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Articles 321 through 420 of 500:
- We Need Nuclear Power: Buddha (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 18, 2007)
West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee created a flutter on Monday by stressing the importance of nuclear power at a time when his party, CPM, is locked in a battle with the Centre over the Indo-US nuclear deal and party bigwigs, like. . .
- Comrades Get Buddha Dose Again: ‘We Just Can’T Avoid Nuclear Power’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 18, 2007)
Barely a fortnight before the CPM Politburo meets in Kolkata to deliberate on the Indo-US nuclear deal, it was West Bengal’s Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee who once again highlighted the gap between his line and the party’s hardline.
- Rs 31,500 Cr Pds Grain Stolen In 3 Yrs (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2007)
In the last three years, Rs 31,585.98 crore worth of wheat and rice meant for the poorest of the poor was siphoned off from the public distribution system.
- Karat's Worldview (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 17, 2007)
In warning Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that other friends of US President George W Bush - namely, Mr Tony Blair in Britain, Mr Shinzo Abe in Japan and Mr John Howard in Australia - have lost their jobs or are likely to, CPI(M) general secretary . . . .
- No Cause For Pot-Belly (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 17, 2007)
Since time immemorial, potato has been considered a 'vegetable' whose excess consumption could lead to obesity. The myth has finaly been exploded. A new study by Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI), Shimla, clears the air over the popular . . . .
- A Front In Disarray (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Sep 14, 2007)
Doubts are being raised about UNPA's future, with Jayalalithaa going hammer and tongs against the Samajwadi Party
- Man With A Mission (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Sep 14, 2007)
Prakash Karat will go down in modern history as a footnote for having compelled this mid-term poll that seems to be slated for December 2007. Things could change marginally.
- Hyderabad Blasts: 2nd Narco Test Reveals Bulk Purchase Of Sim Cards (Indian Express, JOHNSON T A, Sep 13, 2007)
A second round of narco-analysis conducted on Hyderabad bomb blasts suspect Imran Sayeed on Wednesday has tied up loose ends regarding names given by him during the September 4 narco-analysis test.
- Landing In The Past (Deccan Herald, Marianne de Nazareth, Sep 13, 2007)
As I flew out of Bangalore to New York to attend the UN conference on Climate Change, I chatted with a software engineer from Ireland, on the flight..
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 13, 2007)
The island of Nayachar has thrown up an issue that is critically academic, and for once economic development is beyond the purview of political discourse.
- A Harvest Of Devastation (Tribune, Usha Rai, Sep 13, 2007)
Over 8000 families have been affected by the closure of 14 tea gardens in Jalpaiguri District of West Bengal. The worst affected are women and children. Starvation deaths are being reported and children have dropped out of school.
- Bengal Comrades In A Bind (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 13, 2007)
As political punters try to predict when the next general elections will be called, there are fantasies doing the rounds. Based on the assumption that the Congress-led UPA regime has been a boon for West Bengal, some believe that a heroic . . . .
- China Trumps India In Gas Stakes (Asia Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2007)
Recent developments in the gas-field projects of Myanmar have highlighted the intense resource diplomacy in the region.
- Cleansing Campuses (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 12, 2007)
The Supreme Court's recent observation that our colleges and universities need genuine students who are eager to pursue knowledge and not 'student leaders' whose sole occupation is "goondagiri" and "dadagiri" is a view that is shared by millions . . . .
- Light Hearted (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 12, 2007)
There is no point in seeing red. The West Bengal government has little misgivings about its self-importance or that of its minions. So it was only expected that the possibility of being denied the privilege of carrying aloft the most distinguishing . . .
- Left-Cong Charade Officially Begins (Pioneer, Navin Upadhyay, Sep 12, 2007)
The UPA-Left committee to resolve the impasse over India-US civil nuclear agreement met on Tuesday, but the exercise has become a mere formality with both parties preparing for midterm polls.
- N-Deal: Bengal Cpm Against Support Withdrawal (Tribune, Subhrangshu Gupta, Sep 12, 2007)
When a section in the politburo and some other Left leaders were firm on the withdrawal of support from the UPA on the nuclear deal issue, the CPI (M) in West Bengal kept opposing their stand.
- Funds, But No Jobs (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 12, 2007)
Although the Punjab government plans to set up a separate department for the unemployed, how serious it is on the issue can be gauged from the fact that it has failed to use funds made available by the Centre under the National Rural Employment . . . .
- Edit (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 12, 2007)
The commando-turned-President has for the moment silenced his major challenger. And yet palpable was the panic of the establishment on Monday afternoon, the defeat near-total and irreversible.
