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Articles 3121 through 3220 of 11444:
- Nepal On Knife's Edge (Deccan Herald, Ashok Kumar Mehta, Apr 18, 2006)
It seems certain that the King will be unable to implement his plan for the restoration of absolute monarchy. True, Kathmandu may not have collected 500,000 pro-democracy activists as predicted by UML leader Madhav Nepal.
- Watch, The Endgame Is Nigh (Indian Express, Mahendra P. Lama, Apr 18, 2006)
When King Mahendra dissolved the 19-month-old first democratically elected government (of B.P. Koirala) in December 1960, no one could have thought the monarchy would survive for the next 30 years.
- The Height Of Confusion (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Apr 18, 2006)
As expected, the Supreme Court has given the various state governments time to file reports on the status of rehabilitation of those displaced by the construction of the Sardar Sarovar dam.
- The Beleaguered Big Cat (Hindu, G. ANANTHAKRISHNAN, Apr 18, 2006)
An authoritative book about a powerful predator that is today threatened by plain human greed
- Museum On Caste (Times of India, RAMA LAKSHMI, Apr 18, 2006)
After 16 years of debate and delay in the US Congress and Senate, the Smithsonian Institution finally announced this January the plan to open a National Museum of African American History and Culture.
- Saddam Challenges Handwriting Experts (Jordan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 18, 2006)
Saddam Hussein's defence lawyer Monday challenged findings of handwriting experts verifying the former president's signature on documents linked to a crackdown on Shiites and demanded a review by international specialists — except from Iran or Israel.
- Rehab That Builds Lives (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Apr 18, 2006)
In Pipri village, Madhya Pradesh, there may not be celebrations immediately following the Supreme Court judgment.
- People's Needs Over Party Politics (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 17, 2006)
Once again, the politics of expediency has taken precedence over the needs of people.
- Cases Against Mlas: Naidu To Take Issue To Delhi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Vows to mobilise support from national parties on the issue
Filing of cases an affront to legislators: Naidu
TDP MLAs, MPs, asked to reach Hyderabad by Tuesday
TDP president for nationwide debate on issue
- From The Underbelly Of The Beast (Hindu, Kanak Mani Dixit, Apr 17, 2006)
All over the subcontinent, every day, the most disadvantaged fall through the cracks.
- Peaceful Solution To Iran’S N-Crisis (Dawn, Anwar Kemal, Apr 17, 2006)
The UN Security Council’s presidential statement of March 29, 2006, is the latest and most serious in the series of steps being taken at the behest of the United States and the EU countries to circumscribe Iran’s nuclear programme within parameters . . .
- Foreign Investment (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 17, 2006)
The prime minister’s statement that a strong macro-economic performance and an improved debt profile have made Pakistan attractive to foreign investors must be accepted with a pinch of salt.
- Gom's Confidential Report (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 17, 2006)
This is the text, obtained exclusively by The Hindu, of "A Brief Note on the Assessment of Resettlement and Rehabilitation (R & R) Sites and Submergence of Villages of the Sardar Sarovar Project." The note marked confidential and dated April 9, 2006,
- Apartheid In Reverse (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 17, 2006)
Statistics often pitilessly expose the truth that politicians craftily seek to hide behind rhetoric.
- Advani Swipe At Pm Over Dam (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Senior BJP leader Mr LK Advani today accused the Prime Minister of abdicating his responsibility when he was supposed to provide leadership and blasted the Centre for creating an “unprecedented and messy Centre-state stalemate” on the Narmada dam issue.
- Where Is The Justice After Never-Ending Trials? (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Apr 17, 2006)
A fast-track court at Jaipur hands out a guilty verdict in the rape of a German girl in exactly 26 days.
- Time To Restore (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 17, 2006)
Autocratic rulers make two mistakes — they overestimate their own powers and they underestimate the people’s power to change things.
- ‘Vulgarity Is What You Can’T See With Your Family’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 17, 2006)
The Bombay High Court order striking down the ban on dance bars has been seen as a slap in the face for Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil, who has been waging a war against what he perceives to be immoral. Mahesh Mhatre spoke to Patil soon . . .
- Probe Finds Telgi’S Wasn’T The ‘Mother Of All Scams’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Investigations carried out by a team of the CBI, Income Tax, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Enforcement Directorate and the Reserve Bank of India have revealed that the financial magnitude of the entire scam was only Rs 172 crore.
