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Articles 221 through 320 of 500:
- We Are Not Poles Apart (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Oct 17, 2007)
Poland has gainfully used its past to build a promising new future. Poland was ravaged by conquests for centuries and yet rose remarkably from the ashes.
- Muslims Lag For Lack Of Leaders (Pioneer, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 17, 2007)
The presence of members of the Schedule Caste in the public sector as well as in educational institutions is largely because of the state's reservation policy.
- Adopt Orphan Puppies (Pioneer, Maneka Gandhi, Oct 17, 2007)
Kuber was picked up by Revathi five months ago and brought to my house because she works here and could keep an eye on him.
- Direction Device (Tribune, Chetna Keer Banerjee, Oct 17, 2007)
Technology may actually steer some authors and social commentators to rewrite their works.
- China Not A Threat But A Promise (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 17, 2007)
THE conventional wisdom is that China is rising and the United States is on its way down.
- Suppressed Turns Oppressor (Pioneer, JS Rajput, Oct 17, 2007)
A shocked group of young cricket fans watches Bangladesh defeat India in the 2007 World Cup in South Africa.
- Women’S Political Party Launched (Tribune, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 17, 2007)
Women activists from various parts of the country have got together to form India’s first political party called United Women Front (UWF).
- Climate, Nobel And Al Gore (Business Line, N. R. Krishnan , Oct 17, 2007)
Nobel awards for Peace can often be contentious. But not so this year. Barring a few diehard critics who question the phenomenon of global warming itself, the world has welcomed the 2007 award to Al Gore, former US Vice-President and a . . . . .
- India's First Women Political Party Launched (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2007)
Touted as the country's first political party formed by women, the 'United Women Front' (UWF) was launched here on Tuesday.
- Anti-Muslim Rant Sparks A Literary Spat (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Oct 17, 2007)
Islamophobia in Britain is for real and the virus is spreading openly.
- Trees With Rabbit Genes Accelerate Cleaning Of Soil (Hindu, Alok Jha, Oct 17, 2007)
GM poplars break down pollutants 100 times faster but there are concerns too.
- Problems Of Equality (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 17, 2007)
Rising inequality has emerged as a subject of debate in various parts of the world.
- ‘National Reconciliation’, Really? (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2007)
South Africans, who coined the words ‘Truth and Reconciliation’ to make peace between the enforcers of the apartheid regime and the majority black population so that, in the words of the incomparable Nelson Mandela, ‘we might . . . .
- The Silent Haemorrhaging Of The Worlds Biodiversity (Deccan Herald, JANARDHAN ROYE, Oct 17, 2007)
If we dont take action to halt climate change, we will be guilty of taking no action at all during one of the most crucial crises for mankind.
- Tsunami Early Warning Centre Inaugurated (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
It will take 30 minutes to analyse the seismic data following an earthquake of more than magnitude 6
- Let’S Not Be The Submissive Spouse (Indian Express, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Oct 16, 2007)
The Indo-US nuclear agreement — 123 — is a major energy refuge for India, says the prime minister. But it is of alarmingly adverse national interest according to many informed critics, and so the subject desiderates public debate.
- Blueline Buses Go Off Roads (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
For Delhiites, the week began on a jarring note. On Monday, 3,000 Blueline buses, cocking a snook at the Government, went off the roads without any notice.
- India's Tigers Under Siege (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
With homemade muskets, Lakhan and his brothers tracked one of India's endangered Bengal tigers as it slunk along the forested trails and lakes of Ranthambhore National Park, not far from Lakhan's village.
- Indian Government Fears Backlash As Stock Market Hits Recor (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
The stock market boom in India reached new heights yesterday with the Mumbai index shooting past 19,000 for the first time and creating paper fortunes worth billions of pounds for the country's richest industrialists.
- Polls’ Fairness Is Crucial (Dawn, Kunwar Idris, Oct 16, 2007)
WHILE to all appearances the fate of the country hangs in the balance, for the chief of Pakistan’s ruling party, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, it is time for banter and bluff.
- Instil Confidence In The Nations Food Producers (Deccan Herald, PANDURANG HEGDE, Oct 16, 2007)
A drastic shift in policy in favour of commercial and export-oriented crops is denying the countrys small farmers access to growing food crops, threatening food security.
