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Articles 2021 through 2120 of 9581:
- Exclude Creamy Layer (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 28, 2006)
The Manmohan Singh government could finally table the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Bill, 2006, in the Lok Sabha, despite divisions among UPA coalition partners like the DMK and the PMK.
- 2 Let Men Arrested In J&k (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
The anti-Terrorists squad has arrested two alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives from the Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, who may be involved in the 7/11 Mumbai blasts.
- Hefty Road Taxes Take Their Toll (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Aug 28, 2006)
The present rate of tolls and other taxes on road transport are not justified. The government needs to review its policy.
- Understanding & Fighting Terrorism (Dawn, Talat Masood, Aug 28, 2006)
The news of the terror plot in Britain in which some British citizens of Pakistani origin and a few Pakistanis were allegedly involved came soon after the regrettable Mumbai train explosion that had the Indian leaders and media pointing fingers . . .
- Shaping The Minds Of Intelligence Agencies (Pakistan Observer, Dr Jassim Taqui, Aug 28, 2006)
There seems to be an epidemic among the Western intelligence agencies that is spreading to others as well. Both print and electronic media have recently highlighted . . .
- On The Banks Of The Kshipra (Hindu, TANUSHREE PODDER, Aug 28, 2006)
Apart from the temples, the ancient town of Ujjain has much more to offer a traveller.
- 'Oh, These Are Muslims!' (OutLook, B. Raman , Aug 28, 2006)
How the reactions changed when the identity of the 12 was not known, to when it was finally confirmed. Notice the divergence between the reaction from Indian passengers and from others? Or take the response from the government spokespersons....
- Exotic Dancers For Us Visas (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Aug 28, 2006)
An Indian jeweller with a worldwide business network stretching from Japan and Thailand to the UK and Brazil is on the run for bribing a US state department official with free flights, exotic dancers and hotel rooms in exchange for American visas.
- The Good Neighbour (New Indian Express, Swapan Dasgupta, Aug 28, 2006)
It would perhaps not be outrageous to suggest that had the authorities in Pakistan been as forthcoming with information to India, as they were to the British Intelligence, the July 11 carnage in Mumbai may have been averted.
- Atal Blows Sangh Trumpet (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Who is responsible for India becoming a nuclear power? Who ended the “licence quota raj”? Who annexed Kashmir to India? The Jan Sangh and the RSS, if A.B. Vajpayee is to be believed.
- Meet The Trainspotters (New Indian Express, Riju Dave Mehta, Aug 28, 2006)
They seem pedestrian enough, these people. Swinging between work and wants, cares and compulsions, they flit through life at a banal pace.
- Copying Script To Success (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, Aug 28, 2006)
The unabashed and blatant use of unfair means, both during examinations and in marking, is a shocking reminder of the fact that our educational and examination system has decayed.
- Pm Visit Effort To Derive Political Mileage: Bjd-Bjp (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
A day before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Orissa, the ruling BJP-BJD alliance today said it was “an attempt to derive political mileage”.
- After Ulfa, Centre Mulls Talks With Hizbul (Pioneer, Pramod Kumar Singh, Aug 28, 2006)
The Centre is mulling over opening talks with the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) on the pattern of the talks with the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), provided the Kashmiri militant group lives up to its promise word of going in for a ceasefire . . .
- Time To Rethink Policies (News International, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 28, 2006)
The dramatic return last week of the Northwest Airlines flight from the German airspace to Amsterdam’s Schipol airport, because a multiple ‘terrorist threat’ on board targeting 12 Indian nationals — all of them Muslim — has given a new dimension to . . .
- Maran`s New Deal (Business Standard, Sunil Jain, Aug 28, 2006)
This is the ultimate irony. The company that just last year challenged Trai’s decision to slash bandwidth tariffs (a major determinant of long-distance tariffs), not once, but twice, on the grounds that it was making just . . .
- It's Tv Movies In Mumbai! (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 28, 2006)
Even while it’s taken 13 years for the judgement to be readied on the 1993 Mumbai blasts case and 21 years for the 1985 Delhi transistor blasts case to be heard, parents in India’s political and commercial capitals and in the rest of the country . . .
- High-Level Meet To Tackle Naxal Menace Soon (Pioneer, Santanu Banerjee, Aug 28, 2006)
The Cabinet Secretary is slated to hold a high-level secretarial meeting shortly to evolve an effective strategy for dealing with Naxalite created bottle-necks in developmental works in the affected districts.
