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Articles 2921 through 3020 of 5238:
- India To Release 26 Pakistan Prisoners (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 10, 2005)
India will release 26 more Pakistani civil prisoners on November 18.
- Politics Of Accusation, Culture Of Suspicion (Hindu, Harish Khare , Nov 10, 2005)
The Volcker storm goes beyond Natwar Singh's travails. The cumulative consequence is that attention gets diverted from serious issues of policies and programmes.
- No Longer White Gold (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 09, 2005)
Despite a bumper crop and a respite from pest attacks this season, cotton growers in Punjab are a worried lot.
- The Minister’S Private War (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Nov 09, 2005)
The bureaucratic Manmohan Singh appears to push back the political Manmohan Singh too often.
- Afghan Governor Survives Suicide Attack (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2005)
A suicide bomber tried to kill the Helmand governor on Monday by detonating an explosives-filled vehicle as he was going to work, officials said.
- ``Allowing People Across The Line Of Control Will Take Days'' (Hindu, Luv Puri , Nov 07, 2005)
Applications will have to be cleared by both India and Pakistan
- Intolerance Of Dissent (Dawn, Anwar Syed, Nov 07, 2005)
UNITY, uniformity, conformity, consensus — all of them sound so very virtuous. Their desirability is apparent in times of a crisis such as war when the nation’s very survival is at stake.
- Let Man Held For Delhi Blasts (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2005)
Hopes of some fresh leads about the conspiracy behind the Delhi blasts have risen with the arrest of a Lashkar-e-Taiba commander in Bengal’s South Dinajpur district.
- Delayed Rain And Relief (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2005)
It is good that the Centre has relaxed the quality norms for the procurement of rice for the Central pool and allowed Punjab to accept rice of up to 4 per cent discolouration.
- Walking With Alice (Hindu, BINA AGARWAL, Nov 06, 2005)
Alice Thorner passed away on August 24. Remembering her is BINA AGARWAL
- Gandhian Values A Panacea, Says Gopinathan Nair (Hindu, Prachi Pinglay, Nov 06, 2005)
"Mahatma said the lowest stratum has to be uplifted first. It has not been done"
An advocate of Gram Swaraj
Refers to the absence of dignity of labour
- India-Pakistan Two-Way Trade Touches New High (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 06, 2005)
India’s imports from Pakistan registered a whopping 86 per cent growth in the first five months of 2005-06 as New Delhi’s trade with the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) nations witnessing a 17 per cent increase to hit the Rs 10,39
- Obsessive Precision (Hindu, A.J. THOMAS, Nov 06, 2005)
This is a book that speaks of the self and the world in objective terms
Nahal's detailed accounts of his life as a scholar and a teacher make engrossing reading because of his sheer passion for life.
- Human Trafficking: Need For A Global Response (Tribune, D.J. Singh, Nov 06, 2005)
Human trafficking is the fastest growing means by which people are forced into slavery.
- Altering The Rules Of The Game (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Nov 05, 2005)
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad is certainly going to face a tough time.
- More Loyal Than British (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 05, 2005)
In asking eligible immigrants to pass a £34 test of Britishness before they are offered their red passports and the worldwide protection of Her Majesty’s Government,
- New Green Norm (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 04, 2005)
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has taken the right initiative in streamlining the process of environmental impact assessment (EIA) of projects, big and small.
- Sugarcane Price Hike (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 03, 2005)
The Punjab Government’s decision to raise the minimum support price of sugarcane by Rs 15 to Rs 115 a quintal is a step in the right direction.
- Delhi Blasts Traced To Srinagar, Muzaffarabad (Daily Times, A N Sudarsan Rao , Nov 03, 2005)
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and 12 nominees of his Council of Ministers (CoM) were sworn-in today by Governor Lt Gen (Retd) S K Sinha at Sher-e-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC).
- A Challenge For Azad (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2005)
THE bomb blast in Srinagar in which 10 people were killed on Wednesday is a grim reminder of the challenge facing the new Chief Minister.
- Aapki Amrita (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2005)
If the Punjabi language and literature are far richer and more admired today than they were about seven decades ago, it is because writers like Amrita Pritam had been adding gem after gem to it.
