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Articles 621 through 720 of 3108:
- Challenges In Kashmir (Deccan Herald, Balraj Puri, Jun 21, 2006)
Power devolution to J&K and its regions is a logical step forward within constitution
- Kashmir-American Conference On July 20 (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Jun 21, 2006)
The Kashmiri-American Council will hold its annual conference on Kashmir on July 20 in Washington.
- How To End A Nightmare (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 20, 2006)
The image of a resurgent Bengal is incompatible with the mindset of its political leadership and the functioning of its slothful administrative machinery, writes A.K. Chatterjee
- The Importance Of Regional Parties (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Jun 20, 2006)
The emergence of regional parties has raised many eyebrows, some in anxiety and some in eager expectation.
- 'Now Duets Are Sung Alone' (OutLook, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2006)
The Dada Saheb Phalke award winner whose six-decade-long career shows no signs fading, on the changing world of Hindi film music, the new trends and the old memories
- India’S Egregious Hr Record (Pakistan Observer, Mohammad Jamil, Jun 19, 2006)
In the past there have been negotiations between India and Pakistan, and whenever the thorny issue of Kashmir came under discussion, India did find some excuse to derail the process.
- Falling Standard Of Education (Daily Excelsior, Shiv Kumar Sharma, Jun 19, 2006)
As most of the people in Education know that the word ‘Education' has been derived from the word ‘Educe' which means to draw out all the best that is there in a child.
- Medha Patkar Alleges Conspiracy To Crush Nba (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI and SUNNY SEBASTIAN , Jun 19, 2006)
"Time has come for political parties to take a position on equitable development" "If you get power from big dams, but have no farm land how would you feed growing population?"
"World Bank now wants land-for-land policy to be finished"
Shunglu . . .
- Dmdk Urges Centre To Send Ships To Evacuate Refugees (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2006)
Desiya Murpokku Dravidar Kazhagam (DMDK) president Vijayakanth has urged the Centre to send ships to Sri Lanka for the safe return of Tamil refugees.
- Ties With Family Of Nehru-Gandhi Not Hit: Bajaj (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2006)
Industrialist Rahul Bajaj has said that his recent election to the Rajya Sabha defeating the Congress candidate has not affected his relationship with the Nehru-Gandhi family.
- The Playing Fields (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 18, 2006)
Exactly 191 years ago on this day, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated once and for all in the Battle of Waterloo.
- Publishing History (Hindu, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , Jun 18, 2006)
Ravi Dayal changed the publishing landscape of India in the 1970s and 80s.
Dayal possessed an almost unique combination of great intelligence and greater charm.
- Rae Bareli Being Starved Of Power, Says Sonia (Deccan Herald, Puja Awasthi, Jun 18, 2006)
Erratic power supply, dry canals and administrative apathy. The Rae Bareli electorate has received these for being faithful to the Gandhi-Nehru family for close to three decades.
- Proportionality May Help Only Creamy Layer (Deccan Herald, Gurpreet Mahajan, Jun 18, 2006)
The Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment has clearly spoken in favour in proportional representation. For her the quantum of seats reserved for Scheduled Castes must be increased from 15 per cent to 16.23 per cent to reflect their present . . .
- Karat, Mulayam Explore ‘Third Front’ Possibility (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
CPM leader Prakash Karat today aired his disagreement with the UPA on the issue of state governments sacrificing revenue by lowering prices of petroleum products.
- Facing Up To The Indian Challenge (Dawn, Anwar Kemal, Jun 18, 2006)
Coping with the challenge of India on several fronts — strategic, economic, cultural, psychological and more recently technological .
- Quota And Populism (Deccan Herald, Tavleen Singh, Jun 17, 2006)
By a happy coincidence I went to have coffee with Arun Shourie in his elegant Delhi home the day his new book came out. It is called Falling Over Backwards:
- Development Plan For Mysore Withheld By Centre (Hindu, Sharath S. Srivatsa , Jun 17, 2006)
District administration told to re-work on the heritage component of the plan District administration told to re-work on the heritage component of the plan
- Ramadoss’S Aiims (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Jun 17, 2006)
My country has been kind to me and has asked me to do many things, but the job I loved the most was being vice-chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University.
