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Articles 8221 through 8320 of 17201:
- Climate Change: Early Effects (Dawn, David Ignatius, Jan 22, 2006)
One of the puzzles if you’re in the news business is figuring out what’s “news.” The fate of your local football team certainly fits the definition. So does a plane crash or a brutal murder. But how about changes in the migratory patterns of butterflies?
- Wmds-Free Middle East (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jan 22, 2006)
Iran and Syria have called for a WMDs-free Middle East. President Bashar Al-Assad of Syria and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmedinejad told a joint Press conference after their talks that if the issue of WMDs is the West’s pretext for its . . .
- Call To Involve Tribes In Biodiversity Schemes (Hindu, R. Madhavan Nair, Jan 22, 2006)
NBA Chairman lauds State's response
"The success of biodiversity conservation measures envisaged under the Biological Diversity Act would depend a great deal on the extent to which tribes and local people are allowed to participate in these programmes,"
- Panel Urges Centre To Set Up Ito To Protect Farmers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 22, 2006)
Proposed body will protect farmers from unfair trade practices
- Living On The Edge (Hindu, VENU MADHAV GOVINDU, Jan 22, 2006)
The devastating earthquake that hit Gujarat five years ago showed one the many dimensions of our innate, if imperfect, humanity.
- India Must Concentrate On Pure Research: Scientist (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 22, 2006)
Universities have to create a situation to nourish researchers
To take up issue of collaboration with India with Fermilab director
Joint research activities on de-zero experiment on
MIPP experiment being done with participation of two Indians
- Book On Birds In Kannada To Be Released On Friday (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 22, 2006)
The book contains information on 160 species of birds
Karnataka is home to 522 species of birds
The book contains a wealth of information on birds and their features
- Ensuring Equitable Development Through Reforms (Hindu, S. Mahendra Dev , Jan 21, 2006)
There is a lot of talk on growth and equity but there is no operational plan. What we need is an immediate plan for achieving equitable development.
- Why Economic Reforms Are Unpopular (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Jan 21, 2006)
It may be time to evolve a national consensus on the contours of a reform agenda with a human face, involving a clear targeting of subsidies and concessions.
- Safeguards For Breeder Reactors A Key Obstacle (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jan 21, 2006)
U.S. unwilling to accept Indian stand
As India and the United States concluded their third round of technical talks on the planned separation and safeguarding of Indian civilian nuclear facilities this week, the status of the country's fast . . .
- Bangalore Police Nab Two More Suspected Lashkar Operatives (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
However, their role in the attack on IISc is yet to be ascertained
The Bangalore police, who are investigating the terrorist attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), have arrested two more suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives.
- Regulate Bt Crops Strictly (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 21, 2006)
It may not exactly be a revolution in the strict sense of the term, but 10 years of commercial cultivation of genetically-modified crops has, without doubt, brought about notable changes in agriculture worldwide. Rising output, . . .
- Iims On A Leash (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 21, 2006)
The Union Human Resources Development (HRD) Minister, Mr Arjun Singh, has called a meeting of Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) in New Delhi, on February 1, "to discuss issues of autonomy and measures needed to further strengthen them".
- Energy-Efficient Vehicles "Will Reduce Pollution" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
Students have to be hard working: Vice-Chancellor
Pollution does not recognise international boundaries, and the solution to reduce pollution and save the earth is through construction of energy-efficient buildings and vehicles and use of renewable ...
- Pact On Biotechnology Signed With Irish Company (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
The Irish Bio-Industry Association (IBIA) and the India-based Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises (ABLE) signed a memorandum of understanding when Ireland Prime Minister Bertie Ahern visited Bangalore early this week.
- Change Education System To Protect Literature: Bhyrappa (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
'Awards or accolades do not matter to writers'
Literature is a perennial achievement and is a pursuit of truth. To protect art, literature, culture, tradition and language, it is essential to change the education system, writer S.L. Bhyrappa said . . .
- Iisc New Palm-Top: Spy Plane (Indian Express, AMBA B BAKSHI, Jan 21, 2006)
A new innovative addition to the palm top genre is going to be the palm-top aircraft. The Aerospace Engineering department at the Indian Institute for Sciences (IISc), Bangalore, is currently working on unmanned miniature planes that could assist . . .
- Decision On French Ship Eludes Sc Panel (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Jan 21, 2006)
The Supreme Court Monitoring Committee on Hazardous Waste (SCMC) met a second time to decide the fate of Clemenceau but could not arrive at any conclusion on the amount of asbestos on the ship even after day-long depositions.
- Burns Sees Roadblocks Ahead Of Nuclear Deal (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
India and the United States still face difficulties before a landmark nuclear deal giving the South Asian giant access to previously forbidden technology can be sealed, a senior US official said on Friday.
