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Articles 521 through 620 of 20008:
- America’S “Pay To Play” Democracy (Tribune, Johann Hari, Nov 03, 2006)
If we believe the opinion polls, it is tempting for the watching world to chill out, cheer as the Democrats reclaim at least one branch of the American state, and assume that after Katrina, after Fallujah, sanity is being slowly restored.
- Railroad To Development (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 02, 2006)
Bringing the railways into Tibet would hardly destroy its religion and culture, for these are not objects to be stored in museums, argues Ashis.
- The Day That Changed The Climate (Tribune, Colin Brown , Nov 02, 2006)
Climate change has been made the world's biggest priority, with the publication of a stark report showing that the planet faces catastrophe unless urgent measures are taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- Development Is About Humans, Not Just Incomes (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 02, 2006)
IN the 70s and 80s, economists believed economic growth and its trickle down effect would reduce poverty.
- King Size Life (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
"Made for Maharajahs: A Design Diary of Princely India" is a peek at the life our royals led.
- Importance Of Reading Newspapers Stressed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
College Day was celebrated at Sri Bharathi College of Education and Sri Subabharathi Teacher Training Institute for Women at Kaikurichi near Pudukottai recently.
- Defusing A Crisis (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 02, 2006)
Pyongyang's decision to re-enter the Six Party talks is excellent news but the world — and Washington, in particular — must realise this is not the way things were supposed to go.
- Arts: It’S A Brand Too (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Nov 02, 2006)
The changing concept of arts: the classical can be redefined to suit changing lifestyles.
- Grade Separator At Radial Road Junction Soon (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
A grade separator will be built at the Tambaram-Velachery Road and Pallavaram-Thoraippakkam Radial Road junction soon, Highways Minister M.P. Saminathan said on Wednesday. The project was estimated to cost Rs.12 crore.
- Asia-Pacific Partnership Strategy Laid Out, To Help India Develop Clean Energy (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
The Asia-Pacific Partnership’s (APP) action plan on Clean Development and Climate was rolled out today. It is expected to help India implement cleaner and cost effective energy technologies through 100 projects between six nations that account for . . .
- Manmohan: No Change In Foreign Policy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
"Nation could not be tied to the past"
"There is a bid to create confusion"
Says we need peace in neighbourhood.
- Bush Wades Into Kerry’S Iraq Remark (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
Election Run Up: ‘If you don’t get education you get stuck in Iraq. Ask President Bush’
- An Auteur Rooted In Humanism (Indian Express, SHANTANU DATTA, Nov 02, 2006)
Mumbai honour, a call from Beijing are a recognition of Majid Majidi and Iranian cinema
- Pricing The Pol Less Painfully (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Nov 02, 2006)
President Musharraf has stressed the need to facilitate the common man’s access to resources through broadening the economic opportunities.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 02, 2006)
Police reform seems to be the flavour of the season. The apex court has specified benchmarks, the Prime Minister has pontificated, now an expert group’s report is with the home ministry.
- Customsfines Itc For Waste Paper Imports (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
ITC Ltd, one of India’s biggest private sector companies, was caught by the Customs here importing waste paper mixed with hazardous municipal waste.
- Press Digest-Financial Times, Wall St Journal Asia Editions (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
The Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal carried the following stories in their Asia print and/or Web site editions on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
- Let The Tribals Speak For Themselves (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Nov 02, 2006)
The National Tribal Policy should be based on opening up tribal societies and giving their members the freedom to choose the lifestyle they would like to lead.
- Pm Joins Kerala Birthday Bash (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today laid the foundation stone for a new terminal and inaugurated Air India’s maintenance base unit for its new fleet of low-cost airline ~ Air India Express ~ to West Asia.
- Driving Dr Singh: Taking The Pm For A Learning Ride (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
Keralites are cryptic, abstruse and undecipherable as much as they are astute, discerning and genial. And who else would know that better than Dr Manmohan Singh, surrounded as he is by Keralites of every hue — in the PMO, in his intelligence services . .
- Global Warning (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 02, 2006)
With the British Government issuing a report that indicts the US and China for activities that have resulted in a "natural calamity on the scale of world wars and the Great Depression of the late 1920s and early '30s", UK's growing dissatisfaction . . .
