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Articles 7721 through 7820 of 22438:
- What About Women’S Reservations? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 03, 2006)
Good things done with wrong intentions by politicians who are otherwise perfectly wise, are bound to have adverse repercussions.
- Enable Environment (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 03, 2006)
Computers are a boon to the differently abled
- Europe’S Constitutional Dilemma (Daily Times, Shadaba Islam, Jun 03, 2006)
Get ready for another long, painful bout of European Union soul-searching. After a year spent wringing their hands over whether to bury or revive the EU constitution following its rejection by French and Dutch voters last year, the bloc’s key . . .
- This Opus Dei Member Says Thank You, Ron Howard (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 03, 2006)
Code has helped me to explain my faith, and its coexistence with my material side, and helped others to understand it
- Reservation Question (Tribune, Ashok Kundra, Jun 03, 2006)
The debate about reservation for OBCs in the premier educational institutions is raging in the country. Pro and anti-reservationists are out in streets demonstrating, striking and protesting.
- Picturing Pakistan (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jun 03, 2006)
A book explains why Pakistan goes back and forth between democracy and military dictatorship.
- Dr Ghamdi Is Right, Mr Aziz Is Wrong (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
On Wednesday, at the National Education Conference in Islamabad, we heard an interesting argument.
- Dmdk Council To Decide Local Body Polls Strategy (Hindu, Ramya Kannan , Jun 03, 2006)
Vijayakant does not rule out forging an alliance
A concrete plan will emerge by September, says DMDK chief
`Captain' busy consolidating his gains and strengthening party
"I will participate in Assembly proceedings only if they are relevant to people
- New Test Offers Speedy Reading Of Genetic Make-Up (Hindu, Ian Sample , Jun 03, 2006)
Sequences will reveal what chance we have of developing an endless variety of diseases.
- Bad Boys Finish First (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 03, 2006)
Everyone praises the truthful and runs down liars. But when it comes to the nitty-gritty, we have to concede that liars get a better deal in life than the truthful.
- "There Is A Very Deep-Rooted Prejudice" (Hindu, Siddharth Narrain , Jun 03, 2006)
Anuradha Mohit, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Special Rapporteur on Disability, says the academic sector has been the most insensitive in affirmative action for the disabled.
- Japan Considers Adding Patriotism To School Curriculum (Tribune, Bruce Wallace, Jun 03, 2006)
If the Japanese government gets its way, educators will soon add another course to the standard curriculum of reading, writing and arithmetic: teaching students to show love for their country.
- Chemical Onslaught On Human Life (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 03, 2006)
There was a time when man derived all his requirements from nature. He used naturally available herbs as medicine, naturally available nutrients and colours as cosmetics, and so on.
- Boat Ride To Death (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 03, 2006)
Enough intentional killings are taking place in Kashmir every day. An unintentional one took place on Tuesday when a naval boat carrying schoolchildren capsized in Wullar Lake, taking 23 children and one teacher to their watery grave.
- Nations Try To Patch Up Splits On Sex At Aids Meet......... (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
The president of the United Nations General Assembly has sought to break the deadlock over a UN declaration on AIDS, with Islamic countries objecting to empowerment for girls and the United States and others resisting defining financial targets.
- Caste Matters In The Indian Media (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jun 03, 2006)
If television and newspaper coverage of the anti-reservation agitation was indulgent and one-sided, the lack of diversity in the newsroom is surely a major culprit.
- "Number Of Aids Patients Increasing" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
Activists working for their welfare motivated in meeting
- Engineering Education Beyond 3g (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
Two students of a city college have been invited by two information-communication-technologies providers in South East Asia for presenting their ideas on improving the efficiency of third generation 3G mobile phone operations.
- System To Evaluate School Education (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
It will monitor the policies of those involved in providing education
- Jnu Students Union Supports Reservation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
Even as the relay hunger strike against the Central Government's decision to bring in reservation for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in higher education continued at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here, the JNU Students' Union (JNUSU) has . . .
- The Social `Trilemma` (Business Standard, T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan, Jun 03, 2006)
Equity, justice, efficiency-all three cannot be pursued simultaneously. One must be sacrificed.
