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Articles 11521 through 11620 of 31829:
- Arundhati Roy Nominated For Spanish Prize (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 31, 2006)
Margaret Atwood, 6 others too nominated
- Nixi Must Be More Effective, Says Trai (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 31, 2006)
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Tuesday asked the Department of Information Technology (DIT) to make the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) effective in its mandated task of ensuring that Internet traffic, originating . . .
- Arjun Singh’S Politics (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, May 31, 2006)
Reservation And The Politics Of Reservation!
- The Economics And Politics Of Growth (The Financial Express, Rahul Bajaj, May 31, 2006)
Business functions in a democracy of quality and politics in a democracy of quantity
- Cpm's Hero Runs A Police State (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 31, 2006)
Hugo Chavez has not only turned Venezuela into an authoritarian state, but also made it a land of mass destitution and inequality, says Lowell Ponte
- Divide And Rule (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, May 31, 2006)
Conceived in political lust and born in transgression, the government’s misguided reservation policy has opened up a Pandora’s Box.
- S.African Refinery Says India Gold Sales Down (Reuters, Eric Onstad, May 31, 2006)
Physical sales of gold from South Africa's Rand Refinery to the biggest consuming nation India have fallen by around a fifth so far this year due to a strong rally in prices, a refinery official said on Tuesday.
- Us Refuses To Improve Offer For Farm Subsidies Cut At Wto (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 31, 2006)
Even though India and US are discussing ways to reduce tariff and non tariff barriers ,it hardly seems that there will be a headway that the two countries will make in forthcoming talks to be held next month.
- Though Late, Offer To Talk To Iran Will Only Benefit U.S. (USA Today.com, Editorial, USA today.com, May 31, 2006)
Can Iran be persuaded to give up its race for nuclear weapons?
- Terrorism Threat To Both Countries, Says Duggal (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 30, 2006)
Ahead of the crucial Indo-Pak Home Secretary-level talks beginning here tomorrow to discuss contentious issues like terrorism, New Delhi has said it wants both countries to carry out a joint fight against the scourge.
- Banning Sale Of Farmland (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, May 30, 2006)
The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Agriculture’s demand to ban the sale of farmland to housing societies raises some valid questions.
- Pakistan Politics Up For Rapid Changes (Daily Excelsior, V M Gokuldas, May 30, 2006)
Pakistan's political scene is in for rapid changes and India has per force to take a close look at the fast-moving developments to see what impact they could make on its domestic scene and on its overall security.
- Bill For Obcs, Balm For The Rest (Telegraph, Radhika Ramaseshan, May 30, 2006)
After weeks of tossing the reservation issue between quota protesters and its champions, a clarity of sorts has emerged on the position taken by the UPA government and the Congress.
- Jayalalithaa Elected Leader Of Opposition (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 30, 2006)
Aiadmk supremo Jayalalithaa was unanimously elected leader of opposition in Tamil Nadu Assembly here today.
- Bombs Kill Dozens In Iraq, Leaders Wrangle (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, May 30, 2006)
Bombs killed dozens of people in Iraq on Monday, adding to pressure on rival factions in the country's new government to agree on interior and defence ministers who can tackle the relentless violence.
- Chautala Accuses Hooda Govt. Of Corruption (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 30, 2006)
Rajya Sabha member and Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) Secretary-General Ajay Singh Chautala on Monday asked Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to "come clean on the various scandalous deals amounting to thousands of crores of rupees that . . .
- Aid Trickles Into Quake-Hit Java (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 30, 2006)
Aid trickled in today for survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people on Indonesia’s Java island, but tens of thousands of homeless still foraged on their own for food and shelter.
- An Ecological Patriot's Vision (Hindu, G. ANANTHAKRISHNAN, May 30, 2006)
A tribute to the acute perspective that M. Krishnan brought to the study of nature
- Bush Vows To Win War For Fallen (Washington Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 30, 2006)
President Bush stood among the graves of nearly 300,000 veterans at Arlington National Cemetery yesterday and said that the United States must continue fighting the war on terror in the name of those who have already given their lives in the cause.
- The Affluent Society (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 30, 2006)
Despite bringing unprecedented prosperity and equality in the world, Capitalism has turned out to be a dirty word
- Centres Of Change & Graft (Pioneer, K Govindan Kutty , May 30, 2006)
From Chennai and Thrissur come two pieces of news which, though unrelated, seem parts of a whole. Both go to show up, once again, temples as they have always been: Centres of change and corruption.
