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- Cpi(m) For Religion As A Criterion For Quota (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member and Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury on Thursday said his party favoured an amendment to the Constitution for including religion as a criterion for providing reservation benefits.
- Cooperate To End Terrorism (Tribune, Gen V.P. Malik (retd), Oct 26, 2007)
After the Karachi bloodbath on October 19 the global condemnation of the terrorists’ act and commiseration for Pakistan and Ms Benazir Bhutto was on the expected lines.
- Managing Mba Education (Pioneer, Vinayshil Gautam, Oct 26, 2007)
About two decades ago, management education in the country experienced an outburst.
- Pirates Without Profits (Telegraph, RAVI VYAS, Oct 26, 2007)
Is book piracy in India as rampant as in the high-tech world of software, CDs and DVDs? It isn’t simply because the demand for the products of writers and publishers has never been robust enough to generate a major piracy problem.
- Students Resent Staff Shortage (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
The callous attitude of the authorities in streamlining the functioning of their school forced the students of the only high school in the Bup area to come on roads and stage a dharna in front of the office of the deputy commissioner here today.
- Pm To Review Welfare Schemes, Reform Process (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called a meeting tomorrow with Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and top officials to finalise measures to give a push to the flagship programmes of his 41-month-old government.
- Relive The Past (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 26, 2007)
Reliving the past would make one feel positive and understand the value of life.
- 16 Pakistan Soldiers Killed In Ambush (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Oct 26, 2007)
At least 16 paramilitaries were killed on Thursday when an explosion ripped their truck in Mingora in the Swat district of the North West Frontier Province, a day after the Pakistan army deployed 2,500 additional troops in the area for . . . .
- Pm To Discuss Upa's Flagship Schemes (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
With the political crisis paralysing the functioning of the Government, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will preside over a high level meeting of the officials to finalise a strategy for expediting implementation of the UPA's flagship schemes within. . .
- A Feminist Mart- Women's Empowerment (Hindu, Devaki Jain , Oct 26, 2007)
The women's market in Manipur shows that the need and search for livelihood is not only for the income.
- Q&a: 'N-Deal Will Widen The Base Of Indo-Us Relations' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Phillips Talbot worked as India correspondent for Chicago Daily News before partition and in the early years after freedom. His recent book, An American Witness to India's Partition, is primarily a collection of his reports.
- “It Tools Will Help To Tackle Hr Challenges” (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Speakers at a management symposium stressed the importance of information technology tools in tackling the challenges in the human resources industry.
- Not Quite Global (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 26, 2007)
Former US president Jimmy Carter once said, "Globalisation, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing.
- Global Standards Still A Far Cry In This Knowledge Market (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Private engineering and management colleges located in Noida and Knowledge Park I, II and III of Greater Noida promise at the time of admission to provide facilities that match international standards.
- Police Must Imbibe Values (Pioneer, Sudhir Hindwan, Oct 26, 2007)
In India, the methods that the police employ for dealing with law and order problems have often been criticised. Policy-makers must acknowledge that questions related to police reforms can have a direct bearing on the nation's well-being.
- Security Fence For Peace (Pioneer, Kanchan Gupta, Oct 26, 2007)
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbours'.
- Now Register With Sebi To Issue Pns (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
The contentious issue of participatory notes (P-Notes) has finally been put to rest with market regulator SEBI announcing that FIIs henceforth cannot issue P-Notes through their sub accounts for investing in derivatives.
- ‘Given The Nature Of Competitive Politics And Fractured Mandates... Difficult For Us To Do What Is Manifestly Obvious’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 25, 2007)
Never before has the Indian economy sustained close to 9 per cent growth year after year for so long. Most projections suggest that we should be able to sustain this rate into the medium term.
- Cbi Haul: Rizwan’S Mobile, Letters (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Sleuths of the Central Bureau of Investigation have seized a mobile phone from Rizwanur Rehman’s locker about which officers of the Criminal Investigation Department apparently had no clue.
- Words Are Cheap In Buddha’S Bengal (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The very chief minister who promised Rizwanur Rehman’s bereaved mother justice has yet to serve justice to the kin of seven civilians killed and six others who were critically injured in police firing that a judicial inquiry . . . . .
