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Articles 10121 through 10220 of 22438:
- Songbird's Big Day (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
Noted folk singer Appagere Thimmaraju will be presented with the Janapada Jogi award tomorrow by Hombale Pratibharanga and Lahari Recording Company.
- Murthy, Premji Join Kumaraswamy To Promote Brand Bangalore (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
Sharing a platform for the first time with Infosys chief mentor N.R. Narayan Murthy, Wipro chairman Azim Premji and finance minister
- Hiv Care Centre Reels Under Public Apathy (Hindu, Anasuya Menon, Apr 07, 2006)
For its inmates, the HIV Care and Support Centre at Sivananda Colony is a comforting alternative to the depressing environs of a hospital.
- Names As Labels (Deccan Herald, S V Vijayan, Apr 07, 2006)
Names of seasons and professions are often extended to places, objects and people
- Rs. 100 Crore Granted For Varahi Irrigation Project (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
Mid-term assessment of the project to be taken up
Meeting to discuss revival of Brahmavar Sugar Factory to be convened
Union Government may release Rs. 137.84 crore for construction of sea walls
Rs. 2 crore sanctioned for the construction of . . .
- Third Stepdown For Sonia (Telegraph, Radhika Ramaseshan, Apr 06, 2006)
Sonia Gandhi has resigned for the third time — now as the chairperson of the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Trust whose first head was Mahatma Gandhi.
- Kathmandu Clamps Night Curfew (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
Attempt to thwart Thursday's anti-King general strike sponsored by Opposition
- Us Professor Believes Jesus Walked On Floating Ice, Not Water (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
The New Testament says that Jesus walked on water, but a Florida university professor believes there could be a less miraculous explanation — he walked on a floating piece of ice.
- All Houses Will Have Toilets By March 2007: Panchayat Official (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
Incentive increased to Rs. 1,500 from Rs. 500 each for constructing toilets
70,084 families do not have toilets in Dakshina Kannada
Rs. 1.90 lakh released to implement Total Sanitation Campaign
Interest free loan proposed under the campaign
- Nengti’S Wedding (Telegraph, AVEEK SEN , Apr 06, 2006)
“Syar, Nengtir-na biya!” a little girl informed us, leaning, with coy but laughing eyes, on the rickety gate of green bamboo that led to her mud-and-thatch learning centre in the village.
- In Indira’S Footsteps (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Apr 06, 2006)
Last week this column suggested that the Congress should be buried. Some elaboration is in order.
- Group Teaching Harms Pre-Schoolers (Daily Excelsior, Neeta Sehgal, Apr 06, 2006)
How should one teach a pre-school child - a three year, four year or a five year old - to learn the basic skills of reading and writing?
- Varanasi Blasts: Probe Leads To Bangladesh (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
An Indian cleric on Wednesday publicly confessed his involvement and of a Bangladeshi Islamist group in last month's terrorist strikes in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi that killed at least 20 people.
- Plight Of Minorities In J&k (Daily Excelsior, S Mohan Singh Kala, Apr 06, 2006)
To help in rehabilitation and development of minorities Finance Minister proposed in the budget, to set up a J&K Minorities Development Corporation, to promote employment opportunities, entrepreneurship by sponsoring self-employment programmes . . .
- India Should Adopt Brazilian Model To Check Spread Of Birdflu (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
India could adopt the Brazilian model while formulating steps to check spread of birdflu to other parts of the country, according to poultry and veterinary scientists.
- Identity Crises?! (Deccan Herald, Deepa Dumblekar, Apr 06, 2006)
Some people have problems in identifying even the most familiar faces
- Muslim India Tries To Escape The Past (Deccan Herald, RANDEEP RAMESH, Apr 06, 2006)
Prominent individuals belie the poverty of a minority left behind by the 1947 partition
- Infrastructural Growth Upa Govt's Top Priority: Pm (Pioneer, Pramod Kumar Singh, Apr 06, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday asked for greater flow of investment in infrastructure in roads, ports, telecommunication, airports, railways and power.
- All The Tea In China (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Apr 06, 2006)
Dressed in tight, faux leather pants, 50-year-old Sheng Xiu Qing oozes attitude.
- Support For Jaya Wells Up In Tn (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
There is a strong undercurrent of support for Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and ruling AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalitha among rural masses, a tour of Cuddallore, Chidambaram, Mayiladuthurai and Tiruvarur in northern . . .