- Musharraf Regrets Indian Refusal To Accept Kashmir Options (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf has reiterated that peace and stability cannot be restored in the region without the resolution of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the aspirations of the Kashmiri people.
- Behind The Numbers (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Though most marketers have a way of focusing on the headline numbers, as the recent reports of Indicus Analytics’ The Market Skyline of India 2006 show, this can be quite misleading.
- Twelve Indian Passengers Arrive In Mumbai (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The 12 Indian passengers of a Mumbai-bound Northwest Airlines flight, who were detained and later released in Amstredam following suspicious behaviour on a US airliner, arrived here early on Saturday.
- India Protests To Netherlands Over Plane Detentions (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
India protested on Friday the Netherlands’ detention of 12 Indians following a mid-air security scare, saying it was ‘shocked’ at their treatment, but the Dutch government said it was just following procedure.
- No Apology From Dutch On Detention Of Indians (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Aug 26, 2006)
There has been no categoric apology from the Dutch for the detention of 12 Indian passengers on board a Mumbai-bound Northwest Airlines flight that took off from Amsterdam on August 23.
- Vertu Constellation: Nokia Launches Collection Of Handcrafted Models (Business Line, Our Bureau, Business line, Aug 26, 2006)
Nokia has launched Vertu Constellation, the latest in the recent series of handcrafted mobile phones, in India. The collection showcases seven handcrafted models — in black, tan, chocolate or pink leather, made available in stainless steel and gold finish
- Mea Gets It Right (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 26, 2006)
The Foreign Office has got it just right in its intervention to bring home the hapless Indian passengers on the flight from Amsterdam to Mumbai. It has been criticised for not doing enough for those who carry the nation’s passport and get into trouble abr
- Dutch Envoy Summoned, (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Taking "strong notice" of the arrest and detention of 12 Indians from a flight in Amsterdam, the Government today summoned the Dutch Ambassador here today and conveyed its unhappiness over the incident.
- 'Behaviour Of Concern' (OutLook, B. Raman , Aug 26, 2006)
The Dutch police are reported to have arrested 12 passengers from a Mumbai-bound Northwest Airlines on August 23, 2006, after it was escorted back to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport minutes after take off by Dutch F-16s.
- The Culprit Wants Proof (Pioneer, Sunita Vakil, Aug 26, 2006)
Even though relations between New Delhi and Islamabad have hit a new low after the Mumbai blasts, both are back to talking.
- Introspect And Reform (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Aug 26, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh might consider his speech at the recent conference of Muslim ulemas in New Delhi as "bold".
- Follow The Dutch (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The brouhaha over Dutch authorities taking 12 Indian Muslims in custody for questioning is totally uncalled for.
- Secure Skies (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Amidst the highest concerns ~ paranoia perhaps, with some distasteful fall-out ~ over the safety of commercial aviation a whole range of new technology and procedural overhaul is evident.
- Letters To The Editor (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Sir, ~ I had an opportunity to meet West Bengal’s health minister, Surya Kanta Mishra, when he was in Toronto from 12 to 19 August to attend the world AIDS conference.
- Push The Pace (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
That George Bush should use cuss words when he thinks the microphones are off is not really very surprising.
Has this man ever struck you as a guy with an overwhelmingly sophisticated command of the language?
You do remember that he was asked wheth
- Macaulay, Hitler And Us (Indian Express, SAUBHIK CHAKRABARTI, Aug 26, 2006)
Perhaps Macaulay would have understood. I didn’t.The Englishman who got Indians started on the English language is rather more famous in his native country for what was a 19th century bestseller.
- Cross Border Terrorism : (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
There seem to be no finite limits to Indian's threshold of tolerance for terrorism emanating from Pakistan. The July 11 serial blasts in Mumbai were the latest in a series of these terrorist attacks.
- A Non-Existent State (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
This is apropos of In a world of its own (August 19).
- Stars On The Political Sky (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Once they glittered on the big screen. Do our filmstar MPs shine in Parliament? A report on how they fared in the last session
- Lesson From London (Hindustan Times, Julio Ribeiro, Aug 26, 2006)
Mumbai and London — two different cities of different people and different cultures! Both in news for the same reason — terrorism and terrorists! The police in one city received the thin end of the stick, in the other, encomiums! The reason — one . . .
- Letters To The Editor (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Dinesh Trivedi, an MP, has done the right thing by moving the Supreme Court against the utterly selfish, and self-centred act of MPs in passing the Office of Profit law (IE, August 23).
