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Articles 321 through 420 of 442:
- India Achieves Leprosy Eradication Target (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 31, 2006)
Prevalence rate stands at 0.95 cases per 10,000 population
Less than one case per 10,000 population is globally-accepted level of elimination
Full eradication in 20-25 years
Chhattisgarh has the highest prevalence rate, followed by Delhi
- 260 Million Indians Still Below Poverty Line (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Jan 28, 2006)
A large proportion — 26 per cent or about 260 million (193 million in rural areas and 67 million in urban areas) — of Indians are still below the poverty line, according to India's first Social Development Report released in New Delhi on Friday.
- ‘Dharam Singh Giving Up His Post Is Also A Possibility’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 22, 2006)
With the meeting of the extended Congress Working Committee (CWC) in progress at Rajiv Nagar in Hyderabad, perhaps the one issue topmost in Congress strategist Ambika Soni’s mind is the crisis in Karnataka, where the party’s coalition government . . .
- Keeping Barter Trade Alive (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Jan 22, 2006)
An ancient system is sustained by the Tiwas of Assam
- Folly, Knavery And Charlatanry (Deccan Herald, Prema Nandakumar , Jan 22, 2006)
With sizzlers at regular intervals in the book, E N Rammohan has quite a literary flair for a man of action.
- Dasara March To Feature In State Tableau For R-Day (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
The State tableau will contain, behind the palace, the Chamundi Hills with the Mahishasura statue atop it. While the elephant, the howdah, the palace and the hills would be mounted, the tableau would also feature traditional artists from the State . . .
- Police Brutality In Orissa (Times of India, Suhas Chakma, Jan 17, 2006)
The paddy fields and homestead lands of Kalinganagar of Orissa, where Tatas earmarked land for their steel plant, have become political playfields following the killing of 11 Adivasis on January 6. The state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party . . .
- Fencing Masters (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 17, 2006)
Borders and boundaries are matters of a state’s security, but the people living on them may view things very differently.
- Tackling The Cold Wave (Tribune, Dr J.S. Sharma, Jan 15, 2006)
In north India, when the minimum temperature drops three to four degree centigrade below the long term (normal) average, cold wave conditions set in. Excessive drop in the temperature, frost and snowfall has significant effects on crops, vegetables, ....
- Fencing Puts Fate Of 40 Villages In Balance (Indian Express, TILAK RAI, Jan 13, 2006)
Forty Meghalaya villages along the India-Bangladesh border would fall under Bangladesh territory once the fencing of the international border with Bangladesh is undertaken, according to a survey. Now the villagers have been demanding re-survey . . .
- Bangladesh Releases Meghalaya Forest Officials (Indian Express, TILAK RAI, Jan 05, 2006)
After a month in captivity in Sylhet jail, three Meghalaya forest officials were released by Bangladesh Rifles last evening and were handed over to the Border Security Force at the Dawki outpost.
- Mixed Fare (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 03, 2006)
What 2005 meant to the North-east
No North-eastern state suffered political tsunamis in the year just ended, thanks to the anti-defection law and downsizing of ministries that checked characteristic toppling games and horse-trading so common to Meghalay
- The Idea Of Haryana (Tribune, Shubhadeep Choudhury, Dec 28, 2005)
Haryana is now officially the most prosperous state in the country with the highest per capita income. But the Haryanvi elites are still not happy. They are uncomfortable with the fact that the state does not have a sufficiently vibrant art and . . .
- Kuldeep’S Inner Eye (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Dec 26, 2005)
Isolation Room I, Sixth Floor, AIIMS. There lies Kuldeep Singh, a bus driver who may never drive a bus again. He may never have walked.
- Nation Will Go ‘Renewable’ In Big Way By 2020 (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 25, 2005)
Green Oscar award winner Dr Shanti Pada Gonchoudhuri of Tripura, is in the forefront of the nation’s drive to tap solar power in its efforts to popularise cost effective, eco-friendly non-conventional sources of energy.
- Pm To Secure Meghalaya Foresters' Release From B'desh (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 23, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would personally intervene to secure the release of three Meghalaya foresters, now lodged in Bangladesh jail, official sources said on Tuesday.
- Bangladesh To Release Forest Officials (Indian Express, SUDHI RANJAN SEN, Dec 21, 2005)
Days after India issued a note verbale and expressed extreme displeasure at three forest officers of Meghalaya being taken hostage by the Bangladesh Rifles, Bangladesh has decided to drop cases against the trio and release them.
