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Articles 121 through 220 of 500:
- Symbol Of Detachment (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
In the Bhagavad Gita Lord Krishna refers to worldly existence as ephemeral and emphasises the distinction between the perishable body and the immortal soul.
- ‘The Grammar Is Intact’ (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
Sikkil Gurucharan and Anil Srinivasan on their new work, which premieres at the Friday Review November Fest.
- A Bird’S-Eye View (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
What began as a book on birds at the Indian International Centre (IIC) grew into “Garden Birds of Delhi, Agra and Jaipur”.
- Master Of All Trades (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
He started writing as an asthmatic child at the age of eleven. He is the popular columnist and acclaimed author of 10 books, both fiction and non-fiction.
- For A Cool Splash (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
The forest guard at the Bhoothapandi checkpost told me that an uphill drive of less than five km would take me to the Vattaparai waterfalls.
- Indian Railways Urged To Manage Human Waste Properly (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
Experts at the World Toilet Summit Friday urged Indian railways to stop trains scattering hundreds of thousands of litres of human waste across the country every day.
- Uk’S Colossal Waste Affecting Climate Change Says Report (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
Britons must swap their wasteful habits with food for the thrifty approach of previous generations by buying less and eating leftovers if the UK is to play its part in averting climate change, shoppers were warned yesterday.
- Warming Up To Climate Change (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 03, 2007)
The Peace Nobel for Mr Al Gore, former US Vice-President, and Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), brings together the narrator of an “inconvenient truth” and a “climate warrior” on an important platform.
- Mobile, Mobile, Everywhere! (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 03, 2007)
Nowadays, it has become a common sight. Wherever you go, in whichever direction you turn, on a walk, on a visit, on the bus, in public or private functions and gatherings, you see almost everyone with his/her hand to the ear, and chattering away.
- Ninety Years After Balfour (Dawn, Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Nov 03, 2007)
NINETY years ago this month, a British diplomat wrote a letter that has since then been the single biggest cause of political instability, massacres and wars in the Middle East.
- Beer Better Than Water, Honest! (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
Researchers in Europe have carried out a study and found that a glass of beer is far better at rehydrating the body after exercise than water as the sugars, salts and bubbles in a pint help people absorb fluids more quickly.
- Floods Strand 300,000 In Mexico (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
Some 300,000 people were still waiting on Friday night to be rescued from the worst floods to hit the Mexican state of Tabasco in 50 years, officials said.
- Wb Loan To State Project (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
The World Bank(WB) on Friday agreed to sanction a loan of $944 million to India for funding three socio-economic developmental projects including a community-based water management endeavour in Karnataka.
- Love At First Sight (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
It was the lovely, sunny weather that so tempted you to step out — to walk, cycle or just stretch out on the sweet-smelling grass.
- Union Cabinet Rejects Proposal To Raise Air Fare For Haj Pilgrims (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
“In keeping with UPA Government’s commitment to Muslim welfare”
Overall Haj subsidy provided by the Government to go up now from Rs. 343 crore to 368 crore
Varanasi will be included as a new embarkation point for Haj pilgrims from now on
- Baghdad: “I Only Know Of One Duty. That Is To Love” (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 03, 2007)
The tragedy of Iraq’s people seems to beof little consequence to its phantom government and self-serving elites,to its self-interested neighbours andits uncomprehending occupiers.
- Fall In Love At First Sight (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
It was the lovely, sunny weather that so tempted you to step out — to walk, cycle or just stretch out on the sweet-smelling grass.
- We Made A Mistake, So What, Says Police (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
In a case of misplaced justice, 26-year-old Lakshmana was released 50 days after authorities arrested him for 'defaming' Shivaji. Google, which owns Orkut , had cooperated with Mumbai police but the vital IP address — the unique number . . . . .
- Indian-American Couple Accused Of Enslaving Women Faces Victim (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
An Indian-American multimillionaire couple, charged with enslaving and torturing two Indonesian women, faced for the first time in the court one of the alleged victims who escaped from their mansion.
- A Writer's People (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
In 1970, the New Zealand artist Colin McCahon wrote to a friend: "I have the awful problem now of being a better person before I can paint better."
- Ring For The Butler (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Nov 03, 2007)
George Orwell describes somewhere the bustling arrival at a dak bungalow in Burma of a Burmese official of modest rank.
