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Articles 221 through 320 of 500:
- Rs.73.5 Cr. For Development Work In Tuticorin District (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2007)
The Minister for Local Administration, M.K. Stalin, laid foundation stone for development work to be taken up in the district on an outlay of Rs.73.50 crore, inaugurated projects costing Rs.27.65 crore and distributed welfare assistance to the tune . . .
- As Excellence In Journalism Takes Centrestage, Kalam Leans Across It To Bring The House Down (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2007)
Speaking at what was perhaps his last public appearance as President of India, A P J Abdul Kalam continued his refrain of linking his subject matter to the larger, common good saying excellence in journalism is what “vitalizes the nation.”
- Murder Can’T Be Condoned (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 16, 2007)
It is a pity that 178 years after sati was abolished, new laws still need to be enacted to prevent it.
- Threats To Humankind: Conviction Vs Convention (Deccan Herald, Nandana Reddy, Jul 16, 2007)
At a time when our nation is facing threats on several fronts, only those who break with the tradition and think differently can save it.
- Naxals Strike Again; This Time To Loot (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 16, 2007)
Gubbiga-Tallurangadi near Agumbe in the district where Naxals had burnt Bangalore bound KSRTC bus on July 1, evidenced another major Naxal strike on wee hours of Sunday.
- Centre’S Help Must For Enforcing Prohibition, Says Yediyurappa (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 16, 2007)
Ban on arrack was introduced after careful thought: Deputy Chief Minister
‘Prime Minister should call meet on Kalasa-Banduri’
People should revolt against graft: Yediyurappa
- Two Quit Congress, Join Janata Dal (S) (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 14, 2007)
A former member of the Bidar Zilla Panchayat, Maruti Shakha, and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee member Bheemanna Shakha have quit the Congress and joined the Janata Dal (S).
- Stalin Takes Stock Of Development Works (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 14, 2007)
The Minister for Rural Development and Local Administration, M.K. Stalin, has instructed the Madurai Corporation officials to implement all works taken under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewable Mission (JNNURM) within the stipulated time-frame.
- Employment Guarantee: Unfinished Agenda (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 13, 2007)
Rajasthan is far ahead of other States in providing employment under the NREGA. The bad news is that people are paid much less than the minimum wage.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 13, 2007)
Only the village idiot, or a committed Congressman, would be taken in by the defence minister’s theory that the re-opening of bids for medium artillery has been necessitated by the army’s dissatisfaction with the field trials performance of the . . . .
- “Honour Killing”: Victim’S Kin Seek Ncw , Nhrc Help (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2007)
Traumatised by the murder of their young son, Manoj, and the social boycott for protesting against the “honour killing,” an aggrieved family from Karora village in Kaithal district of Haryana on Tuesday approached the National Commission for Women . . .
- Road To Success (Frontline, Purnima S. Tripathi, Jul 10, 2007)
The State has been making rapid progress in all fields under the Shivraj Singh Chauhan government.
- Solutions By Consensus (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 10, 2007)
Mediation as a viable, practical method for expeditious settlement of cases without trial
- Tiruneermalai Can Now Use Biogas For Streetlights (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 09, 2007)
A trial run of the biogas-powered streetlight project of the Tiruneermalai town panchayat was successfully conducted on Saturday evening.
- Efforts On To Develop Gundlupet Town: Minister (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 09, 2007)
Minister for Kannada and Culture and district in charge H.S. Mahadev Prasad has said that efforts were being made to develop Gundlupet town by providing basic infrastructure.
- Division Of J&k Will Harm All Communities (Tribune, Balraj Puri, Jul 07, 2007)
People’s Conference leader Sajjad Lone’s proposal for division of J&K state is neither the first nor the only proposal on the subject.
- Red-Letter Days (Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Jul 07, 2007)
A sense that action was imminent at Islamabad’s Lal Masjid was conveyed by newspapers on Tuesday morning. Dawn reported that forces had been reinforced on Monday, and security personnel lodged in apartments around the mosque and offices in the . . . .
- Dump Marx For Capital (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 06, 2007)
Marxist tsunami V.S. Achuthanandan personally led the destruction of the Tata Tea plantations in Munnar, Kerala, with further threat that he would "stop at nothing" till he took back every part of the 50,000 acres the Tatas were occupying for . . .
- Are Food Coupons A Good Idea? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 06, 2007)
In the context of the failure of the PDS, the choice between ‘rationing’ and ‘food coupons’ essentially means that we are moving from food security to nutritional security, as the former is no longer an issue in today’s ‘globalised’ world.
