|
|
|
|
|
|
Articles 721 through 820 of 9581:
- Create Rehab Plan For Sez Oustees (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 06, 2006)
IN the name of development, the central government appears to be bent on reducing the area of agricultural land and hence curtailing the quantum of food production.
- Mumbai 1993: Two More Held Guilty, One Acquitted (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
The special TADA court trying the 1993 serial blasts case today convicted two aides of Tiger Memon, Nasir Abdul Kadar alias Dhaklya and Mohammed Rafiq Sheikh, on the charge of conspiracy. However, accused No 132 Ahmed Mansoor was given the benefit . . .
- There’S No Gilt In Wealth Creation (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Oct 06, 2006)
At a board meeting in Mumbai last week, the discussion went beyond taking organisational decisions into the future of economic reforms. On top of the agenda was pension reforms.
- Once Bitten Never Shy (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 06, 2006)
The world is close to winning the battle with some of the most terrifying, maiming and killer diseases. Tetanus in newborns, poliomyelitis, leprosy and river blindness will soon join small pox and guineaworm as diseases found only in medicine textbooks.
- B’Lore, Metros Must Shift To Lng: Who (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 06, 2006)
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday said it was high time Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata followed New Delhi’s way and switched to LNG (liquefied natural gas) as rising pollution levels posed a serious health hazard to these cities.
- It Is The Biggest Problem, Says Advani (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani said here on Thursday that internal security was the biggest problem confronting the country and the situation was being "aggravated" by the Union Government's policies.
- New System For U.S. Visa Appointment (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Business Executive Programme also to be expanded
- `There Are Safeguards To Prevent Real-Estate Profiteering From Sezs' (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 06, 2006)
The Board of Approval for SEZs is aware of concerns of the farm sector and State governments have also been sensitised about adequate compensation for farmers. — MR GOPAL K. PILLAI, COMMERCE SECRETARY
- People Can't Be Compelled To Participate In Bandhs (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 06, 2006)
In July 1997, the Kerala High Court delivered a path-breaking verdict declaring forced bandhs illegal.
- Cross-Border Terrorism Exploiting Emotions (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 06, 2006)
No man can take another man’s life. But the arguments of leaders to save Afzal are a sort of blackmail.
- Foundation Laid For Rail Corridor (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
It will boost industrial development and agriculture: Manmohan
Country's largest single infrastructure project
More jobs to be created.
- India At Frankfurt — And How (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Oct 06, 2006)
India is the guest of honour at the prestigious book fair but Indian publishing has a long way to go to join the big league.
- Ties In Saffron Camp Reach Breaking Point (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Chances of a patch-up between the BJP and the Shiv Sena appeared thin on Thursday with the Maharashtra BJP president Nitin Gadkari reiterating his party’s claim over the Chimur Assembly seat, the bone of contention for the spat between the saffron . . .
- Can A Slum Become A World Class Township? (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Oct 06, 2006)
What is the motive for a new slum redevelopment plan for Dharavi? Will people like the potter and the cobbler be given their due?
- Singh Tells Pakistan To ‘Walk The Talk’ On Anti-Terror Vow (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Pakistan has to prove it is sincere about working with India to counter terrorism, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned after police accused Islamabad of plotting blasts that killed 186 commuters in Mumbai.
- Can India Trust Pak With Vital Evidence? (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Security and Intelligence agencies are seriously concerned about the dangerous implications of the Government's decision to test the success of the recently floated joint terror mechanism by handing over to Pakistan entire sets of evidences on the . . .
- Proof Of Pak Hand In Blasts (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 05, 2006)
The documented evidence of Inter Services Intelligence’s complicity in the 11 September train blasts in Mumbai ~ compiled by the Anti-terrorist Squad and Mumbai police’s Crime Branch ~ has identified Pakistan supported Lashker-e-Toiyyaba commander . . .
- Dengue In Pm’S House (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 05, 2006)
The dreaded dengue virus has not spared even the Prime Minister’s residence with two of his grandsons and his son-in-law admitted at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences here, suspectedly for dengue.
- Tata In Talks To Buy Corus (Business Standard, Kausik Datta, Oct 05, 2006)
Tata Steel, the country’s largest private steel company, is in advanced negotiations with the Anglo-Dutch steel giant, Corus Group, for a possible takeover.
- Hinglish Gets Going (Pioneer, RADHAKRISHNA RAO, Oct 05, 2006)
Polyglot India has always been an innovator in enriching languages in a style that is both inimitable and distinct.
