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Articles 4821 through 4920 of 17201:
- Vip Treatment In Temples Abolished (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 26, 2006)
Best tribute to Palanivel Rajan: Karunanidhi; MLAs hail former Minister's services
- Narcotics And Empire (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, May 26, 2006)
The book tells the story of the origins of a dominant section of the Indian capitalist class and the rise of the city of Bombay.
- Iran-Usa On Collision Course (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 26, 2006)
Were there a will to peace, the nuclear issue is eminently resolvable on basis of the safeguards criteria of the International Ato-mic Energy Agency and obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
- Dubious Record (Frontline, HIMANSHU UPADHYAYA, May 26, 2006)
The Sardar Sarovar project, plagued by problems from the start, continues to be mismanaged at the expense of the people.
- Improving Human Capital — A Role For Corporate India (Business Line, Sumit K. Majumdar, May 26, 2006)
Instead of lamenting the negative consequences of quotas, industry captains must plough back some of their wealth to endow engineering and medical colleges so that students from poorer sections can study without forking out absurdly high fees.
- Capital Ideas In An Abridged Format (The Financial Express, T R RAMASWAMI, May 26, 2006)
In a market economy, retail investor forums must devise their own investor protection methods
- Idyllic City, With Visions Of Progress (Telegraph, ARNAB BHATTACHARYA , May 26, 2006)
Architecture is a spatial treatment of time — a distribution of space which can accommodate heterogeneous time-patterns within the same structure or in the same site.
- Approve N-Deal, Iaea Chief Appeals To Us Congress (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, May 26, 2006)
MOHAMMED ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, on Wednesday urged members of the U.S. Congress to approve a deal that would let the U.S. share civilian nuclear technology with India.
- India Upbeat On Us Nuclear Deal After Talks (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 26, 2006)
India said on Thursday that it was confident US laws could be changed soon to allow a landmark nuclear deal between the two countries to come into force.
- Iran Ready To Stop Enrichment: Iaea (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 26, 2006)
Foreign ministers to meet next week: US
* We don’t want conflict with Iran: Blair
* Nejad accuses ‘enemies’ of plotting ethnic tensions
- Brand Buddha~ii (Statesman, Pradip Bose, May 26, 2006)
West Bengal communists can certainly learn a lesson or two from China on how to attract foreign investment, which in itself has nothing to do with communism.
- Mystery Of Pakistan's Cloistered Scientist (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
The large house in a plush district of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, that was once his home is now his prison.
- Apolitical Nominees? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 25, 2006)
Norms not followed in nominations to Council
- A Fair Balance On Reservations (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 25, 2006)
In deciding to come up with a law in the monsoon session of Parliament to provide for 27 per cent reservations for Other Backward Classes in Central government educational institutions, the United Progressive Alliance government has gone by the . . .
- Court Denies Centre More Time To Implement Cas (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to give the Centre more time to implement the "consumer-friendly" Conditional Access System (CAS) for viewing satellite television channels in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata.
- Pak Atomic Chief Also An N-Thief (Hindustan Times, S Rajagopalan, May 25, 2006)
The new chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Anwar Ali, has been linked to "at least one smuggling operation" in Canada. He reportedly tried to obtain specialised equipment for Pakistan's uranium-enrichment programme in 1980.
- Telecom-Specific Special Economic Zones Planned (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
To triple the subscriber base in another four years
50 crore phones by 2010
Emphasis on rural areas
Move for Internet connections to school
- How I Passed My Exam (Indian Express, SATISH K SHARMA, May 25, 2006)
Just as thousands of students and their parents are waiting anxiously for the results of the Class X board examination, so did I last summer — for my daughter’s results. What was at stake was more than just her marks.
- Selling Surveillance To Anxious Parents (Deccan Herald, Matt Richtel, May 25, 2006)
Newer mobile technologies are helping parents, allowing them to keep a tab on their children. However these technologies do raise potential ethical issues for users.
- The Cosmic Balance (Deccan Herald, RAMNATH NARAYANSWAMY, May 25, 2006)
Sri Mukunduru Swami was once asked to explain the essence of the Mahabharata.
