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Articles 15521 through 15620 of 22438:
- Champion Of The Woods (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 06, 2005)
Sunderlal Bahuguna is 79 but he has the same fire and zing in him to protect the forests, its people and the environment as he had when he joined the Freedom movement at the age of 13. Born by the Ganga and inspired by the lofty Himalayas, . . .
- View From The Valley (Hindustan Times, Firdous Syed, Nov 06, 2005)
The Congress has taken charge of the government in Jammu and Kashmir after a gap of 30 years.
- Against Insularity In Literature And Criticism (Hindu, HIMANSU S. MOHAPATRA, Nov 06, 2005)
Boulton's writing makes up in clarity and vigour for what it lacks in sleekness.
- Promise Of Buddha (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 06, 2005)
November is a good month for the comrades. By a strange chronological coincidence, the fifth anniversary of Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s accession to the chief ministership and the 88th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution fall within a day of each....
- Real World Scenarios (Hindu, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Nov 06, 2005)
Levitt and Dubner staunchly refuse to take moral positions or prescribe solutions. They remain content using complex statistical tools on data compiled from diverse sources to draw unusual conclusions.
- The Playwright As A Dissenter (Hindu, SACHIDANANDA MOHANTY , Nov 06, 2005)
The Nobel laureate's dramatic genius rivals his concern for the world around him.
- Images Of The Soul (Deccan Herald, Suresh Jayaram, Nov 06, 2005)
The photographer was an avid traveller and the subjects he captured reflect his human regard for them.
- Drawing But Not Colouring (Deccan Herald, Sudha Ramachandran, Nov 06, 2005)
The book tends to be overly positive about Pakistan and ignores the subtexts of turmoil which are also part of the story.
- It’S A Bangalore Thing (Deccan Herald, MAYA JAYAPAL, Nov 06, 2005)
The text is complemented by illustrations and is in part funny, truthful and quirky.
- Power Source That Turns Physics On Its Head (Deccan Herald, Alok Jha, Nov 06, 2005)
It seems too good to be true: a new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel and produces next to no waste.....
- A Simple Life (Hindu, C.S. Lakshmi , Nov 06, 2005)
KALA SHAHANI, an unusual Gandhian, died peacefully on September 26 this year, in Mumbai.
- Gandhian Values A Panacea, Says Gopinathan Nair (Hindu, Prachi Pinglay, Nov 06, 2005)
"Mahatma said the lowest stratum has to be uplifted first. It has not been done"
An advocate of Gram Swaraj
Refers to the absence of dignity of labour
- Media As An Instrument Of Social Change (Tribune, Abhilaksh Likhi, Nov 06, 2005)
The last three decades have witnessed unprecedented growth in the worldwide spread of electronic mass media.
- Obsessive Precision (Hindu, A.J. THOMAS, Nov 06, 2005)
This is a book that speaks of the self and the world in objective terms
Nahal's detailed accounts of his life as a scholar and a teacher make engrossing reading because of his sheer passion for life.
- Immigrants' Progress (Hindu, RENUKA RAJARATNAM, Nov 06, 2005)
Zadie Smith's oeuvre draws inspiration from an incredibly layered complexity of life. RENUKA RAJARATNAM
- Persisting Inequalities (Hindu, VISALAKSHI MENON, Nov 06, 2005)
The problem with this rather impressive collection is that it contains far too many articles for one volume.
- The Art Of The Matter (Hindu, G.S. PAUL , Nov 06, 2005)
The Kerala Kalamandalam, which turns 75 on November 9, has played a major role in preserving and bringing classical arts to the masses.
- Shahabuddin Arrested In Delhi (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 06, 2005)
Shahabuddin is named in more than 30 criminal cases pertaining to kidnapping and suspected killing of two CPI-ML activists and a student leader.
- Human Trafficking: Need For A Global Response (Tribune, D.J. Singh, Nov 06, 2005)
Human trafficking is the fastest growing means by which people are forced into slavery.
- Oak Park's Pride (Hindu, KAUSALYA SANTHANAM, Nov 06, 2005)
Though Hemingway rejected his birthplace, Oak Park the town still fondly remembers its famous son, discovers KAUSALYA SANTHANAM.
