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- Make It Uniform (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 06, 2006)
The Prevention of Disqualification (Amendment) Bill, 2006, popularly known as the Office of Profit Bill, which President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has returned to Parliament for reconsideration has evoked mixed reaction.
- Sc Allows ‘Blue Lady’ To Dock (Tribune, Vibha Sharma, Jun 06, 2006)
NGOs, fighting against the entry of the Norwegian ship “Blue Lady” into the Indian territorial waters, have termed the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the controversial ship to be anchored at the Alang port in Gujarat for inspection by the Indian . . .
- Rahul Mahajan Arrested (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2006)
Rahul Mahajan, who is in the ICU of Apollo Hospital, was arrested under the NDPS Act today.
- Q&a: 'Srinagar Meet Was India Talking To India' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 06, 2006)
The Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq refused to attend the recent second round-table in Srinagar, describing it an ill-timed seminar. The Mirwaiz explains to Aditi why the Hurri-yat chose to stay away from the gathering and its roadmap . . .
- What Are The Indian President's Powers? (Hindu, Shanti Bhushan, Jun 06, 2006)
In terms of the Indian Constitution and through long-established practice, the President of India is only a figurehead like the British monarch.
- Social Dimensions Of Security (Hindu, R. K. Raghavan , Jun 06, 2006)
Pleads for a very comprehensive definition of `security' that moves away from a state-centric approach
- Efficacy Of Saranagati (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2006)
In Kali Yuga, what matters in one's spiritual effort more than strenuous and physical exertion is sincerity.
- Victims Of Exploitation (Hindu, V. Gopalakrishna, Jun 06, 2006)
ANANTAPUR DISTRICT of Rayalaseema is the worst famine-hit region in Andhra Pradesh. Added to this natural misery the exploitation of the downtrodden by landlords in the form of bonded-labour has further worsened the socio-economic condition of the . . .
- Time For A Global Conversation About Migrants (Hindu, Kofi A. Annan, Jun 06, 2006)
It is now a question of managing it better, with cooperation and understanding on all sides.
- The Pds And Eroding Food Security (Hindu, Brinda Karat, Jun 06, 2006)
The proposal to further cut down on quotas and to hike the issue prices of foodgrains in the public distribution system will spell disaster.
- Time To Talk To Iran (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 06, 2006)
For a quarter of a century, the United States has doggedly refused formally to engage Iran in anything resembling a dialogue process.
- Job Guarantee Report Card (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 06, 2006)
Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister in 1966 but it was in 1971 that she exploded on the national political scene — thanks to a single slogan that captured the mass aspiration of the time.
- Starry Holiday (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2006)
Have a brush with Bollywood for a weekend
- Governor Returns Oop Bill, Adds To Cm’S Woes (Indian Express, Manoj Prasad, Jun 06, 2006)
Jharkhand: Munda may slip if loyalists of sulking Marandi let him down over the office-of-profit Bill
- 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 . . .
- Seeing India And China Through Fresh Eyes (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 06, 2006)
The quality of media coverage of each other by the two neighbours has improved.
- No Plan To Bring In Law To Take Over Bmic: Kumaraswamy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2006)
Move causes consternation among the BJP leaders
- 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
- Solana In Iran With The Deal (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Jun 06, 2006)
Nuclear package offers incentives
- A Welfare System At Work (Hindu, Padmini Swaminathan, Jun 06, 2006)
Foregrounds the theme of care and analyses it from a gender perspective
- A Golden Opportunity To Work Against Terror: Peter Pace (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2006)
No country can, in the long run, fight terrorism alone, says Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. military
- India Fails To Comply With Basic Trafficking Norms:us (Press Trust of India, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Jun 06, 2006)
India does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but it is making "significant efforts" to do so, claims the US State Department's annual Report on Trafficking in Persons for 2006.
- 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 . . .
- The Destabilising Foreign Hand: Spectre Or Fact? (The Financial Express, ILA PATNAIK, Jun 06, 2006)
Data doesn’t quite support the belief that FIIs dominate and unmake our equity market.
- Solana In Tehran With Carrot N' Stick Package (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2006)
Iranian officials have agreed to meet on Tuesday with a senior EU representative carrying a six-nation package of rewards and penalties meant to stop Tehran's uranium enrichment program, diplomats said.
- Petrol Price Up Rs 4, Diesel Rs 2 (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2006)
LPG, kerosene untouched; integrated package includes oil bonds, duty reduction
- Iran To Get Eu’S Package Of Incentives Today (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2006)
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana will hand Iran a package of incentives on Tuesday that aim to persuade Tehran to abandon its plan to make nuclear fuel, a spokesperson for Solana said on Monday.
- Reforms Need A Competition Policy Framework (Business Line, Pradeep S. Mehta, Jun 06, 2006)
It is time the Government adopted a National Competition Policy as the mantra for implementing economic reforms
- Lunch With Bs: Subash Menon (Business Standard, Subir Roy, Jun 06, 2006)
It’s just a $40 million company, but it has made the largest acquisition by any Indian software company.
- Dare To Be Different (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2006)
ICAR’s new policy combines commercialisation of new intellectual property with provisions of benefit sharing.
