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- India, Germany To Double Bilateral Trade (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Oct 31, 2007)
India and Germany on Tuesday signed a joint statement on furthering their strategic partnership through new initiatives in trade and investment, energy, science and technology, education and culture and defence.
- Delay Yes, But Not End Of The Road For N-Deal: Pm (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2007)
Trying to downplay the consequences of a delay on operationalising the India-US civil nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sounded cautiously optimistic on Tuesday evening when he said he did not think the deal had reached the ‘end of the road’.
- Write Or Just Type? (Telegraph, Stephen Hugh-Jones, Oct 31, 2007)
How many people can read your handwriting? Assuming, that is, that these days you write by hand at all. Fewer, maybe, than you’d think.
- A Matter Of Aesthetics (Dawn, Hafizur Rahman, Oct 31, 2007)
A PENCHANT for culture is visible at all levels of society, whether the individuals are rich or poor, enlightened or illiterate.
- India Plays German Rhapsody (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2007)
India today said that it attached great importance to its relationship with Germany and looked forward to enhance its cooperation with it on both economic and political spheres even as the two countries signed several agreements and MoUs in the . . . .
- Iaf To Get First Two Hawk Trainers In Mid-November (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2007)
The Indian Air Force will receive the first two Advance Jet Trainers (AJT) Hawk from British Aerospace (BAE Systems) by mid-November to train its pilots to fly supersonic fighters, Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major said here on Tuesday.
- This ‘Sick Child’ Needs More Than Words (Indian Express, Harsh V. Pant, Oct 31, 2007)
Amid all the claims about the rise of India as a major player in the world, it is often ignored that the country continues to face some fundamental obstacles in this drive to achieve its full potential.
- Simple Solution: Vote For Green Leaders (Deccan Herald, Thomas L Friedman, Oct 31, 2007)
Drivers who were getting seven to 10 miles a gallon from their Crown Vics were getting 25 to 30 from their hybrids.
- Pm Hints At Treading N-Path Again (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2007)
The prime minister said his government had encountered "some problems" in the implementation of the deal with the US but "we have not reached the end of the road."
- Cisco Opens New Centre (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2007)
Cisco, on Tuesday, announced its global collaboration with Satyam Computer Services for integrated health management solutions for global markets.
- Decision Analysis (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 31, 2007)
All decisions in life have an intangible component to them, whether we realise it or not. A good deal of business success hinges on management decisions driven by the gut feel of experience and intuition.
- A New Model For Pc Penetration (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 31, 2007)
India has emerged as a global leader in the advance of information technology. Yet the country faces a fundamental challenge — building on its successes by enabling greater access to technology for its people.
- Elections Usher In A New Dawn In Poland (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Oct 30, 2007)
Parliamentary elections held on October 21 brought about the downfall of the extreme right Kaczynski twins, who as President and Prime Minister led the country for a disastrous two years.
- The Future Is Black (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Almost nonstop, gargantuan 145-tonne trucks rumble through China's biggest open-pit coal mine, sending up clouds of soot as they dump their loads into mechanised sorters.
- Fashioning A Policy For Myanmar (Tribune, B.G. Verghese, Oct 30, 2007)
The brutal crackdown in Myanmar in recent weeks has quelled protests but has stirred the international conscience.
- Half A Century Of Space Exploration (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Oct 30, 2007)
In terms of human lifespan, the space age that began with the launch of Sputnik-1, the world’s first artificial satellite, would count as comfortably middle-aged.
- Egypt To Build Nuclear Power Plants (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Egypt said on Monday it would build several nuclear power plants, moving into the front of a group of nations raising fears of Middle Eastern proliferation with new pushes to develop nuclear energy.
- Cbi Action To Widen Rift Between Congress, Mulayam (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Following its investigations into allegations of SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and his kin amassing assets, the CBI's case before SC is that Yadav's known sources of income are too inadequate to support the acquisition of costly assets running . . . .
- Nissan Signs Pact To Build Presence In India (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Nissan signed a $500 million (Ł243 million) joint venture with Ashok Leyland yesterday to produce light commercial vehicles in India.
