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Articles 421 through 520 of 500:
- Economic Growth Is Changing Caste-Based Deprivation Logic (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2007)
Economic growth is changing conventional logic of caste-based deprivation in several states.
- Losers Take All (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 01, 2007)
Politics is one field of human activity where there can be setbacks without any victors.
- The Year 2007 (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Sep 01, 2007)
India's Communist movement is periodically visited by traumatic dilemmas.
- Scs, Sts Come Close To Obcs In Per Capita Monthly Expenditure (Pioneer, Rajeev Ranjan Roy, Sep 01, 2007)
It would be an eye-opener for the policy makers who project Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) economically weaker than other backward classes (OBCs).
- Special Article (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2007)
The government somehow forgot that neither “employment generation” nor “socio-economic development of the area” is included in any of the sub-clauses of the Land Acquisition Act.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 01, 2007)
The popular mood in Pakistan is against Pervez Musharraf; it could slip out of Benazir Bhutto’s control; and slide in favour of Nawaz Sharif.
- When The Law Is Sentenced (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2007)
A few months ago, a venerable looking old man with a long, silken white beard announced at a public meeting that he would give one lakh rupees to anyone who killed the head of Dera Sacha Sauda. He got what he wanted: his photo in the next . . .
- Special Article (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 31, 2007)
The law of the land is the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. It is a substantive law as well as a procedural law. It not only says what can be done (and therefore, what cannot be done), but also says how it should be done.
- Old Bengal (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 31, 2007)
This atlas is the first of a series of many more planned. The objective is to record the heritage locations of West Bengal as represented by archaeological sites and excavations. This volume deals with the prehistory and proto-history of West Bengal.
- Stop Cow Slaughter (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Aug 31, 2007)
The satyagraha against cow slaughter, launched by Vinobha Bhave at Deonar in Mumbai on January 11, 1982, continues. But, last Friday, the Supreme Court dismissed a plea for a complete ban on the slaughter of cows, buffaloes and horses on two grounds.
- Gom Submits Report On Sez Relief & Rehab (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2007)
The Group of Ministers (GoM) set up to finalise the land acquisition procedure and relief and rehabilitation policy in case of SEZ or other industrial projects have submitted its report to the Government.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 30, 2007)
Time stands still in Bihar and with devastating effect. Tuesday’s incident in Bhagalpur is of a piece with the blinding of 30 undertrials with acid ~ gangajal did the police call it? ~ in the same district in 1981.
- Indian Politics To Determine Fate Of Us Nuclear Deal (Dawn, Praful Bidwai, Aug 30, 2007)
Confronted with stiff opposition to the United States-India nuclear cooperation deal from the supporting parties of the Left, Manmohan Singh’s minority government has initiated talks with communist leaders to create a ‘mechanism’ to resolve . . . . .
- Taslima Nasrin On Her Detractors (Frontline, SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY, Aug 30, 2007)
ON August 9, Taslima Nasrin, the exiled Bangladeshi writer, was attacked by a group of fundamentalists at the Hyderabad Press Club where she had gone to release a Telugu translation of her book Shodh.
- Decline Of A City (Telegraph, SURENDRA MUNSHI, Aug 30, 2007)
A city may decline in different ways. Dilapidated buildings and roads in bad repair provide visible signs of this decline.
- Nuclear Standoff (Frontline, Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Aug 29, 2007)
The fate of the Union government hangs in the balance as the ruling UPA and the Left parties differ strongly on the India-U.S. nuclear deal.
- Reliance’S Retail Plans For Bengal On (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2007)
Reliance Industries Ltd has no plans to suspend its retail operations in Kolkata and West Bengal. The company expects the first store to be operational in next two months.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 29, 2007)
Beyond the uncertainty over whether a brand name will set up retail stores in West Bengal is the loss of face the government has suffered on the road to revamping its economic policy.
- The Other Hyderabad Attack: 2 Bombs, 3 Probes, Both Hands Tied (Indian Express, JOHNSON T A, Aug 29, 2007)
At the Mediciti Hospital here today, five injured students from a Maharashtra engineering college who were at Lumbini Park on Saturday night and who survived the serial blasts that left 44 dead, were shown dossiers by the police in the hope that . . . .
- Of Political Stand-Offs And Opinion Polls (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 29, 2007)
In the backdrop of the standoff between ruling coalition partners on the India-US nuclear deal and a recent opinion poll on a range of issues, RASHEEDA BHAGAT takes a look at the implications for the common man and the small investor in the equity market.
- Hydro Potential (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 29, 2007)
The editorial in People’s Democracy claims that nuclear power generation is the most expensive energy option.
