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Articles 6521 through 6620 of 22438:
- Reliance Unveils Retail Plan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 28, 2006)
A new 100 p.c. owned company Reliance Retail Ltd. will be floated
- Minister Wants Other States To Follow Andhra Pradesh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 28, 2006)
State stands first in implementation of rural job scheme
- Rehabilitation Centres For Himachal Approved (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 28, 2006)
The Union Ministry for Social Justice and Empowerment has sanctioned a State Resource Centre and two District Rehabilitation Centres for Himachal Pradesh.
- Is It Ok...To Use A Cell Phone? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 28, 2006)
In just two years the number of people using cell phones across the globe has increased from one to two billion.
Among the concerns are constant exposure to the electromagnetic fields generated by cell phones and their base stations
- Noon-Meal, Victers Programmes Enthuse South African Team (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 28, 2006)
Delegation studying education system in the country
Seven-member team is on a visit to India and Thailand to study human resource practices, education management information systems
- Reddy Wants Governance To Go National (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 28, 2006)
Chief minister Dr YS Rajashekar Reddy today pitched for a national centre for good governance in Hyderabad with a Rs 500 cr Central grant.
- A Mirror Up To... (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 28, 2006)
Parting thoughts of a Vice-Chancellor
The President, as the university’s Visitor, is said to be concerned over the legacy of Tagore and the need to revive the glory that was Visva-Bharati.
- Mark Down (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 28, 2006)
Anita got 100 per cent marks for mathematics in the CBSE +2 examination, while scoring an aggregate of over 90 per cent.
- Rs. 400 Crore Farm Loans Waived In Villupuram District (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 28, 2006)
Ponmudi issues "no due certificates" to farmers
- "Policy Changes Required To Improve Productivity, Investment" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 28, 2006)
It is possible to achieve 10 per cent growth in South Asia region, says World Bank economist
- Beware Of Competition, Bsnl Employees Told (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 28, 2006)
BSNL should prove its mettle by providing quality and competitive service, says Vice-Chancellor
- Japan Host Clubs Provide Ersatz Love For A Price (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 28, 2006)
Dressed all in white and smiling, Yuka and Manato stand side-by-side before a pyramid of champagne glasses, framed in an arch of white, pink and red balloons.
- Honour Killing Is Not Acceptable (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 28, 2006)
The judgement of a Danish court convicting nine people of Pakistani origin for murdering a Muslim woman should send a strong signal to Islamists, says Jan M Olsen
- 14-Day Remand For J&k Ministers (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 28, 2006)
Two former Jammu and Kashmir ministers, Ghulam Ahmed Mir and Raman Mattoo, arrested by the CBI for their alleged involvement in the sex abuse racket, have been sent to 14 days judicial remand by the chief judicial magistrate, Srinagar.
- A Day Of Disappointment At Delhi University (Hindu, Mandira Nayar, Jun 27, 2006)
"The competition for admission is very tough and for an average student with even 90 per cent it is not easy to find a place... ."
- A Terrible Trade In Small Arms (Deccan Herald, Amartya Sen, Jun 27, 2006)
It's time that the UN pushed for global control of these weapons
- Computers To Become Emotionally Aware (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2006)
MIND-READING Computer: What does it do? Analyse a combination of facial movements Applications From improving peoples driving skills to helping companies tailor advertising to peoples moods. Will help tell if driver is confused, bored or tired . . .
- The Verdict Is Out: $15,000 A Month For Manolya Onur (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2006)
After a 9-year wrangle, she wins case against estranged husband
Also, a `mehr' of $7 lakh and repayment of loan of $3 lakh awarded
However, Mukkaram Jah likely to go on appeal
- All For Yakshagana (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2006)
Uppala Krishna Master would teach at a school during the day and perform Yakshagana for a selected audience at night. Malar Jayaram Rai gets the artist to talk about his love for the art form.
- The Miracle That Was Helen Keller (Deccan Herald, L SUBRAMANI, Jun 27, 2006)
Few men and women in history have proved that wisdom and human will can transcend the most hopeless of limitations.
