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Articles 421 through 520 of 500:
- For Clean Politics? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 25, 2007)
SO much positive has happened in Pakistan since July. Let us note it to make us happy:
- Need For Choices In Fata (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 25, 2007)
GEARING up for the next general elections, political activists in Fata demanded on Tuesday that the Political Parties’ Act (PPA) of 1962 be extended to the tribal areas.
- Amazon Sold Online — To Protect It (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 25, 2007)
How do you save the Amazon rainforest? Easy. All you need is a bit of cash and a computer.
- Climate Change And Extinction Of Species (Hindu, Alok Jha, Oct 25, 2007)
Rising global temperatures caused by climate change could trigger a huge extinction of plants and animals, according to a study.
- The Far-Right Revives Old Prejudices In Europe (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The idea that the continent is being Islamised is a figment of the imagination of the Right.
- I Have The Blues (Hindu, NANDINI NAIR , Oct 25, 2007)
We first got peanuts. But we’re still making music. We’re not rich. But we’re rich musically.” Sitting in a dimly lit Blues club, appropriately called Haze, Rudy of Soulmate describes his musical passions.
- Print Pick (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Dev Anand is something of a Bollywood institution. For generations of filmgoers he has remained Hindi cinema’s most charismatic personality.
- Singh Raises New Hope Over Nuclear Deal (Dawn, Y.P. Rajesh, Oct 25, 2007)
India’s beleaguered prime minister is determined to push a nuclear deal with the United States despite stiff opposition from his communist allies, a lobbying group quoted him as saying.
- Un Rights Official To Seek 'Free Access' In Myanmar (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
A top UN human rights official vowed on Wednesday to seek ‘free access’ during his visit to Myanmar next month, as well as a full accounting of how many people died in recent anti-government protests.
- We're Off To A Good Start (Times of India, Manmohan Singh , Oct 25, 2007)
India is a nation on the move. I am confident that our time has come.
- Book On Indian Press And Its Links With Social Reform Released (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
“A book such as this requires no marketing or promotion. It is almost like a history of modern India and raises relevant questions.
- Militant’S Family Told To Leave India (Tribune, Shariq Majeed, Oct 25, 2007)
In a damage-control exercise, the Crime Investigation Department has reportedly asked the family of a hardcore militant travelling to India to leave the country. The security and intelligence agencies had cleared their visit to India.
- He Lost 22 Family Members In Tribal Invasion (Tribune, Tejinder Singh Sodhi, Oct 25, 2007)
While the entire country will be celebrating 60 years of accession of Jammu and Kashmir with the union of India, the horrific memories of Partition are still haunting 75-year-old Jagdish Lal Tandon, who lost 22 of his family members in . . . .
- The Himank Roadsigns (Tribune, Harish Dhillon, Oct 25, 2007)
THE National Highway between Manali and Leh , maintained by the Himank project, is one of the most daunting engineering projects human beings have ever attempted.
- Ec Makes Microsoft Climb Down (Tribune, Roopinder Singh, Oct 25, 2007)
WHO wants to share confidential information that would enable competitors to compete better? Almost no one, and certainly not Microsoft, which has been resisting attempts by the European Union and earlier by US regulators, to make it part with . . . .
- Let Sensex Soar Higher (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 25, 2007)
In American writer JW De Forest's long ago novel, Honest John Vane, written in 1875 and first serialised in The Atlantic, Darius Dorman, a broker, advises Honest John, erstwhile ice-box manufacturer-turned-Republican Congressman:
- Open Society (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 25, 2007)
The United States of America is a country where there are no Americans. This paradox dissolves in the face of the reality that the few original Americans who exist live in reservations.
- Boats Ply, Dolphins Die (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Tourists visiting the Chilika Lake may soon miss the sight of the rare Irrawaddy dolphins that are in peril owing to the threat posed by unregulated operation of a large number of mechanised boats and ferries carrying tourists to the lake.
- Big Blaze Empties California Homes (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Dying winds gave California firefighters their first big break today after four days battling wildfires, but San Diego faced more calamity as blazes there burned out of control and kept more than half-a-million evacuees from returning home.
- Sudden Bonhomie (Pioneer, Ajoy Bose, Oct 25, 2007)
The Indian establishment is virtually bending over backwards in expressing dismay at the recent attack on Benazir Bhutto, officially a nobody in Pakistan at the moment.
