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Articles 7221 through 7320 of 20008:
- India Calls For Pan-Asia Free Trade Zone (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
It was the same old story at the ADB meet as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday called for creating a Pan Asian Free Trade Area covering all the major Asian economies and possibly Australia and New Zealand.
- Where Force Is Not A Solution (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, May 06, 2006)
With its huge territory, sparse population and proven reserves of oil, gas and minerals, managing Balochistan would require great skill and acumen, even in the best of times.
- Child And Mother (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 06, 2006)
Unicef's report card for India on child nutritional levels has, once again, highlighted the gulf that separates India's reality and aspiration.
- Price Discovery Is A Maya (The Economic Times, T R RAMASWAMI, May 06, 2006)
A scamster’s best friend is a set of weak, inefficient and outdated regulations.
- Riding The Wrong Horse (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, May 06, 2006)
India has lost all leverage in Afghanistan by alienating the majority Pashtuns
- Our Own World (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 06, 2006)
From the day we are born, we weave a web of ourselves and our own world. We are motivated by our own desires, actions and skills. Until a certain age we live in a protected environment with limited scope for growth. Then this environment starts to change.
- Hunger Strike As A Blackmail Tactic (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, May 06, 2006)
Medha Patkar went on an indefinite hunger strike for one side; Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat, on a token fast for the other. Patkar was concerned with the fate of thousands of villagers, whose lands were being submerged because of the . . .
- Labour Pains, Blair Delivers Blow To Men (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
Tony Blair on Friday sacked Charles Clarke, demoted Jack Straw and stripped John Prescott of his departmental brief in a wide-ranging reshuffle aimed at reinvigorating his government after heavy losses in Thursday's local elections.
- High Oil Prices A Risk To Global Economic Growth (Hindu, Ashok Dasgupta , May 06, 2006)
Asia-Pacific nations clock 7.4 p.c. growth last year
- Desires Curb Your Independence (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 06, 2006)
Desires are the cause for one’s subservience to the world. The more the desires, the more dependent one becomes. With the reduction of desires, a person becomes liberated. And self-sufficiency marks the dignity of the human being, while all other . . .
- India Spells Out Steps To Boost Growth Avenues (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
India is working on Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with the Asean, Japan, China and South Korea to create a pan-Asian free trade area to boost growth avenues, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced here on Friday.
- Wipro Consumer Launches Chandrika Amritam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting, the FMCG arm of Wipro, has launched Chandrika Amritam, a combination of Ayurvedic soap and Ayurvedic bath oil. The bath oil, provided with the soap packet, is to be added to the water before taking bath. It is an . . .
- The Agenda For New Towns (The Economic Times, Kala S. Sridhar, May 06, 2006)
This year’s budget sets aside a grant of Rs 4,595 crore for the Jawaharlal National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Note that existing urban areas of the country are expected to contribute about 65% of GDP by 2011.
- Jaduguda's Hapless Children (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 06, 2006)
BBC presenterMark Whitakerexplores the dark side of India's nuclear programme. In this feature, he investigates the high number of children born with health problems and birth defects in the village of Jaduguda in Jharkhand and questions whether . . .
- Usa, Pak Firm Up Army Ties (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
Pakistan and the USA have agreed to strengthen military ties and enhance intelligence-sharing for combating terrorist activities, especially those of the Al-Qaida and Taliban in the Afghan-Pak border.
- Marginalised Pandits (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, May 06, 2006)
The other day I was thumbing through the 260-odd page ‘‘Report on the impact of migration on the socio-economic conditions of Kashmiri displaced people’’ prepared by the Jammu-based Centre for Minority Studies, a well-researched effort which, needless to,
- Battle For Survival (Daily Excelsior, Jyotsna Pandit, May 06, 2006)
The Supreme Court verdict that construction work on the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) should go on simultaneously with effective rehabilitation of the project affected appears to be legally and morally correct. But it means little in concrete terms.
- What A Waste! (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 06, 2006)
The commerce ministry’s stand on the ongoing conflict with the finance ministry on the minimum area norms for special economic zones (SEZs) ignores economic logic and ground realities.
- Struggle For Justice (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 06, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s assurance to a delegation of Bhopal gas victims of his government’s willingness to provide clean drinking water and remove the toxic waste in and around the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal is welcome. Unfortunately, even .
