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- Road To Prosperity (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 07, 2006)
Nathu-la opening bodes well for Sikkim
- Ex-Naval Commander Grilled In Spy Ring Case (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Authorities probing the spy ring at the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) have taken former Naval Commander Mukesh Saini, who earlier headed a key cell in the prestigious organisation, into custody for questioning about his alleged links . . .
- Sell-Off Put On Hold (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
In a blow to the Manmohan Singh government’s disinvestment programme, the Prime Minister was today forced to “put all disinvestment decisions and proposals on hold”, including the Centre’s recent decision to divest 10 per cent of its stakes in the . . .
- Quota Expert Groups Submit Interim Report (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
The five expert groups constituted to give inputs to the Oversight Committee on quotas headed by Congress leader Mr Veerappa Moily are learnt to have submitted their interim reports.
- Eu, Iran Talk Amid Rising Concerns (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Iran postponed talks with the EU's foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Brussels on Wednesday in apparent anger at an exiled opposition leader's visit to the European parliament.
- ‘Provoked’ Usa Desperately Seeking China (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Multilateral efforts are rapidly being enlisted to help diplomatically resolve the international crisis triggered by the latest North Korean missile launch.
- Elbaradei Wants Iran To Hurry Up (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
The international community is growing impatient and Iran should respond promptly and positively to an international proposal to ease concerns over its nuclear programme, the head of the UN’s nuclear monitoring agency said today.
- Ramadoss Sits On Ego As Patients Die Outside Hospitals (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
With Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss making his ego an issue, patient care in the Capital has been hit hard with all the Government hospitals across the city shutting down. As OPD and emergency services across the city came to a halt, the . . .
- Sc To Hear Pvt Colleges’ Plea Against Kerala Quota Today (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
The Supreme Court will hear on Friday a petition filed by Kerala Self Financing Engineering Colleges Association challenging the controversial 93rd Constitution amendment extending reservation for socially and educationally backward classes to . . .
- 50 Yrs Ago, Govt Said: ‘Future Of Aiims In The Hands Of Director, Staff, Students’ (Indian Express, Seema Chisti, Jul 07, 2006)
February 18, 1956 was an ordinary day in the history of India’s Parliament but much more than that for medical sciences in the country. On that day as the Health Minister in Jawaharlal Nehru’s cabinet, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, rose to move . . .
- Pipeline Projects: A Lot Of Gas? (Pioneer, Dmitri Kosyrev, Jul 07, 2006)
Central Asia is coming alive to the exciting possibilities of energy diplomacy, but there are the obvious roadblocks, says Dmitri Kosyrev
- Nepal Govt's Un Move Irks Maoists (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
The United Nations has acknowledged receiving a formal request from Nepal's government to help in the peace process, paving the way for UN monitoring of the current cease-fire and eventual constituent assembly elections, even as the Maoists objected . . .
- Defiant North Korea Flexes Missile Muscle (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
A defiant North Korea today acknowledged for the first time that it had launched several missiles, vowed to carry out more tests and threatened to use force if the international community tried to stop it.
- ‘Manmohan Treats Cmp With Contempt’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 07, 2006)
The latest move of the UPA government (on disinvestment of) profit-making PSUs through sale of minority share holding is an outright misdemeanor. Not only does this move flouts the CMP, but also the intention behind such a move at this point of time . . .
- Ken Lay’S Last Evasion (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 07, 2006)
Ah, Kenneth Lay of Enron: America hardly knew you before your trial, but learned after your big-hammer jury conviction that you had left countless suckers broke, employees cheated and stockholders betrayed.
- How To Help Neighbours (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 07, 2006)
The political turmoil in Timor Leste, which has led to the ouster of its Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri and plans for national elections for a new government, may not be exactly hot news to Indians, but it underlies a growing debate about intervention . . .
- La La Land (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 07, 2006)
Thinking small comes instinctively to the Indian establishment. Nothing else explains India’s timid approach to the renewal of trade between Tibet and Sikkim at Nathu La. For all the breathless TV reporting on rebuilding the ‘silk routes’ between . . .
