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Articles 7721 through 7820 of 12677:
- 42 Die In Chennai Stampede (Tribune, Arup Chanda, Dec 19, 2005)
In a tragic accident, 42 persons, including 23 women, were killed and 37 injured in a stampede this morning. People had come to collect flood relief coupons at a corporation school in the southern part of the state capital.
- 42 Killed In Chennai Stampede (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
Chaos at flood relief centre, former High Court judge to head Commission of Inquiry
- Chennai Stampede Kills 42 (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
Forty-two people were killed, 19 of them women, in a stampede at a flood relief distribution centre here in the early hours of Sunday, prompting the government to order a judicial enquiry and the Opposition to demand the resignation of Chief Minister ....
- 42 Killed In Stampede (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
At least 42 people, including 23 women, were killed and 37 injured today in a stampede at a Corporation School in the city where hundreds had lined up in the wee hours to collect flood relief coupons.
- 42 Killed In Stampede, Jaya Announces Probe (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
At least 42 people, including 23 women, were killed and 37 injured today in a stampede at a corporation school in the city where hundreds had lined up in the wee hours to collect flood relief coupons.
- Opening A Can Of Worms (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Dec 19, 2005)
“Thirty thousand Kurds and one million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it,” said Turkey’s most celebrated novelist, Orhan Pamuk, during an interview with a Swiss newspaper last February.
- Unsafe Passage (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
It has to be the courts again. This time it is the Calcutta high court which has questioned the state government’s efforts to reduce the rate of accidents on city streets.
- Militancy In Bangladesh (Dawn, Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Dec 19, 2005)
Full 34 years ago, the month of December witnessed the bloody death of a state that was to provide a shared homeland at least to the Muslim majority areas of a vast subcontinent.
- Hold Up Your Money And Laugh, You Have Been Stung (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Dec 19, 2005)
It made you laugh. A big hearty laugh. To listen to BJP MP Suresh Chandal claim he knew nothing about the contents of the envelope he personally supplied to the lady seated opposite him.
- Salem's Custody Extended Till Jan 3 (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2005)
A Tada court on Saturday extended the police custody of extradited gangster Abu Salem in the Pradeep Jain murder case after Anti-Terrorist Squad of city police said they needed to investigate whether weapons used in the Jain killing formed part of the....
- Water Tribunal Inactive, State Approaches Sc (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2005)
Karnataka has filed a petition in the Supreme Court drawing its attention to the non-functioning of Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal for the past 18 months and Andhra Pradesh going ahead with construction of large scale projects illegally.
- In A Stew (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 18, 2005)
Gauhati High Court’s quashing of the constables’ selection lists in 15 of the 25 centres severely undermines the Tarun Gogoi government’s credibility.
- Dowry And Related Evils (Dawn, Anwar Syed, Dec 18, 2005)
A report in an Indian newspaper (November 21) spoke of Daljit Kaur, who jumped to her death from the top floor of a house in Delhi, because her in-laws had been harassing her unceasingly about the inadequacy of the dowry she had brought upon . . .
- Supreme Court To The Rescue (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 18, 2005)
It is encouraging that the Supreme Court is taking an active interest in social issues including cruel customs like vani and swara, whereby women are given in marriage as a form of compensation,
- Time To Clear Backlog Of Cases (Tribune, G. S. Grewal, Dec 18, 2005)
The judiciary is one of the three pillars of our democracy. It is the moral strength which has enabled it to sustain itself and the democracy. It has also successfully contained other mighty institutions from jumping out of their own spheres prescribed...
- J&k Govt Move To Retire ‘Dead Wood’ Tales Of Travesty (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Dec 18, 2005)
The Jammu and Kashmir Government has announced its decision to order pre-mature retiremen of those of its officials who, according to it, qualify the category of socalled ‘‘dead wood’’ whatever that means.
- Prosecute Them (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 17, 2005)
There are two aspects to the shocking episode which has at its centre a young lady called Kamna Chowdhury, who had once been crowned "Miss Agra". The first is the criminal one which concerns her allegation that some so-called journalists were . . .
- River Existed (Pioneer, Arabinda Ghose, Dec 17, 2005)
The Department-Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture, in its 91st report on the functioning of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), has described the Saraswati river as a "purely mythological one" and has . . .
- Saving The Sardar Sarovar Dam (Times of India, Ravi Kuchimanchi, Dec 17, 2005)
On March 15, 2005, an exasperated Supreme Court observed that while construction had proceeded on the Sardar Sarovar dam, its rehabilitation orders of October 2000 had been violated.
