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Articles 7021 through 7120 of 22438:
- Sweet Memories Of Kodaikanal (Business Standard, Geetanjali Krishna, Jun 18, 2006)
It’s a tiny shop, shelves agleam with shelves full of sweets. There are chocolates in over 30 flavours; fluffy marshmallows in a veritable rainbow of colours, and marzipans in fanciful shapes.
- Rs. 2.86 Crore Nabard Aid For Kodagu Distrcit (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
Development works to be taken up under Rural Infrastructure Development Fund
Rs. 2.31 crore would be utilised to improve five roads
Rs. 30.4 lakh would be used to construct classrooms in pre-university colleges
State Government urged to . . .
- Invert The Pyramid (Pioneer, Hari Jaisingh, Jun 18, 2006)
The nation is once again caught in two contradictory trends of performance and non-performance in several critical areas of governance.
- Redefining Accountability (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Jun 18, 2006)
Soon, you will be paying more for your TV sets because the government wants to keep DD afloat.
- Action Is Leagues Away (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
When it comes to representation of South Asians in English soccer, the scenario is not too encouraging, Rajshekhar reports from London.
- Looking At Life Beyond Grades (Hindu, ANUKRITI PANDEY, Jun 18, 2006)
Now that the dust of excitement generated by the CBSE results has settled down and `normal' life has resumed, let us all take a moment to reflect upon a very serious problem. A problem that literally is a matter of life and death.
- Tasty, Sweet And Harmful (Hindu, SREELAKSHMI GURURAJA, Jun 18, 2006)
We need to educate the public on the dangers of `junk food' consumption
- The Return Of Discrimination (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 18, 2006)
) A student with his friends stands at the door of a classroom and questions each student entering,
- Publishing History (Hindu, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , Jun 18, 2006)
Ravi Dayal changed the publishing landscape of India in the 1970s and 80s.
Dayal possessed an almost unique combination of great intelligence and greater charm.
- Ethics And The Economist (Hindu, SHASHI THAROOR, Jun 18, 2006)
A profound moral sense is never absent in the works of Amartya Sen.
- Olympics Nostalgia (Hindu, Meena Menon, Jun 18, 2006)
Lausanne, the birthplace of the modern Olympics, has a few other attractions as well.
- Two Flavours Of Nationalism (Hindu, INDIVAR KAMTEKAR, Jun 18, 2006)
A visit to Jallianwala Bagh and Wagah raises questions about the transformation of national feeling in India.
- A Dream Takes Shape (Hindu, Prachi Pinglay, Jun 18, 2006)
Amisha Jedhe is finally fulfilling her brother's dream of building a peace park on the Indo-Pak border.
- Army Enhances Stress Management (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
Move follows `suicides' by officers
It plans to double number of psychiatrists in these areas
Suicides due to marital, financial, medical problems
- Iodised Salt For Optimum Brain Development (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
Focus should be on small scale salt traders
Less freight on iodised salt and more wagons for its transportation sought
Call to exempt it from import duty and sales tax
Lack of awareness among people regarding benefits of iodised salt
Poorer . .
- High Court Bench Seeks Details Of Adolescents In Regular Jails (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
Present practice is against avowed object of reforming youth: petitioner
- The Patriarch (Statesman, DEBAKI NANDAN MANDAL, Jun 18, 2006)
THE cabinet of the seventh Left Front government has excess baggage of 14 if the prescribed norm of 10 per cent of the 294-strong state legislature is taken into account.
- Web Auctions, The New Jackpot For Middle Americans (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
Al Losey, a corporate trainer at a Detroit auto parts maker, lost his job six weeks ago in what could be another down-and-out story from a hard luck corner of the American economy.
- Proportionality May Help Only Creamy Layer (Deccan Herald, Gurpreet Mahajan, Jun 18, 2006)
The Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment has clearly spoken in favour in proportional representation. For her the quantum of seats reserved for Scheduled Castes must be increased from 15 per cent to 16.23 per cent to reflect their present . . .
- Indian Men Can't Deal With Women On Top (Times of India, Neelam Raaj, Jun 18, 2006)
A coffee at one of those trendy new places and a 20-something saunters in. Low-riders jammed down below her thong and a snugly fitted T-shirt that proclaims 'Tease'.
- Nwfp Also Churns Out Tax-Free Budget (News International, Mohammad Ali Khan, Jun 18, 2006)
The NWFP joined its sibling provinces in churning out a tax-free budget on Saturday.
