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Articles 5221 through 5320 of 20008:
- Lokayukta Won’T Get More Powers: Cm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Just a day after stating that he would look into the legal provisions to give additional powers to the Lokayukta, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy did a U-turn on Sunday saying no such powers would be given to the corruption watchdog.
- Slums Are Cities Of The Future (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jul 03, 2006)
Even if income poverty is not so acute in urban slums as in some rural areas in India, everyone living in a slum suffers acute deprivation of water and sanitation. Then there is the fear of being forced to move at any time.
- A Journey To Remember Across China (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 03, 2006)
The feeling of being part of history in the making forms a common bond among the passengers of the Beijing-Lhasa train.
- Like A Totally Blossomed Flower (Deccan Herald, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Jul 03, 2006)
Only a healthy bud can blossom. In the same way, only a healthy being can succeed.
- Can Genes Explain Rising Obesity? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 03, 2006)
contrary to conventional wisdom, the obesity epidemic is not restricted to people in Western countries who eat bad diets and are not very active......
- Climate Change Can Wait, Health Can't (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 03, 2006)
With $50bn, we could make the planet a better place but money spent on global warming would be wasted.....
- Grass-Roots Realities (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 03, 2006)
Prime minister Manmohan Singh's Rs 3,750 crore debt relief package for Vidarbha treats the symptoms of agrarian distress without addressing their root causes.
- Tibet Rail: Dalai Lama’S Open Mind (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Jul 03, 2006)
While supporters of the Tibetan cause protested against the inauguration of the spectacular rail line from Gormo to Lhasa on Saturday, the Dalai Lama has left himself some political room.
- Will Property Mfs Work In India? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 03, 2006)
With the demand fundamentals demonstrating strength, real estate investors remain buoyant. A further fillip has been provided by Sebi’s decision to allow real estate mutual funds to invest in the sector.
- Package For Farmers (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 03, 2006)
As expected, the Prime Minister announced on Saturday a Rs 3,750-crore package for distressed farmers of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala to address the problems of rural indebtedness, crop failure and water deficiency, which have . . .
- Tomato Pickle (Business Standard, Subir Gokarn, Jul 03, 2006)
The best prophylactic against surges in the prices of fresh produce is ensuring processed equivalents become affordable.
- Beijing As Bada Bhai? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 03, 2006)
From a historical perspective, the inauguration of a train service from mainland China to Lhasa over the weekend is as significant as the Francis Younghusband mission that opened up Tibet in 1904.
- Rs. 190-Crore Project For Kolar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Chief Minister to discuss spread of chikungunya with officials on Wednesday
Centre identifies six districts in State for providing relief Kumaraswamy to tour districts for three days in a week
- Demand Conservation: An Essential Plank Towards Energy Security (Indian Express, Vikram S Mehta, Jul 03, 2006)
A bystander at a conference of international petroleum experts could be excused for being confused. For he would have heard two well substantiated but conflicting viewpoints on the future role of oil.
- Tarry, The Tortoise Way (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Jul 03, 2006)
The hard infrastructure available in our solemn socialistic republic is quite simply pathetic. To call it medieval would be an insult to the middle ages.
- Fiction To Fact (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 03, 2006)
Hawking has sounded alarm on genetic engineering
- State Officials Asked To Monitor Vidharbha Developmental Works (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday directed the Maharashtra Government officials to monitor the progress of developmental works in Vidharbha region.
- Experts Express Concern Over Nuclear Deal With U.S. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Attention not paid to "pitfalls and weaknesses"
The U.S. President will have to certify every year that he is satisfied India's nuclear programme
Integrated national security should be given the highest priority
Under the deal, India will . . .
- Israel Steps Up Raids In Bid To Free Soldier (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Israeli aircraft intensified their attacks on Palestinian targets in Gaza early Monday, a day after Israel's prime minister ordered his military to do whatever necessary to pressure militants to free an Israeli soldier captured a week ago.
- Scheme Of Studies (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 03, 2006)
The decision of the federal education ministry to notify a new scheme of studies for classes one to twelve comes as a mixed blessing.
- Just A Bit Of Security (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jul 03, 2006)
Every Government has a midlife crisis as well as a sell-by date. The trick is to ensure that the latter does not precede the former.
