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- Affirmative Action As Strategy (Business Standard, Kanika Datta, May 04, 2006)
Pardon me for covering old ground, but I can’t help thinking that if private corporations did not run quite so scared, there might actually find a durable, strategic solution to this affirmative action controversy.
- Taliban Attack Party To Stop Music (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
A group of Taliban stormed a wedding ceremony to disrupt a music programme, wounding one man a few days after they ordered Bhittani tribesmen to grow beards, eyewitnesses said on Tuesday.
- Heavy Metal (Business Standard, Niraj Bhatt, May 04, 2006)
With zooming non-ferrous metal prices, it’s not surprising that companies from the sector have beaten analysts’ expectations.
- Chapter Closed (News International, Editorial, The News International, May 04, 2006)
Pakistan has closed the chapter on the Dr A Q Khan. At the same time, it made clear on Tuesday that it is for its own government to determine the status of a Pakistani religious organisation. "As far as we are concerned this chapter is closed,"
- A Wish List For India`s Dream Team (Business Standard, Shyam Ponappa, May 04, 2006)
What do you wish the dream team would do now.
As the unshackling of the economy and external factors combine to generate economic momentum, India is set to grow strongly despite constraints, including outdated legislation and regulations.
- Genetic Rules (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
The conditional permission granted for the import of genetically modified foods in the new foreign trade policy, unveiled by the commerce ministry in the first week of April, has created more problems than it sought to address on this controversial . . .
- Nepal’S Maoists Write Off New Leaders, Refuse To Disarm (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Richard Boucher ignores king in a quick-fire series of meetings with Nepal’s power brokers
- Quotas And Social Justice (Deccan Herald, Alok Ray, May 04, 2006)
The justification for quotas should be economic backwardness and not any subjective criterion
- Another Step Forward (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 04, 2006)
After a lull, there is some forward movement on the India-Pakistan diplomatic front. At the end of two days of official-level talks, the two countries have decided to take some more confidence-building measures (CBM).
- Nepal Declares Truce (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, May 04, 2006)
Lifts ban on Maoists, calls for talk
- How ‘Failed’ Is Pakistan? (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, May 04, 2006)
NOT for the first time has an international thinktank cast Pakistan among failed states. But the latest such report, compiled by the US Foreign Policy magazine and the US-based Fund for Peace think tank, which puts Pakistan at number nine among the . . .
- The Costs Of Plagiarism (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 04, 2006)
Plagiarism is a nasty word and offence — and literary plagiarists, when caught, tend to be subjected to long-lasting shame.
- Pak Uzbek Ties (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, May 04, 2006)
ON Tuesday, Uzbek President Islam Karimov held talks with General Musharraf in Islamabad after which the two leaders addressed a press conference.
- Iran And The Us Share Goals In Afghanistan (Christian Science Monitor, David Montero, May 04, 2006)
The owner of this plumbing shop in Herat, Afghanistan, says his business would be crippled if Iran stopped exporting its products.
- Mahajan Loses Battle For Life (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
The 56-year-old BJP general secretary is survived by his wife Rekha, son Rahul and daughter Poonam who were at his bedside when he finally gave up the most difficult battle of his life at 4:10 pm.
- Junk Food, Violent Behaviour (Dawn, George Monbiot, May 04, 2006)
DOES television cause crime? The idea that people copy the violence they watch is debated endlessly by criminologists. But this column concerns an odder and perhaps more interesting idea: if crime leaps out of the box, it is not the programmes that . . .
- Prestige Regained (Deccan Herald, D V GURUPRASAD, May 04, 2006)
It is embarrassing to a top cop when he cecomes the victim of a petty crime
- Dangers Of Saltor Demilitarisation (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, May 04, 2006)
There has been significant progress in recent months in expanding cooperation and reducing tensions between India and Pakistan, despite continuing incidents of ISI sponsored terrorism.
- Yemen’S Al Qaeda No. 2 Jailed For 3 Years (Jordan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Al Qaeda's alleged number-two in Yemen was sentenced Wednesday by a Sanaa court to three years and a month in prison after the prosecutor had asked for death.
- Hamas Could Match Israeli Peace Moves — Mishaal (Jordan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Hamas could reciprocate Israeli moves towards peace if the Jewish state agrees to withdraw from all lands occupied in 1967 and acknowledges Palestinian rights, the group's political leader Khaled Mishaal said on Wednesday.
- Quake Rocks Tonga; Tsunami Threat Subsides (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
A small tsunami was generated off the Pacific islands of Niue and Pago Pago following an 8.0 magnitude quake in Tonga, but the threat to New Zealand and Fiji is subsiding, US monitors said on Wednesday.
