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Articles 22021 through 22120 of 53943:
- Shirking Hard Decisions (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Feb 21, 2006)
sking the poor what they want is the last thing that any Indian government in the past or present has ever done
- Plight Of America's Migrant Day Workers (Hindu, Gary Younge, Feb 21, 2006)
Migrant workers do the jobs that Americans will not do, but they are vulnerable to bigots and big business.
- Detention Of Consignments Hits Namakkal Poultry Farmers Hard (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
They hope Government will sort out the issue before expiry of shelf life of eggs "As they do not obtain a letter of credit for export, any return of goods will ruin them. They face an uncertain future and are at an enormous risk."
- Mittal Not Telling Truth: Arcelor (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
"Takeover bid not good for shareholders, stakeholders"
Global steel major Arcelor on Monday charged NRI steel tycoon L.N. Mittal with not telling the truth and claimed that his bid to take over the Luxembourg-based company was not good for shareholders
- India To Study French Levy To Support Anti-Aids Campaign (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
New Delhi, Paris reaffirm commitment to fight terrorism
India on Monday told France that it "would study" the modalities of the levy Paris imposed on air tickets as part of an international effort to support developing countries in their campaign . . .
- 10,000 Cr. For Irrigation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Rs. 996-crore deficit budget presented; two-thirds share for non-plan expenditure
- Nepal Talks (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Nepal’s key Opposition parties today ruled out talks with King Gyanendra and vowed to intensify protests in the troubled Himalayan nation.
- Pakistan, Sri Lanka Issue Bird Flu Alerts (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Pakistan and Sri Lanka have issued bird flu alerts in view of H5N1 virus' appearance in India.
- Culling Of Birds To End Today (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Feb 21, 2006)
Retail sale of Tamiflu to be banned
Ministry to buy Tamiflu from pharma companies, supply to hospitals
Disposal, clean-up, disinfecting operations in progress
- Anger At Mass Slaughter Of Birds (Hindu, Meena Menon, Feb 21, 2006)
Poultry farmers in Navapur scoff at the Rs. 40 offered as compensation for every bird killed "I can understand killing the birds if they are diseased but there is nothing here."
- Hampi Is A Very Special Heritage Site, Says Visiting Unesco Representative (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
It has potential to attract more international tourists: Minja Yang
- Pakistan, China To Boost Strategic Ties: Hu Calls For Negotiated Settlement Of Kashmir Dispute (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Pakistan and China on Monday vowed to reinforce and deepen their strategic partnership through increased cooperation in political, diplomatic and economic fields and the Chinese president supported the peace dialogue between Pakistan and India . . .
- Olmert Halts Transfer Of Funds To Palestinian Authority (Hindu, Chris McGreal, Feb 21, 2006)
Hamas nominates Ismail Haniyeh for Prime Minister post
- Pakistan Bans Imports (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Feb 21, 2006)
Pakistan is banning poultry imports from India, Iran and France as a precautionary measure following reports of avian flu, Food and Agricultural Ministry official Rana Muhammad Akhlaq said on Monday.
- Rs. 10,000 Crore Allocation For Andhra Pradesh Irrigation Sector (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Finance Minister Rosaiah presents Rs. 996-crore deficit State Budget in Assembly
- Rooting Bird Flu Out Of India (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 21, 2006)
The stakes cannot be higher. According to a statement made in the Rajya Sabha on Monday by the Union Health Minister, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss, "the test reports of some samples from affected poultry [in Navapur taluk in the Nandurbar district of Maharashtra
- Beyond The Pale Of Law And Human Rights (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 21, 2006)
Every year, the United States State Department publishes a sanctimonious document titled `Country Reports on Human Rights Practices' skewering governments across the world for alleged human rights violations.
- Aviation Policy In The Offing: Patel (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Feb 21, 2006)
Government for making Air India, Indian one entity
Air India and Indian had not been given a level-playing field in the past, and "we will try to bring them closer to form an even more formidable entity in the future,
- United In Bird Flu, Paris And Delhi Sign Agreement (Telegraph, Poornima Joshi, Feb 21, 2006)
If the bird flu doesn’t kill the Indian poultry business, the establishment
- Walkout Over Mulford Issue; Congress Isolated (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Left parties and Samajwadi Party join hands with Opposition in demanding recall of U.S. Ambassador
Mulford should be declared persona non grata: Gurudas Dasgupta
Improper for ambassador to have written to Chief Minister: Malhotra
- Call For Enforcing Safety Measures In Poultry Farms (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Mayor organises discussion on avian flu threat
Disease investigation experts have highlighted the need for strict surveillance and enforcement of basic safety measures in poultry farms to prevent an outbreak of avian influenza in the city.
