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Articles 1621 through 1720 of 22138:
- Miracles Of Music (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 22, 2006)
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan, who intrinsically changed the way the violin sounded in Carnatic music, recalls how he was asked to invoke the rain gods
- The Al Qaeda Link (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 22, 2006)
Security agencies probing the 7/11 blasts seem to be sceptical of reports indicating a nexus between the Mumbai blasts accused and the perpetrators of the 9/11 attack five years ago.
- Unresponsive To Minorities (Pioneer, Ahtesham Qureshy, Sep 22, 2006)
Why did Delhi Government set up Minorities Commission when it has no power to safeguard the rights of the minorities, asks Ahtesham Qureshy.
- Crop Portends (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 22, 2006)
Though tentative, the crop numbers are not encouraging and can have an adverse fallout.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 22, 2006)
Deaths in police firing, widespread violent public protest, disruption of normal life, all these arouse the sentiments upon which politicians thrive (induce?) but which have no place in policy formulation or administrative action.
- Govt Puts Off Sealing (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 22, 2006)
A day after Delhi reeled under violent protests by traders to the municipal corporation’s sealing drive, the Centre swung into action and constituted a group of ministers (GoM) to look into the issue.
- Manmohan Will Only Visit Pak If Action Matches Promise (Times of India, Rajeev Deshpande, Sep 22, 2006)
After the Havana warmth, there could be a few amber lights flashing in government with the refrain being "trust, but verify".
- Manmohan Not Keen To Push For Joint Anti-Terror Mechanism (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 22, 2006)
The joint anti-terror mechanism agreed to between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President General Musharraf may come a cropper even before it takes off.
- Side Flicks (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 22, 2006)
Media strategists of listed telecom companies have hit upon a new forum to fight battles with rival companies. While earlier select briefings/leaks were employed, the latest is to inform stock exchanges on adversaries’ moves, as two major telecom . . .
- Major-Gen Gets 3 Yrs In Liquor Scam (Tribune, Vijay Mohan, Sep 22, 2006)
About a week after it commenced, a general court martial ordered by the Army against Major-Gen Gur Iqbal Singh for alleged siphoning off canteen liquor has held the officer guilty for his alleged crime.
- Youth And Violence (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Sep 22, 2006)
Something is really rotten about a country where a member of the teaching community is brutalised in broad daylight. On the one hand, we celebrate teachers'day with great gusto and fanfare, and on the other hand, the youth, the so-called youth, has . . .
- Military Games (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 22, 2006)
The political crisis in Thailand presents a predicament to democracies, including India. New Delhi has refused to take sides on the bloodless military coup in Thailand.
- Urban Plight (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 22, 2006)
The reprehensible violence during a traders'bandh in the capital on Wednesday symbolises a crisis of governance that is evident in most of our cities.
- Break The Chain (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 22, 2006)
A country in which implementing the rule of law unleashes violence on the streets is in a very sorry state indeed.
- Govt Will Go To Sc Today Over Delhi Sealing Drive (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Sep 22, 2006)
Rattled by the violence over the Delhi sealing drive which left four persons dead, the Government today suspended sealing operations until September 25 while a Group of Ministers, meeting within hours of being constituted after a Cabinet . . .
- Is India Compromising Dangerously On Terror? (Business Line, G. Parthasarathy, Sep 22, 2006)
There are some in India who appear eager to let the Pakistani President, Gen Pervez Musharraf, off the hook, by agreeing that he has no control over the terror infrastructure in Pakistan and PoK.
- All Things Rotten (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Sep 22, 2006)
It is a Delhi phenomenon, one that is in the news, but symptomatic of the appalling urban planning, norms and regulations across urban India.
- Thai Coup Impacts Naga Peace (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Sep 22, 2006)
Thuingaleng Muivah does not know Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratglin, the commander-in-chief of the Thai army who overthrew the government of caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Tuesday. But the military coup could not have come at a worse time . . .
- Blood On Hands, Delhi Stops Sealing (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 22, 2006)
After yesterday’s bloodshed, the government appears to have made up its mind to have a showdown with the judiciary, if it comes to that, over the demolitions ordered in Delhi.
- Thailand Coup Lands Muivah In Visa Soup (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Sep 22, 2006)
Thuingaleng Muivah does not know Gen. Sondhi Boonyartkalin, the commander-in-chief of the Thai army who overthrew the government of caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Tuesday. But the military coup could not have come at a worse time . . .
