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Articles 421 through 520 of 500:
- The Lows Of The Presidential Contest (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Jun 23, 2007)
The debate on the relative merits of candidates has been uninformed and partisan, bordering on the abusive on occasion.
- The Price Of A Tribal's Life (Pioneer, KPS Gill, Jun 23, 2007)
Most of the major national dailies missed this news, and it barely registered even in regional papers: On June 18, a tribal, Jeevan Munda, was beaten to death by three forest guards at Hazaribagh National Park in Jharkhand, on the mere suspicion that . .
- Bad Process, Bad Product (Pioneer, Jaya Jaitly, Jun 23, 2007)
Pratibha Patil's nomination as presidential candidate makes many wonder if women need a role model who is a mere pawn for the dynasty
- Should Shekhawat Resign As Vice-President? (Hindu, K.V. Prasad, Jun 23, 2007)
Incumbent need not quit: G.V.G. Krishnamurty
No issue of propriety involved
- Raj Bhawan Way (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 23, 2007)
Pratibha Patil has left most people confused as to what she would bring to the presidency. Is she a future role model for Indian womanhood? Or just a rubber stamp kept ready for 2009?
- Allegations Against Pratibha: Upa-Left Go Into Denial Mode (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2007)
The Congress on Friday went into a complete denial mode after serious allegations were made against UPA-Left combine's presidential nominee Pratibha Patil.
- Loyalty Versus Consensus (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 23, 2007)
INDIA’S president is a ceremonial head under the constitution. Yet, the office has assumed so much importance over the years that no political party, particularly the ruling one, can afford to have an indifferent, much less a hostile president.
- Failed Mantri As Rashtrapati? (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jun 23, 2007)
In a week when Rashtrapati Bhavan is in the headlines, it is relevant to recall a little nugget from our political history.
- Inheritance Of Loss (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 22, 2007)
Within minutes of Pratibha Patil being ‘chosen’ as the UPA’s candidate for president, a chain sms was floated: “After 300 years... the Marathas are finally set to conquer Delhi”, a reminder that defeat in the third battle of Panipat still rankles.
- Theatre Of The Absurd (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jun 22, 2007)
Watching television these days is like watching the theatre of the absurd. To demean the office of the president and reduce the head of State to a pawn, manipulated by petty politicians for their personal ends, is totally unwarranted.
- Red Alert! More Vips (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 22, 2007)
The recent decision over the spat between minister of state for external affairs, Anand Sharma, and the security personnel at the Indira Gandhi International Airport highlights that privilege for some can be danger for all.
- Rulers Demean Highest Office (Pioneer, JS Rajput, Jun 22, 2007)
Election to the coveted office of the President of India is a significant learning opportunity for the country's young children and future citizens. Never before has the process of nominating the right candidates for the highest constitutional office . .
- Indian Government Promises To Revive Country's Ailing Agriculture Sector (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2007)
The Indian government has promised to invest $6 billion to revive the country's ailing agriculture sector. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the farm sector sustains nearly two-thirds of the country's billion-plus people - but millions of . . .
- Pratibhatai: A Reward For Obedience (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 22, 2007)
Was anyone really interested in questioning how the very Maharashtra politicians, who were taking delight in Pratibha Patil's choice as the candiate for President, had been responsible for banishing her from the state not so long ago?
- Cong: Jacob Is Stop-Gap In-Charge Of State (Deccan Herald, B S Arun, Jun 21, 2007)
Te former deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha was put in-charge of the state mainly because incumbent A K Antony has been busy in his duties as defence minister.
- Kalam Is People's Choice (Pioneer, Hari Jaisingh, Jun 21, 2007)
On merit, APJ Abdul Kalam deserves a second term. The Opposition is backing him; he is 'willing'; and the people of India want him as their President. But the Congress and the Left don't want him because he has a mind of his own
- Fury As Presidential Hopeful Urges Women To Throw Off 'Veil Of Invader' (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2007)
The woman nominated by India’s ruling Congress party to become the country’s first female president was at the centre of a national furore yesterday after she urged Muslims to throw away their veils.
- Left Behind Others (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 21, 2007)
On this day 30 years ago the CPI(M) came to power in West Bengal, leading a coalition of Left parties and riding the tidal wave of popular resentment against Mrs Indira Gandhi's Emergency.
- Mumbai Airport Overhaul Delayed: Praful (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2007)
Nearly 15 months after Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd (MIAL) took over operations at the country’s busiest airport and a week after top Government officials reviewed the headway, Union Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said that . . . .
