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Articles 521 through 620 of 8510:
- Young Women March To Reclaim Streets Of Fear (Reuters, Palash Kumar, Oct 09, 2006)
Late at night, a posse of young women walk down a dark city street wearing spaghetti-strap tops and body-hugging outfits, defying the stares of onlookers in a country where a woman is raped every 29 minutes.
- Will Government Defy Cynics, Make Good On Police Reform? (Indian Express, Maja Daruwala & Navaz Kotwal, Oct 09, 2006)
The police belongs to the people in power. That is the reality. But a recent Supreme Court judgement could change all this.
- Let The Council Act Objectively (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 09, 2006)
Inability to act against abuses has undermined the newly formed HRC.
- After The Sahibs (Telegraph, S.L. Rao, Oct 09, 2006)
It is strange how the tide has turned for Indian managers in the last seventy years. In the Thirties, British nationals preferred life in lively Britain to nationalistic India.
- Hu Jintao For “Harmonious Society” (Tribune, MARK MAGNIER, Oct 09, 2006)
Beijing – In advance of a key Communist Party meeting this weekend, Chinese President Hu Jintao is working to burnish the party’s image of harmony, even if it’s taken some bloodletting to drive the point home.
- Ignorant And Insensitive (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 09, 2006)
AN 11-year-old boy was seen as a threat to other passengers and not allowed to board a flight from Bangalore to Chennai.
- Guardians Of Constitution (Tribune, Justice A.S. Anand (retd), Oct 09, 2006)
To appreciate judicial activism one shall have to consider the power of judicial review vested in the higher judiciary — the Supreme Court and the High Courts as also the general role of the judicial institutions.
- Everything According To Karma (Tribune, Iqbal Singh Ahuja, Oct 09, 2006)
Bhagwan! Why are you still awake in the middle of the night? You should be sleeping,” said the better half.
- Stop Arming J&k Militants, Us Watchdog Tells Pak (Tribune, Smriti Kak Ramachandran, Oct 09, 2006)
An international human rights organisation has asked Pakistan to stop providing arms and finances to terror groups. A set of recommendations issued by the US-based Human Rights Watch to the Government of Pakistan has called for a complete suspension . . .
- Gp Chairman Hacked To Death (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
A brutal murder marked the Kagglipura zilla panchayat by-elections, which were conducted on Sunday. Doddakallasandra gram panchayat chairman Mallabirappa Muniswamy (36) was . . .
- Power Shift Or Balance Of Power? (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Oct 09, 2006)
The recent coup has left Thailand unsettled. The challenge for the new leadership is to heal the divisions.
- Kashmir Remembers Quake Victims (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Oct 09, 2006)
Hundreds visit graveyards in Tangdhar and Uri and offer prayers to the dead
- Clemency — For The Right Reasons (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 09, 2006)
The issue of exercising presidential clemency and commuting to life imprisonment the death sentence passed on Mohammad Afzal in the December 13, 2001 Parliament attack case — which took a toll of nine lives, not counting the five terrorists killed . . .
- Over The Top (News International, Masood Hasan, Oct 08, 2006)
Oh the Holy month is upon us. The faithful have keeled over and gone into slumber. A great tranquillity descends on the nation. In the words of John Keats: 'a drowsy numbness pains my senses as though of hemlock I had drunk.
- Why Deploy Stf Against Maoists? (The Economic Times, V KRISHNA ANANTH, Oct 08, 2006)
The Tamil Nadu government, according to reports, is thinking of deploying the personnel of the special task force (STF) across the Tamil Nadu-Andhra Pradesh border districts to check the Maoists from entering Tamil Nadu.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 08, 2006)
An ingenuous way to defeat the bandh
- Terrorists Cannot Be Dubbed Freedom Fighters: Justice Anand (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2006)
National Human Rights Commissioner (NHRC) Justice A S Anand today said that to term a terrorist as a freedom fighter was to insult freedom fighters.
- Reform The Cop (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 08, 2006)
As the Supreme Court handed down its judgement on the state of police reforms in India last week, Dr Kiran Bedi, Director-General, Bureau of Police Research and Development, Government of India, called for September 22 to be observed as “Rule of . . .
- Child Abuse (Daily Excelsior, Sweta Patwardhan, Oct 08, 2006)
The government has banned the child labour without any impact. The Child labour Act only bans child labour in specific industries and has actually helped put more children to work rather than get them out of it.
