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Articles 19421 through 19520 of 31829:
- Back To Roots (Times of India, ARUN FIRODIA, Jan 04, 2006)
The government has announced an ambitious rural employment guarantee scheme. This scheme can start an economic revolution similar to China under Deng or America under Roosevelt.
- Tips For A Tap (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Jan 04, 2006)
Ritu Sarin on the how and why of telephonic surveillance
- Iran To Resume N-Fuel Research (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Iran announced on Tuesday that it would resume atomic fuel research and development next week, raising the spectre of a fresh showdown with the West suspecting Tehran wants nuclear technology to build bombs.
- Dial G For Government (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 04, 2006)
The state should learn from teenagers: communications are not a luxury but a boring necessity
- Lost Capital (Indian Express, Gautam Bhatia, Jan 04, 2006)
Delhi’s future has been left to bureaucrats and developers. That’s the snag
- Indian Chip Plans Unlimited Chip Plans Unlimited (Hindu, P. Manoj, Jan 04, 2006)
`Desi' silicon chips to bring cheers to Indians `Desi' silicon chips to bring cheers to Indians
- Mistrust Between India And Pakistan High, Says Analyst (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Need to arrive at practical solutions stressed
"Fifty eight years of not knowing each other" is the "main problem" between India and Pakistan, said Pakistani scholar and defence analyst Ayesha Siddiqa.
- Intelligence Failure: What And Why? (Deccan Herald, Prem Mahadevan, Jan 04, 2006)
Intelligence alone is not the answer, owing to its limitations that need to be accepted
- By The Pricking Of Thumbs (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 04, 2006)
Extracts from the World Drug Report 2005, published by the United Nations Office of Drug and Crime
- Classroom Of The Future (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 04, 2006)
Sebastian Mallaby went to Vellore and found evidence of India’s ‘educational take-off’
- The End Of Journalism? Not At All (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Jan 04, 2006)
The debate on new journalism, to which sting operations are a recent addition, runs the risk of being divided along generational lines, between the fuddy-duddies and the harbingers of a new dawn.
- Orissa Firing Draws Tribal Protests (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
At one entry point, the tribals blocked the road with the bodies of four tribals killed in the police firing. One of the bodies was that of Bumia Goto, a minor tribal boy, a student in a local high school.
- Truth About The Abbasi Report (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Jan 04, 2006)
Three months after the chairman of the Technical Committee on Water Resources (TCWR), Mr A.N.G. Abbasi, had presented his report to the president and the prime minister, the Kalabagh dam issue has burst on the scene in a big way.
- Should India Demand Farm Subsidy Cuts By Developed Nations? (Business Line, G. Chandrashekhar, Jan 04, 2006)
In none of the four major world commodities would India stand to benefit substantially even if developed economies eliminated subsidies. Subsidy-induced low prices would be in our consumers' interest. But more important is to make Indian agriculture . . .
- Kashmir Proposals In ‘Embryonic Stage’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
The separatist leader, who is here to visit the quake-battered Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to express solidarity with the survivors, said: “Kashmir is no longer a political dispute.”
- Russia Agrees To Supply Fuel For India’S N-Plant (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Russia has agreed to release low-enriched uranium for the Tarapur nuclear plant of India in the first half of this year with last minute negotiations still on to ink the deal.
- Senate Re-Shuffle (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 04, 2006)
For the second time in recent history, a draw has been held to decide who among the senators will complete their six-year term and who will retire after three years.
- A Glimmer Of Hope In The Distance (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 04, 2006)
Every hour of the day, the sun sets in some part of the world. But at the very same time, it rises somewhere else.
- Redefining Nam’S Role (Dawn, Shamshad Ahmad Khan, Jan 04, 2006)
The numerical strength of both G-77 and NAM (non-aligned movement) has been a major factor in decision-making at the UN and in all conferences held under the auspices of the UN system.
- U.S. Cedes Duties In Rebuilding Afghanistan (Washington Post, Griff Witte, Jan 03, 2006)
Four years into a mammoth reconstruction effort here that has been largely led, funded and secured by Americans, the United States is showing a growing willingness to cede those jobs to others.
- Birth Of A Forum For Dialogue On Asia (The Financial Express, Nagesh Kumar, Jan 03, 2006)
With the emergence of strong regional trade blocs in Europe, North America, South America, and parts of Africa over the past decade, the relevance of evolving a broader pan-Asian grouping has been attracting a lot of attention.
- American Counties Seek Investors From India (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Jan 03, 2006)
Virginia’s Fairfax County has opened an office in Banglore, India, to induce Indian companies to invest here.
