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Articles 20721 through 20820 of 35809:
- Naxalite Menace: Finding A Way Out (Daily Excelsior, V M Gokuldas, Dec 08, 2005)
The ''Compact Revolutionary Zone'' that provides the north-south link between the Nepalese Maoists and the Andhra Pradesh naxals is stealthily moving eastwards to cover Orissa in a major push that has worried the Union Home Ministry.
- Calendar Year Of Indian Navy (Pioneer, Anil Bhat, Dec 08, 2005)
Anil Bhat recapitulates the achievements of the wing of the armed forces that rules the waves.
- Angry Hills (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 08, 2005)
There is no let up in ethnic violence in Assam with the hills of Karbi Anglong district continuing to blaze with burning tribal homes and men, women and children being killed by rival militias.
- No Visa Power For India Inc In Russia (Pioneer, Shobori Ganguli, Dec 08, 2005)
Russia must ease up its visa regime for Indian businessmen if it is serious about enhancing the economic content of its relations with India. While Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have given a united call . . .
- The Odd Couple (Dawn, F.S. Aijazuddin, Dec 08, 2005)
Nothing succeeds like success, however simulated, and at the moment two persons — President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz — are savouring their own personal brand of success.
- A New Urban Lifestyle Lures India's Rural Poor (International Herald Tribune, AMY WALDMAN, Dec 08, 2005)
This western city has at least 300 slum pockets, with grimy industry, factory-fouled air and a spiraling crime rate. A 1994 epidemic - reported as pneumonic plague - that originated here caused national panic.
- The Wages Of Corruption (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Dec 08, 2005)
Around 4.30 pm on Friday December 2, 2005, officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Subhash Bhowmik, football coach of Kolkata's famous East Bengal Club and a former international footballer, on the charge of accepting a bribe . . .
- Buddhadeb To Inaugurate Meet On Kerala Studies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Meet will cover issues relating to the State's development
- Focus On Central Asia (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 08, 2005)
Is Russia a partner of the United States in the war on terrorism? You wouldn’t know it from the bitter campaign Moscow is waging to thwart President Bush’s democracy agenda in Muslim Central Asia.
- Sbi In Jv With Tcs, Sets Up First Tech Bank (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
The State Bank of India has tied up with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to set up India’s first technology bank C-Edge Technologies Ltd, on a 49:51 joint venture, SBI chairman A K Purwar announced here on Wednesday.
- Venezuela: Opposition Plays Truant (Hindu, Richard Gott, Dec 07, 2005)
A tiny ragbag of opposition groups threatens to undermine the credibility of the parliamentary system.
- India-Pakistan Shipping Talks From Tomorrow (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Dec 07, 2005)
It enables ships of both countries to pick up cargo for a third country party
Talks are a follow up to the decision by the Joint Study Group
Shipping industry feels that if the protocol is amended cargo flow could rise manifold
- Russia Sees India As Long-Term Partner In Energy Sector (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Dec 07, 2005)
Iran pipeline vital for energy security, regional cooperation: Manmohan
Sakhalin-I project clear indication of a good beginning: Putin
Manmohan, Putin discuss Iran nuclear issue
Possibility of Economic Cooperation Agreement with Russia to be studied
- India For `Visionary' Outlook On Summit (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Dec 07, 2005)
It is an important "building block for community-building in East Asia"
India looking for ways to fashion governing document
ASEAN goes well with Manmohan's proposal of Asian economic community
- Opening Up The Socialist Space In Indian Politics (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 07, 2005)
In the coming post-George Fernandes era, the socialists will have many opportunities in various parts of the country to tap the alienation of the poor from the mainstream economy.
- Changing Tack To Stay In The Fray (Hindu, K. Srinivas Reddy, Dec 07, 2005)
The Naxalite leadership in Andhra Pradesh has ushered in strategic and tactical changes in the functioning of its cadre. It has shifted its local guerrilla squads (LGSs) deep into the forest and brought in three-member teams of armed cadres to . . .
- Rbi Opposes Panel Views On Pn Issue (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
The Reserve Bank of India has opposed a Finance Ministry panel recommendations on allowing foreign institutional investors (FIIs) to issue participatory notes (PNs) and permitting them to take exposure in debt instruments.
- Satyam Tops Forrester Study (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Satyam Computer Services, a global consulting and IT services provider, has been cited as a top player in the Indian vendor consulting market in "The Forrester Wave: Indian vendor consulting capabilities,
- Madrasa Reforms (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 07, 2005)
Will Bengal take leaf out of Musharraf’s book?
The ordinance promulgated by President Parvez Musharraf to regulate the functioning of 25,000 madrasas in Pakistan is a bold step that recognises realities.
