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Articles 15721 through 15820 of 26693:
- Catch The New Love Police (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Dec 27, 2005)
How terrible and lout-like it was to see police officers slap, hit and pull the hair of innocent citizens who were together, romancing and being kind and loving to each other.
- Mplads Lacks Constitutional Basis (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Dec 27, 2005)
The sting operation that caught seven MPs seeking bribes for doling out contracts under MP Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) has rightly led to the demand that MPLADS be scrapped.
- `Operation Duryodhan': Is Seeking Money Merely `Stupid'? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 27, 2005)
The Bharatiya Janata Party veteran and the party's outgoing President, Mr L. K. Advani, has given a new nuance to the terms `stupidity' and bribe-taking.
- Economic Issues To Dominate Rajapakse's Agenda (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Dec 27, 2005)
Agreement on hospital for plantation workers likely
Support likely for Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
India offers to work on Colombo-Galle-Matara railway project
Increased assistance for human resource development
- Nepal Digs Out Dollars For Chinese Arms (Statesman, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Dec 27, 2005)
After floating a global tender for buying arms and ammunition, Nepal’s army has just spent more than $800,000 on buying arms and ammunition from China. The money was paid to Beijing’s Poly Technologies Incorporated for 18,000 grenades and 4 million . . .
- Combating Communal Violence (Hindu, Siddharth Narrain , Dec 27, 2005)
Any law specifically to deal with situations of communal violence must be followed up by reforming the police and the criminal justice system.
- Shouting Brigades In Uttar Pradesh (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 27, 2005)
It is a triple whammy for the Mulayam Singh-led Government in Uttar Pradesh, with the Samajwadi Party and its leader facing fire from a hit squad comprising the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party, and the Bahujan Samaj Party.
- Despicable Act: Tamil Parties (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Dec 27, 2005)
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) on Monday condemned the killing of Joseph Pararajasingham, TNA MP, in a church on Christmas Day.
- Invading America (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Dec 26, 2005)
Imperial overreach, or perhaps hubris, is tripping US President George W. Bush. While America’s travails in Iraq are too many to recount, his tribulations in the US are now becoming apparent.
- `No Dispute With Andhra Pradesh On River Waters' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2005)
Karnataka Chief Minister N.Dharam Singh has made it clear that there was no serious dispute over the sharing of river waters with Andhra Pradesh, and for that matter, with any other riparian State. "Such trivial differences could be sorted out . . .
- `Subjective Factors Hampering Unity Among Left Parties' (Hindu, C. Gouridasan Nair, Dec 26, 2005)
No ideological divide between CPI and CPI(M), says Veliyam Bhargavan
- The Bihar Brand (Daily Excelsior, A N Sudarsan Rao , Dec 26, 2005)
The name of Bihar arouses are and curiosity among a large section of the populace in and outside the country, a State about which people hardly take any interest to know about.
- Looking Forward (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Dec 26, 2005)
Is it possible for us as believers in the Parliamentary democracy to wish away the recent agonising experience in the country? The answer will be: no. We can pinch ourselves hard
- Not A Revenge Play (Telegraph, Tapas Chakraborty, Dec 26, 2005)
Instead of raising a people’s army, the government should concentrate on developing Chhattisgarh to tackle the Maoists,
- Season Of Risings (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Dec 26, 2005)
Bolivia has had more presidents by far than any other country in South America, mainly because so many of them were overthrown long before their terms ended.
- Careful Advance (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 26, 2005)
Diehard romantics may see it as the end of an idyll. But the decision by King Jigme Singye Wangchuk to usher in parliamentary democracy in Bhutan speaks of his astute political sense.
- Disputed Durand Line (Tribune, Gurinder Randhawa, Dec 26, 2005)
The British during their long rule over the subcontinent drew three lines on the map — the McMahon Line between India and China, the Radcliff Line between India and Pakistan and the Durand Line between India and Afghanistan. All three became . . .
- House Of Cards (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2005)
India seems to specialize in encroachment, both literal and metaphysical. The Delhi high court’s order to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi that all illegal structures in the city should be demolished has set the cat among the pigeons.
- Mps And The Maze Of Corruption (Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi, Dec 26, 2005)
Can you work out exactly what the BJP's stand on corruption is? No? Well, me neither.
- Its Outright Abolition Won’T Reduce Corruption (Business Line, A N Sudarsan Rao , Dec 26, 2005)
These days, when corruption and double standards have become the hallmark of Indian politicians, only a Tehelka-like sting operation seems to force them to waken and introspect.