- Briefly (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has invited applications for admission to its Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) Programme for the January 2007 session.
- Develop Communication Skills, Students Told (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
Gold medals presented to 11 university rank holders
- Kashmiriyat Can Unite Boundaries: Sinha (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
Governor Lt Gen (Retd) S K Sinha today said that Kashmiriyat is a strong tool to conquer divides and unite the boundaries.
- Death Of An Officer (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
Army has its hands full ---- Even as the mortal remains of Lt Sushmita Chakravarty, who allegedly committed suicide at the Udhampur unit, were consigned to flames in Bhopal amid grieving family members who refused to . . .
- New Cec Has Strong Passion For Astrology (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jun 18, 2006)
India will be a sham democracy if the very foundation of a democratic polity, namely free and fair elections, are missing from the scene”.
- Defence No To Naxal Duty (Pioneer, Rahul Datta, Jun 18, 2006)
Army should train State forces instead ---- The demand for deployment of Army to combat the overgrown Naxalite-Maoist menace has been put on hold with the Defence Ministry not favouring any such move.
- Facing Up To The Indian Challenge (Dawn, Anwar Kemal, Jun 18, 2006)
Coping with the challenge of India on several fronts — strategic, economic, cultural, psychological and more recently technological .
- For The Sanctity Of The Pen (News International, Muhammad Anis, Jun 18, 2006)
Journalists boycotted the proceedings of the National Assembly on Saturday in protest against the murder of tribal journalist Hayatullah Khan in South Waziristan.
- Reform School Education (Tribune, Vijay Sanghvi, Jun 18, 2006)
In the midst of Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s by-election from Rae Bareli, Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh sprung a surprise by proposing to extend reservations to Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in admissions to higher studies.
- Du Students Visit Srinagar Orphanages (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Jun 18, 2006)
Ever since the series of earthquake jolted some areas of the Kashmir valley, activist Shabnam Hashmi has taken batches of Delhi University (DU) students to live and work in the affected villages.
- How One Jihadi Group Operates In Pakistan (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Jun 18, 2006)
The Pakistani branch of Islamic group al-Muhajiroun has evolved into one of many support networks connecting Western Muslim youths, mostly from Europe, to jihad in southwest Asia.
- Unsafe Blood (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 17, 2006)
Need to step up voluntary donation
Blood safety standards are hugely compromised because of higher prevalence of HIV and other blood-borne pathogens among paid and replacement donors than among voluntary and altruistic donors.
- Irrational, Even Absurd (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 17, 2006)
A case of naivety and self-deception?
- Elvis Still Rocks Japan (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 17, 2006)
When Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi tours Graceland later this month with President George W Bush, he will be representing a big constituency ~ Japan has droves of Elvis Presley fans, and the biggest Elvis fan club in all of East Asia.
- The Blair Doctrine (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 17, 2006)
The politically literate public in the US has never broken lances over United Nations reforms. Neither have reforms ever come up in US-UK bilateral relations.
- Woman Army Officer Commits Suicide (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 17, 2006)
The Army today dismissed allegations that the young woman Army officer, who shot herself to death at the Northern Command headquarters in Udhampur last night, wanted to leave the Army as she was unhappy with the job “but had no money to repay the . . .
- Moily Working On Housing For Quota (Pioneer, Rajeev Ranjan Roy, Jun 17, 2006)
Housing for the faculty and staff is a major challenge facing the Centre's decision to grant 27 per cent reservation to OBCs in institutes for higher education. And this is what the Oversight Committee wishes to address at length.
- India To Ratify Anti-Nuke Terrorism Convention (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
The Union Cabinet on Friday gave its approval for signing and ratifying the International Convention on Suppression of Nuclear Terrorism adopted by the UN General Assembly providing for international cooperation in investigation, prosecution and . . .
- Fishing In Troubled Up Waters (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Jun 17, 2006)
Vishwanath Pratap Singh, a former Prime Minister and father of Mandalisation of upcountry politics, is back at it.
- 4 Militants Among 8 Killed (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
Four militants and four civilians have died in different militancy-related incidents across Kashmir valley even as a Dy SP had a narrow escape in an ambush at Bandipore and a fierce gunbattle took place at Sagipora in Sopore-Handwara belt.
