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Articles 34421 through 34520 of 53943:
- Attend “c” (Tribune, Suresh Chander, Oct 20, 2005)
During our batch reunions, when the spirits are high, conversation invariably veers around to stories involving the medical officers (MO) of the National Defence Academy (NDA).
- Quake Softens Loc, For Now (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2005)
President Pervez Musharraf's offer to open the Line of Control so that relief can be provided to the victims of the October 8 earthquake and India's positive response have the potential to transform the situation on the ground.
- Price Of Oil Vs Consumer Welfare (Indian Express, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Oct 20, 2005)
The price of oil shows no signs of abating. A further increase in the price from the present $60 per barrel to $100 per barrel would not be altogether unexpected.
- India's No To Direct Cellular Calls From Across Loc (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2005)
India has said no to Pakistan's plans to permit direct cellular calls from across the Line of Control (LoC) that divides Jammu and Kashmir, saying these would have to be routed through existing systems.
- Meanwhile, Iran Steps On Diplomatic Gas: Energy Talks With India Next Week (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2005)
Stepping up its diplomacy a month ahead of the second crucial vote in Vienna, Tehran has invited New Delhi for a second meeting on the proposed India-Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project.
- Microsoft To Hike India Staff Count (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
In an initiative to spread in the small and medium business (SMB) segment in smaller towns, Microsoft, on Tuesday, announced that it has plans to reach 33 cities within a year by doubling its headcount and marketing investment for the SMB sector.
- Special Adoption Law Needed (Deccan Herald, Vishal Arora, Oct 19, 2005)
By not recognising the right of minorities to adopt, the Govt violates their right to equality before law
- Fusion To Improve Higher Education (Hindu, A. Parthasarathi, Oct 19, 2005)
There needs to be more interaction between the universities and the major research institutions in both the private and public sectors.
- India Hails Musharraf's Offer Of Opening Loc For Relief (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
India welcomed reported offer by President Pervez Musharraf that Pakistan was willing to open the Line of Control (LoC) for "any amount" of Kashmiris to join in quake relief work but said implemention of the proposal practically will have to be worked out
- Food For Thought (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 19, 2005)
Eradication of hunger should be on top of the global agenda
- Isn’T A Varsity An Institution? (Deccan Herald, Valson Thampu , Oct 19, 2005)
According to a Judge of the Allahabad High Court (2005), and before him the Supreme Court in Azeez Basha Vs Union of India (1968), the Aligarh Muslim University lost its minority status on account of being upgraded to a university in 1920.
- Indian Infrastructure Is Just Pathetic: Iata (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
Stating that Indian air transport sector was most vibrant and fastest growing in the world, IATA said it could become a catalyst for economic growth if critical bottlenecks were removed.
- Ranking Against Peers (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 19, 2005)
It has nowadays become common to rank institutions which offer similar services or perform similar functions.
- India, Us To Discuss Nuclear Pact (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
India and the US will discuss further details of the July 18 nuclear agreement between the two countries during the visit of US Under-Secretary of State Nicholas Burns here on 21-22 October.
- China's Major Leap In Space (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 19, 2005)
Two years, almost to the day, after China's first astronaut, Yang Liwei, circled the Earth for over 21 hours in the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft, the country's manned space effort took a big leap forward.
- Several Moderate Intensity Aftershocks Rattle J-K (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
A series of strong aftershocks jolted Jammu and Kashmir and parts administered by Pakistan today,
- Retreat To The Silent Resort (Hindu, ANAND SANKAR, Oct 19, 2005)
A stay at Kairali Ayurvedic Health Resorts is not just about getting your oil massage but also soaking in some much-needed peace and quiet
- Black Farce, Bleak Prospects (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Oct 19, 2005)
The absence of a clear disaster-management plan has reduced earthquake victims to beggars.
- India, Pakistan Get Quake On The Ipu Agenda (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
India and Pakistan on Monday joined hands and succeeding in getting included the recent earthquake as an emergency item on the agenda of the ongoing 113th Inter Parliamentary Union Assembly in Geneva.
- Improve Airport Infrastructure: Iata Chief (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
Should focus on enhanced safety
- Chinese Red Cross Donates Rs. 23. 71 Lakhs (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
China on Tuesday donated Rs. 23.71 lakhs to India for relief work in the earthquake-hit Jammu and Kashmir. Its Ambassador Sun Yuxi handed over to Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, a cheque for the contribution made by the Red Cross Society ....