- Police Reforms (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2007)
THE Supreme Court has rightly rejected the petitions filed by some state governments to review its September 22, 2006, order on introducing wide-ranging reforms to insulate the police machinery from political interference.
- Coalition In The Future (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Aug 28, 2007)
It’s all over bar the shouting. The general election is on the horizon, sooner than the Congress and other parties wanted, but the Indo-US nuclear deal has triggered a set of circumstances in which the Left’s essential support base for the coalition . . .
- Vigil Stepped Up On West Bengal Border (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2007)
Vigil along West Bengal’s border with Bangladesh has been intensified in the wake of Saturday’s blasts in Hyderabad, which according to the Andhra Pradesh government, might have had Bangladesh as well as Pakistan connections.
- Reliance Fresh Plans To Exit Bengal (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2007)
Stung by the Forward Bloc’s stiff opposition to Reliance Retail’s rollout plans in Bengal, the state government is now doing a balancing act.
- Advice From Practitioners (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 28, 2007)
Last week, just before the CPI(M) Central Committee meet to discuss the Indo-US nuclear deal was to start in New Delhi, in Kolkata, from where the Left Front actually governs a state, CPI(M) leaders went on record rubbishing any notion of bringing . . . .
- Hostels Hijacked (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 28, 2007)
The callousness of the Indian state with regard to the weaker sections is revealed by the latest report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) on the 'Educational Development of Scheduled Castes and Tribes'.
- Japan Bank Sees Flaws In Freight Corridor Project (Pioneer, Rajeev Ranjan Roy, Aug 28, 2007)
The Centre's high-profile dedicated freight corridor (DFC) project has failed to steer clear of the primary scrutiny of Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC).
- Terror’S New Face Babu Bhai Sits In Up Jail, Joins Dots From Dhaka To Hyderabad Via Delhi (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Aug 28, 2007)
Forty eight hours after the twin blasts in Hyderabad, investigators are looking at questioning a 40-year-old born in a village in West Bengal, who is now sitting in a Lucknow jail.
- Reliance Suspends Retail Plans In Bengal (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2007)
Rattled by the opposition of the Trinamul Congress and Left parties, Reliance Retail Ltd has decided to suspend its plans temporarily to open six outlets in West Bengal. In Uttar Pradesh last week, Reliance had ordered its stores to shut down for security
- Peter Pan Syndrome (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 27, 2007)
Early last year, Prakash Karat met Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and told him not to allow US firm Warner Brothers to build multiplex cinemas in Calcutta.
- Cong, Left N-Deal Talks Likely Today (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2007)
A meeting between Congress and the Left is likely to take place on Monday to break the deadlock over the Indo-US nuclear deal.
- Intelligence Had Warned Of Strikes (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Aug 27, 2007)
India’s Intelligence services learned over five months ago that an eight-kg consignment of military-grade explosives had been delivered to a Harkat ul-Jihadi-e-Islami terror cell preparing for strikes in Hyderabad.
- Relax, Mr Karat: 123 Is A Non-Starter (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 27, 2007)
Even if the US converts the 123 agreement into law, no US supplier will look at India until it passes a liability protection law. Since the Congress-led coalition lacks a majority, it cannot pass any legislation without your support.
- Call The Left's Bluff (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 27, 2007)
The Congress should be grateful to the Left. If it has any survival instinct, Congress would thank the Left for all the confrontations and arm-twisting of the last three years.
- Japanese Chapter (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Aug 25, 2007)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s three-day India visit was quite a success, especially if it is recalled that relations between the two countries had hit an all time low following India’s nuclear test in 1998.
- Cbi Mulls Review Of Sahay Cases (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2007)
The CBI is contemplating a review of all cases being handled by its Special Crime Branch, Kolkata, including Tagore’s Nobel medallion theft and the Tapasi Mullick murder cases.
- Govt-Cpm Deal Pushes N-Debate To September (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2007)
A day after the government and the Left decided to make one last-ditch effort to avert a showdown over the Indo-US deal, there are clear indications of the CPM helping the UPA government delay the parliamentary debate on the pact.
- Attacks Still On In Nandigram: Mahasweta Devi (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2007)
Accusing the West Bengal government of doing nothing for the people of Nandigram since the March 14 police firing, Jnanpith award-winning writer-activist Mahasweta Devi on Friday alleged that night attacks are still continuing in the area where . . . . .
- Left Out On Coalition Courtesies (Indian Express, Ajay K. Mehra, Aug 25, 2007)
Concurrence, cooperation and considerateness: these could be considered the three crucial C’s supporting coalitions.
