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Articles 9121 through 9220 of 23072:
- Gorgeous View (Hindu, SUBHA J. RAO, Apr 08, 2006)
In the dark, even twigs look scary. A shrivelled creeper clinging to a lamppost appears like a snake ready to strike! Driving down from Masinagudi village towards Moyar, our guide tells us to keep our eyes open to track animal movement on the . . .
- Civilizing Mission (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Apr 08, 2006)
The US still mistakes national resistance for terrorism
- The Knight Versus The Professor (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Apr 08, 2006)
The choice for the Italian electorate on Sunday is between the incumbent Prime Minister's flamboyance and the challenger's dignified approach.
- What Vajpayee Told Manmohan (Indian Express, R.V. Pandit, Apr 08, 2006)
How does one assess an assertion made by L.K. Advani at a press conference this week?
- The Low-Down On India-Us Nuclear Dea (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Apr 08, 2006)
Pakistan seems to have woken up to the United States-India nuclear deal the two countries signed during President George Bush’s visit to South Asia last month.
- Long Live Our Dead Ghosts (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Apr 08, 2006)
Arjun Singh, we are told by his fans in the Congress, possesses one sharp political brain. L.K. Advani, his disciples in the BJP would tell you, is a genuinely creative political strategist.
- Not Just Iit And Iim, Arjun Quota Regime To Cover All (Indian Express, Shubhajit Roy, Apr 08, 2006)
Not just IIMs, IITs and Central universities. Top academic institutes, cutting across various fields, from medicine to law, film to fashion, hotel management to mass communication, are set to come under HRD Minister Arjun Singh’s plan to impose . . .
- Dmk, Aiadmk Candidates Cross Swords In Five Salem Seats (Hindu, R. Ilangovan, Apr 08, 2006)
Salem district, since 1952, has been the epicentre of many political events that had a direct bearing on the State's socio-political climate.
- Train Of Thought (Indian Express, Raksha Kumar, Apr 08, 2006)
When I had to make a 2,000 kilometre journey alone in a train, it raised many an eyebrow.
- Quotas A Retrograde Step, Feels India Inc (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
Corporate captains have come down hard on the government's decision to reserve 49.5% reservation in IITs and IIMs, calling the move a retrograde step, which could erode the culture of meritocracy at IITs and IIMs.
- Kashi: Eternal City Of Mystic Love And Light (Times of India, Pranav Khullar, Apr 08, 2006)
Benaras or Varanasi has an unbroken, ancient, spiritual character, a city that is at the very core of Hindu tradition, a living testimony to the compo-site and eclectic culture that has been defining the Indian ethos since ages.
- Cpi(m) Protests Against Caste Discrimination In Society (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
Dalits asked to stay united and resist attempts of social suppression
- Cet Cell Clarifies On Allocation Of Seats (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
`No basis for criticism of Bill on this count'
- Pensioners, Traders Hard Hit By Sbi Employees' Strike (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
Transaction worth crores of rupees blocked in Belgaum
Strike entered fifth day on Friday Thousands of cheques have not been cleared
- "Assam Polls A Pointer To New Front" (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Apr 08, 2006)
History will be rewritten if AGP wins, say Mulayam and Naidu
Congress, BJP enemies to Assam development: Naidu
We will speak up for the State in Parliament: Amar Singh
- Sitting On Judgement (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 08, 2006)
Judicial reforms hinge crucially on the availability of more empirical data to iron out systemic flaws, says Upamanyu Hazarika
- Lack Of Will (Pioneer, Amit Jetley, Apr 08, 2006)
While the higher courts in India have worked admirably to expand the ambit of constitutional and civil rights, what is interesting when one surveys the history of independent India is that there has been so little attempt at judicial reforms.
- In The Wake Of The Bush Visit (Dawn, Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Apr 08, 2006)
In the aftermath of President George Bush’s visit, too much importance is being attached to inanities, while among the important points only the nuclear deal with India has monopolised comments, giving an impression as if all that matters to . . .
- Endangered Cbm (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 08, 2006)
Red tape proves a roadblock
- Oily Skid Is Just Dangerously Around The Corner (Business Line, D. Murali , Apr 08, 2006)
Chindia' will require increasingly high amounts of energy for its growth, points out Stephen Leeb in The Coming Economic Collapse. As alternative energy, biodiesel is well poised "to enter both the vocabulary and the fuel tanks," predicts Lyle . . .
