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Articles 18121 through 18220 of 22438:
- Basically Wrong (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 21, 2005)
Backwardness is sometimes the result of daftness in the high places. This was recently the case in Uttar Pradesh — India’s largest state, with a population of 170 million . . .
- From One Grind To Another (Telegraph, PARIMAL BHATTACHARYA, Jun 21, 2005)
For those who have failed to make it to the JEE merit lists, college is a stop-gap measure
- The Business Of Business (Deccan Herald, Alok Ray, Jun 21, 2005)
The theory of corporate social responsibility is essential for the success of businesses in the long term
- Why Quota For Muslims? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 21, 2005)
WE are for more jobs and opportunities for the Muslims in different areas, but Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy
- Is India Inching Towards A Hunger Trap? (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Jun 21, 2005)
In the dust kicked up by the resignation of Mr Advani, two things of grave concern escaped attention.
- Andhra Pradesh To Seek Grants For Social Sector (Hindu, Y. Mallikarjun, Jun 21, 2005)
Finance Commission should not disappoint performing States'
- Murmurs Over Andhra Pradesh Move On Quotas (Hindu, W. Chandrakanth, Jun 21, 2005)
The Andhra Pradesh Government's decision to provide five per cent reservation in education and employment for Muslims has sparked a debate
- Jawans Reach Out To People In Ladakh (Tribune, Tsewang Rigzin, Jun 21, 2005)
The deployment of the Army for the last five decades in Ladakh has gone through several stages, and the Army has touched every aspect of Ladakh’s life, economy, employment and the environment.
- Mathematician Passes Away (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2005)
Mathematician P.K. Srinivasan died of cardiac arrest on Monday morning. He was 80 and is survived by his wife, five daughters and five sons.
- Beyond Politics (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 21, 2005)
The Govt did well by pushing for PSU disinvestment and the oil price hike
- Spinning A House Full Of Interesting Stories (Deccan Herald, S Radha Prathi, Jun 21, 2005)
Among most adult Indians in their thirties, some of the most pleasant and cosiest moments of early childhood are awe-inspiring flashes of bed-time stories.
- Heritage Sites Set To Regain Lost Sheen (Hindu, T. Ramakrishnan, Jun 20, 2005)
CHENNAI: Nearly a hundred heritage sites in the State, languishing for years, look set to regain their lost sheen, thanks to a Rs. 40 crores cash injection for their renovation.
- Reforming The Joint Entrance Examination System (Hindu, S.S. Vasan , Jun 20, 2005)
The JEE is a time-tested mechanism that deserves full credit for keeping the IIT system well-oiled and excellent. But well-conceived reforms aimed at spreading quality and improving access are overdue.
- Yoga For Livelihood (Hindu, ADITI CHATTERJEE, Jun 20, 2005)
Help the stressed-out people by teaching them yoga
- A Religious Dose To Help Fight Aids (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 20, 2005)
Faith institutions are being encouraged to integrate HIV/AIDS related messages.
- Empowering Women, The Teresian Way (Hindu, R. Krishna Kumar, Jun 20, 2005)
RANKED AMONG the premier educational institutions in Karnataka, the Teresian College affiliated to the University of Mysore has carved out a niche for itself for empowering women through quality education.
- Globalising Wisdom (Deccan Herald, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Jun 20, 2005)
There is strength in peace. There is strength in calmness. There is strength in love, but it goes unnoticed.
- Counterview: Level Playing Field Doesn't Exist (Times of India, SWAGATO GANGULY, Jun 20, 2005)
Should we celebrate because 70,000 dollar- millionaires were discovered in India at last count? Or because the number of millionaires worldwide bloated by 600,000 in 2004?
- Outsourcing Moves To Knowledge Arena (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
BPO business may soon be passe as the country is ready to become the leading destination for knowledge process outsourcing in areas of healthcare, pharma, biotech, writes Aditya Raj Das.
- Ysr, It’S Regressive (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
The fact that it was redeeming an election promise, does not make it right. The fact that opposition parties,
- Cet: What’S Common Every Year Is The Mess (Deccan Herald, Vijesh Kamath, Jun 20, 2005)
Over the last two years, the Common Entrance Test (CET) has become synonymous with confusion and controversy with the Karnataka government and private professional college managements locking horns over the sharing of seats and fee structure.
