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Articles 16621 through 16720 of 26693:
- Wahhabi Islam : A Misnomer (Greater Kashmir, Dr. Sheikh Muhammad Iqbal, Dec 06, 2005)
Dr. Sheikh Muhammad Iqbal writes about the contribution of Sheikh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab who rose in revolt against the socio-religious corruption prevalent during his times everywhere in Ottoman provinces
- Terrorism To Dominate Singh-Putin Summit Today (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2005)
In a clear indication that terrorism will be high on the agenda during his summit meeting with President Vladimir Putin at Kremlin tomorrow, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today called for joint efforts by India and Russia to fight the menace, . . .
- Court Stays Waqf’S Order On Taj Mahal (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2005)
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the controversial order of the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board declaring Taj Mahal as waqf property, with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) asserting that the right of bestowing a “title” on the . . .
- The Information Pagdandi As Bridge Across Social, Economic Divides (Indian Express, KIRAN KARNIK, Dec 06, 2005)
Knowledge is now the currency of power. No longer does power flow out of the barrel of a gun; rather, it flows from the barrel of a picture tube (TV or computer screen) or the barrel of a pen. Since knowledge derives from information, . . .
- Implement `Bihar Model' In Polls: Trinamool (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2005)
Takes out rally in Kolkata with allies, including BJP
- Udf Nod To Reduce Electricity Tariff (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2005)
Programmes for weaker sections of society, farmers
- Bjp Has No Other Issue But To Attack Sonia Gandhi, Says Oscar Fernandes (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2005)
Her name being dragged unnecessarily into the Volcker report controversy, says Fernandes
- Naidu Leads Regional Parties In Election Campaign For Agp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2005)
"Assam will lose its identity if illegal immigration continues" "Though endowed with vast natural resources, Assam was neglected most when the Congress was in power at the Centre and in the State"
- It Takes Two To Hold Back (Dawn, Shahid Javed Burki, Dec 06, 2005)
This long essay — it has already appeared in three parts, this is the fourth — is about the latest incursion of the military in Pakistan’s political affairs. It started out with the assertion, which immediately drew disagreement from several readers,
- Ear To The Ground (The Week, Kanhaiah Bhelari, Dec 06, 2005)
Even Lalu Prasad Yadav knew it was coming. "Baba, if Ram Vilas Paswan contests separately, we are sure to lose," I heard him tell his close friend Shivanand Tiwary, excise minister in the Rabri Devi regime. The shrewd politician had seen . . .
- Oic: Challenges Ahead (Dawn, Tayyab Siddiqui, Dec 06, 2005)
could be a significant date in the political calendar of Islamic countries as 57 leaders of member-states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) would be converging on the holy city of Makkah to review the situation of the Muslim world, . . .
- Is This Democracy? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 06, 2005)
Yet another dictator has been elected by a 91 per cent vote. On Sunday, President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has been ruling Kazakhstan since before the break-up of the Soviet Union, won another seven years for himself after an election that . . .
- Sanyasin Or Out? (The Week, Deepak Tiwari, Dec 06, 2005)
Emerging from the BJP office in Bhopal on November 27 to start her Ram-Roti march, Uma Bharti was at her symbolic best when she stood on top of an Ambassador car with her foot on its red beacon (symbol of power) to address the people.
- Jayalalithaa Urged To Meet Manmohan Singh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2005)
The Centre should release more funds, says CPI (M)
Meeting will enable Manmohan to understand the nature of devastation
Party to stress need for linking of rivers in Tamil Nadu
Enquiries into Volcker report should be completed quickly
- Congress, Bjp In A Bind (Tribune, A N Sudarsan Rao , Dec 06, 2005)
In one of his more perceptive comments, Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani had declared some time ago that he would be concerned if the Congress party were to disintegrate. In a similar vein, he had urged voters in the lead-up to an . . .
- Abdullah Asks Centre To Clarify On Self-Rule (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2005)
Dr Farooq Abdullah, former Chief Minister, today urged the Centre to clarify its stand on the proposal of the Pakistan President, Gen Pervez Musharraf, for “self-rule” in Kashmir.
- Facade Of Inclusiveness (Pioneer, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Dec 06, 2005)
Economic policy should liberate not just business but also people from bureaucracy, says Bharat Jhunjhunwala
- Foreign Contributions And Congress (Pioneer, A Surya Prakash, Dec 06, 2005)
With a defiant Mr Natwar Singh deciding to dig in and several key figures in the Iraq oil vouchers scam suddenly choosing to play their own little discordant notes, the Congress party's gameplan to make Mr Singh a scapegoat and insulate . . .
- Democracy As Ambedkar Wanted It (Tribune, Shyam Chand, Dec 06, 2005)
Abraham Lincoln says; “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.” Various philosophers, political scientists and writers have given numerous definitions of democracy.
