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Articles 9221 through 9320 of 20008:
- ‘Mullaperiyar Water Level Can Be Raised’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 28, 2006)
Vindicating the stand of the Tamil Nadu government that raising the water level of Mullaperiyar dam will not be a threat to the safety and security of the structure, the Supreme Court on Monday directed the Kerala government . . .
- A Tortuous Quest For Justice (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 27, 2006)
Justice, at last. After four years of tortuous twists and turns, what is most striking about the Best Bakery case is not the conviction of nine of the 17 accused brought to trial, but the effort that went into securing the ends of justice.
- Protection To Seafarers (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 27, 2006)
The new labour standard scheduled for adoption by the International Labour Organisation at its ongoing 10th maritime session in Geneva — a decennial event with tripartite participation from 100 member countries
- Jobs Assured For 1.5 Lakh Rural Poor (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 27, 2006)
Central rule ensures 100 days of employment
3,259 register in Muthalamada grama panchahayt
Grama, block and district panchayats have a key role to play in implementation
Clean water, resting place for children, first aid assured under the scheme
- ``Urban Development Cannot Supersede Environment Concern'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 27, 2006)
Executive acting under public trust could not abdicate natural resource: Court
- Mullaiperiyar Dam Row: Verdict Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 27, 2006)
Expert committee had recommended raising the water level to 142 ft
Kerala says report unreliable
171 million units is the estimated loss of power generation
- Lakhs Offer Prayers At Siva Temples (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 27, 2006)
Religious fervour and gaiety marks Maha Sivaratri
- Free Power Connections For Bpl Families, Says Shinde (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 27, 2006)
Scheme to cost Power Ministry Rs. 3,500 crore
Scheme entrusted to four implementing agencies in West Bengal
Nearly 80 per cent of rural Bengal yet to be electrified
Every Indian village to be electrified by 2009-10
- Budget Watch On Interest Rates (Hindu, C. R. L. Narasimhan, Feb 27, 2006)
Two influencing factors will be the size of fiscal deficit and Government borrowing
- Jessica Case: Departmental Probe Ordered (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 27, 2006)
Delhi Police Commissioner KK Paul on Monday is understood to have ordered a departmental inquiry against officials who had investigated the Jessica Lal murder case.
- Hasiru Usiru Steps In To Protect Over 50 Trees (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 27, 2006)
Over 50 trees on the stretch on R.V. Road from South-end Circle on Sunday sported cut-outs in the shape of protective hands, which were wrapped around them by the activists of the Hasiru Usiru, a tree-protection group.
- Environment Programme Launched (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 27, 2006)
Clean Bangalore, Green Bangalore to create awareness on improving city
Rotary Clubs of Jayanagar, J.P. Nagar, Cubbon Park, Bangalore Southwest and Bangalore South, and Project Agastya are partners
Inaugural function features panel discussion
- India-Us Nuclear Deal: What’S The Echo In Washington (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 27, 2006)
India-US Nuclear Deal: What’s the echo in Washington
- Water Crisis Stalks 8,000 State Villages (Deccan Herald, Omkar Kakade, Feb 27, 2006)
Summer is here and the ubiquitous water crisis is on the horizon. As in the last few years, some 8,000 villages across Karnataka are set to witness the rerun of a major drinking water crunch.....
- Jessica Lall Murder Case: Departmental Probe Against Officials (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 27, 2006)
Delhi Police Commisioner K K Paul is today understood to have ordered a departmental inquiry against officials who had investigated the Jessica Lall murder case.
- Naga Truce To Help Fructify Negotiations (Daily Excelsior, Subhashis Mittra, Feb 27, 2006)
The six-month extension of the ceasefire agreement with the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah), in force since 1997, merits welcome albeit with a rider. It merits welcome because in most circumstances it is better . . .
- The Causes Of A Malady (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 27, 2006)
Extracts from the ILO’s regional high-level tripartite meeting on the Role of Labour Inspections in Combating Child Labour, Harare, 2001
- On Rising Trend (Business Line, Subhasish Roy , Feb 27, 2006)
If the economy is to keep up with other countries in a deregulated milieu, it has to adopt the interest cycle of the global economy, which seems to be moving up.
- All That Gas? Turn To The Us (Telegraph, G.S. Mudur, Feb 27, 2006)
India’s scientists may think the nuclear deal with America stinks, but they are game for joint research on an equally explosive subject: how to curb the indigenous dirty bomb.
- Large Memory (Deccan Herald, VK Joshi, Feb 27, 2006)
For some people even remembering faces and names is a problem
- China Orders Pollution Crackdown (Tribune, Ching-Ching Ni, Feb 27, 2006)
Turning a blind eye to environmental degradation could now cost Chinese officials their jobs, state media announced Tuesday. However, environmentalists raised concerns about enforcement of the new regulations.
