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Articles 15221 through 15320 of 22438:
- Minority Education (Statesman, Valson Thampu , Nov 15, 2005)
According to the Judge of the Allahabad High Court (2005), and before him the Supreme Court in Azeez Basha Vs Union of India (1968),
- Naxal Attack Jehanabad (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 15, 2005)
Nine members of the outlawed Ranvir Sena, private army of upper caste landlords, who were abducted during the massive attack by the CPI (Maoists) on Jehanabad district jail, were killed as 1,000 paramilitary personnel were rushed today to this town,
- Non-Saarc Engagements (Pakistan Observer, Zahid Malik, Nov 15, 2005)
In addition to witnessing the superb diplomatic maneuvers by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz-led Pakistan delegation at the 13th SAARC Summit in Dhaka, which led to the emergence of pleasantly surprising consensus of the SAARC leaders regarding expansion ....
- Sangla Hill Outrage (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 15, 2005)
The burning down on Saturday of three churches, a missionary-run school, two hostels and several houses belonging to the Christian community by an enraged mob of some 3,000 people in Punjab’s Nankana district speaks volumes for the bigotry and . . . .
- Grave Challenges Ahead (Dawn, Shahid Javed Burki, Nov 15, 2005)
Let me return for a moment to the Zia period in order to go forward with the analysis I began to offer in this space last week.
- French Riots And Blair’S Debacle (Dawn, Shadaba Islam, Nov 15, 2005)
These are tough times for Europe’s leaders. In France, Britain and Germany, the men and women in charge are grappling unsuccessfully with an array of difficulties, raising serious doubts about their ability to tackle key social, economic and . . . .
- Democratic Corruption (Daily Excelsior, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Nov 15, 2005)
Investigations into the United Nations’ Food for Oil pro-gramme for Iraq have revealed that External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh and the Congress Party have indulged in corrupt practices.
- Blood Flows After Prison Bust (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 15, 2005)
Naxalites today killed nine of the hostages they had taken from Jehanabad jail last night in the most audacious operation ever mounted by them anywhere in the country.
- Guru Nanak Jayanti Special A Prophet Of Peace (Daily Excelsior, Inder Jeet S Prince, Nov 15, 2005)
Guru Nanak Dev Ji (1469-1539) was born in the village of Talwandi Sahib, (now Nankana Sahib in Pakistan). His father, Shri Kalu Ram, was a revenue official of the village Chuharkana, a town few miles from the village.
- Two Judges Killed In Dhaka Bomb Blast (Telegraph, Reuters, Nov 15, 2005)
Two Bangladeshi judges were killed today when a suspected Islamic militant threw a bomb at their car, triggering widespread protests, police and witnesses said.
- Teen Tryst With Philatelic History (Telegraph, SUDESHNA BANERJEE, Nov 15, 2005)
This Children’s Day, a city girl has stamped her name on philatelic fame. A sketch by Pallavi Majumder, a Class VIII student of Bidya Bharati Girls’ High School, ...
- Disadvantages Of Being Born Poor (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 15, 2005)
Extracts from the Human Development Report 2005
- The Profile Does Not Match (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Nov 15, 2005)
In a new age Congress, neither Natwar Singh nor his anachronistic foreign policy is likely to find support, writes Mahesh Rangarajan
- Children's Day Out At Health Centre (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 15, 2005)
Staff celebrate Children's Day with slew of colourful programmes
- Outsourcing Your Life (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Nov 15, 2005)
I spent some weeks in Bangalore — not so much in a polluted, frenetic, overcrowded urban desert as in that verdant oasis of intellect, the Indian Institute of Science.
- Reforms To Continue, But To Focus On Core Sectors: Pm (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 15, 2005)
The government would press ahead with reforms to ensure the healthy growth of the economy in the long-term, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today. The focus will be on infrastructure sectors like power and social sectors such as education to put . . .
- Regional Language (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Nov 15, 2005)
That the meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) actually took place in Dhaka after two postponements is an achievement of sorts.
- Pm For Reversing Constraints For Sustaining 7 Per Cent Growth (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 15, 2005)
Warning that constraints to higher growth were from within and not external, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said Government was determined to reverse them to sustain over seven per cent growth in the country's economy.
- Ugc & The Tale Of Two Promotions (The Economic Times, T RAVI KUMAR, Nov 15, 2005)
In the background of reports in the media relating to the institution of the salary commission for the members of Parliament, the dismal position of the teaching community in the higher education sector needs to be put forward.