- Reliance Webworld's 24x7 Biz Project For Bpos (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
Reliance WebWorld has initiated a pilot project for BPOs that if successful could keep its cash registers humming all 24 hours of the day.
- Towards A Partnership (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Apr 08, 2006)
Does the US want to control Indian foreign and economic policy in the long run? And does it to want to attain this objective by following the `strategic partnership' route, one of the vital aspects of which is the nuclear deal?
- Kashmir A Flashpoint, Says Rice (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
Agreeing that Kashmir was "a flash point", which "has sparked conflict in the region", US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday said that the United States did "actively encourage the parties to find a resolution".
- Resume Work, Chidambaram Tells Sbi Staff (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
Negotiations on under Labour Commissioner
Unions present modified version of demands
``No time-frame should be set for solution''
``Retirement benefits of SBI, PSU employees different''
- The Yatra Man (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 07, 2006)
Advani cannot give up old habits
- N-Deal Fiasco Will Hit Ties, Warns Rice (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Apr 07, 2006)
Urging members of Congress to support legislation that would enable a nuclear deal with India to reach fruition, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday warned the US-India relationship would suffer a "significant setback" if this agreement . .
- How To Write A Perfect Novel (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
First, many non-resident Indians have taken to full-time writing supplemented by teaching and journalism.
- Planet Fetish (Telegraph, Pathik Guha, Apr 07, 2006)
Dava Sobel’s prize-winning bestseller, Longitude, was about the 18th-century clockmaker John Harrison’s bid to save lives at sea because of the inability to determine an East-West position.
- Seeking A New Direction (Telegraph, Suhrita Saha, Apr 07, 2006)
The movement for women’s liberation, writes Brenner, has passed through various phases that have been characterized by extraordinary gains as well as irreversible set backs.
- The Search For Independence (Telegraph, ARNAB BHATTACHARYA , Apr 07, 2006)
The politics of autonomy: Indian experiences Edited by Ranabir Samaddar, Sage, Rs 620
- In The Twilight Zone (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 07, 2006)
It’s the realm of the unknown; it deals with the supernatural world and its possible influences, it’s a quality hidden from our senses — it’s occult tradition that has had a very special place in the history of social evolution both in the West . . .
- Time For Trade Links (Tribune, Ehsan Fazili, Apr 07, 2006)
The historic bus service that was launched on April 7 2005 by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and then Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in Srinagar has now completed one year of its operation.
- Protests, Carnage Rock Nepal (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
Police fired tear gas to break up stone-throwing anti-monarchy protesters in Nepal today after a fierce overnight attack on a town by Maoist rebels left 22 people dead, including an Indian, witnesses and authorities said.
- Managing Stress (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 07, 2006)
It was perfectly in order for Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Director-General J.K. Sinha to have visited this city in the wake of murders outside the Chief Minister's official residence.
- Banking On Trouble (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Apr 07, 2006)
A bank that covers 70 per cent of all bank transactions across the country and handles the government’s treasury and forex operations is an essential service, and therefore much too important to be permitted to shut down under any circumstances.
- Yatras Roll To Ram And Rajya Beat (Pioneer, Yogesh Vajpeyi, Apr 07, 2006)
On Thursday, Leader of Opposition LK Advani embarked on his sixth Rath Yatra invoking Lord Ram and appealing to Muslims to abandon their claim over the disputed site in Ayodhya so as to facilitate the construction of the temple on Ram's janambhoomi.
- Up: 4 Killed, 13 Injured In Clash In Aligarh (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
Four persons were killed and 13 injured, six of them seriously, when members of two communities clashed over a place of worship, opening fire and pelting stones, after which indefinite curfew was imposed in three police station areas of this . . .
- Tragedy To Farce (Statesman, Sushila Ramaswamy, Apr 07, 2006)
Ever since the French Revolution of 1789, France has attracted worldwide attention for political upheavals, in striking contrast to a relatively more tranquil England.
