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Articles 13621 through 13720 of 23072:
- Indian Women’S Movement Has Had Many Avatars (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 11, 2005)
The very fact that the issue of women carrying a large share of social and economic burden without commensurate rights is acknowledged now, shows the success of the women’s movement in South Asia in general and India in particular,
- A Clash Of Cultures (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Dec 11, 2005)
Often on my travels, these days, I meet Muslims who complain about being misunderstood by the world. Islam is a religion of peace, they say, it can never condone violence and yet on account of a handful of bad people, the world labels all Muslims ...
- Holiday In Winter (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 11, 2005)
The advantage of living in a globalised world is that even if it’s freezing where one is, there’s always a distant land which is basking in sunshine. It’s a bit like the song where Cliff Richard sings, “We’re all going on a summer holiday./No more working
- Better Managers? (Hindu, S. Ramachander, Dec 11, 2005)
Women manage in a way entirely different from the way men do. But are they better at it?
- Invisible At The Top (Hindu, C.V. MADHAVI, Dec 11, 2005)
Why aren't women making their presence felt at the senior managerial levels and top posts of public sector units?
- Bjp Into Low-Key Revamp (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2005)
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may have been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons recently but that has not deterred it from going in for a sustained behind-the-scene revamp of the party organisation.
- See India As An Opportunity, Says Saran (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2005)
"If we want to see South Asia becoming a power house, which we all want, there needs to be inter-connectivity''
- Pak Army Team Due In Kabul On 14th (News International, Mariana Baabar, Dec 11, 2005)
Pakistan’s first high level military delegation will leave for Kabul on December 14 to attend the Tripartite Commission meeting.
- Now Woman Power To Drive Wheels Of Tourism (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Nine women got together here on Friday to make history of sorts, becoming the Capital's first women cab service providers and tourist guides. Described as the new face of "Incredible India", the women are part of "Project Priyadarshani'', . . .
- Gates Impressed By India's Amazing Spirit (Hindu, Jaya Shreedhar, Dec 10, 2005)
Gates Foundation investing in India's health. Expects many solutions to challenges to come from the country
Doing business with market India and joining hands with the community to face health challenges
- Forgetting Sheikh Abdullah At 100 ! (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Dec 10, 2005)
''It happens only in India'' That's the refrain of a song picturised some years ago on the late Amrish Puri.
- Good Bye Teacher (Greater Kashmir, Dr Bashir Ahmad Khan, Dec 10, 2005)
It’s good you bid them a farewell and remember the contributions of those who have taught you, Dr Bashir Ahmad Khan writes
- The Man In The Middle (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , Dec 10, 2005)
Nehru was an intelligent man who led an interesting life in most interesting times. And he could write.
- Flying Indian (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
The word ‘airlines’ smells of primeval dust. In one of their mini-seconds of dazzled illumination, the wise men in government who run Indian Airlines — the organization, not the aeroplanes
- No Cost, No Taxable Gains (Business Line, H. P. Ranina, Dec 10, 2005)
The Gujarat High Court has laid down a new principle "no cost, no gains", in a case where the cost and date of acquisition cannot be ascertained.
- Buddhadeb Calls For Land Reforms Across India (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Second International Congress on Kerala Studies begins in Thiruvananthapuram
- Kerala Can Have An Indigenous Growth Path: Mgs (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Calls for `an imaginative politics of industrial development'
- Iraq Invasion Was A Bandit Act: Harold Pinter (Tribune, Ciar Byrne, Dec 10, 2005)
Harold Pinter was not able to deliver his Nobel literature laureate’s lecture in person in Stockholm on Thursday (Dec 7), but his pre-recorded speech was a characteristically impassioned critique of the Anglo-American decision to go to war in Iraq.
- Pm Faces Tough Diplomatic Task At East Asia Summit (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Dec 10, 2005)
When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh travels to Malaysia on December 11 to be with leaders from 16 countries to attend the high-sounding First East Asia Summit, he will be hoping to build a free trade area extending from Mumbai to New Zealand’s . . .
- Art Lovers Would Love To Be Here. Are You One? - I (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Dec 10, 2005)
Javaid Iqbal Bhat sums up his experience at the Indian National Achieves Complex, where are housed some rare pieces of art and literature
- Falling In Love With Bapu (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Dec 10, 2005)
The more I ponder over the lives of great men in world’s history, the more I feel compelled to conclude that Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi was perhaps the greatest of them all.
- Gates In India: Making A Difference (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
In an exclusive interview,BillandMelinda Gatesshare their thoughts on their commitments to furthering health equity in India withJaya Shreedhar. Excerpts:
- An `Unbalanced' Fuel Tax On The `Keepers Of The Fire' (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 10, 2005)
WE THE Prairie Band Potawatomi people known as the `Keepers of the Fire' shall: Maintain, protect, and nurture our culture and spiritual and historic values through the celebration of its unique traditions, language, and sovereignty."
