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- Lgs Gain Roots (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 23, 2005)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the over 45 per cent turnout in the first phase of Local Government elections manifests that the system has taken firm roots.
- Engage Positively With Iran (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 23, 2005)
The resumption of Iran's uranium conversion and enrichment activity, with the potential to produce nuclear weapons, after a nine-month freeze and the consequent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resolution. . .
- Humanity — Revisited (Tribune, Manmohan Kaur, Aug 23, 2005)
IT was mid-June. The sun was at its glorious best when I spotted a friend of mine loaded with shopping bags moving with great difficulty towards her car.
- Urban Security In India (Daily Excelsior, Rameshwar Singh Jamwal, Aug 23, 2005)
The recent bomb blasts in London and the subsequent solving of the cases within few days and identification of the accused within couple of days shows
- Cruise Missiles In Sub-Continent — The Sino-Pakistani Nexus (Business Line, G. Parthasarathy, Aug 23, 2005)
India cannot be too careful about the manner in which China is supplying Pakistan with missiles to give latter the capability to strike at cities all across India.
- What Chance Ipi? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 23, 2005)
Reports emanating from Islamabad suggest that Pakistan, Iran and India are expected to start trilateral negotiations on the IPI gas pipeline by November.
- Why Wait For A Calamity? (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 23, 2005)
Extracts from the government of India’s status report on Disaster Management in India, published in August, 2004
- Looking Beyond Gaza Evacuation (Dawn, Mahdi Masud, Aug 23, 2005)
Published on April 30, 2003, the roadmap for a Middle East settlement, sponsored by the Quartet (comprising the US, the UN, Russia and the EU) called for a comprehensive settlement based on a two-state solution.
- Indonesia's Burning Problem (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Aug 23, 2005)
Mechanisms need to be put in place to create a permanent system to handle crises on a continuing basis.
- Not Quite Creditable (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 23, 2005)
With the explosive growth of credit cards — especially after the large number given free — to 13 million in circulation, it is no surprise that the Reserve Bank of India has turned its spotlight on this segment.
- Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind (Telegraph, PARIMAL BHATTACHARYA, Aug 23, 2005)
Image is all and hand-pulled rickshaws must go. But, asks Parimal Bhattacharya, what of the other sordid sights that Calcuttans must live with?
- Minimum Wage Must Be Treated As Sacrosanct (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Aug 23, 2005)
The guarantee of employment at a wage rate less than the statutory minimum — as the draft EGA stipulates — will undermine the broad purpose of the law and set a bad precedent.
- Missing The Wood (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Aug 23, 2005)
Till well into the 1960s, Indian railways used steam engines.
- The Freedom-Development Interface (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Aug 23, 2005)
Just over a week ago, Independent India became 58 years old. The Mahatma is remembered fondly for all the sacrifices he personally made and inspired thousands to make,
- India Astride A Supply Side Revolution (Business Line, Sumit K. Majumdar, Aug 23, 2005)
In the last decade, the transformation brought about by the 1991 liberalisation enabled Indian enterprises to shed the baggage of history, and move ahead.
- Demand-Driven Supply Networks — Collaborative Enterprise, The Key (Business Line, Pawan Sohi, Aug 23, 2005)
As a manufacturer, wouldn't you welcome a system where there are no warehouses, inventories or paper invoices, just plug-ins that monitor your supplier network automatically, in real-time, everywhere, simultaneously?
- ‘no’ To Pullout From Iraq (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 22, 2005)
Once again, the US has ruled out giving a withdrawal timetable for American troops in Iraq.
- Maturing Of Manmohan Singh (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Aug 22, 2005)
Though Dr Manmohan Singh has spent a number of years in public life, it is said of him that he continues to remain at heart an academic, an economist to be specific.
- Dalits Need Quality Education: Nilotpal (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2005)
Reiterating that the matter of admission policy and fee structure should not be left to private colleges, leaders from various political parties on Sunday demanded a new legislation for reversal of the recent Supreme Court verdict abolishing government...