- India's Oil Majors In Global (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
Given runaway international crude oil prices, India's top energy firms are gearing up massive expansion and exploration plans both at home and abroad.
- Why Muslims Lag Behind (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
At the recent Book Fair in Delhi there was a stall selling Islamic literature. Friends who went round the stalls told me that among the hottest sellers was Answer to Non-Muslim Common Questions About Islam by Dr Zakir Naik (Madhur Sandesh Sangam).
- Mps Pull Up Ronen Over Language (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Nov 03, 2007)
India’s ambassador to the United States Ronen Sen was grilled on Friday by the privileges committee of the Rajya Sabha that admonished him for using language that was not compatible with his stature.
- Security Ring To Be Installed Around Sabarimala (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
A wireless surveillance system that can scan and detect even minute objects within a limit of 50 kms, would be installed at Sabarimala hill shrine which is visited by about 30 million pilgrims a year, Travancore Devaswom Board president . . . . .
- Reorienting Youth Policies (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 03, 2007)
Recentily, President Pervez Musharraf expressed his resolve to extend greater support to youth affairs.
- The Fall Of Dhaka (Dawn, Murtaza Razvi, Nov 03, 2007)
Autumn, or fall, as the Americans call it, is one of the best times to be in Dhaka. Not this fall though. Visiting the resilient Bangladesh capital, with its teeming, upwardly mobile middle class in late October, twice, in a span of two . . . .
- India To Step Up Guard On Tigers (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
India is to recruit retired army personnel to guard sanctuaries containing the country's increasingly endangered tiger population.
- India's Wild Tiger Population Drops (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2007)
The Indian government wants to recruit retired soldiers to patrol tiger sanctuaries in the hopes of saving the last of the cats after an official report confirmed a drastic drop in wild tiger numbers.
- Let's Stop Talking Like Brats (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Nov 03, 2007)
In the old joke, a man comes across a boy looking resentfully at a half-eaten watermelon. "What's the matter, son?", asks the man. "Too much watermelon?"
- “Greening India” But Losing Forests (Hindu, PRAVEEN BHARGAV, Nov 02, 2007)
Planting trees or raising plantations doesnot recover lost habitats or create pristine natural forests. It is, therefore, no antidoteto habitat fragmentation.
- An African Chimpanzee And Its Language Of Signs (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2007)
Washoe, a female chimpanzee that was believed to be the first non-human ever to acquire human language, has died at the Washington research institute where it was kept.
- China Strengthens Export Norms (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2007)
China will strengthen supervision of exports and ban those which will lead to environmental pollution, said Zhang Lijun, vice- director of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA).
- A Consequential Visit (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Nov 02, 2007)
The timing of Sonia Gandhi's visit to China is important. The UPA Government is facing the Left's opposition to the nuclear deal. And on the international front, China remains non-committal on the agreement, which needs IAEA's and NSG's approval
- It Was Armageddon (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 02, 2007)
Theories in science sometimes fossilise far too easily into dogma. The widely-accepted current explanatory theory of the way the dinosaurs perished is happily likely to be spared this fate as new research and fresh facts have invigorated the . . . .
- Pm Dons Left Avatar (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Nov 02, 2007)
Prime Minister's abiding image is that of a leader with no strength or fixed ideology - jettisoning economic reforms one day and embracing land reforms another
- Rangasamy For Early Start Of River Interlinking Project (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2007)
Chief Minister N. Rangasamy on Thursday stressed the need for expediting the proposal of linking the Kandaleru, the Swarnamuki, the Araniyaru in Andhra Pradesh and the Palar and the Cauvery in Tamil Nadu to irrigate 6,200 acres of . . . .
- The Game Is Afoot (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2007)
How many rainy days and summer vacations have been spent curled up reading the breathtaking adventures of the intrepid girl sleuth Nancy Drew? How many of us can claim an introduction to classical western art thanks to her hair colour, titian?
- 4 New Irrigation Projects To Come Up (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2007)
The Haryana Government will spend Rs. 1,240 crore on four irrigation projects which will come up in the near future, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Thursday while laying the foundation stone for two projects in Dadupur . . . .
