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Articles 26421 through 26520 of 31829:
- Two Visions Of Rural Uplift (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Jun 23, 2005)
The need of the hour is not a technological fix but a model linked to the basic needs of the villagers
- Indira Gandhi As Parivar Heroine (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 23, 2005)
K.S. Sudarshan's praise of Indira Gandhi at a recent function in Lucknow is yet another command centre barb aimed at the Bharatiya Janata Party's supposedly week-kneed leadership.
- Editor Comes Last (Telegraph, Gouri Chatterjee, Jun 23, 2005)
By March, the bright yellow billboards had begun lighting up the Mumbai skyline and surveyors had fanned out across the city, asking locals to “Speak up. It’s in your DNA.”
- Two Major Initiatives Of Pervaiz (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 23, 2005)
JUNE 21, 2005 would go into annals of the Punjab history as golden day. Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi took two major initiatives on the day with far-reaching impact on the overall socio-economic conditions of the people of the province.
- Nuclear Threat Or Bluff? (Business Line, K. Subrahmanyam, Jun 23, 2005)
The old time-worn story of Bruce Riedel, who was on President Clinton’s National Security Council staff during the Kargil crisis and was present during the Clinton-Nawaz Sharif negotiations on July 4, 1999, has captured Indian media headlines once again.
- Sacred Space: Karmic Destiny (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 23, 2005)
Work done with
selfish motives is
inferior by far to the selfless service or
karma-yoga.
- Threats From Taliban (Business Line, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 23, 2005)
THE Taliban remains a major destabilising factor in Afghanistan despite the collapse of the militia’s regime in Afghanistan nearly four years ago following the US-led war against terrorism.
- Switching Places (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 23, 2005)
L K Advani's image has traditionally been a hardline one while A B Vajpayee has been the moderate face of the BJP,
- Behold The Real Jinnah (Indian Express, Anupam Gupta, Jun 23, 2005)
Described by one of his leading biographers, Stanley Wolpert,
- Which States Make Up Russia's Enemies? (Hindu, Vladimir Simonov, Jun 23, 2005)
A recent poll among the Russian public throws up some surprise results.
- Foreign Workers Face Battle To Win Jobs (New Zealand Herald, Julie Middleton , Jun 22, 2005)
Recruiters discriminate heavily against Chinese and Indian job seekers, according to a new study which probed the behaviour of 350 New Zealand managers and professionals.
- G7 To Help Wipe Out Poor Countries' Debt (New Zealand Herald, Sumeet Desai and Gernot Heller , Jun 22, 2005)
The Group of Seven wealthy nations have pledged to help rid the world's poorest countries of their crippling debt, launching a programme that falls short of the immediate action demanded by Africa.
- Kyoto Risky For Signatories (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
New Zealand and other countries that put a price on emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide are taking on a significant commercial risk,
- Where We Stand In Bush's America (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
Carroll du Chateau asks the ambassador to the US how he's getting on with the coveted free trade deal.
- Tsunami May Have Revealed Lost City (New Zealand Herald, Jan McGirk , Jun 22, 2005)
The mighty Boxing Day tsunami has revealed what archaeologists believe to be the lost ruins of an ancient city off the coast of Tamil Nadu in southern India.
- Chinese And Indian Economies To Overtake Japan By 2020 (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
China and India will be the world's second and third largest economies by 2020, pushing Japan into fourth place, according to research by Deutsche Bank.
- Nepal Slips Back To Medieval Rule (New Zealand Herald, Justin Huggler, Jun 22, 2005)
The King of Nepal has just seized absolute power, sacked the entire Government and put the country's Prime Minister under house arrest.
- Exporter Importing Talent (New Zealand Herald, Owen Hembry , Jun 22, 2005)
Fonterra is the world’s leading exporter of dairy products but, in the fight for international executives, it has shown bottle as an importer.
- Bush Agrees To Sell F-16s To Pakistan, India Uneasy (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Texas - President Bush has agreed to sell F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan in a major policy shift rewarding a key ally in the war on terrorism and angering its nuclear neighbor, India.
- British Minister Exposes Rift With Us On Global Warming (New Zealand Herald, Colin Brown , Jun 22, 2005)
LONDON/MOSCOW - The British government is deeply disappointed that US President George Bush has not made a greater commitment to tackling climate change before the G8 summit, its Environment Secretary has disclosed.