- Surging Indian Air Traffic Weighs On Security (Reuters, Palash Kumar, Dec 10, 2005)
India's airports are leading targets for militant attacks and a surge in air traffic spurred by new, low-cost airlines has added enormous pressure on security forces guarding them, a senior official said on Friday.
- In Defence Of The Drama Queen (Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi, Dec 10, 2005)
I’m going to come right out and say this at the very beginning — so now is the time to let your jaws drop if you are going to look incredulous — but I am completely on Uma Bharti’s side.
- The Year That Was... (Hindustan Times, Khushwant Singh, Dec 10, 2005)
It was the coldest winter I can recall: late winter monsoon added dampness to the chill to usher in morning mists.
- Truth Dawns On Americans (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Dec 10, 2005)
The debate on the Iraq war has begun among Americans and the opinion polls are against Bush
- Lotus Stemmed (Hindustan Times, Pankaj Vohra, Dec 10, 2005)
Three chief ministers in less than three years. This is what has happened in Madhya Pradesh, where the BJP, after a landslide win during the last assembly polls in 2003, is now facing a revolt from within.
- Boom By The Brahmaputra (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Dec 10, 2005)
Travelling through Assam, Ashok Malik experiences an enormous pent-up consumer energy, just waiting to blow out the shortage economy
- Resolving Iran’S N-Issue (Dawn, Afzaal Mahmood, Dec 10, 2005)
Some new steps in dealing with the stand-off over Iran’s nuclear issue offer a flicker of hope that the harsh realities may induce some flexibility in Washington and Tehran, leading to a peaceful resolution of the current crisis.
- Implications Of Indo-Us Alliance (Dawn, M. Tayyab Siddiqui, Dec 10, 2005)
The July visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the US was hailed by both sides as a “historical watershed”. The true import of this visit, however, has not been sufficiently grasped by Pakistan, in particular the long-term adverse impact . . .
- Makkah Declaration (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 10, 2005)
Unlike the declarations issued in the past by Islamic summit conferences, the joint communique released by the summit at Makkah on Thursday is focussed on a reform of the Muslim world.
- Realising Fundamental Home Truths (Pioneer, KPS Gill, Dec 10, 2005)
Across regions of violence in India, a peculiar mindset has taken root: A constant harping on grievances - some real, but many imagined, or at least imagined to be uniquely afflicting a specific people or community - combined with a beggar's mentality . .
- How Downer And Dfat Failed To Act On Ona And Asio Warnings Prior To The Bali Bombings (Tonykevin, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Where is our Australian Richard Clarke when we need him ?
I reproduce below the Sydney Morning Herald page 2 news report of 19 June 2003, "I don't remember seeing Bali warning: Downer" , Tom Allard - together with the accompanying illuminating SMH
- We Won't Allow Centre To Bury Volcker: Advani (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
BJP president and Leader of Opposition LK Advani on Friday demanded that the UPA Government must constitute a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to investigate the Iraqi Oil-for-Food scandal.
- The Crude Game Of Sonia Bachao (Pioneer, S Gurumurthy , Dec 10, 2005)
The Opposition has made an error by focusing too much on Natwar Singh. S Gurumurthy says all indicators point to Congress president Sonia Gandhi sanctioning the deal which brought the country much infamy
- Congress Inc. (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Dec 10, 2005)
Its 45 days since the United Nations Independent Inquiry Committee headed by Paul Volcker submitted its final report. Yet, we are nowhere near the answer to the central question: Was the Congress party as a whole engaged in trading activity with . . .
- Inside Al-Qaeda (Mid East Web, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Al-Qaeda (or Al Qaida) means "the base." It has been described as many different things, and it includes a "federation" of different Islamic groups, all dedicated to mayhem against the West, Christians, Jews and Muslim regimes that do not conform . . .
- Whose Development? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 10, 2005)
US hip-hop group Flipsyde's single Someday is a runaway hit and has been chosen as the anthem for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. In India as part of the VH1 Hip-Hop Hustle tour, the band's singer and guitarist Steve Knight speaks to Manoj Nair:
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- Killer Earthquake (Tribune, Balraj Puri, Dec 10, 2005)
Lessons of the earthquake in Kashmir, worst in over a century, are both positive and negative. The shock of that intensity was perhaps needed to make Kashmiri speaking people of the state really conscious of the existence and plight of socially and . . .
- Positions Are Being Treated As Private Property (The Financial Express, YRK REDDY, Dec 10, 2005)
The number of positions—ministerial, professional, managerial or civil service—is always very few compared to the multitude of aspirants. But once occupied most of such positions become monopolies and properties on lease.