- Take The Benefits To Marginalised Sections Of Society, Say Academics (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
`Marks in tests should not be the only indicator of merit'
Academics say...
Keep out the creamy layer
Caste should remain the determining factor
Second generation land reforms necessary
- India Among 7 To Launch N-Project (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
Research ministers from the European Union, the United States, Russia and four Asian nations, including India initialled an agreement today to launch a multi-billion-euro experimental nuclear reactor designed to emulate the power of the Sun.
- Mind After Knee-Jerk (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 25, 2006)
So the political class has spoken. The 27% OBC quota in Central institutions is now only a couple of months and a Bill away—a Bill to which no one in Parliament will object.
- Quota Protesters Fire Without Gun (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
Striking medical students today scrambled to intensify their agitation against quotas without any clear-cut plan of action as it began to dawn on them that their campaign needed better coordination and more public support.
- New Measures For Students At Delhi University (Hindu, Mandira Nayar, May 25, 2006)
As students gear up to brave the summer heat and prepare themselves for the frantic scramble for seats in colleges, Delhi University is going all out to reach out to potential students.
- Missing Nodes In India’S R&d Hub (The Economic Times, Dinesh C Sharma, May 25, 2006)
While stressing the need for the flow of technology to public labs,a fair royalty system can be devised, in which a foreign company shares with India a few cents for every developed-in-India product it sells globally
- Higher Education Among Women (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, May 25, 2006)
Higher education is the main instrument for human resource development. Through this we can seek the trans formation of India into a Developed Nation by 2020.
- World Powers Meet To Discuss Iran Nuclear Offer (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
World powers meet in London on Wednesday to discuss a package of incentives and threats drafted by European countries aimed at defusing a crisis over Iran's nuclear program.
- Offset Costs Too (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2006)
The ministry of commerce, as reported in this newspaper, is in the process of finalising a National Offset Policy to cover all non-defence purchases of more than Rs 300 crore.
- The Froth, Storm And The Calm (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, May 24, 2006)
Many macroeconomic variables are somewhat in turmoil, and each sudden change in value adds to the systematic risk.
- Lesson From America (Daily Excelsior, Srinivasan K. Rangachary, May 24, 2006)
The idea of reservations in educational institutions needs to be contested and rejected on principle.
- "The Platform Approach To Product Development Is Important To Intel" (Hindu, Anand Parthasarathy, May 24, 2006)
Paul Otellini, president and CEO of the world's biggest computer chip maker and PC technology player, is in India. In an e-mail interview toThe Hindu, he shares his vision of where silicon chip technology is headed; the alternatives being explored . . .
- Under One Umbrella (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 24, 2006)
Board’s efforts will be to speed up watershed programmes
- China Acknowledges 'Peaceful' Nuclear Tech Coop With Iran (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2006)
China today acknowledged assisting Iran's pursuit of "peaceful" nuclear energy needs under IAEA safeguards but rejected Western criticism of aiding Tehran's alleged atomic weapons programme.
- Troops On Alert For Pm's Kashmir Conclave (Reuters, Palash Kumar, May 24, 2006)
Hundreds of troops sealed off Srinagar on Wednesday as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived for a peace meeting which Islamist militants have threatened to disrupt.
- Pm Lets Down Peers (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 24, 2006)
They are neither politicians nor MPs and their resignations will not destabilise the UPA Government in any way. Yet, the departure of Mr Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Mr Andre Beteille from the National Knowledge Commission is a distressing signal for . . .
- Grain Of Graft (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 24, 2006)
Scams over the government’s grain purchases have long been part of our political landscape.
- Doctors Float Parallel Organisation To Ima (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2006)
A maha rally will be organised in the capital on June 4 by medicos supporting reservation
- Oil Companies Go For Automation Of Pumps (Hindu, N. Ravi Kumar, May 24, 2006)
Aimed at curbing adulteration, having greater control on outlets
- Dolphins Play Name Game (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 24, 2006)
Through their distinct sounds, Dolphins can not only identify their peers by names, but can also talk about other groups, research reveals.
