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Articles 2721 through 2820 of 4523:
- The Other Side Of The Earthquake (Greater Kashmir, GHULAM NABI HAGROO, Oct 28, 2005)
The disaster broke all walls, rendered all lines useless and raised the question of a forced separation once again, comments
GHULAM NABI HAGROO
- Shocking Indifference (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 28, 2005)
The world has not done enough to bring relief to the victims of the quake
- Much More Than Just The Bakery (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 27, 2005)
There is a spectre hanging over India’s secular democracy: the ghost of the 2002 Gujarat massacres.
- Police File: When Mau Burned (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 27, 2005)
Six retired director generals of police from different states submitted in person a paper entitled, ‘Communal riots must be accepted as a failure of governance’, to the
Prime Minister not so long ago.
- You Won't Be Discriminated Against, Kalam Tells Children (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2005)
HIV/AIDS affected children air their grievances
- Police File: When Mau Burned (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 26, 2005)
Six retired director generals of police from different states submitted in person a paper entitled, ‘Communal riots must be accepted as a failure of governance’, to the prime minister not so long ago.
- Gujarat Elections Largely Peaceful (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2005)
Barring stray incidents of violence, including private firing, polling for elections to 23 district panchayats, 209 taluk panchayats and 49 municipalities in Gujarat ended peacefully on Tuesday. Initial reports indicated a turnout of 45-50 per cent.
- A Brand New Landmark Soon For The Capital (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2005)
To the Capital's many tourist destinations will be added one more this coming month.
- Army Can’T Lower Guard (Tribune, Gen V.P. Malik (retd), Oct 26, 2005)
ON October 8, seismic fault-lines made a mockery of the ceasefire line that was drawn 56 years ago between the Indian and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). This map delineation,
- In The Aftermath Of The Earthquake (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Oct 25, 2005)
Funds should be earmarked for the orphans’ benefit and a public authority created to see to it that they are provided proper shelter and food. I would even suggest that the dogmatic Islamic law on adoption be discarded and childless couples enabled . . .
- Disaster Management (Tribune, G.S. Bedi, Oct 25, 2005)
For whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee,” is an apt quote from John Donne in the present circumstances.
- Government Negligence Makes Children Die (Daily Excelsior, Vikram Sinha, Oct 25, 2005)
For the last 27-year Japanese Encephalitis (JE) takes a heavy toll in eastern Uttar Pradesh and adjoining western Bihar, and the victims are children.
- Police File: When Mau Burned (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 25, 2005)
Six retired director generals of police from different states submitted in person a paper entitled, ‘Communal riots must be accepted as a failure of governance’, to the prime minister not so long ago.
- Setting Up Tent Schools (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 24, 2005)
The federal government’s decision on Friday to set up tent schools in the earthquake-hit areas is a sound one and should be implemented as early as possible.
- Onion Woes (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 24, 2005)
Normally, it is the price of the shares which should be under the magnifying glass of the government, not that of fruit and vegetables. But then, the onion is not just another vegetable.
- Grasp The Moment In Kashmir (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Oct 24, 2005)
The Indian political class and civil society have failed the Kashmiris in their hour of need. Their response to the calamity that has hit the people of Kashmir has either been slow in coming or inexplicably non-existent.
- Mahadev ... (Hindu, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , Oct 23, 2005)
... was officially Gandhiji's secretary, but actually "he was much more than that." It was his special privilege to be able to show the world the Mahatma off the stage and below the platform
- Quakes, Quirks And Kashmir! …… (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Oct 22, 2005)
I am afraid I will have to return to my last week's theme of how or why all Congressmen, even those who have remained out of power for the past decade or so, continue to believe in the their divine right to rule.
- Quake Rocks Everything Minus Cong Culture (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Oct 22, 2005)
I am afraid I will have to return to my last week's theme of how or why all Congressmen, even those who have remained out of power for the past decade or so, continue to believe in the their divine right to rule. It has nothing to do with Sonia Gandhi's
- Two Streams Of Assessments (Business Line, R. Anand, Oct 22, 2005)
R. Anand on disputes over disallowance of personal expenses impacting fringe benefit tax
- India Inc Fuels Price Pressure (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 21, 2005)
Indian manufacturers have passed on higher costs to consumers on the back of a buoyant economy, company executives and analysts say, a development which threatens to fuel inflation and push up interest rates.
