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Articles 26921 through 27020 of 53943:
- Some Green Light (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 05, 2006)
That second green revolution, Prime Minister, needs crucial changes in policy
- Info On Indian, Afghan Water Plans Sought (The Nation, DILSHAD AZEEM, Jan 04, 2006)
Pakistan Commission for Indus Waters (PCIW) has recommended to the government to take steps for getting accurate and timely intelligence information about Afghanistan and India’s water storage plans to avoid complications and prepare counter strategies,..
- Us Warns Iran Against Resuming Nuke Research (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
The United States on Tuesday warned Iran against resuming atomic fuel research and development which it said would further Tehran's efforts to build nuclear bombs.
- Population: North Offsets Good Work By South (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
The scenario is more or less the same in the other four states as well. Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of un-met needs for contraception and in Rajasthan unless the rate of contraception is substantially increased, the target of achieving . . .
- Kashmiris Not Ready To Accept Loc As Border: Mirwaiz (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
The visiting All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC) delegation led by its chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Tuesday evening went into a mutual consultations session with the Azad Kashmir leaders here on their 2-day visit to quake ravaged areas.
- Heads Of Human Traffickers Must Roll (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jan 04, 2006)
About 400 Pakistanis, who entered Turkey illegally are reportedly languishing in the Turiksh Deport Centre. Their families back home have appealed to President Musharraf to arrange their release and repatriation. Meanwhile, FIA has reportedly . . .
- Pakistan Reacts Rather Late (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jan 04, 2006)
FOREIGN Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam has said that Pakistan has proof of foreign interference in Balochistan. Commenting on the Indian official’s latest outburst about Balochistan, she asked India to mind its own business and refrain from . . .
- Iran Has Snatched An Opportunity From Afghanistan By Nearing An Accord With Pakistan And India On The Seven Billion Dollar Iran-Pakistan-India Gas Pipeline (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Iran has snatched an opportunity from Afghanistan by nearing an accord with Pakistan and India on the seven billion dollar Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline.
- Escalating Fuel Prices (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jan 04, 2006)
As was expected, people have starting feeling the pinch of the Government’s decision to substantially increase the prices of natural gas. Effective from January 1, 2006, the prices have been jacked up by nine to 15.5% for all categories of consumers ...
- Another Corrupt Indian Politician Caught On Camera Red Handed (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
A senior Bihar minister in the Nitish Kumar government, which came to power on the anti-corruption plank, is in the eye of a storm,
- Indian Police And Tribals Fight In Kalinga Nagar, India, While Indian Oligarchs Win And Politicians Sit Tight With Their Inflated Wallet (India Daily, Kiran Chaube, Jan 04, 2006)
It is a sad story, What happened in Kalinga Nagar, Orissa, India should have never happened.
- Pakistan In Talks With China For Eight Nuclear Reactors (Indian Express, Reuters, Jan 04, 2006)
Pakistan is in talks to buy up to eight nuclear power reactors from China for between $7 billion and $10 billion, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
- Sri Lankan War Fears Take Shine Off Economic Hopes (Daily Times, Peter Apps, Jan 04, 2006)
Dollar aid after Asia’s tsunami boosted both the local rupee and the stock exchange - but the bourse has fallen sharply after the string of attacks on the military last month
- Blasts Rock Nepal Hours After Rebels Call Off Ceasefire (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
A series of overnight blasts rocked Nepal with one erupting in the popular tourist town of Pokhara, just hours after Maoist rebels called off a four-month truce, raising fears of a resurgence of violence.
- Tamil Tigers, Lanka Army Trade Charges Over Death Of Five Civilians (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
At least five civilians suspected of working for Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in northeastern Sri Lanka when their grenades exploded before they could hurl them at a troop convoy, said Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe, military spokesman said today.
- Governance Takes A Punctual Turn In J&k (Indian Express, ISHFAQ NASEEM, Jan 04, 2006)
If Jammu and Kashmir is abuzz with talk of punctuality and governance these days, it is because Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has hit upon a novel idea of monthly performance reports.
- Maoists Announce End To Unilateral Ceasefire (Press Trust of India, Shirish B Pradhan, Jan 04, 2006)
Nepal's Maoist rebels today announced they have ended the unilateral ceasefire and vowed to "go on the offensive" against the Royal Army, dousing the hopes of peace despite pleas from political parties and the international community.
- Sharing Secret Shames (Telegraph, GITHA HARIHARAN, Jan 04, 2006)
My introduction to Orhan Pamuk’s work came through his ambitious novel Snow.
