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Articles 18921 through 19020 of 26861:
- Wrong Way In Iraq (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 02, 2005)
AS Iraq moves toward a referendum on its new constitution, many of its senior politicians readily concede that the charter is seriously flawed, and that its approval may worsen rather than alleviate the relentless violence.
- Hinduism And Gandhi (Statesman, Jagmohan , Oct 02, 2005)
To follow a shallow and superficial secularism is one of the worst sins that the false prophets of contemporary India are committing
- Create Awareness About Dreadful Flu (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 02, 2005)
DR David Nabarro of the World Health Organisation has warned that a new influenza pandemic can come any time and claim millions of lives unless urgent steps are taken to address the threat. Nabarro told a Press conference in New York that the flu pandemic
- Why India Voted Against Iran (Dawn, Karamatullah K. Ghori, Oct 02, 2005)
India voting on the side of the Americans and the Europeans against Iran at the September 24 IAEA board meeting in Vienna was bound to enrage the Iranians.
- "Advantage T.N. Only If Infrastructure Is Improved" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2005)
Maran for elevated highway to decongest Anna Salai
- Indian Politicians Express ‘Solidarity, Support’ For Nepalese Parties (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2005)
[Presenter] Political leaders are busy meeting Indian leaders who arrived in the capital yesterday to express their solidarity for the movement of the political parties. The team, headed by parliamentarian and leader of the Communist Party . . . .
- Insular Decision-Making (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 02, 2005)
A National consultative workshop on economic literacy and budget analysis has demanded that the government should involve the parliament, civil society representatives, technocrats, opposition leaders and other sections of society in the economic . . .
- Striking Work (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2005)
Isn't it strange that while the Left-ruled Bengal has woken up to the deleterious effect of bringing the state to a standstill through strikes, the Left leaders continue to swear by the discredited weapon on a national level!
- Congress Sweeps Civic Chiefs' Election (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2005)
Bags 79 Chairperson and 9 Mayor posts; elections in 3 municipalities and Guntur Corporation postponed
- Caste In Stone (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 01, 2005)
Congress is still tied to inherited bloodlines
- New Reloadable Atm Card Boosts 'Plastic Democracy' (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2005)
In a move to enable migrants manage money better, a new reloadable prepaid MasterCard card which does not require a bank account or credit check for approval is to be launched this week.
- He Rules The House With An Iron Hand (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Oct 01, 2005)
MLAs from both sides consider Speaker K. Kalimuthu the "real hero of this Assembly"
- Convergence And Divergence Of Growth (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 01, 2005)
ECONOMICS is hardly a thriller. But Elhanan Helpman's The Mystery of Economic Growth, from Academic Foundation
- Look Under The Persian Carpet (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 01, 2005)
Looking back on the week, you can’t help thinking the windmills are really in fashion this season.
- New Police Act (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 01, 2005)
Other action also needed
There is every reason to commend the government for doing what has long been avoided — re-working the basis of police functioning by replacing the obsolete Police Act of 1861.
- Elderly Woes-Iio Ld People’S Competence Can Be Effectively Utilised (Statesman, ANUPRIYO MALLICK, Oct 01, 2005)
The elderly can be categorised into two groups, namely pensioners and non-pensioners
- A Totalitarian Treat (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 01, 2005)
The 1951 biography of Stalin reads more like hagiography
- Russia's Gazprom Keen To Take Part In Iran-India Pipeline (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2005)
Russian gas giant Gazprom, world's largest gas firm, is keen to participate in the construction of the 7.4 billion dollar Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline that would bring gas from the gigantic South Pars fields in Iran to the two South Asian countries.
- Indian Politicians Express ‘Solidarity, Support’ For Nepalese Parties (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2005)
[Presenter] Political leaders are busy meeting Indian leaders who arrived in the capital yesterday to express their solidarity for the movement of the political parties.
- Non-Alignment Today (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 01, 2005)
In the changed world circumstances, is the concept of "non-alignment" still valid?
- Npcil Deposits Rs 8 Crore Cess With Mpcb (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2005)
After receiving show cause notice about non-payment of the water cess, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has paid Rs 8 crore to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) for its Tarapur Atomic Power Plant (TAPP).
