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Articles 13721 through 13820 of 35809:
- Cement Price-Fixing (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 05, 2006)
Agreement has been reached between the federal government and cement manufacturers on a number of measures to bring down the price of cement, which in the last month had increased by Rs 50 per bag.
- Investigating Disappearances (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 05, 2006)
A disturbing phenomenon that has late surfaced in Pakistan is that of ‘disappearances’.
- Punjab To Build Lahore-Sialkot Motorway (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
The Punjab cabinet decided to initiate measures including construction of international standard motorway from Sialkot to Lahore, action against sale of spurious drugs, activation of price control committees and construction of a sports city in the . . .
- Mea's Most Wanted Seeks Refuge In Munich Hospital (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
With the CBI looking out for him for his alleged role in human trafficking to Germany, Rakesh Kumar, senior IFS officer and Special Secretary (Economic Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs, got himself admitted in a Munich hospital on Tuesday.
- Change Is Possible (Deccan Herald, V Pradeep Kumar, Apr 05, 2006)
Meet India, the land of diversities or unity in diversity, as we like it to be. A country which is being wooed by everyone right from USA, the self-proclaimed guardian of this world to Iran, at the other end of the spectrum. Despite living in . . .
- He Freed A City, Gave It Life (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
Bogota’s urban area is 384.3 sq km compared to Bangalore’s 437 sq km. The Colombian capital almost touches a population of 70 lakh, while Bangalore’s is more than 90 lakh
- Citing Caste, Cong Govt In Hp Stalls Judges’ Postings (Indian Express, Ashwani Sharma, Apr 05, 2006)
For the first time in 30 years, the strength of the Himachal Pradesh High Court is set to go down from nine to three judges.
- Singapore Considering Sez In India (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 05, 2006)
Singapore is actively considering developing a Special Economic Zone in India to bring in a large range of industries. It has proposed setting up a study team to enhance cooperation in the banking sector.
- The Flawed Trial Of Saddam Hussein (Hindu, Sadakat Kadri, Apr 05, 2006)
The trial of the Iraqi dictator, promising justice while presuming guilt, is a parody of Nuremberg and legally irredeemable.
- The Case Of The Missing Teachers (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Apr 05, 2006)
With one in four government primary school teachers absent on any given day, and only one in two teaching, India is wasting much of its budget for education, a study finds.
- No Foreign Support Behind Baloch Insurgency (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Apr 04, 2006)
“In the absence of foreign support, which does not appear imminent, the Baloch movement cannot prevail over a determined central government with obviously superior military strength,” according to a report on the resurgence of Baloch nationalism . . .
- Terror Firmer @ 45% Militancy Countrywide (Pioneer, Pramod Kumar Singh, Apr 04, 2006)
It is an extraordinary situation. Over 45 per cent area of the country, comprising 220 districts, is under the throes of some kind of militancy. Apart from terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir, insurgency in Northeastern States, Maoist menace . . .
- Bureaucracy’S Role (Statesman, D BANDYOPADHYAY, Apr 04, 2006)
Civil Servants Not Obliged To Carry Out Illegal Orders
- Invading Falkland Cowardly Act’ (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
Argentina’s war with Britain over the Falkland Islands was a crime committed by a cowardly military dictatorship, but the South American country will never abandon its claim to sovereignty of the islands, President Mr Nestor Kirchner said
- Delhi: Patil Assures All Help To Fire Victims (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil today visited the slum cluster in Geeta Colony here, where six persons were killed in a blaze last night, and assured all possible help to the victims.
- The True ‘Heroes’ Of Our Times (Daily Excelsior, S.V. Vaidyanathan, Apr 04, 2006)
Unlike the economic establishment in India that comprises economic bureaucrats, journalists, academics (Indian and non-resident Indians) and is all gung ho about the emergence of neoliberal economic globalisation since the beginnings of . . .
- Indian Islamic Schools Offer Lesson In Harmony (Reuters, BAPPA MAJUMDAR, Apr 04, 2006)
Indian schoolgirl Julita Oraon, a devout Christian, never misses Sunday mass, but the rest of her week is spent studying Arabic and Sufi literature among other subjects at an Islamic religious school, or madrasa.
