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- Fm Should Aim At Equitable Growth (Tribune, Janak Raj Gupta, Mar 18, 2006)
The Union Budget for 2006-07 presents a remarkable continuity of economic policies initiated in 1991 with all attendant risks and opportunities.
- A Soft Budget (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 18, 2006)
Haryana farmer is the gainer
- Saving The Daughter (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 18, 2006)
There is hope at last. A small civil society organisation called Upkaar has changed the mindset of the people at Khothran in Nawanshahr in Punjab. What it has done is to persuade the people to turn their back on female foeticide, which was rampantly pract
- Rs 25 Lakh Fund For Mlas Withdrawn (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2006)
The Punjab Finance Minister, Mr Surinder Singla, today withdrew the provision of Rs 25 lakh made in the state Budget for each MLA for the development of critical infrastructure in his or her constituency on the pattern of Member of . . .
- Pm Can't Talk To A Person Holding Gun In Hands: Cm (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2006)
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today declared that the Central Government was ready for talks with the militants provided they leave the gun. As far as hardline Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani is concerned, the Government has . . .
- Gmr Plans 3 Airport Terminals In Delhi (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2006)
Gmr Infrastructure will shortly pick up 46% stake in Delhi International Airport Ltd, the company recently incorporated for handling the modernisation of the Capital’s airport.
- An Alarming Decline (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 17, 2006)
This year, on International Women's Day, the Government reiterated its commitment to halt the alarming and continuous decline in the country's sex ratio and announced several measures to reverse the trend.
- Engineering Growth (Frontline, T.V. Lakshminarayan, Mar 16, 2006)
Coimbatore today accounts for 48 per cent of the pumpsets manufactured in India.
- Extremism Of The Mosque (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 16, 2006)
Speaking to a delegation of traders, politicians, exporters and lawyers in Faisalabad on Tuesday, President Pervez Musharraf said that “some khateebs were creating disharmony among the people for their vested interests”. Since government agencies . . .
- Uniform Education (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 15, 2006)
IT is welcome to hear from General Musharraf that the government is developing uniform system of education to end unnecessary confusion about different mediums of instruction in the country. Addressing the 115th Annual Convocation of the Punjab . . .
- Chhattisgarh Tribe Takes Up Bows, Arrows To Fight Maoists (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Mar 14, 2006)
Clutching their bows and arrows, a group of tribesmen and young boys mill around outside a crude refugee camp in the forests of central India.
- Coach Or Poach? (Tribune, I.M. Soni, Mar 14, 2006)
Abbas Ali Baig, young, fair and debonair, was returning to the dressing-room after hitting a ton against a visiting cricket team.
- Water Worries (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 14, 2006)
Quality and quantity declining
- Height Of Controversy (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Mar 14, 2006)
In 1953, when Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa summited Mt Everest for the first time, the highest peak in the world was the symbol of adventure, courage and the quest to transcend human limitations......
- Country Facing Internal Threats, Says Musharraf (Daily Times, Ali Waqar, Mar 14, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf said on Monday that he feared only internal threats to Pakistan.
- Citizen First — Sampark Centres In India — Ishtiaq Ahmed (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 14, 2006)
Under the old bureaucratic system the individual was treated more as a subject on whom state functionaries exercised power to extract taxes, levies and other charges. In return some public services were provided, but since the state . . .
- Terrorist Thread (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 14, 2006)
Kite “fights” have ever generated tremendous thrill across the subcontinent with the reigning “ustad’’ truly standing tall in his “mohalla’’ for the ability to set the opposition adrift, literally.
- Search For Truth (Statesman, SANKAR SEN, Mar 13, 2006)
Acquittal of all the accused in the sensational seven year old Jessica Lall murder case has rudely shocked the conscience of the nation and shattered its faith in the working of the criminal justice system.
- Experts For Restructuring Plant Breeding Programme (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
People would require 325 million tons of foodgrains by 2025'
With the present plant breeding programme, it may be difficult for India to meet its food grains requirement, which is expected to grow to 325 million tonnes by 2025.
- Blind Arrests Of Basant Violators (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 13, 2006)
Police registered 61 cases and arrested 82 people for violating the ban on kite-flying besides seizing 150 glass coated and iron coated string rolls on Saturay.
