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Articles 6421 through 6520 of 12047:
- Government Introduces P-24 Test To Screen Hiv (Hindu, Shyama Rajagopal, Dec 13, 2005)
Lack of focus in AIDS control programmes
The Government has ordered all blood banks to conduct the P-24 antigen test for HIV screening.
- 3rd Oic Summit Approved 10-Year Plan Of Action: Fo (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2005)
The third extraordinary OIC summit held in Makkah remained successful as it adopted comprehensive document of 10-Year Programme of Action which deals with the political, development, socio-economic and scientific issues relating to Muslim Ummah.
- Left Wanting (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 13, 2005)
There must be no going back on the decision to reduce the interest rate on the employees provident fund scheme to 8.5 per cent. Even the 8.5 per cent rate will leave the fund with an uncovered deficit of Rs 366 crore.
- Issues That Wto Is Set To Debate In Hong Kong (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2005)
After millions of air miles, countless secret meetings, forests of reports and one failed summit, ministers from 150 countries are facing the prospect of failure in their attempt to free world trade and drag millions of people out of extreme poverty.
- Create `India Brand' For Handloom Products: Kalam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2005)
Suggests design units in handloom centres
Five-point strategy to boost handloom sector
Modern business development practices essential
- New Policy For India? (Deccan Herald, Maj Gen (R) Dipankar Banerjee, Dec 13, 2005)
India’s direct role in stabilising Nepal is limited and it should support intervention of the UN instead
- A Profile In Courage (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 13, 2005)
Gudiya has done Indian girls proud
When UNICEF Executive Director releases the “State of World’s Children Report 2006” in London on Wednesday, among the audience will be a 13-year-old girl from India, Gudiya Khatun.
- A Partnership For The Future (Times of India, TED TURNER, Dec 13, 2005)
If you were to design the ideal laboratory for figuring out the future of the world, you would be hard-pressed to do better than India.
- Festschrift (Hindu, Geeta Ramaseshan , Dec 13, 2005)
a reflection of Seervai's contribution compiled for his centenary
- Rbi Directive Shocking: Ananthkumar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2005)
BJP General Secretary in charge of Karnataka affairs Ananthkumar on Monday alleged that the Reserve Bank of India has asked the State Government to return Rs. 158 crores out of the Rs. 357 crores provided by the Centre as ad hoc interim relief for . . .
- Reminiscences (Hindu, C. G. Rishikesh, Dec 13, 2005)
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- Osama No Longer Leads Al-Qaeda, Says Crocker (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2005)
US ambassador to Pakistan Ryan C Crocker has said that Osama Bin Laden is not leading Al-Qaeda now because he is hiding in an unknown far-flung land. “Osama Bin Laden is not Al-Qaeda’s operational commander any more, as he has no link with his aides curre
- Quake: Thinking Long-Term (Dawn, Shahid Javed Burki, Dec 13, 2005)
I have written before on the subject of the earthquake and its economic impact. But the subject covered in some of the earlier articles dealt with the effect of the disaster over the short term. In today’s article and the one next week . . .
- Dollar Deluge (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 13, 2005)
It is pouring good news about the Indian economy. After an 8 per cent GDP growth for the second quarter, just behind China's, comes the news that this country has had the biggest inflow of capital from its overseas workers.
- Made In India (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Dec 13, 2005)
Nowadays, willy-nilly, be it the economist, the technologist, the social scientist or the political pundit, everyone has to be a China watcher. China has already won the race in manufacturing. No doubt, India is a front-runner in the services sector.
- Challenge Of Measuring Service Sector Growth (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Dec 13, 2005)
On November 30, the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released the quarterly estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for July-September (Q2) of 2005-06, both at constant (1993-94) and . . .
- `The Us Is Not Losing Its Competitiveness' (Business Line, D. Sampathkumar , Dec 13, 2005)
On terrorism and new approach to manufacturing: "The FDA wants to know, ``what's in them?'', ``who made them (right down to the worker who was on the line at that point of time)?'' and ``where did they come from?"
- Now, Act On Labour Law Reform (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 12, 2005)
That the prime minister should choose to bring up the touchy issue of labour reform at the Indian Labour Conference deserves to be welcomed.
- Nurm Must Be A Pura Mission (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Dec 12, 2005)
The Government's ambitious National Urban Renewal Mission hopes to tackle all blight — sanitation, roads, transport, power, water, and governance. But NURM will succeed only when it stimulates out-migration of people from cities even as it makes living...
