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Articles 5921 through 6020 of 12047:
- We Are Not Against Ayurveda: Brinda Karat (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
"My objection was only to violation of labour laws and Drugs and Cosmetics Act"
Human and animal bones were used to prepare medicines, say some workers of Baba Ramdev's Divya Pharmacy
- Tslushnami Of Human Rights (The Week, Kavitha Muralidharan, Jan 08, 2006)
What a year has wrought in Tamil Nadu and Kerala—the good, the bad and the ugly...
- Madras Varsity To Publish Teachers' Works (Hindu, K. Ramachandran, Jan 08, 2006)
Universities of Madras, Mumbai and Calcutta celebrating 150th anniversary
- Fdi And The Future Of Farmers (Hindu, N. Bala Ganesan, Jan 08, 2006)
The farm sector, taken as a whole, has no sustainable, long-term prospect of increasing its revenue
- Priority Action For 2006 (Indian Express, N K Singh, Jan 08, 2006)
With the New Year festivities behind us there is need for real action. The Prime Minister has over the last few weeks articulated some priorities of the Government. Some of these must include the following:
- And For Amar Singh, A Tip: Next Time Use Carrier Pigeons (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Jan 08, 2006)
You had to live in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard...—‘1984’ by George Orwell
- Aiyar Takes Panchsheel Flavour To China (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Jan 08, 2006)
Dogged by the Chinese drubbing of India’s state-run firms in the hunt for oil and gas assets worldwide, diplomat-turned-minister Mani Shankar Aiyar is serving up Panchsheel—the five principles of peaceful co-existence—as the new basis for hydrocarbon ....
- Check List: Things To Do During The Year (The Financial Express, NK SINGH, Jan 07, 2006)
With the New Year festivities happily behind us, there is need for real action. The Prime Minister has over the last few weeks articulated some priorities of the government. Some of these must include the following:
- The Case For Disinvestment (The Economic Times, Surinder Singla, Jan 07, 2006)
Disinvestment has come to be a central focus of the government’s economic reforms agenda. True, there are other pressing issues such as the employment guarantee scheme (EGS) that attempt to deal with poverty eradication while creating infrastructural . ..
- What These Suicide Bombers Are Up To? (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jan 07, 2006)
A suicide bomber detonated the explosive belt in a funeral procession in a small town of Mukdadiyah, about 60 miles northeast of Baghdad on Wednesday killing at least 34 people and injuring 48 others. A total of 55 people perished in a series . . .
- Sharon Undergoes Emergency Surgery (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Jan 07, 2006)
Doctors fear irreversible brain damage to the Israeli Prime Minister
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's condition appeared to have deteriorated, as he had to undergo another emergency operation after a scan revealed fresh bleeding in his brain.
- Elitist Orientation Of The Economy (Dawn, Ishrat Husain, Jan 07, 2006)
Several observers have asked me to update the latest assessment of my thesis propounded in the book Pakistan: the economy of an elitist state. They are interested in exploring the question whether or not the policies and programmes pursued during . . .
- Bhutto’S Diluting Legacy (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jan 07, 2006)
Pakistan Peoples Party celebrated 78th birthday of late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto on January 5, 2006. Functions including cake-cutting ceremonies were held in different parts of the country where speakers also highlighted achievements of their late leader.
- Hurriyat Leaders Call On Musharraf (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Jan 07, 2006)
Any solution to Kashmir within the framework of the Constitution will not be acceptable: APHC
- Cit To Host Seminar On Environmental Protection (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
Conference papers to be available on icstep2006.com
Over 250 delegates from India and abroad will to attend a three-day conference on environmental protection to be organised at Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT), from January 7 to 9.
- `Harness Forensic Science To Thwart Terror Plans' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
Scientist advocates `preventive forensics' as traditional methods failed to handle terrorists
Crime base shifting from urban areas to rural areas
Forensic planning has to be formulated for rural and tribal population
- Despite The Obituaries, Newspapers Refuse To Die (Hindu, Simon Jenkins, Jan 07, 2006)
Newspapers have shown they can grasp each new technology and bend it to their will.
- Sharon Leaves No Heir (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Jan 07, 2006)
If the massive cerebral haemorrhage suffered by Ariel Sharon marks the end of this remarkable man's political career, then Israeli public life is about to lose the figure who above all others reshaped Israeli politics and diplomacy in the post-Oslo period
- India's Wealth And Squalor (Daily Excelsior, Sisir Basu, Jan 07, 2006)
The international media have covered the upswing of the Indian and Chinese economies. It is suggested that the Chinese economy would overtake Japan's currently the second largest, by 2016 and would be as big as that of the United States of America . . .
