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Articles 2721 through 2820 of 20008:
- Hub Of Research (Frontline, PARVATHI MENON, Aug 31, 2006)
Bangalore has emerged as one of modern India's most important centres of higher education and research.
- Progressive Realism In Foreign Policy (The Financial Express, JOSEPH S NYE, Aug 31, 2006)
As this century’s largest country, the US should define its national interest in a way that benefits all
- Iran: Standing Up To The West (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Aug 31, 2006)
The Iranian leadership and people are united in their defence of the country's uranium enrichment programme.
- Liquor Is Quicker, Say Growers! (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 31, 2006)
Media reports say that some cotton growers in the Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh, are chasing away pests from their crops not with chemical pesticides but with what they term as “quarter-spraying”. A quarter is the desi reference to a 40-ml bottle of . . .
- Sumith Nakandala, Former Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner (Frontline, T.S. Subramanian, Aug 31, 2006)
Interview with Sumith Nakandala, former Deputy High Commissioner of Sri Lanka.
- Importance Of N-Deal (Tribune, T.P. Sreenivasan, Aug 31, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stunned everyone into silence, in Parliament, Press rooms, think tanks and retirement homes with his candour and determination as he spoke in the Rajya Sabha on August 17, 2006, on the Indo-US nuclear deal.
- Bugti Killing: Serious Repercussions Feared (Pioneer, Pramod Kumar Singh, Aug 30, 2006)
Balochistan is still numb after the killing of its most towering leader Nawab Akbar Bugti. According to an intelligence assessment, the strife-torn province of Pakistan was ready to ignite as its people were seething with anger, the manner in which . . .
- Season Of Infections (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 30, 2006)
The woes list of Delhiites seems to have gotten longer. Joining the weather, terrorism and prices is the dengue-chikungunya spreading mosquito, Aedes aegypti, which is reportedly multiplying in abnormally large numbers.
- Indians To Spend 50% More On Travel Abroad: Survey ........ (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2006)
Willing to go places, literally, and having the required money in their pockets, Indians are going to spend on their travel abroad as never before.
- Trouble In The Neighbourhood (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 30, 2006)
Sandwiched between conflict zones in Sri Lanka and Pakistan, India has to achieve the right balance in neighbourly priorities — deciding how far to go in dealing with the Tamil Tigers while . . .
- The Real Question Is Of Relevance (The Financial Express, S NARAYAN, Aug 30, 2006)
The Planning Commission has neither control over, nor responsibility for, the outcomes of its key prescriptions for ‘faster economic growth’
- Unfolding Tragedy (Frontline, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Aug 30, 2006)
War rages in north and east of the island, and the number of civilians displaced by war has risen to 1.7 lakhs.
- Bismillah Khan (Frontline, PARTHA CHATTERJEE , Aug 30, 2006)
Peerless shehnai player Ustad Bismillah Khan leaves behind a repertoire of sublime music.
- Don't Target Mfis: It Will Deny The Poor Access To Credit (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 30, 2006)
An ongoing crackdown by the Andhra Pradesh and Orissa governments on microfinance institutions (MFIs) is yet another instance of political interference damaging a promising initiative. It has been alleged that MFIs charge very high rates of interest.
- Were The Recent Floods Man Made? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 30, 2006)
Torrential rains are heaven sent but the risk of flooding is of our own making. Settlement plans are man-made. Most city development plans disregard citizen’s right to safe city by building residential areas on flood . . .
- Iraq Agrees On Truce With Militants (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2006)
The government forces agreed a truce on Tuesday with Shia militia fighters after violent clashes south of Baghdad, as Iraq reeled from a three-day bout of bloodshed in cities across the country.
- 27 Drown As Van Plunges Into Krishna (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2006)
Twenty-seven persons were killed when a crowded van veered off a bridge and plunged into Krishna river on Tuesday.
- Conservation, Not Beautification (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 30, 2006)
The ‘beautification’ of prime national heritage monuments such as the Lahore Fort and the Shalimar Gardens is an ill-advised move that must be dispensed with. Lahore’s Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) is spending Rs17 million on beautifying the . .
- P&g Hygiene: In The Pink Of Health (Business Standard, Niraj Bhatt, Aug 30, 2006)
Procter & Gamble Hygiene (P&G)’s exit from the low margin contract manufacturing (detergents) business last October has seen its operating margin improve by 770 basis points, y-o-y, to 22.5 per cent in the June quarter.
