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Articles 17121 through 17220 of 23072:
- Quiet Flows The Cauvery (Deccan Herald, B V Prakash, Jul 28, 2005)
Twenty six kms from Mysore is the temple of Ardhanareeshwara on the right bank of the Cauvery, at Gargeshwari. One can enjoy both the temple and the scenery on a visit.
- Upholding The Tradition (Deccan Herald, Dipti Nair, Jul 28, 2005)
Noted Bharatanatyam exponent Leela Samson was in the City to set the stage for a dance drama of Valmiki’s Ramayana from August 10 at the Iskcon temple.
- Oil Spill On Beach Raises Concerns (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2005)
The government has sent samples of the oil for chemical analysis and asked the Coast Guard to detect the source of the pollution.
- Beach Safety (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 27, 2005)
While the weekend death of eight members of a family at Karachi’s Sandspit beach must have dealt a shattering blow to the families and friends of the victims,
- Unleashing Enterprise (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 27, 2005)
India’s PSUs require more, not less, autonomy
- Suicide Bombing Phenomenon (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Jul 27, 2005)
Suicide bombers have attacked London twice in the past month. Baghdad is the scene of such attacks on practically a daily basis. Yet not much is known about suicide bombers.
- Where Are Pakistan's Commodities Headed? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Jul 27, 2005)
When Pakistani forces occupied certain points in Kargil, India's military intelligence system failed to detect and warn the army of the manoeuvres until the Pakistani forces were long entrenched into strategically important positions.
- The Plight Of Niger's Starving Children (Hindu, Christian Allen Purefoy, Jul 27, 2005)
Over 400,000 children are at risk in Niger's worst hit area. Aid begins to trickle through but this is only the start of the nation's nutritional crisis.
- Gurgaon’S Kurukshetra (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 27, 2005)
The labour-police violence was a sad, bad aberration. Not televised class struggle
- Zero Tolerance? Ha, Ha, Ha! (Pioneer, Kanchan Gupta, Jul 27, 2005)
Those with a sense of humour will laugh at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for promoting a policy of "zero tolerance" towards terrorism
- Futile Strike (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 27, 2005)
The vivid televised images of the primitive ham-handedness of Haryana Police while dealing with rioting workers of Honda Motorcycles & Scooters India Ltd in Gurgaon should not be allowed to divert attention from the real issue at stake.
- Management Strategy For Hampi Formulated (Hindu, M. Ahiraj, Jul 27, 2005)
Draft to be discussed at a meeting of stakeholders, UNESCO representatives, ASI officials in Hospet next month
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- Tourists Rush To Get Out Of Egypt (Tribune, Henry Chu, Jul 26, 2005)
The Menatours travel agency was awash with customers on Sunday, but for all the wrong reasons
- Badami: Chalukyans' Magical Transformation (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2005)
Badami may have once been full of lifeless stones, but the captivating monuments strewn around the town suggests the magical transformation brought to this land by the dexterous Chalukyans, AZMATHULLA SHARIFF tells us.
- Conserving Reserves Of Mother Nature (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2005)
SUNIL KUMAR M talks about the plans for conservation reserves outside protected forests and the special reserve to house our peacocks at Bankapur, to help give the national bird a new lease of life.
- Umbrella Morals (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 26, 2005)
Calcutta’s tolerance towards courting couples is exceptional. Other metros would rather obliterate their presence,
- As Good As It Gets (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Jul 26, 2005)
As you tune into India’s great debate on the nuclear pact that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has signed up with President George W. Bush, don’t let the experts flummox you with all the jargon.
- Finding More Space For The Asiatic Lion (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Jul 25, 2005)
The need to create an alternative habitat for the Asiatic lions — now confined to the Gir sanctuary in Gujarat — is growing
- Papa Don't Preach (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 25, 2005)
Why courts must throw out Gujarat's bizarre marriage rule
- Power Shift (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 25, 2005)
Iran-Iraq rapprochement is changing Gulf geopolitics
- Tourists Quit Blast-Hit Egyptian Resort (Deccan Herald, Reuters, Jul 25, 2005)
The blasts had instant repercussions on the economy with the benchmark stock exchange index falling 4.5 per cent on Sunday.
- Removing The Stumbling Blocks Within (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Jul 25, 2005)
Nelson Mandela Square is a mall in a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, and sports global brand names and world class retail stores.
