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- Kalam Attends Colleague's Son’S Wedding (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
Notwithstanding his hectic schedule, President Abdul Kalam also made time to attend a wedding in Bangalore, on Monday...
- German Angst (Tribune, Shastri Ramachandaran, Aug 22, 2006)
The revelation by Gunter Grass that he had served in Hitler’s elite Waffen SS during World War II has unleashed a storm rarely seen in recent times over a writer’s confession.
- Manmohan Meets Youth From J&k (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
The three-day cultural exchange festival of young men and women from Jammu and Kashmir organised by the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) concluded here on Monday.
- Snapshots (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
State Bank of India said on Monday it is not planning to hike home loan rates in the near future, but admitted that there is pressure on these interest rates.
- Infotech’S Facility In Bangalore By June 2007 (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
Infotech Enterprises’ facility of one lakh sq ft in phase-1 in the Electronic City, Bangalore, would be ready by first quarter of 2007 and would house about 700 workstations.
- Another `Natwar Lal' Held For Cheating (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
An old man allegedly involved in over 100 cases of cheating, forgery and fraud, has been arrested by the Special Staff of the North-West Delhi police in connection with car thefts.
- Medicos Plan March Today (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
Students of five leading medical colleges in the Capital will conduct a flag march from Jantar Mantar to Janpath tomorrow in protest against the Union Cabinet’s decision to clear the OBC quota in government-aided elite institutions.
- Purpose Of Life (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 22, 2006)
Our days are numbered. At this very moment, many thousands are born into the world, some destined to live only a few days or weeks... Others are destined to push through to the century mark, perhaps even a bit beyond and savour every taste life has . . .
- Cabinet Okays Staggered Quota (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
The Union Cabinet tonight cleared the politically sensitive legislation providing for 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in government-run higher educational institutions, including AIIMS, IIT and IIMs in a staggered manner.
- Religion As Currency (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Aug 22, 2006)
Archbishop Mar Varkey Vithayathil recently startled India's intellectual elite with his call for more babies to arrest the decline of Kerala's Catholic community.
- ‘Build A Strong, Ethical Employment Brand’ (Deccan Herald, Sangeetha Chengappa, Aug 22, 2006)
The recent fraud uncovered in companies like HSBC, Mphasis, IBM Daksh and Barclays Bank have jolted the IT, ITES and BFSI sectors out of their complacence because the perpetrators happened to be their own employees.
- Quota For Creamy Layer: Cabinet Clears Phased Rollout (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
The Union Cabinet on Monday cleared the Bill proposing to reserve 27% seats in all educational institutions, barring specialised ones, run and aided by Central government after quota hawks stubbed out the suggestion to keep the rich and affluent . . .
- India's Great Low Fare Spiral (Business Standard, Govindraj Ethiraj, Aug 22, 2006)
A few days ago, a senior airline executive narrated this discussion his colleagues had with the Air Traffic Control officials.
- Engaging With Beteille (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
This selection of 50 short essays is a sequel to Beteille's Chronicles of Our Times, a similar collection of newspaper contributions published some years ago.
- Economic Policy: Mid-Term Report (Business Standard, Shankar Acharya, Aug 22, 2006)
In a few weeks the UPA government will reach the mid-point of its five-year term.
- Hc Refuses To Stay Kerala Ban On Coke & Pepsi (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
The Kerala High Court on Monday refused to stay the state government-imposed ban on production and sale of Coke and Pepsi. The HC declined the plea for an interim stay, saying it was yet to hear the government’s argument.
- The Long Silence Of Gunter Grass (Business Standard, Nilanjana S Roy, Aug 22, 2006)
“Why only now?” he says, this person not to be confused with me. Well, because Mother’s incessant nagging...Because I wanted to cry the way I did at the time, when the cry spread across the water, but couldn’t anymore...Because for the true . . .
- Rationale Of Management (Business Line, R. Devarajan, Aug 22, 2006)
The 20th century triggered some of the most significant innovations, the kind of which the world had not seen before. Antibiotics and vaccines have more than doubled the human life span.
- Mr Murthy`s Next Innings (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Aug 22, 2006)
If N R Narayana Murthy had simply led and built such an extraordinarily successful company as Infosys Technologies then that itself would have been enough to put his name in the history books.
- Strategising Success (Hindu, M. S. S. Varadan, Aug 22, 2006)
Challenges companies to break out of the `red ocean' of competition .
- Good Women Should Enter Politics, Says President (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
When good women enter politics, nobility will come to the profession, isn’t it? questioned President A P J Abdul Kalam. There was silence amongst the women scientists in the audience. “Only if you say `yes’, will you get 33 per cent . . .
