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Articles 2621 through 2720 of 22138:
- Youth Arrested For Mumbai Blast Claim Hoax (Dawn, Jawed Naqvi, Aug 29, 2006)
India began a clampdown on selected internet websites and blogs on Wednesday amid fears of growing censorship following the devastating Mumbai blasts on July 11.
- "India Not Part Of Any Design To Contain China" (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Aug 29, 2006)
U.S.-China conflict unlikely: Saran
China likely to become India's biggest trading partner
Need for closer economic, transport links.
- Allow Muslims To Sing Vande Mataram On Sept 5, Bjp Urges Speaker (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
The controversy boiling over the compulsory recital of Vande Mataram to mark the conclusion of the year-long celebrations of the national song on September 7 is refusing to die down.
- Force Not The Solution, Says India As Baloch Fires Spread (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
With the killing of Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti fanning flames across Pakistan and threatening to become a domestic political flashpoint in Islamabad, New Delhi today underlined that “peaceful dialogue,” not military operations was the . . .
- Bjp State Units To Sing Vande Mataram (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
Terming the Government’s “flip flop” policy on compulsory singing of Vande Mataram as appeasement of the worst kind, the BJP on Monday asked all its units to recite the national song at the state and district headquarters of the party on September 7.
- Rain Disrupts Pm's Schedule During Orissa Tour (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
Rains continued to play spoilsport during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's two-day tour of Orissa forcing changes in his itinerary today.
- Flyers Under Watch: India Too Conducts Passenger Profiling (Times of India, Vishwa Mohan, Aug 29, 2006)
Unknown to most, the airport security in India has started to conduct passenger profiling. Even before the trans-Atlantic air terror plot prompted UK to introduce its new security measure of seeking in advance the profiles of all air passengers . . .
- The Sikandar-Jinnah 'Understanding' (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 29, 2006)
The year 1926-27 was a continuous period of communal strife between Hindus and Muslims. Towards the end of 1926 Muslim leaders of Punjab decided to unite on one platform and reconstitute the Punjab Provincial Muslim League, which was headed by . . .
- Return Of Controls (Business Line, Editorial, Business Standard, Aug 29, 2006)
Bringing back the negative prescription of a cap on wheat and pulses inventory is candid admission of a market out of government control.
- On Growth, Poverty And Opportunity (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Aug 29, 2006)
"While India's growth performance has improved there are concerns about whether this is doing enough for the poor and excluded groups.
- Bugti: Making Of A Martyr (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 29, 2006)
By meeting a violent end Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti may now become a martyr for the Baloch nationalist movement.
- Meet With Musharraf Not Ruled Out: Pm (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tonight did not rule out the possibility of meeting Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on the sideline of NAM summit in Havana next month.
- Pranab, Priya Assail Left’S Handling Of Education........ (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
The CPI(M)-led Left Front Government in West Bengal was today criticised by Union Ministers Pranab Mukherjee and Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi for "politicization" of the education system and its policy on teaching english in schools.
- Iranian Dy Foreign Minister Arrives Today............. (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari will arrive here tomorrow on a day-long visit that will provide an opportunity to the two countries to strengthen their bilateral relations, which witnessed some hiccups in the recent past.
- Re-Defining Indo-Dutch Economic Ties (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Aug 29, 2006)
The Netherlands may have been slow to wake up to India's economic resurgence, but it is making up by quickly "redefining" the trade and investment relations.
- Delhi Told To Mind Its Own Business: Bugti’S Killing Unfortunate: India (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
In a reaction to Indian government’s statement regarding the situation in Balochistan province, Pakistan on Monday told India to mind its own business and focus on putting its own house in order.
- Prachanda And The Politics Of Kashmir (Indian Express, YUBARAJ GHIMIRE, Aug 29, 2006)
By batting for Kashmiris and the north-east, the Maoist leader is trying to score runs for his own floundering side
- Let Peace Not Be Hijacked (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that stalling of the ongoing Pak-India peace process due to the Mumbai terrorist acts will be tantamount to playing into the terrorists’ hands.
- Dhaka Concerned On 'Terrorist Acts From India' (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
Even as India and Bangladesh on Sunday agreed to explore the possibility of a joint working mechanism to combat terror, an eleventh-hour bid by the latter to get New Delhi to “acknowledge” its claims that Indian territory was being used for . . .
- Teach Them A Lesson (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 29, 2006)
The death of Harbhajan Singh Sabharwal, a professor at Ujjain's Government Madhav Arts and Commerce College, at the hands of a student mob calls for the immediate setting up of a proper electoral system on campuses as directed earlier by the . . .
