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- Tsunami Posed The Greatest Challenge: Relief Commissioner (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2005)
"Situation was better handled than Mumbai floods and hurricane in U.S."
- Verbal Duel (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2005)
Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s references to Chinese invasion of Arunchal Pradesh in 1962 and border dispute with China sparked a war of words with a top Chinese diplomat, generating some heat at the seminar here.
- Obesity Epidemic Threatens Britain (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2005)
The number of Britons resorting to drastic weight-loss surgery will double in the next 12 months, say medical researchers, in a further sign of the growing obesity epidemic.
- Of Signatures And Security (Daily Excelsior, Rajkumar Vijayveer Vikram Singh, Sep 05, 2005)
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) will come up for review by the end of this month. Since its inception in 1965, superpowers have converted ploughshares into spanners in their desperation to build up to that mythical level which would guarantee..
- India Offers Usd 5 Mn To Hurricane-Hit United States (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2005)
Rushing to the aid of the United States, India has offered five million dollars and medicines to provide relief the people of the regions devastated by hurricane Katrina on the US Gulf coast.
- Kings And Rebels (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 05, 2005)
Can Nepal’s King Gyanendra save the monarchy? The question assumes an urgency after the Himalayan kingdom’s largest political party, the Nepali Congress,
- Naxal Mine Blast Kills 24 Cops In Chattisgarh (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2005)
The Chattisgarh government is considering imposing a ban on Naxlaites after the extremists triggered a landmine blast in Bijapur police district killing 24 securitymen,
- A City At Risk (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2005)
The arrest of two top Hizbul Mujahideeen commanders from a leading hotel on Residency Road last week brings to the fore the vulnerability of our city to extremely hostile influences.
- Dogged By Terror (Statesman, BULA BOSE, Sep 05, 2005)
Moving around in today’s world is no longer easy. Not at least if July 2005 was a representative sample.
- Story Of Blunders By Delhi And Islamabad In Kashmir (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Sep 05, 2005)
It’s been a real tragedy of errors which has made Kashmir suffer.
- Spouse Of Life: A Feminist View (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 05, 2005)
I have been reading all the press about the propriety or lack of it when the finance minister’s wife gets retained by a client organisation whose big boss happens to be her husband.
- The Ceasefire Option (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 05, 2005)
That it is the Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf who is asking India to reduce the presence of its security forces in Kashmir’s urban centres should be the last reason for rejecting the proposal. Any Indian citizen who travels to Srinagar knows . . .
- Powerful Handshake Stirs Muslim World (Deccan Herald, Salman Masood, Sep 05, 2005)
The handshake between Pakistan and Israel is the beginning of a new era in Jewish-Muslim relations
- Peace Prospects After Gaza (Dawn, Maqbool Ahmad Bhatty, Sep 05, 2005)
The Israeli withdrawal of 8,000 Jewish settlers from the Gaza strip has been given high publicity in the western media,
- Blast Kills 24 Security Men; Naxal Ban Likely (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2005)
Days after their activities were banned again in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, Left wing extremists struck in a big way in Chhattisgarh last night by triggering a landmine which killed at least 24 security personnel, 22 of them from the CRPF's 87 battalion
- On The Fast Track (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 05, 2005)
The Supreme Court has rightly directed the High Courts to take prompt measures to speed up all cases,
- Reservation In Colleges (Tribune, K.N. Bhat, Sep 05, 2005)
The late Dr T.M.A. Pai would not have anticipated his name filling the pages of law reports for no fault of his. He was a visionary who freed technical education from the clutches of governments in the mid-1950s and turned Manipal, once a desolate village
- Learn To Live With Exam Phobia (Telegraph, Ardhendu Chatterjee, Sep 05, 2005)
Recent reports in the media about the suicides of schoolchildren who have “failed”,
- Spare The Rod, But Don’T Spoil The Child (Tribune, Amar Chandel, Sep 05, 2005)
One piece of conventional school wisdom which has been squarely rejected in the recent years is the adage, “Spare the rod and spoil the child”. It has been replaced with a “hands-off” policy.