- Cash For Questions (Tribune, A N Sudarsan Rao , Dec 17, 2005)
Another in the series of sting operations — a sensational camera expose of 11 MPs allegedly taking money for asking parliamentary questions — has been the hottest news of the week.
- More Power To Women's Elbows (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 17, 2005)
THE RATIO OF women in managerial positions has come up for discussion once again.
- Legislation: Who Needs Westminster? (Hindu, Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Dec 17, 2005)
THE FORMER Lord Chief Justice of England was thrown into prison. Sir Edward Coke, who had been removed by the English monarch James I in 1616
- Speed Up (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Dec 17, 2005)
Now that the State High Court is seized of the matter we have a somewhat better idea of the traffic scenario in this city.
- Quota Bill Derailed (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 17, 2005)
The Centre was forced to defer the introduction of the Constitution Amendment Bill in Parliament to provide for reservation for the socially and educationally backward classes,
- How Does One Deal With Uma Bharati? (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Dec 17, 2005)
Incidence of eccentricity is noticeably higher among women politicians than their male counterparts.
- Govt Sticks To Stand On Quota Bill (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2005)
Government has refused to bow to Opposition and Left pressure as it announced on Friday that the Constitution Amendment Bill to ensure reservation in unaided private professional educational institutions would be introduced in Parliament in its present fo
- Mining Mafia Still Active (Tribune, Rashme Sehgal, Dec 17, 2005)
Arriving in the village of Mahugari in Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh is akin to entering the portals of hell.
- Supreme Court Extends Status Quo On Muslim Quota (Hindu, J. Venkatesan, Dec 17, 2005)
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered status quo till January 4, 2006, on public appointments and admissions made in educational institutions by the Andhra Pradesh Government on the basis of an ordinance providing 5 per cent quota for Muslims.
- Hope For Tiger: An Empowered Body (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2005)
The Union Cabinet today approved the introduction of a Bill in Parliament to amend the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972,
- Make It Fast And Final (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 16, 2005)
The Supreme Court must follow its pragmatic interim order on the Mumbai NTC mills case with as speedy a decision as possible on the contested issues. The order makes sense:
- The Engine To Drive India’S Future Growth (The Financial Express, SUMANT SINHA, Dec 16, 2005)
Incremental kicker to our growth rates will come from manufacturing and infrastructure development
- Violence In Bangladesh (Daily Times, Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Dec 16, 2005)
The cause of democracy in Bangladesh has been hurt by extended boycotts of parliament by opposition parties. Failure to participate in the next election as threatened occasionally by some of them may inflict irreparable damage on this cause.
- No Question Is So Difficult To Answer As That To Which The Answer Is Obvious (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 16, 2005)
Voltaire said, "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." But we are helpless spectators of a sordid drama where elected representatives indulge in judging questions by the munificence that came along, rather than by their relevance to the...
- Veerappan's Wife Seeks Compensation For Victims (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 16, 2005)
Muthulakshmi, wife of slain forest brigand Veerappan, has filed a petition in Madras High Court seeking compensation for the 'victims' of the alleged excesses by the Joint Special Task Force personnel and action against the 'culprits'.
- Rehabilitate Orphans? (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Dec 16, 2005)
The Holy Qur’an and the most revered Prophet (SAW) have repeatedly urged the Muslims to take care of orphans.
- Understanding Sexual Harassment (Times of India, MALASHRI LAL, Dec 16, 2005)
Delhi has acquired the dubious reputation of being the crime capital for offences against women. In spite of the rising indignation about unsafe conditions in the city, there is an increase in the number and kinds of sexual harassment cases that . . .
- Asom Sena (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 16, 2005)
Aasu way to stay in the limelight
The All Assam Students Union’s formation of the Asom Sena was on the cards since last December.
- Tragedy Of Urban India (Tribune, Jagmohan , Dec 16, 2005)
Unfortunately, a culture of apathy has penetrated so deeply into our society that citizens have virtually lost all sensitivities and become oblivious of their civic obligations and also of their responsibility to the future generations.
- First Sentence (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 16, 2005)
Mob violence has great advantages. The difficulty of fixing culpability for the most horrific actions allows some of the cruellest murderers to go free.
- Unrest In Northern Areas (Daily Excelsior, Sarla Handoo, Dec 16, 2005)
It has taken the world more than 58 years to wake up to the atrocities the people of Gilgit and Baltistan, popularly known as the Northern Areas of Pakistan, have been suffering. But, as they say, better late than never.
- Aai For Aai (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 16, 2005)
For starters, Indian airports need to be monitored by people who don’t run them.
