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Articles 2621 through 2720 of 17201:
- India's Concerns On N-Deal Debated At Rood Hearing (Press Trust of India, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Aug 03, 2006)
India's objections to certain sections in the Senate bill on the Indo-US nuclear deal came up for discussion at the nomination hearing of John Rood, the US Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-Proliferation.
- World At Their Feet, Iitians Turn To Their Homeland (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
The IIT life story is about to change. The IIT alumni, after going abroad and meeting with phenomenal success, now want to return home.
- Amd Says Gaining Market Share, Prices Stabilising (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is seeing prices for computer processors stabilising after a price war with AMD's bigger rival, Intel, AMD's sales chief said.
- Same Price, Better Quality (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 03, 2006)
The 2005-06 annual report of TVS Motor Company talks of entry-level motorcycles being available at prices as low as Rs 30,000, and goes on to claim that very few product categories, besides computers, have seen this kind of a change in . . .
- Global Economic Imbalances — Can Us Continue To Feign Ignorance? (Business Line, Katuri Nageswararao, Aug 03, 2006)
The US may be happy living beyond its means but if it does not correct the imbalances it is causing world-wide, crude oil and other major commodities may soon be invoiced in non-dollar currencies. The rest of the world needs also to watch its step, . . .
- Turmeric, Onions Help Fight Colon Cancer: Study (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
A pill combining chemicals found in turmeric and onions reduces both the size and number of pre-cancerous lesions in the human intestinal tract, says a new study.
- Pesticides Still Found In Coke, Pepsi - Indian Study (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
An environmental group said on Wednesday bottles of Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. soft drinks in India still contained traces of pesticide, highlighting weak food safety laws in the country.
- Inflation, Welfarism And Public Sector (Daily Excelsior, M. N. Minocha, Aug 03, 2006)
In the past inflation was associated with wars and the extraordinary influx of gold and silver. It ended with the disappearance of these specific causes. But inflation after World War II has been both universal and persistent. It must, therefore, . . .
- A Pox On Stem Cell Research (Deccan Herald, DEBORAH BLUM, Aug 03, 2006)
The US lost a good opportunity due to the influence of clerics on its President.
- Backing For The N-Deal (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 03, 2006)
The nuclear deal between the US and India has received attention in the Urdu press as well. National Herald group’s Qaumi Awaz, in its editorial dated July 29, has hailed it, supporting the deal.
- Changing With Times (Frontline, Ravi Sharma , Aug 03, 2006)
Challenges in the form of liberalisation and global competition have steeled the units' resolve to surge ahead.
- The North-East Mosaic (Daily Excelsior, Sanchet Barua, Aug 03, 2006)
The foremost feature of the social order of the North-Eastern region is its plurality.
- Secrets Of Comet Tempel 1 (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
The NASA space mission to investigate the composition of Comet Tempel 1 brings revolutionary findings.
- Cooperation And Hurdles (Frontline, R. Ramachandran, Aug 03, 2006)
The U.S. administration initiates moves towards opening up international nuclear cooperation and trade with India.
- Institutional Inertia (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 03, 2006)
Nehru Memorial Museum & Library’s decline shows why political involvement and scholarship don’t mix
- Another Low Called Qana (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Aug 03, 2006)
Over the years, philosophers have tried to evolve rules for the conduct of war .
- Agenda For Lebanon (Times of India, Amotz Asa-El, Aug 02, 2006)
For two Israeli generations, Lebanon is the mythological ex, the beautiful and rich neighbour with whom relations once grew from cold to cordial and then from warm to intimate, only to ultimately collapse amid recrimination, loss and trauma.
- Anna Varsity Colleges To Become Departments (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
It will help them gain better access to funding agencies, says Vice-Chancellor
- Challenges Of Consumerism (News International, Tayyeba Ali, Aug 02, 2006)
In today's technological boom, where inventions consistently outdo one another, it is difficult to keep pace.
- Unsc Becomes More Partisan (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 02, 2006)
AS Lebanon is being reduced to rubble and its citizens are forced to live in a state of limbo due to intense Israeli air strikes over the past three weeks, the UN Security Council has failed to even formally call for cease-fire by Tel Aviv.