- Iran Firm On Enriching Uranium At Home (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2006)
Larijani dismisses the Russian proposal as problematic
* Warns Tehran has prepared scenarios and cannot be ‘checkmated’ easily
- Pakistan Tells India To Back Off (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2006)
Pakistan bluntly told India on Monday to back off, following New Delhi’s comments on escalating violence in Balochistan, warning that such statements were unhelpful and would not improve bilateral relations.
- Taking Innocent Life (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 03, 2006)
Earlier last month, the state of North Carolina executed Kenneth Boyd — who became the 1,000th person put to death in the United States since the Supreme Court permitted executions to resume in 1976.
- Out Of Saudi Comfort (Dawn, F.S. Aijazuddin, Jan 03, 2006)
The story was apocryphal once but has acquired the patina of fact. It pertained to a remark by the American millionaire Mr J. J. Astor, who on seeing the shards of the fatal iceberg strewn on the decks of the Titanic, muttered: ‘I had ordered ice, . . .
- Rethinking Nation-Building (Dawn, Ashraf Ghani, Jan 03, 2006)
In 1945 the future of capitalism as the organizational form of the economy and democracy as the organizational form of the polity was far from certain in the advanced industrialized world. Today there is a remarkable consensus on both the . . .
- Wto Meeting And Pakistan (Dawn, Shahid Javed Burki, Jan 03, 2006)
Last week, I provided an overview of the process that led to the discussions at Hong Kong aimed at further improvements in the multilateral trading system. At issue were a series of actions the developed world had promised it would take to create . . .
- Foreign Secretaries To Discuss Kashmir Options (Dawn, Ihtasham ul Haque, Jan 03, 2006)
India is unwilling to consider proposals coming through the media and argues it would prefer back-channel contacts, both official and unofficial, to resolve the decades-old Kashmir problem.
- Aphc Not Part Of Track-Ii On Kashmir: Mirwaiz (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2006)
Chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), Mirwaiz Umar Farooque has categorically stated that the APHC was not a part of Track-II diplomacy on Kashmir. Despite opening of five intra-Kashmir contact points along the Line of Control there was no ....
- Khaddam Falls To West (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jan 03, 2006)
Syria's ruling Baath Party has expelled former Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam following an immature and dangerous statement by him that President Bashar Al-Assad had threatened Rafik al Hariri, the former Lebanese Prime Minister,
- Bush’S Year Of Follies (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 03, 2006)
The best thing about 2005 is surely the fact that it has reduced one year from the term of President George Bush. The wisdom of limits has sometimes been questioned, particularly when a sensible president like Bill Clinton comes along.
- Disinvestment In Profitable Psus Opposed (Hindu, K.V. Prasad, Jan 03, 2006)
Left parties plan widespread campaigns against U.S. policies when George Bush visits next month
Left to organise campaign against U.S. policies to coincide with the visit of Bush next month
`Privatisation of pension funds not acceptable'
- Notice To Cbi On Plea For Probe Into Mahajan's "Patronage" To Reliance (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2006)
He favoured Reliance Infocomm to launch WLL service: Citizen's Forum
- Army Plans Hi-Tech Gear For Soldiers (Deccan Herald, Madhuprasad N, Jan 03, 2006)
The plan calls for a better 5.56-caliber assault rifle, helmet-mounted sight and observation gear, radio and data communications, load-carrying packs and protection and sustainability gear.
- Rethinking Strategy (Hindu, M. S. S. Varadan, Jan 03, 2006)
This book is painted on a very broad canvas, trying to map out an agenda for a new approach to strategy, necessitated by the failures of the current strategies to create a world with peace and prosperity.
- Epic Of Tulasidas (Hindu, C. L. Ramakrishnan , Jan 03, 2006)
This book is a facile rendering of Goswami Tulasidas' Ramacharitamanas in simple, flowing Tamil and has widened the reach of this classic to the public.
- ‘Dialogue With Khan Needed To Solve Pak N-Issue’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2006)
Regarding the Iran nuclear issue, he said that Iran has to assure the international community that its nuclear programme is not aimed at developing weapons.
- The Die Has Been Cast (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Jan 03, 2006)
It is time to take stock of the problems Indian negotiators can face
India faces an uphill task this year, as it approaches complex multilateral as well as bilateral issues centering on nuclear diplomacy, health regulations, intellectual property rights,
- Once Again, Across The Bridge Of Many Returns (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Jan 03, 2006)
The Kashmir quake shattered the Kaman bridge that brought so much hope for the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus. It’s still not too late to take up peace initiatives to revive the enthusiasm of a year ago, says Muzamil Jaleel.
