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Articles 1321 through 1420 of 2218:
- Longowal Got Best Deal For Punjab (Tribune, S. S. Dhanoa, Aug 22, 2005)
One lasting contribution to the public life in Punjab that Sant Harchand Singh Longowal has made is that with his death he closed the communal divide that had bedevilled the peace in the state.
- The High Court Acts (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 22, 2005)
The Punjab and Haryana High Court’s decision to suspend the Jhajjar Chief Judicial Magistrate for his questionable role during his earlier stint at Sonepat and withdraw all judicial work from Ludhiana’s Additional District and Sessions Judge till his ....
- Powering The Nation For A Bright Future (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2005)
The State-owned energy producer, National Thermal Power Corporation, is embarking on an ambitious plan to take the total installed capacity to 66,000 MW by 2017 through green field projects, expansion of existing stations and foray into nuclear and hydel
- What Ails Haryana Schools? (Tribune, S.K. Kaushal, Aug 21, 2005)
Dismal performance of government schools at the middle, matric and +2 examinations held this year by the Haryana Board of School Education is a reflection of the falling academic standards in the state. The school system in Haryana is on the verge of. . .
- Norms For Distribution Of Rice, Wheat Revised (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Aug 21, 2005)
No change in quota of foodgrains
Kharif rice cultivation declines by 1.8 per cent this year
Pawar wants States to ensure sale of coarse grains through the TDPS
Concern over deficiency of rainfall in U.P.
- '84 Riots: Panel Wants Rs 5-Lakh Relief For Each Victim (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2005)
The committee constituted by the Union Home Minister to examine compensation awarded in the 1984 riots has recommended that each of the victims be given Rs 5 lakh each.
- Relief Panel For Sikhs Meets (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2005)
The first meeting of the committee on rehabilitation of the families of the victims of the November 1984 anti-Sikh riots was held on Friday.
- The Morality Lesson (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Aug 19, 2005)
The fault does not lie in nature but in the manner human societies organize themselves.
- Pusa Rohini, Tomato Variety Shows Promise (Hindu, M.J. PRABU , Aug 18, 2005)
About 40 tonnes of fruits can be harvested from one hectare
The ideal TIME for sowing the seeds in the nursery is during October
- Slow Reflexes Of Congress 2005 (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Aug 16, 2005)
After the new highs touched in his speech to Parliament on the G.T. Nanavati Report, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s address to the nation from the ramparts of Red Fort yesterday was something of an anti-climax.
- Train Cops On Crowd Control (Tribune, Monika Saroha and Aditi Datta, Aug 14, 2005)
The brutal assault of innocent workers in Gurgaon is a reflection of the Haryana Police’s inability to tackle protests and demonstrations.
- Ashok Jain Remanded To Three-Day Judicial Custody (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2005)
Ashok Jain, Chief Adviser in the India Project of the German automaker Volkswagen, was produced in the Court of the 12th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at the Nampally Courts complex here on Friday evening and remanded to judicial custody for th
- More Teeth For Sex Determination Law (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 12, 2005)
Amended in 2002, the PNDT Act has made sex determination a crime with punishment of 5 years of imprisonment and a fine of Rs one lakh.
- The Next Big Risk May Hit From A Different Angle (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 11, 2005)
Antonio's first big mistake in The Merchant of Venice was to bet his whole fortune on a fleet of ships, and his second mistake was to borrow 3,000 ducats from a single source, states the intro of David Shirreff's Dealing with Financial Risk, from Viva
- Government Plans To Revive Ethanol-Blended Petrol (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2005)
The Government has plans to revive the old but ambitious programme of running automobiles on petrol blended with ethanol from October.
- "Increase Investment In Dryland Farming" (Hindu, T. Ramakrishnan, Aug 10, 2005)
Farmers in these areas need to be uplifted, says ICRISAT chief India is "one of the rising stars" and the Government has a strong regulatory mechanism, he says.
- 'Chhattisgarh Will Lead In Economic Growth' — Dr Raman Singh, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister (Business Line, Santanu Sanyal, Aug 09, 2005)
An Ayurvedic doctor by profession, 53-year-old Dr Raman Singh took over as Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh in December 2003.