- So What Should We Do? (Dawn, Hafizur Rahman, Nov 02, 2005)
One marvels at the brazen audacity with which our twice-deposed prime ministers,
- Saving The Survivors (Dawn, Naeem Sarfraz, Nov 01, 2005)
An immense amount of goodwill has surfaced for the victims of the earthquake in northern Pakistan. An entire nation has rallied. But there is a fatal flaw in the ongoing relief operations.
- Judicial Activism (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 01, 2005)
The Supreme Court needs to be complimented for the steps it has taken in recent weeks to protect the public interest.
- Hassles At The Airport (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Oct 31, 2005)
In the prehistoric days of P-forms and foreign exchange restrictions, getting out of the country wasn’t loaded with so much political innuendo.
- The Capital Story (Hindustan Times, Suhel Seth, Oct 30, 2005)
If Calcutta had remained the capital, what would Delhi be all about today?
- March Planned Against Female Foeticide (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2005)
The Sarvadeshik Arya Pratinidhi Sabha, in association with several public-spirited bodies, will organise a ``Jan Chetana Yatra" from Tankara in Gujarat to Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, starting on November 1, to generate public opinion against female....
- Weaving Narrative Threads (Deccan Herald, Sheila Kumar, Oct 30, 2005)
Shinie Antony’s recent releases both deal with bold subjects, vulnerability being the leitmotif in one of them.
- Relief Items Worth Rs 102m Sent By Pml Punjab: Zaheer (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2005)
Various wings of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) Punjab-chapter have dispatched 601 truckloads of relief items worth Rs 102 million to the earthquake affected areas so far on Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi’s directives and a tent city . . .
- ‘Japha’ Diplomacy At Work (Tribune, K. K. Katyal , Oct 29, 2005)
Japha is the Punjabi word for a tight, affectionate embrace and no one does it better than Indians and Pakistanis.
- Battling For Nature (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 29, 2005)
Even if it would serve to confirm its own ineptitude, the ministry of environment and forests should have no hesitation in accepting the army’s offer to involve itself in the protection of wild life and other conservation activities.
- The ‘Muslim-Muslim’ Tag (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Oct 29, 2005)
The other day, a senior colleague of mine — one I respect — approached me somewhat furtively. “There is much Muslim, Muslim in your writing these days.”
- Bjp: Cheer And Despondency (Daily Excelsior, Atul Cowshish, Oct 28, 2005)
The string of 'successes' tasted by the Bharatiya Janata Party in some recent municipal elections in different parts of the country has brought much cheer to the party.
- The ‘Muslim-Muslim’ Tag (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Oct 28, 2005)
The other day, a senior colleague of mine — one I respect — approached me somewhat furtively. “There is much Muslim, Muslim in your writing these days.”
- Indian Workers Seek Blair's Intervention (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Oct 28, 2005)
Request for restoration of rights
- Partners In Progress (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 27, 2005)
If no consensus on sharing of waters and other vital issues emerged in the Northern Zonal Council meeting, it was only because every Chief Minister approached it with his own narrow agenda.
- Tony Blair Carries On Thatcher’S Legacy (Tribune, K.N. Malik, Oct 27, 2005)
Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, who celebrated her 80th birthday earlier this month, was forced to resign as Britain’s longest-serving, post-war Prime Minister 15 years ago. She is still reviled and loved in equal measures.
- Creating New Minorities (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 26, 2005)
One continues to be amazed by the persistence with which some people keep coming up with antediluvian ideas about how Pakistan can be kept together and how its different regions, ethnic communities and religious sects should be treated.
- `India Ready To Open Up Loc On Humanitarian Grounds' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2005)
All care would be taken to prevent possible penetration by terrorists: Patil
- Protecting The Vulnerable (Dawn, Shahid Javed Burki, Oct 25, 2005)
In his October 18 address to the nation — the second in a few days — President Pervez Musharraf explained why it had taken so long for the agencies of the government to reach the entire population affected by the earthquake of October 8.
- In The Aftermath Of The Earthquake (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Oct 25, 2005)
Funds should be earmarked for the orphans’ benefit and a public authority created to see to it that they are provided proper shelter and food. I would even suggest that the dogmatic Islamic law on adoption be discarded and childless couples enabled . . .
- Indian Farmers Facing Poverty And Death (Daily Excelsior, Satyendra Pratap Singh, Oct 25, 2005)
The latest statistics released on October 18 by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) damns the claims of successive Government's how the rural India has been impoverished.