- No Decision To Stop Work On Dam: Pmo (Tribune, Prashant Sood, Apr 17, 2006)
Coming together against any move by the Centre to suspend the Narmada Control Authority decision to raise the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam, BJP and Congress MPs from Gujarat today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying the project was . . .
- Jaya Hasn’T Changed: Mk (Deccan Herald, S Murari, Apr 16, 2006)
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) President M Karunanidhi asserted on Saturday that Chief Minister J Jayalalitha has not changed, contrary to popular perception.
- Violence In New India (Deccan Herald, Avijit Pathak, Apr 15, 2006)
The corporate economy is transforming the thinking of the middle class
- Media Crisis In Nepal (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Apr 15, 2006)
I find it very disturbing that the Indian media, print and electronic, should show little interest in the ongoing political crisis in Nepal, a crisis that has been preceded by years of upheaval.
- France: Fear And Fury (Frontline, VAIJU NARAVANE, Apr 15, 2006)
The streets of France are reverberating with protests against a new law that, it is feared, will heighten job insecurity.
- Some Lives Count More Than Others In China (International Herald Tribune, JIM YARDLEY, Apr 15, 2006)
He Qingzhi's teenage daughter, Yuan, and her two friends lived on the same street near the Yangtze River, attended the same middle school and were crushed to death in the same traffic accident late last year.
- Those Who Attacked Supreme Court (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 15, 2006)
The Lahore High Court has issued notices to 19 advisors to the Punjab Chief Minister and Provincial Government asking them to explain under what authority they held the offices.
- These ‘Sick Men’ Of Europe (Dawn, Shadaba Islam, Apr 15, 2006)
European policymakers went on Easter vacation this week hoping for a respite from the spate of bad news which has engulfed several of the continent’s leading nations in recent days.
- The Next Steps To Peace (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Apr 15, 2006)
The dialogue process is reaching an impasse. Should India now resort to a grand gesture, or take gradated steps to sustain it?
- Karunanidhi's Poser To Jayalalithaa (Hindu, A.V. Ragunathan, Apr 15, 2006)
How can you make Tamil Nadu number one State in the country, he asks
Says Jayalalithaa violated rule by buying TANSI land
Farmers subjected to hardships under AIADMK regime, he alleges
Says Jayalalithaa violated rule by buying TANSI land
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- Private Water, Public Misery (Frontline, AMAN SETHI, Apr 15, 2006)
Privatisation of water is taking root in India, often aided by political and bureaucratic corruption. Alongside, resistance to this is also building up.
- Cbi Lays Hands On Crucial Documents (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
The Central Bureau of Investigation has reportedly taken into custody crucial documents from the Forest Hill Golf Resort that were so far not available to the CBI while it had carried out its investigations in the case in the past year and a half.
- 1990 Revisited (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Apr 15, 2006)
Mr Vishwanath Pratap Singh, then Prime Minister of India, announced in Parliament the Union Government's decision to reserve 27 per cent of all jobs in Central Government offices and establishments and central public sector undertakings for . . .
- Yes To Dancing (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 15, 2006)
Dancers have always been around, as Puranic myths and courtly epics testify, and they have always occupied an ambiguous place in the collective psyche of society.
- Karunanidhi Promises To Fulfil All Demands Of Farmers (Hindu, A.V. Ragunathan, Apr 15, 2006)
He says Jayalalithaa violated rule by buying TANSI land
Says Jayalalithaa violated rule by buying TANSI land
Farmers subjected to hardships under AIADMK regime, he alleges
- Third Grunt (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Apr 15, 2006)
Any debate on the third front is not only ridiculous but also totally irrelevant in the current political scenario.
- The Uncertain Knowledge Edge (Deccan Herald, Amulya Ganguli, Apr 15, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is following V P Singh's ‘disas- trous’ line on reservation
- R.K. Raghavan: An American Model (Frontline, R.K. Raghavan, Apr 15, 2006)
The John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, which serves the law enforcement community effectively, has a lot to offer to the Indian Police.
- Jayati Ghosh: Guarding The Guardians (Frontline, Jayati Ghosh, Apr 15, 2006)
The State's response to the Narmada Bachao Andolan's agitation betrays its obsession with market-obsessed economic priorities.
