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Articles 1421 through 1520 of 12047:
- A Lethal Triad (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 05, 2006)
A horrendous disaster has been averted in Siliguri and the involvement of two CID personnel - one has been released for lack of evidence ~ in planting explosives in a briefcase in a petrol pump should set alarm bells ringing.
- Prime Need (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Sep 05, 2006)
There can hardly be any debate whether basic facilities are more important than the desire to teach and learn in educating children.
- The Nuclear Deterrent Interest Of Iran (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 05, 2006)
Historically speaking, among the more important international events in the 1950s was the First International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy held in Vienna in 1955.
- Peace Process May Figure During Singh-Musharraf Meet (Press Trust of India, K J M Varma, Sep 05, 2006)
The Indo-Pak peace process and related issues may come up for discussion during the likely meeting between Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the NAM summit in Havana later this month.
- The Reforms Experience (Hindu, S.L. Rao, Sep 05, 2006)
This is a clearly written and well-argued book, with a section at the end of each chapter summarising the involved arguments, a rare and welcome feature.
- Deadening Routine (Times of India, Krishna Kumar, Sep 05, 2006)
Let us assume that India is about to become a knowledge society. That will be fine indeed, but is India also going to become an understanding society?
- Brain-Mapping Tests Done On Two Mumbai Blasts Suspects (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Two suspects in the recent Mumbai blasts underwent brain-mapping tests in the Forensic Science Laboratory here on Monday.
- Sealing Drive As Per Court Guidelines, Clarifies Mcd (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
We are adopting a practical approach: Commissioner
- Sex Scam: Sc Pulls Up J&k Bar For Statement (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
The Supreme Court today took a serious view of a press statement of the Jammu and Kashmir Bar Association in the sex scandal case for its separatist tone and tenor.
- Knowledge And The Asian Challenge (Business Line, Jayati Ghosh, Sep 05, 2006)
The scorching pace of expansion in exports of hi-tech manufactured products from China and software and IT-enabled services from India, has supported the view that `knowledge capital' plays a crucial role in the growing global presence of these . . .
- Mumbai Chawls May Figure In Heritage List (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Many of Mumbai's chawls, cradle of the Ganesh festival and nurturer of the city's middle-classes, are to become protected heritage under the new list currently in the process of being approved by the BMC.
- Cbi Probe Finds Twist In Punjab Girl's Love Story (Times of India, Vishwa Mohan, Sep 04, 2006)
A girl leaving her rich parents' house in search of love may not be new for Bollywood. But this one is a real life story straight from the CBI's probe.
- Cbi Finds Chinks In Punjab Police Probe (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Four years in prison for committing no crime is the story of four persons, including a woman who may finally be set free, thanks to the CBI which has pointed out shoddy investigations by the Punjab Police.
- Police Move To Change Its Working Style (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Four years in prison for committing no crime is the story of four persons, including a woman who may finally be set free, thanks to the CBI which has pointed out shoddy investigations by the Punjab Police.
- Business School At Gju Planned (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
The state government has decided to set up a Haryana Business School on the premises of Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology here.
- Qaida's No. 2 Man In Iraq Is Arrested (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Iraqi and coalition forces have arrested the second most senior figure in Al-Qaida in Iraq, Iraq's national security adviser announced on Sunday.
- Cbi Finds Chinks In Punjab Police Probe: 4 Booked For No Crime (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Four years in prison for committing no crime is the story of four persons including a woman who may finally be set free, thanks to the CBI which has pointed out shoddy investigations by Punjab Police.
- Don't Be Like This, Girls (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 04, 2006)
While standing in line at the airport last week I suddenly realised how peculiar many women look these days. It's as if a low-level wannabe footballer's wife vibe that is neither aesthetically pleasing (being cheerlessly vulgar) nor edifying . . .
- Capital Idea (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 04, 2006)
For India to grow at 8 per cent or more on a sustainable basis, curbs on conversion of the rupee into foreign currencies for the purchase and sale of Indian and overseas assets should be kept to a minimum.
- Blair Delay Could Provoke Leadership Challenge (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 04, 2006)
The British Prime Minister believes naming departure date would cause paralysis.
