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Articles 8221 through 8320 of 22438:
- Telecom-Specific Special Economic Zones Planned (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
To triple the subscriber base in another four years
50 crore phones by 2010
Emphasis on rural areas
Move for Internet connections to school
- About Clarity, Care And Consistency (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 25, 2006)
What is the relationship between facts and passion? How do eccentric opinions and conduct damage purposeful action, asks Vinayshil Gautam.
- Selling Surveillance To Anxious Parents (Deccan Herald, Matt Richtel, May 25, 2006)
Newer mobile technologies are helping parents, allowing them to keep a tab on their children. However these technologies do raise potential ethical issues for users.
- Great Term: Way To Go (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 25, 2006)
There is no second opinion about the noble services being rendered by Mr Justice N Venkatachala as Lokayukta.
- Rock Star On An African Mission (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 25, 2006)
Bono, who is on a visit to Africa, is trying to revive trade so that communities can become self-reliant.
- Cpm For Smaller Quota In Bengal (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
Bengal will have an Other Backward Classes quota in higher education, but it’s likely to be less than 27 per cent, the CPM said today.
- In Pakistan, Sunni Against Sunni (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 25, 2006)
The Shia-Sunni conflict in Pakistan is well known. Not so with the intra-Sunni conflict between the Barelvi and Deobandi creeds.
- The Tangle Over The Tiger And His Lair (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 25, 2006)
It’s not as big a controversy as others facing the Prime Minister but it’s set off a storm in conservationist circles.
- Reservation Blues (Indian Express, COLIN NICKERSON, May 25, 2006)
In his column in the May 28 issue of Organiser, M.V. Kamath has argued strongly against Arjun Singh proposal for OBC quotas.
- History Only Repeats Itself (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 25, 2006)
Fight for equal opportunity and merit where merit is used as a criterion for admissions. Fight also against reverse discrimination.
- Developers For Integrated Townships To Be Finalised Soon (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
HUDA issues tender notice inviting expression of interest
L&T among those who have submitted tender documents
Only one project for one developer or consortium
- Take The Benefits To Marginalised Sections Of Society, Say Academics (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
`Marks in tests should not be the only indicator of merit'
Academics say...
Keep out the creamy layer
Caste should remain the determining factor
Second generation land reforms necessary
- It's Back To School For Dmk Mlas (Hindu, R.K. Radhakrishnan, May 25, 2006)
It was more like going back to school for the 95 MLAs of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam at the party headquarters here on Wednesday.
- Tareq Testifies In Defence Of Saddam (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
Former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz took the witness stand today to defend Saddam Hussein and his associates in a case involving the killing of Shiite civilians from Dujail in the 1980s.
- Mind After Knee-Jerk (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 25, 2006)
So the political class has spoken. The 27% OBC quota in Central institutions is now only a couple of months and a Bill away—a Bill to which no one in Parliament will object.
- A History Of Unfair Play (Telegraph, TUMPA MUKHERJEE, May 25, 2006)
Millions of men and perhaps women across the globe are eagerly waiting for the football World Cup.
- Quota Protesters Fire Without Gun (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
Striking medical students today scrambled to intensify their agitation against quotas without any clear-cut plan of action as it began to dawn on them that their campaign needed better coordination and more public support.
- Pm Suggests 5 Point Programme To Build A New Kashmir (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
Talking tough, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today asserted that attempts by "some elements" within Jammu and Kashmir to disrupt peace process would be firmly thwarted and proposed focus on a five-point programme to build a new Kashmir.
- Where Have All The Schoolboys Gone? (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, May 25, 2006)
Girls outshine boys -- those familiar with our national dailies need look no further than this headline; they know exactly what we’re talking about.
- New Measures For Students At Delhi University (Hindu, Mandira Nayar, May 25, 2006)
As students gear up to brave the summer heat and prepare themselves for the frantic scramble for seats in colleges, Delhi University is going all out to reach out to potential students.
