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Articles 3021 through 3120 of 22438:
- Seeking Saviours (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 09, 2006)
I wonder what Mr Chandrababu Naidu is doing these days. He looms in my thoughts every time I wade across slushy cratered roads on my long trudge to the Internet centre, if you could call it that.
- Cultural Complexes Being Built In Three Districts (Hindu, K.N. Venkatasubba Rao , Sep 09, 2006)
Another one proposed to be set up at Bangalore Kalagrama
Kannada Bhavans to be built in border districts
Rural theatres to come up in eight districts.
- Malegaon: The Road To Perdition (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Sep 09, 2006)
Islamist violence has scarred much of India, but the Malegaon bombings were preceded by a series of Hindutva terrorist attacks on mosques.
- Mithi Calls For Joint Campaign For Eye Donation Awareness (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
"Superstitions hampering donation should be removed through sustained campaign"
- A Foreign Trip And Some Lessons In Cultural Pluralism (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
A group of 15 students and two teachers from Delhi Public School R. K. Puram have returned from Korea after participating in a weeklong cultural exchange programme with Anyang Foreign Language High School there.
- Bank Loans Made Easy For Poor Students (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
Government scheme to cover students pursuing professional courses
10.5 to 11.5 per cent interest to be charged on loans
Banks will be asked to waive third party guarantee
Loans up to Rs. one lakh will be granted.
- Seeking Joint Responses To Global Challenges (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 09, 2006)
Asia and Europe look to the future on ASEM's tenth anniversary.
- One Fine September Day (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 09, 2006)
There’s more to 9/11 than the collapse of the Twin Towers and the beginning of the ‘war against terror.’ Here’s a list of all that has happened on this day.
- Risky Lives (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 09, 2006)
Fifty-four miners losing their lives in the bowels of the earth — how should we respond? Feeling sorry about their safety conditions and then forgetting about them simply won't do.
- Urbane Police (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 09, 2006)
There is merit indeed in the proposal of the expert group preparing a new Police Act to develop a special cadre of City Police Officers, and possibly re-designate the constable as such.
- Cong Hits Back On Song Issue (Statesman, Shahid Pervez, Sep 09, 2006)
Stung by the BJP’s bid to give a fillip to the Vande Mataram controversy over Mrs Sonia Gandhi’s absence from a party function organised for group recitation of the national song yesterday, the Congress today mounted a blistering counter-attack . . .
- Task Force Set Up For Community-Based Disaster Management Teams (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
Will integrate NGOs, networks for co-ordinated action in the state
- Proposal For Scholarship Scheme For Merit Seats (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
Cabinet sub-committee to study recommendations of Mohammed panel
- Patriot Act (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 09, 2006)
The BJP is trying its best to gain political mileage from Sonia Gandhi's absence at a Congress function celebrating the centenary — for which there is no firm historical evidence — of Vande Mataram .
- History Of Decolonization (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Sep 09, 2006)
History has an uncanny knack of repeating itself. For the sake of the Pakistani people I hope, though, that this will not be so this time over. Given the high-handedness of Gen.
- Jammu’S Aiims Project Falls (Daily Excelsior, Sanjeev Pargal, Sep 09, 2006)
The prestigious project of setting up a new hospital at Narwal, named as Jammu’s All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), has been rejected by the Union Health Ministry. The upgradation of Government Medical College (GMC), Jammu will now take . . .
- Vande Mataram Anniversary Observed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
Students and staff of the Centre for Pollution Control and Energy Technology at Pondicherry University sung the Vande Mataram on Thursday to mark the anniversary of the National Song.
- Scientists Return To Their Roots (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
In the Sixties and Seventies, they left India on scholarships to go to the US. Today they head leading-edge science at the world's top institutes - and have no plans of returning home.
- A Vegetative Patient Baffles Docs (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
A 23-year-old woman, who had been in a vegetative state ever since she suffered devastating brain damage in a traffic accident, has stunned doctors by performing mental tasks for them.
- The Ujjain Shocker (Indian Express, G.P. Joshi, Sep 09, 2006)
Few incidents have exposed the partisan role of the police more eloquently than the attack on college teachers in Ujjain, which resulted in the death of Professor H.S. Sabharwal.
