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Articles 8021 through 8120 of 22438:
- Arjun Visits Uae, Saudi Arabia Today (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2006)
Notwithstanding the quota issue and the ongoing agitation, Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh is leaving tomorrow on a nine-day visit to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to enlarge cooperation in education with the . . .
- Quotas Turn Caste Politics Upside Down (Indian Express, Vrinda Gopinath, May 29, 2006)
SP, BSP show unusual restraint over Lucknow’s medics’ strikes but their eye is on the upper-caste vote, and next year’s elections
- Wrong Code (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 29, 2006)
It does not take much to grab attention. By banning the film, The Da Vinci Code, Goa, Punjab, and Nagaland have managed to inject the flagging debate on fiction versus religious sentiment with some more life for some more time. Punjab’s decision . . .
- Doesn’T Help To Typecaste (Indian Express, Pradipta Chaudhury, May 29, 2006)
Caste as a criterion in public policy is not supported by available evidence
- Document In Hand, Students Sceptical (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2006)
The government today released a two-page document designed to defuse the anti-reservation agitation but medical students and doctors rejected the offer and lined up meetings to take a final decision.
- Indian Student Shot Dead In Us (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2006)
An Indian student, working part-time at an all-night convenience store in the US state of Pennsylvania, has been shot dead by an unidentified assailant.
- No Headway To Govt-Medicos Talk, Anti-Quota Stir On (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2006)
The striking anti-reservation medicos on Sunday talks with the government but the exercise failed to make headway as the students and resident doctors insisted the Centre give its response in writing to their demands and decided to continue their . . .
- Advani Backs Docs, Seeks Review Of Reservation Policy (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2006)
The realisation has finally dawned on the BJP that it cannot hope to politically benefit from its unequivocal backing of the proposed OBC quota in higher education.
- Arjun Singh To Visit Saudi Arabia, Uae (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2006)
Expanding cooperation in education will be the focus of Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh's nine-day visit to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) beginning on Monday.
- Universities Under Attack (Times of India, Andre Beteille , May 29, 2006)
Today, universities and other institutions of higher study are under attack by the authorities.
- China To Promote Its Culture Abroad To Dissolve "China Threat" (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2006)
China will strive to dissolve the global misconception of its fast development as the "China threat" in the wake of its rapid economic and military might, by making its traditional value systems like harmony known to the world.
- Govt To Examine Demand For Experts Panel On Quota (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2006)
Government will examine the demand for setting up an expert committee to review the reservation policy, Union Minister Oscar Fernandes said on Sunday.
- Elementary Protest (Times of India, KAMALA BALACHANDRAN, May 29, 2006)
The HRD minister ignited the spark and the rival groups fanned it with their placards. The controversial issue of reservation in institutions of higher education is grabbing headlines with everyone rushing to take sides.
- Quota Row Goes To Court, Sc Will Hear Pil Today (Indian Express, R VENKATARAMAN, May 29, 2006)
27% OBC Reservation: Petitioner wants proposed quota law & Constitutional amendment quashed, says issue was settled by SC
- Seeing Is Believing (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, May 29, 2006)
What’s common to dam construction without implementing relocation plans for oustees and upping quotas for OBCs in educational institutions without increasing the total number of seats?
- Nepal Army Pledges To Obey New Government (Reuters, Gopal Sharma, May 29, 2006)
The chief of Nepal's army said on Sunday the military would accept the orders of the new government, his first comments since parliament curbed King Gyanendra's powers including his control over the armed forces.
- Docs To Intensify Stir As Talks Fail (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2006)
As yet another round of negotiations failed to break the impasse on OBC reservation, the striking medicos on the 15th day of the agitation on Sunday asserted that the stir will be intensified as the Government was not heeding their demand of a . . .
- Quotas By Fiat (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 29, 2006)
Blaming the politicians for keeping caste biases alive, Prof Andre Beteille insists that reservations will lead to social polarisation.