- Mou Signed For Water Supply, Sewerage Schemes (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2007)
A tripartite memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed on Thursday between the Local Self-Government (LSG) Department, the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) and two city corporations and two municipal councils to ‘redefine institutional . . . . .
- Roadblocks For Cruise Liners At Vizhinjam Tourism Trail (Hindu, S. Anil Radhakrishnan, Nov 02, 2007)
Lack of basic infrastructure facilities in the Vizhinjam harbour is turning to be a major hurdle for luxury cruise liners arriving with holidayers from around the world to visit the tourist spots in and around the capital.
- 5 Lakh Compensation For Blueline Victims Sought (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2007)
The Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party at its monthly meeting convened here on Thursday under the chairmanship of its president Harsh Vardhan demanded that the Delhi Government provide a compensation of Rs.5 lakh to the families of those killed in . . . .
- 547 Projects Sanctioned For Thanjavur District (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2007)
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned 547 projects under its Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) for the district, according to its assistant general manager N.V. Baskaran.
- Merkel Offers Help To Develop Indian Cities (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2007)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that fast-growing cities needed all the attention of national policy but to help cities “we must not stop developing the countryside.”
- World Bank Study Calls For River Basin-Wise Approach (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Nov 02, 2007)
Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand have a major role in delivering India’s ambitious national hydropower programme of 50,000 MW by 2012, and private participation is critical to meet this target both in terms of investment and resources,” . . . . .
- Ansari Calls For Different Human Development Indicators (Hindu, P. Sunderarajan , Nov 02, 2007)
Vice-President Hamid Ansari on Thursday said that the country needed a database of human development indicators for different income groups.
- “We Must Intensify Efforts To Tap Non-Conventional Energy Sources” (Hindu, K. Venkiteswaran, Nov 02, 2007)
The debate over the 123 agreement with the United States has generated much heat.
- Governor Yet To Send Final Report: Moily (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Nov 02, 2007)
The Congress will not fish in the troubled waters of Karnataka. “We are for elections in the State,” senior Congress leader Veerappa Moily said here on Thursday.
- Word For Word (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2007)
The people of India should be grateful to Prakash Karat, the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), for telling them, through an interview to The Telegraph, that the prime minister’s “integrity is unquestioned”.
- Gowda’S Games (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 02, 2007)
FORMER Prime Minister Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda is a unique phenomenon in Indian politics.
- Citizens Versus Vips (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Nov 02, 2007)
If the Delhi Urban Art Commission (DUAC) has its way, the Capital's power-laden politicians and bureaucrats will have to live life normal-size, not king-size as they do now.
- Dubai To Help African Children (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2007)
A charity in the booming Gulf Emirate of Dubai said today it has offered to help 103 children at the centre in a row sparked by a French charity’s attempt to airlift them from Chad to France.
- The Gulf: Having Them Over A Barrel (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2007)
If Britain wasn't so dependent on Saudi Arabia's oil it might have a more equitable platform from which to criticise its government.
- Resolve Palestinian Issue: U.K. (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Nov 02, 2007)
Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday emphasised Saudi Arabia’s role in finding a solution to the Palestinian problem as King Abdullah wound up his four-day visit to Britain amid continuing protests by campaign groups over his country’s . . . . .
- Danger Gong (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Nov 02, 2007)
The danger gong has been sounded once again, this time by the UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook report which has just been released.
- Wto Stand: Pm Backs Farmers' Interests (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has given a sharp emphasis to India's position at the WTO on protecting its small farmers and to climate change with these concerns dominating his discussions with visiting US treasury secretary Henry Paulson.
- For Gerald Ford, Dead Men Tell Tales (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2007)
Dead men do tell tales: The late president Gerald Ford believed a successor, Bill Clinton, had a sex addiction and felt Hillary Clinton had "unlimited ambition" but the country was not ready for a woman president.
- A Sitting Duck For Bird Flu (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 31, 2007)
Contrary to what was seen as a problem confined largely to South-East Asian countries, bird flu is expected to become endemic in some parts of Europe. When that happens, Europe will be the third continent, after Asia and Africa, to acquire that . . . .
- In Search Of Truth Religion (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2007)
The purpose of life is to explore the cause of creation. But the pursuit of this knowledge though incumbent on human endeavour varies in intensity of purpose in individuals.