- Wider Dimensions Of Security (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 02, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf hit the nail on the head when he told a seminar in Islamabad on Tuesday that national security depended on pursuing defence, foreign and domestic policies in line with the needs of the regional environment.
- Collapse Of Sri Lankan Talks (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 02, 2006)
The collapse of peace talks between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tiger rebels in Geneva the other day was only to be expected.
- Brain Drain Or Mutual Gain? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 02, 2006)
In an increasingly shrinking world, we need a more sophisticated understanding of the national-international dynamics at work, at the workplace.
- India To Use Cleaner Technology (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
Embarking on a greener industrial growth, India has set in motion a series of initiatives to use fuel effectively. As part of US-led initiative, private and public sector companies will be benefited from cleaner technologies for making steel, cement . . .
- Groups Defend Clinton Air Plan (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
Supreme Court justices took a skeptical view of an Environmental Protection Agency crackdown on air pollution from electric power plants yesterday as the court heard oral arguments in a major case on the authority of the federal government to punish . . .
- Pm's Vow To Tackle Global Warming Hit By Plans To Treble Flights (Independent (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
Britain's airports are planning to treble the number of flights by 2030, despite the recent Stern report's grave warnings about the environmental effects of expanding air travel in the UK.
- Upa Allies Forgotten, Left Abandoned, All Praise For Sonia (Pioneer, Akhilesh Suman, Nov 02, 2006)
Allies were forgotten and the UPA's conscious-keeper the Left abandoned as Congress president Sonia Gandhi patted the back of the Government for its flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) that had been launched in 200 backward . . .
- Iraqi Prime Minister Asserts Independence (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
Shiites from the crowded Baghdad district of Sadr City are reveling in what they deem their "victory" over American forces after Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Tuesday ordered the dismantling of US and Iraqi checkpoints surrounding the area.
- 'I Do Not Let People Die On Me' (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
Petty Officer Third Class Dustin Kirby clutched the wounded marine's empty helmet. His hands were coated in blood. Sweat ran down his face, which he was trying to keep straight but kept twisting into a snarl.
- Un Envoy To Return To Sudan (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2006)
The UN envoy to Sudan is to return to Khartoum despite his recent expulsion from the country, the UN has announced.
- Delhi Stores Protest Halts Trade (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2006)
Thousands of shop owners have struck over plans to demolish illegally built stores in Dehli.
- The Lure Of Korea's Magic Mountain (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2006)
North Korea Visiting this fabled North Korean mountain was not an easy decision for Kim Chung Soo and his wife, Nam Sang Ja. Twenty-two people from their village in central South Korea had each paid 240,000 won a month in advance to book a day trip . . .
- Reengineering Route (Business Line, R. Devarajan, Oct 31, 2006)
The usual reengineering process advised by management consultants starts with the preamble that the company must discard the existing structure lock, stock, and barrel.
- British To Evacuate Basra Consulate Staff (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2006)
The British consulate in Basra, in the south of Iraq, will evacuate all but a skeleton staff from "its heavily defended building" within the next 24 hours over safety concerns.
- U.K. Fears Disaster In Climate Change (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2006)
Britain warned Monday that failure to act swiftly on global warming will have a cataclysmic effect on the global economy, and said it was stepping up efforts to get other nations involved.
- Islam-Christianity Relationship (Dawn, Qazi Faez Isa, Oct 31, 2006)
Joseph ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI and we have come to know of a man very different from his much loved predecessor Pope John Paul II, a man of God.
- Nuclear Prog Not Dependent On Outside Help: Fm (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2006)
India's ongoing three-stage nuclear power programme remains independent of the efforts to enter into collaboration with foreign countries, the government's top scientific adviser said today.
- 72-Hour Trade Bandh In Delhi (Tribune, Smriti Kak Ramachandran, Oct 31, 2006)
Shops in all major markets here remained closed today as traders put up the shutters to protest against the resumption of the sealing drive here on Supreme Court orders.
- Making Sezs People-Friendly (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Oct 31, 2006)
To carry along all the stakeholders, especially the owners of farmlands, the Special Economic Zones Act should not only be investor-friendly but also people-friendly. Towards this end, some fine-tuning of the Act will help greatly, says BHANOJI RAO.
- Special Article (Statesman, Jagmohan , Oct 31, 2006)
Today (October 31) is Sardar Patel's birth anniversary. Warm tributes will be paid to him for his manifold services to the nation. But few may remember the great contribution he made in the field of civic administration.
