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Articles 11821 through 11920 of 17201:
- Denmark's Success Formula: No Fairy Tale (Business Line, Mohan Murti, Sep 12, 2005)
ON THE 200th birthday of Hans Christian Andersen, my wife and I drove over to the quaint island of Fiona in Denmark, where Odense is located. It was here that the famous story-teller was born
- Give Them Back The Childhood They Have Lost (Deccan Herald, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 12, 2005)
The unfortunate engineering and medical students who took their own lives recently would possibly have thrived in other disciplines.
- Pm Eyes Boost In Indo-French Relations (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 11, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday left for Paris enroute New York saying New Delhi was committed to further strengthen the privileged relations of strategic partnership that exists between India and France.
- Chopping Off The Nose For Fear Of Catching Cold (Deccan Herald, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 11, 2005)
The ban on cell phones on campus by Visvesvaraya Technological University is not justified at all. This is the era of information and technology. Students and teachers need to use technology. What they should concentrate on is its use and obviously not it
- Winning The Big Fight (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2005)
In their weaker bodies lie stronger desires. In their limitations lies their greatest strength. L Subramani profiles the success stories of some 'disabled' people who broke their shackles by sheer determination and the power of their dreams.
- We Welcome Fdi, But With Some Riders’ (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 11, 2005)
We have no double standards on the issue. The CPI(M) is not opposed to FDI per se. In the last party congress we adopted the policy that we will allow FDI only if it generates employment, brings in new technology and augments the existing productive capac
- Dancing With The Red Dragon (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 11, 2005)
India and Pakistan should take a leaf out of China’s savvy economic diplomacy with Taiwan, reports Pallavi Aiyar
- Winning The Big Fight (Deccan Herald, Srivasta Krishna, Sep 11, 2005)
In their weaker bodies lie stronger desires. In their limitations lies their greatest strength. L Subramani profiles the success stories of some 'disabled' people who broke their shackles by sheer determination and the power of their dreams.
- Time To Kick The Barrel Habit (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Sep 10, 2005)
Crude prices are just below $70, twice their level of five years ago. Five years is a long time in economics, innovation and technology. Yet India, transfixed by its dependence on crude oil and obsessed with pricing formulae, has been too slow to respond
- Poised To Grow (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 10, 2005)
While the outcome of the just-concluded Sixth India-European Union (EU) summit signals that the two sides are poised to enter a phase of enhanced engagement, whether they will follow up the positive words with action remains to be seen.
- Wishful Facts (Business Standard, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 10, 2005)
In a TV poll conducted hours before Sania Mirza’s fourth round match against Maria Sharapova in the US Open, a full 82 per cent of those taking part in the poll predicted a Mirza victory. In another poll, 55 per cent felt Sharapova would be under greater
- Us Rejects Pak Demand For N-Parity With India (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 10, 2005)
Rejecting Pakistan’s demand for parity with India in accessing civilian nuclear technology, the US has said the landmark accord with New Delhi was a “mechanism to deepen” further its commitment to international non-proliferation.
- U.S. And The Middle East (Hindu, Simon Tisdall, Sep 10, 2005)
Despite claims that it is spreading democracy in the Arab world the general feeling is that the U.S. doesn't want to push the ballot box too much for fear of an unwelcome result.
- India-U.S. Deal And The Nuclear Ceiling (Hindu, R. Rajaraman, Sep 10, 2005)
India will suffer no loss of security if it were to abandon all further production of fissile materials for military purposes and declare all its power reactors open to safeguarding.
- Talk N-Issue Over: India To Iran, Us (Indian Express, Reuters, Sep 10, 2005)
India said on Friday it wanted differences between Iran and the United States on Tehran's nuclear activities to be resolved through talks, as New Delhi walks a diplomatic tightrope in its ties with both nations.
- At E-Gram Panchayat, New Windows Open (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 10, 2005)
It’s a remote area, surrounded by dense forests and the Aravalli hills. Juna Chamun and three other villages here have a population of 4,500 with most of the people belonging to Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes. And only 10 per cent of them own
- A Million Bridges (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 10, 2005)
World Islam has been in crisis, its billion or so adherents being variously in a state of bewilderment, frustration, anger and despair.
- Surprise Handshake (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 09, 2005)
The recent meeting between the Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri and his Israeli counterpart Silvan Shalom in Istanbul appears to be the first step towards normalisation of Pakistan-Israel relations.
- Blair For Promotion Of Indo-British Educational Links (Deccan Herald, DH news, Sep 09, 2005)
The British Govt seems keen on promoting Indo-British educational ties. This bid is in view of providing students with mutli- cultural experiences.
