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Articles 5621 through 5720 of 20008:
- Effort & Achievement (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
If we do not make an effort, we think we shall stagnate. We have an idea about the goal towards which we are constantly striving; and this striving has become part of our life...
- India, Pakistan And The Shanghai (Daily Times, Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Jun 23, 2006)
The SCO embodies many of the principles that India invoked in writing resounding declarations with Moscow. But now that the SCO is poised to go far beyond the pieties of anti-terrorism and anti-separatism and demarcate a part of the globe that . . .
- Yeh Hai Mumbai, Dr Singh (Indian Express, FARAH BARIA, Jun 23, 2006)
Bas! Ab aur nahin saha jaata. Enough! We cannot tolerate this any more.
- No Room For Mistakes In A Nuclear Navy (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Jun 23, 2006)
With only two years to go before the Indian Navy is to transform itself to a blue water Navy—an elite club comprising mostly of the P5 countries—a string of incidents give clue to how unprepared the force is for it.Consider the following:
- Saving Trees In Lahore (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jun 23, 2006)
Some years back, in Shahbaz Sharif's time, thousands of trees in Lahore had to be cut to make way for a citywide road-widening project.
- Nepal’S Maoists Refuse To Disarm (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
Nepal’s Maoist rebels said on Thursday they are not prepared to disarm but are willing to put their army and their weapons under the supervision of the United Nations.
- Delhi Ready To Release Ulfa Leaders (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
Delhi and the Ulfa-constituted group of mediators today charted a long route to peace, beginning with the release of five jailed activists, progressing to a ceasefire and leading to “direct” talks between government negotiators and the militant . . .
- France And L'affaire Dreyfus Revisited (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Jun 23, 2006)
The 100th anniversary of the rehabilitation of Captain Alfred Dreyfus is an occasion for an analysis of past wrongs. This can be salutary at a time when France is in the process of re-examining its criminal justice system.
- India, Pakistan Begin Talks On Wullar Barrage (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Jun 23, 2006)
Eleventh round of talks held in "cordial atmosphere"
Water Secretaries hold discussions
Both sides unhopeful of major progress
- Bda’S Loss Is Muda’S Gain (Deccan Herald, P M Raghunandan, Jun 23, 2006)
It looks like handing over of Arkavathy sites has come a bit late. Three years of inaction in Bangalore has forced many denizens of the IT city to look towards Mysore to own a property.
- World Bank To Fund Tn Projects (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
The World Bank has formally agreed to a proposal from the Tamil Nadu government to fund new social initiative projects in the State.
- Govt. Constructs Record Number Of Water Structures (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
Chief Minister reviews rural development programmes
The structures include village ponds, roof water harvesting structures, dug-wells, check dams, and new tanks
Chief Minister issues instructions to maintain the quality of road construction
Old . .
- Nuturing Economy With Caution (Daily Excelsior, S. V. Vaidynathan, Jun 23, 2006)
Notwithstanding a brave face put up by finance minister, Mr. P. Chidambaram, in the budget session of parliament, India's external debt in 2005-06 stood at $128.78 billion.
- Dastardly Attempt (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jun 23, 2006)
Photographs of a batch of Amarnath pilgrims shakily looking out of the shattered window panes of their bus have disturbed many.
- India, Pak Hold Talks On Wullar (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
India and Pakistan today held "fruitful" talks here to resolve a longstanding dispute over New Delhi’s plan to construct a barrage over the Wullar lake in Jammu and Kashmir and decided to continue with the parleys tomorrow.
- Indo-Pak Devotees Meet At 300 Yr Old Shrine (Daily Excelsior, Gopal Sharma, Jun 23, 2006)
Boundaries drawn between India and Pakistan and three full scale wars fought between the two countries failed to shatter belief of the people on both the sides towards 300-year- old shrine of Hindu deity, Baba Dalip Singh Manhas as thousands . . .
- Sezs Not The Answer To Our Infrastructure (The Financial Express, RAJIV KUMAR, Jun 22, 2006)
Without improving governance and public delivery, the private sector can’t be competitive
- Has Europe Lost Its Way? (Dawn, Shadaba Islam, Jun 22, 2006)
Suddenly, it all seems to be going wrong. Just a few years ago, the European Union was aspiring to bigger and better things: a new constitution, more member states, a revamped economy and global power status to rival the United States.