- No More Nuclear Fundamentalists (Indian Express, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 03, 2006)
The arrival of Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso today will launch 2006’s diplomatic season in the capital as well as help develop a more productive nuclear conversation between the two countries.
- A Wireless Future, Mostly Mobile (Indian Express, MAHESH UPPAL, Jan 03, 2006)
With Motorola manufacturing “ultra-cheap” mobile phones in India for Indians, the most heartening outcome of telecom reforms — the urban poor with cell phones — has got a new dimension. More urban Indians from low income groups will be “mobile” now.
- King Unbending, Nepal Maoists End Ceasefire (Indian Express, YUBARAJ GHIMIRE, Jan 03, 2006)
A four-month spell of peace in Nepal came to an end today as the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists (CPN-M) announced it would not extend the ceasefire that began in September, and vowed to resume its activities against the Royal Nepal Army (RNA).
- Hopes Rise After Stem Cell Breakthrough (Hindu, Alok Jha, Jan 03, 2006)
All of the concerns about contaminating proteins in existing stem cell lines can essentially be removed using this medium
- Pak In Talks To Buy Chinese Nuclear Reactors (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2006)
Pakistan is in talks to buy up to eight nuclear power reactors from China for between $7 billion and $10 billion, Britain's Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
- Politics Of Global Inequality Finally Came Of Age (Hindu, MADELEINE BUNTING, Jan 03, 2006)
There is fat chance that 2005 has made poverty history, but the west is learning to question its own legitimacy.
- Snow, Rain Bring Misery To Pakistan Survivors (Reuters, Robert Birsel, Jan 03, 2006)
Heavy snow and rain brought more misery to Pakistan's earthquake survivors on Monday, halting relief work, bringing landslides down on roads and flooding tents across the cold, wet mountains.
- Nepal Rebels Say Compelled To End Truce (Reuters, Gopal Sharma, Jan 03, 2006)
Nepal's Maoist rebels said on Monday they have been compelled to end a four-month-old truce at midnight tonight and go on the offensive to defend themselves against government forces.
- Perfidy On Science (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 03, 2006)
Four years after the attack on Parliament, the grotesque tragedy in Bangalore fits into the cycle of violence. That cycle has now afflicted all the metropolitan cities, a grim reality that makes it plain that Kashmir isn't the only terrorist storm centre.
- Systems Collapse Under Moderate Snowfall (Daily Excelsior, Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, Jan 03, 2006)
Considered to be auspicious by the Valley’s agriculture, horticulture and tourism community with the beginning of the New Year and Chilla-e-Kalaan (heart of the winter), the season’s first major snowfall has threatened to cripple vital systems in Kashmir.
- Science Meet Security Beefed Up (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2006)
Alerted by the recent terror strike on scientists at Indian Institute on Science (IISc), Bangalore, security has been tightened for the 93rd Indian Science Congress (ISC), to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh here tomorrow.
- New Metro Line A Huge Hit With Delhiites (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2006)
Thousands move over to the fast, air-conditioned trains abandoning chartered buses and cars
- Terror In Bangalore (Tribune, P.C. Dogra, Jan 03, 2006)
On December 28, 2005, terrorists barged into the auditorium of the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, where an international conference of eminent scientists was going on, opened indiscriminate firing, killing renowned mathematician and . . .
- The Salt And Pepper Of `Aid For Trade' (Business Line, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Jan 03, 2006)
At the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial, the developed countries agreed to enhance aid to enable developing countries trade in the global market. But expansion of every kind of trade is not necessarily beneficial for us.
- A New Thought On Petro Subsidy (Business Line, H. Kaushal , Jan 03, 2006)
It has been known for decades that subsidised kerosene does not reach the poor, for whom it is meant, but is used by unscrupulous persons who make substantial profits by adulteration.
- Kabul Orders Foreign Missions To Remove Security Barriers (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2006)
International organisations concerned over government directive
* US officials in contact with Afghan government over the issue
- In India, Engineering Success (Washington Post, Sebastian Mallaby, Jan 02, 2006)
The classroom of the future will feature electronic white boards.
- Indo-Us Nuclear Cooperation Deal A Dangerous Gamble (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Jan 02, 2006)
The chief architect of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has described President Bush’s recent proposal to provide nuclear energy assistance to India as a “dangerous gamble”.
- Taliban Rising In Afghanistan? (Daily Times, Ahmad Muaffaq Zaidan, Jan 02, 2006)
Most analysts following the events in Afghanistan believe that in years to come the situation will get even worse. The latest videotape I have received shows new Al Qaeda and Taliban training camps in Afghanistan.
