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Articles 5521 through 5620 of 20008:
- Karachi City Budget (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jun 25, 2006)
The Karachi city budget announced by nazim Mustafa Kamal is the first budget presented by the Haq Parast panel which came into office following the local bodies elections last year.
- With ‘Sattu’ In Bag Lalu Arrives In London (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad is here on a two-week visit to the UK and Europe to study railway systems.
- Civilian Nuclear Deal With Us (News International, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 25, 2006)
Pakistan is in need of having a civil nuclear energy agreement with the United States and the matter would be raised in the Pak-US energy dialogue scheduled to be held in Washington tomorrow (June 26), Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim . . .
- A Standard For Interrogation (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 25, 2006)
IN the days and weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, senior Bush administration officials decided that harsh interrogation methods were necessary to prevent devastating attacks on the country — and that such methods could be carefully administered and . . .
- Budget Debate In Pa (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
Balochistan Minister for Services and General Administration Department (S&GAD) Mir Abdul Rehman Jamali said on Saturday that the province needed more financial assistance from the federal government to overcome its financial problems.
- Kumar Suresh Singh (Frontline, T.K. RAJALAKSHMI, Jun 25, 2006)
Kumar Suresh Singh's stewardship of the People of India project yielded an excellent anthropological profile of the country.
- Tata Group Bags Usibc’S Award (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
In yet another feather to its cap, the Tata Group has been awarded ‘India’s Most Respected Multinational Business Conglomerate” by United States-India Business Council (USIBC).
- Bonalu Bonanza (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
The century-old tradition of Bonalu is celebrated with colour, gaiety and devotional fervour in Telengana, claims S K Prasad Puttur
- Praful Bidwai: Bull-Headed About India (Frontline, Praful Bidwai, Jun 25, 2006)
Current Western euphoria over India's growth betrays total ignorance of realities like the 100,000 farmers' suicides.
- Jayati Ghosh: Bumps In The Flat World (Frontline, Jayati Ghosh, Jun 25, 2006)
The Mittal group's bid to take over Arcelor confirms that the world continues to be sullied by social and cultural differences.
- Rare Bird Sighted After 75 Years In Asssam (Deccan Herald, Anirban Bhaumik , Jun 25, 2006)
In the late 1870s, Allan Octavian Hume – an officer of the Imperial Civil Service (ICS) – sighted a dark greyish bird, somewhere in the foothills of eastern Manipur.
- Project To Improve Water Supply In Haryana Towns (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
The venture will be complete by February 2009
National Capital Region Planning Board project is worth Rs.192-crore
Schemes had been approved to raise water supply status to 70 LPCD in 38 towns
- Pm Throws A Polite Punch (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
He may be the architect of a new, assertive India of corporate success and high living, but to Manmohan Singh progress lies as much in certain old-fashioned values.
- Myth Of Empire (Telegraph, RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE, Jun 25, 2006)
In India, anniversaries, even of non-events, do not often go unnoticed.
- Price We Pay (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 25, 2006)
The government has reacted to the sharp rise in prices of wheat, pulses and vegetables by measures for demand and supply management. Allowing the private sector to import wheat is welcome.
- Sell Insurance As Service, Not As A Mere Product (The Financial Express, YRK REDDY, Jun 25, 2006)
The seller should not be allowed to treat the customer as an object to be manipulated or used
- Where Was The Digest During Last Year’S Floods? (Indian Express, KUMAR KETKAR , Jun 25, 2006)
For those like me who have spent more than 50 years in Mumbai, it was a rude shock to learn that we are the “rudest” people in the world.
- Rude? So? It’S The Warmth That Counts (Indian Express, Rahul Bose, Jun 25, 2006)
Two days ago, the Indian editor of Reader’s Digest, Mohan Sivanand, refuted allegations that his magazine had labeled Bombay as the world’s rudest city. “We’ve never said Mumbai is the rudest city. It’s just that it ranks the lowest in matters of . . .
- Devotion And Harmony By The Ganga (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
In Haridwar, every shrine and temple is woven into a time-honoured mesh of legends and beliefs.
- Discovering Polonnaruwa (Hindu, Shonar Joshi, Jun 25, 2006)
Though most of it is ruins, Polonnaruwa is very much alive with an all-pervasive sense of devotion.
- Cheap Drinking Water From The Ocean (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jun 25, 2006)
Not only increasing population but factors like limited and dwindling water resources, changing weather conditions and public's irresponsible exploitation of these resources etc.