- India Fears It Is Losing Edge Over Pakistan (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
India’s senior security officials met here on Wednesday to consider a range of urgent issues including a nagging fear of losing Delhi’s traditional military edge over Pakistan, sources said.
- Coping With Terrorism (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Oct 05, 2006)
Muslim community leaders have a responsibility to isolate terrorists, and help in intelligence gathering and counter-terrorist operations, says Hiranmay Karlekar.
- Isi Of Pakistan (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Oct 05, 2006)
It is a real-life tale that readily comes to mind. A group of journalists from South Asian countries were travelling in a bus in Pakistan's Capital city of Islamabad.
- Havana's Flawed Mechanism (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Oct 05, 2006)
Ever since the "historic" Havana meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, spin doctors in the Prime . . .
- 11 Pak Men Involved In Mumbai Train Blasts (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Oct 05, 2006)
India will share with Pakistan evidence of the ISI’s “involvement” in the serial train blasts in Mumbai on July 11, but this time New Delhi will take extra precautions that the exercise does not compromise operational preparedness.
- Making Borders Irrelevant (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Oct 05, 2006)
EVER since the “historic” Havana meeting between Dr Manmohan Singh and Gen Pervez Musharraf, spin doctors in the Prime Minister’s Office have been averring that the General assured Dr Manmohan Singh that Pakistan was not involved in the 7/11 bomb . . .
- India To Give Names Of Blasts Accused To Pak (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon met Home Secretary V K Duggal here today when the two officials are understood to have discussed the claims made by Mumbai Police that ISI was directly involved in planning the July 11 serial train blasts in . . .
- Sad, Bjp Seek Kalam’S Intervention For Farmers’ Relief (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP combine today accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of neglecting farmers’ issues in Punjab and sought immediate intervention of President A P J Abdul Kalam so that relief could be provided to them without any delay.
- Will Pak Walk The Talk On Terror! (Daily Excelsior, Subhashis Mittra, Oct 05, 2006)
It was indeed "Mohabbat Zindabad". After hitting a road block in the aftermath of the serial blasts in Mumbai in July, the chill in the India-Pakistan peace process seems to have thawed.
- Cpm’S Double Standards (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 05, 2006)
The lead story in this week’s Organiser slams CPI(M) for ignoring “grave security concerns” to lobby for a Chinese firm, Hutchison Ports Holding, in the case of privatisation of ports.
- The Limits Of Finger-Pointing (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 05, 2006)
The Mumbai police chief's claims about the Pakistani provenance of the July 7 terrorist explosions have prompted the Bharatiya Janata Party to make the completely over-the-top demand that New Delhi sever diplomatic relations with Islamabad.
- Cross-Border Terror — The Uncomfortable Questions (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 05, 2006)
One has little hope that Pakistan will carry out a sincere investigation after obtaining the evidence. But more worrying is that plots hatched across the border involve Indian accomplices.
- Service Innovations (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 05, 2006)
E-Seva is the name of a massive e-governance project of the Andhra Pradesh Government.
- State Stands Still For Belgaum (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
The State-wide bundh called by pro-Kannada organisations against the Centre’s stand on the boundary dispute between Karnataka and Maharashtra on Wednesday, was total and incident-free in Bangalore City.
- Sez Protests Gather Steam As Medha Patkar Plans To Lead Rally In Pen (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Anti-SEZ protests are expected all over Maharashtra for the next two days, as opposition to the land acquisition gets stronger. Launching the battle against the new-age growth engines is Medha Patkar, who has planned a rally at Pen in the Raigad district.
- Centre Okays Rs 1,550-Cr Middle Vaitarana Project (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
The Centre has cleared a major infrastructure project for Mumbai under the National Urban Renewal Mission (NURM).
- Katrina's Fairer Than Fair Feet: And The Lankeshwar's Laptop (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 05, 2006)
Our hallowed traditions have, over the past one week, been under concerted attack.
- On The Horns Of A Dilemma (Deccan Herald, Deepak K Upreti, Oct 05, 2006)
Having to ‘judge’ the cases involving those who allegedly snuffed out many innocent lives and committed gruesome rapes, including those of minors, the President is faced with a very difficult choice.
- Ministers To Meet On Chikungunya (Deccan Herald, K S Narayanan, Oct 05, 2006)
Financial aid, increased supply of fogging machines and the setting up of a special laboratory in South India are some of the issues that would be discussed at an anti-chikungunya meet, to be attended by the health ministers of eight affected . . .