- Iaf Carrier Of Prez, Pm Turns 60 (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The IAF’s communication squadron, the official carrier of the President, Vice-President, Prime Minister, visiting heads of the states and a host of other dignitaries today turned 60 with eyes on modernising its fleet with the addition . . . .
- Over 5 Lakh People Evacuated As California's Wildfires Rage (Pioneer, S Rajagopalan, Oct 25, 2007)
In the biggest evacuation in California's history, more than 500,000 people have been moved out of their homes as wildfires, fanned by strong winds, raged for the fourth day across the southern parts of the state.
- Monkey Menace (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 25, 2007)
Unlike other cities in India, or, for that matter, national capitals around the world, Delhi has a unique problem: A simian population that continues to grow in size despite the fast shrinking open and green spaces.
- Karnataka’S Thriving Tibetan Settlement (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
With heavy maroon robes flapping in the wind, auto-rickshaws speeding down an empty road, seated inside are three bald novices, Buddhist monks on their way to Kushalnagar to watch a film.
- 9-11 Not That Terrible, Says Nobel Laureate (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Doris Lessing, the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, has risked incurring the wrath of Americans by accusing them of overreacting to the 11 September attacks on the Twin Towers, which she said were really “not that terrible”.
- Protests Over Land Rights In India (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
On a hot, dusty highway some 40 miles (70km) from Delhi, a human column snakes its way towards the Indian capital carrying a unique message of defiance to the country's leaders: "Give us back our land."
- Poor But Defiant, Thousands March On Delhi In Fight For Land Rights (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
On a hot, dusty highway some 40 miles (70km) from Delhi, a human column snakes its way towards the Indian capital carrying a unique message of defiance to the country's leaders: "Give us back our land."
- More Intriguing Than Interesting (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 25, 2007)
WHEN a delegation of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement arrived at Bilawal House earlier this week to condole with the provincial leadership of the Pakistan People’s Party over the tragic incidents of Oct 18, it was a major step forward on the rather . . . .
- The Unfinished Agenda Of Economic Reform (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
There is no lack of thinking on what needs to be done to sustain and further accelerate growth.
- The Question Of Inequality (Frontline, Praful Bidwai, Oct 25, 2007)
Income and wealth inequalities are rising alarmingly in India but they barely figure in public discourse. Yet, they threaten to undermine social cohesion.
- City With A Future (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
IN his “edict”, Le Corbusier summed up his own estimation of what he had accomplished with Chandigarh by saying that it was planned to “human scale”. The city’s architect had attempted to put its residents in touch with nature, while allowing for . . . .
- General (Retd.) S.F. Rodrigues (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
GENERAL (retd.) S.F. Rodrigues took over as Administrator for the Union Territory of Chandigarh and Governor of Punjab in November 2004. In this interview, he speaks of his vision for the development of the city. Excerpts:
- A Disk Revolution (Frontline, R. Ramachandran, Oct 25, 2007)
THE first computer hard disk drive (HDD) was introduced by IBM in 1956. Called the 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), this first data storage system comprised 50 disks, each about 60 metres in diameter, and stored about five . . .
- Sarabhai's Vision (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Governments lay down policies, but their implementation depends a lot on the personality and outlook of officials who, in turn, influence policymaking.
- Southern Revolt (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The book identifies the revolt by sepoys in Vellore in 1806 as what Hobsbawm calls “proto nationalism”.
- Other Voices Pushto Press (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 25, 2007)
ISLAMABAD has finally announced a sub-jirga tasked with implementing decisions of a Pakistan-Afghanistan peace forum, pinning down the causes of militant attacks in the region and suggesting ways of tackling extremism.
- A Fair Investigation? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 25, 2007)
AS the debris and smoke of the bomb attack on Benazir Bhutto settled, one thing was clear: the battle with militancy in Pakistan has been raised to a new level.
- Cinema And Real Life (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 24, 2007)
A society of castes not only creates a diabolical mind but also kills all values of humanity. The caste cultural values force us to speak morality but makes us act on immoral beliefs...
- Secure Flight Insecurities (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 24, 2007)
The US Department of Homeland Security and its Transportation Security Administration (TSA) have been going ahead with something that could keep a lot of blameless people off planes, no matter what theyre wearing, and might fill up dossiers with . . .