- Challenges Before Women In Combat (Tribune, Air Marshal R.S. Bedi (retd), May 06, 2006)
The Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune has recommended women for combat duties in the armed forces. The study carried out over a period of three years has advocated that “Women be considered for combat duties” as Indian women, as else where,
- New Western Aid Plans Are Recycling Old Failures (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 06, 2006)
FOREIGN aid today perpetrates a cruel hoax on those who wish well for the world’s poor. There is the appearance of action – a doubling of foreign aid to Africa promised at the G-8 summit last July, grand United Nations and World Bank plans to cut . . .
- The Sweat On Their Brow (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, May 06, 2006)
India’s difficult task with its unskilled labourers abroad
- Site Unseen (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 06, 2006)
In H G Wells's The Invisible Man, a scientist theorises that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air and his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will not be visible.
- Reference To The Context (Tribune, Punam Khaira Sidhu, May 06, 2006)
Remember high school literature class and the questions on “Reference to the Context” (RTC)? Well, RTC does have a place outside of literature class.
- Up & Down In Down South (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, May 06, 2006)
Amma’s got a lot done so why’s she worried? Is there a gleam behind those famous Karunanidhi goggles? What’s Kalam doing atop a building? Looking for answers from a limo
- Sensitising Students To Aids (Hindu, Anasuya Menon, May 06, 2006)
All questions related to HIV/AIDS can be written on a small piece of paper and dropped into this box. This is the Field Question Box, which would be found on the campuses of at least a couple of schools in various districts of Tamil Nadu.
- Massive New Power Cuts For Capital's Citizens (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
Long hours of load-shedding daily for markets and industry; must weekly holiday for markets to save power
- Looking At Calcutta (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 06, 2006)
What sort of an eye would find Calcutta beautiful? Some would argue that such a gaze would have to be blinded with love.
- Overcome Pain Of Death With Kundalini Yoga & Practice (Times of India, ANIL K RAJVANSHI, May 06, 2006)
The soul clings to the body. So the shedding of lifetime memories at the time of death is painful. That's why the Indian yogic system stresses the liberation of soul so that the painful cycle of birth and death is stopped.
- Jirga Lays Demands Before Talks (Daily Times, Iqbal Khattak, May 05, 2006)
A grand jirga, consisting of representatives from all tribes in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), has set May 12 as the deadline for the government to meet its demands before negotiating a peaceful solution to the issue of the presence . . .
- A Swim In China's Polluted Pearl River? (Christian Science Monitor, Simon Montlake, May 05, 2006)
The mayor of China's top manufacturing city is hosting a "swimathon" this summer in the local Pearl River. Cleanup efforts to reverse years of industrial pollution have been so successful, claims mayor Guang Zhangming, that the Pearl is once again . . .
- Canine Encounters (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 05, 2006)
Relationships with pet animals are unforgettable and strong
- Where Have All Leaders Gone? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 05, 2006)
RC Acharya laments the near complete absence of leadership in governance, which is proving a serious hindrance before growth and progress
- Comply Or Face “Further Measures”, Security Council Tells Iran (Tribune, DHARAM SHOURIE, May 05, 2006)
Britain and France have moved a resolution in the UN Security Council demanding that Iran suspend nuclear enrichment or face the threat of unspecified “further measures”, setting the stage for a possible confrontation with Russia and China who . . .
- ‘Peace Between India And Pakistan Must For A Prosperous South Asia’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
Pakistan and India should resolve their disputes amicably including the Kashmir issue to develop South Asia (SA), said British High Commissioner Mark Loyal Grant.
- Crossing The Rubicon...Tamil Nadu Style (The Financial Express, Jayaprakash Narayan, May 05, 2006)
The state’s elections show how the process of manipulating votes has reached its nadir
- The `When Issued' Market (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 05, 2006)
The RBI opens an avenue for Government Securities trading in a bearish environment
Will the `when issued' market take care of the government borrowing programme without driving the yields through the roof as interest rates harden?
- Silver Lining (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, May 05, 2006)
There is a silver lining in the blood-splattered atmosphere prevailing today. It is to be welcomed that both New Delhi and Islamabad have reiterated their resolve to go ahead with the peace process.
- Fiction As Fact (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 05, 2006)
The Supreme Court's stay order on Thursday, putting on hold further demolition of illegal structures described as "places of worship", may have fetched a temporary reprieve for fanatics in Vadodara who have nothing but contempt for authority.
- For The Record (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 05, 2006)
Four-year-old Buddhia Singh of Orissa will make to the Limca Book of Records for running all of 65 kms in conditions most oppressive.
- Order In The House (News International, Editorial, The News International, May 05, 2006)
The latest instalment of the ongoing Sindh Assembly session started more than two hours late on Wednesday and lasted a mere 25 minutes before yet another tiresomely predictable "rumpus" led the chairperson to prorogue the proceedings.
