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Articles 8021 through 8120 of 23072:
- Time For A Reality Check (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 08, 2006)
General Motors has no bad years, only good years and better years” — so said an exuberant Harlow Curtice who headed the company between the years 1953 and 1958.
- Nepal Orders King's Ambassadors To Return Home (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, May 08, 2006)
Nepal's new multi-party cabinet has recalled ambassadors from 12 countries, including India and the United States, and cancelled appointments made by the king during his rule by royal decree.
- Global Imbalances: What Can The Imf Do? (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , May 08, 2006)
While the IMF has been truly a reservoir of economic information and analysis, it has been dominated too long by the concerns of the West. And if the Fund cannot be reorganised to take account of Asia's legitimate rights, it is time to revive the . . .
- Time For National Reconciliation (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, May 08, 2006)
The second millennium has been one of shame for India even though the Twentieth century was, in ways more than one, kind to the nation.
- House Divided (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 08, 2006)
It is still too early to say that bullying does not pay. Although the Communist Party of India (Marxist) councillor of ward no.
- Tragic Departure Of A Dynamic Leader (Deccan Herald, SUDHEENDRA KULKARNI , May 08, 2006)
Pramod Mahajan was an embodiment of energy and self-confidence. He also had an amazing capacity to learn about new issues and new things.
- Sachin’S Divine Rendezvous (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 08, 2006)
Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar performed “sarpa samskara” at the Subramanya temple near here on Sunday. His wife Anjali, brothers Nitin and Ajith and sister Savitha and others accompanied him.
- Fact Or Fiction? The Exit Lines Are Blurred (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, May 08, 2006)
Jassi’s gone but hers wasn’t the only departure that we could predict
- Fragile Peace (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 08, 2006)
'Peace is happiness', reads a Lions Club poster as our car rolls into Trincomalee on Sri Lanka's north-east coast. In peaceful times, the picturesque port city's long beaches are popular with surfers, scuba divers and whale watchers.
- Charm Of A Withering Princess (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 07, 2006)
Viceregal Lodge, a colonial structure steeped in history is the most photographed monument in Simla, writes G Brindha of her trip to Himdev.
- A Creator Of Ragas (Deccan Herald, Mala Kumar, May 07, 2006)
As the strings of the Navachitravina came alive, the air was filled with music that can only be called a classical trance.
- Japan May Back Indo-Us Nuclear Deal In Nsg (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 07, 2006)
Ahead of the Nuclear Suppliers Group's meeting in Brazil next month, a key politician from Japan's ruling party has indicated that Tokyo will consider supporting the India-US nuclear deal...
- New Breed Of Taliban (Daily Excelsior, Samuel Baid, May 07, 2006)
New Delhi’s reaction to the murder of Indian engineer K.Suryanarayana by Taliban in Afghanistan’s province of Zabeel on April 30 was on expected lines.
- Intelligence Failed In Kargil Run-Up: Malik (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 07, 2006)
"The briefing of NDA MPs on Kargil by Army officials was an aberration" Gen Malik
- Who Represents Whom In Kashmir ? (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Jitendra Singh, May 07, 2006)
The most interesting feature of the Valley's current scenario is that the socalled separatists are divided over separatism while the socalled non-separatists are divided over non-separatism...
- Nepal Seeks $1.2 Bln For Reconstruction (Reuters, Surojit Gupta, May 07, 2006)
Nepal is seeking $1.2 billion for reconstruction and rehabilitation and has appealed to the international community for help, a senior finance ministry official said on Saturday.
- Eviscerating A Holy Cow (Hindu, Nisheeth Srivastava, May 07, 2006)
LET US NOT DELUDE OURSELVES. IIT IS A VERY EFFICIENT AND CONSISTENT BREEDING GROUND FOR PRODUCTIVE MEDIOCRITY
- Whose Quota Is It Anyway? (Deccan Herald, Abhay Kumar, May 07, 2006)
Has the government’s reservation policy really benefited those for whom it was primarily introduced?
- Towards Effective Rural Healthcare (Hindu, Kavery Nambisan, May 07, 2006)
Will the National Rural Health Mission succeed?
It is now up to the Government to make use of the creative faculties available in people and in groups.
- Beyond Barriers (Hindu, Uma Maheswari, May 07, 2006)
G. Gopalakrishnan, a self-made architect, has renovated and designed more than 70 mosques in Kerala.
- First Glimpse Of A New Dawn In Nepal (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, May 07, 2006)
The oldest nation-state in South Asia will soon have the subcontinent's newest constitution. Whether peace and prosperity follow depends on how inclusive it is.
