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Articles 1821 through 1920 of 5238:
- Why A Re-Think On Gm Crops Is Needed (Business Line, Aldas Janaiah, Apr 12, 2006)
The Government must review rigorously and re-position its policy on extending approval to MNC-owned GM crop varieties.
- Northern Names, Southern Tastes (Deccan Herald, Praveen Mull, Apr 12, 2006)
Tanduri dishes served in restaurants may be alluring, but they aren't so authentic for those from North India
- There Is No Alternative To Big Dams (Tribune, Maj Gen (retd) Himmat Singh Gill, Apr 12, 2006)
Medha Patkar’s fast in the heart of Delhi and her forcible removal on medical grounds, amply illustrates an unavoidable duty of the State. Many social activists in the country are ironically out of tune with the grassroots reality they . . .
- 'Our Embassies Should Look After Expat Labour' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 11, 2006)
His grooming as a trade union leader in Kerala should help Vayalar Ravi in his current assignment as Union overseas affairs minister.
- Indo-Pak Ties: Seeking New Horizons (Business Line, G. Parthasarathy, Apr 11, 2006)
Like Pakistan's proposal for `demilitarisation' of Jammu and Kashmir, Dr Manmohan Singh's idea of a Treaty of Peace, Security and Friendship will have to await more propitious times. This can happen only when the present atmosphere of mutual . . .
- A Peep Into The Recent Past (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Apr 10, 2006)
Two plays of Gurcharan Das were staged in New Delhi recently, each taking you to a different period, neither of them contemporary. It could be because he wrote them at a certain stage of his life.
- Remembering Bansi Lal (Tribune, M.K. Kohli, Apr 10, 2006)
It was September 5, 1971, when I got a Teachers Day “gift” in the form of my transfer from the well-established Government College, Gurgaon, to the newly opened Government College, Bhiwani.
- Failing The Farmer (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Apr 10, 2006)
Punjab’s chief minister is in consultation with the Centre for a solution to the deepening debt crisis that farmers in his state face.
- Challenge For President Musharraf And Ard (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Apr 10, 2006)
Just as the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) was in the process of disclosing further alleged scandals about the PPP leader, Benazir Bhutto, leaders of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) were thinking in Lahore about . . .
- Living In A World Of Make-Believe (Dawn, Murtaza Razvi, Apr 10, 2006)
There is a waning sense of reality in national politics as each day passes.
- A Sustainable Move (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 10, 2006)
The Punjab government is pressing ahead with the completion of a model, modern industrial city being set up near Faisalabad.
- Harvest Of Life (Indian Express, Ruchi sharma, Apr 10, 2006)
It is that time of year. Nach Baliye time, with Baisakhi round the corner.
- Fast Forward, Rewind (Indian Express, Aiman Mustafa, Apr 10, 2006)
Medha Patkar’s fast in New Delhi recalled a form of protest that had almost disappeared. A powerful tool in the hands of the Mahatma and his followers, its decline mirrored the fading away of Gandhian politics. Here are some famous fasts, post-1947
- Democracy Now? (News International, Khusro Mumtaz, Apr 10, 2006)
"The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations."
- It's Not Just The Corruption (Business Standard, Sunil Jain, Apr 10, 2006)
While the World Bank held back around a billion dollars worth of health sector loans to the country on grounds of corruption, this is the least of the problems.
- Train Of Thought (Indian Express, Raksha Kumar, Apr 08, 2006)
When I had to make a 2,000 kilometre journey alone in a train, it raised many an eyebrow.
- Price Of Freedom (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 07, 2006)
Though the present government and the senior police officials have been showing complacency over the law and order situation in the province after the Police Order 2002 reforms, but citizens are still as insecure as ever because the reforms are . . .
- Buddhadeb On Different Track Post Ec Action (Deccan Herald, Prasanta Paul, Apr 07, 2006)
Close on the heels of the Election Commission’s stern action in the form of an FIR against Transport Minister Subhas Chakraborty and a raid by the police on the CPM office in Midnapore, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has decided . . .
- Sonia's Third Resignation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
After her resignation from the National Advisory Council (NAC) and from the Lok Sabha in the aftermath of the office-of profit controversy, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has resigned as chairperson of the prestigious Jallianwala Bagh National . . .
- Third Stepdown For Sonia (Telegraph, Radhika Ramaseshan, Apr 06, 2006)
Sonia Gandhi has resigned for the third time — now as the chairperson of the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Trust whose first head was Mahatma Gandhi.