- 'We Try To Wish A Better Tomorrow' (Times of India, MANOJ NAIR, Dec 10, 2005)
US hip-hop group Flipsyde's single Someday is a runaway hit and has been chosen as the anthem for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. In India as part of the VH1 Hip-Hop Hustle tour, the band's singer and guitarist Steve Knight speaks to Manoj Nair:
- Taj Is India’S (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 10, 2005)
SC reaffirms govt as muttawali
In less than five months, the Supreme Court (coram: Ruma Pal, Sinha and Kapadia, JJ) has shot down the utterly preposterous claim of the UP Sunni Central Wakf Board over Taj Mahal. History has been protected from the tangl
- Coca Farmer Turned Saviour Of The Left (Hindu, Dan Glaister, Dec 09, 2005)
High up on the Bolivian altiplano near Lake Titicaca, an Aymara priest holds a green plastic lighter to a carved wooden cup containing strips of paper.
- Divine Tolerance (Dawn, Martin Jacques, Dec 09, 2005)
The past two or three years have marked a new moment in the global perception of China. There is suddenly a new awareness that encompasses both a recognition of China’s economic transformation and an understanding that, because of its huge size and . . .
- A Case Of Peace Talks Through The Press? (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Dec 09, 2005)
Pakistan has time and again gone public with new proposals for a resolution of the dispute over Kashmir even as negotiations were going on with India.
- China: The Other Superpower? (Dawn, Martin Jacques, Dec 09, 2005)
The past two or three years have marked a new moment in the global perception of China. There is suddenly a new awareness that encompasses both a recognition of China’s economic transformation and an understanding that, because of its huge size and . . .
- Ignoring The Facts (Dawn, Richard Cohen, Dec 09, 2005)
In one of the most intellectually incoherent major speeches ever delivered by a minor president, George W. Bush blamed “some Democrats and antiwar critics” in recent weeks for changing their minds about the war in Iraq and now saying they were deceived.
- You May Say They Were Dreamers (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Dec 09, 2005)
I wonder if the bead counting mendicants on the other side of Lakshman Jhoola in Rishikesh have any recollection (on the 25th anniversary of John Lennon’s death) of how their peace was shattered by the arrival of the Beatles in the spring of 1968, . . .
- Living Fossils (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Dec 09, 2005)
For anyone who wants to travel in time — especially if it’s up and down time — there’s an elevator in Old Delhi Railway Station which awaits you.
- New Tourism Initiative: Homemakers As Guides (Indian Express, Vrinda Gopinath, Dec 09, 2005)
Even as the Centre proposes policies to downsize the bureaucracy, the latter finds ways of springing back in full force. This time, the bureaucracy has found ways of employing ‘‘idle wives’’ of service officers going by the scheme to be launched by . . .
- India Turns Down Iranian Envoy's Request To Tour Kashmir (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Iran ambassador to India S. Zargar-Ya''gubi's request to visit Jammu and Kashmir was turned down by the ministry of external affairs, which said that he could go only if he agreed to meet leaders of the government's choice.
- Nato Denies It Is Acquiring Land In Kashmir (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has denied reports that it is acquiring land in Kashmir.
- India-China Relations Set To Scale New Heights In 2006 (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Dec 09, 2005)
Visits by Chinese President Hu Jintao to India and by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to China are in the works for 2006, diplomatic sources have told The Hindu. Already, the two sides have designated 2006 as the "year of India-China friendship" and . . .
- Garbage Menace Grips Jammu (Daily Excelsior, G L Khajuria, Dec 09, 2005)
The problem of growing garbage in Jammu city is highlighted in regular columns of dailies, weeklies and other print media.
- Killing Iblees (Greater Kashmir, ZAHIR-U-DIN, Dec 09, 2005)
For three consecutive days, Hajies have to throw pebbles on Ibless (Satan) at Mina. The Ibless tried to mislead Prophet Ibrahiem (AS) and His revered son Ismaiel (AS) when the two were on their way to the altar. Prophet Ibrahiem (AS) threw stones . . .
- All For Votes (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 09, 2005)
The tribal world of Jharkhand, it seems, is up for grabs. The sangh parivar and the left are competing for the soul — some would say, the votes — of the state’s tribal population.
- Society To Oversee Textbook Supply To Schoolchildren (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Students will get textbooks without delay
- History Vs Pak, Sl In Waiting (Indian Express, Sandeep Dwivedi, Dec 09, 2005)
Kumble returns to Kotla, where he created history, but you won’t hear it from him.