- Revolt Of The 19th Century (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 09, 2005)
Everything has been happening when nothing happens. Good management is not about solving problems;
- Conversion: Invitation To Introspect (Indian Express, RUDOLF C. HEREDIA, Aug 08, 2005)
In his Antimemoirs in 1968, André Malraux recalls asking Nehru: “What is your greatest difficulty since Independence?” Nehru’s spontaneous reply was: “Creating a just State by just means,
- Safety Net Must For Workers: Memani (Tribune, Manoj Kumar, Aug 07, 2005)
The police assault on the workers of Honda Motor and Scooter India (HMSI) in Gurgaon raised serious doubts over the efficacy of the western
- Banks Advised To Restructure Debts Of Cotton Farmers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2005)
Centre providing financial, technological assistance: Minister
- Food Subsidy: How To Reduce The Bill (Business Line, Pradeep S. Mehta, Aug 05, 2005)
The food subsidy bill, consisting largely of farmer and consumer subsidies and support to the Food Corporation of India, has spiralled in the last ten years. A combination of measures, including new marketing avenues through co-operatives, price . . .
- Powerless In Haryana (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 05, 2005)
IT is common to see normally patient citizens losing their cool when denied electricity in this hot and humid weather.
- Isi Network Busted (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2005)
The Intelligence Bureau and the Assam Police say they have busted a network of ISI operatives, who were allegedly passing on highly classified defence documents to officials of the Pakistan Embassy in Delhi.
- New `Knowledge' And The Farming Community (Business Line, Jayati Ghosh, Aug 02, 2005)
How farmers get access to knowledge and information about new and existing technologies can be critical in determining the viability of cultivation.
- Double Standards (Telegraph, Jay Bhattacharjee, Aug 02, 2005)
Why is it that one Japanese MNC clamps down on unions in Gurgaon while another welcomes them in Canada? asks Jay Bhattacharjee
- They’Re Mad, By George (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Aug 02, 2005)
Is it midsummer madness or plain and simple irresponsibility? Many in the public are bewildered and often aghast when leaders of all parties and hues speak or act.
- Bumps On The Road (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 02, 2005)
A road is believed to speak a lot about the condition of a country or a state. Judging from the potholes and worse on Punjab roads, nobody can give the state a certificate that it is in the pink of health.
- Lessons From Gurgaon (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 02, 2005)
While it is too early to say how durable the truce between the Honda management and workers brokered by the Haryana Chief Minister would be, ...
- Workers Must Get Their Due: Brinda (Tribune, Tripti Nath, Jul 31, 2005)
The Rajya Sabha or the House of Elders will definitely be enriched further with the election of Mrs Brinda Karat as a member.
- Pyrrhic Victory (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 30, 2005)
KPS Gill's sentence: Too little, too late
- Thank You, President (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 30, 2005)
The President has withheld assent to the Haryana Casino Bill. This was quite expected for two reasons.
- Changing Labour Dynamics (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 29, 2005)
A semblance of order is emerging in the industrial situation at the Honda Motor Cycles and Scooters India plant at Gurgaon, Haryana.
- China's Chairman, Our Chairman (Times of India, SAUGATA ROY, Jul 29, 2005)
In power, the Left pushes growth, not workers' rights
- Like Chairman, Like Chairperson (Pioneer, Rakesh Sinha , Jul 29, 2005)
The Gurgaon incident has exposed the hypocrisy of the Communists. For the common people, ...
- Reality Check (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 28, 2005)
Don't get hysterical about Gurgaon, learn from Bengal
- Insipid Excuses (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 28, 2005)
The reverberations of the Gurgaon police barbarism continue to rock the nation and Parliament, and understandably so.
- Ban Caste Panchayats (Tribune, Rashme Sehgal, Jul 28, 2005)
Two years ago a young Scheduled Castes boy and an upper-caste girl were stoned to death in Madhya Pradesh. Their crime: they fell in love and chose to get married.
- Samurai Socialism (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 28, 2005)
Is a boycott of Honda generators next?