- To Save The Tiger, Revamp The System (Hindu, Shekar Dattatri, Jun 20, 2007)
Set up by the British Raj to exploit vast timber resources, India’s Forest Service needs to reinvent itself if the tiger is to be saved.
- Muslim Fury As Women Urged To 'Throw Off Veil' (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2007)
The woman nominated by India’s ruling Congress party to become the country’s first female president was at the centre of a national furore yesterday after she urged Muslims to throw away their veils.
- Cae High On India: Sets Up National Flight Institute, Runs Government School (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2007)
CAE Inc. (TSX:CAE) is expanding its flight-training operations in India through a joint venture with the Airport Authority of India to develop a National Flying Training Institute,
- Nda Wants Conscience Vote (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2007)
The Opposition NDA on Monday recalled Indira Gandhi’s call for a "conscience vote" in the 1969 presidential election and said it would also approach every one to vote for independent candidate Bhairon Singh Shekhawat in next month’s election.
- Shekhawat To Withdraw If There Is A Consensus On Kalam (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2007)
In yet another turn to the Presidential race, Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhwat on Monday night kept his options open saying he would be happy if consensus could be achieved on the candidature of incumbent APJ Abdul Kalam, proposed by the Third front.
- Democracy In Practice (Hindu, K. N. Panikkar, Jun 19, 2007)
The History of the World’s Largest Democracy: Ramachandra Guha; Pan Macmillan, Picador India, 5A/12, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002. Rs. 695.
- Indian Vp To Fight Pratibha For Presidency (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2007)
Indian opposition parties Monday chose the country’s vice president to run in next month’s presidential race against the ruling Congress party’s nominee, a woman governor who is seen as the favourite.
- Remembering Ramachandra Gandhi (Deccan Herald, Devaki Jain , Jun 19, 2007)
The grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and C Rajagopalachari, who passed away on June 13, was a loving soul who quietly isolated himself, but was always open to affection.
- Canadian Firm To Run Flying Schools In Sonia, Praful Home Base (Indian Express, Raghvendra Rao, Jun 19, 2007)
To meet the demand for commercial pilots — it’s estimated India will need 5,400 pilots by 2012 — the Government is all set to hand over a majority stake in an upcoming pilot training school and the management of an existing one to an international . . . .
- The Pettiness Of The Race (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 18, 2007)
I had a feeling that this was going to happen. And I guess you did too; at some level, we all did. Two months ago, I wrote on this page, about the search for India’s next President.
- Fatima 3rd Front Choice (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2007)
The third front is all set to nominate former Supreme Court judge Fatima Beevi as its candidate in the presidential election and, in a bid to take advantage of the numbers game, allot its second preference votes to vice-president Bhairon Singh . . . .
- 16 Years Of Dilemma (Pioneer, S Gurumurthy , Jun 18, 2007)
India and Indians welcomed Sonia Gandhi in 1968. But she embraced Indian citizenship in 1984. She omitted this fact at Tilburg
- Jrd's Uncrowned Successor (Pioneer, MV Kamath, Jun 18, 2007)
In an awestruck, silent Mumbai crowd of at least 10,000 people, when we attended the post-Budget analysis by Nani A Palkhivala, we did so to hear the sharpest economic Indian brain throw light on the subject.
- My Nomination Reflects Respect Women Get In India: Pratibha (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2007)
Terming her nomination for the President's post as a "big step for women", Pratibha Patil today said the UPA's decision reflected how much respect the fair sex gets in the country and would help in empowerment of women.
- A Ragging Incident (Deccan Herald, HEERA NAWAZ, Jun 18, 2007)
While most ragging incidents are provocative some of them can be benign.
- Cabinet Nod For Tribal University (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2007)
To promote avenues for higher education, research among tribals
Indira Gandhi National Tribal University to be located at Amarkantak in M.P.
STs to get adequate representation in decision-making bodies, teachers' recruitment
- Tale Of A Storyteller (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2007)
You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?” - George Bernard Shaw
- It’S A Wild Gaur Chase (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2007)
It is 2.45 p.m., and, seemingly, not the best time for a trek to Magazine Guesthouse. But turns out, it could not have been timed better.
- Two Patils, One Rashtrapati (Indian Express, KUMAR KETKAR , Jun 16, 2007)
If she’s a believer, Pratibha Patil could consult an astrologer just to comprehend what hit her on Thursday, June 14. Only the stars appear to explain her surprise elevation as the UPA-Left candidate for the president’s post.
