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Articles 9021 through 9120 of 22438:
- Nba Seeks Rights Commission's Intervention (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
We also highlighted violation of socio-economic rights: Patkar
- Hrd Minister Pays Ec A Visit (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
A day after having met President APJ Abdul Kalam, Union Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh visited the Election Commission on Thursday over his alleged announcement declaring quota for other backward classes (OBC) in elite educational . . .
- Government Confident Of 8 Pct Growth, Oil A Risk (Reuters, Unni Krishnan, May 05, 2006)
The government is confident of sustaining 8 percent growth for many years but the recent rise in global oil prices poses a major risk to Asia's third-largest economy, a top government official said on Thursday.
- Prioritising Civil Service Reforms (Daily Excelsior, Srinivasan K. Rangachary, May 05, 2006)
The Government proposes to introduce a bill in Parliament to amend civil services rules whereby merit and integrity will get preponderance over seniority.
- Justified Protest (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, May 05, 2006)
Villagers of Sungal and adjoining areas in Akhnoor tehsil are angry for right reasons. Indeed it is a matter of shame and regret that a minor girl should have her modesty outraged by her teachers.
- Hidden Hunger (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 05, 2006)
A Unicef report says India has the highest number of malnourished children in the world: One in three of the world's malnourished children is Indian. Of the world's 146 million malnourished children, 57 million are in India; they are 47 per cent of . . .
- Pramod Mahajan (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 05, 2006)
General secretary of the BJP he may have been, but Pramod Mahajan always set forth as if he was a general launching into battle. Regardless of his party designation, he was the organisation’s man for all seasons and reasons.
- Mr Toraichi Kono And The Tramp (Deccan Herald, Bruce Wallace, May 05, 2006)
Kono and Chaplin. Kono, an aide to Chaplin for years, was forgotten until crates of his papers came to light.
- Medha Approaches Nhrc (Tribune, Vibha Sharma, May 05, 2006)
Terming the displacement of thousands of persons in the Narmada valley by the Sardar Sarovar Dam an “abuse of human rights”, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar today asked National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman A. S. Anand . . .
- ‘No Reliable Data On Number Of Seminaries In Pakistan’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
Top bosses of the Religious Affairs Ministry confessed before a National Assembly standing committee here on Tuesday that Pakistan was the only Muslim country where “no reliable data about exact numbers of deeni madaris (religious seminaries) is . . .
- Students Seek President's Intervention Over Quota (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
Petition signed by 1.7 lakh students opposing new reservation move by Government submitted to Kalam
- The Pauperisation Of Palestinians (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, May 05, 2006)
The Western campaign to starve the Palestinians into submission is a losing gambit.
- Serious About Educating Rita (Indian Express, Ashok Ganguly, May 05, 2006)
am strongly of the opinion that women should have the same facilities as men and even special facilities where necessary — so observed Mahatma Gandhi while making an impassioned plea for according a special emphasis on educating the girl child as . . .
- Threats Won’T Work (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 05, 2006)
We report facts. Those who fear the truth in the Srinagar sex abuse case must know this
- Dialogue Of Religions (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 05, 2006)
In this strife-torn age, humankind is ultimately faced with two choices, dialogue or death
- Several Targets For Arjun’S Broken Arrow (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, May 05, 2006)
HRD minister’s quota card was less a joker than a calculated ploy to improve his own lot and, via Assembly elections two years hence in Madhya Pradesh, that of his son
- Nurturing A Child Prodigy (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 05, 2006)
The saga of the wonder boy Budhia Singh — symbolised by visuals of prodigious talent as well as end-game exhaustion — is at once moving and worrisome.
- Jairaj Is Bmp Chief (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
With a slew of infrastructure projects lined up for Bangalore, the JD (S)-BJP Government on Thursday changed the chiefs of three civic bodies in the City, along with a major reshuffle of bureaucrats in which 53 IAS and IPS officers were transferred.
- Arjun Calls On Ec, Clarifies Stand (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
With less than a week left for the model code of conduct to get over, HRD minister Arjun Singh came calling on the full Election Commission on Thursday.
