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Articles 5221 through 5320 of 22140:
- Legalising The Illegal (Statesman, SANKAR SEN, Jul 28, 2006)
It is learnt that the Government of India is debating the issue of legalisation and decriminalisation of prostitution. Some feminine groups as well as human rights activists are aggressively campaigning for legalisation of prostitution.
- Industry Thumbs Down To Job Quota (Pioneer, Yoga Rangatia, Jul 28, 2006)
Indian industry has given thumbs down to UPA Government's poll-pledge of legislating quota in private sector jobs.
- Nepal Crown Prince Gets The Boot (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
After King Gyanendra and Queen Komal, Nepal’s parliament has now given marching orders to their son and heir, crown prince Paras.
- The War Of Two Mistakes (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Jul 28, 2006)
The current conflict in Lebanon should be called the ‘‘war of two mistakes’’.
- The Publizen’S Life? It’S An Open Blog (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 28, 2006)
The me decade- It’s the age of the publizens who are of all ages and both sexes, and quite young.
- ‘Pak Has 25 To 50 Modest Nukes’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Pakistan currently has between 25 and 50 nuclear weapons, mostly relatively simple uranium arms with ‘‘modest’’ yields—around the size of the bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the journal Nature claimed on Thursday.
- Learn To Change (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 28, 2006)
The key to a nation's future is in its schools. If that is so our future is bleak. The World Bank's Development Policy Review for India gives two interesting facts.
- India's Other Suicides (Times of India, SWAGATO GANGULY, Jul 28, 2006)
Farmer suicides, and distress in the agricultural sector that they reveal, hog political and media attention. It doesn't follow that the government has devised a panacea — revolving around debt relief — that's going to work.
- Thomas Citation Laureate Award For Five Researchers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Five researchers were awarded the "Thomson Citation Laureate Award" by Thomson Scientific on Thursday for their "prolific research over the past decade".
- The Other Code (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jul 28, 2006)
The discovery of a second code in DNA is a big moment.
- Dmk, Aiadmk Members Trade Charges In Assembly (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
On issues related to assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
- Breach In Nanganjiar Dam Affects Farm Operations (Hindu, K. Raju, Jul 28, 2006)
Farmers want repair works initiated before the next rains With no water in the dam, farmers depend on seasonal rain to protect their crops .
- Going Soft In The Knee (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jul 28, 2006)
Who was the mole in P.V. Narasimha Rao’s office, and who cares about that past history? It is dead and gone, not relevant to the realities of today. And for the press to pursue, relentlessly, a non-story is even more farcical than the story itself.
- Vice Admiral Js Bedi To Head S Naval Command » (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Vice Admiral Jagjit Singh Bedi will take over as Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Naval Command, Kochi, on July 31 from Vice Admiral SCS Bangara who retires from the service.
- Pakistan Asks West Bengal To Help Reform Madrasas (Reuters, BAPPA MAJUMDAR, Jul 28, 2006)
Pakistan has sought the help of a West Bengal to revamp its system of madrasas after accusations some of the Islamic schools teach religious hatred and are breeding grounds for militancy.
- Of Growth And Deprivation (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jul 28, 2006)
The World Bank's Development Policy Review 2006, in its report in India, stresses "the importance of ensuring that public money is well spent through institutional reform of the public sector that creates effective systems of . . .
- Nabard: Cultivating The Farm Sector With Credit (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 28, 2006)
From a modest beginning, Nabard has grown into an apex hybrid organisation. It is the pioneer in the self-help group-bank linkage programme that has brought banking to the doorsteps of the poor. Into its 25th year, Nabard is at the crossroads, and . . .
- Ethical Values In Business — The Tata Way (Business Line, R. M. Lala, Jul 28, 2006)
In the public mind, business ethics is mainly connected with financial integrity. Tatas are not the only ones to pursue ethical values in business. But their eminent position and tradition stretching well over a 100 years makes them distinctive and . . .
- Putin Pushes A Wider Agenda For The G8 (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Jul 28, 2006)
In Russia's vision, the expanded G8 will no longer be a Western club but will evolve into a round table of the world's major players.
