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Articles 2421 through 2520 of 17201:
- Now A Development Agenda For Wipo (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 09, 2006)
The decision of member-countries of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), acting through its Provisional Committee, to refer the issue of a Development Agenda for this United Nations-affiliated body to its General Assembly in September . .
- Keeping A Watch For The Big One (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Aug 09, 2006)
India's tsunami warning system, intended to prevent a repeat of December 26, 2004, is expected to become operational by September 2007.
- Govt Walks Path Of Phased Quota (Telegraph, Monobina Gupta, Aug 09, 2006)
The human resource development ministry is likely to stagger the implementation of 27 per cent OBC quota for institutions that have pleaded their inability to introduce it at one go.
- Govt Drops 25% Quota Clause For Pvt Schools (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Succumbing to pressure from private school managements, the Centre has dropped a crucial clause in the model Right to Education Bill, which would have made it mandatory for unaided schools to reserve 25% seats for the free education of poor . . .
- Terror Leader: 'Nobody Can Hand Me Over To India' (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
The Kashmir issue can never be resolved through talks, believes Syed Salahuddin, leader of the Hizb-ul Mujahideen terrorist group, and chairman of the Jihad Council, an umbrella outfit comprising over a dozen Kashmiri terrorist groups.
- The Expanding Horizons Of Regional Trade Agreements (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 09, 2006)
With the WTO in crisis, and hopes fading for the multilateral route to international trade, there is an inevitable shift to regional agreements.
- Sri Lanka Needs A New Peace Process (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 09, 2006)
"India wants the continuation of Norwegian role in Sri Lanka and even wants the US to get involved, and is saying so, both in private and public."
- Nationalism Versus Globalism In Oil (The Financial Express, Vikram S Mehta, Aug 09, 2006)
At the global level, concerns about security of the energy system are growing, while nations’ quest for securing supplies is intensifying. Is there a sustainable balance?
- Act Or Perish (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Aug 09, 2006)
The world is not against Islam but the ongoing terrorist strikes in the name of global jihad can be best defined as World War IV, says Prafull Goradia
- Far From A Charming End (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 09, 2006)
I read in the papers that the Union Government has banned snake charmers. It is the first piece of good news that has come out of this Government in the last three . . .
- Indo-Us To Hunt Terrorists In Pakistan! (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 09, 2006)
Statement of the US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher that some of the (terrorist) groups that have designs against India still have pieces in Pakistan is, in our view, both astonishing and highly condemnable.
- Tata Acquires Eight O'clock Coffee (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Company bought from venture capital fund Gryphon Investors for Rs. 1,015 crore Company bought from venture capital fund Gryphon Investors for Rs. 1,015 crore
More manned level-crossings also planned
Bangalore division of SWR has proposed 20 overpasses
- India Makes It To Final Microsoft 12 (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
India has made it to the final 12 in the software design round of Microsoft Imagine Cup India 06. India’s entry is from Team Sonique comprising Deepak Jagdish, Mohit Gupta, Rahul Sawhney and Shreyas Nangia.
- Fanfare To Fizzle (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 09, 2006)
National Rural Health Mission yet to take off
Whether it’s urban renewal or rural health, national missions ~ the UPA dispensation’s buzzword for reaching out to the people ~ ironically reflect the dead hand of government.
- Can The Revolution Outlive Castro? (Daily Times, Mahir Ali, Aug 09, 2006)
It probably would not be considered particularly ageist to contend that no nation’s fortunes ought to be linked to a supreme leader having been in office for several decades.
- The 60-40 Ratio (News International, Naeem Sadiq, Aug 09, 2006)
As a citizen of Pakistan, I would like to have the right not to hand over my mobile phone to every other kid who rides a motor bike and keeps a TT in his pocket to facilitate negotiations.
- Us Defends India’S Non-Proliferation Record Despite Sanctions (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
The George Bush administration has defended India’s non-proliferation record despite imposition of sanctions against two Indian private firms for business dealings with Iran last Friday.
- Take Solutions Launches Oneclinical (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Take Solutions, a technology enabled business solutions company, has announced the launch of OneClinical brand of its life sciences product suite, further to its acquisition of . . .
- Ivory Coast Seeks Mining Cooperation With India (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
FIMI will be given an opportunity to participate in joint ventures
- ‘ A Word For Sonia: Left Blocking Forward Leap. Govt Relies On Them. . . . (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 08, 2006)
Former Minister of State for Defence Arun Singh says he’s proud of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi as his sister for what she did on prime ministership and the office of profit issue. This is the second part of his interview with Shekhar Gupta, Edito . . .