- Job Skills: Try This Way (The Financial Express, Parth J Shah, Jun 03, 2006)
A skilled workforce is critical for a knowledge economy. The quality of education and training determines the quality of the workforce. How do we assure good education and training?
- Gears That Move The Innards Of Growth (Business Line, D. Murali , Jun 03, 2006)
Three books by Indian writers chart the course of economic growth in the country, looking at it from various angles — the sources of growth, growth theory and macroeconomic policy. Interesting and informative reads, says D.MURALI.
- Wular Drownings (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 03, 2006)
Curious resurfacing of ill-will
There was more than one tragedy on the Wular lake that terrible Tuesday.
- Will India Run Aground Or Muddle Through? (The Financial Express, V ANANTHA NAGESWARAN, Jun 03, 2006)
Either way, India’s future seems flawed; eternal optimists should tone down expectations from it.
- Affirmative Action The Only Answer (The Economic Times, V KRISHNA ANANTH, Jun 03, 2006)
There is no basis to argue that caste identities will be sharpened by setting aside 27% of seats in institutions of higher learning to the socially and educationally backward classes.
- Time Yet To Relent (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 03, 2006)
UPA must reconsider quota policy ---- By calling off their strike and returning to work, doctors in Delhi and other cities across the country have done the right thing.
- The Skill Pool Is Drying Up (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jun 03, 2006)
It is ironical to talk of labour shortage in a country of one billion. But increasingly, the problem will be not of labour shortage, but of the skilled variety.
- Private B Ed Colleges Come Under Fire In Uttaranchal (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
After private universities, it's now private B. ED colleges' deluge in Uttaranchal with the State Government giving its nod to open scores of such educational institutes.
- Now, Dummies Are Bad For Babies (Statesman, Jeremy Laurance, Jun 02, 2006)
It is more critical than which baby food to buy and more urgent than which school to choose. Few issues provoke fiercer debate among new parents than whether babies should be given a dummy to stop them crying.
- Doctors Resume Work After Quota Strike Ends (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Thousands of doctors and interns were back at work at state hospitals on Thursday, ending a nearly three-week strike against a government move to reserve more college seats for lower castes.
- Bus Passes For Schoolchildren To Be Issued From June 5 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
BMTC will issue passes for colleges students only in July BMTC will issue passes for college students only in July
PUC students have to spend close to Rs. 2,000 on bus fare till passes are issued
Schoolchildren spend Rs. 20 a day on bus travel
- Right To Information Act: Officials See Need For More Awareness (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Most applications pertain to service matters and individual grievances
State Information Commission so far receives 583 petitions/appeals/ complaints
Maximum number of requests related to Education and Municipal departments
High-level meeting . . .
- A Little Over-Optimistic (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 02, 2006)
BALOCHISTAN Governor Owais Ahmad Ghani seemed a little over-optimistic when he told a NIPA delegation on Wednesday that the province’s tribal society was “fast transforming” itself into a progressive one because of the ‘mega’ development projects . . .
- Medicos Call Off Strike (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
JNU and IIT, Delhi, students continue relay hunger strike
- Congress-Communist Camaraderie (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Jun 02, 2006)
There are moments in history when forked tongues will no do, and when overly nuanced appraisals of events amount only to equivocation.
- India, U.K. To Hold More Naval Exercises (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
``Recent exercises in Mumbai a success''
Discussions held between India and U.K. to strengthen cooperation
Sir Band lauds modernisation programme of Indian Navy
- Survey Points To High Mental Illness Incidence In Kerala (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Findings of an NSSO survey on disabled persons in the country
Findings of an NSSO survey on disabled persons in the country
- Opting Out Of The System? (Dawn, Tahir Mirza, Jun 02, 2006)
When you retire after almost 50 years in active journalism, are you also in some way perhaps opting out of the whole system in which you have been involved, have written about and reported on?
- Hindu Temple To Come Up In Moscow (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Jun 02, 2006)
Moscow Mayor's assurance to Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit
To replace demolished temple
Initial opposition from church
Cultural fete involving `sister cities'
- Govt Will Protect Minorities: Arjun (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Reaffirming the government’s commitment to the cause of the minorities in the country, Union Minister for Human Resource Development Arjun Singh has said that UPA will leave no stone unturned to protect their rights.
