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Articles 221 through 320 of 500:
- Dancing In The Seats (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 31, 2007)
The fall concert season has begun at music halls around the world, and audiences are again sitting in rapt attention with their hands folded quietly in their laps. Does anyone besides me find this odd?
- Economic Consequences Of Talibanisation (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Oct 31, 2007)
During the 1990s Pakistan’s annual growth rate averaged about 3 percent.
- Suicide Blast Kills 8 In Pindi Cantt (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2007)
Musharraf was meeting top officials half a kilometre away from explosion site
* Blast splatters checkpost at Gen Tariq’s house
- Lahore’S Heritage Needs Care (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 30, 2007)
NEGLECT threatens to deprive Lahore of its archaeological heritage. Its magnificent Mughal monuments are fast running the risk of losing their splendour to the fatal combination of pollution, human intervention and a lack of money and expertise . . .
- Need For Political Balance (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 30, 2007)
Each country should have a political system that suits its internal and external situation.
- Uproar Over The Nro (Dawn, Kaiser Bengali, Oct 30, 2007)
Benazir Bhutto’s return has evoked strong reactions. A section of society has raised a moral uproar over the National Reconciliation Ordinance that was promulgated before her arrival, claiming that she has been allowed to ‘escape justice. . . . .
- Elections Usher In A New Dawn In Poland (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Oct 30, 2007)
Parliamentary elections held on October 21 brought about the downfall of the extreme right Kaczynski twins, who as President and Prime Minister led the country for a disastrous two years.
- Fire At Radio Pakistan (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 30, 2007)
MILLIONS of rupees worth of infrastructure and equipment were lost in Sunday’s blaze that left the studios of the Radio Pakistan building in Karachi gutted.
- Saund’S Portrait To Be Unveiled In Us Cong (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
A portrait of Dalip Singh Saund, the first Indian American Congressman, will be unveiled in the US Congress next month.
- The Battle Of The Kurds (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 30, 2007)
Mardu, Iraq — It is a land of resistance, the mountain peaks and winding valleys where Iraq’s own Kurds battled Saddam Hussein for decades.
- This Too Shall Pass (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 30, 2007)
Some well-meaning commentators have sought to portray the present, with China’s new emphasis on a harmonious society and a harmonious world, as being propitious for a reconciliation between Beijing and the Dalai Lama.
- Half A Century Of Space Exploration (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Oct 30, 2007)
In terms of human lifespan, the space age that began with the launch of Sputnik-1, the world’s first artificial satellite, would count as comfortably middle-aged.
- Poles Apart (Tribune, SATISH K. SHARMA, Oct 30, 2007)
If women were from the Venus and men from the Mars, the latter should certainly be a satellite of the former.
- Gender Inequality In Politics (Hindu, Padmini Swaminathan, Oct 30, 2007)
Paxton and Hughes have put together a brilliant and detailed account of the current status of women’s position in politics and women’s political representation across diverse countries and regions of the world.
- Ufos Spotted In Kolkata (Deccan Herald, Prasanta Paul, Oct 30, 2007)
An Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) spotted and filmed for nearly three hours by a company executive in his digicam early on Monday created an unprecedented stir among the astronomers here who have so far failed to explain the phenomenon.
- Bulls Blitzkrieg Sees Sensex Kiss Mount 20k (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
The country's premier stock exchange BSE's frontline index on Monday crossed 20,000 mark in late trade but closed a shade lower at 19,978 points.
- Story Of A City (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Chennai Perunagarathin Kathai, 1600-1947: K.R.A.Narasiah; Palaniappa Brothers, Konar Mansion, 25, Peters Road, Chennai-600014. Rs. 275.
- Sensex Hits 20k, Makes Mukesh World’S Richest (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
The Sensex airbrushed a kiss to the magical 20,000 mark on Monday just 15 minutes before the close of trade as a new set of scrips boosted its fortunes.
- Us Courts Indian Politicians For Nuke Deal (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Oct 30, 2007)
The US is trying to convince various Indian politicians to salvage the Indo-US nuclear deal after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh failed to generate political consensus for it.