- Beach Safety (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 20, 2005)
With the onset of summer, Karachi’s beaches are once again thronged by thousands of visitors at a time when the sea is particularly choppy because of the approach of the monsoon season.
- Candour On Immigration (Dawn, Robert J. Samuelson, Jun 20, 2005)
Immigration is crawling its way back onto the national agenda — and not just as a footnote to keeping terrorists out.
- The Mukhtaran Mai Fiasco (Dawn, Omar R. Quraishi, Jun 20, 2005)
Whoever came up with the bright idea that stopping Mukhtaran Mai from proceeding to the US to attend a conference organized by an association of Pakistani-American professionals would help protect Pakistan’s international image should be taken to . . .
- Why Downplay A Rich Legacy? (Hindu, C. R. L. Narasimhan, Jun 20, 2005)
A subdued start to SBI's bi-centenary celebrations
- The Retail Road To Nirvana (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Jun 20, 2005)
The Government's stand on allowing FDI in retail trade is still not very clear. It cannot reveal all its cards, as much would depend on what others offer.
- Bhel Divestment — Vision For Dynamic Psu Development (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jun 20, 2005)
Contrary to the general impression, the public sector in India is operating broadly on profitable lines, contributing substantial resources to its own expansion. While the government is considering divestment in profitable PSUs, it should also undertake..
- Seven Brothers (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 20, 2005)
The vice-chancellor of Jadavpur University, Mr Ashok Nath Basu, must have been deeply reassured. Seven of his peers,
- Decline In Quality Of Life (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Jun 20, 2005)
There are five national themes that are mauled in the national press on a regular basis — human rights, intolerance, education, corruption and the increasing militarization of civil society.
- Reinventing The Bjp (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jun 20, 2005)
Indian politics is in flux. The United Progressive Alliance is an alliance of unlikely bedmates, formed to keep the Bharatiya Janata Party out of government. It cannot last.
- Bjp Turns To Vastu Shastra (Tribune, Devi Cherian, Jun 20, 2005)
THE crisis within the BJP was resolved, not by the modified draft or the forceful intervention of Vajpayee, but by Vastu Shastra.
- Pills For The Poor (Washington Post, Sebastian Mallaby, Jun 20, 2005)
Little by little, the world is coming around to two self-evidently good proposals to improve global health. But there's a third, equally great proposal to which nobody pays attention.
- The Poor Get Their Due (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 20, 2005)
SEVEN rich nations, members of the G-8 minus Russia, have taken a major step towards helping 18 poor countries of the world.
- Strategic Importance Of Kargil-Skardu Road For India (Tribune, David Devadas, Jun 19, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s proposal to open a road between Kargil and Skardu has immense strategic significance.
- Quotas Will Make India Weaker (Tribune, Pushpesh Kumar, Jun 19, 2005)
IN his article “Dalits in private sector will make India stronger” (Perspective, June 12), Udit Raj makes a forceful plea for quotas for dalits. But, unfortunately, he does not seem to bother about the detrimental effect of reservation on the Indian . . .
- Energizing The Oic (Dawn, Anwar Syed, Jun 19, 2005)
PakistaniI spokesmen have been urging the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) to do more to energize the global Muslim community (1.2 billion persons). Let us see if it is well situated to perform such a role.
- The Royal Hunt (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 19, 2005)
There is an odd symbiosis between the hunter and the hunted. In early June, according to reports, Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi was hunting in a forest in Haryana.
- Anbumani Unfazed By Opposition, To Go Ahead With Smoking Ban (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Jun 19, 2005)
"I will be happy if the sale of tobacco products is totally banned like in Bhutan"
- The Situation Must Be Met (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jun 19, 2005)
We returned to Calcutta on Direct Action Day, August 16, 1946.
- Energy Plan That Terminates The Econom (Japan Times, DOUG BANDOW, Jun 19, 2005)
"We're all Keynesians now," declared U.S. President Richard M. Nixon when he surrendered his fiscal policies to liberal orthodoxy. California Gov.
