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Articles 521 through 620 of 17201:
- Dear Leader Has A Blast (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 10, 2006)
The nuclear test by North Korea appears to have taken the world by surprise. But to anyone who has been following the events in the Korean peninsula, it was only a matter of time before this happened.
- Us To Make It 'Very Costly' For Nuclear North Korea (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2006)
The Bush administration has said that Kim Jong Il, leader of North Korea, will 'rue the day' he made the decision to go in for the nuclear tests as it is looking for ways to make it 'very costly' for Pyongyang.
- American Phelps Wins Economics Nobel (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2006)
American Edmund S. Phelps won the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences today for his analysis of short-run and long-run trade offs in macroeconomic policy.
- Mushrooming Choices (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 10, 2006)
North Korea's nuclear test changes the global nuclear order and the regional balance in East Asia.
- Young Women March To Reclaim Streets Of Fear (Reuters, Palash Kumar, Oct 09, 2006)
Late at night, a posse of young women walk down a dark city street wearing spaghetti-strap tops and body-hugging outfits, defying the stares of onlookers in a country where a woman is raped every 29 minutes.
- Failure Of Growth Models (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Oct 09, 2006)
Economists invented the phrase 'stagflation;' decades ago when they encountered for the first time, a situation in which stagnation and inflation existed simultaneously although it had been though until then that the two phenomena were mutually . . .
- Scientific Know-How (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s call for India to boost its knowledge economy by encouraging ‘reverse brain drain’, or risk being left behind by emerging industrialised nations like China and South Korea, is timely.
- Global Warming (Daily Excelsior, Tukoji R Pandit, Oct 09, 2006)
The British entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, may be famous for his flamboyant style of doing business and living.
- It's Now Organic Eggs! (Business Line, Sudha Menon, Oct 09, 2006)
Research project under evaluation by Dept of Biotech
- Reforms: Govt Cites China To Convince Left (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
In an attempt to allay the fears raised by the supporting Left parties over foreign direct investment (FDI) and complete capital account convertibility, the Congress led UPA government has asked them to look at China’s experiences.
- Countryside To The Centre (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 09, 2006)
Seventy per cent of India lives in villages. But the banking sector is concentrated in cities. India’s growth can’t be sustained in the face of this imbalance.
- Lid Off Bpo Can Of Worms (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
A new BPO data theft row threatens to dent Indian call centres’ usual defence that they try their best to stop errant employees from carrying out fraud.
- The West And The Making Of Mkg (OutLook, SANDEEP PANDEY, Oct 09, 2006)
Allusions to Christ clinch it. This tribute to Gandhi shies from tracing the Indian source of his ideas.
- Dengue Rages, Toll 23, Pm Visits Aiims (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
Even as two more deaths due to dengue were reported on Sunday in the Capital taking the toll up to 23, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
- All Play And No Work (Telegraph, NEHA SAHAY, Oct 09, 2006)
The new academic year has barely started when it is holiday time again. Schooling for foreigners in China is fun in more ways than one, specially for Indian kids.
- Truth About Cats And Dogs (Pioneer, AJAI SAHNI, Oct 09, 2006)
How the world and India continue to place faith in Musharraf is a believe-it-or-not story
- North Korea Conducts Nuclear Test: Agencies (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
North Korea carried out an underground nuclear test on Monday, North Korea's Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
- Pm Visits Aiims, Calls On Dengue Patients, Kin (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday spent time talking to over 40 dengue patients, including his kin, presently undergoing treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, in what is viewed as a gesture to comfort the city reeling under . . .
- Dealing With It (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 09, 2006)
India and the US are now reconciling themselves to a delay in the Indo-US deal for civil nuclear cooperation. In the past month or so, as elections raised partisan temperatures in the US, it became apparent that the Senate version of the Bill to . . .
- Pm Visits Aiims, One More Dies Of Dengue (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, today visited All India Institute of Medical Sciences and took stock of the facilities in view of the dengue outbreak in the Capital as one of his grandsons, under treatment for the disease, was discharged while . .