- Hindus Make Ideal Emigres (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 24, 2005)
This refers to the article, "Sun never sets on Indians" (The Cutting Ed, July 17), by Mr Chandan Mitra.
- Leak Riddle: Who's Playing Whom? (Washington Post, A N Sudarsan Rao , Jul 24, 2005)
Judith Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter who now wears a brown and green prison jumpsuit, will soon enter her third week in a jail cell just a few miles from the White House where administration officials suspected of leaking clas
- Documentary Evokes Debate On Partition (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Jul 24, 2005)
ARE we going backwards? No, not just by way of bleak power and water output, but seeing the Jinnah mania that’s gripped us. Maybe, the Partition chaos had been simmering in our psyche for too long and just about needed the go ahead by that one utterance.
- More Attacks To Hit Economy (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 24, 2005)
IT should have been clear even before this week’s events that Britons are in for the long haul. Now each day’s events lend detailed weight to that reality.
- Little Histories Of A War-Torn Country (Deccan Herald, Sudha Ramachandran, Jul 24, 2005)
Essential reading for anyone trying to understand the Sri Lankan . conflict— the book records the unknown voices of the people involved in the civil war.
- Dark Ambrosia (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 24, 2005)
In the culture of its origins, the Aztec, chocolate was referred to as the food of the gods.
- Lonely Wells Of Hatred (Telegraph, GITHA HARIHARAN, Jul 24, 2005)
When do most of us first encounter hatred? If you are lucky, as so many of us are, the early encounter in childhood is vicarious
- Once A Trek... (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 24, 2005)
M Bhaktavatsala treks to Kolahoi glacier, and on his way, passes through a place with beautiful people, where a packet of aspirins and used shirts can be used to barter your way through the journey.
- Blasts In Egyptian Resort Kill 88 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 24, 2005)
Al-Qaeda-linked group claims responsibility
- A Procession Of Warkaris (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 24, 2005)
Pandharpur is witness to a celebration of ‘oneness’ every year, when pilgrims come to pay their respects to a group of saints, says V Radhika
- Condensation Of History (Deccan Herald, Meera Rajagopalan, Jul 24, 2005)
Renuka Ray was an active member of the independence movement. Her reminiscences are a subjective microscopic account of the important events of the period
- The Shahenshah Of Shivaji Park (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Jul 23, 2005)
Bal Thackeray started his career as a cartoonist with the Free Press Journal and so did R K Laxman. Both were self-taught and good at their jobs. Both had a sense of humour: Laxman’s was kindly, Thackeray’s acerbic. Both applied for a job with The Times o
- Village Growth Hit By Lack Of Road (Tribune, Gobind Thukral, Jul 23, 2005)
Jungi, a village of some 200 souls, is not an odd name. Ask anywhere, in Tatapani on the banks of the swirling Satluj, and people can direct you to this village that falls in Mandi district.
- Enfant Terrible (Deccan Herald, Prabhakar Kulkarni, Jul 23, 2005)
My infant son has this knack of getting his parents embarrassed, with child-like ease
- Eavesdropping On History (Dawn, F.S. Aijazuddin, Jul 23, 2005)
PRESIDENT Richard M. Nixon suffered from the ultimate form of paranoia — he eavesdropped on himself. Not content with keeping a meticulous written record of his presidency — perhaps the most exhaustively documented of any US president — he installed a voi
- The Burden Of Innocence (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 23, 2005)
YESTERDAY'S papers carried a news item that stated that the Government had announced new regulations for issuance of passports and renewal of existing ones with the objective of checking fraud
- Hindus Make Ideal Emigres (Pakistan Observer, Prafull Goradia, Jul 23, 2005)
This refers to the article, "Sun never sets on Indians" (The Cutting Ed, July 17), by Mr Chandan Mitra
- The Sen Prescription (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Jul 23, 2005)
I REMEMBERED the most argumentative Indian I ever met when I read Amartya Sen’s The Argumentative Indian*. He was a train passenger who, unmindful of a towel on a seat, occupied it.