- Some Scars Of The Emergency (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 18, 2005)
SOME scars do not go away. They remind a nation of the rough period it has gone through. One ugly mark on the face of India is the emergency.
- Learn Art Restoration, Pottery At Chitrakala Parishat, Get A Job (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2005)
Parishat's College of Fine Arts to introduce job-oriented courses
- Unending Health Disaster For Iraqi Kids (Japan Times, CESAR CHELALA, Jun 18, 2005)
New York -- More than two years after the Iraq war started, children continue to be its main victims as the health of the majority
- From The Visitors’ Book (Tribune, G.S. Aujla, Jun 18, 2005)
It has always been a worthwhile experience for me to go through the old visitors’ books at the historic officers’ mess at Phillaur.
- Punjab’S Killer Roads (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 18, 2005)
Road accidents claim 2,500 lives every year in Punjab. In 1990, when militancy was at its peak, 2,467 persons fell to terrorist bullets
- Work, Play And Violence (Telegraph, Sukanta Chaudhuri, Jun 18, 2005)
We all know what has been happening in Jadavpur University. It has been ceaselessly broadcast by every TV channel in town. Thronging the campus, they have not only reported events but influenced them,
- Bhel: The Turtle And The Hare-Brained (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Jun 18, 2005)
The proceeds from the proposed sale of equity in BHEL are a fraction of what could be raised by different, less repulsive means.
- Money, Money And More Money (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Jun 18, 2005)
Most people regard money as the yard-stick of success. The more one has in the bank in farmland, factories, real estate or commands as fees, the more successful he is regarded.
- Secularism In The Subcontinent (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 18, 2005)
The multiplicity of identities alone can check the exclusivity and negative features of any single identity
- He Beat It, Now What? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 18, 2005)
Why do you suppose Michael Jackson looked almost as unhappy leaving the Santa Maria, Calif., courthouse with 10 acquittals in his pocket as he did when he walked in maybe 45 minutes earlier with 10 criminal charges over his head?
- The River Is Free (Indian Express, J L AZAD, Jun 18, 2005)
In the stillness of evening/ Ravi is humming a melodious tune/ Don’t ask me what is the state of my mind/ I am standing on the bank of the gurgling waters/ I am not aware of where I am standing’.
- Perverse Allusions To Glory (Japan Times, HUGH CORTAZZI, Jun 18, 2005)
LONDON -- I regard myself as a friend of Japan, not least because I have many Japanese friends and appreciate Japanese arts and culture, but this does not mean that I can look at Japanese history through rose-tinted spectacles.
- The Continuing Power Crisis In India (Hindu, M. R. Srinivasan, Jun 17, 2005)
We should encourage public sector companies to build power-generating units. But asine qua nonis that they should be given technical, managerial and financial autonomy, and distanced from political interference.
- Kool Kakajis From Hot Malwa (Tribune, Punam Khaira Sidhu, Jun 17, 2005)
LIKE the “Yuppies” and the “Puppies” the “Kakajis” are a very typical genre of the Malwa region of Punjab.
- Women Make Better Scientists (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 17, 2005)
Whoever said women and science don’t go together! A new study claims that women make better scientists than men and recommends more representation for them in the field.
- Fat Versus Fiction (Hindu, Vivienne Parry, Jun 17, 2005)
The moral panic about the obesity epidemicwas always hard to swallow. Now, a newstudy says we may have been wrong all along.
- Surviving The Monsoon (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jun 17, 2005)
Lack of access to health care during the monsoon is a serious problem.