- Party Whining (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Aug 08, 2006)
It is often said that Indian political parties engage in vote bank politics.
- Ban Pesticides! (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 08, 2006)
Pesticides in colas? No problem, just ban them — the colas, that is. The response to the recent findings of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) that colas in India contain significantly higher amounts of pesticides than those prescribed . . .
- Filters Of American Objectivity (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 08, 2006)
You neither need to work in an American newsroom nor need to visit this country to understand its media's objectivity. Here is a simple formula. Just read what its press wrote after 9/11 and before the Iraq war.
- Wisdom In A Well (Deccan Herald, JAYALAKSHMI K, Aug 08, 2006)
There is no point in deploying technology for the sake of technology.
- Young Ny Singer Builds Big Following With Web Exposure (Reuters, A N Sudarsan Rao , Aug 08, 2006)
Inside a disheveled Long Island beach cottage on a muggy summer day, Jamie Kristine Seerman sings into a microphone, strumming a battered guitar, recording on a computer a song that she hopes will be a hit.
- Shrc Bans Coca Cola And Pepsico On Campuses (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has given an interim order banning Coca Cola and Pepsico drinks in all educational institutions, both private and Government.
- Motorbike Expedition Launched Ncc Expedition Flagged Off (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
The rally aims to spread awareness about AIDS
- Crop Diversification Vital For Distress Alleviation (Tribune, S.S. Johl, Aug 08, 2006)
Since the submission of the report on restructuring of agricultural production patterns for productivity and growth in Punjab in 2002, some hard-boiled opponents of diversification are putting forth arguments that are not tenable in any respect.
- India Tells Usa To Rein In Pakistan (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Aug 08, 2006)
India today conveyed two things directly to the United States — neither being music to ears of the “strategic partner”.
- Memories Of Bombay (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 08, 2006)
Mehta’s book has the silent intrusiveness, the busyness and ubiquity, the voraciousness of a book of pictures, as well as the largesse that prose gives. But Mehta doesn’t stand at the crossroads in which Singh found himself when confronted with . . .
- Directionless Saga Of Science Policy (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 08, 2006)
Planning for science and technology has been a subject of a great deal of academic and political debate - much of it rather rhetorical, however - and an exercise in experimentation since the Second Five Year Plan in 1957, a year before the . . .
- Devi Shetty (Business Standard, Subir Roy, Aug 08, 2006)
He has already built four of the country's largest heart hospitals, but wants to do three more, all to cut costs.
- The Indian Outsourcing Saga (Hindu, Anand Parthasarathy, Aug 08, 2006)
Highlights the achievements of pioneers who put India on the world map of BPO
- Folly In High Places (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Aug 08, 2006)
Two erudite men, both former ministers of external affairs, both authors, both from Rajasthan, albeit from different communities — Natwar Singh and Jaswant Singh — have hogged the headlines these last two weeks for all the wrong reasons.
- Unadulterated Lies (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 08, 2006)
'The attendant propaganda -the abuse of language and eternal hypocrisy - has reached its nadir in recent weeks,' says John Pilger of the undiluted lies discharged daily by the western media since the beginning of the Lebanon crisis.
- Is The Outsourcing Boom Over? (Daily Excelsior, Arvinder Kaur, Aug 08, 2006)
As companies start out sourcing more selectively and strategically and onshore providers face new pressures, questions are being raised over the future of outsourcing.
- Concentration In The Competitive Software Business (Business Line, Jayati Ghosh, Aug 08, 2006)
The success of India in the global market for software services has encouraged the view that software is a competitive industry with limited barriers to entry and space for new and small players. In actual fact, however, US firms dominate the . . .
- Groundwater Not The Culprit (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Aug 08, 2006)
The cola companies are taking the consumers for a ride in developing countries, giving false excuses.
- Natural Adversaries (The Financial Express, Mythili Bhusnurmath, Aug 08, 2006)
Differences between central banks and governments are inevitable. The only way out is for governments to give central banks independence in setting interest rates
- Put Ngos Under Rti Scalpel (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Aug 08, 2006)
The $50,000 Magsaysay Award was recently conferred upon Arvind Kejriwal, a former Indian Revenue Service officer campaigning for the Right to Information (RTI).
- Fighting External And Internal Enemies (Pioneer, Asheesh Shah, Aug 08, 2006)
All political and social organisations should review their policies in the interest of the nation to keep India ahead, says Asheesh Shah.
