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Articles 9621 through 9720 of 22438:
- Education Dragged Backwards (Deccan Herald, Vatsala Vedantam, Apr 19, 2006)
Seat reservation could reverse brain gain into the country and resume brain drain
- No Bowing To Us Pressures On Iran Issue: Pm (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today sought to dispel the impression that India was bowing to the United States' pressure on the Iran issue.
- Make Employment Broadbased And Representative: Pm (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Amid debate on a possible legislation for job reservation in private sector, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today urged the industry to broadbase employment and make it representative through an affirmative action.
- New Jobs Will Go To India, China: Bush Warns Students (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
US President George W Bush has warned the country's schoolchildren that if they did not have the skills needed to compete with their counterparts from India and China, new jobs would go to those countries.
- Mah: One Constable Killed, 15 Injured In Naxal Attack (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
A constable was killed and 15 policemen injured, three of them seriously, in a landmine blast triggered by naxals in Gadchiroli district, about 250 kms from here, today.
- Pm For Private Sector Job Quota; Will India Inc Give In? (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
PM Manmohan Singh on Tuesday put job quotas in the private sector on the national agenda by calling on industry to voluntarily extend affirmative action, saying it was time companies acknowledged the value of diversity and broad-based their workforce.
- Soz Welcomes Sc Verdict On Narmada Dam (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Union Water Resources Minister Saifuddin Soz, on Tuesday, said the Supreme Court observations on Sardar Sarovar Project has brought back rehabilitation and resettlement issues to the forefront of debate on development.
- Walking The Line (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 19, 2006)
If it is truly a ministerial directive ~ and not another case of the political boss taking credit for an official’s idea ~ Lalu Prasad merits a little applause for instructing that quality footwear be issued to railway gang-men whose job requires . . .
- Govt To Answer Every Gun With A Gun: Duggal (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Apr 19, 2006)
Signalling a tough posture against militancy, the Government today said it would answer "every gun with a gun" in Jammu and Kashmir and end of cross-border terrorism would be an important Confidence Building Measure.
- 80 Indian Prisoners In Pak Jails Identified (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Signalling a tough posture against militancy, the Government today said it would answer "every gun with a gun" in Jammu and Kashmir and end of cross-border terrorism would be an important Confidence Building Measure.
- Karan Singh To Visit Nepal (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Signalling a tough posture against militancy, the Government today said it would answer "every gun with a gun" in Jammu and Kashmir and end of cross-border terrorism would be an important Confidence Building Measure.
- Empowering The Handicapped (Daily Excelsior, Habibullah, Apr 19, 2006)
The founding fathers of modern India envisaged her as a welfare State where the interests and rights of the weaker and under-privileged sections of society would be fully protected and upheld.
- Lack Of Will (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 19, 2006)
Reports about the modified mid-day meal programme launched in government schools in Chandigarh on Monday are hardly inspiring. The authorities concerned are pessimistic while the programme itself suffers from many infirmities as witnessed on its . . .
- Speedy Justice (Tribune, Joginder Singh, Apr 19, 2006)
Figures available with the Law Ministry show that at the end of November, 2005 there were 33,635 cases pending in the Supreme Court and 34,24,518 cases pending in the High Courts.
- Indo-Us Bid For Biotech Research (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
A core team with biotechnology experts in the Indo-US high technology cooperation group will decide the modalities of biological material movement within the next three months, sources said.
- Poll Borrows Library’S Peace (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had apologised for causing a few hours’ disruption at the National Library, but the Election Commission has thought nothing of taking over the premises for days.
- New Jobs Will Go To India: Bush » (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
President George W Bush has warned the country's schoolchildren that if they did not have the skills needed to compete with their counterparts from India and China, new jobs would go to those countries.
- Blair Launches Uk-India Education Programme (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
British Prime Minister Tony Blair launched the UK-India Education and Research Initiative in London on Tuesday with a $22 million support from his government and $8.5 million in cash and kind from the private sector.
- Scuffle After Singh Salve (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today told a delegation of Muslim representatives, led by the shahi imam of Jama Masjid, that his government had not “succumbed” to any external pressure on foreign policy and that improved relations with the US . . .
- Please, Sir, Can We Bully You? (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Apr 19, 2006)
Every morning when David Griffin (not his real name) sets out for his school, he is filled with dread as to what might lie in store for him. But then, you might ask, what is new about it? "Children always hate to go to school. Don't they?"