- Loss Of Soil Carbon "Will Speed Global Warming" (Hindu, Tim Radford, Sep 09, 2005)
ENGLAND'S SOILS have been losing carbon at the rate of four million tonnes a year for the past 25 years — losses which will accelerate global warming and which have already offset all the cuts in Britain's industrial carbon emissions between 1990 and 2002
- Communicate More, Commute Less (Business Line, T. H. Chowdary , Sep 09, 2005)
CRUDE oil prices have crossed $70 a barrel from $35 two years ago, and LNG (liquefied natural gas) at $10 per MMBTU is double that of last year
- Energy Independence (Daily Excelsior, Ajay Kaul, Sep 09, 2005)
It was quite a timely and apt slogan --- Energy Independence by 2030 --- given by President APJ Abdul Kalam considering that India's economy is growing at a fast peace and will be requiring sufficient energy in the coming years if it wants to be a world p
- Dead As Dodo? (Tribune, Shailaja Chandra, Sep 09, 2005)
Almost every night I walked my daschund Dodo down Copernicus Marg, past the Kamani auditorium, Punjab and Haryana Bhavans and the Princes’ Park, all well known landmarks in the heart of Delhi.
- Blair Announces £10 Million For Exchange Programmes (Hindu, Special Correspondent, The Hindu, Sep 09, 2005)
British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday announced that £10 million would be allocated by the British Government to promote academic and educational exchanges between the two countries.
- India, Uk To Fight Terror, Call For ‘Zero Tolerance’ (Deccan Herald, DH news, Sep 09, 2005)
India and Britain on Thursday resolved to combat the growing menace of terrorism in a bid to promote global peace and security even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for an international norm of zero tolerance for terrorism.
- Auction It (Business Standard, Special Correspondent, The Financial Express, Sep 09, 2005)
Communications Minister Dayanidhi Maran has done well to ask the rival mobile telephone groups who offer GSM and CDMA-based services
- If America Couldn't Protect, Who Can? (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, Sep 09, 2005)
Hurricane Katrina has achieved the near-impossible in Indian politics: it has united America-lovers and America-baiters.
- Open Source Spills Over Into Wider World (Hindu, Sean Dodson, Sep 09, 2005)
Ever since computer programmers began collaborating online to build software applications, the "open source" movement has been developing into a serious rival to the multinational software companies.
- India, E.U. Favour `Effective Multilateralism' (Hindu, Diplomatic Correspondent, Hindu, Sep 09, 2005)
They agree to open security dialogue at the level of senior officials Manmohan Singh hails the framework agreement on Indian participation in the Galileo satellite navigation system
- India, Uk Agree On Economic Ties — Pacts On Air Service, Oil, Gas Signed (Business Line, Our Bureau, Business line, Sep 09, 2005)
INDIA and the UK on Thursday agreed to cooperate on a wide range of economic issues including civilian nuclear energy and the hydrocarbon sector.
- Distant Millennium Goals (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 09, 2005)
NEXT week, 180 heads of state/government will meet in the UN for a summit to reaffirm their commitment to the millennium development goals (MDG) which they had adopted in 2000.
- Common Values (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 09, 2005)
The summit between India and the European Union has paved the way for much closer cooperation between the two in the future.
- Scotland Eyes Investment From Punjab, Haryana (Tribune, Girja Shankar Kaura, Sep 08, 2005)
Scotland (UK) is looking at independent relationship with India, particularly Punjab and Haryana keeping in mind their growth rate, per capita income and literacy.
- Delhi, Eu To Tame Terror Together (Statesman, News Service, Sep 08, 2005)
India and the 25-member European Union today decided to strengthen their “strategic partnership” by endorsing a joint action plan and a political declaration vowing to fight against terrorism as well as iterating their shared belief in multilateral instit
- India: A Mixed Record (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 08, 2005)
These are extracts from the United Nations Human Development Report 2005 released on September 7
- Gear Up For Changes: Singh, Blair (Indian Express, ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU, Sep 08, 2005)
Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Tony Blair together sent out a clear message that globalisation and change were inevitable for any economy.
- India-Eu Pledge To Double Trade In 3 Years (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2005)
India and European Union — world’s largest trading block comprising of 25 countries — today announced their commitment to double bilateral trade from the present level of Euro 34 billion to Euro 70 billion in the next three years, while setting up a high-
- The Petro Pain (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2005)
THE only consolation about the latest oil price rise is that it may well be the last in this fiscal ending March, 2006.