- Bharat Nirman: Foundation In Rural India (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Dec 26, 2005)
The ambitious Bharat Nirman project can succeed only if large industries are induced to distribute themselves in villages. For rural location imposes no serious financial liability on large industries but small ones cannot prosper in villages . . .
- Our Posture In The World Market Should Be ‘Come All, We Take You On’ (Business Line, A N Sudarsan Rao , Dec 26, 2005)
Which way are global trade talks headed? How was India’s performance and posture, what did it get and what did it have to give away...
- Advani's Successor Not Finalised, Says Venkaiah Naidu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2005)
There is no need to hide it: Murali Manohar Joshi
- Notes From The Washington Merry-Go-Round (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2005)
Jack Anderson’s journalism comforted the afflicted and afflicted the comfortable. Inderjit Badhwar remembers his days with a scam-busting colleague
- Singh Parivar (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 26, 2005)
BJP still doesn’t understand that if it tries to be safe it will be sorry
- The Scheme Is Against Basic Legal Tenets (The Financial Express, Era Sezhiyan, Dec 26, 2005)
The concept and working of the MPLAD Scheme has been against the basic tenets of the parliamentary system
- Rajnath: Bjp President In Waiting? (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Dec 26, 2005)
Rajnath Singh is certainly different from other second generation leaders of the BJP.
- Security Forces, Ltte Trade Blame (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Dec 26, 2005)
A blame game is on between Sri Lankan security forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) over the assassination of Joseph Pararajasingham, an MP from the Tamil National Alliance (TNA).
- Panchayat Polls: Counting Of Votes On Tuesday (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2005)
The Karnataka Election Commission has geared up for counting of votes for the zilla and taluk panchayat elections on December 27.
- Poll Panel Should Act Against Those Who Supplied Liquor: Bjp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2005)
Jagadish Shettar demands re-poll in all places where liquor was distributed
- Peace, South Asia And The Kashmir Dispute (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Dec 26, 2005)
No, is the instant answer. Some historic facts, some political complicacies, some national interests and more.
- One Year On, Promises To Keep In Sri Lanka (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Dec 26, 2005)
One year after the tsunami, the country shows a mixed record on relief and reconstruction.
- Guarding Against A "Coloured Revolution" (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Dec 26, 2005)
Russia has approved a bill that introduces stringent controls over the activities of foreign-funded non-government and non-commercial organisations in a move designed to pre-empt any "coloured revolution" in the country.
- New Equations In The Janata Dal (United) (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Dec 26, 2005)
The party's relationship with the BJP could be headed for a turbulent phase.
- Democracy, Modernity, And The Indian Child (Hindu, Krishna Kumar, Dec 26, 2005)
At present, our schools act like factories, forcing children into a fixed, preconceived mould. They stifle natural curiosity and creativity. The fruits of democracy and modernity will remain elusive if education is not structurally adjusted . . .
- Karzai Blames Foreigners For Unrest (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2005)
Two officials sacked for spying for other countries, says Afghan President
- Mps And The Maze Of Corruption (Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi, Dec 25, 2005)
Can you work out exactly what the BJP's stand on corruption is? No? Well, me neither. For all of Friday evening, . . .
- Lessons Of India’S Corruption Scandal (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Dec 25, 2005)
In a highly commendable move last Friday, the Indian parliament sacked 11 of its members (MPs), ten from the lower house and one from the upper house, because they were caught on camera taking money to raise questions in the house.
- Pakistani, Indian Peace Caravans March To Border (Daily Times, Hashim Shar, Dec 25, 2005)
Hundreds of people, including women, representatives of NGOs, journalists, doctors, advocates, retired judges and notables, from different parts of the country took a peace caravan to the Pakistan-India Khokhrapar-Monabao border on Friday evening.
- Us Troops Withdrawal From Iraq (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 25, 2005)
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said that Washington will withdraw two brigades of its combat forces from Iraq early next year. Ramsfeld, who visited Baghdad on Friday, however, said that the US will increase the number of officers currently....
- Judiciary And Fair Elections (Dawn, Kunwar Idris, Dec 25, 2005)
The judiciary and the legal fraternity of the country have come into focus once again for a variety of unrelated reasons like the new-found judicial activism and bar elections.
