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Articles 1621 through 1720 of 17201:
- Infosys Mentor Murthy To Help Bangalore Retain Top It Slot (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Burying the hatchet with the Karnataka government over the development of Bangalore, Infosys Technologies chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy has agreed to head a vision group to help the city retain its pre-eminent IT slot.
- Punjab Polls: Manmohan To Be Congress Trump Card (Pioneer, Akhilesh Suman, Sep 04, 2006)
With Chief Minister Amrinder Singh battling against five years of anti-incumbency, the Congress plans to project Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as "pride of Punjab" to turn the electoral tide.
- Quota As Affirmative Tool Has Failed: Report (Pioneer, Rajeev Ranjan Roy, Sep 04, 2006)
More than 13 years after the implementation of the Mandal Commission report, the Government's quota policy has turned out to be an abysmal failure. The latest Government statistics leads to the startling conclusion that quota as an affirmative . . .
- Shelter For The Urban Poor (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 04, 2006)
The Supreme Court order to remove all the slums from Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and other metropolitan cities does not seem to be realistic.
- E-Tutoring A Boon For Travel-Weary Students (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
There is a high degree of personal interaction in this system
The programmes are tailored to suit each student's needs
- Sez Approval Burst On State (Telegraph, S.P.S. PANNU, Sep 04, 2006)
In the middle of a raging controversy over the rush to set up special economic zones (SEZs), it has come to light that as many as 11 such projects in Bengal have already received formal central approval and six more have been cleared in principle.
- First Principles (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 04, 2006)
The Bharatiya Janata Party treated its arrival on Raisina Hill as an occasion for a party; for the first five years in power, it splurged on programmes proper and improper.
- Death Traps Galore (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 04, 2006)
Five-year-old Prince of Kurukshetra was lucky to have come out alive from the 60-ft hellhole into which he happened to fall. Ravi, a four-year-old from Chandigarh, met with a different fate.
- Fears Of `Extreme' Tb Strain (Hindu, Robin McKie, Sep 04, 2006)
New drug-resistant infection is a "nightmare," say health experts.
- Pollution, Aerosols, And The Climate (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Sep 04, 2006)
Aerosols in the atmosphere are not invariably a bad thing. But those released by pollution may alter the climate adversely.
- Gst On Computers (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 04, 2006)
The imposition of a 15 per cent general sales tax on computer hardware and accessories is bad news for the information technology sector.
- Redressing Balochistan’S Grievances (Dawn, Shamshad Ahmad Khan, Sep 04, 2006)
“I have spilt blood? I had to; I shall perhaps shed more, but without anger, and quite simply, because blood-letting is a component of (my) political medicine...I am not a man like other men and the laws of morality or custom cannot be applied to me.
- 6 Dead As Flood, Snowfall Hits J-K (Indian Express, MIR EHSAN, Sep 04, 2006)
Kashmir is facing its worst ever flood crisis in two decades with hundreds of villages and even parts of Srinagar completely marooned after three days of incessant rains.
- Voice For Consumer: E-Mailing Bottled Time (Deccan Herald, Victoria Shannon, Sep 04, 2006)
Looking ahead, will the Internet and e-mail-ability become a kind of additional human organ?
- Karunanidhi To Lay Foundation For Information Technology Institute (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Chief Minister and Arjun Singh discuss stand on reservation legislation
- Infosys Eyes Buys In Germany & France (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
India's second-largest software services exporter, Infosys Technologies Ltd, is looking at acquisitions in Germany and France to expand operations in Europe, its Chief Operating Officer said on Friday.
- Rs 50 Lakh To Develop Chamunda Temple (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
The Union Government has sanctioned Rs 50 lakh for the development of the Chamunda Temple (Chamunda Nandikeshwar Dham) in Kangra district under the rural tourism plan. This amount would be utilised for the development of a green belt around the temple.
- `Islam Does Not Preach Terrorism' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Education, hard work can end poverty of Muslims
- Quota Bill Will Not Face Opposition: Arjun (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
The Centre did not anticipate any opposition in the Parliament to the Bill implementing staggered reservation quotas for OBCs, Union Minister for Human Resources Development Arjun Singh said on Sunday.
- Natwar Says He Will Explore Legal Options (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Former External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh on Sunday termed the show cause notices issued to him and his son by the Enforcement Directorate in the oil-for-food scam as "unfortunate" and affirmed that his lawyers would explore legal options to . . .