- Spread Literacy (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2005)
It can only be a matter of regret that Jammu and Kashmir continues to be in the company of States with poor literacy rates. With only 54.46 per cent of its total population described as literate (65.75 per cent men and 41.82 per cent women) the State . .
- At Odds With The Cross (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Dec 13, 2005)
Two indigenous groups with a lived history of centuries of civilisational amity are supposedly engaged in fratricidal conflict in Assam's Karbi Anglong district. To the bewilderment of the majority of Karbis and Dimasas, gangs of armed and hooded . . .
- 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
- Sixth Schedule Status For Gorkha Hill Council (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Tripartite Memorandum of Settlement signed between the Centre, West Bengal Government and GNLF
- Forest Cover Falls In Himachal Pradesh (Tribune, Ambika Sharma, Dec 07, 2005)
With merely five of the 12 districts in Himachal, including the two tribal districts of Lahaul Spiti and Chamba, registering an increase in the forest cover in the latest report of the Forest Survey of India (FSI), the foresters have a challenging . . .
- Sleuths Sniff Out Maoist Meet (Deccan Herald, Anirban Bhaumik , Dec 03, 2005)
The intelligence agencies in the northeastern states and West Bengal were put on alert following a report that leaders of some of the ultra-leftist movements across South Asia would meet somewhere along the India-Bangladesh border this month.
- Australia Pledges $7.4 M To Fight Aids In India (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Australia’s government marked World AIDS Day today by announcing a $ 7.4 million aid programme to help battle the deadly disease in India.
- Australia To Help India Fight Aids (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Australia's government marked World AIDS Day on Thursday by announcing USD 7.4 million aid program to help battle the deadly disease in India.
- Australia Pledges $7.4 Mn To Fight Aids In India (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Australia's government marked World AIDS Day on Thursday by announcing a $7.4 million aid programme to help battle the deadly disease in India.
- Meghalaya:select Committee Meets, Next Sitting Dec 14 (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 29, 2005)
A select committee of the Meghalaya assembly today met here to review the vexed Meghalaya Board of School Education (MBOSE) amendment bill and fixed December 14 as the next date for its sitting.
- National Highways, The Lifeline Of India (Daily Excelsior, G L Khajuria, Nov 27, 2005)
Roads, are the arteries of the country which carry the life blood of economy related to trade and commerce to every nook and corner of the nation and boosting its sustainability and augumention in a bigger way.
- The Northeast Exception (Hindu, Sarmila Bose, Nov 22, 2005)
Argues for a policy reorientation towards the Northeast and linking it to a new `Look East' policy
- Young Indian Man's Dreams Dashed By Aids, Drugs (Reuters, Kamil Zaheer, Nov 21, 2005)
Like any fairly healthy 30-year-old man, Lolly dreams of one day getting married and having children.
- Elected Representatives Of Northeast Sign Aids Declaration (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Nov 20, 2005)
Elected representatives of the Northeast on Saturday signed a "Guwahati declaration" resolving to draft legislation guaranteeing universal access to treatment of AIDS and ensure that people infected or affected by the epidemic are not subject to discrimin
- Pm-Ulfa Talks (Daily Excelsior, Subhashis Mittra, Nov 17, 2005)
The positive beginning to the landmark peace talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and representatives of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has kindled a ray of hope for bringing the curtain down on a dragging three-decade . . .
- Hard On World Bank -Guwahati Incident Unbecoming Of Ngos (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 15, 2005)
NGOs are set up specifically to help the people and they do enjoy a measure of public support.
- North East Back On The Radar (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Oct 29, 2005)
The shooting of students in the Garo Hills of Meghalaya, an unseemly debate on how to deal with the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), and the imminent resumption of the Centre-NSCN (I-M) dialogue underscore the tinderbox nature of geopolity . . .
- Mitrokhin Papers: Ambika Soni Defends Congress (Tribune, Rashme Sehgal, Oct 19, 2005)
The controversy over Christopher Andrews’ recently released book titled “Mitrokhin Archive 11” refuses to go away. The Mitrokhin papers reveals how the KGB’s first prolonged contact with Indira Gandhi occurred way back in 1953.
- A Crisis In Meghalaya (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Oct 17, 2005)
The D.D. Lapang Government is caught in the crossfire of a Khasi-Garo spat over the Board of School Education.
- Crusader On Foreign Origin Issue (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Oct 16, 2005)
In the weird world of politics, morality and ethics have been the biggest casualty and rare are persons who hold on to these values.
- Jumping Jack Flash (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 14, 2005)
Nationalist Trinamul Congress leader PA Sangma, who resigned his Tura Lok Sabha seat, was a worried person after his Meghalaya unit of the NTC merged with the Nationalist Congress Party.