- Merit Lies In Equal Opportunity (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 03, 2006)
Breaking open the unstated reservation for the upper-caste is the only way to advance the nation's backward castes/communities — S Simhadri
- A Tiger’S Tears (Tribune, Pran Chopra , Jul 03, 2006)
If a tiger can shed crocodile tears, a super Tiger has done it. Anton Balasingham, described as the chief negotiator on behalf of the Tamil secessionists in Sri Lanka, is obviously skilled in the art of saying one thing and meaning another.
- A Rail On The Roof Of The World (Tribune, Ching-Ching Ni, Jul 03, 2006)
The inaugural journey for the world’s highest railway began on July 1, a technological feat improving China’s access to one of the most forbidding corners of the Earth.
- Rs. 190-Cr. To Provide Drinking Water In Kolar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Chief Minister to discuss spread of chikungunya in the State with officials on Wednesday
Centre identifies six districts in State for providing relief
Kumaraswamy to tour districts for three days in a week
- 'Indian Fishermen To Be Set Free After Completing Sentences' (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
A day after New Delhi suggested that Islamabad had not kept its word on prisoner exchange, Pakistan today gave a new twist to the issue, saying the 240 Indian fishermen due to be released yesterday, would be set free only after they complete their . . .
- Govt To Assess Water Storage In Chinese Barrage Over Sutlej (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Following reports of China having constructed a ‘‘barrage’’over the Sutlej that could impact the flow of water in flood-prone areas of Himachal Pradesh, the Ministry of Water Resources has decided to make an assessment of the magnitude of water . . .
- 'Water' Trickles In (Hindu, Anita Joshua, Jul 02, 2006)
A Novel, Bapsi Sidhwa, Penguin/ Viking, 2006, p.208, Rs. 325. MUCH has changed in India since filmmaker Deepa Mehta ran into trouble with the saffron brigade as she began work on her film "Water" along the banks of the Ganga in Varanasi.
- Poverty, Deprivation And Rural Indebtedness (Times of India, Humra Quraishi, Jul 02, 2006)
Here we are crying hoarse, tamatars are out of our grasp, but as attention gets focused to the Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region, horror stories tell us of what deprivation and stark poverty can do to the human being.
- Pm Announces Rs 3,750 Cr For Distressed Farmers (Deccan Herald, Parag Rabade, Jul 02, 2006)
After touring the suicide zone of Vidarbha in Maharashtra on Friday and Saturday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh disappointed the distressed farmers by refusing to waive their unpaid debts, which is the major cause behind the suicides, and announced . . .
- Over The Top (News International, Masood Hasan, Jul 02, 2006)
The statements of three gentlemen who are associated with Pakistan cricket regarding our chances on the tour of England, which has just begun, have a ringing sound of a large death rattle.
- Mumbai’S Rudeness Index (Indian Express, NANDITA PATEL, Jul 02, 2006)
That Mumbai has been voted the rudest city in the world by a recent Reader’s Digest study has come as a shock, even insult, to several of the metro’s citizens.
- Where Is The Amateur Spirit Of Football Going? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 02, 2006)
Football remains both a romantic and — the two are necessarily connected — a moral activity.....
- Flattening The Himalayas (Indian Express, P Stobdan, Jul 02, 2006)
China’s move to ensure greater connectivity with Tibet and Sikkim raises many questions
- The End Of Distress (Indian Express, ILA PATNAIK, Jul 02, 2006)
Vidarbha’s problems are real and palpable. The solution has to be all-India reform
- Journals Of The Footloose (Hindu, Navtej Sarna, Jul 02, 2006)
Yes, he is the best among them, King of the travellers on my bookshelf.
- A Change Of Perspective (Hindu, MAITREYEE SAHA GANAPATHY, Jul 02, 2006)
Penelopiad takes Homer's Odyssey and gives the epic a female voice.
- A Time For Reflection (Hindu, SHASHI THAROOR, Jul 02, 2006)
The Aspen Institute's Festival of Ideas is like a good high school with spectacular scenery and no exams.
- Discontent Is A Very Productive Emotion (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 02, 2006)
Australian writer Judith Rodriguez on her books and writing in general.
I suppose Homes and Families would be one side of my work ... my poetry is partly about that because it is the scene of our most important decisions ... it is the cradle of . . .
- A Guide To Banaras (Hindu, ZERIN ANKLESARIA , Jul 02, 2006)
A boon for students and visitors alike.