- No Values, Just Greed (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Aug 22, 2005)
Is it all ideological, an expression of deeply held values, the ire votaries of economic liberalization exhibit toward public sector entities?
- Buta Does A Lalu! (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 22, 2005)
You scratch my back and I scratch yours. That is common practice in politics. But should even Governors be engaged in such a cosy relationship with a controversial politician? Bihar Governor Buta Singh has landed his high office in the firing line . . . .
- Experience Your Special Place On Mother Earth (Times of India, MARY LEMONS, Aug 22, 2005)
All living things have a common life force within them. It is through that life force that we can find our oneness with all creation. And once we become one with all, self-healing begins.
- Creating Cities Within Metros (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Aug 22, 2005)
A modified system of City of London-type municipal administration may be the answer for India's metros. Divided into small neighbourhoods,
- India's Strides In The Services Sector (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Aug 22, 2005)
India has turned a full circle — from opposition to trade in services to its show of enthusiasm for it .
- London Is Alive And Kicking (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Aug 22, 2005)
This is my first trip to London after last month’s bomb attacks.
- Change Of Avatar (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 22, 2005)
There are considerable expectations from BSE Ltd, the new incarnation of the 130-year-old Bombay Stock Exchange.
- Indian Managers Edge China (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2005)
India possesses a competitive advantage over China when it comes to the quality of business managers, a media report has said.
- Coping With Seeing Atrocity (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 22, 2005)
A month after the failed London bombings of July 21, not everyone in the British capital is equally intimidated by the threat of being blown up.
- Bsf, Bdr Resolve River Dispute (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2005)
The Border Security Force (BSF) officials and their counterparts in Bangladesh who had agreed on a ceasefire, said on Sunday that the dispute over the construction of embankment on the Mahananda river along the frontier that led to heavy firing between...
- Bad For The Soul (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2005)
Man’s ingenuity is matter for pure wonder. One of the most amazing petitions to the Supreme Court recently has suggested that newspapers be graded, that is, rated and labelled as films are, according to content
- Intelligent Design (Dawn, George Monbiot, Aug 22, 2005)
All is not lost in America. When George Bush came out a couple of weeks ago in favour of teaching “intelligent design”
- Calling All Investors, But Please Mind The Gap (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Aug 22, 2005)
However hard Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee may try wooing capital into his state, a section of his party is still undermining his efforts by alleging injustice to farmers, writes Ashis Chakrabarti
- Un Bush-Whacked (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Aug 22, 2005)
The resignation of Mr Benon Sevan, a senior official of the United Nations (UN), as also the arrest of another senior official, Mr Alexander Yakovlev,
- Poor Education Standards (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 22, 2005)
Had the NWFP government not been so preoccupied with its efforts to upgrade moral values in the Frontier,
- Revitalising Micro-Finance Sector (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 22, 2005)
The concept of micro-financing has gained currency in the country providing a base for its expansion in the years ahead. The performance record of the sector reveals that the number of beneficiaries of the micro-financing facility has more than doubled in
- Power Play In Central Asia (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, Aug 22, 2005)
While most of the world, and especially local analysts like us, have remained focused (for understandable reasons)
- The West And Asia's Perceived Dominance (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Aug 22, 2005)
Many observers of the global economy have noticed the rising importance of Asia in the global power equation.
- Pm Exhorts Naxals To Join Mainstream (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today did some tough talking on Naxalite movement, even while asking the ultra Left organisations to prove their mettle in the battle of the ballot rather than pursuing a policy of bullets.
- The High Court Acts (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 22, 2005)
The Punjab and Haryana High Court’s decision to suspend the Jhajjar Chief Judicial Magistrate for his questionable role during his earlier stint at Sonepat and withdraw all judicial work from Ludhiana’s Additional District and Sessions Judge till his ....
- The Milk That Waters Life (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Aug 22, 2005)
You can’t have a better gift for a child than this, Tariq A. Rather writes on the importance of mother’s milk for a new born baby
- Security On Another Plane (Telegraph, N.K. Pant, Aug 22, 2005)
The Centre’s announcement last week that it was adopting a tough anti-hijack policy, which envisages no talking to hijackers and the shooting down of a hijacked plane, may be necessary in the light of what happened to the World Trade Center and the....
