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Articles 17021 through 17120 of 22438:
- A Doubter Who Likes Bhajans, Keertans (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Sep 03, 2005)
“He who doubts the existence of God perishes,” wrote Bapu Gandhi. I count myself among the doubters but I have not perished yet; as a matter of fact I’ve had a longer innings than Bapu’s and am still batting.
- Great Potential In State (Deccan Herald, U R RAO, Sep 03, 2005)
Karnataka can become a truly advanced state by harnessing its natural resources and scientific manpower
- How Bureaucrats Resist All Good Initiatives (Deccan Herald, Tavleen Singh, Sep 03, 2005)
As someone who believes India’s biggest problem is not poverty but governance I seize any opportunity to discover why despite our technological and considerable other achievements our fair and wondrous land remains deprived of good governance. So, last we
- "Focus Has To Be On Development At Wto" (Hindu, Sushma Ramchandran, Sep 03, 2005)
Oxfam chiefBarbara Stockingsays the global development agency will work with countries such as India to ensure that current trade negotiations at the World Trade Organisation are fair. In an interview, she commends India's tackling of tsunami relief....
- C-Dot, Alcatel Research Centre Gets Centre’S Nod (Deccan Herald, DH news, Sep 03, 2005)
The Union Cabinet, on Friday, approved the setting up of a Rs 212 crore joint venture Global Broadband Wireless Reseach Centre in Chennai between government-owned C-DOT and French major Alcatel in which the latter will hold 51 per cent equity.
- The Lessons Of Evolution (Greater Kashmir, AIJAZ A NAJAR, Sep 03, 2005)
Is evolution an experiment gone wrong or we need to make it a success by doing what Nature demands from us, writes
- Madras University Aims For Brand Equity (Hindu, VANI DORAISAMY, Sep 03, 2005)
Moving ahead to meet the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) regime, the University of Madras is in the brand-building mode. Coffee mugs, handbags and T-shirts bearing the 150-year-old university's new logo will soon flood the market, well ahead
- Lessons From Beslan (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 03, 2005)
THE COMMISSION for the investigation of the causes and circumstances of the terrorist attack in Beslan has been working for nearly a year.
- On The Frequently Asked Questions About Fbt (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Sep 03, 2005)
AS IS THEIR wont, the Government has come out with Circular No 8/2005 days before the last date for paying the much-discussed fringe benefit tax (FBT) without being visited by the ubiquitous penalty clauses.
- Workshop On Rain-Water Harvesting In Davangere (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2005)
Copious rainfall after three years of drought has created a wave optimism in the district.
- Nod For 97 Projects On Renewable Energy (Indian Express, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Sep 03, 2005)
As many as 97 projects in the area of renewable energy with a total investment of Rs 7,600 crore have been approved by the Ministry of Environment and Forests in the last one year, according to Union Minister A Raja.
- Entertainment Farms For Tourists (Tribune, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 03, 2005)
AT the reins of a team of Clydesdales, Craig Underwood posed for photos with a posse of suburbanites and city slickers before taking them on a wagon ride around his farm in Ventura County, Calif.
- Unctad's Trade Development Report, 2005: Swot Analysis Of Developing Nations (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Sep 03, 2005)
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has a new Secretary-General — Dr Supachai Pantichpakdi. For Dr Supachai, the physical shifting of office — from the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to Unctad — in Geneva may have been simple,
- Jehadi Terror In Bangladesh (Tribune, Suhas Chakma, Sep 03, 2005)
A series of coordinated blasts of over 400 bombs in 63 out of 64 districts on August 17 firmly established Bangladesh as another hotbed of terrorism. While the police blamed the Jamaatul Mujahideen, Minister of Industries and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Maulan
- A Brain Bank For Reality Check (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2005)
JSS Educational Institution has set up a unique “Depression Brain Bank” to conduct research on suicidal tendencies.
- Bhatnagar Award For B’Lore Scientists (Deccan Herald, DH news, Sep 03, 2005)
Two Bangalore-based scientists are among the 11 selected for this year’s Bhatnagar award, one of the country’s most prestigious prizes given in science and technology research.
- Last Words On The Raj (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Sep 03, 2005)
“A historian must make do with such ideas as he has, but he might always try to send them out in better shape.”
- A Tale Of Two Wars (Dawn, Lewis M. Simons, Sep 03, 2005)
I went to Vietnam a hawk. It was July 1967; I was an ex-Marine and a reporter for the Associated Press.
