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Articles 16821 through 16920 of 22438:
- Rbi's Difficult Prescription For Economy (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Sep 12, 2005)
Even as it implies the criticality of the current upsurge being nurtured to realise the full industrial growth potential, the RBI annual report makes no bones about infrastructure bottlenecks. Here the subdued performance of the infrastructure sector, esp
- A New Un Goal (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 12, 2005)
Women’s activist and rights-based organisations are waiting for the forthcoming high-level summit of the UN General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
- Arms At The Cost Of Development (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Sep 12, 2005)
India went on an arms buying spree last year neglecting public health and other human development goals
- Four Years (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 12, 2005)
In terms of tragedy, it is impossible — as well as prejudicial and insensitive — to compare terrorist strikes, to say which is greater or greatest.
- Unsafe Schools In Tn Face Closure (Deccan Herald, PTI, Sep 12, 2005)
Asking nursery and primary schools to ensure “safety and stability” requirements, the Tamil Nadu government on Sunday warned the schools which have not yet applied for renewal of their licences, of closure beyond this month end.
- Denmark's Success Formula: No Fairy Tale (Business Line, Mohan Murti, Sep 12, 2005)
ON THE 200th birthday of Hans Christian Andersen, my wife and I drove over to the quaint island of Fiona in Denmark, where Odense is located. It was here that the famous story-teller was born
- Give Them Back The Childhood They Have Lost (Deccan Herald, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 12, 2005)
The unfortunate engineering and medical students who took their own lives recently would possibly have thrived in other disciplines.
- Time Of Transition (Hindu, SHALINI UMACHANDRAN, Sep 11, 2005)
LONG before the Great Indian Tourist discovered Lonely Planet guides and Travel and Living lifestyle shows, Hugh and Colleen Gantzer were taking their readers around the world with their regular writings on exotic destinations and holistic holidays.
- The Lexicon Of Terror (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 11, 2005)
In the four years that have followed 9/11, the litany of tragedy has lengthened around the world ... . What can one do to respond meaningfully to such meaningless violence?
- Foundation Of Love (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 11, 2005)
Abandoned children, unwed mothers, mentally ill have all found a home in the Mother and Child Foundation in Pynkulam.
- Hands Off (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 11, 2005)
A woman gets assaulted every half an hour. But why are women silent about this issue?
- Want Better Hdi Ranking? Get A New Hrd Ministry (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Sep 11, 2005)
On the day that the UN Human Development Index revealed last week that even Bangladesh was doing better than India in human development
- Hands Off (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 11, 2005)
SELDOM do people hold those robbed responsible for getting robbed, or those murdered responsible for getting murdered.
- Maoists Kidnap 100 Kids (Deccan Herald, PTI, Sep 11, 2005)
Maoist rebels have abducted more than 100 students from various schools of Myagdi district in western Nepal, police said on Saturday.
- Trivialising The Aggressor (Hindu, MITA KAPUR, Sep 11, 2005)
It is a mystery, but society has to wake up to the gross inaccuracy of the term "eve teasing".
- Dead Entrepreneurs (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 11, 2005)
Goals and visions are necessarily expressed in the future tense. And disempowerment is about never being able to bring the future within the realm of the possible
- Once Upon A Time... (Deccan Herald, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 11, 2005)
She is colourful and vivacious. And the stories she tells make her a hit with children. Veena Pradeep meets Mama Nomusa whose powerful stories touch many young lives.
- Chopping Off The Nose For Fear Of Catching Cold (Deccan Herald, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 11, 2005)
The ban on cell phones on campus by Visvesvaraya Technological University is not justified at all. This is the era of information and technology. Students and teachers need to use technology. What they should concentrate on is its use and obviously not it
- When Men Tread Female Turf (Deccan Herald, Staff Reporter , Sep 11, 2005)
The Gotipua dance, performed by young male dancers in feminine roles, has played an important role in preserving Orissa’s dance heritage, writes Jayalakshmi Yegnaswamy.
- Winning The Big Fight (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2005)
In their weaker bodies lie stronger desires. In their limitations lies their greatest strength. L Subramani profiles the success stories of some 'disabled' people who broke their shackles by sheer determination and the power of their dreams.
