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Articles 11821 through 11920 of 22438:
- Remembering A Liberal Humanist (Deccan Herald, Satya Narayana Sahu, Feb 14, 2006)
K R Narayanan wanted safe pedestrian crossings for the unempowered in the fast lane of liberalisation, privatisation & globalisation
- India Accelerating Towards Deal With Cern (Indian Express, Reshma Patil, Feb 14, 2006)
India's nuclear scientists are on the verge of entering into a new, intensive collaboration—estimated at five million Swiss francs—with the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), the world’s largest particle physics centre near Geneva.
- J-K: Beauty Bug Flies High Despite Threats (Indian Express, FOZIA YASIN, Feb 14, 2006)
Despite threats and a campaign of hardline women’s organisations to shut them down, beauty parlours here are blossoming. Housed in traditional Kashmiri houseboats on Jehlum banks, the parlours are chock-a-block with customers.
- Centre Commissions Coastal Hazard Zone Mapping Project (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 14, 2006)
A management system essential to protect coastal communities
- Army Against Recruitment By Religion, Says Gen Singh (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 14, 2006)
The Army chief, Gen J J Singh, on Monday vehemently opposed the government’s move to gather information on the number of Muslims in the armed forces, saying that every citizen had an equal chance to serve in uniform.
- East-West Cultural Encounter (Hindu, NANDAGOPAL R. MENON, Feb 14, 2006)
A French Jesuit missionary's observations on Indian practices, customs and theology
- The Knowledge Market (Telegraph, Tapas Majumdar, Feb 14, 2006)
The “knowledge market” is just a name I have chosen — it has not made the dictionary yet.
- Battle Against Oppression (Hindu, K. S. Parthasarathy, Feb 14, 2006)
This is a Kannada translation of the original in Marathi through its English version.
- Musharraf Backs Iran Gas Pipeline: Us Asked To Help On Kashmir (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 14, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf said on Monday that he supported plans to build a gas pipeline from Iran to Pakistan and India, despite opposition from the United States.
- It's An Indian Army (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Feb 14, 2006)
The person heading the Prime Minister's High Level committee on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslim community, Rajinder Sachar, has eminently secular credentials.
- Survey On Muslims: Pmo Clarifies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 14, 2006)
Data being sought from all departments and agencies, not just the armed forces It is part of the assignment to prepare a report on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslim community
- Terrorism A Threat To Democracy: E.U. Leader (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 14, 2006)
Victims of violence gather in Spain to share their pain, discuss ways to combat the menace
- Perils Of Three-Way Security Cooperation (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Feb 14, 2006)
Tokyo wants India, Japan, and the U.S. to develop a trilateral framework for security cooperation. But New Delhi has good reason to be wary.
- Good Governance (The Nation, FIROZUDDIN AHMED FARIDI, Feb 14, 2006)
The events in Hangu (NWFP) Balochistan, Waziristan and, indeed in Pakistan where electricity lines, water-pipelines, gas-pipelines, railway tracks and passenger buses are under daily attack underscores the paramount importance of good governance.
- A Budding Relationship Between U.S. And India (US News & World Report, Thomas Omestad, Feb 14, 2006)
Through a period of foreign policy upheaval dominated by the Bush administration's war on terrorism, a major shift in U.S. policy with enduring consequences has received far less public attention in America: Washington's embrace of New Delhi and . . .
- A Line That Has Sundered Lives And Hearts (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Feb 14, 2006)
The quake, some hoped, would dissolve the LoC; four months on, that hope seems illusory
- `Education For Holistic Development' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 14, 2006)
The right education should make students sincere, hardworking and intelligent in their chosen profession, Vice-Chancellor of the Periyar University T. Balakrishnan said.
- Iims: The Global (Dis)connect? (Business Line, Alok Ray, Feb 14, 2006)
Should the India Institutes of Management go global? The question has been raised in view of IIM-B wanting to open a campus in Singapore. The debate has implications not just for the IIMs but also for other educational institutes (such as the IITs) ...
- What Is The Need To Hurt Sentiments? (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Feb 14, 2006)
The western world has to reassess its values after the violation
- Kashmir Ripe For Resolution: President (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 14, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf Monday emphasized that Pakistan and India must seize the opportunity for addressing the longstanding Kashmir dispute, which he said was “absolutely ripe for a resolution.”