- More Reforms (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 07, 2005)
The World Trade Organization’s sixth ministerial conference is due in Hong Kong soon, that is on December 13-18. The Doha work programme started in 2001, and had an initial deadline of January 2005 for completion.
- A Double Paradox (Telegraph, Dipankar Dasgupta, Dec 07, 2005)
The sensitive index we are told is climbing new heights simultaneously with growing signs of industrial prosperity. Interest rates on bank deposits, however, continue to be low, suggesting that banks are not beneficiaries of the industrial bonanza. . . .
- The Great Indian Political Circus (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 07, 2005)
If the Congress party is going through troubled times amid the fallout of the Volcker report, the BJP has had its share of problems with the volatile Uma Bharti. A trying time for the country's two main parties.
- Stitch Up A New Alliance (Telegraph, Soroor Ahmed, Dec 07, 2005)
Post victory, the litmus test for Nitish Kumar, the new chief minister of Bihar, would be to translate a new political alliance of different castes into a lasting social combination ...
- Rbi Says No Change In Mid-Term Policy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
The Reserve bank of India on Tuesday said there would be no change in the central bank's mid-term monetary policy to check inflation and market conditions. "There is no change in the stand from the mid-term policy to check inflation and . . .
- Coming To Terms With The Pandemic (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 07, 2005)
Extracts from the Human Development Report 2005
- Pak Beats India To Lady Bank Boss (Telegraph, IMTIAZ GUL, Dec 07, 2005)
Musharraf picks accomplished Shamshad to take care of coffers
- Oil And Oic: A Lethal Combination (Greater Kashmir, Waseem-ud-Din, Dec 07, 2005)
Oil - the black gold of Middle East – is turning curse for not being tapped and used as a weapon to achieve prosperity and wellbeing, comments Waseem-ud-Din
- Of Aesthetics And Truth (Greater Kashmir, Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Dec 07, 2005)
The life of a person is shaped in his adulthood. The environment he grows in, the lineage that he has, the influences that orient him
- Status Of Biological Sciences In India (Daily Excelsior, Pragya Khanna, Dec 07, 2005)
Human knowledge of Biology began with prehistoric people and their experiences with edible vs. inedible, or even poisonous, plants and animals, their habits and habitats and how best to capture them, etc. This information was verbally passed on to . . .
- Bill Gates Picks Up Seattle Threads With It Minister (Hindustan Times, Prerna K Mishra, Dec 07, 2005)
Even as the first day of Bill Gates’ four-day visit to India was to be dedicated to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, politics took precedence as Gates went to meet Communications and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran at his residence first thing . . .
- Putin Hosts India's Pm As India And Russia Move Ahead With Strategic Relationships (India Daily, Sonia Joshi, Dec 07, 2005)
India and Russia move ahead with unprecedented level of cooperation in strategic areas like energy, defense and trade.
- Centre Urged To Formulate Deep Sea Fishing Policy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
A three-day conference of the National Fishworkers Forum began here on Tuesday with a call for a national deep sea fishing policy. The policy should have enough teeth to prevent foreign fishing corporations from poaching in the . . .
- Russia To Help India On N-Energy (Hindustan Times, Yashwant Raj, Dec 07, 2005)
Russia will do all it can to ensure India's energy needs are fulfilled. At the same time it wants New Delhi to sort its differences with the nuclear supplier group (NSG) countries on the separation of civil and military uses of nuclear technology.
- No Wto Deal Affecting Farmers Will Be Accepted: Kamal Nath (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
India will not agree to any deal at the WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong next week which affects its farmers, Commerce and Industry Minister, Kamal Nath, declared categorically on Tuesday.
- India Accelerating (International Herald Tribune, AMY WALDMAN, Dec 07, 2005)
NELAMANGALA, India Hot water: 10 rupees. Cold water: 8 rupees.
Toilet: 5 rupees. Sex: no price specified on the bathhouse wall, but, as the condom painted there suggests, safe.
- Democracy Makes Fiscal Outlays Work (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 07, 2005)
The Planning Commission has asked for a 35% increase in gross budgetary support to meet the government’s social sector commitments. The finance ministry would do well to consider that request seriously. Spending on education, healthcare, and . . .
- Will India Back Off From Its Neti Doctrine? (The Financial Express, S NARAYAN, Dec 07, 2005)
The draft ministerial text put out by the director-general of the WTO, Pascal Lamy, last week only reinforces the limited progress that negotiations have made so far.
- Bridging Digital Divide (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 07, 2005)
Chairman Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) and President Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT) Shahzada Alam Malik has urged technologically advanced nations of Asia Pacific region to provide assistance to the less developed countries in bridging the . . .
- Question Of ‘Image’ (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 07, 2005)
A major problem to be tackled by the Islamic summit conference opening in Makkah today is one of image of the Muslims, especially in the West.