- The President In A Coalition Era (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Jun 16, 2007)
India's democracy will be safe only if the President can rise above party and sectarian interests and provide leadership of the type the nation saw from the occupants of the office in the past six decades.
- India To Ratify Amendment To Iaea Convention (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2007)
India today decided to ratify an amendment to the international atomic energy agency (IAEA) convention that provides for protection of nuclear material from acts of terror and sabotage.
- India May Have First Woman President (Dawn, Jawed Naqvi, Jun 15, 2007)
Forty years after it elected a woman as perhaps its most powerful prime minister ever, India appeared to be bracing on Thursday to have its first woman president next month.
- Pratibha Patil Is Upa’S Choice For Prez (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 15, 2007)
Pratibha Patil, who became the first woman Governor of Rajasthan, has been chosen as the UPA Presidential candidate. If she is able to make the mark, she may well become the first woman President of India.
- No Rubber Stamp, Please (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 15, 2007)
Hectic parleys are on in the capital to decide who's going to be the next president once A P J Abdul Kalam steps down. But in Congress's haste to push a party loyalist, one question seems to be forgotten: What is the role of the president?
- Storyteller’S Tale (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2007)
Storytelling is no easy matter – be your young listener of wizard-kind, a Jedi, hobbit or a muggle, for tales need to be showered with imagination, narrative skills, considerable artwork … and what makes Harry Potter the next best-seller after the Bible:
- May The Best Man Win, But How? (Telegraph, RASHEED KIDWAI, Jun 14, 2007)
Electing the president, like most things in Indian politics, is anything but simple.
- Tale Of A Storyteller (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2007)
You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?” - George Bernard Shaw
- An Original Character (Asian Age, K. Natwar Singh, Jun 14, 2007)
M.F. Husain, born September 1915, is one of our most eminent, famous and prolific artists. He has been unable to set foot in Mother India for over a year.
- Climate Change:a Rethink (Deccan Herald, TIRTHO BANERJEE, Jun 13, 2007)
A WB study claims that climate change and farmer suicides in India are correlated.
- Tale Of A Storyteller (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 13, 2007)
Children’s writers on how to keep the young readers hooked
- 1975: Gandhi Found Guilty Of Corruption (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 13, 2007)
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has been barred from holding office for six years after she was found guilty of electoral corruption.
- Who Is The Real Ayub Khan? (Frontline, A.G. NOORANI, Jun 13, 2007)
Ayub Khan's memoirs reflect his split personality. He is opinionated, well-meaning<149>, now statesmanlike, now foolish.
- A `Warts And All' View Of Indian Science (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jun 12, 2007)
An insider account of how S&T policies and institutions were designed, and the people who made it possible
- Black And White World Of Pak Dictators (Asian Age, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 12, 2007)
Pakistan, a country ruled by the military for more than 45 years, has developed a different kind of ethos. It’s not that Pakistan’s people have ceased to believe in democracy, it is that they have reconciled themselves to a situation which they . . .
- Several Cases Of Gastroenteritis, Cholera Reported In Bangalore (Hindu, Sahana Charan , Jun 12, 2007)
Hospitals have also received cases of viral hepatitis
210 gastroenteritis cases reported till last month
Contamination of food and water is the major cause for the disease
- An Original Character (Asian Age, K. Natwar Singh, Jun 12, 2007)
M.F. Husain, born September 1915, is one of our most eminent, famous and prolific artists. He has been unable to set foot in Mother India for over a year.
- Past Forward (Asian Age, M.J. Akbar, Jun 12, 2007)
On the morning of the results of the elections for President of India in 1969, Mrs Indira Gandhi had two speeches ready, one to be delivered in case her candidate, Varahagiri Venkata Giri, won, and the other to be delivered in case he lost.
- Electoral Dataspeak — Cast A Vote For Reforms (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Jun 12, 2007)
Reforms that make sense and which find support with the parties are those that count. Fundamental reforms too should be aired, discussed and acted upon.
- Sonia Rejects Pranab Again (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Jun 11, 2007)
External affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee, despite being "indispensable" to the Congress Party and the government, is the only minister not to get any post that he has indicated a preference for in the past three years.
- Sonia: Life In India Constant Learning (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 11, 2007)
"My life in India has been one of continuous learning. But being a direct participant in the rough and tumble of politics has been a whole new process of discovery.
- Forwarding A Lost Cause (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 11, 2007)
JN Dixit was a prolific writer. As a diplomat, he wrote on almost all the areas where he had worked in his long career.