- Waziristan Remains A Simmering Embarrassment (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Sep 09, 2006)
While the government has international support for its military operations in Waziristan, opinion abroad differs over whether these forays against Al Qaeda have been terribly effective.
- India-Pakistan Peace Process On ‘Life Support’, Needs Revival (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Sep 09, 2006)
The India-Pakistan peace process, which has been on “life support” for some time, needs to be revived, three leading South Asia experts suggested here on Friday.
- Torrential Rains Wreak Havoc On Sindh (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
At least ten people lost their lives as swirling floodwaters inundated several cities and towns in Sindh amid driving rain, causing the civil administration to swiftly deploy military helicopters and boats to help thousands of marooned people.
- Wrong Focus (Business Standard, T N Ninan, Sep 09, 2006)
Someone said the other day that India is becoming pro-business, instead of pro-markets.
- Earth-Like Planets May Be Common (Indian Express, Reuters, Sep 09, 2006)
Earth-like planets covered with oceans that could harbour life may be found in as many as a third of solar systems discovered outside of our own, US researchers said on Thursday.
- Curriculum With Emphasis On S&t (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 09, 2006)
Federal Minister for Education Javed Ashraf Qazi has said that the revised educational curriculum with emphasis on science and technology related contents would be notified within weeks.
- Rain Emergency In Hyderabad (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 09, 2006)
All kind of train service between Hyderabad and Karachi has been suspended due to damage to rail track at the site of washed away bridge at Ranpathani .
- Advani Raps Cong Chief, Pm (Pioneer, Rajeev Ranjan Roy, Sep 09, 2006)
In a scathing attack on Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for skipping the Congress function for singing of Vande Matram, Opposition leader in the Lok Sabha LK on Friday said that "Those who cannot with conviction . . .
- From `Absolute Advantage' To `Yunus, Muhammad' (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 09, 2006)
The pillars of globalisation include `the free cross-border movements of goods and services, foreign direct investment, financial capital, labour and technology.' At a broader level, globalisation `also embraces international flows of ideas, . . .
- Vande Mataram (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 09, 2006)
September 7 has passed with some people singing Vande Mataram and a vast majority without singing it.
- Where Doctors And Patients Are Missing (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 09, 2006)
THE first thing that strikes you about Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital, Faridkot, is how huge the building is. A big edifice, and along with it, another half-finished OPD block.
- Posters Make A Mockery Of Poll (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
The country’s largest university went to the polls today in the middle of a nation-wide debate on the need for student elections.
- In China, Living With Maoist Horror (Tribune, John Pomfret, Sep 09, 2006)
Forty years ago this past August, the first killings were carried out to launch the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China. Two educators in Nanjing and a high school principal in Beijing were the first victims of the Red Guards, the shock . . .
- Cong Divided Over Sonia Skipping Vande (Times of India, Rajeev Deshpande, Sep 09, 2006)
Opinion in Congress over Sonia Gandhi's decision to skip Vande Mataram function at the party headquarters on Thursday is divided with some party leaders arguing that her conspicuous absence may fan the row over the national song as the spotlight . . .
- Self-Harm: Life — You’Re Worth It (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 09, 2006)
Over the last two and a half decades, the number of cases of self-harm (suicides) in Karnataka has been steadily rising year on year.
- Regulate Foreign Providers (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 09, 2006)
The commerce ministry’s proposal to circulate a discussion paper on liberalising higher education and changing domestic regulations to attract FDI in the sector is welcome. Tertiary education should certainly be envisaged as a legitimate . . .
- Hyderabad Boy Makes It To Guinness (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
The wonder kid has finally done it. Eleven-year-old Nishchal Narayanam has got an entry into the Guinness Book of World Records in the `Most Random Objects Memorised' category.
- Software To Control Weeds Launched (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
53 different weed species have been incorporated
- Muslims Join Mass Recitation In Gujarat (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
Many minority institutions voluntarily organise group singing
- Mcd Sealing Drive Gains Momentum (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
Targets about 450 illegal establishments
- Air India Relaxes Security Measures (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
Air India has relaxed the security measures that had angered passengers from Bahrain.
- `Assess Impact Of Change In Pluto Status' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
Rajasthan Governor Pratibha Patil has urged Indian scholars to study and assess the possible impact of recent changes in the status of Pluto as a planet on the astrological calculations.