- Apathy Denies Tribals Statutory Rights (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
Despite being tribal-majority villages in AP , they have not been recognised as tribal areas for inclusion in the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution.
- Tax The Car, Fund Public Transport (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Oct 16, 2007)
None can deny the security one gets by owning a product instead of renting it.
- Pm Briefs Bush On How Left Blocked Nuke Deal (Asian Age, R. Bhagwan Singh, Oct 16, 2007)
Confirming to the United States that its civil nuclear deal with India has hit a wall, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday explained to US President George W. Bush the circumstances compelling his government to put the deal on hold.
- Zionism's Bleak Present (Pioneer, Daniel Pipes, Oct 16, 2007)
Israel is under siege: From Iranians building a nuclear bomb to Syrians stockpiling chemical weapons, and Hizbullah and Hamas attacking from Lebanon and Gaza
- Governance Reforms India's Top Priority For Next 20 Years: Kamal Nath (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
Exuding optimism on a day when the Sensex hit a record 19,000 points back home, Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath told a gathering of top British economists that the next two decades in India will be marked primarily by "reforms in governance."
- Unleashing Little India’S Natural Enterprise (Business Line, R. GOPALAKRISHNAN, Oct 16, 2007)
We need to liberate Little India by empowering the people and promoting more local governance. That is the only way to spread prosperity to larger sections of our population, says R. GOPALAKRISHNAN.
- Fighting Poverty (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 16, 2007)
The interim assessment of the UN Millennium Development Goals provides a reality check to India, which is currently in the grip of a growth euphoria, thanks to a booming stock market.
- Home Truths (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 15, 2007)
It’s bad enough that 40 per cent of the women surveyed across the country - by 18 organisations led by the International Institute of Population Studies - admit that they are victims of domestic violence.
- Polls’ Fairness Is Crucial (Dawn, Kunwar Idris, Oct 15, 2007)
While to all appearances the fate of the country hangs in the balance, for the chief of Pakistan’s ruling party, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, it is time for banter and bluff.
- Nobel Focus On Climate (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 15, 2007)
The Nobel Peace Prize for the former US Vice-President and “climate campaigner”, Mr Al Gore, and the UN Climate Panel (headed by Mr R. K. Pachauri) has once more helped to focus attention on a phenomenon which may, ultimately . . . ..
- ‘Doomsday Scenarios Do Not Help’ (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2007)
Wildlife biologist, K. Ullas Karanth, heads the Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bangalore, and is a Senior Scientist with Wildlife Conservation Society, New York.
- Let Sensex Play Itself Out! (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 15, 2007)
It is best that watchdogs of a country’s economic performance, especially, the custodians of public finance, refrain from making off-the-cuff comments on the complex happenings in bourses in motley gatherings where it is difficult to . . . . . . .
- Nuclear Winter (Asian Age, M.J. Akbar, Oct 15, 2007)
The government’s retreat on the Indo-US nuclear deal, after three years of do-or-die bravado, can only be explained by that old adage: He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
- Learning Curves (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2007)
Higher education in India has witnessed manifold changes since Independence. The number of universities have gone up from 20 to 378, colleges from 500 to 18,064 and teachers from 15,000 to nearly 4.80 lakh.
- Obc Representation In Services On Wane: Survey (Pioneer, Abraham Thomas, Oct 15, 2007)
Fourteen years after the Mandal case reserved 27 per cent jobs for OBCs, a latest Government survey has made a shocking disclosure that OBC representation in services has shown a steady decline over the years.
- Changing Global Realities (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Oct 15, 2007)
SOME sections of our political class have expressed the fear that the Indo-US nuclear deal and enhanced cooperation with the United States will compromise India's sovereignty and result in India becoming a junior partner in the imperial order of the US.
- When Art Imitates Life (Deccan Herald, Priyanka Haldipur, Oct 15, 2007)
It would seem a paradox that the cinema is said to be, in one sense, the most real of all media, but that it is also an enormously effective medium for the unreal, the fantastic and the dream-like”— a quote by Alexander Mackendrick . . . . . .