- A Carpenter Gets Better Daily Wages Than An Artisan’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2005)
There is a dire need to promote handicrafts in the country, Dr P N Sankaran tells Cheryl D’ Couto
- Foundation Of Love (Hindu, PREMA MANMADHAN , Sep 11, 2005)
Abandoned children, unwed mothers, mentally ill have all found a home in the Mother and Child Foundation in Pynkulam
- Bringing Up The Parents (Deccan Herald, Mala Kumar, Sep 11, 2005)
Raising children today is a complex and crucial activity that needs sustained parental effort, writes Mala Kumar.
- The Stately Pleasure Dome That Housed Turkish Damsels (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2005)
Ghiyath-ud-Din, the founder of Mandu, had a seraglio of 15,000 women, write Hugh and Colleen Gantzer.
- Dancing With The Red Dragon (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 11, 2005)
India and Pakistan should take a leaf out of China’s savvy economic diplomacy with Taiwan, reports Pallavi Aiyar
- Winning The Big Fight (Deccan Herald, Srivasta Krishna, Sep 11, 2005)
In their weaker bodies lie stronger desires. In their limitations lies their greatest strength. L Subramani profiles the success stories of some 'disabled' people who broke their shackles by sheer determination and the power of their dreams.
- Once Upon A Time... (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2005)
She is colourful and vivacious. And the stories she tells make her a hit with children. Veena Pradeep meets Mama Nomusa whose powerful stories touch many young lives.
- A Linked Future (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Sep 10, 2005)
Alice Hardgrove’s scholarly work on Marwaris cites European Jews and the Chinese of Indonesia.
- Wishful Facts (Business Standard, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 10, 2005)
In a TV poll conducted hours before Sania Mirza’s fourth round match against Maria Sharapova in the US Open, a full 82 per cent of those taking part in the poll predicted a Mirza victory. In another poll, 55 per cent felt Sharapova would be under greater
- That 8000, And Rising, Feeling (Indian Express, Amrita Shah, Sep 10, 2005)
After weeks of relentless climbing and coasting every potential setback, the Sensex this week crossed a dizzying 8000.
- Tata Steel To Invest Rs 1,00,000 Crore In 15 Years (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 10, 2005)
There’s no stopping the Tata Steel juggernaut. The company would be investing Rs.1,00,000 crore in the next 15 years to take its total production capacity to around 33-34 million tonne, according to B Muthuraman, managing director.
- Communists And Corruption (Business Standard, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 10, 2005)
Once or twice a year, I find it profitable to accept invitations to speak to college students. The boys are eager to impress the girls, and ask some very good questions.
- At E-Gram Panchayat, New Windows Open (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 10, 2005)
It’s a remote area, surrounded by dense forests and the Aravalli hills. Juna Chamun and three other villages here have a population of 4,500 with most of the people belonging to Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes. And only 10 per cent of them own
- Notes From Ground Zero (Indian Express, Ananya Vajpeyi, Sep 10, 2005)
Manhattan, SEP 2001: On Friday September 14, The New York Times reported a ‘‘sad paper trail’’ originating from the bombed World Trade Center to envelope parts of lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.
- A Million Bridges (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 10, 2005)
World Islam has been in crisis, its billion or so adherents being variously in a state of bewilderment, frustration, anger and despair.
- Tardy Progress (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 09, 2005)
The UNDP’s Human Development Report 2005, which has ranked India 127th among 177 countries on the human development index (HDI), should serve as a harsh reminder that the country has a long way to go.
- Blair For Promotion Of Indo-British Educational Links (Deccan Herald, DH news, Sep 09, 2005)
The British Govt seems keen on promoting Indo-British educational ties. This bid is in view of providing students with mutli- cultural experiences.
- Beware! Don’T Be Your Own Doctor -I (Greater Kashmir, NAQSHAB AFRA, Sep 09, 2005)
Self medication and drug abuse is also one of the mental health related problems and all sections of every society is prone to it.
- Loss Of Soil Carbon "Will Speed Global Warming" (Hindu, Tim Radford, Sep 09, 2005)
ENGLAND'S SOILS have been losing carbon at the rate of four million tonnes a year for the past 25 years — losses which will accelerate global warming and which have already offset all the cuts in Britain's industrial carbon emissions between 1990 and 2002
- Bangla Lessons For Hindi Belt (Hindu, Jairam Ramesh, Sep 09, 2005)
THE UNITED Nations Development Programme's annual Human Development Report for 2005 has just been released.