- Rwas Denounce The Notice Issued By Delhi Development Authority (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Residents' Welfare Associations Joint Front says it amounts to blatant interference with the judicial process
It is inappropriate to amend a subordinate legislation (MPD-2001)'
`Proposal for revising the development control norms will create . . .
- Nato Says Over 200 Taliban Die In Afghan Offensive (Reuters, SAYED SALAHUDDIN, Sep 04, 2006)
A major NATO offensive killed more than 200 Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan and four NATO soldiers died in Sunday's fighting, the organisation said.
- People Vs. Army (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Sep 04, 2006)
If one goes to Pakistan and meets the members of Ms Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) one will hear an interesting observation. One will be told: "There are only two parties in Pakistan.
- Tirupur Industry Growing, At What Cost? (Hindu, M. Gunasekaran, Sep 04, 2006)
The growth of the Tirupur knitwear industry in leaps and bounds may augur well for the Government as it brings millions of dollars and makes exporters prosperous. But its rapid growth may hurt other sectors in the region.
- It’S A Passion, Not A Job (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 04, 2006)
Instead of being havens of positive influence, schools have become breeding-grounds for violence and pessimism. Young minds should be nurtured.’
- Public Health, Why Now? (Deccan Herald, Manu N Kulkarni, Sep 04, 2006)
The Govt’s public health initiatives seem to favour the MNCs more than the people.
- Quota Bill Will Not Face Opposition: Arjun (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
The Centre did not anticipate any opposition in the Parliament to the Bill implementing staggered reservation quotas for OBCs, Union Minister for Human Resources Development Arjun Singh said on Sunday.
- Over 200 Taliban Killed In Kandahar (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
A major Nato offensive killed more than 200 Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan and four Nato soldiers died in Sunday’s fighting, the organisation said.
- Paisa Wise, Rupee Foolish (Indian Express, ILA PATNAIK, Sep 04, 2006)
Belying its attractive title and the optimistic media headlines it has generated, the report on Fuller Capital Account Convertibility largely endorses what the RBI is already doing.
- As Iraq Burns & Bleeds (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 04, 2006)
A telltale sign of the way things in Iraq are moving has come from the ban imposed by the administration of autonomous Kurdistan on the hoisting of the Iraqi flag in the region.
- Gandhi, A Second Coming (OutLook, Editorial, Outlook, Sep 04, 2006)
A 100 years after he conceived the satyagraha, a breed of neo-Gandhians goes beyond the khadi and charkha to coopt Bapu in whole new ways.
- Creation And The Intelligent Design (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 04, 2006)
Our body is a perfect combination of different chemicals, but can merely collecting aquatic masses in laboratories ever produce a human body?
- How Global Growth Surmounts New Challenges? (The Financial Express, Saumitra Chaudhuri, Sep 04, 2006)
Important factors include expansion in emerging economies like China and India and the enabling role of technology in global integration
- Value Change Please, Not Regime Change (Indian Express, M Veerappa Moily, Sep 02, 2006)
With the Lebanon crisis resurfacing in West Asia and the Middle East, a strange phenomenon has emerged. Sunnis and Shias have converged in the cauldron called Lebanon.
- Kalam Sends Lab Equipment For Durban School (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Fulfiling his promise, President A P J Abdul Kalam has sent a consignment of laboratory equipment worth $ 200,000 to a high school in a poor black residential area here.
- Tarapore Panel Member Slams Proposal To Ban Pn (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
The Tarapore panel’s report on full rupee convertibility was slammed by economist Surjit Bhalla, one of its members, for proposing a ban on participatory notes (PN) used by foreign investors for investments in Indian markets.
- 6 Candidates Get Job Without Interview (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Incredible but true. Six candidates have been selected for the post of Supervisors in Social Welfare Department even without appearing for an interview.
- Voyage Of Sugarcane (Daily Excelsior, G V Joshi, Sep 02, 2006)
In the early days, India was believed to be the country where sugarcane originated, as the oldest reports of extraction of sugar were found there.
- The Cruel Grind (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 02, 2006)
Where there is a will there is a way. So goes the age-old saying.
- Nam Action Plan To Change World Order (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 02, 2006)
The 14th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit of 116 nations to meet in Havana this month will defend an action plan to guide its determination to transform the present world order.
