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Articles 4221 through 4320 of 11444:
- Cbms Are Going Nowhere (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Jan 12, 2006)
The two governments have not actually come to grips on the real issues between the two countries
- Russia Uses Gas For Rollback In Ukraine (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Jan 12, 2006)
The handling of Kiev is a clear signal that Moscow will play by its own rules in today's energy-hungry world.
- View From The Right (Indian Express, Ramdev versus Reds, Jan 12, 2006)
The front-page article in the issue dates January 15 is devoted to the controversy raised by CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat over the Ayurvedic medicines produced by Swami Ramdev’s Divya Yoga pharmacy.
- Hurdles In The Way (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 12, 2006)
SEVERAL developments in recent weeks seem not to help in the process of normalization now underway in Indo-Pakistan relations.
- Sting Operations: Correcting The Polity? (Daily Excelsior, Arun Deep Singh, Jan 12, 2006)
What a turbulent winter session of Parliament that we witnessed! Series of events like the drama over the Volcker Committee Report and the exit of Natwar Singh, the daily walkouts over the NDA's ridiculous demand for the resignation of Sonia Gandhi, . . .
- Vivekananda's Message And Governance (Daily Excelsior, Jagmohan , Jan 12, 2006)
"You may make thousands of societies, twenty thousand political assemblages, fifty thousand institutions. There will be no use unless there is that sympathy, that love, that heart that thinks for all. But where is the heart to build upon ? . . .
- Choose And Chop (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 12, 2006)
Mrs G backtracks on inner-party democracy
It is an index of the bankruptcy and cringing cronyism that now plagues the party that brought the country freedom that a non-entity’s exclusion from the highest policy-making body should become a matter . . .
- Uncertainty In Israel (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 12, 2006)
Over the last few months, Ariel Sharon, known as the "butcher of Shatilla" for his role in the attack on Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, was trying to create an altogether new legacy so that history could judge him differently.
- The Balochistan Situation Has Some Similarity To 1971 (Daily Times, Sardar Sherbaz Khan Mazari, Jan 12, 2006)
The situation in Balochistan has been further aggravated by the government
- Building Resistance (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 11, 2006)
Maharashtra’s MLAs have a governor to contend with; Delhi’s must have the PM
- No Religious Bias (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jan 11, 2006)
Allahabad HC: reservation will not be on religious basis.
- The Point Of Power (Hindustan Times, Abhishek Singhvi, Jan 11, 2006)
The invitation was unique and so was the topic. ‘Katha’, a ‘profit for all’ NGO, “working in the areas of language,
- Politics With Drama And Ironies (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 11, 2006)
Sometimes certain developments take place or utterances are made in politics which leave one wonder whether these are deliberate or spontaneous.
- Growers Of Gold (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 11, 2006)
AFTER allowing the Kashipur demolitions to turn into a live political issue, the Uttaranchal government has finally beaten a hasty retreat in the face of widespread protests,
- Hurdles In The Way (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 11, 2006)
SEVERAL developments in recent weeks seem not to help in the process of normalization now underway in Indo-Pakistan relations.
- The Balochistan Situation Has Some Similarity To 1971 (Daily Times, Sardar Sherbaz Khan Mazari, Jan 11, 2006)
* The situation in Balochistan has been further aggravated by the government..
- On Muslims, Upa Has Bad Answers (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jan 10, 2006)
The UPA government’s approach to the well-being of Muslims is threatening to inject an insidious poison into Indian politics, whose ramifications for all Indian citizens are too dreadful to contemplate.
- Forest Minister Launches Crackdown On Timber Mafia (Daily Excelsior, Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, Jan 10, 2006)
In a high drama operation of post-midnight raids, Forest Minister Tariq Hameed Qarra has seized over 1,000 cft of illegally felled timber, alongwith seven wood poachers, in Kangan area of Srinagar district even as some Government officials involved . . .
- Hc Notices On Cash-For-Query (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
Delhi High Court asks Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, EC and Centre to reply
In a move which could trigger a stand-off between Parliament and the judiciary, the Delhi High Court today issued notices to the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Secretariats, . . .
- Serious Threat-Ii (Statesman, PR DUBHASHI, Jan 10, 2006)
It has been stated on behalf of the BJP that they had no alternative but to boycott Parliament because all along they had been treated by the UPA government as an enemy rather than an adversary and were not even allowed to speak on the floor . . .
- Advani's Phones Were Tapped During Volcker Controversy: Bjp (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
Jumping into the bandwagon, BJP today joined Samajwadi Party and other parties to claim it was also a victim of phone tapping alleging the landlines of Leader of Opposition L K Advani were under surveillance and demanded a probe into it.