- Jihadi-Islamist Compact (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Jun 16, 2006)
Former world chess champion and then Fidé president Max Euwe had reportedly exclaimed, after being defeated by a Nepalese competitor in the late 1970s, "Alekhine lives in Nepal!"
- A Government And A Party In Combat Mode (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Jun 16, 2006)
Two years after Sonia Gandhi famously declined the crown, the man to whom she handed power remains the outsider in a party congenitally attached to the first family and unable and unwilling to accept the work division between a non-Gandhi Prime . . .
- Telengana Caught In Power Politics (Daily Excelsior, G.S.Bhargava, Jun 15, 2006)
Failure to redeem the promise to carve a separate Telengana State out of incumbent Andhra Pradesh sticks out like a sore thumb in the two-year record of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
- India To Back Tharoor For Un Sec General (Rediff on the Net, Sheela Bhatt, Jun 15, 2006)
India will support the candidature of United Nations Under Secretary General Shashi Tharoor as the next secretary general, senior government sources in New Delhi told rediff.com today. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's term ends on December 31, 2006 . . .
- Secularists On A Sabbatical (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 15, 2006)
Why doesn't Government speak out against the ongoing minority bashing in Pakistan and Bangladesh, asks Anuradha Dutt.
- Why Don't We Protest? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 15, 2006)
If there is anyone who is to be squarely blamed for the demolition of temples in India and its neighbourhood, it is Hindu leaders, says Prafull Goradia.
- Rising To Our Potential (Deccan Herald, B G Verghese, Jun 14, 2006)
In a globalised world, India can't afford to shy away from its role as a key player
- The Lady With A Candid Camera (OutLook, SHYAM BENEGAL, Jun 14, 2006)
A scholarly coffee-tabler, meticulously tracing the intrepid odyssey of India's first lady photojournalist.
- 'Dalits Have Not Benefited From Quotas' (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
Professor P Radhakrishnan of the Madras Institute of Development Studies is a well-known social scientist. Some of the key areas of his research include affirmative action; agrarian problems; backward classes and reservations; backward class . . .
- Educating Without Long-Term Vision (Pioneer, Asheesh Shah, Jun 14, 2006)
The head-start that West has over India is in education, and the tragedy is despite ample opportunities, we have failed to make use of them, says Asheesh Shah
- Taxman Cites The Law On Bachchan (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
The income-tax department today refused to confirm or deny if any fresh notices had been sent to Amitabh Bachchan and his family members, but said an “aggrieved” party could always approach the courts of law.
- "Harness Atomic Energy For Food Security" (Hindu, T.S. Subramanian, Jun 13, 2006)
Swaminathan's call at BARC golden jubilee
- Much Ado About Reservation (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 12, 2006)
Social justice can be ensured by rearranging the starting blocks rather than interfering with the race. This is the method adopted by JNU, where the underprivileged are allowed some grace marks while competing with others.
- Umpiring Parliament (Tribune, L.M. Singhvi, Jun 12, 2006)
The duties of the office of Speaker and the persona of the distinguished incumbent of that office are not a riddle wrapped in mystery or encased in enigma. Both are open books.
- Nation That Kills Talent (Pioneer, KPS Gill, Jun 11, 2006)
Education, Bertrand Russell remarked, is the key to the new world.
- The Lady With A Candid Camera (OutLook, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 11, 2006)
A scholarly coffee-tabler, meticulously tracing the intrepid odyssey of India's first lady photojournalist
- Netaji Controversy Revived (Daily Excelsior, Tukoji R Pandit, Jun 11, 2006)
Once again the controversy surrounding the last days of Subhash Chandra Bose has been revived, thanks to the Mukherjee Commission declaring that there is no evidence that he had died in a plane crash in Taipei on August 18, 1945.