- Bulls Back, Sensex Gains 79 Pts (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
The Sensex opened at 11,699.57 on Friday morning and rapidly fell into the red to 11,666.01 as blue chip stocks went down on a moderate bout of selling pressure.
- Needed, A Policy For Human Capital (The Financial Express, YRK REDDY, Sep 02, 2006)
Prime Minster Manmohan Singh recently stressed the need to convert people into national assets while releasing a report on Person-to-Person Advocacy with parliamentarians on population issues.
- Mumbai's Shanghai Dreams May Remain Just That (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Mumbai has to bear with its infrastructure woes for some more time. The Vilasrao Deshmukh government, which never gets tired of trumpeting its Shanghai dreams for Mumbai, admitted on Friday that the Centre is unlikely to sanction a majority of . . .
- Needed Dynamic (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 02, 2006)
It would be a pity if the various local initiatives to involve industry in upgrading skills of vocational students aren’t linked nationally. This is one of the more exciting developments in contemporary India, partly pushed by occasionally . . .
- A Pot Of Gold On The Horizon (The Economic Times, J BRADFORD DELONG, Sep 02, 2006)
For quite a while now — certainly since the terrorist attacks on the US of September 11, 2001, and before as we watched the slaughters in Kosovo, Sarajevo, Srebrenica, Rwanda, and Congo on our televisions — the news has been dominated by war and . . .
- Nawab Bugti Laid To Rest Without Family Members (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
The veteran politician, Chieftain of Bugti tribe and Head of Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard at Dera Bugti here on Friday morning.
- India-Bangladesh Border Skirmishes Continue (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Indian and Bangladeshi border guards have fired at each other for the third time in a month, officials in northeastern India said on Friday.
- Colombo, London To Pursue Peace Plan (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Sep 02, 2006)
Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom have agreed to take "necessary follow up action" on the peace process in the island nation.
- Disadvantage Sezs (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 02, 2006)
The Zones are islands of privilege untenable in an era of competition and fairplay.
- Pm Likely To Meet Musharraf In Havana (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to meet Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf during the NAM Summit in Havana in mid-September and convey India's strong concerns over cross-border terrorism and discuss ways to move the stalled peace process.
- Us Affirms Move To Sell F-16 To Pak (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Sep 01, 2006)
The recent assassination of a Baluchi leader will not affect the sale of F-16 fighter jets by the US to Pakistan, according to a State Department official.
- Pm May Meet Musharraf In Havana (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to meet Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf during the NAM summit in Havana in mid-September and convey India’s strong concerns over cross-border terrorism and discuss ways to move the stalled peace process.
- Intelligence To Counter Terror (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 01, 2006)
The serial blasts in Mumbai that resulted in the death of nearly 200 train passengers has been ascribed to an intelligence failure.
- Asian Heroes Saluted (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
The applause was deafening at the Cultural Center of the Philippines today when the Chief Justice of the country’s Supreme Court said that it took a taxman from India to show the world that one need not be either a lawyer or a judge to render justice.
- Pm May Meet Musharraf In Havana (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to meet Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf during the NAM summit in Havana in mid-September and convey India's strong concerns over cross-border terrorism and discuss ways to move the stalled peace process.
- Musharraf: Saudi Investment To Grow (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia enjoy time-tested friendship and the economic activities will help strengthen the brotherly relations between the two states, said President General Pervez Musharraf while laying the foundation stone . . .
- Urdu & Secularism (Frontline, A.G. NOORANI, Sep 01, 2006)
A clutch of new books focus on the progressive nationalist tradition of Urdu poetry.
- Divine Guidance On Wealth (Dawn, Haider Zaman, Sep 01, 2006)
The Quran provides guidance to human beings in respect of every aspect of life.
- A Comprehensive Overview (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Some interesting reads in Kannada...
- Stumbling Towards Peace (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 01, 2006)
Last week Somalia’s major port — in the capital, Mogadishu — saw an unusual scene: a cargo ship unloading there for the first time in more than a decade.
- Pak Militants In Uk Are Biggest Threat’ (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Sep 01, 2006)
UK-based Pakistani extremists pose a bigger threat to America than their counterparts in Iraq, Iraq or Afghanistan, according to US-based experts on Islamic extremism.
- Terror In Twilight (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Sep 01, 2006)
Is the Hizbul Mujahideen preparing to come to the negotiating table?