- India, Russia Ink Three Pacts (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Cementing their strategic partnership, India and Russia on Tuesday signed three agreements, including the one on protection of intellectual property rights to regulate joint defence work.
- 36 Firms Sought Rbi Nod In Oct To Raise Overseas Funds (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
IDBI Ltd, Amtek India, and Reliance Industries were among the 36 companies that had sought permission from the Reserve Bank of India in October 2005 to raise overseas funds, according to the RBI Web site.
- Power Trading Under Threat (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 07, 2005)
A wholly myopic ruling by electricity regulator CERC threatens to short-circuit the market for power. The regulator has mandated that margins on power trading be no more than 2 paise per unit (kwh).
- Is It Really Health For All? (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Dec 07, 2005)
The Alma Ata message of ‘health for all’ has at long last reached the policy planners in Islamabad. Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the government’s health strategy was focused on the prevention and control of diseases, provision of maternal . .
- Elementary, My Dear Watson (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
The response of the finance minister, P Chidambaram and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to the dip in the value of the rupee to a 15-month low of Rs 46.32 to the US dollar reflects the new maturity and confidence of the authorities in responding to . . .
- Three Common Myths About Bank Consolidation (The Financial Express, JANMEJAYA K SINHA, Dec 07, 2005)
There are three myths on public sector bank consolidation in India that are obtaining currency. First, that as many bank mergers destroy shareholder value globally, public sector bank merger is a bad idea in India.
- Microsoft Centre In Bangalore To Open In Jan (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Microsoft Corporation, the world's largest software company, today said it would set up its first innovation centre in Bangalore. It also announced the launch of low-cost operating system Starter Edition in English
- Reliance Plans Underground Coal Gasification Projects (Business Line, Ambarish Mukherjee, Dec 07, 2005)
RIL has urged the Government to change the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act of 1973, to create new provisions for allocation of captive coal blocks to a private sector entity
- Khushboo: A Larger Question (Tribune, J. Sri Raman, Dec 07, 2005)
After Ms. Jayalalithaa, no actress of Tamil cinema has provoked so much political discussion as Khushboo has done. And, strangely, it is the lesser of the two stars, who raises a larger political question, though it has not figured so far in the furore
- Us Presses Russia On Iran Missile Deal (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
The United States on Monday said Russia’s plans to sell $1 billion in tactical missiles and other arms to Iran would not serve US or regional interests.
- India And Russia Seal Defence Deal At Moscow Summit (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Russia and India paved the way for intensified defence cooperation on Tuesday as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Russian President Vladimir Putin talked up a “strategic partnership” between the two Soviet-era allies in Moscow.
- India, Russia Likely To Share Tajik Airbase (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Dec 07, 2005)
India and Russia are likely to share the Aini Airbase in Tajikistan, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday.
- Threat To Iraq’S Integrity (Dawn, Najmuddin A. Shaikh, Dec 07, 2005)
The speech President Bush made at the naval academy in Annapolis on November 30 had been billed as the first of a series of speeches he intended to deliver in order to convince the American people that the situation in Iraq was not one that should . . .
- Why Girls Outshine Boys (Tribune, Michael Gurian, Dec 07, 2005)
Colleges and universities across the US are grappling with the case of the mysteriously vanishing male.
- War Of Coded Words In The Ongoing Trade Game (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 07, 2005)
With only a week to go, the WTO Ministerial is much in the news. For instance, http://news.xinhuanet.com reports that despite anti-globalisation groups' warning to stage demonstrations, "Hong Kong is gearing up to hold a ministerial meeting of the . . .
- How Many More Uma Bharatis And Raj Thackerays? (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 07, 2005)
Uma Bharati, once of the Bharatiya Janata Party, and Raj Thackeray of the Shiv Sena may not be chips off the same block. But their resentment underlines the same point: personal ambitions dent the armour of parochialism as easily as that of pluralism.
- Class For Comrades (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 07, 2005)
With Natwar Singh finally calling it quits—are we being recklessly presumptuous?—the nature of public discourse will dictate that the curtains start falling on the Volcker stage. That would be a pity. There’s the money trail to be discovered.
- French Dressing In The Salad Bowl (Indian Express, RAVINDER KAUR, Dec 07, 2005)
In 1946, Charles de Gaulle observed, “Everything is connected in the misfortunes of a nation...We have to bring about, despite great difficulties, a drastic reconstruction that will make it possible for each man and woman to lead a life of greater ease,..
- Icici’S Public Issue Oversold Seven Times (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Despite lacklustre retail response, ICICI Bank’s domestic issue of Rs 5,750 (with a green-shoe option of Rs 750 crore) has been oversubscribed by over seven times.