- Iran, Upa ‘Minorityism’ Targeted In Ls (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Feb 21, 2006)
The BJP signalled a return to full-fledged Hindutva while the Samajwadi Party and the CPI(M) sharply criticised the UPA government’s economic and foreign policies in course of the debate on the motion of thanks on the President’s address that began . . .
- Thanks Jacques, Hello George (Indian Express, C. Raja Mohan, Feb 21, 2006)
French nod for nuclear status isn’t an alternative to dealing with Americans
- Don’T Chicken Out (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 21, 2006)
There’s a difference between prevention and panic. Bird flu response must remember that
- N-Talks Fail, To Continue (Indian Express, Dadan Upadhyay, Feb 21, 2006)
Talks between Russia and Iran failed to reach an agreement over Moscow’s offer to set up a joint venture on Russian soil to enrich uranium for Iran.
- ‘Licence Raj Creates Privileged Industrialists, Workers While The Real Work Is Done By Unorganised Labour’ (Indian Express, Raghuram Rajan, Feb 21, 2006)
Raghuram Rajan, the youngest person to be appointed chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, has won acclaim for his prescriptions on how to ‘save capitalism from the capitalists’. In a conversation with Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief . . .
- India, France Ink N-Declaration (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Feb 21, 2006)
India and France today stopped short of a formal agreement on civilian nuclear energy cooperation, with the outcome of the Indo-US nuclear deal holding the key to realising this agreement at a later date.
- India Eyes $1 Billion Fdi Flow From France (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Union Minister for Commerce Kamal Nath, on Monday, called for a target of a sustained average foreign direct investment (FDI) of $1 billion annually from France into India and an evenly balanced total trade turnover of $10 billion within three years.
- Why The World Is Afraid Of Iran Nukes (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Iran’s nuclear research programme began in 1967 with the establishment of the Tehran Nuclear Research Center, equipped with a US-supplied nuclear research reactor.
- Hamas In Coalition Talks With Militants (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
The Islamist group Hamas opened talks on Monday with other militant factions about forming a new Palestinian government, and assured them it would not crack down on their fighters despite international pressure.
- Civilian N-Deal: Pak Seeks Parity With India (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Pakistan on Monday urged the world community to treat it at par with India in civilian nuclear cooperation.
- India, France Sign Accords (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Feb 21, 2006)
France ready to give nuclear power plants, fuel
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised on Monday that any civil nuclear facilities that became available in future to India through international cooperation would be subject to IAEA safeguards.
- 80 Per Cent Of Birds Culled (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Not a single chicken has come out of Navapur, says animal husbandry secretary
Remaining 1.25 lakh birds to be culled by Tuesday
Officials confirmed it is avian flu
Birds not infected also to be killed
- The Significant Downside Of Sezs (The Economic Times, BULBUL SEN, Feb 21, 2006)
The SEZ Act, 2005 consolidates existing specialised incentive packages and, in several respects, extends these to provide a range of benefits both in direct and indirect taxes for the promotion of exports as well as for the development of these zones .. .
- India Quarantines Six As Bird Flu Spreads Faster (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Feb 21, 2006)
India began a door-to-door search for anyone with fever on Monday, quarantining six people in hospital as authorities scrambled to contain the country's first outbreak of bird flu.
- Arcelor Row Clouds Chirac India Visit To Boost Trade (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Feb 21, 2006)
India and France signed pacts on Monday to boost trade and push nuclear energy cooperation but a row over a takeover bid for European steel firm Arcelor haunted French President Jacques Chirac's visit to New Delhi.
- Renegade S.Lanka Rebels Won't Disarm Yet (Reuters, Simon Gardner, Feb 21, 2006)
A breakaway Sri Lankan rebel leader, whose feuding with the Tamil Tigers is threatening a fragile ceasefire and is central to peace talks this week, said on Monday his forces would only disarm if the main group does.
- India, France Sign Document On Civilian (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
India and France today signed a landmark document on civilian nuclear cooperation and a defence pact with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declaring that New Delhi would place its nuclear facilities acquired in "future" through international . . .
- Mr Lalu Prasad And His Horses (Business Line, R. C. Acharya, Feb 21, 2006)
"If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick," announced sagely Mr Lalu Prasad, who as the Minister for Railways is responsible for the efficient and safe working of this behemoth, which employs 1.7 million people.