- Indian-Origin Sunita Williams To Make Maiden Space Expedition (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
She will serve as a flight engineer on NASA's six-month mission
- ‘No Reliable Data On Number Of Seminaries In Pakistan’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
Top bosses of the Religious Affairs Ministry confessed before a National Assembly standing committee here on Tuesday that Pakistan was the only Muslim country where “no reliable data about exact numbers of deeni madaris . . .
- New Frontline In The War On Terror (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
As hideouts go, the Shawal Valley in northern Pakistan is a militant's dream.
- Corrections And Clarifications (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 04, 2006)
Two articles — "India Inc., liberalisation, and social responsibility" by Sushma Ramchandran (Editorial page, April 25, 2006) and "The ideological debate in China" by Pallavi Aiyar (Op-Ed, April 25, 2006), have a reader asking: Ms. Ramachandran . . .
- A Man Of The Modern World (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , May 04, 2006)
There was no job in the BJP that Pramod Mahajan did not handle — and handle with some finesse. Whether he was in the party or the government, he took every job seriously, working out every detail.
- The Curse Of Dual-Income Workaholic Consumerism (Hindu, Oliver James , May 04, 2006)
Long working hours and status consumption have the U.S. and Britain in their grip.
- Man In A Hurry (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, May 04, 2006)
For the fledgling Bharatiya Janata Party, New Year’s Day, 1985 was not the occasion to celebrate. As the general election results poured in, the anticipated victory of the Congress turned into an avalanche.
- Cbi To Probe J&k Sex Scandal (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , May 04, 2006)
It allegedly involves politicians, bureaucrats and police officers
- On The Fast Track (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 04, 2006)
The Union Government has given the green signal to the metro rail project in Bangalore.
- Same Sc Bench Delivers Two Different Verdicts On Prohibition (Times of India, Dhananjay Mahapatra, May 04, 2006)
The Supreme Court has delivered two judgments, within a span of 10 days, on issuance of liquor licences by state governments one saying it is optional for a state to practise prohibition and the other making a positive assertion that governments . . .
- Changing Geo-Politics Of Central Asia & India (Daily Excelsior, Sudhanshu Tripathi, May 04, 2006)
The Central Asian region is one of the most prominent socio-political cultural units in the contemporary world. Its location in the middle of Islamic, Christian and Buddhist radicalized civilizations makes the region as the most convenient transit . . .
- Components Of A Miracle That Is Attainable (The Financial Express, JAYANTA ROY, May 04, 2006)
Why we need high and sustained growth and what we need to do to make this happen
- We Need More Education (Pioneer, JS Rajput, May 04, 2006)
The primacy of the HRD Ministry in attracting media attention remains unchallenged. Moving ahead from 27.5 per cent reservation for OBCs, it has embarked upon 100 per cent teacher recruitment in the institutions of higher learning.
- Young Americans Geographically Challenged (Statesman, Andrew Buncombe, May 04, 2006)
The US may be the world’s only true superpower but global domination does not equal global knowledge.
- India At Odds With Unicef Kid Health Report (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
India figures among the top four countries which has the highest rate of underweight children under age of five, a United Nations report said.
- Humans Reverse Finch Evolution (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 04, 2006)
Humans are causing evolution to slip into reverse for one of the species of finches that is said to have inspired Charles Darwin after he returned from his famous visit to the Galapagos Islands.
- Run For Love (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 04, 2006)
Budhia Singh, the marathon-running four-year-old, is loved by all. But what is the nature of this love?
- Dth Row: Bjp Asks Manmohan To Speak To Ratan Tata (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must speak to industrialist Ratan Tata informally on the Direct-to-Home controversy surrounding Communications Minister Dayanidhi Maran and take appropriate action, Bharatiya Janata Party spokesman and former Minister . . .
- Adb To Double Credit To India By 2008 (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
The Asian Development Bank will double its lending to India to $2.65 billion by 2008, the bank's President Haruhiko Kuroda said on Wednesday.
- Tryst With A Man Of Destiny (Tribune, Ashok Kundra, May 04, 2006)
His visits to the city have sent me down the memory lane. I recall so vividly an encounter I had with him way back in 1964.
- High Risk Groups Pose Concern (Daily Excelsior, Arvinder Kaur, May 04, 2006)
The number of HIV infections in India are on the rise, and according to official figures, more than 5.2 million people are now thought to be living with the virus, the second largest number in any country after South Africa. That was an increase . . .