- Talks With India Could Resume Late October - Pakistan (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Pakistan said on Monday that peace talks with India could resume in late October, and offered to take action if proof was given that Pakistani spies and militants were involved in bomb attacks in Mumbai last July.
- When The Enemy Lies West (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Pankaj Mishra dredges up gigantic civilisations locking horns with the West in his ‘angry’ book.
- Pak Promises ‘Action’ Sans Suspect Handover (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Pakistan will “help in investigations” of the Mumbai train blasts if India provides evidence, but will not hand over any person wanted by India.
- Talks With India Could Resume Late October: Pak (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Pakistan said on Monday that peace talks with India could resume in late October, and offered to take action if proof was given that Pakistani spies and militants were involved in bomb attacks in Mumbai last July.
- 'India's Assertion On Mumbai Blasts Based On Concrete Evidence' (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
India on Monday said its assertion that ISI and Pakistan-based terror groups were behind the Mumbai bomb blasts was based on "concrete investigation and evidence" which it would hand over to Pakistan.
- Fighting Terrorism Together (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 03, 2006)
For years charges have been levelled against Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the ISI, that it has been involved in the terrorism that has destabilised South Asia.
- Talks With India Likely To Resume After Eid: Fo: Baglihar Meeting Under Way In Paris (Dawn, Qudssia Akhlaque, Oct 03, 2006)
Pakistan and India appear all set to resume composite dialogue later this month, soon after Eidul Fitr, with a review meeting of foreign secretaries in New Delhi.
- No Proof Of Isi’S Involvement Received: Pm (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Monday rejected Indian allegations of Inter Services Intelligence’s involvement in the Mumbai blasts and said Pakistan had received no evidence so far to support this allegation.
- Pak Hand In Mumbai Blasts Vindicates Maha Govt Stand (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
With investigations into the Mumbai serial train blasts pointing towards a Pakistani hand, the Maharashtra Government's view that the recent terror trend was part of Islamabad-sponsored jehadi terrorism stands vindicated.
- India, Sa For Global Action Against Terror (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
South Africa today strongly denounced the barbaric terror strikes in Mumbai and joined India in demanding a "global and comprehensive" fight against the scourge to eradicate it completely.
- Headless Chicken (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Oct 03, 2006)
Not just the state, or business, NGOs need Gandhigiri too
- Public Health Spending And Outcomes In States (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Oct 03, 2006)
In the previous edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh discussed the inadequate levels of Central Government expenditure on health, which has led to increased private expenditure.
- Patil Asks Rbi To Go Soft On Ucb Loans (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
State finance minister Jayant Patil has held talks with officials of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to seek that loans made by urban co-operative banks (UCBs) to sugar and weaving co-operatives for which the state government has given guarantees . . .
- The Isi, Once More (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 03, 2006)
The ISI is once again in the eye of a worldwide media storm. Over the last couple of weeks, the country's premier secret agency has repeatedly grabbed the headlines, being accused of a catalogue of alleged misdemeanours by a variety of familiar sources.
- Not By Fiat (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Oct 03, 2006)
Three months ago, President Bush issued an order stating that the US government must limit its use of the doctrine of eminent domain, which allows the state to compulsorily take over private property, such as land.
- The Bane Of Indian Society (Hindu, S. Viswanathan, Oct 03, 2006)
Noted social historian Dilip M. Menon endorses in his introduction a pertinent question often raised by many India watchers and also echoed by Dalit activists: how is it that caste-related violence . . .
- India Escalates Pak Bashing (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 03, 2006)
Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon has said that Pakistan ‘will’ be provided evidence of ISI’s involvement in the Mumbai trains bomb blasts.
- Let Sinking Ships (And Airlines) Sink (Business Standard, Govindraj Ethiraj, Oct 03, 2006)
In the last ten days, I’ve witnessed an Indian aviation miracle of sorts. I arrived in Mumbai airport at three different times, late afternoon, evening and night.
- Urban Chaos And Official Apathy (Business Standard, M GOVINDA RAO, Oct 03, 2006)
Even when we focus only on fiscal issues, there are a variety of structural problems.
- The Evil That We Live With (Pioneer, BULBUL ROY MISHRA, Oct 03, 2006)
Why is it that instead of reining in crime, our social and political leaders readily resort to the 'root cause theory', asks Bulbul Roy Mishra
- Isi Mark (OutLook, B. Raman , Oct 03, 2006)
The Mumbai Police naturally did not share with the media the details of the evidence regarding the ISI involvement collected by them.
