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Articles 4121 through 4220 of 53943:
- ‘Migration Of Medicos Affects Healthcare In Poor Nations’ (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 07, 2006)
Migration of doctors, nurses and midwives from poor countries, where healthcare systems are already in bad shape due to under-funding, to wealthier countries is creating “unprecedented” healthcare crisis in migrants’ own nations, a new UN report . . .
- Putting The Small First (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 07, 2006)
Studies suggest the scale of the problem of AIDS in rural areas has largely been left out.
- Taai Keen On Packaging Tourism Products In State (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 07, 2006)
Plans to give big thrust to domestic tourism industry
- It’S Tough Doing Business In India: Ifc (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 07, 2006)
Doing business is not so easy in India as the country is way down at the 134th position in a list of 174 countries, ranked by International Finance Corporation (IFC) on various parameters of business environment.
- 11th Plan To Focus On Inter-Linking Of Forest Managements (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 07, 2006)
Management planning for protected areas would be a priority in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan and each sanctuary or national park would be facilitated to maintain a database of information on its biodiversity and habitat status.
- Surprise Surprise! Pm Calls Up Ahmedinejad (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 07, 2006)
In a surprise diplomatic move almost a year after India joined leading Western countries to vote against Iran’s nuclear programme in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on September 24, 2005, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Wednesday . . .
- Indo-Pak Dialogue Likely To Get Boost In Havana (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Sep 06, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf will breathe new life into the peace process in Havana next week, with back channels active to work out a common meeting ground to give new impetus to the talks.
- Towards Synergy In Energy (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 06, 2006)
India’s energy policies adopted so far have fostered inefficiencies in the production and use of energy. We pay the highest prices for energy, in purchasing power parity terms.
- India Trying To Destabilise Pakistan (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 06, 2006)
Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam has accused India of trying to destabilise Pakistan by using the Afghan territory for its nefarious activities.
- Afghanistan: No Ray Of Hope (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Sep 06, 2006)
The main groups of ... conspiratorial paramilitary organisations are fighting against the Afghan people from bases and strongholds in Pakistan and Iran...”
- This Meddling Must Stop (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 06, 2006)
It is a matter of concern that India should have chosen to stoke the fire in Balochistan by sending arms and ammunition to the militants. On Monday, while President Musharraf informed a high-level meeting about the routes through which terrorists . . .
- Where Blair Has Gone (Indian Express, Anita Inder Singh, Sep 06, 2006)
Thanks to Prime Minister Tony Blair, ill-equipped and overstretched British troops are involved, along with the American armed forces, in an illegal and unwinnable war in Iraq.
- Nitish’S Tight Rope Walk (Indian Express, Shaibal Gupta, Sep 06, 2006)
On August 24 Nitish Kumar completed nine months as chief minister of Bihar. A day earlier, the HSBC (Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) inaugurated its 44th branch in Patna; two days later, the tenders for building the roads of Patna were opened.
- Harvard, Duke And Syracuse Will Help Upgrade Ias Officers (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Three top US universities offering courses in governance and leadership will tie up with three Indian institutions to help upgrade the skills of India’s top bureaucrats in what is the first-ever official mid-career training programme meant to . . .
- Foreign Faculty Hiring Scheme (New Indian Express, Editorial, The News International, Sep 06, 2006)
The chairman of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) recently said that the HEC's foreign faculty hiring programme had managed to create a dent in the brain drain that was taking place in Pakistan.
- A Taste Of Its Own Medicine (Pioneer, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 06, 2006)
In eliminating Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, Pakistan may have scored a tactical victory but it has, in the process, jeopardised its long-term interests.
- Reliance Comm Launches Falcon Submarine Cable (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Reliance Communications Ltd, top-ranked CDMA-mobile services carrier, inaugurated an undersea cable on Tuesday aimed at providing cheaper bandwidth to retail and commercial users.
- Bugti's Death And Musharraf (Daily Excelsior, Atul Cowshish, Sep 06, 2006)
True to his own prediction (an NDTV interview in April), the 79-year-old Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti met his end, tragically, at the hands of the Pakistani military, which had launched a fierce attack, complete with heavy weapons and helicopters . . .
- Accept N-Deal, Don’T Keep Bomb’ (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Hailing New Delhi’s track record as a non-proliferator, former US secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Tuesday expressed support to the civil Nuclear deal but indicated her disapproval to India’s possessing Nuclear weapon capability.
- Pm Urged To Identify 'Mole' Stalling Developmental Projects (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
The National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), a Gujarat-based NGO in the forefront of opposing Medha Patkar-led campaign against the Sardar Sarovar dam, has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to identify the "mole" allegedly planted by . . .
