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- On The Tail Of A Fiery Insurrectionist (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 15, 2006)
The book competently explores M N Roy’s efforts to strengthen the progressive elements of the Indian National Congress during the thirties and the forties.
- Un Referral Will Not End Nuke Plans: Iran (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 15, 2006)
Iran will not be deflected from its right to develop nuclear technology by referral to the UN Security Council for sanctions, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday.
- All For One And One For One (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 15, 2006)
The author shows with the help of figures that US consumption poses a threat to the rest of the world.
- Nur Jahan: Woman Behind The King (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 15, 2006)
The book portrays Nur Jahan as a shrewd and powerful empress who managed to get Jehangir to relinquish the reins of power into her hands.
- Cracking Venice (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 15, 2006)
This book, with its myriad characters and many intrigues is very like the city it is set in, layered and subtle.
- Tackling The Cold Wave (Tribune, Dr J.S. Sharma, Jan 15, 2006)
In north India, when the minimum temperature drops three to four degree centigrade below the long term (normal) average, cold wave conditions set in. Excessive drop in the temperature, frost and snowfall has significant effects on crops, vegetables, ....
- Failed To Benefit Tax? (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 15, 2006)
Apart from tackling the legal challenge, FBT is now due for some simplification in Budget 2006. Dev Chatterjee explores the options
- Naxals, Ultras May Target Aicc Plenary (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 15, 2006)
With the date of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) plenary session nearing, extremists and terrorists are planning to strike at the meet in order to attract international attention.
- Metro Awaits Gom Signal (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 15, 2006)
Chief Minister N Dharam Singh on Saturday said the metro rail project will take off once the Empowered Group of Ministers, headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar.....
- Of Legal Tools And Illegal Means (Deccan Herald, K Subrahmanya, Jan 15, 2006)
The government’s authority to order wiretapping is derived from the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885. The relevant Section 5(2), as amended in 1972, states thus:
- The New Woman Is Energising A New India (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, Jan 15, 2006)
I was recently asked to express my views on the woman of today and the challenges before her. This is what I stated:
- Kerry Backs Pak Quest For Civil N-Tech (News International, Asim Yasin, Jan 15, 2006)
Former US presidential candidate Senator John Kerry has said his country and Pakistan could explore common grounds for cooperation in civil nuclear technology on the pattern of US-India agreement.
- River Linking Risks (Statesman, SUSHIL KUMAR MUKHERJEE, Jan 15, 2006)
Planners who try to redistribute surplus water into deficit areas by river linking forget that in the dictionary of Nature, there is no word like ‘deficit’ or ‘surplus’
- Can Kj Rao Do A Bihar In Bengal? (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jan 15, 2006)
Ask a man on the streets of Bihar who is their hero number one, and pat will come the reply: K J Rao, Election Commission’s advisor in the October-November elections in the state.
- Gandhian Institutions Have Failed To Give Direction: Tara Gandhi (Tribune, Smriti Kak Ramachandran, Jan 15, 2006)
Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, the granddaughter of the late Mahatma Gandhi, recently took over as the Vice Chairperson of the Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti.
- Reservations Must In Private Sector (Tribune, Karam Singh, Jan 15, 2006)
It is said that only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches. Extreme hope always takes birth from extreme miseries and back-breaking difficulties. Dr B.R. Ambedkar, one of the architects of the Constitution of India, belonged to a very poor section . . .
- Terror, New Ideas On India, Pak Menu (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 15, 2006)
India and Pakistan will discuss "new ideas" on promoting bilateral ties when Foreign Secretaries of the two countries meet here on Tuesday to kick off the third round of Composite Dialogue amid New Delhi's serious concerns over continued . . .
- Red Alert In W Bengal In View Of Bandh By Maoists (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 15, 2006)
Red alert has been sounded in the border areas of West Bengal and Jharkhand and police patrolling intensified in the three South Bengal districts of Purulia, Bankura and West Midnapur in view of a 24-hour bandh called by CPI(Maoists) from 6 am on Monday.
- Rebel Raids Put Nepal On Alert (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 15, 2006)
Nepali troops were on high alert on Sunday after attacks around Kathmandu by Maoist rebels killed 12 policemen, an army officer said.
- Cooperative Movement & Reforms (Daily Excelsior, Vikrant Dogra, Jan 15, 2006)
The evolution of co-operative in the world can be traced from time immemorial, beginning from the day individual first joined hands for the advancement of common pursuits in life.
