada village of Panchmahal district of Gujarat, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday asked the state government and the CBI to file their comments . . .
- Hand In Glove (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Ulhasnagar shows how Congress rules Maharashtra. What lies in store for India?
- 2005’S Tsunami Of Corruption (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Dec 29, 2005)
Satyameva Jayate runs our national motto. How many Indians realise this quotation from the Upanishads is incomplete? There is a third word there, “nanritam”. Truth alone triumphs, naught else. Which is hard to believe as we look back on the year that was!
- A Spent Force To Reckon With (Telegraph, Sumanta Sen, Dec 29, 2005)
It is unlikely that the ‘Bihar model’ or a mahajot can turn things around for the opposition parties in West Bengal, argues Sumanta Sen. People are yet to be convinced that they are an alternative to the CPI(M)
- Sonia Lands In Mumbai Too (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Congress President Mrs Sonia Gandhi today made a veiled reference to the factional feud in BJP during its national convention here and asked her party workers not to allow internal bickering in other political parties enter Congress.
- Funds Diversion Slur On Bjp (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Sanction of funds from the MLA-LADS (Local Area Development Scheme) to ‘RSS-run’ Adarsh Vidya Mandir Schools has created a political controversy in Rajasthan.
- Bjp In Painful Phase, Says Advani (Deccan Herald, Deepak K Upreti, Dec 29, 2005)
BJP President L K Advani on Wednesday admitted that the party was going through a “bad patch” and has to reverse the “distressing descent” of some members.
- Advani Sings Ram “Dhun” Again (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Recalling the strong ties between the RSS and his party, BJP President L.K. Advani today said that the organisation’s mission would not be complete without the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
- Be Ready For Early Polls: Advani (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Dec 29, 2005)
People will be looking to BJP. We shouldn't be found wanting'
Congress is the "fountainhead of corruption"
CPI (M) has undermined democracy in West Bengal
- India Says U.S. Sanctions Against Two Indian Firms Accused Of Aiding Iran Is Unjustified (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
India on Wednesday criticized U.S. sanctions imposed on two Indian companies accused of supplying chemical arms material to Iran, and said the action was "unjustified."
- India’S Achievements In 2005 (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, Dec 29, 2005)
The well-known American scholar on South Asia, Professor Stephen Cohen, in his definitive study on India published in 1996, had described the country as an “emerging power”.
- Target Bengal, Says Advani (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Predicting that the coming Assembly election will see the end of Left rule in West Bengal, the BJP president Mr LK Advani today charged the Marxists with perpetrating their reign in that state through tactics that undermined the democratic principles ....
- Technology And Imperialism (Dawn, Richard Drayton, Dec 29, 2005)
The tragic irony of the 21st century is that just as faith in technology collapsed on the world’s stock markets in 2000, it came to power in the White House and Pentagon.
- Stinging Sleaze (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 29, 2005)
BJP has only itself to blame
IT is a time of embarrassment for the BJP. The silver jubilee session of the party in Mumbai will be remembered more for the resignation of its general secretary, Mr Sanjay Joshi.
- Avoid ‘Bjpisation’ Of Cong, Sonia Tells Party (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, in a riposte to BJP president L K Advani’s criticism of her party, appealed to her partymen on Wednesday not to allow “BJPisation” of the Congress party and asked them to work unitedly.
- Exit Kerry Packer (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, Dec 29, 2005)
The well-known American scholar on South Asia, Professor Stephen Cohen, in his definitive study on India published in 1996, had described the country as an “emerging power”.
Previous 100 Congresss (I) Party of India Articles | Next 100 Congresss (I) Party of India Articles
Home
Page
|
|
