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- Iran Faces New Pressures (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Oct 07, 2005)
Mr Blair’s officials have accused Iran-backed groups of supplying arms to Shias to attack British soldiers in Iraq.
- No Reason For Iran To Be Angry With India (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Oct 07, 2005)
After the first bitter outburst over the Indian vote on the European Union resolution on its nuclear programme Iran has moderated it attitude on economic and commercial contacts with India.
- Giving A Voice To Women (Daily Excelsior, Meenakshi Sundaram, Oct 07, 2005)
It was not just an off-the-cuff remark when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described the just-concluded monsoon session of Parliament as "historic"
- Acceding To The Ctbt (Dawn, Ghayoor Ahmed, Oct 07, 2005)
UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, in his statement to the fourth conference on facilitating the entry into force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT),
- Teachers As Role Models (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 07, 2005)
The world teachers’ day that was observed on October 5 helped focus attention on the status of teachers. Marked since 1994, this day has been promoted by Unesco to “recognize the essential role of teachers in educational advancement and the importance ...
- How Much Is Enough? (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 07, 2005)
Something rotten in Ibobi’s ’kingdom’
- Climate Change And Storms (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2005)
On one side are those who openly blame the Bush administration for hurricanes Rita and Katrina:
- Keep Smiling (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 07, 2005)
On the face of it this may appear to be an innocuous sidelight but it says a lot. At the end of his joint press conference with External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh in Islamabad recently Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri was asked whether....
- Cbi Raids And All That Jazz (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Oct 07, 2005)
AS was only to be expected, the sensation caused by the countrywide CBI raids on a hundred premises in 54 cities — leading to the institution of 70 cases against officials who had allegedly accumulated wealth out of all proportion to their ostensible. . .
- No Politics, Please (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 07, 2005)
Need to restore status quo ante at AMU
- In Need Of A Better System (Greater Kashmir, DR. RAM CHANDER SHARMA, Oct 07, 2005)
Some hard steps are to be taken to bring a derailed system back on rails in Jammu and Kashmir, suggests
DR. RAM CHANDER SHARMA
- They Don’T Teach Us Only To Learn But To Live (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Oct 07, 2005)
K. Asif takes the teacher student relation beyond the confines of a classroom
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops”
- Who Funds Indian Industry, Why It Matters (Business Line, Sumit K. Majumdar, Oct 07, 2005)
In an analysis of the ownership structure of Indian firms, the author finds that promoters have been making hay with India's substantial corporate assets while their own financial contributions amount to less than 2 per cent, on average, of a company's...
- A Virtual University (Deccan Herald, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 07, 2005)
Good idea that must be made to work
- In The Interest Of Filling Corporate Coffers (Business Line, M. Y. Khan, Oct 07, 2005)
Market interest rates determine the extent to which existing investment opportunity will be utilised.
- Four-Day Indo-Pak International Expo (Ipex)-2005 At Amritsar From December 1 (India Daily, Leonard Gomez, Oct 07, 2005)
It can boost trade between India and pakistan like never before.
- American Pie, Sliced Up (Deccan Herald, JAITHIRTH RAO , Oct 07, 2005)
I write this from America, from what is today a troubled country possessed of over-articulate television anchors, a country bombarded and persecuted by a plethora of inane channels.
- Younger Brides (Business Line, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 07, 2005)
The legal definition of ‘consent’ is not the same as its semantic significance. That is assumed the moment an ‘age of consent’ is fixed.
- Indo-Us Warmth: Navy Chief Visits Us Base In Japan (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2005)
Confirming the new Indo-US strategic partnership, Navy chief Admiral Arun Prakash became the first Indian service chief to visit the US Naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, as part of his three-day visit to the country.
- India Says No U.S. Pressure To Buy Its Fighter Jets (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Oct 07, 2005)
Washington is not pressuring India to buy U.S. fighter jets to replace its ageing fleet and aircraft manufacturers around the world will be asked for sale proposals, India's air force chief said on Thursday.
- Pakistan Has Invited Russia To Join The Multi-Billion Dollar India-Pakistan-Iran (Ipi) Gas Pipeline Project (India Daily, Harish Baliga, Oct 07, 2005)
Russian Gas pipeline experts and technologiests have something to smile.
