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Articles 4421 through 4520 of 22438:
- Cause To Celebrate? (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 14, 2006)
Yet another independence day is before us. In the days leading to this August 14 there has been the usual welling up of patriotic fervour.
- Canara Bank To Set Up Call Centre At Bangalore (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2006)
Canara Bank will soon set up a call centre at Bangalore to facilitate customers of its 1,000 branches across the country. The call centre will have a toll-free number.
- Seductive Alchemy (Hindu, RAKHSHANDA JALIL, Aug 13, 2006)
East and West, past and present, old and new: opposites seem to co-exist harmoniously in Istanbul.
- A Certain Amount Of Light (Dawn, Feryal Ali Gauhar, Aug 13, 2006)
Fidel Castro Ruz, along with an armed group of 123 men and women, attacked the Moncada army barracks in Santiago de Cuba in Guatanamo province.
- Patient In Up Branded Hiv-Positive (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2006)
'HIV+' - the words are written on the wall over a hospital bed on which lies a young ailing woman. The lines on her face are not those of age, but of neglect.
- Living On Borrowed Time (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Aug 13, 2006)
The Government of West Bengal wants to ban hand-drawn rickshaws. But the rickshaw-pullers have a different take.
- Need Stressed To Solve Youth’S Problems (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2006)
Pakistani youth are not in the forefront of supporting important developments in the country unlike their counterparts of many fortunate nations.
- Let’S Have A Discussion On The F-16 Purchase (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2006)
Pakistan is close to signing a $5 billion deal for an advanced F-16 fighter-jet package with the US.
- 100 Tigers, 27 Troops Killed In Lanka Fight (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2006)
Sri Lankan war planes bombed Tiger rebel positions on Saturday as the fiercest fighting since a 2002 ceasefire left at least 127 people dead, the military said amid mounting concern for civilians.
- Price Of The War On Terror (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 13, 2006)
Inaugurating an international judicial conference on Friday, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz commented in his speech that Pakistan is paying a high price for combating terror and being a member of the coalition that is fighting the war on terror.
- Kuwait’S Road To Democracy (Dawn, Anwar Syed, Aug 13, 2006)
Population urges for democratic governance have been growing in the emirates of the Persian Gulf during the past decade or two.
- Finding Common Ground (News International, Amartya Sen, Aug 13, 2006)
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has consistently addressed issues such as inequality, poverty and the human costs of economic development.
- Quota Not To Be ‘Bulldozed’ (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2006)
Amid hiccups over a consensus on the OBC quota, the oversight committee chairman, Veerappa Moily, has ruled out any “bulldozing” of the proposal for 27 per cent reservation in elite and central educational institutions.
- Un Allows Israel To Make Interpretation: ‘Offensive Operations’ (Dawn, A N Sudarsan Rao , Aug 13, 2006)
A cartoon in a US news magazine many moons ago showed a Palestinian family huddled together in a refugee camp, as US-supplied Israeli fighter jets kept bombarding the makeshift shelters in an orgy of destruction.
- Al Qaeda Again Draws Pakistan Into World Attention On Terror (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2006)
Al Qaeda’s ability to continue to draw international Jihadis to Pakistan, thus creating a sort of nexus, has once again put the country under the spotlight.
- Coca-Cola Says Its Drinks In India Meet Eu Standards (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2006)
Coca-Cola Co. on Friday said independent laboratory tests showed the company's soft drinks manufactured in India met European Union purity standards for pesticides in bottled water.
- India’S Moon Mission (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 13, 2006)
Ours in 2007 will be mankind’s 85th mission to the Moon.
- Cola Controversy Affects Softdrinks Sales (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2006)
Sales of soft drinks are estimated to have plummetted by as much as 15 per cent in the wake of the pesticides-in-cola controversy.
- Rs 450 Cr For Water In Mewat (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2006)
The Haryana Government is implementing a Rs 450-crore Rainywell Project in Mewat which will ensure per capita availability of 45 litres water to every village of the district by 2008.
