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Articles 12621 through 12720 of 22438:
- Changed Publicity Tack On Aids Gets A Positive Response (Hindu, M. Dinesh Varma, Jan 20, 2006)
Overkill dropped in favour of simplifying the core message
Worried over the indifferent public response to its multimedia HIV/AIDS campaign, the Chennai Corporation AIDS Prevention and Control Society (CAPACS) changed its publicity tack . . .
- Iim-B To Discuss Centre’S Stand (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 20, 2006)
The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B) Board of Governors on Friday will discuss the outcome of the HRD ministry’s move of spiking the institute’s proposal to set up an overseas campus in Singapore.
- Standards Low In State Rural Schools (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 20, 2006)
Rural Karnataka might take credit for having 98 per cent children aged between 6-14 years in school, but 45 per cent of them can not solve simple numerical sums of subtraction or division, a recent study has revealed.
- India’S ‘N-Violation?’ Us Puts Past Behind To Push For N-Deal (Indian Express, Carol Giacomo, Jan 20, 2006)
N-deal India’s new commitments under joint statement most productive approach, says US
- Paswan Seeks Job Quota For Dalit Muslims, Christians (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 20, 2006)
Threatens stir across the country
Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan on Thursday said his party would launch an agitation if there were no job reservations for Dalit Muslims and Christians in the public and . . .
- New School Building Constructed By Ngo Declared Open (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 20, 2006)
Built at a cost of Rs.24 lakh as part of the tsunami relief project
- Should Iims Go Global? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 20, 2006)
India can be proud of the eminent educational institutions it has produced. IITians rule the world. IIM is not far behind and campus interviews have become a byword for the clients that they attract. When education is such a hot, salable commodity, . . .
- Down Sizing Govt Is The Answer (Daily Excelsior, S. V. Vaidyanathan, Jan 20, 2006)
The 35 lakh Government employees in employment with the Centre, the railways, public sector banks, and other sensitive establishments have threatened to go on an indefinite strike with effect from March 1 if a new salary formula is not worked out . . .
- Remember Dabhol? (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jan 20, 2006)
A gentleman, whose identity better remain undisclosed, had spent a term in one of the houses of parliament.
- Celtic Connection (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 20, 2006)
Bertie Ahern’s visit, the first by an Irish prime minister, is a notable event. India and Ireland have more in common than just sharing tri-coloured saffron, white and green national flags.
- Elections In West Bengal (Tribune, V. Eshwar Anand, Jan 20, 2006)
Close on the heels of its spectacular success in Bihar, the Election Commission has geared up to hold free and fair elections in five states — West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Pondicherry. Of these, the commission will perhaps face . . .
- A Laugh A Day May Keep Heart Attack Away (Tribune, Jeremy Laurance, Jan 20, 2006)
Watching a good comedy could be as effective as going for a run in boosting health, according to groundbreaking research that links laughter to the healthy function of the blood vessels.
- Pop A Laugh (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 20, 2006)
To laugh or not to laugh, that is the question. The most wasted of all days, arguably, is that in which we have not laughed at all. Nothing is sillier than silly laughter, says another school of thought. And further, that meaningless laughter . . .
- After The Makkah Summit (Dawn, Mahdi Masud, Jan 20, 2006)
Hasnain Heikal described summitry as the “Arab world’s principal political instrument. Like a political Trabant, it produces noise and hot air, but only the most lethargic motion.”
- Computer Science Growing Into A Basic Science (The Financial Express, S SADAGOPAN, Jan 20, 2006)
Computer science has evolved over many decades. While the early decades were dominated by mechanical calculating machines, today’s computers have evolved from the 1960s into a finite automaton that realises a Turning Machine, . . .
- Ngos On The Chopping Block (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 20, 2006)
The Sindh government’s move to check the mushroom growth of NGOs will be viewed with mixed reactions.
- Fatal Confrontation Shows Perils Of India's Rise (International Herald Tribune, Somini Sengupta , Jan 20, 2006)
Kalingangar Industrial Area, India On the first Monday morning of the year, four bulldozers, accompanied by nearly 300 police officers, arrived on a rocky patch of farmland on the edge of a wooded village and began leveling the earth.
- King Abdullah’S Visit To India — A Wake Up Call (Pakistan Observer, Dr Jassim Taqui, Jan 20, 2006)
The Indians seem in a state of euphoria over the reported four-day visit of King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz to India, who agreed to be the chief guest at the Indian Republic Day parade on January 26. His visit would start on January 24 and . . .
- Population Control: Pm Against Coercion (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 20, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said he was against coercion in population control programmes and favoured empowerment of girls as the main ingredient of a successful campaign.