- Over To Kadima (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 07, 2006)
When Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced two months ago that he was leaving the right-wing Likud Party, which he had embodied for three decades, one thing seemed certain:
- Manmohan To Inaugurate Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (Hindustan Times, Arvind Padmanabhan , Jan 07, 2006)
The three-day Pravasi Bhartiya Divas begins on Saturday in Hyderabad amid tight security.
- Why Are They Running Scared Of Ideology? (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jan 07, 2006)
Increasingly, ideology is portrayed as something to be despaired of — a hang-up, and a hindrance to progress in a world in search of quick fixes. But pragmatism without a political vision seldom works in the long run.
- Making A ‘Menace’ Of Migrants (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 07, 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?
- Changing Profile Of Al Qaeda (Daily Excelsior, P Bhattacharya, Jan 07, 2006)
On 5 February, 2003, the then US Secretary of State, Gen Colin Powel had said at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) that, ''Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network, headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an associate and collaborator . . .
- Shanghai Surprise: The Last Merchant-Ivory Film Has Glamour But No Guts (Indian Express, DAVID ANSEN, Jan 07, 2006)
It would be nice to report that the final collaboration between James Ivory and his late producing partner, Ismail Merchant, ranked with their best work, such as the luminous Howards End and A Room With a View. Though The White Countess, from an original
- A Ship We Can Refuse (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 07, 2006)
It is heartening that the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee has responded firmly and with sensitivity to the despatch of the French Navy's decommissioned aircraft carrier, Georges Clemenceau, to India for dismantling.
- South Korean Arrested In Iraq Oil-For-Food Scandal (Reuters, Daniel Trotta, Jan 07, 2006)
U.S. authorities arrested a South Korean lobbyist accused of secretly scheming with top U.N. and Iraqi officials to create the oil-for-food program that turned into a multibillion-dollar scandal.
- In The Name Of The Buffalo (Indian Express, J.P. YADAV, Jan 07, 2006)
A popular saying goes ‘jiski lathi uski bhains’. Roughly put, it means that the one with the strongest stick owns the buffalo. Although this holds true across civilisations, one of its crudest manifestations can be found in Bihari society.
- The Dream Team: A Critique-Ii (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 07, 2006)
What would convertibility entail? For a decade now, India has had limited ease of availability of foreign exchange for importers, businessmen, students and tourists.
- Get Ship Breaking Shipshape, Though (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 07, 2006)
The French government has sent its decommissioned aircraft carrier Clemenceau to the ship-breaking yards of Alang, Gujarat, and that has kicked up a controversy.
- The Dream Team: A Critique-I (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 06, 2006)
Dr Manmohan Singh has spoken of how pleasantly surprised he was to be made Finance Minister in July 1991 by P V Narasimha Rao.
- Kalabagh: The Question Of Alternatives (Dawn, S.M. Naseem, Jan 06, 2006)
The rush to build the Kalabagh dam is taking General Musharraf and many of his supporters, including some born-again superpatriots, to heights of irrationality.
- 12 Child Labourers Rescued (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Officials of the Labour Department raid garages and shops
- Ramdev's Supporters Arrested (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
They gathered outside the CPI(M) office in Delhi and raised slogans against Brinda Karat
20 supporters of Swamy Ramdev arrested; one person injured
Protest is handiwork of RSS, VHP hoodlums, says CPI (M)
- Ongc Videsh Pushes For Raise In Investment Limit (Business Line, Richa Mishra, Jan 06, 2006)
ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL), the overseas arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), has yet again stepped up its demand for an increase in its investment limit, which is set at $75 million or Rs 300 crore, whichever is less.
- Task Force On Global Strategic Developments — Need Unclear, Purpose Undefined (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 06, 2006)
If a Task Force is not to end up as a monumental wool-gathering enterprise, its purpose should be delineated in sharp and clear terms.
- Stem Cell Research In India — Still In The Embryonic Stage (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Jan 06, 2006)
Given the huge disease burden and the need for organs, affordable diagnostics and therapies, the promise that stem cells offer needs to be exploited to the fullest.
- What These Suicide Bombers Are Up To? (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jan 06, 2006)
A suicide bomber detonated the explosive belt in a funeral procession in a small town of Mukdadiyah, about 60 miles northeast of Baghdad on Wednesday killing at least 34 people and injuring 48 others. A total of 55 people perished in a series . . .
