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Articles 4521 through 4620 of 35809:
- Nice Laurels He Has Got (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Aug 29, 2006)
The prime minister’s Independence Day address had about 5,329 listeners at Red Fort. Of them, 3,000 were schoolchildren.
- To Invest In Nuclear Safety (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 29, 2006)
Nuclear power plants have a ‘front-loaded’ cost structure, i.e. they are relatively expensive to build but relatively inexpensive to operate.
- India Stands By Baloch People (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
Armed with yet another opportunity to give Pakistan a dose of its own medicine, India on Monday said the killing of veteran Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was "unfortunate" and that it underlined the "need for peaceful dialogue to address the . ..
- Drugs Worth Rs 200 Cr Seized (Tribune, Nalini Ranjan, Aug 29, 2006)
The Delhi police today claimed to have seized a huge consignment of a banned drug worth Rs 200 crore from a container depot in the Badarpur area of South Delhi near the Delhi-Haryana border.
- Bajaj Auto To Set Up Rs. 1,750 Cr. Lcv Plant (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
To produce electric three-wheelers in Aurangabad
- Delivery Of Public Services (Hindu, Madhura Swaminathan, Aug 29, 2006)
Case studies prepared for a World Bank report on the improvements in public service delivery in India .
- Mere Deadlines Will Not Do (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 29, 2006)
The Foreign Ministers of the Bangladesh, India, Mynamar, Sri Lanka and Thailand group for Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), have played . . .
- Capitalism With A Human Face (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
An account of modern economic policy from a classical liberal perspective — a contribution to the globalisation debate .
- Growing God, Worth His Weight In Gold (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
He is the wealthiest this year. And, decked in Rs 2.5 crore worth of jewellery, he is making ladies turn green with envy.
- Govt Stumped By Reliance Demand For Ipcl Refund (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Aug 29, 2006)
IPCL may end up being sold for a song. After paying nearly Rs 1,490.84 crore for a controlling share, Reliance Petroinvestment Ltd wants more than half its money back, and the government can’t find the papers to contest RPIL’s claims.
- Maintain Sanctity Of Contracts: Chidambaram (Hindu, Staff Reporter , Aug 29, 2006)
Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has said that the sanctity of contracts and strict enforcement of laws were the need of the hour to make India a global leader.
- Bsnl Keen To Enter Mumbai-Delhi Mkts (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
BSNL is once again on the prowl to take a slice of the metro telecom pie. The corporation is keen to offer telecom service in Mumbai and Delhi where its sister concern MTNL is already operating. BSNL has re-applied for mobile licenses to operate . . .
- 'Us Spy’ Shot Dead In Miranshah (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
: Suspected militants shot dead an Afghan refugee in Miranshah for allegedly being a US spy, officials said on Monday. The victim, identified as Humayun Khan, was kidnapped about five days ago from a North Waziristan refugee camp . . .
- Get The Local Flavour (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 28, 2006)
Since India is a federation of states, many of which have come up after the Constitution came into force, we will not trot out a knee-jerking response to the demand for a separate state in Telengana.
- When Two Eras Overlap (News International, Prof Khwaja Masud, Aug 28, 2006)
Human life is reduced to real suffering when two ages, two cultures overlap.
- Who Makes Policy? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 28, 2006)
More or less everyone with an interest in nuclear policy welcomed Saturday’s meeting between the prime minister and nuclear scientists.
- Curse Of The Red Star (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Aug 28, 2006)
Arriving in Beijing on August 23 for his third China visit in five years, Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, praised the country’s communist leaders to the skies for having rescued China from a “practically feudal” situation and made it into one of . . .
- India Must Help Sri Lanka (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 28, 2006)
New Delhi, one wishes, had made serious efforts to stop the flare-up in Sri Lanka.
- Oic Needs Resuscitation (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 28, 2006)
The OIC’s pathetic response to Zionist aggression in Lebanon and Palestine proves that it needs to be buried.
- Un Peacekeeping Force Deployment In Lebanon With In A Week’ (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan spoke with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and said that the deployment of the multinational force in Lebanon would begin within a week.
- Three Killed, Several Injured In Quetta Riots (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
At least three persons including a policeman were killed and a DSP among several others were injured here in riots, which erupted due to killing of Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) chief Nawab Akbar Bugti and his men in the major operation in Balochistan.
