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Articles 8521 through 8620 of 23072:
- 'The Shame Of Katrina Is Still With Us' (Jordan Times, James J. Zogby, Apr 25, 2006)
Eight months after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, New Orleans remains a devastated city. Having just returned from a short visit, I was shocked by what I saw.
- Saving The Nation (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 25, 2006)
IN a PTV interview General Musharraf has recounted what he considers his major achievements.
- What Was Missing In Ptv Interview? (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 25, 2006)
President Musharraf has said that economic turn around is his greatest achievement and he wants to be known in history as Pakistan’s saviour for retrieving its economy from virtual collapse and dilution. In the PTV’s ‘First Family Interview . . .
- America’S Changed Stance (Dawn, Athar Osama, Apr 25, 2006)
President George Bush’s trip to South Asia last month has been the subject of the Pakistani, Indian, and American news media and security analysts for a while now.
- Decline Of American Power? (The Economic Times, Alok Sheel, Apr 25, 2006)
US economic strength rests not simply on its economic size, but on invisible ‘dark matter’ which generates a bottomless global appetite for dollars and ensures a higher return on its assets relative to the rest of the world.
- Taj Mahal Premier In Pak Tomorrow (Tribune, Vibha Sharma, Apr 25, 2006)
While Mughal-e-Azam becomes the first Indian film to be premiered in Pakistan yesterday on April 26, Akbar Khan-directed “Taj Mahal” will become the first Indian film to be commercially released across the border.
- Endangered Monarchy (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Apr 25, 2006)
As Nepal undergoes its gravest convulsions in recent times, two trends stand out. The time for King Gyanendra is running out as is India’s traditional two-pillar policy for the kingdom: a constitutional monarchy and multi-party democracy.
- Fettered Freedom (Indian Express, JYOTSNA DIWAN MEHTA, Apr 25, 2006)
It was on a holiday last year that I visited Bastar — the densely forested ecological haven which is slowly inching its way on to the tourist map. The verdant greenery, the breath-taking waterfalls, the feeling of somehow being transported back into time,
- Blood And Thunder In The Family (Indian Express, Inder Malhotra, Apr 25, 2006)
Never before has there been anything like the murderous assault on the BJP general secretary, Pramod Mahajan, even though it is impossible to keep count of the murders or attempted murders of politicians in this supposedly non-violent country.
- Remember Kathmandu (Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Apr 25, 2006)
In a week when crowds surged to the barricades at the Buckingham and Narayanhiti palaces, comparing the curiosities that are the British and Nepalese royal families would be the obvious thing to do.
- India To Avail Of More Adb Aid Annually (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 25, 2006)
India is committed to ramp up its borrowing from Asian Development Bank (ADB) to $2 billion per year by 2009 from the current level of $1.2 billion, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said here on Monday.
- The Climate Is In Crisis (Deccan Herald, Robert Macfarlane, Apr 25, 2006)
Oil was the substance that defined the century just ended; ice will define the one just begun.
- Musharraf ‘Literally Wept’ When East Pakistan Fell (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 25, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said he ‘‘literally wept’’ when he heard the ‘‘disgusting’’ news of surrender of Pakistani troops during the Bangladesh war with India.
- No Halfway Houses Islamabad Must Open All Doors (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 25, 2006)
In one sense, the celebration beginning with Mughal-e-Azam in Pakistani theatres - that will hopefully end the 40-year drought of Hindi films in that country - appears to make . . .
- When Bush Was In Pak, His Plane Was In Delhi (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 25, 2006)
The US Secret Service was so scared of terror attacks during President George W. Bush’s visit to Pakistan last month that it declined to park the President’s standby aircraft, a second Jumbo 747, in Islamabad.
- Bending Communism Like Buddha In The Citadel Of Marxism (Deccan Herald, Prasanta Paul, Apr 25, 2006)
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya has unleashed a virtual revolution in the Marxist citadel.
- The Politics Of Language (Pioneer, A Surya Prakash, Apr 25, 2006)
The orgy of violence unleashed by his fans in Bangalore following news of the sudden demise of Kannada superstar Raj Kumar earlier this month, once again drew attention to that southern alchemy of cinema and politics and revived the debate . . .
- Hire Without Discrimination (Pioneer, Abdullah Khan, Apr 25, 2006)
The UPA Government's proposal to extend the policy of reservation to the private sector has caused grave concern not only to the business community but also set off a wave of competitive populism among the political parties.
- Diplomats Work To Cut Deal, Avoid Showdown In Nepal (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 25, 2006)
Desperate to avoid a bloody showdown between Nepal's king and protesters calling for his ouster, foreign diplomats struggled on Monday to cut a deal to end weeks of protests that have left this Himalayan nation on the verge of chaos.