- Irreplaceable Pioneer (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 11, 2006)
Outside the arcane area of legal philosophy, the name of the Oxford scholar, H.L.A. Hart (1907-92), does not ring much of a bell now. Straying from philosophy into law, he happened to write the foundational text of his discipline, The Concept of . . .
- Pols On The Run (Business Standard, T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan, Jun 11, 2006)
Political accountability is not the same as politicians' accountability.
- Kashmir: The Internal Question (Tribune, Balraj Puri, Jun 10, 2006)
The Prime Minister’s suggestions at the second roundtable conference regarding sharing of power among the regions of Jammu and Kashmir was perhaps the most significant for internal reform in the state. For, regional tensions have been the main cause . . .
- Sp Threatens To Move Sc On Sonia, Rahul's Assets (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2006)
Stung by the Supreme Court, this time seeking details of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's assets, SP general secretary Amar Singh on Friday accused Congress chief Sonia Gandhi of unleashing vendetta against the Uttar Pradesh cm.
- A Drive Into The Present (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 10, 2006)
In my youth, the road I most often travelled ran between New Delhi, the capital of India, and Dehradun, the town where I was born and raised.
- Pols On The Run (Business Standard, T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan, Jun 10, 2006)
Political accountability is not the same as politicians' accountability.
- State Of Public Services (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jun 09, 2006)
Every warrant of appointment issued by the British Crown carries the preamble, "Our Trusty and Welbeloved". Every public servant in Britain is beloved of the crown and enjoys its trust.
- Popular Leader (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 09, 2006)
In winning the hearts of the village folks, none could compete with Pandit Nehru
- Chinese Checkers (Indian Express, Amitabh Acharya, Jun 09, 2006)
While attending an international conference in Seoul recently, I sat next to a young Korean university lecturer.
- India Offers Nepal Pm Aid To Rebuild Nation (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday offered Nepali counterpart Girija Prasad Koirala an aid package to help rebuild his strife-torn country, officials said.
- India Offers Nepal Pm Aid To Rebuild Nation (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2006)
Reaffirms commitment to rebuild Nepal’s infrastructure in accordance with Kathmandu’s prioritiesm
- Take The Equity Aspect Into Urban Reforms (The Financial Express, Kala S. Sridhar, Jun 08, 2006)
Cost disabilities in public service provision must be factored in reform-linked assistance to states.
- Up Against Constitution (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Jun 07, 2006)
The PM should not allow himself to be influenced by unprincipled politicians
- What Are The Indian President's Powers? (Hindu, Shanti Bhushan, Jun 06, 2006)
In terms of the Indian Constitution and through long-established practice, the President of India is only a figurehead like the British monarch.
- Too Many Bosses (Telegraph, S.L. Rao, Jun 05, 2006)
The author is former director-general, National Council for Applied Economic Research.
- Confusion Over Use Of Drugs By Rahul (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 05, 2006)
Was it a deep-rooted conspiracy or a case of drug overdose that claimed the life of 38-year-old B.B. Moitra and sent Rahul Mahajan, son of the slain BJP leader, Pramod Mahajan, to hospital? This is the question that the detectives of the Delhi . . .
- Narcotics Haul (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 05, 2006)
The cocaine seizure from the Jawaharlal Nehru port yesterday was the biggest in Asia and despatchers of the drug could have been testing India as a transit route, the Narcotics Control Bureau said today.
- Mansion Nonpareil ~ A Story Of Rashtrapati Bhavan (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 05, 2006)
From the stage of conception by the then Viceroy Lord Hardinge in 1914 to its present form, the history of the Rashtrapati Bhavan can now be traced pictorially through the pages of a book.
- Moving Backward (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 05, 2006)
Caste-based reservation in India has nothing to do with raising the lot of the poor, and everything to do with garnering votes, says Peter . . .
- ‘No Politician’ Pm (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Jun 03, 2006)
Remember Manmohan Singh, the man of impeccable credentials, of utmost humility, a do-gooder who will do no wrong, not knowingly, his admirers will tell you.
