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Articles 4921 through 5020 of 22438:
- Merit List For Professional Courses Published (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
Karaikal student tops list with 188.917 marks
- Industries Warned Not To Pollute Sankarabarani (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
CM orders police to book cases against those who violate rule
Rs. 3.75 crore for agricultural college at Karaikal
Master plan soon to replace drinking water pipelines
- Ltte Takes War Deep Into Govt Territory (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
Sri Lanka’s civil war appeared to have resumed in all but name on Wednesday as Tamil Tigers attacked three army camps and pushed into government territory while the military said dozens of rebels were killed.
- Cuba At Crossroads (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 03, 2006)
its probably the beginning of the end of Fidel Castro’s rule.
- World At Their Feet, Iitians Turn To Their Homeland (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
The IIT life story is about to change. The IIT alumni, after going abroad and meeting with phenomenal success, now want to return home.
- All In The Family (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 03, 2006)
Cubans do not seem to know if they should hail it as a model of revolutionary brotherhood. Mr Fidel Castro’s “proclamation” was no surprise to them or to the world.
- Breaking New Grounds (Telegraph, AMITAVA BANERJEE, Aug 03, 2006)
The world has witnessed many advances in technology which have provided dignity, safety, independence and comfort to people, in particular those who are physically or mentally challenged.
- Army Teams For Nuke Attack (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
The army has set up special teams designed to respond to nuclear attacks both in border areas and in the capital, the defence ministry has said in response to queries from a standing committee of Parliament.
- *20 Hurt In Surankote Blast (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
and police today gunned down two militants of Harkat-ul-Jehad Islami (HUJI) and apprehended another as troops suffered a fatal casualty in day long operation at village Kochal in Chatroo area of Doda district while 20 persons were injured, two of . . .
- Cuban Challenge (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 03, 2006)
The temporary stepping down from power of Cuban president Fidel Castro, who is in his eighties and undergoing surgery for intestinal bleeding, has prompted speculation about a change of guard.
- Humbling Hill (Indian Express, SAPNA SHARMA, Aug 03, 2006)
Girnar, the 3,100 ft hill, situated in Junagadh, Gujarat, is part of the folklore of Saurashtra. Since time immemorial Buddhist, Jain and Hindu monks have found sanctuary there. A stone edict of Asoka can be seen at the foot of the hill.
- Importance Of Training Media Persons (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 03, 2006)
Many developing countries where the media of mass communication is under government control, means that media persons hardly need professional training in their trade.
- Tale To Remember (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 03, 2006)
It should not surprise anyone that a group of Kashmiri militants has surrendered to the Army.
- President To Dedicate Upper Krishna Project To The Nation . . . (Hindu, Suresh Bhat , Aug 03, 2006)
Alamatti Dam is a multi-purpose component of the project conceived 42 years ago
- Political Will Vital To End Terrorism: Kaarthikeyan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
Third World War will be due to religious fanaticism
- Destruction Of Minds (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 03, 2006)
The announcement by federal education minister Javed Ashraf Qazi that 'jihad' was being retained in the new curriculum that the government plans to introduce in schools from 2007 to 2009 is a cause of concern.
- Welcome Reprieve (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 03, 2006)
As the nation's future, children must get every chance to flower into productive citizens no matter what their social or economic status.
- World At Their Feet, Iitians Turn To Their Homeland (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
The IIT life story is about to change. The IIT alumni, after going abroad and meeting with phenomenal success, now want to return home.
- Who Are We Kidding? (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 03, 2006)
We will not quarrel with the Labour Ministry’s notification banning employment of children below 14 years of age as domestic servants or helpers in eateries.
- Blowing Up Fiscal Responsibility (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 03, 2006)
Given the well-known deficit bias of a democracy, fiscal consolidation is an arduous task. Will there be anyone who will stand up to the assault by the powerful Gang of Three on the FRBM.
- Guarding The Turf From Predatory Professionals (Business Line, D. Murali , Aug 03, 2006)
Were you to search for `ICSI' on Google News, it is quite probable that you'd land in `Fit but infertile,' a report dated August 1 on www.dailymail.co.uk.
