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Articles 8321 through 8420 of 22438:
- And Now Govt Faces Pro-Quota Ultimatum (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Having failed to quell the anti-reservation movement with their assurance of fair play, the government now faces an additional predicament, a three-month deadline by the pro-reservationists to implement the 27 per cent quota for OBCs.
- Upa’S Birthday Gift: Petrol, Diesel Price Hike Soon (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Strongly indicating an increase in the price of petrol and diesel as “we cannot continue to subsidise energy consumption on this scale” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh categorically said here tonight that his UPA government had significantly . . .
- 2 Quit Pm’S Knowledge Panel (Tribune, Smriti Kak Ramachandran, May 23, 2006)
Objecting to the government’s proposal of implementing 27 per cent reservation for OBCs, two members of the National Knowledge Commission, Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Andre Beteille, today sent in their resignations to the Prime Minister.
- Manmohan Singh Hints At Fuel Hike (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Marking the second anniversary of UPA regime at the Centre, PM Manmohan Singh on Monday gave two indications that had profound implications for the near future. The first was a clear signal that a fuel price hike was imminent and the . . .
- Distinguish Talent From Ability (Deccan Herald, Damodar Agrawal, May 23, 2006)
In reality, Budhia's story is an example of society's failure to understand the physical limitations of a child
- Manmohan Renews Appeal To Medicos (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Promises fair, just and inclusive system
- Arjun: Leave It To Prime Minister (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh on Monday asked medical students and doctors to end their anti-reservation stir in the wake of the appeal by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and leave the issue to him.
- Award For Haryana Girl (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Nazuk Kumar, a Class X student of Carmel Convent School here, was awarded the National Bal Shree Award for creative scientific innovations for the year 2005 by President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi this past week.
- No Funds For Development Works, Says Deputy Chief Minister (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
The Government also has no time to take them up: Yediyurappa
- Two Years, Too Lost (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 23, 2006)
This week the UPA government completes two years in office. So, where are the festivities? By all indicators, the air in New Delhi should be purposefully celebratory.
- Quota: 2 Quit Knowledge Commission (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Favour affirmative action as opposed to numerical quotas
Not doing enough to genuinely empower marginalised groups
All measures under discussion are to defuse the agitation: Beteille
- Karat For Consensus On Reservation Issue (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Proposed quota should benefit the poor among SCs, STs and OBCs
Pranab briefs Karat on GoM proposals
Government may increase number of seats
"Exclude the affluent and those with access to jobs and higher education"
- The Wages Of Hate: Islamist Terror In India (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, May 23, 2006)
Two Lashkar cells targeting Gujarat are discovered, preventing major terror strikes. Their stories underline the disastrous fallout of the anti-Muslim pogrom of 2002.
- Reservation — An Alternative Proposal (Hindu, Satish Deshpande, May 23, 2006)
In this second and concluding part of their series, the authors offer a method to ensure both merit and social justice are taken into account.
- Turkey Key To New Accord With Islam (Hindu, MADELEINE BUNTING, May 23, 2006)
The EU should stop worrying about questions of identity and open up the club's doors.
- Fair Polls Not Possible Under Mulayam Regime: Apna Dal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Assembly elections should be held under Presidents' Rule'
Previous experience has shown that whenever polls were held under Mr Yadav's regime, they were never free and fair'
`Our party is in favour of reservation to backwards in premier . . .
- Cbse Announces Class Xii Examination Results (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
The results of the Class XII examinations conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) were declared on Tuesday.
- Short Stories (Hindu, Sarojini Premchand, May 23, 2006)
This volume contains 27 short stories. In `Spruha', Kavana Sarma skillfully depicts how young boys and girls are conditioned mainly by mothers using very subtle methods to conform to gender, class and caste boundaries prevailing in society.
- Banned In India: The 1930s-1960s (Business Standard, Nilanjana S Roy, May 23, 2006)
For a state often accused of knee-jerk censorship, the number of books banned in India is surprisingly small—one reason why The Da Vinci Code isn’t likely to be stopped at Customs, despite the recent hysteria over the film. In the first of this . . .