- In Indira’S Footsteps (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Apr 06, 2006)
Last week this column suggested that the Congress should be buried. Some elaboration is in order.
- Infrastructural Growth Upa Govt's Top Priority: Pm (Pioneer, Pramod Kumar Singh, Apr 06, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday asked for greater flow of investment in infrastructure in roads, ports, telecommunication, airports, railways and power.
- Sonia's Third Resignation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
After her resignation from the National Advisory Council (NAC) and from the Lok Sabha in the aftermath of the office-of profit controversy, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has resigned as chairperson of the prestigious Jallianwala Bagh National . . .
- Price Of Freedom (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 06, 2006)
Though the present government and the senior police officials have been showing complacency over the law and order situation in the province after the Police Order 2002 reforms, but citizens are still as insecure as ever because the reforms . . .
- Punjab Cabinet Decisions (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 06, 2006)
ON a welcome note, the Punjab Cabinet has taken a number of initiatives that will have a bearing on the welfare of the people as well as the development process.
- Centre Says ‘No’ To Sbi Staff Demand (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
The employees’ demand would not be entertained as it would lead to similar demands by the staff of other banks, a Finance Ministry official said in New Delhi, where the SBI unions and management representatives are scheduled to meet on Wednesday
- Govt Rejects Sbi Union Demands (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
The government today said it would not accept the demand of the striking SBI employees for higher pension, even as unions expressed keenness to negotiate on their demand on the second day of their nationwide indefinite stir.
- Sbi Stir Hits Customers Hard (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
State Bank of India’s operations remained crippled throughout the country for the second day today, but the government made it clear it would not oblige the bank’s employees, who have struck work indefinitely demanding higher pension.
- Sbi Turns To Other Banks' Atms For Help (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
Millions of State Bank of India (SBI) customers, tired of ATMs running dry, heaved a sigh of relief as the bank on Tuesday waived off the Rs 30 per transaction interchange fee it charges them for using ATMs of other banks.
- Innocence In Jail (Tribune, Aditi Tandon, Apr 05, 2006)
Hundreds of women prisoners languishing in jails suffer from a deep sense of loss and guilt that fills them every second of their incarceration.
- Development Aimed At Employment (Tribune, B S Thaur, Apr 05, 2006)
Thanks to the arrival of some top industrial names followed by an organised publicity blitz, a breeze of development has started blowing in Punjab.
- A Bold Step (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 05, 2006)
An announcement by Governor's House Sindh on Monday that the examinations for Class IX this year would be held as per schedule must have brought to an end the unrest that prevailed for months among more than 300,000 students.
- Railways To Set Up 100 Budget Hotels (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
After a marked improvement in its financial health, the Indian Railways plans to build over 100 budget hotels on its vacant land near railway stations across the country.
- Twenty Years Later (Tribune, Sanjeev Bariana, Apr 05, 2006)
Folks, remember Rakesh Chaba? One night he woke me up at 3 a.m. on a chilly winter night and asked me to follow him outside the hostel in Dalhousie. He raised his finger and said ‘that is Mars’. He did things like astronomy and love signs. Ghosts . . .
- Behind Pm’S Panipat Carpet Today Is Story Of Roads Tied Up In Red Tape (Indian Express, Kandula Subramaniam, Apr 05, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will look to give a push to infrastructure projects in Haryana when he lays the foundation stone for a six-laning project in Panipat tomorrow.
- Punjab To Build Lahore-Sialkot Motorway (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
The Punjab cabinet decided to initiate measures including construction of international standard motorway from Sialkot to Lahore, action against sale of spurious drugs, activation of price control committees and construction of a sports city in the . . .
- Mea's Most Wanted Seeks Refuge In Munich Hospital (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
With the CBI looking out for him for his alleged role in human trafficking to Germany, Rakesh Kumar, senior IFS officer and Special Secretary (Economic Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs, got himself admitted in a Munich hospital on Tuesday.
- Farming Kills (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 05, 2006)
Suicides are a slur on Punjab’s face
- In Indira’S Footsteps (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Apr 05, 2006)
Last week this column suggested that the Congress should be buried. Some elaboration is in order.
- Sbi Turns To Shared Atms In Strike (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
The money-spewing machines that never sleep have gone bankrupt.
- The Case Of The Missing Teachers (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Apr 05, 2006)
With one in four government primary school teachers absent on any given day, and only one in two teaching, India is wasting much of its budget for education, a study finds.
