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Articles 9321 through 9420 of 17201:
- The Story Of Man (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 22, 2005)
Darwinism, in its modern form, goes from strength to strength
- New Regulations For D.Litt, D.Sc. Approved (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2005)
Bharathidasan University is the fifth varsity to offer these two degrees
- Pre-Project Work Started For Six Power Units: Npcil Official (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2005)
"Koodankulam project designed to withstand shock waves" The first and second units of the Koodankulam project would start generating power by 2007 and 2008 respectively, says Mr. Agrawal
- Curb Indiscipline At Workplace With An Iron Hand: Apex Court (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2005)
Dismissal of lecturer of a Karnataka college upheld In view of the change in economic policy, it may not be proper to allow employees to break discipline with impunity.
- Karnataka To Seek Increase In Plan Size (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2005)
'Local firms and MNCs in country bound by Indian labour laws'
- ‘A Big City Cannot Have A Permanent Cure For Organised Crime. The Mumbai Underworld Is Maintaining A Tactical Quiet Now’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 22, 2005)
It has already been hailed as the novel of 2006. Sanjukta Sharma caught up with Vikram Chandra to find out a little more about ‘Sacred Games’, his novel about Bombay and its underworld. Excerpts from the interview:
- Saran Meets Rice, Burns (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2005)
"India's programme must not be affected"
- Melting Permafrost Threatens Homes And Roads (Hindu, David Adam, Dec 22, 2005)
A major change in climate is expected by the end of the century.
- Kalam Wants Industry Leaders To Be Creative (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2005)
Identifies five areas of core competence for integrated action
Bring ICT sector to rural areas
Banks asked to play pioneering role
Venture capital to generate new enterprises
FIIs find India attractive
- India Defends Nuclear Deal With U.S. (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Dec 22, 2005)
India on Wednesday defended a controversial new civilian nuclear cooperation deal with the United States and rejected demands by American critics that New Delhi accept curbs on its atomic weapons program.
- ‘N-Separation Should Not Affect Indo-Us Strategic Programme’ (Indian Express, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Dec 22, 2005)
India and theUS today began talks here on the bilateral nuclear deal with Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran asserting the separation of civilian and military sites should not affect New Delhi’s strategic programme.
- Insat-4a Launched, Sends Signals To Groundstation (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2005)
In another milestone in India's space programme and giving a major fillip to Direct-to-Home television services, the country's most advanced INSAT-4A telecommunication satellite was successfully launched by the European generic rocket, Ariane-5, ....
- Maran Sees Foreign Investment Boom In Phones, It (Reuters, Shailendra Bhatnagar and Terry Friel, Dec 22, 2005)
Planned foreign investment in India's booming telecoms and information technology sector is expected to double to $22 billion in 2006, as the world's top companies focus on the country, its IT and telecoms minister said.
- Insat-4a Launched Successfully (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2005)
In another milestone in India's space programme and giving a major fillip to Direct-to-Home television services, the country's most advanced INSAT-4A telecommunication satellite was successfully launched by the European generic rocket, Ariane-5, ....
- Us Congressmen Oppose N-Deal (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2005)
Two US lawmakers have proposed a resolution expressing congressional disapproval for President George W Bush's "sweeping" nuclear agreement with India, one of the Congressmen said.
- Ariane Rocket Launches Satellites For India, Europe (Reuters, Laurent Marot, Dec 22, 2005)
A European Ariane-5 rocket sent satellites for India and Europe into orbit after a textbook launch from French Guiana late on Wednesday.
- Gandhi & Ambedkar-I (Statesman, SUBRATA MUKHERJEE, Dec 22, 2005)
With the establishment of the Indian National Congress in 1885, the social discourse which began with Raja Rammohan Roy in the 1820s slowly moved towards the political.
- Computers Can Help Tease Out The Origins Of Life (Hindu, Paul Davies, Dec 21, 2005)
Darwin famously didn't tell us how life began, but modern computers can help to provide clues.
- Heady Computer (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2005)
In one of the episodes during the ongoing "Kaun Banega Crorepati-2" a woman soon after taking the hot seat folded her hands before the computer in front of her.
- Party Time In Mumbai And Hyderabad (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 21, 2005)
The recent sting operations only confirm the rot in the political arena, which can be traced directly to the crisis in the party system. The onus is on the BJP and the Congress to show the way for a re-vitalisation.
- Civilian Nuclear Programme —India’S Game Plan (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2005)
India will outline how it can split its civilian and nuclear facilities at a meeting this week in Washington as part of its bid to win access to US civilian nuclear technology, a report said on Tuesday.