- Do Not Slaughter What God Has Created (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 08, 2006)
"I believe in finer values and hence advocate life in jail so that the convicted can do a valmiki."
- A Fast Move In Delhi (Indian Express, Kartyk Venkatraman, Oct 08, 2006)
For the past 30-odd years Manipur, home to over 30 militant groups and bitter ethnic strife, has known just one way to settle disputes:
- Riddled With Error (Deccan Herald, Sakuntala Narasimhan, Oct 08, 2006)
The author takes on a large canvas of issues and there is evidence in the book of her having put in a fair amount of work in terms of gathering information, but at the end of it, the reader is left with a feeling of dissatisfaction.
- Official Panel Wants Stringent Safeguards On Army Use (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Oct 08, 2006)
'Scrapping AFSPA will help erase feeling of alienation, discrimination in North-East'
ULP Act has provisions to fight militancy
No need to expand existing powers.
- Straw Wants Muslim Women To Lift Veil (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Senior British minister Mr Jack Straw has been accused of discrimination against Muslim women after disclosing he asks them to remove their veils in meetings so they can speak “face-to-face”.
- Violence Rocks Assam, 13 Killed (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Thirteen men, including seven Railway Protection Special Force (RPSF) personnel, one railway official and two ULFA militants, were killed in three skirmishes in Assam today.
- India Needs To Sign Npt For Nuclear Cooperation With Europe: Eu (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
the European Union on Friday asked India to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), saying this would open the doors for civil nuclear cooperation with European nations.
- Why Deploy Stf Against Maoists? (The Economic Times, V KRISHNA ANANTH, Oct 07, 2006)
The Tamil Nadu government, according to reports, is thinking of deploying the personnel of the special task force (STF) across the Tamil Nadu-Andhra Pradesh border districts to check the Maoists from entering Tamil Nadu.
- Why Make Him A Hero? (OutLook, B. Raman , Oct 07, 2006)
The question to be considered is not whether the death sentence is moral or legal. It is. The question is whether it would be wise to have it carried out at the present moment.
- India Needs To Sign Npt For Nuke Cooperation With Europe: Eu (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
The European Union today asked India to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), saying this would open the doors for civil nuclear cooperation with European nations.
- India Must Sign Npt For Civil-Nuclear Cooperation With Eu: Fontelles (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Oct 07, 2006)
The European Union on Friday asked India to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), saying this would open the doors for civil nuclear cooperation with European nations.
- 20 Injured As Protests Continue In Kashmir (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Twenty people were hurt on Friday in fresh clashes in held Kashmir between police and demonstrators demanding clemency for a Muslim man sentenced to death for plotting a 2001 attack on parliament, police said.
- Pak Admits Having Helped Militancy In J&k (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Pakistan has admitted that it might have helped insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir at "some time" but claimed it is now "trying our best" to prevent infiltration of militants into India.
- Commandos Air Dropped To Flush Out Ulfa Rebels (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
The army on Friday airdropped special commandoes trained in jungle warfare and counter-insurgency operations inside the 340-sq km Dibru-Saikhowa National Park in Upper Assam to flush out ULFA rebels believed to be holed up inside the dense . . .
- ‘Visibility For Real Issues Tough’ (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 07, 2006)
In India, it is hard to get visibility for ‘real issues’. The bombing of Hiroshima-Nagasaki is accepted as a crime against humanity, but not as systemic and systematic crimes against Dalits.
- A Fast Move In Delhi (Indian Express, Kartyk Venkatraman, Oct 07, 2006)
For the past 30-odd years Manipur, home to over 30 militant groups and bitter ethnic strife, has known just one way to settle disputes: through the barrel of the gun.
- Delhi Police Arrest Irom Sharmila (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
The fasting rights activist was taken to the AIIMS for urgent medical treatment
- Fast Unto Death Causes Unrest In Manipur (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
People here put up road blockades in support of Irom Chanu Sharmila who has been on a fast unto death at the Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, demanding repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958 in Manipur.
- Too Much Publicity Kills (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 06, 2006)
The basics first. Successful marketing of books depends upon collaboration between the writer, the publisher and the media.
