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Articles 9021 through 9120 of 17201:
- Pm Sings Paeans To Delhi Metro (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
Launching the longest line of Delhi Metro, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today asked other cities to evolve their own “technically and economically”
- India’S Space Science (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
A chance for rationality
The launch into space of India’s INSAT-4 satellite by a European rocket in French Guyana last week, and the prospect of our satellites being launched by the indigenous Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) . . .
- 2005 In Its Own Words (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Dec 31, 2005)
Amid the dizzy year-enders, it’s best to do what the New York Times did. It tried to squeeze 2005 into a handy list of catchwords and phrases. The paper was not unaware that the exercise could turn out to be foolhardy.
- Sketch & Scare In Bangalore (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
One picked up for questioning in city put on edge by bomb hoax calls
- India Ready For Role In Lanka Peace Process (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
With the ceasefire between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE rebels under ‘‘strain’’, India has indicated that it is ready to ‘‘encourage’’ parties to bring the peace process back on track.
- The Ordinance Factory (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 31, 2005)
Grab something. Then make law to legitimise the grab. It used to happen in the Emergency.
- Metro On The Fast Track (Tribune, Vibha Sharma, Dec 30, 2005)
The New Delhi metro has set the benchmarks for the successful handling of a complex mega-project, without time and cost-overruns, and has become a model for other such projects in the country.
- Terror In Bangalore (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 30, 2005)
The terrorist attack at Bangalore on Wednesday indicates that the symbols of India’s economic growth remain high on the target list of the enemies of the nation. Bangalore, the IT capital of India, where some sensitive defence establishments . . .
- India, Pak Nukes A Serious Threat (Tribune, Simranjit Singh Mann, Dec 30, 2005)
THE Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) is against the nuclearisation of India and Pakistan and their arsenals of weapons of mass destruction. Our party opposes the policies of some Western democracies in giving nuclear technology to India for civilian purpose
- Kalam Declines To Accept Pu Honorary Degree (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
President A P J Abdul Kalam has refused to accept the Honorary Degree of Science (DSC) which the Patna University had decided to confer on him at its convocation tomorrow.
- India Won’T Be Cowed Down’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi saw in Wednesday’s terrorist attack carried out against the country’s premier scientific establishment — Indian Institute of Science campus at Bangalore — a design by enemies to thwart India’s progress and vowed . . .
- Science Wakes Up To A Stifling New World (Telegraph, G.S. Mudur, Dec 30, 2005)
Despite enhanced vigilance, it will not be easy to protect India’s science establishments from terrorist strikes because of their culture of unfettered interaction and openness, scientists and policy-makers said today.
- Another Target (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 30, 2005)
Shock is an inestimably valuable weapon for murderers. A country grown tragically used to terrorism can be made to sit up in new terror when scientists are attacked, injured and killed within their haven when they are peacefully dispersing . . .
- Reclaiming The Earth For All (Daily Excelsior, Deepti Priya Mehrotra, Dec 30, 2005)
Three decades after 1975 - the UN International Year of Women - women are still demanding equality and freedom, both goals having proved elusive! But they are asserting something else as well, even more passionately - the right to save humanity from destr
- New Impetus On Trade (Deccan Herald, Arun Mohanty, Dec 30, 2005)
India, Russia and China are keen on trilateral co-operation on a host of economic and political issues.
- Remembering Raja (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Dec 30, 2005)
As Nominated Members to the Rajya Sabha, we were accommodated on a separate bench.
- Terror Can’T Scar Bangalore: Cm (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
The Karnataka chief minister, Mr Dharam Singh, today described yesterday’s attack on the Indian Institute of Sciences campus that had killed an IIT don as an act of terrorism.
- Nation On High Alert (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Vital scientific and defence installations across the country were on Thursday put under heavy security in the wake of the suspected terrorist attack at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in which a scientist was killed and four others injured.
- Security Cover For Seminars, Says Cm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Chief Minister N Dharam Singh on Thursday said there were no definite clues about the involvement of any particular extremist organisation in the gun attack outside the J N Tata Auditorium ...
- Second Security Breach At Iisc (Indian Express, JOHNSON T A, Dec 30, 2005)
For the IISc, Wednesday’s night terror attack was the second serious security breach in less than a year. In May, Tenzing Tsundue, general secretary of the Friends of Tibet, thumbed his nose at the Bangalore police and the IISc security system ....
- Chakri Sirindhorn: Honoured For Serving The Mankind (Daily Excelsior, R C Rajamani, Dec 30, 2005)
Thai Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, who received the prestigious Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2004 recently, is an Indologist who has a special love for India and its people.