- Ksrtc Set To Hike Fares By 5-7 Per Cent (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Speaking to reporters, the minister said that the revised rates would be announced in a week, after consultations with Chief Minister H D Kumaaraswamy.
- Pm To Industry: Address Rehab (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Against the backdrop of Supreme Court’s observation on rehabilitation issues in the contentious Narmada Dam project, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday urged the industry to pay more attention to people displaced by industrialisation . . .
- Kudos To Iit (Times of India, Manju Vaish, Apr 18, 2006)
Only someone who has been through the rigours of the JEE examination, competing with the brightest in the land can appreciate what an IIT degree really means.
- A People-Oriented Transport Policy (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 18, 2006)
There is global agreement today that cities can be made liveable only by reclaiming them from the grip of an automobile-based culture.
- What’S In Short Supply Is A Divine Wit (Deccan Herald, Peter Preston, Apr 18, 2006)
A lack of humour may be standing between the shepherd and his sheep
- Victims Of Bias, Muslims At Bottom Of Social Barrel’ (Indian Express, Jayanth Jacob, Apr 18, 2006)
Discriminated against and pushed to the sidelines, the Muslim community in India is at the bottom of the heap when it comes to benefits from Government-run welfare schemes, access to education, employment, even the system of credit, including . . .
- Serious Threat To Pakistan's Civil Society (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Apr 18, 2006)
Last week's terror bombing in Karachi points to one of the least-examined faultlines in Pakistan: the war for power between Barelvi and Deobandi clerics.
- Dalai Lama’S Sister Among Three In Contention For Wcprc Award (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 18, 2006)
Jetsun Pema, sister of spiritual head of the Tibetan Government-in-exile the Dalai Lama, is among three others who are being nominated for this year’s World Children Prize for the Rights of the Child (WCPRC) for protecting the rights of the children . . .
- The Prime Of Muriel Spark (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 18, 2006)
Muriel Spark, the British author of darkly acerbic novels that portrayed a disquieting world drifting on diabolical undercurrents, died April 13 at a hospital in Florence at the age of 88. The cause of death could not be learned.
- Quota Obsession (Times of India, Rajeev Dhavan , Apr 18, 2006)
The Union government's new-found policy of quotas in professional institutions smacks of vote-gathering populism, claims to fulfil social equality and threatens caste tensions in the name of justice.
- India Of The Future (Hindu, C. G. Rishikesh, Apr 18, 2006)
This Inspirational book, based on the salient features of India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium, details a plan to shape the India of the future.
- India And The Wto (Hindu, Raghu Dayal , Apr 18, 2006)
Comprehensive volume on issues that affect trade from an Indian viewpoint
- Misplaced Theory (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 18, 2006)
Whenever there is escalation in militant violence a sort of explanation is given to justify the strikes which miss the target. It is extremely baffling.
- The Poor Have Only Voting Rights ! (Daily Excelsior, Ramesh Kanitkar, Apr 18, 2006)
The lopsided Indian economic growth has divided the country between two segments - 10 per cent of the population only enjoys all the benefits while the remaining 90 per cent are left to the mercy of god to fend for themselves, not even with a . . .
- Heritage Conservation (Daily Excelsior, Dr Pragya Khanna, Apr 18, 2006)
It was on 18 April 1982 that the celebration of World Heritage Day was suggested on the occasion of a symposium organized by ICOMOS, International council for monuments and sites.
- Mma’S New Move Could Be A Double Game (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Apr 18, 2006)
Circumstances and political expediency might have thrown the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) and other components of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) together with the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) but the two . . .
- America Balks At Bird Flu (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 18, 2006)
Researchers today called for more training, better equipment and counselling after nearly half of health workers questioned in a US survey said they would not report for work during an influenza pandemic.
- Ethnic Ties Studies Must In Malay Varsities (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 18, 2006)
University students in multi-ethnic Malaysia will be required to pass a course aimed at helping them understand other races and promoting a healthy debate on ethnic integration, an official said today.
- Reservation Maths (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Apr 18, 2006)
The Election Commission may have put the government on the back foot with regard to the proposal to reserve up to 27 per cent of seats in schools and colleges for members of the “other backward classes” (over and above the 22.5 per cent already . . .
- Life Extraordinaire (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 18, 2006)
It has been a cakewalk for Sonali Mohan after marriage, thanks to her mother-in-law, who is fondly called by all and sundry as dadima.
