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Articles 3521 through 3620 of 22138:
- Gas Prices: India, Pak, Iran To Try Again (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 05, 2006)
India, Pakistan and Iran agreed on Friday to try one last time to break the impasse over pricing of gas proposed to be imported by New Delhi and Islamabad through a $7 billion tri-nation pipeline and decided to appoint an international consultant . . .
- Delhi Knew Us Won’T Lift N-Tech Curbs (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 05, 2006)
The United States has had no intention of fully lifting the embargo on civil nuclear commerce with India despite signing a much-trumpeted deal on July 18, 2005.
- Navy War Room Case: Breach Of Trust, Conspiracy Included In Cbi . . . (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 05, 2006)
The CBI on Friday included two more sections to the chargesheet filed in the Navy War Room case, being heard in a city court.
- West Asian Crisis (Daily Excelsior, Pallab Bhattacharya, Aug 05, 2006)
The visual images of distraught Indians being evacuated from Beirut following Israeli air raids on suspected positions of militants groups Hizbullah and Hamas has once again brought to the fore India's political and economic stakes in West Asia.
- Loosen Up! (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Aug 05, 2006)
It’s not every day that a Prime Minister picks up a telephone and apologises to someone.
- Boucher Dispels India's N-Deal Fears (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 05, 2006)
The US on Friday allayed India's fears over the final shape of the nuclear deal between the two countries, maintaining that the pact would be on the lines of what was originally agreed upon by President George W Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
- Delhi May Ban Colas In Schools From Next Week (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 05, 2006)
Delhi may ban soft drinks in all schools from next week, government officials said.
Plans are in process to hold a education advisory board meeting to make the ban mandatory, an official of Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's office said.
- Protest In A New Theatre (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 05, 2006)
In Marginal Men, his fine history of refugee politics, Prafulla Chakrabarti recounts how Calcutta acquired its by-now-well-founded reputation as a city of protests and protestors.
- Muslims Must Isolate Fundos (Pioneer, Khwaja Ekram, Aug 05, 2006)
The collaboration of local Muslims with global jihadi outfits enlarges the scope of the fight against terrorism. This poses threat not only to the country's stability and integrity, but also the innocent Muslim community ----- When Mumbai, the . . .
- Sorry, Asma (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 05, 2006)
Asma Jahangir, a noted human rights activist of Pakistan, should have been an honoured guest in the Indian Capital. Instead, the Delhi police searched her room and subjected her to questioning, ostensibly as part of increased surveillance against . . .
- Unsafe For Children (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 05, 2006)
Six school children died and survivors were traumatised after a school bus fell into a canal near Sonepat on Tuesday.
- Fis Take Hit In Morepen’S Rs 750-Cr Debt Revamp (Indian Express, George Mathew, Aug 04, 2006)
At a time farmers are committing suicide across the country over loan repayment, banks and financial institutions have written off a huge amount of nearly Rs 400 crore in the debt reschedulement of Morepen Laboratories which defaulted over Rs 900 . . .
- No New Clauses In Senate Version Of Law: Lugar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
No new clauses have been written into the Senate version of the legislation pertaining to the India-U.S. civilian nuclear deal to make India unhappy, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Richard Lugar said on Wednesday.
- 'India First Country To Constitute Ndma' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
India was the first country to constitute a National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) soon after the Tsunami struck the coastal areas of the country in December 2004, a top official of the NDMA said here.
- Mobilizing Youth For Rural Extension Work (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 04, 2006)
Nearly 70 per cent of the rural population in India is beset with cumbersome problems like poverty, ignorance, illiteracy, resource-poor, liquor/drug addiction, superstitions, beliefs, etc.
- Mole Draws A Hole (Daily Excelsior, Indranil Banerjea, Aug 04, 2006)
Accusations without substance are irresponsible. An accusation to play petty politics is another name for opportunism.
- Lanka War Clouds (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 04, 2006)
The outbreak of full-scale hostilities between the Sri Lankan armed forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has blown to bits the ceasefire that held for over four years from 2002.
- Worst Foot Forward (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Aug 04, 2006)
The vote of the Jewish community is of crucial importance in a number of key states in the American elections. Equally important is the size of campaign funds Jewish business tycoons are capable of contributing.
- Deadly Colas On Sale (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 04, 2006)
The sense of outrage evoked by the Centre for Science and Environment’s second study, “Soft Drinks, Hard Truths II”, is not as much at the finding that there were more pesticides in all the 11 cola brands tested as at the government inaction since . . .
