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Articles 26521 through 26620 of 53943:
- Pm Inaugurates Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Unveiling a string of initiatives for the benefit of NRIs, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the government would soon grant voting rights to overseas Indian workers and professionals, launch a liberal insurance scheme for them and modernise. . .
- Pm Promises Voting Rights To Nris (Tribune, Ramesh Kandula, Jan 08, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today announced a number of sops and initiatives for the benefit of overseas Indians.
- Rai, Shareef First Overseas Citizens Of India (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Ms Nivruti Rai and Mr Iftekhar Shareef from the US have become the first recipients of the much awaited Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cards today at the inaugural day of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD).
- Shotgun Weeding (The Week, R. Prasannan, Jan 08, 2006)
Television stings have caused a stir; the big battles will follow
- Taking Too Many Medicines Is Risky (Tribune, Dr N.N. Wig, Jan 08, 2006)
Paradoxically, people’s health has never been so good as it is today. The scourge of small pox has been eradicated. Polio is on its way out. Most common communicable diseases are far better controlled than before. People are living much longer.
- India On Threshold Of Good Opportunities, Says Pm (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the country was on the threshold of unprecedented opportunities and development would occur "only if we make the right choices."
- A Challenging Role For Rajnath (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jan 08, 2006)
The new BJP President, Rajnath Singh has gained wide experience at his age. He is just 54. Known as a soft spoken and low profile gentleman-politician, he lacks the stature to lead the second biggest political party after the Congress.
- Religious Leaders Strengthen Resolve To Intervene In Aids Prevention (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Faith-based organisations needed at district level: former Chief Election Commissioner
- Cleaning Up Congress (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 08, 2006)
Like Enron’s Andrew Fastow or WorldCom’s Bernard Ebbers in the scandals that shook corporate America earlier this decade, Jack Abramoff is the quintessential “why stop there?” character in the lobbying scandal currently roiling Washington.
- Musharraf Pushes Kashmir Plan Before Talks (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf told Kashmiri independence leaders that he hoped India would respond positively to Pakistan's proposal to demilitarise the disputed Himalayan region and grant it self-governance.
- U.N. Halts Flights To Pakistan Quake Area (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
The United Nations has suspended emergency earthquake relief flights to an area of Pakistani Kashmir after crowds of people rushed two helicopters demanding to be evacuated, a U.N. spokesman said on Saturday.
- Pakistan Says Disappointed With India Peace Moves (Reuters, Kamil Zaheer, Jan 08, 2006)
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said he was disappointed with a two-year peace process with India and accused New Delhi of not responding to his proposals to end nearly 60 years of enmity between the nuclear-armed nations.
- Tehran To Resume Nuclear Research Tomorrow (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Iran will end its more than two year suspension of nuclear fuel research Monday or Tuesday by removing the seals in the presence of UN inspectors, a senior Iranian nuclear official told AFP.
- President Says India Should Pull Out Troops (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Ready to invite Manmohan to cricket match in Pakistan
- From J&k: I’Ll Fight Terrorists, Says Musharraf (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Ready to invite Manmohan to cricket match in Pakistan
President Pervez Musharraf has offered to join India’s “fight against terrorism” in Jammu and Kashmir if New Delhi agrees to pull out troops from Srinagar, Kupwara and Baramulla, . . .
- Suspected Rebels Attack Sri Lanka Navy, 13 Feared Dead (Reuters, Ranga Sirilal, Jan 08, 2006)
A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide squad sank a patrol boat off Sri Lanka's east coast on Saturday and 13 of the 15 crew are missing, feared dead, the navy said.
- Warning Wasted In Bangalore (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jan 08, 2006)
Poor communication, bureaucratic delays
ID card of suspect referred to J & K police more than three months after it was found
Common-sense procedure not followed
Weapons transported from J & K
- Science In The Muslim World (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 08, 2006)
Speakers at a conference in Karachi have called on the OIC to establish institutes for scientific research.
- Deciphering The Mirwaiz’S Statements (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jan 08, 2006)
Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) who is visiting Pakistan, has said that the proposal for self-rule or self-governance should not be confused with “autonomy”.
- Grab The Judge (The Week, Tapash Ganguly, Jan 08, 2006)
Fundamentalists in Bangladesh are trying to take over the judicial system
- Tslushnami Of Human Rights (The Week, Kavitha Muralidharan, Jan 08, 2006)
What a year has wrought in Tamil Nadu and Kerala—the good, the bad and the ugly...
