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Articles 18421 through 18520 of 22438:
- Localising Food And Sustaining Livelihoods (Deccan Herald, Kanchi Kohli , May 26, 2005)
Farmers from Peru, India and Iran met at Andhra Pradesh and exchanged notes about common concerns on agricultural biodiversity, livelihoods and food sovereignty
- Opportunities Before Sonia Gandhi (Hindu, Harish Khare , May 25, 2005)
STATECRAFT The organisational elections provide Sonia Gandhi a chance to provide a face-lift to the Congress.
- India Proposes More Interaction With Chinese Army (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2005)
NEW DELHI: Signalling a further thaw in Sino-Indian military ties, India on Tuesday offered to step up interaction between the two armies. In talks with top Indian military officials, the chief of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA),
- Panchayats As Business Hubs? (Deccan Herald, Manu N Kulkarni, May 25, 2005)
The panchayats have to be well-equipped and well-staffed to do business with global concerns
- `Monolingualism Hits Varsity Education In Sri Lanka'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2005)
Neglect of English was short-sighted: Dharmadasa
- There Are No Miracles (Deccan Herald, Swami Nithyananda, May 25, 2005)
At one time or another we all experience the phenomenon of precognition. We feel some one is about to call us, and sure enough, the person calls.
- India, Russia Stress Need For Stability In Eurasia (Hindu, K. V. PRASAD, May 25, 2005)
All issues to be addressed without `outside interference'
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Both sides agree on world student satellite for disaster management
New Delhi to set up IT Park in
- Compulsory Military Training Not Practicable (Deccan Herald, Bidanda M Chengappa, May 25, 2005)
Compulsory military training for the youth? Is this a viable proposal? Generals are of the view that other methods also need to be explored
- Rao Gets Top Israeli Award (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2005)
Renowned Indian scientist Prof C N R Rao has won the $ 1-million Dan David Prize instituted by an Israeli University for his lifetime contribution to material sciences
- Gloss On Sankara's Commentary With Translation (Hindu, S Revathy, May 24, 2005)
The Uttara Mimamsa deals with the Upanishadic phase of Vedic revelation and its systematisation was the work of Badarayana in his Brahmasutras.
- Faster Reforms Will Earn Us Our Rightful Place, Says Manmohan (Hindu, Mohammed Iqbal , May 24, 2005)
India will soon join the comity of developed nations; efforts on to root out poverty'
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- Acid Attack On Women (Hindu, Rameeza Rasheed, May 24, 2005)
THE MEDIA has reported recently an acid attack on a young woman and the readers would have passed it off as yet another story on crimes against women.
- Add Pace To Economic Reforms: Pm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2005)
Mr Singh said a change of attitude was essential to usher in reforms and called for more public and private partnership in developmental projects
- Issues In Privatisation Of Water (Hindu, T. Ramakrishnan, May 24, 2005)
OF LATE, the hotly-debated topic among water experts is privatisation of the water sector. Several countries of varying economic strength have already embarked on this direction.
- A Mask That Was Pierced? (Hindu, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, May 24, 2005)
`... do you think there is any chance that he could have written it?'
- Kalam Hails India’S Space Research Efforts (Deccan Herald, UNI, May 24, 2005)
President A P J Abdul Kalam has denied that India was making tardy progress in its space programmes despite huge investments in the sector and said it was erroneous to draw such inferences as the country had made rapid st
- Offshore Tutoring (Deccan Herald, PTI, May 24, 2005)
Indian tutors are already working with over 20,000 US students amid scepticism about imparting education over a physical and cultural gulf.
- Discovering God In Service To Humanity (Deccan Herald, L SUBRAMANI, May 24, 2005)
If you need a proof that Mysore has not lost its greenery, you need not go any farther than Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE) campus, L Subramani tells us.
- Exchanging Ideas (Deccan Herald, Rotary club, May 24, 2005)
The Rotary Club aims to provide external inter-cultural experiences for students through its student exchange programmes.
- Make A Wish, Plant A Sapling (Deccan Herald, Sunil Kumar M, May 24, 2005)
Here is your chance to own a tree, for just a small amount, says Sunil Kumar M
- A Handicapped Prime Minister (Deccan Herald, G S Bhargava, May 23, 2005)
Lenin dubbed George Bernard Shaw a good man fallen among Fabians.
