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Articles 1621 through 1720 of 22438:
- Pm’S Uk Visit To Focus On Indian Economy (The Financial Express, Ritu Sarin, Oct 11, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived here today to a light drizzle and in his very first engagement, made clear that besides national security, the emergence of India as a major economic power would be the other thrust area of his three-day UK visit.
- India Is Pricing Itself Out Of The Global Market (The Financial Express, JANMEJAYA K SINHA, Oct 11, 2006)
Escalating real estate prices, rising rents and fatter salaries are just some of the contributory factors
- A Language In Disguise? (Hindu, Murali N. Krishnaswamy, Oct 10, 2006)
An all-out war against bad English offering antidotes to archaic `Indlish'
- Kumaraswamy Gets 2,000 Petitions (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2006)
Renuka Hadimani from Mudhol town has a postgraduate degree. The daughter of a Devadasi, she fell in love with Prabhu Shivanna Murnal from Bagalkot, who belongs to an upper caste.
- Kanshi, A Crafty Practitioner Of Dalit Politics (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2006)
The passing away of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) founder Kanshi Ram has brought to a close a chapter in “Dalit assertion” in the post-Ambedkar era.
- Gratitude, Where Art Thou? (Deccan Herald, Praveen Mull, Oct 10, 2006)
More than lack of time, inability to acknowledge help is due to loss of values.
- Revitalising Agriculture (Hindu, S. Mahendra Dev , Oct 10, 2006)
Overview of the ups and downs of agriculture development processes in the last five decades
- Nkorea Walks N-Threat, Dares World To Act (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2006)
North Korea faced united global condemnation and calls for harsh sanctions on Monday after it announced it had detonated an atomic weapon in an underground test that thrust the secretive communist state into the elite club of nuclear-armed nations.
- Content Cannot Take A Back Seat (Tribune, Shakuntala Rao, Oct 10, 2006)
MY mom says that girls used to wear Dev Anand’s picture in the locket of their chains,” confides Ginny, a student at Punjabi University, “That does not happen anymore.
- Classics In Current Idiom (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2006)
This anthology of articles is the outcome of a seminar held with the main objective of exploring and interpreting the ancient Tamil classics in the light of modern research carried out in the inter-related areas of history, archaeology, . . .
- "Chikungunya Under Control In Tuticorin" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2006)
Collector R. Palaniyandi said that chikungunya was under control in the district and there was no death caused so far, owing to the disease.
- Competitiveness & Growth Via Inclusion (The Economic Times, Arun Maira, Oct 10, 2006)
The BusinessWeek reports that amongst the 100 firms from emerging markets that are globalising most rapidly, the stars are 21 Indian firms.
- Finding Him In Malgudi (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 10, 2006)
He loved Gulmohur trees, crowded bazaars... It’s difficult to believe today is R K Narayan’s centenary.
- The 100th Birth Anniversary Of R K Narayan Falls Today (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 10, 2006)
The Guide was made in English and Hindi by Dev Anand. It was commercially a most successful venture, but Narayan was not happy with the screen adaptation of his novel. His novel Mr. Sampath was...
- Us Hold On Nobel Prize Continues (Times of India, Chidanand Rajghatta, Oct 10, 2006)
For all the talk of American decline in the 21st century, the United States continues to retain a stranglehold on the Nobel Prize. An American don won the Nobel Prize for Economics on Monday, making it a clean sweep for the U.S this year with only . . .
- India Has A Duty To Resolve Sri Lankan Crisis: Tamil Parties (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 10, 2006)
Plote, TULF and EPRLF say peace cannot be achieved without New Delhi's advice and guidance
Delegation gives details about New Delhi visit
Discussed matters ranging from devolution of power to escalation of violence
Apprehensions over . . .
- Pressure Grows For A Lengthy Closure Of Everest (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 10, 2006)
Conservationists condemn the tourism turning the world's highest peak into a rubbish dump and are pressing for controls on climbing.
- Education Leadership Programme Launched (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2006)
The aim is to improve methods, processes used by schools
Programme based on courses conducted in U.S. universities
A Delhi-based organisation will conduct it.
- Leadership Programme Launched (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2006)
The first phase of the Education Leadership programme, part of the Kuruvila Jacob Initiative for promoting excellence in School Education, was launched in Chennai at Vidya Mandir School, Mylapore on Monday.
- Time To Ban All Forms Of Child Labour (Hindu, Madhura Swaminathan, Oct 10, 2006)
The additional curbs on child labour in specified hazardous occupations come into effect today. This is a welcome step but far from adequate. Ultimately, all forms of labour are hazardous to the well being of children.