- India Desperate To Boost H-Tech Weapons Production (Pakistan Observer, Aroosa Alam, Dec 21, 2005)
While the security planners in Pakistan are letting their guards down in a hope to broker a peace deal with India through the so-called CBMs , the schemers on the other line of the border are working relentlessly to enhance their defense capabilities....
- Indo-Us Talks On Nuclear Issue On Wednesday (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2005)
India and the US are expected to spell out the steps taken by them on implementation of Civil Nuclear deal when Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran and his American counterpart Nicholas Burns hold talks in Washington on Wednesday.
- What's The Racemate In `Formula 1' Of The Pharma Race? (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 21, 2005)
Almost every court verdict creates winners and losers in equal measure. For instance, the December 16 verdict of the US District Court of Delaware has www.pfizer.com announcing as the latest news headline, . . .
- Faking It (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Dec 21, 2005)
Two things emerge in the aftermath of South Korean professor Hwang Woo-suk’s stem cell research being outed as ‘fake’.
- U.S. Congressmen Seek To Oppose India Nuclear Deal (Reuters, Reuters, Dec 21, 2005)
Two U.S. lawmakers have proposed a resolution expressing congressional disapproval for President George W. Bush's sweeping nuclear agreement with India, one of the congressmen said on Tuesday.
- U.S. Non-Proliferation Group Ups The Ante With Draft Separation Plan (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Dec 21, 2005)
"India should place all power reactors, naval fuel cycle Rare Metals Plant under safeguards"
- Reservation Bill Tabled In Lok Sabha (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2005)
Slated for discussion today
BJP voices protest
We are opposed to Bill on a constitutional point: CPI (M)
- The Death Of Science (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Dec 21, 2005)
It is a pity that science which is the antidote to irrational thinking and obscurantist behaviour is being slowly strangled to death in Pakistan, that is if we presume that it had a modestly glorious existence in the past in this country.
- Canada Urges India To Open Up Nuclear Reactor (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2005)
Canada urged India on Monday to allow nuclear inspectors access to a Canadian-supplied reactor where experts say the country produces a significant amount of its weapons-grade plutonium.
- Grooming Lawyers (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 21, 2005)
Needed a law varsity in the North
The Punjab Government’s proposal to set up a law university near Chandigarh is most welcome.
- Nuclear Deal And After (Tribune, T.P. Sreenivasan, Dec 21, 2005)
The think-tanks in Washington are divided right in the middle”, said Mr Stephen Cohen, the South Asia specialist at the Brookings Institution. Nothing unusual, I thought to myself.
- Honda Bets Big, To Launch 10 New Models In India (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2005)
Hero Honda to set up third plant next year.
Global automobile major Honda today unveiled big plans for India and other Asean markets.
- Lakshya Hits The Mark In Gaming (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 21, 2005)
It’s taken a small start-up to make an Indian splash in the huge and growing gaming segment of the information technology industry, even as our tech biggies continue to turn their collective back on it. Gurgaon-based Lakshya
- India Making Weapon Locating Radar (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2005)
India has developed a surveillance central acquisition radar and is also working on a weapon locating radar, officials of the Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE) and the Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) said. S Varadarajan, . . .
- Army Provides Power To Remote J-K Villages (Indian Express, MIR EHSAN, Dec 21, 2005)
After quake relief operations, Army is helping people tide over power shortage in Kashmir.
- ‘Problems Should Not Defeat Me. I Should Defeat The Problems And Succeed’ (Indian Express, VARGHESE K. GEORGE, Dec 21, 2005)
From the imposition of President’s rule in Bihar, to the valiant sacrifices of India’s Manjunaths and Satyendra Dubeys, President A P J Abdul Kalam fielded questions as diverse as they were pointed at the India Empowered Conclave
- Evolve System To Disqualify Dubious Politicians: Kalam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2005)
"Election officer can glean track records " "The core of empowerment for prosperity of one billion Indians was connectivity and partnership between governmental and multiple institutions in the public and private domains"
- Canada Urges India To Open Up N-Reactor (Indian Express, Carol Giacomo, Dec 21, 2005)
Canada has urged India on Monday to allow nuclear inspectors access to a Canadian-supplied reactor, where experts say the country produces a significant amount of its weapons-grade plutonium.
- India Developing Weapon Locating Radar (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2005)
India's defence engineers have developed a surveillance central acquisition radar and is also working on a weapon locating radar, officials of Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE) and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) said Tuesday ...
