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- Bush, Gop Struggle For Public Approval (US News & World Report, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
President Bush has hit new lows in public opinion for his handling of Iraq and the war on terror and for his overall job performance. Polling also shows the Republican Party surrendering its advantage on national security.
- Of Maternal Benefit Schemes (Daily Excelsior, Dr Kasturi Lal, Apr 08, 2006)
Recent introduction of Janani Suraksha Yogna an improved version of maternity benefit scheme, incorporate the benefit of cash payment to pregnant women below poverty line who volunteer to have her delivery in institution.
- The Future Of Jihad (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Apr 08, 2006)
The jihadis of today are increasingly locking horns with the US-led Western world.
- India Could Emerge As Major Refuelling Stop Forinternational Flights (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
Refuelling of long distance flights will now be treated on an equal footing with other exports and brought under the export promotion scheme, Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said today.
- Left To Review Govt Support After Polls (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Apr 08, 2006)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) on Friday said it would review its support for the government after state elections are out of the way next month.
- Problems In Textbook Screening (Japan Times, Editorial, Japan Times, Apr 08, 2006)
The Education, Science and Technology Ministry has screened and approved 306 textbooks, most of them for first-year high-school students, for use from next spring.
- Right Royal Mess (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 08, 2006)
But Nepal’s top gun least perturbed
- Who Are These Miscreants? (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 08, 2006)
The death toll in paramilitary forces’ counter-offensive against miscreants in North Waziristan on Wednesday has risen to 40 as more bodies were recovered on Thursday.
- Pakistan, Spain To Strengthen Trade, Security Cooperation (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
Shaukat calls for even-handed approach on civilian nuclear technology
- Pack Journalism Can Be Lethal (Japan Times, GREGORY CLARK, Apr 08, 2006)
Some call it pack journalism. It is also lazy journalism.
- Stifling Competition In Europe (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
How do we Europeans become more innovative and competitive? According to a recent European Commission study, we are already 20 years behind the U.S. information technology industry, and we are spending a paltry 1.9 percent of our combined gross . . .
- Iraqi Women Argue, But Agree On Role (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
In a roomful of Iraqi and American women, brought together to explore how they can join to build a new Iraq, the discussions are stuck in recriminations, accusations, the past.
- Suicide Bombers Kill At Least 71 At Shiite Mosque (New York Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
Three suicide bombers, including at least one who appeared to be a woman, exploded in a sea of Friday worshipers at the main mosque of the most powerful Shiite political party in Iraq, killing at least 71 people and wounding at least 140.
- Senior Us Lawmakers To Visit India For Nuke Talks (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
Republican House leader Dennis Hastert and other US lawmakers have announced plans to visit India next week to discuss a controversial bilateral nuclear deal made in March.
- Not A Matter Of Politics (Deccan Herald, Satish Nambiar, Apr 08, 2006)
The political leadership appears not to be serious about managing national security
- Mass Leadership And Backroom Politics (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Apr 08, 2006)
The Congress will do well to look at the BJP, which has begun to experience the consequences of ignoring its mass leaders.
- Taiwan And Who: Case For Membership (Deccan Herald, Andrew T H Cheng, Apr 08, 2006)
Taiwan has been sidelined even as nation states commemorate World Health Day
- The Tragedy That Can Strike Us Too (Deccan Herald, VIJAY NAMBISAN, Apr 08, 2006)
Meher Bhargava’s murder underlines an ugly truth: that any citizen can be killed at any time on the slightest provocation
- South Asia Should Unite Behind One Of Its Own (Hindu, Ramesh Thakur, Apr 08, 2006)
Why doesn't India support the candidature of Jayantha Dhanapala for the post of Secretary-General of the United Nations?
- A Bus Service Going Nowhere? (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Apr 08, 2006)
The Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service seems to have been virtually grounded by the complicated documentation process and the attitude of the intelligence agencies.
- Right Thrust (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 08, 2006)
The foreign trade policy will make Indian exports grow
- Building Roads In The Air To Break Gridlock... (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
After promises surfacing in all shapes to rid Bangalore of its traffic woes, help seems to be taking an aerial route. Literally. A committee of experts has proposed elevated roads over roads, and even drains, for the City.