- Arab League, Time To Fold? (Deccan Herald, P R KUMARASWAMY, Sep 06, 2006)
Just days before the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1701 in a rare public outburst, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, castrated the UN for it’s “foot-dragging and impotence” in failing to enforce a ceasefire in Lebanon.
- Another Ill-Timed Move (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Sep 06, 2006)
The waiver of duty on wheat imports undertaken by private parties, announced by the food and agriculture minister Sharad Pawar even before the finance ministry could issue the notification, is another of the series of mis-timed moves by the . . .
- Train To Lhasa (Pioneer, Claude Arpi, Sep 06, 2006)
China has adopted draconian security measures on the newly inaugurated Qinghai-Tibet railway, despite no cases of sabotage en route, says Claude Arpi.
- Bush, Quoting Bin Laden, Warns Of Iraqi Caliphate (Reuters, Steve Holland, Sep 06, 2006)
In a speech laced with quotes from Osama bin Laden, U.S. President George W. Bush said on Tuesday that five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, al Qaeda wants to set up a violent, radical Islamic caliphate based in Iraq and vowed he would . . .
- Mid-Term Evaluation Of Upa (Pioneer, BULBUL ROY MISHRA, Sep 06, 2006)
Government has performed miserably on almost all fronts, the most glaring of them being its inability to tackle terrorism and crime, says Bulbul Roy Mishra.
- Blow For Justice (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Sep 06, 2006)
The Supreme Court has dealt a blow for justice by shifting the trial of 14 accused in Srinagar's high-profile "sex scandal" to Chandigarh. This will come as a major relief to those who feel that they have been wrongly implicated.
- Iraqi President Sees Uk Troops Gone By 2007 (Reuters, Alastair Macdonald, Sep 06, 2006)
Iraq's president forecast on Tuesday that British troops could go home by the end of next year but, on another day of killings, Britain's visiting foreign minister cautioned against leaving a "security vacuum".
- Shashi Tharoor Fears North-South Split (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
A candidate for the top job at the United Nations said that, if chosen, he would seek to heal divisions between wealthy and developing countries over reform of the world organisation.
- Nasa Clears Shuttle For Launch Attempt On Wednesday (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Nasa managers have cleared space shuttle Atlantis for a launch attempt tomorrow after a week's delay due to a lightning strike and a storm, officials with the US space agency said.
- Iran's Delaying Diplomacy (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 06, 2006)
Tehran continues to toughen or soften its stand on the nuclear issue, depending on world response, without being serious about it
- How They Love To Stereotype Asians (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Sep 06, 2006)
The Molly Campbell case is a family dispute that has sparked off a media frenzy simply because of the religion and ethnicity of those involved.
- Style, Substance, And Character (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 06, 2006)
When, in 1986, Andre Agassi burst on the tennis scene with pigeon-toed gait, peroxide blond hair, and clothes that glowed in the dark, hardened tennis writers were unanimous that this image-obsessed teenage rebel of Armenian-Iranian, Assyrian, and . . .
- Rbi Tightens Screws On Terror Funding (Tribune, Ajay Banerjee, Sep 06, 2006)
Sources and channels of funding to terrorism have been put under a scanner in India. Authorities concerned have been asked to keep a tab on money transfers that may be used to route the money to fund the “terror-factory” of the dreaded Al-Qaida . . .
- Taking Off (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 06, 2006)
Although Delhi didn't quite succeed as a world-class metropolis, its airport could do so in a few years from now — as an international state-of-the-art aerotropolis, the high-tech 21st century term coined for cities built around air travel hubs.
- Imf Is Still The Rich World's Viceroy (Hindu, George Monbiot, Sep 06, 2006)
What will be passed off as a democratisation is, in fact, a way of ensuring the poor global majority continues to have no say.
- Indo-French Missile Pact Signing Put Off (Daily Excelsior, A.N. Dar, Sep 06, 2006)
The signing of a crucial Indo-French agreement on transfer of technology for production of French cruise missiles by India was put off owing to last-minute hitches, official sources said today.
- Portable Personal Computers Target The Movie-Mad (Hindu, Anand Parthasarathy, Sep 06, 2006)
Laptops launched in India enable owners to watch and record TV, cinema; Linux version of PowerCinema.
- Vhp Issues Call On `Vande Mataram' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
The controversy over the recitation of `Vande Mataram' further deepened on Tuesday with the Vishwa Hindu Parishad international president, Ashok Singhal, asking the opponents of the national song to "leave this country."
- War Ends But Not Lebanon's Misery (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Sep 06, 2006)
Unexploded ordnance and bombed out power stations make life miserable.