- Wto Chief To Visit India For Two Days (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
He will hold talks with Centre in a bid to break the Doha impasse
- J&k Bank Is Not A State: Full Bench (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan went berserk adjoining Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad’s residence at Wazarat Road in the City here late this evening killing his three colleagues including a CRPF Inspector and two head constables
- Fire In Slum Area In Northwest Delhi (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
A fire broke out in a thickly-populated slum cluster in a North-West Delhi area on Monday evening.
- China Olive Branch To Dalai Lama, Pope (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
China may approve a visit by the Dalai Lama, as long as he abandons dreams of independence for Tibet, and establish ties with the Vatican if it breaks ties with Taiwan, the top official on religious affairs was quoted today as saying.
- Service Sector To The Rescue (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Apr 04, 2006)
India was once an agricultural country.
- Separate Telangana Unlikely, Says Ysr (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
Chief Minister's interactive meeting with captains of industry
- 68 Per Cent Polling Recorded In Assam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
65 of 126 constituencies covered in the first phase; rain affects voting in Guwahati
- The Game Is Afoot (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 04, 2006)
The ruling party’s new pledges and reiteration of old ones mark the rolling out of the government’s election campaign.
- Popularise Job Guarantee Scheme: Gopalkrishna Gandhi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
West Bengal Governor delivers sixth convocation address of KSOU
- Gorbachev Appears Repentant (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 04, 2006)
Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev has castigated US policies of pre-emptive strike, ignoring the UN Security Council and disregard to international legal obligations and urged Washington not to impose its will on others.
- Rs. 50 Lakhs Being Handed Over To Maoists Seized (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
Staffer of VARKS Engineer Groups caught
- Poll Panel To Decide On Filing Slp In Nataraj Transfer Case (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
State Election department has sent judgment copy to Commission
Electors Photo Identity Cards programme to continue till month-end
Paramilitary forces to come to the State a few days ahead of polling
- Implications Of N-Deal With India (Dawn, Talat Masood, Apr 04, 2006)
The Indo-US nuclear deal signed during President Bush’s recent visit to South Asia is meant to turn the relationship between the two states into strategic partnership.
- Uncomfortable Facts On Migrants (Deccan Herald, Paul Krugman, Apr 04, 2006)
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," wrote Emma Lazarus, in a poem that still puts a lump in my throat. I'm proud of America's immigrant history, and grateful that the door was open when my grandparents fled R
- State Bank Of India Strike Total, Say Employees (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
20,000 employees working in 850 branches in State on agitation
- Pollution-Hit Farmers, Residents Plan To Boycott Assembly Election (Hindu, L. Renganathan , Apr 04, 2006)
They demand compensation for irreparable damage caused to the Noyyal river
- Indo-Us N-Deal Runs Into Trouble (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 04, 2006)
OPPOSITION to the Indo-US nuclear deal is mounting.
- Will 'Martyrdom' Work For Party? (Pioneer, CP Bhambhri, Apr 04, 2006)
Emotional chorus alone cannot bring victory to the Congress in the coming Assembly elections, says CP Bhambhri
- We Can Do Without These Savings (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 04, 2006)
The government’s unspent cash pile of over Rs 46,000 crore shows a sad absence of functional governance, quite apart from depriving the economy of liquidity.
- Free Iims And Iits From Govt Bondage’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
Tired of defending its autonomy time and again, the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad on Monday said it really needs to use its resources for education than waste it on making the government see reason.
- India’S Parties Wooing Muslim Vote (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Apr 04, 2006)
An estimated 55 percent of Assam’s electorate voted in Monday in the first phase of assembly elections, where balloting was held in 65 of the state’s 126 constituencies.
- Cross-Border Mergers In An Age Of Unreason (The Financial Express, Mythili Bhusnurmath, Apr 04, 2006)
Companies, like countries, have only permanent interests...in their bottomlines
- Agriculture's Role In Contemporary Development (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Apr 04, 2006)
While GDP growth in India is touching new highs, the divergence in sectoral growth rates only increases. Industry and, particularly, services record creditable or remarkable rates of growth, but the agricultural sector performs poorly.