- Flip-Flop Serves No Purpose (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jan 10, 2006)
After a long hiatus, the merger of public sector oil companies is once again on the front-burner, according to the petroleum minister.
- Bjp Demands Inquiry In Phone Tapping (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
Controversy over the issue of phone-tapping of senior Opposition leaders gathered momentum today with the BJP alleging that the telephone of Leader of the Opposition L K Advani was being bugged
- The $4 Bn Industry That Is America’S Guilty Secret (Tribune, Rupert Cornwell, Jan 10, 2006)
Lobbying is Washington’s grubby secret. Some say it is part of the democratic process. Others claim it is legalised bribery, even corruption. But love it or loathe it, it is the way Washington works.
- Court Takes Moolah-Am Count (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
The Supreme Court today asked Uttar Pardesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav to respond to charges that he and his family owned unaccounted assets worth crores.
- India’S Political Freedom In Question – Bjp Finds Foul In Phone Tapping Of Leaders –politicians Look For Supreme Court’S Help (India Daily, Sudhir Chadda, Jan 10, 2006)
India may be silently experienced loss of political freedom while preaching the same to Nepal and other countries.
- Junk The Hazards (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 10, 2006)
The question of whether to allow decommissioned French aircraft carrier Clemenceau to dock in Alang, Gujarat, or not, will be seen as a test of India’s commitment to following environmental safety standards.
- France: Asbestos On Ship Negligible (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Jan 10, 2006)
Technopure alleges 500 tonnes of material on board
This new method of calculation appears to be aimed at getting around the question of the real quantities of asbestos involved.
- Two Years After The Saarc Declaration (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, Jan 10, 2006)
Two years have passed since President Musharraf and Prime Minister Vajpayee, taking advantage of their participation in the Saarc summit, held official talks that led to the Islamabad Declaration of January 6, 2004. Since then, the two sides have met . .
- Spectre Of Exclusion (Hindu, SRIDHAR SEETHARAMAN , Jan 10, 2006)
Analyses the dimensions of deprivation in Uttar Pradesh amidst no sign of a let-up
- When Power Subverts The Law (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jan 10, 2006)
Two seminal books question the possibility of international criminal justice in a unipolar world
- Revisiting J&k’S Autonomy (Dawn, Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Jan 09, 2006)
NO less momentous than the dramatic change in Pakistan’s policy on Afghanistan is the progressive scaling down of the commitment to the Kashmiri right of self-determination to whatever is embodied in the code-phrase ‘demilitarization and self-government’
- Serious Threat-I -By Pr Dubhashi (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 09, 2006)
Indian democracy seems once again to be undergoing a major transformation.
- India Backs Nepal King As Symbol Of Unity, Not Political Player (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
The Indian ambassador to Nepal, Shiva Shanker Mukherjee, has expressed the view that the king should not compete for political power with the political parties.
- Parliament Shows The Way Forward (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Jan 09, 2006)
The determined way both Houses acted against the MPs involved in the cash-for-questions case has given rise to hope that something can be done to curb corruption in the country.
- Party Hangover (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 09, 2006)
The real test for Sonia and the PM will be cabinet changes, not CWC musical chairs
- Bhasha Dam, The Northern Areas And Pakistan (News International, A N Sudarsan Rao , Jan 09, 2006)
Storage of river water in a large reservoir is vital for the survival of Pakistan.
- Lives Of The Powerful (Greater Kashmir, Dr Syed Amir, Jan 08, 2006)
They record their events for us to read them, writes Dr Syed Amir
More than 150 years ago, the Scottish historian and essayist, Thomas Carlyle, in his book On Heroes and Hero Worship noted that “the history of the world is but the biography . . .
- ‘I’Ve No Ego In Meeting People. If I Can Meet Leaders Of Other Parties, Why Not My Own?’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
I’ve no ego in meeting people. If I can meet leaders of other parties, why not my own?’
- Need For Sound Fiscal Management: Manmohan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
To increase interaction with Chief Ministers on sound economic policies
We cannot spend our way to prosperity
Development is not a dinner party
India on the verge of unprecedented opportunities
- Hiding Ordinary Horrors (Telegraph, Salman Rushdie, Jan 08, 2006)
Beyond any shadow of a doubt, the ugliest phrase to enter the English language in 2005 was ‘extraordinary rendition’.
- Taking Too Many Medicines Is Risky (Tribune, Dr N.N. Wig, Jan 08, 2006)
Paradoxically, people’s health has never been so good as it is today. The scourge of small pox has been eradicated. Polio is on its way out. Most common communicable diseases are far better controlled than before. People are living much longer.