- A Parade Of Payas (Hindu, Sudha Mahalingam, Jul 02, 2006)
Bagan, a 12-hour boat ride down the Irrawaddy from Mandalay, is Myanmar's ode to Buddhism.
Our first stop is Ananda Paya, Bagan's oldest and most beautiful edifice. Its tower bears the unmistakable influence of North Indian architecture.
- First Impression (Hindu, Suchitra Behal, Jul 02, 2006)
When you first read about Lucas he seems an ordinary enough child, recently bereaved by his brothers' sudden death.
- Holy Aura (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 02, 2006)
Awe-inspiring art, architecture and experiences in the world's smallest country.
The image of Michelangelo on his custom-built scaffolding furiously painting lying on his back stuck in my mind.
- Lutta Ta Continua (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 02, 2006)
Love it or hate it or both, Calcutta is like a great, unpredictable and dangerous football team.
- Iraq After Zarqawi (Daily Excelsior, Atul Cowshish, Jul 02, 2006)
The end of the so-called head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was indeed a blow to the ‘foreign’ insurgents operating in Iraq.
- Women Must Show The Way (Times of India, Kiran Bedi, Jul 02, 2006)
This piece of writing is not about percentages or a head count of women in uniform but ‘who’ these young women in uniform are? And ‘what’ made/makes them opt for olive greens, khakis, blues, the jungle fatigues, or the naval whites? And what could . . .
- Rs. 3,750-Crore Relief For Vidharbha (Hindu, Meena Menon, Jul 02, 2006)
Manmohan announces interest waiver, debt rescheduling, and more credit flow
Manmohan: Not come on fault-finding mission
Rural indebtedness a national problem
- Pakistan, India Play Tit-For-Tat With Prisoners (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Jul 02, 2006)
Indian fishermen not released, as they have to "first serve out their sentence"
- The Urban Nightmare (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 02, 2006)
The world is entering a historic urban transition; in 2007, for the first time in history, the world's urban population will exceed the rural population.
- Hc Pulls Up Govt After Petition On Cpm Terror In Jail (Indian Express, RAJEEV P I, Jul 02, 2006)
Central jail: Court takes suo motu notice after inmate writes to the Chief Justice, complaining of torture by partymen
- To The Roof Of The World, By Train (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Jul 01, 2006)
The opening of the Qinghai-Tibet railway is a dramatic symbol of contemporary China's "can do spirit." The highest point on it is more than 5,000 metres above sea level, beating the line in the Peruvian Andes by some 200 metres.
- Every Third Poor Person On The Planet Lives Here (Business Line, D. Murali , Jul 01, 2006)
If the poverty of the poorest is not addressed immediately, it may become intractable and costly, says a collection of essays on chronic poverty. Another compilation of articles sees a growing confidence among the poor, while a third book notes that . . .
- Rooted In Sincerity (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 01, 2006)
The criteria to determine the nature of Bhakti in individuals — chanting of mantras or prayers, following symbols of spiritual worship or engaging in worship.
- Common Man’S Faith Is Our Strength: Justice Sabharwal (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 01, 2006)
Chief Justice of India Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal led a 60-member delegation of Indian judges and senior lawyers to the 72nd Biennial Conference of the International Law Association at Toronto, Canada, very recently.
- Nasa Taps British Astronaut For Key Spacewalk (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 01, 2006)
Perched on the end of a 100-foot pole, shrouded in darkness and floating in space, British astronaut Piers Sellers may be forgiven a moment of trepidation.
- A Deal With India (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 01, 2006)
The support of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the Indo-US nuclear deal, coming as it does after the International Committee of the House of Representatives voted for it, is more than just an indication that the deal will get the nod of . . .
- Pm’S Farm Package (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 01, 2006)
The first instalment of the Rs 4,000-crore rehabilitation package for distressed farmers in 31 suicide-struck districts of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, to be announced by the PM in Vidarbha, is long on noble intentions but short . .
- Getting At The Root (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 01, 2006)
Tak...tak... The steady beat caught my attention after I'd stopped singing and began to dip a biscuit into my early morning cup of tea. Out of the back window, a furlong away, loomed the steep bund that hid a largish fresh-water tank.
- Accretion To Gas Reserves (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 01, 2006)
The reported trebling of estimated gas reserves to 35.5 trillion cubic feet (tcf) in Reliance Industries’ D6 block off the east coast is a landmark in India’s energy security drive.