- The United Kingdom's Phantom Party (Hindu, Polly Toynbee , Oct 01, 2005)
This week's conference in Brighton has exposed Labour as a shell, deserted by members. It needs big ideas, not clever stratagems.
- Eye-Openers For Eyes Shut!……… (Daily Excelsior, Dr R L Bhat, Oct 01, 2005)
Remember Yaksha asking Yudhistra what the greatest wonder in the world was? Dharmaputra lived in a different age.
- Diplomacy At Gunpoint (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 01, 2005)
When interests come into conflict with policies, the latter suffer. Something like that happened to India at Vienna where it voted against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to ensure the supply of civil nuclear reactors and their . . .
- Arms Embargo On Nepal Should Continue: Indian Team (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 01, 2005)
India should continue arms embargo on Nepal to pressure King Gyanendra to restore multiparty democracy in the Himalayan Kingdom, according to visiting Indian political leaders.
- Yechuri Team Invites Nepal Opposition Leaders To India (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Oct 01, 2005)
India Inc plans a convention in support of pro-democracy movement and to pressurise the Indian government not to allow any assistance to the Royal Nepalese Army.
- How Bush's People Help Osama (Hindu, Sidney Blumenthal, Oct 01, 2005)
U.S. administration lectures about God delivered to Muslims are a dangerous folly.
- Making The Same Mistake? (Dawn, Afzaal Mahmood, Oct 01, 2005)
With the adoption of the US-led European resolution by the UN nuclear watchdog, the stage is now set for a confrontationist move against Iran.
- Post-Election Prospects In Afghanistan (Dawn, S. Mudassir Ali Shah, Oct 01, 2005)
As early results trickle in from the Afghan legislative elections, President Karzai’s principal political foe Yunus Qanuni — heading a 14-party alliance which is generally described as a rainbow grouping
- Now Us Should Do More (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 01, 2005)
Situation in North Waziristan Agency seems to be pretty precarious. On Thursday helicopter gunships fired rockets on suspected militants’ hide-outs near Miranshah following a gun-battle between Army troops and tribesmen. According to witnesses score ....
- Are The Coloured Revolutions Fading Out? (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Oct 01, 2005)
U.S.-sponsored regime change in the former Soviet States has run into problems. Many of the new regimes have proved unpopular. Besides, Russia has moved to regain its influence.
- Don’T Panic, There Is A Way Out (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Oct 01, 2005)
There was no need to break down the main gate of a doctor as this would have done no good to the patient who needed a proper consultation already available in the institute twenty four hours.
- Last-Minute Hitch (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 01, 2005)
Unless there is a last-minute breakthrough, talks on Turkey’s membership of the European Union are unlikely to begin on Monday.
- Janata Dal (Secular) Splits; Ibrahim To Head Faction (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2005)
Deve Gowda, Thippanna, Kumaraswamy `replaced'
- Buying Obsolescence (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Oct 01, 2005)
Former Prime Minister Inder Gujral once complained that the developing world was forced to buy obsolescent weaponry from the developed world. It would be interesting to know what he thinks of the US proposal to sell India a warship that was . . . .
- The Making Of Bapu (Deccan Herald, PREM PAUL NINAN, Sep 30, 2005)
Gandhi was once just a simple lawyer in South Africa. It was his perseverance against injustice and violence that made him the Mahatma, writes Prem Paul Ninan
- Battle To Lose The Next U.K. Election (Hindu, Max Hastings, Sep 30, 2005)
The betting is still on David Davis to be the next leader of the once-mighty British Conservative party.
- Un At 60 (Tribune, Anita Inder Singh, Sep 30, 2005)
The world summit in New York from September 14 to 16 took place at a time when the very relevance of the UN, the efficacy of the Security Council, the competence of Secretary- General Kofi Annan and the accountability of some of the UN’s officials . . .
- The Ongc Stand-Off — Should Psus Remain Govt Departments Or Behave Like Corporates? (Business Line, Ashok Upadhyaya, Sep 30, 2005)
The ONGC imbroglio has provided the premise for a national debate on the relationship between owners and management of PSUs, a debate that had died a somewhat whimpering death when the focus shifted in the mid-1990s to the problems of divestment p er se.
