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Articles 10221 through 10320 of 22438:
- Afghan Prez Coming To India, Terror Tops Agenda (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
With ties between Kabul and Islamabad at an all-time low, Afghan President Hamid Karzai comes to India on April 9 for a weeklong visit during which he will discuss the resurgence of Taliban-fuelled violence and India's substantial assistance to . . .
- The Case Of The Missing Teachers (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Apr 05, 2006)
With one in four government primary school teachers absent on any given day, and only one in two teaching, India is wasting much of its budget for education, a study finds.
- Backstory: Cultural Clash Marks India's Boom Time (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
At night, villagers cross intersections to find rest in the darkened alleys behind the bright lights.
- The True ‘Heroes’ Of Our Times (Daily Excelsior, S.V. Vaidyanathan, Apr 04, 2006)
Unlike the economic establishment in India that comprises economic bureaucrats, journalists, academics (Indian and non-resident Indians) and is all gung ho about the emergence of neoliberal economic globalisation since the beginnings of . . .
- Indian Islamic Schools Offer Lesson In Harmony (Reuters, BAPPA MAJUMDAR, Apr 04, 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.
- J&k Bank Is Not A State: Full Bench (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan went berserk adjoining Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad’s residence at Wazarat Road in the City here late this evening killing his three colleagues including a CRPF Inspector and two head constables
- Service Sector To The Rescue (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Apr 04, 2006)
India was once an agricultural country.
- Death In The Crib (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 04, 2006)
Collective shame in Burdwan
- A Little Tact And A Sympathetic Heart (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 04, 2006)
Extracts from the ILO’s regional high-level tripartite meeting on the Role of Labour Inspections in Combating Child Labour, Harare, 2001
- Hamas Tries To Balance Conflicting Demands For Legitimacy, Right To Resist (Jordan Times, Amy Teibel and Sara Toth, Apr 04, 2006)
The Palestinians' new Hamas leaders have made it clear they will not pursue or punish fighters for attacking Israel, justifying a deadly suicide bombing last week as a legitimate act of resistance.
- Ngef Revival Package To Be Submitted To High Court (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
Cabinet discusses comprehensive package prepared by a group of experts
Package to be submitted on April 6
Cabinet considers teachers' demand for special allowance
Horatti urges teachers to end evaluation boycott
- Popularise Job Guarantee Scheme: Gopalkrishna Gandhi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
West Bengal Governor delivers sixth convocation address of KSOU
- Uncomfortable Facts On Migrants (Deccan Herald, Paul Krugman, Apr 04, 2006)
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," wrote Emma Lazarus, in a poem that still puts a lump in my throat. I'm proud of America's immigrant history, and grateful that the door was open when my grandparents fled R
- Good Response To Farmers Security Scheme: Jayalalithaa (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
3.74 lakh farmers have been registered under the scheme
- Free Iims And Iits From Govt Bondage’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
Tired of defending its autonomy time and again, the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad on Monday said it really needs to use its resources for education than waste it on making the government see reason.
- Play On Agony Of Kashmiri Woman (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
The agony of a Kashmiri woman, portrayed by an artiste from Chandigarh, moved the audience at Alhamra on Monday.
- Agriculture's Role In Contemporary Development (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Apr 04, 2006)
While GDP growth in India is touching new highs, the divergence in sectoral growth rates only increases. Industry and, particularly, services record creditable or remarkable rates of growth, but the agricultural sector performs poorly.
- Scare The Rod (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 04, 2006)
How can the law protect children from getting beaten up and bullied? That would depend on how the law, and its keepers, imagine a ‘child’, and the various situations and spaces in which such things could happen to it.
- The Gdp Cult Gives Way To “Growth With Equity” (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 04, 2006)
For perhaps half a century, the central preoccupation of economic policy has been to promote growth.
- 12-Yr Ri For Marine Drive Rape Accused (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
Sunil More, the 35-year-old constable who shook Mumbai’s faith in the police force last April after he was arrested for raping a college girl in a police chowky on Marine Drive, was given 12 years’ rigorous imprisonment by a sessions court judge on Monday
- Surrounded By God (Deccan Herald, Usha Muliyil, Apr 04, 2006)
Good and evil are both known to God. The most common aspect of evil is wanting others to suffer.