- Through The Third Eye (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 25, 2006)
The Chinese obsession with the animal of the year of their birth can lead to unexpected results when admixtured with a liberal dose of cultural and linguistic confusion, Third Eye discovered, from the experience of a colleague who travelled to . . .
- On India Inc Job Quotas, An Affirmative Lesson From South Africa (Indian Express, G. ANANTHAKRISHNAN, Apr 25, 2006)
As facts lose out to rhetoric in the debate over quotas in the private sector, New Delhi and India Inc should perhaps take a look at the example of South Africa.
- India At Cusp Of Historic Transformation: Pm (Press Trust of India, Ajay Kaul, Apr 24, 2006)
Emphasising that India was at the "cusp of a historic transformation", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today invited increased foreign investment pointing out that the country had ventured on a series of programmes to improve infrastructure which . . .
- Ipi Gasline Deal (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 24, 2006)
The news that the deal on the $7 billion Iran-Pakistan-India gasline project is about to be finalised between the three countries has rekindled hopes that Islamabad and New Delhi are determined to withstand pressure from Washington to back off from . . .
- A New Theory To Sustain The Bull Market (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, Apr 24, 2006)
Beliefs about property-based evaluations powering the market are worrisome and require scrutiny
- Three Heads Better Than One (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 24, 2006)
Decades ago, an innovative manufacturer started this concept of a three-in-one where kids could freak out on an ice-cream with three flavours instead of one. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati has come out with a diktat which seems to . . .
- Should Generals Speak Out? (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Apr 24, 2006)
Commentators have described what has happened in the US this month as a virtual revolt, though confined to a few retired Generals. Unless put down firmly, they fear that it might become a contagion and spread to serving officers and spell the . . .
- Strengths And Weaknesses Of Indian Banking (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Apr 24, 2006)
Indian banks have done quite well, especially in terms of efficiency and non-performing loans. But there is still a long way to go before they can catch up with their peers in the US, the UK, Germany or China. S. VENKITARAMANAN hopes the RBI . . .
- Liquidity Lack? (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Apr 24, 2006)
For days before Reserve Bank governor YV Reddy unveiled his Annual Policy last week, there was a raging debate on whether or lot there was a liquidity crunch in the system.
- Code Of Conduct Needed For Ipo-Bound Companies (The Financial Express, RAJEEV DUBEY, Apr 24, 2006)
RPL’s announcements, timed with the IPO’s opening and closing, highlights the lack of . . .
- Rlys Woos 2nd Class Passengers With Premium Services (Pioneer, Rajeev Ranjan Roy, Apr 24, 2006)
Travelling in sleeper class of Indian trains will no longer be a nightmare. The Union Railway Ministry has finally got up to address the plight of great sleeper class passengers, but only by levying charges on every facility they would like . . .
- Enough's Enough Solution To Talaq Lies With Article 44 (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 24, 2006)
The plight of India's Muslim women has been underscored yet again with a fatwa issued to a couple to live apart merely because the man uttered talaq three times to his wife in an inebriated state.
- Chinks In Mafia's Armour (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, Apr 24, 2006)
Who says, that crimes can be buried with the passage of time? Nemesis has habit of catching up at the most unexpected moment. Italian police arrested Bernardo Provenzano, boss of all bosses of the Sicilian Mafia, on April 12, 2005 after 43 years.
- Doughty Pramod Fights On; Surgery Successful (Pioneer, TN Raghunatha, Apr 24, 2006)
His toughest fight ever, but senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan does not show any signs of giving up... and fights on.
- Did Numbers Turn China Against Cult? (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
They are the leaders of the world’s two superpowers,” the reporter was intoning, with the solemnity appropriate to the dawning of a new geo-political era in which China is set to overtake the USA as the leading global economy. Suddenly the decorum . . .
- American Empire-I (Statesman, PRASENJIT CHOWDHURY, Apr 24, 2006)
Susan Sontag spoke for many Left-wing intellectuals when she excoriated American culture as “inorganic, dead, coercive, authoritarian” and insisted that what America “deserves” is to have its wealth “taken away” by the so-called Third World.
- Sri Lanka Urges Eu To Blacklist Ltte (Deccan Herald, P KARUNAKHARAN , Apr 24, 2006)
Reiterating its commitment to a political settlement to the bloody ethnic conflict through negotiation with the LTTE, the government of Sri Lanka on Sunday urged the European Community to ban the Tamil Tigers in the EU member countries to pressure . . .
- The Real Cost Of Water (Deccan Herald, JAYALAKSHMI K, Apr 24, 2006)
The water that is required by a Bangalorean travels around 130 km and pumped after being treated at a cost of Rs 40 per litre. While the potable water needs of an individual is around 5-10 litres per day, the bulk of the water consumed daily is for . . .