- Postal Department Launches Three New Schemes (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
Instant money order is the need of the hour, says Barnala
- ``Iaea Inspections Will Compromise Breeder Research'' (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jan 21, 2006)
U.S. reluctance to accept India as a nuclear arms state is the heart of the matter
- Us Diplomat Sees ‘Complexity’ In India-Us N-Talks (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
The United States and India face difficult negotiations on a landmark civilian nuclear pact, but officials said they remain hopeful of reaching an agreement on the deal that leaders of both countries have hailed as a centrepiece of their emerging alliance
- 54 Colleges To Be Connected With Edusat (Daily Excelsior, Mohinder Verma , Jan 21, 2006)
To provide quality education and meeting the teaching needs of the rural and backward areas of the State, 54 colleges of the State will be connected with EDUSAT—a satellite devoted exclusively to long distance learning—by next academic session.
- Talks Augur Well For Indo-Us N-Pact (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
The USA today expressed hope that the civil nuclear cooperation agreement with India would be implemented as New Delhi readied to roll out the red carpet to welcome US President George W Bush in the first week of March.
- Winning Formula (Statesman, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Jan 21, 2006)
The CPI-M government of West Bengal is making a strident pitch for the development of the Information Technology (IT) sector in the state.
- Difficulties Ahead Of Nuclear Pact With India: U.S. (Reuters, Palash Kumar, Jan 21, 2006)
The United States said on Friday there were difficulties in realising a landmark agreement on cooperation in civil nuclear energy with India but it was hopeful of clinching the deal.
- Centre Can Consider Corporatising The Iims (The Financial Express, YRK REDDY, Jan 21, 2006)
If the previous government’s move against the hike in fee was lambasted as being hawkish, intrusive and much more, the stand of the current government on IIM Bangalore’s move for an offshore facility has met a similar fate.
- Global Challenges, Local Solutions (Dawn, Syed Mohibullah Shah, Jan 21, 2006)
WHAT is the future for an economic system that is not an efficient producer of goods and services in the globalized economy?
- Ingredients Of An Integrated Energy Policy (The Financial Express, NK SINGH, Jan 21, 2006)
Every now and then when oil prices are high, we wake up to emphasise on non-conventional energy. We also begin to realise the need for an integrated energy policy.
- Boost In Exports (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jan 21, 2006)
Pakistan's export of merchandise rose by 31.1 per cent in December 2005 and 23.8 per cent during the first half of the fiscal year 2005-06, over the same periods last year. The data released by the Commerce Ministry indicates that the country’s . . .
- Jews Have Wailing Wall, We Need Ram Temple: Bjp Chief (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Jan 21, 2006)
In a two-hour speech marked by ringing confidence, elaborate articulation of the party’s philosophy and a hard-nosed realpolitik, BJP president Rajnath Singh sent a clear message that he was very much his own man—and under him the BJP . . .
- Oprah In Auschwitz: America’S Most Powerful Literary Critic Finds Recovery In The Holocaust (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Jan 21, 2006)
Among those reeling from the flap about James Frey’s memoir A Million Little Pieces — which has been exposed as an embellishment, when not outright fabrication, of the author’s life — is America’s most powerful literary critic, Oprah Winfrey.
- Reaping The Reserves (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah arrives in Delhi next week for the Republic Day parade. How much oil does his country really have, asks Leonardo Maugeri
- India Takes Steps On To The World Stage (Times Online (UK), Edotorial, Times Online, Jan 20, 2006)
Trade delegations do not always return bearing much more than holiday souvenirs but the one currently in India is looking promising. The prospect of the country liberalising its approach to overseas retailers, as the Commerce Minister is . . .
- Fraud Nags At Google's Grand Strategy (Hindu, Charles Miller, Jan 20, 2006)
The search giant has always offered its many services for nothing, but the threat of click fraud may change the way it does business.
Plan to use technology to detect suspicious click patterns
Time to be exploring new revenue streams
- Why Threats Against Iran Will Not Work (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Jan 20, 2006)
Threats to haul Iran to the Security Council on the nuclear issue could see Teheran harden its stand.
- Silviculture Conference At Forest Institute (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 20, 2006)
The Forest Research Institute here will hold a national Silviculture Conference from February 1as part of its Centenary celebrations.
- Indian Named "Inventor Of The Year" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 20, 2006)
An Indian-American scientist has been named "Inventor of the Year" for his pioneering work in developing a new system which utilises data to improve patient care and clinical decisions.
- Minister Holds Talks On Swapna Nagari Eco-Tourism Project (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 20, 2006)
Manmohan Singh to declare the area as National Mangrove Forest
- Old New Year (Indian Express, Ruchi sharma, Jan 20, 2006)
The dawn of a New Year for me has invariably meant an unending list of resolutions. But the unwavering determination with which I begin the New Year wanes quickly. In 2006, it already has.
