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Articles 20321 through 20420 of 53943:
- State And The Nation (Indian Express, SAUBHIK CHAKRABARTI, Mar 10, 2006)
Don't read this if you are a spiritual tourist.
- Where’Ll The Sensex Be Tomorrow? (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Mar 10, 2006)
Give some time flexibility to the last word — next week, next month, next year — and this headline could well be the most frequently asked question I’ve had to deal with, over the last 14 years or so.
- Chariots Of Ire? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 10, 2006)
To the BJP, it must appear as if circumstances have fuelled its rath. While its leaders were concentrated on the shake-out in the party organisation, issues close to the party’s agitational heart were piling up.
- How Provident Is This Fund? (Indian Express, ILA PATNAIK, Mar 10, 2006)
When most people budget for a rainy day, they gain immense assurance from their income set aside for provident fund.
- Rhetoric Clouds Peace Process In Sri Lanka (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Mar 10, 2006)
Negotiations to resolve the ethnic conflict have again run into trouble with both the Sinhala and Tamil camps taking increasingly confrontationist positions.
- India Offers Myanmar Help To Restore Democratic Govt (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The MoU was signed by Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Prabh Das and Director-General of Energy Planning Department of the Ministry of Energy of Myanmar, sources said.
- New Dimensions (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Australia will be looking for new equations with India
- Should Tv Channels Play An Activist Role? (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, Mar 10, 2006)
Although President A. P.J. Abdul Kalam is said to have promised “necessary action” after accepting an SMS petition from a news channel’s viewers asking for justice in the Jessica Lal case, a point to ponder is: is it really the media’s . . .
- There’S A Better Way To Check Stray Animals (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Why can’t the money be used to tackle the problem before precious lives are lost, I can’t understand. Only death and calamity stirs the authorities into action
- Winds Of Insecurity In The Land Of The Brave (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 10, 2006)
The threat to US security from Dubai’s takeover of a few US ports is negligible
- How Many Ways To Tie A Knot? (Indian Express, MARGARET WERTHEIM, Mar 10, 2006)
You have to hand it to mathematicians.
- Elementary, My Dear Watson (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Times, Mar 10, 2006)
Up one day and down the next with the same furious volatility — welcome to life at Sensex over 10,500! The simple truth is that price corrections are bound to be sharp when prices have been driven up with ferocity and when liquidity has . . .
- ‘Kashmir Issue Is Bilateral’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
After the US publicly rejected its request for facilitation on the Kashmir problem, Pakistan on Thursday changed its decades-old stance, with President Pervez Musharraf saying the issue was a bilateral matter and he did not want . . .
- White House Hardsells Nuclear Deal (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The White House also countered the notion that as India’s two developmental fast breeder reactors are outside the scope of international inspections, the country can make enough nuclear weapons to expand the arsenal.
- Govt Staff Strike Called Off (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Vidhana Soudha, Vikasa Soudha, M S Building and Visvesvaraiah Towers, where most of the government departments are located, recorded less than 10 per cent attendance, secretariat sources said.
- Pakistan Keen To Export Jute Goods To India (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Alternative use for jute has emerged
- Going Beyond Separation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 10, 2006)
By making public the Government's plan for separating the civilian and military components of the India's nuclear energy programme, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has allayed many of the fears expressed inside and outside Parliament about the . . .
- Chandigarh: Tale Of Two Cities (Tribune, Ashok Kundra, Mar 10, 2006)
Chandigarh has undergone rapid transformation during the nineties.
- State Budget Should Revive Economy (Deccan Herald, B S Satish Kumar , Mar 10, 2006)
Agri fact: Desired growth rate: 4 % Actual rate in state: 1.5 %
- New Logic For New India (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Mar 10, 2006)
Even after he fell from grace and spent his last years in disgrace, there was one country where Richard Nixon was always welcome. For all its other angularities, China never forgot its indebtedness to the man who in 1971 began the process of extricating t
- Born Again (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Mar 10, 2006)
All of a sudden the Joint Intelligence Committee — “subsumed” in the secretariat of the National Security Council nearly seven years ago — has been revived.
- Corrections And Clarifications (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 10, 2006)
In "Call to register protest against cartoons in peaceful manner" (March 8, 2006, page 10, Chennai city), a resolution adopted at a Chennai rally condemned the caricaturing of the Prophet and demolition of the Samarra mosque, we reported.