- Black Money In The Bank (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Jul 23, 2005)
T. C. A. Ramanujam discusses a case about the banking of unaccounted money
- Spaniard And Indian (Telegraph, B.T. Ranadive, Jul 23, 2005)
In 1977, Left Fronts dominated by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) came to power in the states of West Bengal and Kerala. A year later, the CPI(M) leader, B.T. Ranadive, wrote a pungent critique of the parliamentary path to socialism. This took the
- Never-Ending Story Of Never-Never Land (Japan Times, FRANK CHING, Jul 23, 2005)
The recent visits by three Taiwan opposition leaders to mainland China illustrates the new policy of Chinese President Hu Jintao, which is a marked departure from that of his predecessor, Jiang Zemin
- Meeting China's 'Challenge' (Japan Times, BRAD GLOSSERMAN, Jul 23, 2005)
In February 1946, George Kennan, then a political officer in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, sent an 8,000-word telegram to the State Department, warning about Soviet behavior. A little over a year later, a version of that telegram appeared in Foreign Affairs
- Making Ends Meet With Less (Japan Times, Editorial, Japan Times, Jul 23, 2005)
The fiscal 2005 "Annual Report on the Japanese Economy and Public Finances" pays attention to the impact on the economy of two inevitable demographic changes:
- The Cockpit Of Future Conflicts (Hindu, Martin Jacques, Jul 23, 2005)
SIX YEARS ago, when I was last in Japan, the issue of China barely ever featured during conversations. China now looms large in the Japanese mind.
- Understanding A Controversial Legislation (Hindu, M.S. Prabhakara, Jul 23, 2005)
While admitting the opportunism that went into the making of the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, 1983, the political circumstances that had made it necessary at that point of time cannot be ignored.
- The Harry Potter Phenomenon (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 22, 2005)
LONG BEFORE THE buzz dies down, and the cash registers stop ringing from the sale of millions of copies of Harry Potter adventures, there is enough in the phenomenon already for marketing pundits to reflect on the question:
- Pakistan Cracks Down On Madrasas (Deccan Herald, A N Sudarsan Rao , Jul 22, 2005)
There is still no official confirmation that Pakistan has arrested Haroon Rashid Aswad, a British Muslim sought by London.
- Insurgency Turns Communal (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Jul 22, 2005)
Sunnis are now convinced the Shias intend to transform Iraq into a Shia theocracy by imposing Shia clerics, religious forms, political ideologies, and social mores on the entire populace.
- Monetary Policy Making — Transparency Under The Scanner (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Jul 21, 2005)
Though not an institutional arrangement like the UK's Monetary Policy Committee that guides and chalks out the policy and influences expectations, the Technical Advisory Committee on Monetary Policy, set up by the RBI, will hopefully act as a catalyst for
- Fond Memories (Times of India, RAJI GOPALAN, Jul 21, 2005)
June 21, 1948 was not only an important day in Indian history, but it also holds countless personal memories for my family.
- Questionable Move (Times of India, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 21, 2005)
The government contemplates wiping out the distinction between foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign institutional investment (FII) inflows. Separate caps were in place all these years with a view to checking hot money flows and back-door management
- Sticking-Plaster Attitude That Gives Law Additional Layers Of Complexity (Business Line, D. Murali , Jul 21, 2005)
THE site of Edinburgh Castle was occupied as early as 900 BC, informs www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk.
- Empires Good And Evil (Times of India, SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM, Jul 21, 2005)
On June 1, 2004 The Royal Geographical Society in London held a debate whose motion was "The British Empire was a Force for Good".
- Facts Do Not Speak (Telegraph, Salman Rushdie, Jul 21, 2005)
What is a “fact”? In an age beset by bitter disputes about reality, the word itself, and its close relative “truth”, become embattled.
- Black Mark Against The White House (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Jul 21, 2005)
AS American presidential scandals go, it doesn’t seem like much. Although the liberally inclined sections of the press in the United States have been parading the inevitable comparisons — Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair, Monica Lewinsky — the hype does
- Pak Too Should Demand N Status (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 21, 2005)
REPORTS emanating from Washington suggest that US has decided to allow India to acquire the same facilities as accorded to an NPT member State, a move tantamount to recognizing India as a nuclear weapon State. An understanding to this effect is understood
- Another Lesson (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 21, 2005)
Sudden changes of tune invariably hide a twisted tale. The government of West Bengal has decided that it will not support the establishment of any more madrasahs in the state.