- Paris Still In Turmoil (Deccan Herald, Calvin D’Souza, Apr 04, 2006)
France is rioting again. It was only late last year that riots in some of the country's poorest suburbs gripped the nation. Youth unemployment and lack of opportunities were widely blamed for last year’s riots in the poorest of French communities.
- Uzbek Envoy For Strengthening Ties With Pakistan (News International, Mohammad Ali Khan, Apr 04, 2006)
Oybek O Usmanov, Uzbekistan's new ambassador to Pakistan has stressed for enhancing people-to-people contacts for strengthening historic relations existing between the two brotherly Muslim countries.
- Yakshagana Academy To Take Up Survey Of Folk Art (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
32 persons receive Janapada and Yakshagana Academy awards
- Financial Situation Of Bihar Unsustainable' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
State Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi tables White Paper in Assembly
- A Foundation For Public Health (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 04, 2006)
Six decades after the Bhore committee set the agenda on health care, few will dispute the truth that India has failed to build a quality public health system to meet the basic needs of its people.
- Laughter Really Is The Best Medicine (Hindu, Alok Jha, Apr 04, 2006)
It diminishes the secretion of the body's stress hormones.
- Abc Of Counselling (Hindu, ARUNDHATI SWAMY, Apr 04, 2006)
Counselling is a process that encourages people to live a more satisfying and resourceful life.
- Anthology Of Short Stories (Hindu, P. Sundaresan, Apr 04, 2006)
THIS BOOK showcases Ashokamitran's talents, which can be traced back to the special numbers of magazines.
- Start At The Beginning (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 04, 2006)
The lowering of the age of entry by high schools is a response to the changing socio-economic realities in urban India, argues Devi Kar The author is principal, Modern High School for Girls, Calcutta
- Stability Is Pm’S Poll Plank (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday reiterated that only the Congress could provide a stable government in Assam as the Opposition was divided into various camps.
- Kalam's Tips To Save Children From Drug Abuse (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2006)
President A P J Abdul Kalam has advised parents to be watchful about behavioural change in their children lest they fall prey to drug abuse.
- Well Done (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 03, 2006)
The overall reception that surgeon Lt Cdr Wahida
Prizm has got in her home State during her
vacations is well deserved. It has climaxed into a meeting with Governor Lt Gen S.K. Sinha (retd) in this city last weekend.
- Kalam In The Land Of Pagodas (Daily Excelsior, Subhashis Mittra, Apr 03, 2006)
The recent visit of Presi-
dent Dr APJ Abdul Kalam
to Myanmar is a record of sorts in more ways than one. Itwas not only his first visit to the neighbouring country, but the first ever by an Indian Head of State to Myanmar. The visit was all the . . .
- Euthanasia Debate Continues (Daily Excelsior, Nalini J. Singh, Apr 03, 2006)
A man suffering from many incurable dis- eases in a Chennai hospital is kept alive for the last two years on life support system.
- Why Do People Choose Them? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 03, 2006)
Ethics and values no longer influence voters' emotions anywhere in the country, including in the South, writes K Govindan Kutty
- Recruiting Teachers (Statesman, SUBHAS SARKAR, Apr 03, 2006)
The future of a nation rests largely on teachers, especially in school. They are expected to mould and prepare future citizens for the challenges of life. Perhaps they alone can impart confidence and hope, a sense of discipline and yearning for . . .
- Kalam For Bihar (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 03, 2006)
The President, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, often takes extraordinary steps in a positive direction.
- Bangla Biman (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 03, 2006)
Between an ideologue and a market-savvy CM
- Pm Harps On Development And Stability Mantra (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2006)
The Congress today promised “adequate financial compensation” to victims of ethnic violence in Karbi Anglong, besides stability and development if voted to retain power in Assam.
- Prosecution Of Midwife Casts Light On Home Births (New York Times, ADAM LIPTAK, Apr 03, 2006)
Angela Hendrix-Petry of Bloomington, Ind., with Chloe, a newborn, and Jasper, 2, both of whom were born at home with the help of a midwife.
- South America Is Turning Pink (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Apr 03, 2006)
The free market, liberalisation and privatisation policies of the right-wing leadership in South and Central America do not seem to be getting results.