- Another Calamity Strikes (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, May 30, 2006)
The number of dead (over 5,000) in Saturday’s powerful temblor that struck Yogyakarta in southern Indonesia might seem insignificant compared to the tally of at least 75,000 fatalities in the Pakistan earthquake of last October.
- Nepal Faces Hindu Backlash Over Declaration As Secular State (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, May 30, 2006)
The May 18 declaration by Nepal's parliament ending the country's distinction as the world's only Hindu state was one of the several hard decisions taken by the new government to coax Maoist rebels to join in a peaceful political process.
- Indonesia Quake Death Toll Passes 5,400 (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, May 30, 2006)
The death toll from the Indonesian earthquake rose past 5,400 on Tuesday as hundreds of thousands of homeless survivors spend another night in the rain waiting for much-needed relief.
- Help Indonesian Brothers (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, May 30, 2006)
Pakistan has done well in immediately responding to the needs of the earthquake-hit people of Indonesia.
- Sifting Musharraf’S Good Points (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, May 30, 2006)
The pmln and the pppp got together with sundry other opposition parties in Lahore on Sunday to remember the day Pakistan tested its nuclear device in 1998.
- India Inc Can Sow A Paradigm Shift (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 30, 2006)
Corporates can bring about a turnaround in the agriculture sector, bringing all-round benefits.
- Explaining The Stock Market Correction (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, May 30, 2006)
The second fortnight of May witnessed a much needed though still inadequate correction of the recent unprecedented rise of the Sensex. Yet, in the blame-game that followed, inadequate "reform" stemming from political opposition has been seen by . . .
- Banned Books In India: 1970s-2006 (Business Standard, Nilanjana S Roy, May 30, 2006)
The 1970s: Politics, and what the state often saw as the misrepresentation of either India’s policies or its leaders, triggered most book bans in this decade. Former MI5 operative Greville Wynne upset MI5 and the Indian government when he published . . .
- Reality Takes The Bite Off An Old Adage (The Economic Times, MUKUL SHARMA, May 30, 2006)
Are there really no atheists in trenches as believers never weary of reminding people who don’t share their act of faith? Forget for the moment the wider symbolic connotation that under dire circumstances and situations of dread everybody . . .
- Have Income, Give Subsidies (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , May 30, 2006)
The fault lies not in providing subsidies to the poor and the needy but in not raising enough resources. The Government provides tax exemptions, which reduce legitimate tax revenues due to it, and the variety of subsidies and sops
- History And Mythology (Daily Excelsior, Indranil Banerjea, May 30, 2006)
During colonial times, India was portrayed as serving a role in history that was subservient to the European agenda, or as just a passive entity activated primarily by the incursions of invading groups.
- Without Vision Not Fiis (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, May 30, 2006)
There is a strong consensus that India is vulnerable owing to the large mass of FII investment in the country.
- Quake Death Toll Close To 5,000, Survivors Scavenge For Food (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 30, 2006)
Grieving quake survivors on Monday scavenged for food in the debris of their houses, as the world promised help to Indonesia recover from its latest deadly natural disaster.
- Left Dictatorship Behind Failure Of Foreign Policy: Bjp (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 30, 2006)
The BJP on Monday accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of allowing the Left to dictate the country's foreign policy leading to the Government's utter failure in dealing with external affairs issues in the national interest.
- Buddha's Stance Confusing (Deccan Herald, V.R. Krishna Iyer, May 30, 2006)
Marxists oppose this grave menace. of Globalisation,Liberalisation Privatisation and have they too been Yeltsinised? Never. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the brilliant West Bengal Chief Minister, why, the Left in India generally, has been blasphemed.
- Is India Rally Over, Or Pausing? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 30, 2006)
In recent years, as any investor in either India or Intel knows, the tables have turned. Since the end of 2003, Intel investors have lost about 40 percent of their money, while those in India are up around 80 percent....
- Looking For Alternative (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 30, 2006)
Riding on their recent electoral successes, and notwithstanding their claims of having chosen “responsibility without power” in supporting the UPA government from the outside, the comrades are wielding their clout with glee.