- Power Of Small Shareholders (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Jul 21, 2005)
Mohan R. Lavi draws lessons from a reverse corporate coup that failed in Germany
- Spirit Of Kashmiriyat (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 21, 2005)
The people of Kashmir have taken an important step towards restoration of normalcy in the strife-torn state with a historic meeting between leaders of the moderate faction of the Hurriyat and representatives of the Pandit community.
- Gains From New Status (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Jul 21, 2005)
THE India-US nuclear deal has vindicated Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s two statements: that India was not up for sale and that his government would do nothing which would surrender its soveignty.
- 3 Troops, 2 Others Killed In Car Blast (Deccan Herald, A N Sudarsan Rao , Jul 21, 2005)
A person claiming to represent the Hizbul Mujahideen called a news agency and said the militant group was responsible for the blast.
- ‘black-Dollar’ Gang Busted In Goa (Deccan Herald, A N Sudarsan Rao , Jul 21, 2005)
Five Nigerians and a Liberian cooling their heels behind bars are part of a much larger gang operating in other Indian cities.
- Kanchi Seers To Stay At Tirupati For Two Months (Deccan Herald, DH news, Jul 21, 2005)
Senior pontiff of Kanchi Mutt Sri Jayendra Saraswathi and junior pontiff Sri Vijayendra Saraswathi will be performing their chaturmasya vrata at Tirupati from July 21 to September 18.
- Portugal Constitutional Court Rejects Abu (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Jul 21, 2005)
Extradition may be delayed pending disposal of Madhya Pradesh police plea
- Awe Inspiring Elu Sutthina Kote (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 21, 2005)
The historical fort in Chitradurga with its picturesque surrounding locales makes an ideal choice for a weekend getaway.
- Uk Blasts: Pak Says Plotter Of Indian Origin (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Jul 21, 2005)
Pakistan has told the British government that the bomb mastermind they are searching for is a British-born and Indian-origin militant called Haroon Rashid Aswat
- A Legal Regime For Anxious Times (Indian Express, Chetan Dhruve, Jul 21, 2005)
How did we Indians achieve such astonishing success abroad, especially in the US? How did the likes of Infosys and Wipro make it so big?
- The Tiger And The Golden Bear (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 20, 2005)
There was a certain poignancy about this year's British Open,
- Well Done, Prime Minister (Times of India, L M SINGHVI, Jul 20, 2005)
Ideologues and critics have failed to notice that Manmohan Singh's speech at Oxford did not contain a word of condemnation or condonation.
- Lessons For Muslims From London Bombings (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jul 19, 2005)
It is important that Muslims, who do not know Arabic, read theKoranin their own language so that they understand it and are able to challenge when confronted with a selective and self-serving reading.
- Asian Ecumenism (Hindu, FELIX WILFRED, Jul 19, 2005)
History of Asian ecumenism which has acquired its own identity and vibrancy
- Politicisation Of Culture (Hindu, Jyotirmaya Sharma, Jul 19, 2005)
The door on which a great part of this volume hangs is the rise of Hindu nationalism and what it entails in our understanding of India and Indian politics
- Tiger, Tiger Dwindling Fast (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 19, 2005)
Confirming the long speculated suspicion, the Rajasthan government on Monday said that the numbers of big cats in the state’s premiere Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve has declined to 26 as against 35 in 2001-02.
- Ideology Of Honour And Status (Hindu, S. ANANDHI, Jul 19, 2005)
Highlights the multiple constructions of honour and status offering a new perspective on identity politics
- Chakmas Complain Of Bangla Muslim Settlements (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2005)
The Chakma leader said the Bangladesh government tries to evacuated the Buddhists from the region gradually and populate it with Muslims.
- Kalam To Visit India’S Oldest Mosque (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2005)
People in this ancient town are getting ready to receive President A P J Abdul Kalam who is scheduled to visit India’s oldest mosque
- A Symbol Of Kashmiri Nationalism And Independence (Tribune, David Devadas, Jul 17, 2005)
A Kashmir Haat was inaugurated in Srinagar last Wednesday.
- Cm’S Gaddi: Kharge Leaves It To Time & Destiny (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2005)
“Samay se pahle, bhagya se jyada, kuch nahin milta” (You won’t get anything before the destined time and more than one’s luck).
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