- No Deserving Student Will Be Denied Opportunity: Pm (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
As the anti-reservation protests continued, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today made a fresh appeal to agitating students to call off their strike and assured them that no deserving student would be denied an opportunity to secure education.
- Nature And Human Nature (Deccan Herald, Valson Thampu , May 23, 2006)
According to the Bible, what God gave Adam and Eve first was not a mansion but a garden: the Garden of Eden.
- Efforts On To Form Common Platform With Like-Minded Parties: Uma (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Bharatiya Jansakthi Party founder Uma Bharti today announced she would establish a common platform along with like-minded parties in a couple of months to provide an alternative to the Congress, BJP and Left parties.
- Hurriyat’S Standing Apart Will Benefit None: Pm (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Ahead of the Kashmir roundtable in Srinagar, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tonight said the Hurriyat decision to boycott the meet did not surprise him and that their "standing apart" will benefit none.
- Flurry Of Violence In Kashmir Ahead Of Pm's Roundtable (Reuters, Sheikh Mushtaq, May 23, 2006)
Suspected Islamist rebels launched four grenade attacks in Srinagar on Monday as political separatists spurned an invitation for talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
- Lucknow University Has 70% Quota Since 15 Years (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
While students of Delhi University are protesting 27 per cent other backward class quota in higher education, their counterparts in the Lucknow University (LU) have been facing over 70 per cent reservations since last 15 years.
- Development & Empowerment~upa’S Birthday Vows (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
With the raging quota storm and the swinging Sensex casting shadows on his government’s second anniversary, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, sought to give a big picture today, pledging his regime to the programme of “development and empowerment”.
- How To Take All The Pleasure Out Of Life (The Economic Times, MUKUL SHARMA, May 23, 2006)
The saddest part of seriousness is that it’s grim. And the stupidest myth about it is that serious somehow means important.
- Chinks In The Armour (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 23, 2006)
The great Indian market volatility gives a non-academic poignancy to debates about the right valuation of the market.
- Bangalore Divided Over Moral Policing Move (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Moral policing proposed by Bangalore University to ensure that boys and girls do not sit together in classrooms has evoked mixed reactions from the student community, parents and academicians.
- Quota Panel Members Quit (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
In an embarrassment to the government on a day talks between it and agitating medics and students on the reservations row failed with the protestors vowing to carry on the anti-quota agitation, two leading members of the National Knowledge . . .
- The Healing Touch (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, May 23, 2006)
The national agricultural research system should develop technology that helps promote medicinal plants.
- Indo-Us Strategic Partnership (Daily Excelsior, Vinod & Rao, May 22, 2006)
The sound of the words "Indo-US Strategic Partnership" is being sought to be imparted a resonance as that in a cathedral but the fact that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice set the ball rolling on the basis of a decision to resume F-16 supplies . . .
- Food For Serious Thought (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, May 22, 2006)
In pursuing the uplift of the oppressed and the underprivileged, it’s time HRD Minister Arjun Singh inquired about one scheme that has the potential of making a real difference on the ground — the mid-day meal.
- Monkey See, Monkey Do (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
Researchers have reportedly confirmed that chimpanzees are intelligent. Going by a study published in Science, the chimp is more intelligent than we human chauvinists have cared to acknowledge.
- Quota For Need (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 22, 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.
- Sharpening Conflict (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 22, 2006)
Talk to students to end the impasse
- Medicos Turn Down Pm's Appeal (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
Turning down Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's appeal, the striking medicos today continued their agitation saying it carried no meaning as it did not address their demands.
- Sc Cautions On Juvenile-Age Norms (Tribune, S.S. Negi , May 22, 2006)
In the wake of rising incidence of teenage crimes in the country, the Supreme Court has cautioned trial courts that they should apply the law regarding determination of the age of an accused strictly as per the guidelines laid down by it in its . . .
- Playing With Resources (Telegraph, S.L. Rao, May 22, 2006)
The author is former director-general, National Council for Applied Economic Research
- Medicos Turn Down Pm's Appeal, Continue Strike (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
The deadlock over the anti-quota agitation by medicos continued today with students and junior doctors sticking to their demands of total rollback of the proposed OBC quota and a review of the reservation policy.