- Human Rights (Tribune, Y.K. Sabharwal , Aug 13, 2006)
The growth and development of mankind depends on how well the human societies regulate their internal affairs and how they work for common welfare and the dignity of each individual.
- Engineered Disgrace (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 13, 2006)
Students & authorities must share the blame A university has been disgraced and tragically so.
- Lebanese Mothers Lament War's Effect On Children (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2006)
Can there be a worse time to have a child than in a war?
- Travel Corporation Bags State Tourism Awards (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2006)
Hotels run by KTDC won awards in the one and two star category
Best Performing District Tourism Promotion Council (DTPC) Award went to Kannur
Judging committee comprised Tourism Principal Secretary, Director of Tourism and representatives of Planning
- Personal Power (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 13, 2006)
To celebrate 25 years of the personal computer, the man behind the revolution, Michael Dell, said in an interview that his current home PC is a Dell Precision 690 with a two-socket system and two dual-core Woodcrest (Xeon 5100 processors) . . .
- Kupwara Tense As Army Kills 2 Of Family In 'Ambush' (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2006)
Two members of a family were killed in a controversial ambush in Kupwara, whereas one more civilian died in an incident of firing in Handwara area today where, in a separate gunbattle, one soldier and three militants were believed dead.
- J&k Emerging Seat Of Scientific Knowledge: Cm (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2006)
Underscoring the need for catapulting scientific and technological temperament in Jammu and Kashmir to keep pace with global advancement in modern sciences, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said that the State has to be made hub of advanced . . .
- World’S First Heart Rupture Case Treated Successfully At Pgi (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2006)
For the first time in the world, doctors at the PGIMER here have performed "very high risk" procedure on a 35-year-old-man from Himachal Pradesh whose heart was ruptured which if not cured could have resulted in fatal rupture anytime or a paral . . .
- The Valley In Between (New Indian Express, Kamini Mathai, Aug 13, 2006)
Sometimes I feel sorry for Vellore, the town I grew up in.
- The Pm And The O (Business Standard, T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan, Aug 13, 2006)
Congressmen treat India’s Prime Minister as if they were dealing with Dr Manmohan Singh.
- Familiar Terrain (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Aug 13, 2006)
Pankaj Mishra’s book is for the Western audience, not for the intelligent common reader in India .
- Unbroken Spirits Fill Highways Of Death (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Aug 13, 2006)
Lebanon is a country that has clearly not lost its spirit, but is worried, unhappy, and, as no one hesitates to tell you, "very very angry".
- Un Resolution On Lebanon (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 13, 2006)
QATAR’s foreign minister is right when he says that Resolution 1701, passed unanimously by the UN Security Council on Friday, contains “imbalances in favour of Israel”, but to expect anything else would be unrealistic.
- President Directs To Speed Up Reconstruction, Rehabilitation (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf Saturday directed to further speed up the pace of reconstruction and rehabilitation of quake-affected people in the NWFP and AJK and underlined that state-of-the-art infrastructure, education and health . . .
- Power At The Cost Of Merit (Dawn, Kunwar Idris, Aug 13, 2006)
Last month President Musharraf spoke long, tiresomely long, on radio and TV and patted himself on the back for the success of his policies and the achievements of his administration in the economic field. Economy has its priority for though man cannot liv
- Say No To Coke, Pepsi (Pioneer, MC Joshi, Aug 13, 2006)
The revelation by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) that various soft drinks are unsafe for human consumption has come as an eye-opener.
- Jammu: Surrendered Militants Rounded Up, Told To Leave (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2006)
As part of its beefed-up security measures on Independence Day eve, the Jammu and Kashmir Police have for the first time asked surrendered militants to immediately leave Jammu for the next few days.
- An Elusive Peace (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Aug 12, 2006)
It is unbelievable that Israel would launch such a massive ground and air onslaught only to secure the release of the two soldiers Hizbollah captured on July 12.
- Exit Route Readied For Natwar (Daily Excelsior, Sondip Bhattacharya, Aug 12, 2006)
The dirty politics of Indian variety is in full glare, and the blame game to knockout the former Foreign minister K. Natwar Singh is being played with great precision.
