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Articles 19221 through 19320 of 31829:
- Manmohan Announces A Slew Of Concessions To Overseas Indians (Hindu, S. Nagesh Kumar, Jan 08, 2006)
Decision on voting rights to non-resident Indians in Gulf soon
Overseas Citizen of India card presented
Easy-to-use remittance facility; liberalised insurance scheme
- Daniel Pearl And The Body Of Evidence (Hindustan Times, B Raman, Jan 08, 2006)
Every year, as we enter a New Year, my mind goes back to Daniel Pearl, the Mumbai-based American correspondent of Wall Street Journal, who met with a brutal end to his young life during a visit to Karachi in January 2002 to enquire, inter alia, . . .
- Proposal To Monitor Ias Officers (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Jan 08, 2006)
It is interesting. The suggestion has come from no less a person than the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who is himself a former bureaucrat. Mr Singh is strongly in favour of introducing a monitoring system to assess the performance . . .
- Nuclear Powers Planning ‘Joint Warning’ To Iran (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
The five major nuclear powers are working on a joint warning statement that aims to show unusual unified resolve and put fresh pressure on Iran not to resume nuclear fuel research, US officials and diplomats said on Friday.
- Lanka Hails India’S Role In Peace Bid (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
The United States and the wider international community had appreciated the response of the government despite Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) actions.
- Overseas Indians Get Multiple Entry Visas (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched the Overseas Citizen of India scheme that confers a hassle-free, life-long multiple entry visa for overseas Indians here on Saturday at the fourth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, an annual three-day get-together . . .
- High Security Will Not Really Help Matters (Deccan Herald, Vimala RamaRao, Jan 08, 2006)
"The IISc chief who said that high security is not wanted is right. Terror is a global menace, not internal to IISc."
- Land Of The Flaming Tongue (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Manmohan Melville writes of Jwalamukhi in Himachal Pradesh, which has many interesting legends revolving around it.
- Ancient City Modern Hues (Deccan Herald, Soumya Sitaraman, Jan 08, 2006)
What’s in a name? Plenty, it seems, if the impassioned debate surrounding the renaming of Bangalore as Bengaluru is anything to go by. Soumya Sitaraman looks back on a time when the city was, indeed, called Bengaluru.
- Spaced Out In India... (Deccan Herald, Colin Todhunter, Jan 08, 2006)
Like many other foreign travellers in India, I have been to numerous holy places steeped in mysticism where yoga and meditation courses abound. Unlike other travellers, however, I had never felt any compulsion to indulge in a spiritual quest for inner....
- Aphc Rejects The Indian Constitution (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jan 08, 2006)
APHC chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that no solution to Kashmir issue on the basis of the Indian Constitution is unacceptable. At a Press conference in Islamabad on Friday, he said that the UN resolutions provided the legal basis to resolve . . .
- Aiyar Takes Panchsheel Flavour To China (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Jan 08, 2006)
Dogged by the Chinese drubbing of India’s state-run firms in the hunt for oil and gas assets worldwide, diplomat-turned-minister Mani Shankar Aiyar is serving up Panchsheel—the five principles of peaceful co-existence—as the new basis for hydrocarbon ....
- It Is Time To Say Vande Mataram -Pakistan’S Shadow Isi Supported Lashkar-E-Taiba - It's Not Just Kashmir, They Eye India (India Daily, Sonia Chopra, Jan 08, 2006)
India must strike them at the source. Their source is financiers in Middle East and Pakistan.
- Pm’S Left Hook (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Jan 08, 2006)
The Left saw another side to the usually soft-spoken Manmohan Singh when it made an issue over the joint Indo-US air force exercise in Kalaikunda, West Bengal, last November.
- Self-Rule, Demilitarization Only Cbms : Mirwaiz (Greater Kashmir, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
‘Anything under Indian constitution not acceptable’
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Wednesday drew a clear line between autonomy within Indian constitution and the idea of self-rule. On his arrival in New Delhi from about a weeklong visit to Pakistan and . . .
- 11,000 Demats (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Jan 08, 2006)
Even as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) finds more banks were ensnared by Roopalben Panchal and her family in the demat account scandal, the Income Tax Department has also made major new discoveries.
- Iran's Top Mullah May Be On Our Side (Los Angeles Times, Dariush Zahedi, Jan 08, 2006)
The united states has a surprising ally in its impatience with the new Iranian president.
- Clarify Stand On Nuclear Plan: Bjp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
"Centre must keep all parties informed"
Concern over plan being shared with U.S. Congress
Wonders whether it amounts to capping India's n-resources
Wants Government to take other political parties into confidence
- Full Independence Of Kashmir Not Possible: Mirwaiz (Daily Times, Umer Farooq, Jan 07, 2006)
Leader advocates co-existence
* Says self-governance and demilitarisation of Kashmir can be interim arrangement
- India, Us Plan Army Exercises (Tribune, Girja Shankar Kaura, Jan 07, 2006)
As India emerges the favourite destination for most of the world powers to carry out exercises by the armed forces, the biggest-ever such exercise will be conducted by India and the United States of America near Ranikhet in Uttaranchal later this month.