- Keep An Eye On All Invisibles (Indian Express, Veena Jha, Dec 12, 2005)
India has everything to play for this week at the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial, says Veena Jha
- The Growing Lure Of Gold (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Dec 12, 2005)
Gold prices in India closed at an all-time high on Friday at Rs 7,900 per ten gram, in tune with a global Bull Run in the coveted yellow metal. Spiralling gold prices had given the jitters to lakhs of Indian households as wedding budgets went . . .
- China's Central Bank Governor — Mover And Shaker In China's Financial System (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 12, 2005)
Turning to central bankers, in general, the world has come to regard Mr Alan Greenspan, America's central banker, as an economic statesman of global significance. His every move, every gesture was watched by markets with bated breath to infer . . .
- Saarc Moot To Revive Tourism In Quake-Hit Areas’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2005)
The Tourism Ministry will hold a South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) tourism ministers’ conference to revive the tourism industry in earthquake-hit areas, said Dr Ghazi Ghulab Jamal, the tourism minister, on Sunday.
- Possible Options On Kashmir: Pakistan More Flexible Than India (Daily Times, Ali Waqar, Dec 12, 2005)
Kuldeep Nayar; a leading journalist, peace activist and former member of the Rajya Sabha proposed maximum autonomy for the Indian and Pakistani sides of Kashmir except for foreign, defence and communication affairs.
- Nhs: Market Reforms (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 12, 2005)
In one of her first interviews as Britain’s health secretary Patricia Hewitt declared six months ago that it was “not only inevitable but essential” that the government’s market reforms would create instability.
- U.S. Policies In The Eurasian Region (Hindu, M.K. Bhadrakumar, Dec 12, 2005)
American strategic thinkers seek the projection of U.S. power into Eurasia on a permanent footing. The central issue involved is Russia's unquestioned emergence as the 21st century's energy superpower.
- Education And E-Mpowerment (Hindu, VANI DORAISAMY, Dec 12, 2005)
Initiative to provide education resources electronically can transform learning
- 'Ji Rejects United Kashmir' (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2005)
The JI has rejected the idea of United Kashmir or its division into five zones however supported demilitarisation in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
- Jpc Is A Good Idea (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 12, 2005)
It is laughable that in this day and age apologists of the Congress should be looking for a "foreign hand" behind the shocking revelations contained in the Volcker Committee's report on Iraq's Oil-for-Food scandal.
- Social Security Back In India Discourse...? (Daily Excelsior, M Rama Rao, Dec 12, 2005)
It is very difficult to find fault even for the harshest critic of the present Government with latest cabinet decision vis-à-vis social sector. If at all, if some one were to find fault with the Government it was that why no one in authority had . . .
- Pm Wants Labour Reform To Create Jobs, Growth (Reuters, Surojit Gupta, Dec 11, 2005)
India needs to reform its labour laws so that they protect the interests of workers, create jobs and enable the country to attract investment for faster economic growth, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday.
- Aids Prevention: China To Adopt Railway Programme (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2005)
Delegation studied South Central Railways project
HIV/AIDS affects about 5.1 million individuals in India
``It was heartening to see that there was not much stigma attached to the disease in India''
- Legislation Sought To Protect Rights Of Unorganised Workers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2005)
Indian Labour Conference calls for tripartite committee to prepare a final draft Bill
- Skipping Borders (Deccan Herald, M K Chandra Bose, Dec 11, 2005)
The author feels that global media corporations are not driven by nationalistic cultural agendas but by market imperatives which transcend borders.
- When Our Tribals Can Take For Granted Schools And Roads, Power And Health (Indian Express, MAHASWETA DEVI, Dec 11, 2005)
Empowerment to me means the empowering of the people I have been fighting for the last so many years. Have they been empowered?
- Blair Game (Dawn, E. J. Dionne Jr., Dec 11, 2005)
In democratic countries, the true mark of a politician’s triumph is not whether he transforms his own political party. It’s whether he forces the opposition to renovate itself and become tweedledum to mimic his own success as tweedledee.
- Farmers Deserve A Better Deal: Dr Swaminathan (Tribune, Prashant Sood, Dec 11, 2005)
Among the world’s leading agricultural scientists, Dr M.S. Swaminathan has played a catalytic role in India’s green revolution.
- Child In Need (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 11, 2005)
Childhood is a lost cause in India. The underprivileged child is exposed to hard labour, exploitation and abuse of every kind.
- `Z Plus' Security For Nitish (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2005)
Hardly a week after upgrading security cover for Railway Minister and RJD leader Lalu Prasad in view of the perception of threat from `communal forces', the Centre accorded the `Z plus' status to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, . . .
- Better Managers? (Hindu, S. Ramachander, Dec 11, 2005)
Women manage in a way entirely different from the way men do. But are they better at it?