- Matter Of Justice (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Oct 06, 2006)
Only last year a criminal case had come to light which was registered in Billawar in Kathua district in 1959 only to be decided in 2005 --- that is after 46 years. In the intervening period the complainant as well as co-complainant had passed away.
- India's Has An Edge Over China (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Oct 06, 2006)
In the corridors of international power, there is a new discourse emerging. It is about the inexorable rise of China and India. Neither ascent is viewed as certain, but the odds are high that both nations, desperately poor until recently but now . . .
- Sad Realities (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 06, 2006)
General Musharraf's book 'In the Line of Fire' has occupied much space in the Pakistani as well as US media. It is clear now that the book reveals much on subjects that are better kept out of media attention, be it Dr A Q Khan's alleged role in . . .
- Story Of A Failed State (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 06, 2006)
The world had not taken much notice of Bangladesh since the birth of the new nation in 1971.
- Special Article (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 06, 2006)
The 9/11 catastrophe has been viewed by several Muslim rulers as an elaborate conspiracy of the West against Islam.
- Three Hours Of Idealism For Bihar’S Policemen (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
The chief minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, visited the Ashok cinema hall here on 14 September, the second time in the past nine months, this time to watch the premier show of Ram Gopal Verma’s Shiva, depicting the Indian policy-making system.
- Mirwaiz Raises Issue With U.S. (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Kashmir’s chief Muslim cleric and leader of his faction of the Hurriyat Conference alliance, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has taken up the issue of Mohammad Afzal Guru’s death sentence with senior functionaries of the Bush administration in New York.
- Rough Guide To Nuclear Sites (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 06, 2006)
The Director of Publicity of the Islamic Republic of Iran, if indeed he exists, is sure doing one heck of a job.
- Tailored Truths (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 06, 2006)
General Pervez Musharraf has not got his autobiography ghost-written for posterity. It is meant for a specific contemporary audience in the United States of America and in the West.
- No Easy Bail (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 06, 2006)
The Supreme Court has directed the high courts to exercise judicious discretion while granting bail to those charged with serious criminal offences.
- Create Rehab Plan For Sez Oustees (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 06, 2006)
IN the name of development, the central government appears to be bent on reducing the area of agricultural land and hence curtailing the quantum of food production.
- Once Bitten Never Shy (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 06, 2006)
The world is close to winning the battle with some of the most terrifying, maiming and killer diseases. Tetanus in newborns, poliomyelitis, leprosy and river blindness will soon join small pox and guineaworm as diseases found only in medicine textbooks.
- Silent Healing (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 06, 2006)
The idea of swapping a disease-causing gene with a normal one has been a much-heralded breakthrough which, however, is turning out to be far more complex and problem-ridden than believed earlier.
- Naxalites Setting Up Support Centres In Urban Areas (Times of India, SUBODH GHILDIYAL, Oct 06, 2006)
Naxalites are effecting 'structural changes' in their movement by creating the support structures in urban areas in what is a strategic attempt to adapt to the changed security scenario.
- Animal Cruelity And Youth Violence (Daily Excelsior, Maneka Gandhi, Oct 06, 2006)
Cruelty to animals is not something that should be taken lightly. It is an important indicator of how the person is going to behave towards humans as well. Let me give you one example :
- The Hidden Cost In Safety Risks (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
The hidden cost in safety risks
- Ban On Child Labour Welcomed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
A US-based Human Rights Watchdog (HRW) has welcomed the Indian ban on domestic work and some other forms of labour by children under 14 years of age but stressed the necessity of enforcing it effectively.
- Time Runs Out For The ‘Middle Sea’ (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Oct 06, 2006)
The major oil spill caused by Israel’s bombing on July 13 of a power plant on the Lebanese coast highlighted dangers pollution posed to the Mediterranean Sea, the basin of European civilisation.
- Pakistan Watching Afzal Case (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Oct 06, 2006)
"The sentence on Afzal will set a bad precedent"
- Health Emergency (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 06, 2006)
Parts of India are in the grip of dengue fever and chikungunya, which pose a public health challenge that is yet to be met vigorously by the authorities.
- Muslim Rulers~i (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 05, 2006)
The Muslim world today encompasses a motley collection of 55 countries that stretch across the globe from Indonesia to Morocco.
- Hudood Laws In The Dock (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 05, 2006)
The fate of the Women’s Protection Bill continues to hang in the balance.