- Humanising Criminal Investigation (Hindu, R. K. Raghavan , Jun 27, 2006)
A collection of articles by experts on forensic nursing which is a treat and education by itself
- Diverse Canvas Of The Land And Its People (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2006)
A must for understanding the North-Eastern States of India
- Education Is Not Just About Jobs (Indian Express, Jagdeep S. Chhokar, Jun 27, 2006)
Discussing the purpose of education would be unnecessary in normal times, because it would be obvious to everyone.
- 'Implement Obc Quota Immediately' (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2006)
The Centre should immediately implement 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in higher educational institutions through an ordinance and all political parties should support the move, Health Minister S Ramadoss on Monday said.
- Autonomy As Shield (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 27, 2006)
The standoff between the Union Health Ministry and the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is a symptom of the same administrative malaise that saw the country's premier medical institution shut up shop for several weeks in . . .
- ‘I Am Not Here Just To Fill Potholes, I’M Going To Build A Knowledge Society’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 27, 2006)
Of your many roles, as chairman of the administrative reforms commission, permanent aide of the Congress Working Committee, in-charge of Tamil Nadu and . . .
- The Sez We Really Need (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 27, 2006)
The unbelievably high cut-offs for admission to colleges in Delhi University and the lakhs of disappointed students who have failed to get into engineering or medical colleges indicate the acute shortage of quality education in the country.
- Sugar Daddy (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 27, 2006)
Mulayam can still go to UP voters with a governance card. Western UP holds the key
V.P. Singh may have cut the cake. But Mulayam Singh Yadav can still have it. The UP chief minister, however, would have to ensure his reelection strategy is not . .
- Animals, Agriculture, And City Planning (Hindu, A. Srivathsan, Jun 27, 2006)
Providing multipurpose farmland within urban areas could help alleviate poverty besides improving the aesthetics of our cities.
- In Karnataka, Quota Rejig Gets Political Twist (Indian Express, JOHNSON T A, Jun 27, 2006)
In a political move aimed at making inroads into the backward class vote base in Karnataka, the ruling JDS-BJP coalition is likely to introduce a legislation to restructure reservations for OBCs.
- Mittal And The Art Of Deal-Making (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 27, 2006)
The decision of the board of Arcelor to recommend to its shareholders a merger with Mittal Steel — creating Arcelor-Mittal, to be headquartered in Luxembourg — may bring to a close one of the most strenuously contested takeover attempts in recent . . .
- Poll Materials And Ballot Boxes Despatched To Polling Stations (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2006)
District Election Officer supervises arrangements at distribution centre
- Du Cut-Off Marks Likely To Come Down In Second List (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2006)
Considerable increase in number of applications for popular subjects
Teachers claim that the rise in percentages is natural.
Most students tend to pay fees at any college they get into in the first cut-off list to secure a seat
- Top Lankan General Is Blown Up By Suicide Killer (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2006)
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle rammed into a car carrying Sri Lanka’s third-highest ranking military officer on Monday and blew himself up, killing the general and three other people, officials said.
- Falsifying History (Pioneer, Daniel Pipes, Jun 27, 2006)
Attempts to colour the culture and religion of ancient Israel in Islamic hues will make future negotiations over Jerusalem more difficult, says Daniel Pipes
- Providing Social Security To Unorganised Workers (Business Line, Jayati Ghosh, Jun 27, 2006)
The lack of provision of basic social security for the vast bulk of workers in India is one of the more depressing features of Indian society. This is sought to be corrected in the recent recommendations of the National Commission for Enterprises . . .
- Universities: Renaissance Or Decay? (The Financial Express, RALF DAHRENDORF, Jun 27, 2006)
European universities, as also those in developing countries like India, need to loosen rigid structures.
- Caste As Basis Of Quotas (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 27, 2006)
Constitution’s Main Objective May Be Defeated
- Srm Institute In Talks With Australian Varsity (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2006)
Commercial pilot programme on anvil
A four-member team visits SRM campus
Both universities aim at establishing a cross-institutional relationship
- Economic Task (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jun 27, 2006)
Both the prime minister and the president, of late, have spoken on the need to attract foreign investment into the country to sustain the current rate of economic growth. Foreign direct investment is said to have significantly increased during . . .
- China May Fine News Media To Limit Coverage (International Herald Tribune, Joseph Kahn, Jun 27, 2006)
Chinese media outlets will be fined if they report on "sudden events" without prior authorization from government officials, under a draft law being considered by the Communist Party-controlled legislature.