- Thus Spoke Iran (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 06, 2006)
Nobody can say that the United States was not generous towards Iran. The two countries have had no diplomatic relations for the last 26 years.
- Pakistan’S Likely Shape In 2020 (Dawn, Javid Husain, Jun 06, 2006)
The hallmark of great nations is that they learn from their past experience to become wiser in conducting their current and future affairs.
- 111 Indians And Pakistanis Crossover Loc Point In J-K (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2006)
As part of intensifying confidence building measures between two sides across the Line of Control (loc), as many as 111 civilians from both sides crossed via Chakan-da-Bagh crossing point in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir today, official . . .
- Fighting For A Ball? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 06, 2006)
World Cup has been hyped so much that, when it finally arrives this Friday, it will lead to a feeling of being cheated among fans, writes Jim White.
- India-U.S. Talks: Pranab Discounts China Profile (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Jun 06, 2006)
Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday discounted that China's military profile was a matter of common interest in India-U.S. dialogue.
- Air Version Of Brahmos Missile `In Next Few Years' (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Jun 06, 2006)
Design, feasibility to incorporate missile in Sukhoi aircraft completed; to be ready for test flights by 2007
- Cotton's Tragedy (Business Standard, Sunita Narain, Jun 06, 2006)
The agriculture minister told Parliament last week that 100,000 farmers had committed suicide from 1998 to 2003, a period for which his government had data. Cotton farmers are worst hit.
- Blame It On Agriculture (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Jun 06, 2006)
The author is director, Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, New Delhi.
- Indian Americans Optimistic On N-Deal (Hindustan Times, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Jun 06, 2006)
As the US Congress returns after a recess on Monday, the Indian American community has stepped up lobbying to get co-sponsors for the civilian nuclear energy legislation pending before the Senate and the House of Representatives.
- No Confidence Motion (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 06, 2006)
Doctors treating Rahul Mahajan at Apollo Hospital have forgotten the Hippocratic oath that binds all physicians.
- Govt Lifts Fuel Prices, Higher Interest Rates Seen (Reuters, Unni Krishnan, Jun 06, 2006)
The government raised petrol and diesel prices on Monday, easing a little of the pressure on refineries saddled with losses from rising crude prices and reinforcing expectations that interest rates will rise next month.
- 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.
- China Prepares To Sinocise South-East Asia (Daily Excelsior, Rajkumar Vijayveer Vikram Singh, Jun 06, 2006)
The defence minister Pranab Mukherjee's six day China visit and signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on a host of issues, including military to military cooperation has raised a number of issues.
- Rtia : The Journey Begins (Daily Excelsior, Aruna Roy & Nikhil Dey, Jun 06, 2006)
More than six months into the implementation of the National Right to Information Act, we have stories of successes and failures, debates and complaints coming in from all parts of the country.
- Politics And The High Life (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jun 06, 2006)
The Rahul Mahajan ‘story’ is symptomatic of the all-consuming illness that has afflicted the political class.
- Cia Under Pentagon Shadow (Daily Excelsior, Tanveer Jafri, Jun 06, 2006)
After facing criticism from the world over regarding Iraq war, now American President George W Bush & his confiding associate British Prime Minister Tony Blair have started feeling that it was a mistake to thrust war on Iraq.
- West As Abettor Of Terrorism (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Jun 06, 2006)
Western powers provided Third World dissidents asylum and indirectly promoted terrorism
- Left To Protest Hike In Oil Price (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2006)
As irony would have it, within a week Left parties announced its opposition to oil price hike, the Congress-led UPA Government once again snubbed them by going for a steep hike in prices of petroleum products from Monday night.
- Rahul Mahajan Arrested (Pioneer, Vijaita Singh, Jun 06, 2006)
Late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan's son Rahul was put under arrest at Apollo Hospital on Monday evening for alleged consumption of drugs and destruction of evidence, three days after he was admitted to the Apollo Hospital in a critical condition and . . .
- Our Strange Dichotomy (Pioneer, Debraj Mookerjee, Jun 06, 2006)
We are unwilling to pay anything but shamefully low wages for domestic labour and also do not want to see the eyesores we call slums around us
- Buy And Make (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 06, 2006)
As Indo-US defence cooperation takes shape American defence manufacturers are now trying to lobby with the Indian government to ease the critical offsets clause in defence contracts as spelt out in the defence procurement procedures 2005 document.
- A Treaty For Labour Safety (Deccan Herald, Gopal Sutar, Jun 06, 2006)
The decision has raised hopes of a better treatment of Indian workers in the GCC
- Make Haste When It Rains (Deccan Herald, JAYALAKSHMI K, Jun 06, 2006)
But then, what better time to sell rainwater harvesting than when it is raining?
- Mahajan’S Son Arrested For Taking Drugs (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2006)
Rahul Mahajan, son of late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, was on Monday arrested here under the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS).....
- Derailed Priority (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 06, 2006)
The Indian Railways’ underperformance on almost every count, especially on issues that directly impact on passenger safety, is worrying.
- A Welcome Reliance Initiative (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 06, 2006)
Reliaince’s proposed forays into ethanol and subsequently sugar production are welcome.