- Crunch Time For The Eurozone? (Hindu, William Keegan , Mar 10, 2006)
A gloomy picture has emerged for the beleaguered European Central Bank.
- Middle East In Black And White Terms (Hindu, Simon Tisdall, Mar 10, 2006)
Washington's refusal to deal with the new Hamas government together with a policy of isolating Teheran will only strengthen the hand of hardline Islamists.
- The Writing Is On The Wall For Poll Graffiti (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Mar 10, 2006)
A West Bengal Government directive on ridding walls of poll graffiti has sounded the death knell for a popular means of communication.
- House Panel Votes To Block Dubai Ports Deal In Us (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
A us House of Representatives committee on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to block an Arab-owned company from managing American ports, defying President George W. Bush who has vigorously supported the deal. By a vote of 62-2, the House . . .
- Unknown Outfit Owns Up Blasts, Threatens More (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
According to Kashmir news agency CNS, its office in Srinagar received a telephone call on Thursday afternoon from a man who introduced himself as Abdullah or Abu Feroz, a spokesman of Lashkar-e-Kahab.
- All-Round Criticism Of Budget (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Brinda Karat seeks more funds for the farm sector
- Innovative Steps In Budget To Boost Economy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Gender auditing, outcome budgeting, protection of all stakeholders to boost economy
New policy to encourage private investments health sector soon
10 knowledge centres to be established
- Bsnl Cuts Isd Rates Under Oneindia Plan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Calls to U.S., U.K. to cost Rs. 6 a minute
- Adb Meet To Be Held In Hyderabad In May (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Asian Finance Ministers among 3000 delegates for the meet
- Bush - The Controversial (Daily Excelsior, Tanveer Jafri, Mar 10, 2006)
The president of United States of America, George w. Bush (2) may consider himself the most powerful and the best statesman of the world but in reality he stands at the top of the list of controversial leaders.
- Kalam Addresses The Last Mughal's Lament (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Mar 10, 2006)
President brings a bunch of flowers and lights a candle for Bahadur Shah Zafar
- We Must Negotiate With Iaea For India-Specific Safeguards: Kakodkar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
He does not foresee any interruption in fuel supplies, but says measures needed to deal with interruptions
Safeguards and additional protocol should be India-specific
No interruption in the fuel supplies foreseen
- Blasting Through Peace (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Mar 10, 2006)
A colonial power was dismissed from a fragmented subcontinent.
- No Philosopher’S Stone (Telegraph, Shree Ghatage, Mar 10, 2006)
Shree Ghatage’s first novel, Brahma’s Dream, is set in pre-independence India and ends sometime after Gandhi’s assassination. The painful progress of India into freedom is told through the life of central character, Mohini, who struggles with . . .
- 50 Security Workers Abducted In Iraq (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Gunmen wearing commando uniforms of the Shiite-dominated Interior Ministry stormed an Iraqi security company that relied heavily on Sunni ex-military men from the Saddam regime, spiriting away 50 hostages.
- Myanmar, India Sign Gas Supply Agreement (Reuters, CP Bhambri, Mar 10, 2006)
India has signed a preliminary agreement with Myanmar on buying natural gas from the military-ruled southeast Asian nation, a senior Indian official said.
- If Committees Could Make Books (Telegraph, RAVI VYAS, Mar 10, 2006)
“A camel is a horse formed by a committee,” is an Arab proverb that best explains why Indian publishers take so long to make publishing decisions, and equally long to produce the book. Six months is the lead-time between submission . . .
- India Joins Ranks Of Disaster Donors At Un (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Mar 10, 2006)
India’s role as an emerging global power received a major shot in the arm today when New Delhi joined the world’s “traditional” donors and pledged $2 million to a UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), which will rapidly respond to . . .
- Bush Leaves The Nuclear Deal In Congress Court (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The Bush administration on Thursday submitted to Congress its proposal to change US law to allow the sale of nuclear technology to India, congressional sources said.
- Iran Unites On Nuclear Programme (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Mar 10, 2006)
Iran is digging its heels after its nuclear file on Wednesday was transferred from the IAEA to the powerful United Nations Security Council.
