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Articles 7321 through 7420 of 17201:
- Comprehensive Plan Soon To Make Higher Education Affordable (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 22, 2006)
Students from lower income families will benefit, says Kumaraswamy
Teachers told to prepare youth to face the new challenges
Plan to include professional courses
- It Institute May Come Up In Chennai (Hindu, K. Ramachandran, Feb 22, 2006)
Project to focus on design and manufacture
An Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), originally proposed to come up near Kancheepuram, is likely to be set up on the information technology corridor in Chennai.
- French Perfume (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 22, 2006)
Make it last long
France has long pushed for a relaxation of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) guidelines to facilitate supply of nuclear fuel and technology to India.
- Nuclear U-Boat (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Feb 22, 2006)
Time the project surfaces
Now that it has received the endorsement of the President, both Supreme Commander of the Defence Services and the country’s most successful defence scientist,
- Let Smes Blossom (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Feb 22, 2006)
A survey on the success and failure factors for SMEs by AC Nielson ORG-Marg for CII and SBI reaffirms that the sector needs easing of institutional rigidities more than handholding, and that all government should do is to facilitate the industry in facing
- Cotton's Problem Of Plenty (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 22, 2006)
From acute shortage to large surplus in just three seasons, the country's cotton scene has witnessed a transformation any agrarian economy can be proud of. Thanks to huge increases in output since 2003,
- On The Fast Track (Telegraph, R.C. Acharya, Feb 22, 2006)
Recently, the United Progressive Alliance government had stated that dedicated freight corridors for railways will be introduced with huge dollops of private investment.
- Little Sign Of Progress In Iran Nuclear Talks (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 22, 2006)
Crucial talks on a Russian plan to break the international deadlock over Iran’s nuclear programme broke up on Tuesday with no clear sign of a breakthrough and time running out for a deal.
- Indian It Firms Want More H1-B Visas (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 22, 2006)
India's IT industry will seek an increase in the number of H1-B (non-immigrant) visas and a mechanism to refund social security taxes paid by Indian professionals in the US, when President George W Bush visits India early next month.
- Cooperation With China (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 22, 2006)
Friendship between Pakistan and China has always been a positive factor in the South Asian region and has served to advance the cause of peace and stability.
- Is This The Infamous Clash? (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Feb 22, 2006)
Are we witnessing today the clash of civilizations predicted by Samuel Huntington after the Cold War ended?
- New Hope For Iran Crisis (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 22, 2006)
The latest developments on the Iranian nuclear front give rise to some hope that the crisis may be resolved without resort to economic sanctions or military force.
- Green Imperialism (Hindu, N. R. Krishnan , Feb 21, 2006)
Other side of the `deep ecology' movement
- Sri Aurobindo On Speech (Hindu, GODAVARISHA MISHRA, Feb 21, 2006)
Sri Aurobindo on the origin of human speech by analysing Sanskrit language
- France To Double Trade With India In Five Years (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Investment support to infrastructure, urban planning
Hailing India as "one of the world's main engines of growth,'' French President Jacques Chirac announced on Monday that the two countries had decided to double their trade in the next five years . . .
- India, France Seal Civil N-Deal (Deccan Herald, K Subrahmanya, Feb 21, 2006)
Formalising its position that India should be allowed to enter into civil nuclear cooperation with other leading nuclear powers, France on Monday signed a significant declaration with India on the “development of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.”
- Being Happy Is Natural (Tribune, Anurag, Feb 21, 2006)
In this universe man is the only animal who works for a living. Rest of the species just loaf. Yet (s)he is not happy. He runs from pillar to post in search of happiness which remains elusive.
- France Will Follow Us N-Lead (Hindustan Times, Nilova Roy Chaudhury, Feb 21, 2006)
French President Jacques Chirac’s visit to the country has “significantly boosted” India's chances to acquire long-denied nuclear technology, and India and France are “close to concluding a bilateral agreement” to cooperate in developing . . .
- Failing The Flu Test (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Feb 21, 2006)
Has the deadly bird flu virus, H5N1, really made inroads into the poultry farms of India?
- For Not Crying Out Loud (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Feb 21, 2006)
Self-serving though this may sound, we can’t help but feel that the media are getting a raw deal these days.
- Exploring The Divine (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 21, 2006)
The Supreme Being is the inner essence of all created beings, animate and inanimate.
- The Many Myths Of Jhandewalan (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Feb 21, 2006)
In the space of three weeks, the RSS has journeyed from decrying shortsighted alliances through proposing precisely such an alliance between the BJP and the Congress to advocating a broad alliance of disparate elements, Mulayam Singh's party included.