- New Life To The Lands Of Death (Indian Express, M.S. Swaminathan, Feb 13, 2006)
The feedback is very clear: there has been no improvement in the situation of distressed Vidarbha farmers following the visit of the National Commission on Farmers (NCF) in October 2005 and the announcement of a relief package by the government . . .
- Population Control Projects Ineffective, Says Report (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 13, 2006)
Population control projects in India have not produced desired results as they placed an “overwhelming responsibility” of family planning in the hands of women without actually equipping them to take decisions or.....
- Media’S Subversive Role (Deccan Herald, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Feb 13, 2006)
Prophet Mohammed cartoons show how the media takes sides
- Slash Tax To Spur India Inc: Ficci (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 13, 2006)
Pointing out that direct tax burden on India Inc stands at over 40 per cent and indirect tax incidence on consumers at over 30-44 per cent, industry chamber Ficci has demanded reduction in tax rates in the upcoming budget to make corporates . . .
- Music Greats Step Forward For Indian Music Academy (Indian Express, AMETA BAL, Feb 13, 2006)
When maestros like Pandit Ravi Shankar, Gangubhai Hangal, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Kishen Maharaj and Lata Mangeshkar come together for a cause, it is a success in the making.
- Nepal's King Faces Exile Or Execution - Maoist Chief (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 13, 2006)
Nepal's King Gyanendra will ultimately be exiled or executed because he has closed the door to any political compromise since seizing absolute power a year ago, the reclusive leader of the country's Maoist rebels said.
- Protest Is Easier Than Reform, Say Moderate Muslims (Reuters, Clarence Fernandez, Feb 13, 2006)
Muslim protests across the world condemning cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad are driven by fears Islam is under attack, and by the fact that it is easier to protest than to battle tough social issues, moderate Muslims say.
- Solution To Kashmir Lies In ‘How’, Not ‘When’: Omar (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 13, 2006)
Praising the Centre for initiating the peace process in Kashmir, National Conference president Omar Abdullah has said that the issue needs a "means-based" solution.
- Old Battle, New Battlelines (Daily Excelsior, Fazal Mehmood, Feb 13, 2006)
The UPA Government is likely to bring legislation in the budget session of Parliament for reservation of jobs for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in the private sector.
- All Doors Open To Murli Deora (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Feb 12, 2006)
Murli Deora or Murli Bhai, as he is known to his countless friends and admirers, has been a “friend of friends.”
- "Key Role For Teachers In Student Empowerment" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 12, 2006)
Ability to speak language depends on multitude of factors: expert
- The First Gandhian Intellectuals (Hindu, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , Feb 12, 2006)
But only two of them would go so far as to call themselves that.
- Should Iims Go Global? (Hindu, P. K. Doraiswamy, Feb 12, 2006)
Nationalised banks globalise when large sections of the Indian population are unserved by credit. Why not IIMs?
- Reservations For Minorities Will Not Help:tarlochan Singh (Tribune, T R Ramachandran, Feb 12, 2006)
Mr Tarlochan Singh bowed out as the Chairman of the National Commission of Minorities (NCM) last Wednesday, after a three year term. He has served as its Vice-Chairman as well, and was the first Sikh and non-Muslim to have headed the NCM.
- A New Survey Of Child Labourers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 12, 2006)
The Rajasthan Government will complete a survey of child labourers under the National Child Labour Project by February 28 to facilitate timely implementation of various schemes for their rescue and rehabilitation.
- Punish Those Behind Custodial Death, Sonia Tells Pranab (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Feb 12, 2006)
Death toll in Kakopathar police firing goes up to eight
Farmer's widow to get job; Army to take care of children
Security situation in Assam has improved much: Sonia
Party workers urged to ensure the poor are registered under the employment scheme
- Left Demands Increased Budget Outlay Of Rs. 52,800 Crore (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 12, 2006)
Say agriculture, revival of sick public enterprises need additional allocation
- Magic On The Field (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 12, 2006)
A look at a new book that all Indian cricket lovers will enjoy.
- Reply And Revenge (Hindustan Times, Karan Thapar, Feb 12, 2006)
Do phone calls from banks offering loans or credit card companies flogging their products irritate you?
- Youngsters Need To Introspect (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, Feb 12, 2006)
I was invited to speak at a prestigious Business School on Mahatma Gandhi”s Martyrdom Day.