- Ray Of Hope (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 27, 2006)
Despite many challenges justice has been done in the Best Bakery case
- Uncertainties Dog Nuclear Deal (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Feb 27, 2006)
Barely three days before the visit of President George. W Bush there is no certainty about the India-US civilian nuclear cooperation agreement. Although both sides still see the agreement as the centrepiece of the visit, new difficulties . . .
- Bush And India’S Insecurity (Deccan Herald, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Feb 27, 2006)
The permanent threat from Pakistan is unlikely to feature in the “detailed and substantive” talks with Bush
- Jessica Lall Case: Judge’S Elevation Sparks Row (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 27, 2006)
The elevation of Delhi Additional Sessions Judge S L Bhayana, who acquitted all the nine accused in Jessica Lall murder case, to the Delhi High Court touched off a controversy with a Supreme Court lawyer on Sunday demanding that his promotion . . .
- Just A Nano-Second, Mr President (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 27, 2006)
Beyond nuclear energy, India and the US must widen the scope of cooperation in science and technology to agriculture and health, says AMIT MITRA
- Let Us Build A New J&k: Pm (Tribune, Prashant Sood, Feb 26, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said there was a need to evolve a common understanding on autonomy and self-rule for the state of Jammu and Kashmir and an arrangement can be found within the vast flexibilities provided by the Constitution which . . .
- "India Wants Safeguards Locked To Fuel Supply" (Hindu, R. Prasad, Feb 25, 2006)
M.R. Srinivasan, former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, advocates caution during the ongoing Indo-U.S. nuclear negotiations. In an interview, he says any agreement should not jeopardise India's interests. Excerpts:
- Bird Flu: Let Not Fear Make Us Headless Chickens (Hindu, Simon Jenkins, Feb 25, 2006)
Scare is so much the style of government in Britain that its absence is a genuine, and very welcome, surprise.
- Chinese Fighter Planes For Bangladesh (Hindu, HAROON HABIB, Feb 25, 2006)
The Khaleda Zia Government has decided to buy 16 fighter planes from China, a close ally, as part of strengthening the country's air power. The Minister-in-charge for Defence in Parliament, Major (Retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed, told Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament)
- Clipping Their Wings (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 25, 2006)
The gram panchayat bodies should have powers to function freely
- `15 Flyovers To Be Operational By 2008' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 25, 2006)
Agencies concerned directed to expedite construction work
- Railways Must Seize Their Big Opportunity (The Financial Express, SHANTI NARAIN, Feb 25, 2006)
There is a tide in the affairs of men/taken at the flood, leads on to fortune—Shakespeare in Julius Caesar Indian Railways is at that precarious moment today.
- Kunti's Haunt (Hindu, KISHORE PATWARDHAN, Feb 25, 2006)
Kunti Betta offers a nice break from stretched city nerves
- Lalu On Right Track (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 25, 2006)
Railways needs to pick up speed
It is Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav’s second budget that has not hiked fares.
- Only Images Of Tipu's Souvenirs Remain (Hindu, R. Krishna Kumar, Feb 25, 2006)
Several artefacts of the `Tiger of Mysore' were taken away by the British
- Surprise Homecoming (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Feb 25, 2006)
I was reluctant in the beginning. But my eldest sister Mohini insisted. The issue being discussed was a visit to our ancestral village Lengti in Karnataka.
- Centre’S Kashmir Roundtable Today But Reduced To All-Party Meet (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 25, 2006)
Pitched by the Prime Minister’s Office as a major initiative to fulfill Kashmiri aspirations and speed up the peace process, the J-K roundtable in New Delhi tomorrow has been reduced to an all-party meeting with the separatist leadership . . .
- Pm’S Roundtable Conference Today (Tribune, Prashant Sood, Feb 25, 2006)
The roundtable conference on Jammu and Kashmir called by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tomorrow will provide the first opportunity to several groups and communities in the three regions of the state to present their views before the highest level . . .
- Six Waves Of The Same Feather (Indian Express, S.S. Vasan , Feb 25, 2006)
S.S. Vasan takes the jargon out of the latest research on bird flu and says it may be too soon to begin panicking
- Troublesome Luggage (Deccan Herald, MAYA JAYAPAL, Feb 25, 2006)
Carrying luggage during train journeys for friends or relatives can be embarrassing at times.
- India, Us Make ‘Progress’ In Nuke Talks (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 25, 2006)
India and the United States may have inched closer to reaching an understanding on the contentious issue of separating the country’s civilian and military nuclear facilities as their top negotiators battled against time in efforts to clinch . . .