- Indian Doctors Reject Pm’S Call To End Agitation (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
Thousands of Indian doctors and medical students protesting against a government affirmative action programme for low-caste students continued their strike Sunday, despite the prime minister’s assurances that their interests will be protected.
- Rs5.9bn Water Project Opened: Mirani Dam Nears Completion: Musharraf (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf on Sunday said that with the country’s economy having been stabilised the focus would now be on the issues of poverty alleviation, jobs creation and inflation control.
- Economy On Strong Footing: Musharraf (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf said Sunday that now when the country’s economy has been stabilised on strong footings, he is now poised to focus on three important issues viz poverty alleviation, jobs creation and control on inflation.
- 'Old' India Spins A Storm In Modern Germany (Times of India, RASHMEE ROSHAN LALL, May 22, 2006)
The place a darkened converted factory in the heart of the staid, provincial former capital of Germany.
- Igp Injured, 7 Killed In Fidayeen Strike On Azad's Rally (Daily Excelsior, Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, May 22, 2006)
In yet another major security lapse, militants in Police uniform today reached close to the dais and struck on a Youth Congress rally at Sher-e-Kashmir Park, killing three political workers and two Police personnel, minutes before the scheduled . . .
- Brand Basu (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 22, 2006)
Buddhadeb mustn’t suffer further constraints
Jyoti Basu has formed Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s cabinet.
- Cyber Crime Law (News International, Editorial, The News International, May 22, 2006)
The cabinet would do well to approve a piece of legislation sent to it by the information technology ministry to deal with cyber crimes.
- Up Govt Invokes Esma Against Striking Doctors (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday invoked Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) against doctors opposed to reservation and declared their strike illegal.
- American Ally~i (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 22, 2006)
President Bush has authorised the sale of F-16 to Pakistan. More will follow.
- Shaukat’S Passionate Call For Muslim Unity (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, May 22, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has underlined the need for Muslim leadership that has a clear vision, can take tough decisions and has the ability to solve problems by taking the people along.
- Reservations Dilemma (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, May 22, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assured all sections of society that his government will amicably settle the issues arising out of the proposed reservation for other backward classes (OBC) in institutions of higher learning.
- Meeting The Challenge Of Mandal Ii (Hindu, Satish Deshpande, May 22, 2006)
Is there a way forward where both merit and social justice can be given their due? This two-part series attempts to find one.
- Internet-Based Toefl From Next Month (Hindu, K.N. Murali Sankar, May 22, 2006)
A new Internet-based version of the Test Of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL iBT) will be introduced by next month for students aspiring to pursue their higher studies in the United States and elsewhere.
- No Quota, Says India (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
The striking medicos of Delhi have become a symbol of the anti-quota protest, and the spark that they lit up is spreading like forest fire across the country.
- Pc: Reworking Priorities Will Help Generate Funds (Times of India, Himanshi Dhawan, May 22, 2006)
The government's plan to douse the anti-reservation fire by hiking the number of seats in higher education will cost at least Rs 8,000 crore. Clearly, the project is a very ambitious one.
- Aids Treatment To Go Hi-Tech (Times of India, Kounteya Sinha, May 22, 2006)
Surveillance and administering of Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ART), the only effective way to treat the deadly AIDS virus, is all set to go hi-tech.
- The Rs 8,000-Crore Quota Puzzle (Times of India, Himanshi Dhawan, May 22, 2006)
The government’s plan to douse the anti-reservation fire by hiking the number of seats in higher education, so that general-category seats do not shrink, will cost at least Rs 8,000 crore, more the double of what was spent on higher and technical . . .
- Port Of Call (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 22, 2006)
Mumbai’s exorbitant real estate prices have been held responsible for many of the city’s ills: shortage of good schools, the underworld’s birth and sustenance, the venality in Maharashtra’s body politic, the inability to transform itself into a . . .
- Strike On Under Eviction Threat (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
Medicos continued with their anti-quota agitation today, rejecting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s appeal and ignoring a warning that they would be thrown out of AIIMS hostel rooms.
- Have Faith In Government's Sincerity (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 21, 2006)
Assuring all sections of an "amicable" settlement in the reservation issue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tonight appealed to the striking medicos to call off their agitation and have faith in government's "sincerity".