- Khan Saheb In Kashi (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 26, 2006)
There are moments when I love my job, or rather my business of journalism — even I, a hard-nosed, cynical hack of nearly three decades.
- Flying In The Time Of Fear (Hindustan Times, Sanchita Sharma, Aug 26, 2006)
If you put aside having to place your passport and tickets in a ziploc bag and then take off your shoes and jacket for security checks, you might just discover the lighter side of travel in the shadow of terror.
- Who Are The Bohras? (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The 12 men arrested in Amsterdam on Flight NW-42, and since cleared of all charges, were Bohra Muslims from Mumbai. The point of interest is that the Bohra community has always been known for being strictly apolitical, and sharply focused on its primary t
- Ril Set To Buy Stake In Rewas Port (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Reliance Industries is close to acquiring a stake in Rewas Port. The acquisition is expected to help RIL facilitate trade in two special economic zones it is building.
- Avoid Paranoia (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
In the face of extreme terrorist threat, various governments can be excused if they follow a zero-tolerance policy.
- Quota Bill In Lok Sabha (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Somnath Chatterjee refers it to Standing Committee
The aim is to provide 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in Central educational institutions: Creamy layer included
The policy will not be extended to minority institutions.
- Role Of Pakistani Being Probed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
In the Mumbai train blasts investigation, the Anti-Terrorist Squad on Thursdaysaid that they are investigating role of the Pakistani national who was killed on August 22.
- The Nuclear Deal (Daily Excelsior, Arun Nehru, Aug 25, 2006)
The debate on the Nuclear issue was rather tame and clearly the Prime Minister and the Government are doing the right thing and on this issue there is little need to fire 'blanks' in the air [Left parties] and if we look at the political and . . .
- Mid-Air Paranoia: Suspects To Be Freed Sans Charges (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
All 12 passengers detained by the Dutch police, following a "security alert" aboard a Mumbai-bound airliner, are Indians.
- The Empire Strikes Back (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Aug 25, 2006)
Having failed to push through the amendment to the RTI Act, the Government is now attempting to bring it in through the backdoor.
- Diverted Flight Was 'Not Terrorism': Dutch Ministry (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
The emergency return of a Northwest Airlines flight to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport under fighter escort did not appear to have anything to do with terrorism, Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner said on Thursday.
- Dutch To Free Passengers Arrested On Flight To India (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
Dutch authorities will release all 12 passengers arrested on a US Northwest Airlines plane bound for India on Wednesday after concluding they were not planning an attack, prosecutors said on Thursday.
- Hitler Is Cool (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 25, 2006)
The sense of something being in bad taste is often difficult to explain.
- Freedom For Dozen On Flight Of Fiasco (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
The F-16s were scrambled in vain. The 12 men offloaded from a Mumbai-bound US flight and detained in Amsterdam yesterday are of Indian descent but posed no terrorist threat, Dutch authorities said today.
- India's Rigid Stand (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 25, 2006)
The news emanating from New Delhi is not positive and what is coming out can at best be called confusing. India's Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday that things like joint control or joint . . .
- Respect Others’ Feelings (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 25, 2006)
The arrest of one of the seven people involved in cutting the hair of a Sikh boy in Jaipur should, hopefully, lead to the arrest of all the others and blowing over of the whole incident.
- 12 Mumbai-Born Passengers Detained At Amsterdam (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
The 12 passengers on the Mumbai-bound Northwest Airlines flight detained at Amsterdam after the aircraft made an emergency landing are all Mumbai-born...
- Indians Arrested In Netherlands Charged For Flight Disruption (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
The 12 Indians, travelling by a US airliner and arrested in The Netherlands, have been charged with disruption of flight, government said here tonight.
- Plane Truth: Disruptive 12 Not Terrorists (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
The 12 men detained by the Dutch authorities from a Mumbai-bound Northwest airlines and charged with flight disruption were Indian garment traders from Mumbai.
- Tasteless! (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 25, 2006)
India’s miniscule and dwindling Jewish community has ever averred that it has never been subjected to discrimination or racist taunts in the land which provided refuge to its ancestors, the majority of them anyway.
- Isi Involvement (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 25, 2006)
Except as an indicator of the continuing downslide in Indo-Pak relations little purpose was served by the home minister taking a strident line in the Rajya Sabha and directly . . .
- Pak Police Shifts Let Founder (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
Founder of the banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taibba (LeT) Hafiz Saeed, who has been kept in house detention since 10 August, was today shifted to an unknown location, a spokesman for the charity headed by him said.