- Mqm Quits Centre And Sindh Cabinets (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Contact established between MQM and President House
* MQM upset at Musharraf’s support to Sindh CM
* MQM ministers return to Karachi
- Research Projects By Youth To Get Special Grants: Sobti (Tribune, Chitleen K. Sethi, Jul 28, 2006)
Prof R.C. Sobti, a renowned biotechnologist of the region, has taken over as the 11th Vice-Chancellor of Panjab University replacing Prof KN Pathak, who remained the VC for six years.
- Idle Crop (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 28, 2006)
Land reforms have become an obsession for the unreformed among Bengal’s leftists.
- The Biggest Threat (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Jul 28, 2006)
In the dominant political culture of India, citizens are encouraged to treat terrorism as an unavoidable feature of modern existence and undertake no independent initiatives to counter it.
- Vc Must Resign (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 28, 2006)
When there was a leakage of examination papers in Baba Farid University and Panjab University, newspapers and TV channels were full of the scandals.
- Stop Burning The Future (Deccan Herald, R Akhileshwari , Jul 28, 2006)
Environment- Solar Generation, the youth wing of Green Peace, is making a big difference in a very impressive way.
- Bpo Firm Employee Held On Charge Of Killing Colleague (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Police say Gururaj Kishore killed Tania after an argument
Gururaj Kishore was in love with Tania
He was unhappy with her "high-society lifestyle"
- Government To Take Over 65 Per Cent Of Seats In Professional Colleges (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Private colleges can fill the remaining 35 per cent on their own, says Minister .
- Younger, Not Fitter (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Diabetes and backaches bane of the young Demographers predict that while the world’s population ages, countries such as India, Vietnam and Bangladesh look attractively poised in the job market, given their soaring young populations who are . . .
- India Phenomenon (Statesman, AMITAV BANERJI, Jul 27, 2006)
A couple of weeks ago, Time magazine had an eye-catching cover.
- Hc Quashes Hp Medical Entrance Test (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Himachal Pradesh High Court today quashed the results of the Common Pre Medical Test held by Himachal Pradesh Unive-rsity on 26 May and ordered a fresh test.
- Sex Scandal Reveals The Seedy Side Of Indian Rule In Kashmir (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Jul 27, 2006)
The two-year criminal investigation of a Srinagar brothel, allegedly protected and patronised by top Indian and state officials, could undermine what faith Kashmiris have got left in the Indian government.
- Anatomy Of A Missive (Telegraph, Raju Mukherji, Jul 27, 2006)
Would anyone who has seen Sourav Ganguly at St Xavier’s School, Calcutta, ever believe that the email came from the fingertips of a Xaverian? Sourav is as fluent in English as he is in his cover drives.
- Tv Industry Explains Parental Controls (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 27, 2006)
All three major television distributors —broadcast stations, cable networks and satellite . . .
- Cure For A Doctor (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 27, 2006)
I was admitted to the intensive care unit of a reputed hospital in Ludhiana since I was diagnosed to be suffering from dengue shock syndrome. My platelet count was very low, blood pressure nosedived and I developed fluid around my lungs, heart as . . .
- A Call To Action (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 27, 2006)
India is a country of powerful business minds. We need to provide them with a vision to build large businesses. My vision 25/25 calls for 25 large manufacturing and 25 large infrastructure projects every year (Nehru’s ‘temples of modern India’).
- A Bit Of A Loose Cannon (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 27, 2006)
The deputy prime minister, John Prescott, has lived a charmed life for the years of this Labour government.
- State Needs To Do More (The Financial Express, VINOD VYASULU, Jul 27, 2006)
There are some who argue that without high growth, this country can do little about poverty.
- Musharraf Rules Out Political Change (News International, Azfar-ul-Ashfaque, Jul 27, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf has ruled out any change at the Centre and provincial level and declared that the current political set-up would continue working till the holding of 2007 general elections.
- Tourism, Not Extremism (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Jul 27, 2006)
President Musharraf has appealed to people to shun extremism and promote tourism.
- The Perils Of Estrangement (The Economic Times, Pothik Ghosh, Jul 27, 2006)
In this rather prolonged season of cold-blooded terror and irrational bombing of soft targets, the idea of backlash appears to have caught the imagination of middle India.
