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Articles 1221 through 1320 of 22438:
- Detainee Torture? No. 'Coercion'? It Depends. (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2006)
New detainee law gives the White House and the CIA most – but not all – of the authority they wanted for interrogations.
- Is Antiterrorism Money Going To The Most Deserving? (US News & World Report, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2006)
For Edward Reiskin, a deputy mayor of Washington, D.C., the epiphany came in late May, after he'd worked for two months with a cast of hundreds-including law enforcement officials who responded to the Pentagon on September 11-crafting a proposal . . .
- New Laws And Machines May Spell Voting Woes (New York Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2006)
New electronic voting machines have arrived in Yolo County, Calif., but there is one hitch: the audio program for the visually impaired in some of them works only in Vietnamese.
- Nuclear Maneuvering (International Herald Tribune, DAVID E. SANGER, Oct 19, 2006)
After Libya gave up its nuclear weapons program in late 2003, President George W. Bush was emphatic about what had led Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi to sort out his relationship with Washington: The Libyan had looked down the large- caliber barrel of . . .
- Us Must Change Its Iraq Strategy (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Oct 19, 2006)
The deaths of nine US soldiers in Iraq raised the number of fatalities so far in October to 67, making it likely that US forces could suffer more deaths than the 75 in September, the third highest month for casualties since the 2003 war.
- Venugopal Given Two Weeks To Reply To Charges (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Oct 19, 2006)
The Institute Body of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Wednesday charged Director P.Venugopal with discriminating against Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students, financial irregularities, administrative deficiencies and . . .
- It's Time For Digital Campuses, Says Oversight Committee (Hindu, Rasheed Kappan, Oct 19, 2006)
`Laptop should be entry device to cyberspace'
- Bogeys In Their Heads (Telegraph, MUKUL KESAVAN, Oct 19, 2006)
Last week, I suggested in these columns that Jack Straw’s discomfort in the presence of burqa’d women was a provincial’s reaction to difference.
- Points To Ponder (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 19, 2006)
There is something hideously wrong with a society that has to be constantly reminded about children’s welfare, and that too through court strictures.
- Hassle-Free Admission (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 19, 2006)
The Delhi High Court is to be commended for barring nursery schools from conducting any kind of interviews or interaction with kids or their parents during the admission process.
- Birth Of Political Art (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 19, 2006)
Art has long reflected the environment in which it is being created. For Southeast Asia, the 1970s were troubled times, with military or authoritarian rule in many countries squashing social unrest, and it is within this context that some of . . .
- 11th Plan To Target 10 Per Cent Growth (Tribune, Manoj Kumar, Oct 19, 2006)
Even as the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pitched for a 10 per cent GDP growth, the Planning Commission in its 11th Plan Approach Paper today underlined the need for creating seven crore job opportunities in next five years for inclusive growth.
- Japan Debates The Nuke Option (Tribune, Bruce Wallace, Oct 19, 2006)
Tokyo The prospect of a nuclear-armed Japan is at once unimaginable and obvious.
- Drunk Alert For Netizens (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 19, 2006)
In the dead of night, India’s Internet junkies get down to work — surfing, chatting and gaming.
- Fading Out Slowly (Telegraph, NEHA SAHAY, Oct 19, 2006)
The People’s Daily had, two days back, a picture of President Hu Jintao visiting an exhibition in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of the Long March.
- Importance Of Financial Literacy (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 19, 2006)
A key component of public policy, financial education is best achieved through formal institutional mechanisms.
- Kiss And Tell: And The Cheek Of It All (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 19, 2006)
Louis Armstrong presumably knew what he was warbling when he sang: You must remember this/ A kiss is just a kiss,/ A sigh is . . .
- Rebuilding Bihar, Brick By Brick (Pioneer, Arun Srivastava, Oct 19, 2006)
Nitish Kumar has rightly made education the new engine of growth; but he must ensure that each project takes off, says Arun Srivastav.
- Bush Clears The Way For Corporate Domination (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2006)
When George W. Bush says that he wants to spread freedom to every corner of the earth, he means it.
- From Sin-Cities To Cities Of Joy (The Economic Times, Pothik Ghosh, Oct 19, 2006)
He who said Rome was not built in a day may not have been its first minstrel. But he did give the world a troublesome mythology of urbanisation. Cities, in order to become thriving, bustling places, must evolve.
- Israel Broadens Gaza Operation (Jordan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2006)
For the first time since its pullout from Gaza a year ago, Israeli tanks and infantry took up positions on the Egypt-Gaza border Wednesday, killing two Palestinian fighters and surrounding the Rafah border terminal, as the army broadened its search . . .
