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Articles 9421 through 9520 of 26693:
- Norwegian Woods (Pioneer, K Venkataramanan, May 07, 2006)
When Sri Lanka's current peace process began with great public support and a good deal of optimism, there were the inevitable sceptics who thought it was doomed to failure in the same way that earlier attempts at peace in the island nation had collapsed.
- Emulate The Tatas: Manmohan (Hindu, Special Correspondent, Hindu, May 07, 2006)
"In the context of human resource development, the Tatas have set an example"
- Making Peace Last (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, May 07, 2006)
The Supreme Court’s stay of the Gujarat High Court’s order, directing the local authorities to take immediate steps to remove all religious structures encroaching on public space without discrimination, is a welcome move.
- Yechuri, The Left’S Most Vocal Face (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , May 07, 2006)
The BJP might question the role of Sitaram Yechuri in Nepal but the part played by this young Marxist in brokering a deal between the outlawed Maoists and the seven-party alliance would remain a landmark in the history of the Himalayan Kingdom.
- Peace In Nepal (Tribune, Gen Ashok Mehta (retd), May 07, 2006)
Neither the ten-year long Maoist war nor the 12 years of multiparty democracy nor even the one-year direct rule by the King could resolve the political crisis in Nepal.
- The Pml Troubles And Musharraf —Dr Hasan-Askari Rizvi (Daily Times, Dr Hasan-Askari Rizvi, May 07, 2006)
The civil and military establishment may find it difficult to manage the elections because the international community intends to carefully monitor the elections and the opposition political forces are more determined to take on the Musharraf...
- Deft Demagoguery In Iran (Washington Post, Jackson Diehl, May 07, 2006)
The world may be focused on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's declamations on the Holocaust and Iran's nuclear "rights," but as spring and its heat spread through this traffic-clogged city, the popular buzz is about the president's unlikely pronouncements on the . .
- The Right To Live Better (Deccan Herald, Tavleen Singh, May 06, 2006)
It happens every time. I arrive in a beautiful European city and find myself wondering when we will have one Indian city that looks this good.
- A Lucrative Career (Business Standard, T N Ninan, May 06, 2006)
A book that studied millionaire businessmen in the US some few years ago said that most of them knew the role chance had played in their success. As a consequence,
- Humpty-Dumpty Sat On A Wall... (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, May 06, 2006)
General Pervez Musharraf has again thrown his weight behind the PML president, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, telling the ruling League’s vice presidents that they should not oppose Mr Hussain but rather work with him to strengthen the party.
- Norwegian Woods (Pioneer, K Venkataramanan, May 06, 2006)
When Sri Lanka's current peace process began with great public support and a good deal of optimism, there were the inevitable sceptics who thought it was doomed to failure in the same way that earlier attempts at peace in the island nation had collapsed.
- Kalam Gives Clean Chit To Vk Malhotra (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
Acting upon the opinion of the Election Commission, President APJ Abdul Kalam on Friday gave a clean chit to senior BJP leader VK Malhotra from charges of holding office-of-profit.
- On The Road To The Fourth World (The Financial Express, V ANANTHA NAGESWARAN, May 06, 2006)
Disquieting thoughts on India’s future arise, even as the Sensex creates an image of its ‘arrival’
- Politically Difficult, But Economically Enticing (The Financial Express, Prabhu Ghate, May 06, 2006)
Apart from greatly expanding trade, Tatas’ Bangladesh project promises to improve bilateral relations .
- Endangered Peace (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 06, 2006)
The trail of destruction that accompanied the attempted assassination of Sri Lanka's Army Commander, General Sarath Fonseka, on April 25, 2006, when set against some of the earlier massacres by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Colombo,
- Put Him Down (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 06, 2006)
Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh has an innate ability to unleash furious storms and he is invariably in the eye of each one of them.
- Bengal's Nervous Favourites (Pioneer, Ashok Malik, May 06, 2006)
Driving through Balurghat in an open jeep this past week, Mr Arun Jaitley must have felt a rare moment of ecstasy.
- Multicultural Parody Along Info Highway (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 06, 2006)
The Internet is today’s version of the Silk Road, the great east-west trading route.
- Solzhenitsyn’S Righteous Fury (Deccan Herald, William Pfaff, May 06, 2006)
Solzhenitsyn believes that the West has lost to secularism and materialism is threatening Russia.
- Recognise Reality (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 06, 2006)
The positives that may have emerged from the Prime Minister’s meeting with the moderate Hurriyat leadership and the forward movement on CBMs with Pakistan must not, and must not be permitted to, negate the horror of the violence just perpetrated in . . .