- ‘Keep Tabs On Water Projects’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
President A P J Abdul Kalam on Monday mooted a task force comprising members from Centre and States to help the Planning Commission and ministries design a mechanism to execute water projects in time and within the specified cost.
- Take It From The Super Cop (OutLook, B. Raman , Aug 22, 2006)
KPS Gill was in Chennai recently, interacting with a group of serving and retired police officers on counter-terrorism management. Some of the salient points made by him.
- Prime Minister's Assurances (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 22, 2006)
Full civil nuclear cooperation: India will be satisfied with nothing less than the removal of restrictions on all aspects of cooperation and technology transfers pertaining to civil nuclear energy, ranging from nuclear fuel, nuclear reactors, to . . .
- The Road To $10 Billion (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 22, 2006)
India’s emergence as a leading player in cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) bodes well for the flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country, as around four-fifth of global FDI flows is accounted by such flows.
- Attacks On The Info Law Won’T Work (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 21, 2006)
Though the government has dropped the move to introduce amendments to RTI Act in the current session of Parliament, perhaps it has not yet abandoned its resolve to ruin this perfectly good law and, in the process, lose much of the goodwill it had . . .
- Indian Airspace Still Not Impregnable (Times of India, RAJAT PANDIT, Aug 21, 2006)
The surveillance of Indian airspace is still far from becoming airtight, with tardy progress in induction of more high, medium and low-level radars as well as in implementation of projects like the satellite-based surveillance (SBS) programme.
- Narayana Murthy, India It Pioneer, Bows Out (Reuters, Sumeet Chatterjee , Aug 21, 2006)
Infosys Technologies' Chairman N.R. Narayana Murthy stepped down on Sunday after 25 years at the helm of the firm he co-founded with six other software engineers and built into India's second-largest software company.
- A Fire Drill For The Global Economy (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Aug 21, 2006)
The Bank of International Settlements has in its latest assessment sounded a note of caution in regard to risks posed by global imbalances, an important factor in which is the US' current account deficit.
- Congress, Dmk Alliance To Continue For Panchayat Polls (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
The parties will work closely at the national and State levels: Moily
Karunanidhi praised for administrative skills
Moily advises Congress workers to strengthen party.
- Cbi Starts Inquiry Into Allegations Against Gavit (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
The CBI has registered a preliminary enquiry (PE) to ascertain the authenticity of a TV news channel’s report about a purported conversation between Union Minister Manikrao Gavit and a gangster in Uttar Pradesh.
- Iran Tests Short-Range Missiles (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
Iran test-fired ten surface-to-surface short-range missiles on Sunday and a military training plane crashed outside the capital after catching fire, state-run television reported.
- Technology Breaks Indo-Pak Barriers (Hindu, Bindu Shajan Perappadan, Aug 21, 2006)
Telemedicine enables medical students to `exchange notes' across the border
- The Speech That Was Not Allowed (Hindu, K. Natwar Singh, Aug 21, 2006)
The nuclear deal is aboutenergy, not non-proliferation. It is about reciprocity, not about unilateral steps taken by the USA. Talk about India having a congruent foreign policy with the U.S. is unacceptable to all patriotic Indians.
- Pondicherry University Launches Online Admission For Postgraduate . . . (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
PUDDE offers 17 PGD programmes; candidates need not submit original degree certificates
- Laloo Chucks Out Colas From Trains, Stations (Deccan Herald, Abhay Kumar, Aug 21, 2006)
A day after Chairman of Pepsico India Holdings Private Limited, Rajeev Bakshi virtually admitted that the soft drink could be harmful for children, Railway Minister Laloo Prasad took the war against the two cola giants — Coke and Pepsi – one step . . .
- Regulating And Developing The Profession Of Actuaries (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
The Act was passed by the Lok Sabha on August 2
- Breaking Ships Need Not Break Lives (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Aug 21, 2006)
The economics of ship-breaking should not be built on the destroyed lives of those who dismantle the ships.
- A Dubious Record Of Unity (Deccan Herald, Amulya Ganguli, Aug 21, 2006)
When it concerns votes, all parties, from the Left to the Right of the political spectrum close their ranks.
- New Study: India's Hiv Burden Overestimated (Hindu, Jaya Shreedhar, Aug 21, 2006)
Researchers involved in the project warn against complacence.
- ‘Where Generics Are Concerned, We Have Arrived And Are A . . . (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 21, 2006)
The name K Anji Reddy has come to become synonymous with the Indian pharma industry. Dr Reddy, almost single-handedly, made global pharma giants sit up and take notice of the Indian pharma prowess, especially in devising new processes to manufacture . . .