- Cong Tries To Placate Left (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2007)
In a last ditch effort to save the Government, the Congress is now trying to placate the Left by soft-pedalling further progress on the India-US nuclear deal, holding out the prospect of delaying its operationalisation.
- The Great Wall Of India (Hindustan Times, A N Sudarsan Rao , Aug 23, 2007)
Modern nation States, formed after the collapse of colonial empires, defined territorial integrity as the yardstick of national interest. Interventions such as culture, language and religion have shaped choices too, but essentially these. . .
- N-Deal: Cpm Central Committee Meets; Cpi, Dmk Hold Talks (Indian Express, Jayanth Jacob, Aug 23, 2007)
While the Left parties are hoping for a last minute favourable word from the Government on the IAEA safeguard talks, the CPI(M) Central Committee met on Wednesday to begin discussion on the possible scenarios emerging out of the stand-off.
- Indian Left Ponders How Far To Push Nuclear Row (Dawn, Kamil Zaheer, Aug 23, 2007)
Indian communists sought to forge a consensus on Wednesday over whether to end support to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s coalition government over a controversial nuclear deal with the United States.
- Abe’S Japan Rediscovers Bengal (Indian Express, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 23, 2007)
It is not often that visiting foreign leaders choose to stop by Kolkata. They would rather head to Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai or Hyderabad. But for the new generation of leaders in Japan, the connection with Bengal is rather special.
- Punjab Pensioners Seek Parity (Tribune, A N Sudarsan Rao , Aug 23, 2007)
Though the fifth Punjab Pay Commission was constituted by the Punjab Government in December 2006, its terms of reference have not been notified so far. Presuming that this would include pension and other retirements of new and old pensioners. . .
- Status On The Line (Telegraph, Dipankar Dasgupta, Aug 23, 2007)
The author is former professor of economics, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 23, 2007)
It is difficult not to sympathise with members of the Left Front, especially its ideologues, as they confront their biggest crisis in recent times.
- N-Deal: Left Chooses To Wait And Watch Till Sept (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2007)
The CPM has received “private assurances” from the Congress that the UPA Government would not get into India-specific safeguard discussions with the IAEA during its on-coming annual general conference.
- Red Bastions Upset With Left On N-Deal (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2007)
The communist bastions of West Bengal and Kerala seem to be the unhappiest with the Left's decision to serve an ultimatum to the government on the nuclear deal and trigger a political crisis.
- Save Govt At Any Cost: Upa Allies (Pioneer, Akhilesh Suman, Aug 22, 2007)
Amid the tough postures taken by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Left parties over the India-US civil nuclear deal, the UPA allies are becoming jittery over the prospect of facing a mid-term poll on a controversial issue like nuclear deal.
- Left In The Past (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 22, 2007)
The naysayers are at it again. The Left parties are doing what they are best at - saying no.
- Deport Taslima (Pioneer, N Jamal Ansari, Aug 22, 2007)
Roughing up of Taslima Nasreen has once again brought up the issue of 'freedom of speech' in focus. What happened in Hyderabad was not in good taste, but who are responsible for that?
- No Question Of Government Falling, Says Biman Bose (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Aug 22, 2007)
Rules out possibility of mid-term elections
Discussions demanded under Rule 193
- “Ignorance Of Software Piracy Can No Longer Be Excused” (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Aug 22, 2007)
Technology is being deployed to combat software piracy in India. Microsoft India Chairman Ravi Venkatesan discusses the issues and solutions in an interview in Singapore. Excerpts:
- Ways To Counter Fragging (Deccan Herald, A N Sudarsan Rao , Aug 22, 2007)
There should be an institutional arrangement to help soldiers serving in non-family stations.
- Pm To Try And Woo Nitish Over Dinner (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2007)
Even as the UPA-Left standoff threatens to push the country towards a mid-term poll, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has invited Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for a dinner meeting on Wednesday.
- Stern Karat (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 22, 2007)
Prakash Karat has written a strongly worded article in People’s Democracy titled ‘Left is Firm: No Passage for Nuclear Deal’.
- India’S Nuclear Deal Controversy May Lead To Early Polls (Dawn, Simon Denyer, Aug 22, 2007)
India could be heading for elections in 2008, a year ahead of schedule, after a row over a nuclear deal with the United States exposed deep faultlines between the government and its communist allies.
- Pm Calls The Left’S Bluff (Tribune, B.G. Verghese for and Sanjay Sangvai , Aug 22, 2007)
IT is a lasting shame that Parliament was so raucously disrupted by vulgar demonstrations even as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Independence.