- Eating Cues From Surroundings: Study (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 02, 2006)
How much candy is enough? It depends on how big the candy scoop is. At least that is a key factor, says a study that offers new evidence that people take cues from their surroundings in deciding how much to eat.
- Destiny Rules (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 02, 2006)
Gyanendra reaps what he sowed
How Gyanendra must rue disproving that old adage about a king being incapable of doing wrong.
- Bill Gates' Charitable Pretensions (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Aug 02, 2006)
Bill Gates is not only the richest man in the world but also the biggest philanthropist.
- Pakistani Poet Shuns Award Over Musharraf's Rule (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Pakistan's greatest living Urdu poet said he had returned the country's highest civilian award to protest the policies of President Pervez Musharraf.
- Bush Authorizes Graphite Export To China (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
President George W Bush authorized the export to China of 907,200 kg of bulk graphite for making plastics and said he did not believe it would prove detrimental to the US space launch industry.
- China Launches Drug To Treat Lung Cancer (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
A new Chinese drug, which is claimed to be more effective than chemotherapy for treating lung cancer, has been launched in the domestic market, researchers said.
- Changing Goalposts (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 02, 2006)
IN principle I am against the bomb. When India exploded it, I paraded on the streets of Delhi, along with 5,000 people, to register protest.
- Barnes Rebuts Jaswant: Never Wrote Or Got Note (Indian Express, PALLAVA BAGLA, Aug 02, 2006)
Another hole in mole story: Ex-US envoy Barnes says I wasn’t even in India, don’t know anything about ‘leak’
- Pak-India Auto Project Delayed (News International, Imran Ayub, Aug 02, 2006)
Uncertainty about South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) has put a halt to a joint venture between the auto industries of India and Pakistan, which had targeted July 2006 to initiate a motorcycle and rickshaw assembling project in Lahore.
- Bush Fundamentalism Is Courting Disaster (Hindu, Karen Armstrong, Aug 02, 2006)
Affinity with the Christian Right has led to banning stem cell research and turning a blind eye to civilian deaths in Lebanon.
- Bts India Private Equity Fund Launched (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
The fund will have a corpus of $80 m
- Nuclear Weapons: A World Gone Mad (Deccan Herald, BOB HERBERT, Aug 02, 2006)
More and more nations are in the race for nuclear weapons. NPT has been a failure.
- Rwanda Striving For A High-Tech Future (Hindu, Xan Rice, Aug 02, 2006)
If successful, the percentage of Rwanda's workforce involved in farming will drop from 90 per cent to 50 per cent in 15 years
- Price Of Power In Delhi (Frontline, AMAN SETHI, Aug 02, 2006)
Tribunal strikes down Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission move to create "regulatory assets" and avoid a tariff hike.
- The Indo-Us Deal (Tribune, T.P. Sreenivasan, Aug 02, 2006)
Two legislatures, separated by miles of land and sea, but inspired by the same ideals of freedom and democracy, presented two different spectacles on July 27 when they discussed their vision of the future of the relationship between their two countries.
- Intelligence And Effort (Telegraph, André Béteille, Aug 02, 2006)
The government’s recent move to expand numerical quotas in the Central universities and institutions for teaching and research in engineering, management and medicine in favour of the other backward classes has led to much acrimony and some . . .
- U.P. Cabinet Nod For Taking Metro Rail To Ghaziabad (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Two stoppages in Ghaziabad -- one at Kaushambi and the other at Vaishali
- Did Wild Birds Bring Avian Flu To India? (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Aug 02, 2006)
A "smoking gun" that could convincingly pin the blame on wild birds is lacking. Even at the global level, unravelling the role of wild birds in the spread of H5N1 is not proving easy.
- Of Old Strengths In A New Era (Frontline, Vijay Prashad, Aug 02, 2006)
Interview with John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review.
- Eventful Quarter (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 02, 2006)
The corporate sector prospects depend on how the Government manages the twin objectives of fiscal prudence and ending oil sector distortions.
- 'Isro Will Be Ready With Another Gslv By 2007' (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
The Indian Space Research Organisation would be ready with another Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) by next year to carry the country's satellites into space, ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair said on Tuesday.
- No Value For Money (Business Standard, Niraj Bhatt, Aug 01, 2006)
Hll’s numbers for the June quarter are fairly good given that the topline for continuing businesses is up 10 per cent and the operating profit margin is up 130 basis points, thanks to some price increases.
