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Articles 1721 through 1820 of 26693:
- Corrupt Officers Must Be Punished: Nanda (Tribune, V. Eshwar Anand, Oct 15, 2006)
Tackling corruption has been a big challenge for Mr Gopal Chandra Nanda, Director-General of Police (Vigilance), Orissa. He is indeed a crusader against corruption.
- Take Strong Action Against N Korea, Ban Tells Unsc (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2006)
Sharply criticising the North Korean nuclear tests earlier this week, United Nations Secretary General-designate Ban Ki Moon has asked the world community to send out a 'very strong, unified and clear' message to Pyongyang so that it would not . . .
- Advice, Like Youth, Is Wasted On The Young (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 15, 2006)
Hindsight is always 20/20. Hindsight is another word for reflection. It's a review of all the years that have passed you by and all the things you have done, not done or, in retrospect, should have done.
- Truly Nobel (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 15, 2006)
The Bangladeshi economist, Muhammad Yunus, and his pioneering Grameen Bank have walked away with the coveted Nobel Peace Prize this year for their truly remarkable work among the poor.
- Aziz Hints Political Forces To Be Realigned Before Next Elections (Daily Times, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Oct 15, 2006)
Says govt talking to ‘those who are opposed to us’
New ‘vision’ will bring progress and prosperity to Balochistan.
- A True Man Of Peace (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 15, 2006)
"I work with real people in the real world. The night before a woman is going to get her thirty-five dollars from the bank, she will be tossing and turning to decide whether she is really going to be able to repay the loan.
- An Honour For South Asia (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 15, 2006)
In naming Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh and his Grameen Bank as the joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006, the Nobel selection committee has underscored an important point: that peace is not related to politics alone and is, in fact, . . .
- ‘Religion Is No Instant Soup’ (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 14, 2006)
Rev Dr Hans Ucko, Chief of the Inter-Religious Affairs and Dialogue Division, World Council of Churches (WCC-Geneva) will deliver the Rev Dr Stanley Samartha Memorial Lecture-2006 on October 16.
- A Salute To Orhan Pamuk (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 14, 2006)
The award of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2006 to Orhan Pamuk — "who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures"
- Ballot Box Taken Away, Dumped Into Well (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
Preparations are being made for re-polling at a booth in Lattur Panchayat Union on October 15 after a group took away the ballot box and threw it into a well at around 5-15 p.m. on Friday.
- Seven Years On, Pervez Remains Power Hungry (Tribune, Syed Nooruzzaman, Oct 14, 2006)
Another October 12 has come and gone with Pakistan still waiting to get rid of a government controlled by the army.
- Bank On Peace (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 14, 2006)
By awarding this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank, the prize committee has attempted a new definition of what constitutes ‘peace’.
- Bribery’S Dividends (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 14, 2006)
A futile trip to the police station to report a wallet picked, an agonising struggle to get a babu to issue me a new licence, a ten-rupee bribe to a bus ticket inspector for a wrongly issued ticket. Little wonder India is topping the bribery charts.
- Apex Court Pulls Up Ministry Over Ganga Action Plan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
Cites poor quality of river due to lapses in its implementation
Directs official to file fresh affidavit by November 15
Amicus curiae says Rs. 900 crore had gone waste.
- Military Action Must Halt: Ltte (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 14, 2006)
Sri Lankan army acknowledges high casualties in Jaffna operations
- Minority Rights — And Wrongs (Hindu, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Oct 14, 2006)
The provision to treat the minorities as a favoured category is not to hold them as a privileged class over the majority.
- India Offers Itself As Partner Of Eu In Asia (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Oct 14, 2006)
Manmohan speaks of region stretching from Gibraltar to Straits of Malacca
- 11.67 Lakh Voters To Exercise Franchise In Second Phase (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
The second and final phase of election for local bodies will be conducted on Sunday. In Erode district, 11.67 lakh voters will exercise their franchise on Sunday.
- Cpi (M) North Chennai Unit Demands Re-Poll In Five Booths (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
The north Chennai unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has demanded repoll in five booths in the city and has said the elections were held in an "unfair manner", to the extent that no one except the DMK could participate.
- Aiadmk Wants High Court To Declare Polls Null And Void (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
Alleges booth capturing, anarchy and terrorism in petition
"Rowdy elements entered booths, attacked AIADMK agents"
"Police personnel protected the rowdy elements".
