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Articles 621 through 720 of 9764:
- Betrayed’ Trs Boss On Hunger Strike (Telegraph, DHIRENDRA K. JHA, Aug 24, 2006)
Fighting a two-pronged battle — against the Congress’s “betrayal” and the move within his party to edge him out — Telengana Rashtra Samiti chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao today began an indefinite hunger strike.
- Right, Left Refuse To Swallow Pm's Energy Security Bait (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday once again tried to sell the Indo-US nuclear deal to Parliament by stressing how it was in India's interest to have good relations with all major powers, including the US.
- Upa Holds Country To Ransom (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Aug 24, 2006)
Congress fails to realise that so far as appeasement is concerned, it's better to draw a line than to sign on the dotted line, says Anuradha Dutt.
- No Commitment On Future N-Tests: Pm (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Aug 24, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today categorically told the Lok Sabha that India was not willing to give any commitment on future nuclear tests.
- Bjp Mulls Case Against Arjun (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
Stepping up its attack on Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh over the Vande Mataram issue, the BJP yesterday said it was contemplating legal action against him for “insulting” the national song by declaring there was no compulsion . . .
- Reddy Bomb Turns A Dud (Deccan Herald, Asha Krishnaswamy, Aug 24, 2006)
After producing “masked” evidence on Wednesday, which only brought jeers from the media, suspended BJP MLC Janardhan Reddy unmasked himself later in the day.
- Nation & States: Iii (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Aug 24, 2006)
UP's economic resurgence cannot be brought about merely by bringing into the state a few industrialists or entrepreneurs.
- Singh, The Gladiator? (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Aug 24, 2006)
Dr Singh was clever enough to speak a lot, leaving the main contentious issue at bay.
- Pm Fails To Impress (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 24, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s defence of the Indo-US nuclear deal in Rajya Sabha last week may have earned him a lot of admirers and silenced both BJP and the Left, but Organiser is clearly not impressed.
- Natwar’S New Avatar: Chaudhary Of Jatland (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
Desperate to save his political career in the wake of his suspension from the Congress, former External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh today reinvented himself as a Jat leader of Rajasthan at a huge rally organized by his supporters here.
- Lok Sabha Clears Salary Hike For Mps (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
Despite opposition from Left parties that MPs’ salaries were being raised at a time when farmers were committing suicide and there was large-scale unemployment, the Lok Sabha today pushed through the Bill with support from the . . .
- Cola Report Lacks Fizz, Says Panel (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
Even though Kerala and Karnataka have initiated legal action against cola companies alleging high-level of pesticides in soft drinks, the Centre on Tuesday said that the Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE) report does not conclusively prove . . .
- Reddy ‘Bomb’ Ticking, Cm Remains Unfazed (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
With suspended BJP MLC Janardhan Reddy setting the Wednesday “muhurat” for setting off his “mining bomb”, the dust bowl of Bellary is agog with speculation whether it will blast a hole in the coalition set-up or turn out to be a damp squib.
- Controversy Over Singing Of "Vande Mataram" Rocks Both Houses (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
BJP, Shiv Sena allege bid by Government to appease minority community
Singing of national song not compulsory: Arjun Singh
Electoral politics behind change in stand: Manohar Joshi
No question of disrespect to national song: Somnath .
- Left, Nda Demand New Debate On Netaji's Disappearance (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
Left and UPA partner RJD today joined Opposition NDA to demand revival of a discussion in Lok Sabha on the report of the Justice M K Mukherjee Commission on the disappearance of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
- Govt Says Nothing Decided On Ten Expelled Mps (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
As moves continued for revocation of the expulsion of ten MPs from the Lok Sabha in the cash-for-query scam, Government today said the situation was "fluid" and nothing has been decided.
- Pathak Report Draws Flak In Lok Sabha (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
``Congress being protected by author"
A grey report: Gurudas Dasgupta
Natwar Singh the "lynchpin": Sibal
Authority must have looked into other entities: CPI(M)
- Selling For A Song (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 23, 2006)
Could HRD Minister Arjun Singh have been so swayed by his own project to articulate state-authorised history texts that he actually thought he could escape the experience of his Congress party on holding any . . .
- It Was Congress' Battle Cry Against British: Dasmunsi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi deplored the "narrow partisan attitude" of the Bharatiya Janata Party on the issue of "Vande Mataram," pointing out that long before the BJP was born the Congress had used the national song as a . . .
- Modi’S Thesis On Muslims (Tribune, J. Sri Raman, Aug 23, 2006)
Many common Indians have been congratulating themselves on the fact that the recent Mumbai blasts failed to ignite a communal conflagration. It is true indeed that the terrorist strike triggered off no riots but only participation by all communities . . .