- Left Forces Quota Everywhere Except Home Turf (Pioneer, Santanu Banerjee, May 25, 2006)
The CPI (M)-led Left Front may have armtwisted the UPA Government to announce 27 per cent quote for OBCs in institutions of higher education from June 2007, but it is not prepared for the same in States like West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura where it rules.
- Quotacadabra (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 25, 2006)
The UPA-Left decision on the OBC quota in higher education admissions is deplorable.
- Reservations And Society (The Financial Express, RAVINDER KAUR, May 25, 2006)
Affirmative action, not reservations, app-ears to be the call of the day.
- Reservations: The Shortcut To Nowhere (The Financial Express, RAJIV KUMAR, May 25, 2006)
Move from sharing a declining pie to increasing the pie’s size and to accountability for services
- Quota: Bjp Against Dilution In Excellence (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
While favouring reservation for OBCs in institutions of higher education, the main Opposition party, the BJP, today drew the UPA government’s attention towards the constitutional amendment related to reservation, which was passed during the last . . .
- Still Time For Quota Rethink (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 25, 2006)
The UPA has done what politicians do best: taken the easy way out.
- Good Corporate Governance Evident In India, Says Irani (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
Asks corporate houses to concentrate on credibility as it is of paramount importance
- Higher Education Among Women (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, May 25, 2006)
Higher education is the main instrument for human resource development. Through this we can seek the trans formation of India into a Developed Nation by 2020.
- Brand Buddha~i (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 25, 2006)
“I am a communist”, said the West Bengal chief minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on more than one occasion recently.
- Pm Enters Third Year In Office (Daily Excelsior, Atul, May 25, 2006)
Manmohan Singh has entered his third year in office as Prime Minister of India amidst an ominous sign of student unrest all over the country, triggered ostensibly by the controversy over reservations for other backward classes (OBCs) in higher institutes
- Market, Quotas Poop The Party (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , May 25, 2006)
If it was baptism by fire for the gentleman-politician, Dr Manmohan Singh, in May 2004, when as dramatically as unexpectedly he was anointed Prime Minister by the Congress chief, Ms Sonia Gandhi, it was nothing short of a tumultuous second . . .
- Ere’S More To Affirmative Action (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 24, 2006)
Quite remarkably, the quota debate proceeds as if Jawaharlal Nehru University does not exist. It is one central institution of higher learning where the admission policy has consciously tried, since the seventies, to enhance representation of the . . .
- Why Should We Welcome The Stock Market Crash? (The Economic Times, Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar, May 24, 2006)
Economics assumes that human beings are rational. But human reactions to stock market movements are utterly irrational. When markets rise, everybody cheers. When markets crash — as has been the case for two weeks — everybody moans.
- Will Seat Hike Resolve Quota Tangle? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 24, 2006)
The periodic eruption among students, often resulting in avoidable violence and self immolations, is caused by the second-most explosive issue that continues to rock our polity.
- Fundamentals Win Over Sentiment (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , May 24, 2006)
During the past 10 days, the stock market has been witnessing a steep fall for which a whole lot of reasons have been attributed.
- Conspiracy Of Silence (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, May 24, 2006)
Anyone who has read the series of news reports this newspaper has run on the findings from the National Sample Survey’s 1999-2000 round will agree there is no case for reservations of the sort being contemplated today, either in private sector jobs . . .
- Call Them To Heel, Doc (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 24, 2006)
Ministers need to learn collective responsibility
- Stirring Up Hornests’ Nest (Hindu, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, May 24, 2006)
Instead of uprooting casteism, reservations should not become a bane for the society
- Lesson From America (Daily Excelsior, Srinivasan K. Rangachary, May 24, 2006)
The idea of reservations in educational institutions needs to be contested and rejected on principle.
- "The Platform Approach To Product Development Is Important To Intel" (Hindu, Anand Parthasarathy, May 24, 2006)
Paul Otellini, president and CEO of the world's biggest computer chip maker and PC technology player, is in India. In an e-mail interview toThe Hindu, he shares his vision of where silicon chip technology is headed; the alternatives being explored . . .