- Indian 'Slave' Children Found Making Gap Clothes (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for Gap Kids, one of the most successful arms of the high street giant.
- Pride And Joy In India Over La.'S Bobby Jindal (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
U.S. politics aren't usually the subject of gossip in the homes of this sleepy rice- and wheat-growing village in northern India. But when Bobby Jindal, an American of Indian descent, was elected governor of Louisiana this month, the residents . . .
- When Pilots Qualify For Sainthood (Business Line, A. Ranganathan, Oct 30, 2007)
The saintly soul, Mother Theresa, is yet to be ordained as a saint. Her followers have to establish that she saved lives by performing miracles. Pilots, on the other hand, do not have to undergo this ordeal.
- Higher Education: The Quality Issue (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Oct 30, 2007)
When an individual falls sick, only he and his family are affected. When institutions are affected, the ramifications are much more.
- Senate Okays Hefty Hike In H-1b Visas Fee (Pioneer, S Rajagopalan, Oct 30, 2007)
The US Senate has approved a hefty hike in H-1B visa fees paid by employers on behalf of candidates - from $1,500 per visa application to $ 5,000.
- India-Usa Interests (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 30, 2007)
If there is a “natural alliance” between India and the United States, it arises to the extent that both are large democracies and more or less free societies that happen to be placed half way across the globe and pose no perceptible military threat . . .
- Special (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
If there is a “natural alliance” between India and the United States, it arises to the extent that both are large democracies and more or less free societies that happen to be placed half way across the globe and pose no perceptible . . . . .
- Survival Of The Fittest Religion (The Economic Times, MUKUL SHARMA, Oct 30, 2007)
In the west, religion’s running battle with science is well known. In the beginning the natural sciences — astronomy in particular — was its chief foe since that study of the heavens soon began to threaten the established view . . . . .
- Unaware Of Gold (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Oct 29, 2007)
Britannia has long ceased to rule the waves. No matter, thanks to the American century, English has retained its dominance on the global stage.
- Blast In Pesticide Unit In Medak District (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
A blast in the Gummadidala-based Siris crop sciences pesticide manufacturing unit ripped apart a four-storeyed shed on Sunday. However, no one was hurt in the blast.
- Bangalore It Show Takes Off Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
It promises to be bigger and grander this year. Over 200 top information technology companies, 60 of them global majors, will converge for BangaloreIT.in, arguably Asia’s largest IT and telecom annual event, to take off at the Bangalore . . . .
- The ‘Resource-Curse’ Effect In Myanmar (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 29, 2007)
Last week, US President Bush announced new sanctions against Myanmar’s military government.
- Nothing Racist About It (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 29, 2007)
That racial discrimination is abominable is granted. But should political correctness drive us to the extent that we refuse to admit that races exist?
- Black, White And Coloured News (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 29, 2007)
A new study finds that White women more frequently take more of the life-prolonging supplemental therapies used to treat breast cancer than African-American women.
- You Must Pay To Live (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 29, 2007)
Downloading pirated songs from the internet is cool. Dying from counterfeit medicine is not. But the pirates and the slack law enforcement that give you the first also give you the second.
- Evolution & Impasse ~Ii (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 29, 2007)
There was a time when Marxism promised to provide a major plank for an ideological and political assault on the bourgeois civilisation.
- A Day In The Prison (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
It was our third visit to San Francisco. I was determined not to miss the visit to Alcatraz, which had somehow eluded us the first two times.
- India Must Move Ahead On Nuclear Deal: Us (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Visiting US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged India on Sunday to quickly implement a landmark civilian nuclear energy deal with the United States.
- Infy, Wipro Hunt For Land In West Bengal (Deccan Herald, KALYAN RAY, Oct 29, 2007)
Two of India's biggest IT companies, Infosys and Wipro, are looking for vast expanse of land in West Bengal to expand their operations.
- Should Us Fix History? (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Oct 29, 2007)
The Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives (lower house), on October 10, bravely passed a resolution that, among other things, a systematic campaign had been undertaken to kill Armenians in Turkey between . . . . .
