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Articles 4721 through 4820 of 12047:
- Economic Interests And Foreign Policy (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Mar 21, 2006)
Foreign policy, like monetary or fiscal policy, should be seen as the means to ensure jobs for the millions.
- Tackling Naxal Menace (Daily Excelsior, Ravindra Shukla, Mar 21, 2006)
With the Maoists threat-ening to set up a "Red Corridor" from "Pashupatinath temple in Nepal to Tirupati in south India", the Planning Commission has approved an additional Plan package of Rs 313 crore for Chhattisgarh to combat Naxalism . . .
- Sizzling Sezs (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Mar 21, 2006)
With the government clearing proposals worth Rs 100,000 crore in special economic zones on Friday, a month after notification of the SEZ Act, investment activity is visibly frenetic.
- Strengthen Asean To Counter Rise Of China, India: Yudhoyono (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2006)
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations should be strengthened to counter the growing clout of regional powerhouses China and India, Indonesia's president said today.
- Bangalore Talent Lures Start-Ups In High Tech (International Herald Tribune, Saritha Rai, Mar 21, 2006)
Twenty young engineers, mostly from the Indian Institute of Technology, India's premier technology school, peer into computer monitors in the no-frills office of Read-Ink Technologies, a start-up company housed in a small building in the bustling . . .
- Manmohan For Constitution Of Task Force On Health Services (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has directed the setting up of a Task Force on planning for human resources for health services with India emerging as a desired global destination for low-cost medicare.
- Avian Flu Catastrophe (Daily Excelsior, Jyotsna Pandit, Mar 20, 2006)
The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has claimed its first canine victim.
- Synthetic Diamonds Here To Stay (Daily Excelsior, Kusum Mehta, Mar 20, 2006)
Synthetic diamond are produced through chemical or physical process in a factory.
- Economics Of Naxalite Resurgence (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Mar 20, 2006)
Home Minister Shivraj Patil has called a meeting of Chief Ministers of 13 states affected by Naxalite attacks.
- People's War (Frontline, Purnima S. Tripathi, Mar 20, 2006)
Even as people are killed by naxalites, a popular movement against them is gaining momentum in parts of Chhattisgarh.
- Unemployed In A Thriving Economy (Frontline, C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR, Mar 20, 2006)
India's trajectory of growth is not matched by employment generation. This will lead to social unrest unless the government rethinks its economic priorities.
- Indian `Curry' King In Cash-For-Peerage Row (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Mar 20, 2006)
Sir Ghulam Noon, owner of one of Britain's biggest Indian food companies, finds himself at the centre of a growing "donation-for-peerage" scandal after it emerged that his nomination to the House of Lords has been blocked because he gave a "secret" . . .
- Digital Networks To Aid Research (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 20, 2006)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam rightly emphasised at the conference on `Computing for High Energy and Nuclear Physics' held recently in Mumbai, that high bandwidth networks are vital to extend the capabilities of advanced research today.
- A New Twist To The Growth Debate (Hindu, N. Ravi, Mar 20, 2006)
It is ironic that the economy should have entered a new, higher growth phase when reforms in the conventional sense appear to be in the pause mode. Can the economy coast along with a reform-less growth?
- Negatives That Can Slow Down China's Growth Momentum (Hindu, R. GOPALAKRISHNAN, Mar 20, 2006)
Both democracy and demographics favour India in the long run
Fifty per cent of India's population is under 20 years and people in this age group are likely to face the future with confidence.
- Afghans Rebel Against Us (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 20, 2006)
Qari Baba, a former Governor of Ghazni Province of Afghanistan was killed along with his four companions in an ambush on Saturday.
- Indian Exporters In A Fix Over Eu Standards (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2006)
Indian exporters to European Union (EU) are finding it increasingly difficult to comply with EU’s product and process standards, according to a survey....
- ‘Ban Diclofenac, Save The Vulture’ (Deccan Herald, Utpal Borpujari, Mar 20, 2006)
Three-time Green Oscar winner and internationally-acclaimed environment and wildlife film-maker Mike Pandey has been crusading for vultures — which are hurtling towards extinction
- Synthetic Worlds (Deccan Herald, James Harkin, Mar 20, 2006)
In a scarcely reported move a few weeks ago, the makers of the online medieval role-playing game World of Warcraft reluctantly allowed teams of openly gay players...
- Aiyar Moots India, China Joint Effort On Panchayats (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2006)
Pointing out that China had more than five times the number of Panchayats in India, Union Minister for Panchayati Raj Mani Shankar Aiyar called for a collaborative effort between India and China in this year which has been declared “The Year of . . .