- The State Dept Report (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 13, 2006)
Governments that have been criticised in the US State Department’s report on human rights have rightly come out strong against it, considering its obvious prejudiced outlook.
- Uniformed Thieves (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 13, 2006)
Car owners, beware of policemen!
- Mayhem In The Menagerie (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Mar 13, 2006)
New conflict between the United Jihad Council and President Pervez Musharraf reflects a crisis in Pakistan's political life.
- Badal Writes To Pm On Riot Victims' Plight (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
The Shiromani Akali Dal president, Parkash Singh Badal has urged Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh to intervene and put an end to the humiliation and harassment of the November 1984 anti-Sikh riots' victims at the hands of the Punjab Government.
- Ias Officers Exploit Loophole To Evade (Tribune, Chitleen K. Sethi, Mar 13, 2006)
Over 200 IAS and PCS officers of the Punjab cadre have got more than 50 acres of land registered in the name of a cooperative housing society without paying a single rupee as stamp duty.
- The Spirit Of Basant (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 13, 2006)
Despite the Punjab ban on kite-flying, the party goes on. ‘Kite-flying is dead; long live the spirit of Basant’, seems to be the popular mood at least in Lahore.
- Final Baglihar Project Hearing Deferred (News International, Muhammad Saleh Zaafir, Mar 12, 2006)
India has succeeded in obtaining from the World Bank neutral expert another deferment of the final hearing on the contentious power project that India is building at Baglihar on the Chenab River near Jammu in southern part of occupied Kashmir in . . .
- Musharraf Blasts ‘Anti-Democracy’ Baloch Tribal Chiefs (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 12, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf has said that only a handful of "anti-development and anti-democracy" tribal chiefs are creating a law and order situation in Balochistan.
- 29 Die In Dera Bugti Landmine Blast (News International, Muhammad Ejaz Khan, Mar 11, 2006)
Twenty-nine people travelling to a wedding were killed on Friday, when their tractor-trolley hit an anti-tank landmine near Dera Bugti, officials said.
- Should State Directly Fund Varsities? (The Economic Times, Ravi Srivastava, Mar 11, 2006)
There’s no harm as long as the needs of the higher education in general and the universities in particular are properly assessed, and the decision is taken in consultation with the UGC.
- Telekom Malaysia Picks 49% In Spice (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
After two unsuccessful attempts, Malaysia’s largest telecom operator, Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) on Friday picked 49% stake in BK Modi promoted Spice Telecom for $178.85 million.
- Floating Cultures (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Mar 11, 2006)
If one takes an overview one will come across a rare aspect of life in the State.
- Your Honour, How Does This Sound? (Indian Express, Rajindar Sachar , Mar 11, 2006)
The Bar Council of India has decided to invite opinion from the state bar councils about how advocates need to address judges of the high courts and the Supreme Court — that is, whether they should now be addressed as . . .
- Telekom Malaysia Picks Up 49 Pc Stake In Spice (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
Malaysia’s largest telecom operator, Telekom Malaysia Bhd has picked up 49 per cent stake for $178.8 million in Spice Telecom to enter Indian market after an earlier unsuccessful attempt to buy into Idea Cellular.
- Punjab Ban (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 11, 2006)
There goes Basant in Punjab — thanks to a handful of bigoted killjoys and a rapacious group of metal-string manufacturers and their gambling patrons.
- Complete Ban (The Nation, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
The Punjab government’s decision to finally impose a complete ban on kite flying for an indefinite period is yet another example of its adhoc way of running business.
- Another Shameful Day In The Life Of Lahore (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 11, 2006)
Until two days ago the Punjab government was insisting that Basant would be celebrated come hell or high water.
- Vulgarity Of The Nouveau Riche (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Mar 11, 2006)
On Diwali day a Sardarji rang me up to say he had met God face to face and wanted to tell me about it.
- Adverse Verdict (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 11, 2006)
Hopes of Sarabjit Singh, a farmer from Punjab languishing in a Pakistani jail, escaping the gallows have been dashed with the Pakistan Supreme Court upholding the death sentence on him.
- Let Us Celebrate Ban On Kite-Flying (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 11, 2006)
Ultimately sanity has prevailed and the Punjab Government has taken the right step of banning kite-flying throughout the province. This followed a number of killings and injuries caused by coated string and metal wire during the . . .