- The Secret Route (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Feb 12, 2006)
The growing involvement of U.S.-based emissaries with no real base in the Kashmir Valley in closed-door meetings with the Indian establishment raises concern.
- This Ain’T No Rocket Science! (Hindustan Times, V.S. Arunachalam, Feb 12, 2006)
The nuclear debate has really heated up. Look at the number of articles, speeches and interviews.
- What If Sonia Had To Face Her Father-In-Law (Indian Express, SUDHEENDRA KULKARNI , Feb 12, 2006)
All IFS of history are flights of imagination. Yet, despite their implausibility, their use is permissible when a reasonable argument is sought to be made.
- Cartoon Crisis: A Cartoonist’S Take (Indian Express, E.P.UNNY, Feb 12, 2006)
Occasional cartoonist and Kerala’s Muslim League Minister, Dr MK Muneer, has a finessed take on the current row over Prophet Muhammad’s caricature. He deplores the publication of the cartoons ‘‘in the strongest terms’’ . . .
- Coveted Telecom Award (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Feb 12, 2006)
World GSM Association has selected Pakistan for the prestigious ‘Leadership Award 2006’ in telecom sector after evaluating the country’s performance and steady growth in that direction.
- Containing Iran’S Nuclear Ambitions (Tribune, V. KRISHNA ANANTH , Feb 11, 2006)
After pretending to be in a mood to assert itself, the Manmohan Singh government voted with the US and others in the IAEA against Iran.
- On Record (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Feb 11, 2006)
I do not wish to minimise the difficulties (involved in India’s ties with Islamabad), but I believe the destiny and history of our two countries oblige us to stay engaged.
- 'Legal Literacy Is To Be Aware Of Rights' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Feb 11, 2006)
Niyama Sameeksha is a rare attempt to take legal literacy to the grass roots. Established as a trust in 1997, it publishes a magazine in Malayalam on legal issues as varied as POTA and Head Load Workers' Act and organises camps on rights . . .
- Map Products To Benefit Tourism, Business Sectors (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
Kapil Sibal releases new Road Atlas developed by Survey of India
- Shopping For Health Care (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 11, 2006)
President Bush spoke eloquently last week about the need for health care reform, but his concrete proposals are not unlike his plan for Social Security last year — modest steps that affect individuals but don’t address the broader problem.
- The Quintessential Politician (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
Assuming that Buta Singh’s career as a politician has come to an end, it is permissible to look back on his rise as a prototype of Indian politicians of our times.
- Left, Govt Clash On Economic Policy (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
The Left parties today differed sharply with the government leaders on economic policy issues, but doled out an agenda to the UPA regime on how to handle its expenditures and revenues, including higher resources for the National Rural Employment Programme
- Taking God Seriously (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Feb 11, 2006)
I see a perverse saving grace in an Iranian newspaper’s tit-for-tat promise of a contest of Holocaust cartoons.
- Taking `Look East' Further (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 11, 2006)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has completed a productive three-country tour in nine days, sharpening India's focus on a dynamic region in pursuance of the `Look East' policy initiated by Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao.
- Education Has Always Been A Central Concern Of The Church: Archbishop (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
Catholic bishops reiterate commitment to educating the marginalised
Over 70 p.c. of students in Catholic institutions from among the poor
Marginalised groups being targeted in education intervention programme
- Aids Control Campaign (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
Prevention of parent-to-child transmission
Tamil Nadu AIDS control society's "Prevention of parent-to- child transmission programme" through non-governmental organisations has evoked a good response in Kanyakumari, one of the districts . . .
- Fab City Project: All-Round Applause For Chief Minister (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
State will emerge as the real hi-tech manufacturing hub of India' The real credit for this far-reaching milestone achieved by the State goes to the people, says Dr. Reddy
- Davos Gets A 'Taste Of India' (Daily Excelsior, M Karthikeyan, Feb 11, 2006)
Global business leaders, who expected a bland fare from New Delhi at the World Economic Forum, were in for a surprise at this year's annual meeting at Davos, where they finally got a real taste of the 'Indian curry', as the country dished . . .
- Incentives For Government Staff, Farmers And Weaker Sections (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
Kerala Budget proposes additional resource mobilisation of just Rs.17.34 crores
- Ysr Blames Tdp For Lack Of Development (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
Accuses former regime of discriminating against sections of people
- Jayalalithaa Inaugurates 9 Development Projects (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
Throws open road over bridges at Chromepet and Tiruvallur
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Friday dedicated nine projects, completed at a total cost of over Rs. 130 crore, to the people besides laying the foundation for various other projects, . . .