- Divine Rights Of Politicians (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 06, 2006)
Remember James I? He was the King of England who advocated the concept of 'Divine Rights of Kings'.
- 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.
- A Sermon We Don't Need (Pioneer, A Surya Prakash, Jun 06, 2006)
The observations made by Pope Benedict XVI recently about democracy and secularism in India while receiving our new Ambassador to the Holy See, has raised the hackles of secular democrats in India.
- Conflicting Ways Of Looking At The Economy (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jun 06, 2006)
The Economic Survey 2005-06 made public on Sunday inspires hope, but as usual the general comment on it challenges the figures and predicts doom in the coming months.
- Indian-Americans Lobbying For Nuclear Deal: Nyt (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2006)
“Indian-Americans have mounted an intensive drive to support President George W Bush’s plan to aid civilian nuclear programme, spending heavily on lobbying, campaign contributions and public relations to persuade Congress to approve the deal,” the . . .
- A Bee In Their Bonnets (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 06, 2006)
Most adults wouldn’t even have heard of the word ursprache, derived from the speech of the ancient Babylonian city of Ur and meaning the lost language of Paradise.
- Petrol Costlier Now By Rs. 4, Diesel By Rs. 2 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2006)
Murli Deora says decision to spare kerosene and LPG was taken as the weaker sections use them
Rangarajan Committee proposal accepted
Customs duty cut from 10 to 7.5 per cent
- India Season In Tokyo (Statesman, Sanjana Joshi, Jun 06, 2006)
Strategic Cooperation May Radically Transform Ties With Japan
- A Legal Case Against Iran (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2006)
Speaking last October at a Tehran conference on "The World Without Zionism," Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, referred to Israel as a "disgraceful blot" and called for it to be "wiped off the map."
- Militants Confirm Captive Corporal Alive (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 05, 2006)
Palestinian militants holding Israel Corporal Gilad Shalit angrily said on Tuesday they would not release any information about the serviceman's condition after Israel ignored a deadline to begin releasing Palestinian prisoners.
- Un Panel On Sexual Exploitation Of Children (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 05, 2006)
The United Nations World Committee on Tourism Ethics has decided to set up an executive committee as an advisory body of the task force against sexual exploitation of . . .
- ‘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.
- The Politics Of Resort! (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 05, 2006)
Politics, they say, is the last resort of a scoundrel. A secluded resort could even be the last refuge for elected politicians, especially on the eve of crucial votes of no-confidence or even elections to the upper house in the country or a state.
- Iran Warns Us Against Making ‘Wrong Move’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 05, 2006)
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of the world's fourth largest oil exporter, on Sunday said that if the United States “makes a ‘wrong move’ towards Iran,” energy flows in the region would be endangered.
- Tds On Interest Under Senior Citizen Savings Scheme (Hindu, S. Rajaratnam, Jun 05, 2006)
Ministry's clarification requires to be dropped as it serves no purpose and only adds to the burden of post offices and banks
The limit of Rs. 5,000 itself is abnormally low requiring tax deduction in most cases with the least likelihood of . . .
- State Breakdown (Tribune, Rajinder Sachar, Jun 05, 2006)
The public at large has been very critical of the lumpen brigade of the BJP in Gujarat threatening theatre owners and cinema-goers who dare to show any inclination to see Aamir Khan’s latest film. And all this because the actor has shown concern . . .
- Too Many Bosses (Telegraph, S.L. Rao, Jun 05, 2006)
The author is former director-general, National Council for Applied Economic Research.
- The Code Needs Dressing Down (Deccan Herald, Manika Ghosh, Jun 05, 2006)
‘Codes, rules and discipline may often give way to excesses. But, if students follow the dress patterns that respect our sensibility, there won’t be the need for the code.’
- At Least, A Good Dinner (Tribune, Devi Cherian, Jun 05, 2006)
Running a coalition government, which is a permanent headache, has taught the Prime Minister how to put together many things.
- Saving Shimla (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 05, 2006)
The announcement by Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh that new construction would be totally banned in the state capital is to be welcomed. For those who have seen Shimla degenerate from the Queen of the Hills to a slum, this . . .
- Trust The Doctor (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 05, 2006)
The pathbreaking Supreme Court judgement of 2004 that doctors cannot be held criminally liable for the death of a patient during treatment due to error of judgement or an accident, is having a salutary effect, much to the relief of doctors.
- Words From A Tree Top (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 05, 2006)
People tend to think it is easy work to be an organ grinder - basically, turn the crank, count the money - and that drives Joe Bush crazy....
- British-Indian Doctors Challenge Rules (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 05, 2006)
Doctors of Indian origin have initiated legal action against Britain’s health authorities for the recent changes in employment rules that has threatened the future of thousands of doctors from the Indian sub-continent and elsewhere.
- Confusion Over Use Of Drugs By Rahul (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 05, 2006)
Was it a deep-rooted conspiracy or a case of drug overdose that claimed the life of 38-year-old B.B. Moitra and sent Rahul Mahajan, son of the slain BJP leader, Pramod Mahajan, to hospital? This is the question that the detectives of the Delhi . . .
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