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Articles 621 through 720 of 12026:
- Demand To Review New Benefits Given To Delhi Bureaucrats (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2006)
RWAs accuse Government of squandering public money
Both the Centre and State are increasing the burden on the citizens'
Chief Minister urged to extend the same facility to other Government servants and residents of Delhi
- Govt Lays Oil Trap For Left (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his party put their ally, the Left, and the Opposition in a fix by getting Congress-ruled states to cut the tax burden on petroleum products.
- Colombo Faults Slmm Report (Hindu, V. S. Sambandan, Jun 10, 2006)
Colombo on Friday raised doubts over the "impartiality" of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM).
- Master Of My Own Domain (Deccan Herald, Jeff Johnson, Jun 10, 2006)
sal could be for rotund fellows who love pizza and the people who love them
- Lessons From Grievance (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 10, 2006)
After Operation Bluestar made Bindranwale temporarily into a Sikh hero, vendors of religious paraphernalia used to sit on the pavement outside the serais and sell pictures of him.
- Defence Spending And Development (Dawn, Vaseem Jafarey, Jun 10, 2006)
Lately, there have been references to the link between development and defence.
- Pakistan And U.S.: Two Together, Two Apart (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 10, 2006)
Their dependence on each other by no means makes it an equal partnership. And this is the main cause of the strain in their relations.
- Source Deep Inside Al Qaeda Betrayed Zarqawi (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2006)
Muhammad Ismael, a 40- year-old Iraqi taxi driver, was standing outside his home in the tiny village of Hibhib on Wednesday evening when something unusual caught his eye.
- Iraq And A Wall Of Silence (Frontline, Vijay Prashad, Jun 10, 2006)
American journalists are callously silent on the civilian casualties of the war in Iraq.
- Damming Spree In China (Frontline, PALLAVI AIYAR, Jun 10, 2006)
The main dam of the Three Gorges reservoir was completed in May, ahead of schedule, and China is planning another massive dam, also on the Yangtze.
- Mcenroe ‘Moon-Show’ (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 10, 2006)
So John McEnroe is in the news again, and for one of the factors that keep him in the headlines during his heyday ~ his temper.
- No To Strikes (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 10, 2006)
Biman Bose’s statement that strikes against the fuel price hike are not on West Bengal’s agenda suggests that the Chief Minister may, finally, have got his party’s leaders to accept realities.
- Hamas To Renew Its Attacks On Israel (International Herald Tribune, STEVEN ERLANGER, Jun 10, 2006)
Israeli shells hit a crowded beach in northern Gaza on Friday, killing at least seven Palestinians, including a family of five and two women, and wounding more than 30 others, according to Palestinian journalists and medical personnel.
- Rbi Applies Repo Brakes (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 10, 2006)
Repo rate increases may not tame other price movements more threatening than that of crude oil.
- Only One Zarqawi Is Dead (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 10, 2006)
Iraq's Al-Qaeda chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed along with some of his comrades in a joint US-Jordan operation in the volatile province of Diyala east of capital Baghdad on Thursday.
- Hamas Military Wing Calls Off Israel Truce (US News & World Report, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2006)
Hamas militants called off a truce with Israel on Friday after a barrage of Israeli artillery shells tore into Palestinians at a beachside picnic in the Gaza Strip, killing seven civilians.
- Hamas Calls Off Truce After Israeli Attacks (Washington Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2006)
Hamas' militants yesterday called off a 16-month truce and vowed to resume bombing attacks in Israel after an Israeli artillery shell struck a crowd of beachcombers.
- Don't Desert Drylands (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jun 10, 2006)
Drylands, cover more than 40% of the planet’s surface and affect more than 1 billion people.
- India Shows Concern Over Abortion Of Lankan Talks (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2006)
Deeply concerned over abortion of a proposed meeting between Sri Lanka government and LTTE, India on Friday expressed the hope that the dialogue process would be resumed at the earliest to help avoid "any further worsening" of the situation in the . . .
- Andamans In "Losing Battle" With Poachers (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2006)
The fragile maritime ecology of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago is under threat from widespread illegal fishing, poaching of rare species and the collection of rare coral, a top official said on Friday.
- Water Conservation In Country (Daily Excelsior, Rattan Saldi, Jun 10, 2006)
Water resources planning and their optimal and judicious utilization is an important factor in water conservation not only for meeting the needs of the ever-growing population but also to maintain a water stock for future generations.