- Indian Politicians Express ‘Solidarity, Support’ For Nepalese Parties (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2005)
[Presenter] Political leaders are busy meeting Indian leaders who arrived in the capital yesterday to . . ..
- Flexing Muscles (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 30, 2005)
Tehran has reacted strongly to the IAEA board of governors’ resolution recommending Iran’s case to be sent to the UN Security Council.
- ‘We Need A Stick Here In India’ (Deccan Herald, Dipti Nair, Sep 30, 2005)
Arindam Chaudhuri, economist, management guru and author of the well-known bestseller, Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch (CYCBTH), has a way with words just as he has a way with management theories. He loves to twist them around.
- Kerala: Ldf To Decide On Power-Sharing Today (Hindu, C. Gouridasan Nair, Sep 30, 2005)
Party's State Committee to discuss post-poll scenario
- Straw’S Men Manhandle Elderly Jew (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Sep 30, 2005)
All he did was say ‘nonsense’ when British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw defended the government’s refusal to withdraw troops from Iraq.
- Where The Old Faithful Are Unwelcome (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Sep 30, 2005)
The eviction of an 82-year-old Labour veteran for heckling Foreign Secretary Jack Straw cast a shadow over the party's annual conference.
- Sc Open To Revive Bihar House (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2005)
The Centre has not offered any explanation for the “indecent haste” with which the Governor sent the May 21 report that led to the dissolution of the House.
- Germany's Post-Poll Stalemate (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 30, 2005)
The political stalemate gripping Germany — Europe's most populous and largest economy — more than a week after the ambiguous parliamentary election verdict,
- Indian Leaders Support Nepal Pro-Democracy Movement (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2005)
"Indian people are with Nepalese people's movement"
- Bjp Set To Rule In 7 Grama Panchayats In Kasargod (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2005)
The BJP which had only two grama panchayats in the district last time is now poised to rule in seven grama panchayats after the local body elections. Besides it improved its position in Kasargod and Kanhangad municipalities and in several grama panchayats
- ‘We Need A Stick Here In India’ (Hindu, Dipti Nair, Sep 30, 2005)
Arindam Chaudhuri, economist, management guru and author of the well-known bestseller, Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch (CYCBTH), has a way with words just as he has a way with management theories. He loves to twist them around.
- The Telling Mirror (Hindu, MALINI WHITE, Sep 30, 2005)
Art historian B.N. Goswamy, who accidentally stumbled into the world of miniature paintings, maintains that the best of it comes from Lahore
- India’S Communists Warn Indian Government To Ensure That Iran Nuke Matter Is Not Referred To United Nations Security Council (India Daily, Balaji Reddy, Sep 30, 2005)
The current Indian Government lives every day with their support from the sideline.
- Radical Hypocrisy (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 30, 2005)
It’s time the Left ended this agony
- Aids Is Nature’S Curse Of The New Millennium (Greater Kashmir, Tanvir Sadiq, Sep 30, 2005)
Let our Public Men set a precedent by coming forward voluntarily and demanding an HIV Test Tanvir Sadiq suggests
- India's Independent Foreign Policy Affected: Karat (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2005)
``A few days of sustained U.S. pressure has led the Government to cave in''
By the next IAEA board meeting, the Government would have to undo the damage done
Iran has the right to develop its nuclear technology within NPT framework
- Blair’S Testament (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 30, 2005)
Events and Gordon Brown will determine whether the prime minister’s Brighton speech n Tuesday was his farewell performance in front of a party he has led to three successive general election victories.
- Relations With The Us (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 29, 2005)
There is more to Pakistan-American relations than the nuclear question. The issue has acquired perhaps undue importance following Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to the US in July.
- Setting An Agenda For The Oic Summit (Dawn, Ahsan Iqbal, Sep 29, 2005)
The conference of the scholars and intellectuals representing different countries of the ummah called by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques,
- Excitement And Fear Stalk The Land In Syria (Hindu, David Hirst, Sep 29, 2005)
U.N. success in Lebanon could shatter the political dominance of the military in the Arab world.