- Turmeric, Onions Help Fight Colon Cancer: Study (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
A pill combining chemicals found in turmeric and onions reduces both the size and number of pre-cancerous lesions in the human intestinal tract, says a new study.
- Blatant Interference (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 03, 2006)
Towards further chaos in school education
A government panel has had the chutzpah to recommend a statute to regulate the functioning of ICSE and CBSE schools in West Bengal.
- Indian-Origin Soldier In Israel Injured In Operation In Lebanon (Pioneer, PTI, Aug 03, 2006)
An Indian-origin soldier in Israel Defence Forces (IDF) was injured in the operation against Hizbullah in Bint Jbail village in southern Lebanon.
An Indian-origin soldier in Israel Defence Forces (IDF) was injured in the operation against Hizb
- Sri Lanka Fighting Rages, Aid Workers Cannot Help (Reuters, Peter Apps, Aug 03, 2006)
Artillery pounded Tamil Tiger positions in northeast Sri Lanka while rebels fought firefights with troops early on Thursday as the island slipped back towards civil war.
- Marooned For 90 Hrs, 135 Gujarat Kids Rescued In Marathon Mission (Pioneer, R.K. Misra, Aug 03, 2006)
Marooned for almost 90 hours in their residential school, 135 children of a lesser god and their 18 guardian angels were rescued from their watery perch after an operation that stretched human endeavour to its limits and tested the tensile strength . . .
- In Praise Of Salwa Judum (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 03, 2006)
A lengthy editorial in this week’s Organiser accuses the UPA government of joining hands with ‘‘left and civil liberty groups’’ in giving a bad name to Chattisgarh’s controversial Salwa Judum movement and warns that ‘‘any rethinking on its efficacy . . .
- Inflation, Welfarism And Public Sector (Daily Excelsior, M. N. Minocha, Aug 03, 2006)
In the past inflation was associated with wars and the extraordinary influx of gold and silver. It ended with the disappearance of these specific causes. But inflation after World War II has been both universal and persistent. It must, therefore, . . .
- 182 Days In Office: Time For A Reality Check (Deccan Herald, Ramakrishna Upadhya, Aug 03, 2006)
The Kumaraswamy government completes six months in office today. It is perhaps too short a period to make any value judgement on its performance so far, but the initiatives it has taken or not taken and the direction in which it is going, leaves . . .
- Tamil Tigers Run Amok, Train Guns On Army Camps (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
The Tamil Tigers, on Wednesday, mounted major pre-dawn attacks on at least three key army camps in the Eastern port city of Trincomalee, leaving over 47 killed on both sides and several more wounded.
- Abysmal Fears? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 03, 2006)
Be it leaving college as a student or a teacher, it is hard to ignore the uncertainty of life.
- What Happens After Fidel Castro? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 03, 2006)
Even in a country which has its own 120 Club for those who reach that remarkable age, it has been accepted that the days of Fidel would one day end.
- Backing For The N-Deal (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 03, 2006)
The nuclear deal between the US and India has received attention in the Urdu press as well. National Herald group’s Qaumi Awaz, in its editorial dated July 29, has hailed it, supporting the deal.
- Changing With Times (Frontline, Ravi Sharma , Aug 03, 2006)
Challenges in the form of liberalisation and global competition have steeled the units' resolve to surge ahead.
- The North-East Mosaic (Daily Excelsior, Sanchet Barua, Aug 03, 2006)
The foremost feature of the social order of the North-Eastern region is its plurality.
- Whither Cuba After Castro? (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Aug 03, 2006)
The hospitalisation of Fidel Castro, the world’s longest serving political leader, has provoked sharply contradictory reactions from those expecting fundamental changes once the Cuban leader has passed on.
- Expansion And Division Games (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Aug 03, 2006)
The Moily Oversight Committee, entrusted with coming up with a strategy to implement the proposed OBC quotas in Central institutions, had a thankless task: to come up with a plan to expand current institutional strength by almost 30 per cent within . . .
