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Articles 2421 through 2520 of 23072:
- Democracy Denied (Tribune, Sarbjit Dhaliwal, Sep 06, 2006)
Students in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chandigarh and other parts of the country will shortly elect their student bodies, in order to have a decisive say in the affairs of the academic institutions in which they are enrolled.
- Taking Off (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 06, 2006)
Although Delhi didn't quite succeed as a world-class metropolis, its airport could do so in a few years from now — as an international state-of-the-art aerotropolis, the high-tech 21st century term coined for cities built around air travel hubs.
- Kalam Presents Awards To 313 Teachers (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Presenting national awards to teachers here today, the President, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, choose to pay tributes to his own teachers who helped him in shaping his destiny by giving him the impetus to move in the right direction.
- How They Love To Stereotype Asians (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Sep 06, 2006)
The Molly Campbell case is a family dispute that has sparked off a media frenzy simply because of the religion and ethnicity of those involved.
- Tourist Inflow Picks Up At Udhagamandalam (Hindu, D. Radhakrishnan, Sep 06, 2006)
Government Botanical Gardens, Rose Garden and Boat house teeming with visitors .
- Grandson Wants Mussolini Autopsy (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Sixty-one years after Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was summarily executed, one of his grandsons has demanded that his remains be exhumed and an official post-mortem carried out.
- Bush, Quoting Bin Laden, Warns Of Iraqi Caliphate (Reuters, Steve Holland, Sep 06, 2006)
In a speech laced with quotes from Osama bin Laden, U.S. President George W. Bush said on Tuesday that five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, al Qaeda wants to set up a violent, radical Islamic caliphate based in Iraq and vowed he would . . .
- Bush Vows To Persist With Fighting Terror (Press Trust of India, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Sep 06, 2006)
Asserting that the US will persist in tracking down terrorists and never bow down to tyrants, President George W Bush today released a document containing strategies that his Administration has been using since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.
- Train To Lhasa (Pioneer, Claude Arpi, Sep 06, 2006)
China has adopted draconian security measures on the newly inaugurated Qinghai-Tibet railway, despite no cases of sabotage en route, says Claude Arpi.
- Slowing Us Housing Market Is Bad News (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Sep 06, 2006)
Trend GDP growth in India has accelerated from around 5 per cent in the 1980s to 6.5-7 per cent. India has not graduated to 8 per cent trend growth. The band around the trend, of business cycle fluctuations, is around 2.5 percentage points up or down . .
- 700 Taliban Trapped: Nato (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Nato and Afghan forces used artillery and air strikes overnight to keep up pressure on an estimated 700 Taliban trapped by an offensive that the alliance claims has killed at least 200 militants in southern Afghanistan, Nato said today.
- A Litany Of Disasters (Pioneer, Irfan Husain, Sep 06, 2006)
If ever proof was required that military intelligence is a contradiction in terms, the Pakistan Government's handling of the Bugti killing should be sufficient
- India's Downtrodden Disabled Find Power In The Law (Reuters, Daniel Sorid , Sep 06, 2006)
When disabled Hindu worshippers in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu were blocked from entering temples with their wheelchairs and crutches, Meenakshi Balasubramanian knew she had the law on her side.
- Vande Mataram: Obligatory In Schools (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 06, 2006)
Finally, after more than half-a-century of singing Vande Mataram we have suddenly realised that the song that kept freedom fighters’ adrenaline level high, is insulting our god. All thanks to the All India Sunni Ulema Board.
- The Woman's Body Did It: So Says K J Joseph (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 06, 2006)
Weeks have gone by since Kerala public works minister K J Joseph was alleged to have groped a female passenger seated in front of him during a Chennai-Kochi flight.
- Blame It On Rio (Hindu, SUMIT BHATTACHARJEE , Sep 06, 2006)
Long days at the beach and longer nights at the clubs. Rio is the perfect place to unwind.
- Grecian Impressions (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Wander through enchanted, poppy-animated landscapes of Greece, steeped in myth, culture and history.
- Much Ado About Vande Mataram (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 06, 2006)
Roznama Rashtriya Sahara (September 5) carries, prominently displayed on its front page, the director of Dar-Ul-Uloom (Deoband) Maulana Marghoob ur Rahman breaking his silence on Vande Mataram.
- Landing In A Mess (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Sep 06, 2006)
The year 2006 (or 2007) is significant in the history of human civilisation, because that’s when the world’s urban population will exceed the world’s rural population for the first time. Of course, levels of urbanisation vary widely, ranging . . .
- Nitish’S Tight Rope Walk (Indian Express, Shaibal Gupta, Sep 06, 2006)
On August 24 Nitish Kumar completed nine months as chief minister of Bihar. A day earlier, the HSBC (Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) inaugurated its 44th branch in Patna; two days later, the tenders for building the roads of Patna were opened.