- Ncp To Support Congress No-Confidence Motion Against Bjp Govt (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Accusing ruling BJP government in Madhya Pradesh of failing on all fronts and marred with rampant corruption at higher level, NCP on Wednesday declared that it will support Congress' no confidence motion against chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
- Power Play (Indian Express, VARGHESE K. GEORGE, Oct 25, 2007)
In an article, M.D. Nalapat explains how the Congress “bowed to the CPM bully,” and why “Prakash Karat knows Sonia Gandhi better than Manmohan Singh”.
- Eu’S New Scheme For Migrants (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
A great opportunity awaits Indian skilled workers, including engineers, IT experts, MBAs, and legal experts, with the European Union (EU) having devised the Blue Card scheme-- akin to Green Card in the US- to attract workers from outside . . . .
- Indian Actor Nominated For Top British Award (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Delhi girl Tannishtha Chatterjee has been nominated for best actress in the British Independent Film Awards for her leading role in the controversial movie Brick Lane, pitting her against established stars like Dame Judi Dench and Anne Hathaway.
- Nris In Ny Thrilled With Jindal's Win (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The Indian-American community of Long Island are ecstatic about Bobby Jindal's landmark win as the Louisiana governor and becoming the first-ever politician of Indian descent to become governor of any of the US states.
- Back To The Old Style Of Governance? Statecraft (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 25, 2007)
More than the future of the India-U.S. nuclear deal or the survival of the Manmohan Singh government, the issue is whether our polity will be able to produce a ruling arrangement for purposeful governance.
- Climate Change And Extinction Of Species (Hindu, Alok Jha, Oct 25, 2007)
Rising global temperatures caused by climate change could trigger a huge extinction of plants and animals, according to a study.
- Print Pick (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Dev Anand is something of a Bollywood institution. For generations of filmgoers he has remained Hindi cinema’s most charismatic personality.
- What Next For Benazir Bhutto? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The PPP leader’s return to Pakistan heralds the return of democratic politics but sharpens political polarisation.
- Official Heading Karachi Blast Probe Quits (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Oct 25, 2007)
A police official heading the investigations into the October 19 attack on Benazir Bhutto’s homecoming procession in Karachi has stepped down from the probe days after the former Prime Minister said she had no trust in him.
- India-Us Nuclear Deal Wavers (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
A US-Indian accord on civilian nuclear cooperation, once hailed as one of the most significant foreign-policy achievements of the Bush presidency, is on the ropes and may die before it is ever approved.
- Pay Panel May Consider 5-Fold Hike For Military (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The Sixth Pay Commission, expected to submit its report in April next year, is seriously considering a forceful representation made by the three defence services earlier for a five-fold increase in salaries to attract young persons . . . .
- Aiadmk, Pmk Stage Walkout In Puducherry House (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Members belonging to the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the Pattali Makkal Katchi on Wednesday staged a walkout from the Assembly, protesting against the “lack of opportunity” to raise certain issues.
- We're Off To A Good Start (Times of India, Manmohan Singh , Oct 25, 2007)
India is a nation on the move. I am confident that our time has come.
- Let Sensex Soar Higher (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 25, 2007)
In American writer JW De Forest's long ago novel, Honest John Vane, written in 1875 and first serialised in The Atlantic, Darius Dorman, a broker, advises Honest John, erstwhile ice-box manufacturer-turned-Republican Congressman:
- Murder Of Infants (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 25, 2007)
THE number of infants who die before they complete one year in Punjab is disturbingly high at 44 per 1,000 births.
- Govt Attempting To Control Iims (Tribune, Jagdeep S. Chhokar, Oct 25, 2007)
Recent reports in some sections of the media have mentioned that the government is planning to set up a committee to review the functioning of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and that the real intention behind this is to . . . .
- Open Society (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 25, 2007)
The United States of America is a country where there are no Americans. This paradox dissolves in the face of the reality that the few original Americans who exist live in reservations.
- Australia Sanctions On Junta Family (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Australia slapped financial sanctions on Myanmar’s generals and their families today as supporters of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi marked her 12 years in captivity with protests in 12 cities across the world.
- Over 5 Lakh People Evacuated As California's Wildfires Rage (Pioneer, S Rajagopalan, Oct 25, 2007)
In the biggest evacuation in California's history, more than 500,000 people have been moved out of their homes as wildfires, fanned by strong winds, raged for the fourth day across the southern parts of the state.