- Honouring Culture And Creativity (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 29, 2007)
IN your presence, Pablo Neruda, and on the metallic chair that you have prepared to meet your visitors by the entrance of your house in Valparaiso (Chile); I recall what is stuck in my memory, of your personal life history and your poetic path.
- ‘In The Tulsidas Ramayan, Sita Is Not Ram’S Wife But His Sister. Only In The Valmiki Ramayan Is She His Wife’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 29, 2007)
Do you think that, over the last 10-15 years, coalition politics has been the antidote to the poison of separatism?
- Stunting The Sme (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Currently, we are in the throes of self-doubt concerning the booming stock exchange and the soaring rupee caused by a flood of foreign investors.
- Storm Warning (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Can cities like New Orleans be saved from hurricanes like Katrina in the future? Apparently they can, thanks to a reported breakthrough made by two teams of climate experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States . . . . .
- Other Voices - Indian Press (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 29, 2007)
China has once again demonstrated its relentless surge in the high technology domain.
- Q&a: 'Patchy Approach To Education Can't Make Us A Global Player' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Former director of the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), Bangalore, Goverdhan Mehta is the current chairman of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).
- Desires, To Die For (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 29, 2007)
The nest in the blue pine spews out a feathery fledgling. It has to learn to fend for itself or perish in the jungle.
- Class Apart, Some Mps (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 29, 2007)
What does globalisation have to do with caste relations in India? How does secularism differ from country to country? Can game theory be used to negotiate stable political coalitions? Read on.
- Food Security Concerns (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 29, 2007)
“The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race…levelling the population with the food of the world.”
- Academia And The Energy Sector (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 29, 2007)
OVER the last couple of decades, the global energy scenario has been substantially transformed.
- Mirroring A Democracy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
- The Rizwanur Tragedy: Love And Utility (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
We are living at a time characterised by what Karl Marx once regarded as "commodity fetishism", writes Avijit Pathak.
- Before His Day (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 27, 2007)
Despite the advances of modern science, a large part of the lives of human beings is still determined by sunlight. Human beings tend to take sunlight for granted and therefore underestimate its importance.
- Despair And Despondence (Pioneer, JS Rajput, Oct 27, 2007)
The Prime Minister is sad, and competitive politics and fractured mandate have been formally identified as the culprits.
- Human Race Will Split Into Two By 3000 (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
The report suggests that the future of man would be a story of the good, the bad and the ugly...
- Ghosts Don’T Lie (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 27, 2007)
What a sting operation in 2007 says has been in the public sphere since 2002. We have always known that the state in Gujarat allowed the gruesome violence to play out, when it didn’t actively collude in the killings.
- ’lectronic Linkups (Indian Express, HARSH DESAI, Oct 27, 2007)
Frankly, in retrospect I am surprised that e-mail has become so big. When it started a few years ago it was such an unintrusive technology that one really wonders what it is doing being so popular in our brash in-your-face world.
- Supercritical Thermal Power Plant By 2011 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
A thermal power project with supercritical technology is to come up on a 900-acre ‘government poromboke’ site at Udangudi in Tuticorin district.
- Iran Rules Out Strike By Us (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
The head of Irans elite Revolutionary Guards dismissed the possibility of US military action against Iran and warned that his forces would respond with a more decisive strike if attacked, an Iranian news agency reported on Friday.Z
- Merkel For Closer Ties With Asia (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Oct 27, 2007)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday called upon the West to acknowledge “different structures” for resolving conflicts and be “open-minded” about religions from Asia. Calling on the West to be “more than willing to learn from . . . .
- Modi Must Quit, Says Congress (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
A day after the Tehelka expose linked Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to the post-Godhra carnage, the Congress demanded that he step down from office.
- Cda’S Failure To Manage Its Sewers (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 27, 2007)
NOT much functions in Pakistan’s capital, not even its sewers. Years of neglected maintenance and upgrading means that human excreta fails to reach the treatment plant.