- 'Some Describe Cultural Diplomacy As Invasion' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jan 07, 2006)
You started writing in the 60s, at a time when very few women ventured into poetry. What has changed since then?
- Incursions Of Hindutva (Times of India, HARSH MANDER, Jan 07, 2006)
Tribals in the forested interiors of India today face a grave, new threat. Already dispossessed of land and forest, grappling with debt, hunger, exploitation and bondage, the tribals now face incursions of radical Hindutva, . . .
- Conversation With Manmohan Singh (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Jan 07, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been always effusive and warm whenever I have discussed India-Pakistan relations with him. This time I found him a bit distressed and disappointed. He is not as optimistic as before because he says he does not know . . .
- Year 2005: Best And Worst Of Times For Parliament (Business Line, R.C. Rajamani, Jan 07, 2006)
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times... It was the spring of hope; it was the winter of despair.
- Solution Within Ambit Of Indian Constitution Not Acceptable: Aphc (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Chief Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said any solution of the Kashmir issue within the ambit of the Indian constitution is not acceptable to Kashmiris.
- Nato Confident About Afghanistan Deployment (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
Hopes Dutch will send 1,400 troops to southern Afghanistan
- Sharon Undergoes Emergency Surgery (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Jan 07, 2006)
Doctors fear irreversible brain damage to the Israeli Prime Minister
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's condition appeared to have deteriorated, as he had to undergo another emergency operation after a scan revealed fresh bleeding in his brain.
- Elitist Orientation Of The Economy (Dawn, Ishrat Husain, Jan 07, 2006)
Several observers have asked me to update the latest assessment of my thesis propounded in the book Pakistan: the economy of an elitist state. They are interested in exploring the question whether or not the policies and programmes pursued during . . .
- President Hopes India To Respond Positively To Pak Proposals (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf Thursday expressed the hope that India would respond positively to Pakistan’s proposals of demilitarization and self-governance in Kashmir to facilitate a lasting solution to the lingering Jammu and Kashmir dispute.
- Quest For A Solution (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 07, 2006)
IT BODES well for peace in South Asia that there has been some agreement between two sides on the triangular dialogue on Kashmir.
- Do Genes Score Over Merit In Economic Future? (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 07, 2006)
The belief that education, and not environment, is key to moulding a person may be have to be revised, says D. Murali, quoting from Unequal Chances. In another revelation, Rajesh Jain writes in Chains that Liberate, that there seems to be . . .
- Cit To Host Seminar On Environmental Protection (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
Conference papers to be available on icstep2006.com
Over 250 delegates from India and abroad will to attend a three-day conference on environmental protection to be organised at Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT), from January 7 to 9.
- A New Ruler For Dubai (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 07, 2006)
Dubai and the United Arab Emirates have lost a far-sighted leader with the death of Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid al-Maktoum.
- Africa's Only Woman Head Of State (Hindu, Cameron Duodu, Jan 07, 2006)
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf will have an impact well beyond her own country.
- Despite The Obituaries, Newspapers Refuse To Die (Hindu, Simon Jenkins, Jan 07, 2006)
Newspapers have shown they can grasp each new technology and bend it to their will.
- Bush Defends Iraq Policy (Hindu, DAVID E. SANGER, Jan 07, 2006)
Colin L. Powell said nothing — a silence that spoke volumes to many in the White House on Thursday morning. His predecessor, Madeleine K. Albright,
- Let’S Pretend (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 07, 2006)
Let's say you’re rich. Not just rich, but filthy rich. Then let’s pretend what will it cost you.
- India's Wealth And Squalor (Daily Excelsior, Sisir Basu, Jan 07, 2006)
The international media have covered the upswing of the Indian and Chinese economies. It is suggested that the Chinese economy would overtake Japan's currently the second largest, by 2016 and would be as big as that of the United States of America . . .
- Science For The People (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
IF the 93rd session of the Indian Science Congress, under way in Hyderabad, was to have been any different from previous meets, it should have thrown up some concrete suggestions for improving rural India.
- Why Are They Running Scared Of Ideology? (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jan 07, 2006)
Increasingly, ideology is portrayed as something to be despaired of — a hang-up, and a hindrance to progress in a world in search of quick fixes. But pragmatism without a political vision seldom works in the long run.
- Sri Lanka Seeks International Pressure On Rebels (Reuters, Paul Eckert, Jan 07, 2006)
Sri Lanka is seeking international pressure on the Tamil Tigers but will stick to diplomacy despite violence that has killed more than 50 people in recent weeks, the country's foreign minister said on Friday.
