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Articles 721 through 820 of 4523:
- Theatrical Vision (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 10, 2006)
Plan panel's dancing at whose tunes?----- The delectable bit of news emanating from the Planning Commission is that it has . . .
- Are Indian Muslims Getting Radicalised? (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Aug 10, 2006)
The Mumbai bomb blasts of July 11 “underscored a gathering threat for India: a small but increasingly deadly cadre of young and often educated Indian Muslims who are being drawn directly into terrorist operations,” according to a report in the New . . .
- Indian Floods Worsen, 4.5 Mln People Homeless (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2006)
Swollen rivers swamped thousands of villages and towns across India's south and west on Wednesday, forcing 4.5 million from their homes as rescuers struggled to bring them food and drinking water, officials said.
- Sonia, Pranab Visit Flood-Affected Regions Of Gujarat (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2006)
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee started their one-day visit to the flood-affected regions of Gujarat this morning.
- Basohli's Bad Luck (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 10, 2006)
Despite its idyllic location, school of painting and pashmina shawl industry Basohli in Kathua district is very rarely in the news. Its proximity to the Jammu-Srinagar national highway has not earned for it any additional value.
- Gujarat Floods Shut Ongc, Ril Plants (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Floods in Gujarat have washed out half of India's natural gas supplies and reduced crude oil production by 20,000 barrels a day. One side-effect could be reduced CNG supply to Delhi.
- Ongc Stops Gas Production, As Hazira Flooded (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Floods in Gujarat reduced India's gas supplies by about half and cut crude output by 20,000 barrels a day, as state-owned ONGC shut wells after its facilities were inundated by up to 10 ft of water.
- Cic Calls For Documents On Gujarat Riots (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
The classified correspondence between then President K.R. Narayanan and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee concerning Gujarat riots will now go to the Central Information Commission which has an application pending for the release of these . . .
- Manmohan To Visit Gujarat, Maharashtra (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Andhra Pradesh gets Rs. 135.48 crore and Gujarat Rs. 96.86 crore from the Calamity Relief Fund
- Urban Legends (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 09, 2006)
India is undergoing a radical makeover. According to projections by the census office, large chunks of the country are going to be urbanised over the next two decades.
- Ongc, Gail, Ril Hit By Heavy Rains In Gujarat (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Operations of state-run ONGC, GAIL India and corporate giant Reliance Industries' have been severely hit due to heavy rains in Gujarat, during the last week as various plants have been shut down temporarily.
- A Statue For The Mittals (Deccan Herald, S T BEURIA, Aug 09, 2006)
This 67-year-old artist has won several national and international awards for his achievements in the field of stone carving.
- Over 2.5 Lakh Evacuated As Floods Wreak Havoc In Gujarat (Hindu, MANAS DASGUPTA, Aug 09, 2006)
Diamond city reels as most telephone lines go dead and power is cut off .
- 33-Lakh Affected By Floods In Ap, Gujarat (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
The flood situation was grim on Tuesday in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh, with nearly 33 lakh people affected by rains and swollen rivers in both states even as an alert was sounded in Maharashtra's Marathwada and Vidarbha regions after 70 people died . . .
- Narayanan-Vajpayee Letters On Gujarat Riots Summoned (New Indian Express, PTI, Aug 09, 2006)
Notwithstanding the reservation of both the Rashtrapati Bhawan and government, the Central Information Commission on Tuesday called for the classified correspondence exchanged between former president K R Narayanan and Prime Minister Atal Bihari . . .
- India Floods Close Energy Plants (British Broadcasting Corporation, bbc correspondent, Aug 09, 2006)
Floods in western India have forced the closure of a natural gas plant and some petrochemical factories, officials say.
- Floods Maroon Thousands In India; 150 Killed (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Swirling floodwater inundated several towns and cities in western and southern India on Tuesday as the military deployed helicopters and boats to help hundreds of thousands of marooned people.
- Gujarat Riot Victims Hunt For Bodies, Justice (Reuters, RUPAM JAIN NAIR, Aug 09, 2006)
After a tip from a local streetsweeper, Amina Habib Rasool and a few friends began digging through a rubbish tip, looking for the remains of sons and husbands four years after they were slaughtered by a Hindu mob.
- Flood Situation In Country Finds Echo In Rs (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
The worsening flood situation in various parts of the country and the plight of farmers had its echo in the Rajya Sabha today with members from various parties asking government to declare it as a national calamity.