- Honda Drives To Double Digit Growth In 2006 (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2005)
Honda Motor Co. on Tuesday forecast near double-digit growth in its 2006 global car sales to another record, following an estimated 5 per cent increase this year, driven mainly by brisk overseas growth.
- India, Run With The Big Guys Now! (The Financial Express, S NARAYAN, Dec 21, 2005)
The media and the government breathed a sigh of relief that the agony of the Hong Kong WTO ministerial is over, and that the agreed text of Sunday night did not cause any political damage at home.
- A Modi-Cum Of Strategy (Indian Express, VIRENDER KUMAR, Dec 21, 2005)
When Narendra Modi announced that he was going to campaign in the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation elections recently, Mukul Wasnik, AICC general secretary in charge of Gujarat, declared that they had won half the battle.
- President Unfolds India Empowered Map Looking At The Road Less Travelled (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Dec 21, 2005)
A mother fights back tears and asks the highest Constitutional authority in the land: Do you have a plan to ensure that no honest young Indian ever faces the hapless fate of my murdered son?
- India-Bharat Connectivity And Logging In To Hope (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Dec 21, 2005)
A mother fights back tears and asks the highest Constitutional authority in the land: Do you have a plan to ensure that no honest young Indian ever faces the hapless fate of my murdered son?
- About The Holy Capitalists (Deccan Herald, DAVID BROOKS, Dec 21, 2005)
The world’s greatest discoveries and innovations have had a strong relation to faith
- Us Congressmen Seek To Oppose India Nuclear Deal (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2005)
Two US lawmakers have proposed a resolution expressing congressional disapproval for President George W Bush's "sweeping" nuclear agreement with India, one of the congressmen said.
- Kalam’S Call: Free Up Airwaves (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2005)
It is the demolisher of imbalances, the source of all freedom and a great leveler of the knowledge society. It is bandwidth, we need more of it, and it has to be free, according to President APJ Abdul Kalam, who addressed The India Empowered Conclave ....
- India Must Place Civilian N-Facilities Under Safeguards’ (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Dec 21, 2005)
Two nuclear experts have recommended that India place all its civilian nuclear facilities under full international safeguards, in order to obtain congressional satisfaction about its July 2005 nuclear cooperation agreement with the United States
- Life Moves On (Deccan Herald, Boby George, Dec 21, 2005)
For Bangalorians, this rainy season was nothing more than a few months of ‘handling emergencies’. In a city where rain never disturbs the routine, the downpour was indeed unexpected.
- More Mps Fall For Money (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
More MPs have been caught in a bribe scandal even before the probe into 11 of their fellow members taking cash to ask questions in Parliament is complete.
- History, Democracy And Iraq (Dawn, Niall Ferguson, Dec 20, 2005)
I saw two of my former students last week; one I taught at Cambridge, the other at Oxford. One of them has spent the better part of the last three years on her majesty’s service in southern Iraq.
- India-Us Talks On Nuclear Issue On Dec 21 (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
India and the US are expected to spell out the steps taken by them on implementation of Civil Nuclear deal when Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran and his American counterpart Nicholas Burns hold talks in Washington on Wednesday.
- We Cast The First Vote (Hindu, S. SRINIVAS, Dec 20, 2005)
Isn't it a matter of pride that citizens of Bangalore voted before any other city in India did?
Bangalore is the only metropolitan city where cinemas in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Malayalam are screened apart from Kannada and English
- Hydrogen Engergy (Daily Excelsior, Pallab Bhattacharya, Dec 20, 2005)
When industrialist Ratan Tata submited the National Hydrogen Energy Road Map document to Union Non-Conventional Energy Minister Vilas Muttemwar on November 21, it represented another major stride taken by India in its quest not only for energy . . .
- Cultivate Patient Friendly Culture (Daily Excelsior, Dr Arun Sharma, Dec 20, 2005)
Any hospital's performance is dependent on multiple factors like capital structure, available infrastructure, technological acquisition, spectrum of clinical services, specialists and culture of the hospital.
- The Direction Of Love (Telegraph, Janaki Nair, Dec 20, 2005)
Linguistic nationalisms thrive on chastening women in the name of honour, argues Janaki Nair The author is professor of history, Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta
- Does Us Face An Engineering Gap? (Christian Science Monitor, Mark Clayton, Dec 20, 2005)
A new study deflates claims that China and India have a vast advantage in graduates
- India’S N-Facility Separation Plan Ready (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
India’s plan to separate its civilian and military nuclear plants, key to a landmark nuclear deal with the United States, has been finalised ahead of a meeting of officials of the two countries, a report said on Monday.