- Agricultural Growth (Tribune, Yoginder K. Alagh, Aug 04, 2006)
The Dutch disease is known to economists as a fall in agricultural profitability as a consequence of macro developments.
- Ask Them Nicely (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 04, 2006)
Congress is defending nuke deal well. But on issues like quotas it needs allies, even from Opposition
- Peace By Piece (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 04, 2006)
Even a short spell of peace is better than none at all.
- Rahul Mahajan, Five Others Charge-Sheeted In Drug Case (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
The Delhi police on Thursday charge-sheeted Rahul Mahajan, son of slain Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Pramod Mahajan, Harish Sharma, former personal assistant of the late BJP leader, and four others in the drug abuse case.
- Why We Need To Be On Our Toes (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 04, 2006)
On an average the terrorists inflict two heart-rending tragedies in the country every month.
- Delay In Implementing Obc Quota Will Spark Trouble: Ramadoss (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
"Fallacy to argue that nation cannot afford quota implementation "
Wants Irani panel recommendations rejected
Asks Jayalalithaa to retire from politics.
- Air Fares Hike Justified:patel (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
The Government today justified the increase in domestic air fares five times in the past three years and international fares by six times in two years saying commercial organisations have to act on business principles.
- Rahul Mahajan Charge-Sheeted (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
Five others charged in drug abuse case; accused asked to appear in court on August 5
- Reject Moily Committee Recommendations: Ijp (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
Demanding implementation of reservation for OBCs in higher educational institutions at one go, Indian Justice Party on Thursday asked the government to reject the interim report of the Veerappa Moily Committee.
- Let Ultra Nabbed For Serial Train Blasts (Daily Excelsior, Sanjeev Pargal, Aug 04, 2006)
Mumbai Police and CID (Counter Intelligence) sleuths tonight arrested a suspected militant of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) from Surankote tehsil in Poonch district, who was allegedly involved in serial blasts in trains at Mumbai in which over 200 persons . . .
- "Car With Bombs Was Parked Near Venue Of Advani's Meeting" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
Accused could not switch on bomb as the car lock got jammed, it says
Six boxes containing "bombs" found inside the car: prosecution
Seventh box had wires for triggering explosion
It was not a live bomb, says defence
- Rajasthan To Showcase Economic Progress At Trade Fair (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
Focus would be on recent findings of huge oil reserves in Barmer: Industries Minister
- Nss Rejects `Devaprasnam' Held At Sabarimala Temple (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
Urges TDB not to go ahead with `pariharakriyas'
- Mist Lifts But Hurdles Remain For India-Pak Peace (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Aug 04, 2006)
It was one of the briefest winters in the traditionally tumultuous relations between India and Pakistan.
- Tribes Stranded As Sardar Sarovar Dam Drowns Valley (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Aug 04, 2006)
Kishore Solanki picks up a rock on the banks of the swollen Narmada river, gesturing towards land, now submerged, where once he grew enough wheat and vegetables to make a comfortable living.
- Harnessing Hate (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Aug 04, 2006)
Lashkar terrorist Syed Abdul Karim `Tunda' has vanished after the Mumbai explosions, but his legacy refuses to disappear.
- Iran Adamant On Gas Price; Expert Panel Formed (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
Iran today refused to lower the price of gas it wants to sell to India and Pakistan through a tri-nation pipeline, but agreed to form an expert committee with members from the three countries to discuss the issue.
- Rs10,000 For Doctor’S Service To ‘Beggar Maf (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
Unemployed? ‘Get your limbs amputated. Become a beggar’. If this was the latest from India’s national capital, where a thriving ‘arms for alms’ trade has left even the most corrupt and mendacious head hanging in shame, it is the shocking silence of . . .
- Safta Trade Dispute (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 04, 2006)
India's criticism of Pakistan that the latter is trying to scuttle the recently launched South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement by not reducing duties on imports from India has been . . .
- India's Spies For All Seasons (Pioneer, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Aug 04, 2006)
My fear about the spy scare - not so much a real scare as exciting gossip that diminishes Mr Jaswant Singh's highly readable memoir A Call to Honour: In Service of Emergent India - is that it might reinforce what he calls American "reluctance to . . .