- Praful Bidwai: Only The First Step To Change (Frontline, Praful Bidwai, Apr 15, 2006)
Sonia Gandhi's resignation affirms democratic virtue and should trigger reform of the "office-for-profit" law and a radical rethink in the Congress.
- The British Sleepwalk Into A Police State (Hindu, Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Apr 15, 2006)
What is being implemented is a calculated, meticulous, and ruthless project to criminalise legitimate political dissent.
- Deceit And Policy (Frontline, A.G. NOORANI, Apr 15, 2006)
These volumes shed light on the way governments deceive not only adversaries but their own people.
- Will Pascal's Law Work In Lamy's Case? (Business Line, D. Murali , Apr 15, 2006)
World trade is in fluid state, and so one wonders if the hydraulic law of Blaise Pascal will come to the WTO chief, Mr Pascal Lamy's rescue even as he applies persuasive pressure on the member-countries, expecting the same to get transmitted . . .
- Gyanendra’S Time Is Up (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Apr 14, 2006)
That he has managed to get Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury, former National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra and US President George W. Bush on the same side of the debate on Nepal reveals all you need to know about King Gyanendra’s ham-handed power . . .
- Thirst For Profit (Frontline, P. SAINATH, Apr 14, 2006)
The corporate hijack of water is on and if the current trend continues, India's water sources will be in private hands before long.
- Dance And Dignity (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 14, 2006)
In declaring as "unconstitutional" the Maharashtra Government law banning dance bars, the Bombay High Court has taken a libertarian position and stood up for the individual's right to choose his or her own profession.
- Destroying India's Excellence (Pioneer, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Apr 14, 2006)
Arjun Singh tried to pull a fast one on the country. No, I don't mean his spat with the Election Commission.
- Quota Of Diminishing Returns (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Apr 14, 2006)
Reservation ruse is unlikely to help the Congress win more seats in the Assembly elections, says Kalyani Shankar
- At Whose Cost? (Statesman, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Apr 14, 2006)
Doubts Over Effect Of Uranium Mining On Locals
- Not Barred (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 14, 2006)
Dancing is not a fundamental right, but the women in Mumbai’s dance bars are not the only ones who dance.
- The Right Step (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 14, 2006)
The Bombay High Court order setting aside the ordinance banning dance bars in Maharashtra will now hopefully close a chapter in a somewhat sorry story of moral posturing by politicians that led to the loss of livelihood for some 75,000 women in the state.
- Missing The Pawn For The Smut (Indian Express, FARAH BARIA, Apr 14, 2006)
So a person’s right to life is far more important than the dubious duty of saving our society from a Fate Worse Than Death.
- A Champion Of Equality Movement (Daily Excelsior, Dr K C Bhagat, Apr 14, 2006)
India's highest civilian award ''Bharat Ratna'' was very appropriately conferred posthumously on Baba Sahib Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar on 6th December 1989 in recognition to his outstanding and distinguished service which he had rendered to his . . .
- Courting Economic Disaster (Tribune, Rajinder Sachar, Apr 14, 2006)
In seriously considering full convertibility for the rupee on the capital account, the Government seems to have forgotten the terrible economic crisis which engulfed East Asia a few years ago, when the countries went into an economic tailspin . . .
- Italy’S Other India Connection (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 14, 2006)
Criminalisation of politics in India is rampant, but P V Narasimha Rao remains the only PM or ex-PM ever convicted (in 2000 in the JMM case). Italy has Silvio Berlusconi, who this week lost the polls by a narrow margin to Romano Prodi; he’s . . .
- Jayalalithaa Vows To Strive For Raising Dam Height (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 14, 2006)
My Government always works in interest of ryots: Chief Minister
Winds up three-day campaign for Democratic People's Alliance in Madurai district
- Cbi Raids On Punjab Bureaucrats (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 14, 2006)
Amarinder resents action, says they are "among the finest officers''
- Big India’S Special Link With Small Cyprus (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Apr 14, 2006)
The President of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, is on a five-day visit to India. Cyprus has historic links with India, and can gain from greater co-operation with it
- Heard The One About The President? (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 14, 2006)
The misdirected email or text message is a hazard of our age. It can sour relationships and upset the closest of our friends.
- Bare Breasts And Bare-Faced Politics (Asia Times, Sudha Ramachandran, Apr 13, 2006)
India's morality stormtroopers were steamed up last week in response to two incidents of "wardrobe malfunction" at the Lakme India Fashion Week in Mumbai.