- Bracing For A ‘Normal’ Bandh (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
Private vehicles will be off the roads during tomorrow’s 12-hour bandh, called by the Trinamul Congress on the Singur issue. The state government, however, is making all efforts to ensure normal transport services.
- Manmohan Visits Dengue Patients (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
As Delhi fights the dengue menace, prime minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday personally reviewed the facilities at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) which has come under criticism for its handling of the situation, especially after . . .
- Brace Up For Revenue Model Mishap In 3g (The Financial Express, RAJEEV DUBEY, Oct 09, 2006)
High licence fee, higher capex will affect the consumer’s ability to afford 3G
- The Dinesh Dalmia Trail Gets Hotter (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, Oct 09, 2006)
Recent developments, in India and in the US, make a proper probe and clean-up imperative.
- Million Dollar Deals With India (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
A number of multi-million dollar contracts between British and Indian companies will be signed during the India-UK Investment Summit here on Tuesday, sources said today.
- Periyar University To Set Up Digital Library (News International, S. RAMESH, Oct 09, 2006)
MoU signed for getting the UGC-Infonet connectivity
- Shiv Sena Threatens To Disrupt Pak-Nz Match At Mohali (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
The Shiv Sena has threatened that it would dig up the cricket pitch in Mohali to protest against Pakistan cricket team playing in India in the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy.
- Pm Visits Dengue Patients At Aiims (Tribune, Tripti Nath, Oct 09, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh chose Sunday, the date of the discharge of his 11-year-old- grandson, to visit the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here. His grandson was also suffering from dengue. He had a word of praise for doctors . . .
- Manmohan Visits Aiims (Hindu, Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar, Oct 09, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday visited the All India Institute of Medical Sciences here and reviewed the treatment being provided to the Dengue-affected, even as the death toll in the Capital rose to 23.
- A Bigger Bang (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 09, 2006)
T S Eliot famously ended his poem 'The Hollow Men' by saying that the world would end not with a bang but a whimper. Maybe. But how did the world or for that matter all the worlds in existence begin?
- Building Global Indian Companies (Business Line, S. Ramachander, Oct 09, 2006)
Signs are emerging that Indian companies taken together will soon be investing abroad sums large enough to stand respectable comparison to the foreign capital inflow.
- Eu-India Summit: Seeking Free Trade In Helsinki (Business Line, Mohan Murti, Oct 09, 2006)
Hopefully, EU-India free trade will aim for genuine, least-restrictive liberalisation through comprehensive coverage, strong transparency disciplines and liberal rules of origin.
- Clemency — For The Right Reasons (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 09, 2006)
The issue of exercising presidential clemency and commuting to life imprisonment the death sentence passed on Mohammad Afzal in the December 13, 2001 Parliament attack case — which took a toll of nine lives, not counting the five terrorists killed . . .
- N Korea Conducts Nuclear Test (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
North Korea on Monday conducted its first ever nuclear test, calling it a "historic event", official media said.
- Food Security: Safeguarding The Heartland (Hindu, M.S. Swaminathan, Oct 09, 2006)
The gap between potential and actual yields is high in most parts of India. The principles of conservation, particularly with reference to land and water, need to be integrated with farming practices.
- Second Thoughts On 3g (Business Standard, Sunil Jain, Oct 09, 2006)
This is the ultimate irony. The country’s cellular mobile operators who’re arguing that 3G licences are not a new service, and therefore cannot be auctioned, are essentially relying upon a change in their licence conditions made at the time when . . .
- Capital Suggestion (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 08, 2006)
Al Azhar Mosque was founded on the 14th day of Ramadan the year 359 H or 971 AD (after the name of Sayeda Fatima Al-Zahra). In 975 AD, Chief Justice Abdul Hasan Al-No'man of the Fatimid Caliphate gave his first lecture on Shiite . . .