- Terror In India (Washington Times, Editorial, The Washington Times, Nov 05, 2005)
The recent terrorist attacks in India indicate that the October earthquake that devastated some jihadist-rich areas in India and Pakistan has not incapacitated the militant groups.
- Free Education For Girls Who Are `Single Child' Worries Schools (Hindu, K. Ramachandran, Nov 05, 2005)
The CBSE order will strike at the roots of viability, say management representatives
CBSE order comes into effect next April
Schools seeking affiliation must implement order immediately
Amendments to affiliation bylaws
- A Challenge In Technical Education (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Nov 05, 2005)
A majority of the engineering colleges in the southern States are said to be facing the problem of chronic shortage of qualified staff to head departments and occupy the professorial chairs.
- Altering The Rules Of The Game (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Nov 05, 2005)
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad is certainly going to face a tough time.
- Make India World Leader In Fashion Technology: Kalam (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 05, 2005)
President A P J Abdul Kalam has called upon the fashion community to make India a leader of fashion technology in the world.
- U.S., U.K. Can Learn From The Gandhian Way: Amartya Sen (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 05, 2005)
The Mahatma's response towards terrorism was not soft, says economist
- House Arrest (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Nov 05, 2005)
It is time we change rules about allotting government (read public) bungalows and flats for MPs, eminent artists, dancers, men of letters and journalists in Delhi.
- Fundamental Challenge In Bangladesh (Tribune, Hiranmay Karlekar, Nov 05, 2005)
THE Jamaat, the Islami Oikya Jote and other fundamentalist Islamist organisations in Bangladesh are using their participation in the government led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to push their Islamist agenda and capture power.
- After The Blasts, Some Good Sense (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Nov 05, 2005)
What with three serial blasts in Delhi, so many lives lost, the omens were bad.
- Us, Uk Must Learn From Gandhian Thought: Sen (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 05, 2005)
The Nobel laureate said that said that one of Gandhi’s great messages was that you cannot defeat nastiness, unless you yourself shun similar nastiness altogether.
- Off-Shore Campus (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 05, 2005)
Dangers of Foreign Direct (I)nstruction
- Another Service Tax Hike? (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Nov 05, 2005)
Mohan R. Lavi on the advisability of raising the service tax rate
- More Loyal Than British (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 05, 2005)
In asking eligible immigrants to pass a £34 test of Britishness before they are offered their red passports and the worldwide protection of Her Majesty’s Government,
- India Unravelling (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 05, 2005)
All Is Well While There Is Money To Be Made
- Terror In India (Washington Post, Editorial, Washington Post, Nov 05, 2005)
The recent terrorist attacks in India indicate that the October earthquake that devastated some jihadist-rich areas in India and Pakistan has not incapacitated the militant groups.
- Cia's 'Black Sites' Breed More Evil (Asia Times, Ehsan Ahrari, Nov 04, 2005)
The US has exclusive facilities across the world to interrogate militants ... al-Tamara detention center, eight kilometers out of Rabat in Morocco, houses dozens of people arrested in Pakistan, while others are kept in Egypt, Thailand, Saudi Arabia . . .
- Reconstruction And Reconciliation (Dawn, Syed Mohibullah Shah, Nov 04, 2005)
As we move into relief and rehabilitation stages of the Oct 8 quake there are fears of another tragedy.
- Fall Of Bihar -By Shree Shankar Sharan (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 04, 2005)
It is a great pity that a promising state like Bihar should be dragged down by misgovernance and labelled as backward. There is nothing basically wrong with Bihar.
- An Indian Church-Mario Rodrigues (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 04, 2005)
A conclave of priests and bishops at the Papal Seminary in Pune last week called for the renewed “Indianisation” of the Catholic Church and the adoption of Hindu rituals, including aarti during Mass, studying Sanskrit and the Vedas, experiencing . . .
- Quake: The Challenge Ahead (Dawn, Sherry Rehman, Nov 04, 2005)
GARHI DOPATTA used to be a bucolic village near Muzaffarabad where its simple mountain-folk lived by breeding livestock and growing subsistence grain.
