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Articles 421 through 520 of 500:
- Militants Kill Boxing Champ Mary Kom’S Father-In-Law (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2006)
Three-time winner of the World Women’s Boxing Championship MC Mary Kom’s father-in-law was shot dead by some gunmen in interior Bishnupur district of Manipur on Thursday.
- Year Of Hyper-Politics (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Dec 29, 2006)
Given the current mood of the people, the biggest gainers in 2007 could well be the regional players at the expense of the national parties
- Aids Control Programme To Be Expanded To Tribals (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Dec 29, 2006)
Social assessment shows low awareness
- On Foundation Day, Cong Weighs Coalition Compulsions (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2006)
On the Congress' 121st Foundation Day on December 28, the grand old party faces the same old problems.
- Question Of Identity (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 28, 2006)
The Centre’s proposal to introduce multipurpose photo-identity cards to all electors is welcome.
- Height Of Illusion (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 28, 2006)
While vowing to pay more attention to the North-east, BJP national president Rajnath Singh should have pinpointed the region’s intricate problems his party plans to tackle and which the Congress failed to address.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 28, 2006)
The disaster two years ago was natural, one of history’s worst catastrophes. The disaster today, on its second anniversary, is moral, almost a wilful failure of the human factor and quite as extensive as the tsunami.
- Yemen, Algeria, Reports May Prompt Centre To Issue Goa Terror Alert (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 27, 2006)
The Centre is considering issuing a New Year terror alert to Goa. This comes after Indian missions in West Asia and North Africa reported that intelligence inputs warning of a terror strike in Goa tallied with information obtained from interrogation . . .
- Stricken But Not Beaten By Aids (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 27, 2006)
Two victims help awareness campaign in Churachandpur district.
- Army Is State Responsibility (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Dec 27, 2006)
Even 60 years after Independence, a macro view of the state of the Union and defence of the realm is rare. Only routine bureaucratic and sanitised annual reviews by Ministries of Defence, Home and External Affairs are available.
- Security Ties With Myanmar (WhatIsIndia Publications, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2006)
Visiting Myanmar Home Minister Major General Maung Oo assured Home Minister Shivraj Patil that his nation will co-operate with India to share information at field and national level on insurgent movements, border management, and drug trafficking.
- From Coy Bride To Sex Worker: Journey Of An Hiv Widow (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2006)
This 28-year-old woman looks just like any other pretty woman her age but she is among the multitudes who have been infected by the HIV virus for no fault of theirs.
- Al Qaeda Threat: Security Beefed Up For Pm, Sonia (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 23, 2006)
The Centre has tightened security for UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi who along with Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is protected by the elite Special Protection Group (SPG).
- More Aids Counselling Centres Proposed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 23, 2006)
Plans to establish 4,955 ICTCs that will carry out 21 million AIDS tests a year
- `Yangon Will Not Allow Anti-India Activities On Its Soil' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2006)
Myanmar Home Minister Maj. Gen. Maung Oo gives the assurance to Shivraj Patil
- The Bandh That Wasn’T (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 22, 2006)
It would be naive to suppose that the Yuletide spirit alone prompted Mamata Banerjee to call off her bandh.
- Muivah In Delhi For Talks With Pm (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2006)
Less than a week before Christmas, top Naga rebel leader Mr Thuingaleng Muivah, landed here late last night from his base Amsterdam at an apparent invitation from the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, to carry forward the long-standing peace talks . . .
- Bihar, N-E, Tn To Be Thrust Areas In Highway Phase Iii, Govt Ok . . . (Indian Express, Kandula Subramaniam, Dec 21, 2006)
The Government is set to clear the entire Phase Three of the National Highway Development Programme (NHDP III) where seven new road projects are to be included for Bihar, taking the length of roads in the state under NHDP III from 113 km to 890 km.
- India To Ask Myanmar To Crack Down On Terror Camps (Times of India, Vishwa Mohan, Dec 21, 2006)
Alarmed by Lashkar-e-Taiba's attempts to set up bases in Manipur, India will ask Myanmar to crack down on camps which have became a common training ground for Pakistan-based terror outfits, as well as north-east insurgent groups.
- Higher Education, Lower Development (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 21, 2006)
Education, especially higher education, seems to be in focus in the Eleventh Five Year Plan. Rightly so.
- Killer Virus Stunts Economy (Hindustan Times, Sanchita Sharma, Dec 21, 2006)
Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection can bring down household incomes by at least 10 per cent, with poor agricultural labourers bearing the brunt of it, a National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) study on the socio-economic impact of . . .