- Bedlam In Chennai Local Polls (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
Madras High Court orders notice to State Election Commission, police
Rival parties clash in many areas
Many voters told by officials to leave citing "unusual circumstances" .
- Gujarat, Centre Hand In Glove: Medha Patkar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
Dam construction has resumed quietly
- Limited Aims (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 14, 2006)
The all-party resolve to have the 2009 general elections held on the basis of fresh delimitation of constituencies should return sanity to discussion on a slew of political reforms.
- Bannerjee Committee Illegal: High Court (Hindu, MANAS DASGUPTA, Oct 14, 2006)
Judge restrains Centre from tabling report
Ministry has no jurisdiction to issue notification
Report "contrary to facts"
Modi hails verdict.
- Court Slams Upa’S Godhra Panel For Bias, Calls It Illegal (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
The Gujarat High Court on Friday declared the Centre’s setting up of the U C Banerjee Committee to probe the Godhra train carnage “illegal, unconstitutional” and “null and void.” The court also said that the committee’s report shall not be tabled . . .
- 'Banker To The Poor' Wins Peace Nobel (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 14, 2006)
Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for grassroots work to lift millions out of poverty that earned him the nickname “banker to the poor”.
- Conformist In Korea (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Oct 14, 2006)
In open defiance of global non-proliferation norms, North Korea has tested its nuclear bomb. In sending out a signal that it is not willing to step back despite the certainty of global ostracism, North Korea has stood true to its character.
- Peace Nobel For Yunus, Grameen Bank (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
Bangladeshi microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for advancing economic and social opportunities for the poor that has helped millions lift themselves from crushing poverty.
- Low Cadre Morale: Dullo Meets Sonia (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Oct 14, 2006)
Faced with a tough election and a faction-ridden state unit, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Shamsher Singh Dullo is depending on party President Sonia Gandhi to provide the much-needed healing touch.
- At The Centre Of Status Quo (Indian Express, Santwana Bhattacharya, Oct 14, 2006)
That an exercise of what should be pure arithmetic can become a point of bitter contention proves that nothing in the subcontinent can be kept above or beyond political manoeuvres.
- Invest In Our Sezs, India Tells Eu Firms (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on Friday, invited the European companies to explore “expanded opportunities” in the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) being created in India.
- B’Desh Economist, Grameen Bank Win Nobel Peace Prize (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
Bangladeshi Professor Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today for their work in advancing economic and social opportunities.
- Terrorism Most Serious Threat To Democracies: Pm (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
Asserting that achieving energy security to provide for safe, affordable and sustainable energy supplies was a common concern of India and the European Union (EU), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today urged the EU to support India’s quest for nuclear energ
- Special Institutional Mechanism For Dry Land Development On The Anvil (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
It is based on the recommendation of the Swaminathan panel
- Richly Deserved (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 14, 2006)
Pamuk tries to connect many worlds of experience.
- A Legacy (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Oct 14, 2006)
Among the legacies left to us by our forefathers, the worst is the caste system. Other nations have class hierarchies depending on how much a person owns...
- Bridging The Gap (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 14, 2006)
Only a few months ago, Orhan Pamuk was on the verge of imprisonment in his native Turkey for “insulting Turkishness” (he had allegedly said in a February, 2005, interview in a Swiss newspaper that 30,000 Kurds and one million Armenians were killed . . .
- Macro Nobel For Micro Messiah (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
Bangladeshi microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for advancing economic and social opportunities for the poor that has helped millions lift themselves from crushing poverty.
- Pm Should Sack Lalu: Bjp (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today asked the European Union members to work out an international norm of zero tolerance against terrorism that will send the right signal to those countries directly engaged in such acts or which are allowing their . . .
- India May Back Venezuela For Un Seat (Statesman, Devirupa Mitra, Oct 14, 2006)
For a change, the left parties may have something to smile on the foreign policy front as India is likely to vote for Venezuela for a non-permanent United Nations Security Council seat.
- Hindutva Dishonesty Is Exposed (Deccan Herald, Ramakrishna Upadhya, Oct 14, 2006)
The proponents of Hindutva, more specifically, the Sangh Parivar followers, are generally peeved that the mainline media distrusts them, and that their activities mostly attract negative publicity.
- Delimitation Only After 2009 Polls (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
Stiff opposition from the BJP and the Left parties on Friday foiled a Congress move to abort the current delimitation exercise to redraw Lok Sabha and State Assembly constituencies.