- Alarming Rise In Drug Addiction (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 27, 2006)
Drug addiction in Peshawar and other major cities in the country is on the rise as a result of influx of the heroin, hashish and other drugs from Afghanistan, where poppy production has registered unprecedented increase since US occupation of the . . .
- India, Sa, Brazil Collaboration On Aids Vaccine (Statesman, Devirupa Mitra, Jun 27, 2006)
India, Brazil and South Africa are planning to collaborate in the development of a HIV/AIDS vaccine.
- Maleeha Lodhi May Join Un Chief Race (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Jun 27, 2006)
Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf is likely to field former journalist Maleeha Lodhi, now Pakistan’s high commissioner to London, as his government’s candidate for the post of United Nations Secretary-General.
- Sacrilege At Tirupati Hills (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Jun 27, 2006)
The current initiative of Sri Swarupanandendra Swami of the Visakhapatnam-based Sri Sarada Peetham to mobilise Hindu seers to protect dharma in the face of rising depredations by evangelists has not come a day too soon.
- Law For Quotas Will Not Work: Cii Chief (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2006)
There is a demand for reserving jobs for socially and economically backward classes in the private sector. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), a representative body of industrialists, has set up a task force to suggest a roadmap for . . .
- Danger Signs (Tribune, Anita Inder Singh, Jun 27, 2006)
American and EU forces must stay in Afghanistan to counter extremism and help the government of President Hamid Karzai to forge security which is a prerequisite for state-building and human development.
- Officials Were Spotted In Sabeena's Net In 2002, Politicians In 2004 (Daily Excelsior, Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, Jun 27, 2006)
Whether former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had hushed up Sabeena's 'sex racket' in 2004 or not is a matter of investigation but the involvement of his Ministers, first spotted by CID of J&K Police, had been established, rather alarmingly.
- Parichu River Crisis Brewing Again? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 27, 2006)
When the Parichu dam burst last year, almost 80 per cent of defence establishments from Sumdho to Karcham in Kinnaur of Himachal Pradesh, including strategic bridges on the Hindustan-Tibet Road, were washed away.
- Theft In Leh! (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jun 27, 2006)
If one shuffles through old files of this or other newspapers one will hardly come across any unpleasant report of theft, dacoity or murder in the trans-Himalayan territory of Leh.
- Drug Abuse : More A Health Problem (Daily Excelsior, Joginder Singh, Jun 27, 2006)
The involvement of a high profile deceased politician's son in an alleged drug abuse case has focussed attention on the sale of narcotics in the country.
- Need Based Curriculum In Schools (Daily Excelsior, Ramesh Pandita and Meenakshi Koul, Jun 27, 2006)
Education is supposed to be the only weapon by which every war can be fought and it is not about fighting only but also the wining, which is its ultimate goal.
- Tanuvas Aims To Be Research And Training Hub In South Asia (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
Signs an MoU with American university for exchange programmes
- Two Channels, Two Themes: Dilli, Dilli (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Jun 26, 2006)
One is Aaj Tak. The other is Dilli Aaj Tak. The first is a Hindi national news channel (which means it tells you that the price of tomatoes in the country . . .
- War By Other Means (Times of India, BORIA MAJUMDAR, Jun 26, 2006)
In my last six years (2000-06) in England, I have never seen the M25 London express "jam-free" at rush hour. Such a travesty occurred twice over the last two weeks, when England played Paraguay and again Trinidad.
- The Kindness Of Strangers (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 26, 2006)
For nearly two decades I have been living in this glorious city and my scrapbook of memories is filled with nameless people who went out of their way to take care of me.
- Where Talent Matters (Times of India, Saeed Naqvi, Jun 26, 2006)
The promotion of Harivanshrai Bachchan by Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan and Kaifi Azmi by Shabana and Javed Akhtar have set tongues wagging in mofussil literary circles. The adage, choose your parents with care, applies well in the upper echelons of . . .
- Politics Spoiling Tryst With Sikh Destiny (Tribune, Maj Gen (retd) Himmat Singh Gill, Jun 26, 2006)
THE quad-centennial martyrdom anniversary of Sri Guru Arjan Devji and all the commemorative events connected with it will soon pass into history.