- Hurricane Katrina's Political Fallout (Hindu, Jonathan Freedland, Sep 09, 2005)
The neocons may have been damaged by Katrina, but progressives will have to fight for a new political settlement.
- If Katrina Escapes Retirement, It May Figure In The 2011 List Of Scheduled Hurricanes (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 09, 2005)
THE latest posting on the US Federal Reserve Board's site (www.federalreserve.gov) is the Beige Book, or the `informal review by the Federal Reserve Banks of current economic conditions in their Districts', dated September 7.
- As Oil Prices Rise, Field Trips Get Cancelled (Tribune, Fem Shen, Sep 09, 2005)
The adults in your life are probably really cranky right now about having to pay more than $3 per gallon for gas.
- Communicate More, Commute Less (Business Line, T. H. Chowdary , Sep 09, 2005)
CRUDE oil prices have crossed $70 a barrel from $35 two years ago, and LNG (liquefied natural gas) at $10 per MMBTU is double that of last year
- Guest Control (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 09, 2005)
At the Indo-EU summit in New Delhi, EU president Tony Blair and prime minister Manmohan Singh made stirring pronouncements about the need to open up trade and commerce between the European community and India.
- Take The Option (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 09, 2005)
The approval, by the Central Advisory Board of Education, of the proposal to make the Class X board examinations optional should be commended.
- Blair Announces £10 Million For Exchange Programmes (Hindu, Special Correspondent, The Hindu, Sep 09, 2005)
British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday announced that £10 million would be allocated by the British Government to promote academic and educational exchanges between the two countries.
- Is It Good To Abolish Class X Exam? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 09, 2005)
The suggestion to make Class X board examination optional has raised controversies.
- India, Uk To Fight Terror, Call For ‘Zero Tolerance’ (Deccan Herald, DH news, Sep 09, 2005)
India and Britain on Thursday resolved to combat the growing menace of terrorism in a bid to promote global peace and security even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for an international norm of zero tolerance for terrorism.
- Can We Improve Public Service Delivery? (The Financial Express, Jayaprakash Narayan, Sep 09, 2005)
India has a functioning democracy and several institutions and practices ensure checks and balances and a modicum of governance. Yet, every government feels handicapped in delivering on its promises.
- An Indictment (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 09, 2005)
While India can draw some comfort from the fact that its score on the Human Development Index has gone up from 0.595 to 0.602 and its ranking has not slipped since last year, the fact that its position remains at 127 of 177 countries is distressing.
- Hope Runs Through It (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Sep 09, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh and Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran separately visited Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan last week making it the most hectic week for regional diplomacy in recent years.
- Distant Millennium Goals (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 09, 2005)
NEXT week, 180 heads of state/government will meet in the UN for a summit to reaffirm their commitment to the millennium development goals (MDG) which they had adopted in 2000.
- Brutal Figures (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 09, 2005)
It will take India another hundred years to become part of the developed world.
- Scotland Eyes Investment From Punjab, Haryana (Tribune, Girja Shankar Kaura, Sep 08, 2005)
Scotland (UK) is looking at independent relationship with India, particularly Punjab and Haryana keeping in mind their growth rate, per capita income and literacy.
- Leader Article: The Path To Good Governance (Times of India, VIJAY JINDAL, Sep 08, 2005)
The controversy over the recent Supreme Court ruling on reservations in private educational institutions is symptomatic of the lack of harmony between different organs of government.
- No Child’S World (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 08, 2005)
Cruelty to children is not shocking in India; it is quite routine. If poverty is the reason behind the vast army of child labourers, cruelty cannot be put down to poverty or wealth.
- India: A Mixed Record (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 08, 2005)
These are extracts from the United Nations Human Development Report 2005 released on September 7
- India Stuck As China Climbs Happiness Index (Business Standard, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 08, 2005)
Country still ranked 127th in human development.
- Educators Should Stick To Basics (Times of India, Zoya Hasan, Sep 08, 2005)
The National Curriculum Framework (NCF) provides the framework and the road map, which ought to inform and enrich the syllabus preparation and textbook writing.