- Escorts Heart Institute Sold To Fortis For Rs 585 Crore (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 29, 2005)
Troubled Escorts Group's Heart Institute and Research Centre has finally changed hands. In a Rs 585 crore all-cash deal, Fortis Healthcare picked up 90 per cent of the Institute on Wednesday.
- Labour Needs A New Leader (Hindu, Neal Lawson, Sep 29, 2005)
The politics of safety first, on ground defined by the Right, means that inequality continues to grow.
- Choosing A President For The Bjp (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Sep 29, 2005)
RSS-BJP discussions on a new party president and "relations" between the two organisations could start next week ahead of Chitrakoot.
- Workers’ Interests (Statesman, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Sep 29, 2005)
Congress And CPI-M Should Work Out Consensus On Labour Reforms
- Reforms In Iit’S Jee (Indian Express, Prof V G Idichandy, Sep 29, 2005)
The joint entrance examination (JEE) of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology has a long history.
- Reducing Population (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Sep 29, 2005)
If the high population growth rate of Pakistan has been adversely affecting its economic growth rate so far, will the current high economic growth rate cut down the population growth?
- India’S Communists Warn Indian Government To Ensure That Iran Nuke Matter Is Not Referred To United Nations Security Council (India Daily, Balaji Reddy, Sep 29, 2005)
The current Indian Government lives every day with their support from the sideline.
- The Diminishing Dal (Greater Kashmir, MUHAMMAD ZAHID, Sep 29, 2005)
Pity, that a capital asset like this which should have received care from us, faces apathy, laments
- History For Children (Telegraph, Tapas Majumdar, Sep 29, 2005)
The strange twist that the study of the past takes in India
- Choices Before The King (Telegraph, C.K. Lal, Sep 29, 2005)
The festival frenzy that has Nepal in its grip at this time of the year has spread to the political sphere as well. It’s as if all the players are preparing for something, although nobody is quite sure for what.
- Tripura Tribulations (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 29, 2005)
Last week’s killing of two men, four women and two children by suspected National Liberation Front of Tripura cadres strengthens the conviction that piecemeal accords with militant groups is no answer to the problem.
- Start At The Very Beginning (Telegraph, Uttam Sengupta, Sep 29, 2005)
The recent Jharkhand high court ruling raises fundamental questions about constitutional guarantees for the weak, writes Uttam Sengupta
- India Cuts China Competitiveness Lead (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 29, 2005)
: India is breathing down the dragon’s neck. Jumping five places, India was ranked 50th in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report, released on Wednesday.
- Soft Image, Harsh Reality (Dawn, Aqil Shah, Sep 29, 2005)
On September 17, demonstrators led by the Asian-American Network Against Abuse had picketed the Roosevelt Hotel in New York where General Musharraf was staying in connection with the UN General Assembly meeting.
- When J&k Assembly Hires Govt Staff, It's A Family Affair (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 29, 2005)
On Tuesday, Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed challenged the Opposition to prove any irregularity in appointments to government jobs.
- India Seeks Early Lifting Of Nuke Technology Restrictions (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 29, 2005)
Seeking early lifting of all nuclear technology restrictions against it, India on Wednesday said it will be prepared to take "reciprocal" steps in a phased manner, which will include "safeguards on facilities of a civilian nature".
- Emerging Trends (Deccan Herald, SANDEEP SHASTRI, Sep 29, 2005)
All political parties in Karnataka have moved away from the political spaces they occupied after the 2004 polls
- Makthal Byelection: Unanimous Election Likely (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 29, 2005)
Assembly pays tributes to C. Narsi Reddy; leaders condemn killing
- Religion Has Not Done Justice To Women’ (Deccan Herald, Prasanta Paul, Sep 29, 2005)
Taslima Nasreen, the controversial Bangladeshi writer, received a boost after the Calcutta High Court lifted the ban on her book Dwikhandito (Split into two),
- Kerala Pointer (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 29, 2005)
Poll results have confirmed the anti-incumbency mood
- Writing On The Wall For Udf (Deccan Herald, R Gopakumar, Sep 29, 2005)
The crushing mandate against the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in Kerala for the third time in four years, though it was the local bodies elections this time, sends out a clear message:
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