- Government Says Country Is Not Facing An Epidemic (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2006)
Confirmed cases of dengue, chikungunya rise
- The Empire Of Deceit (Pioneer, AJAI SAHNI, Oct 08, 2006)
How the world and India continue to place faith in Musharraf is a believe-it-or-not story
- Escaping George Bush’S Future (The Economic Times, Jeffrey D Sachs, Oct 08, 2006)
It always comes back to oil. The continuing misguided interventions in the Middle East by the US and UK have their roots deep in the Arabian sand.
- Reform The Cop (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 08, 2006)
As the Supreme Court handed down its judgement on the state of police reforms in India last week, Dr Kiran Bedi, Director-General, Bureau of Police Research and Development, Government of India, called for September 22 to be observed as “Rule of . . .
- With Gandhi In South Africa (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 08, 2006)
Jawaharlal Nehru, while paying tribute to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, once said, “where he walked is hallowed ground”. Some of us, fortunate to be with Manmohan Singh during his recent visit to South Africa, felt that where Gandhi was thrown out . . .
- Do Not Slaughter What God Has Created (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 08, 2006)
"I believe in finer values and hence advocate life in jail so that the convicted can do a valmiki."
- Pm To Talk Trade, Terror With Eu (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2006)
PM Manmohan Singh's EU summit next week at Helsinki is expected to kick off negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in goods and services, while affording him an opportunity to show evidence of a Pakistan connection in recent 7/11 terror . . .
- Sums And Guns: Getting It Right (Indian Express, V. R. Raghavan , Oct 08, 2006)
The question is more of obtaining optimal capabilities from defence outlays and less of their affordability
- We Keep Experimenting With New Ideas (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 08, 2006)
A mini revolution is going on in Doon School in music and art. Our students excel not only in studies, but also various other activities” Kanti Bajpayee, Headmaster, Doon School
- Recording Gandhi (Hindu, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , Oct 08, 2006)
Listening to the speeches of N.K. Bose is more rewarding than reading many books on Gandhi.
- Delhi Still In Dengue's Grip, 3 More Die (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2006)
Three samples test positive for chikungunya in Capital
- Keeping A Watch On Your Phone Calls (Hindu, Anand Parthasarathy, Oct 08, 2006)
Wristwatch to reflect caller identity
Sony Ericsson teams up with Fossil Inc. and Abacus
Wristwatch will flash icon to indicate call
It will also send out vibration.
- The Empire Of Deceit (Pioneer, AJAI SAHNI, Oct 07, 2006)
How the world and India continue to place faith in Musharraf is a believe-it-or-not story
Pick up a textbook of abnormal psychology and go to the chapter on sociopathic personality disorders - you will find a disturbingly accurate portrait of . . .
- Russia Opposes Ultimatum On Iran, Major Powers Meet (Reuters, Sophie Walker, Oct 07, 2006)
Russia said it agreed with China no ultimatum should be issued to Iran over its nuclear programme, underlining divisions as world powers met on Friday to discuss U.S. and British proposals for possible sanctions.
- Public-Private Partnership Is The Way To Build Infrastructure (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 07, 2006)
The shift towards public-private partnerships is primarily driven by the inadequacy of budgetary resources.
- Teachers’ Role Needs To Be Restructured (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 07, 2006)
On the occasion of the Salam Teachers Day, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has given appropriate gifts to the teaching community.
- Self-Serving Efforts (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Oct 07, 2006)
If the Department of Telecom (DoT) is indeed planning to make it mandatory to reserve one of the licences in the 3G spectrum allocation for public sector undertakings (PSUs), albeit without price concessions, it is a reactionary move.
- Picking Winners (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Oct 07, 2006)
In a recent Reason article, Shikha Dalmia writes an open letter to Vinod Khosla, entrepreneur and co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
- Developing Northeast The Yunnan Way (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Oct 07, 2006)
As Beijing has done with Yunnan, New Delhi should develop trade infrastructure in the Northeast and give it a stake in India's economic growth.
- Rewards Of Basic Research (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 07, 2006)
The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded this year to Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello is in recognition of their path-breaking discovery of a fundamental mechanism for controlling the flow of genetic information.