- The Way To Salvage Nepal (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 13, 2006)
Given political will, it's still possible to redeem the Himalayan nation from the mess it is in, says NN Jha
- Election Sans Commotion (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Apr 13, 2006)
Having witnessed most elections in West Bengal since the first one under the present Constitution in 1952, this writer finds the forthcoming Assembly poll a rather strange phenomenon.
- More Power To Bank Chiefs (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 13, 2006)
Competition demands that lending decisions are made at the operational level, rather than by the bank board.
- Narmada Project: The Points At Issue (Hindu, Ramaswamy R. Iyer, Apr 13, 2006)
What the NBA is asking for is a suspension of work on the project until the prescribed conditions on resettlement and rehabilitation have been fully met in all respects.
- Bjp, Janata Party Leaders Pay Homage At Gandhi Statue (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 13, 2006)
They want to provide a `nationalistic' platform
- Us Jails Man For Five Years Over Al Qaeda Missiles Plot (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 13, 2006)
An Indian-born man who helped hatch a drugs-for-weapons scheme aimed at supplying Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to Al Qaeda was jailed for nearly five years on Monday by a US court.
- Mumbai Hc Raises Bar, Orders Reopening Of Dance Bars (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 13, 2006)
In a major embarrassment to the Maharashtra government and its deputy chief minister R R Patil, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday struck down the state government’s law banning dance bars
- Attack On Activists (Indian Express, MANINI CHATTERJEE & J P YADAV, Apr 13, 2006)
The editorial in the latest issue of the Organiser not only offers unqualified support to the decision to raise the height of the Narmada Dam, but also launches a no-holds-barred attack on Medha Patkar, Arundhati Roy, the CPI(M) and other . . .
- Acc: Cementing Gains (Business Standard, Niraj Bhatt, Apr 13, 2006)
ACC has been able to get better realisations owing to strong demand
- Hc Lifts Ban On M'rashtra Dance Bars (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 13, 2006)
Terming it as unconstitutional, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday struck down a Maharashtra government ordinance that bans dance bars in the state.
- Lessons From The New Intolerance (Hindu, Harish Khare , Apr 12, 2006)
Whether or not the IIMs and IITs are forced to open their doors a little wider, the new fashionable intolerance exhibited in these last few days should be a sobering experience for all of us.
- A Long-Haul Solution (Business Line, R. Krishnan , Apr 12, 2006)
More than an immediate merger of the state-owned carriers, needed are route rationalisation and synergy between them in the short-to-medium term. Air India and Indian Airlines should not be competing with each other and eating into each other's . . .
- Arjun Is Barking Up The Wrong Tree (Pioneer, BULBUL ROY MISHRA, Apr 12, 2006)
More than quota, the need is to create more technical and business schools for poor students of all castes, says Bulbul Roy Mishra
- Art And The Controversy (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Apr 12, 2006)
Sunil Gangopadhyay and MF Husain must know that right to freedom of speech and expression is not unconditional, says Anuradha Dutt
- Clean Is Healthy (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Apr 12, 2006)
One should feel satisfied that one has not yet developed cynicism about the need for keeping environment clean and healthy.
- While Facilitating Access To High-Quality Institutions, Quality Itself Must Not Suffer’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 12, 2006)
Ten days before Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh revealed a plan for 27 per cent reservation in higher education, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had spoken in detail about the need to balance social equity with a commitment to excellence
- 5 Years For Indian Arms Peddler (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 12, 2006)
A man of Indian origin has been sentenced to five years in prison for involvement in a plot to sell Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to the Al-Qaeda terror network.
- Nepal Conflict Casts A Shadow On India (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 12, 2006)
It is India’s responsibility to safeguard its own interests by studying the implications of the situation in Nepal
- Interplay Between Politics And Economics (Dawn, Shahid Javed Burki, Apr 12, 2006)
Pakistan has had many moments in its history when economics influenced politics in unexpected and negative ways.
- Beginning Of The End? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 12, 2006)
The tsunami of protest in Nepal against the brutally unconstitutional rule of King Gyanendra is virtually a rerun of the People's Movement of 1990 — with an important difference.
- Aiadmk-Mdmk Alliance Not Based On Principles, Says Chidambaram (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 12, 2006)
"DPA will highlight the achievements of the Central Government"
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