- Brain Drain — Oxymoron In A Global Workforce (Business Line, Alok Ray, Jan 04, 2006)
Should we bother about brain drain when the flow is moving in all directions in today's global economy, wonders Alok Ray, and cites the increasing movement to India of quite a few established professionals from countries such as the US to take up jobs,...
- 200 Pakistani Prisoners In Indian Jails: Pak Foreign Secy (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Two hundred Pakistani prisoners were still lodged in Indian jails despite the two countries releasing over 400 prisoners last year, Foreign Secretary Riaz Muhammad Khan said here today.
- Sri Lanka Rebels Say Lose Senior Cadre To Army Attack (Reuters, Peter Apps, Jan 04, 2006)
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers accused the army of infiltrating their areas and killing a senior rebel on Tuesday in what they said was the most serious attack since a 2002 truce, and warned time was running out to avert war.
- Three Blasts Rock Western Nepal (Press Trust of India, Shirish B Pradhan, Jan 04, 2006)
Three western Nepalese cities were rocked by near simultaneous blasts, hours after Maoists called off their four-month unilateral ceasefire blaming continued Army operations against the rebels.
- Services Restored Partially In Major Towns In Valley (Daily Excelsior, Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, Jan 04, 2006)
Pulled up by Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on account of "let's-see-when-a-crisis-hits" mindset, authorities today succeeded in restoration of services in parts of this Capital city and some major towns in the snow-hit Kashmir valley.
- Mirwaiz Visits Pok, Holds Talks (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq today visited Muzaffarabad, the quake-battered capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), and held talks with the leaders there.
- Light Inwards (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 04, 2006)
And a simulated concern for the vote-bank
With barely five months to go for elections, the CPI-M seems anxious to make amends for its shortcomings over the past five years.
- Baluchistan On The Boil (Tribune, Gen V.P. Malik (retd), Jan 04, 2006)
Pakistan’s largest province, Baluchistan, is again on the boil. Two rocket firing incidents took place in early December, 2005.
- Bihar: Five Naxalites Arrested (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Five hardcore CPI (Maoist) activists, suspected to have been involved in the gunning down of former MP and Lok Janashakti leader Rajesh Kumar, were arrested from a village in Bihar's Gaya district today.
- Alternative Ways To Meet Social Mandates (The Financial Express, Janmejaya Sinha, Jan 04, 2006)
The Indian state, in its various avatars, requires India’s financial sector to meet a large number of social policy objectives.
- Pakistan To Buy 6 Nuke Reactors From China (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Pakistan is negotiating the purchase of six to eight nuclear reactors from China during the next decade, a media report said on Tuesday
- Medical Truth Is Stranger Than Tv Fiction (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 04, 2006)
Tamil serials being what they are, not too many eyebrows were raised when the female villain Pooja in a Jaya TV prime-time presentation titled Kalki queued up for free food at a temple. And Pooja was a villainess-turned-CEO-turned mendicant!
- Low Telecom Levies Will Benefit All (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 04, 2006)
The finance ministry’s reported support for reduction of absolute duties and levies in the telecom sector in its strategy paper is welcome.
- Once Bitten... (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jan 04, 2006)
‘Silence, please.’ The Confe-deration of Indian Industry (CII) probably forgot to read the sign inside the National Library.
- Poll Bounty (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 04, 2006)
Trust the leftists of Bengal to make even newborn children matter in vote-bank politics.
- Sri Lankan Troops Kill Five Tamil Students: Tigers (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka today accused the government troops of killing five Tamil students in the restive port town of Trincomalee.
- Greenpeace Members Held After "Toxic" Ship Protest (Reuters, Reuters, Jan 04, 2006)
Police detained around a dozen Greenpeace activists in New Delhi on Tuesday during a protest over the planned scrapping in an Indian yard of a French aircraft carrier they said contains tonnes of highly toxic material.
- End Of A Ceasefire (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 04, 2006)
With the Maoists in Nepal deciding not to extend their four-month ceasefire,
- Test Of Neighbourliness (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 04, 2006)
Two decades after the formation of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC),
- The Health Of Nations: Seeking A Way Forward (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Jan 04, 2006)
There's a clamour for `public-private' partnerships in the sphere of Indian health care. But there is very little that is public left in the sector.
- Clearing The Way For Multi Modal Transport (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Jan 04, 2006)
The basic approach should be to link train and bus services to reduce congestion on the roads.