- A Firestorm, A Deluge And A Sharp Political Dig (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 30, 2007)
Efforts to reach out to victims of California's wildfires may be an attempt by the Bush administration to re-write the wrongs of Katrina.
- ‘Bandh’ Panic Strikes Trains (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
A “goof-up” by the Mugalsarai division of East Central Railway about a “Maoist bandh” in Bihar-Jharkhand today led the authorities to cancel and divert several trains plying along the Dhanbad division.
- Would Watson Be Different If He Were Black? (Hindu, Sujatha Byravan, Oct 30, 2007)
Does race matter for intelligence? In any case, what is race or even intelligence?
- Klm Mulls Mro Facility In India (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, the Netherlands based international airlines operating in India, is considering setting up a maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) facility in India.
- Royal Practice Enters 136th Year (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Darbar move, the royal practice of moving the entire capital from one place to another, may be unique to Jammu and Kashmir state. The practice was started by Maharaja Ranbir Singh 135 years ago, in 1872.
- Indian Police Find 14 Children Working In Sweatshop (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
With Gap Inc. under fire for selling clothes made by children in India, activists and police raided a sweatshop in New Delhi where 14 boys were embroidering women's garments Monday, illustrating the widespread problem of child labor in the South . . .
- Pakistan-India Trade From Porters To Trucks (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Pakistan and India have entered into mutual arrangement for cross-border movement of trucks transporting import and export cargo through Wagha. First Indian truck carrying import cargo crossed the border on October 1, 2007 under this arrangement.
- Tiger Airways Launches First Service To India (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Budget carrier Tiger Airways launched its first flight to India and a fifth service to southern China from its Singapore base Sunday.
- Pak Vows To Go Ahead With Iran Gas Pipeline F.P. Report (Frontier Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Pakistan said Monday that it would go ahead with the multi-billion Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project.
- Heavy Downpour Kills 11 In Andhra (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
The torrential downpour and the resultant floods under the impact of the depression in the Bay of Bengal have claimed 11 lives in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh.
- Argentina’S First Lady Now President (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Argentine first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner rode an economic boom and her husband's popularity to victory in a presidential election on Sunday to become the country's first elected woman leader.
- Higher Education: The Quality Issue (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Oct 30, 2007)
When an individual falls sick, only he and his family are affected. When institutions are affected, the ramifications are much more.
- Last Fort Of Democracy (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 30, 2007)
In the history of Indian judiciary, October 24 will be remembered as the day when neo-Nazis were at receiving end.
- Bulls Play Twenty-20 (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Again incredible feat by bulls on Monday! They took only six sessions to help Sensex cross record 20,000 point mark in intra-day trade on Monday considering the fact that the same had plunged to a low of 17,171.45 on October 22.
- Sensex Becomes World's 33rd Index To Scale 20k (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
India on Monday became the 20th nation in the world to have seen its stock market benchmark enter the league of bourses that have touched the 20,000-point milestone.
- Betrayal At Home (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Oct 30, 2007)
Of all living faiths and traditions in the world, probably only Hindus keep the god of love in their divine pantheon. Kamdev and his wife, Rati, retain a powerful grip on the Hindu imagination on account of their painful association with . . . .
- A Bridge To The Past (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 30, 2007)
There is more than that meets the eye with regard to the Dasara festivities held with traditional éclat in Mysore City.
- Indian Islamic Group Attacks Bbc Film For Bin Laden Link (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
A BBC documentary shown last night came under attack from one of India's largest Islamic groups for linking their movement to Osama bin Laden and "extremist" Muslim groups around the world.
- India-Usa Interests (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 30, 2007)
If there is a “natural alliance” between India and the United States, it arises to the extent that both are large democracies and more or less free societies that happen to be placed half way across the globe and pose no perceptible military threat . . .
- Special (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
If there is a “natural alliance” between India and the United States, it arises to the extent that both are large democracies and more or less free societies that happen to be placed half way across the globe and pose no perceptible . . . . .
- It’S India Time, Folks (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
When I came to India in September, the immigration official while checking my passport asked me about the book I was carrying. And then went on to ask if it was good.
