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Articles 3021 through 3120 of 5238:
- How Growers Can Earn More (Tribune, P.S. Rangi, Oct 16, 2005)
The farm technology introduced in Punjab in the mid-1960s has resulted in a manifold increase in agricultural production, particularly in the case of wheat and rice.
- The Bihar Verdict (Daily Excelsior, Arun Nehru, Oct 16, 2005)
The Supreme Court gives its verdict on Bihar and it is a stinging reverse for the UPA.
- Is Kipling’S Kim A World Classic? (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Oct 15, 2005)
Rudyard Kipling wrote Kim over 105 years ago. It became his most successful work of fiction. Many generations of the English speaking world came to know about India through this novel.
- Sparser South (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 15, 2005)
SMALL family, happy family” is the fount on which India’s family welfare nee planning campaign is based.
- Home Ministry Makes Arrangements For Dispatch Of Tents To J-K (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2005)
As rescue and relief operations in quake-hit Jammu and Kashmir were intensified, the Union Home Ministry, which is coordinating the task at the Centre, today said it would dispatch 1,000 tents every day for the next five days. The first lot was sent today
- Farm Sector Needs A New Deal (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Oct 14, 2005)
The performance of the farm sector is worrying. Urgent measures are needed to make agriculture a profitable activity, not only to benefit farmers and a large section of the rural poor but also to give a boost to the economy through backward . . .
- China And Pakistan Quietly And Jointly Stealing Military Strategic Information From India – Laptop Stealing With Military Data (India Daily, Preetam Sohani, Oct 14, 2005)
India wants to keep it quiet for the time being as internal investigations unfolds world’s one of the most sophisticated ring of espionage operations initiated by Chinese and Pakistani secret agent’s in stealing India’s strategic military data.
- Bio-Diesel Policy Announced (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2005)
Oil companies to buy at Rs. 25 a litre
Scheme to come into force from January 1, 2006 Product must meet BIS standard Purchase centre in States identified
- Callous Attitude (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 13, 2005)
For the common man they are idols in flesh and blood. But for the avaricious sarkari babus, even war heroes like Brig Kuldip Singh Chandpuri, who were instrumental in warding off the enemy’s challenge in various wars, are easy game.
- Existential Crisis Of Pakistan (Daily Excelsior, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 13, 2005)
Pakistan’s accentuated existential crisis has made historians to write new books for school students, distorting the basic facts that the Islamic Republic was ever a part of India.
- Kashmiris Must See That We Care (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Oct 13, 2005)
There needs to be a civil society response to match that of the government for the earthquake affected in Kashmir.
- A Deadly Combination (Hindu, Ramya Kannan , Oct 13, 2005)
Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS are twin dangers. The focus of public health policies is on combined programmes to tackle them.
- Anti-Majoritarian, Pro-Globalisation (Frontline, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 12, 2005)
IN 2001, Madhu Purnima Kishwar, an activist and academic, published in Manushi, a periodical from New Delhi, two articles, one dealing with the working conditions of rickshaw-pullers in the capital and the other about street vendors whom she had made a fi
- Captain’S Free Power (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 12, 2005)
By defending his government’s decision to give free power to the farm sector and a section of the Scheduled Castes, rather in an undignified way, the Punjab Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, has placed himself on a slippery ground. There was no need t
- Beasts In Khaki (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 11, 2005)
The Punjab Police’s record of human rights violations is second to none. Its gallant personnel have done everything from killing to maiming to tattooing “Jebkatri” on the forehead of women pickpockets.
- `Farmer Households Spend 55 Pc On Food' (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2005)
THE average Indian farmer household spends the highest share (Rs 101.27 or 20.14 per cent) of its monthly per capita expenditure of Rs 502.83 on cereals and cereal substitutes, followed by 9.68 per cent on milk and milk products.
- Farm Crisis: Produce And Perish (Hindu, Devinder Sharma , Oct 10, 2005)
Farmers are producing more only to find no buyers. And when they eventually get buyers, they are paid half of what they deserve.
- The Water Crisis (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 10, 2005)
PAKISTAN faces a serious water problem, the gravity and nature of which the government has apparently failed to understand. Islamabad’s inability — or unwillingness — to base its approach on authentic facts and figures on the ground and the propensity to
- Face This Challenge (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 10, 2005)
Last week could not have ended on a worse note for our State and its vicinity. An earthquake the like of which has never been witnessed before turned our life upside down. From Lakhanpur to Uri the buildings were shaken to their foundation. Quite a few of
- Punjab Needs N-Plant (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 10, 2005)
The demand for a nuclear power generation plant made by Punjab Congress President Shamsher Singh Dullo on Friday needs serious consideration as, according to him, it is cost-effective and the state needs it.