- Defiant Cherries (Deccan Herald, Vatsala Vedantam, Apr 24, 2006)
Human immigrants in US face displacement, but a plant remains a favourite
- Mughal-E-Azam Screened In Lahore, Taj Mahal’S Next (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Apr 24, 2006)
The official screening of the two Bollywood films — Mughal-e-Azam and Taj Mahal in Lahore and Karachi this week — will be yet another milestone in the journey to normalise relations between the two estranged neighbours.
- Ads Tell You All You Need To Know (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Apr 24, 2006)
Sometimes, ads reflect attitude and ‘the image’, and the times.You will see Salman Khan in a banian ad but never in one for suitings. Because it’s his arms and chest that are on sale. Did the banian wallahs pay him to emerge from the Jodhpur jail . . .
- Creating Quality (Telegraph, S.L. Rao, Apr 24, 2006)
The author is former director-general, National Council for Applied Economic . . .
- Iran's Time Bomb (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
The question that preoccupies most of Iran lay coiled in the sullen stare of Abbas Kayhan, 25 years old and stuck behind the counter of his father\\\'s corner store. It pulled his heavy brow even lower and travelled down a forearm that shuddered in anger.
- Blair Pledges £17 Million For Uk-India Collaboration In Higher Education (Times of India, SUKANYA SUKUMAR, Apr 24, 2006)
Britain has launched a £17 million drive to link centres of academic excellence in India and the UK through research projects that will unfold over the next five years.
- Bionic Bull (Times of India, ARCHANA JAHAGIRDAR, Apr 24, 2006)
The resident bull of the Indian bourses must be a very tired creature. He started in the low valley of the 5,000 mark and has since galloped up to the 12,000 Everest.
- Art And The Auction House (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 24, 2006)
Despite the current euphoria, India struggles to emerge as a true superpower. A key reason is the nation's developmental vision lacks originality from within. India has underutilised and virtually destroyed its artistic and cultural heritage . . .
- Value Of People’S Power (Tribune, S. D. Muni , Apr 24, 2006)
Events can throw up parallel government in Nepal
- Manmohan, Merkel Open Hanover Fair (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and German Chancellor Angela Merkel Sunday on jointly inaugurated the Hanover Fair, where the rising Asian economy that is emerging as a magnet for global investment is the partner country after 22 years.
- Expose This Scam (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 24, 2006)
One and all will be thoroughly disappointed. Indeed, the disclosure about bungling in the well intentioned scheme "for the development of Chinab river front at Akhnoor" is sickening.
- Cross-Cultural Encounters Entail Risk Of Aids (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
With a huge growth in tourism — Varanasi received 3.45 lakh foreign tourists in 2005 and Goa gets about 3 lakh firang visitors each season — the number of cross-cultural encounters too are likely to rise.
- Indo-Myanmar Relations (Daily Excelsior, Indu Prakash Singh, Apr 24, 2006)
The military rule in Myanmar is on the agenda of the UN General Assembly beginning September 20.
- Bare Breasts And Bare-Faced Politics (Asia Times, Sudha Ramachandran, Apr 23, 2006)
India's morality stormtroopers were steamed up last week in response to two incidents of "wardrobe malfunction" at the Lakme India Fashion Week in Mumbai.
- Nature's Splendour (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
Kaziranga is an example of how an area can regain its natural vitality if given due protection.
- Squaring The Circle (Hindu, GEETA DOCTOR, Apr 23, 2006)
The Ramanujan-Hardy story finds a new equation with a film on their relationship.
- So Many Shades (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
Drawing with coloured pencils is not a spontaneous art and Jay Varma is a master of this medium.
- New Delhi Seeks Transit Facility: India-Pakistan-Afghan Trade Urged (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
India on Saturday said that if Islamabad provided New Delhi with the transit facility for trade with Afghanistan then it would also benefit Pakistan as Peshawar would become a hub of economic activity.
- Blast Kills Four Canadians In Afghanistan (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
Four Canadian soldiers were killed on Saturday when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, Canadian military spokesman Mark McIntyre said.
- R E G I O N: Karzai Blames ‘Foreigners’ For Raging Insurgency (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday blamed unspecified “foreigners” for providing funding and weapons to fan his country’s raging insurgency.
- A Fairy Tale Debut (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
Kaavya Viswanathan talks about her book, fame and future.
- Travel Guides (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
"From the heights of the Himalayas to the majesty of the Taj Mahal enjoy the Eastern delights of India with this essential guide. Unique cutaways and 3D pictures take you on a visual tour round holy temples and the top nature reserves.
- Push And Pull Of The Mba Bull Run (Deccan Herald, RAMNATH NARAYANSWAMY, Apr 23, 2006)
The book offers a peep into the frenetic environment of Wharton business school and the lives of its highly ambitious students.