- Floods Maroon Thousands In Indian Cities, 200 Killed (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Swirling floodwaters inundated several towns and cities in western and southern India on Tuesday as the military deployed helicopters and boats to help hundreds of thousands of marooned people.
- ‘ A Word For Sonia: Left Blocking Forward Leap. Govt Relies On Them. . . . (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 08, 2006)
Former Minister of State for Defence Arun Singh says he’s proud of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi as his sister for what she did on prime ministership and the office of profit issue. This is the second part of his interview with Shekhar Gupta, Edito . . .
- Party Whining (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Aug 08, 2006)
It is often said that Indian political parties engage in vote bank politics.
- 'Who's For Conversion, Sonia Or Pope?' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Who said 'Christians have the right to convert?' - Sonia Gandhi, Sister Nirmala, Pope Benedict, Father Prakash.
- 2 Nda Cadets Swept Away In Pune (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Two National Defence Academy (NDA) cadets were swept away by flash floods in the outskirts of Pune, while about 70,000 people were evacuated from across central and south Gujarat, where the Army was called in for the rescue operations on Monday.
- Tourism Agreement Likely With Gujarat (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Both States offer special circuits for tourists of varied segments
- Underworld Don Arrested Near Nepal Border (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Fazal-ur-Rehman wanted in connection with several cases of kidnapping, was arrested by the Delhi Police Special Cell at Sanauli along the Indo-Nepal border on Sunday.
- Pakistan Floods Kill 140, One Mln Homeless In India (Reuters, Kamran Haider, Aug 08, 2006)
Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed more than 140 people in Pakistan's northwest, and forced hundreds of thousands out of their homes in neighbouring India, officials said on Monday.
- Maharashtra Rain Toll 40 (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
At least 40 persons have lost their lives in the past two days across Maharashtra following heavy rain, according to the state police control room here, while the death count rose to 94 in Andhra Pradesh where three lakh people were marooned in . . .
- The Enemy Within (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Aug 08, 2006)
India is perhaps the only country where two forms of fanaticism is currently prevalent.
- Devi Shetty (Business Standard, Subir Roy, Aug 08, 2006)
He has already built four of the country's largest heart hospitals, but wants to do three more, all to cut costs.
- Indian Dam Flooded By Democratic Values (Daily Times, Simon Denyer, Aug 08, 2006)
‘For the construction of the dam, some people will have to suffer but there will be many benefits’
- Weathering Through (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 08, 2006)
It looks like a normal kharif
- Put Ngos Under Rti Scalpel (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Aug 08, 2006)
The $50,000 Magsaysay Award was recently conferred upon Arvind Kejriwal, a former Indian Revenue Service officer campaigning for the Right to Information (RTI).
- Rain Batters Gujarat, Maharashtra (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Surat faces a ‘‘critical’’ flood situation with the release of 8 lakh cusecs of water from the Ukai dam, some 90 km from here. The water was released at 3 p.m. today and will take about four hours to reach the city.
- Karnataka Government Likely To Ban Pepsi, Cola In Schools (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Close on the heels of states like Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat banning sale of soft drinks in the premises of educational institutions, the state government in Karnataka is also contemplating to ban sale of Pepsi and Coca Cola in schools.
- A Congress Mole In The Bjp? (OutLook, Salman Khurshid, Aug 07, 2006)
Jaswant Singh seems to have had the better of the call of BJP culture but gaps remain in his tell-all
- Is Terror In India Becoming Home Grown? (Daily Excelsior, Sarla Handoo, Aug 07, 2006)
Till the Mumbai blasts took place on 11/7, one would have perhaps rejected out of hand, the view that terror in India is home grown. That is because New Delhi has sufficient reason to believe that Pakistan is behind our terror trouble.
- Analysis - Passions Rise As Flagship India Dam Fills (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Aug 07, 2006)
It is held up as a flagship for the development of modern India, and reviled as a symbol of how the rights of the poor are trampled upon.
- Centre Creating Problems For State Govt (Tribune, Sarbjit Dhaliwal, Aug 07, 2006)
Instead of extending a helping hand to its own government in Punjab at this crucial stage when the Assembly poll is not too far, the Congress- led UPA Government at the Centre is creating one problem after another for the state government.
- Beyond Rhetoric (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 07, 2006)
Is secularism only a convenient tool for Congress to drum up minority support in states where they constitute an influential vote bank?