- Clues From Travel Bag Point To Pak Link: Police (Indian Express, JOHNSON T A, Dec 30, 2005)
After 12 hours of groping in the dark for clues on yesterday’s attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) campus, investigators today ran into remnants of the attacker’s gun-blazing march.
- Musharraf Sees Foreign Hand In Balochistan (News International, Mayed Ali, Dec 30, 2005)
President Pervez Musharraf has said that the recent Indian concern over the situation in Balochistan has revealed the channel providing funds for hiring mercenaries and supplying arms for carrying out subversive activities in the province.
- Terror Strike (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 30, 2005)
The IISc attack has put the city on the terrorist map
- Is India Safe At The Hands Of Old Media? (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, Dec 30, 2005)
Besides the speed with which the guillotine came down on them, a standout feature of the expulsion of 11 Members of Parliament on charges of misconduct and corruption in the cash-for-query scam is the certificate of legitimacy it has given to the . . .
- Intel Inside: Securing It Cities (Indian Express, C. Uday Bhaskar, Dec 30, 2005)
Bangalore's prestigious Indian Institute of Science (IISc) was the venue of an attack by an unidentified gun-toting killer on December 28. Delhi based professor, Professor M.C. Puri — participating in an international conference — was killed and . . .
- Us Indian Denied Bail (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
An Indian student, charged with stabbing his professor, has been denied bail by a court in the US state of Massachusetts. Twenty-two-year-old Nikhil Dhar’s plea that he be confined to his uncle’s home with an electronic monitoring bracelet was . . .
- Iit Holds No Grudge Against City Police (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) here plunged into sorrow on Thursday over the killing in Bangalore of one of its most respected scientists, but faculty members said they had no complaints against the police over the terror attack.
- How The Web Will Link Us All (Hindu, Aleks Krotoski, Dec 30, 2005)
The Internet's latest revolution creates new connections and brings people together.
- New Targets Of Terror (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 30, 2005)
Terrorists aim to hit a nation where it hurts the most. In India's case, its high-tech institutions and skilled manpower could be the new targets.
- A Tangled Web Called The Bharatiya Janata Party (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Dec 30, 2005)
The BJP's Rajat Jayanti year finds the party bruised and bereft, and the Parivar at war with its own professed values.
- Puri Kin Unhappy With Govt (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
A night after suspected terrorists gunned down Prof M C Puri at Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, the tragedy-struck members of the Puri family and thier relatives in the national capital weren’t too happy with the Government’s attitude . . .
- Industry Terms Iisc Attack As Wake-Up Call For City (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
The Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce(BCIC) and the National Association of Software and Services Companies have termed the terrorist attack on IISc as ‘‘a wake up call to Bangalore’’.
- New Areas For Research Mooted At Proposed Nims University (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
First phase of the NIMS University Research and Referral Centre to be completed in two years
Chief Minister to lay the foundation for the NIMS university tomorrow
- Soft Target (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
With Karnataka chief minister Dharam Singh confirming that the attack at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science (IISc) campus in Bangalore was indeed the work of terrorists, any hope that Thursday’s shootout might have been the work of a stray . . .
- Grenades Bear Pakistani Markings (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Dec 30, 2005)
The police made no substantial headway in identifying the terrorists behind the attack on Bangalore’s Indian Institute of Science (IISc) campus on Wednesday but a few leads have emerged — a few grenades found near the site bore Pakistan markings and . . .
- Did Iisc Ignore Police Advice? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
On three occasions police officials had advised the Registrar to change the existing security apparatus
Institute was told to switch security agency
Security breached during Chinese premier's visit
- Terrorist Attack Was Predicted (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Dec 30, 2005)
Architect of Lashkar's Akshardham temple attack had visited Bangalore
Officials, institutions were slow to address vulnerabilities
Bangalore has been on the Lashkar's list of targets for a while
- Vision 2010: Universities To Get Rs.10 Crores (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
The State Government will give Rs.10 crores each to all the universities in the State to implement programmes in the higher education sector outlined by President A.P.J Abdul Kalam and contained in the Vision 2010 programme of the Government.
- Centre Does Not Rule Out Terror Angle (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
'Modus operandiand the blind shooting point to it being a terror attack'
Special team constituted to investigate the case
No terrorist organisation has so far claimed responsibility
- More Security Cover For Defence Scientists (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Defence installations to be protected
The country's top defence and nuclear scientists and major defence installations were on Thursday given heightened security cover in . . .