- All Eyes On Rajnath (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Dec 25, 2005)
Party leaders gather at Rajnath's residence to congratulate him
Party sources confirm that consultations process has been completed
Rajnath Singh's name finds approval of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
- Creeping Fanaticism (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 25, 2005)
GREATER notice needs to be taken in the region of the creeping inroads being made by fanaticism in Bangladesh.
- Seeking Alien Interference (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 25, 2005)
IT is a cliché to say that Pakistanis do not learn from history. But on Friday the Alliance for the Restoration Democracy decided to appeal to “western democratic forces” to “stop” the Pakistan government from using force in Balochistan.
- Reflections On Two Military Presidents (Dawn, M.P. Bhandara, Dec 25, 2005)
I count Ayub Khan among the tragic heroes of Pakistan. Much good and some bad happened in his time.
- Power We Didn’T Grant (Dawn, Tom Daschle, Dec 25, 2005)
In the face of mounting questions about news stories saying that President Bush approved a programme to wiretap American citizens without getting warrants, the White House argues that Congress granted it authority for such surveillance in the 2001 ...
- Musharraf Pins Hope In Youth (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 25, 2005)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf focused the importance of major water reservoirs to the Sindh’s future and sought Sindhi youth’s support to avert the impending disaster.
- ‘Huge Pollution Pool Over Bihar’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2005)
Attributing the pollution to inefficient burning of biofuel in the state, NASA says that the health of nearly 100 million people may be at stake.
- Nation Will Go ‘Renewable’ In Big Way By 2020 (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 25, 2005)
Green Oscar award winner Dr Shanti Pada Gonchoudhuri of Tripura, is in the forefront of the nation’s drive to tap solar power in its efforts to popularise cost effective, eco-friendly non-conventional sources of energy.
- Contaminated French Warship To Leave For Gujarat Yard Shortly (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Dec 25, 2005)
Decommissioned Clemenceau is laden with highly toxic asbestos
- Tension In Bidar District After Poll-Related Violence (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2005)
AIPJD workers lay siege to jail; Minister's car stoned
Tension prevailed in a few areas in Bidar on Saturday after violent incidents occurred during Friday's elections to the zilla and taluk panchayats.
- Merry Christmas In God’S Own Tsunami Country (Indian Express, Samar Halarnkar, Dec 25, 2005)
The bumpy single-lane road is lined with coconut palms, scattered with quaint, little concrete houses with newly planted marigold and posies. There is a bakery, net cafes, white sand, smiling locals and a sculptor at work on an exquisite 6-foot-high . . .
- A Healing Touch (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 25, 2005)
Two senior monks of the Ramakrishna Order hung a portrait of Mother Sarada in the West Bengal Assembly recently in the presence of legislators from all parties. It was noticed by only a few. But was it a minor event in a House that has seen political....
- He Could Measure Up To The Task (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Dec 25, 2005)
Pawan Kumar Bansal was the much sought after man last week.
- Rajnath Rolls Up (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2005)
Within hours of being told he would succeed L.K. Advani as BJP chief, Rajnath Singh provided a glimpse of his agenda and style.
- What’S So Festive About This Season? (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Dec 25, 2005)
It is true that our political class is venal and contemptible. It is true that the nature of the Indian state is more colonial than democratic but rarely has there been a week in political history when these ugly truths have been more self-evident.
- Merry X’Mas. No, Sorry, Merry Winterval! (Indian Express, SUDHEENDRA KULKARNI , Dec 25, 2005)
There are 196 families in the highrise building in which I live in central Mumbai, and none of them is Christian. Yet, when December arrived, the housing society put up a banner inviting families to participate in upcoming Christmas celebrations.
- India Fast Becoming Global Player: Advani (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2005)
Questions Congress concern for "aam aadmi"
Sees neglect of farmers, fishermen and construction workers
Questions ruling party's concern for the common man
- Why Rajnath Is Preferred (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Dec 25, 2005)
Sushma Swaraj was a contender but her equation with Vajpayee had never been very stable.
- Call To Work For Aiadmk's Victory In Assembly Election (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2005)
Activists urged to prepare themselves for sacrifice to ensure party's return to power
- Stung Parliament (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 25, 2005)
Expelled MPs got what they deserved
It has often been the case that efforts to cleanse the political system bring together parties across the board to protect what they consider to be their rights.
- We, They And The Idea Of India (Tribune, Santosh Kr. Singh, Dec 25, 2005)
Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen, in his book The Argumentative Indian, has underlined the significance of India’s heterodox past and pluralist present and the critical role played by our rich and long tradition of dialogue and discussion . . .