- Serious Fungal Infections Of The Eye On The Rise (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
Health Investigators in Miami and San Francisco describe clusters of a serious eye infection called ulcerative keratitis, an ulceration of the cornea, among soft contact lens wearers caused by the fungus Fusarium, which until this year had been . . .
- Ominous Signs For Upa Government (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Jun 17, 2006)
The Congress-led UPA government is in trouble as its allies are pulling in different directions.
- Tarn Taran Is 19th District Of Punjab (Tribune, Varinder Walia, Jun 17, 2006)
Tarn Taran was formally made the 19th district of the state to mark the 400th martyrdom anniversary of Guru Arjan Dev here today.
- The Third Sex (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 17, 2006)
I was chatting with a young district collector, picking his brains about reasons behind choosing the services. The conversation veered around and finally the collector's thoughts settled upon his college life. His eyes seemed to move to a distant past.
- A Legacy Of Brutality (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Jun 17, 2006)
DR Louay Bahry, an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, served as the chair of the Department of Public Administration at the University of Qatar and has taught at several universities, including the University of . . .
- The Sindh Budget (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 17, 2006)
A provincial budget is a good indicator of the state of the economy of a province.
- Outbreak Of Cholera Suspected In Kottivakkam Kuppam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
17 persons admitted to Communicable Diseases Hospital
Mobile teams dispatched
Door-to-door survey done
Water samples collected
No case reported in Chennai
- Computers For The Uninitiated (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
In the first phase, the PC will be available in 10 cities and towns of Tamil Nadu.
- The Perfect Excuse (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 17, 2006)
Time was when boys turning up late for school would blame it on something called a traffic jam. On the evening of Monday, June 12, President Bush told his advisers that he was going to bed and slipped out to Iraq.
- Pro-Poor Policy Shift In Governance (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
Governor's address says State mulls quasi-judicial body to help farmers in debt
Special attention to marginalised sections of society
Efforts to be made to mobilise additional resources
IT, biotechnology, tourism new growth sectors
Public . . .
- Pak, China To Strengthen Strategic Partnership (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf has said that Pakistan is awaiting for China’s support in attaining full membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and considers its relations with China as most valued. While Chinese President has lauded Pakistan’ . .
- Central Asia Rediscovers Islamic Roots (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 17, 2006)
Turkestan, Kazakhstan: In Soviet days, people walked past the Khoja Ahmed Yasawi mausoleum, a holy Muslim site in the steppe of southern Kazakhstan, and pretended it wasn’t there.
- Tax-Free Sindh Budget (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 17, 2006)
Senior Minister of Sindh Syed Sardar Ahmad on Thursday presented Rs 193.1 billion surplus budget of the province that seeks an all time high investment of Rs 50 billion on developmental activities.
- Service Of The Nation (News International, Hafizur Rahman, Jun 17, 2006)
By the very nature of his/her duties, a prime minister of Pakistan is serving the nation. So is the leader of the opposition because of the important place that the position occupies in the democratic dispensation.
- Tata Consultancy Services Sets A Recruitment Record (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
Over 2,000 students from 16 engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu get job offers
- An `Interest'ing Us Is Draining For India (Business Line, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Jun 17, 2006)
Foreign investors have exited Indian markets to avail themselves of the American bonanza
- Private Quota May Haunt Monsoon Session (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Jun 17, 2006)
The Congress leadership may have put a lid on Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Meira Kumar’s call for SC/ST quotas in the private sector, but the demand for a consitutional amendment to bring that about is gaining strength and could be raised . . .
- ‘The Phobia Felt By Dalits Is Very Real’ (Deccan Herald, K S Narayanan, Jun 17, 2006)
Chandra Bhan Prasad is a Dalit columnist and writer. In his latest book, Dalit Phobia: Why do they hate us? he argues that Dalit phobia is passed on from generation to generation....
- Invert The Pyramid (Pioneer, Hari Jaisingh, Jun 17, 2006)
The nation is once again caught in two contradictory trends of performance and non-performance in several critical areas of governance.
- Heal Thyself (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 17, 2006)
Anbumani Ramadoss brings to his portfolio as Union health minister a significant qualification. He is that rare incumbent of the office to actually have a degree in medicine.
- Malaysian Straitjacket For India (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jun 17, 2006)
Ashutosh Varshney is right to suggest (‘Be affirmative,’ IE, June 16) that we look at comparative experiences to enrich our own debate on affirmative action programmes, and the Malaysian example certainly provides some food for thought.
