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Articles 23721 through 23820 of 53943:
- Kalam Begins Philippines Visit (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
India and the Philippines are set to take bilateral ties to a qualitatively higher plane by signing four accords, including the first one ever on defence cooperation envisaging among other things exchange of Air Force planes, . . .
- Iaea Delays Vote To Report Iran To U.N. Security Council (Reuters, MARK HEINRICH, Feb 04, 2006)
The U.N. nuclear watchdog put off until Saturday a vote to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council over concerns it is seeking atomic bombs, as European Union powers lobbied developing nations to back the measure
- Govt Says Airport Strike Won't Stop Privatisation (Reuters, Nitin Luthra, Feb 04, 2006)
The government told thousands of striking airport workers on Friday that it would not reverse a decision to hand over New Delhi and Mumbai airports to private firms to modernise and manage.
- Fear Stalks Taliban Heartland In Afghanistan (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
A breeze blows down the dark deserted streets of this southern Afghan city as Mohammad Hussain closes his bakery for the night.
- Iaea Puts Off Deciding On Iran (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
The UN atomic agency has put off a decision on whether to send Iran to the UN Security Council over fears it is developing a nucler weapon, with an emergency session resuming tomorrow, an agency spokesman said.
- Go, Fly A Kite (Indian Express, Rajnish Wattas, Feb 04, 2006)
I think little boys and kites have a special bond. And thankfully not even the TV-computer onslaught has been able to snap it. No wonder, even Chandigarh the planned, modern city — unlike traditional walled cities — had some kites on its skies . . .
- U.N. Seeks Money To Keep Pakistan Quake Relief Flying (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
The United Nations said on Friday it needed more than $100 million to keep a fleet of helicopters assisting earthquake recovery operations in northern Pakistan flying for the rest of the year.
- Poverty Among Women Underestimated (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 04, 2006)
The following is excerpted from the United Nations report “The World’s Women 2005: Progress in Statistics.”
- Maxim, Dorky (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Feb 04, 2006)
Before Khushboo can accuse us of being one of those uber-liberal-types who use the ‘freedom of expression’ clause to support anything and everything appearing in the media, let us state that she is well within her right to be furious with the lad mag, ...
- Decision On Iran Put Off Till Saturday (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
The IAEA decision on referring Iran to the UNSC has been put off till Saturday, an agency spokesperson said.
- India, Singapore To Cement R&d Ties (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
In a multi-pronged approach to developing bilateral relations, India and Singapore have taken initiatives to forge research partnership in science and technology. Linkages are being established between leading educational, scientific and . . .
- Chirac Is Right After All (Deccan Herald, Jonathan Steele, Feb 04, 2006)
The Hamas and Iran crises underline the collapse of the neocon mission and the end of a one-superpower world
- Eaves Dropping And Taking To Task (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Feb 04, 2006)
Sometimes when I pick up the phone to ring up someone, I hear two people talking to each other. Instead of putting down the receiver, I listen to their conversation. Once when my line crossed with another I heard two women going on and on . . .
- Butter Fingers Or Booby Traps? (Deccan Herald, Anita N S, Feb 04, 2006)
Suspiciously, some have objects slipping from their hands a tad too frequently
- Indian Railways As Railways Inc Is Budget’S New Thrust (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Feb 04, 2006)
The price war in private airlines is being carefully watched at Rail Bhavan as officials work on Laloo Prasad Yadav’s third railway budget to be unveiled on February 24.
- Blanket Arrests To Foil Oppn March To Dhaka (Deccan Herald, Hassan Shahriar, Feb 04, 2006)
A “Long March” by Bangladesh’s mainstream opposition parties to force Begum Khaleda Zia’s four-year-old government to step down and hold elections seems to have caused worries to the administration that is leaving no stone unturned to foil the move.
- Laid To Rest (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 04, 2006)
This is one controversy that saw a quick resolution. The government must be commended for giving the go-ahead for the overseas plans of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), which include the IIM-B’s plan to open a campus in Singapore.
- Pakistan Seeks Nuclear Parity With India: Us (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Feb 04, 2006)
The Pakistani premier had raised the issue of nuclear parity with India in his address last month to the prestigious Council on Foreign relations in New York.
- Iaea Puts Off Decision On Iran (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
The UN nuclear watchdog's governing board has put off until Saturday a resumption of a meeting to consider reporting Iran to the United Nations Security Council over its disputed atomic programme, a spokeswoman said
- Another India In Davos (Deccan Herald, Tavleen Singh, Feb 04, 2006)
The bars of Davos were decorated with terracotta elephants and spangled dupattas and in hotel lobbies Ganesha smiled upon visitors.