- Japan Set To Drop Out Of World's Big Three (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
China and India will be the world's second and third largest economies by 2020, pushing Japan into fourth place,
- Double The Super Pleasure (New Zealand Herald, Owen Hembry , Jun 22, 2005)
The number of "super growth" companies in New Zealand has more than doubled, putting the country mid-table internationally, a new survey shows.
- Blair Gains Putin's Support On Climate Change (New Zealand Herald, Colin Brown , Jun 22, 2005)
Moscow : - British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday secured the support of the Russian president Vladimir Putin for action on climate change at the forthcoming G8 summit at Gleneagles.
- Chinese Banks Pull Record $22b Back Home (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
Chinese banks, including the central bank, brought a record US$16 billion ($22 billion) home from overseas in the fourth quarter, the Bank for International Settlements said.
- Musharraf A Considerable Player On The World Stage (New Zealand Herald, Fran O Sullivan, Jun 22, 2005)
Pakistani strongman General Pervez Musharraf concedes it is "indeed partially true" that before September 11 ...
- Nepal King Names New Cabinet, World Condemns (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Nepal's King Gyanendra unveiled a 10-member cabinet under his leadership on Wednesday, a day after he sacked the prime minister
- Us Wants Full Break-Up Of Khan Nuclear Network (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
ISLAMABAD - A clandestine network run by the disgraced father of Pakistan's atomic bomb and used to supply nuclear technology abroad must be completely destroyed, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today.
- Rice To Challenge North Korea To Return To Nuke Talks (New Zealand Herald, Saul Hudson , Jun 22, 2005)
TOKYO - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will challenge North Korea on Saturday to give up its nuclear weapons as she presses partners in Asia to make Pyongyang return to six-party arms talks.
- Annan To Usher In New Age Of The Un (New Zealand Herald, Anne Penketh, Jun 22, 2005)
The architecture of global security - unchanged since the defeat of the Axis powers at the end of World War II - is on the point of being transformed, as a decision nears on making Germany and Japan permanent members of the UN Security Council.
- Kyoto Protocol Target Impossible, Says South Korea (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
SEOUL - It will be impossible for emerging industrial powers such as China and South Korea ever to comply with the Kyoto Protocol on curbing greenhouse gas emissions, South Korea's Environment Minister says.
- Nepal King Says Defending Democracy, Phones Cut (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Nepal's King Gyanendra said on Friday he took power to protect democracy from Maoist rebels and political instability,
- G7 Frets About Oil, China’S Forex Peg (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven economic powers met on Saturday to discuss two of the global economic concerns over which they have least control -- high oil prices and China’s fixed currency peg.
- Kashmir Peace Bus Passengers Cross Ceasefire Line (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
India-Pakistan border - Showered with tears and rose petals from relatives thought long lost, two groups of Indian and Pakistani Kashmiris walked over the "Peace Bridge"
- Slippery Old ‘oil Tax’ (Tribune, MICHAEL KINSLEY, Jun 22, 2005)
Watching the House and Senate quarrel over which favored users and which alternative suppliers will get new subsidies and tax breaks in the energy bill ought to be a hair-tearing experience for anyone with a basic understanding of economics.
- Pepsico Profit Up On Price Hikes, Overseas Growth (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
PepsiCo Inc, the world's No 2 soft drink company, said on Thursday quarterly profit rose 13 per cent on strength in its international business and price increases in North America on its Tropicana juice drinks and the concentrate it sells to bottlers.
- Who’S Who? (Dawn, Hafizur Rahman, Jun 22, 2005)
March 23, Pakistan Day, came three months ago, and August 14, Independence Day, is nearer — two months away.
- Iraq’S Continuing Travails (Dawn, Najmuddin A. Shaikh, Jun 22, 2005)
Speaking in his weekly radio broadcast US President George Bush said on Saturday that pulling out of Iraq now is not an option.
- Caterpillar Group Boycotted For Selling Bulldozers To Israel (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
From boots to baseball caps, the Caterpillar fashion range is marketed as upmarket outdoors wear for label-conscious youth.
- India Opens Rail Link To Kashmir In Bid To Bring A Sense Of Unity (New Zealand Herald, Justin Huggler, Jun 22, 2005)
India has opened the first stage of a spectacular railway that will connect Indian-administered Kashmir with the rest of the country.
