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Articles 7521 through 7620 of 35809:
- Privatisation: Need For A New Approach (Dawn, Dr Tariq Hassan, Jul 08, 2006)
DAWN’s June 26 editorial, entitled “Need for a policy re-think”, regarding the Supreme Court decision annulling the privatisation of Pakistan Steel Mills provides a much needed pause, not only for the government to re-think its privatisation policy . . .
- Cardiologist Solomon Victor Dead (Hindu, R. Sujatha, Jul 08, 2006)
He conceived Rheumatic Heart Ailment Project for poor patients He is the only cardiac surgeon in India to qualify as Member of Royal College of Physicians
- Tuk Tuk, Look What Brighton’S Riding (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
The tuk tuk, India’s motorised rickshaw, began service in Brighton today and was “hailed as the next new big thing”.
- Now, Estrada Invites (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 07, 2006)
A former beauty queen filed a complaint today against ousted Philippine President Joseph Estrada and seven other people for allegedly defrauding her of her mother’s property on a false promise that she would be given a beer dealership.
- Sell-Off Put On Hold (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
In a blow to the Manmohan Singh government’s disinvestment programme, the Prime Minister was today forced to “put all disinvestment decisions and proposals on hold”, including the Centre’s recent decision to divest 10 per cent of its stakes in the . . .
- Centre Bends Under Left, Dmk Pressure (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
While the Congress believes that the Prime Minister’s decision to put on hold all divestment decisions and proposals concerning the PSUs today as a “tactical retreat”, the Left parties ~ the UPA government’s key outside partners ~ were enthused by . . .
- Eu, Iran Talk Amid Rising Concerns (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Iran postponed talks with the EU's foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Brussels on Wednesday in apparent anger at an exiled opposition leader's visit to the European parliament.
- Dmk's Thunder Down Under Brings Upa To Its Knees (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
NLC, NALCO divestment put off ---- After resisting Left pressure, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday . . .
- Own Goal (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 07, 2006)
In two days, two allies have twice made the Congress look surreally ineffectual. But don’t blame the DMK and PMK, respectively, for the government’s unceremonious . . .
- Pipeline Projects: A Lot Of Gas? (Pioneer, Dmitri Kosyrev, Jul 07, 2006)
Central Asia is coming alive to the exciting possibilities of energy diplomacy, but there are the obvious roadblocks, says Dmitri Kosyrev
- ‘Manmohan Treats Cmp With Contempt’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 07, 2006)
The latest move of the UPA government (on disinvestment of) profit-making PSUs through sale of minority share holding is an outright misdemeanor. Not only does this move flouts the CMP, but also the intention behind such a move at this point of time . . .
- Ken Lay’S Last Evasion (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 07, 2006)
Ah, Kenneth Lay of Enron: America hardly knew you before your trial, but learned after your big-hammer jury conviction that you had left countless suckers broke, employees cheated and stockholders betrayed.
- La La Land (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 07, 2006)
Thinking small comes instinctively to the Indian establishment. Nothing else explains India’s timid approach to the renewal of trade between Tibet and Sikkim at Nathu La. For all the breathless TV reporting on rebuilding the ‘silk routes’ between . . .
- Nathu La Helps To Redefine Borders (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 07, 2006)
During a recent visit to Nathu La pass recently, my students and I learnt some important lessons in diplomacy and strategy.
- Shanghai Spirit (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Jul 07, 2006)
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's fifth summit points to increasing solidarity.
- Mulayam Singh Appeals For A Second Term (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Blames Centre for dismal power scenario in the State
He said U.P. would be brought at par with States like West Bengal in terms of industrial development
Asks party workers to start preparations for Assembly polls scheduled early next year
- Electric Train Service To Be Launched On July 12 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Electrification of railway track completed
- Tatas To Up Stake In Tata Steel (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Mittal's taking over of Arcelor seems to have ripple effects in India also as Tata Steel Ltd, country's largest private steel maker, has decided to hike its stake from the current 26.79 per cent to 33.6 percent to obviate any takeover attempts.