- ’89 Kidnapping Of Rubaiya Sayeed Staged: Ex-Militant (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Nov 15, 2005)
A former militant commander has alleged as “stage-managed” the 1989 kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of former chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, that triggered a chain of events leading mass uprising and then militancy in Held Kashmir.
- Back Investment-Led Growth, State Told (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 15, 2005)
There could be no growth without investments, says Chidambaram
- Addressing The Literacy Problem (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 15, 2005)
Problem of poor education facilities in the government-run rural schools and the problem of poor participation of the rural and tribal communities in government schools are the major causes for drop-out. Shankar Bennur finds out more.
- State To Emphasise On Girl Child Education (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 15, 2005)
The State Government will lay special emphasis on the education of the girl child, with 58 Kasturba Gandhi Girls’ School sanctioned this year, and Rs 15 lakh allocated for construction of buildings for these schools, said Primary and Secondary Education..
- Protest, Clashes Greet Manmohan At Jnu (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 15, 2005)
Fierce scenes greeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) as protest by Left students ended in clashes among rival groups and with police, here on Monday.
- 2 Judges Killed In Bangladesh Terror Attack (Deccan Herald, Hassan Shahriar, Nov 15, 2005)
Bangladesh’s Islamic militants, who had gone underground for a while recently, registered their presence again by killing two judges in a southern district.
- 4 Killed As Ultras Strike In Srinagar (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 15, 2005)
Two security personnel and as many civilians were killed and 20 others injured in a suicide attack by militants at the historic Lal Chowk in the heart of Srinagar City on Monday.
- Maoists Succeed In Freeing Top Leader (Indian Express, J P Yadav, Nov 15, 2005)
Last night’s audacious CPI (Maoist) attack was staged to free Ajay Kanu, 40, who had been in jail for the last two years.
- Where Spirituality Meets Society (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 15, 2005)
In this small town, spirituality meets with society. It has also managed to blend its rich legends with progressive approach. Dr U S Iyer tells us more.
- Fourth Loc Point Opened In Mendhar (Daily Excelsior, Dinesh Manhotra, Nov 15, 2005)
Barbed wires erected to demarcate the Line of Control (LoC) between India and Pakistan failed to dampen the spirit as it was people's enthusiasm and emotions which ultimately prevailed upon the border lines and barricades.
- 2 Crpf Men, 2 Civilians Killed (Daily Excelsior, Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, Nov 15, 2005)
Two soldiers of the paramilitary CRPF and an equal number of civilians got killed while 17 persons, ....
- Salem Nostalgic About Mumbai, Family (Express India, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 15, 2005)
Extradited gangster Abu Salem, who kept hiding in various countries for long, got nostalgic about Mumbai and his family members
- Student Unions: Time For A Rethink? (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Nov 15, 2005)
Organised as formal unions or not, students helped India win Independence and now they fight for many social and community causes. Of course, one does not come across an agitation by them to improve academic standards.
- Poverty, Not Just An Economic Phenomenon (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Nov 15, 2005)
Despite over half a century of battle against poverty, the problem is still formidable, having acquired new dimensions with the growing rural-urban divide.
- Make No Mistake, The Bell Tolls For Everyone (The Financial Express, Mythili Bhusnurmath, Nov 15, 2005)
To most of us in India, the riots in Paris had a sense of the unreal about them. Riots are so quintessentially Third World. They happen in India, in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, sub-Saharan Africa...But Paris? And in 2005?
- Kerala Tops List Of Scholarships For Girl Child (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 15, 2005)
Kerala has bagged more than half of the 1,062 postgraduate scholarships for the single girl child introduced by the University Grants Commission (UGC).
- A Phenomenon Called Peter Drucker (Business Line, R. Devarajan, Nov 15, 2005)
Peter Drucker was possibly the best-known management writer of modern times.
- The Internet: A Case Of `Founders Keepers? (Hindu, Anand Parthasarathy, Nov 14, 2005)
The second World Summit on the Information Society that opens in Tunis on November 16 will see a renewed effort by developing nations, with U.N. backing, to transfer `control' of the Internet from the U.S. to an independent body.
- Riots And Racism (Dawn, A N Sudarsan Rao , Nov 14, 2005)
THE rioting in France has led to attempts in Britain to explain how “the French system of integration has failed”.
- Improving Peasants’ Plight (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Nov 14, 2005)
LAST Sunday, a news item said that Mukhtaran Mai had received the ‘woman of the year’ award in a star-studded ceremony at the Lincoln Centre in New York.
- Politics Of Pipelines (Dawn, Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Nov 14, 2005)
CONSEQUENCES of the disintegration of large empires spin themselves out over decades.