- Indian Scientist Named ‘Inventor Of The Year’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 20, 2006)
An Indian-American scientist has been named ‘Inventor of the Year’ for his pioneering work in developing a new system which utilises data to improve patient care and clinical decisions. R Bharat Rao, senior director of Engineering Research Development, ..
- India, Ireland Sign Three Agreements (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 20, 2006)
Ahern meets President, Prime Minister
India and Ireland signed three agreements on cultural, scientific and technological cooperation on Thursday.
- Breakthrough In Facial Recognition Software (Hindu, Anand Parthasarathy, Jan 20, 2006)
Bangalore unveiling comes one month before international launch
Rare coming together of Indian, Pakistan and Turkish entrepreneurs
Indians help create world's first facial recognition tool
- India-Us Hold Talks On Implementing Civilian Nuclear Deal (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 20, 2006)
Seeking to implement the landmark nuclear deal ahead of American President George W Bush's visit here expected in March, India and the US today held talks on the roadmap for completing the process.
- India, Us Hold Talks On N-Cooperation (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 20, 2006)
Seeking to implement the landmark nuclear deal ahead of American President George W Bush's visit expected in March, India and the US on Thursday held talks on the roadmap for completing the process.
- Clean Promise (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jan 20, 2006)
It's like asking the fox to guard the henhouse, declares a blogger, commenting on the solution proferred by the Asia-Pacific group of six (AP6) — the US, Australia, China, India, South Korea and Japan — to deal with greenhouse gas emissions.
- Necessary? Is It? Who Says So? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 20, 2006)
There is "a theory of necessary noises" that is always at work in our State's politics.
- Toppling Games (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 20, 2006)
WEDNESDAY’S developments in Bangalore have cast a shadow on the stability of the 18-month-old Congress-led Dharam Singh government in Karnataka.
- Last Remains To Last Less (Tribune, Saroop Krishen, Jan 20, 2006)
The problem of appropriate disposal of the human remains is, naturally enough, as old as man himself and the solutions worked out show very considerable variety. And occasionally some difficulty:
- Diplomats Finetune N-Template (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 20, 2006)
Seeking to implement the landmark nuclear deal on 18 July, ahead of American President Mr George W Bush’s visit here expected in March, India and the US today held talks on the roadmap for completing the process.
- Computer Science Growing Into A Basic Science (The Financial Express, S SADAGOPAN, Jan 20, 2006)
Computer science has evolved over many decades. While the early decades were dominated by mechanical calculating machines, today’s computers have evolved from the 1960s into a finite automaton that realises a Turning Machine, . . .
- Us Undersecretary Arrives For Talks On Iran’S Nuclear Plans (Daily Times, Umer Farooq, Jan 20, 2006)
Iran’s nuclear programme will be up for discussion when US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs R Nicholas Burns arrives here on January 22 for talks with Pakistani officials.
- High-Level India-Us Talks On N-Accord (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 20, 2006)
Officials from India and the United States held talks on Thursday on closing a landmark deal that would give India access to previously forbidden civilian nuclear technology. Indian foreign secretary Shyam Saran met Under-Secretary . . .
- India And Us Discuss Nuclear Deal (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 20, 2006)
Officials from India and the United States held talks on Thursday on closing a landmark deal that would give India access to previously forbidden civilian nuclear technology.
- Towards Peace In West Asia (Deccan Herald, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Jan 20, 2006)
Sharon’s incapacitation gives India and other countries an opportunity to work for peace through the UN
- Wipro Q3 Net Profit At Rs. 543 Cr. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Hires 5,189 people during October-December
IT business crosses Rs. 10,000 cr. annual run-rate
61 new clients added during the quarter
U.S. continues to be the major market
- Dasara March To Feature In State Tableau For R-Day (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
The State tableau will contain, behind the palace, the Chamundi Hills with the Mahishasura statue atop it. While the elephant, the howdah, the palace and the hills would be mounted, the tableau would also feature traditional artists from the State . . .
- Mukesh, Anil, You & Me (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Jan 19, 2006)
A late riser, I sat there, at 8.00 a.m., bleary-eyed, fuzzy-minded, watching the exclusive special trading session on the company, live on three screens — the TV, the Internet and my mobile.
- Schoolchildren Envisage Cleaner, Greener Chennai (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
50 city schools present their projects on a `Zero Carbon City' 50 city schools present their projects on a `Zero Carbon City'
- Northeast To New East (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 19, 2006)
IIM Shillong is great news. IIMs & IITs elsewhere will be better. Start with Bihar, minister
- Why Did Nasa Kill A Project? (Deccan Herald, Robert L Park, Jan 19, 2006)
The most important lesson from our exploration of the solar system is that the most terrible place on Earth is a Garden of Eden compared to the best place anywhere else.