- Thousands Protest As Caste Quota Row Simmers (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, May 21, 2006)
Thousands of students held street protests across the country on Saturday as they continued to oppose a government move to reserve more college seats for lower caste students.
- Politics Of Muslim Identity (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 21, 2006)
The formation of the People's Democratic Front (PDF) in Uttar Pradesh by a group of Muslim outfits is a positive development.
- Long-Term Solution (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 21, 2006)
The issue of proposed 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in admissions in institutions of higher learning has aroused protests all over the country from those who consider it damaging in the long run.
- Pm, Arjun Hold Hands On Quota (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 21, 2006)
Before the Congress Working Committee met today, the Prime Minister and Arjun Singh tried hard to spare themselves, the party and the government a big embarrassment on the reservation issue by kissing and making up.
- Embracing Other Selves (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 21, 2006)
Like all writers, I am often asked about my “social commitment” as a writer.
- The Road Ahead (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, May 21, 2006)
The first thing I do after getting up in the morning is to go for an hour of walk in one of the well-known gardens of my city. For my walk, I take along either my transistor to listen to the news or an audio CD or an audio tape to listen to a . . .
- He Keeps Pace With Time (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , May 21, 2006)
Why have the Leftists done better in elections in India when communist ideology is fading the world over?
- Politics Of Dr Singh (Statesman, SUBROTO ROY, May 21, 2006)
Manmohan Singh has said he learnt of politics from Joan Robinson; he must have realised he became politically committed as PN Haksar’s protégé
- Taking Sides (Hindu, Sevanti Ninan, May 21, 2006)
In the coverage of the reservation debate in TV news channels, only one side has been given voice and made visible.
- Reservation On Reservations (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, May 21, 2006)
"Two wrongs cannot make a right" The basic intention of providing reservations at various levels to the so called backward classes (SC/ST, OBC, etc.) in the constitution of India was for the equal and overall development of all the classes/sections . . .
- For The Citizens Of Tomorrow (Business Standard, Geetanjali Krishna, May 21, 2006)
We were discussing a much talked about case last week, when some school kids in an impromptu car race in Gurgaon ran over a security guard, and then tried to buy his silence.
- Vested Interests (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 21, 2006)
Fundamentals of bad governance
What is there in common between the Government of India’s actions regarding (a) OBC quotas in higher education; (b) the US-India nuclear deal; (c) spending $12 billion ($1200 crore) on new aircraft for bankrupt Air . . .
- What's Really Up With The Govt Of Upa? (Statesman, R K NANDAN, May 21, 2006)
On May 14, while inaugurating in Delhi the complex of the Defence Research & Development Organisation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for the creating of a favourable working environment to retain within the country the best talent in cutting . . .
- Reserved For Whom? (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 21, 2006)
One of India’s leading news-magazines came up with a rather revealing statistic the other day in its cover-story on the reservation issue.
- My Cook, My Life (Business Standard, Kishore Singh, May 21, 2006)
The statutory order binding on all residents of the apartment went out earlier this week: “Accept all invitations, no matter how abysmal,” said my wife.
- Honouring Our Heroes (Hindu, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , May 21, 2006)
How should we remember our icons and perpetuate their memory for posterity?
- Why Pay More For Fairness? (Dawn, Peter Singer, May 21, 2006)
Marks & Spencer, a supermarket and clothing chain with 400 stores throughout Britain, recently announced that it is converting its entire range of coffee and tea, totalling 38 lines, to Fair-trade, a marketing symbol of “ethical production”.
- Politics Of Identity (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 21, 2006)
Amartya Sen argues against reducing individuals to simple, and single, categories.
- Tocqueville’S Lessons In Democracy (Dawn, Nicolas Tenzer, May 21, 2006)
It seems appropriate that, due to the Iraq war, the world has been debating the nature of democracy 200 years after Alexis de Tocqueville’s birth. Tocqueville is justly famous for rejecting reactionary nostalgia and regarding democracy’s triumph . . .
- Cong In Fire-Fighting Mode On Quota (Deccan Herald, K Subrahmanya, May 21, 2006)
Alarmed by the reservation mess triggered by senior party leader and Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh, the Congress leadership on Saturday night resolved to find a quick solution end the anti-reservation stir.
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