- Vapour Flow Grips Climate (Deccan Herald, CATHERINE BRAHIC, May 23, 2005)
Deforestation and irrigation affect global water vapour distributions and could affect monsoon patterns.
- Kalam Visit To Firm Up Ties With Russia (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2005)
President A P J Abdul Kalam left on a two week long four-nation tour to Russia, Switzerland, Iceland and Ukraine on Sunday.
- Upa’S New Deal For Rural India (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2005)
Releasing the UPA’s report card, Dr Singh emphasised the need to rehash public expenditure and to improve efficiency of ministries for the growth of the nation
- Support To The Congress Is A Historical Need, Says Karat (Deccan Herald, Gobind Thukral, May 23, 2005)
Prakash Karat is no ordinary communist.
- The Artist In Satyajit Ray (Deccan Herald, UTPAL BORPUJARI, May 22, 2005)
Satyajit Ray is known as a filmmaker. But the book released recently in his honour makes known various other facets to the genius, that he was a music director, script writer, and that he even d
- Localising Food And Sustaining Livelihoods (Deccan Herald, Kanchi Kohli , May 22, 2005)
Farmers from Peru, India and Iran met at Andhra Pradesh and exchanged notes about common concerns on agricultural biodiversity, livelihoods and food sovereignty.
- ‘My Pen Is My God’ (Deccan Herald, P. Raja, May 22, 2005)
A writer of rare power and refreshing realism, JK virulently attacked the value system and championed the cause of the downtrodden
- News Reporter Turned Newsmaker (Deccan Herald, K S Narayanan, May 22, 2005)
Iftikhar Gilani, journalist in ‘Kashmir Times,’ arrested on ‘national interest’ and released in ‘public interest,’ gives an inside story of his arrest, experiences in jail and his road to recovery.
- Dereliction Of Duty (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 20, 2005)
The absence of thirty college lecturers from evaluation work is inexcusable
- Back To Letters (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 20, 2005)
Words may be the primary means of communication between human beings. But human exchanges also happen in the medium of time.
- Gender Equality Still A Distant Dream (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, May 20, 2005)
A recent survey by the World Economic Forum finds that full economic and political empowerment remains a dream for millions of women even in the Western world.
- Lifetime Achievement Award For Krishnaswamy (Hindu, Special Correspondent, The Hindu, May 20, 2005)
Ninth recipient over the last four decades and the first from Afro-Asian continents
- Confounding Corporate Governance (Business Line, Vijaya B. Marisetty, May 20, 2005)
THE recent developments at the Reliance group highlight the opaqueness in Indian corporates. The allegations of movement of funds and a divergence between control and cash flow rights across group companies is at the heart of the corporate governance...
- India's Poverty: Help The Poor Help Themselves (International Herald Tribune, Kirsty Hughes , May 19, 2005)
While India's growth makes it an economic and political player to watch in the next decades, the country remains desperately poor. Almost a quarter of India's 1.1 billion people live on less than $1 a day; 700 million more live on less than $2 a day.
- 'India's Pc Sales Up 29%' (The Financial Express, Reuters, May 19, 2005)
India's personal computer sales jumped 29 per cent in the year to March 2005, powered by a fall in notebook computer prices and purchases by management schools, market researcher IDC said on Thursday.
- India Places Its Women 6th From Bottom (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2005)
Despite government's efforts at empowering women and some of them occupying top positions in various sectors, India stood at a dismally low position of 53 among 58 countries for ‘gender gap,’ according to a survey by the World Economic Forum.
- Left Still ‘Red’ On Upa Achievements (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2005)
The Left showed the “red flag” again to the UPA government on its performance, clearly disassociating with the UPA’s take on the crucial UPA-Left Coordination meet held here.
- What Lay Beneath (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2005)
The report of an English NGO Christian Aid, that blamed the Department For International Development (DFID) of the British government for the more than 4,000 farmers’ suicides in Andhra Pradesh in the last 10 years, has come in handy for the Congress to f
- Economy To Hover Around 7 Pc: Montek (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2005)
India could grow at an average rate of 7.5 per cent in the next two years to position itself for a higher growth trajectory at the start of 11th plan beginning from 2007-08.