- Govt-Local Taliban Sign Peace Accord (Pakistan Observer, Tariq Saeed, Sep 06, 2006)
The peace and tranquillity is hoped to be returning fast to the violence-stricken Waziristan agencies as the much orchestrated peace accord between the government and the militants, oftenly dubbed as local Taliban by the Western . . .
- Anthem To Mother India Exposes Centuries-Old Sectarian Wound (Daily Times, Pratap Chakravarty, Sep 06, 2006)
Muslims are as loyal to the nation as anyone else and we do not need a certificate for that from anyone’
- Mrts Tarnaka-Hi-Tec City Route Realigned (Hindu, V. Geetanath, Sep 06, 2006)
Greenlands-Punjagutta-Banjara Hills-Jubilee Hills route to be avoided
Line 3 of about 21 kilometres realigned
Line 1 is Miyapur-Chaitanyapuri and Line 2 is Secunderabad-Falaknuma.
- India-Pakistan Talks: The Way Forward (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
During my recent week-long stay in New Delhi, I met a broad section of politicians and discussed the current deadlock in India-Pakistan talks with them.
- When Napoleon Won At Waterloo (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 05, 2006)
Napoleon won the battle of Waterloo. The German Wehrmacht won World War II. The United States won in Vietnam, and the Soviets in Afghanistan. The Zealots won against the Romans, and Ehud Olmert won the Second Lebanon War.
- Worsening Situation In Afghanistan (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 05, 2006)
Nato’s military spokesman in Kabul has said that about 200 suspected Taliban and four Canadian soldiers were killed in a major operation in southern Afghanistan. Afghan Defence Ministry spokesman said that air strikes and ground offensive have been . . .
- Shift In Us Public Opinion (Dawn, M.J. Akbar, Sep 05, 2006)
America has returned to 1968. On August 31, a vital deadline at the very top of George Bush’s agenda passed, and no one died at the deadline. Instead, the intended victim was frisky to the point of being cocky.
- Australian Investor Offers A$700m For Travel Group (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Australian property and tourism investor MFS launched an A$700m bid for travel group S8 as it seeks to expand its leisure property business.
- States To Get Lesson On Terror (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
With jehadi outfits seeking to move beyond J&K to include states like Maharashtra, Karnataka and eastern UP in their terror network, PM Manmohan Singh will sensitise chief ministers on the growing need for states to crack down on local conduits and . . .
- Through The Third Eye (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 05, 2006)
Check-up, not check-in, is the new buzzword at ITDC’s flagship Hotel Ashok. The PSU’s chairman and managing director, Parvez Devan, has done something no hotel in India has thought of: tie-ups that would enable the hotel to provide its guests . . .
- Petro Product Pricing: Accept The Reality (The Financial Express, Vikram S Mehta, Sep 05, 2006)
For how long can the interests of public shareholders be subordinated to political exigency?
- Tourist Centre At Taj’S Eastern Gate Is Needed: Asi (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
The Archaeological Survey of India has said the facilitation centre for tourists at the Taj Mahal’s eastern gate "need not be removed" and will be seeking the permission of the Supreme Court, which is hearing a PIL on the issue.
- In Defence Of National Autonomy (Pioneer, CP Bhambri, Sep 05, 2006)
India has surrendered its democratic right to regulate its economy by accepting the dictates of the new global economic regime, says CP Bhamhbri.
- Delight Or Despair? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Sep 05, 2006)
Four flood-related photographs in this newspaper on Monday tell the same tale but in its varied dimensions. One is of "Har ki Pauri" --- a replica of much-revered ancient place of worship of the same name in Haridwar --- at the foothills of . . .
- Call From Karbala (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 05, 2006)
The killing of three Indians, all Shia pilgrims from Hyderabad, by a posse of what are assumed to be Sunni terrorists, is a wake-up call in more ways than one.
- Iran Snubs Annan Concerns On Twisting Holocaust Horror (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
The UN chief got little satisfaction at the close of his trip to Tehran, snubbed by Iran's leader over international demands to stop enriching uranium and ignored of warnings not to incite hatred by questioning the Holocaust.
- Bomb Hoax Delays Kalam's Aircraft By Three Hours (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
A bomb hoax delayed by three hours, the departure of a special Indian Air Force aircraft carrying President A P J Abdul Kalam to New Delhi.
- Illusion As Reality (Pioneer, K Govindan Kutty , Sep 05, 2006)
In Kinfra, a new kind of research is underway to rediscover India's magical past and dazzle people with illusion and meta-reality
- Lobbyists On Overdrive As Us Senate Reconvenes (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Come Tuesday, and the race for getting the India-US civil nuclear cooperation deal through the Senate begins gathering urgency, with only a month left before Congress adjourns for the November mid-term elections.