- Unhealthy Delhi (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 11, 2007)
A decade after Solzhenitsyn’s classic 1962 memoir One day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch, an ambitious young Delhi photographer published a hagiography called A life in the day of Indira Gandhi.
- Under A Green Canopy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2007)
The hordes of cheery cicadas stop chattering snappily the minute we set foot on the shola. Flogged by the silence and remorse, we continue to stomp dry leaves, without a word.
- Downgrading Of A State (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Jun 09, 2007)
The recent confrontation between the Akalis who rule and followers of Dera Sacha Dauda created turbulence across the whole of northern India.
- Plight Of Urdu, A Result Of A Negative Mindset (Deccan Herald, Bala Chauhan, Jun 08, 2007)
Faruqi, editor of Shabkhoon and a former civil servant, was in Bangalore to attend the sixth national council of state Urdu academies. He spoke to Bala Chauhan of Deccan Herald about the status of Urdu and Muslims in India. Excerpts:
- Faiths At War (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jun 08, 2007)
PAST the gates of the Sachcha Sauda complex at Bathinda, the bleak south Punjab landscape transforms into a world designed to appear as a peasant might imagine paradise: hundreds of acres of lush green fields, dotted by woods.
- Time To Get Real (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jun 08, 2007)
The scorching heat is unbearable, as is the degraded politics of our country. First information reports are being filed for all manner of strange acts, ranging from the publication of calendars featuring Vasundhara Raje as a goddess to orders . . .
- After Goa, Sonia Sets Sights On Gujarat (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 07, 2007)
Fresh from the flushes of electoral victory in the just-concluded Goa Assembly elections, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has now set her sights on Gujarat Assembly elections, slated for later this year.
- Pm Sets Up Green Group To Address Climate Concerns (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2007)
With climate change being an area of concern, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has set up a high-level advisory group to deal with the issue. This was announced to coincide with World Environment Day.
- India Is Committed To Clean Environment, Says Pranab (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2007)
"Government alone is not responsible for conservation of environment"
Energy Conservation Act 2001 had set energy consumption norms
Climate change could force plants, animals to migrate: Reghupati
- A Sad Commentary On The World's Largest Democracy (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 05, 2007)
Long before Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh filed his nomination papers for a Rajya Sabha seat from Assam, it was clear that he would return uncontested and unopposed for the fourth time since 1991.
- Scared By The Silence (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jun 05, 2007)
Silence is always scary and spells confusion. It endorses the perception that a silent leadership, not engaged in committed dialogue with all those pulling in different directions on endless complicated issues that face us today, is not able to . . . . .
- Under A Green Canopy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 04, 2007)
KARIAN SHOLA For a simple trek, declares W. Sreelalitha
- Politics, Religion, And Resistance (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jun 04, 2007)
Unravelling the clerical crusade against heresy, and the politics of the Sacha Sauda controversy.
- Aphc, Jklf Call For Consensus (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 04, 2007)
Representatives of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Mirwaiz-led Hurriyat Conference and Jamaat-e-Islami, who have so far rejected the Centre’s invitation for talks, today shared a dais and deliberated on the status of Jammu in context of . . . .
- Religion, Politics Make A Lethal Mix In Punjab (Asian Age, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 04, 2007)
I do not understand why whenever there is trouble in Punjab some elements get together in London or some other place to raise the demand for Khalistan.
- Power Play (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 04, 2007)
...it is not just conservative forces, sordid power games and personality cults which sabotage political and legal institutions and bring down secular leaders within oil-rich or strategically important Islamic countries.
- Schooled For Life (Indian Express, Noel Lobo, Jun 02, 2007)
Asked Krishna Menon with a frown, “Simeon? Simeon? From where?” “From the Bible, sir,” answered Major Eric Simeon, straight off the bat.
- Rewards Of Identity (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jun 02, 2007)
An article on Harijans (as they were called then) that I wrote for an Australian newspaper many years ago prompted A.L. Basham, the eminent historian, to argue that upper-caste anger was to be expected in the wonder that was his India if indulgent . . .
- Quick-Gun Narayanan (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 02, 2007)
In the subtle, understated world of diplomacy, it is not usual for senior functionaries to proclaim their country the "big power" in a region. Even if, for instance, the US were to state the obvious and call itself the paramount power in the Americas . .
- Eco-Tourism At Parambikulam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2007)
Revenue generated will be used for tribal welfare measures
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