- Pakistan, Us Express Resolve To Effectively Fight Terrorism (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
The Fourth Pakistan-U.S. Joint Working Group which met here Wednesday, Pakistan and the United States expressed their “firm resolve” to coordinate their efforts further “to effectively deal with scourge of terrorism.”
- Marx's Reserve Army Of Labour Going Global (Hindu, Andrew Glyn, Apr 06, 2006)
The eruption of the Indian and Chinese economies could shift the balance of power sharply in favour of capital in the rich world.
- Manmohan's Assurance To Haryana (Hindu, Rajesh Ahuja, Apr 06, 2006)
Atomic plant to be considered
Lays foundation for six-laning of a 10 km stretch of NH 1
Medical college at Karnal in memory of Kalpana Chawla
UPA Government investing over Rs.1,80,000 crore on road network
- Isb Students Strike It Rich (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
One of them receives an offer of Rs. 1.04-crore annual salary
- Law And Order Has Broken Down' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
We will highlight the failure of the UDF Government to help farmers. The debts incurred by them resulted in 1,500 suicides.
- We Are All Little Lamps’ (Deccan Herald, Ramesh Mysore, Apr 06, 2006)
Swami Sukhabodhananda, who has done workshops for many blue-chip companies in India and abroad, is holding a programme on the Bhagavad Gita in Bangalore.
- Bangalore Metro Put On The Fast Track (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
Union Cabinet approves Group of Ministers' recommendations
- Migrants And Minorities (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
The scrapping of the IMDT Act has lent a new dimension to electioneering in parts of Assam, says Sushanta Talukdar
- Indo-Us N Deal Has Serious Implications (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Wednesday said Pakistan is against increase in the permanent members of the Security Council and in favour of enhancing only non-permanent members to make the organization more representative and equitable.
- The Architect's New Clothes (Pioneer, Chitvan Gill, Apr 06, 2006)
Buildings in the country betray our slavish mentality, thanks to our failure to connect with the past, says Chitvan Gill
- Delhi's Deepening Trauma (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 06, 2006)
The court order on sealing showrooms and shops in residential areas will deprive the dispossessed of legitimate livelihood, says Anuradha Dutt
- Development' Binds Nitish's Coalition Of Extremes (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Apr 06, 2006)
The coalition Mr Nitish Kumar leads in Bihar includes not only the marginalised sections but also people from the upper crust and castes.
- China Sends Big Business Group To U.S. (International Herald Tribune, Joseph Kahn, Apr 06, 2006)
Chinese leaders, eager to improve relations with the United States ahead of the first ever visit there by President Hu Jintao later this month, have dispatched a large delegation of businessmen and economic officials both to display . . .
- Accounting For Heritage Assets (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Apr 06, 2006)
Civilisation, according to Mark Twain, is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- Corrections And Clarifications (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 06, 2006)
The editorial, "A foundation for public health" (April 4, 2006) said the expenditure on public health was less than one per cent of GDP. A reader cites the
- Idrs Are Welcome,but What Are The Tax Implications? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 06, 2006)
The issue of guidelines relating to Indian Depository Receipts (IDRs) by Sebi has effectively set the stage for foreign companies to access the Indian capital markets.
- Six Killed In Nepal Maoist Attack (Statesman, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Apr 06, 2006)
While the Nepal government concentrated its might on the Opposition parties, beginning fresh raids on the houses of leaders, students and trade unionists and arresting over 100 people, the Maoists struck in eastern Nepal, killing six security . . .
- A Place For Competition (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Apr 06, 2006)
The body was statutorily established in October 2003, but has "only one member, and a very small complement staff," said Dhall.
- Kalam Stresses On Capacity Building Among Students (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
Delivering the plenary address at a conference on the theme 'Revisit Indian Education Vision 2020' organised by the Education Promotion Society for India (EPSI), here last evening, the President, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, stressed on the need for . . .
- High Marks In Exams Might Not Guarantee Success (Times of India, Anurag, Apr 06, 2006)
Fear of examinations, anxiety over results and poor marks are driving many teenagers to take that desperate, irreversible step: suicide. During the exam season anxiety levels peak both for students and parents.
- Exams: Back And Forth (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 06, 2006)
After a lot of going back and forth and confrontation with the federal authorities, the Sindh education department has announced that all the education boards in the province will hold the Class IX examination in June.
