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Articles 121 through 220 of 500:
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 09, 2007)
Without in any way making light of Sino-Indian military interaction, it is important to stress that there must be no going overboard ~ which seems to be happening ~ over the outcome of the visit to China of the Chief of the Army Staff and an . . .
- Jobless Tamils Evicted From Colombo On Grounds Of Security (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Jun 08, 2007)
"90 per cent of the recent terrorist incidents were hatched in lodges in Tamil dominated areas"
- France's New President Does His Own Thing (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Jun 06, 2007)
Nicholas Sarkozy has decided to jettison all complexes about money and power, and about protocol and the "done thing." And he is likely to become even more powerful because of the near total collapse of the French Left.
- Growing Burden Of Debt Driving Farmers Suicide (Deccan Herald, Bharat Dogra, Jun 06, 2007)
Adverse weather, coupled with locally powerful money lenders, is causing hunger, loss of livelihood and suicides among farmers in UP.
- No Red Light (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 05, 2007)
The word trafficking sounds particularly ugly. What it signifies, however, is far more hideous.
- The Garbage People (Telegraph, AVEEK SEN , Jun 05, 2007)
There are two words that come up frequently if you talk at any length to the survivors of the 2002 genocide in Gujarat — tufaan or a storm, and mazaak or a joke. The first is a memory-word.
- ‘The Poor Look For Opportunity And Not Charity. Give Them Opportunity And They’Ll Protect It, Use Loans Productively’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 04, 2007)
If poverty was a business, my guest this week is one of its leading entrepreneurs. Last week Time magazine listed him, with hundred others, among the people who will change our lives, who will make our future . . .
- True Stories Made Up (New Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Jun 04, 2007)
Manjushree Thapa’s achingly elegant memoir-cum-history Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy was published during a particularly dark time for her country, Nepal.
- Putting People's Health Before Company Profits (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jun 01, 2007)
Brazil's AIDS control programme will save $30 million every year by breaking Merck's patent on Efavirenz.
- Ceasefire Agreement Redundant: Sri Lanka (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, May 31, 2007)
Sri Lanka Minister and Defence spokesperson Keheliya Rambukwella said here on Wednesday that Colombo would make an announcement about the fate of the Norwegian brokered 2002 Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) in a `couple of weeks.'
- India’S No To Pugwash (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, May 29, 2007)
India has refused permission to Pugwash, a 50-year-old international NGO and recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, for holding a conference on Kashmir in Mumbai early next month.
- 'Children Are Also Sexual Beings' (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2007)
It's no boon being children in India, or for that matter, anywhere in the world. This is chillingly borne out by statistics that put the number of children in one form of distress or another at a staggering 300 million.
- Majestic Heights (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2007)
I CAN safely bet that very few Indians know this. The world’s second longest wall is in India. To be precise, in Rajasthan: at the Kumbalgarh Fort. I was blissfully unaware of this myself till I actually visited the fort recently, and got a . . . .
- Dangers Of Pok’S Disaster Politics (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 28, 2007)
In the second week of May the United Nations announced closing all its operations and offices in Bagh district in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) following attacks on its officials by radical elements.
- Can Child Labour Be Eliminated In State By 2012? (Hindu, BAGESHREE S. , May 23, 2007)
Karnataka wanted to eliminate child labour by 2007. It extended the deadline by five years. Is it moving in the right direction?
NGOs put the number of child workers at over 10 lakh
Officials say they lack expertise in rehabilitation
- It’S Thriving, But Lethal (Dawn, Mark Curtis, May 23, 2007)
Three months before his election in 1997, Tony Blair wrote in BAE Systems' newsletter that his government would champion arms exports and a "strong defence industry".
- Xxl Don't An Epic Make (OutLook, Navtej Sarna, May 22, 2007)
Sujit Saraf ambitiously sets out to write a sweeping epic about Indian politics.
- India Shows China The Way To Care For Bears (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2007)
A delegation from China visited the bear rescue facility here as part of their India visit and noted that the animals were not being bred for profit unlike in their country.
- Someone To Talk To (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, May 19, 2007)
Whenever a dictator ceases to be useful to the Americans, they begin to talk of democracy.
- Sarkozy Vows To Defend The French Identity (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, May 17, 2007)
Right wing leader installed as President
Special session of Parliament in July
Jacques Chirac bids farewell to nation
- 'Children Are Also Sexual Beings' (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 15, 2007)
It's no boon being children in India, or for that matter, anywhere in the world. This is chillingly borne out by statistics that put the number of children in one form of distress or another at a staggering 300 million.