- War Fear Grips Nepal As Maoist Truce Nears End (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2006)
A new year dawned in revolt-torn Nepal on Sunday amid growing fears of fresh violence as the Maoist rebels’ unilateral truce neared its end.
- Sir, Are You Listening? (Hindustan Times, Karan Thapar, Jan 02, 2006)
The phone rang horribly late at night but, for reasons I cannot fathom, I responded in an attentive mood. Normally the hour and tone of the conversation would undoubtedly have put me off.
- Putting Aside Ideological Hang-Ups (Dawn, Murtaza Razvi, Jan 02, 2006)
The genie of obscurantism, of the confused ideological variety, is out of the bottle again. At least that was the impression created by a host of speakers, among them Dr Javid Iqbal, Justice Nasim Hassan Shah and Mr Majid Nizami, at a seminar held to ....
- A Significant Turn (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jan 02, 2006)
Manmohan Singh's meeting with People's Conference leader Sajjad Lone sends out the message that New Delhi intends to reach out not just to the APHC centrists but to all elements of the political mosaic of Jammu and Kashmir.
- Self-Rule Not Final But A Step Forward: Mirwaiz (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2006)
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chairman Hurriyat Conference (A), said that self-governance can not be a final solution of Kashmir issue but a step forward towards a solution. He was talking to media persons briefly before leaving for New Delhi on his onward journey
- Challenges Ahead (Dawn, Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Jan 02, 2006)
It is difficult to miss the strong undercurrent of concern about the state we are in which runs through the otherwise diverse end-of-the-year comments in our print and electronic media.
- Wider Aspects Of The Gas Pipeline (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2006)
Paradoxically, there is a positive dimension to the tensions being generated by the proposed seven-billion-dollar gas pipeline that will run from Iran to India via Pakistan.
- Place Of Origin (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jan 02, 2006)
The author is former director-general, National Council for Applied Economic Research
- Maoist Designs (Statesman, JR MUKHERJEE, Jan 02, 2006)
With Maoists from Nepal to Tamil Nadu subverting the government machinery and gaining control in a wide corridor across 13 states through a campaign of terror, their activities have become a serious threat to national security.
- New Path For Bihar (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Jan 02, 2006)
Darling of the World Bank Chandra Babu Naidu paid for his love by losing power. Nitish Kumar appears to be moving in the same self-destruct mode. A World Bank team has already visited Bihar.
- Us Rues Russia's Decision To Cut Off Gas To Ukraine (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2006)
The United States on Sunday expressed regret over the Russian decision to cut off gas supplies from Russia to Ukraine, saying it created "insecurity" in the region's energy sector.
- You Are Being Watched (Tribune, Steve Connor, Jan 02, 2006)
Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the road are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records for at least for at least two years.
- Optimism Alive As Winter Chills Pak Quake Zone (Reuters, Robert Birsel, Jan 02, 2006)
Snow and rain across northern Pakistan grounded relief flights on Sunday, giving earthquake survivors and rescuers their first big test of the winter.
- Making A ‘Menace’ Of Migrants (Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi, Jan 02, 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?
- Us Plans To Strike Iran N-Facilities (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2006)
The United States is mulling a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities this year and has informed NATO member states to make similar preparations, a report claimed on Sunday.
- Russian Nuclear Proposal Has Problems: Iran (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2006)
A senior Iranian official on Monday dismissed a proposal to enrich uranium on Russian soil as problematic and expressed disappointment in Europe's latest negotiations over the Islamic Republic's controversial nuclear program.
- Europe, U.S. Uneasy After Russia Cuts Ukraine Gas Supply (Reuters, Meg Clothier, Jan 02, 2006)
The United States said Russia's halting of gas supplies to Ukraine raised questions about use of energy as a political weapon, and European countries voiced concern their supplies could be hit at the height of winter.
- Dangerous Mix (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 02, 2006)
To blur the distinction between science and religion is wrong.
- Get Set, Go, It’S A Radioactive Race (Indian Express, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 02, 2006)
As India tries to wrap up the nuclear deal with the United States before President George Bush arrives here early this year and regain access to the international nuclear fuel market, . . .
- Ultras Blast Un Club In Gaza (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2006)
Armed and masked Palestinian militants took control of the United Nations club in Gaza City on Sunday before detonating explosives inside the building, Palestinian security forces said.
- Bombay’S Lost Itself, Mumbai Doesn’T Even Know Where To Look (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2006)
Bombay’s lost itself, Mumbai doesn’t even know where to look
Dress codes for college girls, marching orders to bar girls, censor guidelines for its television channels. What else is in store for this city, asks Tanuja Chandra.
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