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Articles 26721 through 26820 of 53943:
- Return Of The Natives (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 06, 2006)
The question of Pandit return looms large over the larger Kashmir dispute.
- Phone Tapping Issues (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
The controversy over the tapping of the telephone of the Samajwadi Party General Secretary, Amar Singh, is a disquieting reminder of the urgent need to review the safeguards of the surveillance system.
- Cbr: Taxpayer Friendly Reforms Pay (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jan 06, 2006)
The Central Board of Revenue has collected Rs 322 billion during the July-December period of the current financial year marking an increase of 22.7 per cent over the revenue collection in the first half of the last year. CBR Chairman M Abdullah Yusuf ...
- Kalabagh: The Question Of Alternatives (Dawn, S.M. Naseem, Jan 06, 2006)
The rush to build the Kalabagh dam is taking General Musharraf and many of his supporters, including some born-again superpatriots, to heights of irrationality.
- Stranded And Tortured (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 06, 2006)
The allegations made by a group of Pakistanis living in Greece that they were abducted and tortured by Greek intelligence agents and police on suspicion of being linked to London 7/7 bombings need to be followed up by the Pakistan government through ...
- Pak- Nepal Nexus (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Jan 06, 2006)
It should have been expected that sooner or later both China and Pakistan would want to fish in the troubled waters in Nepal and, sure enough, Beijing has already delivered truckloads of weapons for the Royal Nepal Army and Pakistan is preparing . . .
- Key To Lasting Joy Is Hard Work (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jan 06, 2006)
Academics at Gothenburg University in Sweden have come up with an interesting proposition: hard work is the only path to happiness.
- Amu Not A Minority Institution: Hc (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Upholds striking down of 50 pc quota
The Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court today upheld with some modifications its last year’s single-judge Bench judgment terming as ‘unconstitutional the granting of minority status to the . . .
- Centre Tapping My Phone Calls, Alleges Jayalalithaa (Tribune, Arup Chanda, Jan 06, 2006)
Even while the Amar Singh phone tapping controversy continues to rock the Central Government, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa today dropped a bombshell alleging that her telephones were also being tapped by the Centre.
- Whither Nepal? (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 06, 2006)
King the bigger threat to peace
With Nepal’s Maoists calling off their unilateral ceasefire, yet another bloody chapter is likely to be added to the country’s already smeared history.
- No. 1 Resolution For 2006: Keep Learning (Tribune, Amy Joyce , Jan 06, 2006)
Here are the resolutions I wish we would all make for 2006:
Learn something new. Are you bored at work? Does your job feel like a grind? If it does, then you’re bringing everyone down. Including yourself. And it doesn’t have to be that way.
- President Kalam's Stress On Conserving Water Bodies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
First Citizen holds interaction with farmers and children
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has stressed on the need for conserving water bodies as part of drought mitigation measures, and asked farmers in dry land areas to cultivate jatropha.
- Sensible Power Capacity Addition, Please (The Financial Express, Ravi Uppal, Jan 06, 2006)
Few, if any, would disagree about the state of the Indian power sector today! We have an installed capacity of less than 150,000 mw (including captive) and among the lowest per capita consumption in the world (around 500 units compared with a . . .
- Ramdev's Supporters Arrested (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
They gathered outside the CPI(M) office in Delhi and raised slogans against Brinda Karat
20 supporters of Swamy Ramdev arrested; one person injured
Protest is handiwork of RSS, VHP hoodlums, says CPI (M)
- Manmohan Announces Livelihood Plans For Andaman And Nicobar (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Jan 06, 2006)
One daily wage job to be provided for a year to each family affected by the tsunami
- Railways: A Derailed Social Service (Business Line, V. Kumaraswamy, Jan 06, 2006)
In the last few years our leaders have been loathe to raise rail fares. `Railways is a social service' and `poor need protection' are the common excuses given by successive Railway Ministers for their refusal to recover cost-inflation.
- Flawed Wheat Policy (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 06, 2006)
The government’s explanation for abolishing a 15 per cent duty on the export of wheat raises questions about its policy on crop pricing and its ability to keep the markets for essential food items free of hoarders.
- Note, What Is In The Air (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 06, 2006)
Those who thought that the Ambani saga was over, need to think again. The two brothers may have carved out their own fiefdoms from the empire Dhirubhai left for them, but the business rivalry continues unabated.
- Trade And Social Concerns (Dawn, Najma Sadeque, Jan 06, 2006)
There were 6,000 negotiators, 3,000 registered business and NGO lobbyists, and some 5,000 stakeholder-protesters from 149 countries at the WTO’s recent Hong Kong ministerial.
- Task Force On Global Strategic Developments — Need Unclear, Purpose Undefined (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 06, 2006)
If a Task Force is not to end up as a monumental wool-gathering enterprise, its purpose should be delineated in sharp and clear terms.