- India Steps Up Diplomatic Efforts On Nuclear Deal (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, May 30, 2006)
India has enough reason to feel confident that the US Congress will pass the much-awaited legislation approving the Indo-US civilian nuclear cooperation deal by next month end.
- Institutionalised Greetings (Tribune, Harish Dhillon, May 30, 2006)
My school has a very old, very strong tradition — every child wishes every teacher, and every visitor he crosses, the time of day.
- India Yet To Rise To Potential (Tribune, B G Verghese, May 30, 2006)
India is beginning to attract international notice but has seldom acted in keeping with its potential and power.
- The Pakistan Connection (Deccan Herald, G Parthasarathy, May 30, 2006)
India has to be prepared for attacks on its personnel working on Afghan-Pak border from the Taliban
- Deadly Quake (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 30, 2006)
Rescue and relief teams must remain on high alert
- Quake Toll Crosses 5,000-Mark (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 30, 2006)
A week-end earthquake that shook the heartland of Indonesia's densely populated island of Java killed at least 5,115 people, a provincial government office said today.
- Cairn Energy’S Rs 4,000-Cr Oil Project Gets Govt Nod (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, May 30, 2006)
The Centre has cleared Cairn Energy’s proposal for development of oil- fields in the Thar Desert. With an okay to the Rs 4,000 crore project, commercial production of oil is likely to begin in Rajasthan by the end of this year.
- ‘Ganjing’ In Lucknow (Indian Express, Yashsdeep Srivastava, May 30, 2006)
I returned to India after two and a half years. It was a two-week restricted stay in Lucknow for a wedding, an event traditionally marked by conspicuous consumption.
- Six Visits, And The Hint Of A Breakthrough (Telegraph, Jyoti Malhotra, May 30, 2006)
Unlike his predecessor, Manmohan Singh perhaps prefers the slow-and-steady initiative on Kashmir. It seems to be finally showing results, in spite of bureaucratic sloth,
- Schooled In Inequality (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 30, 2006)
School education is functioning as a transparent alibi for a refusal to contemplate equality.
- Against Empires Old And New (Hindu, Kesava Menon & Nirupama Subramanian, May 30, 2006)
Demolishes the justification trotted out by apologists for the U.S. invasion of Iraq
- Yet Again We Cave In To Religious Bigots (Hindu, Nick Cohen, May 30, 2006)
Rival groups are egging each other on in a politics of grievance. Now, militant Hindus in Britain turn on M.F. Husain.
- A Quick Step Forward In Sino-Indian Ties (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, May 30, 2006)
As China and India grow in economic and strategic importance, what is needed is a genuine attempt towards mutual accommodation that would take into account shifting geopolitical power plays.
- Once Again, In Indonesia (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 30, 2006)
"All things have second birth; The earthquake is not satisfied at once," wrote William Wordsworth in The Prelude.
- Ethnic Tensions Could Crack Iran's Firm Resolve Against The World (Christian Science Monitor, editorial, Christian Science Monitor, May 30, 2006)
During the last week of May, thousands of Iranians demonstrated in the northwestern city of Tabriz, and the previous week there were protests at universities in five cities.
- India Offers Help To Indonesia (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, May 29, 2006)
India's offer of assistance to quake-hit Indonesia has been conveyed by Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee, now on tour of East Asia.
- Junior Doctors Threaten To Launch Indefinite Strike From Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2006)
Procession taken out against Union Government's decision on reservation
- India’S Insecurity~i (Statesman, Bibhuti Bhusan Nandy, May 29, 2006)
External defence being the classic concern of international law, the traditional notion of national security has been wholly militaristic.
- Powering Growth (Frontline, Purnima S. Tripathi, May 29, 2006)
Madhya prade will achieve self-sufficiency in power by 2007," said Madhya Pradesh Minister for Commerce and Industry Shri Kailash Chawla at the M.P. Day celebrations at the India International Trade Fair 2005 (IITF) at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.
- Through The Looking Glass In J&k (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, May 29, 2006)
New Delhi's dialogue with the All Parties Hurriyat Conference has reached an impasse. What could now lie ahead?
- Towards Meltdown (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 29, 2006)
FOR A bunch of alleged bloodsuckers, pitcher-plant mosquitoes turn out to be a bit of a disappointment.