- Dwindling Self-Esteem: The West's Undoing (Deccan Herald, Stuart Jeffries, May 24, 2006)
There are two books entitled Suicide of the West. One was written 42 years ago and, unfortunately, its thesis proved disastrously wrong. The other is just out and hopefully will be equally misbegotten.
- Agriculture Cannot Wait (Hindu, M.S. Swaminathan, May 24, 2006)
The Indian tragedy of extensive poverty and deprivation persisting under conditions of impressive progress in the industrial and services sectors will continue so long as we refuse to place faces before figures.
- Bhopal's Legacy (The Nation, Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2006)
Every December for the past nineteen years, marchers in Bhopal, India, have paraded an effigy of Warren Anderson through town and burned it. Anderson is despised because he was the CEO of Union Carbide on December 3, 1984, when an explosion at the . . .
- Docs' Strike Continues As Talks Fail (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
The government on Monday failed to persuade medicos to end their strike against quotas in central educational institutions.
- Kabul Calling (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 23, 2006)
The Union Social Justice Minister must realise that there won't be a society worth its name left in India after what she has set out to achieve.
- Quota Talks Stuck On Review Cry (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Medical students protesting against quotas today told the Union health secretary that a review of the policy by an expert committee should be done and made public before any step is taken to increase reserved seats for Other Backward Classes.
- Distinguish Talent From Ability (Deccan Herald, Damodar Agrawal, May 23, 2006)
In reality, Budhia's story is an example of society's failure to understand the physical limitations of a child
- Evolve Strategy To Combat Crime Aboard Train, Kalam Asks Railways (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Use communication technology, IT to enhance passenger safety
Network all RPF units
President presents colours to RPF in Delhi
- Bt. Cotton: Court Notice To Centre, State Government (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Monsanto appeals against MRTPC on Bt cottonseed price
- No Funds For Development Works, Says Deputy Chief Minister (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
The Government also has no time to take them up: Yediyurappa
- Quota: 2 Quit Knowledge Commission (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Favour affirmative action as opposed to numerical quotas
Not doing enough to genuinely empower marginalised groups
All measures under discussion are to defuse the agitation: Beteille
- Environment Denial Syndrome (Hindu, Mihir Shah, May 23, 2006)
Builds a terracotta movement that focusses on changing incentives to manage the environment
- Not Everything That Is Lawful Is Wise (Indian Express, Andre Beteille , May 23, 2006)
National Knowledge Commission. I had hoped that I could contribute something to the design of new centres of science and scholarship that would enable us to maintain and advance our competitive advantage in the sphere of knowledge, but the . . .
- Us Congress To Reopen A Q Khan’S Case (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Less than a month after Pakistan said it has “closed” the chapter of investigation into its disgraced nuclear scientist A Q Khan, a subcommittee of the US Congress will hold a public hearing to ascertain whether his nuclear black market network . . .
- Contemporary Indian Philosophy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Surveys Indian philosophy both within the discipline and outside it.
- American Ally~ii (Statesman, DIPAK BASU, May 23, 2006)
Although the Indian ministry of foreign affairs is trying to play down the status of “the non-Nato ally” as a matter of symbolic importance for Pakistan, the future looks very bleak for India.
- First Steps To Defence Deal With America (Daily Excelsior, Brig. (Retd.) S.N. Sachadeva, May 23, 2006)
Even as the Indo-US nuclear deal languishes in the US Congress, the military establishments of the two countries have gingerly initiated negotiations on a bilateral agreement which will set out the basis for future logistics support, supplies and . . .
- Flurry Of Violence In Kashmir Ahead Of Pm's Roundtable (Reuters, Sheikh Mushtaq, May 23, 2006)
Suspected Islamist rebels launched four grenade attacks in Srinagar on Monday as political separatists spurned an invitation for talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
- The Healing Touch (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, May 23, 2006)
The national agricultural research system should develop technology that helps promote medicinal plants.
- Lunch With Bs: Surinder Kapur (Business Standard, Bhupesh Bhandari, May 23, 2006)
Much like the Japanese quality mantra suggests, the life of this auto component maestro has been full of small but confident steps.