- Tormenting The Tormented (The Economic Times, ARVIND KALA, Jan 06, 2006)
If You jump off a building and die, your family faces police questioning. If you jump and survive, you face a one-year prison term. Suicide attempters in the west are given emergency medical treatment and escorted back to their families
- Stem Cell Research In India — Still In The Embryonic Stage (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Jan 06, 2006)
Given the huge disease burden and the need for organs, affordable diagnostics and therapies, the promise that stem cells offer needs to be exploited to the fullest.
- Clarion Call (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jan 06, 2006)
The latest Heritage Foundation annual Index of Economic Freedom is an unhappy reminder of just how much we have slipped. Ironically, during the same period that we slid 36 notches to 121 out of 160-odd countries in the league tables of economic freedom,..
- Suicide Bomber Kills 10 Afghans (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people and wounded 50 in an attack in Afghanistan on Thursday during a visit by the US ambassador, officials said. The envoy was unhurt.
- President Hopes India To Respond Positively To Pak Proposals (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf Thursday expressed the hope that India would respond positively to Pakistan’s proposals of demilitarization and self-governance in Kashmir to facilitate a lasting solution to the lingering Jammu and Kashmir dispute.
- Pakistan, India And Kashmiris Have To Show Flexibility : Pm (Pakistan Observer, Sharafat Kazmi, Jan 06, 2006)
The Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz on Thursday called for a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute through flexibility, commitment and magnanimity, to achieve a durable peace in South Asia.
- Bang-On! (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Finance minister P Chidambaram has set at rest any doubts about India’s openness to foreign capital.
- Speak In One Voice On Kashmir, Says Mirwaiz (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq said on Thursday the government and political parties in Pakistan should develop a “common understanding” on the Kashmir issue.
- Kashmiris Must Adjust To New Realities: Ghani Bhat (Daily Times, Umer Farooq, Jan 06, 2006)
Kashmiri leader says no chance of tripartite talks
* Supports demilitarisation, self-governance
- Rating The Boss (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 06, 2006)
IN every organisation, there is a regular procedure for the performance of each level of employees to be appraised by the next higher level with reference to a number of attributes required, enumerated in a standardised format.
- Five-Star Treatment For Dogs (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 06, 2006)
The expression dog-house need no longer refer to a place of disgrace.
- Musharraf Insists On Kashmir Demilitarisation (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Thursday hoped India would respond positively to Pakistan’s proposals of demilitarisation and self-rule in Jammu and Kashmir to facilitate a lasting solution to the lingering dispute.
- No Maybes, The Right Spirit Matters (The Economic Times, MUKUL SHARMA, Jan 06, 2006)
A grey area of concern, which is usually not addressed and, therefore, increasingly winked over is the difference between the procedures of spiritualism and living the spiritual life.
- Chandigarh Needs Bulldozer Too (Indian Express, Vipin Pubby, Jan 06, 2006)
Even as politicians cry hoarse over the demolition of illegal structures in New Delhi, the Punjab government has recently and quietly condoned irregular constructions in the periphery of Chandigarh.
- Can’T Change Our Tory (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Jan 06, 2006)
There's a frisson in the British media ever since David Cameron arrived on the scene. Cameron is fresh-faced and, at 39, the new leader of the Conservative party travels light. He is relatively unburdened by the cynicisms and disbeliefs . . .
- Musharraf Hopes India Would Respond Positively To Proposals (Press Trust of India, K J M Varma, Jan 06, 2006)
Observing that India and Pakistan have made progress on the implementation of confidence building measures, President Pervez Musharraf today hoped that New Delhi would respond positively to his proposals of self governance and demilitarisation to facilita
- China Sees India As Partner, Says Pla Expert (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Jan 06, 2006)
China and India "eye each other not as a threat but as a partner," according to Rear Admiral Yang Yi, Director of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Institute of Strategic Studies at China's National Defence University.
- Musharraf For Positive Response (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Jan 06, 2006)
Reaffirms Pakistan's "moral support" to Kashmiris
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday said he hoped India would respond positively to Pakistan's proposals of demilitarisation and self-governance in Kashmir to facilitate a "lasting solution...
- Clandestine Nuclear Deals Traced To Sudan (Hindu, Ian Cobain, Jan 06, 2006)
Hi-tech equipment imported into the country has disappeared Intelligence agencies suspect the equipment has been traded by the nuclear proliferation racket headed by the Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.
- Indo-Nepal Transit Treaty Extended By Three Months (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
India has extended by three months the transit treaty with Nepal after two rounds of negotiations. The decision had taken Nepal by surprise, which expected an automatic renewal.
- India, Pak Officials Discuss Modalities For Second Rail Link (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
With the January one deadline for reopening the Munnabao-Khokrapar rail link having already been missed, officials of India and Pakistan today discussed various modalities for launching the second cross-border rail link.
