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Articles 1821 through 1920 of 9581:
- ‘‘Chalta Hai’’ Security (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Sep 02, 2006)
There are almost daily revelations that India's security apparatus has been penetrated at several different levels by US and Pakistani agents. Two ISI agents arrested in West Bengal in connection with the Mumbai blasts have disclosed that there are . . .
- The State(s) Of Employment (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Sep 02, 2006)
In a year since the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREG) was passed by the Parliament, it is petty politics rather than corruption that is posing the biggest hurdle to the scheme’s successful functioning.
- Don't Need Censorship (Times of India, Mahesh Bhatt, Sep 02, 2006)
There comes a moment in the life of a nation when it has to decide whether it is going to be led by fears of alarmists or by the values of its founding fathers, who fought and died for its most prized value — that of free speech.
- Sureesh Mehta To Be New Naval Chief (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
In key appointments in Armed Forces, seniormost naval officer and fighter pilot, Vice Admiral Sureesh Mehta was today named as the country's new Chief of Naval Staff and Let Gen Thomas Mathew along with Let Gen Arvind Mahajan were appointed Adjutant . . .
- Manmohan Lays Stone For Strengthening Power Grid (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today laid the foundation stone of one of the largest grid strengthening schemes for the western region.
- Tackling Terrorism (Tribune, Prakash Singh, Sep 02, 2006)
Let those who want to hurt us by inflicting a thousand cuts remember - no one can break our will or unity. No one can make India kneel.”
- Protecting Our Young Isn't Child's Play (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 02, 2006)
The Supreme Court decision to uphold the death sentence for two women, convicted of kidnapping 13 children and murdering nine of them, clearly meets the ends of justice. Considering that children are far more vulnerable than adults to violence, . . .
- Flights To Leh Being Increased To Promote Tourism: Azad (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Trying to put the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir on the international tourism map, the State Government is taking slew of measures to develop the connectivity and infrastructure to the untapped scenic region of mountain passes.
- Terror Concern To Dominate Manmohan-Musharraf Meet (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
India’s concerns on cross-border terrorism and all aspects of Indo-Pak ties may dominate talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on the sidelines of NAM summit to be held in the Cuban capital of Havana . . .
- Providing Social Security To Poor Workers Upa Priority: Pm (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the priority of the UPA government was to provide social security to poor workers and take steps to increase their incomes.
- Ind's Concerns On Terror To Dominate Singh-Musharraf Talks (Press Trust of India, K J M Varma, Sep 02, 2006)
India's concerns on cross-border terrorism and all aspects of Indo-Pak ties may dominate talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on the sidelines of NAM summit to be held in the Cuban capital of Havana . . .
- Upa Compromising With National Symbols: Advani (Pioneer, Rajeev Ranjan Roy, Sep 02, 2006)
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha LK Advani on Friday questioned the attitude of the UPA Government with regard to the singing of Vande Mataram on September 7 as a mark of the conclusion of year-long celebration . . .
- Forbes Lists Nooyi As More Powerful Than Sonia (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Chief executive-designate of Pepsico Indra Nooyi and ICICI bank's Lalita Gupte and Kalpana Morparia, are on Forbes magazine's list of 100 most powerful women in the world.
- Double Indian Whammy To Nepal’S Arms Bid (Statesman, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Sep 02, 2006)
Just four months after it came to power pledging to restore peace, transparency and good governance, Prime Minister Mr Girija Prasad Koirala’s government has been caught in the most embarrassing situation possible with the discovery that as it . . .
- Conform Or Fly Jihad Air (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Sep 02, 2006)
By lodging a protest with the Dutch Government over what happened on flight NW 0042 on August 23, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has made Indians of all genres possible suspects and therefore unwanted in the future.
- Humane Frisking (Pioneer, Anjan Roy, Sep 02, 2006)
India has shown the way by not availing the easy option of profiling air travellers based on stereotypes. The Advance Passenger Information System, now installed in New Delhi, could, if implemented efficiently, offer passengers and security . . .