- India, Us Sign Mou For Consumer Product Safety (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 14, 2006)
India and the United States signed an MoU for establishing institutional cooperation between its consumer product units.
- Tata Motors To Market Fiat Cars (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 14, 2006)
Tatas unveil first Indian limousine and a concept car `X-over'
- India To Keep Troop Levels In Kashmir-Army Chief (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 14, 2006)
India says it has no plans to cut troop levels in Kashmir, despite a call to do so by Islamabad, because separatist operations continued unabated from Paksitani territory.
- Gun With The Wind (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 14, 2006)
Progress on Bofors is more frozen than Mr Q’s money. Hope of resolving it has turned to cynicism
- Avoidable Tragedy (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 14, 2006)
Improved safety measures for Haj pilgrims have failed to prevent death and stampedes once again during the Haj in Saudi Arabia.
- Human Hurricanes (Deccan Herald, Avinash S Vaz, Jan 14, 2006)
There aren’t many differences between catastrophes and inexplicable mishaps.
- Deconstructing The Mahamantra (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Jan 14, 2006)
Some weeks ago, I asked readers to enlighten me on the exact connotation of the word swaha which appears at the end of many mantras including the opening line of the Gayatri Mantra- “Om bhur bhuwa swaha”.
- Big Brother Is Listening (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 14, 2006)
It may be some consolation to Amar Singh to know that, as Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad explains, phone tapping is hard to prevent in India even if you have the right technology.
- Iran Nuclear Impasse Could Hurt U.S.-India Atomic Deal (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Jan 14, 2006)
A landmark U.S.-Indian nuclear cooperation deal could be hampered by India's reluctance to refer Iran's nuclear program to the U.N. Security Council and to open enough of its own atomic facilities to inspection, U.S. officials and experts said on Friday.
- Panel Dismisses Ltte's Denial Of Attack On Sailors (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Jan 14, 2006)
The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) on Friday dismissed denials by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of involvement in the recent escalation of violence in the northern and eastern districts.
- Raising The Bar (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 14, 2006)
Laws are meant for the welfare of society, not the other way around. In a country which has, according to one estimate, over 30,000 pieces of legislation at the Central and state level, the Delhi High Court has just made a powerful argument...
- S.Lanka Truce Monitor Base Hit By Grenade Attack (Reuters, Simon Gardner, Jan 14, 2006)
Attackers threw a grenade into the compound of truce monitors in Sri Lanka's restive east early on Saturday, damaging vehicles and a building but causing no injuries, officials said, as fears of a return to war grow.
- Un Resolutions On Kashmir Not Viable: Terror Groups (Hindustan Times, PTI, Jan 14, 2006)
Ahead of commencement of third round of Composite Dialogue between India and Pakistan,
- Pinning General To Specifics (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Jan 14, 2006)
As the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan begin third round of dialogue next week, a political paradox confronts the peace process.
- Hindu Ideals (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 14, 2006)
Much of the Hinduness of BJP is derived from the concept of Hindutva of Veer Savarkar.
- Spiteful Gesture (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 14, 2006)
The IIMs have been denied an opportunity allowed to foreign universities.
- India To Keep Troop Levels In Kashmir: Army Chief (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 14, 2006)
New Delhi says despite the two-year peace process, Pakistan continues to abet a Muslim separatist revolt in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir and allow Islamic militants to cross the LoC, a ceasefire line dividing Kashmir.
- Iran Threatens To End N-Cooperation (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 14, 2006)
Iran threatened on Friday to end surprise inspections and other cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog if it was referred to the UN Security Council over its nuclear programme, and the president vowed his country wouldn’t be intimidated by sanctions.
- Aiyar: India Fully Committed To Pipeline Project (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jan 14, 2006)
Firmly denying media reports that New Delhi had decided to withdraw from the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project, Petroleum and Natural Gas minister Mani Shankar Aiyar on Friday said the country was "fully committed" to the venture
- Calculated Denial (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 14, 2006)
Mulayam too has limited options Vigorous denials by Mulayam Singh Yadav that he intends to withdraw support to the UPA government sound as if the threat is inspired by the Samajwadi Party itself.
