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Articles 321 through 420 of 500:
- Major Naxal Attacks On Sezs Feared (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2007)
Fearing major attacks on infrastructure projects during the June 26-27 economic blockade planned by CPI (Maoists), the Centre has sent advisories to Naxal-hit states, as also Punjab and Haryana, directing them to beef up the security.
- The Growing Maoist Menace (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 25, 2007)
The threat assumes significance as Maoists have significant presence in several states, writes P V Ramana.
- Why Are Child Malnutrition Levels Not Improving? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 23, 2007)
India’s tardy performance can be traced to the limited progress in providing basic health care.
- Central Alert On Naxal Onslaught (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2007)
With Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and other development projects being on Maoists’ hit-list across the country, the Centre has warned states to gear up their machinery to check the Red ultras’ onslaught during their proposed two-day . . . .
- Maoists Call For Blockade (Hindu, K. Srinivas Reddy, Jun 22, 2007)
Security forces have been put on high alert in several States following a two-day economic blockade announced by the CPI (Maoist) from June 26.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 22, 2007)
The party’s free hand to the Chief Minister to be tough on those opposing industrialisation is said to have met with a stony silence from Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee at Monday’s CPI-M state secretariat meeting.
- Chikungunya To Stay For 3-4 More Years: Ramadoss (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2007)
Alarmed by an increasing number of chikungunya fever cases, Union Health Minister A Ramadoss today chaired a meeting with health ministers of nine affected states.
- Clash In Kalinga Nagar Over Tata Hospital Injures 4 (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2007)
Fresh tension flickered on Kalinga Nagar radar when two groups clashed over construction of a hospital by Tata Steel at Gobarghati village yesterday in which four persons were injured.
- Bangladesh To Decide Fate Of Tata?s $3-Bn Project By July 15 (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2007)
Bangladesh government is likely to take a decision on Tata’s much delayed $3 billion project soon.
- Surat Kidnapping Generates Anti-Modi Sentiments (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2007)
After the Koli Patels went on warpath against the Narendra Modi Government in Gujarat over the alleged rape and murder of two community girls in Junagadh, the “Patidar Patels” (the land-owning farmers) have trained their guns on the Chief Minister . . . .
- Economic Growth And Indian Labour: Changing Scenario (Deccan Herald, Alok Ray, Jun 20, 2007)
Labour contractors are finding it difficult to supply workers for construction activities in cities and towns.
- A Notion Of ‘Birdliness’ (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2007)
Her paintings begin life as a line. Actually only two lines. A straight line and a curved line. Both move fluidly across her canvas, as if exquisitely aware of each other and of what they must do to create a highly abstracted notion of the real and . . .
- Cabinet Nod For Tribal University (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2007)
To promote avenues for higher education, research among tribals
Indira Gandhi National Tribal University to be located at Amarkantak in M.P.
STs to get adequate representation in decision-making bodies, teachers' recruitment
- Electricity Crisis (Deccan Herald, S.L. Rao, Jun 16, 2007)
The crisis in the power sector is the result of poor implementation of laws and schemes by governments.
- Army To Induct Brahmos Missiles On June 21 (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2007)
After a string of successful trials, the land version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile jointly developed by India and Russia will be inducted into the army on June 21.
- Army To Induct Brahmos Missiles (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2007)
After a string of successful trials, the land version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile jointly developed by India and Russia will be inducted into the army on June 21.
- Rs. 2,000-Crore U.K. Aid For Healthcare (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Jun 15, 2007)
Targeted at the poor and marginalised sections
Funds to be used for Reproductive and Child Health, AIDS control programmes
DFID's new focus on Bihar because of poverty, low human resource
- Short-Circuited Power Reforms (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Jun 14, 2007)
There appears to be no solution in sight for the power crisis because of the lack of political will to pursue reforms on a war-footing.
- Uk Gives India $490 Mn To Curb Child Deaths (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2007)
Britain will give Rs 20 billion ($490 million) in aid to India to help reduce the number of children dying before their fifth birthday, a British statement said on Wednesday.
- Tigers Still Not Safe In Parks (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 13, 2007)
Tiger poaching continues at an alarming pace. Seizures of tiger skins, bones and fat as well as iron traps in the past four weeks indicate that poachers are extremely active in the wildlife sanctuaries of Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
- Primary Challenges (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 12, 2007)
The Report of the Common School System Commission (see excerpts alongside) seeks to reverse what is widely perceived to be a decade of lost development for school education in Bihar.
