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Articles 12521 through 12620 of 23072:
- More Trickle Out Of Sena (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
Rocked by rebellion and its morale at an all-time low, the Shiv Sena today suffered another setback after two more MLAs quit the party.
- Remembering Shah-I-Hamadan (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 07, 2006)
The great saint is not only remembered for his saintliness but there is much more than is being read and heard about him.The great saint is not only remembered for his saintliness but there is much more than is being read and heard about him.
- Keep Eyes Open (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 07, 2006)
After the drizzle there is deluge. How else can one explain the arrest of 76 Bangladeshi nationals from two matadors in the Hiranagar sector of this region early this week?
- The Dream Team: A Critique-Ii (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 07, 2006)
What would convertibility entail? For a decade now, India has had limited ease of availability of foreign exchange for importers, businessmen, students and tourists.
- Flying With The Fm (Deccan Herald, Gajanana T Hegde, Jan 07, 2006)
Thanks to lower airfares, people today can afford to fly with famous men
- No Regrets On Remark On Jinnah: Advani (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
Former BJP President L. K. Advani has “no regrets” for his statement on Mohammad Ali Jinnah in Pakistan and feels that his party missed a golden opportunity.
- Hurriyat For International Guarantee On Kashmir (Greater Kashmir, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that ''international mediation'' and ''guarantee'' are imperative for achieving a solution of the Kashmir issue.
- Keeping Pace (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 06, 2006)
Not very long ago Katra at the foothills of Vaishno Devi was virtually a sleepy town.
- Pilgrim’S Stay In Madinah (Greater Kashmir, ZAHIR-U-DIN, Jan 06, 2006)
After getting acquainted with the Holy Prophet’s (SAW) mosque, a pilgrim must come out to explore various places of historic importance.
- Return Of The Natives (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 06, 2006)
The question of Pandit return looms large over the larger Kashmir dispute.
- Rights Of Women In Islam (Dawn, Syed Imad-ud-Din Asad, Jan 06, 2006)
IT is a general concept in the West that in the eyes of Islam woman is inferior to man. They staunchly believe that there is no such thing as “rights of woman” in Islam. This misconception is partly due to their lack of access to the Quran and the . . .
- Key To Lasting Joy Is Hard Work (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jan 06, 2006)
Academics at Gothenburg University in Sweden have come up with an interesting proposition: hard work is the only path to happiness.
- Whither Nepal? (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 06, 2006)
King the bigger threat to peace
With Nepal’s Maoists calling off their unilateral ceasefire, yet another bloody chapter is likely to be added to the country’s already smeared history.
- The Kitty (Tribune, Vibha Sharma, Jan 06, 2006)
Being the mother of two animal-loving children, who on and off keep making demands (albeit without much success) for a pet of their own, I am quite used to stray dogs being fed with carefully smuggled-out biscuits and milk from my home.
- Us Lawyers Seek Faster Green Card Processing (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 06, 2006)
American lawyers are seeking faster processing of Green Cards by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for thousands of immigrants, including several Indian Americans who have been approved as legal permanent residents.
- Railways: A Derailed Social Service (Business Line, V. Kumaraswamy, Jan 06, 2006)
In the last few years our leaders have been loathe to raise rail fares. `Railways is a social service' and `poor need protection' are the common excuses given by successive Railway Ministers for their refusal to recover cost-inflation.
- Task Force On Global Strategic Developments — Need Unclear, Purpose Undefined (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 06, 2006)
If a Task Force is not to end up as a monumental wool-gathering enterprise, its purpose should be delineated in sharp and clear terms.
- Clarion Call (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jan 06, 2006)
The latest Heritage Foundation annual Index of Economic Freedom is an unhappy reminder of just how much we have slipped. Ironically, during the same period that we slid 36 notches to 121 out of 160-odd countries in the league tables of economic freedom,..
- Will Gold Go To Godowns? (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 06, 2006)
In paragraph 91 of his Budget speech on February 28, 2005, the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, spoke of `Gold Units'. He said, "Ten years ago we embarked on the process of ensuring that gold inflows are through the official channels alone.
- Divide Punjab Into Three (News International, Shafqat Mahmood, Jan 06, 2006)
Kalabagh may be a great project and urgently needed but it has widened the gulf of mistrust between the smaller provinces and Punjab. The dam is being seen as a grand Punjabi conspiracy and no amount of technical patter emerging from Islamabad seems to ..
- Kalam Greets Kids (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam today announced an essay competition and gave homework to students at the Indian Science Congress.