- Meanwhile, Our Energy Consumption Keeps On Going Up (New Zealand Herald, Chris de Freitas, Jun 22, 2005)
The Kyoto Protocol, an icon of the global environmental movement, is finally taking legal effect after years of controversy since it was agreed in 1997.
- China Frees Tibetan Monk (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
China has freed Tibetan monk Tashi Phuntsog but a United States-based human rights watchdog said almost three years of imprisonment had left him seriously ill and urged the authorities to provide for his medical treatment.
- Peace Looks To Australia And Us For R&d Move (New Zealand Herald, ADAM GIFFORD , Jun 22, 2005)
Utility billing specialist Peace Software will lose its mantle as the country's largest software . . .
- Nepal's King Of The Disappearing (New Zealand Herald, Justin Huggler, Jun 22, 2005)
Human Rights Watch has accused Nepal’s security forces of being behind the disappearances of hundreds of Nepalese civilians since King Gyanendra’s seizure of power a month ago.
- Insight Into Indonesia (New Zealand Herald, Andrew Clifford, Jun 22, 2005)
A sadfact reinforced by the Boxing Day tsunami is that our awareness of other cultures is often limited to their presence in world media headlines in times of strife.
- Pakistan-Bashing Again (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 22, 2005)
PRESIDENT Hamid Karzai has once again accused Pakistan of interference in his country’s affairs. Speaking to an assembly of ulema, he even came out with the purported tactics Pakistan was using to make the Taliban fight the Afghan government.
- Women Fear Dentist More Than Men (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 22, 2005)
A new study conducted at the University of Toronto suggests that women are 2.5 times more likely than men to fear a visit to the dentist.
- No Museums On Mall Road (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Jun 22, 2005)
Standing atop the Mahanavami Dibba, a massive table with a commanding view of Hampi that evokes,
- Aviation On Wings (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 22, 2005)
SOME QUIET MAY have returned to Le Bourget after the hectic week-long Paris Air Show,
- Why An Oil Crisis Is Imminent (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Jun 22, 2005)
Do world's oil producers have any headroom? Unlikely as Saudi Arabia's oil fields are said to be declining. There have not been any new discoveries since the 1970s.
- India To Count Its Vanishing Vultures (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
MADRAS, India - India will launch a census of its vultures, a group of ornithologists said on Sunday, as the birds are vanishing rapidly due to a mystery virus and shrinking nesting sites.
- Nuclear Arms Pact 'In Need Of Repair' (New Zealand Herald, Rupert Cornwell, Jun 22, 2005)
The cornerstone international treaty curbing the spread of nuclear weapons is in urgent need of repair if it is to keep pace with globalisation and atomic technology,
- Pakistan Uncovers Musharraf Plot On Al Qaeda Trail (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Pakistani intelligence officials said today they had foiled a new conspiracy to kill President Pervez Musharraf with a series of arrests, including the capture of al Qaeda’s third most senior commander.
- Germany And Japan Press For Permanent Un Seats (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi met on Monday to pursue their campaign for permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council, the German government said.
- Outsourcing Thriving In Philippines (New Zealand Herald, Stuart Grudgings , Jun 22, 2005)
There never used to be much to do after midnight in this northern Philippine university city except study or hit the lively bar scene.
- Us Being Left Behind As Locale For Tech Investment, Says Intel (New Zealand Herald, Daniel Sorid , Jun 22, 2005)
The United States may be left behind when technology companies decide where to make their next big capital investments, Intel chief executive Craig Barrett says.
- Muslims Sceptical Over Newsweek Back-Track On Koran (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan were sceptical on Monday about an apparent retraction by Newsweek magazine of a report that US interrogators desecrated the Koran and said US pressure was behind the climb-down.
- Un Seeks Climate 'Roadmap' Beyond Kyoto (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
BONN, Germany - The world should work out a roadmap this year for extending the UN Kyoto protocol on global warming beyond 2012 . . .
- Fishermen Flee As Tall Waves Hit South Indian Coast (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Tiruvananthapuram, India - Thousands of fishermen fled their coastal homes in southern India late on Friday after the level of sea water rose, reviving memories of the December 26 tsunami that killed 227,000 people around the Indian ocean.
- Sharon, Abbas Hold Summit (Deccan Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Just before the meeting, Israeli forces arrested many Islamic Jihad elements. Disarming militants is high on the summit agenda.