- Govt Showing Restraint Despite Ltte Provocation: Samaraweera (Press Trust of India, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Jan 08, 2006)
The Sri Lankan government is showing great restraint and patience in spite of all the provocations of the Tamil Tiger rebels, visiting Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera has said.
- Treachery In The High Seas (The Week, K.P. Narayana Kumar, Jan 08, 2006)
Bereaved families worried about Indian sailors disappearing in foreign seas
- Iran Resumes Nuclear Fuel Research Tomorrow (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Iran is to end its two-and-a-half year suspension of nuclear fuel research on Monday or Tuesday, a senior official announced, overshadowing the launch of talks with Russia on compomise proposals to end the nuclear stand-off with the West.
- Pm Promises Voting Rights To Overseas Indians (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
After granting citizenship to Overseas Indians, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today announced that they would soon be granted voting rights.
- This Rumpus Over The Dam (Dawn, M.P. Bhandara, Jan 08, 2006)
I happen to be in the ranks of the ordinary citizenry that is baffled by the passionate rhetoric on the passions aroused by the current debate on new large water reservoirs. Needless to say, when tongues lash one another, the flickering candle of . . .
- Judicial Activism In America (Dawn, Anwar Syed, Jan 08, 2006)
It is a well-established function of judges to say what the law is, or what it means. Many of them will follow precedents and give due attention to the original lawmaker’s intent in performing this function.
- Rss, Hindu Mahasabha Responsible For Partition: Arjun Singh (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Holding the RSS and Hindu Mahasabha responsible for Partition, senior Congress leader and Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh today claimed that the BJP would collapse like a pack of cards due to "its inner contradictions and hollow principles."
- India Considering To Set Up Petroleum Economic Zone : Aiyar (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
India is considering setting up of exclusive petroleum economic zone for service providers in the oil and gas industry, Petroleum Minister Mani Shanker Aiyar today said.
- Enterprises In The Unorganised Sector (Daily Excelsior, H C Katoch, Jan 08, 2006)
Economic institutions grow not because of the consideration of general welfare, as Adam Smith, the father of economics once said, but because the livelihood of the enterprising people rests on it.
- World Sindhi Inst Condemns Pak Operations In Balochistan (Press Trust of India, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Jan 08, 2006)
The Sri Lankan government is showing great restraint and patience in spite of all the provocations of the Tamil Tiger rebels, visiting Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera has said.
- India Rejects Suggestion For Demilitarisation (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Categorically rejecting Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s suggestion for demilitarisation of three places in Jammu and Kashmir, India tonight asserted that it was a "sovereign" decision to be taken by New Delhi based on security situation and could n
- Democracy On A Sticky Wicket? (Deccan Herald, P V Subraya, Jan 08, 2006)
The views aired in the book by persons connected with the judiciary have been debated many times before
- A Little Admission (Hindustan Times, Karan Thapar, Jan 08, 2006)
In the last few weeks, I’ve had occasion to recall a conversation with my old friend Praveen Anand. “Medicine,” he’d declare, “is the most honourable profession in the world”. As an aspiring journalist I’d disagree. He would smile indulgently.
- Centre's Decision To Hike Price Of Pds Rice Anti-Poor: Jayalalithaa (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Chief Minister says Tamil Nadu will maintain the price at Rs.3.50 a kg
- Fdi And The Future Of Farmers (Hindu, N. Bala Ganesan, Jan 08, 2006)
The farm sector, taken as a whole, has no sustainable, long-term prospect of increasing its revenue
- Anjali's Court Martial (Hindu, U.C. Jha, Jan 08, 2006)
The Indian military justice system in its current form is an anachronis
- Priority Action For 2006 (Indian Express, N K Singh, Jan 08, 2006)
With the New Year festivities behind us there is need for real action. The Prime Minister has over the last few weeks articulated some priorities of the Government. Some of these must include the following:
- India’S Killing Fields (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Jan 08, 2006)
The first politician I met in 2006 was Sharad Pawar. It was a fortuitous meeting because this column now has a new cause. Agriculture.
- Express Your Voice (Indian Express, Madhu Agrawal, Jan 08, 2006)
There have always been two approaches—positive and negative—of looking at things (‘Hoping the new year will usher change—for the better’, January 1), and the year 2005 is no exception. No doubt the year gone by saw tsunami, earthquakes and bomb blasts;
- And For Amar Singh, A Tip: Next Time Use Carrier Pigeons (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Jan 08, 2006)
You had to live in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard...—‘1984’ by George Orwell
- Us Concerned Over Violence In Sri Lanka (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Nicholas Burns to visit Colombo to discuss the conflict
* Rice lauds Norway’s role as a peace broker between Sri Lanka and Tamil Tigers
- Rashid Tells India Not To Meddle In Pak (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Federal Information and Broadcasting Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has warned that if India continues to poke its nose in the internal affairs of Pakistan, the whole peace process will be an exercise in futility.