- Pakistani Team Reaches Indian Punjab (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
delegation of more than 40 experts and leaders from the Pakistani Punjab reached the Indian Punjab via Wagah Border on Thursday with proposals to explore ties between Pakistan and India.
- Unclog Roads With A Vehicle Area Tax (The Economic Times, Vivek Moorthy, Jan 06, 2006)
Such a levy will unclog roads, bring down travel time and let people travel more. Total road fuel consumption and emissions may also fall. It is a win-win policy whose time, locally and globally, has come
- Can’T Change Our Tory (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Jan 06, 2006)
There's a frisson in the British media ever since David Cameron arrived on the scene. Cameron is fresh-faced and, at 39, the new leader of the Conservative party travels light. He is relatively unburdened by the cynicisms and disbeliefs . . .
- Festive Spillover (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 06, 2006)
Almost all of Delhi’s newspapers on Thursday carried reports of a problem common in almost all major urban centres of the country
- Special Measures Helped Ttdc Earn Rs. 8.6 Crore Profit (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
32nd edition of the Tourism and Industrial Exhibition opens
- Rajnath Defers ‘Team Selection’ Till Jan 20 (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Jan 06, 2006)
The state of flux in the BJP will continue for another fortnight — president Rajnath Singh has decided to postpone picking his new team till after the National Council meet on January 20.
- E-Mail To Pm, President Warns Of Terror Strikes (Hindustan Times, JT Vishnu, Jan 06, 2006)
Pakistan-based terrorist outfits Lashkar-e-Tayyeba and Jaish-e-Mohammad are planning fidayeen attacks on IIT-Kanpur, Varanasi's Kashi Vishwanath Temple and vital installations in the Capital. The attacks have been planned on or before Republic Day, . . .
- Us Won’T Talk Of This Iran N-Chapter (Indian Express, JOSH MEYER, Jan 06, 2006)
In a clumsy effort to sabotage Iran’s nuclear programme, the CIA in 2004 intentionally handed Tehran some top-secret bomb designs laced with a hidden flaw that US officials hoped would doom any weapon made from them, according to a new book . . .
- India, Pak Make Some Headway On Rail Link (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
The first round of two-day meeting between top Railway offfcials from India and Pakistan on resumption of the Munabao-Khokrapar rail link ended today with the two sides making ‘’some headway’’ on the modalities.
- Tourism Looking Up In Alappuzha This Season (Hindu, A. Harikumar, Jan 06, 2006)
`Visitors number more than that during the entire previous season'
Tourism in the district, blessed with backwaters, seems to be prospering this season, which began in November.
- Aid An Adjunct To Occupation (Hindu, Ghada Karmi, Jan 06, 2006)
The Last month has seen a flurry of high-level activity designed to fund the Palestinians under occupation. A private sector investors' conference took place in London to discuss ways of boosting the Palestinian economy.
- Madrassas Untouched (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Jan 06, 2006)
The Pakistani government caved in to opposition from fundamentalist forces on the question of madrassas
- Pakistan's Consulate Plan Scuppered In Mumbai (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Jan 05, 2006)
Tenants of a high-rise office building in India's financial capital have stopped Pakistan from reopening a long-delayed consulate there, saying crowds of visa seekers would present a security threat.
- Barnala Launches Raj Bhavan Website (Hindu, T. Ramakrishnan, Jan 05, 2006)
Guess how much the British paid for the Raj Bhavan? The answer: 10,000 pagodas (Rs. 35,000) - and that was in 1821.
- Handle With Care (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jan 05, 2006)
The state must tackle dispossession humanely
The violent attempt by tribals in Orissa to stop the Tata Steel factory from coming up on their land is a reminder of the need for state governments to handle these matters humanely and efficiently.
- In Search Of Excellence (The Economic Times, TOM PETERS , Jan 05, 2006)
People and organisations are not “rational” in the ways strategy, business, and organisation are typically taught. It’s dangerous to try to force a simplistic and misguided rationality on the way we manage. You cannot just manage “by the numbers.”
- Wooing Gilgit (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 05, 2006)
What is the pre-requisite to peace and stability in the part of Jammu and Kashmir which Pakistan directly administers in the name of the Northern Areas?
- The Saint - Solider (Daily Excelsior, Inder jeet S. Prince, Jan 05, 2006)
Guru Gobind Singh Ji Maharaj's birth anniversary is being celebrated with religious joy and fervour.
- A Monumental Mockery Of Heritage And History (Hindu, Mandira Nayar, Jan 05, 2006)
The High Court may have issued orders for demolishing illegal structures across the Capital, but the newly expanded Village Bistro at Hauz Khas Village,
- India Is Not For Dumping (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 05, 2006)
France must keep its asbestos to itself
Developing countries have long been the victims of the “not in my backyard” syndrome, and nowhere is this more clear that in the ship-decommissioning business.