- Back To School (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Apr 03, 2006)
Trade unions in public sector banks used to dictate terms and also decline to shoulder responsibility for managerial problems. Things appear to be changing now.
- Vani Strikes Again (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 03, 2006)
The abhorrent tribal custom of vani or sawara, whereby girls are forcibly given in marriage to settle a blood feud between two parties, has reared its head again in Mianwali district.
- Changing Dynamics Of South Asia (Dawn, Fateh M. Chaudhri, Apr 03, 2006)
The recent whirlwind trip of President George W. Bush to South Asia was a sort of political tsunami after which the region has not been the same.
- Has The Penny Really Dropped? (News International, Khusro Mumtaz, Apr 03, 2006)
Bush Jr had ridden off into the sunset (or to be more precise flown off on Air Force One) leaving a wounded and shell-shocked General behind wondering whatever happened to his beautiful relationship with the leader of the (so-called) free world.
- Asia: The Ascendant Continent (News International, Nasim Zehra, Apr 03, 2006)
The twenty-first century is decidedly the Asian century
- Rotten At The Roots (News International, Chris Cork, Apr 03, 2006)
Politicians are getting bad press almost everywhere these days. They are consistently exposed as fiscally fraudulent, institutionally deceitful, self-serving and downright corrupt whether they be to the right, left or centre of the political spectrum.
- Rebuilding Quake Zone (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 03, 2006)
The process of reconstruction in the earthquake zone of Azad Kashmir and NWFP will be formally initiated from April 7 and a new city will be built in place of devastated town of Balakot. .
- Making Of A Leader (News International, Prof Khwaja Masud, Apr 03, 2006)
Leadership consists in mastering the calculus of dynamics of change". Robert McNamara Niccolo Machiavelli, in his famous book The Prince, written in 1513, used three basic concepts to discuss the basic problems of political leadership: virtu,
- Tamil Nadu A Haven For Peace Under My Rule: Jayalalithaa (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2006)
"We have an exhaustive list of achievements to boast of "
- Police Told To Serve Public Better (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2006)
Lokayukta raids have earned a black mark for department: Kumaraswamy
- Balakot Reconstruction (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 03, 2006)
The decision to commence the reconstruction phase of the quake-ravaged areas from April 7 has not come too soon.
- Polling Underway In Assam (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2006)
Only seven per cent votes were cast on Monday in the first three hours of polling till 10 am in phase one of Assam Assembly elections with rains playing spoilsport, official sources said.
- "Self-Rule, Autonomy Not Viable Solution To J&k Problem" (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Apr 03, 2006)
End human rights violations and settle Kashmir issue: experts
CBMs have improved the ties for sure but they have given nothing to the Kashmiris: Gautam Navlakha
Unless India accepts Kashmir as a dispute all so-called peace talks are going to be exerci
- Sri Lanka And Pakistan Agree To Combat Terrorism (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Apr 03, 2006)
Mahinda Rajapakse in Islamabad Pakistan reaffirmed its support for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Sri Lanka
- Indian Student Attacked In Russia (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2006)
Moscow: An Indian medical student in the city of Ryazan, south of Moscow, was attacked by a group of schoolboys.
- Thai Poll Ends, Crisis To Stay (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2006)
Polling closed in Thailand’s snap election on Sunday with caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra expected to win a third term in the one-horse contest, which is unlikely to resolve the country’s two-month-old political deadlock.
- Absent Teachers (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 03, 2006)
A World Bank survey has revealed that on any given day, one out of every four teachers in primary schools in the country is absent. In other words, the absenteeism is 25 per cent
- Through The Skin Of Living (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2006)
Nesa Gschwend’s performance Sing a Song, juxtaposing and permeating the artist's sensitive bodily presence with the visually evocative film and sound, let one grasp her simultaneously subtle and high-charged approach that focuses on the inner and the exte
- Kunti’S Tale Of Solitude (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2006)
Dancer, choreographer and actor Anitha Santhanam on stage begins her monologue in Tamil prose for Vaanaprastham, a reminiscence narrative based on Mahabharata. This was at Christ College mini auditorium on Saturday.
