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Articles 14421 through 14520 of 26693:
- Get Done With It (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 27, 2006)
Fourteenth century French sceptic Jean Buridan posited the paradox of an ass that finds itself exactly midway between two piles of hay, and logically starves to death, finding no reason to prefer one pile of hay over the other.
- Wali Khan (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 27, 2006)
With the passing away of Khan Abdul Wali Khan, truly an era has come to an end, or almost the end.
- Death Of Another Stalwart (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jan 27, 2006)
Vetran politician Khan Abdul Wali Khan has died. The late leader was out of active politics for a long-time due to old age and health problems but he remained ideological mentor of his party and a source of inspiration till his death.
- Looking Into The Global Crystal Ball (Dawn, Maqbool Ahmad Bhatty, Jan 27, 2006)
The outlook for the future cannot be considered bright given the geopolitical global trends since the start of the century and millennium.
- Merging Markets (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 27, 2006)
As China and India are feted as the world's top emerging economies, Salil Tripathi suggests the potential rivals have much in common
- Need Of The Hour Is Discipline: Kalam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
"Need for compulsory NCC training for a minimum of 18 months to all our students"
Stresses on "the necessity for providing compulsory NCC training
Tells political leaders to reorient themselves towards "developmental politics"
- Left To Fight Decision On Fdi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
To rally all political forces, says Karat
- Unions And The Development Agenda (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 26, 2006)
It is an interesting co-incidence that the United Nations Environment Programme hosted the World Assembly on Labour and the Environment in Kenya at a time national attention in India is focussed on France's outrageous decision to send . . .
- Swamy Backs Coalition (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday welcomed the possibility of a Janata Dal (Secular)-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition government headed by H.D. Kumaraswamy as a "healthy development for democracy in the country."
- Gowda Will Bless Tie-Up, Feels Bjp (Hindu, Alladi Jayasri , Jan 26, 2006)
Jagadish Shettar confident that a new government will be formed
Shettar, Yediyurappa ready to speak to Gowda
Prakash may agree to join Kumaraswamy group
- Bjp May Gain Control Of Bellary Zilla Panchayat (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
Four Congress members joining BJP helps it strengthen position
BJP won 18 of the 36 seats in the zilla panchayat
Members sent on a tour to prevent horse-trading
- No Chance Of Patch-Up: Kumaraswamy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
The Congress has not done justice to Janata Dal (Secular) `The Congress has not done justice to Janata Dal (Secular), and that is why we have broken away'
- Kerala To Ensure Quota For Backward Communities (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
State Cabinet decides to amend rules, following Narendran Commission report
- Apollo Group To Set Up Hospitals In Saudi Arabia (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
Multimillion-dollar deal with Saudi group will also cover 20 new clinics
The Fawaz Al Hokair Group will make all the investments
Apollo group will provide the complete technical know-how
- Congress, Bjp Kept Guessing In Karnataka (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
As they travel back to Bangalore, JD(S) MLAs keep their cards close to their chest
- Maharashtra Lends A Hand (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
With a cumulonimbus hovering above the Congress’s head, the thinnest of silver linings would be a welcome sight for beleaguered partymen. And that is what the political skies in Maharashtra have just provided.
- Kalam On R-Day: Bring Marginalised To Mainstream (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
At a time when the standards of political parties in the country have reached an all time nadir, President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, in his address to the nation on the eve of Republic Day, urged all parties to work with zeal to uplift 260 million . . .
- Obstacles To Moving On (Hindu, Jonathan Freedland, Jan 26, 2006)
I AM writing these words on a train, travelling through Germany. And yet, it hardly feels strange at all. There was a time when a journey like this would have felt like the breaking of a taboo: the associations with the wartime past . . .
- Rajnath Announces His Pack (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
BJP President Rajnath Singh on Wednesday announced his team of party office bearers that included many new faces including ex-Himachal Pradesh chief minister Shanta Kumar, former Bajrang Dal chief Vinay Katiyar, former Union Ministers Sumitra Mahajan ...
- Politicos Should Be Role Models: Kalam (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
President A P J Abdul Kalam on Wednesday called upon the members of Parliament to become role models for the youth and asked the judiciary and the law enforcement agencies to provide service to the marginalised section which could not reach them.
- Remember The Sacrifice (Deccan Herald, Vishnu Makhijani, Jan 26, 2006)
It began as a simple march past to mark the emergence of India as a sovereign, secular, democratic republic on January 26, 1950. Today the Republic Day celebrations have grown into a spectacle to showcase India’s military might and amazing cultural ...