- Opportunity That Was Lost (Deccan Herald, Sonya Dutta Choudhury, May 07, 2006)
The world’s hotspots have never been more beautiful. Afghanistan, Slovakia, Sri Lanka, Kashmir. And India’s North East.
- View From The Clouds (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , May 07, 2006)
Kumbhalgarh demands great physical effort. But the rewards are worth it.
- India Watches As Sri Lanka Bleeds (Pioneer, B Raman, May 07, 2006)
Sri Lanka has been bleeding continuously ever since Mr Mahinda Rajapakse took over as the President last November and immediately thereafter wriggled out of the commitment made to the Sri Lankan Tamils by his predecessors to find a solution to their polit
- An Opportunity On Oil (Dawn, Anwar Syed, May 07, 2006)
The ruling elites in Iran and Turkey have for several centuries perceived and treated the Kurdish element in their populations as an irritant.
- For Greater Common Good (Pioneer, Mohd Asim, May 07, 2006)
The inspired riots in Vadodara against the demolition of a dargah intruding on a road has once again brought to the fore the ugly face of fanaticism and hooliganism that defies logic and sense.
- Child And Mother (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 07, 2006)
UNICEF's report card for India on child nutritional levels has, once again, highlighted the gulf that separates India's reality and aspiration.
- Put Him Down (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 07, 2006)
Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh has an innate ability to unleash furious storms and he is invariably in the eye of each one of them.
- Yechuri, The Left’S Most Vocal Face (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , May 07, 2006)
The BJP might question the role of Sitaram Yechuri in Nepal but the part played by this young Marxist in brokering a deal between the outlawed Maoists and the seven-party alliance would remain a landmark in the history of the Himalayan Kingdom.
- Action Against Iran Inconceivable, Says British Envoy (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, May 07, 2006)
When Sir Michael Arthur took over as the British High Commissioner to India in late 2003, he would not have dreamt of the fast developments in the region — the most important being the Indo-Pak detente.
- Peace In Nepal (Tribune, Gen Ashok Mehta (retd), May 07, 2006)
Neither the ten-year long Maoist war nor the 12 years of multiparty democracy nor even the one-year direct rule by the King could resolve the political crisis in Nepal.
- India Watches As Sri Lanka Bleeds (Pioneer, B Raman, May 06, 2006)
Sri Lanka has been bleeding continuously ever since Mr Mahinda Rajapakse took over as the President last November and immediately thereafter wriggled out of the commitment made to the Sri Lankan Tamils by his predecessors to find a solution to their . . .
- Loyalty Pays (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 06, 2006)
Frequent flyers need to be treated fairly
- Where Force Is Not A Solution (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, May 06, 2006)
With its huge territory, sparse population and proven reserves of oil, gas and minerals, managing Balochistan would require great skill and acumen, even in the best of times.
- Missing The April Deadline (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 06, 2006)
Members of the WTO who missed the April 30 deadline for arriving at the modalities for agriculture and non-agricultural market access (NAMA) have been exhorted by Secretary-General Pascal Lamy to have a "shared sense of urgency" and strive for an . . .
- For Greater Common Good (Pioneer, Mohd Asim, May 06, 2006)
The inspired riots in Vadodara against the demolition of a dargah intruding on a road has once again brought to the fore the ugly face of fanaticism and hooliganism that defies logic and sense.
- On The Road To The Fourth World (The Financial Express, V ANANTHA NAGESWARAN, May 06, 2006)
Disquieting thoughts on India’s future arise, even as the Sensex creates an image of its ‘arrival’
- Put Him Down (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 06, 2006)
Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh has an innate ability to unleash furious storms and he is invariably in the eye of each one of them.
- Child And Mother (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 06, 2006)
Unicef's report card for India on child nutritional levels has, once again, highlighted the gulf that separates India's reality and aspiration.
- Resolving The Kargil Conundrum (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, May 06, 2006)
Some coherent answers are clearly needed to the question of why troops were thinned at a time when India should have been enhancing its defences.
- Mediterranean, The New Hotspot (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 06, 2006)
There are new haunts for the Indian tourist as he moves away from the conventional places to the blue Mediterranean.
- Multicultural Parody Along Info Highway (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 06, 2006)
The Internet is today’s version of the Silk Road, the great east-west trading route.