- Rasta Roko (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 20, 2006)
The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, the world’s largest and richest urban body, which presides over the country’s financial capital, is in poll mode with its elections coming up on February 1.
- Lashkar Tentacles In Manipur (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2006)
The arrest of three Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operatives hailing from Manipur this morning has confirmed what was hitherto mere speculation — that the Pakistan-based outfit has set its eyes on the Northeast.
- For The People (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 19, 2006)
Nepal’s Seven Party Alliance and the Maoist leadership took so long to finalise the draft interim constitution that its eventual signing last Saturday was almost a non-event.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 19, 2006)
Nepal’s Seven Party Alliance and the Maoist leadership took so long to finalise the draft interim constitution that its eventual signing last Saturday was almost a non-event.
- Dismal Scenario In B’Desh (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 18, 2006)
JOI Bangla was the slogan that resounded in the streets of Dhaka and outside this month 35 years ago.
- Another Money-Spinner (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 18, 2006)
Had Medha Patkar joined the various organisations protesting against the construction of the Tipaimukh dam in Manipur, the agitation might have attracted national media attention.
- In Defence Of Special Powers (Indian Express, Harwant Singh, Dec 18, 2006)
At a recent public rally at the Kangla Fort in Imphal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh explained that the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) will stay but would be made “humane” and that the home ministry is working on this matter.
- 344 Affected By Aids In The Nilgiris (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 16, 2006)
A World AIDS Day workshop for the benefit of the elected representatives of various local bodies was organised by the district administration and the district AIDS control society here on Friday.
- Anti-Dam Activists Call For Strike (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2006)
Heavy Industries Minister Santosh Mohan Dev and Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde will lay the foundation stones for the controversial Tipaimukh dam and the Loktak Downstream project here on Saturday.
- Problem Resurfaces (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 15, 2006)
It is again a clash between the liberation and anti-liberation forces in Bangla. But the victims are the people.
- Reasons For Hiv Propagation (WhatIsIndia Publications, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2006)
A UNAIDS and World Health Organization (WHO) study has found that "poor knowledge of HIV" especially "among homosexual groups," male prostitution, and unsafe drug abuse practices are main drivers of HIV propagation.
- Trends In Bangladesh (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2006)
With a little over a month to go for the scheduled elections, the interim government in Bangladesh ~ virtually personified by its President, Iajuddin Ahmed ~ has begun to stew in its own juice.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 13, 2006)
With a little over a month to go for the scheduled elections, the interim government in Bangladesh ~ virtually personified by its President, Iajuddin Ahmed ~ has begun to stew in its own juice.
- ‘Controversy Over Pm’S Remarks Avoidable’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2006)
The Prime Minister’s Office on Sunday said an avoidable controversy has been created through a “deliberate and mischievous misinterpretation” of the PM’s statement on minorities at the National Development Council meeting on Saturday.
- Sharmila’S Voice Of Protest Echoes In London (Deccan Herald, Anirban Bhaumik , Dec 11, 2006)
On the international Human Rights Day, as Irom Sharmila continued her struggle against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Delhi’s AIIMS, the Manipuris in the UK gathered in the Trafalgar Square here to echo her voice of protest.
- Complex Challenge (Hindu, Sevanti Ninan, Dec 10, 2006)
The red ribbons on channel logos and the back to back special programming on December 1 each year affirm that media in general is alive to its role in fighting HIV-AIDS.
- Local Advantage (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 08, 2006)
There must be a determined, forthright response to the threatening warning from an amalgam of four terrorist tanzims to Kashmiri youth against joining any of the security forces ~ recruitment rallies should be held all across the state . . .
- Lashker, Jaish Expand Terror Network To B’Desh, Nepal (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2006)
Pakistan-backed terrorist groups Lashker e Taiba and Jaish e Mohammed are using territory and elements in Bangladesh and Nepal for movement of terrorists and finances, according to a status paper on internal security presented in Parliament.
- Armed Forces Act Amendment (WhatIsIndia Publications, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visiting Manipur said that his government will amend the Armed Forces Act withdrawing extraordinary provisions such as shoot-to-kill thus complying with demands made by many politicians of the North East (NE).
- Armed Forces Act Amendment (WhatIsIndia Publications, Aravind Sitaraman, Dec 07, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visiting Manipur said that his government will amend the Armed Forces Act withdrawing extraordinary provisions such as shoot-to-kill thus complying with demands made by many politicians of the North East (NE).