- Passing The Buck (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 07, 2006)
Congress must own up its failure ---- With a listless UPA Government unable to respond to the looming crisis fuelled by spiralling prices of essential commodities, the Congress has chosen to fall back upon its . . .
- Disowning The Shadow (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Jul 07, 2006)
Sonia Gandhi is ill-advisedly trying to distance the Congress from unpopular Government . . .
- Conditioned Mindset (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Jul 07, 2006)
It's our colonised way of thinking that is generating unemployment and causing non-performance of assets in the country, writes Prafull Goradia
- Negotiating Korea (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 07, 2006)
But isn't there a limit to blackmail? -
- As The Nation Goes, So Goes The Popular (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 07, 2006)
How does one go about making sense of 21st-century India?
- Opting Out (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 07, 2006)
India has walked out of the Doha talks.
- Glare & Wink Make Pm Blink (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has put all divestment proposals on hold after a threat from southern ally DMK and a nudge from Sonia Gandhi.
- Bjp To Probe Dfo's Death, Land Allotment (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
BJP leader Dhiman will head the 5-member team
- China Recasts Its Image (Deccan Herald, MARK MAGNIER, Jul 07, 2006)
The curious incident of the pig’s-head meal vouchers and the anthem-singing sit-in offers a cautionary tale...
- Should Private Tuition Be Banned? (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, Jul 07, 2006)
On paper, the HRD ministry’s proposal to ban private tuition by teachers outside the classroom is like motherhood.
- Check Wastage (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 07, 2006)
It is time that the BWSSB got its act together
- Saddam In Show Trial (Frontline, Atul Aneja , Jul 07, 2006)
Impartiality of the Saddam Hussein trial is increasingly questioned because of the active behind-the-scenes role of the United States.
- All Divestment On Hold: Pm (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday decided to put on hold all decisions to sell stakes in state-run firms after DMK threatened to pull out of the government.
- Out Of Iraq (Frontline, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Jul 07, 2006)
The Junichiro Koizumi government's decision to withdraw troops from Iraq is consistent with the mood of the Japanese people.
- Let's Just Do It (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 07, 2006)
Today, we Indians live in rare, exhilarating times. Never before in the last 1,000 years did India and Indians amount to much among foreigners as we are today. In the past, we were deemed people fit enough to be ruled by outsiders.
- The Changing Trade Winds In Europe (Business Line, BATUK GATHANI, Jul 07, 2006)
For European companies the focus is Asia and the US, but not Europe, so as to reduce their manufacturing and marketing costs, and modernise their marketing techniques.
- Tata Stocks Riding On Acquisitions, Consolidation (Business Line, Rajesh Abraham, Jul 07, 2006)
A combination of factors ranging from acquisitions to impact of global consolidation in their respective sectors and the benefit of riding this wave while hailing from a respectable business house, has triggered investor interest in select Tata . . .
- Tata Coffee Brews Global Strategy (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
With the $220-million Eight O’Clock acquisition,Tata Coffee Limited has latched onto a "brand" that the company lacked and has vaulted the Tata group company onto a "different plane".
- Return Of Taliban (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Jul 07, 2006)
It is not only the scale of the Taliban's recent attacks but also its growing military sophistication that worries the West.
- Upa Not Committed To Reforms, Says Bjp (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
The BJP on Thursday criticised the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, for keeping on hold all disinvestment plans. According to the BJP, the move was a "compromise" with economic reforms because of political pressure.
- Imposing Iodine (Frontline, LYLA BAVADAM, Jul 07, 2006)
The ban on non-iodised salt, reimposed this May, is criticised as being based on generalisations made by the authorities.
- Emerging Challenges To Our Foreign Account (The Financial Express, VIVEK BHARATI, Jul 07, 2006)
The importance of electronics for managing trade deficits and generating jobs is overlooked
- Pm Forced To Succumb To Dmk Pressure (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Jul 07, 2006)
Already under attack from his own party on the issue of price rise, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is faced with further erosion of his authority having been forced to succumb to DMK’s pressure and place all disinvestment plans on hold today.