- Pm Says Expats In Gulf Will Vote (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
India plans to allow millions of its nationals working in West Asia to vote for elections back home as they have a vital stake in the governance of the country, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday.
- Grab The Judge (The Week, Tapash Ganguly, Jan 08, 2006)
Fundamentalists in Bangladesh are trying to take over the judicial system
- This Rumpus Over The Dam (Dawn, M.P. Bhandara, Jan 08, 2006)
I happen to be in the ranks of the ordinary citizenry that is baffled by the passionate rhetoric on the passions aroused by the current debate on new large water reservoirs. Needless to say, when tongues lash one another, the flickering candle of . . .
- Democracy On A Sticky Wicket? (Deccan Herald, P V Subraya, Jan 08, 2006)
The views aired in the book by persons connected with the judiciary have been debated many times before
- Upa’S Plan For Minorities: We Will Fix Govt Spending As Per Their Population Share (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Jan 08, 2006)
In what could open the floodgates to political and legal controversy, the UPA Government is ready to announce a “15-point programme” for what it calls the “welfare” of minorities despite a categorical opinion from the Union Law Ministry that the . . .
- Priority Action For 2006 (Indian Express, N K Singh, Jan 08, 2006)
With the New Year festivities behind us there is need for real action. The Prime Minister has over the last few weeks articulated some priorities of the Government. Some of these must include the following:
- Express Your Voice (Indian Express, Madhu Agrawal, Jan 08, 2006)
There have always been two approaches—positive and negative—of looking at things (‘Hoping the new year will usher change—for the better’, January 1), and the year 2005 is no exception. No doubt the year gone by saw tsunami, earthquakes and bomb blasts;
- Daniel Pearl And The Body Of Evidence (Hindustan Times, B Raman, Jan 08, 2006)
Every year, as we enter a New Year, my mind goes back to Daniel Pearl, the Mumbai-based American correspondent of Wall Street Journal, who met with a brutal end to his young life during a visit to Karachi in January 2002 to enquire, inter alia, . . .
- Proposal To Monitor Ias Officers (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Jan 08, 2006)
It is interesting. The suggestion has come from no less a person than the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who is himself a former bureaucrat. Mr Singh is strongly in favour of introducing a monitoring system to assess the performance . . .
- Aphc Rejects The Indian Constitution (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jan 08, 2006)
APHC chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that no solution to Kashmir issue on the basis of the Indian Constitution is unacceptable. At a Press conference in Islamabad on Friday, he said that the UN resolutions provided the legal basis to resolve . . .
- And Quiet Flows The Narmada (Hindu, Meena Menon, Jan 08, 2006)
What does the future hold for the Narmada Bachao Andolan?
- End-Game In Kashmir Uncertain (Tribune, Sushant Sareen, Jan 07, 2006)
WITH Pakistan coming up with “bold” and provocative proposals like “self-governance” and “demilitarisation” in the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir, the main focus of negotiations during the third round of the composite dialogue between India and . . .
- No Solution Under Indian Constitution, Says Aphc (News International, Asim Yasin, Jan 07, 2006)
Describing Pakistan’s proposal of self-governance and demilitarisation in Kashmir as a first step towards resolution of this issue, visiting leaders of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference announced that the Kashmiris would not accept any option . . .
- Women Lead Fight Against ‘Honour Killings’ (Tribune, Paul Valley, Jan 07, 2006)
These are some of the things that can get a woman killed: wearing make-up; going to the cinema; chewing gum; drinking water in the street; chatting to a male neighbour; talking on the phone;
- Check List: Things To Do During The Year (The Financial Express, NK SINGH, Jan 07, 2006)
With the New Year festivities happily behind us, there is need for real action. The Prime Minister has over the last few weeks articulated some priorities of the government. Some of these must include the following:
- French Ship Must Not Enter India (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jan 07, 2006)
Officials of French firm depose before committee
The Supreme Court Monitoring Committee on Hazardous Wastes Management on Friday decided that the French warship, Clemenceau, should not enter India. This recommendation would be sent to the court . . .
- Inklings For India Inc (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Jan 07, 2006)
T. C. A. Ramanujam on reforms required on the corporate tax front
- Afghan Talent Show A Hit Four Years After The Taliban (Daily Times, Emmanuel Duparcq, Jan 07, 2006)
The scene, unthinkable only four years ago under the ousted Taliban regime who banned music and television, plays out in Kabul’s Ariana cinema
- Elitist Orientation Of The Economy (Dawn, Ishrat Husain, Jan 07, 2006)
Several observers have asked me to update the latest assessment of my thesis propounded in the book Pakistan: the economy of an elitist state. They are interested in exploring the question whether or not the policies and programmes pursued during . . .