- 'The Anti-Quota Attitude Is Over' (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Sep 08, 2006)
Veerappa Moily, a veteran Congress leader from Karnataka, became chief minister of the state briefly during 1992-94 and was credited with cleaning up the administration.
- Hindus, Muslims Avoid Conflict Over 'Vande Mataram' (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Sep 08, 2006)
Millions of Indians, including many minority Muslims, sang the country's national song on the centenary of its adoption on Thursday, averting a showdown between Hindu and Muslim groups over the controversial event.
- Spellcheck! (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 08, 2006)
Prof. Henry Higgins never got a definitive answer to his query “why can’t the English teach their children how to speak” and it is clear his concerns went beyond being called “Enery”.
- Risks Of Online Genetic Testing (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 08, 2006)
Since the human genome went public, a raft of websites has offered to analyse our DNA -- for a price. But at what cost to our health?
- Vande Mataram Not Sung At Many Places (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
Vande Mataram was not sung in many madrasas, schools, colleges and government offices here today owing religious reasons and lack of communication.
“Islamic laws do not allow any person to praise any person or thing other than God.
- Vande Mataram Electrifies India (Pioneer, Navneet Anand, Sep 08, 2006)
The national song is nation's pride. Vande Mataram is a symbol of a vibrant India, an icon that binds the past with the present and the glorious future.
- What The Heart Does Not Feel, The Eye Cannot See (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Sep 08, 2006)
After 15 years of a battering from hostile policies and governments, the world of the peasant has turned highly fragile. But the onus of changing is on the farmer. Not on those driving a cruel process and system.
- Most Sang Out, Few Abstained (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
Nearly a century back, Rabindranath Tagore in an ode to Vande Mataram wrote, "It was the silken thread which had woven the nation.
- Foreign Aid Or Economic Freedom? (The Financial Express, Parth J Shah, Sep 08, 2006)
FDI and remittances have the potential to offset aid as important engines of growth in South Asia
- Vande Mataram (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 08, 2006)
A hundred years ago when the Congress adopted Vande Mataram as the National Song at its Varanasi session on September 7, 1905, the stalwarts of India's freedom struggle could not have envisaged the possibility of Bankim Chandra . . .
- Sins Of The Father (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 08, 2006)
t is impossible not to sympathise with Mr Veerappa Moily, the chairman of the Oversight Committee on Reservations and former Chief Minister of Karnataka, as he battles the street-level threats and plain bullying of . . .
- Brisk Business Is Risk Business (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 08, 2006)
Apropos the editorial, "Special for whom?" (September 6), there is a debate going on whether Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are means of creating world-class exporting areas or they are mere tools to grab the land from poor farmers to help big . . .
- Collective Guardianship (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Sep 08, 2006)
The murder of Prof Sabharwal in a college campus should make us think about the role of politics in educational institutions
- Bridge The Digital Divide (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 08, 2006)
Development agencies, the United Nations, poor countries and now the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are clamouring for the wonders of information and communication technology (ICT) to cure the ills of the developing world: Rich people have . . .
- Unsung Hero In A Time Warp (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 08, 2006)
At a time when the nation is going to celebrate the 150th anniversary of First War of Independence of 1857 next year, it is propitious to remember the sacrifices of martyrs of the freedom struggle. Jatindranath Mukherjee, popularly known as Bagha . . .
- Life After Fidel (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 08, 2006)
Fidel castro's succession may be easier to agree than Tony Blair’s, but there is plenty of chatter in Havana and beyond about what will happen when the iconic Cuban leader is no longer in charge.
- He Taught In A College... (OutLook, NAGENDAR SHARMA, Sep 08, 2006)
I see that the world continues to move on as if nothing happened, people continue to lead their lives normally, despite the fact that an elderly college professor was murdered in broad daylight by goonda elements. Was the only fault of my father . . .
- Blair To Quit Within A Year (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Sep 08, 2006)
After days of speculation about his political future, British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday confirmed that he would quit within 12 months but refused to set a date saying he did not think it would be "right'' to do so at this stage.