- Get The Guilty (Times of India, Rajeev Dhavan , Aug 23, 2006)
July and August have been the cruelest months of 2006. In these two months we saw the Mumbai blasts of July 11, resurgence of killings in Kashmir, planting of bombs at London's Heathrow airport, mayhem in Sri Lanka and Israel's merciless bombing of . . .
- Vande Mataram: Arjun In Line Of Fire (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
Having got a pet 'nationalist' issue to attack the government with, opposition BJP on Tuesday stepped up its offensive against the UPA government on the Vande Mataram controversy in Parliament and plans to continue the campaign outside the House too.
- Rs Nominee Needn't Be Domicile: Sc (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
In a relief for political bigwigs, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and BJP leader Arun Jaitley, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld the decision to do away with the requirement that a candidate has to be resident of a particular state to . . .
- With Office Of Profit, Who Needs Pay Hike! (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
Left parties, which usually oppose any hike in pay-cheques and emoluments of parliamentarians and legislators in any state, found themselves isolated in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday when they put up a similar show during the introduction of the . . .
- ‘Vande Mataram’ Issue Rocks Parliament (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
Both Houses of Parliament today witnessed uproarious scenes and adjournments as the ruling coalition and Opposition members clashed over the government’s statement that singing of the national song ‘Vande Mataram’ on September 7 was voluntary.
- Upa Allies To Protest 'Creamy Layer' Issue (Pioneer, Rajeev Ranjan Roy, Aug 23, 2006)
The issue of 'creamy layer' among other backward classes (OBCs) is set to snowball into a major confrontation between the allies of the UPA after the Government cleared the decks for 27 per cent quota for them in the Centrally funded institutes of higher
- Nobody Can Be Compelled To Sing National Song: Lalu (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
Adding fuel to the Vande Mataram controversy, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad today said nobody can be compelled to sing the National Song.
- Cong Leaders Meet To Discuss Telangana Issue........ (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
With UPA ally Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) threatening to pull out of the coalition on Telangana statehood issue, Congress leaders held a meeting here today to discuss the issue.
- Sense Of The House (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 22, 2006)
It's a good sign that Parliament rose to the occasion and focussed attention on the nuclear deal instead of fighting on trivial issues, says CP Bhambhri.
- Arjun Tries To Wriggle Out Of Vande Mataram Row (Indian Express, Shubhajit Roy, Aug 22, 2006)
Under fire from the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on the Vande Mataram issue, a red-faced Arjun Singh is making a desperate bid to come clean.
- Bjp's Stand Vindicated (Pioneer, Vivek Gumaste, Aug 22, 2006)
The assertion that the BJP's strident agitation against the proposed India-US civil nuclear cooperation deal has fallen flat in the face of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's "feisty" rejoinder in Parliament is a simplistic conclusion to a complicated issue.
- Vande Mataram Not Must: Arjun (Telegraph, Radhika Ramaseshan, Aug 22, 2006)
Human resource development minister Arjun Singh today said singing Vande Mataram is not mandatory and those who don’t want to sing it are not “unpatriotic or anti-national”, but there is no need to make a song and dance about it.
- `Vande Mataram': Bjp Wants Arjun To Explain (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
Centenary of the song is being celebrated this year .
- Congress Tries Hard To Resolve Differences Over Telangana (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
With the Telengana Rashtriya Samiti (TRS) threatening to pull out from the UPA Government, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh called on TRC chief and Union Minister Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday to discuss his demand for creation of a . . .
- No ‘Independent Charge’ For Parliamentary Secretary (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, has informed the Punjab and Haryana High Court that the Chief Parliamentary Secretary (CPS) and the seven Parliamentary Secretaries (PSs) in the state were not holding any independent charge and . . .
- Unity In Diversity (Times of India, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Aug 21, 2006)
The Bush administration has been more effective in uniting India than a cricket match against Pakistan. The American stance on subsidies to its farmers has been unanimously opposed by just about every Indian, straddling the ideological spectrum.
- Rajasthan Govt Begins Documenting Sites To Protect Heritage Wealth (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
Eager to protect its historic wealth from smugglers and looters, the Rajasthan government has launched a huge survey to document all heritage sites spread across the state.
- Build Schools First (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 21, 2006)
How to teach history is important. More important is how to build education infrastructure
- Textbook Row (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 21, 2006)
NCERT must ensure that textbooks are unbaised.
