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Articles 1121 through 1220 of 22138:
- India To Buy 40 Second-Hand French Jets (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
India wants to buy about 40 used fighter jets from France and Qatar to bolster its defenses, the Indian Air Force chief said.
- Our Ailing Leaders (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Oct 07, 2006)
It costs the nation a fortune to keep him in poverty. These, or words to this effect were very fondly spoken by Sarojini Naidu, the late freedom fighter and ‘‘nightiangle’’ of India to describe the cost of ‘‘maintaining’’ Gandhi and his very, very . . .
- Uk To Probe India Call-Centre Data Security (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
The UK government will investigate the security of personal data at Indian telephone call-centres after a television programme said financial records for hundreds of thousands of Britons were available for purchase there.
- 20 Injured As Protests Continue In Kashmir (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Twenty people were hurt on Friday in fresh clashes in held Kashmir between police and demonstrators demanding clemency for a Muslim man sentenced to death for plotting a 2001 attack on parliament, police said.
- Jessica Lives On (Deccan Herald, Sucheta Dalal, Oct 07, 2006)
The reason why Jessica Lal’s case is so important is because in it we see the most blatant evidence of subversion of our criminal justice system.
- Centre Mulling Long Term Aid Package For Quake Victims (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
The Centre is mulling a long-term package to boost the collective efforts by the State Governments and NGOs to help the people affected by the killer earthquake that rocked Jammu and Kashmir on October eight last year.
- Undo This Migration (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Oct 07, 2006)
Whatever the reason it can only be a matter of acute discomfort that 64 persons from Doda district have crossed over to Chamba in the adjoining Himachal Pradesh.
- Slow And Steady Wins The Race (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 07, 2006)
The Independent Monitoring Commission supervising the Stormont Agreement to end the Northern Ireland dispute has reported that the Irish Republican Army’s violent campaign against British rule “is over”.
- Test Kit Scare Over Dengue (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Dengue cases in Bengal so far are less than last year, but cause for concern lies elsewhere — absence of quality diagnostic kits, experts say.
- Mumbai Blasts: India, Usa Share Evidence (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Oct 07, 2006)
India is understood to have shared with the US evidence of Pakistan’s involvement in the July 11 Mumbai blasts.
- Dangerous Precedent (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 07, 2006)
Populism is permanent. It is the first article of the Indian politicians’ creed, and also their last resort.
- Siachen “Likely To Be Resolved” During Pm’S Pak Visit (Tribune, Anwar Iqbal, Oct 07, 2006)
Pakistan and India may resolve the Siachen dispute during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s expected visit to Islamabad but there could be little progress on the Kashmir issue, says Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
- Taking Refuge In Nostalgia (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Oct 07, 2006)
I consider executing people for heinous crimes a medieval barbarity which has been abolished in many advanced countries.
- Venod Sharma Quits (Tribune, Yoginder Gupta, Oct 07, 2006)
After dithering for several days, Haryana Power Minister Venod Sharma today put in his papers. He submitted his resignation from the Cabinet to AICC president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi this morning.
- Five Reformers (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 07, 2006)
Five ardent reformers, who between them can lay claim to some of the most dramatic and significant course corrections in India’s economic policy, were found on one stage in Mumbai on Friday.
- Congress Silent On Row Between Uttar Pradesh Governor And Mulayam (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
In re-invoking the 20-Point Programme and the "Garibi Hatao" slogan - used so effectively in the 1971 election - the Congress may or may not quicken the pulse of voters, but, certainly, it has given nostalgia buffs their moment of the year.
- This Is No Way To Fight Terror (Pioneer, Maninderjit Singh Bitta, Oct 07, 2006)
It is very unfortunate that we have not learnt lessons from history. The decade-long festering wound in Punjab was cured with firm commitment, political will and non-interference under the leadership of then Prime Minister Narasimha Rao, then . . .
- Jessica Claims First Scalp (Pioneer, Sunil Kumar, Oct 07, 2006)
Powerful' Haryana Power Minister Venod Sharma submitted his resignation to United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi early on Friday.
- A Fast Move In Delhi (Indian Express, Kartyk Venkatraman, Oct 07, 2006)
For the past 30-odd years Manipur, home to over 30 militant groups and bitter ethnic strife, has known just one way to settle disputes: through the barrel of the gun.
- Delhi Police Arrest Irom Sharmila (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
The fasting rights activist was taken to the AIIMS for urgent medical treatment
- India Needs To Correct Course (News International, Praful Bidwai, Oct 07, 2006)
The writer, a former newspaper editor, is a researcher and peace and human-rights activist based in Delhi
- Data Theft: Uk Sting Exposes Indian Bpos (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
An investigation for the Dispatches programme claims to reveal just how easy it is to buy secret financial information for as little as £8 – from address and bank account number to the security code on a debit card.
- Developing Northeast The Yunnan Way (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Oct 07, 2006)
As Beijing has done with Yunnan, New Delhi should develop trade infrastructure in the Northeast and give it a stake in India's economic growth.