- Sc Reserves Order On Mayawati's Appointment (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 12, 2007)
Mayawati and cabinet minister Satish Chandra Mishra's appointments were challenged on the ground that the duo were sitting MPs and hence should not have contested the assembly elections without vacating their Parliamentary seats.
- Heat Wave Relents Under Easterly Influence (Business Line, Vinson Kurian, Jun 12, 2007)
Thiruvananthapuram June 11 Some respite from sizzling hot conditions is at hand for north and northwest India under the benign influence of an unsettled weather pattern concurrently causing torrential rainfall over eastern China.
- Order Is Reserved On Plea On Mayawati (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 12, 2007)
The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its order on a petition challenging the appointment of UP chief minister Mayawati and her Cabinet minister Satish Chandra Mishra on the grounds that the duo were sitting MPs and hence should not have contested . . . .
- Sustaining The Economy Must Be A Class Act (Business Line, Sudhansu R. Das, Jun 12, 2007)
The system must ensure that merit, a most precious asset that powers a nation's growth, is recognised right at the school level and nurtured.
- Gurjar-Meena Row: Sc Not To Intervene In States Probe (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 12, 2007)
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere in the functioning of state governments including Rajasthan which is probing excesses by the people during the Gurjar-Meena conflict in which many people died and properties worth crores of rupees . . .
- Naxalites Today (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 11, 2007)
Forty years after the Naxalbari uprising, it is remarkable that Maoism remains a potent political force. It has survived the disappearance of Maoism in the land of its origin and the collapse of the Soviet bloc.
- Racing To The Bottom (Tribune, B.G. Verghese, Jun 11, 2007)
India must be the only country in the world where people struggle and kill to be declared backward and revel in social regression in reversal of the whole story of civilisation and where it is official policy and serious politics to tout and . . .
- Rath Yatra Draws Crowds In New York (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 11, 2007)
A Ratha Yatra (chariot festival) organised by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) drew hundreds of people in New York.
- Cop Shunted Out (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 09, 2007)
The peremptory transfer of Rajasthan police officer Virendra Jakhar, who is inquiring into the high profile Biti Mohanti case, raises serious questions of impartiality and fairness of the ongoing investigation.
- Jd(u) Warns Of Agitation Against Setting Up Sezs (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2007)
Janata Dal (United) president Sharad Yadav on Friday warned the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government of a nation-wide agitation against setting up Special Economic Zones.
- 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 . . .
- R E G I O N: Faked Deaths Show Ills Of Indian Police (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2007)
As far as nearly everyone knew, Gurnam Singh Bandala was gunned down in a shootout with police 13 years ago during the waning days of an uprising by Sikh separatists.
- Caste Wars: Racing To The Bottom (Deccan Herald, B G Verghese, Jun 08, 2007)
India must be the only country in the world where people struggle and kill to be declared backward and revel in social regression in reversal of the whole story of civilisation and where it is official policy and serious politics to tout and . . . .
- Farmers As Businessmen — Inclusive Growth In A Small Corner (Business Line, Ashoak Upadhyay , Jun 08, 2007)
ASHOAK UPADHYAY describes the hard-nosed business model behind Magarpatta City in Pune, one of India's first integrated townships built on agricultural land and owned by the farmers themselves.
- Danda Raj (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 08, 2007)
Have police reforms hit a roadblock? Perhaps, yes. The landmark Supreme Court judgment of September 22, 2006 had ordered comprehensive restructuring of the police force all over the country.
- Copters To Be Used In Naxal Operations (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 07, 2007)
Lending a helping to Chhattisgarh, the Union Home Ministry today sanctioned a helicopter for use in anti-Naxalite operations.
- Police Stop 5-Year-Old Marathoner (New York Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 07, 2007)
The police stopped Budhia Singh, the 5-year-old whose long-distance running set off an outcry from rights activists last year, from setting off on a 60-mile “walkathon” in scorching heat.
- Maoist Blast Kills 3 Power Board Workers (Indian Express, Nitin Mahajan, Jun 06, 2007)
In another major attack by Maoists, three workers of the Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board (CSEB) were killed and five security personnel seriously injured today when a landmine exploded in the Bastar region.
- Rural Health: Pm Unhappy With States Performance (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2007)
Upset with the performance of some states including Karnataka, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has decided to call a special meeting of the National Development Council where the chief ministers are expected to be told to give special emphasis on . . . .