- Hostile Witnesses: A Judicial Nightmare (Deccan Herald, Gautamaditya Sridhara and Mala Sridhara , Mar 18, 2006)
Zaheera Sheikh’s changing stand in the Best Bakery case has put the spotlight on hostile witnesses
- Kalam For Marketing Brahmos (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 18, 2006)
President APJ Abdul Kalam said on Friday that the time had come for marketing of BrahMos cruise missile, jointly produced by India and Russia.
- Labour Reforms: Go Beyond Mere Rhetoric (The Financial Express, YRK REDDY, Mar 18, 2006)
Labour reform increasingly appears to be like the proverb on the weather. Everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything about it. As hope seldom triumphs over experience, policymakers must realise there is no way central laws can . . .
- The Surajkund Fair (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 18, 2006)
EVERY year, from February 1 to 15, a unique cultural festival takes place at Surajkund in Haryana, 8 km from South Delhi, showcasing some of the finest handloom and handicraft traditions of the country in the cultural milieu in which these . . .
- Charting A New Path (Frontline, CR Jayachandran, Mar 18, 2006)
For the first time perhaps in the history of the State, a specific policy on labour has been formulated by the government. This move is the result of the realisation that for rapid and smooth industrialisation, harmonious industrial relations are an imper
- Vaccines For An Influenza Pandemic (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Mar 18, 2006)
Two companies join forces to make the manufacturing process more efficient.
- A Counter-Culture (Deccan Herald, Avijit Pathak, Mar 18, 2006)
Students who protest for a cause suggests that their thought process has been stimulated by pedagogy..
- Jordan To Repatriate Illegal Indian Workers (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 18, 2006)
Jordan has decided to repatriate around 200 Indian job-seekers who entered the country without work visas or permits with the aid of recruiting agencies. The plight of Indian workers in Jordan came up for discussion during a meeting between the . . .
- Rise Of Trans-National Terrorism (Tribune, Sudhir Hindwan, Mar 18, 2006)
Inter nationsal terrorism, though comparatively less in volume than the domestic variety , has crossed all limitations despite increased government efforts to combat it.
- Unesco Backs South Asia Foundation's Work On Regional Cooperation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 18, 2006)
The Director General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, opened on Friday the annual meeting of the South Asia Foundation at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
- 60 Tonnes Of Uranium Fuel For Tarapur (Tribune, T.R. Ramachandran, Mar 18, 2006)
In a development of significant import, Russia agreed to supply 60 metric tonnes of uranium fuel for the Tarapur atomic power plant in Maharashtra and get the Kudankulam project in Tamil Nadu operational by 2007-08, coupled with strengthening . . .
- Tackling Unemployment In Himachal Pradesh (Tribune, Ambika Sharma, Mar 17, 2006)
With unemployment figures reaching a whopping 8.59 lakh making a provision of jobs for the educated youth has become a major challenge for the Himachal Pradesh government.
- Pakistan Warns Against U.S.-India Nuclear Deal - Ft (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2006)
Pakistan has said a civilian nuclear energy deal between its arch rival India and the United States would wreck international agreements to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
- Parliamentary Privilege (Statesman, Bibhuti Bhusan Nandy, Mar 17, 2006)
Speaker Somnath Chatterjee’s spat with the Supreme Court has acquired ominous overtones. A barrister of long standing, he fired his first salvo at the Court for “overstepping” its limits when it overthrew the action of the Governor of . . .
- Unequal Partners (Frontline, R. Ramaseshan, Mar 17, 2006)
Many elements in the initiatives in the areas of agriculture and economic cooperation can be harmful to the national interest.
- Villages For Sale In Vidarbha (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2006)
'Kidney Sale Centre," proclaims a banner sprawled across a ramshackle bamboo tent at Shingnapur village in Amravati district of Maharashtra. The farmers here are threatening to sell their kidneys. "We have invited the Prime Minister and the . . .
- `History Is The Short Trudge From Adam To Atom' (Business Line, D. Murali , Mar 17, 2006)
Atoms `have stories to tell that span billions of years, linking us with the entire cosmos'
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.'
- Us Mulls Pre-Emptive Action Against Iran (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2006)
White House report calls Iran the biggest threat
Says diplomacy must win
Warns Russia and China on democratic reform
- Nab’S Utility (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 17, 2006)
Anmma leader’s demand that the National Accountability Bureau be abolished does not seem wide off the mark against the background of NAB’s record. Reacting to the bureau’s decision to stop the inquiry into the sugar crisis, Sahibzada Abul Khair Mohammad
- Targeting Countries Dealing With Iran Is Bad Policy (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 17, 2006)
In a move that is likely to up the ante between the United States and Iran, already locked in a confrontation, the 50-member US House International Relations Committee voted 37-3 to pass legislation that will end US economic aid to any country . . .
