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Articles 7221 through 7320 of 35809:
- Alternative Action (Tribune, Smriti Kak Ramachandran, Jul 12, 2006)
The debate over the proposed implementation of 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in institutions of higher learning has thrown up alternatives like Affirmative Action.
- Incorporating Health Concerns Into Country's Development Goals (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Focus on National Population Policy on World Population Day
Expert says enabling conditions like literacy, access to food, work and health motivate families to keep the family size in check
She says with development, people will adopt population . . .
- Message From The Mumbai Blasts: Don't Get Close To The Us (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
If ever there was a demonstration that cross-border terrorism remains a pertinent threat to freedom-loving people everywhere, it happened on 7/11 in Mumbai, the financial capital of India.
- Terror In Mumbai: It Could Be Next Target (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Terrorism' has become a global industry. It appears to work like a multinational corporation with branches, local offices around the world. This industry has no accountability to society.
- Communal Riots Would Be Precisely What The Terrorists Want (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Having just returned from a 'Peace Delegation' visit from Karachi, one had a sense of foreboding about coming events. Exploding population, rampant religious fundamentalism, spiralling prices, unemployment, a money order economy, violence in . . .
- How Much Will India Endure? (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Yesterday's awful rush-hour bombings of trains in Bombay raise an important and ominous question: How far can India be pushed?
- 'It's Not The Time To Play The Blame Game' (Rediff on the Net, SHABANA AZMI, Jul 12, 2006)
Actress Shabana Azmi called up rediff.com on Wednesday to send out a message to Mumbaikars after doing the rounds of Mumbai hospitals. She was all praise for the doctors attending to the blast victims and police working tirelessly.
- Railway Drivers (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 12, 2006)
It was with warranted fanfare that the Electric Traction Training Centre in Vijaywada ~ the biggest railway junction in the southern peninsula, it was proudly . . .
- Maharashtra Tops Jihadi Target (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
148 killed 8 blasts in 11 minutes ---- It was like a chronicle of a tragedy foretold. Mumbai was always a soft target.
- Dozen More Reasons (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 12, 2006)
To ask: just what is this government doing about terror, why can’t it even get its rhetoric right?
- All In The Mainstream (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 12, 2006)
A baffling outcome of the influx from Bangladesh has been the mushroom growth of unaffiliated madrasas in West Bengal’s border districts.
- Kashmir: Tourists, The New Targets (Pioneer, Pramod Kumar Singh, Jul 12, 2006)
Serial grenade blasts in Srinagar were once again targeted at driving the tourists out of the Kashmir valley.
- Surge And Plunge Of The Paris Club (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Jul 12, 2006)
By design or chance, the Paris Club forged links with most other agencies and groups and played the role of a mysterious broker. It had to imbibe the changes in debt regime and operational styles.
- Highways Hassles (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 12, 2006)
It would seem the day is not far off when an instant bandh (read road blockade) will result if even a stray chicken or dog is run over by a vehicle on Manipur’s main lifelines ~ the 213-km Dimapur-Imphal Road (NH 39) or the alternative 214-km Silchar . .
- Nuclear Power Is Safer Now, But We Still Don't Need It (Hindu, George Monbiot, Jul 12, 2006)
It's true that another Chernobyl couldn't happen in a new reactor, but the case against nuclear power is as strong as ever.
- Grenade Attacks May Derail Tourism Industry (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Jul 12, 2006)
Blasts won't affect tourist influx: traders
Sixth attack on tourists since beginning of this year's tourist season
Mainstream, separatist political parties condemn attacks
Perpetrators of violence will only invite people's wrath: Azad
- Govt. Plans Five Manufacturing Investment Regions (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Easier FDI norms being considered — Nath
Each investment region to cover 100 sq. km.
MIRs will have world class infrastructure but no fiscal concession
- A Tragedy Foretold (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jul 12, 2006)
It could take months to identify the perpetrators of the Mumbai bombings, but the recent past holds some clues.
- Domestic Imperatives In Iran's Foreign Policy (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Jul 12, 2006)
A new exercise in consensus building is under way. The purpose is to present a unified approach and deny the interlocutor space to exploit internal disagreements.
- Tatas' Rs. 1 Lakh Car In 2008 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Talks with GE for engineered plastics body; first lot of cars will be made of steel
It will be a rear engine, 4-5 seat, four-door car
The market for the small car has been estimated at one million
- Fake Fir Scam: Judgment Ordering Cbi Probe Upheld (Hindu, J. Venkatesan, Jul 12, 2006)
State had challenged Madras High Court order in Supreme Court The Bench said that since thousands of crores of rupees was involved, the interests of the State had to be protected by proper investigation .