- Free Speech In Secular Democracies (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 14, 2006)
The trial resumes next month for internationally acclaimed Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk,
- The Blood Of Innocents (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jan 14, 2006)
Piggeries occupied the part of Singapore where we used to live until a stroke of the executive pen banished pigs and pig farmers to another island to make way for a blissful estate of neat bungalows in their own gardens.
- Al-Qaeda Claims To Have Killed 10 Us Soldiers In Iraq (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 14, 2006)
Thousands of tribesmen protested on Saturday against an alleged US air strike.
- Army Presence To Continue In J&k: Gen Jj Singh (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 14, 2006)
Ruling out the demilitarisation of Jammu and Kashmir as suggested by Pak President Pervez Musharraf, Army chief General JJ Singh today said continued presence of terrorist- infrastructure across the Line of Control necessitated troop- presence in the...
- While Congress Slept (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 14, 2006)
THE performance of US Congress during much of the Bush administration has been, to put it kindly, undistinguished.
- Sri Lanka Mine Blast Kills Two Navy Sailors (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 14, 2006)
Thousands of tribesmen protested on Saturday against an alleged US air strike.
- Us-Afghan Troops Kill Six Militants (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 14, 2006)
Thousands of tribesmen protested on Saturday against an alleged US air strike.
- Nato Relief Team To Leave Ajk By Feb 1 (News International, Mariana Baabar, Jan 14, 2006)
The Nato disaster relief team in Pakistan has started redeployment from Azad Kashmir and will be completely out of Kashmir by February 1 before moving to home bases by mid-February.
- Rendition For Dawood Ibrahim? (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Jan 14, 2006)
Imitation, they say, is the sincerest form of flattery. Why then, given New Delhi's obvious desire to ingratiate itself with Washington, can't the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government take a cue from the Bush
- Not Quite Back To Square One Yet (Dawn, David Hirst, Jan 14, 2006)
PAKISTAN spokesperson Tasneem Aslam must be having a great sense of humour. Otherwise, how can she say that the forecast about the peace progress between New Delhi and Islamabad was certainly not “bleak”?
- Europe Still The Odd One Out (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 14, 2006)
IF the past year were judged by headlines alone it looks like a bit of an economic disaster.
- Spread Of Leshmaniasis (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 14, 2006)
THE news that the skin disease leshmaniasis is fast spreading in the earthquake-hit areas only points to the dismal state of public health facilities in the country,
- India Promises Key Concession On Us N-Deal: Kerry (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 14, 2006)
US Senator John Kerry has claimed that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will sign a proposed nuclear Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty thus effectively capping New Delhi’s nuclear programme as part of its bargain to get civilian nuclear aid from Washing
- ‘Singh May Visit Pakistan’ (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 14, 2006)
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh may yet visit Pakistan to watch one of five limited-overs matches during current cricket series between the two countries, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has said, according to a United News of India dispatch from..
- 'Intriguing' Pakistan (Daily Excelsior, Allabaksh, Jan 14, 2006)
There was nothing 'intriguing' about the comment of the Pakistani ruler, Gen Pervez Musharraf, on India's expression of concern over the 'spiralling violence' in Balochistan; the more 'intriguing' thing was the adverse reaction in some quarters within..
- Delhi May Not Take Part In Pipeline Project (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 14, 2006)
India may not participate in the joint building of a seven-billion-dollar gas pipeline from Iran via Pakistan, fearing a hostile reaction from the United States, a report said on Friday.
- Will The Taxman Read First Chapter In History Of Medicine? (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 14, 2006)
THIS story is on saffron confusion. Not what a political party may chronically be suffering from, but about what brought Khosala Kesharwala (KK) to Bombay High Court recently.
- Value Opportunities Lie At The Edges (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 14, 2006)
Companies that "find themselves walking a fine line between significant value creation and commensurate value destruction"
- After Sharon What? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 14, 2006)
EVEN if he gets out of his current health crisis, it is highly unlikely that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will be able to resume his work.
- Pm, Sajjad Lone Talks Today (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 14, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will hold talks with separatist leader and Peoples Conference chief Sajjad Ghani Lone here tomorrow, broadening the ambit of the ongoing peace process on Kashmir outside the Hurriyat Conference fold.
- Mla’S Driver Held For Militant Links (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 14, 2006)
In a major success, Jammu Police and Special Operations Group (SOG), Jammu today arrested a Hizbul Mujahideen militant from New Plot, who was posted as an official driver with Darhal MLA and former Minister of State for Forests Puran Singh.