- After School (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 24, 2006)
There is no end to edu-cation. It is not that you read a book, pass an
examination, and finish with education.
The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die,
is a process of learning.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Over 91 Per Cent Pass Cbse Class 12 In Chennai Region (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2006)
Of the 35,000 students who appeared for Class 12 CBSE exams under the Chennai region, more than 32,000 or 91 percent have passed.
- Round Table, And The Road Home? (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, May 24, 2006)
Two families of top Hizb-ul-Mujahideen operatives hope that the second round table on Kashmir will help their loved ones return home.
- Never Bitten, Twice Shy (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, May 24, 2006)
Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh should streamline their division of responsibilities
- Disaster At Ctc (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 24, 2006)
The minister can’t shirk responsibility
Having made it to the ministry with the support of his mentor and still more important with portfolios intact, Subhas Chakraborty is said to have received the loudest applause as he walked . . .
- Reserving All Hopes Of Progress (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 24, 2006)
A far better option than quotas will be to offer the needy scholarship so that they gain a competitive edge, says Bulbul Roy Mishra.
- Medicos Continue Agitation; Walk-In Interviews Disrupted (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2006)
As the medicos' strike against the government's reservation proposal entered the 13th day today, agitating medicos took up the task of trying to thwart the recruitment drive launched by the government to replace them in the strike-affected hospitals.
- School's Out (Times of India, MUKUL SHARMA, May 24, 2006)
Calculators and Internet search engines may not seem to have much in common but they're basically the same thing. Both are knowledge delivery systems which work in response to a qualified query.
- Going Nowhere (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, May 24, 2006)
New educational data, released by the HRD Ministry, yet again points out that school education is in dire need of reform.
- Hungry Children Waste Away In India's Economic Boom (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, May 24, 2006)
Four-year-old Kamini Tumda lies in a hospital bed writhing in agony as a nurse gently washes her, removing flakes of tender skin that hang from her body.
- Troops On Alert For Pm's Kashmir Conclave (Reuters, Palash Kumar, May 24, 2006)
Hundreds of troops sealed off Srinagar on Wednesday as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived for a peace meeting which Islamist militants have threatened to disrupt.
- 8,000-Crore Question (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 24, 2006)
We now have a figure for the price the nation is being asked to pay for human resources minister Arjun Singh shooting off his mouth Rs 8,000 crore.
- ‘Instead Of A Vital Link In A Solution, Nkc Became Part Of The Problem’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 24, 2006)
Yogendra Yadav responds to Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s letter of resignation on Monday from the National Knowledge Commission
- Pm Lets Down Peers (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 24, 2006)
They are neither politicians nor MPs and their resignations will not destabilise the UPA Government in any way. Yet, the departure of Mr Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Mr Andre Beteille from the National Knowledge Commission is a distressing signal for . . .
- The Afghan Challenge (Pioneer, Hari Jaisingh, May 24, 2006)
Afghanistan may be a distant nightmare for most people, but right now it is engaged in a grim battle for survival as a development-oriented democratic entity in the face of the Taliban-type terrorism onslaught.
- Punjab’S Farmer Must Think Smart (Indian Express, Manraj Grewal, May 24, 2006)
Farming is “time-pass”, he had said. It has been two years since Malkit Singh of Lehal Kalan village in the Sangrur district of Punjab said this to me but his words still gnaw.
- Doctors Float Parallel Organisation To Ima (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2006)
A maha rally will be organised in the capital on June 4 by medicos supporting reservation
- `Luxury On Train' To Cover Mysore, Hassan, Hampi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2006)
It will become operational from March next
The train will have its trial run in January or February next
The Integral Coach Factory in Chennai is designing the coaches
The cost of the project is estimated at Rs. 32 crore
- Focus Back On The Left (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 24, 2006)
The victory of the Left in West Bengal and Kerala, the endorsement given to the DMK election manifesto and the loss of a majority in Assam for the Congress should make the UPA government and the Congress leadership introspect and draw lessons.
