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Articles 6221 through 6320 of 23072:
- Targetting Migrant Workers (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jun 21, 2006)
Sixteen agricultural workers of Nepali origin are the latest victims of terror.
- Indian Plan To Dam Northeast Rivers Stirs Critics (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Jun 21, 2006)
Ambitious plans to build dams and hydro power projects throughout the hills of the remote northeast have trodden on some sensitive toes in the troubled region.
- Cbms Are Meant To Avert Conflict: Pranab (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
India today said confidence-building measures with Pakistan like opening of bus service between Poonch and Rawalakot were aimed at averting a conflict between the two countries.
- Nepal Accord (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 21, 2006)
To assume that Nepal’s Seven Party Alliance-Maoist accord on the dissolution of parliament, formation of an interim government (rebels included) and holding elections to the constituent assembly in May next year will usher in an era of peace and . . .
- All Quiet In Balochistan? (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jun 21, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf said on Monday that life was returning to normal in Dera Bugti and nearby areas because “terrorists have been eliminated from Balochistan”.
- No Enthusiasm As Pok ‘Pm’ Flags Off Bus (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
The first service of the Poonch-Rawalakot bus was today flagged off by Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) ‘Prime Minister’ Hayat Khan with 57 passengers on board.
- The False Credo Of Narcissism (The Economic Times, VITHAL C NADKARNI, Jun 21, 2006)
In his book Psychology as Religion:
- In Strike’S Own Country, Left U-Turn: It, Tourism ‘Hartal-Free’ In Kerala (Indian Express, RAJEEV P I, Jun 21, 2006)
Desperate for an image makeover but shying clearly off Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee-model solutions, the Left Government in Kerala today declared that it would banish, but not ban, hartals from both the state’s sunrise sectors—IT and tourism.
- 11th Plan To Focus On Reforming Labour Laws (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Flexibility needed to tap export markets, says Planning Commission paper
Accelerated growth of manufacturing suggested
Dismantling of import quotas needed
Many jobs can be generated in construction industry
- Bend It Like Bikram (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 21, 2006)
From a poor village in his native India, Bikram Choudhury made his name as Hollywood's fitness guru -and millions from his worldwide yoga franchise
- The Black Power's Quiet Side (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 21, 2006)
"Black Power" quickly became the controversial slogan for a movement that was largely perceived as rejecting the civil rights movement's nonviolent tactics and goals of integration in favor of a new ethos of black identity, self-defense and separatism.
- Japan’S Return To Prewar ‘Virtues’ (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 21, 2006)
As the conservatives are back in power in Japan, moves are underway to change its pacifist education system
- Pakistan, Kuwait To Explore New Avenues Of Cooperation (Pakistan Observer, Sharafat Kazmi, Jun 21, 2006)
Pakistan and Kuwait Tuesday while vowing to expand economic ties agreed to explore new avenues of cooperation with a focus on increasing investments and mutual trade flow.
- Unreal Estate (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 21, 2006)
Why do politicians everywhere have an objection to the land aspects of industrial/infrastructure projects?
- The Point Of No Return (Indian Express, Aasha Khosa, Jun 21, 2006)
Lieutenant Sushmita Chakarborty’s suicide at Udhampur takes me back to this quaint town where my friend Lieutenant Colonel SSS
- Iraq: Some Damning Statistics (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Jun 21, 2006)
Within a couple of days of George W. Bush’s return from his extraordinarily surreptitious foray into Baghdad’s green zone, his nation’s self-proclaimed newspaper of record, The New York Times, had a bit of bad news for the president.
- Waxing Eloquent (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Waxes and pigments and the amalgam make for art too
- A Dream Come True For Beedi Workers Of Solapur (Hindu, Meena Menon, Jun 21, 2006)
Manmohan Singh to inaugurate housing project on July 2, to benefit 10,000 women
Project financed by State, Central governments and beedi workers
Women took part in designing homes and made some changes
- Private Estate Owner Offers Road For Tourism Development (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Meghamalai Hills will become one of the prime tourism spots soon with all facilities.
- Utilise New Tourism Scheme, Local Bodies Told (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Collector C.Vijayaraj Kumar holds meeting with officials
- Sonia Flags Off Poonch-Rawalakot Bus Service (Daily Excelsior, Dinesh Manhotra, Jun 21, 2006)
The ‘invisible line of sorrow’- which has kept thousands of souls away from their family members and relatives for the last 58 years, today turned into a ‘road of happiness’ for these divided families as this link is going to end their long separation.