- Interest Rate On Short-Term Crop Loans To Be Cut To 7%: Chidambaram (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2006)
Order will be issued within two to three days, says Finance Minister
Loans can be obtained for `kuruvai' and `samba' season
Steps taken to woo all sections to use services of banks
Plea to CM make Tamil a compulsory subject
- Talks With Medicos Fail (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, May 29, 2006)
Centre's offer to study demand for experts panel rejected
Fight is for all subjects, not just medicine, say medical students
Veerappa Moily to head Oversight Committee
- Quota For Obcs Has Samajwadi Party's Backing: Arjun Singh (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2006)
Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh today dismissed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav's charge that the proposed reservation for OBCs was a "vote catching ploy" of the Congress and said it has the backing of the Samajwadi Party.
- Make Quotas Price-Based (Business Standard, Bibek Debroy, May 29, 2006)
Add up all the expenses the UPA’s planned, and just give the money to everyone for voting Congress.
- The U.S. Will To War (Frontline, AIJAZ AHMAD, May 29, 2006)
What drives the `sole superpower' inexorably towards perpetual warfare?
- Quota Debate And The Orwellian Doublespeak (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , May 29, 2006)
The Government has shut the quota debate by pronouncing that it has decided. But this, says P. V. INDIRESAN, is iniquitous as it has ordained that no institution — even if it has no government patronage — can admit students free of caste bias.
- The Teacher Who Would Be Pm (The Economic Times, R K NANDAN, May 28, 2006)
From the academic year of ‘07, one out of every two students joining the IIMs, IITs and AIIMS will not be getting in on the basis of merit! ‘Credit’ goes to the Manmohan Singh government!
- Minority Government In Tamil Nadu (Frontline, T.S. Subramanian, May 28, 2006)
The DMK's manifesto and alliance arithmetic enable M. Karunanidhi to take charge as Chief Minister for the fifth time in Tamil Nadu.
- Pondicherry For Congress (Frontline, S. Viswanathan, May 28, 2006)
The outcome of the May 2006 Assembly elections in Pondicherry is the reverse of that in neighbouring Tamil Nadu where the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagm (DMK) government is dependent on the Congress for survival.
- Town Flattened • 200,000 Homeless (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
A powerful earthquake flattened homes and buildings in central Indonesia on Saturday as people slept, killing more than 3,500 and injuring thousands more in the nation’s worst disaster since the 2004 tsunami.
- Budhia Singh's Feat (Frontline, PRAFULLA DAS, May 28, 2006)
Budhia Singh's record-breaking run sets off a public debate involving the issue of child rights.
- Agha Shahid Bugti Among 15 Booked For Gas Pipeline Blast (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP)’s secretary general, Senator Agha Shahid Bugti, his son Tabish Bugti and Central Secretary .
- Hurriyat Doesn't Represent Kashmir (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 28, 2006)
The vast Gilgit-Baltistan area, comprising over 28,000 square kilometres, is both geographically and historically crucial in the contemporary context.
- A Life Of Service (Hindu, ANDREW WYATT, May 28, 2006)
Akkamma Devi was the first woman graduate from the Badaga community .
- Pakistanis Try Confronting Shame Of Honour Killing (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
Ayesha Baloch was dragged to a field, her brother-in-law held the 18-year-old down, her husband sat astride her legs and slit her upper lip and nostril with a knife.
- The ‘Charter Of Democracy’ (Dawn, Anwar Syed, May 28, 2006)
The “charter of democracy” that Ms Benazir Bhutto and Mian Nawaz Sharif issued on May 15, 2006, is noteworthy both for what it does say and that which it omits.
- An Alliance To Contain China (Frontline, P.S. Suryanarayana, May 28, 2006)
The latest U.S.-Japan security accord focusses on China and stresses joint preparedness in the military domain.
- Left Sweep Poet In Disguise (Frontline, SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY, May 28, 2006)
The Left Front wins for the seventh consecutive time, with a whopping three-fourths majority, in West Bengal.
- My Seat, Mai Baap (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, May 28, 2006)
Most people of my generation got their first exposure to the complexities of national politics through the dark phase of the Emergency.
- Sex Racket In Srinagar (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, May 28, 2006)
Despite saturation coverage of the protests against a commercial sex racket in Srinagar, their political content has passed unexamined.
- Uniformity In Diversity (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, May 28, 2006)
Is human activity blocking new species from evolving? It would seem so.