- Institutional Inertia (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 03, 2006)
Nehru Memorial Museum & Library’s decline shows why political involvement and scholarship don’t mix
- A File’S Sweet Nothings (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 03, 2006)
On files moving up he’d write ‘For orders’, and ‘Immediate’ on those moving down
- Domestic Slaves (Frontline, Editorial, Frontline, Aug 03, 2006)
Child domestic workers are victims of various forms of abuse but the government is yet to come up with a law to protect their rights.
- Manmohan Chairs Cabinet Meet On Quota (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
The process of implementing OBC reservation in elite educational institutions was understood to have been discussed at a high-level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday.
- Satellite Pictures `Show' Pakistan Has Terror Camp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Pakistan's claim that it does not have terrorist training camps in its territory has been strongly contested in the United States.
- Anna Varsity Colleges To Become Departments (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
It will help them gain better access to funding agencies, says Vice-Chancellor
- Challenges Of Consumerism (News International, Tayyeba Ali, Aug 02, 2006)
In today's technological boom, where inventions consistently outdo one another, it is difficult to keep pace.
- Satellite Pictures Show Terror Camp In Balakot (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Pakistan’s claims that it does not have terrorist training camps in its territory is being strongly contested by FBI which has told a US court that satellite pictures pointed towards such a camp.
- Throw Out A Bad Law (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 02, 2006)
A law that seeks to legalise illegalities should have no place in the statute books.
- Kissinger, Nixon Had A Plan To Nuke N Vietnam (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Former US President Richard Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry A Kissinger, had contemplated using nuclear weapons power against North Vietnamese, at the peak of the Vietnam War, recently declassified documents reveal.
- 7 Kids Die As School Bus Falls Into Canal (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Seven children were killed and five others went missing when a school bus carrying 25 of them fell into a canal today.
- Eating Cues From Surroundings: Study (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 02, 2006)
How much candy is enough? It depends on how big the candy scoop is. At least that is a key factor, says a study that offers new evidence that people take cues from their surroundings in deciding how much to eat.
- 6 Schoolchildren Die As Bus Falls Into Canal (Tribune, Raman Mohan, Aug 02, 2006)
Bali Kutubpur (Sonepat), August 1
Six schoolchildren were killed and two injured seriously when a school bus plunged into Old Western Jamuna Canal here this morning. As many as 21 children survived the mishap.
- Fbi Has Images Of Terror Camp In Pak (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Pakistan’s claims that it does not have terrorist training camps in its territory has been strongly contested by the FBI which has told a US court that satellite pictures pointed towards such a camp.
- Aliens On Home Turf (Telegraph, Nilosree Biswas, Aug 02, 2006)
The colonial rulers had decided to create a promenade parallel to the Hooghly during the raj.
- Bill Gates' Charitable Pretensions (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Aug 02, 2006)
Bill Gates is not only the richest man in the world but also the biggest philanthropist.
- Enters New "President" (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 02, 2006)
As speculated in knowledgeable circles Raza Zulqarnain Khan has become "President" of "Azad" Kashmir which is the local name of the occupied territory across the Line of Control (LoC).
- Kashmiri Women Lift The Veil In Silent Awakening (Reuters, Palash Kumar, Aug 02, 2006)
Twenty-five-year-old Saima Farhad is a Kashmiri woman who has shunned the veil and set out to discuss dating in a region where cinemas showing Bollywood romances are hard to find and beauty parlours scorned upon.
- Highway To Good Teaching (Deccan Herald, Leela Ramaswamy, Aug 02, 2006)
Ask the children and they will say why the teachers don’t inspire them.
- Bush Fundamentalism Is Courting Disaster (Hindu, Karen Armstrong, Aug 02, 2006)
Affinity with the Christian Right has led to banning stem cell research and turning a blind eye to civilian deaths in Lebanon.
- To Know ‘You’ Is To Love ‘You’ (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 02, 2006)
It’s a spin on the classic tale of assimilation, when two cultures meet and create something unique.
- Rwanda Striving For A High-Tech Future (Hindu, Xan Rice, Aug 02, 2006)
If successful, the percentage of Rwanda's workforce involved in farming will drop from 90 per cent to 50 per cent in 15 years
- U.S.' Latest Plans On Cuba (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Aug 02, 2006)
The latest U.S. scheme for Cuba has classified sections that are believed to contain plans of attack and assassination.