- Tripura Hands Over 20 Departments To Panchayat (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2005)
Tripura will now be the first state in the Northeast to hand over the executive authority of twenty major departments to the local self-government as part of decentralisation of power.
- World Bank To Back Investment Lending In Tamil Nadu (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2005)
THE World Bank is of the view that it would support investment lending in Tamil Nadu rather than providing budget support, according to Mr Michael F. Carter, Country Director-India, World Bank.
- Buddha Talks Psu Reforms & World Bank (Indian Express, Subrata Nag Choudhury, May 19, 2005)
Rs 1700 cr needed to close down 29 loss-making PSUs, trim 70,000 workforce, weave safety net
- Edict Against Suicide Attacks (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2005)
A group of 58 religious scholars belonging to all schools of thought issued here on Tuesday an edict (fatwa) against suicide attacks. However, they said that the fatwa was applicable only in Pakistan.
- Upa, Left Rift Widens (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2005)
The seven-hour-long UPA-Left Coordination Committee meeting today ended on a discord note with the Communists disassociating with the Congress-led coalition’s assessment of the performance of Manmohan Singh government during the past one year.
- Of Monumental Value (Deccan Herald, PRIYANKA HALDIPUR, May 19, 2005)
We have to do our bit to save the beauties of the past even if it means disposing that packet of chips in a garbage can, instead at the premises of cultural monument that will bear the atrocity with lips sealed, says PRIYANKA HALDIPUR
- Making India ‘Flat’ Needs Simple Economics (The Financial Express, NIRVIKAR SINGH, May 19, 2005)
Earlier this month, I attended TiEcon 2005, the annual conference of The Indus Entrepreneurs, a South Asian networking organisation born in Silicon Valley, now becoming a global force.
- Kerala Can Become `Zero-Garbage State' (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2005)
Kerala can become a zero-garbage State if it segregates and recycles the garbage it produces, says Ms Almitra Patel, a member of the Supreme Court Committee for Solid Waste Management.
- How Almost Everyone In Kerala Learned To Read (Christian Science Monitor, Nachammai Raman, May 19, 2005)
At the Janaranjini preschool in the state of Kerala in rural southern India, children aren't building castles in the sand. Instead, as they sit cross-legged in front of a thin layer of sand, they are learning the fundamentals of reading and math.
- Upa, Left Focus On Gujarat Affairs (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2005)
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) partners and the Left Parties on Wednesday reaffirmed their resolve to confront and combat communal forces and strengthen the secular pillars of the state.
- Edict Against Suicide Attacks In Pakistan; Kashmir Exempted (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, May 19, 2005)
A group of 58 religious scholars belonging to schools of Islamic thought in Pakistan have issued an edict (fatwa) against suicide attacks in the country.
- No Sting In Mayajaal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2005)
There is more bark than bite in Mayawati's threat to withdraw support to the United Progressive Alliance Government.
- Scripting A Solution (Hindu, M. S. PRABHAKARA, May 19, 2005)
A huge row has erupted over what the proper script for the Manipuri language should be.
- Revamp Higher Education In India (The Financial Express, J L AZAD, May 18, 2005)
Education, as a service industry, comes under the purview of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (Gats).
- Written Out (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 18, 2005)
It was in another age that a king’s word made both law and history. In these democratic times, though, the people’s will reigns supreme.
- Barren Earth Under The Mighty Tree? (The Financial Express, PV MATHEW, May 18, 2005)
Verghese Kurien epitomised a resurgent India during the ’60s and the ’70s when the Nehruvian model still held sway, and governments did everything to stymie enterprise.
- Bhat Mourners Fired Upon, Two Killed, 20 Hurt (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2005)
Two mourners were killed and 20 injured when scooter-borne militants hurled a grenade and opened fire at a congregation on the fourth day of mourning at Bagh-e-Mehtab here this afternoon.
- Pervez To Stand For Election After Term Expires In 2007 (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2005)
Pakistan’s military ruler President Pervez Musharraf will stand for election after his current term expires in 2007, a government minister said today, a plan swiftly denounced by political opponents.
- Let’S Get Rid Of Public Schools (Tribune, David Gelernte, May 18, 2005)
Increasingly I wonder why. Why should there be any public schools? I don’t ask merely because the public schools are performing badly, although (as usual) they are.