- Hunger: India Lags Behind Pak (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2007)
India still has a long way to go in eradicating hunger where it is ranked at 94th position well behind neighbouring China and Pakistan, a global report says.
- Se For Good Governance (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2007)
Good governance at all levels in India - from the village to the state to the nation - is all about good leadership at all these levels and not just about financial delegation and power shedding or knowledge sharing.
- Final Solution (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 15, 2007)
Worldwide efforts to address climate change formally began with the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992, of which India is party.
- What Myanmar Needs From The World (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2007)
Millions have attended marches to protest against the military crackdown in Myanmar to pressurise international leaders for change.
- India Has Compulsions Galore (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 13, 2007)
There is little doubt that Burma is a failed state with whom the Indian policy of engagement has reached a dead end. Yet, India has an underbelly too -- its troubled North-East and energy scarcity
- Britain Is Built On Sugar: Our National Sweet Tooth Defines (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2007)
On Thursday night, an elderly American professor stood in front of a large audience at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and told them about how the capsicum had reached China from its original habitat in South America.
- Flatlining Production (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2007)
India produces around 70 million tonnes. Out of this, around 35 million tonnes is sold by farmers in the market. The rest they keep for self-consumption, seed and animal feed.
- Special Article (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Oct 13, 2007)
China’s Party Congress is held every five years.
- Against The Grain (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2007)
Economic development has resulted in loss of agricultural land to residential and industrial projects. It is clear that government will have to resort to large-scale import of wheat — which could snowball into a problem that could threaten . . . .
- Peace Prize (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 13, 2007)
Former US Vice-president Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change.
- Muslim Quota: High Court Asked To Dispose Of Petitions By Oct. 31 (Hindu, J. Venkatesan, Oct 13, 2007)
The Supreme Court on Friday extended its interim order restraining the Andhra Pradesh Government from making new admissions to educational institutions under the four per cent Muslim quota for 2007-2008.
- Getting Bloodier And Messier (Dawn, S. Mudassir Ali Shah, Oct 13, 2007)
SENSELESS suicide attacks, relentless bombings and ubiquitous insurgency-related violence across Afghanistan — claiming thousands of lives during the last nine months — have made 2007 the most deadly year for a war-weary nation since the ouster of . . . .
- Obstacles In Anti-Polio Drive (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 13, 2007)
THE fact that the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan constitutes a major reservoir for the polio virus makes it all the more necessary for vaccination drives and awareness campaigns to be joint efforts.
- The Tough Battle For Waziristan (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Oct 13, 2007)
The tough battle for Waziristan
- India Needs Burma (Times of India, Swapan Dasgupta, Oct 13, 2007)
At the best of times, unless it emanates from the Anglosphere or Pakistan, foreign news interests only a minusculity; at the worst of times, it is ignored altogether. As such, it was hardly surprising that TV images of Buddhist monks marching . . .
- Go, Figure It Out (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 13, 2007)
You would think that a book called The Tiger That Isn’t is all about vanishing tigers. But actually the tiger in the title of the recently published book refers to numbers that reveal a vague pattern rather than a full-blown maneater.
- Climate Change: Where Science And Politics Collide (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 13, 2007)
A few errors in Al Gore’s film should not undermine the thrust of his message.
- Welcome Directive (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2007)
The Supreme Court, in a welcome judgement, has pulled up a lower court judge for the casual and mechanical issuance of a non-bailable warrant and has thereby upheld the principle of liberty.
- Rising Violent Crime (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2007)
The brutal policing of yesteryear can hardly produce results in these days of high ingenuity among criminals. The need of the hour is application of the mind.
- Middle Income Upper Castes And Obcs On A Par Economically, Says Survey (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2007)
The middle income groups among the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and ‘others’ (loosely referred to as upper castes) are almost on a par economically.
- Upa Lives (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2007)
The Urdu press seems to believe that the UPA government is likely to continue for a while longer.
- Rich List Fodder For Quota Fire (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2007)
One in three Other Backward Class households across India maintains a lifestyle and assets representing the highest and second highest wealth brackets, the latest national family health survey has revealed.
- Latest Official Survey Puts Obcs At 40% (Pioneer, Rajeev Ranjan Roy, Oct 12, 2007)
As it defends OBC reservations in higher education in the Supreme Court, the UPA Government has received another setback with the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS) for 2005-06 putting the population of other backward classes . . . .