- Sugar Cartel’S Price-Fixing (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 04, 2006)
ONE does not know what to make of the ‘warning’ of the Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA) that there is going to be a shortage of 600,000 tons of sugar during the current year.
- Balochistan Impasse (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 04, 2006)
WITH the Balochistan situation showing no signs of abating, acts of terrorism continue and one can detect a new sense of defiance in the utterances of some Baloch sardars.
- Indian Fallen Service (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 04, 2006)
IFS officer as a human trafficker
- Euthanasia Debate Continues (Daily Excelsior, Nalini J. Singh, Apr 03, 2006)
A man suffering from many incurable dis- eases in a Chennai hospital is kept alive for the last two years on life support system.
- Do Not Be Afraid India File (News International, Jyoti Malhotra, Apr 03, 2006)
Sonia Gandhi should have known that Shamsur Rahman was going to be in town around the time she declared war on the Opposition and launched a new political struggle in the battle-fields of Uttar Pradesh .
- Punjab Police (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 03, 2006)
On Friday, while presiding over a meeting of senior officers, the IGP Punjab expressed satisfaction at the force’s progress in tackling the crime situation.
- Indians Crack Down On Gender Abortions (Christian Science Monitor, Scott Baldauf, Apr 01, 2006)
In October 2001, when Dr. Anil Sabhani told a pregnant patient that she had a "female fetus and it would be taken care of," he wasn't talking about prenatal nutrition or health checks. He was talking about abortion.
- Taxing Windfall Gains (Business Line, H. P. Ranina, Apr 01, 2006)
Any amount in the nature of a windfall and not likely to recur cannot be brought under the ambit of taxation. The only exception is where certain receipts are deemed to be income by a fiction of law. Courts have emphasised that the onus of . . .
- Requiem For Buta And His Career (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Apr 01, 2006)
Assuming that Buta Singh’s career as a politician has come to an end, it is permissible to look back on his rise as a prototype of Indian politicians of our times.
- Pigwash--A Hogwash (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Apr 01, 2006)
The cynic in me has somehow never allowed me to think in positive terms of these numerous track-II initiatives to resolve outstanding Indo-Pak problems.
- An Impossibility (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Apr 01, 2006)
The Nagas have to realise that it is not possible for New Delhi to redraw the map of Nagaland
- Borders As Frontiers Of Contact, Not Separation (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Apr 01, 2006)
Last week, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke eloquently on the prospects for cooperation between the two Punjabs divided between India and Pakistan and the hopes for Amritsar and Lahore re-emerging as major trans-regional trading centres.
- Interest Rates Will Remain Attractive: Chidambaram (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 01, 2006)
Emphasises attention to supply side of credit
RBI is seized of the liquidity problem
Need to strike balance between demand of depositors and borrowers
- Focus On Elementary Problems (Pioneer, KPS Gill, Apr 01, 2006)
Confronted with a rising tide of violence in wide areas across the country, there is much talk today of the need for development, political and land reforms, and the social emancipation of long-neglected populations in areas of persistent or . . .
- Implementation Failed Nehruvian Socialism' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 01, 2006)
Amarinder Singh released the Punjabi version of Gurcharan Das's book `India Unbound'
- Amarinder To Take Up Opening Of Visa Centre With Central Govt. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 01, 2006)
`No logic if passengers from Amritsar and other parts of Punjab have to go Delhi for the visa clearances'
- Engaging India’S States, The Stanford Way (The Financial Express, NK SINGH, Apr 01, 2006)
As state sector reforms now hold the key to our growth strategy, it is critical to forge consensus
- Cabinet Doubles Defence Minister's Financial Powers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 31, 2006)
Enhanced powers limited to items emergent in nature
Finance Minister's powers also doubled
Rs. 48.33 crore for Khalsa Heritage Project
- From Amritsar, With A Little Love (Daily Times, Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Mar 31, 2006)
India wants all other countries to reconceptualise sovereignty but evades the same challenge in its own case. It is also fallacious to think that economic development is a substitute for national aspirations of a people like the Kashmiris . . .
- Business Of Politics Of Profit (Pioneer, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Mar 31, 2006)
Arun Jaitley must be thanked for Sonia Gandhi looking all set to dominate the news from now to election day.
- E-Seva, The Citizen-Friendly Face Of E-Governance (The Financial Express, S SADAGOPAN, Mar 31, 2006)
A key component of e-governance is to provide governments with a citizen-friendly face.