- Indian Farmers Oppose Giant Buddha Statue (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2007)
Kushinagar has yet to see violence related to the Maitreya Project, but anxiety over the plans remains
- A Flawed Concept (Frontline, V. VENKATESAN, Sep 12, 2007)
IN 2003, when the Government of India identified 55 districts affected by left-wing extremism (naxalism) across nine States to address the issue of backwardness, its decision stemmed from the realisation that people were drawn into naxalism . . . .
- ‘A Question Of Rights, Not Development’ (Frontline, V. VENKATESAN, Sep 12, 2007)
IT may be a coincidence, but the signals are far-reaching. After having witnessed for three years the State governments’ indifference to utilising Central funds meant for socio-economic programmes in the naxal-affected districts, the Planning . . . .
- Naxal Terror (Frontline, Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Sep 12, 2007)
“THIS is essentially to create a shock effect on the government and its agencies. More concrete and substantial political and organisational work of the Maoists is taking place at the grass roots in a number of States including Jharkhand . . . .
- Indias Fuel Crisis: Up A Gum Tree (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Sep 12, 2007)
An alternative way to replace oil-based fuel with renewable transport fuel is to opt for methanol instead of gasoline says Prem Shankar Jha
- Mamata Meets Pm Over Ongoing Cbi Cases In Bengal (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2007)
Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee on Monday appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to see to it that the CBI, under pressure from the Left parties, does not close important cases they are probing in West Bengal.
- Mamata Calls On Pm, Triggers Speculations (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2007)
After signalling parting of ways with the NDA, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
- See No Evil (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2007)
The bomb blasts at Hyderabad were another reminder that the Indian State, indeed India’s future, is becoming steadily more endangered.
- Indian Farmers Oppose Giant Buddha Statue (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2007)
In the middle of a village square about a mile from the northern Indian town of Kushinagar, where Buddha died nearly 2,500 years ago, dozens of semiliterate, poor villagers chanted in unison last week through the humid night.
- India’S Economic Changes Giving Rise To Violence (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2007)
A spate of riots involving arson, beatings and even the Taj Mahal’s brief closure has led to worries a globalising India is struggling to cope with its underbelly of police graft, economic disparity and caste tension.
- Flash Floods And Lightning Strikes Kill At Least 19 In North (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2007)
Flash floods triggered by heavy rains over the weekend killed at least 10 people in northeastern India and forced hundreds to flee their homes, officials said Monday.
- In Rajasthan, Death Prefers Young Girls (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 10, 2007)
Nearly half of all female deaths in rural Rajasthan are of girls below the age of 20. The precise figure is 49.4%. Out of these, 42% of the deaths are of girls who haven't yet celebrated their fifth birthday. In short, a girl born in a . . . .
- Congress Welcomes Mamata’Snew Move (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 10, 2007)
The Congress has welcomed indications from Trinamul Congress president Mamata Banerjee that she is about to part ways with the BJP-led NDA.
- Mamata Readies Her Move (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Sep 10, 2007)
By hinting that she will walk out of the National Democratic Alliance, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has once again confirmed that in politics there are no permanent friends.
- Cbi Makes A Mockery Of Tagore Nobel Medallion Theft Probe (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 10, 2007)
Sir, ~ The theft of a national treasure like the Nobel medallion of Tagore from Visva-Bharati is not a small affair. But it’s a matter of great regret and shame that the CBI, Kolkata branch, an independent and prestigious organisation of the . . . .
- Fiscal Prudence Key To Punjab’Seconomic Revival (Tribune, Janak Raj Gupta, Sep 10, 2007)
It is well known that Punjab, which once occupied the top rung in economic status in the country, has gone down the ladder. Per capita income of states like Maharashtra, Gujarat, Haryana, Goa, Pondicherry and Delhi is much higher than that of Punjab.
- Bjp Says Mamata Still Part Of Nda (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2007)
The BJP today claimed its ties with the Trinamul Congress were intact, a day after party chief Miss Mamata Banerjee’s reported remarks that she was not with the NDA.
- Left On The Wrong Side (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Sep 08, 2007)
The Left’s opposition to the nuclear deal may prove to be a bigger mistake than its earlier tactical blunders.
- Mamata Strategises (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 08, 2007)
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has let it be known that her party does "not support all the constituents of the NDA" and that she and her colleagues are "making efforts to build an independent identity and stand on our own feet to . . . .
- Basu Scoffs At Mamatas Move To Dump Nda (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2007)
CPM patriarch Jyoti Basu on Friday scoffed at Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee for her declaration to dump the BJP-led NDA and go it alone in West Bengal and charged her with practising politics of opportunity.
- She Stays, She Stays Not (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2007)
Playing to the gallery, the populist politician’s stock-in-trade, can sometimes induce bursts of unintended rhetoric.