- Wrong Attire (Business Standard, T N Ninan, Jun 03, 2006)
There are few things as uncomfortable and inappropriate as having to sport long sleeves, a closed collar with tie, and a western suit—usually made of dark, heavy . . .
- Jnu Students Union Supports Reservation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
Even as the relay hunger strike against the Central Government's decision to bring in reservation for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in higher education continued at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here, the JNU Students' Union (JNUSU) has . . .
- Medicos Call Off Strike (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
JNU and IIT, Delhi, students continue relay hunger strike
- Congress-Communist Camaraderie (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Jun 02, 2006)
There are moments in history when forked tongues will no do, and when overly nuanced appraisals of events amount only to equivocation.
- Gingerly Advance (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jun 02, 2006)
Central banks are known to be stolid, maybe even a little archaic. But the times they are a’changin.
- Something’S Missing In The Jigsaw (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Jun 02, 2006)
There seems to be unexplored ideas in spite of the new human, diplomatic and political situation at present
- Freedom Fighter Passes Away (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Eminent freedom fighter and former MLA Narendrapal Singh Choudhary died in Nathadwara town earlier this week. An associate of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Mr. Choudhary was 104. He is survived by two sons and five daughters.
- Reserve And Destroy (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jun 02, 2006)
As the populism fire rages, Indian forests are under profound threat.
- Rule And Ruin (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Jun 02, 2006)
This is the story of a day that shook India as few other events have done since 1947.
- Yuva: Centre's 5-Yr Action Plan To Spread Aids Awareness (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
This yuva is not the Bollywood hit starring Abhishek Bachchan. YUVA is Youth Unite for Victory against AIDS, a five-year government action plan to create awareness among 450 million youth and adolescents in the country about AIDS.
- Quota Nod With Rider (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
The Supreme Court today said the government need not wait for its final judgment to goahead with reservations for Other Backward Classes but should keep in mind that the issue was before it.
- Empowering Through Entrepreneurship (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Jun 01, 2006)
The empowerment of the weaker sections among the SC/STs and OBCs must be through entrepreneurship and business rather than by quotas. Reserving seats in higher educational institutions will not go far, considering the situation at the school level
- 35 Bengalis Injured As Terrorism Takes On Tourism (Daily Excelsior, Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, Jun 01, 2006)
About three dozen tourists from West Bengal sustained injuries when unidentified terrorists carried out grenade attacks on two tourist buses in Dalgate area in this capital city today.
- Credit It To ‘‘Condi’’ Law Makers (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jun 01, 2006)
After all that was said and done by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President George Bush last month, the real person who is pushing the nuclear deal is Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.
- Who Was He That I Saw? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 01, 2006)
Instead of solving the mystery of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's disappearance in the disputable plane crash in Taipei on August 18, 1945, the Justice Mukherjee Commission Report has deepened the mystery.
- Docs Call Off Stir As Sc Cautions Govt (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 01, 2006)
Paying heed to Supreme Court assurances that it would look into concerns of striking medicos regarding reservation, doctors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) called off their 18-day-old strike on Wednesday evening.
- Round Table Politics: Jihad And Kebabs (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jun 01, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's round-table process calls for a transfiguration of political attitudes in New Delhi and Srinagar.
- Congress Vs Congress (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 31, 2006)
Rajiv asked the right quota questions; crudely brushing them aside is sabotage from within
- 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 . . .
- Bengal’S Flab Fizzle (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 30, 2006)
The dichotomy in the CPI-M’s perception of disinvestment has effectively been cleared with the new government making it quite obvious that local conditions will guide the policies of the Bengal Left.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pro-Obc Means Anti-Cong (Indian Express, KUMAR KETKAR , May 30, 2006)
Not many people remember Charan Singh, the man who appointed B.P. Mandal to head a commission in the late ’70s to collect data on the Other Backward Classes (castes), belonged to the Congress Party till the mid-1960s.
- More Seats In Reserve (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, May 30, 2006)
As the days roll on there is no sign of any discussion or debate on the issue of quotas for those who form the bulk of India.
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