- Bush Aide Says Myths About Us’ Green Policy Remain (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2006)
Defending US President George Bush’s policies on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is a tough job. In the eyes of environmental activists, Bush could do no right after the US opted out of the Kyoto Protocol.
- Bush’S Flawed Iraq Policy (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Aug 30, 2006)
WITH 3,438 civilian fatalities (roughly three times the number of civilian deaths in Lebanon during the month-long assault by Israel), July was the bloodiest month in Iraq since the American-led invasion.
- High Risk Of Disease In Indian Flood’S Wake (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2006)
Medical teams fanned out across parts of India’s desert state of Rajasthan to check the spread of disease after floods claimed at least 150 lives in the past week, officials said on Monday.
- Flood Levels Recede In Rajasthan (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2006)
Relief workers in the flood-affected state of Rajasthan stepped up efforts to rescue thousands of stranded villagers on Tuesday, as water levels began to recede, officials said.
- Looking Fierce (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 30, 2006)
History will testify to warriors ever striving to look ferocious and scare the adversary. Before military science came up with stand-off weapons, or stealth technology, fighting at close-quarters laid emphasis on the . . .
- Blind Men Of Hindustan (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 30, 2006)
Last Wednesday an eminent American research scholar and author on South Asia, Mr Paul Brass, wrote an article in a national daily.
- Three Mines To Boost Uranium Supplies (Deccan Herald, KALYAN RAY, Aug 30, 2006)
Three new small uranium mines and one processing plant will come up in Jharkhand within the next two years to feed the existing and upcoming nuclear reactors, as the country is facing a steep shortage in uranium fuel.
- Bush Remembers Katrina Victims (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2006)
US President George W. Bush on Tuesday mourned Hurricane Katrina's victims and vowed to do right by its survivors, one year after the killer storm devastated New Orleans, appalled the world, and forever scarred his presidency.
- The Sacred And The Polluting (Indian Express, SUBHASH GATADE, Aug 30, 2006)
As the Ganesh festivities reach their peak, it may be useful to remember the recent guidelines issued by the Gujarat state government to control water pollution during the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi.
- Notices To Power Firms, Pwd For Polluting Sutlej (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2006)
The Himachal Pradesh Pollution Control Board (HPPCB) has served notices on private power sector giant Jaiprakash Associates Limited (JAL), its associate company Kashang Hydroelectric Project and the Public Works Department (PWD) of Kinnaur . . .
- Greens Allege Dilution Of Key Notifications On Environment (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2006)
Ministry of Environment and Forests urged to put proposed amendments on hold
EIA Notification Amendment being pushed through without consultations
People's groups, voluntary organisations being kept out of talks.
- `India Has To Sustain Pace Of Development' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2006)
Former Union Minister and journalist Arun Shourie said here on Tuesday that the pace of development in the country had to be sustained for the next 20 years if India was to move along with the fast changing world.
- The Other Questions (Telegraph, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Aug 30, 2006)
The parliamentary and public debate on the Indo-US nuclear deal has, predictably, focussed on two questions.
- Ecological Havoc In The Kasauli Hills (Tribune, Baljit Malik, Aug 30, 2006)
The Kasauli hills are at present threatened with ecological havoc. Big ticket colonisers and property developers, alongwith a network of real-estate agents, are acquiring thousands of bighas of land from peasants and farmers to put up multistorey . . .
- Sharing The Blame (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 30, 2006)
Think of the mass hysteria that gripped the citizens of Maharashtra when some semi-literate girl from a Mahim slum woke up one morning and discovered that the waters of the ocean had turned ‘sweet’.
- Key Infrastructure Projects Crippled By Delay, Admits Govt (Indian Express, Kandula Subramaniam, Aug 30, 2006)
Work on the 73-km Howrah-Amta-Champadanga rail project in West Bengal started 32 years ago. To date, this project is yet to be completed.
- Is This What Happiness Looks Like? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 30, 2006)
A happy environment can be derived from bright colour like vivid shades of pink or canary yellow with chartreuse accents.
- A Case For The Year Of Planet Earth (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 30, 2006)
We can use the riches of Earth for a living but not upset its dynamic equilibrium.