- Challenges Before Khaleda Zia (Daily Excelsior, V M Gokuldas, Feb 21, 2006)
Begum Khaleda Zia, Bengladesh Prime Minister and the current chairperson of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), chose to pay her first visit in her view capacity to Pakistan.
- Pak, Lanka, Nepal, Some Gulf Nations Ban Indian Poultry Import (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal and some Gulf countries today banned the import of poultry and its products from India in the wake of outbreak of the deadly bird flu in Maharashtra.
- India, France Sign Civil Nuclear, Trade Deals (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
India signed a string of trade and defence deals on Monday with French President Jacques Chirac including a nuclear declaration.
- India, France Ink Declaration On Civilian Nuclear Cooperation (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Inking a declaration on civilian nuclear cooperation, India and France today outlined the parameters of an intended agreement with both sides committing that the cooperation in the field would be subject to "appropriate safeguards" agreements . . .
- Kalam For More Collaborations Between India, France (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
With its rapid economic growth and rise as a hub of commercial research and development, India has key partnership opportunities to offer to France in a variety of sectors, including energy and infrastructure, President A P J Abdul Kalam said today.
- Nepal Bans Import Of Poultry From India (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Nepal has banned import of poultry and poultry products from India and activated all quarantine posts along the Indo-Nepal border after India reported its first outbreak of bird flu.
- Hurriyat Rejects Pm's Talk Offer (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Kashmir's main separatist alliance on Monday rejected an invitation by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to attend a conference to boost a peace process in the restive Himalayan region.
- Resistance Groups Reject Kashmir Conference (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Practically everyone from Kashmir’s frontline resistance groups has backed out from a round table conference called by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here this week to hear out as many views as he could on the dispute, their representatives said on
- Restrictions On Import Of Poultry (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Poultry stock, eggs to be allowed only through designated check-posts
- Govt Bans Livestock From India, France And Iran (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
The government has decided to ban the import of poultry and live birds from India, Iran and France where cases of bird flu have been reported.
- A Sorry Example Up There (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Feb 21, 2006)
Uttar Pradesh — a state that elects the single largest number of members of parliament and equally the state that represents corruption and criminality in the public space. This region was once synonymous with culture,
- Philosopher And Teacher: Peter Strawson (Telegraph, Arindam Chakrabarti, Feb 21, 2006)
A thinker who was relentless in his pursuit of truth and its importance, writes Arindam Chakrabarti in his tribute to Peter Strawson The author is professor of philosophy, University of Hawaii
- Virus Shuts Out Indian Poultry (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bahrain and UAE today banned poultry imports from India after reports of the first confirmed outbreak of bird flu in Maharashtra.
- Two Reliance Commn Firms Write Off Rs 4500 Cr (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Post write-off, RCVL net worth stands at Rs 11,000cr.
Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-ADAG) today announced that the two companies operating under its telecom holding arm, Reliance Communications Ventures Ltd (RCVL), approved write-offs and . . .
- Mirage Of More Scorpene Like Deals (Daily Excelsior, Rajkumar Vijayveer Vikram Singh, Feb 21, 2006)
France is like India in one respect: looking for new friends, trade and business promotion and strengthening strategic relations.
- India's Savings Rate Surge (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Feb 21, 2006)
The revised estimates of national income with 1999-2000 as base suggest that an increase in the savings rate since 2002-03 has been sustained into 2004-05, taking the domestic savings rate to record levels. In this edition of Macroscan,. . .
- Mittal Steel Bid For Arcelor — A Lesson In Economic Globalisation (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Feb 21, 2006)
The Mittal Steel bid for Arcelor has elicited differing views from the companies, observers and politicians. With the Arcelor brass appearing to change tack from the initial opposition to the bid, it may be best for politicians to keep off, . . .
- Nationalism And Culture (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Feb 21, 2006)
Annapurna (a reader of Business Week) says, “I think Europeans, especially the French, are being small minded and racist (as usual) in protesting the attempted takeover. Their problem is not the takeover bid but the fact that an Indian . . .
- Iran Leader Urges Muslims To Fund Palestinians (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Monday on Muslims worldwide to provide money to the Palestinians during his talks with the Islamic radical Hamas movement, state television reported.
- Bird Flu Spreads Across India (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
India began a door-to-door search for people with fever on Monday, quarantining six people in hospital as authorities scrambled to contain the country’s first outbreak of bird flu.