- Jat Rally A Raje Govt.-Sponsored Event: Congress (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
No member of the party belonging to the Jat community will participate in it, says PCC chief .
- Remedy Within (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 21, 2006)
The coalition parties need to clean up their act.
- A Dubious Record Of Unity (Deccan Herald, Amulya Ganguli, Aug 21, 2006)
When it concerns votes, all parties, from the Left to the Right of the political spectrum close their ranks.
- Bonhomie With Sonia Helped Pm Take The Bull By The Horn (New Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Aug 21, 2006)
Just before the Prime Minister was to speak in the Rajya Sabha on the Indo-US nuclear deal, Arjun Singh walked up to Manmohan Singh and exchanged pleasantries with him.
- How To Revive Agricultural Economy (Daily Excelsior, Satyendra Pratap Singh, Aug 21, 2006)
As the crisis of the farming community reverberate in the country with suicides and hunger, the prime minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, in his Independence speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort, loudly proclaimed that the UPA government is "concerned . . .
- Row Builds Over Vande Mataram (Asian Age, Amita Verma, Aug 21, 2006)
The year-long centenary celebrations of Vande Mataram may end on a discordant note, with a section of Muslims in Uttar Pradesh objecting to the Union government’s directive to ensure recitation of the song in all schools on September 7.
- Catching The Culprit: The Media Did It! (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 21, 2006)
It has taken just six months and two weeks in power for the erstwhile opposition stalwarts in Karnataka to realise that the much maligned media is the cause of all their problems.
- Vande Mataram: Bjp Criticises Muslim Refusal (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
The BJP on Sunday condemned the refusal by some Muslim clerics to abide by a Central directive on compulsory singing of Vande Mataram in schools on September 7, saying those who oppose the national song should "leave the country".
- Declare Pak A Terror State: Bjp (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
Claiming that the recent spurt in terrorist activities in the country was sponsored by Pakistan, BJP today said India should step up pressure on the international community to declare the neighbouring country a ‘Terrorist State’.
- Vajpayee, Sushma Differ On Women's Quota (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
Former Prime Minister Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee today suggested an increase in the Lok Sabha strength to have 180 seats exclusively for women, a proposal contested by her party colleague Mrs Sushma Swaraj as a “time-waste” exercise.
- Bhisham Pitamaha Of Parliament (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Aug 20, 2006)
Last week this column gave expression to one's growing disenchantment with the way our parliament is conducting or not conducting the nation's business. It made dismal narration and one that gave me little pleasure to write about.
- Bureaucrats In Politics (The Economic Times, C P Bhambhri, Aug 20, 2006)
Justice R S Pathak in his report on oil-for-food programme has clearly pointed out that Natwar Singh, a very important leader of the Congress party, had tried to ‘influence’ the Iraqi government on giving concessions to his kith and kin on the . . .
- Yesterday's Rising Scams (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 20, 2006)
While Telgi languishes in jail, politicians suspected to have patronised him are roaming free. Various cases registered in the matter are likely to take time. Whether the HIV-infected Telgi will live to face trial is another story.
- Rahul Mahajan To Get Back His Passport (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
A city court today ordered the release of passport of Rahul Mahajan, son of late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, and accused in the drug overdose case. Rahul had sought the court’s permission for travelling abroad following his recent marriage.
- Desperate Language (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 20, 2006)
The search for scapegoats is on. Ever since it was widely seen to have lost the nuclear deal debate, the BJP has been desperately searching for a fall guy.
- Rti: Sonia Stays Move To Erase Notings (Times of India, BHASKAR ROY, Aug 20, 2006)
The invisible hand that pulls the levers of government has moved once again, preventing a proposed amendment to the Right to Information Act to keep file notings out of public domain and emasculating the core transparency that was intended.
- Being Prime Ministerial (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 20, 2006)
These are moments that come rarely to prime ministers. Moments when they earn the adjective, ‘prime ministerial’. Before Manmohan Singh rose to reply to Thursday’s day-long discussion on the Indo-US nuclear deal, the anxiety in the Rajya Sabha did . . .
- Sonia Behind Cbi Case: Maneka (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
Faced with a CBI case for alleged illegal fund allocations as a Union minister of state in the NDA government, Maneka Gandhi, BJP Lok Sabha member from Pilibhit, alleged that she had been booked at the instance of her sister-in-law Sonia Gandhi.
- Sister Sonia, He Wanted A Total Ban On Conversions! (New Indian Express, S Gurumurthy , Aug 20, 2006)
“The Congress party's views on this are well known,” Sonia says. ‘This’ means laws banning forcible religious conversions. She goes on: “They are enactments passed by state legislatures where the Congress is in opposition.”