- Rss Prefers Interim Bjp President (Hindustan Times, A N Sudarsan Rao , Nov 14, 2005)
RSS and BJP leaders might hold parleys next week to chose the next BJP chief as LK Advani has announced that he would exit in December.
- Frozen Clues To Life In Space (Hindu, Robin McKie, Nov 14, 2005)
RUSSIAN RESEARCHERS are preparing to crack the secrets of a lake that has lain buried beneath a two-mile layer of Antarctic ice for 16 million years.
- Disaster Management Authority Soon: Azad (Hindu, Staff Reporter , Nov 14, 2005)
Priority to accommodate quake victims before winter
- Reaching Out Beyond The Campus (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Nov 14, 2005)
Call it `educational social responsibility' if you like. Universities and colleges have begun offering courses that benefit those who might not normally become their students.
- Growing Up Fast (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Nov 14, 2005)
The author is director, Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, New Delhi
- It’S A Mixed Blessing (Tribune, Rajesh Kochhar, Nov 14, 2005)
A recent study by Jones Lang Lasalle on the attractiveness of various cities from the point of view of business process outsourcing operations has placed Chandigarh (including Mohali) as a tier III city after Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi (tier I) and Hyder
- President’S Musings (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 14, 2005)
THE executive has been murmuring all along that the other pillars of democracy, the legislature and the judiciary, have been transgressing into its domain.
- Universally Dismal (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 14, 2005)
The comrades in the party office must be enjoying a quiet chuckle over the Unesco report that reveals that the quality of primary education in the country is uniformly dismal.
- Five-Year-Old Speaks (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 14, 2005)
The chattering class has noted what must be a weirdly unreal coincidence in the 88th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution and a Marxist chief minister’s five years in office.
- He Is A Playwright As A Dissenter (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Nov 14, 2005)
The Nobel laureate’s dramatic genius rivals his concern for the world around him, Sachidananda Mohanty profiles Harold Pinter, the recent Nobel Prize winter in literature
- The Grand Old Man Of Management (Business Line, S. Ramachander, Nov 14, 2005)
THE passing of Peter Ferdinand Drucker, the grand old man of management and internationally renowned management philosopher, eight days short of his 96th birthday, will be mourned all over the world.
- Torching Of Churches (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Nov 14, 2005)
AN infuriated mob mostly youth set ablaze three Churches and homes of two clergymen as well as destroyed a nursing and nuns’
- Turning To Faith To Find The Missing Daughters (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 14, 2005)
Religious and spiritual leaders came together to focus on the alarming fall in the sex ratiovis-à-vis the heinous crime of female foeticide and infanticide. There were Hindu, Jain, Sikh and a couple of Muslim religious leaders.
- Mojaddadi Accuses Pakistan Of Supporting Taliban (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 14, 2005)
The head of Afghanistan’s reconciliation commission accused forces in Pakistan on Sunday of propping up a deadly insurgency being waged in the name of loyalists of the Taliban government ousted four years ago.
- Congress To Join Drive Against Sorcery (Hindu, Special Correspondent, The Financial Express, Nov 14, 2005)
PCC chief asks Jana Vignan Vedika to take campaign to grassroot levels
- Patented Problems (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Nov 14, 2005)
India continues to display a strange dichotomy with regard to protecting intellectual property rights.
- Baha'ullah's Vision Of One Planet, One People (Daily Excelsior, Dr. A . K. Merchant, Nov 13, 2005)
One hundred and sixty years ago the ancient land of Persia was the tremendous spiritual drama. Baha'ullah's mission began in a subberranean dungeon in Tehran in August 1852.
- For A Casteless Resurgence (Hindu, Ranjit Hoskote, Nov 13, 2005)
Dr. Ambedkar's call for emancipation from the oppressive caste system still resonates in the minds of his new followers.
- Tn Govt Wants To Open More Schools For Mentally Challenged (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 13, 2005)
Tamil Nadu Government was examining the feasibility of starting schools for mentally challenged in 60 taluks, where there were no such schools, Mohan Verghese Chunkath, special Commissioner for the disabled, said today.
- India, Us Sow Seeds Of Closer Farm Ties (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 13, 2005)
India and the US today signed an agreement to forge closer ties in agriculture and pledged to double two-way trade to $40 billion by 2008.
- A Great Thinker Of Modern Muslim World (Greater Kashmir, PROF M YAQUB, Nov 13, 2005)
Reactions to the oil-for-food scandal have so far focussed on establishing the guilt or innocence of those mentioned in the Volcker Report. Yet there is a reference in the Report itself to something that invites an inquiry which is deeper and more signifi
- An Area Of Blindness (Telegraph, MUKUL KESAVAN, Nov 13, 2005)
A theoretically rigorous secularism has been put to the test in France
- Award For D’Gere District Child Welfare Board (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 13, 2005)
The State Award that is given in recognition of the significant work done in the area of child welfare has been bagged by Davangere Dist Child Welfare Board.