- Signals From Ceasfire (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Oct 24, 2007)
The United Jihad Council is desperate to join in the political dialogue on Jammu and Kashmir’s future, but it may be too late.
- Haryana Has A New Partner In U.S. State (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
A Declaration of Partnership between Haryana and the U.S. State of Minnesota was signed in New Delhi on Tuesday to promote “active exchange of ideas, knowledge, and people as it relates to trade and investment, science and . . . . .
- Save The Lions (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 24, 2007)
Efforts to save the Asiatic lion from extinction have suffered a grievous blow with five lions being electrocuted near the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary in Gujarat.
- Nasa Air Safety Survey Throws Up Disturbing Results (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Anxious to avoid upsetting air travellers, NASA is withholding results from an unprecedented national survey of pilots that found safety problems like near-collisions and runway interference occur far more frequently than the US Government . . . .
- Politics On The Move (Indian Express, D K Singh, Oct 24, 2007)
Think of a block Congress president riding a spanking new Toyota Innova on the narrow, pot-holed lanes of a Gujarat village. Senior Congress leaders are already chuckling at the thought of Life-After-Innova for all the block and district Congress . . . .
- Shape Of Things To Come (Business Line, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 24, 2007)
The Harvard Business Online recently had an interesting write-up about a survey undertaken by Dr Tom Stewart, the editor of Harvard Business Review, and Dr Gary Hamel, Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London. . .
- The Common Enemy (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 24, 2007)
THE reiteration of commitment by India and Pakistan on Monday to working together to curb terrorism in their countries is welcome.
- Pakistan And Its Prisoners Of Destiny (Hindu, Ramesh Thakur, Oct 24, 2007)
Benazir Bhutto knows how to press the right buttons when speaking to Western audiences through the mass media.
- Benazir Bhutto To Avoid Mass Rallies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
The former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Tuesday she had received a new death threat but will start campaigning in Pakistini cities in the next couple of days, avoiding mass rallies.
- Did Speeding Cops Put Dutt At Risk To Evade Media? (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Did the police escort carrying actor Sanjay Dutt risk their lives on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway by over-speeding on Monday night?
- Sonia’S Kow-Tow (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Oct 24, 2007)
That Congress president Sonia Gandhi is heading to China later this week is good news.
- Australian Survivor Of Garuda Crash Wants Pilots Charged (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
The pilots of the Garuda plane which crashed in Indonesia this year killing 21 people should face criminal charges, an Australian survivor of the disaster said on Wednesday.
- Sonia Plans China Visit (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Even as the Left parties are giving sleepless nights to the UPA government led by her party over the India-US civil nuclear agreement, Congress president Sonia Gandhi is embarking on a five-day goodwill visit to Communist-ruled China from Thursday.
- Q&a: 'Cabinet Secretariat Has To Act As A Facilitator' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 24, 2007)
In a first of its kind in federal governance, Union cabinet secretary K M Chandrashekhar travelled with 18 officials — most of them secretary-level officers in Union ministries — to Ranchi for a day in September, checked into Raj Bhavan and . . . .
- Merkel To Visit Next Week, Unlikely To Focus On N-Deal (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Stuck in the domestic political compulsions, India’s nuclear deal with the United States is unlikely to figure prominently during German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to the country next week which will see a range of bilateral agreements . . . .
- Time Running Out For Nuke Deal: Burns (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Time is running out for a landmark nuclear deal between India and the United States that has been stalled by opposition from four leftist parties in India, a top U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday.
- Threat To Bhutto: Qaeda Woman Will Strike (Asian Age, Shafqat Ali, Oct 24, 2007)
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has received an assassination threat from a follower of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
- Big Brother Is Watching... (Tribune, KIM MURPHY, Oct 24, 2007)
GLOUCESTER, UK – The closed-circuit television camera lurking just down the street from the fast-food restaurant bellows menacingly at the first sign of a cast-off cigarette butt or fast-food wrapper. “Pick it up,” commands a booming voice . . . .
- The Bb-Musharraf Equation (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Oct 24, 2007)
Ms Benazir Bhutto has expressed dissatisfaction with the first official report submitted to President Pervez Musharraf on the October 18 suicide-bombing on her rally, and has disclosed some more information to a foreign TV network about who she. . .