- Us Occupation Of Cyber-Space Continues (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Oct 07, 2005)
The Bush Administration is characteristically intent on retaining - and possibly enhancing - the role of the US in Internet management. And its intentions have been all too clear long before the current face-off.
- Real’ Bard Claims Whip Up Tempest Anew (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2005)
Henry Neville, a Tudor politician and diplomat, is the latest contender for being the Bard.
- Uncle Sam Takes Peek At Indian Caste System (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma , Oct 07, 2005)
Having understood the differences between Shias and Sunnis, US lawmakers now examine the age-old caste system in India.
- Lift Anomalies, India To Us (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 07, 2005)
Taking cudgels with the US on behalf of developing countries, India said US should not lose sight of the principle of ‘proportionality’ between countries.
- Centre Approves Fund To Finance Elementary Education (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2005)
The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the creation of a non-lapsable ‘Prarambhik Siksha Kosh’(Elementary Education Fund) to keep the funds received from the two per cent education cess imposed in 2004-05 budget.
- 'India Not Serious On Kashmir Dialogue’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2005)
Kashmiris should be included in the dialogue process, the chairman moderate faction of Hurriyat Conference said.
- Norway Bid To Salvage Shaky Lanka Truce (Deccan Herald, P KARUNAKHARAN , Oct 07, 2005)
Amnesty International’s ex-chief Ian Martin is to hold talks with the Lanka government and Opposition leaders and LTTE representatives next week.
- Union: A Most Potent Social Insurance (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 07, 2005)
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is the largest and fastest growing union in North America, with 1.8 million members, according to www.seiu.org.
- Managing Knowledge Security (Business Line, Tharun Kumar, Oct 07, 2005)
Some time in the 1980s organisations woke up to the fact that employees no longer joined a place to retire from it.
- A Brief History Of Development Economics (Business Line, Alok Ray, Oct 07, 2005)
An economist's answer to the question `how to promote growth' has substantially changed over time.
- A Base For Rural Connectivity (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 06, 2005)
The vastly neglected rural telephony market in India is at last getting the attention it deserves from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
- No Shortage Of Lpg In The Country: Aiyar (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 06, 2005)
Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar today said there was no shortage of LPG in the countrry though there could be some administrative problems that were coming in the way of its supply.
- Tb: A Silent Killer (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 06, 2005)
At long last, the Government seems to have woken up to the challenge posed by the tuberculosis. Manager of National Tuberculosis Programme Dr Karam Shah told a media workshop on Tuesday that a billion-rupee programme is in the offing to control the deadly
- India's Vote On Iran At Iaea — National Interest Versus Foreign Policy (Business Line, G. Parthasarathy, Oct 06, 2005)
An important factor underlying the position that New Delhi took on Iran at the IAEA was its desire to see international nuclear sanctions that India has endured for nearly three decades end as soon as possible.
- Nobel Chemistry For French, American Scientists (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2005)
France’s Yves Chauvin and Americans Robert H Grubbs and Richard R Schrock won the 2005 Nobel prize in chemistry today, for their work to reduce hazardous waste in forming new chemicals.
- Democratic Rule (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 06, 2005)
The ZP polls will bring the disarray in political parties to the fore
- India Will Maintain A 7% Growth Rate In 2006 In Spite Problems With Deficit And High Oil Price : S&p (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2005)
International rating agency Standard and Poor's (S&P) on Tuesday said India would maintain a seven per cent GDP growth rate. . .
- Eu Elites Cannot Ignore Peoples' Views (Hindu, Jonathan Freedland, Oct 06, 2005)
Opening the door to Turkey was right, but EU expansion is bound to fail if the dreamers ignore the majority.
- India, Pakistan To Allow Banks' Branches (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2005)
Modalities being worked out
- India Has Major Edge In Offshoring Product Dvpt’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2005)
Aditi Technologies, a Bangalore-based IT company, offers a complete set of software product outsourcing services to its clients that includes big names like Microsoft, Accenture, Siemens, Sharp etc.