- For A Coherent Regional Policy (Dawn, Javid Husain, Sep 03, 2005)
IN my last article on the state of Pakistan-US relations, I emphasized the need for Pakistan to adopt a coherent regional policy as the central element of our overall foreign policy. I would now venture to add that since the end of the Cold War, the absen
- Politicians’ Writ Or Police Raj (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Sep 03, 2005)
THAT police are meant to maintain law and order still holds good in the West, although the 9/11 attacks have drastically changed its meaning.
- Bsnl Clicks For Broadband Usage (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2005)
Engineering students have been roped in to promote the use of broadband connections with incentives for new bookings.
- Wake Up, Before It’S Too Late (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Sep 02, 2005)
Are we standing on the brink of a precipice where we need a nudge and we are gone.
- Retail Fdi: Just Do It (Indian Express, Nandan Nilekani, Sep 02, 2005)
In the early nineties an unusual window of opportunity opened up for India.
- Children: Victims Of Violence (Daily Excelsior, S. M. Khan, Sep 02, 2005)
Frustrated with the on-going peace process between India and Pakistan to normalize relations between the two countries, the terrorists have started targetting innocent children out of frustration.
- Pm Worried Over Mounting Fiscal Deficit (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2005)
Expressing serious concern about the country’s financial health, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned today that economic progress could be hindered if the mounting fiscal deficit of 9 to 10 per cent of the national income was not contained.
- Civic (Non)sense (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 02, 2005)
The principal of the school in West Bengal who insisted that women teachers only wear the sari to class has company of sorts. Not across the Hooghly but along the banks of the distant Danube.
- 100 Years Ago Today September 2, 1905 (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 02, 2005)
At the High Court on Thursday, before Mr Justice Sale, Mr Sinha, instructed by Messrs Watkin and Co., applied on behalf of Hurry Churn Sill,
- The Salt And Pepper Set (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 02, 2005)
It was the end of the academic year at the University College in Swansea in Wales. My husband and I had completed a course at the university. It was time to go home and so time to buy gifts.
- Can Musharraf Deliver? (Tribune, Sushant Sareen, Sep 02, 2005)
Reports of terrorists training camps in Pakistan being reopened,
- Pak Devolution Of Power (Tribune, Ash Narain Roy, Sep 02, 2005)
Democracy has been anathema to Pakistani rulers during a large part of the country’s existence.
- Our Focus Has Always Been Designing For India' — Mr Arvind Mathew, Managing Director And President, Ford India (Business Line, N. Ramakrishnan , Sep 02, 2005)
Mr Arvind Mathew has taken over as Managing Director and President of Ford India at a time when the company is preparing to launch a premium mid-size car.
- Judiciary And Legislature — Confrontation Or Co-Operation? (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Sep 02, 2005)
The framers of the Constitution considered it undesirable to give unfettered powers to the Legislature. Judicial review was set as a check. Yet, far from the Judiciary indulging in making or restating the law, it is the Legislature that has often been....
- Pakistan's Religious Parties Losing Ground? (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Sep 02, 2005)
For the first time in decades, Pakistan's religious parties and organisations appear to be seriously threatened by government measures to curtail their influence. This is evident from their increasingly belligerent tone towards President Pervez Musharraf
- The New Vietnam At Sixty (Hindu, Tran Trong Khanh, Sep 02, 2005)
A victim of war, Vietnam looks beyond the past and forward to the future. It has adapted strategically and sensibly to the changing environment. A constructive member of the comity of nations, it is integrating proactively with the world economy.
- A Window To Malabar's Political Figures (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2005)
Malabarile prathibhakal", a book that offers biographical sketches of some of the prominent public figures in North Kerala, was released on Thursday by M. P. Veerendra Kumar, MP.
- Lic Rajahmundry Division Aims At 20,000 New `Bima Gold' Policies Before March 31 Next (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2005)
Customer contact programme, Bima rallies to be held in all branches from September 5
Policy for persons in age group of 14 to 63 years
It has auto cover, accident benefit of Rs.50 lakhs
The division sets a target of 3,33,333 policies
- Varsity To Set Up `Mini Tidel Park' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2005)
Says Manonmaniam Sundaranar University Vice-Chancellor Cynthia Pandian
- Make `Namadhu Gramam' A Success, Panchayat Chiefs Told (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2005)
Rs.3 lakhs to be given as award for villages achieving `A' grade
- Rural Students To Get A Shot At It Jobs (Hindu, VANI DORAISAMY, Sep 02, 2005)
Rural students may no longer have to fret while their urban counterparts walk away with plum jobs in campus recruitment drives.