- Do Not Boycott Politics, Kalam Advises Students (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2007)
The energy and good cheer were intact as A P J Abdul Kalam ignited more young minds on Tuesday. Addressing close to 6,000 students from around 120 schools at the inauguration of Renaissance 2007:
- India Is Favoured Ground For Dumping Toxic E-Waste (Tribune, Vibha Sharma, Oct 31, 2007)
India is one of the most favoured grounds for many countries for dumping their highly toxic e-waste.
- Moscow To File Arctic Claim In Un (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2007)
Russia will file a claim to the gigantic mineral wealth of the Arctic seabed with the United Nations by the end of the year, Russia's natural resources minister was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
- N-Deal Must To Meet India's Power Target: Kakodkar (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2007)
If the India-US nuclear deal does not go through, India will have to slash at least 6,000 MW from its projected 20,000 MW by 2020 in the absence of international civilian nuclear cooperation, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar said on . . . .
- Ongc Net Rises 22% In Q2 (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2007)
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) on Tuesday reported a 22 per cent rise in net profit for the second quarter ended September 30 on the back of surge in international oil price despite paying Rs 3,799 crore to subsidise cooking fuel prices.
- Reinvent The Social Sciences (Tribune, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 31, 2007)
THE commercialisation and privatisation of higher education has marginalised the social sciences.
- Coldness In The Far North (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 31, 2007)
Those who think the Cold War is a memento of history ought to travel to Ottawa these days to have that popular misconception re-examined.
- The Long March (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 31, 2007)
MOVING quickly, the government has accepted all the demands pertaining to land reforms raised by the 25,000-plus tribesmen, “untouchables” and landless labourers who had converged on the national capital to shame the government into. . .
- Tokelau Islands Cling To Colonial Status (Tribune, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 31, 2007)
THE UN wants tiny, remote Tokelau in the South Pacific to be independent, and so does New Zealand, its colonial ruler.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 31, 2007)
Far more important than the RSP’s cavil over the possible benefits from a chemical hub in Nayachar is the Centre’s spanner in the works.
- Storage Level Crosses 136 Feet In Periyar Dam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2007)
Third and final flood alert issued to people in Kerala
- Coping With A Rapidly Urbanising World (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Oct 31, 2007)
When the United Nations Population Fund published its “State of the World Population” report earlier this year, it pointed out that the world would reach “an invisible but momentous milestone” in 2008 when, for the first time in history . . . .
- Anger At Plan To Limit Speeds On German Autobahns (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 31, 2007)
A speed limit can reduce CO2 emissions and accident rate, say Social Democrats.
- Has The End Of Civilisation Begun? (Hindu, George Monbiot, Oct 31, 2007)
A powerful novel’s vision of a dystopian future shines a cold light on the dreadful consequences of our universal apathy.
- Preserving Status Quo (Business Line, S. Mahalingam, Oct 31, 2007)
Traditionally, the IT and ITeS sectors have not been watching the Credit Policy reviews keenly as its impact on them is not very significant. But, of late, just as the IT players have become alive to the Fed Rate Meet to understand the. . .
- Nation Needs His Iron Will (Pioneer, Jagmohan , Oct 31, 2007)
We, as a nation, do not realise that great questions of the day are not settled by speeches and slogans but by sound and solid action.
- State Power Vs Street Power (Dawn, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 31, 2007)
IN modern times, people’s power emerged most radically and effectively after the French Revolution in 1789 when a Parisian crowd demolished the Bastille in defiance of state oppression and ultimately ended the rule of the Bourbon dynasty by executing the
- Special Article (Statesman, Jagmohan , Oct 31, 2007)
Once Sardar Patel was asked what he thought was the most satisfying task that he performed during his long years in public life. Everybody expected him to say: “Integration of 561 princely states” or “reorganisation of civil services”.
- In The Right Direction (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 31, 2007)
The economy continues to do well with GDP registering a growth of 9.3 per cent in the first quarter of this fiscal.
- Nepal Needs A Close Look (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Oct 31, 2007)
In the case of Nepal, historically India's foreign policy has been driven by its security concerns, but the policy planning has been patchy.
- Cisco Opens New Centre (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2007)
Cisco, on Tuesday, announced its global collaboration with Satyam Computer Services for integrated health management solutions for global markets.
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