- An Uneven Battle Against Aids (Hindu, R. Sujatha, Feb 11, 2006)
Doctors continue to fear infection; the infected worry about bleak future
- Safety In Schools (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Feb 11, 2006)
The State has failed to make our streets safe for women. But it is when young schoolgirls learn in a horrific way that their gender is the biggest impediment to their freedom that one begins to gauge how depraved our society has become.
- Cm Vows To Woo Fab City Project To Karnataka (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
“We will move a step forward and offer more facilities and subsidies than that provided by Andhra Pradesh for the $3-billion project,” Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy said...
- 41 Pakistanis Detained In Zabul (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
Afghan authorities have arrested more than 40 Pakistani workers for inciting violence during a protest against cartoons of Prophet Mohammed in which four people were killed,
- Iraq's Sadr Says Prophet Images Must Unite Muslims (Reuters, Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Feb 11, 2006)
Muslims must unite and set aside sectarian differences to counter a Western "crusade" on Islam following a furore over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad, Iraqi Shi'ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr said on Friday.
- Ambani Quarrel—more To It Than Meets The Eye? (The Financial Express, Malvika Singh, Feb 11, 2006)
The Reliance boys are at it again. The bully is busy showing muscle and pushing his brother to the point where forceful retaliation will be inevitable for survival.
- India Accused Of Cold-Shoulder Response Over Cbms (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
Pakistan’s Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) for better relations promotion of relations are not being responded to the same warmth to with the same warmth by India and neither of the countries are benefiting from opportunities for trade,
- Precarious Irreversibility Of Climate Change (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 11, 2006)
The British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, terms climate change the "world's greatest environmental challenge". `Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change,' summarises the proceedings of an international symposium on the subject held a year ago.
- Life’S Work And Fulfilment (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Feb 11, 2006)
Very few of us get the chance of living our lives in the way so as to give us a sense of fulfilment. The first quarter which we know as brahmacharya is spent in preparing for it: going to school and college (if our parents have the means to educate us).
- Beware: Division Can Be A Chain Reaction (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 11, 2006)
Communal tensions in Ladakh and Jammu must be quickly addressed, says Muzamil Jaleel
- High Expectations (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 11, 2006)
The new dispensation has promised to be proactive
The new Chief Minister, Mr H D Kumaraswamy, has easily won the motion of confidence by 138 votes to 66 in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly.
- Karnataka Worse Than Bihar (Deccan Herald, Bhamy V Shenoy, Feb 11, 2006)
Karnataka is at the bottom of the performance tables based on tests conducted to measure reading
- Utterly Disgusting (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Feb 11, 2006)
Till today an idea first mooted by Socrates continues to move the world. It says that the rightly trained mind would turn towards virtue. This principle has formed the cornerstone of formal education.
- Pakistan, 2005 (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Feb 11, 2006)
Day in, day out Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, his Prime Minister and other ministers talk of "demilitarisation" and "self-rule" in Jammu and Kashmir. What is the scenario like under their very noses?
- A Journey Through Coorg (Deccan Herald, Hemanth M Rao, Feb 11, 2006)
Silent Sentinels, A HECAR Foundation (Heritage Education Conservation Architecture Restoration) publication, is a book that provides an insight into the architectural heritage of Coorg and is the first of its kind book in the true sense.
- Searching For Et (Deccan Herald, U R RAO, Feb 10, 2006)
We study a planet as it was many light years ago, and if life exists, it may be more advanced than our own
- What About Freedom From Violence? (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Feb 10, 2006)
The row over the offensive caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in the European press is the latest event in the “clash of civilisations” between Occident and Orient.
- Jobs For Rural People (Daily Excelsior, Satyendra Pratap Singh, Feb 10, 2006)
Since the early 1970s, there are signs of a major diversi-fication of economic activity away from agriculture in favour of non-agricultural sector. The share of non-agricultural sector in the "usual status" employment of the male work force . . .
- Horrendous Crime (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 10, 2006)
Rape should be seen as violence rather than a slur
The rape of 17 girls by two of their teachers in a government school in Jind district in Haryana is shocking.
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