- The Politics Of Sacrifice (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Apr 07, 2006)
Why Sonia Gandhi can get away with her grand-standing
- Boucher On Democracy (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 07, 2006)
After his meeting with the President, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher addressed a press conference in the US embassy. According to the official sources, while meeting the President he confined himself . . .
- Lessons From Thailand (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 07, 2006)
The constitutional crisis in Thailand is not about to end soon, the resignation of its prime minister notwithstanding.
- Four Killed In Hindu-Muslim Clashes In India (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
Four people were killed and seven injured in clashes between Hindus and Muslims in the northern Indian town of Aligarh, said a senior official on Thursday.
- The Silliness Of Some Scientific Methods (The Economic Times, MUKUL SHARMA, Apr 07, 2006)
The magnificence of science in unravelling the secrets of the natural world has on hundreds of occasions proven to be undoubtedly resplendent.
- Rice Rebuts Critics On The Hill, Point By Point (Indian Express, C. Raja Mohan, Apr 07, 2006)
Slicing through layers of informed American scepticism, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has made the strongest pitch so far on why the nuclear deal with India needed to be signed by Washington in Washington
- 'Past Non-Proliferation Policies Did Not Achieve Their Goals' (Pioneer, Condoleezza Rice, Apr 07, 2006)
We don't want India to expand its civil nuclear energy production without our help, says Condoleezza Rice
- Secular Vend For Islamist Cause (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Apr 07, 2006)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.George Santayana
- Advani Rath Starts Rolling (Deccan Herald, Parag Rabade, Apr 07, 2006)
BJP leader L K Advani on Thursday commenced his Bharat Suraksha Yatra from this BJP fortress in Saurashtra, by appealing to the Muslims in the country to offer the disputed land in Ayodhya to Hindus for the construction of a Lord Rama temple.
- Cause For Concern (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 07, 2006)
The arrest of seven persons with links to the Harkat-ul Jihad-i-Islami, Bangladesh (HUJI-B) in connection with the blasts at Varanasi’s Sankatmochan Temple and railway station in March underlines the growing threat posed by Bangladesh-based . . .
- The Outsider And His City (Hindu, DEEPA GANESH, Apr 07, 2006)
Winner of Lankesh debut director award Suman Mukhopadhyay's Bengali film, Herbert is at once the tragic story of an individual alienated by history as well as the collapse of Kolkata in the last century
- Where Rags To Riches Stories Are No Longer Rare (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Apr 07, 2006)
The Chinese city of Wenzhou owes its success to the development of a cluster model whereby hundreds of small enterprises work together producing complementary goods based on efficient division of labour, saysThe Hindu's Beijing Correspondent.
- The Evolution Of The Model Code (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Apr 07, 2006)
With its origins in 1951, the code emerged out of a political consensus. So long as it remained on paper, there was hardly any protest. The situation changed when the focus shifted to enforcement.
- Talks: Safe Travel Promise For Ltte (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Apr 07, 2006)
Norwegian Special Envoy cites polarisation, calls for confidence-building measures
- Kathmandu Clamps Night Curfew (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
Attempt to thwart Thursday's anti-King general strike sponsored by Opposition
- Assam’S Widow From Gujarat Is Agp Candidate (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Apr 06, 2006)
When Alaka Desai first came to Assam 23 years ago, arriving in Guwahati from Gujarat to work on a doctoral thesis on the Northeast, little did she imagine that she would one day contest an election here as the candidate of a regional party.
- U.S. Sees Threat From European Islamic Militants (Reuters, Caroline Drees, Apr 06, 2006)
Islamic militants in Europe pose a direct threat to U.S. national security, more than 4-1/2 years after Europe-based plotters planned much of the Sept. 11 attacks, senior U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
- Seeking Help From A Veteran Of Love (Deccan Herald, Dinitia Smith, Apr 06, 2006)
‘It’s about having a life of the imagination; it’s one of those ineffable things.’
- In Indira’S Footsteps (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Apr 06, 2006)
Last week this column suggested that the Congress should be buried. Some elaboration is in order.
- Mozart Wasn’T So Poor After All (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 06, 2006)
For centuries, historians have portrayed Mozart as poor, but new documents suggest the composer was not nearly as hard-up for cash as many believed.
- Varanasi Blasts: Probe Leads To Bangladesh (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
An Indian cleric on Wednesday publicly confessed his involvement and of a Bangladeshi Islamist group in last month's terrorist strikes in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi that killed at least 20 people.