- Triple Whammy From The Rbi (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Jun 25, 2006)
The Reserve Bank has increased interest rates continuously since October 2004 in order to cool down the economy.
- Congress Targets Up Misrule (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 24, 2006)
The Congress, without an organisation in Uttar Pradesh, is relying on a Bollywood song for revival in the forthcoming Assembly elections in the state. The song Hum honge kaamyaab (We shall overcome) will be its slogan in the battle against the . . .
- Pak, India Positive But Undecided On Wullar (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 24, 2006)
Pakistan and India on Friday remained short of taking any concrete decision on the Wullar Barrage but stayed firm to resolve the issue as the dialogue moves on.
- Ah, Mussoorie! (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 24, 2006)
Travel Mussoorie may have lost much of its pristine beauty. But the air here is as crisp as ever and draws tourists
- Mercury Menace (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jun 24, 2006)
Regulate its import and use in India
- Tata Steel To Construct Smelter In S. Africa (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 24, 2006)
Tata Steel has been given the go-ahead to build a carbon ferrochrome smelter in South Africa after a provincial government concluded that its construction would not cause any environmental damage.
- Us Senate Passes Bill To Block Aid To Palestinian Government (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 24, 2006)
The United States Senate passed a bill that blocks United States aid from going to the Palestinian government, headed by Hamas movement, but gives humanitarian relief to the Palestinian people and supports Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas . .
- Sc Strikes Down Psm Privatisation (Daily Times, Mohammad Kamran, Jun 24, 2006)
Court says sale deal was causing Rs 18b loss to govt
Govt directed to make Council of Common Interests functional in 6 weeks
- World Bank Prescription For Malnutrition (Frontline, T.K. RAJALAKSHMI, Jun 24, 2006)
A World Bank report on malnutrition among India's children calls for drastic reforms in the Integrated Child Development Services.
- First Vote In Decades Tests Congo’S Truce (Tribune, Kevin Sullivan, Jun 24, 2006)
Kinshasa, Congo — In a hot haze of exhaust and smoke from burning garbage, a one-legged man hopped along a street clogged with overloaded minibuses while a woman sold tiny monkeys tied to a tree.
- Don’T Delay N-Deal, Cheney Tells Congress (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Jun 24, 2006)
Vice president Dick Cheney on Thursday described the civilian nuclear deal with India as “one of the most important strategic foreign policy initiatives of our government,” and urged the U.S. Congress to enact legislation soon to make this deal possible.
- Pak Exporting Terror: Duggal (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jun 24, 2006)
India today decried the continuing export of terrorism by Pakistan and the presence of terrorist training camps on its territory while reaffirming New Delhi’s resolve to continue dialogue with Islamabad within the composite dialogue framework ...
- True Friend Is The Medicine Of Life (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 24, 2006)
Two things — true love and true friendship are rare in this world. We see children abandoning their parents when they need their help most. In sorrow and misery even the closest relatives desert. Samuel Butler said: “Friendship is like money, easier . . .
- Indo-Nepal Relations On New High (Daily Excelsior, Ajay Kaul, Jun 24, 2006)
India's gesture of announcing a Rs 1000 crore package for reconstruction and development of cash-strapped Nepal during the recent visit of Prime Minister G P Koirala amply proves that a friend in need is a friend in deed.
- Don’T Delay Deal, Cheney To Congress (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 24, 2006)
Pitching for the Indo-US nuclear accord, American Vice-President Dick Cheney has warned Congress that any delay in its approval would risk wasting critical opportunity to clinch the “strategically important” deal.
- Temptation! (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 24, 2006)
That criminals, even hardened ones, tend to return to the scene of the crime has long been understood and appreciated by investigators ~ maintain a vigil, nab your quarry.
- Rude? So? It’S The Warmth That Counts (Indian Express, Rahul Bose, Jun 24, 2006)
From incredulity to disapproval to introspection to laughter, the recent Readers’ Digest survey — that proclaimed Mumbai the rudest city in the world — has evoked every reaction in the city. Three prominent Mumbaikars give their take
- Massive Protest Against Narmada Project (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 24, 2006)
Many will be washed away if State Government goes ahead with arbitrary and illegal exclusion: NBA
About 5000-6000 houses excluded from land acquisition, rehabilitation in Indira Sagar, Omkareshwar areas
- Leap Of Faith (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 24, 2006)
Over whatever part of the ocean he traversed, the water underneath was found stirred upside down by the force generated by him.