- U.S. Air Strike Kills Al Qaeda's Zarqawi In Iraq (Reuters, MARIAM KAROUNY, Jun 09, 2006)
U.S. warplanes killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda leader in Iraq blamed for bombings, beheadings and assassinations, in a strike which President George W. Bush said on Thursday had delivered justice.
- Peace Talks Clouded By Army-Ltte Blamegame (Pioneer, Reuters, Jun 09, 2006)
Sri Lanka's Government and Tamil Tiger rebels accused each other of attacks on Thursday, as talks on the safety of the island's Nordic unarmed ceasefire monitoring mission began in Oslo.
- Security Forces Claim Killing 3 Naxals (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2006)
Patrol party attacked during the ninth phase of Panchayat polls in Bihar
- Building Trust (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jun 09, 2006)
Does one need any evidence of the positive fall-out of confidence-building measures between India and Pakistan so far?
- Israel Assassinates Top Activist (Jordan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2006)
Four Palestinians including paramilitary group leader Jamal Abu Samhadana were killed Thursday in an Israeli air strike on a training camp in the south of Gaza, medical and Palestinian sources said, Agence France-Presse reported.
- Indonesia: Quake And Politics (Frontline, P.S. Suryanarayana, Jun 09, 2006)
Indonesia has hardly gone off the international community's natural disaster monitors since the horrific Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004. So, when a powerful earthquake hit Indonesia's Yogyakarta and Central Java region on May 27, the alarm . . .
- Being Indian Doesn't Count (Pioneer, Tarun Vijay, Jun 09, 2006)
It is distressing to see the 'politically-correct' media leaving Kashmiri Hindus at the mercy of Islamists, says Tarun Vijay
- Chennai Gangster Shot Dead (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2006)
A notorious gangster wanted in connection with the murder of an AIADMK functionary was shot dead by the Chennai Police in an encounter on the outskirts of the city in the early hours of Wednesday...
- Lurking Threat (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jun 08, 2006)
A spate of incidents during the last 24 hours shows the multi-dimensional threat of terror lurking across the State.
- Will Soccer World Cup Foster Peace? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 08, 2006)
The soccer World Cup is coming. ESPN, which will broadcast most of the games in the US, is airing a series of ads with members of the rock band U2. In one, Bono says that the World Cup ``closes the schools, closes the shops, closes a city and stops a war.
- 100 Killed In Congo Ferry Fire (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2006)
The ferry was travelling south from Uvira to Kalemie with several tonnes of freight, including barrels of oil and petrol, when the engine caught fire, United Nations-run Radio Okapi reported.
- Traps In A System? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 08, 2006)
You will have to look into the lives of hundreds of such students in our country, incidents that occur at the same time, every year, to see a pattern is emerging in a disturbing fabric.
- India Promises To Restart Work On Projects In Nepal (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2006)
With the political situation in Nepal under transformation, India today agreed to restart work on three high-value projects that includes cross border rail links and building a road network in the Terai region.
- Jihadi Leaders Roaming Free In Pak: Saran (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2006)
Noting that Pakistan is not trying to control ‘jihadi’ leaders roaming free on its soil, India has said that confidence between the two countries cannot be built in such circumstances.
- Watering Down Pak Tantrums (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 08, 2006)
The Indus Water Treaty is biased in Pakistan’s favour and leaves room for misinterpretation. Time, India insisted on its review
- Defiance Of Sc (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 08, 2006)
The manner in which Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy has been trying to circumvent the Supreme Court’s April 21 order on the execution of the prestigious Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor project is highly deplorable.
- China To ‘Seed’ Clouds For Olympics (Statesman, Clifford Coonan, Jun 08, 2006)
Ravaged by a seven-year drought and choked by poisonous dust storms, China will “seed” the clouds looming over its cities with rockets and chemical pellets to bring welcome rain and clear polluted skies for the Olympics in 2008.
- Inflationary Pressure Bad For Commonman (Daily Excelsior, Sisir Basu, Jun 08, 2006)
The latest bulletin issued by the Reserve Bank of India on May 26 cautions the Government against the rising graph of inflation, which touched 4.75 per cent against 3.75 per cent in the previous month.
- Reliance Energy Plans $13 Bln Projects (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2006)
Reliance Energy Ltd. is pursuing power projects worth 600 billion rupees ($13 billion) and plans a foray into nuclear energy, Chairman Anil Ambani told shareholders on Wednesday.
