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Articles 12421 through 12520 of 17201:
- Pak-India Nuclear Hotline (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 08, 2005)
Pakistan and India have agreed to set up a telephone hotline to reduce the risk of a nuclear accident and also notify each other before testing ballistic missiles.
- Chief Concern (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 07, 2005)
Stick to the knitting is a slogan that has been made memorable by the famous management guru, Mr C.K. Prahlad.
- Nuclear Row: Iran Rejects Eu’S Offer (Deccan Herald, Reuters, Aug 07, 2005)
The Islamic republic has declared that it would restart work at the Isfahan uranium conversion plant by next Friday, but it would be only under IAEA supervision.
- Partition’S Hinge (Telegraph, MUKUL KESAVAN, Aug 07, 2005)
How separatist Muslim politics took root between 1937 and 1942
- Apostle Of Peace And Non-Violence (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Aug 07, 2005)
It is difficult to believe but it is true. Another Gandhi-like colossus has appeared on the scene.
- A Steam Odyssey (Hindu, BILL AITKEN, Aug 07, 2005)
Once the Darjeeeling toy train won its spurs, it was only a matter of time before the Nilgiri Mountain Railway would have to be internationally acknowledged in the UNESCO World Heritage List. India becomes the only country to flaunt two feathers in its tr
- At Home On Water (Hindu, GOUTAM GHOSH, Aug 07, 2005)
Manual fishing is an art. Will it lose out to deep sea trawling?
- Facing Terrorism, British Style (Tribune, Col (retd.) P.K. Vasudeva, Aug 07, 2005)
The efficiency with which the police and other emergency services swung into action soon after the London attacks of July 7 is indeed commendable.
- The Second Prime Ministerial Embrace For August 15 (Indian Express, N K Singh, Aug 07, 2005)
Time passes quickly. It was exactly one year ago that I wrote my first column, ‘‘A prime ministerial embrace for August 15’’.
- Deferred Fee Option To Contain Brain Drain (Hindu, Pawan Agarwal, Aug 07, 2005)
Raise resources, transfer risk of unemployment and retain talent
- Singh’S Us Visit And After (Dawn, A.B. Shahid, Aug 07, 2005)
The variety of negative reactions to the statements he made during his visit to the US must have shocked Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He is an economist par excellence but, may be, not nearly as good a politician.
- Banks Advised To Restructure Debts Of Cotton Farmers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2005)
Centre providing financial, technological assistance: Minister
- Challenges Before New Saudi Ruler (Dawn, Maqbool Ahmad Bhatty, Aug 07, 2005)
The reign of King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz may have technically started when King Fahd breathed his last on August 1 but new king has exercised most of the executive authority in the kingdom since 1995,
- Military Action Alone Cannot Contain Terrorism, Says Alva (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2005)
Solution lies in dialogue and undoing the injustices of the past
- The Bombing Of Hiroshima Was Policy (Hindu, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Aug 06, 2005)
It was not uniquely wicked. It was part of a policy for the mass killing of civilians.
- Lessons Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki (Hindu, M. S. Swaminathan , Aug 06, 2005)
The voice of sanity of the survivors of the 1945 nuclear annihilation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is yet to be heard. States that possess nuclear weapons should not lose even a day in working towards eliminating them.
- State Of Relations With The Us (Dawn, Javid Husain, Aug 06, 2005)
Now NOW that the initial government-encouraged euphoria over the recent offer by Washington to sell F-16 aircraft to Islamabad....
- Let’S Talk About Hiroshima (Indian Express, C. Uday Bhaskar, Aug 06, 2005)
A few years ago I attended a Pugwash Conference on nuclear disarmament in Europe and part of the interaction was with a group of school children.
- Why People Leave (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 05, 2005)
Employee retention is posing a big headache to organisations, especially in the corporate sector, and more particularly in the context of global mobility of talents and skills.