- Pm And Pervez May Meet In Havana (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to meet Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf during the NAM summit in Havana in mid-September and convey India’s strong concerns over cross-border terrorism and discuss ways to move the stalled peace process.
- A.P. Cabinet Expansion During Dasara (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Cabinet expansion could be a `Dasara bonanza' for the aspirants, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy indicated here on Thursday.
- Make The Poor More Productive (The Financial Express, Jayaprakash Narayan, Sep 01, 2006)
Subsistence employment with low wages will neither reduce poverty nor stimulate demand. Eventually, unemployment will retard both growth and social cohesion.
- Funds For Parties (Frontline, V. VENKATESAN, Sep 01, 2006)
Legislative changes brought by the NDA government have failed to ensure transparency in corporate funding of political parties.
- Crying Wolf Over 'Terror' (Frontline, Editorial, Frontline, Sep 01, 2006)
Drastic security curbs around Independence Day and the claim of Al Qaeda's arrival in India put a question mark over the country's `anti-terrorism' strategy.
- So Did I! (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 01, 2006)
As P Chidambaram and Montek Singh Ahluwalia fight over shifting deficit targets, the guru of India’s economic reforms, Manmohan Singh, couldn’t avoid paying attention.
- Why Minimum Wage Is Low In India (The Economic Times, Alok Sheel, Sep 01, 2006)
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) guarantees 100 days of employment at the rate of Rs 60 a day. According to the website of the Union ministry of labour, the minimum wage is pegged at Rs 66 per day.
- I'm British, But... (Frontline, Vijay Prashad, Sep 01, 2006)
The book shows what attracts Muslims particularly those who live in Western societies, to a radical Islamic world-view.
- Much Ado About A Song (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 31, 2006)
There is something mysterious about the current furore around the compulsory singing of Vande Mataram in schools. No mystery of course about why the BJP has enthusiastically taken up the issue, and already made it compulsory in Chhattisgarh, . . .
- New Defence Procurement Procedure (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2006)
The Government, in an effort to speed up and simplify the process of arms acquisition, on Wednesday unveiled the Defence Procurement Procedure(capital procurements) and Defence Procurement Manual(revenue procurements) for this year with special . . .
- Trouble In The Class (Telegraph, Ardhendu Chatterjee, Aug 31, 2006)
With uncertainty staring aspiring teachers of West Bengal in the face, this year’s Teachers’ Day celebrations will seem hollow for them.
- Everything But The Big Picture (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 31, 2006)
Summer holidays are drawing to an end. I missed most of this year’s unusually hot weather, when temperatures rivalled Calcutta’s, while travelling in India and the last two weeks of our holiday in Scotland have been rather grey and dull.
- China Warns Illegal Surveyors After Japanese Deported (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2006)
China has vowed harsh penalties for foreigners conducting illegal surveys in China, months after deporting two Japanese scholars doing unauthorised research in the remote far west, state media today said.
- Security Forces On Alert As Maoists Eye Valley (Pioneer, Pramod Kumar Singh, Aug 31, 2006)
Maoist menace is threatening to engulf the entire nation. Having succeeded in expanding their tentacles in 13 Indian states, the Maoists are now eyeing Jammu and Kashmir.
- Home Truths, From Above (Business Standard, Barun Roy, Aug 31, 2006)
The 'view' from Google Earth and Wikimapia shows exactly how Seoul and Pudong have changed for the better, while Kolkata remains the same as ever.
- Containing Rural Migration (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 31, 2006)
Providing valuable insight into how migration from rural areas puts enormous stress on the urban infrastructure, speakers at a recent seminar in Karachi said that the deteriorating socio-economic conditions in Pakistani cities could be attributed . . .
- Let: New Masters Of Al-Qaeda ? (Daily Excelsior, SREEDHAR, Aug 31, 2006)
The developments in the last 15 months, from London bomb blasts of July, 2005 to the last week's ‘Operation Overt’, the plan to blow up ten Trans Atlantic flights from Heathrow Airport, have two common factors. First, all the people involved in . . .
- U.S. Regulation Of Ge Foods A Bad Model (Hindu, Sujatha Byravan, Aug 31, 2006)
India should learn from the mistakes other countries have made and not buckle under pressure from international and domestic agribusiness.
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