- Work Your Way To The Top (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 18, 2006)
By providing 27 per cent reservation to the OBCs in premier educational institutes like the IIMs and the IITs, the Congress has once again tried to rejuvenate caste and class politics.
- Saddam Challenges Handwriting Experts (Jordan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 18, 2006)
Saddam Hussein's defence lawyer Monday challenged findings of handwriting experts verifying the former president's signature on documents linked to a crackdown on Shiites and demanded a review by international specialists — except from Iran or Israel.
- Ghost Schools Galore (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 18, 2006)
Given the deplorable state of education in the country, it should come as no surprise that according to a consumer rights group, there are 30,000 ghost schools in the country.
- With An Eye On Personal Glory (Pioneer, Ajoy Bose, Apr 18, 2006)
Arjun Singh wants to introduce reservation for OBCs for reclaiming his lost aura in the Congress and Government, says Ajoy Bose
- On The Move: Yes, But On A Slippery Track (Dawn, Murtaza Razvi, Apr 18, 2006)
There are a few lessons to be learnt by the rulers of Punjab as well as their counterparts in other provinces from the way Punjab has been emerging as a hub of industry and commerce in recent years.
- 50 Lakhs More For Each Assembly Segment (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 18, 2006)
State Cabinet decides to constitute a new district development fund
- Rs. 50 Lakh More For Each Assembly Segment In A.P. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 18, 2006)
State Cabinet decides to set up a new district development fund
Minister denies move is motivated by panchayat polls
600 posts of resident doctor created
- Rehab That Builds Lives (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Apr 18, 2006)
In Pipri village, Madhya Pradesh, there may not be celebrations immediately following the Supreme Court judgment.
- Vidya Poshak Plans To Disburse Rs. 1.5 Crore Aid To Poor Students (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 18, 2006)
3,500 students to be provided assistance in 2006-07
Rs. 25 lakh to be invested in libraries and learning centers
Volunteers of the organisation will visit the houses of the applicants
- Isro Likely To Get Orders To Build Two More Communication Satellites, . . . (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 18, 2006)
The organisation recently signed a commercial contract with EADS Astrium
ISRO Satellite Integration and Test Establishment inaugurated
Need for reliability, quality and timely delivery stressed
- Jayalalithaa Offers Free Rice To Cardholders (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 18, 2006)
"Buy 10 kg at Rs. 3.50, get 10 kg free"
To strive for jobs for 5 lakh youths
Recognition for Theni medical college
Will make efforts to raise the Mullaperiyar dam level
She covers 20 villages
- Space Technology Will Determine Development Of The . . . (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 18, 2006)
Inaugurates `Space-Tech' lecture series in Bharathidasan University
- ‘If There Were 10 Times More Iits Or Iims, There Will Be Opportunity . . . (Indian Express, Shekar Gupta, Apr 18, 2006)
Is reservation the way ahead for India in its quest for the twin goals of development and social equality? Former managing director of McKinsey and a founding father of Hyderabad’s Indian School of Business, Rajat Gupta, shares his views . . .
- Govt Agrees To Major Demands Of Bhopal Victims (Tribune, Vibha Sharma, Apr 18, 2006)
Survivors unhappy over PM’s inability to hold Dow, UCC accountable
- The Struggle For Survival (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 18, 2006)
The rural poor are often at the end of irrigation systems, and at the whim of richer upstream users for water, or pushed out onto land dependent totally on ...increasingly erratic rainfall.
- A Revolution Next Door (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 18, 2006)
The people of Nepal are furious with King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev.
- Right Sum (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 18, 2006)
At least some mathematics teachers get their calculations right. Heading the list in West Bengal is the teacher of mathematics from Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission College, who has been fighting a lone battle for months over the outrageous . . .
- Investing Sensibly (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 18, 2006)
The risks and rewards of making investment decisions
- Us Interest In India (Tribune, Air Marshal R.S. Bedi (retd), Apr 18, 2006)
The US perception that the nuclear cooperation with India would benefit both countries equally and also the non-proliferation regime led their leaders to arrive at a decision to go ahead with a mutually agreeable nuclear deal.
- Changing Mohali (Tribune, Chitleen K. Sethi, Apr 18, 2006)
It is not everyday that State maps change shape. But even as they do, the significance of the change does not lie in the marking of a line across that map, but in the way that this change becomes the harbinger of transformation in the lives of . . .
