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Articles 20521 through 20620 of 26861:
- Incredible India’S Junk Yards (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 18, 2005)
Please look for the signs of disaster that is looming the next time you happen to visit a heritage site yourself.
- Secularism In The Subcontinent (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 18, 2005)
The multiplicity of identities alone can check the exclusivity and negative features of any single identity
- Fluid Situation (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 18, 2005)
The exit of the Janata Vimukti Peramuna (JVP) from Sri Lanka’s ruling United People’s Freedom Alliance coalition has reduced the government to a minority.
- Mayawati’S Makeover (Indian Express, Vrinda Gopinath, Jun 18, 2005)
The resounding cries of Ganesh, Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh at the last Bahujan Samaj Party-sponsored Brahmin Sammelan in Lucknow could not have been a better welcome by Dalits to their new partners, the Brahmins.
- Subserve The Constitutional Goal And Don't Subvert The Same (Business Line, D. Murali , Jun 18, 2005)
ABOUT a month ago, the Supreme Court decided Ashok Lanka vs Rishi Dixit, a case that straddled both excise law and the Constitution.
- Both Circular And Artificial (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Jun 18, 2005)
DEEMING provisions are a part and parcel of any law framed in India. The intent appears to be to catch transactions that the law would not be able to lay down
- On What Drives The Dragon And How The Giant Organises Electricity (Business Line, D. Murali , Jun 18, 2005)
AN ISLAMABAD datelined story on www.greaterkashmir.com speaks of India offering to share with Pakistan the electricity "from the controversial Baglihar and Kishanganga hydropower projects located on the Chenab and Jehlum rivers".
- The Price Of Occupation (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 18, 2005)
SIX more American soldiers were killed in Iraq on Wednesday. Even though this is not the single biggest casualty toll for a day,
- Sad Day For Democracy (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 18, 2005)
FRIDAY indeed was a sad day for democracy in the Punjab Assembly. Continuing with his previous day’s suspension spree,
- Unending Turf Wars (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 18, 2005)
While one can hardly remember a time in the past two decades when Karachi was not in the grip of violence, recent events have shown how several parts of the city are fast turning into battlegrounds for warring political groups and gangsters of all hues.
- `Policy-Makers Not Addressing Poverty' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2005)
Leaders should combine privileges and responsibilities, says Council Chairman Sudarshan
- India Will Stick To The G-4 Track (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Jun 18, 2005)
Further discussions will be held with U.S when its official visits New Delhi on June 23
- The Continuing Power Crisis In India (Hindu, M. R. Srinivasan, Jun 17, 2005)
We should encourage public sector companies to build power-generating units. But asine qua nonis that they should be given technical, managerial and financial autonomy, and distanced from political interference.
- Flying The Leader, Protocol And Propriety (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jun 17, 2005)
Leaders of all political parties find themselves, from time to time, having to request the use of aircraft belonging to this or that industrialist or industrial house.
- Differing Eu And U.S. Interests (Hindu, Simon Tisdall, Jun 17, 2005)
Washington gets uneasy as the EU increasinglyemerges as a credible rival to U.S. superpower
- Surviving The Monsoon (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jun 17, 2005)
Lack of access to health care during the monsoon is a serious problem.
- Indifference To History (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Jun 17, 2005)
LET a diminished Mr L. K. Advani run the shaken BJP as best he can after taking back his resignation as the party president even though the so-called compromise
- Ftas: India Must Tread With Caution (Business Line, B.S. Rathor, Jun 17, 2005)
It is important for India to ensure that FTAs work to its advantage. Thorough homework is needed on the political and economic fronts before finalising long-term commitments on global trade.