- Tension Along Indo-Bangla Border (Daily Excelsior, Subhashis Mittra, Aug 29, 2006)
It was not one of those usual tensions arising out of cattle smuggling or exchange of fire along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
- Us Backtracks On Fmct (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Aug 29, 2006)
Talks on FMCT were stalled as the US does not wish to have verification in the mandate.
- Bsnl Keen To Enter Mumbai-Delhi Mkts (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
BSNL is once again on the prowl to take a slice of the metro telecom pie. The corporation is keen to offer telecom service in Mumbai and Delhi where its sister concern MTNL is already operating. BSNL has re-applied for mobile licenses to operate . . .
- Grid Locked (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 29, 2006)
The capital is a city of many dubious firsts, one of which is its poor power management in relation to India's other metros.
- Delhi: Dystopia Or Utopia? (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Aug 29, 2006)
When a city that can claim to have hosted almost 2,500 years of human habitation confronts its future, illuminating sparks are bound to fly. A two-year project of number crunching came to an end last week with the release of the Delhi Human . . .
- Killing Of Rebel Sets Baluchistan Afire (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
Violence flared in Pakistan's turbulent Baluchistan province on Monday and at least one person was killed during protests over the killing of a nationalist rebel chief, police said.
- Delivery Of Public Services (Hindu, Madhura Swaminathan, Aug 29, 2006)
Case studies prepared for a World Bank report on the improvements in public service delivery in India .
- Capitalism With A Human Face (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
An account of modern economic policy from a classical liberal perspective — a contribution to the globalisation debate .
- India Stands By Baloch People (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
Armed with yet another opportunity to give Pakistan a dose of its own medicine, India on Monday said the killing of veteran Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was "unfortunate" and that it underlined the "need for peaceful dialogue to address the . ..
- Mou Delay May Hit Rajiv Gandhi Centre (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
Kerala recalls file relating to Centre's offer to take over the biotech institute
- Mcd To Engage Private Firms For Demolitions (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
`Decision taken to speed up drive in a time-bound manner'
- Shortage Of Milk In Capital (Pioneer, Neha Kaushik, Aug 29, 2006)
With Rajasthan and Gujarat, the two major milk producing States reeling under floods, the national Capital is facing a severe shortage of milk.
- Spoiling The Beauty (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Aug 29, 2006)
Why did India go wrong with urban planning?
- All Flyers Under Watch (Times of India, Vishwa Mohan, Aug 29, 2006)
Unknown to most, the airport security in India has started to conduct passenger profiling. Even before the trans-Atlantic air terror plot prompted UK to introduce its new security measure of seeking in advance the profiles of all air passengers . . .
- Nice Laurels He Has Got (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Aug 29, 2006)
The prime minister’s Independence Day address had about 5,329 listeners at Red Fort. Of them, 3,000 were schoolchildren.
- New Delhi Slams Gen Over Bugti Killing (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
India has called the killing of Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti ’unfortunate’ and a ’tragic loss’ for Balochistan and Pakistan, while urging Pakistan to use dialogue and not military force to solve political problems.
- India Must Help Sri Lanka (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 28, 2006)
New Delhi, one wishes, had made serious efforts to stop the flare-up in Sri Lanka.
- Over 250 National Monuments Under Encroachment (Tribune, Maneesh Chhibber, Aug 28, 2006)
They are our link to the country’s glorious past. But, this link is in the danger of being snapped.
- Governor Not In Favour Of Self-Rule In J&k (Tribune, Ehsan Fazili, Aug 28, 2006)
Asserting that democracy was thriving in Jammu and Kashmir, Governor S.K. Sinha said here today that the idea of self rule would not be introduced though there was scope of improvement in different ways.
- Revenge Of The Creamy Layer (Indian Express, RAVINDER KAUR, Aug 28, 2006)
The quota bill, cleared by the cabinet and tabled in Parliament, provides for staggered implementation.
- Own Law Blocks Direct Ulfa Talks (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
After agreeing to cease hostilities after 27 bloody years and the top leadership even agreeing to hold direct talks with the Centre, the hitch in taking the peace process forward is now the outfit’s own constitution.
- Core Of The Forest Issue (Indian Express, JAY MAZOOMDAAR, Aug 28, 2006)
Parliament finally passed the wildlife bill last Friday, although with a bunch of last-minute amendments which, conservationists fear, may make it rather toothless.
- India Gives Evidence To Bangladesh On Terrorism Links (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
India has pointed out to Bangladesh that the recent terrorist incidents, including the Mumbai serial blasts, had "clear links" with individuals and outfits in that country, Union Home Secretary V K Duggal said today.