- No Farmland For Sezs, Says Faleiro (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2006)
Industries Minister Luizinho Faleiro has said that the Goa Government will not allot farmland for setting up of Special Economic Zones (SEZs).
- Haryana To Set Up Rural Development Authority (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2006)
Move to strengthen panchayati raj institutions in the State
For the first time, 1,000 villages would be provided Rs.10 lakhs for development
Rs.40 crore has been earmarked for construction of stadiums in the rural areas
- The House That Jimmy Carter Built (Hindu, Meena Menon, Oct 31, 2006)
With wife and son, he led 2,000 volunteers in the construction work
- Advantage India, Says Prince Andrew (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2006)
A better investment destination for British companies than China, says the Duke of York
- Traders' Strike Hits Life In Delhi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2006)
Massive demonstration near Delhi Assembly; BJP joins protest
- When Water & Air Conspire To Kill (Hindu, PARAMESWARAN, Oct 31, 2006)
car can be a deadly place to be in an automobile accident. And then, you can die while simply sitting in a parked car, its engine running, the windows up and the air-con running.
- Homing In On The Fear Factor (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 31, 2006)
A little more than a year after Parliament passed the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (PWDVA), the long-awaited leap has been finally taken.
- Tank Travel (Times of India, Manjul Bajaj, Oct 31, 2006)
A 42-year-old man in Cheshire, UK, has just bought himself a 7.5-ton Sabre tank to go to town for shopping, dropping the kids off, catching a movie, that kind of thing. There are many large vehicles on the road but nothing quite like . . .
- State Terror (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 31, 2006)
The entire country is discussing Gandhigiri. Our prime minister recently toured South Africa to imbibe the spirit of Gandhi and satyagraha from where it all began. However, a young Manipuri woman's non-violent struggle to protest a draconian law . . .
- Politics Off The Main Road (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 31, 2006)
When the Mulayam Singh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh appointed the Justice S. Narayan inquiry commission to probe charges of corruption against former chief minister Mayawati in the 150-km Delhi-Agra Taj Expressway contract, not many had . . .
- How Clean Is Gujarat Anyway? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 31, 2006)
As I read the piece, ‘Gujarat brings out the scrubbers’ (IE, October 28), I wondered if the state being referred to, where the pollution control board is on its toes, was really the Gujarat in which I live.
- Steal City? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 31, 2006)
The city named after India’s first great entrepreneur and industrialist, Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata, has also thrown up an interesting model: that of a corporation in the private . . .
- Using Sun To Cool Vaccines, Indian Scientist Gets Kalam As First Client (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Oct 31, 2006)
The reason often given for the failure of immunisation programmes in rural areas is that implementers are unable to keep vaccines in cold storage for want of power supply.
- Turtle Walks And Birdwatching (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 31, 2006)
Madhusudan and his team found that bird diversity was positively correlated with median family income. In other words, birds prefer richer parts of town.
- Q&a:'1857 Was Largest Uprising In Any European Empire' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 31, 2006)
As India is set to celebrate 150 years of the 1857 uprising, William Dalrymple's new book, The Last Mughal, tries to put into perspective hitherto unknown facts about the significant event. Dalrymple tells Meenakshi Kumar why the Mutiny was a . ..
- Stressed Soldiers (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 31, 2006)
Soldiers need to be trained to manage stress.
- N-Deal With Us A Plan To Meet Energy Needs: Scientific Adviser (Tribune, R. Suryamurthy, Oct 31, 2006)
India's engagement with the US on the civilian nuclear cooperation was New Delhi's short-term strategy with the long-term goal of thorium-based fast breeder reactors to meet the energy needs of the country.
- Playing The Doctor (Telegraph, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 31, 2006)
Furthering bilateral ties with an eastern neighbour on the boil will severely test the skills of the new foreign minister, writes Jyoti Malhotra.
- Wheels Drop Off, Train Rushes On (Telegraph, G.S. RADHAKRISHNA, Oct 31, 2006)
The front two wheels had fallen off, the coach was swaying dangerously, and yet the superfast train from Howrah hurtled at 100 km an hour towards a rail bridge.