- World Bank Calls For Consensus On Social Development Programmes (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 24, 2006)
Report analyses 31 `success stories'
- Bill To Protect Children (Frontline, Purnima S. Tripathi, Jun 24, 2006)
The proposed Offences Against Children Bill, 2005, attempts to address the legal loopholes through which child traffickers slip.
- Price We Pay (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 24, 2006)
The government has reacted to the sharp rise in prices of wheat, pulses and vegetables by measures for demand and supply management. Allowing the private sector to import wheat is welcome.
- Aiims: Venugopal Leave Ends, May Resume Work (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Jun 24, 2006)
AIIMS Director Dr P Venugopal is likely to resume work tomorrow. He had been on leave, according to many a ‘‘protest leave’’, since June 15, the day he alleged political meddling in institute affairs.
- Can The Govt Object To A Nice Windfall Now? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 24, 2006)
Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has given vent to a range of emotions in dealing with a nettlesome project like the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC) in the four months that he has been in office.
- Japan Top Court Rejects Suit On Pm Shrine Visits (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 24, 2006)
The last few decades were the warmest on Earth in the past 400 years, and may well have been warmer than any comparable period since the Middle Ages, US scientists reported.
- Phase Out Mercury (The Financial Express, Ravi Agarwal, Jun 24, 2006)
Even as the world is moving towards eliminating one of the most toxic heavy metals in everyday use, mercury, India unashamedly continues to freely trade and use this potent poison.
- Where Was The Digest During Last Year’S Floods? (Indian Express, KUMAR KETKAR , Jun 24, 2006)
For those like me who have spent more than 50 years in Mumbai, it was a rude shock to learn that we are the “rudest” people in the world.
- Don't Desert The Drylands (Hindu, William D. Dar, Jun 24, 2006)
In 2006, the International Year of Deserts and Desertification, a global initiative called "Oasis" will link and synergise various research efforts for dryland development.
- Choosing The Second Best Option (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 24, 2006)
The endeavours of the European Union (EU) and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to clinch a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) represent a watershed in the pattern of bilateral trade deals being negotiated the world over as a response to . . .
- Tata Steel Smelter In S Africa Gets Go-Ahead (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 24, 2006)
Tata Steel was today given the go-ahead to build a carbon ferrochrome smelter in South Africa after a provincial government concluded that its construction would not cause any environmental damage.
- The Forgotten Face (Frontline, Sarah Hiddleston, Jun 24, 2006)
Although the government has recognised the need to give adequate attention to HIV/AIDS, children remain excluded from its response.
- We Need To Fight `The Fatigue Of Green Revolution' (Business Line, D. Murali , Jun 24, 2006)
Indian Agriculture in the New Millennium, edited by N. A. Majumdar and Uma Kapila, brings together articles by experts on policy and growth profile, investment and water, reforms and food security. Life and Work of M. S. Swaminathan, edited by . . .
- How Grandmonther Found Her Voice (Frontline, Gowri Ramnarayan, Jun 24, 2006)
Resurrecting a sepia-tinted era that evokes the eternal, primal human need for self-respect and freedom.
- Protest Against A Reliance Project (Frontline, DIONNE BUNSHA, Jun 24, 2006)
The Maha Mumbai Special Economic Zone project of Reliance faces resistance from residents of villages which may be acquired for it.
- Sell Insurance As Service, Not As A Mere Product (The Financial Express, YRK REDDY, Jun 24, 2006)
In a recent address, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Auth-ority (Irda) chairman reportedly expre-ssed some concerns about marketing of insurance in our country—of it being sold more as a product and not enough as a service.
- Bial Approves Two Catering Service Bids (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
Companies will now be asked to match turnover fee proposal
Firms to provide flight-catering services at Bangalore International Airport
Bids submitted by LSG Sky Chefs and Taj SATS Catering approved
- When Boundaries Disappear Between Countries (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
Chambilyal mela symbolises common cultural heritage of India and Pakistan
Pakistan rangers reach Indian territory with civilians to collect soil as per tradition
Huge rush at fair a direct consequence of ongoing peace process: Pakistani commandant
- Rs. 200 Crore For Roads In Jammu And Kashmir (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Jun 23, 2006)
Union Rural Development Minister promises drinking water for 640 villages in the State
1,820 villages with a population of more than 500 to be connected
Houses to be provided to 60,000 homeless families
- Model Village Opened Near Loc (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
Dedication of village, culmination of massive reconstruction drive by Army
- Inconvenienced By Another Truth (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 23, 2006)
As long as pollution is ‘free’, the price for sustainability will remain too expensive for the world to buy, says Roy Morrison
- For That British Touch To Heritage Conservation (Deccan Herald, Shankar Bennur, Jun 23, 2006)
Even as the process of documenting heritage buildings in the Royal City is nearing completion, the Department of Heritage is planning to seek professional expertise from English Heritage, a registered body in Great Britian that is into heritage . . .