- Mementos To Promote Tourism (Hindu, Deepa H.Ramakrishnan, Nov 13, 2005)
Project to refurbish Bharati museum and Keezhur monument
- Indo-Us Declaration On Farm Cooperation (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 13, 2005)
India today signed a joint declaration with the US department of agriculture to energise agricultural research between the two countries ahead of the visit of US President, Mr George W Bush to this country slated for February 2006.
- Saarc Vows To Fight Terror (Tribune, Ajay Kaul, Nov 13, 2005)
Delayed twice on account of the tsunami and Nepal crisis, the SAARC Summit opened today, favouring a united fight against terrorism afflicting the region with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh making it clear that there should be “zero tolerance” towards ....
- India, Us Forge Agri Cooperation Ahead Of Bush’S India Visit (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 13, 2005)
Aimed at giving a fillip to Indo-US agricultural cooperation ahead of US President George W Bush’s expected visit to India in February next year, New Delhi and Washington today signed a declaration to formalise a knowledge initiative on agriculture.
- Together Against The World (Tribune, M.V. Kamath, Nov 13, 2005)
A strange thing took place in early October which has largely gone unnoticed. In remarks that appeared in the Pakistani paper The News, Pakistan’s Minister for Kashmir Affairs,
- Decline In Standards Of Higher Education (Daily Excelsior, Vibha Das, Nov 13, 2005)
The University Grants Commission (UGC) is seized with the matter whether to enhance the tuition fee for higher education or continue with the niggardly annual fee structure for graduation and post-graduation studies.
- Networking Nudge With Terror Prick For Pak (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Nov 13, 2005)
The challenges that South Asia faces today as a region were no longer susceptible to “national solutions”, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared at the 13th Saarc summit here today. He, therefore, argued for “an imperative need to change and overcome ...
- Family Politics (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Nov 13, 2005)
The spat between Panthers Party leader Bhim Singh and his nephew and former Education Minister Harshdev Singh has not come totally as a surprise. They have been taking aims at each other for quite some time.
- Rs. 648 Crores For Educating Poor Students (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 13, 2005)
Call to encourage rural people to admit their children in schools
Out of 20 bridge schools, 13 have been set up so far in the district
Elementary schools to be set up in villages not having school in a radius of 3 km
- Quake Damage $5.2 Billions (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Nov 13, 2005)
Estimate includes costs for relief and livelihood support for victims
- U.S. Led Detention Camp Tour (International Herald Tribune, Neil A. Lewis, Nov 13, 2005)
Troubled by news accounts of medical participation in coercive interrogations at Guantánamo Bay and the resulting unease in the professional medical community, the Pentagon led an intensive one-day tour of the detention camp last month, . . .
- Triumph Of The Mediocre (Deccan Herald, Tarun Cherian , Nov 13, 2005)
Mediocre but arrogant’ by Abhijit Bhaduri, follows the 84 batch of MIJ (Management Institute of Jamshedpur, a very thinly disguised XLRI) through 2 years of MBA – one covers QT, Marketing, crowd dynamics, and of course pairing, ambition, friendship… etc,
- Indian Farm Research Sector Opened To U.S. Companies (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Nov 13, 2005)
India on Saturday opened its public sector agriculture research sector to U.S. private companies enabling the private sector to "help identify research areas" that have the potential for "rapid commercialisation" with a view to developing new and . . . .
- Philosophy From The Back Of A Bike (Deccan Herald, M P Yashwanth Kumar, Nov 13, 2005)
The juxtaposition of the real world with the philosophical one, the world of particulars and the world of thoughts and ideas made this book unique.
- "Muslims Worst-Hit By Globalisation" (Hindu, K.P.M. Basheer, Nov 13, 2005)
Their products are threatened by cheap imports, says Rajindar Sachar
- Science Park To Come Up In Chikmagalur (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 13, 2005)
Deputy Commissioner Harsh Gupta said here on Thursday that a science park will be established on a five-acre plot near the Mahatma Gandhi Park on Ratnagiri Bore.
- Strike A Balance Between Growth, Environment To Save Birds: Minister (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 13, 2005)
`They play a vital role in maintaining ecological balance'
Many species of birds facing threat of extinction owing to decline in forest cover
Increasing urbanisation and pollution are the cause for their migration
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