- Cse’S Needed Alert (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 04, 2006)
Whistle blowers should be commended. The Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) deserves it yet again, for its renewed findings on dangerous levels of pesticides in colas and other packaged soft drinks.
- Visual Radio: Powerful Interactive Medium (The Financial Express, S SADAGOPAN, Aug 04, 2006)
With the possibility of unusual applications, this next generation radio recently debuted in India
- Plight Of South Asian Workers In Lebanon (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Aug 04, 2006)
Many illegal immigrants have faced abuse, exploitation
- 200-Acre Recreation Centre To Come Up On Yamuna Bank (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
Ministers visit Signature Bridge site at Wazirabad in East Delhi
- `Whistle-Blower' In Cghs Scam Arrested (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
Was found to be involved in the `plot' in which he named 5 others
- Private Firm Given 30-Year Port Development Lease (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
The company will develop it on Build, Operate and Transfer basis
- Israel’S Loss Of Innocence (Indian Express, Ranjan Gupta, Aug 04, 2006)
As the strains of the sad Yiddish song faded, many thought of suffering of the Jewish people, the horrors of the holocaust, and their relentless search for the promised land.
- Gas Pipeline: India, Pak Stand Up To Iran (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
The third round of tripartite talks on the proposed Iran Pakistan and India (IPI) gas pipeline project began here on Thursday with New Delhi and Islamabad opposing Tehran’s demand for a higher price for the gas it would export to the two countries . . .
- Laws Must Reflect Social Processes (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 04, 2006)
The Supreme Court, in a series of observations, has implied that the Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Act, 2006 might not stand legal scrutiny.
- Should The State Stay Put In Balco? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 04, 2006)
The Balco disinvestment is embroiled in legal controversy once again. This time, unlike 2001, the government of India is arguing against the sale of its remaining 49% stake to its strategic partner, Sterlite Industries.
- Opposition To Us Nuclear Deal Rocks Indian Parliament (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Aug 04, 2006)
India’s Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Indian Parliament) was rocked on Thursday with repeated adjournments after the Left parties joined hands with the Opposition Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) to press for a parliamentary resolution on . . .
- Hot Pursuit (Tribune, Gen Ashok Mehta (retd), Aug 03, 2006)
Has hot pursuit become hot air? Gen Pervez Musharraf’s latest warning to India against hot pursuit is that it will be “paid back in the same coin”. The Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson even said: “This could trigger a nuclear war”.
- Isolated, Congress Consults Allies For Better Coordination (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Aug 03, 2006)
Finding itself isolated in Parliament last week, the Congress leadership, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, have now taken it upon themselves to consult all UPA allies for better . . .
- Us Official’S Visit To Focus On Pakistan Terror Support (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Aug 03, 2006)
The issue of Pakistan’s support to terrorism will come under deep focus this weekend when a key State Department official holds talks here with senior Indian officials.
- Dangerous Medicines (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 03, 2006)
Medicines and drug combinations that have been banned globally for their potential for harmful side-effects continue to be available in the Indian market.
- An Opportunity For Muslims: Bitta (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
All India Anti-Terrorist Front chairman and former Youth Congress president Maninderjit Singh Bitta on Wednesday called upon Muslim organisations to register protest against terrorists perpetrating violence in the name of their religion and defaming . . .
- Unsure Among The Boys (Telegraph, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Aug 03, 2006)
The author is president, Centre for Policy Research
- Army Teams For Nuke Attack (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
The army has set up special teams designed to respond to nuclear attacks both in border areas and in the capital, the defence ministry has said in response to queries from a standing committee of Parliament.
- ‘Rti Act Is Being Diluted’ (Deccan Herald, K S Narayanan, Aug 03, 2006)
After he won the coveted award – the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize, Mr Arvind Kejriwal, in an exclusive interview with Deccan Herald, laments over systematic efforts of the government to dilute the Right to Information Act.
- Safta Meet To Discuss Pakistan Stand (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Aug 03, 2006)
Islamabad not offering India trading rights under a sensitive list as mandated under SAFTA
- What Passing Bells For Those Who Die As U.N. Peacekeepers? (Hindu, Ramesh Thakur, Aug 03, 2006)
The Israeli contempt for U.N. peacekeeping and the deaths of unarmed international observers will make countries much more reluctant to contribute to a bolstered or replacement force.