- Child Labour: Grand Plans, Little Action (Hindu, BAGESHREE S. , Oct 10, 2006)
There is a clear lack of political will in the State to eliminate this evil practice.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 10, 2006)
It ought to surprise no one that India has been proclaimed as the “worst offender” by UNICEF with regard to violation of child rights.
- Special Article (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 10, 2006)
Reservation policies pursued by the Central and state governments are based on constitutional provisions, judicial pronouncements and the reports of the commissions set up under the Constitution.
- Civilizational Confluence In India (Daily Excelsior, MAHENDRA VED, Oct 10, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week rejected what he called ‘‘erroneous linkages’’ made by the Western world, of treating the actions of a few as typical of an entire community, thus tarring a single faith with the same brush.
- Boman Irani Hopes ‘Lage Raho’ Will Bring Glory At Oscars.. (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2006)
‘Lucky Singh’ Boman Irani is confident that ‘Lage Raho Munna Bhai" will do well at the Oscars, where it has entered in the ‘independent category’ after losing the official entry status from India to "Rang De Basanti".
- Sane Choices (Times of India, NIRMALA SRINIVASAN, Oct 10, 2006)
Rena, a 22-year-old undergraduate diagnosed with schizophrenia, does not know that today is World Mental Health Day. She has been resisting medicines since the psychiatrist changed her prescription, saying that the new drug is not helping her.
- What Became Of The Simi I Knew? (Indian Express, Alok Sharma, Oct 10, 2006)
In the early eighties, as a young student in Uttar Pradesh, I had heard about SIMI. But it wasn’t until I joined AMU that I came across some of its members: solemn, bearded boys who would tell you to salaam a senior when he passed by.
- Farewell To Arms (Times of India, Nandini Sundar, Oct 10, 2006)
When we first heard of Irom Sharmila in 2004, she had already been fasting for four years in protest against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).
- American Phelps Wins Economics Nobel (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2006)
American Edmund S. Phelps won the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences today for his analysis of short-run and long-run trade offs in macroeconomic policy.
- Hours Before Blasts, Electronics Graduate Called Wife He Had . . . (Indian Express, LEKHA AGARWAL, Oct 10, 2006)
His passion for theatre brought him to Mumbai 10 years ago. He was sure his two masters degrees in electronics and physics would get him a job anywhere.
- Pakistanis Mourn On Quake Anniversary (Reuters, Kamran Haider, Oct 09, 2006)
Pakistan united in mourning on Sunday in memory of about 73,000 people killed in an earthquake exactly a year ago, while survivors vented frustration over the pace of reconstruction.
- Young Women March To Reclaim Streets Of Fear (Reuters, Palash Kumar, Oct 09, 2006)
Late at night, a posse of young women walk down a dark city street wearing spaghetti-strap tops and body-hugging outfits, defying the stares of onlookers in a country where a woman is raped every 29 minutes.
- Scientific Know-How (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s call for India to boost its knowledge economy by encouraging ‘reverse brain drain’, or risk being left behind by emerging industrialised nations like China and South Korea, is timely.
- Nation Behind Victims Of Kashmir Quake: Patil (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
Visiting the Kashmir valley on the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake that flattened dozens of villages, Home Minister Shivraj Patil today assured the people of the State that the entire nation was backing the endeavour to help the . . .
- Japan Wreck: Eight Indians Still Missing (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
The body of 46-year-old Panvel sailor, William Thomas was found by the Japanese coast guard on Saturday, a day after the bulk carrier he was working on ran aground and broke apart in stormy weather outside Kashima port, 100 km from Tokyo.
- Savarkar ‘Fan’ Advani Says Gandhi Impressed Indians Most (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda were the two people born in 19th century who impressed Indians the most, senior BJP leader L K Advani today said.
- Dengue Fever Claims One Life In Bijapur? (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
In Bijapur hundreds of angry residents staged a rasta roko, when a man living in Asragalli on Jamma Masjid Road died on Sunday morning of suspected dengue fever.
- Resorting To Prostitution To Pay Fees (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
An increasing number of female students in the uk are resorting to prostitution or other jobs in the sex industry to pay rising university tuition fees, a study claimed on Sunday.
- Countryside To The Centre (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 09, 2006)
Seventy per cent of India lives in villages. But the banking sector is concentrated in cities. India’s growth can’t be sustained in the face of this imbalance.