- Fall In Love At First Sight (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
It was the lovely, sunny weather that so tempted you to step out — to walk, cycle or just stretch out on the sweet-smelling grass.
- Eco Break (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Wildertrails has launched “Cauvery river trail,” a Diwali getaway package. The eco and adventure camp will be from November 9 to 12 (four days and three nights).
- That French Feel (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
The French Tourist Office in India is celebrating “French Connection 2007” in full swing these days. As part of it, it is working towards publicising Rhone Alps as an ideal vacation spot for the Indian globetrotters.
- Unaware Of Gold (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Oct 29, 2007)
Britannia has long ceased to rule the waves. No matter, thanks to the American century, English has retained its dominance on the global stage.
- In Modi’S Best Interests (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 29, 2007)
On the face of it, the latest sting operation by Tehelka, also being telecast on TV, appears to expose those responsible for the post-Godhra riots in Gujarat in February 2002.
- Dirty Business (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 29, 2007)
There is déjà vu about the report that the government is preparing to remove the hurdles to the entry of Dow Chemical, which has bought Union Carbide into India in a big way.
- Valparai Awaits Tourism Infrastructure (Hindu, M. Gunasekaran, Oct 29, 2007)
Coimbatore district administration’s efforts to make Valparai a favourite tourist destination are yet to fructify owing to lack of proper accommodation for tourists.
- Contempt Of Court And The Truth (Hindu, Anil Divan, Oct 29, 2007)
The contest is between truth and its suppression. The choice then is between the plea of truth to expose judicial misconduct and the attempt to stifle such publication by the use of the contempt power.
- Globalisation:new Challenges (Deccan Herald, MARIO SOARES, Oct 29, 2007)
Recent developments show, the world is now on the way to a multi-polar arrangement.
- Argentine First Lady Claims Victory (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Argentina's glamorous first lady, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, claimed victory on Sunday in her bid to succeed her husband and become the first woman in her country's history to be elected president.
- Low Cost Treatment In India Attracts Britons (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
India has emerged as the most popular destination for medical treatment among British patients. A survey ranks India at the top for its cheap and quality medical care.
- Gujarat Has Outgrown Riot (Pioneer, Swapan Dasgupta, Oct 29, 2007)
A decade ago, during President Clinton's embarrassment over his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, the White House spin doctors excelled themselves.
- Baseless And Prejudiced (Pioneer, KR Phanda, Oct 29, 2007)
To write critically about a religion and its community is one thing, but to denigrate them deliberately is quite another.
- A Portrait Of Honour For Dalip Singh Saund (Pioneer, S Rajagopalan, Oct 29, 2007)
The US Congress is to honour Dalip Singh Saund, the first Asian American to enter the Congress exactly 50 years ago, by unveiling an official portrait in the hallowed Capitol building on November 7.
- Trip Down The Musical Lane (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Last week I called Manna Dey on phone at his Bangalore residence. The objective was to telephonically record his thoughts on Suraiyya, the legendary singer.
- Drawing The Line Of Distrust (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
For observers and students of international politics, the final quarter of the 20th century was truly overwhelming.
- Return Of The Far-Right (Deccan Herald, Soumaya Ghannoushi, Oct 29, 2007)
Some quasi-liberals continuously ask how we can be tolerant with people who preach intolerance --by whom they mean, of course, Muslims.
- It’S A “Treasure For Mankind,” Says Sonia (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday visited the world famous Terracotta Warriors museum in Xi’an, where the first contacts were made between the ancient Chinese capital and India.
- Janadesh Rally Resolves To Fight For Land Rights (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Janadesh-2007, the march of nearly 25,000 landless tillers, labourers, Dalits and tribals, who have been deprived of their land rights, reached the Capital on Sunday with the resolve that they would not return unless the Government accepted their . . . .
- Ronen Sen To Appear Before Privileges Panel Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Ronen Sen, India’s Ambassador to the United States, will appear before the Privileges Committee of the Lok Sabha on Monday in connection with the privilege issue pending against him for his controversial “headless chickens” comment . . . . .