- Panjab University Scientists Achieve Breakthrough In Psoriasis Treatment .. (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
The dream of the dermatologists to surmount the serious reactive effects in patients associated with a very popular anti-psoriatic drug, Dithranol, has now become a reality at University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS) of Panjab University.
- Job Placement For Students (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, May 04, 2006)
The idea of setting up career placement centres at 25 universities for talented IT students is an excellent one.
- Affirmative Action As Strategy (Business Standard, Kanika Datta, May 04, 2006)
Pardon me for covering old ground, but I can’t help thinking that if private corporations did not run quite so scared, there might actually find a durable, strategic solution to this affirmative action controversy.
- A Move Long Overdue (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, May 04, 2006)
The report that the federal government is thinking in terms of transferring four subjects to the provinces deserves to be welcomed because it gives an indication of Islamabad’s belated awareness of the need for greater devolution of power to the . . .
- Quotas And Social Justice (Deccan Herald, Alok Ray, May 04, 2006)
The justification for quotas should be economic backwardness and not any subjective criterion
- A Flamboyant Warrior (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 04, 2006)
Pramod Mahajan's tough as nails image and the aura of invincibility around him suggested that he would simply shrug off the worst crisis of his life, that he would somehow conjure a miracle that would place him once again in the thick of action in . . .
- Iran And The Us Share Goals In Afghanistan (Christian Science Monitor, David Montero, May 04, 2006)
The owner of this plumbing shop in Herat, Afghanistan, says his business would be crippled if Iran stopped exporting its products.
- Junk Food, Violent Behaviour (Dawn, George Monbiot, May 04, 2006)
DOES television cause crime? The idea that people copy the violence they watch is debated endlessly by criminologists. But this column concerns an odder and perhaps more interesting idea: if crime leaps out of the box, it is not the programmes that . . .
- Hamas Could Match Israeli Peace Moves — Mishaal (Jordan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Hamas could reciprocate Israeli moves towards peace if the Jewish state agrees to withdraw from all lands occupied in 1967 and acknowledges Palestinian rights, the group's political leader Khaled Mishaal said on Wednesday.
- Pramod Mahajan Loses Battle For Life (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Dies of multiple organ failure after 12 days in hospital; cremation today
A leader known for his "can do it" approach: Kalam
Manmohan says he was full of promise and energy
Cruel time snatched Mahajan away before youthfulness fully . . .
- Kaavya's Deal Off (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
More allegations of plagiarism surface
- Iran, Us Share Afghan Goals (Christian Science Monitor, David Montero, May 04, 2006)
The smooth blacktop roads and 24-hour electricity of Herat set this Afghan commercial capital apart as a model of stability in a country still struggling to get on its feet. Much of the wealth in this western city, with its tree-lined streets and . . .
- Child Prodigy Budhia Keeps Date With Fame (Pioneer, Bhubaneswar, May 03, 2006)
It took four-year-old marathon wizard Budhia Singh seven hours and two minutes to complete the Puri-Bhubaneswar 65-kilometre marathon on Tuesday to enter the Limca Book of Records.
- Seizing The Clause 49 Opportunity (The Financial Express, RAJIV MEMANI, May 03, 2006)
We should learn from the experiences of SoX 404 in the US to make a global leap in . . .
- A Sick System (Times of India, Ritu Priya, May 03, 2006)
It is odd that medical students are far more exercised about quotas than the state of the poor in the country, the callousness of their professional brethren and India's public health system.
- India Committed To Million Development Goals: Minister (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
The Government would achieve the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, especially in the health sector, by 2015, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Panabaka Lakhsmi has said.
- Child Marathon Prodigy Buddhia Enters Limca Book Of Records .. (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
Child marathon prodigy Buddhia Singh today literally ran into Limca Book of Records by covering a distance of 65 km in a time of 7.02 hours even though he failed to complete the targetted 70 km distance.
- Two Sides Of The Reservation Divide (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
Quota rivals hit the streets of the capital as protests spread across the country
- Hamara Paisa, Hamara Hisab (Daily Excelsior, Ajit Bhattacharjea , May 03, 2006)
For me, Nevathi Bai is the icon of the movement that has won us the revolutionary Right to Information Act, 2005. Nine years have passed since, drawing a typical multi-coloured Rajasthani ohrni from her face, she walked up to the microphone to demand . .