- Defence Lines (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 31, 2006)
A defence minister, by virtue of the post he holds, has to see himself and his role as being very different from that of the top brass of the armed forces. He has to be conscious all the time that he does not think or speak like army generals, . . . .
- Anger Erupts (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2006)
Led by BJP, traders fight pitched battles with police
More than 50,000 traders from across the Capital fought pitched battles with police on Monday afternoon as they laid siege to the Delhi Vidhan Sabha on the first day of the 10-day session.
- A Resurgent Private Sector (Dawn, Shahid Javed Burki, Oct 31, 2006)
I have now reached the end of the list of the positives I said I would explore in this series of articles.
- Traders Clash With Police In Delhi (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2006)
Hundreds of shopkeepers clashed on Monday with police wielding batons and water cannons at the start of a three-day strike in the Indian capital against a decision to close shops in residential areas, eye witnesses said.
- Wild Holidays (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2006)
Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces and Conservation Corporation Africa (CC Africa) have together announced the opening of their first luxury wilderness lodge in India, the Mahua Kothi, situated on the border of Bandhavgarh National Park in Madhya Pradesh.
- An Investment In Our Collective Future (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 30, 2006)
We must act today if we are to prevent calamity tomorrow.
- Get Rocked In The Cradle (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
What happened to the universe post-Big Bang? When did planet earth come into existence? When did humankind first walk upright? Do we all have a common ancestry? How did the environment influence human evolution? And how is man affecting the . . .
- My Kind Of Place - Shivkumar Sharma (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Bharat's mastak (India's forehead), mera janmasthan (my birthplace) and jannat dharti par (paradise on earth), that's Jammu and Kashmir — my kind of place. Though far away in Mumbai, I am still a mountain man and my music reverberates with the pahadi flav
- Scholarships For Pakistani Students (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 30, 2006)
India with its English-based education system is attractive for its other Anglophile neighbours. New Delhi could use this advantage to create goodwill.
- Poison As Prescription (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Oct 30, 2006)
It was the ancient Fifties. A venerable academic used to preside over the School of Economics and Sociology of the University of Bombay at its magnificent Churchgate campus.
- Minor Irrigation Tanks To Be Rejuvenated Across The State (Hindu, S. Rajendran, Oct 30, 2006)
Rs. 500 crore to be spent on the scheme in the next few months
- Three Die Of Suffocation In Stranded Car (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Rain on Saturday night claimed at least seven lives in the city and the suburbs.
- Transcending Karma And Retribution (The Economic Times, K VIJAYARAGHAVAN, Oct 30, 2006)
Homer wrote (Iliad): “No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun destiny.” The ancient Persian thinker, Omar Khayam also noted in his Rubaiyat: “The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, / Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit/ Shall lure it . . .
- Where Green Spells Grandeur (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Still, in Nature's lap, says SOMA BASU
- Sezs As ‘Gated Cities’ (Tribune, M.G. Devasahayam, Oct 30, 2006)
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are in the midst of a raging national debate. The Union Ministry of Commerce, in their policy paper, describes SEZs thus: “A designated duty free enclave to be treated as foreign territory for trade operations and duties . .
- The Truth Behind Women 'Opting Out' (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
When New York Times reporter Lisa Belkin coined the phrase "the opt-out revolution" in 2003 to describe a supposed exodus of mothers from the workforce, her article sparked a media flurry. Other journalists rushed to find their own examples of women . . .
- Swaziland Abuzz About Aids (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
This tiny kingdom's new anti-AIDS campaign arrived without warning one day in July, featuring a slogan both unusually explicit and dripping with implied accusations: Makhwapheni Uyabulala.
- Mexican Federal Police, Backed By Army, Retake City (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Federal forces moved to take back this picturesque tourist town one cobblestone street at a time on Sunday, bashing through barricades and pushing back activists who had seized the downtown five months ago in an increasingly ugly dispute with the . . .
- Higher Growth Is Vulnerable (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Oct 30, 2006)
High economic growth in Pakistan is more vulnerable than in China or India as it has few cushions or reserves to finance external shocks, says the World Bank.
- Who To Launch 3rd Edition Of Guidelines On Safe Wastewater Use (Jordan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
The World Health Organisation’s Centre for Environmental Health Activities (CEHA) will launch the third edition of its “Guidelines for the Safe Use of Wastewater, Excreta and Greywater” at a regional workshop opening in Amman today.
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