- A Hijack To Remember (Deccan Herald, Sen Gupta, Sep 02, 2005)
Although the photograph with Begum Akhtar was never found, memory of the evening lingered
- Cet Can Fill Up Medical Seats: Mci Counsel (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2005)
The government counsel contended that the CET will not be able to fill the medical seats falling vacant before the admission deadline of September 30.
- Centre Urged To Direct Kerala To Raise Dam Storage Level (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2005)
Farmers in five districts losing 10.55 tmcft of water every year
- A Natural Selection (Dawn, Edward J. Larson, Sep 02, 2005)
The modern neo-Darwinian theory of evolution has taken it on the chin recently.
- Cause And Effect Of Inequality Syndrome (Daily Excelsior, Sisir Basu, Sep 01, 2005)
India is on the path to sustained growth. But India’s poor are many and their incomes and consumption are not rising as fast as those of the rich. Our administrative apparatus and procedures have failed in delivering opportunities to them.
- A New Mother's Agony (Deccan Herald, Celia W Dugger, Sep 01, 2005)
Just as the painful ordeal of childbirth finally ended and Nesam Velankanni waited for a nurse to lay her squalling newborn on her chest, the maternity hospital’s ritual of extortion began.
- Pok Nationalists Highlight Human Rights Violation (Daily Excelsior, Samuel Baid, Sep 01, 2005)
Kashmiri nationalist freedom fighters, who have been forced to flee Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) to sojourn in the West, get a chance every year to tell the world of oppressive,
- Manmohan Singh Invites Hurriyat For Peace Talks (Reuters, Kamil Zaheer, Sep 01, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh invited the Hurriyat Conference, Kashmir's main political separatist alliance, on Wednesday for peace talks, aiming to resume a dialogue stalled for a year, and the group accepted his invitation
- Case After Case, Quota Tangle Gets Knottier (Deccan Herald, K N Bhat, Sep 01, 2005)
The Central Government should make laws in consultation with persons experienced in the field of education. A government with a will alone can solve the problems involved.
- Two B’Lore Scientists Win Bhatnagar Award (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
Two Bangalore-based scientists are among the 11 selected for the Rs 2-lakh Bhatnagar Award 2005, one of the country’s most prestigious prizes given in science and technology research
- Communalism, Casteism Threat To Nation: Manmohan (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
Asserting that communalism, insurgency and violence would be dealt with firmly, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said there is no grievance that cannot be redressed through democratic means and dialogue.
- Mdmk Against Sub-Quota For Women (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
Those who demand reservation for backward classes are opposed to reservation for women and are using this as a ruse to block the bill, says Vaiko.
- Children Dying Of Hunger Haunt Maharashtra (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Sep 01, 2005)
With the monsoon coming to a close, the Maharashtra government has begun its annual charade of downplaying the deaths of children from malnutrition in different parts of the state.
- Tampering With Texts (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Sep 01, 2005)
The strange ideas of the Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Mr Suraj Bhan, tend to confirm the view that Indians do not care much about history.
- Mines Of Misery (Tribune, CP Bhambri, Sep 01, 2005)
IT is a shame that as many as 114 persons, including women and children, were working as “bonded labourers” in Charkhi Dadri subdivision of Bhiwani district, Haryana.
- Managing Wastelands (Daily Excelsior, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 01, 2005)
Over the years, the forests have been over exploited in many a ways at all levels much for human greed than his needs result being rueful and dismal.
- Time Has Come For Action (Deccan Herald, Sharada Prahlad Rao, Sep 01, 2005)
The time has come for each one of us Indians to stick his neck out and act boldly for the benefit of our country.
- Fragmented Thinking (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Sep 01, 2005)
Quarterly reporting for bean counters in companies is becoming as grinding as year-end reporting.
- Know More About Wto (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
Three letters that many desi chartered accountants fear are WTO, because the bogey of foreign invasion frightens these professionals to no end that they fail to see anything beyond the confines of their own interest.
- The Case For Diversity (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 01, 2005)
In theory, the composition of the bench does not matter. They are all judges.