- Massive Earthquake Shakes Northern India, Pakistan With 7.6 Richter - More Than 2000 Killed 10,000 Injured In India And Pakistan (India Daily, Preeti Singhani, Oct 09, 2005)
A strong earthquake shook northern India,
- Centre Offers Rs. 100-Crore Aid (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2005)
Cabinet decides to send team to State; Army, IAF mobilised for relief operations
- Peaks And Valleys (Daily Excelsior, Arun Nehru, Oct 09, 2005)
The Economy continues to do well and we have top Economic experts giving opinions on the future trends and in particular on the Stock markets and with the benefit of hindsight most experts will be 'right' and 'wrong' as it is impossible to predict. . . .
- Gas Authority Of India Limited Plans To Start Distributing Lpg In India From April (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2005)
Gas Authority of India Limited on Thursday said it would foray into marketing and distribution of LPG across the country from April 1 next year.
- Carried Forward Indefinitely (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Oct 08, 2005)
T. C. A. Ramanujam on how the law on unabsorbed depreciation allowance has evolved
- Elections & Task Ahead (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 08, 2005)
The third and final phase of the Local Government elections is now over and after formal notification by the Election Commission, respective Governments would be in place in almost every district of the country minus Federal Capital. Like the earlier ....
- Emerging Political Map (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 08, 2005)
The local polls have been completed, with only the naib nazims left to be elected.
- Dowry Harassment Of A Different Kind (Daily Excelsior, Jagjit Singh and Tameem Hashmi, Oct 08, 2005)
The recent study by USAID and Centre for Social Research (CSR) on the misuse of anti-dowry laws by estranged wives has come as a breather for many harassed husbands.
- Troubling Issues For The Nwfp (Dawn, Khalid Mahmud Arif, Oct 07, 2005)
Three separate issues of national importance — all concerning the NWFP — have engaged public attention, two in the recent past and the third on occasions but for a long while. Brief comments on each based on historic realities are in order.
- Vat Benefits (Deccan Herald, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 07, 2005)
States outside the new regime are losing out
- Four-Day Indo-Pak International Expo (Ipex)-2005 At Amritsar From December 1 (India Daily, Leonard Gomez, Oct 07, 2005)
It can boost trade between India and pakistan like never before.
- Tatas To Set Up 3,000-Mw Unit In Jharkhand (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2005)
Rs 12,000-cr pact signed with state.
- Wrath Of The Pushtoons (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Oct 06, 2005)
In desolate semiautonomous tribal areas in the north, Pakistanis are paying the price for the American peace.
- Gilgit On A Powder Keg (Daily Excelsior, Dr Golam Yazdani, Oct 06, 2005)
The situation in Pakistan's Northern Areas is becoming volatile with regular reports of gross human rights violations and the growing divide between various communities which, often, cause violent reprisals.
- Calling Names (Tribune, Parbina Rashid, Oct 06, 2005)
Growing up with concepts like a rose smelling as sweet even if it is called by any other name, Mohini Giri’s theory on name and feminity came as quite a surprise.
- No Deadline For Siachen, Says Natwar (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 06, 2005)
``Peace process moving forward''
- Slowdown In Islamabad (Indian Express, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 05, 2005)
While External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh has consolidated some of the recent gains in the Indo-Pak peace process and expanded the scope of the dialogue, his talks with the leadership in Islamabad have also revealed an emerging danger to the peace....
- Microbes In Cow’S Milk Enhance Plant Growth’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2005)
To the many nutritional and mythological benefits of cow’s milk, scientists at Lucknow’s National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) have added one more use.
- Indo-American Conservation Project Spells Green Success (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2005)
Wildlife Service provided Rs.26.4 crores to 40 projects identified by Centre
All the projects originated in India, were designed to address conservation issues
18 of the projects went to the Bombay Natural History Society
- Help Paddy Growers (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 05, 2005)
IN the past couple of years paddy procurement had been so smooth that it had stopped making headlines and one got the impression that state machinery had been geared up to meet the yearly challenge.