- Un Abstains From Quick Action Over Defiant Iran (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
The Security Council held off on Thursday on taking punitive action against Iran over its failure to freeze uranium enrichment as diplomats awaited the outcome of nuclear talks between European and Iranian officials next week.
- China Media Censors "Blacklist" Tibetan Princess (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
China is censoring media reports about the daughter of Tibet's 10th Panchen Lama, industry sources said, apparently worried that her popularity would eclipse that of her father's disputed successor.
- Going Schizo On Patents (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 02, 2006)
Controls breed controls, as Ludwig Von Mises noted. Is it surprising that when the state grants a monopoly in the form of a patent, and also regulates the living hell out of monopolies in its antitrust law that conflicts in the law will arise?
- Value Change Please, Not Regime Change (Indian Express, M Veerappa Moily, Sep 02, 2006)
With the Lebanon crisis resurfacing in West Asia and the Middle East, a strange phenomenon has emerged. Sunnis and Shias have converged in the cauldron called Lebanon.
- 'We Are The Best In What We Do' (The Economic Times, SWARNAVA ADHIKARI, Sep 02, 2006)
Techspan is an IT consulting and technology services company founded in 1998. It offers clients a unique combination of management consulting capabilities and deep technical experience across many sectors.
- A Pot Of Gold On The Horizon (The Economic Times, J BRADFORD DELONG, Sep 02, 2006)
For quite a while now — certainly since the terrorist attacks on the US of September 11, 2001, and before as we watched the slaughters in Kosovo, Sarajevo, Srebrenica, Rwanda, and Congo on our televisions — the news has been dominated by war and . . .
- Go With Verve: Try A Brand Extension (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 02, 2006)
Auto major M&M faces a complex branding and marketing challenge for its new multi-purpose vehicle (MPV), which is intended as the successor to the Scorpio and is due to be launched in 2008. The MPV will be built on a new platform code-named the ‘Ingenio’.
- Needed, A Policy For Human Capital (The Financial Express, YRK REDDY, Sep 02, 2006)
Prime Minster Manmohan Singh recently stressed the need to convert people into national assets while releasing a report on Person-to-Person Advocacy with parliamentarians on population issues.
- Why Alienate If You Can Garner Support (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 02, 2006)
By promoting racial profiling, Governments are planting seeds of more terrorist modules. They are only alienating a whole mass of people who would only be glad to participate in the war against terrorism
- Manmohan & Nam (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 02, 2006)
Will the PM be able to define an Indian position?
The last job Dr Manmohan Singh held in his career as an Indian bureaucrat was to head the Geneva-headquartered “South-South” Commission conceived by Julius Nyerere of Tanzania.
- Us Defence Firms Grow Bullish On India (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 02, 2006)
After decades on the sidelines, U.S. defense contractors are eyeing India’s growing military budget and aging arsenal as a multibillion-dollar opportunity that could help offset a projected slowdown in Pentagon weapons spending and extend . . .
- Unilateral Us Sanctions On Iran? (Dawn, Maqbool Ahmad Bhatty, Sep 02, 2006)
The passing of the August 31 deadline for Iran to comply with the Security Council resolution calling upon it to end its programme of uranium enrichment has obliged the US to decide on its future strategy vis-a-vis Tehran.
- Technical Difficulties Thwarting Iran’S N-Ambitions: Us (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Iran appears to be encountering technical difficulties with its uranium enrichment but this does not diminish the fact that it has nuclear ambitions and is acting on them, US officials and experts said on Thursday.
- The Cruel Grind (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 02, 2006)
Where there is a will there is a way. So goes the age-old saying.
- Pranab Leaves For France, Germany Today (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Union Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee will pay a six-day official visit to France and Germany starting Saturday and hold talks with his counterparts on a whole range of bilateral defence issues and international security scenario.
- Iran N-Plan: Eu Cautious, Russia 'No' To Sanctions, Us Seethes (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
The European Union said on Friday that it was too early to impose sanctions on Iran for its failure to halt uranium enrichment by a UN-imposed deadline even as Russia said such a move on Tehran for not ending sensitive atomic work was a dead end.