- 8 Die In Maoist Attack (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
A diplomatic battle began in the capital on Wednesday with Opposition leader Girija Prasad Koirala, released from house arrest only on Sunday, meeting Indian Ambassador Shiv Shankar Mukherjee and the Bangladesh Ambassador Humayun Kabir at his residence.
- China Vs. India: A Battle Of Ideas (International Herald Tribune, Anand Giridharadas, Jan 26, 2006)
On a late evening along Marine Drive, Mumbai's answer to the Shanghai Bund, dancer-beggars prowl with monkeys, extorting coins from passers-by. Deep potholes pit the sidewalk and the sea gently laps a crumbling wall. It is quaint, . . .
- Capital Down Under (Indian Express, ANUBHUTI VISHNOI, Jan 26, 2006)
This is the Delhi Metro, we stick to deadlines. In fact, we beat all deadlines and finish ahead of schedule.’’ It’s a tribute to what Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has come to mean to the Capital this Republic Day that nobody sniggers when . . .
- Should Be Role Models: Prez (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
President APJ Abdul Kalam on Wednesday called upon members of Parliament to become role model for the youth and asked judiciary and law enforcement agencies to provide service to the marginalized persons who could not reach them.
- Curing Motion Sickness (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 26, 2006)
With India as the dominant theme at the World Economic Forum summit at Davos this year, it was imperative that the UPA
- Focus On Rahul (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 26, 2006)
Congress leaders want to project Rahul as their leader
- Protests Outside Patna Raj Bhavan (Hindu, K. BALCHAND, Jan 26, 2006)
Protesters taken into custody
"Insult to national flag"
Demonstrations were staged outside the Raj Bhavan on Wednesday protesting the refusal of Governor Buta Singh to resign and his pronouncement to hoist the national flag at the State's . . .
- Mothers Of Invention (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 26, 2006)
What marks the election of two women as presidents of two war-torn countries is the chief reason attributed to their victory. “It is the minds of men that make war.
- Badge Of Legitimacy (Statesman, AMITAV BANERJI, Jan 26, 2006)
Ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall, democracy has become more than just a mantra.
- India, Saudi Arabia To Work Out Plan To Fight Terrorism (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Jan 26, 2006)
The visiting King of Saudi Arabia Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud today held 45-minute-long one-to-one talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during which the two leaders are understood to have discussed the need for hammering out a strategy . . .
- What Punishment For Buta Singh ? (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
All of those responsible for the illegal, unconstitutional and arbitrary dissolution of the Bihar assembly last year please raise your hands! Thus spoke the Supreme Court of India.
- Cong Keen To Recapture Lost Bases In The North (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Jan 26, 2006)
Well before the 82nd plenary session of the Congress got underway in Hyderabad last week, it had become increasingly clear that the three-day show was going to be dominated by an unprecedented clamour for the coronation of Rahul Gandhi as the party’s . .
- Crushing The Law (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 26, 2006)
The Aravalis are still under attack
A casual disregard for the law and callousness towards the environment is again on display in the sensitive Aravali region of Mewat in Haryana.
- A Peep Into Framing Of Indian Constitution (Daily Excelsior, R L Bangotra, Jan 26, 2006)
On 26th Jan 1950, we become Independent in real sense when the Indian Constitution was adopted. On this auspicious day, let us have a peep into framing of Indian Constitution. On 16th March 1946, Three member delegation of British Government . . .
- Mid-Life Crisis (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 26, 2006)
Controversy and debate are the alpha and omega of democracy. But there are certain kinds of confrontations which do not augur well for the future of a republic.
- Kalam (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam today said political parties should leave behind them the politics of power after an election and come together to pursue the objective of development.
- The Republic Marches Ahead (Daily Excelsior, K.K. Khullar, Jan 26, 2006)
Somebody has remarked that if a Rip Van Winkle had gone to sleep in 1950 and woke up in 2006, he would not be able to recognize the developmental revolution of India. A country, which did not manufacture its own needles, is today a nuclear power.
- Salute The Republic (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 26, 2006)
Today we salute the Republic of India with our both hands. The day marks more than merely a ritual. In every sense it goes beyond massive celebrations that are witnessed across the country.
- Be Role Models For Youth (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam today exhorted all political parties to perform in an environment of developmental politics by competing with each other and putting forth their focussed developmental vision through their manifestoes.
- Nda Leaders Meet Kalam; Seek Pm, Governor's Scalp (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
Asserting that the Supreme Court verdict on Bihar had long-term implications for Constitutional propriety and democratic accountability, NDA leaders today petitioned the President to secure Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s resignation and dismiss Governor
- Indian Believed Among 8 Killed By Nepal Maoists (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
Eight people, possibly including an Indian, died as fresh violence erupted in Nepal on Tuesday night with hundreds of Maoist guerrillas launching multiple attacks on a key city in midwestern Nepal near the Indian border and spreading panic.
