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Articles 2421 through 2520 of 5238:
- Track 2, On Track (Indian Express, YOGINDER SIKAND, Jan 13, 2006)
Rail links between India and Pakistan in the Sindh-Rajasthan sector are due to be resumed early next month.
- `Launch Crusade Against Female Foeticide' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 13, 2006)
Establish novel tradition of celebrating birth of girl child: Gen. Rodrigues
Need to project positive image of girl child
Investments needed in education, health, food and labour.
- Cold Wave In The North Hits Crops (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Jan 12, 2006)
Estimates show up to 15 per cent damage; no agriculture insurance scheme cover
Frost the worst killer
Most of the affected crops not covered by insurance
Cabbage, cauliflower, carrot and radish benefit from chilly weather
- Probe Officials Must Adhere To Time Limit, Says Cbi Chief (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Jan 12, 2006)
Urges agency to think big and out of the box to face challenges
Nearly a month after taking over, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director Vijay Shanker has outlined a "larger vision'' for the country's premier investigation agency, . . .
- The Balochistan Situation Has Some Similarity To 1971 (Daily Times, Sardar Sherbaz Khan Mazari, Jan 12, 2006)
The situation in Balochistan has been further aggravated by the government
- Rollback Upa? (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jan 12, 2006)
The government has shown it is reform-proof
The government is fond of proclaiming its reformist credentials from every conceivable forum.
- Police: Sikhs Recover 114 Rusted Hand Grenades From Their Holiest Shrine In Northern India (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 11, 2006)
Sikh volunteers digging part of their holiest shrine in this northern Indian city on Tuesday found 114 rusted hand grenades, police said.
- Arms And The Men (Telegraph, Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Jan 11, 2006)
The Indian army regiments’ history is a subject with a beginning but without an end.
- Growers Of Gold (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 11, 2006)
AFTER allowing the Kashipur demolitions to turn into a live political issue, the Uttaranchal government has finally beaten a hasty retreat in the face of widespread protests,
- Musharraf’S Ideas (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Jan 11, 2006)
Last weekend President Musharraf gave another peace proposal which was promptly rejected by our government.
- Pak-India Dialogue: A Qualitative Change (News International, Shireen M Mazari, Jan 11, 2006)
The third round of the composite dialogue between Pakistan and India begins later this month with the foreign secretary-level talks in New Delhi on January 17-18.
- The Balochistan Situation Has Some Similarity To 1971 (Daily Times, Sardar Sherbaz Khan Mazari, Jan 11, 2006)
* The situation in Balochistan has been further aggravated by the government..
- Pakistan: Haunted By Balochistan (Deccan Herald, Bidanda M Chengappa, Jan 11, 2006)
The Balochis, marginalised from the mainstream, are up in arms against the Pak army.
- Cold Wave Death Toll Goes Past 150 (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
The cold snap, whipping Northern and Eastern regions, claimed 15 more lives pushing the death count this winter to 154 as plummeting mercury coupled with icy winds on Monday numbed vast swathes of the region hitting normal life.
- Left Is Right (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 10, 2006)
Tax exemptions complicate public administration and incentivise private crookedness
- No Let-Up In Cold Wave Conditions (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
Freezing cold wave conditions, prevailing in many parts of north-west India for the past fortnight, continued today without any let-up as the mercury hovered six degrees below normal in Punjab and Delhi.
- Water Wars Everywhere - Ii (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 10, 2006)
Land disputes have ended paving way for battles over water resources, Zahid Samoon (Abraham) responds to Saadut Hussain’s article Water Wars
- Death Toll Touches 120 In N India - Capital Records Lowest Temperature In 70 Years (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
People in the capital woke up on Sunday to the coldest weather in 70 years, as the death toll from northern India's cold spell rose to 120, a police spokesman and the Meteorology Department said.
- Support A Family Programme (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jan 10, 2006)
Ch Shujaat Hussain, President Pakistan Muslim League and Chairman Disaster Relief Management Society has said that local and foreign individuals and organizations were taking active part in Punjab Government’s ‘Support a Family Programme’ . . .
- Punjab Plans Digital Police Stations (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
The Punjab government has decided to establish digital police stations in four model districts in the province.
- Novel In Translation (Hindu, NEELA PADMANABHAN, Jan 10, 2006)
This Book, which is a Tamil translation of Mukundan's Malayalam novel `Haridwaril Mani Muzhagunnu' deals with a young bachelor Rameshan Panicker who has a good job in Delhi.