- Turning Point? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 06, 2006)
The new govt may not be able to check the slide in Iraq
- Patience Pays (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 06, 2006)
The second round of talks between the Centre and the Hurriyat Conference has gone off better than expected. Little was expected to come out of the May 3 negotiations in Delhi as they took place in the shadow of the Doda massacre and at a time when . . .
- Sc Throws Out Pil On Office Of Profit (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL filed by an advocate who sought to declare unconstitutional the March 16 presidential notification disqualifying Samajwadi Party leader Jaya Bachchan as a Rajya Sabha MP.
- Ec Dismisses Petition For Malhotra’S Disqualification (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
The Election Commission on Friday dismissed a petition for disqualification of BJP leader V K Malhotra from the Lok Sabha on charges of holding an office of profit.
- Labour Pains, Blair Delivers Blow To Men (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
Tony Blair on Friday sacked Charles Clarke, demoted Jack Straw and stripped John Prescott of his departmental brief in a wide-ranging reshuffle aimed at reinvigorating his government after heavy losses in Thursday's local elections.
- Jaduguda's Hapless Children (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 06, 2006)
BBC presenterMark Whitakerexplores the dark side of India's nuclear programme. In this feature, he investigates the high number of children born with health problems and birth defects in the village of Jaduguda in Jharkhand and questions whether . . .
- Upa Core Panel Meets Today On Quota Issue (Tribune, Anita Katyal, May 06, 2006)
Now that Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal is back from his foreign visit, the next meeting of the Union Cabinet may well witness some sparks when he comes face to face with Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh on the latter’s . . .
- Bush Warns Hamas Again To Shun Terror, Recognise Israel (Press Trust of India, Sridhar Krishnaswami, May 06, 2006)
President George W Bush has slammed Palestinian Islamic group Hamas, which is in power there, saying that unless it disarms, stops terrorism and recognises Israel's right to exist, the US will not work with it.
- Marginalised Pandits (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, May 06, 2006)
The other day I was thumbing through the 260-odd page ‘‘Report on the impact of migration on the socio-economic conditions of Kashmiri displaced people’’ prepared by the Jammu-based Centre for Minority Studies, a well-researched effort which, needless to,
- Battle For Survival (Daily Excelsior, Jyotsna Pandit, May 06, 2006)
The Supreme Court verdict that construction work on the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) should go on simultaneously with effective rehabilitation of the project affected appears to be legally and morally correct. But it means little in concrete terms.
- Explain That (Times of India, JUG SURAIYA, May 06, 2006)
In its list of 100 global notables, Time magazine has included Nandan Nilekani, the CEO of Infosys, describing him as the 'great explainer' or, in other words, 'explainer-in-chief' of Indian IT.
- Wasted Yatras (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 06, 2006)
The BJP’s decision to cancel the remaining part of the Bharat Suraksha Yatras of former Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani and party chief Rajnath Singh is the most sensible it has taken in recent months.
- Ec Notice To 19 Cong Mlas, Mp (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
Nineteen MLAs and an MP belonging to Congress in Delhi are in a spot of trouble, with the Election Commission (EC) issuing notices to them on a complaint seeking their disqualification in the office of profit issue, sources said.
- Ec Asks Sonia To Remove Posters From Govt Houses (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
Taking a tough line, the Election Commission on Friday night asked Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, a candidate for Rae Bareli Lok Sabha bypoll, to have removed all the posters of her party from government buildings by early Saturday morning.
- Keep It Up (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, May 06, 2006)
If one goes by available details the second round of talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the moderate Hurriyat Conference in the national capital has passed off smoothly.
- Fiscal Revamp Can Burnish Rating: S&p (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
The sovereign rating of Indian economy could further improve if India will pursue fiscal consolidation vigorously along with necessary policy initiatives to boost economic growth, a top official of Standard & Poor’s said here on Friday.
- Tv For Your Vote (Tribune, J. Sri Raman, May 06, 2006)
MR Muthuvel Karunanidhi, patriarch of ‘Dravidian’ politics, of course, does not bear the palest resemblance to Marie Antoinette. But he has come out with a message to the electorate that his critics can make sound remarkably like the reported . . .
- New Western Aid Plans Are Recycling Old Failures (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 06, 2006)
FOREIGN aid today perpetrates a cruel hoax on those who wish well for the world’s poor. There is the appearance of action – a doubling of foreign aid to Africa promised at the G-8 summit last July, grand United Nations and World Bank plans to cut . . .