- Talks Within Purview Of Indian Constitution: Sonia (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Reiterating Central Government resolve to hold dialogue with different sections of the society to solve vexed problems, chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Sonia Gandhi today said talks and not violence, is the solution of any issue.
- Sex Scandal Cuffs On Ex-Ministers (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
“I am going for a morning walk,” Ghulam Ahmed Mir told the staff at Jammu and Kashmir House as he was led away by CBI officials after his arrest in the sex scandal that has rocked the Valley.
- A Damascus Diary (Daily Excelsior, M.J. Akbar, Jun 21, 2006)
The sun rises at 4.30. It is already high by 7.30 and will fade only at 7.45 in the evening.
- Siliguri Gets New Luxury Address (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
The north Bengal trade hub will get its second five-star hotel by 2007.
A collaboration of Fortune Park Hotels, an ITC-Welcomgroup subsidiary, and Lipika Enterprise, a Darjeeling real estate firm with hotels there and in Gangtok, was announced . . .
- Tourism, It May Be Exempted From Hartals (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Kodiyeri says Government trying to evolve consensus on the issue
- Not The Destination, Says Pok Leader (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Jun 21, 2006)
56 cross the Line of Control from Rawalakot to Poonch by bus on Tuesday
"A bus service or a truck service cannot solve the problem of Kashmir"
Demand for inclusion of Kashmiri leaders in India-Pakistan talks.
- Saying It With Flowers (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jun 20, 2006)
A prelude to a forthcoming marriage has begun. The new political soap opera is preparing the stage for the curtain to rise before act 1, scene 1. Prakash Karat visited Mulayam Singh with a bunch of flowers.
- Bill Gatess Long Farewell (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 20, 2006)
The announcement that Microsoft founder Bill Gates is slowly withdrawing from the daily running of the company did not come as a surprise.
- Pakistan, India Relations Prone To Deterioration’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2006)
Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri warned on Monday that history had shown that relations between Pakistan and India were prone to sudden deterioration.
- Nepal Seeks Un Help Over Weapons (Telegraph, J. HEMANTH, Jun 20, 2006)
The Nepal government plans to formally ask the UN for help in managing the personnel and weapons of the Nepal Army and the Maoist Revolutionary Army during elections next year.
- Predicting The Oil Peak (Business Line, Satish Kumar, Jun 20, 2006)
Analysing Hubbert's predictions of peak oil, which happens when 50 per cent of recoverable oil has been produced, SHANMUGANATHAN. N and SATISH KUMAR argue that rather than quibble about the actual peak oil date, the sooner the inevitability of . . .
- Tipton Three Treated Worse Than Animals At Guantanamo (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Jun 20, 2006)
Three young British Muslims, Ruhal Ahmed and his two friends — Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul — were arrested by US troops in Afghanistan in 2001.
- Pakistan Steel Mills Privatisation (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2006)
The Supreme Court on Monday observed that the agreement on privatisation of the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM), Karachi, is silent about the inclusion of an offshore company in the final agreement that did not participate in the bidding process at all.
- Delta Air To Start Non-Stop Mumbai-New York Flight (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2006)
Good news for people flying to US from Mumbai as global carrier Delta Air Lines will start direct nonstop service between Mumbai and New York from November 1.
- Search For Efficiency — A War For Workable Workers, This! (Business Line, Alok Ray, Jun 20, 2006)
Adding new skills may not necessarily improve the lot of the job seekers.
In a dynamic economy, as new industries come up and old ones phase out, there will be retrenchment. But there is no cause for concern, as with a little bit of retraining . . .
- Good Is Bad (Times of India, Manjul Bajaj, Jun 20, 2006)
It was our first morning in Goa. We were at the fag end of a perfect breakfast. The husband was smoking peaceably while I watched the rain pour down in huge torrents from the safety of our partially open, beach-front restaurant.
- India, Pak To Write New Chapter Of Friendship Today (Daily Excelsior, Dinesh Manhotra, Jun 20, 2006)
Initiating one more step in the direction of further strengthening heart to heart relations on two sides of the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, India and Pakistan are all set to launch second Karvan-e-Aman bus service tomorrow.
- Kuwait To Set Up Refinery At Port Qasim: Musharraf, Sabah Hold Talks (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2006)
Pakistan and Kuwait on Monday signed several agreements and memoranda of understanding to enhance economic relations, including an MoU for setting up an oil refinery at Port Qasim.