- Keep Unaided Institutions Out Of Obc Quota Bill, Pm Tells Arjun (Indian Express, Varghese K George, Aug 08, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is said to have asked H R D Minister Arjun Singh to exclude “unaided educational institutions” from the proposed 27% reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBC) in higher education. And incorporate in the Bill a . . .
- Pm To Visit Helsinki For India-Eu Summit In Oct » (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet his Finnish counterpart Matti Vanhanen in Helsinki for the seventh India-EU summit on October 13 during which the two sides are expected to discuss a range of issues including fight against terrorism and . . .
- The Noose Of Debt (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Aug 08, 2006)
The single most important cause of farmer suicides is their inability to pay back the loans they have taken, often from private moneylenders. This age-old problem is yet to be resolved in a durable fashion.
- Hec Needs Sound Financial Backing (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 07, 2006)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that higher education is essential for the nation’s future development and lauded the services of Dr Attaur Rehman, chairman of the Higher Education Commission to focus the significance of higher education . . .
- Quality And Price — The Basic Factors (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 07, 2006)
An action plan to reduce the cost of doing business is stated to have been finalised by the ministry of industries and production, something urgently needed to make the economy globally competitive.
- Iran Rejects Un Nuclear Deadline (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Iran’s top nuclear negotiator said today that Iran will expand uranium enrichment, in defiance of a UN Security Council resolution setting an 31 August deadline for the Islamic Republic to halt the activity or face the threat of political and economic . .
- Problems Of Manning Military Machine (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 07, 2006)
Even the most sophisticated technology of warfare is handled ultimately by men engaged in the profession of soldiering. Its use in combat depends therefore greatly on their skill, training, morale and ingenuity.
- The Good Side Of Global Warming (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Aug 07, 2006)
We have had nine normal monsoons in a row. People of the country are happy. This fortunate circumstance owes itself partly to the rise in temperature of the earth due to global warming.
- The Precedence Principle (Business Standard, Bibek Debroy, Aug 07, 2006)
There is a law in economic policy-making. For every silly policy, there is a precedence somewhere in the world. Indians should be flattered that the Indian Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) of 1955 is being cited by the Philippines and Malaysia, in an . . .
- Citizen Narain (Business Standard, Sunil Jain, Aug 07, 2006)
Life’s been quite a whirl for Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) Director Sunita Narain ever since she unveiled CSE’s second set of tests that showed the country’s soft drinks industry hadn’t improved its act over the past three years with . . .
- Change Is The Only Constant (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Aug 07, 2006)
The Indo-US nuclear agreement, in my opinion, will be passed, as there are several economic benefits the two sides can expect from it. Moreover, the Cold War arguments are no longer relevant in today's world.
- ‘Weapon Of Politics’ (Deccan Herald, Vimala RamaRao, Aug 07, 2006)
"If politicians would allow us, we could write ‘Indian’ instead of whatever caste we come from. But will they let us? Abandoning a caste-based life does not suit many."
- Justice’S New Phase (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 07, 2006)
What The Sunday Express found out via a right to information application the government surely knew already—that extra quotas in higher education would be less problematic, both from the point of view of interest group conflicts and perhaps also . . .
- Iran Vows More Atom Work, To Hit Back At Sanctions (Indian Express, Reuters, Aug 07, 2006)
Iran vowed on Sunday to expand its atomic fuel work and warned that any UN sanctions aimed at halting its uranium enrichment would incur a painful riposte, possibly including a cut in oil exports.
- Will Food Safety Bill Improve Standards? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 07, 2006)
The recent reports on pesticides in soft drink lead to a big question. What would these residues be called? Following the scientific norm, these are contaminants, which should not have been there. But according to the Food Safety and Standards Bill, . .
- Nationalisation Versus Globalisation In Oil Sector: Can The Balance Sustain? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 07, 2006)
Arun Singh, who was a friend of Rajiv Gandhi and the Minister of State for Defence in his government when the Bofors scandal broke, has since then been living a reclusive life in his cottage in Binsar, near Almora. Making a rare exception, he . . .
- Pm To Visit Helsinki For India-Eu Summit In Oct (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet his Finnish counterpart Matti Vanhanen in Helsinki for the seventh India-EU summit on October 13 during which the two sides are expected to discuss a range of issues including fight against terrorism and . . .
- Rhetoric, Atomised (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 07, 2006)
Parliament this week, like last week, is likely to see plenty of “nationalist” criticism of the India-US nuclear deal. In the US, as the nuclear bill goes to the Senate, “nonproliferation” advocates are talking it down again.