- Cpm Men Fired At Me, Says Mamata (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday claimed that CPI(M) activists shot at her car near Sherkhan Chowk in Nandigram, West Bengal, as she was travelling in a convoy of vehicles.
- Love, Unhurried (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
No one writes quite like Michael Ondaatje. Referred to as a poetic novelist, his writing is set apart by the sensuality he imbues his prose and characters with. Divisadero, his latest offering, is his most intimate work.
- Korea Calling (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
When a work assignment led me to Korea, I was quick to do my research.
- 4 Indians Seized In Nigeria (Asian Age, R. Bhagwan Singh, Oct 29, 2007)
In yet another case of the infamous abductions for ransom in Nigeria, four Indians — three young technicians from a village in Tamil Nadu and one from Thane in Maharashtra — were picked up along with two Polish crew by armed militants from . . . .
- ‘Nehru’S Policies Caused Kashmir Problem’ (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Accusing successive Congress governments of "inept handling" of internal security, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani on Sunday said the "faulty" policies of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru are responsible for the Kashmir problem.
- Evolution & Impasse ~Ii (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 29, 2007)
There was a time when Marxism promised to provide a major plank for an ideological and political assault on the bourgeois civilisation.
- Memories Of Horror (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 29, 2007)
The collector of Ahmedabad has ordered the blackout of TV channels beaming the sting operation of the post-Godhra pogrom.
- A Day In The Prison (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
It was our third visit to San Francisco. I was determined not to miss the visit to Alcatraz, which had somehow eluded us the first two times.
- Romancing The Dragon (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Those who see India's growing closeness to the US as an indication that New Delhi has mortgaged the independence of its foreign policy should feel reassured by Sonia Gandhi's visit to China, which followed close on the heels of . . . . .
- Should Us Fix History? (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Oct 29, 2007)
The Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives (lower house), on October 10, bravely passed a resolution that, among other things, a systematic campaign had been undertaken to kill Armenians in Turkey between . . . . .
- Role And Risks Of Sovereign Wealth Funds (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 29, 2007)
The latest issue of Finance & Development, an official publication of the International Monetary Fund, has an authoritative article on the rise of sovereign wealth funds — funds owned by State Governments of countries.
- Honouring Culture And Creativity (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 29, 2007)
IN your presence, Pablo Neruda, and on the metallic chair that you have prepared to meet your visitors by the entrance of your house in Valparaiso (Chile); I recall what is stuck in my memory, of your personal life history and your poetic path.
- ‘In The Tulsidas Ramayan, Sita Is Not Ram’S Wife But His Sister. Only In The Valmiki Ramayan Is She His Wife’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 29, 2007)
Do you think that, over the last 10-15 years, coalition politics has been the antidote to the poison of separatism?
- ‘Israel Planned To Hit Kahuta From India’S Jamnagar Base’ (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
India and Israel secretly planned to hit nuclear facility in Kahuta near Islamabad in 1983-84 but backed off when the CIA tipped off Pakistan’s then president Gen Ziaul Haq.
- Nine Killed In Fresh Nandigram Violence (Tribune, Subhrangshu Gupta, Oct 29, 2007)
Three gunshots were fired at Mamata Banerjee’s vehicle while she was proceeding to Nandigram village around 3 pm today.
- 'Hillary Ignored Bill's Romantic Affairs' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, it appears, was more focused on her presidential dreams than with her husband's sexual dalliances in and outside the White House between 1992 and 2000.
- India’S Road To Intelligent Urbanism (Indian Express, Sujatha Byravan, Oct 29, 2007)
With the recent spate of flyover constructions in Chennai, pedestrians and bicyclists have been swept out of the main thoroughfares as if they don’t even exist.
- India Must Act On N-Deal: Us (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
The Indo-US nuclear deal would immensely help India in meeting its energy requirements and it is essential that India work out its own political mechanism to make the deal operational at the earliest, US Treasury Secretary Henry M Paulson . . .
- Family Tales (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
These stories reflect the lifestyle of a typical middle-class household in Kerala sixty years ago.
- Looking Back At Life (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Three names that have dominated the Indian screen over the last half century are Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand. They went through the most fascinating formative years of Indian Films.
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