- Making A ‘Menace’ Of Migrants (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 07, 2006)
Do you know how many illegal Bangladeshi immigrants there are in India? Are there 30 million of them? What about 20 million? Or is the figure as low as 10 million?
- Nuclear Powers Aiming To Put Fresh Pressure On Iran (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Jan 07, 2006)
The five major nuclear powers are working on a joint warning statement that aims to show unusual unified resolve and put fresh pressure on Iran not to resume nuclear fuel research, U.S. officials and diplomats said on Friday.
- Even Lohiaites Are Learning (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jan 07, 2006)
If, like this writer, you too are a believer in economic reform leading to free markets, shrinking of the state’s role in economics and unshackling India’s creative and entrepreneurial energies, and are dismayed at the road-blocks and rollbacks at . . .
- Suspected Rebels Attack S.Lanka Navy, 13 Missing (Reuters, Ranga Sirilal, Jan 07, 2006)
Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels attacked and sank a small naval boat off Sri Lanka's east coast early on Saturday and 13 of the 15 crew were missing, the navy said, amid growing fears of a return to civil war.
- Changing Profile Of Al Qaeda (Daily Excelsior, P Bhattacharya, Jan 07, 2006)
On 5 February, 2003, the then US Secretary of State, Gen Colin Powel had said at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) that, ''Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network, headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an associate and collaborator . . .
- Pakistan Sees India Hand In Balochistan Violence (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
As heavy fighting continued between nationalist rebels and security forces in Balochistan, Pakistan has accused India of supporting violence in the troubled southwestern province.
- In Nepal It Is A Three-Horse Race Once Again (Indian Express, YUBARAJ GHIMIRE, Jan 07, 2006)
As the Maoist ceasefire ends, Yubaraj Ghimire argues that the king cannot delay reaching out to pro-democracy forces much longer
- Shanghai Surprise: The Last Merchant-Ivory Film Has Glamour But No Guts (Indian Express, DAVID ANSEN, Jan 07, 2006)
It would be nice to report that the final collaboration between James Ivory and his late producing partner, Ismail Merchant, ranked with their best work, such as the luminous Howards End and A Room With a View. Though The White Countess, from an original
- A Ship We Can Refuse (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 07, 2006)
It is heartening that the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee has responded firmly and with sensitivity to the despatch of the French Navy's decommissioned aircraft carrier, Georges Clemenceau, to India for dismantling.
- South Korean Arrested In Iraq Oil-For-Food Scandal (Reuters, Daniel Trotta, Jan 07, 2006)
U.S. authorities arrested a South Korean lobbyist accused of secretly scheming with top U.N. and Iraqi officials to create the oil-for-food program that turned into a multibillion-dollar scandal.
- Govt Showing Restraint Despite Ltte Provocation: Samaraweera (Press Trust of India, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Jan 07, 2006)
The Sri Lankan government is showing great restraint and patience in spite of all the provocations of the Tamil Tiger rebels, visiting Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera has said.
- Musharraf For Positive Indian Response On Demilitarisation (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf has expressed the hope that India would "respond positively" to Pakistan’s proposals for demilitarisation and self-governance in Jammu and Kashmir to facilitate a lasting solution to the vexed issue.
- Desperate Steps Push Edge Of Medical Knowledge (Indian Express, LAWRENCE K ALTMAN, Jan 07, 2006)
In an attempt to save the life of PM Ariel Sharon of Israel, doctors in Jerusalem operated twice on his brain for a total of nine hours on Thursday, then put him into an anesthesia-induced coma and connected him to a mechanical respirator.
- The Dream Team: A Critique-Ii (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 07, 2006)
What would convertibility entail? For a decade now, India has had limited ease of availability of foreign exchange for importers, businessmen, students and tourists.
- Jobs And Sops (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 07, 2006)
Basu becomes source of embarrassment
How Jyoti Basu could use a rally organised by the coordination committee of state government employees to announce a “cabinet decision’’ to recruit 40,000 people in various departments of the government and . . .
- Bjp Alleges Secret N-Deal (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
The BJP today charged the Manmohan Singh government with stealthily submitting “a plan” to the USA, “separating our civil and military nuclear facilities”.
- Nuclear Plan Presented To Washington (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Jan 06, 2006)
India awaits U.S. response on separation of facilities
Fast-breeder reactor programme not included in civilian facilities
India has no problem if Washington shares the separation plans with U.S. Congress
- The Dream Team: A Critique-I (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 06, 2006)
Dr Manmohan Singh has spoken of how pleasantly surprised he was to be made Finance Minister in July 1991 by P V Narasimha Rao.
- Keeping Pace (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 06, 2006)
Not very long ago Katra at the foothills of Vaishno Devi was virtually a sleepy town.