- Indian's Novel Literacy Drive Gets Google Aid (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 18, 2006)
An Indian project meant to strengthen reading skills among neo-literates in a cost-effective manner has found favour with the Google Foundation.
- The Friendly Neighbourhood Cm (Indian Express, JAYA MENON, Apr 17, 2006)
He doesn’t have a penchant for white Ambassadors or Black Cat security.
- The Child, The Media And The Law (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 17, 2006)
The Hindu carried a report from Mumbai, headlined "Jail for 2 Britons for child abuse.
- A New Kind Of History Textbook (Hindu, Sumit Sarkar, Apr 17, 2006)
Books just brought out by the NCERT teach history in creative ways. All themes are sought to be looked at from the angle of everyday life and its changing patterns, bringing history down from the distant skies, as it were.
- Kuvempu Should Be Made Known To Other Regions . . . (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
The Chief Minster emphasises the need for translating Kuvempu's works in all Indian languages
- Hassan Literacy Group Selected For Unesco Seminar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
The group ushered in `silent revolution' in several villages
The saksharatha samiti helped neo-literates form self-help groups
It helped these groups get financial aid from banks
- `Press Demand For According Classical Status To Kannada' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
The language is over 2,000 years old: scholar
- Poll Manifestos Tread Similar Grounds On Education . . . (Hindu, VANI DORAISAMY, Apr 17, 2006)
All parties offer free compulsory education for children under 18
25 per cent reservation for rural students in professional courses also promised
Free computer education, increasing budgetary allocation offered
BJP promises privileges to . . .
- Jayalalithaa Campaigns In Andipatti (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Talks about welfare schemes implemented in constituency
- The Ghost In The Quota Machine (The Economic Times, Pothik Ghosh, Apr 17, 2006)
Debating societies are notorious for indulging in open-ended arguments. To be conclusive is hardly a virtue in such fraternities.
- Life Extarordinaire (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 17, 2006)
It has been a cakewalk for Sonali Mohan after marriage, thanks to her mother-in-law, who is fondly called by all and sundry . . .
- Gom's Confidential Report (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 17, 2006)
This is the text, obtained exclusively by The Hindu, of "A Brief Note on the Assessment of Resettlement and Rehabilitation (R & R) Sites and Submergence of Villages of the Sardar Sarovar Project." The note marked confidential and dated April 9, 2006,
- Apartheid In Reverse (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 17, 2006)
Statistics often pitilessly expose the truth that politicians craftily seek to hide behind rhetoric.
- Pak Army Commissions First Sikh Officer (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
After a Hindu created history by briefly becoming the Chief Justice of Pakistan Supreme Court last year, a youth hailing from the birth place of Guru Nanak near Lahore has earned the distinction of being commissioned into the Army as the first . . .
- With An Eye On Personal Glory (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 17, 2006)
Arjun Singh wants to introduce reservation for OBCs for reclaiming his lost aura in the Congress and Government, says . . .
- A Part Of Us (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Times, Apr 17, 2006)
All of a sudden Chitral, which was a centre of Buddhist learning and part of the undivided Jammu and Kashmir as it had existed in 1947, has attracted the attention of concerned citizens in Pakistan At an altitude of about 8000 feet from sea level . . .
- Nuclear Deal~i (Statesman, DIPAK BASU, Apr 17, 2006)
Once again, the Indian foreign policy establishment could not differentiate euphoria from the reality regarding the nuclear offer from the USA.
- Forests Development In Jammu & Kashmir (Daily Excelsior, Dr M P Gupta, Apr 17, 2006)
The nature has endowed the State of Jammu & Kashmir with forest resources, but not much attention has been paid to the promotion, conservation and protection of natural wealth.
- Sheila Pinning Hopes On Sonia Vihar To Tide Over Water Crisis (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Pressure on U.P. Government to release water
Inauguration of development works worth Rs.55 lakhs at Sangam Vihar
Plan to strengthen and widen the Mehrauli-Badarpur Road
- Art (Deccan Herald, Marta Jakimowicz, Apr 17, 2006)
Ditmar Bollaert is a Belgian photographer who has travelled extensively in India, especially the South. His Indian images, which are currently on view at Time & Space (April 7 to 19), probe the manifestations of the spiritual in the raw matter . . .
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