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Articles 10921 through 11020 of 22438:
- Rs. 4-Lakh Income Limit For Creamy Layer In A.P. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday accepted the recommendations of the Group of Ministers (GoM) fixing an annual income ceiling of Rs. 4 lakhs to identify the creamy layer among backward classes for excluding them from the purview of reservations.
- Returning Officers For Pondy Appointed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Each officer will be in charge of three constituencies Election expenditure of political parties in each constituency has been fixed at Rs 5 lakh and squads have been formed to monitor the functioning of parties
21 constituencies under seven officers
- Islamic Seminary Issues Fatwa Against Terrorists (Tribune, Shahira Naim, Mar 15, 2006)
Responding to a query of a young Muslim businessman the 300-year-old Islamic seminary, the Darul-Ifta Firangai Mahal issued a 'fatwa' against terrorists targeting places of worship and killing innocent people.
- Advani "Thought Of" Rath Yatra Before Varanasi Blasts (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Mar 15, 2006)
Dasmunsi: It is meant for dividing the country
The `yatras' will have the same political effect as his Ayodhya rath yatra in 1989, says Advani
"Minorityism is contributi
- Israeli Soldiers Storm Jail On West Bank (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Mar 15, 2006)
Militant jailed for murder of Israeli Minister seized; attack triggers abductions in Palestinian territories
- Budget Lays The Foundation For Building Castles (Business Standard, Alok Ray, Mar 15, 2006)
It is good to think ambitiously so long as the ground is laid for achieving the objectives. Budget 2006 goes quite a way in doing just that for the country to achieve 10 per cent growth, says ALOK RAY.
- Uniform Education (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 15, 2006)
IT is welcome to hear from General Musharraf that the government is developing uniform system of education to end unnecessary confusion about different mediums of instruction in the country. Addressing the 115th Annual Convocation of the Punjab . . .
- The Great Leveller (Business Standard, C. J. Punnathara, Mar 15, 2006)
Remittances — mainly by unskilled workers and labourers to the Gulf nations and elsewhere — play a significant role in fostering better health, education and other social indices.
- Man Rejected By India And Pakistan Stews In Prison (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Mar 15, 2006)
Khawaja Omar Alam alias Mohammad Owais Ali wants to live on the Zero Line given that both India and Pakistan do not accept him as a citizen.
- War Clouds Over Iran ? (Daily Excelsior, Syed Ali Safvi, Mar 15, 2006)
Iraq under Saddam Husain did not pose threat to the U.S. but it did to Israel.",
- Belated Recognition For China's 'Schindler' (International Herald Tribune, Howard W. French, Mar 15, 2006)
From the outside it does not look like much: the shell of a two-story brick building with scaffolding running up its sides and, on this drizzly winter day, a pair of construction workers kicking around in a courtyard littered with building materials.
- Standard Campuses (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 15, 2006)
Chairman Higher Commission [HEC] Dr Attaur Rehman has reiterated that the varsities bringing in no improvement in their academic standard will be closed. Addressing a conference in Lahore, he said that a quality assurance cell for the varsities was . . .
- Chinese Military Trains In West (Washington Times, Bill Gertz, Mar 15, 2006)
China is stepping up military training in Latin America because of a law that limits U.S. military support to nations in the region, the general in charge of the U.S. Southern Command told Congress yesterday.
- Taliban A Steady Threat To Afghanistan - Un Envoy (Reuters, Bill Rigby, Mar 15, 2006)
- A revitalized Taliban is the main threat to Afghanistan, the head of the United Nations mission there said on Tuesday, as a wave of violence sweeps the country struggling to become a viable democracy.
- Firms Recruiting In China Find Few Fits (Japan Times, RALPH JENNINGS, Mar 15, 2006)
Japanese companies trawling for new hires at the second annual Beijing job fair have found few skilled applicants among the latest group of graduates.
- Axe To Fall On Low (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Chairman Higher Commission [HEC] Dr Attaur Rehman has reiterated that the varsities bringing in no improvement in their academic standard will be closed. Addressing a conference in Lahore, he said that a quality assurance cell for the varsities was being
- The Culture Of Conspiracy (Tribune, William Weir, Mar 15, 2006)
Since the US vice president shot one of his hunting buddies, a number of alternate theories have been bubbling beneath the official version of events.
- War Clouds Over Iran ? (Daily Excelsior, Syed Ali Safvi, Mar 14, 2006)
Iraq under Saddam Husain did not pose threat to the U.S. but it did to Israel.",
- Advani At It Again (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Mar 14, 2006)
Yatras will harm party’s interests
- Generating Next (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Mar 14, 2006)
In recent years, India has been given to boasting about its IT prowess and vast pool of young workers.