- Why Farming Has Become Unviable (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Jul 27, 2006)
Falling profitability of farming operations, the drying up of non-farming opportunities and the growing fragmentation of landholdings all make agriculture a losing proposition. Three-fourths of Indian farmers take home less than Rs 3,000 a month . . .
- Tariq Sees Foreign Hand In Balochistan Unres (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Tariq Azeem on Wednesday said that there were strong indications of involvement of foreign hand in creating law and order situation in Balochistan.
- Big Lessons From Small Institutes (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jul 27, 2006)
Several educational centres in Maharashtra have gone off the beaten track on industry-academia linkage.
- ‘The Past And The Future Are For The Present’ (Deccan Herald, Sarjit Ramesh, Jul 27, 2006)
Dr David Passig doesn’t need to gaze into a crystal ball to see the writing on the wall: for he believes in the power of future time, drawing wisdom from the past, applying it to the future and bringing all of that back to the present.
- Militants Escape After Killing 3 Soldiers In Shopian Gunbattle (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jul 27, 2006)
Even as two Army personnel and a constable of SOG Pulwama got killed in an encounter at Renipora in Shopian area today, eight persons---including the grenade throwing militant---sustained injuries in a blast at Magam on Srinagar-Gulmarg Road.
- Chinese Director Bemoans Commercialism In Arts (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Gu Anyi has weathered many storms during his career, from doing gruelling farmwork far from home to being recruited to perform revolutionary communist versions of traditional Peking Opera before Chinese soldiers.
- Filipino Students Hurt By Overcrowding, Underfunding (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
From overcrowded classrooms with children studying in shifts to a shortage of books and a weak grasp of English, mathematics and science, the education system in the Philippines is struggling to get a passing grade.
- What’S In A Name? (Indian Express, Raksha Kumar, Jul 27, 2006)
I was just going to step into the campus. “Do you study here?” I heard someone call out to me.
- Gods Don’T Vote (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 27, 2006)
BJP CMs should be obsessing over their relative economic success and not conversions
- Growing Gap (Times of India, Andre Beteille , Jul 27, 2006)
India and China embarked upon somewhat different courses of development at roughly the same time. Comparisons between the two countries, their achievements so far and their prospects for the future are inevitable.
- Tooth Wisdom (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 27, 2006)
Culturally, we Indians adapt quite easily. We take to alien customs like platypuses to water. For instance, I must confess that I celebrated Valentine's Day here in Chicago with an inexpensive gift to the wife.
- Operation Sukoon (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Jul 27, 2006)
India’s evacuation of its citizens from Lebanon is set to conclude on Thursday when 376 Indians, 400 Sri Lankans and 17 Nepalese make the crossing from Beirut to Larnaca in Cyprus on three warships engaged in the sea and air lift dubbed ‘Operation Sukoon’
- District Panchayat To Launch Development Projects (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Coconut, education, SC ST colonies top the list of projects
- Pondicherry Plans To Tap E-Learning For Toning Up School Education (Hindu, S. Nadarajan, Jul 27, 2006)
Infrastructure development to get priority; orientation courses for teachers planned
- Bsnl Landline Connections Available On Demand (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
5 lakh more mobile connections to be added this year: Sridhara
Tamilnadu Telecom Circle plans to double the capacity of broadband service from 50,000
400 towns and cities will get high-speed Internet connections
Fault rate per 100 lines has . . .
- Loyola College Launches Two New Journals (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
A students' bi-annual `Loyalite' and `Transactions', featuring contributions by senior academics, launched .
- New Highs In Heat (Deccan Herald, Alok Jha, Jul 27, 2006)
When the human body gets to 42C, it starts to cook. The heat causes the proteins in each cell to irreversibly change, like an egg white as it boils.....
- Name For Tehri Reservoir Suggested (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Uttaranchal Governor Sudershan Aggarwal has suggested the naming of the reservoir of the Tehri Dam as Suman Sagar after the freedom fighter Shridev Suman.
- Ensuring Elementary Education For All (Hindu, Krishna Kumar, Jul 27, 2006)
Indian society regards children not as a collective responsibility but as a parental burden. Few realise that the nation loses when children do not attend school.