- Trade Rules Must Not Curb Developing Countries: Unctad (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Sep 02, 2006)
Multilateral effort to redress global imbalances advocated
- Alcatel To Pick Up Nortel’S 3g Arm For $320 M (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Alcatel has signed a preliminary agreement to buy Nortel’s third-generation (3G) cell phone network unit for $320 million, aiming to achieve greater scale amid cut-throat price competition.
- Plutonic Love (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 02, 2006)
Hi dear! As I am penning these few words, you must be shedding tears in your oblong orbit in the far away Kuiper Belt. I understand that 70 years of existence in the planetary list is too inconsequential a period in the cosmic calendar.
- Law On Obc Quota In Institutions Sought (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Pondicherry Assembly passes a resolution
Parliament had introduced a Bill in this regard on August 25 paving the way for the reservation
Assembly adopts another resolution urging the Centre to sanction approval of the draft Bill
"Exams by . . .
- Everyday Fiction (Indian Express, RAM SEHGAL, Sep 02, 2006)
Making excuses is a habit that begins rather early in life. You quickly realise that you need to have an excuse for that homework you did not do and — eruka! — you fake an illness. Since you cannot offer the same excuse a second time, you . . .
- The `War On Terror' And West Asia Circa 2007 (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Sep 02, 2006)
The U.S. approach has been uniformly unsuccessful and raises questions about its major and minor premises, the efficacy of its methodology, and, in the final analysis, of its intent.
- Futility Of Labels (Times of India, Mukul Dube, Sep 02, 2006)
The history of human societies and of groups within them has been one of cons-tantly narrowing occupational specialisation. The earliest societies were of hunters and gatherers.
- Gone Is Lover’S Lane (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 02, 2006)
What happened to Lover’s Lane? The walls have risen to the height of a fort,” said Jai Pratap Singh, looking out of the car window towards the boundary wall adjoining the hostel of Government College for Girls, Sector 11. We were last week . . .
- Kalam Sends Lab Equipment For Durban School (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Fulfiling his promise, President A P J Abdul Kalam has sent a consignment of laboratory equipment worth $ 200,000 to a high school in a poor black residential area here.
- Reap What You Sow (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 02, 2006)
Prem Kumar, son of my Dahi Bhalla friend, the late Kishen Lall, founder-proprietor of Hotel Rajdoot, is a very fat man.
- Conquering The World (News International, Hafizur Rahman, Sep 02, 2006)
Scenes of prayer in the Kaaba, and of course of the Hajj in Makkah, witnessed over television are an inspiring sight.
- Petitions Against Manmohan And Over 40 Mps To Be Closed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
They are infructuous after passage of office of profit Bill
Chidambaram, Somnath among those who will benefit from the move
Petition against Anbumani to be dealt with separately.
- Australia-India Trade — Gold That's Put To Use More Gold Begets (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 02, 2006)
For Australia, India is becoming increasingly important primarily because it has become its sixth largest export market. Gold is a critical element in this trade and is now Australia's main export to India.
Gold exports to India in 2000 were . . .
- The Aiims I Know (Indian Express, C P Bhambhri, Sep 01, 2006)
Health Minister of India Anbumani Ramadoss recently launched a tirade against the management and functioning of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
- Iit Funda (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 01, 2006)
Are you from IIT? That was the question put to me by a colleague from a Missouri ‘cow town’.
- Cheque Mate (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 01, 2006)
There's another mess in disinvestment. And it could be the biggest yet. The UPA’s decision to revalue Balco’s 49 per cent equity that Sterlite bought in 2004 — the first, controlling stake of 51 per cent was bought in 2001 . . .
- Teheran May Be A Stumbling Block (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Sep 01, 2006)
Some observers in Washington believe that New Delhi’s friendship with Teheran could affect India-US relations.
- Iaea Indicts Iran, Bush Threatens Consequences (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
As the UN deadline expired for Iran, the US ambassador to the United Nations said unanimity among the Security Council was not needed to take action against Tehran.
- This News Is Not For You (Tribune, Roopinder Singh, Sep 01, 2006)
The New York Times carried, on August 28, a detailed story titled “Details Emerge in British Terror Case” for its readers—except those who live in Britain, the focus of the item. One of the top newspapers in the world took this unusual step to . . .
- Heathen Under Every Bed (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Sep 01, 2006)
We have, seemingly, already arrived at that situation. The Western world, led by the United States of America, has chosen.