- Ntpc-Reliance Row Referred To Dgh (Business Line, Richa Mishra, Aug 07, 2006)
RIL's gas supplies to NTPC's Gandhar, Kawas projects
- Nationalisation Versus Globalisation In Oil Sector: Can The Balance Sustain? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 07, 2006)
Arun Singh, who was a friend of Rajiv Gandhi and the Minister of State for Defence in his government when the Bofors scandal broke, has since then been living a reclusive life in his cottage in Binsar, near Almora. Making a rare exception, he . . .
- "Narmada Valley Projects Will Be Completed On Schedule" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
M.P. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan chairs review meeting
- Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh Ban Soft Drinks (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh on Sunday banned the sale of aerated drinks following reports that they had pesticide residues.
- Parliamentary Panel Raises Queries Over Communal Violence Bill (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Aug 07, 2006)
Reservations over Centre's jurisdiction in maintaining law and order
Section 55 remains the bone of contention
Under it, Centre can notify areas as "communally disturbed"
Also, it can deploy armed forces to such areas
- Farm Sector Growth Is A Mission Possible (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 06, 2006)
"We have to learn to convert information into knowledge and that knowledge into equity" -Mangla rai
- Potpourri Of Thoughts (New Indian Express, V Geetha, Aug 06, 2006)
The Blindness of Insight is an elegantly argued book. It offers a provocative thesis: that communal violence, especially in northern India, represents a unique resolution of the caste question.
- Pretexts, Provocations And Consequences (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Aug 06, 2006)
When a series of bomb blasts ripped through seven commuter trains, causing mayhem in Mumbai nine days ago, it was hardly surprising that suspicion immediately fell on Islamist militants, with Lashkar-i-Taiba becoming the main focus of attention on . . .
- Attack On The Idea Of India (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Aug 06, 2006)
How ironic that Tony Blair should be the first major political leader to point out that the nature of our Kashmir problem has changed.
- New Face Of Jihadi Terror (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 06, 2006)
Let's not blind ourselves to the new scourge: Home-grown Islamist terror ----- Investigations into the Mumbai bombings and several other blasts over the past few months (Varanasi, Bangalore, Delhi and Ayodhya) have confirmed that Pakistan has . . .
- Investigate Reliance Petroleum's Role In Oil-For-Food Deal With Iraq, Says Cpi (M) (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
Pathak `report' silent on biggest beneficiary: Prakash Karat
- New Face Of Jihadi Terror (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 05, 2006)
Let's not blind ourselves to the new scourge: Home-grown Islamist terror ----- Investigations into the Mumbai bombings and several other blasts over the past few months (Varanasi, Bangalore, Delhi and Ayodhya) have confirmed that Pakistan has devised . .
- Nature’S Solution For Water Needs (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Aug 05, 2006)
The most important event of the year in our national calendar is the advent of the summer monsoon. It takes place sometime between the last week of May and the first week of June.
- Why Mumbai Escaped A Flare-Up (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Aug 05, 2006)
To deal with alienation post-7/11, civil society and the state have to come together as they did post-1992-93.
- Care For Them (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 05, 2006)
How does one describe the fact that 34.5 per cent of children below three years of age are underweight in Jammu and Kashmir? By no yardstick can it be called a happy position.
- Protest In A New Theatre (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 05, 2006)
In Marginal Men, his fine history of refugee politics, Prafulla Chakrabarti recounts how Calcutta acquired its by-now-well-founded reputation as a city of protests and protestors.
- Falling Skies (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 05, 2006)
A fairly common celestial occurrence called a meteor shower took place a few days ago over parts of Gujarat. It apparently included a blazing sound-and-light spectacle which for the duration unnerved the inhabitants of the Kutch region.
- Bjp Singles Out Aamir For Soft Drink Ads (Times of India, Mohua Chatterjee, Aug 04, 2006)
With Coke and Pepsi coming under the pesticide scanner again and Parliament debating the issue with full steam, BJP on Thursday used the opportunity to attack actor Aamir Khan for appearing as the brand ambassador for Coca Cola.
- No Flood Warning, Says Congress (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
Gujarat "completely failed" in providing relief to flood-affected
- Why We Need To Be On Our Toes (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 04, 2006)
On an average the terrorists inflict two heart-rending tragedies in the country every month.
- Tribes Stranded As Sardar Sarovar Dam Drowns Valley (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Aug 04, 2006)
Kishore Solanki picks up a rock on the banks of the swollen Narmada river, gesturing towards land, now submerged, where once he grew enough wheat and vegetables to make a comfortable living.
- Silent Partitions (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Aug 04, 2006)
The divisions caused by decades of communal strife are partly responsible for the terror in Mumbai.