- Bugti: A Violent End (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 28, 2006)
The death of Nawab Akbar Bugti during a military operation in the hills near Kohlu late on Saturday is tragic and could well be a defining moment in Pakistan’s chequered history.
- Cpm Asks For Leash On Private Quotas (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
The CPM has urged the Centre to “immediately introduce” a legislation to regulate fees and management quotas in private institutions.
- A Significant Sixty (Telegraph, S.L. Rao, Aug 28, 2006)
N.R. Narayana Murthy represents a new breed of middle-class (some even lower middle-class) Indians who in the last 20 years have used their brains and their enterprise to build fabulous businesses in their lifetimes.
- Panic Retreat (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 28, 2006)
The Essential Commodities Act is an emergency legislation passed in 1955 to deal with rising prices.
- Our Energy Interests~ii (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 28, 2006)
This is where the oddities arise and a disjoint becomes apparent between what the Government of India is saying and what American and Indian businessmen have been doing.
- Left For ‘Paradigm Shift’ In Upa’S Economic Policy (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
The CPI-M has called for a “paradigm shift” in the government’s economic policy for larger doses of public investments to enhance job opportunities and purchasing power.
- 'Commodity Futures Market Size To Double By 2010' (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
The commodity futures market size is expected to reach more than double by 2010 to Rs 12,00,000 crore and create additional employment avenues for one lakh persons, industry body Assocham has said.
- The Jobless Growth Story (Times of India, Bishwanath Ghosh, Aug 28, 2006)
India’s current manufacturing boom is not broad-based, in contrast to a similar growth performance in the 1980s.
- Sez Appeal (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 28, 2006)
If one were to use response as the yardstick to judge the success of a policy initiative, then the government's move to adopt China's Special Economic Zone (SEZ) model as a growth catalyst has already hit gold. Less than six months after the . . .
- Wto: Bumpy Road Ahead (Daily Excelsior, K R Sudhaman, Aug 28, 2006)
There was some ray hope for revival of the collapsed WTO talks after the G-8 summit of industrialized nations at St Petersburg in Russia, but it seemed to have evaporated after the meeting of key trade ministers including India in Geneva in the last . . .
- Grain Of Sense (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 28, 2006)
The decision to re-introduce stock holding limits on wheat reflects the UPA government’s nostalgia for the control raj of yore.
- Remove Derogatory References To Jats In Ncert Books: Karat (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Ms Brinda Karat, MP and a member of the CPM Politburo, today assuaged hurt feelings of Jat community by seeking immediate deletion of all derogatory references to the community in the books published by the NCERT.
- Venezuela’S Chinese Connection (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 28, 2006)
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s world tour has landed him in China for the fourth time during his presidency. One of his main objectives there is to try to draw China into his global so-called “guerrilla war” against the United States.
- Rules Vs Principles (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Aug 28, 2006)
One of the major debates regarding convergence of accounting standards internationally, is whether they should be rules-based or principles-based. The style and culture in the US, in respect of such regulatory documents, prefer extremely detailed . ..
- Hefty Road Taxes Take Their Toll (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Aug 28, 2006)
The present rate of tolls and other taxes on road transport are not justified. The government needs to review its policy.
- Understanding & Fighting Terrorism (Dawn, Talat Masood, Aug 28, 2006)
The news of the terror plot in Britain in which some British citizens of Pakistani origin and a few Pakistanis were allegedly involved came soon after the regrettable Mumbai train explosion that had the Indian leaders and media pointing fingers . . .
- Us Perspective On Lebanon (Dawn, Maqbool Ahmad Bhatty, Aug 28, 2006)
As the tenuous ceasefire in Lebanon holds, there is constant evaluation going on in the US about the brutal war in Lebanon that was allowed to go on for five weeks to enable Israel to achieve its strategic goals.
- The Descent Into Tribalism (Dawn, Hywel Williams, Aug 28, 2006)
Modern governments, when they try to justify their existence in historical terms, are apt to propose a rough-and-ready anthropology for human development. First came the tribe — savage in instinct, ritualistic in religion and run on the basis of . . .
- Paying A Tribute To Castro (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Aug 28, 2006)
Every once in a while a writer gets the urge to fly off the handle and have a crack at his critics, especially when he believes they have been unfair and unnecessarily provocative.
- 'Volkswagen Plans India Plant' (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
German carmaker Volkswagen plans to invest up to 400 million euros ($511.1 million) to set up a plant in India, Der Spiegel magazine reported.