- Judges Need To Exercise Restraint (Hindu, Markandey Katju, Aug 05, 2005)
Why a judiciary at all? How should justice be administered? How should judges respond when people take them to task? How should they respond to public criticism? What about the law's delays? The Chief Justice of the Madras High Court provides some
- Combating Cancer (Tribune, Arup Chanda, Aug 05, 2005)
The famous “Raman effect” ultimately did have an effect of the Nobel Laureate, Sir C.V. Raman’s family.
- Pakistan's Madrassas In Perspective (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 05, 2005)
The attempts of West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya to set his state on the trajectory of high growth are being scuttled by his own party colleagues. A prestigious deal with the Salem Group from Indonesia to create a township in . . .
- Patka’ In France (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 05, 2005)
THE French authorities have rightly taken a positive step in allowing Sikh students to wear ‘patkas’ or under-turbans while at school.
- Tcs Pact With Italian Firm (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 05, 2005)
Drug discovery through computer programme
- India Took A Calculated Risk, Says Manmohan Singh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 05, 2005)
Opening civilian nuclear energy sector to inspections is a risk worth taking: Prime Minister
- Us Shift On India Nuclear Policy Tilts Regional Balance (Christian Science Monitor, editorial, Christian Science Monitor, Aug 04, 2005)
Perhaps nowhere else do American foreign policymakers face more contradictions than in the area stretching from Israel to Korea.
- G-8’S Some Positive Initiatives (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 04, 2005)
The Economic Coordination Committee of the Cabinet has allowed import of sugar from India to stabilize the domestic prices.
- State Knows Best (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 04, 2005)
The last socialist bastion is a pathetic faith in the state. A bizarre manifestation of this faith is the formation,
- Reliance To Double Refining Capacity (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2005)
Project will be completed in 2008-09
- `India Made A Junior Partner Of The U.S.' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2005)
Can we separate nuclear facilities, asks Vajpayee
- Mutual Funds Must Invest In Transparency (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Aug 04, 2005)
A large body of investors may want to take advantage of a high equity market via the mutual fund route.
- A Cloudy Alternative (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 04, 2005)
DARK CLOUDS APPEAR to be stealing over the Kyoto Protocol with the signing last week in Laos of the `Asia-Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate' among four Asian countries
- Policy Response Should Be Well Informed About The Costs And Benefits Of Offshoring (Business Line, D. Murali , Aug 04, 2005)
As professionals in the truth business, it is only but fair that we read a hot report titled Truth and consequences of offshoring' by L. Josh Bivens, posted on http://epinet.org, the site of the Economic Policy Institute.
- A Bad Deal With India (Washington Post, Lawrence J. Korb and Peter Ogden, Aug 03, 2005)
Many of the people who are made uncomfortable by President Bush's ideologically driven foreign policy have been pleasantly surprised by his recent decision to supply India with nuclear energy technology.
- Sweeping India Off Its Feet (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 03, 2005)
Whether we make the nuclear club status or not depends on India’s Parliament and the US Congress.
- Get Weather Forecasting Right (Indian Express, ADITI MALIK , Aug 03, 2005)
Sitting here in Hong Kong, I was struck by the difference in the way the Hong Kong Observatory functions when compared with the Met in Mumbai.
- Unlearnt Lesson Of Hiroshima (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Aug 03, 2005)
Sixty years ago on August 6, 1945, President Harry Truman issued a statement in Washington saying, “Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, Japan and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.
- Relate Key Values To Work (Tribune, Patricia Kitchen, Aug 03, 2005)
There she was — at the pinnacle of the academic community. An assistant professor at Harvard University.
- The Climate Change Deal (Tribune, T.P. Sreenivasan, Aug 03, 2005)
Important India-US deals seem to “come not single spies, but in battalions”, now that mutual suspicion and distrust have given way to trust and confidence.
- Classrooms Without Commoners (Times of India, ANIL SADGOPAL, Aug 03, 2005)
The recent debate at the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) on the draft Free and Compulsory Education Bill generated more heat than light.
- The Treaty-Wreckers (Deccan Herald, George Monbiot, Aug 03, 2005)
In just a few months, Bush and Blair have destroyed global restraint on the development of nuclear weapons
- Lca And Project Management (Deccan Herald, S R Valluri, Aug 03, 2005)
The Indian LCA programme should have a full time DG-ADA who is professionally knowledgeable
- Can Examinations Be Stress Free? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 03, 2005)
The rapidly expanding regime of examinations for admission to higher education courses has generated, in recent years, a great deal of debate on the extreme anxiety that it subjects young people to.