- No Half Way (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 28, 2006)
It can't be anybody's case that Mirwaiz Moulvi Umar Farooq and his colleagues in the moderate Hurriyat Conference should not be talking about peace process between India and Pakistan.
- Pm Allays Scientists' Fears On U.S. Nuke Deal (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured the nation's top nuclear scientists on Saturday India would not accept any significant changes to a landmark civil nuclear agreement with the United States.
- Our Energy Interests~ii (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 28, 2006)
This is where the oddities arise and a disjoint becomes apparent between what the Government of India is saying and what American and Indian businessmen have been doing.
- Govt Worried Over Drugs, Arms Smuggling On Bihar-Nepal Border (Tribune, Ambarish Dutta, Aug 28, 2006)
The growing emergence of Bihar, the poorest state of the country, as a major transit point of narcotics reportedly worries both Central and state intelligence, as the nexus between “narcotis” and “arms smuggling” is a globally known secret.
- Survey Says Fortunes Rising For Congress (Reuters, Palash Kumar, Aug 28, 2006)
India's ruling Congress party will return to power with a comfortable majority if elections are held today, an opinion poll said on Sunday.
- 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.
- 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.
- Changing Mindset Of Men (Pioneer, Shailaja Chandra, Aug 28, 2006)
Family planning is essential for women's empowerment and it can be achieved in a patriarchal society like ours only if men change their mindset about women
- 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.
- Fortunes Rising For India’S Congress Party: Poll (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
India’s ruling Congress party will return to power with a comfortable majority if elections are held today, an opinion poll said on Sunday.
- At Least 93 Dead In Floods In India (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
At least 93 people were killed and dozens more are missing in massive floods caused by monsoon rains that have swamped the normally drought-prone desert state of Rajasthan, reports said Sunday.
- 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.
- Delhi To Have 36 New Hospitals Before 2010 (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
In the run-up to the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the Delhi government has decided to construct 36 hospitals.
- ‘Iims Can Implement Obc Quota At One Go’ (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
As the government proposes to introduce reservation for OBCs in higher education in a staggered manner, a founder director of IIM, Bangalore, has said there was adequate infrastructure to add the necessary seats at one go in the elite management . . .
- Balochistan In Flames After Pak Army Kills Top Leader (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Prominent tribal leader Nawab Akbar Bugti was killed in a Pakistani Army missile attack in the restive Balochistan province that also left 38 armed rebels and 21 security personnel dead, triggering massive rioting during which a protester was shot dead.
- 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 . . .
- Reviving Wto Talks Are Bleak, India To Asean (Deccan Herald, Kuala Lumpur, Aug 26, 2006)
India, on Friday, said the chances of getting stalled WTO talks restarted are “limited” unless the US changed its stance, even as New Delhi along with New Zealand, Japan and Australia exchanged views on getting the discussions back on track.
- Countering Cunningness (Deccan Herald, Kancha Ilaiah, Aug 26, 2006)
Those opposing reservations on the basis of equality are not advocating equal opportunities for all.
- Directed Banking (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The Finance Ministry and the RBI will continue to revel in their two-in-one role while reducing the public stakeholders to ball boys.
- Memories Of Mother Teresa (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 26, 2006)
"One of the miracles that occurred over the years," Mother Teresa once told me, "is that no one is allowed to die on streets; someone, somewhere brings the person to us." A biographer's tribute on her 96th birth anniversary.
- India, Asean To Stay The Dialogue Course (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Avert a looming crisis in their difficult trade talks; negotiations to centre on tariff concessions . . .
- Cag Pulls Up Nda Regime On Disinvestments Process (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Many instances of global advisers making conservative assumptions
Delaying crucial decisions affecting their financial health
- 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.
- The Differently-Abled And An Indifferent Taxman (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The case of Kirti M. Kothari that came up before the Bombay High Court recently was different. On one side was `a disabled person suffering from polio, whereby his left arm was affected,' and on the other was the taxman, humanism-challenged.
- Detention Drama: India Fumes, Dutch Regret (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The growing sense of outrage among Indians at the shoddy treatment meted out to 12 Indians detained by Dutch security authorities provoked the Indian government on Friday to lodge a sharp protest with the Netherlands, virtually suggesting that the inciden
- 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
- 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.
- 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".
- Sadhu As Shaitan (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 26, 2006)
On Thursday, August 24, the 'Biharisation' of the Lok Sabha was complete, both figuratively and otherwise.
- 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
- 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).
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