- Regs: How To Make It Really Work (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Sep 05, 2005)
The Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, though laudable, is an idea that is beset with problems
- Outcome Budget — Credible Evaluation Only From Independent Agency (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 05, 2005)
As promised in his annual Budget for this fiscal, the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, has come out with an Outcome Budget for 2005-06.
- Globalisation And Persistent Inequality (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Sep 05, 2005)
The agenda for globalisation is "dominated by the issues of free trade, intellectual property rights, financial and capital account liberalisation, and investment protection".
- Why Rupee May Not Fall Further (Business Line, T. B. Kapali , Sep 05, 2005)
A Little LITTLE more than a month after China revalued the yuan, the Indian rupee is again in the news.
- Eu Hopes Indo-Pak Dialogue Will Resolve Issues (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be assisted by a high-level team, comprising Home Minister Shivraj Patil, Jammu and Kashmir interlocutor N N Vohra, National Security Adviser M K Narayanan and senior Home Ministry officials in the crucial talks with....
- A Super-Power All At Sea? (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Sep 05, 2005)
A recent front-page report in The New York Times described the extent of corruption in hospitals in Bangalore.
- Hurriyat Keen On Lasting Kashmir Solution (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday held a meeting with Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil and the Centre’s pointsman on the Kashmir issue N N Vohra as preparations began for talks with the Hurriyat Conference scheduled for Monday.
- Gate 23 (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2005)
Everyone has an airline story — delayed and cancelled flights, lost luggage, etc., etc. But Meyerhoff’s beats them all.
- Iraq At Breaking Point? (Dawn, Karamatullah K. Ghori, Sep 05, 2005)
The inability of Iraq’s current parliament, under American military occupation, to hammer out a constitution that would satisfy the aspirations of all of its major ethnic and sectarian segments
- Expand The Dialogue On Kashmir (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Sep 05, 2005)
Up to a few weeks ago, the government had no plans to meet the All Party Hurriyat Conference.
- Guidance Gone Askew (Deccan Herald, V C Bhaskaran , Sep 05, 2005)
Unlike at present, teaching was truly a noble profession in those days, as teachers led by example
- Katrina Selects Its Victims (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma , Sep 05, 2005)
The hurricane has left the US grappling afresh with issues of race and class in a society that is getting more polarised
- Second Step (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 05, 2005)
Expanding CBMs between the two nations will only lead towards lasting peace
- Troops Vow To Halt Crime In ‘Big Easy’ (Deccan Herald, Baton Rouge, Sep 05, 2005)
Two-thirds of the police in New Orleans are said to have abandoned the force amid horrific conditions in the aftermath of the storm.
- India’S Mini-Multinationals Make Waves In Western Markets (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2005)
Large Indian business houses which are small compared to their international peers, are buying up businesses in developed economies.
- Spinning To The Future (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 05, 2005)
It was a smart bit of spin by Jalal Talabani, Iraq’s president, to say that apart from the holy Quran, there was no book that could not be amended.
- Arms Control In South Asia (Dawn, Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Sep 05, 2005)
In the first half of September, foreign secretaries and foreign ministers of India and Pakistan would have set the stage for a meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Musharraf on September 14
- Government Feels The Heat (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 05, 2005)
Although no major protest rally was held on Friday contrary to expectations, yet the Government is seemingly realizing the implications of the Istanbul meeting between Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and Israel at home and abroad. Politicians and ...
- Indo-Us N-Pact And Proliferation (Deccan Herald, Michael Krepon , Sep 05, 2005)
The nuclear cooperation agreement announced between US President George W Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House on July 18th marks a major shift in decades-long US policies to stop and reverse proliferation.