- Varanasi: Cosmopolitan And A Role Model (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Jul 27, 2006)
The most spectacular yield of the recent affirmation of communal harmony in Varanasi is undoubtedly the Muslim effort at introspection — possible only because of Hindu support.
- For A Fair Deal In Higher Education (Hindu, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Jul 27, 2006)
To defile education as merchandise and colleges as lucrative teaching shops is vulgar.
- `Freak Waves' More Common Than Thought (Hindu, Ian Sample , Jul 27, 2006)
Once dismissed as a myth, they have been recorded by ships and from oil and gas platforms.
- Imperative To Have Independent Auditors (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 27, 2006)
Capitalism at crossroads. Corporate misgovernance in India. Series of scams that shook investor confidence...
- Scientists Discover Code Beyond Genetics In Dna (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Researchers believe they have found a second code in DNA in addition to the genetic code.
- Aiadmk Seeks 50 Pc Quota In Private Medical Colleges (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Asks Lt. Governor to intervene in the issue
850 MBBS seats available in seven private colleges in Pondicherry
50 per cent reservation already fixed in private engineering colleges.
- Jmi’S Education Department To Resume Classes (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Jamia Millia Islamia's Faculty of Education will resume classes from Thursday even as agitating students continue with the indefinite hunger strike for the third day on Wednesday. ...
- Wb Calls For Better Public Sector Accountability (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
The bank's emphasis is on spreading development benefits to all sections of the society
- Indian In Coma In Lebanon Hospital (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
Tanveer Ansari, arrested in connection with the serial bomb blasts of July 11 in Mumbai, is suspected to have been involved in the conspiracy to attack the headquarters of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Nagpur. Ansari may be brought to the . . .
- 'The West Is Developing Cold Feet' (OutLook, Kamal Nath, Jul 26, 2006)
The commerce and industry minister had made clear his opposition to the USA's refusal to offer more cuts in farm subsidies before he set out for the Doha round of trade talks that got suspended on Monday, 24/7 for that very reason. The line was clear. . .
- Curbing Sectarianism (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 26, 2006)
The proof will be in the implementation. On face value, there is no arguing with the prime minister’s recent directive that provincial authorities must adopt a proactive approach to the fight against sectarian hatred and violence.
- Ancient, Royal, Pilgrimage Town (Hindu, A. Srivathsan, Jul 26, 2006)
Kumbakonam was part of a large royal complex of the Chola period
- Of Mice And Men (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 26, 2006)
No one has any compassion for mice. We object to dogs and monkeys being dissected but the millions of mice that are mutilated and put through useless experiments from the school to the research stage have no sympathy.
- A Complex Scene (Frontline, R.K. Raghavan, Jul 26, 2006)
The anniversary of the July 7 bombings provides the occasion for a renewed scrutiny of the Blair government's state of preparedness.
- Pontificating Against Israel (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 26, 2006)
As Israel began its latest campaign of self-defence, the Vatican's leading official rushed to join his peers on the speeding bandwagon of international disapproval.
- Holy Cows Don't Die (Pioneer, K Govindan Kutty , Jul 26, 2006)
The Marxist Government in Kerala seems more concerned about the safety of the Malayali diaspora and minorities at home than the State's people
- Better Late Than Never (Tribune, R. Vatsyayan, Jul 26, 2006)
Procrastination is our national trait and all of us are very much attuned to it. “Don’t bother about time” seems to be the only imperative to be followed in our country and people are totally oblivious of any discipline where binding for a time . . .
- Kalam To Address J&k Joint Session (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
President A P J Abdul Kalam will address the joint session of the Jammu and Kashmir legislature here on July 28.
- Indian Training Helps Lanka Army Do Its Job (Statesman, Devirupa Mitra, Jul 26, 2006)
A low-altitude ride on a naval helicopter over palm trees, red earth and sloping tiled single-storeyed houses.
- Kashmir Bus Service A Flop (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Jul 26, 2006)
Only 600 Kashmiris have been able to travel on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service in the last year, according to a newspaper report.
- Teaching Them Young (Business Standard, Mridusmita Bordoloi, Jul 26, 2006)
It is often said that the future of the country lies in its youth, but when it comes to planning and programme implementation, this idiom is more often than not ignored.
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