- `Farmer Households Spend 55 Pc On Food' (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2005)
THE average Indian farmer household spends the highest share (Rs 101.27 or 20.14 per cent) of its monthly per capita expenditure of Rs 502.83 on cereals and cereal substitutes, followed by 9.68 per cent on milk and milk products.
- Making The Rti Act Effective (Tribune, Mandakini Devasher, Oct 09, 2005)
October 12 will be celebrated as Dusshera, the festival symbolising the triumph of good over evil.
- Meghalaya: The Violent Up Rise Against Indian Government Continues – Police Says Firing Was Ordered By Indian Magistrate On Duty (India Daily, Duong Long, Oct 05, 2005)
Meghalaya is part of India and will be part of India.
- Meghalaya Firing (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 04, 2005)
The conflict between the Khasi and Garo tribes in Meghalaya has yet again claimed young lives.
- Hills Run Red (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2005)
Need for restraint in Meghalaya
- 61.6 Per Cent Of State's Farmer Households Are In Debt (Hindu, Nagesh Prabhu , Sep 18, 2005)
Dependence on moneylenders has made farming unprofitable, says survey
- Supreme Court Summons Health Secretaries Of Five States (Hindu, J. Venkatesan, Sep 15, 2005)
To explain reasons for non-implementation of order relating to sterilisation
Hearing a PIL petition seeking framing of guidelines for performing sterilisation
Order said only doctors with five years of gynaecological experience could carry . . .
- Ore Of Woe (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 14, 2005)
Uranium up against Meghalaya politics
- Happy Ending (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 07, 2005)
With the Meghalaya government having met the demand of the Khasi Students’ Union supported by 21 social organisations, hopefully peace will return to Shillong.
- What Lies Beneath The Surface (Telegraph, SUDIPTA BHATTACHARJEE, Sep 06, 2005)
Despite the rise in surrenders by militants, the lack of a proper rehabilitation policy will defeat the purpose, writes Sudipta Bhattacharjee
- Dead Fish Move With The Flow (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Aug 29, 2005)
Discarding old methods of farming and blindly adopting foreign ones has been extremely unprofitable
- Minimum Wage Must Be Treated As Sacrosanct (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Aug 23, 2005)
The guarantee of employment at a wage rate less than the statutory minimum — as the draft EGA stipulates — will undermine the broad purpose of the law and set a bad precedent.
- Trespassers Should Be Prosecuted (Pioneer, Prakash Singh, Jul 27, 2005)
The Supreme Court, through a landmark judgement, has done what the NDA Government wanted to do but did not, and what the UPA Government, blinded by vote-bank considerations, was always opposed to.
- Hindus Make Ideal Emigres (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 24, 2005)
This refers to the article, "Sun never sets on Indians" (The Cutting Ed, July 17), by Mr Chandan Mitra.
- Hindus Make Ideal Emigres (Pakistan Observer, Prafull Goradia, Jul 23, 2005)
This refers to the article, "Sun never sets on Indians" (The Cutting Ed, July 17), by Mr Chandan Mitra
- Guns Of Kolkata: An Industry Fighting For Survival (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 14, 2005)
It was an industry that used to be a very successful one even a few years back. Not any more today. The guns in Kolkata have stopped booming. Not in the real sense though, but in sales figures.
- Gom To Study Changes In Immoral Traffic Act (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Jun 26, 2005)
A group of ministers (GoM) has been asked to study the proposed amendments to the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1986. The Tourism Ministry is said to have opposed the changes saying these would adversely affect tourism.
- Reforms In Power Sector Paying Dividends: Sayeed (Hindu, T. Ramakrishnan, Jun 09, 2005)
11 States to start unbundling of electricity boards
- Literacy Programmes Run Out Of Steam (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Jun 07, 2005)
THE FIRST meeting of the High Level Group of Northeast Chief Ministers and Education Ministers on May 29 in Guwahati was an eye-opener
- Heavy Rush At Sufi Shrines (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 30, 2005)
HRD Ministry examining report
Guwahati: The Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) is yet to release Rs. 15 crores to Educational Consultants India Limited for the proposed Indian Institute of Management in the region despite
- 12 States Heading For Power Crisis (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2005)
Southern region fares better with shortage less than one p.c. `Lack of fresh investment and modernisation coupled with huge transmission losses are responsible for the grave power situation.'