- Shed Pessimism, But Tread Cautiously (The Financial Express, V ANANTHA NAGESWARAN, Jul 01, 2006)
The tightening of monetary and credit conditions is unlikely to stop and investors should take heed
- China Opens High-Altitude Tibet Railway Line (Reuters, Lindsay Beck, Jul 01, 2006)
China opened the world's highest railway on Saturday, celebrating the link into Tibet as a symbol of strength and ethnic harmony while critics denounced it as a threat to the Tibetan people's culture and environment.
- Almost At The Gate (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jul 01, 2006)
Adapting and only slightly exaggerating Rabindranath Tagore, it could be said that one sees India everywhere in Cornwall but finds Indians nowhere.
- Mumbai’S Rudeness Index (Indian Express, NANDITA PATEL, Jul 01, 2006)
That Mumbai has been voted the rudest city in the world by a recent Reader’s Digest study has come as a shock, even insult, to several of the metro’s citizens.
- China’S Tibet Railway Ready To Go (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 01, 2006)
China unveils an engineering marvel this weekend ~ a railway to Tibet that features high-tech systems to stabilise tracks over permafrost and oxygen-enriched cabins to help riders cope with high altitudes.
- Hope Belied? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jul 01, 2006)
Any hope that a serious effort is on in Pakistan for the restoration of democracy seems to be rather misplaced. One of the first public assertions by the neighbouring country's new Chief Election Commissioner Justice Javed Iqbal has already created . . .
- Power Riots In Karachi (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 01, 2006)
How long are people in Karachi expected to suffer incessant power outages? The riots that erupted on Wednesday in different parts of the city over prolonged power failures — 40 hours in one locality . . .
- Mad Cities (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 01, 2006)
Prime minister Manmohan Singh stirred a hornet's nest in Mumbai when he spoke on the "cancer of corruption and stranglehold of land mafias", besides calling for greater transparency in municipal governance.
- Singh Face To Face With Suicides (Telegraph, Satish Nandgaonkar, Jul 01, 2006)
Ujwala Wairkar told the Prime Minister she would never marry into a farmer’s house.
- Israeli Jets Blitz Gaza (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 01, 2006)
Hamas vowed on Friday it would not be destroyed by Israel after fighter jets blitzed Gaza, striking the interior ministry and militant targets in the latest assault aimed at securing the release of a captured soldier.
- ‘Farmers Must Hedge Their Risks’ (The Economic Times, BHANU PANDE, Jul 01, 2006)
Micro credits, micro financing and national agriculture policy are some of the key issues affecting the rural populace.
- Retirement Blues Or Liberation Joy? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 01, 2006)
Retirement from service is the beginning of a new phase in life. It is a major watershed in many ways. For most, it is a difficult process to adjust.
- General Recall (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Jul 01, 2006)
Jammu and Kashmir Governor Lt-Gen S.K. Sinha (retd) knows how to wriggle out of a sticky situation.
- Tilling The Land (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 01, 2006)
From the Brahmn was born space; from space, air; from air, fire; from fire, water; from water, earth; from earth, herbs; from herbs, food; from food, humans.
Taitreya Upanishad
- Hc Pulls Up Govt After Petition On Cpm Terror In Jail (Indian Express, RAJEEV P I, Jul 01, 2006)
Central jail: Court takes suo motu notice after inmate writes to the Chief Justice, complaining of torture by partymen
- Pakistan, India Swap Prisoners (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 01, 2006)
Pakistan and India exchanged more than 50 civilian prisoners on Friday amid warming ties between the nuclear-armed South Asian rivals, officials said.
- Invasion Of Gaza (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 30, 2006)
It is shocking that the Bush administration should have supported Israel’s current invasion of the Gaza strip, for what Israel has done since invading the territory on Wednesday is more than military action.
- Nato Changing Image With War Games (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 30, 2006)
The islanders of Cape Verde are slowly getting used to German armoured vehicles and Spanish helicopters descending on their sun-drenched beaches as US fighter F-16 jets roar overhead.
- Lahore Budget (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 30, 2006)
That the running of the city government and the management of its finances remain a highly polarised affair was evident once again at the town hall on Wednesday.
- Close Guantanamo? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 30, 2006)
The military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has become the focus of global protests against US human rights violations during the war on terrorism.
- Us Senate Panel Okays India N-Deal (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 30, 2006)
The Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate on Thursday approved the civilian nuclear cooperation deal with India despite concerns raised by Pakistan at the highest level.
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