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Articles 19221 through 19320 of 26861:
- They Have Just Two Options: Preserve Or Perish? (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Sep 20, 2005)
Writing is already on the wall. More material gains, more oppression on the weaker ones, more destruction of natural balance, less safety, less protection from disasters.
- Where India Stands Today (Daily Excelsior, O P Modi, Sep 20, 2005)
Today India is one of the fastest developing countries. Yet everything is not all right with us. There are many worrying aspects that need to be taken into account and solutions found expeditiously.
- Presidential Polls In Egypt (Dawn, Tayyab Siddiqui, Sep 20, 2005)
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s landslide victory in presidential elections held on September 7 has not come as a surprise to any observer of the Middle East political scene.
- Govts To Blame For Tribal Deaths’ (Deccan Herald, R AKHILESHWARI, Sep 20, 2005)
The large-scale deaths of tribals due to malaria in the Paderu area of Visakhapatnam district in Andhra Pradesh was an opportunity for the Opposition Telugu Desam Party in the state to take the ruling Congress to task.
- Going Beyond Free Power (Tribune, Ranjit Singh Ghuman, Sep 20, 2005)
The decision of the Government of Punjab to give free electricity to all farmers in Punjab has vindicated the stand of the earlier Akali-BJP regime. However, there is an important difference between the recent and earlier decisions in the sense that the g
- Navy Conducts Campus Selections In Six Dists In State (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 20, 2005)
Under its reintroduced University Entry Scheme, Indian Navy is holding campus screening to select candidates for Service Selection Board (SSB) interviews
- Oppn Leads The Race In German Poll (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 20, 2005)
The narrow victory of Merkel’s Christian Democrats party might pave the way for a coalition government.
- A Diplomatic Disaster (Deccan Herald, G Parthasarathy, Sep 20, 2005)
Manmohan Singh made a blunder by getting involved in Kashmir- centric discussions with Gen Musharraf
- Landmark Vote (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 20, 2005)
The Afghan election was held successfully. It’s time the winners were given real power
- Germany's Inconclusive Verdict (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 20, 2005)
The dramatic failure of the Christian Democrat Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU)
- How The Church Can Tackle Terrorism (Deccan Herald, Richard Harries, Sep 20, 2005)
Christians are well suited to foster democracy, through the concept of reconciliation among communities, in the current crisis
- Vote Them Out (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 20, 2005)
The question of accountability is seldom confronted when one of the alleged offenders is the state.
- The Green Men Fight Back (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 20, 2005)
The sponge iron plant at Londa has come under attack from environmentalists, since it is a red category industry which could pollute air and water, Vijayalakshmi K P N tells us.
- Regulatory Independence — Strengthen By Constitutional Mandate (Business Line, Sumit K. Majumdar, Sep 20, 2005)
A country that is committed to an open market economy should have independent regulators who can fearlessly uphold institutional norms. In their absence, a country risks disrepute and could lose out on substantial investments and allied growth.
- Democracy For All? (Hindu, Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Sep 20, 2005)
For North, the U.S. is neither in process nor substance a democracy
- The China Syndrome (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Sep 20, 2005)
There is nothing new or sudden in Bhattacharjee’s pursuit of private capital, says Ashis Chakrabarti
- An Outcome Of Dual Loyalty (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 20, 2005)
Expected as it was, Mr Lal Krishna Advani’s announcement about his decision to demit the office of president of the BJP by December-end would not have received much attention but for his criticism of the RSS.
- A New India Policy (Dawn, SHAHID JAVED BURKI, Sep 20, 2005)
Stare decisis is a Latin term used in legal parlance to connote the importance attached to precedence.
- Afghan Polls (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 20, 2005)
The immediate reaction to Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections on Sunday must be one of relief that the polling was held peacefully and took place without any large-scale disruption.
- From Baghdad To New Orleans (Dawn, Kurt Jacobsen and Sayeed Hasan Khan, Sep 20, 2005)
IN 1962 social reformer Michael Harrington published The Other America, a startling expose of the plight of tens of millions of citizens ill-fed,
- Any Secular Party Can Jump On Our Bandwagon" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 20, 2005)
Says RJD, and extends indirect invitation to LJP, CPI "Everyone knows, in Bihar it is always Lalu versus the rest"
- Alienating The Middle Class (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Sep 20, 2005)
If the CPM is the Don Quixote of the Left, tirelessly tilting at the windmills of LPG (liberalisation, privatisation, globalisation), then the CPI is surely its devoted Sancho Panza.