- Combating Africa's Number One Killer (Hindu, Jon Snow, Jan 04, 2006)
The numbers are impossible to digest. Three million people a year die from the disease, most sufferers contract it two or three times a year and, whenever they do, are so struck down that they can neither work nor tend to their families for . . .
- Iit Soldier & Terror On Centre Stage (Telegraph, G.S. RADHAKRISHNA, Jan 04, 2006)
They came to find scientific solutions to poverty, but all the voices rose in anger against a common threat — terrorism.
- What’S The Real Idea? (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Jan 04, 2006)
One critic called it “the common agricultural policy of the sky”, a reference to the European Union’s expensive and wasteful farm support programme, but the Galileo Project has been launched at last. On December 28, 2005 a Russian rocket boosted . . .
- Tunnel Vision (Telegraph, Arkadev Chatterjea, Jan 04, 2006)
Contrary to the trend abroad, students in India’s top business schools seem overly concerned with job placements, writes Arkadev Chatterjea The author is professor of finance, IIM Calcutta, and visiting fellow, Cornell Higher Education Research . . .
- We Have A Dream (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 04, 2006)
Amid all hopelessness, there is a ray of hope. Kashmir is a subject to be studied not in isolation, but in a comprehensive politico-historical context.
- Create Disaster Management Cell (Daily Excelsior, Rajesh Khajuria, Jan 04, 2006)
One year after the Tsunami, it is difficult to say whether the world has learnt its lessons. The Tsunami of Dec 26 last year was one of the worst disasters in recorded history and killed - official figures - 223,492 people, besides rendering nearly . . .
- Top Let Militant Held For Iisc Attack (Tribune, Jangveer Singh, Jan 04, 2006)
In a major breakthrough, the Bangalore police has not only established Pakistani outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba’s (LeT) involvement in the December 28 terrorist attack at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here, . . .
- Blasts Rock Nepal (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Three western Nepalese cities were rocked by near simultaneous blasts, hours after Maoists called off their four-month unilateral ceasefire blaming continued Army operations against the rebels.
- Tell It To The Birds (Tribune, S. Raghunath, Jan 04, 2006)
The country’s domestic flag carrier Indian (Airlines) plans to adopt the Japanese method and paint abstract drawings and sketches on its planes in a bid to scare away birds which are blamed for numerous accidents.
- Alternate Roads (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 04, 2006)
Yet again the Srinagar-Jammu highway has turned hostile. Hundreds of passengers and trucks laden with essential commodities are stranded at different points on the deadly highway.
- `Complete Works At Shravanabelagola By January 20' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Dharam Singh promises additional funds to make the event memorable
Principal Secretary Ramaswamy to oversee works
Senior police official to supervise security measures
- Tips For A Tap (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Jan 04, 2006)
Ritu Sarin on the how and why of telephonic surveillance
- Iran To Resume N-Fuel Research (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Iran announced on Tuesday that it would resume atomic fuel research and development next week, raising the spectre of a fresh showdown with the West suspecting Tehran wants nuclear technology to build bombs.
- Rs 4.02 Crore To Boost Storage Capacity Of Dams In Cuddalore (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Cuddalore to get Rs. 15 crore under Rashtriya Sam Vikas Yojana in 2005-06
Main focus of RSVY will be on improving irrigation sources
Provisions made for solid waste management, education
- Indian Chip Plans Unlimited Chip Plans Unlimited (Hindu, P. Manoj, Jan 04, 2006)
`Desi' silicon chips to bring cheers to Indians `Desi' silicon chips to bring cheers to Indians
- Mistrust Between India And Pakistan High, Says Analyst (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Need to arrive at practical solutions stressed
"Fifty eight years of not knowing each other" is the "main problem" between India and Pakistan, said Pakistani scholar and defence analyst Ayesha Siddiqa.
- Steeled For Change (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
The tragic death of 12 people in a clash between the police and a group of tribals, protesting against the setting up of a steel plant in Jajpur district in Orissa, has an important lesson for agencies engaged in rehabilitation projects.
- Tehran To Resume Nuclear Fuel Research (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Says research work will start in cooperation and coordination with the IAEA
- Security In It Destinations — No Cause For Panic (Business Line, K.G. Kumar, Jan 04, 2006)
Soon after the Bangalore attack, the Tamil Nadu Police beefed up security in various parts of the State, including armed police pickets at TIDEL Park, Indian Institute of Technology, Anna University, and the Central Leather Research Institute, among . . .