- N-Deal Clarified (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 20, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's detailed response to the Opposition's concerns over the perceived shifting of goal posts by the US Congress, thus changing the parameters of the proposed India-US civil . . .
- Protest In Dhaka Over Bjp Leader's Remark (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
Bangladeshi Muslims took to streets in Dhaka today after noon prayers to protest against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Rajnath Singh’s recent remarks that India should send its security forces into Pakistan and Bangladesh to destroy . . .
- Desperate Language (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 19, 2006)
The search for scapegoats is on. Ever since it was widely seen to have lost the nuclear deal debate, the BJP has been desperately searching for a fall guy.
- Sonia Behind Cbi Case: Maneka (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
Faced with a CBI case for alleged illegal fund allocations as a Union minister of state in the NDA government, Maneka Gandhi, BJP Lok Sabha member from Pilibhit, alleged that she had been booked at the instance of her sister-in-law Sonia Gandhi.
- Being Prime Ministerial (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 19, 2006)
These are moments that come rarely to prime ministers. Moments when they earn the adjective, ‘prime ministerial’.
- A Lesson In Values (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 19, 2006)
Prime minister Manmohan Singh’s reply to the marathon discussion on the Indo-US nuclear agreement in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday should allay all doubts about the deal.
- Accolades For Shekhawat As He Crosses 4-Yr Mark (Pioneer, Rahul Datta, Aug 19, 2006)
'His witty interventions have always defused tension in the House'
- N-Deal Clarified (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 19, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's detailed response to the Opposition's concerns over the perceived shifting of goal posts by the US Congress, thus changing the parameters of the proposed India-US civil nuclear cooperation agreement, should serve . . .
- Nuclear Plans Intact (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 19, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s reply to the marathon discussion on the Indo-US nuclear agreement in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday should allay all doubts about the deal. He has particularly disarmed the BJP and the CPM critics that the nuclear deal . . .
- Living Under Terror Shadow (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
A major breakthrough has been achieved in the probe into the July 11 serial bomb blasts in commuter trains in Mumbai, Union minister for state for home Sriprakash Jaiswal said here on Friday.
- Kalam Signs Profit Bill Finally (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
Barely hours after Parliament completed the exercise of setting up a Joint Parliamentary Committee to evolve a comprehensive definition of an office of profit on the lines suggested by Rashtrapati Bhawan, president APJ Abdul Kalam on . . .
- Bureaucrats In Politics (The Economic Times, C P Bhambhri, Aug 19, 2006)
Justice R S Pathak in his report on oil-for-food programme has clearly pointed out that Natwar Singh, a very important leader of the Congress party, had tried to ‘influence’ the Iraqi government on giving concessions to his kith and kin on the . . .
- Same Old Tune Of Violence (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 18, 2006)
One will not say that the India-Pakistan relations have nosedived after more than two years of remarkable bonhomie.
- Bjp's Existential Crisis (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Aug 18, 2006)
The old horse of the BJP, L.K. Advani, is once again jockeying for the presidentship of the party as the term of the present incumbent Mr. Rajnath Singh will expire in November.
- N-Deal: Bjp Demands Resolution (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
The much-awaited short-duration discussion on the India-US nuclear deal in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday expectedly saw the BJP attacking the UPA government...
- Parliament Below Par (Deccan Herald, B G Verghese, Aug 18, 2006)
Due to irresponsible behaviour and selfish motives of parliamentarians, Parliament is losing its sanctity.
- Office Of Profit: Jpc Set Up (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
Rumours that the Election Commission has disqualified 37 MLAs, including the Punjab Chief Minister, for holding offices of profit, sparked hectic political activity today, with Capt Amarinder Singh cutting short his visit and rushing to Chandigarh.
- Pm’S Reply Mellows Cpm On N-Deal (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Aug 18, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tonight accomplished his domestic political mission at the end of his 85-minute reply to the eight-hour-long short-duration discussion on Indo-US nuclear deal — the CPM dropped its demand for a “sense of Parliament” . . .
- A.P. Assembly Adjourned Without Any Business (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
Furore over flood situation; CPI(M) members stall proceedings
- Bjp For Jpc To Monitor Deal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
"Accord will end the country's weapons programme"
- No Breach In Prime Minister's Security: Patil (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
Everyone deployed in his security is vetted'
- Are You Sure It's Not A Sellout, Ask Elders (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
The much-awaited debate on the Indo-US nuclear cooperation in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday saw non-UPA parties expressing grave concern that the US was trying to limit India's strategic weapons development programme by putting up . . .
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