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Articles 1321 through 1420 of 9764:
- ‘Politician’ Gaffe Stings Police Chief (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 15, 2006)
Maharashtra police chief P.S. Pasricha faces action from the Assembly for publicly hinting at the involvement of local politicians in the train blasts.
- Watch Your Words (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 15, 2006)
In times of national crises, politicians are expected to rise above their party interests and speak up for the collective well-being of the nation. Our political class regularly fails to do so.
- Bjp Wants Antulay, Arjun To Step Down (Asian Age, PTI, Jul 15, 2006)
The BJP on Friday demanded dismissal of minority affairs minister A.R. Antulay and HRD minister Arjun Singh from their posts for their alleged remarks in a Cabinet meeting suggesting that Hindu groups faked terrorist attacks and blamed them . . .
- Food For Thought (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 15, 2006)
The agriculture minister’s proposal for modifying policy to procure foodgrain at market rates is a response to the shortfall in procurement by state agencies, as farmers preferred to sell to private buyers at more remunerative prices.
- Vadodara To Bhiwandi (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Jul 15, 2006)
If anyone throws stones at policemen, we will answer them with bullets." That was no Narendra 'Milosevic' Modi defending Gujarat Police for firing that resulted in the death of two Muslims in Vadodara.
- Police File Chargesheet Against Praveen Mahajan (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 15, 2006)
Nearly three months after the arrest of Praveen Mahajan, police on Friday filed chargesheet against him for killing his brother and BJP General Secretary Pramod Mahajan.
- Is Narmada A Lost Cause? (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Jul 14, 2006)
When I was coming out of the court of the Chief Justice of India, one top lawyer appearing for Gujarat . . .
- Damning Betrayal (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Jul 14, 2006)
When I was coming out of the court of the Chief Justice of India, one top lawyer appearing for Gujarat remarked:
- Scrap It (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 14, 2006)
The Supreme Court on Wednesday referred the MPs’ Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) to a five-judge Constitution Bench.
- Bjp To Protest Price Hike From July 17 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 14, 2006)
Leaders to ring bells to "awaken" UPA
Leaders to undertake fasts, hold jan jagran abhiyan
Agitation to end on the first day of Parliament's monsoon session
Price rise was man-made: BJP leaders
- Bjp For "Hot Pursuit" Of Terrorists (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Jul 14, 2006)
Security forces should chase them to their camps: Prakash Javadekar
"Hot pursuit" line was first used by Advani when he was Home Minister
He had said then that the "option" had international sanction
- Debate On Mining: Cm To Reply Today (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 14, 2006)
Discussions on the alleged bribery charges against Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy and Forest Minister C Chennigappa made by BJP MLC Janardhana Reddy entered the second day in both Houses of the legislature on Thursday...
- Blasts Case: Defence Objects To Citing Of Appeals (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 14, 2006)
Prosecution continues argument on conspiracy charge
- We The Regional, Marginalised People (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 14, 2006)
Coomi Kapoor’s left-handed compliment to the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and its leadership in her edit page commentary (Nice guys don’t last, IE, July 10) has surprised me.
- Simi Denies Any Hand In Serial Blasts (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 14, 2006)
The Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) on Thursday denied having any hand in Tuesday’s blasts in Mumbai. Shahid Badr, former president of the organisation, called it a ‘‘gruesome act’’ and said ‘‘the killing of innocent people amounts to . . .
- States Of The Nation (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 14, 2006)
Mumbai has demonstrated not only an Intelligence-cum-imagination challenged national security apparatus, as this newspaper has noted over the last two days, it is also now . . .
- Bjp Condemns Blasts In Mumbai, Srinagar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 14, 2006)
Members staged a rasta roko at Ameer Ahmed Circle
Traffic in the circle was affected for nearly half-an-hour
Government to check the menace of terrorism
- Differences Between Bjp, Jd (S) Can Be Ironed Out: Minister (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 14, 2006)
The coalition Government will complete its term of 40 months much to the chagrin of Opposition parties, Minister for Science and Technology and district in-charge Ramachandra Gowda said here on Thursday.
- Uma Spills The ‘Terror-In-Bjp’ Beans (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 14, 2006)
After Mr Madal Lal Khurana, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Ms Uma Bharati has now spilled the beans against senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).Reacting to the Mumbai bomb blasts, Ms Bharati . . .
- Bjp, Rewind (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 14, 2006)
The BJP now plans to do what all smart opposition parties must: make the ruling UPA alliance squirm over its abject failure to prevent the serial horror of Mumbai 7/11.
- Modi Heads For Mumbai (Asian Age, Sanjay Basak, Jul 14, 2006)
The BJP will be sending its Hindutva face, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, to Mumbai to participate in a two-day nationwide campaign against terrorism. Leader of the Opposition L.K. Advani will tour Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh while party . . .