- Disease Surveillance Vital To Control Epidemics (Hindu, Santhosh Rajagopal, Dec 11, 2005)
Several incidents in the recent past have highlighted the importance of early detection of disease trends. First, there was the encephalitis epidemic, and then there is the ever-present danger of global pandemics like bird flu.
- New Labour Laws Needed, Says Manmohan (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Dec 10, 2005)
More flexible regime will create more jobs
- International Meet On Cancer Treatment Starts Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Focus on emerging technologies for control of the disease
- Rhetorics And Reality Of Human Rights (Daily Excelsior, Jagjit Singh, Dec 10, 2005)
''Instruments of political oppression still threaten many thousands of people. The number believed to be incarcerated without a fair trial is quite high in some countries. In many cases oppressive states use the police and military to repress people . . .
- 'Growth From Labour Reforms' (The Financial Express, Reuters, Dec 10, 2005)
India needs to reform its labour laws so that they protect the interests of workers, create jobs and enable the country to attract investment for faster economic growth, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday.
- Is Blair Mark Ii Up To It? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 10, 2005)
If imitation is indeed the best form of flattery, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has reason to feel immensely flattered by the Conservative party's choice of David Cameron as its new leader.
- Hurdles In Way Of Growth (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Dec 10, 2005)
Whatever constraints (to growth) are there, are internal: constraints imposed by our polity, our social structures, our regional imbalances, our ability to handle inequity and our ability to take hard but essential decisions.'
- Indo-Us Relations On A New Level: Rocca (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Terming the Indo-US ties as being on a “new level”, US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Ms Christina Rocca, said a landmark nuclear agreement between the two countries was “well in train,” brushing aside the notion that Washington was “moving
- Qaeda-Iraq Link Us Cited Is Tied To Coercion Claim (Indian Express, Douglas Jehl and David Johnston, Dec 10, 2005)
The Bush administration based a crucial prewar assertion about ties between Iraq and al Qaeda on detailed statements made by a prisoner while in Egyptian custody who later said he had fabricated them to escape harsh treatment, according to current and....
- Pm Wants Labour Reform To Create Jobs, Growth (Reuters, Surojit Gupta, Dec 10, 2005)
India needs to reform its labour laws so that they protect the interests of workers, create jobs and enable the country to attract investment for faster economic growth, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday.
- Just See, Before It Catches You (Greater Kashmir, DR. K K PANDEY, Dec 10, 2005)
If your skin changes colours in cold winter mornings as dangerously as this, you are suffering from Raynaud’s disease, cautions Dr. K K Pandey
- Boom By The Brahmaputra (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Dec 10, 2005)
Travelling through Assam, Ashok Malik experiences an enormous pent-up consumer energy, just waiting to blow out the shortage economy
- Resolving Iran’S N-Issue (Dawn, Afzaal Mahmood, Dec 10, 2005)
Some new steps in dealing with the stand-off over Iran’s nuclear issue offer a flicker of hope that the harsh realities may induce some flexibility in Washington and Tehran, leading to a peaceful resolution of the current crisis.
- How Downer And Dfat Failed To Act On Ona And Asio Warnings Prior To The Bali Bombings (Tonykevin, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Where is our Australian Richard Clarke when we need him ?
I reproduce below the Sydney Morning Herald page 2 news report of 19 June 2003, "I don't remember seeing Bali warning: Downer" , Tom Allard - together with the accompanying illuminating SMH
- Positions Are Being Treated As Private Property (The Financial Express, YRK REDDY, Dec 10, 2005)
The number of positions—ministerial, professional, managerial or civil service—is always very few compared to the multitude of aspirants. But once occupied most of such positions become monopolies and properties on lease.
- The Other Face Of The Evil That Is Lashkar (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Dec 09, 2005)
Ejaz Butt's extraordinary story illuminates the lives of the foot soldiers of the organisation'sjihadin Jammu and Kashmir.
- Pragmatism Prevails (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 09, 2005)
The financial reality prevailed over political compulsions as the coalition government lowered the interest rate on the Employees Provident Fund from 9.5 per cent to a more realistic 8.5 per cent. Last year when the government had raised the . . .
- Subsidy On Icecream, Anyone? (Indian Express, ILA PATNAIK, Dec 09, 2005)
Did you receive an annual statement of balance for your provident fund with the EPFO on September 30? If not, you should worry. The records for as many as 85 per cent of accounts with the EPFO have apparently not been maintained properly.
- Upa Ignored, Bjp Wrangles With Left In Rajya Sabha (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
The decrease in Employees Provident Fund interest rate to 8.5 per cent, announced yesterday by Labour Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, led to an uproar in Parliament today.