- On Natwar, Oppn In No Mood To Relent (Indian Express, Santwana Bhattacharya, Dec 06, 2005)
With the Government and the Speaker failing to mollify the Opposition on the Natwar Singh-Volcker controversy, the next two days of Parliament are likely to prove stormy. Defence Minister and Leader of the House in the Lok Sabha, Pranab Mukherjee, . . .
- Indian Ethos In Management (Business Line, R. Devarajan, Dec 06, 2005)
The ability to do the right thing and, what is more important, doing it every time is the noblesse oblige in the managerial milieu. It must become the done thing, the insignia and talisman of a professional manager.
- Pm For Cooperation In Energy, Space, Information Techonologies (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2005)
On the eve of his summit-level talks with President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said India and Russia must initiate dialogue to widen their cooperation for energy security and asserted that working together in the space . . .
- Uma’S Life, No Longer A Party (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Dec 06, 2005)
In her reply to the showcause notice served to her, Uma Bharati stated that the “BJP experiment” had failed. She must have known what was in store for her when she set those words down. Decode, also, her statements, “I am the real BJP”,
- Our Limpet Obsession (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Dec 06, 2005)
Natwar Singh does not believe that the mention of his name in the Volcker report is sufficient reason for him to go gently into the night. “Why should I resign?” he queries belligerently.
- Annan Ready To Fire Head Of Un Election Unit (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2005)
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has decided to fire the head of the UN election unit, who has became a star in the world body for supervising polls in dangerous places like Afghanistan and Iraq, two UN officials said.
- Moving From Argument To Dialogue? (The Financial Express, Ashima Goyal, Dec 05, 2005)
Since the title of Professor Sen’s new book captures how we think about ourselves, it has become a buzz word. He reminds us of the long Indian roots of reason, secularism and democracy, and invites us to rediscover these.
- India's Growth To Speed Up (The Financial Express, Reuters, Dec 05, 2005)
India's economy is likely to grow more than analysts had previously thought this fiscal year after a stronger-than-expected performance for July-September.
- Up Needs A Makeover (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 05, 2005)
Mulayam Singh Yadav’s bluster of fast tracking industrial and social development in his ‘Uttam Pradesh’ has been silenced — by political killings no less than by Japanese encephalitis. The murder of BJP MLA Krishnand Rai of Ghazipur is merely . . .
- Natwar Removed From Cong Steering Committee (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2005)
Beleaguered Union Minister K Natwar Singh was late on Sunday night removed from the Congress Steering Committee, in what appears to be a clear indication from the party that the senior leader in the high of a storm over the Iraqi oil pay-off scam . . .
- Human Rights And Wrongs (Tribune, Justice A.S. Anand (retd), Dec 05, 2005)
The notion of human rights is a recognition of the essential worth of a human being. Terrorism and human rights are natural enemies with no possibility of their co-existence.
- Bjp, Uma May Part Ways (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Dec 05, 2005)
Replies to notice; may soon announce formation of political outfit
The BJP is mine and the flag belongs to me
- Left Goes Soft On Poll Panel (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2005)
With Chief Election Commissioner B B Tandon maintaining his no-nonsense tone, the CPM-led Left Front in Bengal has toned down his anti-Election Commission rhetoric.
- Suspected Rebels Kill Six Sri Lanka Soldiers With Mine (Reuters, Simon Gardner, Dec 05, 2005)
Six soldiers were killed in a fragmentation mine attack by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka's war-torn north on Sunday, the military said -- the deadliest in a spate of attacks since a 2002 ceasefire.
- Monumental Neglect (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 05, 2005)
Lahore's Mughal monuments are fast losing their glitter, not only to a natural decaying process but also to the alarmingly high noise and air pollution levels in the metropolis.
- Farmers Sore Over State's View On Special Economic Zone (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2005)
APCLC, farmers' groups see bid to suppress the facts
Farmers say they have lost faith in Ministers' statements
Effluents released from proposed industries will pollute the environment
- Democracy May Save The King (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Dec 05, 2005)
Events in Nepal last week suggest that the Himalayan kingdom’s tripolar power struggle may become a bipolar one.
- Mission To Save Planet Is `Failing' (Hindu, Heather Stewart, Dec 05, 2005)
Sports stars join campaign for trade justice as report says governments are not doing enough to protect environment
- Why Uzbekistan And The U.S. Fell Out (Hindu, Vladimir Simonov, Dec 05, 2005)
The root cause is the attitude of the current U.S. administration, which regards its allies across the world as temporary props for pursuing American policy.
- Anger And Red Faces In Europe Over Cia Flights (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Dec 05, 2005)
The Blair Government especially is under pressure over allegations that it allowed CIA covert flights to ferry suspected terrorists to secret interrogation centres.