- ‘Build A Strong, Ethical Employment Brand’ (Deccan Herald, Sangeetha Chengappa, Aug 21, 2006)
The recent fraud uncovered in companies like HSBC, Mphasis, IBM Daksh and Barclays Bank have jolted the IT, ITES and BFSI sectors out of their complacence because the perpetrators happened to be their own employees.
- Sabotage In Na? (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 21, 2006)
It is somewhat understandable why so few members of the opposition failed to attend Friday's session of the National Assembly - especially those belonging to the MMA - since the top item for discussion was . . .
- ‘We Must Scale Up Iits, Iims, Take Strong Affirmative Action Or . . . (Indian Express, S. Ramadorai, Aug 21, 2006)
His usual reticence reflects his company’s traditional understated style but S Ramadorai, MD & CEO of Tata Consultancy Services, talks tech, quotas and cricket with Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, on NDTV 24x7’s Walk The Talk . . .
- A Threat To Science Study (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 21, 2006)
Th idea that science promotes prosperity is far from cutting edge. Tony Blair makes the point in the context of a world he describes as changing beyond recognition, one of the themes that he shares with Harold Wilson, who first insisted on Britain . . .
- Learning From Lebanon (Indian Express, Gurmeet Kanwal, Aug 21, 2006)
The Westphalian nation-state is fraying at the edges and Lebanon is a primary example of this. It has a regular army and it has the Hezbollah — a terrorist organisation that is officially tolerated if not recognised as the army of the south.
- Quota Bill Likely To Be Cleared Today (Tribune, Satish Misra, Aug 21, 2006)
Coming under pressure from its allies, the Union Cabinet is likely to take up the Bill providing 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in government-aided institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian . . .
- How To Revive Agricultural Economy (Daily Excelsior, Satyendra Pratap Singh, Aug 21, 2006)
As the crisis of the farming community reverberate in the country with suicides and hunger, the prime minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, in his Independence speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort, loudly proclaimed that the UPA government is "concerned . . .
- Website On Satyajit Ray To Be Launched (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
Beginning August 26www.worldofray.comwill feature video, audio clips from his films
- Who Needs The Pill? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 21, 2006)
NEWS that a German scientist has come up with an “anti-stupidity” pill has sent hopes soaring in a world besieged by a surfeit of stupid people who have made life and living more difficult than it need be. Dr Hans-Hilger Ropers, Director of the . . .
- Indo-Pak Optic Fibre Link Through Wagah Ready (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
India and Pakistan have tested the optic fibre link cable laid through Wagah border by India but it is not yet operational due to “tactical reasons.”
- Now For The Real Miracle (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 21, 2006)
As far as miracles go, turning brackish sea water sweet is pretty neat. Regardless of the scientific explanation being doled out — excess freshwater flowing from the Mahim river into the sea — the thousands thronging to Mahim Creek near the . . .
- Oil Picks Up Ahead Of Iran Nuclear Deadline (Reuters, Neil Chatterjee, Aug 21, 2006)
Oil prices rose above $71 a barrel on Monday, bolstered by Iran's determination to continue with its atomic fuel programme ahead of a deadline from the United Nations to halt nuclear work.
- Moving Nukes: India Must Join World Initiative (Tribune, Premvir Das, Aug 21, 2006)
The Proliferation Security Initiative, PSI for short, is an initiative, initially sponsored by 14 nations including the USA (therefore being seen as an American scheme) aimed at countering proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and . . .
- Don't Shoot The Messenger (Business Standard, Sunil Jain, Aug 21, 2006)
Over the past fortnight, the country’s cola majors have been on a PR offensive, though with a difference.
- Empower Locals To Develop And Manage Content (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 21, 2006)
In understanding how we promote Internet usage in Indian vernacular languages, we need to keep the following background in mind. India is a complex nation with a multitude of languages and large number of dialects.
- Musharraf Pops Out Of Box (Tribune, Pran Chopra , Aug 21, 2006)
Like an untiring jack in the box, President Pervez Musharraf pops out his head every time anyone lifts the lid for him, and when no one else does he is quite capable of doing it himself; and perhaps because someone has told him that “thinking out . . .
- Cbi To Investigate Gavit’S Links With Mafia (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
The CBI has registered a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) to ascertain the authenticity of a TV news channel's report about a purported conversation between Union Minister Manikrao Gavit and a gangster in Uttar Pradesh.
- Hurdles In Indo-Us Defence Cooperation (Daily Excelsior, Brig. (Retd.) S.N. Sachadeva, Aug 20, 2006)
A hard scrutiny of the Indo-US agreed minutes on defence cooperation hides more than it reveals.
