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Articles 16321 through 16420 of 53943:
- American Empire-I (Statesman, PRASENJIT CHOWDHURY, Apr 24, 2006)
Susan Sontag spoke for many Left-wing intellectuals when she excoriated American culture as “inorganic, dead, coercive, authoritarian” and insisted that what America “deserves” is to have its wealth “taken away” by the so-called Third World.
- It's Essential To Securing Justice (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 24, 2006)
UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice stresses the need for ensuring the safety of victims and witnesses, says Pankaj K Singh .
- Nepal Parties Call For Million-Strong Protest (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Apr 24, 2006)
It is now for King Gyanendra to accept what the people are saying, says Seven Party Alliance
- "India's Smes Admired World Over" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
`It gave an opportunity to learn to the rest of Commonwealth'
- Naidu Anti-Development, Says Chief Minister (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
Lashes out at TDP leader in the latter's home district
Apparently eyeing panchayat polls, the Chief Minister uses the occasion to build up anti-TDP sentiment
Cites how the TDP chief cried foul over move to increase the capacity of Pothireddipadu head
- Continue Struggle Against `Anti-People' Development" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
public meeting organised by Janhastakshep on "Displacement: Development or Destruction" unanimously resolved to extend full support to displaced communities and continue its struggle against "anti-people" developmental schemes.
- Advantages Of Transnational Gas Pipelines (Hindu, TALMIZ AHMAD, Apr 24, 2006)
The pipeline proposals India is involved with have political and security-related problems. But they have to be resolved for India's energy security.
- Sensex At 12000 (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 24, 2006)
Even by their recent standards the stock markets' performance last week has been noteworthy .
- Biggest Crisis For Bush As Poll Ratings Slide (Hindu, Paul Harris, Apr 24, 2006)
A White House shake-up is just the beginning as George W. Bush's party fights to keep control of Congress.
- Less Apparent Amendments In Service Tax Provisions (Hindu, K. SIVARAJAN, Apr 24, 2006)
It is illogical to deny cenvat credit to a builder on his input services
All the four reasons originally stated by the department for exempting software maintenance are no more applicable.
- Sc On Fatwa (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 24, 2006)
All right-thinking citizens would wholeheartedly welcome the Supreme Court order that quashed a fatwa that forced a couple to separate on the ground that the husband had uttered talaq thrice to his wife in an inebriated state. As important as the . . .
- Is What Is White Still Right? (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Apr 24, 2006)
Even as Dr Ahluwalia started to answer, one British reporter said, “That’s typical of the way that Indians behave.”
- ‘$150 Billion Needed To Upgrade Infrastructure’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday said 150 billion dollars investment would be required to modernise the infrastructure in the country.
- Achuthanandan Cult Steals The Thunder (Deccan Herald, R Gopakumar, Apr 24, 2006)
The festoons and flags that flutter in this red bastion seem to have acquired an unusual gloss in the hot Palakkad sun. Perhaps it has much to do with the man whose name and aura have induced a new meaning to Kerala’s left politics after March 24.
- Sri Lanka Urges Eu To Blacklist Ltte (Deccan Herald, P KARUNAKHARAN , Apr 24, 2006)
Reiterating its commitment to a political settlement to the bloody ethnic conflict through negotiation with the LTTE, the government of Sri Lanka on Sunday urged the European Community to ban the Tamil Tigers in the EU member countries to pressure . . .
- New Delhi Out Of Step (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 24, 2006)
After doing the right thing on Nepal for more than a year, India runs the risk of putting itself out of step with the Himalayan kingdom's inspiring democratic revolution by betting on King Gyanendra's last throw of the dice.
- Still A Royal Mess (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 24, 2006)
There is an old adage that Nepal’s monarch appears to not have heeded: after the game, the king and the pawns must go back into the same box.
- The Real Cost Of Water (Deccan Herald, JAYALAKSHMI K, Apr 24, 2006)
The water that is required by a Bangalorean travels around 130 km and pumped after being treated at a cost of Rs 40 per litre. While the potable water needs of an individual is around 5-10 litres per day, the bulk of the water consumed daily is for . . .