- Wheels Of Justice (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 19, 2006)
A decade after committing the gruesome crime of raping and murdering Priyadarshini Mattoo, a fellow student of law at Delhi University, Santosh Kumar Singh has got his just desserts.
- Thailand’S Central Bank Appoints Its First Woman Governor (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2006)
Ms Tarisa Watanagase has been appointed as the governor of the country’s Central bank, the first woman to be given the post in the bank’s 64-year history, deputy transport minister Mr Sansern Wongcha-umister, said today.
- Govt Volunteered Panel Report In Sealed Cover (Pioneer, Abraham Thomas, Oct 19, 2006)
The fierce rhetoric by the Government challenging the Supreme Court's authority to be privy to Parliamentary Standing Committee's report on the controversial quota Bill has proved mere gainsay with the Supreme Court order indicating it was the . . .
- There's No Escape From Hard Decisions (Pioneer, Santanu Banerjee, Oct 19, 2006)
Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Wednesday admitted the difficulties of coalition politics and hinted that unless hard decisions were taken at the political level, 9 per cent growth rate may not be an achieveable target.
- Some High-Fives (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 19, 2006)
Pakistan's enthralling four-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the ongoing Champions Trophy is proof that cricket is perhaps the only sport in which even when a couple of lynchpins of a side are dropped for reporting positive for the use of steroids, . . .
- House To Get Quota Bill Report (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2006)
In the midst of a judiciary-versus-legislature debate, a Parliamentary committee today asserted that its report on the OBC reservation in Central educational institutions would be tabled in Parliament.
- President Addresses Vietnam Comparison To Iraq (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2006)
President Bush said Wednesday that the current surge of violence in Iraq "could be" comparable to the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, a succession of battles that became a milestone because it helped turn the American public against the . . .
- India Vows To Work For Disarmament (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2006)
India has vowed to work towards steady progress in the areas of conventional disarmament as small arms and light weapons directly affect a large mass of people in conventional conflicts.
- School’S Out (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 18, 2006)
The procedure of nursery admissions is not as cut and dry as the committee appointed by the Delhi High Court to look into the matter would want it to be.
- N Korea Nuke Test: Implications For India (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2006)
North Korea's Nuclear test has brought into sharp focus Pakistan's role as a Nuclear Proliferator.
- Hc Convicts Santhosh Singh For Priyadarshini's Murder (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2006)
Over a decade after law student Priyadarshini Mattoo was raped and murdered, the Delhi high court on Tuesday convicted former IPS officer's son Santosh Kumar Singh on both counts and set aside his acquittal by a lower court, terming it as "perverse".
- Justice Delayed, Not Denied In Priyadarshini Mattoo Case (Pioneer, Vijaita Singh, Oct 18, 2006)
Justice though delayed has not been denied to Priyadarshini Mattoo. The Delhi High Court on Tuesday convicted Tis Hazari court lawyer Santosh Kumar Singh of raping and subsequently murdering Priyadarshini Mattoo, then a 24-year-old law student of . . .
- Terror Victim To A Graduate: Yogita Stands Tall (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2006)
Last year, an ambitious Yogita, as she pursued her undergraduate studies, was dreaming of becoming a teacher.
- Oz Honour For Indian 'Bee Man' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2006)
A scientist who spent 23 years studying bees and helped develop automated space craft for use on Mars has won Australia's top science prize.
- Congress Backs Manmohan On Job Quota In Private Sector (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2006)
Caught in an intense tug of war between the industry and sections of political class over reservation in private sector, the Congress on Tuesday welcomed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's decision to set up a panel "to explore the best way to see that . . .
- India’S Growth Pangs (Deccan Herald, Alok Ray, Oct 18, 2006)
India has the potential to attain eight per cent plus growth but that is subject to many road blocs.
- Justice Done At Last, After 11 Years Mattoo Killer Convicted (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2006)
In a triumph for people’s outcry for justice, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday set aside a “perverse” lower court judgment and convicted a former IPS officer’s son for raping and murdering 23-year-old Priyadarshini Mattoo nearly 11 years ago.
- Intellectuals Rally Behind Afzal (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Oct 18, 2006)
"He was denied a fair trial, should be pardoned"
Yasin Malik hails Indian intelligentsia for support
India has to prove sincerity: Sajjad Gani Lone.