- Waste Water A Valuable Resource (Deccan Herald, Rosalind Ezhil K , Sep 20, 2005)
The new sewage treatment plant in Cubbon park recycles 1.5 million litres of water a day. This will offset the water requirements of 10,000 people.
- Advani To Resign In December, Attacks Rss For Interference (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2005)
Climaxing the battle with RSS on the Jinnah issue and under attack from dissidents, L K Advani today announced plans to step down as BJP president by year end but not before launching an attack on the Sangh fountainhead for "remote-controlling" the . . .
- Paswan Set To Forge Third Front In Bihar (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2005)
Veteran CPI leader A B Bardhan hinted that CPI (ML), Forward Bloc and RSP were likely to join the new alliance.
- Rebirth Of Afghan Politics (Dawn, Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Sep 19, 2005)
One of my most cherished memories of a long tour of duty in Afghanistan is of the advent of dawn through the mist hanging over Bande Amir, an interlocking system of lakes well above the vegetation line.
- Water Problems Of Karachi (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 19, 2005)
A child reportedly died and around 65 others including men, women and children were admitted in different hospitals of Karachi on Friday after consuming contaminated water in Landhi area.
- It’S An Internal Matter Of Bjp: Parties (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2005)
RSS plans to hold a dialogue with the outgoing BJP chief to dispel the misconception that the Sangh was influencing the party’s day-to-day affairs.
- Advani To Go In Dec, Targets Rss (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2005)
BJP president L K Advani, who has been under pressure from the RSS to resign ever since he praised Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s secular vision for his country, said on Sunday that he would demit office after the 25th anniversary . . .
- Irrelevant Borders (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 19, 2005)
Although the idea itself is not novel the theory of making the borders irrelevant is currently doing the rounds in the sub-continent. Obviously it is in the context of India and Pakistan and at the centre of it is our State.
- Merkel Tipped To Win In Germany (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2005)
Germany goes on polls which is being closely followed and fought. These election are expected to be decisive in determining reforms in the ailing economy.
- Grassroot Democracy (Deccan Herald, SHARADA PRAHLADRAO, Sep 19, 2005)
In a committee at any level and for any purpose, it’s a constant game of passing the buck
- Afghans Brave Guns To Vote (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2005)
Afghans vote in historic parliamentary and local elec tions, after a campaign marred by violence.
- Rain Water Harvesting Mooted In Tripura (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2005)
In view of the growing water scarcity in Agartala, the state water resource and public health engineering division has recommended making rain water harvesting system mandatory for all households in Agartala.
- Advani To Step Down, Criticises Rss (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Sep 19, 2005)
Will demit office as BJP president at December Mumbai meet
Advises the RSS to leave politics to the BJP
Party leaders feel Mr. Vajpayee's position would be stronger
Last minute attempt by some to delay announcement
- Groundwater And Pollution (Daily Excelsior, Dr T K Munshi, Sep 19, 2005)
Water is one of the most abundant of the important renewable resources on earth. The hydrosphere or total world water is approximately 1.4 billion cubic kilometers.
- The Economic Fault Lines (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Sep 19, 2005)
Unlike geographical fault lines, the economic ones spread disaster everywhere — on the prudent and the successful as much as on the imprudent and unsuccessful. P. V. Indiresan offers a solution to give the poor what they value and is goo d for them too.
- Bjp's Emergence As A Principal Alternative Was A Feat: Advani (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2005)
This is the text of the concluding statement made by Bharatiya Janata Party president L.K. Advani at the national executive meeting of the party on Sunday:
- German Polls: Schroeder, Merkel Make Claims (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Sep 19, 2005)
In a day of total surprises in Germany's most hotly contested elections in recent times,
- Cpi To Ally With Ljp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2005)
The Communist Party of India on Sunday announced that it would go with the Lok Jan Shakti Party and other Left parties in the coming Assembly elections in Bihar polls by offering a secular alternative.