- Basant Cancelled Under Mullah Pressure (Daily Times, Khawaja Naseer, Mar 10, 2006)
The Punjab government buckled under pressure from religious parties on Thursday and imposed an immediate ban on kite flying in the province, effectively cancelling the Basant festival.
- Whose Welfare? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 10, 2006)
The Punjab Budget for 2006-07, the last one presented by the Amarinder Singh government before the state goes to the polls in February next year, has earmarked Rs 25 lakh for each MLA to carry out development works in his or her constituency.
- Pakistan Keen To Export Jute Goods To India (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Alternative use for jute has emerged
- Sabotaging The Soft Image (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 10, 2006)
IT was disturbing to see the police lathi-charge a woman's rally organized by an NGO in Lahore on Wednesday to observe the International Women's Day.
- Lashkar-E-Qahab Owns Up For Varanasi Blasts (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
A hitherto unknown militant outfit Lashkar-e-Qahab today claimed responsibility for Tuesday's twin blasts in Varanasi in which 20 people were killed and over 50 injured.
- Horse-Trading And Legitimacy Of The Senate (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 09, 2006)
Appearing on a TV channel on Tuesday, opposition politicians complained of the buying and selling of votes in the provincial assemblies on the occasion of elections to the Senate on March 6, 2006.
- Cm Lays Foundation For Bhaderwah University Campus (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
It looked as if entire Bhadarwah had come out on roads to receive their beloved leader, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, on his arrival in the town today to lay foundation of Bhadarwah Campus of Jammu University and address a public gathering . . .
- Model Orphanages (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 09, 2006)
THE facilities provided for orphans of the Oct 8 earthquake victims at a number of orphanages run by the non-profit organization ‘Save Our Souls’ in Punjab present a model for other NGOs and philanthropic groups dealing with the aftermath of the . . .
- Making Panchayati Raj Effective In Haryana (Tribune, Ranbir Singh, Mar 09, 2006)
THE enactment and implementation of the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994, for restructuring the system of decentralised rural governance in Haryana in accordance with the provisions of the 73rd Amendment Act (1993), the devolution of functions . . .
- Pakistan Rejects Indian Protest Over Bhasha Dam (News International, Khalid Mustafa, Mar 09, 2006)
Pakistan on Wednesday rejected the Indian protest against construction of Diamer-Bhasha dam saying it is building the reservoir within its water resources management policy.
- The Indian Factor Mma’S Ajk Chapter Formed (Daily Times, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Mar 08, 2006)
“The US does not oppose a natural gas pipeline from Iran. Our beef with Iran is not the pipeline; our beef with Iran is the fact that they want to develop a nuclear weapon.”
- Senate Surprises (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 08, 2006)
Monday's voting by the provincial assemblies brings to a close the election to 45 seats of the Senate. Predictably, the government and its allied parties are the main beneficiaries, together gaining more seats than they had lost in the ballot . . .
- Finances In Good Health (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 08, 2006)
Budget not as populist as feared
- No Fresh Taxes In Punjab Budget (Tribune, Sarbjit Dhaliwal, Mar 08, 2006)
With an eye on the coming Assembly elections in Punjab, the Finance Minister, Mr Surinder Singla, today presented a tax free Budget having a total outlay of Rs 27,791.87 crore. The revenue deficit will be Rs 1,390 crore.
- Hp Thinks Of Women (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 07, 2006)
Concern about sex ratio is welcome
WHAT Finance Minister P. Chidambaram is attempting at the national level, Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh is trying to do in Himachal Pradesh: implementing gender budgeting.
- Rallies Not Government’S Job (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 06, 2006)
PUNJAB Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi led a protest rally in Lahore on Saturday to condemn the publication of sacrilegious caricatures in some European newspapers. The rally was participated by the Treasury and Opposition Members . . .
- Pakistan Not To Abandon Kashmiris (The Nation, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 06, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Sunday that his three-day first official visit to Britain was aimed at promoting economic, political and defence relations between the two countries.
- Organ Donation Law (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 06, 2006)
THE minister of health has said that the government plans to soon introduce a law in parliament preventing people from selling their organs.