- Muslim India Tries To Escape The Past (Deccan Herald, RANDEEP RAMESH, Apr 06, 2006)
Prominent individuals belie the poverty of a minority left behind by the 1947 partition
- Common Future (Deccan Herald, B G Verghese, Apr 06, 2006)
The Prime Minister has a vision for Indo-Pak amity where borders become irrelevant
- Will The Grand Merger Take Off? (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Apr 06, 2006)
The proposed merger of Air India and Indian has its plus and minus points.
- Infrastructural Growth Upa Govt's Top Priority: Pm (Pioneer, Pramod Kumar Singh, Apr 06, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday asked for greater flow of investment in infrastructure in roads, ports, telecommunication, airports, railways and power.
- Metro Crosses Another Hurdle (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
In a decision that could lead to faster approval of the Bangalore Metro project by the Centre, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday accepted the recommendation of the Group of Ministers (GoM) that operation and maintenance of metro rail systems and the . . .
- Support For Jaya Wells Up In Tn (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
There is a strong undercurrent of support for Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and ruling AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalitha among rural masses, a tour of Cuddallore, Chidambaram, Mayiladuthurai and Tiruvarur in northern . . .
- Manmohan's Assurance To Haryana (Hindu, Rajesh Ahuja, Apr 06, 2006)
Atomic plant to be considered
Lays foundation for six-laning of a 10 km stretch of NH 1
Medical college at Karnal in memory of Kalpana Chawla
UPA Government investing over Rs.1,80,000 crore on road network
- Karunanidhi's Arithmetic Versus Jayalalithaa's Chemistry (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Apr 06, 2006)
The Tamil Nadu Assembly election may be decided by which of the two prevails
- Law And Order Has Broken Down' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
We will highlight the failure of the UDF Government to help farmers. The debts incurred by them resulted in 1,500 suicides.
- Varanasi Blasts Mastermind, 5 Accomplices Arrested (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
A mastermind of the recent Varanasi blasts and five of his accomplices were arrested on Wednesday by the Uttar Pradesh police and Central security agencies.
- Bangalore Metro Put On The Fast Track (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
Union Cabinet approves Group of Ministers' recommendations
- Indo-Us N Deal Has Serious Implications (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 06, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Wednesday said Pakistan is against increase in the permanent members of the Security Council and in favour of enhancing only non-permanent members to make the organization more representative and equitable.
- The Architect's New Clothes (Pioneer, Chitvan Gill, Apr 06, 2006)
Buildings in the country betray our slavish mentality, thanks to our failure to connect with the past, says Chitvan Gill
- Mirage In The Desert (Pioneer, Sandeep Silas, Apr 06, 2006)
Confluence of Occidental and Islamic belief systems, UAE remains an enigma for most people, says Sandeep Silas
- Development' Binds Nitish's Coalition Of Extremes (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Apr 06, 2006)
The coalition Mr Nitish Kumar leads in Bihar includes not only the marginalised sections but also people from the upper crust and castes.
- China Sends Big Business Group To U.S. (International Herald Tribune, Joseph Kahn, Apr 06, 2006)
Chinese leaders, eager to improve relations with the United States ahead of the first ever visit there by President Hu Jintao later this month, have dispatched a large delegation of businessmen and economic officials both to display . . .
- The Mirwaiz's Mistake (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 06, 2006)
MIRWAIZ Umar Farooq has argued for the maintenance of Kashmir's unity in whatever solution is arrived at for the Kashmir dispute.
- Fukuyama's Take On Islam And Islamists (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Apr 06, 2006)
His prescription: the solution lies not in "fixing" the Muslim world by imposing democracy but in reaching out to alienated Muslims in the West.
- Accounting For Heritage Assets (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Apr 06, 2006)
Civilisation, according to Mark Twain, is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- Oiling Our Way (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Apr 06, 2006)
Carefully assess Rosneft’s offer to ONGC
- An Excess: Too Steep A Cess Will Hurt Aviation (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 06, 2006)
The proposed Rs 500 cess on air travel to develop small airports and subsequently provide subsidy to airlines to service these airports is a bad idea, on account of its size and its stated purpose.
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