- Time To Act (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 06, 2007)
Appeals for water conservation, like the one made by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the water ministers’ conference in Delhi on Wednesday, do not have the desired effect unless the water wasters are penalised and the precious natural gift is . . .
- Suicide By Farmers (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 06, 2007)
Suicides by farmers have been under discussion in many fora, including the media, recently.
- Sc Petition Seeks Rotation Of Reserved Constituencies (Pioneer, Abraham Thomas, Jul 06, 2007)
At a time when the Government and judiciary have locked horns over inclusion of creamy layer in reservation in education, a petition filed in Supreme Court by a Scheduled Tribe woman has called for rotation of Scheduled Tribes (ST) constituencies to . . .
- Stability And Popular Support: The Bengal Model (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 06, 2007)
In democracy, stability and continuity of regimes depend on the extent of popular support that they enjoy, writes Nilotpal Basu.
- Act Of Dishonour (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 05, 2007)
The horrific murder of a young man and his wife at Karoran Padran Patti, a village of Haryana's Kaithal district, by their relatives for marrying within the same gotra, disregarding the diktat of the local caste panchayat, has once again . . . .
- Manmohan Singh Calls For Water Conservation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 05, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday warned of severe water shortage in the next few decades, and called for forging partnerships between the Government and civil society to conserve and preserve water resources to meet the situation.
- Plan To Decentralise Water Management (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 05, 2007)
Calling upon state governments to empower institutional structures in districts to handle water supply, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today emphasised the need to effectively moblise scientific expertise for location of sources and collective . . . .
- “Honour” Killings (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 05, 2007)
That honour killings still take place is shocking enough. Worse, this barbarism is being practised in many cases despite the police protection provided to the hounded people.
- Health Concerns (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 04, 2007)
Indians are fast learners. They have required very little tutoring in the past six decades to be able to use the electoral system, one of the primary tools of democracy, to devastating effect.
- ‘Pakistan And India Should Resolve Issues Through Dialogue’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2007)
An Indian Youth delegation on Tuesday urged Pakistan and India to resolve their mutual disputes through dialogue.
- Pak-India Talks To Guarantee Peace: Aiyar (Asian Age, Shafqat Ali, Jul 04, 2007)
Union minister for panchayati raj Mani Shankar Aiyar has said that talks between Pakistan and India will make the sub-continent a region of peace and harmony.
- Kerala Cm Declares War On Tatas, Their Land (Indian Express, RAJEEV P I, Jul 04, 2007)
Declaring war on the Tatas, Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan today led an eviction task force in Munnar during a heavy downpour, personally pulling down boards of Tata Tea Ltd and replacing them with state government boards.
- Barbarian Face (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 04, 2007)
Cold-blooded murder? Worse, the murderers had the backing of an entire village and the act was sanctioned by a 'caste panchayat', comprising village elders.
- India-Pakistan Symposium On Local Governance: (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2007)
Daniyal Aziz, National Reconstruction Bureau chairman, has said that a district cadre service is the only way to stop the Punjab government from interfering in local council affairs.
- Decentralisation In Danger (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 03, 2007)
The amendment to Panchayati Raj Act violates the 73rd constitutional Amendment.
- Patil, Shekhawat In Straight Contest (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2007)
A straight contest between UPA-Left nominee Pratibha Patil and NDA supported Independent candidate Bhairon Singh Shekhawat is on the cards for the July 19 presidential poll.
- Forgotten In Singur, Without Food (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2007)
A landless farm labourer died allegedly of starvation in Singur today, bringing under the spotlight a group forgotten in the land war.
- Promote Gram Swaraj (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 02, 2007)
By now the night halts in Karnatakas villages by the State Chief Minister Kumaraswamy has received lot of media attention.
- Security Of Livelihood (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 02, 2007)
The public and the media are of the view that irregularity and corruption have hobbled the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.
- Pakistani, Indian Experts Discuss Local Government Systems (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 02, 2007)
A 60-member Indian delegation and Pakistani experts held a focus group discussion on local government systems and their implementation in their countries, chaired by National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) Chairman Daniyal Aziz and Indian Sports, . . .
- Project Officer Inspects Development Works (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 02, 2007)
Project Officer District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) Vittal Das inspected the progress of development works being carried out under the Anaithu Gramam Anna Marumalarchi Thittam (AGAMT) in Kelamangalam and Hosur unions on Saturday.