- Among Sufi Mystics (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Apr 08, 2006)
Professor Coleman Barks who teaches poetry in the University of Georgia (US) is today regarded as an authority on the poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi (1201-1273).
- Civilizing Mission (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Apr 08, 2006)
The US still mistakes national resistance for terrorism
- Desperate Acts (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Apr 08, 2006)
It is a matter of immense relief that Mr Shoaib Nabi Lone, an independent candidate in the Sangrama constituency, has escaped a militant attack on Thursday.
- India, Eu To Set Up Working Group On Hydrocarbons (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
EU Energy Commissioner calls for `a lot of investment' in nuclear fusion
- The Knight Versus The Professor (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Apr 08, 2006)
The choice for the Italian electorate on Sunday is between the incumbent Prime Minister's flamboyance and the challenger's dignified approach.
- Useful Despite Limitations (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 08, 2006)
The annual supplement to the five-year Foreign Trade Policy (2004-09), unveiled on Friday, like its predecessor, was not expected to break new ground in policy initiatives.
- Painful Progress (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 08, 2006)
Before Medha Patkar and fellow activists embarked on their current struggle, they should have considered two things.
- A Beacon For The Oppressed (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 08, 2006)
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has taken on the world's major oil companies by increasing the government's stakes in the country's petroleum assets.
- For Vhp Sadhus, King Is ‘Vishwa Hindu Samrat’ (Indian Express, YUBARAJ GHIMIRE, Apr 08, 2006)
As international support continues to pour in favour of the movement, an increasingly cornered and isolated King Gyanendra flew in his Super Puma along with Queen Komal to inaugurate the World Hindu Federation silver jubilee celebration in Birgunj
- Initiatives To Make India Global Hub For Gems And Auto Parts (Hindu, Sushma Ramchandran, Apr 08, 2006)
Product and Market Focus schemes to replace Target Plus; EPCG terms eased
- What Vajpayee Told Manmohan (Indian Express, R.V. Pandit, Apr 08, 2006)
How does one assess an assertion made by L.K. Advani at a press conference this week?
- Questions About Ps Sale (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 08, 2006)
The privatization of Pakistan Steel has become controversial with many questions being raised by its employees, independent economists and market analysts.
- Creative Inputs, Any Takers? (Business Standard, Kishore Singh, Apr 08, 2006)
When our friends were shifting into a new apartment, they asked me to give them suggestions on renovations so that the flat, when they moved into it, would look different from the one they had been occupying for several years.
- Mitigating The Impact Of Natural Disasters (Business Standard, RAGHAV GAIHA, Apr 08, 2006)
A 5 percentage point reduction in the proportion of poor countries would reduce disaster-related deaths by roughly a similar amount.
- The Low-Down On India-Us Nuclear Dea (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Apr 08, 2006)
Pakistan seems to have woken up to the United States-India nuclear deal the two countries signed during President George Bush’s visit to South Asia last month.
- Rehabilitation Is A Cost, Don't Fudge It (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 08, 2006)
The government’s insensitivity towards Medha Patkar’s fast-unto-death and the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) dharna in Delhi is of a piece with the long years of systemic apathy to the larger issue of rehabilitation of local communities, either . . .
- India’S Rajasthan State Assembly Bans Religious Conversions (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
BJP says conversion were weakening communal harmony
- India To Exercise Caution In Forging Free-Trade Deals (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
India must exercise “great caution” in negotiating free-trade agreements (FTAs) with more developed neighbours, finance minister P Chidambaram said in remarks published here Friday.