- Legitimacy Issues In Electricity Regulation (Hindu, Sudha Mahalingam, Sep 06, 2006)
The regulatory arena is an asymmetric forum wherein the utilities have all the advantages and the consumers none. And regulators themselves often remain aloof, making a virtue of equidistance from all stakeholders.
- Magnificence Restored (Hindu, S. MUTHIAH , Sep 06, 2006)
How Chennai's Senate House, a beautiful landmark building in the Indo-Saracenic style, was restored to its original glory.
- Book Rack (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 06, 2006)
The book for every English-Speaking Indian; Jyoti Sanyal (Viva Books, 2006, pp 394, Rs 295) Clumsy Victorian English hangs like a dead albatross around each educated Indian’s neck.
- India’S N-Power Status ‘Troubles’ Albright (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright on Tuesday expressed support for the Indo-US civil nuclear energy cooperation deal despite being troubled by India’s de facto nuclear power status.
- Troops To Stay In Lebanon (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
As the United Nations redoubles its endeavours to restore a durable cease-fire along the 70-mile "Blue Line" between Israel and Lebanon, India in all probability will not pull out from the strengthened UN force in Lebanon or the . . .
- Global Air Fares To Dip With New Players Joining Indian Skies (Times of India, Byas Anand, Sep 06, 2006)
The overseas traveller’s honeymoon with lower air fares seems set for another boost this winter.
- S S Menon, Who Served In Israel, China And Pak, Is New Foreign Secy (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Sep 06, 2006)
In appointing India’s current envoy to Pakistan, Shiv Shankar Menon, as the next Foreign Secretary, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has engineered a rare moment in the South Block.
- Start Adapting To Climate Change (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 06, 2006)
Almost all the discussion of climate change up to now has been about prevention, which, though important, is not enough. Climate change is going to happen, and we need to think more about adapting to it.
- No End To Terrorism (Tribune, Anita Inder Singh, Sep 06, 2006)
At first it may seem surprising that extremists inspired by Pakistan had a hand in the London bombings of 7/7 last year and the recent attempts to blow up aeroplanes leaving British airports for the United States.
- Too Late For Havana (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Sep 06, 2006)
The announcement last week that Shiv Shankar Menon would become the next foreign secretary on October 1 was the right decision at the wrong time.
- Pak Should Shut Down Terror Camps: Paper (Tribune, Arun Kumar Jain, Sep 06, 2006)
Saying there were ‘‘dangerous international terrorists’’ hiding in Pakistan, the New York Times has suggested that among the ‘‘crucial things’’ that Islamabad could do was to ‘‘permanently shut down’’ Kashmiri terrorist groups based on its soil.
- India-Pakistan Talks: The Way Forward (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
During my recent week-long stay in New Delhi, I met a broad section of politicians and discussed the current deadlock in India-Pakistan talks with them.
- The Great American Oligarchy (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 05, 2006)
I never thought I'd ever hear the United States of America called an "oligarchy”. But now I have. My dictionary says an oligarchy is a form of government where most or all political power effectively rests with a small segment of the society.
- Worsening Situation In Afghanistan (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 05, 2006)
Nato’s military spokesman in Kabul has said that about 200 suspected Taliban and four Canadian soldiers were killed in a major operation in southern Afghanistan. Afghan Defence Ministry spokesman said that air strikes and ground offensive have been . . .
- Shift In Us Public Opinion (Dawn, M.J. Akbar, Sep 05, 2006)
America has returned to 1968. On August 31, a vital deadline at the very top of George Bush’s agenda passed, and no one died at the deadline. Instead, the intended victim was frisky to the point of being cocky.
- Through The Third Eye (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 05, 2006)
Check-up, not check-in, is the new buzzword at ITDC’s flagship Hotel Ashok. The PSU’s chairman and managing director, Parvez Devan, has done something no hotel in India has thought of: tie-ups that would enable the hotel to provide its guests . . .
- America And The Oil Slick (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Sep 05, 2006)
If Iranian President Ahmadinejad is serious about opening a Euro-based oil bourse in Tehran to undermine the US dollar, now is the time to strike. Strategic experts believe that internationally, the mega strategic energy deals are slipping . . .
- Jihadis In The Yard (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 05, 2006)
Those looking for macabre humour in the unfolding drama of Britain discovering that its council estates in London and elsewhere have become fertile breeding ground for jihadis who are willing to commit mass murder in the name of Islam will find it . . .
- Iran Snubs Annan Concerns On Twisting Holocaust Horror (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
The UN chief got little satisfaction at the close of his trip to Tehran, snubbed by Iran's leader over international demands to stop enriching uranium and ignored of warnings not to incite hatred by questioning the Holocaust.