- Stability And Cooperation (Deccan Herald, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Apr 24, 2006)
India must take a balanced view and adopt a course that will protect the country’s interests
- Unlocking Creativity In Young Minds (Deccan Herald, Sharada Prahladrao , Apr 24, 2006)
Agastya attempts to raise the skill and creative potential of the poor. lt is committed to the Indian dream.
- Generations Of Suffering (Deccan Herald, Juliette Jowit, Apr 24, 2006)
Vitali Prokopenko is cradling his 10-year-old daughter Sasha in his arms as he opens the door of his flat.
- Mahajan Operated Upon Again, Still On Life Support (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
A day after he was shot by younger brother Pravin, BJP general secretary Pramod Mahajan’s condition remained critical and he had to be wheeled into the operation theatre of Mumbai’s Hinduja hospital for the second time in 36 hours.
- Arabs Under A Persian Moon (Indian Express, P.R. KUMARASWAMY, Apr 24, 2006)
The current tension over the nuclear ambitions of Iran is causing great concern among its Arab neighbours. While they are individually too weak to . . .
- A Paradigm Shift In Trade Policy? (Hindu, P. M. Mathew, Apr 24, 2006)
The new focus areas are job creation through exports and special products and end-markets
Proper recognition and accommodation of SMEs in the policy platform can help translate policy into strategies in a relatively easy manner.
- India Post Targets Foreign Couriers Over Terminal Dues (Indian Express, PRAGYA SINGH, Apr 24, 2006)
The government is losing out on foreign exchange receipts because international courier companies are eating into the Department of Posts (DoP’s) share of terminal dues.
- Mughal-E-Azam Screened In Lahore, Taj Mahal’S Next (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Apr 24, 2006)
The official screening of the two Bollywood films — Mughal-e-Azam and Taj Mahal in Lahore and Karachi this week — will be yet another milestone in the journey to normalise relations between the two estranged neighbours.
- Creating Quality (Telegraph, S.L. Rao, Apr 24, 2006)
The author is former director-general, National Council for Applied Economic . . .
- Iran's Time Bomb (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
The question that preoccupies most of Iran lay coiled in the sullen stare of Abbas Kayhan, 25 years old and stuck behind the counter of his father\\\'s corner store. It pulled his heavy brow even lower and travelled down a forearm that shuddered in anger.
- Iraqi Prime Minister Gets One Month To Form Government (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
Fresh mortar attacks and the discovery of six bodies in Baghdad on Sunday highlighted the security challenge still facing Iraqi leaders after they broke months of political deadlock to appoint a new Prime Minister.
- Wb Assembly Polls To Have National Impact-Karat (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
The results of assembly elections in West Bengal and Kerala will have a national as well as international impact, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said here on Thursday.
- Man In Self-Destruct Mode (Times of India, ARUN FIRODIA, Apr 24, 2006)
Imagine a world inhabited only by cockroaches, rats, crows and mosquitoes, the few hardy creatures that have learned to survive in Man's world. Weak ones are getting extinct — at the rate of one species every hour.
- Art And The Auction House (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 24, 2006)
Despite the current euphoria, India struggles to emerge as a true superpower. A key reason is the nation's developmental vision lacks originality from within. India has underutilised and virtually destroyed its artistic and cultural heritage . . .
- Ride To Reform (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 24, 2006)
Politics can be a great leveller. Today’s protesters become tomorrow’s conformists.
- Some 30,000 Indonesian Tsunami Survivors Still Living In Tents (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
Out of a total of 500,000 Acehnese people who were made refugees by the December 26,2004 Tsunami, 30,000 are currently still living in emergency tents and barracks, a local official said.
- German Firms Commit Big Investments (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
CEOs tell Prime Minister they want to participate in ultra mega power projects
BMW commits Rs. 900 crore for facility near Chennai
Siemens to invest 600 million Euros
"Germany important country in E.U.'
- Germany Lowers Reservation On Indo-Us N-Deal (Tribune, Satish Misra, Apr 24, 2006)
Germany today lowered its reservation on the issue of supply of civilian nuclear technology to India saying that developments on this issue were on “the positive path”.