- Chinese In Vijayawada (Indian Express, Anita Anand, Feb 21, 2006)
In the south-central region of the Indian Railways, with headquarters in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, an innovative experiment is capturing the imagination of the Chinese.
- ‘Licence Raj Creates Privileged Industrialists, Workers While The Real Work Is Done By Unorganised Labour’ (Indian Express, Raghuram Rajan, Feb 21, 2006)
Raghuram Rajan, the youngest person to be appointed chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, has won acclaim for his prescriptions on how to ‘save capitalism from the capitalists’. In a conversation with Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief . . .
- Bird Flu Likely To Burst Out Again And Again - Study (Reuters, Maggie Fox, Feb 21, 2006)
Bird flu is likely to cross over into people again and again if it ever even once acquires the ability to pass from human to human, experts predicted on Monday.
- Arcelor Row Clouds Chirac India Visit To Boost Trade (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Feb 21, 2006)
India and France signed pacts on Monday to boost trade and push nuclear energy cooperation but a row over a takeover bid for European steel firm Arcelor haunted French President Jacques Chirac's visit to New Delhi.
- India, France Sign Document On Civilian (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
India and France today signed a landmark document on civilian nuclear cooperation and a defence pact with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declaring that New Delhi would place its nuclear facilities acquired in "future" through international . . .
- India, France Sign Civil Nuclear, Trade Deals (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
India signed a string of trade and defence deals on Monday with French President Jacques Chirac including a nuclear declaration.
- Kalam For More Collaborations Between India, France (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
With its rapid economic growth and rise as a hub of commercial research and development, India has key partnership opportunities to offer to France in a variety of sectors, including energy and infrastructure, President A P J Abdul Kalam said today.
- Philosopher And Teacher: Peter Strawson (Telegraph, Arindam Chakrabarti, Feb 21, 2006)
A thinker who was relentless in his pursuit of truth and its importance, writes Arindam Chakrabarti in his tribute to Peter Strawson The author is professor of philosophy, University of Hawaii
- Two Reliance Commn Firms Write Off Rs 4500 Cr (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Post write-off, RCVL net worth stands at Rs 11,000cr.
Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-ADAG) today announced that the two companies operating under its telecom holding arm, Reliance Communications Ventures Ltd (RCVL), approved write-offs and . . .
- Mirage Of More Scorpene Like Deals (Daily Excelsior, Rajkumar Vijayveer Vikram Singh, Feb 21, 2006)
France is like India in one respect: looking for new friends, trade and business promotion and strengthening strategic relations.
- Seal The Deal (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Feb 21, 2006)
The formula that the Centre has proposed on fast breeder reactors (FBRs) is evidence of the kind of creative compromise and tough albeit flexible strategy that is necessary to close the Indo-US nuclear deal.
- Us-India N-Deal Close: Burns (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
The United States remains optimistic that it will clinch a landmark agreement with India on civilian nuclear cooperation, a top US diplomat said in a US magazine interview published on Sunday.
- Poultry Imports From India, Iran, France Banned (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Pakistan has banned all imports of poultry and live birds from India, Iran and France after the countries reported cases of H5N1 bird flu, officials said on Monday.
- India, France Sign Nuclear Energy, Trade Deals (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
India and France signed an agreement on Monday on future civilian nuclear cooperation, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said.
- From Farming To Knowledge (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 21, 2006)
Punjab’s path to future growth
Punjab has a special reason to be happy about President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s Address to Parliament on Thursday.
- Street Violence Is Not The Answer (Dawn, Zia-ul-Islam, Feb 21, 2006)
It is ironic that in the middle of the cartoon crisis, Abu Hamza al Masri, a London-based Muslim leader, should be convicted by a British judge for delivering sermons that “created a real danger to the lives of innocent people in different . . .
- Chirac Arrives In India (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
French President Jacques Chirac arrived here today on a two-day official visit for discussions with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on giving a fresh impetus to the Indo-French Strategic Relationship and to political and economic diplomacy.
- Kalam For Starting Ug Programmes At Iisc. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
President sets a 10-point agenda to make the institute a top research destination
- Indian N-Facilities’ Separation Backed (Dawn, Anwar Iqbal, Feb 20, 2006)
A pro-Indian Democratic Congressman Frank Pallone has supported the Bush administration’s demand for separation of India’s military and civilian nuclear facilities.
- We Just Have To Grow Up As A Country’ (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Feb 20, 2006)
India’s ambassador to the US, Ronen Sen, explains the background to the upswing in bilateral relations between India and US in an exclusive interview with Deccan Herald.