- Protest Today Is Criminalised (Deccan Herald, George Monbiot, Oct 06, 2005)
The police use terror laws to penalise dissent while we insist that civil liberties are West’s gift to the world
- Wrath Of The Pushtoons (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Oct 06, 2005)
In desolate semiautonomous tribal areas in the north, Pakistanis are paying the price for the American peace.
- Too Important To Be Left To Political Compulsions (Business Line, Kausik Datta, Oct 06, 2005)
Adherence to good corporate governance principles will make the public sector stronger, say Kshama V. Kaushik and Kaushik Dutta
- Fasts Are Spiritually Cleansing (Deccan Herald, Firoz Bakht Ahmed, Oct 06, 2005)
My mother, a wise old woman, once told me, “You need to sacrifice to achieve great things.” Ramzan fasting, not only to me but to Muslims globally, is a reiteration of the same saying.
- Bjp Blames Upa For Lpg Shortage (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2005)
The BJP on Thursday blamed the UPA government for the current LPG "shortage", saying the Centre's refusal to share subsidy burden with oil companies has forced them to cut kitchen gas supply.
- Bhel Offload On Hold (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 06, 2005)
The government on Thursday said it has put on hold the disinvestment of 10 percent equity in profit-making PSU BHEL, a proposal on which the Left parties are boycotting the UPA coordination committee meeting.
- Pollution: Transport Dept. Officials Can Levy Fine (Hindu, V. S. Palaniappan, Oct 06, 2005)
Offence to be recorded in RC book; fine will be Rs. 100 for first-time offence and will go up to Rs. 500
- India Wants U.S. To Amend Law For Civil Nuclear Cooperation (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Oct 06, 2005)
New Delhi has agreed to separate facilities
- Govt Outlines Twin Pronged Approach To End Naxal Menace (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2005)
Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil on Wednesday unveiled a two-pronged approach of economic development and firm policing, in order to wipe out the Naxalite menace.
- Pakistan’S Shadow Isi And Islamic Jihadists Targeting India’S Hindu Nationalist Leaders For Assassination (India Daily, Preetam Sohani, Oct 06, 2005)
It is the next sinister move by Al-Queda sponsored Pakistan’s shadow ISI that operate over the head of Pakistani President Musharraf’s Government.
- ‘No Social Banks In India Today’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2005)
K D Khera, advisor, AIBOC on Wednesday lamented the fact that banks in India today cannot be called “social banks”. The Constitution aims at a socialistic pattern of society and banks were nationalised to ensure that money went to the poorest of the poor,
- India, Pak Line Up Formidable Teams For Baglihar Battle (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2005)
When they sit across the table on Thursday with neutral expert Raymond Lafitte to explain their cases on the Baglihar hydro-electric project in Jammu and Kashmir,
- Every Strike Has A Sting (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2005)
Last week’s unnecessary and rather perverse day-long disruption in large parts of the country continues to be the subject of bitter comment.
- U.S. Medical Transcription Firm Spheris Says It Is Hiring More Workers In India (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2005)
An American company that transcribes doctors notes said Wednesday it is setting up a transcription center in the southern Indian city of Coimbatore,
- India, Pak Hire Foreign Experts To Fight Water War (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2005)
Both India and Pakistan are leaving no stone unturned in the final battle over the 450 MW Baghliar dam in Jammu and Kashmir.
- Economic Growth And The Millennium Goals (Hindu, John M. Alexander , Oct 06, 2005)
With continued vigilance and determination, we should be able to banish hunger-poverty from India by 2015. But the attainment of other poverty-related millennium goals calls for conscientious and effective delivery of services in basic education and prima
- On Corruption And Its `Sister Activity' — Taxation (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 06, 2005)
Duke Vincentio says in Measure For Measure, "I have seen corruption boil and bubble till it o'er-run the stew."
- Iraq Backtracks On Decision To Change Charter Rules (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Oct 06, 2005)
Parliament gives in to Sunnis' opposition and U.N. intervention
- Moving Closer, Yet Staying `Neutral' (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 06, 2005)
The Confederation of Switzerland, which joined the United Nations only in 2002 and has kept out of the European Union, voted recently to allow citizens from the 10 new E.U. member-states to work in the country.
- Heartening Progress On Siachen (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2005)
While India and Pakistan did not achieve a breakthrough on the issue of demilitarising the Siachen Glacier, there is clearly reason for optimism.