- U.K. Officer Faces Trial (Hindu, Richard Norton-Taylor, Oct 19, 2005)
A British air force officer faces a court martial for refusing to serve in Iraq on the grounds that the invasion of the country was illegal, defence officials said on Monday.
- If India Had Abstained... (Indian Express, Subrahmanyam, Oct 19, 2005)
It is amazing to see the tons of newsprint devoted to the Iran issue in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in this country without any focus on the real issue.
- Over A Million Jobs May Have Been Lost In Pakistan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
Labour-intensive job schemes needed: ILO
Widespread destruction of infrastructure
Areas affected are amongst the poorest in Pakistan
Need to rebuild minimum of assets to revive urban informal economy
- Pakistan Condemns Killing (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 19, 2005)
Pakistan on Tuesday condemned the killing of Jammu and Kashmir Minister of State for Education Ghulam Nabi Lone and said it was opposed to terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.
- Iraqis Indifferent To Trial Of Saddam Hussein (Hindu, Rory Carroll , Oct 19, 2005)
Sunnis see the prosecution by "kangaroo court" as a Shia stratagem
- Supreme Court Declines To Stay Bihar Elections (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
"Reasons for not reviving dissolved House will be recorded "
Poll will mean having two sets of legislators: petitioner
October 7 order a conscious decision: Bench
Seeking stay amounts to challenging EC notification
- India's Fast Growth Seen Fuelling Price Pressures (Reuters, Thomas Kutty Abraham and Suresh Seshadri, Oct 19, 2005)
Indian manufacturers have passed on higher costs to consumers on the back of a buoyant economy, company executives and analysts say, a development which threatens to fuel inflation and push up interest rates.
- A Barrier India Is Yet To Overcome (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
Corruption is one barrier that India still finds impossible to overcome. Ranked the 88th most corrupt country of a total of 159 surveyed by Transparency International, even the tiny island nation of Sri Lanka and poor African countries Ghana and Rwanda...
- Pakistan Ready To Open Loc For Quake Relief (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 19, 2005)
Musharraf makes dramatic announcement
- Bird Flu Is Global Threat, Says European Union (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
Continent ill prepared to deal with pandemic
- Dogmatic Versions Of Faith (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Oct 19, 2005)
A few days ago, a letter to the editor in this newspaper, from a correspondent in Colorado Springs, wanted to know whether all those Muslims who had suggested that hurricanes Katrina and Rita were a manifestation of divine wrath against the United States,
- Price Of Oil Vs Consumer Welfare (Indian Express, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Oct 19, 2005)
The price of oil shows no signs of abating. A further increase in the price from the present $60 per barrel to $100 per barrel would not be altogether unexpected. It is time to proactively deal with the pricing of this vital imported commodity.
- Will It Affect The Dialogue? (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Oct 19, 2005)
When the natural elements strike they show no respect for man-made borders.
- Before The Donors Meet In Geneva (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
The United Nations has convened a meeting of the donor countries and agencies on October 24 next to assess the magnitude of losses in Azad Kashmir and Hazara Division in the recent killer earthquake and the assistance that Pakistan needs
- Crime And Compassion (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 19, 2005)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s suggestion for taking a humanistic view of prisoners sentenced to death calls for both reflection and deliberation.
- Pakistan’S Image Problem (Dawn, Shamshad Ahmad Khan, Oct 19, 2005)
Another year has gone by in our country’s chequered history as an independent state.
- Mitrokhin Papers: Ambika Soni Defends Congress (Tribune, Rashme Sehgal, Oct 19, 2005)
The controversy over Christopher Andrews’ recently released book titled “Mitrokhin Archive 11” refuses to go away. The Mitrokhin papers reveals how the KGB’s first prolonged contact with Indira Gandhi occurred way back in 1953.
- A Poor Picture (Tribune, J.L. Gupta, Oct 19, 2005)
My father’s friend was a good painter. Long back, he had painted a life-size portrait of Sardar Patel. The childhood memories of the painting are still vivid. The Sardar looked serious, stern and straight.
- 3 Cheers For 2 Articles (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 19, 2005)
At the Bombay High Court, while arguing for Environmental Action Group, Mr I. M. Chagla clarified that he was not seeking a freeze on all development in the mill land.