- Social Exclusion Takes Another Form (Hindu, C. Gouridasan Nair, Jul 02, 2007)
Five HIV-positive children struggle to keep their place in school in Kerala.
- Rs 6,500cr For Poor Unspent (Asian Age, Rashme Sehgal, Jun 30, 2007)
Half of the Rs 13,000 crores given to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGA) to provide jobs for the rural poor during 2005-06 has been allowed to lapse.
- High Cess To Check Groundwater Abuse? (The Economic Times, Vandana Shiva, Jun 29, 2007)
Protecting our scarce and fast disappearing groundwater has become an ecological, economic and social imperative.
- Air India Launches Freighter Service (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 29, 2007)
Air India launched its freighter flight service from Bangalore on Wednesday. Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj C.M. Udasi flagged off the flight.
- Alarming Notes From The Underground (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 28, 2007)
The use of maximum force in dealing with the Naxalite menace is destined to fail unless it is backed by constructive development that involves the local population, writes Anuradha Chenoy.
- Third For Second Sex (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 28, 2007)
BJP's decision to reserve 33 per cent party posts for women is the first of its kind in Indian politics. It's a welcome step.
- Post Gurjjar Stir, Raje Fights Rush Of Quota Demands (Indian Express, PALAK NANDI, Jun 27, 2007)
There seems to be more reservation trouble headed Vasundhara Raje’s way. Even as the Gurjjars hold mahasabhas across the state threatening a larger agitation if they were not included in the ST category by September, other communities in the state . . .
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 27, 2007)
History can never be re-written and verbal apologies are poor compensation for its ravages. While it would be unfair to blame the All Party Hurriyat Conference for the forced exodus of the Pandit community from the Kashmir Valley, it would be . . .
- A.P. To Transfer Non-Local Staff (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2007)
Taking a step further towards repatriating non-local employees to their native zones, the Andhra Pradesh Government announced on Monday that orders for transferring such of those already identified in line with GO 610 would be issued by the . . .
- Sena Backs Patil (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2007)
Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, in a major jolt to the NDA of which he is a constituent, on Monday announced his party’s support to UPA candidate Pratibha Patil in next month’s presidential elections.
- 30 Years Of The Left In Bengal: A Mixed Record (Tribune, Subhrangshu Gupta, Jun 26, 2007)
In the early seventies, when the then world bank president Robert McNamara had flown down to Calcutta for exploring how best the world bank’s funds could be utilised for West Bengal’s industrialisation and other development activities, the present . . . .
- Gurjar Protest In Pushkar (Deccan Herald, ABHA SHARMA, Jun 25, 2007)
The Mahapanchayat attended by a large gathering of Gurjars not only paid rich tributes to those killed in the police firing during the recent agitation but also vowed to relaunch the agitation if the Raje government failed to fulfil its word at the . . .
- A Tale Of Two Rivers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2007)
The Godavari has an intrinsic bond with the lives being lived on its shores. It can also be made invisible, a conduit for tourism. Overseeing the transition is the Polavaram dam. R. UMA MAHESWARI.
- Left Uncontested (Pioneer, Ajoy Bose, Jun 25, 2007)
The CPI(M)-led Left Front in West Bengal has completed 30 years in power - longest ever by an 'elected' Marxist regime.
- Gujjars Demand Raje’S Resignation (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2007)
Gujjars, whose agitation seeking tribal status had turned violent, last month, demanded Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje's resignation at the community's national meet here on Sunday.
- Gujjar Meeting Seeks Raje’S Resignation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2007)
A Gujjar “mahapanchayat,” held in Pushkar in Ajmer district of Rajasthan on Sunday, sought the resignation of Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje on moral grounds for the death of 24 persons in police firing during the community’s recent agitation for . . .
- Rs. 118-Cr. Action Plan For Bangalore Urban District (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2007)
The Bangalore Urban Zilla Panchayat approved a Rs. 118-crore action plan for the district at a meeting held on Saturday.
- A Tale Of Two Districts (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 25, 2007)
Ramanagara taluk in Karnataka had acquired national renown 32 years ago at the time of the release of the blockbuster Sholay when the area provided the natural amphitheatre and ambience for director Ramesh Sippy to showcase the badlands ruled by . . .
- Cold Warrior In Print (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 25, 2007)
Saubhik Chakrabarti's piece, ‘Just 3 more years in India?’ (IE, June 22), on the Left Front’s uninterrupted rule in West Bengal, makes him sound like a die-hard cold warrior. The type who gets provoked by the very existence of communists on the planet.