- When Things Are Just Too Good To Last (Deccan Herald, Richard Adams, May 04, 2006)
The IMF says the world’s economy is fine and dandy – so something must be about to go wrong.
- Endless Shuffling! (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, May 04, 2006)
ONE reason why Pakistan has been muddling along in so many spheres is the lack of enough reflection on pros and cons by the decision-makers, which has never thought fit to take the people’s point of view into account.
- Delivering On The Employment Guarantee (Hindu, Mihir Shah, May 04, 2006)
The black box of the Schedule of Rates should be opened and the rates revised upwards urgently in a transparent manner.
- Mummy, I'm Bored (Hindu, SHEFALI TRIPATHI MEHTA, May 04, 2006)
Want to beat boredom without feeling stressed out? Here are some tips to help kids have a blast this summer
- Karimov’S Productive Visit (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, May 04, 2006)
THE visit of Uzbek President Islam Karimov to Pakistan has led to greater understanding between the two countries. The leadership of Pakistan and Uzbekistan has vowed to expand bilateral commerce and economic relations
- Iran, Us Share Afghan Goals (Christian Science Monitor, David Montero, May 04, 2006)
The smooth blacktop roads and 24-hour electricity of Herat set this Afghan commercial capital apart as a model of stability in a country still struggling to get on its feet. Much of the wealth in this western city, with its tree-lined streets and . . .
- Deported Ex-Militant Says Khalistan His Life’S Aim (Indian Express, ANJU AGNIHOTRI CHABA, May 03, 2006)
To get Khalistan through peaceful means is the purpose of my life and I will struggle for it till the end,’’ said former militant Harpal Singh Cheema, who has been deported from San Francisco.
- Hurriyat Sits Down With Pm Today, Wants ‘Specifics’ To Take Home (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, May 03, 2006)
When Hurriyat Conference leaders sit with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tomorrow for direct talks, the stakes are high for both sides: this round will determine the future of the Centre’s ambitious Kashmir all-party roundtables, its relationship . . .
- Plumbing The Depths Of Indian Widowhood (Washington Post, Nora Boustany, May 03, 2006)
It was 11 years ago, but the image of a widow's wretchedness etched itself into the soul of Deepa Mehta , the Indian-born filmmaker who has made a career of deconstructing India's darkest taboos in sparse cinematic works of art.
- End To Child Labour In Sight: Ilo (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 03, 2006)
A new global report on child labour indicates that the number of child labourers globally have fallen by 11 per cent over the last four years, giving hopes of a reduction in child labour, especially its hazardous forms.
- Hostage Handling (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 03, 2006)
Expertise must be developed
The human dimension to every hostage-taking is such that realities are clouded and government winds up being accused of doing nothing after being pressed to “do something”.
- Nepal Maoists (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, May 03, 2006)
The American Connection And More
- Iran Must Be Tamed, Now (Pioneer, Utpal Kumar, May 03, 2006)
In the Cold War era, when there were five relatively responsible nuclear powers, the prophets of doom were much in business with their apocalyptic predictions about mushroom clouds and a nuclear winter. Ironically, today, when Iran, which has . . .
- The Conspiracy Of Selective Silence (Pioneer, Seema Sarin, May 03, 2006)
When a mosque was demolished in India there was an international outcry, but nothing when a temple was destroyed in Malaysia, says Seema Sarin
- Sc Defreezes Trust's Assets For Bhopal Memorial Hospital (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered release of Rs 37.65 crore, which formed the part of assets of erstwhile Bhopal Hospital Trust (BHT) and was lying frozen in a bank, to Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust (BMHT) for the maintenance of the hospital for . .
- Violence Overshadows Pm's Kashmir Peace Talks (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Kashmiri separatists will try to revive a faltering peace process on Wednesday in talks overshadowed by this week's massacre of Hindus and resurgent violence in the disputed region.
- In Search Of A Solution (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, May 03, 2006)
Next to cricket legend Brian Lara, Norwegian peace negotiator in Sri Lanka Erik Solheim is the best known name there. He is in Kathmandu today instead of Kilinochchi where he might have been counselling LTTE to rejoin the on and off Geneva peace talks.
- 'Pakistan Needs To Do More To Curb Cross-Border Terrorism' (Press Trust of India, K J M Varma, May 03, 2006)
In the wake of the massacre of Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir, India today asserted that "more remains to be done" by Pakistan to curb cross-border terrorism and said last year's quake saw the "public rehabilitation" of terrorist organisations and their . .
- Development Axe Falls On Santiniketan (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
A few civil society groups including teachers and alumni of Visva-bharati and other intellectuals are trying hard to save the Khoai, the unique landscape in Santiniketan that once fascinated Tagore.