- India, Pak Begin Talks On Water Dispute (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
Pakistan and Indian officials began a two-day talks on Thursday to resolve water disputes over a barrage that India is constructing on river Jhelum in Kashmir.
- Central Assistance For Cleaning Parvathi Puthanar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
The Central Government has sanctioned Rs.3.62 crores for cleaning the Parvathi Puthanar, Water Resources Minister N.K. Premachandran has said.
- Centre Likely To Free 5 Ulfa Leaders (Asian Age, Manoj Anand, Jun 23, 2006)
The Centre is understood to have said that it would "favourably consider" the release of five top leaders of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom if Ulfa in turned "proved its sincerity" by giving up the path of violence.
- Iran: U.S. Steps Back (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Jun 23, 2006)
A negotiated solution to the impasse over Iran's nuclear programme seems likely with the United States sounding less belligerent.
- Life On The Border (Frontline, ROMESH BHATTACHARJI, Jun 23, 2006)
Punjab's border villages abound in historical monuments which cry out forconservation. -
- Extinct’ Quail Sighted After A Century (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 23, 2006)
Listed as a globally threatened bird, the “Manipur Bush-quail” has been sighted after 100 years in Assam at the Manas National Park.
- Next Time, Let Your Leaders Do The Talking, Centre To Ulfa (Pioneer, Pramod Kumar Singh, Jun 23, 2006)
Making it amply clear that it means business, the Centre on Thursday asked the leadership of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) to come forward for a dialogue and usher in an era of peace in Assam.
- Artificial Blood Coming To The Rescue (Tribune, Maxine Frith, Jun 23, 2006)
It’s difficult to store, it’s often in short supply – and there’s always the possibility that it could carry a deadly infection. Could a synthetic version of blood become the lifesaver of the future?
- The Case For Better Income Distribution (Business Standard, T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan, Jun 23, 2006)
Why more egalitarian countries win wars.
- Business As Usual (Business Standard, Niraj Bhatt, Jun 23, 2006)
The Union government has once again indicated that it intends to bring the disinvestment process back on track after a lull of nearly 20 months with the Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs’ clearing a proposal to divest 10 per cent stake in . . .
- Strike Fast And Hard (Tribune, Gurmeet Kanwal, Jun 23, 2006)
Exercise Sanghe Shakti, held over one week in Punjab in May 2006, was designed to test the Indian Army’s new concept for offensive operations in the plains.
- Indonesia Searches Sea For Landslide, Flood Victims (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
Indonesian search and rescue operations turned to the sea on Friday in the search for missing victims after landslides and floods on eastern Sulawesi island killed at least 215 people.
- The Venal Layer (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 23, 2006)
cutting corners ashok mitra
- Govt, Ulfa Rebels Set Stage For Ceasefire (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
The government said on Thursday it would consider releasing five jailed leaders of a powerful rebel group in the troubled northeastern state of Assam to pave the way for a ceasefire.
- Centre To Consider Plea For Release Of Ulfa Leaders (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Jun 23, 2006)
Patil to work out modalities for direct talks with the insurgent group
Joint statement issued, expressing hope for restraint on all sides
Sole agenda of PCG was to bring ULFA to the negotiating table
- Images On Water (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 23, 2006)
Across the Mystic Shore can be termed a novel on the nature of love. The lives of the protagonists become a search to discover whether love necessarily entails the need to possess, whether it is synonymous with desire or if it is possible to love . . .
- My True Name Is A Growl (Telegraph, MADHUMITA BHATTACHARYYA , Jun 23, 2006)
Horatio finally gets a chance to tell his side of the story in “Horatio’s Version”. Chicken Little becomes a tale of global warming in “Chicken Little Goes Too Far”.
- ‘Inertia’ On Farmer Suicides, Says Pm, Calls For Credit Plan (Indian Express, Kandula Subramaniam, Jun 23, 2006)
The day his Government took the bold step to clear disinvestment in NALCO and Neyveli Lignite, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did some plainspeaking on farmers’ distress.
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