- Sc Again Refuses To Stay Quota Policy (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
The Supreme Court today reiterated its earlier stand declining stay of the Centre’s policy providing 27 per cent reservation to OBCs in central higher education institutions, saying without knowing the Government views no interim order could be passed.
- Medicos Return To Work (Tribune, Smriti Kak Ramachandran, Jun 02, 2006)
Resident doctors who resumed work after days of hunger strike, much to the relief of the government and patients, have cautioned that though the strike has been called off, they will sustain the anti-quota movement in the larger interest of the society.
- Mysore To Have Vtu-Bosch Rexroth Global Centre (Deccan Herald, Shankar Bennur, Jun 02, 2006)
Disclosing this to Deccan Herald, VTU Vice-chancellor Prof K Balaveera Reddy said Bosch Rexroth, the Union government and the State government will jointly fund the Bosch Rexroth-VTU International Centre.
- Focus On Agrarian Economy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Interesting reads in Kannada...
- The U.S. And The Strategy For Freedom (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Jun 02, 2006)
A remarkable feature of U.S. perceptions of West Asia is an inability or unwillingness to acknowledge linkages.
- Terror At Nagpur (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
A major attempt to attack the RSS headquarters here was foiled when three heavily-armed militants were shot dead in an encounter with the police while trying to enter the heavily-guarded sprawling premises in the wee hours today.
- Multi-Racial Fiji (Statesman, Sam Rajappa, Jun 02, 2006)
The dream of the late Timoci Bavadra of a multi-racial Fiji for which he launched the Fiji Labour Party in the 1980s providing a common platform for the indigenous Fijians and the Fiji-Indians was at last realised in the just concluded parliamentary . . .
- Gingerly Advance (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jun 02, 2006)
Central banks are known to be stolid, maybe even a little archaic. But the times they are a’changin.
- Old Whine In New Bottle (Times of India, Janaki Nair, Jun 02, 2006)
In the early 1980s in Bangalore, before its high visibility as an IT destination, there were some who would react to the news of some doctor's wrong diagnoses by darkly suggesting "he must be a capitation fee doctor".
- Appeasement As State Policy (Pioneer, Sanjog Maheshwari, Jun 02, 2006)
While the past decades have witnessed relentless competition among various political organisations to appease the minority community in a bid to cultivate the Muslim vote-bank, none can match the UPA Government's firestorm of minorityism.
- Make No Mistake, No Stay On Quota Yet: Sc (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Avoiding scope for misinterpretation, the Supreme Court hearing the anti-reservation petition clarified on Thursday that by subjecting the implementation of the policy to the outcome of the writ petition did not suggest a stay on implementation.
- Opening Doors To Islamists (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Jun 02, 2006)
After sealing the fate of Indian academics with 27 per cent reservation, Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh is off on a nine-day trip to the Gulf to explore possibilities of cooperation in academics between the two countries.
- Hc Asks R V Dental College To Admit Four Students (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
The Comed-K brochure said that the fee payable by the selected candidates will be on par with fee fixed by the committee.
- Why’S Kalam Mum On Quota? (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, Jun 02, 2006)
Although his decision to return the Office of Profit Bill has won him the applause of a middle-class suspicious of the motives and motivations of the political class, a good question to ask is: why has President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam been silent on the . . .
- Smoke-Screen (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 02, 2006)
The government is past master at the art of diversion. If a book or a film proves controversial, it reacts by banning the work. It implements social justice by ruining our universities, instead of tackling the problem at its root — ensuring that . . .
- Something’S Missing In The Jigsaw (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Jun 02, 2006)
There seems to be unexplored ideas in spite of the new human, diplomatic and political situation at present
- Good Schooling Need Not Be Expensive (Deccan Herald, Damodar Agrawal, Jun 02, 2006)
International schools: there’s a need to look at the larger picture.