- Wake-Up Call (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 17, 2005)
Governors should be apolitical and shun their political affiliations
- Why Maya Is Memsaab (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 16, 2005)
It is the season of change on the political landscape. First Hindutva ideologue Lal Krishna Advani travels to Pakistan,
- Fish Kill In Puttenahalli Lake (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2005)
Residents say rivalry between farmers led to the incident
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Municipal Commissioner denies knowledge of incident
People For Animals posts volunteers at spot
- Caste-Wise Survey Of Obcs To Begin This Week (Hindu, T.S. Ranganna , Jun 16, 2005)
Panel headed by Chief Secretary constituted to monitor exercise
- Singing The General’S Tune (Deccan Herald, G Parthasarathy, Jun 16, 2005)
Hurriyat chief Mirwaiz Farooq’s statements in Pakistan indicate that Musharraf will continue to aid terrorism in J&K
- Teaching The Art Of Earning (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2005)
Empowering women of every rural household seems to be the motto of SSRDP. Kamala Balachandran tells us about this unique spiritual venture for the upliftment of poor.
- United They Stand, Divided They Lose (Telegraph, Sumanta Sen, Jun 16, 2005)
Despite the cries against Laloo Yadav’s “misrule”, neither the CPI nor the CPI(M) is likely to part ways with the RJD, writes Sumanta Sen
- Victims Of Planning (Tribune, G.S. Grewal , Jun 16, 2005)
India became independent at the midnight of August 15, 1947 and a Democratic Republic on November 26, 1949, when, the people of India gave to themselves the Constitution.
- Encounter: Notice Issued To State Govt., Bangalore City Police (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2005)
BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday ordered issue of notices to the State Government, the Bangalore city police and other respondents on a petition by Dawood Suleman Khadri of Mumbai
- Bjp Developments Will Not Affect Nda, Says Fernandes (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2005)
Describes controversy as party's internal matter, says alliance endorses Advani's statements on Jinnah
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AIADMK not to join National Democratic
- Vhp Plans Stir Against Advani (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2005)
``He should quit Lok Sabha, leave politics''
- Sheikh Rashid Was Given Hundreds Of Acres' (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Jun 16, 2005)
Pakistan People's Party demands a full-fledged probe into training of militants
- Maoist Problem Was Main Focus Of Talks" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2005)
I have returned with the goodwill of the Indian Government and the people: Girija Prasad Koirala
- Another Test For West Bengal's Opposition (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Jun 16, 2005)
West Bengal's Opposition parties have another chance to challenge the Left Front before next year's Assembly election.
- Butchering Livelihoods (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2005)
A 130-year old slaughter house, the source of livelihood for hundreds living nearby, will be shifted 40 kms away from the original spot. Shaafat Ahmed explores the repercussions of the decision.
- Advani Retains His Job, But For How Long? (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Jun 16, 2005)
The unwritten understanding seems to be that Mr. Advani will soon quit as BJP chief.
- Selling Trivia As News (Tribune, Maj-Gen Himmat Singh Gill (retd) , Jun 15, 2005)
To survive the onslaught of the corporate world and other moneybags who often own newspapers and magazines,
- Building On Bands To Discover Price (Business Line, D. Murali , Jun 15, 2005)
BUILDING on bands to discover price with runners in company,
Yes Bank is offering 7 crore equity shares through 100 per cent book building process.
- Blank Wall (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jun 15, 2005)
The Pakistan President, General Pervez Musharraf, seems to have had no trace of self-doubt when he asserted in categorical terms at Kuala Lumpur,
- Identifying Alternatives To Petroleum (Hindu, N N SACHITANAND, Jun 15, 2005)
For the short and medium term, India should further exploit its coal deposits using clean technology, speed up Railway electrification, and popularise biodiesel.
- Advani Should Quit Politics: Vhp (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 15, 2005)
Those who believe in Hindu ideology should lead BJP, VHP has said, adding that Mr Advani and Mr Vajpayee should quit politics.
- Power Equations In The Parivar (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Jun 15, 2005)
The BJP-RSS arrangement ignores a basic democratic principle: a political party draws its strength from the people it represents.