- Rajnath Tipped To Be Next Bjp Chief (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2005)
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and party general secretary Rajnath Singh widely tipped to be the next BJP president though no formal announcement was made today apparently not to divert focus from its Mumbai Silver Jubilee Jamboree beginning Monday.
- Chidambaram's 2006-07 Budget (Daily Excelsior, Sisir Basu, Dec 25, 2005)
Our ministers and parliamentarians take bribe. Naturally bureaucrats can't be behind.
- 11 Mps Expelled Amidst Vehement Opposition From Bjp (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2005)
Parliamentary history was created today when both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha expelled 11 MPs for misconduct in accepting money for raising questions in the face of severe oppposition from BJP and its allies over the procedure.
- Stop Wasting Money Over Earthquake Trips ! (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Dec 25, 2005)
It has been over two months since one of the worst ever earthquakes rocked the State of Jammu and Kashmir
- Focusing On The Urban Poor (Daily Excelsior, Allah Bukhsh, Dec 25, 2005)
An increasing share of our population now lives in urban India, notwithstanding the fact that India by and large still lives in villages. About 65 million persons were added to our urban population in the decade of the ‘90s alone.
- Piecemeal Reform Will Not Do (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 24, 2005)
State funding of political parties’ election expenditure is a good thing, provided it is part of a larger scheme of political, electoral and taxation reform
- The Great Bubble Of World Economics (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 24, 2005)
Consumerist excesses have made the US the great bubble of the world of economics. As the book Empire of Debt rues, running an empire is a disastrously expensive business — "You pay in cash. You pay in blood. And you pay with your own so ul."
- 11 Mps Expelled From Parliament (Tribune, T.R. Ramachandran, Dec 24, 2005)
Notwithstanding the disquiet in certain sections across the political spectrum, Parliament took the extreme step today of expelling 11 members — 10 from the Lok Sabha and a lone Rajya Sabha MP —for their involvement in the cash-for-questions scam and.....
- Numbers Key To Bjp Vote Puzzle (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 24, 2005)
The BJP’s strident stand against the expulsion of the tainted MPs has puzzled even its insiders and underscored the growing distance between the party and ally Janata Dal (United).
- Water Of Contention (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Dec 24, 2005)
The poet is delighted water water everywhere, but craves not a drop to drink. Abundance of it means life in full bloom, absence turns the whole world into a big wasteland.
- Parliament Expels 11 Tainted Mps (Greater Kashmir, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 24, 2005)
The Parliament today expelled the 11 MPs caught on camera taking money amid a walkout by the NDA members in the Lok Sabha, barring those of JD(U), who stated that the punishment was not commensurate with their offence.
- Criminality Spread (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 24, 2005)
MPLAD scheme should be scrapped
After keeping hoi-polloi guessing over the outcome of the Speaker’s dinner meeting with a cross-section of parliamentary heavyweights, the parties have come out in support of the MPLAD scheme.
- Parliament Creates History, Sacks All Stung Members (Hindustan Times, Vinod Sharma, Dec 24, 2005)
The BJP scored a self-goal in the Lok Sabha on Friday by questioning the quantum of punishment to the 10 scam-scarred MPs and staging a walkout before the House adopted a motion for their expulsion.
- Task Before Sri Lankan President (Daily Excelsior, M Rama Rao, Dec 24, 2005)
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse is coming to India a day after the Christmas in his first overseas visit. During his four-day state visit, he will take up the threads of discussions his foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera had . . .
- Pm As Foreign Minister (Daily Excelsior, Indu Prakash Singh, Dec 24, 2005)
After the National Democratic Alliance lost the Lok Sabha elections last year, as Manmohan Singh was in the process of putting final touches to his cabinet and deciding the portfolios of the UPA ministers, there was a crucial, but secret, . . .
- Major Advances In Nuclear Cooperation With Us Before Bush Visit Of India (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 24, 2005)
India and the US should be in a position to make "significant advance" on the civilian nuclear cooperation agreement before President George W. Bush makes his visit to India in the early part of 2006, visiting Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran has said.
- `Festival Of Democracy' Celebrated (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 24, 2005)
Thousands from underprivileged sections show enthusiasm for panchayat elections
- A Divided City (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , Dec 24, 2005)
The city I live in has two names, these captured in the title of the first chapter of Janaki Nair’s fine recent book on the city’s history: Bengaluru/Bangalore.
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