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Articles 821 through 920 of 4523:
- Parliament Okays Office-Of-Profit Bill Amid Uproar (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
Parliament today approved the controversial office of profit Bill with the Lok Sabha passing it amid Opposition uproar and after four hours of heated discussion that saw two adjournments over a member’s remarks against Gujarat chief . . .
- New Evidence On Mumbai Blasts Shows Up (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Aug 01, 2006)
Rahil Abdul Rehman Sheikh may have developed transnational terror networks after a visit to J&K
Ghaswala joined jihad against India after Gujarat pogrom
Conference a cover for meeting with top J & K-based terrorists.
- Train From China (Indian Express, K Srinivasan, Aug 01, 2006)
Yana Banerjee-Bey, in ‘Tibet on the train to the future’ (Bywords, IE, July 14), writes about how Tibetans’ traditional way of life can only change for the better, thanks to the new train that links Tibet to mainland China.
- ‘We Oppose All Forms Of Terrorism’ (Deccan Herald, Bala Chauhan, Aug 01, 2006)
Shahi Badr Falahi was the president of the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) when it was banned on September 27, 2001, immediately after the bombing of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001.
- Bangla New Terror Route? (Times of India, Pradeep Thakur, Aug 01, 2006)
Bangladesh is fast emerging as the hub of all anti-India operations from training terrorists and facilitating their infiltration into India to smuggling arms and ammunition, counterfeit currency and narcotics into the country.
- A Political Canon (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 31, 2006)
The past never goes away in Indian public life. Unresolved, its episodes lie silent, ready to bubble over with all their old destabilising power at the feeblest prodding.
- Rain Havoc In Maha, Gujarat: Army Joins Rescue Operations (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 31, 2006)
Rain fury has caused havoc in western Maharashtra and Gujarat where acres of farmland turned into rivulets and thousands had to be evacuated to safer places. While four deaths were reported from Gujarat, two people died in western Maharashtra on Sunday.
- A Leadership Vacuum (New Indian Express, Swapan Dasgupta, Jul 31, 2006)
Here are some moments in the life of a nation when people eschew individualism and look for leadership.
- Yet, Sonia Defended Them In Parliament, Salman In Courts (New Indian Express, S Gurumurthy , Jul 31, 2006)
It was founded in the year 1977. Not by a religious leader, but by an English-educated academic, Mohammed Ahamadullah Siddiqui.
- Indian Muslims Used As Scapegoats (Pakistan Observer, Ghulam Sarwar, Jul 31, 2006)
Recent bomb blasts in Mumbai have been widely condemned by numerous Indian Muslim organizations and leaders, but, regrettably, their voice has gone unheard.
- Floods In South, Central Gujarat (Hindu, MANAS DASGUPTA, Jul 31, 2006)
Situation eases in western Maharashtra; discharge from dams reduced
- 25,500 Evacuated In Gujarat (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 31, 2006)
Rains in Gujarat played havoc claiming over a dozen lives in the last 36 hours and forcing many people to evacuate.
- Rain Wreaks Havoc In Maharashtra, Gujarat (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 31, 2006)
Over 70,000 persons were evacuated by the Army from Sangli, Satara and Solapur districts in Western Maharashtra with the Krishna River flowing above the danger level and heavy rains lashing the region since the last few days.
- 24 Hours News Channel (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jul 31, 2006)
Satelite television in India is just over a decade old.
- Energy At A Price (Telegraph, S.L. Rao, Jul 31, 2006)
We are very short of electricity in India.
- Not One Mole, Mr Prime Minister And Mr Jaswant, But Two! (New Indian Express, S Gurumurthy , Jul 31, 2006)
First, the Kandahar pay-off issue and next, the ‘mole' in PMO. Mr Jaswant Singh's new book seems to have opened a can of worms.
- State Vs State Vs State (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 31, 2006)
On contentious economic and social issues, is it desirable to allow each state more discretion to frame its own law on the matter? A majority of state governments seem to have supported the case for flexibility in labour laws for the textile . . .
- Monsoon Rains Kill 12 In India’S Gujarat State (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 31, 2006)
Heavy monsoon rains in India’s western state of Gujarat have killed at least 12 people and forced thousands to evacuate their homes and move to higher ground, officials said on Sunday.
- India Attacked In Mumbai (Hindustan Times, Pankaj Vohra, Jul 30, 2006)
The recent bomb blasts in Mumbai should serve as a lesson for our politicians, who should stop making attempts to derive political advantage from a tragedy aimed at destabilising the country.
- Sebi Lifts Ban On 3 More Entities (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 30, 2006)
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Friday lifted the ban on three depository participants — IL&FS, IDBI Bank and ING Vysya Bank — on opening fresh demat accounts.