- Lowering The Bar (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 22, 2006)
Fear of law won’t scare tipplers
In a country that thrives on breaking laws, it is unreasonable to expect that the Delhi government’s draft law to lower the legal age for consuming alcohol to 21 will make much ofced to work, many opt for call . . .
- The Latest Metro (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 22, 2006)
Lord Ganapati and all other Mumbaikars know how desperately their city needs a public transport system.
- Road To Nowhere (Frontline, Ravi Sharma , Jun 22, 2006)
Land acquisition controversies stall the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Project.
- Bullish On Bangladesh (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 22, 2006)
In spite of sporadic unrest, rampant corruption and a polarized political system that’s all but dysfunctional, Bangladesh finds itself in the midst of a sustained boom. The main drivers: surging export growth and a robust service sector
- Mumbai Needs Better Governance, Says Pm (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Jun 22, 2006)
The Vilasrao Deshmukh-led government came in for criticism from the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, today for the poor state of Maharashtra’s cities, particularly the country’s financial capital — Mumbai.
- Courting Peace (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jun 22, 2006)
How can a brother aid a terrorist to kill another brother on this side of the Line of Control?"
- Scientists Mull Human Dna Bank (Telegraph, G.S. Mudur, Jun 22, 2006)
Indian scientists are evaluating the prospects of setting up a national human DNA bank, a repository of genetic material from the country’s myriad population groups for medical and research applications.
- Indo-Pak Talks On Wullar Barrage Today (Tribune, K.J.M. Varma, Jun 22, 2006)
Senior Indian and Pakistani officials are holding talks here tomorrow on resolving the dispute over India’s plans to construct a barrage over the Wullar lake in Jammu and Kashmir.
- Building India (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 22, 2006)
Signs of private sector-led infrastructure overhaul. So warning to politicians: be smart, honest
- India’S Largest $12-B Fdi In Orissa Hits A Roadblock (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 22, 2006)
The makeshift road-blocks cordoning off three village panchayats— Dhinkia, Nuagaon, and Gadakujanga— are taking on metaphorical dimensions for the Orissa and the central governments.
- ‘If I Don’T Discharge My Duties, Who Will?’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 22, 2006)
Pointing out that the Governor has been made the chairman of the Amarnath Shrine Board by the state, Lt Gen (Retd) S K Sinha says it is his job now to facilitate the yatra. The controversy was an unnecessary one, created by politicians, but it is . . .
- Fame’S 15 Minutes (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 22, 2006)
This is what transpired over the telephone some months ago: “Hello,” I said, when the phone rang.
- Central Asia - A Cockpit Of Conflict (Daily Excelsior, N.B. Menon , Jun 22, 2006)
The three day meeting of the heads of the states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) beginning June 15 is significant as the member countries - China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajiskistan and Uzbekistan - try to hammer out a . . .
- Correction Of Exuberance (Business Standard, Arvind Singhal, Jun 22, 2006)
The stock market gyration of the recent weeks has brought an interesting word “correction” to the fore.
- Madhya Pradesh Playing Down Syllabus Issue (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
`Modifications effected in consultation with academicians'
Congress alleges `saffronising' of education
Congress has no issue: School Education Minister
- Will The General Retreat? (Pioneer, Wilson John, Jun 22, 2006)
With Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif making common cause in opposing Pervez Musharraf, democracy is back in reckoning in Pakistan------- Will democracy return to Pakistan?
- Understanding The Fundamentals (Pioneer, Vinayshil Gautam, Jun 22, 2006)
Defining the fundamentals before action holds the key to success of any venture, be it national or corporate, writes Vinayshil Gautam
- Balochistan Budget (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 22, 2006)
As expected, Balochistan has unveiled a deficit budget for the fourth year running.
- Thank God For Arab Investment! (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jun 22, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz inaugurated the Pak-Kuwait Investment Conference in Islamabad Tuesday and invited “all investors in the world to take full advantage of liberal economic and investment-friendly . . .
- Death Of A Soldier (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 22, 2006)
Sir, ~ Lieutenant Sushmita Chakraborty’s suicide reveals that even 60 years after independence, all is not well in the army ~ not even for women. Brigadier KK Chopra of the Northern Command is reported to have told a press conference that “she had . . .