- 'Children Are Also Sexual Beings' (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 14, 2007)
It's no boon being children in India, or for that matter, anywhere in the world. This is chillingly borne out by statistics that put the number of children in one form of distress or another at a staggering 300 million.
- Housing Catastrophe (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, May 14, 2007)
The author brings us face to face with the consequences of decisions taken by those far removed from the stench and struggle of slum reality.
- Sc Reserves Order On Case Against Nba (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 12, 2007)
The Supreme Court on Friday reserved it orders on the petition seeking probe into the criminal activities of Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) led by social activist Medha Patkar.
- Mullahs On The March (Tribune, Sushant Sareen, May 12, 2007)
A couple of weeks ago, all across Pakistan the so-called “civil society” finally came out on the streets to protest against the creeping talibanisation of the country.
- Pro-Ltte Groups Take Out Rally (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 11, 2007)
Around 300 activists belonging to parties and organisations sympathetic to the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam took out a rally to the French Consulate here to protest the arrest of 17 Sri Lankan Tamils linked to the LTTE in Paris last month.
- 'Children Are Also Sexual Beings' (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 11, 2007)
It's no boon being children in India, or for that matter, anywhere in the world. This is chillingly borne out by statistics that put the number of children in one form of distress or another at a staggering 300 million.
- For A World Standard Education System (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 11, 2007)
Governments, educationists, corporates and policy-makers need to join hands to ensure that the country capitalises on its biggest strength — the people.
- Indian Ngos Balk At Strict Govt Controls (Dawn, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, May 10, 2007)
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in India are up in arms against moves by the federal government to regulate the flow of foreign funds into their coffers through a new bill that would amend existing law governing contributions from abroad.
- Religion In Pakistan Mullahs On The March (Deccan Herald, Sushant Sareen, May 09, 2007)
The voice of civil society is feeble while ordinary people are voiceless contrary to the very vocal Islamists.
- `There Was Pressure On Fipb' (Frontline, Editorial, Frontline, May 09, 2007)
VODAFONE'S Indian foray may have been much smoother had Telecom Watchdog, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), not challenged the deal in the Delhi High Court.
- Politics Isn’T Political (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 05, 2007)
Is it better to keep an activist than to lose a politician? Mohammed Yunus’s decision to drop his plans of creating his own party is not just a comment on the political crisis in Bangladesh.
- May Day Blasts (Dawn, B. Raman , May 04, 2007)
What explains the three intriguing timed explosions of very low intensity at the railway stations of Dhaka, Sylhet and Chittagong in Bangladesh early in the morning of May 1, 2007?
- The Continuing Scramble For Africa (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 03, 2007)
Towards the end of last year, at Cape Town's swanky Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, businessmen and African politicians networked and closed deals.
- Journalist Killed In Jaffna (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Apr 30, 2007)
S. Rajeewarnam, a 24-year-old journalist working for Tamil daily Uthayan, was shot dead in Jaffna town on Sunday morning.
- Centre-Appointed Forest Panel Gets Sc Nod To Dispose Of Projects (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 28, 2007)
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Government-appointed Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) to grant clearance to almost 80 nationwide power, irrigation, mining and industrial projects seeking clearance to use forest space subject to its final approval.
- 61 Multimillionaires Contesting Up Polls In Fifth Round (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2007)
Like the first four phases, the fifth round of the staggered Uttar Pradesh polls on Saturday will again witness a strong presence of contestants with criminal antecedents and huge wealth.
- Jayalalithaa "Getting Adequate Protection" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 25, 2007)
The police have registered a case: Chief Minister
"Not the first time" she is receiving threats
- Back To School (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 22, 2007)
This week, Saturday Special puts Rahul Gandhi under the scanner. The Congress is hoping to rediscover the magic of 1984 by deploying him as its chief vote-catcher in Uttar Pradesh and is wishful of exploding that experience over the nation's . . . .
- Back To School (Pioneer, Tavishi Srivastava, Apr 21, 2007)
This week, Saturday Special puts Rahul Gandhi under the scanner. The Congress is hoping to rediscover the magic of 1984 by deploying him as its chief vote-catcher in Uttar Pradesh and is wishful of exploding that experience over the nation's . ..
- No U-Turn On Indian Road Safety (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 20, 2007)
It is a telling statistic - India has just 1% of the world's vehicles, but accounts for 10% of the world's road accidents.