- Malls Of The Few, Chawls Of The Many (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Jul 28, 2005)
The scenes from Gurgaon gave us more than just a picture of one labour protest, police brutality or corporate tyranny. It presented us a microcosm of the new and old Indias. Different rules and realities for different classes of society.
- Inevitable Parting Of Ways? (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Jul 28, 2005)
In politics, governments are often made and unmade by sudden reverses or developments.
- Unseemly Clashes (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 28, 2005)
The Gurgaon clashes could have been handled with more tact by the police
- Sc Upholds Gill Conviction (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2005)
While the verdict was a setback to former Punjab police chief K P S Gill, the IPS officer will not be jailed for his lewd behaviour in the 1988 incident.
- Force As The First Recourse (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 27, 2005)
Force, it seems, is no longer the last resort for key contingents of the Indian police
- Haryana Echo In Parliament (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2005)
Opposition, Left parties stage walkout; Hooda announces judicial probe
- Where Are Pakistan's Commodities Headed? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Jul 27, 2005)
When Pakistani forces occupied certain points in Kargil, India's military intelligence system failed to detect and warn the army of the manoeuvres until the Pakistani forces were long entrenched into strategically important positions.
- Punjab At No 5 (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 27, 2005)
That Punjab, once on the top in the country in per capita income, has slipped to the fifth place should not come as a surprise.
- A Metaphor For The New Insensitivity (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jul 27, 2005)
The new economy has produced new politics that is yet to recognise dislocation and pain
- Gurgaon’S Kurukshetra (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 27, 2005)
The labour-police violence was a sad, bad aberration. Not televised class struggle
- Futile Strike (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 27, 2005)
The vivid televised images of the primitive ham-handedness of Haryana Police while dealing with rioting workers of Honda Motorcycles & Scooters India Ltd in Gurgaon should not be allowed to divert attention from the real issue at stake.
- Through The Shining Glass, Darkly (Telegraph, SHOURJO CHAKRAVORTY, Jul 25, 2005)
Is Gurgaon an urban monstrosity, as some believe it is?
- Women Talk Of Rights (Tribune, Devi Cherian, Jul 25, 2005)
Shobha De ko gussa kyon atta hai? A recent event organised to discuss women’s issues by FICCI ladies went completely astray as the moderator Shivani Wazir introduced panelist Shobha and asked the author to please tell them how she stayed so fit.
- Kerala's Imported Labourers (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Jul 19, 2005)
Hitherto known as the land of few job opportunities, with nearly all of its literate hoards migrating to other parts of India and West Asia in search of greener pastures, Kerala is now offering jobs to people from Orissa, Bihar and West Bengal.
- Setback For Reforms (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 19, 2005)
The Union Government has buckled under pressure from the DMK to keep the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill, 2005, in abeyance.
- Chandigarh Is It (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 18, 2005)
City attracts industry, needs better infrastructure
- No Special Dispensation (Business Line, R. Anand, Jul 16, 2005)
R. Anand on a recent clarification from the Haryana Government on VAT and leasing
- Politics Of Appeasement (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2005)
Captain Amarinder Singh’s government seems determined to provide free electricity supply to the farm sector disregarding objections of the Prime Minister and the Planning Commission.
- Warning Signals (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 29, 2005)
PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh, who cannot be faulted for his economics, was only being a little more realistic when he scaled down the growth target for the Tenth Plan from 8.1 per cent to 7-8 per cent,
- Ensuring Quality Of Seed (Tribune, J. George, Jun 29, 2005)
Institutional mechanism to ensure quality seed is lacking in states. Spurious seed vendors go scot-free, while a high-powered committee has recommended the death sentence for spurious drug peddlers.
- Human Bomb’ Arrested In Delhi (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 29, 2005)
In a major catch, Delhi police arrested a Babbar Khalsa International militant trained as a human bomb who had planned to attack former Haryana Chief Minister Bhajan Lal and two prominent religious leaders of Punjab.
- Tackling Child Labour (Tribune, Kamaljit Singh, Jun 28, 2005)
INDIA tops the world in child labour. According to the 2001 census, the number of working children in the age group of 5-14 years was 12.5 million out of the total child population of 252 million.