- Scrap Afspa In Northeast (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 06, 2006)
The prime minister’s recent declaration that the home ministry was working towards modifying the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in order to make it “more humane” is an inadequate response to the evolving situation.
- Repeal It (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 06, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s announcement that the Government is considering amending the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is not enough.
- A Step Forward (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 05, 2006)
Prime minister Manmohan Singh’s statement that the Centre is working on amending the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act to protect human and civil rights in Manipur is most welcome.
- Q&a: 'Dalits Have Been Made Pawns So Many Times' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Dec 05, 2006)
"Talking helps no one", says reluctant interviewee Vijay Tendulkar. The 78-year-old playwright, whose searing works on contemporary issues have achieved a cult status, tells Jyoti Punwani that he feels powerless about the lynching of a Dalit family . . .
- Repeal The Hated Act (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 04, 2006)
Welcome though the Prime Minister's latest promise to amend the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) is, the devil is going to be in the details.
- N-E Emerges As International Terror Front (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 2006)
The northeast is becoming a safe hunting ground for jihadis from across international borders with the region’s terrorist groups extending them logistic support.
- Act For Peace (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 04, 2006)
It cannot be a happy situation for a people to live continually under the army’s shadow.
- 'Pm's Promise Poll Gimmick, Scrap The Act' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 2006)
A day after PM Manmohan Singh promised to amend the controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, organisations fighting for complete scrapping of the legislation termed the proposal as hogwash for poll-bound Manipur.
- New Border Points Set To Open Up For Trade (Times of India, Indrani Bagchi, Dec 04, 2006)
India has decided to converge foreign policy with trade. Marking a breakthrough in the trade versus security debate, cabinet has approved a plan to establish a Land Ports Authority of India (LPAI) and 13 "state-of-the-art" integrated check posts . . .
- Pm ‘Rules Out’ Integration, But Nscn Says Talks Agenda To Stay (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 2006)
The crucial next round of Indo-Naga talks between the NSCN (I-M) and the Centre — scheduled to begin on Monday in Amsterdam — could well be in for another impasse following Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s not-too-indirect indication here on . . .
- Manmohan's Promise To Manipur (Hindu, K.V. Prasad, Dec 03, 2006)
Armed Forces Act to be amended
- Manmohan May Act Against Tough Law (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to announce in Manipur - on Saturday - changes in a tough law that gives sweeping powers to the security forces.
- Armed Forces Act To Be Amended (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Dec 02, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to make announcement in Manipur today
Shoot-to-kill provision to go
Law to be scrapped "if subsequent conditions allow"
- Lashker, Jaish Expand Terror Network To B’Desh, Nepal (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2006)
Pakistan-backed terrorist groups Lashker e Taiba and Jaish e Mohammed are using territory and elements in Bangladesh and Nepal for movement of terrorists and finances, according to a status paper on internal security presented in Parliament.
- Clinton Lauds Commitment Of Indian Companies (Hindu, Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar, Dec 01, 2006)
Lowering the prices of AIDS drugs needed to treat children commendable
- Lashker, Jaish Expand Terror Network To B’Desh, Nepal (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2006)
Pakistan-backed terrorist groups Lashker e Taiba and Jaish e Mohammed are using territory and elements in Bangladesh and Nepal for movement of terrorists and finances, according to a status paper on internal security presented in Parliament.
- Communal Award (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 30, 2006)
Mr Modi’s cold-blooded politics
Narendra Modi’s response to the Prime Minister’s compensation package for the victims of the Godhra riots is almost as cold-blooded as the fanatical fury that marked the pogrom in the spring of 2002.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 30, 2006)
Narendra Modi’s response to the Prime Minister’s compensation package for the victims of the Godhra riots is almost as cold-blooded as the fanatical fury that marked the pogrom in the spring of 2002.
- Unchain The Seven Sisters (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Nov 30, 2006)
Iranian activist and Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi touched a raw nerve during her visit to New Delhi when she thrust Manipuri activist Irom Sharmila back into the news.
- Make The Difficult Choice (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Nov 30, 2006)
Dissent against the state has become so fashionable that even terrorists like Afzal Guru have found sympathisers, says Anuradha Dutt.