- Get The ‘Zha’ Right (Deccan Herald, A N SURYANARAYANAN, Oct 09, 2006)
Most Tamil or Malayalam names will be tongue twisters for newsreaders.
- All Play And No Work (Telegraph, NEHA SAHAY, Oct 09, 2006)
The new academic year has barely started when it is holiday time again. Schooling for foreigners in China is fun in more ways than one, specially for Indian kids.
- The West And The Making Of Mkg (OutLook, SANDEEP PANDEY, Oct 09, 2006)
Allusions to Christ clinch it. This tribute to Gandhi shies from tracing the Indian source of his ideas.
- To Run A Mammothon (OutLook, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
Keeps you turning the pages rapidly, chuckling all the while, painlessly teaching you a great deal about Indian elephants and their increasingly troubled lives.
- Roll Over Feminazis (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 09, 2006)
A survey reports that young British women are not as ambitious about their careers as they are about marriage and motherhood, says Mary Kenny.
- No Differences Within Upa Over Obc Quota: Moily (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
There were no differences within the ruling UPA on reservation for OBCs in premier central government educational institutions and the report of the Oversight Committee on reservations would be implemented in three years, Committee Chairman . . .
- 'We're Not Anti-Elections, We're Against Politicians' (OutLook, Anuradha Raman, Oct 09, 2006)
The recommendations by the former CEC panel on keeping politicians off campuses once again leave the politicos in a tizzy.
- Post-Flood Spiral (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 09, 2006)
Administration attempts too little, too late
The West Bengal government has had the good sense to realise that attributing the current price rise to an aberration of the festival season would be difficult to digest.
- Four Things Sebi Needs To Do To Save Small Investors (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Oct 09, 2006)
At the inauguration of the new Sebi Bhavan last Friday, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said that the periodic scams and sharp volatility in the capital market scares a lot of ordinary people and makes them distrustful about investment.
- After The Sahibs (Telegraph, S.L. Rao, Oct 09, 2006)
It is strange how the tide has turned for Indian managers in the last seventy years. In the Thirties, British nationals preferred life in lively Britain to nationalistic India.
- Patil Assures All Help To Quake Hit (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
The Centre has assured the Jammu and Kashmir government of all assistance for reconstruction of the quake-affected areas on modern lines and providing necessary succour to the sufferers.
- India, Eu Set To Sign Galileo Pact At Helsinki (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Oct 09, 2006)
India and the European Union are set to sign the Galileo communication project agreement at the Seventh India-EU Summit in Helsinki (Finland) on October 13.
- Hu Jintao For “Harmonious Society” (Tribune, MARK MAGNIER, Oct 09, 2006)
Beijing – In advance of a key Communist Party meeting this weekend, Chinese President Hu Jintao is working to burnish the party’s image of harmony, even if it’s taken some bloodletting to drive the point home.
- Ignorant And Insensitive (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 09, 2006)
AN 11-year-old boy was seen as a threat to other passengers and not allowed to board a flight from Bangalore to Chennai.
- President Pledges To Rebuild Quake-Hit Areas (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf on Sunday reiterated his firm resolve and commitment to reconstruct quake ravaged areas on modern lines and announced housing and agricultural loans written off for the quake-affected people.
- Arjun's Authors (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 09, 2006)
This past week, the Government of India sponsored a trip for its chosen writers to the Frankfurt Book Fair, where India was the theme country.
- Periyar University To Set Up Digital Library (News International, S. RAMESH, Oct 09, 2006)
MoU signed for getting the UGC-Infonet connectivity
- Aurakzai Violence (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 09, 2006)
The sectarian violence which has been raging for more than five days in the Kalaya town of Aurakzai agency is regrettable and shows the level of intolerance and extremism rampant in parts of Pakistani society.
- Pakistan Remembers Quake Dead (Tribune, K.J.M. Varma, Oct 09, 2006)
Pakistan today paid homage to some 73,300 people killed on this day last year in a 7.6-magnitude earthquake that destroyed much of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) and parts of North West Frontier Province, as thousands of survivors faced prospects . . .
- Manmohan To Relive Memories (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s three-day visit to the UK from Monday for bilateral talks will also take him down memory lane nearly 50 years after he attained a first class in economics from Cambridge University (St John’s College) in 1957.
- Young Army Officer Killed In Kashmir (Hindu, K. Manikandan, Oct 09, 2006)
An Army officer from Pammal near Tambaram, who passed out of the Officers Training Academy here in March, was killed in an encounter with militants near the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday.
