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Articles 1621 through 1720 of 11444:
- Uncared Forever (Business Line, P. Devarajan, Jul 30, 2006)
"As long as the farming community is not in direct touch with the buyers, farming will be a business failure."
- Government Not Interested In Truth (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 30, 2006)
The Memorandum of Action Taken Report by the Home Ministry over the 600-plus page report submitted by a reputed former judge of the Supreme Court is plainly arbitrary.
- Friends And Sycophants (Dawn, Kunwar Idris, Jul 30, 2006)
IN the midst of hardening political stands, an advisory for conciliation and compromise issued by a group of assorted but prominent citizens comes as a whiff of fresh air. But, perhaps, it is likely to remain just a whiff.
- A Flawed Proposal (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 30, 2006)
The Bush administration’s draft bill to authorise military tribunals to try accused terrorists, which was leaked in Washington this week, is still evidently a work in progress. It nevertheless illuminates the administration’s thinking about how to . . .
- Talking Aimlessly (Frontline, A.G. NOORANI, Jul 30, 2006)
IT is a damning censure on the emptiness of social life of pomp and show at a ritual dinner party, "where time flies amidst emptiness" and one returns home to "retake possession of our being and our home" and "put ourselves under strict arrest . . .
- Isro Chief Says An Aeronautics Commission Is Needed (Hindu, K. Manikandan, Jul 30, 2006)
There is an acute shortage of specialists'
- Nuclear Deal: Bush Administration To Work With Congress, (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 30, 2006)
This is the text of the U.S. Statement of Administration Policy on the nuclear cooperation Bill:
- Beware The `New Order' Israel Is Imposing (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jul 29, 2006)
No peace or stability can emerge in West Asia through occupation, subjugation, and the military slaughter of civilians.
- Gauntlet Thrown At Media (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Jul 29, 2006)
Efforts are on to muzzle the media and this must be fought and the freedom of the press must be defended.
- Kalam Moots 9-Point Development Plan For J&k (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam today suggested a nine-point developmental plan for militancy-hit Jammu and Kashmir, including a people’s movement to eliminate terrorism and the creation of an economic zone along the Line of Control.
- Peace Must For J&k’S Progress, Says Kalam (Tribune, Ehsan Fazili, Jul 29, 2006)
Stressing the need for restoration of peace and prosperity, the President, Dr A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, here today put forth nine-point “prosperity mission” for Jammu and Kashmir that could be undertaken on the basis of its core competence.
- Hc Puts Mattoo Case On Fast Track (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
The Delhi High Court today admitted a CBI plea for the early hearing of the appeal in the sensational Priyadarshini Mattoo rape and murder case.
- Sinister Thoughts (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Jul 29, 2006)
PRIYA Ranjan Dasmunshi was a hatchet man during the Emergency in India.
- What Ails Peace In The Middle-East (Daily Excelsior, Predhuman K. Joseph Dhar, Jul 29, 2006)
Middle East is again on fire The Arabs and the Israelites are holding on to their respective stands and are, therefore, in no mood to come to a negotiated settlement to the vexed problem. World peace is at stake. There is no doubt about that.
- Via Ahmed Faraz (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Jul 29, 2006)
Ahmed Faraz, Pakistan's pre-eminent poet, is not a stranger to lovers of Urdu poetry in this country.
- Note The Notings (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 29, 2006)
More positive steps are imperative
The most charitable construct that can be placed upon the PMO’s claim that recent changes in the Right to Information Act will ensure transparency and accountability is that it doesn’t quite address . . .
- Handicaps To Education (News International, Hafizur Rahman, Jul 29, 2006)
A friend was saying the other day that but for frequent cataclysmic changes in our politics and in the country's constitution, the problems of education might have been taken more seriously by successive governments.
- Missing Files (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Jul 29, 2006)
Successive governments since 1947 conspired to conceal the truth about Netaji. Maybe Justice MK Mukherjee could not unravel the core mystery, but he certainly exposed the well-orchestrated deception underway since Jawaharlal Nehru's time to . . .
- Government Not Interested In Truth (Pioneer, Murli Manohar Joshi, Jul 29, 2006)
The Memorandum of Action Taken Report by the Home Ministry over the 600-plus page report submitted by a reputed former judge of the Supreme Court is plainly arbitrary.
- Indian Doctor May Have Say In Attacker's Punishment (Pioneer, PTI, Jul 29, 2006)
An Indian doctor in the US who suffered severe burns after his housemate poured hot grease on him, is being sought for response before the attacker is sentenced.