- Supreme Court Comes Down On Vvips Overstaying In Government Bungalows (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2005)
"What is Buta Singh doing here [Delhi]? throw him out, a Governor cannot have a house here''
List includes Buta Singh, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Harkishen Singh Surjeet
"Public Premises Eviction Act has become an utter failure"
- Psu Banks To Be Told To Raise Rs. 60,000 Crore (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2005)
Chidambaram wants banks to upgrade technology
- Is India Heading For A Hunger Trap? (Deccan Herald, K P Prabhakaran Nair, Oct 24, 2005)
The Malthusian theory of population outstripping food production is proving to be correct in our country
- "Equal Pay For Equal Work Not For Daily Wage-Earners" (Deccan Herald, J. Venkatesan, Oct 24, 2005)
The principle can't be applied mechanically in every case; High Court did not examine relevant factors "The application of the principle of `equal pay for equal work' requires consideration of various dimensions of a given job.
- Parties Sans Democracy (Tribune, G.S. Bhargava, Oct 24, 2005)
Perhaps, it was Khushwant Singh who recently raised in his popular column two pertinent points:
- Writing Is The Music In The Background Of My Life - Iii (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Oct 24, 2005)
Julie Rajan has an intimate chat with Pakistani, Parsi writer Bapsi Sidhwa on life, words and all the cracks in-between
Why do you think it is so?
- Slow Foxtrot With India (Dawn, M.P. Bhandara, Oct 23, 2005)
GIVEN our roller-coaster relationship with India, most people are curious if the current ‘Slow Fox Trot detente’ will lead to a settlement on Kashmir.
- Distressed Displaced Persons (Daily Excelsior, Daya Sagar, Oct 23, 2005)
The displaced persons from area of Jammu and Kashmir as occupied by Pakistan have been the victims of neglect and technicalities.
- Unsafe School Buildings (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 23, 2005)
THAT the massive earthquake of Oct 8 severely damaged school buildings well beyond the main affected areas of AJK and Hazara is now widely known.
- Water Scarcity May Lead To Wars (Daily Excelsior, M M Munshi, Oct 22, 2005)
It is almost impossible to imagine that the total area of water on earth's surface is about 114 crore Square Kilometers but this immense quantity is of little use as 96.5% of it is brakish.
- India, Pakistan To Launch Second Train Link By Jan (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2005)
India and Pakistan will reopen a second cross-border rail link by January, more than 40 years after it was severed following a war between the south Asian rivals, a senior Indian official said on Friday.
- The Cost Of Reconstruction (Dawn, Kaiser Bengali, Oct 22, 2005)
The October 8 earthquake will be long remembered as a cataclysmic event in Pakistan’s history for a very long time to come.
- Higher Compensation Likely For 1984 Anti-Sikh Riot Victims (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Oct 21, 2005)
High-power committees set up Home Ministry have favoured substantial increase
For loss of life the payment may be Rs. 8 lakhs-10 lakhs
For loss to traders: Rs. 10 lakhs-15 lakhs
- Boy Wins Bravery Award (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 21, 2005)
Sixteen-year-old Jagjit Singh from Kurukshetra is the face of this year’s Godfrey Phillips Bravery Awards.
- Water Scarcity (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 21, 2005)
OF late the Himachal Pradesh government has taken steps to encourage water conservation.
- India Turns Down Proposal For Mobile Phone Links Across Line Of Control (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 21, 2005)
India Wednesday [19 October] night turned down a Pakistani proposal for establishing cross-LoC mobile telephone linkages in Jammu and Kashmir in North India but said a direct telecom connection could be set up at Attari (in North India's Punjab state)-...
- Bill To Check Food Contaminants (Tribune, J. George, Oct 21, 2005)
The official approval to release the report of toxic heavy metal contamination by the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PCCB) is timely. A legislative remedy in the form of an integrated food law Bill is rumoured.
- No Sense Of Shame (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 21, 2005)
At Least about the weather, everyone talks about it though no one does anything about it. About corruption, which bids fair to become a shameless way of life, nobody finds any need even to talk about it, let alone do something about it.