- Gandhi Vs Gandhi (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Oct 09, 2006)
Both are poignant Prince Charmings of sorts, their lives laced with early tragedy and redolent with future promise, sharing the most famous surname — and a legacy to match — in the politics of this country.
- Poll Panel Pulls Up U.P. Chief Secretary (Hindu, Atiq Khan, Oct 09, 2006)
DMs told to take orders only from State EC
CS's order amounts to bypassing the authority of panel
Election Commission mum on Mulayam's "Roza Iftar" party.
- State Of Change (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 09, 2006)
Something has definitely changed in Indian politics if an election-bound chief minister in a state notorious for spreading electoral largesse can sell state corporations and persuade state employees to take VRS — and no one in scandalised.
- One Year On, Much Needs To Be Done (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 08, 2006)
A year has gone by since this country experienced its worst ever natural or man-made disaster, when in a matter of minutes over 86,000 people -- many of them children -- lost their lives, hundreds thousands more lost their limbs and millions lost . . .
- Shaken And Waiting For Someone To Stir (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 08, 2006)
It's stocktaking time; one year on from the earthquake that devastated the north of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir. Time to look at and evaluate what has or has not, depending on which side you stand, been done.
- Capital Suggestion (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 08, 2006)
Al Azhar Mosque was founded on the 14th day of Ramadan the year 359 H or 971 AD (after the name of Sayeda Fatima Al-Zahra). In 975 AD, Chief Justice Abdul Hasan Al-No'man of the Fatimid Caliphate gave his first lecture on Shiite . . .
- Trust But Verify (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Oct 08, 2006)
Those who believe in making the naughtiest boy the class monitor forget that to make it work, you need a headmaster who is sincerely interested in maintaining order.
- Guerrilla Warfare (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 08, 2006)
The Army Chief General J J Singh has deputed Brigadier B K Ponwal, who was the Chief Instructor at the Jungle Warfare School (CIJWS) of the Army in Mizoram to the Jungle Terrorism and Jungle Warfare College at Kanker in Chhattisgarh.
- A Whiter Shade Of Brown (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 08, 2006)
Here's a particularly interesting paradox. Nearly sixty years after Partition, some Pakistanis continue to exhibit a disproportionate negativity towards India. '37, '47, '65, '71 and 2002 are consistently rounded off to 666, the mark of the devil.
- Upa Govt Has Given New Meaning To Development In J&k: Azad (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2006)
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has said that coalition Government with the help of UPA Government at the Centre and by the keen interest of Chairperson Sonia Gandhi has given a new meaning to the development processes in Jammu and Kashmir.
- Child Abuse (Daily Excelsior, Sweta Patwardhan, Oct 08, 2006)
The government has banned the child labour without any impact. The Child labour Act only bans child labour in specific industries and has actually helped put more children to work rather than get them out of it.
- We Helped J&k Insurgency: Pak (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2006)
Pakistan has admitted that it might have helped insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir at “some time” but claimed it is now “trying our best” to prevent infiltration of militants into India.
- Victims Of A Trust Deficit (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 08, 2006)
The J.M. Lyngdoh Committee on electoral reforms shows complete lack of comprehension about the philosophical postulates that underly the system of democratic elections in India’s colleges and universities.
- Mid-Term Report Card: Average (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 08, 2006)
The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), the flagship programme of the UPA government — launched in partnership with the state governments — is expected to be instrumental in attaining the goal of Universal Elementary Education (UEE) in the country.
- We Keep Experimenting With New Ideas (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 08, 2006)
A mini revolution is going on in Doon School in music and art. Our students excel not only in studies, but also various other activities” Kanti Bajpayee, Headmaster, Doon School
- Child Labour Of A Different Kind? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2006)
Recently, I joined my friend for dinner, and saw him reprimanding his son, studying in Plus Two, for scoring only 99 out of 100 in his internal examination.
- Rx In Gujarat, Get Well In Tourist Hubs (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2006)
For all the grand plans of the state government it's going to be medical tourism without the latter in Gujarat. While the 'medical' part will be taken care of by hospitals in the state, for the 'tourism' part, foreigners and NRIs will be sent to . . .
- The Healing Touch Of Rahat Ghar (Hindu, Usha Rai, Oct 08, 2006)
For those caught in the crossfire between the Army and the militants, Rahat Ghar in Srinagar offers the promise of a new start in life.
- To Dream, To Think, To Go On (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2006)
Defeat is never easy to digest, in any endeavour in life — all the more so when the loss is both personal and, in a sense, national...
- A Friend From The Past (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2006)
It can be disarming and pleasantly surprising meeting old friends after a gap of fifty years.
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