- 'A Dangerous Trend' (OutLook, Mahesh Bhatt, Jun 08, 2006)
'Do not forget that student wing of Congress party, the NSUI has also opposed Fanaa in Gujarat and my petition also includes that,' argues the outspoken film director, reiterating also that 'it is wrong and illogical for the states to ban Da Vinci . . .
- Shattered Hymns (OutLook, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2006)
Indonesia's Hindu heritage suffers as a quake hits home
- Explaining The Sensex (The Financial Express, KIRAN VAIDYA, Jun 08, 2006)
Just about a month ago, India was the ultimate destination for investors across the world. The index kept breaking all records and touched an all-time high of 12,600.
- Will The Budget Promises Be Realised? (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Jun 08, 2006)
What we have for 2006-07 is a true election year budget. President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz have been making no bones about it in its preparation stage.
- Time To End Human Trafficking (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 08, 2006)
The trafficking of men, women and children is a bane Pakistan must firmly curb.
- Yangtze Cofferdam Gone In Seconds (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 07, 2006)
Demolition of the last cofferdam protecting the just-completed main wall of the Three Gorges Dam (photograph left), the world’s largest, started this afternoon in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, China’s longest, with explosives enough to . . .
- Jihad Of Several Kinds (Dawn, Hafizur Rahman, Jun 07, 2006)
IF I had the authority I would ban the use of the word “jihad” except for jihad proper.
- A Way Back Home (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jun 07, 2006)
Families of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists hope the round-table conference will help them return home.
- Dead Certainties In Wartime (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Jun 07, 2006)
ON July 25, 1950, American soldiers in No Gun Ri, about 100 miles south of Seoul, were driven from nearby villages and herded towards a railroad embankment in front of the US lines.
- Is There A Way Out? (News International, M B NAQVI, Jun 07, 2006)
The writer is a veteran journalist and freelance columnist.
- What Lies Hidden In The Footnotes Of The Past (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 07, 2006)
Tapan Raychaudhuri considers ways in which a legacy of mutual ill will can be transformed through honesty, memory and good sense The author is former professor of modern Indian history at the University of Oxford
- Energy Conservation For Sustainable Growth (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jun 07, 2006)
Energy efficiency, as a concept, became a part of the public discussion in the West in the early seventies.
- Severed Heads Found In Fruit Box In Iraq (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 07, 2006)
Two men were killed and seven wounded as insurgents fired three mortars which crashed near the interior ministry building, security officials and medics said.
- Stock Market Mayhem (Frontline, V. Sridhar, Jun 07, 2006)
Foreign institutional investors, who have a stranglehold on the stock markets, trigger the utter volatility of May
- Heal Thyself (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jun 07, 2006)
It is a matter of immense relief that no casualty has occurred in the fire that engulfed a ward in this city's prestigious Sri Maharaja Gulab Singh (SMGS) Hospital on Monday.
- Five Elements (Deccan Herald, PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA, Jun 07, 2006)
Existence or Cosmos is made up of the five elements that are – Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether.
- Ebay Users Need To Be Streetwise (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 07, 2006)
The man in charge of fraud-busting at internet auction company eBay is under no illusion as to the scale of the challenge.
- A Relief-Oriented Budget (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 07, 2006)
The Rs 1.5 trillion budget for the year 2006-07 announced by Minister of State for Finance Omar Ayub Khan on Monday envisages relief and subsidies besides providing for socio-economic development.
- Agni-Iii Launch In August Or September (Hindu, T.S. Subramanian, Jun 07, 2006)
With a range of 3,500 km, it is the most powerful missile built by India
The launch, slated for January or February, was postponed because of Bush's visit
The gap will be utilised to test the new technologies in Agni-III
- Sui Plant Closed As Blast Hits Pipeline: Vast Region Affected (Dawn, Saleem Shahid, Jun 07, 2006)
Gas supply to vast areas in the country was suspended late on Tuesday evening when the main compressor plant at Sui was closed after the main pipeline feeding the plant was blown up.
- 'Pravin Had Cautioned Pramod About Wayward Son' (Times of India, S Balakrishnan, Jun 07, 2006)
Sarangi Mahajan, the 38-year-old mystery woman dragged into the vortex of an unfolding bizarre family drama that has claimed the life of the family patriarch, Pramod Mahajan, and left his son, Rahul, behind bars on charges of drug abuse, spoke to . . .