- Life Arduous For Child Domestic Labourers (Hindu, Tarangini Sriraman, Dec 09, 2005)
Surveys indicate that most child labourers working in homes lead a tough existence
Most young domestic helps in twin cities from Warangal, Nalgonda and Mahbubnagar
Ill-treatment of child labourers takes many forms
- Necessary Of A Knowledge Society (Daily Excelsior, Ram Rattan Sharma, Dec 09, 2005)
Twenty first century is going to be driven by science & technology. National Development is going to be increasingly dictated more by the knowledge strength than by access to Natural resources & capital.
- Wahhabi Islam: A M I Snomer (Greater Kashmir, Dr. Sheikh Muhammad Iqbal, Dec 09, 2005)
A rebel with acause, amission and amessage - V
Dr. Sheikh Muhammad Iqbal writes about the contribution of Sheikh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab who rose in revolt against the socio-religious corruption prevalent during his times everywhere in Ottoman provinc
- Not Up To Scratch (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 09, 2005)
Gurudas right to attack education mafia
- Society To Oversee Textbook Supply To Schoolchildren (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Students will get textbooks without delay
- Bill Gates Calls On Karunanidhi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Discusses aspects of the Thirukkural with him
- India, 15 Other Asian Countries Agree On Combatting Bird Flu (Press Trust of India, Anil K Jospeh, Dec 09, 2005)
India and 15 other Asian countries have agreed to exchange information, develop new vaccines and enhance investment in their joint efforts to control the spread of bird flu wrecking havoc in the region.
- Buddha Denounces Strikes, Says Time To Rectify Mistakes (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Intelligent people do not participate in strikes and the CPI(M) is trying to rectify mistakes on labour issues made in the past: this was Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s message to the captains of the IT industry and presumably, . . .
- `Three Firms Have Taken Up Hiv, Aids Scheme In Goa' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
In all, 18 companies have launched the programme in the country
Nine more are framing work place intervention policies
UB to publish HIV, AIDS message on its labels
- Class Enemies (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 09, 2005)
When trade union leaders bawl about the poor but bat for the rich
- Disband The Epfo (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 09, 2005)
Controversy over the rate of return on the Employees’ Provident Fund has become an annual feature. This points to a structural problem.
- Death Factories (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 09, 2005)
Fire mishap was waiting to happen
Twelve labourers perhaps would not have died in a fire mishap in a Delhi garment factory on Wednesday if only the government had honoured the Supreme Court deadline set last year that all such factories should be moved
- Promoting Poorer Nations’ Interests (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 09, 2005)
The WTO’s celebrated rule-based system can be used to promote labour standards in a manner that does not penalise developing countries that improve the lot of their workers, say Sanjay Reddy and Christian Barry .
- Caring Hands Accepting Bribe? (Tribune, Kailashnath Sud, Dec 09, 2005)
A sting operation at the Medical Council of India’s Delhi office amply explained corruption in medicine. The caring hands were seen accepting bribes to set up medical colleges in the country as also registering student doctors with bribes of lakhs.
- Bitter Medicine Beneath The Sugar-Coated Diplomacy (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 09, 2005)
FRESH on the home-page of the WTO (www.wto.org) is the December 6 decision on changes to the WTO Agreement on TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights). It informs that cheaper generic versions of patented medicines . . .
- Indian, Chinese Railways: On Parallel Tracks (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Dec 09, 2005)
Though reform measures in China and India are not always comparable, there are many similarities and differences, especially when it comes to monolithic, government-run organisations.
- Can There Really Be Peace With Ariel Sharon? (Hindu, Gerald Kaufman, Dec 08, 2005)
The Gaza withdrawal has been a veil for continued persecution and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
- Bjp Slams Cut In Epf Interest Rate (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Condemning as "betrayal of the working class" the EPF Board's recommendation for one per cent cut in interest rate to 8.5 per cent this fiscal, BJP today alleged a "Left-Congress nexus" in the move and said it would protest against it vociferously . . .
- Concern Over Child Labour (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 08, 2005)
Two months after the earthquake, concern is being expressed about the future of children in the affected areas. Unicef is rightly worried that child labour is likely to increase in this scenario.
- Cases Of ‘Disappearance’ (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 08, 2005)
HRCP chairperson Asma Jahangir has drawn attention to a very serious problem that has emerged of late in Pakistan. It is the disappearance of people which is being reported from different parts of the country. Ms Jahangir has pointed out that an . . .
- Microsoft To Invest $1.7 Billion In India (Deccan Herald, K S Narayanan, Dec 08, 2005)
To accelerate its growing market presence in India, US-based global software giant Microsoft Corporation has announced a bouquet of sops here worth an investment of US$ 1.7 billion.
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