- Marginalised, Indian Women Face Growing Aids Threat (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Jun 20, 2006)
AIDS experts in India are targeting a new group in their campaign to raise HIV awareness - married women.
- Twinkle, Twinkle Bjp Star (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 20, 2006)
No rhyme, no reason in Madhya Pradesh
- Cm's Photo In Sanctum Sanctorum Removed (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2006)
The police today removed a portrait of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi kept by a temple priest behind the idol of Lord Krishna in the sanctum sanctorum for daily worship.
- Chinese Arms In Darfur The Twisted Trail Of Weapons (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2006)
In a rebel camp along the barren, windswept border between Sudan and Chad, dozens of trucks packed with dreadlocked fighters manning heavy machine guns are lined up.
- Nepal Peace Deal Ignites Fresh Debate Over King's Role (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Jun 20, 2006)
In the heat of Nepal's pro-democracy protests, in a swirl of smoke from burning tyres, demonstrators hung a rat from electricity wires and dangled a banner from its body declaring that King Gyanendra was dead.
- Indian Plan To Dam Northeast Rivers Stirs Critics (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Jun 20, 2006)
Ambitious plans to build dams and hydro power projects throughout the hills of the remote northeast have trodden on some sensitive toes in the troubled region.
- The Importance Of Regional Parties (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Jun 20, 2006)
The emergence of regional parties has raised many eyebrows, some in anxiety and some in eager expectation.
- Army Continues Fire-Fighting On Gender Bias (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2006)
The Army today continued its fire-fighting exercise in the wake of reported remarks of its Vice-Chief, Lt Gen S. Pattabhiraman, that forces could do without women and insisted today that there was no gender bias in the forces while pointing out . . .
- India, China To Re-Open Trade Via Nathu La Pass (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2006)
India and China have signed a historic agreement to resume border trade through the strategic Nathu La Pass from July six after 44 years of closure, a move that could also signal Beijing’s implicit recognition of Sikkim as part of India.
- Is It Masri Or Muhajir? (Pioneer, Utpal Kumar, Jun 20, 2006)
As speculations on Zarqawi's successor are rife, Utpal Kumar finds that none of the contenders is homegrown
- Fetish Of Ninety Percent (Deccan Herald, Avijit Pathak, Jun 20, 2006)
The present system of education requires a revolutionary transformation
- Musharraf Says Pak Wants To Be Treated At Par With India (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2006)
Although the Indo-US nuclear deal was a bilateral arrangement, Pakistan would not like anyone to ‘‘treat it differently’’ from India as it ‘‘has the same status,’’ President Pervez Musharraf has said.
- Behind Ice Lies J&k Govt-Governor Chill (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2006)
The roots of the controversy over the allegedly “man-made” lingam in the Amarnath cave to “compensate” for the lack of a “natural” one lie in the troubled political history of the Amarnath yatra ever since it came under the control of the Shrine . . .
- Clause & Effect (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Jun 20, 2006)
Not quite a clause for concern yet, but if property prices fall far enough, trouble lies ahead.
- Letting The Jungle Crumble (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 20, 2006)
The UPA’s political compulsions to enact the Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill, 2005, couldn’t have been more clear.
- Green Alarm In Nilgiris; Sc Panel Finds Evidence (Indian Express, G. ANANTHAKRISHNAN, Jun 20, 2006)
The lush green canopy on the Nilgiris in Nilambur, a bio-diversity hotspot on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border, was the starting point of environmental litigation in India. In 1996, it was on a petition by TN Godavarman Thirumulpad, a descendant of the . . .
- Nepal Top Court Gives Sobhraj One Last Chance (Statesman, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Jun 20, 2006)
Imprisoned in Nepal since 2003 for a murder committed nearly three decades ago, yesteryear’s “Bikini Killer” Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj has been given his final chance to make his last bid for freedom with the Supreme Court admitting his appeal . . .
- Who Benefits? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 20, 2006)
The National Forest Commission has performed a very important service by raising an alarm on the UPA government’s proposed new legislation on tribal rights.
- A Second Peace Bus For Kashmir Today (Statesman, Kavita Suri, Jun 20, 2006)
All is set for the launch of a second trans-Kashmir bus service between the border towns of Poonch on the Indian side and Rawalakote in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir tomorrow.