- Of Indian Bureaucracy From Far And Wide (The Financial Express, Subhash Agrawal, Oct 03, 2006)
The plethora of mindless rules is a big barrier to progressive change and the way others see us
- Indian Propaganda Helping Bail Out Their Terrorists, Says Fo (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Says Pakistan will cooperate if India gives evidence
Foreign secretaries likely to meet after Ramazan
- Rope In Us (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 03, 2006)
It's too early to write off the joint anti-terror mechanism agreed to in Havana, as many are wont to, with the Mumbai police uncovering Pakistani links to the 7/11 attacks.
- Q&a: 'Bombard The Government With Rti Queries' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 03, 2006)
For the last three years, Shailesh Gandhi, 59, has been spreading awareness about Right to Information (RTI) Act across Maharashtra.
- Pak Not To Hand Over Any Suspect (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
A day after New Delhi said it would confront Islamabad with the evidence of its involvement in the Mumbai blasts, Pakistan today promised it would take action against any of its nationals having links with the attack if provided information about it . . .
- Musharraf’S Kargil Account Wrong: Aziz (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Rejecting President Pervez Musharraf’s claims on Kargil, Pakistan’s former foreign minister Sartaj Aziz has said the conflict disrupted the Lahore peace process.
- Centre Mulls Shortcut To Get Multi-Role Aircraft (Tribune, T.R. Ramachandran, Oct 03, 2006)
Considering the desperate need of the IAF to replace its ageing Russian inventory of fighter aircraft with 126 multi-role combat aircraft to meet its growing strategic needs, the government is actively considering overriding the “request for . . .
- South Africa Backs India (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Oct 03, 2006)
South Africa declared today that once the US Congress cleared the Indo-US nuclear accord and it reached the nuclear suppliers’ group, it would fully support India’s case.
- Stern Tests Ahead (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 03, 2006)
Just days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pervez Musharraf announced the creation of a joint . . .
- Gujarat Madrasas: An Education In Terror? (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Oct 03, 2006)
Investigations into a Lashkar-e-Taiba cell in Gujarat cast new light on the Islamist networks that carried out the Mumbai serial bombings — and raise hard questions about the State's madrasas.
- Isi: In The Firing Line (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Oct 03, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's remarks against the intelligence agency have created a stir.
- Nation Pays Tributes To Gandhi, Shashtri (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
All-religion prayer meets marked the birth anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri today as prisoners in Pune’s Yerawada jail earned diplomas in Gandhian ideology and leaders asked militants to follow the path of nonviolence.
- Another Tiger In The Cross-Hairs (Indian Express, Amar Farooqui, Oct 03, 2006)
Not much ingenuity is required to grasp the divisive political agenda that prompted D H Shankaramurthy, Karnataka Minister for Higher (!) Education, to declare recently that all references to Tipu Sultan should be deleted from school textbooks . . .
- Cotton’S Other Reality Check: Boom May Take India Past Us (Indian Express, VIKAS DHOOT, Oct 03, 2006)
For those who thought India’s cotton story was only about farmer suicides, attributed to failed crops despite the Centre clearing a Rs 17,000-crore package for distressed farmers in four states on the back of the Vidarbha package announced by . . .
- Mumbai Blasts (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 03, 2006)
When the Maharashtra police on September 30 claimed to have found conclusive proof that Pakistan’s ISI was behind the Mumbai blasts on July 11, 2006, resulting in the death of as many as 187 train passengers, Pakistan’s immediate reaction was . . .
- Pak Response: If Proof There, Will Act But No Handing Over (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
A day after New Delhi said it would confront Islamabad with the evidence of its involvement in the Mumbai train blasts, Pakistan today promised action against any of its nationals with links to the attack if it’s provided information but said it . . .
- Passing The Bug (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 03, 2006)
One of the world’s most successful mass mobilisation programmes to tackle a public health issue, the immunisation drive against polio, finds itself mired in what can best be described as ‘inter-state imbalance’.
- Flying Is A Pain (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 03, 2006)
Some people are under the impression that the government in New Delhi is a pre-reform Congress government.
- A Strategy After Facts (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 03, 2006)
Shiv Shankar Menon, the new Foreign Secretary, has given some needed perspective to the issue of the new joint consultative mechanism on terrorism with Pakistan. Pakistan, he has pointed out, needs to be judged by its actions, not words.
- Issue To Be Raised With Pakistan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
'New evidence on ISI involvement'
Pakistan to be judged by action on terrorism
Hopeful of India-U.S. nuclear deal
Previous 100 Maharashtra Articles | Next 100 Maharashtra Articles
Home
Page
|
|