- Kalam Praises ‘Role Models’ From Karnataka In Assam (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2006)
G R Shanmugappa and Asha Ramaiah were not famous enough to be known to anybody in Silchar. But the duo – both from Karnataka – have now emerged as ‘role models’ for many in this small hamlet in faraway southern Assam.
- The Pure One (Tribune, Raj Chatterjee, Oct 18, 2006)
Being a devout Brahmin, Rati Ram began his day with puja and though now it is more than 75 years since I saw him at it, his routine has stuck indelibly in my mind.
- On The Mat (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 18, 2006)
The Supreme Court has rightly pulled up the Union Government for announcing 27 per cent reservations for the socially and educationally backward . . .
- Perverse Games And History Lessons (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 18, 2006)
In June 1942, the Czech village of Lidice was destroyed in a Nazi reprisal after the Deputy Reichsprotektor for Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich, succumbed to the injuries he had sustained in an assassination attempt on May 27.
- Kalam For Value Addition To Northeast Rural Products (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2006)
Moots `one village-one product' mantra for rural masses
- Mattoo Murder Accused Convicted (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2006)
Santosh Kumar Singh will get either death sentence or life imprisonment
- Santosh Singh Found Guilty In Mattoo Murder Case (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2006)
Kumar Singh, prime accused in the Priyadarshini Mattoo murder case, has been found guilty by the Delhi high court. He could face a death sentence or life imprisonment, to be announced on October 30.
- Sonia For People's Participation In Social Welfare Measures (Hindu, Atiq Khan, Oct 18, 2006)
Free medical camp held on Lifeline Express in Rae Bareli
- A Deadline For Autonomy (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 18, 2006)
The minister for inter-provincial coordination has promised that the much-awaited constitutional amendment bill providing for enhanced provincial autonomy would be adopted before June 2007.
- Prioritising Development (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 18, 2006)
There is reason for hope on the global level. Optimism must necessarily be guarded at this stage, but the world as a whole appears to be moving towards the development targets set by the UN Millennium Declaration of 2000.
- House Is Supreme: Bjp, Cpi(m) (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2006)
"Panel report on quota must be tabled in Parliament first"
We cannot take narrow, partisan view: BJP
Court order an encroachment: CPI (M)
- The Sad Realities (Daily Excelsior, Sweta Patwardhan, Oct 18, 2006)
Cutting across the party lines 35 women MPs have written to prime minister Manmohan Singh and the Congress President, Mrs. Sonia Gandhi that the 33 per cent reservations for them in Parliament and States assemblies should be passed during the . . .
- The West's Anti-Muslim Campaign (News International, Shireen M Mazari, Oct 18, 2006)
Since the Danish cartoon issue, a pattern seems to be emerging from the US and Europe where there appears to be a concerted two-pronged effort to harass and discriminate against Europe's Muslim population and undermine assertive/strong Muslim states.
- Parliamentry Committee Likely To Discuss Sc Order On Quota (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2006)
With the Supreme Court's order on the reservation for OBCs in institutes of higher education having sparked the judiciary-versus-legislature debate, the issue is expected to be discussed at a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee of . . .
- Dmk Wins By-Election In A Canter (Hindu, S. Vijay Kumar, Oct 18, 2006)
Impressive show in Madurai Central Assembly constituency.
- Barak Is The Best (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 18, 2006)
In bluntly announcing his complete faith in the Barak anti-missile system and saying it compares with the best in the world, Admiral Arun Prakash, chief of the Indian Navy, has knocked the bottom out of one half of the Central Bureau of . . .
- Cornered On Quota (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 18, 2006)
The Supreme Court has raised two valid points while dealing with a bunch of petitions against the UPA Government's politically duplicitous and socially divisive move to impose a 27 per cent quota for the so-called OBCs on institutions of higher . . .
- Veil Of Separatism (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 17, 2006)
The ability of something as irrelevant and out-of-place as the hijab and the niqab in today's world to define the contours of wearisomely familiar discourse on the rights of women in Islam is amazing.
- Vimuktatman's Magnum Opus (Hindu, C. L. Ramakrishnan , Oct 17, 2006)
This is a study on the magnum opus Ista Siddhi of Vimuktatman, in the light of the commentary thereon by Anubhutiswaroopacharya, titled Ista Siddhi Vivaranam.
- Medium Of Public Discourse (Hindu, Gowri Ramnarayan, Oct 17, 2006)
The Mythic and the Iconic in Indian Cinema: Vinay Lal and Ashis Nandy — Editors; Oxford University Press, YMCA Library Building, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi-110001. Rs. 495.