- Ensuring A Successful Doha Round (The Financial Express, RAJIV KUMAR, Jan 05, 2006)
Reports from the Hong Kong Ministerial reflect an uneasy last minute compromise reached to keep the door open for carrying forward the Doha Development Round to a possible successful conclusion within the year.
- Clause And Effect: The New Corporate Order (The Financial Express, Sourav Majumdar, Jan 05, 2006)
The debate on whether the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) would extend the deadline for listed companies to implement the revised clause 49 of the Listing Agreement is, thankfully, over. Sebi has rightly stuck to its guns.
- Poor Countries Tote Up Scorecard (Hindu, Anwarul Chowdhury, Jan 05, 2006)
Some gains and a good amount of unfinished business left over for 2006. This sums up the Hong Kong WTO meet for the Least Developed Countries.
- Efficiency Has Become The Hallmark Of Our Governance: Ghulam Nabi Azad (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Jan 05, 2006)
Jammu and Kashmir Chief MinisterGhulam Nabi Azadcompleted two months in office on January 2 after taking over from Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. In an interview, Mr. Azad spells out his agenda for the next two years — focus on development, and giving a clean,...
- Extraordinary Folly Of U.K.'S New Opium War (Hindu, Simon Jenkins, Jan 05, 2006)
In the next few weeks, an army of 3,400 British troops expects to be deployed to Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. This is nearly half the number deployed in Iraq.
- Solving Middle East Crisis - Iv (Greater Kashmir, MUHAMMAD JUNAID, Jan 05, 2006)
The ultimate solution of the Palestine-Israel conflict, as Hamas too has realised, lies in the two-state solution along the 1967 Green Line, with minor transfer of land here and there, comments
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- Now Sikh History With Pictures (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Jan 05, 2006)
Though Khushwant Singh is an atheist, he has perhaps done much more for the community than any present-day Sikh.
- The Little Blue Book (Business Line, Raghuvir Mukherji, Jan 05, 2006)
Recently, on a trip to London, I overheard a Bengali colleague saying he had to go to India House to get his son's visa for India. Intrigued, I asked my friend what nationality his son carried. "Australian," he replied, without batting an eyelid.
- Safta: India Should Lead By Example (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jan 05, 2006)
Trade is a two-way street. If India opened up to its neighbours, allowing them to enter the domestic market, they might be liberal in opening up their market place, and ultimately price and quality would settle the demand-supply equations.
- Now And Again-Settling Down (Statesman, ISHWAR PATI, Jan 05, 2006)
At a time when many are keen to migrate to “happening” places like big cities or even abroad, my father decided to go back and settle in his native place, a small town in the back of beyond.
- Hassan-Shravanabelagola Rail Line To Be Commissioned Soon (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Railways to run three trains every day between the two points
Special train from Kolkata to reach Shravanabelagola on February 18
Revanna wants at least five trains between Hassan and Shravanabelagola
- 650 Posts For Tsunami-Hit In A&n Islands: Pm (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Promising to wipe tears of tsunami survivors of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today announced recruitment to 650 posts and proposed a legislative framework to help the victims get compensation.
- Plea For Assembly In Andamans To Be Studied (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Jan 05, 2006)
Law for survivors of tsunami planned, says Manmohan
- Ap A Breeding Ground For Terrorists? (Deccan Herald, R Akhileshwari , Jan 05, 2006)
At least 15 youth who have been involved in terror activities such as targeting political leaders, places of worship and making bombs are from Nalgonda district, according to police statistics here.
- Mumbai Consulate Plan Scuppered (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Tenants of a high-rise office building in India’s financial capital have stopped Pakistan from reopening a long-delayed consulate there, saying crowds of visa seekers would pose a security threat.
- Mirwaiz For International Mediation On Kashmir (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
All Parties Hurriyat Conference chief Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Wednesday said international mediation and guarantee were imperative for achieving permanent solution of the Kashmir dispute.
- Pakistan Stopped From Opening Consulate In Mumbai (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Tenants of a high-rise office building in India’s financial capital have stopped Pakistan from reopening a long-delayed consulate there, saying crowds of visa seekers would present a security threat.