- City Blights (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 22, 2006)
In a parliamentary form of government, the legislature is supreme — it alone has the right to make laws and all that the courts can do is to interpret them.
- Capital Violence (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 22, 2006)
In a long long time, Delhi had not come face to face with the kind of violence that was let loose on Wednesday during the traders’ bandh against the MCD’s sealing drive.
- Bengal Shares Its Madarsa Reform Secret With Pak (Indian Express, Jayanth Jacob, Sep 22, 2006)
A ‘socialist society,’ enrolment of girls, professional management, sufficient funds_here are some tips on madarsa reforms from the West Bengal Government to Pakistan.
- ``Unease Among Intelligence Agencies'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 22, 2006)
Over anti-terror mechanism: Musharraf
- Over 150 Held For Riots In Delhi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 22, 2006)
Crime Branch to probe Seelampur firing; police defend decisio
- Halt To Sealing, Demolitions In Delhi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 22, 2006)
Sibal urges people to stay calm, hopes apex court will take note of situation
- It Was A March To Nowhere (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 22, 2006)
It was the invite for the midnight march by women that did me in — “come in something you always wanted to wear on the streets but could not”.
- Increasing Cases Of Depression, Anxiety Due To Demolition Drive (Hindu, Bindu Shajan Perappadan, Sep 22, 2006)
Psychiatrists say that this is pushing several towards suicide, extreme reactions "After demolition drive started, the bread winners are coming for consultation, treatment"
- Urgent Tasks On The Polio Front (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 21, 2006)
Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss' decision to call an emergency meeting of Health Ministers and officials of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Uttaranchal, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and . . .
- Real-Life ‘Iqbal’ Lets His Pace Bowling Do The Talking (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2006)
Shreyas Talpade did it on screen for Nagesh Kukunoor’s film Iqbal last year. Now, Fahimuddin has done it in real life, as a deaf-mute who’s a probable on the Delhi Under-22 squad.
- Ushering Free Trade (Daily Excelsior, Pallabh Bhattacharya, Sep 21, 2006)
India's trade diplomacy was in full play last month as it grappled hard negotiations on two key proposals for ushering free trade in South Asia and South East Asia, producing contrasting outcomes.
- Is It Too Much To Hope? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Sep 21, 2006)
Will Pakistan be sincere enough in setting up an anti-terrorism institutional mechanism along with India? More importantly, will it allow such a joint apparatus to work efficiently and smoothly?
- Terror Shadow On Recruitment (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh offered Jammu and Kashmir youth jobs in paramilitary forces as part of his reconstruction plan. Seven hundred jobs are still on offer in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), but there are no takers for them.
- Cornering North-East Insurgents (Daily Excelsior, M Rama Rao, Sep 21, 2006)
India is talking with Myanmar to clear out camps of Indian insurgents on its soil much in the manner that Bhutan did against ULFA some years ago. Both Isak-Muivah and the Khaplang groups of Naga underground, People's Liberation Army of Manipur, . . .
- Compromises In Havana (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Sep 21, 2006)
Speaking to a cheering audience primarily of his supporters from Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir on September 12 in Brussels, an impassioned General Pervez Musharraf thundered: "Kashmir runs in the blood of every Pakistani."
- 3 Killed In Delhi Clashes (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2006)
Pressure mounted on the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre and the Sheila Dikshit’s Delhi Government as three people, including a 7-year old boy were killed in the capital in the anti-sealing protest by traders that turned violent on Wednesday.
- ‘Iaea Norms Must Be Cost Effective’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2006)
Even as India is engaged with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to come out with specific safeguards for Indian civilian nuclear reactors, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission Anil Kakodkar, has made it clear that IAEA safeguards . . .
- Challenges In The Eleventh Plan (Deccan Herald, Manu N Kulkarni, Sep 21, 2006)
The Draft Outline of the Eleventh Plan can be described, at best, as the eleventh version of the First Five Year Plan because the same old paradigm and plan and non-plan schemes and Centre-state fiscal responsibilities etc are repeated.
- For The People (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 21, 2006)
Few in Thailand and fewer outside would want to shed a tear for Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a midnight military coup in Bangkok. But the first coup in Thailand in 15 years raises broader questions about the political future . . .
- Why Buddha Still Smiles (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 21, 2006)
The results of the September 16 byelections to one assembly and three Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal have suddenly boosted the hopes of those in the Opposition who have been dreaming of a mahajot or grand alliance to oust the ruling Left Front from . . .