- Un Volte-Face On Aids (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 28, 2006)
After three years of throwing money at AIDS treatment programmes while ignoring the vital task of prevention, the head of UNAIDS announced this week that prevention is the key to defeating AIDS pandemic.
- Changing Mindset Of Men (Pioneer, Shailaja Chandra, Aug 28, 2006)
Family planning is essential for women's empowerment and it can be achieved in a patriarchal society like ours only if men change their mindset about women
- Sad End Of Stubborn Bugti (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 28, 2006)
Veteran Baloch Sardar Nawab Akbar Bugti, his two grandsons and a number of his accompalices were killed in an encounter with law enforcing agencies in remote areas of Balochistan on Saturday. It’s said that the law enforcing agencies were engaged .. .
- High-Level Meet To Tackle Naxal Menace Soon (Pioneer, Santanu Banerjee, Aug 28, 2006)
The Cabinet Secretary is slated to hold a high-level secretarial meeting shortly to evolve an effective strategy for dealing with Naxalite created bottle-necks in developmental works in the affected districts.
- Time To Rethink Policies (News International, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 28, 2006)
The dramatic return last week of the Northwest Airlines flight from the German airspace to Amsterdam’s Schipol airport, because a multiple ‘terrorist threat’ on board targeting 12 Indian nationals — all of them Muslim — has given a new dimension to . . .
- Keeping The Minority Investor Out (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, Aug 28, 2006)
Too many companies are constantly attempting to keep retail investors from getting their fair share of growth in market valuation and regulators seem unable to do much on this
- Maran`s New Deal (Business Standard, Sunil Jain, Aug 28, 2006)
This is the ultimate irony. The company that just last year challenged Trai’s decision to slash bandwidth tariffs (a major determinant of long-distance tariffs), not once, but twice, on the grounds that it was making just . . .
- Violence In Iraq (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 28, 2006)
VIOLENCE and killings continues unabated in Iraq despite increase in the US forces.
- Global Experience Has Lessons To Offer (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 28, 2006)
A section of telecom operators have reportedly offered to pay compensation to defence services for vacation of spectrum.
- Is The Growth Spurt Sustainable? (The Economic Times, CHETAN AHYA, Aug 28, 2006)
The recent trend on growth data indicates that after a steady deceleration for a period of five quarters, growth rebounded sharply during the quarter ended June 2006.
- Jd-U To Oppose Ban On Religious Conversions (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Taking strong exception to the proposal of Jharkhand Government to impose a ban on religious conversion, coalition partner Janata Dal (United) on Sunday threatened to oppose the move and asked for withdrawal of ban from all parts of the country.
- Govt Must Invest For More Jobs: Cpm (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Concerned over declining employment rate, CPM has asked the UPA government to make a ‘paradigm shift’ in its policy prescription for economic reforms by infusing higher doses of public investment to increase job opportunities and purchasing power . . .
- Textile Labour Law (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 28, 2006)
Where’s the political midwife?
- Regulator For Petroleum, Civil Aviation & Railways Under Consideration: Fm (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Finance Minister P Chidambaram, on Sunday said in Banagalore that the Government was considering to setting up regulatory authorities for petroleum, civil aviation and railways.
- Who Is Right About Nuclear Deal (Daily Excelsior, Allabaksh, Aug 28, 2006)
Impressive though his performance was it cannot be said that in his reply to the Indo-US nuclear deal, after the debates in Parliament, Prime Minister had really said anything substantive that he had not before in response to the spate of criticism . . .
- S Korea To Offer Firms Incentives To Cut Emissions (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
South Korea plans to offer financial incentives to local companies to encourage them to put more resources into cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the budget and energy ministries said today.
- Countering Cunningness (Deccan Herald, Kancha Ilaiah, Aug 26, 2006)
Those opposing reservations on the basis of equality are not advocating equal opportunities for all.
- Sebi Slaps Fine On Holcim (Hindu, Special Correspondent, Hindu, Aug 26, 2006)
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Friday imposed a penalty of Rs 25 crores on Holcim (India) Pvt Ltd for violation of regulations regarding acquisition of shares and take-overs.
- The World Of Those On The Move (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The greatest percentage increase in the unauthorised immigrant population to the US between 2000 and 2005 was from India reveals World Migration 2005: Costs and Benefits of International Migration. International Social Work: Issues, Strategies, and Progra
- Holcim Fined Over Takeover `Lapse` (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) today slapped a Rs 25-crore penalty on Swiss cement major Holcim for its failure to comply with takeover regulations during its acquisition of Associated Cement Company (ACC) last year.