- U.N. Peacekeeping Nearing 100,000 Troops, Civilians (Reuters, Evelyn Leopold , Oct 05, 2006)
U.N. peacekeeping has surged to 93,000 troops, police and civilian personnel in 18 operations around the world, the most ever in the history of the world body, a U.N. official said on Wednesday.
- Let's Not Waver (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 05, 2006)
A t a time when countries around the world that abolished capital punishment to flaunt post-War liberal values are desperately seeking ways and means to mete out deterrent punishment to terrorists, it is amazing that we should be witnessing a . . .
- Colombo's Response Positive (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 05, 2006)
Sri Lanka is believed to have responded positively to the readiness of the LTTE for peace talks as conveyed through the official facilitator, Norway. Indications are the next round of talks will be held in Geneva from October 28 to 30.
- Kalam Agrees To Meet Afzal Family Today (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
President A P J Abdul Kalam will give personal hearing tomorrow to the family of Mohammed Afzal whose hanging has been ordered for October 20 for his role in the December 2001 Parliament attack case.
- On The Horns Of A Dilemma (Deccan Herald, Deepak K Upreti, Oct 05, 2006)
Having to ‘judge’ the cases involving those who allegedly snuffed out many innocent lives and committed gruesome rapes, including those of minors, the President is faced with a very difficult choice.
- A Milestone In Unravelling Transcription Process (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Many illnesses — such as cancer, heart disease, and inflammation — are linked to disturbances in the transcription process.
- The Best Medicine, Minus The Humour (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 03, 2006)
Humour as inspiration for laughter may not always be necessary.
- Nationalism Vs Globalisation (Daily Excelsior, S. Ranjan, Oct 03, 2006)
We are told day in and day out that India has become the chief destination for foreign investment.
- American Duo Shares Medicine Nobel (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Americans Mr Andrew Z Fire and Mr Craig C Mello won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine today for discovering a method of turning off selected genes, an important research tool that scientists hope will lead to new treatments for HIV, cancer . . .
- Talks With India Likely To Resume After Eid: Fo: Baglihar Meeting Under Way In Paris (Dawn, Qudssia Akhlaque, Oct 03, 2006)
Pakistan and India appear all set to resume composite dialogue later this month, soon after Eidul Fitr, with a review meeting of foreign secretaries in New Delhi.
- India, Sa For Global Action Against Terror (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
South Africa today strongly denounced the barbaric terror strikes in Mumbai and joined India in demanding a "global and comprehensive" fight against the scourge to eradicate it completely.
- Citizenship Classes (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 03, 2006)
IT’S always salutary to ponder what fragments of all the myriad information so painfully acquired at school are actually going to be useful afterwards.
- The Evil That We Live With (Pioneer, BULBUL ROY MISHRA, Oct 03, 2006)
Why is it that instead of reining in crime, our social and political leaders readily resort to the 'root cause theory', asks Bulbul Roy Mishra
- 'Sick Of War, Young Americans Are Drawn To Gandhi (OutLook, Ashish Kumar Sen, Oct 03, 2006)
Democrat Congressman from Georgia, USA, on the Civil Rights Movement and the need to use non-violence as a tool of foreign policy and fighting terror
- Indian Propaganda Helping Bail Out Their Terrorists, Says Fo (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Says Pakistan will cooperate if India gives evidence
Foreign secretaries likely to meet after Ramazan
- "Abide By Human Rights Treaties In Treating Hiv-Afflicted" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Seek more involvement in policy making, programme planning
- Creative Accounting (Times of India, KAMALA BALACHANDRAN, Oct 03, 2006)
On being told of the starting salary of my niece, my octogenarian mother regressed to the tough old days and told me yet again what father's first and last salaries were.
- Russia Restarts The Mindgames (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 03, 2006)
On March 23, police and emergency medical personnel stormed Marina Trutko’s home in Dubna, Russia, breaking down her apartment door and quickly subduing her with an injection of haloperidol, a powerful tranquilizer.
- Stories Of Grit And Gumption (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
The book highlights individuals, often ignored in studies of the violence in Assam.
- Iraqis Take Up Security In Own Hands Amid Insurgency (Indian Express, Thomas E. Ricks, Oct 03, 2006)
The Strategy in Iraq, President George W Bush has said often over the past year, is to stand down the U.S. military as Iraq’s security forces stand up.
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