- Stop Communalising (Daily Excelsior, Brig. (Retd.) S.N. Sachadeva, Feb 20, 2006)
As Julius Caesar was walking towards the Capitol in Rome on the fateful day of his assassination, one of the well-wishers is said to have insistently pressed him to read a petition which, he said, touched the Emperor the most. Caesar scornfully . . .
- India Needs Help With Civilian Nuclear Power, Says Chirac (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
Rs. 700 crore deal signed between Kingfisher Airlines and ATR for 15 aircraft
- French Prez Arrives (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
Against the backdrop of expectations running high for boosting ties between India and France in strategic field of civil nuclear energy and defence, French President Jacques Chirac arrived here on a three-day visit.
- Reveries Of Equilibrium (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Feb 20, 2006)
Walras showed through his mathematical exercise that if all these conditions, which define a perfect market, were satisfied, the market would reach a state of equilibrium at the end of the day, yielding maximum possible satisfaction to all buyers and ....
- The Future Shocks (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Feb 20, 2006)
It’s exactly the sort of document that an American think-tank would have produced in the year 1900, if they had think-tanks in 1900. This time it’s the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the document is called China Modernization Report 2006.
- Bird Flu: Lethal And Spreading Fast (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Feb 20, 2006)
The Government's efforts to check the spread of the H5N1 virus, first noticed at Nandurbar, Maharashtra, may not suffice.
- Build Brand Iisc: Kalam (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
The promotion of ‘brand IISc’ through the creation of Centres of Excellence in multiple locations in the country and abroad is the presidential call to the country’s premier science research institute – Indian Institute of Science (IISc).
- Iran: Bsp Flays Centre’S Stand (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
Bahujan Samaj Party President Mayawati on Sunday berated the Central Government on its stand on the Iran issue.
- Forest Department Hauled Up For Delaying Works (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
The department is reportedly reclaiming land set aside by gram panchayats for developmental works
- Chirac In India For Trade Talks Amid Arcelor Row (Reuters, Sophie Louet, Feb 20, 2006)
French President Jacques Chirac arrived in India on Sunday with a group of top CEOs to improve trade ties with Asia's third-largest economy amid a growing row over an Indian-born tycoon's bid for Luxembourg-based steelmaker Arcelor.
- Ipi — Firmly In Place? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 20, 2006)
To the relief of all concerned, the meeting of the oil ministers of India and Pakistan in New Delhi has confirmed that the IPI gas project is very much on. Considering the many factors that could have thrown this tripartite venture into jeopardy,
- Time For A Moratorium (Dawn, Aitzaz Ahsan, Feb 20, 2006)
The sense of outrage over the cartoons (which none had seen) was over-powering and all-pervasive as I entered the National Assembly Hall on February 13.
- India Not To Dilute N-Deterrent Capacity: Anand Sharma (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Feb 20, 2006)
Mr Anand Sharma, the new Minister of State for External Affairs, answers all kinds of questions and the phrase “no comments” does not seem to have entered his lexicon, at least not yet. Excerpts from an interview:
- Modernising The Village Economy (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Feb 20, 2006)
The fruits of economic development fall where educated people live, not where they work. Hence, if we want to enrich villages, we should induce the educated to live there. But for this to happen we need to install reliable means of social services and ...
- Human-Made Disasters Have More Impact On People: Health Care Expert (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
Natural disaster victims stoically bore losses
Human-made disasters are causing much more severe impact on the people than the natural ones. The victims are so shaken out of their wits that it would be difficult for them to get over the trauma . . .
- Steps Taken To Curb Bird Flu: Anbumani (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
The Government has taken adequate measures to control the spread of bird flu, which has infected poultry in Nandurbar district in Maharashtra, Minister for Health and Family Welfare Anbumani Ramadoss said here on Sunday.
- Private Sector Performance (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 20, 2006)
IT IS high time the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) undertook a comprehensive study of the performance of the private sector in the 15 years after liberalisation.
- French President Arrives In India (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
* Seeks to boost trade and hold nuclear talks with Delhi
French President Jacques Chirac arrived in India on Sunday for a whistle-stop visit aimed at bolstering trade and civilian nuclear cooperation with the emerging economic powerhouse.
- Report Of Panel On Energy Security — Confines Itself To Known Technologies (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Feb 20, 2006)
ThePlanning Commission had set up an Expert Committee under the Chairmanship of eminent economist and Member, Planning Commission, Dr Kirit Parikh, to prepare an energy policy linked with sustainable development that covers all sources of energy and ....