- Who`s Minding The Home? (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jul 30, 2006)
Shivraj Patil's tentativeness comes across too strongly for comfort in his current job.
- Iit Professors Denounce Modi (Times of India, M.R. Venkatesh, Jul 29, 2006)
Two IIT Madras professors today protested Narendra Modi’s presence at a convention on the institute’s campus, one of them holding up a placard that said, “Mr Modi, We Disapprove”.
- Bird Flu: India Wary Of Saarc (Deccan Herald, KALYAN RAY, Jul 29, 2006)
India is reluctant to share its container facilities with its SAARC neighbours fearing fresh outbreaks of the virus from poorly-packed cargos, even as it has agreed to cooperate with 10 other Asian nations to make South Asia impregnable against the . . .
- Sebi Lifts Ban On 3 More Entities (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
IDBI, Ing Vysya, IL&FS can open fresh demat accounts.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Friday lifted the ban on three depository participants — IL&FS, IDBI Bank and ING Vysya Bank — on opening fresh demat accounts.
- Who`s Minding The Home? (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jul 29, 2006)
Shivraj Patil's tentativeness comes across too strongly for comfort in his current job.
- "Connectivity, The Key To Empowering Rural India" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
Infrastructure had to be enhanced for information revolution to reach villages: Modi
- Tourism Promotes National Integration: Modi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
Says he wants to make Gujarat a tourist destination of India "One should feel the warmth and hospitality of Gujarat's people by visiting the State"
- Heartbroken In Srinagar (Tribune, SATISH K. SHARMA, Jul 29, 2006)
For those who wish to take to golf in the middle age to keep their heart healthy, here is a warning. They say it is like love. If you are not serious you won’t enjoy it. And if you are, it’ll break your heart.
- Police Still Clueless About Mumbai Blasts (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Jul 29, 2006)
Despite the arrests of 10 persons in the past week, the Anti-Terror Squad of the Mumbai police is clueless about the identity of those who carried out the seven serial blasts in the city’s trains on July 11.
- Ril-Rnrl Gas Valuation In A Month: Oilmin (Pioneer, Bhagyashree Pande, Jul 29, 2006)
The Oil Ministry has formed a committee which will prepare a framework of guidelines for the valuation of gas that will be supplied to it under the production sharing contract by the oil companies in a month's time.
- More Questions Than Answers (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 28, 2006)
The government’s decision to reject the price at which Reliance Industries (RIL) agreed to sell gas to Anil Ambani’s Reliance Natural Resources has an obvious repercussion on Anil Ambani’s Reliance Energy whose 7,400 mw power project at Dadri in . . .
- Cops Arrest Mumbai Lashkar Chief, He’S ‘Brother’ Of Bangalore Techie (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
The Anti-Terrorist Squad tonight arrested Faizal Atur Rehman Sheikh (27), who Crime Branch officials say heads the Lashkar-e-Toiba’s Mumbai operations. ATS officers are now investigating how involved he is in the serial blasts of Terrible Tuesday.
- Centre Of Controversy (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 28, 2006)
Kerala wants out of the Centre’s fiscal responsibility law that was incentivised for adoption by states. Gujarat and MP want flexibility in terms of deciding whether they must follow, as is the custom, the Centre when it restructures government pay.
- Much Ado About Noting (Indian Express, Seema Chisti, Jul 28, 2006)
In what would make screenplay writers of the BBC tele-serial Yes Minister (or Yes Prime Minister, in this case) envious, the government of India has scripted a magnificent episode as it went about this file notings business.
- J&k Announces Reward For Nabbing Grenade-Throwers (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Jammu and Kashmir police has announced a reward of Rs one lakh besides a government job for anyone who will catch a grenade-thrower.
- The Biggest Threat (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Jul 28, 2006)
In the dominant political culture of India, citizens are encouraged to treat terrorism as an unavoidable feature of modern existence and undertake no independent initiatives to counter it.
- Mountain Out Of Mole Hill (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Jul 28, 2006)
It's hardly a secret that the Americans have kept close watch on India's nuclear programme for several decades -------- Should politicians publish their memoirs in their lifetime? Former Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh with his book, A Call to Honour, . .
- Protestations Of The Credulous (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Jul 28, 2006)
It might appear preposterous to the rest of the country, but two Ministers from the Congress, a CPI(M) top brass and one Muslim maulana distinguished themselves by offering alternate theories on 7/11.
- Why Farming Has Become Unviable (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Jul 27, 2006)
Falling profitability of farming operations, the drying up of non-farming opportunities and the growing fragmentation of landholdings all make agriculture a losing proposition. Three-fourths of Indian farmers take home less than Rs 3,000 a month . . .