- Nict Opens With Promises (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Assam Governor Lt Gen. (retd.) Ajai Singh today tom-tommed the Northeast’s USP in its huge number of “well-educated, English-speaking youth” and hoped that . . .
- J&k Needs Balanced, Equitable Development (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 01, 2006)
The relevance of 'Development' as an instrument of change particularly to build on peace dividends is widely recognized.
- China Media Censors "Blacklist" Tibetan Princess (Reuters, Benjamin Kang Lim, Sep 01, 2006)
China is censoring media reports about the daughter of Tibet's 10th Panchen Lama, industry sources said, apparently worried that her popularity would eclipse that of her father's disputed successor.
- Musharraf: Saudi Investment To Grow (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia enjoy time-tested friendship and the economic activities will help strengthen the brotherly relations between the two states, said President General Pervez Musharraf while laying the foundation stone . . .
- Iran Fails To Halt N-Work: Iaea (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
We will not yield to pressure, Nejad tells West
- India To Allow Private Industry To Make Military Hardware (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Indian authorities have decided to allow private companies to develop high technology military systems in an effort to help upgrade the country’s aging military hardware, the Defence Ministry said Thursday.
- Iran: E.U. In A Dilemma (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Sep 01, 2006)
France, Germany say they pin hopes on talks
- Nasa Picks Lockheed Martin To Build Moon-Bound Spaceship (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
NASA named Thursday a consortium led by US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin Corporation to design and build a new spacecraft that will take astronauts back to the moon.
- Urdu & Secularism (Frontline, A.G. NOORANI, Sep 01, 2006)
A clutch of new books focus on the progressive nationalist tradition of Urdu poetry.
- A Comprehensive Overview (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Some interesting reads in Kannada...
- Land Of Privileges (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
IN December 2005, when the Congress government in Haryana led by Bhupinder Singh Hooda arrived at an understanding with Reliance India Limited (RIL) to set up a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the State, it was least expected that the deal would . . . .
- Iran Defiant As Nuclear Deadline Expires (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Iran vowed never to shelve its nuclear programme, defying the threat of sanctions as a UN deadline to stop work the West fears could lead to the production of atomic bombs expired on Thursday.
- Political Brew (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
THE overt involvement of big business in politics, and even more so in governance, is a post-1990 phenomenon in Karnataka. Prior to this, business was viewed primarily as a source of funds to political parties and individuals, particularly during . . .
- In Death, An Islamist (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 01, 2006)
Egypt's outlawed Islamist opposition on Thursday joined leading Muslim clerics in mourning for Nobel Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz, some of whose work was condemned by Islamist extremists as sacrilegious during the writer's lifetime.
- No Hidden Devil In The Deal (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 01, 2006)
There's no question of binding ourselves to any agreement with the US that involves 'shifting of goalposts'; there's no need to be exercised beyond a point
- Cauvery Water For 100 More Slums (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
BWSSB gearing up to meet water supply needs of `Greater Bangalore'
- A Reverse For Terrorism? (Frontline, R.K. Raghavan, Sep 01, 2006)
This battle of wits can never end. But there is no reason why the fight should be given up, for that will strengthen the perpetrators of evil.
- Make The Poor More Productive (The Financial Express, Jayaprakash Narayan, Sep 01, 2006)
Subsistence employment with low wages will neither reduce poverty nor stimulate demand. Eventually, unemployment will retard both growth and social cohesion.
- Importance Of Software Tools (The Financial Express, S SADAGOPAN, Sep 01, 2006)
On July 25, HP acquired Mercury Interactive for a whopping $4.5 billion. Note that HP is a $80 billion heavyweight and Mercury had revenues of just over $700 million in 2004; while HP has more than 50,000 employees, Mercury’s is just over 2,500.
- Terror In Twilight (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Sep 01, 2006)
Is the Hizbul Mujahideen preparing to come to the negotiating table?
- Arms And Our Money (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 01, 2006)
The defence ministry could be bolder
- Call It Hi-Tech Setbacks (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 01, 2006)
If a machine is supposed to be quicker, I’ve actually wasted time trying to push my money into a hi-tech but recalcitrant contraption
- Flying Beyond Discrimination (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 01, 2006)
Airline companies must evolve an inclusive, disability friendly, non-discriminatory policy.
- Corporate Design (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
The growing trend of corporate bigwigs entering Parliament has become a matter of serious discussion.
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