- Road Mazdoors To Be Reinstated (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
They will get three months pay as ex gratia; appeal in Supreme Court . . .
- Effort Begins To Prevent Forest Fire (Hindu, V.S. Palaniappan, Feb 04, 2006)
Vulnerable areas identified, dry vegetation being removed
Fire patrol parties formed in all the six ranges
Tight vigil to continue till May
Steps to reduce man-animal conflicts
- Hamas No To Recognition, But Ready For Peace Talks (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
Hamas will never recognise Israel’s right to exist but will negotiate conditions for a long-term truce with the Jewish state, senior Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal told a Palestinian newspaper in comments published on Friday.
- Satyam Unveils Centre Of Excellence In Detroit (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
Similar centres planned in Chennai, Germany and Tokyo
- Kalam For Self-Reliance In Critical Technologies (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Feb 04, 2006)
"No nation should control what India is doing"
President begins three-day Philippines visit Indian, Filipino nurses can be caring corps
- More Attacks Likely, Says Uk Watchdog (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
New terror attacks on Britain are likely, including suicide bombings like the ones that killed 52 commuters on London’s transportation system, a watchdog on anti-terror measures reported on Friday.
- "Pakistan Militants A Threat To Stability" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
Pakistan-based militant groups that are active in Kashmir pose a persistent threat to regional stability and U.S. interests in South Asia and the Near East, said a U.S. top intelligence official testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee here.
- Tackling Global Warming (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 04, 2006)
According to the World Meteorological Organisation, 2005 missed becoming the warmest year on record by the merest fraction of a degree Celsius.
- Bush Has To Face It: He Is Wrong And Chirac Is Right (Hindu, Jonathan Steele, Feb 04, 2006)
The crises over Hamas and Iran underline the end of a one-superpower world.
- `India Everywhere' (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Feb 04, 2006)
At Davos the theme song, as far as New Delhi is concerned, was "India Everywhere". As a publicity ploy, the message could not have been better constructed, specially at this juncture when foreign investors see great potential in Indian investments.
- Eco-Tourism Project For 10 Centres (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
Governor R.L. Bhatia has announced a new eco-tourism project, `Wonderful Wilderness,' to be implemented in 10 select centres. He also announced the `Habitat Forestry' scheme for planting trees in public and private land in his annual address . . .
- Islam Being Targeted As Religion Of Terrorism: Prince Of Arcot (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
Appeals to students, youth to fight vested interests trying to divide nation
- "Bilateral Partnerships Needed To Tackle Environmental Security" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
Climate change, energy use major issues, says British High Commissioner
- Hepatitis C Virus Screening Urged (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
Infection is totally preventable say medical experts Infection is totally preventable, say medical experts
Risk of transmission through sex relatively less
A vaccine is yet to be developed to combat HCV
- How To Woo The Smart Small Investor (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 04, 2006)
Without regulatory controls in place, the finance ministry’s dream of having a strong domestic pipeline of retail funds as the balancing factor against FII tides will remain just that, a dream, says Monika Halan
- Centre Firm On Privatising Airports, Says Jyoti Basu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
"Government has told Left leaders it would not reverse process"
Whatever might be the outcome of the talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and leaders of the striking employees of the Airports Authority of India (AAI), . . .
- Globalisation `Is Now Officially Dead' (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 04, 2006)
John Ralston Saul traces the rise, plateau and fall of globalisation in The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World, and explains why it is officially dead. On a similar theme, A Fair Globalisation: Creating Opportunities for Al l, . . .
- House Majority Leader (Hindu, Jessica Wehrman, Feb 04, 2006)
Representative John Boehner was elected House Majority Leader on Thursday, capping a political comeback that began with his ouster from House leadership eight years ago
- Vision And Action (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 04, 2006)
In his second `national' press conference since taking charge as Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh showed himself as the professional economist he has always been, now imbued with a vision.
- Body Language, The Voice Of The Soul (The Economic Times, V B N RAM, Feb 04, 2006)
The manner and style of our emotive communication, the inner-most feelings of our heart, our mood swings and all other thought currents within the mind can’t find a better means of articulation except through one’s body language.
- Getting Serious About Global Poverty (The Economic Times, RODRIGO DE RATO, Feb 04, 2006)
Institutions and governments, like people, make bold resolutions at the beginning of every year. But, for the millions who face the crushing burden of poverty, mere proclamations that help is on the way are not enough to create jobs or foster development.