- Nathu La Helps To Redefine Borders (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 07, 2006)
During a recent visit to Nathu La pass recently, my students and I learnt some important lessons in diplomacy and strategy.
- Steel Baron Mittal To Meet Pm Today (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Steel baron Lakshmi Mittal, on his first visit to India after acquiring world no.2 steel firm Arcelor, will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday and share a platform with state-owned ONGC, with whom he is stitching a partnership for overseas . . .
- Ifra Board Visits Infosys (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
The Members of the Board and Senators of IFRA, an international association of publishers and suppliers, visited the Infosys campus at Electronic City and held interactions with Infosys Chairman and Chief Mentor N R Narayana Murthy and Chief . . .
- Cm Invites Leela To Build Hotel In Hampi (Deccan Herald, B S Arun, Jul 07, 2006)
Mr Kumaraswamy held a discussion with the Leela Palace and Resorts Chairman C P Krishnan Nair in Mumbai on his way to Dubai for an investors’ meet recently.
- Bandwagon Partners (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 07, 2006)
We are witnessing a curious spectacle in Indian politics.
- Shanghai Spirit (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Jul 07, 2006)
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's fifth summit points to increasing solidarity.
- Running Amok (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 07, 2006)
Along with HRD minister Arjun Singh, health minister Anbumani Ramadoss appears to have donned the mantle of Don Quixote in the Union cabinet. Ramadoss led the double-barrelled charge against smoking in films.
- Who Is Perpetuating Reservation In Jobs? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 07, 2006)
In a bizarre turn, the Union Public Service Commission and the Department of Personnel and Training have transformed the policy of reservation into a policy of communal awards. They have treated general seats as seats reserved for people belonging . . .
- Ruling Party Plays Down Musharraf's `Ready To Call It Quits' Statement (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Jul 07, 2006)
President was only speaking in jest: ruling party leader
Government requested newspapers not to publish the remarks
Musharraf had more than hinted that he is looking for another term
- Colombo Rejects Ltte Charge (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Jul 07, 2006)
It is a "genuine attempt" to carry forward the peace process
- Japan Urges Us To Speed Up Missile Shield Plan (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Japan's defence chief said on Thursday that Tokyo wants to speed up efforts to establish a missile defence shield with the United States to guard against the threat posed by North Korea.
- Behind The Smile, Unknown Future (Pioneer, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Jul 07, 2006)
When the Himalayas were being blasted to lay the Darjeeling road, a percipient old Tibetan remarked to the British deputy commissioner, "Sahib, the sound of that powder is heard in Lhasa!" He might have said Peking, which then claimed only shadowy . . .
- Conditioned Mindset (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Jul 07, 2006)
It's our colonised way of thinking that is generating unemployment and causing non-performance of assets in the country, writes Prafull Goradia
- Venugopal Moves Court, Centre Says Please Quit (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Cornered on the issue of terminating AIIMS director P Venugopal's services abruptly on Wednesday, the Union Government on Thursday in a bid to buy more time from the Delhi High Court came up with . . .
- Assessing The Nuclear Balance Sheet (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jul 07, 2006)
The U.S. wants a decisive say in the scripting of India's safeguards and additional protocol agreements with the IAEA but is withholding "full" civil nuclear cooperation.
- Bush Push For Unified Response (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
President George W. Bush pushed today to get a united international response to North Korea after the reclusive state launched a barrage of missiles in defiance of repeated warnings.
- Sack Ramadoss, Bjp Urges Prez (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
The BJP on Thursday urged President APJ Abdul Kalam to sack Health Minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss for destroying the autonomy of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Ramadoss on . . .
- Negotiating Korea (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 07, 2006)
But isn't there a limit to blackmail? -
- N. Korea Vows To Test More Missiles (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
A defiant North Korea acknowledged for the first time today that it had launched several missiles, vowed to carry out more tests and threatened to use force if the international community tried to stop it.
- Left Lines Up Fresh Tests For Dmk (Telegraph, Monobina Gupta, Jul 07, 2006)
Its heroics on the Neyveli Lignite controversy don’t seem to have earned the DMK too many brownie points from the Left.