- Bullets, Bulldozers (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 21, 2006)
The scenes of the violence from the Capital on Wednesday were extremely disturbing. But to perceive the court-ordered sealing drive as the primary reason for the chaos on the streets would amount to a serious misreading of the situation.
- Give The Devil His Due (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 21, 2006)
Just offering lucrative deals and concessions on tariff for loading will not improve railways earnings but it requires intensive marketing, says RC Acharya.
- Violent Protests In New Delhi Over Shop Closures (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2006)
Violent protests broke out in parts of New Delhi on Wednesday against government moves to seal up shops illegally operating in residential areas, with local media reporting that a young boy had been killed.
- Delhi Turns Battle Zone (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2006)
Three persons were killed on Wednesday — two of them in police firing — as the city’s traders, protesting against the sealing drive by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, turned violent at Seelampur in northeast Delhi. The area turned into a battleground,
- Sealing Shakes Get To Govt, Amended Building Bylaws Notified (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2006)
Shaken up by the public furore witnessed on the streets of Capital, the Centre finally notified amended building bylaws on Wednesday, with the promise that a special Parliament Session will be called to sort out the problem.
- An Unequal Kind Of Growth (The Financial Express, JAYANTA ROY, Sep 21, 2006)
India ranks poorly in terms of inequality indicators; this can change by reviewing the tax system.
- Rajiv Killing Not Acceptable: Tna (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Sep 21, 2006)
LTTE must make amends: R. Sampanthan
- Peace Is Now Back On Track, Says Pak (Asian Age, Shafqat Ali, Sep 21, 2006)
Pakistan has said the peace process with India has been fully restored despite some "hiccups".
- Delhi Streets Become Battleground ...As Anti-Sealing Anger Soars (Pioneer, Neeraj Chauhan, Sep 21, 2006)
On Wednesday, Seelampur was on fire. It was a day when policemen had to run for cover from the fury of the traders who dared the mighty Delhi Police and mercilessly pelted the force with stones. Initially caught unawares, the police soon . . .
- Consumer-Friendly Power Bills Launched (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2006)
Normal bills to be in blue, those with arrears in red
Warrants, disconnection notice to be attached with red bills
Statutory disconnection notices will be sent with bills to extreme defaulters.
- Prayers For World Peace To Accompany Festival (Hindu, Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar, Sep 21, 2006)
Two-day annual celebrations of Lord Srinivasa to begin on Saturday
- Optimism About Kashmir (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 21, 2006)
AS on many occasions in the past, President Pervez Musharraf seemed optimistic about a solution of the Kashmir issue when he said, during the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, that it was “within reach”.
- ‘Ltte Must Apologise For Rajiv Killing’ (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2006)
The leader of a delegation of Sri Lankan Tamil parliamentarians said the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam will have to make a more clear apology on the assassination of the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
- Nightmare Of Kubla Khan (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 21, 2006)
The India Islamic Culture Centre is nothing more than a symbol of cynical opportunism
- 3 Shot, 100 Hurt In Delhi (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2006)
Three persons, including an eight-year-old boy, were killed and 100, including security personnel, injured as the traders’ bandh against the MCD’s sealing drive turned violent in many parts of the Capital today.
- Dangerous Compromises (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Sep 21, 2006)
Speaking to a cheering audience primarily of his supporters from Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir on September 12 in Brussels, an impassioned General Musharraf thundered: “Kashmir runs in the blood of every Pakistani”. . . .
- What’S Your Last Name? (Tribune, Anurag, Sep 21, 2006)
I have a short name. One word of six letters, that is. In the heydays of Nehruvian Socialism when it was fashionable to talk of a classless and casteless society, my historian father wished his children to be known by one-word names, sans suffix or . . .
- Hizb Offers Truce During Ramazan (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2006)
The biggest militant group fighting Indian rule in held Kashmir on Wednesday offered a conditional cease-fire during Ramadan, which is set to begin next week.
- Corporate Caste System Crumbling (Business Standard, Kanika Datta, Sep 21, 2006)
Social hierarchies in emerging India’s corporate world are changing like never before. While executives in established blue chips are still considered the “Brahmins”, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore those in smaller companies.
- Uk Seeks Indian Muslims' Help In Fight Against Terror (Times of India, Mohammed Wajihuddin, Sep 21, 2006)
After monitoring Muslim immigrants in the UK to prevent radicalisation of their youth, the British government has sought the help of Indian Muslims in its fight against terrorism.