- Hurriyat Rejects Indian Talks Offer (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Kashmir’s main separatist alliance on Monday rejected an invitation by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to attend a conference to boost a peace process in the restive Himalayan region.
- France To Help In N-Energy (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Feb 21, 2006)
India today sent an unambiguous message to the international community when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh proclaimed that all facilities procured by New Delhi in future through international cooperation on civilian nuclear energy will be subjected to IAEA
- 'Iran Reserves Right To Nuclear R&d’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
* Iranian FM says there is still time for nuclear compromise
* Warns UNSC must not be turned into a political pressure tool
- Indian Tortoise And Chinese Hare (Daily Times, Kenneth Rogoff, Feb 21, 2006)
In caste-bound India perhaps only one in five people is integrated into the global economy. For every call centre employee, there are many more people still eking out a subsistence living on the land
- Us-India N-Deal Close: Burns (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
The United States remains optimistic that it will clinch a landmark agreement with India on civilian nuclear cooperation, a top US diplomat said in a US magazine interview published on Sunday.
- Poultry Imports From India, Iran, France Banned (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Pakistan has banned all imports of poultry and live birds from India, Iran and France after the countries reported cases of H5N1 bird flu, officials said on Monday.
- India, France Sign Nuclear Energy, Trade Deals (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
India and France signed an agreement on Monday on future civilian nuclear cooperation, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said.
- Safta Needs A Patron (Dawn, Shahid Javed Burki, Feb 21, 2006)
I Need to revisit the subject of Safta. My last article on the subject appeared on January 24, less than a month ago.
- Through The Third Eye (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 21, 2006)
In India and many parts of the world, AOL has become synonymous not so much with America Online but with an inner and spiritual search engine called the Art of Living.
- The Round Table (Tribune, B.G. Verghese, Feb 21, 2006)
The Government should not permit any person or group to exercise a veto on Jammu and Kashmir.
- Cartoon Row: Sonia Says She Shares The Sense Of Outrage (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Terming the publication of cartoons about Prophet Muhammad as "insensitive", Congress President Sonia Gandhi has said she shared the sense of outrage of the Muslim community.
- India, France Ink 9 Agreements (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
India and France today signed nine bilateral documents in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and visiting French President Jacques Chirac.
- Neighbours Ban Poultry Import From India (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
India’s neighbouring countries — Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka — and the Gulf countries have banned the import of poultry and poultry products from India in the wake of reports of outbreak of bird flu there.
- Pandemic Preparedness (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 21, 2006)
The arrival of avian flu in Africa means that the bird epidemic is officially out of control. None of the methods used against it so far — mass vaccination of poultry flocks in China, mass bird slaughter across Southeast Asia . . .
- Advantage India: French Nuclear Deal (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
The Indo-French civil nuclear declaration signed on Monday concentrated on efforts to coax the Indian nuclear system into the international mainstream, but stopped well short of nuclear trade, until after the Nuclear Suppliers Group . . .
- From Farming To Knowledge (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 21, 2006)
Punjab’s path to future growth
Punjab has a special reason to be happy about President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s Address to Parliament on Thursday.
- Give Mulford The Boot: Indian Opp (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Feb 21, 2006)
The Indian opposition, ruling alliance partners and Left parties asked the government on Monday to show the door to United States Ambassador David Mulford for interfering in the country’s internal matters.
- Street Violence Is Not The Answer (Dawn, Zia-ul-Islam, Feb 21, 2006)
It is ironic that in the middle of the cartoon crisis, Abu Hamza al Masri, a London-based Muslim leader, should be convicted by a British judge for delivering sermons that “created a real danger to the lives of innocent people in different . . .
- Three Babies Quarantined For Bird Flu (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
The Maharashtra Government today quarantined three babies for suspected bird flu in Nandurbar district, health officials said here today. The cases were detected after the authorities undertook a door-to-door survey for suspected bird flu cases . . .
- Bitter Harvests Of Zionism (Dawn, Paul Oestreicher, Feb 21, 2006)
The chief rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, is right. His reaction to the Anglican synod’s call for sanctions against Israel is understandable. Hatred of Judaism — now commonly called anti-Semitism — is a virus that has infected Christendom for two millennia.
- Opposition Says Nepal King’S Offer Artificial (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
Rejecting King Gyanendra’s appeal to come together for reactivating the stalled democratic process in Nepal as “meaningless” and “artificial,” the pro-democracy seven-party alliance on Sunday staged a major rally to protest his autocratic rule.
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