- Quota And Populism (Deccan Herald, Tavleen Singh, Jun 17, 2006)
By a happy coincidence I went to have coffee with Arun Shourie in his elegant Delhi home the day his new book came out. It is called Falling Over Backwards:
- Reading The Tea Leaves Amidst Storm In The Stocks Cup (Business Line, D. Murali , Jun 17, 2006)
"Investing without understanding the economy is like planning a beach trip without checking the forecast," alerts Richard Yamarone in The Trader's Guide to Key Economic Indicators. Over the past century, thousands of indicators have emerged, including . .
- Sweet Memories Of Kodaikanal (Business Standard, Geetanjali Krishna, Jun 17, 2006)
It’s a tiny shop, shelves agleam with shelves full of sweets. There are chocolates in over 30 flavours; fluffy marshmallows in a veritable rainbow of colours, and marzipans in fanciful shapes.
- Sack Ramadoss (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 17, 2006)
He is a risk to India's health sector ---- Ever since taking charge as Union Health Minister with the advent of the UPA Government, Mr Anbumani Ramadoss, whose credentials as a medical practitioner do not merit comment, has been going about . . .
- Fuel Prices: What's Going On? (Rediff on the Net, T V R Shenoy, Jun 17, 2006)
Petroleum Minister Murli Deora has asked every state government to follow the Maharashtra model, and cut sales tax rates on petrol and diesel. Alas for the harassed minister, his cherished Maharashtra model is falling apart.
- Youngest Ceo To Shift Base To City (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
The world’s youngest CEO, Suhas Gopinath, will shift his office headquarters from California to his home city of Bangalore, with Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Thursday assuring him office space within a week. ....
- The Emancipatory Potential Of Quota (Deccan Herald, Shruba Mukherjee , Jun 17, 2006)
The anti-reservation campaign across the country is premised on the argument that quotas lead to admission of non-meritorious students as they are selected on the basis of caste and creed and not on academic excellence.
- Candidate Assures Fulfilment Of Demands (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
Mr Marithibbe Gowda, an independent candidate standing for the upcoming MLC elections from the SouthTeachers constituency, on Friday expressed confident about his victory.
- "We Are Trying To Build An Inclusive Society" (Hindu, Anita Joshua, Jun 17, 2006)
M. Veerappa Moily, chairman of the Oversight Committee for implementation of 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in central educational institutions, discusses the tasks before him. Excerpts from an interview . . .
- City Populations Set To Outnumber Country Dwellers (Hindu, David Adam, Jun 17, 2006)
Globally, the slum population will swell by 27 million people each year over the next 20 years.
- Swarajists At The Savoy (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jun 17, 2006)
In Paris, during the students’ riots of the late Sixties, a pretty young Indian girl, now high in the Communist hierarchy, smoked foul-smelling French Gauloise cigarettes because they reminded her of Char Minars.
- Modern-Day Hydra (Business Line, K. Gopalan, Jun 17, 2006)
Corruption, particularly in India, is compared to a `Hydra,' as its manifestations are many — venality, favouritism, fraud, perjury and so on. And the guilty are found to be from various sections of society, religious heads not excluded.
- Politics As Farce In Meghalaya (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 17, 2006)
The farcical resolution of Meghalaya's month-long political crisis reflects poorly on the internal state of the Congress party, and on the quality and vision of its national leadership.
- Bjp Wants Kumaraswamy To Resign, Say Two Former Ministers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
Ties between coalition partners worsening, say Chandrashekar and Parameshwar
The right decision is to recommend elections
JD(S) has no moral right to table a Bill to take over BMIC project
- The Deserted Village (Tribune, Shelley Walia, Jun 17, 2006)
We had lived in Oxford for over six years and had no idea that there existed this old parish called Binsey right across the meadows to the west of Oxford. An Indian artist visiting Oxford had recommended it to us.
- Is The `War On Terror' Going Out Of Control? (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jun 17, 2006)
Governments, especially western liberal democracies with their supposedly more enlightened "values," are expected to get the balance between national security and individual liberties right. But is the `war on terror' descending into a form of . . .
- Bank Employee Arrested For Harassment (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
The MKB Nagar police on Thursday arrested a collection agent of a private bank on charges of harassing schoolgirls.
- Dvac Charge Sheets Former Aiadmk Legislator (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
He had assets disproportionate to known income sources
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