- It’S All Left To Gowda (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
The party’s four senior ministers who had reservations regarding party state working president H D Kumaraswamy aligning with the BJP, told Mr Gowda on Wednesday that they would abide by any decision taken by him.
- Kashmiris To Observe Protest Day Today (Pakistan Observer, Hameed Shaheen, Jan 26, 2006)
Various Kashmiri organisations, political and social, will observe India’s republic day as protest day, today, against the usurpation of their birth rights by India since October 1947. Kashmiri leaders will lead protest marches, hold meetings and . . .
- Choice Before Bush (Dawn, Mansoor Alam, Jan 26, 2006)
A leader is often confronted with a situation where “he is doomed if he does it and doomed if he does not.” That is the dilemma President George W. Bush is facing in Iraq.
- America’S Message To Iraq (Dawn, David Ignatius, Jan 26, 2006)
America's agile envoy in Baghdad, Zalmay Khalilzad, is working these days to cajole Iraqi political leaders to put aside narrow interests in favour of a government of national unity.
- No Ifs, No Buts, No Buta (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jan 25, 2006)
Abu Abraham’s famous cartoon showing former President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed leaning out of his bathtub to sign the ordinance that would usher Indira Gandhi’s Emergency just got an update.
- Gowda Hasn’T Okayed Ties With Bjp: Kumaraswamy (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 25, 2006)
It is learnt that Mr Kumaraswamy’s mother, Chennamma, is yet to be convinced of her son’s moves.
- Fight For The Middle Ground In Britain (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jan 25, 2006)
The Tories and the Liberal Democrats are targeting British mainstream politics' centre ground currently held by Labour. What kind of choice does this leave the voters with?
- Sonia-Gowda Talks Inconclusive (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 25, 2006)
Somewhat overshadowed by the dramatic Buta Singh affair, the politically-crucial meeting between the Janata Dal (Secular) leader and former Prime Minister Mr HD Deve Gowda and Congress president Mrs Sonia Gandhi ended inconclusively tonight.
- Bigger Nuclear Weapons Will Mean Less Security (Hindu, George Monbiot, Jan 25, 2006)
Without any public debate, one side's new missiles give others an excuse to flout the non-proliferation treaty.
The Orion programme will strengthen suspicion that the U.K. is building an entirely new class of weapons.
- Sonia, Gowda Discuss New Deal (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 25, 2006)
Amid expectations of a solution to the ongoing political crisis in Karnataka, Janata Dal (Secular) national president H D Deve Gowda on Tuesday called on Congress chief Sonia Gandhi but their discussions remained inconclusive.
- Vendetta Politics (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 25, 2006)
TRAI must step in and plug the loopholes in the law
Vendetta politics has always ruled in Tamil Nadu, but the recent decision of the State government to bring forth a Bill to take over the cable television network in the state,
- Iran, Iraq To Figure In Pm-Saudi King Talks (Indian Express, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 25, 2006)
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and King Abdullah meet tomorrow to review regional security, Iran’s nuclear proliferation and Iraq’s political stability are also expected to figure prominently in their talks.
- Not Afraid To Do The Job (Deccan Herald, Antonia Potter, Jan 25, 2006)
Excluding women from the work of mediation is selling peace processes short
- Reclaim The Ceasefire (Tribune, Mohan K Tikku, Jan 25, 2006)
The increasingly incendiary situation in Sri Lanka is crying out for someone to step in to end the spiralling violence that could take the country back to war. More than sixty Sri Lankan troops have been killed in landmine blasts in various parts . . .
- Our Constitutional (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 25, 2006)
Buta must go. The Union cabinet that rubberstamped his decision must at least think
- The Importance Of The House Of Saud (Indian Express, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 25, 2006)
When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets King Abdullah today in New Delhi’s Hyderabad House, it would be safe to bet that the Saudi delegation would have more PhDs and Ivy League degrees than the Indian, even after counting the doctorates . . .
- In New City, No Sense Of Place (Indian Express, Gautam Bhatia, Jan 25, 2006)
Filled with guilt about our degraded towns, every few months, bureaucrats, politicians and civic authorities announce some grandiose package of urban largesse.
- Gowda Meets Sonia, Wants Son Kumaraswamy To Be ‘Super Cm’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 25, 2006)
A high-power committee headed by his son Kumaraswamy to control the coalition government in Karnataka is what former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda wants.