- Fast Unto Death Causes Unrest In Manipur (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
People here put up road blockades in support of Irom Chanu Sharmila who has been on a fast unto death at the Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, demanding repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958 in Manipur.
- Deal May Be Delayed: Mulford (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Oct 07, 2006)
Says "we are hopeful"
- Four More Cases Admitted To Aiims From Within The Campus (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
No patient died of the disease in Delhi on Friday
- Manmohan Singh, Blair To Talk Trade, Terrorism (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Trade, the future of the Doha world trade negotiations and joint counterterrorism work will be on the agenda when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets Britain's Tony Blair in London next week.
- Dengue Outbreak In India Kills 38, Infects Thousands (Reuters, Nita Bhalla, Oct 06, 2006)
An outbreak of dengue fever has swept across India's capital and five states, killing 38 people and infected over 2,900 others, Health Minister Ambumani Ramadoss said on Thursday.
- India's Has An Edge Over China (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Oct 06, 2006)
In the corridors of international power, there is a new discourse emerging. It is about the inexorable rise of China and India. Neither ascent is viewed as certain, but the odds are high that both nations, desperately poor until recently but now . . .
- Concrete Gains (Business Standard, Niraj Bhatt, Oct 06, 2006)
The top four cement players have seen their despatches grow by an impressive 17.8 per cent y-o-y to 48.77 lakh tonne in September 2006.
- Beyond The Files (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Oct 06, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had heard so much about Sanjay Dutt’s ‘Gandhigiri’ that he couldn’t avoid referring to it in one of his recent addresses in South Africa.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 06, 2006)
Welcome indeed would be the setting in motion a system of regular meetings to ensure that defence modernisation remains on a presumed fast-track, yet it is truly curious that the Cabinet Secretary was required to call a high level interaction to get . . .
- On Internal Security (Daily Excelsior, Arun Nehru, Oct 06, 2006)
There have been many events in the past few months relating to matters of Internal security that should draw our attention and time for us to reflect on immediate future and our relations with the countries around our 'borders'.
- Guru Fate Hangs In Imbalance (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Oct 06, 2006)
The issue of clemency for Parliament terror attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru has sharply divided the Congress Party, which is now speaking in different voices on this issue.
- Mirwaiz Raises Issue With U.S. (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Kashmir’s chief Muslim cleric and leader of his faction of the Hurriyat Conference alliance, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has taken up the issue of Mohammad Afzal Guru’s death sentence with senior functionaries of the Bush administration in New York.
- Afzal Son Tells Kalam Of His Dreams & Fears (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
"Please release my abba. I want him back. I want to become a doctor and fulfil my father’s dream." This was the message that seven-year-old Ghalib, the son of Mohammad Afzal, who is facing the death sentence for his involvement in the December 2001 . . .
- High Alert (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 06, 2006)
Does a city running on compressed natural gas and sycophancy require mosquitoes to play the great leveller? Perhaps not. But the vulnerability of the prime minister’s near relatives to the dengue scourge in New Delhi has communicated a message . . .
- Disease In The Polity (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Oct 06, 2006)
Dengue and Chikunguniya are as dreaded today as tuberculosis and polio, small pox and malaria were in the not-so-distant past.
- Kharge To Get New Team For ‘Battle’ Ahead (Deccan Herald, Ramakrishna Upadhya, Oct 06, 2006)
The Congress high command is all set to throw its weight behind the incumbent Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president Mallikarjun Kharge and strengthen his hands by appointing a new set of office-bearers later this month.
- South African Safari (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 06, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s successful visit to South Africa may go a long way in improving India’s relations with this largest economy in the African continent.
- Air Chief’S Anguished Cry (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Oct 06, 2006)
The biggest surprise about Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal S.P. Tyagi’s agonised and agonising letter to the Defence Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, is not that it was written but that so little notice has been taken of it and of the deeply . . .
- Manmohan's Recipe For Making Mumbai A Global City (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Sending a fresh flow of adrenaline coursing through Mumbai's veins and boosting its campaign to turn itself into a city of global standards, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said the city needed "the best urban infrastructure India can afford".
- 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.
- More States, More Dengue Cases, Govt Says Don’T Panic (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Oct 06, 2006)
With 2,954 cases of dengue being reported already this year, the government has decided to prepare a contingency plan for dealing with the disease which is now annually affecting India along with several other Asian countries.
- 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 . . .
- 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.
- ‘Dengue Not An Epidemic’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Under attack from his Cabinet colleagues over the handling of dengue in the country, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss blamed large scale construction activity, poor sanitation and weather conditions for the spread of the . . .
- 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.
- Test Of Diplomacy (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 06, 2006)
The nuclear deal may not have a smooth passage.
- Get On The Job (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 06, 2006)
That dengue can affect anyone, whatever his class or standing, was proved when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s son-in-law and two grandsons were admitted in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Wednesday and diagnosed with the disease.