- Are Asians Facing A Witch-Hunt In Mid-Air? (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Aug 25, 2006)
In recent weeks, a number of people of Asian or Arab origin have been forced off flights in Europe and America. What these cases illustrate goes far beyond legitimate policing and security precautions.
- The Telangana Turn (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Aug 25, 2006)
When Telangana Rashtra Samithi chief K. Chandrashekhara Rao walked out of the UPA and began his hunger strike at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on August 23, he was not the first Andhra leader to use this evocative tool to pursue an emotive cause.
- Use The Remote (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 25, 2006)
In Mumbai, it took one prudish petitioner. The high court reiterated its December 2005 ban on ‘adult content’ on TV, extending it to direct-to-home providers and broadcasters.
- Barbs Against The Congress (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 25, 2006)
The Darul Uloom Deoband’s monthly journal, Mahnama Darul Uloom in an editorial in its latest issue has recognised the contribution of the Congress party in India’s independence, but has gone onto strongly criticise the economic policies of the regime.
- No Progress In City Serial Blasts Probe (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Mumbai police said on Thursday that there was no headway in investigations into the July 11 serial blasts. The ATS released the sketch of an unclaimed body found in one of the blast sites to establish its identification.
- Adults Like It, You Know (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 25, 2006)
In the gigantic crèche that is India, adult content in television channels has always created a flutter among those wracked with Freudian neuroses.
- Life Is For A Cause (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 25, 2006)
I DO not know why Pakistan has overreacted to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s reiteration that if cross-border terrorism remains unabated the supporters of peace process would be weakened. I got frantic calls from TV stations in Karachi to react.
- Raja Among The Princes (Indian Express, Jayaditya Gupta, Aug 25, 2006)
I never saw Wasim Raja play. Not even in that memorable Eden Gardens Test in 1979-80, when Pakistan livened up a dead match with the threat of an improbable run-chase; I was, to my eternal regret, occupied trying to impress a young lady and . . .
- Misplaced Suspicion: All 12 Detained Indians Released (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
All the 12 men arrested in Amsterdam for alleged suspicious behaviour on a Mumbai-bound US airliner are Indian nationals and were being released after Dutch authorities cleared them of the suspicion of act of terrorism.
- Police Crack Down On Prostitution In Agra (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
More and more girls, some still infants, are being groomed to become prostitutes in the Taj Mahal city of Agra. But the police are determined to end it all.
- The Born Again Terrorist (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 25, 2006)
Less than a fortnight after Heathrow, another scare aboard a Northwest Airline flight has the world’s headlines. Perhaps we’d be less scared if we learnt more. There is no convenient ‘us’ and ‘them’ when it comes to terrorism. ‘Converts’ who join . . .
- Uti Employee, Died Of Injuries 11 Days After The Blasts (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
He had recently installed an AC in his flat at Borivali and wanted his mother to come over. Over a month has passed since Sanjay died of injuries in the 7/11 blasts but Rajarshi still regrets that she couldn’t keep his last wish.
- Fog Of War (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 25, 2006)
Call it the fog of war.
- Chamatkar: India’S Miracle Worker (Indian Express, FARAH BARIA, Aug 25, 2006)
Mumbai’s Meethi is the most speciously named river in geological history.
- Eve Of Quota Bill, Protestors Hit Streets Again (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
At least 20 people were injured in a pitched battle between anti-reservationists and policemen during a massive demonstration when the former forcibly attempted to enter the information centre to submit a memorandum to the Rajasthan Governor . . .
- Dutch To Free Passengers Arrested On Flight To India (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
Dutch authorities will release all 12 passengers arrested on a U.S. Northwest Airlines plane bound for India on Wednesday after concluding they were not planning an attack, prosecutors said on Thursday.
- Road To Telangana Hyderabad, Congress Politics Are In The Way (Tribune, Ramesh Kandula, Aug 25, 2006)
The indefinite fast undertaken by Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao is oddly reminiscent of the one in the early 1950s that led to the creation of Andhra state, though no two persons can be as dissimilar as Potti Sriramulu . . .
- Mumbai's Cross (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 25, 2006)
The naming of a new restaurant in Navi Mumbai after one of the world's most brutal mass murderers — changed after a week of public outrage — is a shameful example of the triumph of ignorance.
- 12 Detained By Dutch Authorities To Be Freed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
They were not planning an attack: prosecutors
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