- Jaipal Reddy Hints At New Law To End Delhi Demolitions (Hindu, Sujay Mehdudia, Sep 21, 2006)
We will fight for implementation of notification on mixed land use and commercial use
Government prepared to amend Constitution
Court can only interpret law: Minister.
- Delhi Traders' Bandh Turns Violent (Hindu, Sandeep Joshi, Sep 21, 2006)
Three, including a seven-year-old, killed in police firing; chaos on roads
Agitators block roads and pelt stones on vehicles
Around 30 security personnel injured in stone-pelting
Major markets remained closed.
- 'India Got Deal Free Of Cost' (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 20, 2006)
Former US deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott has attacked the Bush administration for agreeing to the nuclear deal in the present form, saying it amounted to giving ‘cost-free exception to the strictures of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)’.
- Development Of Infrastructure Is Chauhan's Priority Area (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 20, 2006)
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan is enthused by the "fastest moving State" award he received from President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at a function in Delhi recently.
- Question Of Development (OutLook, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 20, 2006)
The three books under review deal with important questions using development economics as the focus.
- Cross-Eyed (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 20, 2006)
At the swearing-in ceremony in Ranchi on Monday, the new Jharkhand chief minister, Madhu Koda, tried to avoid his ousted predecessor, Arjun Munda’s eye. Munda, too, looked everywhere else. Finally, both gave in, gave each other a weak smile . . .
- Chaos In Delhi (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 20, 2006)
That the Supreme Court has chosen to castigate the government for notifying mixed land or commercial use for 2,204 roads in residential neighbourhoods of Delhi, without either staying or quashing the notifications per se, emphasises its apparent . . .
- The Havana Handshake (OutLook, B. Raman , Sep 20, 2006)
The initiative for an Indo-Pakistan anti-terrorism co-operation mechanism is ill-advised, ill-timed and ill-examined. Terrorists and their masters will misinterpret it as battle fatigue in New Delhi, particularly in the PMO and MEA.
- ‘Deve Gowda Indulges In Double Talk’ (Deccan Herald, B S Satish Kumar , Sep 20, 2006)
Even now, Gowda claims that he would never give up secular ideology just because the party has forged an alliance with the BJP. It is the height of political immaturity. With all due respect to Gowda, I want to say that he indulges in double talk.
- India To Carry Forward Campaign For Imf Reform: Chidambaram (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Sep 20, 2006)
"New Delhi's game plan is to re-engage G-7 industrialised countries"
- Kumaraswamy Regrets Mistake (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 20, 2006)
"I'd rather quit than hurt your sentiments," he tells Muslims The Muslim clergy is upset since Mr. Kumaraswamy's speech referred to a few madrasas in Karnataka as the point favoured by the Lashkar militants to infiltrate the State
- "Delhi Bandh" Today In Protest Against Sealing Drive (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 20, 2006)
Major markets likely to remain closed; essential services, public transport exempted
- Sealing Delhi's Fate (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 20, 2006)
We haven't yet resolved a fundamental issue — whether we want Delhi to be just the seat of India's sarkar or a vibrant commercial city as well.
- India, Pak May Not Share Hardcore Intelligence (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Sep 20, 2006)
It is unlikely that India and Pakistan will share any useful intelligence with each other as and when a joint anti-terrorism mechanism comes into existence.
- Brave To Be Pragmatic (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 20, 2006)
The Havana agreement between India and Pakistan to set up a joint anti-terrorism mechanism has apparently shocked some in the Indian intelligence, security and military clergy.
- Indians Struggle To Digest Claims Of Poisoned Foods (Reuters, Nita Bhalla, Sep 20, 2006)
Under the scorching afternoon sun, Babu Khan crouches over his crops gently pulling out stray weeds from his small plot on the fringes of Simbhaoli, a town in Uttar Pradesh.
- Musharraf Upbeat On Talks With India (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Sep 20, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday said a solution to festering conflicts with India, including over Kashmir, are within reach after a recent summit with his Indian counterpart.
- General Reply (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 20, 2006)
Let me begin by clarifying that I owe this debt of honour to S.F. Rodrigues the General and not H.E. the Governor of Punjab.
- Pakistan-India Peace Process Restored: Fo (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 20, 2006)
Pakistan on Tuesday said the Joint Statement issued after the September 16 meeting of President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was a positive development and will help the two sides move forward.
- Lalu Prasad Deserves Only Two Cheers (Business Standard, Subir Roy, Sep 20, 2006)
The great railway turnaround is half a myth. None should grudge the Indian railways their day in the sun but it is necessary not to overdo the hype as that will inevitably lead to a downside later.
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