- India, Iran In Dispute Over Lng Price (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
India and Iran are renegotiating a multi-billion-dollar LNG deal as Tehran wants a higher price, but both sides say they remain keen to cement energy ties despite U.S. opposition.
- How Two Countries Treat Their Farmers (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , May 03, 2006)
The Canadian nation as a whole was more sensitive to the recent blockade by 200 farmers than India has been to suicides by over 20,000 farmers since 1995.
- Finding Adb (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 03, 2006)
Now that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) seems to have successfully won a new lease of life, will the Asian Development Bank (ADB) do likewise? With the four-day ADB annual meet in Hyderabad beginning today, that is a question all member . . .
- Nation-State Welcome, But There Are Perils, Too (The Financial Express, RALF DAHRENDORF, May 03, 2006)
An important element of a liberal world order is that it has to be open to cooperation with others
- Seizing The Clause 49 Opportunity (The Financial Express, RAJIV MEMANI, May 03, 2006)
We should learn from the experiences of SoX 404 in the US to make a global leap in . . .
- A Sick System (Times of India, Ritu Priya, May 03, 2006)
It is odd that medical students are far more exercised about quotas than the state of the poor in the country, the callousness of their professional brethren and India's public health system.
- Powering Ahead (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 03, 2006)
It is tempting to think that despite minor hiccups on the first day, the troubles of Dabhol’s new avatar, Ratnagiri Gas and Power Pvt Ltd (RGPPL), are finally over. But that hope could prove shortlived if Gail fails to get its act together in time.
- Nris To Press Us Congress On Nuke Deal (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
A broad coalition of groups representing the Indian American community, including some prominent members, would press lawmakers to ratify legislation on the civilian nuclear energy agreement between the US and India.
- It Is Dehumanisation Of Travel (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 03, 2006)
There's no limit to profit-making. It can make companies come up with preposterous ideas. Aviation giant Airbus's plans to introduce standing-room in aircraft in the Asian sector is one such example of the imagination running wild with dollar dreams.
- India Without Policy Options In Sri Lanka (Daily Excelsior, Jayant Muralidharan, May 03, 2006)
Setbacks are hardly sudden; they usually have a buildup. The ceasefire between the Sri Lankan Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), mediated by Norwegian peacemakers in 2002, is suddenly looking shaky.
- Crystal Clear (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 03, 2006)
The pupil must regain the child state he hath lost ere the first sound can fall upon his ears.
Tibetan precept
Abandon thought and thinking and be just as a child. Be devoted to your master's teaching and the Innate will become manifest.
Saraha
- Fdi Can Step Up Growth (Tribune, C.L. Singla, May 03, 2006)
PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh, while inaugurating the Hannover Trade Fair in Germany on April 24 said that “India is in tune with new realities of the global economic order…and it is at the cusp of a historic transformation”. Having emphasised . . .
- Delhi To Boost Afghan Shield (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
India is proposing to increase the number of security personnel in Afghanistan for Indians at project sites and is seeking a nod from Kabul.
- Time For A Hard Look (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , May 03, 2006)
It is time for the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, to sit up and take a long, hard look at India’s foreign policy, of which he has been directly in charge now for six months. He must do it quickly for his own protection because depth and insight are . . .
- War In Waziristan (Tribune, Sushant Sareen, May 03, 2006)
THE situation in Pakistan’s tribal badlands of Waziristan is fast spiralling out of control.
- Mahajan Sinking, Doctors Cling To Hope (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
BJP general secretary Pramod Mahajan's condition worsened on Tuesday morning, sending telephones lines buzzing between Mumbai and Delhi but doctors still clung on to hope and ordered nitric oxide cylinder from Delhi to revive his flagging blood pressure.
- The French Perfume (Tribune, Trilochan Singh Trewn, May 03, 2006)
The river Seine originates near Paris and opens out to English channel near the port of Rouen. On the lower half of this serpentine river are located several chemical and perfume factories of international repute. Out of these I remember Nina Ricci . . .
- Quake Relief Efforts (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, May 03, 2006)
THAT the whole world was just as surprised as it was impressed by the response from within Pakistan and the international community following the October 8 earthquake tragedy would not amount to an overstatement. Even though the government drew . . .
- Drinking Water Behind Panic (Deccan Herald, Olivia Thomas , May 03, 2006)
The excitement of getting a basic amenity that was long denied can cause panic
- Fourth Phase Of Poll In Wb Today (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
A day prior to the fourth phase of poll in West Bengal, Marxist veteran and former Chief Minister, Mr Jyoti Basu, today said whatever might be the elections results, the CPM and other Left parties would ensure that the UPA government remains in . . .