- Wrong Timing (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Apr 04, 2006)
The regulator has diluted disclosure norms for rights issues by listed companies on the grounds that such information is already available to investors.
- Sebi Norms Largely Okay (The Financial Express, JAYANTH R VARMA, Apr 04, 2006)
The changes announced by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) in its Disclosure and Investor Protect-ion Guidelines for listed companies are, in my opinion, largely in the right direction.
- Rice Played Godmother To Nuclear Deal Between India And Us (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Apr 04, 2006)
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is the true architect of the Indo-US nuclear cooperation treaty, which, according to a detailed investigative report in the Washington Post on Monday, now faces a “hard sell” in Congress.
- A Very Bad Idea (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 04, 2006)
The Centre is reportedly toying with the idea of setting up District Panchayat Administrative Service (DAPS) to ensure effective implementation of developmental programmes at the village level.
- Financial Strategy (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 04, 2006)
What should Calcuttans do after buying a house?
- The Gdp Cult Gives Way To “Growth With Equity” (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 04, 2006)
For perhaps half a century, the central preoccupation of economic policy has been to promote growth.
- Beyond The Rhetoric (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Apr 04, 2006)
The Left is losing ground
- Vatwagon (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 04, 2006)
Keep politics out
- Breaking The Pension System Reform Logjam (The Financial Express, RAMGOPAL AGARWAL, Apr 04, 2006)
The pension system reforms, first announced in 2001, are often characterised as ‘non-reform’ and rightly so, for at least two reasons.
- Bold Initiatives Are Needed (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Apr 04, 2006)
Notwithstanding the influence which the Left wields in public life and the academia, it is worth noting that it has always been a marginal force at the national level. Not only that, its influence is perceptibly on the wane.
- Advaniji’S Neither A Hardliner Nor A Softliner. He Has No Line. And It’S A Shock I’M Still To Recover From’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 04, 2006)
From ideologue to maverick, Uma Bharati has been described differently.
- The Idea On The Ground (Deccan Herald, L C JAIN, Apr 04, 2006)
Contradictions characterise the rural job scheme in terms of a project and a holistic approach
- Form Govt Soon: Us, Uk To Iraqis (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Monday that while it is up to the Iraqi people to chose their own leaders, the international backers who have spent blood and money to end a dictatorship have . . .
- Paris Still In Turmoil (Deccan Herald, Calvin D’Souza, Apr 04, 2006)
France is rioting again. It was only late last year that riots in some of the country's poorest suburbs gripped the nation. Youth unemployment and lack of opportunities were widely blamed for last year’s riots in the poorest of French communities.
- Costlier, Yet Iim-C Offers More Seats (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
There is some good news for IIM aspirants. Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta has decided to increase the number of seats by 15% — from 262 at present to 300 — beginning with the 2006 academic session.
- Sbi Employees Stage Protest (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
They claimed that their legitimate demands have been ignored
- Yakshagana Academy To Take Up Survey Of Folk Art (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
32 persons receive Janapada and Yakshagana Academy awards
- Supreme Court Declines To Stay High Court Order (Hindu, J. Venkatesan, Apr 04, 2006)
Case pertains to fake FIR scandal
`It is but proper that the matter is investigated by CBI'
Further hearing to take place on July 11
- Removing Privilege (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 04, 2006)
The lock-in norm will discipline manipulative promoters
- There’S A Story That Still Needs To Be Told (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Apr 04, 2006)
Dr Verghese Kurien enhanced the livelihood options for the small and marginal farmers. He also stood up against the faulty paradigm of free trade
- Financial Situation Of Bihar Unsustainable' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
State Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi tables White Paper in Assembly
- Office Of Profit (Indian Express, SATISH K SHARMA, Apr 04, 2006)
As if the news of the fat pay packets of IIM grads was not bad enough, came the office of profit issue. The quiet smugness of my middle-class home was disturbed.