- The Task Before The Ncsw (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 06, 2006)
Although it took 10n months to fill the post of chairperson of the National Commission on the Status of Women, the educationist Dr Arfa Syeda Zehra, who was recently appointed, has a huge challenge ahead of her if she is to fill the void left by her . . .
- Eight Killed In S Waziristan (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Masked gunmen have killed eight tribesmen, including seven of a family, in two separate incidents in South Waziristan, administration officials and eyewitnesses said on Thursday.
- Scientific Research (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 06, 2006)
It is commonly said that common sense is something that is not very common. Now if scientific rationalism was required to prove this, it has been done. Never mind that it is so much more good money gone down the drain, and only to establish what one . . .
- Us Lawyers Seek Faster Green Card Processing (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 06, 2006)
American lawyers are seeking faster processing of Green Cards by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for thousands of immigrants, including several Indian Americans who have been approved as legal permanent residents.
- India's Gdp Likely To Grow By 7.7% Next Year: Bank Of America (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Booming manufacturing and services sector is likely to push up India's GDP growth to 7.7 per cent in 2006-07, but inflationary pressure may lead to hike in interest rates, Bank of America said today.
- Prakash Karat Rejects Ramdev's Charges (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
"CPI(M) in the forefront of opposing multi-national corporations" "The economic growth was good but it had benefited only a few making them wealthier"
- India Blamed For Kohlu Unrest; Sherpao Warns Outlaws Of Stern Action (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao on Thursday held India responsible for the continuing unrest in Balochistan and said the government had decided to take ‘stern’ action against those involved in anti-state activities in the province.
- Railways: A Derailed Social Service (Business Line, V. Kumaraswamy, Jan 06, 2006)
In the last few years our leaders have been loathe to raise rail fares. `Railways is a social service' and `poor need protection' are the common excuses given by successive Railway Ministers for their refusal to recover cost-inflation.
- Will It Take Off? (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 06, 2006)
The project for modernising the airport facilities in Mumbai and Delhi seems to be hitting more air pockets than an aeroplane flying through the eye of a storm.
- Trade And Social Concerns (Dawn, Najma Sadeque, Jan 06, 2006)
There were 6,000 negotiators, 3,000 registered business and NGO lobbyists, and some 5,000 stakeholder-protesters from 149 countries at the WTO’s recent Hong Kong ministerial.
- Task Force On Global Strategic Developments — Need Unclear, Purpose Undefined (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 06, 2006)
If a Task Force is not to end up as a monumental wool-gathering enterprise, its purpose should be delineated in sharp and clear terms.
- Iran-Pakistan-India Pipeline: Us Against Deal (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
ADB experts say project feasible
The United States said it was “absolutely opposed” to a natural gas pipeline project linking Iran with Pakistan and India, even though an Asian Development Bank (ADB) expert saw it feasible.
- Why Home Prices Are High (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Jan 06, 2006)
By inferring that the overall value of housing has lost touch with economic reality, Prof Paul Krugman sees homes as separate from the overall savings and investment market. But G. Ramachandran and V. Sankar think that the market for h omes . . .
- Tormenting The Tormented (The Economic Times, ARVIND KALA, Jan 06, 2006)
If You jump off a building and die, your family faces police questioning. If you jump and survive, you face a one-year prison term. Suicide attempters in the west are given emergency medical treatment and escorted back to their families
- Clarion Call (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jan 06, 2006)
The latest Heritage Foundation annual Index of Economic Freedom is an unhappy reminder of just how much we have slipped. Ironically, during the same period that we slid 36 notches to 121 out of 160-odd countries in the league tables of economic freedom,..
- Government Won’T Hold Talks With Baloch ‘Miscreants’, Says Sherpao (Daily Times, Shahzad Raza, Jan 06, 2006)
The government has decided not to hold talks with the militant tribesmen in Kohlu who it says are receiving weapons and financial assistance to carry out acts of sabotage in Balochistan.
- Mazari Asks Musharraf To Hold Talks With Bugti, Marri And Mengal (Daily Times, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Jan 06, 2006)
Mazari asks Musharraf to hold talks with Bugti, Marri and Mengal
- President Hopes India To Respond Positively To Pak Proposals (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf Thursday expressed the hope that India would respond positively to Pakistan’s proposals of demilitarization and self-governance in Kashmir to facilitate a lasting solution to the lingering Jammu and Kashmir dispute.
- Speak In One Voice On Kashmir, Says Mirwaiz (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq said on Thursday the government and political parties in Pakistan should develop a “common understanding” on the Kashmir issue.
- Kashmiris Must Adjust To New Realities: Ghani Bhat (Daily Times, Umer Farooq, Jan 06, 2006)
Kashmiri leader says no chance of tripartite talks
* Supports demilitarisation, self-governance
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