- Talking To Insurgents (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 15, 2005)
After the recent cease-fire pact signed with the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB),
- Openness For Efficiency (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Jun 14, 2005)
Competition, whether between domestic firms or with foreign enterprises, helps promote technical efficiency,
- No Pesticides, Higher Crop Yields (Hindu, Devinder Sharma , Jun 14, 2005)
Villagers have demonstrated that pesticides are not only harmful but also unnecessary.
- Two Makeover Artists (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Jun 14, 2005)
Last month I described the transformation of General Musharraf from a no-holds-barred adversary of India to a jigarjaan dost.
- Advani's Political Doosra Gets Called (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Jun 14, 2005)
L.K. Advani's troubles are not all about Jinnah. Nor are they over with his return as president of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
- Stuffing Of Rolls (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 14, 2005)
The Election Commission has rightly directed the Electoral Registration Officers in Tamil Nadu to register cases against the office-bearers of any political party that filed bulk applications for inclusion in the electoral rolls in the 165 constituencies
- Tn Students Move Court (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2005)
The cancellation of CET caught students on the wrong foot who had already sought admissions on the basis of marks obtained in the entrance exam.
- Delightful Trek Turns Into Nightmare (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2005)
Though most trekking organisations promise much, they leave the participants in the lurch once the trek gets underway.
- Quest For Nuclear Security (Deccan Herald, U R RAO, Jun 14, 2005)
In the current scenario, the only way out would be for nations to adopt a “no first use treaty of nuclear weapons”
- Trouble In The Agp (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Jun 14, 2005)
THE ASOM Gana Parishad (AGP) could be heading for a split. The cracks have widened after the party's steering committee served
- Will Scrapping Of Cet Stand The Judicial Test? (Deccan Herald, S Murari, Jun 14, 2005)
In scrapping the common entrance test (CET) for admission to professional courses, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha may have won over vast sections of students and academics,
- Apotheosis Of Jinnah? (Tribune, G S Bhargava, Jun 13, 2005)
Has Lal Krishna Advani set the cat among the pigeons? Or more aptly, considering that Pravin Togadia, Ashok Singhal and their likes have got his scalp, hawks in pigeons’ plumes?
- Inequity Reigns At The Un (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jun 13, 2005)
At one level, the putting off of the insistence on being given full veto powers may appear to an act of sacrifice in the interests of reforming the present shape of the UN Security Council.
- Nawab And His Ways (Tribune, Devi Cherian, Jun 13, 2005)
Such confusion. Delhi its do not know what to make of the Nawab of Pataudi. Why so much noise for something he has been doing since childhood? After all it’s been the favourite sport of royalty and actually how would the common man like mere cops . . .
- Mayawati Makes A Move (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 13, 2005)
Eventually extremes meet. Politics being no exception to this iron law, Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati seeking to join hands with Brahmins is not surprising.
- I Have Learnt Many Lessons, Says Advani (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Jun 12, 2005)
New Delhi : Bharatiya Janata Party president L.K. Advani said on Saturday he hoped the lessons he had learnt in the past fortnight would help him shoulder future responsibilities.
- Bjp Is A Creature Of Rss: Karat (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 12, 2005)
Thiruvananthapuram : CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat has said that L. K. Advani's resignation from the presidentship of the Bharatiya Janata Party and his subsequent withdrawal of the resignation three days later underlines the fact . . .
- It Is Destination Pune (Hindu, ANUJ CHOPRA , Jun 12, 2005)
The city is a strong contender for the position of the `Silicon Valley of India'. But why, you might ask
- Choice Of Vice-Chancellors (Hindu, P.C. Chandrasekaran, Jun 12, 2005)
FROM A mere 27 universities in 1947, the Indian university system has grown to reach a figure exceeding 300 today.
- What Is Wrong With The U.S.? (Hindu, Mike Marqusee, Jun 12, 2005)
While the world has good reason to fear U.S. global ambitions, the former also needs to remember that some of the most crucial agents in thwarting those ambitions are to be found within America itself ... . Beginning a new column.