- Escaping George Bush’S Future (The Economic Times, Jeffrey D Sachs, Oct 07, 2006)
It always comes back to oil. The continuing misguided interventions in the Middle East by the US and UK have their roots deep in the Arabian sand.
- Modernisation Of Education Set Up (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 07, 2006)
It is pertinent question before all educationists and public in general as to what is to be future of modern generation so for as the changing scenario of the education is concerned.
- Indian-Born Economist Among Nobel Probables (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
The theories of how countries maintain global trade, why natural rates of unemployment are driven by economic necessity and even "Ricardian equivalence," which dictates that governments cannot increase demand by deficit spending are the complex . . .
- Consensus On Reforms Likely Soon: Pm (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today admitted that there was lack of consensus on the "needed reforms" but expressed confidence that the government would be able to forge a consensus and take the reforms forward.
- India To Buy 40 Second-Hand French Jets (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
India wants to buy about 40 used fighter jets from France and Qatar to bolster its defenses, the Indian Air Force chief said.
- India Must Sign Npt For Civil-Nuclear Cooperation With Eu: Fontelles (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Oct 07, 2006)
The European Union on Friday asked India to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), saying this would open the doors for civil nuclear cooperation with European nations.
- Cotton Coup (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 07, 2006)
India is world's No 2 cotton producer, yet the composition of the output leaves much to be desired.
- Buying Spree (Business Standard, T N Ninan, Oct 07, 2006)
It is astonishing, and entirely unpredicted, that India’s outbound investment should begin to rival inbound FDI.
- How Hudood Law Is Hurting Society (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 07, 2006)
I have had the opportunity of listening to the president of Pakistan speak at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
- Pm Worried At Decline Of Science (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did some plain speaking to top scientists and students inside the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Bombay, voicing concern that China and South Korea may have ‘leapfrogged’ ahead of the nation in their ‘mastery over . . .
- Hidden Agenda (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 07, 2006)
Musharraf has a tough job ahead as he wants to continue as the President of Pakistan.
- 17,000 Evacuated In Us Town After Chlorine Gas Leak (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Oct 07, 2006)
Shades of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy have hit the town of Apex in North Carolina where 17,000 residents have been evacuated after the release of chlorine gas from an industrial plant.
- Worlds’ First Hypoallergenic Cat (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 07, 2006)
The days of having to stock up on antihistamines when visiting grandma and her feline friends may well be over thanks to the latest invention from an American company which claims to have developed the world’s first hypoallergenic cat.
- Uk Government Funds Robot To Help Treat Baldness (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
The British government is providing $3.5 million of funding to a Cambridge-based company that is building a robot to help treat baldness.
- Sums And Guns: Getting It Right (Indian Express, V. R. Raghavan , Oct 07, 2006)
The question is more of obtaining optimal capabilities from defence outlays and less of their affordability
- Fall In Research Standards Worries Manmohan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
"Need for teachers who can inspire students "
- Four More Cases Admitted To Aiims From Within The Campus (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
No patient died of the disease in Delhi on Friday
- Delhi Police Arrest Irom Sharmila (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
The fasting rights activist was taken to the AIIMS for urgent medical treatment
- Benefit Of Doubt (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 07, 2006)
The Supreme Court's directive staying fresh field trials of genetically modified crops is a corrective measure that could not have been more timely. Especially so when the establishment has committed itself to usher in the second green revolution . . .
- Area Development Boards Need Funds, Says Minister (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Ramachandra Gowda says he will speak to Shivraj Patil on banning of online lottery
- Bsnl To Set Up Wi-Max Tower In City (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
It is likely to come up at Jayanagar
- Rgcb For Molecular Diagnosis Of Chikungunya Virus (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
The Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, which is to become a national centre for excellence shortly, has initiated a programme for molecular diagnosis of chikungunya virus.
- India's Has An Edge Over China (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Oct 06, 2006)
In the corridors of international power, there is a new discourse emerging. It is about the inexorable rise of China and India. Neither ascent is viewed as certain, but the odds are high that both nations, desperately poor until recently but now . . .
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