- The Tragedy Of Want In India (Deccan Herald, K S Naraynan, Apr 23, 2006)
Poverty has always dogged India’s heels, although the situation has improved over time.
- R E G I O N: Karzai Blames ‘Foreigners’ For Raging Insurgency (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday blamed unspecified “foreigners” for providing funding and weapons to fan his country’s raging insurgency.
- Fdi Ruled Out In Indian Carriers (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
The new civil aviation policy will not allow foreign airlines to own equity in Indian carriers, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel has said.
- Stones Come Alive (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
The town of Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh gets its name from the Khajur trees growing in abundance there, writes Ambuja Narayan.
- Unholy Warriors And Kattarpan (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Apr 22, 2006)
They tell us all religions preach peace: the Muslim’s ‘Islam’ means the same as the Hindu’s ‘Shanti’, the Sikh’s ‘Sarbat da bhalaa’ and the Christian’s ‘peace and goodwill on Earth.’
- Sc Verdict Has Exposed Govt’S Untenable Position On Bmic (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 22, 2006)
The Supreme Court’s judgment on the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC) project is a slap on the face of the Karnataka Government.
- Twenty Years On The Banks Of The Narmada (Indian Express, MADHU PURNIMA KISHWAR, Apr 22, 2006)
The spectacular success of Medha Patkar’s Narmada Bachao Andolan in manipulating the media for over two decades is unparalleled in the history of social activism.
- Paper Marking (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 22, 2006)
Mistakes are bound to happen in life, whether of an individual or a body. Once, impelled by the desire of setting the highest standard in competitive tests the governing body of a Central Government Service Commission appointed Professor Harold . . .
- Malaysia Demolishes Century-Old Hindu Temple In Kuala Lampur (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 22, 2006)
Malaysian authorities have demolished a century-old Hindu temple in Kuala Lumpur, bulldozing the building as devotees cried and begged them to stop, Hindu groups said today.
- India Ready To Give Neighbour A Helping Hand (Times of India, Indrani Bagchi, Apr 22, 2006)
Along with supporting Nepal ruler Gyanendra, the Indian government has handed out unreserved kudos to the people of Nepal.
- The Truth Behind History (Hindu, ANJANA RAJAN, Apr 22, 2006)
M.J. Akbar's latest book is a history of India couched as a fascinating family chronicle
It would be a tragedy if one were to be imprisoned by despair
- Us, China Pledge To Boost Ties (Deccan Herald, Joseph Kahn, Apr 22, 2006)
President Bush and China's president, Hu Jintao, pledged to cooperate more closely on fighting nuclear proliferation and reducing trade imbalances on Thursday, but broke no new ground on the most delicate issues that divide the two nations.
- Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 22, 2006)
Historically speaking, the bikini is a bad joke. Sixty years after its invention, political correctness and the end of the Cold War have made that sort of humour all but impossible to carry off. In 1946, when Louis Réard, a French engineer, strayed . . .
- Greenpeace Founder For Going Nuclear (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 22, 2006)
In the early 1970s when I helped found Greenpeace, I believed that nuclear energy was synonymous with nuclear holocaust, as did most of my compatriots. That’s the conviction that inspired Greenpeace’s first voyage up the spectacular rocky . . .
- Bengal Shining? Young Leader Helps Put Gloss On Party’S Image (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 22, 2006)
The Left Front, having consolidated rural Bengal, turned to Kolkata applying mouth to mouth
- Please Allow Better View Of Taj, Up Asks Sc (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 22, 2006)
To make it easier for tourists to get a better view of the Taj Mahal, the Uttar Pradesh Government wants to seek Supreme Court's permission to allow that the monument be seen at night from a distance of 150 metre, half of the distance allowed.
- Horrors That Don’T Go Away (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 22, 2006)
When I am in Mumbai I stay on Marine Drive and happened to be there last Monday when the chief minister and other dignitaries gathered to launch the Rs 130 crore scheme that will hopefully turn this city’s most famous road into the magnificent promena
- No Banquet For Hu (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Apr 22, 2006)
Diplomatic protocol that so obsesses foreign offices around the world has political meaning only when it is broken consciously or disrupted by unanticipated acts.
- Three Players Of Trade Game In New Economic Geography (Business Line, D. Murali , Apr 22, 2006)
"Europe is changing and reinventing itself," writes Jean-Joseph Boillot in his book Europe after Enlargement. And exploring what happens when there is `geoeconomic realignment of globalising markets' are Jagdish N. Sheth and Rajendra S. Sisodia in . . .
- In Nepal, The Beginning Of The End (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Apr 22, 2006)
People power has forced Gyanendra to cede executive power. But only a democratically elected Constituent Assembly can bring the people true sovereignty.
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