- Joyride For All (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 25, 2006)
In a financial year in which the Indian Railways (IR) did an impressive turnaround with surpluses crossing Rs 11,000 crore, Mr Yadav who presented his third successive budget, unveiled a dynamic fare policy for both freight and passenger traffic.
- Left Parties Threaten To Vote Against Budget (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 25, 2006)
Decry tilt towards privatisation
Move to shift freight corridor stops criticised
Concession for farmers welcomed
Seek provision for purchase of rolling stock
- A.P.'S Concern Over Orissa Projects On Vamsadhara (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 25, 2006)
Orissa begins survey for two schemes on upper reaches of river
- Opposition Parties Spare Railway Minister (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 25, 2006)
But his staunchest supporter, the CPI(M), derails his joy ride
CPI(M) members from West Bengal protest announcement of freight corridor up to Sonnagar in Bihar
BJP members picket well of the House; North-East MPs walk out
- Pin The Babus (Hindustan Times, Pankaj Vohra, Feb 25, 2006)
The Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court need to be congratulated for coming to the aid of the common citizens by issuing specific instructions to take punitive action against major violators who, over the years with active connivance . . .
- Economic Revival In Punjab (Tribune, Capt Amarinder Singh, Feb 25, 2006)
In the last four years our government’s single-minded focus on economic revitalisation has started showing results. Recent economic indicators prove that the state’s economy is moving towards a phase of high economic growth.
- ‘Bird-Brained’ In Bikaner (Tribune, Chetna Keer Banerjee, Feb 25, 2006)
With bird flu in the air and stories in the media flying faster than the avians, birdwatching has overnight turned into a national pastime. Our cricket-crazed countrymen are suddenly more busy counting the number of roosters falling, . . .
- Nuclear Panic (Daily Times, Jonathan Power, Feb 24, 2006)
Current would-be proliferators are arguably not as set on proliferating, nor even as advanced in their capabilities, as their antagonists suggest. Meanwhile, unyielding critical rhetoric combined with a lack of incentives to back down seems . . .
- ‘Gandhi No Longer Politically Correct In Militarist India’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2006)
Indian-born director Deepa Mehta says admiring independence leader Mahatma Gandhi is no longer politically correct in the country as militarism is on the rise.
- Kazhagams Gear Up For The Clash (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Feb 24, 2006)
In the run-up to Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, what contours will the alliances take?
- Phantom Tigers Still Burning Bright (The Economic Times, MUKUL SHARMA, Feb 24, 2006)
These days, a not insignificant part of the non-Muslim world is averse to a not insignificant part of the Muslim world and, almost definitely, vice versa. This has actually been the case for hundreds of years but the numbers have gone up since 9/11.
- Union Budget: How Fm Should Raise Resources (Tribune, P.K. Vasudeva, Feb 24, 2006)
Finance Minister P. Chidambram is presenting the Budget for 2006-07 at a time when the economy is booming and this fiscal’s projected GDP growth is about 8 per cent.
- We Will Be Interested In Nuclear Power: Tata (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Feb 24, 2006)
Provided Government of India does permit private sector participation
Points to power shortage, dependence on fossil fuel
Clean safe sustainable nuclear programme welcome
Looking at pilot programme for bio fuel
- "Widen Road To Make It National Highway" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2006)
The Union Minister for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, T.R. Baalu, has been urged to make the Parthibanur-Azhagapuri road a national highway and widen it so that it directly connects the southern districts with Rameswaram and reduces travel time.
- State Rapidly Losing Its Forest Cover (Hindu, VANI DORAISAMY, Feb 24, 2006)
Forests account for only 17.5 per cent of the total area
What little is left is under severe stress and mostly degraded
"Adequate attention not paid to assess biodiversity"
Nilgiris tops the list of district-wise forest cover
- China Orders Pollution Crackdown (Tribune, Ching-Ching Ni, Feb 24, 2006)
Turning a blind eye to environmental degradation could now cost Chinese officials their jobs, state media announced Tuesday. However, environmentalists raised concerns about enforcement of the new regulations.
- Troubled Ceasefires (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Feb 24, 2006)
The ceasefire with the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (I-M) has been extended for six months in Nagaland and the first week of February saw movement towards some similar arrangement with the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) ....
- Murder Of Justice (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 24, 2006)
The killers of Jessica are at large
A YOUNG girl making an honest living as a barmaid was shot for refusing to serve liquor after the bar was formally closed.
- Bird Flu Is Also About Security (Indian Express, Ajey Lele, Feb 24, 2006)
The bird flu outbreak in India has revealed that we are a “risk society”, the phrase made popular by noted German sociologist, Dr Ulrich Beck. For the last few months the H5N1 virus was infecting various countries and it was only . . .