- All Disinvestment Decisions On Hold (Tribune, T.R. Ramachandran, Jul 07, 2006)
Unable to brush aside the threat by a key ally, the DMK, to withdraw support to the Congress-led UPA government if it went ahead with disinvestment of profit-making PSUs, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh immediately kept in abeyance all decisions . . .
- Easy Money (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 07, 2006)
With companies successfully raising capital abroad, India Inc need not fear interest rate hikes as it used to.
- Complaint Against Igs Saini, Reddy Baseless: Vb (Tribune, Ajay Banerjee, Jul 07, 2006)
A complaint against two IGs of the Punjab Police — Mr Sumedh Singh Saini and Mr C.S.R. Reddy — has been found to be "baseless" by the state Vigilance Bureau. In the complaint lodged by the Chandigarh-based Lawyers for Human . . .
- Should Amcs Manage Insurance Funds? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 07, 2006)
The process of insurance involves detailed risk management techniques to arrive at the premium paid by the insured and remaining solvent to honour claims in case of eventualities.
- People First (Tribune, B.G. Verghese for and Sanjay Sangvai , Jul 07, 2006)
India’s 80 million tribal population, the largest in the world, is also India’s most exploited and disadvantaged community.
- Kerala To Seek `Vidharbha-Like Package' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Achuthanandan leaves for New Delhi with memorandum listing State's travails
- Karunanidhi Seeks More Banks In Rural Areas (Hindu, CP Bhambhri, Jul 07, 2006)
Reserve Bank of India Governor calls on Chief Minister
- Implications Of N Korea Missile Tests (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 07, 2006)
North Korea has launched ten missiles on Wednesday evoking condemnation at the international level. Japan and US have moved the UN Security Council for sanctions against Pyongyong, while Russia and China have opposed the move and called for calm.
- India Inc Slams Decision To Hold Back Disinvestment (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Leading industry chambers on Thursday expressed concern over the government's decision to hold back disinvestment in public sector companies and said the move would send wrong signals about the future of economic reforms in the country.
- To Rule For Ever (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jul 07, 2006)
On this side of the Line of Control a near-perfect system has evolved over the years.
- Government Puts Disinvestment Process On Hold (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Manmohan Singh gives in to DMK demand
DMK threatened to walk out of Government
Congress invokes coalition dharma
A compromise to stay in power: BJP
- Hp Technology Grant For Anna University (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
It will transform `the way subjects are taught on the campus' It will transform `the way subjects are taught on the campus'
- Higher Education In India (Daily Excelsior, Ram Rattan Sharma, Jul 07, 2006)
The system of higher education in India is the third largest in the world after China and USA.
- Ltte's Manoeuvres India's Options (Daily Excelsior, M Rama Rao, Jul 07, 2006)
By now it is clear that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has grudgingly admitted responsibility for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi only as a tactical manoeuvre and in search of a trade off. Whether it will succeed in its gambit is a . . .
- `Delay In Disinvestment Will Send Wrong Signals' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Government could face major resource constraint
Large public investments required in critical areas
Sale of PSU shares had unlocked their value
- Upset Dmk Forces Government To Stall State Asset Sales (Reuters, Surojit Gupta, Jul 07, 2006)
India put all decisions to sell stakes in state-run firms on hold on Thursday after a key ally threatened to pull out of the ruling coalition, raising questions about the future of its economic reforms.
- Kerala Government To Seek `Vidharbha-Like Package' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Achuthanandan leaves for New Delhi with a memorandum
- Friday Feature: Tolerance In Islam (Dawn, Sidrah Unis, Jul 07, 2006)
Islam, which literally means ‘submission’, establishes and promotes peaceful co-existence.
- Bleak House~ii (Statesman, Jagmohan , Jul 07, 2006)
Cities Drifting Towards Physical And Moral Degradation
- Environmental Fiscal Reform (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 07, 2006)
The environmental fiscal reform (EFR) project launched recently by an international NGO could lay some misconceptions to rest.