- Michael Carter To Meet Karunanidhi (Hindu, R.K. Radhakrishnan, Jun 22, 2006)
World Bank India chief to discuss five ongoing schemes and two upcoming projects
Bank expected to fund two new schemes
Too many funding sources for rural water supply project
- Cmda Told To Introduce E-Governance System (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
Aimed at removing barriers and creating better interface between officials and public
File status can be tracked on website
Touchscreen kiosk at CMDA headquarters
Minister to monitor the system
- Pak, India Talks On Wullar Barrage (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
The third round of two-day secretary level talks between Pakistan and India on Wullar Barrage will start here today (Thursday).
- 150 Die In Indonesian Floods (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
Jakarta rushes aid to the affected Sulawesi island
- Tulbul Talks On June 22, 23 (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Jun 22, 2006)
India and Pakistan will hold two-day talks here starting June 22 on the contentious Tulbul navigation project in Jammu and Kashmir.
- Pakistan Offers Level Playing Field For Business: Pm (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf said on Wednesday that Pakistan has an excellent infrastructure in IT sector and environment is conducive for investment and development in this sector.
- Land To Be Used For No Other Purpose: Ag (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
The government on Wednesday requested the Supreme Court to consider investment plans of new buyers of the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) and, if not satisfied, set up an investigation commission instead of striking down the sale.
- The Puzzle Of India’S Growth Rate (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 22, 2006)
The post-1991 economic reforms in India has been ridden with quite a few crises.
- Middle India Under Siege (Tribune, B.G.Verghese, Jun 21, 2006)
Middle India is under siege along a long-neglected, exploited, underserved, ill-governed, poorly connected poverty belt of forest and hill country covering contiguous areas in nine states “from Pashupati to Tirupati”.
- India Is The Un-China: Time (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
A "breathtaking shift" in US policy towards India - declaring it a strategic partner and offering it a bilateral deal to share nuclear knowhow - can be explained, according to Time magazine, simply by one phrase: India is the un-China.
- Left In A State Of Transition (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 21, 2006)
Communists have accepted parliamentary system after much brainstorming. Today they face another challenge, of liberalisation, says Basab Dasgupta.
- 2nd Kashmir Bus Service Is Launched Across Loc (Asian Age, Yusuf Jameel and Shafqat Ali, Jun 21, 2006)
India and Pakistan on Tuesday started a new trans-Kashmir bus service between Poonch, in Jammu and Kashmir, and Rawalkot in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
- Biotech Brinjal (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar had a rather unusual bunch of visitors last week - Greenpeace protesters dressed up as sheep and cattle, who camped outside his office.
- Wheat Imports And Food Security (Frontline, M.S. Swaminathan, Jun 21, 2006)
The need of the hour is a National Food Security Board.
- Ultra Mega Projects May Not Be A Powerful Idea (Business Line, S. Padmanabhan , Jun 21, 2006)
Large power projects may be good politics but raise serious questions of viability — economic and ecology. Instead, a more realistic development model would be to build small power plants distributed evenly across the country so that . . .
- U.S. Activates Missile Defense Amid N.Korea Dispute (Reuters, WILL DUNHAM, Jun 21, 2006)
The United States has activated its ground-based interceptor missile-defense system amid concerns over an expected North Korean missile launch, a U.S. defense official said on Tuesday.
- A Promise And Pressures (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
The Public Distribution System (PDS) in Tamil Nadu has a long and chequered history.
- Seeds And Protests (Frontline, Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Jun 21, 2006)
The UPA government's decision to allow field trials in GM food crops may have human and economic costs.
- Spare A Thought For The Urban Poor (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 21, 2006)
The World Urban Forum that got underway in Vancouver on Monday comes at a time when the world is on the brink of historic demographic changes.
- Indian Plan To Dam Northeast Rivers Stirs Critics (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Jun 21, 2006)
Ambitious plans to build dams and hydro power projects throughout the hills of the remote northeast have trodden on some sensitive toes in the troubled region.
- Three-Handed Cut-Throat (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 21, 2006)
Congress, BJP And Left Hold Cards Close To Chests!
- Now That Balochistan Is Clear Of Terrorists (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 21, 2006)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that life is returning to normal in Dera Bugti and adjoining areas as miscreants have been wiped out from the Balochistan province.
- Not Quite Model Malaysia (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 21, 2006)
Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s critique (‘Malaysian straitjacket for India’, IE, June 17) of my article (‘Be affirmative’, June 16) mixes up the difference between an empirical and a normative argument.
- Rs 59.7 Bn Balochistan Deficit Budget (Pakistan Observer, Ghulam Tahir, Jun 21, 2006)
Syed Ehsan Shah, Provincial Finance Minister Tuesday presented deficit budget for the fiscal year 2006-2007, of Rs. 59.700 billion against the anticipated receipts of Rs 48 billion 730 million showing deficit of Rs 11 billion.