- Kalam Visits Apravasi Ghat (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Mar 14, 2006)
President A.P.J. Kalam on Monday re-visited the shared colonial past of India and Mauritius at the Apravasi ghat (immigrant depot) where over four lakh Indians had landed between the mid 18th and early 19th centuries to work as labourers on . . .
- Water Worries (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 14, 2006)
Quality and quantity declining
- Workers And Consumers (Telegraph, André Béteille, Mar 14, 2006)
The author is chairman, Indian Council for Social Science Research
- Height Of Controversy (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Mar 14, 2006)
In 1953, when Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa summited Mt Everest for the first time, the highest peak in the world was the symbol of adventure, courage and the quest to transcend human limitations......
- Rooting For Sharia Laws In Bradford (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Mar 14, 2006)
It is one thing to demand the democratic right in an open and free society to practise one's faith, but to want to have a parallel religious legal system is quite another.
- Turmoil In House Over Yatra Plan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
BJP has no right to divide the country, says Basudeb Acharia
- Protecting A Legacy (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 14, 2006)
Visva-Bharati must fix its priorities
- More Complications Mar Admission To Professional Courses (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Mar 14, 2006)
The legal position on the conduct of the Tamil Nadu Professional Courses Entrance Examinations will become clear after March 27
Legal complication over conduct of TNPCEE may begin to clear after March 27
Stand of private colleges on common pool could
- Country Facing Internal Threats, Says Musharraf (Daily Times, Ali Waqar, Mar 14, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf said on Monday that he feared only internal threats to Pakistan.
- India, Mauritius Sign Pact To Explore For Hydrocarbons (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Mar 14, 2006)
ONGC will work with Mauritius Oceanography Institute to identify areas
ONGC to bear expense for training Mauritius geoscientists in its R&D institutes
Another agreement to involve Mauritius in 53-nation telecom grid signed
- Economy On Growth Path: Chidambaram (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
State Governments urged to spend funds from day one
If States spend the funds the people will have more money: Chidambaram
Ministries not spending 66 per cent of allocation in the first nine months to be penalised
Rich spared, middle-class squeezed
- Visiting China Again (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 14, 2006)
President Hu Jintao has sent a formal letter to President Pervez Musharraf inviting him to attend the sixth summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Pakistan enjoys observer’s status with the organization that seeks to . . .
- Jd(s)-Bjp Coalition Plans A Populist Cmp (Hindu, S. Rajendran, Mar 14, 2006)
Vision Karnataka' outlined by the President included in it
CMP scheduled for release on Wednesday
Implementation of CMP to cost not less than Rs. 1,000 crores a year
- Citizen First — Sampark Centres In India — Ishtiaq Ahmed (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 14, 2006)
Under the old bureaucratic system the individual was treated more as a subject on whom state functionaries exercised power to extract taxes, levies and other charges. In return some public services were provided, but since the state . . .
- Hamas To Submit New Draft Gov't Plan (Jordan Times, Omar Karmi, Mar 14, 2006)
Hamas is set to submit a new draft government programme after talks with Palestinian factions proved inconclusive Monday. Hamas officials, however, vowed that coalition talks would be concluded by the end of the week.
- Marketing The Need To Give (The Financial Express, Mahesh Bhatt, Mar 14, 2006)
Its dark... still very dark. I'm on my way from the airport to the heart of Colombo city. I'm here in war-worn Sri Lanka as UNICEF's special envoy to promote the corporate sectors' awareness of social responsibility and education.
- Co-Ed Rules (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 14, 2006)
That girls and boys are attracted to very different aspects of science is almost as distressing a finding as the observation, common among progressive parents, that their boys play with cars, while their girls prefer to busy themselves with dolls.
- Our Opportunity With India (Washington Post, Condoleezza Rice, Mar 13, 2006)
The week before last President Bush concluded a historic agreement on civilian nuclear cooperation with India, a rising democratic power in a dynamic Asia.
- U.S. Ties With India, Pakistan On Divergent Paths (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Mar 13, 2006)
President George W. Bush's visit to India and Pakistan this month underscored dramatically the increasingly divergent U.S. approaches to the South Asian nuclear rivals.
- India Slow To Wake Up To Growing Maoist Menace (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Mar 13, 2006)
Kanker, India (Reuters) - Shouting "commando", police in camouflage uniform and black bandanas pour down from the sky on ropes. Others clamber over rocks, shooting from the shoulder as targets pop up all around them.
- Huge Afghan Response To Indian Scholarships (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s announcement of 500 special scholarships for Afghan students during his visit to Kabul in July last has elicited huge response from across Afghanistan.