- Sindh Governor For 'Two Bombers' Theory (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
The bomb blasts targeting former premier Benazir Bhutto resembled attacks by Al-Qaeda and their allied Pakistani militants and were the work of two suicide bombers, the governor of Sindh province has said.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 24, 2007)
High-voltage talks are on this week to counter terrorism in the subcontinent, and it may just be coincidental that the move comes in the wake of explosions in Ajmer, Ludhiana and Karachi.
- Valley Of Stupas (Frontline, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 24, 2007)
The Krishna Valley region has a rich heritage of Buddhist art befitting one of the greatest centres of Buddhism.
- Award For University Hall (Frontline, LYLA BAVADAM, Oct 24, 2007)
“SUPERB interdisciplinary technical achievement … elegant renewal of one of the city’s finest Victorian buildings.”
- Growth Through Social Justice (Frontline, John M. Alexander , Oct 24, 2007)
Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him.
- A Radical Legacy (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Bhagat Singh and his comrades belong to those momentous decades in Indian history – the late 1920s and 30s – when options were more open, popular aspirations ran high and “revolution” and “national liberation” were current in the political . . . .
- Us Treasury Secretary To Visit India (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
The US Treasury Secretary Henry M Paulson Jr will be visiting India this week where he would meet senior government officials including Finance Minister P Chidambaram and business leaders.
- The Yasukuni 'Hero' (Frontline, A.G. NOORANI, Oct 24, 2007)
In a Japan of resurgent nationalism, Radha Binod Pal’s dissenting judgment in the Tokyo war trials wins easy admirers.
- Quality Of Growth (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 24, 2007)
Two reports appearing in Tuesday’s newspapers show clearly that the quality of development in India is perhaps as satisfactory as the quantitative performance.
- Bb Mulls ‘Virtual’ Rallies After Threat (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto said on Tuesday she will avoid mass rallies while campaigning for the general elections, as she received a new death threat.
- Mystique Of Moscow (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
THE structure of a megalopolis is clear, simple and immediately recognisable: airports, railway stations, public transport, supermarkets, cinemas, theatres and nightclubs.
- The Tasks Ahead (Dawn, Najmuddin A. Shaikh, Oct 24, 2007)
THE tumultuous welcome accorded to Benazir Bhutto on her arrival in Karachi was negated by the horrific bomb blasts clearly aimed at the container vehicle in which she and the party leadership were travelling.
- Cities In Economic Globalisation (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 24, 2007)
AS recently as the 1970s, many of our great cities were in physical decay and losing people, businesses and their share of the national wealth.
- Other Voices - American Press (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 24, 2007)
IT’S not much of a murder mystery because the culprit is always the same: Public libraries get killed by local government budget slashers.
- Bhagat Singh (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
THE revolutionary nationalist phase of the freedom struggle, of which Bhagat Singh was an iconic figure, was a brief, powerful and violent episode in a movement otherwise considered to be peaceful.
- Denial As Strategy (Frontline, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 24, 2007)
AS the undeclared one-and-a-half-year-old war in the east and the north rages on, Sri Lanka is faced with a paradoxical situation. By all accounts, the Mahinda Rajapaksa government has cornered the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam . . . .
- Korean Entente (Frontline, P.S. Suryanarayana, Oct 24, 2007)
A formidable tunnel, lighted up as a history-tourism site, has served for a number of years as a symbol of the political ethos of a divided Korean peninsula.
- Why I Am An Atheist (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Excerpts from the article Bhagat Singh wrote in reply to a remark made by Bhai Randhir Singh, a Ghadarite, in Lahore Central Jail in 1930-31.
- Statement In Court (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
[Through this brilliant statement Bhagat Singh demolished the basis of the Sessions Court judgment and emphasised the importance of motive. The motive of action, he argued, should be the main consideration while judging the offence of an accused.]
- ‘Liberate Him From Misinterpretations’ (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Bhagat Singh, who created a stir through his revolutionary ideas and courageous actions, stands alone in the galaxy of martyrs for his maturity as a thinker who had an alternative framework of governance for independent India.
- Separate Quota For Backward Class Christians, Muslims In State (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 23, 2007)
A “revolutionary day” in the history of social justice, says Karunanidhi
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- Road Overbridge To Be Ready In 20 Months (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 23, 2007)
Work on a Rs.27-crore road overbridge (ROB) along the alignment of the Uppanar Drain (UD) canal will be completed in 20 months, according to Public Works Department officials.
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