- Aiadmk, Allies Hold Aloft The Banner Of Revolt (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Cadres stage demonstration , demanding upgrading of hospital
- Manmohan For Reconstruction Of University System (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Underlines need to recognise private sector contribution in its expansion
Lays foundation for the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
Universities have not grown commensurate with need
- Congressmen Face Delhiites' Ire Over Poor Power Situation (Hindu, Sujay Mehdudia, Jul 12, 2006)
Cadres have been faced with angry crowds forcing them to abruptly end the by-poll campaign for Subhash Nagar municipal seat
Sheila Dikshit, senior leaders have kept away from campaign
Party workers told to stop playing the `band and dhol'
- Andhra Bank Organises Road-Shows (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
In connection with the valedictory of the month long AB Deposit Ut `save' all the Andhra Bank branches in the town jointly organised a road show near the RTC bus complex, here on Tuesday.
- Bribery Charge: Bjp Asks State Unit To Go Slow (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Determined to keep the BJP-JD(S) government afloat in Karnataka, the BJP high command has stepped in to tell the state unit to defuse the crisis triggered by the bribery charge against Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy by party MLC G Janardhan Reddy.
- Zizou, Don’T Tell Us What Made You Mad (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 12, 2006)
Long years ago I had a coaster which stated an eternal truth. It simply said ‘‘Use your head—it is the little things that count’’. Somewhere along the way the coaster disappeared. Did it reach Zidane without an explanatory note?
- ‘Research Companies Need To Be Protected From Pirates’ (Indian Express, HARINDER S. SIKKA, Jul 12, 2006)
The Indian pharma industry is growing at a rapid pace overseas, touching almost every part of the world. In the process, it’s also giving MNCs a run for their money and putting to rest all apprehensions.
- Tata In Talks For Using Ge Plastic For Small Car (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Tata Motors Ltd is exploring the possible use of re-engineered plastic supplied by General Electric Co for its Rs one lakh small car it hopes to launch in two years.
- 147 Dead, 439 Injured As Blasts Rock Mumbai Trains (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
At least 147 people were killed and 439 injured in a string of seven terror blasts that tore through first class compartments of suburban trains around 6 pm during the peak hour traffic here today.
- Iran Dashes Hopes Of A Breakthrough (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani warned on Tuesday that talks on his country’s atomic programme will be a ‘‘long process,’’ urging patience and dashing hopes of a breakthrough on the international standoff.
- India: Bombed But Unbowed (Los Angeles Times, Editorial, Los Angeles Times, Jul 12, 2006)
Mumbai, like london, IS A bustling center of finance and culture that looms larger in its countrymen's imaginations than any other city.
- Sena Packs A Punch At Pak & Cong (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Bloody Tuesday drew a dreary roar from Bal Thackeray, with the Shiv Sena supremo blaming the serial blasts on the pusillanimous policy of the Congress-led Centre towards Pakistan.
- It Cannot Be Work Of Sane Kashmiris: Tourism Sector (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Saying that the grenade attacks on tourists in Srinagar couldn’t be the work of any ‘‘sane Kashmiri’’, the tourism industry in the Valley today demanded a probe into the incidents.
- Shadow Boxing (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 12, 2006)
We've been here before. The government had to shelve its plans for a token 10 per cent disinvestment in PSUs like Nalco and Neyveli Lignite Corporation when leftist and Tamil allies protested.
- ‘You Really Can’T Buy Happiness’ (Deccan Herald, SHANKAR VEDANTAM, Jul 12, 2006)
Joy-o-meter- Once personal wealth exceeds about $12,000 a year, more money produces virtually no increase in life satisfaction
- Maximum City, Invincible People & Their Lifeline (Indian Express, FARAH BARIA, Jul 12, 2006)
Even at the best of times, there’s one scene that never changes: battered railway coaches packed with the human flotsam of a brutal city. Men, women, and children, travelling like concentration-camp refugees to do the only thing they know: survive.
- Spilling Palestinian Blood (News International, IMTIAZ GUL, Jul 12, 2006)
If somebody believes they can force us militarily, they are befooling themselves. We defeated them in the past and we will defeat them again.