- Iim-B Has Exceeded Its Brief, Says Arjun Singh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
No move to persuade the IIMs to increase student intake
Says higher education is "under-funded"
Planning Commission asked to increase allocation
Government in no position to open more IITs
- Power Point (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 19, 2006)
Many important people were whizzing around Calcutta on Tuesday — including the most important of them all.
- U.S. Aims To Set Aside India Reactor Controversy (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Jan 19, 2006)
The Bush administration, confronting a potential threat to its 2005 nuclear deal with India, has signaled it will set aside concerns that New Delhi violated a previous agreement with the United States.
- Sowing Seeds Of Prosperity - I (Greater Kashmir, Dr. M P Gupta, Jan 19, 2006)
Dr. M P Gupta writes on the effect of WTO on Indian Agriculture
Nature has endowed India with diversified physiographic, climatic and soil characteristics suitable for growing a wide variety of crops, throughout the year and rearing . . .
- The Tiger Deserves Better (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 19, 2006)
The announcement that a 13-member National Tiger Conservation Authority with the Union Minister for Environment and Forests as its head will be formed to protect India's national animal is a step forward, but only a feeble one given the nature and . . .
- 100 Terminals To Be Commissioned Through Edusat (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
The Department of Science and Technology of the Union Government, which currently has around 20 terminals being commissioned through EDUSAT under Vigyan Prasar network, will augment this facility to around 100 terminals across the country soon.
- Different But Fair (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 19, 2006)
TRAI has asked, in a consultation paper, whether differential charges for calls within and outside a network should continue. It has also asked for comments on the precise scope of the term ‘network’.
- Stone Laid For Villivakkam Vehicular Subway (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Railways, Corporation will share the cost of the project
The Union Minister of State for Railways, R. Velu, on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for a vehicular subway at Villivakkam Railway Yard (West). The subway will replace a manned level crossing.
- Civilised Way Out Of Iran-Iaea Deadlock (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Charter of the United Nations offer the most civilised course of action to resolving the controversy regarding Iranian compliance with its obligations as a non-nuclear state party to the Non-Prolif
- Human Rights Festival Planned (Hindu, K. SATYAMURTY, Jan 19, 2006)
The Department of Sociology, Christ College, is organising the annual Human Rights and Sambandh Festivals from January 23 to 25.
- India Rejects Pervez Proposals On Kashmir (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Jan 19, 2006)
Pakistan today formally presented President Pervez Musharraf’s “out-of-the-box” proposal on demilitarisation of Kashmir which India disposed, saying that New Delhi wanted to be “more ambitious” than demilitarising just three cities of Kashmir and . . .
- Make The Indo-U.S. Nuclear Deal More Transparent (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jan 19, 2006)
If the civil-military separation plan is good enough to share with a foreign power, it is certainly good enough to share with the Indian public.
- Multiple-Feed Bio-Diesel Plant To Be Set Up In Mysore (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
It will have the capacity to produce ten million litres a year
The proposed plant is an Indo-U.S. venture
It will be able to process a wide variety of feedstock into bio-diesel fuel
- Pakistan, India To Ease Tensions Over Kashmir (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Nuclear rivals India and Pakistan agreed on Wednesday to implement fresh measures to lower tensions over Kashmir and confirmed their commitment to keep their stuttering peace process on track.
- It-Enabled Revenue Raising (The Economic Times, KIRAN KARNIK, Jan 19, 2006)
System improvements for efficiency, monitoring for accountability and results, technology for productivity and analysis: the combination of these will help cut costs and raise revenues on a substantial scale,
- Seismic Factor Goes Against Kalabagh (Dawn, Fatehyab Ali Khan, Jan 19, 2006)
This article is not a comment on issues pertaining to the rights of riparians and the political and social repercussions of the construction of dams. The main aim of this endeavour is to highlight the technical, . . .
- Us Upbeat On India N-Deal (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
The United States is confident of reaching a deal with India on nuclear cooperation even though differences remain over plans to separate India’s civil and military programmes, a top US official said on Wednesday.
- Us Must Facilitate Kashmir, Palestine Solutions: Pm (News International, Salim Bokhari, Jan 19, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that Pakistan and the United States have evolved a transformed relationship and there is a strategic convergence between the two countries on regional and international objectives.
- Efforts For Un Referral Will Fail: Iran (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Iran said on Wednesday that it was confident US-European efforts to refer it to the UN Security Council would fail amid reluctance from Russia, China and Arab countries to take the step.
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