- Cwc, Slmc Support Ranil (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Oct 06, 2005)
Parliament gives in to Sunnis' opposition and U.N. intervention
- Iran’S Violation Of Npt (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Oct 06, 2005)
MR P.V. Narasimha Rao and Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee displayed statesmanship, transcending political differences, to defeat a Pakistani move to get India condemned for alleged human rights violations in J&K at the United Nations Human Rights Commission . . .
- Presentation Of Financial Instruments (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Oct 06, 2005)
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has issued an Exposure Draft on what could be Accounting Standard 30 — that is, Financial Instruments: Presentation.
- Biotechnology: It's Advantage India (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2005)
Exports have grown by 42 per cent, says Madhan Mohan There are 300 biotechnology-based industries in India, with an investment growth of 50 per cent per annum
- Britain Extends A Rare Gesture To Putin (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Oct 06, 2005)
Combating global terrorism figured prominently in the talks between visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday when they met on the second day of the Russian leader's visit to Britain.
- Turkey’S Elusive Goal (Dawn, Tayyab Siddiqui, Oct 06, 2005)
October 3, 2005 will occupy a significant place in the political calendar of Turkey. The formal negotiations to discuss Turkey’s entry into European Union commenced on this day, though not entirely on an auspicious note.
- Gilgit On A Powder Keg (Daily Excelsior, Dr Golam Yazdani, Oct 06, 2005)
The situation in Pakistan's Northern Areas is becoming volatile with regular reports of gross human rights violations and the growing divide between various communities which, often, cause violent reprisals.
- A Landmark Event (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 06, 2005)
The start of negotiations on Turkey’s membership of the European Union this week is a landmark event with important strategic and global implications. By keeping its pledge to launch entry talks with Turkey on October 3 and accepting that a Muslim. . .
- Lowering Of Gdp Estimate (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 06, 2005)
The lower estimate of Pakistan’s estimated economic growth for 2005-06 by the Asian Development Bank will hopefully be noted with some concern by policymakers in Islamabad.
- The Sighting Suspense (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 06, 2005)
On Tuesday evening, millions of the faithful lingered on in mosques even after the Isha prayers were over, because they did not know whether to offer Taraveeh.
- Invisible In Paradise (Dawn, Pamela Nowicka, Oct 06, 2005)
My Balinese friend Ida texted me about the Bali bombs. When we spoke she expressed anger and dismay about what she called the Saudi Arabianization of Indonesia over the last 20 years.
- China’S Transformation (Dawn, Niall Ferguson, Oct 06, 2005)
Imagine 20 Britains. Imagine three European Unions. Now you are beginning to get the idea about China, where more than a fifth of the human race resides.
- Ulfa At The Door (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 06, 2005)
AFTER months of intense talks about talks, the Centre and the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) will finally be taking the first step on October 25 and 26. New Delhi will sit down with the People’s Consultative Group (PCG), ...
- Are Tax Lures To Woo Investment Passé? (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 06, 2005)
If you push on a piece of putty it will assume a new shape, and when you remove your hand it will not return to its original shape, or at least not immediately and not entirely.
- Hard Facts About The Durand Line (Dawn, Amir Usman, Oct 06, 2005)
Close on the heels of the Pakistani proposal to fence the mountainous and rugged border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the recent statement of the governor of the Frontier province,
- Long Hours On Bicycle May Make Men Impotent (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 06, 2005)
Many hours spent riding a bicycle each week could put men at risk of turning impotent, says a new study.
- Civic Elections In Andhra (Tribune, C. Narendra Reddy, Oct 06, 2005)
The elections to the 11 corporations and 96 municipalities in Andhra Pradesh are a watershed in many ways.
- Calling Names (Tribune, Parbina Rashid, Oct 06, 2005)
Growing up with concepts like a rose smelling as sweet even if it is called by any other name, Mohini Giri’s theory on name and feminity came as quite a surprise.
- Chirac: Ec Fails To Defend (Tribune, Stephen Castle , Oct 06, 2005)
Jacques Chirac has launched a direct attack on the economic policies of the European Commission, accusing it of washing its hands of the consequences of job losses.
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