- As The Nation Goes, So Goes The Popular (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 07, 2006)
How does one go about making sense of 21st-century India?
- Home And Away (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 07, 2006)
“There was always India though,” thought the young Iris Macfarlane, worried that she would never get a proposal, “the provider of husbands for girls and jobs for boys, our inevitable and face-saving destination.
- Blood Protest (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 07, 2006)
In India, students of English Literature rather than history may better know the Easter Rebellion of 1916.
- With Fear And Favour (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jul 07, 2006)
Stagnant rain waters swamp Bombay and bring the city to a virtual standstill; the wife of the late Parvinder Singh of Ranbaxy lodges a criminal case against her youngest brother-in-law as she and her family contest the written . . .
- Wrong Sum (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 07, 2006)
In India, callousness can go on parading as concern. And it is deeply disturbing when children’s education is the object of this hypocrisy.
- Glare & Wink Make Pm Blink (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has put all divestment proposals on hold after a threat from southern ally DMK and a nudge from Sonia Gandhi.
- Back To Talks (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 07, 2006)
Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran’s two-day visit to Sri Lanka amidst the worsening Tamil-Sinhala conflict is significant, including for the international community.
- Deconstruct, Then Panic (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jul 07, 2006)
Anno Domini 2001 is ancient times, and yet not so ancient. Early in that year, an official committee, worried over stocks of foodgrains lying with the . . .
- Untimely Investment (Deccan Herald, GAYATRI CHANDRASHEKAR, Jul 07, 2006)
Stock market investments may offer high returns, but none can deny they’re volatile
- Sharif: Kargil Was Pakistan Military's Making (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Jul 07, 2006)
"Leaders in military against talks with India"
- China Recasts Its Image (Deccan Herald, MARK MAGNIER, Jul 07, 2006)
The curious incident of the pig’s-head meal vouchers and the anthem-singing sit-in offers a cautionary tale...
- Find The Other Wealth (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 07, 2006)
Look around and you will find several rich people who are not really happy. Yet, you will find many poor people who radiate happiness wherever they go.
- Why Aids Outpaces Us (Deccan Herald, Rajashri Dasgupta, Jul 07, 2006)
PANDEMIC- India needs to examine honestly why it failed in meeting targets.
- Eyes And Ears Of The Queen (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 07, 2006)
Her majesty’s Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern British Espionage
- Eight More Districts Created In Valley (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
The Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet today decided to create eight more districts raising the number from 14 to 22 with equal share to both regions of Kashmir and Jammu surpassing the three- decade-old Wazir Commission recommendations.
- Hobson’S Choice For Pak (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Jul 07, 2006)
Pakistan has performed yeoman’s service to America vis-a-vis al-Qaeda threat
- Blame Game (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 07, 2006)
There’s no need to politicise the issue of price rise
- Israel Kills 11 In Gaza As Fighting Intensifies (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Israeli forces sharply stepped up an offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza on Thursday, fighting running battles with gunmen and killing 11 people in the worst violence since the cross-border operation began.
- ‘Shabby, Shameless, Dictatorial’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 07, 2006)
In a year when AIIMS celebrates its 50th anniversary, there is a pungent irony to Wednesday’s action.
- Games Nations Play (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Jul 07, 2006)
There is understandably a lot of consternation in the country on two espionage . . .
- Us-India Nuclear Deal: Nris Stand Proud (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Jul 07, 2006)
ANALYSIS- Hillary Clinton, while happy to raise money from Indian Americans, made no effort to support the US-India nuclear agreement, despite being the India Caucus co-chair.
- Saddam In Show Trial (Frontline, Atul Aneja , Jul 07, 2006)
Impartiality of the Saddam Hussein trial is increasingly questioned because of the active behind-the-scenes role of the United States.
- Out Of Iraq (Frontline, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Jul 07, 2006)
The Junichiro Koizumi government's decision to withdraw troops from Iraq is consistent with the mood of the Japanese people.
