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Articles 2821 through 2920 of 4523:
- Bjp States To Give Reports On Weaker Sections (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2005)
Performance for SC, ST welfare will be assessed at Chief Ministers meet: Advani
Party's SC conventions to be held in various States
We will work for all sections without discrimination: Advani
Other parties are paying lip service to Dalit cause
- The 'Milk Man' Tells His Story (Hindu, Anitha Joshua, Oct 02, 2005)
I Too Had a Dream, Verghese Kurien as told to Gouri Salvi, Lotus, Rs. 395.
- Elderly Woes-Iio Ld People’S Competence Can Be Effectively Utilised (Statesman, ANUPRIYO MALLICK, Oct 01, 2005)
The elderly can be categorised into two groups, namely pensioners and non-pensioners
- The Making Of Bapu (Deccan Herald, PREM PAUL NINAN, Sep 30, 2005)
Gandhi was once just a simple lawyer in South Africa. It was his perseverance against injustice and violence that made him the Mahatma, writes Prem Paul Ninan
- Why Urban Andhra Pradesh's Message Is Important (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Sep 29, 2005)
The municipal polls verdict has a significance beyond Andhra Pradesh's borders. None of the excuses for the Telugu Desam's rout in the 2004 elections works this time. Voters are protesting the pro-rich, anti-poor measures that pass for `reforms' in. . . .
- Gujarat Bjp Seeks Details Of Dalit Meet (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 28, 2005)
Dissidents had shared the dais with the Congress to denounce Modi Government
- Ominous Portents For Bjp (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Sep 27, 2005)
There are many Lal Krishna Advanis. I recall accosting him in Parliament’s Central Hall after the fragile Janata Party government gave way, ostensibly on the question of the dual loyalties of the members of the then Jan Sangh. We shall live to fight ....
- Cruel Kindness (Deccan Herald, P SRINIVASAN, Sep 23, 2005)
Playing host can be a pain. A host’s nonchalance or over-enthusiasm can be too inconvenient
- Income Tax Raids On 7 Top Brokers Of Gujarat (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 23, 2005)
The Income Tax Department raided the business and residential premises of seven top brokers in Gujarat on Thursday. While the premises of six were raided in Ahmedabad, a major broker of Rajkot was questioned during the day.
- Wrong Time To Speak Up (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Sep 23, 2005)
It is becoming a habit for L.K. Advani to spring unpleasant surprises on the Bharatiya Janata Party.
- Indian Finance Ministry Statement – No Scams In Indian Stock Market Proved Wrong – Indian Authorities Start Raiding Stock Brokers (India Daily, Harish Baliga, Sep 23, 2005)
India finally announced that there is major scam in the Capital markets especially with Foreign Direct Investment flowing into the country through Mauritius as people all over the world try to take advantage of the Indian stock market gains.
- Do You Know? (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Sep 23, 2005)
Nisar A Patigaroo shares some information about oil, chemicals and more
- Destroyers Of Indianness (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Sep 23, 2005)
BJP leader Mr. Jagmohan has supported Dr Man Mohan Singh's assertion that British rule over India has been good for India.
- Cabinet Nod For Expansion Of Nuclear Power Stations (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 23, 2005)
The Union Cabinet on Thursday gave its in-principle clearance of the sites for further expansion of the nuclear power stations in Koodankulam, Kakrapar and Rawatbhata and for setting up a new station at Jaitapur in Maharashtra.
- Ongc Unveils Mega Plans To Become 2nd Largest Oil Refinery (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 22, 2005)
Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), India's largest oil producer, on Wednesday unveiled mega plans to become the country's second largest oil refiner, ....
- Unsettled, Not Unstable (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 22, 2005)
DR Manmohan Singh’s government is not unstable. But it is unsettled. After the six-year stretch of Atal Behari Vajpayee’s NDA, it is not possible for a central government to be unstable anymore. Power in Delhi is now an equation in arithmetic.
- Yatra To Map Mahatma's Life (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 22, 2005)
Union Ministry of Culture has identified 10 sites
Special budgetary allocation for developing the sites
The Yatra would begin in Porbandar and wind up at Gandhi Smriti in Delhi
- 90 Per Cent Of Rain Fell In Three Weeks Of Monsoon (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2005)
This staid chart has more to it than just rainfall measurements of North-West India.