- How Did Gudiya Die? (Indian Express, RAVINDER KAUR, Jan 04, 2006)
Women are still the terrain on which turf fights between men — for power politics, religion and economics — are fought, says Ravinder Kaur
- Pm Satisfied With Work At Andamans (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday expressed satisfaction over the “good relief and rehabilitation” work being done here for the victims of the tsunami tidal disaster.
- ‘I Am A Victim, Not The Woman In The Cd’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Almost a week after Sanjay Joshi quit as BJP general secretary following the CD scandal, Bhuvaneshwari Madhu, who had been missing from her Vadodara home, surfaced today to say that she was not the woman in the controversial CD and Joshi was a . . .
- Matter Of Pride (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 04, 2006)
Karnataka has a good panchayat system but needs to check graft and plug loopholes
- In A Writing Roll (Deccan Herald, Jane Henry, Jan 04, 2006)
For some, creativity may be building over ideas. For others, it may spell damage
- Kashmir Plunges Into The Dark (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Road and air links between Kashmir and the rest of the country were restored on Tuesday afternoon with three flights landing at the Srinagar airport and stranded vehicles on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway allowed to proceed after snow . . .
- Protests Against French Ship’S Journey To India (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
As the Clemenceau, the decommisioned French military ship, starts its journey from France to India for dismantling at Alang in Gujarat, Greenpeace activists demonstrated outside the French Embassy here today before being detained by the police.
- Classroom Of The Future (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 04, 2006)
Sebastian Mallaby went to Vellore and found evidence of India’s ‘educational take-off’
- Truth About The Abbasi Report (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Jan 04, 2006)
Three months after the chairman of the Technical Committee on Water Resources (TCWR), Mr A.N.G. Abbasi, had presented his report to the president and the prime minister, the Kalabagh dam issue has burst on the scene in a big way.
- Should India Demand Farm Subsidy Cuts By Developed Nations? (Business Line, G. Chandrashekhar, Jan 04, 2006)
In none of the four major world commodities would India stand to benefit substantially even if developed economies eliminated subsidies. Subsidy-induced low prices would be in our consumers' interest. But more important is to make Indian agriculture . . .
- Out Of Gear (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 04, 2006)
A report in this newspaper that the concerned authorities in the State forgot about the start of the "Traffic Awareness Week" gives an interesting insight. Whatever their explanations it is clear that they have been caught napping.
- Involve Community In Providing Education (Daily Excelsior, S K Kakroo, Jan 04, 2006)
In our country, the vision of education was contained in article 45 of the constitution, which states, "the state shall endeavor to provide within a period of ten years from the commencement of this constitution for free and compulsory education . . .
- Everything On The House (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 04, 2006)
Public accounts committees of the National Assembly and the four provincial assemblies do good work by keeping an eye on government expenditure. But the trouble is that when they sit down for the purpose, the cases that come up to them are nearly . . .
- Pak Stance On Kashmir Unchanged: Riaz (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Foreign Secretary Riaz Muhammad Khan told a subcommittee of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday Pakistan wanted the Kashmiris be given the right to self-determination
- Suspected Let Operative Held (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Abdul Rehman held in Nalgonda, brought to Bangalore and remanded to custody
Rehman was in Saudi Arabia in the past few years: Commissioner
He may be subjected to narco-analysis test, if necessary
- Mqm Seeks Early Opening Of Indian Consulate In Karachi (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
A member of the National Assembly from Karachi has sought early opening of Indian consulate in the port city of Pakistan.
- Senate Re-Shuffle (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 04, 2006)
For the second time in recent history, a draw has been held to decide who among the senators will complete their six-year term and who will retire after three years.
- A Glimmer Of Hope In The Distance (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 04, 2006)
Every hour of the day, the sun sets in some part of the world. But at the very same time, it rises somewhere else.
- Redefining Nam’S Role (Dawn, Shamshad Ahmad Khan, Jan 04, 2006)
The numerical strength of both G-77 and NAM (non-aligned movement) has been a major factor in decision-making at the UN and in all conferences held under the auspices of the UN system.
- Un ‘Deeply Concerned’ At End Of Ceasefire In Nepal (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Series of explosions rock country hours after ceasefire ended
- Pakistan May Buy Six Nuclear Reactors From China (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Pakistan is negotiating the purchase of between six and eight nuclear power reactors from China during the next decade in the most ambitious expansion yet of the country’s nuclear energy capability.
- ‘Pull Out Troops From Kashmir’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has proposed that both Pakistan and India withdraw troops from Kashmir.
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