- Hallmark Of Devotion (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
If the Supreme Being incarnates from time to time to protect Dharma and destroy those who transgress its code, preceptors have been responsible for propagating Dharma through their explanations and interpretations of the recondite Vedas that assert . . .
- Situation Calm But For Refugee Influx, Say Coast Guard (Hindu, Rajesh Nair, Jun 21, 2006)
Interceptor class boat likely to be stationed at Pondy soon
- 11th Plan To Focus On Reforming Labour Laws (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Flexibility needed to tap export markets, says Planning Commission paper
Accelerated growth of manufacturing suggested
Dismantling of import quotas needed
Many jobs can be generated in construction industry
- Pakistan, Kuwait To Explore New Avenues Of Cooperation (Pakistan Observer, Sharafat Kazmi, Jun 21, 2006)
Pakistan and Kuwait Tuesday while vowing to expand economic ties agreed to explore new avenues of cooperation with a focus on increasing investments and mutual trade flow.
- Another Barrier On Loc Falls (Indian Express, Arun Sharma, Jun 21, 2006)
The first Poonch-Rawalkot bus in 58 years rolled across the border this afternoon. UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, along with Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee, flagged off the bus carrying 30 passengers from Poonch to Rawalkote on PoK, as the large . . .
- Unreal Estate (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 21, 2006)
Why do politicians everywhere have an objection to the land aspects of industrial/infrastructure projects?
- More Poverty Or Less? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 21, 2006)
Not surprisingly, the figures cited by the government for people living below the poverty line have come to be widely questioned.
- Iraq: Some Damning Statistics (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Jun 21, 2006)
Within a couple of days of George W. Bush’s return from his extraordinarily surreptitious foray into Baghdad’s green zone, his nation’s self-proclaimed newspaper of record, The New York Times, had a bit of bad news for the president.
- Who Are The Poor? (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 21, 2006)
The author is secretary general, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, New Delhi
- A Dream Come True For Beedi Workers Of Solapur (Hindu, Meena Menon, Jun 21, 2006)
Manmohan Singh to inaugurate housing project on July 2, to benefit 10,000 women
Project financed by State, Central governments and beedi workers
Women took part in designing homes and made some changes
- Sonia Flags Off Poonch-Rawalakot Bus Service (Daily Excelsior, Dinesh Manhotra, Jun 21, 2006)
The ‘invisible line of sorrow’- which has kept thousands of souls away from their family members and relatives for the last 58 years, today turned into a ‘road of happiness’ for these divided families as this link is going to end their long separation.
- Talks Within Purview Of Indian Constitution: Sonia (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Reiterating Central Government resolve to hold dialogue with different sections of the society to solve vexed problems, chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Sonia Gandhi today said talks and not violence, is the solution of any issue.
- In A State Of Neglect (Telegraph, Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Jun 21, 2006)
For those who have heard of but not seen the National library, the sheer grandeur and beauty of the building is bound to invoke a sense of awe.
- Indisposed Gogoi Backs Out Of Talks (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Battling a health problem ever since he returned from an overseas trip, chief minister Tarun Gogoi has excused himself from the third round of talks between Delhi and the Ulfa-constituted People’s Consultative Group (PCG) on Thursday.
- Ng Reduces Supply To J&k (Daily Excelsior, Mohinder Verma , Jun 20, 2006)
Power crisis continues to loom large over Jammu and Kashmir with Northern Grid reducing the power supply to the State this morning forcing the people to face scheduled as well as un-scheduled power cuts.
- Japan Wins Whale Vote, Greens Worried (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 20, 2006)
The International Whaling Commission narrowly voted on Sunday that a 20-year ban on commercial whale hunting no longer was necessary because marine mammals have recovered from near extinction.
- Predicting The Oil Peak (Business Line, Satish Kumar, Jun 20, 2006)
Analysing Hubbert's predictions of peak oil, which happens when 50 per cent of recoverable oil has been produced, SHANMUGANATHAN. N and SATISH KUMAR argue that rather than quibble about the actual peak oil date, the sooner the inevitability of . . .
- Tipton Three Treated Worse Than Animals At Guantanamo (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Jun 20, 2006)
Three young British Muslims, Ruhal Ahmed and his two friends — Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul — were arrested by US troops in Afghanistan in 2001.
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