- Shutting Out The Past (Telegraph, Soumitra Das, Apr 06, 2006)
In whatever stage of dilapidation they may be, Calcutta’s heritage buildings are the only extant and visible indication of the city’s once truly cosmopolitan culture, says Soumitra Das
- Isb Alumnus Offered Rs 1.04-Crore Salary (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
An alumnus of the Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business (ISB) has been offered an annual salary of Rs 1.04 crore by an Indian IT company, the highest ever at the premier school for an international position.
- Dutch Minister Lays Stress On Security: Efforts For Afghan Reconstruction (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
Security and stability are prerequisites for successful reconstruction efforts and it is hoped that Pakistan will be able to limit infiltration by the defunct Taliban and Al Qaeeda terrorists into Afghanistan, says Foreign Minister of the . . .
- Pakistan Will Maintain Minimum Deterrence, Says Musharraf (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
Formation Commanders stress need for disaster management policy and apparatus
- Yatras To Highlight "Failure" Of Cong-Led Coalition: Bjp (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
BJP today said it was forced to undertake the twin-yatras to highlight the "failure" of the Congress-led coalition on all fronts and to protest against politics of "minority appeasement" being practised by it.
- Compensate The Investors In Ipo Frauds (The Financial Express, PRITHVI HALDEA, Apr 05, 2006)
It feels good when a scam is unearthed. It feels good when the scamsters are debarred from trading in the capital market.
- India Abroad (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
With ever increasing sums of foreign money rushing into the Indian equity market, it looks like the India story has been well and truly bought into by the rest of the world.
- Why The Hand-Wringing? (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
Perhaps it’s customary. But the look of acute apologia on the faces of those involved in the decision to hike the tuition fees of IIM-Ahmedabad was hard to miss.
- Private Sector In Healthcare Delivery (The Economic Times, Sunil Jain, Apr 05, 2006)
Healthcare delivery is a mammoth task. The private sector contributes only a minuscule through curative services.
- Behind Every Brave Soldier... (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Apr 05, 2006)
It is always there for you. You seek it out in times of trouble but don't think about it when the going is good. It belongs to you and is usually taken for granted.
- India To Set Off Pr Blitz On Nuclear Deal (Deccan Herald, K S Subrahmanya, Apr 05, 2006)
Over the next two weeks, Delhi will play host to as many as three US Congressional delegations in not-so-veiled efforts to secure their endorsement for the nuclear deal that ran into some initial trouble in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
- Sc For Filling All Judicial Vacancies (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
Taking serious view of the state governments and High Courts’ inordinate delay in filling the vacancies of judges at all levels, which has direct bearing on speedy disposal of cases across the country, the Supreme Court has directed them to adhere to the
- `Indian Kids Are Increasingly Becoming Technologically Savvy' (Hindu, Madhur Tankha, Apr 05, 2006)
With 40 per cent of the children living in 14 cities across the country using computers, 74 per cent of them aspiring to own jazzy mobile camera phones and an overwhelming majority picking up a leading mobile phone brand as their favourite, Indian . . .
- Madikeri Being Spruced Up For Kalam's Visit (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
Governor, H.D. Kumaraswamy to attend the function on Friday
All VIP routes to be closed for public for three hours
Only 100 VIP and VVIP vehicles to be allowed to enter the main venue
Five helipads prepared at Golf Course grounds in Madikeri
- An Emergency For Rural Childhood (Hindu, Krishna Kumar, Apr 05, 2006)
The challenge of educational reform in the age of globalisation is very complex and rural children are especially vulnerable at a time when India is witnessing an unprecedented economic growth.
- 2,300-Year-Old Hero Stones Found In Theni District (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
These are inscribed with Tamil Brahmi script
Stones found on the banks of the Vaigai, about 19 km south of Vattalakundu
The three-foot high stones seem to be a part of urn burials found in the area
The research was part of a project on the archaeolo
- Reverse Politics Of Minorityism: Bjp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
My suggestion to minorities is to work for the spread of literacy and quality education among themselves: Advani
- U.K. Immigration Rule To Affect Indian Doctors (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Apr 05, 2006)
Those who are in U.K. and do not have a work permit will be forced to return home and apply again
New rules for doctors from non-European countries to be introduced in July
Non-EU nationals who have trained in a U.K. medical school will be exempt for
- Hunger Strike Reignites India's Narmada Dam Row (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Apr 05, 2006)
A week-long hunger strike by India's most famous environmental activist has helped reignite a two-decades-old row over a controversial hydroelectric dam.