- Congress Follows The Us Establishment (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 29, 2006)
Ignoring voices of sanity, the US House of Representatives has voted to allow shipments of civilian nuclear fuel and technology to India.
- Power-Sharing Among The Provinces (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 29, 2006)
The question of Pakistan’s constitutional make-up and power-sharing among the country’s four provinces and ethnic minorities is once again coming under intense debate.
- Mqm Should Let The System Work (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 29, 2006)
In a dramatic move, one of the allies of the Government – the MQM has directed all its Federal and Provincial Ministers, advisors and special assistants to immediately send their resignations to the Sindh Governor and the President.
- ‘Vimochana Samaram Ii’ (Statesman, Sam Rajappa, Jul 29, 2006)
History is repeating itself in Kerala. Exactly 47 years ago on 31 July, 1959, the first democratically elected Communist government of EMS Namboodiripad in Kerala, after only two years and four months in office, was dismissed by the Union government . . .
- While Venu Stays, Ramadoss May Have To Go (Pioneer, Abraham Thomas, Jul 29, 2006)
Snubbed twice by the Delhi High Court, there is fresh trouble brewing for Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss who is now facing a threat of disqualification from the Election Commission.
- Magnanimity For Millions On The Margins? (The Financial Express, Jayaprakash Narayan, Jul 28, 2006)
Thinking sections of society need to act fast and mobilise those suffering from misgovernance.
- Much Ado About Noting (Indian Express, Seema Chisti, Jul 28, 2006)
In what would make screenplay writers of the BBC tele-serial Yes Minister (or Yes Prime Minister, in this case) envious, the government of India has scripted a magnificent episode as it went about this file notings business.
- Learn To Change (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 28, 2006)
The key to a nation's future is in its schools. If that is so our future is bleak. The World Bank's Development Policy Review for India gives two interesting facts.
- Mole On The Nose (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jul 28, 2006)
Jaswant Singh is a gentleman fallen among politicians. We have been waiting for his memoirs ever since a south-east Asian summit when the post-banquet entertainment took the form of a skit that was a witty take-off of Lewis Carroll’s “You are Old . . .
- Corruption Has A Deterrent (Business Standard, Kanika Datta, Jul 28, 2006)
Does corruption matter in a country’s “corporate” reputation? Does it really dissuade foreign investors or hamper economic growth? India’s low ranking on the Transparency Index year after year rarely attracts more than an “I-told-you-so” comment . . .
- Fill The Vacancies In The Courts (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jul 28, 2006)
Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the chief justice of Pakistan, has breathed new life into the apex court by exercising its dormant suo motu powers to redress wrong and dispense justice.
- Uk Court Asks Govt To Explain Reason Of Entering Iraq War (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Tony Blair’s lawyers will have to rehearse the detailed reasons for invading Iraq after a dramatic victory by the families of four soldiers killed there.
- Dalai Lama Colluded With Cia: China (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Denouncing the Dalai Lama as a “splittist,” China has accused him of collaborating with the CIA and the Indian military to establish the “Indian Tibetan special border troops” to reclaim authority in his Himalayan homeland from Beijing.
- Friday Feature: The Essence Of Islam (Dawn, Haider Zaman, Jul 28, 2006)
It has become a fashion in some quarters to blame the religion of Islam for any act of violence or terrorism in which some Muslims are involved.
- Nuke Deal: Goalposts Shift (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Jul 28, 2006)
The Indian government and the Bush administration made combined efforts on Thursday to counter the charge levelled by Indian political parties in Parli-ament that the goalposts had been shifted in the execution of the July 18, 2005 civilian nuclear . . .
- Protestations Of The Credulous (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Jul 28, 2006)
It might appear preposterous to the rest of the country, but two Ministers from the Congress, a CPI(M) top brass and one Muslim maulana distinguished themselves by offering alternate theories on 7/11.
- India Phenomenon (Statesman, AMITAV BANERJI, Jul 27, 2006)
A couple of weeks ago, Time magazine had an eye-catching cover.
- An Honours List For The Media? (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jul 27, 2006)
The government of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has prepared a list of about 30 columnists, writers and reporters in the English and Urdu print media and directed its spin-doctors to discreetly “soften” them up.
- Tourism, Not Extremism (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Jul 27, 2006)
President Musharraf has appealed to people to shun extremism and promote tourism.