- Pakistani Crime Busters Help Police Solve Cases (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
On the mean streets of Pakistan's biggest city, crime-weary citizens fed up with a wave of kidnappings look to a private crime fighting unit for help.
- Inquiry Report Blames Greed For Kumbakonam School Fire (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
A mixture of avarice, dishonesty and a blatant disregard of safety standards caused a devastating fire in a school in Kumbakonam two years ago in which 94 young children died, an inquiry commission found.
- What Fails Us From Becoming Good Teachers (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Vishiesh Verma, Sep 05, 2006)
At the time when the very edifice of the profession of university and college teaching is caught in the eye of the storm, adrift and tossed like a toy, one can't help reminicening over the question, "What fails us from becoming good teachers?"
- Peace Process May Figure During Singh-Musharraf Meet (Press Trust of India, K J M Varma, Sep 05, 2006)
The Indo-Pak peace process and related issues may come up for discussion during the likely meeting between Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the NAM summit in Havana later this month.
- Alienated Baloch (Tribune, Syed Nooruzzaman, Sep 05, 2006)
During an interview with an enterprising Pakistani journalist in March 2006, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, the most popular tribal leader of Balochistan, said: “Now our options are clear: resist and die, or die without resisting.
- The Nuclear Deterrent Interest Of Iran (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 05, 2006)
Historically speaking, among the more important international events in the 1950s was the First International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy held in Vienna in 1955.
- Victim As Villain (Times of India, HARSH MANDER, Sep 05, 2006)
A young woman, barely 20, who lost 14 members of her family in the Gujarat pogrom of 2002, has desolately spent the last five months in a prison ward in Nashik.
- Tourism Office's Awareness Walk (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
The Tourism Office organised an awareness walk to foster national unity and social harmony to mark the National Integration and Communal Harmony Week in the city on Saturday and Monday.
- A Teacher's Tribute To Her Dear Students (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 05, 2006)
Teaching is my passion, and luckily my experience as a teacher has been beautiful, emotional and fulfilling. Over the years, I've watched the student-teacher equation evolve: From guru as God, guru as all-knowing — "Guru Brahma, . . .
- Report On Fuller Capital Account Convertibility — Will The . . . (Business Line, Ashoak Upadhyay , Sep 05, 2006)
Though the latest CAC report reads like a travelogue of India's financial sector and government finances reforms to date, it is a valuable guide to the subject of convertibility.
- Song Sung Blue (Indian Express, Asif Jalal, Sep 05, 2006)
The Centre’s directive to celebrate the centenary of Vande Mataram on September 7, by having it sung in all educational institutions, has unfortunately stoked a controversy. As usual, those who see themselves as the keepers of . . .
- Give Varsities Autonomy: Kalam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Urges State government to integrate all varsities under the virtual university system
Wants high bandwidth made free
Recalls his university days.
- Sociological Perspective Of Public Health (Hindu, Sarah Hiddleston, Sep 05, 2006)
Two related books examining the sociology and history of disease, and public health
- Thiruvonathoni Sets Off For Aranmula Temple (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
With vegetables and provisions for Onam feast
- Off To Australia (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
You want to make your honeymoon truly special. You are looking for an exclusive lodge in the countryside, or the stillness of the rainforest, or a beachfront bungalow within view of the ocean. Believe it or not, it is possible and Australia has to . . .
- Hundreds Attend Uthrada Sadya At Sabarimala (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
The Uthrada-sadya, hosted by meslanthi M.Sukumaran Namboodiri, was held at Sabarimala with religious fervour on Monday.
- Rocking The Boat (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 05, 2006)
As a Sri Lanka traumatised by LTTE militarism and terrorism and trapped in a trisanku-state of `no-peace-no-war' lurches towards civil war, with the four-year-old ceasefire agreement virtually in tatters, a JVP-led move to get the merger of the . . .
- China Seeks To Roll Back The Sands (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Sep 05, 2006)
The livelihoods of 400 million people are threatened by the spread of the Gobi and Taklimakan deserts.
- Pilgrim Centres (Hindu, C. L. Ramakrishnan , Sep 05, 2006)
Part I: Mahadevan Sankaranarayanan; Copies can be had from the author, Plot No. 460, 24th Street, Ashtalakshmi Nagar, Alapakkam, Chennai-600016. Rs. 450.
- Reminiscences (Hindu, B. R. P. Bhaskar, Sep 05, 2006)
by P.C. Alexander, Translated by Pala SK. Nair, Current Books, Round West, Kottayam-686001. Rs. 240.