- Bhutto’S Diluting Legacy (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jan 06, 2006)
Pakistan Peoples Party celebrated 78th birthday of late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto on January 5, 2006. Functions including cake-cutting ceremonies were held in different parts of the country where speakers also highlighted achievements of their late leader.
- Sharon's Deputy Takes Over As Acting Prime Minister (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Jan 06, 2006)
Premier's ailment likely to generate a power vacuum in Israel
Israel's Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has become acting Prime Minister following Ariel Sharon's illness, and has already held a Cabinet meeting on Thursday.
- Can’T Change Our Tory (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Jan 06, 2006)
There's a frisson in the British media ever since David Cameron arrived on the scene. Cameron is fresh-faced and, at 39, the new leader of the Conservative party travels light. He is relatively unburdened by the cynicisms and disbeliefs . . .
- Fao Chief Sees Role For Indian Scientists In Food Security (Hindu, P. Sunderarajan , Jan 06, 2006)
They could share expertise for modernising small-scale farming
Collaborative initiative to eliminate hunger in 10 years
To be done in a phased manner with developed countries' support
- Laloo Throws Weight Behind Yoga Guru (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Laloo’s comments came a day after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav backed the spiritual leader. Demonstrations by the guru’s followers against the communists were also reported from several places around the country.
- Exercise Restraint (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 06, 2006)
The Baloch situation should not cloud the Indo-Pak peace process
Islamabad has displayed avoidable irritation over a mild Indian comment about what many leading Pakistani politicians and analysts describe as the “grim and volatile situation....
- Halfway House In Loom Town (Indian Express, Sunita Arora, Jan 06, 2006)
India’s textile and apparel exports grew by up to 15 per cent in the first post-quota year. With a few pragmatic reforms, it could be much more, says Sunita Arora
- Elaborate Arrangements Made For Aicc Plenary (Hindu, W. Chandrakanth, Jan 06, 2006)
Prime Minister to camp from January 21 to 23 in Hyderabad
The city will virtually turn into the nation's capital for three days between January 21 and 23 with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh camping here during the period to attend the AICC plenary.
- Who Are The Unions Serving? (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Jan 06, 2006)
During a rare moment of lucidity, trade union leader Gurudas Dasgupta had acknowledged in a television programme that the Indian labour leaders hadn’t always paid much attention to telling workers about the value of productivity.
- Aid An Adjunct To Occupation (Hindu, Ghada Karmi, Jan 06, 2006)
The Last month has seen a flurry of high-level activity designed to fund the Palestinians under occupation. A private sector investors' conference took place in London to discuss ways of boosting the Palestinian economy.
- Ysr Seeks Scientists' Counsel On Projects (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Modern practices is a must for farmers to reap benefits
Farmer suicides almost stopped in the State, says YSR
- Kalam Launches `Kidney Care Project' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Says it is time adequate attention is paid to the healthcare sector
Calls for solution to kidney transplant through stem cell research
Stresses the need to create awareness about cadaver kidney transplant
- Taking The Left Front (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
The winter air has got a needed dash of heat from the thunder and lightening accompanying the clash between telegenic Brinda Karat of the CPI(M)
- Ramdev Medicines Did Carry Animal, Human Traces: Govt (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Samples of medicines allegedly prepared by yoga guru Ramdev did test positive for animal and human contents, Union Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said today.
- Value To Rural Markets (Telegraph, Alok K. Chattopadhyay, Jan 05, 2006)
When the regulation regime came into effect, the Agriculture Produce Market Committees in India geared up to the change. West Bengal, with its rich manpower, can easily lead the way in rural development enterprises, provided there is a political . . .
- Pak For Police Deployment On Loc (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Pakistan has suggested to India that both countries should pull back troops from the LoC to demilitarise the region and hand it over to police.
- For A Second Farm Revolution (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 05, 2006)
Shall we consider it a good New Year augury that at the recent Indian Science Congress, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, called for a second Green Revolution and urged scientists to work towards it?
- A Place For India In `Asian' Century (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Jan 05, 2006)
China revising its GDP growth rates and the launch of SAFTA mark the arrival of Asia on the world scene. Both have implications for India. The first demanding a re-visit to the national income statistics to factor in the contribution of the . . .
- Moving Forward In Space (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 05, 2006)
In all probability, this will be the year the Indian Space Research Organisation completes ground testing of the indigenous cryogenic stage. ISRO will then be in a position to fly the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) . . .