- Khaddam’S Shocking Somersault (Dawn, Karamatullah K. Ghori, Jan 05, 2006)
Abdel Haleem Khaddam veteran Ba’athist and the late Syrian strongman Hafez Al Assad’s most trusted lieutenant for well over three decades, has apparently rocked the boat for the younger Assad, now ruling Syria, in a no-holds-barred television interview t
- More Thefts, Please (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 05, 2006)
It’s good that Ms Nilofer Bakhtiar, adviser to the PM, has been robbed of her cellphone.
- Indo-Russian Ties (Tribune, Ash Narain Roy, Jan 05, 2006)
Till the closing years of the 20th century, neither strategic thinkers nor astrologers of power had any inkling about the rise of Asia, “Chindia” in particular, as a global economic powerhouse.
- Karzai Makes Landmark Visit To Turkey (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Afghan rebuilding to top discussions between Karzai and Turkish dignitaries
- Iisc Attack: Three Detained In Chennai (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
A special police team from Bangalore and the Chennai Police detained a Mangalore-based suspect Alim Basheer Mysori in Chennai today in connection with Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, attack. Two other suspects from Mulbagal and Chintamani,
- In 2006, Watch This Space... (Indian Express, K. Subrahmanyam, Jan 05, 2006)
The year 2006 is likely to see a radical change in India’s foreign policy posture and status.
- Air India Looks To Iaf For Pilots (Indian Express, LEKHA AGARWAL, Jan 05, 2006)
After signing a historic Rs 35,000-crore deal with Boeing to buy 68 new aircraft, Air India is now busy shopping for pilots to fly them.
- Bush Expected To Visit India In Mid-Feb (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
US President George W Bush is expected to visit India in the middle of February but the White House has not announced firm travel plans.
- Bush Expected To Visit India In Mid-Feb (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
US President George W Bush is expected to visit India in the middle of February but the White House has not announced firm travel plans.
- Bush Expected To Visit India In Mid-Feb (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
US President George W Bush is expected to visit India in the middle of February but the White House has not announced firm travel plans.
- No More An Elite (Deccan Herald, T R SHASTRI, Jan 05, 2006)
From a bookkeeper to a discontented salesman, the profile of a manager has changed
- Fear-Stricken Policy (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Jan 05, 2006)
India will have to hold out a vision of a Lanka that recognises cultural and ethnic diversities
- Kashmiris Not Ready To Accept Loc As Border: Mirwaiz (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
The visiting All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC) delegation led by its chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Tuesday evening went into a mutual consultations session with the Azad Kashmir leaders here on their 2-day visit to quake ravaged areas.
- Heads Of Human Traffickers Must Roll (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jan 04, 2006)
About 400 Pakistanis, who entered Turkey illegally are reportedly languishing in the Turiksh Deport Centre. Their families back home have appealed to President Musharraf to arrange their release and repatriation. Meanwhile, FIA has reportedly . . .
- Tigers Say 5 Shot Dead By Lankan Troops (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
ri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels on Tuesday accused troops of shooting dead five Tamil students in the restive northeastern port town of Trincomalee.
- India Arrests Two For Planning Attacks On Software Firms (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Indian police arrested two men suspected of planning attacks on software and technology companies in Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh state, and seized a large quantity of explosives, Joint Police Commissioner Rajiv Trivedi said on Tuesday.
- Sri Lankan War Fears Take Shine Off Economic Hopes (Daily Times, Peter Apps, Jan 04, 2006)
Dollar aid after Asia’s tsunami boosted both the local rupee and the stock exchange - but the bourse has fallen sharply after the string of attacks on the military last month
- Tamil Tigers, Lanka Army Trade Charges Over Death Of Five Civilians (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
At least five civilians suspected of working for Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in northeastern Sri Lanka when their grenades exploded before they could hurl them at a troop convoy, said Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe, military spokesman said today.
- Sharing Secret Shames (Telegraph, GITHA HARIHARAN, Jan 04, 2006)
My introduction to Orhan Pamuk’s work came through his ambitious novel Snow.
- Pm Unveils 7-Point Package For Second Green Revolution (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today unveiled a seven-point package to bring about second green revolution and promote integrated rural development to enhance productivity and bridge the rural-urban divide.
- Brain Drain — Oxymoron In A Global Workforce (Business Line, Alok Ray, Jan 04, 2006)
Should we bother about brain drain when the flow is moving in all directions in today's global economy, wonders Alok Ray, and cites the increasing movement to India of quite a few established professionals from countries such as the US to take up jobs,...
- Services Restored Partially In Major Towns In Valley (Daily Excelsior, Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, Jan 04, 2006)
Pulled up by Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on account of "let's-see-when-a-crisis-hits" mindset, authorities today succeeded in restoration of services in parts of this Capital city and some major towns in the snow-hit Kashmir valley.
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