- Room Shortage To Hit Goa Tourism (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Travel operators are gearing up for a 20 per cent rise in foreign charter traffic to Goa this tourist season.
- Ananthagiri Hills To Be Developed Into Resort (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Development to be complementary to Anantha Padmanabha Swamy temple
Global tenders to be issued shortly to construct hotels, eateries and cottages
Buddha Vanam project at Nagarjunasagar completed 75%
Museum at venue to be mainstay of project.
- Musharraf May Compare Bugti Killing To Blue Star (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Sep 05, 2006)
As he prepares for a two week visit to the US, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is expected to defend the killing of Baluch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti by invoking comparisons with India’s Operation Blue Star against Sikh extremists in 1984.
- Wto Shackles On National Policy (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Sep 04, 2006)
Ever since the WTO came into being in 1994, it has been bandied around, making a lot of sense especially to those who feel that the organisation is just another instrument through which the developed world is controlling the economic resources . . .
- Upa Does Left Twist (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 04, 2006)
On the face of it, the only objection that can be raised about the proposed inclusion of Left MPs in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's delegation to the 14th Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Cuba is that our comrades will be junketing in the garb of . . .
- Culture Of Percentage (Pioneer, RAHUL RAMAGUNDAM, Sep 04, 2006)
Bihar has proved that corruption leads to fragmentation of society and is the number one social evil, says Rahul Ramagundam
- Pakistani, Indian Pilgrims Slain In Iraq (Reuters, Ross Colvin, Sep 04, 2006)
Fourteen Pakistani and Indian Shi'ite pilgrims were abducted and killed in Iraq's western desert, police said on Saturday, victims of sectarian strife between Sunnis and Shi'ites that threatens civil war.
- How Global Growth Surmounts New Challenges? (The Financial Express, Saumitra Chaudhuri, Sep 04, 2006)
Important factors include expansion in emerging economies like China and India and the enabling role of technology in global integration
- Our Lady Of Jhansi (OutLook, MAHMOOD FAROOQUI, Sep 04, 2006)
While it rescues Lakshmi Bai from the conjoined yokes of rebel-patriot, her true metier will only emerge when the gadar is studied as an event in its own right, not as a prologue to the glorious march of Indian nationalism.
- Gandhi, A Second Coming (OutLook, Editorial, Outlook, Sep 04, 2006)
A 100 years after he conceived the satyagraha, a breed of neo-Gandhians goes beyond the khadi and charkha to coopt Bapu in whole new ways.
- Nothing Religious About It (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 04, 2006)
Those who claim that singing Vande Mataram is a threat to their religion, say so without giving the matter due thought, says Maulana Waheeduddin Khan.
- Pragmatism Above Panic (Pioneer, Ajoy Bose, Sep 04, 2006)
Racial profiling of passengers is no way to prevent terrorism; rather, it provides moral victory to jihadis even when they fail to strike
- Iraq Pm: Hosting Of National Flag Must (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Sunday ordered that the Iraqi flag be hoisted across "every inch of Iraq", after a Kurdish leader banned it from flying in the northern Kurdish region.
- How We Deny Sectarianism And Then Pay For It (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Sep 04, 2006)
Eleven Pakistani pilgrims to Karbala have been brutally murdered by sectarian thugs in Iraq.
- Police Move To Change Its Working Style (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Four years in prison for committing no crime is the story of four persons, including a woman who may finally be set free, thanks to the CBI which has pointed out shoddy investigations by the Punjab Police.
- Keep It Up (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 04, 2006)
It is to be welcomed that Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, his predecessor Farooq Abdullah, moderate Hurriyat Conference leader Mirwaiz Moulvi Umar Farooq and Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Yasin Malik have been seen together at . . .
- Slain Indians Buried In Iraq (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
The three Indians, killed by unidentified people in Iraq, were buried in Karbala today, the government said here as efforts were underway to ensure return of other members of the group of 14 in a couple of days.
- Fight Hatred In Order To Fight Terror (Tribune, SUBHASH GATADE, Sep 04, 2006)
The latest US Congressional Report on terrorism has come out at a very inopportune time as far as US President Bush and his team of neo-con advisers is concerned.
- Cash And Creed (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Sep 04, 2006)
The interference of religious leaders in softer and short-term issues like who should sing the Vande Mataram or which temple or mosque should be demolished to make way for development has been accepted by Indian society as a given.
- Fear Of Flying (Indian Express, NAMRATA SHARMA ZAKARIA, Sep 04, 2006)
Once upon a time, we really flew when we flew. Taking a plane to anywhere was quite the flight of fancy.
- Cbi Finds Chinks In Punjab Police Probe (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Four years in prison for committing no crime is the story of four persons, including a woman who may finally be set free, thanks to the CBI which has pointed out shoddy investigations by the Punjab Police.
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