- Treat India, Pakistan Equally, Aziz Asks Us (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
PM says AQ Khan chapter closed
Calls for diplomatic efforts to resolve Iran nuclear crisis
Says no militant training camps in Pakistan
- When Office Is A Perk (Tribune, Subhash C. Kashyap, Apr 08, 2006)
Constitution has been circumvented
- Ssp Removed, Two Officials Suspended As Aligarh Remains Tense (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
PAC and RAF deployed in the curfew-bound areas
- Afghan Drug Barons Flaunt Their Wealth (Hindu, Declan Walsh, Apr 08, 2006)
Afghan boys tend a poppy field while their father supervises the work on the outskirts of Lashkargah, Afghanistan, recently.
- Know Thyself (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 08, 2006)
Star performers inevitably catch this affliction.
- The Abc Of Obcs (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 08, 2006)
The term ‘‘backward classes’’ first raised its head in Mysore state, where preferential recruitment of backward communities was introduced in 1921.
- The Conspiracy Of Silence (Indian Express, AYESHA KHAN, Apr 08, 2006)
The fallacy of understanding Gujarat in present times lies, perhaps, in the strange assortment of its Gs: Godhra, genocide, ghettos and gaurav.
- Incredible (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 08, 2006)
It is quite incredible that the authorities, so quick in blocking or outlawing some TV channels, should be unable to control the plague of illegal FM radio stations in the NWFP that are stirring up factional hatred and religiosity.
- Ministry Justifies Quota Proposal In Iits, Iims (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
It is a constitutional mandate now: Arjun
Points out to consensus across political spectrum for such a move
Maharashtra Minister thanks Centre
- Sbi Strike: People's Patience Wearing Thin (Hindu, D. Radhakrishnan, Apr 08, 2006)
Stir has affected tea industry in Coonoor and Kotagiri
- Juggernaut Chugs Along (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Apr 08, 2006)
Yet, 1.5% of global export share a long way off
- Third Front? For Whom, And For What? (The Financial Express, Malvika Singh, Apr 08, 2006)
Mulayam Singh and Chandrababu Naidu’s proposed coalition promises all that India doesn’t need
- Sitting On Judgement (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 08, 2006)
Judicial reforms hinge crucially on the availability of more empirical data to iron out systemic flaws, says Upamanyu Hazarika
- China Is Wagging A Theatrical Finger (The Financial Express, V ANANTHA NAGESWARAN, Apr 08, 2006)
Even as its leaders encourage US bashing, China’s real structural problems are growing silently
- Scrutiny Of Judicial Immunity Is Must (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Apr 08, 2006)
In the wake of the public outcry against the acquittal of the accused in the Jessica Lall and Irfan murder cases, the demand for judicial reforms has mounted.
- In The Wake Of The Bush Visit (Dawn, Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Apr 08, 2006)
In the aftermath of President George Bush’s visit, too much importance is being attached to inanities, while among the important points only the nuclear deal with India has monopolised comments, giving an impression as if all that matters to . . .
- Endangered Cbm (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 08, 2006)
Red tape proves a roadblock
- Hu’S Eight Commandments (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Apr 08, 2006)
After Hu Jintao, the President of China and Chairman of the CPC, issued a set of eight do’s and eight don’ts to improve the moral standards of Chinese people, the party has gone into an overdrive.
- Oily Skid Is Just Dangerously Around The Corner (Business Line, D. Murali , Apr 08, 2006)
Chindia' will require increasingly high amounts of energy for its growth, points out Stephen Leeb in The Coming Economic Collapse. As alternative energy, biodiesel is well poised "to enter both the vocabulary and the fuel tanks," predicts Lyle . . .
- The Pascal Pressure (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Apr 08, 2006)
The US/EU want developing nations halve their bound rates on industrial import tariffs as a quid pro quo for farm-related concessions.
- Damn Good Dam (Statesman, Sam Rajappa, Apr 08, 2006)
On 15 March the Kerala Assembly unanimously passed a Bill to nullify the 27 February Supreme Court order authorising the raising of water level in the Mullaperiyar dam from 136 feet to 142 feet and permitting further strengthening of the . . .
- Traffic Suspended On Balochistan Highways (News International, Muhammad Ejaz Khan, Apr 07, 2006)
Traffic remained suspended on the national highways in Baloch-dominated areas of the province as a result of their blockade on the second consecutive day on Thursday in protest against the besieging of the residence of BNP chief Sardar Akhtar . . .