- Ec To Abide By Oop Act In Clearing Petitions (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
A day after President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam gave his assent to the Office of Profit Bill, the Election Commission today said it would abide by the legislation in deciding on the disqualification petitions against 40 MPs.
- Ec Will Abide By Oop Bill In Clearing Petitions: Cec (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
A day after President A P J Abdul Kalam gave his assent to the Office of Profit Bill, the Election Commission on Saturday said it would abide by the legislation in deciding on the disqualification petitions against 40 MPs.
- The Green Way To Energy Security (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 20, 2006)
India and the United States share a deep and abiding interest in assuring reliable and abundant energy to power our economies and provide a basic foundation for the prosperity of our citizens. We also share a vision of promoting clean energy practices . .
- Murthy To Step Down As Infy Chief (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
Infosys Technologies' chairman NR Narayana Murthy stepped down on Sunday after 25 years at the helm of the firm he co-founded with six other software engineers and built into India's second-largest software company.
- Blot & Botch (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 20, 2006)
Enter the sarkari political scientist
A stiff dose of sarkari interpretation of contemporary history is in the offing with the NCERT’s decision to include in the class XII political science curriculum events that in its perception have influenced . . .
- We Do Not Foresee Any Glut In The Steel Market’ (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
Bhushan Steel & Strips Ltd is the country's third-largest secondary steel manufacturer after Tata Steel and SAIL.
- Dam Safety Authority To Inspect Mullaperiyar (Hindu, Roy Mathew, Aug 20, 2006)
The State Dam Safety Authority will next week inspect the Mullaperiyar dam, in whose vicinity tremors were reported on Friday. It will examine structural safety.
- How We Built The Bomb (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 20, 2006)
If India ever decided to single out a date for marking some sort of an anniversary of its nuclear weaponisation, March 18, 1989 will be a pretty good choice, probably even more fitting than the two dates of May 1974 and 1998, Pokharan I . . .
- Storage Virtualisation The New Trend’ (The Economic Times, BHANU PANDE, Aug 20, 2006)
With the need for data increasingly on the rise, storage technologies have become the necessity of the day. Almost all the companies today look for storage solutions built on industry-leading technology with performance, availability and scalability . . .
- The Politics Of Religion (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
in a country where fanatics and hardliners come in different shapes and sizes.
- Kalam To Inaugurate Seminar On Women's Contribution To Science (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
It is organised by Bangalore varsity's Centre for Women's Studies
- Cyber Gag (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 20, 2006)
Going by its decision to block about 12 blogs that host objectionable content, the government is clearly groping in its attempt to come up with a coherent policy response to terror.
- Denounce This Fancy Version Of Gambling (Deccan Herald, Sakuntala Narasimhan, Aug 20, 2006)
Gambling is frowned upon because outcome depends not on merit or inputs in term of hard work but on pure chance.
- Why This Apathy? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 20, 2006)
“Lack of quorum” seems to have become all too convenient an excuse for the National Assembly when it comes to taking up important national issues.
- Transworks Acquires Minacs (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
TransWorks Information Services Ltd., an Aditya Birla group company, has successfully bid for and acquired Canada-based Minacs Worldwide Inc. through its wholly-owned subsidiary, AV TransWorks Ltd., for a consideration of $125 million.
- Dead And Exclusive... (Indian Express, SAUBHIK CHAKRABARTI, Aug 20, 2006)
Costa-Gavras’ Mad City (Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta, Alan Alda) opens with a close up shot of a TV cameraman loading film in his camera.
- Not One Mole, Mr Prime Minister And Mr Jaswant, But Two! (New Indian Express, S Gurumurthy , Aug 20, 2006)
First, the Kandahar pay-off issue and next, the ‘mole' in PMO. Mr Jaswant Singh's new book seems to have opened a can of worms.
- Gung Ho On The N-Deal (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 20, 2006)
The India-US nuclear agreement and, in a broader sense, the improvement in relations with the US are — along with 8% economic growth — the biggest achievement of Dr Manmohan Singh’s prime ministership.
- Office Of Profit: Ec To ‘Abide’ By Legislation (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
A day after President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam gave his assent to the office of profit bill, the Election Commission said on Saturday that it would abide by the legislation in deciding on the disqualification petitions against 40 MPs.
- The Real Pesticide Threat (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 20, 2006)
Now that the numbers are out on the level of pesticides we legally allow in our daily food (‘A handful of rice=34,180 colas,’ FE, August 18), several issues become clear.
- Nuke Scientists Welcome Manmohan's Assurances On Indo-Us Deal (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
Top nuclear scientists on Friday welcomed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's detailed assurances on concerns raised by them about the Indo-US nuclear deal.
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