- A Foundation For Public Health (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 04, 2006)
Six decades after the Bhore committee set the agenda on health care, few will dispute the truth that India has failed to build a quality public health system to meet the basic needs of its people.
- Need Not Be A Central Monopoly (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 04, 2006)
The issue of division of powers of taxation between the Centre and the States has become more contentious with the States demanding an early decision on bringing the tax on certain services to their exclusive sphere as a compensation for the likely losses
- France In Ferment, Anger On The Streets (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Apr 04, 2006)
Although protests have polarised around changes to labour laws, the real discontent runs far deeper. The direct street action is born of despair, of the conviction that nothing concrete can or will ever be delivered by the political or business . . .
- Shops And Slums — A City Divided (Hindu, A. Srivathsan, Apr 04, 2006)
The traders' protest and the slum-eviction drive in Delhi can be traced to the failure of city planning and urban governance. What is required is a radical reconstruction of the concept of a city.
- A New Trend In Historiography (Hindu, R. CHAMPAKALAKSHMI, Apr 04, 2006)
First volume of a set of interlinked studies that deploys the concept of `connected histories' to shed important light on aspects of the history of early modern Eurasia based on a variety of materials
- Contemporary Haute Couture (Hindu, Ranjit Hoskote, Apr 04, 2006)
A celebration of 32 design signatures and the life stories of these designers
- Start At The Beginning (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 04, 2006)
The lowering of the age of entry by high schools is a response to the changing socio-economic realities in urban India, argues Devi Kar The author is principal, Modern High School for Girls, Calcutta
- The Other Side Of The Story (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 04, 2006)
Instead of being pilloried for being so wrong on the US economy's path, the bears get a very sympathetic hearing in the media.
- Kalam In The Land Of Pagodas (Daily Excelsior, Subhashis Mittra, Apr 03, 2006)
The recent visit of Presi-
dent Dr APJ Abdul Kalam
to Myanmar is a record of sorts in more ways than one. Itwas not only his first visit to the neighbouring country, but the first ever by an Indian Head of State to Myanmar. The visit was all the . . .
- Border Trade Will Transform Economies Of Ne (Daily Excelsior, Anjan Roy, Apr 03, 2006)
North-East India has the po- tential of having a dynamic and vibrant economy if trade through the borders it shares with Bangladesh, Bhutan, China and Myanmar gathers momentum.
- Voting Begins In India's Assam; Security Tight (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2006)
Thousands of people lined up on Monday to vote in Assam as troops protected polling booths from possible rebel attacks at the start of the biggest electoral test for the federal coalition.
- Recruiting Teachers (Statesman, SUBHAS SARKAR, Apr 03, 2006)
The future of a nation rests largely on teachers, especially in school. They are expected to mould and prepare future citizens for the challenges of life. Perhaps they alone can impart confidence and hope, a sense of discipline and yearning for . . .
- Bjp Delegation To Meet Cec On Pm Issue (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2006)
A BJP delegation, led by party Vice President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, will meet Chief Election Commissioner B B Tandon here today and complain against the alleged breach of the poll code by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for announcing an economic . . .
- Kalam For Bihar (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 03, 2006)
The President, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, often takes extraordinary steps in a positive direction.
- Bangla Biman (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 03, 2006)
Between an ideologue and a market-savvy CM
- Analysing Networks Behind India’S Crumbling Infrastructure (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Apr 03, 2006)
Some time ago, ICICI Bank’s CEO K.V. Kamath said that when economic growth accelerates, the process of rapid infrastructure development and urban regeneration also kicks-in; but it has not happened noticeably in India.
- Ec Cracks Whip On Mahajan (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2006)
The Election Commission has reportedly directed the Assam chief electoral officer to file a case against BJP leader Mr Pramod Mahajan and others for conducting a press conference after the end of the campaign yesterday.
- Pm Harps On Development And Stability Mantra (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2006)
The Congress today promised “adequate financial compensation” to victims of ethnic violence in Karbi Anglong, besides stability and development if voted to retain power in Assam.
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