- Centre Defends Denial Of Entry To Pak Acting Cj (Tribune, S. Satyanarayanan, Mar 31, 2006)
The Centre today strongly defended the decision of the Immigration Authorities at the Wagah border over the denial of entry to the kin of Acting Pakistan Chief Justice Rana Bhagwandas saying "the denial was due to Justice Bhagwandas's family . . .
- What Makes Sushil Modi Angry? (Pioneer, Mohan Guruswamy, Mar 31, 2006)
Right since the formation of the Indian Republic, Bihar has been financially neglected by the Centre, says Mohan Guruswamy
- Acting Pak Cj’S Kin Denied Entry At Wagah (Tribune, Varinder Walia, Mar 30, 2006)
An unsavoury situation arose at the Wagah joint check post when Immigration authorities denied entry to seven members of the family of Justice Rana Bhagwandas, first Hindu acting Chief Justice of Pakistan.
- Thousands Bid Adieu To Bansi Lal (Tribune, Raman Mohan, Mar 30, 2006)
The mortal remains of the architect of modern Haryana, former Chief Minister Bansi Lal, were today consigned to flames at this dusty hamlet where he was born almost eight decades ago. He had passed away around midnight in a Delhi hospital.
- First Nankana Sahib-Amritsar Bus Returns To Pak (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 30, 2006)
The 39-seater Nankana Sahib-Amritsar bus that ferried 35 passengers to India, left for Pakistan today with just two on board.
- Gwadar Gas Pipeline Project Inaugurated (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 30, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf said on Wednesday that Rs120 to Rs140 billion was being spent on various mega-projects in Balochistan, including Gwadar port, coastal highway and Mirani dam.
- Bjp Yatras To Focus On Jehadi Terrorism (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 30, 2006)
Sonia's resignation termed a drama
Need to free governance from corruption also to be highlighted
Media missed the crucial point in the EC order
- Basmati Unites Kashmir Rivals (Telegraph, IMTIAZ GUL, Mar 30, 2006)
If Kashmir divides India and Pakistan, biryani could unite the neighbours.
- Pakistan To Give India The Saarc Treatment (News International, Khalid Mustafa, Mar 29, 2006)
Islamabad will extend India treatment at par with other Saarc countries under the South Asia Free Trade Agreement (Safta) from July 1, this year, Commerce Secretary Asif Shah said.
- Fighting Leprosy (Tribune, Dr Uma Vasudeva, Mar 29, 2006)
India has achieved a significant milestone in bringing down the prevalence of leprosy to less than one case per 10,000 people, the goal set by the World Health Organisation (WHO), which qualifies as “elimination.”
- Travails Of The Mumbai Police (Frontline, R.K. Raghavan, Mar 29, 2006)
Finding officers who are able to handle elected officials and police cities effectively is a major challenge for India.
- Rangers Arrest Indian Agent Smuggling Liquor (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 29, 2006)
Pakistan Rangers (Punjab) has arrested a Pakistani working for Indian intelligence agencies late on Monday night, after injuring him in a shootout on the Wagah border.
- Give The Less-Favoured A Credible Chance (The Financial Express, S NARAYAN, Mar 29, 2006)
A friend quoted Confucius to me the other day: “A king must rule as you would fry a small fish— lightly.” Certainly the lightness of the current rule would do Confucius proud.
- Distant Connection (Pioneer, Vikram Kumar, Mar 29, 2006)
Despite being a non-Bengali, Vikram Kumar has always found it difficult to shrug off the 'bhadralok' tag
- Dismantle The Jihadi Network (Pioneer, Wilson John, Mar 29, 2006)
The success of India-Pakistan peace process depends on Musharraf's resolve to take on terrorists, says Wilson John
- House In Ruins (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Mar 29, 2006)
The dialogue process now extends to politicians on both sides of the Line of Control, but none can say when the war will end.
- All At Home In Namma Bengalooru (Deccan Herald, Rachna Bisht Rawat, Mar 29, 2006)
It is truly a world city. If you step into the air conditioned environs of the sprawling Marks and Spencer, you could be in London. If you hit the lush green Barista with its rich pastries and steaming coffee, you could be in Paris. If you step out . . .
- Prince's Assurance To Sikhs (Hindu, Sarabjit Pandher, Mar 29, 2006)
Says Britain will consider returning important articles related to the lives of the Gurus When the weapons used by Guru Gobind Singh were shown to him, the Prince asked: "Was he a warrior?"
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