- Cbi Fir Or Cong Report Against Chautala? (Times of India, Vishwa Mohan, May 06, 2006)
In what is sure to trigger a controversy, CBI's decision to lodge an FIR against former Haryana CM Om Prakash Chautala and his family members in a disproportionate assets case looks like a photocopy of Congress "chargesheet" against the INLD leader . . .
- Cabinet Nod To Rs 800-Cr Shahpur Kandi Dam Project (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
The Punjab Council of Ministers, possibly eyeing the Assembly elections, approved the recruitment of 1,995 cops, 2,000 teachers and also revived eight posts for IPS officers at a meeting held here today.
- Spirit Of Constitution (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 06, 2006)
The Supreme Court just can't stop preaching. A two-judge bench in a recent ruling has asked why the state should encourage sale of liquor. It has also recommended that the Centre and states seriously consider steps to reduce consumption of alcohol . . .
- Jayalalithaa Promises Computers For Students (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
All successful candidates of standard XII examination will get them free
Promises to do away with set-top boxes
DMK promise of free TV "false"
"Law banning forced conversions not in vogue"
- Sonia Pleads For Repeat Massive Mandate For Dpa (Hindu, G. Satyamurty , May 06, 2006)
"Tamil Nadu needs a Government which cares for the people"
- Up & Down In Down South (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, May 06, 2006)
Amma’s got a lot done so why’s she worried? Is there a gleam behind those famous Karunanidhi goggles? What’s Kalam doing atop a building? Looking for answers from a limo
- Police On Fast Track, Sarangi In Shock (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
Mumbai police swung into action on the day of Pramod Mahajan’s funeral, securing sanction to prosecute brother Praveen for murder and moving to fast-track the case.
- Yes, It's Terror (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, May 06, 2006)
One may not agree with many things that the United States does. But one can't find fault with what its Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Richard Boucher says about Maoists in Nepal.
- `A Battle Between Secular Democracy And Autocracy' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
Yechury asks electorate to reject `politics of appeasement'
- Paramilitary Forces Arrive For Election Duties (Hindu, K.T. Sangameswaran, May 06, 2006)
They will be posted in `sensitive' booths; more forces to arrive
- "Dmk, Aiadmk Keep Altering Manifestos" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
My manifesto unchanged: Vijayakant
- More Carnage In Iraq (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, May 05, 2006)
AS the Iraqi Parliament was convened for the first working session since elections in December, about 69 people were killed across the country in bombings and execution-style sectarian shootings. In the deadliest attack, a suicide bomber killed 15 . . .
- Turmoil In Balochistan (Dawn, Ghayoor Ahmed, May 05, 2006)
THE Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah wanted Pakistan to be a federation, with autonomous units in which fundamental human rights, equality of status and opportunity, social, economic and political justice would be guaranteed.
- A Swim In China's Polluted Pearl River? (Christian Science Monitor, Simon Montlake, May 05, 2006)
The mayor of China's top manufacturing city is hosting a "swimathon" this summer in the local Pearl River. Cleanup efforts to reverse years of industrial pollution have been so successful, claims mayor Guang Zhangming, that the Pearl is once again . . .
- Press Freedom (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, May 05, 2006)
Addressing the Press Institute of Pakistan seminar on World Press Freedom Day, new Federal Information Minister Mohammad Ali Durrani could not have been more right in saying that any manner of freedom secured by journalists has "not been gifted . . .
- Consulting Legislators (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, May 05, 2006)
On Wednesday General Musharraf visited Parliament House, where he talked to National Assembly Speaker Ch Amir Hussain and a number of ruling alliance legislators.
- Time To Shun The Chinese Trap (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 05, 2006)
Beijing has executed well its plan of propping up the Maoists and then making Nepal's royalty an institution of disgrace, says Bulbul Roy . . .
- Journey Of A Lifetime (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, May 05, 2006)
The immediate fallout of Pramod Mahajan's untimely and tragic death was the cancellation of the two Bharat Suraksha yatras by Mr LK Advani and Mr Rajnath Singh.
- Stoking Communal Flames (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 05, 2006)
The extended communal violence in Vadodara in Gujarat cannot be explained by its immediate provocation: the demolition of a dargah in Fatehpura area by the municipal authorities as part of a road-widening project.
- Crossing The Rubicon...Tamil Nadu Style (The Financial Express, Jayaprakash Narayan, May 05, 2006)
The state’s elections show how the process of manipulating votes has reached its nadir
- The Widening Net Of Quota (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, May 05, 2006)
Will the supporters and detractors of quota for students fight pitched battles, or will the movement subside? Will we see another Mandal-like agitation, as was witnessed in 1990, with self-immolations over the Government's decision to introduce . . .