- Skewed Approach (Frontline, V. Sridhar, Aug 02, 2006)
The Planning Commission's blueprint for the Eleventh Plan reflects the reformer's mindset.
- Price Of Power In Delhi (Frontline, AMAN SETHI, Aug 02, 2006)
Tribunal strikes down Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission move to create "regulatory assets" and avoid a tariff hike.
- Karnataka's Mining Scandal (Frontline, PARVATHI MENON, Aug 02, 2006)
Charges of corruption against the Chief Minister forces the government to order an inquiry into the irregularities in iron ore mining.
- Somalia's Road To Anarchy (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Aug 02, 2006)
The Ethiopian bid to remove the Union of Islamic Courts from power in Somalia risks destabilising the entire region.
- Intelligence And Effort (Telegraph, André Béteille, Aug 02, 2006)
The government’s recent move to expand numerical quotas in the Central universities and institutions for teaching and research in engineering, management and medicine in favour of the other backward classes has led to much acrimony and some . . .
- U.P. Cabinet Nod For Taking Metro Rail To Ghaziabad (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Two stoppages in Ghaziabad -- one at Kaushambi and the other at Vaishali
- Six Children Dead As Bus Plunges Into Sonepat Canal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
22 children have been miraculously rescued by villagers, police and Army divers; two of the rescued admitted to hospital
- A Critique Of The Private Sector In Pakistan (News International, Mosharraf Zaidi, Aug 02, 2006)
Pakistan's favourite past-time is dissecting and criticising the government.
- Did Wild Birds Bring Avian Flu To India? (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Aug 02, 2006)
A "smoking gun" that could convincingly pin the blame on wild birds is lacking. Even at the global level, unravelling the role of wild birds in the spread of H5N1 is not proving easy.
- Of Old Strengths In A New Era (Frontline, Vijay Prashad, Aug 02, 2006)
Interview with John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review.
- Sonia Wants Tighter Norms For Futures Trading In Commodities (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
The Congress, anxious to salvage its battered ‘aam admi’ plank, seems to have chosen to use commodity exchanges as a scapegoat. Congress president Sonia Gandhi today asked the government to stop futures trading.
- 6 Children Dead, 23 Rescued In India Bus Mishap (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Indian rescuers on Tuesday saved 23 children and retrieved the bodies of six after their school bus plunged off a bridge into a fast-flowing canal, police and a local official said.
- Horn Of Africa: A Perfect Storm (Pioneer, GWYNNE DYER, Aug 02, 2006)
Americans have created another first-rate crisis for themselves and Africa by backing the warlords in Somalia, says Gwynne Dyer
- Israel's Terror (Frontline, AIJAZ AHMAD, Aug 02, 2006)
The U.S.-Israel axis goes all out to remove the last impediments to building a "New Middle East".
- Summer Of Shelling (Frontline, Atul Aneja , Aug 02, 2006)
From the war zone in Lebanon, an account of the distress and the relief effort.
- Sonia Evades Rti, Nuke Deal (Asia Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Having campaigned enthusiastically for the Right to Information Act since the UPA government assumed power, and having showcased it as a major achievement of this government, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday appeared to have abandoned the . . .
- Lashkar Is India's Al Qaeda (Pioneer, Wilson John, Aug 02, 2006)
Counter-terrorism operations through appropriate covert action should be taken to stop LeT from killing innocent civilians and bleeding India ----
- Sonia Hard On Terror, Soft On Terror Preachers (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday sent confusing signals about the UPA Government's response to terrorism in the wake of the Mumbai blasts by lacing her call for "tough measures" with considerations of vote bank politics.
- Fbi Satellite Pictures Point Towards Terror Camps In Pakistan (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Pakistan’s claims that it does not have terrorist training camps in its territory is being strongly contested by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation which has told a US court that satellite pictures pointed towards such a camp.
- Lebanon’S Hour Of Agony (Dawn, Robert Fisk, Aug 01, 2006)
To Sidon. Ed Cody has found a cool, 120-mile-an-hour driver called Hassan — he has a black Mercedes which I nickname “Death Car” (because that will be the fate of anyone who gets in our way) and we zip down the coast road and turn east into the . . .
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