- A Noble Prize (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 14, 2006)
Bengalis all over the world have every good reason to rejoice over the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006 to Mr Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank.
- Women Escape Dodgy Union Of Bills (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
The Left and the BJP today scuppered a government proposal to combine in a single bill two thorny issues — redrawing of constituencies and seat reservation for women — that might have sunk both.
- Uk General Calls For Iraq Pullout (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
Britain’s army chief said the presence of British troops in Iraq was exacerbating security problems on the ground and they should be withdrawn soon.
- Musharraf's Version Of Truth (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Oct 14, 2006)
Gen. Musharraf, to go by his own assessment of his character, is a man of great candour. He speaks truth and nothing but the truth.
- Police Reforms (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 14, 2006)
The Supreme Court in a rarest of rare direction has ordered police reforms in the country.
- Army Chief Wants Uk Troops To Quit Iraq (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
In a stinging attack, UK army chief Gen Richard Dannatt has termed as “naive” Prime Minister Mr Tony Blair’s Iraq policy and said British troops should withdraw from the country soon as their presence “exacerbated” security problems there.
- Turkish Delight (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 14, 2006)
Orhan Pamuk starts his novel Snow with the Stendhal quote: “Politics in a literary work are a pistol-shot in the middle of a concert, a crude affair, though one impossible to ignore.
- Special Powers Act Won't Be Repealed (Pioneer, Pramod Kumar Singh, Oct 14, 2006)
With the cry for repeal of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), 1958 reaching a crescendo and human rights group demanding United Nations intervention, the Centre has put the onus to withdraw the Act on the Okram Ibobi Singh-led Manipur Government.
- Grim Warning From (News International, Praful Bidwai, Oct 14, 2006)
The writer, a former newspaper editor, is a researcher and peace and human-rights activist based in Delhi. . .
- Power Of Freedom (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 14, 2006)
The Nobel Prize for literature, along with that for peace, has never failed to grab more headline and news space than that for medicine, science or economics.
- The Centre Cannot Hold (Pioneer, KPS Gill, Oct 14, 2006)
Take a look at the broad thrust of headlines in India's national dailies on any representative day, and you will find a litany on lawlessness, crime, terrorism, disease, corruption, core shortages, and the ambience of a headlong hurtling towards disorder.
- N Korea's N-Test Complicates Indo-Us Nuke Deal (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
North Korea's nuclear test has complicated the implementation of the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, with a bill on the agreement set to come up in the lame duck session of the Senate that gets underway in about four weeks.
- 'Eligibility Norms Will Limit Options For Ec Jobs' (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
The UPA government has told the Delhi high court that the present system of selection and appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and other members of the Election Commission could not be disturbed by laying down any rigid or specific . . .
- Set Back For Varun Gandhi..... (Daily Excelsior, Atul Cowshish, Oct 14, 2006)
If media reports are to be believed the Bharatiya Janata Party has gone against the recommendation of some of its senior leaders in refusing to nominate Feroze Varun Gandhi as the party candidate in the Vidisha Lok Sabha bye-election in Madhya Pradesh.
- Such Demands Can Be Made Only In Pakistan! (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 14, 2006)
Nnational Awami Party (NAP) has come out with two demands of the extreme sort – holding of the next general elections in the country under the auspices of the United Nations and writing of a new Constitution.
- Bangladesh Bankers To The Poor Win Nobel Peace Prize (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for grassroots work to lift millions out of poverty that earned him the nickname "banker to the poor".
- Pm For Zero Tolerance Against Terror (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today asked the European Union members to work out an international norm of zero tolerance against terrorism that will send the right signal to those countries directly engaged in such acts or which are allowing . . .
- An Alliance With The Ppp? (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 14, 2006)
My understanding of what General Musharraf told journalists in Islamabad is that there is never a dull moment, i.e. we are living in times. The way he said it shows that he enjoys every bit of it. He likes brainy skirmishes with world leaders . . .
- Bangladeshi Microcredit Pioneers Win Nobel Peace Prize (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
Bangladeshi microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work in advancing economic and social opportunities for the poor, particularly women.