- Closed Mindset (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 05, 2005)
So typically ‘army’
The discomfort is patent. The army’s difficulty with aspects of the Right to Information Act is not limited to seeking clarifications over certain provisions,
- Against A Sea Of Troubles (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Dec 05, 2005)
The author is former director-general, National Council for Applied Economic Research
- At A Turn (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2005)
The Congress in Bengal is better known as a divided house. The show of unity that the party put up at a rally on Saturday can, therefore, boost the sagging morale of the party’s cadre.
- Chandy For Dissolution Of Palakkad Municipal Council (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2005)
Legal status of Cardamom Hill Reserve will be examined'
- Natwar Still Has A Case, Says Bardhan (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2005)
Denying that he had made a U-turn on his earlier statement that Natwar Singh should resign following Aniel Mathrani’s interview to India Today, CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan today said that Singh had a case and was innocent.
- A Question For Mr Karat (Indian Express, SAUBHIK CHAKRABARTI, Dec 05, 2005)
As a somewhat intellectually challenged bibliophile with not a lot of time on my hands, the gap between my ideal reading list and the stuff I have actually read is vast. I want to read Shakespeare. I want to read Tolstoy.
- Between The Facts And A Hard Place (Indian Express, SAIBAL DASGUPTA, Dec 05, 2005)
The outcome of the present assembly election in Bihar can be analysed from two angles — one statistical and the other social.
- Over Population: Mother Of All Problems (Daily Excelsior, Swati Sharma, Dec 05, 2005)
These days, our country is facing a lot of problems. If solution of one problem is found out then other one starts cropping up. What is the reason that our country is facing a series of unending problems? Because problem of all problems is still . . .
- 2,365 In Fray For First Phase Of Zilla Panchayat Elections (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2005)
,213 will fight it out for 1,728 taluk panchayat seats
- Latest In Leh (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Dec 05, 2005)
In a major development Mr Thupstan Chhewang, Member of the Lok Sabha from the Ladakh region, has assumed charge as President of the ad hoc committee of the Ladakh Union Territory Front (LUTF).
- The Architect Of An Idea Called Naya Kashmir (Greater Kashmir, Sheikh Ghulam Rasool, Dec 05, 2005)
Today we remember a man who shaped the modern history of state and influenced Kashmiris for more than four decades.
- Sheikh Abdullah - Naik Or Khalnaik? (Greater Kashmir, Z. G. Muhammad, Dec 05, 2005)
Revered as a hero, abhorred as a villain what will history remember him as, Z. G. Muhammad profiles Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
- Hurriyat Keen To Discuss Options (Tribune, M.L. Kak, Dec 05, 2005)
Notwithstanding their support to the idea of self rule, to be preceded by demilitarisation, for resolving the Kashmir issue, leaders of All-Party Hurriyat Conference wish to make it clear that the “idea is not our baby.”
- Bihar Model In Bengal (Tribune, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 05, 2005)
Close on the heels of the successful holding of free and fair elections in Bihar, the Election Commission has rightly decided to emulate the Bihar model in the Assembly elections in West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry due early next yea
- Crime Investigation -By Marianna Belenkaya (Statesman, Marianna Belenkaya, Dec 05, 2005)
On 31 October, diplomats from Russia, China, Algeria, India, Brazil and several other countries prevented the UN Security Council from passing a legally dubious resolution, which had been proposed by the United States, Great Britain and France.
- Mauled Sena (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 05, 2005)
It does not take much political wisdom to recognise that the Shiv Sena is in a deep crisis. All the straws afloat in the wind suggest that Mr Raj Thackeray, nephew of the Shiv Sena supremo, Mr Bal Thackeray, is toying with the idea of starting . . .
- Patnaik Snubs Critics (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 05, 2005)
The Congress-led Opposition in Orissa, ever since it was humbled in last year's Assembly election and the Biju Janata Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition strode back to power for the second consecutive term, has been trying to destroy . . .
- Nepal’S Endless Predicament (Dawn, Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Dec 05, 2005)
As one writes this piece, the three-month old unilateral ceasefire announced by the ‘Maoist’ guerrillas of Nepal on September 3, 2005, expires.
- Us Slowly Confronts The Truth (Dawn, Robert Fisk, Dec 05, 2005)
Watching the pathetic, old, lie-on-its-back frightened Labrador of the American media changing overnight into a vicious Rottweiler is one of the enduring pleasures of society in the United States. I have been experiencing this phenomenon over the . . .
- Taking Liberties With English (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Dec 05, 2005)
Every once in a while a political columnist suffers from what is known in the fourth estate as writer’s cramp’. This is more a mental than a physiological condition and describes his sudden inability to come up with a worthwhile subject on which . . .