- Manmohan Emphasises Need For Adequate Attention To Health Care (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Jun 06, 2007)
To convene a meeting of the NDC to discuss disease control and health issues
Focus on greater investment in medical education, including nursing
Almost all States have effective system of procurement of drugs
- Impact Of Dam Failure Will Be Catastrophic: Report (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2007)
A three-member expert committee appointed by the Government to make an assessment of an increase in water level in the Mullaperiyar dam has said the ecological impact of a dam failure will be catastrophic.
- Should Government Cap High Salaries Of India Inc Executives? (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 05, 2007)
The Prime Minister is reported to have said so, and he is right. Salary structure, be it in the government sector or corporate sector, has to be designed judiciously.
- It Will Rain, It Won't Rain (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 05, 2007)
Our country is popularly known as the land of monsoons. The monsoon winds are caused due to the difference between land and sea temperatures.
- Naxal Menace: Malkanagiri The Worst-Hit (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 05, 2007)
Naveen Patnaik reels out figures in State Assembly
Malkanagiri witnesses 99 naxal attacks since 2000
Naxals use claymore mines, landmines and hand grenades in attacks
- 'I Didn't Do It For Income' (OutLook, Smita Gupta, Jun 05, 2007)
The advisor on infrastructure in the Planning Commission on accusations of securing a personal copyright on what's described as a government document...
- ‘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 . . .
- Indian Fest Gets Huge Response In Kl (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 04, 2007)
The Mid Valley exhibition centre in this Malaysian capital has turned into a virtual Indian bazaar for the 10-day Global Indian Shopping Festival (GISF) 2007.
- A Nominated Pm Has A Limited Shelf Life (Asian Age, Arun Nehru, Jun 02, 2007)
Coalition politics brings into focus regional powers. And today, after five election losses in the states, and another three hard contests in the next six months, the Congress and the UPA have little option but to sing and dance to the demands of . . .
- A Nominated Pm Has A Limited Shelf Life (Asian Age, Arun Nehru, Jun 01, 2007)
Coalition politics brings into focus regional powers. And today, after five election losses in the states, and another three hard contests in the next six months, the Congress and the UPA have little option but to sing and dance to the demands of . . .
- Mukesh Ambani’S Sez Gets Deferred (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2007)
The government on Thursday deferred a decision on Mukesh Ambani-promoted multi-product Navi Mumbai SEZ on objections from the Revenue Department, about the fencing of five villages and water bodies that fall in the zone.
- Centre Clears 23 Sez Proposals (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2007)
The decision on Mukesh Ambani-promoted Navi Mumbai SEZ project was deferred as the Board of Approval was still awaiting views from the Maharashtra government and the developers.
- Govt. Clears 23 Sezs (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2007)
Decision on Navi Mumbai SEZ deferred
17 SEZs relate to IT and ITeS
Tatas' Orissa project gets the go-ahead
- Govt Defers Decision On Mukesh Ambani's Sez, Clears Tata's Zone (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2007)
The government on Thursday deferred a decision on Mukesh Ambani-promoted Navi Mumbai SEZ on objections from the revenue department, but cleared the Tata's long pending Gopalpur SEZ project in Orissa.
- Tata’S Sez Gets Nod, Reliance’S Navi Mumbai Plan Held Back (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2007)
The government today deferred a decision on Mukesh Ambani-promoted Navi Mumbai SEZ while clearing the Tata’s Gopalpur SEZ project in Orissa.
- Calorie Intake Of Indians Falling, Says Nsso (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2007)
Rapidly increasing per capita income is not showing in Indians’ healthy food habits. Despite more Indians eating out, their calorie and protein intake has fallen with the fat content increasing.
- Boa Defers Decision On Mukesh Ambani's Sez (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2007)
The Government on Thursday deferred a decision on Mukesh Ambani-promoted Navi Mumbai SEZ on objections from the Revenue Department, but cleared the Tata's long pending Gopalpur SEZ project in Orissa.
- Out Of School — An Elementary, Unaddressed Problem (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jun 01, 2007)
If education is denied because of poverty, gender, caste or religion, such children have little chance of vertical mobility. As a result, nearly 70 per cent of the children are missing the growth bandwagon, as they have no skills or knowledge to . . .
- No Obc Quota In Iit Admissions This Year (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, May 31, 2007)
IIT-Bombay and other IITs will continue with last year's admission policy and not include the OBC quota this year.
- Posco To Use Self-Developed Technology For Orissa Plant (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 31, 2007)
South Korean steel major Posco on Wednesday said that it will adopt its self-developed FINEX technology for its proposed $12 billion Greenfield integrated steel project in Orissa, coming up under the largest foreign direct investment in India.