- Constitution Is Supreme: Judicial Review Is A Basic Feature (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 08, 2006)
We welcome the Supreme Court’s decision to set up a nine-judge constitution bench to examine Parliament’s powers to enact laws and put them beyond the pale of judicial review by including them in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution.
- This Too Shall Pass (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 08, 2006)
Manish Adhikary's mind takes a curious ride on a number of important issues gripping the people when he is left idle by a midnight power cut
- Foreign Aid Or Economic Freedom? (Business Standard, Parth J Shah, Sep 08, 2006)
Aid leads to larger government while economic freedom eventually results in higher FDI and growth.
- Ict Application Role Of Cooperatives (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 08, 2006)
Can the cooperatives compete with the corporates in the market -driven economy? Information and Computer Technology (ICT) is one area where they can do so successfully.
- Caste Votes On Campus (Indian Express, NEHA SINHA, Sep 08, 2006)
The election to Delhi University’s Student Union, which takes place today, is as big as it gets.
- The Queen’S English In India (Tribune, Harish Dhillon, Sep 08, 2006)
I read a hilarious book, “Eats, Shoots and Leaves”, which deals with the corruption of the Queen’s English due to negligence in the use of punctuation. But the corruption in Newspaper English in India stems largely from a transference of usage . . .
- Development Takes A Backseat (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
A National Sample Survey Organisation study done for the Unicef paints a dismal picture of traditions hampering development in the country.
- Fighting The Fighters (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
The bombing of World Trade Center transformed the thinking about warfare among American security analysts in particular and Western theoreticians in general. Michael C. Fowler, a defence analyst of the Roger Williams University, portrays the . . .
- Racial Profiling An Offshoot Of Terrorism: Author (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
An unfortunate offshoot of terrorism was the emergence of ‘racial markers’ victimising innocent people and this trend stems from lack of comprehension about other races and cultures, says a noted author.
- Spirit Of Secularism: India Joins Vande Mataram Chorus (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
Children in schools across the country and employees in offices rose to sing Vande Mataram on Thursday morning under a directive from the Union HRD ministry. But the day didn’t pass without minor scuffles and boycotts providing discordant notes . . .
- Empower People For Education And Enterprise, Says Chidambaram (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
There is still discrimination, denial of opportunity on the basis of caste'
- Metrowater Board Fully An Official Body Now (Hindu, T. Ramakrishnan, Sep 08, 2006)
With Local Administration Minister M.K. Stalin, the only non-official representative on the Board of Directors of Chennai Metrowater, being replaced by the Secretary of the Municipal Administration and Water Supply (MAWS) department, the water . . .
- Us Debates Stance Towards Musharraf (Tribune, Selig S. Harrison, Sep 08, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is supposedly a key US ally in the “war on terror.”
- Vande Mataram Row Unfortunate: Vajpayee (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
Terming the controversy over the rendition of Vande Mataram as ‘‘unfortunate’’, former Prime Minister and senior BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee today said the national song was not aimed at idol worship and all Indians should sing it.
- Vande Mataram Row Unfortunate: Vajpayee (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
Terming the controversy over the rendition of Vande Mataram as ‘‘unfortunate’’, former Prime Minister and senior BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee today said the national song was not aimed at idol worship and all Indians should sing it.
- Study: Gene Dual Role In Ageing (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
Scientists delving into the mysteries of ageing have uncovered a key gene that could explain why tissues decline as the years pass.
- Liberals Like Us (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 08, 2006)
No summer has persuaded us to open our minds like this one. Kotha culture remixed by item girls, delivered groin-grind into our family rooms, has taught our men to draw that line between concert and consent.
- In China, Pc Does Judge's Job (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
Judges are not usually at risk of losing their jobs to modern technology but that may be changing in China, where new software is handing down sentences automatically.
- Sonia Skips Cong Function For Vande (Times of India, Himanshi Dhawan, Sep 08, 2006)
The Vande Mataram controversy got a new fillip with Congress president Sonia Gandhi skipping a party function on Thursday to celebrate the centenary of the national song.
- ‘India Must Be Nam Bridge Power’ (Indian Express, Jayanth Jacob, Sep 08, 2006)
Even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh prepares for the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Havana from September 11, the special committee on NAM on economic and social issues, headed by Arjun Sengupta, in its report to the Government has . . .
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