- Why Mumbai Is Under Attack (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 14, 2006)
The Mumbai terror strikes were waiting to happen. With some forward planning the police could have anticipated them and placed their forces on alert, rather than have waited for such a tragedy to take 200 lives in India’s commercial capital.
- Mumbai’S Spirit Is Being Flogged To Death (Indian Express, FARAH BARIA, Jul 13, 2006)
You know what I think as Mumbai gets patted on the back for its spirit? I think Mumbai’s spirit of survival has become an expedient fait accompli, cold-bloodedly taken for granted by government after callous government.
- Rs. 25 Lakh For Information On Terrorists Who Bombed Trains (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Terrorist act described as an undeclared war against the nation
16 teams formed to investigate various aspects the attack
Fast-track special courts demanded
- Govern Or Get Out, Bjp Tells Manmohan Government (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Resolution says attacks over past two years show a larger design to destabilise country
No scope for lasting peace with Pakistan'
`UPA afraid of losing Muslim vote'
To organise demonstrations on July15, 16 in all state capitals
- 5,000 Families Involved With Naxals In Bangalore: Kharge (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Terrorists have taken shelter in the city'
Police should be strengthened and its capabilities upgraded: Kharge
Underworld activities going on in ports: Deshpande
- Vilasrao Plea To Parties: Help Restore Peace (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has announced a compensation of Rs 1 lakh to the next of kin of those killed in the serial blasts while those grievously injured will receive Rs 50,000.
- Arjun: Quota Possible For ‘Backward’ Minorities (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
HRD Minister Arjun Singh on Wednesday said that minority communities could be given reservation under the constitutional norms of backwardness but no community would get a quota based on religion.
- Boys Gone Astray, Minister? (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Jul 13, 2006)
You don’t have to wait for intelligence agencies to release their trademark identikit pictures to know the faces behind Mumbai’s serial blast.
- Govern Or Get Out, Bjp Tells Upa (Pioneer, Rajeev Ranjan Roy, Jul 13, 2006)
In a blistering attack on the Centre for compromising national security, the main Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday told the United Progressive Alliance Government to either "govern or get out" in the interest of the nation and the people.
- Aping The Communists (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Jul 13, 2006)
Anguish at the desecration of Meenatai's statue notwithstanding, the violence and burning of buses by Sena activists was regrettable, says Prafull Goradia
- Bjp Blames Upa’S Vote-Centrism For Bombings (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Jul 13, 2006)
Accusing Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's Government of turning India into a “soft state” citing Tuesday's blasts in Mumbai and Srinagar, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) bluntly . . .
- Reforms Hobbled By Politics (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jul 13, 2006)
If only Dr Manmohan Singh, a competent economist and honest politician, is allowed a free hand to do his job, he could emerge an efficient administrator.
- Mumbai Bounces Back (Deccan Herald, Parag Rabade, Jul 13, 2006)
The megapolis was back on its feet on Wednesday even as the toll in Tuesday’s serial blasts on seven suburban trains on Mumbai’s Western Line rose to 200 killed and 714 injured.
- Tackling Terror (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 13, 2006)
Are we condemned to live in conditions that permit terrorists of all inclinations to strike at will?
- Rahul Mahajan Gets Engaged (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
After going through a nearly three-month ordeal, the Mahajan family finally had something to cheer about as the late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan's son Rahul got engaged to his long-time friend Sheweta at a low-key ceremony here on Monday .
- Narmada: Bjp Fumes At ‘False Report’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Arun Jaitley said “the clean chit” given by it on the rehabilitation work confirmed that the Group of Ministers (GoM) which visited the dam site had tried to stall the work by giving “false information” to Manmohan Singh.
- The Left’S Plan~b (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Jul 12, 2006)
The Left Front knows how to bark. Will it ever bite? Starting tomorrow for a whole week it will launch a nationwide protest movement against the . . .
- Blasts Reflect Upa's Failure To Curb Terrorism, Says Bjp (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
BJP president Rajnath Singh has said he was deeply shocked and outraged by the heinous bomb attacks on innocent commuters in Mumbai on Tuesday evening.
- Voices Of Concern, Outrage (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
We will work to defeat the evil designs of terrorists and will not allow them to succeed... The Government will take all possible measures to maintain law and order and defeat the forces of . . .
- Rattled Upa Govt Suspects Let Link (Deccan Herald, K Subrahmanya, Jul 12, 2006)
The Kashmir blasts could have passed off as just another warning bell ringing for Delhi from the violence-prone northern state until the initial news from Mumbai of the first of the blasts came in.