- Smart Pick-Up In Commodities Futures (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 20, 2005)
Government plans to spread the price discovery mechanism for all commodities
- Seeds Of Doubt In Maharashtra (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Sep 20, 2005)
Fake and costly inputs have placed lakhs of farmers in grave danger. Further, despair has led many to embrace costly Bt cotton as some kind of magic bullet. Meanwhile, Bt cotton has not only been attacked by other pests,
- Get In First To Save Lives (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 20, 2005)
Extracts from the government of India’s status report on Disaster Management in India, August 2004
- Advani To Resign In December, Attacks Rss For Interference (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2005)
Climaxing the battle with RSS on the Jinnah issue and under attack from dissidents, L K Advani today announced plans to step down as BJP president by year end but not before launching an attack on the Sangh fountainhead for "remote-controlling" the . . .
- Advani To Step Down, Criticises Rss (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Sep 19, 2005)
Will demit office as BJP president at December Mumbai meet
Advises the RSS to leave politics to the BJP
Party leaders feel Mr. Vajpayee's position would be stronger
Last minute attempt by some to delay announcement
- The Fuel Of The Future (Hindu, TUTU DHAWAN, Sep 19, 2005)
Bio-diesel is expected to meet 20 per cent of India's diesel requirement
Bio-diesel ignites better and burns up to 70 per cent cleaner, has much better lubricating properties and extends engine life.
- 61.6 Per Cent Of State's Farmer Households Are In Debt (Hindu, Nagesh Prabhu , Sep 18, 2005)
Dependence on moneylenders has made farming unprofitable, says survey
- Life In The Fast Lane (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 18, 2005)
A hard-hitting book that does not baulk from telling the bitter truth about life on the fringes of society, written in a simple style.
- Twin-Track Route To Revive Urban Co-Op Banks: Rbi (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 18, 2005)
The states and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), will adopt a twin-track route towards non-viable urban co-operative banks (UCBs), RBI Governor Y V Reddy said here on Saturday.
- Gail Gets 7 Bids For Dupl Project (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 18, 2005)
Limited has received bids from seven parties for the Rs. 973-crore pipeline tender for the prestigious Dahej-Uran pipeline (DUPL) project. The deadline for submission of bids ended on Saturday.
- Kaps-1 Achieves One Year Of Uninterrupted Operation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 18, 2005)
The first nuclear power reactor at Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS-1), Gujarat, completed one year of uninterrupted operation on Friday (September 16). The unit has a capacity of 220 MWe. KAPS-1 has been continuously supplying electricity to the grid
- Changing With Time (Daily Excelsior, Arun Nehru, Sep 18, 2005)
We have the Bihar crisis and the LJP Chief along with the CPI fight back the threat from the Congress/RJD and I think the Congress High Command with little influence in Bihar may well consider a 'retreat' from the deadlines given to Ram Vilas Paswan.
- Regret Vs Apology (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 18, 2005)
What does Bharatiya Janata Party leader Madan Lal Khurana mean when he says that he has merely offered regrets to his party president L.K. Advani and not tendered an apology?
- Iraq's Constitution, A Failure For The U.S." (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2005)
Preeta Bansalof the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom advises President George Bush on foreign policy in relation to religion.
- Murder Most Foul (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 16, 2005)
AS time passes and society progresses, one expects certain social evils to die a natural death.
- Bihar Election Under A Cloud (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Sep 15, 2005)
The Election Commission has maintained all through that it was required by law to hold the Bihar election within six months of the dissolution of the Assembly.
- Power Project For Khandwa Cleared (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2005)
M.P. Cabinet approves 1000 MW project after Gujarat backs out from a joint venture
Counter-guarantee for Maheshwar project
Information Commission to be set up
SC/ST vacancies to be filled
- Will Bjp Meet Be A Smooth Affair? (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Sep 14, 2005)
Focus may shift from internal squabble to differences in the ruling UPA
Timetable for Advani's exit as party president to be main issue
Party went into convulsions after Advani's remarks on Jinnah
- Art Of Political Speak, Fatwa And All That (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Sep 14, 2005)
Seasoned politicians are masters at saying the right thing at the right time.
- Caught In A Cleft Over Clusters (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Sep 14, 2005)
Clusters did exist in India even before Michael E. Porter analysed their virtues or before the Chinese had the SEZ brainwave in a bid to inject badly needed capital.