- Iran Threatens To Strike Back (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
The head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards dismissed the possibility of a US military action against Iran and warned that his forces would respond with an “even more decisive” strike if attacked, an Iranian news agency reported today.
- Eu Plans A ‘Blue Card’ (Dawn, Shadaba Islam, Oct 27, 2007)
FORGET hopes of a new era of European harmony and unity following the agreement in Lisbon last week on a new reform treaty to whip unwieldy European Union institutions into shape: the bloc faces years of anxiety on whether the new institutional . . . .
- Nayachar Benefits All Cock-And-Bull: Rsp (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
Left Front partner RSP has found holes in the state government's arguments in favour of setting up a chemical hub for rapid industrialisation in the state.
- Save The Nuclear Deal (Times of India, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 26, 2007)
It is obvious that the US-India civilian nuclear deal is now in the doldrums.
- Leading From The Back (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Oct 26, 2007)
My concept of radical leadership is one that combines social concern with a strategic perspective on human and social affairs.
- Lunar Eclipse (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 26, 2007)
China has once again demonstrated its relentless surge in the high technology domain. Barely four years after becoming the third nation to put a man into space, and a few months after it successfully tested an anti-satellite weapon, China has shot off its
- “It Revolution More Powerful Than Previous Ones In The Country” (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
International conference on nanotechnology in Kumarakovil
India launched the national nanoscience and technology initiative in 2001
It has been identified as the key to unlock a new generation of materials, devices and systems
- Beml Bags Rs.1,144-Cr. Order From Dmrc (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Rail and Metro Business Group of BEML Limited has bagged a Rs.1,144-crore global tender for manufacture and supply of 156 state-of-the-art standard gauge stainless steel metro cars, from the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).
- Us Asks India To Open Markets For Progress (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
The US asked India to show flexibility and allow more access to its markets especially for non-agricultural products for reviving the stalled Doha Round of trade talks.
- “In The World Economy, There Must Be Freedom For People And Ideas To Move” (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Oct 26, 2007)
It was at the end of the IBSA (India-Brazil-South Africa) summit in Tshwane (Pretoria) that one met Roberto Mangabeira Unger, a don at Harvard University, author of numerous articles, and Brazil’s Minister for Long-Term Strategic . . . .
- Merkel To Give Away Deutsche Bank Award (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Deutsche Bank will present the first Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award, worth $ 1,00,000 (Rs. 40 lakh), to a project based in the Mumbai metropolitan area and it will be presented by the Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. . .
- Plan To Push Computer Use (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
The U.S. public and private sectors have joined to promote the use of computer technology in development around the world, especially in economic growth, governance, education and youth employment.
- “Time To Strengthen Indo-Finnish Trade Ties” (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
It is time to strengthen Indo-Finnish business partnership as it offers a favourable economic and political alignment, a dynamic momentum in bilateral trade and investment, better air connectivity and positive investor relations . . . .
- 'Nuke Deal Important Part Of Indo-Us Relationship' (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Expressing commitment to the Indo-US nuclear deal, the US has said the historic agreement is an important part of the bilateral relationship and is beneficial to both countries.
- Every Us Govt Since ’70s Secretly Helped Pak Become Nuke Power (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Every successive American government, from President Jimmy Carter to incumbent President George W. Bush, has turned a blind eye to Pakistan’s nuclear programme and allowed Islamabad to build nuclear facilities at . . .
- Managing Mba Education (Pioneer, Vinayshil Gautam, Oct 26, 2007)
About two decades ago, management education in the country experienced an outburst.
- Us To India: Shun Iran, Hug N-Deal (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
US treasury secretary Henry Paulson will soon urge Indian officials not to move forward with a planned pipeline project that would bring Iranian natural gas to India, a senior official said today.
- U.S. Committed To Diplomatic Solution: Rice (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
As the United States imposed sweeping new sanctions against Iran on Thursday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Washington remained committed to “‘a diplomatic solution.”
- Deal Beneficial To Both Countries: Paulson (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
The historic civil nuclear deal with India is an important part of the relationship between New Delhi and Washington and it will be beneficial to both countries, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has said.
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