- Ku Readies For Golden Jubilee Celebrations (Tribune, Chitleen K. Sethi, Jan 09, 2006)
IN the dying months of 1956 seven-year -ld Shiv Narayan, studying in Class I in the Municipal Committee School at Kurukshetra, did not fully understand why he along with the rest of his class was busy preparing colourful buntings.
- The Greying Of India (Tribune, Amar Chandel, Jan 09, 2006)
MODERN medicine and better nutrition have wrought quite a miracle in India. Life expectancy has increased dramatically during the last century and people are also leading a far better life.
- Cold Wave Tightens Grip (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
The freezing cold, coupled with disruption in power and drinking water supplies and icy road surfaces, affected normal life for the eighth consecutive day here today.
- After Reaching Permissible Limit In Banking Stocks — Fiis Find Alternative In Benchmark Etf (Business Line, A N Sudarsan Rao , Jan 09, 2006)
FOREIGN institutional investors, who have reached the permissible limit in banking stocks, appeared to be tapping alternative bank-specific equity investment schemes.
- Needed A Soil, Not Green, Revolution (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Jan 09, 2006)
Agriculture can never be salvaged with a "trickle down" approach, which stands debunked now after four decades of the so-called Green Revolution.
- Water Wars Everywhere - Ii (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 09, 2006)
Land disputes have ended paving way for battles over water resources, Zahid Samoon (Abraham) responds to Saadut Hussain’s article Water Wars
- Mind The Negativism, Please (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Jan 09, 2006)
Many years ago one of Delhi’s most endearing and enduring politicians, the late Jagpravesh Chandra, presented me his book on why the Capital badly needed a mass rapid transport system.
- Most Pakistanis Want To Befriend India But... (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Jan 09, 2006)
Khurshid Kasuri has said that compared to peace overtures President General Pervez Musharraf had made India’s response was ‘halting.’ and ‘not flexible.’
- Focus On Farms (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
When Prime Minster Manmohan Singh called for a second green revolution during his address at the Indian Science Congress earlier this week, he was not doing so for the first time
- Water Wars Everywhere - I (Greater Kashmir, Zahid Samoon, Jan 08, 2006)
Land disputes have ended paving way for battles over water resources, Zahid Samoon (Abraham) responds to Saadut Hussain’s article Water Wars
- Higher Education In J&k (Daily Excelsior, Parkash Parihar, Jan 08, 2006)
The history of higher education in Jammu and Kashmir can be traced back to 1904 when two colleges were established- Prince of Wales College in Jammu now GGM Science College and SP College in Srinagar.
- Shotgun Weeding (The Week, R. Prasannan, Jan 08, 2006)
Television stings have caused a stir; the big battles will follow
- Science Research Institute For Punjab Okayed (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has approved the setting up of an Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Punjab, an official announcement said today. The institute, which would come up near Chandigarh, would be the third in the series and...
- This Rumpus Over The Dam (Dawn, M.P. Bhandara, Jan 08, 2006)
I happen to be in the ranks of the ordinary citizenry that is baffled by the passionate rhetoric on the passions aroused by the current debate on new large water reservoirs. Needless to say, when tongues lash one another, the flickering candle of . . .
- Is The Federation At Risk? (Dawn, Kunwar Idris, Jan 08, 2006)
Can the building of the Kalabagh dam and the bombing of Baloch insurgents (or call them miscreants) lead to the break-up of the federation?
- India’S Killing Fields (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Jan 08, 2006)
The first politician I met in 2006 was Sharad Pawar. It was a fortuitous meeting because this column now has a new cause. Agriculture.
- Rashid Tells India Not To Meddle In Pak (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Federal Information and Broadcasting Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has warned that if India continues to poke its nose in the internal affairs of Pakistan, the whole peace process will be an exercise in futility.
- Daniel Pearl And The Body Of Evidence (Hindustan Times, B Raman, Jan 08, 2006)
Every year, as we enter a New Year, my mind goes back to Daniel Pearl, the Mumbai-based American correspondent of Wall Street Journal, who met with a brutal end to his young life during a visit to Karachi in January 2002 to enquire, inter alia, . . .
- Pm’S Left Hook (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Jan 08, 2006)
The Left saw another side to the usually soft-spoken Manmohan Singh when it made an issue over the joint Indo-US air force exercise in Kalaikunda, West Bengal, last November.