- Whither The E.U.? (Hindu, Bill Kirkman, Jun 12, 2005)
The harsh truth is that the whole exercise has been an extravagant diversion of energy, imagination and time that would have been far better put into addressing the legitimacy of the European project among the public.' Robin Cook
- Idea Of Jinnah’S Secularism Difficult To Digest’ (Deccan Herald, Ibrahim Afghan , Jun 12, 2005)
A recent remark of the BJP president L K Advani on the Founder of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah has started the expected debate,
- How Grey Was My City Then (Deccan Herald, Sashi Sivramkrishna & Heisnam Bison Singh , Jun 12, 2005)
It was not as though Bangalore was always green. The trees were introduced quite recently and mostly for commercial purposes. A look at some old records of the city prove that.
- Police As Agent Of Social Change (Tribune, J. L. Gupta, Jun 12, 2005)
Police in India is almost as old as our civilisation. It has been said, “In Mahabharata and Ramayana there are specific references to the existence of police administration”.
- Dastans: The Ancient Art Of Story Telling (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 12, 2005)
The Hamzanama is nothing but an illustration of a ‘dastan’ that tells stories. SHRUBA MUKHERJEE speaks with theatre artist Mahmood Farooqui who is attempting to revive this ancient cultural form
- Rjd Will Win Bihar Polls: Raghuvansh (Tribune, Prashant Sood, Jun 12, 2005)
Union Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh has the onerous task of implementing three of the six components of the UPA government’s...
- Reformer Tamed (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 12, 2005)
Most critics of Mr L.K. Advani believe that he will always be the bridesmaid and never be the bride.
- Big Debate To Small Drama (Telegraph, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jun 12, 2005)
The author is president, Centre for Policy Research
Slipped through the fingers
The BJP’s resolution that facilitated Advani’s withdrawal is a painfully blinkered return to its own past.
- The Gender Gap Persists Globally (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 11, 2005)
The Gender Gap study released by the World Economic Forum, while highlighting the areas in which less developed countries lag behind in gender equality, also indicates the huge gaps between men and women in the developed economies.
- Now, Let’S Talk Gandhi (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 11, 2005)
In this season of revisionism, the RSS can take another look at the father of our nation
- Who"s Secular, Who Is Not? (Deccan Herald, Tavleen Singh, Jun 11, 2005)
The Congress party seems as worried by Advani’s newfound secularism as Hindutva fanatics are.
- Some Reservations At Aligarh (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 11, 2005)
The world will judge India’s secularism by the treatment she metes out to Aligarh.”
- Voting On Europe (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 11, 2005)
In the last week of May, as the French were preparing to vote on the new European constitution, I was travelling through two countries connected most intimately with France.
- Netaji Remains An Idol (Tribune, T.P. Sreenivasan, Jun 11, 2005)
Austria had a major role to play in Netaji’s life, not in the least because his wife, Emilie Schenkl, and their daughter, Anita, lived here.
- Dealing With A New Palestinian Reality (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 11, 2005)
Israel and its western allies find themselves in a quandary after the militant group Hamas put up a strong performance in elections to Palestinian local bodies.
- Jinnah Secular? Hardly (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Jun 11, 2005)
Mohammed Ali Jinnah is one of the greatest contradictions in history.
- Has The Debate On Jinnah Begun? (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Jun 10, 2005)
"Bid to put Congress on the defensive" "It seems that at least one section of the BJP feels that it can `win' the debate and the hearts and minds of the people by juxtaposing Jinnah with Jawaharlal Nehru, and blame Nehru for Partition"
- Prize Catch (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 10, 2005)
A Full-Blown controversy has arisen over whether Jagtar Singh Hawara and his accomplices were arrested from Patiala or Narela in Delhi. But that is just not central to the issue.
- Stand Up, Bjp (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 10, 2005)
The question is: will L.K. Advani stay as BJP president or go? On the face of it, that would seem to be the narrower question from the past few days.
- Is Good News The Best News? (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, Jun 10, 2005)
The reward being offered for clues on the whereabouts of Gautam Goswami, the former Patna district magistrate accused of misappropriation of funds meant for flood relief,
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