- Open Source Software Is A Movement That Is Gathering Momentum (Business Line, D. Murali , Aug 03, 2005)
It may be a matter of time before the Rs 9,990-price tag of HCL on the people's PC launched a couple of days ago loses its sheen,
- The Booming Nuclear Weapons Business (Hindu, George Monbiot, Aug 03, 2005)
August 6 is the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The nuclear powers are commemorating it in their own special way: by seeking to ensure that the experiment is repeated.
- Informal Relations (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 02, 2005)
The peace process is not affected by new Indo-US ties
- Iran To Take Right Step (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 02, 2005)
Iran has threatened to resume ultrasensitive nuclear activity including resumption of uranium conversion on Monday in the absence of EU’s latest proposals in a mooted nuclear deal in the ongoing talks on its atomic programme. The move, however, . . . .
- Ngos, Locals Focus On Slums (Hindu, Meena Menon, Aug 02, 2005)
More than essential items, the flood-ravaged people need reassurance
situation analysis carried out in some slums reveals that people are suffering from water borne diseases on a large scale
People are still living in knee-deep water in many slums in
- Fdi Needs Micro-Micro Reforms (Business Line, Sumit K. Majumdar, Aug 02, 2005)
Foreign Direct Investment enters a country only if it is competitive so that foreign firms can benefit from its presence. On the other hand, FDI is also expected to enhance a country's competitiveness.
- New `Knowledge' And The Farming Community (Business Line, Jayati Ghosh, Aug 02, 2005)
How farmers get access to knowledge and information about new and existing technologies can be critical in determining the viability of cultivation.
- Sin' Tax: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't (Business Line, Madan Sabnavis, Aug 02, 2005)
Should cigarette smoking be banned because it is injurious to health?
- Cool Technology (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 02, 2005)
US-Asia-Pacific partnership on clean development to deal with emissions
- The Age Of Displacement (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Aug 02, 2005)
Parliament’s enthusiastic approval of the bill on dual citizenship, the arrest of yet another London bombings suspect and the Irish Republican Army’s promise to lay down arms all bear out Eric Hobsbawm’s definition of the 21st century as the age of . . .
- Decoding The India Inc. Boom (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 02, 2005)
India Inc Is once again abuzz with news of surging profits and sales. Ever since the watershed of 1991, Indian business has seen at least three cycles of euphoria followed by depression, the most stressful being the 1998-2001 period.
- Heart Surgery For Rs 5 A Month (Tribune, Jangveer Singh, Aug 02, 2005)
Twenty -year-old Prasanna, a farmer from Tumkur district of Karnataka, would have normally wasted away after he was stricken with a heart disease.
- Mind And Matter (Times of India, MUKUL SHARMA, Aug 02, 2005)
In the science fiction novel The Janis Drive, Earth astronauts come across a derelict alien spacecraft with the skeletal remains of the extraterrestrial pilot still sitting at the controls.
- New Opportunities For Nuclear Energy (Hindu, M. R. Srinivasan, Aug 02, 2005)
The negotiations with international partners following the India-U.S. nuclear deal cannot be left to diplomats and civil servants, but must be entrusted to acknowledged leaders in the nuclear field.
- Clueless Amidst Swirling Water (Indian Express, Arun Bapat, Aug 01, 2005)
Mumbai, the financial capital of India, has suffered gravely due to the unprecedented rainfall on July 26 and 27. Rail, road and air transport as well as telephones were thrown out of order.
- Learning Losses (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 01, 2005)
Alarming decline in students opting for science stream
- Power Of The Image (Times of India, KIRAN KARNIK, Aug 01, 2005)
Lessons from satellite broadcasting in India
- Regional Market, Key To Asian Oil Security (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Aug 01, 2005)
The Union Petroleum Minister, Mr Mani Shankar Aiyar, is quite correct when he says that the accident at ONGC's Bombay High North will not compromise India's energy security.