- Unequal In Poverty (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 20, 2006)
The criteria to select BPL families should be changed
Poverty is a relative concept. What constitutes poverty in one place may not be so in another place.
- Behind The Name (Deccan Herald, K V RAO, Jan 20, 2006)
The possibilities of misspelling or mispronouncing a long winding name are more
- A Web Witness To Iranian Brutality (Washington Post, Anne Applebaum, Jan 20, 2006)
Enter the Web site: http://www.abfiran.org/ . Click on "Omid: A Memorial," and then "Search." Enter a name -- or a religion, a nationality, an alleged crime. One by one, the stories will transfix you.
- Containing Tehran (Washington Post, David Ignatius, Jan 20, 2006)
How should the United States think about Iran? What explains the fanaticism of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and what can America and its allies do to change it?
- Grit Of A Woman (Indian Express, PRIYAMVADA KOWSHIK, Jan 19, 2006)
A few days ago, I was browsing through news from Pune, and stopped at a headline: ‘‘Poonam Maharashtrian Hindustani hacked to death’’. It was my Poonam. I could never forget that name!
- Schoolchildren Envisage Cleaner, Greener Chennai (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
50 city schools present their projects on a `Zero Carbon City' 50 city schools present their projects on a `Zero Carbon City'
- Yoga Helped This Youth Overcome Many A Disability (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
He performs 200 asanas, some complicated even for able-bodied persons
- Multimedia Educational Cds For +2 Students (Hindu, T. Saravanan, Jan 19, 2006)
The CDs feature the new syllabi for Chemistry and Physics in a novel learning format
- Northeast To New East (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 19, 2006)
IIM Shillong is great news. IIMs & IITs elsewhere will be better. Start with Bihar, minister
- Iim-B Has Exceeded Its Brief, Says Arjun Singh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
No move to persuade the IIMs to increase student intake
Says higher education is "under-funded"
Planning Commission asked to increase allocation
Government in no position to open more IITs
- Wanted, A Second Revolution In Public Works (The Financial Express, Alok Sheel, Jan 19, 2006)
When I first travelled abroad in the early 90s, two things struck me as the airplane approached its First World destination by night. First, the sheer brilliance of the expanse below that made the city look like a huge galaxy of bright stars.
- Power Point (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 19, 2006)
Many important people were whizzing around Calcutta on Tuesday — including the most important of them all.
- Ec Warns Bengal Poll Officials: Get Rolls Right Or Face Action (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
With observers detecting fake photo-identity cards and school-leaving age certificates, the Election Commission today came down hard on district-level poll officials in West Bengal, asking them to strictly adhere to guidelines while preparing . . .
- Cong Bangalored, Gowda Son Walks Into Bjp Arms (Indian Express, JOHNSON T A, Jan 19, 2006)
Moving swiftly for the kill and catching a complacent Congress napping both in Bangalore and New Delhi, a majority faction of the Janata Dal (Secular), led by party president and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda’s son, H D Kumaraswamy, . . .
- U.S. Aims To Set Aside India Reactor Controversy (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Jan 19, 2006)
The Bush administration, confronting a potential threat to its 2005 nuclear deal with India, has signaled it will set aside concerns that New Delhi violated a previous agreement with the United States.
- Russia’S ‘Oil-For-Knowledge’ Scheme (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
In the strange new world of today, the modern and the pre-modern depend on each other. Thus, Russians trade oil for the products of knowledge. Imported technologies are cheap if you convert their prices into barrels of oil, so the country produces . . .
- A Cornered General Could Not Do Much (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 19, 2006)
President of Pakistan had to face a tough time on screen with a journalist from India. Reasons many. Saleem Kaloo reviews Musharraf’s interview with Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN
- Together We Stand (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Jan 19, 2006)
The mass organizations that make for the CPI(M)’s strength are also becoming a major problem for it, writes Ashis Chakrabarti
- 100 Terminals To Be Commissioned Through Edusat (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
The Department of Science and Technology of the Union Government, which currently has around 20 terminals being commissioned through EDUSAT under Vigyan Prasar network, will augment this facility to around 100 terminals across the country soon.
- Stone Laid For Villivakkam Vehicular Subway (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Railways, Corporation will share the cost of the project
The Union Minister of State for Railways, R. Velu, on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for a vehicular subway at Villivakkam Railway Yard (West). The subway will replace a manned level crossing.