- Case Filed For Redemption Of Industrial Land (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2006)
Minister for Large and Medium Industries, Katta Subramanya Naidu said the Government has filed a case in the court for redemption of industrial land all over Karnataka, which was allotted many years ago and are lying vacant today.
- Cag Flays Bandipur Park Management (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2006)
While the estimated number of tigers in the State has increased by 100 per cent in Karnataka between 1984 to 2001-02, the number of big cats has enhanced by only 55 per cent in Bandipur, says a report from the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)
- 27 Drown As Bus Falls Into Almatti Reservoir (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2006)
In a ghastly accident, 27 people, including two newly-wed couples and seven children, drowned when a mini-bus in which they were travelling fell into the Almatti reservoir, on Tuesday.
- Grama Anna Marumalarchi Thittam Biggest Rural Development Scheme (Hindu, T. Ramakrishnan, Aug 30, 2006)
Aimed at injecting substantial amount of resources for village panchayats Aimed at injecting substantial amount of resources for village panchayats .
- 23 Killed As Mini Bus Plunges Into The Krishna River (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2006)
Five survive; 12 bodies retrieved; water discharge from the Alamatti Dam stopped to facilitate the rescue operation
- Water Being Drained In Barmer (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2006)
Rescue efforts stepped up as rain lets up; death toll increases to 139
- Editor Of Surat Eveninger Arrested (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2006)
NIV rules out Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in Surat .
- Konkan Paradox (Frontline, LYLA BAVADAM, Aug 30, 2006)
In resource-rich Konkan, successive governments have neglected agriculture, the region's mainstay.
- Massacre And Dispute (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2006)
The distinction between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is getting thinner with every passing day. However, what if someone killed as a terrorist or a potential killer does not even get the benefit of being owned up as a freedom fighter by anyone?
- I Say, Three Cheers For Ayaan (OutLook, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2006)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Muslim by birth, is a daring woman. She has dared to raise questions despite knowing that a Mussalman is prohibited from raising any question on Islam.
- Withering Lives (Frontline, P. SAINATH, Aug 30, 2006)
The agrarian crisis bankrupts whole communities and drives hundreds of farmers to suicide across Maharashtra.
- Harvest Of Death In Vidarbha (Frontline, DIONNE BUNSHA, Aug 30, 2006)
Mounting debt, rising cost of inputs and falling prices of their produce are driving farmers of the region to suicide.
- Marathwada's Turn (Frontline, Anupama Katakam, Aug 30, 2006)
The Marathwada region has seen farmers' suicides and it could be another Vidarbha in the making.
- Vines Of Debt (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 30, 2006)
Onion or grape, farmers of Nashik in north Maharashtra have very little to choose to escape debt, and now death.
- Judicial Rap (Frontline, Anupama Katakam, Aug 30, 2006)
The Bombay High Court directs the State government to take more responsibility regarding farmers' suicides.
- Bitter Truth (Frontline, LYLA BAVADAM, Aug 30, 2006)
In western Maharashtra, the crisis in sugarcane has hit small and medium farmers the most.
- Musharraf For Cooperation With China On ‘Bro (Pakistan Observer, Mariana Baabar, Aug 30, 2006)
Brisk preparations are being made by both Pakistan and China ahead of the visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao to Pakistan.
- A Disappointing Judgment (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 30, 2006)
It is a disappointing judgment, although the Supreme Court has taken five months to finalise it. Probably, the word ‘perverse’ is more apt because the five-judge bench has opposed what is wanted, reasonable or required.
- Hometruths (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 29, 2006)
The finance minister’s response (letter to Montek, FE August 28) to the Planning Commission’s draft approach paper to the 11th Plan is in sync with ground realities.
- India: The Siege Within (Pioneer, A Surya Prakash, Aug 29, 2006)
Senior citizens who lived through the traumatic days of partition must be feeling a sense of déjà vu when they hear Muslim clerics launching a shrill attack on our National Song Vande Mataram, 56 years after India became a secular, democratic republic.
- Projects Worth Rs. 62,864 Cr. Cleared (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
They will provide employment to 6.31 lakh people in the State
- Re-Defining Indo-Dutch Economic Ties (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Aug 29, 2006)
The Netherlands may have been slow to wake up to India's economic resurgence, but it is making up by quickly "redefining" the trade and investment relations.
- A Touch Of Natural Green For Mtc Termini (Hindu, P. Oppili, Aug 29, 2006)
The saplings programme will be implemented in 12 depots .