- World Scrambles To Feed China’S Appetite For Metal (Deccan Herald, Don Lee , Apr 03, 2006)
China's imports of scrap metal surged nearly 30 percent last year, and the trend is not likely to abate
- Assam Votes Today, Won’T Be Walk In A Tea Garden (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2006)
As they wake up to their morning cup of tea tomorrow—first day, first show of the Assam Assembly elections—Congress leaders in the state will perhaps sip it with one bitter reminder. Tea labourers hold the key to 35 of the 126 Assembly constituencies in t
- For The Good Of All, For The Good Of Oil (Indian Express, Vikram S Mehta, Apr 03, 2006)
The present structure of pricing and taxation of petroleum products (viz petrol, diesel, kerosene, LPG) communicates a potpourri of contradictory economic messages that highlight the conflicts and dilemmas of reconciling democratic politics with economic
- Stranded In A Place Called Impasse (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Apr 03, 2006)
Is the demilitarisation of Jammu and Kashmir a workable next-step in the dialogue process?
- Safety First (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Apr 03, 2006)
Do Indians lack common sense? There could be something in this if they need the Supreme Court of India to school them on the basic safety standards that need to be followed in public buildings .
- Looking At Us (Tribune, Raj Chatterjee, Apr 03, 2006)
I have in my possession a little book entitled “In India” written by one G.W. Steevens and published in 1899.
- Delivering Services To Citizens (Tribune, Rohit Kansal, Apr 03, 2006)
The Punjab Finance Minister in his budget for 2006-07, has proposed “privatisation of rural health services”.
- Pride Of Families To Shame Of Doctors (Telegraph, M.R. Venkatesh, Apr 03, 2006)
The confused expression and the stiff body language underlined an obvious fact: these were no hardened criminals.
- Only Cong Can Give Stable Govt In Assam: Pm (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today reiterated that only the Congress could provide a stable government in Assam as the Opposition was divided into various camps.
- Intriguing Pattern Of Global Capital Flows (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2006)
Any attempt to address the current problems will require a forum broader than the G7/G8 and wielding political clout
In addition to the benefits from a domestic demand led strategy, a less export oriented strategy would also contribute to ultimate . . .
- Iim Subsidy In Murthy Glare (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2006)
That is what N.R. Narayana Murthy feels and he said as much as he announced today that the new batch of postgraduate students who enrol in the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, will have to pay Rs 1.77 lakh a year, a hike of Rs 19,000.
- Dmk Offer Revives The Politics Of Rice (Hindu, T. Ramakrishnan, Apr 03, 2006)
A similar promise brought party to power for first time in 1967
State always witnesses intense political debates on rice supply
Tamil Nadu bears an annual subsidy of Rs.1,200 crore on rice
Practice of using rice as a political tool not confined to
- A Silver Streak (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Apr 01, 2006)
Leaders of different parts of the State as it had existed in 1947 agree to disagree.
- New H.I.V. Cases Reported To Drop In Southern India (New York Times, LAWRENCE K ALTMAN, Apr 01, 2006)
In a rare piece of good news about AIDS, the prevalence of new H.I.V. infections has fallen significantly in southern India, the region of that country where the disease has occurred most often, scientists reported yesterday.
- Indians Crack Down On Gender Abortions (Christian Science Monitor, Scott Baldauf, Apr 01, 2006)
In October 2001, when Dr. Anil Sabhani told a pregnant patient that she had a "female fetus and it would be taken care of," he wasn't talking about prenatal nutrition or health checks. He was talking about abortion.
- Quake Jolts Western Iran (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 01, 2006)
70 perish, 988 injured
- Making The Most Of An Mba (Tribune, Ajit Jain, Apr 01, 2006)
During the last few years there have been some negative reports in the media about a Master’s in Business Administration, with headlines like ‘MBA loses its cachet in the business world,’ and that MBAs have ‘lost their lustre.
- More Jodhpurs With Smart Policies (Deccan Herald, Tavleen Singh, Apr 01, 2006)
It was an enchanted night and brought alive memories of that older, forgotten India that we must rediscover and reinvent if we want tourism to help us preserve what is left of our wonderful monuments and palaces...
- A Chance Arrest, Say Police (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 01, 2006)
They stopped Shah after he alighted from the Mumbai-bound Dadar Express
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