- Maoists Blast Hydel Plant Control Room (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 30, 2007)
Maoists blasted the main control room of the hydel power generation plant at Donkarai in the agency area of Visakhapatnam district late on Tuesday night.
- Rajnath Gives Home Turf To Jaitley, Ravi Gets Tn, Malhotra Loses Delhi (Pioneer, Rajeev Ranjan Roy, May 30, 2007)
The man who scripted victory for the BJP in Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Gujarat, and Punjab would now revive the party's sagging fortunes in Uttar Pradesh, where the party suffered a debacle in the recently concluded Assembly polls.
- Pigs, Dachshunds And Elephants (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 30, 2007)
A Wodehouse novel narrates how when the Empress of Blandings — regular winner of the Shropshire annual fat pigs contest — is stolen, her owner Lord Emsworth contacts a London detective agency.
- Uae Asked To Lift Ban On Poultry Imports (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2007)
India on Monday asked the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to eliminate trade barriers to improve bilateral trade, besides seeking removal of ban from import of poultry products and permission to Indian banks to open their branches in the Emirates.
- New Limbless Lizard Species Discovered (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2007)
An Indian zoologist said Monday he has found a new species of limbless lizard in a forested area in the country's east.
- Indian Elephant Robs Motorists (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 29, 2007)
An elephant in eastern India has sparked complaints from motorists who accuse it of blocking traffic and refusing to allow vehicles to pass unless drivers give it food, a newspaper reported on Monday.
- Maoists Kill 10 Policemen In Bastar (Hindu, K. Srinivas Reddy, May 29, 2007)
35 civilians escape unhurt in landmine explosion triggered in Orissa
The policemen riding motorcycles were ambushed at Kudur village
Many automatic weapons were looted in the raid
- Fact And Faction (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 29, 2007)
The more their myths collapse, the more desperately communists try to clutch at them.
- Guns, Crime & Violence (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 28, 2007)
The massacre at Virginia Tech on 16 April was perhaps the worst peacetime shooting in the history of the United States.
- Chilka Lake Bird Sanctuary Sanctuary Spotlight (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 26, 2007)
The sanctuary in Puri (Orissa) is Asia’s largest inland salt-water lagoon. The pear-shaped lake, separated from the Bay of Bengal by a sandy ridge, spreads across 1,100 sq km.
- Evading Law (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 26, 2007)
The case of Bitihotra Mohanty, a 25-year-old rape convict, who jumped parole from a Rajasthan jail six months ago, is becoming murkier and murkier.
- Adag Seeks Uniform Sez Rules; Mayawati To Review Dadri Project (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 26, 2007)
Crying foul over the Uttar Pradesh Government's position on its proposed Special Economic Zone, the Anil Ambani Group on Friday sought uniform rules for all projects, saying a similar zone promoted by Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries in Gujarat . . .
- Tigers Burning Out Fast; Mp Worst Hit (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2007)
It is official now. Tiger numbers have drastically declined since the last census by over 50 per cent.
- Congress Defies Code Of Conduct In Goa (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2007)
Twenty days after the Election Commission of India notified Assembly poll in Goa, Finance Minister P Chidambaram handed out an obvious sop to the mining sector - the prime revenue generating sector of the State.
- Naxalism: The Enemy Within (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 23, 2007)
By indulging in violence, Naxals are hurting the developmental cause of the nation, says Saumitra Mohan.
- The Mess In Bihar (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 23, 2007)
At a time when Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar boasts of putting the state on the fast track of development, the National Human Rights Commission’s concern about the increasing cases of human rights violation in the state is a blot on his government.
- No Solution To Power Shortage (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 22, 2007)
Lights have gone out in India yet again this summer and fumes from diesel generators are polluting the cities.
- Growth Neglected In Up (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, May 22, 2007)
It was a famous victory, but the question before Ms Mayawati, savouring her triumph in Uttar Pradesh after securing an absolute majority in the assembly elections, is: what next?
- Chilka Lake Bird Sanctuary (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 21, 2007)
The sanctuary in Puri (Orissa) is Asia’s largest inland salt-water lagoon. The pear-shaped lake, separated from the Bay of Bengal by a sandy ridge, spreads across 1,100 sq km.
- Plans For Karnataka : Laid-Back Attitude (Deccan Herald, S.L. Rao, May 19, 2007)
Karnataka showed a lot of enthusiasm immediately after Independence, but of late the progress has been tardy, writes S L RAO.
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