- Warring Against Science (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 24, 2006)
Once, it actually worked. About 30 years ago, science pointed its solvent-stained finger at something that humans were doing wrong, something that would kill us if we kept it up.
- Elusive Peace In Sri Lanka (Tribune, Shylashri Shankar, Apr 24, 2006)
The peace talks between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE have not made any headway.
- Holes In It (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Apr 24, 2006)
Big names in the information technology sector have continued to be on the ascendant in terms of sales and profits.
- Value Of People’S Power (Tribune, S. D. Muni , Apr 24, 2006)
Events can throw up parallel government in Nepal
- Orascom May Fail Fipb Test (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
Egyptian telecom company Orascom, a 10 per cent stake holder in Hutch Essar, may find it difficult to pass the Foreign Investment Promotion Board test on security grounds spelt out in the guidelines .
- Hiv Cases In India Rise To 5.2 Million (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
The number of people living with HIV/AIDS in India has increased. The latest figures compiled by National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), using improved data collection strategy, has shown that an estimated 5.21 million adults in India are living . . .
- Khurana Out Of The Bjp--Again (Daily Excelsior, Tukoji R Pandit, Apr 24, 2006)
Outside his circles of admirers, whose number is perhaps vastly exaggerated, the BJP’s ‘best known’ face in Delhi, Madan Lal Khurana, does not deserve much sympathy for his present predicament nor has the party that ‘suspended’ him for a second . . .
- Toothpaste Brushes Aside Teargas In Nepal (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Apr 24, 2006)
Journalists can be divided into two categories — those who know the uses of fluoride toothpaste and those who don’t.
- Laden Sounds Bugle For Long War (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
Laden sounds bugle for long war Darfur, Hamas on Osama lips
- Iran Raises Pitch Before Key Session (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
Iran’s decision to enrich uranium is irreversible, its foreign ministry said today in defiance of international demands it halt all nuclear work.
- Civil War Cloud Over Lanka (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers kidnapped and killed six ethnic Sinhalese farmers, police and the army said today, raising fears of communal violence that could lead to renewed civil war.
- India, G-24 Lambast Imf Over Voting Rights Issue (Hindustan Times, S. Rajagopalan, Apr 24, 2006)
India and the Group of 24 (G-24) developing countries have come down hard on the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) proposed two-stage plan for ad hoc increases in voting power for a few emerging economies instead of a comprehensive reallocation . . .
- Manmohan, Merkel Open Hanover Fair (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and German Chancellor Angela Merkel Sunday on jointly inaugurated the Hanover Fair, where the rising Asian economy that is emerging as a magnet for global investment is the partner country after 22 years.
- It’S Official (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 24, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could not have found a better occasion than the first Civil Services Day function on Friday to exhort members of the bureaucracy to rise above their traditional role of administrators.
- Cross-Cultural Encounters Entail Risk Of Aids (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
With a huge growth in tourism — Varanasi received 3.45 lakh foreign tourists in 2005 and Goa gets about 3 lakh firang visitors each season — the number of cross-cultural encounters too are likely to rise.
- Cat Is Out (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 24, 2006)
The cat is out of the bag. The much-awaited "third major party" has emerged in "Azad" Kashmir as the occupied territory across the Line of Control is locally known. Barrister Sultan Mahmood has founded it under the banner of the "Jammu Kashmir . . .
- Global Steel Industry Development (Daily Excelsior, MAHENDRA VED, Apr 24, 2006)
Lakshmi Narayan Mittal's bid to purchase European steel consortium Arcelor is the latest example of how the Empire can strike back at its erstwhile colonisers, and how the Europeans turn tail and indulge in protectionism to keep ''these Indians'' out.
- More German Nuclear Help For India Possible - Merkel (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
Germany may offer India more help with its civilian nuclear programme subject to the ratification of a U.S. deal to provide New Delhi with nuclear technology, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday.
- Bush Says Blair Had Option To Withdraw From Iraq Invasion (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Apr 24, 2006)
British Premier insisted he would not abandon ally
- Britain Still Under Chernobyl Cloud (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 24, 2006)
More than a third of Britain is still contaminated by radioactivity from the Chernobyl disaster two decades ago, and as a result children are getting cancer.