- Incentives Won't Do (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 25, 2007)
The Supreme Court's latest observations on the Union Government's schemes to provide maternity benefits to below poverty line mothers are sound common sense.
- The Question's About Origin (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
This refers to Mr Jatinder Nath Joshi's article, "Plethora of evidence"(October 11), which is in response to my article on Kerala School - a summarised form of my write up.
- Bobby Jindal, Who? (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Oct 25, 2007)
There's nothing about the new Louisiana Governor that's Indian. Why celebrate his win?
- Karnataka’S Thriving Tibetan Settlement (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
With heavy maroon robes flapping in the wind, auto-rickshaws speeding down an empty road, seated inside are three bald novices, Buddhist monks on their way to Kushalnagar to watch a film.
- Protests Over Land Rights In India (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
On a hot, dusty highway some 40 miles (70km) from Delhi, a human column snakes its way towards the Indian capital carrying a unique message of defiance to the country's leaders: "Give us back our land."
- Poor But Defiant, Thousands March On Delhi In Fight For Land Rights (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
On a hot, dusty highway some 40 miles (70km) from Delhi, a human column snakes its way towards the Indian capital carrying a unique message of defiance to the country's leaders: "Give us back our land."
- The Unfinished Agenda Of Economic Reform (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
There is no lack of thinking on what needs to be done to sustain and further accelerate growth.
- Final Advice From Drucker For Knowledge Organisations (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 25, 2007)
What is the first sign of decline of a company? Not a splash of red on the financial statements, as accountants may tend to think, but ‘loss of appeal to qualified, able, and ambitious people,’ as Elizabeth Haas Edersheim writes in . . . .
- Real Threat To The Bb-Ppp (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Oct 25, 2007)
New revelations now point directly to Taliban-Al Qaeda as the origin of threat to the PPP leader Ms Benazir Bhutto.
- City With A Future (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
IN his “edict”, Le Corbusier summed up his own estimation of what he had accomplished with Chandigarh by saying that it was planned to “human scale”. The city’s architect had attempted to put its residents in touch with nature, while allowing for . . . .
- When You're Aware There's No Ego (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
How are you going to surrender the ego, when it does not exist? Suppose you are sitting in a dark room. You want the darkness to disappear.
- Far Cry (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 25, 2007)
Women are not well in West Bengal. And given the prevalent attitude in the state towards their condition, there is very little chance of their getting better anytime soon.
- General (Retd.) S.F. Rodrigues (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
GENERAL (retd.) S.F. Rodrigues took over as Administrator for the Union Territory of Chandigarh and Governor of Punjab in November 2004. In this interview, he speaks of his vision for the development of the city. Excerpts:
- Electronic Vision (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
THE Chandigarh administration is working towards making the city grow as a knowledge-based one.
- A Disk Revolution (Frontline, R. Ramachandran, Oct 25, 2007)
THE first computer hard disk drive (HDD) was introduced by IBM in 1956. Called the 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), this first data storage system comprised 50 disks, each about 60 metres in diameter, and stored about five . . .
- Southern Revolt (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The book identifies the revolt by sepoys in Vellore in 1806 as what Hobsbawm calls “proto nationalism”.
- Other Voices Pushto Press (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 25, 2007)
ISLAMABAD has finally announced a sub-jirga tasked with implementing decisions of a Pakistan-Afghanistan peace forum, pinning down the causes of militant attacks in the region and suggesting ways of tackling extremism.
- A Fair Investigation? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 25, 2007)
AS the debris and smoke of the bomb attack on Benazir Bhutto settled, one thing was clear: the battle with militancy in Pakistan has been raised to a new level.
- Afghanistan: A Once And A Future Nation (Deccan Herald, ROGER COHEN, Oct 24, 2007)
To help forge a better Afghanistan or merely an Afghanistan the Americans involved their NATO friends.
- Signals From Ceasfire (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Oct 24, 2007)
The United Jihad Council is desperate to join in the political dialogue on Jammu and Kashmir’s future, but it may be too late.
- Haryana Has A New Partner In U.S. State (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
A Declaration of Partnership between Haryana and the U.S. State of Minnesota was signed in New Delhi on Tuesday to promote “active exchange of ideas, knowledge, and people as it relates to trade and investment, science and . . . . .