- Let's Just Do It (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 07, 2006)
Today, we Indians live in rare, exhilarating times. Never before in the last 1,000 years did India and Indians amount to much among foreigners as we are today. In the past, we were deemed people fit enough to be ruled by outsiders.
- But Tie Your Camel (OutLook, B. Raman , Jul 07, 2006)
The orchestrated campaign against those advising caution in the Indo-US nuke deal should be a matter of concern. The recent case of a possible CIA mole in the NSCS should temper our fascination for the US with a dose of healthy caution.
- Tata Coffee Brews Global Strategy (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
With the $220-million Eight O’Clock acquisition,Tata Coffee Limited has latched onto a "brand" that the company lacked and has vaulted the Tata group company onto a "different plane".
- Return Of Taliban (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Jul 07, 2006)
It is not only the scale of the Taliban's recent attacks but also its growing military sophistication that worries the West.
- Desperate In Guantanamo (Frontline, Vijay Prashad, Jul 07, 2006)
Law and justice, besides the many innocent prisoners at Guantanamo, are the casualties of the U.S. `war on terror'.
- Imposing Iodine (Frontline, LYLA BAVADAM, Jul 07, 2006)
The ban on non-iodised salt, reimposed this May, is criticised as being based on generalisations made by the authorities.
- E-Governance Can Ease Admission Travails (The Financial Express, S SADAGOPAN, Jul 07, 2006)
The UK has used e-governance to its advantage in college admissions, why can’t we emulate it?
- Emerging Challenges To Our Foreign Account (The Financial Express, VIVEK BHARATI, Jul 07, 2006)
The importance of electronics for managing trade deficits and generating jobs is overlooked
- Easy Money (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 07, 2006)
With companies successfully raising capital abroad, India Inc need not fear interest rate hikes as it used to.
- Complaint Against Igs Saini, Reddy Baseless: Vb (Tribune, Ajay Banerjee, Jul 07, 2006)
A complaint against two IGs of the Punjab Police — Mr Sumedh Singh Saini and Mr C.S.R. Reddy — has been found to be "baseless" by the state Vigilance Bureau. In the complaint lodged by the Chandigarh-based Lawyers for Human . . .
- Should Amcs Manage Insurance Funds? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 07, 2006)
The process of insurance involves detailed risk management techniques to arrive at the premium paid by the insured and remaining solvent to honour claims in case of eventualities.
- No Technology Straitjackets Please (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 07, 2006)
DoT has reportedly held that mobile operators cannot provide services simultaneously on GSM and CDMA platforms in a circle under one licence.
- People First (Tribune, B.G. Verghese for and Sanjay Sangvai , Jul 07, 2006)
India’s 80 million tribal population, the largest in the world, is also India’s most exploited and disadvantaged community.
- Tsunami Resource Centre To Come Up In Nellai (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
To act as interface between people, NGOs and Government agencies It will provide a vital link and serve as an interface between the people at grassroot level in Tirunelveli and Tuticorin districts and various NGOs and government agencies
- Bjp Delegation Meets Kalam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Intervene to "save" AIIMS' autonomy
Arun Jaitley is counsel for Dr. Venugopal
Vajpayee, Advani drafting a letter to President
Anbumani Ramadoss is interfering in AIIMS functioning: BJP
- Intec 2006 Industrial Trade Fair Opens Today (Hindu, A. A. Michael Raj, Jul 07, 2006)
Exhibitors from India and 11 other countries will participate
- A Web Of Confusion (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 07, 2006)
Confusion with regard to President Pervez Musharraf’s future plans seems to be getting worse confounded.
- Cpi(m) For Settling Aiims Issue Amicably (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Appeals to doctors to call off strike
- Implications Of N Korea Missile Tests (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 07, 2006)
North Korea has launched ten missiles on Wednesday evoking condemnation at the international level. Japan and US have moved the UN Security Council for sanctions against Pyongyong, while Russia and China have opposed the move and called for calm.
- China Says It Is A Good Development (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Jul 07, 2006)
Now, we are going to open the market for people of both sides
Reopening of Nathu La will also help to resolve border issue: Beijing
It is a good confidence-building measure: Saran
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