- Holding The Banner Of Harmony Aloft (Hindu, S. Dorairaj , Jan 07, 2006)
It all occurred over 18 years ago. A gang of terrorists stormed Sohal, a tiny village in Amritsar district of Punjab, around midnight on July 21, 1987. The gun-toting Khalistanis opened fire using automatic weapons.
- We Have Proof Of Foreign Hand In Balochistan, Says Sh Rashid (Daily Times, Iqbal Khattak, Jan 07, 2006)
Good relations with neighbours have kept Islamabad from making public evidence of the involvement of foreign countries in insurgency-hit Balochistan, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid said on Friday.
- Even Lohiaites Are Learning (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jan 07, 2006)
If, like this writer, you too are a believer in economic reform leading to free markets, shrinking of the state’s role in economics and unshackling India’s creative and entrepreneurial energies, and are dismayed at the road-blocks and rollbacks at . . .
- Natwar Not Included In Revamped Cwc (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Jan 07, 2006)
Congress President Sonia Gandhi today chose to make minor and necessary changes instead of going in for a major overhaul of the party organisation when she reconstituted the Congress Working Committee (CWC) and the AICC secretariat today.
- Punjab’S View On Dams Shows Nationalism’ (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi said on Thursday Punjab’s view on big dams reflected nationalism, and it had always negated regionalism and provincialism, hoping that all reservations on water reservoirs would be removed.
- Kalabagh: The Question Of Alternatives (Dawn, S.M. Naseem, Jan 06, 2006)
The rush to build the Kalabagh dam is taking General Musharraf and many of his supporters, including some born-again superpatriots, to heights of irrationality.
- Divide Punjab Into Three (News International, Shafqat Mahmood, Jan 06, 2006)
Kalabagh may be a great project and urgently needed but it has widened the gulf of mistrust between the smaller provinces and Punjab. The dam is being seen as a grand Punjabi conspiracy and no amount of technical patter emerging from Islamabad seems to ..
- Removal Of Sindh’S Fears Govt’S Duty, Says Punjab Cm (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said removing Sindh’s "apprehensions and objections", pertaining to the Kalabagh dam is the government’s duty.
- Kashmiri Groups Want Sovereign Kashmir (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Kashmiri groups demonstrated against the United Nations Organisation (UNO) for not resolving the Kashmir issue despite the passage of 58 years, on Thursday.
- Pakistani Team Reaches Indian Punjab (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
delegation of more than 40 experts and leaders from the Pakistani Punjab reached the Indian Punjab via Wagah Border on Thursday with proposals to explore ties between Pakistan and India.
- Chandigarh Needs Bulldozer Too (Indian Express, Vipin Pubby, Jan 06, 2006)
Even as politicians cry hoarse over the demolition of illegal structures in New Delhi, the Punjab government has recently and quietly condoned irregular constructions in the periphery of Chandigarh.
- Madrassas Untouched (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Jan 06, 2006)
The Pakistani government caved in to opposition from fundamentalist forces on the question of madrassas
- The Saint - Solider (Daily Excelsior, Inder jeet S. Prince, Jan 05, 2006)
Guru Gobind Singh Ji Maharaj's birth anniversary is being celebrated with religious joy and fervour.
- Now Sikh History With Pictures (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Jan 05, 2006)
Though Khushwant Singh is an atheist, he has perhaps done much more for the community than any present-day Sikh.
- Second Green Revolution (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 05, 2006)
Scientists have to lend a helping hand
The Prime Minister’s call to scientists, while addressing the Indian Science Congress in Hyderabad on Tuesday, to play a role in creating rural jobs and making technologies affordable to small farmers . . .
- Clash Of Two Nuclear Pacts (Indian Express, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 05, 2006)
Beijing and Islamabad could be muddying the unfolding debate on Indo-US nuclear cooperation, argues C. Raja Mohan
- Pakistan In Talks With China For Eight Nuclear Reactors (Indian Express, Reuters, Jan 04, 2006)
Pakistan is in talks to buy up to eight nuclear power reactors from China for between $7 billion and $10 billion, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
- Pakistan To Buy 6 Nuke Reactors From China (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Pakistan is negotiating the purchase of six to eight nuclear reactors from China during the next decade, a media report said on Tuesday
- Medical Truth Is Stranger Than Tv Fiction (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 04, 2006)
Tamil serials being what they are, not too many eyebrows were raised when the female villain Pooja in a Jaya TV prime-time presentation titled Kalki queued up for free food at a temple. And Pooja was a villainess-turned-CEO-turned mendicant!