- On Our List, Gujarat Cops Who Didn’T Act: Terror Suspect (Indian Express, Stavan Desai, Jul 27, 2006)
Sohail Md Sheikh, a Pune-based Lashkar-e-Toiba suspect who was arrested yesterday, has told police that his module had been instructed to draw up a list of Gujarat policemen “who didn’t react sufficiently” during the 2002 riots, sources in the . . .
- Gods Don’T Vote (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 27, 2006)
BJP CMs should be obsessing over their relative economic success and not conversions
- Bjp Flays Speaker For 'Misinformation' (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
Strongly refuting charges that it had gone back on its promise to allow Question Hour in Lok Sabha, the BJP has expressed its reservation on Speaker Somnath Chaterjee's briefing the media about deliberation in his chamber with Opposition leaders.
- Holy Cows Don't Die (Pioneer, K Govindan Kutty , Jul 26, 2006)
The Marxist Government in Kerala seems more concerned about the safety of the Malayali diaspora and minorities at home than the State's people
- Under Upa, Terror Has Broken All Records: Advani (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
A spirited attack on the Government's "failure" to combat terrorism left the treasury benches fumbling for words in Lok Sabha on Tuesday during a marathon six-hour debate on a BJP-sponsored adjournment motion.
- Jaw-Jaw Better Than War-War (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Jul 26, 2006)
I am somewhat worried by the lack of out-of-box thinking within the Indian and Pakistani media.
- Know Your Enemy (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 26, 2006)
Smart parties let issues decide who their friends would be. Congress isn’t smart that way
- Nature’S Wrath? More Man’S Folly (Indian Express, FARAH BARIA, Jul 26, 2006)
July is Mumbai’s nemesis. Exactly one year ago on this day, Nature unleashed 944 mm of rain on the unsuspecting metropolis, claiming 400 people. This year, Mumbai has already lost over 180 innocent citizens to a dark void of insane violence.
- Batting For Palestine (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 26, 2006)
In the face of Israeli raids on Lebanon, the CPM believes that India cannot be a bystander.
- Seeking Sanity In The Real Estate Market (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 26, 2006)
"Today, though the real estate sector is growing at a blistering 30 per cent annually, our cities are crumbling with little or non-existent infrastructure — all a result of haphazard or no urban planning." — MR DEEPAK S. PAREKH, CHAIRMAN, HDFC
- Quit Or Challenge Jaswant, Congress Tells Modi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
The Congress has asked Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi either to resign or "challenge" the former Union Minister Jaswant Singh for his critical comments on his Government's handling of the 2002 communal riots.
- Managing Diversity (Tribune, Anita Inder Singh, Jul 26, 2006)
As Bombay recovers from the latest terrorist attacks, as London continues to tackle with the fallout caused by 7/7, and as West European democracies grapple with real or imagined problems caused by their diverse peoples, some 14 per cent of whom . . .
- ‘The Only Time I’Ve Slept Badly In My Life Was In Gujarat. Just . . . (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 25, 2006)
‘The only time I’ve slept badly in my life was in Gujarat. Just hearing the descriptions. Never before, never after’
- Will Islam Reform? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 25, 2006)
All Muslims are not terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims; it is for the community leaders to identify jihadi elements amidst . . .
- Not Exactly Total Recall (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jul 25, 2006)
Jaswant Singh provides a partial account of a key period in Indian diplomacy
- The Reforms Experience (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
This volume, a befitting honour to C.H.Hanumantha Rao, contains 19 papers of high quality by eminent economists on the broad theme of economic reforms.
- Opinion: The Rising (Daily Excelsior, Deepti Priya Mehrotra, Jul 24, 2006)
When Narmada Bachao Andolan's Medha Patkar broke her 21-day hunger strike, a journalist asked her whether "pressure tactics" like indefinite fasts should be used to influence decisions.
- An Act Disabling An Act (Indian Express, Aruna Roy & Nikhil Dey, Jul 24, 2006)
If the people of this country wanted to know what it would mean to have a right to information law amended as per the reported cabinet decision, questions about how this decision came about would provide enough of an answer.
- Reality Hits Home (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Jul 24, 2006)
Security agencies are unable to find a Kashmir link to the Mumbai serial train bombs, unlike the past. The arrests of three suspects — two from Bihar, and a third from Navi . . .
- Reprisals Are Necessary (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Jul 24, 2006)
In the wake of Mumbai bombings, the issue of effective steps against terrorism must be discussed threadbare.
- ``More Than One Letter Exchanged Between Narayanan, Vajpayee'' (Hindu, Siddharth Narrain , Jul 23, 2006)
Correspondence comprised 10 to 15 pages, says DoPT
President not answerable to any court: DoPT
Right to information, a fundamental right: appellant
"No immunity from public scrutiny"
- Suicides Tell No Tale (Tribune, Mohan Guruswamy, Jul 23, 2006)
Suicides have come to be indicators of economic distress.
