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Articles 1821 through 1920 of 22438:
- Infrastructure: Rural And Urban (Business Standard, Shyam Ponappa, Oct 05, 2006)
Let’s begin with Integrated Area Planning.
- Dengue In Pm’S House (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 05, 2006)
The dreaded dengue virus has not spared even the Prime Minister’s residence with two of his grandsons and his son-in-law admitted at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences here, suspectedly for dengue.
- Us, China, India Flex Muscle Over Energy-Critical Sea Lanes (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Beijing is concerned over its gradually weakening position in the Indian Ocean as New Delhi develops new generations of weapons systems with US support
- Indian Writing As Rich As Europe’S, Says Vikram Seth (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Oct 05, 2006)
Vikram Seth doesn’t care to listen to critics who accuse him of selling out for writing in English despite being one of India’s most celebrated living authors and an unofficial ambassador for Indian literature.
- Cabinet Satisfied Over Stability In Prices (Pakistan Observer, Sharafat Kazmi, Oct 05, 2006)
Federal Cabinet Wednesday noted with satisfaction that the government was vigilantly monitoring the prices in the market and the essential commodities were being sold at the controlled prices, said Minister for Information and Broadcasting Muhammad . . .
- Shooting Itself In The Foot: K'taka Can Do Without Such Bandhs (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 05, 2006)
Will Bangalore be Bangalored? As normal life in India’s Silicon Valley came to a standstill on Wednesday, courtesy the bandh call by pro-Kannada outfits protesting the ‘Centre’s step-motherly attitude’, that’s a question the government and civil . . .
- With Prayer On His Lips, Nanak Fought Nation's Enemies (Pioneer, Neeraj Chauhan, Oct 05, 2006)
Of the 10 siblings born to his mother, Nanak Chand was the only one who survived. But his life too was cut short on December 13, 2001.
- Hinglish Gets Going (Pioneer, RADHAKRISHNA RAO, Oct 05, 2006)
Polyglot India has always been an innovator in enriching languages in a style that is both inimitable and distinct.
- Wallow In The Mire (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 05, 2006)
The net result of lotto learning
For once, the bluff has been called from within. And if this leads to a churning within the party and government, so be it in the interest of primary education.
- Women’S Bill In Winter Session (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
The women’s reservation bill is all set to be introduced in its original form in the upcoming Winter Session of Parliament. The government and the Left came to a consensus on the issue at the UPA-Left Coordination Committee meeting on Wednesday night.
- Karnataka Bandh Total, Peaceful (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Pro-Kannada organisations take out processions; schools, colleges closed
- Bjp Bangalored (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Bangalore, the acknowledged global capital of outsourcing, has been singularly unfortunate in its political masters.
- Who Owns The Police Reform Agenda? (Indian Express, Jagdeep S. Chhokar, Oct 05, 2006)
A galaxy of prominent retired police officers have shared their views on the recent Supreme Court judgment on police reforms in these columns. K.P.S.
- Indian Writing In English (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 05, 2006)
In the first few years after Independence, most Indian probably thought it right that English should be largely removed from the face of the country, and believed that this would happen within a decade or two.
- Enforcing Ban On ‘Gutka’ (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 05, 2006)
Wednesday's decision by the Sindh government to ban the production and sale of ‘gutka’ is likely to be met with scepticism.
- Pm’S Grandsons Hit By Dengue (Tribune, Tripti Nath, Oct 05, 2006)
The dengue-causing Aedes Egypti mosquito has landed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s son-in-law and grandsons at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
- Vendetta Politics Is Harming Punjab (Tribune, Sarbjit Dhaliwal, Oct 05, 2006)
Of late, feudal instincts have started dominating Punjab politics which had remained almost free from the “eye for an eye” political culture, witnessed in other states such as Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and even neighbouring Haryana, till the late 90s.
- 4 Cops, Civilian Killed In Srinagar Fidayeen (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Four J&K Police personnel and at least one civilian got killed when militants launched a suicide attack near a paramilitary encampment in the business hub of Budshah Chowk in the heart of this capital city today.
- Dengue Stings 3 Members Of Prime Minister's Family (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Dengue has hit Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's family. On Wednesday, his son-in-law Vijay Tankha and grandsons Rohan and Madhav tested positive for the disease at AIIMS. Tankha is the husband of Singh’s eldest daughter Upender.