- India Needs To Improve Soft Skills’ (The Economic Times, SANJEEV SINHA, Feb 04, 2006)
The intellectual capital that India possesses is likely to keep it ahead of the rest. However, it must quickly address the gaps in infrastructure, legislation and proactive training, if it has to retain this advantage, believes Romi Malhotra, . . .
- Flights Normal, Ground Conditions At Airport Abnormal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
Day Three of strike by airport staff one long nightmare for travellers
- Ground These Protests (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Feb 04, 2006)
There is not a single rational contention to the government’s awarding of Delhi and Mumbai airport modernisation contracts, though irrational ones are neither serious nor escapable.
- Intellectual Property: Who’S Stolen From Whom? (The Financial Express, YRK REDDY, Feb 04, 2006)
Chairman & CEO of Pfizer Inc, Hank McKinnell, had reportedly made a comment which the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA) believes is both slanderous as well as racist. Mr McKinnell made statements on winning a case against an Indian . . .
- Resolution Ready (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
Diplomats on Friday finished fine-tuning a resolution calling for Iran's referral to the Security Council and awaited final approval from their Governments before submitting it to the IAEA board for a decision.
- Iaea Puts Off Meeting (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
Vote on referring Iran to Security Council today
- Bush Tried To "Lure'' Iraq Into A War (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Feb 04, 2006)
Blair backed the plan, says book
U.S. President George W. Bush so desperately wanted to attack Iraq on any pretext that he even contemplated `luring'' Saddam Hussein into a war by sending a spy plane, painted in U.N. colours, over Iraq hoping . . .
- Dozens Feared Dead As Cruise Liner Sinks; Rescue Efforts Hampered By Bad Weather (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Feb 04, 2006)
Bad weather suspected to be the cause; U.S. offer of help spurned
- Successful Liver Transplants At Gangaram (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
Of 34 patients operated upon, 14 were from countries like Pakistan, Nigeria and West Indies
- Kochi All Set To Host Global Education Meet (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
R.L. Bhatia will inaugurate the meet today
Delegates from the country and abroad will participate in the four-day event
Several organisations will hold protest marches to the venue
City Police have been geared up to meet any untoward incident
- Iran Faces Iaea Vote (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
We are at a critical phase not a crisis situation, says ElBaradei
Iran, facing almost certain referral to the U.N. Security Council, threatened retaliation, Thursday, and the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said the dispute over . . .
- Water Connections For Unapproved Layouts (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
The decision follows a Government Order
Corporation to save Rs. 1 crore a year
- The Long And The Longest (Deccan Herald, SHARBELLE FERNANDEZ, Feb 03, 2006)
Certain words in English make us pause and think how on earth they emerged
- New-Found Assertion (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 03, 2006)
Manmohan Singh is now more sure of his bearings as PM
Arguably, Dr Manmohan Singh’s apparent political innocence was the source of strength when he marked the completion of his UPA government’s first hundred days in office with ....
- Negotiating The N-Deal (Deccan Herald, Michael Krepon , Feb 03, 2006)
India’s concerns can be addressed by creating new standards to strengthen the rules against proliferation
- New Bush? (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
The American President is chastened but not over Iraq
On the face of it, US President George Bush’s State of the Union address reflects a more chastened leader.
- No Protests At Airport Gates: Court (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
The Delhi High Court on Thursday restrained employees of the Airports Authority of India from organising agitations within 500 metres of the entry points of airports and at the gates of the Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan here, which houses the AAI headquarters.
- Now, A Political Prime Minister (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 03, 2006)
Manmohan Singh's first meeting with the capital's press corps in September 2004 showcased a Prime Minister starting out on the learning curve.
- Abstract Art Finds A Niche (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
Abstract art is rich and creative with varying styles, techniques and temper in resonating visual language
- Kerosene, Lpg Prices Will Not Be Hiked: Murli Deora (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
According "highest priority" to safeguard the interests of the weakest and vulnerable sections in society, Petroleum Minister Murli Deora has ruled out increasing prices of kerosene and cooking gas.
- Centre Arms Itself With Toughest Aviation Law As Pm Meets Left Today To Draw The Line (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Feb 03, 2006)
With growing public anger over the Left-backed strike by AAI unions that has turned Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata airports into open trash cans and endangered air safety, the government today authorised the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) . . .