- Singapore To Stay Engaged With Iim-B (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Jan 19, 2006)
Initiative to set up campus not given up, say sources in the institute
Institute exploring partnership options
Pullout will be "short-sighted"
Preserve brand image, get ready for odyssey
- Human Rights Festival Planned (Hindu, K. SATYAMURTY, Jan 19, 2006)
The Department of Sociology, Christ College, is organising the annual Human Rights and Sambandh Festivals from January 23 to 25.
- Stillborn Solace (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 19, 2006)
Regulations won’t reform
There should be no great surprise over the icy response from schools across the country to the UPA government’s highly-hyped proposal to provide free education to the single girl child.
- Vat, Octroi Can’T Go Together (Tribune, Janak Raj Gupta, Jan 19, 2006)
The Punjab Government is going to announce soon the abolition of octroi. In the changed scenario of the VAT-regime, the abolition of octroi is a sound economic principle. But as the government wants to get political mileage out of its abolition, . . .
- India Rejects Pervez Proposals On Kashmir (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Jan 19, 2006)
Pakistan today formally presented President Pervez Musharraf’s “out-of-the-box” proposal on demilitarisation of Kashmir which India disposed, saying that New Delhi wanted to be “more ambitious” than demilitarising just three cities of Kashmir and . . .
- U.S. Document Slams Iraq Situation (Hindu, Julian Borger , Jan 19, 2006)
Widespread lawlessness is curtailing civil liberties, says the paper
An official document issued by the U.S. foreign aid agency depicts the security situation in Iraq as dire, with constant militant attacks ``significantly damaging'' . . .
- Electrification Scheme Launched (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
It will ensure power supply to nearly 1.52 lakh families in the district
Project will also cover 92,345 families living below poverty line in Mysore district
Plan to establish 650 power sub-stations in State
- Panel Tours Haveri To Review Scheme (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Panel comprised members of World Bank and European Commission
The members visited block resource centres and some schools in villages
Final review meeting in State to be held in Bangalore on January 20
- Collector Lauds Ngos' Role In Relief (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Inaugurates new building for school, donated by Red Swastik Society of India
- Pakistan, India To Ease Tensions Over Kashmir (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Nuclear rivals India and Pakistan agreed on Wednesday to implement fresh measures to lower tensions over Kashmir and confirmed their commitment to keep their stuttering peace process on track.
- Killing Made Easy (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 19, 2006)
With pitifully little notice paid, another rash of year-end homicide statistics points up the madness of America’s fascination with handguns.
- Importance Of Break-Even (Business Line, R. T. Narayanan, Jan 19, 2006)
The concept of `break-even' is one of the first things taught in management schools, highlighting the significance of fixed costs in running of organisation. It is one of the simpler, easier concepts to understand and apply readily in a given . . .
- Indian-American Scholar Given Key State Department Assignment (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Jan 19, 2006)
A leading Indian-American academic has been co-opted by a senior State Department official to advise him on India for the next two months.
- Civil War Threat In Sri Lanka (Dawn, Tayyab Siddiqui, Jan 19, 2006)
An unfortunate feature of politics in the South Asian region during the last 50 years has been the birth of separatist movements based mostly on ethnic and linguistic basis and complicated by majority-minority politics.
- Us Must Facilitate Kashmir, Palestine Solutions: Pm (News International, Salim Bokhari, Jan 19, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that Pakistan and the United States have evolved a transformed relationship and there is a strategic convergence between the two countries on regional and international objectives.
- Preventing Power Losses (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Jan 19, 2006)
Talk to a Japanese official and he invariably comes up with a reply that Pakistan is potentially a very rich country with large natural resources, unlike Japan with its narrow strip of hilly land. All we have to do, he says, is to develop those . . .
- Root Vegetable That’S Hard To Beet (Tribune, Maxine Frith, Jan 19, 2006)
The humble beetroot has always been a bit of a poor relation to other, trendier species in the vegetable world. Perhaps it is because of its association with war-time rationing (it was often used as a substitute for soft fruit in jam).
- Economic Implications Of Terrorism (Business Line, Asuri Vasudevan, Jan 19, 2006)
To counter terrorism, governments and businesses have to incur additional expenditure on arrangements for safety and security, insurance payments, surveillance and intelligence gathering and training and equipping anti-terror squads.
- Need For Care (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 19, 2006)
Does any development on the militant front astonish us in this State? In fact the surprise will be if it does. Gun-totting marauders have a wicked agenda.
- Burns In India To Discuss N-Deal (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Less than a week after a meeting of the Indo-US ‘Civil Nuclear Energy Working Group’ here, U S Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs R Nicholas Burns today said implementing the deal of nuclear cooperation between the two countries is . . .