- Labour Pains, Blair Delivers Blow To Men (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
Tony Blair on Friday sacked Charles Clarke, demoted Jack Straw and stripped John Prescott of his departmental brief in a wide-ranging reshuffle aimed at reinvigorating his government after heavy losses in Thursday's local elections.
- Volatile Vadodara (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 06, 2006)
Bulldozers and bullets in place of negotiations
- China — Reaching Out To The World (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, May 06, 2006)
There is a global fascination now for all things Chinese. On its part, Beijing gives due importance to cultivating soft power.
- Naushad Passes Away In Mumbai; From Barabanki, Qawwal Mourning (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
At the dargah of Haji Waris Alis Shah in Barabanki’s Dewa Sharief, the qawwals are mourning the death of a musical legend who started his journey here.
- Marginalised Pandits (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, May 06, 2006)
The other day I was thumbing through the 260-odd page ‘‘Report on the impact of migration on the socio-economic conditions of Kashmiri displaced people’’ prepared by the Jammu-based Centre for Minority Studies, a well-researched effort which, needless to,
- Wasted Yatras (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 06, 2006)
The BJP’s decision to cancel the remaining part of the Bharat Suraksha Yatras of former Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani and party chief Rajnath Singh is the most sensible it has taken in recent months.
- Haryana To Have New Bus Service (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
A new bus service known as "Haryana Gaurav" would be introduced by the Haryana Transport Department and the first such bus would be flagged off by Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in New Delhi on May 6.
- Ltte Attack Warded Off (Hindu, V. S. Sambandan, May 06, 2006)
The Sri Lankan navy and air force on Friday warded off an attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) off the island's north-western coast, the army said.
- Tv For Your Vote (Tribune, J. Sri Raman, May 06, 2006)
MR Muthuvel Karunanidhi, patriarch of ‘Dravidian’ politics, of course, does not bear the palest resemblance to Marie Antoinette. But he has come out with a message to the electorate that his critics can make sound remarkably like the reported . . .
- Steps To Protect Indian Workers, Says Vayalar Ravi (Hindu, Atul Aneja , May 06, 2006)
The visiting Minister for Overseas Affairs, Vayalar Ravi has said that efforts were being made to protect workers seeking employment in Gulf countries from unscrupulous agents. "We have to tighten rules of recruitment for Indian workers," Mr. Ravi who . .
- A Fiat Gujarat Could Have Done Without (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 06, 2006)
Judicial activism, admirable on such occasions as when it comes to the rescue of ill-treated undertrials or bonded labour or child workers, at times turns problematical.
- Turmoil In Balochistan (Dawn, Ghayoor Ahmed, May 05, 2006)
THE Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah wanted Pakistan to be a federation, with autonomous units in which fundamental human rights, equality of status and opportunity, social, economic and political justice would be guaranteed.
- Press Freedom (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, May 05, 2006)
Addressing the Press Institute of Pakistan seminar on World Press Freedom Day, new Federal Information Minister Mohammad Ali Durrani could not have been more right in saying that any manner of freedom secured by journalists has "not been gifted . . .
- Consulting Legislators (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, May 05, 2006)
On Wednesday General Musharraf visited Parliament House, where he talked to National Assembly Speaker Ch Amir Hussain and a number of ruling alliance legislators.
- Doing Away With 58-2(b) (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, May 05, 2006)
Ever since Ziaul Haq inserted Article 58-2(b) in the Constitution by a decree, Pakistan has seen four elected governments dismissed and the elected assemblies dissolved. Ziaul Haq first made use of it in 1988 when he sacked the government of . . .
- Who's Afraid Of Convertibility? (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, May 05, 2006)
Over the past month or so, I have been on a road show meeting clients around the country to talk about capital account convertibility, and, to my amazement, I have encountered a fair amount of concern about what could happen if we opened up our . . .
- Progress On Kashmir (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, May 05, 2006)
Followinged months of stalemate on the Kashmir front, some movement is at last visible in this area of India-Pakistan relations.
- Journey Of A Lifetime (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, May 05, 2006)
The immediate fallout of Pramod Mahajan's untimely and tragic death was the cancellation of the two Bharat Suraksha yatras by Mr LK Advani and Mr Rajnath Singh.
- Tracing Disequilibrium In The Asset Markets (The Financial Express, SUMANT SINHA, May 05, 2006)
The considerable lag between the flow of funds and the creation of assets is ensuring the imbalance.