- Ems' Contribution To Literature (Hindu, B.R.P. BHASKAR, Oct 17, 2006)
Govinda Pillai, DC Books, DC Kizhekemuri Edam, Good Shepherd Street, Kottayam-686001. Rs. 130.
- Special Drive Against Child Labour Launched (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2006)
It will continue in Bellary district till October 19
Four children rescued from hotels and a garment unit
Rescued children readmitted to school.
- Full Convertibility (Telegraph, BHASKAR DUTTA , Oct 17, 2006)
The author is professor of economics, University of Warwick
- Cageless Creatures (Tribune, Vikramdeep Johal, Oct 17, 2006)
Visiting the zoo after over a decade, I happened to witness the unpleasant antics of certain “animals”. No, I’m not talking about the lions, tigers or monkeys that grace the place, but scores of unruly students from schools and colleges.
- Can India Feed Its Population? (Tribune, Ranjit Singh Ghuman, Oct 17, 2006)
Although India’s population is increasing at a fast rate, the production rate of foodgrains was higher than the population growth rate till the eighties. From 1990 onwards there is a reversal in this trend.
- Govt Playing Quota Game Without Rules' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2006)
In what can re-ignite the passionate debate over the about-to-be introduced OBC quota in central educational isntitutions, Supreme Court on Monday strictured the government for rushing ahead with the exercise without bothering to collect elementary data.
- Muslims Must Weigh The Veil Carefully (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Oct 17, 2006)
The British press has quoted Phil Woolas, the Race and Faith minister, as demanding that Aishah Azmi, a Muslim . . .
- Kishorishakti Scheme To Assist Women To Fight Oppression (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2006)
Priority to girls from SC, ST and below poverty line families Priority to be given to girls from SC, ST and below poverty line families
- Tribals Overjoyed To See The First Citizen In Their Village (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2006)
Universities must focus on new studies, says Kalam.
- An Eye-Wash (OutLook, B. Raman , Oct 17, 2006)
By voting the resolution and through media spin on the significance of it, the members of the UNSC have sought to cover up the humiliation of their failure to prevent North Korea from flouting international opinion with impunity
- No Final Decision Yet On Obc Quota: Affidavit (Hindu, J. Venkatesan, Oct 17, 2006)
Centre also rules out reservation for Muslims
- Sslc Paper Leak: Cbi Seizes Rs.2 Lakh From Official's House (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2006)
The cash was concealed under a washing machine
- Embarrassment For Qarra As Cabinet Defers Da Decision (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2006)
Senior PDP leader and Minister incharge Finance, Tariq Hameed Qarra, today landed in a situation of embarrassment as he failed to get the Cabinet sanction to his dramatic decision of releasing 5% of the DA due to the State Government employees since . . .
- Fighting Hunger (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 17, 2006)
Statistics released on World Food Day on Sunday by international agencies point to the critical state of hunger worldwide.
- Don't Play Game First And Frame Rules Later (Pioneer, Abraham Thomas, Oct 17, 2006)
Scoffing at the Centre's move to admit 27 per cent Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in central institutions of higher learning without conducting any ground work, the Supreme Court on Monday called for the Parliamentary Standing Committee's report on . . .
- But I Am An Artist, I Aspire To Be An Artist’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 17, 2006)
The three most important things to remember about the new Nobel laureate in literature, Orhan Pamuk, are location, location, location.
- Kalam Calls For Development (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2006)
President Dr APJ Kalam today underlined the areas that the Manipur University, need to focus. The President asked politicians to engage 70 per cent of their time in development.
- Explain Rationale Behind Obc Quota: Sc To Govt (The Economic Times, DEVESH KUMAR, Oct 17, 2006)
The Manmohan Singh government’s plan to extend the quota regime to centrally-aided institutes of higher learning was delivered a jolt here on Monday when the Supreme Court questioned the rationale and basis behind the decision to set aside 27% . . .
- Sc Pulls Up Govt On Quota (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2006)
In an order that may raise the hackles of Parliamentarians, the Supreme Court today directed the government to place before it the report of the Standing Committee on the Bill for OBC reservation in elite educational institutions.
- Muslim Medicos Can’T Wear Veils (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 17, 2006)
Hospitals in Britain’s Birmingham city have banned Muslim medicos from donning full-face veils, in a move that could further fuel the raging controversy over its wearing in the country.
- Big Brother’S Watching Asian Students (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2006)
In a measure likely to infuriate the minorities, the British government has drawn up a plan to ask lecturers and university staff across the country to spy on “Asian-looking” and Muslim students they suspect of involvement in Islamic extremism and . . .
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