- 7 Cops Attached As Militants Loot Weapons In Pulwama (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 14, 2006)
Authorities have fully replaced the minority guarding Police picket at Rishi Nagri in Shopian and ordered attachment of seven Police personnel after militants looted two SLRs from their camp late last night.
- Many Kargil Passengers Stranded (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 14, 2006)
Over 100 passengers of Kargil were stranded in Kashmir valley as the helicopter service could not operate for the past five days due to bad weather.
- Show Flexibility On Kashmir: Pak (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 14, 2006)
Accusing India of being "stubborn," Pakistan today said it should show flexibility for resolution of the Kashmir issue.
- Slogans As Ideas (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 14, 2006)
If people in the United States are being persuaded to learn Hindi it is only because there is eventually realisation that India is a country of ideas.
- Demilitarised General (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Jan 14, 2006)
Our dear General is at it again. The whole world so respects him, so trusts him, so very much accepts him as a man of his word... and yet it is only India that refuses to accept his word
- Inter-Company Deals Cross-Country (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Jan 14, 2006)
As cross-border business operations become more complex, there is need to update the transfer pricing laws, says T. C. A. Ramanujam
- Guru Of All Ages (Daily Excelsior, R L Kaith, Jan 14, 2006)
One hundred and six years ago an elementary combination appeared in the birth of a human child at Smailpur (in Jammu).
- 362 Pilgrims Killed In Mina Stampede: Over 1,000 Injured (Dawn, Syed Rashid Husain, Jan 14, 2006)
Hundreds of pilgrims were crushed to death and almost 1,000 injured, some critically, during a stampede at Jamaraat in Mina, as crowds surged to carry out ‘rami’ on Thursday.
- Sappho Wasn’T Indian (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 14, 2006)
Most startlingly, at least one of the Shiv Sena in Uttar Pradesh seems to know his Sappho.
- Is There Such A Thing As Kashmiri Nationalism? (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 14, 2006)
As long as one believes that the Kashmir dispute is about religion or territory, then the only use for Kashmiriyat is as a propaganda tool to promote artificial constructs..
- Karnataka Heads For Mid-Term Poll (Tribune, Jangveer Singh, Jan 14, 2006)
THE year 2005 saw former Prime Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) President H.D. Deve Gowda ruling the roost in Karnataka.
- Overpopulation ‘Is Main Threat To Planet’ (Tribune, Steve Connor, Jan 14, 2006)
Climate change and global pollution cannot be adequately tackled without addressing the neglected issue of the world’s booming population, according to two leading scientists.
- Q&a: 'I Try To Capture The Idea Of Solitude' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 14, 2006)
Jehangir Sabavala's paintings marry Indian idiom with European cubism. During a recent retrospective of his works in New Delhi's National Gallery of Modern Art, he spoke to Manoj Nair:
- Missing Statecraft In The Chinese Theatre (The Financial Express, V ANANTHA NAGESWARAN, Jan 14, 2006)
India’s relationship with Beijing is marked by naivete and a singular lack of coherence
- Learn From Murali (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 14, 2006)
Test cricket’s most successful off-spinner has just indicated that he could be calling it a day in 2007 despite being three years younger than Aussie leg-spinner Shane Warne, who holds the world record with 659 wickets, some 75 more than what Muralitharan
- An Afterlife Eavesdropper (The Economic Times, V B N RAM, Jan 14, 2006)
Lethargic and lackadaisical, that is what you have become,” Mahesh tells Yamadoot in an admonishing manner, “and this is clearly visible in the earthly-type inefficiency which has crept into our hitherto perfect system”.
- End Modern Slavery (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 14, 2006)
The Scientific American (January 2006) has cited an ILO study to claim that at least 12.3 million people the world over are subjected to forced labour.
- Isro Gets Into Chip Manufacturing — Semiconductor Complex To Be Centre Of Non-Space Research (Business Line, Madhumathi D.S., Jan 14, 2006)
CHIP folk SemInd and Intel have roused Indian semiconductor dreams, but no one knows when they would be walking their fab talk.
- Ailing Airports (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 14, 2006)
THE Sreedharan Committee report recommending downgrading of the Reliance bid for modernisation and restructuring of Delhi and Mumbai airports
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