- Wrong Pest (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 07, 2006)
When denial works, nothing else is needed. The cola companies, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, have confidently denied the possibility of impermissible levels of pesticides in their products.
- Notable Changes In Rules To Help Speedy Grant Of Patents (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Decentralisation, a positive step towards efficient administration of the Act, will facilitate removal of confusion in the minds of the public
- Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh Ban Soft Drinks (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh on Sunday banned the sale of aerated drinks following reports that they had pesticide residues.
- The Train Over River Time (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 07, 2006)
Before the Chinese thought of building a rail line to connect Quinhai, province in the southwest of China, to Lhasa, the idea would have been fantasy.
- Google Expertise For Aravind Hospital (Hindu, S. Vijay Kumar, Aug 07, 2006)
The role of Information Technology (IT) in eye care management is set to scale new heights with global IT major, Google, offering to provide its expertise to Aravind Eye Hospital.
- The Challenges Posed By Polio (Deccan Herald, Manu N Kulkarni, Aug 07, 2006)
Lessons from past failures must guide planners to move in the right direction.
- The ‘Twin’ Spin (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 07, 2006)
Mistaking a twin-brother for the other is more real than a Bollywood phenomenon.
- Videocon Set To Launch Ipods In Indian Market (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
White and brown goods Indian multinational, Videocon Industries Limited (VIL), is planning to launch a range of iPods in the Indian market place the next month.
- Improve Infrastructure To Compete With China: Nrn (Deccan Herald, Anirban Bhaumik , Aug 06, 2006)
The chief mentor of the Infosys Technologies N R Narayana Murthy said that India must emphasise on building and maintaining infrastructure, if it wanted to maintain its lead over China in global Information Technology (IT) business.
- Meaning Of Life (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 06, 2006)
It is said that one should always live life like great men. A better course will be to choose one's ideal and follow him or her to the hilt. Otherwise the danger is that one may get lost in a labyrinth of lofty ideas.
- Us Slaps Sanctions On 2 Indian Firms (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
The US government has imposed sanctions on two Indian and five other companies from Russia, North Korea and Cuba for allegedly supplying banned equipment and technology to Iran.
- Rushdie Vs Greer, Standing Room Only (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
It began as a territorial dispute between a low-budget film production company and a group of Bengali traders determined, they said, to protect the reputation of the community living in Britain’s best-known Asian street.
- Farm Sector Growth Is A Mission Possible (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 06, 2006)
"We have to learn to convert information into knowledge and that knowledge into equity" -Mangla rai
- Pak Must Destroy Terror Infrastructure: Doval (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Aug 06, 2006)
A quintessential “operations” man and the Bhishma Pitamah of the Indian intelligence brass, Ajit Kumar Doval (IPS 1968 batch, Kerala cadre), is viewed as a national asset.
- Deadly Drinks: Malathion Found In Softdrinks (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
A new study has claimed that traces of Malathion, a pesticide, which can have harmful effects in the human brain, were found in certain samples of softdrinks.
- The Green Revolution : Soils Being Depleted (Daily Excelsior, Satyendra Pratap Singh, Aug 06, 2006)
Is the green revolution depleting the very soil on which the high yielding varieties of seeds are planted?
- Spare Us The Whims And Fancies (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 06, 2006)
There are some good reasons why a parliamentary resolution on the Indo-US nuclear deal is a bad idea. Unlike practical legislation, resolutions reflect emotion and sentiment, things that ought to be kept in check when dealing with a country’s . . .
- Pm To Visit Helsinki For India-Eu Summit In Oct (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet his Finnish counterpart Matti Vanhanen in Helsinki for the seventh India-EU summit on October 13 during which the two sides are expected to discuss a range of issues including fight against terrorism and . . .
- Social Activist And Environmentalist (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Aug 06, 2006)
Pepsi and Coca Cola executives call her gusty, one who makes much noise. Her critics say she is moody, temperamental and a “bad boss” to work with.
- Florano To Provide Technology For Nasa (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
Florano MQ will provide superior messaging technology for NASA’s Deep Space Network programme’s messaging infrastructure capability. The programme is an international network of antennas that support inter-planetary spacecraft missions and radio . . .
- Us Slaps Sanctions On Two Indian Firms (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
The US government has imposed sanctions on two Indian and five other companies from Russia, North Korea and Cuba for allegedly supplying banned equipment and technology to Iran.
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