- No Consensus On Un Reform After Rivals Meet (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
United Nations - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan intervened yesterday to try and get consensus among supporters of rival plans over expansion of the Security Council but no meeting of the minds emerged, diplomats said.
- Amnesty Accuses Us Of Condoning Torture (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
Amnesty said Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time, entrenching the practice of arbitrary and indefinite detention in violation of international law
- Air-India Approves Purchase Of 50 Boeings (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Bombay - Air-India have approved the purchase of up to 50 long-range Boeing Co aircraft worth about 300 billion rupees ($9.58) billion), the US plane maker's second multi-billion-dollar deal in as many days.
- Royal Tyranny Creates Threat Beyond Nepal (New Zealand Herald, GWYNNE DYER, Jun 22, 2005)
Most countries got rid of their kings in the end, and the rest took away most of their powers,
- Ai Hopes To Corner India-U.K. Market (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Jun 22, 2005)
Policy decision to operate international flights from cities other than Delhi and Mumbai
- Annan Urges China And Japan To Resolve Differences (New Zealand Herald, Evelyn Leopold , Jun 22, 2005)
A Chinese man places flowers in front of a giant poster depicting World War II for the 60th anniversary of Japan's defeat in World War II.
- Nuclear Arms Conference Collapses Without Deal (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
United Nations - After a month of bickering, the 188 signatories to the global pact against atomic weapons ...
- Musharraf's Two Roles On Pm's Agenda (New Zealand Herald, Kevin Taylor , Jun 22, 2005)
Prime Minister Helen Clark will raise Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's dual role as head of state and chief of the Army during his historic visit this week.
- Bono And Geldof Are Too Polite (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 22, 2005)
"Hackers Bombard financial networks," the London Financial Times reported on Thursday. Government departments and businesses "have been bombarded with a sophisticated electronic attack for several months."
- Amid The New, China Seeks Out The Old (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Jun 22, 2005)
The success of Xintiandi in Shanghai has fuelled demands for the preservation of historic buildings across China.
- China, India To Change International Politics (New Zealand Herald, Michael Richardson, Jun 22, 2005)
How will the geopolitical map of the world be shaped by 2020?
- Private Aid Opportunities (Japan Times, DOUG BANDOW, Jun 22, 2005)
NIAS ISLAND, Indonesia -- The flotsam of disaster was everywhere: trash, bricks, splintered wood, household effects, clothes, debris.
- Rice Applies Pressure On Me (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 22, 2005)
American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has gone a step further in Washington’s bid to introduce, what it terms, democratic reforms in the Middle East.
- Ranks And Scores (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Jun 22, 2005)
With Laveesh Bhandari, I have sometimes attempted to rank Indian states.
- The Speaking Tree: The Basic Nature Of Trees Is To Give Spontaneously (Times of India, P VENKATESH, Jun 22, 2005)
Once, an old man was planting mango saplings in his garden. His wife asked him not to exert himself, as he was not going to be around to relish the mangoes from these saplings.
- Allies Pledge Millions To Feed Hungry (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Washington- United States President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were to pledge hundreds of millions of dollars today in aid to Africa.
- World Military Spending Nears Cold War Peak (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
Massive US spending on the war on terrorism pushed global military expenditure above US$1 trillion ($1.42 trillion) in 2004, the sixth successive year the total has risen, a leading research institute said on Tuesday.
- Blair Expects Global Warming Plan At G8 Summit (New Zealand Herald, Andrew Grice, Jun 22, 2005)
Leaders of the G8 richest nations will agree a plan for global action to tackle climate change at next month's summit at Gleneagles, Tony Blair has predicted.
- Big Business Urges G8 Global Warming Action (New Zealand Herald, Jeremy Lovell , Jun 22, 2005)
LONDON - Big business has added its voice to a growing crescendo of calls on the governments of the world's richest nations to take urgent action to curb potentially catastrophic global warming.
- Britain Strives For Africa Aid Deal In G8 Talks (New Zealand Herald, Brian Love and Sumeet Desai , Jun 22, 2005)
LONDON - Britain appealed on Friday for a big push on debt relief and aid to rid Africa of disease and poverty,
- Rich Nations Near Deal On African Debt Relief (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
The Group of Eight rich nations edged closer to a historic deal that would wipe out US$40 billion (NZ$56bn) of debts owed by 18 of the world's poorest countries as part of a British-led drive to haul Africa out of poverty.
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