- No Punishment Has Ever Had Enough Power To Deter A Repeat Of The Penalised Crime (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 01, 2005)
K FOR Klynveld, from the name of a firm founded in Amsterdam in 1917; P for Peat, from another firm dating back to 1870 in London; M for Marwick, from yet another accounting firm started in New York in 1897; and G is for Goerdeler.
- Constitutional Obligation (Deccan Herald, Ambrose Pinto S J, Sep 01, 2005)
Colleges must be free to make admissions but they cannot say ‘no’ to the constitutional obligation of quotas
- Terror In Class Room (Deccan Herald, Amrutha G, Sep 01, 2005)
The teacher’s heart was hardened to such an extent that she ceased to have human feelings
- Educomp To Partner With Tn Education Department (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
Educomp Solutions Ltd (ESL) is looking forward to partner with Tamil Nadu education department to implement its digital education solutions in government run schools of the state.
- Christian Dalits — The Social Eunuchs (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 01, 2005)
Dalit Christians are people who are thrice discriminated against by the State, Church and society. While the state has denied Scheduled Caste status to Dalit Christians, society still considers them untouchables, denying them the human dignity due to them
- Intellectual Capital (Telegraph, Andre Beteille , Sep 01, 2005)
The author is chancellor, North-eastern Hill University
- Bio-Technology To Come Closer To Common Man (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
Mangalore University Vice Chancellor Prof B Hanumaiah released the book ‘Janasamanyarigagi Jaivika Tantragnana’ written by Dr H C Lakshman and Dr M Jayashankar. The book was released at a programme organised by the microbiology association of the Mangalor
- ‘Make English Language Of Study’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
English should be taught as a language of study in all schools of the State from Class I and Kannada should be made the medium of instruction, noted writer Kamala Hampana said here on Wednesday
- Biotech Symposium Harps On Basics (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
The main theme of the symposium seemed to be on native thinking and a return to basic sciences from which to build on later.
- Restoring A Historical Bond (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 01, 2005)
It was unfortunate that no Indian Prime Minister could visit Afghanistan for the past 29 years although the two countries share a close relationship extending over centuries. From the early 1980s to the mid-1990s the situation in and around Kabul was too
- The Latest Shakespeare Conspiracy (Hindu, Polly Toynbee , Sep 01, 2005)
Conspiracies are profoundly satisfying. They solve every problem, explain everything difficult and give form and shape to things that are otherwise untidily complicated.
- Who Is A "Moderate" Muslim And How? (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Sep 01, 2005)
Moderation has come to be defined in such narrow terms post- 9/11 that many of those now hailed as moderates, by Western governments desperately seeking Muslim allies, would have been judged differently in more normal circumstances.
- Activists Demand Probe Into Ulfa Advisor’S Death (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
A human rights organisation alleged that the imprisoned ULFA leaders are being denied medical facilities, although many of them fell ill due to torture by interrogators.
- Counter-Insurgency Expert Sial Now To Tame Naxals (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
The new Director General and Inspector General of Police Sial has stated that the police will identify the strengths and weaknesses of Naxals and counter it.
- Call To Strengthen Secularism, Humanism (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday cautioned that social and economic inequalities, selective denial of opportunities to some and an education system that failed to develop the young minds into responsible ideal citizens were the ..
- Dharam Singh Urges Press Council To Regulate Private Broadcasters (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
Chief Minister N. Dharam Singh on Wednesday emphasised the role of the media in maintaining communal harmony and suggested that the Press Council of India take steps to ensure that there is no distortion of facts, use of inappropriate language . . .
- Jayalalithaa Calls For Law To Provide Quota (Hindu, J. Venkatesan, Sep 01, 2005)
"Apex court ruling calls for introspection"
- Bharti Project Puts Gaur Government In A Dilemma (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
Panch-J project becomes a bone of contention in Madhya Pradesh
- Enough Space For Regional Identities: Manmohan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
These are not inimical to our concept of nationhood, he tells NIC
Technology enables people to preserve and promote their unique cultures
We must lay emphasis on harmony rather than uniformity
- Centres Of Excellence In Research (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 01, 2005)
In a move to stem the rapid deterioration of research in Indian universities, the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has accepted the report of a six-member committee set up in March this year and has also empowered the committee . . .
- Cell Phone Ban Comes Into Force (Hindu, VANI DORAISAMY, Sep 01, 2005)
Taking its penchant for disciplinarian education a step further, Anna University has banned the use of cell phones and prescribed a dress code for students in all engineering colleges across the State from Thursday.
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