- Strategic Slapps (Business Standard, Sunita Narain, May 23, 2006)
learnt about SLAPP when PepsiCo filed a defamation case against us on the study about pesticides in colas.
- Indo-Us Strategic Partnership (Daily Excelsior, Vinod & Rao, May 22, 2006)
The sound of the words "Indo-US Strategic Partnership" is being sought to be imparted a resonance as that in a cathedral but the fact that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice set the ball rolling on the basis of a decision to resume F-16 supplies . . .
- Rti : A Preliminary Audit (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, May 22, 2006)
The Right to Information (RTI) Act of 2005 came into force from 12 October 2005.
- Monkey See, Monkey Do (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
Researchers have reportedly confirmed that chimpanzees are intelligent. Going by a study published in Science, the chimp is more intelligent than we human chauvinists have cared to acknowledge.
- Quota For Need (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 22, 2006)
The Union Social Justice Minister must realise that there won't be a society worth its name left in India after what she has set out to achieve.
- Playing With Resources (Telegraph, S.L. Rao, May 22, 2006)
The author is former director-general, National Council for Applied Economic Research
- Medicos Say No To Pm’S Appeal; To Continue Stir (Tribune, Smriti Kak Ramachandran, May 22, 2006)
Neither the Prime Minister’s appeal nor the threat of severe action have actuated medicos to call off their stir. Buoyed by the support from a cross section of society as was evident from Saturday’s ‘dilli chalo’ rally, the anti-quota struggle . . .
- Medicos Turn Down Pm's Appeal, Continue Strike (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
The deadlock over the anti-quota agitation by medicos continued today with students and junior doctors sticking to their demands of total rollback of the proposed OBC quota and a review of the reservation policy.
- Brand Basu (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 22, 2006)
Buddhadeb mustn’t suffer further constraints
Jyoti Basu has formed Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s cabinet.
- Cyber Crime Law (News International, Editorial, The News International, May 22, 2006)
The cabinet would do well to approve a piece of legislation sent to it by the information technology ministry to deal with cyber crimes.
- Up Govt Invokes Esma Against Striking Doctors (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday invoked Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) against doctors opposed to reservation and declared their strike illegal.
- India To Double Power From N-Plants (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
The Government has already chalked out plans to double the electricity production from nuclear power plants by 2030 with the possibility of international cooperation, Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission Anil Kakodkar said in Tarapur on Sunday.
- Security Concerns For Telecom (The Economic Times, K Yatish Rajawat & Vijay Gurav, May 22, 2006)
It’s a classical case of bolting the door while keeping the windows open.
- Bullet Train Shelved (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
It is official now. India will have to wait indefinitely for its Bullet Trains. The proposal was found not only absolutely untenable but also as one the country can ill-afford.
- India Fast Becoming Favoured Destination For Dental Surgery (Hindu, Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar, May 22, 2006)
Not only is treatment cheaper here, Indian doctors are also considered the best
- Jets, Submarines Fascinate This Scientist (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
Meenakshi is a scientist at the Defence Avionics Research Establishment (DARE) in Bangalore. After completing her studies in Hubli and Dharwad, she applied for the post with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), and was selected.
- No Quota, Says India (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
The striking medicos of Delhi have become a symbol of the anti-quota protest, and the spark that they lit up is spreading like forest fire across the country.
- Profit Pangs For India Inc (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
A drop in sales growth and rise in interest burden in 2005-06 have dented the net profit growth of India Inc.
- Strike On Under Eviction Threat (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
Medicos continued with their anti-quota agitation today, rejecting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s appeal and ignoring a warning that they would be thrown out of AIIMS hostel rooms.
- Rebuilding Moribund Congress (Daily Excelsior, Fazal Mehmood, May 21, 2006)
After the morale-boosting victory of Ms. Sonia Gandhi in Rae Bareli, the Congress high command has decided to try and put the Uttar Pradesh Congress unit on a rejuvenation course, preparing it for an intense political war with the Samajwadi Party . . .
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