- Cellular Telephony In Rural India (Daily Excelsior, Arvinder Kaur, Mar 13, 2006)
The cellular telephony in rural India is in for a big leap, with the finance minister announcing that the Telegraph Act will be amended to extend financial support to infrastructure for cellular telephony in rural areas. At present, the Act only provides
- ‘Kashi, Vatican Must Join Hands To Fight Terrorism’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
“Kashi and Vatican should unite to fight Jehadis,” VHP International Secretary Praveen Togadia has said.
- What The Pictures Teach (Telegraph, UDDALAK MUKHERJEE, Mar 13, 2006)
How does one talk about sex to a group of young, painfully shy, village girls with little or no education? This was what Himalini Varma kept thinking as she sat inside a tiny hut in a village in South 24 Parganas.
- All Those Who Will Make The Difference (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 13, 2006)
Given the highly politicized election personnel in Bengal, fair play will depend on the neutral role of senior supervisors, writes A.K. Chatterjee
- Budget: Changes In Mat (Hindu, S. Rajaratnam, Mar 13, 2006)
Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) has undergone some major changes. The rate of tax is enhanced from 7.5 per cent to 10 per cent.
- Winners And Losers In The Outsourcing Game (Business Line, Mohan Murti, Mar 13, 2006)
Far from being a blot, outsourcing and offshoring are powerful tools to help solve the competitiveness problem and, provided the right structural reforms are implemented, may also assist in solving Europe's low employment problem.
Smart companies . . .
- Force 10 From Forbes (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Mar 13, 2006)
Forbes list is cause for cheer and contemplation
The latest Forbes list of billionaires brings fresh evidence of a resurgent India. And, of the contradictions within. With the second highest addition to the list (23), next only to the US (371), . . .
- Experts For Restructuring Plant Breeding Programme (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
People would require 325 million tons of foodgrains by 2025'
With the present plant breeding programme, it may be difficult for India to meet its food grains requirement, which is expected to grow to 325 million tonnes by 2025.
- Acquittal In Killing Unleashes Ire At India's Rich (New York Times, Somini Sengupta , Mar 13, 2006)
The crime itself was sensational. A fashion model was shot dead in an unlicensed bar stuffed full of fashionable people.
- A Spoof Hits China's Web, A Star Is Born (Christian Science Monitor, Robert Marquand, Mar 13, 2006)
An underground video sweeping Chinese cyberspace has half the country cracking up.
- China Renews An Old Ideological Fight (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
BEIJING For the first time in perhaps a decade, the National People's Congress, the Communist Party-run legislature now convened in its annual two-week session, is consumed with an ideological debate over socialism and capitalism that many assumed . . .
- Nature Of Us Relations With India And Pakistan Different (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
President George W Bush’s visit to India and Pakistan this month underscored dramatically the increasingly divergent US approaches to the South Asian nuclear rivals.
- For A Glimpse Of Suu Kyi (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Mar 13, 2006)
On a visit to Myanmar, we tried to get a glimpse of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Noble Peace Prize winner, put away from the public eye by the ruling military junta for 10 out of the last 16 years.
- Bush Visit: Not Just A Stopover (Dawn, Iqbal Akhund, Mar 13, 2006)
Invidious comparison is virtually built into an American president’s visit to the subcontinent. So it has been again, as President Bush has come and gone. As a foreign journalist put it, India got a hug, Pakistan a pat on the back.
- When Too Much Is A Bad Thing (Deccan Herald, Dr Gopal Dabade, Mar 13, 2006)
Inappropriate promotion of medicinal drugs remains a major public health problem both in developing and developed countries.....
- Kashmiri Leaders Call For End To Human Rights Violations (Daily Times, Mohammad Imran, Mar 12, 2006)
The Pugwash Conference called on Saturday for an end to human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, and urged all political parties in the state to participate in the dialogue process.
- Musharraf Blasts ‘Anti-Democracy’ Baloch Tribal Chiefs (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 12, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf has said that only a handful of "anti-development and anti-democracy" tribal chiefs are creating a law and order situation in Balochistan.
- Kalam Predicts Fusion Of Bio-Tech And Traditional Medicines (Press Trust of India, Subhashis Mittra, Mar 11, 2006)
Predicting fusion of bio-technology with traditional system of medicine, President A P J Abdul Kalam today said that both India and Myanmar could exchange knowledge in the field and use it on a commerical basis.
- Should State Directly Fund Varsities? (The Economic Times, Ravi Srivastava, Mar 11, 2006)
There’s no harm as long as the needs of the higher education in general and the universities in particular are properly assessed, and the decision is taken in consultation with the UGC.