- `Leadership Change Only If Sonia Desires' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
Sheila exhorts party MLAs to stand united to take on the Opposition
- Plan To Promote Haryana Literature, Says Hooda (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday stated that his Government was formulating a comprehensive plan to promote Haryana's literature, heritage and culture.
- Focus On Farmers (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 04, 2006)
Agriculture needs more from budgets
- Sgpc Museum To Harm Sikh Interests (Tribune, S.S. Dhanoa, Mar 04, 2006)
The decision of the SGPC to set up a “Sikh Sangharsh Museum” in lieu of “Minar-e-Shahidan” is something that has the potential of harming the interests of the Sikhs in times to come much more than some of the earlier developments that were . . .
- President Bush Reaches Pakistan (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
US President George W Bush arrived in Pakistan on Friday on a brief trip during which he is expected to call for greater efforts against terrorism, even as hundreds protested across the country against the visit.
- Let It Grow (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Mar 04, 2006)
With the Indo-US nuclear deal dominating the Bush visit, an unprecedented number of agreements between the two countries have gone largely unnoticed.
- Kasuri, Not Musharraf Or Aziz, Receives Bush At Airport (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
Bush staying at US Embassy, not State Guest House
Constitutional Avenue declared red zone
Margalla Hills sealed by security forces
- After Patiala Peg,now A Quartet (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Mar 04, 2006)
Just as a Patiala Peg is double that of the regular measure that whisky drinkers take at one time, so the men and women of Patiala are larger in life than other Punjabis.
- Penny For Your Money (Hindustan Times, Khushwant Singh, Mar 04, 2006)
One Diwali day a Sardarji rang me up to say he had met God and wanted to tell me about it. He also wanted to wish me a happy Diwali. He turned up a little later.
- For A Knowledge Society (Deccan Herald, M V Rajeev Gowda, Mar 04, 2006)
The FM has come up with some new initiatives in education but much more needs to be done
- Haryana’S Excise Policy (Tribune, Editorial, The Times of India, Mar 03, 2006)
GOVERNMENTS usually try to extract maximum revenue from the auction of liquor vends.
- Massive Anti-Bush Protests In India (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
Communist activists in their thousands held a noisy demonstration on Thursday to protest the three-day visit to India of US President George W Bush, witnesses and police said.
- Flavour Of India, Minus Chicken, On The Table (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
I had a fabulous meal, Bush tells chefs
- Reaping The Whirlwind (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 03, 2006)
A US foreign service officer was among at least four people killed in yesterday’s suicide bombing near the American consulate in Karachi. Scores of people were injured. Mr Bush’s visit to Pakistan appears to be the likely motivation . . .
- Protest Against Bush’S Visit (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 02, 2006)
A wordy duel between the Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, and the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, marked the passing of the Motion of Thanks on the Governor’s Address in the Punjab Assembly today.
- What Geogre W Bush Can Expect In India (News International, Jyoti Malhotra, Mar 02, 2006)
India and the US are at last within kissing distance of saying "I do" and "till death do us part" to each other. Even as the Bush people in Washington DC were beginning the countdown to board Air Force One and start the long trek to South Asia, . . .
- Now Vision 2030 (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Mar 02, 2006)
After trying with large visions in small areas, we are now opting for a grand vision 2030. In fact the National Economic Council approved the vision in principle in May last year and is to be taken up more seriously and in detail now.
- Claims Lack Credibility (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 02, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz informed the National Economic Council (NEC) on Tuesday that poverty had declined by 6.7 per cent on the basis of calorie intake.
- Chicken’S Neck (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 02, 2006)
Irresponsible naivete in place of action
So far, so merciful. The bird flu scare, we are assured, is abating and the establishment must be feeling relieved that not a single person has been afflicted.
- No Change In Personal And Corporate It (Tribune, T R Ramachandran, Mar 01, 2006)
Proposing no change in the personal and corporate Income Tax, the Union Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, has slashed excise duties on a number of items, including small cars and aerated soft drinks, and brought 16 more items like ATM . . .
- When Silence Speaks Just As Loud (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 01, 2006)
If one has come to expect high drama from the annual budget, the United Progressive Alliance Government's third budget presented by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram was singularly lacking in it.
- Sachar Panel: A Demoralising Element (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 01, 2006)
I am sure those who are news freak must be aware of Sachar Committee.
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