- Heavy Snowfall And Rain In The Hills (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
The 320-km Hindustan-Tibet road and the 13,050-foot high Rohtang Pass closed to vehicular traffic
- Kalam Seeks List Of Sikhs In Foreign Jails (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has asked the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee to give him a list of Sikhs who have been languishing without trial in cells in foreign countries after being duped by travel agents.
- Rot In Fci (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 04, 2006)
The behemoth is feeding on itself, and people
The Food Corporation of India was formed to act as a bulwark against perennial food shortage and greed of the middlemen.
- Aisf Rallies Against Commercialisation Of Education (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
"State funding of education should be stepped up"
The 26th national conference of the All India Students Federation (AISF) began here on Tuesday with a call to step up state funding of education and end its commercialisation.
- The Rule Of Lawlessness (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Jan 04, 2006)
Politicians who have several illegal activities have been opposing the Delhi demolitions
- Truth About The Abbasi Report (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Jan 04, 2006)
Three months after the chairman of the Technical Committee on Water Resources (TCWR), Mr A.N.G. Abbasi, had presented his report to the president and the prime minister, the Kalabagh dam issue has burst on the scene in a big way.
- Everything On The House (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 04, 2006)
Public accounts committees of the National Assembly and the four provincial assemblies do good work by keeping an eye on government expenditure. But the trouble is that when they sit down for the purpose, the cases that come up to them are nearly . . .
- Mqm Seeks Early Opening Of Indian Consulate In Karachi (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
A member of the National Assembly from Karachi has sought early opening of Indian consulate in the port city of Pakistan.
- Pakistan May Buy Six Nuclear Reactors From China (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Pakistan is negotiating the purchase of between six and eight nuclear power reactors from China during the next decade in the most ambitious expansion yet of the country’s nuclear energy capability.
- Ard, Ponm Rally Demands End To Balochistan Military Operation (News International, Asim Yasin, Jan 03, 2006)
Chanting slogans to stop military operation in Balochistan, a rally of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) and the Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement (PONM) outside the Parliament house on Monday expressed solidarity . . .
- Menace Of Quackery (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 03, 2006)
One gets a distinct sense of déjà vu when one hears of crackdowns on illegal medical practitioners for they are announced from time to time with great fanfare with little to show for these.
- 12 Chief Ministers To Attend Pravasi Meet (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2006)
Rajasekhara Reddy reviews arrangements for the event
Chief Ministers of 12 States will attend the prestigious Pravasi Bharatiya Divas at the state-of-art Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC) here from January 7 to 9.
- Indian Docs Face Unemployment In Uk (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2006)
The British health department said it was considering allowing overseas doctors to apply for jobs from their home countries.
- Once Again, Across The Bridge Of Many Returns (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Jan 03, 2006)
The Kashmir quake shattered the Kaman bridge that brought so much hope for the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus. It’s still not too late to take up peace initiatives to revive the enthusiasm of a year ago, says Muzamil Jaleel.
- Tame The Tanneries (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2006)
Off and on media reports do highlight the contamination of drinking water sources, rivers and other water bodies by the discharge of industrial effluents and the authorities do take some action, but then the issue is soon forgotten.
- Pak In Talks To Buy Chinese Nuclear Reactors (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2006)
Pakistan is in talks to buy up to eight nuclear power reactors from China for between $7 billion and $10 billion, Britain's Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
- Gory Face (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 03, 2006)
Should one express surprise over the targetted killing of scientists, academicians and intellectuals by the terrorists? The answer can only be no. By its very definition the terror machine is synonymous with murder and mayhem.
- Terror In Bangalore (Tribune, P.C. Dogra, Jan 03, 2006)
On December 28, 2005, terrorists barged into the auditorium of the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, where an international conference of eminent scientists was going on, opened indiscriminate firing, killing renowned mathematician and . . .
- Nine ‘Criminal Camps’ Destroyed In Balochistan: Sherpao (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2006)
Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said on Monday that the government had destroyed nine camps belonging to criminals in Balochistan and that evidence showed that criminals and proclaimed offenders (POs) from the Punjab and Sindh were residing . . .
- A Significant Turn (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jan 02, 2006)
Manmohan Singh's meeting with People's Conference leader Sajjad Lone sends out the message that New Delhi intends to reach out not just to the APHC centrists but to all elements of the political mosaic of Jammu and Kashmir.
- Challenges Ahead (Dawn, Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Jan 02, 2006)
It is difficult to miss the strong undercurrent of concern about the state we are in which runs through the otherwise diverse end-of-the-year comments in our print and electronic media.
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