- Safety Guides (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 20, 2006)
The decision on whether to allow asbestos-laden Clemenceau to be broken down in Alang, Gujarat, is no longer ours to take.
- Clinton Group, India To Train Nurses In Aids Care (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and the Indian government announced on Sunday a joint plan to train nurses in AIDS care in a country which has the world's second-largest number of HIV/AIDS cases.
- Sixty Dollars A Barrel? Great (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Feb 20, 2006)
It is the fate of over-burdened TV-watchers of the 21st century that we are deluged with low grade analysis by ill-informed experts on the small screen.
- The Dalmia Saga: Nailed By The Net (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Feb 20, 2006)
For a man who manipulated infotech companies, it is only fitting that Dinesh Dalmia’s activities were trailed by employees and associates that kept popping out of cyberspace and linked journalists across the world.
- Monsieur President, Vous Etes Bienvenue (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Feb 19, 2006)
The President of the French Republic touches base in Delhi today. I thought a welcome letter was therefore in order...
- Why Not Also Revise Mbbs Curriculum? (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Feb 19, 2006)
If the Govt of India has undertaken a gigantic exercise to revise the syllabi and modify the teaching curriculum at the NCERT level and to some extent also at the nonvocational graduation level, why can't a similar exercise be carried . . .
- Mr Cm, End Graft, Strengthen Panchayats (Deccan Herald, Benjamin Fernandez, Feb 19, 2006)
What should be the new Chief Minister priorities? This was our question to readers last week and we were flooded with responses. We published a few letters last week. This week we publish those, mostly from outside Bangalore, on the government’s . . .
- More Ministers Will Be Inducted Soon, Says Kumaraswamy (Hindu, S. Rajendran, Feb 19, 2006)
Attempts being made to mollify miffed legislators
Many MLAs unhappy about not being made ministers
Some ministers unhappy with portfolios
List of chairmen of boards and corporations being prepared
Appointments to be made in two phases
- Promoting A Clean And Green Environment (Hindu, K. Shankar, Feb 19, 2006)
He has more than two decades of experience in industrial capital equipment (sales and marketing) such as machine tools, meteorology equipment, power plant machinery and plastic processing machinery.
- Police Plan To Seek Help From Interpol On Terrorist Funding (Hindu, Devesh K. Pandey , Feb 19, 2006)
`Dubai-based money exchanger passed on crores to Hizb militants'
- Whither Postal Services In India? (Hindu, S. RAMESH, Feb 19, 2006)
The vast reach of the postal service is unmatched. It will be unwise to allow such a service to die a slow death
- Nuclear Deal Prejudicial To National Interests: Joshi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
Seeks full debate during Parliament session
Onerous restrictions on India'
`Attempts to make country sign NPT'
Pakistan connection alleged in Iran issue
- Udf Has Set Development Agenda, Says Oommen Chandy (Hindu, Roy Mathew, Feb 19, 2006)
Says he has got maximum support for this from Malayalis abroad
- Us And India: Time To Think (Tribune, M.V. Kamath, Feb 19, 2006)
By now it is a cliché to say that the United States is the only super power in the world and everybody knows it. But it is behaving like one with India in a manner that can only be described as crude. If India does not bare its teeth now, . . .
- Chirac Optimistic Over Civilian Nuclear Energy For India (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
French President Jacques Chirac said Sunday he was optimistic that France could compete with the United States in supplying nuclear power capability to India once
New Delhi reaches an accord with the international community on its civilian nuclear. . .
- Google Ranks Censorship As Trade Issue (Tribune, Stephen Foley, Feb 19, 2006)
Google pledged to reconsider its controversial decision to launch a self-censored web search business in China, if it looked as if the internet was failing to improve freedom of expression in the People’s Republic.
- French President Arrives In India For Trade, Nuclear Talks (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
French President Jacques Chirac arrived in India Sunday for a whistle-stop visit aimed at bolstering trade and civilian nuclear cooperation with the emerging economic powerhouse.
- Bursting With Life! (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
I feel that the only way to review this remarkable book is to describe it carefully at the macro and micro levels and let the reader judge for himself. It has the shape, size, looks and feel of the particularly splendid coffee table book . . .
- Delhi Demolition: What Is At Stake (Daily Excelsior, Jagmohan , Feb 19, 2006)
How true was Mahatma Gandhi when he observed: "Politics bereft of principles are the death traps; they kill the soul of a nation." What we, of late, have been witnessing in Delhi is not only a spate of illegal constructions or their demolition but . . .
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