- For A ‘Community Of Interests’ (Dawn, Syed Mohibullah Shah, Jan 05, 2006)
Why are shareholders, the only stakeholders in enterprises, entitled to sit on the board of directors of a company? Executives and professionals, labourers and lenders, vendors, distributors and others make very valuable contributions but none is . . .
- Indo-Russian Ties (Tribune, Ash Narain Roy, Jan 05, 2006)
Till the closing years of the 20th century, neither strategic thinkers nor astrologers of power had any inkling about the rise of Asia, “Chindia” in particular, as a global economic powerhouse.
- Pdd Fails To Restore Power In Valley (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Making a mockery of their tall claims and assurances to Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad here yesterday, Power Development Department (PDD) authorities have failed to restore electricity to the winter-hit Kashmir valley.
- Alang Awaits Its Hazardous Diet (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Jan 05, 2006)
India must take a lead in cleaning up its ship-breaking industry, says Sonu Jain
- Clash Of Two Nuclear Pacts (Indian Express, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 05, 2006)
Beijing and Islamabad could be muddying the unfolding debate on Indo-US nuclear cooperation, argues C. Raja Mohan
- Pm Unveils 7-Point Package For Second Green Revolution (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today unveiled a seven-point package to bring about second green revolution and promote integrated rural development to enhance productivity and bridge the rural-urban divide.
- Brain Drain — Oxymoron In A Global Workforce (Business Line, Alok Ray, Jan 04, 2006)
Should we bother about brain drain when the flow is moving in all directions in today's global economy, wonders Alok Ray, and cites the increasing movement to India of quite a few established professionals from countries such as the US to take up jobs,...
- Light Inwards (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 04, 2006)
And a simulated concern for the vote-bank
With barely five months to go for elections, the CPI-M seems anxious to make amends for its shortcomings over the past five years.
- Pm Visits Hyderabad Amid Looming Terror (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
With the Prime Minister in Hyderabad, the city has been put on high security alert. The precaution comes a day after the police managed to avert a major tragedy by foiling the plot of Jaish-e-Mohammed to trigger bomb blasts, including suicide bombings.
- Poll Bounty (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 04, 2006)
Trust the leftists of Bengal to make even newborn children matter in vote-bank politics.
- Combating Africa's Number One Killer (Hindu, Jon Snow, Jan 04, 2006)
The numbers are impossible to digest. Three million people a year die from the disease, most sufferers contract it two or three times a year and, whenever they do, are so struck down that they can neither work nor tend to their families for . . .
- Iit Soldier & Terror On Centre Stage (Telegraph, G.S. RADHAKRISHNA, Jan 04, 2006)
They came to find scientific solutions to poverty, but all the voices rose in anger against a common threat — terrorism.
- We Have A Dream (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 04, 2006)
Amid all hopelessness, there is a ray of hope. Kashmir is a subject to be studied not in isolation, but in a comprehensive politico-historical context.
- Bangalore Breakthrough: ‘South India Head Of Let’ (Indian Express, JOHNSON T A, Jan 04, 2006)
The Bangalore police on Tuesday announced their first major breakthrough in the investigations into the December 28 attack on the Indian Institute of Science by showing the arrest of a 35-year-old resident of Nalgonda district in Andhra Pradesh,
- 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.
- Green Revolution Ii Must: Pm (Deccan Herald, R Akhileshwari , Jan 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called upon scientists to usher in a Second Green Revolution that would “forever end the divide between Bharat and India” and one that would increase rural incomes, agricultural productivity and the quality of rural life.
- Work For Second Green Revolution, Manmohan Singh Tells Scientists (Hindu, P. Sunderarajan , Jan 04, 2006)
Focus should be on dryland agriculture; address needs of small farmers
- Pak Stance On Kashmir Unchanged: Riaz (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Foreign Secretary Riaz Muhammad Khan told a subcommittee of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday Pakistan wanted the Kashmiris be given the right to self-determination
- Air India To Dish Up Food Fest Mid-Air (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Two types of menus – comprising vegetarian and non-vegetarian delicacies – would be served to the passengers of the first class, executive and economy segments during the period, Mr Thulasidas said.
- 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.
- Ngos Appeal For Peace In Balochistan (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
The government should stop its military operation in Balochistan, said the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP), a human rights body of the Catholic Church in Pakistan, and Labour Party Pakistan in separate statements on Tuesday.
- Job Creation Is Agenda For 2006 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2006)
Development programmes to be monitored: Manmohan
In a bid to ensure effective implementation of the United Progressive Alliance Government's National Common Minimum Programme, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh chaired a meeting here on Monday . . .
- 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.
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