- ‘Water For All’ Plan (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2005)
Not more than 30 per cent of the country’s population would get purified water to be supplied under a grand “Water For All” programme costing Rs 6.5 billion, by the year 2007, official documents reveal.
- The Civil Service (Statesman, Ashok Kapur, Sep 08, 2005)
It has been argued that the Indian bureaucracy is drifting towards “negativism and mediocrity”.
- Ongc To Get Crude Oil From Cairn Fields (Business Standard, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 08, 2005)
The petroleum ministry has nominated Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) and its subsidiary, Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL), to get the crude oil from Rajasthan oil fields.
- Sky Is Limit For India In Chains (Telegraph, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 08, 2005)
India today signed up as a member of Galileo — a satellite navigation system — cut a $2.2-billion deal to buy Airbus planes and concluded two important agreements on combating terrorism and cooperation in energy with Europe.
- America Shamed (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 07, 2005)
Katrina has exposed the black side of America
- Beyond His Ken (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 07, 2005)
Aides working for the Conservative leadership contender Kenneth Clarke are said to be in despair because the former chancellor refuses to carry a mobile phone. Reports of this kind must be treated with caution.
- Why Spiralling Oil Prices? (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Sep 07, 2005)
Last week the international oil price, which has been rising for some years now, touched a high of $70 a barrel.
- A Mare’S Tale (Tribune, Raj Chatterjee, Sep 07, 2005)
KASUALI is a small, pine-laden hill-station within six hours’ car journey from Delhi. The Louis Pasteur Institute, making life-saving drugs and antidotes for snakebites, which was established more than a hundred years ago, has made the place famous.
- Regs: Grossly Miscalculated? (Business Line, Venkat R. Chary , Sep 07, 2005)
IN THE article, "An onerous job," (Business Line, August 25) the cost of implementing the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is estimated at Rs 1,00,000 crore.
- Vibrations To Aid Car Drivers (Tribune, Steve Connor, Sep 07, 2005)
DRIVERS will soon be able to feel their way through traffic with the help of the sense of touch.
- How Extremism Came To Bangladesh (Christian Science Monitor, David Montero, Sep 07, 2005)
For years, they gathered in hidden training camps, mosques, and madrassahs, learning how to use weapons and build bombs. In their diaries they scrawled slogans of political alienation. On Aug. 17, their ideology culminated in a series of nearly 500 bomb
- Blair To Help Draft India-Eu Security Plan (Deccan Herald, PTI, Sep 07, 2005)
The British Prime Minister, who will lead EU side in his capacity as current President of the Council of EU along with Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, arrived here on Tuesday night.
- Taking The Strategic Partnership Forward (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Sep 07, 2005)
The EU top brass begins talks with Indian leaders led by the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, in New Delhi today to boost bilateral relations
- Ongc, Gspc To Jointly Develop Kg Gas Block (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 07, 2005)
The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and the Gujarat government-owned Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) will jointly develop GSPC’s 20 trillion cubic feet (TCF) natural gas block in the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin, subject to government app
- Outsourcing Bandwagon Continues - Compact Disc India Today Plans A Us$110 Million Multimedia Knowledge Park In Northern India. (India Daily, Kiran Chaube, Sep 06, 2005)
The outsourcing bandwagon continues in full swing.
- The Modern Samurai (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Sep 06, 2005)
Next Sunday, Japan goes to the polls. Junichiro Koizumi, the prime minister, called an early election — an unusual move in a compromise-loving country where politicians paper over differences and keep governments going. But it is typical of this . . . .
- Plugging It Loopholes (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 06, 2005)
The Expert Committee's recommendations on amendments to the Information Technology Act, 2000
- The Climate Change In Kolkata (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Sep 06, 2005)
"I am telling my workers — you have to change. If you fail to change, your company may fail." — West Bengal CM, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
- Bilateral Trade Between India And Italy Is Likely To Jump By About 25 Per Cent To Cross Us$5 Billion This Year From $4 Billion Last Year (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2005)
Bilateral trade between India and Italy is likely to jump by about 25 per cent to cross US$5 billion this year from $4 billion last year.
- Breaking The Ice (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2005)
Despite Islamabad's clarification that it was not rushing to recognise Israel and current contacts are only a gesture indicating engagement, the photographs of foreign ministers of both countries, smiling and shaking hands, told their own story.
- Hughes To Connect 1000 Ril Petrol Pumps (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2005)
Hughes, the leading provider of broadband satellite services, announced on Monday that it has signed a definitive agreement to connect 1000 retail petroleum outlets of Reliance Industries across the country.