- Let Ultra Being Brought To Jammu Escapes, Re-Arrested (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Giving police the slip, a Pakistani militant today jumped off a speeding train in the wee hours while being taken to Jammu from West Bengal but was recaptured at a village here this evening.
- Bihar Held Hostage (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 19, 2006)
Abduction and extortion have become an industry in Bihar and the police and administration do not seem to have any plans to cope with it.
- Children Of A Lesser God (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 19, 2006)
Extracts from the ILO’s regional high-level tripartite meeting on the Role of Labour Inspection in combating Child Labour, Harare, 2001
- That Education Pill (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 19, 2006)
The Annual Status of Education Report was conceived by an educational NGO as a citizen’s audit when it embarked on its survey of 9,252 rural schools in 28 states, with villages chosen at random.
- India, Pakistan Agree On Peace, Differ On Process (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Jan 19, 2006)
India and Pakistan on Wednesday made a fresh commitment to push forward a fragile peace process but the nuclear-armed neighbours reiterated their differences over ways to end nearly 60 years of enmity.
- Have A Brisk Walk (Deccan Herald, M K RATHISH, Jan 18, 2006)
A walk every day is enough to keep us healthy, but, as a culture, do we like the idea?
- Iccw's Efforts Bring Down Female Infanticide (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Children rescued from match industries Council working in 370 villages for past 15 years
- Indian History Frays Tempers In Us (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
The controversy regarding textbooks on Indian history is raging in California with academicians alleging that changes made at the behest of Hindu organisations have resulted in hiding “true history.”
- Bullet-Proof ‘Monks’ (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Jan 18, 2006)
Even by Jammu and Kashmir standards, this is an alarming turn in the battle against militancy. For the first time in 15 years, investigations into fidayeen attacks in the state are increasingly pointing at the involvement of elected representatives . . .
- Leaving A Stamp On History (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Jan 18, 2006)
The year 2008 will mark the 125th birth anniversary of Sir Mirza Ismail — a great Mysorean, an Indian who made us proud, a quintessential political conservative, a remarkable person in public life, who believed that persons entrusted with overseeing ....
- India Requires A Creative Leader: Kalam (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
In another appeal to CII, President Kalam urged the organisation to create a directory of existing partnerships commencing from 2000 and publish it giving all details of scope and progressive financial performance. c
- On Hunt For Carnivorous Animals (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
700 forest beat officials will carry out the exercise in the State
Study to be taken up in 17 `tiger states'
Cost involved is Rs. 5.6 crores
Rs. 26 lakhs to be spent in Andhra Pradesh,
- Cm Takes Bmp To Task (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Chief Minister N Dharam Singh donned the role of a hard taskmaster on Tuesday, unleashing his fury at the “erring” Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) for not meeting the deadlines for road improvement.....
- Madrassa Reform In India (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Madrassas cater to only a relatively small proportion of Muslim children. The temptation to present madrassa education as the preferred alternative to general schooling for Muslim children must be guarded against.
- 'Indian And Pakistani Punjabs Can Help Agriculture Together’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
* Agriculture universities of Faisalabad and Ludhiana to sign MoU
* Cheque for Rs 0.3m for earthquake victims
- Australia-India Partnership — Natural Complementarities (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 18, 2006)
Energy and resources are the drivers of the India-Australia relationship, with India importing billions of dollars worth of gold and coal, apart from diamonds and food items.
- Spirit Of Sacrifice (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 18, 2006)
A friend, who is a devout Muslim otherwise, has made a bizarre comment on the ritual of sacrifice performed on the Eid-ul-Azha. He says, “I think the poor goats, sheep and other animals give their lives on Eid day for nothing.
- Early Learning In Mother Tongue (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Jan 18, 2006)
On October 22, the federal education minister, Lt Gen (retd) Javed Ashraf, made a presentation on the “Education scenario in Pakistan” to the president and prime minister.
- 100 Days After The Quake (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 18, 2006)
One hopes that after visiting the quake-hit areas and seeing firsthand the extensive damage and human misery prevalent there, former US president and UN Special Envoy for Pakistan Earthquake Relief, Mr George Bush, will press the international . . .
- Scientist Wants Another Green Revolution (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
`It will help small and landless farmers earn a livelihood by rearing animals and birds'
First Foundation Day celebrations of the Karnataka Veterinary, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Sciences University inaugurated
- Goa To Encourage Planting Of Jatropha For Bio-Diesel (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
The Goa Government has decided to encourage panchayats and educational institutions to take up plantation of jatropha trees in a big way as Government intended to promote it as an alternative fuel.
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