- Price Incentive For Wheat (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 24, 2006)
The much-sought-after bonus in the minimum support price (MSP) of wheat has now happened.
- Troops Must Stay In Helmand: Reid (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
Coalition troops must continue war against Taliban and Al Qaeda militants in Afghanistan to prevent their return to power, Britain’s visiting defence secretary said on Sunday.
- Al Qaeda Chief Hiding In Border Areas: Us (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
Osama bin Laden is hiding in a remote tribal area along Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan, separated from his top deputy and, in a sign he has to be careful about whom he trusts, surrounded by fellow Arabs, according to US intelligence . . .
- Policemen, Taliban Die In Afghan Clashes (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
Two policemen and three Taliban were killed and six other policemen were wounded in three clashes in Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said.
- The Greatest Indians (Hindu, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , Apr 23, 2006)
Indian classical musicians seek, and some of them achieve, perfection.
- Don't Sit In Judgment (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
Reassessing current assessment procedures will help students more.
- Nepal Developments "In The Right Direction": Manmohan (Hindu, N. Ram , Apr 23, 2006)
"The important thing is restoration of multi-party democracy and a government in place to exercise all executive powers"
- Squaring The Circle (Hindu, GEETA DOCTOR, Apr 23, 2006)
The Ramanujan-Hardy story finds a new equation with a film on their relationship.
- So Many Shades (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
Drawing with coloured pencils is not a spontaneous art and Jay Varma is a master of this medium.
- Life-Changing Books (Hindu, V. Gangadhar, Apr 23, 2006)
Two novels, very different in nature, still influence people.
- New Delhi Seeks Transit Facility: India-Pakistan-Afghan Trade Urged (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
India on Saturday said that if Islamabad provided New Delhi with the transit facility for trade with Afghanistan then it would also benefit Pakistan as Peshawar would become a hub of economic activity.
- Blast Kills Four Canadians In Afghanistan (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
Four Canadian soldiers were killed on Saturday when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, Canadian military spokesman Mark McIntyre said.
- A Fairy Tale Debut (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
Kaavya Viswanathan talks about her book, fame and future.
- Push And Pull Of The Mba Bull Run (Deccan Herald, RAMNATH NARAYANSWAMY, Apr 23, 2006)
The book offers a peep into the frenetic environment of Wharton business school and the lives of its highly ambitious students.
- The Tragedy Of Want In India (Deccan Herald, K S Naraynan, Apr 23, 2006)
Poverty has always dogged India’s heels, although the situation has improved over time.
- Wto Ministerial Meeting Called Off (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
The WTO mini-Ministerial scheduled to be held later this month to break the impasse on crucial farm and industrial tariff negotiations has been called off.
- The Heat & The Shine (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
April sees commercial launch of three motorcycles and a scooter ranging from Bajaj Platina to Kinetic Blaze scooter.
- Protests Swelling On The Streets Of Nepal (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Apr 23, 2006)
At the end of the day, the King has simply not accepted the fact that state authority lies with the people: Communist Party
"The King is not paying any attention to the peoples' aspirations"
India has placed itself out of step with Nepalese . . .
- King Offer Rejected, Fury On (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Apr 23, 2006)
Even 24 hours after Nepal’s most hated King Gyanendra said he had returned power to people, nothing changed in the turmoil-torn kingdom.....
- Artillery, Helicopters Pound Taliban Hideouts (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
Artillery guns and helicopter gunships pounded suspected Taliban hideouts on Saturday after they attacked a security check-post in North Waziristan, local sources said.
- The Politics Of Rice (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
Subsidies and sops have taken centre stage in the Tamil Nadu elections, saysV. Jayanth
- Breaking Free From The Golden Cage (Deccan Herald, Priyanka Haldipur, Apr 23, 2006)
The tale of a young girl coping with life in a traditional milieu is engrossing as well as brutal.
- Fdi Ruled Out In Indian Carriers (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
The new civil aviation policy will not allow foreign airlines to own equity in Indian carriers, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel has said.
- Stones Come Alive (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
The town of Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh gets its name from the Khajur trees growing in abundance there, writes Ambuja Narayan.
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