- Two More Dengue Patients Die At Aiims In Delhi: Toll Now 18 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
One suspected dengue death in a private hospital; hundreds line up for screening
- 673 Dengue Cases In Delhi, Nearby Areas (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Death toll rises to 18; 84 more patients admitted; AIIMS casualty services fully equipped
AIIMS starts helpline, email service to provide information
Screening camps being conducted.
- Grow Safe Food From Farm (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 06, 2006)
If food safety standards are not implemented, supermarkets may introduce their own private norms to remain in business.
- 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.
- Self-Purification Exercise (Dawn, S.G. Jilanee, Oct 06, 2006)
To describe fasting in Ramazan as ‘difficult’ would be an understatement. Rigorous would be a more appropriate expression. Hunger is comparatively easier to control. But thirst? That is more difficult.
- Journalists Now Have To Walk And Chew Gum At The Same Time’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 06, 2006)
Lionel Barber has been editor of the Financial Times for almost a year. Before that he was in charge of the newspaper’s edition in America, where in total he spent 10 years of his 21 years with FT.
- Animal Cruelity And Youth Violence (Daily Excelsior, Maneka Gandhi, Oct 06, 2006)
Cruelty to animals is not something that should be taken lightly. It is an important indicator of how the person is going to behave towards humans as well. Let me give you one example :
- 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.
- There Is No Need For Alarm Or Panic Over Dengue: Anbumani (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Coordinated efforts being made with State Governments
- India Not Reciprocating, Says Mirwaiz (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Moderate Hurriyat Conference leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq has accused New Delhi of not ``reciprocating'' the gestures by Islamabad for finding an amicable solution to the Kashmir problem.
- 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.
- Aiims Hygiene Under Scrutiny (Hindu, Bindu Shajan Perappadan, Oct 06, 2006)
NDMC claims to have served 30 notices on the Institute this year for not maintaining proper sanitation and hygiene levels It has earned the dubious record of registering highest dengue cases of its own.
- Health Emergency (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 06, 2006)
Parts of India are in the grip of dengue fever and chikungunya, which pose a public health challenge that is yet to be met vigorously by the authorities.
- Turbulent Skies (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 06, 2006)
In most respects, Indian air passengers never had it so good but the airlines themselves are flying into turbulence.
- Infrastructure: Rural And Urban (Business Standard, Shyam Ponappa, Oct 05, 2006)
Let’s begin with Integrated Area Planning.
- 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.
- Cabinet Satisfied Over Stability In Prices (Pakistan Observer, Sharafat Kazmi, Oct 05, 2006)
Federal Cabinet Wednesday noted with satisfaction that the government was vigilantly monitoring the prices in the market and the essential commodities were being sold at the controlled prices, said Minister for Information and Broadcasting Muhammad . . .
- 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 Trying To Improve Ties With Pakistan: Menon (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
India is trying to improve its relations with Pakistan, Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon was quoted as saying by Geo television in New Delhi on Wednesday.
- 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.
- Indian, Nepalese Airports Beef Up Security Over Hijack Fears (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Security has been stepped up at a string of major Indian airports after warnings that a flight to or from Nepal could be hijacked, a security official said on Wednesday.
- Us, China, India Flex Muscle Over Energy-Critical Sea Lanes (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Beijing is concerned over its gradually weakening position in the Indian Ocean as New Delhi develops new generations of weapons systems with US support
- With Prayer On His Lips, Nanak Fought Nation's Enemies (Pioneer, Neeraj Chauhan, Oct 05, 2006)
Of the 10 siblings born to his mother, Nanak Chand was the only one who survived. But his life too was cut short on December 13, 2001.
- Senator To Kabul: Include Taliban (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Oct 05, 2006)
Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf can claim his first victory after his eventful visit to the United States, with US Senate majority leader Bill Frist recommending, for the first time since 9/11, the need to bring the Taliban into the Afghan . . .
- The War's Winnable, Still (Pioneer, BHARAT VERMA, Oct 05, 2006)
If the epicentre of terrorism along Afghanistan-Pakistan is busted, the 'domino effect' will end the jihadi menace
- Don’T Politicise Iran Pipeline: Pm To Left (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
The Centre on Wednesday said its energy security was not linked to its ties with the US and asked its Communist allies not to ‘politicise’ international projects but assess them on ‘merit and economic viability.’
- Dengue Sign In Pm Grandsons (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Aedes mosquitoes have infected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s family as well. On Wednesday, authorities at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences were on tenterhooks as the Prime Minister’s grandsons, Madhav and Rohan, and his son-in-law were . . .
- Three Killed, 12 Hurt In Militant Attack In Srinagar (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2006)
Three policemen were killed and eight wounded when Islamist militants attacked a security camp in the heart of Srinagar, police and witnesses said.
- Let's Not Waver (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 05, 2006)
A t a time when countries around the world that abolished capital punishment to flaunt post-War liberal values are desperately seeking ways and means to mete out deterrent punishment to terrorists, it is amazing that we should be witnessing a . . .
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