- Lessons For India From Eu (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Sep 05, 2005)
Tony Blair’s experience of the EU could throw light on how India could learn from the group’s achievements
- An Irreplaceable Exuberance (Deccan Herald, Henry Blodget, Sep 05, 2005)
Ten years ago this month, the initial public offering of the Internet pioneer Netscape set off a dotcom boom that today is usually viewed as a sort of financial kindergarten recess, a regrettable free-for-all of idiocy and greed
- Surveys Predict Koizumi's Win (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2005)
Candidates step up campaign, party leaders appeal to voters through TV
- Gas Pipeline Project Gets Boost (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 05, 2005)
India and Iran have discussed the gas pipeline project to supply Iranian gas to India and Pakistan at a meeting between Foreign Ministers of the two countries in Tehran on Saturday.
- It Impact: 38 Roads In B’Lore To Be Upgraded (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
The State government has sought assistance from the Central government for upgrading roads at a cost of Rs 550 crore.
- Politicians And The Police (Dawn, Anwar Syed, Sep 04, 2005)
If any politicians were ever to ask me how he should practise his craft (which none has done to date), I would say: “be good, but if you cannot be good, be careful.”
- Turkey’S Eu Prospects (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 04, 2005)
OCTOBER 3 is a month away, but it is still doubtful whether the European Union will finally begin entry negotiations with Turkey.
- Retold, In A Hurry (Hindu, S. SIVADAS, Sep 04, 2005)
Dharker was given three months to write the book, the deadline for the re-enactment of the Dandi march. That shows...
- When Army Rules The Political Roost (Dawn, Kunwar Idris, Sep 04, 2005)
The elections recently held may put the district governments on a footing more viable than in their first term but the polling, assuredly, marks the beginning of the end of the country’s precarious parliamentary system, even in its present hybrid form.
- Progress On Peace Process (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 04, 2005)
It is heartening that the India-Pakistan composite dialogue is making good progress.
- New Cbms Sans Kashmir (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 04, 2005)
Pakistan and India have agreed on new CBMs pertaining to early operationalisation of Poonch-Rawalakot bus service, introduction of a truck service for trade on Muzaffarabad-Srinagar route and further discussions on meeting-points across the ....
- Revamping Of Health Services (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 04, 2005)
A high-level meeting, chaired by President Pervez Musharraf and also attended by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Friday, approved national health strategy to revamp primary health care system and provide basic health facilities to people at the grass roots
- A Third World Scene? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 04, 2005)
Hurricane Katrina has cruelly demonstrated the awesome power of nature and the havoc it can wreak on the proudest efforts of humankind.
- Whither Justice? (Hindu, Shelley Walia, Sep 04, 2005)
A silence at the savagery that was witnessed by many around the country in 1984 "needs to be reprimanded and disciplined right away".
- Unwanted Sound (Greater Kashmir, SHAKEEL-UR-RAHMAN, Sep 04, 2005)
At long last there is some good news for all those who are concerned about the annoying levels of noise in the city.
- The Majesty Of Chinar (Greater Kashmir, BASHEER SHAH, Sep 04, 2005)
The other day, quite in contemplation and thinking of this column , a friend Who has more to do with agriculture and less with culture, suddenly dropped in.
- Of Unique Traditions And Divine Rings (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
Payyanur, home to the temple of Parasurama, has something for everyone, from pilgrims to wannabe astrologers, says U S Iyer.
- Somewhere In Time (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
India’s most poignant novelist’s last book was also his magnum opus. Strangely the book has remained largely unacknowledged till now.
- Negative Points In Iaea Report On Nuclear Programme Due To U.S. Pressure: Iran (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Sep 04, 2005)
Criticism neither "legal nor technical" and is politically motivated: nuclear negotiator
To cooperate with IAEA
New Government needs time to resolve issue
- Malaria: Tripura Seeks Central Help (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
The Tripura Government has sought help and expert opinion from the Centre over the introduction of high-power drugs to control malaria and viral fever which recently took a serious turn in the state.
- Scientific Research: Making Universities Accountable (Tribune, Rupamanjari Ghosh, Sep 04, 2005)
Infrastructure plays a vital important role in raising the quality of teaching and research in the universities.
- Bihar Flood Scene Not Alarming: Buta (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
The Bihar governor denied the BJP’s accusations against him and said his reports were based on facts.