- Murder Of Justice (The Week, Suman K. Jha, Mar 11, 2006)
Everything has been said already, but as no one listens, we must always begin again." Justice V.S. Malimath began with this Andre Gide quote while outlining the roadmap for reforming the criminal justice system in . . .
- Kalam Scores With Youths On Last Day (Statesman, R C Rajamani, Mar 11, 2006)
The President, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, tonight concluded a highly popular three-day visit to Myanmar during which he conveyed to the hosting military leadership India’s keenness to see the restoration of democracy in their nation . . .
- Farm Extension, Key To Second Green Revolution (Business Line, S. Kumarasamy, Mar 11, 2006)
With increasing population and declining per capita land available for agriculture, the future looks bleak. Unless the second Green Revolution is ushered in soon, it will be difficult to sustain the burgeoning . . .
- Kalam To Students: Send E-Mails As Often As You Wish (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Mar 11, 2006)
Political correctness never mattered to the President "Have the courage to invent, have the courage to combat problems and also have the courage to discover the impossible."
- Nepali Families Fight Poverty With Condoms, Pills (Reuters, Gopal Sharma, Mar 11, 2006)
One of the biggest-selling items in the tiny chemists in the rebel-held Nepali hill town of Tila are condoms -- several hundred a month for a total population of just 2,000.
- Kalam: India, Myanmar Should Standardise Traditional Medicines (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Mar 11, 2006)
"Most herbs used in Myanmar were common with those found in northeastern States"
First-ever visit by Indian head of state to Mandalay
"Harness biotechnology to improve efficacy of traditional medicines"
President pays homage at pagodas
- Musharraf For Roundtable Of Kashmir Representatives (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf today suggested a round table conference of representatives of both sides of Kashmir either in Srinagar or Muzzafarabad and said he was ready to attend it with Prime Minister Manmohan . . .
- Iim Graduate Declines Job Offer To Learn Soccer Biz (Hindustan Times, Chetan Chauhan, Mar 11, 2006)
Is a better business model the answer to Indian football's troubles? Satyajit Sadanandan, an IIM Lucknow alumnus, thinks so.
- Those College Days (Tribune, Trilochan Singh Trewn, Mar 11, 2006)
About four years before his death, I along with my wife had gone for medical consultations to Dr Chuttani.
- Kalam Is All Smiles On The Road To Mandalay (Indian Express, Manraj Grewal, Mar 11, 2006)
My people are rich and live in a powerful country but are still not content. I have come here to ask you how to make them happy.’’ During a rare heart-to-heart,
- Malnutrition Amidst High Growth (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 11, 2006)
The imperatives of putting nutrition at the centre of development are apparent in a new World Bank report that warns that malnutrition could cost countries up to 3 per cent of their GDP.
- And Then They Wonder Why The Rest Of The World Does Not Like America (Indian Express, David Ignatius, Mar 11, 2006)
Dubai. Officials here heard late Thursday that Karl Rove had decided to pull the plug.
- The Importance Of Being Raj Thackeray (Indian Express, KUMAR KETKAR , Mar 11, 2006)
It is difficult to predict whether Raj Thackeray will be a maverick comet or a new star on the political firmament of Maharashtra. Whatever be his fate, one thing is for certain.
- Fm Lists Steps To Prosperity (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Friday declared that there would be no cut in food and fertiliser subsidies and asserted that the government would spend on developmental projects in social and infrastructure projects to boosts economic growth.
- Neighbours Building An It Highway (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Mar 11, 2006)
Real Sino-Indian collaboration in software is beginning to materialise, giving China a valuable chance to enhance its own capabilities. What has, however, failed to take off is any collaboration in hardware, where the Indians could learn from the Chinese.
- Ltte Promulgates "Lands Act" (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Mar 11, 2006)
It contains provisions for distributing agricultural land
- Kalam’S Wit, Knowledge Charm Scholars (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
Amid a hectic schedule in Yangon that kept him busy in the hurly-burly world of politics, India's scientist-President APJ Abdul Kalam on Friday found solace in the company of teachers, scholars and Buddhist monks when . . .
- Punjab Ban (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 11, 2006)
There goes Basant in Punjab — thanks to a handful of bigoted killjoys and a rapacious group of metal-string manufacturers and their gambling patrons.
- Us Submits Nuclear Proposal To Congress (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
The Bush administration has already submitted a proposal to the US Congress, seeking to amend the laws for enabling India to acquire nuclear technology from the United States while a senior State Department official said he was . . .
- Election Commission Issues Notice To Amar Singh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
Jaya Bachchan moves Supreme Court for clarification on "office of profit"
SP leader to reply by March 31
I accepted post sans salary, honorarium, says Jaya Bachchan
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