- Political Pollution (Statesman, Jagmohan , Oct 21, 2005)
Is the Indian President nothing but a robot according automatic approval to every resolution that his Council of Ministers submits to him? Is he totally helpless in stopping the dirty games to which our politicians sometimes resort?
- Nature’S Fury, Man’S Villainy (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Oct 21, 2005)
IN the midst of the grave tragedy of the South Asian earthquake it is once again becoming clear that human contribution to aggravating a natural calamity can be shocking beyond words.
- No Sense Of Shame (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 21, 2005)
At Least about the weather, everyone talks about it though no one does anything about it. About corruption, which bids fair to become a shameless way of life, nobody finds any need even to talk about it, let alone do something about it.
- Mau’S Trial By Fire (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 20, 2005)
Spectre of communal violence is still with us
- India's Fast Growth Seen Fuelling Price Pressures (Reuters, Thomas Kutty Abraham and Suresh Seshadri, Oct 20, 2005)
Indian manufacturers have passed on higher costs to consumers on the back of a buoyant economy, company executives and analysts say, a development which threatens to fuel inflation and push up interest rates.
- Bill To Monitor Religious Propaganda In Textbooks (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2005)
Ministry accepts CABE suggestion to form National Textbook Council
CABE will double up as a forum where complaints regarding textbooks can be registered
Penal provisions being considered
- India's Fast Growth Seen Fuelling Price Pressures (Reuters, Thomas Kutty Abraham and Suresh Seshadri, Oct 19, 2005)
Indian manufacturers have passed on higher costs to consumers on the back of a buoyant economy, company executives and analysts say, a development which threatens to fuel inflation and push up interest rates.
- Nuggets Of Judicial Wisdom (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 19, 2005)
"The most vital `community need' at present is the reversal of the environmental degradation. There are virtually no `lung spaces' in the city. The Master Plan indicates that about 34 per cent of recreational areas have been lost to other uses," ...
- Ignoble Gesture (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Oct 19, 2005)
Joint relief efforts cannot change the realities of Indo-Pak relations
- "The Aim Is To Discredit Sewa" (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Oct 17, 2005)
Founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)Ela R. Bhatt,in an interview, speaks about her organisation's decision to pull out of all Government of Gujarat programmes.
- Quake-Proof Construction (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 17, 2005)
The damage reportedly caused to a number of buildings as a result of the powerful earthquake that also shook Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar besides causing extensive damage in the Frontier and Azad Kashmir should serve as a wake-up call for the civic. . .
- Women’S Inheritance: Next Steps (Indian Express, BINA AGARWAL, Oct 17, 2005)
The livelihood and empowerment prospects of millions of women who depend on agriculture for survival are affected by their legal rights in land.
- Music (Deccan Herald, Mysore V Subramanya, Oct 17, 2005)
Shubha Mudgal, whose roots are in Hindustani music, went back to her tradition to present a rich tapestry of bhakti geets, sufi songs and songs of communal harmony at a concert called “Souharda Raaga” at the Ambedkar Bhavan in Bangalore on Sunday.
- "The Aim Is To Discredit Sewa" (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Oct 17, 2005)
Founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)Ela R. Bhatt,in an interview, speaks about her organisation's decision to pull out of all Government of Gujarat programmes. This follows the latter's "special audit" of SEWA's implementation . . .
- No One Listening But Advani Keeps Demanding Pm Manmohan Singh's Resignation – When Will The Joke End And Bjp Take On Real Work? (India Daily, Preetam Sohani, Oct 16, 2005)
While terrorists are planning to use Google’s satallite mapping service to pin point and take out strategic Hindu targets in India,
- A New Complication In Andhra Pradesh (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 15, 2005)
The entry of a suicide bomber in Andhra Pradesh's challenging security environment represents a new complication.
- There's A New Ghost In The Guest House (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 15, 2005)
The consciousness of being deemed dead is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality, rues Herman Melville. "One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.