- India's 'Hugging Saint' Escapes Attack (Sacramento Bee, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2005)
Three followers of an Indian religious leader known as the "hugging saint" overpowered an assailant who tried to attack her on Sunday during a prayer meeting in southern India, a state official said.
- This Is How We Perceive The Problem Of Kashmir-Iii (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Aug 22, 2005)
We are reproducing the full text of the discussion between Muhammad Yasin Malik, Chairman Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front and Omar Abdullah,
- State-Level Labour Laws For Export Zones (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 22, 2005)
Commerce Minister Kamal Nath's announcement that the Central Government proposes to grant freedom to States to formulate their own labour laws in respect of special economic zones (SEZs)
- Powering The Nation For A Bright Future (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2005)
The State-owned energy producer, National Thermal Power Corporation, is embarking on an ambitious plan to take the total installed capacity to 66,000 MW by 2017 through green field projects, expansion of existing stations and foray into nuclear and hydel
- Submit Daily Statements On Hedging In Oil: Rbi To Banks (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2005)
According to RBI the move, besides keeping a tab on the hedging operations, is aimed at curbing speculation in the market.
- South Africa — Empowering Enterprise On Merit, Not Numbers (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Aug 22, 2005)
Diagonal Street in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa, houses several Indian-owned retail stores
- The Death Of A Ceasefire Agreement (Hindu, Rohini Hensman, Aug 22, 2005)
The Ceasfire Agreement (CFA) of 2002 is dead: it breathed its last when Lakshman Kadirgamar was assassinated. When members of one party to a ceasefire agreement (the LTTE)
- Should Putin Have A Third Term In Office? (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Aug 22, 2005)
While Vladimir Putin has stated time and again that he intends respecting the Constitution, which allows only two consecutive terms, there are many who keep proposing ways of extending his stay in power.
- Ongc To Market Atf (Statesman, PTI, Aug 22, 2005)
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has obtained the approval from the Centre for marketing aviation turbine fuel (ATF) and refuelling at airports and would start marketing products in 2006-7, ONGC chairman Mr Subir Raha said.
- Firing Continues Along Border (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2005)
Villages on India-Bangladesh border bear the brunt
Sector commanders to meet on Sunday to defuse situation
BSF fires more than 500 rounds
Villages face a hail of bullets
None evacuated
- Surgery Deserves Due Attention (Tribune, Chanchal Sarkar, Aug 21, 2005)
Whether it is at the Capital’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital or at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS),
- The New Aesthetics: All That Glitters Is Gold (Deccan Herald, Suresh Menon, Aug 21, 2005)
One of the major surprises of the 21st century has been that it is nothing like the one imagined by fiction writers.
- Forex Reserves Rise By $ 1.73 B (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2005)
India’s foreign exchange reserves rose by US$ 1.73 billion for the week ended August 12, 2005.
- Travel On The Edge (Deccan Herald, MAYA JAYAPAL, Aug 21, 2005)
The book reveals exciting new ways to experience the world in a manner that entertains as well as educates.
- Revolutionising The Path Of Information (Deccan Herald, M J Vinod , Aug 21, 2005)
For the first time after the Arab news channel Al Jazeera broke on the scene— information is flowing from East to West, rather than the other way around.
- Enigma Of Emerging Ties (Dawn, Anwar Syed, Aug 21, 2005)
Listening to the politicians in power on the subject of our emerging relationship with India, and placing their declarations alongside the joint statements of the Indian and Pakistani officials,
- Delay In Mettur Dam Filling Up (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2005)
There has been a slight delay in the Mettur dam reaching its full tank level of 120 ft owing to a drastic fall in the inflow from Kabini and K R Sagar reservoirs in Karnataka in the last 24 hours, according to public works department officials
- Progressing From A Whisper To A Scream (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2005)
JOANNA BRISCOE is glad that Nick Hornby’s ending transcends the beginning of his high-concept novel.