- Dalal St Tested On Oil Prices, Ecb Rates (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
Dalal Street on Thursday withstood the onslaughts of rising oil prices and impending interest rates hike from European Central Bank successfully as it finally ended with a gain of 46.97 points or 0.43 per cent at 10,923.16.
- Bjp Targets Aamir Khan For Cola Ads (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
The BJP on Thursday launched a fresh attack on Bollywood star Aamir Khan and ridiculed him for being a brand ambassador of the soft drink Coca-Cola, which the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), an NGO, claims contains a high quantity of pesticide.
- Digital Drive Password For New-Age Terrorism (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
Not just zealots but also computer savvy. That is how the Crime Branch, Mumbai would like to describe the arrested “LeT members” and their mentors since the method of communication devised by them marked their ingenuity.
- The Punjabi Roti (Tribune, Renu Bhardwaj, Aug 03, 2006)
Roti is an inherent part of Punjabi culture; it is synonymous with Punjabi cuisine. Punjabis are not only addicted to it, they are proud of it.
- Humbling Hill (Indian Express, SAPNA SHARMA, Aug 03, 2006)
Girnar, the 3,100 ft hill, situated in Junagadh, Gujarat, is part of the folklore of Saurashtra. Since time immemorial Buddhist, Jain and Hindu monks have found sanctuary there. A stone edict of Asoka can be seen at the foot of the hill.
- Tackle Terror Sternly (Deccan Herald, G Parthasarathy, Aug 03, 2006)
The Government has no clearcut policies to fight terrorism sponsored by neighbouring nations.
- Marooned For 90 Hrs, 135 Gujarat Kids Rescued In Marathon Mission (Pioneer, R.K. Misra, Aug 03, 2006)
Marooned for almost 90 hours in their residential school, 135 children of a lesser god and their 18 guardian angels were rescued from their watery perch after an operation that stretched human endeavour to its limits and tested the tensile strength . . .
- Backing For The N-Deal (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 03, 2006)
The nuclear deal between the US and India has received attention in the Urdu press as well. National Herald group’s Qaumi Awaz, in its editorial dated July 29, has hailed it, supporting the deal.
- Saudi-Based Nris Funded Mumbai Blasts, Says Ats (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
More than nine lakh riyals - nearly Rs 1.2 crore - were transferred from Saudi Arabia to Mumbai in the past one year for the 7/11 blasts, said anti-Terrorists squad sources on Tuesday.
- Saving India's Extincting Wildlife (Daily Excelsior, G L Khajuria, Aug 02, 2006)
We deserve no right to live over this globe, if we don't bear sympathy in mind for a variety of animal life that surrounds us, and definitely God will be unhappy at our activities of merciless and wanton destruction of this . . .
- Third-Class Governance Can’T Give First-Class Response To Terrorism (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Aug 02, 2006)
By the end of 2003, we were being told that our agencies had neutralised over 160 ISI modules — counting only those outside Jammu and Kashmir and the Northeast. Since then, up to July 11, 2006, again counting only those outside Jammu and Kashmir . . .
- When Is Violence ‘Terror’ And When Is It Not? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 02, 2006)
There was nothing ‘natural’ about the slaughter of Sikhs in 1984, and nothing ‘natural’ about Gujarat 2002.
- Grim Situation (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 02, 2006)
Karnataka must evacuate people from low-lying areas.
- Promises Not Kept (Business Standard, M J Antony, Aug 02, 2006)
State governments lure industries with incentives and then go back on their words.
- No Clue Yet To Indo-Pak Dialogue Resumption (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Despite high-level meetings here to take stock of bilateral ties, there is no clarity yet when the Indo-Pak composite dialogue process hit by Mumbai blasts will resume but discussions at technical level will go ahead.
- Panel To Ask Kalam For Letters On Gujarat Riots (Asia Times, Sonal Kellogg, Aug 02, 2006)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam will now be required to hand over the correspondence between the late President K.R. Narayanan and former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on the Gujarat riots to the Central Information Commission.
- Lashkar Is India's Al Qaeda (Pioneer, Wilson John, Aug 02, 2006)
Counter-terrorism operations through appropriate covert action should be taken to stop LeT from killing innocent civilians and bleeding India ----
- Force-Feeding Mallika To Gujarat Won't Do (Pioneer, Navin Upadhyay, Aug 01, 2006)
The Centre and the Gujarat Government are headed for a major confrontation on the Planning Commission's controversial decision to allot a Rs 10 crore pilot project to noted dancer Mallika Sarabhai for making a series of Gujarat-centric documentaries . . .
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