- ‘We Shall Overcome’ (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Even as the Opposition stepped in to mobilise public anger over the attack on Mumbai, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday refrained from employing rhetoric in his address to the nation.
- Singh Vows To Defeat Forces Of Terrorism (Dawn, Jawed Naqvi, Jul 12, 2006)
The deadly blasts in Mumbai followed a spate of grenade attacks by suspected militants in Srinagar on Tuesday in which at least six people, described as Indian tourists, were killed.
- Rice Urges Congress To Vote N-Deal Before August (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Jul 12, 2006)
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday urged both Houses of the US Congress to vote on the US-India civil nuclear cooperation before the month-long summer recess in August.
- Pirates Sequel Records $132 Million Debut (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Johnny Depp's boozy, woozy buccaneer Jack Sparrow has plundered the US and Canadian box office, with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest taking in a record US $132 million in its first three days, according to studio estimates.
- Warm Up To The Future (Indian Express, K. Subrahmanyam, Jul 12, 2006)
A number of sceptics in this country have questioned whether the Indo-US nuclear deal is really about civil nuclear energy.
- Investment Banks Slug It Out For Top Indian Grads (Pioneer, Reuters, Jul 12, 2006)
The competition among investment banks to snare top students is heating up as they cast the net as far as India and China to recruit an increasing number of bright new hires this summer.
- Buddha Contradicts Basu On Tourists (Pioneer, PTI, Jul 12, 2006)
Contradicting his predecessor Jyoti Basu, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said on Tuesday he would not advise tourists against visiting Jammu and Kashmir despite the death of five persons from the State in a militant attack at Srinagar.
- Passers-By Nab Militant After Grenade Attack (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
In a rare instance, passers- by today caught a suspected militant and handed him over to the police soon after he lobbed a grenade on a vehicle in the heart of this city, officials said.
- Blasts: Bid To Scare Tourists (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
The serial grenade explosions in Srinagar are being visualised as an attempt of terrorists to cripple the economy of those connected with tourism by scaring away tourists.
- Black Tuesday (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 12, 2006)
IT’S difficult to miss the connection between the terrorist strikes in Mumbai and Srinagar. In the metropolis, the terrorists sought to cripple the suburban railway system, which is the lifeline of the city.
- Zimbabwe’S 1200 Per Cent Inflation (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 12, 2006)
I was introduced to the “Zimbabwean wallet” on my first day back in my home country.
- Gulf Kannadigas Fly High On Hope (Deccan Herald, Gopal Sutar, Jul 12, 2006)
DIRECT LINK- The Chief Minister has assured Kannadigas in the Gulf of improved infrastructure in coastal Karnataka
- J&k Leads In Job Growth (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 12, 2006)
Despite being in the grip of militancy for more than a decade, Jammu and Kashmir has registered the highest rate of growth in total employment at 6.82 per cent in the country, according to the Economic Census 2005 conducted by the Central . . .
- Pak Rakes Up Kashmir Issue At Saarc Meet (Tribune, K J M Varma, Jul 12, 2006)
Pakistan today raked up the Kashmir issue at the SAARC Finance Ministers' meeting here with India hitting back by voicing concerns on terrorism and stressing the need to remove "double standards" in mounting a collective challenge to "eliminate the . . .
- Defiant Iran (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Two months ago Russia and China blocked action at the United Nations against Iran's nuclear program.
- Israeli Air Strikes On Gaza Continue (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
In the latest action in the Gaza Strip, Israeli aircraft fired missiles at militants transporting and setting up rockets near the northern town of Beit Hanoun, the Israeli army said.
- A Tall Order (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 11, 2006)
Can government back investment panel?
- Jayati Ghosh: Who Pays For Maheshwar? (Frontline, Jayati Ghosh, Jul 11, 2006)
IT is hardly news that State governments in India continue to deny citizens their basic rights of rehabilitation, or that they continue to flout the law even after repeated court strictures in this regard, all in return for dubiously promised social . . .
- A Taliban-Coloured Dawn In Kashmir (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jul 11, 2006)
Resurgent Islamists have used the prostitution scandal to subvert democratic institutions and processes.
- Shiv Sena And Its "Spontaneous" Response (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jul 11, 2006)
Sunday's violence in Mumbai merely reiterates the party's true nature.
- Bhaskar Ghose: The Bucks Stop Here (Frontline, Bhaskar Ghose, Jul 11, 2006)
The redefinition of the role of Financial Advisers is going to make transaction of business in Ministries even more complex than it has been so far.