- "Merkel May Favour India" (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Sep 19, 2005)
A conservative coalition between the Christian Democrats (CDU-CSU) and the Free Democrats (FDP) would,
- Reforms Key Issue In Germany (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Sep 19, 2005)
Sixty-two million Germans on Sunday decided whether they want to stay with Social Democrat Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Agenda 2010 of soft pro-market reforms or if they wanted harsher medicine in the form of Conservative leader Angela Merkel's ...
- Power Tariff Hike Unlikely In Next Four Years (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2005)
Proposed move to bring relief to 80 lakh domestic consumers
Power situation reviewed early on Sunday morning
Formal announcement after municipal elections, subject to APERC approval
- Schroeder: It Is A Personal Defeat For Angela Merkel (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Sep 19, 2005)
He will begin talks with Free Democrats, Green Party
Merkel will be invited to form government
She will also woo Green Party
Schroeder confident of being next Chancellor
- From Physicians To Pharmacists–I (Greater Kashmir, GEER MUHAMMAD ISHAQ, Sep 19, 2005)
With the advent of complex and sedentary life styles, fast changing dietary habits, rapid increase in population and emergence of contemporary disorders,
- Afghans Defy Threats To Vote In General Election (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2005)
Afghans defied threats from Taliban militants to vote in Sunday's landmark elections to the Afghanistan parliament and provincial councils.
- Training Politicians Doesn’T Work (Indian Express, Sushila Ramaswamy, Sep 19, 2005)
Former Chief Election Commissioner T.N. Seshan has announced the opening of a school for training professional politicians under the auspices of the Maharashtra Institute of Technology modelled after the John F. Kennedy School of Government at . . .
- The Thinking Indian? (Indian Express, Ananya Vajpeyi, Sep 19, 2005)
In an interview published last month in The New York Times, V S Naipaul has pronounced that there are no thinkers in India today.
- Change Procedure (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Sep 19, 2005)
The state government could solve the problem of unemployment to a great extent if only it refers the vacancies to the recruiting agencies and makes some changes in the recruitment process. Every now and then,
- Raising The Curtain On Disney's Top Managers (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Sep 19, 2005)
The court has proclaimed its judgment. Michael Eisner, Chief Executive Officer of Walt Disney Co.,
- Case Of The Lawyer Wife (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Sep 19, 2005)
The finance minister is an honourable man. We have therefore to accept, and with grace,
- Advani Keeps Promise With Rss, To Step Down In December (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2005)
Plunging the crisis-ridden BJP into greater turmoil and bringing into the open his rift with the RSS, BJP president Lal Krishna Advani . . .
- Advani To Quit By December-End (Tribune, Arup Chanda, Sep 19, 2005)
Bharatiya Janata Party President L. K. Advani today finally succumbed to growing pressure of the RSS and announced his resignation from the top party post after the National Council meeting in Mumbai from December 26 to 29.
- A Lame Duck (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 19, 2005)
BJP chief Lal Krishna Advani’s announcement that he will step down from the party post in December has not set the Ganga on fire.
- Another City (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 19, 2005)
Daydreaming is usually a harmless activity. But there is something rather alarmingly absurd about the chief minister’s all-embracing plan to convert Calcutta into a veritable Garden of Earthly Delights,
- King’S Actions, Intentions (Tribune, Maj-Gen Ashok Mehta (retd), Sep 19, 2005)
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. King Gyanendra must be feeling the heat, now that many in Nepal realise that a republican state is inevitable. Not long ago Nepalese used to say:
- The Audacity Of The General (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Sep 19, 2005)
The prime minister’s visit to New York should prove to be an important moment in the learning curve for him and the establishment.
- Blair's Battle Royal With Judges Over Rights (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Sep 19, 2005)
The British Government's war of words with the judiciary is part of the larger battle over its counter-terror agenda widely seen as an attempt to acquire more coercive powers in the name of fighting terror.
- Oh! What A Lovely War (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 19, 2005)
The four-month-long confrontation between Lal Krishna Advani and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is over.
- Too Big To Last? (Hindu, Lucy Siegle, Sep 19, 2005)
Good News and bad news this week. Research shows that the planet could feasibly provide food for 10 billion people. Since the global population is estimated to reach 9.1 billion by 2050, this leaves us with a bit of slack in the world's breadbasket.
- Love, Through An Emperor’S Eyes (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 18, 2005)
Of all the views of the Taj Mahal, the one that provided comfort to deposed Emperor Shah Jahan in the last years of his life is, perhaps, the most poignant, says Dhananjaya Bhat.