- India's Concern Over Gilgit (Daily Excelsior, Samuel Baid, Nov 04, 2005)
India has at last broken its 56-year old silence over the plight of the people in the northern part of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). Gilgit-Baltistan or Balwaristan, as locals calls this region, has been in the grip of a bloody confrontation . . .
- In Mp, Small Farmers Face Big Troubles (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 04, 2005)
Has technology, access to credit, superior quality of fertilisers, etc, improved the lot of the small/marginal farmer with a landholding of two-three acres?
- Poland's Patriotic Tartars (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 04, 2005)
The spirit of Genghiz Khan, the leader of the Tartars who swept into Europe at the end of the 14th century, is still present in a little Polish village.
- Just Justice (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Nov 04, 2005)
The new Chief Justice of India, Y.K. Sabharwal, and his predecessor, R.C. Lahoti, have had important things to say this week about fighting terrorism.
- Tony Blair Is Running Out Of True Believers (Hindu, Jackie Ashley , Nov 04, 2005)
At Britain's Houses of Parliament, there are days of great human drama; and there are dramatic days that actually matter — that shape politics for months or years to come.
- Feature - Rival Tech Towns May Outrun Bangalore (Reuters, Narayanan Madhavan and Rosemary Arackaparambil, Nov 04, 2005)
There's a punchline going around in India's high-tech capital: Bangalore may be Bangalored.
- Ngo Claims To Have Rescued Child Labourer (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 04, 2005)
Parents say the child was brought to city to send to school
- Forgotten Children Of The French Republic" (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Nov 04, 2005)
The bubbling cauldron of discontent in Paris' run-down, high-rise suburban slums, home to the dispossessed, has finally overflowed.
- Live And Let Die (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 03, 2005)
The aftermath of the bomb blasts in the heart of India’s capital has followed a contradictory if disturbing pattern.
- Language Controversy (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 03, 2005)
IT IS a pity that the language controversy in Sindh, which was believed to have been laid to rest 33 years ago with the adoption of the Official Language Bill of 1972 by the Sindh Assembly, has reared its head once again.
- Complete Transparency In Relief, Reconstruction (Pakistan Observer, A N Sudarsan Rao , Nov 03, 2005)
Rawalpindi—President Pervez Musharraf has sought sustained support from the comity of nations, donors and relief agencies in carrying out the mammoth reconstruction and rehabilitation work in the quake hit areas
- After Alan Greenspan (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 03, 2005)
CONFRONTED with the nomination of a new Federal Reserve chairman, financial markets didn’t panic.
- Corruption Isn't A Natural Disaster (Business Line, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 03, 2005)
BANGLADESH has once again topped the list as the most corrupt country, for the fifth consecutive time, in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2005 of Transparency International (TI),
- Darkness In The East (Telegraph, Editorial, Financial Express, Nov 03, 2005)
China has held its own amidst Western economic pressure, but failed to correct imbalances within its own society, writes Sunanda Sen
- The Web Of Interdependence (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 03, 2005)
Extracts from the Human Development Report 2005
The state of human development: fifteen years ago, the first Human Development Report looked forward to a decade of rapid progress.
- It’S Too Early For Optimism In Assam (Deccan Herald, Deepak K Upreti, Nov 03, 2005)
While an ULFA-approved civil society group and the Centre are talking, the police and the army are queering the pitch.
- Tasks Before Azad (Daily Excelsior, H C Katoch, Nov 03, 2005)
Prevailing uncertainty set-tles and Azad sits on the throne of the Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir State.
- Planning For Quake Recovery (Dawn, A N Sudarsan Rao , Nov 03, 2005)
THE October earthquake’s devastation of Azad Kashmir and parts of the Frontier province urgently requires realistic planning and effective implementation for alleviating victims’ misery and rebuilding their homes, businesses, villages and cities.
- Now Shape The Law (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Nov 03, 2005)
It’s easy for cynical journalists and weary citizens to scoff at the utility of the newly legislated Right to Information Act (RTI)
- The Lashkar-E-Taiba, In Theory And Practice (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Nov 03, 2005)
Last week's bombings in New Delhi necessitate a clear understanding of what the terrorist group wants — and what it will do to achieve its ends.