- Why Alienate If You Can Garner Support (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 02, 2006)
By promoting racial profiling, Governments are planting seeds of more terrorist modules. They are only alienating a whole mass of people who would only be glad to participate in the war against terrorism
- Mha Tightens Anti-Naxal Steps (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
The Union home ministry is preparing specific measures, including provision of need-based air support and surveillance of the Naxal-affected areas, through unmanned aerial vehicles in order to check the growing menace of ultra-Left violence.
- 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 . . .
- Retired Sbi Employee, Was Awaiting His Fourth Grandchild (Indian Express, LEKHA AGARWAL, Sep 02, 2006)
Living at his elder daughter Prabha’s house in Goregaon as his wife Lakshmi was away, Krishnan used the opportunity to do what he loved doing — spoil his grandchildren, nine-year-old Akshay and five-year-old twins Abhishek and Ashwin.
- State Gets Copters To Fight Naxals (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
The Centre has decided to extend air support to six states for counter-Naxal operations.
- Heavy Rains Lash Madhya Pradesh, Alert Sounded In Bhopal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Flight operations affected in the State capital as water inundates part of the runway at Raja Bhoj airport; death toll mounts to 134.
- Cross-Border Terrorism To Figure In Talks (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Sep 02, 2006)
Meeting expected to inject life back into the peace process
- Some Progress, Some Stagnation (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Sep 02, 2006)
From the preliminary data of the third National Family Health Survey emerges a mixed picture.
- Centre Does Flip-Flop On Boundary (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
The Centre on Friday injected a fresh row into the boundary dispute between Karnataka and Maharashtra by withdrawing its “prepared affidavit” and indicating that it was in the process of preparing “a fresh written statement” to be filed in the . . .
- Tale Of A ‘Poor’ Minister (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Minister for Housing D T Jayakumar is a rich man but still is neck deep in debt. He gets a five-figure income annually and owns a site in South Bangalore, nearly a kg of gold and acres of agricultural land. But, he has not been able to repay . . .
- Nooyi, Sonia Among World’S Powerpuff Women (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi has been listed as the 13th most powerful woman in the world in the annual Forbes listing, headed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
- Pressure On Pm To Finalise Farmers’ Package (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Sep 01, 2006)
Worried that the deepening agrarian crisis could have an adverse impact on its electoral fortunes, a high-powered Congress delegation today mounted pressure on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to expedite the implementation of the special . . .
- Potholes To Roadblocks: A Smooth Transition In Mumbai (Indian Express, FARAH BARIA, Sep 01, 2006)
There’s a pothole near our house, about the size of a shallow grave. Like everyone else in Mumbai, we have learnt to negotiate it with cautious sangfroid, shaving carefully along the rim, yet pretending not to notice it at all.
- Seniority Could Be The Key To Natwar Successor (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Sep 01, 2006)
By appointing Shiv Shankar Menon as the country’s new foreign secretary today, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh chose ‘competence’ over ‘seniority’; but the same principle is unlikely to be applied when filling in the vacant slot of External Affairs . . .
- Image And Reality (Times of India, RONOJOY SEN, Sep 01, 2006)
In the aftermath of the Mumbai blasts, there has been a good deal of introspection about the alienation of Muslims in India. But in the capital of new Europe the EU headquarters in Brussels the buzzword is Indian multiculturalism and its apparent success.
- The Second Hijack (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Sep 01, 2006)
The Kandahar hijack continues to haunt India in the form of wistful what-ifs.
- Harsh Lessons In College Politics (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 01, 2006)
When I made Haasil in 2003, I was drawing on my immediate environment but I never anticipated that student politics would become politicised to this extent.
- Death For Child-Smash Sisters (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Two sisters who kidnapped children and killed them by smashing their heads against walls or electricity poles could become the first women to be hanged in Independent India.