- An American Empire In Denial (Deccan Herald, PRASENJIT CHOWDHURY, Sep 18, 2005)
The author feels that the US should face its imperial obligations as Britain did. He is sure that the ‘new empire’ is destined to do good for mankind
Colossus— the Rise and Fall of the American Empire , Niall Ferguson,
Penguin, 2005, pp 386, £ 6.30
- Allegations Are Motivated: Ec (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 18, 2005)
Anguish over statements by politicians
- Afghanistan Sees New Elections, Old Faces (Asia Times, Syed Saleem Shahzad, Sep 18, 2005)
Almost four years after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan to oust the Taliban, the country's infrastructure is still poor. Even in the capital, few street lights work at night, a darkness made stark and ominous by the bright headlights of intermittent...
- Sharon Threat To Palestine Poll (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 18, 2005)
Allowing Palestine polls unhindered with an armed Hamas participating is just not possible, says Israel
- Ruling Party Leads In Nz Elections (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 18, 2005)
Prime Minister Helen Clark’s Labour Party beat the Opposition National Party by a single seat in New Zealand’s cliffhanger election on Saturday, but neither party won a clear majority in Parliament.
- Musharraf Calls Bhutto, Sharif ‘Looters’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 18, 2005)
Launching a broadside against former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has accused them of swindling $ 2 billion of state funds and vehemently discounted any possibility of their return to the ....
- Un Summit Settles For Modest Plans (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma , Sep 18, 2005)
After much negotiation and delay, the UN summit adopted a watered-down declaration on poverty, terrorism, genocide and human rights violation
- Eye On India’ Week In Cnn (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 18, 2005)
CNN International has announced the launch of the second edition of its successful “Eye on India” programme that will showcase for the global viewer the world’s largest democracy and the challenges it is facing in its effort to march forward as a . . .
- Pak Responsibility For Democracy In Afghanistan (Daily Excelsior, Samuel Baid, Sep 18, 2005)
Amid threats of violence from warlords and Taliban, the people of Afghanistan are voting today (September 18) for democracy in their country.
- Taliban Launch Raids As Afghans Head To Polls (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 18, 2005)
Taliban fighters launched a series of attacks on Sunday as Afghans voted in their first legislative elections in decades which were hailed by President Hamid Karzai as a defining moment in the nation's struggle to rebuild.
- Contaminated Water Deaths (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 18, 2005)
To understand the magnitude of the problem caused by consumption of contaminated water that has resulted in severe illnesses and deaths in Karachi these past few weeks,
- Afghan Poll: Some Misgivings (Dawn, Amir Usman, Sep 18, 2005)
Before discussing the implications of the forthcoming elections for Afghanistan and the Afghan people,
- Profits, Not Democracy (Dawn, George Monbiot, Sep 18, 2005)
Several of this cursed brood, getting hold of the branches behind, leaped up into the tree, whence they began to discharge their excrements on my head.” Thus Gulliver describes his first encounter with the Yahoos. Something similar seems to have
- Self-Employed Sidelined In Unorganised Workers Bill (Hindu, Renu Vinod, Sep 18, 2005)
The unorganised Sector Workers Bill 2004 is broad legislation that covers workers scattered throughout the length and breadth of this country. The Bill focuses more on workers who work for an employer.
- Separate Ways (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 18, 2005)
Testing time for AGP
- Own Goal (Telegraph, MUKUL KESAVAN, Sep 18, 2005)
The Quit India movement launched by the Congress in 1942 was an act of political desperation,
- Groupism Will Be Tackled With A Firm Hand: Dullo (Tribune, Varinder Singh, Sep 18, 2005)
Unlike most of his predecessors, Mr Shamsher Singh Dullo, the president of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee,
- Overarching Urge To Go Public (Hindu, K.K. Luthria, Sep 18, 2005)
Our bureaucracy was conceived to be an invisible spirit guiding the onerous task of nation building
- What Next After Hurriyat-Centre Meet ? (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Sep 18, 2005)
While the Manmohan Singh Government's decision to invite the Hurriyat leadership for a meeting last week is was commendable and equally commendable was the boldness with which the Mirwaiz Moulvi Farooq...
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