- Inside Ukraine (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , May 29, 2006)
In contrast to American activism in Ukraine, Russia has so far adopted a low-key stand.
- Time For Stock Markets To Turn Sober (Hindu, C. R. L. Narasimhan, May 29, 2006)
Political stability and economic performance should decide sentiment
Over the last week, the stock market swings defied all understanding and seem to have left many investors and policy makers confused.
- Motivation, The Key To Better Quality (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 29, 2006)
Call it a quirk, an accident or a coincidence — on the day my column on why errors occur in newspapers appeared (May 15), The Hindu "goofed up," as one reader put it:
- Govt’S Mixed Record (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, May 29, 2006)
The govt has missed the boat and not done so many things it could have
- ‘A Security Council Without India Cannot Be Legitimate’ (Indian Express, Tony Blair, May 29, 2006)
There is universal agreement now that that the characteristic of the modern world is interdependence.
- Need For Interaction And Crisis Management (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, May 29, 2006)
On 17 May 2004, the nation watched with disbelief as stock prices dropped 10 per cent within minutes after trading started for the day. A Sebi official later said that the ‘‘velocity of the fall in stock prices was second only to the great crash . . .
- Finetune Prescription (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 29, 2006)
Hasty solutions to the quota conundrum will destroy a chance to overhaul the system of higher education
- Indonesia Quake Toll Rises To 4,611 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2006)
20,000 injured, 1,00,000 homeless; US, Australia pledge aid worth $5m
- Racism Fears Dog World Cup (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 29, 2006)
Only a fortnight before the World Cup starts, racism has shot to the centre of public debate in Germany. While anti-racism campaigners have warned black and Asian fans against visiting parts of Berlin and the former communist east Germany....
- No Longer Us Vs Them (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 29, 2006)
Arcelor is now a corporate fight. India must stay out. We mustn’t be like fussy Europeans
- Save Our Young (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 29, 2006)
Students should voice their fears to their parents
- The Part Is Not The Whole (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , May 29, 2006)
Exciting news. Tycoons presiding over international finance capital have taken to reading what was hitherto subversive literature; they have been bowled over by Marx.
- Doesn’T Help To Typecaste (Indian Express, Pradipta Chaudhury, May 29, 2006)
Caste as a criterion in public policy is not supported by available evidence
- Indonesia Quake Toll Shoots Past 4600 (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2006)
Rescue workers dug desperately for survivors today and hospitals struggled to cope with the thousands of injured, a day after an earthquake killed more than 4,600 people on Indonesia’s Java island.
- Race Against Time In Shaken Java (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2006)
Rescue workers dug desperately for survivors on Sunday as residents returned to ruined homes on Indonesia's densely populated island of Java a day after a powerful earthquake killed nearly 3,300.
- Nuclear Wake-Up Call (Times of India, K SUBRAHMANYAM, May 29, 2006)
The US delegation to the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva has tabled a draft Fissile Materials Cut-off Treaty (FMCT). It has also moved for nomination of an ad hoc committee from among 65 members of the conference to start the negotiating process.
- China To Promote Its Culture Abroad To Dissolve "China Threat" (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2006)
China will strive to dissolve the global misconception of its fast development as the "China threat" in the wake of its rapid economic and military might, by making its traditional value systems like harmony known to the world.
- After Nepal, Prachanda Plots Mayhem In Bihar (Pioneer, Amarnath Tewary, May 29, 2006)
After virtually dethroning the Nepal King, the Maoists have now shifted their focus to Bihar. At a recently held meeting in Rajgir, Nepali and Indian Maoists sat together and chalked out a blueprint to create mayhem in Bihar.
- Reservation Or Retrogression? (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, May 29, 2006)
Politics is about creating 'vote-banks' and the 'reservation' game being played is essentially to divide the other backward classes (OBC) as also to check mate Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav in the Assembly election early next year.
- Death Toll In Quake Rises To 3,700 In Indonesia (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2006)
Thousands of exhausted and grieving survivors dug through their crumpled homes today searching for clothes, food and valuables after a powerful earthquake hit central Indonesia, killing more than 3,700.
- In Margins Of History (Pioneer, Ajoy Bose, May 29, 2006)
Manmohan Singh seems to have lost the confidence of Sonia Gandhi, who was the biggest source of support for the technocrat Prime Minister.
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