- India Accelerating (International Herald Tribune, AMY WALDMAN, Dec 05, 2005)
In the middle of the old Grand Trunk Road a temple sits under a peepul tree. The surrounding highway is being widened to four lanes, and vehicles barrel along either side. But the temple and tree thwart even greater speed, and a passing contractor . . .
- Needed, More Whistle-Blowers (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, Dec 05, 2005)
Wherever one looks one sees rampant corruption. In India there is no department which does not offer an opportunity to a person to make a climb from rags to riches. Revenue earning departments are well known for offering vast opportunities for corruption.
- The Competent Corrupt (Statesman, DEBAKI NANDAN MANDAL, Dec 04, 2005)
Otherwise competent officers are equally efficient in amassing wealth disproportionate to their known sources of income because the business of give and take is the order of the day
- Belated Wisdom (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 04, 2005)
Bihar Congress wakes up to the reality
- Planted Propaganda (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 04, 2005)
In hindsight, maybe it shouldn’t be surprising that the Pentagon has been secretly paying Iraqi journalists and news organizations to write and run positive stories about the war.
- Sir! No Sir! (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Dec 04, 2005)
What has changed after the elections in Bihar? On the face of it the Laloo Prasad Yadav-Rabri Devi era has ended at least for the time being. In a democracy this should not be regarded as a serious development because defeat and victory are part . . .
- The Wisest Man In India (Hindu, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , Dec 04, 2005)
Who might it now be?
- Demilitrisation Of Kashmir (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Dec 04, 2005)
There used to be a time when retired Indian military personnel (including the current Governor of Jammu and Kashmir) were fond of rushing to the Press to demand a unilateral Indian withdrawal from the Siachen Glacier borrowing and quoting . . .
- Big Project For Cities Launched (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Dec 04, 2005)
Urbanisation a relentless process: Manmohan
Centre to give grant-in-aid for Rs. 50,000 crores over seven years
Mandatory for States, municipal bodies to undertake reforms
- Celebrating A Timeless Epic (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 2005)
The nine-day Mahabharata Utsav celebrated Mahabharata, the epic for all times and all people, writes Mala Kumar.
- In Defence Of The Drama Queen (Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi, Dec 04, 2005)
I’m going to come right out and say this at the very beginning — so now is the time to let your jaws drop if you are going to look incredulous — but I am completely on Uma Bharti’s side.
- Natwar Should Quit: Cpi (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 2005)
The national executive of the Communist Party of India (CPI) today demanded the resignation of former External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh from the Union Cabinet following damaging comments by Indian Ambassador to Croatia Aneil Matherani.
- We Will Build A New, Vibrant Bihar: Nitish (Tribune, Ambarish Dutta, Dec 04, 2005)
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar wants to introduce a new political culture in the state.
- Un Security Council To Discuss Myanmar Democracy (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 2005)
Myanmar’s military junta came under fresh pressure to move towards democratic set up with the UN Security Council agreeing to a US proposal to discuss the situation there in wake of extension of the house arrest of opposition leader Ms Aung San Suu Kyi.
- Light On Iraq Dawns On George Bush (Deccan Herald, N J Nanporia , Dec 04, 2005)
President Bush has declared, more often than anyone would care to count, that as long as he is president America will not withdraw from Iraq until the “job” was done and “victory” was achieved. What exactly this job is and his idea of victory remain . . .
- Thursday Deadline For 4 Hostages (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Dec 04, 2005)
The fate of a Canadian NRI and three fellow hostages kidnapped in Iraq hangs in the balance as a leading member of the British anti-war movement takes the initiative to secure their safe release.
- Natwar Singh Decides To Fight The Iraqi Oil For Food Scam – Why Single Out One Indian Politician When Rest Of Them Are Not Any Better? (India Daily, Sudhir Chadda, Dec 04, 2005)
Like in many countries, Indian politics is dominated by money, connections, ethnic origin, religion and caste.
- Politics Of Vengeance (Dawn, Kunwar Idris, Dec 04, 2005)
The assassination of Pakistan’s first prime minister marked the beginning of the politics of vengeance in the country.
- The Quest For ‘Pahale India’ (Indian Express, N K Singh, Dec 04, 2005)
The 21st India Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum has just concluded.
- Bihar Elections Post-Mortem (Indian Express, Soli Sorabjee, Dec 04, 2005)
The main cause for Nitish Kumar’s thumping victory was public disgust with Laloo-Rabri misrule. People saw through the political gimmickry and theatricals of Laloo Prasad Yadav. After all you can fool some people for some time but not all the . . .
- Raj Thackeray On A Collision Course (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Dec 04, 2005)
Uddhav, Bal Thackeray’s son, and Raj, his nephew, have emerged as two faces of the Shiv Sena as the Sena “dictator” enters the evening of his life. Some call it the crisis of two ideologies.
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