- Hamara Paisa, Hamara Hisab (Daily Excelsior, Ajit Bhattacharjea , May 03, 2006)
For me, Nevathi Bai is the icon of the movement that has won us the revolutionary Right to Information Act, 2005. Nine years have passed since, drawing a typical multi-coloured Rajasthani ohrni from her face, she walked up to the microphone to demand . .
- Advani Says Siachen Pull-Out Would Be A Sell-Out (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
The BJP today said any “ill-conceived” pull out from Siachen would be a “sell-out”.
- Malaria Runs Amok... (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 03, 2006)
While nets rot in Assam godowns
It’s ironical that while people in Assam are dying of malaria ~ the toll so far is 77 ~ about a million mosquito nets are reportedly lying in various godowns.
- India, Iran Energy Deals Under Cloud (Tribune, Manoj Kumar, May 03, 2006)
The Manmohan Singh government’s anti-Tehran vote on the nuclear issue seems to have cost dearly with Iran taking a tough stand on the $22 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) deal and Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline amidst fears that crude oil . . .
- A Case Of Sour Grapes (Times of India, K SUBRAHMANYAM, May 03, 2006)
Pakistan has lost little time in mounting a campaign against the Indo-US nuclear deal, arguing that any such arrangement should be a common package for both. The element of terror and blackmail in its campaign is hard to overlook.
- Will Bihar Politics Have Any Bearing On National Politics ? (Daily Excelsior, Ashok Thakur, May 03, 2006)
In politics there is no permanent friend or foe. The ouster of George Fernandes as the president of the Janata Dal (United) by Sharad Yadav in league with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is an example of the age-old adage. Mr. Nitish Kumar has not made . . .
- Makes A Lot Of Economic Sense (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 03, 2006)
All it requires is a change in mindset which, thanks to ad infinitum, equates air travel only with gee-whiz plushness and luxury. The fact that airlines primarily exist to get people from point A to point B is often quietly buried in the copy.
- ‘Whoever Has Seen Aksai Chin, As I Have, Would Want Someone . . . (Indian Express, Inder Malhotra, May 03, 2006)
The passing of John Kenneth Galbraith brings back a flood of memories of this outstanding man (in every sense of the expression), especially of his India connection, that need to be shared.
- View From The Left (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 03, 2006)
Buoyant after the success of Sitaram Yechury’s Nepal initiative, the CPI(M) has set its target high — the abolition of monarchy.
- Uk Presses India To Send Troops To Afghanistan (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, May 03, 2006)
Great Britain today surprised India by urging the UPA government to contribute troops for International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan and do justice to its own increased role and strategic requirements in the land-locked country.
- Indo-Pak Officials Hold Talks On Cbms (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
A bus service between Poonch and Rawalakot in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is likely to be launched next month while a truck service is expected to be introduced on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route in July.
- Curb Terrorism, Pakistan Told (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, May 03, 2006)
"It is an enemy of civilised societies everywhere," says Shivshankar Menon
Training, communications for terrorism unabated, says Menon
Pakistan's insistence on primacy of Kashmir issue extreme
"Unfortunate acts of terrorism," says Pakistan
- Incredible Power Of Prayer In Healing And Redeeming (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 03, 2006)
Prayer is an earnest hope or a wish, a request for help or expression of thanks made to God. Petition is that kind of prayer which begs for determinate objects.
- Call Medha's Bluff (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 03, 2006)
Whoever says 'protest' cannot be turned into a viable career option needs only to look at Narmada Bachao Andolan's Medha Patkar for advice and guidance.
- U.S., Japan For Action On Iran (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
The U.S. and Japan said on Monday that the United Nations Security Council must take action on Iran's nuclear issue and both countries were committed to work closely to convince Iran to stop uranium enrichment work.
- Does Britain Have Intellectuals? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 03, 2006)
Let us be clear: there may be intellectuals in Britain, but there are no British intellectuals... Intellectuals, born in every milieu, are society’s conscience.
- The Return Of The Hong Tou A-San (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, May 03, 2006)
The Sikhs — known for their red turbans — are back in China.
- Value Of Suchness (Deccan Herald, Amrit Sadhana, May 03, 2006)
The judgmental mind stops judging every situation as good or bad, or evaluating people, things and events.
- The Young & The Old Boys’ Network (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
The highly emotive debate on reservations raises an interesting question. Has there ever really been a level playing field for the youth of India? The obvious villain, the well entrenched caste system, is not the only impediment in ensuring . . .
- Loss At Sea (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 03, 2006)
Errors in navigation at sea can prove costly
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