- Indian Origin Astronaut To Make Maiden Journey To Iss (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
Three years after Kalpana Chawla's tragic space expedition, another American astronaut of Indian origin Sunita Williams will make her maiden journey to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of NASA's six-month mission.
- Silver Lining (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, May 05, 2006)
There is a silver lining in the blood-splattered atmosphere prevailing today. It is to be welcomed that both New Delhi and Islamabad have reiterated their resolve to go ahead with the peace process.
- Maoists Agree On Peace Talks (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
Maoist rebels agreed today to peacetalks with Nepal’s government that are aimed at ending a decade-old insurgency which has killed 13,000 people.
- Fiction As Fact (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 05, 2006)
The Supreme Court's stay order on Thursday, putting on hold further demolition of illegal structures described as "places of worship", may have fetched a temporary reprieve for fanatics in Vadodara who have nothing but contempt for authority.
- South Indian Red Herring (Telegraph, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, May 05, 2006)
The author is president, Centre for Policy Research
In his defence of further extending reservations to the other backward classes, P. Chidamabaram, a late and curious convert to the new reservation mania sweeping the government, predictably . . .
- Order In The House (News International, Editorial, The News International, May 05, 2006)
The latest instalment of the ongoing Sindh Assembly session started more than two hours late on Wednesday and lasted a mere 25 minutes before yet another tiresomely predictable "rumpus" led the chairperson to prorogue the proceedings.
- Sri Lanka Army Says Kills 7, Talks Remain Deadlocked (Reuters, Peter Apps, May 05, 2006)
Sri Lanka's army said it killed seven suspected Tamil Tigers after an attack on a checkpoint on Thursday, while the rebels raised new objections to a government plan aimed at ending the deadlock over peace talks.
- Shooting Stars (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 05, 2006)
It would surprise most believers if god loved Pramod Mahajan, who died at the relatively early age of 57.
- Crpf Director Seeks Report On Buddhia Issue (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
Under attack from various human rights organisations for making four-and-a-half-year-old Buddhia Singh run a gruesome 65-km marathon, CRPF Director-General J.K. Sinha has sought a report into the incident from the force’s Orissa unit.
- Accused Must Be Booked For Trafficking Also (Tribune, Ruchika M. Khanna, May 05, 2006)
The brutal murder of 14-year-old Tripta (name changed) from Jharkhand, in a non- descript village of Jind, hit the national headlines recently. Her “owner” beheaded her when she refused to bow before his lustful desires.
- Mr Toraichi Kono And The Tramp (Deccan Herald, Bruce Wallace, May 05, 2006)
Kono and Chaplin. Kono, an aide to Chaplin for years, was forgotten until crates of his papers came to light.
- Metro Plus Rapid Bus Transit (Deccan Herald, Asha Krishnaswamy, May 05, 2006)
Curitiba, with a population exceeding 1.7 million, has one car for every three inhabitants — the second largest car per capita figure in Brazil. But its auto fuel consumption per capita is the lowest among Brazil’s cities, thanks to the integrated . . .
- A Pursuit Of Pure Passion (Hindu, S. DIWAKAR , May 05, 2006)
Did you know that Gauhar Jaan was not actually the first Indian musician to have a gramophone recording?
- Kargil And Questions Of War (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, May 05, 2006)
Was the Kargil war the outcome of just intelligence failure?
- Indian Security Presence In Afghanistan (Hindu, M.K. Bhadrakumar, May 05, 2006)
The U.S. and Britain have hitherto been averse to any role for India — in deference to Pakistani sensitivities. Why, now, a change of heart?
- Mysore Selected For Centre's Tourism Development Project (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
The city will receive Rs. 50 crore for development
Comprehensive action plan to develop Mysore as a tourist destination to be prepared shortly
A meeting with environmentalists and elected representatives on the proposed plan to be held soon
Minister
- Summer Quencher (Hindu, CHANDAN SEN, May 05, 2006)
The architectural splendour of the baoris or stepwells in Bundi, Rajasthan is simply amazing.
The numerous stepwells, kunds and tankas have made the place a "City of stepwells". And each one of them is an architectural wonder.
- Japan Bank Governor Visits Metro (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
The Governor of the Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC), Kyosuke Shinozawa, on Thursday visited the Delhi Metro railway and spent about an hour on the system during which he travelled from Central Secretariat to Rajiv Chowk and back.
- Indian-Origin Sunita Williams To Make Maiden Space Expedition (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
She will serve as a flight engineer on NASA's six-month mission
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