- Gats: Dealing With Brain-Drain (Business Line, Deepak Srivastava, Dec 20, 2005)
Developing countries are particularly unhappy with the level of Mode-4 commitments of the General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS).
- India Empowered To Me Is... (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 20, 2005)
They spoke with conviction and passion. They talked grand ideas. They talked about small people. You could agree with them or not. But you couldn’t be indifferent. For, the contributors strove to think big for India.
- Eye On The Moon (Deccan Herald, U R RAO, Dec 20, 2005)
Setting up a lunar observatory seems to be the next logical step in the journey of humankind’s explorations
- Scrap Mplads: Advani (Pioneer, Yogesh Vajpeyi, Dec 20, 2005)
Divert money for State funding of elections, Speaker told---- Even before the latest sting operation by a TV channel against some MPs accepting kickbacks in MP Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS), BJP president and Leader of Opposition LK Advani . . .
- New Features Of The Stock Market Surge (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Dec 20, 2005)
With the BSE Sensex having settled above the 9000 mark, evidence of an unprecedented bull run on India's stock market is now incontrovertible. But similar trends in the past have been followed by an unwinding process triggered by news . . .
- Special Economic Zones — An Idea Whose Time Has Lapsed (Business Line, Ashok Upadhyaya, Dec 20, 2005)
No more the woolly-headed aims of value addition, employment generation and all such remnants of the control regime. Now, the sole purpose of the SEZs is to export goods and services and earn foreign exchange, says Ashok Upadhyay.
- India-Us Nuclear Deal In Doldrums (Pakistan Observer, Saifullah Khan, Dec 20, 2005)
The US and India entered into an agreement on 18 July 2005 to share civilian nuclear technology. This was a major change in US policy which discouraged countries from developing nuclear weapons.
- World Nuclear Disarmament (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 20, 2005)
Media tycoon and chairman of the UN Foundation Ted Turner has called for world nuclear disarmament. Addressing a Press conference in Islamabad, he said that all the eight nuclear States will have to be involved in the process of elimination of nuclear ...
- India-Us Nuke Talks On Wednesday (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
India and the US are expected to spell out the steps taken by them on implementation of Civil Nuclear deal when Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran and his American counterpart Nicholas Burns hold talks in Washington on Wednesday.
- Wipro Buys Austrian Chip Design Firm (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
Wipro Technologies, the global information technology services arm of Wipro Ltd, has acquired NewLogic, a system-on-chip design firm in Austria, for Rs 240 crore ($56 million) in an all-cash deal.
- Deepening Indo-U.S. Academic Links (Hindu, K. Ramachandran, Dec 20, 2005)
North Carolina varsity in tie-up with Chennai-based RMK Engineering College
- Indian Ocean Nations Prepare For Next Tsunami (Reuters, Bill Tarrant, Dec 20, 2005)
The next time a tsunami strikes the Indian Ocean rim -- and scientists say that could happen anytime -- an early warning system should detect it and trigger warnings in time to millions living in coastal communities.
- Managing Waste Eco-Friendly (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2005)
Garbage disposed of carefully and recycled as organic manure in Vizianagaram
- President Calls For Updating The History Of India (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
We must enable our people to come out of the past, he says
- India's Eastward Ho! But How? (Pioneer, Tarun Basu , Dec 19, 2005)
Formation of an Asian proto-type of EU is far-fetched, thanks to too many internal contradictions, writes Tarun Basu
- President Unveils Policy Package For Farm Development (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
`Use new technology for value addition'
- Logic Of Separation (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Dec 19, 2005)
The July 18, 2005, joint statement of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President George Bush was about exceptionalising from the NPT technology denial regime, a non-signatory of the treaty, and not about accommodating India as a nuclear weapon . . .
- Norway's Economy — On Top Of The World And Looking... (Business Line, Mohan Murti, Dec 19, 2005)
Folds upon folds of translucent purplish-green cut wide arcs across the sky. Then, suddenly, the entire dome of blue exploded into an amazing riot of colour — red, green, blue, purple, yellow and white that lit up the ocean and rendered us speechless ...
- Kalam Call To Develop Cheap Drugs For Aids (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has called upon the medical community to work in partnership with pharmacologists to develop cost-effective drugs to treat AIDS and other major epidemics affecting large numbers of the country's population.
- Kalam Calls For Second Green Revolution (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
It was time India embarked upon a second green revolution, which would help increase productivity in the agricultural sector, President APJ Abdul Kalam said today.
- Explore Real History Of The Nation, Appeals Kalam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on Sunday exhorted the citizens to explore the real history of the nation to gain inspiration for enlightened action for the creation of a future of all-round prosperity.
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