- Destiny Rules (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 01, 2006)
Gyanendra reaps what he sowed
How Gyanendra must rue disproving that old adage about a king being incapable of doing wrong.
- Eating Cues From Surroundings: Study (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 01, 2006)
How much candy is enough? It depends on how big the candy scoop is. At least that is a key factor, says a study that offers new evidence that people take cues from their surroundings in deciding how much to eat.
- Nda Misled J&k On Aiims: Azad (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) misled the nation during the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) rule over the construction of 12 medical institutes in different parts of the country.
- Nature Of Economic Change (Hindu, C. T. Kurien, Aug 01, 2006)
Economic change is for the most part a deliberate process shaped by the perceptions of the actors .
- Nasdaq Trading From Infosys Campus (Hindu, Sharath S. Srivatsa , Aug 01, 2006)
First company in Asia to be bestowed the honour; Mysore gets remote belling opportunity
- Kyocera Plans For Higher Indian Handset Share (Reuters, Shailendra Bhatnagar, Aug 01, 2006)
The Indian handset unit of Japan's Kyocera Corp. expects to increase its share of the booming Indian market by launching a low-priced model but has no plans yet to start making phones here, an official said.
- Déjà Vu (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 01, 2006)
The finance minister has taken a firm stand on outsourcing of non-core banking activities in the face of Friday’s bank unions’ strike and the Left’s walkout in Lok Sabha.
- North Korea’S Missile Men (Tribune, Barbara Demick, Aug 01, 2006)
When North Korea first test-launched a missile capable of reaching Japan, the son of the country’s leader lavished praise and gifts on the researchers who had labored away on the project behind locked doors.
- Seeds Of Competition (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 01, 2006)
Not only will growers have a choice, also monopoly pricing will give way to competitive pricing of seeds.
- India-Us Nuclear Deal — Good Intentions, Bad Bargain (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 01, 2006)
In their anxiety to secure the country's energy security, India's leaders seem to have convinced themselves that the nuclear deal is in the best interest of the country. Yet, the impression is unavoidable that the Government has been taking too many . . .
- Education For Women: Role Of Open Universities (Daily Excelsior, Ram Rattan Sharma, Aug 01, 2006)
The twentieth century will be known for the movements and consolidation of the agenda of human rights and democracy.
- Karthikeyan Nurtures Indian F1 Dreams (Reuters, N.Ananthanarayanan, Aug 01, 2006)
When Narain Karthikeyan was chasing his dream of joining Formula One's elite, many in India felt he was being over ambitious.
- India Can't Afford To Snap Israel Ties (Times of India, RAJAT PANDIT, Aug 01, 2006)
Defence minister Pranab Mukherjee may have 'deferred' his visit to Israel last month due to 'political sensitivities', but there is little chance of UPA government capitulating to the Left's demand for severing all military ties with the Jewish state.
- Rangasamy Presents Rs. 2, 686-Crore Tax Free Budget (Hindu, S. Nadarajan, Aug 01, 2006)
Pondicherry to modernise police force, step up coastal security
- Sincerity, A Lighthouse (Deccan Herald, Acharya Mahaprajna, Aug 01, 2006)
Gautam said, “Lord! What does a man gain by sincerity?” Lord Mahavira replied, “Gautam! By sincerity a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendencies, that is, congruence of speech and action.”
- Halt N-Work By 31st, Un Tells Iran (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
The UN Security Council on Monday demanded that Iran suspend its nuclear activities in a month or face the threat of sanctions, but Tehran denounced the move as illegal and vowed to press on.
- What Quota Can’T Yet Construct (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 01, 2006)
A recent advertisement depicts a yuppie standing behind his son, aged around 10 looking at him use an Intel PC.
- Israel Supplies Key To Indian Defence...And Cpm Wants Delhi To . . . (Indian Express, Shiv Aroor, Aug 01, 2006)
While several MPs today joined the chorus of condemnation of Israel after its strike that killed 37 children, the CPM and its general secretary Prakash Karat have urged the Government to not only snap military ties with Israel but seek UN sanctions.