- Kashmiri Architecture Found To Be Quake-Resistant (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2005)
To its surprise, the expert team from the Centre visiting J-K found that houses built in the traditional Kashmiri style of architecture, known in local parlance as bajji-diwari system, had withstood the quake quite well, particularly in Baramullah.
- National Building Code Evolved (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2005)
Can help to minimise disaster due to natural calamities
Uniform standardisation is a must
Bureau to lay down higher norms
- Godhra: Centre Refuses To Part With Documents (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2005)
The Centre has decided not to produce the letters between Vajpayee and the then president during the probe saying public interest would suffer.
- God On The Cliff-Hanger! (Daily Excelsior, Dr R L Bhat, Oct 15, 2005)
So, He did this Katrina and Rita thing to Americans. Oh Gawd! How often has this guy in the heaven landed in precarious situations without Al Qaeda sending Him on cyclonic binges! But when faith calls God must obey.
- Interview - India, Pakistan Put Politics Before Relief - Farooq (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Oct 15, 2005)
India and Pakistan are playing politics with earthquake relief, and have missed a great opportunity to build closer ties in a time of tragedy, Kashmir's main moderate separatist leader said on Friday.
- Quake Deepens Fissures In Kashmir Despite Army Help (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Oct 14, 2005)
After pulling his three daughters out of the rubble of his house and burying them, Mohammad Sadiq sat down in his village in Indian Kashmir and waited for help to come.
- Purses And Hearts (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 14, 2005)
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has a complaint which he has voiced several times in the media.
- Bio-Diesel Policy Announced (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2005)
Oil companies to buy at Rs. 25 a litre
Scheme to come into force from January 1, 2006 Product must meet BIS standard Purchase centre in States identified
- India Inc Wakes Up, Rushing Relief To Quake-Hit Kashmir (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2005)
India Inc has finally woken up to the tragedy in Kashmir. Offers of help for quake victims have come from Infosys, Bajaj Auto, Ashok Leyland, ITC and Coca Cola and there are reports of other business houses and multinational companies also chipping in.
- Faith In Quake Time (Tribune, Geetanjali Gayatri, Oct 13, 2005)
Saturday began like any other day — reading newspapers, a quick call to parents and surfing of channels to know if all was well with the world.
- India Inc. Can Do More (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 13, 2005)
How grim is the tragedy that struck Kashmir on both sides of the divide is becoming clearer with each passing day.
- Coping With Earthquakes (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Oct 13, 2005)
Of all natural disasters, earthquakes are the most difficult to manage because they can be neither predicted nor prevented. As such, they do not give any opportunity for shifting people to safer areas.
- Bjp Groping In The Dark (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Oct 13, 2005)
PRIMA facie, the Congress and the BJP today can be said to represent the core of a two-party system, the Holy Grail of Indian politics.
- Purses And Hearts (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2005)
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has a complaint which he has voiced several times in the media.
- A Deadly Combination (Hindu, Ramya Kannan , Oct 13, 2005)
Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS are twin dangers. The focus of public health policies is on combined programmes to tackle them.
- Ongc In Assam Flap (Telegraph, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 12, 2005)
The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation is ready to invest Rs 3,300 crore in Assam to double its crude output in the next three years. However, the law and order situation in the state will determine whether the funds will actually flow in.
- Coping With Earthquakes (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Oct 12, 2005)
Of all natural disasters, earthquakes are the most difficult to manage because they can be neither predicted nor prevented.
- Bihar On The Edge (Frontline, Purnima S. Tripathi, Oct 12, 2005)
BIHAR has been a byword for political uncertainty. Even as the State began preparations for its four-phase Assembly elections
- When Disaster Struck (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Oct 12, 2005)
WHAT lessons did Saturday’s earthquake in the north of the country carry for us? In the initial shocking days there was not much to learn and much more to mourn.
- West Bengal Must Work To Catch Up (Business Line, S. Majumder , Oct 11, 2005)
TRADE union, though the voice of workers, is also an institution that nurtures understanding between the labour and the management for a smooth functioning of the organisation.
- `Farmer Households Spend 55 Pc On Food' (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2005)
THE average Indian farmer household spends the highest share (Rs 101.27 or 20.14 per cent) of its monthly per capita expenditure of Rs 502.83 on cereals and cereal substitutes, followed by 9.68 per cent on milk and milk products.