- Killer Tracks (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 05, 2005)
Train accidents have become too frequent, the latest being Monday’s derailment of the Varanasi-Gwalior Bundelkhand Express at Datia in Madhya Pradesh. It claimed the lives of 18 people and left over 150 injured.
- Trucks On Jvr (Greater Kashmir, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2005)
A few months after opening the Jehlum Valley Road (JVR) the governments of India and Pakistan agreed in principle to throw the road open for trucks as well. The decision was hailed by one and all especially by the people connected with the fruit industry
- Musharraf's Assurance On Sarabjit Singh Issue (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 05, 2005)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday said he would take note of the appeals for taking a humanitarian view of the case of Sarabjit Singh of Punjab, who has been sentenced to death here on charges of carrying out bomb blasts in 1990 . . .
- Life In Islamabad (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 05, 2005)
Newspapers in Islamabad make much of the fact that on Eid days the capital presents a deserted look because a substantial number of its citizens go away to their home towns and villages for the holidays.
- Provide More Funds For Agriculture Production (Daily Excelsior, Satyendra Pratap Singh, Oct 05, 2005)
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, has asked agri-scientists to speed up research to boost cereal production as the green revolution has plateauted out to meet the burgeoning need of the growing population in the country.
- India : Be A Generous (Daily Excelsior, M. N. Minocha, Oct 04, 2005)
There is a growing concern in the North Block as the surging foreign exchange reserves of the country stand at $144.86 billion on September 10.
- Swiss Expert Begins Site Inspection (Hindu, Luv Puri , Oct 03, 2005)
Team visits lowest level of the dam where the submerged gate spillways were constructed
- Gender Bias In A Patriarchal Society (Dawn, Omar R. Quraishi, Oct 03, 2005)
Much has been written and said about President Musharraf’s reported remarks to the Washington Post during his recent visit to the US that there are some in Pakistan who think that women who get raped do so in order to get visas to western countries or ...
- Return Of The Native (Tribune, Minna Zutshi, Oct 03, 2005)
When I first met her (and sadly, that was for the last time), she talked about mountains and her love for sky-smooching peaks.
- Musharraf Must Apologise Pak Women (Daily Excelsior, Samuel Baid, Oct 03, 2005)
No head of a country, no matter how backward, has ever fouled the image of his own country's fair sex like General Musharraf has done in the eyes of the American public through Washington Post this month.
- South Asia: Greater Scope For Regional Cooperation (Tribune, Parmjit Kaur Gill, Oct 02, 2005)
THE emergence of regionalism and regionalisation in Europe paved the way for regional cooperation in other parts of the world.
- Bjp States To Give Reports On Weaker Sections (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2005)
Performance for SC, ST welfare will be assessed at Chief Ministers meet: Advani
Party's SC conventions to be held in various States
We will work for all sections without discrimination: Advani
Other parties are paying lip service to Dalit cause
- Textbook Of Laughter And Forgetting (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2005)
Literature can define the way we perceive and express our worlds. Why then is there no wider debate on the kind of English textbooks that are prescribed, asks AMITAVA KUMAR.
Literature can define the way we perceive and express our worlds
- Neutral Expert Arrives In Jammu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2005)
We will try to be transparent on Baglihar during our tour, says Raymond Lafitte
The expert adjudicate on differences between India and Pakistan over the design of the dam
He is being accompanied by Pakistani and Indian teams.
- Msp Below Expectations (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 01, 2005)
The modest increase of Rs 10 in the minimum support price (MSP) of wheat is well below the farmers’ expectations, given the rate of inflation,
- By Law, Tobacco Be Gone! (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Oct 01, 2005)
Jawaharlal Nehru smoked a cigarette after every meal. Jinnah was a chain smoker. Winston Churchill had a cigar in his mouth most of the time.
- More Political Than Strategic (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 01, 2005)
A decision on the sale consideration for the transfer of the Government's original stake in the UTI Asset Management Company to its current sponsors marks the final step in the restructuring of the Unit Trust of India that began a few years ago with ...
- Heartless Heartthrobs (Tribune, Shailaja Chandra, Oct 01, 2005)
IT was the September of 1966. The setting was Mussoorie. The foundation course for the new batch of civil service trainees was in progress at the National Academy of Administration.
- Scientists Who Explored Antarctica (Tribune, Arun D. Ahluwalia, Oct 01, 2005)
India's quarter-century engagement with Antarctica has thrown up a number of heroes and heroines.