- Maharaja Gulab Singh-Character Profile (Daily Excelsior, Major (retd) Dr Brahma Singh, Oct 21, 2005)
History has, evidently, been unfair to Maharaja Gulab Singh. He has generally been projected as an ''over-grown'' feudatory of the Lahore kingdom, who, taking a rather mean advantage of the confusion that followed the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, was a
- An Exercise In Futility (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2005)
No wonder, the debate among the Congress, the Akali Dal and other political parties over terrorism degenerated into an inane blame game. The whole idea of discussing “roots and causes of terrorism” was an exercise in futility which would not have served a
- Managing Long-Term Recovery (Dawn, SHAHID JAVED BURKI, Oct 20, 2005)
What are the long-term consequences of natural disasters? John Stuart Mill, the great 19th century English economist and philosopher and the author of a classic work on economics, made some prescient observations on the long-term effects of natural disast
- Building The Region (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 19, 2005)
During his meetings with the Haryana and Punjab Chief Ministers in Chandigarh on Monday, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani made two promises: to set up a special economic zone in Haryana and start a fruit and vegetable export project in Punjab.
- Sc’S Justice To Sonia (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 19, 2005)
The Supreme Court has ordered immediate arrest of Faisalabad Superintendent of Police Khalid Abdullah and his accomplices in the cases of abduction, torture and rape of Sonia Naz.
- Beyond Repair? (Dawn, Hafizur Rahman, Oct 19, 2005)
Even the most recalcitrant group in Pakistan — be it political, social, economic or administrative — is willing to listen to wise counsel of some kind in some circumstances. But I always wonder why government leaders waste their time by giving advice ....
- The Economics Of Disasters (Dawn, SHAHID JAVED BURKI, Oct 18, 2005)
The northern areas of Pakistan and the adjoining areas of Kashmir under Indian control were ravaged by an earthquake on the morning of October 8.
- Forsyth Partners Says It’S Very Bullish On Indian Bourses (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
India’s share market still looks attractive despite a stellar run that pushed the market to a record high earlier this month, Forsyth Partners said on Monday reports Reuters from Hong Kong.
- Bp Eyes Reliance Gas Find (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Chevron, ExxonMobil also in race for stake in Krishna Godavari field.
- No Respect For The Pm? (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
Everyone in the Congress knows that Manmohan Singh holds the office of prime minister thanks to supreme leader Sonia Gandhi.
- Quake-Proof Construction (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 17, 2005)
The damage reportedly caused to a number of buildings as a result of the powerful earthquake that also shook Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar besides causing extensive damage in the Frontier and Azad Kashmir should serve as a wake-up call for the civic. . .
- Women’S Inheritance: Next Steps (Indian Express, BINA AGARWAL, Oct 17, 2005)
The livelihood and empowerment prospects of millions of women who depend on agriculture for survival are affected by their legal rights in land.
- Murder In Patiala (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 17, 2005)
The murder of an Additional District and Sessions Judge at Patiala on Thursday night has come as a rude reminder to the deteriorating law and order situation in Punjab.
- Police Mission, Finally (Tribune, Devi Cherian, Oct 17, 2005)
The Director, Intelligence Bureau, must be a very happy man after the DGPs’ conference which concluded recently.
- India Gives Equal Rights To Minorities (Daily Excelsior, Uma Shankar Joshi, Oct 17, 2005)
India is the second most populous nation in the world and its dimensions are sub-continental.
- Proposal For A 'Police Mission' (Daily Excelsior, Uma Shankar Joshi, Oct 17, 2005)
India is the second most populous nation in the world and its dimensions are sub-continental. For as long as one can remember it has been a plural society.
- The Alliance Still Holds Its Ground (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Oct 17, 2005)
The most remarkable thing about the six component parties of the MMA is that in spite of the usual rumblings and bickering, they have still managed to stick together — even though there were occasions when it looked as if the adhesive was beginning . . .
- Parties Sans Democracy (Deccan Herald, G S Bhargava, Oct 17, 2005)
Most political parties in the country today are either family affairs or are plagued by infighting
- Keep Food Out Of Wto: Farmers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
'Impose Quantitative Restrictions to prevent dumping of cheap and subsidised goods'
- No Respect For The Pm? (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
Everyone in the Congress knows that Manmohan Singh holds the office of prime minister thanks to supreme leader Sonia Gandhi.
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