- Nepal Without Strings (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Jun 06, 2006)
End the paternalism that marks New Delhi’s ties with Kathmandu
- Pak Increases Defence Budget To Rs 250 Bn (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2006)
Aiming to acquire high-tech equipment, Pakistan on Monday increased its defence budget from Rs 223.5 billion to Rs 250 billion even as the country's military spending last year shot up by nearly Rs 18 billion rupees.
- Islamic Militia Lays Siege To Mogadishu (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2006)
An Islamic militia that wants to establish a fundamentalist government in Somalia said on Monday that it has seized control of the capital, after weeks of some of the bloodiest fighting in 15 years of anarchy in this Horn of Africa nation.
- Illegal Turns Legal (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 06, 2006)
Election time is the time for politicians to remember that they have some voters to take care of, whom they had neglected during the past four years or so.
- Dissent Dogs Koirala’S India Visit (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Jun 06, 2006)
Nepal’s brief honeymoon with India seems to be over with the kingdom’s left parties, known for their deep distrust of New Delhi, expressing suspicions about the Indian government’s intentions on the eve of Nepali Prime Minister Girija Prasad . . .
- French Translation Of The Two Great Epics (Hindu, AUROGEETA DAS, Jun 06, 2006)
Attentive readers of Serge Demetrian's Le Ramayana and Le Mahabharata will find clues that reveal their oral source. Demetrian has translated the two great epics into French from oral narratives, particularly those recounted in Kancheepuram.
- Agni-Iii Test Will Not Upset Peace Equation In The Region: Us (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2006)
The US on Monday allayed apprehensions that it was putting pressure on India to refrain from test firing its Agni-III intercontinental ballistic missile and said the test will not be a destabilising factor in the region where several other . . .
- India's Charge Baseless: Pakistan (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Jun 06, 2006)
More needs to be done to curb terrorism: Shiv Shankar Menon
New Delhi has not provided evidence to back its accusations
Manmohan unlikely to visit Pakistan this summer
People-to-people contacts and CBMs should continue: Menon
- Handshake Over The Himalayas (Business Standard, Ajai Shukla, Jun 06, 2006)
The road starts winding upwards even before leaving Gangtok. We will climb more than 8,000 feet in the 55 kilometres that separate Sikkim’s capital from the towering 14,000 foot border post of Nathu La.
- Don’T Equate Booty With Brilliance (The Financial Express, Mahesh Bhatt, Jun 06, 2006)
Wealth is based on insights. A nation’s growth turns on one key factor, which is, its openness to new ideas and its ability to mobilise and harness the creative energies of its people. Regardless of industry or profession, our future value will . . .
- 'Your Navy Is World Class' (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2006)
Admiral Gary Roughead heads the world's largest combined fleet command, covering 102 million square miles and more than 190 ships and submarines, 1,400 aircraft, 191,000 sailors and Marines and 30,000 civilians.
- Not The Last Word (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jun 06, 2006)
It is obvious that the last word has not yet been heard about the Hill Kaka relief scam.
- Last Salute (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 06, 2006)
Hero's death must inspire Bihar ---- The heroic resistance and martyrdom of retired DIG Anil Kumar Singh - shot and killed while taking on a band of robbers in an epic but doomed solo struggle on the Lokmanya Tilak Express in Patna on Sunday, . . .
- Lc Polls May Lead Parties To Clash (Deccan Herald, B S Satish Kumar , Jun 06, 2006)
The Legislature Council polls may have been a good chance for the AIPJD leader Mr Siddaramaiah to settle scores with JDS
- Economic Survey: Decline In Farm Growth (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 06, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the national economy is moving forward satisfactorily despite oil prices crunch and October 8 massive earthquake.
- State Of The Economy (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jun 06, 2006)
Released on Sunday, the Economic Survey of Pakistan 2005-06 tends to present a very rosy and positive picture.
- Ltte Cadres In Batticaloa Jail Break (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2006)
Eight inmates, among them three cadres of the Liberation Tigers for Tamil Eelam (LTTE), walked out of Batticaloa prison last morning after threatening the guards, Prisons Chief Maj. Gen. (retd) Vajira Wijegoonewardene said.
- ‘Pakistani Factor’ In Canada Terrorism (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jun 05, 2006)
Twelve Pakistanis and Bangladeshis have been arrested in Canada before they could allegedly cause an explosion three-times bigger than the one in Oklahoma by the American terrorist Timothy McVeigh in 1995.
- Toddler From Pok Enters India (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Jun 05, 2006)
Detained by immigration officials at Wagah
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