- Legislature Has Failed To Enact Laws: Sc (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2007)
Is it fair to heap blame on the judiciary for activism when it has intervened only in those areas where the legislature has failed to enact laws for years, wondered the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
- "No Threat, Only A Frank Exchange Of Ideas" (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Apr 19, 2007)
Sri Lanka's Defence Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa, brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, has been accused of threatening the Editor of an English paper, Daily Mirror, over its coverage of the situation in the east and the activities of the . . . .
- No Sex Education: Cm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2007)
"Sex education may be necessary in western countries, but not in India which has rich culture. It will have adverse effect on young minds, if implemented,” says Chief Minister.
- Dharavi Dreams (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 16, 2007)
The Dharavi Redevelopment Project is reported to have picked up speed at last. Maharashtra government officials say the global tendering process has begun to upgrade living facilities in Mumbai’s, and Asia’s, largest slum.
- Combat Corruption To Fight Poverty (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 15, 2007)
Huge allocations are made for poverty alleviation schemes in India since the advent of community development programmes in 1952. Yet, poverty continues to haunt millions of Indians.
- Hurriyat ‘Willing’ To Attend Pugwash Conference (Tribune, S.P.Sharma, Apr 15, 2007)
While there are bleak chances of the moderate Hurriyat Conference to participate in the third roundtable conference on April 24, but they appear more than willing to participate in the two-day Pugwash conference in Cochin that begins on April 22.
- Equality Is A Fine Balance (Indian Express, SOLI J. SORABJEE, Apr 15, 2007)
The prime minister’s recent statement that each organ of the state has “constitutionally assigned roles” and “each must respect the functions of the other” raises the critical question about the legitimate role of each state organ.
- Pak Ngo Combines Art And Education To Raise Literacy (Tribune, Naveen S. Grewal, Apr 15, 2007)
When it comes to the role of NGOs in spreading basic and primary education, there is a lot India can learn from across the Radcliff line.
- Equality Is A Fine Balance (Indian Express, SOLI J. SORABJEE, Apr 14, 2007)
The prime minister’s recent statement that each organ of the state has “constitutionally assigned roles” and “each must respect the functions of the other” raises the critical question about the legitimate role of each state organ.
- Green Cry Over Posco ‘Pollution’ (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 14, 2007)
Non-government organisations and environmentalists today piled heat on South Korean steelmaker Posco and the state government, raising concerns that heavy police deployment in the project-affected villages would severely limit public participation . . . .
- Combat Corruption To Fight Poverty (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 14, 2007)
Huge allocations are made for poverty alleviation schemes in India since the advent of community development programmes in 1952. Yet, poverty continues to haunt millions of Indians.
- Tourism The First Casualty Of Sri Lanka's Civil War (Gulf News, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 11, 2007)
Sri Lanka's tourism industry, which blossomed in the wake of a 2002 ceasefire, has fallen victim to the resumption of the country's long-running civil war, industry groups say.
- Over 53% Children Face Sexual Abuse: Survey (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 10, 2007)
In a shocking revelation, a government commissioned survey has found that more than 53% of children in India are subjected to sexual abuse, but most don’t report the assaults to anyone.
- Dda Hit By Big Land Scam (Asian Age, Rashme Sehgal, Apr 10, 2007)
One of the biggest land scams in Delhi’s National Capital Region allowed for a 25-hectare plot of land valued at Rs 20,000 crores to be auctioned by the Delhi Development Authority for a mere Rs 1,100 crores.
- A Nation At The Crossroads (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 10, 2007)
The military-backed caretaker government in Bangladesh has slapped a ban on all political activities, and the security forces have been busy picking up political leaders in the middle of the night and throwing them into jail.
- The Other Side To Rajasthan (New Indian Express, NAMITA KOHLI, Apr 09, 2007)
Hitherto, my association with Rajasthan had been of a rather peculiar kind. Courtesy the Chatwals soiree at Udaipur, the Raveena Tandon affair, or the Liz Hurley-Arun Nayar shindig at Umaid Bhawan, the region was painted as the grand fantasy . . .
- Conflicting Versions Of Sea Battle (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Apr 07, 2007)
The navy and the Tamil Tigers gave conflicting versions of a sea battle in Mannar waters on Friday.