- Govt. Won't Ban Onion Export; Imports If Necessary (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2005)
The Government will not ban export of onions despite a shortfall of 20 to 25 per cent in production this season but would import the commodity if necessary, Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said at a press conference here on Tuesday.
- Sibal Takes Raha To Sebi On Gas Find (Business Standard, Jyoti Mukul, Sep 13, 2005)
Director-General Hydrocarbons VK Sibal has lodged a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Board of India against Oil and Natural Gas Corporation for making public an oil discovery without informing the stock exchanges. Sibal has sought an . . .
- The Problem With Reforms... (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 12, 2005)
Over the last few weeks, votaries of economic liberalisation (including this newspaper) have been wringing their hands at the inability of the UPA government to make headway on economic reforms.
- India, Pak To Swap 500 Prisoners At Wagah Today (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 12, 2005)
The stage was set today for another high in the bilateral peace process when India and Pakistan exchange nearly 500 civilian prisoners at the Wagah Border near here
- Floating An Idea (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Sep 11, 2005)
During the arguments on the plea of the Shankacharya of Kanchi before the Supreme Court last week that the criminal cases against him should be transferred out of Tamil Nadu, his counsel Fali Nariman pointed out that there was a curious ambivalence in the
- At E-Gram Panchayat, New Windows Open (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 10, 2005)
It’s a remote area, surrounded by dense forests and the Aravalli hills. Juna Chamun and three other villages here have a population of 4,500 with most of the people belonging to Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes. And only 10 per cent of them own
- Gail Forays Into Oil Marketing (Hindu, Special Correspondent, The Hindu, Sep 09, 2005)
GAIL India has forayed into marketing of crude oil with the flagging off of the first tanker carrying crude produced by the company from a Cambay basin block.
- Bangla Lessons For Hindi Belt (Hindu, Jairam Ramesh, Sep 09, 2005)
THE UNITED Nations Development Programme's annual Human Development Report for 2005 has just been released.
- Harsh Punishment (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 09, 2005)
THE expulsion of the BJP’s Delhi strongman Madan Lal Khurana from the party for six years by party chief L. K. Advani does not show the latter in a good light.
- India: A Mixed Record (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 08, 2005)
These are extracts from the United Nations Human Development Report 2005 released on September 7
- Bill To Control Ngos (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Sep 08, 2005)
THERE are NGOs and NGOs. Some of them are doing a commendable job, fighting for the rights of those who have never known whether they have any right in the polity or any future.
- Fuel Cost Hike: Cement Prices May Go Up Marginally (Business Line, Our Bureau, Business line, Sep 07, 2005)
The cement industry believes the impact of the rise of transportation fuel costs on the industry is minimal, but some officials warned that it would depend on several other factors which will only present themselves as they actually unfold.
- Interfering Government (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Sep 07, 2005)
The govt’s proposed legislation to control every bit of help the NGOs get from outside is an unkind cut.
- Ongc To Soon Call For Engg Contract Bids For Dahej Plant (Business Line, Our Bureau, Business line, Sep 07, 2005)
OIL and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) will call for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for its proposed methane and propane extraction plant at Dahej in the next two weeks.
- Ongc, Gspc To Jointly Develop Kg Gas Block (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 07, 2005)
The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and the Gujarat government-owned Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) will jointly develop GSPC’s 20 trillion cubic feet (TCF) natural gas block in the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin, subject to government app
- Reliance, Wipro Get Nod For Sezs (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2005)
The Union Government on Monday gave its go-ahead to Reliance Industries' 10,000-hectare Special Economic Zone in Jamnagar, Gujarat.
- State Stands Second In Milk Production (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2005)
Minister says Karnataka exporting milk powder to Singapore
Drinking water scheme, veterinary hospital and school building inaugurated
Services of 192 doctors appointed on contract confirmed
Animal diseases diagnostic labs to be set up in taluks
- Guidelines For An Action Plan (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 06, 2005)
Extracts from the government of India’s status report on Disaster Management in India, published in August 2004
- Indian Companies Were Investing In A Big Way Into Australia (India Daily, Harish Baliga, Sep 06, 2005)
The rules for foreign direct investment (FDI) into Australia will be made "clearer and easier to deal with" to assist...
- National Curriculum Framework & The Social Sciences (Hindu, Romila Thapar, Sep 05, 2005)
Textbooks should certainly be child-friendly but it is equally necessary that the schoolteacher should be made child-friendly. Teachers need a more intensive exposure to social science concepts, changes in data and methods in history, and critical enquiry
- Love Laws (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2005)
West Bengal prides itself on not being Gujarat.