- On The Fast Lane To Chennai (Indian Express, Sebastian Mallaby, Dec 07, 2005)
As outsourcing acquires wheels, Detroit worries about the Indian car industry, says Sebastian Mallaby
- Fighting Terror With Terror (Pioneer, Gautam Sen, Dec 07, 2005)
It is an extraordinary presumption that concession and compromise can defeat terrorism. Yet, this is precisely the implied rationale underlying New Delhi's policy towards terrorism. After each act of mass murder, politicians of all hues clamour . . .
- Linking Rivers To Prosperity (Pioneer, MS Menon, Dec 07, 2005)
Conserving water will remove poverty, the worst environmental pollutant in developing societies, says MS Menon
- Meat The Ignorant Non-Vegetarians (Pioneer, Maneka Gandhi, Dec 07, 2005)
A member of my family's favourite food is blood pudding. You take the blood of a cow and then put it into a cake dish with salt, herbs and a little garlic and then put the dish into the fridge. When it congeals it becomes like a cake.
- Sebi Orders Action Against Five Brokers (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) today orderded action against five brokers registered with Banglore and Pune Stock Exchange for creating false market coupled with surge in the price of scrip Home Trade Limited.
- Forex And Money Markets Conditions Are Orderly: Rbi (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Reserve Bank of India Governor Y V Reddy today said foreign exchange and money market conditions are orderly
- India, Afghan Sign Tourism Cooperation Agreement (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Extending its firm commitment to the reconstruction of Afghanistan, India today signed an agreement with Afghanistan for cooperation in the field of tourism.
- Any Wto Deal Which Displaces Farmers Not Acceptable: India (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
India today categorically said it will not agree to any deal which displaced its farmers in any way at the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial next week.
- Rbi, Finmin Panel At Loggerheads (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
The Reserve Bank of India has expressed dissent at the Finance Ministry panel’s suggestion on allowing foreign institutional investors to issue Participatory Notes (PNs) and allowing them to take exposure in India’s debt instruments.
- Economic Crime Up In India: Pwc (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Despite significant increase in the number of Indian organisations reporting fraud in the last two years – from 24 per cent to 54 per cent, only 18 per cent of respondent organisations considered it likely that their organisation will be subject . . .
- Pm Talks Nostalgia & Business With Russia (Telegraph, Radhika Ramaseshan, Dec 06, 2005)
Raj Kapoor, Awara Hoon and Mera Naam Joker were the staple of India’s relations with Russia in the days when a humungous USSR was a counterweight to the US.
- Madrasa Reforms (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 06, 2005)
Will Bengal take leaf out of Musharraf’s book?
- To Be Healthy, Wealthy And Wise (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2005)
Gender inequalities continue to limit girls’ education. Even with the narrowing of gender gaps, girls can expect to receive one year less of education than boys in African and Arab states and two years less in south Asia.
- Follow The Leader (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Dec 06, 2005)
With the next act of the Natwar Singh drama having unfolded and with the prime minister having taken off for a session with Putin, this week in parliament is going to be sheer chaos.
- Measurement Of Economic Activities In Districts (Daily Excelsior, H C Katoch, Dec 06, 2005)
The Regional Autonomy Committee set up by the Government in late nineties desperately searched for Regional Domestic Product Estimates for the regions of the State in the year 1998, but these were not available as the Estimates were worked . . .
- Ibm Launches Sub-30k Server For Smb Sector (Deccan Herald, Dilip Maitra, Dec 06, 2005)
The thriving IT market for the small and medium business (SMB) segment is prompting the IT hardware manufacturers to launch lower-priced products.
- Quality Higher Education Equals Opportunity (Daily Excelsior, Prof. Ashok Kumar Manwati, Dec 06, 2005)
If liberalization has to stay and economy is integrated to the global market forces and out sourcing holding huge opportunities, there is an urgent need to prompt to harness on energies for a crusade for excellence for Indian students.
- The Employment-Poverty Link In Bangladesh (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekar, Dec 06, 2005)
The reduction in poverty in Bangladesh has not been commensurate with the expectations generated by the macroeconomic pattern of relatively stable and non-inflationary growth. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekar and Jaya ti Ghosh say . . .
- Pm Woos Russian Businessmen (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Dec 06, 2005)
With people-to-people contact between India and Russia on the wane and bilateral trade between the two far below expectations, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today went all-out to sell India as an attractive business, academic and creative destination. . .
- Manmohan: Seize Business Opportunities (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Dec 06, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday called for more active business-to-business contacts between India and Russia to expand bilateral trade and economic cooperation.
- National Interest Or American Interest? (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Dec 06, 2005)
A U.S. official claims India has assured the Americans that energy deals with Iran are years away.
- Supreme Court Admits Sebi's Appeal On Ubs (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 06, 2005)
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to stay that portion of the order passed by the Securities Appellate Tribunal, Mumbai, reversing an order of the Securities and Exchange Board of India banning trading activities by UBS Securities Asia . . .
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