- Colombo: Sea Tigers' Headquarters Destroyed (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Apr 05, 2007)
LTTE alleges Air Force bombed civilian areas in Puthukudiyiruppu
Fuel tank among those destroyed, claims Air Force
Two civilians killed, four injured: LTTE website
- Child Workers Sing The Song Of Freedom (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2007)
Their nimble fingers scrubbed pots and pans, their dreams had been sold before they even took shape.
- Goodwill Princess (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 02, 2007)
The only daughter of British Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Anne was in the capital recently. The media was kept at bay as the British High Commissioner held a reception for her.
- 'Foreign Hand Supporting Medha Patkar' (Pioneer, Abraham Thomas, Apr 02, 2007)
After Gujarat's demand for a high-level probe into the activities of Medha Patkar-led Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), the Madhya Pradesh Government has also accused "foreign hands" supporting NBA in disrupting relief and rehabilitation work concerning . . .
- India Inc Pulling Out All Stops To Curb Aids (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 31, 2007)
The battle against HIV/AIDS, in its new avataar, has moved to the next level. Following a public-private partnership approach, National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) on Friday signed an MoU with Bilt and ACC to supply free anti-retroviral drugs . . .
- Vincent Brossel Of Reporters Sans (Frontline, DIONNE BUNSHA, Mar 31, 2007)
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) has been fighting for press freedom ever since it was formed in 1985 by a group of French journalists.
- 'India To Have 200 M Urban Poor By 2020' (Singapore Times, Himanshi Dhawan, Mar 30, 2007)
India might be adding to its number of billionaires but slum population in urban cities is increasing rapidly with nearly one-third of the urban population being poor.
- Women Power On Display In Pakistan (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Mar 29, 2007)
Students of a prominent seminary in the heart of Pakistan's capital were locked in a tense stand-off with the Government on Wednesday after taking three women and two policemen hostage.
- Upa Squanders Inheritance (Pioneer, Swapan Dasgupta, Mar 28, 2007)
As a community, economists tend to be only marginally less self-serving than NGO activists. Accustomed to speaking to each other in a language that combines hieroglyphics with linguistic obfuscation, the prescriptive wisdom of economists is about as . . .
- Gujarat Govt Urges Sc To Initiate Probe Into Nba Activities (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 28, 2007)
The Gujarat Government has asked the Supreme Court to constitute a high-level inquiry into the alleged anti-national activities involving social activist Medha Patkar's NGO, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA).
- Eve Teasing And Section 509 (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 23, 2007)
Everyone should be aware of the law. Instead of saying why bother, try and help someone in trouble
- Who Will Benefit From "Green" Courts? (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Mar 23, 2007)
What is worrying is not just the precise nature of the proposed Environment Tribunal Bill but the motive behind it.
- Kfc Tortures Chickens, Yells Peta (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 22, 2007)
Cooped up inside a cage and saying "KFC tortures chickens", members of an animal rights NGO here Wednesday protested the condition of the birds killed for the fast food chain's Indian outlets.
- The Widening Social Divide (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Mar 21, 2007)
Police violence in Nandigram, and Naxalite killings in Chattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar.
- Notice To Centre, States On Pil Petition Seeking Guidelines For Real Estates Ads (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2007)
Ngo alleges that people across the country are being cheated by misleading advertisements .
- Aversion To Manual Labour (Dawn, Hafizur Rahman, Mar 14, 2007)
HERE is the government offering easy loans to young men to become artisans, craftsmen and small industrialists, but the problem is that when a boy passes his matriculation, he starts thinking that working with hands is beneath his . . .
- Speaking Of Flowers (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2007)
THe applause picks up as the curtain falls. “Author … author!” The demand from the audience is unanimous.
- Lamy Sees Prospects Of Doha Talks In June (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2007)
Pranab: meet aspirations of developing countries
- Pak Using Terror War To Arrest Opponents: Us (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2007)
A US report has flayed the human rights situation in Pakistan, saying the government is increasingly using “the war on terror as an excuse to arrest and detain political opponents”.
- This Is Idiocy, Not Feminism (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 08, 2007)
Let’s take it as read that the feminist movement has traditionally covered three issues: women in public life (access to the legislature, education and politics); women in private (health, sexual and other domestic violence); and the point of . . .
- Revisiting Women’S Movement (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Mar 07, 2007)
March 8 is International Women’s Day. It should not be made into a day of lamentation decrying the plight of women in Pakistan.
- Empowerment Of The Marginalised (Hindu, Padmini Swaminathan, Mar 06, 2007)
A chorus of nine voices articulating at the intersections of caste, gender, religion and socio-spatial location
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