- Women Fuel China’S Growth (Tribune, Manoj Kumar, May 18, 2005)
Indian leaders and industrial captains may never be tired of citing “hire and fire” policy and autocratic rule behind the Chinese miracle, but they have often ignored the contribution of women empowerment, high female work participation rate in the Chines
- Marksmanship (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 18, 2005)
PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh is a modest man who really does not have much to be modest about. Yet, if he has given himself a modest score of six on a scale of 10, it is because as the leader of the United Progressive Alliance
- Behind The Explosions (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 18, 2005)
The recent terrorist attacks in Srinagar indicate that Kashmiri extremist groups have not lost their sting.
- Reconstruction Of Higher Education In India (Hindu, V.C. Kulandaiswamy, May 18, 2005)
Higher education in India is ill-equipped, fragmented, and outdated. The affiliating system, a curse, must go.
- Dilemma For Pakistan's Leadership (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, May 18, 2005)
For Pakistan, ending violence in Jammu and Kashmir isn't a concession to India; it concerns its own future as a viable, modern nation-state.
- Ignorance Kills (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 18, 2005)
At the dead of night on Sunday, an apparently harmless mosquito coil set off the blast of a dump of firecrackers and an LPG cylinder exploded, killing eight persons, destroying two houses and damaging four other houses in Hassan city.
- Hidden Strings And Free Lunches (Indian Express, K SUBRAHMANYAM, May 18, 2005)
Ever since the US state department unveiled its new strategy for South Asia, of US helping India to become a world power in the 21st century, there is debate in this country about the costs of this trajectory.
- Governor Releases Kannada Translation Of Koran (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2005)
Governor calls for translating scriptures of all religions in different languages
- `Hiv Infection Is More Among Non-Literate Pregnant Women' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2005)
`A variety of approaches and programmes are needed to tackle disease'
- Cpm Slams Centre’S Fdi Policy (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2005)
The CPM said the current policies of the UPA government could erode national sovereignty and cause massive retrenchment in retail trade.
- Art Madhyam (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2005)
The word “Madhyam” makes linguistic sense to an average Indian, no matter to which part of the country he may belong to.
- Clashing Interpretations And Policies (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, May 17, 2005)
The 60th anniversary of Victory in the Second World War celebrated in Moscow last week was as much about the future as about the past.
- Safeguarding Heritage, A Shared Responsibility (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2005)
Efforts to save the State’s monuments including the cultural landscape, has been going on in full swing. ARUNA CHANDARAJU suggests an action plan.
- It’S No More Chinese! (Deccan Herald, SOWMYA ACHARYA, May 17, 2005)
Quick...! Which is the most spoken language of the world? It would probably not require you any time to say “Mandarin”.
- New Nikahnama Is A Damp Squib (Indian Express, SHAHIDA LATEEF, May 17, 2005)
The announcement by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board of a new nikahnama form that would address the current lacunae on marital contracts by standardising them is a damp squib.
- The Bastion Of A Religious Tradition (Deccan Herald, L SUBRAMANI, May 17, 2005)
After a long penance, Garuda, the king of birds, meets Lord Mahavishnu and conveys his wish to see his Sri Narasimha avatar.
- Pillars Of Pulchritude (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2005)
The Thousand Pillar basadi in the town of Moodbidri illustrates the popularity that Jainism enjoyed in Karnataka
- It Takes Two To Tango (Asia Times, Editorial, Asian Times, May 17, 2005)
In this era of globalization, the elephant and the dragon are finally running fast, together.
- `Universities Must Heed Wake Up Call' (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, May 16, 2005)
Deepak Nayyar's tenure as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi ended on Sunday. In a farewell interview, he toldSiddharth Varadarajanthat the Indian university system is in urgent need of structural reform if it is to remain relevant.
- Technologies For Societal Transformation (Hindu, A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM , May 16, 2005)
Public-private partnership with innovative government policies will definitely lead to India becoming a developed nation by the year 2020.
- Rainwater Harvesting Goes Rural In Kolar District (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 16, 2005)
Villagers in Kolar district have made a mark, by adopting rainwater harvesting, in their homes.
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