- Kashmiris Should Be Allowed To Freely Cross Loc: Mirwaiz (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Mirwaiz Ummar Farooq has said that Kashmiris should be allowed to freely move from across the Line of Control (LoC) for giving fillip to ongoing Pak-India talks process.
- Manmohan Announces A Slew Of Concessions To Overseas Indians (Hindu, S. Nagesh Kumar, Jan 08, 2006)
Decision on voting rights to non-resident Indians in Gulf soon
Overseas Citizen of India card presented
Easy-to-use remittance facility; liberalised insurance scheme
- Musharraf Floats New Proposal For Kashmir Peace (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Says Pakistan to ensure end to violence if India
withdraws troops from three cities; Delhi rejects
President Pervez Musharraf has said that he was disappointed with a two-year peace process with India and accused New Delhi of not responding . . .
- Daniel Pearl And The Body Of Evidence (Hindustan Times, B Raman, Jan 08, 2006)
Every year, as we enter a New Year, my mind goes back to Daniel Pearl, the Mumbai-based American correspondent of Wall Street Journal, who met with a brutal end to his young life during a visit to Karachi in January 2002 to enquire, inter alia, . . .
- Cpi Condemns Cut In Food Subsidy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
`Government seems to be bent upon imposing burden on the poor'
- Nuclear Powers Planning ‘Joint Warning’ To Iran (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
The five major nuclear powers are working on a joint warning statement that aims to show unusual unified resolve and put fresh pressure on Iran not to resume nuclear fuel research, US officials and diplomats said on Friday.
- Lanka Hails India’S Role In Peace Bid (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
The United States and the wider international community had appreciated the response of the government despite Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) actions.
- ‘Education Cannot Be Based On Money’ (Deccan Herald, K Jayalakshmi, Jan 08, 2006)
To achieve the task of making India a knowledge-based society, we simply have to decommercialise education” - Dr P M Bhargava
- High Security Will Not Really Help Matters (Deccan Herald, Vimala RamaRao, Jan 08, 2006)
"The IISc chief who said that high security is not wanted is right. Terror is a global menace, not internal to IISc."
- Ancient City Modern Hues (Deccan Herald, Soumya Sitaraman, Jan 08, 2006)
What’s in a name? Plenty, it seems, if the impassioned debate surrounding the renaming of Bangalore as Bengaluru is anything to go by. Soumya Sitaraman looks back on a time when the city was, indeed, called Bengaluru.
- Aphc Rejects The Indian Constitution (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jan 08, 2006)
APHC chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that no solution to Kashmir issue on the basis of the Indian Constitution is unacceptable. At a Press conference in Islamabad on Friday, he said that the UN resolutions provided the legal basis to resolve . . .
- Women In Novels (Deccan Herald, Sakuntala Narasimhan, Jan 08, 2006)
Although the subject matter merits study, poor language and errors mar the book.
- Aiyar Takes Panchsheel Flavour To China (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Jan 08, 2006)
Dogged by the Chinese drubbing of India’s state-run firms in the hunt for oil and gas assets worldwide, diplomat-turned-minister Mani Shankar Aiyar is serving up Panchsheel—the five principles of peaceful co-existence—as the new basis for hydrocarbon ....
- Mirwaiz: Make Saarc Guarantor (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq today said “self-governance and demilitarisation will provide Kashmiris a sense of being masters of their own destiny”. He added that J-K’s internal security ought to be handed over to the state police.
- Pm’S Left Hook (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Jan 08, 2006)
The Left saw another side to the usually soft-spoken Manmohan Singh when it made an issue over the joint Indo-US air force exercise in Kalaikunda, West Bengal, last November.
- Self-Rule, Demilitarization Only Cbms : Mirwaiz (Greater Kashmir, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
‘Anything under Indian constitution not acceptable’
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Wednesday drew a clear line between autonomy within Indian constitution and the idea of self-rule. On his arrival in New Delhi from about a weeklong visit to Pakistan and . . .
- And Quiet Flows The Narmada (Hindu, Meena Menon, Jan 08, 2006)
What does the future hold for the Narmada Bachao Andolan?