- Is Gujarat Up There In Governance? (Business Line, Mohan Guruswamy, Jun 27, 2005)
The Gujarat Government has been going to town claiming to be the "best governed State" on the basis of a supposed accolade by the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF),
- Bpo Fraud: Delhi Call Centre Employee Sacked (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2005)
Three days after the controversy over the alleged BPO fraud broke out, Infinity e-search has sacked its employee Karan Bahree who was named by the British tabloid “The Sun” for allegedly handing over confidential financial data to the tabloid’s under-cove
- Reality' Rape (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jun 26, 2005)
`The conviction rate for rapes is appalling, just four per cent. The blame lies largely with shoddy investigation and collection of evidence.'
- Reliving History That None Dare Repeat (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
‘Freedom hijacked’: On the morning of June 26, 1975, the nation awoke to the realisation that in the silence of the previous midnight the state had hijacked its democratic rights. Three decades later, BJP president L K Advani relives the dark days of Emer
- Gom To Study Changes In Immoral Traffic Act (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Jun 26, 2005)
A group of ministers (GoM) has been asked to study the proposed amendments to the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1986. The Tourism Ministry is said to have opposed the changes saying these would adversely affect tourism.
- Hero Honda To Foray Into Scooter Market This Year (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2005)
Hero Honda Motors Ltd (HHML), world’s largest maker of motorcycles, on Friday, announced that it will foray into the scooter market during the current financial year.
- Loan, Cash Credit: No Source, Will Tax (Business Line, H R RANINA, Jun 25, 2005)
Where adequate explanation is not provided for loans, cash credits and unsubstantiated investments, they are taxable and the court would also uphold such an assessment. This provision in the Income-Tax Act is an excellent tool against evasion, ....
- Still A Gamble On The Rains (Indian Express, K.P.Prabhakaran Nair , Jun 23, 2005)
The erratic pattern of the present monsoon indicates that India’s agriculture continues to be a gamble on the monsoon, since more than 50 per cent of farmers are dependent on the rains and any adverse effect on this vital sector reflects on the country’s
- Is India Inching Towards A Hunger Trap? (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Jun 21, 2005)
In the dust kicked up by the resignation of Mr Advani, two things of grave concern escaped attention.
- Bail For Pataudi In Blackbuck Poaching Case (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2005)
Magistrate says he was threatened, told not to grant plea Animal welfare organisations, Bishnois allege that police are "going slow" in the case
- Reinventing The Bjp (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jun 20, 2005)
Indian politics is in flux. The United Progressive Alliance is an alliance of unlikely bedmates, formed to keep the Bharatiya Janata Party out of government. It cannot last.
- Hooda’S Blunder (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 20, 2005)
Only recently Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had spoken against giving free power to farmers.
- Normal Monsoon, Says Weatherman (Tribune, Vibha Sharma, Jun 19, 2005)
With the country so very dependent on monsoon rains, the India Meteorology Department (IMD) attains an all-important status in the beginning of summer every year with its forecast of the monsoon hitting the headlines in newspapers.
- The Royal Hunt (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 19, 2005)
There is an odd symbiosis between the hunter and the hunted. In early June, according to reports, Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi was hunting in a forest in Haryana.
- Wheat Stocks Set To Fall (Tribune, Geetanjali Gayatri, Jun 18, 2005)
It’s a bad wheat season this year. Falling procurement of foodgrains coupled with the Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs,
- Pataudi Files Anticipatory Bail Plea (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2005)
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana High Court will hear on Tuesday the applications for anticipatory bail filed by the former Indian cricket captain,
- Advani's Political Doosra Gets Called (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Jun 14, 2005)
L.K. Advani's troubles are not all about Jinnah. Nor are they over with his return as president of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
- Pataudi Moves Court For Advance Bail (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2005)
In his application, Mr Pataudi said he was framed in the case, but promised to cooperate in the investigation.
- Pataudi, Others Likely To Seek Anticipatory Bail (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 12, 2005)
Raids continue, families seek time till June 15
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