- Freedom Fighter Passes Away (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Eminent freedom fighter and former MLA Narendrapal Singh Choudhary died in Nathadwara town earlier this week. An associate of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Mr. Choudhary was 104. He is survived by two sons and five daughters.
- Reserve And Destroy (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jun 02, 2006)
As the populism fire rages, Indian forests are under profound threat.
- The Da Vinci Code Leads Students Astray On Exams (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
It's thick with some big words and makes reference to history — but that doesn’t make The Da Vinci Code a textbook. Even so, some high school students in Britain have been mistaking fiction for fact — and using the blockbuster to support arguments . . .
- One Answer To 5 Tricky Questions (Indian Express, M. Rama Jois, Jun 02, 2006)
The on-going controversy over OBC reservations raises some important questions: is reservation on the basis of the decades old OBC list really in favour of socially and educationally backward classes? Is reservation at the post-graduate level justified?
- Law On Medical Staff Transfers (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Assam is planning a legislation to make it mandatory for medical teaching staff to work for a “certain minimum period” in each of the three colleges in Guwahati, Dibrugarh and Silchar.
- Buddha Takes A Brief Break (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Vacation after victory is but natural. Only, in the case of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, victories are more frequent than vacations.
- Quota Nod With Rider (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
The Supreme Court today said the government need not wait for its final judgment to goahead with reservations for Other Backward Classes but should keep in mind that the issue was before it.
- Boredom’S Great (Indian Express, NAMITA KOHLI, Jun 02, 2006)
For most school kids in the country, it’s vacation time now. Which takes me back to those two months of lazing around as a kid.
- Striking Difference (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 02, 2006)
Politicians couldn’t have ended the doctors’ agitation. They were only talking politics
- Call Off The Wild (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Jun 02, 2006)
What else is the financial services industry if not wild? It’s growing at a wild pace.
- Strike And After (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 02, 2006)
It is in the nation’s interest that the anti-reservation agitation by medicos has been called off although after a stern warning of the Supreme Court.
- British Academics Flay Closure Of Husain Exhibition (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Leading British academics have condemned the forced closure of noted Indian artist M.F. Husain's exhibition and criticised Hindu groups in Britain for putting pressure on the organisers.
- The Flight Of Merit (Statesman, Usha Mahadevan, Jun 01, 2006)
Do Doctors Serve The System That Subsidised Their Education?
- Medicos End Stir (Tribune, Smriti Kak Ramachandran, Jun 01, 2006)
Bringing to an end their 18-day- long hunger strike, medicos protesting against reservation have decided to comply with the Supreme Court’s directive to call off their stir.
- Checks And Imbalances (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jun 01, 2006)
President Kalam’s return of the Office of Profit Bill raises three questions.
- Quota Move Brings Out Caste Divide In Young Indians (Daily Times, Kamil Zaheer, Jun 01, 2006)
Modern India likes to boast about its emergence on the world stage and its booming information and pharmaceutical sectors, but the country is still grappling with the ancient Hindu caste system which divides its people
- Call Off Strike’, Indian Supreme Court Reiterates (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jun 01, 2006)
India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday directed medical students and doctors to end a strike against plans for higher college quotas for disadvantaged students as the government warned of dismissals.
- Just What The Sc Ordered: Doctors Get Back To Work (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2006)
Hours after the Supreme Court ordered them to resume work “forthwith” and called for restoration of normalcy in hospitals within three days, doctors and medical students in Delhi and Kolkata, protesting OBC reservation in premier education . . .
- Child Prodigy Or Wreck? (Deccan Herald, SUJATA RAJPAL, Jun 01, 2006)
Why on earth is the world so fond of churning out child prodigies?
- Reversing The Drop-Out Trend (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 01, 2006)
Just how elusive the goal of achieving universal primary education by 2015 proved to be for Pakistan was underscored by Education Minister Javed Ashraf Qazi the other day when he admitted that 45 per cent of students drop out of school at some stage.
- New Look At Adult Education (Deccan Herald, SUDHA MADHAVAN, Jun 01, 2006)
Learning for adults has to be experiential. It must help them find meaning in life
- Alarming Trend (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 01, 2006)
India should step up efforts to stop spread of AIDS virus
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