- Minimizing The Risk (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 08, 2005)
Extracts from the government of India’s status report on Disaster Management in India, August 2004
- India-Eu Pledge To Double Trade In 3 Years (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2005)
India and European Union — world’s largest trading block comprising of 25 countries — today announced their commitment to double bilateral trade from the present level of Euro 34 billion to Euro 70 billion in the next three years, while setting up a high-
- Bill To Control Ngos (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Sep 08, 2005)
THERE are NGOs and NGOs. Some of them are doing a commendable job, fighting for the rights of those who have never known whether they have any right in the polity or any future.
- ‘Water For All’ Plan (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2005)
Not more than 30 per cent of the country’s population would get purified water to be supplied under a grand “Water For All” programme costing Rs 6.5 billion, by the year 2007, official documents reveal.
- Get Moving On Job-Friendly Growth (The Financial Express, NIRVIKAR SINGH, Sep 08, 2005)
Lack of sufficient job growth has been a weakness of economic reform in India.
- Sky Is Limit For India In Chains (Telegraph, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 08, 2005)
India today signed up as a member of Galileo — a satellite navigation system — cut a $2.2-billion deal to buy Airbus planes and concluded two important agreements on combating terrorism and cooperation in energy with Europe.
- Delimitation Can Wait (Statesman, News Service, Sep 08, 2005)
Considering the way illegal migrants have ‘advanced’ Bangladesh’s borders 10 to 15 kilometres inside India,
- Interfering Government (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Sep 07, 2005)
The govt’s proposed legislation to control every bit of help the NGOs get from outside is an unkind cut.
- Face The New Reality (Telegraph, Barun De, Sep 07, 2005)
A commoner or a statesman, in today’s world both are vulnerable to the same fate — murder without any hope of justice,
- A Mare’S Tale (Tribune, Raj Chatterjee, Sep 07, 2005)
KASUALI is a small, pine-laden hill-station within six hours’ car journey from Delhi. The Louis Pasteur Institute, making life-saving drugs and antidotes for snakebites, which was established more than a hundred years ago, has made the place famous.
- And Still Bob Geldof Remains Silent (Hindu, George Monbiot, Sep 07, 2005)
By hailing the failure of the G8 summit as a success, he has betrayed the poor of Africa.
- Bias In Education (Tribune, V. KRISHNA ANANTH , Sep 07, 2005)
THE verdict by the Supreme Court granting absolute control to managements of engineering and medical colleges in the private sector on admissions has raised a lot of debate.
- Vibrations To Aid Car Drivers (Tribune, Steve Connor, Sep 07, 2005)
DRIVERS will soon be able to feel their way through traffic with the help of the sense of touch.
- How Extremism Came To Bangladesh (Christian Science Monitor, David Montero, Sep 07, 2005)
For years, they gathered in hidden training camps, mosques, and madrassahs, learning how to use weapons and build bombs. In their diaries they scrawled slogans of political alienation. On Aug. 17, their ideology culminated in a series of nearly 500 bomb
- Blair To Help Draft India-Eu Security Plan (Deccan Herald, PTI, Sep 07, 2005)
The British Prime Minister, who will lead EU side in his capacity as current President of the Council of EU along with Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, arrived here on Tuesday night.
- Happy Ending (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 07, 2005)
With the Meghalaya government having met the demand of the Khasi Students’ Union supported by 21 social organisations, hopefully peace will return to Shillong.
- Torture Test (Times of India, Abhinav Verma, Sep 07, 2005)
"Lord what fools these mortals be" is arguably the most insightful of Shakespeare's lines. This deep philosophical truth dawned on me only recently.
- India Can Emerge As Economic Power In 25 Years: Chidambaram (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2005)
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said India could emerge as an economic power in 25 years as the country would have the demographic advantage with increase in the working age group in the next 15-20 years.
- The Modern Samurai (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Sep 06, 2005)
Next Sunday, Japan goes to the polls. Junichiro Koizumi, the prime minister, called an early election — an unusual move in a compromise-loving country where politicians paper over differences and keep governments going. But it is typical of this . . . .
- A Masked Evil Called Westernisation (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2005)
With Western influences creeping into our art and culture, it is imperative to educate children on the importance to preserve and protect true Indian art.
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