- `Agriculture, Education And Health To Get A Boost' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 12, 2006)
Another Green Revolution in the offing: Minister
Says these sectors were the "most neglected" during the UDF rule
UDF Government accused of helping private profiteers
- Cultivate Virtues (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 12, 2006)
A person who is desirous of realising the objective of human birth (liberation from bondage) must reorient his day-to-day life to the spiritual goal. Just as one has to be focussed to achieve success in education or in career, it is necessary . . .
- ‘Journalist On Wheels’ (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 12, 2006)
The former princely state of Patiala was one of the pioneer promoters of sports in general and cricket in particular.
- Is A Partition Of Iraq In The Offing? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 12, 2006)
They have a new constitution, a new government and a new military. But faced with incessant sectarian bloodshed, Iraqis for the first time have begun openly discussing whether the only way to stop the violence is to remake the country they have . . .
- Personal Power (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 12, 2006)
To celebrate 25 years of the personal computer, the man behind the revolution, Michael Dell, said in an interview that his current home PC is a Dell Precision 690 with a two-socket system and two . . .
- Populist Fizz (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 12, 2006)
Kerala's heavy-handed and self-defeating stance of banning the manufacture and consumption of colas should have cautioned other state governments to the dangers of such impromptu and irrational action.
- If Only We Could Ban All Our Problems. Specially In Kerala (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 12, 2006)
Why don’t they ban toddy instead? That opaque white country liquor, served in used beer bottles, which inundates Kerala’s innards. Making it float up, right to the top, of the chart that measures alcoholism in our states.
- Government To Extend Visas Of Foreign Semina (News International, Muhammad Anis, Aug 12, 2006)
The government on Friday decided to extend visas of foreign students studying in religious schools of the country.
- Let’S Go Beyond Colahal (Deccan Herald, Ramakrishna Upadhya, Aug 12, 2006)
How much the politicians in this country love any controversy which diverts the people’s attention from basic issues which they have failed to solve even 59 years after Independence!
- Rights Of Children (News International, Hafizur Rahman, Aug 12, 2006)
One of the most painful facts of life with regard to young people is the presence of children in the country's prisons.
- 'Bpos Still Need Tax Benefits' (The Economic Times, SWARNAVA ADHIKARI, Aug 12, 2006)
EXL is a leading provider of BPO solutions to leading companies across the world. With more than 7,000 professionals spread across five operation centres,
- Liquid Explosives Elude Checks (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 12, 2006)
As the technology of terrorism gets more sophisticated, technology too must become more sophisticated.
- Achievable Goal (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 12, 2006)
Making a conscious effort towards literacy by 2012
- A Spurious Crusade (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 12, 2006)
As someone who is passionate about saving the environment, it angers me when environmental groups trivialise issues of deep seriousness.
- Corporation Council Accuses Centre Of Scuttling Vizhinjam Project (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 12, 2006)
Chinese companies cannot be considered a security threat'
- Mlc Has Evidence On Bribery Charge, Says Dharam Singh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 12, 2006)
Statement leads to speculation that Janardhan Reddy is in company of Congress leaders
- Great Past, Sorry Present, Uncertain Future (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 12, 2006)
Sridhar K Chari visits the famous medical institutions of Amritsar and finds that they are far from what they used to be and are now struggling on a life-support system
- Spending On Defence (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 12, 2006)
President Musharraf's criticism of those he terms "drawing room critics and pseudo intellectuals" who want a reduction in the country's defence expenditure seems somewhat misplaced. Speaking in Karachi at the launching ceremony of the Agosta . . .
- Say No To Coke, Pepsi (Pioneer, MC Joshi, Aug 12, 2006)
The revelation by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) that various soft drinks are unsafe for human consumption has come as an eye-opener.
- Train Down Memory Lane (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 12, 2006)
Two Indian states divided by the common Cauvery river could now be brought closer together by renaming a train linking Chennai with Mysore.