- ‘India Epicentre Of Terror In Asia’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 30, 2006)
Pakistan sponsored terrorism is posing a major hurdle to the Indo-Pak peace process, and is a threat to the country’s security, said Army Chief General JJ Singh, delivering the BC Joshi Memorial Lecture at the University of Pune today.
- Pm Offers Olive Branch, But Ulfa Calls For Agitation (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 29, 2006)
On a day Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told former Assam chief minister P K Mahanta that his Government was ready to hold direct talks with the ULFA, the outlawed outfit urged the people of Assam to launch a movement against the “atrocities and . . .
- Of Mandarin Megalomania (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Nov 28, 2006)
When Chinese envoy Sun Yuxi startled New Delhi by staking claim to the North-Eastern State of Arunachal Pradesh on the eve of President Hu Jintao's visit, he was simply reiterating the Middle Kingdom's practice of never renouncing territorial claims.
- "The Answer To The Nuclear Issue Is More Democracy" (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Nov 28, 2006)
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003,Shirin Ebadiis a prominent lawyer and human rights activist within her country, Iran, as well as an advocate for human rights around the world. In an exclusive interview toThe Hindu, she spoke about the . . .
- Shirin Ebadi Meets Irom Sharmila (Hindu, Sandeep Joshi, Nov 27, 2006)
Promises to take up the issue of repeal of AFSPA at different global fora
- A Very Special Act (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Nov 27, 2006)
Call it a charade, or call it something else, a spectacle has been on over the past couple of years which keeps catching the eye.
- ‘Uninformed Homosexuals, Drug Abuse Spreading Hiv’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 24, 2006)
Poor awareness among homosexuals and the increasing use of contaminated drug syringes are the main reasons for the rise in HIV infections in northeast India.
- Punjab Elections May Be Held On March 4 (Tribune, Sarbjit Dhaliwal, Nov 24, 2006)
Though officially nothing has been conveyed to the Punjab Government either by the Centre or by the Election Commission with regard to the fixing of dates for the Assembly elections, sources said the commission was considering holding the elections . . .
- Pm Postpones Manipur Visit (Telegraph, Nishit Dholabhai, Nov 23, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has postponed his visit to Manipur to lay the foundation stone of the Tipaimukh dam, adding to the drama over the controversial project in Churachandpur district.
- Let Threat To Nuclear Plants (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 23, 2006)
The Indo-US nuclear agreement has made the country’s atomic power plants "highly vulnerable" to terror threats, Home Minister Shivraj Patil told India’s police chiefs on Wednesday.
- Imphal Explosion (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 22, 2006)
On the night of 14 November a grenade exploded at Manipur chief minister Ibobi Singh’s bungalow complex and CRPF personnel, entrusted with the security, did not know how it landed there.
- Two Women Arrested In Delhi With Five Kg Heroin (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 21, 2006)
Two women drug traffickers were on Monday arrested from the Inter-State Bus Terminal in northeast Delhi with five kg heroin worth Rs 5 crore.
- Myanmar In Transition (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Nov 16, 2006)
While public and media attention in India remains focused on events in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and the forthcoming visit of President Hu Jintao of China, New Delhi seems to be paying scant attention to developments in Myanmar, with whom . . .
- Myanmar Faces Instability (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Nov 16, 2006)
While public and media attention in India remains focused on events in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and the forthcoming visit of President Hu Jintao of China, New Delhi seems to be paying scant attention to developments in Myanmar, with whom . . .
- Rebels Attack Cm’S House In India’S Northeast (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 16, 2006)
Separatist guerrillas carried out a grenade attack on the home of the chief minister of India’s restive northeastern state of Manipur, police said Wednesday.
- Federal Mechanism Mooted To Take On Islamists, Ne Ultras (Pioneer, Yogesh Vajpeyi, Nov 15, 2006)
Alarmed by reports of the deepening nexus between Muslim fundamentalist organisations and Indian insurgent groups operating from Bangladesh, security chiefs of the North-eastern States have suggested setting up a Standing Committee on . . .
- Cong Braces Itself For Oppn’S Onslaught (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Nov 15, 2006)
All major political players are getting ready to fight their preliminary round of battle for the next year’s assembly elections in the coming winter session of Parliament commencing November 22.
- Manipur Tribal Students Block National Highways (Hindu, Iboyaima Laithangbam, Nov 14, 2006)
Demand of reservation not heeded by Government, it alleges
- Oppose Sezs, Says India Social Forum (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Nov 14, 2006)
"These will displace thousands of people and destroy farmers' livelihood"
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