- The Irreligious Custodians (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Jul 27, 2006)
The scandal involving the chief priest of Ayyappa temple underscores the need for religion to break free from priestly stranglehold, says Anuradha Dutt
- Victim's Age May Take Sting Out Of J&k Sex Scandal (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
The J&K sex scandal case could lose its sting if it is proved that the victim in question was of consenting age and the very law on which prosecution was leaning wasn't applicable to the state.
- Growing Gap (Times of India, Andre Beteille , Jul 27, 2006)
India and China embarked upon somewhat different courses of development at roughly the same time. Comparisons between the two countries, their achievements so far and their prospects for the future are inevitable.
- Ensuring Elementary Education For All (Hindu, Krishna Kumar, Jul 27, 2006)
Indian society regards children not as a collective responsibility but as a parental burden. Few realise that the nation loses when children do not attend school.
- Varanasi: Cosmopolitan And A Role Model (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Jul 27, 2006)
The most spectacular yield of the recent affirmation of communal harmony in Varanasi is undoubtedly the Muslim effort at introspection — possible only because of Hindu support.
- For A Fair Deal In Higher Education (Hindu, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Jul 27, 2006)
To defile education as merchandise and colleges as lucrative teaching shops is vulgar.
- Democracy Must To Combat Terrorism: Speakers (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
Speakers at a seminar on Tuesday said that long military rules were responsible for the increase in extremism and terrorism activities in Pakistan. They were also of a unanimous view that strong and real democracy was a must to combat terrorism.
- Jaswant Hints, Drops No Name (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
Former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh has kept the suspense alive for another day.
- Rushing To Raisina (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 26, 2006)
The Opposition's move to rush to Rashtrapati Bhavan on the opening day of the monsoon session of Parliament is ill-advised.
- Mother-In-Law Told To Pay Damages (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jul 26, 2006)
Incomprehensible personal attack: court
Campaign of abuse began soon after marriage: Gina
Forced to clean toilets with bare hands
No problem with husband .
- Talking Aimlessly (Frontline, A.G. NOORANI, Jul 26, 2006)
Stephen Miller's book is a lament on and an elegy for the declining art of conversation.
- Jaswant Singh Refuses To Name Mole (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
Former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh belied all hope of getting to the bottom of the "mole" in the PMO as he today stuck to his guns refusing to disclose the identity of the alleged US spy or to seek time from Prime Minister Manmohan . . .
- Proxy War Shows No Signs Of Abatement (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jul 26, 2006)
On July 26, the nation will pay its homage to martyrs of the Indian Armed Forces who made the supreme sacrifice during the Kargil operations seven years ago. Will the nation observe it as the final Vijay Diwas ? Unlikely.
- Punjab Gets Notice On Graft Charges Against Two Ministers (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
The Supreme Court today issued notices to the Punjab Government and Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on a petition seeking registration of FIRs against two of his Cabinet colleagues, state Congress unit president Shamsher . . .
- Entering Into A Treaty (Tribune, Rajindar Sachar , Jul 25, 2006)
Recently the question has been raised whether the Constitution should not be amended to provide that Parliament should have a role in pre-ratification in the treaty-making power of the Central government.
- Upa Politicising War On Terrorism, Says Bjp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
BJP leads delegation to submit memorandum to President
Leaders beat `thalis' with spoons to focus on rising prices, farmers' suicides
"Burden on common man had become unbearable"
Office-of-Profit: "use Article 143 to seek apex court opinion"
- Terror Therapy (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 25, 2006)
Strange are the ways of the UPA Government. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tells the nation that he "will do whatever is required" to "win this war against terror" and admits that the Congress-led regime's response to terrorism has been "inadequate".
- Boring And Predictable (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Jul 25, 2006)
Is there an approach paper to the 11th five year plan (2007-12)? I am not very sure. I have a document titled “Towards Faster and More Inclusive Growth”, dated 14th June, 2006.
- Dangers Of A Time Lag (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jul 25, 2006)
The recent poll conducted across the country has given the benefit of doubt to the prime minister, Manmohan Singh.
- Act Of Promise In Kerala (Frontline, R Krishnakumar, Jul 25, 2006)
A Kerala Act on self-financing professional educational institutions raises the hackles of many who run such institutions.
- Sensexocrats: The New Ruling Caste (Dawn, M.J. Akbar, Jul 25, 2006)
The anguish of terrorism breeds a thousand questions, each troubling, one more difficult than the other.