- Downsizing Subsidies (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 12, 2006)
Technology will help break the political stalemate
- Burdensome Commission (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 12, 2006)
Just when the Punjab finances had started improving comes the report about a new pay commission, that too within days of a similar Central announcement.
- Xi Plan – Beyond Platitudes (The Financial Express, NK SINGH, Aug 12, 2006)
Some critical choices now need to be made, based on clear thinking, before the Approach Paper goes to the National Development Council
- Uk Names 20 Suspects, All Muslims (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 12, 2006)
Britain’s central bank on Friday named 19 of the 24 suspects arrested by authorities over an alleged terror plot to blow up US-bound planes, the youngest of them aged just 17.
- Sea Change In The Fee Concept (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 12, 2006)
In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Puck speaks of `pleading for a lover's fee' and asks Oberon, `Shall we their fond pageant see?' A recent case before the apex court was about rice mills' plea that the taxman see the difference between cess and fee.
- For Inclusive Growth (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 12, 2006)
The key task is not of raising the economic growth rate to 10 per cent but of sustaining it and spreading it widely.
- The Pm And The O (Business Standard, T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan, Aug 12, 2006)
Congressmen treat India’s Prime Minister as if they were dealing with Dr Manmohan Singh
- Familiar Terrain (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Aug 12, 2006)
Pankaj Mishra’s book is for the Western audience, not for the intelligent common reader in India
- 'We Like Peace' (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Aug 11, 2006)
At least 915,000 people, one quarter of Lebanon’s population, are displaced; 565,000 are living with families, 131,000 are in 761 schools and public buildings, and 220,000 have left the country, including the 150,000 who have gone to Syria.
- The Fizz Of The Matter (Deccan Herald, Venkat Krishnan, Aug 11, 2006)
It’s important that the public debate on colas should not be limited to the pesticide content.
- Health Scheme Needs To Be Reworked: Cm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 11, 2006)
Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy said the Yeshaswini scheme will be reworked into a comprehensive health policy for the poor.
- Assume Nothing (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 11, 2006)
The issue is not whether tap water is “just as contaminated” as bottled drinks, but whether we know what we are paying for and ingesting.
- Nuances Of Emerging India (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 11, 2006)
Established in 1881 by the Cambridge Mission, St Stephen’s College of Delhi aligned itself with the nationalist movement of India from its early days. The bond deepened when C.F.
- Lifting The Veil (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 11, 2006)
Muslim women have been a subject of considerable debate in India.But the focus revolves mainly around personal laws and religion.
- Education: An Empty Dream (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 11, 2006)
Without the education bill underprivileged children will be affected
- Identify The Black Sheep (Pioneer, Anil Narendra, Aug 11, 2006)
Muslims should do everything to identify and dissociate themselves with people bringing Islam to disrepute, says Anil Narendra
- Set Science-Based Standards (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 11, 2006)
The Kerala government’s decision to ban production and sale of Coke and Pepsi would make the southern Indian state one of the few places in the world, Iran is another, where the iconic symbols of Americana are not available.
- Obc Quota In Phases Is Fine, Admits Lalu (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 11, 2006)
Rashtriya Janata Dal president and railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav has virtually admitted that he is game to phased implementation of reservation for the OBCs in educational institutions.
- Kerala’S Cola Karma (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Aug 11, 2006)
What is common to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, All Quiet on the Western Front, Animal Farm, Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl, Arabian Nights, Black Beauty, Candide, Canterbury . . .
- Work On Better Alternatives (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 11, 2006)
A section of the ruling elite of Pakistan led by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has been stressing on changing the focus to non-traditional areas of security.
- War Is No Panacea (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 11, 2006)
Two weeks ago I was in Beirut. The streets, instead of teeming with tourists, were deserted; the waiters in the cafes had no one to serve; there was a ghostly quiet.
- Understand The Jihadi Mindset (Pioneer, Hari Jaisingh, Aug 11, 2006)
What is the link between Kashmir, Iraq, Chechnya, Afghanistan and West Asia?
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