- Kalam Conferred Honorary Doctorate Of Science (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Former president A P J Abdul Kalam has been conferred with an Honorary Doctorate of Science by the University of Wolverhampton in the UK in recognition of his eminence in the international community as a scientist, educationist and statesman.
- Poor State (Indian Express, VARGHESE K. GEORGE, Oct 24, 2007)
Prabhat Patnaik writes on the ‘The Privatisation Of Planning,’ and argues that the central government is trying to take away the powers of the state government in two ways — by centralising some in the Union government and decentralising others to . . . .
- How To Succeed In The New World Of Pro-Am Journalism (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 24, 2007)
‘Networked journalism,’ where professional journalists collaborate with the communities they cover, may be the way forward.
- Up Govt To Pay Fees Of Muslims Pursuing Professional Courses (Times of India, MANJARI MISHRA, Oct 24, 2007)
Admission fee up to Rs 1 lakh for a professional course will now be paid by Mayawati-led Uttar Pradesh government, if the student is from an underprivileged minority community.
- Shape Of Things To Come (Business Line, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 24, 2007)
The Harvard Business Online recently had an interesting write-up about a survey undertaken by Dr Tom Stewart, the editor of Harvard Business Review, and Dr Gary Hamel, Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London. . .
- In The Corridors Of Power (Tribune, B.K. Karkra, Oct 24, 2007)
There used to be a post of establishment officer in the C.R.P.F. in the rank of a Commandant who dealt with the appointment, leave, confidential reports, postings and promotions of the officers.
- Former Cbi Director In Cambridge University Advisory Board (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
The University would make special efforts to rope in police officers from across the world for the Diploma and Master of Studies programme in Applied Criminology and Police Management, with a special focus on India.
- How Chimpanzee Groups Learn Different Skills (Hindu, Alok Jha, Oct 24, 2007)
Chimpanzees are the only animals, other than humans, that learn certain cultural behaviours — such as grooming, hunting or how to crack open nuts — from those around them, according to a study.
- Pakistan And Its Prisoners Of Destiny (Hindu, Ramesh Thakur, Oct 24, 2007)
Benazir Bhutto knows how to press the right buttons when speaking to Western audiences through the mass media.
- Sonia’S Kow-Tow (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Oct 24, 2007)
That Congress president Sonia Gandhi is heading to China later this week is good news.
- 'Indian Market Is Overridden With Greed’ (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 24, 2007)
Buy what others are discarding and sell what others are craving. Look for the hated, the unloved and the distressed business.
- Osama Urges Iraq Rebel Unity (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Osama bin Laden urged insurgents in Iraq to unite with his Al-Qaida followers, admitting that wrongs had been committed because of fanaticism, according to an audio recording aired on Monday.
- Beyond Quotas (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 24, 2007)
The Tamil Nadu government is casting its net wider to get in as many people as possible under the quota umbrella.
- Tamil Nadu, Monsanto Ink Deal To Develop Gm Papaya Seed (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University on Tuesday signed an agreement with global seed major Monsanto for developing a GM papaya seed, resistant to Ring Spot Virus (RSV).
- Rs. 1,430-Crore Annual Plan For Goa Finalised (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
A Rs. 1,430-crore annual plan for Goa was finalised at a meeting here on Tuesday between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister Digambar Kamat.
- Minister In Spot Over Drug Licences (Tribune, Tejinder Singh Sodhi, Oct 24, 2007)
The Jammu and Kashmir Pharma Association has accused the state health ministry and the state pharmacy council of involvement in a scam in the allotment of drugs licences. The minister concerned has, however, denied all allegations.
- The Return Of B. Da Silva (Frontline, SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY, Oct 24, 2007)
Professor Bertram Da Silva is back on stage after two decades and his music has taken Kolkata by storm again.
- Big Brother Is Watching... (Tribune, KIM MURPHY, Oct 24, 2007)
GLOUCESTER, UK – The closed-circuit television camera lurking just down the street from the fast-food restaurant bellows menacingly at the first sign of a cast-off cigarette butt or fast-food wrapper. “Pick it up,” commands a booming voice . . . .
- Students Set Ablaze In Bed (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Two Gorakhpur University students were tied to their hostel beds and set ablaze last night in the latest incident of campus crime in Uttar Pradesh.
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