- Varanasi Attacks: Police Release Sketches Of Suspects (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Uttar Pradesh Police on Thursday released sketches of two men suspected to have triggered the twin blasts that killed 15 people, even as they said they had reason to believe Pakistan-based terrorist outfit . . .
- Grief’S Defeat (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 10, 2006)
Rabindranath Tagore’s Jogajog was published, in book-form, in 1929. This was the year Thomas Mann got the Nobel prize and Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own was published. While Tagore’s novel was being serialized in Bichitra . . .
- Iaea Clears Way For Unsc Action On Iran (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The UN nuclear watchdog on Wednesday opened the way for Security Council action against Iran over its nuclear program, sparking an angry reaction from Tehran which threatened Washington with "harm and pain" for leading the charge.
- House Adjourned For 2nd Day Without Any Business (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The National Conference today forced adjournment of the Legislative Assembly without transaction of any business including discussion on the budget for second day today sticking to their demand for constitution of a House Committee . . .
- Kashmir Issue Bilateral: Musharraf (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
After the US publicly rejected its request for facilitation on the Kashmir problem, Pakistan today changed its decades-old stance, with President Pervez Musharraf saying the issue was a bilateral matter and he did not want it to become . . .
- Kashmir Conference Begins Today (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
After the US publicly rejected its request for facilitation on the Kashmir problem, Pakistan today changed its decades-old stance, with President Pervez Musharraf saying the issue was a bilateral matter and he did not want it to become . . .
- Energy Security (Daily Excelsior, O.P. Sabherwal, Mar 10, 2006)
The question is often posed: why fast breeder reactors (FBRs)? What is the special place of fast breeders in India’s nuclear power programme? The simple answer is that fast breeders are the routes to India’s energy security, providing . . .
- Us Compulsion Brings (Daily Excelsior, R.S. Rangachary, Mar 10, 2006)
The self-appointed head prefect of the world has rewarded a bad boy of the class.
- India, China Boundary Talks On Saturday (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
India and China will hold the seventh round of talks for an early settlement of the decades-old border dispute that start on Saturday and shift to a resort in Kerala for the next two days.
- Sabotaging The Soft Image (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 10, 2006)
IT was disturbing to see the police lathi-charge a woman's rally organized by an NGO in Lahore on Wednesday to observe the International Women's Day.
- Pak Economic Superiority To Beat India: Musharraf (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Thursday said Pakistan would get an edge over India by achieving economic superiority rather than indulging in an arms race.
- India's Atomic Energy Chief Hails U.S. Nuclear Deal (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
India's atomic energy chief came out in strong support on Thursday of a civilian nuclear deal sealed last week with the United States, days after saying it could "shackle" his scientists.
- Corruption Plays Role In World Water Shortage - U.N. (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Corruption plays a crucial yet nearly invisible role in depriving nearly a fifth of the world's population of access to safe drinking water, a new U.N. report on water and development said on Thursday.
- Us Congress Approval Will Trigger Nsg Rush To India: Kakodkar (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Once the US Congress clears the Indo-US nuclear deal, it would lead to a rush of Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) countries to access the Indian nuclear power market, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar said here today.
- Musharraf Stand (Statesman, CP Bhambhri, Mar 10, 2006)
After the US publicly rejected its request for facilitation on the Kashmir problem, Pakistan today changed its decades-old stance, with President Pervez Musharraf saying:
- Rejecting Indian Claim (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 10, 2006)
THE Indian government's opposition to the site of the Diamir-Bhasha Dam on the plea that it would not only infringe on its territory but also inundate large parts of northern Kashmir has been met with a firm rebuttal by Pakistan.
- Conference On Kashmir To Begin In Islamabad Tomorrow (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
National Conference leader Umar Abullah and several leaders from both sides of Jammu and Kashmir would assemble here for a two-day conference beginning tomorrow.
- India, Myanmar Sign Three Accords (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Taking bilateral cooperation to a higher plane, India and Myanmar today signed three agreements in petroleum, space and education sectors in the presence of President A P J Abdul Kalam and Chairman of the State Peace and Development . . .
- The Great Deception (Statesman, D BANDYOPADHYAY, Mar 10, 2006)
Sunanda Sanyal’s “Fake ration cards” (28 February-1 March) is an eye-opener on the fraud perpetrated on genuine electors in West Bengal.