- The Re-Emergence Of Japan (The Financial Express, V ANANTHA NAGESWARAN, Oct 14, 2006)
While keeping an eye on Beijing, New Delhi would do well to build stronger bridges with Tokyo
- Grim Report On Iraq (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 14, 2006)
The conclusion by a private US-Iraqi study that there have been some 655,000 "excess" deaths in Iraq since the US invasion of March 2003 -- 600,000 of them victims of violence -- is a shocking estimate even for a country that many consider to be . . .
- Azad Kashmir And Self-Governance (News International, Ershad Mahmud, Oct 14, 2006)
Recently the Human Rights Watch described Azad Kashmir as anything but "Azad" and this invited censure from the Pakistani government. But the fact is there are some contradictions in the constitution itself which go against Pakistan's traditional . . .
- Uncertainty Over N-Deal (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2006)
Despite the US administration’s “determination” to keep the India-US nuclear deal on the radar, it may not even be on the agenda of the Senate in its last sitting in November.
- Pm Plan Puts Communal Quota Pressure On States (Pioneer, Santanu Banerjee, Oct 13, 2006)
With the State Governments virtually sitting on a prime ministerial initiative that could bring about backdoor reservation for minorities, the Prime Minister's Office has directed States' Chief Secretaries to send the 'status report' on . . .
- Paswan Projecting Himself As Alternative To Mayawati (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2006)
Buoyed by the success of his recent rallies in parts of the state, Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers and Lok Janshakti Party president Ramvilas Paswan is now trying to project himself as an alternative to BSP supremo Mayawati.
- Hamas Says Recognising Israel Politically Futile (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2006)
Hamas sees no political gain in recognising Israel and will resist doing so despite Western sanctions on the Palestinian government it leads, the Muslim movement's leader Khaled Meshaal said late on Thursday.
- All Set For Local Body Polls (Hindu, K.T. Sangameswaran, Oct 13, 2006)
Security arrangements in place for the first phase today
- Korean Nuclear Test Unfortunate, Says Cpi (M) (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2006)
`U.S. created deep sense of insecurity'
- Dying Ganga (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 13, 2006)
By expressing concern over the deteriorating quality of water in the Ganga and seeking justification from the Government for spending Rs 900 crore on the Ganga Action Plan that has proved to be a monumental failure although it has no doubt enriched . . .
- Pak Will Be “No More” If Moderates Lose Power (Tribune, K.J.M. Varma, Oct 13, 2006)
Feted abroad for his promises to fight terrorism and flayed at home for failing to curb forces of extremism, President Pervez Musharraf, who completed seven years in power, today warned that Pakistan envisaged by its founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah . . .
- Approach To Elections (Daily Excelsior, Arun Nehru, Oct 13, 2006)
Elections approach in three crucial states in the next few months and we can expect a great deal of activity in Punjab where the Akali Dal/BJP are ahead of the Congress, Uttaranchal where the BJP should win if we take . . .
- Us Committed To N-Deal: Burns (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2006)
Amid concerns that North Korea's nuclear test could impact the implementation of the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, the US administration has said it is "determined" to fulfil commitments it made to New Delhi on nuclear commerce.
- Ncp Sees Red Over Cong 'Violation Of Coalition Dharma' (Pioneer, Yogesh Vajpeyi, Oct 13, 2006)
Maharashtra Congress Committee chief's recent advice to the party's district units to fight coming local bodies elections on their own has evoked sharp reaction from its ally Nationalist Congress party.
- Vedas May Be Effective In Curbing Terrorism (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2006)
BJP president Rajnath Singh on Thursday said that the spirit of Vedas would be a more effective weapon in curbing the menace of terrorism and other social evils across the world.
- The Other Dalit Panther (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Oct 13, 2006)
Kanshi Ram made Dalits a potent force in politics by proving that numbers are crucial to Indian democracy
- What The Veil Hides (Pioneer, Priyadarsi Dutta, Oct 13, 2006)
Veils suck!" Salman Rushdie's sound byte on BBC has come as a resounding endorsement of British Commons leader Jack Straw's comment that the veil worn by Muslim women is a barrier to integration and good community relations.
- New Voice Of The East (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 13, 2006)
In Turkey, Orhan Pamuk has been accused of subversive ideas; abroad, he is celebrated as the voice of freedom, says Benjamin Harvey.
- ... In A Time Of Flux (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 13, 2006)
Orhan Pamuk's seven published novels explore the way Turkey is torn between East and West and how it is split between conservative religious folk and modern Western-looking secularists.
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