- Shadow Of Dengue On Pm Family (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Two grandsons of the Prime Minister have been admitted to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences with suspected dengue.
- Europe In Search Of A New Enlightenment (Tribune, Paul Valley, Oct 05, 2006)
In an age scarred by flashpoints between cultures and religions, it is easy to make accusations of prejudice or bigotry.
- Stanford Professor Wins Nobel Chemistry Prize (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Nearly a half-century after his father was awarded a Nobel Prize, a Stanford University professor won his own on Wednesday for groundbreaking research into how cells read their genes, fundamental work that could help lead to new therapies.
- Fissures In The Society (Telegraph, Ardhendu Chatterjee, Oct 05, 2006)
The offer of help from the Union human resource development minister, Arjun Singh, to Balaram Tudu, a scheduled tribe candidate from Orissa, with his admission to the ‘preparatory course’ for 2006-07 at the Indian . . .
- Service Innovations (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 05, 2006)
E-Seva is the name of a massive e-governance project of the Andhra Pradesh Government.
- Cross-Border Terror — The Uncomfortable Questions (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 05, 2006)
One has little hope that Pakistan will carry out a sincere investigation after obtaining the evidence. But more worrying is that plots hatched across the border involve Indian accomplices.
- Modes Of Devotion (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Devotion to God takes on several modes according to the predilection of the devotee and Prahlada, whom the scriptures laud as a devotee even before he was born, described them when his father Hiranyakasipu asked him what he had learnt at school.
- State Stands Still For Belgaum (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
The State-wide bundh called by pro-Kannada organisations against the Centre’s stand on the boundary dispute between Karnataka and Maharashtra on Wednesday, was total and incident-free in Bangalore City.
- Indian Team ‘Narrowly Missed’ Nobel (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
An Indian researcher at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad believes that he and members of his former group “narrowly missed” this year’s Nobel Prize for medicine...
- Lost Childhood (Deccan Herald, Sharada Prahladrao , Oct 05, 2006)
Children grow up faster and the elders wonder how quickly time flies.
- A Year Later, These Women Soldier On (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Oct 05, 2006)
Many women in Sultan Daki village of Uri district in Jammu and Kashmir were devastated by the October 2005 earthquake. They lost their homes. They lost their husbands.
- Demand To Commute Afzal's Sentence (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Arundhati Roy says Parliament attack case is full of fabricated stories and evidence
Execution will widen the rift between communities: Medha
No direct evidence to link him to the incident: Yasin Malik.
- As Delhi Toll Climbs To 14, Three From Pm’S Family Admitted With Dengue Symptoms (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
As the dengue death count in Delhi touched 14 with three more persons succumbing in the last 24 hours, the scare even gripped the Prime Minister’s family with two of his grandchildren and a son-in-law being admitted to the All India Institute of . . .
- Growing Up (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 05, 2006)
There is an increasing tendency to focus on the knowledge that a child has, which has been passed on from generation to generation. This has led to a lack of self-discovery which should form part of childhood and growing up.
- In Medicine Where Does Luck Fit In? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 05, 2006)
The likeliest reason that luck — good or bad — is so often disregarded is that at first glance, it appears contrary to the scientific basis of medicine.
- On The Horns Of A Dilemma (Deccan Herald, Deepak K Upreti, Oct 05, 2006)
Having to ‘judge’ the cases involving those who allegedly snuffed out many innocent lives and committed gruesome rapes, including those of minors, the President is faced with a very difficult choice.
- Will A Cap On Auditors' Liability Encourage Complacency? (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 05, 2006)
A press release of great relevance to accounting professionals is on http://europa.eu.int, the site of the European Commission (EC). `Auditors' liability: Commission publishes independent study on economic impact of current rules,' reads the title . .
- Insight Likely Into Defeating Cancer (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Benefits have taken root, says scientist
- A Milestone In Unravelling Transcription Process (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Many illnesses — such as cancer, heart disease, and inflammation — are linked to disturbances in the transcription process.
- Tragedy Of Women (Hindu, Prema Nandakumar , Oct 03, 2006)
Aconversation-gripped novel that seeks to give a complete view of Islamic existence in contemporary Tamil Nadu, Irandaam Jaamangalin Kathai has chipped a crevice to allow some fresh breeze into a psychological cellar.