- Indo-Us Strategic Alliance (Dawn, Talat Masood, Aug 21, 2005)
India and the United States are natural allies, but India’s Nehruvian philosophy of non-alignment and its aspirations to play a global role in exploiting the capitalist and communist blocs during the cold war kept them apart.
- India’S Bill For The Poor (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2005)
Cited as a historical move, the National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) Bill in India promises to empower the poor by employing one member of a rural family for 100 days a year at a minimum wage of Rs 60 a day.
- Forex Reserves Up $1.73b (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2005)
Foreign exchange reserves have risen by $1.73 billion during the week ended August 12 and stood at $144.38 billion, according to the Reserve Bank of India's weekly statistical supplement released here on Saturday.
- Iraq’S Constitution (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 21, 2005)
Establishing a new constitution for Iraq was never going to be quick or simple, and last week’s cliffhanger, which failed to produce a completed draft by the deadline, demonstrated that.
- Development Of Ajk (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 21, 2005)
A comprehensive plan has reportedly been prepared for all round socio-economic development of Azad Kashmir. For this purpose, Pakistan Government has pledged substantial assistance to the AJK Government.
- Rule By Proxy (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 21, 2005)
Compulsions inherent in a political coalition should not be extended to mean a complete surrender of initiative.
- Face Of Courage (Hindu, SUDHA PILLAI, Aug 21, 2005)
Prema Dhanraj was eight when she suffered burns during an accident. She is now a successful surgeon specialising in treating burns victims
- Ode To The Unseen Tiger (Hindu, ZERIN ANKLESARIA , Aug 21, 2005)
Kanha was chosen as a holiday destination because, it appeared, the place was simply teeming with the big cats. Or was it?
- Scheherazade’S Story (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 21, 2005)
I have always been fascinated by Scheherazade. Going by the evidence, this is a fascination shared by many others over the centuries.
- India Seeks Flag Meeting (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2005)
BDR told that `unprovoked' firing to stop embankment work was `unacceptable'
- ‘india-Singapore Ceca A Model Pact’ (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2005)
The Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) between India and Singapore will serve as a template for future negotiations on trade agreements with other countries, the Singapore High Commissioner, Mr See Chak Mun, today said.
- Indo-Us Agreement (Daily Excelsior, Samuel Baid, Aug 21, 2005)
Pakistan's disappointment at the India-United States agreement on defence relationship is quite understandable.
- Words, Their Nuances (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 21, 2005)
It is a real-life story that is often narrated to convey the message how important the connotation of a word is.
- Double Power Capacity: Manmohan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2005)
Bid to popularise non-conventional energy; target of adding 1,50,000 MW in 10 years
- Pm Targets Adding 1.5 Lakh Mw Power Capacity In 10 Years (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2005)
Dr Singh was speaking on the occasion of the 61st birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in the Capital.
- Shantha Biotech Develops Four-In-One Dtph Vaccine (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2005)
Shantetra is combination of diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and hepatitis-B vaccine
Protects children against four life-threatening infections
Can be administered to infants from sixth week onwards
All components have been developed indigenously, say
- Ongc Gives Rs.14.68 Lakhs For Construction Of Foot Over-Bridge (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2005)
The Cauvery Asset of the ONGC here has contributed Rs.14.68 lakhs for the construction of a foot over-bridge across Arasalar river in Karaikal.
- Fbt Merits Further Study (Business Line, S. Srinath, Aug 20, 2005)
Why is India Inc viewing fringe benefit tax (FBT) with suspicion? It is claimed that FBT was introduced because tax authorities were unable to identify group benefits enjoyed by employees in the private sector.
- Expanding The Scope Of Tds (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2005)
T. C. A. Ramanujam discusses the changes proposed in the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2005 with respect to the TDS regime
- Modern Solution (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2005)
Calcutta and some of its people will have to steel themselves for another bout of paternal care.
- Managing Management Education (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Aug 20, 2005)
Peter F. Drucker, the modern Management Guru, is reported to have stated in one of his articles,” In today’s economy the most important resource is no longer labour, capital or land, it is knowledge…
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