- Irrepressible Metropolis (Hindu, Gowri Ramnarayan, May 28, 2006)
Filmmaker Madhusree Dutta's "Seven Islands and a Metro" focusses on the invisible citizens who keep the city's wheels running.
- "I'm At The Crossroads" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
The Adelaide Writers' Week offered an interesting meeting with Australian author Helen Garner.
- Parl Panel Suggests One Iim In Each State (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
With controversy raging over OBC quota in higher education, a Parliamentary panel has suggested setting up at least one IIM in each state and increasing number of seats in existing ones.
- Growth Rate Myth (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 28, 2006)
The Congress should understand that faceless economic growth will not provide jobs to the
- History — A Neglected Subject (Daily Excelsior, Raj Kumar, May 28, 2006)
History is an important branch of social science to be taught to the students at the school level.
- Nationalising Natural Resources (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, May 28, 2006)
Bolivia takes major steps towards reclaiming its natural resources by nationalising its hydrocarbon sector.
- Clear Choice In Kerala A Cannon's Tale (Frontline, R Krishnakumar, May 28, 2006)
Kerala votes against the neoliberal agenda of the Congress-led front, which is backed by sectarian interests.
- Doctors On Unauthorised Leave To Be Dismissed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
Officials told to prepare a list of doctors who are on unauthorised leave
Government initiates steps to recruit 500 doctors
Funds released to tackle chikungunya disease
- The Greatest Indians (Hindu, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , May 28, 2006)
Indian classical musicians seek, and some of them achieve, perfection.
- Mediocrity Or Merit Lies In Individual Response (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 28, 2006)
When i read "Eviscerating a holy cow" (Open Page, May 7), it filled me with a mixed feeling of pride and gratitude.
- Happy Twosome (Hindu, BAGESHREE S. , May 28, 2006)
Let's straddle languages and cultures with pride, says English-Marathi writer Kiran Nagarkar
- Bending Communism Like Buddha In The Citadel Of Marxism (Deccan Herald, Prasanta Paul, May 28, 2006)
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya has unleashed a virtual revolution in the Marxist citadel.
- Coming Home To Malnad (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
Kuvempu’s house that has been converted into a museum as well as the Kuvempu Centenary Memorial Building are fitting tributes to one of the greatest cultural personalities of our times, writes Vidya Maria Joseph.
- Don't Sit In Judgment (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
Reassessing current assessment procedures will help students more.
- Chennai First, Delhi Fifth In Cbse Class X Exams (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
Ajmer and Chandigarh finish second and third; pass percentage 77.16 this year compared to 74.60 last year
- Life-Changing Books (Hindu, V. Gangadhar, May 28, 2006)
Two novels, very different in nature, still influence people.
- Widening Agitation (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, May 28, 2006)
After the Satyendra Dubey and Jessica Lal murders, the government of the day is again in danger of failing to recognise the depth of public anger over increased reservations.
- Just A Turn Left, Or About-Turn? (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, May 28, 2006)
Last week’s election results are scary for two reasons. The resounding victory of the Left in West Bengal and Kerala, and the meltdown of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
- The Doctor Needs A Shot In The Arm (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, May 28, 2006)
Two years in the saddle, the Prime Minister runs the risk of being the fall guy unless he sorts out issues with Sonia and gets her backing
- Need For Capacity Utilisation Of Facilities (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 28, 2006)
It is not fair to talk of merit since average or even mediocre students are keen to pursue higher education
- Up & Down In Down South (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, May 28, 2006)
Amma’s got a lot done so why’s she worried? Is there a gleam behind those famous Karunanidhi goggles? What’s Kalam doing atop a building? Looking for answers from a limo
- Drastic Decline In Canara Bank's Npa Level (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
The Non-performance Asset (NPA) level of Canara Bank, Erode district, has declined drastically and steps have been taken by the authorities to reduce it more, the Assistant General Manager, Canara Bank, Erode, S.V. Krishnamoorthy, told The Hindu on . . .
- Where Do Arjun, Sonia's Grandkids Study? (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, May 28, 2006)
First, let us drop the pretense that Mr Arjun 27 per cent was acting on his own when he announced his new quotas.