- Assembly To Discuss Bribery Charge Against Kumaraswamy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
In thelegislature Discussion will not be in the form of an adjournment motion
Government gives in after two days of stonewalling
Discussion to be taken up under Rule 69
Opposition asked to give separate notice
- Bribery Charge: Bjp Asks State Unit To Go Slow (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Determined to keep the BJP-JD(S) government afloat in Karnataka, the BJP high command has stepped in to tell the state unit to defuse the crisis triggered by the bribery charge against Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy by party MLC G Janardhan Reddy.
- 147 Dead, 439 Injured As Blasts Rock Mumbai Trains (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
At least 147 people were killed and 439 injured in a string of seven terror blasts that tore through first class compartments of suburban trains around 6 pm during the peak hour traffic here today.
- Sena Packs A Punch At Pak & Cong (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Bloody Tuesday drew a dreary roar from Bal Thackeray, with the Shiv Sena supremo blaming the serial blasts on the pusillanimous policy of the Congress-led Centre towards Pakistan.
- Fight The Tigers, Arm Sri Lanka (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Jul 12, 2006)
The story of the Government's firefighting action in Nepal is instructive. While the crisis was brewing, BJP leader Jaswant Singh was invited to Kathmandu by King Gyanendra.
- Shiv Sena And Its "Spontaneous" Response (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jul 11, 2006)
Sunday's violence in Mumbai merely reiterates the party's true nature.
- An Unacceptable Defence (Hindu, K. N. Panikkar, Jul 11, 2006)
An attempt by Narasimha Rao to absolve himself and his Government of the responsibility for failing to prevent what admittedly was a colossal tragedy
- Listless Regime (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 11, 2006)
Blaming BJP makes no sense ---- The Congress, whenever it has been in power at the Centre, has found it expedient to indulge in name-calling and blaming the Opposition to deflect attention from its non-performance or flawed policy decisions.
- Cbi Ready With Bangaru Report (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
The disclosure of Mr Satyamurti, secretary of the then BJP president, Mr Bangaru Laxman, in the sensational Tehelka case is going to put the Bharatiya Janata Party into another embarrassment as the CBI is almost ready with the chargesheet against . . .
- All’S Well, Says Congress (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
With speculation rife about widening cracks in the party-government relationship and within the UPA, the Congress today mounted a major damage-control exercise.
- A 'Nalayak' Minister & A 'Murderer' Mla (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
The ruckus headed to a dramatic climax after Speaker Krishna adjourned the House for lunch. Former speaker Ramesh Kumar called Housing Minister D T Jayakumar a nalayak (useless character). The Minister, in turn, swore back at the Congress . . .
- Manmohan Firm On Bulletproofing Ayodhya Temple (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
Delegation plans to pressure Government to reverse the decision
"Construction will give legitimacy to existing temple"
BJP comes down on demand
Supreme Court directive will be adhered to
- Economic Liberalisation Not Put On Hold, Says Congress (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
Aim to ensure the support of all United Progressive Alliance constituents
Government to discuss specific cases with allies
Liberalisation policy to continue
- Rahul Mahajan Allowed To Shift To Mumbai (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
A Delhi court on Monday allowed Rahul Mahajan, son of slain BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, to shift to Mumbai after the brain-mapping test was conducted on him.
- Bjp Leaders Seek L-G's Intervention (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
Delimitation Commission membership issue
BJP wants a member of the party to be nominated to the Delimitation Commission
The party has resented nomination of NCP MLA Ramvir Singh Bidhuri to the commission
- Aiims Registrar Back In Office (Hindu, Bindu Shajan Perappadan, Jul 11, 2006)
Health Ministry says Venugopal's order cannot take effect
Governing Body must approve his removal
Gupta will have to explain salary release issue
- For Parliamentary Approval To Treaties, Take Entry 14 (Indian Express, Tarunabh Khaitan, Jul 11, 2006)
On 30 June, 2006, the Left parties demanded a constitutional amendment to make it binding on the Executive to get Parliamentary approval before entering any “bilateral or multi-lateral” agreement.
- N-Deal: The Turnaround Of The Us Congress (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 11, 2006)
Starting with enormous disapproval for the nuke deal with India, the US Congress now lends it a shoulder. Walter Andersen gives the reasons for this change of heart
- Bjp Has Double Standards On Quota, Says Jdu (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
Using the recent controversy over the move for the removal of AIIMS director P Venugopal, the Janata Dal (United) here today charged the BJP with ‘‘duplicity’’ over reservations.
- Bjp Meet Sets Agenda For Tomorrow's Big One (Pioneer, Rajeev Ranjan Roy, Jul 11, 2006)
The BJP is in the fine-tuning mode. Party president Rajnath Singh on Monday met the general secretaries to chalk out the agenda for the July 12 meeting of the central office-bearers.