- Of Divine Forms (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2007)
The Centre told the Supreme Court on Thursday that by providing 27 per cent quota for backward classes in premier educational institutions it sought to produce highly qualified persons among OBCs, who otherwise would remain educationally . . . .
- Many Women Justify Wife Beating (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2007)
If you thought domestic violence was on the wane in India with the rise in education levels, take a look at these hard figures. Over 40% of women in a nationwide survey reported being beaten by their husbands at some point of time.
- Instant Accessibility (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 12, 2007)
ON the hillsides of Murree, the buses run at irregular intervals. There are no schedules or systems by which people may learn of prevailing road and transport conditions.
- Sensex 20,000 And The Camels, Humps (Times of India, JUG SURAIYA, Oct 12, 2007)
As the Sensex soars towards the 19,000 mark (Why stop at 19,000? Why not 20,000? Why not 25,000?), a lot of us who have nothing to do with the stock market are soaring on a surge of euphoria along with it.
- Water Everywhere (Frontline, Jayati Ghosh, Oct 12, 2007)
The lack of drainage, which is finally at the core of the problem in Kolkata, is in fact a major issue in most of our major cities.
- Correcting Imbalances (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 12, 2007)
Inaugurating a national conference of Vice Chancellors, Union Human Resources Minister Arjun Singh identified higher education as the “sick child” of education and indicted it for ceasing to serve the cause of youth.
- Backward Still (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2007)
The 55th round survey (1999-2000) of the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) has been in the news since 2005 when a few scholars and columnists thought they had made a “discovery”.
- The Fate Of Special Component Plan (Frontline, S. Viswanathan, Oct 12, 2007)
The failure of governments at the Centre and in the States to genuinely implement the Special Component Plan has cost Dalits dear.
- Denial By Design (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2007)
THE abysmal failure of the governments at the Centre and in the States to fully implement the Scheduled Castes Sub Plan has cost Dalits in India a whopping Rs.3,75,000 crore over a quarter century, according to Dalit activists.
- The Distant Thunder (Pioneer, Kanchan Gupta, Oct 12, 2007)
In Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder) Satyajit Ray brought alive, with great sensitivity, the misery inflicted by the Bengal famine of 1943.
- Hidden Reality (Frontline, C.T. KURIEN , Oct 12, 2007)
ECONOMICS is admittedly the most quantitative among the social sciences, and the ability to interpret numbers and draw inferences from them is a highly commended skill among its practitioners.
- Punjab Eyes Metro (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2007)
The Parkash Singh Badal government has rightly initiated two significant infrastructure projects: a metro rail service at Ludhiana and a 1,800 MW thermal plant in Mansa district.
- Minimum Support Price Or Vote Price? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 12, 2007)
With elections or rather the threat of elections round the corner, it’s clearly freebie time. So after extending the NREGS to all districts and announcing various insurance schemes for the poor and sops for exporters, it is now time for farmers.
- Divide And Rule (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 11, 2007)
Mayawati's call to divide UP into three states is apt. Uttar Pradesh is a monster state with a population of 166 million.
- Bjp Seeks Cbi Probe To Expose Left-Pds Dealers Nexus In Wb (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2007)
The BJP on Wednesday demanded that a CBI probe should be ordered to expose nexus among Left-Front activists, PDS shop owners and the administration in West Bengal.
- Australia To Extradite Dr 'Death' Patel (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2007)
Australia is moving towards the final stages of extraditing from the US India-born Jayant Patel who has been linked to 87 deaths of patients he treated between 2003 and 2005 at a Queensland hospital.
- Tunnel To Future (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 11, 2007)
Though Congress president Sonia Gandhi has advised the Delhi Government to shelve the tunnel linking National Highway 24 to Lodhi Road, perhaps the project needs to be looked at afresh and in new ways.
- Maoist Muddle (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2007)
NEPALESE politics is currently going through one of its frequent convulsions, with the popular mood swaying from complete pessimism to cautious optimism.
- The Price Of Change (Dawn, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 11, 2007)
A CHANGE is as good as a holiday somebody once remarked, giving the idea a positive image.
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