- Operation Duryodhan Was Well-Named (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Dec 16, 2005)
Why did Kamlesh Kumari, Jagdish Prasad Yadav, Matbar Singh Negi, Nanak Chand, Rampal, Om Prakash, Ghanshyam, Bijender Singh, and Deshraj lose their lives? What was it that they rushed to protect four years ago?
- Rampaging Nepalese Soldier Guns Down 12 (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Dec 16, 2005)
A religious fair in Nagarkot, a famed tourist town 32 km east of Kathmandu, turned into a massacre site Wednesday night as 12 people died in a hail of bullets blamed on a rampaging soldier.
- Government Fails To Reply To Notice On Code Violation (Hindu, S. Rajendran, Dec 16, 2005)
State Election Commissioner likely to approach CEC, forum
The State Election Commissioner has received complaints about violation of the model code of conduct
The official has no power to enforce the code
He can approach the Supreme Court expressing
- Bmp Issues Notices To Hotel Owners In Koramangala (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 16, 2005)
288 deviations identified, survey of 269 properties completed
BMP files action-taken report and an affidavit before the High Court
Provisional notices issued to tenants and landlords of 50 buildings
- Chandy, Agriculture Department Working At Cross-Purposes? (Hindu, Roy Mathew, Dec 16, 2005)
Committee observes no link between pesticide and health problems at Padre
- Water And India's Constitution (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Dec 15, 2005)
Water has to be given an important place in the Constitution to guide and empower the legislature, the judiciary, and the executive to regulate its use.
- Apex Court's Notice To Coke On Kerala Panchayat's Plea (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2005)
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to soft drink major Coca-Cola on a special leave petition from Perumatty panchayat in Kerala seeking to stay an order of the Kerala High Court directing the panchayat to issue licence for drawing water ...
- When The Law Runs Riot (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Dec 15, 2005)
In defiance of public opinion, the government has chosen to introduce in Parliament a discredited version of its long anticipated Bill to control communal violence.
- Mps On Sale! (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Dec 15, 2005)
The sensational cash-on camera expose showing 11 MPs - six from the BJP and the rest from the BSP, the Congress and the RJD - taking bribes has stunned the political establishment in the country.
- Ec To Consider All Aspects Before Deciding Assam Poll (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2005)
The Election Commission would take all aspects into consideration, including festivals and examination schedule, before taking a decision on the timing of the Assam Assembly election.
- Us Court Tosses Out Terror Charge Against Indian (Hindustan Times, PTI, Dec 15, 2005)
A US court has tossed out terrorism charge against an Indian accused of a seven-hour university shooting rampage in 2003, but retained 201 other charges against him, including aggravated murder.
- Multiple Assaults (Hindustan Times, Poornima Advani , Dec 15, 2005)
On December 10, the nation observed the International Human Rights Day.
- Government Defers Quota Bill (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2005)
The government on Wednesday deferred a crucial bill to amend the constitution to provide reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in private educational institutions following difference of opinion among political parties on its provisions.
- Constable Scandal May Hit Congress (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 15, 2005)
The government's decision to enrol candidates of their choice in the constabulary has backfired.
- Don’T Trample Our Aspirations: India (Deccan Herald, D Ravikanth, Dec 15, 2005)
As trade ministers began hard-bargaining on Wednesday, India vowed that it will ensure to ensure the Doha Round benefits ‘those who need it’ and that it ‘truly reflects the development dimension.’
- Eviction Drive Along The Cooum Course Soon (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2005)
Illegal structures along water bodies will also be removed
- Cabinet Nod For Feasibility Report On Budget Airline (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2005)
The Cabinet on Wednesday approved the proposal for starting a budget airline in the joint sector.
- Karnataka High Court Pulls Up Government Over Factory Revival (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2005)
`The bureaucrats appointed to save NGEF steered it towards disaster'
- Aai For Aai (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 15, 2005)
Air travellers can be forgiven for not wondering about arcane policy issues when confronted with the various degrees of decay that Indian airports showcase.
- Life Term For 11 In Gujarat Riot Case (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2005)
A Gujarat fast-track court today sentenced 11 men to life imprisonment for hacking and burning to death Muslims of their village and dumping their bodies in dry wells during the post-Godhra riots. Three others got 10 years in another case from the . . .
- Operation Duryodhan Was Well-Named (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Dec 15, 2005)
Why did Kamlesh Kumari, Jagdish Prasad Yadav, Matbar Singh Negi, Nanak Chand, Rampal, Om Prakash, Ghanshyam, Bijender Singh, and Deshraj lose their lives? What was it that they rushed to protect four years ago?