- Focus On Afghanistan (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jun 20, 2006)
One can count on the Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid to write forthrightly for Western publications about the reality of the situation in Afghanistan.
- Siachen Peace Park (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jun 20, 2006)
The writer is a development consultant and analyst from Gilgit-Baltistan. He is also the elected representative from the Asia Pacific region on the 'Board of Directors of the Mountain Forum'.
- Looking For A Better Consumer Price Index (The Financial Express, ILA PATNAIK, Jun 20, 2006)
It needs to be weekly, have a good quality methodological foundation and be transparent
- Deliver Us From Evil (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 20, 2006)
As pilgrims gather at the Amarnath cave in Jammu and Kashmir and pay their respects to the natural Shivling that has formed there every summer since, well, recorded history, a disquieting and downright dangerous frenzy is being sought to be created . . .
- Unrealistic & Absurd (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 20, 2006)
Going by the frequency with which statements demanding a new constitution are made in Pakistan, it would appear as if making or unmaking the basic law is child’s play.
- Gang Leader’S Arrest (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 20, 2006)
THE reported arrest of underworld don Abdur Rehman ‘Dakait’ has raised hopes of a split in the deadly gang war that has claimed dozens of lives in Karachi’s Lyari area in recent years. Rehman’s capture is . . .
- More Than Compassion For Refugees (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 20, 2006)
For millions of uprooted people, World Refugee Day on June 20 is a day like any other spent waiting in remote camps and settlements for a chance to go home.
- Imprisoned In Chaos (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 20, 2006)
Nearly five years into a war between the United States and Islamic extremists, US policies and practices for arresting, holding, interrogating and trying enemy militants are in a state of disarray, unprecedented in modern American history.
- Service Taxes Review (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jun 20, 2006)
The Centre’s initiative for an extensive review of all service tax circulars, instructions and clarifications and other issues, though not a day too soon, is too restrictive in scope.
- Indian Banking Scenario (Hindu, SRIDHAR SEETHARAMAN , Jun 20, 2006)
A rich historical perspective of developments in social banking
- Freedom Fighters First (Hindu, B. R. P. Bhaskar, Jun 20, 2006)
The international communist movement viewed World War II as an imperialist conflict until the Soviet Union's entry transformed it into a "people's war" which all Communists were obliged to support.
- New Un Human Rights Council Makes Debut (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Jun 20, 2006)
The “historic” Human Rights Council came into existence on Monday with the convening of its first session.
- Sobhraj Gets His Last Chance In Nepal (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Jun 20, 2006)
Imprisoned in Nepal since 2003 for a murder committed nearly three decades ago, yesteryear’s ‘Bikini Killer’ Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj has been given his final chance to make his last bid for freedom ....
- Where Statistics On Indian Elections Speak (Hindu, K. V. PRASAD, Jun 20, 2006)
For students of politics, elections are always important events.
- In Tribal Pakistan, A Tide Of Militancy (Washington Post, Pamela Constable, Jun 20, 2006)
Influence of Taliban Said to Be Spreading Beyond Border Areas Near Afghanistan
- Tribal Elder Killed (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2006)
Militants shot dead a tribal elder with close ties to the US-backed Afghan government on Monday, an official said. Nazimuddin Gangikhel was driving in a pick-up truck when gunmen opened fire from a parked car in South Waziristan, a tribal region . . .
- Region:afghanistan, China Vow To Strengthen Ties (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2006)
Annual trade between the two states ranges between $400-$500 million
Military ties to be strengthened.
- Maoists In The Mainstream (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 19, 2006)
This must be a rare instance of the triumph of both hope and experience.
- A ‘Save Lahore’ Initiative (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 19, 2006)
It is heartening to note that a group of prominent citizens and a number of civil society organisations have joined hands to form a ‘Lahore Bachao’ (save Lahore) committee.
- Wildlife Committee Increases Indian Army’S Burden In Kashmir (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2006)
Already stretched with the job of policing in Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian Army may be given yet another responsibility of protecting wildlife.
- Poverty Lurks In The Shadows Of Indian Economic Boom (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Jun 19, 2006)
“The obstacles hampering India’s progress, poor infrastructure, weak government, searing inequality, corruption and crime-converge in Bombay,” according to a cover story in Time magazine’s new issue.
- They Also Serve Who Stand And Wait (The Economic Times, K VIJAYARAGHAVAN, Jun 19, 2006)
A poignant story concerns two boys who grew up together.
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