- India, South Africa Vow To Push For U.N. Reform (Reuters, Paul Simao, Oct 03, 2006)
The leaders of South Africa and India renewed their commitment on Monday to push for expansion of the United Nations Security Council to include more developing nations from Africa, Asia and Latin America.
- Gandhigiri Is The Rage Now But For How Long? (Deccan Herald, Janaki Murali, Oct 03, 2006)
There’s a fervour across the country in the wake of the film ‘Munnabhai...’ And the findings: It’s not Gandhiism or Gandhivaad but Gandhigiri.
- Pak Hand In Mumbai Blasts Vindicates Maha Govt Stand (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
With investigations into the Mumbai serial train blasts pointing towards a Pakistani hand, the Maharashtra Government's view that the recent terror trend was part of Islamabad-sponsored jehadi terrorism stands vindicated.
- American Duo Shares Medicine Nobel (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Americans Mr Andrew Z Fire and Mr Craig C Mello won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine today for discovering a method of turning off selected genes, an important research tool that scientists hope will lead to new treatments for HIV, cancer . . .
- Mufti Heads Non-Official Team To Unga (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Oct 03, 2006)
Former J&K CM Mufti Mohammed Sayeed will lead the non-official delegation from India to the UN General Assembly this year. The delegation includes Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who is already in the US.
- The Bane Of Indian Society (Hindu, S. Viswanathan, Oct 03, 2006)
Noted social historian Dilip M. Menon endorses in his introduction a pertinent question often raised by many India watchers and also echoed by Dalit activists: how is it that caste-related violence . . .
- Print Pick (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
The first thing I did with Sacred Games was cut it in two, so that I could carry one half of its 900 - page hardboundedness with me to read on the ride to and from work, or lying in bed, or leaning against a wall.
- Don't Be Cruel (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 03, 2006)
Land acquisition for industrial estates has given rise to farmers' protests, bringing into focus issues of land compensation and resettlement.
- Two Us Scientists Win Nobel For Work On ‘Silencing’ Gene (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Americans Andrew Fire and Craig Mello won the 2006 Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for their groundbreaking discovery of how to “silence” genes, which has opened up potential new paths to treating disease.
- Attacks On Religion: A One-Sided Affair (Dawn, Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Oct 03, 2006)
Muslims and European Christians have interacted now for more than 1,400 years in both war and peace, and it goes without saying that both sides have committed what we today call war crimes.
- Citizenship Classes (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 03, 2006)
IT’S always salutary to ponder what fragments of all the myriad information so painfully acquired at school are actually going to be useful afterwards.
- No Sarkari Education ! (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Oct 03, 2006)
Some leading educationists believe that the role of government in the field of education should be minimal.
- Leopard In Rajouri (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 03, 2006)
Very rightly the official website of Rajouri district seeks the creation of wildlife parks and preserves. It does well to discuss in detail the presence of rare birds and animals in the district.
- Nation Pays Tributes To Gandhiji, Shastri (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
President A P J Abdul Kalam, Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi led the nation in paying respects to Mahatma Gandhi on his 137th birth anniversary and former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on his 102nd . . . .
- After 88 Years, Frost's Poem Found By Student (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
A poem by one of America's best-loved poets, Robert Frost, has been discovered 88 years after it was handwritten in the front of a book and will be published next week.
- We All Have Our Individual Grief Briefs (The Economic Times, MUKUL SHARMA, Oct 03, 2006)
I simply can’t bring myself up to grieve for people who’ve died.
- 'Sick Of War, Young Americans Are Drawn To Gandhi (OutLook, Ashish Kumar Sen, Oct 03, 2006)
Democrat Congressman from Georgia, USA, on the Civil Rights Movement and the need to use non-violence as a tool of foreign policy and fighting terror
- Isi Mark (OutLook, B. Raman , Oct 03, 2006)
The Mumbai Police naturally did not share with the media the details of the evidence regarding the ISI involvement collected by them.
- Socialist Mona Lisa (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 03, 2006)
Segolene Royal sometimes breaks into a "Mona Lisa" smile: Enigmatic, lips curved slightly.
- Creative Accounting (Times of India, KAMALA BALACHANDRAN, Oct 03, 2006)
On being told of the starting salary of my niece, my octogenarian mother regressed to the tough old days and told me yet again what father's first and last salaries were.