- Lashkar-Linked Magazine Calls For Attacks (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Dec 30, 2005)
Demands `retaliation and requital' for fall of Dacca
The December issue of the Voice of Islam, a Pakistan-based journal closely affiliated to the Lashkar-e-Taiba, has called for "retaliation and requital" of the fall of Dacca to Indian forces on . . .
- Kalam's "No" To Honorary Degree (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has declined to accept the honorary Degree of Science which the Patna University had decided to confer on him at its convocation on Friday.
- Scientific Community, It Professionals Shocked (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Security wake-up call for Information Technology sector
`Red alert' sounded in all vital installations of ISRO
IT industry to work with Government on security issue
- Attack On The Iisc — South India On Terror Cross-Hair (Business Line, B. Raman , Dec 30, 2005)
The Wednesday attack at the IISc does not appear to have been targeted at any scientist but generally at the IT industry for which Bangalore is best known.
- Iisc Incident Puts Tn Police On Alert (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
New security arrangements put in place in view of the changed threat perception
- ‘Terrorists Behind Bangalore Shootings’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Indian police stepped up patrols in the southern technology hub of Bangalore on Thursday after a professor was shot dead and four other people wounded at a top science university in what authorities said was an attack by suspected anti-India militants.
- Remission Of Loans (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 30, 2005)
Loans worth about 4.6 billion rupees outstanding against 130 industrialists have been written off during the current fiscal year by the National Bank of Pakistan, Omar Ayub Khan, Minister of State for Finance told the Senate on Wednesday.
- Nuclear Energy Option (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 30, 2005)
Civil works of the Chashma Nuclear Power Plant Unit-2, known as C-2, has begun with first concrete pouring and foundation stone laying by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister explained the multi-pronged strategy. . .
- A Terrorist Strike: Dharam Singh (Hindu, K.V. Subramanya , Dec 30, 2005)
Sophisticated arms were used
Karnataka Chief Minister N. Dharam Singh has confirmed that Wednesday's attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here was the handiwork of terrorists.
- Kalam Shocked Over Iit Professor's Death (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
President APJ Abdul Kalam on Wednesday night expressed grave concern and shock over the firing incident in the Indian Institute of Science campus in Bangalore which killed a retired professor of Delhi IIT.
- Abu Salem Subjected To Lie-Detector Test In Bangalore (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Extradited gangster Abu Salem was subjected to lie-detector test at Forensic Science Laboratory here today in connection with a murder case.
- Pm Expresses Shock At Iisc Shootout Incident (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed shock at Wednesday's shootout incident at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in which a scientist was killed and three others were seriously injured.
- Tsunami Made People Think About Coastal Security: Expert (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
"India is not exploiting its coastal strengths despite a huge potential `' "Production and migration of biological creatures are some of the areas that required a full study"
- Communication Gap (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Dec 29, 2005)
Bharatiya Janata Party president L.K. Advani on Wednesday dared Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to come clean on the Volcker Committee revelations on Iraq's `Oil-for-Food' programme or resign as the head of the National Advisory Council.
- Teacher Killed In Shooting At Indian Institute Of Science (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
An unidentified gunman shot dead one man and wounded four other people with an automatic rifle at Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore on Wednesday before making an escape, officials said.
- Rajapakse, Manmohan Agree On Revival Of Peace Process (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
"Both sides agreed that talks, aimed at strengthening ceasefire, must begin soon"
India is "deeply concerned" at recent escalation of violence
Discussions also covered "wide ranging economic and commercial cooperation"
- Abu Salem Put To Lie Detector Test (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
To be subjected to brain mapping in builder murder case
Abu Salem, Mumbai underworld operator, who was recently extradited from Portugal, was subjected to polygraph (lie detector) test at the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) here on Wednesday.
- Mass Grave: Nhrc Seeks Report From Gujarat, Cbi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
DNA testing of the skeletal remains sought
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought a report from the Gujarat Government and the Central Bureau of India on media reports on the unearthing of a mass grave at Lunawada in Panchmahals district
- Infy's Murthy Tears Into 'Inept' Netas (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
It could have been a pure coincidence but even as the Karnataka panchayat election results poured in, IT czar N R Narayana Murthy tore into the political system, calling it inept in handling the vast changes needed to achieve a sustained . . .
- A Polio Free India (Daily Excelsior, G V Joshi, Dec 29, 2005)
International experts have appreciated the progress made on polio eradication by India and hoped that the country would be rid of it by next year.