- ‘We’Re Doing Away With Red Tape And Rolling Out The Red Carpet For Investors’ (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Oct 10, 2005)
On October 7, 2005 Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi completed four years in office—an achievement in itself in a state where the average tenure of a CM has been two-and-a-half years.
- Killer Quake (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 10, 2005)
This is an opportunity for the neighbours to cooperate in this hour of crisis
- War Of The Surveys (Business Standard, Sunil Jain, Oct 10, 2005)
It’s not easy being a policy maker these days. In the earlier days of reforms, you were told the fiscal deficit was the main thing to watch for; fix this and everything else would fall into place
- Black Saturday (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 10, 2005)
IT is at best a conjecture how long it would take to measure the enormity of Saturday’s earthquake.
- Earthquake Tragedy (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 09, 2005)
With a death toll that could go into the thousands, yesterday’s massive earthquake which hit the northern half of the country as well as regions in Afghanistan and India has the makings of a tragedy of immense proportions.
- Doomed Democracy (Statesman, Sam Rajappa, Oct 09, 2005)
The real purpose of Laisenia Qarase’s visit is to soothe India’s ruffled feelings about the patently anti-Indian administration he has been running for the last five years
- Quake Devastates Pak, J&k (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2005)
Many people were buried alive in an upmarket apartment block in Islamabad.
- Shaken And Shocked By The Mighty Earthquake (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2005)
The Capital along with many other cities and towns emerged shaken from the shock of the earthquake that hit North India on Saturday morning. A total of seven aftershocks were recorded during the day, all measuring above 5 on the Richter scale.
- A Hand As Fruitful As The Land That Feeds Us (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 08, 2005)
In king Henry VIII, you can hear Lovell extol, "That churchman bears a bounteous mind indeed, a hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us." Which is what, I guess, the poor and the needy would have said when Sacred Heart Church gave them housing loans.
- Why We Should Universalise Iodised Salt, And How (Deccan Herald, Manu N Kulkarni, Oct 07, 2005)
Iodisation of salt at the salt heads is cost-effective and will reduce public health problems due to iodine deficiency.
- Vat Benefits (Deccan Herald, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 07, 2005)
States outside the new regime are losing out
- Tatas To Set Up 3,000-Mw Unit In Jharkhand (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2005)
Rs 12,000-cr pact signed with state.
- Every Strike Has A Sting (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2005)
Last week’s unnecessary and rather perverse day-long disruption in large parts of the country continues to be the subject of bitter comment.
- A Canal Runs Through It (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 05, 2005)
Some of the large branches of the earlier reaches of the Sardar Sarovar Main Canal and the entire canal systems of the Ken Betwa system in the first of the interlinking of rivers project announced with considerable ceremony have a lot in common.
- Agriculture Knows No Caste (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Oct 05, 2005)
Politicians who are nothing but politicians are capable of limitless skullduggery.
- Diaspora Showcases Sectarian India (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma , Oct 05, 2005)
Some day, a visiting Indian PM may be called upon to address two meetings of NRIs, one for Indian Hindus and the other for Indian Muslims.
- India, Pak Plan Pact On Siachen (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2005)
New Delhi and Islamabad also sought to clear the air of uncertainty over Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline by emphasising the project’s contribution.
- India, Pakistan Take A Step Forward On Siachen (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 05, 2005)
They will strive to arrive at a "common understanding" on demilitarisation of the glacier before talks in January
Sir Creek: joint survey to be undertaken
- India : Be A Generous (Daily Excelsior, M. N. Minocha, Oct 04, 2005)
There is a growing concern in the North Block as the surging foreign exchange reserves of the country stand at $144.86 billion on September 10.
- L&t Draws Up 10-Year Plan For Coimbatore (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2005)
L&T Demag Plastics expands capacity; company bets on exports of machinery
Mulls production base for marine structures Damra port project moving ahead Concern over attrition rate in engineering industry
- Putting Disaster (Daily Excelsior, Kuldeep Singh Chatwal, Oct 02, 2005)
Tsunami catastrophe last December, unprecedented floods in Mumbai, Gujarat and several other parts of the country, which have taken a heavy toll of human lives,
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