- Special Measures Helped Ttdc Earn Rs. 8.6 Crore Profit (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
32nd edition of the Tourism and Industrial Exhibition opens
- Fao Chief Sees Role For Indian Scientists In Food Security (Hindu, P. Sunderarajan , Jan 06, 2006)
They could share expertise for modernising small-scale farming
Collaborative initiative to eliminate hunger in 10 years
To be done in a phased manner with developed countries' support
- A Farmer's Record (Hindu, K. Srinivas Reddy, Jan 06, 2006)
Chinthala Venkat Reddy wanted a cost-effective way to restore soil fertility without using fertilizers. His efforts have borne fruit and the farmer from Lothukunta is now waiting for a patent for his technique.
- Scientists Must Play Leading Role In Pura Project, Says Kalam (Hindu, P. Sunderarajan , Jan 06, 2006)
They must provide scientific, technological leadership
Says the community can help set up 100 PURA centres
Must comprise village knowledge centres, agri-clinics, tele-education, water treatment plants
- Indian, Australian Experts To Meet On It Security (Hindu, K. Ramachandran, Jan 06, 2006)
Legal issues, standards among subjects to be discussed Threat of electronic warfare can paralyse a country's capabilities in delivering services including power, gas, raid, road and air transport systems and financial or banking networks
- E-Mail To Pm, President Warns Of Terror Strikes (Hindustan Times, JT Vishnu, Jan 06, 2006)
Pakistan-based terrorist outfits Lashkar-e-Tayyeba and Jaish-e-Mohammad are planning fidayeen attacks on IIT-Kanpur, Varanasi's Kashi Vishwanath Temple and vital installations in the Capital. The attacks have been planned on or before Republic Day, . . .
- Ncert Incentive For Dropouts To Return To School (Indian Express, NEHA SINHA, Jan 06, 2006)
There is now an incentive for school dropouts to go back to school in 2006 and stay on till the PhD degree. In an attempt to make the National Talent Promotion Scheme more inclusive, the National Council for Educational Research and Training . . .
- Pakistan Wants To Live In Peace (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has underscored the need of an " early settlement of the Kashmir issue," and said his country wants to live in peace with neighbouring India.
- Us Won’T Talk Of This Iran N-Chapter (Indian Express, JOSH MEYER, Jan 06, 2006)
In a clumsy effort to sabotage Iran’s nuclear programme, the CIA in 2004 intentionally handed Tehran some top-secret bomb designs laced with a hidden flaw that US officials hoped would doom any weapon made from them, according to a new book . . .
- A Little Bit Of Modesty, Perhaps (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 06, 2006)
It’s heartening to hear that the country’s proposed tsunami warning system will be in place soon and will be based on state-of-the-art technology.
- Some Friends (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 06, 2006)
The Congress must sometimes wonder whether the Left is really its ally.
- Indian Squad Lands In Lahore Amid Tight Security (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
The Indian cricket squad arrived in Pakistan on Thursday night amidst stringent security and with no noticeable crowds present to welcome them at Allama Iqbal International Airport.
- Serving Womankind Through Yoga (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Bharathi Prabhu attends the anniversary of the ladies batch at Jayarama Seva Mandali, where 40 women learn yoga everyday under Mala G Rao to improve the quality of their lives.
- Working Miracles Through A Keyhole (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Initially frowned upon, laparoscopic surgery is now widely used in cancer-related surgeries due to its many advantages, writes Dr Rajsekhar Nayak.
- Speculation Rife On Change Of Governor (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
There was intense speculation here on Thursday over the possible shifting of Karnataka...
- Exercise Restraint (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 06, 2006)
The Baloch situation should not cloud the Indo-Pak peace process
Islamabad has displayed avoidable irritation over a mild Indian comment about what many leading Pakistani politicians and analysts describe as the “grim and volatile situation....
- Playing Politics With Pipelines: Russia‘s Last Claim To Superpowerhood (Indian Express, Anne Applebaum, Jan 06, 2006)
Most Russians celebrate the new year with a few firecrackers, a glass of sweet champagne, perhaps vodka and pickled herring to keep the party going. This year the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, celebrated by switching off the flow of natural gas to Uk
- Halfway House In Loom Town (Indian Express, Sunita Arora, Jan 06, 2006)
India’s textile and apparel exports grew by up to 15 per cent in the first post-quota year. With a few pragmatic reforms, it could be much more, says Sunita Arora
- Turning On Genes To Treat Diseases (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
However, there are concerns on account of insects becoming resistant to the Bt toxin and of a foreign gene being consistently present in the cotton plant.
- Kalam Gives Tips To Farmers (Deccan Herald, K Jayalakshmi, Jan 06, 2006)
“My theatre of action, Pokhran is beautiful to me.” It was President A P J Abdul Kalam at his candid best at the 93rd Science Congress answering a query from a farmer in faraway Rajasthan.