- Committee To Study Report On Paramedical Education (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
First meeting next week; recommendations of task force to be studied Recommendations were made by a task force recently
Recommendations
Withhold approval for new colleges for three years
Limit intake in each nursing college to 60 each
- In Absolute Silence: A Protest Against Lack Of Treatment For Aids (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
CD4 count testing centres in all districts demanded
Nutritious food sought through PDS
Anti-retroviral therapy through PHCs sought
- Bee In Their Heads (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, May 28, 2006)
It’s good to hear that Indian-American students have once again swept the honours in the annual National Geographic Champion Bee, held in Washington DC last Wednesday.
- No More Temples Of Learning (Tribune, Vikram Chadha, May 28, 2006)
Sagacious leaders of free India reposed an unflinching faith in the educationists and teachers for shaping the destiny of the country, and thus used such metaphors as 'temples of learning and knowledge' for universities and other academic establishments,
- Way Out Of Reservation (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 28, 2006)
Like other socially conscious citizens, I too have been concerned about the protracted agitation against reservation in institutes of higher education for OBCs, and the impasse created by the rigid stand taken by both the government and the agitators.
- Improving Panchayati Raj Institutions (Tribune, Mahi Pal, May 28, 2006)
The conclusion that emerged from a workshop of elected representatives of Panchayats who belong to the Scheduled Castes, organised by HIRD, was that due to the prevailing stranglehold of the caste structure in rural society, neither respect for . . .
- A Fairy Tale Debut (Hindu, SARMISHTA RAMESH, May 28, 2006)
Kaavya Viswanathan talks about her book, fame and future.
- Recrafting Roles For Growth (Tribune, Kiran Soni Gupta, May 28, 2006)
All growth has been despite the government, said a panellist. Another echoed that the “corruption in government is the only factor in withholding growth”. Huge pronouncements—are they a myth, fashion or a reality?
- A Time To Learn (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, May 28, 2006)
In reply to my question in the Rajya Sabha this session, the HRD Ministry acknowledged the fact that the budgetary provision for adult education in fiscal 2006-07 has been cut by one-fifth to Rs. 214 crore.
- The Tirupathi Of The West (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
The Venkatramana temple of Karkala is popular with the local people, many find it irresistible to visit the temple daily and receive the Lord's blessings, writes Amrita Nayak.
- Expansion Will Compromise Quality Of Teachers (Tribune, Smriti Kak Ramachandran, May 28, 2006)
The government’s assurance that the proposed 27 percent reservation for OBCs will not usurp the seats meant for general category students is being taken with a pinch of salt.
- Anti-Corruption Campaigner (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , May 28, 2006)
His full name is Velikakathu Shankaran Achuthanandan.
- In Search Of Role Models (Hindu, E.C. Thomas, May 28, 2006)
Do these names ring any bells? Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Kaavya Viswanathan, Chen Jin, A.Q. Khan and Jayson Blair. Well, all of them wanted to be rich and famous in a hurry and sacrificed their souls in that process.
- ‘India Follows A Democratic Path Of Debate’ (Deccan Herald, K S Narayanan, May 27, 2006)
Guy Sorman, a French philosopher and Indophile, believes that India is coping well with globalisation compared to China. He says that the real issue is not the clash between West and Islam, but between the radical and moderate Muslims.
- Rising Tiger And Roaring Dragon (Deccan Herald, Henry Chu, May 27, 2006)
China, for all its problems, remains the runaway leader on many fronts, in spite of India's emergence as a high-tech colossus, the cascade of jobs created by Western outsourcing and the nudge into the middle class of millions of aspiring workers...
- God Fails The Laboratory Test (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, May 27, 2006)
Daniel Dennett is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University (US). He looks every inch a philosopher:
- Anti-Quota Stir: Arjun Singh Meets Pm (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 27, 2006)
Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh had a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday, ahead of his parleys with the striking medicos opposing OBC quota in central educational institutions.
- Action Sought Against Yatnal (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 27, 2006)
The State BJP on Friday sought disciplinary action against Lok Sabha member Basavanagouda Patil Yatnal for his offensive against senior party leader and Deputy Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa.
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