- Bow To The Left (Indian Express, SANDIPAN DEB, Jan 25, 2006)
It was all there for the world to see. At the Congress plenary session at Hyderabad, politicians — both young and elderly — clamoured obsequiously for Rahul Gandhi, ...
- Middle Class Hero (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Jan 25, 2006)
It is common to hear in drawing room conversations these days how democracy is being destroyed by rustic roughnecks.
- Should Bofors Be Buried? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 25, 2006)
Politics, according to a textbook definition, is all about who gets what, when, and how. In contemporary Indian politics, it requires no great imagination to see how literally true this description is. But even more specific to Indian democracy . . .
- Sc Judgement: Stage Set For Buta Singh's Exit (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 25, 2006)
Despite his defiant posture, Bihar governor Buta Singh seemed set for an exit after the Supreme Court order held him guilty of having acted in a politically motivated manner, and made him vulnerable to opposition pressure for his removal from office.
- Should Lawyers Resort To Strikes? (Tribune, Fali S. Nariman, Jan 25, 2006)
NO, No, No. Without recrimination or rhetoric, do consider the public perception of the practising lawyer in India.
- Border Fakes (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 25, 2006)
This time the party is embarrassed
- Meeting Agricultural Challenges (Daily Excelsior, Dr K S Khokhar, Jan 25, 2006)
Agriculture continues to be backbone of the Indian economy. About 65 percent of Indian population is still dependent on agriculture. Agriculture contribute significantly to National GDP (22%).
- Nepal Rebels Attack Town As Pressure Mounts On King (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 25, 2006)
At least two policemen were killed when Maoist rebels raided a major commercial town in west Nepal, setting off a string of explosions at government buildings and police posts, police and residents said on Wednesday.
- Blasts In Sri Lanka Coincide With Peace Mission (Reuters, Peter Apps, Jan 25, 2006)
Five explosions rocked Sri Lanka's capital on Tuesday, injuring no one but panicking the city as Norwegian peace broker Erik Solheim prepared to meet Tamil Tiger rebels in a last-ditch bid to salvage a 2002 truce.
- Bihar Ghost Stalks Govt And Governor (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 25, 2006)
Double whammy from SC: Buta for ‘misleading’, Centre for ‘not verifying’
- King Cong (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 25, 2006)
At one level the HT-CNN/IBN poll tells us something that is obvious. With the BJP caught in a muddle of its own making, there is little or no challenge to the party whose natural constituency is the country itself.
- Sc Indicts Buta, Centre (Tribune, S.S. Negi , Jan 25, 2006)
The Union Government and Bihar Governor Buta Singh today came in for severe indictment of the Supreme Court for “undue haste” in dissolving the State Assembly in May last year after election even without administering the oath to elected legislators ....
- Left, Bjp Want Buta To Step Down (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 25, 2006)
Within minutes of the Supreme Court verdict on the Bihar’s Assembly dissolution, the Left and the BJP converged on the demand of the resignation of the Governor, Mr Buta Singh, bringing the UPA coalition under pressure.
- Go Home, Buta (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 25, 2006)
You did not uphold the Constitution
BIHAR Governor Buta Singh’s continuance in office had become untenable soon after the Supreme Court held dissolution of the Bihar Assembly unconstitutional last October.
- Deve Gowda Meets Sonia In New Delhi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 25, 2006)
Talks inconclusive; another meeting likely: Janata Dal (Secular)
"JD(S) will not allow communal forces to take over in Karnataka
Sonia briefed about developments in the State
Gowda advocates Maharashtra model of power sharing
- We'll Respect Verdict: Manmohan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 25, 2006)
I am going to take the salute in Patna on January 26, says Buta Singh
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday that the Supreme Court's indictment of Bihar Governor Buta Singh would be ``accepted and respected.''
- No Going Back On Decision, Says Kumaraswamy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 25, 2006)
Janata Dal (Secular) rebel leader H.D. Kumaraswamy asserted on Tuesday there was no going back on his decision to form an alternate government in Karnataka with the support of his followers and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
- Pak-Us Ties Vital, Strategic: Bush (News International, Salim Bokhari, Jan 25, 2006)
President George W Bush has praised Pakistan’s role in combating international terrorism and termed Washington’s ties with Islamabad as "strategic and vital" for the United States.
- India In The Oic (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 25, 2006)
Pakistan's response to a Saudi proposal to give India the status of an observer at the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) has been ambivalent. But so was the original Saudi proposal.
- Heeding The Omen (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 25, 2006)
Omens do matter. Even for a large national party like the Congress. The stage had been set at its Hyderabad plenary for the party president, with the Prime Minister, to unveil the foundation stone for the new Congress headquarters building, . . .
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