- Full Employment Ahead (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Mar 17, 2006)
obs for all, not by sarkari programmes that spend six rupees to deliver one rupee to the target beneficiary, but through economic growth.
- Reforms, Bose Need To Initiate (Daily Excelsior, Dr R R Dubey, Mar 17, 2006)
&K Board of School Education is an important institute of the State. It is headed by the Chairman at State level. However, for the entire functioning of Divisional level offices, the Secretary Board of School Education along with abundant . . .
- Core Issues In Asian Cities (Dawn, Noman Ahmed, Mar 17, 2006)
One of the key subjects of discussion at the World Social Forum, to be held later in the month in Karachi, will be the contemporary situation of world cities that, owing to several factors, are undergoing tremendous changes at the turn of the millennium.
- Safe Working Conditions (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 17, 2006)
While general awareness of the social ills afflicting Pakistani society is growing by the day, there seems to be little debate on some very basic but persisting issues like unsafe working environments.
- India Creating Obstacles, Says China (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2006)
China, on Thursday, charged India with raising a series of “obstacles” in trade, including slapping of over 90 anti-dumping duties on Chinese goods, and not granting “market economy” status .....
- "Reactors Put Under Safeguards Should Get Fuel From The International Market" (Hindu, T.V. Sivanandan, Mar 17, 2006)
Anil Kakodkar, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, says the eight indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) that India will put under safeguards should get natural uranium as fuel from . . .
- Oppn Goes To Ec Against Buddhadev (Deccan Herald, Prasanta Paul, Mar 17, 2006)
With the model of code of conduct already in force following declaration of the Assembly polls by the Election Commission, Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee finds himself in a spot after the Opposition complained with the EC against him . . .
- Microsoft Bonanza For Engineering Students (Hindu, VANI DORAISAMY, Mar 17, 2006)
This may be one of the grimmest academic years for aspirants of higher education in the State but over four lakh engineering students have a reason to smile.
- Ageing Queen Of The Adriatic (Frontline, Sudha Mahalingam, Mar 16, 2006)
WHEN was the last time you were in a city without road traffic? Not encountering a single car, bus or truck is perhaps the most appealing aspect of Venice for the jaded city-dweller hoping for a getaway from petrol fumes for a few days.
- Short On Substance (Frontline, Editorial, Frontline, Mar 16, 2006)
The Budget is mired in neoliberal orthodoxy. The commitments represent little more than lip-service to the NCMP.
- Fresh Cases Of Bird Flu (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 16, 2006)
The Maharashtra government has begun culling operations on about 75,000 birds after a fresh outbreak of bird flu was reported in Jalgaon district with four bird samples testing positive.
- Jalgaon Ready To Tackle Bird Flu Outbreak (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 16, 2006)
About 75,000 backyard poultry being culled in the district
Over 170 villages from six talukas placed under quarantine
Notification declaring outbreak in four villages issued
Stringent bio security measures being enforced
- Development Is The Target, Says Kumaraswamy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 16, 2006)
Coalition partners release Common Minimum Programme
CMP incorporates elements of `Vision Karnataka' document
It lays emphasis on the agricultural sector
Six-member coordination committee formed
- Implementing The Rural Job Plan (Deccan Herald, TRILOCHAN SASTRY, Mar 16, 2006)
The modalities to implement the government employment initiative are critical
- Us, Uk Can Play Pivotal Role In Kashmir Solution: Mushahid (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 16, 2006)
PML Secretary General Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed said on Wednesday the US and the international community had to play a pivotal role in promoting a peaceful solution of the Kashmir issue.
- The Importance Of Information Standards (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Mar 16, 2006)
A mass of statistical data does not mean information standards, which involve classifications and codes, statistical units, extent of coverage, methods of measurement of economic phenomena, and the logic of inclusion or omission of certain items.
- The Journey Within (Hindu, CR Jayachandran, Mar 16, 2006)
All systems of Indian philosophy excepting the materialists (Charvaka) accept liberation from bondage (Mukti, Moksha) as the goal of human birth.
- Bird Flu: Scientists Continue Virus Trail (Deccan Herald, KALYAN RAY, Mar 16, 2006)
Even as culling operation has started in Jalgaon in the wake of fresh bird flu incidence, scientists are groping in the dark on the possible source of infection.....
- Bjp-Jds Coalition Govt Unveils Common Minimum Programme (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 16, 2006)
Six weeks after assuming office, the BJP-JDS coalition government today unveiled its Common Minimum Programme, pledging to remove poverty, initiate steps to better the lives of farmers and build on the 'Bangalore Brand' to make the city a . . .
- Commute To Another World (Deccan Herald, Barbara Demick, Mar 15, 2006)
It takes barely an hour to drive from downtown Seoul to the other side of the demilitarised zone, but the culture shock is such that you might as well be commuting to the moon......