- Oic Can Help Resolve Kashmir, Palestine Issues: Musharraf (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Calls Mecca Summit a ‘historic moment’
Indian response to de-militarisation proposal ‘not positive so far
- Amritsar-Lahore Bus Trials On 11th And 13th (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Dec 09, 2005)
India and Pakistan will conduct trial runs of the Amritsar-Lahore bus service on December 11 and December 13 respectively, said Navtej Sarna, the External Affairs Ministry spokesman on Thursday.
- India Stalls Iran Envoy’S Visit To Kashmir : Shift In Me Policy Seen (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
India has taken an unusually tough stance with Iran by insisting that its ambassador to New Delhi, S.Z. Yaghoubi, who wants to visit Jammu and Kashmir could do so only if he agreed to meet people selected by the pro-India government in Srinagar,
- Violence Simmers In Sri Lanka's Multi-Ethnic East (Reuters, Peter Apps, Dec 09, 2005)
Ethnic tension between Sri Lanka's minority Tamil and Muslim communities is rising in the island's east after a November grenade attack on a mosque killed seven and as observers fear the island's 2002 truce is falling apart.
- Buddha Denounces Strikes, Says Time To Rectify Mistakes (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Intelligent people do not participate in strikes and the CPI(M) is trying to rectify mistakes on labour issues made in the past: this was Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s message to the captains of the IT industry and presumably, . . .
- Hubris Of The Humanities (Indian Express, Nicholas D. Kristof, Dec 09, 2005)
The best argument against “intelligent design” has always been humanity itself. At a time when only 40 per cent of Americans believe in evolution, and only 13 per cent know what a molecule is, we’re an argument at best for “mediocre design”.
- World Can't Watch Dhaka Fall (Pioneer, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Dec 09, 2005)
As the region's biggest power, "larger than all the rest combined" as Junius R Jayewardene reminded the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation's inaugural conference in Dhaka 20 years ago, India might expect to enjoy the same . . .
- Chocolate Minister (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Civil aviation minister Praful Patel has been adding quite a few feathers to his cap these days.
- Bringing Back Boediono (Economist, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Indonesia's president chops away some dead wood, but not enough
- Iraq: Hostages Appeal For Pull Out (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Dec 08, 2005)
Fears are mounting for the safety of the Canadian NRI and three other Western hostages held in Iraq following the release of a new video footage on the internet featuring two ...
- Crimes, Chew'd, Swallow'd And Digested, Appear Before Us (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 08, 2005)
KING Lear says, "Tremble, thou wretch, that hast within thee undivulged crimes." In Hamlet, one comes across, "Feats, so crimeful and so capital in nature." And in King Richard II, the Bard writes about "These accusations and these grievous crimes...
- Audit Routines, Gas Pipes, Chickens And Lawyers (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 08, 2005)
"JUST as it is impossible not to taste honey or poison that one may find at the tip of one's tongue, so it is impossible for one dealing with government funds not to taste, at least a little bit, of the King's wealth."
- Sri Lanka: Coalition Partners Oppose Norway (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Sri Lanka President's two main hardline allies today objected to inviting Norway to keep up its controversial peace brokering efforts, but said they will not rock the boat.
- Mining Polluted Hampi Temples’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Mining activities at Sandur and Hospet have led to severe dust pollution in the Centrally-protected Parvathi and Kartikeya temples and in the State-protected Jambunatheshwara temple at Hampi.
- Big Deal! The M&a Party’S Only Just Begun (The Financial Express, Sourav Majumdar, Dec 08, 2005)
These columns had, in early 2004, talked of how the Indian marketplace was once again readying for a season of mergers and acquisitions
- Red Ribbon Express For Aids Campaign (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
One of the five special trains set to journey to various destinations across the country in the name of Red Ribbon Express for AIDS campaign would be reaching East Godavari district during January, according to N.S. Manoranjan, Youth Coordinator Nehru Yuv
- ``Advani Resignation Not On Mumbai Meet Agenda'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Says it's celebration time, not for resignations or coronation
- Air India Comes Up With Lowest Fares (Hindu, T.S. Shankar, Dec 08, 2005)
December is all set to witness more people taking to air travel
- Galvanizing The Muslim Countries (Dawn, Fateh M. Chaudhri, Dec 08, 2005)
An extraordinary summit of the 36-year-old Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) is being held in Makkah at the invitation of King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz to define the Ummah’s response to the multiple challenges it faces internally and externally.
- Saran: No Promise To Burns On Iran Energy Deals (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Dec 08, 2005)
"I do not know who assured him because it certainly was not us"
LNG deal with Iran on the cards
"We have told the U.S. that Iran is our strategic partner"
Russia's interest in pipeline project allays fears of financial viability
- Ltte Pushes The Envelope (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 08, 2005)
The two claymore mine blasts and other attacks by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the first six days of December, which have taken the lives of 15 Sri Lankan soldiers, constitute the most serious violations thus far of the February 2002 . . .
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