- Bnp Seeks Un Intervention On Balochistan Crisis (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
Balochistan Parliamentary leader belonging to Balochistan National Party (BNP) in National Assembly Abdul Rauf Mengal urged the United Nations and all international bodies to intervene in the Balochistan crisis, which had further aggravated as the . . .
- Kashmir A Flashpoint, Says Rice (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
Agreeing that Kashmir was "a flash point", which "has sparked conflict in the region", US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday said that the United States did "actively encourage the parties to find a resolution".
- Mulayam, Chandrababu Naidu Form "Anti-Congress, Anti-Bjp" Front (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI and SUNNY SEBASTIAN , Apr 07, 2006)
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav and Telugu Desam Party chief Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday announced the formation of an "anti-Congress, anti-BJP" front.
- Sonia To Quit All “Profit” Posts (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Apr 07, 2006)
Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s decision to resign as chairperson of the Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Trust may well trigger a wave of similar resignations by her from the various organisations and trusts which she heads or patronises.
- Sbi Employees Reject Fm’S Call To End Strike (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
Lakhs of SBI customers across the country including pensioners, government employees and traders had to celebrate Ram Navami today without much money in their pockets, as over 9000 branches of the bank remained closed for the fourth day.
- Karunanidhi Launches Campaign (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
Launching the election campaign here, Dravida Munntera Kazhagam (DMK) President M. Karunanidhi reiterated his poll pledge of providing colour television sets to each family which did not have one, rice at Rs 2 a kg and giving two acres to landless . . .
- The Yatra Man (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 07, 2006)
Advani cannot give up old habits
- N-Deal Fiasco Will Hit Ties, Warns Rice (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Apr 07, 2006)
Urging members of Congress to support legislation that would enable a nuclear deal with India to reach fruition, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday warned the US-India relationship would suffer a "significant setback" if this agreement . .
- How To Write A Perfect Novel (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
First, many non-resident Indians have taken to full-time writing supplemented by teaching and journalism.
- Israeli Poll And Palestinians (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Apr 07, 2006)
SINCE this country is preoccupied with an array of domestic problems — the ongoing assembly elections in five states, the underplayed Maoist (naxalite) menace, the overplayed office-of-profit issue, and the uncertain future of the Indo-US nuclear deal — i
- Bush Blamed For Iraq Leak (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
Washington, April 6 (Reuters): President George W. Bush authorised the leak to the media of classified material about Iraq, a former aide to vice-president Dick Cheney said according to court papers filed by prosecutors and made public today.
- Berserk Jawans (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 07, 2006)
The CRPF jawan’s shooting his superior, and colleagues, in the chief minister’s residence in Jammu is another reminder that our security personnel are increasingly prone to getting “stressed out” by prolonged counter-insurgency missions in . . .
- The Search For Independence (Telegraph, ARNAB BHATTACHARYA , Apr 07, 2006)
The politics of autonomy: Indian experiences Edited by Ranabir Samaddar, Sage, Rs 620
- In The Twilight Zone (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 07, 2006)
It’s the realm of the unknown; it deals with the supernatural world and its possible influences, it’s a quality hidden from our senses — it’s occult tradition that has had a very special place in the history of social evolution both in the West . . .
- Time For Trade Links (Tribune, Ehsan Fazili, Apr 07, 2006)
The historic bus service that was launched on April 7 2005 by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and then Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in Srinagar has now completed one year of its operation.
- Hierarchy Of Protests, On Delhi Roads (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
Protests have a pecking order, as Delhi has shown in recent days.
- Tremors Shake Parts Of Gujarat (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
Two tremors of moderate intensity on Thursday struck several parts of Gujarat and Mumbai within a gap of nearly six years. People rushed out their homes in panic, official sources said.
- Bush Authorised Leaks On Iraq: Us Court Papers (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
US President George W Bush authorised intelligence leaks ahead of the US invasion of Iraq, indicted former top White House aide I Lewis "Scooter" Libby has said in court papers.
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