- A Reminder To The President (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 25, 2006)
The letter to President Pervez Musharraf by some intellectuals, retired generals and serving and former parliamentarians breaks no new ground and states the obvious.
- The Invisible Prime Minister (Pioneer, Gautam Sen, Jul 25, 2006)
UPA chairperson and her anonymous advisers are making decisions without the very grave personal and political obligations that should constrain them ------ The Prime Minister's authority in India has become invisible.
- Fallacies, Silences In 11th Plan Approach (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jul 25, 2006)
In the previous edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh considered the macroeconomic implications of the Planning Commission's Approach to the Eleventh Plan and concluded that it was bereft of planning.
- Total Lesson From Crisis (Indian Express, Pawan Agarwal, Jul 25, 2006)
Most major changes have roots in some crisis. It required a huge financial crisis in mid-1991 to deregulate imports and exports and dismantle the licence raj, thereby ushering in an era of economic reforms.
- Thai Pm Files Defamation Suit Against Critics (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Monday sued an anti-government protest leader and 11 others for defamation and demanded $26 million in damages, his lawyer said.
- For An Office With Profit (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Jul 25, 2006)
It is a well-known maxim that the questions one asks determine the nature of the responses elicited.
- Claptrap Of The Politician (Statesman, Jagmohan , Jul 25, 2006)
Few of us realise that the issue of illegal constructions and conversion of properties in Delhi is not merely one of civic governance; it extends to a much larger realm of constitutional morality and the way our democracy is functioning in practice.
- Dual Fuel And Tax-Led Gains (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 25, 2006)
Rising prices of petrol and diesel are drawing the predicted response from automobile manufacturers: vehicles that run on cheaper, alternative fuels. Maruti's Wagon R can now run on either liquefied petroleum gas or petrol, and Tata Motors' Indica . . .
- The Reforms Experience (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
This volume, a befitting honour to C.H.Hanumantha Rao, contains 19 papers of high quality by eminent economists on the broad theme of economic reforms.
- Ec Stinker To Bengal: Give Us Facts On Office Of Profit, Not Whitewash (Indian Express, Santwana Bhattacharya, Jul 24, 2006)
Two days before the monsoon session in which Parliament is set to re-legislate on the controversial office-of-profit bill returned by the President, the Election Commission has hauled up the West Bengal government for refusing to provide information . . .
- Indian Maoists Criticise Prachanda (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jul 24, 2006)
Multiparty democracy, U.N. supervision a "dangerous" mistake.
- Indian Resilience (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Jul 24, 2006)
The biggest challenge before the Maharashtra and central government in the aftermath of the Mumbai blasts was to prevent a communal backlash at any cost. Riots, instigated by hatred, were exactly what the terrorists had hoped for.
- India Arrests More Suspects In Mumbai Blast Investigation (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 24, 2006)
Indian police have detained a Mumbai-based doctor and a software engineer for questioning in connection with the Mumbai train blasts, reports said on Sunday, adding that there was no sign of a major breakthrough in the investigations.
- Fishtailing Gm Seeks A Driver (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Jul 24, 2006)
Having been at the head of the world auto industry, GM finds it difficult to accept that others may have better ideas about how to compete to win. Instead of a small team to make quick operational decisions, it is gunning for a mammoth alliance.
- ‘Statute Is Important’ (Deccan Herald, Ambrose Pinto S J, Jul 24, 2006)
‘The State cannot abdicate its responsibility by permitting elite institutions to go their own way after establishing and funding them. These institutions are expected to fall in line.’
- Justice Demolished (Tribune, Jagmohan , Jul 24, 2006)
Few of us realise that the issue of illegal constructions and conversions of properties in Delhi is not merely one of civic governance; it extends to a much larger realm of constitutional morality and the way our democracy is functioning in practice.
- The Butcher Dies (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 24, 2006)
Ta Mok, one of the main leaders of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime, never showed any mercy to his opponents
- Harassment Of Journalists (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 23, 2006)
On the face of it, Pakistan has what President Bush described in the days preceding his March visit to the country a “lively and generally free press”.
- Polythenes: The Case For Immediate Rescue Operation (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jul 23, 2006)
Environmental problems of today are not simply domestic matters of one country but cross the borders extending to the entire earth.
- The Two Presidents In Adversity (Dawn, Anwar Kemal, Jul 23, 2006)
Poles apart in many ways, George W. Bush and Pervez Musharraf have at least one thing in common: they are presidents in adversity. Both are under attack at home and abroad and their policies are being denounced by their opponents.
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