- Pakistan To Enhance Deterrence Capability (Pakistan Observer, Aroosa Alam, Mar 10, 2006)
Indo-US nuclear deal and the subsequent alteration in strategic balance in South Asia has compelled Pakistan to expand its nuclear threshold and to enhance its detterence capability.
- Earthquake Relief: Second Phase (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 10, 2006)
The un humanitarian aid coordinating office and Erra, which have been working to provide relief to the October 8 earthquake victims, have announced that they will shortly be launching the next phase of their relief and rehabilitation programmes . . .
- India And Iran, Pakistan Holding Pipeline Talks Next Week (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Officials from India, Pakistan and Iran will meet in Tehran next week to discuss a pipeline project for the export of Iranian natural gas to South Asia, an Indian oil ministry official said.
- Market Crash (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 10, 2006)
Just as the government was taking solace in the capital market emerging as one of the world's best performing in the wake of the Finance Ministry's mid-year review that found faults with almost every other sector of the economy, it lost . . .
- Uk Declares Kashmir Region Safe For British Citizens (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The British government has amended advisory to its citizens travelling to Jammu and Kashmir declaring urban areas of Srinagar and Jammu and Ladakh region safe.
- Iran’S Nuclear Standoff And Pakistan (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 10, 2006)
With the United States nudging the International Atomic Energy Agency at every step, the IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei has transmitted his report on Iran’s nuclear programme to the UN Security Council at the close of the Agency’s . . .
- Fatal Medical Negligence (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 10, 2006)
The tragic death of a woman in Hyderabad as a result of doctors’ negligence should serve as a wake-up call for provincial health authorities who have so far done little to pull up errant doctors whose casual approach to their profession continues . . .
- Bush Sends India Nuclear Request To Congress - Sources (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The Bush administration on Thursday submitted to Congress its proposal to change U.S. law to allow the sale of nuclear technology to India, congressional sources said.
- Kashmir Involves India & Pakistan: Cbms Progressing: Musharraf (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf said on Thursday that the issue of Kashmir was a bilateral matter involving Pakistan and India and neither party wanted it to become a trilateral or multilateral issue.
- Kashmir Issue Is Bilateral: Musharraf (The Nation, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
After the US publicly rejected its request for facilitation on the Kashmir problem, Pakistan has changed its decades-old stance, with President Pervez Musharraf saying the issue is a bilateral matter and he does not want it to become . . .
- Kesc Seeks Further Raise In Tariff (News International, Khalid Mustafa, Mar 10, 2006)
The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) after getting a raise of 23 paisa per unit in power tariff under the quarterly automatic fuel adjustments formula, has asked the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) to further increase its power
- Pak-Afghan Tension (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 10, 2006)
That the main issue during talks between General Musharraf and CENTCOM Commander Gen John Abizaid was the situation on Pakistan's western border indicates that differences between Pakistan and Afghanistan have reached a point where a third . . .
- Fast-Paced Development In Fata (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 10, 2006)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that additional funds will be made available for fast track development in the Tribal Areas. Talking to Tribal Maliks and elders, who called on him in Rawalpindi on Wednesday, he said that the Government . . .
- Britain Slams Blasts In Indian Holy City (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
British Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells on Wednesday condemned bombings in the Hindu pilgrimage city of Varanasi that killed 23 people, saying he was ‘horrified’ to hear of the attacks.
- What Sanity Demands (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 09, 2006)
The Iran nuclear crisis is hotting up again. New developments have belied the hopes raised by the Russian proposal on which Moscow and Tehran had been negotiating.
- Iaea Clears Way For Un Action On Iran (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
* UNSC to take up watchdog’s report next week
* ElBaradei says political settlement still possible
* Russia sees no military solution, says sanctions ineffective
- Horse-Trading And Legitimacy Of The Senate (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 09, 2006)
Appearing on a TV channel on Tuesday, opposition politicians complained of the buying and selling of votes in the provincial assemblies on the occasion of elections to the Senate on March 6, 2006.
- Mumbai On A Realty High (The Financial Express, VIJAY VANCHESWAR, Mar 09, 2006)
The Indian real estate sector is witnessing an interesting phase of evolution and transition.
- On Tenterhooks (Business Standard, Niraj Bhatt, Mar 09, 2006)
The global interest rate situation does not seem as benign as it used to a couple of months ago.
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