- Breast Food The Best For Babies (Tribune, Chanchal Sarkar, Sep 04, 2005)
Ibfan is a non-government organisation (NGO) which attempts to protect baby life and baby food
- Blair To Attend India-Eu Summit In Delhi (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
India and the European Union are looking to achieve their trade target of $35 billion by 2005.
- We Don’T Have A Minority Status, Says Jamia Vc (Tribune, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 04, 2005)
Leading historian, academician and educationist, Professor Mushirul Hassan, the Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Milli Islamia is committed to changing the face of the university.
- India To Go Ahead With Gas Pipline Project With Iran (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
Disregarding Washington's opposition, India today decided to press ahead with the proposed 7.4 billion project with Iran for supply of much-needed natural gas through Pakistan and declared its support to Tehran's peaceful nuclear energy programme.
- India Vows To Push On With Iranian Gas Pipeline (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
Energy-hungry India said on Saturday it would push on with plans to build a $7 billion gas pipeline from Iran, undaunted by the increasing threat of United Nations sanctions against Tehran.
- Ode To Mercurial India (Deccan Herald, JAYALAKSHMI K, Sep 04, 2005)
The versatile nature of this vast country is revealed through the pen as well as through some spectacular images in this book.
- Nepal Maoists Declare Three-Month Ceasefire (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Sep 04, 2005)
This is the third truce called by the rebels since 1996. Every time, they have been the ones to end talks unilaterally and step up attacks against security forces.
- Bouncing Off To Banavasi (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
Chayapathi recreates the grandeur of the Kadambas with his religiously satisfying trip to Banavasi in Karnataka.
- Us, N Korea Brief Before Nuke Talks (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
The United States and North Korea will hold talks in Beijing around September 11, shortly before the resumption of six-party talks aimed at persuading Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons programme, Japan’s daily Mainichi Shimbun said on Saturday.
- Indo-Iran Gas Pipeline Deal By Year-End (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
Ignoring pressure from the US, India and Iran on Saturday decided to go ahead with the proposed $7.4 billion gas pipeline project to supply much needed natural gas through Pakistan and agreed to sign a framework agreement by December this year.
- Nobody Can Question My Authority: Buta (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
Terming as ``dishonest and rubbish'' the charge that he ``spied'' on the National Democratic Alliance, Governor Buta Singh on Saturday defended his recommendation for dissolution of the Bihar Assembly saying none could question his authority and reports.
- Coming Massive Petro Price Hike In India – Can India Really Survive The Oil Shock? (India Daily, Harish Baliga, Sep 04, 2005)
America and the rest of the world have already faced the oil shock of 2005. India has not.
- India Hikes Leather Export Target To $ 5.2 Billion (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
CLE has geared itself to take up the challenge of meeting the demand of US importers, who are increasingly looking at India as an alternative destination
- Role Of All Agencies Involved In Tsunami Rehabilitation, Relief Sparks Robust Debate (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
Participants thrash out peculiar issues that cropped up after December 26, 2004
- Iran Nuclear Issue May Be Referred To U.N. Council (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
VIENNA: Iran moved a day closer on Saturday to being referred to the U.N. Security Council as European Union representatives warned Teheran it has less than two weeks to freeze any nuclear work that could be used to make an atomic weapon.
- New Orleans Slides Deeper Into Chaos (Hindu, Gary Younge, Sep 04, 2005)
Governor warns of shoot-to-kill policy; Senator fears 10,000 deaths
- Centre's Suggestion On Alamatti Unacceptable, Says Dharam Singh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
Flooding in Maharashtra was not due to backwater pressure'
- Essar's Cold Rolling Unit On Stream (Hindu, Oommen A. Ninan, Sep 04, 2005)
Will offer value-added downstream products, says Shashi Ruia
- When Rules Break Down (Hindu, RAJI NARASIMHAN, Sep 04, 2005)
The questions that Disorderly Women asks are older than the story.
- India, Iran Discuss Un Reforms (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
India on Saturday sought Iran's support to the G-4 resolution that seeks the inclusion of India, Japan, Brazil and Germany in an expanded UN Security Council.
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