- Back Shujaat, Musharraf Tells Disgruntled Leaders (Daily Times, Shahzad Raza, May 05, 2006)
Asks PML leaders to be prepared for general elections
Not conspiring against anyone: Chattha, Wattoo
Musharraf meets PML Sindh today
- Tracing Disequilibrium In The Asset Markets (The Financial Express, SUMANT SINHA, May 05, 2006)
The considerable lag between the flow of funds and the creation of assets is ensuring the imbalance.
- Sonia ‘Fights For Principles’ (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
“This is not an ordinary election,” Congress president Mrs Sonia Gandhi told the people of this Lok Sabha constituency today from where she is seeking re-election following her resignation after being accused of holding an office of profit.
- Silver Lining (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, May 05, 2006)
There is a silver lining in the blood-splattered atmosphere prevailing today. It is to be welcomed that both New Delhi and Islamabad have reiterated their resolve to go ahead with the peace process.
- Toilet Trouble (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 05, 2006)
One is not quite sure of it, but the Government of Chhattisgarh may well have created a global record by prescribing a new ground for depriving an elected member of a local self-governing body of his or her job - the absence of a loo in . . .
- Ceasefire Ceases (Statesman, Sam Rajappa, May 05, 2006)
The suicide attack on the Sri Lankan Army Commander, Lt.-Gen. Sarath Fonseka, on 25 April, by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, marks the end of the 2002 Ceasefire Agreement between the government and the militant organisation.
- Surviving Devils (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 05, 2006)
Dum Dum hoodlums mock CM’s assurances
- Vote Dpa To Invest In Future, Says Manmohan Singh (Hindu, R.K. Radhakrishnan, May 05, 2006)
Says Tamil Nadu deserves a secular, development-oriented, corruption-free government
DPA aim is to make the State top in prosperity, industrial growth
Manmohan commends performance of Union Ministers from Tamil Nadu
- Hrd Minister Pays Ec A Visit (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
A day after having met President APJ Abdul Kalam, Union Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh visited the Election Commission on Thursday over his alleged announcement declaring quota for other backward classes (OBC) in elite educational . . .
- Order In The House (News International, Editorial, The News International, May 05, 2006)
The latest instalment of the ongoing Sindh Assembly session started more than two hours late on Wednesday and lasted a mere 25 minutes before yet another tiresomely predictable "rumpus" led the chairperson to prorogue the proceedings.
- Road To Nowhere (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 05, 2006)
A few villagers refusing to vote may make no difference to the election results. It may even work towards the greater glory of the winning parties, since India does not have a system in which the percentage of abstentions is taken into account.
- Designs In Demolition (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 05, 2006)
BJP is playing the communal game
- Pramod Mahajan (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 05, 2006)
General secretary of the BJP he may have been, but Pramod Mahajan always set forth as if he was a general launching into battle. Regardless of his party designation, he was the organisation’s man for all seasons and reasons.
- Global Warming Unprecedented In 20,000 Years (Tribune, Steve Connor, May 05, 2006)
Global warming is made worse by man-made pollution and the scale of the problem is unprecedented in at least 20,000 years, according to a draft report by the world’s leading climate scientists.
- Not Quite Mainstream (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 05, 2006)
As a long-time reader and occasional contributor to Mainstream, I was dismayed at the personal attack launched on the eminent journalist B.G. Verghese by three writers, one of whom is this journal’s editor (Prashant Bhushan, Suhas Borker, Sumit . . .
- Running Riot (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 05, 2006)
The current spate of rioting in Vadodara is further evidence of the deep fissures that divide Gujarat and the perverse approach of the Narendra Modi administration towards issues of governance.
- Vote Dpa To Power For A Better Tn: Pm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday appealed to the people of Tamil Nadu to vote the DMK-led Democratic Progressive Alliance to power so it could work in tandem with the Centre and make it a leading state in the country.
- Riots Are So 2002 (Indian Express, Darshan Desai, May 05, 2006)
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi tending to a Muslim riot victim. Narendra Modi seeking an army flag march in the beleaguered town of Vadodara.
- The Pauperisation Of Palestinians (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, May 05, 2006)
The Western campaign to starve the Palestinians into submission is a losing gambit.
- View From The Right (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 05, 2006)
Given the massive popular uprising against King Gyanendra, the Organiser desists from coming out in his support but two reports in the weekly focus on the threat posed by the Maoists.
- Several Targets For Arjun’S Broken Arrow (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, May 05, 2006)
HRD minister’s quota card was less a joker than a calculated ploy to improve his own lot and, via Assembly elections two years hence in Madhya Pradesh, that of his son
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