- If Saarc Is To Move Ahead (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 03, 2006)
Saarc seems to have its priorities wrong. It is expanding without paying sufficient attention to its first duty - to turn the idea of regional cooperation among the South Asian nations into a reality.
- Forex Firm Employee, His Wife Survived Blast, He Didn’T (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
They say, home is where the heart is. For Delhi boy Chetan Sharma, his heart was where his mother was.
- `Pesticide Levels In Soft Drinks Too High' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
New study indicates pesticides 24 times higher than Bureau of Indian Standards norms
"The levels in some samples exceeded the BIS standards by 140 times for the deadly pesticide Lindane, a confirmed carcinogen"
"Heptachlor, banned in India, . . .
- Political Will Vital To End Terrorism: Kaarthikeyan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
Third World War will be due to religious fanaticism
- Asean No Longer Amused (Statesman, Sanjana Joshi, Aug 03, 2006)
Toilet seats, dolls and chewing gum were some items a bemused Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz, the Malaysian International Trade and Industry Minister, said had presented a hitch in the negotiations to the ASEAN-India Free Trade Agreement (AIFTA) in December . .
- India's Concerns On N-Deal Debated At Rood Hearing (Press Trust of India, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Aug 03, 2006)
India's objections to certain sections in the Senate bill on the Indo-US nuclear deal came up for discussion at the nomination hearing of John Rood, the US Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-Proliferation.
- Perpetuating Mediocrity (Business Standard, Arvind Singhal, Aug 03, 2006)
A week after the Mumbai blasts, I had to take a flight out of Delhi to travel to Hong Kong and Singapore.
- Cocktail Of 3-5 Different Pesticides (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
Three years after the CSE released its findings on pesticide residues in soft drinks, a new nationwide study shows nothing much has changed: branded soft drinks remain unsafe and unhealthy, severely compromising public health.
- India Wants To Make Sure Peace Talks With Pak Doesn't Get Affected (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
Disagreeing that there was a stalemate in the peace talks with Pakistan, India on Wednesday said its endeavour was to ensure that the process was not affected in any manner.
- Tackle Terror Sternly (Deccan Herald, G Parthasarathy, Aug 03, 2006)
The Government has no clearcut policies to fight terrorism sponsored by neighbouring nations.
- Bjp Wants Shivraj Patil To Quit Over Delhi Murders (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
BJP on Wednesday demanded the resignation of Home Minister Shivraj Patil in the wake of rising incidences of murders in the national capital alleging the government had failed to protect life and property of citizens.
- Pesticides Still Found In Coke, Pepsi - Indian Study (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
An environmental group said on Wednesday bottles of Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. soft drinks in India still contained traces of pesticide, highlighting weak food safety laws in the country.
- Ulfa Sets Terms For Direct Talks With Centre (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
After the Centre's recent attempt to stabilise the Ulfa peace process, the banned outfit's leadership has come up with a set of pre-conditions for the direct talks slated for August.
- Isi Man Held With Military Info (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
The police arrested a suspected ISI agent from Manmad in Nashik district late on Tuesday night. The man — identified as Arif Lakhani — was allegedly feeding sensitive military information to a Pakistani handler, operating out of New Delhi.
- Saarc Summit Fails To End India-Pakistan Tariff Row (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
India on Wednesday accused Pakistan of jeopardising the fledgling South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) deal by failing to fully implement key tariff cuts, as a two-day foreign ministers’ summit of the South Asian Association for Regional . . .
- Stray Dogs, High Offices (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Aug 03, 2006)
The Union Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions deserves to be commended for circulating, among all Ministries and Government departments, an office memorandum on the subject of stray animals.
- Backing For The N-Deal (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 03, 2006)
The nuclear deal between the US and India has received attention in the Urdu press as well. National Herald group’s Qaumi Awaz, in its editorial dated July 29, has hailed it, supporting the deal.
- Changing With Times (Frontline, Ravi Sharma , Aug 03, 2006)
Challenges in the form of liberalisation and global competition have steeled the units' resolve to surge ahead.
- Expansion And Division Games (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Aug 03, 2006)
The Moily Oversight Committee, entrusted with coming up with a strategy to implement the proposed OBC quotas in Central institutions, had a thankless task: to come up with a plan to expand current institutional strength by almost 30 per cent within . . .
- Cooperation And Hurdles (Frontline, R. Ramachandran, Aug 03, 2006)
The U.S. administration initiates moves towards opening up international nuclear cooperation and trade with India.
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