- Hrishida, Goodbye (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 01, 2006)
When Hrishikesh Mukherjee died at 84 in Mumbai last week it was a legend (in his lifetime) that had passed away.
- Heathen Under Every Bed (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Sep 01, 2006)
We have, seemingly, already arrived at that situation. The Western world, led by the United States of America, has chosen.
- Chained Wife Forced To Drink Urine (Telegraph, G.S. RADHAKRISHNA, Sep 01, 2006)
A man who locked up his wife in a room for three years and made her drink her own urine for opposing his bigamy has been arrested.
- 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.
- Terror Firma (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 01, 2006)
In his Independence Day speech, Manmohan Singh linked Naxalism with Islamic terrorism. Someone else has made the connection before the PM did: the Naxals and the Islamic terrorists.
- 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.
- Look Within (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 01, 2006)
Deepti Naval may not have reached the status of Shabana Azmi or Smita Patil but nobody can deny that she is a highly sensitive actress.
- Shyam Saran Named As Special Envoy For U.S. Nuclear Deal (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
India named its outgoing foreign secretary on Thursday as special envoy for negotiations with the United States over a controversial civilian nuclear cooperation deal that is yet to be approved by the U.S. Congress.
- Keep Bad Guys Out (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Sep 01, 2006)
Something is happening at a regular frequency these days that should bother us. More police parties from other states have started visiting our State in recent times than ever before.
- Mother Russia Behind Nepal Arms Deal (Statesman, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Sep 01, 2006)
While Nepal’s new government headed by prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala has been celebrating 2006 as the golden jubilee of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Himalayan kingdom and the former . . .
- 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.
- Shiv Shankar Menon Named Foreign Secy (Pioneer, Shobori Ganguli, Sep 01, 2006)
Shyam Saran special envoy on Indo-US N-deal
- J&k Needs Balanced, Equitable Development (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 01, 2006)
The relevance of 'Development' as an instrument of change particularly to build on peace dividends is widely recognized.
- Nepal Arms Deal Was With Russia (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Russians were the key players in the secretive bid by Nepal to obtain a fresh cache of weapons using Indian air space.
- When Politics Strikes At Forest Roots (Business Line, Editorial, Business Standard, Sep 01, 2006)
The primary cause for the destruction of forests is encroachment, and, ironically, such illegal occupation is often because of some policy decision of the State or Central government.
- Urdu & Secularism (Frontline, A.G. NOORANI, Sep 01, 2006)
A clutch of new books focus on the progressive nationalist tradition of Urdu poetry.
- Mortgage Your House, Earn An Income (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Senior citizens can now earn a fixed monthly amount by mortgaging their houses.
- Election Commission Votes Out Microsoft (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
The Election Commission will bid adieu to Microsoft-Office to embrace the Open Document Format (ODF) in its offices throughout the country from September 1.
- 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.
- Aids Treatment: Court Pulls Up Health Ministry (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
It has failed to achieve target to provide ART to HIV positive patients'
- Cauvery Water For 100 More Slums (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
BWSSB gearing up to meet water supply needs of `Greater Bangalore'
- Cut-Price Cas (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 01, 2006)
In announcing a payment plan for the roll-out of the Conditional Access System (CAS) that will replace the current free-for-all in the cable television industry from the beginning of 2007, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has begun . . .
- Indians Who Disgrace India (Pioneer, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Sep 01, 2006)
From swatting flies to crushing protesters under tanks, the Chinese Government holds a world record in disciplining people.
- Corporate Design (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
The growing trend of corporate bigwigs entering Parliament has become a matter of serious discussion.
- 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.
- Living In The War Zone (Frontline, Editorial, Frontline, Sep 01, 2006)
Instilling in the young qualities such as character and comradeship is one way to defeat the temporary triumph of terrorists.
- A Reverse For Terrorism? (Frontline, R.K. Raghavan, Sep 01, 2006)
This battle of wits can never end. But there is no reason why the fight should be given up, for that will strengthen the perpetrators of evil.