- Bengal Plans Tech Sezs To House It Biggies (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2007)
Undeterred by the Nandigram fiasco, the West Bengal government is planning to set up two new IT-specific special economic zones (SEZs) to accommodate IT biggies like Infosys, Wipro and TCS who have lined up for land to either set up shop or . . . .
- Special Article (Statesman, SUNANDA SANYAL, Sep 07, 2007)
“As a young man of twenty-five, KR Narayanan met Gandhiji. Shri Narayanan told Gandhiji,” recalled Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Governor of West Bengal, in his Republic day speech, “it’s easy to distinguish between a truth and an untruth.
- Mamata Parting Ways With Nda (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 07, 2007)
The National Democratic Alliance’s principal constituent in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress, has made apparent its intention to part ways with the combine.
- Back To The Voters (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Sep 07, 2007)
A general election cannot be fought on the issue of the nuclear deal alone. So, the Left has already taken the fight to the streets and the BJP is planning to use the Gujarat election as a testing ground.
- Mamata Banerjee Parts Ways With Nda (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 07, 2007)
After months of keeping the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) leadership on the edge, Trinamool Congress (TC) chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday finally took the plunge and severed her nine-year long association with the opposition grouping.
- Mamata Parts Ways With Nda, Bjp Not Surprised (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 07, 2007)
After months of keeping the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) leadership on the edge, Trinamool Congress (TC) chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday finally took the plunge and severed her nine-year long association with the opposition grouping.
- India's Explosive Phone Growth (Asia Times, Siddharth Srivastava, Sep 07, 2007)
In the past few weeks, India, already suffering from terror attacks, has been witness to explosions of another kind - apparently defective mobile-telephone batteries bursting and injuring users.
- Mamata Signals Break With Bjp, Cong Rushes In To Say Join Us, Throw Cpm Out (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 07, 2007)
The buzz has been there for quite some time now but Trinamool leader Mamata Banerjee chose the setting of a madrasa students’ programme today to indicate, more clearly than she ever has, that she is set to part ways with the BJP.
- Mamatahints She Might Walk Out Of Nda (Asian Age, Parwez Hafeez, Sep 07, 2007)
Trinamul Congress president Mamata Banerjee, who has of late been distancing herself and her party from the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, on Thursday publicly announced her virtual disassociation with the Opposition alliance.
- Mamata Hints At Walking Out Of Nda (Express India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 07, 2007)
In a move aimed at wooing minority communities of the state, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee hinted at snapping ties with the BJP-led NDA alliance saying her party was trying to ‘stand on its own’ in West Bengal.
- Past The Tokyo Trials (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Sep 07, 2007)
The prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, is looked upon with utmost suspicion by China and both Koreas for his attempts to put an end to the one-sided “Tokyo Trials” view of history.
- Red Corner Notice For Blasts Suspect (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2007)
Interpol has issued a Red Corner notice for another Hyderabad youth in connection with last week's blasts - Mohammed Amjad alias Khaja, an alleged key operative of Harkat-Ul Jihad Islami (HUJI), is believed to be hiding in neighbouring Bangladesh.
- Left Wills A Navy Cut (Pioneer, Priyadarsi Dutta, Sep 06, 2007)
Economy and education were two sectors of governance that Indian Communists used to mutate in the past. The nation's foreign policy too betrayed a Communist imprint during the Cold War.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 06, 2007)
It would be less than accurate, even presumputuous, for the government to package its response to the Sachar Committee recommendations as an “action taken report”.
- Special Article (Statesman, DEBAKI NANDAN MANDAL, Sep 06, 2007)
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), launched on 2 February 2006 in 200 districts, has been a subject of controversy and debate since the days when experts of the National Advisory Council prepared its blueprint.
- In The Shadow Of A Saint (Indian Express, Navin Chawla, Sep 05, 2007)
Today it is ten years since Mother Teresa passed away. In July, 1994 she had unexpectedly passed through Delhi on her way back to Kolkata. I was able to spend a few private hours with her.
- The Fine Print (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2007)
The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) warning in its Annual Report 2006-07 on the subprime crisis has, understandably, grabbed headlines in most papers.
- Price Of Protest (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2007)
The Left’s protests against alleged Yankee imperialism and assorted crimes against India including the US-led naval exercise in the Bay of Bengal and the nuclear deal began from Kolkata with a jatha leaving the city today. It will meet another . . . .
- Tilt Towards The U.S. Is Against India’S Independent Foreign Policy, Says Basu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2007)
Flagging off the “jatha” by Left leaders and workers headed for Visakhapatnam to protest against the joint naval exercises in the Bay of Bengal, involving the U.S. and other countries, veteran Marxist leader, Jyoti Basu, said here on Tuesday that . . . .
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 05, 2007)
We can almost hear the collective satisfaction of the political class over Monday’s decision to set up the chemical hub in the remote island of Nayachar, off Haldia.