- Compassionate Gesture (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 17, 2005)
The Group of Eight (G-8) industrialised countries have recently proposed to waive the $40 billion of debt that the world’s 18 poorest countries owe to the World Bank (WB),
- Indifference To History (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Jun 17, 2005)
LET a diminished Mr L. K. Advani run the shaken BJP as best he can after taking back his resignation as the party president even though the so-called compromise
- Not Every Tiger Is Endangered (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, Jun 17, 2005)
Besides the grisly imagery that a “Tiger” preying on a black buck evokes, there is something else particularly gnawing about l’affaire Pataudi. Which is the ease and frequency with which our VIP offenders manage to dodge the police dragnet till such time
- Spv Route For Infrastructure Projects — Enticing, But Flawed, Financial Engineering (Business Line, Amarendu Nandy , Jun 17, 2005)
A variant of the proposal to use forex reserves for infrastructure, the special purpose vehicle route, is expected to raise long-term funds for select projects
- Yakshagana In Terracotta (Deccan Herald, Manjusha R , Jun 16, 2005)
Yellapur: Vinayak Vishnu Ganga's home is the place where all known characters of Yakshagana come alive. The artist, who lives near the town's Gramadevi temple,
- Caste-Wise Survey Of Obcs To Begin This Week (Hindu, T.S. Ranganna , Jun 16, 2005)
Panel headed by Chief Secretary constituted to monitor exercise
- Cooperating For A Better Future (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2005)
The centenary celebrations of India's cooperative movement has brought the spotlight on an obscure village in Karnataka. But, will the unprecedented attention pull it back from remoteness, asks Shyam Sunder Vattam.
- Novel Project To Increase Greenery (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2005)
BANGALORE: Parisara, a non-governmental organisation, will launch a novel project called `Spoorthi Vana' to promote the planting and nurturing of trees in and around the catchment area of Thippagondahalli reservoir, one of the sources of water supply to B
- Teaching The Art Of Earning (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2005)
Empowering women of every rural household seems to be the motto of SSRDP. Kamala Balachandran tells us about this unique spiritual venture for the upliftment of poor.
- Encounter: Notice Issued To State Govt., Bangalore City Police (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2005)
BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday ordered issue of notices to the State Government, the Bangalore city police and other respondents on a petition by Dawood Suleman Khadri of Mumbai
- Which Way Will The Monsoon Go This Year? (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Jun 16, 2005)
It is quite possible that June rainfall for the country as a whole will be deficient. But meteorologists say neither this nor a delayed onset indicates that the monsoon will turn out badly.
- Spiritual Knowledge (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2005)
CHENNAI: Education is given the pride of place in civilised societies because knowledge empowers by removing the learner's ignorance.
- “adverse” Information Technology (Tribune, Ehsan Fazili, Jun 16, 2005)
I was still in primary school, yet innocent about the outside world and the impact of mass media on our day-to-day lives.
- ``Governors Can Act As Watchdogs'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2005)
Manmohan's four-point mantra
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Rise above partisan politics
Play role of elder statesmen in resolving disputes
Act as watchdogs
- Capture Truth With Its Two Limbs, Validity And Authenticity (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2005)
In The spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. With this quote of Paul Eldridge begins the discussion on `the need for accountability' in Zina O'Leary's The Essential Guide to Doing Research,
- Lies Often Have Short Legs (Deccan Herald, THABO MBEKI, Jun 16, 2005)
South Africa has been placed fourth in global business confidence after India, Australia, and the US
- Spellbound And Speechless! (Business Line, R. C. Rajamani, Jun 16, 2005)
MOST will agree that the greatest gift India got from the British Raj is the English language.
- Tamil University Plans To Start Distance Education Centre Soon (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 15, 2005)
Plans to host website for benefit of overseas Tamils
- Oh Man, What A Woman! (Hindu, BAGESHREE S. , Jun 15, 2005)
Begar Shivakumar is femininity incarnate when he dons the roles of Mohini or Menake in a Yakshagana performance
- Another Planet Is Around Too (Hindu, Dennis Overbye, Jun 15, 2005)
The earth's distant cousin — 15 light years distant
- Job Prospects Brighten, Says Employers' Survey (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 15, 2005)
Highest demand envisaged in the services sector
- Remove The Blinkers (Telegraph, Jay Bhattacharjee, Jun 15, 2005)
The French referendum was more a vote on France’s present dispensation than one on the EU, argues Jay Bhattacharjee
- All-Encompassing Sme Umbrella — Ensure Proper Cover For The Tiny Sector (Business Line, DE. RAMAKRISHNAN , Jun 15, 2005)
THE continued neglect of the manufacturing and agricultural sectors, in general, and the neglect of the Small Scale Industries SSIs and the tiny sector,
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