- Ddt Still Weapon Of Choice Against Malaria (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 29, 2006)
Men in blue coveralls and white surgical masks began their annual trek into the countryside here last week. Methodically, they sprayed one home after another with a chemical that is poised for a big expansion in the developing world: DDT.
- Ratification Of Treaties (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Aug 29, 2006)
The Manmohan Singh government’s insistence on maintaining executive privilege in dealing with the Indo-US nuclear deal raises two kinds of questions.
- Thousands Displaced In Barmer (Hindu, Mohammed Iqbal , Aug 29, 2006)
Death toll in Rajasthan floods 138; rescue and relief work in full swing
- Delhi: Dystopia Or Utopia? (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Aug 29, 2006)
When a city that can claim to have hosted almost 2,500 years of human habitation confronts its future, illuminating sparks are bound to fly. A two-year project of number crunching came to an end last week with the release of the Delhi Human . . .
- Sharing The Blame (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 29, 2006)
Think of the mass hysteria that gripped the citizens of Maharashtra when some semi-literate girl from a Mahim slum woke up one morning and discovered that the waters of the ocean had turned ‘sweet’.
- Chidambaram Is Right And Wrong (Business Line, M. Ramesh , Aug 29, 2006)
The Finance Minister's letter asking banks to consider keeping any hike in PLR in abeyance may have created much consternation, but he did this in a transparent fashion, which deserves credit. But his utterances on bank mergers may be a different . . .
- Chotu Doesn’T Work Here Any More (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 29, 2006)
From October, employing children below the age of 14 as a domestic worker or as help in restaurants and eating places will be illegal.
- War Over Water (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Asian Age, Aug 29, 2006)
Are we heading for an era of “hydrological warfare” in which rivers, lakes and aquifers become national security assets to be fought over, or controlled through proxy armies and client states?
- Cleaning Kali Bein: Govt To Act As Support System (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
President Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s recent visit to Nirmal Kuteya in Sultanpur Lodhi has expedited the cleansing process of sacred rivulet Kali Bein.
- Pak Papers Blast Govt Over Bugti Killing (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Aug 29, 2006)
Pakistan’s frontline daily newspapers have blasted the federal government for the killing of Baluch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti; one paper going to the extent of describing the event as “the biggest blunder committed by the military since the . . .
- Tension Along Indo-Bangla Border (Daily Excelsior, Subhashis Mittra, Aug 29, 2006)
It was not one of those usual tensions arising out of cattle smuggling or exchange of fire along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
- Shortage Of Milk In Capital (Pioneer, Neha Kaushik, Aug 29, 2006)
With Rajasthan and Gujarat, the two major milk producing States reeling under floods, the national Capital is facing a severe shortage of milk.
- Lata, Asha To Move Out From Peddar Rd (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
Is the controversial flyover at Peddar Road finally forcing the legendary sister duo of Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle to move out of their Prabhu Kunj residence? It would seem so after their recent investments in residential properties which are a . . .
- Negotiating With Subjectivity (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
One of the major tasks of philosophy is to understand the role of the individual and the relationship between the individual and others, as well as with the world.
- Ceos Working To Build A Better World (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
CEO philanthropy on a grand scale is something that we’re used to seeing in the West. Business leaders such as Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have taken generosity and charity to a whole new level.
- Pak Media Flays Second Biggest Military Blunder (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
That the Pakistani military may have committed a serious error of judgment in killing veteran Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was evident in the Pakistani media on Monday with the targeted killing being termed the second biggest military blunder. . .
- Idol Thoughts (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 29, 2006)
Once again, idols are drinking milk, sending the faithful into a frenzy of devout hysteria, convinced that this is divine manifestation. They believe this is a miracle beyond the comprehension of rationalists who anyway don't understand God.
- India And The Data Exclusivity Trap (Hindu, Sarah Hiddleston, Aug 29, 2006)
In a coda to the Patents Act, fresh attempts are under way to inhibit the growth of India's vibrant generic industry by altering the laws that govern drug registration. This could further consolidate power in the hands of the drug majors and result . . .
- Spoiling The Beauty (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Aug 29, 2006)
Why did India go wrong with urban planning?
- To Invest In Nuclear Safety (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 29, 2006)
Nuclear power plants have a ‘front-loaded’ cost structure, i.e. they are relatively expensive to build but relatively inexpensive to operate.
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