- Andhra Pradesh To File Case Against Monsanto (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Four seed companies to be named respondents in petition
Case to be filed before MRTP Commission
Price of seed at Rs. 1,850 for 450 gm seen as being "very high"
Some other States may join Andhra Pradesh in legal battle
- Iran-Pakistan-India Gas Project: Iran To Host (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Dec 29, 2005)
Iran has agreed to host tripartite official-level talks with India and Pakistan in February to kick start the construction of the $7 billion Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline.
- Politicians Want You Ignorant: Murthy (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Chairman of Infosys Technologies Limited N R Narayana Murthy on Wednesday said corruption has become pervasive in institutions in the country and there is a strong incentive for politicians to keep people ignorant and illiterate
- Clause 49: Are We There Yet? (Business Line, Kshama V. Kaushik, Dec 29, 2005)
Kshama V. Kaushik and Kaushik Dutta think that the Anglo-Saxon model of governance is unlikely to work and that an Asian way is needed
- Sense From Sensex — Removing Infrastructural Bottlenecks (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 29, 2005)
Regardless of the upswing in the market sentiment, the danger of infrastructural bottlenecks making a shambles of the economy is real. The stark fact is that the country does not simply have on the ground infrastructure capable of underwriting . . .
- Bangalore, Soon A Medical Hub: Dharam Singh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Says the private sector has contributed immensely in this regard
Bangalore is the fastest growing city in Asia, and after information technology and biotechnology, the city is emerging as a medical tourism destination, as quality service is available....
- Shock, Awe And Hobbes Have Backfired On Neocons (Hindu, Richard Drayton, Dec 29, 2005)
The Tragid irony of the 21st century is that just as faith in technology collapsed on the world's stock markets in 2000, it came to power in the White House and the Pentagon.
- Indian Shares King Faisal International Award (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
The award consists of 24 carat, 200-gram gold medal and a cash award of $200,000
- New Model Of Development? (Deccan Herald, Alok Ray, Dec 29, 2005)
The challenge before India today is to ensure quality education that can serve the global industry
- Salem Subjected To Polygraph Test (Indian Express, JOHNSON T A, Dec 29, 2005)
Extradited Mumbai gangster Abu Salem was today put through 65 questions over a two-hour period during his polygraph (lie detector) test—the first of the three forensic psychology tests he will be subjected to in the Pradeep Jain murder case, . . .
- Terror Hits Bangalore, Target Is Iisc (Indian Express, JOHNSON T A, Dec 29, 2005)
Terror struck an international conference at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) campus on Wednesday night killing a retired Mathematics professor from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, M.C. Puri, and seriously injuring four others ...
- 2005’S Tsunami Of Corruption (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Dec 29, 2005)
Satyameva Jayate runs our national motto. How many Indians realise this quotation from the Upanishads is incomplete? There is a third word there, “nanritam”. Truth alone triumphs, naught else. Which is hard to believe as we look back on the year that was!
- Can’T Hide Stupidity! (Deccan Herald, M K RATHISH, Dec 29, 2005)
Now, when I am nearing sixty, I look back, and see how stupid I have been throughout these years. I remember an event that happened when I was a young boy of ten. I was growing up in a large household in a coastal place in Kerala.
- Terror In Home Of Science (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
A masked gunman opened fire from an AK-47 on a group of scientists here tonight, killing a professor from Delhi IIT and injuring four others.
- More To Show (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 29, 2005)
Corporate India is in the grip of a merger and acquisitions frenzy. Scarcely a day passes without an Indian company announcing an acquisition abroad.
- Us Drops Indian Scientist’S Name From Nuke Blacklist (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Dec 29, 2005)
Ahead of US President George W Bush’s visit, Washington has cleared the name of nuclear scientist C. Surendar from the entities blacklisted last September for allegedly transferring sensitive technology or equipment to Iran.
- Equanimity Of Approach (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
The symbolic quest of the soul in search of the ultimate goal is the highlight of Andal's "Tiruppavai" through the overt plea to the maidens in Gokulam to get up and worship Krishna as part of the vow they have undertaken during the month of Marghazhi....
- Islamic Jihadists Behind The Bangalore Iisc Shootout? Is India’S Outsourcing Industry And High Tech Education Centers Under Terrorists Target Lists? (India Daily, Kiran Chaube, Dec 29, 2005)
The Islamic jihadidts and ISI of Pakistan is eyeing the Indian Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Science and outsourcing hubs of India for a long time.
- Lanka Wants India To Play Role In Peace Process (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
The visiting Sri Lankan President, Mr Mahinda Rajapakse, today had a 40-minute-long one-to-one talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the two leaders chose not to have the usual interaction with the media — a sign that Mr Rajapakse’s visit is . . .
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