- Will Govt Apathy Kill Good Cinema? (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, Jan 06, 2006)
On the tenth day of the screening of ‘Beru’, the national award-winning Kannada film on corruption, in Shimoga last fortnight, the movie’s director P Seshadri got a call from the theatre: “Sir, there are two people in the audience. What do we do?”
- Who Are The Unions Serving? (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Jan 06, 2006)
During a rare moment of lucidity, trade union leader Gurudas Dasgupta had acknowledged in a television programme that the Indian labour leaders hadn’t always paid much attention to telling workers about the value of productivity.
- Ulfa Cool To Gogoi’S ‘Safe Passage’ Offer (Statesman, Bijay Sankar Bora, Jan 06, 2006)
The Ulfa hasn’t reacted too enthusiastically to the 14-day long “safe passage” offered by Assam chief minister Mr Tarun Gogoi to facilitate the outfit’s activists to enjoy Magh Bihu, the Assamese harvest festival, with their families.
- Tourism Looking Up In Alappuzha This Season (Hindu, A. Harikumar, Jan 06, 2006)
`Visitors number more than that during the entire previous season'
Tourism in the district, blessed with backwaters, seems to be prospering this season, which began in November.
- Iisc Gunman Nabbed In Chennai (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
The assailant who killed retired IIT Professor M C Puri and injured four others on...
- True Renunciation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
A dilemma that every spiritual aspirant faces when he becomes serious about undertaking scriptural study is losing interest in doing the prescribed duties (Karma).
- Aid An Adjunct To Occupation (Hindu, Ghada Karmi, Jan 06, 2006)
The Last month has seen a flurry of high-level activity designed to fund the Palestinians under occupation. A private sector investors' conference took place in London to discuss ways of boosting the Palestinian economy.
- Latin America’S Two Left Wings (Indian Express, JORGE CASTANEDA, Jan 06, 2006)
Don’t confuse those leaders who spring from a communist or socialist past with those who trace their roots to old-fashioned populism, says JORGE CASTANEDA
- Stability In The Changing Environment (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 06, 2006)
Recent developments in India and outside have redefined financial stability to mean more than just the avoidance of crises and posed new challenges to the central banks in framing macro-economic policies.
- Bangalore Police Bring Suspect In Iisc Attack To Nalgonda (Hindu, S.Ramu, Jan 06, 2006)
Accused person's house searched for three hours
A Bangalore crime branch team on Thursday brought Mohammad Razi-Ur Rehman alias Abdul Rehman (34), an alleged accused in the attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), to Nalgonda amid . . .
- Ysr Seeks Scientists' Counsel On Projects (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Modern practices is a must for farmers to reap benefits
Farmer suicides almost stopped in the State, says YSR
- President Moots E-Judiciary System For Courts In Country (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Entire judicial process must be done electronically, says Kalam
- In Sri Lanka: Seeding The Clouds Of War (Hindu, R. Hariharan, Jan 06, 2006)
The LTTE is using the same tactics to set the stage for an offensive against the Sri Lankan Army that it employed against the IPKF.
- Disallow Hazardous Waste Imports? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 06, 2006)
Ship recycler is one of the most important stakeholders of shipping industry. Once ship loses its economic life, it has got to be recycled by any country. If India does not do it, it will go to any other ship recycling country like Bangladesh, . . .
- Can Pakistan Reform? (Frontpagemag, Robert T. McLean, Jan 05, 2006)
For months, Pakistani President Musharraf has been locked in a fierce political struggle with leaders of Pakistan’s religious schools, or madrasas. Represented by the powerful political organization Wifaqul-Madaris, . . .
- Train Service: Talks Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Railway officials of India and Pakistan will meet here on Thursday to finalise the modalities for the inaugural run of the Khokhrapar-Munnabao train service. The countries have already concluded the trial run on their respective sides.
- Delhi Police On Alert (Hindu, Devesh K. Pandey , Jan 05, 2006)
Police Commissioner given inputs on presence of militants
Army HQ, Golf Course among likely targets
Groups operating from the Kashmir valley considered a real threat
Bangladesh-based militants found more inclined towards "fidayeen" attacks
- Tight Security In Hyderabad (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Jan 05, 2006)
For Pravasi Bharatiya Divas and AICC plenary session
Manmohan, a large number of NRIs, Central Ministers and leading personalities taking part in the events
Police asked to implement "foolproof" but unobtrusive security plan
- Indo-Pak Talks Tomorrow On Inaugural Run Of Train Service (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Railway Officials of India and Pakistan would be meeting here tomorrow to finalise the modalities as well as the dates for the inaugural run of the Khokhrapar-Munabao train service between the two countries.
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