- Lovebirds At The Lake (Tribune, G.S. Aujla, Feb 24, 2006)
The creators of the beautiful artificial lake at Chandigarh perhaps knew that they were also making an ideal habitat for birds. Leave aside the exotic pintails, teals and mallards who camp here annually on their peripatetic march, it provides . . .
- British Nuclear Scientists Say Waste Not A Problem (Reuters, Jeremy Lovell , Feb 24, 2006)
Nuclear waste, the spectre haunting the industry, will not pose a problem if Britain decides later this year to build a new generation of nuclear power plants, scientists said on Thursday.
- Culling Over, Authorities Clean Up Navapur (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Feb 24, 2006)
Veterinary workers began cleaning up chicken farms and disinfecting homes in Navapur town on Friday after culling hundreds of thousands of chickens hit by bird flu, officials said.
- What Will The Cm Learn On The Road? (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, Feb 24, 2006)
Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy’s flying visits to Tiptur, Shravanabelagola and Hirekerur within ten days of promising that he would mostly travel across the State by road underlines the disconnect between public relations and practice.
- Blot On Society (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Feb 24, 2006)
The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 prohibits employment of children below 14 years of age in 13 occupations and 57 processes which include bidi making, sericulture, and manufacturing of glass, leather and brass goods.
- Sting In The Tail! (Indian Express, V. N. Kakar, Feb 24, 2006)
The honourable director-general of malaria control was taking his biannual pre-monsoon meeting of directors to review the national malaria control programme.
- ‘Warm’ Winters Force Early Return Of Birds (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2006)
Unusually warm weather in February has forced several thousand migratory birds to fly back to their northern nesting grounds earlier than usual.
- The Problem Of Hostile Witnesses (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 24, 2006)
It seemed at first sight an open and shut case. A model who worked as a celebrity barmaid is shot dead at point-blank range after refusing to serve a drink to two young men in a crowded South Delhi watering hole.
- Plant To Generate 8 Mw Power From Waste Getting Ready (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2006)
The unit may start lifting garbage from August this year
It may lift 1,000 tonnes of garbage daily
Plant coming up at Mandur near Hoskote
It is coming up on a plot of 25 acres
- Capital Heading For "Acute Shortage Of Water And Power'' (Hindu, Sujay Mehdudia, Feb 24, 2006)
Delhi loses to Punjab in power purchase agreement with H.P.
Government is working on an agreement for purchase of power with Orissa
Lack of sufficient rain and snow in the hill States of Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal this past winter
- Doctors’ White Coats Turn Black (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Feb 24, 2006)
According to a report doctors have been told to stop wearing ties and white coats, amid fears that they could spread superbugs, such Methicillin-resistant staphy-lococcus aureaus (MRSA). Ties are said to have become carriers of worms as these . . .
- The Kalabagh Dam: The 1986 Episode (Dawn, Vaseem Jafarey, Feb 24, 2006)
The controversy over the Kalabagh dam has abated somewhat, but conflicting views are still being expressed about what happened in the past. Letters and interviews published in newspapers put the blame on various persons and institutions.
- School For Reform (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 23, 2006)
A stay abroad, however brief, gives a welcome change of perspective to the view of home news.
- Tiger Census A Smokescreen? (Statesman, Yudhajit Shankar Das, Feb 23, 2006)
Even as wildlife officials and Wildlife Institute of India battle over the much hyped tiger census according to the ‘IUCN methodology’, The Statesman has learnt that no such methodology exists.
- Lanka Talks Off To Rocky Start; Rebels Reject Amending Truce (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 23, 2006)
Talks between Sri Lanka's warring parties were off to a rocky start here today with Tamil Tigers immediately rejecting a government demand for amending the present ceasefire agreement and mediator Norway warning that expectations should not be high.
- 925 Samples Tested Negative (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 23, 2006)
All the 925 blood samples of the chickens taken from poultry farms and wild birds flocking wet-lands and water bodies in the State have been declared as negative by the high-tech animal disease laboratory at Bhopal.
- Kalam For Big Push To Nanotechnology (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 23, 2006)
India could follow Singapore's `Biopolis model'
Increase human resources in emerging fields
India lags behind in implementing research findings
- Timely Power Initiative (The Financial Express, TN THAKUR, Feb 23, 2006)
The present power situation in the country is more than a strong stimulus for matching respo-nses of policy makers and business houses to drive the ‘ultra mega’ power projects.
- Tigers Against Truce Pact Change (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 23, 2006)
Talks between Sri Lanka’s warring parties were off to a rocky start here today with Tamil Tigers immediately rejecting a government demand for amending the present ceasefire agreement and mediator Norway warning that expectations should not be high.
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