- Praful Bidwai: Ready To Collude With Empire? (Frontline, Praful Bidwai, Jul 11, 2006)
The Indian elite's lovefest with the U.S. amidst the Iraq quagmire bodes ill for this country's future.
- R.K. Raghavan: Remembering F.V. Arul (Frontline, Editorial, Frontline, Jul 11, 2006)
Frederick Victor Arul's firmness was not politically expedient, but he had the courage to withstand its consequences.
- The (Un) Importance Of Being Imf (The Financial Express, Mythili Bhusnurmath, Jul 11, 2006)
Given the more democratically structured WTO, why should the IMF look at trade imbalances?
- C.P.Chandrasekhar: Exorcising Inflation (Frontline, C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR, Jul 11, 2006)
Dependence on foreign finance and a worsening of the agrarian crisis seem to be the costs of using imports to deal with inflation.
- Trafficking Is Big Business (Daily Excelsior, Atul Cowshish, Jul 11, 2006)
When the news first broke out it looked incredulous that a senior officer of the Indian Foreign Service, posted at the time as the head of the Indian Council for cultural relations, could be probed for helping illegal transportation of a group of . . .
- Caring For One (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jul 11, 2006)
If statistics can be scary and revealing here is a telling example.
- Tatas Put On Hold Investment Plans For Bangladesh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
Negotiating team is still studying Tatas' proposal, says Board of Investment chief
- Hizb Loses 3rd 'Distt Commdr' In A Month (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
A day after claiming to have identified the masterminds of the grenade blast that killed 5 persons and left 42 others injured in Kulgam, Jammu and Kashmir Police has claimed to have eliminated one of Hizbul Mujahideen's seniormost commanders in south . .
- Infuse Dynamism In Caste-System (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 11, 2006)
The lure of job reservation prevents upward mobility of the backward castes and encourages social stagnation, says Bulbul Roy Mishra.
- Listless Regime (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 11, 2006)
Blaming BJP makes no sense ---- The Congress, whenever it has been in power at the Centre, has found it expedient to indulge in name-calling and blaming the Opposition to deflect attention from its non-performance or flawed policy decisions.
- Ascent Of The Anti-Hindus (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Jul 11, 2006)
Barely a month after his visit to New Delhi for support in rebuilding his Maoist-ravaged country, Nepal's appointed interim Prime Minister GP Koirala has delivered his unhappy nation into the hands of its . . .
- Empire Is Born In A Six By Four Cell (OutLook, MAHMOOD FAROOQUI, Jul 11, 2006)
Indian history is peripheral in these essentially Brit books on the old Empire and the modern Corp.
- Mfs, Ipos Can Do Without Quotas (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 11, 2006)
The government has reportedly sounded out Sebi to consider an income criterion for defining a retail investor and fixing a lock-in period for them.
- Party Time For Italian Market? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 11, 2006)
La dolce vita — the title of a 1960 Fellini film, meaning ‘The sweet life’ — just about sums up the mood in Italy on the morning after the national team picked up football’s greatest trophy, the World Cup.
- Up In Smoke (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 11, 2006)
North Korea fired its missiles in defiance not just of the US, Japan and South Korea, but also of its supporters in China, says Niall Ferguson.
- Tata Tele Mulling New Domestic Calling Cards (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
Tata Teleservices is understood to be planning to launch in-country calling card service and is awaiting a National Long Distance licence it has applied.
- A Lost Opportunity (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Jul 11, 2006)
The Rs 3,700-cr debt relief package for Vidarbha will benefit the banks more than the farmers
- Viva Fifa (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 11, 2006)
It was a show of bonhomie never seen before
- Major Firms To Set Up Shop In Mysore (Deccan Herald, Shankar Bennur, Jul 11, 2006)
The State Committee on Industries has cleared mega projects with investments ranging from Rs 100 crore to Rs 500 crore in Mysore. The investments are set to create huge employment for skilled labour and improve the economic activity in the region.
- Our Land, Their Industry (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 11, 2006)
The indebtedness of Indian farmers rose substantially in the 1990s following the tendency of successive governments to market reforms and the opening up of the economy to foreign investors.
- Kashmiri Ultra Gets A Doctorate From Prison (Statesman, Kavita Suri, Jul 11, 2006)
A top Kashmiri militant serving a life sentence in the Srinagar Central Jail has been awarded a doctorate in Islamic Studies by the Kashmir University.
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