- Left Demands Rethink As Pm Halts Stake Sales (Reuters, Kamil Zaheer, Jul 07, 2006)
India's communist parties, which back the government, said on Thursday a decision by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to put off stake sales in state firms highlighted the need for a consensus on key economic issues.
- Aai Employees Threaten To Launch Agitation (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 06, 2006)
The Airports Authority of India Employees Union will launch agitation if the Centre "tried to privatise the airports in the name of modernisation".
- 'South American Union Possible' (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 06, 2006)
A South American Union seems more possible today than ever before, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said after signing a strategic alliance with his Argentine counterpart Nestor Kirchner here.
- Iran Tests Eu's Patience, Postpones Nuclear Talks (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 06, 2006)
Iran postponed crucial nuclear talks with the European Union on Wednesday in apparent anger at an exiled opposition leader's visit to the European Parliament, but the meeting will go ahead on Thursday.
- No To Nurses (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 06, 2006)
Britain’s decision to stop the recruitment of nurses from India and other countries outside the European Union would not have deserved notice but for the fact that it smacks of discrimination. It is aimed to keep out non-EU nurses.
- Nathu La Reopens Today (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 06, 2006)
It will be the dawn of a new era in Sino-Indian bilateral ties tomorrow when border trade between the world’s two most populous nations resumes through the famed Nathu la pass after a gap of over four decades.
- Obc Bond Issue On July 7, To Raise Rs 500 Crore (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 06, 2006)
The Oriental Bank of Commerce is likely to hit the bond market on July 7 to raise Rs 500 crore through private placement of bonds maturing in 15 years.
- Necropolis Now (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 06, 2006)
Deregulate Delhi's power, Mumbai's drains ---- Notwithstanding claims of urban renewal and of the need to build new, modern cities in . . .
- The Marriage Rocks (Pioneer, Vikram Kumar, Jul 06, 2006)
Vikram Kumar regrets the day he dared to call himself 'witty' in a matrimonial, for his wife never fails to rib him on that.
- Right Benediction (Pioneer, Daniel Pipes, Jul 06, 2006)
The Pope's decision to demand human rights for Christians in Muslim countries is a welcome change in the Vatican world-view, says Daniel Pipes.
- Infosys To Announce Q1 Results On July 12 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 06, 2006)
Infosys Technologies will announce results for its first quarter ended June 30, 2006, on July 12.
- Friendship Is A Numbers Game (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 06, 2006)
Once again the idea of forming a third front is floating around in the offices of political parties which are neither close to the Congress nor the Bharatiya Janata Party.
- Global Fury Over N Korea Missiles (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 06, 2006)
North Korea today test-fired a barrage of missiles, including a long-range weapon said to be capable of reaching Alaska, ratcheting up tensions in north Asia and drawing international condemnation.
- Highway Travel To Get Smarter (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 06, 2006)
The “mini-townships” which the Salim Group will build along the Barasat-Raichak expressway would be clusters of commercial complexes with resorts, shops, motels, food courts, rest-rooms and gas stations, industries minister Nirupam Sen told The . . .
- Defiant Korea Test-Launches Seven Missiles (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 06, 2006)
North Korea test-launched seven missiles, including a long-range Taepodong, in an early-morning barrage today, defying international warnings of retaliation and prompting concerns that it could follow with more tests.
- Train To Tibet (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 06, 2006)
The train was taken up after decades on the drawing board
- ‘By 2007, Increase In H1b Visa Quota Likely’ (Deccan Herald, Michael Patrao, Jul 06, 2006)
At present 65,000 people from across the world are allowed to enter the US under the H1B category of which almost 50 per cent are IT professionals from the southern states
- A Mirage Called Elections (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 06, 2006)
Hundreds of candidates are contesting for the Assembly, which, in practice, has very little powers.
- Threat Of Religious Fundamentalism (Deccan Herald, SURYAKANT WAGHMORE, Jul 06, 2006)
Caste like class, is a critical consideration in political mobilisation
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