- Quest For A Solution (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 07, 2006)
IT BODES well for peace in South Asia that there has been some agreement between two sides on the triangular dialogue on Kashmir.
- Tax On Parallel Education That Failed The Test Of Article 14 (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 07, 2006)
The decision of the Kerala High Court in the Malappuram District Parallel College Association case may not have many parallels. Because the verdict, delivered on August 31, 2005, by Justice C. N. Ramachandran Nair, quashed service tax levy . . .
- Indian Supreme Court Panel Says Decommissioned French Warship Not Welcome (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
A decommissioned French warship heading to a shipbreaking yard in India is not welcome in the country's waters and France has violated international agreements in sending it to India, a monitoring panel of India's Supreme Court said Friday.
- Row Over Ship (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 07, 2006)
Should the government permit hazardous ship-breaking?
There has been much discussion over the health hazards posed by the decommissioned French aircraft carrier Clemenceau.
- Reserved For Merit (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jan 07, 2006)
It is exactly a year since the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) council has been caught up in the wrangle over its status — minority or not. In striking down the AMU Amendment Act of 1981, that granted the university minority status, . . .
- French Ship Not Welcome Here: Sc (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
Decommissioned French aircraft-carrier ‘Clemenceau’, on its way to Gujarat carrying hazardous wastes, is not welcome to enter Indian waters, the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee (SCMC) on hazardous waste management said here on Friday.
- French Ship: Sc Panel Says You Can’T Dock Until You Come Clean (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
Taking a tough stand on the decommissioned French aircraft carrier Clemenceau, the Supreme Court monitoring committee on hazardous waste management today said that the ship should not be allowed within 200 km of India’s exclusive economic zone . . .
- In Nepal It Is A Three-Horse Race Once Again (Indian Express, YUBARAJ GHIMIRE, Jan 07, 2006)
As the Maoist ceasefire ends, Yubaraj Ghimire argues that the king cannot delay reaching out to pro-democracy forces much longer
- A Ship We Can Refuse (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 07, 2006)
It is heartening that the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee has responded firmly and with sensitivity to the despatch of the French Navy's decommissioned aircraft carrier, Georges Clemenceau, to India for dismantling.
- Decision On French Ship’S Entry After January 20 (Tribune, Vibha Sharma, Jan 07, 2006)
The Supreme Court Monitoring Committee (SCMC) on Hazardous Waste, which met in Mumbai today, restrained the French warship Clemenceau from entering within the 200-km exclusive economic zone of India till January 20 after the company assigned . . .
- The Dream Team: A Critique-I (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 06, 2006)
Dr Manmohan Singh has spoken of how pleasantly surprised he was to be made Finance Minister in July 1991 by P V Narasimha Rao.
- Pak- Nepal Nexus (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Jan 06, 2006)
It should have been expected that sooner or later both China and Pakistan would want to fish in the troubled waters in Nepal and, sure enough, Beijing has already delivered truckloads of weapons for the Royal Nepal Army and Pakistan is preparing . . .
- Governance And Water Crises In Delhi (Tribune, Anita Inder Singh, Jan 06, 2006)
Delhi’s continuing water crisis stems from the absence of accountability between its governing authorities, and between them and consumers. Its water shortage is man-made. Delhi has between 150 and 250 litres per capita daily, as much as . . .
- Tormenting The Tormented (The Economic Times, ARVIND KALA, Jan 06, 2006)
If You jump off a building and die, your family faces police questioning. If you jump and survive, you face a one-year prison term. Suicide attempters in the west are given emergency medical treatment and escorted back to their families
- Who Are The Unions Serving? (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Jan 06, 2006)
During a rare moment of lucidity, trade union leader Gurudas Dasgupta had acknowledged in a television programme that the Indian labour leaders hadn’t always paid much attention to telling workers about the value of productivity.
- Militancy Adds To Political Uncertainty (Hindu, HAROON HABIB, Jan 06, 2006)
The upsurge in Islamic militancy in Bangladesh is set to cast a shadow over the next general election, expected in a year.
- Wooing Gilgit (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 05, 2006)
What is the pre-requisite to peace and stability in the part of Jammu and Kashmir which Pakistan directly administers in the name of the Northern Areas?
- A Monumental Mockery Of Heritage And History (Hindu, Mandira Nayar, Jan 05, 2006)
The High Court may have issued orders for demolishing illegal structures across the Capital, but the newly expanded Village Bistro at Hauz Khas Village,
- The Polity Has To Turn Its Back On Politics Of Intrigue (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jan 05, 2006)
There can be no gainers in this game that no leader or party can hope to control fully. Unless the trend is bucked, the polity will stand denuded of its democratic legitimacy.
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