- Q&a: 'Bombard The Government With Rti Queries' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 03, 2006)
For the last three years, Shailesh Gandhi, 59, has been spreading awareness about Right to Information (RTI) Act across Maharashtra.
- 2 Americans Share Nobel In Medicine (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Americans Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work in controlling the flow of genetic information.
- Medical Seats In For Quantum Jump In A.P. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
With three new colleges coming up, 450 seats are added
The total number of seats in the State now will be 4,700 in 14 Government medical colleges
The total number of engineering seats to go up to 99,000 with addition of two JNTU colleges
- South Africa Backs India (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Oct 03, 2006)
South Africa declared today that once the US Congress cleared the Indo-US nuclear accord and it reached the nuclear suppliers’ group, it would fully support India’s case.
- An `Alternative History' (Hindu, C. T. Kurien, Oct 03, 2006)
A fervent plea to freedom-loving people to reject the logic of armed, competitive capitalism
- Kashmir Boils Over Death To Afzal (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Protests over a Delhi court order to hang till death Mohammad Afzal Guru in Tihar Jail on October 20 continued in many parts of Kashmir today. However, the protests were by and large peaceful.
- Gujarat Madrasas: An Education In Terror? (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Oct 03, 2006)
Investigations into a Lashkar-e-Taiba cell in Gujarat cast new light on the Islamist networks that carried out the Mumbai serial bombings — and raise hard questions about the State's madrasas.
- Mosquito Control, Vietnamese Style (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Oct 03, 2006)
A community-based approach using biological control, rather than insecticides, can be effective against the mosquito that spreads the virus causing chikungunya.
- British Conservatives Bury Thatcherism (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Oct 03, 2006)
In a symbolic break with its traditional Right-wing agenda, the Conservative Party has decided to bury Thatcherism and move to the Centre ground of British politics as it steps up its campaign to return to power.
- Old Order (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 03, 2006)
The Congress party’s plan to groom its young ones is a fine idea. Imagine a small army of national Youth Congress office-bearers shadowing party seniors while they go about their work as Union ministers.
- Breakdown Of Peace Process In Assam (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Unlike the Naga peace talks and the related ceasefire for more than a decade, the apparent lack of confidence and resultant absence of mutual trust between the Centre and the ULFA presumably led to the premature collapse of the peace process in . . .
- Another Tiger In The Cross-Hairs (Indian Express, Amar Farooqui, Oct 03, 2006)
Not much ingenuity is required to grasp the divisive political agenda that prompted D H Shankaramurthy, Karnataka Minister for Higher (!) Education, to declare recently that all references to Tipu Sultan should be deleted from school textbooks . . .
- The Best Medicine, Minus The Humour (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 03, 2006)
Humour as inspiration for laughter may not always be necessary.
- Lives In Search Of Lost Worlds (Hindu, Suchitra Behal, Oct 03, 2006)
The Inheritance of Loss is written with joy, compassion and a rare candour.
- Stories Of Grit And Gumption (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
The book highlights individuals, often ignored in studies of the violence in Assam.
- Katha As Drama (Hindu, Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta, Oct 03, 2006)
Sharman's "Ramayana" goes to the heart of the epic to recover great questions of contemporary relevance.
- Afterlife Of Sherlock Holmes (Hindu, MEENAKSHI MUKHERJEE, Oct 03, 2006)
Both the books are playful and ingenuous pastiches, recreating familiar voices from the past.
- ``Spiritual Bliss'' At Phoenix Settlement (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 03, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh experienced on Sunday ``a rare spiritual moment'' at the ``sacred site'' of the Phoenix Settlement, set up by Mahatma Gandhi in 1904 on the outskirts of Durban.
- Stress On ‘Happiness’ Index (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Thailand’s military rulers unveiled a stopgap prime minister and constitution today, fulfilling a promise to step back in favour of civilians within two weeks of their coup against Thaksin Shinawatra.
- Letting The Light In (Hindu, S. JAGADISAN , Oct 03, 2006)
V.P. Ranga Rao, novelist and scholar, talks about the nature of R.K. Narayan's artistic vision.
- Kofi Annan’S Successor Soon (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Oct 03, 2006)
A final straw poll will be held at the United Nations in New York on Monday to determine a likely successor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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