- Muslims Against Terrorism (Times of India, YOGINDER SIKAND, Aug 31, 2006)
The dastardly bomb blasts in Mumbai have been strongly denounced by scores of Muslim organisations and leaders across the country. The Urdu press has given wide coverage to their statements. Unfortunately, however, these voices have hardly been . . .
- Adults Contained (Times of India, ANAND SOONDAS, Aug 31, 2006)
The Indian government is scaring me now. More so because I am not an independent, mobile republic like Arundhati Roy is.
- People’S Poison (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 31, 2006)
Something as banal as breathing clean air is obviously not a priority in Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s Resurgent Bengal. Otherwise, why should Calcuttans be repeatedly denied that most basic of biological necessities, and by none other than the state . . .
- Omar Heckled By Pdp Workers, Azad Intervenes (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2006)
Opposition National Conference president Omar Abdullah was today booed at a function here, calling for Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad’s intervention.
- Lady Muftis Breach Male Bastion (Telegraph, G.S. RADHAKRISHNA, Aug 31, 2006)
Sania Mirza’s short skirts may have hogged global headlines, but city teenager Amina Batool perhaps better represents the rise of woman power in India’s Muslim society.
- Thrall Of Terror (Business Line, Raghu Dayal , Aug 31, 2006)
A diabolical plot to blow up the trans-Atlantic airliners thwarted just in time by M-15 in the UK earlier this month caused much fear and despair.
- Rbi Seeks More Authority Over Psu Banks (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2006)
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is seeking to have a greater say in the appointment of directors and CEOs of government-owned banks, as it has in private sector banks.
- 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 . . .
- Core Group Proposals To Oversight Committee (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2006)
The core group of management institutions has proposed to the Veerappa Moily Oversight Committee a phased implementation, to be spread over the next three or four years, of the Centre's move for 27 per cent reservation of seats for the Other Backward . .
- ‘Naxal Violence Has Come Down, We’Re On Right Track’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2006)
A day-long meet between the Centre and 13 Naxal-affected states held today concluded that they are moving in the right track to curb the Naxal menace.
- Hyderabad Youth Pulled Off Us-Bound Plane In London, Returned . . . (Indian Express, Karn Kowshik, Aug 31, 2006)
A Hyderabad youth, who claimed he was on his way to the US for an MBA in Rhode Island, was pulled off a plane in London, detained by police on August 25 and sent back to India.
- Battle Of The Bahus (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 31, 2006)
The lead story in the latest issue of Organiser, titled “Sonia’s vendetta on Maneka’’, gives a detailed account on the CBI’s “witch-hunt’’ against the BJP MP over the release of funds to a couple of NGOs in Pilibhit when Maneka Gandhi was the social . . .
- Naxal Desk To Be Strengthened (Tribune, S. Satyanarayanan, Aug 31, 2006)
Admitting gaps in the implementation of development and security related projects at the grassroots level in Naxal-hit states, the Centre today announced the strengthening of the Naxal desk in the Union Home Ministry by inducting senior police . . .
- Jawans Get Relief In Medical Scheme (Tribune, S.S. Negi , Aug 31, 2006)
Lakhs of ex-servicemen superannuated before January 1996 and denied post-retirement treatment facilities in government hospitals have got a major relief from the Supreme Court.
- Andhra Pradesh: Road To Kondamodalu (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2006)
The recent floods have provided a ruse to the government to relocate people affected by the Polavaram dam.
- Ministries Can’T Build (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 31, 2006)
The numbers are scary enough — 66 per cent jump in cost, thanks to Central government project delays, as reported by this newspaper on Wednesday. But the actual numbers are scarier.
- Where Will The Sezs Get Power From? (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2006)
“The sezss are fine...but where are they going to get the power from?” asks Maharashtra’s energy minister Dilip Valse Patil.
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