- Dolphins Play Name Game (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 24, 2006)
Through their distinct sounds, Dolphins can not only identify their peers by names, but can also talk about other groups, research reveals.
- Wake-Up Call (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 24, 2006)
Though negotiations are being held with agitating medicos, the latter’s protests have been dismissed as unwarranted by Mr Arjun Singh.
- Agriculture Cannot Wait (Hindu, M.S. Swaminathan, May 24, 2006)
The Indian tragedy of extensive poverty and deprivation persisting under conditions of impressive progress in the industrial and services sectors will continue so long as we refuse to place faces before figures.
- Politics Of Sympathy (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 24, 2006)
The lack of concern shown by ministers to the doctors’ strike betrays a moral bankruptcy
- Passing Weapons (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 24, 2006)
Sometimes, when I find myself at another well-informed Delhi dinner party, I wonder who the audience for Westminster Gleanings in Calcutta can be.
- Chief Minister Vows To Get Krishna Water For Pulivendula (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2006)
Launches many schemes in the constituency during three-day tour
Top priority for development of backward areas
Supply of irrigation water for at least one crop all over
Welfare schemes to cover all eligible beneficiaries in State in next three years
- The Appalling State Of Indian Muslims (Hindu, Firoz Bakht Ahmed, May 24, 2006)
Muslims in India are falling behind in every conceivable growth indicator
- To Be Or Not (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 24, 2006)
A second wedding anniversary is traditionally associated with paper. Mr Manmohan Singh might well want to link the second anniversary of his government with something even more fragile than paper.
- Vajpayee To Be Honoured With Paramacharya Award (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee would be presented the Eighth Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswati National Eminence Award for "outstanding" public leadership at a function here on May 25.
- Docs' Strike Continues As Talks Fail (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
The government on Monday failed to persuade medicos to end their strike against quotas in central educational institutions.
- Kabul Calling (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 23, 2006)
The Union Social Justice Minister must realise that there won't be a society worth its name left in India after what she has set out to achieve.
- Ima Pune Chapter To Observe One-Day Strike On May 25 (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Around 2,500 general practioners and consultants, registered with the Indian Medical Association (Pune Chapter), would observe a day's strike on May 25 to protest against the Centre's proposal for OBC quotas in institutes of higher learning.
- Q&a: 'Competition Law Is Essential For A Free Market' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 23, 2006)
Richard Whish of King's College London is an expert on competition law, a critical aspect of economic reforms where India is lagging. He met Manoj Mitta when he was in New Delhi for a conference:
- Pm 'Pained', Promises A Please-All Roadmap (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
The PM on Monday said that the quota row figured in the discussion he had with President Kalam earlier in the day.
- On The Trail Of The Buddha (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
The stupas at Sanchi and Sarnath are a must-see even if you don't have religion on your mind
- Quota Talks Stuck On Review Cry (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Medical students protesting against quotas today told the Union health secretary that a review of the policy by an expert committee should be done and made public before any step is taken to increase reserved seats for Other Backward Classes.
- Tyranny Of The Smug (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, May 23, 2006)
Why not reserve us all? Why not provide education, health, drinking water and electricity to all, regardless of caste and class? Why this game of dividing us all in an attempt to continue exploiting India?
- Beyond Sound And Fury (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 23, 2006)
In recent polemics, reservation has been projected primarily as an issue of caste conflict.
- Bandage On A Cancer (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 23, 2006)
Taking a stand is thorny, more so, when one is ‘rebelling’ against one’s own community.
- Tea Decreases Stress, Say Scientists (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Tea drinkers have long believed in the calming effects of a cuppa.
- Quota Without Tears (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
The quota row today hit the government’s image where it should hurt, with two members quitting the National Knowledge Commission, set up by the Prime Minister to promote excellence in education and knowledge creation.
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