- An Unjust Stranglehold (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2005)
When the Chief Justice of India, R.C. Lahoti, rem-onstrated with Parliament last month for its ‘‘unwarranted criticism’’ of the recent Supreme Court order ending caste-based quotas in privately run professional institutes,
- Retold, In A Hurry (Hindu, S. SIVADAS, Sep 04, 2005)
Dharker was given three months to write the book, the deadline for the re-enactment of the Dandi march. That shows...
- Ode To Mercurial India (Deccan Herald, JAYALAKSHMI K, Sep 04, 2005)
The versatile nature of this vast country is revealed through the pen as well as through some spectacular images in this book.
- Ongc To Set Up 5.5 Mn Tonne Refinery In Ap (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
ONGC will sign a memorandum of understanding with the Andhra Pradesh government on Saturday for the setting up of an export-oriented refinery with an initial capacity of 5.5 million tonnes.
- Essar's Cold Rolling Unit On Stream (Hindu, Oommen A. Ninan, Sep 04, 2005)
Will offer value-added downstream products, says Shashi Ruia
- M’Rashtra Demands Rs 12,640 Crore Aid (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2005)
Maharashtra has sought a Central aid of Rs 12,640 crore to undo the damage caused by rains and floods and rehabilitate the affected people.
- Uk In Turmoil Over Video Tape Confession By Bomber (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Sep 03, 2005)
More intelligence experts are likely to be sent to Pakistan to track down the mastermind who planned the July 7 attack.
- Whose Integration? (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 03, 2005)
The unity of India has always been a question of its diversity. The great empires of Indian history — the Maurya Empire, the Gupta Empire and the Mughal Empire
- For A Coherent Regional Policy (Dawn, Javid Husain, Sep 03, 2005)
IN my last article on the state of Pakistan-US relations, I emphasized the need for Pakistan to adopt a coherent regional policy as the central element of our overall foreign policy. I would now venture to add that since the end of the Cold War, the absen
- Politicians’ Writ Or Police Raj (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Sep 03, 2005)
THAT police are meant to maintain law and order still holds good in the West, although the 9/11 attacks have drastically changed its meaning.
- Chief Minister Or Chief Master? (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 03, 2005)
Nearly a decade of coalition rule now has produced many fundamental changes in our politics.
- India, Pak Agree To Release All Prisoners By Sept 12 (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2005)
India and Pakistan announced on Tuesday the release of all fishermen and civilian prisoners by September 12
- Energy Security And The Search For New Options (Hindu, M.R. Srinivasan, Sep 02, 2005)
Efforts have to be stepped up to leverage emerging technologies to tap new and existing sources of energy better.
- Children Dying Of Hunger Haunt Maharashtra (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Sep 01, 2005)
With the monsoon coming to a close, the Maharashtra government has begun its annual charade of downplaying the deaths of children from malnutrition in different parts of the state.
- Must States Rely On Sops? (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 01, 2005)
It is hard to say if the 30 months of excise and income-tax concessions for new units located in certain industrially-backward States have led to flight of any significant amount of capital from the more advanced States,
- Know More About Wto (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
Three letters that many desi chartered accountants fear are WTO, because the bogey of foreign invasion frightens these professionals to no end that they fail to see anything beyond the confines of their own interest.
- Searching For The Right Formula For Success (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Sep 01, 2005)
Despite all the talk about pursuing the public-private partnership (PPP) route to implementing infrastructure projects, neither the Central nor the State Governments have been able to come up with a viable formula to encourage investment.
- Bjp At War With Itself (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Aug 31, 2005)
The BJP is likely to dismiss it as semantic jugglery but the party with differences currently seems an apt description for the political outfit that prides itself on its ideological sanctity and discipline. Be it the dissidence in Gujarat,
- Zahira’S Lies (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 31, 2005)
The turnaround could not have been more stark. Zahira Sheikh was one of the biggest sufferers of the Gujarat riots with almost her entire family burnt to death before her eyes.
- Jinnah Remark Fully In Line With Nda Regime Policies: Advani (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Aug 31, 2005)
My viewpoint is in the interest of the people of India and Pakistan
- Dear Philsy (Deccan Herald, A S IYER, Aug 31, 2005)
A beautiful person’s memory creates another world that lives on even after life passes away
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