- Kannalli Awaits Kumarakrupa As Cm's Host Vacates Home For 'Arrangements' (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2007)
Unfazed, or perhaps provoked, by criticism of his village stay programme as a gimmick by two ranking Congress leaders, Dharam Singh and Mallikarjun Kharge, Mr Kumaraswamy has chosen their very own home district for a second stay.
- The Right To Information Act: Need For Awareness (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 23, 2007)
The awareness of the RTI Act is very low in rural india. It continues to be an urban phenomena.
- Health Meet For Paramilitary Forces To Combat Hiv-Aids (Indian Express, TILAK RAI, Jun 23, 2007)
To educate jawans posted in the Northeastern region on HIV/AIDS, a regular health programme would be organised by paramilitary forces in the different outposts.
- Bad Process, Bad Product (Pioneer, Jaya Jaitly, Jun 23, 2007)
Pratibha Patil's nomination as presidential candidate makes many wonder if women need a role model who is a mere pawn for the dynasty
- A Tribute And A Critique (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jun 22, 2007)
This week the Left Front regime in West Bengal completes 30 years of uninterrupted existence. It is a record without parallel in the annals of multi-party democratic systems, particularly for a political formation adhering to a leftist ideology.
- For Systemic Change On The Democratic Path (Hindu, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Jun 22, 2007)
Some reflections on the Indian system of elections and possible alternatives.
- Minister Inaugurates Rural Business Project (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2007)
Minister for Local Self Government Paloli Mohammed Kutty on Thursday exhorted local bodies to focus on the farm sector.
- Judges Praise Kumaraswamy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2007)
Most members of the judiciary, particularly on the Bench in the Supreme Court and the Karnataka High Court on Wednesday expressed their satisfaction about the facilities, funds and infrastructure provided to the courts in the city.
- Funds For Villages To Deal With Chikungunya (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2007)
Promising a special package for Kerala, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss on Thursday said every village in the chikungunya-affected States would be given Rs. 10,000 annually to deal with the disease.
- Replicate West Bengal Model At Centre, Says Karat (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2007)
Leaders of the Left parties on Thursday asserted that efforts to replicate the West Bengal model on a national scale would emerge through concerted and united efforts.
- 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.
- Unwilling Parents, Unwary Orphans (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Jun 22, 2007)
In Anantapur, farm suicides are fewer than they were in 2002. But they still happen and could rise again in this fragile region. As elsewhere, agriculture is plagued by uncertainty.
- 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.
- Left Front Fractured Over Singur-Nandigram (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2007)
Differences between the CPM and its three minor Left Front partners — Forward Bloc, RSP and CPI — are widening amidst the protracted Singur land imbroglio and Nandigram violence.
- We Want Consensus, Not Confrontation, On Industrialisation: Buddhadeb (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Jun 21, 2007)
The Left Front completes three decades in power in West Bengal today. Chief MinisterBuddhadeb Bhattacharjeespeaks of his hopes and plans for the future and of the somewhat difficult times gone through recently. Excerpts from an in terview in Kolkata:
- Frustrated Hopes (Frontline, T.K. RAJALAKSHMI, Jun 21, 2007)
PROPERTY prices along National Highway 11, which connects Jaipur and Agra, have soared in recent years, and clear signs of prosperity dot the stretch from Jaipur to Dausa. On both sides of the road, there are pieces of sculpture carved out of . . . .
- Quota: Gurjars Demand Cbi Probe (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2007)
Gurjar leader Colonel Kirori Singh Bainsla mentioned for the first time that two persons Jhutia, 75, resident of Todabhim and Nandan Singh, 60 from Bayan tehsil had died of hunger during the agitation.
- Refugees In J And K (Tribune, Balraj Puri, Jun 20, 2007)
A fierce controversy is raging in J&K over the issue of refugees/migrants, often taking a regional or a communal form.
- Six Chikungunya Cases Confirmed In Alappuzha (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2007)
1,234 new fever cases in the district
A member from Centre’s medical team visits district
The report will be based on areas with high fever incidence
- Gurjjars Unite To Help Victims Of Caste Violence (Indian Express, PALAK NANDI, Jun 20, 2007)
Three weeks after six people were killed in police firing at Peelikheda in Dausa district on the first day of the Gurjjar agitation, another gathering was held at the small village on Tuesday.
- Villagers, Officials In Row Over Womans Death (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 15, 2007)
The death of 40-year-old Sakamma at Sindhuvalli village has only deepened the mystery: Is it chikungunya, as the villagers tend to believe it is?
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