- Strains In Relations With Bangladesh (Tribune, Raghubansh Sinha , May 14, 2005)
Even as the recent border tension between India and Bangladesh has been prevented from escalating in the aftermath of the killing of a BSF officer and a Bangladeshi girl, the repeated border skirmishes and their fallout on the local population . . . ,
- Managing The Border (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 20, 2005)
New Delhi and Dhaka should resolve their territorial problems
- Misconceptions Galore (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Apr 09, 2005)
SHOPKEEPERS in different parts of the country have expressed their displeasure with the Government of India’s decision to implement a value added tax (VAT) system by downing shutters.
- Vat On Mat (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Mar 28, 2005)
WITH barely three days to go to hit the deadline of April 1, 2005 fixed for introduction of VAT, many are still uncertain as to the exact nature of the beast.
- Tourists At Kangla (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 11, 2005)
More than a month after the the historic Kangla Fort in the heart of Imphal was vacated of the Assam Rifles and the keys handed over to the state government, the seat of governance of the erstwhile independent kingdom of Manipur has become a major attract
- A Farcical Vote Of Confidence (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 04, 2005)
The sudden political convulsions that gripped Goa have seen the emergence of its 14th Chief Minister since 1990 under circumstances that are bound to be debated fiercely between the main protagonists
- Managing An Iim (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Jan 28, 2005)
Assam and Meghalaya have locked horns over which state should get the country’s seventh Indian Institute of Management (IIM) that the Centre wants to establish in the Northeast.
- Land Border Conundrum (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 31, 2004)
Important land border routes in West Bengal (Petrapole, Hili and Mahadipur) and the North-East (Dawki, in Meghalaya) to Bangladesh, which have over the years aided the steady growth of border
- Lag-Bhag Confused (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Nov 22, 2004)
They say a political honeymoon lasts six months. Maybe that’s why Manmohan Singh still smells of roses. That or the media wears rose-tinted glasses.
- No Roads To The Market (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Nov 10, 2004)
What is the difference between animals and humans? Had you asked George Orwell, the answer might have been — none at all.
- Kashmir Journalist, Others Honoured (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Oct 31, 2004)
Twentyfive years ago one single sentence from Mulk Raj Anand “O P you ‘ll die a shopkeeper! “ — changed erstwhile paper tycoon OP Jain’s entire outlook and focus. Weaning himself from business....
- Snowballing Protest (Business Line, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 06, 2004)
Widespread protests in Manipur over a draconian law
- Keeping Off The Gm Bandwagon (Hindu, Suman Sahai , Jun 15, 2004)
It is embarrassing that India, with such agricultural strengths and dependencies, is lurching from biotech product to product with no defined policy to guide it.
- Pawar Flirts With Sena-Bjp, Meets Advani (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Jan 07, 2004)
The NCP in Maharashtra is keeping all its options open — toying with the idea of a tie-up with the Shiv Sena-BJP combine even as it has the Congress for an ally. Sources said today that the Shiv Sena-BJP combine has offered 10 of the 48 Lok Sabha seat
- Coming: A Happy New Year (Telegraph, Shankar Aiyar, Dec 30, 2003)
“Writing,” wrote Hazlitt, “concentrates the mind wonderfully.” Defeat does so even more wonderfully. Even while those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad, so as the Bharatiya Janata Party reels drunken with triumphalism over its upset ...
- Sonia For Alliance First, Leadership Later (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2003)
2004: ‘Let people decide if I’m acceptable as PM, I want to work with other parties’
- Defective Politics (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Dec 26, 2003)
The latest amendment to the anti-defection law is flawed. Defections will not be eliminated.
- Over 300 Ministers To Lose Their Jobs, Happy New Year (Indian Express, Aasha Khosa, Dec 19, 2003)
For once, stop blaming politicians. They all got together in Parliament to pass a landmark law that makes it next to impossible to switch camps for jobs. They also stand to lose: Cabinet size can’t be more than 15% of House strength. So they will bring...
- Careful Fences (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 16, 2003)
On the face of it, there is nothing wrong with Meghalaya wanting to make work permits mandatory for “outsiders” employed in the state. It is easy to understand a small north-eastern state’s anxiety to protect its population from being swamped by outsiders
- Look East, But Via The Northeast (Indian Express, SANJIB BARUAH , Dec 12, 2003)
Without using the Northeast as a conduit, India’s wooing of southeast Asia will fail. China offers a model
- New Mizoram Govt On Slippery Ground (Tribune, David M. Thangliana, Dec 12, 2003)
CHIEF Minister Zoramthanga, who has been sworn in for his second term in office, says his government will concentrate on development and peace.
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