- Distant Neighbours (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 19, 2005)
Sufferings efface identities. I thought something like that would happen when the earthquake struck Islamabad and both sides of Kashmir, causing more death and destruction in the areas under Pakistan’s control than in India.
- A Wave Of Internationalisation Of R&d (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Oct 19, 2005)
Transnational corporations have come a long way from the conventional norm of retaining proprietary assets within the company (or group).
- India's Tata Consultancy Wins 480 Mln Stg Uk Pearl Group Outsourcing Business (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
Tata Consultancy (TCS), India's leading software exporter, said it has won a 480 mln stg outsourcing contract from Britain's Pearl Group PLC insurers for a 12-year-period.
- Third-Party Certifying Ngos — A Blow To Wto's Hong Kong Ministerial? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Oct 19, 2005)
The rich nations appear to have shifted serious business from the WTO ministerial negotiating table to a forum of third-party certifying NGOs. The Singapore agenda is back even before headway is made in the matter of respecting the national . . .
- Land Eight Times The Size Of Nariman Point (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 19, 2005)
Money buys land, and wives are sold by fate, wrote the Bard in Merry Wives of Windsor. But it looks like the fate of land sales is bleak considering how NTC's plans have crash-landed.
- Bihar: Notification For 3rd Phase Of Polls Issued (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
Bihar Governor Buta Singh today issued notification for the third phase of state assembly elections in 72 constituencies on November 13.
- Mumbai's Happiness And Hardship Index (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Oct 19, 2005)
INDIA is home to the fourth happiest group of people in the world. Only the Australians, the Americans and the Egyptians are happier than us.
- Nuggets Of Judicial Wisdom (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 19, 2005)
"The most vital `community need' at present is the reversal of the environmental degradation. There are virtually no `lung spaces' in the city. The Master Plan indicates that about 34 per cent of recreational areas have been lost to other uses," ...
- Ignoble Gesture (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Oct 19, 2005)
Joint relief efforts cannot change the realities of Indo-Pak relations
- Bangladesh Government Bans Harkat-Ul-Jihad (Hindu, HAROON HABIB, Oct 19, 2005)
Harkat has been involved in carrying out terrorist activities in Bangladesh for half a decade
- Fight Against Corruption: India Ranks 88th (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
India’s performance in the fields of transparency and fight against corruption is poor, a survey by the international NGO Transparency International (TI) revealed on Tuesday.
- How Safe Is The Capital (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
Rebuilding the minimum of assets to revive the urban informal economy requires urgent support, an ILO report says.
- Land Locked (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 19, 2005)
The Bombay High Court ruling on the quantum of land available to textile mills in Mumbai for commercial development is a clear victory for environmental action groups that had spearheaded the legal challenge.
- Kashmir: On The Hot Seat Of Earthquakes (Greater Kashmir, Saadut Hussain, Oct 18, 2005)
So what can we do, if God forbid, it hits us once again, Saadut Hussain cautions
- Lessons From Nash And The Nobel (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Oct 18, 2005)
What can one learn from Nash, the Nobel and the movie? Mainly that children need to be exposed to the masters in mathematics and science to begin dreaming early on about becoming great. How many Indian children are exposed to the Ramanujans and the Ramans
- Education Of Sufferers (Statesman, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Oct 18, 2005)
October 8 earthquake caused massive devastation in the Valley and in Pakistan administered Kashmir (PAK). The quake also claimed many a precious life. People lost their kith and kin, home and hearth.
- Uae To Airlift Serious Patients (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
The UAE Ambassador Dr Ali Mohammad Al Shamshi has said that UAE will start a mega airlift operation of serious patients from earthquake-hit areas of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir for treatment in various hospitals of the country. He said that the UAE Presiden
- Farce Or Fraud? (Statesman, Bibhuti Bhusan Nandy, Oct 18, 2005)
The inept handling of the public hearings by the Delimitation Commission at Siliguri, Durgapur and Kolkata exposed the inadequacies of the commission as much as the politicised West Bengal administration.
- Editorials (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 18, 2005)
Cracking up and wilting in the wilderness after the last Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party seems to be floundering in its quest for a leader.
- The Economics Of Disasters (Dawn, SHAHID JAVED BURKI, Oct 18, 2005)
The northern areas of Pakistan and the adjoining areas of Kashmir under Indian control were ravaged by an earthquake on the morning of October 8.