- Nepra's Imminent Jolt (News International, Editorial, The News International, May 05, 2006)
After Monday's 2.5-7.17 climb in the prices of petroleum products in Pakistan, dictated by the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority, electricity consumers in Karachi must now brace for another blow: an increase of 15 paisas per unit by the Karachi . . .
- Fish Fossils Found In China May Shed Light On Origin Of Man ....... (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
Chinese scientists have announced that fossils of fish species that lived over 405 million years ago in southern China may shed exciting new light on the origin of human beings, the state media reported.
- Prioritising Civil Service Reforms (Daily Excelsior, Srinivasan K. Rangachary, May 05, 2006)
The Government proposes to introduce a bill in Parliament to amend civil services rules whereby merit and integrity will get preponderance over seniority.
- Hazardous Task Of Monsoon Forecasting (Daily Excelsior, Jyotsna Pandit, May 05, 2006)
After a nine-year spell, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted that there is a 22 per cent chance that the coming monsoon (2006) would be some 7 per cent below normal.
- Road To Nowhere (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 05, 2006)
A few villagers refusing to vote may make no difference to the election results. It may even work towards the greater glory of the winning parties, since India does not have a system in which the percentage of abstentions is taken into account.
- Global Warming Unprecedented In 20,000 Years (Tribune, Steve Connor, May 05, 2006)
Global warming is made worse by man-made pollution and the scale of the problem is unprecedented in at least 20,000 years, according to a draft report by the world’s leading climate scientists.
- Nepal Maoists Give Peace A Chance (Times of India, Yuvraj Acharya, May 05, 2006)
Responding to prime minister G P Koirala's call for peace negotiations, Nepal's Maoist insurgents on Thursday said they were willing to enter into dialogue with the government.
- Not Quite Mainstream (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 05, 2006)
As a long-time reader and occasional contributor to Mainstream, I was dismayed at the personal attack launched on the eminent journalist B.G. Verghese by three writers, one of whom is this journal’s editor (Prashant Bhushan, Suhas Borker, Sumit . . .
- Vote Dpa To Power For A Better Tn: Pm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday appealed to the people of Tamil Nadu to vote the DMK-led Democratic Progressive Alliance to power so it could work in tandem with the Centre and make it a leading state in the country.
- Riots Are So 2002 (Indian Express, Darshan Desai, May 05, 2006)
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi tending to a Muslim riot victim. Narendra Modi seeking an army flag march in the beleaguered town of Vadodara.
- ‘Singh Wants Kashmir Issue Settled By 2008’ (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, May 05, 2006)
Indian PM tells Kashmir interlocutors he doesn’t want indefinite talks
* APHC, New Delhi to remain in touch through committees
- Metro Plus Rapid Bus Transit (Deccan Herald, Asha Krishnaswamy, May 05, 2006)
Curitiba, with a population exceeding 1.7 million, has one car for every three inhabitants — the second largest car per capita figure in Brazil. But its auto fuel consumption per capita is the lowest among Brazil’s cities, thanks to the integrated . . .
- Seeking Progress On All Fronts (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 05, 2006)
The people of Darfur need much more than aid. They need protection on the ground and they need peace, not just on paper but implemented and enforced throughout each and every village across the region.
- Jairaj Is Bmp Chief (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
With a slew of infrastructure projects lined up for Bangalore, the JD (S)-BJP Government on Thursday changed the chiefs of three civic bodies in the City, along with a major reshuffle of bureaucrats in which 53 IAS and IPS officers were transferred.
- Mysore Selected For Centre's Tourism Development Project (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
The city will receive Rs. 50 crore for development
Comprehensive action plan to develop Mysore as a tourist destination to be prepared shortly
A meeting with environmentalists and elected representatives on the proposed plan to be held soon
Minister
- Summer Quencher (Hindu, CHANDAN SEN, May 05, 2006)
The architectural splendour of the baoris or stepwells in Bundi, Rajasthan is simply amazing.
The numerous stepwells, kunds and tankas have made the place a "City of stepwells". And each one of them is an architectural wonder.
- `Insist On E-Waste Disposal Facilities For Approving It Parks' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
Information Technology (IT) parks should have e-waste disposal facilities.
- Improvement Needed In Safta: Menon (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, May 05, 2006)
Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Shivshankar Menon told the SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry here on Thursday that improvements in the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) to be operationalised from July 1, 2006, were called to embark . . .