- Mystical Experience (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Spiritual experience is a one-to-one communion with God and hence even the great sages who were fortunate to have this experience did not generally speak about it.
- Fresh Food-Processing Policy To Be Unveiled Soon (Hindu, Nagesh Prabhu , Mar 15, 2006)
Emphasis to be on providing infrastructure and marketing avenues Policy to be in tune with development agenda outlined by President Kalam
Refrigerated transport, cold storages and residue analysis laboratories envisaged
Private sector participation to
- Returning Officers For Pondy Appointed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Each officer will be in charge of three constituencies Election expenditure of political parties in each constituency has been fixed at Rs 5 lakh and squads have been formed to monitor the functioning of parties
21 constituencies under seven officers
- Wild Elephant Electrocuted In Sivagiri Forest Range (Hindu, P. P. S. Gill, Mar 15, 2006)
It came into contact with an illegal electric fence put up some farmers
Carcass burnt without intimating authorities
Two farm labourers held
Hunt on for landowner
- Islamic Seminary Issues Fatwa Against Terrorists (Tribune, Shahira Naim, Mar 15, 2006)
Responding to a query of a young Muslim businessman the 300-year-old Islamic seminary, the Darul-Ifta Firangai Mahal issued a 'fatwa' against terrorists targeting places of worship and killing innocent people.
- Bird Flu Cases In Jalgaon: Pawar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Notification issued, culling operations to begin today in four villages of the district
No cases of human infection: Pawar
Blames media for "creating havoc on the issue"
Government working out a compensation scheme for affected poultry farmers
- Why American Cats Are Fat And Dogs Lean (The Financial Express, Alok Sheel, Mar 15, 2006)
Having lived in India all my life and used to seeing lean cats, imperious of temperament and only partially tame, and well-fed corpulent dogs, short on exercise, I was puzzled to find that cats in America were fat, while dogs were lean.
- Ec Rescues Nokia (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Mar 15, 2006)
The inauguration of Nokia’s handset manufacturing plant near Chennai had its brass in a dilemma. Whom to invite as chief guest— chief minister and AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa or Union IT minister Dayanidhi Maran, from the DMK? Both had taken . . .
- Diplomats Vs Scientists (Tribune, T.P. Sreenivasan, Mar 15, 2006)
AN unfortunate fallout of the negotiations on the implementation of the US-India nuclear deal was the impression created by certain analysts, including retired nuclear scientists, that the diplomats and scientists were at loggerheads over the . . .
- The Great Leveller (Business Standard, C. J. Punnathara, Mar 15, 2006)
Remittances — mainly by unskilled workers and labourers to the Gulf nations and elsewhere — play a significant role in fostering better health, education and other social indices.
- Standard Campuses (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 15, 2006)
Chairman Higher Commission [HEC] Dr Attaur Rehman has reiterated that the varsities bringing in no improvement in their academic standard will be closed. Addressing a conference in Lahore, he said that a quality assurance cell for the varsities was . . .
- Concentration In Ownership Of Media (Daily Excelsior, Swati Ganeshan, Mar 15, 2006)
The power of communication and Information today's competitive world is a huge driving force.
- Axe To Fall On Low (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Chairman Higher Commission [HEC] Dr Attaur Rehman has reiterated that the varsities bringing in no improvement in their academic standard will be closed. Addressing a conference in Lahore, he said that a quality assurance cell for the varsities was being
- The Culture Of Conspiracy (Tribune, William Weir, Mar 15, 2006)
Since the US vice president shot one of his hunting buddies, a number of alternate theories have been bubbling beneath the official version of events.
- Afghans Ordered To Leave N Waziristan (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Authorities claim families start returning to Miranshah; power, phone restored
- Concentration In Ownership Of Media (Daily Excelsior, Swati Ganeshan, Mar 14, 2006)
The power of communication and Information today's competitive world is a huge driving force.
- Al-Qaeda Accepts Blame For Killing Iraqi Scribe (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Al-Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility on Monday for the killing of Amjad Hameed, a journalist working for the government-run Iraqiya television.
- Delhi Police Files Appeal In Hc (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Jessica Lall murder case
- Kalam Visits Apravasi Ghat (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Mar 14, 2006)
President A.P.J. Kalam on Monday re-visited the shared colonial past of India and Mauritius at the Apravasi ghat (immigrant depot) where over four lakh Indians had landed between the mid 18th and early 19th centuries to work as labourers on . . .
- Implementation Group To Take Up Us-India Industrial R&d (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
India has already set up an implementation group for taking forward the pact signed with the US during the visit of President George W Bush for collaboration in industrial research and development.
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