- India Applies A Clever Move – Plans Joint Bids With Norway's Norsk Hydro For Bidding For Oil Properties In Gulf And Cuba (India Daily, Babu Ghanta, Sep 06, 2005)
Joint oil bids with another country will make India not commit the same mistake.
- India : Troubled Neighbourhood (Daily Excelsior, Sita, Sep 06, 2005)
The developments of the past few years in India's neighbourhood give a complex picture. After decades of independence some of the countries are still debating what should be the rules of governance of their state ?
- Indigenous Products For Indian Missiles (Daily Excelsior, Jayant Muralidharan, Sep 06, 2005)
Some years ago, when three young scientist-engineers left their jobs to strike out on their own, they had little idea that theirs would be a spectacular trajectory.
- Mobile India (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 06, 2005)
What is the most selling second-hand machine in this State as well as the country?
- Lessons In Chemistry (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Sep 06, 2005)
Talk of Europe and you get a big yawn in Delhi. India’s annual summitry with Europe is always a cold dish amidst the warmth of India’s exciting engagement with the United States and China. When British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrives here tonight on
- Essence Of What Genius Is (Deccan Herald, L SUBRAMANI, Sep 06, 2005)
Are we any closer to discovering what genius actually is? Is it inborn or accomplished through sweat, blood and tears? Does our publicity-crazy generation need an ad campaign even to recognise the faces of great people? Or does our culture shape our . . .
- Booster Shot For Corruption (Daily Excelsior, Joginder Singh, Sep 06, 2005)
When the trend all over the world is on weeding out the graft, Uttar Pradesh Government has set new standards in putting corruption under the carpet. It must be said to the credit of the State cadre of the IAS that it has been looking within its members..
- Tracking Programs, New Tools With Web Feed Reader (Hindu, J. MURALI, Sep 05, 2005)
The latest trend is on-line services with user-generated content
- Scientists To Use Deadly Bug Against Deadly Weed (Hindu, Bindu Shajan Perappadan, Sep 05, 2005)
They are deadly and come dressed in tight yellow-black jackets. No ordinary insect, this imported biological terminator -- Mexican Beetle -- packs in a lethal punch for the rouge weed parthenium.
- University Of Madras Evolves Healthy Practices Charter (Hindu, VANI DORAISAMY, Sep 05, 2005)
The University of Madras has formulated a charter of healthy practices for its administrators, teachers and students to improve the delivery of education and ensure that the university remains internationally competitive,
- Election Commission Pulls Up Madhya Pradesh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2005)
"Remove lotus symbol from social science textbooks for class VI students"
- Is India Ready For The Aviation Boom? (Hindu, A. Ranganathan, Sep 05, 2005)
Complete lack of commitment to safety is evident in most international airfields in India. Professionalism and accountability are urgently required.
- Rbi Report Reiterates Strong Growth Prospects (Hindu, C. R. L. Narasimhan, Sep 05, 2005)
The economy has shown the resilience to withstand supply shocks, but risks do exist
Indian industry became globally competitive and there was a pick up in investment thanks to a higher level of business confidence.
- Why Internet Is No Threat To Post Office (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2005)
In fact, it has led to more old-fashioned mail
People are more and more willing to make payments online, but they strongly prefer to receive the bills on paper, by mail.
- Is Bt Cotton Unsuitable? (Hindu, K.R. Kranthi, Sep 05, 2005)
Bt cotton is the most potent and best available option for bollworm management in the country.
- National Curriculum Framework & The Social Sciences (Hindu, Romila Thapar, Sep 05, 2005)
Textbooks should certainly be child-friendly but it is equally necessary that the schoolteacher should be made child-friendly. Teachers need a more intensive exposure to social science concepts, changes in data and methods in history, and critical enquiry
- Of Signatures And Security (Daily Excelsior, Rajkumar Vijayveer Vikram Singh, Sep 05, 2005)
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) will come up for review by the end of this month. Since its inception in 1965, superpowers have converted ploughshares into spanners in their desperation to build up to that mythical level which would guarantee..
- Microsoft Ceo Vowed To 'Kill' Google, Says Ex-Employee (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2005)
Kill Google. That's what Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to do when one of his employees told him he was joining the internet search engine company,
- Peace Prospects After Gaza (Dawn, Maqbool Ahmad Bhatty, Sep 05, 2005)
The Israeli withdrawal of 8,000 Jewish settlers from the Gaza strip has been given high publicity in the western media,
- Universities Under Siege (Tribune, Sucha Singh Gill, Sep 05, 2005)
Having reasonably played a good and successful role the Indian university system as a whole is under siege.
- Regs: How To Make It Really Work (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Sep 05, 2005)
The Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, though laudable, is an idea that is beset with problems
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