- Naval Exercises With Us Spur Protests In India (Dawn, Jawed Naqvi, Sep 05, 2007)
Nearly 36 years after it dispatched theSeventh Fleet to the Bay of Bengal with an implied warning of a nuclear assault on India, a US armada began naval exercises on Tuesday with India and three Pacific allies, and the threat this time is being . . . .
- Withdraw Support: Rsp To Partners (Pioneer, Santanu Banerjee, Sep 05, 2007)
The Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) on Tuesday called upon other three Left parties to seriously think about withdrawing support from the UPA over its goading the nation into a strategic partnership with the US.
- N-Panel In Place (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2007)
Even as the Left parties continued with their sabre rattling against the UPA government in general and Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh in particular over the Indo-US civil nuclear agreement, the Centre late on Tuesday night announced a . . . .
- Don't Miss Saigon (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 05, 2007)
Over the past weekend, the CPI(M) hosted the India-Vietnam Friendship Festival in Calcutta. With participation from the entire CPI(M) vanguard, and a special address by Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee -- who dutifully referred to the . . . . .
- Dhaka Denies Any Hyderabad Arrest, Says Foreign Ministry To ‘Lodge Protest’ (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Sep 05, 2007)
Denying any Bangladeshi involvement in the Hyderabad twin blasts that killed 44 people on August 25, Dhaka’s Home Secretary Mohammed Abdul Karim has said that media reports about the arrest of a Bangladeshi national (Sharifuddin alias Abu Hamza) . . . . .
- Mother Teresas Confession: Doubts Of A True Believer (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 05, 2007)
I have no faith I dare not utter the words and thoughts that crowd in my heart and make me suffer untold agony, Mother wrote in an undated letter.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 04, 2007)
The Central Bureau of Investigation has not merely failed the nation as this newspaper had occasion to comment recently, but this time specifically the memory of Rabindranath Tagore.
- The Fine Print (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2007)
The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) warning in its Annual Report 2006-07 on the subprime crisis has, understandably, grabbed headlines in most papers.
- No Threat To Stability Of Upa Govt: West Bengal Fm (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2007)
There is no threat to the stability of the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government, Asim K Dasgupta, Finance Minister of West Bengal and Chairman of Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers has said.
- Left Can't Set The Agenda (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Sep 04, 2007)
We have another terrorist attack in Hyderabad, which leaves at least 42 people dead and hundreds injured. 'Sleeper units', which have carried out the blasts, can comfortably go back to sleep once again, as we simply refuse to act on security . . . .
- Terror Groups Sneaking In Cadre As ‘Students’ Via Indo-Bangla Border (Indian Express, SUBRATA NAGCHOUDHURY, Sep 03, 2007)
They come in as students from Bangladesh to a convenient double-life in India. With “student” stamped on their papers, they don’t have to worry about the law enforcement agencies for the duration of their visa. And then, they seem to carry . . . . ..
- Vietnam Is An Expression Of Courage, Says Pranab Mukherjee (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2007)
“We are now facing new challenges for a more equitable economic order in the form of the negative aspects of globalisation.
- Fission In Empty Waters (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 03, 2007)
By popular consent, with just a turn of a screwdriver we will have over a hundred nuclear bombs ready for delivery in our backyard.
- Poll Countdown Begins (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2007)
The truce between the Left and the UPA on the Indo-US nuclear deal is deceptive. It may have helped in prolonging the tenure of the government by a short period, but a mid-term poll in early 2008 appears to be a foregone conclusion.
- Industrious Bengal (Telegraph, ABHIRUP SARKAR, Sep 03, 2007)
Once upon a time there was an old Left Front. It was a political assortment headed by the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which set up coordination committees to organize meetings, rallies and agitations.
- Left Can't Set The Agenda (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Sep 03, 2007)
We have another terrorist attack in Hyderabad, which leaves at least 42 people dead and hundreds injured.
- Bangla Cops Nab ‘Key Suspect’ Near Border (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2007)
In a lead that Hyderabad Police believe may link the series of recent blasts, Bangladesh Police reportedly arrested terrorist Abu Hamza on the Indo-Bangla border today on a tip-off from the city police.
- Do Away With Fair Price Shops (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Sep 03, 2007)
Open market competition has a power and efficiency that no administrative authority can emulate. Hence, replacing fair-price shops with competitive marketing will be advantageous, says P. V. INDIRESAN.
- They Kill In The Name Of Mao (Pioneer, Prakash Singh, Sep 03, 2007)
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- Survey Shows Obcs Are Actually Better Off (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2007)
In the backdrop of the Supreme Court debate on a quota in education for Other Backward Classes, the findings of a government survey that OBCs’ monthly per capita expenditure is close to the national average, and in some states even better . . . .
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