- Risky Business Of Politics (Pioneer, Claude Arpi, Dec 14, 2005)
If the health of a nation is to be measured by what its media presents, then India is ill, says Claude Arpi
- Politics Of Amendment (Pioneer, MC Joshi, Dec 14, 2005)
The proposed Bill for amendment in the Constitution for providing quota for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in private unaided professional institutions has been brought by the Government to overturn the Supreme Court verdict restricting the State f
- Recalling A Great Man (Dawn, Hafizur Rahman, Dec 14, 2005)
SOME time ago there was something of a controversy in the newspapers on the post-partition politics of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, prime minister from September 1956 to October 1957, in the context of unity between east and west Pakistan.
- Scourge Of Bonded Labour (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Dec 14, 2005)
MOST of us erroneously believe that slavery has never existed in Pakistan and bonded labour ended 13 years ago when the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1992 was adopted by the National Assembly. But the fact is that this law abolished bonded labour
- Un-Parliamentary! (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 14, 2005)
The prompt action by the political leadership, cutting across party lines, suspending the 11 MPs captured on camera brazenly accepting cash for asking questions in Parliament, is small consolation for outraged citizens.
- Equal Access To Education: The Last Chance (Hindu, D. Raja, Dec 14, 2005)
The amendment to ensure admission to educationally and socially backward classes in all educational institutions is a revolutionary step.
- The Cash For Questions Scandal (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 14, 2005)
That some Members of Parliament routinely accept bribes to ask parliamentary questions is one of the worst kept secrets in New Delhi's corridors of power.
- "Fight Terrorism, But Be Mindful Of Human Rights" (Hindu, Siddharth Narrain , Dec 14, 2005)
A.S. Anand, Chief Justice of India between October 1998 and November 2001, became Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission in February 2003. In an interview, Mr. Anand spoke on a range of subjects including terrorism and the death penalty.
- 'End Trade-Distorting Subsidies':annan (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 14, 2005)
United Nations Secretary- General Kofi Annan has urged wealthy countries to set an unambiguous date to end "trade-distorting subsidies" and take other steps to give market access to developing countries, especially in agriculture to allow trade to . . .
- Volcker Disclosures (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Dec 14, 2005)
Decades ago, much before he became Prime Minister, some news reporters interacted with Mr Chandrashekhar.
- Financial Mess In Bihar (Tribune, Ambarish Dutta, Dec 14, 2005)
Soon after Mr Nitish Kumar was crowned as 32nd Chief Minister of Bihar on November 24, his initial remarks were “khajana khali hai” (exchequer is empty).
- Al Qaeda-Linked Suspects: Shc Seeks Grounds (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 14, 2005)
The Sindh High Court directed standing counsel for Pakistan Mehmood Alam on Tuesday to ascertain from the federal government where and under what laws it had detained various people, whose next of kin had invoked the jurisdiction of the courts.
- There Will Be No Indigenous Population Except Seagulls’ (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Dec 14, 2005)
Former truck driver Norbert L’Emclume, 65, sits in a shabby courtyard in Cassis, a shanty town in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius.
- Clean The Core (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Dec 14, 2005)
The alacrity with which political parties have acted to suspend MPs caught in the cash-for-questions scam reveals that the political system still retains some sensitivity to public opinion. More cynically, it has not quite lost its healthy instinct . . .
- Nice Allowed To Sell, Alienate Bmic Lands (Hindu, J. Venkatesan, Dec 14, 2005)
Deve Gowda, Revanna scuttling the project, NICE counsel tells Supreme Court
Sale, alienation or mortgage subject to the outcome of the pending appeals
On July 18, the court restrained the developer from selling, alienating lands
- Abu Salem Aides Sent To Police Custody Till January 3 (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 14, 2005)
The TADA court here today remanded Naeem Khan and Riaz Siddiqui, aides of extradited gangster Abu Salem, to police custody till January 3 in the Pradip Jain murder case.
- Deemed Varsity Buildings Cleared For Demolition (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 14, 2005)
The Madras High Court, which stayed the demolition of some buildings on the Dr. MGR Research and Educational Institute (Deemed University) premises on December 10, vacated the stay on Tuesday.
- Right To Recall Will Be Deterrent: Cpi (Hindu, Special Correspondent, Hindu, Dec 14, 2005)
Calling for national crusade against corruption and installing a foolproof monitoring system to look into complaints of and malpractices by Members of Parliament, the Communist Party of India on Tuesday offered suggestions, including the `right to recall'
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