- Singh Wants Kashmir Issue Settled By 2008’ (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, May 05, 2006)
Indian PM tells Kashmir interlocutors he doesn’t want indefinite talks
APHC, New Delhi to remain in touch through committees
- Afghan Governor Escapes Assassination (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
An Afghan provincial governor said a blast at his office on Wednesday was an assassination attempt while in a separate incident, gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead a judge.
- Pak-Afghan Meeting Held On Enhancing Border Patrol (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Pakistani and Afghan military officials met for two weeks in March for a US-sponsored seminar in Germany to discuss better ways to patrol Pak-Afghan complex border, a rugged tribal area that harbours terrorist fighters, said a statement by US . . .
- Sabre-Rattling Against Iran Unlikely To Succeed (Hindu, Tariq Ali, May 04, 2006)
Ringed by nuclear states, Teheran's atomic programme is scarcely unreasonable. So why has Washington manufactured this crisis?
- Russia's Energy Diversification Moves (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , May 04, 2006)
Irked by attempts to block it out of Europe's energy retail market, Moscow has begun to seek other export routes.
- Armenian Plane Crashes Off Black Sea Coast, Killing 113 (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
An Armenian passenger plane carrying 113 people crashed in stormy weather early Wednesday off Russia's Black Sea coast as it was headed in to land, killing everyone on board, emergency officials said.
- Teheran Gives Out Mixed Signals On Nuclear Issue (Hindu, Atul Aneja , May 04, 2006)
Gulf nations mull plans to cope with radiation hazard
- Rocket-Rattling Over Iran (Deccan Herald, Tariq Ali, May 04, 2006)
Till now, what has prevented the crisis in Iraq from becoming a total debacle for the US has been the open collaboration of the Iranian clerics.
- On The Fast Track (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 04, 2006)
The Union Government has given the green signal to the metro rail project in Bangalore.
- Changing Geo-Politics Of Central Asia & India (Daily Excelsior, Sudhanshu Tripathi, May 04, 2006)
The Central Asian region is one of the most prominent socio-political cultural units in the contemporary world. Its location in the middle of Islamic, Christian and Buddhist radicalized civilizations makes the region as the most convenient transit . . .
- Eco-Bird' To Monitor E-Waste Recycling (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
11 recycling units form an association to promote clean practices
- For The Record (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 04, 2006)
Four-year-old Buddhia Singh of Orissa will make to the Limca Book of Records for running all of 65 kms in conditions most oppressive.
- Adb To Double Credit To India By 2008 (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
The Asian Development Bank will double its lending to India to $2.65 billion by 2008, the bank's President Haruhiko Kuroda said on Wednesday.
- Private Firms Eyeing Defence Sector (Tribune, P.K. Vasudeva, May 04, 2006)
THE Indian defence budget is estimated to cross $20 billion by 2008, and 26 per cent FDI inclination towards gradual indigenisation of defence supplies.
- Rescuing Doha Round (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, May 04, 2006)
Sunday was supposed to be the deadline for a breakthrough in the Doha round of global trade talks.
- Accelerating Investment (News International, Editorial, The News International, May 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the Board of Investment (BOI) will be restructured and transformed into a vibrant organisation providing one-window operation for expeditious finalisation of local and foreign investment projects.
- A Fitting Finale And The Beginning Of A New Life (Times of India, Aruna Jethwani, May 04, 2006)
Believe it or not, Jamnagar's cremation ground is a popular picnic spot. Its entrance gate is colourful, its passages decorated with frescoes and relief paintings. The sprawling woods around have some amazing dioramas, depicting incidents from mythology.
- Govt Asked To Change Site Of Bhasha Dam (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
A German company has proposed to the government to change the site of the Bhasha dam, saying it will not only save the Chalas city but also increase the dam’s storage capacity and reduce the cost of the project.
- Genetic Rules (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
The conditional permission granted for the import of genetically modified foods in the new foreign trade policy, unveiled by the commerce ministry in the first week of April, has created more problems than it sought to address on this controversial . . .
- Junk Food, Violent Behaviour (Dawn, George Monbiot, May 04, 2006)
DOES television cause crime? The idea that people copy the violence they watch is debated endlessly by criminologists. But this column concerns an odder and perhaps more interesting idea: if crime leaps out of the box, it is not the programmes that . . .
- Delivering On The Employment Guarantee (Hindu, Mihir Shah, May 04, 2006)
The black box of the Schedule of Rates should be opened and the rates revised upwards urgently in a transparent manner.
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