- West Bengal Government For Consensus On Industry (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2007)
The West Bengal government is working on consensus-building involving all political parties for the purposes of development and setting up industries in the State, the State’s Industries Minister, Nirupam Sen, said here on Tuesday.
- India Faces Up To Prospect Of Early Polls (Frontier Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2007)
India could be heading for elections in 2008, a year ahead of schedule, after a row over a nuclear deal with the United States exposed deep faultlines between the government and its communist allies.
- Abe Heads Out To Visit Indonesia, India, Malaysia (Japan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2007)
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived Sunday in Indonesia on the first leg of a weeklong tour that will also take him to India and Malaysia before he comes back to reshuffle his Cabinet and the leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party.
- Abe, Manmohan To Focus On New Phase In Ties (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Aug 21, 2007)
Japanese Prime Minister to address Parliament tomorrow
They will discuss New Delhi’s plans to engage the IAEA
Energy security, environmental protection on agenda
- 'China's Interest Is Our Interest' (OutLook, B. Raman , Aug 21, 2007)
The current opposition of the leftist parties--particularly, the Communist Party of India (Marxist)--to the agreement (the so-called 123 agreement) with the US on civil nuclear co-operation and to India's developing strategic relations . . . . .
- Bjp Mustn't Let Govt Fall (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2007)
The BJP has erred in opposing so vociferously the India-US civil nuclear deal. In public perception, its opposition is largely political.
- Chinese Whispers (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2007)
Sections of the government believe that the Left's campaign against the Indo-US nuclear deal is inspired by Beijing.
- The Red Blunders (Telegraph, RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE, Aug 21, 2007)
If nationalism, as the historian Jack Gallagher was fond of quipping, devours its parents, communism consumes its own ideology.
- Trinamool To Oppose Indo-Us Nuclear Deal (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2007)
The Trinamool Congress will oppose the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, party chief Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday.
- Calculators Are Out But Topplers Have Got Their Timing Hopelessly Wrong (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 20, 2007)
The jury is still out on whether the UPA Government will survive the current crisis, or, even if it does, how battered it will emerge from it. But spare a thought, meanwhile, for the institution of marriage, which has been delivered such a nasty blow.
- Why The Cpi(m) And The Left Oppose The Nuclear Deal (Hindu, Prakash Karat, Aug 20, 2007)
The Left parties continue to accord priority to having a secular government and keeping the communal forces at bay. But this cannot be taken by the UPA government as licence to go ahead with a long-term agreement that has such serious implications . . . .
- Death Of Innocence (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 20, 2007)
ACCORDING to the Supreme Court, the onus for action against ragging is on the campus authorities.
- Chinese Whispers (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 20, 2007)
Irrespective of how the Left-Congress drama ends - and it is increasingly and almost inevitably pointing to an early Lok Sabha election - the conduct of the Communist parties stands in the dock of history.
- Frivolity Of The Left (Pioneer, SHIKHA MUKERJEE, Aug 20, 2007)
The theme which connects the love lyrics that spread the message of bhakti to the ballooning output of Bangla bands reflecting the sensibilities of the 21st century youth is the quintessentially Indian preoccupation with romance and regret.
- Govt Struggles For Compromise Formula (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2007)
With the threat of withdrawal of support appearing to be real, the Congress on Monday tried to pacify an angry Left by suggesting a mechanism to examine the nuclear deal and the impact of the Hyde Act on it, in order to bring the Left to the . . . .
- Left Falls Out With Congress (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Aug 20, 2007)
Independence Day is always special, and after 60 years we must reflect on the past, live in the present and think of the future.
- Comrades Stubborn, Cong Sweats To Make Deal (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2007)
The Left, more particularly the CPI-M and the CPI leaders are being engaged in informal discussions by a set of senior Congress leaders who are trying to convince them to tone down the attack on the government on the nuclear deal while admitting . . . . .
- Cpm Yet To Firm Up Stand, Cpi Wants Ties With Upa 'Redefined' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2007)
Publicly, Left parties spent the better part of Friday resorting to provocative language of marriage and morals while discussing the relationship with UPA but while CPM's politburo could not firm up any opinion, CPI's national secretariat . . . . .
- Upa-Left Standoff Continues (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2007)
The strain on ties between the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government and the Left parties on the nuclear deal with the United States continued on Friday, though the Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary, Prakash Karat . . . .
- Confrontation Is Bad For Coalition Politics (Asian Age, Arun Nehru, Aug 18, 2007)
Independence Day is always special, and after 60 years we must reflect on the past, live in the present and think of the future.
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