- Cbi Raids 50 Officials (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2005)
At least 40 anti-corruption cases were filed in the fourth of a series of anti-graft raids by the Central investigating agency.
- Well Done In Tehran (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 01, 2005)
The Pakistan contingent which took part in the 4th Islamic Women’s Games in Tehran needs to be congratulated. The 73 competitors managed to win 16 medals, including five gold medals.
- From Amritsar To Lahore (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 30, 2005)
The India-Pakistan peace process has got a fresh push with the much-awaited launch of the Amritsar-Lahore bus service being scheduled in November. After all, if it is possible to have buses plying on the Delhi-Lahore and Srinagar-Muzaffarabad routes,
- The Lending Conundrum (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 30, 2005)
Rajendra Singh Rathore, an organic farmer of Sailana in Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh, wonders why a tractor loan from a bank costs 12 per cent and finance for a car around 9 per cent?
- Farmers Left Out (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Sep 30, 2005)
India’s 600 million farmers are being ignored by a government that came into power through an angry rural protest vote
- Promote Peace (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2005)
Tourist traffic between the two Punjabs would improve Indo-Pak ties significantly
- Uti Amc Sale To 4 Sponsors Cleared (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2005)
Transfer likely to become effective from Oct. 1
- The Telling Mirror (Hindu, MALINI WHITE, Sep 30, 2005)
Art historian B.N. Goswamy, who accidentally stumbled into the world of miniature paintings, maintains that the best of it comes from Lahore
- Support Prices For Rabi Crops Increased (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2005)
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), on Thursday, approved upward revision in the Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) of the fair average quality of rabi crops of 2005-06, to be marketed in 2006-07.
- Inordinate Delay In Decision On Dams (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 29, 2005)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz have resolved that a decision on the construction of mega water reservoirs will be taken shortly in keeping with the recommendations of the parliamentary and technical committees. At a present
- Happy Border Crossings (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 29, 2005)
The announcement of a bus service between Amritsar and Lahore is a testament to the growing maturity in India-Pakistan relations.
- Reducing Population (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Sep 29, 2005)
If the high population growth rate of Pakistan has been adversely affecting its economic growth rate so far, will the current high economic growth rate cut down the population growth?
- Start At The Very Beginning (Telegraph, Uttam Sengupta, Sep 29, 2005)
The recent Jharkhand high court ruling raises fundamental questions about constitutional guarantees for the weak, writes Uttam Sengupta
- Bhakra Gains Limited (Tribune, Shripad Dharmadhikary, Sep 29, 2005)
The piece by M.S. Menon “Why belittle Bhakra?” (Sept. 9) borders on an invective. It is clearly attempted as a criticism of our recently released report “Unravelling Bhakra”, a study of the contribution and impacts of the Bhakra Nangal project focussed on
- Review Petition Filed By Sarabjit's Lawyer (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Sep 29, 2005)
Repeated requests to grant meeting with accused turned down by authorities
- Sex Ratio Alarm In Uttaranchal (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 29, 2005)
Alarm bells have been sounded in Uttaranchal over the dipping sex ratio in the state, with clear indications that it might be going the Punjab way if remedial measures are not taken soon.
- Iit Develops First Low-Cost Wireless Broadband (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 29, 2005)
The IIT Chennai-driven technology is expected to cost between Rs 250-300 per month while delivering 256 kbps connectivity.
- Is It A Case Of Too Much Of A Good Thing? (Hindu, Harish Khare , Sep 28, 2005)
Judges increasingly find themselves getting involved in adjudicating essentially political disputes. This trend ought to be reversed. The institutional balance originally envisaged in the Constitution must be restored.
- South Asian Integration? (Dawn, SHAHID JAVED BURKI, Sep 27, 2005)
I suggested in this column last week that it is in India’s interest to develop closer and less hostile relations with Pakistan.
- The Growing Gun Menace (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 26, 2005)
The seizure of a large number of AK-47 assault rifles, bullets and magazines by customs authorities in Kohat district draws attention to the perils of unchecked arms proliferation in the country.
- Du Will Consolidate And Innovate, Says New Vc Prof Pental (Tribune, Smriti Kak Ramachandran, Sep 25, 2005)
Professor Deepak Pental, the new Vice-Chancellor of Delhi University, is an eminent Professor of Genetics.
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