- Inflation Is Here To Stay (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 26, 2006)
As the inflation figures come in, creeping higher every week, it is now clear to all that inflationary pressures have set into the system.
- Driving In New Delhi (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 26, 2006)
A new study of driver’s licence examinations in New Delhi, India, confirms what most international policy wonks have long said: The benefits of corruption are not worth the costs.
- Why Obc Fire Didn’T Spread South (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 26, 2006)
How is it that the south, particularly Tamil Nadu (TN), remained cool when protests against the move to provide reservation for OBCs in elite educational institutions raged like wild fire across north India?
- Learn This Lesson (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 26, 2006)
His current job could well turn out to be the most crucial Veerappa Moily has held in a fairly colourful political career.
- Demolishing Circles Of Domination (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jun 26, 2006)
I am tired of America bashers. They send me the latest by Robert Fisk, John Pilger, Noam Chomsky, et al, by the email box-full.
- Sufi Saints And Culture (News International, Prof Khwaja Masud, Jun 26, 2006)
One castle and a hundred doors, and window numberless
- Getting India Into Innovative Mode (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Jun 26, 2006)
If India is to innovate, the only way is to create competition for the IITs. As IITs are tightly controlled government monopolies, such competition has to come from . . .
- Iraq’S Victims Of Violence Doubt Maliki Peac (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s national reconciliation plan is a hard sell on Karrada Inner street, where a roadside bomb left Akram Jabaar with a painful limp and little faith in his government.
- Unbearable Lightness Of Being Corrupt (News International, Khusro Mumtaz, Jun 26, 2006)
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country”
- Osama's Former Sex Slave Writes For Tv (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
Kola Boof, the former sex slave of Osama bin Laden, is writing for the NBC soap opera 'Days of Our Lives'.
- Blazing A New Trail (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jun 26, 2006)
How forceful and committed leadership can, even within existing systemic and procedural obstructions, propel an institution in path-breaking directions has been amply demonstrated by the dynamic and innovative Vice-Chancellor, Dr. C. Thangamuthu . . .
- Who Really Owns Bolivia? (The Economic Times, JOSEPH E STIGLITZ, Jun 26, 2006)
Even if Bolivia gets fair value for her natural wealth, she will need help not only to extract the resources but also to improve the health and education of all Bolivians to ensure long-term economic growth.
- Right To Information (Business Standard, Sunil Jain, Jun 26, 2006)
Now that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has got a committee to investigate the charges against AIIMS Director P Venugopal and whether he has run down the country’s premier hospital/medical college, one hopes its findings will be made public . . .
- The Saga Of Salwa Judum In Chhattisgarh (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 26, 2006)
The government's anti-Maoist strategy has pitted brother against brother and village against village. Civil strife is rife in Dantewada.
- Prakash To Be Firm With Naxalites (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
Says talks posible only if they shun violence
- Briefly (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
A group of people from Nagaral village in Chikkodi taluk and from Chikkodi town allegedly killed two persons over a property dispute on Friday.
- 700 Litres Of Arrack Seized, 10 Arrested (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
The Prohibition and Excise Department squad during special raids conducted at three places on Saturday seized three autosrickshaws along with 700 litres of arrack and arrested ten persons.
- Expert Panel To Review Entrance Test System In Kerala: Minister (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
N. Ram calls for an end to the practice of collecting capitation fee
- "We Are Trying To Find An Alternative Path For Our Own Development" (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Jun 26, 2006)
The Left Front in West Bengal entered its 30th year in power on June 21. In an interview toThe Hindu, Chief MinisterBuddhadeb Bhattacharjeespeaks of the changing perspectives over the last three decades, the new Left alternative being considered . . .
- Srm Institute In Talks With Australian Varsity (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
Commercial pilot programme on anvil
A four-member team visits SRM campus
Both universities aim at establishing a cross-institutional relationship
- Anti-Naxal Plan Yielding Rich Dividends In U.P. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
"Naxalites are no longer getting cooperation of local people"
- Ignore The Youth At Your Peril (Deccan Herald, Gary Younge, Jun 26, 2006)
Recently, as Hispanics throughout the US took to the streets to protest punitive immigration legislation, the Spanish teacher Hilda Sotelo was called into the principal's office at Austin high school, in El Paso.
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