- Mumbai's Invisible People (Hindu, Meena Menon, Nov 03, 2005)
Surveys have established a significant incidence of malnutrition in some Mumbai slums. But the several families living there are not even a blip on the radar of policy-makers.
- Craig Pruess: An Indian Musician In English Skin (Press Trust of India, A N Sudarsan Rao , Nov 03, 2005)
New Delhi, Oct 31 (PTI) Sitar in a Harry Potter film and 'Swarmandala' in a Johny Depp movie? Hold on...
- My First Roza (Deccan Herald, Shahida Khan, Nov 02, 2005)
The first time I fasted I learnt a valuable lesson — that fasting requires absolute commitment
- Can Garlic Heal Your Pain? (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 02, 2005)
It’s not good news for users of echinacea, black cohosh, and freeze-dried tissue from the New Zealand green-lipped mussel.
- Editorials (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 02, 2005)
Whose Congress is it?
Understanding the state of the nation
Ambika Soni, who personified a particular Congress culture under Sanjay Gandhi thirty years ago,
- Doctoring The Health Chart (Telegraph, Tapas Chakraborty, Nov 02, 2005)
The failure of its family planning programme exposes the Samajwadi Party’s lack of commitment to UP’s development, writes Tapas Chakraborty
- A Volunteer Corps (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 02, 2005)
By pledging to prove “cynics and rejectionists” wrong, President Pervez Musharraf has taken up a challenge for himself and for his administration.
- A Grisly Act Of Violence (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 02, 2005)
Saturday's beheading of three Christian schoolgirls by unknown assailants in Poso, a district in the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi, is a grisly reminder of the tensions between the Muslims and Christians in the area.
- Miseducating The Child (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Nov 02, 2005)
Last week it was decided at a high level meeting in which both the president and the prime minister were present that the education sector would receive four per cent of the GDP in the fiscal year 2006-07.
- Trials As Political Action (Hindu, PARVATHI MENON, Nov 01, 2005)
Lessons from the legal legacy of the freedom struggle focussing on the important political trials
- Education And Gats — What India Has To Offer (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Nov 01, 2005)
India's offer to WTO members in the area of higher education refers to the position taken by it on the limitations on market access under four modes. The problem, however, is not with GATS, since it is India that decides what to offer or not in terms.....
- Building On A Secure Foundation (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 01, 2005)
Extracts from the government of India’s status report on Disaster Management in India, August 2004
- Sanary Sur Mer (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Nov 01, 2005)
The port of Toulon nestles in a corner between Côte d’Azur and the peninsula of St Man-drier. It is not a very attractive city. But just across the peninsula to the west is a charming little port called Sanary sur Mer. Its promenade is like many . . .
- Bring The Past To Life (Telegraph, Janaki Nair, Nov 01, 2005)
Rather than fight for custody of the past, those who frame syllabi would do better to look at conditions in the classroom, writes Janaki Nair
- Saving The Survivors (Dawn, Naeem Sarfraz, Nov 01, 2005)
An immense amount of goodwill has surfaced for the victims of the earthquake in northern Pakistan. An entire nation has rallied. But there is a fatal flaw in the ongoing relief operations.
- Need For Welfare State (Deccan Herald, Avijit Pathak, Nov 01, 2005)
The marketisation of social sectors like health is disastrous. We need a welfare state and a vibrant community
- Judicial Activism (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 01, 2005)
The Supreme Court needs to be complimented for the steps it has taken in recent weeks to protect the public interest.
- China Plans To Continue Aid To N Korea (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 01, 2005)
China, as a neighbour of North Korea, will continue to provide aid to the neighbouring country as part of Beijing’s policy of forging an “amicable” and “prosperous” neighbourhood, a senior Chinese Communist Party official has said.
- Objection Overruled (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Nov 01, 2005)
Pakistan's objection to India's concern over the developing situation in Gilgit is entirely unjustified. The neighbouring country has reacted to New Delhi's advice to "act with the utmost restraint and observe international human rights standards"
- Coping With The Quake Calamity (Dawn, Dr Parvez Hasan, Nov 01, 2005)
The devastating earthquake that has caused horrendous loss of life, great human suffering,
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