- 11,000 Demats (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Jan 08, 2006)
Even as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) finds more banks were ensnared by Roopalben Panchal and her family in the demat account scandal, the Income Tax Department has also made major new discoveries.
- Iran's Top Mullah May Be On Our Side (Los Angeles Times, Dariush Zahedi, Jan 08, 2006)
The united states has a surprising ally in its impatience with the new Iranian president.
- End-Game In Kashmir Uncertain (Tribune, Sushant Sareen, Jan 07, 2006)
WITH Pakistan coming up with “bold” and provocative proposals like “self-governance” and “demilitarisation” in the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir, the main focus of negotiations during the third round of the composite dialogue between India and . . .
- High Expectations From Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (Hindu, S. Nagesh Kumar, Jan 07, 2006)
Manmohan Singh to inaugurate the mega event today
- Chief Secretary Rebuts Charges Raised By Officials (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
He meets Chief Minister Oommen Chandy to clarify matters
Chief Secretary M. Vijayanunni has rebutted complaints raised against him by subordinate officials.
- No Solution Under Indian Constitution, Says Aphc (News International, Asim Yasin, Jan 07, 2006)
Describing Pakistan’s proposal of self-governance and demilitarisation in Kashmir as a first step towards resolution of this issue, visiting leaders of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference announced that the Kashmiris would not accept any option . . .
- Full Independence Of Kashmir Not Possible: Mirwaiz (Daily Times, Umer Farooq, Jan 07, 2006)
Leader advocates co-existence
* Says self-governance and demilitarisation of Kashmir can be interim arrangement
- Go The Whole Hog... (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jan 07, 2006)
The government’s proposal to de-reserve coal blocks and allot them to public sector power companies is, on the face of it, a welcome move.
- Women Lead Fight Against ‘Honour Killings’ (Tribune, Paul Valley, Jan 07, 2006)
These are some of the things that can get a woman killed: wearing make-up; going to the cinema; chewing gum; drinking water in the street; chatting to a male neighbour; talking on the phone;
- India To Tap Dutch Friendship For Nuke Energy (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
As part of an intensified campaign in its quest for civilian nuclear energy, India will tap the Netherlands when Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende comes here on a three-day visit starting Jan 18.
- 'Some Describe Cultural Diplomacy As Invasion' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jan 07, 2006)
You started writing in the 60s, at a time when very few women ventured into poetry. What has changed since then?
- Check List: Things To Do During The Year (The Financial Express, NK SINGH, Jan 07, 2006)
With the New Year festivities happily behind us, there is need for real action. The Prime Minister has over the last few weeks articulated some priorities of the government. Some of these must include the following:
- Time To Reconstruct Hr Practices, Approach (The Financial Express, YRK REDDY, Jan 07, 2006)
The boom in the new economy industries and the service sector has brought human resources (HR) centre stage. In recent years, the HR profession has captured the mind share of top management and boards immensely.
- Railways On Right Track (The Financial Express, AV POULOSE, Jan 07, 2006)
Of all the user-friendly reforms the Indian Railways (IR) has announced in the recent past, encouraged by its good performance, physical and financial, the opening up of one stream of traffic for competition, by ending the long-held monopoly . . .
- Invasion Of Privacy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 07, 2006)
Telephone tapping and all that
THE exposure of telephone tapping of politicians has once again brought to the fore the larger issues of individual freedom and the right to privacy.
- Lacklustre Indo-Pak Trade: Slow Progress On Kashmir And High Prices Main Factors (Daily Times, Mohammed Rizwan, Jan 07, 2006)
Slow progress on Kashmir and the high price demanded by Indian exporters are the main factors behind lacklustre India-Pakistan trade since the Wagah road link opened to allow Indian sugar and vegetables into Pakistan.
- Solution Within Ambit Of Indian Constitution Not Acceptable: Aphc (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Chief Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said any solution of the Kashmir issue within the ambit of the Indian constitution is not acceptable to Kashmiris.
- Indian Muslim Group Welcomes Saudi Offer To Help Renovate Mosque (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
A Muslim group that oversees New Delhi’s grand mosque of Friday welcomed an offer from Saudi King Abdullah to help renovate the 17th century shrine, India’s largest mosque.
- Afghan Talent Show A Hit Four Years After The Taliban (Daily Times, Emmanuel Duparcq, Jan 07, 2006)
The scene, unthinkable only four years ago under the ousted Taliban regime who banned music and television, plays out in Kabul’s Ariana cinema
- Nato Confident About Afghanistan Deployment (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
Hopes Dutch will send 1,400 troops to southern Afghanistan
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