- Council Of States Or Council Of Nominees? (Hindu, Era Sezhiyan, Feb 03, 2006)
Removal of secret voting in Rajya Sabha elections is an onslaught on a free and fair electoral process. And the removal of residential qualification for candidates negates the constitutional purpose of the Council of States.
- Paraiya Dogs Become Apna (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 03, 2006)
Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!” In Bihar’s Gaya district, the counter-revolutionary reply to that could even be one of “Stray dogs of Paraiya unite! You have everything to gain without the chains!”
- Yes, Prime Minister (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Feb 03, 2006)
Prime ministerial press conferences are meant to be image projection exercises. Without being as colourful as the media would like Manmohan Singh came across on Wednesday as, on the whole, balanced and sensible.
- Palestinians In A Lose-Lose Situation (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Feb 03, 2006)
Hamas’ electoral power has frightened the Arabs and appalled the West which must now deal with it
- Plane Length (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Feb 03, 2006)
There is one unreported fallout of the Sahara airlines buyout by Jet Airways. Congress president Sonia Gandhi can now shed her reservations about stepping into a Sahara aircraft. Since it was set up, she had consistently avoided any Sahara . . .
- In His Guru's Footsteps (Hindu, M. SURYA PRASAD, Feb 03, 2006)
It is good news for Carnatic music, that youth in general and software engineers in particular are evincing lot of interest in it and have been able to win big audiences all over.
- Give Peace Its Due (Deccan Herald, Gareth Evans, Feb 03, 2006)
Once the guns go silent, what comes next? This is being asked around the world, not only in Iraq but also from Haiti to Liberia, from Aceh to Burundi, from Afghanistan to Sierra Leone.
- New Power Play Begins Today (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
The stage is set for opening a new coalition chapter in State politics with the Karnataka High Court on Thursday clearing legal hurdles for the swearing-in of the Janata Dal (Secular)-BJP coalition government.
- Gowda Rebuffs Mlas (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
The much-hyped meeting between Mr Gowda and the party MLAs turned out to be a mere formality as it failed to make any impact on the present political developments with both the parties sticking to their stands.
- A Clean Sweep, Bar The Cow Dung (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
“We have packed up from here and shifted our luggages to 10, Circular Road, the new house allotted to Madam (Rabri Devi). Everything has been shifted except for a few goats and cow dung,” Laloo jocularly told mediamen virtually bringing down the curtains
- Easy Way To Liberation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
Chanting the Divine name has been advocated in the scriptures as the easiest and the most efficacious of the means to liberation in this Kali age. What is the reason for this?
- Pakistan Says No Direct Military Threat From India (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
Ruling out a direct military threat from India as long as the peace process goes on, Pakistan has said that those involved in militancy in Jammu and Kashmir were "freedom fighters."
- India Will Say Yes In Iran Vote (Hindustan Times, Nilova Roy Chaudhury, Feb 03, 2006)
India is likely to vote in favour of the resolution on the Iran nuclear issue, if it comes up for voting at the IAEA's emergency meeting on Friday.
- Us Seeks To Curb China’S Might: Pentagon Official (Indian Express, Jim Wolf, Feb 03, 2006)
The Pentagon is seeking to dissuade China from building its military forces to a level not warranted by its security needs, and the issue is addressed in a new long-term Pentagon plan, a US official said on Wednesday.
- Police Take Over Airports As Strike Bites (Reuters, Shailendra Bhatnagar, Feb 03, 2006)
Police took over much of the running of the country's two main airports on Thursday as striking workers protested for a second day over threatened job cuts because of privatisation.
- Iaea Discusses Iran Referral To Unsc (Indian Express, MARK HEINRICH, Feb 03, 2006)
The UN nuclear watchdog inched on Thursday toward reporting Iran to the UN Security Council over fears it secretly seeks atomic bombs but the agency’s chief said Tehran did not pose “an imminent threat”.
- Job Guarantee Rolls Out, Ray Of Hope In New Delhi Shadow (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Feb 03, 2006)
At three this afternoon, Mahesh Kumar, 28, became the first citizen closest to the national capital to register under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005, the largest-ever employment intervention scheme in the world.
- Incredible India: Visitors Greeted By Darkness And Filth (Indian Express, AMAN SHARMA, Feb 03, 2006)
At 1 am, as businessman Tom Backman, who arrived on a Lufthansa airlines flight from Frankfurt, walks out of the customs area into the arrival lounge of New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International airport, two overflowing garbage bins greet him.
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