- Popularizing Science Among Children (Daily Excelsior, Arvind Gupta, Apr 05, 2006)
Before children can understand a thing, they need experience: seeing, touching, hearing, tasting, smelling; choosing ar ranging, putting things together, taking things apart experimenting with real things.
- Nepalese Police Arrest 40 Protestors, Political Leaders (Press Trust of India, Shirish B Pradhan, Apr 05, 2006)
In a major crackdown ahead of tomorrow's anti-King general strike by opposition parties, police today arrested some 40 protestors from the Nepalese captial and took into custody several political leaders after raiding their houses.
- A Bold Step (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 05, 2006)
An announcement by Governor's House Sindh on Monday that the examinations for Class IX this year would be held as per schedule must have brought to an end the unrest that prevailed for months among more than 300,000 students.
- Afghan President To Visit India From April 9 (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai will undertake a week-long visit here from April 9 to further consolidate the ties between the two countries.
- Female Foeticide (Daily Excelsior, Arunesh Mahajan, Apr 05, 2006)
Man is said to be the crown of creation. He has been blessed with the highest blessings of God like the power of reasoning, imagination, attention, will-power. No doubt man has made full utilization of these blessings of God. He has discovered ways and me
- Law Before Morals (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Apr 05, 2006)
A police constable in Mumbai is sentenced to 12 years of rigorous imprisonment after being found guilty of raping a minor in a police booth last year.
- Karzai Arrives On April 9 (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is arriving here on April 9 on a week-long visit to this country for discussions with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other leaders on a whole range of bilateral, regional and international issues as well as . . .
- Indian Islamic Schools Offer Lesson In Harmony (Reuters, BAPPA MAJUMDAR, Apr 05, 2006)
Indian schoolgirl Julita Oraon, a devout Christian, never misses Sunday mass, but the rest of her week is spent studying Arabic and Sufi literature among other subjects at an Islamic religious school, or madrasa.
- Peace Won’T Come This Way (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Apr 05, 2006)
The vast majority of western commentators are convinced that last week’s Israeli election signifies a crucial break from the past: for the first time most voters rejected Eretz Israel, the long-nurtured notion that one day the territory of Israel . . .
- Indo-Us Deal Can Spoil Security In Region, Us Told (News International, Mariana Baabar, Apr 05, 2006)
Kasuri shares perspective on issue with Boucher; stresses
package approach to prevent arms race
- Sheikh Rashid To Do The Ultimate (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 05, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed is ‘true son of the soil’ and praised his efforts to promote education in the Potohar region.
- Valuable Funding Of Gwadar By Oman (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 05, 2006)
Oman's Foreign Minister Yousaf Bin Alawi Bin Abdullah has announced the revival of 100 million dollar fund that Oman had allocated for the development of Gwadar area. Talking to newsmen after his meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Khurshid Mehmud Kasu
- Twenty Years Later (Tribune, Sanjeev Bariana, Apr 05, 2006)
Folks, remember Rakesh Chaba? One night he woke me up at 3 a.m. on a chilly winter night and asked me to follow him outside the hostel in Dalhousie. He raised his finger and said ‘that is Mars’. He did things like astronomy and love signs. Ghosts . . .
- Veil Off Bengal Money Mess (Telegraph, Gaurav Choudhury, Apr 05, 2006)
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee may have figured out how to court business but his government has still not understood the business of managing money.
- Mass Arrests And Curfew To Halt Protests In Nepal (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Apr 05, 2006)
History began repeating itself in Nepal within a short span of two months, as King Gyanendra’s government once again began mass arrest of opposition leaders ahead of a series of mass protests called from Thursday, enforcing curfew and putting in . . .
- In Indira’S Footsteps (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Apr 05, 2006)
Last week this column suggested that the Congress should be buried. Some elaboration is in order.
- Real Life Heroines (Deccan Herald, Leela Ramaswamy, Apr 05, 2006)
Women in this country often lead a life of quiet sacrifice; their courage needs support
- He Freed A City, Gave It Life (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
Bogota’s urban area is 384.3 sq km compared to Bangalore’s 437 sq km. The Colombian capital almost touches a population of 70 lakh, while Bangalore’s is more than 90 lakh
- Hiv Infections In India (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
international media blitz — one-third decline in HIV infections in high-prevalence South India pointed out in a study published on March 30 by Indo-Canadian researchers in Lancet Online.
- Train Students For Nation Building: Kalam (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on Tuesday said the qualities for nation building must be inculcated among students right from the time of their primary education.
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