- Some Misjudgments (Dawn, Mahdi Masud, Oct 18, 2005)
In one of his most radical pronouncements on the Iraq war, President Bush declared at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington on October 5 that Muslim militants were battling to “establish a radical Islamic empire extending from Spain to Indone
- A Sanyasin’S Anger (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 18, 2005)
Signals from Bhopal suggest that Ms Uma Bharati is no pushover. Even if the assertion that 80-85 BJP legislators have written to party chief L.K. Advani to requisition a meeting of the state legislature party to elect a new leader is exaggerated,
- A Dreadful Tragedy (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 18, 2005)
The horrifying earthquake in Pakistan and northern India has already claimed more than 30,000 lives — with many more injured — and the toll is still rising.
- Arrest The Violence (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 18, 2005)
This is not the time to make political capital out of a crisis
- An Unlikely Pair (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Oct 18, 2005)
Opening of retail trade to foreign investors could lead to loss of millions of jobs over a period of time
- Path-Breaking Novel (Hindu, B.S.R. Krishna, Oct 18, 2005)
Kannada Original, U. R. Anantha Murthy. Rendered into Telugu by Sishtia Lakshmipathi Sastry; Sahitya Akademi, Southern Regional Office, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Veedhi, Bangalore-560001. Rs. 85.
- 70 Iraqis Killed In Us Airstrikes (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
A local doctor has claimed that he received the bodies of 25 men, apparently killed in aerial attacks.
- Us Official To Be India To Talk Nuclear Deal, Iran (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
India and the US are likely to finalise finer details of implementing the civil nuclear energy deal during the visit of US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns later this week.
- Us To Open India’S Nuke-Case At Nsg Meet Today (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Oct 18, 2005)
Taking matters forward on a key aspect of the Indo-US nuclear deal, Washington will soon open negotiations formally in the 44-member Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to carve out a special status for India.
- E-Waste: A Global Problem (Daily Excelsior, Dr Pragya Khanna, Oct 18, 2005)
E-waste or electronic waste includes computers, entertainment electronics, mobile phones and other items that have been discarded by their original users.
- India And Pak Must Pursue Peace (Daily Excelsior, Samuel Baid, Oct 18, 2005)
The results of two days talks in Islamabad during October 3-4 was summed up by India's Foreign Minister Natwar Singh thus : ''On some issues there can be no hurry.
- Living With Ied Threat (Tribune, Maj Gen (retd) Jatinder Singh, Oct 18, 2005)
After pouring billions of dollars into systems that defeat high-technology weapons, the U.S. military is striving to combat a far less sophisticated threat; I.E.Ds (improvised explosive devices) or roadside bombs.
- Few Women, Children Left In Balakot (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Oct 18, 2005)
There aren’t many women and children left alive in Balakot. The adult male residents of this small Pakistani town were out at work on the morning the deadly earthquake struck; their womenfolk and children were indoors — at home or in school.
- Foredoomed (Tribune, Bhai Mahavir, Oct 18, 2005)
One of the paradoxes of enlightened media behaviour is the fact that while they make fun of astrology as sheer “mumbo-jumbo” they keep on publishing regular columns like “What the Stars Foretell”,
- Acknowledging Muslim Contribution - Ii (Greater Kashmir, DR. MINHAJ QIDWAI, Oct 18, 2005)
Recipient of Nobel Peace Prize Mohamed ElBaradei an Egyptian Muslim can be a role Model for all those who want to contribute towards peace and prosperity in the modern world
- Myth Of Historical Right (Dawn, Ghayoor Ahmed, Oct 18, 2005)
Following the meeting between Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri and his Israeli counterpart, Silvan Shalom, in Istanbul on September 1, and President Pervez Musharraf’s speech to the American Jewish Congress in New York on September 17,
- Coping With Disaster On All Fronts (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 18, 2005)
Extracts from the government of India’s status report on Disaster Management in India, August 2004
- New Access (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 18, 2005)
The symbolic force of laws may sometimes be more meaningful than their presence.
- The Post-Modern Woman (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Oct 18, 2005)
Louise Story wrote a front-page story in New York Times of September 20. She began with Cynthia Liu, a bright female student of Yale who expects to do law and then stay at home and become a mom.
- Terrorism On The Rise (Tribune, Jagmohan , Oct 18, 2005)
In connection with the Kashmir imbroglio, the most serious issue which deserves to be attended to on top priority is not the withdrawal of Indian troops from two districts of the valley
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