- Ringing A Bell (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 23, 2006)
Being “clever” is a BJP speciality. At times it is too clever to be wise. Sounding an alarm on terrorism would underpin its plans to have bells rung across the nation to coincide with the quorum bell to launch the monsoon session of Parliament.
- Discontent Sows Seeds Of Jihad Among Indian Muslims (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Jul 23, 2006)
These are bad times, says the chief priest of a small mosque in the heart of the Muslim quarter of Asia's largest slum in India's biggest city.
- Terror Law: Yes For Mumbai, No For Gujarat (Pioneer, Kanchan Gupta, Jul 23, 2006)
With a 600-km long border with Pakistan and a coastline that stretches across a whopping 1,600 km, providing innumerable landing spots for craft carrying explosives, arms and terrorists, Gujarat is a prime target for jihadis who have already drawn . . .
- Reality Hits Home (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Jul 23, 2006)
Security agencies are unable to find a Kashmir link to the Mumbai serial train bombs, unlike the past.
- An Act Disabling An Act (Indian Express, Aruna Roy & Nikhil Dey, Jul 23, 2006)
If the people of this country wanted to know what it would mean to have a right to information law amended as per the reported cabinet . . .
- Bangladeshised (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 22, 2006)
Centre must revamp North-east security
- From Medicine Man To Murderer (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jul 22, 2006)
Abdul Karim Tunda's extraordinary journey offers deep insight into the factors behind the Lashkar-e-Taiba's growth in India.
- Hsbc Securities Dealer; Son Put Fanaa Tune On His Cell Week Before Blast (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 22, 2006)
Bharti Merchant insists she has never been an outdoors person. ‘‘Sabzi bhaaji leke aana bas,’’ says the 44-year-old woman sitting on a floor mat in her Kandivli home in a plain lilac sari, her head resting on the wall behind, her hair tied in a loose . .
- If Ahmad Shah Were Here (Tribune, Amar Chandel, Jul 22, 2006)
History books tell us that Ahmad Shah Abdali of Afghanistan attacked India repeatedly in the eighteenth century and pillaged the country barren. These never-ending invasions gave birth to a desperate coinage in Punjab: “Khaada Peeda . . .
- Reality Hits Home (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Jul 22, 2006)
UP, Bihar weren’t recruiting grounds for Kashmir jihad. Why is it different for Mumbai?
- An Act Disabling An Act (Indian Express, Aruna Roy & Nikhil Dey, Jul 22, 2006)
If the people of this country wanted to know what it would mean to have a right to information law amended as per the reported cabinet decision, questions about how this decision came about would provide enough of an answer.
- What Has Israel Achieved? (OutLook, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 22, 2006)
'Israel has attacked its neighbours many times after it was struck by violence, but it has provided no solution, instead it has led to escalation of tension in the region. All options must be looked into after Mumbai blasts, but we have to be . . .
- Political Myopia (OutLook, G. Parthasarathy, Jul 22, 2006)
National security and foreign policy are being influenced by considerations of domestic vote banks. Establishing 'secular credentials' does not mean ignoring the ISI's role in radicalizing Indian Muslim youths, or the root-causes - Ayodhya 1992 and . . .
- The Channel Conflicts (Business Standard, Arvind Singhal, Jul 20, 2006)
A news item a few days ago reported that Gujarat Television and Appliances Traders Associates has been upset with select leading consumer durables manufacturing and marketing companies on account of such companies reportedly giving better margins . . .
- Bust The Terror Syndicates (Pioneer, Wilson John, Jul 20, 2006)
Decisive and ruthless crackdown on jihadis is the need of the hour, not more empty rhetoric ---- Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT), headed by Hafiz Saeed based in Pakistan, is a threat to India's security and sovereignty and must therefore be branded as . . .
- Upa's Scholarly Scheme Benefits Only One Backward Student In Bihar (Pioneer, Rajeev Ranjan Roy, Jul 20, 2006)
There is just one student in Bihar who is eligible for financial assistance under the post-matric scholarship scheme of Union Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry in 2005-06. Or this is what Ministry would have us believe.
- Problems Within (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 20, 2006)
Parties should avoid politicising security issues
- Modi Asks Questions (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 19, 2006)
He came, he saw and he left the city mercifully untouched by his visit. Yet the implications of Narendra Modi’s visit to Mumbai on Monday, in the aftermath of last week’s train blasts, are not short-term; Mumbai had far too . . .
- Modi Can’T Fix The Mumbai Mosaic (Indian Express, KUMAR KETKAR , Jul 19, 2006)
Narendra Modi was not on the minds of Mumbaikars as much as he was in the electronic media. Mumbaikars continue to be in sort of a State of Siege, enveloped by fear psychosis and driven by rumours rather than by ministerial assurances.
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