- Rift Over Disinvestment (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 05, 2006)
Prime minister Manmohan Singh’s government has stopped disinvestment of public sector undertakings (PSUs) but issues of policy and processes remain to be resolved as shown by the dispute over the sale of Bharat Aluminium Company (Balco).
- Lobbyists On Overdrive As Us Senate Reconvenes (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Come Tuesday, and the race for getting the India-US civil nuclear cooperation deal through the Senate begins gathering urgency, with only a month left before Congress adjourns for the November mid-term elections.
- India To Focus On Latin America, Africa (Daily Excelsior, Pallab Bhattacharya, Sep 05, 2006)
In his Independence Day speech this year, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said one of the thrust areas of India's foreign policy would be Latin America and Africa. This has been on the cards for quite some time and Singh's announcement could not have . . .
- Murder In Iraq (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 05, 2006)
Iraq is in the ridiculous situation where the Pentagon (headed by super-hawk Donald Rumsfeld) says the country is on the verge of a civil war but US President Bush says just the opposite.
- Peace Process May Figure During Singh-Musharraf Meet (Press Trust of India, K J M Varma, Sep 05, 2006)
The Indo-Pak peace process and related issues may come up for discussion during the likely meeting between Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the NAM summit in Havana later this month.
- The Nuclear Deterrent Interest Of Iran (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 05, 2006)
Historically speaking, among the more important international events in the 1950s was the First International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy held in Vienna in 1955.
- Knowledge And The Asian Challenge (Business Line, Jayati Ghosh, Sep 05, 2006)
The scorching pace of expansion in exports of hi-tech manufactured products from China and software and IT-enabled services from India, has supported the view that `knowledge capital' plays a crucial role in the growing global presence of these . . .
- Mentor Musings (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 05, 2006)
Teachers — the single most unfathomable species on earth. You love them, even with their ominous red ink, the obnoxious choosing of favourites, and the generous doling out of punishments.
- On Teachers’ Day, Let’S Draw Up Some New Timetables (Indian Express, Kanti Bajpai, Sep 05, 2006)
On this special day, let’s ask ourselves: why does teaching not attract more talent? We proclaim great respect for teachers.
- 'Crocodile Hunter' Dead (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the "Crocodile Hunter", was killed on Monday by a stingray while filming on the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.
- Duty-Free Wheat May Cost Govt Rs 90 Cr (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar could end up raising wheat prices further and cost the exchequer an estimated Rs 90 crore.
- Peace Process Set To Resume, Pm To Meet Mush In Havana (Times of India, Indrani Bagchi, Sep 05, 2006)
It's inevitable — after the chill, a thaw is on the way. When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf meet in Havana for a formal kiss-and-make-up session next week, India may indicate the end of the present diplomatic . . .
- The Slip Show (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 05, 2006)
As designer Ma-nish Malhotra took a bow on Sunday at Delhi’s hotel Grand, it was finally curtains for the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW). Since it’s inception in 2000, it’s the eighth edition of the event, and of the four that . . .
- Iconic Steve Irwin Dies In Action (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Australian crocodile hunter killed in `freak' stingray attack off the Queensland coast.
- Diplomacy And Development (Hindu, C. T. Kurien, Sep 05, 2006)
Exploration of the symbiotic relationship between economic policy and foreign policy .
- An Ace Called Agassi (Indian Express, Sandeep Dwivedi, Sep 05, 2006)
For an entire generation that got initiated into international tennis through Doordarshan’s Grand Slam final telecast four times a year, this Sunday brought a wave of nostalgia. Reading ‘A Agassi vs B Becker’ on the Centre Court scoreboard at the . . .
- Relevance Of Nonalignment (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Sep 05, 2006)
Prime minister Manmohan Singh will be attending the 14th Nonaligned Summit in Havana on September 15 and 16.
- Give Varsities Autonomy: Kalam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Urges State government to integrate all varsities under the virtual university system
Wants high bandwidth made free
Recalls his university days.
- 32 Boys Working On Foreign Ships Go Missing (Tribune, Manoj Kumar, Sep 05, 2006)
Thirty-two Indian boys recruited by different shipping companies have gone missing over the past nine months. They have allegedly been killed by an international mafia working in the smuggling of narcotics and human organs.
- Pak Activities Along Loc Discussed (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Sep 05, 2006)
The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) discussed the activities of Pakistan Army along the Line of Control at its meeting on September 2.
- A Way Forward For Higher Education (Hindu, G. ANANTHAKRISHNAN, Sep 05, 2006)
After the introduction of neo-liberal reforms, various sectors of the economy have grown at a rapid pace, generating great demand for trained manpower.
- Webster University Begins Enrolment For Indian Students (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
University's Bangkok centre aims at increasing student strength
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