- The Truth About Abu Ghraib (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 01, 2005)
For 15 months now the Bush administration has insisted that the horrific photographs of abuse from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were the result of freelance behaviour by low-level personnel and had nothing to do with its policies.
- Why They Hate Us (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 01, 2005)
There have been thousand of stories about why people hate Americans (789,543 to be exact), but only five as to why the world likes Americans.
- Promising Research And Ethical Issues (Deccan Herald, JAYALAKSHMI K, Aug 01, 2005)
India has great potential in stem cell research but there is need for a mechanism to regulate it
- Nuisance Value (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 01, 2005)
A ban should be imposed on cell phone use in institutions
- Threat To Russia's Hold On Caucasus (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Aug 01, 2005)
Chechen rebels have fanned out to neighbouring territories, particularly Dagestan, increasing the pressure on Moscow.
- Uti-I To Exit From Subsidiaries (Business Line, Sarbajeet K. Sen, Aug 01, 2005)
While the future of UTI Mutual Fund remains hazy, clarity is emerging on the roadmap for its twin outfit - the Specified Undertaking of Unit Trust of India (SUUTI) also called UTI-I.
- Forests: For A Holistic, Futuristic Vision (Hindu, MANOJ KUMAR MISRA, Jul 31, 2005)
Replace the Wildlife Protection Act (WPA) 1972, the Indian Forest Act (IFA) 1927 and the Forest (Tribal Rights) Bill 2005 with an integrated piece of legislation.
- At State, Rice Takes Control Of Diplomacy (Washington Post, Robin Wright, Jul 31, 2005)
Three weeks after taking office, Condoleezza Rice hosted Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and their Japanese counterparts at the State Department.
- A New Environment (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 31, 2005)
Why, after being so implacably opposed for so long to the Kyoto protocol, did the US perform a U-turn on Thursday? To the complete surprise of even its closest allies, it announced a new pact with five Asian-Pacific states to cut greenhouse gases.
- India’S Quest For Nuclear Status (Dawn, Ghayoor Ahmed, Jul 31, 2005)
According to a joint statement issued in Washington on July 18, US President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have resolved to transform the relationship between their two countries and establish a global partnership in areas of....
- The Best In Us (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 30, 2005)
It is a commonplace saying that a crisis brings out the best and the worst in a nation.
- The Tale Of A Finger (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jul 30, 2005)
The fire engulfing an ONGC oil-processing platform in North Bombay High is no doubt a major incident on the country's oil scene.
- Beyond Kyoto (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 30, 2005)
Concerns expressed in Parliament over India's decision to join the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate are not entirely unfounded.
- Pm’S Statement In Parliament On Us Visit (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 30, 2005)
The purpose of my visit was to sensitise the US Government about the full extent of the changes that have taken place in India since 1991.
- Reaching For The Stars (Times of India, JAYANT V NARLIKAR, Jul 30, 2005)
Higher education should fuse teaching, research to improve
- A Chaos Theory For Mumbai (Indian Express, Amrita Shah, Jul 30, 2005)
There are many ways to look at the crisis brought about by the sudden and unexpected intensity of the monsoon in Mumbai last week. As a tragedy: people died, in landslides and on the streets.
- It Is Just Eyewash Mr President (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 30, 2005)
President Pervez Musharraf and his US counterpart George Bush spoke by telephone on Thursday. The latter is reported to have assured the former that the recent Indo-US defence pact was not directed against Pakistan and Washington would not allow the . . .
- Your Neighbourhood Kirana-Wala May Not Want You To Read This (Business Line, D. Murali , Jul 30, 2005)
Retailing one of the few sectors in India where foreign direct investment (FDI) is not currently allowed, writes L. Mansingh in his message at the start of a new book from Academic Foundation (www.academicfoundation.com), FDI in Retail Sector India, . . .
- "No Compromise On Strategic Assets" (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Jul 30, 2005)
India will retain "unrestricted, complete" control over military nuclear programme
India's commitments conditional
Three-stage nuclear programme will continue
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