- View From The Left (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 03, 2006)
Buoyant after the success of Sitaram Yechury’s Nepal initiative, the CPI(M) has set its target high — the abolition of monarchy.
- 'A Clean River Brings People Together' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 03, 2006)
The Thames River in London was no cleaner than Delhi's Yamuna or Varanasi's Ganga. Thames21 helped change all that.This environmental charity has been mobilising thousands of volunteers every year to clean up the river of industrial and household waste.
- Does Britain Have Intellectuals? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 03, 2006)
Let us be clear: there may be intellectuals in Britain, but there are no British intellectuals... Intellectuals, born in every milieu, are society’s conscience.
- The Return Of The Hong Tou A-San (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, May 03, 2006)
The Sikhs — known for their red turbans — are back in China.
- The Young & The Old Boys’ Network (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
The highly emotive debate on reservations raises an interesting question. Has there ever really been a level playing field for the youth of India? The obvious villain, the well entrenched caste system, is not the only impediment in ensuring . . .
- Pinning Hopes On Speed Dates (Deccan Herald, Duncan Bartlett, May 03, 2006)
It’s not everybody’s idea of romance: meeting a rapid succession of people from the opposite sex, with bare minutes to make a connection before a bell signals it’s time to move on.
- Rich Children Of A Poor Country (Deccan Herald, Manika Ghosh, May 03, 2006)
Children today certainly have more buying power. More freedom too is becoming the new mantra
- There Are No British Intellectuals (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 03, 2006)
They are cut off from global debate by the obtuse imperialism of the English language.
- Of Hi-Tech, Low Efficiency, And Malls (Hindu, P. SAINATH, May 03, 2006)
India's development debate has actually regressed this past decade. A single, homogenised view of development is being shoved down from above.
- "White Supremacy" Or Racism? (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, May 03, 2006)
Professor Cornel West says racism is what they have in America while in Britain the problem is essentially one of latent "white supremacy." This means that racial prejudices in Britain operate in more subtle forms than American-style in-your-face racism.
- Nasa Chief To Visit India After 3 Decades (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
After almost three decades, the Chief of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) would be visiting India next week to sign an agreement with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) at Bangalore.
- A Belated But Welcome Move (Hindu, K. Veeramani, May 03, 2006)
Union human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh's circular to the Cabinet Secretariat regarding reservation in Central educational institutions has not brought anything new to the domain of public knowledge.
- The Perils Of Populism (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, May 03, 2006)
The government is playing havoc with the future of the people by refusing to adjust the oil prices rationally
- Indian Art Auctions – Half Theatre, Half Casino (Deccan Herald, Uma Nair, May 03, 2006)
There is definitely more to art than meets the cursory eye. Art fraud’s new trick is to add fake artworks to the archives.
- Inbathtamilan Joins Dmk (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
Blames Jayalalithaa for the estrangement from his family
- Hitches In Implementing Job Scheme In Naxal-Hit Areas (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
Law and order is the responsibility of States: Raghuvansh Prasad Singh
- Three Years After Bush Declared ‘Mission Accomplished,’ Outlook Still . . . (Jordan Times, LEE KEATH, May 03, 2006)
At the edge of a southern Iraqi city, a refugee family huddles in a tin shack, its hope of jobs and security gone. A northern businessman dreams of opening a store in Baghdad, but the violence puts him off. In the south, a young woman glances . . .
- Us Won’T Remove Nepal Maoists From Terror List (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
Indonesian anti-terror police have arrested another man suspected of links with key terrorist suspect Noordin Mohammad Top,national police deputy spokesman said on Wednesday.
- Defence Vs Development (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, May 03, 2006)
THE government has traditionally adopted an ambiguous stance on its defence budget.
- Only Form Of Affirmative Action? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 03, 2006)
According to the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), an agency of the US department of labor, affirmative is “not preferential treatment. Nor does it mean that unqualified persons should be hired or promoted over other people.
- Of Cartoon, Quotas And Distress (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , May 03, 2006)
The complex issue of reservation can have valid for and against arguments
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