- Bsnl Bill Payment Made Easy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
R.K. Arnold, Chief General Manager, AP Telecom Circle, launched a scheme, which intended to facilitate payment of landline and cell bills through credit cards by customers, at BSNL complex here on Friday.
- Cases Against Jayalalithaa, Sasikala Adjourned To September 22 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Economic Offences-I, J.V. Raj, on Friday adjourned to September 22 cases against former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and her associate Sasikala, for their alleged failure to file income tax returns.
- "Bush Dedicated To Moving Forward On Nuclear Deal" (Hindu, T.S. Subramanian, Aug 26, 2006)
Agreement not [merely] between two leaders but a lasting agreement between two countries
"Beauty of democracy is that we have debate"
Hydrogen economy: U.S. committed to providing $7 billion
- Manmohan To Meet Nuke Scientists Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will seek to allay scientists' fears over the Indo-US nuclear deal when he meets a group of nuclear scientists and members of the Atomic Energy Commission here today.
- When Cure Is Better Than Prevention (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Aug 26, 2006)
About a decade ago, the Supreme Court refused to halt Hindustan Lever Ltd's M&A (mergers and amalgamations) juggernaut, which according to the petitioners, threatened to make HLL the monopolist in the FMCG sector.
- Russia Rules Out Sanctions Against Iran (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Russia rejected on Friday any talk for now of sanctions against Iran and France warned against conflict with Tehran, raising doubts whether it will face swift penalties for not halting nuclear work by an Aug 31 deadline.
- More French Troops For Lebanon (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Aug 26, 2006)
Chirac, Merkel criticise Assad's remarks on deployment of peace force on border . . .
- Hcl Infosystems: On Slippery Pitch (Business Standard, Niraj Bhatt, Aug 26, 2006)
Pressure of low margins and uncertainty on the Nokia front do not suggest much upside for HCL Infosystems.
- T N Ninan: Indian Mega-Corps (Business Standard, T N Ninan, Aug 26, 2006)
Ten years ago, on the back of over 7 per cent GDP growth in successive years, the big Indian companies (and some small ones too) were announcing grandiose projects.
- Up Against Sardari System (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
THE sardari system is a medieval abomination whose continuation in the 21st century has done incalculable harm to Balochistan. Its Bugti-specific abolition on Thursday by the Bugti Qaumi Jirga should focus attention on this anachronism.
- Rights & Justice Must Go Together (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
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- Revival Of Mass Transit Authority Approved (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has approved revival of the Mass Transit Authority under the railways ministry to provide quicker, reliable and safer journey to people in big cities.
- Us Non-Committal On Assistance For Special Zones (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
A non-committal response from the United States for the so-called tribal reconstruction opportunity zones has put a damper on tribal investors keenly waiting for the fulfilment of a commitment made by President George Bush himself.
- Quota Bill Tabled, No Mention Of Creamy Layer (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh on Friday introduced the controversial quota Bill in the Lok Sabha, to provide for 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in Central educational institutions...
- Oil Prices Up On Supply Fears (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
World oil prices rose on Friday on supply concerns caused by the threat of a tropical storm near the US and fears that Iran may disrupt exports if hit by economic sanctions over its disputed nuclear programme, analysts said.
- The Game Of The Rules (The Economic Times, Narendar Pani, Aug 26, 2006)
The bizarre end to the Test match between England and Pakistan at the Oval has followed a pattern that is becoming painfully predictable in the sub-continent.
- Sbi Rises 3.39 Pc On Cabinet Approval To Act Changes (Business Line, Our Bureau, Business line, Aug 26, 2006)
Shares of State Bank of India (SBI), the country's largest commercial bank, rose by 3.39 per cent on Friday to close at Rs 903.75, the highest in more than three months, after the Union Cabinet gave approval to amendments to the SBI Act.
- New Development Projects (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
THE Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) has approved 30 development projects estimated to cost Rs130 billion. The first priority has been given to infrastructure development with a hefty share of Rs81.7 billion for 15 . . .
- Plurality Of Views Aids Meaningful Consensus (The Financial Express, N K Singh, Aug 26, 2006)
The economic outlook for 2006-07 presented by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister has no startling revelations.
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