- Request Against Shield Around Ayodhya Declined (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
The BJP on Monday attacked the campaign mounted by muslim organisations to force the Centre to drop its plans, to fortify the area around the make-shift temple in Ayodhya, even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh refused to re-visit the proposal.
- Friends For Free Lunch (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 11, 2006)
The BJP was justifiably delighted after having “won” Karnataka; the formation of its coalition government with the majority JD(S) faction gave the party some solid good news amidst post-election gloom.
- ‘Vajpayee Offered J&k Military Bases To Us To Fight Taliban’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
A former Indian navy chief has revealed that the former government of Atal Behari Vajpayee had offered the United States the use of military bases in Jammu and Kashmir and other areas to carry out strikes against Afghanistan in 2001.
- Pokhran-Ii Led To ‘Surrenders’: Bhagwat (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 10, 2006)
Terming the 1998 Pokhran nuclear blasts as a “push-button” affair for the previous NDA government, the then Navy Chief, Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, has said the atomic tests led to a “series of surrenders in every sector of the national polity, economy . . .
- Neighbourhood Gang (Tribune, Devi Cherian, Jul 10, 2006)
While Rahul Gandhi is yet to make up his mind on his role in the party, the list of his teammates, as on his recent birthday on June 19, is more or less ready.
- Uddhav, Bjp Give 24-Hr Notice (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 10, 2006)
While Shiv Sainiks continued to run riot across the city on Sunday, executive president of the Shiv Sena Uddhav Thackeray said that the agitation was a spontaneous reaction to the desecration of the statue of Meenatai, his late mother, at Shivaji Park.
- Pranab Persuaded Manmohan To Continue As Prime Minister (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 10, 2006)
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, who wanted to resign in the wake of the DMK’s threat to withdraw support from the government against the decision of the disinvestment of Neyveli Lignite and Nalco, has been persuaded by the Defence Minister, . . .
- Prime Sport For Opposition (Pioneer, Ajoy Bose, Jul 10, 2006)
Internal bickering in the Congress is encouraging its allies to take potshots at Manmohan Singh ---- Barely two years after its tentative birth, the ruling coalition UPA appears to have thrown caution to the wind and started rocking its own boat.
- Not The End Of Reforms (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jul 10, 2006)
Given the numbers in the Lok Sabha, there is no other option for the Government than to make twists and turns in policy within the general reform format if it is to remain in office.
- Handicap At 7, Race Course (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jul 10, 2006)
The central fact of our politics is that since 1971 no prime minister has got re-elected. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, in 1999, was the only exception, but his first term had lasted less than a year and he rode to an even greater majority on a wave of . . .
- Sainiks Shut Down Maharashtra (Pioneer, TN Raghunatha, Jul 10, 2006)
Widespread protests after Meenatai statue desecrated ---- Angry Shiv Sainiks went on a rampage after unidentified miscreants desecrated the statue of Sena chief Bal Thackeray's late wife Meenatai at Shivaji Park in north-central Mumbai early on . . .
- Growth In Spite Of Politics (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Jul 10, 2006)
Coalition governments with a certain degree of controlled chaos are now a standard part of existence both at the Centre and in the States, and I think we should expect a great deal of 'volatility' as we ahead towards election time in Uttar Pradesh . . .
- Getting Ready For Poll Battle (Daily Excelsior, Allabaksh, Jul 10, 2006)
With the UP assembly elections due anytime next year, political parties are getting ready to win the prized ‘trophy’ in that politically vital state.
- Uma Bharti To Launch 'Epic Struggle' In October (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 10, 2006)
"The `war' would affect several BJP leaders"
- Don't Politicise Issue: Deshmukh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 10, 2006)
Legislature will not be allowed to function if the culprits are not arrested: BJP
- N-Deal: Jaswant Warns Against Rush (Times of India, Indrani Bagchi, Jul 10, 2006)
The Indo-US nuclear agreement is not an energy agreement; it is and should have been promoted as a strategic agreement, says former foreign minister Jaswant Singh.
- Maharashtra Faces The Wrath Of Shiv Sena (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 10, 2006)
Shiv Sainiks went on a rampage in Mumbai and other parts of the state on Sunday . . .
- Rjd Opposed To Divestment Of Profitable Psus: Gupta (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 10, 2006)
A day after RJD leader Lalu Prasad Yadav’s remarks against disinvestment, party leader and company affairs minister Prem Chand Gupta on Sunday said that the party was opposed to disinvestment of profit-making PSUs.
- Manmohan Meets Sonia, Reviews Political Situation (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 08, 2006)
Against the backdrop of embarrassing developments for the UPA coalition and rumours of his resignation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today held discussions with Congress president Sonia Gandhi and some senior party leaders and took stock of the . . .
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