- Tugging At Heartstrings Is Child’S Play, Where’S The Big Picture? (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Aug 01, 2006)
Overnight, he became Prince Charming, transformed from a baby boy into a national icon.
- New Drivers Of Economic Growth (Hindu, A.V. VEDPURISWAR , Aug 01, 2006)
Synthesises today's emerging trends to give an overall perspective of how the global economy works .
- Infosys To Invest Rs. 809 Cr. More In Its Mysore Campus (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
The capacity of the campus will be 13,500 in a single sitting
The total investment on the campus will touch Rs. 1,500 crore
The Global Education Centre will have 10,000 hostel rooms
Infosys recruited 4,000 engineering graduates from the State . . .
- The End Of The Road In Lebanon (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 01, 2006)
Garbage. Garbage piled on garbage.
- Farm Labourer Gives Birth To Quadruplets (Hindu, Rajesh Nair, Aug 01, 2006)
"Survival of babies depends on post-natal care" "Except breathing problem that she reported three days before the delivery,everything was normal"
- Raw Opens Field Office In Lucknow To Monitor Nepal Border (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
Special stress on functioning of madarsas on the border areas of U.P. and Bihar
- Infy To Invest Rs 700 Cr More In Mysore (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
In a major boost to information technology in the Tier-II city of Mysore, IT major Infosys, on Monday, announced an investment of another Rs 700 crore by June 2007 at its Global Education Centre here
- Courage, The First Lesson Of Faith (Pioneer, Acharya Mahaprajna, Jul 31, 2006)
The essence of religion lies in the feeling of absolute detachment; so don't be consumed by the fear of the unknown in the age of spirituality ----
- Us-India Deal Should Abide By Non-Proliferation Rules: China (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 31, 2006)
With the India-US nuclear deal endorsed by the House of Representatives, China today said both countries should abide by the existing non-proliferation rules and contribute to the international community's efforts in this regard.
- Takes Brains, Not Brawn, To Protect (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Jul 31, 2006)
How many policemen do you need to keep the prime minister of India safe? If you calculate that the Special Protection Group (SPG) details some 600 personnel per shift and there are three shifts a day, the figure comes to 1,800 people each day of the year.
- A Leadership Vacuum (New Indian Express, Swapan Dasgupta, Jul 31, 2006)
Here are some moments in the life of a nation when people eschew individualism and look for leadership.
- Nutrine Under Godrej Set For New Highs (Hindu, Shanthi Kannan, Jul 31, 2006)
The new owners have drawn up a plan that will see the brand spread its wings
Godrej will infuse fresh funds to upgrade technology, expand distribution network in the North and the West, improve the export market and finally get into innovation mode.
- Seating Ducks (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 31, 2006)
The Veerappa Moily Oversight Committee’s recommendations in its interim report are, at the very least, ambitious.
- 24 Hours News Channel (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jul 31, 2006)
Satelite television in India is just over a decade old.
- Not One Mole, Mr Prime Minister And Mr Jaswant, But Two! (New Indian Express, S Gurumurthy , Jul 31, 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.
- ‘Risks Covered Up’ (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Jul 31, 2006)
‘GM food risks include unexpected food allergies, toxins in food, hastening the spread of antibiotic-resistant disease. Science has been been made subservient to corporate interests.’
- Charge Sheet In Rahul Mahajan Case Likely This Week (Hindu, Devesh K. Pandey , Jul 31, 2006)
Investigations almost complete, says a police officer
- Replicate Success Of Infosys In Other Areas: Chidambaram (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 31, 2006)
IT firm staff asked to emulate Narayana Murthy
Infosys chairman Narayana Murthy hits out at critics of liberalisation
He cites the company as a shining example of the success of economic reforms
- Light In Cm Yard, Darkness Next Door (Telegraph, DHIRENDRA K. JHA, Jul 31, 2006)
With its two glittering stadiums, airport, an institute of medical sciences and a post-graduate college, Sefai’s success story should have been a beacon of hope for every heartland hamlet.
- The U.S.-India Deal Switcheroo (Asia Times, Brahma Chellaney , Jul 31, 2006)
The US-India nuclear deal was signed on July 18, 2005 with much fanfare. More than a year later, its future remains uncertain, with only the Lower House of the US Congress having passed the enabling legislation.
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